skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think his point is that if the existing service has a free plan then it is going to be hard to undercut them on price. Dropbox and Robinhood want to dominate the market. OP's advice is for making a couple hundred bucks a month on the side.
I tried using Firefox Quantum since Safari 12 closed off most extensions. Firefox Quantum is laggy in comparison, particularly the UI (web page rendering is fine). For example, dragging tabs to other windows is jittery. Launching preferences page is a bit delayed.
Did you know iOS podcasts supports video podcasts? Haven’t looked at your code but maybe wouldn’t be too much work to make video work too. I’ll talk a look. Thanks!

I’ve thought that it would be a great way to avoid the algorithm addiction and only see my subs.
I had quite a hard time reading it too.
Curious why you have 1,000 shared remaining? Are you still employed there?

Also, what was the tax bill on the $14k and $1.1M in terms of percentage? Was it long term capital gains 15% fixed?
Technology destroyed the market, not users of it.

I think you could've made the same sort of argument against movies or music before netflix and napster, but here we are, and the markets still seem thirsty for new content.
Safari is my browser of choice. Until they killed off extensions with Safari 12, just a few days ago.
Proxy for disinterest. Any kid knows how to search 'where to buy stamps'. If you are trying to convince me young adults can't use the internet, I am curious, but beyond skeptical.
I had one as a kid but I disliked it. The battery life was terrible and it constantly crashed, as I recall.

I remember hacking around with this phone and trying to get apps on it. I think you could run jars on it, but it was a hassle to load them. And I think there weren't actually many apps available either.
I am no longer employed there. I hold them mostly for nostalgic purposes. I sold all of my shares because it seemed foolish to have 100% of my net worth in one company. Holding 1000 shares feels okay. Tax bill was ~0 on the $14K and my marginal tax rate on half (I’m Canadian)
> Indeed, but you must be careful not to be hostile to HR.

I agree, but don't confide in them like a life long friend either. Keep it neutral like a job interview be professional and unemotional. Only state what you did, you said.

And ask HR for a follow up e-mail of any conversation you have with them asap.
After taxes and interest on the purchase loan, about $485k. The golden handcuffs the acquirer wanted ended up being worth more than that, though.
Get someone (anyone) to pay for a copy of Aqua Data Studio.
Do you have any book recommendations specifically for the online marketing piece? Or does the space change too fast for books? I’ve picked up some read user forums, write content for marketing, email lists, and pricing tips, but haven’t found a “definitive guide”.
I was co-founder of a software company’s old during internet bubble. My partner funded everything so we split shares 80-20. Then we both got substantially diluted by two rounds of investment and 140 employee share packages. I think i had 5% at the end.

When sold we got 15% in cash, and 85% in stock in the public internet company, that was locked up for one year. The cash was a $800,000+ check. A year later i sold the stock for maybe $150k.
My stance is simple: selfie sticks are evil, reachie sticks and monopods are fine.
There are a few answers in this thread from 2 years ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12116137
All: Watch out for survivor bias. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Qd3erAPI9w
Do you regret selling the stock, unless the parent company went under.
With some artistic interpretation and CGI it's possible. For example Sniper Elite 4[1], or the Lord or War intro[2].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hRABmkVI_U

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHn1zogeyO4
Presumably the pattern would have to be interesting to merit a submission.
Is this an app available on the Google Play store? The link shows it is unavailable to me. Blocked by country (I'm in the US)?
How's it "not knowing the difference" to explain that the usage of the terms client and server switched over time, in the sense of which is local and which is remote?

An xterm client running on a VAX mainframe connects to an X11 server running on a Sun workstation: the X11 client is remote, the X11 server is local.

A web browser client running on a phone connects to a web server running in the cloud: the web client is local, the web server is remote.

Right?
> The precision of the build quality, and the use of real metal throughout, are on par with products today.

I had a RAZR early on, and I would agree that the build quality was excellent. I bought several more to give to family members in the 2010-2011 time frame -- bought both online and in phone stores -- and found that the build quality had deteriorated badly (though they were much cheaper than the original RAZR). Back covers wouldn't snap shut as securely, edges didn't meet precisely, had to recharge much more frequently, buttons didn't click as smoothly, and some parts felt like painted plastic rather than metal. To this day I don't know if I received counterfeits or if Motorola regressed enormously in build quality to make them less expensive.
Yeah - I wasn't disputing that.

But this paragraph in the article is interesting and noteworthy:

CTRL-Labs’ work is built on a technology known as differential electromyography, or EMG. The band’s inside is lined with electrodes, and while they’re touching my skin, they measure electrical pulses along the neurons in my arm. These superlong cells are transmitting orders from my brain to my muscles, so they’re signaling my intentions before I’ve moved or even when I don’t move at all.

The point is that it's sensing neural signals, not physical gestures.

So you're right that it's not a brain-computer interface in the sense that EEG is, but it is still arguably a brain-computer interface, given that what it's sensing is neural activity generated by brain.

This question is discussed in the article:

If CTRL-kit doesn’t directly connect to your brain, is it still a brain-computer interface? Reardon argues that the armband is giving people better versions of the same functions they’d get with a headset or implant, using the same kind of neural signals you’d find in the brain. CTRL-Labs obviously reaps some publicity benefits by using a hot technological buzzword, but by claiming the term, it’s also implicitly questioning whether “true” mass-market brain interfaces even make sense.

It just seems that it's a matter of nuance and interpretation rather than being clear-cut.
The context of this article still seems to constrain consistency to guarantees for single atomic units of data (atomic at the node level).

But the second you have multiple-node transactions (your data after all in a truly distributed system will exist on mulitple nodes), then the single-node reliability become dependent on multiple data exchanges across networks for confirmations. Then your network partition exposure starts to snowball.

Same thing for joins. Great if your joins are perfectly served by a node-local sharding strategy, but when you retrieve from multiple nodes, again your network partitioning risk starts to compound.

In AWS you will see noisy neighbor networks and network unreliability. Your VMs get yanked. Your EBS might experience an IO pause. GC pauses. Or simply one of your nodes might get swamped by a query spike.
TablePlus is fantastic. I think it's coming for Windows soon.
Yes it actually works quite well as long as you use the 1st, macro version.

If you have LibreOffice installed, it takes less time to actually try it, than to post a comment.
At a startup that folded, $0. (Failing is an exit!) At a startup acquired by a larger company, about $20k. Neither made up for the delta vs market rate salary.
I joined an already-successful ~400 person company with an already-published S-1 at around year 8 or 9, and worked there for around three years in total. I was given options representing such a small fraction of the company that it wasn't memorable (perhaps a hundredth or thousandth of one percent?). My options were underwater for several months after a lackluster IPO, but eventually the stock picked up enough steam to make me around $300,000.

Of all the companies/startups I've worked for, this one was by far the most corporate and least startup-ey, yet this was the only one that made me more than a penny after an exit, despite working at a few other startups that have had "exits."
What do you do when large numbers of people don't care, and are content to leech off the few conscientious students who actually want to learn the material? This was a normal state of affairs during my undergrad at a crappy community college and state university. Group projects were a nightmare.

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The best classes that I've taken have been "Feel free to collaborate, but turn in your own work." It allows people to work together on hard problems, but the slackers still fail.
Then you have a huge single point of failure. AP distributed systems assume you will lose nodes and force you to deal with the reality of them happening.

So you are either accepting the downtime or planting your head in the ground in denial.
How do you not owe any tax on $14,000 income? Is that some Canadian benefit?
I understand the sunk cost fallacy, but I agree that I'm not sure this is the greatest example of it.

Or maybe I relate to films in a completely different way from anyone else.

For example, gaping plot holes or impossible character motivations often turn me off. But I love apparent inconsistencies that are fully explained by the end.

I basically want filmmakers to convince me they put more thought into their film in the months of making it than I could in the hours of watching it.

Or... some of my favorite films are a slow burn that suddenly clicks into an intense ending that surprises you by raising the intensity far above the setup. The Third Man, Hara-kiri, M, Oldboy, The Hidden Blade.

By either of these criteria, it can be incredibly difficult to know whether a movie is good or terrible in the beginning. The extreme best and worst could begin very similarly, but they'll end in completely different places.

A bit like if Croesus and Solon were just film critics.
Reminds me of a related project presented at SIGBOVIK demonstrating the Turing completeness of PowerPoint. It is also art.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNjxe8ShM-8
Startup 1: $0

Startup 2: $0

Startup 3: $3,000,000

Startup 4: $0

That's over the course of 25 years, with a few stints at non-startups as well.
> A company in the software business charges for the usage of its software (Windows, Bing API). A company in the data business gives the software for free, and monetizes the data it collects about its users (Android, Google).

A services API isn't software. You're not buying a copy of the code and running it on your computer. And Google offers the same category of thing (paid services), e.g. the Google Maps API or G Suite, while Microsoft offers free services equivalent to google.com and gmail.com like bing.com and outlook.com.

Meanwhile Microsoft has been giving away actual software like Windows 10 for free, along with a variety of other things like IE/Edge (including for non-Windows platforms), VS Express, the Skype software, etc.

They're direct competitors operating in largely the same markets and using the same business models.
There's always a legitimate use for the spy apparatus.
You get to pay Delaware tax as well as registered foreign agent fees in your home state.
It's also painfully obvious to anyone who lived in large urban centers in US that certain races steal statistically more than other races.

Do you make a comment about that? No, because you have no context and you'll likely be shunned in polite society. You have a James Damore syndrome and probably will not help you in your career
Are they?

A significant number of the major papers published over the last several years in the field I'm currently in have European co-authors. Having witnessed how EC funding works first hand, I'm willing to go to bat that it's a major reason behind the current renaissance in European university research.

EC grants have regular reporting requirements with metrics and dissemination plans that are used to inform future awards. They also intentionally hold back a large portion of the promised funding to enforce compliance, and hold regular audits.

I can't speak for the Marie Curie action awards first hand, but defections from academia to industry are prevalent across the board, and are generally a good thing (you want academia to inform industry, and vice versa). There are also a very limited number of open positions from post-doc on up.
If you’re on macOS, Safari is quite capable at each of that.
Reminds me of coffeepot
for masochists (c. 1969)

https://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/impossible-objects
Sad because it's not available for free? What is this attitude?

At least local libraries actually buy the book to support the authors.
I once joined a company that already had several hundred employees as an entry level software engineer. It was my least favorite job: I couldn't find a fit and I only lasted just over a year. However, during that year they IPO'd, and because I made it over the vesting cliff I was able to buy my options on my way out.

Ballpark numbers:
I had 300 options at $5.
post-IPO price was around $15.
I did the "sell to buy" thing, so I sold roughly 100 shares to pay for buying all 300.
I haven't sold the other ones yet but the stock is north of $50/share.
It seems like there's less than 20k shares total in circulation. (that's like an order of magnitude less than I expected? I took "shares held(000s)" and divided by "% Own", and rounded.)

I have the impression that most of the "old-timer" employees did quite well as long as they sold their stocks at the right time: one guy spent 6+ months traveling and then took his time finding his next job, another guy thinks he might be able to retire in his '40s.

edit: as elsewhere in this thread, I also worked at a startup that failed ($0), and I've left a couple that to my knowledge are still going ($ -4k , because both times i bought options on my way out just in case they make it)
Yeah, my first exited to $0 as well.
Like anything, it polarizes. There are some thriving lodges, expiring ones, and not a lot in the middle.

Personally, I think they are due for the pendulum to swing back in their favor as generations of men start asking themselves hard questions about what it means to be a good man. The quality of the answers provided by the internet, media, self help, whatever life coaches do, and even churches is limited, and yet the popularity of the topic shows how prevalent the need is. A resurgence could help repair the civil fabric.

I didn't know about the Hawaiian Kings, that's some peculiar trivia, but it makes sense, and I understand has a lot of precedents.

Can say that the new documentary on Netflix is hilariously accurate.
Would be interesting if there was a thing to match people with marketing skills with people who have side projects that need better marketing on a cut of the revenue generated basis.

I have this problem myself. I've got a product that sells itself within its target market but the market is kind of niche so I have no idea how to get it in front of that audience. I tried Ad words but it seemed like a waste of money and didn't move the needle.
It’s investor friendly, if you have investors.
I had one of those too!
You didn't mention a single counterexample. Meanwhile:

IBM, Oracle, Apple, Microsoft, you name it. All of those have done large cycles of layoffs.

And the coding industry is infamous for its Ageism.
I was employee 30 at a startup. I worked there about 3.5 years, and then left. The company was acquired a year later. I made about $115,000, which frankly is a lot less than I would have made at a public company. My friend at Twitter during the same timeframe made close to $1M, and my friend I worked with at the startup left to join Facebook and also made over $1M.
yeah, which is usually where big companies help out. Their respect in the tech communities makes people take note of the new technology.

I really really think "underdog" is the best way to describe Nim because of this.
Huh, this makes a lot of sense and the timing of this comment is interesting. I work with a small commercial office building and they want to setup VoIP instead of using their PDX machine for phones because it’s quite expensive. Looked a lot of places but the big pain is having physical phones. Most tech companies just want you to have an app on your phone but a lot people still prefer an actual phone on their desk. This is why Dialpad wouldn’t work (also expensive) but is more complex than phone.com which will send you phones preconfigured.

Still trying to figure out the best route since so many of these places have poor UIs or don’t support physical phones and fax very well. I can’t imagine I’m the only one running into these problems so their is an opportunity here.
How much for the rest?
I’m ok with this block not voting.
The big problem in USSR specifically (I can't speak for other Sovbloc countries) was that the messaging was never consistent. Early revolutionary period was very heavy on gender equality, and very sincere. But under Stalin, there was a big reversal towards "traditional family" and all that stuff, largely to encourage rapid population growth - so they banned abortions, for example.

After that, it was some weird state in the middle - for example, in my mother's time, abortions were not banned in the USSR, but they were heavily discouraged and socially shunned. For another example, conscription was always all-male. In general, it was accepted that some jobs are just "male jobs"; e.g. Soviets had a token female cosmonaut in Tereshkova and later in Savistkaya, but overall the space program was a blatant sausage fest.

I do wonder sometimes what would have happened if the original revolutionary message of gender equality was never reversed or diluted, and lasted at full strength long enough that there was at least one generation growing up without seeing anything else.
Content is stolen if and only if a user tries to steal it, so I don't understand how you are absolving them of responsibility. People pay for Netflix and I guarantee you that if people stopped paying for it, Netflix originals would stop being made.
How about CRAPS: a SPARC Simulator?
I always preferred the follow up, the Razr 2 V9. Came a year or less before the iPhone I think.

Ran some version of Linux, with lots more storage and SD slot, and if I can remember much slicker menus than the v3. There was some way of getting shell access too.

Finally enough storage to use for music sometimes, and an effective touch interface to the music player when closed on the mini screen. Trouble is it had no 3.5 jack and a terrible usb headphone dongle, designed to break every three uses, and catch on something every 5 minutes, making it useless as music player. What a waste.

Build quality that means my very heavily used 12 year old phone still looks and feels new except for losing the little plastic charge port cover. Can't get batteries reliably now though so it's not even an emergency backup for much longer.
I'm guessing, but I think the OP means that the Nim creator is a bit like Linus Torvalds. He will tell you if he feels your idea is silly, especially if he's argued against that idea hundreds of times already.
i have used an iphone X for one year, and there is no force touch feature that you describe.
> I think you could've made the same sort of argument against movies or music before netflix and napster, but here we are, and the markets still seem thirsty for new content.

Because reasonable adults are paying for content which they want, directly via movie tickets, indirectly via e.g. Netflix and Spotify.
I joined a successful startup about ten months before it was acquired for several hundred million. The deal somehow led to a lot of employees losing their options (myself included). There was some discussion of a lawsuit but it fizzled.
iPhone SE is still supported by Apple and smaller still, and the Performance on iOS 12 is respectable. Probably not as cheap as $150 but it can’t be far off.
iOS 12 introduces this feature to devices without 3D Touch. Just press and hold the space bar until the characters on the keys disappear.
Karax needs a promotional website, badly. It's a really great SPA framework and IMO is totally competitive with React.
Why this vs. InSpec?
Previous discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3099595
Not free and not open source, but Navicat has been working very well for me over the years.
I dont live in the US so I don't comment on these things but others do regularly.
When a Canadian has $14,000 in capital gains, their tax liability is calculated as: $14,000 * 50% * marginal tax rate. The 50% is basically the Canadian way of taxing capital gains lower than earned income.

What GP was trying to convey, albeit in a slightly confusing fashion, was this:

1. He had $14,000 in capital gains

2. No tax was directly accessed against this $14,000 amount, in other word: "tax bill was ~0 on the $14K".

3. The taxable portion of his capital gains was $14,000 * 50% = $7000

4. He paid his marginal tax rate on the taxable portion of his capital gains ($7000)
When's the wedding? :D
Looking at their wikipedia pages, the Ariane 5 has had a total of 5 (partial and full) failures out of 99 launches. This is a 95% success rate. Falcon 9 has 3 failures out of 61 launches. Their success rate is actually slightly better.
That is junk economics and libertarianism. Companies certainly can and are evil, unrestrained competition is basically drug cartel turf wars/slavery, and maximized shareholder value doesn't produce the most competitive products and long-term health of a company, it produces the most short-term money to investors.
Now that’s news!
I would use pgadmin 3 too if it doesn't pop up a dozen error messages when connecting to a postgres 10 database. There's a pgadmin 3 LTS version but it only comes bundled with a postgres installer, there's no separate package for it.
You didn't put anything away from your salary? (401k? Roth IRA?)

As someone from humble origins, it surprises me more people don't live frugally 5-10 years in the Bay then retire in luxury somewhere with lower cost of living.
> doing something with that tax revenue does.

Not really. SF already spends more than $250 million annually on programs for the homeless[0]. That's about $33,333 per homeless (7,499[1]). And yet, the problem is worse than ever.

[0]: https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/29-million-incre...

[1]: https://projects.sfchronicle.com/sf-homeless/2018-state-of-h...
Milkymist: VJ on an FPGA
Thanks! I have another piece of work that shows the internal computations. I implemented hashes and cipher in short Python code. You can insert debugging prints easily to show the intermediate values. https://www.nayuki.io/page/cryptographic-primitives-in-plain...
As an author of a book on which I worked incredibly hard, FUCK you. If you want it so bad, buy it. Or wait a few years, buy it used. Or borrow it from a library. Don't fucking steal it.

Carpenters and other craftspeople who earn far less than the denizens of Hacker News buy whatever they need to further their business. They don't steal others' tools.
To be fair, isn't this a problem in any federation?

When we send people to Alabama, we're not sending our finest...
If it helps, I don’t think that’s a statement of the relative value of programmers and marketers, but a statement of necessary conditions - a great marketer without a product is pretty pointless, and beautiful code sitting unused is pretty worthless.
Sounds like a perfect Nim project for you ;)

In all seriousness, I would love to write this myself... but I physically cannot pour my heart into any more Nim projects. We need more people to help us out!
The MBTI Types as Senior Citizens – Astroligion.com
$5k.
Depends what you're working on and whether you're happy with Go :)