skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're 5 hours ahead of the east coast, 8 hours ahead of the west coast. Being available 1-6/7pm for the east coast seems fine.

And as others have said - it's a great idea, especially given the shortage of technical talent. The biggest challenge I could see would be whether you can provide enough hours (value) for each startup, while simultaneously working with enough startups to give you the multiple pies you mentioned, and all this on top of a full time job. In any case good luck, and let us know how it goes!
> One way of steering people toward good decisions is to expose them to some of the consequences of their bad choices.

But how is this actually done? In any of the cases noted in the article, how would you have exposed people to those consequences without simply subjecting them to those consequences and leaving them to rot? Can you say to a single parent, "Well, now you know what kind of person not to have a child with"? The child is born. It has its own rights and needs. You're presented with a whole new set of choices to make, with their own consequences, that you still can't foresee with perfect clarity.

You say that not all of the choices have to be perfect... but that doesn't seem any different from what Murray, at least as portrayed by the article, is arguing.

And moreover, can you really say that you're presenting them with a choice? Here's an anti-Christian argument about free will: many Christians say that going to Hell is your own choice. Their job is to simply to inform you of that choice, so that you can freely accept Christ before you die. But the choice is between eternal bliss and eternal torment. Is that really a choice? The real choice isn't really between eternal bliss and eternal torment: it's between accepting coercion or refusing it.
Thanks - That's an intriguing book tip.
-> is not a valid operator in go.
> a suburb west of San Francisco

Hawaii? :)
I take it you're being sarcastic, but the article doesn't contain any such information. Or are we missing something?
You are exactly the kind of programmer I hope I never become. But I would like to thank you for this content! I'm saving this series of comments from you - when I become a CS professor at some small community college, I want to warn my students what they can become if they aren't careful.
From the site which seems to be down:

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The web you know is dying

I'm drinking an espresso shot. It's half-cold. There's still gunk in my eyes from sleeping.

I've been thinking a lot about how I use the Internet. A year ago, I nearly vanished from the public web because I had an intuitive feeling the centralized web was a backdoor to the government. Now, as the dust settles from our collective experiences over the past week, I know this to be true.

So I'm revisiting some of my older habits. I'm using Tor to visit websites. I've installed Torbirdy on Thunderbird. I'm back on Hyperboria) using cjdns. If you want to send me Bitcoins, I'll take them.

I continue to try to find ways to communicate over the web. Forward security is a must. Distributed peer to peer social is a must. These are two seperate problems.

The kids on Hyperboria have the right idea: if you don't want to be spied on, evolve beyond reach. I'm doing just that.

Distributed everything is where we're going.

The way I see it, if you're still on centralized social networks, you're part of the problem. You can't stick your fingers in your ears anymore and scream 'lalallalal'. All of your information is being recorded, forever, in the nice little boxes you type into all day long.

I'm running more and more under the pseudonym of Ven Portman. I'm powering up a hyperboria-only website at venportman.com. Evbogue.com will continue to be my stable public web presence. The madness will happen on Hyperboria.

The centralized Internet you know is dying. We're scattering to darknets everywhere to look for what we'll build next.

–Ev Bogue
July 4 2013
undisclosed location
Interesting that GABA increases activity in young brains, but not brains flush with young neurons. http://hilinkit.appspot.com/yhgjdr
People who work on their own startups on evenings and weekends aren't generally considered to be taking a very large risk. People who'd do contracting for equity in other startups where there is already some traction likely less so since there is more likelihood of those startups being successful.

Also your post implies you are looking to do this for multiple startups. Not only does this kind of send a bad message that you'd not be that invested in a company you literally owned, but it also reduces your risk profile since you are trying to "diversify."
Running: not just good for the body but good for the mind too. Makes me glad I started running a couple of months ago
I don't think you're out to make a quick buck, which is why I suggested an alternative to your plan. And, obviously, equity could end up being worth zero. The problem is, the owners of a company have to allocate equity on the assumption that it's not going to be worth zero, but instead worth a huge amount of money; else why be starting that particular company?

Your incentives aren't going to align with those of any rational founder. The people that will take you up on an offer like this are disproportionately likely to fail; the ones that succeed are likely to regret having given up equity to a nights-and-weekends contractor. Note also that this is a signaling issue; the cap table of a startup comes up pretty quickly in due diligence.

I really think giving equity to contractors is a bad idea.

Why not instead sign up for a scaled deferred compensation plan? You could ask for 2x or 3x what your normal rate would be, perhaps scaled by the startup's first valuation. You'd capture some of the upside, but not an unbounded amount, and you'd be along for the ride without the baggage that comes with ownership.
Good point, and it raises an interesting question.

Is Facebook really that much easier to understand than e-mail, usenet, and IRC? Or is Facebook just better at marketing?

When my Mom wanted to get on to Facebook there was definitely a learning curve. She had to be shown by my sister and myself how to do everything... sign up, post photos, learn about what a "comment" was, how to add people, manage things... Facebook is quite a complex piece of software. I don't necessarily think that Facebook requires less technical skills than decentralized services.

In my opinion, the reason Facebook is popular across all demographics is because it is based on real identities. Real names, real faces. Before Facebook the Internet fully embraced anonymity and this requirement to partake in role playing, having an avatar that was separate from yourself, was confusing and a little bit terrifying to older people. My mom would always wonder WHO I was talking to on the Internet. They could have been a murderer, or a kidnapper! If you can't see their face or know their name, she thought, how could they be trusted? My parents are NOT on Twitter and will probably never be for similar reasons. It is too weird for them to think about having a separate personality. They weren't stage actors or used to the public eye because they were raised in a very different media environment. The distributed Internet turns us all in to celebrities. Facebook keeps things the way they were but allows people to benefit from the same abilities to publish, just to a seemingly private group of close friends and family.

Facebook, in my opinion, is a nice little service to hold your hand while introducing you to this very different new world that is emerging.

On the topic of marketing and technology... I'm just going to use Sun and Java as an example because I was recently talking about this and it's fresh on my mind. Sun did an amazing job of marketing Java on the Internet. In the mid 90s every other web page had that little Java mascot on it. They took the Internet and ran with it, big time. There were much better and much easier tools around but their creators didn't do enough to evangelize their benefits. You gotta get out there and sell this stuff to people.

It took open source software a LONG time to realize this. Products will wither and die without proper marketing and advertising, no matter how much better they are.

"Great marketing and decent technology gives you a better bandwagon than great technology and decent marketing", as said by Ralph Johnson at http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?JavaVsSmalltalk - which BTW, is a great little wiki full of interesting conversations from a bunch of old timers and academics.
How ironic.

The same author has another post on the front page, which he posted on medium.com [1], which is still reachable and has generated some interesting discussion. However, a post on his own site has seemingly been brought down by the weight of HN traffic and now no-one can discuss it.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5991576
As far as I'm aware, so don't take this as gospel or anything:

Its total potential to do work within the reference frame of any given system, which is what we're interested in here, doesn't remain a constant. It's like... if you think of it like water: If you have all your water at the top of a cliff in a big reservoir and it runs down into a turbine linked up to a generator, then you can get a lot of work out of that water. But once it's gone down the cliff, despite it still being the same mass of water, your ability to extract useful work from that water is dramatically less. You'd have to pump it back to the top of the cliff to repeat the exercise (at a loss since the system you're playing with is never going to be perfectly efficient, i.e. the second law of thermodynamics - so there'd basically be no point in doing so.)

What we really want are high concentrations of energy; low entropy sources. We're looking for those situations where the water is still at the top of the cliff. A star is fussing down through the various elements, and in the process it emits a lot of radiation during its lifetime. And it's not getting that energy back. Once the elements have undergone the process you'd have to put energy back into them to return them to their earlier states. But that energy's been leaving the star for years, and some of it travels at the speed of light so it's very far away - so... it's just not gonna happen. Stars do go through life cycles and produce various phenomena but always at a loss of their potential to do useful work, always at an increase in entropy.

^^;
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Once main exits the program does as well, so all other goroutines will be terminated.
There are paper ballots' solutions to most people with disabilities. Free public transportation to the ballots and a mandatory day off work also help.

These problems are surmountable.

The problems of "black box voting" are not.

Massive scale fraud with paper ballots is harder given relatively simple means of oversight.
You want a distributed F*book? Try PSYC on GNUnet!
http://about.psyc.eu
https://gnunet.org
NULL considered harmful
For developers running a small vps or any kind of server in which memory is a scarce resource, I highly recommend puma.

I needed about 5-6 passenger processes in my app to service requests in a timely fashion moving to puma essentially cut down the processes I needed to run to 1 ... saving me about 300MB of RAM, but not only did it save me memory, performance was better than with Passenger.

Granted, I miss the ease of just typing

touch tmp/restart

to reboot my app, and I had to set up Apache (then later Nginx) proxying to get it going but it was well worth it.

PS: here is my writeup on how you can get puma up and running with your Apache/Passenger setup in less than an hour to try it out http://www.concept47.com/austin_web_developer_blog/rails/how...
Sentences for cyber crime and snooping to be tougher across EU
In many cases the "prepackaged product" purchasing decisions are being made by managers who won't actually use them. That's why enterprise sysadmin jobs suck so much.
Show HN: Terminal-based group chat with end-to-end encryption
Long and short scales
Or use the engineering notation: 217k users.
I'm really failing to understand obsession with unstructured types in Postgres? Why can't you just use native types for hierarchical structures?

Is it really that hard for people to maintain database changes?
Going off topic a little, do you follow any Europeans? I'm looking for suggestions of people to sponsor, and always interested to hear opinions!
I suspect moving the earth would be easier than regulating the sun.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5992358
So... this got a lot more attention than I expected, so let me share the framework that I'm working to adopt. (I've found it difficult to change mental models because so much discussion uses other, older frameworks.)

The "Capabilities approach" is not built on a human rights framework, and does not really engage with the question of freedom and choice. Instead, it asks on an individual basis, "Is this individual capable of these particular things?" Justice, in this sense, is for everyone to have a minimum amount of capability.

I have so far found philosophically sturdier than anything else I've seen. Here is a ton of links.

* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capability_approach

* http://people.wku.edu/jan.garrett/ethics/nussbaum.htm

* http://crookedtimber.org/2011/08/29/martha-nussbaums-creatin...

* http://www.amazon.com/Creating-Capabilities-Human-Developmen...
"Normal" according to who? :-)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Septemvigesimal

And then there's Danish...
I'm sorry, are you to claim in the second paragraph that the way our system works in front of a jury is a scientific way of determining guilt beyond a reasonable doubt?

If so, I invite you to visit the court room more.

As for the first, you can objectively know if the person is guilty in a number of ways. For example, maybe they admit it, plus there is authenticated video + eyewitness + whatever you like evidence that they did it. It happens plenty of times.

If your answer is "nothing is enough to objectively know", then we'll just have to agree to disagree.

Also, note that "reasonable doubt" is a very modern standard. It's not clear why you seem to be holding it up as the "only" or "right" standard.
There's no reason to focus on the "not a surprise" part, as the comment did, except for trivialising the issue.
In Iceland, citizenship can only be granted by passing a new law in the parliament.

Normally citizenships are granted in batches with similar bills, after the receivers pass the normal qualifying process carried out by the immigration authorities.
In context, Syria has the third lowest internet penetration in the entire Middle East at 22.5%.[0] Considering there are only ~195 countries in the world, being #55 is pretty low. 5.4m is nothing to forget about, of course, but my original point was that most don't have access. The United States, on the other hand, has 78.1% penetration.[1]

Obviously I'm not arguing that Syrians who have access to computers shouldn't get to use crypto, or that there has never been a Syrian who used crypto to aid in protest. But let's not act like crypto's main usage is as righteous as helping a rebellion against an oppressive regime.

[0]: http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats5.htm

[1]: http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats14.htm
Actually that works in their favor. It's been long enough that they can probably run the original system and software on an emulator with a faster CPU setting.
For fun, zoom in on google maps at the DGSE address

https://www.google.com/maps/preview#!q=141+Boulevard+Mortier...

Bing maps does it too, but Bing's Bird's eye view only does it for 3 of the 4 cardinal directions

http://www.bing.com/maps/?FORM=Z9LH2#Y3A9MzguOTA2ODk4fi03Ny4...
The man in the "black suits" that were folloing Nadim Kobeissi, didn't have anything todo with these bugs right?

However I'm sure that the NSA can crack SSL/TLS in a matter of minutes, not because they have such powerfull secret hardware, but because they probably have agents that spotted or added bugs here and there in different software.

Wouldn't that mean that even when you invented a perfectly secure super encryption, they could wiretap your OS and get the message in cleartext without your consent. Thanks to backdoors, bugs and incompetence.
> That's because that distinction is not, as far as I know, actually in the Bill of Rights.

It's a distinction made in the case law, even by strict textualists like Justice Scalia. It's not a weakness of the document that it doesn't spell everything out for you.
I'm glad you approve. No, wait, I don't give a shit.

HN has too much tolerance for this 1000% totally bogus intellectually insulting rhetorical tactic. It demeans everyone.

The people writing these idiotic "you must be a shill for {Microsoft,Mozilla,NSA}" comments think they're clever, but what they're really saying is "not only do I not understand what the Fundamental Attribution Error is, but I can't even comprehend the idea of someone disagreeing with me or even presenting a fact or idea that challenges my preconceptions; no, it's much more likely that this is a bad faith comment than that I don't know everything there is to know about every topic".

And then other people cheer them on!

There is no online community anywhere on the Internet less capable of spotting a shill than Hacker News. Any competent shill could immediately see how to game the site.
I think what I'm looking for is something fundamentally different to what that would offer. I'm looking for ownership, to be a part of the startup and assist from a technical point of view from MVP through to ongoing development of a polished product, and that justifies ongoing equity based commitment.
Canadian Mentors to Give Back During Startup Train to Montreal
Despite attending an "activist" undergrad school, I've never attended any protests -- since I'm out of the US at the moment I can't attend this one even though I would like to. But here's the question, what can be done to yoke a protest and popular frustration to a particular implementable agenda? It seems that there is a natural tendency in these things to something I can only call "dumb populism" with the loudest people generally making their way most easily to the microphone. I don't know if this is inevitable, but it certainly seems the norm. Any thoughts?
I don't know if this applies or is true: but I once heard that soft (non-informative) car ads are run not to advertise their product, but to make people to recently bought or own that brand feel good about their decision.

Considering how many people own an Apple product, it's possible that the ads are just to make those people feel more loyal to the brand.
Modern hardware does not need texture atlases as it can use a different texture for every pixel. Texture atlas is a workaround for the API that only allows one set of textures per primitive and imposes a huge overhead on each primitive at the same time (e.g. OpenGL, DirectX).
I don't want to sound apologetic for the actions of NSA as a whole, and those who surely pressured them into those actions, and those that were aware of them but did not object, but I did take heart in the first sentence, "The Fourth of July reminds us as Americans of the freedoms and rights all citizens of our country are guaranteed by our Constitution."

I hope this is a sign that at least some people in the NSA recognize that what happened was an egregious breach of the spirit of our constitution, and the principle of government by public consent. It would be nice if it meant that some of NSA's members welcome, for their organization, public accountability, clear limits on power afforded to them, and recourse for pressure from other parts of the government to violate these things.

Regardless of whether this is just wistful thinking or not, we should continue to bring awareness to this issue, and take action.

I hope the form of this action will be public awareness, peaceful protests, crowd-funding representatives, and holding those elected representatives legally accountable for their campaign promises (because I do not see how we can have a representative democracy if the words of the representatives before they are elected are so divorced from their actions after).

I hope the result will be legal safeguards and public oversight to make sure that no federal agency can violate the constitution, and act against public consent, no mater how secret their mission.

(edited to include the bit about public awareness)
I've taken some time away from this discussion, had something to eat, cooled down a bit, and I'd like to say that I'm sorry if I offended you. I didn't realize how abrasive I was being.
Businesses don't get the attention they want and have little idea if the attention they get from spamvertising are curious page views, capable buyers or people that think their business is crazy.

Quite a common theme on HN.

Also having to know the name of a business to search for them biases everything towards big players. Good luck remembering these http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kwkfi5tqEi1qzqh0wo1_500.pn... when you need them.

Impossible to remember app/startup names are one of the failures of the web's design. And the design of computers in general. When I need contacts or video chat I shouldn't have to memorize brands like Facetwitter or Skype, only contacts and video chat. New players that improve on those services can live under those tags.

Top bloggers and news services are adopting content farm tactics because that's the model that fits the web. So journalism/news that the web was supposed to liberate from censorship and centralization are declining in quality and usefulness because of the current web's design pays them through ad impressions.

Commercial advantage of a new model for the web has to be significant and decentralization could be a feature but I don't think THE feature. For Linux customization, price reduction and feature parity were THE feature. In the early days it didn't have feature parity. A new model getting feature parity with the current web seems like a harder task.
What is a range of percentages you might think would be reasonable for assisting with technology from MVP through ongoing development? Let's assume that you take a key role in actually implementing the MVP.
What are you talking about? The "not a surprise" part was the whole point of John Graham-Cumming's comment to which you're replying.
I think there's some valid points in there, though I think that the cost of hiring a full time employee is often beyond the budget of an early phase startup, especially when founders and initial owners have covered most of the early work and only require an on-demand ad-hoc technical assistance or advice to deliver and support the product in the end.
I'm a marathoner and ultramarathoner. My first running event was a half-marathon in 2007. From there, one thing lead to another over the years, and now the most recent event I ran was a 50 mile ultra.

What I can say from my personal subjective experience is that I feel good all the time. No aches and pains. No trouble sleeping. Mentally quick and sharp. Never sick. The list goes on.

I recommend running to anyone. Not necessarily becoming a marathoner, unless you enjoy the challenge, the sport and the subculture of it, but running in general, for fitness.
Salt Stack - A deployment system written in Python
One possible response:

"You're a public servant, aren't you? How about you fetch me a glass of water." -- Bill Hicks
It's always interesting when a common theory for an occurrence or a causality is overturned. It reminds us to keep questioning accepted beliefs/axioms/rules.
> 2.17e5

FTFY
I suspect that non americans will be moving a lot of it to other places.

And if we can't get our own government to obey the basic founding rules of the country, we're got going to get any real protections for non citizens.
Meanwhile - https://twitter.com/PenLlawen/status/352824120804782080