skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not that they need the money so much as investors want a piece of the pie, so why not? Going public just introduces a lot of paperwork and red tape. Uber is following the same path.
- solved by any launcher
- solved by any launcher

Then you have never used Windows Phone. None of the Android launchers provides the equivalent of WP tiles with the same amount of integration. There is no API that launchers could use to pull out the same amount/types of information.

- gmaps handles this automatically

Nonsense. It does some prefetching, but if you are in another country (no data) and you go slightly off-route, there is no maps coverage anymore. Luckily, new versions of Google maps allow you to download offline maps ahead of time as well.

For me the reason to switch if I was still on WP is that the app state is so deplorable that even Microsoft's apps on iOS and Android are miles ahead of WP's counter parts.
One problem with that approach is that lobbying is not a one-time investment the way factories are. Every few years a new wave of politicians comes out, frequently building their platform around criticism of their predecessors and their corrupt, cozy deals with megacorps.

Is AirBnB just a vehicle for moving cash from venture industry to lobbying industry the way music startups are vehicles for moving cash from VCs to labels?
Wow, culture shock. Everything has unit prices marked in your typical chain supermarket in Finland (and elsewhere in Western Europe?) I never thought of it as something special, but I guess it's mandated by some regulation or other.
>The problem isn't that those things are worthless

It's just that they're worth a lot more when corporations lobby governments to make copying them illegal.
You might be right in that there is more mechanical/industrial/automative engineering going on in Michigan, but SV will definitely beat out any other area as Software Engineering's Mecca for the foreseeable future.
Yes, they are. You can sign up for retargeting information from them, and cross reference that with those people when they visit your site. You pay it forward and pay a bit per segment, but you get the same results.
But aren't these stores also more expensive than super markets? Looks weird after reading the article.
If your poor, like myself, and want to slow down a car thief, put in a kill switch.

Run the proper gague wire from the primary on the coil to a switch in the cab. The primary wires are the small wires on the coil. (I can't think of any reason the ECU would throw a trouble code.)

It gets more complicated if you have a separate distributor running to each cylinder, but there's always a point in the electrical system you can splice into, like the starting system.

When completed, just get onto the habit of turning the switch on off, and on.

(I have noticed a lot of old Japanese vehicles being stolen in the Bay Area. Go figure?)
That's not... extremely healthy either.
Retargeting doesn't release the information to you. They are selling access to their network under specific conditions. Retargeting just lets me say, "make sure X sees my ad", it doesn't let me say "I know of X person, send me all their information so I can do what I want with it."

There's a pretty big difference. Facebook and Google would not be in business if they let third parties aggregate their detailed personal records.
I just get a new Note every 2 years.

Easy.
A million bucks doesn't get you very far. I've worked at a start-up that builds robots for 3 years now and I underappreciated just how much money it takes to run a company.

That cool million would pay for what.. maybe 5 or 6 engineers for a year when you account for the cost of salary, a building to work at, resources to work with, benefits, etc.

Not that $850m isn't kind of wild for a pure software company. But a million isn't a lot of cash.
I think, from an accounting perspective, you could theoretically capitalize the expense over the term of office in the same way you capitalize the factory costs over the life of the machinery and facility.

I cannot say I have ever met an accountant would would dare try it, but suffice it to say the field of accounting has a more nuanced view of "one time expenditures" than you might be imagining.
My argument is that we first evolved to sweat, not wear the skins of dead animals. I'll always be more comfortable dripping in a humid summer heat (moisture feels so natural on the skin) than in shivering for warmth. Watching the cold, dry air of winter suck the energy out of my breath is a reminder that I'm out of equilibrium with my surroundings (more so than normal, anyway), and that the universe seeks to rectify this. Cold is bitter and like death.

I enjoy running in the baking heat, soaking in the sun. My lungs don't get seared from the biting cold, and I can breathe. The feeling of evaporating sweat is glorious and invigorating; the shirt is optional.

I appreciate your personal opinion and experience, though. :)
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12202384
Google in total spends $16M in the US for lobbyists in the US and they want self driving car litigation. This seems like it would be used for more than lobbying .
Ouch, I interviewed with Chris when I was looking around inside Google for a new gig. At the time he was "the guy", Sebastian had this great vision but Chris was the guy making it happen. I hope he does something new and exciting.
Late-stage investors have become proficient at extracting various ratchets and preferences (e.g., BOX). Even if the worse comes to worst, that $850 mil is probably recoverable at 1x liquidation preference.

In a low-rate environment we have today it seems like a reasonable allocation of cash compared to buying something like German bonds at negative rates.
Apple Buys AI Company Turi (Dato, Graphlab) for $200m
If we strike first, we're the bad guys.

Here's a terrifying thought, regarding the nature of war: Being the bad guy doesn't really matter when you win.
I dont think he means to deprecate enjoying life and spending time with friends and family. It's more about good healthy life habits - nutrition, exercise, sleep. When you think about it all these good habits make you happier. He certainly does not advocate workaholism. At least I dont read it this way.
3.2 billion total. Where the hell is the money going?
Fake(?) A simple post to the Twitter API without any auth can't really do anything.
I wouldn't call most Bloomberg articles "clickbait". I am glad they are exposing the existence of these companies. And I think you're missing what distinguishes the two: with FB/google, you can opt out. These other players are aggregating public records. There is a difference.
>The reason people find git hard is that concepts of distributed version control are hard.

Maybe. For me it was because the documentation is written like a comp sci whitepaper. I've ranted about this elsewhere on HN but the man pages are filled with stuff like "update remote refs" as if a person would have a fucking clue what a ref is and why you'd want to update a remote one.

Branching, merging, tagging, all of that sounds great. I've been using git for years, but the problem is that I don't use it every day, and so I still get a little wary when I want to run a merge. I can't tell you right now off the top of my head how to merge if there is a conflict. I always have to google around for "how to undo a commit". Etc. etc. etc.

Where the fuck do my files go when I switch to a different branch? Do they actually change in the working directory? Checkout vs fetch? Where exactly in the file system is this alleged "staging area"? I have no idea about any of these, mostly because the documentation is just so poorly written that it takes me too long to find out the answers and I have more important things to do than Greco-Roman wrestling matches with my software tooling, but I'm afraid that if I just try things at random I'll do something I can't undo because none of the options seem particularly intuitive.

It's just not a very good piece of software.
awesome! a bit like how power station boilers used to be lit.. "light blue touch paper and retreat in haste"
Heck Caldera only really wanted OpenServer.

Why did Caldera only want the more dated OpenServer? Did they plan to provide consulting services to existing OpenServer users?
We hear you (and all of you downthread) and we naturally happen to build what people ask for. Thanks for comments like these though, the PMs here literally link to HN all the time (if you want to help more you can ping them with "and my AWS bill was $XXk this month").

Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud, so I'll probably come back to you and hold you to this statement...
Huh, I wouldn't have guessed the bento boxes were particularly high margin. (I am not expressing doubt, just surprise. I'd have assumed they get their best margins on drinks and, depending on how you calculate things, financial services.)

By visual inspection, though, I think you're likely right with regards to the changing customer mix. Another not-historically-core customer: working women, who might grab a few essentials (and possibly, a dinner) rather than making a full trip to the grocery store.
Astute observation -- I wasn't aware of their competitive advantage, though I did understand them to be doing well (other than having the best jingle in their commercials).

But there are two passages that stand out to me from the mainichi article

> ２位以下のコンビニチェーンの顧客がセブン−イレブンに流れていることがわかります。

> 今後、国内の個人消費支出の大きな伸びは期待できないでしょう。「このチェーン店の、この商品が好き！」と消費者から思われ、選ばれ続けることが、コンビニ各社が成長するために不可欠の条件となりそうです。

7-11 has done excellently against its competitors, stealing their customers away. But the industry as a whole has matured and has become a zero sum game. I would still contend that targeting the elderly as a growth segment that traditionally has not frequented convenience stores is an industry-wide growth bet that includes 7-11 as well.
A million may get you 5-6 interns for the year if you include cost of rent and upkeep, along with all other business related costs. Doesn't get you far at all.
That's not really survivorship bias.
That's just an accident of neglect though, not something inherent in GUIs.

Many GUI apps have some embedded scripting capability (for extensions, batch processing, etc).

The same could be generalized to use and combine not just one through it's special language, but all of them from outside.

That's e.g. what Apple's OSA dictionaries do enabling you to script GUI apps (if its developers bothered to expose its commands as programmatic APIs).

And if Windows and OSX and Linux devs talked between them, the same commands could work in all platforms for the same app.

You could also use something like a visual pipeline (as in Automator) to combine functions and move results between arbitrary apps (think "GUI pipes"), do the whole scripting from the CLI in some scripting language, send messages to the app (a la Rest), etc.

This is also true for web apps of course -- they're GUI based (e.g. Gmail, Mailchip) but lots have programmatic interfaces, via REST and co.
Even if it were in Alpha / Beta? What if it didn't have point-in-time recovery, etc.? Just looking for when we can pencil you in ;)
Overvoltage can weld relay contacts together when the relay is opened, even with AC the spark would be considerable. I'm sure that the wreckage was studied extensively to figure out what exactly could have been done to prevent this from happening.

It's one thing to have to design for fickle winds, it's quite another to also have to design for a fickle grid!

Windmills tend to have a destabilizing effect on a grid, if the grid is unable to sink all the power pushed into it the voltage will rise.

Even so, you'd wonder just how much of a rise would be required to cause a catastrophe like this.

Those people filming this are braver than I would have been in the same situation, a mill considerable smaller than this one failed on the island where I lived and the blade was found the next spring. It was embedded several feet down in the soil and about a mile away from the base of the mill!

Dying windmills are dangerous, and to stand there to film it took a lot of courage.
Could it have something to do with the negative interest rates popping up across the world?
Hunkering down for those fines, I suppose.
So I think you might benefit from a bit of commercial business dealings that offer context: The NFL has an exclusive contract with Nike. A player, Robert Griffin III, signed an independent endorsement with Adidas. That means to do his job, RGIII could only wear Nike branded shoes on the field. He protested by taping over the Nike logo when he was out on the practice field, as a point of principle.

The league - his employer - reminded him of the conditions of his employment. There was nothing preventing him from wearing Adidas from HEAD TO TOE as long as it wasn't in a direct situation sponsored by his employer. Thus, he actually had TWO sponsorships in some terms.

He wanted to wear his Adidas on the field, but was not allowed, even though it was completely above the board. So, where do you draw the line? Can your employer tell you what brand of clothing to wear? If he got the shoes for free, should RGIII be allowed to undermine the other contract?

My perspective is that the line of reasoning you present is inherently flawed. Are you not aware that Nike essentially got its foothold (pun intended) by giving away shoes to college basketball programs and people who probably couldn't afford to buy them? It was covered in an ESPN 30 for 30 so there's the citation.

From your context it sounds like you believe - maybe it's my interpretation - that things given to celebrities for free are "no strings attached" and I think that's been proven wrong time and again. Contracts, handshake deals, they don't work that way. There's either an explicit (preferred) or implied (bad) debt to be paid. It takes time to learn how these systems work, and woe to those who might minimize their practical implementations.

Oh, and a Youtuber who receives free stuff better disclose it, because if they're in the US, then they have the IRS to deal with. The IRS doesn't screw around with compensation. Dollars or donuts, keep the receipts[1]!

[1] Excluding Mitch Hedberg, who accurately pointed out a donut in regular guy life does not need a receipt.
Sounds like this is the problem: you don't know exactly what they are doing. That doesn't mean it's not justified, and of course it doesn't mean it is :)
Isn't WP already dead? I've never met a single person using one.
I see. I see it more as kind of call (in a "vocative case").

In the sense that you find something surprising, and ask for your God (as when you fear something, etc).
"how is it that we haven't heard about this?"

Not enough customers to complain / notice.

Gartner report in the last week or two pointed out that Amazon is way in the lead with more cloud capacity than all the other providers combined.

The top two clouds are AWS and Azure. When either of those have major incidents you hear about it all over twitter etc. because that's a large user base that gets impacted. Google is in third place (according to them), but dramatically far behind. They do praise Google's big data tools, but point out even then people use AWS for most stuff and Google just for their big data bits.
I don't doubt that targeting the elderly as a growth segment would be a good idea for the entire industry. It's just that your original comment suggested 7-Eleven in particular was in danger, which didn't jive with my personal experience, so I looked up the numbers.
You don't have to tell us, internal LB was a long time coming. As for hosted VPN, do you mean something different than our Cloud VPN offering? (
https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/vpn/overview)
Neither Stockholm nor NYC have a winter anything like what parts of Michigan get - both are relatively temperate, coastal cities. Michigan is pretty much Canada!
Can you explain how this particular CTF work and how the system in general work against adversary? The article said insecure code and code filled with bugs are constantly being fed to the system. I don't really get it.
Ask HN: Security in Bitcoin world – where do we stand?
On August 2 yet another major hack in Bitcoin world surfaced; bitfinex (https://www.bitfinex.com/) one of the top exchanges was hacked and the users got robbed of 120k bitcoins. Bitfinex was using bitgo a bitcoin wallet service with the tagline "The leader in blockchain security". Some say bitgo had nothing to do with the breach (https://steemit.com/security/@joelkatz/bitfinex-claiming-the-compromise-was-entirely-on-their-end). Bitfinex takes full responsibility for the losses. Based on the very little vague facts available a lot of people are of the opinion that this was an insider job. Hacker might have gained access to Bitfinex's 2 multisig keys.
I am not a expert in security and cryptography but I want to get educated about these topics. I have some questions which will help me and perhaps other interested people to make a headstart.
1) Is there still no benchmark standard for bitcoin exchanges so that they can't be hacked?
2) Is there a way bitcoin users can educate themselves about security issues and edge cases related to handling bitcoins?
3) From a developer perspective how can I educate myself about bitcoin exchanges and wallet setups?

Thanks for the help!
> I admire what some supermarkets in Australia did when they introduced info on price per 100g for all weighable items.

They do this in Canada too, though I have seen instances where two comparable products are measured in different units. For example, one brand of yogourt is price per 100g while another is price per 100mL.
Depending on your situation, we offer up to $100k in credits for startups (https://cloud.google.com/startups)
The Sharing Economy finally pimps out natural splendor herself
When I was growing up as a baby boomer 7-11 was one of the hangouts like the malt shop was for kids of our parents generation.

But for the next generations it changed. Young people gathering was seen as a problem to be corrected. Local 7-11's started playing classical music specifically to get rid of kids loitering.

I never thought of it before but what they've done is make certain that the baby boomers will be the last generation to support 7-11 and after that they will all die out. Don't know if it's played out that way in Japan or not.
Hookers and blow?
Are you saying you're OK with co.uk getting a cert for foo.co.uk, even though they're under different administrative control? I'm not OK with that.

I understand that other CA's provide wildcard certs, but frankly I see them as a giant problem. It's bad enough that I only have to have something listening on port 80 to prove that I control a domain. Let's not make it more attractive for people to start fooling Let's Encrypt into getting certs for domains they don't control.
Seems like you are no fan of linux's robust mutexes implementation. Sincerely, you probably know more than me about the implementation and I'd be curious to have your take on it as I have not looked at how (and so late) it was implemented in FreeBSD.
And their bots hide "your profile from the public", when you are hit:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CpGcXmQXEAAyJU4.jpg:large
True enough, but would be nice if it detected that the SOA IP corresponds to a public suffix dns provider.

Also, not sure where to put public suffix list additions for such a provider... I was going to add bbs.io, as well as say the top 25 domains for freedns.afraid.org, but wasn't sure where to add them.
Burnout isn't interesting to organizational psychologists because it was relatively well-understood in 90s. There's only so much you can study in this space and all the low-hanging fruit is gone. It's still a popular topic for some, but the reason you don't see the actual research is probably because you expect it to be covered in blogs. Go to a university library, get on the wifi, and download some proceedings of organizational and cognitive psychology journals.
Agreed. I was moving my personal VPS from Linode earlier this year (after way too many security incidents from them). My first port of call was GCE, but in the end the UI just annoyed me. It took a while to wrap my head around and then was still confusing in various ways. I'm not going to write a tool to interact with an API for a once in a blue moon thing like "give me a server". I looked at AWS and Azure as well, and their consoles aren't much better (I think I preferred Azure's one, if anything)

In the end I went with Digital Ocean and had a server up and running in barely a few minutes, much quicker and easier.
Priceline.com -- $70 billion market cap, $9.5 billion sales, $2.6 billion net income, $3.4 billion in cash

Expedia -- $17 billion market cap, $7.7 billion sales, $2.3 billion cash

That's just two competitors that Airbnb is squaring off against, and you're wondering why they'd want more capital?

Priceline.com just keeps expanding, getting bigger and bigger, making more and more money, accumulating more and more cash, when will it stop? What exactly does a web site like Priceline.com need $3.4 billion in cash and $2.6 billion in net income for? Those questions make as much sense as wondering why Airbnb would want to raise $850 million.

How about if Airbnb wants to acquire the next Homeaway for $3.9 billion in cash + equity? Or they want to buy the next Kayak for $1.8 billion in cash? Or if they want to buy Zillow? Why not? Those are perfectly valid business expansion opportunities and they're expensive.
Where specifically have you lived and found this to be the case?
One caveat about the Bento and other hot food items that I should explain. These are high margin on their own (particularly Oden, believe it or not, which have a gross margin of 50% [1]), and were a boon to the industry in its expansion years.

But with increased competition from a higher density of convenience stores, as well as other competing sectors (super markets, fast food, etc.), the inventory turnover rate has dropped from its peak years, and since these food items are perishable, it's now a point of risk for convenience stores who are expected to carry the items but have uncertainty over how they'll be able to clear inventory.

(by the way you're also spot on about the soft drinks. Also, copies have 70% margin)

[1] fascinating article about the finances of Oden operations and how scale is the make or break factor. http://thutmose.blog.jp/archives/18955371.html
I know it's not bash for windows... I was just making a side comment that I already have been using bash...
I mean, there's really no possible way Airbnb could possibly need that much money.

That's more than half what Tesla recently raised, with the goal of building 500,000 cars annually within 24 months.

How could Airbnb possibly justify needing 56% of the same amount?
I think nostromo is advocating a healthy, live and let live, different people are motivated by different things mindset. I think that you are somehow imagining this to be an attack on you, when he is actually supporting your right to live the way you want to.
SE Michigan does have more engineering degrees per capita than any other area in the country. Amazon already has an engineering office there. Google moving is just them trying to get ahead of the curve. The longer they wait to establish a major presence in the Motor City means the greater they will have to pay people for an increasing COL.
Normal looking, upper middle class Christian white man here from Fort Wayne, IN who's lived in 4 major cities Boston, Philadelphia, WAsh DC, and St. Louis and a mix of others Augusta, GA, Princeton, NJ, Ann Arbor, MI.

City vs. not is the key distinction. Racists/sexists/etc. exist in equal numbers in less populated parts of every state. Interestingly, the immigrants who primarily live in cities tend to be similarly racist/sexist as the Americans in less populated parts. My point is to challenge the idea that middle america is relatively bad.
Probably a matter of their flushing out their tooling... not sure, in my case the continuous backups would be enough for my personal projects.