skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the context of a Hacker News discussion, there are really two types of investors worth distinguishing. The difference centers [or centres?] around the meaning of "startup".

In Silicon Valley, a startup is a company designed to grow fast and structured to take outside investment in exchange for equity [i.e. a Delaware C Corporation]. Everywhere else, to a first approximation, recent shifts in popular culture have made "startup" mostly synonymous with "new business": the local chamber of commerce will refer to new restaurants as startups and restaurant owners as founders.
These "local" startups are organized to meet the needs of local investors and local investors focus on cash flow [in the US an S-corp or an LLC so as to avoid double taxation].

The difference in structure is reflected in a difference of investment management. Silicon Valley style investors achieve returns via capital gains. "Local" investors primarily try to achieve returns via dividends, profit distributions, etc.

To put it in perspective, the YC investment model [as a sub-type of the SV model] is exactly about covering living expenses to allow founders to do things that increase the value of the underlying equity. That includes activities such as raising additional funding to allow more of the same.

In contrast, a "local" investor may not want additional investment because growth increases the risk of failure or a drop in profitability.

Lastly, one of the advantages of a US C-Corp is the legal requirement that employees get paid a legal wage. It avoids situations like that mentioned.
Whoops, yes that's correct.
Apply HN: Spread Code Review Load
"1 file code review, 50 comments; 50 file code review, no comments looks good to me." Human nature is causing us to lose focus where focus is needed most.

<Product> takes your code reviews and gives your developers a small portion of them to focus on. If you have 10 developers, give each a single file to vet in your 10 file code review. Context is important, so each developer can still participate in the entire review - they'll just be directed to focus on one part of it. For this reason, files pass a review - it is not a wholesale fail or pass. We'll remember which files passed and let the next round of developers know.

Sometimes you need developers from a specific team to vet changes. Allocate those developers to a team and bring them into the fold for those reviews; spread knowledge by also including developers from other teams.

Got an open source project? Crowd source your reviews and possibly attract contributors by publishing to our hub. We'll match reviewers based on their language and stack experience. We'll still make sure that your developers are involved in every review.

We're going to start off with GitHub, but will be expanding to other platforms in the future - including on-premise platforms such as Perforce and TFS.

Note: I am currently committed to a job. I am leaving this in the open for anyone who would like to pick it up.
You DID though, implying that it's the community that needs to take more concerted better action on its own, to reverse 100 years of endemic sociopolitical dysfunction.

It's basic libertarian boilerplate bullshit.
You might consider leveraging the data science component to help target the testing. For example, based on location, house age, construction type (basement/slab/etc.), run the numbers and balance the risk of exposure against the cost of a test. Then recommend "For your house, lead in the ground soil and asbestos in the shingles are the highest risk."

See, for example, this (unfortunately now defunct) radon risk website:
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/pr/00/01/radon.html

Data science might also help you recommend where to sample.

Trouble with all this, of course, is collecting enough data to start making useful recommendations.
Tangential, but I always love this series of similar words with completely different pronunciations:

tough
trough
though
through
thought
thorough

Or, as commonly found on the internet: "English is weird, but it can be understood through tough thorough thought though..."

Oh dear, I gave myself semantic satiation just by writing this out.
>I know of no other language that invented new words...

I speak Tamil. Tamilians invent new words constantly for new concepts and as an example the word for computer is கணினி (ka-ni-ni).
>I know of no other language that invented new words when computers came to the market.

Chinese did out of necessity, because the meaning-based character system fundamentally doesn't work well with foreign sounds.
Why? I am looking forward to it. For example now, if I order a hotel, I might book it via phone or email, and then I get a notification email about the order. And... let's say one year later I want to book again - I think it is more convenient if I can do it via chat application, where I would just chat with the hotel, and whats most important, the previous communication is still there in history and I can refer to it - while with email, there is no continuity of my relationship with that hotel.
> the parents kept digging into the research

That wasn't probably in the cards when it meant spending days or weeks in libraries, with fewer chances of hitting gold.

It's almost enough to pay for all the rest of the "net experience".
If you are asking for 0.05%, you better have a damn good reason to deserve it, because $1k is definitely not enough.

To be clear, that's an easy 2mm valuation. That's also an incredibly tiny slice of the company, and that's also something that will get diluted to shit.

So, let's stop this meme that for an early-stage company that fractions of a point are somehow a big deal. That's how a lot of early employees--who do the hard work--get screwed.
Reading this thread makes me feel like I'm looking at a conversation between sysadmins from now and one from the past. I'm not saying this to be dismissive though. It's possible there may be merit to what they're describing, maybe the emperor really isn't wearing any clothes. It just takes me back and feels weird to read.
Apply HN: Hillside.fm - listen to music with other people in rooms
Hillside.fm lets you listen to music with other people in rooms. You can open private rooms to listen with friends, or join public rooms to discover new songs together with a reddit-like community. Whereas existing services have focused on the party/club/dj aspect of shared music, Hillside is quiet listening rooms for introverts. We're not a video game.

The shared music market is confirmed to exist. The problem is, no one's figured out how to run such a service cheaply. But a music room service is fundamentally a node.js/socket.io app, which is super cheap; and if you get the music elsewhere, bandwidth costs round down to zero. So all the money problems people are encountering must be self-created, from e.g. hiring too fast, or buying users.

We plan to keep the team small, write small, efficient software, and grow organically. We'll write everything in Clojure, letting us execute a million times faster than the competition. Thanks to ClojureScript, React, and Electron, we can use the same code across our web, mobile, and desktop apps, which will make us even faster.

Ads won't work; we'll have to have subscriptions. One intriguing idea is to cap the number of people per room, and charge companies for team rooms.

We'll stream the music from YouTube initially. Hopefully that's legal. Genius and plug.dj do/did it. If this ends up being a problem, by the time anyone complains we'll be out of the seed stage, and making deals should be easier.

I can answer questions.
> Stuy Town [...is] more known for being inaccessible and cheap than desirable in any particular way

The last I heard about Stuy Town a friend of mine was moving out of there because he got priced out, and he was making ~90k/year.
My last time in Paris for a few days, _every time_ I said "Bonjour," the person replied with "Hello".
Create a nice vibe at home, simulate piano bar, buffet car, rainy terrace etc.
Probably leaked on purpose to gauge the reaction to it before publishing it and then officially looking like idiots. I can't imagine what they were expecting. Is there a non-government agency, a private or public company that is supporting this kind of legislation?
Sorry flipped it around in my wording, I'll fix it.
Yeah. It was mutual and slanderous.
I shifted no blame -- in fact, I very explicitly said that the author's various blamings of the various outside forces are all probably true.

"Enough for me" is not the question. I pass no judgement on what the residents of ENY are or are not doing.

I was rather commenting about the article, not the residents. The article purports to be a piece about the decay of ENY, yet did not mention anything about what people who actually live there are doing about their own situation.

I am fairly certain such people exist, yet the author neglected to interview any of them, in favor of a pure "passive victimization by outside forces" narrative.
This is a tough market. The money is there, but in my experience Law offices are like Real Estate offices in that they are willing to spend big money on one or two solutions, but are skeptical to spend on anything without existing significant market share.

How are you going to approach sales?
That is obvious, but the person I was replying to said "if you don't want the traffic." It is not evident that they want to exclude 99% of web traffic, only the relatively small number who are unwilling to view ads.

In short, for most people, a paywall is a much stronger negative than ads, so it's not an obvious why somebody who wants to use ads should just use a paywall.
This is a great idea. I would definitely try it out.

I'm pretty sure all parents have this concern especially when the doctor asks whether our place have lead and have no idea how to answer them. This is especially the case in the Bay Area where houses are old and is within the time frame of lead paint.

Several concerns here though. How hard is it to test for these things and how much would you charge the customer? Usually lab work are expensive and might not be within the price range.
> Bare Metal server with 6 cores, 8GB memory,
> and 200GB of SSD disk for 10 euros a month

Are you sure they are bare metal servers? The blog posts doesn't mention anything like that and the pricing page misses the word "dedicated".
An announcement of an announcement is the kind of thing we moderate off the HN front page, since the real announcement will get posted when it happens.
It likely wasn't picked up by Big Pharma because the research was for a disease that affects a couple hundred people in the states. There's no money in that disease, but if the research had been in cardiovascular disease, Big Pharma would have been all over it (which it looks like is now the case).
Every time I meet a French person my go-to sentence to show off my French is: "à quelle heure le garage est fermé?", only to be met with the same blank stare. I then ask if I pronounced it wrong and they say (in English): "no I understand, but which garage do you mean?".
They're using Atom-based (old 2008 pre-Silvermont Atom architecture) Avoton "microserver chips" that Intel launched in 2013:

https://blog.scaleway.com/2016/03/08/c2-insanely-affordable-...

http://www.v3.co.uk/v3-uk/news/2292691/intel-launches-avoton...

If you want cheap VPS with good performance and reliability you may want to take a look at these as well:

http://vpsdime.com/

https://www.ovh.com/us/vps/vps-ssd.xml

https://www.prometeus.net/site/vps.php

https://www.prometeus.net/site/kvm-vps.php

I don't think either are using Atom. VPSDime is just overselling, but I haven't heard anyone complain about been bottlenecked, so they probably do it in a smart way (taking resources from those who don't use them fully).
I hate that this sounds like I'm arguing, because I'm not. I just find this discussion interesting.

If the device learns over time from grandma turning the dial up and down, does that not create strange data for the device to figure out? Take your example, grandma is cold so she turns the temp up; does this count as a manual input? Does that not eventually create a problem? Much like the original thermostat but takes longer?

Although, the account thing is interesting. Can you set the schedule and then disable the manual interface to let grandma change all she wants with no changes?
This would likely sell even if it had no practical utility. The actual product is a neutral-party validation of someone's life choices.

Did I make a huge and expensive mistake in deciding to buy this house? Here's $50. Be honest.

No. Your house is not going to kill you, your kids, or your pets, within 99.6% certainty.

Awesome. Best $50 I ever spent.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11450451
I like this article myself: http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/06/what-is-...
I'm not sure the above commenter is unaware of cloud services priced by the hour. The question is more about bare metal hosts being priced in this way, which is somewhat unusual.

For what you're discussing, then a VPS/shared/dedicated VM host is more than appropriate. But generally, when companies are going bare metal, they are not doing so for hours at a time.

So the question still remains, what is the use case for an hourly billed bare metal server?
You are, again, putting words into my mouth.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man

I said nothing at all about the community needing to do anything whatsoever. I was talking about the article, not the community.

I also very explicitly said that all the various outside forces that the author blames for these problems are probably true.
This is what happened when my mom ran my Tinder for a month
I'm not saying that the current Prelude should become unavailable. That would be really stupid.
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And yet there's tons of little anglicisms in French: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglicisme#Liste_d.27anglicism...
Awesome to see stuff like this. LetsEncrypt is really doing a great service to make the Internet a better place.
Inexpensive relative to housing near it. Stuy Town is decidedly cheaper than its surrounding areas, though obviously not immune to the pricing pressures of being in Manhattan ;)

There's also a pretty interesting effect of pricing within Stuy Town, where apartments towards the center of the farm of towers are substantially cheaper than apartments towards the edges of the "community". That whole area is a dead zone - its intention is to be idyllic and serene, but it's actually just sterile and unappealing, and housing is priced proportionally to how easy it is to get the fuck out of there.
My best language story is growing up in rural New York state helping my father install satellite television systems.

One time when I was about 16 or 17 I was sent to do an installation at a dairy farm; specifically in the small trailer near the barns where a couple of Mexican migrant workers lived (the farm owner being nice enough to get them a TV subscription, I guess). In this area of the country there aren't a whole lot of Spanish speakers, so I'm guessing that the guys who were hanging out in the trailer just assumed the goofy looking white kid would have no clue what they were saying if they spoke in Spanish.

Little did they know that I studied Spanish in school for the better part of a decade (and actually paid attention/practiced), so I could understand most of what they were saying, and it was not good. It was a lot of complaining about the farm owner (who did not speak Spanish) and about how this "trash was not an excuse for better pay and working conditions". They definitely sounded bitter about their situation.

So when the time came to activate the satellite receiver I had to use their telephone to call the provider to turn it on, for fun I asked, "Puedo usar el telephono?" I have never seen anyone get more quiet and solemn this quickly. Neither of them said another word the rest of the time I was there, presumably in fear of me ratting them out (of course I didn't).
What other big companies are hiring in Seattle besides Amazon, FB, and Google? The only ones I know of are Zillow and Expedia.

I just assumed they paid relatively well because there was a salary spreadsheet on here a few weeks ago and doing a ctrl F for Seattle, the salaries seemed lower.
So, how does this work in areas with shitty sidewalks? Or a lot of construction?

Also, how do you keep people from just mugging your delivery bot or trashing it?

Your videos are basically just cute little RC cars with sticks on them.

Also, what sort of equity are you offering your early engineers? Hopefully a lot, because it sounds like you really haven't thought this through.
I dunno, I think this would be self-regulating.

By the way, in Europe very few companies do IQ tests of employees. However.. the thought that it might be illegal to qualify potential employees based on IQ tests would simply not occur to us. I guess you guys in the US have a more, eh, colorful history for good and bad.
How do OpenTable and Fandango make money?
Original announcement:

https://en.blog.wordpress.com/2016/04/08/https-everywhere-en...
I built a workstation using 2 E5-2670s about a month ago. I'm pretty happy with it so far. I did need to repin to get the second EPS connector on my power supply, but my power supply wattage was overkill otherwise.

One nice thing is that DDR3 ECC RAM is extremely cheap. I bought 32GB of RAM for $60, and have since seen 64GB for $85.

Also, it will boost to 3GHz on all cores at once, as long as it stays cool enough.
You think a community taking action on its own to better itself is a bad idea?
I've used this tool a ton of times and it is a standard install on my multimedia fetching VM. I really want to take the time to allow for a Sonarr[0]-for-youtube (and other supported sites) app that uses this on the backend. For example I love CGPGrey but don't want to constantly be downloading new videos (But I do want to watch them through my Plex setup). Some channels have convenient playlists I can download (and keep downloading) but I normally want to change the naming to a convention I specificy.

[0] https://sonarr.tv/
You may be right. I don't know. I haven't spent months going around interviewing people in ENY.

This is precisely the sort of thing that the author should have covered in the article.
I've seen other places do them before. I do wonder what the personality of my D&D dice ended up being...
can you link to a detailed analysis of that?
The rudeness may not have anything to do with accent, but with manners.

For example when you enter a store in France you are expected to say "Bonjour" upon entering, and "au revoir" upon leaving.

In north america there is no such custom, so we just walk into stores and do our thing and it bothers no-one.

If you do the same in a smaller shop in France, it's slightly rude.

It's not your fault for not knowing that. Also it's not ok for the shop owner to be rude in response to that, but of course some are.
I would use a service to test food, supplements and prescription drugs (especially generics). I'd be interested in quantity of active ingredients, as well as any contaminants.
DevOps has never been more popular in the whoishiring thread. I run monthly trends on the postings, and DevOps just entered the top 10 of terms used[1].

[1] http://www.ryan-williams.net/hacker-news-hiring-trends/2016/...
SpaceX CRS-8 Live
Indeed. It's good that these guys are white-hats because they could have made a killing selling to spammers (for as long as they could go undetected, which could've been a while).
How do you control the quality of the hotel rooms?
I was thinking more along the lines of what subreddits they still allow and what subreddits have been banned (or at least 'encouraged' to go private).
There are things such as electromigration that mean that solid-state stuff can wear out.

(Electrons are being pushed around by electric fields higher than 1 MV/m, and do smash into things ...)

I'm not complaining about my seven year old machines, but I'm not too sanguine about the current crop lasting as long ...
Kudos to the Let's Encrypt and Wordpress teams. This is what the future looks like. Every webpage needs to be encrypted, and http (as opposed to https) needs to go the way of telnet (as compared to ssh).

What's particularly great is that there is no configuration of any kind for Wordpress authors or their readers. Like they have done, we need to always default to secure.
I originally saw those numbers stated in one of the first articles covering this topic, but I do not remember which site it was on. However, I did see they also mentioned it on their AMA.

https://www.reddit.com/r/wow/comments/4droz4/we_are_nostalri...
I recently quit my job to start my own indie game studio. I came dangerously close to being unable to file the paperwork to prove that I was experiencing a "qualifying life event" that would allow me to sign up for ACA insurance outside of the normal once-per-year window. It's not that I was lazy -- I started looking at options over a week before I left my job, and between the various websites being down every night, and insurance representatives not knowing what they're talking about, and having to figure out coverage for my partner also, the whole process was way trickier than it should have been.

A former coworker of mine recently went through the same process when he quit, and ended up without insurance for a short period.

A lapse in insurance coverage means exposure to basically unlimited costs. That's not a position anyone should have to take, whether due to financial hardship or missing a paperwork deadline. And until we get single-payer, there are going to people who fall through the cracks who have to face the possibility of losing their life savings if they get hit by a bus.
It's interesting how different people's preludes are. We have a custom prelude at work, and things that it has that this one doesn't:

* Time types and functions.

* Overloaded (.) and `id`, and some arrow functionality.
* More from 'safe'.

* Semigroup.

* String conversions from 'string-conversions', type synonyms for both lazy and strict Text and ByteString types.

* Vector and UUID.

What we don't have:

* The monad transformers by default, although maybe we should.

* Generics. Again maybe we should.

* Bits, Complex.

* All the custom implemented improvements.

* Semiring, DeepSeq, the containers types, concurrency.

Basically our prelude is more conservative, I guess, although it identifies and solves a lot of the same problems. Perhaps that is some common ground to start doing small improvements to the "real" prelude.
I read a lot. My problem is discovery, not price. Do you really think there are enough people out there for whom the price is a barrier?

If you could solve the problem of discovering interesting and high quality content for me I am much more interested than in the difference between a few dollars and free.

I also really don't like small pieces. Your premium content idea would remove value for me, not add it.

This is not to be negative - it is a problem space worth exploring. If you do it right you can certainly solve a problem for me. I am much more looking for say Pandoras recommendation engine rather than the freemium model though. And I think that might be a general thing.