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Ask HN: Are there ways to make money online while I search for a salaried job?
Due to unforeseen circumstances that were not my fault, I was not given a full time offer at a software company that I was working for as an intern over the summer in San Jose. I have been unemployed for a month now.

I am currently seeking a full time position at a company in the Bay Area, preferably between San Francisco and San Jose. I have been largely unsuccessful with many companies due to an insufficient amount of experience or not being "the right fit".

I was doing DoorDash deliveries for some time, but I am getting sick of that work because they rip their independent contractors off and the job is taking a toll on my car, which would be a nightmare to lose. I am wondering if there are any viable ways of making money on the Internet that don't have a lot of friction to get income, but are temporary so that I can easily leave for a salaried job.

Thank you for your time.
> Assuming one in five are crewed, with 100 crew per vehicle, that means 3000 deaths over the life of the program.

A failure in the rocket does not mean everybody dies. There is a launch abort system for that. Musk has confirmed this after the presentation.
Well, it is :)
Thanks; we've reverted the title to the original. (Submitted title was "Microsoft is killing Yammer Jan 2017".)

Submitters: the HN guidelines ask you to Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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There is a setting in the YouTube app to only play in SD when not on WiFi but that may only be on Android. It's still not nearly as fine grained as it should be.
So can I finally delete the fortune app from my phone? I think this forced installation of tens of useless Google apps on android is horrible. I don't use their crappy services and I should be able to delete their apps from my phone. And I don't want to root because that invalidates knox in my phone, which I need for office stuff.

I'm excited to use this new app but the older one should be deletable.
"An impossible standard, how do you purpose to measure that?"

Number of compromises for product/system X vs open alternatives. Number of published vulnerabilities. Time to patch them. Evaluation of binaries for common issues showing if even basic, due diligence was applied. Results of independent evaluations against meaningful criteria, such as QA methods used & results of them. There's quite a few ways to assess this.

"How is a less eyes a solution to that problem?"

How is no eyes looking at specific OSS a solution to the problem? Pointless questions not focusing on the issue.

"Allow me this thought experiment: One person holds up a black box and asks you to stick your hand "

Now, lets say the same thing happens FOSS-style. The box is clear but people dive in blindfolded without being asked. That's vast majority of FOSS with negligible security benefit. Next, someone looks at the box but has neither seen a snake nor knows which are venomous. This is people glancing at the code. Lets say they know 1 or 2 venomous snakes, ask they be removed, and dive into the others because they didn't know how to spot them. This is amateurs or pro's with little domain knowledge knocking out low-hanging fruit (err, snakes). Finally, let's say an expert on all poisonous snakes puts significant time inspecting the box to make sure no adults or even babies lurk in there. After they're gone, the expert inserts their hand with no damage unless a new type of snake was hidden in there.

I choose the box where an expert looked inside to remove as many dangers as possible. I don't care if it's open or closed for my baseline: just that it was vetted by reliable people with evidence it's the same box. Most proprietary and FOSS software doesn't meet this standard although it was mostly proprietary that reached highest level of proof. Took a lot of expensive experts years to do it is why. FOSS theoretically has an advantage due to free labor but they just don't do high-security. Hard to get them to use safer, systems languages and unit testing much less high-security methods.

So, there's your example. It withers away once the truth is once again demonstrated: it's the review(s), what was reviewed, and if you trust reviewer or review methods. OSS only helps in rare case that more pro's or experts are interested in doing that. It occasionally happens but too rare to be the rule for the baseline.
In didnt say it would be easy, but neither is sending 100 people to mars.

I'm not engineer, but wouldn't a pipe be easier to build than an elevator?
> What about drugs in general, not just performance enhancing drugs? I meant, everyone want to participate in modern medical treatment, right?

What? I'm talking about performance-enhancing drugs here because they enhance performance. So everyone else operating in the same space as you will need to also use performance-enhancing drugs if they want to compete. I'm not sure why this is a hard concept to grasp.

If there were a pill you could take to turn you into the mythical "10x programmer," the implication of industry-wide usage would be that you would have to start taking that pill to participate in the industry or else you wouldn't be able to keep up.
Google doesn't have a good track record supporting its products. I have no doubt that GCloud will stick around, but the fact remains that Google has trust problems.
Do you stand by your statements calling for government supervision and control of machine learning research? Is it likely that machine learning will become a highly regulated industry roughly on par with nuclear power plant development?
You should apply if you think the company will be worth ~7% more if you do YC that it would be worth if you do it on your own.

If you could make a $10B company on your own, but doing YC could make it be a $20B company, then it would obviously be well worth it.
We all use different orders.
interesting ellipsis. is there a yc china coming soon?
Sam... Do you think bootstrapped companies, where founders want to build a "lifestyle" business and not raise capital can compete and be successful in SF and the valley?

Put in another way, would there ever be a case where you'd recommend a bootstrapped company not take investment (assuming the terms were good) in the bay area?
What are your thoughts on Zcash[1] (either the product OR the company behind it)?

1. https://z.cash/
The fact that pixels are point samples and have no area is something I feel an inexplicable psychological aversion for, despite it making sense. However, Monty's "Digital Show and Tell" video[1] helps me feel more comfortable about it. His explanation of discrete audio samples being point samples[2] (and thus should be drawn as such, rather than as a continuous stair step which I find akin to pixels) was invaluable. I generally knew everything he was talking about, but he was able to explain and present it such that I felt like I understood it more deeply than I ever had before. It's definitely worth a watch.

[1]: https://xiph.org/video/vid2.shtml

[2]: https://youtu.be/cIQ9IXSUzuM?t=5m59s
In corporate America, women fall behind early and keep losing ground
I think it's good that different people try different approaches, but also good that we do what we're good at what we believe in.

If it turns out it's better to offer part-time startup accelerators, then the market will speak.
Wouldn't you have more precision by defining triangles by hand?

For example, voxels can't represent non-right-angle surfaces without adding jagginess, while a triangle can.
I don't think they mention time/use to failure. However the quick information I can get on the material: "...we use a two-step molding process to embed a heterogeneous distribution of ferromagnetic and aluminum microparticles into a silicone rubber". So it might have the same durability as a similar composite material.
Twitter could take many forms, depending on new owner
That's really a tough one. I've spent a lot of time thinking about this without a good answer.

Sorry :(
Have you seen any patterns in terms of idea generation, do successful startups come up with the idea for the business in the same way, or is it basically extremely diverse, I'm wondering if people are tending to use any analytic methods to find low hanging fruit to get started or whether its largely "scratching an itch."
Obviously a hoax. Do you think those comments are from real users?
"It's not lowballing and undercutting employees to pay $41.6k to lower level people for 40 hours of work"

Depending on the job, it can be. But that's not what we're talking about. We're talking about doing that, and not paying overtime.
If you can accept centralization (which for many non-crypto-currency use-cases actually makes sense, since it mirrors the way the real world works) - you don't actually need proof of work.

You can still get the benefits of verifiability, append-only, detect misbehavior etc without it. See for example Certificate Transparency (RFC6962) for a standard that implements those properties using similar Merkle Tree constructions.

Disclaimer, I have a startup that generalizes the same Verifiable Logs (and also allows for Verifiable Maps): https://www.continusec.com/
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To add to the list of javascript gripes, performance is terrible. For the web we can sort of excuse it because ok, it's running in a browser and has to be cross platform and interpreted and etc. But for a native app? No excuse to burden the user with a slow, sluggish, resource and battery draining app when a compiled native app can be snappy, quick to load, and light on the CPU.
How does a college freshman get into startup culture without technical skills learned in upper division classes?

Is working at a start up a viable path for college graduates or is it recommended starting at a more established company?

Do you see Silicon Valley maintaining its dominance as a tech capital in future decades or will there be better entrepreneur ecosystems?

Which industries are ripe for entrepreneurship? Like the automobile industry at the moment has innovations of self-driving and electric energy source.

Thanks!
Why focus on "mass media"? As opposed to just "media"?

It seems incentives are the key problem in an age where there are no real gatekeepers to "mass media."

I'm curious the request isn't more like this:

"What can we do to bring up the baseline and make the vast majority of our media better? Incentive systems that reward polarization, misinformation, passivity, and fear, are not improving society. We’re looking for ways to bring the average back up and improve media quality."

(original: "What can we do to bring up the baseline and make the vast majority of our mass media better? Media outlets that rely on polarization, misinformation, passivity, and fear, are not improving society. We’re looking for ways to bring the average back up and improve mass media.")
As a very rough guess I'd say around 6000. I expect we will interview around 450 in person and video interviews with more.
Thank you for telling me!
I won't disagree with you on that. Minimum wage should be enough to live on. But paying minimum wage is basically saying, "If I could pay you less, I would." That's about as greedy as it gets regarding employers.
This paper looks a lot like a materials hype paper. The mathematics for the design process are interesting, but the material/actuator itself looks pretty poor.

The actuation forces are incredibly low - if i've eyeballed correctly - around 10 micro newtons and it requires a large bulky magnetic field setup, only shown in the supplementary section.
Thanks! That's great point - thanks for pointing out that I need to clarify - that's exactly what we've done.

Built on everything on top of open source and package it up as extensible service or run entire on-premise on your cloud.
- The container based runtime is built on top of Kubernetes.
- The SCM CI/CD integration and config as code is done via git
- The serverless models and functions we're looking to use open source Node.js framework I help create - LoopBack.io, back at StrongLoop.
- The GUI is entirely extensible via React and webpack.

The best part is - we've abstracted our interfaces so that your underlying services can be wrapped up in JavaScript no matter what language, OSS framework you have etc - bring it and we'll plug on top of it to help with reducing complexity and saving time.
Using a branch when you can just do an assignment is objectively bad code.
Probably not even close to that cost. I think he said something like $10 billion to get it up and running. How much did Rio cost? Even if that estimate is way too low, I think it's a lot more money poured into people running around in tight clothing.
Don't confuse Node with Javascript. Node and the browser are where all the async behavior comes from, not JS. Specifically; if you've ever done any backend coding in Meteor, there is practically no async behavior at all.

But I do agree: Sometimes I see people try to push Node/Express as a good choice for teaching basic APIs. Its not the worst choice, but its startling how easy it is to forget how insanely confusing async callbacks are for new devs.
It's not always about whether or not you see everything as a competition. Consider the "requirement" nowadays of a college degree. I could say that you "need a college degree to compete in the work-force," but that doesn't mean you just need a college degree only if you want to be the "best of the best." Also see sci-fi exploration of this topic (e.g. Gattaca).
Should mention you can also deploy to azure stack, which is basically onprem azure. So it's not all MSFT data centers
Granted Swift is a nice language
TS or JS + transpiler + flow is decent
and unlike Swift you can actually utilise multiple threads :)
The patent stuff is moot point Apple has about the same language in their license.
That's a loaded question, and I'm only qualified to answer from my perspective and experience. My biggest gripe with it has always been that it is alpha-quality software, even today, that has a central role in an otherwise mature OS ecosystem. It has been widely adopted (some would say forced or tricked into adoption by a few distros) and therefore all the major Linux distributions are now running at an alpha level while its creators try to figure out exactly what they want it to be. That was the state of Linux in the late 90s, a state that it overcame during the 2000s, but now it's regressing again.

First it was "just an init to replace SysV", something I could get behind, and back in 2012 or so I was actually excited about it. Then it started growing, replacing individual components of GNU/Linux with a monolithic mega-app that has more in common with Windows NT based OSes than with anything UNIX-like. Gone is the philosophy of "do one thing and do it well", replaced with "do everything no matter the quality of the results".

I've always been a Slackware user since I started messing with Linux in the late 90s, and these days I find it getting faster and better while mainstream Linux distros slow down and grow more and more bugs. One of my benchmark systems for observing the growing bloat of modern OSes is an Atom based netbook from around 2010. It shipped with Windows 7 Starter, which it ran acceptably but not great.

Recently I tested Windows 10, Slackware 14.2, Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 16.04, Debian unstable, OpenBSD, and Elementary OS Loki on it. Slackware was the fastest OS on it by a wide margin, followed by OpenBSD, then Debian, Ubuntu 14.04, Elementary, Windows, and Ubuntu 16.04 dead last. Guess which of those (not counting Windows) do not have systemd? Yep, Slackware and OpenBSD. Maybe it's a coincidence, but given how Ubuntu 16.04 on my modern workstation gets progressively slower with each systemd update, whereas Slackware on the same machine continues to chug along with no issues, that's telling.

All of that said, systemd was and maybe still is a good idea, if only they can stop trying to reinvent the wheel and instead fix the spokes they broke along the way. I can't say I'm happy about eroding the UNIX philosophy from Linux, but if systemd is the future of Linux then it damn well needs to be a stable future.
I want to transform the way we use checkins and turn them into awesome real world experiences.

I have the idea, a v1 design, portion of the API, and incomplete web app prototype... all built by me. I lack the business plan in paper however have pretty cool ideas on how I can eventually generate income.

Is this enough to be considered? Have companies come to you with less while still being accepted?
I'd sooner expect strong AI than an AI that can actually produce good music purely autonomously.
Absolutely! My daughter is currently learning with the Rpi and this could motivate her more. Scratch is a bit too easy and pygame is too hard (although working on that).
Sublime Text Gets Adaptive UI Themes
I've built a package for Sublime Text that provides Adaptive UI themes. Check it out and let me know what you think!

https://forum.sublimetext.com/t/adaptive-ui-themes/23307
It's interesting to me. Call it niche, obscure, retro. I like old stuff like this. If the Xerox alto saga can have air time why not this?
Can't wait for tptacek's take. He's always a huge ESR fan and has some wonderful comments about him on twitter.
I honestly think it's a valid comment. If I see something from someone I don't think has anything to teach me (though I try to be charitable in that determination), I just don't read it.
Somebody always asks :).

1) I want my libraries to be typed all the way down.

2) Improving the implementation of typed racket is harder/less likely than fixing the macro systems of Rust and Haskell.

3) Network effects of those two languages.
Maybe they're far worse to you..

You also have the option of creating something yourself if everyting sucks so much.
Which is exactly why many people would never dream of leaving SF for Florida.
The point of being multiplanetary is if there is an extinction event on Earth, people survive on Mars. You don't need to _immediately_ be able to come back, although you need to be able to move off Mars at some point.
A very moving article. But despite the authors elevated tone I felt a wave of depression on reading it.

An issue bothers me: why would the researchers exclude someone from a trial because his condition would confound the results? This seems callous to me. Is dying a more acceptable outcome? Why not give him every chance at living and exclude his data from the spreadsheet if need be?
Discussing with your peers how much you are being paid is the only way you figure out your value.

Companies are quite opaque and it's hard to know what you are worth to them, that's why they don't disclose this sort of thing. (and get angry when workers discuss it)

You would do yourself (and the people in your world around you) a whole lot better service if you worked together, rather than worrying about embarrassment.
The author's rant on JS and npm deps has a point but his rant on typescript, flow, and other transpilers completely misses the mark. If JavaScript is an unsafe language and therefore anything that compiles on top of it is unsafe the same is true of Swift as it compiles to assembly/machine language which is unsafe. If you consider JavaScript some cross platform assembly language then there is no difference between the two ideas.

He also rants about using the best language that catches the most errors but then picks Swift as his solution. I have a feeling there's lots of other devs that would not rank Swift at the top of languages that catch the most errors and therefore the author is being hypocritical in ranting that you should always use the best since they're arguably not using the best.

The article did make some other interesting points
Try one of the freelance websites (Upwork, Freelancer.com, etc)
What would they use it for?

If you're going to Mars, your vessel has a reasonable crew habitat, so you don't need Tiangong I for that.

Tiangong I is more payload than spaceship. Its tanks can only hold about 1000kg of propellant. Mr. Musk's proposed transfer stage has a propellant budget that's nearly 2,000,000kg.

Having to maintain compatibility with it may be hard (comms, docking, etc). There might be some hardware you could loot off it, but it's not worth flying a mission just for that, and launch windows mean visiting on a trip somewhere else would be prohibitively expensive.
As someone who has found runit to meet my needs I don't think I have any reason to make peace with systemd.

I feel like part of what people object to about systemd is the 'one true way to linux' thing.
Yeah, because it would have solidified Lua == 2.1. Instead of Lua == 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, or LuaJIT.
If a design is truly responsive, it should not require javascript for doing so. The browser itself should be deciding layout policy.
Do you plan to allow future YC teams to attend the program remotely, or with a greatly reduced expectation of spending time in Mountain View?

I get that SV is a great place to start a startup, all things being equal. But there are a lot of great opportunities that are 8-12 time zones away. And leaving your customers alone for 3 months -- especially if you are trying to grow rapidly during those 3 months -- sounds very risky. Additionally, the money spent living in SV for three months could otherwise be spent on working capital; this is extra true in developing markets where costs are lower.

In the absence of a formal policy change re: moving to SV for 3 months, would you be willing to extend a bit more leeway for founders who really want to get their companies into YC but don't want to spend too much time away from the customers they're trying to please?
The coloring helps very much, at least for me. The black and white image was very unclear to me. Perhaps some grayscale coloring was lost in the linked version?
You've mentioned that you look for solo founders to show above all that they're effective - what would be a good metric for that? Is being able to push out an MVP and getting the first handful of users seen as being effective? Is the bar a lot higher?
Articles aren't down voted. They're flagged. I'm not certain the threshold for that.

The other way to get rid of content you don't want or want to bury, vote up content you do want.

The final way is to hide it. The article will disappear for a day or two for you.
In Seattle, the rent is too damn high (2015)
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Couldn't you also eliminate scalping by imposing per-transaction limits (probably already done) and checking ID at entry, like airlines?
Are there ways to apply to HARC, or demo at HARC for people who have ideas that might fit within its remit?
I'm genuinely curious on what limitations you've seen with Google's Cloud.

Google Compute Engine alone has lots of nifty features that even AWS EC2 lacks, like custom VMs, generalized VM types (no need to go for specific instances to get fast networking, for example), preemptible VMs, live migration, disk hot-grow, and sustained use discounts, while generally being cheaper.

(work on GCP)
Thanks Sam!
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What language is this?