skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From a UK perspective - this post is nuts!
I've worked with a few London based startups (and interviewed for several).

Holiday 28 days minimum - as per law https://www.gov.uk/holiday-entitlement-rights/entitlement

Rarely offered health care but - for all its flaws - our National Health Service is pretty good.

Shares - yup, they're almost always going to be worthless.

Pension - every company has offered me at least 5% matched pension - some more. The Government is mandating that even small employers will have to put you in a pension scheme soon - which is good.

"Soft" benefits like gym membership / conferences / etc depend very much on how confident the business is in itself. If it can afford them, it likely will - because they know that people can get them at mega-corps.

Pay - ah, there's the kicker. Yes, most startups try to save on the salary costs. Usually they get a pretty rude awakening when they try to hire someone with more than 5 minutes' experience. So they try to make it better with "up-titling". I could have been "Global Head of X" at a company barely looking at sales outside the city.

Joining a start-up is fun. But, like a pyramid scheme, you've got to get in early if you want to reap the share bonanza benefits.

I do wonder why the UK scene doesn't seem quite so vibrant - especially as healthcare costs (which I understand to be the biggest burden in the US) are essentially nil.
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> touts it's privacy features

And again, autocorrect makes someone look the fool.
Safe to say I won't be buying GoPro. This is similar to the record industry and I stopped buying music due to these shenanigans.
I agree. I didn't phrase my comment correctly. I suppose what I'm really amazed by is the fact that those people don't seem to understand why I'm not angry about my situation. I don't know. Maybe it's because I've been lucky enough to have parents who have exposed me to extreme poverty at a young age (several trips to India). There are just too many wrongs in the world for someone like me to be complaining about not being able to save up for shiny new product X, Y days earlier because my employer isn't paying me 10s of thousands of dollars more on top of the 10s of thousands of dollars I'm already making.
Hopefully they will share info about how not goes with the public. This is exactly what we need, pilot implementations so we can see what works an what doesn't, and innovate from there.
No, the web login is case sensitive.
5 weeks travelling and doing work = 0 weeks vacation. It is really great, it is flextime+great office+telecommuting which are all nice things; but it's apples-and-oranges compared to a vacation.

I mean, all the psych research says that it takes at least 4+ days until people really get work off their mind, and the work-mindset starts a few days before returning. So vacations start to be effective at a minimum of 2 consecutive, uninterrupted weeks (coincidentally a legal requirement in a bunch of countries). If you're taking vacation in small blocks or continue to think about work on vacation, then you and the company lose the working days spent, but aren't getting the expected recovery/productivity/burnout-prevention/etc benefits for which vacations are actually implemented.
It is absolutely material in competitive and antitrust law. It's not an issue of interpretation or opinion here -- it's applying the same principles that got Microsoft in trouble in the 90's.
I thought the exact opposite while reading this. If Bezos is constantly thinking about ambitious projects such as this, it's easy to see why "he really does not give a shit about your day."
All of their arguments are bullshit for one big reason: they talk only about trademark violations in the notification, while DMCA covers copyright violations. They appear to claim no copyright violations, which makes it totally invalid.
Ha. I think it's actually impossible to generalise about British accents because there are too many of them. I definitely pronounce the H in half, though I'll agree that many don't.
OK, guess I misread your comment.
Is good enough?
Your inability to take a joke is dangerous for the public image of whichever company you're evangelizing for.

And this after you make "sock down your pants" jokes on Twitter. The irony is delicious.

I hope the OP sues you for reproducing his likeness without his permission. PyCon is, after all, a private gathering.
It's his tone which comes off as entitled to me. Very, very entitled. He sounds like one cocky dude to me.

Let's all take a moment to reflect on a few things. For instance, we are pretty lucky to be passionate about something which just happens to be pretty good at producing a lot of monetary value for companies, and consequently it's not too hard for us to convince companies to pay us a lot and give us great benefits.

My dad works harder than me, is over twice my age, and gets paid less than me. I'd have to be extraordinarily entitled to say that I somehow deserve more than he gets. And yet somehow I do get more. Such is the world.
And "Bri'ish" because replacing a 't' with a glottal stop is a perfectly reasonable thing to do.
Can't wait to resurrect my SI football phone!
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Isn't simply being profitable a much better credential than being vetted by YC?
Their password rules are interesting: https://www.fidelity.com/psw/WS_PSW_Body_Frame/0,,PROBLEMS,0...

These two rules seem to further support my theory of what they are doing:
* Must not contain more than 4 sequential digits (ex: 1234, 76543)
* May contain the following special characters: "%'()+,-/:;<=>?\ ^_|
20 years of experience and he's only now figuring out that you don't join a startup for the money and benefits? :sheesh:
How are you applying? Maybe this goes without saying, but it's not nearly enough to go on a VCs website and fill out a form. Having managed dealflow for a while at a VC before, I can tell you that they will often mostly ignore the applications from their webform because there's so much noise/junk from it.

Find a way to get an intro. Talk with people at their portfolio companies. Meet with non-VCs in your space that likely have VC connections, make them advisors in some capacity, and ask them who they can introduce you to. Send them something exciting, that they'll talk about. You have to find a way to make yourself a qualified lead, or at least interesting.

If you're getting the meetings, but no interest, that's a different issue.
Why call Mr. Hayes, who will be motivated to downplay this PR debacle and abuse of the law? My company was planning on buying a couple of these to document an R&D project... I just called sales and told them why I was no longer planning on ordering. (415) 738-2480, then 1, then 3, then 1.

Any idea what product the original review recommended over GoPro?
From a scientific perspective, PressureNET is very cool. If I had more time, it'd be fun to play with the dataset, particularly to tease precision results from the necessarily messy dataset.

It's not immediately obvious how it will make money, which is ultimately what any investor will care about. Is the plan to sell data to NWS? Weather Channel? Agribusiness forecasters? Who? (needn't tell HN, but you will need to tell your prospective investors)

Everyone wants better forecasts, but few people want to pay for them. What's PressureNET's killer app?
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I'm just catching up with this thread but the reasons that jshakes states in his blog post is some of the reason why we started hacking away on http://getbarley.com/ We'd love to open source it (API is built on CodeIgniter) when its ready.

My .2 about the current state of CMSes is that it is time for a bit of a disruption. WordPress codebase is directly tied to a lot of very big publications being able to do business daily and I don't see it being rewritten from scratch any time soon. Unless, of course, a sub-project is created. That being said, there is a lot of room for new ideas, new approaches, and new CMSes to capture at least _some_ of what WordPress currently powers. Another reason why we started hacking away at Barley... we think it is time for something brand new that is MVC from a codebase and specifically built for HTML5 / Mobile from the front-end. We hope we're right.
Your statement is patently false in two spots: One, WordPress is not a "comically high percentage" of exploited sites (presumably vs other CMS'?) - I challenge you to prove that (besides the problem of defining 'comically' for these purposes).

Two, WordPress is trivial to update, both for the core software, as well as for plugins. It's literally a two-click process to update with a constant reminder in the UI that updates are available.

I've built and manage dozens of WordPress sites at all levels, and in the few encounters I've had with compromised sites, 100% of the time it is because the end user has been willfully lazy about clicking the update button in the software.

Security is about people.
Android app is here:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.and...

The servers seem to be getting hammered from all the people trying it out now, though.
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This is what I was wondering.

Maybe they decided to use the trademarks on the names in the article? Sounds like a catch22 if you ask me. Put the trademark on the word and they serve you up a DCMA. Don't put it on and then you rise the ire of GoPro since you didn't use the mark on the trademarked names of their products.

Eh, what a hassle.
Anyone accusing The Financial Brand of "lazy journalism" hasn't spent much time on the site. The Financial Brand uses Google Alerts to find new financial institutions starting out on Facebook. If you are assuming that The Financial Brand simply copy-pastes press releases from Google Alerts, you are way off base. Google Alerts are used to find things like http://thefinancialbrand.com/28070/50-of-the-most-spectacula... Google Alerts are used to identify banks and credit unions that are undergoing name changes and rebrands. All these are used as first-hand sources for original articles.

The site is not an "aggregation" service. Regular readers of The Financial Brand know this.

And FYI - I'd pay for the service if that what Google needs.

Sincerely,

Jeffry Pilcher, Publisher
The Financial Brand
With regards to the last point - privacy from your identity provider -- isn't that somewhat moot for most sites as they have those facebook/twitter/google+/etc share/like/plus icons that report back anyways.
> Are you saying that both approaches have the same level of security or probable insecurities? or that you can't currently estimate the difference?

A bit of both, but mostly the former. In practical terms, they both have the same level of security. But -as with any software- something could be published tomorrow exposing some massive flaw that totally blows one or the other out of the water. However neither offer any technical advantage over the other from a security stand point and from a practical perspective, the real question of security is whether your guest OSs are locked down to begin with (eg it's no good arguing which home security system is the most effective if you leave the front door open to begin with).

> Even being aware that this is a Linux solution I mentioned the Windows technologies that I know technically.

That's fair enough and I had suspected that was the case. I just wanted to make sure that we were both talking about the same thing :)
No integration with Google Tasks? It may be barebones and needing some love, but I like having it to the side of my calendar.
As you've noted here, it seems like most startups support the traditional executive/employee status divide, but with better marketing. Using startup culture as a substitute for benefits, compensation and autonomy within a company is now standard practice. Unfortunately, it just a variation of the old Sociopath/Clueless/Loser paradigm (I am a frequent patron of your blog).

I recently discovered a blog with some interesting proposals on how to run a company, and an economy, in a radically different non-sociopathic manner. I submitted the link to HN , but didn't receive any traction. Perhaps you may find it interesting:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5402277
I had actually purchased one, but then I returned it as I was extremely disappointed with it. But after seeing this, I lost any consideration I had left for this company.
I think you got that one wrong. Transmeta happend way before ultrabooks at a time when Apple was still shipping notebooks with a very power hungry G4. Because of Transmeta (and because of a funny thing called the power wall) Intel had to reconsider their entire processor lineup and to start to focus on low power. IBM never produced a low power CPU for Apple, so Apple eventually switched to x86. To claim that Apple coerced Intel to focus on low power is not correct. Just look at the timeline.
Thank you for your valuable advice. I did a little search about the expression "jack of all trades and master of none" and bumped into this fascinating article: http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/2007/09/14/the-top-5-re...
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Things the UK lacks:

A culture that promotes self-actualization and risk-taking at the expense of your family or future family.

YC

Centralized (location) and relatively easy to access angel money. Don't talk to me about the VC in London, nobody cares. It's an insider's club. I can walk out the door today and start bumping my side project for seed money (Mountain View). I can't do that in London.

Strong culture of entrepreneurship in alumni organizations (Stanford LOVES this stuff)

Lots of high quality incubators besides YC (my last startup I served as CTO at incubated at StartX)

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You're not going to get me to move to the UK unless there's an aggressive visa program and seed money involved.
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I've found that google alerts rarely reports new hits on my terms anymore. I know this because I also use their time tools in search to find new hits, and what it finds almost never comes in as an alert anymore. When it does it's often quite old.
That's excellent advice, thank you. Yes, we're primarily applying by filling out forms on websites. I'm glad I asked, since I was planning on keeping this up as my primary task. I do have a few connections that know VCs in Toronto and Vancouver and we've spoken a bit already, but we haven't pursued those options completely yet. We'll look for introductions and to keep the conversations going. Thanks!
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Angular and Backbone are very different. Angular is a full framework; it's brilliant but also gets in my way on a regular basis. It may take me longer to write the same app in Backbone but it's a library and happily co-exists with other libraries. With Backbone I feel like I'm using JavaScript, with Angular I'm learning Angular.
Thanks, I'm aware of those. Nevertheless, three paid screencasts by third parties aimed mostly at beginners are not the same as a long-term effort made by the Ember team to make these videos and keep them up to date. IIRC, the Rails team was putting out like a video every month or so. This might be one of the things that made people aware of Rails since even non-Rails devs were aware of these videos and eventually, some of them were tempted to check out what the commotion was all about and eventually switched. If you show people how much one can do with Ember in say 10 minutes, more people will be interested in the framework.

Edit: Now that I'm rereading my post, it sounds really entitled and arrogant when it was not supposed to. It's more like "if I were on the Ember team, here's what I'd try to do".
Pretty sure it's "to my religious views"

If you're gonna make a bad joke then at least you should learn something from it ;-)
Why is Asterisk in the mix? If you call a SIP URI directly from Twilio, can't you land it directly on the ATA?
After seeing all the github ID's posted, it reminds me how much I'd like to see a PM feature added to HN.
Heh, well kind of.

I've learned that founders have a much greater risk/reward ratio than employees. The ratio is really not even close. The assumption that founders risk it "all" is a fallacy. The assumption that employees have less risk is also inaccurate. It depends on the situation, sure -- but I know plenty of startups founded by people who can crash and burn and not have their livelihood affected.

As for "risk compensated with appropriate equity", I'd have to say that most early-stage employees get screwed. The only case where early-stage pans out with commensurate reward at the employee level is when a company goes public. Given that most successful exits nowadays are through acquisition, most early employees are simply hosed.
Thanks for catching my mistake. My mistake is especially embarrassing because term "inverted order" refers to sentences that have the verb second and the object.
You know when you're already having performance issues on Heroku having a performance regression is not fun.
I agree with all you say here.

I've been disappointed with the response when I have commented on such matters in the past. Responses are typically along the lines of, "I guess you're just not good enough" and "Not all of us just care about money."
It's not really clear if it maps to the same identity. I should test that.

However I think it might still confuse customers. A normal user expect to be able to change their email address on the site where they do business and the "MAGIC". I think we would have been better of requiring a username, email and password, rather than using the email as the username. For a large number of people needing to have both username and email seems redundant and stupid, for real life customer... not so much.

My issue is, a customer has X number of orders on our site. Then he/she changes email and expect that using the new email address the old orders are magically available. This seems naive but that is what you have to deal with.

Again I should check to see if Persona indeed maps multiple emails to the same identity. It didn't seem like it when I tested it last, but I would not rule out that I did something wrong.
Another way of looking at it is that he's trading ~$500 per day for less risk. You're in a position to soak risk, and he isn't. It doesn't make either of you irrational.
"I bet it's going to have an unintended consequence of increasing the social difference between founders and employees."

I bet it exacerbates the current problem of too many startups fighting for too few competent people. There's no surprise here that working for a startup is usually a raw deal (worst of both worlds).

I wonder if the lessons of 1999-2001 were forgotten. Makes sense, given that it's been more than a decade.
Just curious on the part where he says that the stock is most likely worthless. Are there any hard numbers on the average outcome of YC startups, and startups in general?

I mean, all else being equal, what is the expected value of 0.5% of the equity of the average startup at stage X these days?
The beauty of WordPress is its ubiquity. I jump on my hosting account, click on the 1-click install and bingo. Click upgrade WP and boom - upgraded. Choose one of thousands of free themes and yipee-ki-yay!

The multitude of themes and plugins and the fact that I really have no need to get my hands sticky in PHP unless I really have some desperate need to fiddle with a pot of goo, is really what makes WordPress number one.

It might not be great under the covers, but the lipstick on this pig just seems to be enough to keep me happy!
Ask HN: Worldwide Web Court of Public Opinion
I was inspired by this Bruce Schneier essay: http://www.schneier.com/essay-414.html

Now consider the potential to take ALL online Court of Public Opinion activity away from numerous forums, blogs and websites and instead create a website/webapp that will become THE Worldwide Web Court of Public Opinion (WWWCPO). It could be an aggregator AND/OR also be THE place to post issues - like those Schneier points to, and like people post on blogs, FB, Twitter and Reddit everyday.

You post your issue and watch a two column FOR/AGAINST or PRO/CON list that constantly scrolls updates like Pinterest or Twitter feeds - instead of a boring list of comments that you have to scroll through. Additionally, comments could be collated based on key words or key phrases so that, for example, "Me too" type comments are all dumped together because they didn't meet a certain threshold for number of words or input or whatever . . .

So here I am in the WWWCPO on HN. I would appreciate any and all comments about this as a possible startup.
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Mainstream Reporting's downfall isn't the result of any real decrease in the quality as much as an availability of alternatives.

Journalism has always been dodgy, it's just a lot more obvious these days.
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Many Thanks for your good job. Still following you !
Please be fair to the Alpha version !
I use it every day in the bedroom. Quiet slow but working like a charme.
Let's Plex :D
You are in no position to imply anything. Please refrain from posting your uneducated opinion regarding websites you don't frequent.
Yet another example of The Man trying to stifle dissent-wait, what?
Add Features or Stability?
They weren't forgotten, that's why it's so hard to hire.
The problems are worse than that. My account got reset yesterday. I now show 0 transactions and 0 Bitcoin. I had an outgoing transfer that was pending for almost 36 hours. Now, nothing.
Here's what a good benefits package looks like from a company who cares about attracting senior employees, and not just college kids:

- Agreement to pay for 3 conferences per year(Surge, Velocity, and
ChefConf), an $18k/year benefit
- $2500/year FSA, Employer funded
- 401k, 5% match. (II end up with $24,750/year in my 401K plan)
- Full health insurance for myself and my daughter, no Premium
- Health club membership
- $150/month Clipper card budget
- 30 days of PTO, a $9,840/year benefit

I work in the Portland area and have had the opportunity to work at some pretty great companies around here but there is no way to get much other than the 401k benefit (and even then a 5% match may not happen) and maybe the health club membership.

Health insurance will sometimes cover yourself but once you add a spouse and/or kids it's going to cost the company a lot more so there is going to be a premium. I currently work downtown and my company covers my parking (which isn't cheap) but others haven't.

I don't know about the Bay area but there is no way you'd get 30 days of PTO from anywhere here, I've never heard of that even from a non-profit I interviewed with once.
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Sh*t you should never say to a VC in a pitch
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That's a fair statement, but I'm trying to fight a different sort of risk than going without a paycheck.