skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That would be bad compensation rather than a great perk. It would just be compensating people in a way they wouldn't spend the money given the choice. The company boat takes advantage of it being easier to get value out of a group "owned" boat than an individual boat, since a lot of overhead is shared and the amount of time the boat sits there unused is minimized.
I was referring to the fact that ES2 was designed before Apple acquired Emagic.
"In many organizations, people who straddle the line between technical and non-technical quickly find themselves having to take a side. The result is that after too long in the wrong company, you can find yourself being molded into what's useful for the organization and not necessarily for you (or for the world)."

I find this to be true - though I think it may correlate to the size of the organization. Huge places favor crazy specialization.
First Prerelease of Rails.app
"Sunscreen"
Yeah, it's definitely gotten harder to meet people. What has your experience been with friends who have moved for jobs or other reasons?

I'm impressed that you talk to your close friends once a week. Are all these friends in the local area, or do you talk to them online? I think only seeing friends a couple of times a year in real life has led to us not talking much anymore.
My all time favorite work perk after doing the corporate drone gig + pager/oncall, followed by fast paced SV type gig + pager/oncall and the pluses/minuses that come with those companies?

Nights and weekends off, and a respect for my downtime + work/life balance.
The article, and your comment, suggests that this move is strongly connected to general solicitation, but I think the connection implied does not exist.

In this context, Regulation D applies to the companies raising money through a private offering. Companies that want to avail themselves of general solicitation will need to take additional steps to be in compliance with the law. This includes filing a Form D 15 days prior to the first use of general solicitation and ensuring that written solicitation contains certain information and disclaimers.

If you're insinuating that private individuals are going to rush to refer to companies to FundersClub and then publicly solicit investments in those companies (i.e. through email blasts, advertisements, blog posts, etc.) in the hopes that they'll one day get a piece of FundersClub's carried interest (if there ever is any) as a result of the JOBS Act, you're going too far. That is not what the revisions to Regulation D are about and anybody who has that in mind would probably be well-advised to speak with an attorney.
Whatever this American science have proved, we Indians use it for ages. A slow `Fan` to get of mosquitoes. It's in public domain here :P
I hope USG does not take cue from their Russian colleagues; they routinely prosecute all kinds of political activists as "extremists". While not the same, that word does sound as sinister as "terrorists" does in Russian.
Initially, I would think this would be a huge move, but as kabdib pointed out a few days ago, much of the technology that actually makes Kinect so special was developed by Microsoft research, so Apple likely wouldn't get access to much of what we consider Kinect.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6043220
Love it! Very useful, bookmarked (bkmrkt?)

Slightly offtopic, but what's with startups and one-off projects just taking a word and removing all the vowels? Seems edgy I guess. Or agile, like we write fast and break words.
The token -8 is a bit special as well.
The only way to be sure is to conduct an experiment such as an A/B test.
Actually, yes...

Although most people see sperm as a "race", several of the barriers (specially, the "shell" of the female gamete) need several sperms working on it at once.
Why do you have to dog on the post? I've ran into malware attacks in the past, and none of the things I've seen on the net caution you to look for pre_replace instances gone wrong. eval(), base_64_decode() and the like get all the press.
Here in Thailand people here have been using fans to deter mosquitoes probably ever since fans were invented.

If you sleep in a non-aircon room with the windows open, your options are a fan, or a mosquito net. Both work really well.

For outdoors I have a big industrial 18" fan that works pretty well too. It all depends what time of the season it is and how many mosquitoes there are.
Humans have been doing TRAIT selection for millennia, not gene.

Some traits are linked to a single gene, but most of them, aren't. (and to make stuff more confusing, a single gene might affect several traits at once).
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Yes.

Your observation is on point. A patent guarantees nothing. You have to have the financial means to enforce them, which is it's own can of worms.
I admire (and in some ways totally agree with/follow) the message.

Having said that, I don't really think that you can say that with his "100% time" he can still achieve what Google employees once did during 20% time. My understanding is that Google now (and for a while) has not actually continued to uphold the 20% tradition - and that was expected with company growth - but back when it did, the idea was that you could spend 20% of your time to build your own side project using Google resources and while getting paid by Google. Maybe it would become super popular and be a 'real product' some day.

With "100% time" you certainly cannot legally do this. I can't go to work and devote some time to some side project using my company's resources and while getting paid to be doing other work. Sure, I could put in "100% time" into doing it, but it would be illegal.

Like I said, I like the message, but mentioning 20% time seems wrong since you can't compare the two. In my opinion, anyways.
My experience with friends who moved away really resulted in us attempting to communicate a lot online. For friends that I had very strong bonds with, we would try to stay in touch any way we could and attempt to visit each other. Friends who were just ok, eventually, we just slowly stopped talking as often. You just have to accept it and move on.

Yes, most of my friends are in my area. I communicate with them online/text and we try to set up things to do (even if it's just grabbing some lunch).
My last job offered each employee two "Sunday fundays" a month... Basically we could pick up to two Sundays each month to go have fun on the company's dime, up to $250 (each sunday). You couldn't buy any goods with it, but you could go do whatever you wanted: nice restaurant, skydiving, kayaking, take friends out for drinks, etc. You just had to take pictures and were expected to write a few paragraphs about what you did.
For example, dynos are cycled at least once per day

Why so often? I wonder if this is just to protect against memory leaks leading to poor performance from poorly coded apps or if it's an issue with their infrastructure.
USD $15K is a bargain. You can easily spend many times more than that for a patent.
A couple weekends ago, I drove with my two young children to a restaurant 20 minutes from our house only to learn that it, a mom-n-pop operation, was closed for a couple of weeks. I suppose I could have called ahead to confirm my presumption that they were open, but I didn't learn about this "planned outage" until I saw the 8.5 x 11 sign on the door. Apparently, they closed for a family vacation.

It would be cool to have some sort of proactive notification when the many assumptions I make about the world around me become incorrect. Take a person's work commute as an example. Presumptions include road availability, public transit timeliness, lack of major events causing traffic delays, sufficient fuel in one's vehicle, the line at Starbucks being reasonable, no horrible weather forecast which would require bringing an umbrella along, etc. Imagine an app which invoked a bunch of figurative assert statements on the presumptions we make daily in life.

I'm posting this here simply because it entered my stream of consciousness when I saw the headline. At first, I thought that "real world" status is un-related to the problem StatusPage solves. However, sending notifications to customers upon an outage is a step closer to my handwaving above. Take as an example the availability of employee VPN access. How many times have you gone home early presuming that you would be able to work later in the evening and later realized that you can't kick off that build, etc. While learning that the VPN server is down doesn't help you do your work, you probably are more likely to find that your co-worker is still at the office at 7:00 PM than three hours later. Maybe you would have been lucky enough to learn about the outage before you left the office.

One problem I see is that being alerted about every presumption violation would be annoying. I'd like to infer intent somehow. "I'm going to work today" implies a lot about what's important for me to know. Being informed about "outages" certainly would be an incentive to put a zillion things on my calendar. What if you were planning to see a band at a bar next Thursday, and adding the event to your calendar somehow allowed proactive notification in case of cancellation?

We take it as a given that life will surprise us with disappointments, but this condition might only be the result of historically high costs of sending and receiving notifications. Does anyone remember phone trees? Watching the TV to learn of school closings? Making detailed logistical plans about how to meet-up with friends (along with various contingencies) in the days before mobile phones? Technology replaced these annoyances, and there's no reason to believe all progress has been made. I want the absence of notifications to imply that life will abide by my presumptions.
I view these with suspicion. Do I really want tiny pieces of mosquitoes flying everywhere?

It's pretty high on the satisfaction scale though....
Yet another perk we live by at ZeroCater. Email jim at zerocater dot com or the address in my profile to learn more.
Nothing wrong with that if it's genuine i.e. if it's "I'll buy it for $10" rather than "the price is higher than I perceive the expected value, I might buy it if it was less". It doesn't make a lot of sense to sell for less than $25 based on expected volumes though.

Based on initial impressions I'll agree the book isn't giving off the vibe that it's worth much more than 1-2 coffees of value ($5-$10), but after looking into it a bit more there's no reason why it can't improve that (it is after all a decent length book by a previously published author who has relevant experience, so $25 sounds quite reasonable).

1. Better site design would make me more confident the book is well designed.

2. Include chapters in the same format/design as the book (rather than just HTML pages).

3. Tell me front and center that the book is 197 pages (that's quite a lot!). First impression I thought this was a couple of blog posts worth of generic advice, not a decent length book.

4. Make the links to the successful blog posts that spawned the book more prominent (bonus: site adds credibility).

5. Make it easier on scanning that he's already an accomplished well-reviewed author (Build Awesome Command-Line Applications in Ruby). Include reviews from here initially in the context of showing author credibility (need to make it clear they're not for the current book though obviously).

6. Highlight the experience in an easier to skim way

7. Make the book cover look different, e.g. 3D rotate with imaginary book pages, or border, or on a darker background or something (the white edges for me at least didn't look like part of the book, so I see the slim narrow purple band and think "booklet" not book).

For reference, Nathan Barry does some of the best sales pages I've seen (Patrick McKenzie aka patio11 happens to agree).

Nathan's advice:

http://nathanbarry.com/learned-selling-6000-ebook-today/

http://nathanbarry.com/step-by-step-landing-page-copywriting...

Samples:

http://nathanbarry.com/webapps/

http://nathanbarry.com/app-design-handbook/
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I'm skeptical. If someone comes in at 9 and leaves at 5 sharp M-F, there's no way they'd fit in at most SV startups. You're saying they'd fit in at ZeroCater?
This is a brilliant idea and I now want to do this for my company when we get bigger. Thanks!
Confirmed that FundersClub Refer is not connected to general solicitation or the JOBS Act. We are simply rewarding members (accredited investors) who are referring us companies that end up making it past our vetting and due diligence processes and becoming portfolio companies.
My personal fave is where thedailymuse has a edit quartet, not trio, of HN accounts, only one of whom discloses his role, dumping links and shill commenting in each other's submissions including yourself, acav, nlow, and elliotbell.

Plus 7 or 8 accounts created just to dump a few of your links.
Michael Hasting's body was cremated without his family's permission
> Was that just a description of the work environment, or was it in a list of perks?

Oh right, I see the difference now. It was of course a description of the work environment, and not a list of perks.
New Mac OS X malware (Ransomare) claims to be FBI
All three points you made seem to be irrelevant.

1) NSA is a government agency and PRISM is a blanket-term for the surveillance state in effect by the US Government. There are many other programs and names.

2) These companies certainly do participate in them under order by the US Government (FISA court).

3) The term "direct access" is quite silly to argue on since the NSA is slurping up any data possible through as many means necessary.

So when Google, Yahoo, Apple, Facebook, etc said they didn't participate in the program and NSA didn't have direct access, they were lying.
100% time means that I choose what to care about, and then dedicate all my energy to making that choice have impact

There isn't a lot of difference between 100% time and the concept of 80-20. You are interpreting the 80% time almost like slavery while making it seem like your 100% time provides complete freedom. I bet the reality is in between. The 80% time is still spent working for a company you're choosing to work for, often on projects you're choosing to work on and often work that you're enjoying. Meanwhile, even when you have the freedom to dedicate 100% of your life on whatever you'd like, you're still compelled to decide what to prioritize and what to turn down because of a lack of time.
You need to work at better small companies.
This is pretty good - I especially like the page where they explain how mosquitoes move; once you know that placing a few fans strategically should be pretty simple.
If you're getting shit done, I'm cool with that.
I'd say generally, yes, design is disconnected from software engineering. However, there's also the human element to it -- we all have unconscious biases and preferences, which creative designs can play off of.

To put it another way, I don't think less of anyone for having bad design (unless it's defectively bad), but a good design will naturally draw me and endear me to the content without me even reading a word.
Terminals: A Rant
Getting Past the Cloning Instinct
If you quit your job and have a profitable, self-sustaining business there's nothing illegal about spending your time in the pursuit of any lawful activity.
"Unfair competition" is a term of art for a class of torts. The term arose because certain business practices were historically seen as underhanded or unfair. These days we'd talk instead in terms of market failures or inefficiencies. E.g. the torts of "passing off" or "trade libel" decrease economic efficiency by sewing misinformation in the market. Copying capital-intensive R&D implicates the free rider effect, and thus a tort aimed at keeping companies from copying technology instead of inventing their own would fall under the umbrella of of unfair competition.

Circling back, it's not "unfair" that product companies have natural advantages in the market. Arguably, it's not desirable for product companies to be able to further leverage their advantage by being able to copy designs and technologies from other companies. That let's them compete "unfairly" by letting someone else take the expense and risk of doing research then undercutting them by getting the results of the research for free. I think it's a good thing to have companies like ARM that focus on creating designs, but without some sorts of protections, companies like Samsung that focus on manufacturing and end-user products would be able to steamroll over those companies by copying their designs.
Neat little game. One suggestion I have though: if the puzzle doesn't validate, signal the lines that don't validate properly.
"It benefits investors who want to make small angel investments without doing all the time-consuming due diligence ... The goal is to make venture capital a more open, democratic, and transparent process."

Im sorry but the investor can't do less due diligence and honestly expect more transparency. This is either terrible writing or a very fishy scheme someone is cooking up.
Coding JS is 95% of my day job and I'm 100% sure that it is the worst language I have ever used. All languages have flaws but JS's are serious, inexcusable and onerous.
They may not need a warrant, they may be able to get the information with a subpoena or a national security letter.
I'm in a somewhat similar situation (patented wireless technology startup), so I have to ask: were you actually able to get the big companies to license your technology? Did you need to get market penetration to get them to listen to you, or did they never listen at all? I'd love to be able to license our technology to a larger company instead of doing things the hard way. Putting together a startup is not the easy way, although it seems to be easier than trying to navigate the inside of a large company to find the right person to be an internal champion for your product.

Basically, I'm asking, "what does a successful wireless licensing path look like?".

My experience with trying to find the right decision-maker at large companies has been daunting. I mean, I play soccer with about 10 engineers & managers from a large military radio company (rhymes with Paris) and not one of them could even point me to the right division to talk to, much less the correct decision-maker. With companies where I don't know anyone, I don't even know where to start.

So, our startup is aiming to hit niche markets, like amateur radio, just to get a product out there and start some buzz. How did you do it?
It was a great perk. Essentially nobody really made full use of it (the full $500/mo per employee), but it was always great to have the ability to do so... Sometimes you'd just be out with friends for a big brunch and realize, "oh, hey, it's sunday" and pick up the tab for everyone or list all your meals on a Sunday while out hiking the Bay Area with friends.
Emulate success, and modify it after you achieve your own success.
As a Cubase user who generally likes Cubase, but is considering switching to Ableton for the primary purpose of using Macro controls... would Reaper be likely to meet me needs?

Specifically, I'm talking about having one "knob" or control that controls multiple parameters across multiple VSTs, with varying ranges. Can Reaper do that? The fact that Ableton can, and Cubase can't, is pretty much the only reason I'm thinking of switching.
For one thing, it demonstrates empirically that the app can be successfully restarted.
Folks, we at TechFreedom cover a wide range of issues. Just today, we joined 18 other civil society groups in EFF's lawsuit against the NSA's surveillance of telephone call records; announced an event in San Francisco on reforming the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act to rein in this overly broad law with reforms such as proposed in "Aaron's Law"; and endorsed reforms that would cut the red tape that prevents many of the schools and libraries that most need E-Rate funding from getting it. So.. please take a moment to look through the range of our work before leaping to conclusions. You might start by perusing our Facebook & Twitter feeds:
http://twitter.com/techfreedom
http://facebook.com/techfreedom
You can use xclip to pipe to and from the clipboard. I agree on the colors.
One thing I never fully understood is putting monitors/hardware/computers under perks.

How the heck did they imagine you would work?
Yeah, I see that. But have they really drawn public attention to it? No. They've gone with the flow because they somehow agree that if the American public knows the law that governs them, we will all be killed in our beds by terrorists.

I have very little respect for people with the access and clout that Wyden and Udall have who fail to actually take any action outside their little box despite their probable understanding that this whole thing is undermining American democracy.

And that's why I don't feel bad about ascribing intent. Sure, they want to introduce mild reform without breaking any rules or expectations - but they want to keep their perky little jobs as opposed to taking an actual stand.

Why haven't they proposed any legislation addressing the fact that our policymakers are sworn to secrecy so they can't get a second opinion about the line they're being fed? Why haven't they brought any of this to the public for debate? Because they actually think that - except for a few tweaks - it is a good thing for America to be run by secret bodies using secret policies and judged only by secret courts. They have acclimated to a two-tier system of justice, one for people with pull and another for you and me.
Thanks! I wanted a short domain name for sharing -- so I just summarized the word "summarizer"!
The US government already considers certain groups that challenge the status quo to be terrorists. For example, animal rights activists. There is a lot of money in the livestock/meat business, in addition to all of the large corporations that rely on animal testing (not just medical, but cosmetics, etc). I've heard of lawyers that specialize in defending animal rights activists get harassed incessantly by the police (e.g. getting pulled over, forced to sit there for 30 minutes as more police cars show up, then told they can go; no explanation as to why).

Also, look at all of the cases of police sending agent provocateurs into protest groups to encourage radical and/or violent behaviour.
Right, because nuclear terrorism is what the NSA is looking for. Nice rhetorical posturing there, big guy.
I'm sure you're being genuine, but this seems naive. Startups are small teams, building relatively unproven products. There are a lot of lean times and challenges that test everyone's mettle. I don't think it's very likely someone can do their 9-5, even if they're massively productive in that timespan, and not be looked at funny if the cultural norm is for everyone to work crazy hours. I think the way for reasonable hours to actually work at a startup is for the founders to actively make that the culture.

Unless the company works asynchronously/remotely which has an awesome side-effect of making it feasible to value output over effort.