skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this bit is going to antagonise the people you're questioning: "...probably is making the founders rich on the backs of the 99 percent who are so often underpaid". Unless I've missed something, neither Uber or Home Hero are YC companies, and countless YC companies aren't leveraging 1099 contractors in place of employees.

Your question might be better rephrased to something like:

Is there value in Startup School for those aiming for modest growth or to create a lifestyle business?
The easiest way to See how this applies to your particular situation is to actually watch the lectures and see what resonates with you. A lot of it is common sense that should apply to startups of all sizes that all building something new (vs say, opening a regular business like a restaurant): talk to users, iterate rapidly, work hard, focus...
Let's identify why she got the job under Obama:
"Lee is the first female director in the USPTO’s history, and one of her priorities is getting more women into STEM jobs." Those two key words are major talking points with his administration. Now what did she say she'd do versus what she actually did that led to this change under the new administration:
https://www.fastcompany.com/3047424/how-former-googler-miche...

http://www.ipwatchdog.com/2017/02/26/uspto-failed-fee-increa...
Are you sure the iPhone is the most popular game platform?
It is not even the most popular phone.
Yes, very confusing how the EU commissioners get appointed, but they do seem to have a lot of real power.
I would like to know before I invest that kind of time whether or not it is likely to simply be a waste of my time. If I just wanted to watch all of them and decide for myself, I wouldn't need to stick my neck out trying to ask a question that I know is going to be interpreted as rude by many people.
This already exists in Chicago at least - just using Android Pay though. I know they also have been working on an app as well, but I haven't paid attention to it once they got initial NFC payments working. I do know transfers do not work with android pay (I imagine due to rotating card numbers), but luckily I don't have to deal with that and Yet Another Silly App.

I will say it's quite great. The time is very near where you can leave your home with only your cell phone as the single item you need to remember. Also scary in that if you lose that single item, you are getting increasingly more screwed. That is now my transit pass, money, taxi ride, and front door key.
I was in your shoes 10-15 years ago. Here's a few bits of advice:

* Upwork (well, Elance back then) worked out pretty well for me. The skill test are a nice way of showing that you can do the work without having much history.

* You don't have to tell everyone that you're a teen - don't lie about it, but don't shout it from the rooftops.

* As other folks have mentioned, a GitHub and/or personal website can help you.

* Create a couple of side projects - they don't have to be that original or full-featured, make a simple game or something. Just put something out there that you can point to and say "I built that".

I do some mentoring and also occasionally hire folks for contract work. Email is in my profile if you're interested in either.
I'm currently working on a client project that uses the Vuforia library paired with an array of iPad Pros to pull off this sort of AR-light effect. But Vuforia relies on a tracking marker, and it's a huge pain in the ass for us. The idea of using lower-level camera and inertia sensor data to perform tracking without a marker is something I didn't expect to see without a Tango-like cluster of depth sensors.

Can't wait to try this out.
I made a few thousand a year as a teenager in addition to a typical teenage job at a bagel store/CompUSA by leveraging family friends to build websites for their pet projects like a craft business or band website. You have to actively market yourself and constantly reach out via parents, but if you are persistent, you might find work. People will often think that a teenager is both cheap and capable (which they often are) so you might be able to get contracts that formal companies cannot. It takes a lot of practice to understand how to communicate with clients but you will get the benefit of the doubt as a young person.
demo of it already in action: https://twitter.com/heyadam/status/872278723700994048
What exactly can USPTO director influence, between legislative and judicial branches actually deciding what to do with the patent law?
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Ahh my bad. I'm just a lowly CSS developer, so I didn't realise that GC (garbage collection?) came with interoperability to the DOM
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I'm vaguely wondering if this is happening now because the tech industry publicly opposed Trump on the Paris Agreement. It's pretty well known that he makes decisions based on loyalty and payback.

They probably won't even nominate a replacement for six months at the rate we're going, so expect the status quo for a long while.
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In reference to the book James Dale Davidson and William Rees-Mogg, what are the upsides and downsides to working remotely for a big tech company in a foreign country? How likely are you to be successful if you start a startup with everyone working remotely today?

I see one of the downsides is that you have the potential to missing out on interacting with smart, world-class people on a daily basis. However, some would argue that this is a downside of not living in the Valley, Cambridge, etc. in general.
I commented earlier on this post about it being impossible for a bot to do search on Google. Turns out I turned to the same resource you're recommending.
I'd also recommend sending a python bot to your favorite news sites once a day for updates instead. Same deal, Beautiful Soup.
On the other hand, Google has Custom Search, which is $100 a year for 20k queries. I use that as well.
The Wingnut AR demo that Apple showed during WWDC featuring the Unreal Engine was just mindblowing! Thankfully, it's available on Unreal's Youtube channel so you can still watch if you don't have Safari or the app - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S14AVwaBF-Y
The closest analog I can think of is Phillipe Petit's tightrope walk across the twin towers. Petit has similarly said that:

“I am not a death-wish person,” he said to me. “I want to live very old. It is true that death is part of the frame—that it frames such activities as bullfighting and tightrope walking. My world is a dangerous world, sure, but I am very safe in knowing my limits. I am not playing with words when I say I don’t take risks. The danger becomes so narrow that it is a novel companion with whom you travel. It is not an enemy.”

I know this isn't an answer, but if you've never seen the documentary about Petit, "Man on Wire", perhaps it would help to understand the mindset.
Isn't this just another "If you're not doing anything wrong, you've got nothing to hide" argument?
Looks like he's not the dead-at-25-buried-at-75 type!
If you want to host your own repos with user and access management, bugs, issue, task tracking and tons more, take a look at Facebook's Phabricator https://www.phacility.com (the self-hosted version, of course).
FOSS seems to be the best, if not only, solution. (As usual, when it comes to freedom and privacy...)
My company is behind a giant honking NAT and we get blocked all the time. Unusual volume for our "residential" IP block I suppose. Google seems to do some averaging across CIDR blocks to detect likely bots. Any chance somebody is abusing your proxy IP? Is your proxy part of an IP allocation thats underutilized?

An easy way to get around it is to login to a Google account. Google allows you to use even the most trashed and abused TOR exit nodes as long as you're logged in.
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Is there nothing in between?

lifestyle business

modest growth business

<-- one or two more company sizes in here?

multi billion dollar company

You don't want to say the word "lifestyle business" in any sentence or the VC's will ignore everything else you asked and focus on that. When they hear that word it triggers some sort of "fight or flight" response in the primitive amygdala of the VC, leading them to run away. Pretend you've never even heard of the concept of "lifestyle business", it keeps them happy.
might be just me, but that process sounds seriously flawed with a 20% error rate, automatic or not...
I'd rather avoid much of the residential dirt on the eastern coast of the US, especially in older towns, due the accumulation of decades, if not centuries, of lead paint in the soil. In these parts, unless you've had it tested or you're living in a newer home with virgin soil, I'd think twice before letting the kids dig around too much. Lead exposure will negate any positive psychological effects of the dirt microbiome rather quickly.
*weren't good enough
You are probably asking what frameworks to use.
But I suggest you should first use Sketchapp or Adobe Experience Design (at least these two I used and liked a lot).

They allow you to do some UI mocks/basic design with very little effort.

You can find and import in them Boostrap templates providing you with all the elements you need.
Then the next step I suggest to do is to pick the basic colors you want to use for normal text, action buttons ... This way you will make sure that in your app you will use only those colors providing a consistent color scheme.

And then you can start to design your interface. Both apps provide simple tools to use and with very little learning curve for doing simple design.

For me (even if I am not a designer) doing this helps me focus on understanding how the elements that I want to build integrate with each other on UI side. And also forces me to focus on using the same elements and the same colors.

For both apps you can also find a lot of free designs provided by various authors from which you can inspire.

You can also browse https://dribbble.com or https://www.behance.net to be inspired by designs that you like.
I had three users who were really affected, and all of them paid up. None of them "left" really, they were receiving a service from me, just not paying for it.

The user who had a years free service I wrote down a little - they should have paid around £140, and I suggested we'd be good if they paid £100.

Perhaps I went too easy on them, but I was trying to be nice and it wasn't their fault I'd not been paid, not directly. The other couple of users ranged from 2-8 months of non-payment, or so, and I agreed with each that I'd bill them the full amount as a one-off charge.
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Most apps these days run on Android, too, which makes using a single-platform framework like this a lot harder to justify. It's the same reason you don't see many games using SpriteKit -- it just doesn't make sense when you know you'll need to support Android in the future.

I wonder if it would make sense for Apple itself to support frameworks like ARKit and SpriteKit on Android. I think it would make people a lot more comfortable relying on them.
If you measure sales, it probably wins since iOS user spend a lot more than android users and mobile is huge: http://www.cnbc.com/2016/04/22/mobile-game-revenue-to-pass-c...
Good ones aren't as common as they should be...bad interviews in general are disturbingly common, though, I don't think tech interviews in general or whiteboard specifically are any different.

Brainteasers and fizzbuzz are very different things though: I'm not totally against brain teasers as a prompt for discussion, but they're not my favorite types of questions, and can be hard to judge or of little use if the person either already knows the trick, or just doesn't figure it out. Fizzbuzz on the other hand makes a lot of sense when you're interviewing someone who you don't have any other knowledge of their coding. That type of question absolutely makes a good first pass filter: the problem is easy to explain, the implementation is trivial to do in a few minutes if you are at all qualified. Sure, it's annoying for an experienced person to have to do a fizzbuzz variant for the 200th time, but given that it takes almost no time, and helps the interviewer quickly jump to more advanced stuff or cut off an interview that isn't going to go anywhere, it's a pretty minor inconvenience.
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Do you mean FOSS printer drivers? Are you sure that would make a difference?
Self hosted bitbucket and the like really. Or AWS CodeCommit. We are currently using both of those in our build pipelines.
It's free, you can take the time to sample it on YouTube otherwise you just look ungracious. Plus to say that you are going to be so enlightened by the first video that the rest must be just as great rules out the possibly in video 3 you make an association that is important to what you are doing.
Thanks for the video, I'll give it a watch when I'm not at work, so apologies if any of the below is covered by the video.

> Well, in some sense, yes, but really no: The idea of a PowerBox is that the very action of opening a file already demonstrates the user's intent to grant access. Normally one does not conceive of opening a file as a prompt for permission, because it is necessary to designate a file in the first place.

That's fine in simple cases, windows store apps already work this way, but what about something like an IDE where you want to open many files? I suppose granting permission at a folder level is possible, but then what about something like vim where I want to switch between files and there is no file open dialog? What happens when I want to install an a different file browser that needs global read/write abilities?

> This goes along with the capability slogans "No ambient authority", and (stronger) "No designation without authority".

How does that work with something like an IDE? You have to pass the compiler a bunch of files names and you'd have to pass the access permission with them, then compiler has to create a new executable with the ability to run and pass the access back to the IDE. And that's just for the simple case. For that matter, how does it work with command line tools that pipe file names between them? Every demo and implementation I've seen appears to be under the impression that apps are self contained.
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Yes, it will be a big deal when it comes to mobile.
I know precisely nothing about climbing but simply looking at the pictures of El Capitan made me immediately understand he just did something that by all accounts should have been impossible.
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I paid my way through private high school by building websites for small businesses 19 years ago. Nowadays you can build a CRUD web app with the same effort. Many small businesses will beg you to solve their little technical problems.
I redundantly made the following comment upon referring to this comment later in this thread:

Try Google Custom Search as well, $100 a year for 20k queries; I'm a client.
12000/20 = 0.001666

.17% is not a huge number.
You might be okay, but I would try to get some insider info on how AdWords Analytics companies get away with it. Might just be sneaky bots. A lot of idiots write code that pings or loads google.com to check for internet access so they can't block it completely.
DJ Bernstein of qmail and crypto fame etc. wrote about this in detail, ten years ago: ``The IPv6 mess''[0]

Designing around an incremental upgrade strategy is hard. It's a very important design constraint for an upgrade though!

The extra, wastefully spent bits in IPv6 make it super expensive to implement routing tables. Compare that approach to the 2^48 effective limit in the 2^64 bit address space in AMD64. Like IPv6, AMD64 is an upgrade from a 32-bit system - but AMD64 included support for the previous 32-bit version and won its war long ago, while IPv6 is still reluctantly limping along.

Upgrades of huge interconnected systems need to be incremental. As a human, invested in the process, it's hard to accept that: the point of the upgrade is to replace the old system :)

[0] https://cr.yp.to/djbdns/ipv6mess.html
You may have saved me! I recall talking to someone when I first moved, and they mentioned the best BBQ in the area was at a Lakewood Whole Foods. I felt a narrowing doom sync in.
Old manual typewriters were also uniquely identifiable just by virtue of being shitty.
Run your own git server. Version-control locally, build automated systems to push triggered by uptime status.
Indeed, but if you're hosting user-images on S3 and they go away your site is broken.

That might not be a big deal, or it might mean your site is 100% broken. I can't guess, but I'd assume since you went to the effort to setup a store you need it in some way.

(No backups? Of a database? That's one power-cut, or hardware failure away from complete data loss too!)
Everything you say applies just as well to all of Western Mediterranean Europe. In fact, even more so, since you're dealing with just one branch of a larger language group (the Latinate/Romance languages) rather than two completely disparate ones (Indo-Aryan and Dravidian). No one now thinks of this area as a nation-state.

Western Europe, through the British conquest of the subcontinent, was woefully unaware of the internal differences. That Columbus ill-advisedly thought of India as a monolithic entity is no marker of anything.
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Perhaps true for amphibious assaults, but like you said, it won't replace aircraft carriers. Or submarines. Minimum size requirement on launching airplanes with weapons and fuel. And minimum size on nuclear reactor and ICBMs. Oh, and you'll want really nice artillery, so keep around the battleships.
What? How does either argue against populism?
> Climbing is an intimate relationship with our world’s most dramatic landscapes, not a self-boasting fight against them.

For the same reason why many would spent hours catching fish over a lazy weekend when much better fish is available for $5 in super-market.

For the same reason why someone would spend 5 hours trying to solve an interesting algorithms problem when one can easily find a solution on internet.

I am not a climber. I have fear of heights but I can understand it.
Posting to watch this..
That's probably true. I was sort of envisioning bootstrapped, self-funded businesses as a different category than the YC-startup style business.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14499294
It isn't sexy but small businesses need help setting up websites and stuff like that. It's good experience both with programming and also working with people (which is usually the hardest part of any programming job).
It's likely any tracking mechanism would be implemented inside the hardware, not as part of drivers.
I'm curious, which phone is more popular?
According to this article, it took 1-4th place for most popular phone in 2016.
https://www.fool.com/investing/2017/03/22/the-four-most-popu...
I wonder how easy it would be to use JSC's WebAssembly backend separately from the rest of Webkit, and maybe even have it output to a static binary. And maybe connect its FFI with a different language than Javascript (maybe Go?).

Given the work that has gone into B3 it might make a good target IR for compilers that want fast compilation to native executables, and you'd get to target the web for free as a bonus.
I've been saying for long time that YC is just a new kind of university and now it starts appearing more and more like that. The goal of a traditional university is to enable financial security for students through high-quality employment enabled by a skill set provided by the university. YC effectively does the same -- it provides students with a necessary skill set to enable financial security through self-employment. The main difference is that education in YC is paid with shares, not cash.
They don't carry BluRays, though. I know, choosing beggar and all that.
I'd argue that the set is intrinsically related.

Variation. Metabolic efficiency (to expressed effect). Selection. Inheritance (via genetics).

Take away any one part, you lose the whole.

No variation -- nothing on which to select.

No metabolic efficiency (and behavioural effect) -- no criterion for selection or efficiency.

No selection -- no bound on behaviour or constraint on metabolic input or expressed behaviour.

No inheritence -- any variation or selection lacks survivability to the next generation.
Time to hope you had an education that was broader than a career that is based entirely on acting like a dick.

I would not ever hire anyone from Uber. The tech people I've met from there are technologically toxic and disgustingly gross as human beings.

Sorry kids. Is it anecdotal evidence? Yes. Is it based on going to hang with their hangouts? Yes. It is.

Soooooo messed up in every way.

20 is a good start.
It's easy, just grow the population and the economy grows with it. Then politicians can congratulate themselves on economic management and be oblivious to the recessions that people are actually feeling.
Being iPhone only didn't stop Instagram from launching, getting huge, and branching out to other platforms. If this allows you to make a quicker prototype, it's a big deal.
I read Tim Weiner's book 10 years ago...it was great. Am currently reading his book on the FBI. To my delight Audible managed to get the same narrator.

At the time I was pretty shocked how bad it was at the COA, but then I realized...the CIA is really just a metaphor for how large organizations everywhere run. A good example is how assignments are given out in the CIA. Your career progression very much depends on which region you get assigned to, or which embassy you get official cover wth. Very similar to say how sales territories are handed out and fought over at regular corporations.

Having just left a 100k+ person company, I can tell you it's a miracle of organization that a company that big can function. It's kind of like seeing a person weighing 1000 pounds trying to walk, or a 125 yr old man try to cross the street. The fact that they can exist / operate is awe-inspiring, expecting them to do anywhere near a good job seems to be out of the question. Obviously there are exceptions to this, and I hope more of them appear later on.

If you work at a big company though please don't be discouraged. It's almost impossible to have good processes for a company that big as mentioned
above, so things are, ironically, even more dependent on people's actions and personal leadership.
It's by far the most popular phone.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/276306/global-apple-ipho...
It is beside the point whether it's obvious or not; clearly it is not obvious enough. You treat it as if it's some purely academic pursuit, not of interest to anybody. No, the question should be repeated incessantly until the right people go to jail.
Really depends upon the goal. If you're a venture funded startup then the find is aiming for a 10x truth from you over 7-10 years. This will translate to 2-3x Y/Y growth for the first years of the startup. Ofcourse, if you're self funded, these rules don't apply.