skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can you really not tell the difference between the corner laundromat (a profitable small business) and Atlassian (a startup which was profitable for most of its history)?

Startups are companies designed to grow fast. [1] Frequently, that means spending more than comes in but it's definitely not a prerequisite.

Likewise, there are plenty of small businesses which take years to reach profitability (some never do)—that doesn't magically make them a startup.

Aspiring towards profitability does not mean abandoning plans for growth (if anything, it often means doubling down on revenue growth). Small businesses don't double in size, startups do. Very little of what's relevant to my mom's small landscaping business is relevant to a technology startup, even if both are aiming to be profitable.

What benefit do derive from purposefully distorting terminology?

[1] http://www.paulgraham.com/growth.html
Why didn't they take it from his tax returns?
This sounds like an idea for a startup
Autodesk went all in on Microsoft platforms some years ago. AutoCAD and 3DSMax are Direct3D-only on Windows. Their software on Mac and iOS devices uses OpenGL for now, but I think Autodesk will likely switch the back end out for Metal, given Apple's sterling reputation for OpenGL support. /s

Point being that OpenGL exists mainly to support old CAD apps. Actively maintained current apps will switch to Vulkan, or whatever API provides the best benefit on the target platform.
You can certainly trace it to Prussia/Germany and Bismarck. The "no permanent friends, only permanent interests" line people usually attribute to Kissinger originally came from Lord Palmerston in the 1800s.
Slightly OT: Would love to have a notebook or computer screen with e-ink just for Vim, the console and coding, assumed it's fast enough. Is there anything like this?
>Many of Rust's safety guarantees come from compile-time checks that then do not have any runtime penalty.

But not bounds checks, which are unfortunately what you need with respect to buffer overflows.
Don't forget the Force Touch trackpad. It fixed the biggest problem with what was already the best trackpad on any laptop.
According to Eric Anholt (VC4 developer) RPi:

> This is not even slightly GL 3.1 hardware.

And Vulkan require 4.3 feature set.
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Practically useless was a bit of a stretch. Unsafe rust is definitely safer than plain C or Assembly. I admit I was a bit riled up after reading the "compile to asm.js" comment.

Cool stuff though, I really hope rust catches fire soon. I love that it has revitalized the appeal of implementing operating system level projects like text editors and shells. I never would have wanted to try and write a windowing system before Rust. Now that's something I'm actively investigating for fun.
Wow. I put 0 work into linkedin. Literally a list of jobs and techs. No description on any of my jobs. I get 5 or so LinkedIn emails per week. No idea what they search for though... a lot mention something like Java or Scala which I have n my resume, but no reason people would not also be looking for Angular or JavaScript...
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The better case is to use one of the inevitably many rendering libraries that will be developed for Vulkan that abstract away the implementation details in much the same way OpenGL did before.

The problem with OpenGL was that it was the lowest level of access you got to the device - a high level giant API that hides the implementation behind it. Which made it a massive PITA to implement for hardware vendors, and slow to adapt to changes in the GPU landscape.

It is very likely we will see an implementation of OpenGL that compiles to Vulkan in the same way we are seeing immediate development of VK -> Metal compilers and will probably see DX12 -> Vulkan as well. You just need an API wrapper and a shader translator that takes their respective shader formats and compiles them to SPIR-V rather than the original targets.
It's not a FUD. OpenGL was strongly overdue to be redone from scratch completely, and it's just great that Vulkan eventually was born from this necessity.

> The point of Vulkan is less "fix a fundamental flaw in the efficiency of the OpenGL API as it exists" and more a "fix a fundamental flaw that hardware vendors don't write working OpenGL drivers that support the standard and stay up to date".

It's both. AZDO attempted to fix serious deficiencies of the API without rewriting if from scratch, making it a rather awkward and not easy to use addition. Vulkan solved the same problem building it neatly from the ground up.

And of course making compliant and verifiable implementations is a great benefit of Vulkan, and it's something that OpenGL always lacked.
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when did america become israels bitch? our troops are out there getting blown up and these israeli jews and sitting at home making their kids tech billionaires? all these young kids being brainwashed into thinking a communist jew like sanders is good for the country when he has his hidden agenda with israel. why is the us helping the israelis when the jews in america are determining the course of the US life? corrupting american culture with their bullshit ass rap music made by drake? running every media outlet and late night talk show hosts to afraid to say anything about jews? Jews will take their snake hands and bite you but will cry out in pain themselves.
edit no offense to paul graham
Don't let it effect you? Or, "I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character" can be applied to sex and any other identifiable trait as well.
What a load of strange voodoo devices. Seems like if you slap an LED onto something you can sell anyone snake oil...

If you're legitimately struggling with sleep/tiredness, go do a sleep study at a doctors, if you're worried about the cost of a sleep study you can buy a cheap (under $30) pulse oximeter and pre-screen yourself for several conditions (e.g. obstructive and central sleep apnea, some heart issues, some other breathing problems), and only then go get a real sleep study if you have them.

Then once you get diagnosed spend $150 on a CPAP/APAP/BiPap which you'll use for up to five years, and it will do far more to improve your sleep than some magical set of glasses or w/e these snake oil salesman are selling this week. Plus a legitimate medical device gives you useful diagnostic information (e.g. AHI level) and you can continue to take advantage of your oximeter even with the CPAP to monitor your sleep/condition.

I am just saying this is one area which medical science DIDN'T forget.
Just wanted to say that Uber is used by the mass; It's not really a product for techies. So a lot of my friends thought that Uber has been deleted from their phone (as they weren't able to find the icon) and then went ahead and ordered a cab from the competitor.
It's complicated. One of the complications is requiring anything. Most trade agreements now in place defer major standards compliance in aviation to ICAO, and ICAO ends up being lowest common denominator when it comes to rules. Simply, less rich countries don't want to pay for every possible feature.

Another complication is there's almost no such thing as a "backport" in aviation. The equipment a particular plane model is certified for is the equipment it has for life, save for some software updates. And this isn't in the category of a software update, it's new physical equipment. The easiest part is a new weight and balance for every airplane getting the new equipment. Harder is wiring the thing in, and getting it space in the cockpit - that's often quite difficult. If it requires integration of any sort, very difficult. There's extremely low willingness to substantially alter certified aircraft. There are individual systems that make up a whole, change any one part, you change the whole. The liability is too high for the return, these kinds of lost plane events are rare.
>jews in charge of refactoring
Interesting. I always thought the first animation ever was Kitty (a cat) by Konstantinov in 1968 on the BESM systems:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0O4mm3hXNgA

But if this correct it would actually predate the Kitty animation. Are the computing history/pioneer claims on most of the web wrong? (do a search for Sergey Lebedev and Konstantinov and Kitty and you get claims everywhere that it was the first ever animation ...)
Gentoo
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2015-7547
To save you some time, they did this analysis previously. I can't find it, but the summary was that the failures happen at the two ends and not a lot in the middle. ie. a bunch die early (infant mortality) and the rest die pretty late (old age).
'War on Terror' - I like how you have capitalised this, I hope you don't actually believe it though?
I haven't heard any complaints, the humour is on point, the characters are great and it's even more amusing if you have some insight into how ridiculous certain things in real life SV are.
This bit is definitely my favorite:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJIAOosI6js
good goy
A summary of the problem, the affected Linux versions and patching remediations have been posted here: https://ma.ttias.be/critical-glibc-buffer-overflow-vulnerabi...
Estimated revenue for the future. It's really tough, but even using revenue for a start up is very tough. Your growth rate is essentially estimating future revenue.
The biggest technical limitation is that there's currently only one Rust compiler, and it targets LLVM, which means that it can currently compile for only a subset of all platforms that C can compile to.

For some projects this isn't a problem. For example, Firefox is replacing bits of itself little by little with Rust, which is fine because Rust targets all platforms that Firefox is built for (though it did take some wrangling to get Rust working on Windows XP). However, a project like glibc is used across a much greater variety of platforms, and many of those platforms may have nothing but C compilers. And those C compilers may very well be buggy and nonstandard, so even transpiling to C won't help unless you're willing to hand-tweak the generated code.
Vulkan has explicit compute command queues. It is worth noting that OpenCL 2.1 compiles to the same SPIR-V bytecode that Vulkan drivers consume, you just generate it with a C API rather than GLSL, but either turn into the same thing.
That is, to put it mildly, an uncharitable way of interpreting a statement that most well-funded startups ought to be able to find a route to profitability without further growth capital if it's not forthcoming. If there's one single reason why 5% moonshots are in danger of becoming 0.5% moonshots it's the palpable contempt for the concept of a route to profitability that you're displaying. Having enough revenue to be able to grow [more slowly] once the VC cash has all been spent is not a bad thing, and it doesn't make you a "little fish".

It's even arguable a startup is not really that close to cornering a market if there's no route to breakeven point without taking on further funding. That basically means they're either too tiny to enjoy any economies of scale, not competitive enough to be able to price their product at breakeven point or haven't opened the money valve enough to actually have a real market at all yet. Sure, any startup keen on cornering a market should have estimates of just how much additional CLV can be realised if they raise another $50m to scale up the sales team rather than continuing on their current growth path with the smaller team, but few of them should need that Series C to keep the lights on.
I actually am blown away by the reliability of hard drives. We've found that after 4 years, nearly 80% of hard drives are still working, and the median life is about 6 years:
https://www.backblaze.com/blog/how-long-do-disk-drives-last/

Considering a 4 TB hard drive has to track 32,000,000,000 individual bits, allowing reading and writing repeatedly of each one, on platters that are spinning 120x per second, spaced a hair's width from their heads...I think it's actually incredible.

As for SSDs, we keep wishing that we could switch to them, but they're still 10x more expensive on a $/TB basis. That may change in the next few years, and if it does, we'll look forward to sharing data on SSD usage at scale as well.

Gleb (CEO, Backblaze)
A few staple items I eat a lot that are missing: eggplant (aubergine), green onion, asparagus, brussels sprouts, mushrooms (more narrow categories, please), daikon
Someone should make charts like these for new js frameworks.
I hear you. Where I grew up (Russia), those who excelled were put into classes where you were challenged.

To give a simple example: when I came to Canada, I was in grade 7. I didn't learn a single new math concept until grade 9, where we spent the entire semester learning 'slope' which I got the hang of within a week.

That's the Canadian school program being 3 years behind in 5 years. A disaster, and I'm not that smart.

Furthermore, I was sent to math competitions twice a year where I couldn't solve a single problem - those who could solve those problems, were sent to special schools where the brightest were again, challenged.

That's a systemic solution Russia had that I'm in favor of. In terms of making it work within the system you grew up in - it sounds like you found a group of friends.

You make it sound like the reason you were targeted is because you had free time. If you had been part of the soccer team for instance, would that have also been the case?

When smart kids complain about getting bullied solely for being so smart, I have to wonder. I am the smartest of the dummies or the dumbest of the smartest but I was also quite alright at sports, so I had that going for me.

I'd say the problem with smart kids who do find a group to be a part of and still feel like they were in a tough spot - your parents should've put you into a sports team or some form of athletics and that would've likely alleviated a lot of the problems.
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Flagging because the data leak dates back to at least 2010 and in circulation everywhere for years. Nothing new here.
FWIW I've also had what felt very much like automated mails from your company. I've started marking them as spam after the first two.
OK I posted too quickly. I realize most sites make the claim of the first animated arts being done by Konstantinov which is different from the claim of first animation ever.
> In this way, after the strongest version of the virus was implanted in order to increase the force of the damage to the centrifuges at Natanz, the virus .... began to "jump from computer to computer"

I don't see how one follows from the other. One talks about the virus causing additional damage to centrifuges rather than minor damage.

The other is about increased infectiousness.

They are two different things and they are just tied together as if there is some relationship between them.

This article is almost completely devoid of any evidence, or even a plausible logical explanation/motivation.
Not all countries would be included there. The US? Russia? North Korea? Sure. Finland? Iceland? Not so much.

There is something to be said about a country's foreign policy and how 'arrogant' it is. A country can have a solid foreign policy (read: not be a pushover) and still not act like a giant bully.
This either or thinking is not very productive. FP existed before OOP, it's hardly reasonable to think it will replace it.
Please stop doing it on HN. We understand the fun of sparring, but on a large, weakly cohesive forum like HN, it causes damage, mostly by provoking others who don't feel the sport. Also the big flamewar discussions are all super generic and thus unsubstantive, and they end up consuming everything more interesting. Just look at what you did to the topic of this thread.

The reason we're so proactive about asking people not to do this isn't that we don't get how stimulating it can be. Rather, it's empirical: experience shows that we can't have both blood sport and a high-quality site in the long run. A high-quality site is more important than blood sport.

Edit: I like the rugby analogy:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8609481

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11051605
Could OpenGL be implemented as a library on top of Vulkan? So that future drivers will only implement the Vulkan API and if you want OpenGL, you just use an OpenGL library?
Cambridge is basically a village though, which makes it insane.
My non SV friends think that it's outlandish and unrealistic, my SF friends think it's close to a documentary.
I prefer people write in a vocabulary that's native to me as well, but I don't see any of these as being inaccurate analogies.
Nvidia has an SDK today for Sheild devices https://developer.nvidia.com/vulkan-android

Imagination Tech has an SDK as well. Apparently, a Nexus Player is a good device to work on with it.

https://www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/463jo2/vulkan_api_...
It was this cycle's version of being featured on TechCrunch...now it's akin to being featured on TechCrunch after Arrington left.
The first computer art animation by N. Konstantinov in 1968 was a cat
It's a proper noun.
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Hey!

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1) The frameless prints have no backing (just a sheet).

2) I've definitely looked into it, not 100% happy with the options right now but open to it in the future.

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It's not inevitable but it would require some major changes in policy.

Not sure if it's planned that way but concentrating property is one way for powerful to keep their power in the future. It's pretty safe to assume that in some decades you can have a robot that will be able to provide with your basic needs for free and live autonomously and not have to buy many things anymore. The way to get around this for the powerful is to own the land and intellectual property so people will have to pay rent (tribute?) forever.

This sounds a little extreme but I honestly thinks it's where things are going without major changes.
This is a great talk on mobility models: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k79dZuedXHs
Direct link to the actual source code for the afl-analyze tool (in case like me, you want to try it out!):

http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/afl/releases/afl-latest.tgz

Found at:

http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/afl/
There is no "objective way" when it comes markets, there is only what the market will give you. If the market will give you $450M for 5% of a product that doesn't work (a la Theranos), then objectively you're worth $9B, at least until you go bankrupt and then you're worth nothing. If the market is dead but you somehow manage to IPO anyway, save the company, and sell for $1.5B, you're worth $1.5B (a la LoudCloud/Opsware). If you want to find out what you're worth, try to raise money, and whatever you can get is your answer.

This throws a lot of people for a loop who want one source of objective truth for everything. But markets don't work that way: they're just deals between individual people, which may or may not become public. If somebody else makes a deal that you think is absolutely crazy, it is objective truth for them but absolutely irrelevant to you.

Personal finance works the same way. I know a few folks who were momentarily multi-millionaires during the dot-com boom; then valuations came crashing down and they were completely broke. We also tend to think of the value of a dollar (in cash) to be stable, but as anyone who lives in Zimbabwe can tell you, that's not a given.
social sciences and natural sciences have pretty much always had vastly different standards for what is acceptable. Getting 5 sigmas in many sorts of psychological studies would be pretty much impossible.

I very much doubt there was ever a time when experimental psychologists or sociologists held themselves to that standard.
Of course, but then you've hamstrung the typesystem that makes Rust safer than C, and generated a lot of work for developers who have to convert all internal types to #[repr(C)] ones at library boundaries. Rust without cross-crate generics is way less fun--you lose "theorems for free", unless you can make guarantees about the pre-ABI translation to/from C types (which would ultimately amount to defining an ABI).
The cynical side of me wonders if all this is "helpful advice" from VCs is just designed to bring valuations down to earth.

I'm not really into conspiracy theories as a rule, but I will admit to having a similar thought. At the last, I find myself wondering if advice from VC's - especially regarding something like valuation - doesn't inherently tend to be self-serving on their part.

Remember, the objectives of a VC and the objectives of an entrepreneur aren't always aligned.

That said, you can't really argue with this part:

You know what kind of companies generally survive? Companies that make more money than they spend. I know, duh, right? If you make more than you spend, you get to stay alive for a long time.
This would be a breakthrough device if nobody invented the smartphone. If I want a universal remote, why don't I just use the device I have to carry around with me all the time?
Or possibly because it's been pouring rain in NYC all day.

Data is data, conjecture is conjecture.
Here's one more while we're at it:

https://src.sourcegraph.com/go-git

This one is a fork of gogs' git implementation that I worked on briefly.
There's too much cultural baggage (in the United States at least) about bullying for anyone to be able to discuss it rationally. There must be a thousand movies and a million television episodes (most from the 80s) where all sorts of absurd lessons are taught. The bully is misunderstood and bullied himself (not always true), if you stand up for yourself it will stop (never true, often never possible), etc.
Regardless, it's a pretty industrious tactic, albeit obvious, still impressive - esp considering what they produced building on that info the gleaned.