skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But they don't generally share in the bad times. If a company has a bad year most people don't take a pay cut. And they definitely won't get paid nothing for a year while lending money to the company!!!

For example you own a local garage. On normal years to make $500,000. Your costs are $400,000. One year thing go bad and you only make $300,000. In most cases the owner will borrow the money to cover the difference. Maybe someone is let go but in most cases the owner tries to retain the staff hoping next year is back to normal. Maybe the owner will use his own money rather than borrow. In any case they will find the money somehow or close. And remember this is at the same time as having your salary reduced to $0!

Eventually the owner wants to recoup and protect themselves from any bad year. But at a $100,000 profit a year, and remember this is pre tax, and profits are double taxed for the owner, then how long will it take to save pay them back and save enough for the next bad year?

So if one year he make $600,000, or double the profits, he needs to keep those profits for the bad years.

Now big corporations are slightly different but at the same time they need to be absorb harder years. So right now they squeezing profits but at some point those profits will be needed for a bad year. Or perhaps it was to pay for the recent bad years in which they may have acquire debt...

Some corporations are greedy, but a lot aren't. You have to look at the multi year picture when it comes to profit sharing. And most employees are not willing to loan money to a corporation in a bad year like the owners will most likely have to ;)
Koch family were not bad off..

http://exiledonline.com/a-peoples-history-of-koch-industries...
Last year, I had about 7-8 long weekends, or short breaks (maybe 3 days max).
I felt a bit depressed when I realised that I never had a whole week off though (apart from over xmas).
That was in a London, UK startup.

This year, I'm going to make sure I have at least a couple of full weeks off.
ISP interference makes for a interesting question regarding liability. Their interference are now potentially causing massive amount of economic damages to companies which relies on jquery library. Webshops, economic infrastructure, hospitals, transportation systems are just a few that relies on having fully functional websites up and running.

But for liability, a few questions pops up. Who is the offended party, and how much negligence is required for software bugs. Does it need to be a civil suit with each customer, or can the website owners sue? If a truck crash right outside a store and disrupt business, the store owner can sue even if they have no formal relation with the truck company.
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this is a total myth that is somehow oft-parroted on the internet.

directors/officers of a corporation have a fiduciary duty to its stockholders. this is three-pronged: good faith, loyalty, due care.

there is no such 'maximize profits' mandate in common law. See
business judgment rule and Directors' duties.

if these don't clarify things, please ask questions.

1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_judgment_rule

2: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directors%27_duties

..

edit: another poster (netcan) gave a great explanation in a sibling thread- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7129582
Well, Gravatar is useful for having users sign up and have their profile pics ready to go (which I'm already doing). But now I'm looking for placeholders of real people so I can build screenshots of the app. You probably need explicit permission from the owner for that kinda thing, right?

It's just that I saw the site before -- it's kinda driving me crazy I can't find it now.
They are sort of metallic rubber bands.
I didn't say "speculative" as a bad thing. I meant it more with overtones of "brave" or "ballsy" or, let's just sum up, "heroic".
That's really great, so in the past you only work during 3-6 months?
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I also dislike pop for much the same reason: it's completely fabricated to produce money and little else.

But I do recognize and appreciate how good this guy is, writing and producing a hit is not trivial and also follows a portfolio approach, the difference being that his portfolio has way more successes than average.

If it were that simple to produce pop hits, any producer would do it. Consider that most of the costs are promotion (like many startups) and that the record company could get just about anyone to produce Katy Perry, but Martin's track record is beyond just about any other producer, so I think there's little doubt about his skills.

"I kissed a girl" sung by Avril Lavigne wouldn't be the same thing; Perry's persona and style was perfect for it. These guys know this and that explains half of their success. The other half is deep pockets for promotion.
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> are for more than just meeting investors

I agree, but OP was bitching about not being able to find investment.

> SV's single critical advantage

Is indisputably the prevalence of capital. Forget the collaborative pay it forward culture.

> as well as not contributing in any way to the community, they risk losing out on the benefits that being part of a wider community can bring

There are many communities I don't contribute to, and the "startup" community is just one :) And as I said, I believe it has significant drawbacks as well as upsides.
UK, Contractor.

A 4 week long trip every 6months or so, though the last trip was 10 weeks.

3 to 4 weekend city breaks per year, most usually geared around a sporting event, festival or a friends Stag/Bachelor party.

Next big trip is a month in Brazil for the World Cup in June. Aside from that Roland Garros in May and Oktoberfest in September.
This deep learning group you mentioned. May anyone join in?
In Portugal we usually have 25 days (excluding holidays) and at some companies they want you to take at least a period with a minimum of 10 days of uninterrupted vacations.
Another day, another American overestimating the relevance of Ayn Rand.

Outside of the US, barely anyone reads Ayn Rand or cares about her. It's considered to be 'capitalist bullshit' as much as Americans consider Marx 'commie bullshit'. Of course both are wrong, but in the final analysis, Marx actually offered profound insights and is still being read widely. Ayn Rand will be forgotten in a few dozen years.
No holidays for the last 2 years. 3 months ago, I started needing the weekends heavily to recover. Now that my startup is up and running, with a couple of thousand users and some trial customers, I will probably take a skiing holiday soon.
Sucks for the people affected by this, but if the result is that more people use google for this, I'd be a happy bunny.

Why would anyone use code.jquery.com, really? They obviously don't mind a third party hosting their js, so why not use the most popular service (google) to increase the chances that users arrive at their website with jquery already cached?
Dogfooding doesn't have be limited to "software for software developers." A lot of it is "software for software businesses" or "software for problems which occur in software businesses, but which are not unique to software businesses."

Any of the above is probably "dogfooding" for small companies where people wear many hats while having lowish internal firewalling and power disparity. It's often much less useful at a BigCo where the product team may never see the internal users without scheduling a meeting in advance, and where fixed development schedules and internal politics are creating design lock-in.

Also keep in mind that, for every story about dogfooding improving product quality, there are others about dogfooding creating a runaway blind spot because the company confused the needs of internal users with the needs of customers. Internal use can be a useful resource, but it can't replace customer research.
> One might say video games killed tabletop RPGs...

Traditional pen and paper RPGs are a very long way from being dead. The industry has changes radically, but it's still very much alive and as vibrant as ever. What's happened is that it's diversified away from a few very successful companies such as TSR, Chaosium, SJG, Palladium, etc into hundreds of small independent publishers serving niche audiences.

The radical reduction in the costs and difficulty of publishing, particularly in the form of PDFs, over the last few decades have revolutionized the industry. Kickstarter is also acting as a fantastic catalyst that's matching up audiences with capital to authors and publishers in need of funding. This is enabling a whole host of projects that previously simply wouldn't have been viable.

There's also a mini-renaissance going on in children's RPGs with games like Mermaid Adventures, itself a very successful kickstarter project, being a favorite in Chez Hibbs. There's never been a better time to get into RPGs and never been a greater variety of innovative games in print and available to play.
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Do you carry your climbing gear or do you buy/sell at every location? I just started climbing a year ago, but all the stuff weighs a lot.

Topic: I have something like a lifestyle SaaS business, but I'm mainly at home and take a week or two off whenever I want (and other people have time). For example, last week, I went snowboarding in France for a week.

In 2013, I spent about 8 weeks in total in other places (US, France, Italy, Belgium, Switzerland, Turkey).

In 2012, I traveled for 6 months around the world with my girlfriend.
Privileged people hardly ever realize they have any privilege. A bit like those rich kids who reject presents they don't consider expensive enough and then brag about it in front of their poor friends. Its likely some body from their group doesn't even have proper clothes to wear.

Either way it doesn't matter. Making statements as to what you can reject, is in reality a statement to give others an idea of what you currently have or are capable of getting.
It's really only confusing in this particular context, or to be precise, this particular sentence. Similarly, "Metropolitan Transportation Authority Invests Heavily in Rails" doesn't really make "Ruby on Rails" a particularly confusing project name.
What makes you think that Google wouldn't be blocked by the same mechanism?
We have been producing organic olive oil for some years with my family.. And i can tell you that everybody in this industry knows about this shit

Adulteration of olive oil is one of the many shamefull thing that affect my country. Is one of those stories that politicians face "the italian way" = they don't do a heck till something really bad happens (like people dying)

We had this topic on news for years now..
News tv show Report talked about it with an investigation aired on Primetime on national broadcast tv in 2002..
(If you understand italian is worth watching)
http://www.report.rai.it/dl/Report/puntata/ContentItem-17eec...

Yet after more than 10years we still know that this shit is still going on..

It's such a shame cos not only exporting fake olive oil damages the whole industry but also because you spread a Twisted culture on olive oil.

Like many says.. It s like wine.
I ve been drinking high quality olive oil for all my life and when i get to taste some industrial "so called" extravirgin olive oil i feel like i have to throw up.

But if you think about it, olive oil adulteration it's even more important than wine, since health factors are much more at stake.
We hear nutritionist say "use olive oil cos is good for your health " and they are right.. It's damn good. Some study says it's like a natural antibiotic... So you go and buy it.. But guess what If you stumble upon adulterated olive oil you get no nutritional benefits and instead you swallow far more dangerous stuff hidden in It like chems.

That's a subtle deception.. And "hell yea" is made in Italy :-(.

So my advice is be selective when you buy extra virgin olive oil from our country (but also spain, greece and france).
Ask HN: Looking for an international tax lawyer (Ogden) using value pricing
There was an International Tax Lawyer by the name of "Ogden" I think that has a team that is wel versed in International Tax Law and uses a value pricing system? I'm looking for this person as I cant find his website.

Does anyone remember or know this person or team?
He commented on a post here somewhere about a year ago and I remember the name from there but forgot to bookmark his website.
If you ever need easy LaTeX generation for data generated or changed in Python. You should try out https://github.com/JelteF/PyLaTeX.
It supports tables, plots and matrices. All with sane defaults.
For there to be equilibrium between supply and demand, several conditions must be met: perfect competition; perfect information; no economies of scale; no barriers to entry; no negative externalities; and no cheating.

Things like slave labor, prison labor and child labor are cheating. There's a lot of evidence China cheats the free market in these ways, and that's why I singled them out.

For example, "Apple has cut ties with one Chinese supplier that was found to have 74 workers under the age of 16." Source: globalpost.com (January 26, 2013) http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/business/technology/...

Foxconn's factories in China installed suicide nets to catch workers jumping off the roof, which sure makes them look like forced labor camps. Picture here: http://news.cnet.com/2300-13579_3-10013733-14.html
Everything is a 'hack' these days.
Ah yes - I did wonder if I had misinterpreted your comment after I posted mine... :-)
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Doesn't work for French: we have an "artistic" way of using words with implied profanity. Also, this tool's vocabulary is clearly to restricted.
I think the emulating/use native problem for the keyboard is a really tricky design problem to solve. Currently the 'Apple recommended' way is to use an inputAccessoryView which is essentially a bar above the native keyboard. There could be a more elegant solution. However, as you say, the broad spectrum of inputs for different locales makes this a tricky issue.
NB: Those 28 "include" bank holidays. It used to be a 20 day mandatory minimum, which was meant to be 20 days + bank holidays, but unscrupulous bosses were including bank holidays in the 20, so some people were only getting 12 days "real" holiday. (Days they could pick).

So now it's a 28 day minimum, of which 8 are usually bank holidays and 20 free to pick.
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Nopes, I really hate it.
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I'm from India, working at a travel startup Mygola.

I usually take 3 vacations(2x15 Days, 1x7 days), they are divided into some travel, visiting family/friends, some spiritual activity, etc.

Mygola also has one cool perk called workation when entire team travel while also keep working(work+vacation).
Sounds like a holiday would do you good. No use becoming burnt out from not taking holidays.

Luckily IT companies can often manage a few days without you.

Best of luck with the startup and do enjoy vacations, or at least long weekends, from time to time.
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Thanks a lot for your advice and sharing your experience!
Obviously google try to build things for every aspect of our life. Intelligent machines in the our Homes, Cars, at Work.
We will not see them in the near future, but 5 or 10 Years google will start a product offensive.
We made a Twilio app: http://callusbob.com - to make group calls with our off-shore teams. It calls everyone on their phones, so everyone doesn't need to be in front of a computer.
Based in Spain, medium-sized local company (few hundreds), I have about 30 days vacation every year. Usually the company locks some of these for the days close to Easter and Christmas. I usually use these to visit my family abroad.

I have left about 20, which I like to take in August (like most of the other employees) for a long vacation abroad, having one month a year when I can completely disconnect and still getting paid it's a real luxury.
True using PHP would also have server dependant issues as well as security issues. I feel PHP is a web framework and would suggest using a application framework for this.
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Not enough people use Android getQuantityString.
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American here. I usually try to get out of the country once per year, usually for a good 14 days (10 business days). Sometimes more, sometimes less. Last year was actually the first year in many that I didn't make it out of the country, but it was more due to my own failure to plan a decent getaway and a lack of funds.

Other than my one big trip, I usually only take a Friday off here or there. Maybe only 2 or 3 of those per year.
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An example of kids being ungrateful for their christmas gifts.

http://imgur.com/x9sYDAQ
Programmers might be one of the unfortunate firsts that can be replaced by AI! No programming at all everything self programs itself!
Going to Brazil during the World Cup is really a great trip :). But be careful a lot of Brazilians want to boycott the World Cup
Reminds me of some article I read about having some fallback mechanism for when whatever CDN is serving up your JS fails. "Who controls downtime? You do."
> Why would anyone use code.jquery.com, really?

Because webmasters would rather compromise the security and integrity of their site, and the privacy of their users, than pay for the initial burst of bandwidth and latency for first time visitors. jQuery 2.1.0 production, minified and gzipped is still over 30KiB, compared to this thinkbroadband page which is only 6 KiB (and yes this page uses about half a dozen external js resources, including jQuery)

Perhaps it's about time we had a way to specify the hash of <script> source inline so browsers can serve files from cache even if they are from different origins
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This app looks very nice. It actually makes me want to get started in learning LaTeX. The autocomplete is a very nice feature, and the cursor manipulation is genius. I can't emphasise how much I'd love to have the default apple keyboard have cursor controls.

And one day I might actually get started learning it. Right after all the other things on my list...
Probably one of those Xerox documentcenters. Printing is sort of a misnomer as it can also bind, staple, fold, envelope, sort and duplex.

When I used to work in prepress the printer we had was as long as a truck, used 480V, and had it's own fume hood to capture all the ozone it put out.
From France :

We get 25 days by law, that's for employees who do the 35-hour workweek. Then people who do more than 35 hours (that is, people who don't follow the fixed 35-hour model) get more days depending on the sector / company.

I get a total of 38 days per year, so that's about 7 and a half weeks. (Yes that's a lot but has to be compared to my average 55-hour workweek.) I work at a large retail corporation.

I take 2 long breaks every year, 2 to 3 weeks each :
- one in March/April where I like to travel far from the French winter, preferably in a sunny and warm tropical country
- one in August/September, the destination depending on opportunities and remaining budget after the March break ;)

During these breaks, I do a lot of sightseeing (both scenic and cultural spots), days are generally busy but relaxed at the same time - what you don't see this time, you'll see next time. And I sleep a lot, too.

Other than these long breaks, I take a few days off around Christmas/New Year, and I use the remainder for some Mondays/Fridays off. That's when I visit family or just do the things I don't have time to do on regular week-ends.

(Edited for spelling)
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People working hourly jobs don't get much guatanteed vacation and we have lots of them. Just about any full-time professional setting will have much more. Somewhere around 20 days when you factor in vacation and holidays and most give more days after a few years of service. The end result is that the older working population has many more days it just isn't mandated by the government. In regards to wealthy nation vacation times: It is possible that prosperity is not derived from vacation.
Agreed, and I think it's mainly because it gets hard to figure out what content to display when 1) people are following 300 friends + 300 pages; 2) advertisers are paying for their content to be seen.

The competition for a spot in the users' news feed makes it increasingly harder to present the user with quality content...I sometimes wonder how it's even possible to test the quality of their algorithms a such a large scale (kudos, btw), even with all that automated continuous learning.
French here. When employee in France, the law says 25 days/yr and you can add 11 RTT (please don't look that up in wikipedia). People don't tend to use them all. I would generally take 1-2 weeks for Christmas, and 2-weeks trips along the year to Europe or to the mountains/sea sports.

In Australia, it's only 4 weeks off, plus you kind of have to take 2 weeks to visit your family back in Europe for Christmas, so in the end I couldn't visit Australia while I was working there (reason #6 why I left). Fortunately I had taken a gap year to go farming around the continent, and i'll probably keep the idea of a 6-month break every 3 years.

I find that short holidays = unhappy employees, pressure to prevent them from taking unpaid leave, and that ends up in the sick leave being high. It's unfortunate.
Depends on who are the investors. Fiat is publicly traded, the investor might be anyone with 401 or mutual fund investment.
I actually use LaTeX on my phone quite often. I would use this if I weren't an Android kind of guy.
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Rockstar Bidco, owned by Apple, Microsoft, Sony, Ericsson and Blackberry.

They use this legal vehicle to create shell companies armed with ex-Nortel patents to attack Android manufacturers and Google itself.

So they (Apple) very much play this game, and this evolution can be seen as a response to the threat that Rockstar Bidco poses.

Software patents are bad all around: given their infantile lifespan they sure have caused a lot of trouble already and their offensive usage will really hamper anyone not protected by a big company.
As a family we seem to be follow the predictable UK middle class pattern of a week skiing in February and a couple of weeks in the sun in Greece/Turkey at beach club where I enjoy capsizing high performance dinghies.

Used to go in for rather more varied adventures before we had a kid. However, he is mid teens so we are starting to look at getting back to more varied stuff rather than focusing on holidays with great child care/entertainment.

I work for a UK based multinational - 33 days paid leave.
Well let's assume that each URL or domain that is blocked is reviewed by a human who's paid to look at content, not necessarily to have technical knowledge.

They'd be much more likely to know that blocking anything from Google is probably a bad idea/false positive but they've probably never heard of jQuery and when they look at the jquery*.js files all they see is The Matrix.

So if you allow the above assumption, it's less likely that using Google's CDN would present this problem.
Visual programming ala Yahoo Pipes, with the computer creating the code itself in the background. Would be pretty cool...
That looks beautiful. Really nice job on the custom keyboard.
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I only take one or two days at a time.