skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I keep hearing this. And you'd think with my exposure to start-ups that I'd see a lot of evidence of this. And while it does happen it seems to be the exception rather than the rule. Founders are quite often engineers, angels and VCs are not usually blood sucking vampires (though I'm sure those exist as well).

The rule is simple: if you are either late to the party, not aware of your value or compensated as an employee (rather than taking no money off the table in the first couple of years or so) then you will end up with a very small part of the equity.

If you are (a) a (co-)founder, (b) aware of what you contribute or (c) willing to be paid mostly or wholly in equity then you will end up with a substantial portion of the equity. You will then still have to make sure about how the rules around dilution and vesting work to make sure that you get what's yours. But that can be learned in an evening or two. (as opposed to being learned in 3 years with a lot of headaches as a final result and not much else to show for your hard work). This is not nearly as hard as learning how to program or engineer stuff so any tech guy worth their pay will be able to do this. If you can't find anybody to help you out on this front and you need answers feel free to mail me.
You could also try a credit based system. Every time someone gives away a cigarette (which I would always do when I smoked) they earn a credit that allows them to bum one from other participants in the future.

You could let people go "negative credit" too, and let other smokers choose a threshold below which they won't accept requests from moochers. "Man if someone is at -10 he should just buy a pack and give something back"

Then, when you are "burdened" with a pack, you can give them away, since you were probably going to throw it out anyway, and happily bum-a-smoke 18 times in the future before buying a new pack.

This avoids many of the legal and payment processing problems you might run in to if money is changing hands.
Costs of living haven't been that much different for a decade or so. The only reason most businesses pay poor salaries to Polish workers is - because they can (high level of unemployment + low percentage of workers organised in trade unions + low minimum wage). Living expenses don't differ much between Warsaw and Berlin.

Programmers' wages are an exception, because - unlike most of the population - they have way out from the local labour market.
Orbital's Cygnus freighter reaches International Space Station
Angellist Syndicates:  Cutting Edge Financing or Bubble?
Yes, when you finish todos you have more new todos. That's the nature of life, it has nothing to do with the todos. If you don't feel like doing stuff, then don't. If you do, use lists. Todo lists are positive because they also contain the (usually invisible, but you can typically show them in most todo list software) list of completed tasks and over time that list will get impressively long, much longer than the one of stuff still to do.

People that are hard to motivate will be hard to motivate whatever tool or gimmick you use. Don't blame the tool for that.
I use org-mode extensively, and personally I don't experience any of the problems the author mentions.
would this reduce the social aspect, or actually increase it, by reducing fear of rejection you might end up interacting with all sorts of people you wouldn't normally contact to ask for a cigarette
Interview with Chris of Finite by Design: Physical Primecoin Bullion
How do you structure your work with several clients? Do you work for a few weeks for one client, then a few more for another, etc?
F1 is as much about the drama and the personalities as it is about the cars and the technology. If they can attract some big name drivers, there'll be an immediate audience.
The crap that carriers make tends to actually be crap. The crap that Apple makes tends to be stuff that people queue round blocks for weeks to buy.

There's stuff wrong with iOS, sure, but Apple keeping the shit that carriers want to install off the phone is one thing they've done brillianty.
What do you use for todo lists?
I'm not sure what fervor means here, but in 2009 F1 events had a total attendance of about 2.8 million. Whereas NASCAR had a total attendance of about 3.8 million.
Re dependency: you probably have a point on Windows, but it's your choice to use an OS without a package manager to keep things up to date. I don't know about Mac but on Linux it is a non issue.

That said it does not do well for desktop apps due to slow startup, high memory use and lack of native toolkit. It does much better as a server side runtime.
Sure thing, what's your email?

I'm currently having my mind blown by Bret Victor's "Learnable Programming", but after that I'll send you guys the details of how my class has been working so far.

Also, I started learning Clojure and Clojurescript about a month ago, but I'd love to try my hand at building something nontrivial with them.
Launch window opens at 9:00 AM PDT (noon Eastern). They'll be trying to hit the beginning of the window, but delays are possible.

A few significant events after launch:

T+01:18 -- max Q (highest aerodynamic pressure)
T+02:43 -- first stage engines stop
T+02:50 -- staging
T+02:57 -- stage two ignition
T+03:37 -- fairing around the payload jetissoned
T+08:54 -- stage two engine cutoff
T+14:15 -- payloads start to separate.

A lot of this is new hardware. This is the first flight for "Falcon 9 1.1", which features new engines, stretched tanks, and a complete rework of the structural truss that mates them together. It's also the first flight for the fairing, which has to hold together against high Mach-number winds and then cleanly fall off on command. (It doesn't sound like much, but there have been several launches that lost payloads due to fairing problems. What makes rocket science hard is that anything that goes wrong, no matter how minor, can cost you the mission.)
Linuxant [1] released drivers that bypass GPLONLY controls like so:

MODULE_LICENSE("GPL\0for files in the \"GPL\"
directory; for others, only LICENSE file applies");

I'm not sure whether this counts as something other than terminating a string.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loadable_kernel_module#Linuxan...
Isn't it obvious that the myth or reality of the 10x engineer has a lot to do with what the engineer is supposed to do?

Say that the engineer has to independently develop the general theory of relativity to solve a problem, then I'd say Einstein would have been about Inf times more productive than the average engineer at solving that particular problem.

If on the other hand it's the usual "migrate this crap code from that crap platform to this shiny new golden one" kind of work, then you'd have more of a bottleneck in how fast you can push the buttons on the keyboard...

You can't talk about productivity without defining the task, and software engineering is a field with extraordinary span in the difficulty of tasks.
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I've experienced crosswords where e.g. the word going across uses a diacritic on a particular letter ("élan") and the word going down doesn't. It drives me crazy.
Asana really changed this for me. I found that for me, personally, breaking a task in to subtasks with the right level of granularity is the perfect solution to combat inaction. If I see myself avoiding a task, I know I haven't deconstructed it enough.

Once the subtasks are small enough I can happily get working, and I get the satisfaction of marking things "complete."

It also serves as a reality check because I've noticed I tend towards personal scope-creep. I finish a task, but while doing it I add more tasks semiconsciously. Then I never feel finished and I hate myself.

However, if I go back to my asana list, I can reality-check and realize I in fact did accomplish the original task. Then I can consciously choose to continue the new task or abandon it or add it to the list for later.
End the Intimidation: Stop the Attacks on Journalists and Their Families
Based on our experience, this all rings true.

And may I suggest zero touch until you get to $XXX/mo or you are very, very confident that Mr $50/mo will almost never ever cancel.
Microsoft tried pitting average pc players against pro console players. [1] Guess what happened? The pro's got destroyed... Skill in Halo is mostly coping with the bad controller. Skill in Counter-Strike is very different...

[1]http://www.rahulsood.com/2010/07/console-gamers-get-killed-a...
It's both. Sure there's ad space sold, but there's also ad space that targets specific people with specific interests.

What ads you end up seeing could be based on a whole range of your personal data, usage history, and the subject matter of your own content. In many ways, these details about you make the ad spaces more valuable than if they were just random ad spaces.

Perhaps then, "your life is the product" is more accurate than "you are the product".
If people aren't the product, then why is ad space seen by more people more valuable?
i have seen many people spill their guts on-line, and i did so myself until, at last, i began to see that i had commodified myself. commodification means that you turn something into a product which has a money-value. in the nineteenth century, commodities were made in factories, which karl marx called “the means of production.” capitalists were people who owned the means of production, and the commodities were made by workers who were mostly exploited. i created my interior thoughts as a means of production for the corporation that owned the board i was posting to, and that commodity was being sold to other commodity/consumer entities as entertainment. that means that i sold my soul like a tennis shoe and i derived no profit from the sale of my soul. people who post frequently on boards appear to know that they are factory equipment and tennis shoes, and sometimes trade sends and email about how their contributions are not appreciated by management.

as if this were not enough, all of my words were made immortal by means of tape backups. furthermore, i was paying two bucks an hour for the privilege of commodifying and exposing myself. worse still, i was subjecting myself to the possibility of scrutiny by such friendly folks as the FBI: they can, and have, downloaded pretty much whatever they damn well please. the rhetoric in cyberspace is liberation-speak. the reality is that cyberspace is an increasingly efficient tool of surveillance with which people have a voluntary relationship.

http://alphavilleherald.com/2004/05/introducing_hum.html
Android and Windows Phone collide in China as market explodes
An astounding 450 million smartphones will ship in China in 2014, which amounts to approximately a third of worldwide shipments. It also means that next year, one in every three Chinese men, women and children will buy a smartphone. China is a tantalizing target for Apple, Microsoft and Google.<p>Microsoft VP of Advertising and Online Frank Holland said: "We are going to spend a lot of time in the next 12 months building a real presence on the low-end smartphone market with developing countries."
Any tips you can share on how you achieved that position?
Absolutely. It has already been a great story to tell them, just trying to keep making it better.

And I agree, .7 seconds would be a feat by itself. Right now my best hope is to work on my flexibility and work hard at those drills. My flexibility is poor right now and definitely contributing to my slower time. When running I couldn't help but feel like I just wasn't able to move my legs as fast as they should. It was compounded by the fact that after 5 or so in a row I wasn't winded at all, which meant that my conditioning wasn't the problem.

But I'll go for it and hopefully this next 40 time is in the 4's.
Trivia: A reversal of Larry's name is how Magic: the Gathering card Nevinyrral's Disk was named - http://gatherer.wizards.com/pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiver...
I think it is more general a critique of current culture (a combination if "you haven't done anything until you have told the world" and "you must have something to hide if you do something but don't tell the world about it", the latter a bit more implicit)

Apart from the hardware, it could be Facebook, too. And, surely, it could be Microsoft, in a few years time.

"Zing" is a beautiful term, by the way. It resembles 'to sing' (especially for those who speak Dutch), with all its positive correlations. And, of course, the name is taken; both zing.com and zing.nl exist.
Sort of off-topic, but does it bug anyone else that the militaries and governments of the world continue to refer to 'cyberspace' as if 'cyber-' was current Internet jargon? (Whereas in reality I only see it used for that other thing we are supposed to be making instead of war...)
With respect, I have never had to sign an NDA to interview with a company.
It's still your second largest group. At the time I wrote the above, it was 70% of your respondents.

Stick a >$300k on there, and I wouldn't be surprised if a big slice of that group shifts right over to it.

Incidentally, in response to _delirium, we really need to stop thinking of $200k as "a lot of money". That's an achievable wage for a good developer. Describing it in terms normally reserved for fantasy rather than reality is not particularly helpful.
What other word would you use?

Cyber is pretty clearly defined among the people who use it. Other words are not.
Rival?

No.

Leaving aside the massive world wide following and it's deep history and legends...

What will continue to happen is that F1 will get more and more electric over time. The new regs for 2014 are for a smaller engine, supplemented by larger KERS, pushing for fuel efficiency. Long term, I see that trend continuing. Burning up shed loads of fossil fuels to merely race will get more and more difficult while normal car drivers and manufacturers have to deal with efficiency. F1 will evolve in the electric direction.

That is not to even begin to suggests FE is a waste of time or anything like that. I'm massively looking forward to it, might even allow the word "excited". Much of it will run in the F1 off season. It can run in any major world city resulting in potentially fantastic visuals. I really like that you can hear the tyres working. All you hear now is engine, and that actually doesn't tell you much about the driver. Hearing the tyres tells us a lot more. For me FE is a fascinating supplement to F1 which could or should help F1 get more electric. Both technology wise, and in the PR battle with olde skool F1 fans. It can prove electric racing works.

Equally, there are parts of FE that I don't like, but mostly they are things that will evolve and be solved over time, like the car swap thing, or PR type things like the social media voting for boosts nonsense. But the basic idea of trying to create an electric open wheel racing series is fundamentally right. I really hope it can gain enough traction to keep going.

Actually, a final thought. I might be completely wrong...

There is a chance that FE, if run and marketed right could be made to appeal to the Need for Speed generation. Run races at night. Bright lights ever where; scenery, under-lighting on the cars and all that glitz. Lots of music, and off track entertainment. Get game/software developers, ICE manufacturers, and the likes of Red Bull involved. Make it all look like a Fast and Furious race night, or X games events. Go heavy youth, apps, social media, and so on. Make sure it's on free TV with cool youth friendly presenters hyping it all up. If it gains a following from the ground up, it could become incredibly popular.

So, essentially forget F1 and F1 fans. In fact, I wonder if the mistake is the open wheel F1 look a like thing, which draws unhelpful comparisons. Maybe they'd be better off racing electric cars that at least resemble the kind of cars you can buy? Electric chassis with light bodies resembling current road cars?

Dunno. But whatever the case, Im in. I'll probably always watch F1 (not to mention many other racing series) for better or worse, but FE is very much a welcome addition for me.
That is too generally, most of companies allow a free usage, because they want to convince about their service and set the hurdle of usage as low as possible.

Companies like google, yahoo, facebook, ... are a different kind of "free" web-service.

Or free 2 play games, free players are "content" in that games.
"I'm not good enough to be doing this; other people doing this know what they're doing whereas I'm just winging it; I'm going to be found out as a fraud soon".
One more point: ever been in a rush and.. your phone is out of battery? What now?
Got to admit though, "cyber" sounds very 90s.

Now excuse me as I continue surfing the information super highway!
and if you don't have to commute it's relatively attractive not to live in the city centre.
Exactly, but since this is not a possibility in the analyzed binary (the stack memory of this variable is not flagged as user-controllable), the solution can't be used to exploit it.
You forget the TV. F1 is global, while nascar mainly concerns USA.
William Gibson's books are early 80s!!! (Burning Chrome, 1982)
Agreed, pretty large omission given that C# was included.

Not such a big fan of Java, but Scala seems to be a strong contender for Java.Next* , and is certainly a viable dynamic-to-static transition language given its terse syntax, deliciously rich collections library, and implicits support (for the MOP fans).

* Twitter being able to withstand spikes of 140K+ tweets per second without lagtime is impressive to say the least.
Interesting range.

I would love to see a distribution among different technologies, such as .NET, Rails, iOS, Android, etc...
I guess that you can always make your own wrapper and act like you were a browser.
I know it's popular to use the "you're either the buyer, the seller, or the product" meme for this, but I think sometimes the idea that we're the product hurts more than it helps.

This is more like a case where somebody is selling something and they don't have full knowledge of what they're selling. Companies like Google came to us with a deal: give us your email business, and we'll provide it for free -- as long as we can mine the data to serve you ads. That's how we'll get paid.

But that was bullshit -- and I don't think it was the fault of the companies involved. The problem is, once you start instrumenting the internet, every activity you take online is part of some massive surveillance mechanism directed at your personal life. What started as a simple transaction between you and Google, or you and your ISP, now can involve any other organization that can get that information from those companies.

Sure, some companies are vehement about protecting your privacy, but with governments involved, it doesn't matter. They run the show. Also, this is a "weakest link" problem. Even if Google and 90% of all the other companies you deal with have some technical way of keeping others from your data, but as along as the other 10% is compromised, it doesn't matter. Keystroke readers defeat just about anything. Trans-Atlantic wiretaps allow governments of all sizes a fun playground full of data.

So the real deal isn't what these companies offered. It's more like "use the internet, and we'll track you like an animal. We'll know where you go, what opinions you have, what you eat, who your friends are, and lots more. And we'll keep that information forever"

That's not an acceptable deal. We're the seller, the product is our interaction and the history of it, but we have been seriously misinformed by the buyer about the nature of the deal involved. This is a serious problem and needs immediate resolution. Nobody directly lied to us, but we were misinformed and screwed just the same. Nobody in their right mind would have agreed to such a thing.
Each time something like this is posted to HN many are quick to come to the defense of the 10x engineer as not a myth. Since so many HNers are founders/CEOs/CTOs/whatever I wonder how many of them making comments that 10x engineers are "responsible for most of team's output" are actually paying their "rockstar" engineers ten times average.

The best baseball players make much more than the average player, the star of a Hollywood film makes far more than most actors, and true "rockstars" make a heck of a lot more money than the vast majority of musicians.

Anyone know any companies that pay their best engineers multi-million dollar salaries? (if so please let me know where to apply!)
Do you ever find yourself avoiding to add sub tasks because you simply don't want to do that thing you've been putting off?
> Cyber is pretty clearly defined among the people who use it. Other words are not.

Maybe the people using these terms (ie, people creating a "defence force" for the UK) should be more in touch with... more current lingo?

Sure would give them at least a vague sense of credibility if they called this something more like an internet/network orientated security... force.

On the otherhand, maybe these people having the massive tell of proclaiming "but this is CYBER." is a good thing? We know to dismiss what ever they're suggesting as uninformed and generally a terrible idea.
Got any TV numbers to compare?

In 2009 F1 breached 600 million. (First figure I found)

NASCAR? I couldn't find a number to quote.

Also, how many F1 races? How many NASCAR races? Im not sure attendance compares.
How I was handcuffed and arrested at Yale Law School
You remind me of a question my cryptography professor in college asked (and failed to answer...) -- what are the information-theoretical properties of a channel which sometimes deletes a character?

He attempted to answer it, but the answer assumed that the recipient could recognize deleted characters, which doesn't make any sense to me (it seems to be rather like assuming that if someone sends you a postcard and you don't receive it, you nevertheless sense, at the time it would have arrived, that you should have gotten it).
Maybe the key is that it just has so many more potential inputs? There are buttons all over the back of it and hundreds of points and gestures can be mapped to those pads. It is comforting that Valve makes Dota 2. They have an interest in figuring it out.
The Story of Mobile Video (with infograpic)
>All that happens must be known.

Yeah, okay :D. What a lie. We have film for every Super Bowl, every World Cup, probably every 6 o'clock news since 1960. But who's seen it? Who goes back on old recorded video when there is a live feed? I've met none.

Who won the tenth Super Bowl? The first World Cup? Normal people don't know these things. First response is to google it. The computers remember, but nobody knows anything.

There is a huge difference Encylopedia Brittanica (or perhaps a downloaded Wikipedia) and this millions-of-cameras-recording-everything. With live coverage, nobody watches old tape. A set of EB is finite, open for static inspection, colocated with your living room. An ever-growing dataset of millions of camera feeds (colocated 3 states away) is, to the human brain, useless. The magnitude's far too large. Why write anything down if you can pull up the feed? Why record anything with a DVR/VCR when it's online? Why 'know' anything at all when the computer can tell you?

WINSTON SMITH enters stage right
Platform Thinking - MIT Media Labs talk on building Internet platforms
It depends on what you want for your project:

GPL 2-3: If you want to create a comunity around your code.
AGPL: Same as GPL but it can't be used remotely without releasing the source code.
BSD: If you want to be flexible enought to let companies to use your code without releasing back the source.

Of course, these are simplifed explanations.
Berlin is a bit of a special case though. Living expenses are very low compared to other "rich" EU countries.