skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"I never understood why investors need to be 'close.' "

Many of them want to "influence' the companies they invest in, to give them the best chance of seeing a return. They feel they can't do that as effectively if they can't hop in a car and drive to the office quickly.

"I also don't understand why most startups need an office."

Many managers, startup or not, are afraid of remote work, and feel that not being able to see butts in seats means that people are slacking off.

"As far as 'access to talent,' that's a bullshit metric as well. Remote workers can be anywhere. "

But as we've established, most of these companies are not set up for remote work. As such, remote workers being anywhere isn't relevant.

"As far as investors, who cares? If you have a product people want to buy, investors will come to you."

Ahh yes, the old "meritocracy" myth. As it turns out, simply having a good product isn't enough to succeed.

"It's a myth that proximity matters."

Except reality has not followed your logic.

"There were investors long before Silicon Valley startups were a thing. Plenty of billion dollar companies founded everywhere else."

Yes there were. But it's significantly harder to do it elsewhere given the realities of the situation.

Feel free to start your company wherever you want and show us that we're wrong. I'd be happy to have the pool of startup locations be more diverse.
"overhearing office chatter "

I honestly do not believe for one second that this is a thing, or that it's a significant thing.
"It's not a meritocracy. Not even close."

In one sense, but in others it kinda is. It's really a mixture. It has to be both good and lucky.

"Total crap" implies "will not make front page", but the converse is not true. "Will not make the front page" doesn't really imply anything, much less "total crap".

Or so I see it, having had several articles make the front page and others that seemed to me to be of equal (or in some cases, greater) interest sink without a trace.
Is it harder to move to a different browser in Windows 10? I feel like you keep emphasizing how easy it is to change your browser and yet are still registering a complaint. I'm not sure what you are complaining about.
This has nearly always been my experience with a Linux distro. My most recent experience with Ubuntu was a gigantic mouse pointer and the whole GUI zoomed in to what looked like 1000% or something.

Even as a technical person, I really do appreciate it when my home computing devices don't fail the first time I try to use them.
That's how you do it. Rent a tiny space in SF for your token SF people, then open offices in Portland, Boulder, Austin, etc. You're still an SF company, but your runway is twice as long as everyone else's.
It's one of those situations where I would be very happy to be wrong :)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_General_Corp._v._Digital_...

You can use %2e at the end of your URL it seems to come out as intended.
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I especially don't like trusted partners knowing.
From historical records, they can gather the sex and approximate age of the people who would have been buried, and sometimes other physical details. This is information that can be cross-referenced against inspection of the remains. If they know that Robert Hunt was a 39 year old male, and there's four skeletons, they just have to find the skeleton that's probably a 39 year old male and that's Robert Hunt.
It's an exaggeration, but there's no denying that SF is one of the most expensive cost of living places in the country.
Totally agree. Setting up a 401(k) seems hard and I'd love help. Picking the right investment fund might also be hard, but placing my savings under the management of a relative stranger feels very uncomfortable.

In a world where Bernie Madoff existed, it'd be almost irresponsible to invest retirement savings with a startup. That being said, WealthFront and Betterment are basically startups, but they seem to be at a different level of maturity.

Of course, I'm not sure how objective my perception is. Would a more credible looking website be all the difference?
This isn't actually true.

The large data size affects the training, but the model itself is pretty small now (after some hard work on Google's part).

The thing everyone seems to be missing is that Android's (English) voice recognizer is offline[1]. While you can use the online model I suspect that is more about continual update of the model (so it understands new words and changing accents etc) rather than recognition.

[1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17616994/offline-speech-r...
Agreed, this is very cool. How do free space optical links work in the rain though? Shouldn't be a problem for the link between aircrafts as they fly above the weather but might be for aircraft-ground link if that's optical.

Hope FB will open source parts of this! I know NASA has been looking at optical links for high bandwidth space communication, this accurate tracking would really help
By any chance, was this paper submitted for review in early April?
In fact my argument is that the industry set itself up for meltdowns as soon as regulation stopped having teeth, and meltdowns duly happened when regulations were formally repealed.

Your argument seems to be that the two were unconnected, because regulation cannot possibly be relevant, therefore reasons.

You'll have to ask your boss which argument he finds more convincing.
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Full disclosure: Actual flesh-and-blood lawyer here.

These tools are great when things are going well. If you are a business for whom lawyers are an inconvenient expense, paperwork devoid of real value, then go ahead and download your legal advice. You'll probably be fine with boilerplate legal documents. But realize that as with the concept of 'technical debt' you might be pushing off minor expenses today in exchange for huge expenses tomorrow. That can be a valid startup strategy only IF you remain cognisant of the associated risk.

Two things could happen. First, things might hit the legal fan. Your now large business will be in need of some actual lawyering but you won't have worked with anyone. You don't want to be googling "IP lawyers in my area" the day some troll's demand letter arrives. You want someone who knows you and your business.

The far far worse option is that things don't hit the fan. You could go for years blissfully unaware of the damoclean sword over your head. But the sword never falls, the business grows, and eventually you want to take things to the next level (IPO/buyout/new investors). Then you meet your first lawyer and he or she isn't working for you. I've been that lawyer walking into a room of wannabe millionaires who think they have all their legal ducks in a row. I write a memo to my client about some gaping legal hole I've found, and the next thing you know all that money goes away. You'll probably never learn why those potential investors stopped calling.

Common big holes:
Bad/fraudulent PII/PCI compliance.
Improper labor practices (common when everyone is working their first real job).
Poor or absent organization structure.
Failure to abide applicable foreign laws.
Tax fraud due to reliance on tax-filing software.
Failure to properly protect IP.
"Creative" accounting practices.
Lack of industry-standard security measures.

And my personal favourite: Onerous contractual/financial obligations due to failure to seek adequate legal advice at time.
You know, even though you're busy being a startup and all, it honestly does not take that long to clean up a garage.
As thirdtruck noted, we Millenials have never actually acted much like the media portrayal of us. The high support Millenials evince for "socialism" in polls is a hint: we feel screwed-over, and we blame it on the system the Boomers keep saying they run.
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Something tells me that courts will be able to draw a line between scraping data and copying an idea. But who knows, maybe not.
I used to work in platforms (not networking, but we worked pretty closely with them) and the information in the paper was accurate and surprisingly complete.
Hmmm. That's a good point. Maybe Codecombat's free levels followed by Learn Python the Hard Way to mix instant, visual feedback and fun with "more useful" material.

Thanks!
I guess pornhub also requires such talent.
I dunno, it's not nearly as clear as the individual setting explanations.
Is Planned Parenthood faking a hack on their website?
Planned Parenthood's website source contains suspicious code that someone more knowledgeable than myself should look deeper into:

<body class="site_down_template no-write edit-disabled"
data-page-category="Under Attack Campaigns"
data-page-type="Site Down Template"
ontouchstart="">

<meta name="title"
property="title"
content="Our site is down due to extremists :: Planned Parenthood"/>

An image has since been replaced:

<link rel="image_src" href="/images/planned_parenthood_is_under_attack.png"/>

There are reports that the CSS was tweaked during the hack:

https://twitter.com/redsteeze/status/626603985932316673

Planned Parenthood also seems to have changed their story on Facebook multiple times:

https://twitter.com/SooperMexican/status/626606261577097216
I don't know about no-one. I have three laptops, one desktop, one media PC, one server, one tablet, and one phone. The cloud movement has been helpful to say the least.

Obviously I don't speak for everyone, but I think "no one wanted it" is a stretch.
Poaching in Zimbabwe is quite a severe crime.

Also if he bribed the local guides and officials he can be charged in the US under anti corruption laws.
Android's speech recognizer has a compact/offline mode, but that's definitely not what's run by default.
Why do we care about the bad startups?
Like "big" and "fast," "young" is relative. A small person is much larger than a large ant, and a fast bike will generally go slower than a slow car. These people are young compared to the older people they're looking at.
I don't understand the fuss and hate. It seems like a great idea and I downloaded the app. Sure, the landing page is copied. Sure, it is probably immoral. But it's just a landing page not the product. There are only so many kinds of landing pages and people copy them all the time.
> Who wanted that for desktop computers or laptops?

Everyone who is switching over to cloud connected OSs on their tablets and smartphones.

Why should I have to reinstall and resetup every new computer? My contacts have been following me around on my phone for 8 years now, why the heck shouldn't they be just as accessible from my PC?

My favorites, they should always be there. Chrome does a great job of this, it is nice that Microsoft has decided to catch up.

Windows 8 had some of this, having wallpapers, theme colors, and OneDrive follow me around already made my computers all seem closer together, now just a little bit more is happening.

There is so much common sense in this. If I schedule an appointment while I am at home for me to leave work early to go pick up my cat from the vet, it should show on my work PC because that damn well makes sense.

All this does is bring Windows fully into the 21st century.

> Windows 7 is still pretty good, and it will probably be the main Microsoft desktop OS for years to come, despite what Microsoft wants.

About 6 hours ago I was apprehensive about Windows 10. Now I'm using it and it is lightening fast and responsive.
Completely agreed. And then when you do get it installed, you end up having random issues here and there (in my experience with using different distros of Linux on the desktop).

For me, I just want an OS that works so that I can do work and not have to fiddle with debugging a weird issue happening or setting up things that should just be working out of the box.

I'll stick with Windows 10 and OS X which both satisfy the above :-)
This is what your startup's application architecture should look like
Are you really this paranoid? You must be loads of fun at parties. It's interesting though because your British government is tracking your phone, your texts and watching you as you traverse London on CCTV. But luckily Microsoft doesn't know about your affinity for Yorkshire Terriers and love of Bass Ale.

Don't get me wrong, I value privacy, but all things in moderation, including paranoia. I personally don't think most peopke's lives are that controversial to be so concerned about their privacy that they'll avoid the grid altogether lest some lewd fact trickle out amongs the billions of other lewd facts trickling out about everyone.
processors running with gobs of excess computing capacity

You're right about the CPU. However, it's possible that good voice recognition also requires gigabytes of data. That wouldn't work so well for a tablet. Or maybe there is some custom hardware (like DSP chips) in the data center that is used? I don't know, I'm just playing devil's advocate.

I do agree with your sentiments. I'm not about to opt in to this garbage. I came of age in the era of the mainframe and I despised the lack of personal control. I won't willingly return to that. Today's cloud is just yesterday's mainframes and time-sharing by another name.
As an employee at AL I have mixed feelings about an acquisition like that. Part of me fears they would just gut the company. Another part of me hopes that a close working relationship with a more successful technology company would really be beneficial.
Look, it is over and will probably never change (I'm talking about in our lifetime): Linux is for geeks and hackers and it is frustrating for someone who isn't one. 'Bout 9 years ago I installed it for the last time on someone's computer. She plugged an external drive into it and then asked me where it was. I told her she had to mount it before, and that was it, I saw how stupid that was to someone used to having a drive just show up, when what they wanted exactly was to have the drive show up. Never installed linux on anyone's computer anymore.
Has microsoft promised a patch for this or do we have to wait till 4.7?
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> shouldn't include the full contents of emails, just telemetry on how they were typed.

Can you explain how you got to this from what you asserted before? Autocomplete data should be more than enough to get that content.
Oh, I forgot about that - that feature wasn't available when Chrome was launched.

To be fair, that feature also isn't very hidden; the sync settings let you turn off history sync or use a sync passphrase which prevents Google from seeing your browsing history.
When teams have problems with remote v local employees, I've found this to be because they actively treat them differently, sometimes without realizing it.

Yeah, some teams like to take advantage of the far richer communication that's available in person rather than handicapping everyone to the lowest common denominator.

If you attempt it again, make sure you evaluate whether you've built a culture based on 'being there' before hiring people who can't be.

IOW, discourage informal social interactions between employees. Don't permit them to go to lunch together and talk at leisure about things.

Companies do not like spending money they don't have to. So since the Internet hasn't killed business travel, there must be a very good reason its still worth it.
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Conceptually this sounds interesting but I feel almost no one is truly qualified to judge an idea unless you are an expert in that specific field and even then i'm hesitant to believe you can predict quality ideas in the future.

Its fun to judge people's ideas but you guys don't have an expertise in any specific fields. At least you don't even talk about it on your site.
What screens want
It's almost as if SF should have its own currency...
The OS does set itself to do OS things.

OS shouldn't set your browser.
I spent a number of years working for nefarious defence contractors so the paranoia is somewhat justified. My paranoia is clearly required as I've been responsible for the security architecture at a number of financial companies and have a lot of experience dealing with both the human and technology aspects of data.

Safety in numbers is only valid if it's difficult to discern facts from the flock. But it's not. The technology logs and correlates specific data for fast retrieval rather than collecting noise and then discerning the signal later on.

Oh and I'd never drink Bass; maybe an Abbots or two ;)
First, you may be confusing me with another poster; I don't feel like your comment reflects my other posts on this article. I don't "keep emphasizing" how easy it is to change your browser.

I don't know if it's harder or easier to move to a different browser in Windows 10. I presume it's about the same, but it may be harder. I don't think that alters my point whatsoever.

My complaint is that Microsoft is making it difficult for users to do what the users want, if that's different from what Microsoft wants them to do. My position is that it's significantly worse when the OS does that to you than when an application - any application - does that, because it's much harder to switch OS than to switch an application. (If you're a large business, your ERP or, worse, database, may be the exception to this, but those aren't really the topic of this thread.)
Thanks, it's encouraging to hear that the contracting officers are now getting better advice from technical folks who understand the small teams approach.
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interesting idea. what api do you pull the data from, yelp or foursquare?
While I applaud the idea of this, I think it is ultimately just a question of how much a linux zero day is worth (aka is it worth more than 100 grand). When the code base for everything on there server is going to be huge (aka they use Linux and any common webserver), there is pretty much a gaurantee that there will be a vuln, the only question is if someone will drop a zero day for this.
As far as I can tell, PRISM was about getting access to data the company was already keeping. So the NSA would get your Google Location data, but only if you were giving to Google. As far as I know, the NSA hasn't made someone collect it anyway.

Legally, the heart of the NSA legal basis is the 3rd party doctrine that states that data held by a third party isn't private. It would be a very illegal search to have Microsoft invade your privacy under NSA order.

Of course, there is also some risk that the NSA or some other party goes rouge as does it anyway. But you have that problem with essentially all software and hardware.

You'd have to compile your own OS from source code you inspected thoroughly. And even then, the NSA is almost without a doubt sitting on linux 0-days.

And literally (and I don't mean figuratively) nobody knows whats on all the firmware in all the components in all your devices.

The risk of being an NSA target is super low. The harm in being a false positive target is pretty low too. Even if the NSA hacked your windows install, they won't find any plans to blow up the Sears tower and then go about their business.

Compared to risk that a car accident will destroy your existance, who cares about this tiny risk.

I probably wouldn't windows if I were a KGB agent, but other than that, why worry.
Definitely needs to change.
If you don't mind me asking, what are you paying for rent? Been considering moving out there so trying to get a feel for things.
For me, I'm not a Twitter user and would rather not be a Twitter user, so your app is instantly inaccessible.

Also, I fail to see why this would need to be able to read my tweets or those who I follow, assuming I even am a Twitter user.

I suppose it's not much worse than relying on Facebook or Google to authenticate, but it's not like it wouldn't be hard to create a bunch of Twitter accounts to vote hack with. Plus, let's be honest here: it's a site where you vote on funny moving pictures. This isn't the bloody U.S. Presidential Election; if you're worried about vote hacking at this stage, you're probably overthinking things.

Just my two cents/pence/$FRACTIONAL_CURRENCY.
Caltrain doesn't have a stop at Montgomery or Embarcadero. You have to switch to BART before SF, walk, or take one of the muni lines that is slower than walking.
Yes, but see the other comments about how the % operator can introduce bias into an RNG's output.
And it's not like putting "tiny" before anything differentiates it to any significant degree. I mostly thought the coincedence was funny. ;)
Yep, this is why I prefaced my statement with "outside the scope of Cordova apps".
No one wanted this implementation. There are plenty of ways of solving exactly the problems without the amorphous concept of the cloud without introducing any burden on the user.

I have a 3 desktops, 2 laptops, a NAS and 2 servers and have solved the problems transparently without any cloud services.
It seems like you are looking for this site :)
https://www.bountysource.com/
Boulder is weird... I was all set to go there, and got a better offer in Bend, Oregon, which is significantly cheaper in terms of housing. I'm kind of happy about how it turned out. I didn't like the idea of turning over such a large portion of my paycheck to a landlord.

Things are not cheap here in Bend, but I have more of a feeling of getting in earlier, while things are still growing.
So you're proposing that amazon didn't bother to check that the provider was real before listing it on their website? I just don't see amazon blindly adding service providers to their website without any sort of vetting process.
So. Much. Vacuity. Not once was it mentioned that Windows 10 removes Firefox from users' machines.
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30-50 years ago farmland was a few hundred an acre in real terms. Today it's a few thousand. That's inflation adjusted so land has definitely appreciated considerably.

http://www.ers.usda.gov/media/873616/farmrealestatevalues.pd...

What's the rising tide that floats all boats these days? It's not the stock market, it's not real estate, and it's not startups. I can't think of anything that keeps going up, except perhaps for inflation.
I'm not sure that this is very useful. To make strange proteins I think it's better to make strange t-RNA that is bound to strange aminoacids. The ribosome only connect the aminoacid that are selected by the t-RNA.
And Amazon's is $250 Billion (1000x): http://www.marketwatch.com/investing/stock/amzn

Pretty sure a purchase of AngiesList wouldn't make a dent.
This. There's been a massive shift of wealth away from the middle classes.

And college loans are just taxation by the back door - with the difference that instead of a graduate tax paid to the government, you pay a loan "tax" to the shareholders of the loan fund.

In fact, taxation is increasingly privatised. Instead of paying taxes to government you pay a profit-surcharge on almost everything. This goes to corporate shareholders but provides little or no returned value.

The result is that trillions of dollars are rotting uselessly in offshore tax havens, when they could have been invested in future economic development. And spending power has been suppressed, when it could have been driving the economy from the other end.
For an artificially structured system of agreed upon rules that are in everyone's best interest to optimize for prosperity, "human time scales" and emotional memory, in economic systems, should have little influence.

Especially considering historical blunders and clear lessons that we've learned.
I prefer Safari because I always thought it weird to let a company who's primary revenue is targeted advertising control my browser.