skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly. It is a totally arbitrary process. Valuations have nothing to do with real economic value or real profits of a company. We see it all the time. In fact, valuations and the subsequent "exit" venues (IPOs, acquisitions, etc..) can be thought of as a form of money laundering in which money is collected from the public and funneled into the pockets of VCs. If you have the power to create the hype, you can "value" anything at any amount you like.
I can imagine a conversation like this:

CC: I just raise 13M, I am hiring you as our lawyer.

Lawyer: Confirmed

CC: How much can I legally pay myself as CEO?

Lawyer: Literally all the money.

CC: Here is your check for $350k.

Lawyer: Always satisfying to do a good job for a client.

(CC has already left, moments later you see the CEO drive by the window in a huge boat)
Upcoming 9.6 has a great feature to speed up vacuum (thus keeping bloat controlled
).
Not long ago I had to take a friend's ferrari 599 to get the ecu reset and adjusted for the tune of $16k. I had changed the both MAF sensors and adjusted the clutch on the transmission. Fucking nuts.
I also use alpine as my everyday email client.

I think it has some psychologic benefit to help me calm down and read the big pile of mails.

Alpine is currently maintained by Eduardo Chappa.

I just committed a patch about LDAP. Eduardo Chappa is a very diligent developer.
I wish I could upvote this 10 times. In C the programmer has to manage memory which is a chore, but the programmer can do it because they _know_ something about the lifetime of their data. In GC languages that knowledge is sent to /dev/null, then heroic efforts are expended to attempt to machine-re-lean it again at runtime. This is crazy. As you observe, the better plan is to relieve the programmer of the chore of manual management, but do while retaining their knowledge and understanding of the behavior of their code.
400 reporters kept the Panama Papers secret for a year
Weight of the world: Four decades of spreading global obesity
March 8, 2006

Marissa Mayer prefers Pine to Gmail

[mayer]Marissa Mayer, VP, Search Products and User Experience at Google
confesses to CNN Money that she doesn't use Gmail for her business mail.

"I don't feel overwhelmed with information. I really like it. I use Gmail for
my personal e-mail -- 15 to 20 e-mails a day -- but on my work e-mail I get as
many as 700 to 800 a day, so I need something really fast. I use an e-mail
application called Pine, a Linux-based utility I started using in college. It's
a very simple text-based mailer in a crunchy little terminal window with
Courier fonts. I do marathon e-mail catch-up sessions, sometimes on a Saturday
or Sunday. I'll just sit down and do e-mail for ten to 14 hours straight."

Pine is a mail program developed at the University of Washington. It has a lot
of keyboard shortcuts and countless ways to sort, shuffle, and sift through
your email.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8436265
Well thought out article. Open source whatever the customer needs to keep the thing running Google!

This reminds me of Tivo's wish to EOL all their old set top boxes, that they originally sold as lifetime subscriptions, they still seemingly begrudgingly support them it seems like since they don't want to suffer the brand backlash. And that product needs constant updates that cost TiVo money, the catalogues.

This product could most likely run all on its own with the servers replaced at no cost to them!
"The project is also notable for which press outlets appear to have been excluded, particularly the largest news outlets in America: The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and Washington Post, all of which do not appear to have worked on the papers and did follow-up stories."

Could it be the owners and or their associates are implicated?
And we shall call it.. WikiLeaks. Oh wait.
IE8 support brotha
Airbnb vows to take a “new approach” to culling illegal listings in SF
Thats very astute.
> I got too frustrated with gmail's interface changing all the time

I don't hear that often from people, but that was also one of the motivations for me to switch to mutt.
An insider’s handbook for IoT startups
FWIW, if it clarifies things, we disable shared secret auth when enabling mutual auth. At that point, you can really only call it with curl or your application.
The title is factually false, no such sale transpired.

Tony Fadell sold a device that is similar in shape to a container of hummus, and the author feels that it was worth less than hummus.
That's why I'm waiting for the Chinese shops to start making standards-compliant gear. I will gladly buy it and recommend others to buy.

I'm sick and tired of the US 'business playground' antics. A certain VC funding group is also well known for bad antics, although they got their client company slapped down by a rogue hacker for lockdown antics :) Imagine that.

http://hackaday.com/2014/11/18/thalmic-labs-shuts-down-free-...
I spent twenty years as a fertilizer company agronomist. I first worked with aerial infrared crop photos in 1983. The industry has been slow to launch and been limited to high priced crops because of cost.

If fertilizer companies and ag consultants could piggy back on top of the state's purchase of imagery it could be a game changer. If all the states would do this you'd see an entire industry grow up using it.
What is GNU Radio and why do I want it?
Nail, meet head.

That said, 47k still seems crazy high. I've never done Gov't consulting though. One hopes hardware was included in the contract?
It seems superficial to concentrate on a few kilobytes of binary blobs as a security issue when millions of logic gates are also hidden from user scrutiny by design in most computers. That the number of people you have to trust now includes firmware developers in addition to hardware designers is a small movement in the scheme of things, though it may be a movement in an undesirable direction.
As much as I hate the idea of basically bundling Chrome with the application to get it to run, since this is essentially Chrome then wouldn't it be able to utilize WebAssembly in the future instead of the JavaScript engine?
I like to joke that you could simply comment out the body of free() in any C/C++ program and achieve 99% of the benefits of GC.
Ask HN: How do you build a service?
I have an idea for an eCommerce web app that I want to launch either late this year or early next year (I'll be testing and such before then). There will be a self-hosted solution for open-source lovers, and a hosted service for people who don't want to deal with setup and maintenance.

My question is this: How do I actually get started with the hosted service? I've never done anything like this, so some pointers would be much appreciated. I plan to use DigitalOcean because I love their offerings.

Actually, one more thing! Every store would be a sub-domain, like how accounts are on deviantART. Need to figure out how to make that happen automatically via sign-up though.
No, but I do believe he only started throwing tantrums when he first became a rainmaker and knew it.
It would be cool if the drone's software can block the usage close to no fly zones automatically. I'm not sure how many have GPS (I assume the more expensive ones?).
> a lot of programmers are much happier with a GC than with manual memory management

I don't disagree. I'm happier when I don't have to worry about irrelevant things, like manual memory management. And of course I'm happier when I can achieve more results with less effort, like when there is a libary or framework that does what I need. This is only natural.

But not everything about Ruby is a happiness or productivity booster:

(0) Ruby doesn't lend itself to writing code that documents its own structure very well, which is a time sink when the code changes faster than your ability to document the changes. [No, tests aren't documentation. At best, they only document your intentions, not the actual code.]

(1) Ruby makes it unnecessarily difficult to perform basic sanity checks, like ensuring that you haven't forgotten any `when` branches in a `case` statement. The smallest testable unit is a method. Try unit-testing a loop invariant.

(2) As if the above technical deficiency weren't enough, culturally, Ruby pushes towards more cumbersome forms of testing [behavior-driven development], rather than less [property-based testing].

Note that none of these disadvantages has anything to do with the fact Ruby uses a garbage collector.
Saddam was replaced by ISIS after an American inspired civil war that Cheney saw coming in 1994, so from a geopolitical realpolitik perspective, Saddam as lying smugly in his grave with a smirk thinking he did nothing wrong. American rhetoric such as "he's killing his own people" holds little weight, when we have seen America prop up regimes that routinely kill their own people for example in Latin America. In the end I think they got rid of Saddam in 91 because they were actually scared that he could put them in check if he wanted to, and that was enough to warrant containing him. Sure dictators are bad, by imperialists are worse, especially when they don't give two shits about the people and use baseless rhetoric to justify their invasion.

What's need in the Middle East is a home grown secular, scientific revolution and rejection of Islam. Without that, nothing is possible there and all revolutions and evolutions will fail. The Imperialists will continue their half ass crusade to civilize the natives... while only causing havoc and destruction.
Religion has always been a trojan horse for political power.
ASL?
GaN is grown on SiC; best of both.
per capita, NYC has the smallest carbon footprint in the country.

increasing the population density of existing cities is the most responsible thing we could do, and beyond that, yes, more cities.
I imagine that even in Australia high voltage lines are exposed to laypeople via electrical sockets, with naught to protect the novice but being inset in some plastic.

In any case the idea of finding (or even sympathizing with) reasons to prevent owners from accessing their cars' inner functionality rubs me exactly the wrong way.
Read Smith:

<quote>

Of the Expense of Public Works and Public Institutions

The third and last duty of the sovereign or commonwealth is that of erecting and maintaining those public institutions and those public works, which, though they may be in the highest degree advantageous to a great society, are, however, of such a nature that the profit could never repay the expense to any individual or small number of individuals, and which it therefore cannot be expected that any individual or small number of individuals should erect or maintain. The performance of this duty requires, too, very different degrees of expense in the different periods of society.

After the public institutions and public works necessary for the defence of the society, and for the administration of justice, both of which have already been mentioned, the other works and institutions of this kind are chiefly those for facilitating the commerce of the society, and those for promoting the instruction of the people. The institutions for instruction are of two kinds: those for the education of youth, and those for the instruction of people of all ages. The consideration of the manner in which the expense of those different sorts of public, works and institutions may be most properly defrayed will divide this third part of the present chapter into three different articles.

...

That the erection and maintenance of the public works which facilitate the commerce of any country, such as good roads, bridges, navigable canals, harbours, etc., must require very different degrees of expense in the different periods of society is evident without any proof.

</quote>

Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Book V, Of the Revenue of the Sovereign or Commonwealth. Chapter 1: Of the Expences of the Sovereign or Commonwealth

https://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Wealth_of_Nations/Book_...

I'm kind of a big fan of people reading Smith, actually reading and reading him, not simply seeing someone else's interpretation (my own included). It's a bit of a big deal.

https://www.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/4cyroa/adam_sm...
Tipping is a cultural aspect, not a legal one. Tipping was written into the law because people were already tipping, not the other way around.
The Man Who Jumped Out the Window (2015)
there are some tiny jvms out there - uJ meant for microcontrollers gives a functional jvm in 60kb
How do I recover the accidentally deleted Notes on my iPhone SE
Connectivity Wars: Weaponizing Interdependence
Book Review: The Redistribution Recession
Probably the worst code I've ever seen, copy and paste gone crazy, buggy as hell in tracking where it is up to, just nasty and I really wanted to like it. Refund was no problem though.
Right, considering that pennies actually take about $0.02 to make.

Very big change in cost, considering the actual price of the TSA app.
I cancelled the plan as well, but ended up getting charged at renewal time. The effort required on my part to fix that mistake was unacceptable (submitting screen shots of my Nest account details, required to send photo of the serial number on the camera, weeks of communication delays), and they STILL owe me some money, and have ignored further requests.
I'm not sure being patronizing or sarcastic is particularly productive for situations where the person you are speaking to is of a higher status than you. This strikes me as something one wishes one could say, but doesn't dare.
* Listen more than you talk.

* Show up with a good attitude, every day.

* Under-promise, over-deliver.

* Be consistent 100% of the time, not great 10% of the time and crappy the other 90%.
GitHub is severely lacking in moderation tools, this is a good move.
It's written in CoffeeScript, so unless they rewrite in C++ using WebAssembly would make it slower.
> “It’s just flabbergasting,” he told me. “How many times can this keep happening before we finally realized we’re screwed?”

This comment in the article sums it up about right.
Or you can throw this in a table and be done with it.
> To counter your anecdote with one of my own: Literally everyone I know, including my 93 year old grand-parents own a smartphone and at least a laptop or desktop. Every. Single. One. That includes my technologically challenged siblings.

But will that always be the case, especially when the "next Netflix" comes around?

I'm in the same boat as you, everyone I know has both a laptop and/or desktop as well as a smartphone and possibly tablet.

However, less and less of these people I know are buying new laptops/PCs because for the average person... why do they need those?
What I use on OSX is "ExpanDrive", it's a nicely polished paid app that lets you mount sshfs drives system wide (your server only needs to support ssh access). With that you can manipulate remote files with whatever local program you have, it's fully transparent.
This is a nice write-up.

That said, I hope this is less of a surprise to people now: I coauthored one of the first pieces of working pointing out basically these same issues back in 2011 - almost 5 years ago:

http://anonymity-in-bitcoin.blogspot.ie/2011/07/bitcoin-is-n...

It's interesting to see what perceptions have changed. That there's still confusion shows how hard it is to disseminate information about encryption and privacy; maybe this the same reason e2e email encryption seems so difficult to get adopted, even decades after PGP: it's just hard to communicate about the bounds of privacy.

One point: the 'clusterisation' mentioned in the linked article isn't 'magic': most of the techniques people are using are actually very simple heuristics, based on properties of the Bitcoin protocol (transaction input linking, which we demonstrated), or assumptions about transaction 'change' (prone to false positives).

It's worth noting that there are more sophisticated tools that could be applied: machine learning or stats methods - but I've not seen them yet. Possibly because its hard to come up with good training datasets (unless you are a retainer or wallet?) and not worth investing in when simple methods show so much.
But its worth bearing in mind that more complex analysis is possible.

The overall conclusion being, IMO, that if you want privacy, it's probably usually easier to design it in from the start, rather than retrofit by progressively patching holes in a leaky system, against progressively better attacks: the latter is so hard to get to the point where it works solidly: for human reasons as much as technical ones; I think Bitcoin privacy seems destined to be an example of this.
Hmn, the Audible edition is only $3.50 if I own the Kindle edition. And that's only $0.99
By classist, do you mean "people who can't write software because they have problems in their life"? I don't understand how someone like that would be able to get a job as a software developer anyway. They might be able to get a trainee job or something, but I assumed we were talking about "people who have experience" jobs. However, unpaid internships are a very different thing:

If you work on free software in your free time, you're contributing to a commons that everyone (not just potential employers) benefits from. The fact that you contributed to a community of free software users shows that you have community involvement, are self-motivated and have the technical knowledge to work with the project you contributed to.

On the other hand, unpaid internships are a way to get free labour for mindless tasks that have nothing to do with actually working in the field. In many cases they are illegal, and many people from poorer families can't afford to work on an unpaid internship.

See the difference?
It's very hard to find a viable business model in machine learning or AI tools and platforms at the moment: the size of the market is small, and most money is being made by the end users. As a result companies who could get value from AI want to own it themselves (to keep all of this money themselves). It's a little bit like everyone wanting to own their own data center full of servers in 1999; at some point it will seem silly, but it's hard to sell against because it's accepted wisdom.

Doing services is a reasonable response to that market dynamic, although they certainly had a product vision too.

Without knowing any of the details, I'd say they can be proud of what was accomplished and how they managed their exit:
1. From what I've heard, some of the work they did in the medical domain really did help save lives or make them better
2. They probably returned the capital to their investors and kept most of their employees
3. They didn't get bought by a company that would be horrible to work for or is in terminal decline

Credit where it's due: they entered a rough market and managed it well.
Mississippi River Basin Model
It's been all of one week since a plane was hijacked.

http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/29/europe/hijacked-egypt-air-jet/
Relax. Be aware (but not worried) of your surroundings and act as you do and everything will work out. Hey you got the job, right? That's got to count for something!
I'm not sure the TSA app is weighted 50/50
I Love Mondays: Innovation wants to be open
Is programming time expensive?

Let's say you have a mobile app used by 1 billion people every day. It sounds crazy, but I bet a fair number of people in this forum contribute to such an application.

Imagine you want to make an optimization that increases battery life by 1%. Assume a 30Wh battery and that it's charged once per day. Over the two year lifetime of the phone, at $0.10 per KWh, that change would save your users 21.9 million dollars in aggregate. Even with a team of 40 people making $500,000 per year working for a year, you still increase the efficiency of society with that change!

(I know, this ignores the opportunity cost of adding a new feature before your competitor, or focusing on something that will bring more user happiness, or the externality that users don't notice the $0.00003 they're paying to supply your app with electricity. But the point is, we have a lot of power, and our time is much cheaper when multiplied proportionally to that impact.)
Google is a big CO. If they literally bricked their thermostats, wouldn't they be liable? I get a SAAS app can shut down without notice, but breaking hardware?
That's not a replacement everyone can find.
I couldn't find this answer either. It's difficult to trust someone with large hosting / development / etc costs but no business model. It's not a charity. How do they "keep the lights on" with no fees?
Always thought the first rule was never lie, not deny, deny, deny. Watch interviews with former heads of the CIA when asked a question they don't want to answer to see what I mean.
The entire Turkish citizenship database has allegedly been leaked online
We don't live in safer times. Times are as dangerous as before. The difference is that there are a group of volunteers who fight the wars so that the rest can pretend the world is safer.

The world would appear less safe to you if you, or someone close to you, were required to serve and fight the wars.
You don't get the right to be annoyed when you have to comply with the license terms of something that you haven't had to spend time working on (and usually get without paying for it).
I'm afraid I don't share your anti-state religious convictions.
Thank you so much. Downloaded for 15 minutes. File-torrent. Archive 1.5 GB. There is evidence of Erdogan and Ahmet Dobutoglu.
"Maybe the real state secret is that spies aren't very good at their jobs and don't know much about the world."

Adam Curtis hilariously documents the 20th centuries near 100% failure rate of the British Secret Services (except when they manufactured a plot).

And how they were created to hunt fictional spies dreamed up by paranoid tabloid readers obsessed with novels about German spies.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis/entries/3662a707-0af9-...
Make a thing responsive, people bitch about how many plugins you're using.

Make a thing vanilla, people bitch about how it doesn't work on their phone.
Wow. USGS has a store with this poster: https://store.usgs.gov/b2c_usgs/catalog/setCurrentItem/(isQu...

In case that brutal link doesn't work: go to https://store.usgs.gov/ and search for "Under the Golden Gate Bridge".

The poster is basically 1M^2 so is a decent size.

EDIT: Not 1M^3, but 1M^2. We'll have to wait for the 1M^3 version...
I never said that, don't turn yourself into a victim.
Money is a claim on value, and fungibility forces everyone to honor all claims on value. An incorruptible record of the flow of trade through an economy allows you to eliminate fungibility. You can withdraw your consent for people to trade claims on your production. This ability requires no one's permission and makes you more powerful as an individual.

ISIS, for instance, can only hold territory because everyone accepts the claims on value that they give their foot soldiers. I want to stop honoring those claims to reduce their power. Manufacturers shift their carbon emissions to friendly jurisdictions instead of, you know, not risking our only home for cheap consumer goods. They do this to acquire more claims on value, and I don't want to honor those claims because I like Earth.

Fungibility is literally killing people and destroying our planet. I think we'll be better off without it, though as with all significant social shifts, it probably needs more study to avoid unforeseen consequences like genocides and stuff. Blockchains are not anonymous—their incorruptible histories give us the tools to reshape our society. Use them.
and Le Carré has said that he sexed even that up from his experience working as a spy.
Sorry, but this would be an innovation, not a subversion of it. I not have the answer, but know it's possible; also know it goes against the interests of the auto industry.
A major discovery in the search to produce clean biofuel
Had the same thought. See my comment elsewhere in the thread. Turns out that the USGS sells posters.