skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Honest question: WTF are they doing?

Have an actual profitable syncing business with several pricing tiers and tons of hooks to third party apps?

I mean, unlike tons of billion-valued "unicorns" that not only don't have an income plan (apart from "some day we'll maybe sell ads") but are also losing money.

You'd be surprised with how many 1000+ people companies are there, profitable and fine in all kinds of sectors, that are way less known than Dropbox.
Thanks! The original URL is a new developer-focused Big Data blog by Google and Google customers:

https://cloud.google.com/blog/big-data/
From Wasteland to Fund-Maker: A Contrarian Bet in Nuclear Waste Cleanup
Nobody can task you to do a bad job. You do that yourself. You may find excuses for doing a bad job, but you chose to do it, they didn't hold a gun to your head.

If I find that I absolutely have to either cut corners or let the deadline slip, I let the deadline slip. I refuse to knowingly release crappy work, you can fire me for it, I don't care. But long before that deadline, I will have explored the options for changing the scope of the project so such a decision isn't necessary.

"Just find another job" isn't sufficient because every job involves making tradeoffs between personal goals and business goals. I believe in being real clear with management about what's happening so that we can work towards an equitable solution.
There's obviously more to it than that. For a hypothetical example, if your diet caused your basal metabolism to increase, or for you to excrete more calories without metabolizing them, then it could induce a change in weight compared to a different diet with the same caloric intake.
site is basically on photography. for now you can you it like stock photos download them
for you photographers can upload there photos which will be shown after approval
this site somehow looks like unsplash.com
To me, all 'soft' leftism converge to more radical socialism in time, if economy can withstand it of course. In social democracy once you start, you never stop. More publicization, more taxation, more government regulations, price caps, wage controls, social spending, more public workers.. Whether you prefer it that way or not, government and state just gets larger and larger. Usually before being `socialist` economy goes bust and people selects a more conservative government. After a while, left comes again with the same populist ideas and cycle continues.
Try Etymotic. Not good if all you are looking for is bass but has served me well as travel earphones vs. Bose QC which are too bulky for me.
For $100 more, you can get UE4s molded to your ear canals. You can stand next to an arriving subway train (LOUD) and barely hear it.

http://pro.ultimateears.com/ue-4-pro
> Why are Federally subsidized educational loans at 8% interest

They aren't. 2015-2016 federal loans are at 4.29% for undergraduate and 5.84% for graduate/professional.
You understand that "they" in your opinion refers to the people who own yahoo. Why is your opinion more relevant than theirs, precisely?
¿Cómo formalizar un restaurante? – Una visión desde RR. HH
My car came pre-loaded with Bose speakers and, quite honestly, they're the best speakers I've heard in any car I've driven. The sound is pretty good considering that my car's stereo system is actually better than what I have at home. I've never tried their headphones though, I'm not in the market though I'll probably end up going Alclair for custom, in-ear stuff (I play drums so it's nice to have in-ear monitors).
> "They are a matter of fact conveyance of information to your dedicated users."

False (obviously). Everything is marketing. Every touch point with your consumer matters. For every reaction like this, there's a user who is delighted by the little break from expectations and monotony.
Why a top food poisoning expert won’t ever eat these foods
Nim doesn't have interfaces. The amount of plumbing required to implement them is ridiculous. It has generics though. My point is how can recent OO languages miss this kind of stuff when designing their type system ? Crystal looks like a better bet, unfortunately it doesn't run on Windows.
Which is why, when a project presented itself that had this need, we ended up using Apache UserGrid.
It's just a Rails app: https://github.com/lelylan/dev/blob/master/app/views/pages/s...
For decades Dr. Bose held an aggressive "not invented here" bias, which they are now finally moving on from. It's great to see Bose becoming active in the startup scene in Boston, including a sponsorship of the MassChallenge accelerator. Say what you will about the marketing hype or sound quality, it is an extremely well run diversified business that goes way beyond headphones.
"Hey, remember that plane we gave you a while back? Can we borrow it for a few days?"
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Same question could have been asked about COBOL some years ago, and to a lesser extent still can be, I guess.

Basically, at least partly, this other answer by tumdum_ explains it:

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=tumdum_

To clarify a bit: Even if newer languages / other technologies have merits (and of course they sometimes / often do), enterprises who have invested a good amount on getting apps built using older technologies (which may well have been current / popular at the time) may have no good justification to pay the cost [1] redesign and rewrite apps just to move to newer tech. ROI, CYA, etc.

[1] That cost is not only of design and writing but also prior research and evaluation, and subsequent deployment and training, etc.
Earnings is a metric. Price is not. Price is a collective agreement by the market. That's why p/e ratios aren't static. They are the result of perception and perception is altered by influence.
Good point. Probably the best option for many types of local businesses.
You're right, I was taking issue with the article quote that api embedded, and the notion that getting rid of people who knew what they were doing, assuming it's true, was the cause of VZ's current catastrophe. I think they could have had the most well-oiled oil-pumping machine and they would still be in financial ruin, as has happened to countless corporate oil companies in the US.
TL;DR If we just ignore the energy sector (and close our eyes very, very tight), the economy looks rosier than ever.
Well it does mention GTD a couple times on the landing page.
Hack-proof RFID chips
True, but you excluded housing/food costs. On-campus housing is typically required for the first 2 years. Even off-campus, you have to sleep somewhere and eat.

So add another $10K to your number.
Previously submitted:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11027961 (3 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11024199

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11023991 (1 comment)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11023898

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11023279 (1 comment)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11022654 (11 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11020130

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11012814 (20 comments)
Coming to think of it, ION was actually pretty great. Chris Suver's brain child!
The tag numbers are part of the message definitions, they're not assigned arbitrarily. So absolutely you can reorder them. And as long as you described them as "optional" in the original message definition you can remove them without breaking backwards compatibility.
Those demos were painful to watch. This technology has just so many potential applications - some of them might be a big deal. A button and a knob are not among them.
Transcribing Early Modern Recipes with the Crowd on Shakespeare's World
Coming from an academic/artistic background, very very far away from the TECH industry, I've found turtl really helpful for cataloging research for upcoming projects. I think it has really great potential for people working in project based industries who need confidential platform to store large amounts of research. Although many people do not have a need for privacy in their bookmarking, it is definitely a major consideration in many other professions outside of TECH. Although it may not be as smooth running as Evernote right now, I think that privacy for my research is a trade off worth noting.
Coroutines in less than 20 lines of standard C
> Atom is a full featured text editor, like vim or emacs.

I have to take issue with your notion of "full featured". Atom is a fine editor with plenty of features but it's orders of magnitudes short of emacs.
I own the 201's, the 202's and the 205's.

Sound quality on all of them is pretty indistinguishable however on-head comfort ironically is an easy win for the 201's, the 202's are very tight, the 205's not quite as bad but still not great.

I ended up giving the 202's away to a female friend who really likes them (she has a smaller head than me).

If the cords are fraying there isn't much to replacing them, the other option is to cut the cord about a meter from the headphone and put a female connector on, then you can use arbitrary length patch's to extend the range.

One of my next projects is to drill through my desk and surface mount another female connection so I can sit down and plugin (otherwise the damn cable manages to get wrapped around the chair, the desk or usually a cup of coffee on the desk).
I like the School of Americas better: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Hemisphere_Institute_f...
Yes, backslash hell. Every time I start using backslashes and quoting along with regular expressions, I make sure I've packed a big lunch because it's going to be a while before it gets sorted out.
>Before they've paid off their student loans it's likely they'll have a car loan, a house loan and eventually even have some kids

I wish that were so. The thing about defaulting on student loans means you don't get car loans, home loans, or interest from members of the opposite sex.

Late GenX. Defaulted. It's paid in full now. So is the only car I've ever owned. I won't own a home unless I can pay for it in full. (Probably never at current prices) I'll never have kids. Too old. It's biological.

After wage garnishment, having my tax returns seized, calls at all hours in all places from debt collectors... I'm too debt averse to loan money for anything else. I have no debt now and I will stay that way.
I'm not sure appealing to Wikipedia mentioning the word journalist is going to win you any points.

If you watched Top Gear even occasionally you'd know how rediculous it is claiming that Top Gear is serious news rather than an opinion-based entertainment show.

I actually remember a banter they did about the Ford GT that Jeremy owned having to stop at every gas station just to have enough gas to get to the studio. It's not like they're picking on Tesla, exaggeration is a form of comedy and they regularly exaggerated everything in the show.
Reasons it's still in the game:

1. It works, with fewer problems than any other sync / cloud storage that I've used.

2. It has enough people using it outside of work that it's getting paying business customers (the Linux effect?)

If either of these falters (if 1 falters, 2 does too) then they'll be gone. There are plenty of competitors and some even do sync well enough that people will use them.

I'm rather upset that they've dropped Carousel, as it's probably the app my girlfriend and I use most on our phones, but I'd only leave Dropbox if they didn't fold enough of the Carousel features back into the Dropbox client - or there wasn't a third party app that could provide similar functionality using our Dropbox storage.
REI offers two whole days of paid time off?!
Honest question: Why would you pay that, instead of renting an apartment off-campus?
Mongodb sounds like a disaster for IoT backend. Sorry for hatred but just can't see that scaling well.
Interesting; what made you think of this?

Also, will I be able to sync my locker with my desk drawer? :)
Rapid Application Development Doesn't Mean Fast Typing
That would be the calories out and calories in sides of the equation, respectively.
Complex carbs are definitely not new, but the amount we eat today is unusual in the grand scheme of things. Cutting them is currently popular for one very simple reason: It works.

Cutting sugar is very healthy and will likely result in weight loss, but if you cut sugar and replace if with carbs like bread and pasta, you've kind of exchanged one bad for another.

If however you cut both complex carbs AND sugar, and replace them both with almost anything else you'll shed the weight. Seems the Atkin's diet (eat unprocessed meats only) really did have some merits after all, fats and animal proteins are very healthy, as are greens, just have to kick that sugar addiction...

I'd be legitimately interested to meet an overweight individual who could maintain that weight without eating sugar or complex carbs, I don't personally think it is possible, but I'd be interested to be proved wrong.
We're privately owned, but that is an interesting thought I'd never even considered.
Reflections on IntelliJ from a Vim die-hard
As vicentereig said, structure is just a rails view; theme is bootstrap with some customization:

https://github.com/lelylan/dev/blob/master/app/assets/styles...
Senescent cell clearance extends life in mice, company founded
I love my MDR-V6s (one for home and work). You really hear everything and (tight) Bass. Comfortable too. Durable, though I've only had mine for 10 years (GP 18 years... wow)

My only gripe is the material they use for the padding degrades after 5 or 6 years. Its super easy to replace however. I like the coiled cord too.
I think the "Pro"MDR-7507 which have the same form factor cost the same as the V-6s now.
Create REST API with mock data quickly
Ever since drop-dropbox happened due to Rice, I've been happily using SpiderOak on Windows/OSX/Android/iOS systems.

Fine interface with customizable options that I need.
You mean ping-pong tables and free snacks aren't enough to keep you happy while being under paid? /sarcasm

Yeah, I mean I know it's cheaper to have some perks to make it look like you care, but honestly shorter days and decent pay is more than enough.
Bravo! How have I never read this article. Every single one of these points, plus:

1) It's INSANE handling of GROUP BY. In any other RDBMS, a GROUP BY that is missing non-aggregated fields in the result set of the query would throw an error, but MySQL just lets it fly defaulting to some random ass behavior that will return garbage 100% of the time.

2) It was mentioned that it lacks Windowing Functions, which is a HUGE miss, but it also lacks native Recursive Views. The workaround is some horrid mess of self referring variables. Why Recursive views, a T-SQL standard that is in nearly every other adult RDBMS, is lacking here is beyond me. (I know it's not a T-SQL standard database by design, which is just another nail in it's coffin if you ask me.)

I was just reading through a very lengthy StackOverflow question where the poor schmuck was trying to migrate from MSSQL to MySQL to save money. Noone at her shop, including her, had heard of Postgres. It's free. It's been around a hell of a long time. There is a huge community that uses it. And it's T-SQL based. It's just 100% better.

MySQL is some Kool-Aid that we should all just put down and back away from.
> The problem being, how many of these businesses would have won any market share without early VC investment enabling the companies to dump money into customer acquisition at a loss?

The problem isn't with early VC money. Dropbox's early backers would have still made a gigantic return on Dropbox setting at a $1bn valuation.

Really, it's not even a problem with their series B ($250M at $4bn). $4bn is a reasonable eventual valuation for Dropbox.

The problem is that they didn't stop there. They raised another $850M in 2014 (in two rounds), which was basically sold on the promise of it being necessary to "win" the storage wars and acquire a monopoly.

By 2014, Dropbox was already a stable company with hundreds of millions in revenue. The only reason to raise money was to shoot for hitting Google/Facebook status (owning a lucrative monopoly). If they had instead accepted that their eventual outcome was a $3-5bn software company, everyone could have won: employees, investors, founders, etc. (Atlassian is an example of a company which did eventually raise substantial VC, but instead of gunning for a monopoly IPOed at a $4bn valuation.)

The problem is that founders ultimately have huge egos and want to be the next Mark Zuckerberg or Larry Page: commanding monopolies so lucrative that they can spend billions on zero-return "cool nerd shit."
I can totally understand that. Feels a bit unfair to paint an entire platform with the same brush if you haven't tried the more modern alternatives though.

This is a full HelloWorld web-server in Spray: http://scastie.org/14680

Play can get you to Hello World even easier:

$ brew install typesafe-activator
$ activator new my-first-app play-scala
$ activator run

That's going from an off-the-shelf Mac with only homebrew installed to running your first Play app. To deploy it just run the `dist` task instead, and copy the generated .zip file to a server. Unzip it and run `./bin/my-first-app`. The only dependency you have on that system is Java.

Stick a load-balancer in front and you're good to go.

It's light-years beyond anything I've ever experienced on any other platform on the *nix side of things. Especially since it's also so much faster than any other platform I've worked with (decade old c# doesn't count).
Yes it did. I have spent a lot more time researching and documenting specs than I have writing code. The good news is that I don't mind that type of work. I often build spreadsheets for fun to compare things I'm thinking of buying so I just took that to another level.
Only a couple times though, need that sweet sweet karma!
Sadly, the only project I can think to use this on is still on Ruby 1.8.7, whereas the gem only works on 1.9+.
That's not the issue. The issue is whether the majesty of government trumps reality. In reality, math obscures secrets perfectly. The choice is whether to make that math illegal.

This isn't a unique case. Sovereign power is potent, but it isn't unlimited in theory or practice, and it isn't unchanging. Genetic modification, cheap aviation, robots, 3d printing, cryptocurrencies, etc. challenge sovereign power and related stakeholders. For good and ill.

It is doubtful that genetic engineering can be meaningfully regulated. That's probably got consequences greater that perfect secret-keeping. Governments will have to get over it.

The reason you don't hear about that as much is that authoritarians and control freaks don't obsess on it. Or don't know that maybe they should, because you can encode a lot of information in dna and smuggle it inside a tiny insect.
I think there is also a mental response. Diet soda is sickly sweet. Your train your mind and body that there should be a sickly sweet treat with each meal.

Don't drink any soda or juice for a few months, and you may be surprised how sickly sweet it is. I would spit out diet pepsi at this point.

Once you get your sense on track for a reasonable diet, I find it helps with making other good choices. Like ice cream... too sweet, easy to pass up. Whereas former fat me would eat it every night.
I don't think you're going for medium sized when you raise over a billion dollars. The investors who put in $500 million at a $10 billion valuation would need a lot of dividends to even break even, much less make the 10x return they want out of a decacorn.
> For the average person, your data is being collected along with everyone else's, but of course you're not being spied on, as there is no human personally looking at your data - it would be a waste of resources.

Ah, we have different definitions of spied upon. The existence of stored information concerning my activities that I previous thought to be unstored constitutes spying by my definition.

Aka the Stasi approach, with most of the employees laid off through superior modern automation.
Wow, I don't think I've seen that price-hiding thing before. What the fuck? I'm tempted to avoid buying them just to stick it to the manufacturer for having such a stupid policy. I don't log into Amazon at work, so I can't see the price; how much is Amazon charging for a pair?
I got to spend a day on the show floor at SIGGRAPH this year and AR/VR was the big trend. Most of the VR demos felt empty and lacked soul, but the Realiteer GermBuster VR demo was a blast! Definitely the highlight of the VR demos. I guess it demonstrates that (relatively) low-tech doesn't keep a game from being fun :-)
The key, of course, is cutting your calories. Don't forget that.

As a 5'10", 150# 53-year-old man who's in decent shape (you can see my abs!) I can tell you it it's not hard to have some sort of "physique" 3 hours of weight training/week does it. And to not be fat, just stop eating so much.

I spent about 15 hours/week practicing the piano. The gym is a relatively small part of my time each week compared to other things.
Facebook says its best managers exhibit these 7 behaviours
I've owned 3 pairs of these. They're great for walking around in traffic or when you otherwise need to hear everything around you, and really do sound excellent for the price.

All of mine died really fast though! The cable is so thin and the connector tail bit so short and inflexible, that plugging them into a phone and putting the phone in a trouser pocket daily is a 6-month death sentence tops.
Their investors will revolt. Their investors need 10X returns in the next couple years to satisfy their fund's existence to their LPs. Funds need a few big wins like Hollywood studios need a couple blockbusters every year. Dropbox's investors are counting on them being a blockbuster. Dropbox's private valuation is an order of magnitude higher than Box's public valuation. And Box has a bigger sales team, more revenue, and more inroads into big enterprise than Dropbox. So it's a real pickle and dividends aren't going to get them out of it.
> tying health care to having a job

Since when is that a right-wing thing? Employer-provided healthcare started as a result of (left-wing) price controls. And Obama and a Democratic congress purposely avoided that issue when they "reformed" healthcare.
Why is it a scare story?

Product safety is inseparable from the corporate policies which govern its production (in any industry). If you want to "bank" your own health (and that of your dependents, if you have any) on the idea that many of these food products he's describing can be safe in principle, if these companies do everything right -- that's your call. But that's not how I would call things.

He's saying fear everything, fear is good, fear will save your life, ...

No, he's not.

He's saying that personally, he prefers to err on the side of caution. I'm not sure I'd agree with all the points he's making. But his analysis is pretty sober overall - and definitely not fear mongering.
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Yes it is. They raised $60M from Accel. [0]

[0] http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2010/07/14/accel-invests-60-mill...
What about any of the functions here: https://golang.org/src/sort/sort.go

e.g. symMerge(), quickSort(), etc.
There is a difference between isolation and noise cancelling. I need to be able to hear normal noise, but block out droning of airplanes and white noise.
Why is their opinion more relevant than the people that are actually running Yahoo?
The New Face of Raise Your Flag (Meteor and React and More)
This reads like a speech given by the antagonist in a Robin Williams movie.