skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
400 millions for a 3 person startup that don't even have a proper web-site and is not in wikipedia seems crazy. But then again Google knows a little more about future value than me.
Snopes http://www.snopes.com/politics/satire/marlboro.asp.
Hi, I'm the guy behind Gygax magazine. It really made my day to see your comment. Thanks.
They're saying that they think Google was conned - or at least manipulated into a higher price than the company is worth.

This is the Internet, so I'm sure this random opinion is both well-informed and valid.
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There's an easier reformulation, at least for Denmark. Denmark doesn't have a minimum wage. Instead, many wages are set via collective bargaining. (The unions argue that this is more effective than a national minimum wage.)

So for Denmark let's not talk about "poverty" but "below the minimum wage for all private and public sector collective bargaining agreements", which Wikipedia tells us is 109 kroner ($19) per hour.

"There's no infinite money fountain" ... how come with all of the advances in efficiency over the century, we're still working roughly the 8 hour days from factories 100 years ago? While not infinite, surely we should be better at using that fountain by now.

I read "forced to do by the men-with-guns" often, though of course not always, from libertarians. I've always had a problem with that. There's coercion by force, certainly, but there are other ways to coerce. The government can also deny you access to things. For example, to a working water supply and sewage system, to the banking system, to telephones, to health care, to parental leave, to the judicial system, to weather reports, and so on.

Some of that can be worked around, like by going off the grid, but not all. It's very hard to travel internationally if the US refuses to issue a passport. If you don't have access to the court system, then what do you do when your neighbor decides to move the fence 3 meters closer to your house?

Indeed, I can easily consider a government based completely on the threat of the withdrawal of services rather than force. Some very rich people, and certain groups like the Amish, may be able to go it alone. Otherwise, the switching cost of leaving government services will be too high.

So no, I don't think that it's reasonable to think of government as synonymous, even poetically speaking, with coercion by force. You need only look at, say, the Viking sagas of Iceland to see how governments can exist to help reduce the overall need for coercion by force.
> The almost identical VW Golf (know as a Rabbit in the US) cost more than twice as much in Denmark as in the US.

Yes, but the VW Golf is relevant in the U.S., and irrelevant in Denmark. In the U.S. you have to drive, and in Denmark you don't (and most people don't). The modal share of bicycle commuting in Copenhagen is >50%, because the bike infrastructure is good. I sold my car when I moved from the SF Bay Area to Copenhagen, and now I spend less on transportation, with a better quality of commute (in my subjective estimation). Yet PPP would probably claim transportation costs more! Besides the nice bike infrastructure, I have an unlimited-rides metro pass for $50/mo, which includes very good 24/7 service. How much would it cost me to buy 24/7 transportation in the SF Bay Area, where I don't have to drive the vehicle myself? (Night buses that come once an hour don't count.)
I thought it was another web framework ...
To reduce the influence of external factors in the 'value' term. It just makes it easier to measure if one is purposefully factoring out marketing, branding and so forth.

It's fine to expect the sales of a work to go up if someone performs it well for a large enough audience, but is that measuring the value of the work, the performance, or the exposure? And basing the function on a period after copyright expires reduces the influence of stakeholders in the work who might pay for exposure.
It's difficult to arb those opportunities though, because while we have pretty decent freedom of capital and goods between the US and DK, we still have pretty piss poor free movement of labor -- both as a matter of formal barriers (i.e. immigration rules) and informal ones (e.g. different languages).
Search queries on news.ycombinator.com are redirected to hn.algolia.io which is an alias for hn.algolia.com.

Btw we have just put in production a new version with sort by date :)
Was there a Google update last week?
McDonald's employees making $28,000 a year? Maybe managers.
I liked Marty Cagan's definition: "once you have achieved a threshold number (I advocate at least 6) of live, referenceable customers for a given vertical market"

I'd say you don't have product-market fit until you have closed, signed win-win sales and a working process to acquire more at a profit. But I'm not a huge fan of 'minimal viable products' and rapid iterations. You really ought to at least have a strong competence at actually delivering something that solves the problem for skeptical buyers before you go out "testing".
A new pay-for-play crypto Internet to replace the Legacy Internet
I use wheels to speed up the tests for sorl-thumbnail https://github.com/mariocesar/sorl-thumbnail/blob/master/.tr... Initially I was into fully use wheel to install the environment but I found that some packages didn't work, now I just use it for just some critical packages and reduce the 12 minutes test to 3 minutes

Will love to see wheels getting more attention, really feels like a great direction for python packaging.
Is Google drunk? Thats $4B in basically two weeks on unproven companies.
Every medium.com story should be added to the list.
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Ask HN: Just got a decent money consulting gig, how do I cover my ass?
I recently reconnected with an old buddy, and feeling unfulfilled at my current job, I'm taking a consulting gig my friend is offering in my off time, and potentially moving to full time freelancing.

He just notified me of a potential client wanting to pay in the $7000 range. It's a small local e-commerce client with a few stores in various areas and an internet store as well.

Now, I don't feel confident enough to pitch anything close to increasing sales via our services, I have never dealt with something like this before. However I do pride myself on my frontend design ability. I only want to do an over haul of the website and make it responsive and do a rebranding of their online presence.

I've never dealt with a project this big, and my friend and I aren't formally registered as a business. Where do I start with something like this?

I was planning to sit down with my partner, register our business, draft up a contract, and pitch that to our potential client. Is this the right way to go? What sort of payment system do I go with?

Thanks.
medium.com articles are already super-heavily punished such that they rarely make the front page.
Hmm.

Steve Jobs

Sergey Brin

Jeff Bezos

David Koch

Michael Dell

Bill Clinton
Saying his personal experience proves anything about IRC as a medium is a stretch.

No requirement exists to give your gender or a name that may reveal a gender. That, by any definition, is 'gender neutral'.

If someone makes assumptions about other people it's their own issue, it has nothing to do with what is essentially an anonymous medium. I really didn't think it needed 'proving'.
What you've heard is, in my opinion, wrong - the service works great across all my devices.
The missing piece for Google to become Skynet?
If you look closer, even the symbols match up in placement. Indeed, they are identical.
Ah, a contest in the style of the venerable Obfuscated C.
> Perhaps something else was meant by "freedom" in those days

Yes it did. This 30 year old quote has nothing to do with the App Store policies. IBM had a significant presence in every single piece of information technology in those days. Mainframes, typewriters, satellite communication, telecom equipment, etc. When they failed to move quickly on micro-computers / personal computers there was a lot of hope that at least one other major player could rise up and challenge IBM's ability to totally dominate every part of information technology systems. After they finally released the IBM PC they started to attack companies like Compaq who were making IBM compatible computers. For a period in the early 80s it looked as though IBM was going to totally dominate everything For this quote to apply to Apple we have to invent an alternative reality. A reality where about 85-90% of all information technology in use today has some direct dependency on Apple software/technologies/hardware/services. They don't even have that type of dominance in mobile today much less the entire industry.
"In addition Netflix has built up infrastructure to allow it to stream in high def in the first place. They are peering near ISPs in large localities to reduce bandwidth costs and improve speeds to the user."

Try Vudu if you want to see real dependable HD. I've had issues with Netflix "blocking up" (pixalated) while the Vudu stream is fine and the picture, in my opinion, is better than any other service out there.
> When the world started behaving appropriately toward me… I was gobsmacked.

(throwaway account to say) As a transgender guy, I have experienced a similar contrast in how I was treated as a female and how I am treated as a man. There were certainly clear cases of discrimination, but I never expected the moment-to-moment differences!

As for the change to a tech job. I suspect there are multiple reasons for such a change. As @yetanotherphd mentioned, she's Asian, so probably got a boost from that (not saying it is right, just saying that stereotypes probably benefited her in this case). Some tech industries do seem to have a younger and more meritocratious population. Also, some tech industries are simply in better financial situations, and this can have many effects (e.g., instead of yelling at her about answering the phones while scrubbing toilets, the employer could have hired another employee).
You are highlighting a fundamental brokenness of he concept of GDP, the fallacy that only market transactions contribute to quality of life.

I would rather work for 10 months in NY and live in Maui for 2months vacation than spend $15000 traveling to Maui five times for a week each, but GDP says the latter is a higher standard of living.
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I suppose. For me music is like fashion, it is in and of a moment. It is inspired by what came just before it, and it inspires what comes directly after it. Beyond that it takes on some sort of historical context.

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=cover+teenage+dr...
That survey doesn't factor in cultural brainwashing :-)

You need to survey folks who have lived in both places.
No not at all. IMO that has nothing to do with intelligence/education. The issue is twofold. First, most voters in Ukraine have known the USSR and it does skew their views. The "good old times" seem too good to let go. The propaganda machine was strong back then and the idea that Russia could lead the entire region into its former glory does have some appeal.

Second, the people with ties to both Russia and Ukraine might actually believe that Ukraine is just a part of Russia and that its independence is a temporary thing. The two countries have a very long history that is full of intertwined interests, population mixing, etc. Remember that Kiev was a prospering city from where the ruling class moved to a tiny fortress up north called Moscow.

I do not buy "Ukraine is a Russian territory" mostly based on the treatment that the Ukrainian nationals in the USSR received: artificial feminine, oppression, active suppression of Ukrainian culture and language, etc. The biggest hurdle here IMO is that Ukraine has not been independent for very much of its existence and has only known democracy in the last 23 years. The people have no sense of how a democracy is supposed to look, feel, and work. I think that once people who lived in the USSR are replaced with the generations to follow things might improve slightly. For now this is all really a struggle to find the Ukrainian identity. To put this into perspective think of the US in 1800. Not exactly a stable or peaceful time, is it?
"They could buy movies on disc, and get whatever content they want, but they use Netflix more and more instead. So experience does matter."

Talk to my wife who searches around Netflix for 15 minutes looking for something to watch and then gives up. Experience can improve the likelihood that someone will use your service, but if the content isn't there, then they'll go elsewhere.
Yet at least once a day a Medium story manages its way to the frontpage.

I'm sticking with the first rule: "If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity." - it's like the Prime Directive of HN.
That's one of the drawbacks of C++. I really love it but sometimes a tiny syntax error will produce so many errors that you can't even scroll to the top of the console to find the cause.
How does PPP work when healthcare is socialized in Denmark and I don't need to maintain a car, but I do need to lay for heat, etc?
That's the issues thread that I included in my initial post. Quoting from it: "When you redefine a method, the resulting behavior is undefined."

And these people expect to be taken seriously? Sell crazy someplace else, we're all stocked up here. The honest approach would be to forbid redefining functions.

This issue was brought to my attention by pals who had investigated Julia and rejected it for this very reason. No way I'll use it for anything. And that will be my recommendation to anyone who asks me about it.
This whole thread should devolve into the death spiral of poverty you are leading towards here... you can pick many down-ramps in.

Institutional lubrication for an unmanageable impact due to child birth being encourage or enforced upon the poor. This further reduces that wealth per capita of the poor which spreads institutional support thinner, increases demands upon those trying to work, adds perverse incentives to NOT have more than a single income in a household, segregation of rich/poor, etc.

Each stressor for those on the lowest rung reinforces or draws them into other rational decisions which lock the poor into being poor.

Don't be poor
Don't be uneducated
Don't be a single parent
Don't be a woman
Don't be disenfranchised politically
Don't be unemployed
Don't be short-term-viewed in financial habits
Don't be sick
Don't drink/smoke/cope with chemicals or food
Don't be fat
Don't be injured without adequate health insurance
Don't live in poor areas
Don't work in labor-unfriendly areas
etc. etc.
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>Right now the prevailing attitude is that it's legal and nobody will get prosecuted for it.

Probably because that's how it appears to go in regulated markets as well.
> Second I know that the officer is not the only cost involved. What about maintaining a fleet of top of the line vehicles? How about paying all the support personnel such as IT Staff, dispatch, managers, etc? All of the other expensive toys carried around by the chaser?

Arguable. It depends on how badly you want [insert autonomous car producer here] to run your local police department from the cloud.
As user jasonwatkinspdx pointed out, he's doing this at the Internet Archive headquarters. He's probably for purpose of recording an oral history. It appears that rather than taking the route of singing the glories of great men past, he figures there's enough of that, so he's giving an alternate view that he calls "computers for cynics" to record some of the less glorious aspects of personal computer history. I think he's made the right choice, although if you weren't aware of the context he would seem to be a bit of a crank.

Edit: If you watch "Computers for Cynics 4 - The Dance of Apple and Microsoft [1] he's much less cranky and sings praises to Steve Jobs in a way that made me re-evaluate my opinion of Jobs.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xL19f48m9U
I think you're mixing up two types of acquisitions here.

There is a difference between Snapchat being worth $3 billion and Nest being worth $3 billion. The former gets the valuation based on users, the latter on talent and intellectual property.

Ditto here: $400 million is not buying you users, it's buying you raw talent and IP. Users can go off to another service in a blink of an eye - IP can't (talent can, but you can often structure the deal so that it won't for some time).

This could still be a terrible deal (I'm sure there are some people at Google still a little sore over Motorola, where the IP was valued far more than it ended up being worth), but for very different reasons.
Yeah, obviously if they don't have a trendy iOS app and a twitter presence, they couldn't possibly be worth anything! /s
Except that the linked thread on Github mentions that supporting the redefinition of functions isn't a v1.0 issue.
There are nuances in the other two sentences not conveyed in the first - "better without X" is not the same as "X is not doing harm". The way it's currently phrased is a better, more rounded request, giving the respondee a better anchor to work from.

You've actually highlighted how some nuance and context is lost by cutting things down to a 'soundbite'.
Those three are just the co-founders. The whole team seems to be much bigger. The arxiv article linked above cites seven names already.
Ahh I see. Thanks. I trust him. Nobody knows best like an anonymous stranger on the internet.
Since I decided to visit the site based on your comment, I figure you might want to look at optimizing the image on the front page - it's a ~670k PNG that took 12 seconds to download...
Sorry, yes, I meant to agree that PPP is better than exchange rates.

PPP is difficult because there is no international common basket of goods. Danes get 52 weeks of paid parental leave, of which 18 are to be taken by the mother, 2 weeks by the father, and the others split at the parent think is appropriate, and their job position is waiting for them when they return.

What's the equivalent for the US?

Some of the leave pay comes from the company. Some from the state.

How does the 1 year of overall leave measured in the PPP? How much would it cost to get the same benefits in the US?
Well, amazing job of capturing the early experience in one magazine. It felt like an old Dragon or even a Byte magazine because I looked at every ad. It still amazes me how the ads in some magazines with amazing articles are welcome and the web still hasn't gotten it right.
Why do you have to be so dismissive? You're basically saying, "you're not saying anything we don't already know, just go back in your hole and don't bother me with your feminist garbage. This is the way the world works and you should just deal with it."

That may not be how you meant it, but that's how it comes across.
This is fantastic news and something I really hope every other major tech company starts to do. Maybe they finally realized that the money they hemorrhage to their legal departments can be better served elsewhere.
Robotics companies and now AI companies, Google seems to have much higher ambitions than the internet. May be they watching too many sci-fi movies in their 20% time. :)
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An unskilled unemployed person in say NYC today has a faaaaar better life than such a person in NYC in 1914.
How Nintendo's Crappy Developer Relationships Are Killing Its Consoles
Do you think noot could be created using Meteor?

I've been curious about learning Meteor and am wondering if a social flashcard app would be too much for it to handle.
Here you go: http://lmgtfy.com/?q=subversive
I believe the dots were painted, not pitted.
Or maybe they're watching exactly the right amount. :D
Nest is available in every Home Depot, and fairly prominently. It has a product and it must have sales to some degree.

Deep Mind on the other hand...
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> the panels weren't as dust-caked as was expected

Common, this is such a lousy excuse. If dust was a big problem I'm pretty sure they would have designed a dust-cleaning device.
Sociopathic, even.
I'm trying to do this now. My Phd is in CS, however. Some friends looked at my CV and gave me comments .. wow ... quite the eye opener. Some suggestions that helped me:

1) Remove the royal "we". You need to be very specific about what you did on projects.

2) Have a skills section. I found this profoundly disturbing as I feel I can work with a very large variety of programming languages/frameworks.

3) Remove papers or just have notable papers. These go at the end of your resume.

4) Keep your resume short! 1-2 pages

5) Don't sell yourself short. Many good academics jokingly talk smack about the PhD. At the end of the day, not every Tom, Dick or Harry could have earned one of these (especially from a notable University). Build up on the self-esteem if you are a burned out academic.

I got a few interviews from a few big companies but I decided to try my luck with startups. Lets see how it turns out for me. Best of luck to you!
Now I do, but at one time I was a back-end / db developer who did some report creation. I had the amazing[1] experience of talking to some customers about one particular report for the last 8 holes of golf. They felt some "improvements" could be made and were very happy to share these thoughts with me.

1) read WTF / why have I not ran for it
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There are some items that friends have worked on that they never want to use personally and hope no one they know needs it. They work for a medical device maker.
The community from Teamliquid.net had a long running D&D show on twitch.tv (It ran for almost a year about once a week until the characters had a full party wipe, characters got to level 8-9 and they fast forwarded 100 years in the future)

They recently started a new one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Z3ACZ5XDA0
I was cheering out loud when I first downloaded Julia and started working with it. The type system, multiple dispatch, so much win! I'm working on ionospheric ray tracing at my day job and would love to use Julia.

But when I can write a nine-line example that produces incorrect output—no thanks. Especially when one of the lead developers (see the linked thread) states that supporting function redefinition isn't needed for v1.0. Clearly these people are working under a very different set of priorities than me.

"The foundation is solid"—I do not think it means what you think it means.
Roll20.net. It uses Google Hangouts for its video/audio sharing
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You should check out roll20.net, they have a webapp / Google Hangouts app with a bunch of tools to support remote tabletop gaming.
Let me remind people who think the SEC doesn't care of the case of Trendon Shavers: http://www.sec.gov/News/PressRelease/Detail/PressRelease/137... Market manipulation isn't as clear-cut as a ponzi scheme, but the man might pay attention if enough people get burned.
Certainly very few employees at a McDonald's restaurant would take home $28,000. Especially now that most of them can't work more than 29 hrs/wk.

Edit: reading the link, I guess this is in reference to what workers at a McDonald's in Denmark make.
I work at iRobot on Roomba, and I use our robots at home and at work.
There wasn't really production back then, as that stuff was usually cut live to two track, then the vocals overdubbed. But the song writers were also the arrangers in many cases.