skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Something I haven't seen anyone ask yet... are you expected to answer? It's one thing for some bits to flip in a mail server at 3am... it's quite another if your phone is buzzing and your job is (cumulatively) on the line if you're not responding.

There's a non-zero chance that the person sending these emails will read this message. There's a very high chance that someone matching the description will read this message, since there's definitely not enough info in the Ask HN here to uniquely identify anyone :)

So, as not a startup founder and likely never will be one, I implore you founders to remember that we are not founders, and you can't expect the rest of us to act like founders without the possible upside. Further, I'd suggest that you should want your first few employees to sleep well, so that they can provide a well-rested analysis of whatever crazy thoughts you had at 3am when you've had 10 hours of sleep in the last four days. That's actually a good thing, something you should seek out, cherish, and listen to.
You are confusing Clojure syntax with its s-expression syntax.
This site is genius.
It was mentioned in the blog article under "Further useful resources".
Brea firm's ground-breaking design shakes up motorcycle helmet industry
While the people taking illegal or immoral actions are responsible for their own reactions, it's possible for someone to call others to action through nothing but speech. If someone actively goes around pissing off as many people as possible, how is it not in someways "their own fault" when someone reacts poorly to this?

Also, as another poster said, calling the pissed-off employer a "sabotager" is not actually what the article is saying. The manager may "sabotage" their own success by causing all of the employees under themselves to quit en masse. Is this a "bad" action that only the employees are responsible for, leaving the manager as the poor and helpless victim?
One of the biggest mistakes I made while working on a past startup was listening to an advice like this. What you say is totally valid if your company is a fortune 500 company, but the type of people who start companies shouldn't strive to become those types of managers covered in business case studies. I made this mistake after reading too many business books.

It simply doesn't work. From my experience it fucks up the company culture when a founder tries to "tone it down", because that's not the quality required to make stuff happen when it's in the beginning stage.

A competent founder should be able to adapt as the company grows, but shouldn't behave like a fortune 500 CEO from the beginning.
My personal favorite quote from a previous boss: "I left you alone last week when you were out for your wife's surgery. Now it's time for you to catch up."
Economic protectionism has been an integral part of U.S. policy since the 1850s or so. Politicians were pretty big on tariffs and land law acts for nearly a century, though they have since declined in favor of gunboat diplomacy.
Refusal to Call Charleston Shootings “Terrorism” Shows It's Propaganda Term
Everything on my list was either free, or would have cost me significantly more than the markup to Uber there and back (and that's not even including the cost of my time).
If you're going down that path, all of x86 is used as a 'bytecode' that turns into microcode instructions anyway in modern processors.
In the Name of the People: El Salvador's Civil War Documentary (1985)
You don't need something to "run on top of AWS".

AWS is just an infrastructure provider and your user-management tool will run under some type of BSD/Linux OS, so it just needs to run on that and integrate with your app.
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Is he expecting you to answer at 3am?

If he expects you to answer at 3am, it's time to find a new job.

If he's willing to wait to get an answer, then don't worry about it.

I turn of the sound and vibrate on my phone, so I don't get interrupted while I'm sleeping.

He's probably just trying to show off about how dedicated he is. Don't get tricked into overworking yourself to match him.
The problem is that it is automatic, it spreads without confirming anything and without any deliberate action.
Accessing a computer network that is secured by requiring authentication by bypassing authentication via technical means might be a computer crime.

It's quite possible that using the Microsoft software to bypass a captive portal without agreeing to the terms will land you in jail for a felony.

Is Microsoft going to indemnify you against being the trial case of that legal theory?
Presumably for this reason; so XYZ_optout_nomap works. But this is just silly.
Microsoft is giving away Windows 10 to anyone who tests it
Amazon looks to improve customer-reviews system with machine learning
Maybe the algorithm did detect a face in the couch, as we see them in trees (wood sprites!).
"Millennials are more liberal than the rest of the country, particularly on social issues, but they get more economically conservative when they make more money."

This isn't just Millennials. It's everyone. Nobody cares about paying more taxes when they don't have to pay them and reap all of the benefits.

This mindset quickly changes when you not only have to pay them, but don't actually use them.
That paper is so funny:

Finding Turing-completeness in unlikely places has long been a
pastime of bored computer scientists.

And

Removing all but the mov instruction from future iterations of the
x86 architecture would have many advantages: the instruction
format would be greatly simplified, the expensive decode unit
would become much cheaper, and silicon currently used for complex
functional units could be repurposed as even more cache. As long
as someone else implements the compiler.

Well, I guess someone has implemented it now!
You'd think - because presumably this could come about without you ever signing up to 'WiFi Sense' or any such EULA, if you give one Win10 friend the password, all his friends have it without you even realising WS exists?
to accomplish more, you need to work smarter not just harder. I suggest one of my favorite books: "Rework" to your friend.
I think there's only one that I'm comfortable talking about since it was long ago and the people involved have all moved on from their parent companies.

Louis Vuitton was relaunching their public-facing website, which was tightly integrated with their back-end systems - inventory, manufacturing, etc. IOW, it wasn't just a regular website.

They hired a consulting company here in Europe who sold them a solution that was the epitome of using the wrong tool for the job - it was a non-relational database solution for what was obviously a pretty traditional relational db application. (except the product content - images, movies, etc, had to be tied to their back-end db systems)

Louis Vuitton rented out the Louvre for the launch party, hosted by the CEO. But no one took it upon themselves to let the CEO know that the rewrite would not be done in time for the launch. Not even close. The launch party happened but the new site wasn't ready. There was nothing to present at the launch.

The CTO was fired of course. We were hired to help bring the project back on track along with a couple of other consulting companies - it was about 5 senior developers and a few dozen junior developers.

However, the work was being done in France where the norm is to not work under pressure like what we had to do. And the senior consultants where all american, swiss, and german, and only one very good and amazing french developer. I spent most of my time working on politics and very little time developing. We managed to get some of the work away from the managing French company to be done by Swiss and German companies. And then I was transferred to another project with another desperate client.

I was in Hyderabad a couple of years later and met the fired CTO at a party - he was starting a consulting company in India to provide consultants to Europe. Nice guy but meeting him made me understand why what happened happened.
I'm guilty of workplace incivility. I was oblivious how much I was negatively impacting my colleagues. I read No One Understands you and What to do About it and the No Asshole Rule. Both helped me to improve.
I'm not sure if it applies in this case, but your point make me think of something William Binney said:

"Just the fact that people are being surveilled inhibits their ability or feeling that they have the opportunity to do new and creative and innovative things. So that kind of reduces their risk taking basically, which in turn means you get less and less creativity and innovation and more and more stagnation of civilization. That's what happened in the Soviet Union. That's what happened in East Germany and the Communist plot. They stagnated because people were being so surveilled that they were afraid to do things. It made people afraid to take a risk."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgbJqFrwhbw&t=9m38s

When the description of a project is "We are a federation of microbloggers who care about ethics and solidarity and want to quit the centralised capitalist services", I can see why citizens of a police/surveillance state might not be inclined to create or work on it, even if subconsciously. But I could be wrong; Europe seems pretty heavily surveilled too.
There's more than one instance where examples have come up: http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/11/google...
Women's World Cup: The turf war and training with 'wearable' technology
> Europe should stay civilized, for the sake of its people.

Yeah, what a shame those driven over-working puritans went and exported their Americanism to those civilized Europeans in 1944.

Edit: I'll make the point more explicitly in response to the downvoting. (1) It's easy to decry efficiency and hard work in times of peace. But liberté, égalité, fraternité requires not having your society conquered by Hitler or Stalin. France failed that test and would've been a Nazi puppet state if not liberated by a harder-fighting more determined force than the Germans. (2) Anti-Americanism is really lame; America's achievements in the last 80 years have done so immensely much good, while being probably the most benevolent, cooperative, and pro-social world hegemon of all time -- it's not even particularly close. America has its problems, but is an amazing country and our citizens should be proud of our achievements.
Suddenly Terrence Davis appears!
Your whole thing is equivalent of someone walking into a museum, looking at something, then saying out loud to no one in particular... why is this here?
GNUSocial is based on Status Net which was made in Montreal, Canada https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/statusnet
They are certainly out there, they just aren't as common as one would like. Finding a good small business or startup (I don't mean a Silicon Valley "Facebook for Cats"-esque venture) with the right people can be a game changer.

After leaving my first job, I went to a, purported, "real startup" which wound up being run in a manner that was very corporate. Sure, you get the no-dresscode and flexible hours (which isn't really all that unique to startups nowadays anyway) but being treated like a petulant child with a Slack channel masquerading as a time clock, a bot that monitors the tone of speech, and being lied to about compensation, duties, etc. It was clearly wrong as could be.

Moved on to job #3, and the difference is night and day. Sure, the ability to work remote and set hours are very nice, but what makes the job amazing is working with folks who are dedicated, and treat you like an adult and an integral part of the team.

Coming out of your first, idyllic environment, you might not yet be cognizant of all the things that are important, but do be careful to try to distill your thoughts and be wary of what the folks hiring tell you.
Outside of the Internet, every single time I have every seen "begs the question" used, it means "raises the question". TV, newspapers, magazines, radio, common speech. Every single time. Therefore, that's what the phrase means.

I have no idea where this American obsession with tying it to a technical term for a fallacy comes from, but I wish it would stop. It's as though every time someone referred to a ram, whether a male sheep or a battering ram, they were informed that "RAM means Random Access Memory. You're using it wrong."
After thinking about it for a bit, couldn't a worm with fake Facebook accounts that are friends-of-friends with a high percentage of the population use this to spread virtually unimpeded?

I suspect that the API is such that all of the friends of the fake accounts will relay to the fake accounts all of their respective friends passwords (given they had connected to said friend's network at least once), and that two steps should given sufficient coverage in dense urban areas to get worms that give near total wifi coverage of the area.

Such a worm platform could of course be used to launch a wide range of attacks, as it has a relatively high concentration and a solid coverage of the area (for data relaying).

This screams badness at every level: it's relying on the notion of a Facebook friendship to root security, despite that Facebook friendships have no such semantic meaning in the context of Facebook.

You were doing so well Microsoft... but this... this is really, really bad, to the point it might pose an infrastructure risk for cities.
I just want to say here, if you are a founder (or THE founder mentioned here) who works hard to the point where other people thinks you're crazy, you are NOT crazy and you are NOT wrong. I am not saying you should completely get rid of rest from your life (because otherwise you will burn out), but working hard on something you believe in and being abnormally passionate about it is nothing to be ashamed of.

To OP: It's not a question of whether it is normal or not. Every startup is different. Sure, there are some mildly successful companies with founders who have "work-life balance", but the ones that are unusually successful normally have founders who are unusually obsessive.
I work late and send emails at whatever hour it happens to be. If I email a client or employee at 3am, I don't expect them to reply then, but that they'll get to it when they are the office in the morning. I am just trying to get that item out of my queue right then so I can move onto the next thing.

Every recipient is in control of the notifications on their phone and can switch them off overnight.

It sounds like you have a different issue with this individual, assuming they're making sleep-deprived errors and reading too much into this? If they were calling you at that hour repeatedly, then that would be a different story but email is more akin to snail mail - the recipient opens it when they choose to open it.
Beautiful beautiful reflection.
This seems like an overreaction to me. The point of the proposal is to establish an accreditation process for privacy and proxy providers, and part of that would be to bring their practices in line with established verified-identity rules. The point is not to remove whois privacy options from everyone, and in fact the commercial/non-commercial split is specifically disregarded as a general decision point in the proposal. It looks like the only groups who are at risk of losing whois privacy protection are those engaging in online financial transactions for a commercial purpose; this is pretty clearly targeted at banks and such, not all businesses, and the proposal notes that often there are already requirements for these businesses to put this information on their website anyway.

The petition site says this:

"Under new guidelines proposed by MarkMonitor and others who represent the same industries that backed SOPA, domain holders with sites associated to "commercial activity" will no longer be able to protect their private information with WHOIS protection services."

The linked ICANN working group document says this:

"The WG agrees that the status of a registrant as a commercial organization, non-commercial
organization, or individual should not be the driving factor in whether P/P services are available to the registrant. Fundamentally, P/P services should remain available to registrants irrespective of their status as commercial or non-commercial organizations or as individuals."

And this:

“[D]omains used for online financial transactions for commercial purpose should
be ineligible for privacy and proxy registrations.”

And this:

"Given the foregoing discussion, the WG does not believe that P/P registrations should be limited to private individuals who use their domains for non-commercial purposes"

Basically this seems like total knee-jerk crap to me and I am surprised the EFF is banging this drum. What am I missing?
Darwinbots uses actual computer code to control the robots. This makes it really hard for evolution to work with. Most mutations just break the code, and very very few mutations create anything interesting. And the simulation is too slow to explore millions of different possibilities to make up for the difficulty. What makes it worse is they are usually asexual.

However I think that's ok. Most of the fun with darwinbots is programming your own bots. They used to be (still are?) competitions where people wrote their own bots and had them compete under different conditions.
Ask HN: ReactJS – Do you use it? Do you like it?
Just started working on a small node.js based personal project and would like to hear opinions regarding the general situation in the ReactJS environment from people who use it now or used it in the past but stopped for some reason(s).

If you do use it - are you happy with it? Maybe there are some things that you wish were different about it?

If you did use it, but not any more - what are the reasons you've stopped?
1. Just cause he can send an email at 3AM doesn't mean he wants a response at 3AM

2. Just cause he can stay up for a long time cause he's young and have no other responsibilities doesn't make him any better than anyone else.

3. Playing at tech startups is just playing a video game. Some people get obsessive over it and some people do it casually and most everyone else is in between those two extremes.
They grabbed MACs and SSIDs and paired them with GPS coordinates, not traffic. It is entirely the same.
Just to be clear, it wasn't the heads of the whole FBI and CIA; it was the heads of their counterintelligence divisions (or maybe their Soviet counterintelligence divisions - I don't know the org charts precisely), Aldrich Ames (CIA) and Robert Hanssen (FBI). Just do a search; there were arrests, trials, etc. - it is very well documented.
Yeah, but Alinea is overrated. Check back with us after Schwa.
Staying up until 3 doesn't mean never sleeping. Plenty of people operate on a delayed sleep phase because they are more comfortable doing certain types of work at night. At some stages in a company's growth, hacking is more important that taking 9am meetings. That's not true at all stages, but changing gears takes time.
Here's the biggest problem with your approach: in today's market, it's a lot harder for startups to recruit and retain good employees than it is for good employees to find new employers.

Just look at the OP: he left an ostensibly good job to join a YC startup and he's already questioning the founder's behavior and competence. When he starts feeling pressured to work insane hours, or completely loses faith in the founder's sanity and competence, how long do you think it will take him to find a new employer that promises something better?

At the risk of being overly harsh, if you feel you're incapable of making "stuff happen" without sending random emails at 3 am in the morning or acting like you don't have control over your schedule and business or terrorizing your employees into believing that they need to be online at all hours, you're probably out of your depth and should be honest with yourself about your readiness to run a business with employees.

A lot of people in the startup community have deluded themselves into believing that "hard work" is the one and only key to success but by and large, successful businesses are built by doing the right things, not by running around for 18 hours a day like a chicken with its head cut off. Thanks to the funding boom, a lot of chickens with their heads cut off are running companies. Folks like the OP work for them at their own peril.
>you don't even know where to find credentials to log into its production systems since it was setup by some employee in the middle of the night a year ago that is no longer there.

Recently I was searching for some report generating code that my team had been voluntold to maintain. I spent a day trying to find the code that generated and uploaded the report. Once I finally was able to get in contact with the last person who had worked on it I found that a developer in India was manually running and uploading the report every week. Why? Because job security.
The press really loves to write pieces about how Wikipedia is in a constant state of disrepair. If you were to go off what's written about Wikipedia in the press, you'd think it was filled with child pornography and that the project was a horrible, miserable failure. That said,

"One board member, María Sefidari, warned that 'some communities have become so change-resistant and innovation-averse” that they risk staying “stuck in 2006 while the rest of the Internet is thinking about 2020 and the next three billion users.'"

..is probably the best quote from this article. Wikipedia has a new set of growing pains now that it's a fully-established project. It will never be done, but a lack of increase of new contributors, month-on-month, isn't necessarily the worst thing in the world for Wikipedia. A focus on long-term maintenance (which includes not pissing off long-term editors, as the article mentions) and mobile growth seems smart.
Convnets can do this. Geoffrey Hinton has a wonderful lecture, where he trained a digit recognizer on everything but 7's and 8's (IIRC.) He then let another convnet tell it which numbers looked more or less like 7's and 8's. E.g. "that 9 looks kind of like an 8. That 1 looks kind of like a 7", etc.

And then it was able to correctly recognize 7's and 8's, despite never having actually seen one. I'm simplifying somewhat, but it was super cool.

I don't know why people are so focused on one-shot learning, or think that NNs can't do it. Neural networks learn features from lots of (possibly unlabelled) data. That's the whole point. Once you have those features, you can use them for all sorts of things. You can show it an image, and then measure how close other images are too it. Thereby learning from a single example.
Do you mean cartographic images ? Like a map of your city or state -> machine learning -> some data like google maps?
In Colombia, the FARC are still active. They control territories managed by a "commandante".

https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=z0FsbGdVCol4.kEZxgL...

The history of the FARC is very interesting. It begins as self-defense organization of farmers inside a family.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FARC#La_Violencia_and_the_Nati...
Don't worry about it.

He's trying to motivate his employees by showing his dedication. If he wants to work in the middle of the night, let him do so. It's normal for startup founders to work late or wake up in the middle of the night with random thoughts.

I highly doubt you're expected to respond to it immediately anyway.

Also, it's not really your job to worry about his cognitive capabilities. That's his responsibility, and some people can get away with less sleep than others.

If you don't trust in his ability and the future of the startup, then you should simply leave the company.