skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While I completely agree with you that it is nonsense in suggesting that men are the most oppressed people of all time. Anyone who supports this is a moron. However, there is some truth in the arguments that people are suggest, if you will please hear me out:

Recently near me, there was a crime committed by a teacher. This teacher had been having an explicit relationship with pupils, namely in sending digital photos of themselves to students. When this teacher was caught, they were obviously stripped of their teaching and arrested (My country, like many others, has a system where personal relationships between students and teachers must be consensual and the student must be over 18, it is also frowned upon if they are in school together). When tried and convicted, this teacher got only a few years in prison. This teacher, as I'm sure you've guessed is a female. Now, what do you think the conviction would have been if that was a male teacher? Much higher than a few years I'm sure, additionally there would've been outrage, yet I only heard about it months after the conviction. Don't you see that there are inequalities in life, positive discrimination? I mean, there are laws that there must be X% of women in the boardroom, but I ask you- what if all male the applicants to the job are better than the female ones? Should then the business lose out on a great candidate because the laws force them to choose the worse one?

Look, I am not a Men's rights activist, I am not completely anti-feminism, I agree that 'the oppression' that many men see themselves under is merely a fallacy. However, it isn't as clear cut as you seem to think. Now, I hope I have suggested some things that would cause you to think, it is highly doubtful that I shall come to this site again, so If I cannot answer your reply then I am sorry, but hopefully my comment will start a discussion that will come to a valid and nonbiased conclusion.
Thank you for reading this,

Jabba
That's true for all of their stuff. Look at GMail
What about FPGAs? I feel like they could solve so much of this problem if the tools were better. Though I haven't used them since college, so I have no idea what the current status is.
I've been contracting for a long time

You know, I had a similar career path and was also contracting at 24 with several years of experience under my belt. I get what you say because I've worked freelance most of my life, and do care bout self-ownership. On the other hand, my view of what constitutes 'a long time' has shifted substantially since I was your age (I'm 42 now). In this market, I don't think you need to worry about being held hostage; maybe it's a proxy for something else that's bugging you that you haven't identified yet.
This is perhaps the most-awaited cosmology result of the year. It will place the most stringent constraints yet on much of early-universe cosmology.

In addition to making our understanding of dark energy/dark matter more precise, it may finally allow us to see if the Standard Model of cosmology requires three or four neutrino species.

10 AM CET is 2 AM PDT.
This railroad sim may point to the future of game crowdfunding
What's even more cool?

Before long computers will be able to conceptualize the whole complex mess.

Consider how we acquire knowledge (perhaps like http://matt.might.net/articles/phd-school-in-pictures/). The more we've learned, the more we need to know about how to learn. At each level of knowledge we gain knowledge by accessing new knowledge and combining it with what we know. Eventually the supply of new knowledge dwindles and the only tool we can rely on is learning; the only tool we can rely on is that ability to combine knowledge.

This is much harder than taking in new knowledge; especially for computers! However, computers are getting better and better at it. Whereas many of us are out of college, computers are still in middle school, but they're getting better and better at both large scale and high complexity learning, so they'll move on to high school and college soon. Moreover, they're moving at an exponential pace! (see Ray Kruzwell and his ideas on the exponential growth of technology) Eventually, no... soon, computers will be able to conceptualize and intuit the scale and complexity of something like google.com. No person can come close to this, so we have no idea what that ability will bring.
Google Keep Launches ... For Real This Time
> That's becoming less of an issue thanks to new laws

Not until 1 Jan 2014, unfortunately.
It's neat that they apparently got 400k sign-ups, even though they only had the Facebook Login option.

I really do wish that people would at least offer something other than a single method for us that don't like linking together everything though.
Why do you assume you were being DDoSed? It's normal to receive an incredibly distributed spike of traffic when an article is featured on reddit and hacker news.
"But I'm not sure what the takeaway should be for Y-Combinator companies."

It seems like a core assertion of the article (and in the comments) is that being a YC company means very little to anyone other than the founders.

Honest question: A few years out, how much does it matter to employees? Do they get to go the clubhouse? What's in it for them, other than a hope that their paychecks will come more reliably?

For founders, YC, fuck yeah--but I don't think for employees the value prop is there compared with having actual awesome compensation.
The panorama in Spain for many startups:

- 30k/year (minus all the taxes) ~21/23k/y
- 28 days for holidays.
- No health insurances (free health insurance on the country)
- No conferences
- No pluses.

Profitable companies: a bit more of money, but not that much: 35K/year.

About shares, as usual: the promise. some of them makes you sign something but to opt those you need to stay around 5 years, wait to be IPO or you can sell the opt to the company for a really stupid price.

With taxes you pay the pension, etc.
There's quite a bit more discussions on rails-core apart from RC and releases, so subscribing to the blog is a good idea if your time is limited :-)
I prefer working with clients to having a boss. I prefer having customers to having a client. You're always answerable to someone or something, even if it's begging daddy to refill that trust fund.

I add 2 months of runway for each week I work. Not exactly a big deal.

>Often it meant I had to do double-shift days to make up the lost time.

I'm starting to develop a picture of you under-billing, if you felt obligated to do so.

>There was absolutely no "reward"

Can we just get to the part where we recognize we value different things and move on?

>As a salaried employee, I was still completely free to quit.

Except for the part where if you're the type of person to prefer working on 5, 10, or 15 different things a year as opposed to one thing for 5 years, you're penalized as an employee because you'll be seen as a job hopper. It does real palpable damage to your career as a salaried employee to quit a job.

>Being a contractor doesn't make you free or independent in any way that a salaried employee isn't.

That's plainly false.

This was always a waste of time, but now it's an expensive waste of time.

Troll somebody else who hasn't drunk your kool-aid.
A lot of the health insurance risk is changing in 2014, though, so it's actually viable to have lower coverage insurance now and plan to upgrade IFF a major medical condition happens. (yes, this makes no sense from an insurance market perspective for the insurers)
There are also huge quality control issues with the GoPro 3 line, check out the amazon reviews.
Yes! Exactly :)

You wouldn't need to save it as /sbin/init. You would just type:

$ docker run MYIMAGE /path/to/my/static/binary

Here's the smallest image I've personally used to run a docker container: http://get.docker.io/images/busybox
College courses aren't as great as they used to be anymore. Most of my college courses are a waste of time and I learn most of the stuff after 2nd year on my own. Note: I'm in the one of the top 15 Engineering departments in the US.
> This is extremely minimal, I'd honestly expect more from a Google product.

Given the fact that they are saying access from the Drive UI is coming soon, I suspect the release was rushed after the accidental leak. I wouldn't expect them to release a new Drive app when that requires a separate URL before its integrated into the Drive UI.

OTOH, its not unheard of for Google to introduce a new service in a fairly minimal form and rapidly add features once it is deployed. So, that could be the plan (and, of course, both could be true -- this could be an ahead-of-schedule, and less-complete-than-planned deployment of something that was planned to be released in what would have been a fairly minimal form anyway.)
Sure, that's definitely for some women. But you can also use that to your advantage.

An article similar to this came up six months ago, at about the same time I was getting ready to propose to my fiancee. It sparked this comment thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4536010

patio11 suggested that I wasn't "selling" her correctly. Women want the story, the status, the "Facebook status". So that's exactly what I did.

I bought her a white gold ring with a purple sapphire. It took me over a month to find the right gemstone. While it may not be as expensive as an equivalent weight/quality diamond, it is incredibly hard to replace, since they're so rare.

I also made sure that the white gold was made with palladium instead of nickel + rhodium-plating, since I was concerned about skin irritations. I had it completely custom-made, with the design done in CAD and 3D printed. As an engineer, this was awesome. My fiancee didn't quite appreciate that as much as I did, admittedly, but she did say it was cool.

Having done all that, I still spent a lot less money on the actual ring than if I had bought a diamond ring. So with the remaining money, I booked a flight to Rome for a 24 hour trip, to catch her by surprise on her last day of her Europe vacation she was on with her sister. I surprised her in a spot I had coordinated, and I hired a local photographer to take engagement pictures of us throughout Rome.

So I didn't buy a diamond, but I did end up spending about the same amount of money. However, I was able to "sell" my fiancee on the rarity and authenticity of the ring, and the story of the proposal. To this day, she looks back on the ring, the pictures, and remembers it all fondly.

So diamonds may be bullshit, but the story and memories aren't.
> I've been contracting for a long time

Didn't you just say you are 24?
J. K. Rowling said she wrote Harry Potter while on unemployment. The UK system doesn't sound like it's meant to be subsidizing entrepreneurship either, rather it's social welfare.

But Rowling classified her unemployment checks as the best investment the country's ever done given how she's earned billions of taxable income.

Though for every Harry Potter there are millions of not so successful attempts. Others may find it infuriating you're spending their, and obviously yours and your employer's, tax money on hair-brained Kickstarter panhandling ideas.
I'm a polyglot. I don't encase myself in any 1-thing. I use Mac at work, Windows at home for media and games, and Linux Mint 13 on my laptop for Ruby/Rails. I only used Linux because of Rails, but since I'm switching back (I have Visual Studio 2012 downloading as I type this), I'll have no need for Linux on my end-user machines anymore.
Does this do only news alerts, or is it also web searches?
Oh. My. God. Get me to the UK now.
Keep it under a glass cake cover by a bust of William Shakespeare. Next up: installing firepoles DIY.
I just wanted to put out there that this has nothing to do with Superfeedr...
Sorry about that! Can you send me an email (in my profile) so I can manually add you. I know the service we are using (KickoffLabs) does some sort of filtering in their code, and yours might be a false positive.
Perfect example of a horror ui. It took me so long just to set up a simple alert, that now I hate mention.
Please don't generalize too much. There's different demographics and individuals who like things in different configurations.

A very small, and probably very uninteresting data point: I wouldn't sign up - if you'd only allow login through "social media" accounts.

(I would however, if you offer Persona or regular sign-up username/email accounts though)
Good points, and you're probably correct.

However, to your last point, I can see how it'd be challenging to convey your stance that you won't allow uncivil discourse other than how he did so. If you go ahead and respond normally, you're just reinforcing the bad behavior, ergo it makes the "discourse must be civil" an empty promise/threat. Perhaps he could have replied, with a caveat that further uncivil posts would be ignored, but I can also see getting tired of that sort of behavior (and as a former forum mod, continually having to 'remind' people of the rules that they've already agreed to wears out really quickly).
I've always found it amusing how very important $150/month Clipper passes are deemed by devs earning $200K salaries.
> I used Google Notebook fairly heavily, but they discontinued it. I love (and pay for) Evernote now, which has lots of great integrations with other products. Why would I trust Google again?

Given that you need a Google Account to use this, and it is a new component of Google Drive, I don't think its really about winning back people who have rage-quit Google over the discontinuation of Google Notebook (or Google Reader, for that matter.)
Wait, wait, wait... have we finally concluded on the narrative that Google just throws random pies at the wall to see what sticks? Because I'm pretty sure that's been their modus operandi for the last fifteen years.

That said there's a Google clone for every single popular web product of the past five years that they dogfood constantly. That's all they kind of do these days, hire smart kids into trendy things. Whether pulling the trigger to launch them publicly, maintaining them publicly, or even as much as supporting them...

Well, if it doesn't make a buck selling ads and contribute to keeping that $50B/yr consolidated revenues growing year-over-year then it's just corporate charity work.

Making billions and billions of dollars while beholden to shareholders? That's a good evil problem to have.
Some of us dislike monopolies.
CTO’s, should you Code or Not?
We're pretty stoked on what we have planned for our SIP roadmap, but staying true to our discipline of announcing features only when they ship.

SIP From Twilio is all we have to report right now.
> ...while the 40-year-old is thinking, "kid, if I wanted to take on that kind of risk and insanity, I'd have your job".

So what made that 40-year-old think he wanted to work for the startup in the first place? if the founder's position is too risky and insane for his taste, how is an employee position going to be any better?

I mean, everything he's saying is true, and the take-away seems to be that 40 year olds with families (or anyone else who requires stability) are not a good fit for early-stage startups. Didn't we already know that? One poster hilariously bemoaned being "put out to pasture," but the demand for more compensation (even if deserved) has a lot to do with it. You can't have a stable cushy job and be on the ground floor of a startup at the same time.

Edit: The disparity between founders and employees is definitely an issue, which could be fixed by a more even equity distribution, but I don't think that would solve all of OP's issues.
Where does this fit in with the forgotten Google Tasks, if at all? (Tasks is hidden under the "Gmail" drop-down).
http://gmailblog.blogspot.ca/2011/01/top-tasks-for-google-ta...
While the slavery analogy is likely to get people riled up, there is a deep truth in the point about the guaranteed income.
As a CEO/Founder running a business that is revenue-sensitive, my developer-side completely agrees with the "FYPM" attitude of OP.

Every story I see about the supposed "tech talent crunch" makes me wince at the fact that the average web developer salary is about the same from when I started my company five years ago to now. If there's really a shortage, the makers ought to be getting paid: in dollars, not kool aid.

This isn't even to mention the "glory deficit" that goes with being an employee. With today's incubator explosion, any decent technologist can own 50%+ of their own company. If they're going to work for yours, you'd better pay them. And spend more time glorifying those who want to work as a team, rather than those that chase the CEO/Founder glory (a common blog post written by CEOs, Founders and VCs).
Hypothetical question: if all the knowledge in the world was available to you, how long would it take to build a modern electronic device from raw materials and without using any existing machine in the build process? I mean the actual time spent building something, excluding any mental work.
Thank you so much for this system. I sincerely hope that this gets more traction than OpenID. This is the most essential feature the entire web has never had.
The Bacon-Wrapped Economy
They kept Google Reader for 8 years before shooting it...
Does anyone know good and recent research on the value of domains? Thinking back to the Read Write Web & FB login disaster a few years back, it seems like the merger of the search & address bar would make the names much less valuable.

That said, perhaps they're still valuable for the credibility provided?
I think he is referring to the company letting him purchase his options as they vest, so that the eventual sale of the stock will be of a long-term capital asset, rather than short term and subject to his marginal tax rate.
That's what I like with Persona, since I've made my personal domain a Identity Provider. I just log on and click okay to authenticate.

Not tied into Google/Yahoo/Facebook/MyLittlePonySocial - but not having to create a new account. Oh, and I own the data (Not the AppData of course though).
Show HN: django-htmlpurifier - ghetto Django integration for PHP HTML Purifier
I think it's the other way around: "unauthorized" resellers aren't allowed to use GoPro's copyrighted images.

Either way, their DMCA notice was horribly worded.
In case you are wondering, we did not do any downvoting of the parent. He/she voiced a very valid concern which we've heard from many people, so no negativity sensors triggered here :)
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Howard Marks' Thoughts On Equity Risk Premium — stockpucker
Great Post: Fuck You, Pay me!!
$250 might be the wrong price, then. Maybe it's $100 initially?

It's not so much for my own personal blog but for third party things. Sometimes it's easier to raise money for something all at once, vs. have an ongoing responsibility. If a group wanted to set up something like "Y Combinator Summer 2011 founders", getting people to contribute money up-front might be easier than having to pass the hat every month or year.
OJ version. I like this better. With vanilla whey it tastes like an orange julius.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AjA38cUd4BZBdGZ...
People do not believe that their email and identity is in any way linked

I think that you might have to explain that a bit.

I think that others try to argue that people use email at least as temporary identity, in the sense that at time t, they identify themselves with at least one of their email addresses. In practice this is enough for many web sites to use the email address as login. Perhaps you are talking about some longer sort of permanence, or uniqueness?
Nope, though I do share your admiration of his work!
Google Keep's "competitor," according to Thurrott
I hope everybody retweets that tweet...with a suitable comment.
Educational technologies you should try
I've long contemplated the depths of technological stacks (and knowledge as a whole, it pertains to epistemology as well), and my opinion is that knowing the intricacies of them isn't that important, as long as we manage to archive their fundamental principles somehow (may it be in our heads through studying and transmission, or in data).
We used a similar continuous deployment process for Canvas, minus the staging server (now that we're doing iPad software, things have changed). A nice next step is to deploy to a single server at first and only roll out to the rest of the servers once that one has been audited - if that server starts failing, divert traffic from it until it gets back to a healthy state.
I think the fear people have in choosing a larger company is that they're going to miss out on working with smart people on interesting problems, having work-ownership, etc. This was my personal fear.

I've worked at 2 early-stage "prestigious enough" startups and now work at a much larger company that offers a much better work-life balance/salary/benefits/etc. What I've found is that contrary to my fears, it does indeed have "smart people, interesting problems to work on", etc. - without the BS you have to deal with at smaller and/or unprofitable startups (bad benefits, hours, etc.). To be fair, it's harder to find larger companies that offer this, and the one I'm at isn't massive, it's no more than 50 people.

Unless invalidated startups begin offering better equity packages (because most can't usually afford to pay market salaries) they are going to see talent leave. It baffles me to think that companies think they can get away with this. And to those engineers who accept below-market salaries and small equity packages I ask you to question why - know that even if you work your *ss off and the product succeeds, your equity payout is probably in the tens of thousands at most - a typical bonus for a lot of entry/mid-level software engineers.
> if the founder's position is too risky and insane for his taste, how is an employee position going to be any better?

The founder has upside potential to compensate for the risk. If the employee position has much less upside potential (i.e. equity), but just as much risk, it had better be balanced by higher compensation than you could get in a "stable, cushy job."
Speaking generally:

Your stock classes question is complex and depends on a lot of factors (sorry to give a typical lawyer answer but it's true here). If you just have founders and no investors, just common stock can be typical. If it's seed investors and founders, it usually breaks down into preferred for investors and common for everyone else. Authorized and issued shares varies depending on these factors too. Definitely critical to do this right the first time.
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Mobile app lacks barcode scanning. I'll play around But Springpad still better from what I can see.
Google Notebook also was just a minimal notepad and yet it was killed.

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

Evernote is completely dependent on it's product to survive, so they won't kill it unless they're going out of business. Same with One Note and Office, Microsoft makes billions out of Office every quarter.

Google Drive is pretty much subsidized from Adsense profits just like Google Notebook was.
Wow, typical hypersensitive Reddit feminist... quick to jump in and spout lies without actually reading the content of the comment you're replying to.
Evernote has taken hundreds of millions in funding over the course of five years. How they going to justify that investment with some portion of their 11 million users paying $45/year? Are they going to sell? If they sell, will the service survive?
Though not shaving, women and men had been removing bodily hair with a variety of creams/razors way before WW1.
Someone else here mentioned something about joining a startup because it can be a great opportunity to learn. Maybe you can get something out of it other than money that is very valuable. This kind of thinking would appeal to a young kid straight out of college and perhaps not to a 40 year old with kids who wants to buy a house. Different strokes...