skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>1. Take the least amount of stock possible is not a good generally-applicable rule. It might have worked for you in the past, but it sure wouldn't have worked well for any of the employees of Google, Facebook, Dropbox, Weebly, etc.

A more accurate statement would be "...is not a good universally-applicable rule...".

To add some numbers to the discussion, there are currently 203 startups listed on Angel List as hiring for full-time dev roles in the SF Bay Area. How many will exit in such a manner as to yield financial rewards via equity / ownership / deferred compensation?

Note the bar has been set considerably lower than for the companies you listed (e.g. big-name successes), and my sense is that we're still talking about fewer than 50%.

It's quite difficult for new hires to correctly gauge a startups long-term potential. After all, professional investors (who by definition do this for a living) routinely mis-calculate. Given this, it seems fairly sensible for potential hires to err on the side of caution.
It used to be land of the free, apparently now it's land of the cowards
Amazon held a 29% stake in LivingSocial as of the end of 2012.
A Murder of Crows: Director's Statement
It is similar to Andrew Chen attitude: http://andrewchen.co/2011/07/11/dont-compete-on-features/

Thanks for article :)
Though it wasn't described in the post, I think how the line was delivered would matter - unblinking eye contact with negative body language? probably bad. Half smile with a little incredulity and palms up? better.

Although, if you're trying to allay fears or play down your own 'threat', it probably helps to work your way up to terrorist through a series of denying smaller dangers instead of jumping straight to terrorist.
So what you are saying is that they are not going to go extinct? They will likely still be used in work environments, by software developers and by gamers. Yes, these areas sure are professional niches.
Not in the same league, but I've been escorted out of a train station of taking a photo of a piece of signage too. The electronic sign in question had condensed a station name to something mildly profane, which I considered amusing enough to take a photo of.

The justification given that I could have been planning a terrorist attack, so it was regarded as suspicious behaviour.
I've seen reports of multiple methods to shut down on xp so that may work as well.
Because this is a canned response. They even sell T-shirts.

http://goo.gl/CnV1s
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Click on the desktop, press Alt+F4.
That's what I've been doing since Windows XP.
> Why do victims protect their aggressors in this way?

Legal liability. The author could be sued for defamation of character if any of the details are wrong, or in the case that a truthful account emphasizes negatives over positives, something called "false light". Some readers may find this hard to believe, but it's true:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_light
Best of both worlds alternative:

Act like DoubleCluster suggests before the plane takes off...

... on landing, once most people have evacuated, take them aside and unload your full fury upon them!
>My 500 Watt pc does not always need to be on or sleeping (hibernate at most).

I question how much that will actually save you. A turned-off PC drains somewhere under a watt, and a PC in sleep mode also drains... somewhere under a watt. Sure, you might not want to spend the 20-50 watts it takes to keep a PC fully powered and idling, but sleep mode is very efficient.

For a tablet it makes sense, since those tend to use a 'sleep' mode that's more of a deep idle, where wifi and background processes are still powered.
Let's not start price comparisons. Can you do photoshop on PS3? Can you edit documents ? Can you run professional applications ?

A PC will ALWAYS do more things than a console, and the better you PC config is, the better all your applications will run so it's win-win for all you do with it.

Besides, even games are cheaper and faster to buy on PC. So compare the price of a PS3 with 30 games with one of a PC with 30 games and you will see your argument is wrong.
WordPress.com Launches Education Vertical For Students And Teachers
I didn't say any of that, and I disagree with all of it.
Sorry, what is the "B" word?
Someone, give this guy a medal.
and not very well apparently, I managed to get a 70% discount on their listed price for something by using their referral system (refer 3 people and get yours free) plus targeted advertising
So work environments, software developers and gamers will all abandon desktops? And go where?
Because if you can't do that, what's even left for terrorists to destroy?

Oh please. Imagine you have a guest at your house who asks to use the bathroom. You reply, "Yes, it's the second door on the left, and I haven't installed any recording devices in it." Would you seriously be surprised at your guest's sudden unease while relieving himself?

No one's saying that this is the OP's fault, but telling a flight attendant "I'm not a terrorist" is like saying, "Use my bathroom, I didn't install any cameras in it." Proffering information of that kind is just plain suspicious in itself.
I wouldn't say the captain is an "aggressor". He made a bad decision, probably due to incomplete or wrong information he was given. So this is not entirely his fault, he shouldn't take 100% of the blame, and he deserves to have his name hidden.
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Naturally, the FA's warning bothered me and I felt the need to explain myself. I signaled for her to come back and asked her to hang my coat.

What's with the need to exercise control over another human being like that? Hang up your own coat. The fact that he feels entitled to such service says something about him. People that bark orders at flight attendants probably feel that are part of some untouchable/infallible class of citizen. It makes me suspect his retelling of the facts has been greatly marred by his feelings of superiority in the situation.
Laptops, tablets, smartphones and hybrids. As already makes up more than 80% of computing device sales today, with the desktop slice shrinking (in absolute quantity, not just percentage) every quarter. There's no way for that to happen unless either (a) businesses got hold of desktops that never need replacement, or (b) employees that were previously provided desktops are now using something else.
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what about educating children in the vast slums of Mumbai...
what about water supply to the villages afflicted with famine..
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Ask HN: How would you turn around/re-imagine a city website?
I work a couple of days a month on a 'city site' for a fairly large city in the UK, doing maintenance, clean ups etc. It's been going since 1998 so it's pretty established in internet terms but over the past couple of years has really lost its way and I'm struggling for ideas to revive it - I fear I might be too close to have some kind of revelation.

Stats-wise, the site has settled at around 2500 uniques per day and has remained at that level for maybe the past 2 years. So it's not like no one ever visits, more that here is no reason for them to ever come back. It also has a very good domain (think CITY.com). Recently it has paid its way through crummy Yellow Pages-style adverts which are also drying up - and hurting the site in the process.

So, in short, assuming you had such a site at your disposal and had carte blanche to make changes - what would you do? How would you approach such a site?

I'm hoping to turn this around and make a success of it but right now struggle to think how. Any ideas are welcome, no matter how outlandish!

p.s. In case it wasn't clear, it's currently a city guide to hotels, restaurants, shopping etc - but hopelessly outdated and ad-filled.
This stuff is science fiction at this point. Moreover, this article / video describes this scenario, when it ever becomes technically feasible, as if it would come without regulations, without (financial) restrictions and as if no counter measures would be invented in the mean time.
That died around Windows 2000. Really

Restarting a software is one thing. Windows?

(Well, sometimes it locks up or reboots by itself, usually because of a bad driver or bad hardware)
Git is optimized for large files like game assets.
you consider a phone as some sort of extension of your body

I'm not the OP, but I'd say I pretty much do! It's only going to get even worse with things like Google Glass. Can't wait.
I'm not on a plane and i'm not waiting in a TSA line so I can say it: BOMB
It doesn't rhyme with tomb.
From what I understand in terms of weight vs battery life tradeoffs, flight times are limited to about 10-15 minutes on helicopter like aircraft. That's nowhere near enough for continuous operations like those illustrated in the video.
Always test your web app in IE8
A well publicized case here in Uruguay was when someone was asked to throw away a pen, and he said "it's not as if this pen is a bomb", so he was refused entry into the U.S.

People still travel to the U.S., but it's very likely costing the country a lot of tourist dollars - not that the U.S. cares, they have enough tourists as is.
The biggest competition for entrepreneur is himself. Self-awareness is the most important in my opinion. Example is Noah Kagan :)
Only tangentially related maybe, but I've noticed an increase in the 'scamminess' of a lot of daily deals lately. Stuff like a cottage for £70/weekend but if you read the small print there's a 'cleaning charge' of £250 - to give one recent example.

I don't know if that perhaps hints at the desperateness of daily deal companies to get new business in running such promotions, but it certainly dampens any enthusiasm I have for checking these sites again in the future.
The article is written from an American perspective where PhDs (5? 6? years) are typically several years longer than, say, in Britain (where they're 3/4 years). So, a question: do you think it's possible to have the best of both worlds? Do a shorter PhD for the intellectual benefit without sacrificing too much opportunity cost in industry?

I've chosen to do a PhD because I enjoy research and it gives me the time to learn a host of other skills too. I should have just turned 25 when I finish, all going well, with a whole bunch of stuff to add to my CV (not just papers, but the more intangible stuff too--going from a shy undergrad to someone who can present at international conferences, foster collaborations between different groups at different institutions, program relatively competently, use very delicate/expensive equipment responsibly etc.) Though it feels worth it to me it's also difficult to get perspective from "within" the PhD, so I'm asking anyone reading this from a more objective point of view: do you think it's all worth it? Or would it have been better to go into industry at the end of my undergrad? Obviously it varies from person to person, but I'm just trying to get a sense for where other people stand on this.
I'm worried about flaky drivers, really. Drivers lead to most of my reboots. If it only purges the user state then it's not resetting what I need.
There is nothing civilized about failing to point out that the claim "he took more pictures" is a lie. There is nothing civilized about abuse of power. There is nothing civilized in accepting it.

But the real WTF is: how would agreeing to be led off the plane have resulted in him staying on it? His fate was sealed when he explained his picture to the FA and she had a 'nam flashback, or whatever the fuck caused this; but what makes you think crawling on his belly after that would have changed anything?
Would a terrorist really use the word terrorist?

This society is way too fucking paranoid.
No one's taking the airline's side here, but he shouldn't have brought up terrorism. That was a mistake in judgment on his part, as I explained elsewhere.

The irony here is that you're demonstrating the same sort of knee-jerk misinterpretation that arises when people say "terrorism" on an airplane.
Truth behind Ticket Purchasing Rush: Statistical Analysis Works
Getting tickets is always very hard during holidays, especially during transport peak from Jan. 26, 2013 to March 6 in China. According to the data of Chendu Railway Station on 18th, February, 2013, 14 temporary trains have been added while still tickets of many trains haven’t been left. To ease the ticket purchasing rush, MOR (China’s Ministry of Railways) has taken various measures, such as adding more temporary passenger trains, extending the presale period and calling for prohibition of tickets purchasing plug-ins, etc. But The result is not so outstanding.What are the reasons?
You're wrong when you say "a PC in sleep mode also drains somewhere under a watt." Unless you consider as the only "desktop" to be Mac mini, you've never tried to measure the power consumption of the desktop yourself. Otherwise, you'd know that a lot of desktops take a lot of power when sleeping, on average 20 Watts, but even up to 80:

http://standby.lbl.gov/summary-table.html

The above table used 52 computers to make the statistics: the average was 21 Watts.

Do you have a desktop? Plug it in a power meter, you'd be surprised. My desktop draws more than 10 Watts when powered off. That's why I use the hard power switch on the back and prefer a notebook.

When we're there, look at the "off power" of the set-top boxes. Horrible.
He was sitting in business class where this type of request is normal. Also, keeping the aisle clear is a top priority of any flight crew (especially pre-takeoff), so they actually prefer you ask them to do things like this as they will be more efficient.
As a courtesy to Business/First travelers, the FAs will hang your coat in a shared closet (instead of you having to place it in an overhead bin). I don't think they'd be happy with a passenger accessing the closet themselves.
They have purchase intent up the wazoo. They could cut a rev share deal with one or two of the big vendors easily. They could add paid placements. They could cut affiliate deals on behalf of their curators. They could add a payments system for people to directly purchase items they browse on Pinterest. Etc etc
>> asked her to hang my coat

> People that bark orders at flight attendants

I didn't read it the way you did.
The captain overreacted as did the FA, but let's not demonize them and let's not victimize the passenger.

Kudos to the blogger for not exposing these people to internet anger.
Is acting submissive to control someone else really being submissive?

That's not "control", that's "hoping to influence". And yes, it's being submissive.
You cant let this failure stop you. Many of the worlds most successful people have failed many times before finally achieving success.

Nor can you let the fact that investors were involved get you down. Investment is about risk, not guarantees. Your investors knew, or should have known that.

Investment is speculating.

The only guarantee you owe them is that you did your best. If your best wasnt good enough this time, so fucking what?

You can only do your best today. Tomorrow's best is different, because you learned from today.

Dust yourself off, reach into your idea drawer, pick out the next one and start again. Maybe it works maybe it doesn't.

Some will, some won't, so what? On to the next. You learn from each attempt.
Unsubstantiated claims are unsubstantial. Really? your own employees are the best? And you say that all their friends are also really awesome too? And people that you and your employees like are also ideal? You've got to be shitting me!
Yes, it's unfortunate that the flight attendant lied in this situation.

However, it would have been impossible for the pilot to verify this - even if the author showed him the camera. Since the author was willing to 'prove' it, it had to be a digital camera - which the author could have very easily used the built-in delete function to remove all photos but one (or be a sneaky terrorist and swap SD cards).

In addition, the author made the statement "I am not a terrorist." There's no way for flight crew to know this to be true until the plane lands at its destination and you provably haven't blown it up, killed people on-board, or hijacked and redirected it to another location. There is absolutely zero value in making a declaration like that.

... In fact, I'd say there's negative value in making that statement. In a security conscious environment like an enclosed aircraft, it immediately escalates a situation from "photo-happy tourist or possible bad guy" to "higher probability bad guy or maybe making a political statement ... or just not very smart". It's also a (very small) step in the direction of yelling "Fire!" in a crowded theater as you've potentially now caused (possibly over-sensitive) people hearing this statement to begin to have concerns about you and their flight. You've turned what should have been an uneventful flight into a situation where tension can only increase before you've even left the ground.

When you add all of this up, especially when a flight is trying to get out of the gate on time, the pilot is going to err on the side of caution and kick you off the plane.

You'll either blow up in a rage of righteous fury (thus proving to all that you should never have been on that plane) or you'll leave quietly, a one-time mistake, and board another flight (hopefully with much less bother to the next crew considering how much time you just wasted).

You were not kicked off for taking pictures. You were kicked off for acting odd.
But work environments, software developers and gamers don't make up more than 20% of computing device sales. And most of those sales figures are for consumers, so they are ignoring work places all together.

Software developers might get by on a laptop, but most I know most prefer to have a desktop at home. That may be rather anecdotal evidence, but so is reading statistics wrong.

And gamers, well, they sure value their customised rigs. Some of them might prefer consoles, but there is still a huge range of gamers preferring desktops over everything.

Niche, perhaps, but just like there is some value to having a landline telephone (call a place rather than a person), so is there value to having a desktop.

Most consumers won't care, I imagine. But that doesn't mean the desktop will go extinct.

Regarding your a) and b); I am certain some businesses are moving to laptops and other non-desktop entities. But that doesn't mean all businesses are or will. It is most likely the lack of end consumers buying them that is reducing the total sales of desktops and not businesses.
It's possible that being in business class, that was a service that was a normal request.
This guy feels so entitled. The airline has clearly a very strict no photography policy and after being told not to take pictures, he then arrogantly explains that because he's a journalist he allows himself to do whatever he wants (take photographs on an airplane). My bet is the FA got pissed off at him and threw him out of the plane to teach him a lesson.
I really resent the way you used "victim" and "aggressor" there. Really quite manipulative.

As the article its self said, from the captain's perspective he was likely always going to believe a FA over a pax, in particular if the FA claimed the pax wasn't being cooperative.

Now if the quotes were accurate I think the captain was quite rude, but we really don't know what the FA said to the captain, maybe he got the impression the guy was being a massive ass.

But regardless, the author was very professional for not releasing the name. It adds nothing to the story. It would just be petty revenge.
And you can't actually hang your own coat.
Though I agree the timing of the request is kind of odd given the circumstances, I can say that I wouldn't be comfortable hanging up my own coat in First/Business, as the coat closet is under the purview of the FAs and not really a place for passengers to be going through.

So the timing is weird, but the request in and of itself is totally normal for that class of service.
Yes. I'm skeptical with this "saves the state of drives" because that's not 100% possible, there's always some reinitializing that should take place

So I'm assuming it redoes some things and doesn't just uses everything, so it's something like a partial reinitialization

But maybe MS thought of that and you have an option to start/stop drivers (actually you can do that on any modern windows)
What's wrong with acting a bit servile once in a while if makes people around you happy and leads to them doing what you want? Being nice and polite to people isn't a sign of weakness.
> Jean-Paul Marat was made out to be a martyr on his death instead of despised for his role in fueling the flames.

Very true. He was well known to be claiming "100 000 tetes doivent tomber" (100 000 heads must fall) in order to get rid of the so-called "internal enemies". Interestingly, while he had a "martyr" image, so did Charlotte Corday (who killed him) at least in the eye of numerous writers post-Revolution.

If you are really into the story of the french revolution, I would really, absolutely recommend you watch the movie "La Revolution Francaise" made in 1989, in two parts of 3 hours each. It's very faithful to the spirit of the time, the actors are all excellent and you can really see how everything spins out of control progressively. Brilliant movie, sadly only distributed in France as far as I know. Contact me (check my profile) if you are interested.
Why not charge a finder's fee? Particularly for the amounts over $1 million. Even at 1% fee that's tens of thousands of dollars that could be in your pocket.
Yeah, saying "I'm not a terrorist" is kind of a line I'd expect to hear to in a tv show or something. Do you tell the cop "Don't worry, I'm not a kidnapper"?
I support your cause, so I'm going to give you some feedback. Feel free to ignore it.

I've seen a lot of posts and comments from you on HN. I've visited FaceCash a number of times. You've built some cool infrastructure, and I think many of your visions about what the future of money should look like are spot on.

That said, you come across as having a lot of anger and entitlement and that makes me want to ignore you, even though I think you're totally right that our payment laws are messed up. Complaining about competitors doesn't help you, it just makes you look like a whiner.

Square is making very crafty strategic moves to slowly maneuver around the regulatory issues that are sinking you. It's bullshit that they have to, yes. But that's what they're doing. Criticizing them or the press they're getting just looks like sour grapes to me.

If you made a strategic plan to actually route around the screwed up stuff in the system, or to chip away at the edges of the problem with concrete steps, without denigrating other people who are trying to innovate in the space, I would feel a lot better about supporting you. But as it is it seems like you're just going to complain about the state of affairs while your business gets ensnared in well documented roadblocks.

Again, feel free to ignore this. I could be totally wrong about your strategy. I just wanted to give you the feedback since you seem to be soliciting support and may be interested in why people aren't lending it.
Newton was certainly known to be a recluse, but he was a teacher in university and spread knowledge around him. Besides, all his work rested on centuries of work before him and he recognized the heritage of others in his discoveries.