jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
That particular decision seems to involve enough incomparable quantities that I'd focus on those rather than the actual valuation equation. Taking VC versus not taking VC puts you on different enough trajectories that it seems worth looking at your preferences there, first. For example, two extreme points: 1) the scale-up-fast, exit-within-a-few-years VC-backed shot; and 2) the "lifestyle business", growing to sustained revenues that are enough to make the founders a nice income indefinitely, with no intention of selling.
even google is ditching gears, so use HTML5
It's a shame Google doesn't import that list.
> If they were that smart I don't think they would have ended up here next to me programming CRUD backends for a mobile app.

Good for him.
There's a big difference between something that looks like a payment terminal and what appears to just be a personal mobile phone though.
This line really should answer that question:

> By the end of the exchange, they were both very happy with the arrangement and thanked me profusely for setting them up to use the future of currency, although I was still in the process of explaining its importance.
Read the article and still have no idea what MMT means. Something economics related I gather.
You might enjoy reading through similar question I asked a few years ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21716306
Lots of thoughtful responses.

Though people seem to have decent feedback, I'd be somewhat skeptical of any advice that hasn't been tested for at least a year and seems very confident. My problem is basically that I can last (for the exact same reasons as you) for about 6 months on any given project, before being burnt out or let go because my productivity grinds to untenable levels with a sufficiently unstimulating or untenable task list. I've been on medication for 3 years. It helps to a point to get through those patches, but you have to be consistent, and if you fuck up your sleep or can't get enough exercise, it can all go south. In my experience, I've only really been successful with a lot of autonomy and heterogeneous problems to solve.
Usually those ads have some fine print saying that their own terms of refusing a sale for whatever reason still apply. So if Store A is taking a loss on sales to force Store B to sell for cheaper, Store B can still refuse to sell you the product. "We price match" only applies if a sale actually goes to completion.
Magnetic couplings for the motors was a fun way to tackle this without needing to drill anything or use gaskets. I wonder what the efficiency loss due to friction is in comparison to a traditional drive shaft through a gasket.
Hi, I'm the author of the blog post being promoted here.

This is really cool too!! I use Tunnels with SSH a ton. I was considering making a follow-up post going through the SSH setup too, but I felt it was a bit redundant considering that docs page existed. My post was because of the lack of a clear guide for a simple HTTP webserver.
..now we just need sodastream refills with o2 and adapter?
No. I should have been more clear: they also do ski trips.
Are we really still using Forbes as evidence? Forbes is blogspam. I need a much more credible source before handing over my email to this site.
Honestly, right now during the pandemic, medical courier. How do you think tests get to labs?
This is awesome! Do you have the code anywhere? This is the kind of text adventure I want to do but I don't know much js.
Their bread and butter is search ads, my dude. They don't need telemetry for that. They have search keywords. Almost all of their revenue comes from there and the margin there is huge.
This completely specious position is useful for all arguments!

Gun deaths, drunk driving, terrorism, opioid deaths, suicides -- just compare them to the natural death rate and call it a day. I mean, those ones all pale compared to COVID-19, so apparently they're complete non-issues.
Yup. My mistake.
I made a 3D flappy-bird inspired game: "Droppyship".
https://itunes.apple.com/app/droppyship/id820172550
Finishing up a quick update this weekend to add gamecenter and ios7 controller support, but I don't know if I'll take it much further.
Load times is absolutely the primary reason I quit playing.
Licensing (alongside the MCA debacle) was definitely a driver, as was the more complex topology for even a simple token ring network compared to a simple ethernet network.

Ultimately the brute-force improvement in efficiency given by developing ethernet switching settled the argument, IMO. Once you could practically utilize the bulk of the theoretical bandwidth of ethernet, token ring was toast. Switching was the Pentium Pro of network architectures.
> It’s not dependent on size but what you do

It is dependent on size. You could for example start with an engineering team working on a mono stack and outsource data and analytics operations. But at some point, you will decide that data and analytics have to be in-house. You start with a mono stack for each of them. But then you suddenly start splitting each of these three into sub-teams. Suddenly mono stack doesn't make all that sense.

K8s solves the problem of horizontal scaling in both teams and infrastructure. It's inevitable when (and only if) you plan on scaling up. Not that all teams/companies will/want to follow that path.
> Isn't every algorithm reversible if you save the inputs?

1. No, it might be probabilistic or non-deterministic.

2. Depends on your definition of reversibility. Maybe it's the ability to reverse a single, highly-localized, operation, such as an ALU operation; in which it doesn't help that you can repeat the computation all the way from the input to the previous state.
this reminds me of the drama around when Bitcoin forked into BTC and BCH - I recall there was some optimization that allowed miners to land at digests equivalent to some huge hash rate without actually computing that many hashes and since it was baked into ASICs that would be rendered useless after the optimization was nullified they had no choice but hard fork.
That isn't really recommended training by most behaviorists. You risk upping the dogs negative association and stress with events.

Negative reinforcement training isn't great.
^ yeah that. I started with C so I always had decent low level understanding. I've found I pick things up faster if I'm doing stuff, not reading about it but YMMV.

I probably I picked up most of my reverse engineering skills practicing on crackmes and reading/watching other people's solutions on crackmes.de (now dead) but you can try your luck in the successor https://crackmes.one/
I put "gang" because these are usually not armed gangs but rather regular dudes who have "claims" to these lands. There is a bit of power play here, otherwise the buyer will just go ahead and claim the lot.
I'd take the alternate view. K8s is a huge relief from both development and operations, but it absolutely requires an entire team of dedicated folks along with re-tooling everything to fit it's paradigm. This is true of all orchestration systems, but especially true for k8s. If you have a dozen eng teams and 50 microservices, and 2 or 3 devops/SRE people because it's all in AWS/GCP/Azure, k8s is going to crash and burn. If you have a dozen eng teams with 2+ devops/SRE folks in each of them, and a handful of extra folks to form a whole new team for K8s you're in great shape.
The grey lady turns out to be a vengeful bitch. Power corrupts. Media centralisation is not a good plan for a free society.
So when people say they enjoyed school they are wrong and have forgotten it sucked just because the author’s school experience was bad? Ok then.

There are so many wonderful schools and teachers. Sure you can have bad experiences in school and I am sure for many it sucked, but there are probably just as many for who school was a safe haven from the shit they had to deal with at home.
I'm of the opinion that use of IDE and non-essential tooling must stay in the private realm, much like one's idea of the almighty, and politics.

"This project doesn't build/can't run from command line! What the...".

"Oh well, I use my [favorite IDE]. It works for me".

"The call paths aren't intuitive!"

"My [favorite IDE] shows cool/advanced visualization. Maybe you should try it, too".
And still I do like my Pinot Noir a bit watery red :)

I don't really know what is happening in this context. Maybe a lot of people have not much taste, or cannot disciminate between different tastes or things?

I don't understand anything about the words that go along with wine and beer reviews. I don't understand anything about using words like chocolate or nuts in describing the taste of wine or beer.

I do know what I like in my mouth, but that is also very subjective. It also changes over time and can differ from day to day. Some days I like a bitter hoppy beer, some days a fresh pilsner. Some days I like a softer red wine, some days it may have a 'bite'.
Why does it sometimes seem like there is a willful disregard for what actually drives companies (profit)?

As a consequence of US laws and the way the economy runs (US capitalism), companies are incentivized to seek cheap labor. They will pay the lowest price they can.

If person A and person B produce the exact same work but A will accept a lower wage, obviously the company will hire A.

If people are upset/perplexed/confused by this, I think the crux of it is: why do some people accept a lower wage? In this case it's ostensibly because some people live in lower cost of living areas.
What I mean is this flowchart:

use a financial model like Discounted Cash Flow for finding companies that are "objectively" severely undervalued -> buy them -> wait X years until they reach their "fair price" that you calculated at the start -> sell for a profit

Aswath Damodaran has some online academic content on valuation in that style.

The main problem nowadays is the "severely undervalued" part. People in general know too much to severely undervalue companies. The RoaringKitty's GME thesis was based on strong fundamentals, but also on his contrarian belief that they can still flourish despite being a brick-and-mortar business. It's interesting to see if he was right, but it's still a gamble. Anyway, the Reddit frenzy turned the whole story of his GME thesis into the craziness that we all know.

(Another problem is market reaching the "fair price", good luck with that?)

edit: Okay, so to better answer your question, RK at the beginning said that he is inspired by value investing but he doesn't apply it purely. As to fundamental analysis, I think most people do it but rarely use it in the specific way outlined above.
Because he doesn't have the experience yet?

He's been running the podcast for two and a half years, and this episode makes 160.

How much experience do you reckon it takes to get "good" at interviewing?
That's because you come from a Files based OS to an App based OS.

It's always easy to say 'mine' is better than 'yours'. But both have different philosophies and histories.
Seatbelts weren’t a thing in the first cars. People weren’t thinking long-term about how fast these things might one day go.
I forgot to mention that, but it is already on my list of things to investigate. I came across readthedocs.com in the last few months (probably on HN) and sent a passionate email requesting access to the private beta. I haven't been selected yet, but I am anxiously waiting to try it out.

How would you say that readthedocs.com differs from the tool mentioned in a sibling comment (Readme: https://readme.io/)?
I had used a very similar one for a while https://github.com/ksamuel/Pyped and found it quite useful. In that other utility they mention "'py' has been renamed to 'pyp' to avoid conflict with the new tool in the Python stdlib named 'py'" I wonder if such a problem would arise for your project.
Google gives the app developer to use other in-app payments means, to save the fee.
You missed some subtext. Read Bernstein's posts on CFRG to see his take on the MSFT proposal.
My question remains the same, i could rephrase it though:

Why would the data be worth trillions, if you can't monetize it to trillions.

In practise (simplified): people search on Google (Google knows what you probably want), but they buy on Amazon. Who is worth more, the one that has the data or the one that has the goods and a % of the sale. (i'm excluding ads here though, it's the only successfull monetizing scheme for data i have encountered.. But ads are not worth trillions... Every next social startup will do them

In practise 2: What happened to App.Net and Whatsapps yearly (1 $ subscription).
Amazon seems to have truly become the Walmart of e-commerce, and I'm not just talking about what the company does (commerce), but rather what the brand represents.

That's not necessarily a bad thing. Walmart and Amazon have proven that if you dominate the supply chain landscape and offer a huge variety with low margins, you can do moderately well (i.e. stay in business). But with so much being essentially commodity goods and services (physical and digital), you really can't expect higher margins. So Amazon lives on, even after 20 years in the business.

But with that much history and branding (intentional and unintentional), you really can't expect to create demand for your own premium products - competing with companies that have spent the same amount of time (decades) marketing themselves as design-driven, high quality, premium brands.

It appears that Amazon expects to pull a complete 180 with their brand overnight, as if a product itself (if it's "cool enough") can negate and rise above 20 years of commodity reseller branding.

Sounds a bit like the lone hacker who expects their next mobile app to explode with popularity just because it exists and might have a small edge on the competition. Except in this case, Fire Phone didn't even have an edge. Still, I'm convinced that even if it had been better than the iPhone (or whichever best Android phone) in almost every way, it still would have been doomed for failure.

No one brags about getting the Walmart version of something. The same could be said for Amazon.

I do respect the company's efforts to take "bold" risks. I also really want Amazon to succeed - I'm a very happy Prime and AWS customer, and I think their hardware is actually pretty good. I just wonder if the big bets would be better placed on products and services that better align with the brand they've created already.
Why is it so hard to find a changelog for the server edition of 11.04?
For a perspective on why H1-B people might want to flee the United States because of execrable tax policy, you can check out this post and comments on my blog:

http://hodgen.com/hb-person-need-of-fbar-assistance/

tl;dr - if you have more than $10K in a foreign bank account you have to file a tax form. If you don't file such a form, horrific penalties ensue. H1-B workers frequently have accounts in their home countries with more than $10K. They come here to work, become residents for US tax purposes, and are liable for the penalties.

I have talked to more than one such person who finds it expedient to quit their US job and leave in order to eliminate the US tax risk.

EDIT: In case the connection is not obvious, the same logic would apply to immigrant entrepreneurs. If you have some capital outside the USA and you get a green card, you can stay (and risk six-figure tax penalties) or you can give up the green card and eliminate your tax risk. I have a booming business in "give up green card" work at the moment.
Well, when I read the Twitter headline I was sure that this is a link I'd like to share with my coworkers. After reading it however it seems not to have much of content.

Some other reasons beside the obvious social ones:

1. If you aren't working on the same project you can use these lunch-discussions to generate ideas.

2. You can ask for feedback on any descision from people that are not actually involved in your project.

3. If you are working at a company where you can actually influence the company's principles, rules and processes you can make your job even better by improving the company's behavior. Which is far more fun if you are not doing it alone.

There are probably more reasons.
This article is really missing some substance beside the psychological impact of social interactions.
Common lunch can also provide value to the company itself.
I completely agree. I don't have time to read every comment. I miss being able to skim to crowd-sourced, high up-voted comments.
Soooooo cool that they realized that every keyboard has a windows key!!! Instead of adapting the ms shortcuts, they find different shortcuts which do the same, how great is that?!
You need to ween yourself off your social proof addiction. The problem with vote counts is that two downvotes can start a cascade of reflex downvotes. Or at best, it won't get upvoted. When vote counts where active, this effect caused many instances where an excellent comment was found greyed out at the bottom of the page until a few smart HN folks with high karma voted it back up.
Anyone know how Google Talk's video chat works compared to Apple's FaceTime?

Google: Jingle (created at Google), an extension of Jabber/XMPP for signaling, RTP for media, H.264 video, GIPS (acquired by Google) audio

Apple: SIP/STUN/TURN/BuzzwordBingo for signaling/NAT traversal, RTP for media, H.264 video, AAC audio

Is there a reason everyone can't agree on a standard?

a) Google: not-invented-here-syndrome

b) Apple: massive lock-in

c) Skype: see Apple
I'm not finding US emigration numbers, but working from the American expatriate numbers, which include both emigrants and people who will eventually return, the following look likely:

Country 1996 Immigration 1999 total Americans
Canada 15825 687700
UK 13657 224000
Germany 6748 210880
Israel 3126 184195
Italy 2501 168967
Australia 2750 102800
France 3079 101750

The high "total americans" to "annual immigration from" rations seem likely that the annual emigration may be a net positive. (Remember, some of the immigrants will eventually return home too.)

Immigration data from: http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0201398.html
Americans abroad data from: http://unstats.un.org/unsd/Demographic/meetings/egm/migratio...
You make some really excellent points, and having done this rodeo so many times now, if I was going to do it again, I would most certainly consider alternative funding. Thankfully I was able to raise the money I wanted and feel at least that it wasn't directly tied to things I felt uncomfortable with.

I also think that even though you're right, avoiding truly tainted money is near impossible, asking the question puts VCs on blast, something I feel fortunate to have been able to do (even if not common and they just ignore me as an edge case).

Just as one point of clarification, I always asked after the partner pitch, so I felt like we'd dated enough that it was an acceptable question to ask (I could very well be wrong).
> The difference is the syntax is structured more like Java's `try` and `catch` blocks

Which is a big plus, but the most interesting part to me is the "if" behavior you implemented.

!if { foobar } then { ... }

Which basically translate to Bash (without STDOUT/STDERR handling):

foobar
if [ $? -ne 0 ] then ... fi

This is like 99% of my use cases when I'm writing scripts...

> As for testing, [...] they explain the syntax but not how nor why you might want to use it.

When I saw the examples, I immediately thought of "validation scripts" that would assert that an environment respects some specification (like the configure script from autotools ?)

> but man this post is already lengthy hehe

I enjoyed the details :)
This sounds great.

Devil's advocate: Would this (or existing states' legislation, like California's) have any means of protecting against e.g. a non-CA user just changing their location to CA and immediately canceling? It sounds like an easy loophole for non-CA folks.
Amazon would love it, as it would begin to crush smaller retailers and they have the capacity to handle dealing with various law differences.
That's valid but also hear this out: the local app in my country, called Rappi, gets things wrong so often I wonder how they do it. I mean, it's written, yet restaurants often send you whatever. And let's not talk about the times the delivery person is completely clueless about my location, and you can just see them circling cluelessly on the map while you desperately send them messages trying to orient them.

My point is: mishaps happen whether by phone or app.
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>The result is that biology loses out due to the minimal real contact with math– the special opportunity of benefiting from the extra sense is lost, and conversely math loses the opportunity to engage biology

When I was a biology grad student, I was the only person in the department that tried to do active collaboration with the math department. I took more math classes during my graduate program than biology classes.

On the biology side, I got ridiculed for all the 'hand waving' that seems to happen with the math. Biologists want to see concrete experiments and results.

On the math side I found people to be much more open and fascinated by the biology, but they had a tough time explaining what they were doing to a lay audience.

No easy answers, but I think more programs should graduate people with dual skills in both subjects(and of course have job opportunities for those grads, instead of having them jump into industry like I did).
Then necessarily that requires taking risk. Do you want shares in the companies that get to the point where they need a your help?
As a 12 year old I sometimes played scales with pennies on my hands (not by my choice!) and it sure has paid dividends. I’ve been a Emacs user since the 70s and never had a tiny bit of rsi despite mostly using all sorts of physical non-“ergonomic” environments.

I’ve always been shocked by “wrist rests” because they encourage compression and an offset in the orientation of the carpal tunnel. Seems like the best “wrist rest”, if you need one at all, would be a small bed of nails.

Note: I’m male. The carpal tunnels of women narrow during pregnancy and don’t return to the pre-pregnancy internal diameter. As with many conditions specific to women (despite being the majority of hipumanity) this does not appear to have been studied much less explained. An example of why this may be true for me but not for everyone.

Also: pianists are not immune to rsi; while there are sadly many famous professional examples, programmers may also consider Bernie Greenberg.

Moving beyond the kbd: I noticed that my gf’s kids (in Palo Alto schools), were never taught how to use a pencil or pen and suffer fatigue and cramp, while my kid (german education) was thought how to hold and operate pens from grade 1 and though he by now types of course, still has no problem writing for long periods. In Palo Alto all the kids learned was how to make the shapes.
This isn't music, or anything like it. The article touches on the Millenials' refusal to learn anything below their chosen layer of abstraction to be a systemic risk to anything they build.

It's more akin to every bridge engineer not bothering with materials science or integral calculus because they know how to throw a bunch of trusses together than it is akin to every hipster on the planet learning to play Stairway to Heaven.
Yeah, you need to name names. There are lots of us who had great bootcamp experiences and it's irresponsible to sully their reputations because you had a bad experience at one school.

At least do it to help other students avoid paying a bunch of money for a bad experience. That kid who posted about the nightmare at Coding House did the whole community a big favor.
Not quite that simple:

if (year is not divisible by 4) then (it is a common year)
else
if (year is not divisible by 100) then (it is a leap year)
else
if (year is not divisible by 400) then (it is a common year)
else (it is a leap year)
"Even if a project doesn’t require communication"

Every project requires communication.