skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My experience as an observer is that people at big and small companies will try to get free stuff as long as possible, then they'll negotiate forever, then they will never pay until threatened. Some big companies have as part of their business plan to put their smaller partners out of business just as a product is delivered or project finished.

I feel you made the right move wrt the VP. Working with F500 companies requires a long time commitment and your company needs some weight. You need something that forces the F500 to re-engage and pay up after their first attempt to screw you.

Secondly VPs don't typically go looking for technology to buy. They tell people below them to do that and then just sign off. In your case the VP literally wanted some free tech to show off at a conference. You need to sell to someone lower level who is not going to be a man child. Imagine someone who went through childhood and then just...kept going. Next time offer some free on-site consulting and then get the low level managers you meet to buy in to the project and actually pay (to impress their vp, of course!)
Tax evasion as a service. Target the same legal loopholes that big corporations use to avoid paying taxes like "transfer pricing". You set up the offices and shell corporations in Ireland and the Netherlands for a Double Irish with a Dutch Sandwich. You then share those resources (offices, staff, lawyers, accountants, etc) between your clients & charge a percentage of the tax savings as your fee.
STUFF YOU SHOULD USE

POND - https://pond.imperialviolet.org/

Yeah, right.

"Dear God, please don't use Pond for anything real yet. I've hammered out nearly 20K lines of code that have never been reviewed. Unless you're looking to experiment you should go use something that actually works."
Irrevocable access to a channel that reaches every human on the planet.
This. I know the big-four of accounting/consultancy firms offer these services for e.g. expatriates but they don't take on single "puppets" for logistical reasons.

Small firms mostly lack the wide scale of knowledge required to do said things.

For prices: I know a certain B4-firm asks around EUR 450 (USD 550?) for a single tax return. Extrapolate from there ;-)
>I once saw one of my best friends fail his first startup. They had a kickass programming team, received investment and did a bunch of things wrong.

>5) They didn't do any market testing and validation = wrong product market fit.

How does this happen? How do startups receive funding without doing some level of marketing testing and validation?

I ask because in Canada it seems extremely hard to get even angel funding (beyond family members) without demonstrable traction and growth. Is that not the case in the US?
Indian :D
I've mentioned something along these lines before as well. I want it to be seamlessly integrated with Aperture (and likely Lightroom, given how things are going in Aperture-land) such that I can browse all of my photos at any time. The RAWs are securely backed up in some datacenter, and if I want to edit the photo, the RAW is cached locally so that it can be edited. If the photo hasn't been edited in some time now, it's evicted from the cache, and I still have the preview available for perusal.
Looking at the resume I have trouble considering her a "Junior" dev, seems much more experienced than that.
> unsubstantiated FUD isn't necessary

Sure.

...but to be fair, regardless of the make syntax, you've also got to look at the history of make, and what it's designed to achieve.

Make is for executing shell commands on file patterns with dependency rules.

It's not designed to use an ecosystem of plugins or have long running processes (eg. to run a local server or watch for file changes). It's not designed to be a scripting language (although it can be, since it's technically turing complete).

Now, when you look at other things which have come along to replace make as a build tool: cmake, grunt, gulp, ant, rake, maven, scons, premake, etc.

I think it's probably a little bit superscillious to suggest that all the people building these tools were just too retarded to realize how good make was.

More likely, they had specific needs that make didn't address.

Rust, for example, just recently had a reasonable make based solution, but they decided to depreciate it in favour of cargo, because it was simply too difficult to support in an appropriate cross platform manner.

Make isn't a bad tool; for very doing some specific things. Specifically building c code on unix-ish systems.

Is it the right tool for fetching the dependencies of and invoking a large set of ruby/javascript/python scripts and plugins to build the assets for a website, running a local development server and watching file changes and pushing livereload changes to the browser as the files change?

No. Make is absolutely rubbish at doing those things.

...not because make is rubbish, but because it's not for doing those sorts of things.
https://imgur.com/JOJM79p
> It's not obvious that you can meaningfully talk about to "the standard conventions" on i386, x86_64, or armv7, as there are at least two widely-used conventions for each.

x86_64 has the System V AMD64 ABI calling conventions which are as standard as can be and used by almost everybody. Microsoft being their usual assholes does not mean their ABI is anything other than their ABI.
That much grading in that short of a time is bullshit. Sorry that you've had that dumped on you. But you're right, it's not going to pay off to complain about it.
Troll(1) works without even running it
I'd pay $10-$20/month for this. But I also currently have about 400GB of photos on my hard drive. Still, I think that with annual contracts, you should be able to achieve a 50% margin on my usage, and I think I'm something of an outlier(?) in terms of usage.
Another harsh take: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/09/opinion/joe-nocera-the-new...
Ember can React
Thinking of "programming" as a completely separate field, to be "done" by specialists only, is highly unfortunate.

All "programming" really is, is formulating what you want done precisely. A compiler can take it from there. Where a specialist in "computers" comes in, is he can optimize your algorithms to run more efficiently. But in more cases than not, what "programmers" are tasked with, is to "just make it work", with little more specificity than that. And then the garbage inputer gets upset because he gets garbage back out.

SQL was originally, back when clarity of thought was still considered fashionable in executive suites, intended to be used by decision makers. "Specialist" IBM "programmers" provided the code that accessed and processed the relevant records efficiently, but the person who wanted an answer, often a C level, was the one tasked with specifying what he wanted done. With enough precision that his question made sense.
Aperture is very much officially dead. http://www.cultofmac.com/285357/apple-kills-development-aper...
> she wildly speculates that they must only be asking her because she is female

Not sure what article you were reading but all she doesn't say anything of the sort. She simply points out that companies need to realize some questions may come with extra cultural baggage which could be misinterpreted.
And then you click "search all folders (may be slow)".
Telegram Claims 50M Monthly Active Users
No, uber tracks via the drivers GPS (at least in the US and UK). I have ordered Ubers for my family and friends; my phone wasn't heading towards the destination, but I could track where the car was on my phone. I find this a useful safety feature to make sure my family gets home.
Indeed, ie the datacenter doesnt expose an OS but a set of APIs. There's enough differences between that and a full OS (which also provides its own API) to call bs IMO.
Please make my brain work better. I need a way to organize information that I come across online, get control of my schedule and find a way to manage my general learning process. Maybe a mix of bookmarking, google calendar and anki, with some event discovery thrown in. Then add some Tinder style social functionality so I can get a date or meet new friends.

I wouldn't be able to throw money at you fast enough.
> You can show racial data ...

It is interesting that you applied the squares/triangles model to racism.

For me, given the 50%/50% rate of squares/triangles, I was thinking more about men/women and the places being workplaces rather than living places. (or teams within a workplace, or girls/boys within sports or school activities)

I see this as an indicator that the "parable of the polygons" is applicable to many aspects of society.
St. Louis streetwalker serial killer, Maury Travis, sent the local newspaper a computer generated map giving the intersection where he left a body.

Investigators determined that web-based mapping software Expedia was used--based on symbols used to mark highways and such--ruling out Mapquest, Yahoo, and others.

A single person had clicked on that intersection in Expedia in the 5 days before the map was received by the newspaper. They traced the person presumably using the IP address.

This was back in 2001.

It's odd that we still have unsolved street crime given that everyone today carries a tracking device sending back real-time geolocation data.
Estonia is moving forward quite a bit on getting people to learn to code. Much better efforts than what we are doing in the US.
Ask HN: How do I create a copy of this website?
I am trying to create a site very similar to http://goo.gl/sYicsA and I am having trouble knowing if such template already exists to purchase.

Also I wonder what you can use to create such type of shopping website?

I am only looking for self hosted solutions.

More importantly I am looking for a template that looks like that site.
I'm having trouble scrolling through this web page in Chrome. Keeps triggering "back".
Please make sure it's something your team can actually get behind, and be very careful about how you put it. Because for experienced developers, any sign of pivoting to consulting is a sign to run for the exit. That's explicitly not what they signed up for when they took a chance on a start-up. Many will rather help out by cleaning the toilets than to fundamentally change the nature of their work.

It's kinda shocking that PG omitted that part, because I've seen it happen several times.

(Read michealochurch's comment further down on this page, he pretty much nails it.)
Tool to constantly monitor domains I'm interested in keeping an eye on (competitors, etc). Crawl their site every day and email me smart diffs (ignore timestamps, randomized content, etc) of every page that changed.
> Anyway, I fail to see how either raising an exception is anything at all like an Option value

The author asserts their similarity in that they completely differentiate lookup success and failure, there is no situation under which success and failure can be confused.
Someone to sell my latest software product.
But it still need root or CAP_NET_RAW?
FWIW, I do use make. I could not deal with gulp’s issues[1], so I wrote a little thing of my own, just to quickly whip up websites for my projects[2].

[1]: https://github.com/gulpjs/gulp/issues/651

[2]: https://cannot.mietek.io
10 PRINT "HELLO WORLD"
20 GOTO GUANTANAMO BAY
Try Shopify.
This won't work. Tax authority will simply not accept tax deductible expenses which allow you to transfer profits to Ireland and will issue you new tax bill.

Why big corporations can get away with this? It comes down to people. Little guy working at tax office doesn't have enough confidence to oppose Apple or Google but will have world of confidence to scrutinize unknown small businesses.

I see companies like this popping up all the time offering services that allow profits to be concealed under some bullshit scheme. It might take a few years before tax authority will catch up but they will eventually find every single client of such company, they will conduct detailed audits and will issue new tax bills with penalties to all involved.
the irs would hit any partners you use to transfer funds very quickly with deep audits at the very minimum if this gets even a little traction, i'd think
It does. The questioner asked her if she understood the game before she started her code challenge. She proceeded to extrapolate from this by calling such questioning "belittling and sexist", implying that they're only asking HER because she is female. So yes, it is wild speculation on her behalf because she has no idea if the employer also asked guys the same thing.
Data as a service. Collect, normalize and index public (but often hard to find/use) data sets and re-syndicate them in a data-as-a-service model.
I simply use Make for all my web projects, whether it's a Ruby JSON API, or a React front-end. It's reliable, pre-installed everywhere, and can wrap anything in one consistent CLI. Why have to remember whether to type lein repl, pry, or rails console, when make repl will do everytime? Ditto, bundle install, npm install, lein deps => make deps. make server can easily wrap whatever command launches the server, make dev can easily use a filesystem watching tool to restart make server on any change. And beyond that, make can be used as usual to "compile" the project, ie. run whatever static analysis and preprocessing is necessary in the web world (jshint, jsx etc.).
Health. When you make a list of what people will (gladly) pay a lot of
money for, health will always be at the top of the list, since without
good health, you suffer from a constant impediment. Unfortunately,
providing solutions to health problems is probably well beyond scope for
already struggling startups.

PG asked, "What do you need that you'd pay a lot for?" in relation to
changing sales discussions with the hope of bringing in some revenue for
struggling startups. The problem with taking this a bit too literally is
it's essentially the same thing as asking a customer what they want. The
classic statement from Henry Ford is, "If I asked my customers what they
wanted, they'd tell me a faster horse." Often, the customer may not know
what they want.

Instead of asking "What you'd pay a lot for?" you could ask "Where are
you spending lots?" or "What costs you a lot?" One of my favorites is,
"What regular task in your job annoys the ever living snot out of you?
Yeah, what's that thing you absolutely dead doing?"

What annoys you?
What do you dread doing?
What infuriates you?
What upsets you?
...

The funny thing about human beings is, if you ask people where it hurts,
they'll often tell you. If you take the time to learn where they hurt,
you might be able to help.
You would certainly accelerate much more slowly, since the upper limit of acceleration is bounded by your friction with the ground, which is bounded by your weight, i.e., your mass times gravity.

What's not clear is whether you could reach a faster peak speed. I think it would be tough to reach a fast speed since your joints would need to oscillate rapidly in order to push off ground moving as fast. And each time you push off the ground you'd achieve less force, due to the friction thing. To summarize, I think I agree with you that humans will run more slowly in a low-gravity environment.

An interesting parallel question is: under 1.3, 1.5, or 2x gravity, how much more quickly could you run? And what's the optimal gravity for running if it's not 1.0 Earth?
just as fyi, I had this in mind while doing ramenapp.net, but then it quickly turned out that people don't like to share very much. those who do, they already share, but the majority is happy otherwise. imo
Ask HN: Still possible to have its mobile apps noticed as an indie developer?
That is very little. As you say, rather trivial.

I want native code debugging, refactoring, static code analysis (Codan like), code navigation.
I find it hard to take this question seriously. Is this some simulation of "showing interest to feedback" without actually reading the feedback?

In case this question is meant seriously:

Please re-read read my very first comment. I believe it already answered your question.
USGS Water Year runs from October 1 to September 30 (of the next year.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_year
Anti-aging life extension. Intelligence augmentation.
my health...
基于meteor的数码题材“Hacker News”和“Product Hunt”
Clash of Clans heads 2014's billion-dollar mobile games
It'd be interesting to look at a meta service to acquire and manage all of those things for you.
I do as well (QtCreator/Visual Studio), but some times you really need to go back and forth between Android tooling and C++ and it feels nicer all from within Eclipse.

Plus Eclipse has quite good static analyzer, which is something non optional when I code in languages like C and C++.
One reason might be so that contributors on Windows don't have to install cygwin and nobody has to worry about the differences between various flavors of make. If you want things to work cross-platform, it's easier to start with a portable language.
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Fun fact: Tax Evasion means breaking the law to pay less taxes; Tax Avoidance means doing things to pay less tax within the confines of the law.
The filesystem on jor1k was implemented using 9P.

http://s-macke.github.io/jor1k/
A work/travel-program for knowledge professionals to travel the world and work a set number of hours a week on projects to pay their way. Air tickets, budget, airbnbs/apartments all paid for. Then you resell services to clients.

You could probably keep a high enough margin by saving through smart purchasing/renting of travel along and picking lower cost/highly desired destinations (south east asia comes to mind, for example).

a business of lifestyle, if you will.
I agree with that. I use npm commands for simple tasks.

And grunt/gulp for complex projects.
grunt, cause it is simpler than gulp, but only when it match the projects use case.

gulp for "live" things, like livereload or quick partial builds on developement.

Startet now to use webpack too, it is comfortable (campared with grunt), it does many build-stuff that you define in grunt by your own.

Like always, use the right tools to get the job done.

It exist not THE one and only tool that solve all problems in the world.
This is really just not true. Mostly because in a normal job you don't receive all of your pay in a lump sum at the end of 5+ years. The degree of lock in you see in a phd program creates this kind of strange indentured servitude situation where the phd candidates have basically no recourse in most situations. In a real job you can just quit when there is sexual harassment happening, you basically can't in a phd situation without losing everything. You generally can't even switch PIs without losing years of work.
The goal is to get shut down. Best case, you draw enough attention to the issue to create some real reform in our tax system and bring awareness to the fact that we're hurting innovation by giving big companies far better tax rates than startups.
OS/2 Presentation Manager and SOM tried it.

Oberon also had quite nice concepts, specially version 3 with Gadgets.
Fynx – architecture library for React inspired by Reflux and Fluxxor
A way to boost my cognitive capacities.
Feedback welcome: Solving broken yearly performance reviews
Seabreaze weather site in Australia is something like this for sailing related sports. They have built a solid business on it so I can only imagine a bigger market like the US would be very viable.

Here's the site story (in cartoon form):-

http://www.seabreeze.com.au/Members/Welcome/Cartoon.aspx

And a sample page:-

http://www.seabreeze.com.au/graphs/nsw.asp
We use gamification and instant 360 degree peer to peer feedback to provide a working approach to employee recognition and are looking for any feedback on our instant recognition platform Braavoo.com - Email: beta@braavoo.com - Thanks a lot!
I'm being intentionally provocative. :)
Have they been replaced with anything else? Without redemption rights what do VC have to keep control of founders?
Suicide Attacks Kill Five in Eastern Yemen Army Base-Sources
If Oberon had as many followers as Plan9, maybe the quest for system programming in safer languages would already be further along.
Prestashop is self hosted. Check out the demo [1].

There are other solutions too - Magento, WP-eCommerce...

[1]: http://demo.prestashop.com/en/?view=front
You want a personal CFO. This honestly could work, but I don't know how the trust needed to make this work would scale well..
keep in mind that make isn't going to work on Windows. For a lot of people, that's okay (including myself). Still, a ton of developers still work on Windows.
Starbucks said coffee :D
> Acme is amazing, but the whole thing uses mouse chording and requires a 3-button mouse, so it requires a lot of getting used to if you're newer to computers than, say, 1990.

That is based on how Oberon UI works, which then again is based on Mesa/Cedar at Xerox PARC.
Yes you can dig upwards, many people have. I think the point was that an increasingly small number of people will find it in their own interest to do so. And they will be poorer for it.

I'm told that the number of manual transmission cars is declining year over year as well.
I use Google Drive and FolderSync [1] to sync my photos to a folder on Drive. I also just copy-paste pictures from my camera to Drive. Google Drive seems quite cheap in terms of storage for casual usage.

[1]: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=dk.tacit.andro...
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I make money to pay my bills when I get someone a job. Help me do that better. It's much harder than it sounds. None of the software products I have heard of help.
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We default to Make too since we're all (all two of us) running a *nix OS. I'm currently sub-contracting for an agency with devs all running Windows so I'm hoping `npm run` works well enough. If I had it my way I'd just tell them to install MinGW but they might take that as me telling them to go fuck themselves.
Do you have a specific example of something Apple does that is illegal, but for which the IRS isn't pursuing them?
Affection and/or love.
What NPM can't do is the async workflow of Grunt watch (or serve) and dynamically trigger specific (sub)processes in real-time. Turns out, this is the main way I'm using Grunt.

Also some plugins are complicated (or dynamically) to configure. His examples were very simple, he could just put it into a batchfile aswell.