jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Does the company have revenue? Follow-on priced funding rounds? If you've taken follow on priced rounds (eg. a Series A), then the price those shareholders paid is the market value, eg. if your Series A values the company at $15M post-money then it's worth $15M.

If you have actual financials (revenue, profits) then you could argue (although the company is under no obligation to accept...consult a lawyer) that there are fairly standard methodologies for valuing a company on a financial basis. I've heard the figure of 4x annual revenues thrown around, or you could use the S&P 500 market P/E of 19x profits.

If you have neither earnings, revenues, or follow-on financings, you need to accept that you have created nothing of value in the past 2 years, and you are entitled to nothing of value. This is the deal we make when we decide to become startup founders, and the reason why so many people choose to keep their safe corporate jobs. Consider it a learning experience, and then look to apply that learning in more profitable ways in the future.
At this point I'm half-expecting they do it for the feeling of power, rather than for the goal of making a better game.
Do you mean the link doesn't lead you to the selected text? This is probably a bug. Could you please share the link?
Most people on Hacker News are entrepreneurs that run their own private businesses. Social media platforms are not some sort of public utility. Social media platforms are private businesses owned by private individuals who can choose who they want to let in and who they want to kick out just like any restaurant or bar or concert hall. If you dislike who a social media platform allows or does not allow, just use a different one. For example, many Trump supporters use parler... A platform which is known to kick off liberal voices.
Or better yet, just set up your own blog on your own host and do whatever you want.
If intent mattered when it came to storming the capitol then it should matter when it comes to rioting against the police.
This heavily depends on country of residence. While I had been living in Serbia, there was one king - Viber. I've heard of WhatsApp back then but didn't know a single person using it. In Germany it's vice versa - the king is WhatsApp, nobody heard of Viber.
I've attended some of the protests from this summer, some of the larger ones with 40K people. No property damage, no arrests, no one hurt or arrested.

Contrast to the ones that did turn into riots with property damage, looting or people getting hurt, which were perpetrated by a small group of protesters that stuck around after they were told to disperse / broke curfew, it seems similar to what happened in the capitol.

I think a big difference is that the rioting this summer affected insured private property and unfortunately did get people hurt in an effort to bring attention to systemic problems that parts of our country have. The event yesterday was a specific attack at a democratic process our country has in an effort to overturn an election that, at this point, has not had any evidence in court shown to cause doubts of it's legitimacy.

Intent matters. If the riots from this summer tried to assault city halls or state capitols that were in session I have a very good feeling they would have been met with more prejudice.
Spoiler alert: it's the first one.
> You would only be able to fork the client

The signal server is also open source. The absence of federation does mean you would also need to get all of your contacts to move to a different service as well, but it is better than a proprietary system. I do wish Signal was more open to federation and/or alternative clients though.
I remember recently the Iran ayatollah promoted wiping out Israel on Twitter and nothing happened. Jack Dorsey dismissed it as "saber rattling" from a country that routinely helps terrorists attack and kill Israelis. I guess that is not as bad as Trump claiming election fraud...

Another example, Spike Lee tried to dox Zimmerman on Twitter, but ended up posting the address of some entirely unrelated couple who received death threats. Again, nothing happened.
Why marry at all? I mean, seriously, what is the advantage?
Mr Money Mustache has a good primer on the subject, he also recommends the same book. The rest of his blog is well worth reading too.

http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2011/10/02/what-is-stoicism-a...
What fascinates me about this topic is the amount of words spent on it, yet the topic of how/when to have conjugal relations with a kid sleeping in the room is never brought up. What is the norm about this in cultures that commonly cosleep? Do they stop having sex? Only get their loving on the fire escape?
The new feature is that, being non-fungible, it is by definition not a commodity. It's thus exempt from CFTC regulation. This opens up a whole new area of make-money-fast schemes.
Very soon, cars won't really let you do anything without ID/phone number/paired phone/key serial number, gps lock, a full working complement of vehicle sensors, and a network connection to report all of the above in realtime to people you don't know (who are of course obligated to provide all of that data to military intelligence at any time, without a warrant or probable cause).

There isn't really an issue with that sort of lack-of-maintenance stuff where we're headed. It won't be long until cars either totally refuse to operate in extreme circumstances (due to manufacturer liability), or fall back to some impossible-to-ignore state like Tesla's "limp mode". Tire pressure/oil life being good examples of easily-detectable liability issues that no sane manufacturer would let slide.

The current state of affairs is simply because remote monitoring was expensive/infeasible. Most vehicles today ship with an always-on cellular modem in them.

Even my little 4K pocket gimbal camera won't operate without phoning home to "activate", same for all the drones sold by the same company. Flying cars would be sending telemetry from all local sensor measurements to HQ at pretty much all times.
Sorry. In retrospect, I shouldn't have engaged. Too late to delete now...
This internet thing will blow over too
CryptoKitties are NFTs. A NFT on the Ethereum network is an ERC-721 token which makes a what cryptokitties is built on.

Colored coins was a proposal to add tokenized asset capability to the Bitcoin blockchain but I don’t think that went anywhere. Ethereum was originally going to be built on bitcoin but Vitalik was not welcomed by the bitcoin devs so he started his own thing.
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I use https://www.investing.com/members-admin/alert-center/ for that. I think https://seekingalpha.com/ also has something similar, but I could never get it to work.
As someone who went to Caltech I assure you Caltech faculty care very little about the name on the undergrad programs of their grad students. I.E. the value proposition of a Caltech undergrad education barring a few IMO cases (which Harvard tends to grab) is doubtful
Legally, I don't think this changes anything either. Unless I'm mistaken, all of this can already be accomplished within the copyright system (albeit with a lot more red tape).

After reading the responses here, I think I'm just gonna have to file this under "I don't care, but if it makes people happy then more power to them." ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Thanks for the compliments on the interface!

College students don't use Lovely for off-campus housing - the best properties don't need to be advertised beyond a property manager's website. We've been more heavily focused on solving the renter's needs to-date, and focus on bubbling up those properties that other websites don't have. For now, we provide free leads to property managers, so that value is obvious.

College landlords often rely on co-signers (parents), and many perform background checks on both the renter and the co-signer. There are certain areas in college towns where literally every property is rented by a student. If a landlord purchases a house in that area, they understand that their renters will almost definitely be students. Demand for these properties is so high that they are almost guaranteed 100% occupancy every year, so it's still an attractive investment.
I've created and released a new app, Color ID Free, that offers simple color names. It's free. iTunes link: http://bit.ly/dMgKrF

I can't update the old app because doing so would require dropping support for iPhone OS 3 (which means the app would no longer be available to users of the original iPhone and iPod touch).

What do you think of the new app with simple color names?
thanks for mentioning the video...it was very informative
If I may; http://blog.yipgo.com/2010/12/getting-started-with-right-too...
yea...thats a very good point..
Reminds me of those posts where people create a project on one of those outsourcing/freelancing sites like "I want an eBay clone" and people reply "Sure, no problem, 2 days - 50USD"
I think dynamic typing was a nice way for the programming language community to realize that C's type system sucked....

Dynamic typing is an answer to the problem that getting types right in a program is as difficult as getting anything else right in a program, especially given the limitations of type systems. I can write a trivial Haskell program which will not halt (due to trivial mathematical properties of negative numbers) but which the type checker will allow by allowing the compiler to infer the wrong type.
Trying to predict the future is tricky, however, you can try to see where it’s all going without knowing all the details.
Have you looked at the beta versions yet? The UI was overhauled over basically the last 1.5 years and the points mentioned in the blog post are the bits missing to release that as a stable version (IMAP IDLE mostly): https://github.com/k9mail/k-9/releases

I've been running the betas since more than a year without any problems whatsoever. (If you don't need push obviously)
Anyone come up with good charts on this? Not that this is a perfect comparison, but here is "self interest" vs. "civic duty":

http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=self+interest,civ...
Im passive, but I do discover new misic... very slowly, because somehow difficult and I need to be creative.

Why should you adjust the volume?
What do you mean with changing tracks?
Ah, the old 'I don't need privacy because I have nothing to hide' fallacy.
Open Web Analytics offers a feature comparison page:

http://www.openwebanalytics.com/?page_id=158

I'd be most concerned with scaling. Piwik doesn't really scale off a single server. Open Web Analytics lets you distribute the recording and queueing of events across multiple servers, but you still have to process stats on a single server.

I'd stick with a hosted solution for any high-volume project - it'll be cheaper in the long run. I'd only make an exception if you need a feature that the hosted solutions don't offer, in which case it's probably time to suck it up and start building your own analytics.

There is certainly room for open-source analytics designed with scalability in mind - perhaps with something like Cloudera's Distribution for Hadoop as a backend.
Not necessarily, it's just that Earth-like biology is the only one we know is absolutely possible.
I don't get it. What exactly is this meant to do? Move around some words?
The designer who made the logo said he was going for a passport look. My brother made the video. He also did the music in the video. He's pretty good with that stuff.
It would be interested to hear to story on how it became such a big hit in schools.
There is still hope for me!
That says more about your 'college' than anything else.

Facebook started at top schools and filtered down into lower schools.

This thing will get to you eventually.
Could you elaborate as to why it's only 2-3 nights of battery life? I'd expect much more from something like this.
Email is okay to me because you can actually own one.

Phone numbers though are terrible because they're tied to countries, their security depends only on your carrier, you can't run your own carrier to take it into your own hands, and sending SMS costs money. Also the underlying interconnection networks like SS7 aren't secure at all and rely on trust.
And now Unicode have declared themselves kneecapped to ~20 bits (1,111,998) because of it. I doubt we'll run out of space like we did with 16 bits, but never say never. The whole reason UCS-2 was used was companies saying "16 bits is enough" and then it not actually being enough. Almost every issue with Unicode is because developers made assumptions, despite Unicode themselves providing guidance saying otherwise.
> ~40 fwiw, so I guess I'm one of these "older" people

No I mean people in their 80s, 90s. Many of them isolated, and slowly learned Facebook, but probably not able to learn new things now.
Cool, it’s surprisingly easy to flick it up and way off the screen and get it to go in.
Sure, it's anonymized though, cause I'd rather this thread to drown slightly so it's harder to link to (yeah, I can reply btw. from same address):

koncha_slizga_0b (at) icloud.com
I guess the cheap variant of this is reduced power steering at higher speeds.
You're being downvoted, but you're not wrong about the strategic risk. I worked on that for a while and at least got people to take it seriously. When I started there weren't even regulations coming for self-driving cars. At the end of the day, we use nukes to deter against strategic risks and if undeterrable adversaries have strategic capabilities then we're doing it wrong.
Think whoever did the Digg v4 redesign should be a top candidate as well.
It’s a well understood phenomenon. But to claim it manifests at large across the American economy is to claim every producer is intentionally crippling their products. That’s a conspiracy theory by definition. It’s also unfounded. Yes, there are industries which promote fads to make their precious products less desirable. But that’s different from designing them from the start to fail early for the purpose of selling a replacement (versus designing cheaply for a consumer who doesn’t care for longevity).
It's beside the point.

What if you had connected? What if an endpoint with a different IP can connect?

The standard here ought to be that the title accurately reflect the content. This post does not.

I don't take HN as the kind of place where people want to read speculation masquerading as fact.
That's how it was a long long time ago in Europe, too. Then they got Lords. How do you think that happened?
This is obviously relative. If someone generates 200k of value and gets 100k in benefit, they are being exploited for that other 100k. That's by definition, as the parent says.
> Remove those dangers, and remove most of the struggle (although we will always re-define what struggle is) and we're a bit like fish out of water. We're still trying to adapt.

I suppose this is a bit like that one theory of allergies and autoimmune disorders; they may be caused because we aren't exposed to parasites anymore. That part of the immune system thus never gets trained and can sometimes go haywire.
There is much that has been done since Lovecraft's work that has vastly improved on the basics, and his writing feel a bit rough to me.

John Dies at the End might be a good read, though keep in mind it is also comedic (so dark comedy), so if you're looking for that serious horror tone then you might want to look elsewhere.

My friends have played a video game called Bloodborne and they claim it's the best cosmic horror story they have seen. Supposedly to really get the story though, you have to either spend a lot of time trying to piece it out by playing it, or just read/watch a synopsis.

Synopsis if you're interested: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjWOy6ioVHI&feature=emb_logo
Certainly todays IPO's are more mature companies. However, "profits" are still no where to be found. Examples include Uber, Lyft, Peloton, Pinterest, GrubHub ... I could go on.
The Go team has found that recent Linux kernels break the recently integrated goroutine preemption logic.

There is deep analysis here https://github.com/golang/go/issues/35326#issuecomment-55821... They have bisected the kernel and found that https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/d9c9ce34ed5c892323c... is the culprit. Apparently, it introduces changes in the signal handling behavior only visible when compiled with GCC 9, presumably because it uses AVX registers.

The entire discussion is a nice read.
All the leverage US had over SA was just thrown out the window.
Python 2.7.5 (default, Nov 3 2014, 14:26:24)
[GCC 4.8.3 20140911 (Red Hat 4.8.3-7)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> 1/2.3
0.4347826086956522
>>> 1 / 2.3
0.4347826086956522

Identical output under Python 3.3.2
You know I half wonder if they'd do this so that the more popular clients don't roll their own service. While I've watched Facebook run with the ball in the last year or so it feels like Twitter hasn't done anything new or interesting. The one thing that Facebook has gotten better at is giving their users more context to have richer conversations with each other (by adding Friendfeed, having robust games, etc.) while Twitter still feels like MS-DOS. They really need to do something to make the whole experience richer...
If all I had to do in college was not work very hard, I probably wouldn't have flunked out.
That's why a government can help here. For example, Germany bets on solar energy. You can see solar panels on many houses there, because the government subsidizes them, until it breaks even (in 2013, said above). So at this point the infrastructure and the market is already in place and no kicking and screaming is heard. Effectively, tax money solves the chicken and egg problem.
The original screen scraping was in the context of emulating a 3270 terminal as an "API" into some system running on a mainframe.

I worked at a place that allowed web-based trading in the mid 90s by wrapping a web server (on a sun spark 10) around a single emulated terminal running on a SCO box.

It was called screen scraping then, too :)
Lxml in python lets you use CSS selectors.
I have an acquaintance who makes a very good case for most people learning all they need by 8th grade for what they wind up doing.
Yes, this might happen eventually, as more and more jobs are automated. Automation pushes down the value of things. So people might start to prefer "genuine" hand crafted items to mass produced stuff, and this will spawn an economy of itself.
During the previous century of human civilization, computer games were primitive enough that their entire codebase would fit into a few pages of a magazine. You could play the game by manually retyping the codebase into a text editor.
Especially with the youtube-dl incident.

Nat deserves praise for his leadership.
There are many ways to use a product as developer, not everything needs to be UNIX CLI clone.
This is the same argument that tech corporations say should apply to them. They should be allowed to grow uncontrollably to make as much money as possible but it's actually impossible for them to know the details (moderate content in this specific iteration of the argument) of what they have grown. The point of this thread is the same argument against that very idea.

If the organization is so big that the CEO believes that, it shouldn't matter. They should be ultimately responsible for the entire organization. No one forced the company to be that big and no one made them take the job.
Incredibly awesome considering the time constraint. I almost went to PennApps as my company was a sponsor, but had to sit out. Had I went, I would have suggested replacing the ads with "Consume, "Obey," or "Marry and reproduce."
Public isn't "binary". Finding the leaked files, downloading them (often paying to do so), aggregating all the data from all of them and searching them all is a huge pain-in-the-butt.

99.99% of people would not go through this effort and lack the skill/knowledge, even if they were motivated against someone.
London is a different beast entirely!
why don't you just pivot? abandon all work on this product that does anything except directly generate revenue. as long as you're not losing money, just let it stay alive and gain the passive revenue. go do that other thing now.
> People just don't trust authorities anymore,

This is true.

> because authorities time and time again have misled them.

But is this? Here's a chart of U.S. public trust in government since the late 1950s: https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2015/11/23/1-trust-in-g...

Was government really more trustworthy in the 1950s than the 1960s and 70s? Did governments back then not mislead people? Surely there was plenty exaggeration or propaganda about the Soviet Union and communism in the 50s? Johnson misled the public about the Gulf of Tonkin, but was it so different than Roosevelt misleading the public about the Greer incident?

I suspect the real cause of the decrease in trust is not a change in the way institutions behave, but a broad cultural change towards individualism that began in the 1960s, when institutions became "the man."
So, yes, it is a concern about a malicious actor. Likely an employee, but hey, with just an iPhone and a big enough store, can't anyone just pretend to be an employee?

I would like to go to a store where I trust the business, the employee, and the entire pipeline. I understand that is idealistic, but yes, this is how I feel. It's like saying "why do you care if the employee is underpaid, you're saving money", which describes the whole tipping culture in the US.
My oversimplification/takeaway: When false negatives are very rare and their costs very high you can't rely on an empirical assessment of a detector's accuracy, it will be near 100%. Because the costs of false negatives are so much higher than the costs of false positives you could focus on false negative rate, but there's not enough data points and the costs of getting a single false negative are too high to estimate this empirically. You need to audit the procedures to determine if the detector can reasonably detect the thing you are interested in.
Yeah, it's alway funny to see the reaction of fresh-from-the-mill CS-academics when they have to code in an MISRA regulated project for the first time.
Around half of them quits after a month because they are unable to write 100 lines of working code without some babysitter (aka. garbage collector) cleaning up behind them.

C++ started out as a great 'next generation C', but in the last years it became a playfield for CS-academics, just adding one useless esotheric feature after each other.
I mean, if that isn't the scariest thing out there in the US, then I really don't know what is (excepting nukes, MRSA, and the like). That aging population is going to wreak havoc on the economy, with the exception of elder care. Oh, and when is that all supposed to be timed to go off? About 2030, just in time for 9 billion other humans to go about their lives too, water wars really starting to heat up, etc.

The 2028 and 2032 elections are going to be a hell of a thing as REAL politics and compromise get going.
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