skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"At this point, I believe technical co-founders have a binary choice: Stay on the technical track and hire a professional manager (usually given the VP of Engineering title), or give up coding and focus on the management aspects yourself. It really isn’t possible to do both."

For me this is the key quote.

I have a friend who went the other way from the author of this article. He started as one of two company founders working out of an apartment doing all the technical work while the other founder focused on business stuff.

When the company grew to a point where he had to decide between staying technical and people management, he hired a VP of Engineering, stuck to coding, and still codes 6-8 hours a day.

The company is now at about 200 people, is profitable, raised a series A after figuring out the business model, and blowing past the goals set by the investors. His stake in the company is worth many tens of millions today.

Just an existence proof that 'sticking to coding', can be a viable strategy, if an unusual one.

He is not interested in blogging/social media etc, or else I'd have persuaded him to write up his experience.

I have to agree with dang. Most people running successful startups don't have (or take) the time to write about it.

Which is too bad (imo). We could use more writeups from the successful subset.
The Case Against Cloud Computing Security
Depending on who you ask, that could be a bad thing.
> ... dangerous of discretionary enforcement, but if you're making a dramatic change like this, it's pretty hard to avoid ...

So what does that tell you about dramatic changes?
I’m in a family plan... get your family and or a group of friends into one account and you’ll save a good amount. We have Direct TV now as well which I don’t think any of us use.
Hope they never have to find out what isn't covered by their high quality insurance.
It sounds like you just want everyone to act as a number of independent, autonomous collectives of one instead of as a society. While that level of libertarianism fine to hold as a political belief, it doesn't really matter for this discussion.

We are not going to change how our entire society runs over private use of drones near fires, and so your argument that we should be running society differently counts for zero when we decide how drones should be handled in the context of our society.
Any kind of regulation will harm small businesses and create monopolies of large companies who have teams of lawyers to del with this kind of situation
Eh... I'll try. I don't want to name any names or show spite.

One company, the process was a mess. The recruiter I worked with was fired in the process, which took a few days to sort out. It had many rounds of interviews, each expecting me to purchase material to study. One interview was absurdly bad, one of those 'well, that's not what it says on my paper' types. One interview the interviewer seemed almost condescending, asking questions with no possible one right answer.

Another company was much better in most regards, except when it came time for reimbursement. It was a bit 50/50 on whose fault it was, but it amounted to me being on the hook for a few hundred dollars. Not the end of the world, but I was sent a short rather cold message that made me feel like they thought I was trying to cheat them. I was trying to inquire about meeting me halfway, or what I could have done differently to avoid this, and never received a reply. As soon as I removed the flagged charges, it was paid and closed with no further communication. For a company who brags about perks and whatnot, the way they handled that turned me off. It was one of those 'notice how people treat people from who they have nothing to gain' moments. To add insult to injury, another group asked if I'd like to come back out. I replied rather short to that, which in retrospect I feel a little bad about.

That said, it is true I didn't work for those companies. But to me, a recruiter or interview process is a first impression. It's their face to me.

If I'm off base, though, I'd love to hear tales from others.

Edit to add - I will name one company that I really liked their interview...a company in Texas called Meteora. They were using tech way ahead of its time when I interviewed. They never asked me filter questions, or treated me like 'another applicant.' I talked to a competent engineer who explained what they did, what was needed, and their tech stack. I was honest in having no experience with this stack, and they were honest in telling me I wouldn't be a good fit. I wish all interviews were as simple.
Your assertion that "these apps are a reason to keep buying Macs" is very true, at least in my case. Along with MagSafe and USB iPhone syncing, it's one of the things keeping me on the platform.

I taught myself AppleScript at age 13, to download text and put it on my iPod as 1000 character noted. I remember when URL Access Scripting was removed, and I started using curl instead.

I've also written many other scripts, such as diagonal selection in Excel, or slide layout in PowerPoint.

I use a lot of Apple Events apps as well, such as BetterTouchTool.

Is there an alternative to AppleScript for Linux?
I personally don't use them, except for date-based pages. I find plain old functions the most clear, even if there's a little bit of duplication.
We should certainly expect a lifestyle based around consumer goods mass-produced under mature and technologically advanced industrial capitalism to be cheaper (and get cheaper over time) relative to a lifestyle based on around living on the most central, premium land.
In that case, the drone pilot is already committing the offence of impending emergency responders. It should otherwise be fine to drone fly over a brushfire not being flown over by firefighter aircraft. Why a new law?

I smell knee jerk legislating. Just amend the existing law if new power is needed to prosecute the existing law. Don’t make a new law for every new thing.
I'm quite happay, my phone number and addresses slowly disappeared from the google/bing/duckduckgo/... searchable internet over the past month. Often times without my involvement.

Searches for my real name now vs prior to GDPR enforcement are like day/night. Prior, it was all topped by aggressive (SEO wise) companies who clone public registries and republish them en-masse without adding any value whatsoever. They just use this as a trick to drive people searching for various people's names to their online magazines and whatever. They basically parasite on other people's names to prop up their revenue at those people's expense.

Now the searches are actually starting to return relevant things near the top, like my past OSS contributions, etc.

For me, this side of GDPR compliance is working fine, and almost all comapnies are pretty good at responding to requests. That is a law working pretty well from the side of the data subject.
I was onsite at a client's retail location and got chatting to a customer. They learned I was in IT and said "I hope you're all set for GDPR!" and I said "it doesn't affect us". "Oh yes it does! There's a lot of people living in this area (in the US) who are European citizens - this affects you right here!" I tried to argue back politely that it didn't affect us, and she started getting a bit... agitated, and the voice started to raise a bit. I tried to de-escalate - other customers in the store would have started paying attention once the raised voice went on. But... man on man... my comeback question I was ready to put back - then stopped short - was "Do you think a 20 person brick and mortar in the middle of Spain is required to abide by US laws? They're not, even when serving customers who happen to be US citizens." I would have hoped it would have made it clear, but... stopped short of getting in to a shouting match with my client's customers. :)
I've always found this to be an interesting topic. See here for more: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZYNADOHhVY . The argument made there is basically that death (human aging, at any rate) is a sort of condition, or disease, if you will, like any other, that could be solved if we plied it with enough resources.

Maybe the real question is where on the scale the extension to life happens? If we keep reaching adulthood, and then elderly, more inhibited lifestyles at the same ages, just prolonging the elderly state via good medical practices, that's one thing. But if we could slow aging in general to extend younger and middle-aged sections of life, that'd be another thing altogether.
Pretty unofficial here, but I prefer engineering channel to biz dev channel... Drop me a note, loop in whoever would be interested? I’ve been meaning to get our companies better acquainted — your fantastic write up reminded me.
Not at all. Cars are technology; land is land. Our society is highly optimized to promote the availability of ever-cheaper, ever-better technology, and also to make sure that real estate assets continuously appreciate.
Understanding Latent Style
Sure, more important things to do. But isn't a minimal change to a plethora of formulas that simplifies things worth consideration?
How far are you along the circumference of a circle? Or what's this angle in radians? Isn't Taur vs 2Pi*r easier both conceptually and computationally?
I thought that as well but closer reading of the article indicates it’s specifically for political advertisements, not generic ad spend by corporations.
Bitcoin is a store of value. And it's among the fastest, cheapest ways to send money worldwide. As we all know, there is a limit to the number of Bitcoins thus people think the value will increase with demand.

I'm not a Bitcoin investor. But I do buy other alt coins. All the points you mentioned are valid but are constantly being improved upon.
> but what does it mean if you don't operate in Europe but have Europeans using your site?

My limited understanding is that generally, it doesn't mean much. However, if you are actively targeting/marketing to Europeans, then you might fall afoul of this, but probably won't be affected legally without hitting some sort of moderate commercial size.
> ability to read code and locally easily reason about types only gets more critical as the application gets more architecture or performance dependent

Exactly! And using auto for variables with very limited scope where the type is obvious effortlessly does not negatively affect the ability to read code and in my opinion improves the ability to read code.
The HN policy on paywalls is described in the FAQ:

> "Are paywalls ok?"

> "It's ok to post stories from sites with paywalls that have workarounds."

> "In comments, it's ok to ask how to read an article and to help other users do so. But please don't post complaints about paywalls. Those are off topic."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
I'd like for there to be room for 40 bytes of text on the shell for labeling purposes.
Free Blog Writing Sites in Nepal
Switzerland is an interesting country. Its a nicer version of all of its neighboring countries except germany.

Western half speak french as a primary language and visiting cities there reminds me of france, except there werent any ghetto train stations. Northeastern parts speak german. Going down south the primary language was italian. Once you move to the outskirts of italy the infrastructure looked like it hadnt been maintained in ages.
They said the same exact thing when Bitcoin went from $1k back down to $300.
See my other reply, you can probably figure out which one that is. Some of it was personal preference, some if it I found silly.

I purposely didn't want to name companies, I felt it's tacky since it's my personal opinion and view. If you'd like to discuss privately feel free to dm me.
There's recent talk of giving Django an async option:

https://groups.google.com/d/topic/django-developers/Kw7-xV6T...
got it, thanks for replying! Best of luck with Brex!
He climbed Sentinel for 60 minutes, it was a 1600 foot high 5.11, don't trivialize it, it is absolutely nothing to sneer at. When I was at peak climbing fitness 5.11 was a warm-up, but doing it for 1600 feet ropeless is an entirely different ball game.
If your site is intended for Europeans, then you need to comply. It's not clear what test is used to determine this. My guess is, if you include translations, or region drop-down in a signup form, or is selling goods/services that only apply to Europe, then you'd have to comply.
As I mentioned in another thread, the biggest winners from this entire GDPR saga are Google and Facebook.

Email is control. You get someone's email once, you get to control how often you contact them. You can send them hundreds of messages for next to no cost - as long as they don't hit 'unsubscribe'

But if you can't rely on email, what do you turn to? Ads, of course!

I get that there are some nasty actors that abuse your privacy. But as a consumer, I've never felt that spam was that big an issue to begin with, at least not big enough to warrant small businesses ceding control and having to rely on Google and Facebook to reach their audiences.
Super obscure issues. When I try to use GDAL to build a geotiff from a bumpy array I get an underlying c++ crash of some sort. I'm not an expert. But it happens only when I try to do it within QGIS. It's something about the compatibility of numpy and gdals underlying c++ APIs.

I wish I was smarter and could debug further. Issue doesn't happen standalone but happens in a qt5 plugin for GDAL. I was hoping to find any other implementation of array to tiff in order to avoid this crash. Alas.
Should you buy Captain Crunch’s book?
I'm not quite sure if this is a communication due to my recent 1099 status contractor employment with Lionbridge and just wanted to make sure that I hadn't missed anything that I needed to submit. Thank you,
Sarah
Most ORM-related problems are related to lack of knowledge of how the tool works.

However, if you understand how databases work, how to tune the driver and how to get the ORM tool to generate the same queries you'd otherwise write yourself, then you are fine.

For more details, check out these [14 High-Performance Persistence Tips](https://vladmihalcea.com/14-high-performance-java-persistenc...).
Plotly is awesome, but it can be really slow when loading from cold with a shiny app. Big fan of it with ggplot.
I think you need to add way more context to this if you want anybody to care.

What product are you selling?

Who are your customers?

Have you had issues with payments in the past?

Is it possible that your product could be used in fraudulent ways? (eg stolen credit cards are being used to buy bitcoin through you etc)

Are they refunding literally every single payment you've ever received or just the ones marked as fraudulent?
If the law is written simply to prohibit flying drones over wildfires, it will be used to prosecute people who fly drones over wildfires with no first responders present or nearby, and the definition of wildfire will grow to include common innocuous events.
What concrete steps are you taking to solve this that others could emulate?
That's false if left turns are permitted.
So this is only applies to political advertisements? The title is misleading and should be changed.
I personally consider the Fitz Roy Traverse to be Honnold's greatest ascent, which he did with Tommy Caldwell, and they certainly faced their share of subjective hazards on that climb:

https://www.redbull.tv/video/AP-1MQAPEZX91W11/a-line-across-...
> Today's prices.

Perhaps not relevant, then.

> Why are you bringing up a version from 2001? Was that mentioned in parent posts?

Yes, Oracle 9i was specifically mentioned, which is why I find it bizarre, if not inappropriate, to criticize (let alone laugh, as an upthread commenter did), with not just "20/20 hindsight" but also with today's technology availability.

> Business without tech as a core competency outsource.

That's just a synonym for "buy" in the "buy vs build" decision, whereas "make" is a synonym for "build".
Subscription-based software development makes me irrationally angry
Article is a bit light on the “how” part. Found this over at https://www.wired.com/story/the-rise-of-dna-data-storage/ :

“What Catalog does, instead, is cheaply generate large quantities of just a few different DNA molecules, none longer than 30 base pairs. Then it uses billions of enzymatic reactions to encode information into the recombination patterns of those prefab bits of DNA. Instead of mapping one bit to one base pair, bits are arranged in multidimensional matrices, and sets of molecules represent their locations in each matrix.”
Ryde hit by 2,000 fake bookings from 300 fake accounts. IP logs points to Grab
Having spent more than a year in Barcelona in/around development & start up circles my biggest take away is that even the best developers I met were more interested in the status of becoming a manager instead of building something great.

Additionally and more concerning is that there is also a very real sense in Barcelona that “innovation happens elsewhere” when you talk to these same smart people. It is strange and it is like they’re looking for permission to do something different. It is almost as if the social contructs support doing things the way they’ve always been done.

Example: Even side projects would never get shipped and when I probed as to why my friend told me he “couldn't justify spending effort on this project to his family because he wasn’t getting paid for the work.” ... he had already built it the entire website and codebase and never shipped. (Surreal)

I like another commenter think about starting my next venture in Spain but my gut and experience says it would be a bad idea if you needed to hire tech talent locally.
Counterexample: Anti-trust regulation
The best part of this service is that it nags the clients for you and they won’t hold the annoyance against you.

I’m thinking maybe building a similar service for managing people. Call it tasksnare. Take all the confrontation out of management. You just set up a task on tasksnare and it will keep checking up with the worker until it’s done?

What do you guys think?
It really depends on the public transit system. For me, driving to work takes about 8 minutes. Biking to work takes about 12 minutes. Walking to work takes about 35 minutes. Taking the bus to work takes about 45 minutes (which includes one transfer).
> It seems this discussion comes up fairly often, and the solution is almost always some variation of "make driving too expensive and/or too inconvenient, to force people to use public transit". On the surface that kind of makes sense, using a large stick to strongly encourage change, but I think at its core it misses a huge portion of the problem, which is that bad public transit is 10x worse than just sitting in a bit of traffic, or dropping a few bucks on an Uber/Lyft.

The solution is to charge correct prices. Nobody in the US knows what the actual societal and cost burden of driving is, because none of them pay for it. Yes, that would make it "too expensive" to drive for those at the margin, if that didn't happen it wouldn't be a solution.

The way that you get the benefit of correct prices without burdening the poor specifically is to refund the difference via a general tax mechanism like the income tax. If driving taxes go up by $5000/yr but income taxes go down by $5000/yr, then the net burden is zero for those who don't change their behavior but it's a net benefit for those who do.
Did anyone else ever watch the TV show he had a hand in creating, “The Starlost”?

It had a great premise and I loved it as a kid, but I think it only lasted one season.
Ask HN: My company is being acquired. Should I move from CA to NV prior signing?
I just received a ~$1Million offer to purchase the IP of my tech company. My company is a Delaware C-Corp operating in California. The acquiring company is in Nevada and I'd relocate immediately so I can work as a part time consultant.

I am currently a CA resident and it seems unlikely that I could avoid paying CA income taxes on the proceeds just by getting a Nevada drivers license and renting an apartment prior to signing the agreement. But given the acquiring company is in NV and I do intend to move maybe it is a legitimate reason to not pay California income taxes. Any thoughts or general advice ? I don't have an accountant so any Bay Area CPA referrals are appreciated.
Business financing is really hard. Look into OnDeck’s quarterly reports, they are the biggest in this space (and a public company you can learn from).
Sharing a single subscriber link and having it hit the front page of HN is unquestionably good for LWN and its revenue. Which is, as your quote says, the whole point.
I’d be utterly shocked if you’re correct. Controlled substances most likely do get some kind of kind of courier delivery, but there’s no reason to do it for anything else. If it needs to stay cold you slap in an insulated box with ice packs. I’ve gotten deliveries before from Blue Apron and Omaha Steaks. Believe me, they have no problem keeping things cold.
And... no one will go to jail.
y, I would recommend doing things the 'hard way' first, learning the ropes how to do things at a basic level.

Then reveal the magic and better practices.

Next learn to roll their own web app with authentication, etc.

Then show them a framework that takes care of the 'magic' behind the scenes.
Idaho’s GDP growth in Q4’17 was almost as high as California’s. Not sure I agree most jobs are in LA/NYC.

https://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/regional/gdp_state/qgdpstat...
Definitely agreed regarding django orm. And moment you decide not to use it or cannot use it because of legacy issues you're in a world of pain. We've developed https://github.com/shosca/django-rest-witchcraft and https://github.com/shosca/django-sorcery as the project was already using django+sqlalchemy and doing everything manually and also had to touch legacy db's (think composite pk's and all kinds of db quirks..)
> service is, say, a water utility

If you need to pay using a credit card then it makes sense that you must get your credit checked.

But there are always alternative payment methods that don't involve credit (like pay by cash). If you truly do not want to consent to having a credit history, you can avoid it.
I think you'd need to spend more than 50% of the year living in NV to not have to pay CA taxes so you might be stuck paying CA income taxes on it anyway.
How about transactions made by non-residents, like people trading from outside US. They can transfer out the fund long before SEC can get to it and conclude the investigation.
It seems that we will be able to see all the ads related to an advertiser account. [1]

[1] https://ads.twitter.com/transparency
I can attest to this. I recently got 2 bottles of seemingly identical muscle relaxers, but they were just two diff manufacturers. And they made a point of calling it out so i knew why i got two half filled bottles..