skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Companies tend to project stability more than individuals.

I remember being a hard ass about ensuring that our office was full of life whenever a prospective client came to visit. Even though my employees could just as easily work from the corner coffee shop or home, the idea is: A company with overhead and payroll is obviously doing something right and likely more permanent than this freelancer I met working from his house. Therefore, they're more likely to succeed.

The perceived risk of failure is the #1 reason proposals are rejected. You don't need a brick & mortar office or whatever to help mitigate that risk, but it helps.
Tell that to my garbage Motorola Photon which had a graphics chip
My understand is that since Amazon is a US-based company, they could be forced, by the US government, to turn over data that is hosted in other countries. So using an Amazon cloud, even if its based in the EU, is still not possible.

EDIT: well, I guess I'm sorta wrong. The whole thing looks complicated. Making sure you don't violate German data protection laws is confusing [0][1].

[0] http://www.thomashelbing.com/en/analysis-data-protection-aut...

[1] http://blogs.computerworlduk.com/cloud-vision/2012/04/cloud-...
So can someone please tell me what a business license even is?

I'm the president of my own corporation, and still don't know, I've never seen it formally just casually mentioned
Conservatives purge old speeches from online archives
Did you try using urban airship or similar service?
Sorry, the comment you're replying to makes an actual argument. Your reply of "wow, you're a dick" does not.

I find no objection that dead_phish should express this view if that's how he feels. It is a valid viewpoint even if it is not shared. I also commend him for expressing it in a community like HN which, let's be honest, does not tolerate dissenting views of Snowden.

It's kind of sad that his dissenting view is downvoted and your name-calling is not.
That's really not ahead.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_value_of_money
Curated timelines - what they are and are not
I see a lot of the comments the thinking in the founders logic. But remember there is also likely a good deal of pressure from investors who, depending on circumstances, have quite a bit of say on if they approve a deal or not. It is not uncommon for founders to want to sell and the vc want to hold out to produce a better return.

Why is that? Economics of a venture fund. Say a VC recognizes this is likely to be the biggest winner in their fund. If I run a $400 million dollar fund and I am trying to return 3 times that to my investors that means that I have to make my investors $1.2 billion. Considering my fund only owns 10% of the company, a sale for $3 billy ain’t gonna cut it.

Yes, this would be one of the 30 investments I made from this fund, but I am only expecting 3 of those to really knock it out the ballpark. I have to extract all my returns from those three.

I certainly don’t know that this is the case for Snapchat, but it has been the case for some. While this may sound like it’s holding founders money hostage, this is the game they (hopefully) knew they were getting into when they took that first dollar. Best of luck to them, they are still very much killing it.
Even if we cede that Groupon would have had a better IRR for investors had they sold for $6bn; A move does not have to be correct with final knowledge to be correct with present knowledge.
OCSP and CRLs allow a CA to revoke an SSL certificate (albeit with a varying degree of browser support).
I wish I had some real data to give you as examples, without talking about Top Gun, the military-industrial complex or reducing the conversation to personal anecdotes about my experiences in the US.

As you said attitudes differ place-to-place, and I don't want to generalize all Americans, I would say it's safe to assume our Hacker News audience is more likely to be Liberal and Educated then the general American populace. However as a Canadian here's some crap I came up with out my ass:

Military force as a perceived requirement or definition of 'freedom' doesn't exist at your scale elsewhere.

Glorification of war and gun violence in Hollywood, Gaming and on the News, general fear-mongering and militarization of the police.

You guys have been involved in some war or another for about as long as you've been a country..

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Hope I didn't offend anyone, here's at least one link as support..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_military_e...
In from the cold: the mainstream rehabilitation of the 'hacker'
Hate to be negative, but this could be their "Groupon Moment". When Google offered Groupon $6bn for the company, they said no because they thought the hockey stick would never end. Now they're in shambles, and nobody is cashing out like they thought.

Snapchat is a GREAT product, but the potential for monetization is limited and there are a lot of negative things about its security coming out lately. Seems like a good time to "take the money and run", but maybe they'll prove me wrong.
Perhaps of interest to those here involved with PR. Note the OA's potential misunderstanding of the role of the Internet Archive (I'm checking how they use the robots.txt files now).
Agreed. They are rough, not bad for a prototype i built on salary of a part-time library employee ;-> The quality will certainly improve. I have demonstrated proof of concept & have clay trace widths down to 450 microns. I have been able to print mini clay pots up to 25 layers tall. Clay blend formula is current topic of R&D. The essential challenge is to extrude with thick enough clay that it does not slump, yet thin enough to fuse together as it dries. -david
Getting Started With Elasticsearch
Yup, I agree. But I just wanted to show how the params might look like.
The information under "WorkSpaces Feature Set" for Performance appears to be wrong, at least compared to http://aws.amazon.com/workspaces/pricing/

It currently says:

Performance - 1 vCPU, 3.75 GiB of memory, and 100 GB of persistent user storage.

I believe it should be:

Performance - 2 vCPU, 7.5 GiB of memory, and 100 GB of persistent user storage.
Ah yes, that's actually an interesting side effect of the eval strategy that I didn't realize myself yet. Nice!
Giant Web Graph Published in Amazon S3
Kinda: http://www.brython.info/index.html
this is not a concern of actual customers who buy actual stuff for actual, significant amounts of money from John Smith Design Studio because John Smith Design Studio has an impressive portfolio and track record and client references.

if not, well, you can simply just ask John if he's going to be the guy working on your stuff.
... I would never, ever do that.

A sibling, sure. But a neighbour? Hell no. If I haven't seen you get born, you sure are not getting unlimited access to where I live.
Perfect security: nonexistence.
also, makes it easier to figure out who to kidnap and also who to blackmail.
Kudos for being so open. (Although to relate the point back to the Original thread about Government openness, Governments (and lots of Big Corps) also tend to be quite transparent about Salary bands, Bonus, etc.)

Now to derail the discussion:

How do you reward excellence? There will surely come a time where an employee has been working considerably harder than his colleagues asks for a pay-increase. How do you envision this would go down with the other employees? Your Client-Manager salary infact seems to be based purely on duration of service, not output.

Also, your company seems very unique to only have two roles, which perhaps explains why you can reveal this information freely. Full transparency would include how much you get paid, how much the office admin gets paid, the lawyers, accountants, coders, etc.
I don't live in as big a city as Manhattan so I can't really say, I've seen videos of some insane bike riding in NYC. Can't believe how some of them ride.

I do think cyclists sometimes fail to give pedestrians the respect they deserve, we have to remember that pedestrian's relationship with us mirrors our relationship with cars. I personally try not to come within 5 feet of pedestrians, unless they're standing in a bike lane or something like that.

in the sense that we're bigger and faster, but the extent of the danger isn't even close
Can we all agree to stop making crappy things.
How powerful is the 1 vCPU? If it is anything like 1 EC2 compute unit then I don't see this being useful for anything more than basic office work (i.e MS Office).

Plus if I already need a computer running OS X or Windows then why would I want to pay again for renting a Windows license (As in, the monthly cost will include the cost of the Windows license)? How would the specs of the Amazon WorkSpace compare to the existing Windows or Mac Desktop PC? It might be more useful if I could use a thin client running some barebones Linux distro to access the remote workspace.
As per http://aws.amazon.com/workspaces/details/, the workspace bundles provide the Windows 7 Experience to users (provided by Windows Server 2008 R2).
Looks like a killer product, because there are a lot of business people who readily know how to write what is essentially functional code in Excel but for whatever reason cannot or will not write even simple map and reduce functions in a conventional programming language to extract information from a large Hadoop data set.

Are formulas or spreadsheet browsing limited in any way?
Have been working with a pottery studio that does quite a bit of reduced-firing for special types of glazes. The clays that require low-oxygen to be fired can be embedded in special types of activated charcoal & reducing agents within the kiln. We've had some excellent results with bronze, have yet to try iron & steel. The firing instructions on those clays are similar to the bronze, however.
Your IT department isn't everyone's IT department.

Besides my own, I interact with our client's IT departments as part of my role. They run the spectrum from dysfunctional to superior.
Yep, get well soon dude.

As an aside, as a fellow "Mc...." surname holder, I've always abbreviated it as "McC", not "M"... I wonder if patio11 likes "M", or "McK"....

(Yes this is another fun weird naming example for patio11's list)
I'm wondering what customers they are targeting this to? A lot of big companies who would care about data on laptops probably have an equally kneejerk reaction to data in the cloud. You could argue it's for small companies. But they have to be a certain size before something like this starts to make sense. I don't do desktop support IT kinds of things, so perhaps I'm being a bit too sweeping in my generalization?
It's kind-of typed. They kept the basic integer and floating-point types from LLVM (i8, i32, i64, double) and pointers, but removed structures and arrays. It's "more typed" than JavaScript, but less than C++. This still means that numeric code (working with integers and floats) is going to be at least an order of magnitude faster than on JS.
This is possibly a reasonable argument for keeping things confidential temporarily. It's not a justification for keeping information confidential indefinitely.
It's a bit awkward to give a full answer to this, but this is to the best of my understanding and explained as simply as is reasonable:

A small sample has less statistical 'power' to identify significant differences where they exist.
Put another way, a large sample is more likely to give a true significant result than a small sample.

But, if you do see 10% significance(/90% confidence) in a small sample, this is just as good as 10% significance in a large sample. Although the cutoff point will be more rough in a smaller sample, it's a good standard practice to round conservatively to account for this.

10% is unlikely to be considered a good result for statistics in either case - you can engineer a result by doing 10 tests on nothing and there's a danger you would have unknowingly or unconsciously done this, maybe (for example) by not deciding the sample size in advance. However, there's also presumably strong enough evidence against a harmful difference that you aren't likely to lose anything by following these results.

It can be good idea to do numerous small investigative tests as justification for bigger tests - relying on lots of small tests alone requires consideration for multiple testing (e.g. Bonferroni correction).
Stanford Security Lab is crowdsourcing a study of the NSA phone metadata program
Was the offer withdrawn after 10 seconds?

...but actually just renamed to a .nomedia extension and left on the HDD?
Poke was made around the time Snapchat had a $70 million valuation.
I can't see how Snapchat would be able to be able to make $3 billion in revenue on its own, but I could see how it might be worth that to FB.

Shut up and take the money.
Latency is still a limiting factor is all of these. For some apps it would be ok like Excel but anything requiring precision is going to be a horrible experience. This morning my TWC was delivering data from all sites at 3K/sec.
Xamarin took a lot of VC money. There's little precedent in language and tool vendors becoming big and influential firms. So, they must have had an exit strategy or two. I can't see how selling to MS is not one of those options.
- Nice read. I definitely feel people need to make more time and spend more time with their kids.
Can anyone explain to me how they're worth $3 billion dollars? They haven't produced anything, they haven't advanced humanity, they have the eyeballs of teens - for the moment, until something cooler comes along. Are they really that valuable? It doesn't seem like there's any show stoppers for creating a snapchat clone (rather than having X users at the moment), and if snapchat were to start making money - say by sending ads to endorse a product rather than a user generated picture, people would probably start leaving the platform towards the newest green pasture.

I recently got a new phone, and I got hooked in to all the services my friends were talking about in recent memory - instagram's dead, twitter's dead, snap chat is in flux. Not for all users, but in my group of friends these services aren't used as much. There isn't really anything keeping you from moving onto something new - your digital life isn't really that valuable. It's probably better to not read the conversations you had a year ago. The pictures are always nice, that's probably the only thing that people would care about, but with Snapchat they're gone (unless you hit save). I'm not sure what I'm getting at, but this company isn't worth $3 billion dollars.
Here you can register/setup an LLC in about 10 minutes online for around $300.
Rake Cheat Sheet for Ruby on Rails
That's true. But we didn't say the majority of projects were for games. We're just saying games do better than other projects on KS. 57% of all KS projects fail. So the number of projects in any given category is an indication of project supply but not backer demand. In a sense, it's irrelevant. We assume people are interested in what succeeds on KS, so we're only talking about the top projects. And those are the projects that attract the most money and the most backers.
Engineering quality and product quality aren't the same. Plus, the better product doesn't always win in the marketplace.
I have. I consider it better insofar as it pushes some business development problems off on other folks.

I am in demand enough that it's no problem finding remote projects and people who are super happy to find someone who has better than average skills, and to pay accordingly. Not to mention that I live in an inexpensive area of the US close to a tech hub but with flexible employment laws.

It's a lot less of a headache as I don't have to sell to folks other than the people who are, in turn, selling my skills. I just do the work.

While it cuts my rate by a lot (maybe 50% in most cases), that's a fine tradeoff for picking up a lot of risk and uncertainty.

The problem is that, as a business, I had to deal with scaling and bringing in more folks to do work if I wanted to grow or expand and deal with sales and marketing just to stay in business. As a freelancer I make plenty of money at my own schedule, but can't really make the next big income jump. I'm okay with that for the next couple of years (my kids are finishing middle school), though I imagine that at some point I will possibly get bored with the work and, at that point, try and return to being a "business".

On a related note, though, I also rent my house for similar reasons.
Guys, stop sexualizing women in your mockups
did you read his detailed response abut safe harbour? i thought "it is now clear" was a direct reference to NSA. is it not?

see here - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6727500
Quick comparison: http://versus.com/en/google-nexus-5-vs-motorola-moto-g

Think you might want to stick to the Nexus. I personally am perfectly happy with my Xiaomi Mi2s 16Gb, although I could have done with more space: http://versus.com/en/xiaomi-mi-2s-16gb-vs-motorola-moto-g
process is the same as for firing metal clay objects you might make by hand in a jewelry studio. Let it dry, program kiln to the specs given with the clay, and fire for 2 hours.
As I understand it, your argument is:

1. Some friends I know use Snapchat for 'photos they don't want other people to see'.

2. Therefore, most people use Snapchat to send porn.

3. Therefore, Snapchat should be valued as an amateur porn company.

Do you really believe that's a valid argument? And that all of the 350m+ photos sent on Snapchat every day are porn?
There's an internet beyond HN?
Investors assume that if they're hearing about you first from you, you can't be any good. If you were good, they'd already have heard about you, because you'd have found a way to get introduced to them by someone they trust.

So you're admitting that they're social-proof whores who refuse to think for themselves, even about the subject matter of their own jobs?

VCs should be mortally humiliated by the fact that the game they're running is, after all is counted, a feudal reputation economy-- all flashes, no substance.

Yet people are surprised that VC, as an asset class, has been a stinker for the past 13 years.
It's funny because $3billion is 58% of what Facebook took in last year in revenue.
Not when its coupled with things like Corporations being able to sue governments for 'loss of potential future profits' for policy decisions. That is incredibly dangerous.
One of my favorite ever posts on HN! Positively Ulyssean.

The BART-BART transfer showed excellent eye for detail. You did leave out how Caltrain has a very non-zero probability of hitting a suicide, or a car left on the tracks, often right outside my apartment - drop in to say hi! - or just breaking down for no reason at all, delaying you for a further hour or two. But hey, no rush.

And although it may not apply to the OP, since we know how YCombinator feels about non-native English speakers, but imagine following all the steps above if English is not your first language.
A little while back Rust decided to drop segmented stacks and use normal stacks (and basically give up on 32-bit), so now they're deciding between M:N with full-size stacks or 1:1 with full-size stacks. The dominoes are falling.
I think I'm going to save this one. I think there is a T-shirt in there somewhere, something like on the front "Get dressed or Cure Cancer?" on the front and "Damn, guess I'll have to Cure Cancer tomorrow." on the back :-)
Yeah, I'm aware of this and emscripten. So far, to me, they don't look viable for DOM manipulation.
Only slightly related, but I'm sitting on a beach in Costa Rica right now. The Internet is fast, it's beautiful (although it just rained), and is cheaper than SF (where I'm from). You don't need a billion dollar company for A.
Perhaps there's something to be said about the industries getting crowd funded. The video games industry is notorious for being dominated by AAA publishers spending Hollywood-level budgets on mass market blockbusters (that often don't recoup costs) and turning away a lot of traditionalist, purist, or hardcore gamers. Kickstarter has been an excellent platform for indie gamers trying to revive older genres, or perhaps engage in experimental forms of video games.
Snapchat is worth 3-4 billion because someone offered to buy them or invest for a percentage that valued them at that price.

People arguing whether or not it is worth that price are silly. It's like arguing whether a house is worth the asking price. It is if there is a buyer who values it at that price.
Ctrl+PrintScreen or WindowsKey+PrintScreen (if you want to be fancy).
AVC: Mobile is Eating The World
I had to revert from Phonegap to Java (native/android) for eCommerce mobile app when I found that I had to write too many "plugins" and tweaks to Phonegap to accomplish what i need.

Phonegap and alike "wrappers" are ok if you have general purpose type of app.

But if you need more optimizations for high performance, or fine grained "under the hood" control - native is the best/only way to go.

Otherwise you're risking to find yourself spending too much time trying to squeeze square peg into round hole.
Not so fast. On 1 December 2010 (around when Google bid $6 billion for Groupon) the 3-year Treasury traded at 0.84% - thus $6 billion in December 2010 was worth no less than $6.2 billion today.

If you put $6 billion into the Russell 3000 index on 1 December 2010, on the other hand, it would be worth $8.7 billion (14% more) today. Given that Groupon is a high-beta mid-cap stock, I would expect this figure to be closer to a fair baseline than the prior one.
Yes, there's a lot of information out there regarding this, but it's not too terribly expensive to file for an LLC. When the business is actually just you, it's basically invisible in regards to your tax situation. Just open a separate bank account under the LLC's EIN so you don't have to spend as much time tracking business income and expenses when you want the tax benefit of those business expenses.
Dropbox revamps business service so you can manage both personal and work files
I had a similar idea I called Readminder. It would be a mobile app with push notifications setup for the time you want to read that particular article, similar to the way Mailbox does it for email.
I suspect this won't last forever as more founders notice that salary matching reduces their runway while not increasing the commitment or quality of employees.

Never underestimate the power of underpaying but deeply investing personally in your employees at a startup. Many people will produce better work at 70-80k with serious facetime with the CEO and complete control over product or business strategies. People appreciate agency over their work a lot more than many assume.
> [The claim that] "bad at math" was a thing — probably even genetic... was all a lie.

I disagree. Math ability is highly genetic: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2913421
You're right, my bad.

My overall point remains: intelligent discussion like that is great, "LOL NSA" is not.
This really depends a lot on the business. Even for consultants, many companies prefer to split business and technical consulting, sometimes contracting them out separately, or sometimes just contracting one of them out as needed. In that situation, they typically do not want the technical consultant involving themselves in the business case, because they were hired to solve a technical problem, not to second-guess the role of the technical problem in the hiring company's business. This is particularly common in large companies hiring engineering consultants: a metallurgy consultant hired by Exxon or BP to assist with a design or problem (actual example a friend does regularly) is supposed to provide technical input on metallurgy as required, not try to sell a company on the value proposition of Metallurgical Solutions. Their value proposition is that they are an expert who can provide expert advice and problem-solving in a specific technical domain.
Yes, it works fine in the NewIE as well. I've tested it in Chrome, FF, Safari, IE9+. All looks good so far.