skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
VCs will use their experience and the fact that they have done 10's of deals whereas your average founder will do 1 deal in their whole career as a natural advantage. The only way to counter that is to get yourself some competent legal advice in the run-up to getting funding and to make sure that your walk-away option (to go without funding) is a solid one. If funding is all that stands between you and being able to continue to run your business then you are playing for very high stakes in a game where others can dictate the rules. Better make sure you really understand the rules.

So, every year a fair number of companies 'exit', that is, their founders and their investors tend to make a substantial multiple of the value that they put in. The latest investors usually have the best terms, earlier investors have lesser terms and the founders will have the worst terms. The multiples for the latest investors will be the lowest, for the earlier investors higher and for the founders the multiples will be the highest. But that does not say much about the absolute 'take home' amounts.

It is rare - but not unheard of - for liquidation preferences to eat up all of the result, but it is not at all rare to see founders make substantially less than they thought they would make. And those are the good cases, in a bad case (for instance, a bankruptcy) all of the proceeds could go to an investor + all of the IP if you are not very careful. So make sure you understand the terms and internalize 100% that a large valuation during a funding round can work for you as well as against you quite easily depending on the final price your company will fetch at an exit and the exact parameters of the deal.

VC money is not free.

This is not simple stuff and plenty of founders are hopelessly naive when it comes to understanding their position.
The term "tumor suppressor" doesn't necessarily mean that the gene exists for the sole purpose of preventing cancer. It just means that the protein's normal function happens to prevent cells from becoming cancerous. Many DNA-repair proteins fall into this category, for example, simply because repairing errors in a cell's DNA reduces the probability of that cell accumulating cancer-causing mutations. And yet, DNA-repair proteins pre-date the evolution of multicellular organisms, so they cannot possibly have evolved as a response to cancer.

In practice, the term "tumor suppressor" generally means a gene for which recessive loss of function mutations are associated with cancer (i.e. you have to lose function of both copies of the gene in the same cell before there's an effect), while "oncogene" means a gene for which dominant gain of function mutations are associated with cancer (i.e. mutation in one copy of the gene is sufficient to have an effect). Neither term implies anything about how the gene evolved or whether selection due to cancer was a factor in the evolution of the gene.
Robert Paine showed the importance of predators in maintaining an ecosystem. The same effects are occurring at scale across the entire California coast right now. Massive numbers of Sea stars (starfish) have died[1] due to "Sea star wasting disease"[2] which is caused by Sea Star Associated Densovirus (SSaDV)[3].

No sea stars causes huge numbers of sea urchins which causes the disappearance of kelp forests. My favorite kelp forest to scuba dive in the Monterey Bay is now an urchin barren[4]. No fish, no sea otters, just sea urchins. I was there a month ago and it is gone.

[1]: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2015/03/150401-urchins-se...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_star_wasting_disease

[3]: http://phys.org/news/2014-11-densovirus-devastating-sea-star...

[4]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urchin_barren
My in-law's laptop "upgraded to Win 10 all by itself" last week (that's how they described it), and I can only suppose that one of them closed the nagging pop up, unknowingly triggering the update.

After rebooting, neither the keyboard nor the trackpad would work. I had a spare USB keyboard (no mouse), and I managed to delete the faulty drivers, which were replaced on reboot by valid ones (the bad drivers were reported as 'up to date', so updating wouldn't do it).

Disabling all the spyware features with only a keyboard during the post-install setup wasn't fun. Thankfully, the device manager is still his old Win95 self, and I could easily navigate through it even though I haven't owned a Windows machine since XP.

I learned after the fact that refusing the User Agreement would revert to the previous version of the OS. I wish I had known that before finalizing the impromptu upgrade.
I agree with both of you, in some regards. But just thinking about it...maybe it's okay to have an uphill battle to get into a field that's prized. "Natural selection" of sorts...or survival of the fittest, etc. The field being dominated by males at this moment, might simply be a temporal problem that will automatically change in time without much specific effort.
Open an issue as to how that would work and I can take a look (I have commit bit on Kappa now).
I looked at the post by Nuand, and it doesn't say “open source”, it just says “we are releasing the source”. Maybe they've fix the post not to say “open source”.
One reason I can think of, and the reason I'm staying on Win7 as long as possible - Windows 10 installs updates and reboots (killing all open windows, unsaved documents, browser tabs, etc) without asking for permission to do so. This outrages me.
Whilst I have your attention ;) Are there any plans to add CalDav/iCal client functionality to NextCloud? I'd like my NextCloud server to sync with external calendars (E.g my work Google calendar) so that I only have to point my client devices at my own server.
Whether or not you like it, it should be by consent.
I tried that. It learns what you're doing pretty quickly.

I was doing better by just trying to continually break whatever pattern I had fallen into, and occasionally throwing in some long predictable patterns (i.e. all the same key) to simulate the low chance of a long predictable string occurring. That had me down in the ~.4 range for a while. (Edit: Down to 0.23529 this try)
you are confusing begin unconscious, i.e. in a comatose state, with consciousness. Other than the similarity of the words, they have little in common.

Being unconscious might imply that the mind is running in a state of little or no consciousness, but it is not defined by that. Assuming a cat or dog has no consciousness, it would still be called 'conscious' in his waking state.
Automotive and Commercial Locksmith
Show HN: Playing around with matter-js
reminds me McKenna`s timewave zero
Multiple Apple Services Not Functioning
Simply state "The test will be (bell)curved". Now all students have the same goal: perform better than as many other students as possible.
Well, no, I don't think it's a burden and a sacrifice to take care of kids. From what I hear it's one of the most rewarding things in life, and I look forward to it (I'm in my late 20s and am thinking about having kids ten or so years from now). This is more in the context of career breaks, i.e., the current HN thread - in that context, taking time off a career is a burden.

I actually do know a few couples who've had long discussions about staying home. "Not really thinking about it" is a bit harsh, I admit, and I'll back off a bit there; but certainly the cultural bias leads to a default assumption, which people seem not to notice sometimes, i.e., the discussion framed as whether the mother should stay home, not who should stay home. For the couples I'm aware of, the father continuing to work was not in question.

I do think your implication that mothers may care more about kids than fathers do ("that's not to say that fathers don't either, but who do you think wins...") is a little disappointing. It's part of the cultural bias that I am trying to fight against here.

And finally, please don't call me a troll just because I have different ideas and opinions than you do. I'm trying to have a good-faith conversation and I care a lot about this issue. (Yes, I'm using a throwaway because any sort of gender politics discussion is politically dangerous. I hope my points are not dismissed as a result.)
OwnCloud Statement Concerning the Formation of Nextcloud by Frank Karlitschek
Torus is also definitely single mount.
Download BitTorrent Pro Crack Full Version
It might be harder to solve either problem in isolation than it is to solve both at the same time.
No, stockfish uses minimax with pruning.

Minimax and MCTS are just different algorithms.

MCTS simulates games randomly and creates a distribution of expected value for each one based on some cool math. It estimates the value of each state based on a sample. Minimax actually calculates them all (or all of them except for some pruned ones).

That's the whole reason MCTS can work on Go and minimax doesn't. Minimax actually needs to look at all possible branches all the way down. MCTS can just say "well its been 100ms, let's use the estimates I have".
I'm an Android user, and I have disabled auto updating, so I'm not sure my apps auto update.
I'm sorry you had a bad experience; I've contacted Maciej twice in the past for questions related to the API and he answered swiftly.
I try to play Minecraft these days, but it makes me so lonely.

This comes from the fact that I run a server which used to have ~20 on at any given time and now has 0, along with the fact that I learned to play it alongside my ex-girlfriend.

I wish there was some way for me to get past the loneliness.
I don't suggest that the thrown starfish are returning, but perhaps that others nearby might be moving into the test area. But it would have been interesting to tag them and see if they were in fact coming home

The use of a nearby control, or for that matter any control, is based on the assumption that absent the differential treatment there should be no observed change. I'd say that in selecting a pair of control and experimental areas one should first monitor them over a significant period of time to establish that they are stable or at least similar enough. Otherwise a change that was inevitable in one but not the other will appear to have been the result of the experiment.

I'd want to see more samples and some sort of region-wide survey to establish whether the baseline populations are in flux region-wide.
Because if I wanted to spend the time and energy to learn a new ui it'd be macos not metro. Also, my roommate upgraded her few year old laptop and 10 is much slower than 7.
You were downvoted by users, and rightly so. Comments about how "hot" a woman looks are below HN's standard both for civility and for substance. If that isn't obvious to you, you should probably stop commenting here until it is.

(I say "woman" instead of "person" here because that's pretty much always the case.)
You should back up your critical files somewhere else than in a place where someone can wipe them, preferably off-line.
> There is no real difference between the two.

There is when comparing hourly compensation in a role that provides no paid time off with hourly compensation in role that provides paid time off. For instance, a $10/hr that accrues 1 hour of paid sick leave for every 30 hours of work (the minimum for an accrual plan meeting California's paid sick leave mandate) is better paid than a $10/hr job that does not (the actual value is up to $10.33/hr, though restrictions on the use of paid sick leave may make it somewhat less but always greater than $10/hr.)

> "Paid" time off is as much of a lie as "employer" payroll taxes.

Employer-share payroll taxes are not a lie, either; they are both real taxes, and they really do not come out of your gross pay (they may reduce the gross pay the employer is willing to offer, but that doesn't make them "a lie", it just means they have other effects.)

The distinction probably was most critically important to people who had employment contracts in place that straddled the time when payroll taxes were first implemented, since the employee share was the part that the employee's reimbursement was reduced below the status quo ante, whereas the employer share was not.

Like paid time off, its important to keep the difference in mind when comparing employment that has employer-share payroll taxes (generally, W-2 employment) with employment that does not but instead pays the equivalent of both shares as self-employment taxes (1099), since the nominal pay of the two kinds of employments is not directly comparable without adjusting for the differences.
I disagree that basic income and minimum wage is about the same thing.

I would be interested in where you have got the data from for that assertion that it was because of a tech boom and subsequent real estate boom. At the moment I believe the person who actually employs people as a large manufacturer than what is mentioned here in a comment.

If you would like to give your sources, I would be interested.
Yahoo's stake in Alibaba and Yahoo Japan is worth more than all of Yahoo together (including those investments). Mayer had no control over the performance of those two companies, which are driving the current valuation of her company.
> cash DOES NOT change a company's valuation

That's wrong. As you say later, the Enterprise Value (= Market Cap - Cash + Debt) doesn't change when the company accumulates cash. But the Market Cap increases. Otherwise, how do you balance the equation to keep the Enterprise Value unchanged?
There's a difference between security and stability updates and major version changes.

I have no compelling reason to upgrade my Windows 7 machine to Windows 10; 7 performs all the tasks I need it to. I do not trust the privacy changes in Windows 10, which is more reason for me not to upgrade.

I've disabled the Windows 10 upgrade path, but otherwise keep it up-to-date on all patches.

What do I do when Windows 7 support ends? I'll cross that bridge when I get to it... but that bridge won't be to Windows 10.
I know this is anecdote and a single data point, but I find it interesting nonetheless.

My mom, 60+ year old, decided she wanted to learn proper English. Being an aircraft controller, she already knew enough to get by on the job (communication is pretty much standardized). But nowhere near enough to get by in the US.

After a few conventional approaches (such as physical English classes), she somehow found out about Second Life and enrolled in a (paid!) course.

Fast forward a couple of years. She can now hold conversations in English and go out by herself without a family member translating. As an observer, the progress was outstanding.

One thing that I have noticed is that it can be way more interactive than "normal" classes. For instance, there was a lesson that took place at an airport. So, instead of just an opening dialog in a book, and then some discussion, their avatars were at a functioning airport. So they could go all the way from arriving at the airport to boarding the plane, having dialogue all the way. Not sure if the airplane did or could take off though.

At another one that I witnessed, they were at a clothing store. So they could actually interact with a human shopkeeper, buy the article of clothing they wanted, then put on their avatar.

Having attended "standard" classes all my life, I was blown away by how much the virtual environment would foster dialogue. Usually, a teacher has a hard time coaxing this kind of interaction in a classroom setting.

Also of importance is that, since you are hidden behind an avatar, shy people seem more comfortable. Things such as race and, to an extent, age, are completely hidden.

Not sure if VR would help anything, except for the "cool" factor, which can't be discounted.
This is great. How do you feel about Minetest?
I also decided not to answer your question.
Does not GPU compute
Matterport | Sunnyvale, CA | ONSITE | Full-Time | https://matterport.com

Roles: Infrastructure Eng / Back-End,Full Stack / Computer Vision / Senior iOS Eng

Stack: Python, Javascript, C++, Objective-C, Cocoa, AWS, RESTful

Apply:https://matterport.com/careers/positions/

Process: Resume > Phone screen > Onsite > Offer

Contact: Email to vbui(at) matterport(dot)com
I had removed all the Win10 upgrade files and registry keys, etc from my box at one point, yet somehow - probably during an update - the files have come back. It is now showing me that pop-up again.
100% agree with you. I was just more interested in why they would go through the effort to wipe and reinstall Windows 7 once the upgrade was (forcefully) done.
NetAidKit: your private open source router for the web
Macs are nowhere near as usable as Linux systems in any respect, especially at the GUI level. The Mac GUI is just, fundamentally, a mistake Apple made in the 1980s and never moved on from. Even Jobs recognized the Mac's error when he made NeXT, which now lives on in WindowMaker.
I am unaware about the current situation, but two years back qlick related jobs used to be a high paying and in-demand.
GitHub should give this guy a bunch of cash and make this an option in the app.
I wasn't aware of the Lattice story, interesting.

Yeah, I guess in the old days before the Internet and with expensive BBS connections, the technology had more silos than nowadays, because it was harder to move masses for any given technology.
This is so cool! Thanks for sharing!
Oil Traders May Be the Only Ones Who Want Yahoo to Survive
[0]
"One reason for the poor Nordic performance at higher corporate levels is high taxes, which limits the amount of household services supplied through markets. If it is harder to hire someone to do the chores, that makes it harder for women to invest the time to climb the career ladder."

This is just so goddamn laughable. Again we come back to the implication that women are the de-facto owners of housework.

[1] just shows that in countries where people tell children the meaningless platitude of "girls aren't any different than boys" without treating girls and boys differently there's no change. An increase in anxiety there makes perfect sense -- at least if I'm told I'm bad at something I don't have to stress out about why I'm inferior.

[2] Just like everyone reasonable has been saying for decades, paid leave for women isn't the only metric you should be looking at. Creating a disparity in paid leave for women and men again creates a default assumption of women as caregivers. It also determines workplace reentry. In this sense, rather than pushing for extended maternal leave in the U.S., we should be pushing for equal paternity leave.

[3] This is not a measure of getting women into computing, it's a proxy. Having been to the middle east I can tell you that college graduation rates are not a good metric to determine how many women are in the workforce. I'd say nearly half of the women (middle - upper middle class) had engineering degrees. Just about none of them had jobs, especially in rural areas. It's a piece of paper that increases your eligibility for marriage -- "look my wife has a CS degree, she's very smart, but she doesn't have to work".
That matches my (amateur) understanding of how it works. The executable would increase by small amounts because presumably your own code is a relatively small portion of all the code included in the default binary. Then again, since it's not dynamically linking, every crate you use increases the size...
Not in the way that you require it. But you can always file an issue or enhancement request :-)

That said, we'll likely have Webcal support (https://github.com/owncloud/calendar/pull/443), that way you can at least in ownCloud view your Google calendars. (it's not synced though)
Weston startup helps employers test if job candidates are 'good fit'
Temboo | New York City | ONSITE | Full-Time

Temboo is an NYC startup. We provide a software stack for IoT applications. Our platform enables users to innovate at the intersection of hardware, software and human aspiration by providing the building blocks for connecting the physical world to web services and cloud-based processes. Our software currently ships on devices from Samsung, Texas Instruments, and Arduino, with more to come! We’re continually amazed at how people are applying our technology - our tools are used by people who are fundamentally changing how the world works. From life sciences and farming, to energy, aviation and smart infrastructure amongst others, Temboo is empowering people to build an amazingly diverse range of physical computing systems. Our customers use Temboo to make everything from small, incremental improvements to transformative shifts in how we live our lives - reducing waste, increasing efficiency and enhancing quality of life. If you want to be involved in the next major wave in technology and help build tools that can change how the world works, then Temboo might be the place for you.

We have open positions in Engineering and Product.

Full details here: https://temboo.com/jobs/embedded-engineer
If you think that is something to do with Steve Jobs being gone, you are forgetting how much worse their services were during his tenure.
BULLRUN appears to be an umbrella term for all efforts to crack encryption directly, not just efforts to influence standards. For instance their VPN cracking systems probably fall under BULLRUN.

I think it was never entirely clear what PRISM is: the only slides that covered it were vague and were directly contradicted by the testimony of the relevant CEOs.
Unless you actively seek out Windows 10 "apps" from the store, you can live pretty much outside of metro. The only times I find myself in any kind of metro app is for some of the settings, but in a lot of cases the equivalent control panel applications are still available.
I am not lifelock fan, they have a terrible reputation: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2015/07/21...
Sadly, 1P costs minimally twice as much as LastPass. Not sure of the feature differences. My org has LastPass mainly because it had team support sooner, but 1P pricing seems very uncompetitive and probably won't switch.
For probably the first time I understand why forum/reddit mods turn to those "megathreads"

Do we need a new story about this every day. ugh.
To be fair, this is just packaging up a fairly standard webpack config with a nice CLI: https://github.com/olahol/reactpack/blob/master/config.js

So, it can be extended or changed as the whims of the JS community migrate between tools and practices.
I stand corrected, thank you.
I think he is just saying that machine learning is the next big thing (for real this time).
I think you're having difficulty distinguishing the concepts of "shunning" and "genocide."
>Even though it is constructed from bicycle parts, this would be considered a motorcycle by legal standards in the US.

Without DOT approved tires, it's legal status is off-road vehicle.
In Potato we did exactly this. The server side is written in Common Lisp and the client side is implemented in Clojurescript.

While I have to say that it has worked pretty well, Lisp and Clojurescript are different enough that it really isn't much of a benefit to use both together. Even the S-expression format of the two languages are so different that we need to use JSON when sending messages from the server to the client (and vice versa, of course).

Please feel free to look at the code if you want to learn more about how it's done. I'll be happy to answer any questions: https://github.com/cicakhq/potato