skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Trolling? Not at all. Instead, it's just
what we are actually doing.

I'll let them all know that they have a
choice: (1) Make money doing the work to
make our software and Web site good,
our users happy, and our start-up successful
or (2) grow their resumes for jobs
elsewhere.

With (1), they get to help build something
important. With (2) they get to add buzz
words of questionable utility for unknown
projects of questionable value. YMMV.
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Definitely an idea easily adoptable by the regular joe. Millions already use the 'Save the change' feature in their bank accounts so why not actually invest (and support) digital currency like Bitcoin? Definitely something I look forward to see flourish in full scale. The market could use a comparison exposing benefits to engage in this kind of activity. Something like "drop those penny stocks, come into the digital investment world with Bitcoin"
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Testbed may be a strong world, but there's definitively a lot of features thrown into FreeBSD and maybe more than there should be. Configuration syntax for all the different pieces are all over the place, it clear that there's not really anyone in charge of FreeBSD. That might be a good thing, and the reason why FreeBSD has all these feature in the first place. It's just really confusing to new comers, it unclear which of these feature I need, and which are optional. Even configuring drives are a bit of a mess, do I need GEOM, softraid, is GEOM a prerequisite for softraid, should I go for ZFS, how much space do I need? I've installed FreeBSD only to find the keyboard to be weirdly mapped, OpenBSD was as you would expect.

For performance, FreeBSD beats OpenBSD in all cases. The thing is, many of us would do just fine on OpenBSD while finding configuration and installation easier and the whole experience of using the system more consistent.
I guess you missed the part I have spent 10 years using it.
Oh, that's interesting. I live in the U.S.!
Not really. That, if anything, is like overfitting.
This is the same government that is mandating compulsory biometric IDs for its population with nary a thought about security. Its a mess, third party contractors with no exposure to IT or security are doing the scanning and data entry right now despite the Indian supreme court saying this should not be made mandatory. This is a government that is openly violating its own supreme court.
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It's the same formula SleepyTime uses, in a mobile friendly format.
not huge but jsonprettyprint.com gets 20k hits a month. http://www.similarweb.com/website/jsonprettyprint.com
I'm a bit out of the loop, what's gone wrong with ThinkPads?
Athletes get motivational videos, why not programmers?
The link has audio automatically playig.
I understand this is an experimental project, but how much electricity / for how long could you buy for 3 million euros (800+ years?) or how many rooftop cells could be installed? It's an excessive expense with no visible yield down the line.
This seems to come up every now and again. There's nothing wrong with it, you're doing a partial lookup, so getting all domains that include "google.com".

If you want just google.com whois, lookup 'domain google.com'.
I'm curious what needs can't be met by using a mac.

My desktop machine runs linux - currently it's ubuntu, but it over the last ~6 years it's also been centos, debian, and arch. I love linux.

Two weeks ago a started a new job and got a macbook pro. I love it - and am completely surprised by it.

I have not run into a single thing that I could do on linux I can't do on osx.
If anyone is curious as to what the taxi regulation looks like in Los Angeles which has lead to this, this paper looks like a good start.

http://www.taxi-library.org/driving-poor.pdf

> The Taxicab Commission determined how many taxicabs were needed for Los Angeles and divided the city into five geographical zones. Taxicab franchises then bid on the zones and for an allotted number of taxicabs to operate in each zone

> the taxi industry is among the largest source of political campaign contributions to members of the City Council. The Los Angeles Times reported that in 2000 (the last year new franchises were awarded), taxicab companies paid lobbyists $288,000 in that year
How many times to you think companies would pay to run a connection to a house? After the first, or maybe even the second time, does the financial payback for laying additional redundant physical lines make sense?

City gov't is a minor problem, but remove that and you still have strong natural monopoly conditions.

It seems like the only way to get competition in the last mile is that the entity which owns the last mile infrastructure must be required to provide competitive access to that network. Ideally that might have been government owning the infrastructure, with a market of multiple competitors running services across the last mile. It seems like many nations with competitive last-time ISP markets got there by starting out with national ownership of much of that infrastructure, but when much of that network is privately owned - it's much harder to get there.
Ironically, one of these companies did a product that was HR software. :-)
Where are all these anti-Linux commentators here that you speak of?

In general, the opposite mentality (Linux users hating BSD) is far more common, particularly in places like /r/linux, Phoronix and even LWN. There's a certain brand of Linux user who just won't resist telling you that BSD is an irrelevant dinosaur-era operating system that keeps leeching off of Linux. BSD users tend to be much more humble and learned, in comparison. Largely because they don't live in a monoculture.
I suppose a "crutch" in that if you are ever forced to leave them, you can't function the same.

If you can control your ADHD off meds, then the meds would be considered a cruch (imo).

Not to slight you at all -- I wish I had meds even right now, because managing without them sucks. A lot.

But personally, I can't say I'd never want to be in a place where, as an adult, I have to learn to manage my life because I _can't_ take my medicine. I suppose I'm the opposite of you and am glad my parents had me learn to cope without medicine :-)

Good luck getting pregnant though. Why are ADHD meds considered unsafe when you're pregnant?
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People won't onboard a freelance developer for a short project unless they are desperate (and startups can often be desperate in different ways), but they will onboard advisors and consultant leaders to get them through tough periods. The difference in actual day-to-day can be minimal, but it's how you present yourself. "I'm a CTO", not "I'm a dev (also a CTO)".

You could become a consulting CTO for hire. Talk to some of the startups in your target group, and to non-technical founders, to understand more about what they would pay for, and what results they would want to see in order to pay the bill. For example, selling the product might not be the goal; raising investment is more likely.

For some, it may simply be coming in, assessing the state of things, making a list of recommendations, and hooking them up with full-time CTO candidates.

For others, having a technical advisor who can screen, interview and hire their future tech team is incredibly valuable.

For MVP building in the specific stage you refer to, as others have said, profit sharing isn't a particularly reliable model. The MVP may never take off, and by the time it does, they may have built a whole team and rewritten your code.

Other than content, here's one thought. What if you built up a set of talented developers who need your skills too - junior folks looking for exposure to portfolio projects, senior devs happy with a 9-5 but wanting some intellectual stimulation and to learn new techniques and technologies. Then effectively set up a MVP shop, where you manage the first stage of the 'idea to code' pipeline, but hand off the bulk of the implementation to others. Perhaps these others bill hourly and you get a cut. You can even be a broker for just introducing the two and still get a cut, though smaller.

One thought, I think that this pattern of work can be detrimental sometimes. An engineer joining a startup doesn't want to see a bunch of spaghetti code written by some consultant who is no longer around. It's often the case that she has to deal with it, but it can be a red flag of sorts. There's a whole second set of consulting needs around transforming a messy MVP which has started to show traction into a scalable, reliable product. It's uglier, harder, and therefore probably harder to find people who are truly good at it. But a lot of that may be relationship-based -- understanding what the startup leaders really want and what's working, translating that into new requirements, and keeping them happy if the work required to make it scalable is a lot more complex than it seems from the outside.
This is directly addresses in the company's FAQ:

> The total electricity consumption in the Netherlands lays around 110,000 GWh and increases annually by about 3% (according to CBS Netherlands). This means that if all suitable roofs in the Netherlands would be equipped with solar panels, they could only supply approximately 25% of the Dutch electricity demand.

Even though not every rooftop has one yet due to the cost of it (and some people find it ugly, like my father, he absolutely does not want us or our neighbors to have it :/), in the long run there is also not enough space. At least, that's what the company who makes this material is saying. Even if they are biased and we assume it's only half as bad as they tell us, we're still at only 50% of the demand.

Source: http://www.solaroad.nl/en/faq/ (under "Why would you include solar cells in the road and not next to it or on rooftops?")
I am getting ready to read the article, but I just wanna go ahead and say that Katz's stays in business by charging high prices for delicious food.
At least in the UK it can be quite tricky finding sites for larger scale solar farms. They need to be near a grid connection of the right voltage. There are also restrictions on the type of land that can be used to protect high quality agricultural land. Although it is still a silly idea
"30 KLOC code with maybe 60 KLOC of blank lines and 100 KLOC of comments"

I'd say obvious ... is obvious
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>It's not japanese who are crazy, it's more like western people are totally irrational and insane!

The main thing that's crazy is really the digital distribution systems available to us. If all we have is some DRM-crippled products, then you can't actually buy things digitally - merely rent them for an undefined period of time. Luckily, there are at least some things you can buy without DRM (music does pretty decently in this regard, games somewhat), but on the whole the situation is rather gloomy (especially with anything video). And while I do like the catalog rental model that services like Netflix offer with their subscriptions, at the very least I would like to be able to digitally buy the things I really like, which is flat-out impossible in many cases.
Or maybe she is just more aesthetically sensitive. Good book typography is pretty complicated thing and is done manually, so it couldn't be done adjusting stuff like line height and font size in the settings of your ebook. I don't really give much attention to such things, but if you'll show your ebook reader to some typography-savvy friend of yours, he could point out quite a lot moments about "why this kind of typography sucks". Or, well, you could just take some old book with good typesetting and carefully compare it yourself to what you see on the screen of your ebook reader. Difference is pretty obvious.
> As graduation nears, he applies for and receives a green card, choosing to permanently reside in the US.

While I understand your point, you are painting too rosy a picture for Shyam. Shyam will not get a green card for 6-13 years[1,2], he will also be on a H1B for all those years. And in my anecdotal experience, he faces a lot of the same prejudice/racism/xenophobia indiscriminately as Deepak in your example. This is not at the Google/Facebook (where likely you only see the Shyams), but at the remaining majority of large tech companies.

[1] depending on EB2 vs EB3, decided by whether he got a PhD/Masters or just a Bachelors from the US.
[2] due to the country-of-birth based green card quotas
How about, uh, 10 weeks of lost wages at market value because he could have found another job quicker?
I'm interested. Could you point me to a link to where naked capitalism calls out Blumberg? I hadn't actually heard of that site (show?) before and an initial Google isn't bringing me anything. Thanks.
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Launched https://passwds.io a few days ago and it's gotten 500 uniques every day since it's launch. By no means large, but growing every day. :)

And just made a new blog post about plans for passwds.io, like opening up the source: https://longren.io/introducing-passwds-io/
>> "heck, it's not even buying, it's more like renting by some weird license!)"

Nearly all the music I've bought online in the last 5 years has been DRM free which means I can play it on any device and nobody can delete it. I bought it, I own it. It's not rented.As for sharing with you friends that doesn't happen very often but mainly I think because it's easier for them to just get their own copy than meet me to borrow mine. When it was more common to borrow media from people that was not only because it was free but because they would have to travel to a shop, and if that shop didn't have it, travel to another and another until they found it. Now they can own it in seconds.
For performance, FreeBSD beats OpenBSD in all cases. The thing is, many of us would do just fine on OpenBSD while finding configuration and installation easier and the whole experience of using the system more consistent.

I really liked and used OpenBSD in the 2000-2002 timeframe (then I returned to Slackware, later OS X). At some point, hardware support became an issue. How good is it these days?
Cronyism and corporatism are a very common failure mode of capitalism, though. Perhaps it's time to recognize that capitalism can also fail, as opposed to just be failed, and deal with the world as it is, and not just as we wish it to be.
The ISPs seem just as mad about the proposal as we do. I'm convinced after watching Wheeler that he isn't so much corrupt as he is some combination of stupid and corrupt. I guess that's what makes him an "inspired choice" as Comcast put it.

As for Mozilla, it's possible they were convinced the FCC was going to go for section 706 entirely at the time, and pushed for something to increase the chance that they wouldn't be completely fucked.
Would this all be fixed by installing a linux distro on the laptop? A different trackpad driver - if it works ;) - would do different stuff, and remapping media keys is possible in most desktop environments.
> The limiting factor in solar panel production is cost, not places to put them.

Where did you get that from? From the site of this initiative (http://www.solaroad.nl/en/faq/):

> The total electricity consumption in the Netherlands lays around 110,000 GWh and increases annually by about 3% (according to CBS Netherlands). This means that if all suitable roofs in the Netherlands would be equipped with solar panels, they could only supply approximately 25% of the Dutch electricity demand.
So are those 25% suitable roofs already filled with solar cells? If not, why do you waste money on somthing that is roughly 30-50 times more expensive? And once the suitable roofs are filled are there really no other more suitable surfaces than roads?

Putting it more directly: would YC think that this is a good investment of money? I think you wouldn't even get an interview.
I work full time remote in a salaried position. Lead engineer for a publicly traded company, made around 200k USD last year (salary + bonus + stock).

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Krishna Maharaj was definitely in the hotel room where the murder occurred before it happened and had business dealings with the victim that had gone poorly.

Dan Taylor gave a detailed confession.

I'm not saying they're guilty, but it's not like the cops just picked them up at random.
They've started messing with the keyboards. I don't find this an issue personally (I'm typing this on a X1 Carbon 2014), but it bothers some people.
Talking about the 440 series: no physical buttons on the trackpad, keyboard changes, a lot harder to take apart, 12GB max memory. It's basically not a Thinkpad anymore but a black MBP wannabe.
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A growing trend of poor platform choices. The obvious stuff is that their once great keyboards are now terrible. Mouse buttons are the other one.

On the more hardware nitty-gritty side of things though, nearly all of their laptops the last 4 years have heat problems, including one line that you can never use more than 50% of the CPU before it throttles due to severe overheat. My second-gen x100e is the second laptop I've ever used to actually give me a burn - and from doing nothing more than streaming a youtube video. Their x series are basically unusable and were the only ones I would consider buying to begin with.

Sorely disappointed.

Edit: Also their software is shit, but I don't use Windows on it anyway. They're still better than ASUS laptops though.
You also missed the part that you stopped using it for almost 10 years. It is very different now. For example, I can now jump to anywhere in the kernel source tree instantly, jump to any definition or reference instantly. The new features make navigating Linux kernel source like a small project. I cannot do this with Eclipse.
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Your story for Shyam would be wonderful.. I want the immigration system to work like that!

However, it does not. A university graduate that is looking for an entry level position cannot just request a green card! I have been there, actually. As a graduate from a US university, with good grades, wanting to stay in the US. This is how it actually works. Without at the very least a standing offer, a foreigner can't even apply for the green card. The company has to say they can't find a qualified American, prove that the foreigner is qualified have to wait until the green card is handed out before working there. For a recent graduate that would mean an EB-3. Even if you come from Europe, the wait for that is of years. Nobody will hold the job for that long, so that route is impossible.

So this is what a foreigner with an American CS degree has to do. First he gets an F1 visa, and looks for a company that would sponsor him further. He better hope it's a good fit. In that period, he has to keep the company happy, and then get sponsored for an H1-B. Let's remember that H1-B periods are today open for 1 or 2 days a year, thanks to the H1-B mill companies. Then, once we have the H1-B, the company gets to decide if they want to sponsor for permanent residency. This will take years, and cost tens of thousands of dollars. Only after that, we get back to the position where Shyam is in your story.

I am a pretty good example of the real version of Shyam story. I graduated in 2000 from a US university, and went though the immigration maze while working for a variety of US companies. I got my permanent residency in 2011. I did not go through staffing companies, but many people do, because while it provides a way worse service for your employer, it's far, far safer for the employee. If they get hit by a round of layoffs that says 'effective immediately' while getting that green card, they have to go back home, or stay illegally. The staffing company will not lay them off: they will just not pay them while they hand them another position: For all intents and purposes, they become a shell company that keeps their immigration status safe, in exchange for a very big pay cut.

In my case, there was only one close call, when my first employer lost a big contract for their product, and started doing rounds of layoffs, shrinking their workforce in the US by a factor of 10. When I saw what they were doing (and that I did not share the nationality of the company owners), I got another job 2 weeks before my department received their notice.

So If you want more stories of immigrants that come here and compete honestly, and that you'd want to have on your team, wish for better immigration legislation, because the current system actually promotes your scenario B. The immigrants don't like it either.
Providing an API is good. Developers would come up with many innovative solutions. One of my friend built an android app to find location based loo finder using the data public domain.

Not sure if you guys are aware about the data sets which are already publicly available.

http://data.gov.in/
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