skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, at Thumbtack my initial offer was towards the top of the range to be the first hire there (I actually negotiated for less equity and more money, but they wanted me to take more equity... oops!). Worked out pretty well.
Those purchases “by business or foreigners” transfer cash to the seller and be up in the economy anyway. Homeowners who sell do so because it is in their interest to do so, the restriction you propose would be Pareto-inefficient.
I'm not sure how old you are, but until movie studios began matching global release schedules piracy was the norm. This story is amusing because this is about people actually paying for content.

Hollywood along with every other major content producer has a marketing reach which is global. If people in these countries did not want to see the new Star Wars or listen to the latest American pop star it means that the marketing sucks! So what you are imaging is a world where the content producers are basically telling their potential audience to go F themselves.

There are underlying moral issues to this story. The first is censorship and blocking access to certain groups of IP blocks. Clearly this is getting written in to content licensing contracts and that's too bad. If an IP address is not doing something hostile it should not be blocked. The second involves asking extremely poor people for more money. Someone that makes $190 a month just isn't going to be paying the US market rate to consume content nor should they - and that absolutely is different than getting a below market or price subsidized physical product or item.
Diversify Your Life
Yes, my bad on the wording of the original question.
The hard part is to get the movie, compare it to Netflix, right? If you already got the DVD, it's physically yours.
Why a “moonshot to cure cancer” is doomed to failure
People will probably just torrent things again. In the minds of the vast majority of people piracy is a victimless crime. These people have only stopped pirating because it's easier to pay and use Netflix. Guaranteed they'll go back to torrenting.

Gabe Newell: "We think there is a fundamental misconception about piracy. Piracy is almost always a service problem and not a pricing problem," he said. "If a pirate offers a product anywhere in the world, 24 x 7, purchasable from the convenience of your personal computer, and the legal provider says the product is region-locked, will come to your country 3 months after the US release, and can only be purchased at a brick and mortar store, then the pirate's service is more valuable."
Oakland was one of the highest growing housing markets last year. Prices will continue to climb as SF continues to become more unaffordable. I'd say most cities surrounding SF are safe investments. It may be too late now to get a good return on investment. You would have wanted to start looking 1-2 years ago.
That's not what this does.
"But since starting my professional life 17 years ago, I’ve seen many friends who “gave it all” as employees, only to be spit out when they were no longer needed."

What should one expect from a working relationship? Companies are there to make a profit, plain and simple. You are one of the many resources that allows them to do that.

"use your social network to promote the company, recruit friends to the team, go to events in the evening, and use your personal equipment."

Companies may expect this, but I will never give this much to a company..unless it's my own or I have a significant share. You just need to learn to say no. If enough people do this, companies won't expect it.

My advice is to only do this when you need to prove yourself/get your foot in the door/you are trying to build some experience because you are first starting out.

"All of this would be fine if employees benefited from their sacrifice in the same way their bosses do"

Employees don't benefit a much, because they often times either aren't making key decisions, don't have as much money or reputation on the line. You get rewarded more for a larger risk or a unique ability.

Would you open up a credit line in your name in exchange for a percentage of the company? If the company tanks, you owe that money to the bank.

This is what pretty much all business owners go thought and most employees aren't willing to risk.

"Bullshit! A business isn’t a bloodline. A business is a business, and anyone who treats it otherwise will be disappointed."

Totally agree. This is a way to make it difficult to quit and guilt you into staying when things get rough.

"If your company gets acquired for $30 million (good luck!), your 0.1% is worth $30,000 (at best). Acquired for $1 million? You get $1,000. Crash and burn? 0.1% of zero is zero."

The problem with numbers like this is that every situation is different. A company that takes in tons of VC and is overvalued and then sold a few years later, will pay out to the VC first.

You also need to learn to read contracts (or get a lawyer to do it for you) and never sign something you don't understand or want. I take the emotion out of business and it makes things much easier.

"At least a startup gives you a “lottery’s chance” of being rewarded as an employee."

If you want a chance to make millions, don't work for a startup, create your own. The risk is much higher, but so is the reward.

"I don’t think you should give your best ideas to your employer."

I agree here too. I always saved my best ideas for myself and now run a profitable company with those ideas. My old boss is bankrupt.

"Create a side-project. Do something independently. Carve out a piece of your life, and mold it your way."

Be careful though. Many companies (especially in silicon valley) lay claim to all of your work.

I personally won't sign contracts like this and will specifically list all of my current businesses/side projects as my own and get it in writing. It's never really been a problem for me.
Show HN: Script for extracting PDF metatags
It has zero effect on my workflow though. I can run Chrome, Safari (for testing), Outlook, Slack, music streaming, etc. without any slowdown when developing with Atom.

Edit: Just checked, after using Atom for two days straight it is currently occupying 80MB of ram. Anecdotally, the claim that Atom is a resource hog is actually wrong.
About... two decades ago I set up an OpenBSD box for my boss to use as a basic web host to pass stuff to clients.

The only time it failed -- the ONLY time -- was due to a full hard disk. Why was the hard disk full? Silly me, I forgot to implement some sort of logging discipline and a couple years' worth of logs of attempted exploits (mainly Windows NT exploits) glancing harmlessly off OpenBSD's hull had filled the disk.
If people were really being priced out eventually San Francisco would fizzle out as a centre for innovation and the interest would move elsewhere. It probably isn't going to happen any more than high prices in New York failed to price out banks and bankers.
Countries are an instrument of discrimination. Denying access to culture is one of the milder aspects. People born in the wrong country are locked out of many rights others take for granted, even human rights. The nation state system is inherently immoral because it sets up castes of people by birth with little recourse for moving to a higher caste. That's why i think democratic forces will eventually get rid of the concept of independent sovereign states and lead to a globally harmonized system of human rights and obligations. And maybe then we'll finally all be able to watch the new game of thrones episodes at the same time as americans.
The app lifecycle is a lot shorter than you think
for HTTP calls from the console, you might appreciate the relatively new fetch api:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Web/API/Fetch_API

if you ask me, it's impressively well designed. it looks so boring and straight forward yet somehow nearly all "simple" http libraries (not to mention builtins) in nearly all popular languages are more convoluted.
Came here to post about followupthen[1]. They have a really generous free tier I haven't had to graduate from over six months of using it, and I find forwarding emails to "2016-01-20@fut.io" or "nexttuesday@fut.io" or "mar21@fut.io" to be much easier than moving it to the correct folder.

The system described in this post is too much like a digital Tickler file[2] for me - digital should be easier, not a less-convenient bodged approximation of what we'd do with paper.

1. https://www.followupthen.com

2. The system described by David Allen in "Getting Things Done" for being reminded of deferred actions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tickler_file
Getting over the Startup A.D.D
Real estate is highly liquid? Compared to what?

You'd be hard pressed to find many economists (or other well-informed individuals) who would consider real estate a currency. Though at some point we're just debating semantics.

Edit: Also, real estate is extremely non-fungible, as individual instances of the asset class are not easily interchangeable.
I would add certain use cases of firewalls to that as well.
When you live somewhere with actual weather, outdoor faucets are closed and drained for the winter and most of spring. There's no such thing as "freeze-proof" faucets at -30.
50 employees left Zappos before an important project was finished
Bjarne Stroustrup: Writing Good C++ 14 – No littering [pdf]
Ugh.. I had a boss years back who insisted on using "big data" to refer to our analytics and reporting work (which was nowhere near big data in terms of data size - we had maybe a million rows in our database across all our tables), and I fruitlessly tried for months to explain to him that anyone who really knows what "big data" means would immediately see through his bullshit..
Is it possible this is just lip service? And that they'll maybe block a few of the highly popular VPN's and then turn a blind eye to everything else?

Seems like a win-win for Netflix if so. They can claim they can faux pretend to care about VPN so as not to violate their contractual obligations.
After one startup I said I'd never do that again. I realized it was like playing the lottery. You might win big, but most likely it leaves you poor. I'm now at a small company that pays very well, is stable, grows slowly and is a great place to work. I've always switched jobs every 2-3 years and for the first time I can see myself happily working for this small company for quite a while.
AMD’s datacenter ARM processors finally hit the market
I read this as Crayon multiple times. Was so excited for a moment.
It's rather the studios being stupid and backward. They have a great product that many potential customers are keen to get, but they will not sell it to them (even though it is just bytes so the marginal production costs are close to zero). These same potential customers have an illegal but easy to use alternative to get this product. Guess what they will do... It doesn't take an MBA to realise the studios keep shooting themselves in the foot despite the foot having so many holes already one can see through it!
> real estate is the one commodity that is truly finite

This is untrue in both the literal and figurative senses. In the literal sense, real estate isn't just land, other properties of land, such as mineral or air rights, can also be created, bought, and sold. You can build up and sell condominiums. You can build down. You can dredge land out of the ocean. Eventually you'll be able to build out in space.

In the figurative sense, people make this claim to assert that real estate is becoming rare, and therefore intrinsically valuable. While certain markets definitely are this way, like NYC penthouses, the asset class as a whole is much like it's brethren in this regard. Value is in the eye of the beholder, trends develop rapidly and can bolster or devalue individual properties at breathtaking rates.
I once read a text by Steve Losh about how to write documentation, and I learned much from it.

I'm on a device with a glass interface so it's too difficult to get the link, but you can just google it.
Stabilization Phases
iOS 9 Day-by-Day: A review of iOS 9 for developers [pdf]
My bad, the comment system stripped my newlines. Fixed the post.
The edit window closed, but to be fair I need to mention that the from 1.3 - 1.4(the new update), I opened the exact file I had significant problems with.

The editor used to bottle neck, hang, and usually would just quit after being non-responsive.

This has been fixed. The editor would take ~45-60 seconds (I timed it when i logged the issue on github). It now takes ~3 seconds. Sublimetext comparatively, is a bit better at <3 seconds, atom takes about 3-5 seconds and shakes out the highlighting over another 1 or 2. In total, you can start working on the file in about 4 seconds which is a big improvement over never/1 minute.
went to useproud.com and got a malicious site blocking. Not sure what that was about?
the text of the mentioned "A Guide to the Good Life" seems to have leaked into archive.org https://archive.org/stream/pdfy-bCZ9aW16m6rB2dNs/A_Guide_to_...

great read
Presumably this is so you don't forget about a bunch of small changes when making a large commit. However, for me, right before I do a commit, I always do a diff to make sure what I'm about to commit is what I intended to, which has the nice side effect of seeing all the changes and reminding me for the commit message.

Is this not the common way most people commit?
This is an interesting way to think about it, i.e. getting thrown overboard == ruling class overthrown in revolution.
That's brilliantly evil. Part of me wants to implement it just for the evil factor.
NY Public Library Releases 180K High Res Photos
At first I was horrified: from the headline I thought we were predicting that vertical videos would become the norm for a generation.

"Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!"

(whew)
And is backed by a permanently growing population, where land is finite.
Nice supplemental read for those interested in the "local" "preliminary(?)" effects of climate change on sea level...

The Siege of Miami--As temperatures climb, so, too, will sea levels....

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/12/21/the-siege-of-mi...
Good luck with that game of whack-a-mole, Netflix.
Steve Jackson Games 2015 Stakeholders Report
Agree with all points - and to add, part of the problem with all this is that developer pay has incredibly high variance and in general knowledge of salaries is poor.

It's not that many people choose lower-paying startups for the enjoyment, satisfaction, etc, while fully aware of how much more BigCo pays - many simply aren't aware of how much more BigCo pays. Many are not even well informed on how much startups pay.

Many are also not aware of the proper math around their startup equity, which results in a large overestimation of its value even in the case of success - I'd say it's not uncommon to see startup employees overestimate the value of their equity by ~10x. Most haven't seen the cap table at all, which means they don't have the ability to estimate the value of their equity at all.

I've seen this in real life where people - not new grads either, experienced industry folk - express shock at the sizes of offers Google, Facebook, et al are throwing around.

We've seen this here, where revelation about how much many engineers make routinely elicit shock - and even hostility - and this is a demographic that particularly cares.
Actually it is.

You're much safer going 59 than 80, even if everyone else wants to go 80. You're in front of them; they see you and take appropriate action.
I love how they do this every year. They don't have to but it's really interesting to see how this company operates.
Can Mark Zuckerberg really build an AI agent?
JavaScript is a toy language wherein I shake my head in disbelief every day that it is my primary language, but I have found it is possible to write typesafe code with vanilla JavaScript. With tooling and a rigid coding style observed by all developers, I'd say medium-to-large codebases (100K and up) can be maintained and extended just as well as other C-like languages.

Using ultrastrict tools like Google Closure Compiler in conjunction with JSDoc comments gives you type checking along with minification and closure elimination.

If you don't want the harsh taskmaster that Closure Compiler can be, IDE's like IntelliJ are able to navigate (with plugin helpers) your Node.JS codebase and build a useful type library. Again, JSDoc comments are critical here, and if you markup your JavaScript accurately and completely, you wind up with an editor that gives you very good type correctness warnings and inspections. Just keep your eyes peeled for yellow highlights and squiggly lines, and you can have confidence that your codebase is clean. JSDoc is very verbose, which is a shame, and you have to get good at forming types that are conducive to its tags. A good coding style document can go a long way to making that possible.

I've found boring JavaScript groks best for all tooling. I stay away from mixins and mostly stick to boring old JS prototype definitions where the mutable bits are @type'd and assigned in the constructor to 'this'. Chrome can JIT these types of prototypes the best.

Of course, there's no substitute when maintaining a large code base than to run with a comprehensive test suite.
if the author knows which way interest rates are going, he should quit his day job and buy / short interest rate futures. the road is littered with bodies of people who believe japan's interest rates couldn't stay at "zero" forever.
Like others have said - Volkswagen was just the tip of the iceberg. All of the major car companies knew what Volkswagen was doing and they did it too just to keep up. Now that Volkswagen has fallen they're now snitching about other car companies in an effort to reduce their exposure by spreading the blame and implicating others.
Extraordinary facts relating to the vision of colours (1794)
Also, JQuery is monadic (https://importantshock.wordpress.com/2009/01/18/jquery-is-a-...)
And now you only need to be a millionaire.
Would that factor still be valid since the X-Axis "log" is already being transformed by multiplying by 30k? That's what's really confusing me. (It might be so but that just makes interpretation way confusing and the article doesn't elaborate on that.)

The Y axis (price to income) is derived from the X axis (income) as well, which will be affected by representing with different bases.

I have no issues with log/logs for general visualization, but the use of it here seems like brute-force outlier identification which isn't representative of the typical relationship of California and other states. (Especially with a trendline)
That's the thing though, you don't own it, you've been granted the right to use it. Of course I'm biased because I'm a proponent of Libre software, but that problem has been described since rms started his crusade: you don't own a software the same way you own a chair, so the license you have must give you the rights to effectively do whatever you want with (and to) it.

Those EULA are dumb, but you don't have to agree with them. In many cases there will be no alternative, for sure. However you can't accept an EULA and subsequently say "this EULA sucks, I don't have to follow it".
This is true, but subsidies for for renewable sources is significantly higher on a cost/kw amount (the number consumers care about.) What is more, renewable are not taxed ANYWHERE NEAR the same rate as fossil fuels which in the United States can be crazy high. For example, in California over half the cost of a gallon of gas is State and Federal Taxes.

And then, even with the lower taxes and larger subsidies, many places have to put price controls on the sale price of renewable energy like setting the production price on residential solar to the retail price instead of the wholesale price.
Doesn't "blocking proxies" require Netflix to keep tabs on mercurial exit IP ranges for an ever-growing number of proxy or VPN services?

It seems almost inevitable that they will enforce this rule only lazily.
The SLS FIA-2100 discussed in the article is a PCIe card, it works with x86 too. So it isn't the 'killer feature' for AMD ARM implied in the article.
Good story, kept me entertained.
> The bad news is low oil will slow down the rollout of clean energy because it makes ROI worse.

I completely disagree. I think it will speed it up! One of the largest expenses for clear energy is ... energy!

To make the devices, mine the metal, manufacture, ship etc. So when oil prices are low is the best time to make as much as possible, since your expenses are low.

Then when prices go back up you have some equipment already installed and making you money.
I found out recently how much of a nightmare removeEventListener is compared to namespaced events in jQuery.
Some feedback on that regard - if you could note line numbers or anything really w/ some of these it would probably help more than just messages. Eg "Concatenated strings in HelloWorld.js#12"
Fallacy of Startup Within Bank
The blocksize increase you're describing only benefits a single individual once. Once increased and there is no more competition, transaction fees drop to almost nothing again for all miners.

Bitcoin prevents individuals from making these one-time power grabs by design. Even if they colluded, the miners are not going to agree to increase the blocksize because it immediately means less money for 99.999% of them.

Again, it's tragedy of the commons. They could work together to make the shared resource better for someone trying to use Bitcoin as a day to day currency, but instead they're rationally maximizing their own returns.
Yet another direct-link post to a cryptic CVE for those of us who aren't in the know on security issues. Upvoting is a great shibboleth to show that some posters "get it", while the rest of us are left in the dark on severity, left to wade through the comments section to try to get a sense of what the real impact is.

From what I can tell, if I accidentally SSH to the wrong server (or a compromised one), my private key can be obtained. I have no clue if that's actually the correct interpretation.
The hard part is to get a DVD player that will actually play the movie. You can't walk into Best Buy in Iowa and get a European region-coded DVD player.
Toward a Better Use of C11 Atomics
as did i.
It really does suck being in the US sometimes too. English is my first language, but I also speak German and it's really hard to keep that language fresh in my mind. I use a VPN to access German Netflix, because there are no German language shows on the US Netflix. I have a hard time trying to buy German books because Amazon US doesn't stock them and Amazon.de, even when accessed over a German VPN, won't sell them to me with a US credit card. And if I buy a German DVD, I can't play it on my US DVD player.

I thought the Internet would fix it but instead it just lets me know all of the things I should have access to but don't. It's not like I can pop over to Germany for a few hours and pick up ein Roman. And worst of all, The Pirate Bay doesn't have 99% of anything I'm looking for in German. So I literally have zero access, legally or illegally.
>> I guess people will just revert to torrenting

> Or, maybe not watching those shows?

These two actions are identical from a market perspective. They both reflect the consumer's decision that a given product is not worth the money being asked and the choice to stop paying.
Mlpack 2.0.0 released – C++ machine learning library
It looks like arch just got the fix in really quick. I didn't recall updating my box this morning but I must have, because I already had the patched version in place.
* Strunk and White

* Chicago Manual of Style

* NASA Technical Report Writing (Technical Memorandum 105419 (1))

(1) A personal favorite: http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/1993001...
This is great advice, thank you!
I think parent is European, perhaps Dutch even (judging by his post history). Here in Europe I don't think fossil fuels are subsidised.