skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your server should just be providing data that's displayed by the JS App. The JS app can handle a bunch of requests, but each request should provide something useful and be accessible from curl.

bonus, it makes it easier to write your app in other languages or for other platforms since the web server really is a server and the front-end is just a client.
Thanks for the link.

> The founders should end up with about 50% of the company, total. Each of the next five layers should end up with about 10% of the company, split equally among everyone in the layer.

This is the typical, and exploitative, arrangement in silicon valley! In today's climate, the founders often get money very early and start hiring right away. They have no real personal risk in the venture, and even if it fails completely their "founder" status will serve them well at the next go-round.

The founders had an idea and some rough prototype, but the product is built and the company direction is executed by the next 10 people, and the next 10, and so on. But while the first 10 Employees get to share 10 percent of the company, they sit side-by-side with the 3 founders who have 10-20 times as much as any one of them.

We all take it for granted that the founders' contribution should be worth so much more than mere employees. But who writes these blog posts on how to distribute equity, with 50% to founders and 10% to each "layer" after? Well, it's not the employees. It's the investors and founders themselves, who need to solidly stand behind the idea that at a company that faced failure every day and with every competitor launch and had to get every aspect right, in the end the people at the top should enjoy mega-riches and early retirement, while the lowly workers enjoy a nice bonus equivalent to a year or two salary.

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If you believe in avc.com's guide of 50% to founders and 10% to each subsequent "layer", I would counter that the founding team is itself a layer, and each layer should be compensated equally. There is no justification for the first layer (founders) owning as much as the other layers combined.
You're missing a key reason why annual salaries are modest at the beginning. A key attribute of a founding team is intense resourcefulness and have considerable powers of persuasion. Both of these attributes result in lower salaries initially.
There will always be a market for selling people messages that they desperately want to hear.
> If the ice caps melt due to rising temperature surely this means more water in the atmosphere and more rain in some places?

Over about 20,000 years of the water cycle, yeah.

Ideally we'd want a water solution that didn't involve carting incalculable amounts of rainwater across the countryside...
Random trivia of the day...this guy (John Perry Barlow) also wrote Grateful Dead lyrics. He primarily collaborated w/ Bob Weir.
Something that bears mentioning when you read this type of report:

If something is 10-20 years in the future in these types of models, this has:

a) Already happened
unless
b) there are major changes / interactions that scientific models have not had factored in
while
c) Anthropic actions cannot change this, but it can change x+n where X is original time and n is the 'down ramp' from your curve.

For instance: if your Co2 is 400ppm now, then the effects have already happened 20-50 years into the future. It can be made much much worse through events before you hit that time (let us say either Yellowstone or the entire of India / China buying a car per family) but your actions in the interim are merely altering the effects after time X.

In the case of water we can say: model presents X+n time > if action: such as massive investment in desalination and/or new osmosis materials (positive to time change) minus climate impacts we've not noticed yet (negatives to time change) where n is less than continued effect without any other imputs.

This is a rather loopy way to say:

People think of these types of announcements as future based predictions: they're not, they're present events if (and only if) your models don't change.

[Note: this isn't to say they're scientifically incorrect - but this inability to understand time in these types of reports fuels a lot of ignorance from both "sides" of Climate / Ecological debates]
Apparently, you didn't read what I wrote "We lived nomadically or in small tribes and villages."

Interference with US city organic expansion is primarily due to zoning regulations and nimbyism, and more than anything it results from people who have a romantic love affair with keeping the city exactly the way it is without accommodating for inevitable growth.

Pretty much the only projects that can get approved are those from huge organizations who have the money and power to overcome years of opposition until they finally can get projects approved.

The average guy who wants to convert an empty building into a cafe, warehouse, or living space, or remodel an area faces excessive red tape.
But the employee has one massive advantage to the investor: the actual ability to influence the success of the company.
Over ten years, though? If you made $100,000 over ten years that's only $10K a year. That's not even enough to get you over the U.S. poverty line (https://www.healthcare.gov/glossary/federal-poverty-level-FP...).
Because their web admins have not figured out how to do transparent load balancing.
I did not mean to have a comment that sits on top of the on-topic comments. If people upvote it so much that it does, it can mean something though. I would not call it bike shedding, it's a usability and security issue. I will always keep complaining about unnecessary Javascript requirements and especially about this specific design...

Maybe a "offtopic" or "noise" flag could be used for punishing comments like this (similarly to random comments that praise a submission without adding anything) so they float down but not into the grey negative score area?
OpenIKED “Off-Shore” Style Tunneling VPN Gateway
Amusingly, this is the population posed for 24th century earth in the movie "Star Trek: First Contact". Nice to know they didn't pull the numbers from thin air.
Quite a few I suspect.
My point is simply that diversification results in a different expected return of the final portfolio. Before diversifying your expected return was R1 and after it will be R2 where R1 != R2. So, for choosing startup vs big co, or one startup vs another, this is relevant as well.
When I was taking music classes in university, I had a professor who opened my eyes to the importance of careful editing and scholarship in regards to music publishing. He was a Bach researcher and harpsichordist, and he had been the editor of a $30 printed edition of the Well-Tempered Klavier. To explain why this edition was worth the money when there were so many free versions out there, he went through each piece and pointed out how many different versions there were (which to pick?), how the originals got mangled over the centuries as each editor added their own "corrections", how there were occasional ambiguities in the score, and so forth. I learned that there was no "the" Well-Tempered Klavier at all; it was history, and as such, required a trained historian to piece together in the most authentic way possible.

Unfortunately, most people aren't aware of this. It would be a shame to lose some of the nuances of the composer's original intent because of, essentially, propagation error.

I wonder how this edition fares? (I don't have my physical score to compare, sadly.)
Welcome to OpenBSD [pdf]
Qubes tries to build the OS that way.

https://www.qubes-os.org/
MakeDongle Protects Mac, Windows or Linux Software with a USB Dongle
Another artifact of this time is Rushkoff's book Cyberia. It didn't age well either, but it informs an understanding of the time.
Thank you and sorry ;)
The best companies use short assessments to make sure that the long one will likely be successful.
My first thought was to say "Ha, that's nothing, try $15 in New York." Then I decided to look at the average salary in Mexico (~$6000). Those are some very expensive cigarettes!
I don't understand. Older versions of programs cannot open files created by new versions - that's a simple fact of life, has nothing to do with whether a program is open or not. I doubt many open programs would limit themselves in that way.

As for whether the MSCX format is documented or not, of course it is. MuseScore is fully open source. Every line of code responsible for reading and writing this format is freely available to you to examine, compile, etc. It doens't get more open than that.
Crickets are less metabolically demanding than humans. We need tricksy things like fiber and animal protein, but crickets can get by on simple sugars and cellulose.
There is evidence: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-03-19/australias-plain-packa.... Also, people who carry armloads of cigarettes out of duty free do not represent the marginal cases this law is targeting.
Walling's book start small, stay small may help you get started. Amy Hoy talks about this a bunch; she runs a paid course but also has a ton of free content. You should check them out.

I've also read about people making serious money from advertising; it seems like the time investment to understand all that stuff is big enough that it could help you understand a small business instead.
Both of those court cases said it can't.
So, do I get extra points for pointing out typos?
It would disqualify nearly all cofounders of famous startups if they had to form the company before one of them made progress on the idea. For example:

Steve Wozniak built the original Apple I attending Homebrew Computer Club meetings. Steve Jobs saw the prototype, realized it would be huge, and then talked Woz into founding a business around it.

Larry Page had started Google as a doctoral research project to download the web and make sense of its link structure. Sergey's original startup idea was to order pizza via fax machine, and he'd started work on it with some other friends before abandoning it to go work with Larry.

Mark Zuckerburg created FashMash and then Facebook and had some early traction among his house at Harvard before convincing his cofounders to join.

Drew Houston created DropBox as a solo founder and then convinced Arash to join after getting accepted to YC.

Apoorva Mehta started Instacart on his own and then got cofounders after YC.

The usual rule-of-thumb is to give close-to-even equity splits to cofounders here, because most of the work of building a company lies ahead of you, not behind you. You definitely do want to vet your cofounders for trustworthiness and have some idea whether they're interested in founding a company with you or whether they just want your idea. Usually the best defense to the latter is having something the former needs, either deep domain knowledge or technical skills or connections in the industry.
Is there a specific initiative/team/person to follow for Public Data Sets on AWS? Is there anything in place to keep data sets up-to-date (especially derivatives/mashups)? Is there a way to contribute to such an initiative? AWS Public Data Sets is awesome, but it seems unnecessarily restrictive[0].

Part of what sounds interesting to me in the longer-term vision for the dat project[1] is the ability to write transformations that point to a living data source and output an up-to-date parsed/processed version of it (and only download diffs!). Processed data sets tend to be stale, or alternatively you have to start from a data dump and run a slew of scripts to process or index the data, which can take days.

One painful example of this problem was Freebase's very interesting data set, WEX (pairing Wikipedia textual content with structured data from Freebase), of which there is an outdated snapshot on AWS Public Data Sets[2] containing less than half the data of newer versions. Google acquired Freebase a little while before then, and there were only one or two updates to WEX. I was lucky enough to download what I think was the last WEX data dump before they killed the download.freebase.com[3] subdomain. I have yet to confirm if it's gone or if it was simply moved/renamed[4].

While it was amazing Freebase/Google provided dumps this processed data, and Amazon provided an easy to access snapshot of it, we really ought to have a way of publishing and subscribing to the latest post-processed version of a data set derived from one or more regularly updated data sets, be they from NASA/Landsat, Wikipedia, or otherwise. I don't know exactly what this process would look like, but the raw data is there and all we need is a way to publish the processing software/commands (docker?) to be re-run whenever a data dependency is updated.

It seems like AWS Public Data Sets would be an ideal destination for data sets and more accessible derivatives. Is any of that in line with the intent of AWS Public Data Sets?

I apologize for letting that turn into a bit of a rant, but I wanted to provide an anecdote and context.

[0] https://forums.aws.amazon.com/thread.jspa?threadID=156996

[1] http://dat-data.com

[2] http://aws.amazon.com/datasets/2345

[3] http://wiki.freebase.com/wiki/WEX/Documentation

[4] https://developers.google.com/freebase/data#freebase-wikidat...
Uruguayan here. Personally, I think it works, most of people that I know dont smoke, and most of those who smoke are trying to quit it.

BTW: We are 3.3 not 2.7 :S
This is very concerning. I can imagine a future where only the "premium" hardware has the option to disable secure boot, ensuring lower grade consumer machines are permanently locked in to the Windows ecosystem.
Can you contest late fees? Sounds like you are lucky you didn't kill anyone.
At that point you'll have dual income so even easier.
I wonder what percentage of hotel bookings now come directly from TripAdvisor? Presumably this is limited to consumer bookings, rather than corporate travel. I've used TA often for research but never for booking.
The human body exists through several distinct systems which do not represent a human when isolated on their own. The same can apply to cyberspace. Despite the tangible aspects it seems to me the actual manifestation of cyberspace is an ownerless environment which we are actively shaping through those transactions, relationships, and thoughts. Geocentric entities can find a voice there but need not apply their authority to the whole.
I don't see how that's relevant to answering the circularity argument. How are you avoiding the claim that your preferences are inconsistent? At some point, you need to accept a huge jump in the number of people getting hurt in return for a tiny decrease in the amount of hurt for each one, where the decrease can be pretty much arbitrarily small and the jump can be arbitrarily large.

(Also, if you click on the comment you can reply).
My suspicion is that this symptomatic of the mainstreaming of tech. AFAICT from random techie documents from before the web, the 4th perspective was broadly held. (Or perhaps I just have read primarily from hacker sources, which by definition lean towards #4).
> ... American perspective ...

You wish. How many Americans would even get the (clear) reference to the Futurists?
Dave Taylor, whom the article calls the "spackle coder" is a really brilliant and interesting guy. He was my roommate for awhile and I heard some fascinating stories (he did the sound engine for Quake which involved a lot of time spent with Trent Reznor). My favorite was when I asked him what kinds of (presumably brutal) music everyone was listening to during the creation of Doom. The most commonly listened-to artist: Sarah McLachlan.
Actually, they're recording every cell phone call in Afghanistan and the Bahamas. Not just "interesting people".
I know that that is the formulation of the question, But since you're asking me to make the choice, you're asking me to inflict suffering on many extra people who would not have suffered otherwise. If what is gained by their suffering is large enough compared to that suffering that I believe they all (or nearly all) would have chosen voluntarily to accept the suffering for the benefit, then I am happy with the choice, and my best model for that is what suffering I would be prepared to undergo for what benefit. I think the confusion is between evaluating the utility between two possible alternatives (where obviously the world with fewer people suffering is better) vs evaluating the utility between two possible alternatives where those were the only two alternatives. If it's just two of many alternatives, the utility placed on a meaningful sacrifice doesn't come into it, but if it's a choice, the utility placed on a meaningful sacrifice does.
I do not know Ellen Pao, I do not know anyone at her current or former employers, but as far as I can tell, she was fired from Kleiner Perkins due to performance issues.

What she claims, however? She had a relationship with a married junior partner, broke it off, and this was retaliatory.

I do not consider this a case of women's rights because she admitted to sleeping with the guy. Sleeping with fellow employees is verboten, especially when one or both of the participants are married.
Sorry, I didn't mean to imply that it worked, only that this was the idea behind the system. The practice of our patent system is pretty far off from this ideal.
In light of the current 'Blurred Lines' lawsuits, how did id ever get away with basically ripping of Metallica for the Doom soundtrack?
Why is it called american fuzzy lop?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHfVd42lIBA&feature=youtu.be...
If you want to change the HTML spec and have something happen, you'd have to upgrade the browsers before anything happens... rel-links do work today, but transitions don't automatically work, and UI/UX (using the "forward"-arrow to go to "next" etc) is inconsistent or non-existent. But you can write some js to make them all work. And your HTML can be semantic and nice, and you can still get advanced features.
How Apple Neglects Us. Let's Count the Ways
How would this handle differences in data models between two companies? Would a non-technical person compare docs and define rules to map the data across?
There's evidence that babies acquire phonemes when "taught" in-person differently than via video: http://www.ted.com/talks/patricia_kuhl_the_linguistic_genius... (this topic starts at about 7m08s)
What are some work habits of successful programmers?
I feel like my work style is very ad-hoc. Some days I'm in the zone and can churn away, and some days it feels like I just bounce between searching docs and checking hacker news.

I think I'd be more productive if I were more methodical in my approach to work. How do you guys organize your day? How do you keep track of what you're working on and avoid distraction?
Beyond Security Requirements: Secure Requirements
Hi Sam, I've been working in my Startup since December, with my co-founder and even we win a local entrepreneurship contest about ideas and innovation. We're very confident about our idea and we have a working prototype, but, we're in the travel industry and we aren't generating any revenue yet, should we apply to Y Combinator? Even if we aren't generating any bucks?
From a bog standard American perspective, this is amazing. I'd love to hear some commentary from an Estonian about this.
Well, it means you have to break out of the nacl sandbox instead of the V8 sandbox. Neither allow you to run arbitrary code and I'm not sure if there's any particular difference in hardness between them.

That said - Native Client doesn't seem to be used for anything on the web. It might have been useful if other browsers had adopted it, but with Mozilla pushing asm.js I wonder at what point they decide to pull the plug on this ...
With major players having coordinated to suppress wages, it's an even more suspect statement.
Preprocessor Abuse and Optional Parentheses
David Golumbia essay (2013) on this topic,
http://www.academia.edu/4429212/Cyberlibertarianism_The_Extr...

"While cyberlibertarianism appears to be and in many ways is a theory of technology, I will discuss it today as a politics and as an epistemic theory, and above all an ideology, which is to say a belief system that serves
purposes other than those goals at which it says it explicitly aims.

... It is not hard to understand how this strange mixture of pro-corporate and anti-corporate sentiment can coexist so readily. What most of those who write about hackers seem to miss, perhaps purposely, is the chronological dimension to the phenomenon, something like Mirowski’s Russian Doll
working over time.

... As these individuals get older and realize the seriousness of the economic imperatives we all face, and as they come to
understand that their technical skills and quasi-political bravado have served as terrific sales tools for future careers as technology developers and businesspeople, some of these same individuals (as we all do) change their perspective and hop on board a train that before they had been lobbing grenades at."
Yes, sugar is unhealthy. Yes, drinking less of it is probably the best option. Oh Hey! that's what iLoch said originally. For me, I drink mostly water and very rarely actually drink soda. When I do, it's the real thing.
Did you read the article? He made $90,000 in one month, and almost $10,000 per month for most months after that.
>...except for very short sprints in unusual circumstances.

It's worth noting that very short means different things to different people. I hear "crunch time" for anything longer than a few weeks and I cringe. For some people, your "very short" time is a couple days, for others it's two months. That's a huge bone of contention for a lot of people.
There's a difference between the utility of a world where one person has a mote of dust in their eye and the utility of a world where one person has a mote of dust in their eye because it saves someone else.

>At some point, you need to accept a huge jump in the number of people getting hurt in return for a tiny decrease in the amount of hurt for each one, where the decrease can be pretty much arbitrarily small and the jump can be arbitrarily large.

Well, the boundary is fuzzy, so I believe that different people will draw the line in different places, but yes, that is correct. There is a point at which I accept a huge jump in the number of people getting hurt in return for a tiny decrease in the amount of hurt for each one, and that point is the point at which I determine that the hurt falls under the threshold I would expect every person to be prepared to sacrifice for any other person.

I think the debatable range is actually quite large, so the tiny decrease part might not be fair (there are a lot of degrees of pain I would not demand someone to suffer to save others), but at that point of expected sacrifice, the number of people jumps to infinite.
That's the idea behind drinking less of it.
Same here. In the fourth grade I had a test to identify all 50 states and their capitols on the US map. Studied hard for it and I was one of two students that got all 100 correct. Today I could probably identify almost all the states but no way on the capitols.
Case Sensitivity in In-Page Anchors
I think it's more like saying maybe before massively increasing the browser attack surface we should consider if it's really the right thing to do. A lot of sandbox escapes in recent years have been in very rarely used features like WebGL and Native Client. Cool tech for sure, but also big new exploit zones.

The main problem is that what used to be called "mobile code" before smartphones were a thing is really convenient. That's why Java tried it too. Sandboxed code helps a lot, so there's this constant tension between trying to make the sandbox less restrictive and keeping it secure.

Sometimes I think that despite poor execution the JVM guys had the right idea. Sandbox code from the net, but also have code signing to fall back on.
Substantially all of them.

NK is about the only country that doesn't have internet and while their army is numerically large it is a paper tiger - all the rest of the countries in the world could not live separate from the internet, even if their governments demanded it.