skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To directly address your point and why I disagree- what we're really talking about here is the economics concept of consumer surplus. What the OP was eluding to (and he's correct) is the fact that if demand is such that tickets are selling out and people who want tickets are presumably waiting to get them for a later date, then that's a strong signal that there is a large amount of uncaptured consumer surplus. In other words, consumers are taking a profit of value from the restaurant because they are getting tickets for less money than they would have otherwise paid.

To think about the problem differently- occasionally you will come to certain places and see two Starbucks sitting across the street from each other. If you ever wondered why that is, the reason is that in certain locations, demand is so high at peak times that the lines will get so long that large numbers of customers will actually not buy coffee because they aren't willing to wait. Rather than raise prices during these times, Starbucks figured out that it was profitable to open a second adjacent location to service this demand overflow.

I don't mean to sound condescending, but there are two sides to this coin and I think that looking at it from only the customer side is a mistake. The restaurant is losing out on potential profits that the customers are capturing. Traders would simply be capturing the surplus that the restaurant can't or won't. It isn't necessarily being greedy, it's just being smart.
Yup. Given that those logging mechanisms also expose all the problems with file based logging, you have a much more significant effect with a lot less complexity by working on fixing those deficiencies than this route.
The IPs aren't being used for actually traffic routing. They're just included in the HTTP header so the web application can have something to use in any session, abuse, anti-spam, etc functions. You are correct that routing across Class E is practically impossible due to hard rules in place in Microsoft Windows and elsewhere.
Better yet, find a niche market that needs your talents the most. If you stay in a niche, word gets around a lot faster than trying to focus on everybody. If you do good work, eventually the business will come to you instead of you having to hustle for it.

Once you own your niche market, rinse and repeat as necessary.
You have to remember that these people talk to each other. They want to be able to have discrete chats with politicians and other powerful people. Activism on privacy would be ever so rude and may threaten that relationship!
Wow, thanks for the insight in to behind the curtain :}
Just replying to your first paragraph.

There are many generally good principles of design, the key is "generally", because when taking to extremes, they eventually conflict with each other.

Same applies to TDD, you have to know what design decisions it lead to are good, what design decisions it lead to are bad.
What if there was a standard created for the markup, so that the parser would know what the links were supposed to do and how the content shoud be presented, because there would be structured data everywhere specific to the parser?
Up until the Ukraine crisis, the US has been working very closely with Russia trying to become equal trading partners. Case in point: the Space Program and the Rockets the US have been using are all Russian made.

Mind you, US --- Venusuela relations are pretty bad right now, and we certainly want their oil. But the US isn't going to invade Venusuela any time soon. The politics and reasons behind the Iraq and Afghanistan wars are far more complicated than just oil. Otherwise, there'd be a heck of a lot more countries we'd be invading. (Iran, Venesuela, etc. etc.)

There is a good point made here. The US at worst just wants stuff: it doesn't want to prove its superiority over other countries (although there are factions of the Warmongerers who do wish to do that... it seems like politics of war are more practical than the 19th century "Great Game" period).

There's a lot of people hating on the current approach of global politics. But any studied historian will agree: the US is doing a heck of a lot better than Napoleon, the British Empire, Rising Sun Japan, or other historical world powers. Heck, "Corporatocracy" was the standard Asian power from 1600s to the 1800s. The East Indian Trading Company (a corporation) was one of the world powers that conquered India.

We no longer live in an era where corporations are allowed to have standing armies and navies. We no longer live in an era where world powers wage war over the ability to trade Opium for the explicit purpose of weakening a country. (IE: the 1800s Opium Wars).

Perhaps "benevolence" is the wrong word to use to describe America, but its certainly doing its "Super-power duties" better than its historical predecessors.
Screw anyone who uses this crap, I will close the tab and never come back.
Best part of the article and exactly the thing I'm thinking about when it comes to big life-changing events that could happen in the future. Why not?
To some degree, perhaps. But some people might be more motivated by the money, or "changing the world" (apparently apps can change the world), or something entirely different.
Thanks for pointing that out, I didn't catch the precise scope of the problem you were calling out in my initial reading.
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So many people are not aware of this option. I've done it 2-3 times in my life, generally because a company thinks they're going to jerk me around. One was an ACH that came from nowhere (still no idea how that happened, and the bank wasn't much help).
In my research Windows is the only culprit in the OS space. There might be router firmwares too but I'm not sure.

The entire Windows networking stack from top to bottom is a tangled mess of pain.
Right bellow is a download button. My immediate thought was that OSX platforms obtained the app from the appstore while other platforms could use the download link. When I see an appstore link I don't immediatly assume OS X only.
I treat Facebook in much the same way. However, I don't completely agree with your statement that:

> I feel like people always talk as if the trade-off is between wasting hours of time on the newsfeed or being harder to reach, but this is a false dilemma.

I've often argued the same when friends of mine closed their facebook account and became harder to reach. Then I realized that this choice of 'moderation' can be very difficult for many people, in the same way that for some people it can be really difficult to stop drinking once they start, and in the same way that for me it's really difficult to start watching a new show without binging on it.

That said, ideally I'd propose your solution. On mobile this is easier if you just install the messenger app without the facebook app (assuming that's possible).
> Biosphere 2 fell apart

Wait, what's this? What happened?
jasode is explaining things as they are, not as they should be. That if the employees are owners, then they will gain the benefits that owners gain is pretty obvious.
Wonder what he mean by "lack of support for shared libraries".
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> this model arguably makes even more sense for knowledge-economy companies that require little in the way of physical capital, and derive the majority of their value from the talents of skilled employees.

Which is why you still have partnerships in business that are 100% service driven - consulting, law firms, etc. Software falls in between because it requires knowledge capital but it does produce something of substance that can be sold and re-sold.

Also, in partnerships you're sharing ownership because you bring something irreplaceable to the table (generally your personal relationships). Front-line developers are usually replaceable as much as they like to think they aren't. Yes, they're more expensive than a factory line worker and you can't just code 40 hours a week and churn out product like a factory worker but you're not irreplaceable. You'll find that the people who AREN'T irreplaceable, either because of some industry or domain knowledge, can usually demand increased equity or profit sharing.
So, what should a early startup be doing with "ip assignment"? We hire people from places like elance and odesk - and a few irl people - is there something we should have been having them sign?
So people that really know you 'get' the joke, as do the people on HN with a little bit of prompting. The wider audience aren't to know. That is positively Shakespearean - a joke that goes over the head of some but not all.

A lot has been written on this thread about DD - something I did not know about before. So you have written a great inspirational story, shared something new and sparked debate. Well done and good luck with your next venture!
> Given that the employees are so crucial in building the
> product...

If the product can not be created without your effort alone, you should seriously consider asking for a significant equity stake in the company and becoming a cofounder. If you don't want to take an ownership stake you should ask for a very large salary.

Most likely the product can be created not just by you but also by someone with your skill set. In that case you should definitely expect fair market salary for your effort. If the founders can't afford to pay, they need to raise more cash from investors, not beg professionals for charity.

If the founders are asking you to take a reduced salary, they're really asking you to become an investor, and you should expect that for every dollar reduction in your salary you get that much equity in return.
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StackLead isn't providing job-finding/head-huntiong services though, from my reading of their site they are more suited to sales lead management.

A quick search of USPTO shows plenty of other companies using stack in their registered trademarks. The search results don't appear to be linkable but starting here -> http://tmsearch.uspto.gov/ it shouldn't be too hard to find plenty.
I usually reply to recruiter that I am not interested in their online monkey coding tests, but I'd be happy to consider position and talk to Google team in person if they're serious.
This is a great insight, and I couldn't agree more. I agree so much in fact that my company is building data room software.

Although some people do use it just for a single deal, we try to espouse the notion that you should use a data room from the start; keeping your documents nicely organized for the day when that phone call comes, rather than scramble to compile everything together at the last minute.

Check us out at www.securedocs.com, or email me at comron@ that domain if you have questions.
See also

http://jacquesmattheij.com/Due+Diligence+survival+guide

and

http://jacquesmattheij.com/Due+Diligence+survival+guide-part...
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My coworker had a smaller version of this in his cube. His son had made it in middle school and it had been going for 10+ years. I think his was sealed with wax or something.

It's an easy experiment to reproduce and works great if you have enough time to wait around.
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The container was last watered twelve years after it was planted. Twelve years is plenty of time for most plants (especially something many people would consider a weed) to reach that size. At this point it's simply in maintenance mode - similar to a bonsai which never requires trimming.
> got the ball rolling

That's quite an understatement of what it takes to quit a job with a salary, build an MVP, structure a company, convince people to work with you, and (if you're hiring pre-revenue) convince investors you'll make them money.
This. And get any skeletons out as early as possible. M&A people love to use them during DD to knock down valuations. If you've already disclosed them, especially before entering exclusivity, then you have a much stronger negotiating position during the process.
Is there anything preventing the employees/founders from just immediately selling the Marin stock for its cash value? It's a public company so it should be trivial to sell for very near the same value given in the deal.
Exactly what I was looking for. I tried using PhoneGap but installing all this SDKs is a pain.

PS: I can't even subscribe to your newsletter, everything seems broken: http://i.imgur.com/Ss42bJE.png
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Given that protecting the source IP is not a goal (keyspace is far too small for that), why use something like MD5 when something like CityHash or MurmurHash3 would do?
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@pg, news.ycombinator.com does not have a AAAA record. Is there any chance for it to support IPv6?
Founders are investors also, they're just using their time and effort [1] to buy shares, not cash.

[1] Be very wary of working for founders who haven't put themselves on a vesting schedule, as it will be very tempting for them to put in as little effort as possible since they'll still reap the rewards if things go well.
One of the things I've been up to the last couple years is reducing the divergence between my life and the conditions I probably evolved for. E.g., much less processed food, reduced use of artificial light that diverges from the normal day/night cycle, more frequent modest physical exercise, very low sugar consumption, way less alcohol and caffeine. To me it feels a lot like when I'm debugging a system and am trying to get back to a baseline by eliminating complicating factors.

Lately I've been wondering about fasting in that context. Not eating occasionally was presumably pretty normal for our ancestors. Have other self-hackers here experimented with this?
Congrats to Uber, as someone that moved to the Bay Area a little over a year ago, this company has been one of the most reliable and helpful services I've used. It's amazing the growth they've had.
> ...paying money to a third party for mojang's work

Is this really the case though? Aren't these people paying for a specific economy type created in game? they could go play any number of free servers or run their own, but they choose to play a P2W server. The server ops are really charging money for the service of the in game economy being micromanaged.
You should probably go to forums.comcast.net and post some traceroutes. There's no latency penalty from the SF bay area, and Alabama seems like the kind of place that's easily overlooked.
until you run "git help pull" and go WHAAA?
Shows this when I open the link:
Error: EMFILE, open '/home/gonative/launch2/app/index.html'
Not to mention he's exaggerating just how much of a solution IPv6 is. It solves the problem of address exhaustion, no doubt, and that's really about it. From a security aspect, it's just as bad, if not even worse with unauthenticated NDP, ICMPv6 router solicitations and so on. Try playing around with the THC-IPv6 toolkit some day.
Irrational exuberance?
The "this valuation is crazy" and "this proves a bubble" comments are filling up my Twitter feed and HN, but I couldn't disagree more. Call me crazy, but I think this valuation is completely fair. For a few reasons:

Uber has serious revenue. They do more trips in San Francisco than taxis do. This isn't a pie-in-the-sky "there will be money there, I'm sure of it" thing. They bring in billions, and they're starting to win entire markets.

The on-demand-transportation market is enormous. I can literally see a future in which the majority of the taxi industry is now called "Uber." That's a big freaking deal.

What Uber can do doesn't even stop at "transportation." How many "Uber for X" startups have you seen? Uber could be all of them, and do all of that. They've nailed the difficult math behind the logistics issues - basically a scaled version of the traveling salesman problem. They do real math, and solve real problems.

I imagine a world where you can get anything on demand in minutes, and in that scenario Uber is the taxi, UPS, FedEx, etc. at the same time.

In a few years when self-driving cars become the norm (crossing my fingers), Uber will be even more valuable. I may be dreaming, but empty cars you can grab any time and take anywhere or request anything... it really is a beautiful thing.
There is still a moral question of killing civillians versus killing volunteer soldiers versus killing conscripted soldiers.

Then you need to remember there were two bombings of Japan. Was the second one necessary to prevent a land invasion of Japan? Furthermore it seems likely that a combined soviet/american land invasion would have prompted nearly as quick of a surrender as the atomic bombings.

Of course we can play these "what-if" games all day; the people at the time needed to make a decision, and I don't think it was all that bad of a decision with the information they had.

When the use of deadly force is appropriate is the biggest open question in ethics IMO.
Yeah, could not agree more. The thing with partners is that they are almost always actually 1) customers or 2) sellers in relation to you. So what is actually happening is you are spending lots of time, working on implementation and product vision for a one-off customer.

This is distracting from your core product and your evolution and scaling of that core product. I have never seen it, across both working at Perfect Audience and as a consultant before that, be worth it when you are working on something small, ie a startup.
Cloudflare is really really good at writing technically interesting PR releases.
how many people use taxi these days? and how often?
$17B, it got to be crazy.
I tried it out and for those who are asking for the difference between PhoneGap and other tools is that this takes your website, adds native components like navigation for menus that it detects and login capabilities. For example in about 10 minutes I "built" a Twitter app using the twitter mobile interface. It has native login/signup, a sidebar for accessing elements, and native search. I don't know how well non-mobile interfaces will translate over - but the native components make it useful.

This is pretty good and it's really what building a hybrid app should look like. There's probably a lot of areas it can be improved.
Oh god every time I see this argument it makes my blood boil.

It's 2014. There's no excuse for re-using the same damn password over and over again.

And it doesn't make sense to make the situation worse for everyone else because they don't care about their online security.

Get a yourself a damn password manager and use a unique password for each service then we can kiss all these password leak problems goodbye.

Time after time we see people making a big drama because company X had all their 50 million password leaked. Oh was it hashed? Oh was it salted?

If you use a unique password for each service, the service provider can store your password in plaintext and you will be safe.

That's what I do and I couldn't care less if all the passwords in the world are leaked in plaintext.
> The reason FedGov has not is left as an exercise to the reader.

There's no exercise at all: They'd get pilloried for it in the very same media, on top of what I already mentioned regarding the tension around facilitating a mostly free press. I mean, even the Guardian's editors noted that they preferred working on the Snowden leaks from their New York office rather than their London office. That wasn't an accidental or hasty decision.

Your article is very informative, actually. And to your great credit, I'm not actually sure what specific views you hold after reading it, other than an apparent opposition to the Espionage Act. Some of the points brought up appear to be in the sense of "look how ridiculous this is", but I don't agree with the ridiculousness at all.

E.g. the intent of someone doing the spying shouldn't any bearing on whether someone is guilty under Espionage Act or not; either your spying could have hurt the nation (for some definition of "hurt") or it couldn't. Intent would certainly have bearing into the severity of a sentence, and we could even envision having entirely separate charges for different categories of harm (just as we split murder into attempted murder, manslaughter, premeditated murder, etc.), but whether you spied or not is effectively a binary question at the end, and that very well should possibly extend all the way up a felony.

Maybe your point is that we need to revisit the law as it stands to have those separate categories of harm instead of what amounts to a giant "reasonable man" test, and I wouldn't oppose that. But the law is in many ways demand-paged; it only gets changed in response to obvious miscarriages of justice, and I'm not sure that all possible prosecutions of Assange under the Espionage Act would represent that. He's not a journalist and he's certainly trying to harm the USG (and thereby, the US people) so it's not as if such a prosecution would be obviously mistaken.
"Total strangers on the Internet were speculating on why we sold, how much we might have made, and what our revenues might have looked like."

This is what the Internet does, and for better or worse, I hope my (advertised) speculation[1] what taken in the vein it was offered - without judgement or malice.

Now that we know more about the deal, I'd like to add my congratulations to you and the employees. I've sold two companies (well ... my part of them) so I know the anxiety that comes right before and right after the sale. It sounds like you've made a very wise decision and I wish you the best as part of Marin.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7837232
Wow, hate-haters gonna hate my hate. The slowest metric for the old code is about 1/3 of a second -- how much benefit does slicing that deliver in real world 0install invocations? "Easier to maintain and extend" -- well, he just cut the population of potential contributors to the project by a factor of 1000. The exciting job he got because it required knowing OCaml, and he spent a year advertising himself as a competent OCaml hacker. I find it very strange to care more about what language a project is written in than what the project actually does.
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Same here, used list.com all the time back in the day.