skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most of the millions of people who are grinding their lives away on really hard work, like hard physical labor, are really not making any significant amount of money.

Only some of us are lucky enough to be in a spot where we get good return on their work.

On the other hand, it isn't really hard to find people who ended up with a fortune or a cushy spot because they won the birth lottery or had connections.

Undeniable observations like these are what weaken the correlation of hard work with money, if we can be honest about it for just a minute or two.

Similar observations show that showing up early and staying late do not necessarily lead to a lot more things being accomplished.
I absolutely cringe every time someone pulls out the "freedom from government suppression" card. Its amazing how quick people are to put the principle of freedom of speech into a box when it suits their agenda. Absolutely shameful. Freedom of speech is an idea that permeates the very core of our society. That people now want to constrain it to simply government suppression is a sad commentary of our culture.

Just about every aspect of our lives are ruled by corporations, and definitely every avenue of communication. I absolutely refuse to accept that corporations can control what is acceptable for me to say. This is exactly the road you guys are going down when you make statements like this.
Start here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween_Documents

Continue here if you feel extraordinarily ambitious: http://www.groklaw.net/staticpages/index.php?page=2007021720... (Comes vs. Microsoft)
I think that Microsoft is doing a really smart move. Xamarin is towards being the main framework for cross platform mobile development and Microsoft is positioning itself very well there.
Suggesting to focus on a different market is a discouragement now?

You are on HN last time I checked.
Cool, thanks, that was really insightful. One counterpoint about this statement:

> You'd value based on her revenue, as profits are not constrained by variable costs, but by fixed costs which can be reduced if needed.

If we assume that acqui-hires are indeed a model in today's M&A, then doesn't this negate the idea that these fixed costs are fungible (i.e. people) and therefore cost reduction is not possible? Also, I keep hearing this notion that cost of sale goes down in SaaS. This might be true in early to mid stage SaaS, but at mass scale, I haven't seen this to be true.
Yeah, ClickOnce should go down as one of the bigger dead-end embarrassments, since they torpedo'd installer projects in VS2012.
You are right, this is McCarthyism. I didn't find the right word at the time.
So? What if my religion said mangos shouldn't be cut before being eaten? Obviously that shouldn't apply to everyone else, that's my religion.

So at that point he's a bigot justifying it with his religion which still means he's a bigot.
Good question. That's the intention, and also what ended up happening this afternoon. But there's a countervailing factor: when the discussion is so toxic as to be beyond the reach of pinpoint "Please don't be a jerk on Hacker News" nudges by the moderator. [1]

Empirically, the HN community has proven to be incapable of discussing certain subjects without immediately turning noxious. Once that happens, it's more than just a technical question of how best to consolidate the threads. The values of the site—intellectual substance and personal civility—are being grossly violated. If we allow that, how can we claim they're the values of the site? And if they're not the values of the site, who on earth would want to stay here?

That is the harder problem. We don't know yet what the long term solution will be, but we're going to keep experimenting until we find one.

[1] As you may have noticed, I've been making a lot of those this week--but they don't work on threads that have completely lost it.
Yeah, I've been afraid to speak on it for quite some time, but I will now: I think that 'homosexual marriage' is a phrase which makes as much sense as the phrase 'green-tasting.'

FWIW, I supported the unsuccessful civil-union law in my state. I think anyone who wants to form a household and get the economic & regulatory benefits hitherto attached to marriage (insurance, hospital visits &c.) should be permitted to, regardless of sexual activity or indeed its absence (why shouldn't a fraternity, or a few friends, be able to form a civil union in order to get those same benefits?). I don't believe I hold any animus against homosexual folks.

But marriage is just not about sexual attraction, and the idea that it is, is rapidly destroying marriage.
Whatever your beliefs, I'm not sure how this saga fosters either inclusiveness or diversity, and I'm afraid the word community has lost all meaning.
Hopefully some kind of open source tooling that is capable of replacing or competing with Resharper.
Weakerer is not yet a word.
This data is worthless because it shows nothing about the distribution of founder success. It gives no indication of expected value.

Better data would provide the average success of funded companies by the age of the founders. This would tell us whether or not younger or older founders are being under-funded.

The expected value of older founders could easily be higher if they have a lower variance but greater average success. Or it could be that younger founders are severely under-funded because the top-heaviness of the winners vastly outweighs the higher number of failures.

Who knows? The data in the article tells us nothing but how old people happen to be in this community.
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I lived roughly this lifestyle for 7 years and thoroughly enjoyed it. Internet is cheap, so I wouldn't suggest anyone give that up, but if you're not especially materially focused, I would highly recommend such a lifestyle. [0]

However, I want to point out that essentially all agriculture in 1930 was what is now labeled as organic. So if 1930 is your goalpost, I don't agree with having it on your list. [1]

[0] http://www.ic.org
[1] I'm unconvinced that organic ag has any health benefit, but a fair extraction price is generally not applied to what often amounts to mining topsoil
This sort of muckraking has gone on for a very long time. It is basically an institution at this point. It has the function of keeping the powerful from attempting to speak down upon the week.

It should be a lesson for anyone who speaks out against minorities, the poor, and any other disadvantaged peoples.

The published disdain for authority is one of the cornerstones of American democracy.

There are public and social responsibilities that come with the type of money, power and prestige that success in business and industry offers.

Those who don't agree will soon feel the might of the pen and the full implications of the freedoms that allow us to openly communicate and conduct business.

While I respect Mr. Eich and his right to his own personal opinions, he can't expect to attain such publicly visible positions of authority without having his underwear hung out to dry.

Our industry could also learn a thing or two about populism. It should learn to embrace it. Young, hot-shots should learn a modicum of decency. Those with their eyes set on great accomplishments should learn the value of respecting those that don't value the same things.

In addition, savvy entrepreneurs can use populism to their advantage with great success. It doesn't have to be a hinderance. We're a social creature. It makes complete sense that figureheads have the ability to help or hurt the perceptions of potential customers.

Venture capitalism, as expressed in Silicon Valley, has been rather short-sighted and irresponsible as of late. It is not only condoning but also promoting an attitude of arrogance. I blame any member of an older generation that lacks the leadership and guidance that should be an integral part of the types of social change that come about when many millions of dollars are in play. There is a lot of visible excess in our industry right now. I sure as hell can't put too much blame on a bunch of kids who just left the nest.

Unfortunately for Mr. Eich his reputation is of further interest to journalists who have been successfully crafting the narrative of a dark side to an entire industry.

If our industry doesn't like the unfair side effects of having a disreputable image it should work to change the narrative instead of demonizing and adding fuel the flames of popular discontent.

Right now the story is about private shuttle busses, evictions, sexism, ageism, and yes, homophobic CEOs, along with a slew of other forms of imbalances in perceived difference.

What are we going to do about it?
Was it not an option to make a public statement to back down on the stance? I can't help but feel this is entirely unpragmatic.
As a "professional advertiser" myself with a deep background in search this is spot on.

Also, people don't poke around enough in the help files or in the settings for their targeting to see that there are easy ways to avoid this from the start.

For example, Site Category Exclusions would be a good start, although the specific negatives they mention are good to note as well since I'm not sure the category exclusions will catch everything.
Allowing users to set which of any possible 2^N subsets of these N types of permission would cause a lot of developer complication and errors, and people complaining about buggy apps, making the android platform "seem" buggy all the time.

Your analysis is off.
So, I just read through all of the other comments and see that I was the only person who didn't comment on Eich's ouster.

I think I understand now why you asked if my account was hijacked.
It's fine that you think that, but it is at odds with the way this has been done in most other civil rights movements.
Oh my. That is a healthy sized list. Thanks!
> I think the issue that causes a lot of this emotion around money is the fact that we as a society like to think that the harder you work, the more money you make.
It's obviously not a true statement at all.

Well, for most people, if they don't work, they won't get much money. If they work hard, they will get more. That's still very true even today. That's why there are people who take 2 jobs to better sustain their families, for example.

Of course, if you have academic qualifications, you don't need to work very hard to get money. But then you have supposedly worked hard at some point of your life to get these qualifications in the first place. There was an investment of time and hard work in the first place.

Becoming millionaire by making games is just like making money doing music. It's random and most people will struggle all their lives to actually make a living out of it, while a few lucky ones will be extremely successful (short term at least, long term no one knows).
I mean it's based on Mach and FreeBSD both of which are open source.
Even so, he's not exactly in the extremist minority that many here are implying.
I have a hard time when segregation gets labeled as a "political view".

Segregation is a lot more than a political issue, but also a human rights issue. That $1000 actively helped pass a bill that prevented consenting adult couples who wished to spend their lives together from having the same legal rights as everyone else. His donation in this case was more than having a political view, but actually helped to promote segregation.

Why would I want someone who has tried to take away my rights as the CEO of a company that I care about? If it was just his "view", this would not be the issue that it has been.
So today I learned the CEO is much more people-oriented role because everybody knows "technical" people aren't really people.

He voted for prop 8 which means he doesn't want people to have the same rights (which before that everybody had (of course!!!)), so it goes like this: Heaven on Earth --> prop 8 --> gay holocaust --> Brendan must go.

It makes perfect sense sir.
The primary gas in the atmosphere is nitrogen, N2 with a molecular weight of 28. The second most prevalent gas is oxygen, 02 with atomic weight 32.

Carbon monoxide, CO at 28 is the same molecular weight as Nitrogen and therefore it diffuses similarly. This is part of what makes it so serious a hazard.
Neither was I.
@Rinon: His views amount to bigotry, so not changing them merely amounts to unrepentant bigotry. Did you have great respect for those who fought on for Jim Crow laws, or who today use voter intimidation to express their lack of compromise? I would rather his views changed, because they are harmful and indicate a deep prejudice, or that he suffer the consequences of publicly taking a position against awarding a group civil rights.
I was a LONGTIME Digger before that though had even occurred to me. The crazy folks who shout at you on the bus aren't exactly going to be eloquent when they sit down to type are they ;)
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I'm ignoring your partisan labelling/strawman/etc.

On the second point, that's why employers aren’t allowed to ask those questions (nor use them in their evaluation of employees). Those are the protection laws I mentioned above. Which don't protect executive members, as they run the company. Hence employees shouldn't, and can't, be fired for their political opinions (unless that's somehow part of their job).

Proportional response? Sure. Here is a guy who paid money to make it so people can't see their significant others when they are dying, so that they don't have the recognition of the government as being married, to institutionalize oppression, and the untold misery which comes with it. He didn't apologize, he still holds the same views now. Yes, people should lobby a company, any company, to remove someone who would inflict such misery on his fellows. Yes, people should lobby a company like mozilla which says its an avid supporter of freedom to remove someone who would not support equal freedoms for every single person. These companies are corporate citizens, and their opinions are shaped by their executive board, and we can tell them we won't do business with them because of their opinions.

Edit: If you read the above, the response to the question should be obvious. Is it a board member? Then sure, good luck with that though, considering they would loose business if they followed the complaints, but not loose any if they ignored them (yea hospitals don't really care about customer retention). If it's an employee, and that employee didn't do anything wrong (like say, perform an abortion when not asked to; or badger someone with their political view) then no.
This article also talks about some of the unexpected emotional complications of extreme (relative) wealth:

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/print/2011/04/secret-fea...
I agree with you. I recently read on reddit a report by someone who was fired by his conservative company because he had an Obama decal on his car and found that incredibly crazy and toxic. This is now from the other side.
That's your opinion, and that's fine. The problem starts when people start rallying active boycott on a person because his opinion is different. It's particularly delicate when it's a prop campaing donation (a prop that passed in California, by the way, so maybe it's not just a bunch of wackos).
This is a surprisingly well-engineered and effective display, given the price point once injection molds are made. I've had the opportunity to try it out in person, and would love to tinker with one myself.

If you're at all curious or hacking-inclined, I strongly recommend backing this as it's one of the cheapest introductions to augmented reality you're ever likely to find!
Although I'm not making much money myself, I can very well understand this guy's sentiment. As Eric Raymond pointed out, in a hacker community, good fame is sometimes more valued than money. But even fame can be sometimes too much.
Be careful not to get sued like that guy who posted an article about detecting songs and got sued by Shazam, even though everybody knows about FFT (I've been doing something like that for my BSc)
Like this?

https://github.com/dropbox/pyston#compilation-tiers
Consider the following statements:

A) We live in a meritocracy

B) Meritocracies are fair

Most people accept that A is false. We all know a fucktard that managed to get rich by being manipulative and destroying value. The problem is that people then fail to realize that B is also false.

Meritocracies are not fair. Allocating wealth to the people that provide a large amount of entertainment, seems fair, but it is not fair in a broad sense of the word. Meritocracies reward those with good health, good luck, good parents who are encouraging, and the lucky gamete club who have high intelligence or exceptional physical skills.

Meritocracies are like democracy: "the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried."

Working hard on a startup doesn't really earn you anything. The best you can hope for is that hard work increases your luck surface area. Keep in mind, that there are people that came from better sperm and eggs who will work just as hard but have a much higher chance of success.
It helps by removing a bigot from a position of great power, showing others that bigotry will not be quietly tolerated, even (perhaps especially) in men and women of great talent and wealth.
Success in startups require 2 ingredients: 1) hard work and 2) luck. Hard work alone is not enough.

Looks like imgur's "lucky moment" was Reddit admins allowing it despite it being "spam".
Anothing thing he mentioned which I think is really important here is that a business (at least his own) cannot make a donation, that's an unnecessary business expense. It seems important to understanding his view - he wants to pay more for an even better service but literally cannot do so legally.
> On the other hand you have what I'd call the "bondage and discipline" languages like python and java.

I can't believe you just compared python to java for B&D. Which language forces you to catch ever exception raised?
If an organization claims its legitimacy based on an unbroken line of continuity, and also claims certain fundamental values, then violations of those values at some point in the past should be seen as a break in continuity and a loss of the organization's legitimacy.
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Just out of interest, why do you think GitHub's target audience are developers who don't want to truly understand git?
Someone pulls into a gas station that says gas is 3.99 a gallon and expects to pay 3.99 a gallon to fill up his car.

Should the price increase to 4.00 as soon as he stops in front of the pump to 'reflect the new demand'?
> Your history is just as flawed as your understanding of work, value and progress (in other words, you've been brainwashed). "Hard work" has always been a domain reserved exclusively for the slaves.

Haha, to wake up and see that is really entertaining. You're a guy who has made money in IT and you think everyone can live the same way as you. You don't realize you are living in a small bubble that does not apply to 99.9% of all other workers out there. You don't realize there is a whole working class below you who's working to make sure stuff gets cleaned, garbage gets collected, meals get cooked, tables are waited and so on ?

> The correct answer, of course, is: machines.

Amusing, again. There's just so much machines can do, and there are still many jobs where it's completely irrealistic to replace people by machines (mostly because the investment is not worth it). If you think otherwise, I'd recommend you go out and visit actual industries making stuff, not just IT related ones, and try to understand why most of them still employ people no matter how many machines they have.
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Can be useful if you save serialized data from PHP.
I think you have to define "they" here when you say "they understand the value of open source."

There are a lot of people at Microsoft who really do understand the value of open source. When I worked there ten years ago, there were plenty who did. When I wrote interop papers as an outside consultant in 2007, I worked with a unit that did.

But Microsoft also has a bunch of real problems that make it hard for them to realize this value, and so their options in going into it are somewhat limited. They can't pivot and become a services company because their whole Microsoft Partner network would be turned upside down. So they enter services in some key areas where their partners can't. It's a very delicate process, and it means for many on the administration side, the value of open source software for Microsoft is not as high as it would be for some other firms.

Nonetheless this is huge. Open sourcing the VB.net/C# compiler effectively means the possibility of an Linux port, which means that .net has the possibility to become write once, run anywhere even if the whole class libraries are not open sourced yet. This is a gamble for Microsoft because it reduces the barriers to moving from Windows to other platforms (Linux, OSX, BSD, etc).
Hey Mike! Not to blatantly self-promote on HN, but my startup Foodio (http://getfoodio.com) is based around the ideas that GrubHub's fees are insane; restaurants can't wait for their money for a week; and online ordering should promote the restaurant's brand, not a middleman. We charge $295 to build custom online & mobile ordering, and then it's just 5% of sales.

We're a small startup out of Charlottesville, VA, but we'd love to help out your mother if we can! Hit me up at rory at getfoodio dot com if you're interested.
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While the two can be correlated, they aren't always.

Sometimes you just happen to catch lightning in a bottle and create a fart app before everyone else does and make a ton of money without doing much work at all. And sometimes you work 80 hour weeks for a few years and your company crashes and burns anyway.
The definition you link to is unusual in my experience of the term in that it equates functional unit with business unit. By your definition I agree.

I have generally seen definitions of functional units being responsible for a function, without reference to profit or loss. Business units generally refer to a notionally divisible unit from which income, expenses, and thus profits can be measured. By this definition, Apple has only one business unit, the entire enterprise.

Again, this doesn't detract from your point, it amplifies it! Apple really would never preserve a purchased business and leave it independent. It doesn't even have business units, the structure that might, if you're naive, allow for such a thing!

An interesting discussion of Apple's functional structure:

http://stratechery.com/2013/the-uncanny-valley-of-a-function...
Which specifically policy of Mozilla has any relation to gay marriage in California?
Or something to do with Twitter's iPhone integration having an issue, allowing someone to create credentials on your behalf.
@SolorNet Let me rephrase, would you be ok if the Catholic Church used its members to lobby for a person to be fired for their stance on abortion?
Curious, why the downvote?
It's probably not worthless. It just depends what question you're interested in answering.

Expected value is a good one, but personally I was just interested in knowing the ages of all the founders.

It's absolutely worthless for an investor who's trying to predict success, though. And since founders are investors of their own time, it's worthless to help you decide whether you should start a company.
"Merely" - no; your comment was nothing less than a straw man argument. I didn't say "Constitutional" anywhere, nor did I imply it. I stated unequivocally that it goes against the values of freedom the US was founded on.

The DoI does not say "everyone deserves a puppy". Give me a break and please take your straw man argument elsewhere.
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