skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd like to note that usually it's a bad deal to be one of the first 1-5 employees at a startup, even if they've raised seed funding. The reason is the startup has only been de-risked by a factor of, say, 5, yet your equity stake is lower than the founders by a factor, of say, 10 (assume two co-founders who get 40% each, and you get 4% - early employees often get less in fact); you might as well be a founder of your own company - the risk-reward profile is often better. Now, obviously if you absolutely believe in the strength of the company, this point is moot and you should join anyway.

I think the best opportunities lie in companies that have already closed a Series A, which means they've picked up traction / validation, but still have a long way to grow.
The worst are companies with both sites and apps and they send me both an email notification and an in-app notification for every fucking thing. And so now I've got multiple notifications going off on my phone for exactly the same actual event just in different formats (one notification letting me know I got an email about a change on the site, one notification from the app reporting the same thing as the email is). And then throw a digest email on top every day or so and the notifications quickly start spiraling out of control. I'm looking at you Facebook, LinkedIn, etc.

Granted, I can usually disable one or the other or both but it is a pain that I have to and I wouldn't even mind the notifications if I didn't feel like I was being assailed by them at times.
True, but it took a LONG time - IEs 6 and 7 were released in 2001 and 2006 respectively, so assuming your '4 years ago' stat is correct, that's still 3 years of waiting for a sweet spot of upgrades, by which time IE6 was 8 YEARS old. IE7 still gives me enough traffic (~5%) to require support, so that's a total of 4 active versions I need to cater for. I really hope adoption of latest IE speeds up, but I've been hoping that for a while now, and I just don't see it. Given that XP introduces a cut-off on IE8, I doubt we'll see the situation changing for a while.
I've read the bill, but I'm not a lawyer, so maybe I misunderstood.

Could you please point out the text of the bill that you're describing here?
Yes, there's a list of exit nodes. Which machines are exit nodes is not supposed to be secret and could be easily derived by an interested party. (Send a bunch of requests to your web server over Tor. Observe the list of IPs making requests.)

http://torstatus.blutmagie.de/ip_list_exit.php/Tor_ip_list_E...

And yes, ISPs could detect Tor traffic if they wanted to.
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I understand the issues with small businesses--believe me. I also understand that in those environments, getting Firefox installed doesn't magically break everything.

The purpose of having a list like this is to record the service providers who do have products out there that break using modern browsers--because they're ripe opportunities for "doing it righter and cheaper".

Do people not see how hard they are making the lives of future developers (or even their own lives down the road) by continuing to coddle these people?

Your vet example would be happy to switch to a cheaper service (cheaper because the devs were cheaper, because the tech is more modern and less finicky) if it were available, and a hitlist of companies ripe for displacement (due to running old platforms) would help the vet as much as help the devs.

This is so frustrating.
"U.S. Department of State consular officers and U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers collect biometric information (digital fingerprints and a photograph) from all non-U.S. citizens between the ages of 14 and 79, with some exceptions, when they apply for visas or arrive at major U.S. ports of entry."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Visitor_and_Immi...
That's because we announced the language earlier in its lifecycle than did Go, relatively speaking. (Graydon had initial designs for quite some time before development really started, which is why you sometimes hear that the language is older, but development didn't really start until 2009-2010.)

We're definitely interested in helping people learn to use the language. Hence the tutorial, Niko's, Brian's, and my blog posts, and so on.

Of course, the manual and learning material are in dire need of improvement in many areas; please bear with us, as it's a work in progress.
And the people who planted the bombs are definitely NOT law abiding citizens. If they're willing to kill a bunch of random, innocent bystanders how much more willing do you think they'd be to kill law enforcement bent on their apprehension? Once they decide they're willing to break the law and blow up bombs it stands to reason they'd be comfortable procuring some illegal guns as well.
Yeah, not a privacy violation it seems. I didn't know that. For me, it was just unexpected and weird to experience.
Telling me (or my wife) to log into my account for sensitive information may be a good idea, but including a link in the email for the purpose does not seem to be. It opens possibilities of phishing attacks.
This might be late, or a topic no one wants to bring up, but I am supremely pleased to hear your voice in these parts again. Thank you for contributing.
That last one. Given our past record on supporting things you shouldn't be too worried. But if you are, go to our GitHub project and click the Fork button.
In the eyes of your cofounders, you weren't the cofounder. You were the mark.
Twitter and FB are amazing tools for spreading ideas (Arab Spring, Occupy Wall Street, Rebecca Black's "Friday", etc.) but they have also resulted in a shameful lack of fact-checking and an inexcusable free-fall in journalistic reporting standards that seems to have no end in sight.

What will it take to bring reporting standards back up to anywhere near their pre-social media levels?

For example, why can't the FCC start handing out massive fines ($x million) to news agencies that report false or inaccurate information? Of course that's not scalable but hopefully it could act as a deterrent and make people think twice before they post something. If the FCC can fine CBS $550,000 for allowing Janet Jackson's nipple to be exposed on national TV, you'd think they could do the same when major news companies' rushed reporting ends up ruining people's lives.

People's lives are being destroyed time and again by well-intentioned but misguided individuals and companies disseminating false information. Is there really nothing that can be done?
Thanks for this, I was searching for this exact thing the other day and couldn't find it.
Yes, you are right, it is likely that anything worthy of being considered conscious would be fairly complex. (Though I believe it is possible to create an intelligence that is initially fairly simple. AIXI for example is the ultimate intelligence and could be created in a few dozen lines of code. It would just take nearly infinite computing power to do anything interesting and I wouldn't really consider it "conscious". Even the processes going on in your brain, at least the very basic function that makes us "intelligent", stripping away all the uninteresting stuff or additions to that, could probably be specified in a very small space. A lot of neurons may seem complicated, but you only need to understand the programming of a few, than just copy them a billion times. But all of this is beside the point.)

Anyways in the original context of where I said that, I was trying to come up with a satisfactory way to distinguish consciousness from non-consciousness. Complexity obviously isn't the way since lots of complex things are not conscious. It may be that all conscious things are also complex. But then complexity isn't the reason it's conscious, it just happens to correlate with it.

Setting a variable in a computer equal to "happy" obviously doesn't make the computer experience happiness. But then what possible sequence of commands and state changes would? If you accept that there is no possible sequence that would, then you have to accept that humans can not experience consciousness either. Because for all we know we are running in a computer too. Even if we are not, the process our brain follows easily could. The fact that it runs on atoms bouncing into each other and not electrons flowing through logic gates makes no difference.
which could be argued that it's even more reason to be concerned.
Native games on phones can now be recoded in realtime in web browser
I've had a VPS require photo ID (ServInt)
Could Tor traffic be encapsulated in HTTPS to stop ISPs from identifying it, or would they still be able to either identify the traffic as Tor or identify the relay nodes and block access to them?

I'm curious if the Japanese proposal is even possible, or if it's another political policy that isn't supported by technology like Australia's proposed internet censorship system (which was eventually abandoned)
If you're in a one-language shop, and you hate that language, you may see node as your only hope--it's the only alternative that can't be shot down with "We'd have to train everybody up in that weird other language"
They're nice people but not really interested in helping anybody use the language that isn't an intern working on it.

I definitely haven't had that experience. They have limited hours in the day, but they try their hardest to be of assistance.
This. Experian provides the same service, it's usually ~$3/pop if I remember right. This gives you those "Did you live with a Paul Foo at 378 Combinator Way from 2006-2009?" questions.
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Just a quick note: we have a good idea of how many people make it through these challenges versus how many start. As long as that ratio stays remotely sane --- and as long as the whole Internet doesn't secretly turn out to be full of people who can bust out crypto attacks better than most vulnerability researchers can, which is a concern because an English professor finished these --- we'll donate $20 to PIH or Watsi for everyone who finishes.

Sean, Marcin, and I are watching the cryptopals at matasano address, so if you have questions or get stuck on one of the later problems, don't hesitate to ask; the worst that'll happen is we'll take too long to reply.

Update: We WILL get to you. We're definitely getting your emails. All of your emails. All of the emails. Give us a little bit though.
wtf. they are a lot more than just a website. they're a front end on top of "The Members Group" which IIRC is a financial services company for a ton of banks. But to say that all they are is a website is pretty lame. Sorry you couldn't move 5 figures of cash on hours after you create an account.
My Dad owns an ACH processing company. This is typical for any electronic payment processor. It does sound like they went overboard with the identity verification.

It just goes to show that disrupting payment processing is not just about some awesome new payment API. It's also about preventing fraud and crime without pissing your customers off. From my observations, this problem has yet to be solved.
Someone should verify the 'large entity' discovered by Shamir is distinct: http://eprint.iacr.org/2012/584
The bits about the hormonal changes do seem cargo cultish, but there are some merits in the idea of 'projecting' with your body language.

Act more confident -> Appear more confident -> Be treated differently -> Actually be more confident.
Interestingly, the right hand is the strong one for ~90% of people.

The terms "right wing" and "left wing" date back to the French Revolution and the preferred seating positions of the nobility and the reformists in the Estates General. I'm really stretching my powers of speculation, but given that the nobility would have received training in arms, is it coincidence that they would have preferred a seating position that allowed the easier use of their sword-arm when directed toward the center of mass of the opposition party?
Here's a transcript of the conversation I linked above.

http://www.csdp.org/research/nixonpot.txt
I had the same thought.

You'd think that knowing accurate dimensions and features of something so nearby could be used to gauge distortion on the face.

Likewise, perhaps some kind of computer vision could quickly search for the distinctive pattern of that hat in other images/video.
How much money can my business afford to lose on a point of principle that no-one else in the company would ascribe any value to whatsoever? Not much. The decision obviously takes into account time spent catering for older browsers, but jQuery eases the problem - at the moment. As a very rough guide, it seems sensible to cater for any browser version representing at least 1% of traffic; IE8 currently represents over 20% for us, so it's nowhere near getting dropped, unfortunately.
I agree but I'm thinking more in terms of what share Satoshi (or whoever) would end up with. If Bitcoin were to reach the dollar's market value, it seems to me there's a good chance that we'd still have fractional-reserve banking, so the extra $9 trillion would be made from bitcoin-denominated loans instead of being actual bitcoins. In that case Satoshi would still have $50 billion.

But maybe we'll go down a different path. Maybe an economy based on equity instead of debt, backed by colored coins. Then Satoshi becomes the richest human in history, if he hasn't diversified before then.

(Or maybe another cryptocurrency takes over and Bitcoin goes back to ten cents a coin, who knows.)
I think the order goes something like:

good co-founder relationship >>> single founder > resentful co-founders.
Thanks for opening this opportunity up to the community! :)

EDIT: Dumb question, but for scheduling purposes, what's an order-of-magnitude estimate for a block of 8 questions? Is this like a weekend-hackable thing, part-time during the week, month sabbatical, or what?
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It is a freakin' blast watching people work through these. The pleasure is ours.

Regarding time commitments: it is hugely variable, mostly I think because different people put different priorities on finishing. The first set should go very quickly.

I would love it if these took a month of work, but people have gotten through them in a couple days, and there's some delay built in there because of email.
Am I the only one who can not use Closure Compiler with jquery 2.0.0? ( http://closure-compiler.appspot.com/ )
Try Balancedpayments.com I think it does what you're looking for.
Does the linked article have spoilers?

I'll save it for later if it does.
>> Better still, don't use passwords in your API at all. Passwords are for humans. APIs use keys.

> this is merely nomenclature, no? What you are calling a key is really a long, random password

Both passwords and keys are shared secrets. A password is a secret a human remembers, and can prove he/she remembers. A key is something a machine stores and can prove it has.

(Actually, an API key can also be a token, eg: "{ hash: " + hash(key+salt+date(now))+"valid from: " + date(now) + "salt: " + salt + "}" -- that is -- if you know the key, you can verify that that the token is indeed valid from the date claimed (and you could add serial numbers and other stuff as well). Note that the user doesn't need to know the key in this case, the user only needs a copy of the token).

So yes, it is nomenclature, but it matters.

[edit: formatting, typo]
installing chrome or firefox doesn't magically uninstall IE
I may not have been considered a real cofounder but I was there at the first brainstorming and had all of the technical ideas. I had a lot more ideas since and am building another team to start the business again. Forced to bootstrap and then move to another city because all the investors here have invested in my original company!
If this is the case then the story is still creepy but I support this attempt to combat fraud.
I'm sorry man. I was forced out of my first startup last year. It was very traumatic. It's so obvious what you should have done in hindsight but that doesn't help. I wish you the best if luck in the future.
People underestimate just how important jQuery's documentation has been to its success. Even jQuery themselves seem to underestimate it, because the documentation for jQuery UI and jQuery Mobile really are not as good as the core docs (though still far better than the average). I probably would not have started using jQuery for my projects nearly as soon or as often had it not been for the excellent documentation.
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Their passive-aggressive credential demanding is nasty - I tried to create a basic account and then the demands started. Calling them clowns is insulting - to clowns. Dwolla: you are supposed to be upstanding midwestern folks: be G-D UPFRONT about your requirements!
I tried helping out Tor. I installed their software that was supposed to make it one-click to set up a relay. Didn't work. Then I fumbled around a bit and Googled the error messages I was getting. No luck. Reboot a few times and try again. Nope.

Sorry. They need to make it way easier to get involved.
Do objects tend to get lost in clusters, or what?
Not dumb at all. Keep using 1.x for everything until IE 6/7/8 drop off your radar.
My understanding of the resistance of Japanese companies to buyouts is due to the Keiritsu system rather than any legal hurdles.

To buy the controlling stake of, say, Mitsubishi the car manufacturer, you would need to buy shares from Meiji Mutual Life, Mitsubishi Steel Manufacturing, Mitsubishi Gas Chemicals, the Bank of Tokyo and a bunch of other companies.

And they won't sell. For any price.
I've generally found that the best case is the buck stopping at a smallish committee (2-4 people) who work well together, take joint responsibility, and appropriately communicate and split expertise. Individuals have a lot of blind spots and tend to get either overwhelmed or overconfident. But it's also true that the "work well together" part has a high failure rate.
However, is there an underlying truth at Valve, that if he wanted to, Newell could fire everyone on the spot? I have no idea if that is true, and if so, don't necessary think such an arrangement is bad. But if that is the case, it needs to be acknowledged that authority, even if unstated and unexercised, still has an effect.
Is 31.37% pretty minuscule? I don't think so...

Source: http://www.netmarketshare.com/
My statement was too broad -- you're right. However, even giving shows of respect can cement the giver's higher status.

I.e. I can confer honour upon you because I am the source of honour. Maybe I'm watching too much Game of Thrones.
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> Their standard of living is lower than their parents

From a purely $/sqft perspective.
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The point of separation is simpler jQuery development and reduced file-size for the >= 2.x versions. You will serve two files. You serve 1.9.x to IE 6/7/8 users, and 2.x to everyone else. You save bandwidth. You save money.

Features will be the same. It's OSS folks. It's not like it's ran by a closed-source team at Google who may suddenly pull the plug if it deems the project unpopular. My guess is folks who work in enterprise (where older IE still plagues) will be the big maintainers of 1.9.x.
I don't think there's such a thing as 'proof' in politics, really - so God knows if I'm right. (I also don't think I need to provide any here - Wikipedia this isn't.)

But since I live in Texas and I'm a life member of the NRA, I do know a lot of people who are very passionately against any form of gun control, especially when coming from the federal government. I also trust the political instincts of Bill Clinton, who always struck me as a sharp politician:

http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/bill-clinton-warns-democrat...

While some polls show that the public by-and-large supports several proposals for increased gun control, Clinton said that it’s not the public support that matters — it’s how strongly people feel about the issue.

“All these polls that you see saying the public is for us on all these issues — they are meaningless if they’re not voting issues,” Clinton said.
Ask HN: What happens to programmers after 40?
You see all these startups, most people are pretty young, what happens to the programmers who are closer to 40, but aren't managers? Would you want to hire someone older than yourself?
Whining about browser choice is never going to accomplish anything. You're speaking the wrong language. Speaking the right language would go something like: “I can increase revenues while decreasing long-term maintenance costs, and I can do it at the current expense level. The only way I can do this for you is if we use this technology.” The person you're pitching couldn't possibly care less about IE/Chrome/Firefox, but they certainly care very much about business metrics.
Nope. People have been pretty awesome about that.
Has Tor tried to do anything to reduce potentially unnecessary use of their bridges? Maybe I'm being naive, but I think some teenager using Tor to pirate stacks of blue-ray movies should have to wait in line behind a Chinese civil rights blogger.
jenius, if I provide a VPS, would you be willing to set something up that fetches his spools, turns them into PDFs, and then uploads to that Scribd collection automatically? Or even lets you manually upload them? That would be fantastic.
Power is the ability to coerce through action or threat of action on those issues that you care about or in certain spheres of influence.

So, no, this doesn't mean constant domination. But that's largely due to the fact that the powerful won't generally expend their resources on issues they don't care about. As soon as you disagree or oppose them on an issue that they do care about, though, they will try to dominate you.

EDIT> Also, a person may have power within one sphere, but not another. A classic mistake is not realizing who you're dealing with / what the realities of the situation are.
Uh, no it doesn't :/ Unless it's unsafe to view abstract images with a bit of sound.
I still can't wrap my head around this concept that 5% requires support. Tim Ferriss isn't right about everything, but his bit about firing your worst customers is dead on. The Pareto principle suggests that 20% of your customers cause 80% of your workload, and the sensible thing to do is drop those customers. If it's only 5% instead of 20%, it seems like a no-brainer to me.
If you think about it it's like how Microsoft have handled MSIE. They've dropped support for older OS, ie XP and earlier, in IE9 but are still offering support/patches for IE8.
WestCoastJustin, if I provide a VPS, would you be willing to set something up that fetches his spools, turns them into PDFs, and then uploads to that Scribd collection automatically? Or even lets you manually upload them? That would be fantastic.
> I have some kind of personal problem that leads me into these time sinks

Your personal problem is that you're a higher animal. Out of the reinforcement schedule patterns that maximise conditioning, the "Variable Interval Reinforcement Ratio" or VIRR is the most powerful.

That is: systems with random payoff schedules are the most addictive to higher animals. Pigeons, rats, humans: if good stuff happens at random we quickly become shackled to whatever it was we were doing.

Gambling: random payoffs. Addictive.

Buying MtG booster packs: random payoffs. Addictive.

Many, many computer games: random payoffs. Addictive.
I'm not a Democrat, and didn't vote for Obama, I just think that straw men are a waste of time. Convicting Democrats for not being for "big government" across the board when none of them claim to be for "big government" at all is a waste of time.

The phrase is being used in lieu of the specific and extensive arguments that would have to be made connecting business regulation, social safety nets and progressive taxation with marriage being defined as heterosexual, abortion restrictions, and war(?).