skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you have no investors to answer to and very little debt, then there is no number. But here are some factors in play:

-Do you still believe in your idea to the extent you want to grind it out and see some serious upside?

-If there is serious upside potential and you want to bake that into the price to still see a nice reward then do that.

-If you're okay with not pushing through on this startup and realize it's not going to take off (or likelihood is low) AND you want to work for this company, be happy taking some lower multiple on your salary. $1MM per employee is probably a high amount if you have no revenue or customers or investors, but if you don't care about losing out on $200K, then shoot for the moon and negotiate as hard as you can.
I read this story decades ago. I challenge anyone who thinks of aliens in even vaguely anthropomorphic terms to read books like The Black Cloud (https://cmdev.com/isbn/0141196408) or Stanislaw Lem's Solaris (https://cmdev.com/isbn/0156027607).
>'oracle database instances that were using EMC SAN boxes for storage.'

I can only imagine what the bill for that setup looked like. Did they jump all in with a Symmetrix?

>'It was the only game where the social aspects were as fun, or sometimes more fun, than the game play.'

Personally, the social aspects are what eventually drove me to quit MMOs for good (so far) not long into the life of WoW.

It seems to me that a lot of people look to MMOs for escape and a situation where the game world is simultaneously one person's preferred life and another's play time is a recipe for trouble.
How do you conduct a trial for a preventive drug? Just wondering.
hi there. could you email me? maybe i can help. sam@ycombinator
I have done a lot of thinking about this lately. In my country a lot of the recent political discussions have revolved around the creation of jobs. Though their ideas differ, they all seem to agree that everyone who is able to work should have a job. I don't think that is required.

I believe that (unless humanity faces a devastating event) the times when there is a job available for everyone are gone. Robots will eventually take over a majority of our current jobs.

Many peoples first reaction to this is to regard it as if it was a dystopia, but I believe we should embrace it. There are a lot of jobs out there which people choose only because they need an income. If the need for these jobs can be eliminated through the use of robots, and the income of the people can be supplied through a basic income, they can pursue jobs and passions which they didn't dare to do before. The basic income can be financed by replacing current ways of supporting those with poor economies, and will require less money if robots are performing many services.

Jobs will still exist, but only for those who are well-educated. Not everyone is suited for that, and I don't think forcing them to choose between poverty or education is a solution.

Robots will take over many of our jobs, and I believe it is time to embrace it and change our society for it to work.
> Get a high deductible plan and a family of 4 can be insured for <$700/month

Looks like it can be done for quite a bit less than that, when ACA subsidies are taken into account (or when expanded Medicaid is taken into account if the other adult family member also has no income...I think all the states where tech startups are common went along with expanded Medicaid).
Until we reach a post scarcity economy, the only way those who don't work can survive is by taking away from those who do work.
That's because people don't understand that publishers do a lot more than just "publish." They also provide editors, professional typescripting/page layout (whatever you call that), connect authors with artists for covers or other graphic work in/on the book itself, and marketing. Those are huge value ads that will continue to be important forever.
Paywhirl releases native recurring payments plugin for Wordpress
Well that is interesting to know! You have to ask though, why someone would continue, even in 2013 to joke about mass murdering students? I'm separating that fact from his long and distinguished career. I dont know the man. Why does he find that funny, if that is his intent? If it's not, what is his intent?

For the record, Prof Might has been hugely influential in my decision to go to graduate school. You're lucky to have him as an advisor.
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Ok, so in the situation that this code is not perfect, which we know it will not be, what code do we run?

You have already agreed that these situations will arise and the question is not about what should be done to stop the situation arising in the first place, which is what your answer concerns itself with.

Rather, it is what to actually do in the situation that if it does nothing the car is going to hit a pedestrian at speed and all avoidance strategies it has calculated seem to massively increase the danger to the occupants.

Saying that the vehicle should not be in this situation does not answer the question of what to do in this situation, unless you can provide a strategy that makes this actually impossible, which you admitted at the start is not achievable.
Very interesting, might just work.

They need to be careful with the frequencies though, not to screw around with the wildlife and pets around us.
This puts too much burden on the sending user. I think a better idea would be something that reads the email, categorizes it, and provides a short one or two sentence summary of what it's about.
the difference is in the wavelength. cell signals are designed to cut through water, so that you can use them when it rains. wifi signals are designed purposely to be absorbed by water (thus limiting their range to reduce interference). your brain is full of water
This is often a good idea regardless. Several years ago, I was in talks with a YC startup to join as a technical cofounder early in the program. I reached out to about 4 other YC founders or early employees who had gone through similar situations - not being a member of the founding team, but joining as a cofounder or employee #1 while the startup was still going through YC. Eventually decided to pass, which turned out to be a good idea in hindsight since the startup imploded in a founder breakup soon after the program ended.

The people I reached out to didn't even know or speak directly about the founders or startup itself. But because they had been in similar situations before, they knew what to look for that might become issues in the future, and then I could cross-reference that with my own personal experience to make a judgment.
Am I expected to watch 15 minutes of videos in order to understand how and what to email Dan? It's an interesting choice - in the context of efficiency and saving time - to decide to put in videos (and some >3 minutes) to watch in the FAQ.

While I appreciate that a lot of email is a problem for many people - solutions need to be aware of the preciousness of everyone's time not just yours (the recipient's).
Canary does not include data from the Adobe leak because I just haven't bothered. I have considered making it available but because there are many other solutions that are better for such a purpose [1], I'd rather just leave it to them and for the future link to them via Canary's site.

In the future I may consider a solution for this but for now it's just not on the priority list. It's a feature I'd like to have but I just don't have a practical way to do it as of yet.

Regarding the count, if you go through all the leaks, it barely gets above 250,000,000. This is based on many statistics from Verizon and other initiatives. My estimate is that it is probably less than double that but it cannot be much higher. It would take a few Twitter, Adobe, or Facebook-sized leaks to get to 1.2 billion because even if you had 50,000 Wordpress sites breached and they on average only have 5 accounts per site, it's barely going to make a dent in that 250,000,000 I floated.

If 1.2 billion accounts are floating about, someone hasn't spoken up and likely we'd have gotten wind of this by now.

Data mining is awesome. :)

[1] https://lastpass.com/adobe/
> "her career goal was to eventually find life on other planets. Instead, Ms. Perry accidentally stumbled upon something even more exciting: the ability to charge portable electronics, like cellphones and laptops, wirelessly using ultrasound"

What's wrong with you people, how's charging portable electronics more exciting than finding life on another planet??
I think the promulgation of the idea of "disruption" is itself an anti-disruptive force.

The Microsofts of this world have seen the Kodaks and Xeroxes go down, so we see them doing bold things. For instance, Microsoft saw tablets as a threat to the PC, and they didn't let the fact that their customers didn't see it this way from releasing Windows 8.
It's sad that you need to do this to feel calm. Technology is an every day part of the 21st century and learning to live with it , not running away from it is a far healthier approach.

Not sure how yo removed Safari since it's not one of the removable apps, but if you really want this why not replace that old iPhone 4 with an actual dumb phone, wouldn't that be the smarter thing to do?

All of your points are kind of sad, if you don't like reading stuff on a small screen, either don't, or get a phone with a bigger screen - removing the email app was the wrong solution. As for the comment about "forced to get around the city", well.. again just the dumbest thing I've heard in a long while.

I have the youtube app but I seldom use it. I seem to manage just fine with it on my phone and not opening it.
I think the YC startup is almost certainly SketchDeck.

It's not too difficult to find the OP's real life identity based on his past work. From that, the information on http://angel.co/ pretty much gives it away.
Ogv.js: decoding Theora video in JavaScript
Does anyone see all the data cited in the article as only kinda tangentially related to what seems to be the main idea of the post? Isn't it possible that "corporate america" is being disrupted AND their are less new companies being formed? It seems simple enough to prove, if only 5 new companies started this year and all 5 grew to be as large as Google, that would be some serious disruption.

I am not arguing that their thesis is wrong, it just seems their supporting data falls short of proving the case. I think a more telling dataset would be a similar type of time analysis but looking at the top 500 companies by market cap. How many are new? And that might not even really be getting at the author's real point. Because, he's talking about upsetting existing industries. For instance, sure Apple, Google and MS are pretty new. But did they disrupt an industry or just make it through as the winners of a newly minted "tech" industry? I'm actually asking because this question and thesis is genuinely interesting to me.
I am thinking of favoring remote work. That way employees won't have to spent the largest part of their salary in expensive rents, and for the employer it's advantageous at he can pay a bit lower than the market rate (and still make his employees happy).

That's a simple measure new startups could adopt, and I keep being surprised YC companies are not looking for remote people.
Congrats guys, great work!
Doesn't Amazon make it relatively difficult to use alternative stores with its e-readers (particularly the non-Android ones)?
We all want a refrigerator and a toaster hybrid
This is going to be major. This space is progressing and is going to be similar to the television revolution our parents lived through. We are on early black and white right now, but this is going to be so ubiquitous for most things our kids will laugh at wires like we do at black and white.
Quest for the shortest OpenCL program
You know that would be trivial to do with bare metal and out of band management cards like Dell Dracs, IBM RSA cards, HP ILOs, or generic IPMI BMCs, right?

Virtualization doesn't really add much of anything for that specific problem other than increased context switching and slightly lower performance.

Disclaimer: building this type of thing (on bare metal) is a chunk of my day job. I see it as unbelievably trivial. In fact, the same ideas are behind Rackspace's "OnMetal" initiative:

http://www.rackspace.com/cloud/servers/onmetal/
Slides from presentation at Wikimania 2014: "Free video in a locked down world: Making Ogg Vorbis and Theora 'just work'" https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/wikimania2014/9/9d/Vi...
IIRC the demand at launch STILL overwhelmed their setup. This is a system that has evolved over the last ten years.

>'I'm fascinated by this stuff.'
Yeah, it's a world apart from your standard web site / services model.
Why is (well, should. Literal "is" is reasonably clear) drug exclusivity handled separately from drug approval? Since the one is needed to make up for the costs imposed by the other, shouldn't they be handled as a unit under the same agency?
Undergrads having recreational firefights on Main Street while their elders sip tea and look on approvingly is also relatively uncommon.
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Yes. And these jobs will be taken by AIs.
Please note that I have only had experience with Salt and fabric.

Salt falls short of what you want in the corner cases:

- We've found it's darn hard to upgrade. (To be clear, we'd like to upgrade by transitioning the master to a new VM; for one, this means things are clean (we can provision our salt-master through a fabric script), but it also allows us to change the amount of memory available.) The minions, when disconnected, do not reconnect to the hostname in their config: instead, they endlessly reconnect to the IP that the DNS resolved to when they were started. You can't simply change a DNS record and have the minions move. Please note that we're a bit behind in releases (we're using 0.17.2, IIRC) because of the difficulty of upgrading.

- YAML was a terrible choice for "state" files, in my opinion. State files contain lists of commands to execute on a remote host being configured: trying to specify args to functions in YAML is awkward.

- I'm of the opinion that the master-minion relationship is backwards. I'd be much more interested in something that connected to the minion. In particular, this would help with upgrading (the minion is controlled by two masters for a short period).

- The command line utilities are prone to user error: they return success during failure, they return no output and success because your states took too long to run, and it got bored. You can look up the job ID, but it's painful.

- The errors are utterly useless. In particular, Jinja rendering errors tend to reference incorrect locations in files, returning nonsense such as use of an undefined variable on a blank line.

- The output is useless too: you get a (very) verbose listing of everything that succeeded or failed. Telling if anything failed is the trick: it's buried in all the successes. (Terminal find is my friend here, but still, you have to be careful to watch out for boundaries between runs and not read an old run's output.) As discussed, the return code won't help you here.

- AFAICT, you need to be a particular user, and there is really no ACLs to speak of. All of our Salt stuff currently runs as a single user. People inevitably step on each others' toes.

- Non-responsive nodes are not mentioned in the output: they're the same as if they didn't exist! This results in some really wacky stuff happening. If you have variables that are lists of machines, the machine simply won't be in the list. This means if you need N of some type of machine, that list will be empty. (This often then triggers the aforementioned unreadable jinja error output, if you assume the list to be non-empty.)

- There is little capability for actual processing on the master itself. Sometimes, you need to coordinate the actions of several nodes together, such as generating keys for each node, and then distributing all keys to all nodes.
thank you very much, Arh68, for the detailed answer. If a site provides a summary of reviews for each book from different sources like stackoverflow and reddit, similar to rotten tomatoes does for movies, would that save you time? Will that interest you
Your sense of self-worth (or solvency) has to be pretty shattered to accept that you're worth less to a company than they offered you mere weeks ago.

If recruiters are trained to insult potential employees by making lower offers than they earlier rejected, they deserve all the unfilled vacancies they're going to get.
Your crop rotation example implicitly assumes a group fo farmers with similar starting resources and information, some of whom choose to take the risk to adopt a new technique, and others who don't, just as most economic models examine the variation in one variable ceteris paribus - all other things being equal.

Now this is sometimes the case in the real world, for sure. And it's even more often the case that if one farmer starts doing something that works, astute neighboring farmers will observe the improved yields and copy the first one.

However what this model overlooks is the situation where one farmer has complex knowledge that is not obvious to others, and parlays that into an economic advantage. If the more informed farmer leverages the advantage long enough, s/he can end up buying the land off the others as they fall farther and farther behind. Economically efficient in the aggregate, but but far from ideal for those farmers who end up as sharecroppers on the land they used to own, or taking up some other line of work in which they have no special skills.

Even this outcome is not so bad where the advantage is based on actual innovation, but in many contexts economic advantage is derived through political maneuvering or similar, and increased yields often reflect an extraction of economic rents rather than profitable innovation. If you're economically-minded, being a rentier is a shameful position to be in.
If it was easy, they wouldn't be illegal.
Thanks for this. Really clear writing, I'm devouring this quickly.
In the TED talk it is explained as safe. Just light electromagnetic waves.

http://www.ted.com/talks/eric_giler_demos_wireless_electrici...
Doesn't dokku does this already? I mean, I've tried dokku and my experience was quite similar to heroku.
Crazy and technically capable are not mutually exclusive characteristics. Nor does a single joke somehow 'erase' a career. I'm not sure why you would think that.

I think it would be irresponsible to not consider a person's mental stability when considering them for any kind of relationship, particularly as an advisor.
Google Voice? Sure it'd require two phone plans, but I guess it's either that or swapping SIM cards around.
The simplest task and project management app
>It's sad that you need to do this to feel calm. Technology is an every day part of the 21st century and learning to live with it , not running away from it is a far healthier approach.

That's what I'm doing, I think. I run an online business – I'm not a Luddite. I found email and other notifications too distracting if they were with me constantly.

I'm hardly the first person to use batch processing for email. It's simply not efficient to deal with it all over the place, as it comes in.

http://www.problogger.net/archives/2008/06/12/how-batch-proc...
Exception Safe Coding in C++
No reason to believe technology is at all conducive to calm, or that we'll be able to live with it in a healthy relationship. That's Pollyanna thinking. Nobody is measuring or planning what media saturation point is compatible with a healthy Homo Sapiens. Companies make ever-more-frantic devices and apps; people buy them. Nobody figuring out if its good for us.
This looks like a heroku competitor whereas dokku is a self-hosted option.
No python support?
Frecency algorithm
More than they're willing to pay.

This is far more about negotiation than market rates. Who cares how much VC funded companies get, start by asking for 3 to 5 times what they are getting.

Flip the conversation, being bootstrapped, and having a dedicated team means you have no pressure to leave, so they must entice you with more money because you have no market forces acting against you.

Also, your team is there because they love you, not because your paying them, again another reason for them to give you more money.

VC repayment is tangible, it's easy to figure out how much VCs need to be made whole, loyalty and dedication are far more intangible and valuable.

If you negotiate like that you'll figure out pretty quickly whether they really want your team or whether they are trying to fill 4 seats.
I read the four hour workweek, where he talked about batch processing, and realized that it was inefficient to check things constantly.

I run an online business, so there's lots of things I could check. But none of them depend on timely input. So it didn't make sense to look at things as they came in.
There's a couple benefits to using this, including the option to integrate load balancing as well as the extensions (such as database servers) that are the cheapest you'll get anywhere unless you set them up yourself on EC2 or a VPS.
We don't know that was the intention. Perhaps the laptop decided to connect to the internet without a firewall.
But that only works when the merchant's half of the transaction is cancelable/reversible. That would never work in, say, a retail store, because the merchant can't catch the guy an hour after he's walked off with that $2000 computer.
The death of software dev as a viable job
If you haven't yet, you may want to read The Humane Interface [1] (and test is working prototype Archy).

It's a description of a user interface that works exactly as you say, yet looks completely different that what you describe.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Humane_Interface
According to http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6793262/why-dereferencing... dereferencing a null pointer is undefined behaviour. Thus the example in the unit test where this occurs is IMHO a serious bug.
Train a small animal such as a ferret to hit the WPS button on any popular access point and let it loose in their home?
It killed Chrome and made my laptop irresponsible

I know you meant unresponsive, but this conjured up a delightful image of your laptop jumping around the room snapping its lid at people like a set of autonomous false teeth.
Not sure if this is ready for prime time yet? I mean most of their documentation says "Under construction"
A quick google search suggests this explanation doesn't work.

http://web.mit.edu/cis/images/fpi/immigration/fig1.jpg

http://web.mit.edu/cis/images/fpi/immigration/fig3.jpg

If correlations prove anything (note: I don't think they prove much), it is that immigrants inhibit startup formation.
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If you want to power manage your pets, VMware makes sense. But yeah, there's a reason Facebook doesn't use virtualization.