skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seattle, Wa - Quve

Quve ("cue+move") is a well-funded, early-stage company, developing an online platform to change the nature of work for personal trainers and the nature of working out for consumers. Quve will enable top trainers to coach their clients efficiently and effectively between in-person training sessions, attract new clients who are interested in the benefits of daily fitness coaching between training sessions, and increase trainers’ income via online coaching.

We are looking for a Seattle-based senior rails developer to lead the development of Quve. You will be working closely with the entire team to rapidly build Quve, and iterate the product based on insights from ongoing user testing. This is the perfect position for an senior developer who wants to get in on the ground floor at a well-funded startup developing a stand-out coaching product that has the potential to extend to verticals beyond fitness in the future. Company founders and early employees are experienced and connected.

Responsibilities:

* Full stack development lead for Quve

* Build out and iterate on the core Quve product using Rails, Postgres, backbone.js and other technologies you determine necessary

* Help translate user research into actionable product improvement items

https://quve.recruiterbox.com/jobs/30325/
It would have been easy to do this in IE too, there was a well defined COM interface to allow alternative scripting engines to be used.
I love that you just called Donald Knuth a massive douche. That is all.
If you think that, I think you didn't read both of my posts carefully enough.

First I argued that the government was making bad loans. The respondent replied that they were making profit (implying they were good loans.) Then I noted that that doesn't necessarily mean the government made the most profit possible with the loans - I didn't say that was definite, just possible.

And then I showed how political pressure is mounting for even this meagre profit to be slashed to cost price. Because that's the great thing about borrowing from the government. If enough people do it, you can bank on political pressure to hamstring any honest attempt to get a market return. So you wind up with a distorted allocation of capital to this market (student loans.)

PS. If anyone remembers, this is exact same mistake which drove the 2008 recession - the American government's junk home loan program. Exact same high ideals - help people get into homes! - exact same result - people went for bigger homes than they would have otherwise - savvy hedge fund managers smelled the free money and pounced. And we all know how that turned out.

PPS. If you're interested, check out: http://mises.org/books/economics_in_one_lesson_hazlitt.pdf (pages 25-32).
> What was your last product you did not hear about before and bought after seeing an ad?

Probably buy something each week that I saw previously advertised somewhere.

The last thing was probably some pig electric fencing that was advertised in a pig magazine last week.

You're an outlier. Perhaps you're just so determined to be against advertising you can't see the value in it.
Without advertising, how would we know what products exist?
require([
- "blah"
+ "blah",
+ "blorp"
], function () {

AngularJS templates often can involve JSON structures for <select> and other UI junk.

It'd be great if a backend could serve JSON structures directly to the Controller, which would inform the Directive's @attr template. So maybe the problem goes away in this regard, and the build could handle AMD/CommonJS wrappers which is outside of the version control layer to an extent — or at least wrappers do not necessarily have to be.

require([
"blah",
"blorp",
], function () {

I added ``blorp`` — I never removed ``blah`` except for some limitation of the language I'm using. Why should that be part of the organic record?
Our game consoles are likely spying on us, and this is business as usual
We have sponsored H-1B visas in the past for exceptional candidates.
http://www.comixology.com kinda does that? It's very much about single issues, rather than larger completed works.
> government that offers discount loans - i.e. loans with poor prospects/low interests rates - so that there is a higher allocation of capital to education than would occur in a pure private lending market

This is not nearly the full extent of the problem, just look at the housing market. Through credit, banks have been able to completely erode the concept of ownership and turn it into just another form of renting (except for those rare few with fuck-you money that we all dream of being)

1. Every loan is subsidized by virtue of any bank being able to effectively conjure money out of thin air. Giving out a loans would normally affect the backing of the depositor's accounts, but they have absolutely no concern due to FDIC insurance. So the only checks on how much a bank will loan out are the reserve requirement, and how accurately their own accounting model reflects what could go wrong (eg a massive drop in housing prices making all of that on-paper "collateral" worth less).

2. Overly strong enforcement of collateral, through both modern tracking technologies and a government that facilitates efficient repossession of property as if the debtor does not actually own it.

3. AFAIK student loan debt is not even discharageable in bankruptcy. (It is amazingly automatically discharged at time of death, but presumably private creditors are paid by the government when this happens, yet another subsidy).

4. The ridiculous overemphasis on credit scores, and how people are indoctrinated to constantly worry about them, and believe they will fail at life if they do not suck up to the rating companies.

5. People have been led to believe that failing to pay back a (good-faith-taken) loan is immoral, and that debts are absolute. Bankruptcy has been made to seem like a game-over death-equivalent where you've fallen off the path of a respectable life.

The systematic overemphasis on credit over assets has made it so that most people have a high monthly burn rate. Of course they take on more debt on non-capital expenses like new cars and further the cycle - they're no longer in control of their life, so they might as well enjoy what they can. Which then makes it so they always have to be working a full time job (and squirreling away a tiny amount with the idea of maybe not having to work when they're old and achy).

But this is happening concurrently with massive ongoing efficiency gains, so many of these jobs actually no longer need to be done! Due to a wider advertising/logistics reach, there are fewer market winners, thus less competition so companies have more surplus resources to employ these unnecessary people, who just end up being a detriment to the functioning of the organization. So with the current trends, we've got a future where robots are producing everything, but all the humans are essentially doing busywork (while completely stressed out as they believe they're not) just for access to the basic necessities of life.
> I feel VERY uncomfortable about not being the [insert respectable job title at respectable company here], and now am a pre-funded entrepreneur.

> TLDR: being a pre-funded entrepreneur SUCKS in a lot of ways, but I’m pretty sure if I ever “make it”

This guy needs to get his head out of the funding bubble. He sounds like the only goal and metric of success for his startup is to get funding. Getting funding won't make you successful; running a startup with funding that isn't growing sucks even more. In fact it will escalate the pressure and your work/life balance may get worse.
Hi,

I work on the Google Maps API team. I am not a lawyer, but my reading of the terms does not equate with yours.

Here's the excerpt:

(a) Free Access (No Fees). Your Maps API Implementation must
be generally accessible to users without charge and must
not require a fee-based subscription or other fee-based
restricted access. This rule applies to Your Content
and any other content in your Maps API Implementation,
whether Your Content or the other content is in
existence now or is added later.

My reading is that in your example, charging businesses to list is okay, but charging users to access the site is not.

https://developers.google.com/maps/terms#section_9_1
The funny thing is that the review makes me want to read the book much more than the linked article. The reviewer may disagree with the author but at least the review lets the author's ideas come through. The linked article is just badly written. I wish someone had linked the review instead.
i guess i was more interested to know which phones has it been ported to. i understand that technically it can run on every phone that currently runs android since the linux layer is identical.
The original was already submitted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7324292
How often do you check back on Josm?

I might just be more patient than you, but I spend more time waiting for imagery to come in from servers than I spend waiting for Josm (on a 5+ year old laptop with 2 GB or ram...).
Hey Dalek,

> can any cartoonist sign up to sell cartoons using this platform?

There's no automated system to manage this, but it's in the works. Right now a cartoonist has to email me and tell me they're interested in posting their cartoons. Then I'd batch upload their cartoons and get them all set up.

Are you interested or know someone who is?

> can you allow cartoonists to sell under more permissive licenses like CC-BY?

Hmm that's a good question. I haven't thought about allowing artists to set their license options, but now I will think about it.
To make parsing easier? By the same logic why differentiate between numbers, strings, and booleans?
He was a VC previously. VC generally has a very strange concept of entrepreneurship that seems to boil down to VC being some kind of gate keeper over who they allow to be successful by throwing money at them. It's also why most VC companies are terrible at both advice and actually making money for their investors.

The good VCs realize that they're just a minor part in helping an already successful business expand rapidly. These are the kinds of VCs who end up funding companies like WhatsApp.
Somewhere along the line, I failed to realize that some people still use the hyphen in eMail.
They wrote a custom parser that works in all browsers -- it doesn't use eval. JSON5 is a subset of ES5, not a subset of JavaScript that runs in all browsers. Notice that it also allows reserved words as keys -- an ES5 feature that doesn't work even in IE8.
Advertising shows you things you might want to buy. It's useful. if you have money to buy such things.

Who wouldn't want to see adverts for cool gadgets, toys, houses, suits, holidays, etc?
Tips and tricks for navigating large codebases
This is what worries me. I absolutely do not want the government involved in, of all things, classifying the genre of a video game.

Sure we all know the type of game this is targeted at. The time-sink freemium farmville clone that makes it just a little too easy to buy those gems/coins/cash/whatever that makes the timer tick down faster.

What if the IAP in my game is just to remove ads? What if it's solely cosmetic?

Governments do not have the best track record when it comes to comprehension of nuance and basic reality.

I'd like to think that a person is smart enough to tell when their OS pops up the payment dialog that they are under no obligation to click "yes".
I can vouch for this guy. He works for cigital and is a good guy. I've actually never heard him say anything negative about Cigital either.
Thanks for the kind words and all the references. Looking at cagle.com is a great idea -- it's very similar to what I have in mind, just with political cartoons.

It's certainly interesting to see how other artists are monetizing their creative work... Especially how different types of artists do it (graphic novelists, political cartoonists, single panel cartoonists, strip cartoonists, etc.).
I read this and had a mix of emotions.

First I kind of felt sorry for the guy, then I quickly realized there are much worse perdicaments to be in.

I was living in Louisiana as a college dropout who had sold one company and (fairly easily) making about 200k/year between one full time job and some side work.

In Louisiana that is good money, like REALLY good money, I could've easily lived for a very long time and saved a lot on that, my mortgage there is only about 1k month with all the utilities paid too.

But several months ago, I quit my job, stopped consulting and moved across the country to CA to work on my next startup.

after about 5 months I started to get very nervous, my accounts were seemingly dwindling and reveue still seemed a ways off for the startup.

So naturally we started looking for funding only coming to realize noone wants to fund a startup simply because they need the money.

Then I realized something far more important.

I have skills. I consistently made very good money before. I was capable of this again. I put a few feelers out and quickly got to help build out an awesome new product for a really great guy with deep connections.

Fast forward a few months and our little startup now has strong revenues, things are looking up on several fronts and that little consulting gig I took let me earn several thousand dollars, pay off bills and build a great relationship with someone who is sure to be a very successful first time entrepreneur (he's already had a successful career in finance).

All that to say if this guy was making 200k/year before chances are he has a good skill or set of skills and he should be looking to that to dig him out of this hole not to investors for funding for what sounds like a failing endeavor.

Most people aren't as fortunate as I was or as it sounds like this guy is. Many people in a similar situation to mine would not have had the skillset or network to pull of what I was able to and they would have likely had to get a regular job somewhere or move in with friends etc. When you have a skillset that allows you to generate large amounts of income your life just is not that hard.

Sorry for the rant, but someone should tell this guy to get over himself just a bit. Whether he believes it or not, he's a pretty lucky guy
Good Ol Hacker News, regurgitating something from 2 years ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4031699

That said, Aseem is very sharp. Nice to see this come up for discussion again.
If anyone in the private sector used the type of accounting that the government uses for loans, people would be lead away in handcuffs. Here's the somewhat understated footnote in the CBO report that underlies that news article.

"CBO’s calculations of subsidy costs for student loans follow the procedures specified in the Federal Credit Reform Act of 1990 (FCRA). Under FCRA, the discounted present value of expected income from federal student loans made during the 2014–2024 period is projected to exceed the discounted present value of the government’s costs. (Present value is a single number that expresses a flow of current and future income or payments in terms of an equivalent lump sum received or paid today; the present value depends on the rate of interest—known as the discount rate—that is used to translate future cash flows into current dollars.) Credit programs that produce net income rather than net outlays are said to have “negative subsidy rates,” which result in negative outlays. The original subsidy calculation for a set of loans or loan guarantees may be increased or decreased by a “credit subsidy reestimate” in subsequent years, on the basis of updated valuations of the present-value costs of the cash flows associated with the outstanding loans and loan guarantees.

FCRA accounting, however, does not consider some costs borne by the government. In particular, it omits the risk taxpayers face because federal receipts from interest and principal payments on student loans tend to be low when economic and financial conditions are poor and resources therefore are more valuable.

Fair-value accounting methods account for such risk and, as a result, the program’s savings are less (or its costs are greater) under fair-value accounting than they are under FCRA’s rules."

On page 63 of: http://www.cbo.gov/sites/default/files/cbofiles/attachments/...

See also:
http://www.cbo.gov/sites/default/files/cbofiles/attachments/... (Fair Value Accounting for for Federal Credit Programs)
and
http://www.cbo.gov/sites/default/files/cbofiles/attachments/... (Fair-Value Estimates of the Cost of Federal Credit Programs in 2013)
I'd take a hunch and say it's not Cloudflare, but rather cloudflare having link issues back to HN. Given that all the HN traffic likely proxies through Cloudflare, you're seeing a custom down page when Cloudflare can't complete the request.
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Oh. Okay. Sorry.
Ukraine places forces on combat alert and threatens war
Startup opportunity: Secretary, a service that reads your incoming e-mail and holds unimportant e-mail to release it to your inbox every 3 months...
My upvote, sir. HN needs more Simpsons' quotes.
In fact the Debian wiki has alternatives to the Raspberry Pi that are more open (although with the recent open sourcing of the videocore driver, things have improved compared to the list on the wiki):
https://wiki.debian.org/RaspberryPi
By that, do you mean people pronounce it e-mail, with a long e? Because we have words like emu, evoke, even, elongate, and others. We don't necessarily need a dash to pronounce a long e.

If that's not what you meant, carry on. ;)
It's easy to make mistakes, especially when the compiler/interpreter gives no assistance/warnings.
Anybody else prefer 'non-zero' to 'nonzero'?
Hey now... When we started using JSON as our file format for scene metadata at Disney Animation these were exactly the features people wanted.

Hand-hackability and simplicity is why we use JSON. These changes definitely make things better for humans.
That is not at all what drove what happened in 2007-2008. I suggest you read The Big Short by Michael Lewis.
So now it is me just because you seem to be a indifferent consumer with to much money?

I don't know anybody behaving like you described so I can't be an outlier. At least not where I live.

Too bad you decided against continuing the discussion based on the reasons I presented but I guess this is what keeps the show running. Good luck with that.
As someone who writes a large amount of node/js, this would definitely make my life easier for when I have to write out a package.json, some other sort of json config, or test data (which happens a lot). All of the proposed changes would take away annoyances that I experience being a human that has to occasionally write JSON by hand.

As a side note, negativity for the sake of being negative does not help the conversation at all. Please take that kind of attitude somewhere else.
It's not really a review of the book; it's a display of disapproval of America's recent foreign policy.

Basically some guy used the dubious "platform" of an Amazon book review to announce that he doesn't like the way the US government acts.
Yeah, but running it in a Virtualbox is not quite the same and I don’t think IT would let me install it directly on the HDD (even though all the workstations run Ubuntu).
"Chris Rong did everything right."

LOL
http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-comput...

Full lecture series based on the first edition of SICP. I viewed and read after nearly 10 years programming in more mainstream languages (self-taught), and honestly think that 10 years was partly wasted because I didn't learn Scheme earlier.
> among the Lisps, though tellingly not the case with Scheme, the association list was already in place

An association list is just a list which elements are conses. I'm fairly certain that cons, car and cdr were part of Scheme since the beginning and they are all you need to build assoc and friends. Scheme lacked a proper hashtable datatype though, which was present in some other Lisps.
"Profiteering has now become the number one profession of the developed world, and anything that does not generate short term profit is seen as wasteful."

That is very evidently wrong. Almost all major inventions around us are a result of at least some long term research.

Also, I don't see why anyone including the scientific community should feel entitled to any funding for long term research if no one sees any value in them.

Rest all sounds Obama like empty rhetoric to me.
there's plenty of solutions which apply to bitcoin as well.
Don't understand? If the constant is on the left, then forgetting one of the equals signs will always be an error.
"Of course, ``email'' has been a familiar word in France, Germany, and the Netherlands much longer than in England --- but for an entirely different reason." - what he is on about there?
What's your alternative? We always hear this type of complaint from people who take issue with sending masses to college that a information economy requires, but it seems like they never explain their alternative vision for society.
This could happen when the page changes admins, i.e the page gets sold to somebody on a trading forum / SEO forum, like blackhatworld. Some FB pages are very valuable, similar to the story of @N on twitter.

When a page changes hands/admins, there could be some political agenda pushed, or even a religious agenda. It could be another "best vines" page, who knows?

When this happens, the page jumps to the top of a person's likes, so as to notify the person of the new page contents.
Usually the page is left with no trace of previous posts. (All posts are wiped, but the likes remain)

Of course, now you're going to tell me you don't like any pages, and liked pages are conjured up from Facebook itself, which is highly unlikely, unless they are doing A/B testing on you, and you are simply a guinea pig, but again, unlikely.

This is deceptive on Facebook's part, because ... Facebook

It's nothing to worry about though. Simply unlike, and soldier on through your day.
D. E. Knuth would not agree: "(Encrypted messages that I get from "gmail.com" are also gibberish and unreadable without great pain.) Send PLAIN ASCII TEXT ONLY."

http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~uno/taocp.html
Ask HN: Traveling for 3 months, what do i do with mail?
I am leaving the country for 3 months. I would love to receive a scanned copy of my mail by email so I don't miss anything while travelling.

I found http://blog.outboxmail.com/ but it is only in san fran. I live in Virginia.

Any suggestions?
>dismissing his expertise as simple "flattery"

>Kissinger has a track record of being quite successful

Luttwak's view is precisely that Kissinger engages in flattery to expand his own personal influence.