skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One simple solution would be to require employers to pay at least the workers' prior base salary for the duration they wish to enforce the non-compete. I've held senior positions where non-competes are to be expected, and that is always a standard term. Of course, the only reason it became a standard term is because people like me are represented by expensive lawyers who consistently demand it, and an Amazon warehouse worker isn't in the position to follow our lead. So the warehouse worker should be given the same protection by statute: if the employer wants to enforce a non-compete, they must do so affirmatively by paying the worker's salary (i.e. if they elect not to pay then the non-compete is automatically null and void).

Of course the odds of something like that making its way through the dysfunctional legislatures of 48 states is vanishingly low. But we can hope.
Good luck with that...
Which unfortunately gives California the label "business unfriendly". I hope for California's continued growth because of its frequent ability to tell most "job creators" where they can take their pre-Depression-era worker preferences.
In general if engineers changing jobs after 2 or 3 years (quite common), let's say every 2.5 years, then for team of 10 engineers it would be exactly need for one hire a quarter.
Not much point in a price comparison like that when the prices are completely crazy.

For the price of that blade today you can get at least a 1U dual cpu quad- or hex-core server of a far newer/faster CPU model, and with vastly faster storage (NVMe SSD's) and 10GbE ports.

For 2000 euro, I could instead get a server with about a 50% faster CPU, 16GB RAM, and an 800GB NVMe Intel PCIe SSD that'd trounce that iSCSI any time. With 6Gbps SATA III drives instead, and either dropping down a bit in capacity or going for spinning rust, you'd pay ~1000 euro for the same machine.
Rancher is an OS, not a deployment platform. I really don't get everyone's hand wavey about Kubernetes. It's not a "long winding road". It takes minutes to launch a managed cluster in GKE and minutes more to deploy full examples.
My, soon to be ex, HOA decided they want to make rules regarding public roads. If they catch you parking on said public road, they will inspect your garage and issue heavy fines if you're storing anything in it.
> I can launch a smart contract with 20 lines of code in Ethereum.

Have you done this before? I tried to learn Ethereum (as an average developer) but it was over my head.
Hi Jared and Trevor,

http://www.stroomnews.com is a bootstrapped breaking news and events focused sharing platform, that allows live-streaming and pre-captured video and image sharing through our mobile app and website. We are also working on an enterprise solution for the news industry that ties into our platform. Our B2C app was released this past Fall, but has shown little traction and we have had discussions with a major news media company about our enterprise product. We believe that signing up users for our enterprise solution will also help grow our B2C platform.

We also have an idea in the area of video compression (both founders have experience in this industry) that we believe could be huge in the streaming video industry. Our initial tests have shown very promising results, but we have not had much time to work on this due to focusing on our platform and enterprise product. The success of this tech does not only provide a large advantage for our business, but opens us up to many other industries and opportunities.

As our ability to bootstrap dwindles (due to amount of savings), do we continue along our path and try to get revenue as soon as we can by working on our enterprise product or do we spend time trying to raise money so we can focus on our tech, which may not produce anything product worthy for a much longer time (or ever as it is still in the research stage)?

Thanks for your time!
What's your email? (mine in my profile) I'm interested in talking about doing something great (I also live in S.C.)
Your point being that... aesthetics in a technology (a "programming language") whose whole existence derives from making computer programs easier to write, read and reason about is... unimportant?
It is called disruption.
Tai Lopez uses rentals for his YouTube video sets too.
It's absolutely nothing to do with disruption. It's the result of taking something that is legal and making it illegal. Like prohibition in the US. Suddenly ban people from doing something they once could do and a black market will form.
Seems like basic economics would still make things work out in the end, at least on a macro level.
Everybody loves the invisible hand of the free market... until they don't.
Ask HN: What are the pros and cons for a tech peer review network for startups?
You could select the disk and then "Eject". Dragging to the trash was a shortcut to unmount and eject.

As for Macs not having the problem, this doesn't require qualification. Not only did Macs not have the problem, they treated disks as logical _volumes_ rather than physical devices. If you ejected a disk mid-save on a Mac it would complain, and if you inserted the wrong disk it would reject it and ask for the right one. If you did the same thing on a DOS/Windows machine it would correct the new disk (and leave the old disk corrupted too).

Similarly, you could copy files from one disk to another without having two disk drives in Finder (it was a pain in the neck, swapping the disks, but it worked). Other computers needed special software and relied on the user to insert the correct disk.

This advantage continues to this day. Windows still refers to devices by physical location.
Developing Our First iOS App with React Native
There would be a binding energy just like a normal nucleus. The question here is whether they somehow violate the Pauli exclusion principle.
Presumably, you're targeting an opportunity that is very lucrative with a product that is very compelling, such that a sales person can generate more value per unit effort than at their current position.

Or perhaps the issue is that, in sales, there isn't the same multiplier phenomenon you see in engineering from massive scale/market opportunity. And this nonlinear effort-to-output relationship is what enables the market inefficiencies (sometimes in favor of companies, and sometimes in favor of engineering employees).
I'd argue that "execution dominates" in a startup, too.
Not a fan of non competes (even as an employer).
How to Value a SaaS Business
Aha. So the answer is probably, somewhat ironically, what the part of America that grows the most of these things hates the most: Increased federal regulations. :)
Rental agreements that disallow commercial use are a thing.

Much simpler and provides civil law recourse for this sort of usage.
I would love to see this built into Picasa.
But then pointing out the cost of their current system is confusing matters - as I've pointed out in another comment, a similar performance system today can easily be had for 1/5th of the price they list. They're comparing against a system that is old, slow and expensive.
This thing needs a use case that gets used. Try putting fantasy football betting on Ethereum. You need an oracle or oracles to get game results into the system, but those can use a voting scheme to prevent payouts based on phony results. Of course, it has to be packaged up as an app usable by the typical football fan.

Possible YC startup.
Airbnb prohibits commercial videos/photos without permission, according to the article.
Can a social net be secure ID? Is biometric ID over? Do we need a national ID?
Hi Jared and Trevor,

I'm a co-founder at https://www.missiveapp.com, a collaborative email client (Slack meets Gmail). We've launched our open beta last January and are actively recruiting beta users.

We're a fully bootstrapped team of 4 working from Quebec city, Canada. We were able to bootstrap Missive with the $ we rake in from another project we launched three years ago called ConferenceBadge.com [1].

My question is, do you think it's a mistake to run two businesses in parallel?

Right now 85% of our time is invested in Missive even though it's bringing $0 in revenue.

Our philosophy is that if we were to look for funding, we would have to invest at least 15% of our time on fundraising and investor relationships.

We also believe that looking for investment before market fit is a recipe for disaster (need not to forget that we are not from/in the valley).

[1] https://medium.com/@plehoux/successfully-bootstrapped-a-prod...).

[2] What are chat conversations doing in an email client? Here are few examples of cool possibilities they enable: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcRQhGfT620
In this case, its more prohibition of a critical component of the porn industry [ no condom shoots ] that was necessary for them to be economically viable.
Hey Guys,

I am one of the Co-founders of Disco Melee (https://beta.discomelee.com/hub). We are a live streaming social network designed around the needs of gamers. You could think of us like if Twitch and Facebook had a baby who liked to party and was eyeing up Reddit for a future fling.

The gamers that find us tend to rave about our overall vision, low latency and other base features like IM system, streamer storefronts, and free donate/sub buttons for all. The problem however is that (except for our hardcore believers) they don't seem stick around very long due to the pull of network effects from the established players. What strategies could you recommend for overcoming network effects to the point where we can start generating our own? Thanks!
Why Jean-Luc Picard Didn't Carry a Wallet
> The job to be done is no longer there. Therefore, those aren't redundancies, those are layoffs, pure and simple.

I would presume that there are still sales and recruiting jobs at Zenefits. Maybe "the jobs were made redundant" isn't quite as accurate as "Zenefits realized that the jobs were already redundant."
> If the machine is two's complement (which is the vast majority of them), then you'd expect that behaviour. If it's sign-magnitude or one's complement or saturating, then the behaviour would be different but still consistent.

How is this different in practice from undefined behavior, other than the compiler can't take advantage of it for optimizations?
I agree completely. US Navy ship names are nothing short of horrible. They used to have some cool names back in WWII, like Wasp, Hornet, Enterprise, etc. They've kept Enterprise (there's a new Enterprise now planned to replace the now-decommissioned one). They had some cool submarine names way back too, like Nautilus, plus there used to be a bunch named after fish, which isn't too bad. But otherwise, over the last several decades, they just plain suck. The worst one ever is the carrier USS John C Stennis. WTF? They named a carrier after some dumb politician who was never even President, and all he did was get a lot of pork funding for military projects. He also got a Space Center named after him in Mississippi because he was good at this (and this was because he got the center placed there, even though there wasn't any really good logistical reason for it; they do NASA's rocket engine tests there. It's not anywhere near where the engines are actually launched from, it's just a pork project).
I think you're drawing an erroneous conclusion that because the sets are less established, or even improvised, that they are necessarily illegal.
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Engineering offices
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Coast

I found some links in French stating that Switzerland launched an investigation in 2002 about this.
We're in the exact same bucket at geocod.io[1]. I definitely agree with the sentiment that there is less flexibility with pricing on an API-based SaaS.

We've also decided to go with the usage-based model, on the contrary it however also makes it easy to make a simple a transparent pricing model.

We still have a UI-based piece with a spreadsheet upload tool, but under the hood it's more or less just a GUI on top of our API.

When building out a new SaaS, I think it should be clear from the beginning whether it lends itself to an API-first approach, especially as a part of target audience research. In our case our primary target audience is developers, and the secondary is data analysts that prefer the GUI-based approach for one-off batches.

[1] http://geocod.io
Higher up the thread there are comments regarding the use of "i7" in reference to a particular model of MacBook Air. I suspect that the change in title derails that sort of nitpicking...by which I mean that anyone who reads the page learns that it is that computer and can form their own judgments.

Anyway, the mysterious ways of Hacker News are mysterious by definition, and since the story is on the front page as I write this, I think it's safe to conclude that the format is fine and the HN elves changed the title for their own purposes...i.e. it ain't broke, don't fix it.
At least in L.A. it's already illegal to shoot in a rental property (such as a traditionally rented apartment) without the property owner's permission.

Still happens multiple times every day.

It's more a result of much smaller video crews than anything else these days.

Technically a lot of these youtube/podcaster people are in violation of local laws.
My favourite talk was only 5 minutes long and came from Elie Rotenberg[0]. He demonstrated how React can be used to completely obfuscate the DOM tree.

In practice it seems somewhat malicious to do this, however there may be some legitimate use cases too.

[0] https://youtu.be/n63XXHY4A7I
Oh, I meant from the developer side. I knew they had PMs and designers.
Hey Jared & Trevor

I'm working on a few different projects all of which I think could become viable companies but having a hard time deciding which to focus on. I've already seen interest from relevant parties in each of the separate projects.

I think the hardest one but also the one with the most growth potential would be a project I'm working on to provide management tools (similar to the stuff a ceo might use) to high level government officials. However, with the way that government contracts are handled I wonder if this is even a reasonable industry to target.

Secondly I have two different projects that focus on College Students, where I would be selling solutions to the Colleges themselves. The first project is an art application that allows users to upload art in any medium and be seen by other students. This would allow them to easily build fan bases by taking advantage of pre-existing school connections.

The other idea is similar but focuses on user generated events. It tackles the question of how does one find interesting things to do, in a new area, when you don't know anyone. And has certain measures in place to help alleviate the awkwardness of trying to join pre-existing groups.

Thanks
A 10x salesperson will make ten times as many sales, but I doubt they will close sales that no amount of normal sales people can close.
really cool. I'd love to see a webcast on this.
I think a better comparison would be "commercial mass production of preserved foods vs making them at home". For example, it is easier to buy a can of beans for cooking than it is to grow your own beans, can them, and then use them for cooking. The purchasing being analogous to using Ethereum and the growing and home-canning being analogous to classic blockchains.
A relatively easy to understand primer on elliptic curve cryptography (2013)
I think we all knew this was coming...

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3146060/
For just the opposite of these, check out Handle (handle.net)

It's a pay service to provide archival/permanent links. It's intended to help with URLs changing over time.
Hi Jared and Trevor,

I am working on a marketplace through which publishers and journalists can sell the ability to be quoted and linked to in an article to the highest bidder. A realtor, for example, might be willing to pay to be quoted and linked to in an article about how a city's real estate market has been accelerating.

My question is how to get started with marketing it. While the growth hacking crowd would say to simply spam a bunch of reporters to get inventory, I have found in other ventures that people absolutely hate receiving any form of unsolicited email with any kind of pitch.
The only slow operations these days are L3 cache misses and transcendental function calls, around 100 cycles each. Optimize for that, not a 1 CPU clock cycle "bit twiddle."
If the supreme court decides they want to revisit the idea of software patents, and patents on mathematical concepts.
Yes. Two of the most important aspects in my mind, apart from time and money, are the people you will be working with (are they good), and the product/the kinds of problems you'll solve. Both are high on my list of what I look for in a job: http://henrikwarne.com/2013/03/26/what-do-programmers-want/
"The biggest news is that I am now working on MicroPython full time! I finished my research in theoretical physics..."

What is it with physicists and programming? I know at least 3 people who started having physics degrees, but left it completely for programming. Mind you they are all excellent coders and sharps as hell... but this is not an uncommon profile it seems.
Docker Engineer Jessie Frazelle is leaving the company
> One simple solution would be to require employers to pay at least the workers' prior base salary for the duration they wish to enforce the non-compete.

This is pretty much the standard in New Zealand employment law, and it seems crazy to me that people can (effectively) be denied a livelihood because they once worked one job.
I tested it out a bit, it seems that first, the Kotlin files get compiled with the Kotlin compiler jars; after that the Java files get compiled with javac.
I priced out a server from our usual vendor. A half-depth 1U server with dual 6Gbps SSDs and a ~50% faster CPU and 16GB of RAM would come out at around 1000euro from them (so about 20% of the price in the article). With a 800GB Intel NVMe PCIe card, it'd come out at about 2000 euro (they didn't have prices for smaller NVMe cards in their quote generator at the moment, but you should be able to shave at least 500euro of that and still get the performance).

If you'd go for maximum CPU matching the quoted price instead, you'd easily get 8-16 cores each faster than the old Xeon cores in question depending on CPU model and other specs.
Ask HN: Coding club for college business majors
I work at University in Web Services. I have been asked by faculty in our business school to consider starting a coding club for business majors. There would be students with an interest but no courses in CS. Not sure I can fit this in but if I did it I would consider python probably as the language.

What resources are there for premade python learning that might keep college students interested and where I would not have to create something?
Michael Moritz on how Sequoia Capital has maintained long-term success
53 bits.. they're returning a bitfield as a double float at some layer?

Or am I misreading the implication and they can do signed 64 bits but not unsigned?
>A few times they've tried to imply I'm the first not to simply blindly sign everything and how difficult this is going to be.

"None of our contracts are valid"

That's all I heard.
They submitted their patents for analysis by suing Samsung and quite a few of them have been ruled invalid due to prior art in both the US and EU. Not to mention the case has also exposed quite a bit of internal information about Apple.
Zenefits Is Laying Off Roughly 250 Employees
Why downvote this? This is a valid point.

Automation is not just for saving time. It is also preventing the system from human errors.

People make errors due to fatigue, inattention etc. performing even simple tasks.
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Even better, mix in some QR code posters with illegitimate links to Marvel/Disney content. If even one somehow slips by the video editing crew, you're talking legal apocalypse.
Generally agree, app development is great. Regarding your last point, apps in Ethereum run on Ethereum's specialized VM. Every opcode has its own transaction fee. There's no way to write an Ethereum app in C++.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11182098
Even if the Supreme Court wants to revisit that, this might not be the best case for doing so. They most likely have other options.
Is the Tech Bubble Bursting?
Riddles, sure, those are stupid questions to ask. Always assuming something is a riddle can be dangerous though. I've had a few candidates basically challenge my question before that this was just a puzzle and they likely wouldn't ever run into this normally and the question was literally from our code base.
Why VR Dominated the Mobile World Congress
If you can create user-friendly app for betting and it is legal, why would you use blockchain for that instead of just using traditional way? I would bet my ass off that the end-users (gamblers) don't give a crap whether it is on blockchain or not, they just want it to be easy, quick and possibly cheap. And of course trustable. And by latter I don't mean "mathematical proof" trustable, they want brand that they know to trust.
I've never been able to take anyone who talks about things being "business friendly" seriously, because it almost always is a policy that makes things worse for everyone else.
> Well its certainly not pro-capitalism as it inhibits a fair market.

Of all the delusions about economic system, the one that capitalism loves free markets is the most hilarious.
What information is that?
The late-reply apologies of the founding fathers
Steve Jobs via a timeline of quotes
It may be worth delineating "how much" taxpayers have paid for it. For example, many H-wood productions leverage huge tax benefits in their budgets, to the extent of pitting states against each other for better discounts or outright 'grants'.

So arguably to some measure, taxpayers pay for H-wood productions too... (or for that matter, the products of any corporation which leverages tax giveaways, trade tariffs, or any other government - provided handout). Government $ is taxpayer $.
Wow, closing the gap between artistic ability and taste is actually a really good way to describe how weavesilk feels to me. Thanks for making it!
Why is shifting people from one major into another on face desirable? We should be glad there are less, eg, female biology majors and future doctors?
Makes sense! Merging soon :)
They carefully elide one of the most important criteria: pay eyeo.
Which is why businesses in Texas aren't able to attract talent an investment to the level that those in Silicon Valley are.
As I wrote elsewhere, I used to work for a small firm and we passed on at least a couple folks we were interested in because they had non-competes that to greater or lesser degrees could have been issues. Our business office considered any non-compete that could even potentially come into play a complete showstopper.
Shit, that bit about the architect is fucking brilliant. I'm going to gratefully steal it and keep it close to my heart. I've done a bit of hiring and interviewing, and always try to keep it valuable and productive for the candidates, eliminating as much gruel from the process as possible. Sometimes, it requires convincing others not to do some nonsense they think is valuable. This is the perfect analogy for helping people understand.
Hi Trevor and Jared,

I'm the founder of WebArcs (http://webarcs.com) an RSS aggregate for discovering and subscribing to websites. I'm just starting out and I want to see this be the way people surf the web in the future.

I was wondering which demographics I ought to target too too help build a strong user base?
But what recourse does the homeowner have in that case? And being banned from AirBNB is not really a huge deterrent. Making the behavior illegal would give you more options if it happens to you, and might really make someone think twice.