skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Isn't that basically one of two possible paths for a startup? It seems like these days, most people aim for an "exit", ie. either an IPO or acquisition by one of the big companies. You don't often see people talking as if their endgame is to keep running and growing their company indefinitely.

All of the focus seems to be on getting to the next series of funding. The survivability metric used is not income over burn rate, it's investment dollars over burn rate. The whole goal is to get as big as possible then exit.
From 2014, but still relevant. Unfortunately, the best negotiating tactic is to bring a competing offer and essentially threaten to quit. Or just switch firms every ~18 months like the post suggests.
Plus, legal streaming video/audio has become ubiquitous in the US, and Chromecast/Fire TV/Roku are far cheaper than building a Home Theater PC (or even converting an old video game console or Linux box into one).
Dethrone, no, but certainly sue for 100s of millions of dollars.
That article applies to US law.
Imagine the worth of ETH and USD denominated in ISK.

ETH in ISK = 16524.55
USD in ISK = 103.42

ETH / USD
(1 * ETH) / (1 * USD) # Multiplicative identity
16524.55 ISK / 103.42 ISK # Expand to ISK
16524.55 / 103.42 # Cancellation of units
159.78 # Division
A bit late to the party, but yes, I agree that there could well be other motivations. I worked in one PC shop where the owner had refused to take a mandated course to become an authorized Apple reseller. When they, in turn, refused him, he started telling every customer similar tales about Apple, and some of it plain invented.

Aside, not wanting to derail the comments: When I say "invented stuff" I mean like how Apple switched to Intel chips, because "the industry" got together and said that if Apple didn't, they would make a new internet just for Apple. There was also the line about all Apple developers being jealous of Microsoft's success, so they were the ones developing all the viruses and malware to take down Microsoft's OS, and there were fewer and fewer of these developers because they were all being put in jail with the Linux developers, who were busy doing the same thing.

One day, a Mac-based publishing shop foolishly decided that they needed our help. They got a lecture on how Microsoft Publisher was the industry standard and they should just get with the times. They never called back.

Incredibly enough, 10 years on, the repair shop is still in business and hasn't been sued.
Yet it is the US folks that wear shoes inside their homes and wipe their butt with paper (only).

If we are comparing clean-clean countries, Japan is probably #1. Let's not bring US into that list.
Seattle is part of an aggregated "Northwest" sector which last time I looked was a distant #6 or #7 in the rankings
I do this as well (research in computational chemistry.) Incredibly useful once set up, plus forcing oneself to think about a project in abstract terms to automate it can give valuable perspective.
I'm not a fan at all of the Macbook charger cords. They all invariably split, it's taken only 8 months for mine to split, so now it's wrapped in electrical tape, which gets all ugly.

That's not to mention that the cable always get filthy, they're made out of the perfect material to get all grey and yuck.

I'm on the fence about magsafe, although that's moot now that new Macbooks use USB-C.
My race car
For software I feel like you will start to max out from switching alone once you reach sr software engineer from FAAMG. Past that you have to make real changes such as improving your skills to become something worthy of staff or become some sort of manager.
Don't know if it's a dead end or not, but both the apis and the developer tools are a massive clusterf#%k compared to Apple and Microsoft. Just one head scratcher after another, especially if you dare to support older versions. In comparison, Apple has a relatively pain free API, and lets you access it with one of the most elegant languages I've ever programmed in (Swift). After delving into Android just for a bit, it is no surprise that there are so few decent, non-trivial apps for it, and even Google's own apps work better on iOS.
"Only 20% of AI-aware firms are adopters." This number is much lower than I expected considering how routinely advances and applications of AI are reported in the tech community. There are so many opportunities for entrepreneurs on the horizon.
Yes, in themrealm of grand generalizations: the valley has been more tech oriented and "historically" (Las 20 years) SF more market oriented.

When I moved to the Bay Area in '84 there was no tech in SF at all, and around 1999 when Hummer Winblad opened their office at South Park people would write articles about them asking why you would open an office way up there.

I have to say I was shocked by these figures
> Everything from Apple's hardware advantage to the way Android handles background apps to the difference in built in library quality(core data vs 'use sqlite or something' for example) all make way more of a difference.

I'd like to go off a tangent here. On LineageOS, under privacy settings you can deny apps permissions such as run at boot and run in background. I wish deny was default mode in all of Android and that apps would have to ask for permission to run at boot. This is good for the end user and this is good for Google as Play Services should have this turned on by default meaning greater adoption for Google Cloud Messaging. This can't happen in one step because the proverbial cat is currently out of the bag and we have to sort of slowly put it back in. Something similar needs to happen with all permissions. File storage: afaik all apps have access to their own data store. Most apps should not need access to device storage at all. Almost no app should require access to phone permission.

For example, look at this page by Capital One: https://www.capitalone.com/applications/mobile/android/permi...

> Don’t worry, we aren’t going to call you to find out your plans for the weekend. This permission allows us to use unique phone information (SIM ID and phone number) to guard against unusual sign-in activity. It’s a little extra security to help protect your money.

What is this madness? If it were up to me, I'd ban the capital one app for this amount of ridiculousness.

That being said, I am not an iOS fan either. I have problems with iOS as well. Why isn't there a way to limit data usage to say n MB a month? Why in the world should it take an OS update to update iMessage or Safari? How is this still a thing now that the iPhone is almost ten(!) years old?
What percent of the top videos on Youtube were pirated from Viacom? Because according to the Kurzgesagt video, 73% of the top 1000 Facebook videos were pirated from Youtube.
Maybe I should have sold the R9 Fury I got for gaming a few months ago...
With the latest revision I keep on getting this error:

src/yanni_trainer.erl:78: type array() undefined

It was introduced in revision 20.

3 files updated, 0 files merged, 1 files removed, 0 files unresolved

[bherman@archy yanni]$ hg update 19

[bherman@archy yanni]$ make

rm -f notp notp.boot

rm -fr ebin

mkdir ebin

erlc -o ebin src/*.erl deps/*/src/*.erl

src/yanni_lib.erl:77: Warning: random:uniform/0: the 'random' module is deprecated; use the 'rand' module instead

src/yanni_trainer.erl:112: Warning: random:uniform/0: the 'random' module is deprecated; use the 'rand' module instead

deps/*/src/*.erl: no such file or directory

make: *** [Makefile:6: default] Error 1

[bherman@archy yanni]$ hg update 20

3 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved

[bherman@archy yanni]$ make

rm -f notp notp.boot

rm -fr ebin

mkdir ebin

erlc -o ebin src/*.erl deps/*/src/*.erl

src/yanni_lib.erl:77: Warning: random:uniform/0: the 'random' module is deprecated; use the 'rand' module instead

src/yanni_trainer.erl:78: type array() undefined

src/yanni_trainer.erl:118: Warning: random:uniform/0: the 'random' module is deprecated; use the 'rand' module instead

make: *** [Makefile:6: default] Error 1

[bherman@archy yanni]$ make

edit: formatting
Hiring people to do all the chores that are easy to delegate so I have as much free time as possible.
I recently came across this: https://github.com/spotify/dh-virtualenv

For a system utility, you can still use virtualenvs. The launcher script just needs to use a shebang like:

#!/usr/share/spiffyapp/venv/bin/python
I thought ethereum would move to Proof of State from Proof of Work which will make mining as it's obsolete.

https://www.ethnews.com/proof-of-work-vs-proof-of-stake-expl...
I think the idea is to remove decision making from things you personally don't care too much for to give you more time to focus on those decisions you do care a lot about.
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You can't point to funding at a later stage (everyone sees that something's a hit a pile on) and work back to say that those were the only founders who could pull that off. You can't prove a negative.

You're saying, "Only a few seeds 'have what it takes'. Experienced gardeners see that and so they give those seeds water."
Bitcoin was also used to fund development for Ethereum.
Another fun fact. You don't see box sets of all the movies because Romero always had to raise money from different people so the rights for them (other than the first) are scattered.
They could be awful at recognizing them and only invest when founders show up with a box pooping out bars of gold already, and not at any point before then, since they're so awful at recognizing them.

so you can have a 100% success rate (investing only in founders that show up with a box already pooping bars of gold) while having a 0% ability to identify successful founders.

a high hit rate does not mean you can evaluate founders correctly.
Yes, although my understanding is that the transition will be gradual. PoW rewards will gradually decrease while PoS rewards gradually increase, facilitating the tranisitioon without all miners jumping ship. Miners who are invested in Ethereum may choose to convert their mining profits into stake.
Hi Leaf, this is Rocco, the author of the article. I've gone ahead and updated it with the correct URL along with a note that you've made the HTML5 games easier to find.

I'm curious why you haven't just delisted any games that won't work in the current browser? Kongregate also has this problem right now too.
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It's a bit strange that this sort of job-hopping isn't a red flag to employers. You'd think managers would be reluctant to hire an employee who has jumped ship many times before, just as they were becoming useful.
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Why not just use the web player in this case? Wrapping it in this garbage called Electron will not magically make it any better.
I have been so consistently disappointed by Capaldi's Doctor (due to poor writing, not Capaldi's acting) that any change is welcome.

I just hope they don't run it into the ground. Taking every opportunity to point out that the character is female is insulting to the audience and why I quit watching Supergirl.
“You’re Not the Customer, You’re the Product”
Accomplishing things can bring temporary happiness. Money up to a certain point will make life easier, but after that it doesn't make much of a difference. One of the easiest ways to make yourself happy is for your work to be meaningful. If you feel like your work is helping other people that can lead to more lasting fulfillment.
I stand to be corrected, but I don't think most OpenBSD devs care too much about getting others to switch to it.

They build the OS that they want, and make it available for anyone else to use.

There are some evangelists, to be sure. I just don't think it's a primary concern to many of the devs.
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>What is this madness? If it were up to me, I'd ban the capital one app for this amount of ridiculousness.

Fingerprinting devices to detect unusual logging activity? This is common. Heck, I've had Google lock me out until I confirmed with my recovery email after logging in from a new device. Much more common is simply getting an email after logging in from a new device. The most common method of doing this is for desktop sites is, I assume, IP address; which obviously does not work for phones.
Much as I want to agree, I think this article buries the real question. Yes, we will have the technology - but will people's behaviour change as quickly as the article suggests?

Will whoever wins the ride-sharing market actually provide rates that low to the passengers? Or will they become the new oil barons, gouging the market?

What about the car as more than just point A to point B transport? How many people use a car as a secondary base of operations, and would still need 'their' car, with all their things in it, not just 'a' car, to get from A to B?
Yeah. And that's what we have to keep in mind when complaining. Sometimes I have to say to myself, wait a minute, at least he/she took the time to write about it.
I think it's a bit strange that employers don't consider a fully trained employee to be worth more than a fresh recruit, and compensate them accordingly.
Needs a moderation policy. The #1 posting is currently "Fart engineer"
But it also uses GC even when "compiled to native", so you're not free of things that could make your app stutter. iOS does not use GC. WinPhone did use GC, but they spent a lot of time optimizing the hell out of the stuff that runs on the UI thread.
There are usually several of these $10K ones, especially from angels the founders like and want to have a longer term relationships with. Also, most initial development is either outsourced or done by the founders.
If you put almost any HP RPN calculator right up to your ear, you can hear computation via capacitors.
Additionally, his indy "Night of the Living Dead" featured an African American protagonist when that was just not a thing people were doing.

Such an un-Hollywood ending too. Wow.
Looks like the numbers have caught up.

https://www.awesomescreenshot.com/image/2662962/ccd995aa49dc...
It's more of a red flag in some industries than others. In the tech field it is quite common, though it's still viewed as a minor red flag, in my experience.

Much more important are skills, experience, and team fit.
Worst place to ask this, I know, but... If I wanted to upgrade my old machine that currently has an HD 4770 (PCI Express 2.0 x16), where exactly could I find a worthwhile upgrade for less than $20?
Sorry but this is not correct. The anti-siphon valve is almost always apparent. These spigot valves are not very good and fail pretty regularly so I would not trust my drinking water to them.

Also an anti-siphon valve only works if it's above the water lines. If you store a hose above the spigot like many people do, you've just defeated the valve.
Absolutely. For such a 'simple' movie, comparatively to today, the ending was absolutely unexpected and shocking. Probably what made me love it!
Everything but the actual private key/parameters should be open-source, vetted and approved before going forward on a cryptocurrency... no magic obscurity when it comes to money. Otherwise, scams and/or vulns lead to amateur-hour fail.
Reddit's r/buildapc is probably your best starting point. It has a bunch of helpful tips/guides even for super low end builds.
There is a weirdly slow car crash scene in Night Of The Living Dead - this was written into the script since someone borrowed the car and drove a dent into it, and they needed to explain the new dent in the movie...
I'm reluctant to apply this mindset to the tech, or at least SV tech, industry. While it's common practice to hop jobs every 2-5 years, it seems to be more for new or different opportunities (Different sized company, a new domain, new technical challenges, etc.) than it is for a more competitive offer. Internal promotion, both in compensation and position, seems to be the relative norm.
I wonder if that is due, in part or whole, to the copyright blunder of the original...
Sure, but it still does basically the same thing of passing around witness tables. Values happen to have a uniform representation, but this seems seems like variation within a cluster of languages that do similar thing rather than something fundamentally new.
AI software creates fake Obama videos using old footage and audio
Surprised at the lack of comments about how Kotlin might help the situation.
Similar: http://remoteok.io
And there's this place, too: http://www.logicalincrements.com/
I was sad that it led to a 500 page. I was interested in that position :(
As always, it depends. If you're in a land-grab market with $100 billion potential and take the slow route, you'll be squeezed. If, on the other hand, you choose a market with a low ceiling, you'll likely be forced to finance with retained earnings and/or debt.
Stability–instability paradox
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The trick is to define "success" in such a way that it drives your happiness, rather than adopting external definitions of "success" that have no relationship with your own personal sense of self worth or life pleasure.

"Money" won't likely drive your happiness. Not entirely.

"Increasing shareholder value" also won't likely drive your happiness. But enjoying the camaraderie, or seeing your leadership improve peoples lives, or the sense of accomplishment that comes with setting and achieving goals... those things can lead to happiness. And a lot of times, you can achieve that kind of happiness even if you miss your quarterly numbers, or a startup hypothesis doesn't pan out.

"Reading all the books by Author X." "Getting a Ph.D." "Coaching a little league team." "Completing project Y." "Publishing paper Z." "Taking a 2 month RV trip across europe." "Earning the respect of my spouse or partner."

Money, shareholder value, "assets"... are only a means to certain kinds of ends.
Sometimes I wonder if HN needs to have it's own obituaries section.
> just as they were becoming useful.

If it takes that long for a employee to become useful then the company has much bigger issues and the need to compensate for whatever it is that makes those 2 years of experience so vital.
Maybe not work specifically, but making and hitting medium-ly stressful goals and an overall sense of agency in one's psychological mindset will generally be correlated (causative) of general well-being.

Having a certain amount of money, social standing, and meeting goals will generally help enable this.

But so too can one feel trapped in particular professions, if you don't feel you're adding any value, or if you lose that sense of active goal setting/valuing/achieving cycle, then it doesn't matter what other people's impression of yourself or your job or success are...a tendency towards depression in such a state would not be peculiar...
It will be on your bill.

It should also be published on your utility company website as well. At least my utility company posts rates on the front page.
restart all things every night.
There's this management mythology that:

- Worker bees will stay because they're clueless and don't have the initiative to keep moving.

- Pressure from on high to fudge performance reviews downwards to "save the company money." (At where my mom worked, a middle manager blanket reduced all subordinate reviews down because BS: "people are overly generous.")

If you want least turnover / most morale / most productivity, pick people whom can grow the most and grow them until they no longer can keep up or find something else. Develop people (training, mentoring, promotions, bonuses, raises, perks, etc.), don't just consume them as static widgets to fill a hole.
That's cool, did you manage to get a job that way back then?
These are the tutorials that depict the reality of a machine learning career. Everyone broadly understands that data preparation is the key, but few realize what that involves. Half of this tutorial is just about getting and prepping data for training. Kudos!
> I get the state to take half a million dollars from you in spousal and child support

If you have children, then yes—you do need to pay for them.
I've asked a VC this question before. They said that in theory going after 5-10x returns sounds great but in practice no successful VC firms use this strategy. They all make their money from the few who "return the fund".
This is a really poor article, and I'm surprised Forbes would publish it. As far as I can tell, there's absolutely no data behind any of the assertions in the article, and the title is just conjecture by the author based on a whole lot of assumptions.
'Market' is often very fluid. Large companies may be in government consulting, but as you scale down there is plenty of room for various specialties in that same 'Market'.

You find this all over the place as 800$ Aeron chairs and 40$ iKea chairs are both in the same and very different markets.
> The supply of housing in family-friendly neighborhoods is limited.

The supply of housing in family-friendly neighborhoods is limited by the # of family-friendly neighborhoods, which in turn is limited by the number of people having families. As more people have families, there are more family-friendly neighborhoods, and so the supply increases.
not until one realize it is..
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The median time for a transaction to clear fluctuates wildly between 10 and 20 minutes. This alone kills it completely as a cash replacement.
Here's the thing. You don't have to agree with his political views. You don't have to pick a side. But you can still see his treatment as bad. This man is in prison for disagreeing with the government, that is very bad.
> Jessica Derkis started her career earning $8 per hour ($16,640 annual salary) as the YMCA’s marketing manager. Over 10 years, she’s changed employers five times to ultimately earn $72,000 per year at her most recent marketing position.

Amazing, thanks Forbes. I never knew that if you started out on minimum wage and then moved into a mundane professional role, you'd earn considerably more!
It seems likely that crypto currencies transfer much less value per kilowatt-hour consumed.
With general stocks though at least you're investing in companies which make products, hire people, and hopefully stimulate the overall economy. A few Chinese guys in an old apartment building wasting power and compute/GPU resources... Not so much.
> I'm surprised Forbes would publish it

Unfortunately much of Forbes has become nothing but a fancy blog, very much akin to Business Insider. With the amount of "contributors" posting to the site nowadays the Forbes name in the URL isn't exactly a positive indicator, if not a warning sign.
Okay, that doesn't have anything to do with Monero though as it's fairly mined (no premine or dev tax).

Monero has very good and active dev team that has fixed and disclosed bugs instead of exploiting them for free coins like other alt-coins.
Or it pays one skilled non-tech employee for a YEAR here in China. I'd gladly take $10k in exchange for 0.5-1% at this stage.