skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Bringing on more people has additional hidden costs as well.

I'm including those costs in my estimation of how many people we could hire and still save money over using AWS. It's still several.
Location: San Francisco

Remote: No

Willing to relocate: Only California

Technologies: Javascript, AngularJS, Node.js, Express, Ionic, Neo4j, MongoDB, MySQL, HTML, JQuery, Git, Backbone, CoffeeScript, Sequelize, SQLite, D3.js, CSS, Grunt, Gulp, Mocha/Chai

Résumé/CV: https://docs.google.com/document/d/12J63XqHxlOj0zv2hM1TbKc2P...

Email: joeyleung8@gmail.com

Github: https://github.com/DzoYee

LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/joeydleung
I have been using Pinboard for five years, I have 3500 bookmarks in it. Along with GitHub, it is probably the SaaS that has improved my life the most.
Remember In-Q-Tel, the CIA's VC firm (let that sink in for a moment) was one of the earliest investors in Facebook.
Wow. This good stuff. Thanks for sharing.
Slogans, inciting hate. That is no basis for healthy economic policy.
The requirements of the alcohol industry are very specific and vary state to state, so we think it requires specialized software to take that into account.
Mr. Hands died in that video, hence why it's kind of legendary.
> I'd say HN readers would be more impressed with innovative technology than how the company actually would make money.

I think I have to disagree with you there. Traditionally, HN users are highly interested in the latter.

Your other point is true of course, but we're using the word 'experiment' far more loosely than that. This is not science, it's just 'I wonder what will happen if we try this crazy thing'. Starting bigger doesn't seem prudent.
One of the biggest developments in science recently. I'm glad to see it getting attention.
How to add any search engine or site search to Google Chrome
So true. People will always find a way to talk euphemistically. And on the other end of spectrum, you can't really filter out borderline-offensive phrases.

Reminds me of a system I worked on where we generated temporary passwords for tens of thousands of invitations to a big event. Somebody tried to be clever and generate "user-friendly" passwords by combining words from a public 1st grade vocab list. It seemed like overkill for a temporary password, which had to be changed upon initial login, but whatevs, we had extra time on the project. It looked good in testing.

Within hours of sending out the first batch of invitations, we started getting complaints of people "not comfortable" with their passwords. I don't remember all of them, but some great examples were things like "donkeybanana1014", "drunkgod9488", "devilboy4593". It wasn't a huge PR problem, mostly just caused some laughs and little support scrambling, but I filed it away as yet another example of someone getting burnt by trying to be clever.
Pretty sure the description is a warning enough, plus it's just words, not ASCII porn.
> You look for grit.

It always seems to me that "grit" and "stubbornness" are similar, and being stubborn to the degree of being unable to give up a hopeless dream seems to be a problem for startup founders. How do you distinguish between these very similar traits when you interview someone?
Hey - from DC and my buddy used to work for the Beer Wholesalers Association as a lobbyist and I have a couple other buddies who lobbied for Wine & Spirits. I have a piece of advice that dovetails into a question. The advice is to go meet with those folk at those associations if you haven't already. The question is that I know from my buddies' experience at those places, there is a lot of political resistance in those industries to "changing things" - how do you intend to navigate around that political/attitude problem?
Yeah it's called "thing explainer", but it's more like a "thing convoluter". It's a work humour, not a book of science.
Is Airbnb inflating the Vancouver housing crisis?
The ability to connect with other people and develop deep relationships around something as intimate as profound as music making is very powerful. Making new friends is life changing.

When you say applying it to a wider audience do you mean (i) to people who are not musicians or (ii) to musicians not in our focus segment ( e.g., people who play less frequently/more casually)
But I don't have access to all the photos the Facebook neural net does, because of private profiles and the fact I'm not friends with everyone. So really now the machine has far more information that I do, and it can make predictions I can't. Like, where anyone is likely to be at any time, by analyzing photos and matching locations between those photos. Think of what you could do when you can map out the daily lives of millions of people?

We haven't seen the full force of what this means yet as it's still early days, but with for-profit companies behind the wheel like Facebook who make money from selling your information, this is an unprecedented level of big brother-esque invasion.
Cool. Let me know if you have any questions/comments as you do.
You are very hard to understand. You have many times criticized HN and YC for many different things (the most memorable examples being objecting to how HN uses the word "startup", and to PG hellbanning you), and yet here you are, cleverly using "Apply HN" to raise awareness about Pinboard in the community you dislike while having no intention of being part of YC.
It is active, but still a bit too early for that.
And you're stepping into a policy discussion, which is great! And your voice should be heard!

My point is that there's an explicit contradiction with reality in the tagline of the article, which I'm finding more and more in various news stories and it's beginning to get on my nerves.
Sorry I don't have studies or articles, my views are formed by my own experience. Surely that's still valid? (Sorry I didn't mean that in a snarky way)

As a female, I've been to a few female-oriented tech events myself. And I don't hear very intimate stories, except general ones such as the "how do I deal with a sexist remark" as you mentioned. But I do hear, and see, from my close female tech friends ... I think it's because it's generally too complicated to be expressed and more than that, there's an associated shame - for example, for a long time I didn't want to talk about it because I thought that people can't be that discriminatory and therefore it MUST be something that I've done. Cue in unhealthy self-analysis and reproach, and it was only after many years, I considered sexism (and other types of discrimination) though not without grudge.

But on the other hand there are also women in tech who seem to be tougher - sometimes I think the scornful "you're-letting-our-race-down" looks on their faces hurt even more.

I think that any activism for empowering women for tech needs to deal with the deeper issues, beyond the random colleague sexist remarks. Sticks and stones can't hurt, but a lack of self-worth, leading to imposter syndrome, can.

Though I'll be honest with you, when I go to tech events I don't even think about my femaleness let alone gender issues. And that itself means something, that most people aren't generally discriminatory! So I'm still positive, but is there a need to build confidence for women in tech? Yes.

I will also add that my own experience of getting discriminated may not just be due to one factor (i.e. gender) as I happen to tick a few other "minority" boxes.
Oh, come on. Open a history book. Oil was far from proven back when coal was king. Many, many companies ate up huge amounts of capital and had nothing to show for it. The process for finding, extracting, processing, transporting and consuming oil and its various byproducts was still in its infancy. There was a lot of mistakes to be made.

You're losing your shit here because some companies didn't work out. And? The road to success is often paved with failure.
Or hydro, which is pretty easy to store.

Or by rescheduling load on the grid.
Happy to have your participation inside the Baqqer community. We're trying to help hackers + makers build better, bigger by community crowdfunding, feedback, and building together. :)
"stupid" = depends on the age.

Unless you meant all children are stupid....
Why only in French?
Just read the articles on that. It's one of those things that sounds reasonable, but comes from a study that's based on things like online surveys and playing games with college students. I'm not going to take that one too seriously just yet.
Thus social class and economic class are not identical, they are intersectional. They relate and they mediate one another, but they are not the same thing.

And both of these are not identical to race in the US, but their perception is indeed still partially mediated by race.
I'm with you except for wanting type errors. I like ducktyping and in coffeescript -- I know, I'm not cool -- you get the existential operator `?` which makes ducktyping really nice.

I really think the problem with javascript really boils down to the fact that it's still in beta and will never have the breaking changes necessary to move it to a 1.0 language (i.e . the ECMA committees commitment to not breaking the web). But, it's easy enough to get around that in new projects by using linters that get rid of the bad parts.
Why Most Unit Testing Is Waste [pdf]
Solyndra pushed a demonstrated advance in technology. It just didn't end up being cheaper than the rapidly-falling price of silicon solar cells. Sure, you can play Monday-morning quarterback on that deal, but it was a reasonable bet and the investors (who lost a ton of money) were not fools.
Four different ways to handle SQLite concurrency
Apply HN: Anonymous P2P therapy phone calls (going through a rough time?)
What we do:
We like to think of it as a ‘Anonymous User to User therapy sessions’. We are building a mobile app that allows users who are going through a rough time in their life to be connected to a random person around the world to have a real phone call with.

Why:
We all go through rough times. It can be school, love life, or not getting into YC fellowship (hint). Some of these things are very tough to talk about with people you know IRL (judgmental, embarrassing, they don’t care, ect). And we all know for a fact that talking it out with someone and getting advice is a great way to fix problems. This is done much easier when it’s an anonymous person on the other end so you can be 100% free.

How it works:
Imagine you just got denied from YC fellowship. You’re there lying in bed all embarrassed and sad, but you can’t tell anyone about it because you’re just not that close to someone else. You pick up Yusuf’s app and automatically connect to a random person around the world who is also going through a tough time. You tell each other the story of what you’re going through and comfort each other. It’s simple as that.

Sure, I can talk more about our marketing strategy, product features, monetization, ect. But I’ll let you guys ask those questions (if you want to!)

Wanna know more about US (4 founders), past startup experience, more on our product, ect? ASK!!
Crap I thought you were commenting on my post!
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Apply HN: Moonlighter – Automatically track projects from computer usage
Moonlighter - https://moonlighter.io
Automatically track projects from computer usage

Moonlighter frees you from using a manual time tracker. You no longer have to remember to start/stop the timer, switch projects, or annotate the current task. It pulls information from your computer (file edits, open applications, browser URLs, etc) and connected services (github, gmail, google docs, etc) and uses machine learning to learn which activities are a part of which projects. All tracking is opt-in only, optionally fully encrypted (although this degrades some features of the user experience).

Right now the focus is time tracking, with plans to expand into project management/reporting tools.

Why (did I build this):
I had a day job (well I was a grad student), moonlighting on the side to pay the bills. I always had trouble remembering to track my time accurately, and even more trouble estimating hours for a project. Although I don't bill hourly anymore, I know that accurately tracking my time is essential to preparing a good software estimate.

How (are you going to make money):
Initial market and customer interviews are freelance developers/designers, although I've had really good discussions from a number of lawyers.

It uses a B2B SaaS subscription model. The Price will start off lower than advertised and increase as more features are added to the web application.

Where (are the competitors):
RescueTime is probably the most closest competitor. They have a lot of similar data, but it is less granular and not currently used for project tracking.

DeskTime is similar but also granular, and especially invasive for individual contributors.

There are plenty of other time trackers/invoicing tools in this space, but many of them simply give the problem a pretty face: Harvest, Toggl, and myriad others. Getting detailed data for automatic project/task annotation and project estimation will be a big undertaking for these.

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A big python or a little python?

edit It may also be useful to know the size and weight of the bowling ball.
Ah, but there's a lot of politics and personal-influence-opportunity in management, that's the barrier.

> But you know who will reliably earn more than the data scientist in three years? The data scientist's boss.

I'm not 100% sure of this. There will be a boss in the chain that earns more, but actually I suspect that this isn't always true, given one assumption - the boss, as a job requirement, has to have a good knowledge of DS (maybe an ex/senior DS?), in which case this barrier ensures management will get higher pay - otherwise they'd just stay/go into in DS.
Double-crap I thought you were commenting on my post!
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Never, except literally right now. It's really hot out as I type this.
Again, not my point. Social network sites are built off image sharing, that before computers did not understand. Now that they do, we are entered an unprecedented age of surveillance. Private is only private to humans, the Facebook machine can look at any photos it wants, and build up a profile for anyone, their friends, make predictions of behavior and so on.

It's not the tech that is bad, it is the fact it is in the hands of for-profit companies, who are willing to sell your data just to make their bottom line.
Thanks for the feedback!

Honestly if you are, say, 5-10 people, you'll get by just fine with the free version of Sandstorm. You can log in using an email address or Google or Github account.

I think things like LDAP integration, access control lockdowns, and audit logging start becoming important when you want to have, say, 50 people or more on the server together, with a dedicated IT person or team managing it.

We should probably work on making that clearer in our marketing copy, though!
Apply HN: Low-friction social organization between friends
Imagine yourself watching the clock at the end of a long Thursday in the office trenches. Happy hour is calling your name but nobody in the office is up for going out today. What do you do?

People have a very real, fundamental need to socialize with other people on a regular basis. Can this need in fast-paced, ever-busier urban lifestyles be served by technology in a more convenient way?

What if there was an app on your phone that would let you know, within minutes, if any of your friends were nearby and interested in hanging out?

We would like to propose a platform which follows the “low-friction” trend (proven by the likes of Snapchat and Tinder) and enables rapid, last-minute, high-quality social organization.

How it works:
When you’re bored, you simply open the app and hit the giant red button (it might say something like “Who’s up for hanging out?”). A notification is sent to all of your friends with whom you are connected in the app and who are within a certain radius (say, 2kms).

Each friend can choose to declare themselves “in” or “busy” (or just ignore the notification). As friends elect to be up for hanging out, everyone is added to a group chat to coordinate. Even friends who are not directly connected will be able to communicate at this point.

It’s the quickest, easiest way to meet up with your friends on short-notice.

Revenue:

Our primary revenue source is expected to be modern, context-aware advertising. Knowing that a group of friends in a particular area want to socialize, it is a logical pairing that we could recommend places to meet up. This offers high-value advertising opportunities for establishments in the area of the users.

Does it have a name?
Not yet. Suggestions welcome.

Who are we?
A couple Canadians with a passion for building software and solving problems. We each have years of experience building software for both enterprise and consumer applications.
Why don't you just create an account for this sort of thing. No baby pictures, no sharing your holiday photos, no commenting on friends/families/colleagues posts. Just accessing groups/sites who use it because it's an extremely cost effective way of getting an internet presence. I used to be just like you but relented in the end because of Facebook messenger (yeah, could use email but people can't generally be bothered with that any more).
Who (built this):

- Jeremy Jay (that's me!), I have a PhD in Comp Sci/Bioinformatics, but also do freelance software development. My research covers data integration and information/graph theory analysis. My freelance work has ranged from large software system integrations, a few different startup MVPs (both successful and not). So I have experience with the problems of freelancers/small teams, and experience in data analysis to solve these issues when I have the data available.

- [Need a biz dev/sales person here] - Freelance has given me some experience in this arena, but having a cofounder here would be much better.

When (did I start):

- I currently have a working prototype for OSX and trimmed down prototypes for Linux and Windows. These are installed desktop apps which send data to the main web application.

- I've been working on this part-time for essentially a year. Did a soft beta launch last year, but it surfaced some architectural issues when users and data variety were outside of my expectations. So I'm using that data to improve things and chugging away to get it shaped up for a beta relaunch soon.
It's not creative in many cases because the technical solution already exists, invented and optimized decades ago. Just because developers are ignorant of known CS, prefer their ego (NIH), or chose to use the brand new shiny thing with no ecosystem to solve the business problems in front of them, doesn't mean they're engaging in effective creativity. How many times has the wheel been re-invented, do you think?
Great question. We believe the response rate will motivate them. If I get a well formed personalized message from a recruiter on linkedin, I always respond even when I am not looking. yes there are some assumptions here but I think the response rate from quality candidates that recruiters get out of linkedin is way lower.
when you're working a job, you're giving away the product of your labor. everything you make is owned by your boss. you're compensated with money for the time you spend working. you need money, but time is incredibly precious.

if my situation changed and i didn't need it any longer, no way in hell would i keep my job. my job is good, in that the circumstances are such that the alternative is worse, but that's a pretty weak definition of good. it's a necessary evil. of course i'd rather keep the product of my own labor, and i'd rather have the freedom to use my time without suffering due to a lack of money. what's there to feel sorry for about that?
Welcome to Thington
Swear to god I read "Pooper.js" and got afraid of what it really does.
Scala.js and React
Batteries are already good and cheap enough to back every renewable MW of nameplate capacity.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvCIhn7_FXI&feature=youtu.be...

There are going to be quite a few electric cars on the road over the next decade, all acting as sinks and sources of power when necessary.
YC funds a lot of startups that do things like that, and I'm sure HN agrees with you too. You're preaching to the choir here!
+1 on the slider, you/we should really do that
While this is probably a joke, I would note that a person is rarely writing for consumption by all demographics. Vampire novels, comic books, chemistry textbooks, all have their audiences, and it is naive to say "but one day the whole world may wish to read my book, I must open the gates as wide as possible", because accessibility is not a free.

Don't simplify or complicate your language without reason.
Kill sticky headers
> Pumped storage is vastly better than batteries

Yes, except for those who live next to the reservoir (or actually, in the would-be reservoir). That could be people, or nature.
Apply HN: Gresham Dollar – Viral Currency for Basic Income
Gresham Dollar (GD) is a currency designed for the purpose of providing people a basic income (i.e. regular income independent of the labor market) without the need for government funding.

Gresham Dollar is backed by the United States Dollar (USD). It is pegged to USD at par (one-to-one) using a novel mechanism such that it requires far fewer USD reserves than a central bank would normally need in order to sustain a new USD-backed currency.

Gresham's Law is an economic principle describing the observation that "bad money drives out good." For example, when the United States discontinued minting silver quarters, people held onto their old silver quarters, preferring to spend the new less-valuable quarters. Thusly, the old silver quarters were quickly driven from circulation. Gresham Dollar's core mechanism uses a hack on Gresham's Law that causes people similarly to prefer to spend their GD and hoard their USD. In other words, as GD enters circulation, it drives other currencies out of circulation. Gresham Dollar is a viral currency.

Gresham Dollar is a digital cryptocurrency. Unlike pseudo-currencies such as Bitcoin, which are inherently unstable in value, Gresham Dollar is centrally managed and is capable of being used as a full-fledged currency.

I know it sounds crazy. Ask me anything. Don't worry too much about being nice. But if you're not nice, at least start an interesting argument.
I'd recommend talking with a local bank to get a point of reference.

Good luck.
Sounds tremendous!
A while back a friend wrote an Android app for this:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.fallinghaw...
The CEO of Quest went to jail for insider trading after refusing to bend to the NSA.
When I moved to New York City after living in Florida and North Carolina, I was really surprised at the blatant bigotry here.

There is a lot of bigotry in the Bay Area and online. Considering what we know about the mental shortcuts people use to process complex social information, evidence/science minded people should expect there to be bigotry as an unfortunate phenomenon to be aware of. Instead, it has received the imprimatur of "sin."

It's a thorny problem. Talk about bigotry in the "wrong" way, and you ironically open yourself up to yet more bigotry involving projections about your internal mental state.
The very popular Oxford Learner's Dictionary uses a limited vocabulary of 3 500 words for its definitions.
It looks like adding the no-tty in gpg.conf fixed it :D

Thank you !
I'm afraid so. But an impressive one.
Advertisements (specifically online advertisements) are used by companies looking to reach their target market. For example, fantasy sports sites advertise on ESPN.com because a lot of sports fans go there.

How will you get sports fans to visit listing-platform.com?