skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most start ups will fail, and the founders' equity will be worth nothing. They are putting all of their eggs in one basket and taking responsibility for investors' money, employee salary and customer needs. Compare that to early employees at companies that have found product market fit and are early in the life cycle of rapid growth, their smaller equity grant will be worth more, especially after considering the significantly lower risk they are taking at a well funded company with product market fit. The point is, if you want to maximize for your own personal wealth, join a great company with traction as early as you can. If you are obsessed with creating something or solving a specific problem, or are a little be crazy, then start a company to pursue the vision. Just do so knowing the risk reward points to a lower wealth outcome compared the the alternative. And by the way, many founders take below market salary for a long time and may even go without salary or put money in when times are lean.
I would say colocation is most reliable. I'm sure dedicated VPS is better but most still reserve the right to pull the plug for hardware replacements. Colo isn't terribly expensive if you buy used equipment.

Really consider how important 100% uptime is though. Google and S3 have gone down multiple times without killing the internet or losing a ton of customers. Plenty of large SaaS providers still use maintenance windows. Heck, GitHub went down today. Not sure if you use ADP but that goes down for a couple days a week!

I know it's not the popular thing to do but you can get much better relative reliability by running a single database per tenant and running a limited number of tenants per VM.
I get sufficient pay from my "real job" and vacation time, and never, ever was required to provide military service (or even register for the draft due to my date of birth), so I don't worry about compensation when the jury summons comes.
"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity/incompetence".
The issuing of patents is contingent on Congress's belief that doing so promotes science and the useful arts. If hypothetically Congress did not believe that any longer, they would be free to stop the activities of the patents and copyrights offices.
>disincentivizing people from publicly expressing their taste and making it harder for me to follow people I like.

"There isn’t a user-generated component on the platform, so people aren’t here to learn about what they’re friends are doing. They’re there to plan their lives. And people plan their lives through content that brands produce.”
Tim Kendall
https://www.fastcompany.com/40428266/pinterest-just-launched...
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I think there's some value if you're more interested in creating a lifestyle business than a unicorn (as it seems like we both are), but it's certainly not perfectly matched to that goal.

It's a shame there's not a Startup School-like resource for creating a lifestyle business (YC-like in that it'd have a unified theory of lifestyle business creation, as YC has for startups, that'd been honed through assisting in the creation of hundreds of such businesses).
Yeah, it really strikes me as unnecessary. Get me interested in using the site, and I'll willingly and happily create an account. Make me feel like my arm is being twisted for no good reason, and I'll walk (or run) away.
Oh the memories! When I was growing up my family's first PC was an Amsterdam 1512, but later on we had a truly awful 386SX-16MHz nameless IBM-PC clone. It had a paltry 40MB hard drive and I ran Stacker on it (later Doublespace when I upgraded to MS-DOS 6.22). God that thing was slow! The most fun I ever got out of it was when I ran dazzle.exe and marvelled at the pretty patterns (256 colours!) on the VGA screen.
Don't let age get to you, my best hire was someone who'd just graduated high school.

I was in the exact same situation as you a few years back. I started freelancing on my 19th birthday (literally) after finding out eLance existed. At the time, I had advanced HTML/CSS skills and could barely build a WordPress theme.

My first 2 projects on eLance were the worst. Effectively doing copy and paste work for what ended up being less than $5/hr. I did get some good reviews though. From there I actually got some good clients, some of which I still work with today. My focus was getting projects the final 20% of the way when hiring cheap work overseas didn't work out for them. Clients were more willing to hire a local (USA) contractor and at higher rates to solve their problem, remember this.

After about 6 months, I stopped using eLance. The model is skewed against high quality work and creates a race to the bottom pricing wise. I was able to find enough work to sustain me through local networking (Meetups are awesome) and a coworking space and I haven't looked back.

I'm 24 now, and I have grown a small freelance gig to my full time income. I have multiple Fortune 1000 companies relying on my services for their performance on search engines, and I have the luxury of working on projects/clients that are a good fit (rather than taking on bad clients because I need to).

My best recommendations:
- Focus on what problem you can solve for a business rather then what technologies you use (you're an artisan, not a tool).
- Network. Network. Network. This can be in-person or virtual.
- Don't focus on your age, clients care about your ability to get work done.
- Keep honing in /learning new skills that can make you better serve your clients more efficiently.
- Don't be afraid to ask for the sale, or to ask clients for referrals to others

If you'd like email me (in my bio) and i'd be more than happy to pass your resume along to some people in my network.

Good luck!
>In this scenario (where we are exploring the issue of Net Neutrality) they perform the same function as carriers for a lot of the services you utilize on the internet. "

No, fundamentally they(cloud providers) do not perform the same service as carriers. If I had Comcast as my ISP I could not call them up and cancel my service and then call up Amazon and say I would like to buy internet access.

Honestly, it doesn't seem like you understand how the different segments of the internet fit together - Tier 1 ISPs, last mile networks, transit, peering and service providers networks.

I need to pay the ISP or else I can not get to the services I am paying a cloud provider for. This is the whole issue. I am basically a captive consumer.

The debate has never been about classifying "cloud providers" as telecommunication carriers.

>"Legal distinctions are pointless to this discussion, because this discussion is about the appropriateness of those legal distinctions and regulations in the first place."

Legal distinctions are "pointless" in a discussion about federal oversight and regulatory jurisdiction? That is completely absurd.
I don't think most liberals want companies to be "pro gay marriage", they want companies to take no stance on gay marriage at all and just treat it as "marriage".
It's not like people are planning on using these in production. It's just some fun hobby projects that are useful for, say, online Python tutorials and stuff.
I wasn't aware of that, what format does Google use for its live streams?

I know that YouTube on Chrome uses VP9, which is not a web standard - or at least not more of a web standard than HTTP Live Streaming (which is what Apple uses for its keynote).
Why on God's green Earth would you pollute Arch with KDE?! :)
Made some changes – should have a larger font on iPhone and (hopefully) be reader mode compatible?
I tried a few months ago and can enable IPv6 on my LG V20 (on Telus LTE) and it does indeed pick up an IPv6 address but test-ipv6.com complains of MTU problems.

Sites did load over v6 but it was slow compared to v4.

Progress
The CPI takes these quality factors into account. Not everything has increased in quality, either. For example cars are much more durable than they used to be, but appliances are much less durable.

Your point about Chinese doing better is a good one, and it's the central issue. The American working class has taken it on the chin to lift the Chinese worker out of poverty. As a side effect, the American capitalist has done very well. On a global scale, this is probably a net good, but the world doesn't get to vote in American elections, and Americans are entitled to a government that prioritises American citizens' interests over Chinese citizens' interests. The Chinese certainly are prioritizing their own interests... If you want to see what this looks like globally, this is an interesting chart: http://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21707219...
If iOS was a goldmine when Steve Jobs died than it's a much larger one now.

When Jobs died in 2011 the iPhone represented 40% of Apple's revenue and generated $3.6 billion in App Store revenue.

In 2016, the iPhone represented 60% of Apple's revenue and the App Store generated $28 billion.

Hardware chart
https://edge.alluremedia.com.au/uploads/businessinsider/2017...

App Store revenue 2011
https://www.google.cz/amp/s/9to5mac.com/2011/07/07/apple-iss...

App Store revenue in 2016
https://www.google.cz/amp/www.zdnet.com/google-amp/article/a...
FWIW I trust that the numbers were good when the Google and Mozilla folks gathered them, but I had nothing to do with numbers!

In particular, I haven't looked into validation. JSC doesn't treat asm.js any differently than JavaScript, so the comparison would be different as well.
The journalists do include two very frank quotations from peers criticizing the experiment and what conclusions could be drawn. So annoying headline maybe, but honestly reported.
And in this topic the no-story, no-effect is the story. Perhaps artisanal sourdough is mostly similar to white bread, and the range of different glycemic responses gets subsumed by differences in individual responses to any generic bread. Artisanal bread and wonderbread, equally bad, equally good.
I believe the thought was that, for many languages, there is an additional, standard runtime, which is not always remove-able from the language itself, which may not always be of a trivial size, and which is not guaranteed to be already available on a client machine.
Without a resume and being a teenager, I would probably do a couple of apps and get them in the app stores. It can get you some money and provides a nice opening line for freelance work.
At my current company we used to use 7Geese[1] and started using LatticeHQ[2] shortly before I joined.

[1] https://7geese.com

[2] http://latticehq.com/
Perhaps they have refined their business down to the essential core which is to back large numbers of entrepreneurs in the hope they don't miss one that gets big. Like 500 startups. Hard to believe that backing large numbers of companies can be much more than betting on lots of horses.
Disclaimer: I run a competitor to neanderthal called nd4j.

A community member of ours made an implementation of core.matrix backed by nd4j a while back:
https://github.com/ds923y/nd4clj

It needs a bit of updating though.

We support cpu and gpu cublas and arbitrary matrix operations. We have our own memory management engine among other things built in.

This lib will also support automatic differentiation and sparse in the next few months.
> That's why this practice should be abandoned. Give the candidates a small, two dayish homework that reveals their ability to do their would-be daily jobs.

I find the opposite. Most real world projects require a week or two of infrastructure setup (logging, error handling, IOC setup, database setup, etc) that you won't have in the two day version, yet in my experience most companies will grade you on the lack of such things.

Also, anyone already employed isn't going to invest that much time, which largely limits your candidate pool to employees no one else will hire.
Percentages are misleading. Going from 1$ to 10$ is a 1000% increase, yet it's not significant.

Do the math again, this time with actual dollar amounts, then try again. Take all the money the top 10% have, then spread it among the rest. Also remember, you can only do that once.
"can still watch if you don't have Safari or the app"

ugh
The demo shown off in that video is available as a template in Xcode 9.
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Extensive discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14494818
I think you've misunderstood. Do you think the federal government is actually competent to decide which inventions will actually promote the progress of science and the useful arts?
Well, government guidelines where I live says office temperature should be around 22 degrees Celsius.

25 would only be accepted if there was a heatwave.
I do like the upside, but coupled with DRM support, it's going to be used to obfuscate, hide and control things. I'm expecting a much less open web coming.
Waze too, I noticed today actually.
Have we figured out good ways to gracefully handle prefix changes via DHCP6-PD. I'm kind of worried of my provider changing my prefix "from under my feet" and breaking firewall rules, or worse.

Also my ISP blocks some ports incoming lst time I checked, even on IPv6, even on their business plans, without a static IP. And I assume they would do the same with v6 because they don't support static prefixes themselves.

To be fair their IPv4s are very static and only change when I change my WAN MAC address or am offline for longer than a DHCP lease (power outage)
Right, but the point is that the entropy can be reused.

I mean, maybe you say that my next 4,096 bits of entropy need to be completely independent from the last 4,096, but ib the usual case, I doubt it.
Just a warning, as noted in the article, this is nothing to base a diet on. But I wouldn't necessarily base a diet on the epidemiological studies alone either.

A click-bait headline on nutrition scientific publication is a way for the media to get ad revenue, not a way to inform.

That said, the article did a pretty good job at informing on some really interesting science. It puts some good upper bounds one could expect in the population this was drawn from. Other populations, or sub populations could have larger possible effects.

The critiques are basically that this study should not be the end-all view. Of course some one should do an n=20 on this type of profiling before expanding to a larger cohort. And it seems that there's a lot to make a larger study really interesting.
Why is this celebrated? The man could die. Is it for our amusement? You take someone, you give him sponsors, you make him think risking his life to make a living this way is his own choice? Between fame and money, and a life working as a clerk in some office ... what choice could there be.

I imagine it's like the choice for slaves in ancient Rome between being a house slave or becoming a gladiator. Fame and riches maybe ... death maybe.

Why does society accept this behavior as normal?

The welfare state will bear the cost if he lands hard and is paralyzed. If he dies, his loved ones will bear the cost.

For all this, what do we get in concrete terms? The knowledge that a human has risked his life for something so meaningless? Some "sweet photos, dude".

Madness really. How does everyone accept this as normal?
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So people on average are average. That's not surprising at all. It bothers me that so few studies are built to identify which individuals will see a difference and which will not. Rather they assume all individuals are identical and will have identical reactions.
If this bothers you just host it yourself, that's why it's open source
Of all the various reasons to define address lengths and wire formats (that'll get burned into billions of dollars of ASICs over decades), "C doesn't have a default type for it" is frankly the worst.
Well blow me down: when I go to the Amazon Drive page there's now an "app" button and if I click on it there's something that implies it's a FS driver. Either it's new or I was blind when I looked at Amazon before.

Prime gives you free Amazon storage, so I had a preference to use it instead of paying for DB. I'll give it a try, thanks.
> How does everyone accept this as normal?

Eh, no one thinks this is normal. Hence all the publicity.
What's wrong with an incrementing index?
> legal distinctions are pointless to this discussion

Legal distinctions are absolutely material to this discussion. You can't pretend they don't exist; you need to persuade representatives and their constituents that the current legal framework is outdated and is in need of revision.
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You're confusing video encoding with streaming protocol. There are no web standard video encodings.
For those who hate clickbait titles:

""" a recently discovered backdoor Trojan used comments posted to Britney Spears's official Instagram account to locate the control server that sends instructions and offloads stolen data to and from infected computers. """
When you overwrite the disk, you say you should use dd if=/dev/random, but the reason why this is much slower is because /dev/random blocks. Use /dev/urandom because it doesn't block -- Before you ask, yes this is still secure.

Or you can use dm-crypt and create a temporary container with a random key to wipe it. This will be a bit faster than the above. See the Arch wiki for details[1]

[1] - https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Dm-crypt/Drive_preparat...
WebAssembly is as Turing-complete as JavaScript is, and has fewer APIs. The only API it has JS doesn't really is grow_memory, and even that can kinda be done with ArrayBuffer.

I'm not sure what you think makes it the harbinger of closed web. As the WebAssembly CG chair, I'd be interested in understanding that.
Both the Intercept and the Washington post has one thing in common,Bezos who received $600 million contract from the CIA:"Meanwhile, a petition campaign was launched related to news that Amazon, under the Post’s new owner, Jeff Bezos, recently secured a $600 million contract from the CIA. That’s at least twice what Bezos paid for the Post this year. Bezos recently disclosed that the company’s Web-services business is building a “private cloud” for the CIA to use for its data needs.

Critics charge that, at a minimum, the Post needs to disclose its CIA link whenever it reports on the agency. Over 15,000 have signed the petition this week hosted by RootsAction." http://www.hangthebankers.com/washington-post-owner-receives...
This ignores the fact that we live in a time like no other where there is nearly ubiquitous and instantaneous digital communication infrastructure available in many regions which is accessible to all but the poorest of citizens.

It is very possible that epic conspiracies were easier to complete in the past as the ability to leak and disseminate information to a wide audience was far more difficult.
Many devs are doing a good life being specialists in a specific platform, whatever it may be.
Science is the sole source of evidence

Evidence is a loaded word in that it has a specific scientific meaning. Information is less so. As sources of information, are gut instincts to be dismissed? Do you wait for a scientific analysis to be peer-published before running away from danger? Are traditions to be dismissed? Many forms of traditional lore have been validated through subsequent scientific study: are they valueless prior? Law is largely opine and tradition with appeals to random existential and other fallacies, not science, yet does generally fine in guiding human behavior in many societies. Similarly, most people don't know the law, they 'get a sense of it'. Should they cease to live because they don't have time for a law degree?

You are table-thumping on formal and reductive reasoning yet conveniently ignoring the broader biological, physical and indeed scientific reality that we have an imperfect understanding of the world. This does not dismiss in any way the achievements of science, and my original comment was made to encourage people to laugh at our folly in making great rational advances while missing the forest for the trees. Your comments are, sadly, while probably well meaning, providing mostly nought but a great example.
> Why couldn't they be on par with the rise in productivity?

Because wages are tied to supply and demand, not productivity. Increased productivity will rather lower wages.

> Yes, quite frequently. Here's an article with numbers and a graph

Same fallacy with the percentages: The top 1% clearly got their wages raised (CEOs etc), but in broader terms it doesn't matter much, because it's only 1%. In absolute terms, the sums are not that large relative to the sum of the wages of everyone else. It's a psychological problem, because people don't like income inequality, but economically, it doesn't make much of a difference. This is where the left steps in to gain political capital from a non-issue.
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Have you tried using a password manager? There's no need to worry about a site having reasonable password security when every site has its own unique 15-20 character password that you don't need to know.
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Yes, I think it would - but most companies are small and do not have known cultural reputations, so this kind of strategy likely will only be useful to larger/name-brand companies.

IMO the lack of this reputation harms startups - some larger companies have been known to take harassment and abuse more seriously than others, and they've attracted a greater share of marginalized demographics. This is great for employees - they have greater safety at work - but bad for the ecosystem, as this is an entire talent pool that startups - who comparatively have little reputation - are missing out on.

The other poster also brings up a good point: not all bad actors know they are bad. Generally speaking everyone is the Good Guy in their own head. That said, there are certainly many bad actors who are aware of how their actions are received and will seek easier environs.
Even if they weren't able to raise their valuation, 12B is not too shabby
This is why I love Get Smart and am bored by James Bond.
I have implemented one of those technologies at a previous company. Their claims and what the software was actually capable of were vastly different.

I would say about 20% of the files we sent over had enough recoverable watermark to be useful.
If you helped implement that system, I'd like to know more.
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I know a lot of people who engage in dangerous sports, and I have done so myself. None of them do it because of some sense of cheating death - they do it because it is enormously fun and fulfilling. They walk away when the conditions are not right. If they wanted to cheat death, they would not.

The fact that it happens to be extremely dangerous means you take more care, but that is not the source of the pleasure. It's the cost of admission. Some won't pay it. Some will.

I really like that you are not judging him. I have seen people dismissed as stupid, as if they don't understand the risks. That's like calling a person stupid if they smoke. They aren't cheating death, they are enjoying cigarettes (and they are addicted, probably). But not stupid or ignorant.
Plus you have cross platform solutions that are as good if not better.

From game engines such as Unity which have plenty of AR plugins, to SkiaSharp (port of Google's Skia) using Xamarin.
I see parallels in pinboard and craigslist - both not so technologically awesome, but good enough
> Prison industrial complex also lobbies the government to keep the War on Drugs going because a reform there also would directly cut profits for them.

All that system is made possible by American society who craps its pants over every minor thing. I will not blame profit seeking companies here but the people.