skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you have interest in equity? If so, absolutely ask about it. It is one of many levers you can pull to make the offer fair and desirable for you. If you pursue it, make sure you understand their offer though. There are many "gotchas" with equity that can make it worthless.

You mention their offer is 12% less than your current salary, but how does it compare to industry averages in your region? If they have funding and a roadmap, they may be able to pay market salaries, or even a premium for top talent. Are you willing to take a pay cut or less than market rate to do work you love/get in on the ground floor?

Most of all, I would encourage you to negotiate whatever offer they make. Trying to negotiate never hurts, and can make a big difference. Figure out what your bottom line is, what the value you provide is, your best alternative to working for them, and then confidently ask them what they can do for you.
This is also applied to Hackathons.
Interestingly enough, this is a topic that has been studied in behavioral economics, where the described strategy is known as "satisficing" (as opposed to "maximizing"). The model assumes that when humans try to make choices, rather than trying to pick the "best" choice (the choice with the maximum benefit), they attempt to find the first choice which meets or exceeds an internally set "threshold" benefit and pick it. The relative optimality of the two strategies has not been conclusively decided on, but "satisficing" generally appears to be more in line with how humans naturally behave based on experiments. The details have been given in a paper by Caplin, Dean, Martin [1]

[1] http://www.econ.brown.edu/fac/mark_dean/Pub_Paper_6.pdf
Bookatable is about the same size.
Stock options or equity are one of the draws for working at a startup. Particularly as an early hire or taking a pay cut I would expect some equity. I'd be suspicious if the founders aren't offering a small amount of equity.
I was a participant for a month. I realized that my problem was time rather than motivation. Other than that, it is an excellent community and well worth the fee! The instructor's path and the community's expansion is a really great thing to be a part of. I almost kept paying to just watch the community grow, but felt guilt in eating up a spot.
It yields the results of each regex element separately, so it's hard to come up with a functional implementation capped results. Still, I'll look into it.
But even then, the main question is if you really want to see the head of a list of billions of combinations like you propose?
If there were any sort of treaties around space combat in the future, I think one of them would be a blanket ban on dumb kinetic weapons.

Only outlaws (terrorists, rogue states) would use machine-guns in space.
Best reason I could think of is just the sheer size of space. Say we have a fleet guarding Earth from the edge of the solar system, by edge I mean at or near the heliopause. Consider that at that distance, it takes home base, Earth, 10 hours to relay commands to warships at the edge of the solar system. If you have one "mothership" with manned crew stationed with the automated fleet though, that crew can control an automated fleet and respond to changes in real time, making the fleet better able to respond to threats.
$300 up front is a huge barrier for low income people, who don't tend to have cash reserves. Just for 5 mbps. Also: the wording of the agreement gives Google the flexibility to use the number of $70/month customers as the benchmark.
Ask HN: What do you look for in a DNS provider?
I've been becoming increasingly interested in DNS hosting, and DNS-providers.

Specifically I think that it would be interesting to provide an API to interface with DNS. I've been thinking of accepting POSTed JSON which would ultimately end up inside a git history.

Your client would make requests, these would be applied, and if you wanted you could clone the git repository to see your history.

Alternatively I could imagine git pushes triggering DNS updates.

But beyond these rough ideas I'd wonder what features others might enjoy, desire, or need?
You'll be able to see the heat bloom caused by the hot gasses escaping the enemy's ship as it accelerates and know that they're gunning for you.

At that point it's a matter of maneuvering randomly to dodge the kinetic kill munitions. Which certainly involves some luck.

I think direct kinetic weapons only work at long ranges against targets with static movement patterns - ones in regular orbits.

Spaceships can easily dodge projectiles coming from long range, as long as they're looking for trouble.

I think the better option would be some sort of missile bus that released this cluster/shotgun munition at close range in order to ensure a hit.
Time is probably the scarcest resource anyone has?
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Ahh yes, the constant magic of e. More concisely, it can be explained as thus: If you're both on e, you're guaranteed to find the right partner... straight away.
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Ruby isn't fast enough, and it would chew battery on a phone and make some apps impossible to do correctly. Ruby is a great language, it's my favourite hands down, but all that sugar comes at a cost. Even in ruby, we often use c libs to do the heavy lifting, they're just wrapped by ruby using the C extension framework.
Pardon me, but could you expand on "a less robust '2-day shipping' service"? I'm not aware of what you're talking about and would like to know, as I'm currently a Prime customer as well.
They didn't need patent law, because they had princes and armies. The also had a culture in which information couldn't travel faster than a man (usually a man...) on a horse, and patentable information could only be understood by a few hundred individuals in each country, at most.

One of the points of patent law is to distribute the rewards of invention, so individual inventors - not corporations - benefit from their creativity.

Patent protections aren't the only element in this, but they're one element, and a lot of 20th century products would never have appeared otherwise.

It's simply not historical to argue otherwise.

The 21st century works differently, but with the irony that the FOSS people claim their way is absolutely correct, and no other system is workable.

Sharing certainly works if you have a day job that pays your bills. But innovation is not invention. Patents were originally designed for creative inventors, not commercial packaging operations like [insert corporate giant here], or freeware mash-up/YetAnotherFramework projects.

In the US at least, the system has become a joke. But just because it's broken doesn't mean that inventors shouldn't be rewarded and protected somehow.
The author of this ought to read a plot summary of 2312: http://www.amazon.com/2312-Kim-Stanley-Robinson/dp/031609811...

In that book, a colony on Mercury is attacked through the use of several billion pebbles that were flung into the solar system in a calculated way such that they all converge on the colony several years later and the kinetic energy they gained going down the gravity well combined with the sheer mass is a devastating attack and totally undetectable (a single pebble would just burn up in an atmosphere or be a consideration in colony design on an atmosphere-less planet like Mercury, so why monitor it? Billions of them would form a destructive plasma cloud if aimed at Earth or simply a kinetic energy weapon against Mercury).

Further, the author discounted kinetic energy weapons too easily. A rail gun in space would not have to worry about air resistance limiting the range or impact magnitude of the rail slug, and so would be a very effective weapon in ship-to-ship combat (or more likely, railgun installations on satellites aimed at the intruding ship).

Taken together, I think space warfare wouldn't involve ships as we know it at all. It would be planets firing at each other similar to ICBMs between countries today, with drone-like mobile weapons platforms with stealth that are launched as part of commercial launches and placed via gravity slingshots (and so can be as cold as space until an activation signal is sent to it, allowing stealth tech to actually work). These would be placed near potential enemies and probably allies alike, and would be used both offensively and defensively: if an enemy makes an open attack, they would target the attack itself, if they attack, it would reduce the potential response time, though it could not be as significant in magnitude as a massive attack launched from the planetary surface.

(Warning: The book is really not a good first one to read from Kim Stanley Robinson, as it explores some of the more esoteric elements of the Mars Trilogy even further, with a focus more on how technologies of all types, especially bioengineering and artificial intelligence, would affect societal norms, and is far enough away from our current norms that it'd probably "gross out" people ill-prepared for it. Better to read the Mars Trilogy first and follow the line of reasoning that produces the kind of society in 2312, I think.)
Its using javascript. Seriously? Why? The only sensible reason to us it, is that a lot of users are using it. Technically there is no good reason to use old javascript imho.
Interesting observation. Being a native Northeasterner, I'd love to know more about the spending patterns of East Coast men even if it's a wild generalization.

I was in NYC over the weekend and Los Angeles - for my first time - back in April. Both large cities with large populations. Both trips were for mostly pleasure. In NYC I stayed in Williamsburg; in LA I stayed in Silver Lake. LA had a very laid back feel to it. Maybe it has to do with all the space. NYC is pure congestion. Wherever you are, a few hundred people around you are trying to pass through that same space. It keeps you moving, hustling to keep from being run over or an obstacle. I loved both cities, but they have very different "feels".
Suppose the case of interview for a job where half the applicants are unqualified. This algorithm has an ~20% chance of hiring someone unqualified.

This algorithm seems optimized towards getting near-optimum rather then limiting risk. I think for real world problems it'd be much better to lower your standards as you near the end of the pool.
I read a sci-fi novel where a planet got hit by a relativistic load of sand and fried the planet due to the atmospheric heat transfer. Planets are basically screwed if you've got near-light-speed ability.
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Telerik's controls appear to be optimized for development during presentations and demos.
I'm glad you didn't urinate on your niece. I heard about it as well but never knew if it's real or not. This might help:
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/fact-or-fiction-ur...
Relevant quote:
"But what about urine? It contains salts and electrolytes... The concentration of salts and other compounds people have in their urine changes, he explains. If it is too dilute it will be similar to freshwater and cause those stingers to fire."
So you did the smart thing!
The speaker line up looks amazing.
"The driver wasn't familiar with the shard" bloody hell, you can see it from most of London (in fact, it is the tallest building in Europe).

If I wanted to do that journey in a hurry, that is a terrible route, you could probably cycle the route the other taxi's took more quickly.

Disclaimer: I walk the same journey mentioned every day, working on off fleet street and living in Bermondsey.
Yes, increasingly poor, but converging on 1/e. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secretary_problem#Deriving_the_...
Your maths are wrong as that'll be per cover (per person sitting round a table), not per booking.

There's also no chance they were generating 15 covers per day per restaurant on average, let alone bookings, it's simply not possible, I just don't believe it.

AFAIK opentable have some sort of table planner/POS system, which is probably what's massively inflating that figure. So looking at their website there's this:

http://www.opentable.com/opentable-restaurant-management-sys...

So it sounds like to be an opentable restaurnat means completely replacing your front of house, those are not leads, most of that will be self-generated by the restaurant.

Source: Worked for a regional competitor that only provided leads. I would say we roughly had 0.1 booking per restaurant per day, although I'm sure we could do better.
I felt a similar predicament with my father after he was made redundant at the age of 65, having working for large US corporations (working from the UK) for most of his working life. He spent many months searching for work, at first for equal/lower calibre roles in similar industries (he was a manager for a large telecoms company), later just looking for anything to fill his time and bring in some money. You could argue that he could've tried X or Y, but the truth is it seems (at least for his line of work) that job-hunting in the "twilight years" of your career is always going to be a struggle.

At first I thought this was wholly unfair. I know have come to think it's more an unfortunate fact of life. That said, it's not as if our ability to do go work just vanishes as we get older. For sure we aren't as sharp; but I don't see this as a deal breaker.

I'd like to think when I reach his age there will still be a meaningful role for me to fill?!
The primary difference between swift and dynamic languages like ruby is the type system. An existing language like ruby would've been unsuitable if one of the objectives was a safer type system. Taking ruby and putting a static type system into it would've been interesting, but would've created a fork of the primary ruby language, which has its own pain points (being so close, but not quite the same language).

On the other hand, an existing language with the right type system features would've needed a lot of rework to make it suitable for the object model and API.

Or it'd be like C++, where you can program C++ for Linux, or C++ for Windows, and a lot of things may be the same, but then you find out that one of them has different semantics for what you thought was a standard library.
It's still in beta dude. Night and day difference between beta and gold master. If you're turned away from a brand new language due to an IDE's autocomplete, then you're in for a world of hurt when you start learning all the Cocoa APIs.
A 100 foot high canopy means concealing something in the Amazon would be pretty straightforward.
If there's any sort of space combat in the future, there's going to be a very large number of "dumb kinetic weapons" as a result, whatever "official" weapons you're using. Shrapnel.
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I second Thaumaturgy and Yepyepyep's comments. This was an amazing comment and you're one of my favourites.
Do you have an E-Mail address or some stuff? I know a Network company that has a lot of people working remote.
Why Rubyist Will Love Swift? Because Apple has published it.

Disclaimer: I have walked the tutorial and reference and I belive it is fantastic. I am waiting for someone to release a linux compiler.
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Except the number of startup ideas is not fixed, just the number of months, so you haven't exactly found the "best idea" -- more that you've found the best month+idea pairing. It might still be an okay approximation if your goal is to build a good-enough MVP, but it's not exactly the same formula since there are any number of ideas you might have to work with.
> But we also have no proof for evolution.

This is incorrect.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._coli_long-term_evolution_exp...
What was your strategy for acquiring borrowers, and building your network of in-country volunteers?
The linked article is really nothing more than an advertisement for PyCharm. Is it acceptable now for companies to just post links to advertisements for their products on Hacker News?

I'm a fan of JetBrains and I own PyCharm and WebStorm, but I don't want this to become a trend...
Exactly. Modern marriage is like a game of Russian Roulette for men. The difference is that your odds are worse, and the gun has financial incentive to destroy you.

Divorce rates are over 50%, divorce is initiated by women over 70% of the time, women get custody of children 90% of the time.

Laws like VAWA and the Duluth Model give women a surefire way to have you arrested and charged with zero evidence. Now you have a criminal record and no access to your children - 100% legal! Guess what happens to the suicide and addiction rates of men in these situations?

Enjoy your archaic life-long alimony payments, 'supervised visitation' with your children, drug testing, mandatory psychological evaluations, dumping thousands into a custody battle to end up with 4 days/month with your kids, and a child support system that rewards the payee for alienating your children from you.

Hey, your lawyer's kids will have no problem paying college tuition! Don't worry about yours.

Do you like the things you've earned over your life? Hold on to them by avoiding marriage like the plague its become.
Does a fee collected for helping with illegal transaction is by itself illegaly obtained money?

If you are a cab driver and you have a client that you know is riding your cab to perform illegal trade. Does the police have right to seize your fare?

Isn't that something court should determine?
Would you mind explaining what was arrogant about my rhetorical question?
Music is a tough nut to crack. The industry players feel burned by every technological innovation, from the CD to Napster. The status quo rejects technology because it undermines business models and threatens to put new people in charge.

It helps to be Dr. Dre when starting up and trying to break into such a mess. Or you can sell a big chunk to the labels (Spotify) so they can feel comfortable that the latest disruption won't be the end of selling musical bytes.
"To keep the body in good health is a duty... otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear." Buddha
I listen to jazz on Earbits for a bit 4-5 times per week. Really enjoyed it, but it seemed there were limits to what I could discover but was fine cycling through a lot of the same stuff.

None of the social features or other genres really enticed me so I was doubtful the model would scale. For example, I listen to a lot of electronic music and there's no reason why I would go to Earbits over SoundCloud, YouTube, TheFuture.fm, or other sites. Unfortunately since it was so listener-centric without enticing social or discovery features, I didn't see how it could be a differentiator (other than some quality music from artists you've never heard of).

I'm sad to see it go though. Same with ex.fm.
You're not wrong, you're just putting the conversation on a pedantic tangent. I mentally replaced "MD5" with "a cryptographically secure hashing function" because even though I knew it was wrong hash to use, I know what the poster was trying to say.
Would it be possible for him to get a remote-work job? That would get around some of the problems specific to your country, and it might also help somewhat with the ageism issue.
Sure, and he acknowledged that they're still working on it, and is filing bug reports ;)

Having new people join a project/language, and finding it's warts/weird parts is awesome! It's part of how you learn where the REAL issues that bother people are, and set a development roadmap. He's using it, and telling Apple where it should evolve. That's the whole -point- of a Beta ;)
Rough stuff. Best to Joey and the team.

I have a very short conversation in my email archives in which I sent an unsolicited feature request.

They were perfectly kind, and eventually implemented it.

That was my experience with earbits.
The author does mention that you could just shut down your engines and wait to spot your prey; but once you put yourself on an intercept (by firing your engines), the opponent will know where you are.
S3, local storage (TrueCrypted), SAN (RAID), lots of USB drives and flash keys (TrueCrypted)
A NPE doesn't need your patent because they're non-practicing.
Finished 30th woo!
Really enjoyed the challenge. Thank you Codecombat team.

Hope to see some more in the future.
Random statements alert:

- "Cool" fuzzy term, no specific definition given.

- "Lose" fuzzy term, no specific definition given.
Signed up and coming from NY!
I've started more than a dozen "side projects" as a way to develop coding knowledge. Most of these have never seen the light of day outside my computer, but they have all built upon each other and made me better at my day job. And a few are actually make a little passive income on the side.

There's typically little to no investment necessary, other than time. And I consider time spent learning something that can at the very least be applied to later projects or furthering my abilities a wise investment.

There's no such thing as overnight successes, and the more things you make, the likelier it is that you will create something that becomes more than just a side project.
Once you've paid for an order it isn't your money any more (they're presumably not operating or licensed as a bank). In your clothing example your only recourse would be to sue the clothing store for failing to deliver your clothes (breach of contract or the like). In theory you could do the same thing with Silk Road, but the site operators being anonymous makes that rather difficult.

(Of course in practice what you'd do is a credit card chargeback - but bitcoin is specifically designed to make that impossible. If you choose to send an irreversible "currency" to an anonymous recipient, frankly you deserve what you get)
I understood it won't pick up, and lo and behold, I understood it right.

People were right that an x86 sandbox is a silly idea for a web standard, this is why it's no longer one.

As it is right now, it's ASM.JS, without the .JS (and so, without the backwards compatibility).
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Got a few downvotes, is this not a relevant concern?

Perhaps due to listing my similar tool (removed from above comment).
When we first open a lending program in a new country, a local volunteer or visiting international intern typically finds an initial group of borrowers by making presentations at NGOs, pitching Zidisha to local cybercafe owners, etc. After that, growth happens almost exclusively by word of mouth.

Most in-country volunteers (we call them "Volunteer Mentors") are also Zidisha borrowers. They learn about the mentoring program via a note in the borrower account interface of our website, and apply via email.
It was fun to host the competition! Hope to see you in the future competitions.
Heh, this is the truth. Most of the difficulty of learning Swift I think will lie in learning Cocoa. Just like Objective-C that.
My interpretation is the company is being bought for future growth, not the scaling to date.

15 million diners per month * 12 months = 300 million dining experiences. Priceline is paying $8 for each of these seatings. That seems like a lot for an organization that is rent-seeking. It starts to make sense if Priceline can convert even a small fraction of them into hotel and airplane buyers. At that point the deal makes a lot of sense.
It is not a rant and your ugly reply and the downvote my above comment got is just proving my point. I have no reason to believe that starting a new thread would be constructive. In fact, I have every reason to believe the response to that would be far uglier than the response to the above remark.
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also, isn't swift intimately tied to Cocoa & co?

Even if apple made great strides in open sourcing the language, compiler etc, I doubt we'll ever be able to run it on anything other than OSX/iOs.