skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A poor attempt at obfuscation.

I suppose you would also say that Russia had nothing to do with with Litvinenko's murder, Nemtsov's murder, Shooting down MH-17, having no soldiers in Eastern Ukraine, etc.

And concerning your comment about Stalin (Russians always did adore their Tyrants), he would have been very proud today.

Over 50 % of Russians have embraced him.

http://www.newsweek.com/putin-russia-economy-communist-party...

> For the first time this year, a majority of Russians (52 percent) indicated in an annual opinion poll that they considered Stalin’s bloody rule “probably” or “definitely” a positive thing.
With Lisp I get the data thing but with ML you learn almost everything is a language.

I can't really explain it but the whole variant/ADT pattern matching really forces to make you think of your problem domain as a specification or language (e.g. DSL). It is one of the reason why I think so many compilers are written in ML (that and the toolset is awesome for it).
I guess that's one nice thing about chemo that doesn't make you lose your hair, cancer isn't really part of my public identity. Of course my close friends and family know, a few work colleagues, but for now at least that's the extent of it. I guess I have a keenly evolved defense mechanism of just not dwelling on shit I can't handle, and not sharing that particular fact means it doesn't become a part of every conversation. For now anyway, it's just not something I would want to show up on Google tied to my nick.
You seem to think that your relentless M$ advocacy in this thread will benefit them from a public relations standpoint. Frankly after reading all your comments that seems unlikely.
Well, this specific case is trolling zealots, not tech support.

I mostly agree with you, but there are some unique facts that, back in the day, you just sort of had to know. something like

echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward

You know exactly what you need to do, but haven't memorized the name of the bit to twiddle to get the behavior you want. Now there are, of course, tools to configure these sorts of things. More importantly, google and stackoverflow help immensely with this kind of thing.
I can't tell if this is a good deal for Uber investors or not. As I understand it, Uber will own a 20% share in the combined company. The combined company is valued at $35 billion, so Uber's share of the value will be $7 billion (actually less, since they also need to share it with Baidu which invested directly into Uber China too). $7 billion doesn't sound too bad as an exit.

However, if Uber's China business is worth only $7 billion, and their current valuation is $68 billion, does that mean the rest of the world is worth 9x China, even though China is one of their largest and highest potential market? Suddenly the valuation of Uber's business outside China looks very inflated (even more than before). Doesn't it?
Heh, yeah. Lisp has powerful features, I'm sure, but something that's always stumped me is, if that power mattered for delivering better code, would we have to strain so hard to find examples of why it's better?

Paul Graham's viaweb story, well, that's great, but why wasn't there a whole cohort of super-powered startups winning the day with lisp in the original dot com boom? Why are there so few big wins with lisp? The "lisp is powerful" story just doesn't seem like the whole story, when there are so few successes on the ground compared to C, C++, Python, Perl, PHP, Ruby, VB, you name it.
And I don't think I'm quite some ignorant hater[0], but they have been annoying lately, especially with iOS Safari.

[0] https://i.imgur.com/cg4DBUT.jpg

Edit: Apple is excellent with their hardware. That iPhone 4 was still charging with the plug like that..
Weather is a dynamic system. Just because you have more water in the air doesn't mean you have more water everywhere.
Merge is such a cute word. "Uber lost China and had to sell to Didi" is more like it
Any time I see someone messing with a Raspberry Pi I try to steer them towards the TI Sitara/AM335x line.

The schematics for all of their reference boards (aka Beaglebone Black/Green) are freely available, the chip has solid documentation, TI has a good Github+Linux repository, and you can make a really nice system out of it.

The Octavio part is nice, I'm also really interested in what NXP (cough cough Freescale) is doing with turning the iMX into a module. These are both pretty rare birds though. When I can get trays from DigiKey, we'll be cooking.

http://www.cnx-software.com/2015/06/24/freescale-introduces-...

http://cache.nxp.com/files/32bit/doc/support_info/SINGLE-CHI...

Dual-A9 is overkill for making an IoT device node, but hey if you're going to run Azure/Python/Node.js to send your 10-byte report, what the hell.
Because haters gonna hate
He's talking inter-state not intra-state actors.

It's like somebody shooting themselves in the foot, why would they? Everyone is looking out for themselves --sometimes with intent to help others too.
>> As an entrepreneur, I’ve learned that being successful is about listening to your head as well as following your heart...

This is well said.
What was the corruption uncovered? From the little I've read it sounds like staffers wanted to lash out at the Bernie campaign for its "unauthorized access" and more senior officials told them to stay out of the nomination battle.
Along that vein I stuck an R-Pi into a radio and rigged it to autoplay all MP3s on an inserted USB stick. Then I gave my small kids (2 and 3) small cheap colored USB sticks with different albums on them (Frozen, dancing, kid songs, etc.). It kind of replicates the "insert disc" experience for them and they love it.
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I live in Atlanta. The cost of living is low, quality of life is great, and there are tons of local companies to sell to. The culture here is to prioritize work-life balance[1], and it honestly seems to make everyone happier and more productive.

As far as startup culture, people really admire and encourage lean bootstrapping, which results in far more B2B companies than B2C. We do have an incubator[2] working to change that, but I actually prefer it this way. The SV culture of equating raising money with success is completely opposite of my own beliefs.

1. http://www.fastcompany.com/1840856/how-southern-tech-workers...

2. http://www.switchyards.com
I miss hand-cranked windows. Would love to have a dual system so you can easily open the windows with the electric power off, and as a backup.
I also miss the old quarter glass vent windows that cars used to have on the front doors.
Previous discussion of non-paywalled article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12191204
no competition will hurt consumers :(
> ...I look forward to a future where my daughter will be able to work and live in any EU country without having to learn dozens of languages.

But that is already true. Learn German, French, maybe Russian or English -- and you can speak with a lot of people.
> 8 digit dollar valuation
> Zero financing rounds

8 digit valuation according to...whom?
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They seem okay as brain-dead action flicks, but they're star trek in costume only. I would to see a star trek movie in the style of a star trek TV episode, with suspense and strange phenomena and whatnot...
Well, the MSM is an extension of the US govt., so the bias is expected.
...the average person will vacillate over the Windows 10 upgrade but then install Chrome on every single device without question.

Holy crap it's almost as if users are happy to install software that they like and trust because they've used it, and hesitant to install software they're suspicious will screw them over because it has in the past.
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While yes there is a lot of redirection from the Denms side. There is no comparison btwn the grip united Russia has on Russian media and the phenomenon in the US where media elites try to bring their own opinions to bear. There is no place with Objective Media when it comes to politics. So while it seems clear many media do show their hand in wanting to prevent a Trump from winning, it's not at the DNC's behest.
Ask HN: How do you know if an idea is worth running with?
I'm currently developing a SaaS product in my spare time. It's a tool that I want/I will use that doesn't seem to exist in the market already in any decent fashion. In my own bubble it seems like a great, potentially profitable idea, but I have no idea if that means it's worth trying to make into a real thing? Also, I don't even know how I'd make it a full blown SaaS product by myself.

If the right answer is to just read Hackers and Painters, I'll totally do that. I just can't tell if I'm clouded by my own bias.
Eh, i think pg's strategy is sound for a startup. If you know lisp inside and out, absolutely use it to build your MVP. but once you get traction, you need a plan to transition to something you can actually hire for, just like reddit. wasn't orbitz lisp? there are a few that kicked around.

On the other hand, if you don't know lisp, you should use what you know instead. it's just not worth learning a language and solving your startup's problems at the same time.
Uber's China business was losing money before (I believe to the tune of about $1bn/year), and it looked like they weren't going to get a permanent hold in that market. Local competition was very strong.

Consequently, I would conjecture that China was never a large part of Uber's valuation. Leaving it at slightly more than 10% of their valuation seems reasonably realistic to me. Keep in mind:

* The major Chinese cities generally have very developed and efficient systems of mass public transit, reducing demand for rideshares (and cars in general)

* While China is a large country, not everyone can afford an automobile or a rideshare service. There are many reasons why scooters are so popular in SE Asia; this is one of them.
You miss the other side of the coin there, which is that the Americans are very (very) good at not boasting about how good they are at it. If Congress thinks that they're losing the cyberwarz, it'll be easier to appropriate ever-increasing budgets.
An hour a week with a tutor can make a marked difference.

While living in Switzerland, I found that High German was not useful and so I would have to learn Swiss German to be able to order a coffee, understand commands in exercise class, &c. Swiss German is not in practice mutually intelligible with German and is for the most part an oral language, lacking online resources or even a standard orthography. Trying to learn from papers and linguistic studies was not working...so I got a tutor.

The combination of appropriate source material and targeted corrections made a huge difference in my progress and for a long time after returning to the states I was much more comfortable with Swiss German than High German.
Yes, this is a face-saving use of language. Most "mergers" that you hear of are actually acquisitions.
I wanted to formulate my observation in very general terms, rather than mention specific facilities of other programming languages. I also wanted to avoid suggesting a connection with static types or effect segregation. The main benefit of values over objects is that using values leads to designs that have less moving parts, and thus are easier to understand, modify, extend and test.
I won't use a Microsoft Windows computer as my daily driver due to dark patterns, privacy issues, new business model etc, but I also wouldn't advocate for strict legislation in this area. The only legislation I think I would back is mandatory information disclosure on install. EULAs are important and it is to detriment of the consumer that we agree to terms we aren't aware of. Still, if there's an opt out toggle buried somewhere, then the company is aware someone wants to do so.

How we decide what information is important to consumers is debatable, but consumers can't make informed decisions if they don't have the information available or are not presented a choice. If information isn't provided by primary sources, many of whom would rather not provide it in an easily digestible manner, then it's a guessing game. Things like applying whack-a-mole patches to fix the shortcomings post-install is essentially plugging a sponge boat blindfolded. Even grouped settings toggles in a customer-fronting GUI can be broken out and flipped on individually without your explicit approval tomorrow so your Windows Firewall IP hack is just that, a well-meaning, but messy and temporary hack.

I'm a firm supporter of "vote with your dollar", however I think voting with your voice is also important. If you're unhappy with something a company is doing, shoot an email or call someone if possible and explain why you're not using their product. Hell, even and maybe especially if you are a customer, let them know you're not happy about a policy. Just like in the public sphere, private companies don't know whether you're an ideological abstainer or simply someone they haven't advertised hard enough to yet. Part of this problem is due to companies knowing full well they're acting against the consumers, but consumers often shut up and move along silently after getting their wallets out. I've emailed Microsoft multiple times about their policies on binding arbitration, their dark patterns and privacy policies. I may not be a customer, but they sure as hell know why.
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How do you know you've been hacked when the "hacking" is done via a backdoor in a Cisco edge router or switch or in a Microsoft software?

Most small nations that use backdoored devices and software don't have the means to investigate.
Quantitatively speaking, Linux has a large share on diverse platforms, and is on the top usage as client (eg. Android), server, and embedded devices that run a typical computer OS.
I want to hack program Wi-Fi
It's done and active now, enjoy :)
Depends, at least they'll be viable entities, rather than ones which were unsustainable (a money losing operation does not stay in business for the long term).
> Why in God's name are reputable news outlets repeating the completely unverified rumor that it was a Russian hack of the DNC?

Well, repeat a falsehood often enough and it gets into the group consciousness and becomes accepted as truth.

Mission accomplished!
I'm usually not one for office perks, but a miniature train track would be alright with me.

Hudson actually had a bunch of other train-related stuff in their R&D offices, if memory serves. It's a shame to see it abandoned like this.
Strange, since a couple months ago Didi, Lyft and Ola (Indian incumbent) launched a collaborative service …

https://techcrunch.com/2016/04/11/lyft-and-didi-kuaidi-launc...

https://techcrunch.com/2015/12/03/lyft-didi-ola-and-grabtaxi...
Next up, gobbling up Lyft. Looks like they really want to be the monopoly at IPO time. At this rate, they'll probably IPO at more than $100 billion. Sigh, should've interviewed with them last year, haha
Roghly speaking, I don't want to start a flame war by defending pointer-arith. The haters are right that languages could use other, safer features (like array slicing).

But if it is how your language does things, then use it, and use it well -- as in this example. Also I find counted strings preferable for most tasks, but nul-terminated have the advantage of working so nicely with the ptr++ operation.

There was real insight behind C's minimalistic string handling. And C's minimalism is has always been its best feature. But today's minimal languages should support strings explicitly.
Sure he was more traditional and self interested. But his actions were nonetheless essentially "good" in the same way He informed people that they were having their telecommunications secretly listened to. Just because it was for the benefit of Russians instead of Americans doesn't make it wrong. They're people too.
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This is pure monopoly play - I hope Lyft continues to compete and do not merge ... I hate to be in world where no taxi service exists and I am at the mercy of random surge pricing...
Looks like it's a case of two rivals trying to outspend each other and one has been outspent.
Nice, I reckon you're targeting the primary 'benefit' sought by MITM'ers. Most of my Android MiTM'ing is because I want to get at the data behind the app. Trying to comprehend some of the crazy, ultra-nested JSON schemas that some app devs use is a PITA.

Just a suggestion: I know you mention it in one of the marketing lines, but it might be worth stating that it's for Mac in the headline (or in the download button). Otherwise people like me, who just breeze past the marketing material to the download link, will waste 6.8MB of your bandwidth (sorry about that...)
Assuming that by "location-independent entrepreneur" you mean that I could run my business from anywhere (as opposed to "digital nomad", referring to someone who does run their business from all over the world): Vancouver, Canada. Because it's my home; it's where most of my friends live; and... well, if you've ever lived in Vancouver you'll understand why I don't want to live anywhere else.
If they want thinner, just go from 3.5 mm audio to 2.5 mm audio. Already an existing standard.

If thinness is just a cover for wanting digital, then go TOSLINK and have digital with analog fall-back. They already have it in the MacBook Pros.
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"Didi is making a $1 billion investment in Uber at a $68 billion valuation, people familiar with the matter said."

So that's where Apple's $1 billion in Didi[1] just went!

[1] http://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-china-idUSKCN0Y404W
Seems like a risky move. My understanding is that China doesn't have the same level of minority shareholder protections as Delaware. I suppose it's better than bleeding for the next 10 years and ultimately losing the market, though.
"information is power" <-- amen to this. It's also important to gather another type of information, and that's information about yourself. You've got to be able to prove (detailed instances, dates even) how you've added value in the past (which hopefully means you can again). You need leverage for these negotiations and that involves knowing what you're worth and what the market thinks you're worth (not always the same).
Can you clarify what you mean by "location-independent"? Do you imply that the person is traveling, or does it mean that the team is all remote?
I want the program to cleanse the Wi-Fi network and Thanks
> ... statistically they might be faster than other orders sent original around the same time

how about if you take a block of interval (10-150 ms), and mess up, err, randomize all orders within that interval ? there goes the statistical advantage. moreover, if the difference in arrival of order between the fastest and slowest upto say 1(or 2)-sigma is what is taken (as the interval block) then it should level the playing field somewhat perhaps ?
> A poor attempt at obfuscation.

Just because Russia is guilty of some things, does not mean that they are automatically guilty of others.

> nothing to do with with Litvinenko's murder

Probably the Russian government was involved.

> Nemtsov's murder,

Nothing has been proven, it is just pure speculation. I really don't think the government benefited by killing him on red square -- it created a huge embarrassment.

> Shooting down MH-17,

Russia may have provided assistance to rebels (e.g. in the form of air defense). But there is no proof at all that a civilian plane was shot down on purpose on orders of the Russian government. In most probability it is a tragic accident (as happened earlier: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siberia_Airlines_Flight_1812). These accidents are bound to happen when civilian planes fly over warzones.

> comment about Stalin (Russians always did adore their Tyrants),

Russians have a complex and tragic history. It is not that easy to reject all of your history (the good and the bad).

I wonder if you are equally vocal about neighbouring countries who still adore their Nazi independence fighters...
Vermont, because if you've ever been here you'd know there's no place like it. I like living in the middle of no where and having access to great outdoor activities, great food, and great place to raise a family. Not to expensive, but not cheap, and the extreme winters keeps the riff raff away...
Enjoyed this read. The part that really stuck out to me was the exploding offers section.

IBM performed interviews at my college weeks (or more) before anyone else was even hiring. After doing the interview process and getting an offer, they wanted an answer within 2 days. Obviously I told them that this wasn't going to work, and they basically said it was too bad. A few months later, I got a call asking if I was still available (wasn't at this point). Be prepared to walk away in a negative situation like that, it says a lot about the company.
You shouldn't even have to respond to that question.

I guess I'm getting older, or from a different generation, but a lot of life is personal--right?

I'm shocked at how fast Google scoops up these posts for the world to see forever. There been times where I go back to edit/delete a comment, and figure what's the point; Google set it in stone.
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A general approximation in business is that the non-US market is 5-8x the US market. So if the world market is only 9x the China market, I'd consider that a very big deal.
I would take with a grain of salt and publicity around espionage acts. Snowden's release is just about the only one I believe was genuine or not part of some back room dealings.

The first assumption is that any such announcement by any entity public or private is either calculated or forced with plenty of forces in the background pulling the stings. It would make the most sense that pieces of Google were in the know, being forced by secret orders, and begging to be able to feign outrage publicly to save face.

A person doesn't have to be a conspiracy nut to have reasonable doubt about any of this. Secret courts, secret orders, and massive NSA data collection are all general public knowledge. It's hard to believe there is any public disclosure that is not planned and carefully negotiated.
Very true. In this case, it was actually an increase in salary but a loss of liquid stock compensation in favor of illiquid stock options.

Overall cashflow, it was a pay cut. Median/Mode outcome, probably still a pay cut. With extremely high variance, I believe the Mean outcome is probably a break even.

As far as not having room to grow, I can probably sum that up in a single word: Yahoo!
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There is a huge perception bias systematically established by us government and enterprises. I think there is a legitimate to think or behave in that way from USA's perspective, due to the long history between the 2 nations.

So it is necessary for anyone in discussion to keep in mind that there is always a higher chance that the perception on Russia is worse than it really is.
Doesn't need to be a battery case if they design a phone with a replaceable battery, like every phone I've ever owned (after iPhone 3G, which was more or less the only option at the time).
I've added several screenshots, and cleaned up the messaging quite a bit. Hope it's more informative now.

Thanks again for checking it out.