skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Comparing those numbers to the 5 and 10 year survival rate of more typical small businesses (50% and 33% respectively[1]) puts this into perspective.

This suggests that creating a business with the intent of not exiting, but retaining and growing it gives better odds. While a more typical small business has its own stressors and certainly can have long hours, in my experience the level of intensity is much more sustainable.

The down side - you're much less likely to walk away with large sums of money. On the up side, you're much more likely to create a sustainable venture that has a lot more success paths than the binary 'get acquired or go public' routes available to vc-funded startups.

[1] pdf - https://www.sba.gov/sites/default/files/FAQ_Sept_2012.pdf
Overnight success takes years (2009)
I feel enraged that option NOT to enhance humanity is even in the picture.

I guess that's the inevitable part of any new medical advance, be it vaccines, anaesthesia or even washing hands when dealing the pregnant women after working with corpses.
Average LSAT scores took a dive for class of '14 too. The schools lowered standards circa 2011 as fewer students applied. Three years later they graduate and, yeah, their scores are lower on average.
We solved this in a roughly similar way to a real stock exchange: the order book is persisted entirely in memory, in Go.

What happens if your process crashes? how do you rebuild the order book?

Great work btw guys, can't wait to get started!
I agree. My point still stands. The industry as a whole is terrible at keeping data secure.
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And the slides: http://fat.github.io/slides-os-guilt/
I think this is something that Digg got right (at some point, I believe). You had to submit some reason why you were burying a post. I would perhaps go farther and require the user to provide a free-text answer of a minimum character/word length to register a downvote.
Thank you. I agree with your points as well.
Maye because the setup files/archives are checksummed and not individual files? https://dist.torproject.org/torbrowser/5.0.1/sha256sums-unsi...
(Google seems to index that URL)
Seems pretty straightforward to me: the intellectual property of the code this employee was developing lies with the company (per default).

Either he still has the code, in which case he's supposed to hand it over.

Or he deliberately destroyed it, which means destruction of company property. Deliberate? Yes, because a programmer claiming "oh didn't realize you wanted to keep the source codes!" is not going to fly very far in court.

(BTW I'm modelling this on my assumptions about how this would play in Dutch court, which can be delightfully pragmatic. So there might be some differences how this would work in the USA, such as others commented, ability to afford justice in the first place)
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How does this compare to CA-baka?

https://github.com/SethRobertson/CA-baka
The bottom quarter isn't really a strange statistic. If the LSAT is a reasonable predictor (can't comment) of law school and bar exam success, then any school with reduced LSAT scores should expect increased failure further down the line.

The school in question had a significant drop (9 points) for the average score of their lowest quarter. So a corresponding drop on the bar exam, in Moeser's analysis, is a natural consequence.
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I, too, can tell you to work harder.

I, too, won't pay your therapy bills after you burn out from working 16/7 work weeks for months/years on end.
Maybe that's one of the attack vectors we are supposed to discover ourselves; trigger a kernel panic?
there's a big difference between having a law degree, and passing the bar+practicing for years. the latter is what keeps the supply artificially low.
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Here's a quick (incomplete) list of web innovations you can thank the Ruby community for either popularizing or inventing outright:

* REST
* Many parts of ES.next
* Front-end build tools
* CSS pre-compilation
* JS transpilation

I spent years happily using multi-line template strings while JS developers informed me how idiotic I was for using a transpiler. Since Ruby's goal is to be a language that brings joy to the user, I see nothing wrong with bringing that ethos to other languages. You yourself acknowledge the impact it had on the development of JavaScript.

We in the Ruby community will keep innovating, and you keep hoping that we'll stop, and we'll see which happens.
Hey! I am sorry. I realized that just now after reading your comment. :)
Yes you could--preferably in a less rude way. I took the parent's point as simply being that, glut or no glut, you're unlikely to see many sharp, competent lawyers billing at $25/hour. At that point, they're likely to go into any number of other professions instead.
The medians are dropping too. The reason for the 25th percentile stat is that law schools are forced to report three numbers for LSAT scores: 25th, 50th and 75th percentile.

So reporting the 25th is a way of showing what happened to the whole bottom quartile of a class. They're the group most likely to fail the bar exam.

Here are the stats for Brooklyn, the school mentioned in the article: http://www.lstscorereports.com/schools/brooklyn/

The median score dropped 7 points in four years.
The bottom score dropped 9 points in four years
The top 75th score only dropped 6 points in four years.

Those are massive drops for such a short time. I'm an LSAT instructor, and there is a vast difference between a 162 and a 153.
what's interesting is that the answer box is usually filled with wikipedia data
>I also hear young developers frequently brag about “48 hour” coding sprints. This kind of attitude not only hurts young workers who are willing to “step up” to the expectation, but facilitates ageism and sexism by indirectly discriminating against people who cannot maintain that kind of schedule

That is a ridiculous argument. "We shouldn't do this thing, because women are incapable of doing it". Maybe women aren't physically capable of working in high-pressure fields.
Because it's @fat, and that's how he do. No boobs here though all fairly SFW.
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Clothing, office, status are all more expensive than for say a programmer. A lawyer, to get clients, must "look successful." And a clever t-shirt costs a whole lot less than a discount suit.
Armin from Sentry here.

If you have any questions about the library or the whole problem in general feel free to shoot questions my way.
It prints about 100 times faster than other SLA printers.

http://carbon3d.com/
Of course, in manufacturing they're competing against injection molding, which can go a metaphorical 100,000 miles per hour.
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It has been that way for a very long time now. The right-wing angle on the debate has always included:

- It's not happening.

- It's happening but it's natural.

- It's happening and might be man-made, but it's beneficial.

- It's happening and might be man-made, and it's harmful, but it's not worth the cost to mitigate.

- It's happening and might be man-made, and it's harmful, and free-market solutions will solve it.

And yes, it often freely switches between them depending on the context.
I wouldn't say that any of these are bad based on TechCrunch; I mean more that there were something like 3 products that sell machines that sell food, and there's a chance in 10 years we'll say "there was no way that a food-machine product could have become a large business". And regardless of how hard they all work, I don't think it's possible that there will be 3 different "billion-dollar businesses" here.
No...25, 50th, and 75th percentiles all went down significantly there.

http://www.lstscorereports.com/schools/brooklyn/

She picked 25 because that's roughly the population of the students who failed (i.e., the weak students at the school are much weaker than they used to be, so they are now failing.)
Yep. The law isn't necessarily "logical" as one judge can interpret situations or deem "justice" differently from the next.
Then consider this: There are women who participated in a Djangogirls workshop and are working as developers one year later.

If total beginners to programming can achieve this, you can learn any new technology in a breeze. You just won't have the certification which no one else in the field has anyway!
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Actually I meant MODIC and not MODBUS. MODIC is a variant of Siemens' D-BUS protocol (not to be confused with the Linux IPC system)
> That video looked pretty magical to me.

Is that the first resin-based printer you've seen? Because I agree, they look pretty cool. But this one doesn't look particularly different, just faster.
The name of the Mayor of Johannesburg, or the atomic mass of nitrogen, are not yours to appropriate. You have no claim on these facts, even if they are written down on your web page.
There's an incomplete history at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharing_economy but I'd like to see a histogram of uses... might be heard to filter for current usage/valance however.

Needless to say, adopted and popularized because branding.
No. You are wrong and getting very tedious. This individual, a male by the account of a person that has first hand knowledge (something you, or indeed I, do not have) of the situation, did wilfully obtain software for use outside of the agreed license scope. HE didn't get it from an authorised reseller or from CERN, an innocent party in all of this. HE obtained this from an illicit site. The ramifications of this action could have been considerably worse; someone has already mentioned confliker.

Let's examine your quoting the word "facts". Are you disputing that HE acted unethically? By using unlawfully procured software? Are you really arguing that these actions should go entirely unpunished?

There is only 1 organisation charging an individual, who has used said company's product unlawfully (this is the bit you seem incapable of acknowledging). The other 2 were implicated by HIS unlawful and unethical and merely met their legal obligations in identifying the guilty party.

Whichever way you look at this, however militantly anti-capitalist you are, failing to accept the individual acted unethically and with impunity is a ridiculous position to take. Should HE pay the money? No. HE should negotiate. HIS career in the very small field that is academic particle physics is over as HE has acted unethically.

End of discussion.
"The lack of proper monitor is never the sole cause of a problem, but it’s often a serious contributing factor."

I am continuously amazed that downtime issues go undetected until a) customer notifies you b) things go downhill and alarms are blazing. Our central principle is that monitoring and alerting has to be part of your deployment. The way we apply at my work place is that every design doc has a monitoring section which has to be filled out.
Those are also low-value, low-volume parts. 3D printing works for minor components when you are only building a couple of hundred planes a year, but the 3D parts themselves have almost no value whatsoever compared to the final product.
> low speed

This is one of the primary things they advertise most improvement on. Their graphic[1] shows massive speed increases.

I don't know about most of the things you've mentioned, but it also looks like it provides far higher quality output than other products, given that it uses continuous deposition and the projector is precise enough to form smooth curved surfaces.

[1] http://3dprinting.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Carbon3D-CL...
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Could you expand on why you didn't implement this using Futures?
http://midori-browser.org/
Please don't trigger a kernel panic in one of the stock exchanges; you're on a server with many other actual humans even if they're not hooked up to your stock exchange. More guidance on "bugs you should not attempt to exploit" versus "Things which are totally in scope" at a later date -- Thomas is writing it.
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Do you have Hyperthymic Temperament[0], by any chance? It's rare. I know one guy who has it and is basically like what you describe: always on. He's the only person I've ever met who can happily work 16 hour days for years on end without it eventually catching up to him.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperthymic_temperament
> modern browsers without Javascript

Sorry, what browsers? There is no such thing. Even virtually everyone's phone runs javascript.

The only way you are running a modern browser without JS is if you've (as a power-user) turned it off. In which case you need to turn it back on when you encounter weirdness on a website that expects that your browser behaves like a normal modern browser. If you run your browser without JS (like I do), then you encounter this situation frequently and it's part of the tradeoff of controlling exactly what code runs during your web experience.
Any plans for SVG support? I'm getting errors when using <svg>, but maybe there's some way to make it work?
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Generally the alcohol level is not part of the taste.
Looking forward to figuring out the REST API for the GM server, then writing a command-line client for that and the exchange itself. Then, presumably, we can play the trading tree of Stockfighter mostly or entirely from the terminal.
nobody cares. stop posting your personal blogtrash to a news site.
> conservatives using "extreme snow" during winter as an argument against climate change but that liberals using exceptional heat during summer

The 'extreme snow' was limited to certain parts of the US - the west coast got very little on the whole. Whereas this high temperature data is a global average. So they're not really the same thing.

> I think we should start focusing on real solutions.

Sounds good to me. Taxes, it must be said, are also a way to spur innovation, because it can focus people's attention on using less of the taxed resource. Here's Greg Mankiw's take on that. He's a Republican economist.

http://gregmankiw.blogspot.com/2006/10/pigou-club-manifesto....
Futures as a concept compared to Promises as a concept? I think the difference is largely naming though i assume one implies being read only from the outside? The promise API just mirrors ES6 so that it's familiar.
Oh I see, thanks. It's just odd that nobody has posted the SHA1 somewhere.
Maybe provide a public QA server for people who are interested in that as another "game". "Can you break our stock exchange?"
The biggest reason is that newly barred lawyers are god-awful at doing complicated work. It takes a lot of on the job training to get a lawyer worth anything. So the real market of actual lawyers is pretty restrained by the number of entry level jobs established lawyers hire.

A good 50% of law students are out of law within a couple years, and large number of those never work as a lawyer. It's tough to create your own job because nobody trusts you.

And even if you do work as a lawyer, not all lawyers are fungible. They guy who spends all day at Immigration court can't litigate a contract dispute over a rail line. The guy who writes patents doesn't know how to handle a bankruptcy.

So you can get a guy to do your DUI for 500 bucks, but my firm would charge you 550/hr just to talk to you on the phone.

Another big reason is that law is a very prestige and pedigree heavy industry. Why would a firm hire a Duke grad for 160k, when you can get 4 Brooklyn law school grads for that? Rightly or wrongly, the Brooklyn grads are seen as incapable of doing the job.

Clients then hire the well known firm for their big cases and matters because they have a good reputation.

That is sort of changing. Big companies use smaller firms for smaller matters and cases where spending 700 an hour for legal work doesn't make sense.

Some would argue legal rates aren't even too high. For example, for transaction lawyers, their fees are a fraction of what the investment banker takes on a deal.

But the biggest reason that legal services are expensive is that legal service is man-hour heavy and essentially doesn't scale.

Look at even blue collar services that are manhour heavy like mechanics. A car mechanic costs 80-100 bucks an hour.

What is really need is for the legal system to streamline. As long as it takes 20 hours to do your divorce, it'll never be cheap.
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My impression of YC's marketing is an appeal to hubris (and often, the hubris of youth). Most will fail, but none believe it will be them, and in the process, they position themselves outside of an environment in which they'd otherwise have access to people with technical and sustainable business experience from which they can learn what (and what not) to do.

I'm a lot happier having spent 10 years building a sustainable company doing what I really want to do, than I ever was at exciting startups during the v1 .com bubble.

Getting to that point, however, required putting in a lot more than 3 months -- or 3 years -- of backbreaking effort.
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Here are the stats for Brooklyn, the school cited in the article: http://www.lstscorereports.com/schools/brooklyn/

The school has a total unemployment rate of 12.3%, and an underemployment

Yes, that unemployment rate is worse than the national average for all workers. This is typical of law school grads.

Brooklyn's Median LSAT score has dropped 7 points in four years. It's 25th percentile LSAT score has dropped 9 points in four years, from 162 to 153.

Those are massive drops. I work in the LSAT field. At 162, students will avoid making mistakes in formal logic. E.g. "All cats have tails" can be drawn as C --> T. You can also say "not T" --> "not C".

At 162, students will almost always get this right, even with harder sentences. At 153, students will repeatedly make logical mistakes and come up with things like Tail --> Cat.

(They wouldn't make that error on a simple sentence, but they would with different subject matter)

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Post-2008, legal employment went south, and law school tuition costs soared. To study law now you're looking at $200,000 in debt.

So most smart students avoid law school unless they get a full ride scholarship to a T14 school.

Meaning that a larger and larger portion of remaining students are....less analytically capable, to put it gently.

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People ask: if there's a glut of lawyers, why are legal services not getting cheaper. But there's a certain minimum standard you need in a lawyer.

A bad lawyer can do a LOT of damage, and the damage won't show up for years down the road.
I think it comes down to discipline. Not doing what you know you need/should do is a discipline issue. There is probably a lot of incentive to do what needs to be done during YC when everyone is watching, and preparing for demo day.
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I don't know, I feel like they're one of those attempts to look hacker-y that ends up falling a bit flat. 1337speak isn't really all that trendy anymore, except for people who make really bad passwords. I actually really cracked up about a Mr. Robot line though:

"I bet you right now some writer is working hard on a TV show that’ll mess up this generation’s idea of hacker culture."
(spoiler/answer warning for those who haven't yet taken the test at the end)

HN-pertintent question on #8 -

The test question describes a scenario in which a businessman's location is broadcast on TV against his wishes. The possible answers for why he doesn't have a claim are "because he did not suffer harm" and "because it was newsworthy".

Meanwhile, given the current trends of (face recognition, phone cameras, wifi tracking, license plate readers, and even credit bureaus themselves) I would have expected the actual answer to be closer to "because the TV station can record and broadcast whatever the fuck they want" (phrased more appropriately for a bar exam, of course). At least this seems to be the general principle referenced whenever private sector mass surveillance is discussed.

Each of these activities does have its own confounding factors (commercial/non, business relationships, governmental support, public/private broadcast), but essentially creates a similar situation where an individual is broadcast against their wishes, and whether their activities are newsworthy is questionable. And the only goal of much private surveillance is to cause financial harm to the surveilled.

What exactly gives? The only plausible resolution I've thought of is that since the case law is not settled, these two opposing concepts are actually fighting and it's not as cut and dry as we think (which would imply that stating it as settled is supporting anti-privacy). But I'm interested in any other explanation.
> Its been proved scientifically that people encounter diminising returns past 40-50 hour work weeks

In the average case.

People who build billion-dollar businesses are not the average case.

That isn't to say everyone should grind super hard. People should, however, have the self-awareness to recognize whether or not they are capable of high levels of achievement. Few people are.
At that moment, we can't recover from that and players connected to one of the crashed exchanges (1 server process: N exchanges) are told to restart levels, which is not an ideal outcome but it's essentially free. I hope to eventually be able to do something like use our persisted-out-of-memory (e.g. to NSQ) tapes of the orders, bring up the crashed exchanges, and fire every order back into it in order, which (since it's a stock exchange) should result in the same orderbook it crashed with minus whatever we lost during the crash.

After we can do that reliably, then I will strongly consider making an advanced mode level where a crash / market reset / rollback of trades is a planned feature of the level (they are absolutely a thing which happens in real life) and dealing with it from the player's perspective is the main task. (e.g. What would you do if you got a message from the stock exchange saying, basically, "We lost data. How much? Umm, not sure, the last orderId we have is X. Orders after X are no longer on our books but, um, I guess there exists the possibility that they will nonetheless settle successfully if they matched before we went down. ... Good luck to you!")
You are correct, actuators are a huge problem and there isn't as much being done to fix it. Right now one of the biggest problems is that we don't have efficient torque dense electric actuators, that is actuators that can produce large torques and don't weigh much. So you end up with robots that are on a per weight basis weaker than we are.

Actuators also don't control what we want them to control, we really need to be able to control actuator force/torque(or even better impedance/stiffness), but most actuators only control position. In fact, the entire reason the Baxter robot is able to work with humans(and not need an expensive cage) is that it has force controlled compliant actuators.