skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Softbank bought roughly 1/3 of Alibaba for $20 million.

A stake worth ~$63 billion today

That's the deal of the century (so far).

Also worth noting, SAIC did not own 100% of Network Solutions when it was bought from the public market by Verisign. SAIC had sold off a massive stake in the company by that point. They basically liquidated 80% of their ownership in Network Solutions for about three billion dollars over several years (at the IPO point, and then multiple secondary offerings). For example, it sold off 38% of Network Solutions for $765 million in February 1999 in a secondary offering, and then another 21% for $1.8 billion later.
React and jQuery are really two different beasts.
The strategy does seem to assume a highly normalized set of images that only differ in color and contour.
There's definitely a place for JavaScript. This page might not be it.

I know that if I want to make a simple web app, it's easier for me to write it in JavaScript, throw it on GitHub Pages, and have free static hosting for it. Much better for me that having to run a server with PHP or Node or Django or whatnot.

I don't miss a web that didn't have JavaScript. There's a lot we can do now that we couldn't then... say, like navigating pages without constant page reloads.

How would "The Web We Want" map even work if it were server-side only? Certainly it would be a very different experience, requiring Mozilla to code it twice. I suppose it is up to the developer to judge whether the cost is worth the benefit (0.25-2% of users)
Yeah, it's a weird hill to spend -4 karma on. No big deal
Jalopnik and kin?
Maybe lifehacker?
And you think you can build a great integrated experience that just works with multiple platforms in "one or two hours of work"? Am I right in assuming that you never built systems like this?
I like this precedent. Even celebrities have a right to some privacy.
I think the damage was not worth putting tens (hundreds?) of people out of a job, most of them who had nothing to do with the Hogan fiasco but are still being punished for it, putting their livelihood in jeopardy for the emotional comfort of a billionaire. The people responsible for the piece should have been personally held responsible.
Doesn't have a bitcount function unlike MySQL, which I ended up needing for one problem.
The "Metered Connection" option in Windows 10 might help here, but as for websites you can't do much except using Ad blocker, "Disconnect.me" or Opera Turbo. (I'm not sure if Disconnect.me exists on opera).

Another way to mitigate would be to have the browser identify as a tablet/mobile as some websites assume mobile == metered connection. On top of my head, there is some addon like this in Chrome.
Yes, the fault may lie with Tesla. They fixed it! I bet they also put the failed part on a test bench to figure out what happened.
Gawker Media Files for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy
Self-contradicting tripe that plays leapfrog with spurious, tenuously connected points. Accusations of flawed design with promise of exposition go nowhere but steam-blowing and apparent confusion with what exactly React provides, even what a framework is.

Then he goes all weird and starts dropping some projection/social "critique" on Facebook and Google, more spitballing and misunderstanding the React ecosystem (as another HN poster pointed out, React on its own is far from opinionated - the author's notion that React tries to "tightly couple presentation, behavior, and data." is patently false.)

Also, a part of the beauty with both React and Angular are access to the healthy ecosystems of interchangeable components.

Sorry pal, if you were looking to rustle webdev jimmies, then "Sad State of Web Development" this is not.
Yes, I agree. This is a worrying sign of what the future holds.

But also I hated Gawker, so, difficult to feel too sorry about this particular development.
Free speech is the opposite of that.
Sometimes I wish PostgreSQL supported a shortcut syntax like Oracle's CONNECT BY. It's so much more compact than the equivalent CTE.

Oracle's installed base is the main reason my current gig is highly dependent on it. In so many cases, we have to integrate using Oracle "datapump" configuration. We'd look silly not running Oracle.
Woa, that's unexpected.
Ask HN: Negotiating a fair cofounder equity split that's not all “Sweat Equity”
TL;DR: A client of mine wants to do a startup with me as technical cofounder. I can't afford to work for free and do 50% cofounders equity split. I would need them to finance my contribution to work on the idea initially. I do want some fair equity as a cofounder without being employee #1 and am willing to make concessions. What are my options to propose a win-win and move forward?

I am a freelancer who has worked at standard industry rates with a client on various dev projects for their well established (non tech sector) company over a period of about 3 years.

Recently, the client (who is a reasonably wealthy individual) has felt there is an opportunity for a tech solution in the industry and wants to form a new company as a separate business venture - on their own dime.

Initially, my involvement in the new company was to be another freelancing gig, but now the client has asked me to come on board as the tech cofounder, making us a bonified startup. Brief mentions of equity have been made in passing but nothing has been negotiated.

I do see potential in the idea and am keen to come on board, however the proposed venture would be a full time commitment for me.

Unfortunately, with the level of commitment I am simply not in a financially stable enough position to go all in on "sweat equity" (I now have a wife and child to support)

I do want founders equity in this new startup (I will be predominantly driving the product), but I have no idea where to begin negotiations or what to offer in terms of a fair and equitable arrangement.

Do I ask for a reduced initial wage and use the difference to gain equity? Does he loan me a salary against an equity "pool" that I can repay from my share of profits? How is he compensated in overall equity for this "seed investment" of paying me? Is my salary + equity the business valuation?

I'm quite confused as to how to make this work fairly. Surely I'm not the first in this dilemma?
Gawker Said to Plan Sale After $140M Award to Hulk Hogan
Could one mimic the human imune system when it comes to security? All shared data is blockchained and if one producer shows lacking response all his contact partners get quarantined. Infections.. Yes on a large scale (even local) no
You wouldn't say that if some private aspect of your own life was revealed to the public without your consent.
Glad to see I'm on the right track :) I spent too long figuring out that WordPress and Drupal are terrible, and then it took a while for me to find Django. Very little written out there about using Django to build brochureware.

If you don't mind me asking, could you write up a list of all the django apps and python packages that help the most in your projects? I'm new to the ecosystem and picking it up as fast as I can but there's only so many hours in the day. Obviously, I've chosen to do this live in the middle of a contract so it's sorta eating me alive.

Also, I'll take this chance make my short pitch: If you're ever looking for some extra hands on a project, I'm currently looking for freelance work. I do full stack. New to django, but very experienced with MVC frameworks and I'm quite excellent with frontend javascript. I can even hold my own when it comes to design and selecting stock photos :) e@ericwaldman.ca
It wasn't "posted video ... sued out of existence"
Jalopnik is a pretty good car site too. Good community and more than just regurgitated press release car reviews.

Hopefully it finds a new home without too much blood loss.
Thanks for the information.
Any mobile dev with F#, or is it all desk-based?
The tape was created without his consent also for the purpose of blackmail.
The first season, yes; the second is a radical departure from the first.
The issue I have with it is that money from an external source that had nothing to do with the suit was funnelled in to use it as a weapon.

Thiel had an issue with Gawker, Thiel should have taken it to Gawker.
http://www.wired.com/2011/08/spoilers-dont-spoil-anything/

Google "spoiler study enjoyment" on your own next time to save yourself the trouble of posting
Yep. Trash article is trash.
> If a human was responsible for that writing, they wouldn't have much of a career.

I don't think that is fair to the computer. A computer doesn't need a career, and a human has a lot more to draw from than the limited number of screenplays used as a corpus. People have purchased paintings knowingly produced by a chimpanzee [1] over Warhol and Renoir, I don't think an AI should be written off so quickly.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congo_%28chimpanzee%29
Gawker declares bankruptcy
any discipline where you are attempting to answer yet to be answered questions leaves you in a state of chronic confusion and lacking direction

math the same
I agree. I never read Gawker or any of its sites, they were all garbage. And the Hulk Hogan sex tape was scummy garbage that I never had any interest in. But it also isn't that different from lots of other celebrity leaks that have been published before which have not resulted in damages that ruined the publishers.

Peter Thiel funding a lawsuit against a company he has a personal grudge against is a scary thing. What if the Koch Brothers decide to start funding lawsuits against Nature or Science magazines that publisher articles about global warming? Even if none of the lawsuits win, they could shut down these publications because of the legal bills involved in the court cases.

People celebrating this are in my opinion incredibly myopic.
It was a dupe, as is the current post. I explained this at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11872457.

Perhaps we should stop having major discussions when things come out as release candidates, so that we can have the major discussion on actual release? I don't know. Trying to make it work that way might just cause more problems.
I'm also pretty ignorant here, but if I understand word vectors correctly they are a trained model that results in the ability to predict the next word in a sequence. I can imagine extending that idea to images, i.e. in such a way that the color of a target pixel can predict the colors of surrounding pixels. I wonder if tools like Photoshop and Gimp don't already have similar algorithms for some advanced effects. In any case, it seems several layers of abstraction down the stack from the problem of attaching meaning to images. Isn't that more what the BOW approach tries to do?
You forgot a step before that:

- Peter Thiel is a hard-core activist for individual rights, including freedom of speech

Thiel is pro-freedom when it suits him and anti-freedom when it doesn't. In my opinion, he has lobbied for a world where journalists can "out" people, and now he's taking revenge when it happens to harm him.
california law has some exeptions. but they should happen during the ownership transfer, i think. not a lawyer.
hmm.. I guess the waters are a bit more murky than I originally thought -- it looks like plain whitewashing on the face of it.

Still don't like the idea that Google is no longer showing me the most relevant results, but instead the most appropriate results. Clearly, "criminal" was the desired term. Why is Google trying to push me away from it? (in this case and I assume many others)
I have a lot of respect for the walled garden design pattern. It's very rarely the right decision to remove options, but it's often the right decision to hide them. Even power users apply 10% of the features 90% of the time, and those are the features that deserve hotkeys and big obvious buttons.

Other options can live comfortably behind buttons like "One Time Configuration Settings" or "PROBABLY NOT WHAT YOU WANT, DON"T CLICK" - there's no reason that Insert mode in word needs a bumpable hotkey. But they should still be there. There's nothing worse than a program that obviously supports an operation, but has removed your ability to do it any way except a few presets.

Of course, all of this conflates 'professional' software like Excel and Photoshop with 'casual' software, but even in the casual case there's a lot to be said for not actually removing features.
No, they're damned if they do because they do it almost suicidally wrongheadedly. All our security theatre does is catch the visible idiots.

No matter how many crazy people you convince to push the button on a fake surface-to-air missile, you'll never catch the potential McVeighs, and who are capable of working and planning alone, and have a "real" (ie, nuanced and long-lasting) goal that allows for many possible actions.

In fact, by swinging the discourse to "Terrorists are crazy people with scraggly beards" (Unix programmers?!) they've nerfed our actual defensive strategies. Every time someone calls in a non-existent threat because of wires and LEDs, we lose a little.

It's not a conspiracy to weaken us as that would require them to be looking beyond their next paycheck/bonus, but it functions as one.
They were nice to me, but I saw them drag some blacks off a bus in France pretty forcibly.
Images don't necessarily map directly onto a word2vec-like solution but the closest thing is pre-trained deep networks, for example:
http://caffe.berkeleyvision.org/model_zoo.html

You're right that bag of words with SIFT is not state of the art, with deep learning dominating computer vision approaches these days.
I don't believe that this case set any new precedent.
>Privately funding a lawsuit for someone else so you can settle a grudge is ethically dubious, at best.

Do you feel that revenge in general is ethically dubious or just the lawsuit part?
I don't understand #2 (and I've heard it a lot). Theil with all his money was unable to sue/destroy them for a decade even with their despicable behaviour. It wasn't until they did something illegal (the Hogan case) that they went down. Is there really risk for journalists who don't break privacy laws?
Yeah, pretty much.

There is no way Hogan wasn't a public figure. viz him talking to Howard Stern about his sex life.

Gawker had, under previous First Amendment jurisprudence, the right to post that tape. Most free speech lawyers assume it will be reversed on appeal.

This is completely separate from whether they should have posted that tape.
Yes, design is pruning the "bad" branches of evolution. You are ruling out what you think are bad features / designs.

You could be wrong at predicting the future, in which case your system will fail. And that happens all the time. But someone else will succeed (I guess that is another level of evolution, among competing systems rather than evolving features within a system.)
> I have met people who claimed to be self taught in mathematics and it was obvious that they didn't really understand the concepts though they were absolutely convinced they knew what they were talking about.

This is an interesting contrast with my experience with learning programming, where, it doesn't matter how much formal education / training you get, you're still going to have to do a massive amount of self-learning before you can hope to achieve excellence.

All good programmers are self-taught. No good mathematicians (currently) are. I wonder why this is. Probably boils down to what 'math' is trying to accomplish vs. what 'programming' does.
Search the title, click the result. If the referer is a search engine it won't paywall you.
I had a similar problem working over a metered cellular data connection recently. One thing that helped a lot was the uBlock Origin extension for Chrome & Firefox, which has a feature that prevents automatically loading media elements over a certain size (say, 50kb). If you want to load a large image or video you can click to load it or turn the feature off on a per-site basis. Can use it in Firefox on an Android phone, too, since it has extensions.
I don't like Gawker, but I like the idea of a billionaire being able to bankrupt news sites that he doesn't like even less.
Solid seems to have very similar goals to Matrix, but seems to be a bit more abstract at this point. I had some brief conversations with Tim at the summit about how to collaborate, and as you can see he's been using Vector to participate in the conference chat. I'm sure that we'll get the two to bridge or converge in future!
> More knobs is almost always a sign of lazy thoughtless design.

I'll put forth an economic justification: specialization. Experts are happy to cope with the explosions of features, and so happy to take a tradeoff of less usable software if their one additional feature is in there that they're willing to pay a premium for it. They spend a lot of time with the software, learning the keyboard shortcuts and tuning knobs.

Conversely, novices like you and me don't like any of that. We want to get shit done, even if that shit isn't exactly what we wanted, or held to the high standards of a professional. The software they need is easier to write -- you don't have to implement obscure features, and you don't have to make the UI cope with all those features.

So the fact that Photoshop exists isn't a sign of lazy design, but of a market for professional users whose niche is being catered to.

Also, the dataset the paper in question focuses on is Apache httpd, MySQL, and Hadoop. These are not technologies for average users or the general public. These are clearly the domain of experts. It's not entirely clear to me that the fact that few people use given Apache config option means I shouldn't be allowed to change it. Sure, most Chef recipes don't use ModRewrite rules, but that doesn't mean I would be better served if Apache removed those knobs.
Most recently, regional branches. I was living somewhere pretty limited in in-person options, but I may switch now that I'm not.

The other answer is loans. If you get a good rate on a mortgage through a tech-illiterate bank, you're pretty solidly locked in.
For the record I found this on lobste.rs

https://lobste.rs/s/brpmbo/semantics_destructive_lisp_1986

but as of this moment there has been no discussion there. I had some hope more eyeballs here might result in discussion.
Libel and slander have no place in a functioning democracy. By building an entire business model around such practices, Gawker is not only spreading disinformation, it is also crowding out more reputable news sources that could have better helped inform the public.

The only criticism I can give in this entire tale, is that it shouldn't take a billionaire to sue and win judgement against slanderous publishers. Such recourse should be made available to every common man, regardless of wealth.

But still, progress is only ever made, one step at a time. Good riddance to Gawker.
Why have a problem with that? If Gawker was not in the wrong that would've been money wasted. It's not like Hogan/Thiel wore Gawker out by whittling them down with frivolous lawsuits until they couldn't defend themselves anymore.
You're right that most tutorials dive in with both feet, but this is literally the very first text on https://facebook.github.io/react/

>Lots of people use React as the V in MVC. Since React makes no assumptions about the rest of your technology stack, it's easy to try it out on a small feature in an existing project.
and they make a very good argument to the kids wanting a new road bike that it will be a defensive patent. whatever that means.
Gawker's debt will be reduced by declaring bankruptcy. It'll take time to find out by how much it will be reduced.
I can see paying for sparkling water. I can see paying for flat water in a country or town with poor water supplies.

But in most of America, the local water tastes good and is dirt cheap. Why pay for it‽ It just doesn't make sense.
I used to think honesty was always better than hypocrisy. Now I feel that it's not so simple. Hypocrisy can be a motivator for a bad actor to not go all-in on the bad actions (lest they be called out for this hypocrisy).
This brings to mind the classic example of "rat hunting". A hundred years ago, the French Government wanted to get rid of the rats plaguing Hanoi, so they offered a bounty for each rat killed. To collect the bounty, the (presumably) dead rat's tail was turned in as proof. As might be expected, the expected then happened:

Appealing to both civic duty and to the pocketbook, a one-cent bounty was paid for each rat tail brought to the authorities (it was decided that the handing in of an entire rat corpse would create too much of a burden for the already taxed municipal health authorities). Unfortunately, this scheme backfired. Despite initial apparent success, the authorities soon discovered that the best laid plans of mice and men often go awry. As soon the municipal administrators publicized the reward program, Vietnamese residents began to bring in thousands of tails.

While many desk-bound administrators delighted in the numbers of apparently eliminated rats, more alert officials in the field began to notice a disturbing development. There were frequent sightings of rats without tails going about their business in the city streets. After some perplexity, the authorities realized that less-than-honest but quite resourceful characters were catching rats, but merely cutting off the tails and letting the still-living pests go free (perhaps to breed and produce more valuable tails).

Later, things became even more serious as health inspectors discovered a disturbing development in the suburbs of Hanoi. These officials found that more enterprising but equally deceptive individuals were actually raising rats to collect the bounty. One can only imagine the frustration of the municipal authorities, who realized that their best efforts at dératisation had actually increased the rodent population by indirectly encouraging rat-farming. Evidently, this was not what the French had in mind when they encouraged capitalist development and the entrepreneurial spirit in Vietnam. Faced with such fraudulent schemes, the colonial regime scrapped the rat bounty program.

http://www.freakonomics.com/media/vannrathunt.pdf

If an organization is judged by how many "terrorists" they arrest, one should not be surprised if that organization comes up with a counterproductive means of increasing the number of terrorists arrested.
1) Why do you think that Gawker will shut down? Someone will buy it at the auction and they have all reasons to continue to publish, maybe with better legal advice. It's still a valuable media property.
Lovely to see Hacker News praising the wisdom of the billionaire who just managed to shut down a press outlet he didn't like. This new era of feudalism is off to a great start.
Looks like Thiel going public crushed any hopes Gawker may have had of being able to acquire funding to fight the lawsuits.

Very well played by Thiel, whether or not you agree with what he did.
> What if the Koch Brothers decide to start funding lawsuits against Nature or Science magazines that publisher articles about global warming? Even if none of the lawsuits win, they could shut down these publications because of the legal bills involved in the court cases.

That would be scary but nothing was stopping them from doing that before.

In the case of Gawker they lost in court because they were wrong, they didn't run out of money due to attrition.
Meet the Leviathan. British one is a rather small creature comparing to the US one.
There's a similar emacs mode too: https://github.com/clarete/hackernews.el

The more CLI tools the better!
Freedom of speech protects you from government persecution.

That's not happening here.
We have limits on speech when it comes to private information. Should "free speech" allow gawker to publish a private citizen's sex tape? There is no "in the public interest" argument to apply here.
Bear in mind, though... This study profiled MySql, Hadoop, Apache, and Storage-A. None of those are casual-user tools, and removing feature options, even rarely-used options, would be a serious and unjustified breaking change.