skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> No, price in any market is as high as buyers of this market can afford.

If market clearing price is set only by what buyers are willing to pay and not by costs, you have a monopolistic market in which rents are being extracted, not an efficient competitive market.

If market clearing price is set only by sellers costs and not what buyers are willing to pay, you have the reverse case, where you have a monopoly buyer.

In an ideal competitive market, the price a buyer is willing to pay to buy the next unit is set by the expected benefit buying another unit brings them, and the price a seller is willing to sell the next unit for is equal to the seller's cost (including opportunity cost) of providing the next unit, and the market clearing price is the price at which the number of buyers willing to pay that price or more is equal the number of sellers willing to sell at that price or less, and buyers only willing to pay less and sellers only willing to sell for more are priced out of the market.
I heard a good quote related to full-circleism one time: "What the sons wants to forget, the grandson wants to remember"
That's satire, right? Right? ❝the likelihood of the element 'Sky' being recognised within the word element 'Skype', for clouds are to be found 'in the sky' and thus may readily be associated with the word 'sky'.❞

Not really related, but it reminds me of another funny occurrence concerning trademarks: O2 (the phone company) sued Weinmann GmbH (a medical device company). Weinmann used the string O2 in a product that delivers oxygen to patients...
(http://sci.tech-archive.net/Archive/sci.physics/2005-03/8371...)

Sometimes I question inhofar "common sense" prevails in these trademark-ruling courts.
I love constructed languages.

A great example of languages evolving to new technology is "internet". Composed of "inter" (Latin), "net" (English) and "work" (English). You have a culture (English) with an external influence (Latin), that sees a grouping of connected computers and decides to compare it to a fishing net. Network describes the topology, not the function. We see that we need a society that has invented fishing nets to even describe the Internet. But a different society might've called it something else. For example, the Internet is often called a web, much like a spiderweb, which also looks like a net.

You can't just invent an alien language for a technologically-advanced society without thinking about how they got there.
Skype was released in 2003 and personally I don't associate it with "sky". If Skype can't be trademark, then the trademark law is broken.
This is what happens when you name your company something like "Sky" or "Paper"
Surveillance or Security? You will get neither. Being smart and quick has its own rewards.
Is it a "slow" walk just to give themselves time to shred all the incriminating paperwork, or something like that?

Why else would the FBI keep IMSI-catchers so secret, if they weren't absolutely certain that use was probably going to enrage Judges and populace?
When I read the Four Hour Workweek, I quickly shifted to a literal Four Hour Workweek. And it most definitely was NOT because of being a productivity monster. I've never, ever, ever worked 80 hours in a week. I've rarely ever worked more than 40 hours in a week.

If you want to have a "muse", it's all about building a system that amplifies the work you do -- and ideally makes you you an unnecessary component in the business.

It is most definitely NOT about working tons of hours.
I used to work at CERN for a couple of years....
Deze voeding bevat hoogwaardige eiwitten om af te slanken zonder dieet
Or neither, since the initial challenge of Skype occurred before Microsoft even bought the company.

Sky just seems to love challenging everything similar.
Apparently you win. It's the later derivatives that lose.
Sounds quite like my story: after ten years in industry I've got quite enough, can't really enjoy programming and didn't seen much future in this field for me. So I get back to village I grew up, bought couple of vineyards and started small winery.

I went out nearly every morning to work in fields, spent days in cellar and did just few hours of programming per week to pay my bills. It was great for some time, not having to think about real life outside, being really free to just enjoy pointless discussions in local pub till early in the morning, then spent some time with neighbours just drinking coffee in the morning and gossiping before going out to do some work outside.

I was sure to never work in technology ever again, but I relapsed and here I am back in the city, running company in ag-tech space (lab hw for wine analysis) and coming back to my fields just for weekends (and odd week days here and there) to take care of my vines. I did downsized my plans for mid-sized winery for now and keeping the operation just as a hobby and side business, but I am sure I am going back fulltime once I am done with my company.
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C++ developers don't make their own event loop. They use epoll which is provided by the kernel. That is still the area the C/C++ ( and Rust ) have over Go, they can use syscalls without requiring the goodwill of one of the language developers.
Thanks for the feedback, that was helpful. :)
See also the similarly-configured LEAPTech model: http://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/aerospace/aviation/nasas-...

That one doesn't do VTOL but there are apparently nontrivial efficiency gains from that configuration even without tilting the wings. If you could get enough efficiency gains from the reduced wing loading to offset the weight of the wing tilting apparatus you could effectively get VTOL 'for free' (maybe, I don't know jack about aerodynamics).
The offer isn't generous but it is reasonable.

Sam Altman estimated that employees 10 through 30 combined should get at least 5% of the equity, That implies an average of 0.25%, which is fairly close to 0.2%.

http://blog.samaltman.com/employee-equity

If you want to work for the company, equity is important to you, and you think the offer is below was your contribution to the company will be, then negotiate for the right amount of equity.
I came here to recommend this exact book. I bought it on a whim and it's a fantastic read. Even if you never plan on actually making a language, it's fascinating to understand what goes into creating a complete language, from phenomes to words to phrases to a complete grammar.
More nonsense protectionism from EU power brokers.
Honest (but uncomfortable) question. You wrote:

I feel I need that experience and exposure to maintain my longevity in the SW market. Sticking with the current company is 2 more years I become more of a dinosaur.

Is the new company aware that you feel like this, both about their tools and about your career?? If so, I wonder if they're compensating you as a more junior developer, simply because it sounds like you think that you need them!
To further clarify, the service aimed at users who like their privacy but do not have enough time or skill to maintain their own server, neither have IT team at their disposal.
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0.2% equity isn't worth considering. At best it's maybe a years' pay 5 years from now, and the best is not likely to happen. A $20K increase in salary would make you that with much more certainty in 6 years.

I'd look at salaries for your skillset and location on GlassDoor, compare that to the $130K, and make your decision based on that.

In any case, I'd go back to them with a counteroffer. If you want more equity, I'd ask for 2% and hope for something like 1.2%. But unless you're very confident in the direction of the company, I'd choose salary over equity any day.
I was curious if anybody is trying to merge the ideas of alternative hobbyist kernels in language X or Y (for X or Y enthusiasts, like this nim one) and building a compability layer that allows you to do what I had read, maybe incorrectly, with NetBSD rump kernels: allowing one OS to properly connect into or out of another to use its hardware drivers for example.

I loved the Erlang on Xen concept, by way of example. But could you imagine in the future if you had a full Common Lisp or OCaml or Python or Ruby OS that could leverage a liblinux.so of sorts and control a webcam or wireless card with your language of choice thanks to pluggable OS driver backends? I know this requires work in each language, but it would be crazy if this is the future.

Do the OS as a language VM on Xen packages handle anything more than basic user input and/or network? Are peolpe working on these Xen stuff taking it further like what I want?

Sorry for the questions. It is a lot to ask at once but this idea has been in the back of my head while reading similar HN articles for a few months now.
Yes someone transferred the newspaper archives to digital copies at some point, as the article states.

"Hirst told the Guardian the digitisation of newspaper archives had been like “opening up a big box of candy”, allowing as it did Twain’s articles to be tracked down in a way that was not possible when archives were all on microfilm."
I'd also recommend DJP's interview about Dothraki on the Conlangery podcast (the last half of the show, starting about 55'00"): http://conlangery.com/2012/06/25/conlangery-56-growing-a-lex...

DJP has stuff up at dedalvs.com , dothraki.conlang.org , dedalvs.tumblr.com , twitter.com/Dedalvs, &c. &c.
As ever, I'm not a lawyer - you should talk to one. However:

I suspect that if you ever become big enough to start getting legal threats from those sites, you'll already be in a pretty good place. I wouldn't worry about legal stuff yet, the main problem is actually building the thing. That said, make sure you set up a limited liability company and, as far as I know, you should be safe.

As you're scraping 500-1000 different websites, if one or two complain, you can just remove them from the website. They probably won't want to anyway if their competitors are on there too.

You should probably make sure you have a link on the website to a complaints/takedown page too.
My first job at 12 years old was on a farm, I worked on farms until I was 16. This post reminds me of what a demanding, exhausting, yet rewarding experience farming is.

Changing professions to embrace an alternative lifestyle allows you to be enriched more fully, and to gain the perspectives of each lifestyle you experience.

It is my hope that the writer is able to apply the skills gained while writing code to his new occupation and way of life. While I was working on farms my mind was constantly working out how to apply efficiencies and work arounds to common problems. I use those skills now in my day job as a programmer, but the reverse could be applied in similarly effective ways.

Everyone should diversify their experiences. Too often a laser focus for extended periods yields productivity at the expense of flexibility, and eventual burnout. Over specialization can be as dangerous as generalization.
I'd actually like to see someone do a Nim vs Rust. We've seen plenty of rust vs go and rust vs c++.
Why not trademark Apple? To me "Apple" is different from "apple" and very different from "The Apple Pie Guys" or even "Apple Manufacturing". What I'd like to see is the clarification that trademarking a word like "Apple" should mean exact spelling. In this manner someone should be able to trademark "Apples" as a separate concept. The need for this was highlighted in the Elder Scrolls vs Mojang debacle. "Scrolls" and "Elder Scrolls" are different things and nobody calls the latter just Scrolls.
From personal experience, it's quite the headache, even if you stay within legal parameters, you will run into site owners who are less than thrilled about what you're doing (possibly understandably so).

I ran into several people who wrote cease and desists, which I honored, and into several others who started banning our IP addresses, etc, disallowing us specifically via robots.txt, etc.. There are obviously ways to get around these issues, but the main question is, morally, would you want to go around them? Are you willing to go against website owners who flat out don't want you scraping their data? Would you be willing to fight them legally for your right to do so?

Ultimately, that's what it came down for me, I just felt really crappy about it and stopped.
Thanks for the reply, Mike. I was referring to the bullet-point list of "How will this help you?" on the webpage. I haven't read the book, so my feedback is entirely based on the website content.

I've been both the single entrepreneur as well as a co-founder. I found that list to be entirely applicable to both scenarios. (Good list, BTW!)

Anyway, just offering some feedback that I thought there would be a greater emphasis on the unique challenges for a solo founder vs. a team.

Indeed, I'm not sure there's a more concrete example of "judging a book by it's cover." :-)
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A ThinkPad takes care of everything https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/10659...
Wow, there goes morning productivity.
Awesome site.
The 518 is an awesome mouse. I have the G5 which is basically the 518 with a rubberized exterior.
For feature requests, I'd love to be able just to watch them being played automagically one after the other on my iOS device (on the website or app), or computer via the website.

Sometimes I just want to lay there with headphones on and listens to good piano music.

Really enjoyed playing with this, actually still enjoying :)
It sounds like you have a good handle on the legalities, but on a more practical level if the sites you are scraping don't want to be scraped, it would be pretty easy for them to block you, obfuscate/change the page structure at any time to make your scraping impractical, etc. Of course, you will be able to play along too by obfuscating your source address and improving your scraping, but it could turn into a time consuming game of walls and ladders.

Of course your startup idea may still be worthwhile, but in the longer term you'll be at the mercy of the content owners (who might even be fine with it, or want to acquire you).
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Term it "based on a targeted crawling system" as opposed to "scraped data".
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Strange article - as if I'm more interested in the bloggers viewpoint than say, an actual unknown Twain story! Nothing to see here folks.
Mike Taber was a contractor at my old job for a few weeks before I became a programmer professionally. He coded us a reliable solution within very difficult time constraints and dealing with management who could not make up their minds. I've been following him ever since on social media. He really knows his craft, and I have no doubt this is a solid product.

With that said I really don't support advertisements on HN. I don't think this belongs here. If there were some free content and an upsell I could get behind it, but alas there is not.

When there is a physical copy offering I will most likely purchase.
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> My target market for this search engine would be the owners and associates of the sites I would be scraping.

If the product is for competitive analysis or price-comparison purposes, which is the only conclusion I can draw from that sentence (why else would you scrape your peers?)... then Market Leader A is highly incentivized to try to shut down any provider that feeds their content in an actionable way to their smaller competitors B and C. Even if A could theoretically benefit from B and C's information just as much, B and C have more to gain than A does, and that's dangerous to A. And A does have an argument that their proprietary content is not being used under fair use. It might not stand up in court, but their legal department can still make your life a living hell, and if they deem the threat large enough, they probably have enough resources to bleed you dry without breaking a sweat.

Perhaps the potential upside of addressing this market is worth the legal risk. I am not a lawyer. But as soon as you get reasonably big, you'll paint a target on your back.
That site is a time capsule: the hilariously out-of-date "EZ Home Test", the complaints about "Bob and Newt", a review of Snow Crash, references to various events that were current in the mid-90s. It's good that languages don't change very fast...
You know, farming may be wonderful and all. But it's not silver bullet. Nor does it make programming any less rewarding, provided that one does it right.

In fact, it is YOUR OWN DAMNED fault if you fail to sing with your children while you worked as a programmer. Wait, it's your own damn fault for pretty much everything in your life. Programming is not the disease; you are. I know people who finished extra degrees while working as programmer; I know people who climbs mountains while working as programmer; I know people who play music professionally while working as programmer; I know people who take excellent care of their family while working as a programmer. Your job exchanges (some) of your time for (some) money. The responsibility of adjusting the job to the life lies in your hand. Stop blaming programming for your troubles.

You know, the whole "OMG! I got a new job! It's wonderful! It beats my previous job!" kind of silliness should really really stop. Most things have their rewards and challenges. Maybe farming suits you better. I don't know. However, judging from the kind of stupid judgment thrown around ("real world" and "no exception" and "I sing for my kids), doubt haunts my view. But oh well. Good luck. And stop bashing other people's job, please.
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Multiple time single founder who bought the book anyway.

Excellent book. Not so much for the content, much of which I've seen elsewhere, but for the curation and the voice, which spoke directly to me. I got a lot of value out of things you wouldn't expect, but are real issues for solo workers, especially planning and time management.

A ton of work must have gone into this. Even at a dollar per good idea, it's a great deal for people like me.
I just play farming simulator
Adblock extension is pretty awesome. Vastly reduces noise on the web.
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Sky has been around even longer (since 1990) and they offer telephone services also [1].

(I still don't buy that there's a risk of confusion.)

[1] http://www.sky.com/products/broadband-talk/talk/features/
Excellent work! I'd love to integrate this into my product Soundslice (soundslice.com), which is web-based notation/music education software.
I agree, I'd "go for it" and worry when it becomes a real problem. If you grow fast enough, then everyone will want to be on there (maybe you could even sell access to the #1 spot) much like Google. If you don't get any traction, then no one will notice or care.

I'd chalk this up as a "good problem to have"... then again, Grooveshark probably thought the same thing: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9468476
In my opinion Rust and Nim would make a nice team as complementary languages: Use Rust for everything that needs high safety and high performance at the same time, Nim for everything else.

https://andreaferretti.github.io/on-rust-and-nim/

https://arthurtw.github.io/2015/01/12/quick-comparison-nim-v...
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Lowball is a strong word, but it's below market. If startups can't compete on total comp, they have to pad it with equity. OP is getting worst of both worlds. 0.2% of a pre-VC company is absolutely nothing, and there are several engineers ahead of him for seniority, so he won't even get title inflation in the end.

It's not that it's an insulting offer, it's just that they can't afford you. For a fresh grad, it would be a pretty sweet deal.
They have a thing for anything that starts with Sky.
Some years ago they forced one of the biggest french blogging platform to rename from Skyblog to Skyrock (Skyrock is the name of the radio station that was providing the service).
Well, the case with me is exactly the opposite. I come from a family of farmers and since a very very young age I found myself working in the fields and greenhouses, constantly day-dreaming about the time I would make it out of there for good.

Now that finally that time has come, for one thing I'm sure: I'm never going back (or at least I won't go back for a long time to come).

I love "sitting behind a desk and pumping out code", it's way more fun, comfortable, and profitable than digging in the ground, planting tomatoes, or picking gumbos.

edit: I feel that I have to mention my enormous love for nature. There are a lot of ways to be close to it, farming is definitely not the only one.
Looks like there is a need for a "print on demand + shipping" geographically distributed network.
It seems more that EU courts have a thing for successful US technology companies.
Uh, what's wrong with it (besides some minor vandalism by someone who thought putting stickers on nipples was funny)?
The fourier transform is just means to transform one abstract representation to another. There isn't anything inherently physical about the concept that says that music couldn't exist without it.
Almost certainly invalid today (as to all claims). Even before recent decisions, the method claims in particular were pretty much rejected as a matter of course (see e.g., https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=143311033686351...) (specifically the claim appendix at the bottom)
There are thousands of startups that scrape data and are quite successful. A certain job listing site comes to mind. Don't worry too much about getting sued.
Sitting in my fluorescent lit white walled office, about to pump out some code for the day, this article put a smile on my face and made me think about different options for life some time down the road aside from programming.

The article was well written, wasn't judgemental, and provided some lightness to my day and to others.

Chill out!
Are you certain something like this doesn't exist already? If there are 500-1000 sites I gotta imagine someone has already built this. Shopping feed / aggregators are nothing new.

e.g. http://searchenginewatch.com/sew/study/2097413/shopping-engi...
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Worst dating book ever.
It gets even worse if you look at colour trademarking. eg Cadbury "own" the colour purple when it comes to chocolate. Orange also have a trademark on using the colour orange when operating a mobile phone business and had a spat with Easy about it http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/3555398.stm
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Good time to do this! Too bad there isn't a .ry TLD

https://hilla.ry/
Do you have any resources describing and explaining the internals of cstore_fdw? Talks, documents, etc - something other than having to read the code (though I'm fine with that as well). I would very much like to understand the underlying mechanism of cstore_fdw.
There are 82 English dictionary words that contain the word "Sky." 63 of those words start with the word "Sky." Therefore by logical extension of this ruling, they have at minimum given Sky free trademarks on 82 additional words. That doesn't even include made up words like "Skype."

These types of decisions are going to massively limit the number of trademarkable words available for businesses to register in general. It wasn't even like Sky and Skype are directly competing with one another (VoIP/Chat/Video over Ip Vs. Satellite TV). Or that Skype was trying to feed off of Sky's reputation or brand.

This ruling is simply terrible. It is terrible within itself and sets an even worse precedent. The EU needs to pass additional laws clarifying this so that courts cannot reach these kind of conclusions.