skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's great, and I believe you, but you should know when you write things like this that every startup founder ever says the same thing. You can make a more compelling case with actual numbers.

The bigger issue though is, when someone comes in too expensive for you to hire, that's not a flaw in them. I am guessing you hire fewer people than I do, so, words and words and words to the wise: people are going to come in higher than you can afford. Some of them will be people you'd want to hire, others not. You are probably no more reliable at valuing them than they are. Don't get irritated about it and don't preach. Just shrug and walk away. Thank them for their time. Don't get mad at them for wasting your time. If you are serious about recruiting, nobody can waste your time. And nobody looks good trying to tell people they're worth less than they think they are. Ever.
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> Expecting early stage-like equity and later-stage-like salary doesn't make sense

If the candidate is as good as you made it sound then it might actually make sense.
Same here! (Conference Chair)
> A true "amateur to amateur" auction type sales website is an area begging for competition...

Really? Because this is the area eBay started in, and they pivoted to more "online retail" than "online yard sale" because (surprise!) there is a lot more money in retail. Really, eBay is more today's Viaweb than an evolution of either p2p sales or auctions.
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Since you shipped via USPS, the buyer has committed mail fraud. Call the US Postal Inspection Service, they are federal agents with no jurisdiction issues as the local police will have.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Postal_Inspection...

Edit: USPIS Wikipedia link
the popularity for Critic is somewhat of a language failing

By this argument, Javascript (JSLint), C# (StyleCop), C (lint), Python (Pychecker and Pylint) all have failings.
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BizDev people do have a function at hackathons
Unfortunately, buyer protection is just as bad!

I recently bought an item on Ebay from an Ebay shop in China and paid extra for EMS shipping because I needed it fairly quickly (less than 2 weeks). The seller sent using a non-EMS method that barely got to my door in time, and it was the wrong item completely! When escalated to Ebay, they would only refund the item and original shipping fee and only if I sent back the item and paid for my own shipping to send it back.

I later learned that the seller was out of stock for the item, and figure that they must have sent the wrong item purposefully (since you're not supposed to be selling something you don't actually have).

But there's no way to actually contact Ebay support, so there was nothing I could do. Really going to avoid Ebay from now on because of that poor experience. No protection on any side.
It's shorthand for jury selection, in which lawyers from both sides shoot down the jurors they think are going to be unfavorable to them based on predictions from scant evidence; this is "Law & Order" law theory, by the way, not actual court-of-law theory, which I know little about. I just thought it was a useful analogy.
Have you ever tried to get your money back after getting scammed as a buyer?
I know our organization would like this also, but it basically makes indexing for search pretty impossible doesn't it?
You did not just interviewed the same guy, but you were thinking about it just like we were. By the way, our counter offers matched lol
Why not for a first opinion?

http://books.google.com/books?id=TA7Q27RWlj0C&q=radiolog...

> Experienced radiologists who evaluate chest X-rays as "normal" or "abnormal" contradict themselves 20% of the time when they see the same picture on different occasions

Seems like computers/machine-learning could handle a majority of diagnoses, with a human being needed to come in and reevaluate the tricky edge cases.
I am replying out of order for reasons that should become obvious.

Why not skimp and save for a few years worth of survival and take a shot at one of these companies so that you have the financial cushion to give the college try and move on if you have to?

I tell you what.

Why don't you get married. Pay for your wife's medical school. Have 2 kids. Discover what full-time high-quality child care costs. Have your wife get injured and have to leave residency. Have her get better, only to get in a bad car accident. Have her recover from that, only to go into another very intensive residency (no money, tons of time).

After a few years of being a primary breadwinner and effectively a single parent under very stressful circumstances, I'll get someone to make a comment like this to you in a public forum, just so you can understand what it feels like.

Does that answer your question?

People have lives. They are not always as simple as they look like they should be on paper. If someone indicates that their life has had complications, the polite thing to do is to take what they chose to share at face value and move on. There is often more to the story than you really want to know.

You have a social circle where founding a startup and eventually making millions is a regular occurrence? Outside of the bay area? Can I be your friend?

Obviously you don't believe me.

Yes, my social circle does include the founders of companies like ZipRecruiter and Campus Explorer. Those were founded in Santa Monica, which is indeed outside of the Bay area.

And no, you can't be my friend. I don't like people who are acting like assholes to me.
Don't forget resale value. That's the part where you make up the difference in price when you sell the Macbook two years later for 75% of retail price. Not sure any other computer manufacturer's product can do that.
It will, however, make hardware debugging harder. Being able to swap the CPU into another motherboard comes in handy.
You might be interested to learn that Assange had developed the Rubberhose file system. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubberhose_%28file_system%29 So I don't think he's oblivious to the concept.
Why would the credit card issuer not want that customer? Each time he issues a chargeback, they're getting paid a chargeback fee by the merchant (PayPal). It could even be profitable for the bank.
It's not proven that anything in TFA is actually NP.
I think grandfather comment is poking fun at your (presumed) typo: your earlier comment should probably say "making shipping less painful" rather than "making shipping less painless."
There's also HTTPS Everywhere.

https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere
The e doesn’t really contribute in most accents, anyway.
How fast is Voyager travelling? Could we send out a Voyage X at a faster speed and with better tech to catch up and surpass it?
After a seller started harrassing me by telephone after I gave them neutral feedback for shipping crap (not negative because they did refund me after I sent it back) I stopped giving feedback altogether. Never again. I avoid ebay altogether now for anything of value, and avoid paypal for everything.
Ask HN: Do testimonials really work on SAAS homepages?
You often see any number of testimonials on SAAS homepages. Sometimes just the logos are enough (when the customers are big). Other times, there are glowing quotes from people no-one has ever heard of. What's your opinion? Do they work, or are they a turn-off? Is anyone willing to share what has worked for their company?
This is an excellent idea. The USPS really doesn't look kindly on mail fraud.
This would be a great value-added service option for the Post Office. Deposit money in an account, have it shipped to a local post office, postal worker witnesses the acceptance and opening of the package, if everything is kosher, the buyer signs a release and the money is leased to the seller.

USPS already provide "witness" services for packages that are picked (for free!), just add an escrow account for 1 to 5%.
Yahoo Mail Scheduled Maintenance with no due date.
Why do you say it's impossible in the US?
That's okay. Google can just show them the torrent links instead, which "normally" should appear in search results, but Google has been trying to downrank them more and more lately.
3 <- chosen by fair dice roll
I believe there is this stigma that says "equity conversation" == "I will pay you crap". Personally, I don't believe this to be true. If you are switching to my startup, it is so you can be in a better situation and I have to acknowledge that. How we pull/push the equity vs cash lever should make both parties happy.
> A few models did have a feature like this, but it was only a transient one that appeared at certain times of the solar cycle.

How transient is transient?
30 days is not a large fraction of an 11 year solar cycle.
They did offer salary:

He ... took the two offers we gave them (big salary/small equity and small salary/big equity) and created a custom big salary / big equity + bonus counter offer that was laughable at best.
Enabling Developer Options on Jelly Bean
If you were willing to take $250 less for saving 5 minutes time, by all means. Most of your complaints are made up though (casino chips, third world, etc.. )

I dont use craigslist, so I cant answer to that. I find the eBay process mostly fine, with the exception of not being able to specify who can bid/buy. If they did that it would be a way more reliable experience.
Seems to me that those good xperience come down to old fashioned luck. Don't use PayPal or eBay - simple!
Or Erlang

https://gist.github.com/bb01a85404e6b445dcb3#file_resolve_do...

% -*- erlang -*-
%%! -smp enable

worker(Hostname) ->
{ok, IP} = inet:getaddr(Hostname, inet),
io:format(
"~s => ~s~n",
[ip_to_string(IP)]
).

ip_to_string({N1,N2,N3,N4}) ->
io_lib:format(
"~w.~w.~w.~w",
[N1,N2,N3,N4]
).

main([DomainFile]) ->
{ok, Bin} = file:read_file(DomainFile),
String = binary_to_list(Bin),
Domains = string:tokens(String, "\n"),
plists:foreach(
fun(Domain) -> worker(Domain) end,
Domains
).

This uses https://github.com/eveel/plists/
Side note, but there are other reasons people will take that gamble.

Sometimes, the reason employees take equity is because they think they will have a nontrivial impact on the business and want to feel like an owner. The actual financial consideration of the equity can be triumphed by the emotional connection it gives them with the team and their work.

This might explain why some early employees don't even know what percent of the company they own.
No, they're actually technical terms.

Tax avoidance is minimising your tax liabilities through legal means.
Tax evasion is just not paying, not declaring, all sorts of fraud etc.
Thanks for letting me know - should be all set now
And if you want to add more CPUs to your 2, 4 or 8 socket motherboard?
Routers are a routing technology.
I thought his question was annoying too, but I don't think he's being an asshole; he's just being a nerd. We're all nerds sometimes.
Remember to breathe. It was clearly a light hearted comment.
Bitbucket asks the question about whether to close the branch in a pull request at the time you create it, e.g.,

https://s3.amazonaws.com/uploads.hipchat.com/10804/29957/csa3g3hjsk6i27p/close-branch-after-merge.png

since the person creating it is usually in the best position to decide whether the feature branch they're working on is "complete".

Though I really like GitHub's implementation for cleaning up old pull requests (or ones you forgot to tick the close branch checkbox for).

(Full disclosure: I'm a developer on Bitbucket for Atlassian.)
Sue Paypal. It's an obvious scam, and they are, for some strange reason, ruling in favor of the scammer.

Sue them for your money, for the time you spent dealing with them. Check out small claims court limits in your state, and sue them for the maximum.

I bet you will win with all the documentation you have.
ah... I had not thought of the counterfeit money angle.
Hi Chintan - Let me know if you need any help. I'd be happy to discuss Tropo's capabilities.

Thanks,

Frank Geck
Director of Tropo Sales
fgeck@voxeolabs.com
The absolute, 100% way to solve this is to let sellers decide who can bid/buy on their items. If I can say "Only users who have been on ebay X months/years with Y feedback" that is such a major awesomeness. It also puts the control back in my hands. Maybe I dont get as much money when I sell a item, but I have way less risk of getting fucked.

Also, it would not stop new ebayers from being able to buy things. eBay could 'eat the risk' or make them guarantee if a seller set up his auction that way.
How to Weather the Ups and Downs of the Startup World: Spam Comments
Steve Ballmer's Nightmare is Coming True
The pins are sort of fragile, but it's usually a fairly smooth operation to plug in a CPU. I wonder if there are reliable statistics from people doing this in large numbers.

Installing the cooler can be much more tricky depending on the retention system. Pre-installing them could have a number of benefits. But it'd be a shame to lose the ability to chose your own cooling system, more so than having the CPU soldered on, in a way.
Not yet, but im risking it big time with collections.
I'd recommend contacting all the carriers that this phone is compatible with, and tell them that the phone has been stolen. Give them the IMEI number, serial number and whatever else.

If you can get law enforcement interested in the case (highly unlikely, but who knows), they should be able to issue a search warrant, and get the location of the phone from the carrier. If they can track it down to a residential address, then they may be able to find the actual person.

It would be helpful if the other sellers also had remotely trackable items. Regardless, you'll want to be coordinating with them on the item descriptions.
Now they just need to let us keep multiple boxes logged in at the same time. I don't like having to relogin on my settop.
Have you seen the updated PayPal terms of service? Claims to group actions are automatically relinquished.
Several times, and for each and every one it was as easy as filing a complaint and having the money refunded to my paypal within a few days.
Chargebacks are a part of doing business any time you accept credit cards, whether paypal is your merchant provider or not.

The problem here is Visa/MC/Amex etc. Since you almost have to accept credit card payments these days, you're stuck with their terms. Since the banks all provide credit through these card providers, there's very little competition.

There are numerous ways to virtually eliminate CC fraud but the card providers aren't interested in taking those measures, and neither are the big retailers. They are happy to accept the ~5% loss on chargebacks, because credit card users spend something like 30-40% more per transaction than cash payers.

What we need is a competitor that disrupts credit cards altogether, not just merchant processing. Eliminate VISA and MC, who are basically skimming 2.5% off our retail economy. Cards are obsolete anyways. The processing side is obsolete, we don't need terminals that dial into a central processing machine, we can use the internet. The credit side (banks provide the credit line you get on your card, not Visa/MC) will take a bit more work, but we can combine it with the rise in peer to peer lending: you seek a credit line from a crowdlending site, not Chase bank.
I had to double check when I read that the Voyagers started their mission 35 years ago, it's hard to believe.

Why aren't we sending more of these, in every direction?
Could explain how buyers could scam you using Craigslist? Just make it cash only, no?
My mind is still being blown from TF2 running better in Linux than I've ever, ever, ever had any Source game run in Windows.
Maybe it's intentional but you've got a typo in one of your mocks: http://awesomatic.com/images/nested-topics.jpg
Generally, a soldered IC is more physically durable and gets some more heatsinking as a result.
Shameless plug - trying to help marketplaces with that problem with Credport (https://www.credport.org/).
> Want more equity? Take less money. ...

> Want more money? Take less equity. ...

> The Cash and Equity are actually inversely proportional to each other.

Nice rules, but be prepared: Not everyone plays by the rules, and your competition might be among them.

(OTOH, things will get better as the shakeout occurs over the next two years. People will go back to being happy just for being employed.)
You could try Swappa (http://swappa.com/) I haven't used them personally, but a friend did and had positive feedback.
I agree. No matter how good you are you can never please everybody. And for the record I personally don't think Apple is falling apart.

The problem I see is simple to identify, and in the position Apple is in right now, it is difficult to remediate.

It is a problem of scale. I think Apple is growing too much too fast, and it is struggling to scale their operations. I obviously could be wrong since I am not an insider, but it seems that is the case.
In Australia, the test wold be irrelevant. I'd just take them to Fair Trading, who would take one look at the test and dismiss it. Problem solved.
Once I worked on a C++ program and when we really had to optimize, I did some profiling with valgrind. It turned out more than 50% of the CPU time was spend with memory allocations...

However with C++ it's easy to work around that by using pointers or (const) references. Or even one step further one can use a memory pooler or GC.
I've done it only when I had a few machines which needed bleeding-edge CPUs (and price didn't matter), and other machines. I'd buy high end and cheap CPUs when putting both systems online, then in a year (assuming the motherboard/socket was still current), I'd put the old high-end CPU into the cheap machine, and buy a new high-end CPU for the important machine.
A founder with a day job + working at $0 for 1% is just dumb.
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Vice leaves metadata in photo of John McAfee, pinpoints him to Guatemala
The article isn't just about money, it's also about things like the engineer refusing to do work outside his desired specialty.
Microsoft has the overall No.1[1] spot - it sells the OS and the software that virtually every office in the world (and most homes) rely upon. Nobody has come close to challenging that.

You can look at their other ventures - XBox, Bing, Zune, HD DVD, HotMail, SQL Server, IE, Windows Mobile/Phone and point out that they have not 'defeated' their rivals in these areas. But these are secondary or tertiary industries for Microsoft, where their main objective is to head-off any would-be challenges to their dominance of the PC market. Eg. consoles replacing the home PC, Google rendering it obsolete, Apple breaking into office sales.

[1] Yes Apple is the biggest company right now in financial terms, but Microsoft's turf is still the most desirable (though not quite as glamorous)
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Starcraft II actually really chugged on my 2009-vintage MBP. It was one of the games I was thinking of. =)
You could always use any CloudFlare paid account. They include SSL and you get all the security/CDN stuff as well: http://blog.cloudflare.com/easiest-ssl-ever-now-included-aut...
I have looked at news.arc and I do not come to the same conclusion about how flagging works. Without any additional information to understand the allegations, I've concluded that this is probably bullshit.
I agree that both lists are important questions to ask, but as you allude to in your last sentence, it seems like it's asking for a great deal of self-awareness.

Most people are probably just not self-aware to be able to accurately answer those questions (from things like the mechanics of how a future event should occur all the way to "are our values/work styles aligned").

Do you, or anyone here, have suggestions for alleviating that?
Sure, but even at x2 speed it will take decades.
What Author Rank Means For the Blogosphere and Bloggers
This article is a year old (minus two weeks). Given that the Verge is only 13 months old (according to WP), i.e. it is NINE TIMES OLDER than it was when TFA went to press, this is probably a germane fact that should be mentioned in the HN title? Maybe it's silly to post meta-reviews that are obsolete by now, unless some kind of meta-meta-review is implied?
I had an issue with Paypal (outside of eBay) a few years ago and since have given up on anyone I can't work with my credit card company directly against.

I bought a few car parts from a shop who ended up shipping me only half my order. I contacted them, they re-sent me the same half a second time (so I had 2 of the same item, but no 2nd part). Contacted them again. Received the same item a third time and was fed up at this point. I had paid duties on each item to receive the package to only find I had more worthless parts and contacted PayPal for a dispute.

Turns out the only proof the seller had to provide was proof that there was a package shipped. No proof of contents or receipt or anything.

Learned a valuable lesson that day.
Microsoft's domino effect: Poor PC sales could unravel company
i very firmly believe the following:

first, that some languages promote decent coding practices, while some actively encourage bad ones, either through crappy idioms, bad docs and a lousy community, or a lack of immediate penalties.

second, that where you spend much of your time coding has a significant effect on how you think about problem solving, consequences, etc. the practice of programming builds behaviors, modes of thinking, and values.

finally, if it isn't clear, i consider perl's features to be substandard to long term coding. the values it places on hacked up gimmicks (under the guise of "more than one way to do things" and "see! it's a one liner!") is a large part of this.

therefore "brain rot" in this case isn't equivalent to years of meth use, but rather a failure to appreciate crap designs, a failure to perform sound engineering when you write code, and a failure to think about the future of your code. i've seen the products of people who write code professionally, with them having learned through years of coding perl, and it is not pretty. lots of them.

keep calling me closed minded on the topic, i wont disagree. but the end result is that when someone tells me that perl is their language of choice and i'm hiring for a person to write code, it's a deep hole they have to get out of right away or i won't hire them, nor will many of the people i work with.
Myths Come From Values, Not From Ignorance
This is very problematic and disconcerting. However, I feel like the true reason that this gentleman is upset that he was disillusioned after his pristine opinion of Apple was ruined. That Apple would "take care" of him. This is not the case.

Apple doesn't give the most perfunctory shit about you or your problems. The Genius Bar exists to serve purposes: to attract possible customers and to pacify people with broken products. They don't care about you personally. They do not care about your screen. They're a corporation and they care exclusively about money. They pursue this desire through standardization and implementation of bureaucracy.

It sounded like the guy did the requisite test and in doing so upheld their obligation. Evidently, the test wasn't sufficient. That sucks, but Apple is not obligated to, nor are they willing to give to you, the benefit of the doubt.

I'm sorry that you had to go through such an absurd tribulation, but Apple did not attempt to personally screw you.

Apple is unequivocally in the wrong here, but butting such prodigious trust in a huge corporation makes you predisposed to come out of stuff like this inordinately contemptuous.