skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My first "startup" was a Rocket Internet company where I knew I'd have little career future, that my pay would be way below market, and that I'd get no equity (I was fortunate that the person who recruited me was upfront about it). Three years and two more RI ventures later, I've observed enough and figured out what to learn, learnt it and even found both my market and co-founders. This happened because of the breadth of work that needs to get done in a startup/"small underfunded mostly online company" and the lack of people available to do it, meaning little bureaucracy and much more responsibility, with immediate feedback from the real world on your performance.

Career switches are hard and sometimes, starting at the bottom again, risk included, can be worthwhile. I do agree with you that few people hired as "employees" should expect to "get rich". But provided you are willing to observe and learn, especially learn what to learn, it can still be worth it, even just to see what a hyped up "5-at-a-time" startup looks like from the inside and the signs of what to avoid.
The target market is very, very large. That bodes well for prices, since the costs of R&D and red tape can be amortized across a huge number of people and long spans of time.
Any chance this is open-source? I'd love to translate it to Spanish, at a request of my non-English speaking friend.
@rgbrenner: Thank you but I am a student and study visa is not qualified for setting up a company. Otherwise, you have to invest ~100,000 USD to get a business visa then you can setup your company OR you have to spend time working in SK, gain some point from other activities (Korean language, community service..) to be qualified for a F2 visa (which is eligible for setting up a company). In my opinion, a very complicated system for foreigners who want to do business in SK.
On professionalism in software
Big Chuck’s Japan-o-rama 2014: Tokyo, Akihabara, Robots, and Vans
I had the Darodar variety of this barely 2 days after setting up my new blog. Turns out when you visit the link in Analytics it redirects to Amazon and sets the affiliate cookie meaning they get money when you buy something.

A similar money making venture was done on Pinterest a couple of years ago with affiliate cookies.
The only reason I can think of to join a start-up as an early employee is that you want to some day do a start-up of your own and you want to acquire the relevant experience.

From a financial perspective it is a lottery ticket with a very high price and a low chance of paying out.
Who paid you for your comment?

Take a look at this thread -- scroll all the way to the bottom. What is the incentive for all of that?
no each European country has its own laws and even EU directives can vary widely as to how they are applied compare TUPE in the UK and Spain
... it gets even more complicated. Maybe you should talk to a lawyer about this?
This looks interesting. I have used this in the past, although it relies on non-standard CSS to get the results.

https://github.com/rodneyrehm/viewport-units-buggyfill
A once backdoor in D-Link router and when someone tried to backdoor linux kernel
People always realize too late that time is the most expensive thing on earth.
Why I generally agree with you, I see a silver lining on this cloud, namely, in that hundreds of people out there today will have a few minutes away from pixels. It's a Sunday after all---step away from the pixels.
I think the danger lies in our tendency to ignore the big picture. We work in teams and groups and we create these bubbles where everyone just assumes that a basic set of things has been figured out by other people. You can second-guess what's going on around you, but it's not your job to test if the entire thing makes any sense at all (that recent CIA report might be an example of this). If you work at some tech giant doing AI research, you focus on the next task. Even asking something like "should we really be gathering that info about customers?" will either get you fired or bullied (I imagine) - because that's some lawyer's job, or your boss's, or even that of your country's legislator. Who are you to doubt the direction your entire field is going, anyway?

Some of the best AI researchers working on this problem probably won't stop the community from pushing towards it. The majority of people in general is happy with just doing their job.
For the most part, I say "1000 times yes!" I love the general idea he expresses that developers MUST take the time to understand the giants on whose shoulders they stand. To that end, I have one noteworthy point (more of a clarification) I think is worth making:

> And, technically, you’re supposed to make sure GET requests are idempotent, meaning they can be repeated with no changes to a resource. So you should be able to hit Refresh all day on a GET request without causing any data change.

I think it's important to note here that idempotence does not mean that the resource will never change. It means that the resource will not change as a result of a get request (barring some meta requests, for example `GET /my-last-http-request`). A resource can definitely change. I think the author would agree with me but found his language there a bit ambiguous. Allow me to quote the good reverened himself, Dr. Roy Fielding:

> "More precisely, a resource R is a temporally varying membership function MR(t),
which for time t maps to a set of entities, or values, which are equivalent. The values in the set may be resource representations and/or resource identifiers." (emphasis mine) [1]

Immediately prior this quote he references "the weather for Los Angeles today" as an example of a resource complete with its own resource identifier (perhaps GET /weather/la/today, most-to-least specific). The contents at the end of that URI will most certainly change, but they shouldn't ever change based on the request.

[1] Section 5.2.1.1 https://www.ics.uci.edu/~fielding/pubs/dissertation/fielding...
I thought you were a new user who had no idea where he was right now! :)
Ask HN: Friend and I want to start a business
We're in Belgium, which determines the main part of our question.

My friend and I have an idea that could have a nice future.
At the current stage it's just that, an idea.
My friend wants to go and get a patent in his name (it was his idea), and then start a company together, to THEN build the product.

This requires investment much larger than I can contribute (€5k), which would shit the company from a 50-50 split (me being the technical person, he being the one with the idea and money) to something which I think would not be good for me.
In Belgium there exists the option to start a BVBA, which takes around €18k, or we can start an NV, which takes ~ €60k.

I think it's completely crazy to invest all this money without even having a prototype or any non-paying customers.
On the other hand, I don't know how we could make something that people are willing to pay for without actually charging them and having them pay, without such an investment.

My thought would be to first create a prototype, get feedback and non-paying customers, to finally start a company and charge people.

I basically have 2 fears:
1) invest money without having 1 customer or even 1 user
2) get shafted (see: jobs & wozniak)

So who do I talk to, what do I research?
Where are you from? One option could be to incorporate a company, and appoint your mother or father as a director.

Not completely legal, but if you're testing a market (and not making any money) I doubt anyone will care.

I think that's a much 'safer' way than setting up a company in some obscure jurisdiction (e.g. Estonia, Lux) where you don't speak the language.
20 apps and games to download for the new year
Well then good news! The people mentioned in this article are generally trying to slow or reverse the effects of aging, including the weakening of skeletal muscles.
> Do you feel differently about software copyright, or book copyright?

You write a book you own the rights, no contest. But if you take somebody else's book of 5000 pages, and change six paragraphs you should not own the rights to the resulting derived work.
That depends if your company employs you as long a you are paying your taxes you should be eligible for benefits.

You may own your employer but you are still an employee.
Currently, yes, you need to travel to Estonia:
https://e-estonia.com/e-residents/apply-2/
... but from mid-year it should be possible to become an e-resident via an application to an Estonian consulate without needing to travel to Estonia itself.
> Could you clearly state what positive claims you think I'm "denying"?

That racism in the US is the primary cause of segregation and marginalization of black people, and that that racism is systemic, i.e. cultural as well as bureaucratic (and so not directly related to personal xenophobia).
I like the idea, not really into the emblem.
This looks amazing, thanks for posting.
Are you actually making money? Set up a business in your home country and pay yourself from that and pay your SK taxes. If you're not making enough to pay a lawyer and an accountant then just drop it unless you're willing to never set foot in SK again.
It's also good to diversify. Bigger companies solve different problems and reach more people. This makes the problems often more challenging and interesting than startups.

You may have an easier time implementing the newest/fanciest tech at a startup but it's often the big companies where that tech is being created or where it could really move the needle :O.
We need alternatives to Google. We can't have one company deciding what gets seen on the WWW.

It is a great search engine, Google changed the world. But now we need alternatives. We can't have their editorial staff dictate what should and should not be seen on the WWW.

If you look closely at the top search results, they're mostly big spenders in Adwords. Ebay, Amazon, Expedia, TripAdvisor, Yelp, Answers.com and several others. It's blatant conflict of interests. There is no way those search results are "organic". Basically the WWW has become controlled and curated by Google and every site that gets seen must conform or be destroyed.

We need alternatives to Google. We need them urgently.
This wasn't directed towards me, but I'll participate.

>> Now, let's ignore Telegram for a second. I haven't installed it, ever, but the feature set seems compelling and the UI (screenshots, demos) is nice.

Agree. I think Telegram has a nice design.

>> If we distill this post into one line: How can we have a decent user experience, without throwing out privacy and security?

Here is the thing, this is a relatively new ground. The technology for secure messaging systems has been around for a much longer time but it wasn't as popular or fashionable.

You can and will have secure messaging built on solid crypto with an attractive user interface and available everywhere. That's Moxie's long-term goal.

But this is how you get there (choose your adventure):

1. Build the world's sexiest user interface for secure messaging apps and focus on cross-platform compatibility, while building it on top of an okay crypto system (or worse, a weird custom one that ignores industry practices). Once you have mindshare, gradually improve your crypto (Telegram is demonstrably not doing this by conflating a contest with an audit, but that's another comment). You'll start off with a lot of hype and users, but not much respect from the information security community because, well, you haven't earned it yet.

2. Take a respected crypto team, build out the world's best crypto system for a secure messaging app, leveraging both established best practices and professional peer review. Focus on building a really good prototype in one area with an acceptably attractive and functional user interface, putting other things on the backburner in order to finish a core product.

3. Go for the hail mary and try to build out the most amazing crypto system with the most amazing user interface and the most amazing features running on everything from iOS 4.4 to bleeding edge Debian to please everyone. In a year, burn out and die off because you almost certainly don't have the Herculean development resources this would require in completely orthogonal disciplines.

Which of these tracks sounds most like what successful startups do?

I acknowledge your point that no offering is perfect right now. But TextSecure focuses on the right things.

If I could sum this up entirely: nothing is perfect (yet), but TextSecure is the best offering on the market for a secure messaging application, and if what you want is a secure messaging application, start from solid crypto and work your way to everything else, not from a sexy user interface to okay/passing crypto.

Telegram might very well have the best of intentions in mind and it might have solid crypto under the hood. But that's the sort of thing you consider false until proven true, and so far their behavior is similar to a company that promises a fantastic new service in financial trading but prioritizes ubiquity and design without ever auditing the core trading system itself.
You can chart a history of the Web by what you could reasonably do cross-browser.

In the beginning, it was formatted text. That was it. You had bold, underline, italic, and maybe even justification, but images relied on separate helper programs and weren't displayed inline, but in their own windows. And that was assuming the web page and your system had at least one image format in common. (XBM? TIFF? Remember those? I'm not saying they're no longer used, but when was the last time you saw them on the Web?)

By the Here Comes Everybody stage, we'd pretty well gotten inline images and even background images sorted, to the limits of color space (256 color is... better than CGA?) and the few format problems left, but fonts certainly didn't transfer and the only music format which was even remotely feasible was MIDI, which is less an audio format and more like sheet music, in that it has to be played by software instruments on your own system. Interesting concept, but no guarantee of sound quality at the receiving end.

Skipping a bit, we now have inline images sorted out, fonts sorted out, a workable CSS standard pretty well universal, and even video mostly working, despite the political and legal complications.

Now we're annoyed that we can't use our browsers to play games that were written for computers still in use in the Web's early days. 'Progress' is getting annoyed about increasingly interesting and exciting things, it seems.
In the "Racket2" wish list ( https://github.com/plt/racket/wiki/Racket2 ) there is an idea to use more generics:

> Generic programming by default: map, fold, and friends are generic [in Racket2] and not specialized to lists.

I have something similar in my private "language" that I use for internal projects, it also use that for append and length (actually len, because length is too verbose). And I use only list-append or string-append in the few cases where the speed is critical.

If something like this is implemented, the transformation from append to list-append or string-append could be made automatically in some cases by the Typed Racket optimizer (or the core optimizer).
It's part of my treatment regimen for sleep apnea, which includes a CPAP breathing assist device. That's usually enough to reduce the low energy and daytime sleepiness that come with sleep apnea. When it isn't, modafinil works very well. So I was prescribed both the CPAP assist and modafinil after a brief sleep study disclosed sleep apnea. The two other on-label uses for modafinil (IIRC) are for narcolepsy and daytime sleepiness due to shift work. Being prescribed for an on-label use is often important for insurance coverage.
Maybe, but they changed the syntax again (read the italic parts in the article)
But there was an actual period in the US where you'd have Stalinists and Trotskyites arguing on coffee houses ( Dave van Ronk talks about this in that movie "No Direction Home"). The US has no tradition of something like Fabian Socialism. Prior to the Communists it was "bomb throwin' Anarchists" ( which is interesting considering that Stalin at least was anarchist before he was Communist - you can see the line from Anarchism to Communism in Europe as well). See the "Palmer Raids", "1919 bombings", the "Haymarket Riots". All were formative for J. Edgar Hoover.

IMO, and it's probably just me, the Bircher thing rose out of the central American tendency towards isolationism. Pearl Harbor ended that; the rest was secondary. The US simply wasn't prepared and hadn't really thought about it. Most of the things we find ... dissonant now are of design by Eisenhower, who was simply our best bet for dealing with it after having been the Supreme Commander in WWII. Thrown in with the brothers Dulles, most of those things were extremely messy. 1953 in particular was very sticky. We had living memory of the nationalization of the oil fields in Mexico.

Americans tend to believe against central planning. The idea is presented quite well in an otherwise flawed "Liberal Fascism".
Good talk, but I wish there was a deeper dive into what it was like living and working in the DPRK. For folks more interested in that, check out this great talk from HOPE last year: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_HXPm-PN1g
Which is precisely the default behaviour of IIS.
A lot of people might thing you were referring to a certain dead hologram too:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold_Rimmer
The problem with AGI research is that there have, to date, been few ways to survive as an AGI researcher. So once the commercial platforms became available to apply machine learning/AI whatever you want to call it, there was a way to continue Narrow AI research projects with the possible hope that maybe someday these narrow approaches would help lead to AGI.

In fact the whole AGI/HLAI/Strong AI thing has gotten a bad rap over and over that the majority of super serious researchers won't even talk about it in any seriousness a la Norvig et al. In fact Norvig arguably openly mocks AGI focused groups.

So until there is a real interest from some party that has money to put several billion into hardcore research, we will continue to see AI development live largely in the commercial world. Open source is a possibility like with opencog but history indicates that the bulk of the "big" minds and money don't go that way.
No need for that. Just go direct to the Companies House site and do it for £15. You can even pay by paypal. They'll email you the registration documents in about 48 hours. Laughably easy. https://www.gov.uk/register-a-company-online
You can become an "e-Resident" and receive an ID card. I believe this requires you to travel to Estonia once to get the card, however they are working on rolling this out to their embassies in other countries.
As someone in the deep learning space who's not working at one of those companies (deep learning on hadoop with cloudera/red hat model is my game) I'd like to add here that while these labs are doing stuff with ads, it's not necessarily all that they are focused on.

I've visited a few of the teams and I'd like to say that many of the things being published out of there (say the recent real time vision stuff with cars published by yann lecun's group) or perhaps the voice stuff coming out of baidu.

That being said: I think you're ignoring the structure of the data that are involved with click through rates and the like.

Reconstructing sparse data and reccommenders is among the hardest problems in AI. Couple that with the at scale unstructured data(being media like text, audio) being used and we can see some real landmark results.

Real value is being created alongside some of the commercial research being done.

As for use cases of deep learning outside of ads, my customers are working on many cool problems that don't involve targeting. I've done training as well as deployments with a variety of companies now. Media centric products coupled with users are among some of the coolest datasets out there. Let me say that search and similarity among data is by far the best application of this stuff outside of yet another conv net classifier.

There's a practical side to this stuff that doesn't involve ads. I hope that helps a bit.
This aggregation/collaboration of weak agents... isn't it boosting? It's certainly a recommended approach to building robust systems, see Pedro Domingos' paper (tip number 10):

http://homes.cs.washington.edu/~pedrod/papers/cacm12.pdf

But I had the impression that the letter had a more transcendental feel than just focusing on a particular tuning technique.
Oops, apparently I was a little fast there. Apologies!

(Edit: I mistook this for a Go thread.)
I tried it on http://selectorgadget.com/ and it doesn't work inside the comments (iframe issue?).

Otherwise pretty cool...
You can create freestanding binaries, but you need to implement more things on your own. Check out this page for some interesting projects: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/wiki/Operating-system-deve...
How are you distinguishing 'distributed state' from 'local state'?
I cringe at the idea of using it myself. I believe the title of hacker shall be earned from peers ("Cool hack!") not self-assigned.
I think you're in the wrong HN story.
Synthetic Biology Is Discretely Targeted by Tech Giants
There's been a free version of each Visual Studio release for about ten years.
Ask HN: Is it okay for affiliate program?
I try to market my site via Affiliate program. We offer up to 20% revenue per paid user engaged through affiliate link.

Is it okay to get paid $60 per 1000 uniques?
What are typical rates for AdSense for USA traffic?
Would it be interesting for you site if it works in similar niche?
> the probability of a 25-year-old dying before their 26th birthday is 0.1%

It's probably significantly lower than that as well if you take out all the accidental deaths that occur in people's 20s.

On a more skeptical note, I'm very doubtful of any claims to predict timelines related to medical or technological advances. We've been trying for a long time and with much better funding to cure/treat things like AIDS and various cancers and only recently have we made significant progress on those fronts.

My general impression of modern medicine based on conversations with friends and family members in the medical field is that, while the cures are getting better, the best course of action is to take a conservative approach to life (avoid smoking, severely limit drinking, exercise and lift weights regularly, stay active, and keep using your brain), as this has much better odds of maintaining a high quality of life as you age than hoping modern medicine will be able to fix whatever's wrong with you.
Z3d.js – Interactive 3d plots in the browser
Not in 2D, but you can in 3D!

edit: Actually I'm not sure my previous statement was true. You can make it more pleasing such as this though: http://nterm.co.uk/content/images/tetris.png
You could use Tox for instant messaging and voice chat. https://tox.im
Now several clients have A/V support and there are ones for iOS and Android.
I suspect that these arguments are very familiar to HN readers. Thus, I don't know why it's on the front page.

Sure, Jessica Livingston is a reliable author, but most readers already had high enough confidence that these arguments are true such that this article didn't change much.
A number of big players have the cash...Apple, Google, Oracle. So do sovereign investment funds and Berkshire-Hathaway. Other than FUD, there's nothing pointing to Microsoft and Google makes far more extensive use of Github:

https://github.com/google
You are essentially also saying "I do not want to make more money because I'll have to pay more taxes"

Birds are also the only ones that should be flying.
Nature should be treated as GPLv3 or greater. Things like suicide or sterile seeds are DRM.
Hackers rob ATM systems with Samsung Galaxy 4 smartphone