jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I'm in a similar situation, and am struggling with the same question. From some desktop research and talking to investors/other startups, it seems like "0.1% - 2% of post-Series A stock" is a reasonable range depending on the results an advisor might bring about.
(http://venturehacks.com/articles/advisors-part-2)

Are you planning to draft a legal agreement of sorts with this person?
If yes, it may be helpful to tie in dollar amounts with milestones to determine equity percentages, I think. Personally I find it hard to quantify how much connections and a couple of hours a week are worth in terms of dollars.
If it's possible to put a revenue amount to what s/he is bringing to the table, either in a strategic "$X in the first N years" or "$X from this release within N years" kind of way, that may help to crystallize the equity percentage somewhat.
Because getting advice from people who did not survive or created a successful startup is clearly a better idea :)
It seems more like you are trying to build a photomosaic maker with support for masks.

Does Photoshop not do this?
I spend all my time doing front-end development and I'm not sure what the author means by "I look forward to seeing what the JSON folks do when they are asked to develop richer APIs". The only deliberately unstructured XML I've worked with is document formats. Where are these rich unstructured APIs that wouldn't otherwise be classified as lazy?
I've been reading Phrack so long web browsers didn't exist. This makes me feel very old.
It only provides that guarantee because the parsers have agreed to do so (and not all do, nor do they do so identically). It's a guarantee by communal agreement, nothing more.

There's no reason a JSON format can't do the exact same thing. JSON-RPC, for instance, defines its own rules on top of JSON which anything using it must conform to. How hard would it be to make a set of JSON interchange rules which specify external schema documents?

edit: answer:

{json_strict_version:1, schema:{external:[url,url], internal:[{schema},{schema}]}}
Why risk it? Just go to the manufacturers instead of asking anonymous internet people for legal advice. Of course, if the startup is disposable then this might not be such a compelling reason.
My team's single sign on prototype was deployed to heroku so that we could develop our apps against it (Android, iPhone, WP7, jQuery Mobile). It would have stalled development, but with a bit of tweaking I was able to get the prototype deployed to cloudfoundry and everything continued as planned.
My onsite interview with Google was very fair. It was an all-day event. The engies asked very tough questions and expected you to come up with the answer in about 30 minutes (45 minutes max but you need time to ask/interact).

I didn't make it. But I don't feel their engies are assholes (well may be a couple in my 5 interviews). I have a feeling like they don't care how you interact/approach to solve the issue. If you cannot solve it you fail! There is no partial credit whatsoever. This could turn out to be great if you have canned solutions.
The fact that this article is so popular is sort of sad.That shows that a lot of people on HN are not making $500 a month from their web apps .We should have higher goals than this.
An amazon EC2 micro instance is something like $60/mo. I know this because I tried to sign up for their "free" tier a few months ago, and got charged. Luckily amazon had my account information on file, so they went ahead and just charged me for the balance.

(It took a few weeks/months to get my money refunded...and forever convinced me that amazon's customer support is completely worthless)

I'm sure AWS works for some people, but that left a pretty bad taste in my mouth.
Scooby is just a little psychotic.
One could always try Haml.
Reddit goes down when a butterfly in India flaps her wings.
It's disturbing but makes sense in a lot of business contexts. Imagine I own a business and I have a key employee who has a unique skill. And if they were to die, my business would have serious problems. It makes sense to take out a life insurance policy on that person to protect my lost revenue.

Or let's say I have a business partner, we own the business 50 /50. It makes a lot of sense for each of us to have a life insurance policy on the other person to make up for the fact that the business might likely die if the person does.

Where it's kind of screwed up is when Walmart takes out policies on their front line retail employees and doesn't tell them as a way of diversifying revenue.
Anyone who requested the feature of "able to send and receive packets which are not seen by the OS" is either not really asking, or should be told no.

I mean, even if I have a pfSense or whatever box running in between, if I'm reading this correctly, there could be packets traversing the network I can't see?

And all of this has a "zero-touch" configuration capability. You know what that means, right?

The two together, simply put, it's a factor to consider when buying this hardware. People should be aware this feature exists, and what it's capable of. More than anything, it feels like this is unreported and under-discussed.
If you want personalized recommendations and not just generic recommendations, you do need to rate movies you've seen. They need to have some input that differentiates you from the average person.
So, this kind of list of complaints seems to be really common among folks who don't like Windows. Some times the list varies and wonders from one category of problems to another, but the core theme is still the same: The end user isn't capable of using the computer.

Now, it isn't fair to say, 'You must have 5 years in desktop support to use this product', but it harkens back to the problem of that people are making judgements about an OS that aren't really caused by the OS. You can say, 'I had issues with drivers' and 'I felt that the UX here and there was poor', but to say, 'Windows is broken. Here's the problems I had that say it's broken' is dead wrong.

Furthermore, a lot of people do this kind of stuff on 500 dollar laptops and other equally crappy hardware and expect the same kind of quality as they got from a $2000 MPB. You want a rock solid PC? Buy a Dell Precision. Comparing the cheap hardware put in the budget-line laptops to the (mostly) decent hardware put in the line of portable Macs is pretty foolish, and again comes back to the idea that it's not Windows that's broken, it's your crappy hardware.

Windows is unbelievably stable and while it isn't without it's problems, 99% of the problems that people actually report as 'problems with Windows', aren't.
There is also probably laws that keeps you from doing that. At least in many countries, It's illegal to damage money even after they changed the material or the currency itself. It's a very long shot and probably not very profittable.
Airport in Orlando opts out of using TSA to screen their passengers:

http://www.examiner.com/libertarian-in-national/florida-airp...
Go on dell.com or apple.com and build these crazy systems that I will never buy. 5K for a workstation? Sure!!
Silver lining: Hopefully I can test my "aws is failing" fallback code. (my GAE based site keeps a state log on S3 for the day when GAE falls in a hole.)
"[S]hould" is the wrong word here. Clearly, they don't maintain such backups. This is clear to anyone using their service. They pay for the service anyway, so apparently it's still worth it to them, even without auto-backups.

Would it make sense for Amazon to maintain automatic backups (and potentially charge more for them)? I don't know. It might make business sense, it might not. But their service is apparently popular enough even without it.
Don't forget to take in to account ALL of Reddit's downtime; there is quite a bit of it.
Everything is an abomination until you learn how to use it.

The difficulty with loop is it takes something trivial and makes it more complex than it needs to be. Simple things are not simple. Complex things are rare and loop doesn't simplify them enough.
I'm certain they're plenty talented and hard-working, but there's got to be something in their way. Just like the guy said as he was leaving Reddit, management seems to be pointing fingers in different directions as to why this is going on and how it can be resolved. It's sad, though, because I don't want to think of Amazon as a company with a potentially toxic corporate culture. I enjoy my free Prime membership as a student :D
Not qualified to speak about what Reddit should or should not do about the arrangement with Amazon. I have read several posts, including one by an (ex) Reddit employee saying Amazon is not delivering what they said they would, that much is clear. I really doubt all their downtime is part of the SLA.
Yeah and the major problem with Java generics is they aren't more like C++ templates.

Today it is 100% clear that the naysayers were not only wrong about Java generics. They are wrong about generic programming in general. Unfortunately they managed to cripple Java before this realisation became obvious.
Hasn't worked for me all day so far. Also in the UK.
When I think of Hungarian problem solving I think of Polya's renowned book on proof heuristics, "How to Solve It"[1]. How accurate is that impression?

[1] http://www.math.utah.edu/~pa/math/polya.html
The content that this site is using is from another site and I received some kind of fake "your computer has been infected" message when I visited it.
I had no idea...

That was really interesting, thanks. And yes, as far as I know Apple offer nothing like this
I watched the same video a year or so ago and I wonder why anyone would design a doughnut shaped building that tall. It seems obvious that it would get pretty dark in the bottom of the building and I wouldn't expect the air to be all that fresh.
That's not logging in as SYSTEM, that's running an explorer process as SYSTEM.

Another way to accomplish it in XP & such was by copying cmd.exe over one of the default screensavers (which are also just regular programs). When you're at the login screen the screensaver gets run as system, thus giving you the equivalent of a root shell. Launching explorer from it would result in a new user profile being created in explorer and you'd be "logged in" as SYSTEM, but not really.
When in C, Python, Java, JS, or anything else does reassigning a variable from the function sig ever work? The symbol is in-scope. Even when overwriting the pointer location in C, you don't just assign; you de-reference and copy over the memory that was there. A novice programmer would make this mistake, not a novice Java programmer.
Good find, but that contradicts many of their earlier numbers.

More importantly, Tesla bought the old NUMMI plant from the GM/Toyota consortium to use as their manufacturing facility. The peak production under NUMMI was only 400k cars/year, so they'd have to get an additional 25% utilization out of a facility that was running 3 shifts/day in many areas. I'm fairly skeptical they can do that, especially by 2020.

Going from 60 cars/day (current production rate) to 1,500/day is no small feat.
Wait, is he just changing version numbers? Suddenly he goes from most committed programmer ever to most...frivolous?
Ugh, please don't submit drama like this.

In the article, the author says that a reddit user admitted to him that he he was caught orchestrating a voting ring for anti-semitic posts. He then links to a thread where said user says he submitted articles with editorialized and racists titles to see if a certain sub would upvote them, they did and then he reported the results of his experiment.

2 very different versions of what happened.
The current roadmap for that is "never". :)
There just isn't enough ROI for rewriting all old code.
Sigh. TIOBE again.

Things TIOBE believes:

* Visual Basic is more popular than JavaScript

* D is more popular than Lua

* Scratch is more popular than TypeScript

* The popularity of C declined by 50% between 2015 and 2017, and then returned to its previous value in 2018

* Visual Basic became dramatically more popular in early 2020

This is all because TIOBE is based on counting search engine results. It's heavily influenced by changes in search engine algorithms, the "searchability" of language names, and SEO spam -- not necessarily by real changes in the marketplace.
Using it successfully on large team. Works great and plays well with all the existing JS libraries.
Before, I was not aware that by reading one tech news article, ALL of my historical personal data across all of my devices would get processed by literally hundreds of different faceless corporate entities.
> Which is often the case with claims of solving long-lasting problems

This is what I really like about programming language theory: problems which are literally undecidable in existing languages, can be made almost trivial by designing a language with that problem in mind. The trick is to have the language keep track of the information needed for the solution, so we're not dealing with "black boxes".

A classic example is annotating every variable with a type, and propagating that information through compound expressions; lets us spot problems like trying to use a number as a string, without worrying about the halting problem (we do this by forbidding some technically-valid programs, like `1 + (true? 10 : "hello")`).

Of course, this leaves the much harder problems of (a) keeping the burden imposed by this extra information down to a reasonable level, and (b) trying to make the language compelling enough for people to actually use. Rust is one of the few examples of going all-in on a new ecosystem, and it actually being embraced. Often it's easier to "embed" a new language inside an existing language, to piggy-back on the existing tooling (e.g. the variety of auto-differentiating languages built in Python)
Missive is geared towards small to midsize businesses as a collaborative platform to manage all communications (internal and external).

We wrote this post explaining some of the differences: https://missiveapp.com/frontapp-vs-missive
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GeixtYS-P3s seems vaguely related
>the selling point was flexible and efficient resource scheduling

There was a period when it wasn't clear that you didn't need both resource management and container orchestration. One of my colleagues was quite convinced at the time that we needed both Mesos and Kubernetes. If course, the market coalesced around Kubernetes which largely backfilled the missing capabilities.
It will depend on which node features/packages are essential, but it could probably be hacked together (possibly entirely using Atom's modular design, e.g. replace the standard file IO parts with browser-friendly ones like LocalStorage and the HTML5 File API).

Also: https://github.com/substack/node-browserify
That's the important one - a Tesla has no concept of the real world. Remember that clip where a Tesla was slowing down because it mistook the full moon in the sky for a traffic light? Likewise, no one would aim at a cyclist, except when they are a homicidal criminal.
love how they both ignore the fact that children only starve because of war and such. mostly for resources that are paid handsomely on space exploration, changing hands on wars often dressed as religious ones.
Neat project. Not very useful or practical, but neat.
If there were aliens that understood the "hailing message" and did not respond, and if we were to assume there was a message that would get a response, then how to figure that out? How to get better at sending messages when getting no response?
Do you have a repo with your source or an example? In my experience conjugate gradient, powell's method or any other linear optimization is essentially useless with >100 variables or so. Optimizing anything with thousands of variables is a feat, I'd be interested to see more details of how you do it.
Six Apart's MovableType is still around.

https://movabletype.org
Reminds me of the 'bot armistice' where a guy let a bot-vs-bot match run for 4 years and the steady state was 'the bots on both teams are simply standing still, not doing anything. The server is running and the game isn’t frozen. The bots are simply standing there, not killing one another.'

http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2013/07/02/quake-iii-ar...

Could be urban legend but fun story nonetheless :)
Either you're skipping over a lot of information in the process of how that number's generated, or that's not how they do it anymore (and not how they've done it for at least the last couple of years).
From the J&J trial results [1]:

Vaccine efficacy (VE) against central laboratory-confirmed moderate to severe/critical COVID 19 across all geographic areas in which the trial was conducted was 66.9% (95% CI 59.0, 73.4) when considering cases occurring at least 14 days after the single-dose vaccination and 66.1% (55.0, 74.8) when considering cases occurring at least 28 days after vaccination.

I have seen estimates as low as 40-something % for single doses of the mRNA vaccines, but this may have been an underestimate caused by only considering the first two weeks after inoculation. Given enough time for immunity to fully set in, the real number may be over 90% [2].

HOWEVER, those numbers all refer to symptomatic disease. Prevention of hospitalization and death was 100% in the J&J trial.

[1] https://www.fda.gov/media/146217/download

[2] https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2036242
"I've always resented ... punctuation?"
I think you might find that the failure rate goes down significantly with business models that are targeting smaller market segments and intend to make smaller businesses generally with the intention of just being profitable, not selling.

To take my company as an example, we are a online game specifically targeting players who were addicted to playing Diablo 2 for an extended amount of time. This is because we felt we understood what that exact market wanted better than anyone else and had a unique opportunity to deliver on it.

The intention from the start was to make a business that makes a profit, not to make a company with the intention of selling out. Infact, when we did do a capital raise at one point we were very clear in our pitch to investors that the intention was to distribute profit via dividends.

We have been successful at doing that and the project felt like a reasonably sure thing from beginning to end even when it took a lot more time and budget than we were expecting. We were 100% confident that the exact market that we were targeting existed and that they would give us money when we were done. In our minds, the only thing that could go wrong was failing to finish the product by running out of money.

Now admittedly this particular tale is probably just survivorship bias so you should take it with a grain of salt.

However, my point is just that there are a lot of little markets that VCs will not care about because they are too small. They are just waiting for someone to walk in a grab the few millions of dollars a year of profit that are sitting on the table.
Knowing its history, if you're really hated by the far left, you're probably part of it too :D
when all mainstream news are heavily biased in favor of one political party and spread blatant misinformation, you need an alternative as a counterbalance and source of truth.

the fact people don't even notice, or choose to ignore the bias in mainstream media is beyond me.
Was the new york times factful in its reporting on iraq in 2003?

And if they later investigated themselves and found that they published information that was not true, would that cancel the war pushed on us by the military industrial complex across all of our media and bring 500,000 dead Iraqis back to life?
I remember back around 2003 when a friend told me that the gamecube would/should be Nintendo's last piece of hardware, (I had recently purchased a used one).

They do seem to follow something of an every-other generation in terms of critical success for their consoles, at least starting with the N64:

+ N64
- GC
+ Wii
- WiiU
+ Switch

(I loved my gamecube, and it does have a few iconic games, but I don't kid myself how it compares to its neighbors in the timeline.)

Hopefully they break that cycle with whatever comes next!
Perhaps it's baffling, and perhaps I agree, but one cannot deny the reality. They don't use email, they do use WhatsApp, and not using WhatsApp is effectively impossible for people in that situation.
They wont allow it. Then they would have to pay the cost for server infra while not being able to push ads via the client. The problem is how to get money to pay employees and make profit. If you want an open messeging app/protocol it would have to be mostly peer to peer to save on server cost, and developed by voulantenteers, and servers hosted by the community.
Is it really fair to count Super Mario World in the best-seller list considering it came with the console?
I fail to understand why you wouldn't set dimensions for an `<img>`tag or use a `<picture>`tag with `<source>` elements for appropriate variants using just HTML and CSS.

(I'm doing this all the time, also with perfect Lighthouse scores. That is, there's often also a bit of PHP involved for includes and setting some meta tags, and a bit of non-essential JS sprinkled in.)
That's an interesting and reasonable perspective. If you stretch the definition of a coup to include totally incoherent, incompetent, ineffectual raging that could never actually achieve the outcome, it could qualify. But it still feels like a stretch to me based on what I know of coups (sadly some personal experience there).

I also think calling it a coup inflames tensions and risks credibility for no real benefit. A sober and precise description of events is damning enough.
Oh my god, this is fantastic.
but i could make the same argument that "avoid politics" is being abused by people who for whatever reason don't want to see stories about clever hacks or problems with startup life that happen to be related to travel
The TSA stories are certainly fluff in the sense of being easy to upvote, even if the underlying principles are important. Ironically, so are posts saying that one is tired of TSA stories.

I do believe the TSA stories represent a danger. If there's a road from hacking to politics, it's probably civil liberties. So already for the past week TSA stories have had an automatic penalty applied. Or more precisly, they've been autotagged as being political, which entails a penalty.

There are no TSA stories on the frontpage at this moment. In fact, the frontpage is a pretty normal HN frontpage now.
not really.
You (can) use since_id and max_id in many places, which means you need them to be ordered (and trivially so).

This is of course doable with strings too, once you decide what the ordering is.
I stopped using hangouts with Google voice because messages were only infrequently delivered.
Also, recently published, Clojure for the Brave and True: http://www.nostarch.com/clojure or http://www.braveclojure.com/
How much will it cost for me to run indextank? am thinking of some thing big like one of the examples or all of the eventbrite database.
See this for comparison with other solutions: http://www.slideshare.net/hurrycane/railsadmin
Using either is good. VPN offers misdirective pseudo-anonymization which might help.
Yes it does, I've used it and it 100% does.
Don’t forget what node separation gets you in terms of availability and partition-tolerance. But I do agree that the 8gig, RAID5 and 3-disk specs seem odd. It'd be useful to get some additional details from Franck or the Basho folks as to why they chose those.
If I'm not mistaken "chrono"[1] behaves almost the same.
It calls Local[Date|Time|DateTime] Naive[Date|Time|DateTime]. ZonedDateTime is just called DateTime. It doesn't have a separate type for Instants but can convert (zoned) DateTimes to and from UNIX timestamps.

[1] https://docs.rs/chrono/0.4.19/chrono/index.html

Edit: it seems like chrono's design took lessons learned from other time libraries, including JSR-310, into account, so that explains why they are so similar.