skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For what it's worth, I chose the small startup offer over the name brand offer after graduating from a top school. My advice would be to TAKE THE NAME BRAND OFFER. Jessica's points were not true in my experience.

"Yes, startups are very risky, and they often fail. But when they don’t fail, their stock can become quite valuable."

The startup I worked for actually was pretty successful by most measures. In fact, I've now worked for two "successful" startups as a relatively early employee -- one acquired for XX M and another for XXX M. When all was said and done, I would have made more had I gone to a company like Google. You will get diluted, the investors will get their liquidation preference, part of the acquisition will go to retention incentives, and whats left over will be a fraction of the numbers you see in the media. Literally, the only way you will make anything comparable to a founder exit is if the company IPOs and becomes Facebook.

Also, most big companies give large stock grants. When I graduated, the stock grants Google was giving to recent grads would now be worth well into the 6 figure range. Not life changing money, but comparable to what you would get in a decent sized exit at a startup. I'd also add that joining a company like AirBnb is not the same as joining a startup. I'd imagine the AirBnb experience would have more in common with joining Google than joining Zip-tify-io-ly.

"It’s also a form of education. And at a startup, you learn a lot faster about how companies work and how to make a great product than at a big company."

NOT-TRUE-AT-ALL. If you go to work at Google, you can still work on a new product. The big difference is that at Google you will be surrounded by experts in their fields. You will learn what it takes to build a scalable product, how to build things in a modular and parallelizable way, solid coding practices, how to work on a team etc.

At a startup you "might" learn those things, but you very easily might not. My experience is that a lot startups carry massive technical debt. Their products tend to be hacked together because they didn't have an expert in (python, javascript, databases etc.) when they built the product. So, worse than not learning a lot, you might be learning exactly how not to build a product and spending all your time cleaning up spaghetti code. Plus, at Google, your product might immediately be in the hands of millions of people. The vast majority of startups never even find a product-market fit.

Bottom line, in my opinion it makes no sense to join a small startup as an employee from either a financial or career perspective. If I had it to do over again, I would have gone to a more established company with name-recognition out of school and built savings, skills, a social life and connections. After a couple years at one of those companies, you can write your ticket to any role in the industry, including founder of a VC-backed startup. You'll have an insane network, enough savings runway to build your idea and actually have time to enjoy your early 20's social life.
Ah yes, ssh tunneling. The high school IT initiate's go-to method to dodge the web filter. It really can be an elegant solution when you don't have the patience to rev up OpenVPN for real.
Indeed, there are many sources where you can learn C++, but I think most of them fail to convince a beginner that it's worth trying to learn the language. When you see the results immediately, it encourages you to learn how it works.
Never trust investors with private info.
StrangeLoop: Exploring four hidden superpowers of Datomic
Regardless, if you need someone's real name, you should probably meet them in person anyway.
I take it you don't have kids yet.
Duplicate of article posted less than an hour ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8872054
Most probably it has been added, my notes from this are from 2008 so it's hardly cutting edge! :)
That said, Apple has demonstrated they're not averse to new product lines eating into other existing ones, as with the iPhone 6 taking some sales away from the iPad family, and in turn, the iPad mini away from the full-size iPads.

I doubt anyone expects them to actually come through with an external GPU option, of course, but it'd certainly be of interest to me, given Second Life's stiff requirements for long draw distances with all the lighting options enabled.
Yes, changing IMEI is illegal in certain countries:

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

But if I were trying to make an "anti-surveillance" phone, I'd probably look into one of the more anonymous unbranded Chinese devices out there - especially the ones based on MTK chipsets, which have some full schematics available.
I'm a college student and I'm also working as a software engineer.I'm somewhat close to being as occupied as you are. I'm also working on a side project while at home. I think the key to managing my life is prioritizing. You have to get good at prioritizing stuff when you are living a busy life. And the better you prioritize the better output you get.Also try not to get burn'd out while you are doing all of the stuff you do and don't forget to go to the gym and just wreck yourself there(read stay fit). Also try to sleep well. There's no general formula, just survive and win. About the work : I'm in the opposite situation where my work requires me to be constantly focused and come up with solutions, and my tactics are : give it all you got.
I don't belive it is illegal, unless you have stolen a phone. Doing so breaks the stolen phone databases a.k.a. Equipment Identity Registrar.
Good personal assistants (e.g. executive assistants) also base their information on information not available in email; e.g. conversations and non-verbal cues. Good ones carefully guard and (implicitly) prioritize their boss' time. I am skeptical that an AI lacking such information would have the necessary data to replace a human.
They can't run ads against it unless they manage to work out some arrangement with the News Publishers.

Technically they might have the legal right to do it, but the Google/News publisher relationship is already strained enough, and Google wouldn't want to strain it more.
In the last 100 years food waste has amounted to 1.3 billion tons per year. That's almost half of the global production. There is clearly no need to produce more food to solve hunger.
Have you attempted to schedule a meeting with 3 busy people in your company with 3 busy executives and PMs from a client? It is annoying and frustrating.

Most of the solutions I'm familiar with require all scheduling parties to be on the same Exchange Server with calendar busy/away shared. Or you have to click-thru to a website and then deal with creating a user account.

Using email seems like a nice friction-free way forward. I hope they get traction!
‘Transparent’ Wins Golden Globe as Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos Gets a Shout-out
Nothing too interesting revealed in the document. Here is a video of the LAPD talking about more specific uses of Palantir,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJ-u7yDwC6g

Here is an interesting video from them talking about data analysis of Iranian arms deals used to show off some of their tools used by the intelligence community

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FX0gwNU3WBI
>Many people seem to be confused by Rust's lack of limitations imposed

That sounds ridiculously like PR-speak. Without the double negative the only information I get is, people are confused by the possibilities, that are however not unlimited - which isn't very surprising for people new to the language.
With all the discussion about how "off brand" it was for Amazon to think that they could make a premium smartphone (despite making the premium e-reader), it's worth noting that they've just achieved something that's far more of a stretch.
It doesn't have to replace a human, it just has to reduce the work that has to be done by one to a degree that paying for X.ai is a compelling proposition.
New Method to Manufacture Artemesinin Will Make Malaria Medications Cheaper
They are just another company - you treat them as the same from the perspective of the interviewee.
Tell HN: Google Hosted Libraries now provides HTTPS-only snippets
Check it out: https://developers.google.com/speed/libraries/devguide

For context, four days ago: https://web.archive.org/web/20150107000655/https://developers.google.com/speed/libraries/devguide
Where exactly one uses nth-selector other than to style first/last and even/odd items?

We are using nth-selector to style icon for nav items, which IMO is a wrong way of styling nav items.

There are some good CSS <del>selector</del> properties like position sticky but not available in most browsers :(
This isn't big because Microsoft has stared sharing source. The source to the .NET framework has been available _without_ ILSpy for years now.

This is big because Microsoft is truly embracing an open source development model. They've opened most of the .NET platform up to the whole shebang - pull requests, copying code into other projects, forking, all that good stuff.
Crash Only Software
Focus on the things that make you happy — and get people interested in making you happy!

Maybe it’s being able to help a good person save $100 they don’t need to spend. Maybe it’s spending time with your co-workers and reminiscing old times. Maybe it’s being able to play with your kids. Maybe it’s revisiting a hobby you put down years ago, or going on a vacation with your significant other.

Once you’ve found those things, tell it to people! Tell it friends! Tell it to your family! Let them see what makes you happy, and when you aren’t happy, let them guide you to why you do what you do. Maybe they’ll suggest new things you’d be interested in.

Yes, there are sweeping changes you make in life. However, you will always find small things that just suck. Focus on what makes you happy and find people who are interested in your well-being. If you still feel stuck, start by doing something (anything) differently.
The information density of English text itself is also fairly low. Regardless, the metric you are proposing is not only bad it's also dangerous.

What you want to measure is how "good" is this site? But you can't measure goodness easily, so you use different proxies like number of returning visitors, how long each reader stays on the site and also the average latency of page loads.

How large a web page is, in bytes, though, is not a good proxy for anything. It has a marginal impact on latency (which is much more dependant on how you serve the page, if you use gzip, cdn:s, blocking javascript files etc) but other than that it's not a relevant metric for "web site goodness."
https://github.com/jaysoffian/dotlock
Some of these star forts survived into the present day: Fort Monroe[1] was decommissioned in 2011. It's a real shame that it was, but c'est la vie (or, in this case, c'est la guerre).

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Monroe
Diet Coke and Mentos Eruption
Way to oversimplify. HTTP works ok for some super dumb use cases. But pray tell, what's the proper way to update multiple objects at once?

Simple verbs work for simple tasks - only. There is more to life than REST.
Complexity doesn't solve problems. Making our robots more complex isn't going to make AI smarter, it's going to make it more confused.

I think your 'insight' is likely to be a false analogy.
Los Angeles Traffic Sign hacked with an awesome message for everyone
Some VPS providers _do_ provide shared IPv4 address, as a way to reduce their costs. A set number (e.g. 20) of ports are forwarded to the VPS' internal IPv4 address.

For example: http://lowendspirit.com/

Any VPS which provides 'only' IPv6 will typically support outbound IPv4 via NAT, with that IPv4 address being shared between all customers on the same node.
To get pleasantries out of the way, I am glad to see Matt Turck here on HN. The meetup he hosts, Data Driven NYC, attracts a large number of both very high caliber of guest speakers and attendees. The several times I have been there, I enjoyed the presentations and the discussions afterwards thoroughly. X.ai which I was introduced to at this meetup, was one of the more interesting startups there. If I wasn't as happy as I am at Handy, x.ai would be foremost among companies I would consider working at; their challenges are many. This is one of the highest endorsements can be bestowed upon a firm and its product by an engineer.

While x.ai is very exciting, I have several concerns about their product and their chances at success.

1) Most meetings are scheduled internally within a firm where calendars are visible and shared. An AI PA that simply locks down time slots doesn't have much value add beyond what the calendars currently provide.

2) There are privacy concerns. Many will not trust x.ai with their calendar data due to concerns about x.ai data-mining or sharing their data.

3) There are other privacy concerns. People may not trust Amy and Andrew not to be social engineered by others to leak their calendars. The fact that person is busy at a certain time or for a certain duration or within a certain vicinity is potentially useful to people whose goals are more than just scheduling a meeting. This kind of over sharing may not be worse than goes on with Facebook, but the letters A.I. will make it sound scarier.

My last point is a wish. Most of my non-work meetings are scheduled over #1 text messaging and #2 Facebook. I would like to see x.ai support other mediums than just email.
This is exactly what I was going to state. Not that they're not communicating, it is us who are not paying attention.
Or Parsley: a pattern-matching language based on OMeta and Python

https://github.com/python-parsley/parsley
"You are under no obligation to disclose that you are interviewing to anyone."

Maybe your spouse...
Some people make very good employees, but lousy sales people, when they are trying to sell their skills to a prospective employer. So becoming suddenly unemployed, especially after having a year or two of substandard pay (so no savings) can cause damage. Especially if it takes 6 months to find another job.

The only way I personally would work for a startup is if I could purchase supplemental unemployment insurance. I know you can get unemployment insurance on various loans (mortgage, car, credit cards, etc), and state unemployment pays a small amount. But I would like to see an option where the startup pays an insurance company to cover my full salary for up to a year (or until a job is found) after a business folds.
All those deal with threads. Rust 1.0 will have multi-threading just like C++, Java, etc. It is very different from how Goroutines work and do not offer similar benefits at all (specifically for network services).

libgreen while it existed scaled very poorly and consensus among rust developers seemed to be that, it cannot be improved without compromising some of the core features of rust like no-GC and zero-overhead calls to C libraries.
Has the term "CEO" lost all meaning, amid the hundreds of startup founders who have no management experience? Not at all. They're called CEOs because they make top-tier executive decisions and act as the public face of their startups.

Based on the post above, Bahamut's senior title is also a function of the responsibilities he's dealing with - in this case, building the first viable product of the company at an architectural level, and overseeing the completion of major features from start to finish. Just like the crop of startup CEOs in YC, his title has nothing to do with his previous experience. If the leadership of the company has decided he's fit to train new engineers and prioritize tasks for them, the "lead" description is apt too.

I'm sure there are much more skilled CEOs and much more skilled lead developers at other companies, but it's completely impractical to compare people based on internal titles. We're talking about descriptions of an employee's role in the context of his or her own company - don't read anything more into titles than that.
3M has a number of products for adding touch to surfaces. It can be expensive, though. I would link you to one of them, but their website sucks and I can't actually obtain a good link, other than a top-level for touch products: http://solutions.3m.com/wps/portal/3M/en_US/Electronics_NA/E...

But I agree with you, I've been disappointed with where this technology has been going, or rather, NOT been going. I'd love to build a small laptop with a completely eInk display.
You can use nth-child/nth-last-child for much more than table even/odd styling. It can be used to style children based on the number of siblings they have, build grids out of list items, or style grid interval tick marks on a timeline off the top of my head.
Pop Music Critic Leaves the New Yorker to Annotate Lyrics for a Startup
My comment was simply to support your view. I agree with you and was just adding specific comment-threads from reddit that support what you said.

EDIT: Oh, I see. The "you" in "Do you agree with any of it" was actually directed towards all the other HN readers, not you specifically.
None of these numbers are adjusted for (estimated) inflation, right?

For instance, $1,000 from 1969 was worth the equivalent of over $6,000 in 2014 (45 years later, same as "start work at 20, retire at 65" examples)

So the benefits of investing, while not poor, are substantially less impressive than they appear from the raw numbers. That $21,000 of 2060 dollars might only buy as much as $3,500-4,000 in 2015, when that first $1,000 was invested.
I'd be very happy if my watch could take over the majority of my phone's functions--calling, texting.

Mostly because then I wouldn't have to carry a phone in my pocket.
This sent me through a little search session and found these http://www.datamath.org/Album_Related.htm http://www.keesvandersanden.nl/calculators/hp32sii_repair.ph...
iPhone 6 also works with microphones and front camera removed.
Not as beautiful, but the fortifications at Rhodes are unbelievably impressive and after 1481 were built to withstand cannon barrage. The Knights of St. John had unbelievable financial resources available to them and the fortress was state of the art at the time and have the distinction of never having been defeated in battle. Despite being attacked several times by very large, very determined forces.

The story of how Rhodes eventually fell to the Ottomans is even more proof at what an astonishing fortress the place is [1] - the walls never fell.

The siege [2], (the second major attempt) which took from June to December of 1522, with nearly quarter million men assaulting, and only 7,500 defending, ended only when both sides were too exhausted to fight any further. The Ottomans had lost half their forces during the siege, and the Knights of St. John had dwindled down to about 1,500, but still defending. Exhausted the Ottoman forces (under Suleiman the Magnificent) offered a deal. Leave in peace, taking what wealth you can, and you'll be granted safe passage off of the island. After some back and forth, the Knights took the offer and eventually ended up in Malta where they started over again (and engaged in yet another round of incredible impenetrable fortress building).

When the Ottomans took control, they patched up the damage they did and maintained it basically as-is for 400 years.

Walking around the fortress is like receiving a master class in fortress engineering and design. It's hard to understand exactly how a fortress like this could repel so many until you walk up to some of the approaches and start counting how many cannons could shoot at you simultaneously in crossfire. Trying to enter away from a main approach (like over a wall) meant climbing up and down several layers of very tall walls [3], essentially forcing you to trap yourself in a canyon where more clean lines of fire were aimed at you. It's not just high walls, it's interlocking pieces that slow, route and line up attackers to be slaughtered by the tens of thousands.

The fortress presented an unsolvable puzzle no attacker could overcome.

1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortifications_of_Rhodes

2 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Rhodes_(1522)

3 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Rhodes_old_town_Greece_2....
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did this a while back
First screenshot shows a system running Windows XP. Not a good sign that a product serving such confidential information is running on an operating system no longer supported with security patches.
Videos from Post-Seed Conference (Dixon, Naval, Rabois, Thiel)
It is a bit ironic that Peter Thiel is backing Palantir, and is the biggest investor in the marijuana trade. They seem like opposite ends of the spectrum.
Shawndrost - Id love to run an article related to this on Movemeback.com to engage the action and thoughts of African Diapora in the West. Really didn't expect to come across such content on HN - fantastic.C
send it my way, I have reviewed hundreds this past year. email in profile.
Intuitively I get it, but it doesn't seem all that useful. I'd love to see an example of it in action.
> There are some good CSS selector like position sticky but not available in most browsers

position:sticky isn't a selector.

<selector> {<property>: <value>}
These guys? http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2011/02/11/palanti...

Well they apologised, I guess. No resignations, no charges, no referring evidence to police. But yeah, they did apologise for it, so they got that going for them.
The CERN talk referred to in the article is also available as an mp3 audio here: https://archive.org/details/AlexandreGrothendieck-UneVieDign...

It's in French, but very touching to hear A. Grothendieck's voice.
https://crypto.cat/ is another alternative.
Here's an example. The trick I used was creating the extra block and the hole on the same side (so, not like the pic). With the pieces numbered as in the post:

2233ffff
72233ddd
7744eaad
7114eaag
5114eegg
555bbccg
6666bbcc

Note that, as in the post, I'm not "respecting" Tetris in 2d: pieces 2 and 3 have been "3d rotated" and are "looking in the same direction".
Hey! If you're from where I think you are you should definitely make an appearance and a local meetup a friend (@joshgillies) and I run monthly called Web Developer 42°. We have a couple of locals talking about anything from database security to git flow to front end design tooling. Beer, soft drink and pizza provided - and it's free!

Knowing local people who love what you love can make a big difference. Whilst dev jobs are few and far between down here, they do crop up - usually in smaller consulting firms. All of the consulting firms down here generally have a presence at #wd42. And everyone that meets really cares about the sorts of things on the Joel test - so any potential employers you may meet here are on the same page.

We'll be putting out the speaker list next week but in the meantime hit up our website (http://web.dev42.co/) and maybe follow us on twitter. If you want an email reminder email me and I'll add you to the announcement list.

If you are from here, shoot me an email (in profile) and we can catch up for a #pubhack, #coffeehack or similar. I'm not a hirer - but I love to code and enjoy coding with others.

Edit: I thought you meant Hobart (as it is literally at the bottom end of Australia) but was mistaken. Either way if anyone is down here on the last Wednesday of any month come to #wd42 for a beer. We're friendly only some of us have 2 heads!
I do not know, but I suspect this is exactly why RMS dislikes SAAS: because it can technically obey a license without having to give users the freedoms he designed the GPL to give.
They're looking for a round of funding so of course it was "leaked".
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Backing? He was a founder.
Talk on the technical track