skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm optimistic that future students will be more curious about entrepreneurship. Their disillusioned older brothers and sisters with graduate degrees will report back to them from the job front. There is an educational arms race that has caused the bar for degree and GPA requirements to be raised for many professional jobs. Folks are being squeezed to less rewarding jobs. And I'm already seeing a shifting mindset about the safety and inevitability of a good career after grad school.

As schools see their post-grad employment and salary figures drop, they will come around on what makes good preparation for life in the future job market.
I'm sure you're not the only one who hasn't heard of it until now, but I've been using it for awhile and it's actually pretty useful. I like their topics feature. I can see who the most influential people are in the "startup" topic and immediately start interfacing with them via Twitter.

I'm part of the 50% of Twitter users who are active every day, so I can see why if you're a part of the other 50%, or you just don't use Twitter at all, this wouldn't be very appealing.
The government is all over money transmissions now, they are putting regulations in place in the name of fighting terrorism, war on drugs, etc I don't think this is indicative of a larger problem of all startups being affected by overwhelming regulation, the FaceCash guy chose to go into a very heavily regulated field and I have a feeling he would face issues anywhere in the US, if not from the state government, then from the feds
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Hello everyone, I'm working on a great blog post about how startup founders and CEO can better discuss salary and stock options when hiring their first employees. Do you have 1 or 2 tips that founders should know when discussing salary and equity with newly hired employees? Thanks in advance for your help!
tl;dr?

Do startups like WePay also face similar challenges?
I think that 'nobody' is a bit of an exaggeration. Or are you claiming that people who do know are just nobodies?
Sorry, were you replying to me or to ra66it? And what do you mean?
> If this hasn't been your experience, I think you had some misfortune by ending up in companies where politics dominate.
While you might be willing to break stupid bureaucratic rules, your investors won't be. You also assume that these regulators are lax in their enforcement. Make no mistake, the current administration wants to regulate the heck out of everything and everyone...especially in the financial sector.

The will to enforce is most certainly there today, and the moment you get a little bit of press (not even necessarily bad press) everyone, including your competitors, will check to see if you have the necessary certificates on file. If not, they will just narc on you to the regulatory authorities...who they are on a first name basis with, as they have known them for years. And if you get bad press, you can't just ride it out. Reporters will strip away all context and ask: "why is an unlicensed payment processor allowed to do business in the State of California"?

Especially when prompted by the press or their friends, regulators can spring into action out of nowhere and levy a host of civil and criminal penalties, up to but not limited to pulling your product from the market and freezing your assets so you can't meet payroll.

So, in short, you don't want to screw around with regulators under this administration. They treat businesses a LOT more harshly than college students. Indeed, no less an authority than Peter Thiel himself has commented that it might be impossible to clone Paypal today as the bridge seems to have been pulled up behind them:

http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-20114584-281/talking-tech-...

CNET: I wrote a retrospective piece for CNET recently
about how significant the post-9/11 regulatory shift was,
especially when it comes to privacy.

Thiel: It's not exactly clear to me whether Paypal could
be built as a business today. That may be too strong....
As a startup, these kinds of regulations are much more
onerous. Paypal was able to be built at a time that was
pre-9/11 on a regulatory basis. Post-9/11 it would be much
more difficult to build. It makes the franchise more
valuable. I think no competitors will ever be built.
Yes, "nobody" was an exaggeration. Though there are a lot of edge cases.
Sometimes, but most cases are quite simple. I learned the difference between they're/there/their sometime before grade 8, and I generally expect people I converse with to recognize that distinction.

As for possessive forms - that's even easier. In most cases, if something belongs to someone, use an apostrophe. If it doesn't, then don't. Okay, it can get confusing, but in most cases, it's not.
Can someone who logged in from facebook or twitter post a screenshot of the relevant page?
Indeed, the "man" in "manipulate" just means "hand" in Latin.
Moving would underscore the damage the law and its haphazard enforcement are doing to the State of California, though.
I don't agree with the government and hate their authoritanarianism but isn't this essentialy what the OWS protests are all about? Its become pretty well known that big finance / big banking own the government and anything that threatens them is going to be responded to very harshly. I just think you may benefit form taking your message to a larger audience as it is more indicative of the overall corruption of the government than anything else and may not be specifically related to most other tech startups.
1. Take the risk anyway.

2. Change your idea.

3. Spend the next year trading letters with bureaucrats.

What Would Zuck Do?
This discussion will doubtlessly drift towards your claim of creating Facebook when it's unrelated to the rest of your solid argument. I don't understand the logic behind your decision to throw that in the mix.
I didn't downvote you, but I don't agree. Age is not a gating factor. You can be hungry at any age.
a work-in-progress that implements WebGL with Canvas

That's a neat hack but it is absolutely not going to work in any practical sense. There is already a many orders of magnitude performance gap, and depth buffering will at least add yet another order of magnitude.

Also, canvas only supports affine texture mapping, as opposed to perspective-correct 3D mapping. This looks completely ridiculous for many common cases:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Perspective_correct_textur...

And, canvas can't cleanly stitch textured polygons together, so there will be visible seams everywhere.

I don't mean to be a killjoy, but I think one would find this endeavor very discouraging in the end.
As a student working on a startup I think I can bring some perspective. They are both incredibly good learning opportunities. I'm the business side of things and, for example, there's a big difference between taking an accounting class versus actually having to keep books. My partners have said the same thing in regards to taking their comp sci classes versus actually working on a startup. It's also important to note that education is moving in a way where a lot of our classes can be taken as either night courses or online. We've been able to not have to choose one or the other, but be able to structure our schedules so we have enough time for both. Which in my opinion is the best way of doing things.
I think the sarcasm mark (snark) is stupid. Doesn't make any sense⸮
Yeah, Sharp acknowledged this limitation when they introduced their four-color Quattron TVs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4DK1Yx4R6k
Not everyone becomes a successful startup founder. Most people work as employees and not graduating will put a sever dent on their career prospects.
If you're in school and thinking of dropping out, take a look at the numbers: http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t04.htm

Despite the state of the economy, college grads have a 4.2% unemployment rate.
The number of launches should be more or less the same, since the mass that gets to orbit is more or less the same. With the advantage pending towards placing already full tanks in orbit because you don't have to launch a separate tank plus the apparatus needed for the fuel transfer.

Unless this "surprise you need fuel" thing becomes common, something very unlikely because you usually know what you are going to do in orbit, this "fuel depot" thing makes no sense at all.
If anyone's in the startup business solely because they think they will make a bunch of money they will find out very quickly that they should be going for the plushy job instead.
I'm not aware of them. I'm using this in a high volume/non critical capacity and it seems to be okay. I should keep better stats though.
Lead, follow or get the f*ck out of the way
Yes and no.

WePay is an agent of The Bancorp Bank (because of laws like these), so they are exempt from most money transmission laws.

On the other hand, FC § 1827 makes it a crime for any entity to aid an organization that would otherwise require a license. So who knows what's going on there.

http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/displaycode?section=fin...
I actually worked for a startup who wanted who wanted their apps written in Java because it "scales". To this day they don't realize hardware is cheaper than deveopers.
Though I generally disagree, you really might want to think twice before using that last line with me.
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You can argue and still have a sense of humor :-)
States aren't allowed to regulate inter-state commerce, as much as they'd like to think otherwise.

Worst case, you might have to say "Sorry, we can't accept customers from California, because those customers might be breaking the law in their own state", and you only need to do that if the law penalizes customers and not just the businesses serving those customers.

Now, if you do business within a state with no such laws and another state claims regulatory authority over your business, or if some federal regulation attempts to enforce this ridiculosity, then by all means I'd suggest fighting that tooth and nail. A business should only have to deal with one vertical tower of authorities above them, not all the ones sideways of them too.
And how are you, sophacles, not doing the same right now by appealing to high-brow marxist morality?

Oh, I know, marxist morality is convenient because it allows people to feel superior to others without experiencing remorse for having such feelings. How nice, isn't it?
Yes, this is definitely related to the general protests that people have related to the banking industry, and especially debit card fees. See:

http://www.aarongreenspan.com/writing/durbin.html

So I agree--more people need to know.
More like the difference between a 240p video on youtube and pushing the HD button.
> How were those doctors in the 1920s "manipulating
> nature"?

Even if you don't think that vaccines are 'manipulating nature,' I would say that mounting global campaigns to inoculate everyone and completely eradicate a disease is 'manipulating nature.'
Website is here: http://www.facesay.com/index.html

They don't have a home edition yet, but you can get the trial at least. Interface looks appalling. I hope the research holds up. Will be checking this out for my daughter with Aspergers.
I don't think I'll base my choice of language for the next project on how popular it is among developers.
What is more interesting is how much Objective-C has grown since 2009.
And doesn't even mention Ruby
You don't see any collective interest in catching murderers, then?
It's interesting how in English, there are usually at least two different words for any given thing, one Germanic one French, with the French one being seen as fancy. (Maybe due to how the Norman conquest worked out.) This has the unfortunate side effect of making French speakers who learn English as a second language sound pretentious to a lot of people.
But WebDirectX would benefit Microsoft in no way. It would be a proprietary extension to the web. It would not let IE run WebGL websites.

Microsoft has recently seen the light when it comes to web standards - the latest versions of IE are very standards-compliant.

I agree that Microsoft hates OpenGL, and promotes DirectX in any way it can. But Microsoft also used to hate JavaScript and HTML, and tried to get people to develop in .NET on the web (Silverlight). But it has shifted to actually supporting the standards-based web. WebGL is part of that web.
Its always been scary to do business in that part of the world. I had a few buddies who were in telecom and were working there shortly after the fall of Communism. They used to tell stories of caring large sums of cash to pay bribes and keep the KGB at bay while they went about their work. They made it seem like this was just the way business was done.

It seems like it's getting more dangerous since these people have no problem killing influential and powerful people. Scary, very, very, scary.
TIL.

But let me ask you something. If Mark isn't in this for the money (that's the way he's painted anyway, since he could have sold or gone public long ago for tons of cash), what exactly does he want? Why keep that kind of control (3/5 board seats, private company)? What exactly does he want?
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One thing that has always bugged me about PEP8 is the advice about trying to keep line length to <80 characters. It seems a little dated.

I basically just completely ignore this part of the guidance, even though I know that in theory it makes it hard to edit code via a terminal. But this is not something we ever do in practice where I work - code on servers gets there only by being checked out of SVN.

I personally find it incredibly irritating when I see people who've split a function call over a couple of lines just to try and meet this criterion, e.g.:

def __init__(self, first, second, third,
fourth, fifth, sixth):

Note that if you're creating functions with very long signatures you're probably doing something wrong.

About the only time I make any kind of concession to the line length guidance is when I initialise a big dictionary, e.g.:

my_dict = {
ham: eggs,
bar: quux,
# Snip 10 lines of code
rhubarb: custard
}

(There are often better ways to do this too, but sometimes it's necessary for clarity to build a dictionary all at once like this.)

I'm perfectly happy to initialise dictionaries with a small number of keys just like this:

my_dict = { ham: eggs, bar: quux, rhubarb: custard }
That's the situation we were in. Initially the California DFI said we couldn't do business in Massachusetts where there are no laws, or in Alabama and Idaho, where we have licenses, without taking the risk that I might land up in jail for violating California law. Hence the fighting.
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Sounds like something for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation...
"A great solution is to put it into lib/checkout.rb and write a custom Checkout class that manages how Customers and Carts interact."

That is significantly different than implementing a service layer, which "defines an application's boundary with a layer of services that establishes a set of available operations and coordinates the application's response in each operation." In your typical ServiceLayer style app, most of the calls are just direct passthroughs to the domain model.

Frankly, the controller layer is a sufficient service layer for many complex applications, as it handles different clients and request types. There is often foolishness in putting too much of that logic in a single controller method, but it is wrong to suggest that adding the overhead of the service layer pattern in place of referencing the domain model from the controller fixes this (putting it in lib certainly makes a bit more sense).

The example given in the article is a bit of a horror show. It's probably not a service layer. I am sure a bit is left out, but it's going to convoluted lengths to avoid putting anything in the domain model. Dynamically extending individual instances of employee to add a pay_date method? Creating a new instance of the service on each request- when it could be done with static methods?

Sadly, it doesn't make sense to model your whole domain twice. Let's see what the employee service used to list, add, update, and remove employees is like. Any real system is going to end up with a domain model object to represent a payroll, which is where this logic could go.

The root problem is Uncle Bob just doesn't like the ActiveRecord pattern- in which case just use a different ORM.
"The reason VCs don't like Yuri is that he is disturbing the cosy world they formerly inhabited by offering more founder friendly terms."

I greatly respect and admire you pg, and god knows you're far more intelligent than I am, but surely you can't be so naive as to think that Milner is doing what he is doing out of some altruism for founders?

He is spending outlandish amounts on startups for the same reason Abramovich spends hundreds of millions on yachts, why the Sultan of Brunei spends millions on cars, and why the Saudi princes spend millions on trips to the Riviera. Because he never worked hard for the money, and so he doesn't care about throwing it around.

When a man works hard, he is loathe to spend it carelessly, because he knows the sacrifice in time and effort it took to acquire the money. In the words of the great Milton Friedman: "Nobody spends somebody else's money as carefully as he spends his own". This applies not only to government officials but to the criminal element as well, from hoodlums to ponzi schemers and everything in between.

People like Milner and others associated with Russian oligarchs spend lavishly because the money they have came with no sacrifice on their part. The sacrifice came from all those miners working in subzero temperatures in the Kazakh steppe for kopeks a day, their bodies broken down prematurely, with the share of wealth that was promised to them stolen away. And instead of those who betrayed them being brought to justice, they instead depart to the West where they are greeted with applause by those who mistake cunningness with intelligence.
This is in the tradition of the critique of modernity, which holds that mankind is losing something of great value along with our technical progress. It is a minority tradition - like a dissenting opinion in a court case - and has been pretty well drowned out by now. A notable figure in this tradition is the French thinker Simone Weil, who combined intellectual rigor and spiritual depth in a particularly compelling way.

It's probably apropos that you posted this in an article about George Dyson, since Dyson's theme is uncovering the origins and recesses of that technical progress, but very much from within the modern view.

I love Eliot. His English is exquisite, especially his diction, which is incomparable. Everything he wrote seems to be in a state of timeless balance. This quote turns out to be from a play called The Rock (1934):

O perpetual revolution of configured stars,
O perpetual recurrence of determined seasons,
O world of spring and autumn, birth and dying!
The endless cycle of idea and action,
Endless invention, endless experiment,
Brings knowledge of motion, but not of stillness;
Knowledge of speech, but not of silence;
Knowledge of words, and ignorance of The Word.
All our knowledge brings us nearer to our ignorance,
All our ignorance brings us nearer to death,
But nearness to death no nearer to God.
Where is the Life we have lost in living?
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?
Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
The cycles of Heaven in twenty centuries
Bring us farther from God and nearer to the Dust.

That's really something. He's talking about modernity, but in a way that reads like a translation from Sanskrit, with something of the Greek chorus about it as well. Here's someone trying to get perspective on the present through the language of the past. I never thought of that before.
I get it, Russia is becoming strong again but it's not a business partner, so let's turn on the old propaganda machine that has been off since the cold war.

Is the russian mob or the kgb so different than other organizations in other countries? Would an article on chinese government inteligence still be recieved as seriously?
You seem to be implying that breaking up the VC cartel in Silicon valley with money that was potentially stolen from russian peasants maybe OK. I understand that Ycombinator companies need their $150K, but this seems contrary to Valley values. Or maybe you meant something else?
Ask HN: What's a good notetaking program that allows tagging?
I've been keeping notes in one big word document, but I want something that will allow multiple tags for a piece of text. I'm considering CintaNote, but I don't want to move everything over and then find there's something better. What would you recommend?
In terms of start ups I found start up related coworking and events far better for making any useful connections than in college.
I'm not particularly familiar with rails (or even web or client/server in general -- I'm more of an embedded/systems type) but this post gives me a strong feeling of the youth of today rediscovering the lessons of yesterday, to wit, properly abstracting the application from presentation.
It certainly matters though, right?
He already answered this in an interview about the Social Network. A lot of people in Hollywood (and in general) don't understand the concept of just loving to build things. Facebook was built by him and it's gotten insanely huge and when you've dedicated a large portion of your life to something like that, you don't want to give it up. No other work would be satisfying; facebook is his.

Some people truly love doing this stuff and don't build it to flip it and that throws people off
That's a pretty mean-spirited brand of humor then.
Hardware isn't cheaper than developers when working on massive scale.

See this: http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/C-and-Beyond-2011-Herb-Sutter...
Even if they made WebDirectX, people would just write WebGL wrappers.
How could popularity be an irrelevant metric? Why you know the languages that you know and not the other 99%?
On the contrary, I see a good deal of value in catching murderers. I don't however see value in avenging the dead.

Interesting, this is quite in line with how modern society currently operates. Serial killers will generally be convicted of only a handful the crimes they commit. The result is that although the dead are not avenged, the nuance to society is removed.
I worked for one of these guys. One day there was a glitch in a system, completely unrelated to my job, he had himself put on speakerphone so he could threaten to fire me. He loved The Apprentice.
Front-ends aren't written in Java, what does Java have to do with it?