skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So here's what "they" don't tell you: building a successful startup -- even by moderate definitions of "successful," such as, "reaching a point that lets you only work 4 hours/week" -- is what economists call a "superstar economy." Kinda like being a musician or a basketball player: 99.99% of the starving artists or guys in the neighborhood playing hoops make $0.00 from it, but one-in-a-million make a killing. There's a small "middle class" in the ecosystem (people who don't strike the goldmind but do just fine) but, for all practical purposes, it's really, really tiny, too.

So, therefore: building your own app and putting it into the app store is helluva lot like trying to make your garage band a big hit. You must remember these three things to start your own band (or your own startup):

1.) Expect your band will never make a dollar. (Similarly, expect the startup to never make a dollar.)

2.) You must love creating music and feel such a deep calling to create that music, that you will obsessively create that music with the band, even remember #1, that your band will never make a dollar. (Yup, you must be so obsessed with your company's mission and vision that you'll do it even expecting it to fail.)

3.) You must be emotionally ready to play the lottery. If you're not emotionally ready for the lottery, stay home.

4.) Similarly, you must instinctively feel like you are blessed by Fortuna, because luck needs to be on your side not just tonight but for the whole journey.

5.) It's a f---load of hardwork to get people to notice what you do, and to get them excited about it. Are you prepared for that overwhelming, intense, nonstop amount of hardwork?

6.) You know what's even harder about the hard work? There's no one to tell you what to do. You don't even know if what you're doing is the right thing or not. There is a way to change what you're doing and create something that will get people peeing in their pants with excitement. But you need to figure it out. No one will tell you, ever. In other words, more painful then 24 hours/day of work is 24 hours/day of work and not even knowing if you're doing the right work....

7.) Unless you happen to have a very strong mentor or model, it makes the incredible amount of hard work still even harder. Jimmy Page was the highest paid studio musician in England before he went to start his own band. He had a series of great mentors to teach him the path. A good mentor will teach you what to listen to and what to ignore. You probably want to ignore this rambling post here.

Okay, 3 minute break over, back to work.... :)

morgan
The signal-to-noise ratio in this event is terrible so far.
>Microsoft’s court maneuvering had played out in secret. Durrer’s company didn’t have the chance to argue its case in court. By the time Durrer was served with court papers on that June day, Microsoft had seized control of the company’s services and ejected the hackers using them, while also locking out all the legitimate users. Durrer eventually regained control of his company, but only after it had been offline for days.

The owner of a legitimate company was notified of the confiscation by MS of his business as and after it happened...

EDIT: Actually, read the entire paragraph under ‘As the hours creeped by, more and more people were falling offline.’ header.
Do you actually own and use a retina MacBook pro? It's weid that you see no difference, I can totally see the pixels in any text about 10 pt...the difference is pretty dramatic, and my eye sight isn't even very good.
Apple's new campus is powered by the outrage and impatience of people that won't download VLC or ffplay to watch their two-hour commercials before they're available on YouTube.
The same developer has had IDEs for Java and PhoneGap available for some time, with a good number of installs and decent reviews for the Java version. I have both, but haven't really used them since I have more need for a general text editor. That said, with an external keyboard there's no reason these couldn't be quite functional for programming.

There are other development options on Android devices as well, including Terminal IDE (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.spartacusr...) for a full command-line based development environment and DroidEdit (Free and Pro versions) (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.aor.droide...) for a more GUI-oriented programmer's text editor.
Related articles expanding on this leak:

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20141016/07235828845/leake...

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20141016/05300128842/lates...
Do you have a link or resource for that argument you mention in the last line? I'd actually be really interested in digging into what that means.

The industry always calls it a "skills gap" (guilty as charged here), but our developing theory is that its an gap in education. Not privatized business-like education like ours, but in the core standard of education. In Europe certainly this is the more relevant discussion anyway as mandates are falling into place in the UK and other countries that enforce children to gain a rudimentary understanding of code through their traditional schooling. We're actually working really hard to help with this effort with a CPD for teaching teachers that we just launched. Yes its a savvy business move, but I'm really excited that we're trying to approach what we feel is actually the core issue.

Let me know if you have a resource for that argument, and let me know your thoughts on my comment!
This is really testing "how unreliable are the network routers, cables and network adapters (and drivers!) that I'm pushing traffic through".

How unreliable is UDP as a protocol? Unreliable. This is really a binary state, not a percentage-measurable value.

If you need reliability (in ordering or delivery) you need to layer on top of it and unless your network usage has very specific constraints (eg. low latency is far more important than strict ordering, as with most fast action games) you should almost certainly just use TCP rather than end up badly reimplementing it over UDP.
Okay, I want to talk a little bit about how wealthy people would benefit in a more egalitarian society. But if we assume they are objectivist, there are some issues.

It's difficult to do so, because it's hard to say what can benefit a person who is wealthy already.

I mean I can point to data that suggests that people who earn better wages, get headstart, have libraries in their community, get a college education, etc are less likely to commit crimes, but your wealth probably means that you can afford good security.

I can say that in a more egalitarian society, vaccinations would be free, and thus you are your children are less likely to get diseases, but you have good health care, and so this isn't a huge issue.

So I guess the best way is to point out that in a more egalitarian society with free or low cost education and funding for research, general progress in the sciences would happen faster. You get better medicine, better technology, can potentially live longer. Also such an economy will grow more quickly, and while if there were more stringent taxes you may not gain as much of the pie as you could, a bigger pie would cancel that out.
Total cholesterol, really (which goes up with HDL, which has no upper limit)? And no triglycerides?
Gates has an interesting take on that problem:

http://www.gatesnotes.com/About-Bill-Gates/Catalytic-Philant...

He sees philanthropy as a way to address the areas that both markets and governments miss. Markets are good at greedy[0] optimization and growth, but are full of stupid coordination problems. Governments are good at solving some of those, but suffer from some of their own both internally and at global scale. Philanthropy, being basically rich people throwing away money on stuff they think matter, can cover some additional blind spots.

[0] - "greedy" as invoking computer science connotations, not "evil capitalist" connotations.
I'd love to actually have a purely remote job. I work from home quite a lot but I can never find any 100% remote jobs which don't pay graduate salaries :(.

Seems a real gap in the market given most companies don't even have any seats for you
Just a note concerning this. Popcorn allows users to easily find and watch torrents, which could be illegal copies. Why does the software that enables that fall under a DMCA request? Shouldn't any web browser or search engine also fall under the same rules because they allow me to browse and watch mp4 movies?
To set the stage, it's been rumored that when Steve Jobs was preparing for press events he'd rehearse his presentation approximately 72 hours. So whomever suggests that you can over-prepare is giving you bad advice.

As for the pitch deck itself, if you have the ability to tell stories and design good looking slides, I'd give yourself 1 week on the first draft and then begin pitching to lower tier investors -- ask them for their take on the presentation and advice. Your deck is a living artifact so you may find yourself throwing out the first version and starting over or just simply iterating on it with each subsequent investor meeting. Regardless, use a template to get yourself out of the gate -- http://newhaircut.com/pitch-deck-design.

If all you can manage to put together is a snoozer that will have your investor questioning your ability to breathe, let alone run a business, get some outside help. This process shouldn't take more than 7-10 days.
If you email me at bjoern@compass.co, then I can put you in touch with some investors/incubators that are using it today.
Ah, I wish I had seen that challenge before submissions closed!

The risk models for heart disease are simple enough that I just implemented them in Javascript based on the Framingham papers, although I did talk with one of the risk modelers at Archimedes to understand which models to use.
On Mac there's a GUI tool ["Synalyze It!"][1] which one could apply grammar to binary files. But it's not free anymore.

[1]: https://www.synalysis.net
I think what people miss about consumption taxes - beyond its' regressive nature - is that everything in the end is a form of consumption.
The distinction between capital, labor, and consumption is false - it only has meaning once you account for expected outcome.

Capital = purchases expected to generate a profit.
Labor = purchases expected to generate work. It need not generate a profit necessarily - e.g. paying someone to mow your lawn.
Consumption = purchases expected to generate pleasure, or avoid pain.

I'm sure the basis of these distinctions rest on some idea of social utility - that trying to turn a profit has more social utility than eating a Twinkie. Maybe we should examine that assumption also.

And consider how these notions entangle themselves in practice. A company car intended for non-personal use is considered an asset to the company, and treated as capital. But a similar car used for commuting is considered a consumption item.
Bill Gates gives sound reasons for maintaining the estate tax, and I agree with the general proposition of having something like a consumption tax. But, I have a different take on the social utility of capital transfers.

Yes, what you invest in you tend to get more of. But, each capital transfer does not destroy the capital. So, if you are buying a yacht, that capital goes to the designer, the builders, the welders, the suppliers, etc. Now, the point is that these people now have their own choices to do something with the capital received. Some of it will go for food, some of it will go for BBQ grills, some of it will go for big screen TV's. And, then the people receiving that capital will make their choices ad infinitum.

(Perhaps a performance artist alighting a million dollars in cash would actually destroy capital. They are undoubtedly more examples of waste)

I guess I can still see the incentives that would be built into a tax system (as they are built into ANY tax system) to alleviate what may otherwise be burdens on government into encouraging more social utility. But, I just wanted to emphasize that it is not that luxury spending has NO social utility, it just diffuses the social utility into multiple second order spending decisions.
I think the developers use Asus Transformers (tablets with associated keyboard docking stations that turn them into de facto laptops) extensively, so having a full IDE that can run on one of those would indeed be a boon -- even if most Android users have little use for it.
That's how I interpret it as well, though I don't see how one would implement this. Would we all have to start collecting all our receipts, even for private purchases? That seems like a headache...
Embedded Systems – Shape the World
What a cock! That reads like it was written by the kind of business-speak spewing tit who views the entire rest of humanity in terms of how they can be manipulated to best serve his/her career interests.
As someone that regularly watches Medium.com sites crash with great regularity on my underpowered iOS6 device, I'm gonna have to disagree with you here.
Thank you. All information are private. A company can selectively share their data with an investor or consultant or anyone else via Compass Monitor. Currently there is no API.
This is totally false. Intelligence is strongly genetic. Traits are very often genetically additive. Although we won't be certain until do a huge survey of genetics, all the author is saying is that it might be possible. And if it is, then we do have the technology to "engineer" a child with the genes we want.
This. I am constantly being tagged as overweight and high risk because of my BMI (5'10" and 175-180lbs but I am very active and the weight is from muscle rather than fat).
GCC Undefined Behavior Sanitizer – Ubsan
The BuzzFeed wizard who changed media as we know it
The secure smartphone that won’t get you beaten with rubber hoses
I would like to believe that before a major push from government and health organizations to encourage people to eat less fat, there was strong evidence that reducing dietary fat and cholesterol correlated with significant health improvement.

I would like to believe it, but I can't seem to find that strong evidence anywhere.
The documents were served to no-ip in Nevada, but the other parties were in an arabic-speaking country. The case was filed in multiple jurisdictions if you read the court documents. I invite you to read noticeoflawsuit.com and see what actually happened.
Agreed. WTB a Nexus 4 with smaller screen size, and double thickness all taken up with extra battery. WTB 24 hours of heavy constant use, not just "use" aka 99% standby.

The Nexus 5 is amazingly thin and rigid, the engineers did a great job with it, but I'd be completely happy if it were twice as thick with all the additional room filled with battery only.
> Would be interesting to know what the technology is behind this (if the claim is even half true).

I was thinking maybe the WebKit FTL JIT[1], but that had a claimed 35% increase in performance though....

[1]: https://www.webkit.org/blog/3362/introducing-the-webkit-ftl-...
Also triglycerides matters, and triglyceride/HDL ratio matters a lot.
I'm European and I have about 2.4% (I know this thanks to 23andMe).
Safari is able to cheat by interfacing more with the OS than V8, which has to be able to run on more platforms. It's the same reason IE beats it out in certain benchmarks.
This could be huge. The first messaging app that is user friendly and protects message content and meta data is going to be huge.
I don't know what to say, except that you're right. This is the problem that Tor is trying to solve, which is why Tor gets to claim that it is "anonymous," and random websites or apps don't get to make that claim.

I don't think it's a deliberate violation of privacy to operate a website, but I do think that it's a violation to operate a normal website and call it "anonymous." Because, as you point out, it's not.

Not only does it confuse users in the immediate sense, but it poisons the well for everyone who is approaching the problems seriously in the long term.
Wow, open source sites are getting nice designs these days. Is there a business behind this project or is it via donation?

The documentation is excellent.
Fuck Apple and the horse they rode in on!
It's easy enough to create systems that grants tax credits for investment vehicles as long as the returns are rolled over into new investments.

Many countries have preferential tax treatments for long term investment vehicles already.

But ignoring that: What is the evidence that this money is best spent by repeat entrepeneurs? Yes, there are some that do well. There's also a vast number of people that succeeds once and never again.

And consider that e.g. Tesla and SpaceX both have benefited immensely from government programs. Maybe society would be better off with wealth taxes were the proceeds were pumped into more programs like these, or even co-investment with private investors with an actual track record track record.
I am my legal department, and am a solo entrepreneur. :-)
Thanks, we worked quite hard on this new redesign!

edit: Yes, EfficiOS [1] is the open source business behind the LTTng project :).

[1] - https://www.efficios.com/
Dogs are excellent hackers.
Three steps would improve the situation(IMO):
Triple the House of Representatives
Term limits(12 years both house total)
Repeal the 17th Ammendment
I have two dogs, that we've had for 6 and 7 years. I also have a 2 year old and a baby. I don't love the dogs anywhere near as much as I used to, pre-baby.
thats quite a change. what made you make that huge a switch?
Moxie, you're an (inter)national treasure. Thanks for helping us filter out the bullshit.
You've got to do one of the four things. Otherwise you don't make a chance at all. Pretty lame imo.
> If the rich spend all their money for consumption, then there will not be enough capital available - or so the argument goes.

Spending money doesn't make it go away, it just gives it to someone else. If everyone spent all their money for consumption, and no one invested, that would probably be a bad thing, but short of actually punishing investment compared to other uses of money, its hard to see how that would happen.

Heck, its particular hardest to see how it would happen with the rich, anyhow. Simple declining marginal utility means that past a certain point, the additional present consumption that people find useful drops off and the value of securing an adequate future support base by investing money now vs. consuming more now increases with increasing income. The idea that we need to tax-favor investment even more than we currently do by taxing only consumption (rather than taxing income, but taxing the income from investment favorably compared to "ordinary income" and particularly favorably compared to labor income) seems to be based on a conception of human behavior that has no support at all in how humans, and particularly the rich, actually use their money in the status quo system.
I don't think the answer is a simple "No, they wouldn't invest those years of their life"

It seems in my experience that most people who invent life changing technology don't do it for the money; they do it because they like to create. Humans have an innate drive to create new things. While I think it makes sense to reward people who contribute to society, those rewards don't have to be unlimited.
Well, based on these results, you probably will.
Andrew Sullivan on revenue for journalism, why advertising is bad
I can't help but think of the Snapchat breach. Surely the world understands that once something is on the internet, it's there forever, right? Complying with the DMCA is security theater at best, and at worst, stifling to innovation.

I mean, we have many laws centered around the difference between intentionally and unintentionally inflicting harm on others. So for example if you break someone’s rib performing CPR, you’re protected as a good samaritan. Or if you veer off the road and run someone over because you were texting, you can still be tried for manslaughter because you shouldn’t have been typing on your cell phone in the first place. I think we can all agree that it’s good we have these types of laws and don’t just focus on premeditated crime.

But the DMCA tries to be a moral compass when it’s not mathematically possible to do so. It’s a bit like setting up a booth on the Grand Canyon that charges money to take pictures. Sure, they can bust bootleggers that set up black market booths without a license. They can even bust scalpers selling photos. But in the end, the Grand Canyon is still there.

Whether someone gets irate about piracy/copying trade secrets or not, in the end, perhaps as a society we should ask if it makes any sense to spend tax dollars trying to stop something that can’t be stopped once the cat’s out of the bag.

Actually, I think GitHub is in a unique position to not comply with the DMCA. It has nothing to do with the size of GitHub, because no matter how large a private entity is, it is always subject to the laws of its government. It has more to do with the fact that every developer in the world has either heard of GitHub or uses it every day.

In other words, we are the people that form what can be thought of as the technology arm of society, so by extension the technology arm of government. That gives us a seat at the table in matters of technology, the same way that teachers unions are able to influence education or the American Medical Association can influence public health. If we decide that the DMCA is not a good use of taxpayer money and should no longer be enforced (in fact can’t be enforced), then it’s not up to a court to decide that, since they will side with the law every time (as they should). The law itself is what must be adjusted or repealed, by the people who have the means to do so by virtue of the role they play in society. We have the leverage to repeal it because without our support, there is no expertise to enforce it in the first place.

If GitHub complies with the DMCA and we use GitHub, then we are quietly endorsing the DMCA.
> Therefore scores like IQ do not measure someone's true potential, they only hint at what they've already been exposed to. That's why to me such tests are a waste of time.

Hmmm. As far as I know you are allowed to retake IQ-tests if you want, still the differences are there. Some people will never pass 120 no matter how many times they take the test.
True, a system would need to be put in place. Would it be enough to just look at money going out of your bank account and report that? I guess there would be irregularities if you were sending money as a gift or to charity.
If Hemingway Wrote JavaScript, the Book
Domestic laws are also written for legislators by corporations through organizations such as ALEC: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Legislative_Exchange_...

The best interests of the people being impacted are not being protected. Citizens are being excluded from a process that is supposed to be democratic. It is corrupt.
A UDP packet walks into a bar.

A UDP packet walks into a bar.
Definitely an important point.

I love the work of Open Whisper Systems, Redphone/TextSecure/Signal is brilliant. I hope the completely get the number of users they deserve when they merge under the one brand.