skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1) AWS != Amazon. Amazon went public 10+ years before AWS launched. AWS is a tiny part of Amazon's revenue today. You moved the goal posts! We were discussing a money-losing Internet retail pure-play; you're comparing to a heavily-subsidized (via start-up capital etc.) tech services pure-play.

2) Which is another key point: the prospects of the company at IPO are very different from the company today. A bet on AMZN today is largely a bet on AWS, which is very different than a bet on AMZN in 1997. If Twilio continues to succeed, it will be because they can use this investment to grow into a stronger long-term position.

I don't know Twilio well enough to take a bet either way. I'm just pointing out that most smart people (you, even, perhaps?) didn't think Amazon would be that gorilla, either. And that was the correct bet, which just happened to turn out wrong.

So if forced to bet, I bet with statistics (against Twilio). But only because building that gorilla is insanely hard (and depends on luck) and not for any of the reasons you've cited.
The time complexity of comparing variables for equivalence during type unification is reduced from O(n!) to O(n). As a result, some programming patterns compile much, much more quickly.

I love this. Not just my code compiling more quickly, but the underlying implementation is super interesting.
Yeah no worries :)

> Any idea if that is possible in this case?

This is what I meant by liftimes being descriptive, not prescriptive: you can't add an annotation and make something live longer. Moving the binding itself is the only way.
I have no affiliation with Pointscene but to me it was rather simple. You can upload your 3D point cloud data and share it with others to view. I figured this out within a few seconds of looking at the site.

Lidar comes in because that is a common method to capture this data.

With a higher level account you can measure, download, and have private data. I'm not sure how useful that would be, but that's the value proposition.
> I'm fairly sick of this "no one does wrong" attitude and the complete lack of personal responsibility here.

Agreed. People make laws. People have a right to point the finger once in awhile to justify new laws or policies
Remove the top-down requirements and let airlines run their own security screenings. Those people who are very afraid of terrorism can pay a little extra and wait in line longer in exchange for the psychic benefit, and those who aren't worried at all can breeze through a minimal security process.
It seems like a lot of people want to excuse Uber in this case, or want to build around it an argument that we should be forgiving and not judge convicted felons overly harshly, lest we make it impossible for them to rebuild their lives. While I have some sympathy for the latter argument in particular, basing such arguments on Hemming's situation strikes me as unwise.

In five minutes or so on the Maryland state district courts' website, we discover that Hemming has considerable form [1], mostly around unlawful possession of controlled substances and prescription forgery, although there is a domestic abuse prosecution which doesn't appear to have gone to trial [2], probably because it was treated as mutual combat [3] and both parties chose to drop charges.

Would you feel safe in a car with this man?

Would you trust this man to drive a car for your hire service?

Would you consider it unreasonable to expect five minutes' due diligence of Uber?

[1] http://casesearch.courts.state.md.us/casesearch/inquirySearc....

[2] http://casesearch.courts.state.md.us/casesearch/inquiryDetai....

[3] http://casesearch.courts.state.md.us/casesearch/inquiryDetai....
And it does sound like a lot of fun.. I just prefer to be able to augment it with StackOverflow/Google :)
Have you thought about starting up multiple replicas of your database in parallel and then pointing each test suite to a different one? This way you may be able to parallelize them very well.
You misunderstand. I'm very happy to create a complicated hierarchy of evil and give different penalties for different crimes. (I.e., send "violent" to "sufficiently violent".) I wasn't trying to say "all people who've every committed something that could be called violent should be banned from interacting with humans". I was just refuting the simplistic parent comment "are people with criminal records simply unhireable?", as if the fact that we clearly want to allow some reformed criminals to have some jobs means we can't permanently ban some other types of criminals from some other types of jobs.

And you know what? If I'm sending my kid on something like Shuddle,

http://www.engadget.com/2016/04/15/shuddle-ride-sharing-serv...

I don't want the driver to have ever been in a bar fight ever.

And for what it's worth, I do have a friend who got in a fist fight in a grocery store parking lot in college. It's certainly not damnation and I think he paid his debt, but I also think that incident accurately reflects on his character. He's a good guy most of the time, but I don't want him driving my grandmother around.
The big question is the elasticity of their market. Microsoft could charge high prices because they were pretty much the only game in town first for microcomputer programming languages and then for PC-compatible operating systems. If they raised their prices, what would their customers do? Not write software? Write for a platform that has no users?

If Twilio raises their prices, will they make more money? Or will it cause people to not use Twilio, either opting for competing free services or using alternatives to SMS entirely? I don't know, and I don't think Twilio does either; hence the profitability risk.
I would love to try this platform out.
I got my phone (probably one of the last) in February. I can't agree with any of your points - not a single one! This Jolla phone is superb: fast (including web browsing), reliable, easy to use, with support for all the Android apps I'm interested in.

My only complaint is that the software (Sailfish OS) is let down by the hardware. I wish Jolla had been brave enough to gamble with the Mirasol display; too late now, since Apple's acquired the tech (and will probably do awesome things with it).

With my bluetooth keyboard, I'm happy playing with emacs (Slime and SBCL), and hopefully soon Erlang - all through a native terminal. For lightning fast web browsing, I use Links2. I certainly can't do any of this on an Apple device, and Android - is it possible? I'll never know - I'm spoilt with my Jolla.
As an outsider, what is the best way to measure or identify the bubble?

Is a "VC firm filing for bankruptcy" the only indicator?

Can someone more knowledgeable share some thoughts on this?
Net loss: Don't think that is a biggie. They expanded their cost base both in R&D, sales & marketing, and general and admin. With a little bit of cost discipline for one year, they are going to be profitable.

Voting rights: that is indeed yucky.

Competitive threat: Not really. The inertia for existing customers is high, especially since the average revenue per active account is about $580/month. For a big company, that is not worth optimizing. And switching to another (unproven) API from a running system... not likely.
Re do better. I've skimmed enough papers on the stuff to say the physics is too complex for me to have an opinion either way. It's the implementation issues they're always fighting, though.

Re masks. I know. The reason I mention it is they're both essentually drawn by hand a piece at a time. Showing why one is too slow to use for significant volumes should enlighten you on other. Yet, if tiny volumes, might be acceptable but machines cost $$$.

Re eASIC. eASIC uses a multiple, eBeam machine for theirs. They might have more than one. They directly write the stuff onto the naterial. That it's a S-ASIC defined by one, custom layer is why it's so quick and cheap. A full ASIC has many layers so price/time goes way up.

Btw, I'd be interested in an email from the guy to ask him a few questions. Im especially interested if he needs a cleanroom, how he packages them, and what software is like to assess subversion counters at interface level.
The solution is not trying so hard to keep up. Keep your ears open for the major improvements that rise above the noise, but don't feel like you have to be on the cutting edge. Much of the cutting edge is (almost by definition) misguided or overcomplicated.

The sweet spot if your goal is to actually build something is taking whatever architecture is currently hip and throwing out about 2/3 of it in exchange for a simpler approach. Then circle back for the fancier libraries a few months later if and when you have a need for them.
Computer cracks the Boolean Pythagorean triples problem–but is it really maths?
While Jon Skeet's C# might not need much help, there are lots of topics on StackOverflow that could benefit from the interest of experienced developers...or even less experienced ones.
"Fastest" is an incorrect superlative, though the error is in the HN title, not in the linked article. The correct superlative is "highest capacity" -- 160 Tb/sec.
Still learning VIM user here, do we have something like this?
I make an effort to a avoid foods made with biodiesel, as I am of the opinion that deodorized polyunsaturated oils are not appropriate for human consumption.

If I'm sort of lazy, I'll eat something made with palm oil, even though there is a lot of Omega 6.
Patent troll asks judge to turn off FaceTime and iMessages
Am I the only one thinking this issue is going to seriously injure/kill someone sooner rather than later, and then Tesla will be having a big problem?

If a person was behind that stopped van, trying to figure out what the van's problem was, or if they had the van jacked up on one corner to change a blown tire, this same crash could easily have been fatal.
> strong movements to build more residential capacity.

Alas, you may be underestimating just how politically dysfunctional the Bay Area is.
To avoid this the team could agree on what branches rebase is OK, maybe adopting a naming scheme that will make clear what branches might pull the rug from under you (e.g.: branches namespaced with the developer's username (i.e.: drewg123/fix-for-bug)).

I personally prefer to rebase on a new branch, naming the new branches with a suffix in the form "-vN". Would something go wrong with the rebase, it will be way simpler to reset the new branch to the head of the old than to recover from the reflog. Nowdays I rely heavily autosquash, interactive add, interactive rebase and Magit (which makes the later two a breeze).
Person carrying bacteria resistant to antibiotics of last resort found in U.S.
ish https://media.giphy.com/media/3o6EhCnV9fgZQgw6xG/giphy.gif
I said we have overvalued the certifications/diplomas, not that they don't have value. I also never implied that schools were meant to be perfect.

My point is that we have zeroed in on the certification/diploma too much and have begun (until recently) paying too much attention to whether the cert has been attained as opposed to what it is supposed to represent. The reason why I believe this happened is because it is much easier to quantify a diploma or any other certification, "Oh you graduated! That must mean X." It is harder to ascertain whether or not a person who gained a diploma or cert actually deserves it or learned anything in the process.
There was an article awhile back about this: http://terminalcornucopia.com/
Listening to Advice About Work
The commercial SMS market is full of companies that are rivals but also customers.

This is happening because the actual network operators often require their customers to provide a volume of X SMS's per month, and they have to pay upfront.
They are then selling their capacity downstream in a long distribution chain, finally ending up with regular businesses that wants to add SMS capability.

Regulation changes is the only thing that stirs the market tbh.
Sales & marketing is 49 million, R&D is 42 million. So, I guess the critical factor is the degree of user turnover. If they lose users too quickly, they need to keep spending big on sales & marketing. It doesn't seem like the sort of market where people jump ship quickly though, since once you've added the piece of code that integrates with their services, you'd only replace it if the other api is a lot cheaper or somehow more capable / reliable.
A biological computer, graph reachability, and P=NP
WebGazer.js: Scalable Webcam EyeTracking Using User Interactions
It can't possibly have a higher false positive rate than literally treating every person the same. When the first old white lady commits an act of terrorism, then let's screen them, but until then, let's not.

That's an extreme example, but if you agree that we don't need to look at old white ladies, then we both agree that profiling is preferable. All that's left to discuss are the boundaries.
To remove the icon from your cmd+tab: open the preferences/settings for the application and under "Application Options" use the multi-select field from "Both" to "Only Menu Bar", then restart the app. The icon won't be in your dock or cmd+tab anymore, but lives in the menu bar :)
It does apply broadly. There are certain professions where you can't work if you have a certain kind of criminal record. this isn't new news
collect will ... collect it all into some kind of data structure, so yeah, that version would be doing a bunch of allocation.
Huh? The first "hello world" equivalent occurs in the beginning.

https://www.fullstackreact.com/articles/react-tutorial-cloni...
Wide spread ad blocking would be fatal or nearly fatal to Google. The loss of the vast majority of their income and the resulting contraction that comes with that would probably tear apart the company.
Right. As I said in my comment to the original article:

'Most of this is good security advice. This is not: "certain travelers, at TSA spotters’ discretion, [should] be exempt from screening altogether." In security, that sort of middle-ground is dumb: either the barrier should exist or it should not; if it should exist we should not have a habit of whisking people through it. Perhaps you think that there should be a barrier which checks carry-on luggage for guns: your security expectation is that nobody should have a gun on the plane. Suppose a terrorist wants to violate this expectation and get on a plane with a gun. First, he's going to print fake boarding passes to test the security line. There is no gun; he's just going through security, going to the restroom on the other side, then coming back out. He wants to know who is pulled out and whisked through -- perhaps light-skinned women, perhaps pilots, perhaps people in suits. He will then make this pilgrimage in a pilot's uniform, or inviting a female terrorist as his accomplice, perhaps even dressing her as a flight attendant. Maybe he will find that sympathetic screeners always cave to a disheveled suited man with a story, "I slept in, I have a really important business meeting, my flight leaves in ten minutes, can you help me?" If he finds any reliable mechanism to be whisked through the line, it's game over. He only has one shot to bring the gun through the screening, but he has unlimited tries to figure out what will make him look respectable enough to get that free pass.'
She was acquitted of leaking the Collateral Murder video in 2009, but only because she plead _guilty_ to leaking it later. That was simply a matter of timing, the government got one charge wrong.

She was also acquitted of "aiding the enemy", which was an extraordinary overreaching charge from the government.
Very interesting. Thanks for that.
Homejoy is coming back
Canada please... there's no end to money I'm throwing your way then :->
I think that already exists, in the form of insurance.
Why criticize people for caring about something if you didn't also care about the same thing?
A comment with an uncivil slight is not a civil comment. Uncivil slights need to be edited out, full stop.

Yes, the rest of the comment was fine, which is why we left it unkilled, despite the tedious tangent it provoked.
Open Letter to Peter Thiel, Gawker, and Hulk Hogan
A drop in ping pong table sales is a leading indicator[0].

0: http://www.wsj.com/articles/is-the-tech-bubble-popping-ping-...
> These are Farnswoth Fusors, first developed by Philo T Farnsworth, one of the inventors of television.

that sounds like something straight out of a heinlein book!
Tons of jobs put you in a position of power over others. You can poison people's burgers at McDonalds. You can steal people's data if you're in IT. You can steal people's money if you're in finance.

The only jobs that don't put you in some kind of position of power in our society are ultra low skilled minimum wage jobs, and even many of those give you some kind of power. It is unreasonable to exclude people from all of these jobs, so it makes sense to exclude them only from jobs where that power dynamic is particularly extreme, and I don't think driving an Uber qualifies.
"When you create targets, quotas, there’s a danger these get filled but not by the best people."

It was a refreshing surprise to see a quote like that in an article like this!
Shorting SF real estate seems like a really, really bad idea to me. There have been a lot of articles recently about the research that SF real estate has been going up 6.6% a year for 60+ years now. Of course, there have been some downturns along the way, but the only way to profit from these downturns with a short position is basically perfect timing. I'm sure someone will do it, get lucky, make a killing, and be the subject of lots of "look how smart this person was" articles, but we probably won't see any articles about the tons of people who tried to do the same thing, were unlucky with their timing, and lost their shirts.
Ponzi schemes do not have a set time line and any successful Ponzi scheme will have most participants exit with a profit until the Ponzi scheme collapses and then the remaining participants will be holding nothing.
this deserves its own Show HN
He talks about how experiencing racism during his youth inspired him in the video.
This Is Why Billionaire Peter Thiel Wants to End Gawker
I am too surprised they did a new phone after the tablet fiasco. I wonder how it differs from the Intex phone they showed on MWC 2016 in February.

I really wonder if they think about the product name in terms of people who try to look it up. "jolla" in Finnish also means "on which" (in addition to "dinghy" or some little boat), which makes it really difficult to look up on finnish websites.
This x1000. I generally concur that there will need to be sacrifices in terms of false positives inconveniencing people by "profiling" them, but I seriously doubt that race, religion, and/or national origin is the best metric we can come up with for profiling reasons. Honestly, I think there's a strong parallel with the way we see neural networks "play" games without following the heuristics that work best for our brains (which we have seen historically that human generated heuristics are not optimal heuristics).

And what else is the intention of profiling except to create a good enough "heuristic"? Let's strive for a better heuristic please.
You've got some listening ahead of you:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6aAFkP0BGU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TN-kDEKxF0
Please do a UK version, better yet a worldwide version
A dating app for finding founders based on personal and professional qualifications and match? I guess it has been tried before but why not again
Nothing is stopping those people from paying more for an "experience airline" that will feel them up, perhaps even with a happy ending.

Airplanes are such an attractive target for those who'd like to cause terror, because they're a favorite setting of terrorists - those in the media and government who sensationalize tragedies for their own benefit. These hucksters are the essential problem, and they need to be shunned, disempowered, and repudiated.
Revenue is great; sales & marketing costs are fine, competitive environment is great; the main concern here is the cost of ongoing service.

Revenue: Twilio made $166M in 2015. From Q1 2015 to Q1 2016, thew grew 80% -- so we can project a 2016 revenue of around $300M. At that pace, they'll hit ~$1B in 2018 or 2019.

Landscape: They have very few competitors, in constrast to other high-profile enterprise startups like Box.

Cost of revenue: Their cost of revenue -- servers, telecom bandwidth, customer support -- is ~45% of revenue. Typical SaaS startups run around 20-30%. I suppose this is the danger of being in the telecom space -- you do have high data costs.

Sales & marketing: Coming in at ~$50M, or ~30% of revenue is quite reasonable. Box raised concerns a couple of years back when S&M were 125% of revenue; they were able to get it down to 65% or so and then they IPO-ed. 30% is fine.
This is exactly wrong. Profiling does not increase safety whatsoever. Bruce Schneier argues it much better than I would:

> If the choice is between random searching and profiling, then random searching is a more effective security countermeasure. But Dunn is correct above when he says that there are some enormous trade-offs in liberty. And I don't think we're getting very much security in return.

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2005/07/searching_bag...

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2005/07/profiling.htm...
...which is why the effort now is at a state level which takes it out of their hands. Then again, who's to say state politics are much better?
Yeah, probably the worst thing about the valley culture is that organic growth has lost it's charm. There was value in bootstrapping, making revenue, then profits and then seeking funding as a way of increasing profits by growing.

My understanding is that silicon valley VC culture started out because people were building hardware and this required some investment to get started. Software is totally different and with AWS and the like, building software is so cheap. But no, now it's basically: take money, give out stuff for free and take more money showing the free customers and get even more free questions and take even more money and so on. In the end, nobody knows the true value of the company - the founders, the VCs or the customers. True money is made by either ads, selling customer data or lock-in by making migrations to another service very expensive.

What irks me is that this scheme overly favours VCs and to some part the founders. The thing is the stream of founders who are willing to do this is never ending (same thing about privacy. the number of people willing to give up their privacy consciously is never ending). Even YC thinks of the whole thing as a game (if you followed the snapchat thing). I am cynical but this is really about rich people having fun and everyone else (customers, employees) is getting suckered. None of these companies are being built to last.
He's correct. The economy will only support "fluff" for so long. At some point, no one will be willing to acquire these companies for their price, and the public won't support an IPO at their price also. Revenue and cash flow are vital to long-term success. Increasing your sticker price just by saying your company is worth more doesn't hold up in the real world. Find a problem, solve the problem way better than anyone else is, and create a monopoly with real profits. It's not easy, but that's where the real wealth is created.
Developer mindshare is sticky though - much more so than monopolies (fragile, disruptible, unless protected by law).
Yeah I found that strange too.
Because it supports the delusion they have put themselves into.
In what way are they responsible? Why should a company be responsible for the criminal behavior of its employees, when those employees are not acting in the interest of the company?

Sure, if an employee cuts corners to save the company money and earn a promotion, yes, that's the company's fault. But if a teller shoots some guy that walks in, is that really the bank's fault?