skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Both, and usually significantly.

Last I checked it was nearly twice as lucrative to be a Ruby-on-rails developer than an embedded engineer.

Embedded also attracts a certain type of engineer, usually very smart and able to manage extreme complexity with attention to detail but at the cost of anything resembling readable, let alone maintainable, software. The fact that anything at all works in the modern world is amazing.

I left the embedded space and have never looked back.
I think PayPal will freeze your account if you do this.
Benchmarks for Startup Spend and Cash Burn
Because family rounds would have been earlier, and typically want less risk. Also, there are almost 0 companies that can do just as well with $10M as they can with 100.

More money is a powerful sign of momentum, and it generally increases valuation.

So sure, maybe $50M is enough and 'more' just comes on worse terms ... but a small company avoiding going past Round A ... it's far more likely they just couldn't raise.
I think the gist of the article was "Hey we're working on fixing the problems." but my experience with Amazon is that they aren't working hard enough. The question is when does it show up in their bottom line (and stock price) and when does Walmart start advertising "100% fully verified products on our web site."
Neat, you independently discovered why the industry is moving to helium-filled drives.
That phrase always made sense to me in the context of banks for example who basically expected to be bailed out if they fail a la 2008, but how does it apply here? How is uber socializing losses?
Ask HN: Website/idea listing inclusive hotel prices
All the regular travel websites I've seen for searching hotel rooms list prices without including taxes, and more importantly, resort fees.

How about if someone makes a website which displays, and can search/filter by the room+resort fee? It doesn't seem that hard. Even if the hotels don't like it, a website like this can still be monetized by ads and other affiliate programs. There's a hole in the market, and the implementation isn't even that hard. Why doesn't it exist? If nothing else, I think one could even make a browser plugin that at least changes the source page for listing.
Nice! That was surprisingly detailed.

For documentary fans, this follows some of the best Tetris players in the world: http://watch.ecstasyoforder.com/

Interesting to see how they play and practice, the terminology ("drought"), etc.
Not to mention that being ahead or behind has nothing to do with whether someone could steal one of your satellites. Avoiding it is pretty easy: put a small bomb on your satellite, rigged to go off if it detects tampering. A couple of pounds would be plenty, spacecraft are fragile. I don't think anyone ever did this, since this wasn't a serious threat.
This is totally awesome. I've been waiting for serious musical tools to find their way online, and this seems like a great start.
As I recall, Rolling Stone got done on a (somewhat dubious) technicality - the jury decided that them adding the disclaimer counted as republishing the article after they knew it was false. If it wasn't for that they'd most likely have got away with it despite all the astoundingly bad reporting.
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Should note that the US benefited tremendously from the emigration of thousands of highly trained scientists well before the war started due to European anti-semitism. Einstein was perhaps the most famous but there were so many more who essentially modernized the US University system, and even contributed to the War Effort (e.g. the Manhattan Project).
Modern takes on RAID are built in to home OSs these days, and consumer grade NAS devices are pretty common. It really isn't a fancy enterprise-only technology at all.
I'm mostly curious because I work in a storage-adjacent field (NAS) for a BigCorp and the pay is pretty good, if not quite FAANG level. It's not a startup by any means, but I will easily become a multi-millionaire in a handful of years. I was curious about the other side of the fence.
This post, more then any other, just convinced me to pull out my old Unison file sync configuration (which was really good, looking at it) and get regular syncs to my NAS (which in turn uploads to cloud storage) working properly again.
What if we build a gigaton-range warhead (which modern rockets could easily lob[1]) and watch for an opportunity to deflect a comet or large asteroid? The parts I have no idea about are: how often suitable projectiles come close enough to the Moon's path that a Gt nudge would do the deed; and whether we could predict the effects of a huge nuke well enough to steer the object with the requisite precision--but it seems to me interfering with the Moon is only a bit more difficult than defending against a doomsday impact on Earth, so I hope it would be possible.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asteroid_impact_avoidance#Come...
Like most things in history: it's complicated. Generally, in a feudal system: yes, you had a job for life and that was that. How stable was that? Not very, as food is still 'variable' until the industrial revolution and the green revolution of the 1930s-1960s[0]. But starvation and epidemics are a bit orthogonal to the question of employment. Still, the skills and, importantly, the tools used were expensive to learn and teach.

The feudal system, as done in Europe in the middle ages, is actually a result of just one man: Emperor Diocletian. His policies essentially ushered in feudalism as Europe knew it. He forbade the travel of skilled craftsmen, inadvertently encouraged the self sufficiency of large estates, and tried to fully regulate all prices in the empire. His early attempts gave Rome the Tetrarchy and yet more civil wars; essentially his efforts were total failures. He actually retired, a first, and went off to grow really big cabbages in modern day Turkey. Though many of his reforms flopped, the feudal system of 'jobs for life passed onto kin' did stick for about 1500 years.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Revolution

[1] https://cafehayek.com/2006/09/an_empire_of_re.html
Thanks for the feedback, but we aren't Amazon =]

- DigitalOcean cofounder
A new approach to mocking GraphQL data
For a more detailed history, Gaming Historian did a great video earlier this year: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fQtxKmgJC8
15 years, huh? If a video of "hungry villagers" butchering the elephant GoDaddy CEO Bob Parsons murdered while wearing neon orange GoDaddy baseball caps doesn't give you a problem with GoDaddy, and you also have no problem with all the dark patterns on their terrible web site and the shady shenanigans so many people are reporting that GoDaddy currently perpetrate on their users, then what would they have to actually do to convince you to switch to a more reputable service?

https://gawker.com/5787676/meet-godaddys-ridiculous-elephant...
Does outline have some special deals with media sites?

And if it's simply stealing content, why aren't companies suing outline into oblivion like they did with Napster?
Hey HN -

Henrique here co-founder of Brex (YC W’17). I wanted to introduce the HN community to some new data we gathered at Brex as part of our new blog.

We specifically looked to highlight data that is not available to other startups.

+ We focused on startup cash burn rates by funding stage (pre-seed, seed, Series A, etc.) because for many startups there is always this question about how much you should be burning.

+ Separately, we looked at some of the most popular vendors for startups on Brex in categories like cloud services, CRM, rideshare etc.

+ We analyzed the size of the "stealth" startup market. For Brex, it was hard being in stealth for over a year and it's helpful to know just how many of you are out there

+ We looked at regional trends in startup cash burn to help startups adjust their benchmarking for their locations

Note, we were careful to aggregate the data and only share things we thought could actually help startup founders and early employees

Let me know your feedback!

Henrique
> Last I checked it was nearly twice as lucrative to be a Ruby-on-rails developer than an embedded engineer.

Yeah, yikes. That does not sound appealing :-).
They moved PHP from framework to language, it’s a small nit but worth picking I suppose.
Steve Wozniak looks like he's having so much fun in that picture. I wonder what the Tetris effect[0] looks like after playing on a building?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetris_effect
I wrote about this recently: https://plforums.org/practice/minimal-features-required-for-...
Google Unveils 3M-SF Development Plans in Mountain View
> as a guy, i've only had good experiences (except for the opaque surge pricing which always feels extortionate)

Totally off the main topic here, but I'm also a guy and I've had one ride that was a little hair-raising. I wasn't harassed, mind.

I was riding with two girls (downtown Toronto) in an Uber and the driver was clearly on speed. He was extremely chatty, actually quite friendly, but very frantic. Took many last-second turns, wrong way down one-way streets and driving over curbs to get out of the way of cars on said one-way streets. It was nuts.

That said, all other rides I've had have been just fine. Often better than my experiences with Toronto cabs. There's no cash benefit for them taking the "scenic route" or "making wrong turns" which I've had less-scrupulous cabbies do to drive up the fare. That's a feature I appreciate. But I just make myself deal with transit since removing the app— their privacy measures didn't instill much confidence in me.
I remember a hardware mod that was just a spring you put in the door latch sensor to prevent it from knowing that you had opened the lid. There was a special loader disk you put in first that got it started, then stopped the disk so you could swap in your burned copy.
Bryan Cantrill made this claim in a talk recently[1], and the fly-height is apparently 800 picometers.

[1]: https://youtu.be/fE2KDzZaxvE?t=1551
Their online chat support is extremely helpful in my experience
I paid for a CD once, a long time ago. I still had to pay for electricity for the stereo. (...)

Irrelevant, you already pay Netflix and your ISP.

A better analogy would be: I paid for a stereo, but now I have to pay for listening to it because it's a Sony, whereas I wouldn't if it was a Philips.

My mother barely uses the internet at her home, but she pays the same price I do. I am a very high bandwidth user. I definitely free-ride on the average user who consumes less bandwidth. It's not fair. I should pay more. But I don't.

Also irrelevant, Net Neutrality doesn't in any way prevent ISPs from charging for the bandwidth you consume. If they don't, it's their decision. It only prevents them from charging more depending on where the bits go.
Even if you feel that way, could you please not post it on Hacker News, and instead comment civilly and substantively? This isn't the place uninformative inflammation.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
choice 3: ride a bike

granted cycling doesn't have an accessibility solution, but it's much better for mind and body than car and public transport.
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Er, actually that's a function of the market for such articles, I assume mainly driven by older folks looking for reasons to blame millennials for anything and everything.

I don't think young journalists have control over what people prefer to click on, and they definitely like to click on that.
> Beyond a dream come true.

Luckiest man in the war. He could have been killed in any number of ways during the war, he managed to surrender to the Allies and not the Soviets, and they chose not to hold him responsible for the 12,000 slave labour deaths of the V2 programme. Not all the beneficiaries of slave labour did so well. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz_Sauckel
Reader for me
Google CEO Sundar Pichai refuses to rule out censored Chinese search engine
This is an important thing to bring up but from a different perspective. Most millennials didn't want either Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump in the last election. That lack of choice should not be blamed on a generation when the Clinton campaign subverted the DNC (and hence the popular candidate) and Trump was an unknown wildcard in a long list of crusty GOP candidates.
That's a contract of adhesion, where one party (the employer) writes the standard employment contract, and the employee can either sign it (and take the job), or not. Yes, you can rarely get small one-off changes applied, but significant re-writes of any company's standard employment contract are off the table if every job I've ever taken.

Aribtration seems fine if it's business-to-business, and both sides have full-time counsel on staff, a contracts department in accounting, etc. etc.
Thank you so much! I was really surprised I couldn't find a thing like this anywhere. I've got so many ideas - looking forward to turning it into an even more serious tool :)
> In other words, either that woman watching hulu behind the wheel is responsible, or perhaps some other employee, but a person is.

Right. If a group of people came together with a scheme that caused car accidents at the rate Uber does, they'd be held liable and they'd receive conspiracy charges.

Perhaps the same should happen to people who come up with such schemes behind the corporate veil.
This definitely appears to be the case. I'll say one thing in Amazon's defence however— their customer service is fantastic in my experience.
If Sega hadn't burned so many bridges with the SegaCD and Saturn they probably would have been a strong competitor in that generation. But both developers and customers were wary of their shenanigans by that point.
Max Weber, “Science as a Vocation” (1922) [pdf]
'Monopoly Man' Returns to Congress for Google CEO Pichai's Hearing
> Physical devices don't have SLAs

Yes, I know that. That's why I said "essentially".

> SSDs have the physical equivalent of an SLA, a warranty.

There are two orthogonal issues. The first is what happens when a device fails. A warranty addresses that. The second is how does it fail. Does it fail all at once with no warning, no way to perform post-mortem diagnostics, and no way to recover the data? Or does it fail with a gradual degradation of performance and capacity over time, and in a way that, if/when total failure occurs, the cause can be ascertained and the data still recovered somehow?
This is right! I think there is another, perhaps unrelated Reddit effect. Blogs and some news sites pick up on Reddit and then feed them what they know will be popular on Reddit. The cycle continues. That's why Reddit is so good for astroturfing.
What a surprise, right?
Could a notorious biker club's survival hinge on a trademark?
>>Access doesn't mean a road is required. He simply cannot prevent people from accessing the beach, whether by foot, bicycle or other means typically employed.

So you can use all his property to access the beach, including unnecessarily zig-zags and passing right by his front door, 100 (or whatever) feet away from the beach? Why not require him to give people 80% of the rooms in his house too?

If people have to use his property it has to be done with a delicate balance between public and PRIVATE property rights. That's what courts are for. Judging by some of the comments here, I'm kinda glad he sued.
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Is there any way for journalists to check if the information you have is accurate (and provide accurate information if it isn't) without subscribing?
Worth noting that the $80 ($100 after initial intro discount expires), was a direct response to strong backlash after they published the original pricing two days back of $150 ($250).

Twitter (where Steven and Adam are active) was fierce with debate per the merits of the price[1]. The $80 "basics" package was introduced in an immediate response.

[1]: https://twitter.com/steveschoger/status/1071998063391203328
Encryption is done at the client level, not the account level. Yes, a large majority of Google and MS users probably use the web uis of the service itself, or Google/ms clients, but the point is that switching client doesn't mandate switching provider. You can even manage your Google account via a 3rd-party web ui.
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that's not true, patagonia offers embroidery themselves: https://www.patagonia.com/corporate-sales-silk-screening-emb...

they DO refuse to do corporate orders for certain companies, e.g. oil companies / oil bankers, given that those are antithetical to their mission.
Yeah, and its not limited to science. When applied to e.g. economics, that is when people reach utterly wrong conclusions when evaluating different proposals.
How Berlin's 'Death Zone' Birthed a Whole New Ecosystem – An Urban Comic
Invision is only okay. It's bloated and sluggish with a cramped UI. I think Zeplin and Avocode are both superior products. And that's just if you are required to use Sketch - if you have the freedom to make the swap to Figma you should just do that imo.
There are even websites that list the resort fees, such as
https://www.lasvegasjaunt.com/las-vegas-resort-fees-2018-gui...

It's also possible to scrape them from other travel search sites.
Alternatively, Design for Hackers offers as well some good advise for creating an acceptable design without having to exercise your artistic skills (not too much, at least).

Some areas could be covered in more depth, but in general it lives to the promise of the title, providing good rules of thumb for which you don't need a good eye to apply them. It also contains a historical tour of visual design, satisfying the need of knowing where these rules come from (e.g. why designers care so much about font families and their proportions, and where the basic design vocabulary comes from), which is a welcome approach for inquisitive minds who want to know the reasons why a rule exist.

https://designforhackers.com/
HN mindset: "I despise clickbait. Misleading, editorialized titles designed to trigger emotional responses? No thank you!"

Reality: this comments section.
In many high profile murder cases, you'll hear details about what they were searching for or watching on Youtube before that.
Yes, but depending on your architecture, that may result in a service outage or degradation. It's really nice to be able to VMotion live machines without any impact to users.

Sure, Devops, durable machines, chaos monkey, etc. etc.; we don't develop all of the code our users run, and not all of it has those features yet, or will ever.
I think if you dangle government sources, even "anonymous" ones, in front of a reporter like Jordan Robertson, you are gonna get a story, regardless of the editorial slant of the paper.

Of course, my crazy conspiracy story doesn't explain Robertson's industry sources. It could be, as others have said, a misunderstanding (I mean, we all know IPMI is run through with exploits; no conspiracy there. You just don't put your IPMI on an untrusted network. ) and it doesn't explain his continuing to stand with the story even after the giant and poorly controlled security community has been set to tearing apart motherboards.

Really, that last bit points to... if not incompetence, at least to him not understanding how this sort of thing works.
But you started to compete with your customers. Good luck.

-DigitalOcean ex-customer
You nailed it. NPR did a story about the class division among journalists this year, or late last year. Folks from lower-socioeconomic classes have a more difficult time getting into journalism, because of the low-wage barrier early in their careers.

So we have a class of journalists from upper-middle to upper classes. They select their experiences and their 'circles' as the experiences, and here we are.

I have no data, but I'm 100% certain that if you interview individuals with enough wealth/education/privilege to be in the same social circles as the major journalists for major organizations, your experiences aren't the standard US citizen experiences.
By pushing the burden of operating and maintaining a taxi fleet onto its drivers, rather than making it a cost of doing business like a real taxi fleet.
FWIW, as a former employer of a web dev company, I can say that having a CS degree tended to be a minus rather than a plus: CS graduates tend to be too theoretical and not practical enough in day-to-day development work.
Is this precedented? If so, why they do that?
Show HN: Steel Explorer, beautiful exploratory visualization of structural beams
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Tangential, but great interview with Demis Hassabis here:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p06qvj98

(skip to 01:30 for real start)
Personally I love Uber and avoid taxis as much as possible. The worst Uber ride was still far better than the best taxi I've taken. A driver might be chatty and you have a great conversation, or they just stay quiet. Either ways a much better experience than the angry cab driver.

I was a little shocked when Uber sent me my stats for last year 1000+ rides.
You can strip the steganographic watermark by having somebody retype the information from the document, but that doesn't defeat the barium meal.
Amazon Workers Injured in Bear Spray Accident
In Europe travel websites are no allowed to do that. They have to list final prices including any taxes, credit card fees and such. http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-17-844_en.htm A recent trick was to default to a co-branded credit card where any other payment method costs extra. Of course the co-branded credit card has a high annual fee so it was unlikely a user would choose that.
For fault-tolerance in case the box is unresponsive for whatever reason, I think you would have to have a network behind a load balancer. So the issue of network latency still exists, but probably to a lesser extent?
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I think you're forgetting to multiply by 4.

$50900 * 4 = $203,600.
As someone who uses InVision daily, I have become more and more frustrated with the experience.

Building a large project feels like building a house of cards. I often run into small but infuriating UX issues inside their app. One example of this is uploading artboards from Sketch using the InVision Craft plugin. Uploading a new artboard that has the same name as a previously uploaded artboard overwrites the original without asking or telling you what happened. I spent way to long trying to figure out why one of my artboards wasn't uploading, and then it took me even longer to figure out where it ended up once I realized the problem. When you have hundreds of screens in a project every upload from Craft starts to feel scary.

These little interactions are all over the app and the amount of frustration they cause becomes exponential over time, like a repetitive strain injury.

I've been an InVision user for a long time and it seems to me that the core features have not improved, but have actually degraded over time. I assume because they put all their resources into Studio.

I hope they use some of this money to improve their core offering. Sketch users aren't going away and I think it would be wise to try and keep as many of them as possible using InVision.