skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A couple of reasons - data quality and usage restrictions are the top. Here's an example - say I'm Big Box Retailer & Co and I want to measure how many people who visit my store also visited my competitor, Small Box Retailer Inc. Where can I go to buy that data?

-Facebook or Google don't sell their raw user data. They can tell me how effective the ads I placed on their sites were at driving visits or sales by matching my customer's email & phone numbers to their users (see [1] and [2]), but they won't give me data on my competitor, and the data will always be aggregated. So on to the next idea..

-Mobile ad server data aggregators might sell me their raw data, but the quality isn't great. Sure, they track 100m+ devices...but how many times do they see each of those devices a day? For most devices it's 10 times or less, so you're going to have a big problem with false negatives (people who visited Big Box Retailer and Small Box Retailer, but due to the sparsity of the data I miss one of those visits). On to the next...

-Foursquare is newly in the data business, but despite having a big audience (50m MAU), only ~1.3m users have opted in for continuous measurement ([3]). On top of that, Foursquare's audience is pretty skewed - if Big Box Retailer's customers are older, I'm going to have trouble finding them in Foursquare's data set, which means the effective size of their 1.3m 'panel' is really something like 200k-500k. On top of that, I can't survey them to verify they actually visited Small Box Retailer instead of the McDonalds next store, since the GPS data Foursquare pulls is LastKnown instead of exact.

-...so if the only data I can buy on the open market is skewed, not really that big (not to mention collected under potentially dubious privacy policies), whats my alternative? Thats the need these panels are filling.

As an aside, if you're curious what apps on your phone are collecting your location data, you can use a self-hosted MITM server w/ SSL decryption to sniff your own traffic. Here's own for Android: https://code.google.com/archive/p/sandrop/

[1] http://www.wsj.com/articles/google-touts-mobile-ad-technolog...
[2] http://www.adweek.com/news/technology/facebook-gives-retaile...
[3] http://techcrunch.com/2016/02/22/attribution-by-foursquare/
Design firm open sourcing its rejected logos so startups can use them for free
"I can't stress enough. Startup is 80% people and 20% coding."

Agreed. I have recently come to that revelation :)
Apple Wins Ruling in New York iPhone Hacking Order
Ruby Rogues discusses the Crystal programming language
IntelliJ integrates pretty well on MacOS, at least.

Sometimes, when Apple changes up the theme, you notice it's not native because it still uses the old theme. But then eventually they update and it goes back to looking native. Or at least native enough that it looks good, which is ultimately what matters.
English and Spanish hold their positions as popular languages based on the fact they were both spoken in world spanning empires in the past, not because they are particularly simple.

English, in particular, is known for being difficult to learn--it uses phones that very rare ("th" and the English "r"), it has a bizarrely large vocabulary, and, somewhat separately, its spelling is nonsensical.
duplicate: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11198565
And those decisions themselves could be easily automated, but people choose not to. There's a checklist for making those decisions. If you can write a checklist, you can write code. And for when there's not a checklist, then you can pick randomly, because that's what the human is essentially doing.
How long do the collisions last?
Is this sustained over seconds?
I don't know how long it takes a 5C to boot, but my iPod takes 30 seconds. Add another 30 seconds to swap out the RAM chip (I'm assuming a ZIF socket has been installed) and you can brute-force 150k PINs in 30k minutes which is about 3 weeks.
iirc 10 years is the legal limit.
I worked remote before moving to the bay area, and went back to working remote when I moved back home (Ohio). It might not be for everyone, but I enjoy it.
Getting started with OAuth2 in golang
I think that's just the default EULA. I also found this page where you can apply for commercialization https://www.windowsforiotdevices.com/

Here's an excerpt from the commercial terms of use for the non-Pro SKU:

> Subject to the requirements in Section 3 and restrictions in Section 4 and the other terms and conditions of this Agreement, Microsoft hereby grants to you a royalty-free, worldwide, non-exclusive, personal, non-transferable, non-assignable, limited license to install a Runtime Image into an Embedded System and distribute your Embedded System to End-Users.
Best time to send push notifications, when do people uninstall apps
Or even the police, who last I read do sell their plate data gathered from their car cameras.
It's not just the exercise price... it's the taxes on the illiquid gains that really fsck you! Eg. you're granted $100k in options over four years. You want to depart the company now, when the shares are worth 100x. You pay your $100k to the company to exercise, but now you also owe taxes on $9.9M in gains -- and you can't sell any of that stock to pay the $3.3M in taxes to the IRS.

With a 10-year option, hopefully the company gets (or can offer) some liquidity to help you pay the IRS when you exercise later.
The first time was quite scary, but it was a challenge I set for myself.

There was this group that were louder and generally "more alive" than the rest. So I approached them, and lurked for a while, after a few minutes I said hi and introduced myself, and that's it!

After that I threw myself out of my comfort zone at every event. My goal was to meet as many interesting people as I could, and I did.

I was young back then, probably one of the youngest at those kind of events (that probably helped).
Of course it's possible I'm mistaken. But not because of any of the reasons given here so far.
you would think a non VC - compared to a seasoned professional with a great track record - would, you know, kinda sorta pay attention to what the seasoned professional says, maybe?

But it seems they just throw out unthoughtful comments and hope that someone falls for it.
A standard RSU grant (same in nature as founder RSUs) will cover what you described.
only this one human-driven car in the middle of the swarm is what stops this swarm from reaching new level of autonomy. Opps, such an unfortunate mishap! that human-driven car has just hit the car in front of it and went off the road. Finally the swarm is free... err... can move onto the next level.
Let's look at it from a different angle: What if you were a GNU/Linux distro maintainer and nine defendants had used your OS instead of Windows? Could you be forced to help the FBI?
I was employee # ~45,000 and my stock options were still worth ~$400K. Not exactly a startup, but startup employees stand to gain even more.

Stock compensation benefits anyone who holds stock in a company that grows unexpectedly. The meme that it's worthless is because many startups don't actually grow. However, if the company isn't growing, why are you even working there?
Thanks for highlighting this, given that "congress should change the law" is Cook's favorite cop out strategy at the moment.
I use this library on couple of my projects, I love it.

Here's the HN discussion from the original post 3 years ago:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5380056
Ugh, everyone who totes the "equity equity equity" argument about robotically. Probably the same suckers who think they are going to get rich off of their startup options.

Once you factor in the risk offset (what happens when that once-in-a-century flood ruins the house? if you're renting, you just fuck off scot-free) and the ability to pick up and move to another city (which is what this whole article is about) if you still can't see the value prop you deserve your property taxes and underwater mortgages that you will never see a return on, because your house is not really an investment vehicle.
They removed a perfectly working functionality. At the time of removal they said it was because they wanted to bring in Skype to XBOX 360. But skype never came to Xbox 360 and it came only in XBox One. This entire feature that is touted in this video [1] is not available in Xbox 360 now. And I bought an XBox 360 because Microsoft's marketing material said it is available.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBsTimrYTIQ
He's not claiming that you can brute-force the encryption key -- he's proposing another way to brute-force the PIN itself that won't trigger exponential timeouts or auto-wipe of the device. I don't know if he's right or wrong, but let's at least make sure we're clear what his argument is first.
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> I can imagine this would be hard to "tout".

Open source client + whitepaper describing how the client encrypts the data with a particular scheme that still allows the server processing they need, without leaking undue data.

This can be as simple as: audio stream is discarded on device unless "ok Thing" is recognized, by a low quality open-source on-device recognition software. After that, the next 2 minutes of audio are sent to the mother-ship for higher-quality recognition and analysis.

Done, privacy-preserving Amazon Echo alternative. Get a third party (the EFF?) to audit it for you and put a badge that means to semi-technical users, 'this product goes beyond snake-oil on privacy'. Super-paranoid users can inspect the code for the client, which anyways includes little more than well-known open source libraries and some trivial glue code you don't care who copies anyway.

Of course, the real reason not to do this, is that companies don't want the 2 minutes of audio after the user asks their devices a question. They want the 'big data' of 24/7 surveillance (with all the beneficial applications this can have, but also the chilling ones).
Actually, it's a good question. And I'm a anti-platelets liberal.

"He noted that the law allows someone convicted of a misdemeanor assault charge to get a lifetime ban on possessing a gun 'which at least as of now results in suspension of a constitutional right.' "

These days the right lawyer can turn a simple accident into a misdemeanor assault.

It was a good question.
A NSL is a subpoena, meaning an order to produce information. In these cases Apple does not have the information being sought because it is encrypted on the phones and they don't have the key.

The government is trying to use a dubious legal tactic to force Apple to create a hacking tool that does not exist. It's not an order to produce information, it's an order to do forced work.
Azul compiles Java with LLVM? Where can I read more about that? I thought I was familiar with their tech but I never heard about this.
> If you have 5% of a company locked up by people who no longer work there, you have to find a way to reward current employees

We need to get past this line of thinking. Why do companies not say the same thing for the salaries they've paid former employees? "Boy, I wish we could get back the $30,000 we paid Bob between July 2011 and October 2011."

We don't say that because the employee earned that and once they've earned it, it's out of your account and into theirs. Stock, though a different mechanism, needs to be thought of the same way. If someone has worked there long enough to vest that stock, they should have the option available to own that stock. Just because they made the company successful enough to not be able to afford to exercise their options in time doesn't mean we should take that possibility away from them.

Whether or not it was intended years ago when it became a norm, the 90 day exercise window, at this point, is a surrogate mechanism for companies to steal compensation from employees after the fact. That's horrible.
I had seen then growing for a wile and I really like their philosophy.

Their designs are so good and I like their applications.

In the other hand their software needs to grow and need some polish. There are many bugs around there, nothing that prevents the daily usage but still. For me it's a great distribution, but not my flagship yet...

Great article, it's good to see the other side.
so you're going to move to Europe due to it's liberal gun laws?
Interesting point. Would be interesting if this lead to remote drivers who are responsible for navigating self driving car when the car decides human intervention is safest? (At least until all cars on the road are self driving and connected to each other for real time communication...)
Components Palette for React Large Apps
the fact that the government is creating so many cases, hoping one sticks, isn't a good sign to me. lavabit didn't fare so well.
Next up (and the harder problem imo) is for companies to feel like they have enough leverage vs investors (mainly institutional VC) that they can be "nonstandard" in their option contracts (particularly during seed and A rounds). It's no coincidence that the companies that have taken the lead on this front are the startup darlings and/or repeat founders who have considerable leverage against funders (including YC companies, since their cred boost makes being nonstandard much easier than those without the brand).

We've made huge progress in that direction over the last 5 years as ZIRP made money cheap (and since the main leverage investors have against companies is the scarcity of funding, their leverage has decreased dramatically since the 80's). But as the funding mania crescendo of 2015 has passed, ZIRP is being wound down, and as private and public market valuations of small young tech companies plummet, I am not sure if that trend will continue into the future.

If there is one cohort that can band together to change the status quo, right now, that would be the YC companies. I am hopeful that enough momentum can be built over the next small handful of years by these companies so that "what is normal" can change permanently.
Some of this stuff about self driving cars sounds to me like the "sufficiently smart compiler" that can can optimize away the overhead of certain features of Lisp. Meanwhile, Uber thinks my house is in the middle of I-83.
Jeremy Ashkenas: GitHub as shared sandbox [media]
I would suspect that they are worried Apple would challenge and potentially win against the NSL...
Slightly off-topic: The title made me wonder if it was going to be about the vast difference in equity grants between founders and employees (oh well).

But back on topic, harj et al. what's your opinion of Restricted Stock for early employees? I believe the issue is just that granting Restricted Stock once the company / share valuation is high enough is a definite tax impact. But it seems like nearly every pre-Series-A company could give the early employees 100% Restricked Stock. Is there some reason I'm missing that this never seems to happen?

Edit: s/RSUs/Restricted Stock/ since that's what I actually mean (the weirdness of RSUs remains funny).
I wish just one of you droids parroting this argument was actually old enough to have done it. My parents own a property like this. They are never going to sell it because (among other things) they have invested more money in upkeep and renovations to make it just the way they want it than it is worth to an average buyer, plus they like having it for family get-togethers. It's simply not at all the investment vehicle you starry-eyed dreamers think it is.
I wonder if it correlates to how easily new discoveries can be monetized.

Astronomy is too far to reach, mathematics is too abstract to patent, etc.
That may be. That portion of the chip is completely closed (no public specs or compiler), so I'm just speculating based on inputs and outputs to a blackbox system.

I do know that I've seen people trick the thing (VC4 on Pi2) into pushing out 4K video at about 20fps and decoding 3 h.264 videos at once. Playing a 4th video caused a lot of visual artifacts. So it has potential for more than it's usually used for. There could be a low-level assumption of 8 bits per sample, or some other constraint that we don't know about. Or it could be as simple as Broadcom not being interested in marketing the chip toward higher-end uses like the 10bit profiles. Without signing an NDA and ordering 6-7 digits worth of chips, I think we can only speculate.
Adding to the mix, we've also considered Onboard Tips (https://onboardtips.com) because it allows someone non-technical to create in-app tours.
Is the pool of outsourced workers really so small that you can say "Greeks have great expertise in databases" and have it mean anything?
What makes a shell amazing?
Already happened.

A school district recorded photos of kids in their bedrooms at home via laptop camera

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robbins_v._Lower_Merion_School...
That's insanely sad. Kind of disgusting...
I've spent large chunks of my career in the Midwest as a consultant. Senior devs go into very long term consulting gigs because then companies can afford to pay us much more: we count as 100% capex.

Companies that might pay an employee $110K a year will have zero problem paying rates that end up with take-homes of +$200K a year after paying your own benefits and taking vacation time off.
I don't mind stringent enforcement of life saving measures on a place as dangerous as the road, even if it means everybody moving at 10kph in bad conditions. Roads are the biggest killer of youth globally[1], minor emotional factors such as 'tediousness' should not be allowed to get in the way of solving such a big problem

[1] http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2012/may/02/tr...
And patching isn't even that hard.
>That said, our test driver believed the bus was going to slow or stop to allow us to merge into the traffic, and that there would be sufficient space to do that."

it was a [double] bus. It isn't the kind of vehicle one stops out of courtesy to let the other car to merge (until such courtesy is the only option for the other car to merge, obviously)

Anyway, it is an obvious software failure as the Google car hit the side of the bus at slow speed. There is no reason to blame it on somebody.
Anyone wondering how this is going to end up should read the story of TextDrive's "lifetime hosting": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TextDrive
Bay Area native here. Born basically at 17 and 85, aside from some months living in Europe, I've lived in the Bay Area my whole life. With my current role, I work at home full time unless traveling -- I do go up to SF now and then to hang out with other team mates who do go into the office. I like the flexibility, the lack of time spent in a car, etc.

That said, we will likely relocated for a period of time later this year/early next north of Seattle for a bit of a change (ties there). That may dictate the overall plans we have.

Honestly, while having strong ties here (and owning a house) I'm not wedded to this area. Cost for the quality of life (I live in Santa Cruz) is ridiculous -- crime, drugs, etc. -- surfing and biking are great though.

I suspect the balance we will end up finding is part time in CA, part time in WA, and part time in Europe -- we both currently have location independent jobs.
Beautiful Pinterest UI Clone with Ionic and AngularJS
This highlights my biggest complaint about twitter. I use it largely as your quote describes, to get publish events from people/organizations I'm interested in. In short, I use it like a modern RSS feed. The problem is that a whole bunch of people see twitter as something different, including twitter if their plan to increase the tweet limit to 10,000 happens. Some use it as a commenting system. Some use it as a medium (think tweet storms), etc.

And this leaves me with the question, what is twitter trying to be? I honestly can't figure it out, and that's my issue with twitter.
I don't think we'll care quite so much that a 20 minute drive is now 25 minutes when we have wifi and sitting in the car is basically like sitting in our living room. Driving slow is only tedious when you're doing it, not when you're able to get work done or be entertained throughout.
I was already using es6 classes so I didn't have the choice. I couldn't get 0.14 to work otherwise.
Create an altcoin simply by forking many available coins, with ethereum you'd have to pay to be bounded to the system, which is a special use-case.

Here are a couple of tutorials to make your own altcoin in a few minutes:

https://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~baisang/LearnCoin.pdf
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:2ylzCBr...
Better solution is to append a warning to any message that originates outside the domain.
Not sure that'd work: "Sorry I mowed your child down, but it wasn't my fault, the computer didn't tell me I needed to pay attention". People are in general extremely quick to deflect blame from themselves (especially under stress) no matter _how_ stupid or implausible their no-the-spot excuse is.

(Source: I'm a motorcycle rider, we have a term here "SMIDSY", which stands for "Sorry mate, I didn't see you" - because it's such a common thing for drivers to say when they've just driven into you. There's a great quote from a judge a few years back in a court case over a driver excusing themselves for running into a bike "But the plaintiff was _clearly_ there to be seen.")
Feedback. I can't get much from your screenshots since I can't expand them and they are too small to read anything. I don't know what a "simulated phishing campaign" is, what results I might get out of it, I just don't really understand the whole purpose / process, and you don't any info other than the phrase "simulated phishing campaign" to explain what the thing does. So, I can create simulated phishing email, I can see who opens them. I can do this easily. But we're missing something. What does a simulated phishing email accomplish? What does a user get out of it? What would one look like? When would I send one?...
I'm not convinced this is a zero sum game. There will be a lot of small Silicon Valleys popping up. And as companies in these little valleys grow and/or die (germinating other companies), they will grow to be the size of SV and maybe support the capital costs of some of the moonshots that take place in SV. SV will always be there to welcome new entrants into the tech industry and foster old ones :).

Source: Proud Waterloo-ite surrounded by Ex-Blackberries. Possibly moving to the Valley soon.

P.S: Every region that wants to grow will face the real-estate crunch SV is. Look to your municipal laws/stucture to see how your region will weather this storm.
Maybe NSLs aren't as powerful or as easy to produce as we think
The question is, how much room did the AV have in front of the bus to merge out in front of it?

I'm wondering if the bus was cruising along and saw the AV inching out into its lane and just thought "Oh, once they see this big-ass bus coming along, they'll stop trying to merge." And the AV thought "Once that bus sees me inching out, it'll slow to let me merge." And neither one was right.
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> The hours that people spend in their car is absolutely horrific

here's a tip: don't do that. problem solved.
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U.S. Will Renegotiate Wassenaar Arrangement
But Twitter created the value -- and that is the twitter contradiction.
> the death rate

While I agree about good measurements and need for baselines, death rate isn't it. When cars collide, you get really high number of injuries and deaths. For example there are almost 20x more injuries to pedestrians than deaths. It's nor fair to exclude them from those stats, since that can be a permanent and life changing injury.

We probably don't get any more people decapitated with the steering column. But it doesn't mean they are completely fine after the same collision.
I don't understand what you're saying. If you put money under a mattress, doesn't it stay the same in worth? If I put a $20 bill under the mattress 40 years ago, it's still a $20 bill, worth exactly $20 today. What did you mean?