skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For people who are already open minded, it's a valuable tool. On the flip-side it can be an amplifier for tightly-held beliefs.

Stoll joked in self-deprication that his criticism was coming from a guy who owned five computers and no car -- so, he wasn't anti-technology. Nor do I think he didn't see the positive potential of the internet. There was a lot of hype going around in the late 90's, and his essays were responding to that.
Those pessimistic predictions that were 'correct' are just more difficult problems that don't have slick mature solutions, yet.
This is a really poor rendering of "desire". If the word "desire" is meaningful, it has to be self-actualized. Otherwise it's just a programming condition, no different than a fuse box or a dead man's switch.
This stuff is actually studied fairly well ex:

A little over half of the homeless population stay put, but from the populaion that starts migrating.

http://web.utk.edu/~edegeorg/TECH521/LaTeX/Migration.pdf

surveys identified the four most common reasons for mobility.

(1) No jobs available
(2) Eviction from housing
(3) No affordable housing available
*(4) No services available

Additionally, those surveyed revealed strong common reasons for choosing the move destination.

*(1) The presence of relatives or friends in the new community
*(2) Shelters or missions were present in the new community
(3) Jobs were available in the new community
*(4) Good services and programs for the homeless were available in the new community

Note, 1 is part of the feed back loop as a homeless person will often have other homeless friends.
>But eventually the researchers homed in on 10 pairs of male identical twins, one of whom regularly exercised, while the other did not, usually because of work or family pressures, the researchers determined.

That "work and family pressure" sounds like stress and a pretty important confounding variable.
Capital gains and dividends aren't taxed at the same rate, so the whole water air thing in the end doesnt match up for an Investor.

Then theres the whole debate about, maybe management can't reinvest that money properly, maybe the shares will actually lose value because of this.
I wouldn't say 6+2 months of living expenses is 'realistic'. I would term that 'wishful thinking'.

And a 3 month 'risky' living expenses for a start up is what I would call "I'm vastly underestimating what I got myself into."

The founders at my current job have been working at this for 4+ years. We just received series A funding. Any expectations of an IPO or other exit are at least another 3+ years from now, and that's also a 'wishful thinking' number.
Late-stage rounds that offer employee buyouts are somewhat typical lately.

Also, if you exercise and leave, some places like SecondMarket, Equidate, MicroVentures and a few others provide a chance to offload some of that equity.

In regards to salary, your company should be approaching a maturity point where salaries are defined in bands, by HR (by someone titled "Compensation Analyst" or similarly), not decided on a case-by-case basis.
> Not all workers can demand decent living conditions

You're assuming that car-oriented urban planning is synonymous with poor living conditions, which isn't true. A lot of people (most?) in the U.S. actually prefer it -- for many people the perceived convenience of cars beats public transportation and biking.
This was one of the primary reasons I stopped doing analysis on startup metric data. Most of it is deliberately incomplete and it would be dishonest to do analysis on incomplete data.

In this case, "grown" is a loaded question from your metric data, since "number of developers" does not distinguish between the number of developers who have joined and who have left; it's only the total, but the former metric is what's important.
> In the Zetas case, they just rape, torture, and murder hundreds of innocent civilians.

> That seems very shortsighted and not beneficial to business.

An organized crime group that engages in this kind of behavior may, within a reasonable approximation, be rationally focused on maximizing their own experienced utility [0], but even if they are, their utility function may not weight financial returns as highly as, say, yours does.

[0] I should emphasize that I am not at all taking the position that this is the case.
Alcohol? For me, every time during the day that I see a car doing stupid things (i.e. stuff that can kill me on my bike) they are on their phones. Looking down, driving erratically, either too fast or too slow, etc.

I still can't believe its not illegal to use the phone while driving on many parts of the US (and where its illegal, its just a slap on the wrist)
All the research I've seen shows that people are lousy at these.

I don't doubt that most people suck at it. One of the four people who co-founded YC is hardly "most people." Your general skepticism fails to be a good argument in this specific instance.
Aren't they every ones unpaid fact checkers? Isn't that the point of Wikipedia?

It would be nice if Google would donate some more money, though.
What rational basis is there for people having varying rights and privileges...

'Rights' and 'privileges' are just as abstract a concept as 'nationality'.

Not to mention that they all rely on underlying 'culture' - different nations, rights, and privileges are all seen in different cultures.
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The NFL game feed is a combination of a couple of feeds. There's

http://www.nfl.com/liveupdate/scorestrip -- which will show you the events and IDs that are currently going active. Right now, in the off-season, it will undoubtedly be blank. You can then take those values and plug them into this one:

http://www.nfl.com/liveupdate/game-center/%s/%s_gtd.json % (year, game_id)

For something to illustrate how they work together, you can check out this repository:
https://github.com/BurntSushi/nflgame

I don't remember the one for the NBA, as I've never used it, but I saw an article on reddit a few weeks ago about how to get the data from the NBA using their RSS feed, so I have a good faith belief that it exists.
As for startup living expenses, I meant that as taking into account the possibility of revenue and fundraising. I'll edit the question to clarify.
Who is going to pay for it, though? If Musk is then, okay, maybe. But if he's counting on Congress to pony up the cash it may never happen at all. Probably won't, in fact.
I 100% agree with you. Majority of companies in the private market will go to zero.

The other problem is that today's so called "tech companies" have very little with tech. And, sadly, many companies including Evernote found out that hype pays more that actual working product. So they sell socks: why not? It gives them more revenue then Evernote subscription.

So there will be no new Oracle, new Cisco, new Sun in this bubble... Just bubble...

3rd in my life.... I hope will make money in next one.
I think it comes down to multitasking. The notification systems of phones enable it, while the primitive launchscreen/app switching system gets in the way. Homescreen widgets can have the same function, but they're much less discoverable to users. Aside from Firefox I interact with most apps on my phone through Android's notification pulldown these days.
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You are double counting Breyer and Accel's shares -- footnotes give the key details.

Breyer personally owns 3%, and is deemed to control Accel's 27%. So collectively, Breyer is considered to control 30% of voting shares.

Read correctly (not adjusting for any preferred or convertible notes that could be in the structure somewhere), the amount held by Breyer, USV, Accel, Tiger Global, and Index should add up to ~65%
I must give you credit, this is very well said. This is a legitimate concern. I feel as though this is what others have been attempting to say when using the "illegal activities" argument.
Thanks! That sounds a lot more reasonable. I'll amend the original comment.
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Exactly people are different, some are smarter than others. Otherwise everybody would be an engineer or medical doctor or some other high status high paying job.

This whole mentality that everybody are born equal in mental capacity is a likely cause of stress and depression among many people today.

People are born tall, small, fat, skinny, smart, supid. Just find your level and optimize your own happiness.
I'm a high school junior if you want to chat some time.
I thought, too, that genetics only controls for something akin to a few percent of your potential, and that to bump up against that limit you would have to already be in the 99th percentile for a particular capability. So your endurance is controlled by past training almost exclusively.
> If the price stays down the transactions must go 250x.

I understand you now. That's right. But my point was the price is unlikely to stay down... Anyway this debate of whether the price will go down or up is a little silly: even assuming the price stays down it will literally take DECADES for the network to "need" to increase the tx/block by 250x to maintain the same level of security. The bitcoin reward is halved every ~4 years, so we only need the tx/block to double every ~4 years to maintain the same level of security. So far Bitcoin as MORE than met this need: the tx/block has more than doubled every year since its creation.

> I didn't say this is necessarily the end of bitcoin

You were saying you did not believe the price drop would stop. Now you are saying it will quite likely stagnate. That's quite a different statement.

> It's just that the raw numbers which we do have show that it's not really doing that well.
> [...]
> The fact that only hard numbers which we do have show poor adoption indicates that it's the same elsewhere.

Yes we know that for merchants accepting Bitcoin, it represents an incredibly tiny fraction of their total sales. But why do you think this means Bitcoin is not doing well? A brand new payment technology unlike anything else going from zero to representing 0.1% of the sales of 100,000 merchants worldwide is a significant accomplishment in my opinion. I say 0.1% because 0.x% seems to be approximately what the average merchant reports. For example Overstock reported 0.2% of their sale revenues were in bitcoins for 2014.

Also why do you extrapolate your single anecdote (WordPress shutting down Bitcoin sales) to an industry-wide trend? Why do you ignore 3 other anecdotes that contradict your opinion (Overstock consistently doing 0.2% of their sales in bitcoins = $3 million/year so they are far from stopping to accept bitcoin, Newegg reporting their best bitcoin black friday sales in 2014, Gyft reporting the same)? Why do these 4 anecdotes, whether positive or negative, matter at all, when I showed you more indirect metrics (avc.com) that obviously show strong overall adoption? The avc.com metrics may not show actual bitcoin sales figures, but clearly they indicate something.

To answer your question: I think BitPay and Coinbase don't release current numbers of Bitcoin payments processed because this is sensitive financial data for competitors. But surely VCs wouldn't be pouring tens of millions of dollars in them if they showed no growth, don't you think?
In the phone market, increasingly, you can go non-contract with pay-as-you-go / prepaid SIMs.

What's starting to emerge is the concept of a WiFi-only device which is usable for voice / messaging when within network range, but not otherwise.

I agree with you generally vis-a-vis power relations -- that's really a highly underappreciated element of economics, though Smith's own second discussion of wealth begins: "Wealth, as Mr Hobbes says, is power".

More generally, organizing politically to prohibit such measures is necessary.

Not merely "making them unlawful to use for discrimination", as there are plenty of other unrestricted grounds for discrimination. But prohibiting outright.
Ask HN: Are you a fast developer?
Why? What make a fast developer? Is it rarely having to learn new things? Is it learning a new technology before other people on a team? How do you measure your speed as a developer?

This concept has been bothering me lately. I've been working on a project for a few weeks and part of it took me a lot of trial and error(a week) to find a solution that took me 5 minutes to write. Did I waste that week?
Awful tragedy.

I fucking hate cars. I really tried to like them, because they are required for child care in the United States. But I failed.

Haven't driven a car to work since 1997. But I used taxis in 1998. Moved out to a remote area where I could walk to work in 1999. And my miles-driven-per-year remained the same as when I lived in the Bay Area.

Damn. America is big, and relatively sparsely populated.
Your strike price stays fixed so any bump in valuation is your gain. Of course, if you're a late employee at a start-up that has just experienced stratospheric growth, the probability of further upside declines, but if you're in that position, you're likely to get RSUs anyways.
And this is why humans should not be allowed to drive cars.

Reliable, safe, self-driving cars can't come soon enough.

My deepest condolences to Mike's family and friends. =(
Is that a homemade Segway clone? I'd like to know more about that!
Cling is interesting.

Cint is a nightmare.
A bunch of Silicon Valley CPAs do this as well as financial advisors/planners. This is a high-class problem to have though, which is also the point where one comes across the need to hire a financial advisor or have a professional CPA do some tax planning.
Not sure about LSD, but if you eat enough shrooms and you'll definitely dissociate.
The Scala team has a large test suite and compiles against more than a million lines of code from published Scala code bases in the wild on regular intervals.

They also guarantee that if something compiles against a major version without deprecation warnings it will also compile against the next major version.

The only difference with Java is that Scala developers actually deal with deprecated things instead of letting them accumulate with every release and that binary artifacts are forward compatible.
If investors were buying common stock instead of preferred stock what would happen to valuations?
There is no investing through crowd-funding sites. It is all either donations, or pre-purchasing a product.
No, of course you didn't waste a week. Every minute spent honing your skills will be beneficial to you later on.

I've been told I'm a "fast" developer. I'm still unclear about what it means. To me, it seems as though they really mean "You say what you mean and you do what you say" or "You meet deadlines, don't bullshit and don't overbill".

Don't worry about what other people say. Focus on you - the rest will come.
Dialogue Group (Project name TBC) | http://dialoguegroup.com.au | Melbourne, Australia but REMOTE totally OK | UI/UX designer | Salary negotiable – it's a contract/hourly role

We're producing an awesome new app/ecosystem in the tertiary healthcare (hospital) space. Think slack meets trello meets doctors.

It's super-early days. We have ideas, we have some potential workflows, but a core part of this product's success will be its interface and user experience. Doctors are one of the most time-poor audiences around, and so being able to pick up the iOS/Android app + web interface quickly and easily will be the 'make or break' in delivering our product.

I'm looking for someone who can help us with the UX/UI on an advice basis, and provide design mockups for us to then do an MVP build on top of (are you an awesome dev? I'd prefer to build it cross-platform so if you have experience for stage 2 feel free to get in touch).

I'm a strong 'ship it early, ship it quick' advocate, so if you're someone who can take 'mockups' from sketch to full HTML (or even better, Angular/Ionic or similar in JavaScript) you will win all the dogepoints.

Remote job (but we'll need to Skype here and there to chat and meet obviously...), happy to pay you on an hourly basis as a contractor, which is why I haven't put a salary range up! I should say though that I'm not looking for a $500/hr super insane skilled person, but also not a $20/hr eLancer...mid-level I guess then. If you're currently working somewhere awesome FT and just feel like helping someone else out (paid obviously) as a side project that's okay too...

Anyway, get in touch. My email is hugh at dialoguegroup dot com dot au, and we can have a chat.
> I'm sure the investors have to be annoyed they basically just transferred their assets to Etsy to sit on and not utilize.

Considering they all stand to make a bundle through the IPO I'm sure the investors are collectively not-annoyed that Etsy hasn't wasted their money.
> the results summarized in this post don't seem very interesting

There are ongoing debates around the degree to which obesity is a roll of the dice or not. Especially with the rise of Fat Acceptance-style lobby groups there is increasing pressure (alongside existing industrial sugar sellers like drink makers) to push back on the idea that a variety of health problems are obesity-related, or to tell people they need to change exercise/dietary habits.

In a way, it's quite impressive. They're doing much better than the pro-smoking lobby ever did, but it's also rather depressing from a public policy point of view.

As a corollary it's worth noting that if e.g. your workplace demands you work hours that effectively preclude you eating and exercising well there are substantial costs, not just for you, but for society more broadly.
do you have any timely book recommendations?
What I don't get - if this girlfriend could remember an ex-boyfriend, why couldn't she remember she had DID? And, if I could remember I had DID, I would probably have coping mechanisms for dealing with complete strangers who indicated they where my close intimates, and coping with physically being in places that I did not remember. Think about Memento, and the person who couldn't form new memories, but had a number of devices/systems for letting him know who he could, and could not trust.

On the flipside, if I couldn't remember I had DID, and all of a sudden a stranger appeared in my room, and said, "Gordon, you are having an episode. Please check your wallet to remind you that we are close, and call your mother to confirm." - I'm pretty certain that as long as the person stayed calm, and physically away from me, I would adjust to this new reality pretty quickly.

Trying to physically restrain me though, as the author did in this story, would probably be a very bad approach towards de-escalating my freak out.
There are a lot of different demographic / geographic boundaries. Among them: ZIP codes, ZIP+4, census blocks, census tracts.

At higher levels: urban boundaries, MSA, SMA, and CSA, usually defined along county (or parish or borough) boundaries.
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Genuine question, what are those "much better investment options?" I have long suspected that super rich people are doing different things with their money than I am, but I have never figured out exactly what.
Plain hashes are vulnerable to all sorts of attacks. Here's a paper on proof of retrievability https://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~hovav/dist/verstore.pdf and one on non-outsourceabe storage http://cs.umd.edu/~amiller/nonoutsourceable.pdf
If you already have angel funding in place, then certainly take that into account. Otherwise, IMHO, I still think your runway timing is suicidally optimistic, particularly if this is your first 'go' at this.
Ask HN: Is the HN Firebase API Broken?
Why is the https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/updates 'items' end-point full of item IDs such as "5476201", and similar (created ~700 days ago) that from the first look do not have any recent changes?
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Disassociating doesn't always work like played out in films or TV, sadly. It's terrifying, and often find it hard to trust what's in front of you. Familiarity is needed, as it acts to ground you, and a key part of this is to feel safe on a number of different levels. Simply having photos alone may not be enough, unless those photos are something you regularly examine and experience.

Grounding is a common method of dealing with anxiety and other mental health issues. The idea of finding your place, finding familiarity, centring yourself. Something you are very used to doing normally and when safe is important, as is having that also associated very strongly with being safe.

For some people, photos will work well for this - they might capture moments with strong association with safety and happiness. Some people may be able to instead use an object, a talisman of sorts.

For others, or for when the disassociation is worse, a single grounding method may not be enough. It's about building the complete story - getting home and watching something familiar. The grounding only happens from weight of evidence.

Finally, there's something you don't hear talked about much. Coming back around from disassociating can be utterly terrifying in it's own right. Both as one tries to return, and after coming back. Having multiple entirely different means to ground helps with this.
It depends on the situation. But I'll generally raise the question, and if it's flat-out rejected, I'll keep shopping around.

I'll note that there's discussions that happen as well. WallMart's story on HN had a substantial discussion of their mandatory drug test requirement.
Some growing companies have positive cash flow but negative earnings as long as they are growing.

For example, they may take credit card payments from customers, but pay suppliers on terms. In which case growth causes consistent annual free cash flow higher than earnings.

Amazon is a decent example of this where their earnings suck, but their FCF has been reasonable every year.

I'm not sure about the particulars of how Etsy issues payment to suppliers though.
That's not entirely correct. The bottom line is that military satellites are just expensive - period. They will always be expensive because of their capabilities.
I worked with Mike Ey at IMVU for several years. He was the first tech lead for our 3D engine team, and his contributions to the company are innumerable. Moreover, I only now see how much he meant to me. He taught me how to solder, basic electronics, and spun me up on Unity3D. He was always willing to help, and one of the happiest people I've ever met.

The world dimmed a little this weekend. We'll miss you Mike.
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I'm sure California was a bit of an outlier nationally but we had similar encouragement citing environmental and health grounds. It's an easy sell when the weather's fine for cycling roughly 360 days a year.
What happened to the founders? Is there a back story here?
I've seen that "exposure" therapy is often used in the treatment of OCD, another form of anxiety disorder. Patients with OCD often have an anxiety about something and use their quirks and rituals to avoid/ignore the anxiety. To help them cure their rituals, they must actively try to experience the often very extreme anxiety that some situation puts them in. Is the treatment similar in cases of DID?
"Human" includes the drive to figure out how things work and how to fix them when they break.