skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wouldn't think about it as an either/or. In fact, from my limited circle of friends in Silicon Valley, I would actually say the most common route to entrepreneurship is something that starts as a side project.

There is a great deal of research showing the 20-year-old Mark Zuckerberg model of entrepreneurship to be a myth. Find a job that interests you, provides you with room for learning and pays the bills, and keep an eye on your entrepreneurial dreams.

[https://hbr.org/2018/07/research-the-average-age-of-a-succes...]
I recently bought and drank some distilled water. It tasted oily and I'd swear for a brief instant I was able to taste colors.
Keep a very accurate scale handy, or a mass spectrometer.
I did not root my phone yet, and I install apps with f-droid just fine. The only thing I had to do, if I recall correctly, was enabling third party apps instalation
Agreed!

It's easy to say 'you should be investing that capital into projects.'

But I think people don't realize how much money is actually generated by some of these companies.

I know AAPL is the strongest possible case for my argument, but bear with me.

Their operating cash flow net of CAPEX is ~$65B as of their 2018 year ending in September. I.e., after paying for all of the investments they want to make, they still have $65B in straight up cash left over.

I mean -- what are you supposed to do with all of that?
Ask HN: Do you want Screenhero back? (Screenhero-cofounder here)
Screenhero (YC W13) was acquired by Slack, and our tech powers Slack Calls. Today, Slack announced it's sunsetting Screenhero-style screen sharing in Slack Calls.

I know there are lots of people that loved Screenhero, and I'm curious if your needs are being met through existing alternatives (Tuple, UseTogether, Zoom). If not, I'm considering working on a successor.

FYI I've been working on rebooting my previous startup in the remote desktop space, and have built Scrn (https://scrn.app) with a small team. But with today's announcement, I'm wondering if there's a far greater need for a Screenhero-style remote work / collaboration product.
This dump was made public on purpose. So were other dumps in cases like that.
The site probably doesn't control the ads that appear, and such an ideological slant doesn't look evident looking at the titles of their other articles.

The first bit is bang-on.
I'm using AsteroidOS on my LG G Watch and I'm very impressed. The smoothness & clean UI, is one of the main reason for me to continue using it in-spite of lack of crucial daily-use wearOS apps like Authenticator.

IMO, since smart watches are mostly about notifications & heart rate monitors; alternative OS for smart watches like these doesn't necessarily compromise much. My watch doesn't have a HR monitor, more over wrist based HR monitors cause me pain[1]; so I can't say about it in Asteroid OS.

Architecture is well thought out with OpenEmbedded, libhybris, Wayland & Qt QML interface doesn't feel like some hobby project. I just wish there was more community love.

[1]: https://abishekmuthian.com/my-experience-with-fitbit-charge-...
I was taught in economics classes that buybacks shouldn't increase the stock price at all, which clearly isn't true in practice. It ends up being more complicated than the simple models would suggest.
Ya they probably are a little different... a BS in CJ probably included more liberal arts and sociology classes that forced the student to think and talk about things like race and class, and looked at specific historical examples of social injustice etc. The engineer rolled their eyes at the required non-degree classes.
It is very impressive, but software is a very different business.
These video series with Gell-Mann are super interesting in my opinion -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LU6kbao3vo
It's a little funny to focus on GitHub's fork/pull-request model if you're trying to critique their centralization and lock-in. Every single successful open source project — on GitHub or not — has a canonical "source" branch and some sort of organization/leadership that decides what goes in. I'd argue that GitHub's behavior here isn't a power grab so much as a reflection of reality.

The "real" lock-in is with the discussion model — on both issues and pull requests — and the organizational structure you're able to set up. It's easy to move the source code to another service. Heck, you can even email patches to maintainers of a project on GitHub without creating an account. It's not easy to move historical discussions/reviews or "commit bits"/maintainership roles, and of course you can't participate in reviews of an emailed patch that a maintainer PRs for you unless you create an account.
> Axon, which makes body-worn cameras and Tasers... is building a system for managing records...the firm’s chief information-security officer, says that “what we can do to help officers improve most isn’t the sexy stuff. It’s helping them be more efficient and spend more time on the street.”

Uh... what they could do to help officers improve most might be shipping a device that doesn't seem to mysteriously malfunction or be turned off during the most controversial use of force incidents.

The way bodycams are supposed to help is by forcing officers to be accountable for their actions. When police have plausible deniability due to poorly designed tech, all these expensive devices become basically worthless.

In my cynical moments I have wondered if making such bad tech is actually a selling point for Axon and its competitors. They're selling to police departments; the less likelihood bodycams have of embarrassing police, the more likely they are to make a sale. Check the box, move along. I try to have more faith in our institutions, but the abject failure of bodycams from a technology perspective makes me wonder.

I supposed it could also just be due to a few companies having a lock on an enterprise hardware market.
RAR was invented by a Russian (Eugene Roshal) and still popular in Russia (compresses better than zip and faster than 7z).
Totally agree with crossfits guide to a lower carb diet, that meat/veggies/seeds should make up the bulk of your diet, and grains are more for livestock. Switching to low carb, lost weight and felt better.
He mentioned that he has a mortgage, so moving is probably not an option for him at this time.
I think it's more about the trade-off. There's no obvious opportunity to deploy the capital, and if one pops up later, easy credit makes it trivial to take advantage of the new investment.
> Once you get to a certain level of success in the business world, you can't fail.

How are Scott McNealy, Carly Fiorina, and Don Mattrick doing these days? /s
See "git format-patch" and "git am". The short name of "git am" is a hint that Linus probably used it a lot, given that git was built to replicate his personal idiosyncratic workflow.

(Obviously you have to use a command line mail client too, in keeping with git's spirit of user friendliness)
> indicates that they can't find growth opportunities at any price.

This is a great way to put it! Thank you. Would it be fair to say that this suggests the market isn't really expanding and has essentially become zero-sum (or technically I guess it could mean that expansion is free, but that seems unlikely)?
Mmmmm, Thinkpads :-)
That's not how orbits work.
I suspect it’s largely to avoid ballooning the size of indexed search data they have to store, given the many many forks of popular repos. So a mix of biz/tech reasons, but not really nefarious.

That said, given the nature of git, I usually just fall back to clone/grep.
Lone Echo does this. The first time you look at the rings of Saturn hundreds of miles beneath you is truly breathtaking.

https://www.vgvids.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/lone-echo-...
/me applauds crossfit

The 8 complaints about FB on the crossfit website are rather good and I wish more would see this perspective. https://www.crossfit.com/battles/crossfit-suspends-facebook-...
> Right now I’ve spent months on getting a full clean-room reversed version of Google’s Firebase Cloud Messaging system’s client library working

Thank you for that! I'm very sceptical of Googles "soft lock-in" and will switch to MicroG Lineage sooner or later. So every inch helps.
Previously submitted twice with the second submission leading to a substantive discussion [0][1].

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19995636

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19997971
There's something to be said with our Government personally reaching out to every resident and citizen, even if to just deliver a letter (yes, I know the USPS isn't quite the "Government" any more, but it's close). It makes us feel connected and part of something.
Intelligent, possibly. Introspective, I'm not so sure.

Being educated can help protect some against abuses of power, but do you believe engineers are immune to abuses of power? I don't think so. The mechanisms are the same.

What would lower abuse is deescalation training, dedicated, well-founded mental health care, decriminalizing drugs, and most importantly breaking the blue shield: holding officers accountable by actually trying officers that have committed crimes, increasing the power of agencies regulating them, weakening the power of the police union so they can actually be accountable.
There are ways to withdraw money from the card indirectly, for example: ordering expensive goods or betting on sport events.
OKRs from a development team’s perspective
THIS! This is exactly what I have spent the last few years working on. Though its on one of these small screens, I've been striving to bring a greater appreciation of the old masters with gameplay mechanics. (You basically repaint the paintings in the game (in a fun way)) I feel this, and what I'm working on is only the beginning of a growing group of technologies and design that brings understanding and appreciation to a large audience. It's really exciting to think that more and more people will give these beautiful wonders much more than a passing glance, but rather a develop meaningful connection with them.
Awesome. A feature suggestion. Add option for users to enter details of their laptop, keyboard, mouse model etc when they submit the photo. You can probably create a rank list of popular gear from this. Also can link the gear to Amazon and make some money via referral links ;)
On engineers who give a shit
This is wrong. Accelerating a return to the moon came from Trump. Please see:

https://www.google.com/amp/nymag.com/intelligencer/amp/2019/...

Some have speculated that the NASA (acting) Administrator at the time, Robert Lightfoot, was replaced with Bridenstine because the latter would back a fast return to the moon.
More technology to process forms just enables the bureaucracy to create more forms, in the same way that computer programs have gotten more fat off of the increased power and capability of modern devices. It makes the process shitty for everybody else who don't want to pay for, can't pay for, or aren't covered by the nifty tech. Exhibit A being TurboTax.

Technology is a band-aid, not a solution, and technology can also be used to make progress towards solving the problem decay, or actively worse.
Five questions you can use to cut through AI hype
That's only true for private repos though, for open source repos it would work just fine.
Consider getting into their Friends of the Library program, or whatever they call it. That helps fund them beyond what they get from taxes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friends_of_Libraries
Exactly. Cap and trade including all industries and imports and with aggressive allowances.
While I kind of agree to a degree, work output =\= value. Great managers have less work output than a single engineer, but can easily provide far more value as a whole in terms of removing roadblocks, protecting time, keeping work focused on concrete goals, etc. The same can be true at the senior leadership level as well where setting the company on the right path, executing large deals, securing new markets, etc. can easily create more overall value for the company than any one or even ten engineers.
Ask HN: Does Anyone Use Code Folding?
Does anyone use code folding? If so, what do you feel are the biggest benefits it gives you?

Also curious to see if anyone has any strong reasons against it?

The main benefit I can see is that you can use the folded code as an outline of the classes/functions in the file.
I just left a job that amounted to this. I stuck around because I went to work with a good friend who's off-the-charts good at what we do. He lasted three months after I joined and I was gone the week after.
My Rapist Apologized
I feel this hard rule of never mentioning a salary as candidate is too simplistic.

There's certainly the risk of lowballing yourself if you don't understand your market worth but there's also the opportunity to anchor the starting point of the negotiation.

Learning the strategies for successful negotiations is a skill a recommend everyone to look into. Skills in this area can have a very high payoff in your professional and personal life.
Two of those people are billionaires and the Carly Fiorina is also incredibly rich ($50-60 mil) after departing HP.
I don't think anything is as good as screen hero used to be. The problem that I've had since it's been integrated with Slack is that it often acts like there's not enough bandwidth. Choppy connections, etc. I end up switching to a Google Hangout which will typically work fine.

I think there's some clear space for "remote pair programming" tools.
OK, what's the advantage for the hacker? Except fame, I mean.

Isn't it better to stay quiet, to help ensure long-term access?
will be a flac version of a track sound better than a mp3 that was converted from a m4a ? or am I just missing the whole point of FLAC.
How could the price not go up? I understand buybacks as reverse dilution. Each share represents a larger percentage of the company, therefore it is more valuable and it's price should be higher. Is that wrong?
>None of those skills have been practically useful

Honestly you never know when something you are familiar with becomes important later.

Something that was important to get it done may not be as important in later tasks. (My Operating Systems Class at university was greatly useful in my first job, not as much after) My dabbling in JS got me job programming timecard apps for blackberries and changed my work trajectory.

This field changes so fast and you can't learn everything, so learning things you enjoy and help you get what you are working on now.

That and data-structures and databases, you can never know enough about both.
Accused of Cyberspying, Huawei Is ‘Exiting the U.S. Market’ (2013)
I don't know much about _this_ particular project, but "wasm + blockchain" is not that silly an idea.

The ethereum crowd is dead set on making the "Web 3.0" thing take off, and getting smart contracts to evolve into full-fledged distributed applications (dapps in the lingo). In that context, the ewasm project is a pretty damn serious attempt at leveraging the wasm specification as a better VM for dapps than what the current EVM provides.
Just don't get rhabdo
Well, from a purely social perspective, the answer is pretty obviously no -- we have a vested interest in increasing social diversity for the same reasons we have a vested interest in increasing genetic diversity. And the ability to widely eliminate qualities that society deems undesirable on a whim will almost definitely lead towards increased homogeneity and worse social outcomes in general for anyone who has a trait that can't be eliminated.

However, I'm guessing you're actually talking about morality on an individual level -- that it's immoral for an individual parent not to try and guarantee their future child the happiest possible life. The problem is that even though being autistic is hard, having a hard life doesn't necessarily mean having a bad life. Being autistic is hard because autistic people are different, not because autism is inherently an undesirable trait.

Not everyone who is autistic or who has Downs would, if given the chance, flip a switch and erase that part of their personality, and they bristle at the "happy life" argument because they see it as (intentionally or not) just another way for people to imply, "differently abled people will always lead less satisfying lives." See also the controversy in the deaf community over hearing aids, which are a much less dicey proposition than eugenics but still prompt heated arguments sometimes.

As a side note, it's worth mentioning that no one is talking about artificially increasing the number of differently abled people as some kind of "recruitment strategy". Opponents to this kind of genetic selection are talking about just removing that characteristic as a determining factor entirely. It's not any different than banning sex-selective abortions, which is already an entirely normal and relatively uncontroversial policy in multiple developed countries.
It's nuts. There's so many old JS/node libraries floating around on github, and it's incredibly difficult and time-consuming to find the one that has been moved forward the most in a fork. There should be a notice on a repo that hasn't had commits or any activity from the author in the last 6 months which links to a better fork view than the one they have.
I'd say it's regular employees that are getting fleeced the most. We are in the middle of perhaps the greatest economic boom the country has seen, and yet wages have been flat for decades.
That's a paper project specifically created to get funding from NASA.
Yeah, it was so less goofy they had to unload it on Softbank, the goofy investment kings.
I think they're rather offended by the diminishing title (although I personally didn't read it that way).
The recently updated (Jan 2019) Canada's Food Guide also agrees with that approach [0][1].

[0] https://food-guide.canada.ca/en/

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada's_Food_Guide
How to get gmail.com banned – not that Mailinator did this (2011)
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https://www.reddit.com/live/13074oidrhy6y/

https://www.reddit.com/live/1307554oaxq9a/

https://www.reddit.com/live/13074vczr34ni/

https://www.reddit.com/live/13076uou9ca6d/

https://www.reddit.com/live/1307711ge976t/

https://www.reddit.com/live/130778goe34v4/
People are often not very apt at admitting their own mistakes. A self reported study like this probably isn't entirely accurate. You would have to analyze each of their expenses, such as what car are they driving, the size of their apartment, what they spend on entertainment, etc etc, in order to have a truly accurate account.
Why should it be tied to other employees’ compensation? Fairness and capitalism-based business generally don’t go together. That kind of thinking leads to all kinds of problems. For example, is it fair for an employee to jump ship for a higher salary offer elsewhere and leave their coworkers to pick up the pieces? Is it fair for some employees to make more than others just because they're better at negotiating? Is it fair that software engineers make several times as much as teachers just because the thing they're good at happens to be in high demand right now? I would say no.
No shit. Why buy gas, food and other line items that don't change much month to month in cash if you get cashback and rewards points for putting it on a card?

If you have the self discipline to not spend more than you make putting everything on a card and paying it down to 0 every month makes a lot of sense.

Sure you could screw up and wind up making monthly payments if you spend more than you make but that's not fundamentally any different than if you bought all the essentials in cash then put the rest on credit.

The article is intentionally misleading by talking about people "paying for things" with credit cards and then talking about credit card debt (no mention of how much gets paid back before the end of the month) implying that the month to month balance people are carrying is a result of necessities rather than large purchases.

This entire article is one large assertion followed by flimsy support after another.
>Every single successful open source project — on GitHub or not — has a canonical "source" branch

This isn't true at all, and I went into detail on this with Linux as an example in the article. Linux is far from the only example, though.
But they aren't just using their earnings. They are borrowing too.
+1 on that one. Switched to low carb and lost a ton of weight too.
I find this to be a really compelling counter-argument to the whole "accountability is too expensive" line. Even if proper tech + training cost only reduced rate of severe misconduct by 15%, that's over $100M in savings.

I'm sure implementing reform etc isn't cheap, but I seriously doubt it's on the order of $100M.
I love it. Goes to show that you can have a lasting impact no matter what job title you have.
This would still be cool to upload imo :)
"In terms of CEO compensation based on realized stock options, CEOs of major U.S. companies earned 20 times more than a typical worker in 1965; this ratio grew to 30-to-1 in 1978 and 59-to-1 by 1989, and then it surged in the 1990s, hitting 376-to-1 by the end of the 1990s recovery, in 2000. The fall in the stock market after 2000 reduced CEO stock-related pay (e.g., realized stock options) and caused CEO compensation to tumble in 2002, to 192 times typical worker pay, before beginning to rise again in 2003. CEO compensation recovered to a level of 347 times worker pay by 2007, almost back to its 2000 level. The financial crisis of 2008 and accompanying stock market decline reduced CEO compensation between 2007 and 2009, as discussed above, and the CEO-to-worker compensation ratio fell in tandem. By 2014, the stock market had recouped all of the value it had lost following the financial crisis and the CEO-to-worker compensation ratio in 2014 had recovered to 299-to-1. The fall in CEO compensation since 2014 has caused the CEO-to-worker pay ratio to fall to 271-to-1 in 2016. Though the CEO-to-worker compensation ratio remains below the peak values achieved earlier in the 2000s, it is far higher than what prevailed through the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s."

[0]https://www.epi.org/publication/ceo-pay-remains-high-relativ...
Arizona Court Bestows Free Labor on Terror-Tied Charity
Why should it be named uggstralian now? It's an offensive suggestion. Do you think generic American words,like Pickup truck or Hamburger, should be able to be trademarked and then America would need to change the word?
> > This is probably the biggest threat ever to autocratic governments worldwide - government independent communication.

> Conversely, it could be used as an entirely uncontrollable tool to spread dissent and propaganda. The same issue has played out on the current internet.

No conversely about it. Who wants to control dissent and propaganda? The Chinese government. The Russian government. The US government, with the cooperation of Google, Facebook, et al. Not all dissent is good. Some of it will be downright bad. Some of it will be immensely valuable, however. The truth will out, so long as no one is empowered to decide "the truth" on behalf of everyone.

If the government and big corporations can lock out and stamp out everyone it deems to be "bad people" they can do it to anyone. No one should have that power, no matter how hard they promise they'll follow a motto like, "Don't be evil."
I don't have a problem with buybacks either. There was a time when Buffet argued to people that holding cash was worth some multiple greater than returning the cash, and he was probably right. I'm just saying that is more indicative of a "warped economy" than a business actually returning money.