skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I got a similar quote about a year ago.
They now have a "startup" price which is lower [under nda]. Still too costly with regards to our usage/level of confidence in our own expertise but they are adjusting their pricing.
Well starting a business has traditionally involved personal risk and sacrificing lifestyle for future gains. Only recently and mostly in American tech has entrepreneurship been "give away control of your company as fast as possible so you can pay yourself a comfortable salary while you build a company for someone else."
I'm guessing you don't like poetry.
The only reason I remember to bring my cell phone anywhere is because it stays in my pocket. This password thing looks about the size of an 80s cassette player. So all of what you said, plus the idea that you have to lug this thing around... I can't see anyone using this. Ever. If anyone does, please comment.
A fast alternative to the modulo reduction
It should be valued at 0 unless the company takes active steps to encourage you not to, which would include answering dozens of questions about vesting and dilution that they won't.
1. Then why isn't there competition yet? This points towards a more complex model being needed.

2. I mentioned stickiness in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11989391. But it makes the analysis more complicated, and the comments I was responding to were not at that level. Remember, I started by responding to a comment saying "There's no incentive for that profit to be passed on as reduced rates for the tenants.", which is a simplistic model.
Because then you're dealing with the talent pool in Sacramento, and people in SF aren't going to commute 100 miles to get paid Sacramento salaries.
Interesting, but wanting a fast negotiation is a result of panic and the prospect of an economic downturn for the EU. Germany does not want a weak pound as it will badly hit their exports to the UK. The EU's best strategy is to quickly agree to free trade after Brexit and then re-structure the EU so that other countries don't quit. Alternatively non-EU European countries like Iceland, Norway, Switzerland etc could conceivably set up a more practical alternative trading union. In any event the currency and stock trading frenzy is over the top and mainly fuelled by the hyper-reality presented by the media, as in the end it is still likely that not much will change economically short or long term - for the UK!
The UK will take its time - and it should - it will take time for the major European countries to understand their and the EU's fundamental ineffectiveness in solving major problems.
Until someone finds an edge-case or a way to reverse engineer it.

http://www.evolvingai.org/fooling
>Right, because you have to convince the high-status authorities to say that it connects on an emotional level so that everyone else will nod their heads to avoid looking stupid

Honest question -- did you get the same emotional read off of the machine-poems as you did the human-poems? If not, perhaps there is something more involved in poetry than stringing words together!
Visual Studio Code?
Except the name there isn't much in common (you still have intelliSense).
I dunno, I had to pay nearly $15k to exercise options and while I barely escaped amt issues, the money wasn't easy. And represented a 10% rebate on after-tax salary for the period I worked for that company.
> Which (to my American eyes) strikes me as odd. Isn't the average Scot given more democratic say by being a part of the U.K. than the E.U.?

Independent of how much "democratic say" Scotland has in the EU vs the UK (which I'm not even sure how you would quantify and compare), the EU is a more limited government than the UK, and requires unanimity for certain important actions. Even with the devolved Scottish government, Westminster has more extensive power to set law in Scotland against the will of the people of Scotland than the EU would if Scotland were a member.
From the A16Z post:

> This solves all of the issues: cash rich vs. poor; competitive offers; and the bad incentive problem (e.g., encouraging employees to quit to build their own diversified stock portfolios).

Says the VC whose business depends on a diversified stock portfolio.

A couple paragraphs above he admits that "median time-to-IPO for venture-backed companies is closer to 10 years". That's not a reasonable amount of time to expect employees to stay at a job, and seems like a recipe for burnout and/or "rest and vest".
>"There are four PostScript printers announced and demonstrated by three OEM vendors..."

Brian Reid must have written this shortly before DEC announced its PostScript printer.

I was involved in projects interrupted by PostScript's ascendancy - twice.

1) Circa 1984-85, Digital Equipment Corp. (DEC) Hardcopy I/O group was building a high-speed (40PPM) laser printer. The initial graphics language was GIDIS, a DEC proprietary graphics language. Mid-project, we had an abrupt change of direction. We were flown from Maynard, MA (helicopter to Logan!) to Adobe in Palo Alto to meet the team there, including Chuck Geschke, and got the lowdown on PostScript. Based on the meeting, we changed our bit-slice processor firmware from interpreting GIDIS to a single drawing primitive: draw-trapezoid. The Adobe PS interpreter spit out trapezoids and we rendered them. Worked quite well, though the change of direction killed our graphics interpreter development project which involved rather interesting algorithms for things like filling bound areas, Bresenham's line drawing algorithm, curve/ellipse rendering, pattern rendering, etc.

2) Shortly thereafter I was working on an Interpress interpreter for Intel 80286 at Compugraphic Corp. Somewhat hellish given the interpreter didn't fit in memory and there was no "virtual memory" so we needed to manually swap in/out memory segments. We had a Xerox Star for a compatibility reference standard. Fun toy. Along with our Apple Lisa, it was among the first WIMP interface machines I ever used. Mid-project the Interpress interpreter project was canned in favor of PostScript which was becoming dominant. Interpress was a very efficient byte-level encoding, but PostScript was much more interesting. As an HP calculator fan, I found the use of a stack and postfix fairly natural and I hand-edited a fair amount of PostScript for testing / debugging / experimentation.
I think its pretty telling that Y-combinator wants to become central planners.

I'd back off these political positions you guys keep on taking.
Please see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11989433.

We try to do our job professionally and not moderate HN in favor of any specific politics. I can't claim we've overcome bias—most bias is unconscious, so that would be silly—but we work hard to mitigate it, and have probably gotten better with practice.

Pretty sure your factual claims here are way off base, so it's hard to take this comment as anything other than an expression of how strongly you hold your views. That tends to go along with expressing oneself uncivilly. That's natural, I've done it, I still do it; but it's something we're all asked to contain here.
Because, in my lived experience, having to carry all my groceries around did in fact mean that I was chronically short on food at home. This is a description of a real problem involved in not having a car. Calling it a strawman won't make it less of a problem.
Funny, I saw far more than 3 F# presenters at NDC Oslo a few weeks ago..
> This is how a lot of regulation gets started, because someone is trying to prevent something from happening to their backyard.

There are legitimate complaints, I think - no one wants a pig offal disposal site next door in their residential neighborhood. But we've gone way overboard in letting zoning dictate what can go where.

> They are not a typical case.

But they absolutely are on YC's radar, because San Fran and the bay area in general are ground zero for the housing crisis in those kinds of desirable places.
With Bash on Windows you'll be able to run Linux apps on Windows too. So, if that works out Windows lock-in would be about even with macOS. Lower, if it works really well since hardware is no issue. But that's as a desktop workstation.

This is about the cloud and servers, so Macs don't really apply. Despite the apparent lock-in, Windows is still a great server choice for small and medium sized businesses, even in the cloud. Switching away from say SQL Server to something like Postres isn't that hard. Things only get difficult if you use features like Active Directory integrated authentication, Sharepoint integration, Exchange, etc.

EDIT: I wouldn't switch though. Not for a cloud app that is to be managed by most small IT departments that I run into. SQL Server is so much easier to work with and manage than Postgres due to many seemingly insignificant features including a kick-ass GUI, stored procedures, returning multiple resultsets from a single round-trip query and the fact that it runs on Windows, which is still the number one OS used by the market that I serve, even in the cloud (but mostly for B2B or operations). These are the same sort of reasons that I build their back-ends in IIS/ASP.NET (despite the fact that I also use Node.js heavily for my own projects and I even use it to generate static files for my ASP.NET projects).
But Boris and Farage have no power to implement anything at all. It is the responsibility of Parliament and the elected government to organise the exit. The leave campaign have no democratic mandate whatsoever.
This type of grass is always greener answer is why the Linux desktop experience is so poor. If someone follows that advice they may fix one issue they have but in return they get a whole new set of problems to discover and troubleshoot or run away from.
Hear, hear. American cities have a lot of upsides to be sure, but I've never found more contentment vis-a-vis my everyday life than when I was living in cities and towns all over Europe (over the course of about a year and a half). Everything was within arm's reach, especially in regards to fresh and interesting food: you could stop by a dozen bakeries, butchers, and groceries on the way home, to say nothing of the weekly street markets. People hung out by the riverbanks, plazas, and parks to have lunch. The crooked streets, hidden stairs, and mysterious detours of an everyday walk always brought a sense discovery. And in the major cities, getting around was super simple with the efficient and reasonably inexpensive public transit. (Props to Paris!)

Whether the city was tiny or enormous, these factors seemed to somehow scale along with it. In contrast, practically every US city I've visited has felt inorganic and pre-planned. The only places in North America I've felt the European vibe in were Quebec, sort-of Montreal, and perhaps Boston. I imagine this largely has to do with the central focus on cars versus people. Quite a shame; I miss the sheer excitement of simply being a pedestrian. (The kind that isn't caused by almost being run over!)
That's likely vastly more expensive than installing new equipment.
Yes please! I feel like the perfect cities already exist, they're just older cities or neighborhoods from before the car existed. That's the key. The icing on the cake is that the buildings and streets in those times were build using natural materials, with delightful human touches in ornamentation and design. Just looks good.

It's the horrible car sprawl of the US, and the dominance of the machine aesthetic that makes most new cities and neighborhoods totally suck. Now, people's crotches start to tingle when they smell freshly poured asphalt, but that is the triumph of modernism, a perversion of our human impulses, the result of a sick fetish for utility, while appreciation for durability and beauty is completely stunted. Now, cobblestones, cobblestones are much more tactile, sensual if you will (I'm only halfway kidding). Plus, they last forever, needs to be leveled every half century or so, that's nothing.

I too want the cobblestones and stuff thank you.
Show HN: Golang implementation of custom encoding in net/rpc vs. grpc.io
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spherical_cow
Mono supports COM interop on Linux, too. At its most basic level, COM is really just an ABI, and there's nothing Windows-specific about it (see also: XPCOM).
Thanks for the info. I absolutely agree with you there. It may have a place with fast-evolving, short-lived or highly distributed technologies, but it's not conducive to solving problems - it just enables to avoid them when they're not serious enough.
We know, and that is most definitely on its way. While we considered the half-way houses you suggest, it's sufficiently important that we don't want to half-ass it. Sublime Text-style autocomplete from other words in the document is nice for power users, but can be actively misleading for newbies, so we didn't want to offer anything except the real thing.
Also Resharper and Project Rider (from JetBrains)
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This makes no sense. Any vesting details will be detailed right in your contract. Dilution depends on the company's fundraising in the future, you are essentially asking them to bring out a crystal ball and tell you exactly what their IPO/fundraising plans are. It's up to you to estimate how much you think you will get diluted, based on the type of company and how much they've raised so far.
Personally, I like the new "one true name". However, most .NET developers know what ASP.NET MVC is for, but are less clear about what ASP.NET Core is about. Hopefully this will change over time but, for now at least, MVC is still a useful term from a marketing perspective, or at least that's what my publishers tell me. :)
Ask HN: Local software that does Dropbox style file versioning/recovery?
Ramen, just not Maruchan ramen. Asian bistro hand-made organic gluten free gastro molecular gastronomy ramen.
You can use Xamarin Studio, the Project Rider beta, or Atom/Sublime/TextMate with plugins.
I thought of a variety of ways to respond to this, but really this make for a great pro-car argument on it's own.
How does the web framework compare to springboot?
I also think they've made a terrible decision, the first-class support for DI is a bad direction which has made many simple concepts like config settings into absolute farces that take 5 lines of code.

It's code "purity" over usability. It's putting the core dev team's principles over their customers actual need, completely violating KISS, DRY and YAGNI.

DI really is our generation's factories. I'm already seeing projects written by people who don't understand it making utter nightmare spagetti code, worse than any code I've ever seen.

It's nasty scaffolding code which is a symptom of limitations of the language, definitely not code anyone should ever actually be wasting time writing.

Instead of recognising it's a flash in the pan, the core team have embraced it and are trying to force it down everyone's necks, and a lot programmers simply don't get it and are making an utter mess instead.
I'm not saying the simple model is correct, I'm saying that you need a model which accounts for the things the simple model has. You can account for more things, and I did, but without doing that you aren't justified in complaining.
> In order to avoid the crazy living expenses in SV and SF, why don't more people start companies within 100 miles of SV, in cheaper places like San Ramon/Castro Valley, Livermore, Sacramento, Pleasanton, Modesto, etc.? That way you have reasonable proximity without having to suffer the living quality issues associated with SV and SF.

No, instead, you have the much greater living quality issues associated with the places you mention, which is why SF/SV are more expensive places to live -- people are willing to pay a lot more to live in SF/SV than in, e.g., the Central Valley.
you pop into the market as you walk past it on the way home from work,

We're not European, we're not going to be European...ever. We just don't "pop in" to some market while we're walking by. We pop-in while we're driving by or we plan to drive 5 minutes to an awesome supermarket.

Just stop this constant crap about walking and "only if we're like some European village" crap that will never happen in America.
In the context of designing cities, traffic throughput is ABSOLUTELY important. It governs how dense the city can be and the quality of life for its inhabitants. Sure, you can have spread-out cities but that sprawl has negative effects (increased travel times, inefficient traffic patterns leading to congestion and delays, economic burden of owning a car, kids have a hard time getting around, health effects of reduced walking, etc).
Those seem like a lot of big changes for a patch release.
There is Omnisharp [1] - plugin for Atom, Brackets, Emacs, SublimeText, Vim and is built-in VisualStudio Code [2]. Also you may try Mono-develop/Xamarin Studio [3] but it worth noting they were made especially for Mono. Both solutions are really pleasant to use and personally I prefer the second one since I use macOS/Linux a lot.

[1]: http://www.omnisharp.net/

[2]: https://code.visualstudio.com/

[3]: https://www.xamarin.com/studio
Project Bloks kid-hackers kit starts with a RPi Zero
This is another variation of the Turing test. Time to realize: the Turing test is useless because: (a)the goal is to game the jury and (b) humans don't necessarily make sense either (example: bad or even just confusing poetry) so the human baseline is not always well-defined. Need Turing Test 2.0
There's no reason you can't write high-performance apps in Python, unless you have decided to tie your hand behind your back and not use any of the optimization strategies which have been developed in the decades that Python has existed.

If you mean something like programming without using the heap, most high-level languages cannot do that anyway.
It's gotten better, but check my comments from some time ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8329034
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9476547

Generally: bad inheritance, bad separation of concern, unidiomatic java (I think much of it was automatically converted from C++), overcomplicated classes and just so many wtf-moments I had.

Example: You want to store state.

1. In standard activities you have this really nice method "onSaveInstanceState" where you can save state to a "Bundle". And "onCreate" where you are handed a bundle to restore. You write the logic for doing that and should be done.

2. Then you learn that "onSaveInstanceState" isn't actually called when stopping an app, only when rotating the screen, so you have to save your state elsewhere. In onStop for example, sounds nice.

3. onStop doesn't take a "Bundle". Hm… ok let's see save it to disk.

4. Oh, Bundle isn't meant to be serialised because the internal format is allowed to change, so you have to write serialisation again after all. Ok, "Bundle" is out.
Let's use json and be done with it.

5. But for some reason it sometimes doesn't work. Turns out "onStop" only sounds like it's being called when your app stops. It's actually not guaranteed to be called, so you have to use "onPause".

This is just one example of many where things could be more aptly named, better documented and so on.
They might if you can offer half the cost of living and 75% of the salary. The company saves on rent as well.
Well, we've already proven it's impossible to have all heads infinitely. The same would be true of any non-uniform sequence. Any sequence that favours heads by any margin at all, taken to infinity, would necessarily contain an infinite sub-sequence that contains all heads, which we've proven is impossible by the limit to infinity.

Have we? We only said that the probability of having an infinite sequence of all heads is zero but not that it is impossible to obtain that result. After all the probability of any infinite sequence is zero and therefore if we would equate probability zero with impossible to obtain, then we could obtain no infinite sequence at all. The second part is obviously wrong, H H T H H T... ad infinitum obviously favors heads over tails but does not contain an infinite subsequence of all heads.
> For existing buildings, stop companies from being able to sign contractual provisions limiting access to inside wiring. Make it illegal for landlords to get any form of side payment whatsoever for cutting off our choice of ISPs.

Sure easy fix. Just void existing contracts that were valid when written. And this is coming from a lawyer no less.
Can you elaborate? I'm not sure what you mean by more value from an investment?

I see housing prices have been growing enormously in the last few years, but the appartements are exactly the same as they were twenty years ago.

I don't see how I can get more 'value' out of an appartement that is older, not renovated, and costs twice as much.
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> The setting appears unreliable at best, and the popup is useless when it pops under fullscreen programs

This! Anyone saying this is new behavior caused by the Windows 10 update has never been booted out of a WoW raid at 3 am because the restart pop-up didn't show beneath the game window. Windows Update has been doing this since XP.
What about if that 16GB gets used up while the install is in progress?
Thanks for tracking that down. I had the same questions. I would be very interested to see followup interviews with a representative sample to investigate the percentage of units that would actually be on the market if not for airbnb.
Yea it's also a pretty common sci-fi / cyberpunk fantasy city design dating back to Fritz Lang's Metropolis, influenced by the Art Deco "city of the future" ideas like this floating around at the time.

In NYC at least the lower levels are already present. But the only part where we got the pedestrian level correct so far is the High Line... which has been hugely successful. There's really no reason these types of park-like promenades only have to be built on top of existing disused structures however. More could be built, it's just that people need to understand that there is return on investment for building an elevated pedestrian-only street level.
And not long before that people were doing research on how to allow multimedia, see Massalin's paper on the Synthesis Kernel.

It's time for an integrative phase after the last 20 years of growth.
how do you build roads without central planning?
Well, it would be nice if there is a way to vote or express one's needs via some alternative to having one's usage actively mined for data.
If anyone else is looking for this, Windows calls its version of the technology Alternate Data Stream (ADS).
During salary negotiations, say "tell me why I should think my options are safe against dilution."
etcd has had significant improvements in lifecycle management and stability in the last year. You can learn a bit more about the upcoming etcd v3.0 release here: https://speakerdeck.com/philips/etcd-mission-critical-key-va...

For the most part we are recommending folks use Kubernetes for new projects over fleet. Kubernetes "completed our sentence" a few months after we started fleet and has rapidly matured. The kubernetes v1.3 release bring a number of new features as well: https://coreos.com/blog/kubernetes-v1.3-preview.html

And on your btrfs question we moved off of btrfs onto ext4 + overlayfs as soon as overlayfs became a viable option in late 2014. You can read more about that here: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.coreos.devel/1952

As for users and maturity some of the videos from Tectonic Summit Day #1 from this blog post might be useful: https://tectonic.com/blog/tectonic-summit-wrap-up.html

Happy to answer any other questions on IRC or email: https://coreos.com/community