skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm in the UK. We use sugar, not HFSC.

We also have obesity over here. Drinking 42 oz drinks is going to cause problems whether they're using HFCS or regular sugar.
I wonder: what does the average number of nightly bookings look like for both Hyatt and AirBnB?
How many of YC startups are profitable in their first five year?
Different person from GP.

He could try this: http://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2013/03/26/gervais-macle...
Perhaps more specifically, in a liquidation the IOU-holder is a creditor in line behind others (but ahead of common stock-holder)
Professor: 'Game of Thrones' pic got me suspended
Startup … I think we need to talk
- https://www.youtube.com/user/Vsauce

- https://www.youtube.com/user/CGPGrey

- https://www.youtube.com/user/1veritasium

- https://www.youtube.com/user/Computerphile

- https://www.youtube.com/user/minuteearth

- https://www.youtube.com/user/minutephysics

- https://www.youtube.com/user/numberphile

- https://www.youtube.com/user/briantwill

- https://www.youtube.com/user/Vsauce2

- https://www.youtube.com/user/NextDayVideo

- https://www.youtube.com/user/MarakanaTechTV

- https://www.youtube.com/user/sixtysymbols

- https://www.youtube.com/user/enyay
We already have them, it is just web devs tend to blindly ignore them.
These 80 Android Devices could be vulnerable to the Heartbleed bug
Interesting that it's not just eccentric, but that it also has a guard on the blade itself, to prevent it going too far into the wood.
If you can ever get one.
HMRC to sell taxpayers' financial data
Honestly, it's a myth that being an entrepreneur is the exclusive domain of the young. People in their sixties have successfully founded companies. Never let anyone tell you you're too old.

Having children, on the other hand... it would be great if the same were true there, but unfortunately biology dictates otherwise; this really might be your last chance for that. Besides it seems like this is also the time when your wife needs a break from the office grind. Maybe she'd feel like getting back to that in later years when children are grown up.

So to be honest, it sounds to me like she's right, this is the best time to have children, and think about the startup game at a later date.
Well, you know, you're working in the kitchen and I'm waiting tables. Last night's tips were $100 and I have a perfectly fair system for dividing them. I get $50, here's $40 for you, and I'll give $10 to the busboy. Or maybe it's $80 for me, $20 for you, and screw the busboy. It doesn't really matter as long as everyone agrees and it makes sense. But my system is really fair, you know.
hi, this is bernd from crate ... first - we are overwhelmed here at crate that we are mentioned at hacker news! by reading through the comments on this page, i thought it would make sense to give you some background, which should at least partly answer some questions mentioned here.

- we come from the service business and discovered that nearly every database design for applications which needed to scale somewhere reached a point where data needed to be de-normalized because joins where simply too expensive in terms of cost and latency when data does not fit on a single affordable machine. therefore we do not have join support yet. however we already planned to allow joins in the future which still makes sense for smaller datasets of course, but it is currently not a top priority, since many join use-cases could also be implemented by using nested objects which we support.

- we have chosen SQL as a query language, since this allows us to re-use existing ORMs and tools. but most of all SQL is still a great language to define queries, so we thought "why re-invent the wheel and crate yet another query syntax"

- regarding sharding: we use a hash/modulo based sharding mechanisms - actually the same as elasticsearch, since we use elasticsearch under the hood for cluster state, sharding and replication. we also added partitioned table support in our current development branch.

there are still a lot of features on our roadmap; and apparently also a lot of things we need to document and explain in our documentation. so if you are interested in our progress you might keep an eye on our github project page https://github.com/crate/crate

thx, bernd
Brendan Eich is a homophobe and whoever links to his videos are complicit in his bigotry.

All his opinions should be discarded.
MorpHex, a hexapod robot
Update from Elon [1]:

"Last known state for rocket boost stage is 360 m/s, Mach 1.1, 8.5 km altitude and roll rate close to zero (v important!)"

So it appears it may be a failure, we'll find out soon what went wrong this time. More from Elon regarding what success would be, telemetry wise:

"Rocket boost stage reaching 0 m/s in one piece :) Will know soon. Odds not high." [1]

Regardless, they've demonstrated that the landing-leg module can survive the stresses of liftoff and fully powered flight, particularly at Max Q. This is quite an achievement, and vital for future tests.

1. https://twitter.com/elonmusk/with_replies
One in three Android apps on non-Google stores are malicious, study finds
secondary?
Raise Now: VC Funding For Startups At Highest Point In More Than A Decade
In that case odds are the startup doesn't have sufficient funds to pay for the talent it (thinks it) needs. I'd argue that this means the startup is: a) mistaken about its needs; b) poorly run; or c) a bad idea (e.g. the price the target market is willing to pay is insufficient to support even the optimally efficient startup's costs to provide service).
I am now imagining wardriving to a nuclear power plant parking lot in order to score free wifi off their NetGear.
"Minimum Expected Threshold of Due Diligence Fee"
That's pretty unfair of you. Link-baity titles are par for the course for internet news sites. And the reported study is legit even if you don't like its findings.
Do you then have a flat compensation that's known to everybody in the company?
I haven't seen an etiquette guide for HN anywhere, but if we can't downvote the promotion of bad science journalism, what can we downvote?
Too bad the SSL VPN concentrator from this article didn't apply a HMAC key that an attacker would have needed to know before he'd even been able to initiate a TLS handshake to probe the Heartbleed vulnerability.

You can do this with OpenVPN using the --tls-auth option. See: https://community.openvpn.net/openvpn/wiki/Hardening
This would be wittier if dividing tips was anything at all like allocating equity; in reality, the only thing the two problems share is arithmetic operators.
If you're in Sweden I hope you follow the Swedish version of hacker news on youtube, Hackernytt TV: http://youtube.com/user/HackerNyttTV
> Knotted wood is much more challenging to split.

Isn't that true for a traditional axe as well? Splitting is the dark is harder as well as splitting in the rain.
Not to mention that they send out an email with their recent price cuts, but this is only shown in app. Seems like they are trying to slip it by.
I agree that it's never too late to be an entrepreneur. I disagree though that the best time to have kids is when your spouse is already feeling overwhelmed, as the author states to be.
WOTC's share distribution was interesting in the sense that it was terrible for the founder.

What did work out well was Garfield's equity share, etc.
I would count lengths and offsets with respect to characters (codepoints). Note that for fixed-length encodings such as "raw", "ascii", or "latin-1", this always means bytes.
Share a juicer, your dog or a room? How the sharing economy took off
Now I work at a large tech company in SV and wont be involved in another startup unless I'm a founder.

You're making the right call. I'm probably older than you and I've done two startups. My career hasn't recovered from the lost time. Total waste.

Most startups (by startup, I mean "company focused on such rapid growth that VC investment is mandatory") are pure shit. They fuck up your finances, drain your emotional reserve, and (unless you're a founder) often spit you into junior roles that you won't be able to stand after a taste of real autonomy.

If you don't learn much, then you've wasted time. If you do learn a lot (which you can, with a good run as de facto CTO) then you still end up in a junior role, due to your lack of credibility on-paper, for which you're massively overqualified. That's the worst outcome, because you're better off actually being junior if you're in a junior role; overperformance is far more dangerous (in large companies) than underperformance.
I'm a full stack dev that's built out distributed systems and has filled in for the role of "resident DBA" while still doing backend and frontend dev.

Now I'm learning biomedical NLP.

So what do we call me? Stuffed-full-stack dev?

There's more to life than knowing Rails and Coffeescript.
Generally you can only recognize revenue when you are at risk for it. If you are not taking a risk by holding inventory (or guaranteeing a price before selling a service) then you are an agent, not a principal. You can only recognize the revenue that you are at risk for, the rest is "pass-through." This is addressed in the FASB ASC 605-45 (https://thegaappost.com/sec/605-revenue/605-45-principal-age...).

An example:
1) An advertising agency buys media for a client to place ads in, but their contract with the media company says they will only pay for the media if they are paid by their client. In this case they can only recognize their commissions and fees as revenue, not the cost of the media itself.
2) An ad network buys media for a client but has to pay the media company for it whether or not the advertiser pays them. They can generally recognize the cost of the media as revenue, along with their commissions and fees.

AirBnb does not take risk on the portion of the customers' payments that go to the host: if AirBnb is not paid then the host is not paid, so this part of the payment is not recognized as revenue.
Record Labels Sue Pandora Over Pre-1972 Recordings
And didn't Inmarsat get the AAIB to independently verify their findings before going public?
Posical, the Positivist Calendar for Python
From the intro:

"Not everyone wants to attend shop class. Most people only want to drive the car, not know how to build one from scratch. Obviously any general computing curriculum has to take this into account else it won't be relevant to its students. So computer science is taught from the "top down"; applications, high level programming, software design and development theory, possibly data structures. Students will probably be exposed to binary, hopefully binary logic, possibly even some low level concepts such as registers, opcodes and the like at a superficial level.

This book aims to move in completely the opposite direction, working from operating systems fundamentals through to how those applications are complied and executed."
In other words, if scumbags control the company, scumbags control the company. Fortunately, most people aren't scumbags.

Most people aren't, perhaps. Most people who have the connections to be VC-funded startup founders are scumbags.
But one of them actually makes something. For Tesla the issue isn't what they are selling, but how. For AirBnB and Uber, the issue is what (and even for Uber, that's really only an issue for UberX).
Why Apple Didn't Try to Copy Google Glass
what kind of review process do these app stores have? i'm guessing the Amazon store has some form of review, but how many of these others have anything in place? this also sorta looks like a publicity piece for MetaScan...
Cathode, Vintage Terminal Emulator
Does researching casual marijuana use cause brain abnormalities?
To add to that, I don't think that having children precludes entrepreneurship or taking risks. There are plenty of counter-examples.

While kids are indeed an added financial responsibility (though when they're young, they don't require much), they can also help turn you into a more disciplined worker who makes more efficient use of the free time that they do have.

I recommend listening to the Bootstrapped with Kids podcast [0] for a window into this world.

[0] http://www.bootstrappedwithkids.com/
Compared to Australia, New Zealand has a significant Maori / Polynesian population. If you combine a part of Australia with a part of Fiji, you would get similar mix of people and also a similar economic output to New Zealand. While this obviously doesn't explain all of it, it is important to consider the historical and demographics reasons as well.
And that's why options are (mostly) a scam. If you leave before a liquidity event for any reason (they may not come, they take a long time, life circumstances, poor career growth, employers like to give shitty raises), you're stuck either investing often tens of thousands of dollars into an illiquid investment while paying taxes on it right now, or giving up your options. Sweet deal for employers either way. So when they hand out those option grants they probably get to apply a 50% discount or more to exercise.

Not to mention employers often try to avoid even telling employees what fraction of the total company their options represent, and definitely don't care to share their participation multiples. They're often very happy to let you think that in the case if a liquidation event, you get (exit amount) * (your ownership fraction) which just isn't true.

@apta: see [1] for a numerical example. You get taxed twice (or three times if someone is stupid) on typical ISOs:

1 - on grant, if the strike is less than the fmv (there are huge tax penalties for this, both for you and your employer, so it oughtn't happen)

2 - on exercise when you convert the option to a stock, on the spread between fmv and strike (but probably amt, depending on the type of option; it's mildly complicated)

3 - on sale of the stock, on the spread between the sale price and your basis

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7611512
I thought full-stack meant hardware, software, and the networking layer? If anyone's like that, interested to chat.
What are good group communication apps/sites?
Platform: web or mobile

Value props: can be any of the following

- small/closed groups (groupme, skype, what'sapp ...)

- interest-based/open groups (hackernews, reddit...)

- local groups (circle..)

What are some of the good ones to really learn from?
Just out of curiosity and to better compare your experience with the one from the article, what were the numbers in percentage?
The "if you're going to argue yourselves to death, do it now" advice seems incomplete to me. It presumes a model where a team is either going to argue itself to death or not; the outcome is predestined, and so it's better to know early. But reality as I've experienced it is that arguments degrade teams (and relationships of all sorts). A team that might have survived can be killed by inviting a pointless argument.

A team has a capacity for arguments that depletes over time as arguments exhaust the team members. Arguments happening in rapid succession set up a vicious cycle, because there's a migraine aura of bad communications surrounding any big argument, and difficult decisions that happen in that aura spark needless new arguments. Lots of arguments also carry a potential for resentment, which creates a longer-term communication problem which sometimes insidiously builds as the company runs.

The "trial arguments" theory that Quora comment suggests seems to me a little like those parents who throw "chicken pox parties". It's probably fine and maybe even pragmatic, but it's a risk.
This is speculation but wont be hiring engineers until I can pay for it. I'd take a bonus instead of equity but I would rather the employee decide.
I agree. Full stack is from a time where you had no choice but to setup the server, configure the network and then build the front end and the backend of the app.

Full-stack it seems, has become a diluted term now.
Tranzbyte's new Zazzz marijuana vending machine looks pretty sweet though! I think it has the potential for countless uses, far beyond the cannabis industry.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2014/04/14/pot-vending-ma...
Sure, but none of that has much to do with computer science. This should more accurately be called "bottom up Unix".
High Tech: On Silicon Valley's newfound interest in the weed business
"from the bottom up" and the _first_ chapter is called "General Unix and Advanced C"? This book may be useful, but I would look for another name (I wouldn't even mention computer science, but that may be because I agree with Dijkstra that that isn't science or about computers). I also think a generic computer science book shouldn't only use Linux as example OS.

Also, if chapter 1 is about _advanced_C_, why does chapter 2 have to introduce binary and hexadecimal notation? I think the book could be improved here, too; in general, the TOC feels unbalanced to me.
This launch, if it had been scrubbed, had another launch window tomorrow, just a few minutes shy of 24 hours (3:02PM EST).
Please include a broader description of Full-stack developers accurate to the term historically over the years.

Full-stack to many (more than not) means hardware, software, and the associated network setup, all in one person.

Being fluent in front/backend software only was normal, not specialized.

Edit: added detail to request
A Complete Guide to Raising Seed Capital
Are you seriously equating the laws of physics and human artefacts? That would be ludicrous. While the laws of physics are set in stone, human artefacts can be remade.

That changes everything

I'm sure you have the skills required to, say, write a preprocessor for whatever language you are using, and add some special constructs in it. Missing feature? Done in a few days. So…

If the laws of physics suck, suck it up.

If your tools suck, change them.
...or a more strategic "cut prices to lock people into our service, and then up the prices". Uber cuts the prices of UberX to attract traffic away from Lyft, Sidecar, etc, and then raises prices and relies on people not having the inertia to go back to other apps/suppliers and shop around.
You don't have to be one of the 10 first employees at Facebook to get paid: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2072204/Facebook-IPO...

As a general rule of thumb, if a company is willing to do the extremely expensive action of acquihiring, they are willing to part a pretty high amount of equity of employees. Not acquihire-high of course, but a pretty good amount.

Of course, it could be argued that they aren't "startups" by that point, but "growth companies."
For different levels of risk, it is not rational to settle for the same expected value: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Efficient_frontier
I think it is. Posting sources that are trivially debunked subtracts, rather than adds to the discussion.
While you can legally buy from Winterlife, Winterlife cannot legally sell to you. They aren't operating in a technically legal gray area, rather they are technically illegal but in practice gray (with local authorities acknowledging that they are within the spirit of legalization and not pursuing them for illegally selling.)
law suits.
I'm curious what you would recommend to the me of five years ago (this sounds like a challenge, but it really isn't — I'm genuinely interested in your take.)

I started with three other guys on day 1 of a startup. They had money to put into the startup from a previous venture. I didn't but took 50% pay cut to lengthen the runway, as it were. After 9 months the company was almost out of money. I worked for free for 3 months after which we got the product off the ground. (They paid themselves during this time from the little money the company had left.) Two years later we had a very successful exit. For the fact that I worked at 50% paycut and worked for free, I demanded equity. Had I taken an IOU I would have missed out on a significant payday. The money which I didn't take from the company was just as important as they money they put in: without either one we would never have had time to release the product.
Isn't this very similar to Apache Cassandra ? Perhaps with management-automation included.
Remember they're saving 6.75% of your costs by keeping you as a contractor instead of a W2. And they're treating you as an employee, it sounds like.

In some states that's not even legal, even if you willingly agree to it, because it's considered an abusive employee relationship and tax evasion (for instance, Massachusetts.)
Has anyone stopped to think what a massive failing of the startup part of the industry this is? Practically everything I read online indicates that if you consider your stock options to have any value at all even in a moderately successful company, you are a major sucker and about to get exploited.

Surely this must reduce the quality of the talent pool available to new startups, as the experienced developers conclude that other options are a better use of their time.
and that dollar value is exactly $0.00 -- you can't give in-the-money-options without severe tax consequences [1]

http://www.mbbp.com/resources/business/stock_option_pricing....
... you just linked to some one's pornography didn't you.
Presumably if the company is successful, the options will be exercised at some point. The company would make that assumption and expand their option pool accordingly.
I have no problem with the study [1]. However, I encourage you to search the study for any reference to 'brain damage.' I also encourge you to consider whether the mean frequency of cannabis use, 11.2 joints per week, really qualifies as 'casual' use.

[1] http://jn.sfn.org/press/April-16-2014-Issue/zns01614005529.p...
Mdoc – markdown code documentation system
I created a markdown documentation system similar to Flatdoc, but has a layout similar to Backbone.js and Three.js's API documentation. Just wanted some feedback to see if this is something people would use? :)
Iptables reroute to another IP
You're selling the US short. When I was there last year, I was passing through Gettysburg, and stopped to get something to eat. You might expect a town like Gettysburg to be really over tourists, but whilst I was trying to figure out how to make a parking meter work, the first random stranger walking past offered first to give me done change, because he thought that was the problem, and then once I had explained that I was a clueless Aussie who couldn't figure out how to make the damn thing work, showed me what I was doing wrong.

Or when I was in a small town in Virginia with a friend, we were in a shop, and discussing whether the museum there would be open the next day. The shop assistant overheard and offered to call them for us. Even people in DC were wonderfully polite and friendly! So much so that I'm heading back for another holiday in a couple of weeks time.
MAC Spoofing the pigeon way
https://www.youtube.com/user/RoosterTeeth

https://www.youtube.com/user/letsplay

I have a soft spot for RoosterTeeth, they make Red vs. Blue and hilarious Let's Plays and other geeky humor videos. It's one of those shows you can watch in the background while eating or something
http://james.newtonking.com/json/help/index.html?topic=html/...

CamelCasePropertyNamesContractResolver
This is indeed what happens if the option itself (and not just the underlying security) is actively traded. [1] However in that case, when you receive the option, you have taxable income equal to the current FMV of the option (determined by looking at the market). To do the analogous thing with startup options would (a) result in employees getting taxed even earlier and (b) require using Black-Scholes or something to estimate the value of the option, resulting in "income" that is even more divorced from reality than the current status quo.

[1] http://www.irs.gov/publications/p525/ar02.html#en_US_2013_pu...