skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is if you were underpaying in a previous year. Lifting data points out of context is rarely informative.
> Can definitely attest to everything else you've said. There is also an element of people not wanting to go home often because they have parents living with them (young and old) or their home life isn't all that appealing.

I always wondered why the overtime culture wouldn't slowly fade out as I imagined that top employees would certainly demand to work fair hours resulting in employers having to adjust in order to hire quality staff.

The aspect you mentioned could explain why nobody, including employees who could afford to do so, is really pushing for sane work hours.

On the other hand it's hard to understand that employers and employees alike aren't able to see that the current working conditions are neither healthy nor very productive - there's no way you're anywhere close to your full potential at the end of a 10 or 12 hour shift.
I use both browser bookmarks (Firefox) and Pinboard. I think they're complementary rather than one being a replacement for the other.

I use browser bookmarks for pages I visit often or intend to return to fairly soon. I use Pinboard for long-term archival where link rot is a real concern.
youth can work for free for interesting companies rather than work for peanuts for abusive companies.
If the time taken to read the buzzfeed article is the same as the high quality report, it is worth the same to an advertiser. The high quality report does good for the organization in terms of retention, a reader is likely to come back and read it if he finds good content.
What exactly do you like about his performance so far? It seems like it's a slow motion train wreck. But I'm curious what his supporters like about his work so far.
68 mayors adopt Paris climate accord after U.S. pulls out
Eh? I don't see much content in revelation's comment?

As for the images you posted, I checked out EasyPhotoEdit and thetop10antivirus.com and neither site appears actively harmful (the former looks like an online photo editor and the latter an antivirus comparison page), so while the ads may be distasteful I'm not sure they should be called malicious ads since that's usually reserved for actual malware.
One has to mention the Brave browser for comparison: https://brave.com/ -- similar concept but using Bitcoin. The accounting at https://brave.com/publishers.html looks like you as the reader can DECIDE whether you want to issue micropayments to a particular site or not, and publishers don't have to explicitly opt-in beforehand (thereby instantly including all of the web). A publisher won't be able to charge different prices, but a publisher with goodwill (hence users opting on their own to pay that publisher) will make money. This seems like a better execution.
What was great about Facebook, especially compared to other social networks, is that you had real control over privacy. It was made to communicate with your "real life" friends and family, and keep control with who can see what.

But year after year they've stepped back on privacy, while still being a completely closed platform compared to the open web.
Seems like the operative gambit would be one-or-more miner/exchange pays govt official(s) lots of money to "crackdown" on BTC, except not as much on them. win-win
Foreign teachers often have a lot of leeway, particularly if they teach English. I taught English at first and all the Japanese were super friendly and kind (and I didn't work any overtime). If it's a Japanese teacher's example then I haven't seen the same. The preschool I taught at from 2-7pm had all the teacher's there at 7pm still. Everyday. School got out at 2pm.

I'm now working in a Japanese programming company (where no one speaks English) and the environment is completely different.
Also what I thought. If this starts becoming widely used, then Google would be essentially getting a share out of the tip that readers would be giving to publishers, only for the service of "not showing ads and redistributing money".
The key thing here isn't about the fact that they are overvalued. It's more important to discuss the repercussions and what anyone is doing about it. It's not just Sillicon Valley, it's the startup scene all over the world.

How much is something really worth. Well how much is the next person willing to pay, that's really what this is all about. I've been down the road of VCs, exits etc... before and to be honest most of it is just fluff people make up, loop holes in the way things are valued, forget basic business and accounting they literally are making this up as they go.

Most VCs I feel have a detrimental effect on startups, the only thing a lot of them provide is money, which isn't always what a startup needs. It doesn't matter to the VCs that they are mostly wrong, they just have to be right once.

The question we need to ask here is what happens when it all crumbles down, due to the fact that all this is going on. How valuable something is ultimately depends on how many lives it improves. Whether something is valuable or not is measured by the amount of pain inflicted on society if the startup didn't exist, and ultimately if something is not needed, it wont survive anyway. The market is cruel like that, and having VC money shields entrepreneurs away from that crucial factor. All this fluffed up valuation has nothing to do with the survival of a business anyway.
> Have you never recommended anything to your friends? That's advertising

It's not advertising, because you don't profit from it. Advertising is fundamentally dishonest, because I (as the viewer) cannot know if you're recommending a product because it's good, or because you get paid for it. On the other hand, recommendations are more likely to be honest, because the person making them doesn't profit from making them (and in fact stands to loose something, if the recommendation turns out to be bad).
How is this different from paying for an adblocker? There is lots of good free ones.

I pay publishers I like for their content (buying newspapers, subscriptions, etc) and I don't get why Google should be the middleman in this.
If you've been an employee at a unicorn and have common shares/options, check out table 8 (page 48) that lists common share valuations according to their model.

AIUI, the common share FMV they list should be comparable to the 409A common share valuations you may have gotten. Roughly speaking, assuming the funding round in the table is close in time to the 409A valuation.
If you are British, still EU, then Germany allows double citizenship.

But, since you need 6-8 years to live in Germany until you get your citizenship, by the UK will be no longer EU, so..
the guidelines, maybe? https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
A lot depends on the geographic distribution of your friend network. Many of my closest friends live on the other side of the country. Not to mention that I got to know them through FB.

I'm really not that worried about it any more. FB is gufe, but so was AOL. It will in turn be disrupted by a future innovation.
I have a backup of my SQRL keys for when this goes mainstream. I really like the idea, but am not hopeful it will become widely adopted.
"For example 'Bad code quality and coding', which is explained as a situation where a developer essentially has to clean up another's poor code, is described as a cause of unhappiness. But I like cleaning up other's shit code. "

I like doing it too (sometimes), but I find that:

* It's very low visibility work by its nature. People outside of the team will see bugfixes and new features but they don't see prevented disastrous bugs and don't necessarily see speeded up delivery.

* Dysfunctional working environments tend to go hand in hand with bad code.
Firefox DevTools was built from Firebug, which is why they no longer develop Firebug. See the Firebug website: http://getfirebug.com/

And here's some more history: https://hacks.mozilla.org/2016/12/firebug-lives-on-in-firefo...
> A subscription helps you learn about things you can still participate in.

As well as helping sustain such an amazing resource!
Yeah, this is totally Flattr. Except for the even-split concept.
Scotland already closed its last coal-fired power plant and Europe will likely go 100% EV around 2040.

https://thinkprogress.org/after-115-years-scotland-is-coal-f...

https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/what-country-wi...
> Chrome is already 'non profit' because it does not cost money to the end user.

a) non-profit is a clearly defined term [1] which doesnt apply to google, nor any of its products

b) by your definition, any website which utilizes ad revenue is a non profit, because the end user doesn't have to pay money for its use. i'm pretty sure this was the point the parent was trying to convey.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonprofit_organization
The gov't of the US should represent its people, not just the side who won.
Maybe, the should have used one of the many repeating Rule 30 patterns: http://www.iwriteiam.nl/Rule30.html
"not really marriage material" should not be the decision of a government.

She's not super rich, and she works in fashion design. That's not on a skill-shortage list. My salary isn't super high.

I worked in the UK before, as an unpaid missionary. I quit because of serious cultural differences (I wasn't allowed to cook dinner for a female friend - not romantic - in my free time). I studied there in university, and was shocked at how racist people were towards immigrants. They didn't realise that I've always been an immigrant. Just because I look British should force me to live in that country. The British government won't ever let me upgrade my citizenship to let children born overseas become British, no matter how long I live there. That country rejected me, so I'm trying to find another place where I belong.

Many people have problems moving to the UK, some of whom write about it here:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/139807999382936/
There is a 'Penrose Paving' outside the new Mathematical Institue in Oxford (the Andrew Wiles building), which opened in 2013.

There's a video of Roger Penrose talking about it [1], and a time-lapse of it being laid [2].

[1]: https://www.maths.ox.ac.uk/node/865

[3]: https://www.maths.ox.ac.uk/about-us/our-building
Clari (www.clari.com) / Frontend Engineer / Sunnyvale, CA / Full-time / Onsite

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Email me directly at mking@clari.com (I'm the hiring manager) or apply here: http://www.clari.com/company/career?gnk=job&gni=8a7882e85ba3...
Sounds a bit like good 'ol protection money, though ("You don't want some malware on your pc, do you?"[0]). A business classic but not exactly what you'd want from a tech company.

[0] http://www.businessinsider.de/android-malware-spreads-using-...
I'm not sure how much value I derive from ad-funded websites, besides maybe Google Search. There was a time most websites were free and run for the good of the community, not for profit and not as a full-time job. I could buy my high-quality content in the form of magazines and newspapers. Maybe that's the paradigm worth investigating - community generated, ad-free content on the web but paid-for, bundled (magazine-style) high quality content for sale. Delivered not through the browser but through some other, open platform (think zines, PDFs, epub/mobi).

For me, this is what an ideal web would look like. My ad-blocker would barely get a workout, and I'd happily pay for bundled (not pay-walled, bundled, downloadable) content as I did for many years with magazines.

No-one wants high quality content to disappear, but advertising and web paywalls are not the only options.
Actually I spent 5 years building a social networking platform to let people design and host their own social networks and apps. And no it isn't as simple as just Wordpress + BuddyPress.

https://qbix.com/platform
Huh? Do participating sites need to pay to be included? How is this protection money?
I am loving this book so far, always wanted a resource with such details and a 1:1 session like feeling.

Also, to enforce an extra layer of learning, I am writing the interpreter in Go. (book uses Java and C)

https://github.com/pravj/glox

The "satisfactory" part is, I've started applying the learning to other problems (writing a transpiler, completely different from the book's context), despite being in the middle of the book.
Humanitarian efforts could be aided by AI
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Yes, for people building / buying / selling assets (e.g. entrepreneurs and investors) this generally applies. But your average doctor won't be booking capital gains on his (earned) income any time soon.

Just pointing out that having income taxes that are too high is often counterproductive for society, just because they can easily be avoided by the wealthy. I guess the differentiation (and justification) is mostly a way to make sure the masses who actually use the infrastructure pay more than the one wealthy person who uses it, but don't need it as much.
I agree but I wouldn't be surprised if nothing happens in terms of anti-trust. Google has a monopoly on search in EU, and is leveraging this monopoly to gain a monopoly in other areas (e.g., ads on the Google Search homepage telling people to use Chrome), which I think is clearly problematic. This has been going on for years but nothing happens about it...
and other background-script-blocking addons too
This was linked on HN previously - "What I Wish I'd Known About Equity Before Joining A Unicorn"

tl;dr in one word: "Beware"

https://gist.github.com/yossorion/4965df74fd6da6cdc280ec57e8...
This is protection money from the user's POV. Protection against malware delivered to user through ads. Particular site that displays the ads is utterly irrelevant here.
The Germans are always complaining about first world problems. You get used to it. :)
The chapter on groups is a good introduction. It is tailored for physical applications but the basic is really nicely presented and can be useful before reading, say, books on cryptography.
My comment, as TeMPOraL points out, was looking at it from the user's perspective and it was a little tongue in cheek. However, google certainly is aware that its AdSense service has been used to spread malware (see my link above)
This appears to be a new iteration. According to this Android Police post [1], Contributor was discontinued in late 2016, with Google saying that an improved version would become available in "early 2017."

[1] http://www.androidpolice.com/2017/06/01/google-launches-fund...
I got as far as trying to build and run it, but bugged out, thusly:

$ ./one-page-j
warning: this program uses gets(), which is unsafe.

Segmentation fault: 11

Ah well, its still cute to try to read and understand ..
They are only breaking the spirit of agreement, not the agreement itself :)
The deal terms for unicorn investment rounds are less about company fundamentals, and more about the scarcity of great startups.

There's more money than there are good deals in Silicon Valley, so later stage investors are forced to offer more money for less equity in order to beat other term sheets. This ends up looking like sky-high valuations, since investors that offer fair-market-valuations are unlikely to get picked. Founders naturally gravitate towards minimizing dilution.
Of course not. But even if they were, it'd be only for show. They wouldn't have a say in anything.
Being wrong is a feature for Trump arguments, not a bug. It's easy to see if you can, fort only a second, put yourself in the mindset of a sadist.

If you're lying, and everyone knows that you're lying, and everyone knows that you know that they know... to then still insist, to continue lying, goes against every social norm practiced among civilised people. For people with conscience, it is torturous to watch. For others, it's high entertainment worth a few island nations and a famine here or there.

Nobody believes any of the arguments Trump and his ilk make. They are inflicting this damage on the world, their citizen, and themselves purely because they enjoy the pain it causes the people people they hate: Obama, "the left", scientists, etc.

The climate may actually come out of this as a winner: it's adding some emotion to the fight against climate change, where before only the opposition was emotionally attached.

What is lost is the idea of the US as a dependable partner for anything. There are no mechanisms of enforcement in international law, which explains why it sometimes seem to move at a snail's pace. Agreements were kept because they served mutual interests. And when some specific agreement was a losing proposition for a country, leaders and their countries felt a moral obligation to stay true to their word. It is also a never-ending repetition of the prisoner's dilemma, and fulfilling your obligations was necessary to prevent a process that could unravel the foundations of international cooperation.

The US was the unchallenged winner of the post-WW2 international order. They were and are the dominant military power, and only by actually trying to use the might of that hardware did they ever come close to losing. The true instrument of power was the creation of closely-knit web of international cooperation, from getting the +1 country code, to science, trade, or security, the US was working a winning formula of agreements that were beneficial for both them and their partners.

Now, some barely literate psychopath is trying to rule the world with his infantile worldview that life is nakedly a selfish struggle for money and dominance. He may soon realise how reliant the most-connected country in the world is on the goodwill of others. But, sometimes, something breaks and cannot be put back together.
If this is the main feature of UBI (guaranteed basic survival), then what's the difference to the current social systems as applied in several western european countries (e.g. scandinavian, french, german, swiss...).
A "basic income" is in so far guaranteed that you will always have enough money for a roof over your head and enough food on the table. If your employer truly abuses your workforce, you are able to quit without the fear of becoming homeless and go hungry.
Your ignorance is the evidence. A valid social security number is required for filing taxes and receiving a tax refund. Instead, undocumented people pay taxes and pay for services Americans all use like Medicare and Social Security. Plus, they do jobs lazy Americans scoff at. Without undocumented immigrants, a steak at the supermarket would cost $200 and lettuce would be $20 per head. So take your thinly-veiled, provincial xenophobia, and shove it up your ignorant behind where it belongs.
No one can deny when fission goes wrong, it goes really wrong. Statistics are often ineffective influencing emotions.
I think when a model is presented like this, it should also show the examples where it fails. In the article, they show Square (Series E valuation at 6 B, pre-IPO 2.66 B) where the "fair valuation" correctly models closer to pre-IPO at 2.2 B.

However, let's look at another example. Take Nutanix (Series E valuation at 2 B, pre-IPO at 2.1 B). This model values it at 0.8 B on their table, almost a third of the IPO price.

There is no explanation forthcoming in this article as to why that's the case. This makes it seem like the Square example was cherry-picked.

I picked NTNX at random, so I don't know if it's the one exception. I'm not going to exhaustively check every result, however. I expect them to do that for me and not sell me a story without pointing out the terrible exceptions.
I guess this kind of technology will pick up once Facebook or Google adopt it (or, more likely, develop their own).
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There's a slight problem. It doesn't 'effectively' achieve 2FA at all. If I lose my phone and lose my master key, I lose my all my identities, and even if I somehow remember them, I can't prove they are mine.

HMAC(Master key + Domain) -> private key + identity (public key)
HMAC(Master key + Domain) + challenge -> response

Lose that master key, and you can't get anywhere. By contrast, FIDO U2F works loosely like this:

1. first factor
2. HMAC(Master key + Domain) + challenge -> response

Key point being that it's still 2FA, where SQRL is still just one factor. If you lose your FIDO device, at least as it stands, most sites make you have a token generator app as well, or at least a path through customer support.

It may help to think of an email + password as being two factors, and various 2FA solutions actually being three factors. Email is something you can prove independently of your password. SQRL has exactly one factor, and zero failover strategy.

It's debatable whether it should be possible to get through customer support after losing anything, but the 99% of online security infrastructure that builds a chain of trust upon your email address really does work for most people in most cases. It's terrible that email addresses are easily correlated across different websites, but the reality is that any replacement identity solution needs to be as easily restored in case of failure.

For SQRL to work and give you an out for lost master keys, it would need at least a way of creating a redundancy, like replacing HMAC(Master key + Domain) with an asymmetric negotiation of the correct identity, or adding another layer of indirection that makes the master key replaceable.
I don't claim that there's legal obligation. I don't claim that there isn't, but I'm not sure where it'd arise from.
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I believe it might this one about Chrome support for the Better Ads Standards [1]

[1] https://blog.google/topics/journalism-news/building-better-w...
Neuroscientists rethink how the brain recognizes faces
Misdirection at its finest...

Trump opened his speech saying his team was tracking the terrorist attack in Manila. [That attack] came from a lone man aiming to rob gamblers.
As a counter-point, another important reason for developer unhappiness is to put in lots of work and have nothing to show for it. Case in point, a company I worked for had so much internal politics we never got around to releasing anything worthwhile and it was the most demoralizing experience I ever had, leading to a burnout.

There should be healthy balance of releasing fast and cleaner codebase. That balance changes based on the team size (1 vs 10 vs 100) and developer experience (the more experienced you are, more effortless it is to write clean code)
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Yes. You even get a better replacement rate when you create a company than when you're unemployed and looking for work. If you held salaried work for long enough before, it will last for two whole years.

We often joke in France that the unemployment agency is the #1 startup investor in the country
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A little concerned, I'm bootstrapping my own version of what they have built, but with a clearer charging model and no need to block Ads IMO. If you care about blocking ads you are already doing it.

It'll be launching in literally a week or two... it's very simple to integrate and comes with it's own Wordpress plugin (and instructions to integrate your own CMS).

What advice do people have about this per article payment space; I have a load of ideas I want to try so maybe while Google concentrate on ads I'll be able to look at various optional payment models.

Initially I want to just charge a flat 5% + whatever Stripe fees you use to top up your wallet, but I'm concerned I'll get a lot of noise/scaling issues if I don't charge a monthly fee? Thoughts?