skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I badly need a marketing person. That's what I've had the most trouble with. Very much looking for one!

Congrats on your success! If you don't mind me asking, have long did it take until you had a successful product?
Clear sky and good transparency here in MD with no sign of aurorae.
Ask HN: What are market rates for "Good salary, good benefits and good equity"?
More to the point, how does a developer meaningfully evaluate such a phrase?

Even more importantly, and I wish I made this the title: How do you determine if any particular offer is fair or even good, in the absence of a lot of offers?

This is inspired by the Teespring (YC 13) ad on the front page right now that states, "Good salary, good benefits and good equity."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5545443
> There are countless cases of where rich people would push poor people on bikes off the road and into ditches with their cars.

This is just one part of the story that helped your narrative. It is always the fault of the person with the larger vehicle in India, from what I know about the society. If you are involved in an accident and survived, pray to God that you were in the smaller vehicle, otherwise the crowd might beat you death - if they feel like it [1,2,3 and countless others]. From my own anecdote, I was almost hit by a motorbike while being on a cycle, due to my own fault. Not even a scratch, but I had to help the other man not be bullied by the crowd to pay me money.

And pushing people into ditches has nothing to do with being rich, it has to do with being an asshole. Yes there is widespread casteism (religious or economic) but not every unlawful, unfair act has be attributed to the same evil.

[1] http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-09-28/surat...

[2] http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2008-09-06/nagpu...

[3] http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2009-02-28/rajko...
Services like cloudflare do nothing for API's, which is the core part of any exchange system. Browser technologies have nothing to do with building out secure, distributed trading systems.
Serious question: what do you think about the lack of security in Mode A/C then?
Shahab here again. I hope this issue has been covered to everyone's satisfaction. I just want to leave any new readers with this link to our terms of use one more time. http://www.cofounderslab.com/terms-of-use

As you see we explicitly mention bosiDNA (this is the only partner in the whole agreement) and that you're agreeing to their terms of use too. If any member of HN or CoFoundersLab community feels we've done anything wrong please send an email to info at cofounderslab. We're happy to consider changes needed to ensure we're running our operations fairly.
Were you responsible for the moralist censorship of Clusty's results or did that come after you sold it?
It's hard for me to take seriously any article that so consistently misuses "than" vs. "then"
Well I am happy to eat my hat on this one, with a side of crow.
Ugh never fails. Every time there's northern lights visible it's cloudy. :(
That is your logic? I don't care if this infrastructure could send Obama back in time; it doesn't mean it is right for your needs. Some people glorify "successful" architectures, but it is at least as important (if not more so) to pay attention to your particulars.
New Study Suggests All Men Suck at Reading a Woman’s Eyes
Previous Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5542368

The diagram follows the style of the AWS Reference Architectures[0]. I have yet to find a published set of diagram components that compare well to that style.

Edit: Juan Domenech[1] has a small custom made component pallet in png form. And, it looks like the original diagrams are custom Adobe Illustrator drawings[2].

[0] http://aws.amazon.com/architecture/

[1] http://blog.domenech.org/2012/06/aws-diagrams-palette-v10.ht...

[2] http://blog.domenech.org/2012/05/aws-diagrams.html
Ask HN: To quit or not to quit?
Hi HN,

I have a SaaS startup and by know we already have around 10 customers, that can't eve pay ours costs. But in the other hand it gave me the confidence we have a product and a market for it.
Today I have a day job and can give only a few hours a week to my own company. But I have thia feeling that if I could spend my entire day on this project I could grow much faster.

I would like to hear your experience of when and how you decide to give up your day job to dedicate yourself to your own business.

Thanks
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I have the same issue with my gmail, also first initial & last name. It's amazing to me how many people don't know their own email address
You're grossly simplifying things. A person may be driven to succeed and generate wealth for their family because they want to be able to send their children to the best schools possible, or they want to be able to access the best medical practitioners and technology if someone they cared about were to get sick. It may have absolutely nothing to do with owning "more than the next person."
Beautiful clear skies here in Berks County PA. I'm supposed to be able to see the auroras, but there is nothing yet to see.
I'm thinking that it's specific to the LCIs used in only the specified models.

The LCIs Apple uses now are a lot harder to trigger. I opened an iPhone up and placed a drop of water right on the LCI and it didn't trigger for a decent amount of time.
Minus the under 10, I think there is some truth in the pattern from the point of 16+. Hacker News/Y combinator primarily attracts entrepreneurs,hackers,engineers...people who are constantly learning based on self-interest. 26 is the average age for a Y Combinator alumni and 26-30 is also the majority of users in this toll. Essentially what I'm trying to say is I think this is a reflection of ambition dwindling with age based on the general overall population.
I'm not comfortable sharing specifics without their permission, but I will say that JSFiddle is the second-highest source of Gittip widget page views.

I'm especially honored because it's the only thing on their page that's not part of the app! :O

http://jsfiddle.net/ <- Makin' it easy for ya. ;^)
From your username, I don't know if you are a hacker, business guy, or designer. Shoot me an email and let me know which one is it.

In terms of products, I've had/have many. Time is really not important. I have one that has not launched that is already profitable. Just depends on the product itself.

I'm always open to collaborate with others. Like I said, shoot me an email.
Man, I didn't realize big sites were this complex under the hood. That site wasn't even complicated; if I recall correctly it was just some info pages and payment. I don't know anything about backend stuff. All my projects are like this:

[traffic] -> [hosted server] -> [Amazon CloudFront files]
I was given some advice 10 years into my career that I wish I'd heard fresh out of college. When you are interviewing with a company, learn as much as you can about the career backgrounds of the executives. It often dictates how much influence your department has on operations. Not surprisingly, the worst places I've worked had the biggest disparities between the president and the primary skill group needed to create the product.

It wasn't that these companies weren't profitable - some were, some weren't. They just weren't enjoyable places to work. When you have to explain or justify things that shouldn't need explaining or justifying, it really drains morale.
OH. So that's what that sound was from. I've accidentally triggered it and couldn't figure out how that happened.
I'm using Go at my new startup. I've only been working with it for a couple of weeks but I'm loving it so far. They just got so many things _right_ with this language.
I've been (perhaps foolishly) trying to work out what the actual attack here is.

I have strong suspicions... I saw a fascinating presentation a couple of years back* by the guy who built this: http://maps.spench.net/aviation/ (requires the Google Earth browser plugin). He's using the Universal SDR (software defined radio) to listen to various bits of telemetry coming down from commercial airliners (including, amusingly, automated reports from toilet failures!) and plotting in real time all the planes he's detecting data from. He's using ~$800 worth of radio hardware to recieve those transmissions, but you can listen in on those bands for a lot less using something like this: http://www.funcubedongle.com/ - and I've heard talk about re-purposed USB cableTV dongles being useable down in the ~$30 price range.

What the USDR can do that the cheaper receivers can't though, is _transmit_ on those bands. Hearing how readily Balint decoded the ModeS data, I'm 100% sure that a technically competent but not-very-sophisticated attacker could very easily transmit their own data on those channels using a USDR with the appropriate TX daughterboard (and, in the context of the original article, could easily control the USDR transmitter with an Android app).

(I do vaguely wonder whether any of the radio hardware in a typical Android device is "universal" enough to be convinced to transmit on the bands required here - I'm not quite enough of a radio-geek to know and/or go looking right now. I _strongly_ suspect not, and that if the original article has kernels of truth in it, it's referring to external transmitters controlled by an Android app)

* http://spench.net/drupal/video/mode-s-dorkbot
Hey Magic Carp,

Chris Williams here, I wrote the article :) The reason that I feel I can provide advice is because I started a software company that has been profitable every step of the way, and now have ~400k in revenue in year 1.

The fact that I did not come from the software industry was A HUGE advantage, because most of the advice given is horrible.

Chris
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Those are far less spoofable because so much of the information comes in the form of un-spoofable things like echo delays and directional information.

You could spoof Mode C altitude, of course. You could spoof a distance from the radar that's more than what your actual distance is by delaying your response to the interrogation. But that's about it. You can't spoof direction, and you can't pretend to be closer than you really are. I'm sure you could still make a minor nuisance of yourself, but it's not going to be a very big deal, I'd think.

I think you'd have to either be very close to the radar or airborne to pull any of this off, too, which means that you likely get to play games only once, then the large men in black suits will come ask you to please stop.
Of course they might "destroy US utilities", which is why some of us appreciate them so much. Of course they won't destroy hydro or wind plants.

There was a time when power generation "had" to be centralized, just as AT&T "needed" to have a telecom monopoly and we "need" to have ISPs. Technology is sweeping us past that necessity; those days are ending.

Now that the utilities have stripped and burned most of the easily-stripped fossil fuel resources (leaving no such easy plundering for future generations) and kept the profits for themselves, we are all starting to enjoy getting a slice of the pie. Dear Utes: don't let the door hit you in the ass.
Hey Guys, My name is Chris Williams. I wrote the post :) If anyone wants to connect, I would love to. My email is chris@cammpus.com

My buddy just let me know that this post was picked up ~6 month late.

I'm looking forward to addressing everyone's comments.

The reason I'm qualified to talk about this is because I started a software company and have grown it to ~$400k in revenue and profitable in 18 months. Why? Largely, not listening to "startup" advice, and SELLING. It's key that this is a B2B company not selling to other software people (B2C and software-to-software sales are much different than B2B and software-to-outside-world sales)

Again, I'm my intent is not to insult the software industry, just say the most of the advice seems incomplete from my perspective.

Chris
I don't get why gittip lets me donate "per week" but not a one-time thing. I don't do recurring donations, especially something as often as per week - could totally see myself forgetting about it before the next week.
I believe this includes all of their internal tools for campaigning and organizing and suchlike, not just the public website.
Hey Richard,

I disagree. "Lean startup" (I've only skimmed, not read) is all about teaching coders to sell. Correct me if I'm wrong, no code should be written unless there is market demand.

The challenge is not selling ONCE you have a solid product, it's going from NOTHING to something.

Chris
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Apapi,

Agreed, all software companies are different. There is also a huge distinction between software-to-software sales (where the product design is more important) and software-to-outside-world sales. Most of our customers pay with CHECKS, yes, checks. They aren't software people so the design doesn't need to as good in the beginning.

Chris
I know Luke a little bit from school and I can vouch for the guy that he's not in it just for self-promotion. The stuff he says isn't really novel if you've been out of school for a while, sure, but I'd bet that there are a lot of people reading HN who haven't had the experiences you've had.
I couldn't type more in my post and it was already too long.

I'm a full-time developer. (email sent)
> the situation became much worse after the Olympics when they actually blocked many of the sites we care about. VPNs are being attacked these days by the GFW as well

My experience was that 2012 was the year they really broke the internet with some forms of rate limiting and other attacks against VPN protocol streams. I found over the last few months the fastest/simplest way to get reliable arbitrary HTTP(S) links from within the country on IPv4 was to use SSH with port forwarding to a squid proxy, ie: ssh -N -L localport:tertiaryhost:tertiaryport user@server ... then configure your browser to use 127.0.0.1:localport as a proxy. The old OpenVPN-based methodology was far too unstable. Tor has been effectively cut, unless you do the email-hoop-jumping secret and possibly short-lived endpoint request process and then put up with absolutely pitiful performance.

I suspect IPv6 solves most of the current issues; unfortunately my shot at getting it to work for this purpose didn't succeed, perhaps due to crappy NAT devices.

Anyway, I got sick of China's hassle (and economic bubble pricing vs. reducing quality of life, re: pollution of all kinds, visa hassles, etc.) for the moment, so moved to Thailand. Internet is so much better here.
I just wish it had syntax like JS promises, so the closing brackets weren't such a mess...
Disagree. I have bills to pay, and this means selling.
While the title here[1] is better than the title of the thread[2] it's still sort of misleading. There is no consensus in that thread about the status of the first million Bitcoins.

Though there are some interesting comments:

> But what is true is that anybody running Bitcoin
> that year with a consumer Core 2 would make about
> 2000 BTC a day.
>
> [Bounty] 201600 BTC for a time machine, I only need
> a few hours...

If someone decided to go 'all out' and threw significant computing power behind Bitcoin in the early stages, how would this have affected the outcome. Would it have encouraged others to join in (i.e. "look what he's doing, there must be something to this thing")? Would it have effectively pushed everyone else out of the space (i.e. "I can't match his resources, and he seems to be mining significant amounts of Bitcoins; may as well give up on this Bitcoin thing")?

> I think the likeliest scenario is that hundreds of
> people downloaded and ran the client then, got a
> bunch of blocks that were at the time useless because
> they were valueless, then deleted their clients.

It seems disappointing (?) that significant chunks of the finite amount of possible Bitcoins might be lost 'forever.'

[1] "Status of the first million Bitcoins ever created" as of this writing.

[2] "Satoshi's Fortune lower bound is 100M USD"
For each person it's different, but some factors to think of:

- Do you have several months of living expenses put away? I did this and it made leaving much more easy knowing I had money n the bank.

- Do you have decent enough skills that if you failed at your business that you could go back and get a job?

- Is anyone else finically depending on you right now? And this might be children, a spouse, parents, etc.
Correct. You're not paying for that field of gas turbines to run. You're paying for them to sit in the field warm until issued to run, because if they're not there, hello blackouts.
Fascinating, but I certainly don't hold it against him. 100 MM seems like a pretty modest take for a guy that invents a revolutionary currency.

There are certainly easier ways to make 100 million dollars.
Luke and I both come from pretty similar areas in Maine, and while I can't speak for him, I lived three miles from the nearest convenience store (30 from the nearest Wal-Mart) and I was scrapping to get paid for writing code from about age 16.

I did pretty well during school through contracting. Some of it was due to family networks--for example, my dad did a lot of work for a Congressional candidate, I did his website and donation architecture--and I wouldn't really call my Summer of Code stuff "consulting" but I was very much a contract employee of Google for the summer.
Giffc,

I agree it's about balance. I'm talking about ONE SPECIFIC time. That's going from $0 in revenue to $50k, without investment.

Chris
++ to this; I visited a couple times when I was in school and they're friendly folks. I don't get up there much except to visit family anymore, but if you're in the area it's worth checking out.
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It is usually more effective to create issues in GitHub repo, so I have created one for you: https://github.com/aderyabin/hospice/issues/11
Your analysis reminded me of an article I read a few years ago called "Driven off the Road by MBAs"[1].

I won't give a synopsis because it is a really short article - but here (IMO) is the key sentence and take away: "...ultimately, moving numbers around can do only so much. Over the long haul, you've got to invent or improve real products and services to grow."

The author of the article references a book written by Bob Lutz called "Car Guys vs. Bean Counters: The Battle for the Soul of American Business"[2], which contains numerous examples of how replacing executives from engineering backgrounds with executives from more traditional business backgrounds failed GM as a strategy.

[1]- http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2081930,00....

[2]-http://www.amazon.com/Car-Guys-vs-Bean-Counters/product-revi...
There are tons of software companies run by sales people...they just all fail.
100% Agree.

Chris
One thing that worried me was the slide with just this text on it:

Team selected Go in 15 minutes

Is that really long enough to make a decision? I'm not saying it was necessarily the wrong decision. Just that 15 minutes isn't a whole lot of time.
I'd have to disagree with that. To quote Steve Blank himselve, no software ever fails because it can't be build. You can build whatever software you want. Software companies fail because they can't generate cash.
Well, there's plenty of one-time options (PayPal, Kickstarter, Pledgie, ...). Gittip is differentiating on the recurring option.

The goal with Gittip is for people to make a living on it. Bills are recurring, so funding has to be as well. Yes it means that there is some short-term money left on the table, but it also means that the money that is there is relatively stable and predictable over time. Gittip is designed to grow slowly and shrink slowly. The goal is for JSFiddle to be able to truly depend on it.

And the minimum tip amount is $0.25 per week, which is $13 per year: not that much. Note that the minimum charge is $10 (to minimize transaction fees). So if you only tip a quarter we'd charge you $10 every 37 weeks or so.

That said, I expect we'll mix in one-time payments in some form at some point. I've added a +1 for you here:

https://github.com/gittip/www.gittip.com/issues/5
They're not internal; that's the point.

You want a citizen to be able to receive emails and give you money, then move smoothly to calling other citizens through the website, being provided with a walk sheet to go door-to-door in her own neighborhood, eventually leading a small team of other volunteers.... all of these require interaction with the database of other supporters. Ideally the campaign has over a hundred million people all contacting each other and urging each other to vote a certain way.
And for the record, here is their announcement about it (three days ago):

https://twitter.com/jsfiddle/status/322010718566227968
Were Node.js and Go the only two choices considered? Erlang, Haskell, etc seem like they would fit the choice criteria, save for dependency management which is generally handled externally via rebar or such. Works pretty well though. Moreover, Erlang has solutions for the listed pain points of Go -- an excellent scheduler, fast GC thanks to per-process stacks, mature libraries including HTTP, crypto, etc.

Perhaps if they had spent more than 15 minutes deciding on the language...
>"Yes, these systems are vulnerable but a good pilot will ignore the bad data so the plane is not vulnerable."

Right, like on Air France Flight 447.

Obligatory Dilbert: http://search.dilbert.com/search?w=Flight++laptop&view=l...
I have experience this and do think it will help me out. It also does put me in a weird spot starting as a complete beginner though, say in a basic class, due to this "advantage".
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"It seems disappointing (?) that significant chunks of the finite amount of possible Bitcoins might be lost 'forever.'"

So I'm kinda curious, as the power of the collective network grows, how difficult would it be to turn the incredible hashing rate toward discovering the the private keys of wallets lost long ago?
But maybe this has been the trend for a while? Ten years ago Steve Jobs was pushing the Mac as a "digital hub for your life" and not much has changed since then. I don't just blame the box but everything around it: The speed most people experience the internet at hasn't changed that much, chips use less energy but the speed increases aren't enough to notice a real difference, etc.
Thanks! I was just thinking the other day about how I preferred when people do that rather than put requests in comments. Guess I'm just as guilty...
I'm near Pittsburgh; sky looks clear but no sign of anything yet.
A similar cycle will trash the gasoline car industry when electric meets the combination of [cheap, useable] that is sufficient to trigger a demand reduction / supply contraction cycle in the less fungible parts for gasoline cars.
Thanks for the support :) It sounds like you were able to get back into things after the deployment then?
I believe you :) It wouldn't be very _why-like to flat out deny it.
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Sometimes vision goes beyond what the market currently demands and changes the dynamics of the market. So "no code should be written unless there is market demand" seems a bit short-sighted to me. If you're a visionary, you're seeing beyond what the market demands.