skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>The median success for the typical podcast, Amazon seller, or self-published author in terms of income, after one factors in the number of hours involved and start-up costs, amounts to less than minimum wage.

Potentially for the podcast and self published author, those are both highly saturated niches. But I don't believe that's the case for Amazon sellers. I know many people who make 6-7 figures a year profit on Amazon, well above minimum wage.
PHP was practically "serverless" before serverless was even a thing. You just deploy your code with ftp, rsync, git, or whatever. There's no step 2.
You are not alone

https://www.theverge.com/2019/3/5/18251326/ai-startups-europ...

> Forty percent of ‘AI startups’ in Europe don’t actually use AI, claims report
Eh, this goes immediately into what parent is talking about. "Love one another" comes first only according to one of the four tellings of this scene (John's). The other three say that loving "the Lord your God" comes first.

Matthew: https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+22:36-4...

Mark: https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Mark+12%3A28-31

Luke: https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke+10%3A25-28...
Except these institutions are not paying taxes on the gain??

> Typically, when you sell a stock for more than you paid, you owe tax on the gain. But thanks to a quirk in a Nixon-era tax law, funds can avoid that tax if they use the stock to pay off a withdrawing fund investor.
You have socialism and communism reversed.
Flag all killjoys.
Yeah the few things they have gotten here and there have been pretty unimpressive.
CSS4 Color Keyword Distribution Visualization
The problem is that there's just too much out there--too many books, movies, TV shows, news articles, blog posts. No one has time to keep up with it, so some sort of cultural selection process is necessary. The only content that can stand out is content that can get views, and it just so happens that a lot of that content is the same. Until we have more platforms that don't rely on ads to keep those engagement rates high I think we're stuck with this situation. Maybe it's just an inevitable by-product of a world where anyone can produce anything and instantly publish it for the whole world to see.
Unless all the startup funding in the valley is going to pitch decks about real estate I don't see how your tldr follows.
Sounds good. Though part of being a cofounder is more than MVP, is there any vesting provision?
Also not 100% clear who gets the 80%
The honest concern is that the reported time measurements for those JavaScript and TypeScript fannkuch-redux programs seem too different.

The honest question is -- Can someone please confirm that those programs implement the same algorithm?
From my memory (which is not the most reliable source) it was a co-dependent relationship initially. PHP gained acceptance as a language for open source web projects, which lead to the likes of phpBB and Wordpress which in turn lead to PHP gaining even more presence on the web.

I think the staying power of php is at least in part due to the continued success of popular projects that rely on it, whoever was responsible for its initial successes.
I had a very accommodating boss who let me take 5-6 weeks. People on most other teams in my company end up taking 3ish.
>Overall, entrepreneurship is overrated. 5 successes for every 100 failures

If failure is defined as going out of business, and success is defined as surviving, then the real five year survival rate for new businesses is ten times higher than the author has written.

https://www.fundera.com/blog/what-percentage-of-small-busine...
Autistic Woman Finds Therapy in Stripping
I spent awhile with loader.io and digital ocean. Putting mysql on a seperate box was huge and allowed me to accept 10x more traffic. This guide helped me back in the day.

http://digitaloceanvps.blogspot.com/2014/04/best-configurati...

For gmail interesting.. wonder why google trusts me.
I'd say the education provided is more than "incidental".
You cannot in fact pay a pentest firm to hack a SAAS provider that has your data. The companies claiming to do this for "CEOs and celebrities" are, to some extent, lying.
U.S. national debt tops $22T for the first time
Since the OP didn’t talk about coil whine at all, I would guess that the actual SPL was well above 0 dbA.
I run my own dns server with a forward rule to a local cloudflared dns proxy. ISP's can't see my queries.
Interesting, because I remember when I first read Fellowship aged 11 or 12 I was absolutely sure that Bombadil would turn out to be a bad one, beguiling and leading the Hobbits to their doom, for much the reasons outlined by the author.

I was pretty sure when they went to be in his conttage that night, they wouldn't be waking up to a happy morning. I didn;t really trust him until they got to Bree.
Assume ASCII characters: ORD('a') - ORD ('A') = 32

IF ('A' <= ch) & (ch <= 'Z') THEN
ch := CHR(ORD(ch) + 32)
END
Chick-Fil-A has one huge benefit that most don't see at a glance: Sunday's off. It's easy to dismiss this as some sort of imposition of Christian values on workers but in the service industry, it is rare that you're able to coordinate time off very far in advance. With Chick-fil-A workers know they have every single Sunday off no matter how far off in the future their plans may be.

In high school friends who worked there loved it because it meant they knew they could go out on Saturday nights without worry about having a Sunday morning shift. Want to buy tickets for a concert six months away? If it was on Sunday you knew 100% for sure that you could go. Meanwhile I worked at a grocery store and my schedule was different pretty much every week. For people who work M-F jobs, it's easy to forget the difficulty in making weekend plans when you don't know very far in advance what days or hours you'll being required to be at work.
But then you have to ask yourself why this surge in demand for real estate in urban areas hasn't been met by a corresponding surge in supply? Why aren't developers building new apartment complexes as fast as they can to cash in?

The answer is primary that regulation by local governments prevents them from doing that thereby keeping real estate prices high.
I don't know, but you're not going to be successful at real math without a lot of practice. The PISA exam is a joke and looks like 6th grade math.

http://www.oecd.org/pisa/test/PISA%202012%20items%20for%20re...
I feel like I am reading an article from someone who never has run their own business. You start a tech company because you want to do something new, not to get rich.

Further, I don't think it's that uncommon for entrepreneurs to see the employer-employee relations as the following:

- being an employer is a status in which you take risks

- being an employee is a status in which you avoid risks

Blaming the other for their current status is dumb, regardless of on which side you are.
The lack of a byline is incredibly telling, I wouldn't attach my name to this drivel either.

> just get a 6 figure job and invest in things created by entrepreneurs because the market is only going up, up up. But don't be an entrepreneur yourself.

Y'all got any of them 6 figure jobs lying around back there?

For a 24 year old? One with job security, so like series C or later? I want to get paid, but not take any risks.
"In the book, Piketty relies on a paper by Loukas Karabarbounis and Brent Neiman that estimated a high marginal elasticity of substitution given two sets of facts: capital has gained national income at the expense of labor, and the price of capital inputs to production has been falling. The authors interpret the latter as the cause of the former, and again within the confines of neoclassical production theory, the only way to reconcile those two facts is with a high degree of factor substitutability: when capital becomes cheap, firms switch to using it, displacing workers. The labor displacement exceeds the increase in wages to workers who remain employed, thus reducing the total labor share of national income. That paper does not mention Piketty, but in a follow-up the next year, the same authors foreground the similar model proposed by Piketty."

Back in the '80s and '90s, a topic that I kept seeing was, "where is the productivity?" With companies spending huge money on technology and computerization, there should have been visible gains in productivity numbers, right? But, there weren't. What's up with that?

My thoughts, as a non-economist, when I saw that were of things like just-in-time inventory controls, which were new and entirely dependent on new technology. They needed massive structural changes, which may be why they didn't show up immediately, but still...they were there and the metrics and models of economists weren't capturing their effects until they had completely taken over.

Likewise, the elasticity of labor and capitol sounds very much like the effects of automation on industrial jobs.

"The aforementioned paper by Furman and Orszag argues that what Piketty (and Gabriel Zucman, in their joint work) identify as a high and invariant rate of return on capital in aggregate in fact reflects uncompetitively high rate of return on capital for a few specific, superstar firms in the economy, and the key task is not to manipulate aggregate macro equations, as Piketty (and neoclassical economists more generally) do, but rather to explain why these superstar firms do so much better than everyone else. The short version, according to Furman and Orszag, is rents—payments that some agents, superstar firms in this case, are able to extract from the rest of the economy either because they have successfully blocked any competitive pressure or because they have bought special treatment through the political system, or some combination of the two, in addition to other mechanisms."

Or perhaps we're talking about things like the FAANG set. the extracted payments are personal information---which is not captured in any economic theory I've ever seen---and the moat blocking competitive pressure is the combined result of network effects (bigger databases win) and extensive financial capitalization. (How do you fight a competitor to whom not only is additional capital effectively free but also has huge stocks of monetary capital just lying around in stacks on the floor?)
My security answers are often random "junk". I've tried to social engineer my way into my own accounts a couple of time - and all of them have insisted on me reading out the full "answer".
DropScript (2001)
New studies confirm existence of galaxies with almost no dark matter
It's not clear that doubling the research funding from the NIH results in twice as much qualitative output. That's all I mean.
Exactly this. I've been doing back-end development for work the last 7 years, first Java then NodeJs and I'm now playing with the Rust web backend (still very early-stage but promised to a bright future IMHO) but my personal blog is still PHP, and so was my wedding's website. Being able to drop a file through FTP on a 2€/month shared server is so convenient!

PHP is the VBA of the web: it's ugly but too useful to ignore.
I guess he doesn't considered running a blog entrepreneurial?
What are the "various" glitches that have prevented anyone seeing a drop fall?
كلمات اغنية يا عنب يا مشمش ليال عبود
I maintain a few very different packages, and have had some good experiences and bad experiences. What I maintain ranges in size and complexity from Javascript libraries, database add-ons, and virtual synthesizer modules.

I've dealt with hostile users, and hostile packagers, but ultimately I've stuck with it due to some quite incredible challenges and communications I've received, ranging from very difficult problems that they've reached out for help solving, causing me to rethink some solutions, to very nice notes asking if it's ok to use software that I released as building-blocks (what it was designed and specifically licensed for). But, there are still those people that I dread hearing from, that make me want to just stop -- thankfully there are enough of the other kind, and interesting problems, to keep me going.

As for donations - I have only put donation links on the virtual synthesizer modules, and have received a grand total of $5, not exactly game changing, but worth a pint of beer.

So, I maintain for another day, maybe not as actively as some would like, but at least at a level that keeps me from burning out on it.
It likely also varies a bit by the cost of living where the employees live.
Google employees can use 20% of their time to work on projects of their choosing.
Dressing modestly includes the veil. Furthermore, there are authentic Hadiths, as well as accounts of the Companions that are used for litigation. We know for certain that women used to cover their hair by narrations and historic accounts, and they did that because it was part of the religion.
Not sure if this qualifies as intermediate representation in the LLVM sense, but PHP has opcodes already, it is not fully interpreted anymore (like it was in PHP 3).

These opcodes are used for optimizations and cached for the lifetime of the PHP process (across multiple requests).
I said that Vim has built-in shortcuts for that (from what I know, Intellij doesn't) and I added custom ones because I wanted a simpler one. It's a fair point that editing a config file might seem way more complicated than modifying settings in IDE, however now that I learned about existence of config file and a command to add new key mapping, I can customize every operation I use, while in IDE I have to look for a proper setting every time.
Do these estimates account for some amount of I/O costs? For example with Heroku Postgres the instances use provisioned IOPS which is bundled into the cost, but if you’re running on RDS your cost may vary considerably depending on actual usage or whether you provision the same amount of IOPS.
Things may have changed since v7 but historically I’ve not found PHPs documentation any better than any other language.

In fact I remember a few occasions where I’ve ended up going by the advice of the comments rather than the documentation itself because the documentation was either out dated or just plain wrong.
I'm thinking about end of this piece, where it briefly discusses some artists who are finding some measure of fame and fortune in their seventies and eighties.

And I'm thinking about a story I saw here a little earlier this morning about a guy who built his gleefully stupid idea of "a dating site for fans of Kanye West" into something that got him a meeting with that star. [1]

And I'm thinking about The KLF's "The Manual: How To Have A Number One The Easy Way" [2] and how much that Kanye-dating story reminded me of the parts of that which weren't specifically about the nuts and bolts of making a pop song for eighties Britain.

And I don't necessarily have any conclusions. Something about the role of advertising in our culture to grab attention, to tell people that hey, this thing you might like exists, and to repeatedly tell them that until they actually bother having a look at the thing [3] and maybe deciding they like it enough to tell other people about it and maybe even give you a little money for the thing, and how hard it is to keep doing that when you're focused on honing your craft and doing the best whatever-it-is you can do around the demands of keeping a roof over your head, and who the hell can find time to do all that advertising, let alone learn how to do it effectively.

And you know who has the money to pay people to do all that advertising? Mostly people working for the megacorporations that squat over our cultural landscape, making work that walks a fine line between being new enough to be different, but close enough to existing successful work to be able to get funding.

And once again I want to start that Kickstarter to dig up the corpse of Jesse Helms and do terrible things to him in vengeance for his role in gutting the NEA that I keep making jokes about lately.

1: https://thekanyestory.com/, hn discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19523853 (such as it is)

2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Manual - the full text is one search for "klf manual" away

3: tangentially, I make nerdy comics about robot ladies with reality problems (http://egypt.urnash.com/rita/) and cartoon animals in space (http://egypt.urnash.com/parallax/) and am working on reprinting my super-stylized and nerdy tarot deck (http://egypt.urnash.com/tarot/)
Still true and will always because the incompatibility between Redis and huge pages is at a more fundamental level.
A good long hike in book form!
On the link from [2] it says:

> We split the resulting product 80-20 (me-you) as co-founders.

I found it confusing that there was no [2] in the body of the post, only the footnote list.
Probably the race to the bottom when it comes to work-life balance.
Out of curiosity, what was the outcome of The HN Proposition 1.0?

Edit: http://www.simonnouwens.com/hn/index.php/2019/03/31/init-com... answers the question
Apparently, Typescript type system is already Turing-complete: https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript/issues/14833
We get "checked" multiple times on a daily basis. How do you deal with those?
Yep. The last few times I've been through London they've insisted on absolutely emptying my backpack because, and I quote, I had "carefully coiled cables in it". I'm an IT guy, I travel with a laptop, several devices for entertainment on a plane, chargers, etc. I promised them that next time I would toss the cables in haphazardly so as to prevent further issues. They were...unamused.
Yes, that paragraph is very, very bad, because it's not people of equal education that would have equal wages, but equal productivity---which will vary depending on what firm you're at! Not just because of sorting and poaching of talent, but some firms' production and capital structure will be such that the marginal worker will be more productive.
Probably make a better movie than The Old Man and The Gun (2003).

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2003/01/27/the-old-man-an...
This comment manages to mix some elitist contempt of the arts with a whiff of conspiracy theory, while not saying anything of substance about Piketty’s work. Well done!
>There are so many businesses you can run that are almost impossible to fail.

Can you give examples of some of these businesses?
In 2010 the HDCP master key was leaked basically killing DRM for HDMI. The KEY take away, pun intended, is that when you get the opportunity to use RSA or invent your own scheme, use RSA.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-bandwidth_Digital_Conte...
The True Dollar Cost of the Anti-Vaccine Movement
For a hobby project that I wouldn't expect to monetize, $200 is too much, I totally agree. For a side project that makes some passive income however, I would hope to start out under $50 and scale up as needed.
Please share more information on the "whys".
"The idea gained some traction, and hmexx received over 250 emails, which were filtered down to 5 picks. Out of those 5, three were discontinued (1 after market research, 2 after failure to deliver MVP). The 2 ideas that were put online appear to be http://parametrek.com (an experimental product search) and http://www.textrep.com (an open-house notification system). Both projects as well as the experiment ended up floating somewhere on the software-graveyard, which is a shame, as the idea is great and the premises are (mostly) correct. Besides that the proposition generated a lot of community interest, which ended up being unused by the project." -- http://www.simonnouwens.com/hn/index.php/2019/03/31/init-com...
How many projects are you looking to do? One at a time?
PostgreSQL 'TIMESTAMP', for nonextreme values, is the same idea as java.time.Instant -- an absolute point on the timeline stored internally as a number from some epoch -- but whose default textual interface accepts and emits java.time.LocalDateTime values that correspond, but aren't tagged with the UTC zone.

When you insert into a 'TIMESTAMP', it's as if it did input LocalDateTime(x).atZone(UTC).toInstant(), and saved that; and when you read it, it's as if it does storedInstant.atZone(UTC).toLocalDateTime().

A 'TIMESTAMPTZ' is stored the same way, but on string output is converted to the session timezone, and an underspecified input is enriched with the session timezone.

When you insert into a 'TIMESTAMPTZ' it'd take the input OffsetDateTime or ZonedDateTime, or enrich the input with the session zone until one were obtained, call .toInstant(), and save it. On read, it'd do storedInstant.atZone(sessionZone) to obtain a ZonedDateTime, and its default output format only includes the offset.

LocalDateTime is useful for calendaring, and as an intermediate step when joining a LocalDate and a LocalTime and working towards a Zoned or Instant.
>Imagine that a grocer got a tax deduction every time someone returned a box of cornflakes to his store. Heartbeats are when the grocer asks a friend to buy all the boxes and return them, just to pocket more deductions.
>Fund managers and bankers say the trades are perfectly legal...

How is this legal, this seems to me to be fraud?? If this was small town grocer and John Doe, how would this not be rolled up into a defrauding the government?

https://www.justice.gov/jm/criminal-resource-manual-923-18-u...
But your python code is still really ugly. In Scala:

import scala.collection.mutable.Map

> val map = Map.empty[String, Int]

> List("hi", "there", "hi").map { x =>

> map(x) = i

> }
Just to clarify who gets the bigger share of equity?
Definition of entrepreneurship in English: The activity of setting up a business or businesses, taking on financial risks in the hope of profit.

https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/entrepreneurshi...
The article addresses this, pointing out that many of these teacher strikes are led by the workers themselves, rather than union leadership (which often tries to avoid strikes).

This is HN, right? I'd expect someone here to seize on that opportunity, and develop some sort of service to help workers organize themselves, perhaps against the wishes of their union-appointed bureaucrats.
The camera body gets warm (not uncomfortably warm, but annoyingly so) after shooting stills for a while when the outside temperature is high. And it rebooted on its own quite a few times when I was traveling in my home country.

This also contributes to extra sensor noise in long exposure shots in the dark, which Sony tries to mitigate with software. This leads to the infamous 'star eater' scenario.
Some SAAS companies set up bug bounties that offer explicit permission to test. Some companies offer that permission without a bounty. In the absence of either of those conditions, much of what a pentest firm would do to check the security of a website is a federal crime.

It's not a crime that is routinely prosecuted (at least not in the US; there are horror stories from the UK). But that doesn't mean it's safe to build a business around that activity.

(To be clear: I'm saying this about general security testing, not taking over someone's account who's paid you to do so. That's not criminal, just sort of unethical.)
Fixed that just now, thank you!
“being an employee is a status in which you avoid risks”

I think people working for equity as part of their compensation would disagree with you.
Starting a tech company because you want to get rich is a fine reason to do so, it just shouldn’t be the only reason. When you have a goal of actually making good money it will force you to build a successful company on purpose from the ground up, not by “accident” (i.e making a simple product or app to fulfill some need and then it just happens to spread virally and become a huge success).
It is a racket. Get a nexus pass for ~US$40 and it’s good for Canada and US, including Nexus.
I like how the more mathematical concepts get their way to the mainstream languages. It's making concepts such as monoids and semigroups more accessible to general public.
But don't investors eventually pay the tax when they sell the ETF?
Researchers trick Tesla autopilot into driving into opposing traffic