skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If they decided to do it, is there a (legal) way for Green Bank to prevent electrosensitive people from moving there?
Finish school.

You're only young once. Why waste your youth working, when you have the rest of your life to work? Explore school, explore intellectual pursuits, learn things that actually interest you without the constant stress of worrying about work.

Your startup idea will likely not make any money, you have less than a 5% chance of success. Go with the numbers and enhance yourself by staying in school.
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Ask HN: Saw a USB stick didn't pick it up
Before picking up breakfast this morning I saw a USB stick (which was opened up as if to attract more attention) on the ground in front of me as I walked. I left it there but by the time I retraced my steps someone had already picked it up.

I am curious what others would do if they found a USB stick.

Would they pick it up and dispose of it (so nobody else could be harmed) or would save it and be tempted to read or analyze it it a way that wouldn't make them susceptible to firmware exploits and so on?
Ironically, I /work/ at TinyCo now -- wasn't sure how they did their funding, though -- haven't broached the subject with our CEO yet. =op

[edit] Yeah, I meant in the last year.
> Considered objectively, it's the opposite of empiricism.

It's not. Because we call it a sense, it might have nothing to do empirical senses. It has to do with what we believe about the world, including right and wrong. Common sense can be very well justified (the justification being outhere, although not all are aware of it), or it might be something seen on TV or read on HN. Perhaps it's fair to say that it's the core of a culture, defining it at <x, y, t>. Of course, cultures are all mixed up since 1969, thus everyone is all high about their objectivity. Back in the day, long before I was born, it was better.
similar to this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQAXtTpm930 (based on the technique raverbashing linked)
Dropping out now is like driving around without a seatbelt for the rest of your life.
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I was just thinking today that if we are allowed to cage animals who have the mental development of a 6 year old, why can't we justify caging people who have the mental capacity of a 6 year old.
I guess I should have been more specific: I meant gaming as in video games.
On the other hand, if you deal with money, or physical products (like a car) or anything slightly more "important" than your "likes" count on a social site, eventual consistency would get you laughed out of the room pretty quickly.
There's no reason this company can't make you a founder with a year cliff. When you hit your year mark you can decide at that time if the company is worth remaining at relative to school, and if not, continue on with your education. Forcing the question right now does neither of you any favors. I wouldn't assume that the founders are being disingenuous, but simply don't see this pretty reasonable (and probably better) alternative.
Well, "science" hasn't been very quick to dismiss EM-sensitivity. There has been done many experiments. The subjects usually can't tell if EM equipment has power or not from their symptoms.

This does not lessen the problems or make them less real, but it suggests the treatment looks more like treating a thin person convinced he is fat, than like treating allergies, for example.

By the way, the ability to hear CRTs is common among young people with good hearing. Many switched PSUs make high pitched noises too, for example. Nosie pollution is quite a problem, and there's been studies that suggests links between noise even slightly in the ultrasound and stress levels.
People with Morgellons actually have an itch, we just don't know what the cause is or how to stop it; and they are resistant to any psychological treatment that aims to reduce the itch because they think you're accusing them of making it up. We do know that Morgellons is not any insect or alien creature.

I have more sympathy for people with Morgellons than for the electro-sensitives (apart from the fantastic amounts of stigma about mental illness they generate - both from people looking in but also from themselves.)
How do you measure time spent "in-app"? Does the app have to be in the foreground or merely running in the background? If it has to be in the foreground then how does that help apps that mainly run in the background such as RunKeeper? If it's allowed to run in the background and still get credit then won't that create an incentive for battery-draining crap that users struggle to shut down?
This is very cool. I'd love to adapt it to help members of my team collaborate and share workflows, but GPL makes it hard to integrate with any internal tooling.
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> it is extremely difficult to obtain empirical evidence that this is the case

Hume would say it's impossible. And there's plenty of research out there to back him up. I'd disagree with him, but I have to disagree with you first. It's common sense among philosophers to be humean. :)
If this is true, I'd love to see a geographical breakdown of where these people live...somehow I'm skeptical that 40% of folks in i.e CA & NY believe this..
Except you actually don't and this has been a myth that has continued to plague any type of discussions like this.
I'm honestly surprised there hasn't been antitrust action over this. Apple are trying to leverage one monopoly (iTunes Music Store for digital music sales) to gain a monopoly in another market (music streaming) by forcing unreasonable terms.

I guess this is also a reflection of the lack of political will for antitrust action. In my view, Apple has long been on thin ground with regards tying but there seems to be a lack of political will to use competition law.
Lets say you are that artist. You have practiced, trained, studied. You have worked hard and have a rare natural talent. You sang the songs and played guitar. Now you have "this summer's big record". Two million children want to listen to your song (without paying any additional costs) 50-100 times over the next 3 months, and then never again.

How much is that worth to society? How much money should you make from that?

Consider an elementary teacher tasked with teaching 28 children to read and guiding them to becoming active participants in democracy rather than repeat offenders. $50k/yr. Compare a state university computer science professor who will teach dozens of new jacks this year how to measure and optimize algorithms-- setting them up for a life of full time employment while all their friends tread in the sea of shit and unemployment around them. $90k/yr. Consider a bus driver, a construction worker, a civil engineer, anyone who didnt have a chance to finish high school or College and still goes to work every day. Or those who went to ivy league colleges and resisted the urge to go into finance. Productive people.

We are all productive and we all add value, and we are underpaid. Our kids will have varying access to good education. We have less access to inferior healthcare. We spend too much time at work and not enough time with our kids. The lowest of us live in poverty and violence, relegated to feeding our children less healthy, life shortening diets. And thats just in the U.S., one of the wealthiest states on the planet.

Now how much is that song you sang worth?

Artists should be about art. If you dont like the fact that Apple wants you to be their slave, then distribute your music yourself. If people dont want to pay for your music, then keep doing what you want to do and starve or start doing what they want you to do and make money. But dont try to be about the art and say the faceless evil corporation should pay you more. It is disrespectful to the productive workers of the world.
Specially to create carousels. :)
Rather than telling you what to do, I'm going to ask a question you should be asking yourself. What kind of person are you? Are you the type of person who needs guidance? Or, are you the type of person who can manage your education in your own hands?

I believe your success is purely based on how you attack the challenge of success. If you can take control of your education, social life and whatever else you need to succeed then you certainly don't need college. However, if you can't do these things then you'll be making the biggest mistake of your life.
I think most "electronic noise" is related to coil whine [1]. Although I can imagine that the hsync frequency of cathode ray tubes can cause audible noise. That would explain why you could hear CRT TVs but not CRT monitors. If you take the NTSC standard you can calculate ~15kHz for hsync frequency which is audible.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coil_noise
If you listen to everyone here, they'll ask you to finish school. That is the safe bet and "prudent" choice.

If you want to be a founder, you'll never be comfortable taking the "safe" route. Go for it. Do it when you're young and you're able to take risk. No regrets, whichever path you take. Good luck.
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Can't answer, but can give you some perspective:

1. Most startups fail. That's true of funded startups; indeed, it's true of startups with institutional A and B rounds!

2. Most teams have a story they tell themselves about why they're different than all the other doomed startups. The story might be valid. Or maybe not. Either way: the existence of the story doesn't predict anything. Story or no, in the metaphorical poker game of business, every new startup is a jack-high hand, at best. Don't kid yourself that you're holding even a middle pair.

3. There's a narrative about how easy it is to start a startup in your 20s that is, I think, mostly bullshit. I've been doing startups non-stop since I was 18, got married & had first kid at 21, and, coming up on 17 years with my partner (both life & biz), am now on my Nth startup.

4. There's another narrative about how easy it is to go to school when you're 18-21. That narrative is not bullshit. It is very, very hard to collect college credits once your real life starts.

5. No matter what you do, unless you get much luckier than most of us, you will always have a gnawing concern that life is passing you by or that you're missing opportunities. If you're going to be a startup person, you are going to become over-sensitized to opportunity costs. The feeling that you must jump on "this" precise opportunity is almost always going to be wrong.

Keep that stuff in mind when you make the decision.
There are a lot of great answers on here (Python/Ruby for general scripting, C/C++/ASM for reverse engineering, web stack technology for web application security, etc) -- but I wanted to focus on a slightly different approach.

I've run security teams for the last six years or so, and it's surprising to some people how little programming is often involved in penetration testing and application security assessments. If you're looking to do network and/or (web|mobile) application security, it's often unnecessary.

That said: learning how to do some scripting is always beneficial, and clearly understanding how code works is very important to understanding systems, networks, and applications. My advice, though, is that if you're trying to work in security it's probably better to learn the fundamentals of the area(s) of security that interest you, rather than focusing on a programming language or framework that you think will be relevant.

There are a lot of great resources out there, but shoot me an email (address in profile) if you'd like a little more info.

Good luck!
> And after a year, if the startup is still going good then they want me to leave my education as a founder.

Alarm bells ringing here. They are probably well meaning and honest, but the potential impact in the event they're not can be horrible.

You'll want it iron clad in writing now what you'll get after a year and how it is structured.

You want to make sure it's done in a tax efficient way. There are several complications here: If they award you shares or options after a year, you either lose out on the value increase in that year, or you risk getting taxed on the different between whatever price they offer it to you at and the market value in a year. If you're putting your education on hold now, presumably you would like to gain from the potential increase in value over the coming year. Especially as most startups never reach the dizzying heights of multi-billion dollar valuations and the biggest multiples on valuation you might see might very well come in the coming year.

Depending on jurisdiction there are many ways to protect both your interests (getting part of the value increase over the coming year, and avoid excessive taxes) and theirs (making sure you don't run off after getting your shares, and ensuring you have strong reasons to stay). E.g. an option plan starting now with a "cliff" that means the first chunk doesn't vest until a year from now (though options are tax inefficient most places), or letting you buy shares now (at presumably rock bottom valuation) with some claw-back provisions if you leave before certain conditions are met.

The only way of knowing what'll be best for you is to make sure to talk to a lawyer and/or accountant versed in local tax law. Many places will be willing to give you an initial consultation for free or a low fee, and will be able to at least advice you what they think will be feasible to achieve before you need to commit to paying more to actually sort out the paperwork.

(If the current founders are not willing to work with you to get proper paper work in place, run for the hills - in that case they likely have no intention of honouring whatever they've talked to you about; if everything is above board, a proper agreement will safeguard their interests as much as yours)
IMHO the naming isn't great, because it would be useful for plotting slow-ish sensor data, but I'd struggle calling something with only ~3kS/s an "oscilloscope"
That's interesting, I will take a look if Marvel API has those characters or I can try to import it manually, thank you for your feedback
How does the Vita compare to the 3DS with regards to security and -- from a developer's point of view -- overall system architecture?
How can I create my own evolution? It started on generation 90 for me and already looked good. Is it bugged?
Common sense should not be defined as common knowledge. It is not describing a type of knowledge which one simply know or ignorant. Rather it describes a most general type of critical thinking process where common people will reach the similar conclusion when they are asked to engage in the critical thinking.

For example, cutting vegetables. I would say it is a common sense to always put your holding figures on top (rather than under the vegetables or on the side). It is not a common knowledge -- for one, not all or quite a portion of our population never cut vegetables before so it can't be a common knowledge; and for two, many who try to cut vegetables will make mistakes of injuring their fingers due to lack this common sense.

However, it is a good example of common sense, if we imagine, that we ask any common people to think about the situation and devise or choose from a couple vegetable holding position, most of will reach the common conclusions.

Therefore, common sense is a common critical thinking process shared by us.

The problem with common sense is that most people -- or many of us most of the time -- do not engage in critical thinking, as a result, fail to benefit from common sense.
Termination and Unvested Equity
Hi there HN,

The startup I've been working for laid off myself and three other engineers recently. We all had unvested equity, which according to the equity agreement is gone if terminated with or without cause.

I know it's a common practice to get rid of employees before an acquisition, but the company isn't doing well anyway, despite getting a lot of press lately. Most tech startups I've worked for, including this one, have been complete smoke and mirror jobs though, so not doing well internally doesn't necessarily mean we wouldn't have been acquired.

My question is whether I should sign a severance agreement which basically relinquishes my firstborn in exchange for one week's pay. One week is sadly ridiculous, but if I have 0 claim to anything if they later are acquired, am I stupid not to sign it anyway?

Thanks in advance.
I was about to write few blog post about hacking some websites and servers, now it's pretty cool to record live and post later to blog.
Should be fine as long as you're not distributing binaries, and the code stays internal.
^^ Just listen to this guy and go do your homework.
A simple clause in a contract is usually enough.
What you are hearing is plain old sound - higher frequency, in the ranges we tend to lose first with time and age. In both the TV and light fixtures, you are hearing the transformer coils physically shifting.

I hear them too.

Tooth fillings and bone conduction could pick up AM signals, because of the nature of AM.
Apple wants to give it away for free, not the artists. Apple needs the artists, hence they need to pay.

Revenue rising with the new service will eat into the other revenue streams from sales. Subscription revenue has already been proven to be laughable with Spotify.

Saying that Apple gets to keep all the extra profit because they paid the artists during arbitrary terms set by Apple is incredibly short sighted, as the profit you speak of means profit to Apple, but a loss to the music industry.
Yeah, that's a fine answer. But they might just not know of the other way to do things.

Like, in Java, for a long time I didn't know there was an output stream that you could write a string directly, so I was always getting the bytes to write it. I wouldn't call that a formative experience.
MeFi is great. It has a strong focus on quality. It's got a focus on "things that are interesting" and not on startups or technology, so you'll see some different stuff. It takes a while to mesh into the community, but you can enjoy the postings right away. I usually find one or maybe two interesting things there each day, which is about the same as I do on Reddit or HN, but the percentage is quite a bit higher on MeFi considering there aren't as many posts.

It has remained small (relative to an internet scale) and that has allowed it to remain high quality. It is a little more difficult to sign up and post (and charges a one time fee of $5), which makes signing up a much more deliberate thing. Trolls aren't going to waste $5.

A side note, one of my favorite quotes from the internet is originally credited to MeFi user blue_beetle: "If you are not paying for it, you're not the customer; you're the product being sold." http://www.metafilter.com/95152/Userdriven-discontent
Not sure about the UK, but in my neck of the woods here in the US, "common sense" refers to not being physically reckless, especially toward others. I understand that politicians like to co-opt terminology for themselves. Let's blame the politicians, not 'proper' vocabulary.
I bought http://timeblock.com for $2k, it was parked and had a price tag at $6k.

I really wanted the name since we had named the startup so 2k was "cheap" even though it was a lot of money for us.

Luckily I had just read the post on how easypost bought their domain and replicated that with success.
I'm not sure if you mean that pro or against regular expressions. That is a good example for #5. Regular expressions are great to quickly patch together something that kinda works, but:

1. Those hosts are still broken. The next person will have to jump the same hoops to support them.

2. You parser is very permissive. It will encourage people to create even more broken implementations.

3. The specification of this protocol is now worthless. There is no way to safely add new functionality. Any new element or attribute can break those regexes. Everyone has to take every implementation into account.

4. You are probably missing some corner cases like CDATA elements or quoted characters.

From your point of view, it probably makes sense to support even broken sites. But, you are helping to create next HTML - where every implementation works differently and you have to test everything on every browser.
There's nothing inherently slow or problematic about composing code out of "pure functions." The implication that evaluating functions requires doing lambda calculus, which requires a weird runtime like Haskell, is pure FUD. Haskell is weird for other reasons, like the fact that expressions are lazily instead of eagerly evaluated. You can compose your code out of pure functions in most any programming language.

Even when we're talking about facilities provided by the runtime, the fact that a programming language feature may have complex performance characteristics, in exchange for allowing the programmer to think about the problem in a more abstracted way, does not invalidate the abstraction. We might as well have an article about garbage collection called, "There is no garbage," making the point that at a lower level, all memory needs to be explicitly de-allocated. Or one called, "There is no immutability," pointing out that immutable data structures can only try to cover up the fundamental nature of computers, which have mutable memory cells.
This is quite nice http://www.economist.com/sections/science-technology but is also a bit sparse with frequency of articles
It is much easier.to get intelligence on you though (ok, same as if you used Facebook messages). Likes are random and nothing consistent. Your communication with peers can reveal everything though.
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I won't go into details, I'll just tell you I hate college, yet I do the logical thing and keep going. Just make yourself a favor and finish, it's only two years. Don't you think, than in the next half century, you will be be founder of something awesome? Do you really think this will be your only chance? Do you really want to gamble your future, for the low equity they are going to offer you?

I don't have the insider info you have! So finally I'll tell you this, do a list of pros and cons, be truthful, analyze it and decide. Good luck with your choice.
I'd pick it up and post a 'found a USB' stick on a lamppost near where I found it. Then if nobody claimed it after a few weeks I'd destroy it.

I'd never attempt to read it, for one that would be a gross violation of the privacy of whoever owned the stick in the first place, second it might be placed there on purpose.

But if someone simply lost it the right thing would be for them to have it back.
They aren't the most logical bunch.

My father is allergic to poultry apparently yet chows down on hot dogs made mostly from turkey. Same level of batshit.
Just do both. Take fewer courses.