skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let me start by saying that I've founded and sold 2 companies one for a big return and one that was a soft landing. The first co I started when I was working full time at a job.

To answer your question:

Since you are self employed you can put whatever you want on your resume --ie you can call yourself the VP of Development, dish washer, or whatever. In fact, I have a friend that called himself VP of Business Development for his company in the early days.

So I don't think it will hurt much from a political perspective. You just need to be able to tilt the narrative to your favor if things go wrong.

ie: "I left XYZ company because I wanted to try to solve this very important problem. I starred the company, got investors, hired a team, delivered product to customers, and we ran into some market difficulties so shut it down and am now looking for a job"

The one thing that will change, however, is you.
When you pass through the looking glass & start your own company, you will fundamentally change. You will develop skills in many area and you will know what it feels like to work on something that you really love that is really difficult. This is what makes it the hard to work a job after a project. Because you know what that feels like and you will want to feel it again. So you will be VERY picky.

Also, there is the power law to consider. If you start a co, the skills you acquire will compound over time. Quickly they will become the biggest asset you have and you will realize that.

My #1 advice for you is to stop thinking about what will happen in a downside and look at what will happen in an upside. The more you think about how a new venture can screw you, the more likely it will.

If you want to chat more DM me on twitter @jsfour
If you're an American who happens to be an Engineer, then Spanish is probably the best bet. It's by far the second most common language in the USA with (according to the 2013 census) 37m speakers out of a population of around 300m. Statistically, you already deal with numerous people in your daily life that you could communicate in Spanish with. In addition, there's a common market arrangement with Mexico and liberal trade policies with the rest of Central and South America.

Next highest is generically "Chinese", with a bit less than 3m speakers. FYI...Spanish is generally a lot easier to learn for the average American than Chinese. YMMV.

If you're an American who is looking for a language to further his Engineering career, then user:informatimago has excellent observations, to which I'd offer very minor corrections:

- There is no "Chinese language". There are lots of Chinese languages. Mandarin is alledged to be universal, but even the various Mandarin dialects aren't always mutually intelligible, especially to a non-native speaker. And in the South (HK area), where much of the high-tech industry is, Cantonese, Hakka and some other dialects are spoken in addition to Mandarin. I can tell you Cantonese and Mandarin aren't mutually easy to understand. Did I mention how hard most Americans find learning Chinese of any sort?

- If you're working the refineries and oil biz, especially around the Gulf of Mexico, French is actually a good choice. Lots of Louisiana Cajuns and Vietnamese immigrants in that biz, and you get a lot of patois French creep into the conversation. Knowing some half-assed high-school French gave me an in with the Vietnamese in outside of work things (like food and such).

- Hindi is potentially good for outsourcing work as well as budget space flight. But Hindi has sort of the same issues as "Chinese"; Hindi is but one of many "Indian" languages and members of your outsource group might be native Punjabi or Gujarati speakers.

- If you're into industrial manufacturing, materials or armaments, German is hard to beat.

- There's still 37m Spanish speakers in your back yard. Unless you're career is going to make you a world traveler where all these other languages make sense, odds are there are going to be Spanish speakers above, below and equal to you wherever you work. That doesn't even count Central and South America and, or course, Spain.
I've had the opposite experience. The only reason anyone I know has signed up for Ello outside of the tech world is because they saw someone else sign up and don't want to miss out on something potentially cool. That's it.
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Global GDP increased by twenty to forty times in the twentieth century. Life expectancy has doubled. That depended hugely on fossil fuels.

If moving away from fossil fuels was free we'd do it. The problem is the huge cost. Hopefully it will happen over the next 100 years. Most people would happily spend 100 / year to get off fossil fuels. But 10K? 5K? That's the question.

Now we can spend money on research which has a huge payoff.
This seems like the perfect hackathon for me. unfortunately it is in Chicago =[
Only a few hundred million more and they'll be close to Facebook's user-base!
I've tried it. It seems okay. It's closer to twitter than to Facebook. It interests me enough that I'll give it a fair shot at being used.
Mobile is the thin end of the wedge.
Duplicate from yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8379310

That one has many comments and does not have a spurious fragment appended, so probably best to flag this one to try to avoid splitting the comments.
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A 'mock trial' http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mock_trial is not the same as a 'show trial' http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Show_trial, and in general targets of US drones have not participated in either.

Regardless, many of the drone strikes are executions, specifically extra-judicial executions. When the President signs off on a list of names of individuals to be killed, it seems an awful lot like an extra-judicial execution warrant.
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To start, this is a nice idea and I'm happy to contribute a bit to it, time depending and output depending. I'll be looking for an Altium library containing these parts and links in order to stay interested.

The 2N7002 has always been my standby signal NMOS. There are no power FETs or IGBT modules. Be nice to include some of the Ixys stuff.

A hinge-type micro SD card socket would be a nice variation, something that's harder to jar loose.

Hirose make some pretty nice board-to-board connectors. All you have on there so far are yucky 100 mil thruhole headers. Some finer pitch stuff would be nice. And pin pitch and number need to be a sortable/searchable field. Some SMB sockets would be awesome for test points, as would some test point headers (Vector makes nice ones like the K24 series, but my buddies like the little ones with the plastic colored bushing and a ring on top).

There are nowhere near enough microcontrollers. You could easily have 20 MSP430s. I've had good luck with the MSP430F2246 and F5438, I believe, but we've used a ton of different varieties.

How about a 232 driver like the MAX232 family? Or a 485/422 transceiver, or any kind of differential driver/receiver pair. Those Analog Devices ADUM isolated transceivers are great parts.

And no Zeners! The BZX84C series are a nice family to start with. I want to gag over the opamp selection.

I don't think the kinds of specs you offer are sufficient to describe the parts there. This could be said for just about everything on that list, which is probably the biggest issue with such a list. Most parts that designers select are chosen for one of two reasons - we don't care and they're in the library, or they are the key part that makes everything else worth doing. In the first instance, this list is great. In the second, I'm going to spend a day looking at all the vendor options to pick the best part I can find. But even for the parts I don't really care about, I have some concerns - the part has to work right for the application. Active parts are specified by many key parameters and in the case of opamps in particular these parameters are not indicated at all here, so I'll end up having to look up each part's details anyway. Consider input bias current, offset voltage, 0.1-10 hz noise, 10hz-1khz integrated noise, just as a start.

Rant off. Nice idea, here's my two cents worth.
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"We believe a social network can be a tool for empowerment. Not a tool to deceive, coerce and manipulate — but a place to connect, create and celebrate life."

So... what if some of my "connecting" and "creating" is viewed by some as deception or coercion? Eye of the beholder and all that...

Certainly FB is a lot of data mining to sell ads, but I also see plenty of people connecting with family, creating groups and communities and communicating and growing... and they didn't need some monospaced hipsterific platform to do it.
It's a social network based on two promises:

1. It's beautiful, which they had to add because they knew just saying "we won't sell your data" would not go far enough. They needed that extra edge. In my humble opinion, it's actually quite ugly, so I find it pretty funny they are advertising this as a selling point.

2. They don't sell your data. We all know this is flawed because there is no promise this won't happen in the future, and to boot MOST normal people do not care about this.

Their initial launch had the right elements that allowed it to go viral and non-technical people started signing up. I would LOVE to see some stats from the Ello team around retention, as I am willing to bet a large sum of money that stat is really bad.
Why do you think the barrier to entry is low? It seems extremely high to me. There's a massive network effect in play. I imagine competing with Uber at this point would cost millions of dollars per city.
Agreed. Everyone likes to make a sport of bashing Microsoft (no pun intended), but that is simply WHY Microsoft is so darn successful: Backwards compatibility up the ying-yang.

You buy a piece of software from 1995, it would likely have continued to work on any 32 bit Windows including Windows 7 released in 2009. The only reason why a lot of really old software has broken recently is that 16 bit support simply no longer exists on x86-64 CPUs in 64 bit mode (which can be somewhat mitigated with XP mode or Client Hyper-V in Windows 7 and 8 respectively).

Linus Torvalds gets this concept:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/3/8/495
You're misunderstanding what that sentence means. In context:

3. Intellectual Property Ownership

The Software and any authorized copies that Customer makes are the intellectual property of and are owned by Adobe Systems Incorporated and its suppliers. The structure, organization, and source code of the Software are the valuable trade secrets and confidential information of Adobe Systems Incorporated and its suppliers. The Software is protected by law, including but not limited to the copyright laws of the United States and other countries, and by international treaty provisions. Except as expressly stated herein, this agreement does not grant Customer any intellectual property rights in the Software. All rights not expressly granted are reserved by Adobe and its suppliers.

The rights being referred to are rights that Adobe (and its suppliers) have in the software. Courts long ago decided that, absent specific wording to the contrary, implicit rights and obligations can be read into contracts. This type of specific wording tries to avoid that from happening.

I haven't read the rest of the document so I can't speak as to whether the EULA does indeed transfer/license your rights to Adobe, but if there is such a provision, this is not it.
I'm in the same boat. Though I see the argument that I'm running code I haven't audited all the time, there's something about a bash script in particular that gives me worry. I don't know how rational this is, but I feel like the author could switch the code momentarily to something exploitive, wait for N downloads, then switch it back. I'm not sure how you could gather evidence that this even happened, since the nature of `curl -s URL | bash` is so transient.

I'd rather take an extra few seconds to do:

$ curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hannob/bashcheck/master/bashcheck > bashcheck.sh
$ cat bashcheck.sh # nothing fishy
$ chmod +x bashcheck.sh && ./bashcheck.sh
I don't know anyone outside the tech industry who has signed up for Ello either.

But I do know a bunch of people who value their privacy. They just don't know what they can do about it.
This is the natural progression of the most pirated software app on the Internet.
But many drone strikes are targeting specific individuals. They don't have surgical precision, but they are not indiscriminate.
Oh, with a mesh wifi network. I have to stop taking headlines at their word.
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31k/hr is < 9/s, and yet apparently it's been having issues scaling. Other social networks have started with similar ambitions of never showing ads, gotten investors and punt on monetization as they "perfect the product". If they don't collapse, they either go freemium and segment the userbase or provide all users the same features and support this by showing ads.

It's a nice idea but no for-profit has figured it out yet. Diaspora accomplishes it but lacks the most valuable asset a social network could have, which is a large userbase.
Wait, which of those two (kernels/compilers/etc. or games/content/etc) are you suggesting have developers who work for free?
Ask HN: Any more open source retreats?
I applied to https://stripe.com/blog/stripe-open-source-retreat but did not get in. Ever since then I've been on the lookout for something similar, be it through Stripe or elsewhere. I was actually expecting other companies like Google or Mozilla to start hosting similar initiatives as it seems like such a great idea.

So any other leads?

Thanks!
The namespace change is an official patch now:

https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/bash/bash-4.3-patches/bash43-027
It was in the 60s, maybe 63 tabs? Firefox 30 on Win8. Amazingly (not!!!) it crashed. FF crashes every day for me. Unless I crash it myself in Task Mgr first. I typically have no fewer than 30 tabs open. Can't get FF to run 24 hrs without burning 2 gigs of memory. It leaks like a sieve. I typically have several Twitter tabs, a couple LinkedIns, one Gmail, Blogger and Wordpress (a couple each), Google Finance, Hacker News, and miscellaneous articles/blogs open, plus Mailchimp and Hushmail. Lots of AJAX-intensive pages and Flash pages (Google Finance, for example). No porn.

Sometimes Flash will complain, but most of the time FF just runs out of memory and starts giving the spinning cursor. Once in a while it will crash without bringing up the crash reporter window. It'll just go down silently.
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Why do certain phrases, such a "Peak Oil", make so many people have such strong opinions based on so little information and expertise? It must simply be one of those ideas what captures the public imagination and makes everyone feel they must have an opinion no matter how little they know. I wish there was a better explanation. The human mind is a very strange and fascinating thing.
>Even if you prove that it's easy as pie to use, they'll keep saying that, while they look uncomfortable from the cognitive dissonance they're experiencing.

I love Linux, and I think it has the potential to be the best operating system for end-users. Unfortunately, it is hard for the average person to use. Even the most user-friendly distro, Ubuntu, suffers from incompatibility issues and broken drivers after I update. It doesn't happen often, but the average person doesn't EVER want to spend hours fucking around with his / her computer just to get it working properly. The interface is user-friendly, but that won't matter if something breaks.
For me, one of the advantages of C is that it lacks syntactic sugar. Writing a couple of extra characters is an acceptable tradeoff. Keeping it as simple as possible, with as few operators and keywords, is better.
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I'd say apply the same level of scrutiny as you would other code, such as the code that your distribution allows you to install. That means:

1) Find a source you trust (nominally)
2) Get a gpg-key that you trust belong to that user
3) Get the install.sh script
4) Get the matching gpg signature (install.sh.asc)
5) Verify that 4) is a valid signature of 3) under 2)
6) Have a look at the script
7) Run the script

If you can't establish 2), you'll just have to stick to 3) 6) and 7).

Seeing that something is on a https site, just means someone had the access to put it there. If someone got access to the private key behind 2) -- 1) is probably so compromised that there isn't anything other than 6) that might protect you -- and if the script is truly malicious (as opposed to just your average botched bash script) -- it's not guaranteed that it's obviously malicious.

Anyway, a gpg signature links some distributable the author has verified all the way back to wherever that file was authored -- while https only anchors trust on the web server. Web servers get compromised all the time. Prefer a proper signature as a means to anchor trust ("yes, this is probably what X wanted to distribute. If you trust X, this is probably OK").

A https signature just means: "This is something someone/anyone managed to upload to this web server".
I really enjoy how articles and conversations like this tend to take place in a universe parallel to the one where the extraction and burning of fossil fuels, especially from "unconventional" sources, has grave environmental and social consequences. As if we can compartmentalize the economy and our environmental and social ecology as separate, non-intersecting concerns.
I'm not in the beta program so from the outside is hard to judge. That said I find it very difficult that can even touch twitter or facebook. It reminds me a bit of app.net and ghost.org

However is impressive to me how much exposure ello is getting every day, don't get me wrong but right now I can't see why. Feel free to tell me that's I'm wrong, I'm really interested.

I wish them all the best but more importantly that this "hype" will last
As per your wiki link, it is about the extraction rate, which is not to be confused with how much oil there is - there will always be vast amounts of oil that's uneconomic to extract, or slow to extract, or both. The only "running out of oil" claimed by peak oil people is that we're running out of cheap oil.

They do claim the production rate will decline, and conventional crude has. The wells from this boom in the US have a production rate decline of 40% per year, so production is already declining nearly as fast as we can drill more and is predicted to peak soon.

Edit: Myself, I guess it's true that by throwing even more resources at oil (e.g. pursuing tight oil in other countries like in the US) we could still kick the peak down the road a little more and raise the production rate, but when the world economy can't afford such prices and the EROI is so poor then it seems more like playing word games than an honest rebuttle of the implications of peak oil.
I haven't really read the "outside foreign forces" line in chinese press. Where did you see that?

Chinese understand their government and the Hong Kong situation. So I don't know why the government would need to lie about it?

You are assuming the majority of chinese want a democratic government. I'm not sure that's true.
Why is Ello a better choice for users than Diaspora?
I believe that people who don't vote can be just as patriotic as those who do.

When a person votes during a presidential election, all that is accomplished is the person is making a choice between 1 of 2 carbon copy shit-bags that have been hand-picked corporate lobbyists and other kinds of sociopaths. To make it even more ridiculous, its just a single vote out of ~40,000,000. I think it makes far more sense to vote in local elections and primaries, because, even though the effort is still futile, that's the closest you are going to get to making an actual difference.
There's a much better article covering the topic of 'peak oil' here:

http://earlywarn.blogspot.com/2013/08/what-oil-drum-meant.ht...

I don't think the more intelligent people who argued that peak oil was a reality ever thought it was about anything other than the economics of extracting oil. Most of the discussion on the oil drum focused on what happened when the cost of energy outpaced economic growth.

While I think fracking has been a reprieve, and that natural gas can supply our electricity grid, I still think that there are a number of long-term issues we may face as there are no direct substitutes for cheap oil and all of the infrastructure we have invested to it (let's call it the oil grid).

It's not cheap to replace or retrofit an infrastructure of 250 million cars / trucks / etc in the US that run on gasoline. Or retrofit the gasoline stations for natural gas for that matter. Natural gas may be an alternate source of electricity, doesn't mean it is a perfect or necessarily cheap substitute for oil.

Similar techniques to fracking have been in the industry for many years btw - they started out with nitrogen injection. It did have the effect of temporarily boosting production in declining fields. The unintended consequence however was that instead of a gentle decline, when the fields using nitrogen injection did finally decline in production their 'curves' went very sharply down (instead of a gentle gaussian curve). The rate of decline after nitrogen injection has been extreme in many oil fields around the world.

See what happened to the super giant oil field in Mexico - Cantarell.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantarell_Field

I think like Hubbert's peak - which attempted to sum the aggregate harvesting of oil at the time given what technology he was aware of - has been a fairly good approximation until very recently of what actually happened. In my opinion, while new technology may have turned the curve back upward for oil production, I think the aggregate use of fracking may also result in a curve that on the global level also declines sharply (just as in individual fields with nitrogen injection).
The important thing here is that a metric that is a _correlate_ of the thing you care about but can't measure directly might start to work less well once people know you're measuring it. And the reason is that the correlation with the thing you really care about might decrease.

To use your basketball example, say you have a player that takes a shot every time they get close enough to the basket, scoring 60% of them. You decide to measure accuracy. They get more conservative with when they take shots, so now half the time they run out of shot clock (resulting in a turnover) and the other half of the time they take a shot and score with 100% accuracy.

Their accuracy went from 60% to 100%, but the fraction of time possession results in scoring went from 60% to 50%.

The issue there is that you don't _really_ care about accuracy per se. What you care about is contribution to the score differential vs the opposing team. But that's hard to quantify, so people come up with various metrics that correlate to such contribution (shooting accuracy, rebound percentage, etc, etc), along with relative weights for these metrics. In fact, the weights depend on the exact team you're playing, who your current teammates are, etc.

In any case, it's actually fairly rare to be able to directly measure the thing you care about, especially in the social sciences, not least because a lot of the things we care about ("success in life", "college preparedness", "job satisfaction", "knowledge and understanding of the material covered by this class") are fairly difficult to quantify. So instead one ends up measuring various correlates and hoping that either people don't adjust their behavior too much to degrade the correlation before you're done measuring or that your measurement process attempts to account for such adjustments.