skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In practice, the people that can have a significant impact on the success of their employer are officers, or at least upper management. And they will also be in a position to negotiate their equity compensation. They don't need to take sound-bite advice from the Internet.

If you don't have a contract (you are "at will"), don't invest in your employer, ever. If you do have a contract, but can be fired for any reason that is outside your control, don't make an investment that is not completely liquid. If you can make the stock price move unilaterally, perhaps you should consider shorting it, quitting, and airing all the dirty laundry in public? That would be a dick move, but so is diluting all your employees into oblivion so you get a bigger share of the payout.

If one cannot raise enough capital to execute on the business plan, I question the value of the investment. In any case, the market is not homogenous. If you can't afford the market wages in Silicon Valley, move your startup to the Rust Belt. If you can't afford those wages, hire remote from Britain, Australia, or India. If you can't afford that, try your hand at lowballing freelancers. Or maybe hire one 40+ developer at 120% median pay instead of two 25-year-olds at 80%. Tricking your employees into thinking you're paying them more than they're actually getting is not a viable way to conduct business in the long run. Believe it or not, there is value in not being a scumbag employer.
While I see the clock on the wall, I also remember that it really doesn't take long for something wonderful to transpire if it's ready to do so. Time is timeless, if you live it properly. Being "defeated" is just life asking you to be a bit more present in what you are doing. Picking up the tools at the end of a long day of remodeling the bathroom, for example. Worrying the clock is running out is counter to being present in anything done properly. I'm 50 and if anything, I've learned I'm not stopping to worry about the constraints my life gifts me at times.
Same applies to any language that compiles to native code or has support for conditional compilation.

Even with MIR, Rust will never compile faster than C or even C++ if dependencies on binary libraries aren't supported.

Right now I can compile my C++ projects on Windows, and .NET Native ones, faster than when updating Rustfmt, racer and Rustsym, after each new Rust release.

VS2017 will bring the new linker, and the ongoing MS work for C++ modules (now a TS).

Rust won't win the hearts of C++ developers if it doesn't allow for binary dependencies, and doesn't compile faster.
They could certainly do that in this case, but they are probably trying to send a strong message to would-be developers of similar extensions. One is a nuissance; a thousand would be much more difficult to chase down and block.

Also, if these developers really wanted to, they could distribute it directly from their site and dynamically generate the extension, packaged with a unique identifier, for each download. This would make it effectively unblockable. So simply identifying an install of this specific extension is not a solution.
Plant based diet has been proven to slow and even reverse cancer, but there's no money in it. It will take time but slowly doctors are beginning to acknowledge that our biggest killers are the result of what you put in your body.

edit: if anyone is interested, this is just one example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VX_oZBMSd4
No worries =), I'm happy to help if I can.

So yes -- I use Shopify primarily because it's a relatively simple way to get up-and-running.

You'll make less money on Shopify, overall, because they take part of the profits you make (~2% to 5%). And that turns some people off, but the payoff is this: You can make secure, good-looking and effective site in just a few days. With no coding or server management involved.

Now, I'm a software developer, and I'm capable of building an ecommerce site from scratch (as I'm sure you are, as well) -- but why? It's not worth that kind of time investment until you know that you're going to make $$$ from the project.

Shopify is almost like rapid-prototyping. It lets you get started quickly with a working version. So, even if the first business fails (mine did), you're not out 6-months of time and effort from site-building, design etc. Customers don't really know (or care) for the most part that the site is built on Shopify. Overall, it just works.

But yes -- I use an automated drop-shipping system called Oberlo: https://www.oberlo.com/

This only works for connecting AliExpress-->Shopify, so it's constraining in that way. But mostly anything you'll want to sell can be found on AliExpress.

Try it. =)
Task-oriented and relationship-oriented leadership
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Becomes scary if you think about it: Can we reproduce fraction of the stuff that we take for granted today?
> This directly costs Google money.

1. Does a user searching without paying not cost Google's money?

2. Does a user using Chrome for free not cost Google's money?

3. They even built Chrome to boost advertising ecosystem.

4. Is there any law or ToS said users are not allowed to use a script to click the ads automatically? Are the advertising companies going to spy on me to check if I'm using a script?

5. Advertising surveillance directly violates my online privacy. Yet, "by using our services, you are agreed to our terms and conditions"
HN is a hit or miss.

If you don't get upvoted quickly, you'll get missed. Several weeks ago, 3 of 4 stories that i submitted within two days were completely passed over, only to be resubmitted by other people, which ended up on the front page. One story was even #1 for several hours.
> Big banks suck right now.

But the really sad thing is: Startups in the financial sector suck even more. Mt. Gox is just one of the many screw-ups there.
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Side note: try Bing ads as an alternative to Adwords for cheaper clicks. Might be the wrong audience given that you're advertising a dev tool but I found it pretty useful.

If you search around, Bing has a $100 coupon right now that you can use to play with the service.
HostBuddy is the perfect example of an app I didn't realise I needed until I tried it. My hat goes off to you sir.
Looks heavy. And fragile.
Both actions are done with the stated intent of costing the target money. Sure, it only involves accessing URLs the public is actively encouraged to visit (in a manner intended to bring the system down) but so do many DDoS attacks...
Is Australia not an island?
Accomplished and well-trained doctors (or, humans)) make enough mistakes as it is.
The big difference is it's built from the start with web tech.

Looking at it, my biggest criticism is that I would appreciate it more if it did share/piggyback more with graphviz's DOT language. [1]

If it could import/export DOT files it would make it easier to do things like start with Mermaid and migrate to Viz.js or graphviz itself (on a server backend somewhere) if you find for a particular graph you might need different performance characteristics or to use one of graphviz's alternate layout engines (such as a neato or twopi).

(I could especially see a use if it could manage to export its more domain-specific sequence and class diagram formats to "traditional" graphviz digraphs. Nearly all of that formatting is possible with enough work with digraphs in DOT language, but it's not a pleasure to build by hand and a DSL convertable to it would actually be generally useful, I would imagine.)

[1] https://github.com/knsv/mermaid/issues/5 [2]
Do you think it is fraud to order a pizza to be delivered to someone else's house, because you are a vegetarian and wish to destroy the business model of meat-based pizza?

How about doing this to every pizza store you encounter that serves meat?

You're not profiting..just wasting a business's resources by misrepresenting your identity and intentions.
I am curious. I have a question for all of the people who are in favor of AdNauseum.

How would you react if a website provider was able to detect that you were using AdNauseum, and they blocked your access to their website?

Edit: Expand the question to include other adblockers, not just AdNauseum.
Great idea! I've been incorporating different styles of UI features that the website owner can enable/disable at will, so I'll add this one to them.
Really nice design!
I started Cold Turkey about 5 years ago and it's just recently started to generate enough income that I can work on it full time.

Cold Turkey temporarily blocks websites and applications to help you focus on your work: https://getcoldturkey.com
Given the approx. 90M people complaining about your original link, can you not edit your OP?

Btw, it looks pretty cool.
Greenland is the biggest island. Australia is a continent.
Can you compare it to MogileFS, which seems very similar in design assumptions? (Also, Mogile has been around for > 10 years!)
I'm not saying you're wrong and 43 is still fairly young (I'm only 35) so it's possible even if there was a difference that it could still be negligible and there's all sorts variables that go into how well people learn as they get older.

But you could be wrong. Can you really accurately track how well you learn on a day to day basis over a lifetime? Doubtful. Even if you could really only learn 85% as well as you did when you were 20 it would be a measurable difference objectively. But subjectively that decline would be so minimal from one day to the next you would have a hard time noticing the decline. And since you still feel sharp at 43, and you felt sharp at 20, well nothing has changed, even though it clearly has.

Also some people just lie to themselves about how capable they (still) are. If you've ever dealt with an aging relative who was losing their vision but resistant to giving up driving. Or in the beginning stages of dementia but was in denial about it. Human beings will generally do anything to avoid admitting declining abilities of any sort. Or they will temper an admission with a but of some sort. It's just part of the experience.

You bring up a point about experience. Knowledge and experience have value too, obviously. After all young children can learn faster than adults period, but they don't know anything yet, and that's a disadvantage. And being able to learn a little bit better isn't so attractive that you'd be willing to give up all your accumulated experience. I wouldn't either.

But I am sure I can share that experience with a 20 something with no knowledge about software development and they'll pick it up much faster than my 60 something mother with no knowledge and software development. And that's where the learning bit comes in. And learning one more thing in a subject you're already an expert in, isn't really a tall order. Starting from scratch, like most children or young adults have to do is a greater feat and put on the same playing field, in a subject where you really have no experience or expertise, you might find the competition a little stiffer than you remember it being than when you were a kid. Still at 43 you're still young, but at 53? 63? 73? At some point there will probably be some obvious differences in your abilities that just become more stark as you age, even if you fare amazingly well against your peers in the same age group.

Research that seems to support that people who spend a lot of energy on learning and thinking and doing mentally demanding activities do better cognitively in their old age. I hope it's true, and specifically I hope it's true in my case.

If age hasn't proven to be an impediment for learning yet I just wouldn't worry about it. And even if things get tougher to learn as you get older it's not boolean, you can still learn things if you put the effort in, if you still want to learn it. Being less capable != incapable. This isn't a scenario where any position other than #1 is tied with last place, or first place loser, or any other sort of trope you want.
A friend of mine studied abroad in Cuba. There were wild dogs everywhere. One of his roommates was shocked at their treatment. She would feed them and try to pet them, until one day she was bitten.

So maybe it's OK to poke them preemptively, to keep them at a distance.
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Unfortunately, the publisher disabled the PLEENQ tag on that page (probably because of unknown lot of traffic to a test post!). Here's a better link: https://www.theskinnyconfidential.com/2016/10/28/thehangover...
Yeah, this. :( My ability to stop working for The Man and start my own company has been severely hampered by the need to pay my mortgage and kids in college and stuff.
It's a continent. Otherwise, we may as well call North America an island.
Let's not forget build quality. They're the only¹ brand of mouse I've ever had die on me — multiple models, within 6 months of use.

A Boomslang or whatever it was called back in the day, then two Diamondbacks within a year, in like 2007.

I've had friends say their Naga and Lachesis or whatever die within a year too, usually the buttons or entirely.

I've now used a Logitech G1 since 2007 or so, with extremely heavy gaming abuse, and no problems at all. I am considering buying several more off eBay just so I can use it forever in the case this one breaks.

¹: Okay, I had the wheel go out on my $20 "Logitech Wheel Mouse" from 1999 after 10+ years of heavy use, and a $10 Dell generic mouse at the office after 5 years of heavy use. Just the wheel though. Might have just been dust, really, and fixable for both. The Logitech was used to death in gaming for at least 5+ years.
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But they don't (make more money than God). Apple has more net income in a quarter than Google has revenue. I've said else where that the really "big" bucks eludes them and part of the problem is, in my opinion of course, that they don't have a sensible product message.
Good old times when the "window.unload" and "mouseout" events were used to annoy people.

At least it only does it once, unless you clear the browser cache.

// view-source:http://www.razerzone.com/project-valerie:1667
setTimeout(exit_signup, $('#signup_new_exit').data('popout-exit-time') || 15000);
function exit_signup(){
if (typeof(Storage) !== "undefined") {
if(!localStorage.getItem("exitintent_signup")){
addEvent(document, "mouseout", function(e) {
e = e ? e : window.event;
var from = e.relatedTarget || e.toElement;
if (!from || from.nodeName == "HTML") {
if( e.clientY < 0 && !localStorage.getItem("exitintent_signup")){
signup_new_exit_popout();
localStorage.setItem("exitintent_signup", "true");
}
}
});
}
}
}
Does razer do Linux at all?
Who said that he needs to make a serious contribution? Maybe he gets a well paying job and produces good work for a decade.
I can't wait to see one of these on an airplane... just hope I'm not the poor sod in the next seat!
Hmm. Driving from provider to provider when trying to "shop around" is really not that feasible for most people.

But I suppose it could work better. I'm skeptical though. Finding the appropriate "accounting" folks in person would be a nightmare. A lot of the hospitals and providers I've dealt with use "third party" billing so your in person strategy with these types of parties would basically be impossible.
Me too! I was like "Whoa that's a novel idea...and it is about browsers...damn!" I was already conjuring up crazy scenarios similar to in-flight refueling.
It doesn't allow me to edit my original post, unfortunately. I guess too much time has passed since I posted it.
What? Facebook, Amazon and Google do not have external users?

"We need to be careful because customers use our software" is a pretty lame excuse. Every company needs to properly test, document, package their software. Some companies do it better than others.
Indie Hackers has some great solo-founder stories: https://www.indiehackers.com/businesses?numFounders=Solo%20F...
Thanks for this. Very in-depth. I just started toying around with ES in Elixir and this definitely helps.

Can the source for the application be found anywhere?
iOS Custom controls: button action with confirmation through 3d touch
I was interviewing for a position in India. Many developers in India (especially those that work for the big outsourcers) work on overly-large teams and work only on ridiculously specific portions of code. You might have one person that only does fluent mappings for the ORM, another that only makes changes to domain models, another that only does changes to view models... etc.

I do extremely basic programming tasks (no more difficult than fizz-buzz) to quickly weed out that sort of candidate.
Ahh, roger. Kinda strange that the article doesn't mention that.
Thanks for the recommendation! I definitely wasn't thinking of agreeing to any terms on the spot. Do you have any idea the type of legal documents that should or will be involved in the process?
Looks a bit like Jeff Daniels in dumb & dumber aged 10 years.

Good find though. This is really fishy.
Except that "Python3" would compile and run Python2 source code. So it would be "Python3" but backwards compatible. Which is exactly what everyone wanted (other than a performance boost).
Fraud is a poor word choice, because it is a legal term. There must be a better word out there.
> they have access to all your data

Curious: how would one design a service like Dropbox with Web + mobile + desktop clients such that the service operator could not access the data?

(This is a mass-market service, so I mean without requiring Web users to install certificates, etc.)

What design changes would you suggest they make?
From what i can tell, it's the latter, not the former.

They are so underfunded otherwise they can't afford to give it up
Better link (jumps directly to the review):

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/adnauseam/rev...
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I'd imagine it's because little effort is put into optimizing games for Linux.

Overall, I'd guess the Gabe (having worked at Microsoft) is pretty comfortable with that platform, but likes having Linux their as a hedge (with potential to open up new markets too).
If I have a friend who I know is interested in a particular author, and I notice that that author has released a new book, is it evil for me to tell my friend?

I don't think it is. I'm connecting a producer and a consumer in both of their best interests. When the producer is the one who asks an entity like Facebook "who enjoys this author?" and advertises the new book to them, why is this evil?

People have desires, and without advertising it is very difficult to connect those people with producers who can fulfill them.

I think advertising isn't inherently evil, just some tactics used to persuade people with misinformation.
Ding ding ding!

We've been experiencing a lot of entropy where I'm at. Everyone could feel it, no one could understand it. I started looking for what might be happening and what might fix it. I came across Lex Sisney and Organizational Physics. It makes a lot of sense, at least to me.

P.S. I'm not affiliated with Lex. (Link to his Kindle book on Amazon: http://amzn.to/2iUh09B or find a lot of what's covered in his book on his website for free: http://organizationalphysics.com )
Venture capital is going to murder Medium
Monopolies in publishing seem to depend much more on ad revenue than small, independent publishers - who tend to utilize solutions like Parteon, fundraisers, donate buttons, referrals, sponsorship or just plain old self-hosting like in the good old days. There are plenty of alternative strategies available to players big and small, and the only thing I can see dying off is all the crap that the Internet drowned in since people started monetizing eyeballs.
Better not use an interpreter in first place, rather a language with REPL that allows compilation straight to native code.
I have the same philosophy. I have, over the last couple of years, stripped Javascript and other external assets from my site. First I removed Disqus from my blog, because Internet comments are a cesspit anyway. Then I removed Google Analytics because the tracking outweighs the benefits. Then I removed an externally-loaded font. I finally figured out the last thing, a little bit of JS that Cloudflare was injecting to obfuscate my email address. I contemplated just getting rid of Cloudflare because fucking with my webpage content is pretty bad, but instead opted to disable the functionality.
Nice job. You've been an inspiration. Best luck looking for someone to take over.

We've tried to do a similar thing, I was burnt out and we found another dev to take over:
https://blog.binaryage.com/meet-steve-the-new-lead

It didn't work out in the end. But at least I got 10 months of "recovery time" out of it. And that seems helped a lot. Maybe you just need a break for 6+ months and then you could return with recharged batteries. The challenge is how to "park" your business in capable hands. Product maintenance/support is a serious burden.
Where will you publish it?
i wonder how much the road noise is affecting me especially since I quite like the overnight hum of the roads. a highway provides a much more even white noise experience while city road noise is more grainy.

the closest experience to the city hum that i could find in the country is probably the seaside, and i have to say, it is a very comforting experience.
Should they be?
Those look really sharp! I still tried wearing a bow tie. I've always been a necktie kind of guy. Maybe it's time?
This extension only clicks tracking ads. The authors seem to primarily be upset about mass surveillance.

I'd hope that it enables do not track, and also checks for tracking cookies before clicking, but haven't looked carefully.
Original Opera engine started somewhere in 1993, last update to Opera Classics was year ago.
Thanks for taking the time of answering my question.
Google's lobbyists may well be pushing for laws against "click fraud".

(I'm just guessing that's what they might call it.)
I was a bit pissed that the way the recruiter told me initially I thought the hiring committee was just a safety check and pretty much a rubber stamp so I got all excited for abut a day until he told me I didn't pass the committee. He gave me no feedback whatsoever about interviews or anything, just encouraged me to apply in a year, which may be standard talk for all candidates (he did invite me later to an online seminar so there's hope).

The way I understand it now is that besides gauging your expertise level and general review they may simply select the top X for the positions they have, given a larger number of candidates that passed the interviews.

I didn't see anything that seemed to discriminate by age. One interviewer was a woman in her 40s ro 50s. That said it is true that Silicon Valley (I also interviewed for Facebook) is all white or Asian men in their late 20s or early 30s, (with some sparse women). I saw literally zero black people in three days in SV and the only obvious Hispanic were the staff at my hotel.
No, it's not.

I was interviewing for a position in India; I just use such basic tests as a filter, so I can quickly weed out the wrong kind of candidate. See my other comment here for more: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13327100
VC still gets that sweet 2% management fee per year.
I don't remember Lycos/Altavista etc rendering anywhere near as much of the web (as a proportion of what existed back then) locatable, having a radical stance on copyright or having less obtrusive ads...
Yes? I'm honestly not sure how you could think otherwise. This is a clickbot just like any other.
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Water-cooler talk is a way to bond with others. Some of my greatest friends were made at work, and this talk happens when we want a break. Usually getting food, coffee, or going to work out. Water-cooler talk isn't only there to bad mouth management, but to make connections/friends.
Theres also a marathon runner who runs at 100+ somewhere, quite amazing.