skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: What legal steps should I take as a hacker/founder with many MVPs?
I am a developer which has created a fair number of MVP/prototype websites and apps. My goal is to keep building new products and iterating existing ones and turn one of them into a business. Most likely this will be done by raising an angel round as the next step.

So far, none of products I've built have had enough traction or promise (from my perspective) for me to seriously attempt to raise money. But, when the time comes, I would like to have the proper legal structuring in place to do it, and hopefully to move rapidly.

The only thing I really know is to create an LLC every time I make a website. I'd like to avoid that. Is it reasonable to create a single LLC that would cover everything I build? Would that cause problems down the line? Should I just not even worry about it and figure it out when I start getting some real traction or revenue?

Thanks in advance!
Judge rejects $324.5M settlement over Apple, Google hiring
I've observed some messaging behavior in the game -- selling at a vendor can take variable amounts of time, implying that the buy/sell transactions are via a service and not local to the gameplay server.

I expect they use a hybrid approach - some monolithic, some message-bus.
Russian bombers penetrated U.S. airspace at least 16 times in past 10 days
I've also asked on reddit r/linux r/programming and r/bsd so I've got a pretty good spread. I'm still getting 2-3 answers per minute so I'll hold of on drawing conclusions until I've closed the survey but it looks pretty well rounded at this point.
How to increase Twitter engagement by sharing Pinterest images
The issue is that these deals and tricks are always changing, and their half-life is related to their access; if a trick is both profitable and well-known it likely won't exist for very long.

Nowadays, most of the best knowledge of tricks in this domain are private anyway. I enjoy travel hacking and the community around it, but it's ruined effort if I post an interesting hack in a public forum (ie FlyTalk), only to have some blogger broadcasts it, thus alerting the relevant company and ending the deal.
How to Style a Jumpsuit
Not sure about self-driving cars. I work in robotics, and there are a few modules that need to hit hard real-time deadlines. You wouldn't use GC languages for those, but there are a LOT of other parts that don't, and you can get a BIG win by writing those in a more concise language.
PicnicHealth (YC S14) Stores Your Medical Records In One Place
Same here. And they use to give more free credits when the cloud was in beta, so that's not even a good deal. I yhink it was $1000 at the time.
Live attacks against the Norse honeypot infrastructure
That's correct, I had both papers open and I pasted the wrong URL. Thank you.
Computer programmed to write fables reveals storytelling is, like, really hard
Read the Docs goes full-time
There's nothing special about this blade, it's a standard "off the shelf" HP blade that anyone can purchase.
That's a worthy venture, but if your project needs $5 billion (or some other large sum) and takes 10 years, are you going to be able to get people to donate steadily for so long? Giving it away is laudable for sure, but most people consider patents the tradeoff to attract the huge sums of capital over a medium investment term that are required for drug development.
If you treat employees with respect, you have little to fear.

If an employee makes a claim that puts you in a bad light, you can then honestly relate what happened. If there's nothing to be ashamed about, you'll come out of the experience fine.

Buffet has a fine definition of ethics:

The priority is that all of us continue to zealously guard Berkshire's
reputation. We can’t be perfect but we can try to be. As I’ve said in these
memos for more than 25 years: We can afford to lose money – even a lot of
money. But we can’t afford to lose reputation – even a shred of reputation."
We must continue to measure every act against not only what is legal but
also what we would be happy to have written about on the front page of a
national newspaper in an article written by an unfriendly but intelligent
reporter.
I didn't mean for that to be an exact quote, and certainly I think it's likely that notch disagrees, but he is saying that the most convincing case for patents is in medicine.
Rc cars / army truck / scx10 d90 custom landrover
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuyfkHLMvg_aQUfbQT8AgHg
Cool project, staying in business is definitely the hard part!

But the landing page is a dash confusing. I thought the avatar'd people were the stories and was confused why so many of them are working at Basecamp. Are these just stories of Basecamp which has been around for a while?

Then I noticed the super nondescript list of stories.

I think those two would work better reversed. More focus on the stories, less on the people creating The Distance! Right now it looks more like a vehicle for self-promotion of people making this.
Well, that would be amusing. English is my third language and sometimes I trust too much in the spell checker suggestions.

My graphologies ;)
More iPhone 6 rumors
Locals spot Russian vehicles with PeaceKeeping emblems, on Ukraine border
Early-stage ventures and the pro-rata opportunity
This is relevant! If the cat is hideous, it will not be accepted by your neighbor and invited in for tuna. Step one to covert espionage!
thank you for those links. Incidentally Drew Curtis also outlines the dichotomy in policy pressures really well.

http://www.ted.com/talks/drew_curtis_how_i_beat_a_patent_tro...

I'm surprised that the first link of yours doesn't show the fact that Pharma companies make upwards of 10-16% margin which is high for the healthcare sector, versus Generics companies which make ~5%, in line with "companies in general"; and insurance companies which pre-ACA were making negative-~2% margins. It's hard not to believe that the ACA was just a bailout for insurance companies, in exchange for mild vilification.
Yet Spotify exists. Are you aware of who owns a big chunk of it?

You can also put non-amazon books -- in formats such as pdf -- on kindle. It's not as simple as buying through amazon, but it's very doable. Further, everyone who owns a smartphone or a tablet can just download a reader app.
I too would love to hear this. Leore?
I work at TripAdvisor and am quite enjoying myself.

I'm happy to answer questions to the extent of my ability.
Rc custom army truck / custom d90 scx10 landrover
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuyfkHLMvg_aQUfbQT8AgHg
“Seeking 100K but I'm negotiable”
These are actually two separate things. The data would definitely be stored in a database on a SAN, and a NetApp SAN plus oracle DB would be just fine for that. This represents the database/storage layer of the operations.

The part I'm talking about is the behind-the-scenes communications layer for the application itself - how you pass information between servers in real time with low latency.

Think of things as a stack. You have the top layer which is the application. It runs on an individual server as a process, or set of processes. You then have middleware, which is software that handles communication between applications, whether it's on the same box, or between servers. Middleware is also responsible for handling communication with the database (oracle in this case possibly). This is the database or information storage layer.

Ie: application layer --> middleware --> database.

This middleware is the portion I'm postulating could be using XML, based on my general enterprise experience. It's not stored anywhere, it's simply a transport mechanism for data between applications when you don't need to store it. More than likely it would contain information such as 'this user is entering the battlegrounds, please create a slot for them with these details', or 'this player just caught the boat to another continent, I'm handing them from me to you and here is all their information'.

XML is great for this kind of 'live' data transportation, although I probably prefer json these days..
I think you are underestimating the power of multimethods.
I'm not too sure this is actually it, unless someone else can prove me wrong.
No sh!t it is! If you can develop that for the tax codes in all 50 states, you'd have a winner! I think it's impossible to do though, unless you are Quicken.
they should drop their osx claim. i recently (2 months ago) fought kicad every step of the way in trying to get it installed and working on my mac, and i'm super comfortable with the shell and compiling from source and dealing with errors.

eventually i gave up and went to fritzing and got my parts done and sent to the fab in that same amount of time.
I'm not saying that my answer is the correct answer, it's just my current opinion.

Do you have anything to contribute to the conversion or do you just like telling people that their opinions don't make sense to you and are therefore wrong?

The point of a forum is to allow discussion. Please read over your comments and tell me if you think that they contribute meaningfully to the conversion.

What do you think autonomous vehicles should do in this situation?

Yes, you should ask someone at Google for a better answer, but I provided my thoughts above. Yes, a pedestrian can walk and trip into the street and the car could be going too fast for that stretch of road, both did something wrong.
Anyone can demo any game they have developed, but before those games go into a casino, they must go through everything I said above. Many of those guys go to G2E to either get noticed by a larger manufacturer, or to find investors to help them go through the licensing process (or convince existing investors to do the same after a good response at the show).
What the On-Demand Economy Teaches Us
Regarding the social aspects, they've made the game so accessible to casual players that they've eliminated the need to form strong social bonds for 99% of the content that people play.

You can level pretty quickly just by soloing, so you don't need to find a buddy to help. With the Dungeon and Raid Finders, you don't even need to join a guild or have a set of regular friends for tackling harder content.

With the battleground queues, you don't need friends to participate in PVP.

Unless you want to attempt the harder versions of the same Raid content or try to compete more rigorously at PVP, all of the classic reasons to meet and keep friends in WoW are gone.
Charging the public for an e-book, at a price some are willing to pay is immoral?
Rock 'n' Roll's Company Town
I grew up with parents who worked in healthcare (my dad, specifically, has a ton of connections within the health and life insurance industry), I've sold health insurance, I now have a full-time job in a hospital system, and I'm working on launching a health insurance-related product (to augment Obamacare benefits for small businesses) and I can tell you, they didn't touch on many of the most important issues in the industry today.

I'm not going to criticize Obamacare, but there are a bunch of things they could've done that would've been easier to implement and easier to understand that would've fixed the system! For example, get rid of the PPOs and give the "discount" they provide to everyone. PPOs provide no real value and have basically stuck themselves in the middle of the transaction and inflated costs, which inflates insurance premiums. Getting rid of them would immediately reduce costs quite a bit and make healthcare (and, indirectly, health insurance) much more affordable.

I guess the politicians wouldn't outright get rid of a whole sector of an industry, though, which makes it harder...

When I sold health insurance, one of the things we would often suggest is, if possible, to get a cheap policy with a high deductible and simply put the difference into an emergency fund until you can cover the deductible. This gives you access to the PPO, so you can pay the reduced rates (which are actually quite affordable if you make a decent income!) if something happens, while making the whole thing much more affordable.
> This truly was an amazing place. Here, dreams and reality had been drawn together - all in one Process. "_Why would I ever leave?" he barked with joy! _Why indeed!

Is this implying that this framework was the work of _why the lucky stiff, or is it just some kind of reference to him? The description does very much seem like his style.
Authors can buy those services directly but why bother trying to source and vet those things yourself? Some might, and I know the HN crowd is very much of the "I can do everything" mentality. But most people will be happy to pay an intermediary to do those things that are outside of their wheelhouse.
Loyalty is merit. Would you rather a civilization that simply discarded you when you have lost utility?

This is poor long term planning that undermines the nation for short term intrest. Unless you have pledged your allegiance, your contributions and loyalty is short term.

So obviously we are going to prioratize someone who has our back. If you have the education it is likely because you come from a privileged family. There is also strong corrupting ingrained into the system. Unless my last red envelope was given to me in error.

There are men and women in your country of greater merit who are not given the opportunity. If we were truely acting on merit they would be hear, and not you.

They would have been given the scholarship and the resources in childhood to succeed. I have met way too many entitled princelings lacking any of the virtues of a gentleman.
Apple and Google poaching settlement rejected by judge
I would say enough to buy a house, which is in the range of 750k-1.5m. This range would go up as the housing price goes up.
Do you have a source on this by chance?
Simple Social Media Marketing Solution for Small Business Owners
Seriously. A person who would advocate using IPMI at scale has either never owned an IPMI card or has never worked at scale or both. The just don't work, and they erase whatever power savings you're trying to achieve.
je@ :)
>'The truth is people mostly trust each other and don't do shit like that. At some places they will, but watson is not the enabler here.'

I'm not sure we're talking about the same things here?

Perhaps in the startup world that is common on HN things are small, lean and trusting enough that this sort of outlook is possible.

The context of the article, Executives at the sort of companies that buy IBM, they absolutely invest in monitoring and retention by choice or by law.

Where I'm sitting now we retain every email, voicemail and internal chat for tens of thousands of people and video from hundreds of cameras. We retain 100% of voice calls for some sections. People who deal with the public have all their calls recorded as well as their screens. Every meaningful door is operated with an access card.

The limiting factor on implementation of these things is not some non-specific altruism, it's money. Money for licensing, infrastructure and operations - it's not cheap, not close.

No, Watson is not the specific enabler for these things to happen as they clearly already do, but the sort of intelligent XaaS that Watson could be is exactly what would make these systems cheaper and more effective.

Responsiveness for specific categories could be determined on the fly leading to lower size of retention and operators/administrators could probably be eliminated entirely.
They deserve the loyalty of their representatives. Policy should be made in thier best intrest.
NCI Launches Proteomics Assay Portal: A repository of targeted proteomic assays
GLideN64 graphics plugin
Good. the decimal point needs to move (right) before this settlement can even remotely be considered fair.
I didn't say Amazon didn't have ANY overhead, I said Amazon doesn't have "that kind" of overhead where you have to actually have a physical retail presence everywhere you want to sell something. And in the case of eBooks, Amazon doesn't need to deliver a physical object at all.
Google maps is also really great for public transport in new cities.

Rather then try to figure out if I need a bus or train, or if there's no public transport where I need to go, I can just punch in an address, say when I need to arrive and it tells me what to do.
Good. I hope Mozilla goes away. They think everything should be "web". They think everything should be "open". They don't respect native platforms and they want to keep the web duct-taped together the way it is instead of making something better that is actually an application platform. I disagree on all counts.

(Remember folks, don't down-vote just because you disagree! Sorry if it offends your sensibilities :)
What do you think the relative costs of distributing 1,000 [one thousand] ebooks vs. distributing 1,000 paperbacks are? We're talking after all production costs, the book has been typeset and rendered to a print/ebook file on a publishers computer system.

Once set up what's the additional cost involved for the publisher in shipping the next 10,000,000 ebook files vs the next 10,000,000 paperbacks. Just the act of transferring the book from the computer system to the ebook reader or the owners bookcase.

I personally distributed > 50,000 computer files this month so far for a marginal cost of < £1. Getting 50,000 DL flyers printed would cost me about £1000 without distribution. It's not entirely comparable but I think it gives the flavour of the savings in production costs available to publishers.
I agree that it may not work very well as a filter and that you have to be extremely cautious with any 'negative' statements when interviewing for a job.
The development of an oncologic (from preclinical through clinical) typically costs more like 10-20 million dollars. I'm not sure where you got 5 billion from. Now, pharma companies inflate the cost of a single drug by creatively rolling in a lot of failures as the 'cost of getting there', sometimes warranted, often maybe not so much. As it is big pharma spends more money on advertising than R&D anyways.

Generics manufacturers, incidentally, do just fine, and I can imagine a more sustainable model of pharmacological research where a generics builds up an R&D war chest and periodically discharges it on new research.

The hard part is the political intractability of getting big pharma to let go of 20% margins and settle for 5% margins.

Edit: error, 10mm only for preclinical, not both.
Maybe you're talking about the about page which this submission links to. The real landing page is quite focused on the acutal stories :)
1) No, it was a fine for an amount owed under $100, which we paid, but then received a bill for another fine, since it now said we owed $150. Three calls to separate state offices resulted in three amounts owed. We just picked the highest of the 3 and paid the damn thing. This is in KS which is supposed to be "business friendly". I should have just done as the politicians and hired an illegal alien under-the-table.

2) Yes, but it's the principle. I have to hire an accountant (zero added value for me) just to hire someone who actually does provide value to me. It shouldn't be this complicated. It was easier setting up an LLC, and if we could do that, we should not need an accountant for a nanny; guess not.
How HTML5 Can Modernize Your Mobile Document Access
Perceptual Image Hashing
The article implies that TripAdvisor is gearing up to take on Expedia and Priceline as OTAs and that "the two ways of doing business are converging."

What is your take on this?
Show HN: Knourish is Chef-Inspired Meals Delivered to Your Office
sure looks impressive, but without a Y-Axis, it's really hard to judge how much of a jump it really is...
> it may be worthwhile to have more government involvement.

Perhaps it is less worthwhile if you consider the costs of the favoritism and inefficiencies that government involvement inevitably produces.
Thanks, I will have a look at it!
So, the unfortunate thing now is that if it isn't SketchDeck, they're going to have some nasty PR shit to clean up that is totally undeserved.

If it is, well, they still need to do cleanup. OP, can you confirm/deny?
Are you being deliberately obtuse? Read the chain. Nobody is arguing the company couldn't let him go. Rather, people are upset the founders didn't make it right for him. Frankly, they are assholes. Decent people would say something like, "Hey, this isn't going to work. We fucked up, and we're sorry. Here's two months of comp (or maybe six weeks) to find a new job, regain leases or find a new apartment, etc. And on the off chance you put this on your resume, we'll serve as a reference."
Does anyone know when exactly they changed their specs?
Full disclosure: it's been years and major revisions since I looked at Sequel code, so my criticism may well be outdated.
The challenge of not having taken funding as well is that you can't use your last valuation as a bench mark.

ie they offer you $1m, you can't say "Well, that's far below our last valuation of $5m" or "in order to make our investors from our last round whole, at an absolute minimum, we would need to meet our last valuation of $5m".

Depends what you're optimizing for. Price is only one factor.
USA BOMB IRAQ AGAIN?
"But the landing page is a dash confusing. I thought the avatar'd people were the stories"

I think that is because the link is to the about page, which understandably is about the company. If you remove the /about on the URL you get the stories you are looking for.
Just lobby for adblock to be built-in with a Mozilla-curated block list. Seems to fit the idea of a safer/simpler-by-default web experience. ;)
I totally agree with this. If you know you are worth what you are asking for in salary, you are more apt to get it if asked with confidence.
An audio-visual press and hold instrument you must try
Ask HN: Uber for ______
Thought this might be a fun thought experiment for HN. Every so often I apply for what I think are interesting legal positions at interesting tech companies/startups most recently was Uber. As a result I began to play around with Uber for ____ ideas. What are some of your Uber for ____ ideas.
Markov Chains illustrated
> Disclaimer: building this type of thing (on bare metal) is a chunk of my day job. I see it as unbelievably trivial.

You do, I'm sure, because you've invested a lot of time learning it and building tooling around it. For anyone who isn't a full-time sysadmin, debugging all of the many and various quirks in management hardware is a major time sink versus scripting a VM server's API.
EVE Online:

-server code still in python (single threaded)

-one cpu thread per solar system

-during big battles with >2000 people server slows down time(tickerate) and makes game unplayable
Lob.com has been great to work with for some key parts of our business. Always helpful and on-time with everything. We're always looking for more reasons to use their services!
LibreSSL 2.0.5 released