skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't disagree that the level of risk is different, or even that the level of risk is within, say, an order of magnitude. There's no doubt that some founders risk more (in some cases, much more) than employees. Wouldn't argue otherwise.

However, I would caution you that "racking up debt" isn't something only founders have as a risk. What you've described in your second paragraph is where just about anybody who isn't rich or well connected and has to rack up debt going to college finds himself, at least in the US. I would also caution you that employees frequently cannot merely walk out the door of the failed start up and into a paycheck across the street (as it were). They have to spend time, and their own savings, looking for work, in most places.

Compounding this is that odds are said founder has accumulated something the fresh college graduate or now former-employee hasn't: connections and the ability leverage his 'failure' into lucrative employment or future business opportunities. This helps mitigate the risk significantly.
I like to open multiple youtube tabs at the same time and then watch videos one by one. Most of them are in flash and I have flash block, so they do not play until I actually click on them.

Some youtube videos are not blocked by flashblock and it is highly annoying when two videos play at the same time.

Some new site use autoplay videos too, and again, I like to open multiple tabs and then close them at the same time. Of course I can figure out which tab is causing it, but it is annoying having to do it. With this feature, I can just kill it.
That is all well and good but consider this: not only had this patent passed muster as being non-obvious with the USPTO on its original filing but it had also been found to have been non-obvious on two separate patent re-examinations before that same body and by a string of U.S. district court judges before whom the issue had arisen.

Passing muster with the USPTO is not hard. I read my company's patent with them, and despite there being heaps of prior art (known to any casual web user) and me knowing exactly what the patent was referring to, I could not make heads or tails of the description. My housemate tells me of a radio interview where they read out a patent to a senior engineer, and he couldn't figure out what it was for - it was the patent for the project he'd worked on for the past 10 years. "It passed the PTO" is an absolutely meaningless statement for originality; it just means you know how to fill in paperwork.
Or have javascript turned off.
When I travel (and I do so a fair amount) I only need my ID card

How are you let across international borders with only ID? I was under the impression that is only possible under very specific circumstances (e.g. between some EU states). Specifically, I can't imagine you're are let in or out of the US (other than maybe to Canada and Mexico) with just an id...
Ted Chiang! He has some stories that deal with similar issues, like "The Lifecycle of Software Objects". But I enjoy his people-centered stories more, my favorite is "Liking What You See: A Documentary", you can read it online here: http://www.ibooksonline.com/88/Text/liking.html . Another great one is "Hell is the Absence of God".
It has been my experience that some founders can jump directly to a seed or A round without spending all that much time unemployed--or any time unemployed. This means they can draw a salary from day one. In this scenario I don't see a lot of personal risk on the founders' part--and, indeed, if they're able to get this level of funding, they can likely talk their way into a higher level at BigCompany even if the company goes belly up, netting a pay raise even in the failure case.
> was willing to cut features nobody needed

Ah. And then a week later you hear that Janice in the accounting office in New Zealand depended on one of those features. That's when you learn there is a Janice in accounting. And that your company has an office in New Zealand.
Does it work offline at all? I took a brief look at the API, and it seemed like any time you wanted to make a change to the data it needed to talk to the server.
I'm one of those who commented on your post yesterday, and I'm sure you placed me on the second bucket. I'm in no way connected to VCs. However, my post was overly snarky, so I'll take this opportunity to elaborate.

I thought your post had interesting content and a thorough analysis. But the tone of your post was off-putting. You had a condescending tone and spoke in absolutes: "Everpix should have shut its doors immediately as it never could be a viable business". Particularly when taken in the context of swisspol's reply it's obvious that your commentary missed the mark.

The comparison to your own photo startup felt like an unnecessary addition. The constant assurances that you had done the right thing in aborting your launch felt like self-justification rather than something that was added for the reader's benefit.
It's not slow for me. Have you used the new targetprocess 3? It has it's bugs, but generally haven't had many issues with it over the past couple of months.
I've a talk in 30'.

Another suggestion should be "do not read suggestions on how to do talks right before giving one".

after a life in academia, what I usually suggest is:
like your topic, keep it easy, and reharse, reharse, reharse.
Betablockers are for those who want a quick emergency fix (not judging, they have been good help to me as well). A 20-50 minute aerobic workout has the same net effect for many (healthily burning adrenaline instead of using high blood pressure medication to reduce anxiety).

Be sure to check Dr. Medina's brain rules for presenters: http://www.slideshare.net/garr/brain-rules-for-presenters
The Anatomy of Surprise and Delight
Your comment is interesting but I'm having a hard time believing that "risk algebra" is a thing.
The top number might be the most that Netflix needs to stream a video. The numbers are not important, this is more about variance to each other.
I have no idea what the law is in France with taxis (being from Ireland), but we used to have a limited supply of taxi licences (as we called them), which had the similar effect of "owners of the licennce don't have to drive and get rich".

And yet there still was taxi unions that would throw their weight around.
You could probably write a simple automator "service" that calls a bash script or something, and have it show up in the global services menu. You could define a key shortcut for it too.
Maybe a different keyboard? One with mechanical switches? One that doesn't bend your wrists? I've been investigating but haven't taken the plunge.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/7245/ergodox-review-an-ergonom...

Geekhack has several articles.

http://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=38984.0

Here's the board: http://geekhack.org/index.php?board=125.0

A lot of people like the funny looking Kinesis keyboards too. Here are some HN discussions:

https://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=Kinesis+Advant...
WP Engine Raises $15M
>I wonder how many tabs you can open before the tabs become too narrow and this new speaker icon goes away. Or maybe it would take the place of the favicon on a really narrow tab.

I just experimented with the beta and found that as the tabs narrow, it over time does change prioritization between the favicon, title, and audio indicator. On my 15" Mac Book Pro, once I hit about 40 tabs in one window I can no longer see the audio indicators.

I think Chrome will need to show the user an overview of audio indicators (similar to what I attempted to do in my MuteTab Chrome extension.) You can get some information at chrome://media-internals but 1) that isn't user facing and 2) it doesn't let you perform commands. I would have to guess the reason this hasn't happened is because Chrome works really hard to provide users with a minimal interface; perhaps they could provide an audio API and let people who care about this install an extension?
It is still meaningless in the context of this discussion because an actual military confrontation between the USA and Germany is not a realistic scenario no matter how the NSA thing washes out.

They could very much say "Fuck you NSA and the horse you rode in on and your little dog as well", and all it would lead to is lengthy diplomatic posturing and economic damage to both sides (and the USA is at least as dependant on Germany economywise as the other way round).
Well, I'm glad Ireland's politicians have such grasp of the subject.

Someone should mention (in monosyllabic terms obviously) that most Tor nodes runs Linux, an open source operating system, also in serious need of a good cracking down.

“Law enforcement agencies in the United States have recently taken
action to address this issue, however it appears the solution was
temporary as replacement browsers quickly appeared to ensure the
continuance of the illegal trade."

I can't quite decide whether this is genius level satire, or serious.
Russia Expels Its First U.S. Journalist Since the Cold War
Awful advice.

The best thing to do IMO is to avoid eye contact if you are nervous. Look at foreheads.
Net Neutrality is Dead. It’s Time to Start Building.
Too numerous to mention.
True, but I think it's crucial to be able to embed these Documents efficiently in the user interface, with all the text interaction people are used to, and vice versa. Perhaps that's the future of webapps.
Why not an HTTP server running on localhost that provides these things?
What I've learned is that 20 minutes in, you're hour is up.
Show HN: Dakuto - service for beautifully annotating and sharing code
Interesting talk. A lot of things he's talking about are just general good programming practices.
Aviation Stack Exchange
Three tips to Improve Attrition Rates in 2014
Suppose you're a contractor who works full time at a particular company. This company is your only place of employment, and your contract doesn't have a defined term length (e.g. you're on till we don't need you anymore). Then you get all the miscellaneous perks of being a full time employee, but the company doesn't pay your holidays, time off, or health benefits. At that point, you start to look like an employee to the government.

This is why Microsoft and Google have defined contractor terms, and you can't come back for a period of time afterwards, etc.
Beta blockers really helped me when I started consulting and started having to pitch to a room full of people. I was very nervous and used to go red, get shaky and my voice would be unsteady. I went to the doctor and got some and they really helped.

I stopped taking them after about a year and have now found that I get much better feedback and higher likelihood of having bids accepted without! I think it's something to do with passion coming across a bit more without them.

I must say they really helped to start and helped me get the experience of pitching without feeling too out of control. It might also be that I get better feedback without them now as I've had more pitching experience but I do feel the adrenaline flutter you get if you don't take beta blockers is useful - as long as it isn't overwhelming.
The liquidation preferences matter a lot. The company can sell for a tenth of what the valuation is now, maybe even less, and the investors would still break even. There aren't a lot of new consumer companies with zillions of users to invest in so they might as well, because the downside isn't that bad and the upside is... who knows?
It's already in that state. I used to work for a company with a $40M turnover, and our hardware had some inferior design decisions because a larger competitor held patents on obvious designs[1]. It was not viable to contest the myriad of small, obvious patents in court because of the huge expense and the non-certainty of winning.

[1]For example, our humidifier had a removable water tank held in with a flap with a clip, because the competitor held a patent on it being held in with a hinged door. Stupidly obvious, but it still means a trip to court if you want it.
While it is actually A Thing, it's far less scary than the article makes it out to be. How about some actual numbers?

Last year in Arizona, Valley Fever was attributed a mortality rate (primary + secondary causes of death) of ~0.6/100,000 [1]. In the vast majority of cases, the victim makes a full recovery rapidly with no lingering effects. Most fatalities from it are due to the development of chronic pneumonia - by comparison, pneumonia in general has a mortality rate of ~15/100,000 [2].

While it's true that there was a tenfold increase in reported cases between '98 and '11, the disease was only required to be reported starting in '97, and in '09, the lab reporting methods were changed, resulting in more cases being reported. [1]

> Laboratory reporting of valley fever was mandated in 1997. Since then, reports of valley fever have increased dramatically. In 2009, a major commercial laboratory (Lab A) altered its reporting practices for valley fever, greatly increasing the total number of reported cases. In 2012, a change in testing methods at Lab A took place leading to a decline in the number of cases reported in late 2012.

It's also worth noting that reports outside of this unnamed major laboratory are basically flat (Table 2, Figure 3)

All in all, while it's something to be aware of, it's hardly the terrifying epidemic that the New Yorker would make it out to be.

[1] http://www.azdhs.gov/phs/oids/epi/disease/valley-fever/docum...

[2] http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr61/nvsr61_04.pdf
The most important thing is that after 30 seconds or so, your body will start to calm down

This is so true. While I haven't given many speeches in my life yet, I've had some experience playing in public at concerts (max I had was 500 people probably so not a huge crowd, but still plenty).

Every time I would step on stage with my band, I'd feel like I locked up, unable to do anything other than just stare at the crowd. It's not really anxiety in my case, more like a "oh crap, what if I fuck up?". Thanks to practice with the other members and eventually having fun (once the music starts), you tend to forget it all and just get into action. The same happened during my graduation speech, once you start the only option left is to get to the end.

More often than not I got to the end of a concert thinking "that was all?" because time really flies when you put all of yourself into doing a very focused thing (and speeches aren't that different, at least in my experience).

Also, the best thing you can do to recover from stumbling is to just keep going. If you realize you have screwed up something, just keep going and everything will be fine. The thing you definitely don't want to do is to lock up and freeze. The moment you freeze you know you have failed. The worst experience to me was during an acoustic solo part when a string in my guitar broke, I was just there, standing in front of a crowd and then silence. We just laughed it off and kept playing (with a substitute guitar), but it felt terrible for those first couple of seconds.

ps: shameless plug if somebody cares, here's my band: http://www.youtube.com/user/HavenlostBand
Just because it's modified in Russian makes it shady? That seems a little ridiculous.
You can test on many different servers, I tested to a server in virginia since I assume it would be a reasonable proxy to ec2 us-east bandwidth.
390 of which were only released in Japan.

The xbox actually had ~900 games and the GameCube had ~700.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Dreamcast_games

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nintendo_GameCube_games

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Xbox_games
Brain curve
Anandtech article is infinitely more helpful than the one in OP. Hopefully it floats atop.
WebRTC is a great idea that will remain an esoteric option, because it will never become a universally supported technology, because Microsoft will never add it to the IE, because they bought Skype. The end.

Seriously though, the chances of Microsoft adding real working WebRTC support to the IE are zero.
I have a hard time considering this large application as an "investment". Presumably, it provides some business function, and has been hopefully generating more revenue in its lifetime than was spent creating it.

I don't think the software has any intrinsic value; it wasn't constructed from precious metals, which could be re-smelted and sold for scrap. If continuing to develop it/maintain it is costing them money (either in real terms because of development costs, or by lost opportunity costs), than they should look at how that's trending. At what point does the thing cost more than it's worth to them? (Maybe it never does, I've had banking customers who spend millions of dollars a year keeping a thirty year old, p.o.s. Cobol application running because it's the backbone of their operations).

And I didn't mean to imply that they should rewrite parts of it in another language, just that they should start decomplecting pieces of it so that they can replace those pieces with better-designed ones. If they want to stick with Perl, because that's what their expertise is, than I think they should do that. I would agree that it's probably counterproductive to take on both rebuilding the application while at the same time switching to a new language.

But unless the entire application is passing around internal Perl data structures, it seems crazy that they can't identify edges to the application functionality, and start to peel those edges away and encapsulate that functionality in a better way.
I have been speaking professionally for a number of years now. In a given week, I'm probably speaking 2-4 full days (minus lunch and breaks), teaching various programming languages and technologies. I also give talks at conferences and user group meetings.

I remember very, very well when I had to give a talk oh-so-many years ago, while doing a student internship at HP. I flubbed it big time, and left the room saying to myself and anyone who would listen that I disliked public speaking, and was bad at it.

I'm not quite sure when things changed, but I think that it had a lot to do with my attitude. Instead of worrying about whether people would like me or believe me, I instead concentrated on trying to teach people something they didn't already know, and have a good time in the process.

If I'm enjoying myself while speaking, then the odds are good that the people in the audience are enjoying themselves, too.

If I've learned something interesting, then the odds are also good that the people in the audience will find it interesting, too, and will be glad that I'm sharing it with them.

Again, I'm not sure when my attitude changed, but when I get up in front of an audience now, I feel like I'm there to have a good time. Of course, I don't want to flub things, and there are times when I worry about that more than others. But for the most part, it's a matter of thinking, "Hey, everyone here has the same goal -- to enjoy themselves and learn something."

As others have written, your enjoyment will be enhanced significantly if you prepare. I'd even say to over-prepare. You probably need to know twice as much as you will actually say in your talk, so that you can speak naturally and reasonably about the subject. Try to outline your talk as a story, with a beginning, middle, and end. In technical talks, the story will often be something like, "Here's a problem. Here's a solution. Here are some examples of the solution in use. Here's where the solution fails. Questions?"

Don't worry about your slides too much. Yes, they should be high contrast. Yes, they should be easy to read. But I think that people worry way way way too much about colors, fonts, and images, and not enough about the actual SPEAKING. You want people to be engaged with what you're saying, not with what's on your slides... and that's going to happen if you have interesting things to say.

Above all, be yourself. There are oh-so-many examples (in real life, and also in movies and on TV) where people are told that they should open with a joke, and so they tell a ridiculous joke that no one finds funny, including the presenter. If you're naturally funny, or are willing to have people not laugh at your jokes, then go for it. If you're a serious kind of person, then be serious. (Although it's always better if you can be somewhat silly, in my book.)
Wikipedia lists 967 games for the xbox alone. The Gamecube appears to have come in somewhere around 500 or so. But it's probably worth noting that no one ever claimed either of those consoles had massive libraries, either.
For as much as AMD shows promise in their graphics line, if one thing is clear it is that the Bulldozer architecture has been a humiliating failure on the CPU side: extremely high TDPs and terrible performance vs. equivalent Intel *y Bridge/Haswell cores. It's been universally panned for most workloads since its release date made worse by AMD's marketing efforts leading up to its launch.

I wonder what has happened to the Bulldozer design team at AMD at this point and whether or not they even still work there at all.
I think this is clearly a good idea. Tax antibiotics, use the revenues to help subsidize development of future antibiotics.
You can travel freely to any EU, aspiring EU or Schengen country without need for a passport, you just need your national ID card.

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schengen_Agreement

- https://www.bfm.admin.ch//bfm/en/home/themen/fza_schweiz-eu-...

I've no intention of ever travelling to the US or any nation with similar travel requirements purely because that'd require a bio-metric passport. I dislike photos as it is ...
As I said, it's unclear. I could construe "panel scaling" options as the nVidia ones.

nVidia even refers to them in documentation as "panel scaling" options.
You can get a Nexus card or an Enhanced Driver's License in Canada to facilitate rapid border crossings by land (though passports are still required by air or sea).

The American passport that a recently-visiting friend brought was essentially an ID card the size of a driver's license, with RFID in it and the standard passport character coding on the bottom. I'm not sure if this is something supported in all other countries (since no passport stamping), but it seemed to do okay for our land crossings.
Good feature, but to take it one step further. I'd like to request an auto-mute feature filtered by domain names. Why?

Too often, when you are surfing on streaming movie sites and porn sites, you are forced to disable AdBlock in order for the videos to load properly; but you'd get those annoying popup tabs in the backgrounds with JasmineCam for porn sites and P&G/J&J household product ads for movie streaming sites. I'd like to mute those tabs right away and also right click and add them to the "mute audio list". Someone with the pull, please add this to the Chromium project tracker!
It looks like this is just measuring the average bitrate that people are streaming at. It won't reflect whether or not someone is capable of watching higher quality streams than Netflix is actually giving them. I don't think their highest quality is more than 6 megabits/sec, and it's only available on certain devices and movies.
Sometimes the game executable doesn't actually require you to be online the first time you launch it, even though Steam does. If you launch the binary from Windows explorer, there's a chance it'll work.
Ok well, compare it to software projects on the same scale. When you're talking about an installed base of hundreds of millions across a variety of platforms things get a little complicated.
Your theory is probably correct, however, the solutions is to accept "nemo potest omnia scire". (orazio?) - nobody can know everything -.
This will be awesome for complex OSS projects!
Applet sandbox related holes only affect applets, which most Java developers don't use. There are other vulnerabilities from time to time, but the bulk are related to the browser plug in applet sandbox and related deployment exploits.

Off the top of my head Twitter, Google, Amazon and most of the largest Internet services use Java/JVM on the web...