skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> nothing stops an unethical founder from raising 800k at a 8M cap, and turning right around and letting the company get acqui-hired for 4M a month later, pocketing $3.6M and leaving the investors with half their money.

Except that they just exchanged a stake worth $7.2m and sold it for $3.2m. Founders with large stock options are _more_ incentivized than even investors to maximize valuation in the event of a sale.

I understand that you want to make a bet while minimizing risk, but if you're going to try and guarantee your money back then as a company I'm going to price that in by minimizing the upside.

Without liquidation preferences, you as an investor can negotiate more reasonable valuations (if you're setting a cap of $8m and the company is willing to take a $4m buyout, you've seriously mispriced the company.) That means more potential upside.
Ending statements with question marks doesn't make them less committal, so just end them with periods.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCNIBV87wV4
That was 2014 IIRC. Uber will do 2bn gross this year and 5-6bn gross next year. Their financials are pretty strong.
What surprises me is that VW thought they wouldn't be caught doing this, it took a while but it seems like sooner or later someone would figure it out.
Dislike.
Have you had some interiors being rebuilt? Perhaps a kitchen or bathroom renovation? You develop a sense about how much human labor it takes to construct something on location by hand, and how much that roughly costs to the person ordering it. It's quite a lot.

After such an experience I went to a large art sale exhibition. (Called teosvälitys over here.) It was a large old industrial space.

The art didn't seem expensive at all actually, even when just looking at the labor input. Especially the very well made sculptures and ceramics.

The million euro stuff is then another thing that's not really about art anymore.

We've been spoiled by cheap mass production. Not to mean it in a demeaning way, but literally, it has changed our expectations.
Does anyone know if Google ended up changing their behavior on this?

I'm struggling to see why this is a legitimate design decision on their part - how is downloading a new copy every hour different from maintaining a persistent cache wherever they are storing it after download?
> Either you think this way because of a sense of orthodoxy or because you think memory safety is important in a way the other kinds of safety aren't. I disagree, especially since "memory safety" may or may not imply protection against aliasing of mutable data. Those nuances I like about Rust probably wouldn't exist without the broader scope of safety concerns.

Memory safety is more fundamental than most other sorts of correctness: it is a necessary (but not sufficient) condition for them. If you can't assume memory safety, you have no assurances about any other invariants, because any piece of data can be modified/outdated/invalidated at any time in the program's execution. (This is especially bad if the compiler will itself assume that memory safety can never happen, and use this undefined behaviour to optimise the program in unintended ways.)

I'm fairly sure that some definitions of memory safety that works for Rust are "there are no use-after-frees" or "the language is type-safe"; all 'other' problems with memory safety (iterator invalidation, data races, etc.) can be used to violate those and hence need to be outlawed. I'm not sure there's that much wiggle room for what memory safety means, at least in broad terms. In any case, aliasing of mutable data can definitely lead to memory unsafety, and is hence covered/controlled by Rust's guarantees. In some ways, it is really the fundamental cause of memory unsafety: remove/control either "aliasing" (e.g. Rust, many GC'd languages) or "mutable" (e.g. Haskell) and you've got memory safety.

Also, Rust definitely doesn't only try to help the programmer with memory safety, it's just memory safety (and hence type safety) is the form that has hard guarantees. Other forms are generally handled by "lints"/warnings or by building libraries on top of the type system.
Those troops aren't there to fight. They're there to die so we have a justification to get involved in a war. The 40k US ground troops in Germany will have very little effect in a European war involving any of the major powers.
I have one word for you.

Unidan.
Cocainenomics
> I'd be more sympathetic towards bikers if they didn't decrease the quality of getting from one place to another for pedestrians & harass when they decided to not follow laws & rules there for good reason.

Fine, but do you know how you get nice, polite cyclists like in Denmark or the Netherlands? You give them good infrastructure so it doesn't feel like they have to break the rules!

If there were no pedestrian signals and no sidewalks, do you think pedestrians would be as well-behaved as they are today?

> You act like being pedestrian friendly isn't a vital public good - I'd argue it is more important than being bike friendly, and if being bike friendly has a logical result in making it much more perilous for a pedestrian (and I'd fear for those with babies in baby carriages), one needs to consider that the current system does not work, and this problem needs to be solved either before or alongside the bike friendly problem.

Again, you have it backwards: Most people on bikes will gladly stay off the sidewalk if there is equivalently safe-feeling infrastructure available. But a painted bike lane does not feel safe, not unless it's a traffic-calmed street. Making better bike lanes means fewer collisions between pedestrians and cyclists, not more.
Here is Bill Maris, of Google Ventures. This year alone Bill gets to invest $425 million of Google's money, and his stated goal is to live forever.

He's explained that the worst part of being a billionaire is going to the grave with everyone else. “I just hope to live long enough not to die.”

This is my FAVORITE example of SV silliness. "Waah death! But I'm TOO RICH to die!"
It's been a while since I was around these ships (at the Norfolk Naval Ship Yard) but I'll try to comment on what's shown in agreement with the posts above.

(4) Tactical submarines

(2) Aegis Guided Missle Cruisers

(2) Landing Assault Ships

(1) Frigate (or perhaps an oiler)

There are a variety of other cruisers and destroyers in the picture that I can't make out. I also suspect (as noted above) that there are one or more "boomers" cruising under the waves (but close by).
I'm a chronic procrastinator.

What do you think of the following Idea that I'll get around to launching at some point... when I am done procrastinating:

A service that is like any normal Executive Assistant services -- but focused on helping procrastinators:

"What is the thing you're putting off? OH - its your tax issues? Well - we will meet with you confidentially and get all the details and make the calls for you and fill out the forms... and include you on each step that you need to either literally talk to someone yourself - or sign a piece of paper."

"Oh, you havent been able to do that thing with the DMV? We got you covered."
Seth Godin on Ad Blocking
> Man! You guys are a bunch of complainers! I second the get-an appropriate bike line of thinking.

This line of thinking got us fleets of gas guzzling SUVs and crumbling infrastructure because people didn't want to pay their road taxes after buying too much car.
It's not exclusive to HN, pretty much any site with a negative voting system gets used purely for disagreement rather than 'this is bad content'.

It's especially prevalent on Reddit, where you will quite often see words to the effect of "downvotes are not meant for comments you disagree with"

The only-allow-upvoting thing is something that Facebook has been doing forever. Now that they're added a dislike button, they will almost certainly fall into the same traps as other sites like HN and Reddit.
Thats fair, but I don't think the SEP is thought of as a technical resource.
Starting from the top: banner for the LA Times app n the App Store (which should disappear if you already have it, but often gets replaced with a banner to open the app that you have installed). Then a hamburger menu on a bar with the name of the site. Then a bar with some links that LA Times wants you to see all the time (Most popular, weather). Then a ribbon stating that you have read N of M free articles and asking you to subscribe.

Then the content.

Then a ribbon advertising the hot stories.

What sucks about all that? I suspect the original author thought the truth to be self-evident.
"Behind all the REST endpoints, the AWS ELBs, and the HAProxy systems, sits some of most closely-guarded software in the world."

I'm not sure, "closely-guarded" is the term I would use.
Yup happened to one company i worked for. We moved from a couple of public blocks to the DoD 11.* range internally. Then one day we could not access some Oracle hosted services as they where using the range.
Lately: monitoring and sensing across a vast spectrum of industries.

Lots of people want data about business processes and throwing some coin cell sized boards with BLE and sensors into a product as it goes from start to end customer can be enlightening ... sometimes too much so for some businesses :). The real trick is having the infrastructure and team to receive and analyze the data (which we do now that we've done it enough).

Industrial automation is in the mix. A lot of that has been moving from combinations of IEEE-488, RS-232, USB or other non-differential links to CAN and Ethernet. Customers are often amazed how many fewer problems they have when they use a connection that is actually electrically differential.

It's gotten to the point that when I hear "reliability issues" I look for USB and just wipe it out. Generally there will be a network of PC's connected via USB to "random industrial machine X" or, worse, PC->USB Adapter->RS-232/IEE-488/etc. (to be fair--the old systems with actual RS-232 ports or IEEE-488 cards generally worked fine as they had more than enough signal overhead and shielding to deal with industrial electrical spikes--it's the USB interface that disconnects and causes Windows to crap its pants).

A replace of a bunch of those with something with a CAN interface generally fixes industrial problems. I finally sat down and wrote my own CANOpen stack because I was using it so frequently.

Medical and bio is an occasional, but that hasn't been such a big mover for me lately. The people who cut checks and the people who actually know what their problems are are too far apart in the hierarchy right now. My big problem in bio is that I could do quite a bit using full-custom VLSI to go to ultra low power functionality, but nobody wants to pay for that. So, I'll continue to use off-the-shelf microcontrollers and FPGA's and use way too much power.

Most of my grief these days isn't electrical. It's mechanical. I used 3D printers and silcone molds a lot. Very messy and annoying to work with, but it saves us having to cut molds for injection molding.

I can 3D print a lot of parts for the cost of even a single injection mold. And my margins aren't so tight that I need the cost savings. And I can change the part if something is wrong. And I don't have to scream at the mold maker when (not if) he screws my mold up.
What field are you in?

When I speak to law or business students they often complain they cannot keep up with the reading. The problem is that they are actually reading every word. Learning to efficiently skim through a long document is different than reading every word.

On the other end of the spectrum are medical students who are often expected to soak in every detail. That means reading each and every word. They don't read slower than law students, just differently.
Deploying a "carrier killer" would require the stomach to deal with a U.S. response.
You kind of just have to use them to “get it”, but here’s an analogy: if you write a data structure, you naturally want to make it “iterable” in your language’s usual way, so you can take advantage of a library of generic functions for working with iterable things.

Same goes for monads. If we have N data types and M functions, instead of writing N×M implementations, we can write just N monad instances + M generic implementations.

So it’s kind of tautological, but monads are basically useful because lots of useful things happen to form monads—exceptions, loggers, parsers, dependency injection, persistent state operations, continuations, futures, STM transactions, I/O actions, and so on.

If you can write a data type that represents an API, and implement a couple of interfaces, you get a complete, expressive EDSL for free.

With Facebook’s Haxl, for example, you can write ordinary serial-looking I/O code, and with just a few typeclass instances, instantly get concurrent/async data fetching without changing a single line of business logic. You can’t readily do that without the kind of first-class effects that monads provide.
That's interesting. Although I think the SEP works as a primarily academic tool, it would be cool if it could be annotated to include links to practical interpretations of the same ideas.
Here in the US it's typical for every house to be responsible for its own sidewalk. So everybody gets it done somehow, by hand, or with a gas powered snowblower, or they hire a service. The same people who mow lawns in the summer, clear snow in the winter. Where the land is public-owned, e.g., parks, the city brings a little machine that's the same width as the sidewalks. Its main attraction is a heated cabin for the driver.

We share a snowblower with our neighbor, but it takes a pretty good snowfall for the machine to be quicker than my shovel. The city plows the streets.
2chan and Hiroyuki?
> So employees park on the street, annoying local business who want those spots used by customers.

The logical thing to do is to then price those street parking spots at a market rate. If there aren't enough, some enterprising developer will build off-street parking to make a profit. If that doesn't happen, it's likely because people in cars aren't actually willing to pay for a parking spot based on how valuable the land is.
It's definitely the price of ebooks. I started purchasing tangible books again in the last six months. They end up being almost always the same price as the ebook on Amazon, so I just donate the book to the public library when I am done with it.
In your example, your ISP has allocated you well over half the bits in an address. It's true that this is only 1/2^56 of the total space, but you can't overprovision very many levels to that extent no matter how long the addresses are (using the same proportions, the level above "home customer" might have a /25, the level above "ISP" might have a /10, and you could probably have two more levels on top of that with /5 and /2, although I'm not sure there's a lot of value in having a /2 layer protecting the /5. But I don't do internet routing; what do I know?

There are some rival pressures here:

- IPv6 space is so abundant (and cheap to allocate) that you can have as much as you ask for. This obviously leads to massive overdemand, after which it's hard to reallocate while preserving the idea that everyone who owns space owns one contiguous block.

- You can counter that by restricting how much people can ask for. But at that point you're not using the full space; you're restricted to the amount that can be allocated, which is smaller.

- Not everyone will be on board with "I'm going to take as much space as I can get, just in case I end up needing a million times as much space as expected." But some of those less-demanding people really will end up with addressing needs in excess of what they anticipated. We could call this the Hofstadter's Law ("it always takes longer than you expect, even after accounting for Hofstadter's Law") of addressing.

We can't expect everyone to get things right the first time; we need a working reallocation system. If reallocation doesn't work, abundance alone isn't going to save us.
> Since these URLs are private, Google does not want to store them anywhere permanently in the Google servers.
I used to bike commute on rare occasions from near Levi stadium up to around where Oracle is in Redwood Shores. I don't remember a dedicated bike path along 101 at North Bayshore. I'd usually leave Moffet, cross under 101, go up Middlefield to Rengstorff, then ride past Google, turn left, past Intuit, then follow East Bayshore (the road) the entire way until I cut through EPA towards what is now Facebook HQ (used to be Sun).

Has something changed?

Also, the trails they show up by the bay are all super-optimstic. First of all, I think they're pretty much all gravel, they meander all over the place, and they don't GO ANYWHERE.

I live off of Marsh now and my commute involves more East Bayshore, cutting through Pete's Harbor, saying hi to the homeless people under 101, riding over the pedestrian bridge by the VW dealer, etc. I'm actually fairly lucky in that I have little traffic on my commute, but it's not exactly low-stress with a few high-traffic crossings. The worst is crossing 101 at Marsh. There's a hidden crosswalk to cross 3 lanes of the highway 84 onramp onto 101. I hate that traffic engineers decided to use the shortest-distance method and hide EVERY crosswalk behind a blind corner.. especially those on FREEWAYS, for god's sake. And then, it's pitch black at night...
"Happy Eyeballs"? Is that the official name, or another case of Apple re-branding?
The price of an IP is usually included in the price of the service. Note that in some parts of Southeast Asia, you can pay for a cheaper "web access" which is not a full Internet connection with a public IP, but essentially puts you in a huge LAN behind a NAT.
What logic? The cost of the physical paper/ink is not what you are paying for. Some Kindle books have more features than the print versions as well. What about the ongoing server costs for Kindle book distribution and syncing?
> At the end of the day, with 340 trillion trillion trillion addresses, handing out too many isn't ever going to be a big worry in the foreseeable lifetime of...anything, really.

Well, why can't I have them all?
dude those eBikes are sick, i was going like 22 mph down the street cruising. i would get one if i biked everywhere.
that 7-8% is also worldwide, in the US it is 21% now
To counter your "carrier killer" scenario, don't you think China itself would be hesitant to take out, well, anything American? That is essentially guaranteed to turn any "crisis" or "escalating situation" into a declaration of war. Consider China's island building in the Pacific. We routinely fly all over that airspace no matter how much the Chinese tell us to leave "their" airspace. We're such a hawkish nation that I really don't imagine us standing down to China in a shooting match. Quite frankly, I'm surprised the government-sponsored industrial espionage isn't a bigger issue.
Ok, so let's say you don't agree to participate and suddenly stop getting government contracts for some notionally unrelated reason. What do you do?
Where to build your next tech startup? Toronto vs. San Francisco
Ideas for Startups (2005)
Google hasn't exactly been known to put users' privacy in front of gaining more information about them, though...
See: SBIRS, and missile defense in general. There are also issues with updating the location of carriers, since communications can be jammed and carriers are not stationary. Just being able to know when something is launched (SBIRS) gives the US a defense against these weapons. In addition to that, I would be very surprised if there was not a way to shoot these things down, with lasers or otherwise. We're talking about the US military budget, and maintaining the investment of 50+ billion dollars just spent on building the carriers over the years.
How are Ember's computed properties analogous to defineproperty? The latter doesn't give me dependencies for my properties, so may as well just be functions. Ember's properties will only need to be recalculated when their dependent properties change.
> But in Y years you will have the same problems as we have now again,

Note that Y in this case is significantly less than 1.
Semi-active radar homing
>And he’s come out the other side with his soul and his spirit intact.

I have trouble believing this one. Poole has stated that the controversies 4chan was involved in in September had a big negative personal impact, principally dealing with legal threats from celebrities who had their photos leaked on the site. Two other events, which he conspicuously hasn't commented on would have unquestionably left scars on his ego and soul: the 8chan exoduses and 'cuckgate'. I would speculate that these had a far greater negative personal impact on the poor guy than any of the others.

Some of the best original content creators and experienced posters migrated to 8ch, taking the mantle from 4chan as the authentic core of internet culture. It's evident that at least a couple of years ago, moot took some pride in 4chan's leading place in contemporary culture, so to lose the one single point of pride associated with the site must have been a big blow. In his farewell livestream, he responded to repeated questions about 8chan by talking about just about every other 'chan'-style site on the internet, making the omission very obvious, and indicating it was something he took personally.

Second is the situation with one of his friends with whom he was very clearly in unrequited love being revealed and mocked by his own board, giving rise to the current ubiquity of the 'cuck' meme across the internet (and even spreading into mainstream American politics). I know if I had been in his place, this second event would have been quite devastating not only for destroying my hopes and illusions of love and connection with this girl (she even joined in the mockery in a way), but also for having it be that basis of my ignominious fall from beloved benevolent dictator to a hated object of mockery and derision across the entire internet.

When you take these last two events into consideration, I don't think anyone could blame him for his decision to quit. Hope he has a much better time in his future endeavors.
No problem, protected bike lanes are a relatively recent innovation in the states, and up until recently they usually went by the term "cycle tracks", but turns out that "protected bike lane" is a much easier-to-understand name.
I find it hard to believe that there are 2 orders of magnitude more goods and services being bought and sold in the economy that 25 years ago. Rather, the complexity of financial instruments is the one that has gone up and up, but there's not that much more real wealth to back it up.

If that is the case, the short answer would be "because of inflation".
teaching people traffic laws would be a welcomed start
> What I really like about 4chan nowadays is the pace.

I think the pace varies from board to board, and can appeal to people and their particular tastes at the time. Using myself as an example: today I enjoy /wg/'s backgrounds and eye-candy setups, but not /b/. A decade ago, I ignored anything not /b/.

There's nothing wrong with that, but I do think the notoriety of /b/ makes people stay away from the other boards.
"Happy Eyeballs" (aka Fast Fallback) was created and named by Dan Wing and Andrew Yourtchenko of Cisco. And yes, "Happy eyeballs" is the official name (named because of how happy the eyes of the users will be when they see how fast their IPv6 connection falls back to an IPv4 connection when connecting to a host that does not support IPv6).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy_Eyeballs
Proposed? yes
In use? no
In addition to things like the space elevator, there are some really cool projects like this, http://escapedynamics.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Escape-...