skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
almost certainly, if he's running xeons.

my xeon mac pro is 6 years old and it has it.

i can't imagine running that much ram without ecc. you would kernel panic or spontaneously reboot constantly. not to mention silently corrupt half your work...
Reminds me of the narration in a National Geographic short documentary that I saw in the visitor center of Yellowstone National Park (recollecting from memory): "Lewis and Clark were the first human beings to set foot on this land" ... (and 2 minute later) "... "Native Indians had been living here for thousands of years".
My misunderstanding. It sounded to me like the story was trying to make him larger than life by throwing in the title of Buddhist priest. I wasn't aware of that title - I thought they were implying he is monk. That's what I was reacting to.
Answer: Many of these businesses are trying to monetize two-sided networks.[1] It's a much more scalable economic model than just selling a product (what you are describing) and works well for the big guys like Facebook and Google.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-sided_market
This is awesome. Just wish it had some sort of PC client so it could monitor computer time, and know which kid is logged in.
What are your skills? There are plenty of companies looking for devs with legacy tech experience. Check out https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=whoishiring for companies that are hiring. There might be someone looking for skills you have.
$75,000 isn't market wages for a developer?
Totally. It implies a semi-lazy work ethic (do just enough to support yourself+family, plus some left over for fun), and a lack of ambition.

In truth, you gotta bust your ass at a small shop to get your work out there and make $$ from it.
So HN can't discuss climate change because there are a few people who reflexively flag any climate change related articles? It seems like there needs to be a way to guard against that.
> And was wandering if i should present myself as a freelancer or as an agency when i start.

Present yourself as an agency. If you answer to people searching for a freelancer, you can easily say, that you are building your own agency, too.

> Second, how much is the usual hour price that an agency charges

Varies.

> Third, How do i go about convincing clients to sign a retainer agreement

Offer hosting and be responsive. If you do your work well, you usually do not need a retainer agreement.

> Fourth, i'm based in North Africa, but will present myself as an international agency since i don't really do work locally, and most of my clients are from the UK and US. And would my position cause me problems in getting contracts or payments

I am based in Germany and had one customer from Africa. He did not pay me. So definitely yes. This business (as most other businesses) is 20% about your actual skills and 80% about communication and all the other stuff. I would definitely tackle this disadvantage. You could for example attend a conference, take some pictures and post them on a blog to show, that you are actually reachable.

> Fifth, what is the usual size of an agency's team. I'd think that 4 should be enough?

I do not think that this matters at all. It is nice if you can show some teammembers, but customer references are more important.

> Sixth, can i run it on my own and alone? Taking on only as much contracts as i could finish, i already am a fullstack developer and designer, plus i learned a bit about marketing and SEO in the last few years

Of course you can. Your customers do not really care. Tell them you have a network of experts.

> Seventh, how to go about bringing new clients?

Educate an audience, whose businesses you can improve and that is able to pay you.

> Eighth, how easy is it to establish yourself in the market and start getting clients. Plus how long it would take if your quality of work is good. Since i did a little bit of searching and there are A LOT of agencies out there.

Use every client to get the next bigger one.
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Your tone got you downvoted, but I'm also interested in Amazon's motivation for opening this store.
My family tells a story about a distant great^n uncle of mine, who married a Cherokee woman. She had grown up without tables and chairs, as you might imagine, and was more comfortable squatting than sitting. Of course, my uncle wanted his wife to be at the dinner table with him. So he built a stool of such height that she could squat on it and be roughly eye level with her European-descendant family members sitting around the table. And they lived happily ever after.

I like to tell that story any time someone claims that technology pushes people apart rather than bringing them together.
Apple has already given permission to update anything that uses HTML/JAVASCRIPT. Which react native does.
Exactly. 'Creator' or 'original developer' would be far more accurate language and prestigious enough on it's own.
I remember when Gumroad was announced on Hacker News 4-5 years ago as a little weekend project.

"Over this past weekend I had the idea to build a sort of link shortener but with a payment system built-in... I think it has some potential. What do you guys think?"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2406614
That's from 2013. No way they were paying sub $100k today.
> If you want to sync things, you need a server.

So why not use about:reader and Firefox Sync?
This is beautiful. I wonder what the first picture of a person's face is?
Hi, thanks for taking a look at Mediabub. This is a preview of the site. Feel free to sign up and upvote, comment, or add posts. We will do an invite-only launch in the next week or so.
If you don't get an answer here, write a short email to "hn@ycombinator.com" and ask. That's the "officially correct" approach. I've asked some similar questions myself, and feel I've always gotten honest (and reasonable) answers.

The other big variable (that is sometimes the answer to my questions) is the "flamewar detector". I don't know the algorithm, but stories that are receiving more comments than upvotes are sometimes penalized in a way that is hard to distinguish from the outside from user flagging.

For this story, user flagging does seem like a likely explanation. I think it would be good to have some more discussion on whether the current system works, whether it will continue to work in the future, and how it might be modified to do so better.
Are you hardwired to enjoy high-calorie foods? Genes = heightened brain rewards
Yes, that is my hypothesis, and I've observed this pattern for years now. I agree, something needs to be done about it. Discussion of climate change on HN has been systematically suppressed, and any discussion that does happen here is often steered in a direction of "climate change doesn't matter, so we shouldn't talk about it" or other denialist attitudes.

It's my current life goal to spur more entrepreneurs into building startups that help solve the big issues in climate change. It would be awesome to discuss more of that on HN.
Max/MSP, one of the more popular visual programming languages out there, is also written using JUCE.

https://cycling74.com/forums/topic.php?id=11656
Very nicely done. Most of the Gnu pages look like relics from 1995. Hopefully whoever did that page has plans to reskin the rest of the Gnu pages.
Location: Portland, OR

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: JavaScript (Angular, React, Node, Express), Java, SQL

Resume: https://www.linkedin.com/pub/alex-banks/5b/712/96b

Email: alex.banks0@gmail.com
I figured that it wouldn't be a selfie.
William Henry Fox Talbot in 1835 photographed a latticed window at Lacock Abbey.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Fox_Talbot#/media/File:L...

Fox Talbot and Daguerre were contemporary inventors with different processes - but AFAIK there are no people in Fox Talbot's work until 1840 so Daguerre appears to be the first to record a human via this new technology.
Is there a sane review of this result? This article is totally overhyped with ridicules claims.
Interesting post, but I am not too sure that it is that similar to my post :)
Does anyone believe this will not become the law?

You can peaceably gather in protest and maybe get a few sniping remarks on the nightly news, you can call, write, knock on your representatives door, you can donate money and time, but none of it will stop this treaty from being passed because those in power wrote it for themselves and will pass it for themselves.

If anything were to stop it it would be the wide disregard and disobedience of the illegitimate laws it supposedly creates.
Yea, this article is weird. Why would a professor lead the piece with a suggestion that a bunch of this students are deluded and then provide essentially zero evidence that this is the case?
And now I see that on dang's profile. Thanks for the info.
I'll probably get downvoted to hell, but the only reason I could think of for someone to write something so ridiculously terrible is if they were paid by Microsoft or Apple to fear monger and try to prevent people from using Linux.
It looks more 'corporate' because they paid more attention to the site's information architecture[1]: rather than presenting you with a wall of text like old sites do, you're presented with what it is, why you should care, what it's like, and all in straightforward terms. That's easier to consume than the dense paragraph of material you get in the likes of the GNU Screen page.

If you squint, you'll see things clearly: the page is broken up with whitespace into distinct sections, and there are no gigantic blobs of text. In contrast, the GNU Screen page is basically one big black blob of text between a header and a footer.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_architecture
We added CodePush support for React Native because we think it's an extremely compelling platform and so do many of our customers. I actually respect Facebook's pragmatic approach to software development prioritization, and they work so closely with the community to allow other objectives/goals to be achieved (e.g. Windows support) That seems like a great way to run an OSS project to me.
How about middle of 2014, then? "$95k-$125k"

https://web.archive.org/web/20140707172338/https://angel.co/...
Uptime Funk“ Music Video (parody of Uptown Funk) from SUSECon 2015 in Amsterdam
What you have to understand is that Apple is a company that is really bad at almost everything, except for the one or two products that Jobs or Ive are focusing on. (OK maybe their supply chain too, that is said to be Cook's strength.) But they are so good at those one or two things (the iPhone, basically), that people are willing to overlook all the bad things.
The article links to this documentary put out by Dunlop, which is pretty fun: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0A8cPj_fPo
Intel just does it for the kids.
Is the source to Defender available anywhere online?
Not in SF, where the median rent is now $4,225/month, or $50,700/year. Realistically, you can't even expect to take home $50,700 on a gross income of $75k.

http://blog.sfgate.com/ontheblock/2015/06/02/san-franciscos-...
Show HN: Gsick
http://gsick.com strives to be the best place to be. it borrows some concepts but it offers a unique interface and functionality. It's a social site where you can post content, receive feedback, follow + chat with people, receive alerts (there's an advanced alerts system where you can respond to everything from there). Something unique about it is that you can completely change the color theme, there are color pickers that allow you to change every color (background, text, links, textbox, scrollbar). When you chat with someone or go to their profile you see their color theme, you can copy someone's theme with a command (there's a goto box to go to channels that can also be used to issue commands).

I've been working on it for almost 5 years and I'm very pleased with how it turned out for now.

Check it out, registration is currently free.
All the crypto code you’ve ever written is probably broken (2012)
Not including ads, the page is 1.1 MB w/ 800KB of chart images and 100KB of css that was mistakenly included (whoops).

We did discuss just publishing a .txt or .nfo file instead, but some of the charts required a bit of ASCII cheating and being able to adjust font size & weight of labels really made them a lot more readable.
http://wow.china-airlines.com/opening/?lang=en

You won't find a similar page where a U.S. airline touts their new Chinese-made airliner.
Challenges at Porch: High-flying, heavily funded, lessons of rapid growth
Video games have been doing this for years on iOS. Try any game from EA for example.
According to his byline, the author is from Portland. I think that explains a lot of it, actually.
Thanks for reposting this, I didn't see it the first time around.
Many of the pro-startup stuff I see, in particular this Altman piece, make me subtly uncomfortable, and I couldn't quite put my finger on why. Maybe it's because, while I live in the Valley, I'm a Seattle native. Maybe it's because Sam's younger than I am. Maybe it's because I like the suburbs better than San Francisco proper.
Maybe it's because I'm not an Ideas guy; this isn't targeted at me because I have no interest in starting a company and dedicating every second of my waking life to it.
That's why I was hesitant to comment at all. "Of course you're uncomfortable with it," the reply to my comment would read, "you non-disruptive loser" it would end.

For those who want a unicorn valuation, I'm sure Sam's piece is great. Or maybe it's not, I don't know.

But what I do know is he kept mentioning how competition never kills startups. It's failure to execute. Why balance burnout and cashflow and hiring and funding in some kind of race to become a unicorn if competitors won't actually kill you?

Why not grow at a reasonable pace, running a reasonable business, that makes reasonable money?
> It worked pretty well until a major OS decided "nah, not gonna happen here".

No, it really didn't. For a time after "Java Web Start" was introduced in 2001, java had (has) a pretty decent story for distributing application (big run time dependency, problematic java updater non withstanding).

But I think the biggest problem java had/has is the mix of java being a hopelessly verbose, and arguably rather primitive language that's a bad fit for both AWT and (to a lesser degree) Swing. It's almost comical to contrast "hello world" with swing/java and with swing/jython (or jruby) - it's not that the UI toolkit is unusable, but it's not a good fit for the biggest use-case: simple business applications.

I should add that I think kotlin looks like a pretty perfect match for "the good parts of java without any added complexity".

> What's different this time?

Modern JS is arguably a better fit for simple GUI programming than modern java is.
Many phone apps already do that anyway
websites do that

its not nice for users but they dont give a crap

what would be okay i guess is if you could choose the branch and commits you're running yourself, so power users have choices, others get whatever is latest and freshest and safe and whatever.
Sure, there were probably dozens of people there, but he was the only one who stood still long enough to be captured clearly on the long exposure.
Re: Thought on Diversity Part 2
I disagree with the broad characterization of VC as an enemy of innovation. There are plenty of VC-backed companies that don't innovate. There are also plenty of non VC-backed companies that don't innovate either.

To name 4: Google, Docker, Tesla, Apple. I'm happy that they were able to raise enough VC that they've innovated and created stuff that I happily use. (Well, I don't own a Tesla. But I've driven one.)
We are truly headed for a cyberpunk-style, post-state world. Corporations will succeed states and enforce their own draconian sovereignty. What remains of states will exist only to serve the will of their corporate paymasters.
im running tracking protection since an intern wrote it and ran into an issue a single time, so thats over 2 years of daily browsing for me.
ublock origin which i also use atm (and before that other things) rarely break stuff i visit either..

ghostery and friends tend to break stuff more often.
Apple at least already allows this for Javascript based apps, particularly Meteor as an example: http://info.meteor.com/blog/apple-hot-code-push-mobile
Also, the only way for a meltdown at a nuclear power plant to kill millions of people would be if a bad actor used the confusion as cover while they put anthrax spores in the water supply of a major metropolitan area.
That kind of "power user" experience would totally be possible using CodePush. Thanks for mentioning it, since we should have a sample to illustrate how it would look!
They already have blessed hot-code pushes; see Meteor: http://info.meteor.com/blog/apple-hot-code-push-mobile
The local libraries around here get rid of books at $.25 to $2.00 each. I pick up a lot of sci fi that way.
It was April 4th 2011. There's an entertaining sub-thread about Bitcoin in that discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2407053

At the current ~$0.70 / bitcoin...

I can't imagine bitcoins in their current implementation gaining traction as a form of payment with 'regular folks'...
Few things. Are you on LinkedIn? If not, you are invisible to recruiters. It also suggests you're not doing much networking.

Most good companies don't require a college degree, but "entry level" often assumes one. You've been studying CS for 10 months and are competing against those who've studied it for 4 years, perhaps with job experience to boot.

Your best bet is to become a contributor to a popular open source project. In addition to that, I agree you need to network with engineers and managers because recruiters won't feel comfortable submitting you at this point.
totally evil enough for me to cal it evil.
or capitalism if you want. i do not care what the words are, it still transforms good products into shitty products for the benefit of a few individuals.

not saying something else is better, though. most things we came up with always end up evil due to the way humans pervert it, not due to the concept.
The issue with that is that you end up with double NAT unless you happen to have the ability to turn off NAT on the ISP router (from my experience this is uncommon.)
I would be very surprised if YC was doing any sophisticated machine learning on HN or even their portfolio. I'm sure they have nice Excel spreadsheets on their finances and portfolio metrics, maybe a linear regression or two.

This should be a law: we tend to overestimate the amount of sophisticated machine learning used in anything.
I saw a signal for some Cherokee ancestry via 23andme. My family never said anything about it. I've got ancestors from the Appalachian region so it makes some sense, and I'm inclined to trust SNP analysis more than family stories. :)
The more things change, the more they stay the same :)
> When I was watching that whole thing play out just like a live sporting event, I was refreshing the profile page of the CEO in question, and his karma points seemed to be dropping like some kind of flash crash in the NASDAQ.

Now you gave me an idea for a HN extension - tracking of karma points of selected users (via HN API) and displaying a sparkline next to their name in comments. Also a split-screen mode like this:

+---------------------------------+------------------------+
| ^ Tell HN: Something important | Score: flamebait |
| 256 points by flamebait ... | |
| | -- |
| | -- /- \--- /--o|
| | / \--/ \/ |
| ^ SomeHNer 5 minutes ago |--/ |
| Something something something +------------------------+
| | Score: SomeOtherHNer |
| ^ SomeOtherHNer 1 minute ago | /--- |
| HN turns into Reddit. |-/ \ --- |
| | --- |
| | \------\ |
| ^ LoremIpsum 1 hour ago | -o|
| Lorem ipsum dolor sic amet +------------------------+
| start-up cloud computing | Ticker |
| Docker Google IoT big data | |
| Uber for Kitten Litter | - comment nuked 5s ago |
| | - comment nuked 2m ago |
| .... | - new comment 5m ago |
+---------------------------------+------------------------+

Now you can read enjoy HN discussions like sports events!
I have friends/acquaintances who are "Buddhist priests" in Zen traditions outside of Japan. They are semi-householder-ish, definitely not monks. However, they dedicate their lives to Buddhist service. They don't have children, but some are married or in relationships, mostly together with other "serious practitioners." They very definitely are not billionaires or CEOs -- and I am a little surprised at this story, which could definitely be clearer about what his priesthood actually involves.

Possibly interesting article by an American Zen priest:

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/wildfoxzen/2010/08/what-the-hec...
To think, less than 200 years later and we can capture moving images of three dimensional light (RE: Lytro Immerge announcement earlier this week).
wow that great news!

sort of hoping other similar things like hello do that too. thats how id like firefox to be, as a user. would be even better if default off at install ;-) (albeit id probably enable hello, its just nice to not be forced-in for such features)
New York investigating whether Exxon hid what it knew about climate change
It's believed to be Robert Cornelius' self portrait in 1839 http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2004664436/
We've only just initially added clients for Cordova and React Native, but we plan (and would love to work the community) to build clients for other platforms, so dynamic updates of code and/or content could be easier.
I'm from the South and hear this all the time. I have no idea how many people are actually descended from the Cherokee (they were one of the larger groups in the South). I have a different crackpot theory. Historically, admitting you were less than 100% white was a dicey proposition. Sometimes I wonder if there aren't actually a larger than obvious percentage of people who have Native ancestors, but since they were assimilated, their descendants are only dimly aware of it and use "Cherokee" as a catch-all for saying they have some Native American blood in them. I'm sure some people are getting confused or just retelling tales passed down, but the South did have a lot of Native Americans in it. Has anyone researched this?
So if we destroy irreversibly as much water as we consume petrol (1.5 * 10^10, very pessimist hypothesis IMHO) we have for 10^12 years before consuming more than 1% of water.

This should be fine.
Edyn (YC W14) is hiring HW and SW engineers to change how we grow food
I think it's pretty clear that this is aimed at mobile, not desktop development (note they are pushing Cordova).

In that context it makes a lot of sense: Microsoft wants any kind of apps on Windows Mobile, and I believe Cordova/React works fine for that.
Are you suggesting YC can run your company for you? YC can exert pressure but that's it. They don't have any legal or corporate control whatsoever.
When talking about Apple, I find it easier to think of just two state for apps (that use this): Rejected and not-yet-rejected. Also, there aren't App Store _rules_, they're just guidelines. Apple is still able to pick and choose that they enforce and reject apps for their own reasons.

For this particular issue, Apple allows apps to dynamically download Javascript and other web tech (in order for web browsers to work), and they explicitly mention that they're not into you pushing big updates:

provided that such scripts and code do not change the primary purpose of
the Application by providing features or functionality that are inconsistent
with the intended and advertised purpose of the Application as submitted
to the App Store.

As always, the App Review Team gets the final say on a case-by-case basis for whether you'll get through or not.
If that's the case you must have a really hard time using the Internet