skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I recently set up a shop on Etsy to sell my art. There are two types of shops for selling prints: shops that print/ship for you (like nuvango), or shops that just provide a storefront (like etsy). Of the latter, Etsy isn't the cheapest (Square Market was). But Etsy has discoverability and ratings, and that's why I chose Etsy. I think it gives them an advantage over their competition.

On the other hand, you are not going to make a lot of money selling prints anywhere. This website tracks the top shops on Etsy: http://www.craftcount.com

The top shops sell beads, clothes, jewelry. It makes sense: even as a person who makes posters, I have bought more shirts than I have bought posters in my lifetime.
You are absolutely right. I don't know what widows and orphans he is talking about, but it is very unlikely that anyone of the people pushing hundreds of millions of dollars into start-ups today has any problem affording repairs on their cars.

He is making up a victim here.
Of course there's a place for suburbs, and I'm not opposed to the idea of less dense housing. Such housing can exist in the context of walkable neighborhoods with public transit, though. I think there's quite a bit of merit to firm city limits that prevent sprawl and car dependence.

That said... if someone wants to live in exurbia, he should pay an appropriate amount to access amenities downtown. It's absurd that someone can pay $1500/month for a studio downtown, but only a few feet from his front door, anyone can drive a similarly-sized vehicle at hazardous speeds for free.

Driving is essentially free in the US, despite enormous costs in terms of infrastructure and public space. That needs to change. If car-dependent exurbs must continue to exist, then we should at least make those exurbs responsible for their own costs rather than forcing urban residents to have their neighborhoods destroyed and then pay for the privilege.
When the alternative is achieving nothing then sure 1 Trillion fops IS cheap.

Plus how do you know that's actually inefficient? It seems like a large number to us, but that may be completely reasonable for a biological system to accomplish the same we don't have a good sense of scale for these kinds of problem.
They haven't exactly done controlled trials on the benefits of unsupervised play. It seems like there is a bit of wishful thinking going on here.

A hundred years ago kids might go out with some other kids and learn some bushcraft or fishing or hunting. These days many of the other kids are housebound, often the ones I most wish my kids could be playing with.

I would rather my kids learn about the world constructively than play Lord of the Flies. They still play with other kids a lot and that is necessary, not sufficient. I would like my kids to get a balance of free unrestricted time and learning a bit of discipline and team work playing team sports and doing solo activities where they can learn some self-reliance. I think these articles romanticise one aspect of childhood to the exclusion of others.

I live in a small town and as soon as my kids can negotiate the roads safely they will have the run of it unrestricted but that doesn't mean that all they are going to do is hang out at a building site with old matresses and broken palletes. They will be riding to sports practice or the swimming pool, or skatepark or to go fishing.
>It sounds like he participated in a pump and dump scheme/scam.

"Pump and dump" means touting a stock using false information, and then dumping the shares before others realize that the information is false. On the other hand, information advantages (as long as they did not come from company insiders) are completely legal. This guy had an information advantage over those who bought the shares because he invested the time to investigate the company and others didn't. You are saying that outworking others is a "scheme/scam".
Ask HN: Is there a “dating” site for coders and designers?
Is there a site where coders and designers can find each other? So as a use case if I'm a user experience designer it would allow me to say find an objective-c programmer, or if i'm a ruby dev i could find an icon illustrator. i know there are sites like Dribbble that just showcase design (or stackexchange for answering code questions) but is there something like a "dating" site for people with different digital skills to discover each other? (and to be clear this is co-working not actual romantic dates)

PS Linkedin should be this, but they're bad at discovery and every coder i know hates them with a passion.
all jvm apps no but we do have some support for intelliJ. We plan to add support for other JetBrains products in the next release and more granular support too.

You can either sign up to our newsletter to be notified when its there or you can buy the app and send us a mail. Then we will put you on the betal list and you will be able to help us make sure it caters to your needs.
I think he's wrong.

Because these are private investments without liquidity, that has prevented a bubble. You don't have people investing just to ride a rising wave and make profits from day trading. Investors this time have to actually look at the chances of the companies themselves, because they're only going to get a payday if the company is wildly successful, and nothing otherwise.
If things start to slowdown, there probably won't be a sudden crash, because there's nothing to crash. These companies have ambiguous valuations, and there's no way to cash out, so there can't be a race to be the first to sell.
I agree, it's the drunk's fault. But that's irrelevant if you're trying to stop people from getting killed, instead of just trying to assign blame. What matters is what we can do about it, and pushing for a reduction in car usage is an effective way of reducing vehicular manslaughter.

Being drunk is not the only way to kill someone while driving at 100mph. As someone who was in a car when the steering wheel simply stopped controlling the wheels while we were in a road with heavy traffic, which culminated with it rolling over 270°, I can guarantee you that (nobody got killed, but it was pure luck).

EDIT: reduced dumb and useless aggressiveness.
It's unfortunate we teach young designers like this, I agree.
This looks awesome. Going to ping my team to get us set up. How quickly can we integrate?
>Is it just a shitty cultural thing?

There is some indication that it is a cultural thing.

http://www.economist.com/news/americas/21636052-drugs-and-ma...
Yes. It varies by country of course.

"In the United States, for an individual to be considered an accredited investor, they must have a net worth of at least one million US dollars, not including the value of their primary residence or have income at least $200,000 each year for the last two years (or $300,000 together with their spouse if married) and have the expectation to make the same amount this year.""

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accredited_investor#United_Stat...
Online, I've met people with a different form of the same condition, or maybe a related condition: they seem to have multiple persons in their head, and will occasionally switch between them. Like many mental health issues it's difficult for me to think about because I have no frame of reference.
Hey !

Thanks for the comment and feedback! Really appreciate it.

We have something in the work for an attachment in the future. The Valour is our way of offering an experience versus just a new spot of technology. :)
I feel the same way. It is infuriating how hard it is to determine what is actually going on in the mind of another.
why is it that when I share my experience of what has worked really well for me, someone tells me I'm wrong.

Because most folks only comment when they disagree.

And most folks on HN are disagreeable.
As a biker, for this style of bike, if I was to buy a bike today I would prefer BMC's AC01 IGH, which albeit more expensive, has parts which are more standard and for which BMC has made a kit of custom fenders and lights (City Kit lighting): http://www.bmc-switzerland.com/int-en/bikes/lifestyle/mounta...

However I think attempting to mass produce a high-quality smart bike is a very commendable endeavor as it is dearly needed on the market. A great city bike with a good setup for lights, theft security (screws, tracker, lock), low maintenance (belt, hub) easily cost more than a cheap used car and you have to curate all the accessories yourself whereas most of these things com built-in on a car/motorcycle.
Exactly! The magic is revealed when things go wrong.
I was specifically thinking of LMDB as a counter-example when I wrote that it's not impossible, just hard to do well. A much more sensible set of tradeoffs than LevelDB.
This is the dumbest fucking piece of text I've ever read on the Internet.
The authors did acknowledge the difficulty of finding twins with different fitness levels:

>The researchers were looking for young adult identical twins in their early- to mid-20s whose exercise habits had substantially diverged after they had left their childhood homes. These twins were not easy to find. Most of the pairs had maintained remarkably similar exercise routines, despite living apart.

And they also highlight that while the genetics and environment play a huge part they don't preclude change:

>More subtly, the findings also point out that genetics and environment “do not have to be” destiny when it comes to exercise habits, Dr. Kujala said. For these particular twins, whether their genes and childhoods nudged them toward exercising regularly or slumping on the couch, one of the pair overcame that legacy and did the opposite (for better and worse).
My God I feel old.
Archiving the Internet with Jason Scott
Fascinating. Does this relate to the speed of dreams? i.e. a "dream" might seem to have taken hours when in fact the REM sequence was on the order of seconds?
Why It’s a Great Time to Start a TV Startup, Part 2: It’s Time for Change
That does seem cool. It's a convenient wrapper on our API. I'll check it out.
Well that makes sense then, I suppose. Do you have any citations for only half their money being drugs?

As far as idolization, HBO runs a series called Boardwalk Empire where the Chicago Outfit and others are portrayed as heroes. Plus tons of Italian mob movies have very positive portrayals. Maybe I'm wrong here, but it seems a lot harder to do a positive portrayal of Mexicans that like cutting civilians' heads off.
Are those sales the number of orders per shop?
She should record a video of herself reminding herself so she doesn't have to rely on George.
Let me ask you this: Why are you harshing on her explanation of her role in YC? Do you call PG out and assume he is full of shit and doesn't know what he is talking about?

She is one of four people who founded YC. YC is wildly successful. Paul Graham's writing is practically worshiped here on HN.

I am rather appalled at the reception this is getting.

I don't know her, but I will suggest that the substantial success of YC suggests she isn't just fucking self-deluded. Perhaps she isn't explaining it in a way that appeals to the data-oriented mindset of the majority of people here, but the degree to which she is being outright dismissed as utterly full of shit smacks of, among other things, sexism.
Interesting nugget in that they're reserving 5% of the IPO price shares for their users:

> At our request, the underwriters have reserved up to 5% of the shares of common stock offered by this prospectus for sale, at the initial public offering price, to individual investors. We call this our IPO Participation Program, or IPP. The purpose of the IPP is to allow our U.S.-based Etsy community and other individual investors to participate in our IPO.
We call it the "Silicon Forest." I remember Redmond when it was still just a small town whose claim to fame was a TV production lot for Northern Exposure (I grew up in Bothell just north on 405).
> Shouldn't there already be a lot of existing tech for doing crowd backup/sync?

There's bits and pieces, but essentially nothing that's open-source and community-supported.
New Version of IncrediBuild Released for Game Acceleration and Multi-Platform
So they're just a bunch of angry asshats, and drugs are just a convenient way to make money to keep chopping people up?
In the US it's anyone who:

-- earned income that exceeded $200,000 (or $300,000 together with a spouse) in each of the prior two years, and reasonably expects the same for the current year, OR

-- has a net worth over $1 million, either alone or together with a spouse (excluding the value of the person’s primary residence).

http://www.investor.gov/news-alerts/investor-bulletins/inves...
Young Scientists Face the Worst Research Funding in 50 Years
So Cuban is essentially complaining that the market for small time ipos is dead. Maybe he is right, I do not know.

But I am very much against any attempts to lessen the reporting requirements for IPOs. What people complaining about the SEC have to understand is that if the public lose trust in the markets, we will have absolutely no markets whatsoever. There will be no market for small caps or for big caps of for IPOs of any sizes. And we came perilously close to that with some of the big accounting scandals.

The most important thing about the markets is that the public trusts them. If that creates accounting requirements that are too onerous for some small time ipos, so be it. Because if there is no trust, there are no markets and there won't be any small time ipos anyways.
Analyse Asia Episode 20: All about LINE with David Corbin
"Culture matters for startups. For a startup to succeed, it must have a culture that reflects what it wants to achieve."

Digital Equipment Corporation had a culture. Companies like Loopt (proto-grindr), InstallMonetizer (drive-by-download enabler), and GrooveShark (copyright infringement)--all YC funded--do not.

This emphasis on "culture" and "culture fit," or any other subjective hiring or selection process for that matter, is bound to result in unintentional discrimination against those applicants who differ (racially, in gender, or some other respect) from the person or people doing the selection. The evidence continues to mount that humans are swayed by all kinds of unconscious biases, even those who sincerely believe they aren't racists, sexists, or bigots of some other stripe.

If the partners of Y Combinator really want it to be something of a meritocracy, then these sorts of practices, rather than being openly boasted of, should be abandoned in favor of more quantitative, objective filters

Note that I am not a progressive, even if the tone of this post came across as such. I just genuinely believe in meritocracy, and if evidence demonstrates that certain practices are harmful to it, then I feel obliged to speak out against them. If you sincerely want the best candidate regardless of race, gender, weight, attractiveness, or age, hiring based on something so subjective as "culture" is not the way to get them.
I interviewed almost exactly 6 years ago, right at the inflection point between the old style intimate and the modern structure. The impact from the atmosphere and community is enormous!

Startup morale can seemingly come and go for the most arbitrary reasons, but the Tuesday dinners somehow always re-energized me into wanting to get back to work asap. It's some combination of (1) relief knowing other great founders face similar stumbling blocks, (2) excitement to try many fresh ideas overheard at dinner, and (3) fear/embarrassment that I'm not working hard or fast enough.

Even today, we still get introductions and advice from YC and when I reach out, I've never waited more than 24 hours for a response.

As far as the interview goes, I had the original, single-track 4 YC founders. I remember a bunch of questions from Paul and Trevor, but I'm only now realizing Jessica was the one subtly keeping the conversation on track. Near the end of the 20 minutes, Jessica made her one and only comment related to our idea, but it was the most insightful and for good reason. In 2009 our startup was positioned as anti-Craigslist and Jessica had recently interviewed Craig for Founders at Work!
Great point on an area graph being misleading - changed.

What data would you propose using for a private company like this? There is very little public data and this is the only KPI that is consistently reported. Something is at least a little better than nothing to understand how a business has grown over time.
Episode Synopsis: David Corbin (@CorbinDB) from Tech in Asia joins us for a deep dive discussion on one of the most exciting messaging apps in Asia: LINE. We discuss the origins of LINE, analyse how LINE has successfully build up different revenue streams and grow users in a rapid rate and predict when the company will go IPO. We also discuss how LINE has operated as a transaction engine in the form of a mobile app and how their competitive advantages in building strategic partnerships and funding companies as a corporate venture arm have made them a formidable rival in Asia against the other messaging apps: WeChat, Kakao-Talk and Whatsapp.
Joey's design proposal to use git-annex:

http://git-annex.branchable.com/design/iabackup/
As someone trying to understand the various stock incentive plans, can you explain the difference between this and RSUs with an 83b election?
Integration usually takes about 20 minutes. The product will give you copy-paste instructions in various languages once your campaign is setup.

If you're hooked up with Segment.io, it's just a flick of a switch.

And of course if you need any help, you can always write in to support [at] outbound.io and we'll be right on it.
A wired LAN these days pretty much imply an ethernet switch, ethernet switches doesn't send you any frames that should go to another device if it knows which port that device is plugged into. You can't sniff traffic that doesn't reach your computer - so this isn't related to using Windows or Wireshark.

Most managed ethernet switches have a span/mirror port though, where you can mirror all traffic to all ports out on a single port, so you can plug into that port to capture your LAN traffic.
John Carmack's Talk at GDC
Flat bars also allow for more nimble maneuvering in traffic.

Although I am not a big fan of the hand shaped rubber tips. I would opt to use gloves instead and SPD clips (w/ Vittoria 1976 shoes which are absolutely amazing for wearing all day), but then I am a bike nerd.
Number of orders. It looks like the bead shops have a lot of orders, but they just sell small quantities for beads as each item, so you can easily buy 30 items and spend just $60.
Well to be fair, the Hobbit is not even in the top 100 best movies of the last ten years. Not exactly a sterling example of modern film making.
Fashion Metric wants to ensure that consumers buy better-fitting clothes
Yes, there has to be regulation. I think Sandworm's point is that the regulation is an opaque and perhaps even unfair process.
Should we also legalize protection racket, human trafficking, kidnapping, contract killing?
UNRWA has been administering "temporary" refugee camps for Palestinians dispossessed from Israel since 1949. There are now people living in those camps whose grandparents were born in them, and the homes their great-grandparents left are long gone.
Good question, how was Yahoo's culture between 2010-2012?
I like lli for quickly running some code (no temporaries!)

$ clang -xc -c -emit-llvm -o - - | lli
#include <stdio.h>
int main(void) {
puts("hi");
}^D
hi

As a shell executable interpreter

#!/usr/bin/env bash
[ -f "$1" ] && file="$1" || file=/dev/stdin
awk 'NR==1&&/^#!/{next}{print}' "$file" | \
clang -xc -c -emit-llvm $CFLAGS -o - - | \
lli -fake-argv0="$file" $IFLAGS -

You can even "link" static archives

$ IFLAGS=-extra-archive=/path/to/libz.a \
> CFLAGS+='-include stdio.h -include zlib.h' \
> c <<< 'int main(void){puts(zlibVersion());}'
1.2.8
>Facebook tried to brand itself as a utility.

However it's not. Its social network is neither a necessity to join nor impossible to compete against.

Utilities are those things we traditionally call utilities, like electricity, water, telephone line and nowadays, an internet line. It's the combination of high capital costs and the limited geographical scope of users per capital project, that makes the market naturally uncompetitive.

>Indeed, everything gravitates towards a monopoly as it maximizes shareholder value at the expense of the large economic community,

In a free market, only utilities gravitate to a monopoly. Other sectors are open to competition, which periodically causes the market leader to be displaced. We've seen this in tech for decades. First it was IBM, then it was Microsoft, then Google, for a brief time Apple, and next who knows.

>Regulation is necessary, you can debate the merits of a particular method, you can say some regulation is bad or some is good but remove the goverment ability to regulate currency leaves the economy vulnerable deflation during recession which is has been attributed to the recession of the 1930s

The 1930s recessions was not primarily due to monetary policy. You can look at the crash of 1921 to see that sharp deflation does not lead to a bottomless downward spiral. The 1930s were a testbed for interventionist policy. It was these policies that kept the economy depressed and suppressed capitalist recovery. Not any dearth of controls by the government.

Deflation itself can only exist when creating competing currencies is prohibited. What the Federal Reserve Act in the US, and similar regulations in other countries in that period, did, is outlaw competing bank notes. It created a banking cartel, with a fragile monetary mono-culture.

So no, regulatory bans are not needed. They are harmful, and unethical. No one has a right to ban an activity that is consensual.

>Will high credit card transaction fee's plunge civilization into a new dark age?

Depends, will competition emerge, or will it be sabotaged by the complicated set of bans that is our regulatory system? E-gold eventually succumbed to the bans, but Bitcoin and its decentralized structure look to be more immune.

MasterCard in Asia certainly hopes the government will step in with more regulations to stop Bitcoin:

http://www.coindesk.com/mastercard-executive-argues-bitcoin-...

He's counting on people like you buying the argument that freedom doesn't work, and the greater economy shouldn't be left free of regulatory bans like the internet was.
FYI: while his username is "mathowie", his last name is "Haughey".
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it's an expression, not a literal statement.