skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have found the opposite for 'vanilla' entrepreneurs; for a few years, I was part of the Young Entrepreneurs Organization (YEO), which collected under-40 founders of businesses with over $1mm in revenue.

The Boston chapter had over 100 people in it, maybe closer to 250? Of those, almost none had 'top tier' degrees. Almost none had business school degrees. In fact, for a community of fairly wealthy Bostonians, it was notable how few had come through top-tier schools or advanced degree programs of any sort.

Startup entrepreneurs might be different, and I've only read the article about the paper, but I just don't see this in my own entrepreneurial experience; most entrepreneurs I have known outside of Silicon Valley were motivated hard working types; some were visionaries, some were operations geniuses, some accidentally bought out their partners or bosses and got left with a business, most were from blue collar or middle class families.

Put another way, Thurston Howell doesn't start a summer painting business staffed by college students, or a recruiting business which demands 90 hour weeks for the first ten years of life; instead Frank from Gloucester does because he can't stomach the thought of working for someone else for the next 40 years.
Illegal acts against people considered "deserving" is vigilantism, which is bad.
Working on the same file concurrently does not guarantee conflicts - working on the same code does.

We recently switched to short-lived feature branches (short-lived as in a couple of days maximum), and I haven't had to resolve merge conflicts in months. Our feature branches previously used to last around two weeks and merging things in was collectively not looked forward to. Now I don't even have to give it a second thought.

tl;dr not having merge conflicts is an entirely possible happy reality.
http://trojita.flaska.net/

two developers, 5 years, not yet feature complete - but it's the closest thing to someone attempting to write a really good IMAP client based on the RFCs, and they've been active in mailing lists and IRC too.

Funny how nobody has actually built this mythical IMAP client you say is so easy.
"1% may not sound like a lot, but it's more than the typical casino edge in a game of blackjack or slots."

The house edge for slots games is anywhere from 2% to 15%+ and is one of the worst bets you can make in the casino.

Blackjack, video poker and some bets on craps are the only times in a casino where the house edge shrinks to below 1%.
Sweden has negative rates when loaning in money, not when loaning out money. That is, they are not violating the zero lower bound - they are simply a bit closer to it.
On the other hand, we have many forms of media that worship vigilantism... so this is obviously not a universally held truth.
> The Chinese government moves people around by fiat

Man, that seems inefficient, fiats can hold like 3 people tops

(bad pun, sorry)
This is what the people of Earth call a 'joke'.

Perhaps the best part of some jokes is that half of the monkey people take these exaggerated fictions seriously and become quite upset upon processing them. This is in itself also a joke.
That doesn't even remotely contradict my post.

The money multiplier effect you're alluding to means that if I have $1000 in the bank, the bank can lend $750 of it out to you, so between the two of us we have $1750 of liquid assets despite the $1000 of hard cash backing it. If you spend your $750 on a house, and the guy selling the house puts the $750 in his bank account, the bank lends out $562.50 which means that from my $1000 hard cash, there is now $2312.50 of liquid assets floating around. It does not mean that the bank can fiat $4000 into existence the second I deposit that $1000. If that were the case, there wouldn't be such a thing as a bank run, because the bank would still have my $1000. Bank runs are widely acknowledged to be the biggest risk of fractional reserve banking.

From the very Wikipedia article you're citing:

"Fractional-reserve banking is the practice whereby a bank accepts deposits, and holds reserves that are a fraction of the amount of its deposit liabilities"

"The relending model begins when an initial $100 deposit of central bank money is made into Bank A. Bank A takes 20 percent of it, or $20, and sets it aside as reserves, and then can theoretically loan out the remaining 80 percent, or $80. If the bank does in fact issue loan proceeds in the form of $80 in central bank money, the money supply actually totals $180, not $100, because the bank has loaned out $80 of the central bank money, kept $20 of central bank money in reserve (not part of the money supply), and substituted a newly created $100 IOU claim for the depositor that acts equivalently to and can be implicitly redeemed for central bank money (the depositor can transfer it to another account, write a check on it, demand his cash back, etc.)".

(The editors of Wikipedia are evidently fond of their run-on sentences.)
I have one that I didn't pay for. I thought I wouldn't like it and at first I didn't think I had much use for it. After a week I changed my mind and I love it. It gets out of my way and it keeps my phone in my pocket. I have been leveraging its fitness tracking features quite a bit as I am somewhat sedentary, and the feedback has been quite helpful -- and motivating.

One thing I noticed today is that now when I consider any app for purchase, I check for wether it has support for the watch and wether this support makes sense (e.g. today I was looking for a pomodoro timer app).

None of what I write above I would have guessed from the product description and the advertisements. Whether it is useful to you or not will depend on the apps that exist and your lifestyle. It's hard to predict and expensive to test. YMMV
Click bait title imo - article is much softer. Key takeaway is that people are more willing to take risks if they have something to fall back on, which when said out loud, is pretty much a no brainer.
how is that anything to do with Tibet being part of China? You really like your Chinese friends I guess.
Building a Startup Culture in a Broken-Down Economy
That's not really a counterpoint. Your parents don't have to be wealthy in order to qualify as coming from a wealthy family. Also, families of professionals can make comfortable six-figure salaries and are wealthy by any reasonable definition.
The responsiveness point somehow resonates with me; I recall running 3D renders in the background (taking up 100% of the CPU), while running simple games in the foreground set to "high priority". The games typically never stuttered.

Yet my android tablet routinely freezes for 30 seconds for whatever reason.

And yes, app crashes could take the machine down, but it was typically back up in a usable desktop within 6 seconds. And later on (mid 90s), they seem to have become far more rare.
There's another case to be considered here, too - people who have used the site, got caught/came clean, did the work to fix it and have rescued their marriages (or were doing it with the blessing of their spouse), and now are at risk for their name being published for viewing by their coworkers, neighbors, members of their church, etc as a "cheater", "adulterer", etc, even after they've ostensibly paid their moral debt.

There are certainly a lot of karma coming to a lot of people who deserve it, but there's also a lot of hurt coming to people who probably don't.

An unrelated thought: I can only imagine how giddy the staff over at Gawker must be right now. This is like the David Geithner story times 37 million.
Is Uber Making Taxi Service Better?
So much for this. "AshleyMadison has become the last truly secure space on the Internet." - AM's PR team.
Source: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10153447889029655
How is this any different than creating a site that is a "marketplace" for cheating on your tests/essays/whatever in University? The cheaters are responsible for their own actions, right?
Not too surprising. Security in the past has been worse than abysmal on that site. I had a friend that jokingly made an account and sent me a link to his profile. However, that link was also his entire session. Once in the profile section it would let you change the password without knowing the current password. And the last kicker, the change password box had asterisks in it on page load and a quick "view source" revealed my friend's "not joking" password all from a link that didn't look too important.

In summary:

1. Having a session id just stored in a GET variable for (most?) pages.
2. Use of http on profile edit page.
3. Allowing password change without reauthentication
4. Storing of all passwords without any form of hashing.
5. Sending passwords over http every time the profile edit page was viewed
6. Very easy for a user to accidentally share confidential data.

I want to say this was back in 2008 and the site was launched in 2001. I can't imagine that they are making any of these mistakes today but if the past incompetence has any relevance then this security disaster was a long time in the making.
Well, for starters, Microsoft, Google, Facebook, Instagram, Uber and Apple were effectively founded by white, highly educated men. As far as I know, in none of these cases were their families actually poor. Gates came from a straight up wealthy family; Zuckerberg's family is one of doctors and other highly-paid professionals too.
On top of my mind, I don't think Steve Jobs and Larry Ellison came from families with money.

Give me two billionaires I and you will see they don't have much in common except tenacity, willpower and seeing the world as something they can influence.

I don't think you can learn a lot in analyzing successes, because there are so many different paths to success and chance plays a huge part.

Also, IMHO success is more about what you don't do than what you do.

But sure helps write articles which drive traffic.
Poll: how do you use Git?
What 'interface' do you use to perform most common Git tasks, such as clone, commit, push, ...
Terminal / Command Line
Integrated with the IDE
GUI Client (e.g. SourceTree)
Cheating is legal. Publishing people's PII is not.
Maybe include a comparison with popular libraries like jquery ui draggable?
> caffeine and coffee in general

Why coffee specifically? Other things contain caffeine. Tea, for example.
Wow, that's what you call a real craftsman!

And his flutes sound amazing!
Same here: dokuwiki on a cubieboard and dynamic dns. Very pleased with that solution!
Yep, and in another comment below we can see the trap sprung. It's more effective to just say your disagreement, really.
Setting a new standard for B2B websites .
GitFlow through Intelij. Most if not: Source Tree
12+ separate logins is, imho, neither reasonable nor efficient.
The most interesting part to me was this
"A coin will land on its edge around 1 in 6000 throws, creating a flipistic singularity." (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flipism)

I assume that was as the result of using the tossing machine, but I really thought it would not have been that frequent.
Mostly true but the singular of data (pl) is anecdote - considered as a discrete experience.
There were the developer manuals, but you will need to find someone willing to get rid of them.
Australia has the same problem Canada does. It's strapped to China on growth with a dependency on natural resources. Now that China's growth is over - they're about to become Japan due to extreme debt, bad demographics and the easy growth having filled out years ago - Australia needs to find a replacement engine for its economy.

Canada has already realistically slid into a recession. They'll have a bad ten years, due to the perpetual oversupply of oil, weak China and strong dollar. Their households have taken on vast amounts of debt in the last decade. All of those things are likely to pop their real estate bubble, either directly or after low interest rates push the prices higher.

A nice thing Australia has going for it, is that its net median wealth per adult is well over twice that of Canada (and the highest of any major nation). It can afford to lose some of its frothy real estate market without a disaster occurring. The bad part is, the household income to debt ratio is around 170%, on par with Canada, and nearly twice that of the US. As with Canada, a lot of that household debt is of course mortgage debt, and it'll continue to steal capital away from economic growth in the coming years.

I think Australia will take a hit, have 10 to 15 bumpy years of low growth and falling asset prices (which will be confused for deflation when it occurs). It'll otherwise weather the storm well. Australians seem to tighten their economic belts when they need to. The focus will be directed at paying down debt and getting out from under the fallout of the former real estate boom.
Wouldn't you say the nature of the consequences are the same - emotional harm? Although you might judge the degree of harm differently. What problem can publishing pictures of assault cause the victim that doesn't happen with cheating?
> Flintstones was a cartoon, not a documentary.

Go ahead and shatter my illusions, why don't you.
Thank you. This is good. I will definitely take this into consideration.
Yes and no. You are true that the bureaucracy is non-partisan and bureaucrats are not necessarily beholden to political leaders or process.

However, leadership (in a company, in a country, whatever) will set the priorities and tone of any group under them. Even if that leadership is in some ways going against the current of the bureaucracy, it's certainly possible for a dynamic leader (or group of leaders) to change the direction of an organization. And if there's one thing most people in politics must be exceptionally good at, it's getting people to agree that their plan or policies is the best plan or policies.

There's also a lot of power in being able to say "These are the criteria upon which all of you will be evaluated for raises and promotions", too. I'd expect the US bureaucracy is a little more ossified than most large corporations, but not so much so that appointing leadership doesn't change the direction of the bureaucracy.
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Command line+SourceTree, depending on what task I'm trying to accomplish. Staging, diffs, and commit messages are much more easily done in SourceTree, and most other operations from the command line.
Why not just use Access (I suppose LibreOffice has an equivalent too)? It probably would be more work to set up, but you would have a proper database with the ability to use SQL for queries.
I am genuinely interested in their reasoning for it. I don't actually know why it was made. You are making assumptions. I was not and that is why I said that. I thought maybe they had poor business practices e.g. treated their employees bad.

The person below made a terrible comparison and that is why I responded like that.
> Your parents don't have to be wealthy in order to qualify as coming from a wealthy family.

I'm afraid that doesn't make sense.
I can't make sense of this statement in the article - it seems to be off by two orders of magnitude.

A typical smartphone battery (Xiaomi Mi4i) is specified at 3.12Ah @ 4.4V. Multiplying, we get an energy content of about 50 kilojoules, which is about 1/200th of the a typical daily human energy requirement (10MJ).
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I find this reply really confusing.

1. What were you hoping to accomplish with the Dylan quote? Are you ceding the agency argument and now asserting that advertising should be banned because it's obscene?

2. What scaling effects are we ignoring? You quoted Dylan, someone who communicated at a very large scale -- do you consider his communication to be worse on that basis? Is it immoral that we are discussing this on a forum rather than email?

If your main argument is that you're ideologically opposed to corporate advertising, why not just say that?
Liked the homage to zombo.com :)

Had to reference this xkcd.com/855
Haha, I'm going to be very tempted to cross reference the data to my personal contacts if this information goes public. It's probably better not to know as many friends you know the partner also and it could put yourself in an awkward position.
Has the State of California ever taken legal action against any company located outside of CA for not complying with this regulation or is it just another one of those laws that are on the book but are never enforced?
Does anyone know if it would it be illegal to look at and/or download this information once it is publicly available? I guess this would vary by country a bit. Would this count as 'possession of stolen goods' type thing? Seems likely, though catching people or having the will to is another thing.
Cheating can also end bad relationships. Which prevents emotional harm. I'm going to go out on a limb, and guess that a lot of the users are kind of ambivalent as to whether their current relationship is going to last.

Who else would use a site like that? People who are comfortable lying (e.g. "cheaters") probably just fake a profile on a regular site, and lie to their date as well.

Yes, maybe they should approach things differently ... but let's not pretend that everyone is perfect. If people didn't have flaws, I can think of dozens of industries that would vanish overnight.
Hi Darrell,

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Yup! Basically the same argument as Milton Friedman made. The examples and graphs are nice though.

http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/the-euro--moneta...
Url changed from http://www.engadget.com/2015/07/19/hack-makes-playing-doom-o..., which points to this.
If your friends or coworkers abuse you because of their beliefs, then they are the ones causing harm, not the person who informed them. You sound like you're not giving full blame to those abusers or at least accepting that their behavior is inevitable. If you're a member of a church which abuses adulterers, and you don't think adulterers should be abused, then you're as much to blame by supporting that stance with your membership.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9859535
Yes there has been some lose language been used in this area by people how should have known better. The problem is the word “crusade” has a meaning in English different to its original historical origins.
Why SourceForge should not die today
Kind of a weird article. Sure, many companies are waiting because they're not sure how to make a compelling experience for their app on the Watch. But that seems kind of obvious. The article said that 5 of the top 20 apps (by popularity) have Watch apps. It suggests this is a bad sign. My reaction is, really, that many? Just because an app is popular on iOS does not mean it lends itself to the watch form factor.

On a related note, a quote from the article:

> The lack of support from Facebook — and from other popular app makers like Snapchat and Google, which also do not have apps for Apple Watch — [...]

I get why it would make some sense to have a Watch app for Facebook, although it's still a challenge to design a great UX on such a tiny space, but Snapchat and Google? I can't even imagine how that would work on the watch. You certainly can't take photos on the watch, and I wouldn't want to try and view an ephemeral photo on the watch because it's so small. And similarly, what would Google offer? The article mentioned Google Mail, but you can already get your Google Mail on your watch by using the built-in Mail app.
Best comment response ever. It is sad this will languish here rather than be etched into a stele.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9909531
The Swedish negative rates are for banks borrowing from the central bank, but in theory there is nothing stopping banks lending money to individuals at a negative interest rate. In a deflationary environment such loans will still have a positive real interest rate. The banks of course would only do so if the negative interest rate was less than what the central bank charged.
Basically, it's the cost of a new car. There are lots of new cars on the road. You could buy a $500 truck like mine, and invest the rest in a startup.
How does this compare to Sortable?

https://github.com/RubaXa/Sortable
I think Facebook have misunderstood the niche of smartwatches. Saying that they're trying to deliver a "good Facebook experience" on such a small screen shows that they thinks it's just a smaller smartphone. But the strength of smartwatches is in notifications, not detailed content delivery. Instead of trying to deliver entire feeds they should be trying to deliver notifications and summaries with just enough information to let the user decide whether to pull out their phone and use the full facebook app.
Vigilantism is by no means categorically "bad". Sometimes it is the correct, ethically responsible action, such as when an existing system is too corrupt and incapable of delivering justice.
I am ruminating on the harm to be had here, not the moral culpability for it; it's easy to not be sympathetic here because these are by design people who occupy the moral low ground, but I can think of a few cases off the top of my head where this could cause real unwarranted harm to peoples' lives.

Improperly applied, this could be as damaging as membership on the sex offenders' list for public urination. The fact that the people passing judgment are the ones imputing harm doesn't really change the fact that there are people whose lives will be damaged disproportionate to their crime, and I think that's extremely unfortunate.

Edit: I can't recommend it as a literary work, but the themes and lessons of Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter" are directly and immediately relevant here.
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> Cheating can also end bad relationships.

Um... cheating is by no means a requirement for ending a relationship. You can simply say, "This relationship is over."

Cheating is extremely harmful, and on top of that often unnecessary. Couples should discuss and explore open relationships, and if they are not open to that, end the relationship.

In virtually all cases, cheating is a totally unnecessary harm.
What about Uber? Their business is pretty sleazy in many people's beliefs.
Media are shit, they'd worship Satan if it brought them more ad impressions. But yeah, laws might be unjust, civil disobedience, yada yada. But seriously - this is not the case here. The hackers aren't a part of a social movement prepared to proudly go to jail for the case of making cheating illegal.
I have this happen a lot when tossing on wooden floors with a gap between the boards - basically the coin gets stuck in the gap. My brother and I got quite good at deliberately doing this.

I have never had it happen on a flat surface and I must have tossed 10,000 of coins in my youth.
I haven't tried it yet but this isn't surprising to me at all. Every recent Apple product has had a slow burn until mainstream adoption except for the iPad which exploded out of the gate. I think the Mac might have had the slowest burn of them all without really penetrating the mainstream until the early 2000s with the Intel switch and the iPod acting as a gateway drug.

Heck the Mac is still growing long after the PC market matured and even while it's declining. That is what the end game for iPhone will be in my opinion. When the global smartphone market finally becomes saturated, the iPhone can still grow at the expense of Android from switchers (that's when being the highly differentiated product will help the most).
I am of the thought that it is very much a crusade, because there is no reason to believe the actual crusades were anything beyond riling up the peasants for the benefit of the rich.