skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure must be nice to have enough money in the bank to run off on a "great trip" with your family twice a year to some far-flung place. One wonders if the employees at the sold companies and the founders at in the portfolio have the same luxury.
> And what about privacy? Obviously everything you buy is being fed into a big government database somewhere. Do people in China not care about that (has privacy been eroded so much)?

I don't see how it's different from using credit cards or any other digital payment method.
Proof of work (mining) is needed to be able to come to consensus on the next block in the chain. A better and more efficient algorithm is being developed. Ethereum is switching from proof of work to proof of stake in the next year or two, so there will not be any mining any more, which should reduce the cost of deciding what the next block is. Read more about it here: https://github.com/ethereum/wiki/wiki/Proof-of-Stake-FAQ
The standalone binaries work great, you don't need BOSH or cloudfoundry.
That latter point is something I think very few people in urban living situations understand. My car is, if I am to misappropriate a term, a 'safe space'. It's like an offshoot of my house I bring with me elsewhere. If there's something I don't carry on my person regularly, but might need, it's probably in my car. My car is a space that I own, that I control, and of course, can lock myself inside. And my car instantly affords me the ability to move myself away from where I am, and to something else.

My comfort level is based in part on either being in walking distance to my house or to my car.
Could you give an example of such an industry? VMS to me has always been that OS that everyone claimed to be better than UNIX-likes, but none could explain why.
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That's some really dumb money if it needs 1000x returns somewhere to beat index funds.
Most companies do some kind of review where they tell the employee how good they did. I assume they review employees based on business value.

So, if one consistently gets good reviews and small raises it's quite clear what's happening.
Don't know how it compares but for "classic" finance to work it needs many workers who use energy, who need buildings to cost energy, who need cooling etc.. The work being done by the miners is not apples to apples comparison with OracleDB sitting behind IBM Websphere server (or what ever) inside a banks data center / cloud.
I do hope that in the future somebody comes up with a better scheme..
>The way I see it, we have democracy in politics

Are you so sure of that? http://www.businessinsider.com/princeton-and-northwestern-st...
At least if your phone is stolen you still have your money safe, if you cash is stolen - it's a different story
tl;dr version: There are versions of this quote going back to the 70's, starting with one by artists Richard Serra & Carlota Fay Schoolman. But the modern incarnation seems to have sprung from a comment on metafilter that became popularized when Tim O'Reilly tweeted it out (with attribution) in 2010. Here's the tweet:

https://twitter.com/timoreilly/status/22823381903

I thought it was interesting to see the history of this.
> Paying for things in the US feels like the stone ages.

Trust me, living here feels that way too, except everyone is at pains to tell you that it's the greatest in the world. And don't get sick!
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It wasn't a comment on HN, but during an interview (video) he did with MZ on YC. I don't have a link, but that may help.

Zuckerburg was telling a story of how he built a "social" website to share notes for an art history class, except he didn't have any notes himself but got everyone to share theirs so he could pass his exam. This supposedly was an early experience that started him thinking about social websites and sharing online.

PG then commented how his internal alarm was going off saying "fund him. Fund him", and how even though it was too late he can't shut off his brains instinct to sniff out good founders.
It is better to say that 4m merchants do have access to Alipay, but may elect to not to use it.

I knew quite a few places in Vancouver where people were ready to accept payment by zhifubao id, but nobody had qr scanners or anything. It may end up like Paypal local - come to shop that accepts paypal, ask if they support it, and yeah "transfer money to id 4746474, call me back when you are done"
There's already a less wasteful solution, it's called fiat money.
[1] has a chart comparing Bitcoin energy consumption to that of the Visa payment network. Bitcoin is magnitudes higher.

[1] http://digiconomist.net/bitcoin-energy-consumption
Why do we need "phone calls", separate from the internet, at all?
I automate Stats of the products from Google Analytics using Google spreadsheet.
By using appscript, I extract all key metrics such as activation rate/ retention rate from the raw data.

Then when I need to report all stats of multiple product, there is another automated script for me to aggregate them.

Saved me hours of context switching and copy and pasting.
Could you elaborate on how it did things better than the common cluster file systems of today? (OCFS2, Hadoop, Ceph, etc.)
We're using Concourse extensively at HelloFresh (>130 devs). It's not without its quirks, but I've little to complain about so far, except perhaps the polish of the UI.
Very unfortunate, MPC-HC was so simple to use, has a slick UI inspired by MS Media Player and to quickly review/seek videos it was the very best. (much faster than VLC for that task)
This blog post is also showing, however, that it is possible to make experiences without learning much. He doesn't seem to have figured out how it works, because that part is still rather unclear in his text.
90% of a population can easily be above average in a real life scenario where most of the group is roughly equal with few elements dragging the average slightly below their level.

Example: nine 11s and one 10, the average is 10.9 and 90% of the population is above it. If you want to split a group in half then you need to use the median.
Twillio and Amazon (SNS, I think) are dirt cheap and easy to use (at that non-scale).
I pay $6/year for:

http://www.jollyrogertelco.com/

I actually get excited when I get telemarketers because the robot sometimes fools them enough to keep them on the line for a few minutes. The longer the conversation, the more irritated the telemarketers get, and that's quite satisfying. Here's some sample calls:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3OxCWLEmoIhNMm-hnvBm9Q
I mean, great idea, I'm stealing it.

Edit:

A distributed serch engine: https://github.com/kreeben/dire

Open for feedback.
I'd agree with you if ads were only about discovering new products. But the vast, vast majority of advertisements we are fed everyday are about products we already know about. "Ford is selling cars! They come out with new ones from time to time." Seriously? You don't say! "Merck has a yet another drug for some disease they made up." Wow, really? Who knew? Coca-Cola is selling the same sugar water they've been selling for decades." Come on--get real, not Coca-Cola!
They cite the U.S. as having 60% of purchases under $10 to be in cash. However, that should likely take in the context that many (most?) shops won't allow purchases using debit/credit cards when the purchase is < a certain minimum, usually $5 but sometimes more.

It is true though that going cashless can create a second class of citizens who can't easily enter the digital world. Despite the ubiquity of cell phones there are still almost 2 billion unbanked people in the world. I hope governments will take this into account when considering going cashless.
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Proof of stake comes with its own set of problems.
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I love the difference of tone between this article and the usual Silicon Valley pieces.

For me, the most important thing that Ron conveys is that being an entrepreneur is an incredibly foolish thing to do. Silicon Valley created myths of passionate geeks who worked in their mom's garages and went on to make billions. Who doesn't want that?

But the reality of Silicon Valley today is that because of these myths, most people work their twenties away for a chance to buy a lottery ticket...
Saying "no" to meetings and interruptions. I have a box with a big "NO" written on top of it. Whenever someone comes by to ask me "how are you doing?" I tap the box.
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"If you are actually able to build a well-structured monolith, you probably don’t need microservices in the first place. Which is OK! I definitely agree with Martin: You shouldn’t introduce the complexity of additional distribution into your system if you don’t have a very good reason for doing so.

So what would be a good reason? There are many, but to me the most important one is to allow for fast, independent delivery of individual parts within a larger system. Microservices’ main benefit, in my view, is enabling parallel development by establishing a hard-to-cross boundary between different parts of your system. By doing this, you make it hard – or at least harder – to do the wrong thing: Namely, connecting parts that shouldn’t be connected, and coupling those that need to be connected too tightly. In theory, you don’t need microservices for this if you simply have the discipline to follow clear rules and establish clear boundaries within your monolithic application; in practice, I’ve found this to be the case only very rarely.)"

In theory, you know before building a system whether you'll need the things you deem important on deciding whether you're better off with microservices.

In practice you very rarely do.

So we're back at square one.
Oh, I have totally missed that part. Happy to see that you didn't lose the money without learning something.

What decision have you made? Howling with the wolves or getting back to being a sheep? I'm still unclear in this part and actually hoped for some suggestions in one or the other direction.
See: https://ello.co/dredmorbius/post/MsQfdPAn_0XUdZUoReBfbg

Specificially 200 years of mortality data as compiled by the New York Department of Health & Mental Hygiene:
https://assets2.ello.co/uploads/asset/attachment/1468664/ell...

Note that from 1940 to 1950 the mortality rate actually rose. Much of the improvement since 1970, if you dig into detailed statistics, comes from traditionally underserved communities, most especially black males. There's a lot more to be had for seeing those who get little or no treatment, get more, than in increasing treatment of the most privileged.

Laurie Garrett, author of The Coming Plague: “In all, 86 per cent of the increased life expectancy was due to decreases in infectious diseases. And the bulk of the decline in infectious disease deaths occurred prior to the age of antibiotics. Less than 4 per cent of the total improvement in life expectancy since 1700s can be credited to twentieth-century advances in medical care.”

https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/12627.Laurie_Garrett

I'd be quite interested to know what specific outcomes progress in cancer treatment you have in mind.
Same topic being discussed here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14783539
In 2D, I'll give you that, but in general, I would say "has struggled solving", rather than "has solved", and not even 'everyone'.

Few can, for example, reliably compute the intersection point of a line l' parallel to l through a point p with a plane P, and many would panic when given a problem in N>3-dimensional space.

I know people who memorized formulas for solving linear systems as used in macro-economics (on the order of 10 dimensions, but lots of zeroes in their matrix), and, because of that, couldn't work when given a slightly different model to solve (for example, if taxation became be a constant plus a fraction of income instead of just a fraction of income, or if capital gains tax were introduced).
Let's not forget stealing. Letting someone else do the hard work of figuring out the Next Big Thing and then taking over is very profitable.
Nice turnaround! I'm building an API myself to get public feedback.

Are you exposing this to get an idea for demand? How are you tracking this?
Also the few data points are for the general job market, salaries in the 40k-80k range. What happens above is another story entirely IMHO. (And so below)
The sad part is if you strip the over the top hyperbole, it's actually a pretty true to life situation. I've seen founders deal with that problem first hand.
I just got paid $6784 working off my laptop this month. And if you think that's cool, my divorced friend has twin toddlers and made over $9k her first month. It feels so good making so much money when other people have to work for so much less. This is what I do,====http://bit.do/dnRs5
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I'm making $86 an hour working from home. I was shocked when my neighbour told me she was averaging $95 but I see how it works now. I feel so much freedom now that I'm my own boss. This is what I do, .====http://ow.ly/P0wk30aVXfN
it's a made-up article.
Relevant for people working/living in SF:

http://www.isthereagiantsgametoday.com/
I've been in China as a tourist for three weeks two years ago. I paid everything with cash. Easy.

What would I do now if I have to pay with WeChat and I obviously don't have a Chinese bank account? Tourists don't have time to waste in banks and unless bank accounts are created and activated on the fly it would be pointless to open one. Maybe open an account in advance from home? Is that possible? Or WeChat and Alipay start operating with accounts in multiple countries.
>How does he get the UI working so fast and looking so good?

That's mainly just experience with whatever he's using for the design. I've gotten to the point where I can hack together some pretty looking CSS in a short amount of time.

>How do you reverse engineer an API

I have less experience with this, but from what I have done, I've learned that XHR breakpoints in chrome dev tools is your best friend.
I think you need a lot of info to get up to speed and unfortunately I don't have much time. I'll make sure to find references for future discussions, but for now I think we'll have to stop here.
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Perhaps they can tell the USPS to not sell the change of address info, including phone numbers. If you do a change of address online you are required to accept they will sell it to every shady marketing company that exists. I actually contacted the USPS regarding the matter and their response was tldr: fuck off, you need to physically fill it the form to disable that.
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> Also, a lot of tech savvy people that go to gym, still use the trusted pen'n'paper approach. Why is that?

Speaking for me: I need to track partial sets, shady reps, circle training setups and posture/alignment/speed reminders/observations to myself. Free text works best; the last thing I want to do when I'm shaking and sweating profusely is diddle around with how to enter something in a convoluted app setup. (To be fair, I do my "creative", i.e. SW design/architecture notetaking mostly on paper, too.)
Interesting POV, but I'd much rather develop for Android than any other platform. You are correct that currently developing for Android is not for the faint of heart. Happily, it also turns out understanding Java and Gradle and IntelliJ is generally useful for a software engineer and let me develop for many more targets and vendors than one. And since all the components are all open source, the community can provide excellent updates, bugfixes, support, libraries, frameworks, etc.

Not to bash on Swift, but even with the incoming Swift 4 they still don't even have an ABI compatibility story (leading to bigger apps since they to bundle the runtime, and framework/library devs can't offer binaries), and they even had to break source compatibility (though the compiler will have a flag to compile Swift 3). And since most Android app development actually depends on the Android Support Libraries, you can provide great compatibility to current devices. Whereas - and this is according to iOS devs - supporting the latest version of iOS usually means abandoning supporting previous versions. Also, I heard the newest xcode 9 just got refactoring support - cute!
> It's hard to have respect for a field when they're don't know what they're doing, and still think they're better than everyone else.

So you judge a field from one conversation that a friend told you happened? From one professor? Who might have even been joking.

And you think that is a reasonable proposition?
"In america, credit cards were 'good enough' compared to what was in china"

I disagree. CC fraud was unknown to me until I moved to the USA. The security chip was not used for a very long time in the USA and just started to be a thing. First version of chip enabled CCs had no pin. I am not sure about good enough.
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You're comparing apples to oranges since LPs are at least partly looking for assets with lower amount of correlation to these public markets that they're already exposed to
I'm glad that someone is finally giving the 0.1x programmers like myself the credit the deserve.
Here in Germany we have a clear distinction between credit- and debit cards. And I guess the culture leans more toward the "saving not loaning" model nickrio describes. So for me it is a conscious decision wether I pay with my bank account or credit.

Unlike China however, adoption of digital, low-barrier payments is extremely low here. I mean, hell, we're mostly buying paper bus tickets, while local public transport is sloooowly starting to roll out RFID tickets & readers.

All I'm saying is, I find the cultural differences and the impact they have on our day to day dealings (which, on the surface, seem to be the same globally) deeply fascinating :)
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But what characterizes those other arrangements of matter?

What is their energy consumption? What are their switching speeds? Can cognition grow unbounded, and if so, why? Can any brain improve on its own process of cognition? If other arrangements of matter perform cognition equally well, why don't we see them in the independent evolution of life with wildly different structures for everything else?

There is far too much woo and not enough rigorous thinking around the notion of AI superintelligence, singularity, or whatever other incantation people care to use.
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Imagine server that has been up for decades. It can remain live through OS upgrades, hardware upgrades and I believe even architecture changes.

It's like places that use mainframes it's probably not a good idea to build a new bank on mainframes but if you have one it's far less risk to keep the mainframe than rewrite everything.

OpenVMS has some very unique features but truthfully it's most valuable feature is it runs the software they have.
of course, I said "100% success rate", under the scenario I sketched they're great investors. I just showed that this doesn't mean they can recognize the cadre of people who have what it takes. They could be 100% successful while having 0% ability to recognize anyone whose boxes aren't pooping gold yet.
That's how pretty much every Angel invests. They want to exit at the B or C round, or have an acquisition in the mean time.

Angels and VCs are more often than not at odds because they have different economics they are playing for.

An angel puts in 250k? They would be thrilled with a 10M exit. Along comes a VC with a 5M A round and suddenly they need a 500M exit to feel like it was a success.
> Anything longer, especially if there is a lot of long-term stasis on a resume (e.g. "tech lead on product X" for more than a year or two), is an indication to me of someone who either isn't capable of stretching himself or doesn't want to.

That's retarded
All the small successes bring me happiness, both in work and outside it.

Before my current job, I spend about 2.5 years trying to get a PHD (in physics), and I quit. There were several reasons, but a major one was that I didn't feel I had any successes.

Since then I've been doing software development, and there are small successes and wins every day, or at least every week. A feature is finished, a bug is fixed, a colleague tells me that something I wrote saved them time or hassle, or even that they enjoyed in the new UX.

My wife told me I was a different person in the new role: much more relaxed and happy. I agree.

Now I have two children, and it's another source of a stream of small successes that I can enjoy. First steps, first words, first shoe laces tied, first cucumber cut by themselves etc. They are not my own, but I'm sufficiently emotionally attached to them to derive happiness from theirs.
Wouldn't the pay be pretty good at level 4?
This is only Visa's datacenter costs. What about all the employees working at banks to support all these credit card holders? What about all the physical snail mail being carried around by actual vehicles and driven by humans? What about the entire debt collection system?
You're living the dream, man, congratulations. If I ever were to have enough to "draw down until death" I'd do it in a heartbeat. I don't understand these people who have millions of dollars and still get up, go in to work and sit in their 9:30 TPS report review meetings every day, when they have the means to simply not do it.

I guess, at some point, for some people, compensation becomes not a means of survival but some kind of grotesque "life scorecard." Screw that.
http://robert.ocallahan.org/2017/07/confession-of-cc-program...
Yeah, that seems reasonable. We have one of these to restore MPlayer bindings: https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/blob/master/etc/mplayer-in...

Though rather than being baked in, these bindings have to be manually copied over the user's input.conf. mpv's config profiles don't extend to input.conf at the moment.
A reverse example in the US is money transfer, in Europe it's extremely easy to send money between bank accounts instantly and for free. But in the US it is more difficult to companies like Venmo popped up.
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Hey - when the median return of an investment in a VC portfolio is 0, that alpha has to come from somewhere.

And you know what? It's a valid strategy for those with the skill (or luck) to execute repeatedly. Sequoia earns their 3 and 30, or however much they charge.

All I'm saying is that when a company takes VC funding, the goal of the VCs can override the goals of earlier, individually less powerful investors (i.e. the angels). So while an early angel might be fine/thrilled with a 10x exit, the VC might not be because their risk/reward profile differs from the angel. Thus, when investing in companies intending to seek venture capital, one must be aware of the high payout, low odds bet into which they are entering.

Of course, there are ways to mitigate this like secondary market liquidity or institutional investors buying stock from earlier angels as part of a round. But the point still stands.
Or they include a loader and can load code, code which may be compiled somewhere else.