skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So why the hell do startups bother offering equity? It seems like for the founders there are only downsides in offering it, while for the employees there is no upside at all. Perhaps a better model for a two founder startup looking for a first employee is to just find a third partner who will only take equity (that is in double digit percentages), then actually start paying only salaries to person 4+.
I think there's a middle ground here - first off, is it that obviously illegal? Is there an expectation of privacy, similar to eavesdropping on a conversation at the table next to you?

I think it is now, but if we go back to 2007/2008, it might not have been.

And it might not even have been malicious - the Google engineers doing it might have said, "Hey look, if x amount of wifi data is good, X amount has got to be even better!". After all, they're data junkies, and might have decided to capture chunks of data wholesale with the best intentions (and maybe not even any clear ideas of how to use it).

I'm not trying to justify their actions, just trying to posit a scenario where Google did intentionally capture wifi payloads without requiring that they had a malicious purpose to do so.
Since many of their customers will be earning more money, have they considered charging more?
Ask HN: Are there hacker news voting groups?
is there a site where I can find other hacker news users and get into a voting group with them? I feel like trying to submit good stories and just hoping for the system to work is naive.
>full time workers

What if somebody doesn't want/need a full time job, or to hire a full time worker? That's one of the things that bothers me about boosting the minimum wage. Force all businesses to pay enough to raise a family of 4 for every job, and people who don't have a family and don't need the money will now have a harder time finding jobs that meet their needs, because nobody can create a job unless they can afford to pay somebody much more than they need.
My problem is not with people mispronouncing my name but modifying it to something easier for them.. No you may not call me Mario, or Martin. Mispronounce it! I don't care, just don't change it to something different!
From one of the repos:

/*
* This file was originally distributed by Qualcomm Atheros, Inc.
* under proprietary terms before Copyright ownership was assigned
* to the Linux Foundation.
*/

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Ahttps...

Most of other repos seem to use some sample code from SDKs.
Two years of Medicaid expansion in a relatively young city?

Seems like the study didn't reach any significant conclusions at all...
The wealth disparity that is increasing is mostly due to investments and an extremely low capital gains tax. We can't just increase the income tax because the wealthiest 1% probably don't even have much of an income...they have capital gains from investments. Yes, the income tax needs to be increased (or actually more brackets need to be created) but we also need to raise the capital gains tax for higher amounts of capital gains.
This is a work of art.

All the details are just right, from the color palette to the menu separators and edges drawn with fake ASCII 'drawing' characters to the little blip that refreshes the screen line by line. Even the name is perfect: "BOOTSTRA.386" -- eight characters plus three for the extension, all in uppercase.

THANK YOU.
Puffing Billy: VCR for AJAX
This is an excellent point, there IS a fundamental tradeoff between latency and throughput. Computers are much better a processing larger chunks of data linearly rather than small bits of data. However the question to ask is how much data do you have to batch together to get good throughput? There are diminishing returns and you stop getting much benefit after about 1MB in my experience. So this line of reasoning will not get you to additional latency of more than a few seconds, it definitely won't get you to a 24 hour batch data cycle.

Actually because we think this tradeoff is important we allow consumers from Kafka to specify how much data they want accumulated on the server before the server should complete their fetch request. The default is 1 byte, which means respond as soon as there is anything new for me, which optimizes latency. However setting this to a higher number will reduce round-trips and optimize throughput by avoiding lots of small fetches. This allows you to trade a small amount of latency for throughput. (In either case you can bound the waiting with a timeout so the latency is never worse than some maximum delay even if sufficient data hasn't arrived).

In any case when doing re-processing, as described in this article, there will always be lots of data accumulated and you will always fetch chunks of the maximum size you have configured (say 1MB). So in the reprocessing case you always get the "batch"-like throughput.
Is there an argument that hibernate is harmful? I hadn't heard that one.

It's certainly useful, but I think the comment you were replying to was thinking more along the lines of saving that state without doing all the work our computers have to do to go into hibernate.

I for one would love a faster and less error prone sleep/hibernate feature. (Although recent Mac OS implementations have really cut down on the error prone part of that. I'm not sure where the Linux/Windows crowd is on that, I would assume the story is the same/similar.)
It would be bad for small businesses who have a significant cost of labor, and who's customers are larger businesses.
This is so rad. I mean, like, totally awesome!
This is why Vagrant / Chef is so great.
TXR Language
One thing this solves is the pronunciation of odd spellings of names, and to an extent, names that are foreign to the recipient (e.g. to an anglophone many eastern European and Asian names don't have an immediately decipherable pronunciation from spelling).

However, one of the problems it doesn't help with, is that different languages and language families have sounds that are not used in other languages. This means people will still get your name wrong, because they don't necessarily know how to make those sounds, nor do they even know how to hear the subtle distinctions - e.g. the classic r/l confusion, or my own inability to get tones right when trying to learn mandarin words/phrases.

I guess what I'm saying is I don't think anyone should expect this to suddenly make everyone pronounce their name perfectly all of a sudden.
Unlike Hanauer and other 1%-ers, middle class people spend almost every penny they make, and this spending becomes revenue for companies started and owned by people like Hanauer.

The same is true for the rich as well. Much of what they earn is consumed directly. But for anything that's not, it's surely not being hidden under a mattress (they didn't get to be rich by losing out to inflation). Instead, these people are investing it or saving it.

If they just save it in a bank account, then the bank is (less the fractional reserve portion) loaning it back out to somebody else, probably providing the means for a non-rich-person to finance a house or a car or a new business. That is, it's being spent by the person taking out the loan.

If they invest the money, then it's providing the capital for business, which is even better. That business might spend it (there it is again - spending) to buy new machinery, or they might expand operations and hire more workers, etc.

Any way you slice it, other than the part that's held back in fractional reserve, the large incomes of the rich do get spent. Either they spend directly, or they let someone else use it for their own spending.
Show HN: Interactive edition of the Declaration of Independence
Web input brainstorming face-to-face notes
Fun bug I discovered. Install a new Win7 machine. If you have IE8 or 9 on there, which you will because its fresh install, and you visit the flash install page before moving to IE11 you'll see the 'install mcaffee/chrome' box unchecked. Except it is checked but its rendering unchecked. You can verify this by clicking on it and then nothing happens visually, but now it is properly unchecked. Also the install size on the page will change to a smaller value.

I doubt Adobe has much incentive to fix this bug.
http://www.amazon.com/Markets-Not-Capitalism-Individualist-I...
A few software developers make that kind of money. I certainly don't. There is not an infinite demand for high-paid programmers.
So the same situation as now just without the democracy.

And no legal protection from monopolizing those resources.

>Another trope is "the only alternative to the current state of affairs is the worse possible thing I can imagine".

On the contrary there are many ways to improve the current state of affairs namely more restriction on abusive behaviors not less.

And indeed there are many ways to make things worse. The kind of lunacy I pointed out is firmly in that category.

So no, practically speaking, the profit to be had from acquiring a monopoly on streets in front homes and business would be so great that, unless there were non-salable restrictions on the practice, those resources would quickly be bought at irresistibly high prices to create an absurdly profitable monopoly.

If those city assets came up for sale right now, any sensible investor would buy as many roads as possible in every town possible and charge the highest rate possible. If it were all under a single company, all the more profitable.

Indeed, the very last person who could ever afford to buy city streets on the free market would be a small business or home owner.
I launched http://park.io last week and it is already profitable (around +$500).
Taxing income as opposed to something else was the result of political feasibility, and of course most of the additions to the basic framework don't really have a good rationale. But there is a framework there that has some internal logic to it: https://archive.org/stream/cu31924020062935#page/n7/mode/2up.
Anyone have any advice for rendering images in a time/technology-appropriate fashion?
In the world outside the tech bubble, being "disruptive" is a bad thing, bringing to mind a bull in a china shop. Inside the bubble, everything claims to be "disruptive" now. The term is as diluted and stained as "synergy", just another word ground into the dirt by the gaggle of suit-and-sandal VCs and startup hawkers.
I've liked the way some people have mispronounced my name. Answering to a mispronounced name feels like wearing a wig to me; it's fun, and it makes me feel more exotic than I am.
The problem with insurance companies is that they are fundamentally conflicted. As for-profit businesses they have a fiduciary responsibility to maximize profits. Unfortunately the only way to maximize profits is to decline coverage.

The problem with Obamacare is that it does nothing to fix this problem. Who wants to be the guy responsible for that many lost jobs?? So, instead they propped up the insurance companies and made everything more complicated for everyone.

The only solutions I see are to have non-profit insurance companies or a single payer system.
Around here you'll get a lot of "How dare you say Google isn't doing enough..."

The problem with that is there is a minimum threshold: Web-of-trust for key exchange; open clients; encryption the default, etc.

Google can be lauded for being 5% of the way there while everyone else is dawdling and hoping the toothpaste goes back in the tube. But that's not the same as actually equipping their users to trust nobody as the usual day to day way of working.
Yep, I remember spending an afternoon reverse-engineering the jumper configuration to change the numbers to match the CPU I had just upgraded. I may still have the diagram I drew somewhere. And I thought I didn't have enough free time back then.
https://github.com/uProxy has many changes made in the last 24 hours, so I don't expect it's dead.
My wife left corporate law firm life to start her own law practice in March of this year. By not taking on unnecessary expenses she has been profitable every single month.
Well, it seems many people's logic about small businesses disagrees with your example about customers at or slightly above minimum wage. With the "if Wal-Mart raised their prices then small shops could compete better" kind of thing. Not that I'm saying your wrong or anything, just pointing out obvious problems with such examples. My own included.

How do you know there would be a 15% to 25% increase in costs in the supply chain? Could it be more? Could it be less? Would it be possible that with a minimum wage hike that the individual costs for some parts of the supply chain the rise in costs could be much higher? Depends on the businesses involved. Meaning, what's good for one business is not necessarily good for every business.

What if a store has to raise their prices not by 35%, but more like 60% because of increased costs from their supply chain. That figure seems to only assume the prices are raised only to cover increased wage costs, and not considering new costs across the board. But hey, they still come out ahead right? What about taxes? Anybody getting this new increase in pay going to get hit with more taxes? I never see any of these articles discuss that aspect of it at all.

I'm sorry, but your logic seems overly simplified because it would seem to support the notion that since raising the minimum wage is good for everybody then why not just raise it to $50 an hour or $100 an hour? The original essay argues against that because it's a complicated issue.
> But for the rest, it's more efficient to just give money directly to families than to fund a government agency to do it for you.

Is that so? I'm sure that in many areas, this would immediately exclude many people of wrong colour/country of origin/sexual orientation. One thing that a normal democratic system is the protection of minorities.
What programmers say, and what they mean....
Russell Brand: When I was poor and I complained about inequality people said I was bitter, now I'm rich and I complain about inequality they say I'm a hypocrite. I'm beginning to think they just don't want inequality on the agenda http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/nov/05/russell...
"So I went to my new Oscar-­approved doctor, who recommended routine blood work. The hospital called up Oscar and Oscar's operations department assured both the in-­hospital labs and administrators that this blood work would be covered by my plan so we went ahead with it."

Urgh American health care is just so weird. It makes my skin crawl.
If you write a check for 1M to every person in America, you help the poorest; if I have $0 I cannot afford anything; you give me 1M now I can get about 1/300M of the total of things.

I assume rents (and other things) will rise even more in Seattle, but not to take the whole increase; the 1% will always make lots of money, but hopefully the bottom 10% gets a slightly higher piece of the pie
As cool as this is. Even with the fact that in the US it's decided you'd hook it up to a gas line. There is still the issue of "leasing it" to the homeowner.

Seriously, why would anyone lease a home generator. Maybe I'm old school, but I can't see the benefits to the homeowner if you're undercutting your savings from installing one of these devices by paying "RENT" on the generator?
What's not open about Chromium, out of interest?
I've probably done 6 of these types in my travels http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Share_taxi#Traditional_systems_...

...didn't know they were so prevalent. Love the Jeepney's though they're just like little Chicken Bus'
I started a contracting company in 2014, http://www.motusdesign.ca

We are already profitable, but that's not saying much since we have almost no expenses.
Agreed! Another long time user of Spectacle.
This story seams par for the course when dealing with insurance companies regardless of if it's startup or not. I've had the same exact issue with everyone from "United" to "Humana" and more recently "HealthNet" You will be told something is in network and it's not, a lab location is listed on their website as in network and then they claim it's not covered later. Sadly, this seems to be an area where legislation needs to bring out the big stick and force them to cover services that they had listed as "in-network" bad data is no excuse.
There is one advantage in people mispronouncing your name though. In my experience, people within a group tend to converge towards one pronunciation or variation of your name. On a random encounter in public or out-of-the group environment, if someone is addressing you, you know which group he/she is from, based on the pronunciation he/she used.
Cool, got it!
I don't recall just why I posted just where I did in the tree, and I'm not going to waste any more time to look.

The 15 gallons thing is because I'm pissed at this greenie stuff and need to pound and pound on the rock solid, dirt simple, overwhelmingly important fact that the whole greenie thing is trying to beat a 15 gallon tank and has essentially no chance of doing so and, thus, is really dumb and much of why I'm pissed. I continue to be attacked here because of 15 gallons, and that shows again, yet again, once again, over again that even something as simple as a 15 gallon tank is unacceptable to the greenies so devoted they are to their irrational religion. The greenies can go worship the moon and I won't care, but they are a threat to my car and to the strength of the US, and I'm pissed, as nearly everyone in the US should be. This greenie stuff is wacko.
@equity ~= the percentage of ownership and responsibility.

I think this holds in starting but ownership and responsibility is more on people's attitude. The equity will also remains the same(in %).

I like your point about not joining/hiring to make few millions in 4 years. It probably is a driving factor in start but wont sustain for 4 years. Again people's attitude.
well said! what do you mean by single payer system?
"I'm not a terrorist or a criminal so I am fine with forfeiting my rights to privacy and freedom so they can keep me safe from the imminent danger of terrorists"

Heard that one before.
Many of the insurance companies are non-profits, but that doesn't help much. http://seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2017460805_surplus09m...
I think you have something backwards. A high income tax on the rich would decrease the amount of money they get to invest, and also reduce their returns on that investment.
I think that's unnecessarily dismissive. More even societies are higher trust, more orderly, and by most accounts more pleasant. The U.S. is much richer than Finland, but I doubt the majority of Finns would rather be Americans.
Looks really cool! I was using [slate](https://github.com/jigish/slate), but it seems to be abandonware.

I have a couple of things I'd like:

- A [Divvy](http://mizage.com/divvy/)-style grid. When I used Divvy, this really made a dramatic difference in my window management
- Rich Spaces/Mission Control support. It'd be great to send windows to certain spaces, make spaces for windows, etc.

I'm excited to write a Hydra config for myself, it seems great!
>Equity = compensation for taking the risk of working at a company with a high chance of failure

But if you are getting a normal salary, what is this risk?
When friends ask me where I work, and I tell them a startup, they always ask if I got stock. I tell them yet, but it isn't worth anything until it is. I agree with the idea that you should take the job if you would without equity.
Can you send me an email? wcprado at hotmail dot com

Let's talk about it!
In the article he wrote "had I been born in Somalia or the Congo," where I don't believe there is much middle class or societal structure at all.
ShiftIt is extremely similar to Spectacle (I use both on different machines) and should be functional back to 10.6.

https://github.com/fikovnik/ShiftIt
The interesting thing to figure out about the 2 income family thing is how much of it is people choosing to work and how much of it is people working out of necessity. A lot of things have happened in the past 50 years to change how people are making the choice. I have to concede that I haven't provided evidence to dismiss economic necessity as a driver of the change.

For healthcare, I tried to frame it in terms of things not having gotten worse. That isn't anything to be terribly proud of, but an angry claim about health care in the U.S. declining since the 1960s needs an awful lot of evidence and should probably be quite specific. There are lots of reasons I think a facile comparison of expense isn't very interesting, but a big one is that high end medicine (test all the things) doesn't have much impact on things like medicaid or access to antibiotics.
So how do you make money off your site?
Steve Yegge's Platform Rant [2011]
Wow! Good to see the openness and glad I could make a small difference.
Many of their potential customers would also benefit from increased wages as well though, so while you may have to drop the services, there are potentially many others who are now willing to purchase it.
The terminology makes it very difficult to have a productive discussion. "Rich people" are not rich the way that Asian people are Asian. A rich person is simply a person who has the legal right to direct large amounts of wealth.

Conversely, every piece of wealth has at least one person who has the legal right to direct it.

So when you make a statement like "It doesn't have to come from rich people, it comes, ultimately, from profit," it's a somewhat meaningless distinction because every piece of profit is controlled by a person somewhere. A rich person is just a person who has the legal right to direct large amounts of profit (i.e. wealth). Therefore their decisions will have larger effects on job creation.

Ultimately it doesn't matter that jobs are created by rich people. What matters is what policy steps we can take to improve job creation, wages, and opportunity for U.S. citizens. Unfortunately actual policy discussions are too frequently railroaded by framing arguments like "do rich people create jobs."
Single-payer health care is a system in which the government, rather than private insurers, pays for all health care costs.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-payer_health_care
FailingList - Learn from others' mistakes
Saw this a couple years ago and downloaded the demo. Even though I think $9 is dreaming for something like this, it was pretty cool.

Also, the way the demo "expires" was creative. The static and flicker effects just get worse and worse until it's unusable.
It's actually Meta, emulated by an ESC character by the terminal. OSX tip: check "use Option as Meta" in Terminal's preferences, and you can keep Option pressed while you mash ".".
TideSDK | Create multi-platform desktop apps with HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript
Why You Should Fire Your Worst Client and Open a Digital Shop
This plugin is interesting as well as this thread because it shows the large portion of minds here think we maybe in a bubble. Meaning, disruptive startups or products are not really so, people are seeing through.
A house built out of containers
Increased risk of losing your job.
Google’s new DevArt exhibition is creative, quirky and a whole lot of fun
Sounds like a good way to solve a corner case in speech recognition: speech to text for names. In reverse, it could also improve speech synthesis for personal robots that would speak the names of their users.