skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
According to the press releases from the Loopt exit, they had raised 17m at that point, and 9.8m of the acquisition was the golden handcuff for the employees. So sama probably doesn't have 10m just lying around and is probably pulling some financial acrobatics to get it, but he's putting on a brave face by quoting the amount nonchalantly.
Wow, so you're noticing that Pandora, an internet radio mechanism, has some similar habits to terrestrial radio. Yes, there are repeats. There are buttons for you to interact with the software that can change what you hear, but if you just RONCO set it and forget it, you're going to get the same experience as with terrestrial radio.
for sure. A fleet of electric self driving cabs will be the tipping point for city and near-city residents to stop driving.
Cloudron is also attempting to make cloud installations simple - https://cloudron.io

disclaimer: co-founder of Cloudron
European cities, and NYC, and some parts of Chicago; are much denser than the average US city making public transport far more viable.
Along with the references others have given, SQL Server 2014+ has temporal tables which do exactly what you are describing.
For the rest of us across the US, the opposite is abnormal. I bike primarily and use the bus the rest of the time, so I'm definitely abnormal. It probably has a lot to do with the costs of owning a car as well as the insane traffice in NYC vs. the rest of the US
Ask HN: Trust equity promises?
Howdy,

2-3 months ago I joined a startup that had & still has some problems. I was promised the CTO position along with some equity & wage on the next round. So I've been doing the work because it's a crucial time, but still nothing on paper, I told them and say to wait a bit more till we get the next funding, since the cap table will change. I've been told some numbers, but they keep changing, and I don't really trust them. Am I irrational to demand that I know what my equity & salary will be and on writing somehow?

P.S: It's not a US company.

Thanks in advance
For what sorts of applications do you use NLP?
I wrote a blog post awhile back, I wonder whether YC is after a similar thing...
http://yansh.github.io/articles/phd-distruption/
No one has mentioned what I see as the obvious answer:

People support it for _other people_ so the roads are clearer for _their car_.
We (https://underdog.io/) might be able to help. No guarantees, but if you want, apply (https://underdog.io/candidates) and then email me (josh[at]underdog[dot]io). We might be able to feature you to our startup network as soon as next Monday.
Just like vinyl, it still can't beat a properly mastered 44.1K 16-bit lossless audio format.

Because science.
Anedoctal sidenote: internet penetration might be bad in Cambodia but at least in its "big" cities speed/latency is pretty decent :-)
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>one of the world's best healthcare systems

Where were you when that was proven to be propaganda? Even the cuban government banned Michael Moore's documentary because it was full of BS. Oh and the doctors are not free, the cuban government profits by charging the host government an amount per doctor (who gets a miserable share of such charge in the most "capitalista style").
There was a good discussion about it a couple of months ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9971412
There must be a heavy price difference depending on location because for me I was able to find many things that were 10% or more cheaper than Amazon. I ordered a blender for nearly half the price of the same model on Amazon for example.
Context: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K99OWlAWeN4
I'm arguing that anything not air-gapped is potentially public. One can encrypt, control access, and so on. But once it's out there, it's far^N more vulnerable. And of course, there's a continuum. Even air-gapped stuff can leak through side channels. And some approaches to online storage are quite robust.
Is Academe a Cult?
Aussie email provider FastMail says it is exempt from Data Retention law
In America. There are countries without minimum wage that do just fine. (Singapore, and eg pre-2014 Germany.)
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> If they're not comfortable doing that, then they don't have to run a public business.

On the other hand, you're implicitly banning a certain class of people from owning a certain kind of business. I'm not sure why that's the most tolerant option.
Developer creates open source diabetes app
I support mass transit, but I ride my bike to and from work. shrug
how could you not mention the pig?
I live in a city with great public transit. I take the bus to work (~15 miles) every day. I don't have a car because it's expensive (car payment + maintenance + parking) and I can't justify the expense.

But cost aside, I'd much rather have a car. With a car, you go where you want when you want. No bus schedule to plan around, no multiple connections. You can play whatever music you want at whatever volume. You can easily transport items larger than a backpack. You don't have to sit next to a smelly or rude stranger. Much to the chagrin of social-engineering city-planner types, Americans value their freedom more than they care about some environmental cause. And let's face it, public transportation will not solve America's gas consumption and pollution problems. Most people live in sprawling suburbs that can never be adequately served by public transportation.
Oh, this label is smart. It knows when to change.

If you had sticky shipping labels, you'd need some intelligence.
Fascinating tale of complexity and unexpected causes and effects.
Sold. I've been on the fence about moving some of my most important addresses off of the cheap shared hosting Cpannel managed crap they are on at the moment. It's crap hosting but it's free.

Your Australian honesty, "not doing really dodgy shit" won me over. I'm going to move a few over and check your service out properly.

Nice to see another Australian company doing well :-)
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These guys suck... All the products are way more expensive than on Amazon.
I've been using it for year, and never thought of that as a problem. My fingers are always holding it from behind (they're not just down low) so it's stable.

It did take some practice to get used to the keyboard -- same as my first Android phone did. And I won't say I'm that much faster typing on the Blackberry honestly... just that the experience is so much less painful, and I have much easier access to symbols/numbers which I use a lot. (Swipe down across the keyboard, and this brings up an extra 3 rows of on-screen keyboard with symbols/numbers (in addition to the 1 row of context-sensitive symbols that is normally available when typing... so when I'm actually writing I have an either 4 or when desired, 7-row keyboard I'm actually using). I write a lot of work emails this way!
> there has been a lot of controversy over, for example, a baker refusing to make a cake for a gay couples wedding.

A better example is a wedding planner or a marriage counselor. At some point, the freedom of speech and freedom of association comes into play and cannot be disentangled from the services provided. Saying a marriage counselor has to help save marriages or close up shop is to ban people with certain beliefs from certain occupations.
ProcessWire is the most natural and intuitive PHP framework and CMF I have ever used! And the development community around it is amazingly friendly and knowledgeable, and always ready to help you learn.
Years and years ago there was some talk of having a "postage stamp-like" fee to send and receive e-mails. Enforced by the recipient's server, I guess. That way spam and low-quality memo-writing would be discouraged. Instead of monetary points it could be karma points or something. This didn't go anywhere 10 years ago, but maybe the time is ripe for it now. People are a lot more comfortable with micropayments and there's a lot better infrastructure for the necessary communication/negotiation between sender's and recipients' email.
Amazon Student Days
"99.925% uptime for the last 90 days"

Measuring uptime over a 90 days period seems disingenuous.
Or, nobody wants to buy anything from them, and they think that giving users a bad experience might engineer a different result.
There's not much to glean from that link. I'm always excited to hear things like this, and I was very excited to hear that Jet was committing to F#. I'm not a fan of heavy enterprisey dev environments, but F# is a great language. How great it would be if more organizations came out strong for functional programming.

But I have heard some about the software hiring practices at Jet and what I've heard makes me highly skeptical that they could actually be using proper functional programming techniques. It's disappointing -- someone using F# because it's vaguely "better C#" -- similar to people using Scala or Clojure because it's "better Java".

Sometimes I think they heavy advertisements ("Hey look we're so cool we use functional programming") is more meant to sucker people in under the belief that once the business stabilizes, it will be some sort of Bell Labs of ____ where the company will really try to invest in high-end software solutions and research, and that a lot of it will be carried out with functional programming.

But the reality is that it's more of just a hiring tactic and a tech status grab. Maybe you can convince people on the fringe of functional programming to accept less pay for the lure of getting to learn a functional language? Maybe it's worth it if you get on-average higher quality developers because of the affinity for vague association with functional programming?

Of course it's possible that they really do use F# and that the overall system has been architected well with functional principles. I don't get that sense from the linked blog post or from the overall progress of their online services.
Why anyone would build a startup on the Microsoft stack is beyond me, but there's a lot about jet.com's strategy that I don't understand. For the time being I'll warm up some popcorn and watch in amusement as they blow through their investors' wads of cash.
They are losing me. Almost 15 years and twice as many grant submissions. I'm writing a grant atm (a fucking good one), and I hope not to be around to be turned down for it. I'm literally pitching investors between experiments.
>But Marc Lore, the company’s chief executive, said in a blog post that customer response to Jet over a three-month free trial period had exceeded expectations. The average amount of items per order was twice what it expected, for instance, he said.

So if it exceeded expectations, why do away with the membership fees? And they raised more than $200 million? Just interesting.
That is just weird. I had to check if it was April 1.
Let us do a quick thought experiment.

You are tasked with hiring a few people to design a bridge that you will build. Say that two people design a bridge. One was a ['privileged' group] and the other was an ['unprivileged' group]. The ['unprivileged' group] designer's bridge is proven to be less stable than the other design.

What bridge do you pick to build?

This is fundamentally the same idea.

Written works and ideas are what we use as a basis to solve problems around us. If you are blocking yourself from the consumption of good works on the misguided crusade to 'help under represented' people then you are not only harming yourself, you are harming everyone who has to deal with the fallout of your actions.

I am certain that some people I have made the acquaintance of would choose the ['unprivileged' group] bridge, even though it could end up harming others.
It takes a quite high level of traffic to make taking public transit—which usually, at rush hour, means standing in a hot uncomfortable crowded bus or train car. Compare that to your own private comfortable seat with noise isolation and entertainment. There seems to be very little support for increasing the number of busses to run every five minutes instead of ten, for instance.

Frankly, most cities in the US don't have that level of traffic in that many places. If it's not even going to make a difference to drivers in LA it's not going to be many current drivers' first choice in the relatively traffic-free (and much less dense) car-oriented cities outside of LA. (But then, there are network effects here too, and so the question is how much that changes as the LA network continues to be built out over the next 15 years. And LA is planning on also making road driving significantly more annoying in many areas too ("road diets") which is a probably-good but obviously controversial plan.

Unless, in the meantime, self-driving cars are the final nail in the coffin for non-NYC US mass-transit...
Having equity means being in business with the other people who hold equity. If there's no trust, it may make sense to question going into business with the other people. The changing offers, and I am assuming that they are becoming less attractive not more [though it really doesn't make any difference when nothing is in writing, and no much difference even then] are not a good sign.

My general experience is that people who enthusiastically let someone else work for free rarely change direction and pay well later.

Good luck.
Yes. The Onion called it several years ago:

"98 Percent Of U.S. Commuters Favor Public Transportation For Others"

http://www.theonion.com/article/report-98-percent-of-us-comm...
This article quotes the original FastMail statement, adding very little of substance. The original is discussed here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10349436
If you drive everywhere, and everywhere you go has convenient parking, that'll be the case.

I find that often the best my car can offer is to take me from where I might be (home) to somewhere in the general area I want to go (where I have to pay for parking, if I can even find it), marginally faster than the bus and often slower than BART (unless traffic is clear). If I've walked to any of the many attractive destinations within 20 minutes of my apartment, it's then substantially faster to get on the bus at any of several nearby stops than to return home to get my car. (Generally, the need to return to where I parked is something that I find quite inconvenient in situations where interesting destinations are dense.)

Of course, circumstances differ.
I work with an IT department that contains a majority of minorities and women.

So...its a question of picking what part of a larger whole that you hang out in. Just like you don't hang out in the racist/etc parts of Reddit.

Sorry if that message was lost.
> While it can be easily via Xcode, lacking this utility can be frustrating to beginners who simply download Node and want to build a project.

Well, NO developer tools are provided by default. Why on earth would you want to use node without them? To my knowledge, Ubuntu also requires build-essential to have any of the developer tools.
> it is enabled by anonymity and the complete lack of repercussions. If people behaved the way they do on these boards they would quickly be ostracized by society if not having the shit beaten out of them on a regular basis.

It depends where you do it - if you've ever been in a locker room or out drinking with the boys or the girls, all sorts of things are said and done that are extremely "inappropriate". Now, keeping that sort of thing off the front few pages of /r/all to me seems completely reasonable - banning it from the entire site (as was the plan) is something else entirely.

> All groups can find a place on the internet, and they will always be able to. We simply don't need to worry about that, and it's silly to wring our hands over the decision to moderate this or that community.

A lot of people liked reddit the way it was and didn't really feel like just finding another place on the infinite internet....why can't the SJW's and their ilk who came late to the party go find their own place? It's like renting an apartment beside a bar and then trying to get it shut down because of the noise.
Those servers -- do they have Firewire Ports? USB3?
Other externally accessible DMA ports?

Drive encryption prevents offline data at rest, they keys will be in memory for a running server. If LEA is going to grab your servers, your keys are going to go with them.
It's not a smell if you are doing an asston of text munging. Rather than write one ginormo regex I prefer a sequence of short actions. It's easier to debug and reason with.
the end of the article gets it right: make driving more expensive. I started seriously choosing the train over driving during the Bush gasoline shortages where taking the train was, roughly, about the same cost as gas + toll for a round trip.

I would advocate for massive tax breaks on commercial development locating a door within 1/2 mile of a train station's walking exit for office space. The residential developments will follow suit.

Another part is that most cities do not place jobs or residences near public transit. In atlanta you get off the train and walk through parking lots to get to your office building, which is located on its own little island of parking, water features, and roads. It's ridiculous and the situation I describe is practically a best case since many (most?) job centers are located miles away from the train.

Taking the subway and not driving to work is one of the best parts of living in nyc. You don't really realize how much commuting in traffic sucks out of your until you just don't do it for a few years and then try to do it again.

People don't like the bus because it's slow, often comes to your stop very infrequently/unpredictably and is stuck in the same traffic as your car.
Nobody needs to trust the device, actually.

Assume Amazon only loads it up with encrypted data over network untrusted, and the customer only takes off the encrypted data over untrusted network.
No, you are not irrational asking upfront. And get everything in writing. Whether in the U.S, outside the U.S, on Mars,etc.. get it in writing. Better be safe than sorry.
There is no data. There is only XUL
Identity is part of the message, and that is the challenge we all face as we try to communicate and be a part of a community (and in Reddit's case, build such a community).

This is why when communication is anonymous, not only does it change the message, it also breaks it in many ways. If we hear Obama say something, we will hear something else than if Trump said it, even if the words are exactly the same. And what if either said something anonymously? We would certainly care less, if at all.

It is only natural to consider the source of the utterance together with the utterance, and vice versa. When we speak, we skip a lot of what is included in our identity and the context we bring along with it. The kicker being, even if our identity is not part of the message, the message is still signed with it. We think of you when you speak, even if you're talking about someone else.

Not quite anonymity, but body language and tone also provides bandwidth. That is why emails can be dangerous when sent to someone who infers emotions from words that would otherwise not have been communicated in person.

Communication is complicated.
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just something I wrote in a few minutes...

javascript:setInterval(function (){document.title = $('.songTitle').text() + ' -- ' + $('.artistSummary').first().text();if($('#still_listening_ignore').length == 1){var t = 1000 + (Math.random()*500); setTimeout(function(){if($('#still_listening_ignore').length == 1)$('#still_listening_ignore').click();},t)}},1000);
Having followed the whole situation fairly closely, this is literally the first time I've heard anyone suggest that it was about her age. Meanwhile, reddit's top posts were filled with racist and sexist insults for days.
As I keep chiming in whenever YC and location come up - please seriously consider Australia's East Coast. Like the valley, there is a big supply of world class universities and their graduates, and there's also great weather and quality of life that keeps people from wanting to leave. What's missing is an American style risk tolerance amongst the holders of capital. That's changing, but it's something YC could change even faster with an organisation like YCR.

Our government has historically underfunded research, and even more often one side funds it then the other gets into power and cuts it again. As a result, there are lots of ex-academics looking for more interesting ways of earning a living!
Interesting move by Google, this is clearly to combat against the Instant Articles that Facebook released.

Looking at the setup, it seems its just lightweight HTML pages for the articles but hosted by Google instead and the first 3 or so are preloaded.

Here's the page for NY Times article:
https://amp.gstatic.com/v/mobile.nytimes.com/2015/10/08/us/r...

Honestly though any simple HTML page like this will load fast (see: HN) so publishers could've just done this the whole time and everyone would have fast loading pages.
Depending on which city you live in, the other passengers can be a threat to your life. For that reason alone I don't think public transportation will ever be very popular in the US. It might work in a few places, but most places the threats of random violence just isn't worth it.
When I lived in the Chicago area as a poor student, I had a dilapidated car with over 200k miles on it that was always costing me money, breaking down, got broken into, got rammed by a drunk driver while parked, etc. When I moved to NYC, the most incredible feeling of relief was selling that car to the scrap man just before leaving town. It's so liberating and care-free not to own a car anymore. The occasional Uber and Zipcar suffice at a fraction of the annual cost. Plus I'm less likely to die violently.
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Ask HN: How long did it take you to launch?
How long did it take to launch a product resulting in revenue. How did you do it? Full-time, nights/wkends? Team size? Advice?
In general, interacting with anything that does more interactive rendering (three.js, google maps, ads, etc) requires access to lifecycle events beyond a simple render method...

In the past I've had to keep a handle on the DOM nodes for ad slots that may hide/reshow when a window was re-sized, so the same ad was kept.

However, this should be the exception to the rule, and I still love the React way over components (Polymer) or angular directives.
It's not just on the customer side. My mom, an Amazon seller, has been trying to get in to list her stuff since about two weeks after Jet went online. No response at all.
But we can agree this is the beginning of the end? Reddit is to big for a quick death, but it's peaked.
i think if Perl6 becomes popular enough, most perl5 devs and shops will just move to perl6

while perl6 is truely a new languages not an upgrade to perl5

perl5 devs for a while have been under pressure to make perl5 more popular, using a popular language adds a padding of security, a cushion, perl5 devs are surely hungry for this

and if you like perl5 you will love perl6 as they seem to share the same values
both languages that are syntax heavy, and languages that work the way you do, instead of forcing you to think a certain way .. like say functional languages

Perl6 is probably the complete opposite of say .. Haskell, but I believe in a good way ... it will be popular, i think
it will be an agile language .. and many devs will love the flexibility
Relying on securing the perimeter is gonna blow up in their face sooner or later.

But in any case, you can just connect it to a sacrificial server on its own network that has nothing else on it.
Hand-selecting a bunch of famous folks results in IAS Princeton effect which has the criticism of producing nothing significant. Usually the approach of hiring a towering/inspiring figure with an emerging research view works well (like FB did). They bring along a bunch of rookies and experts, and set up research groups quickly and rather smoothly.