skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I tend to agree with you in that I do not weigh a decision based on the amount of equity they are offering. A little side story as to why I do not weigh equity as I used to. Back in the first bubble (1998-2000) I went to work for a startup that had good leadership, big investors, and really came to define the SaaS model (although we called it an Application Service Provider at the time). I took a slight pay cut to come to work there, but I saw upside and they offered me a great equity package. A year and half down the road we were growing and planning to go public. They had not planned well and given out too much equity. Prior to the IPO we had to do an 8 to 1 reverse split, meaning that for every 8 shares you had you now had 1. Although the IPO was fairly successful out of the gate, moral was destroyed by the reverse split.

However, with that in mind, I will still give up salary in return for equity if I am (a) passionate about the business idea, (b) believe that there is a good chance that the business will succeed, (c) believe in the founders and team that is already in place, including any investors. And looking back (I am in my 40s now) the younger you are the more risk you can absorb in terms of equity. I enjoy the startup world and am willing to take risks. Plus, like any other job if it doesn't look like it is panning out or you are unhappy there is nothing holding you there.
Real-Time Skeletal 3D Face Animation
Self-Charging Keyboard by Teenagers
You can stick 6TB in a single 4U Proliant from HP:
http://www8.hp.com/us/en/products/servers/proliant-servers.h...

If you need a few PBs of spindle storage, hook that server up to a DDN or Panasas rack.
Have you tried Docracy? There are a few good examples at:

https://www.docracy.com/application/dochome
Depends on the provider - some are doing the same thing they did 2 years ago whereas others keep innovating constantly :)
Darude Sandstorm is going to conflict with this projects name a bit?
The western coast of Nigeria is where the equator and the prime meridian meet.
thepiratebay.se is blocked at ISP-level on my country, and we need to access using thepiratebay.vu

are those the same site/mirror? do you see any difference?
This one is really cool http://tri.be/update-the-shane-peter-inc-contract/
I'm a big startup advocate, and for roughly GolfyMcG's reasons.

But all things depend on the individual companies, in some startups you won't get to hire. And for my luck, of the 2 large companies where I worked there was no chance of flex-time, or remote - or any kind of non- 9-5 schedule even for devs. On the other hand at 1 of them everyone left at 5 on the dot cause no one cared about their jobs - and a strict 40 a week feels like vacation a lot.

I think regardless of where you go you have to pick wisely (and I only picked large because my options where limited and the salaries where good.).

But as a rule small - not just startup, means you have more power and control over yourself and your fiefdom. And that freedom is what you like that's where you should go. (Or research - there's a lot more paperwork with research teams, but there's a lot of freedom as well.)

And yes - if you like writing good code you are proud of years later a big co is good place to do it. At my government gig, we wrote prototypes we'd knew would have to be thrown away, perfectly - because really why not? There were no hard to meet deadlines, or particular concerns about the grants running out. So we built things we'd be proud of, every time.
> They don't have copyrighted files.

True.

> They used to [...] keep track of the people that do have copyrighted files

Did they get rid of their tracker? I don't know actually, but that's not important. Running a torrent tracker is considered very legal in most places (similar to running a Tor exit node or something like that).

> Plus comments and a search engine.

That's the tricky bit.

> So while I'm pretty sure you won't get arrested for visiting today, I'm less confident the current law won't become stretched enough to cover it.

I'd rather you wouldn't just say stuff like that. You're basically spreading FUD. There is no sane reason to believe anybody will ever be arrested (in western countries, that is) for visiting a site like TPB. Which law would you like to stretch in order to make that happen? Using their indexer is similar to getting a menu from your drug dealer. You haven't even attempted to do anything illegal yet. What you'd need is a law that allows you to arrest people for something they haven't even attempted to do (some people call that pre-crime).

What happens in reality instead is governments blocking sites like TPB and that's the end of that.
Living in a developing country like India , I see the PirateBay more like Robin Hood , not that they're right in what they do but sites like TPB are how most of us ever get to see most classic films , TV series and learn how to use tools like Photoshop. It's not like many people here can actually afford most of the stuff they pirate so noone really loses.
Check out my comment above about:

http://tinyhabits.com/

His basic philosophy is to anchor a very small habit to one you already do. For example, is there one thing you always do first at work? Make coffee, open email? Then choose a tiny habit you would like to form (it should take less than 30 seconds) and do it right after that normal routine habit. (I don't know, maybe write down one task you promised someone you would do and pin it on your monitor). Then after you have done the tiny habit, give yourself a small celebratory high-five. (Cheesy as it sounds, the tiny habit where I didn't do this little celebration didn't stick after the week long program).

Check out and sign up for his 1 week program (its free).
You should try Shake!

http://www.shakelaw.com/legal-info/freelancehire-agreements/
When in college, I saw my friends, who were once in the military, power through learning at time frustratingly difficult subjects. It didn't take long to see that their consistent efforts yielded progress in excess of what the rest of us "self-motivators" were making. I don't know why that came as a surprise. After all, my Dad, who was a staff sergeant, raised three boys by himself-our mother died when we were 3, 2, 6 mos-while running an architecture firm.

Some may say we need a holistic approach in how we get ourselves to do what can be unpleasant but also life and career enhancing tasks; I think that makes things more complicated than they need to be. The times when I've applied the disciplined approach to work have been my most productive. Other people's mileage may vary.
A day of in a life of product manager
Mobac works great, although you have to do a bit of editing of configuration files to get it to work with non-free sources like google maps.

I've used it create maps for long bicycle trips in SE Europe. A highest-detail map of the balkans is about 1GB. I used Galileo Offline Maps to render it on an iPhone.
While I don't condone rudeness about sports (I don't like watching sports, but when my friends and family want to do it I politely watch and listen), politeness about what people love is a two-way street that I understand vividly in my profession: mathematics.

Because if there's anything that people compete to show their ignorance about, it's basic mathematics. I would gladly become a die-hard sports fan if it meant the average person I meet didn't talk they way they do about math.
These served me well when I owned a consultancy: http://msabundle.com
I love Black Mirror but I don't understand why people feel the need to downvote you for expressing your opinion.

I've been noticing more and more perfectly acceptable comments greyed out that I'm starting to wonder if I should just create a bookmarklet that just ungreys them all since I can't trust HN users to use their downvote privileges properly any more.
It even supports IPv6.
3cosystem is just a merged feed from Meetup and Eventbrite ?

The best events are sometimes those that are not purely focused on tech.
Not sure if this is common knowledge, but I was told a few weeks ago from a friend with insight into the bust that TPB servers were located by law enforcement who analyzed clips from a documentary. Not sure if it was TBP AFK or some other video, but it doesn't matter. The point is that you shouldn't let any random ol' folks take footage of sensitive locations. You never know what'll end up happening.
A map of San Francisco's subway system that almost was
thepiratebay.se was blocked[1] at ISP-level by CAPIF request

You can still access the site thru thepiratebay.vu

1: http://www.scribd.com/doc/232015119/CAPIF-CAMARA-ARG-DE-PROD...
There's a big difference between not being a sports fan, and going out of your way to be an elitist snob about it (even if that "going out of your way" stems from emotional self-defense).

Same thing happens with math, or programming, or various other intellectual pursuits. People will specifically talk about how bad they are at math, and wear it like a badge of pride. Or, they can just not enjoy it without being rude.
The blank media levy may well be unfair, but I don't see how enabling or engaging in widespread piracy helps fight against that. It probably does the opposite, given the rationale behind such taxes.
Ask HN: Someone raised money by claiming my project as their own
Throwaway for obvious reasons.

I built an open source project, licensed Apache. A startup raised more than 1M based on my project and forgot to remove the links to my site. A potential investor shot me an email telling me that the startup ripped my demo and is telling investors that they own the IP.

How should I respond? Is this common practice?
Ask HN: Is it a good idea to learn SAP?
Response: https://twitter.com/randal_olson/status/561539109014241281
Who's not a politician?
I've also used these quite a bit. They are sufficient for about 50% of clients. The other want to use their boilerplate.
NASA launches rocket with satellite to track climate change
They're not the same. se does not have a facebook thing on the front page, it has more links on the bottom of the front page (including a login). Their logos are different. Search results are different (vu seems more up to date). se uses https.
I'm not saying that Covey doesn't have good points, but they are better fit to the manager schedule, not the maker schedule.

What I am saying is that that "just do it" method of discipline building is rather useless for creative work. I have seen my fair share of people who have failed with this advice.

I failed with that advice for years.

I solved my problem with the three above.
2015: The Year of the OpenBSD Desktop
This is hyperbole. Yes, there has been some movement low 31-34, middle 45-43, high 25-22, since 2000. But also consider that 2000 was at the height of a bubble where people were artifically wealthy. I wouldn't call a couple of percentage points "killing the middle class".

Also, consider the labor participation rate. At a 36 year low. Less people are working. http://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS11300000

Without getting into the whole political argument about whether people should be paid by the government when they do not work, or to the extent robots or cold hearted business barons are killing jobs - or - whether these people can't work or choose not to because they can get by on govt. dole (or working friends/family) - less people working will mean less income.

The survival of middle income families is a very real concern, but I don't find the click bait headlines and exaggeration of what's happening particularly helpful. We have too many areas in American life where instead of taking a sober look at the problem, we stir people up by appealing to their base fears and create narratives to scare people.
For the uninitiated what does this program do and what is its importance?
Don't forget to look up meetups in the tech section at meetup.com! Very good way of finding like-minded people.
I don't think they are including Hong Kong - at least it's not labelled on the map.
Love the focus on discipline. Most of us cringe or struggle with the idea that discipline will somehow constrain or cause us pain, but it's really come down to one thing for me to remember.

Always build my ability to build discipline and all other habits can be improved or developed because I have discipline.

Discipline creates freedom from things by doing what is needed to be done in the short term for a long term.

Wisdom is to know that discipline is the master skill to develop, whether it's the discipline to be creative (and for how long), and the discipline to power through the things that need doing, serves or transfers as skills.
Yes, the var should have been inout. It had an affect on the release build performance (twice as fast), but not the debug build. I've updated the blog post.

The performance problem is regarding all retain/releases though; not the copy of the data. That's why the debug builds are not affected.
looks to me like a typical phoenix "decal", made one[1] myself a few years ago which is quite similar to this one.

[1]: http://www.bluephoenix.at/bp5/assets/gfx/logo.png
Guess it depends on where you live/what you are looking at.

Having just gone through a recent home buying exercise in mid-west I always reverted to bing maps for a "birds eye view" as they had 4 directions of shots from their plane camera while google just had satellite then went into some kind of rendered/extruded view which was kinda eh.

Now if I compare that to our office in SF then google better than bing for zooming in.
Without specifics you're not going to get much in terms of help but at first glance if they are raising funds on your code then you should contact a lawyer with your license in hand to get his opinion on how to proceed.
For a while before there was a free GE, Nasa World Winds had a pretty active community around it.

It would need lots of work to become a real alternative though.

http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/features.html
Sure. I think this is a good point. I suppose when I was thinking startup I was envisioning a group of more than 1 developer. At least a 3-4.
I am in Europe (Italy) right now and before it was taken down thepiratebay.se was blocked. But now I can access it directly. Interesting.
Maybe in NY, but for the majority of the UK Bing provides way better imagery.[1]

[1] http://i.imgur.com/2Oasyw0.jpg
In 1995, we watched these 1979 videos of Smalltalk in my programming languages college computer science course, which focused on Scheme.

I vividly remember the reaction of my fellow students. Given the mockery and jokes from my fellow students, you'd think they were watching a bad sci-fi movie. Most students discounted everything they saw, 'real men and real programmers used C'. I remember being so disheartened that it seemed we'd evolved so little in tools/languages from 1979 - 1995.

At the time, everything was Unix and C programming (DEC Alpha were just being installed on campus, Windows 95 had just been released). There were a lot of reasons Unix/C succeeded, there is a great classic paper about why C beat Lisp, and I agree with the author.

However, what always troubled me, is how my fellow students completely ignored any potential learnings from those videos. In many ways, those early Smalltalk programs were far more impressive than anything they had created, but they just wrote them off.

At GDC 2014, a post-mortem was presented on the classic game Myst. That was written entirely in Hypercard.
Living in the Netherlands, I used to be fine with this. It used to be that you'd pay a bit extra for storage media, but that piracy was tolerated. Downloading, that is. But recently the government caved to EU influences and now downloading content is also enforced to be illegal, yet the storage media taxes remain.
For Silk Road founder, evidence keeps piling up
Looks different: tbp.se currently has a pheonix logo instead of the pirate ship. Tpb.vu is probably an independent mirror.
It's the part where, having not seen public evidence of the behavior, you are still concerned that somewhere at midnight vigils and seances they are practicing their evil racist ways, and that "Something be done!".

Racism in and of itself is a quirk, and if you can't prove that others are actually harming people with it, you shouldn't begrudge other people their opinions--even if you don't like them.
Good for you not to listen when you're told what's not possible.

It's not exactly new though:

http://news.techeye.net/hardware/piezoelectric-keyboard-coul...
I am not a coder, I did my undergrad in mechanical engineering, and I wish to work where I can actually apply what I studied. But your advice doesnt look like a bad option! thanks
You should talk to a lawyer who specializes in IP. IANAL, but they don't own the IP -- they license it from you. Whether that means they owe you anything would depend on the specifics of the case, and that's something you'll need an attorney to figure out.
I don't know any lawyers in the IP space. Do you have a lawyer that you use in your business life?
In my experience startups are not that much about freedom. They are often dominated by autocratic personalities, and short deadlines.
The way we board airplanes makes absolutely no sense (2014)
And the inevitable march towards the future we learned about in 90s cyberpunk gets a little closer. Needing to cross through customs to get between different parts of what's essentially a contiguous urban area makes this just a little more salient.
Yeah, there is a strange misconception on HN that the US legal system is totally broken and that everyone is out to get you. I don't think the data support this. Actually, I believe there is legal precedent that you can't be prosecuted for downloading something from a site like TPB, only from uploading to others (the reasoning is that when you upload you're a distributor).
A city with 50,000 compromised heaters drawing 1.5KW lets an attacker play with 75MW on the electric grid. (I just picked the middle value in a list of heaters; probably not a good estimate.)

A moderate county (roughly 2 million people in 800,000 households) has about a 2400MW power supply.

Compromising 6% of households' heaters would allow you to drive spikes on the order of 3% of the average power grid load (which includes things like business uses). With some targeting, you could probably get a larger influence on a localized portion of the grid.

Somehow, I think attackers causing high-ish frequency noise (on the order of ~1 minute waves, or less) with 3% of the average power could cause problems for the electric grid.
Depending on the use case, Falcon View is an alternative.

https://www.falconview.org/trac/FalconView
As an American who grew up looking across the pond at the Finnish demoscene, I have no doubt that there's enough talent and smarts in Finland to come back stronger than before.
Likely not in your place of residence.

But google is your friend here.
Make sure that risk, is balanced with a potential reward though. To many young people think just because a startup sells, your going to end with some of that cash.

Most likely your not going to end up with any of that cash, unless you get into the right position first.
>Did they get rid of their tracker?

Yes.

>> Plus comments and a search engine.

> That's the tricky bit.

Wait, you think the comments and search engine are the problem? What if they dumped a big list of the most recent 10000 magnet URLs and descriptions at you?

> You're basically spreading FUD.

Well I am pretty scared and uncertain. The Pirate Bay is already so far removed from the actual copyright infringement that I don't see how another layer of indirection guarantees safety for the people that visit the site. Perhaps you wouldn't get in trouble just for searching, but if you used the search results in the process of infringing copyright I would not be surprised to see some kind of conspiracy to commit copyright infringement charge added on for making the search. Is that completely unreasonable?

Can you explain to me how TPB's actions are illegal today? In the dealer analogy, they've never even seen a drug. They ask you what chemical you want and tell you an arbitrary code word that some dealers will recognize.

The problem can't really be that it's a search engine rather than an unorganized list...can it?
What's new in Atom Shell 0.20.x
I think the sphere of technology where he's focused (frontend) is particularly fast moving right now. It is extremely humbling to read about somebody like this feeling this way. I know many developers, myself included, experience these pangs of inadequacy on a frequent basis. It would be hard not to, things move fast and everyone around us is talented and smart. But, just like anyone else, I think this article reminds us that we're all human, no matter how talented, and open to feeling inadequate. There's always more to know, more to achieve. But its good to pause and focus on the skills we have sometimes to be grateful for what we've done.
Convert videos to animated images “GIF”
I use a modified version of Ross Kimbarovsky's Contract from: http://www.crowdspring.com/contracts-for-software-and-websit...

Caveat: I've only used it with one client, with whom I have a prior working relationship.
Don't get me wrong; I know exactly what you mean.

I guess the implication is that people who watch football don't care or are simply to stupid to realize what's going on. On the other hand, it is well known that politicians pass unpopular legislation during major sport events — hoping that nobody will notice. Saying things like "Panem et Circenses" can't be offensive by itself then, can it?

Aside from all that, you lost all your moral high-ground in the last paragraph anyway. It might be true that a lot of these people are offensive, but so are you.
Thanks for sharing.

Do you have a reference to that paper on C and LISP?
I used the app when it was first launched and as the post suggests, whilst it was an interesting way to find new movies, that focus alone wasn't enough to get me engaged as the days went on. I just ended up selecting the movies I was gonna watch depending on their streaming availability on other platforms. Nowadays however, with the way they pivoted towards focusing on how a person felt about the movie they watched, it became an entirely different experience that I couldn't find on other places. Im genuinely interested in seeing how my friends reacted to a movie, more than just knowing whether they deemed it was a 4 star movie. When I see that they were shocked by a movie or utterly bored, it sways my movie selecting experience towards this new logic which I find very appealing. To founders of other startups, I would suggest that the moral of the story is to "listen" to your users and be ready to shift the focus or logic of your product towards something unexpected that might have seemed secondary at first.
"catchmeifyoucan"

I guess he got caught.
An author used GitHub to write a book
I'm afraid that trying to squeeze the text on the analogy made me distort the message. What I meant is in this paragraph:

"The point is to cut the link between feelings and actions, and do it anyway. You get to feel good and buzzed and energetic and eager afterwards."

So, discipline will kick things off and later you'll have the feelings that should have been generated by motivation.
Hard to have sympathy for people who install closed-source applications with inappropriate permissions and get burned by it. Still, the developer is an idiot for doing it and should not be trusted.
I think mmarks is referring to this classic:

https://www.dreamsongs.com/WorseIsBetter.html
except comments are bind to time in video so no one has to say refer to 4:03 in the video or things like that
I'm not a lawyer, but for what it's worth, it sounds like they're defrauding their investors while actually complying with their legal obligations to you; the Apache license allows copying, and deploying code to a website (without sharing the code itself) isn't even thought of as "distribution" in copyright terms.

So I'd be surprised if you have anything personal to gain from pursuing this, other than the karmic payoff of seeing cheaters be punished.