skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think web apps made desktop OSs much less important for most people; I don't think switching to osx would have really been viable for most people if it wasn't for web browsers/standards.
The big suggestion I have for your team is to structure live sessions with television-like scheduling. Early-on, a live experience web site does not have enough usage to generate a good time for users. I learned this while running rapt.fm, a live web platform for freestyle rapping.

Have a calendar and use twitter or other means to announce upcoming events to concentrate the attention of users. Create well-promoted "prime time" slots, later add in regular programming, and overall make it clear to the users that all other times are "down times" and not likely to have a lot of debates going on.
As someone who recently got an Echo Dot for Christmas, it seems like some apps do have this capability. For example, I paired my Sensi Thermostat, and I only need to say, "Alexa, set thermostat to 70 degrees".
It's written to run Python 2.7 because these problems are largely solved in Python 3, and needs solved for people on Python 2.x versions.

"Upgrade to Python3" is the usual defense to that, but it's not really practical for large companies with software such as YouTube completely written in Python 2.x.
... is Max Levchin, of Paypal fame.
As a former Dropbox user, I can't imagine investing in them. For me, their plans are just way out of line with regard to pricing. So out of line that I'm going to go to the trouble of moving all of my stuff to Google Drive or OneDrive. And I hate their ransom policy of giving you free space for a while due to phone promotions or whatever and then taking it away. You are screwed and can't access your own stuff until you pay the ransom. I just don't think a company formed on those sorts of policies and pricing strategies is a good investment.
you still would get way more viewership on linkedin posts, even though their system sucks
These will be authorised humans, and thus will probably have some kind of (hopefully cryptographicly protected) id to tell the cars that this is an instruction it probably wants to obey.
oh horsecrap, stop with the theatrics.

You've been a drug addict who's gone to jail and had a hard time, but even you've never seen anything as horrible as white class workers presumably looking down on other white class workers?

Is there anyone who actually buys that?
> GAAP analysis usually assigns a revenue multiple to a company that is based on its sector and assumed growth

GAAP is an accounting framework [1]. It defines, for example, how one may and may not recognise revenues [2].

GAAP does not tell investors how to value a company. "GAAP Analysis" isn't a thing (gap analysis is [3], but that's a management tool).

That said, yes, public-company investors tend to look at Revenue, EBITDA or P/E multiples. But so do late-stage VCs. Both ascribe high valuations when expected growth provides for it, e.g. Amazon or Tesla or Uber.

A multiple gap has emerged between the late-stage private company market (at least at the top end) and comptable public companies. But it has nothing to do with "GAAP analysis" (which isn't a thing) or mezzanine funding (which most VC-backed companies don't take on).

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generally_accepted_accountin...

[2] http://www.fasb.org/jsp/FASB/Page/BridgePage%26cid=135102720...

[3] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gap_analysis
Thanks. Looks like some countries work, others don't.
It's the "people like you" which I disagree with, and the presumption that you should choose those who you trust and respect from that group.

That's probably not what Sama means, but it's what is technically advised and how it's practically enacted. Surrounding yourself with similar/aligned people is just positive spin on excluding those who are different.

I believe strongly in creating one's tribe with intent, and choose it to maximize the richness of one's personal and professional life. That takes a lot more work than settling down with one's classmates & colleagues, but it's ultimately far more fulfilling (and holistically healthy for the system).
How many times did humanity speciate then interbreed
I use owncloud -- done.
Space X rockets and asteroid mining are next!
Nice, didn't know about this chip.
Sad that there are either "winners" or "losers" and no "treading water" but I'm guessing if they aren't mentioned they are in the treading water space.

But the other challenge is what is captured here is not an object measurement instead it is "performance against expectations" which makes people like Apple a "loser" even though they shipped more product and made more money than Google a "winner."

The EVP of marketing at NetApp used to have a chart on their wall which had all of NetApp's competitors and an arrow next to it, which was their "path" and the path could be up, forward, or down. It had a similar feel. It is useful as a leading indicator of future challenges. And by that I mean that you can miss expectations one year and be fine, but miss for 2 or more years in a row, or regularly have a miss every few years, and its harder to be perceived as the leader.
I took a 3x pay increase to move away from the overly-restrictive firewall. YMMV.
I use Albert on my Arch Linux installation as an alternative to Alfred. Not quite as good, but it works and is familiar (also extensible).

If you're looking for clipboard management, there are tons of linux solutions for that, see: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/list_of_applications#Cl...

As for an alternative to Karabiner, I use Xmonad and manage my keymapping through the use of Xmodmap (https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/xmodmap)
The only reason this software is any good is specifically because it isn't controlled by Amazon. This functionality is very deliberately missing from the stock Kindle.
The community will fork the 2.7 codebase and continue to support it, even if Python.org EOLs it.
I love all of this smart home stuff, but the software developer in me cringes at the thought of some message queue connection getting messed up somewhere and my garage door going up and down 3 hours later as I lay in bed...
Please don't pay to use a pay toilet
Hilariously true, since the mantra is purported to be "fail fast" and not "prop up on VC money than fail spectacularly years later when it runs out"
I agree. I preferred working 4x10 or even 4x12 before having kids (while working flexible resturant shift work).

Now that I have kids and work an office job, I would much prefer a 5x6 to a 4x8.
Why should a photo app be integrated into a filesystem? That sounds like bad engineering to me. And also like a bad value-proposition.

A filesystem should be just that, a filesystem. And thirdparty apps should be able to use it to store pictures and such.
I was flipped off and honked at in traffic within minutes of crossing into the Boston city limits because I slowed down too much at the EzPass toll lane. I wasn't sure how slow you had to go for the machine to work and I knew I'd get a photo-ticket if the machine didn't read so I slowed down. I wish I had a thicker skin, but I"m still kind of mad about that.
It is a different representation of a number, but it achieves compression only for some numbers like 2^n for n>13. Primes and products where each prime factor is only once will be generally longer than ordinary notation.
The fact that Dropbox's revenue is well above Box's if the rumors in the article are true is a great positive sign. As is being cash flow positive which would indicate that if they are burning cash it isn't at the rate of 2x revenue that Box has been a victim of.

However, the vision they are selling will not come to pass. That of them being a collaborative platform. Google docs, slack, and a myriad of other tools have already taken that place and there isn't a large enough disruption in Dropbox to unseat that.

In the meantime Dropbox's core offering of syncing and sharing files seamlessly as well as providing more security minded options for businesses is something that no one else has quite gotten right.

Box targeted the high-end enterprise users and Dropbox ceded that market to them rather early on. But the massive number of individual users coupled with SMBs that do not need the complexity that Box entails is a large market. The only question is are those two markets combined larger than the enterprise market that Box is chasing.

According to the revenue reported it seems that currently on the revenue side it is.

And given that investors do value profitability and with only a 200 sales person team their burn should be within controllable limits should make them overall both on the profitability and revenue side more attractive than Box.

However if they grew revenue from $400 -> $750 they simply do not have the growth trajectory that gets Wall St excited because due to their maturity and larger revenue you get a more consistent view point into their future growth.

Then again if they are compared more to Atlassian that is trading at 10x revenue then they certainly maybe get justified in their close to $10B private valuation.
For your usecase, Prime Photos [1] from Amazon, where they meld the traditional album and folder metaphors with auto-classifying ML -- the latter which you can luckily turn off if it creeps you out, unlike with Google.

But this is an under-served market and many people would pay to some paltry amount a month to have their family photos (or professional photographs) kept safe in the Cloud. Unfortunately most cloud storage providers are chasing the (presumably much more lucrative) enterprise market with document-editing and office-y features.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/photos/home
Here is the facebook version: https://github.com/facebookresearch/darkforestGo

And here's another public attempt, not sure about the progress.
https://github.com/Rochester-NRT/RocAlphaGo
Do you really browse without JS turned on? Seems like a hopeless cause now adays.
Those can be built into Grumpy if anyone cares to do so. You don't need Python3 for that stuff. Someone, one developer, recently released a Python 2.8 that backported almost every new Python3 feature.

I'm hoping it becomes a permanent fork of Python2 that uses the Go runtime. That would really be great and exactly what they've got now.
Hah - if I'd changed my name so often for malicious intent, instead of family & marriage reasons, it'd probably be much more rationally arranged.

Not having a canonical "real name" is a giant PITA.
> I don't know ANYONE who would be happier if they got a 25% pay cut

First of all, relax. Second: Pay was not cut. This was an experiment with a 30h work week with 100% pay. Unions would never agree to anyones pay being cut.

The benefits they were looking for in this case would not be higher employment. The main benefit would be reduced people on sick leaves because of work related illness (stress, depression, overwork infections) as well ass less staff turnover, possibly more efficient work and so on.

There were times after the '08 recession where factories (e.g. Volvo) cut work hours due to reduced production, and in agreement with the Union (to avoid layoffs) they agreed to 90% pay for 80% work.

I'd take 90% pay for 80% work any day. 10% pay cut, sure, but higher hourly pay, and I would live well off 90% of my salary.
> "How do you know there will be an AMA?

From WikiLeaks Twitter on Jan 2, 2017: "You can ask WikiLeaks' publisher Julian Assange anything live at Thursday 9am EST on Reddit @Reddit_IAmA #AskMeAnything #IAmA #proofoflife"

https://mobile.twitter.com/wikileaks/status/8160304664657920...
I'll have to start checking it more frequently. It even appears that Bill has actually started writing again. Maybe there'll even be a mailbag again someday...
If we're going whole hog we also have to include the various drug users and people of differing ages. What if that 18 year old prostitute druggie has a perspective that isn't covered in our scrum standups!
Innovative is different than remarkable though, which just means "worth talking about." Why something became more successful than some other virtually identical thing is almost always remarkable.
I wish people would stop claiming words from the English dictionary to mean only the thing they're most familiar with.

They explain it plainly.

> SpaceVim is a distribution, a bundle of custom settings and plugins, for Vim. It got inspired by spacemacs.

It's hyperbolic to suggest there's a real issue here
Exactly how I feel. I loved Medium when I first discovered it. Good quality content in many different areas. Nowadays it's just a collection of IT students that heard it's a good thing to be blogging to find a job but who aren't good writers and write about non-exciting stuff. On the other hand you find "founders" with (if at all) mediocre startups that recommend you their book list on how to become "successful".

Of course some good writers are still there but they are lost in all this really annoying noise that stopped me from reading medium.
> Be a doer, not a talker – history belongs to the doers.

Actually, History belongs to no one. How many of the most exceptional individuals or entities from 100 years ago does the average person in the world appreciate or even know about? Very very very few. Success (and life) is so incredibly fleeting.

Now think 200 years? 1000 years?
What are your recommendations for a fast, intuitive, portable third-party solution that uses Dropbox as a data store for my use case?

Edit: While separating these concerns (storage and presentation) is a solid software engineering approach, without open standards it would seem to just add additional layers of vendor lock-in and brittleness. Syncing to local storage is a non-starter for mobile.
Yeh, I'm pretty annoyed that the useful and simple Public Folder functionality is being nixed.
This is the best news to come out of the Python space in a very long time. Python on the Go runtime, no GIL, more performance, is exactly what people wanted out of a new Python.
I'm cautiously optimistic, but I get the impression that this is another one of those "date('Y') + 1 will be the year Linux goes mainstream on desktops" situations.

Quantum computers have come leaps and bounds in the past few years. Especially impressive is research into improving the signal-to-noise ratio of qubits through "dressing" them in microwaves[0].

Despite this, quantum computers still aren't, in the overwhelming majority of cases, better at solving problems than classical machines. Some work still needs to be done in terms of getting better signal-to-noise in qubits, as well as in terms of getting more performant hardware in the processors themselves.

And before there can be an industry built around quantum computers, there'll likely need to be some new way of keeping quantum processors running without having to keep them in a fridge at near-absolute zero.

Again, though, I'm hopeful that QC starts becoming more mainstream soon.

[0] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1603.04800v1.pdf
Sounds fun, would love to give it a try.
Taxes and insurance contribution taken from your salary.

But the actual cost reduction is that the system is not a bloated for profit world with what resembles monopoly powers (well, you are free to not go to the nearest hospital...) but instead a public good, serving the people not the shareholders.

In reasonable prices a birth in western Europe will cost something like €2000 including a few days stay and possibly pre- & post-natal care. That's the amount paid by the insurance to the hospital. In the US you easily get to $30000 for a normal birth, of which then anything up to the full amount might be billed to the patient.

If you to real cost you could calculate eg the amount of taxes that pay for tuition free medical degrees, lots of pharmaceutical research, or similar things that would in the US be part of the justification for the huge cost (high tuition -> need for high earnings for doctors -> need for high prices). But in the end it's just absurd and the US system should be a warning to anyone who thinks that such a vital public service would be better if privatised.
While this is DEFINITELY not a solution, have a look at Insync[0]. It's what a google drive client should be.

(I just use the cloud to sync files and generally as an USB stick of sorts - not a folder where I constantly edit stuff - so I can't vouch for their extreme sync abilities)

[0] - https://www.insynchq.com/
Can't blame them for trying to make a phone. A phone is one of the few things where people get $700 from a $700 phone just because it costs $700.
People use various technologies for various reasons, many having to do with specific characteristics of the technology itself. Accidental reasons do exist, but the technical deficiencies must be small enough to not overshadow the favorable accidental reasons. In other words, it has to be good enough, given the context, or it won't happen. So I don't think it's fair to dismiss adoption as meaningless.

I agree it is difficult to determine how well Bitcoin has "stored value" over the past 8 years. But I don't think speculation should be casually dismissed, as continued speculation rarely happens for many years without reasonable fundamentals supporting the space. Short term bubbles can possibly be more noise/mob-mentality than meaningful signal. However, many bubbles over time, coupled with a strong underlying trend, is definitely a powerful signal that something interesting is happening. Additionally, the volatility is decreasing year over year, which is another point in favor of bitcoin as a value storage mechanism.

I think one big problem in discussing bitcoin is people get hung up on different things that are supposedly the "purpose" of bitcoin, and then argue in circles about that. There are definitely some questionable ideologies in the bitcoin space.

As no single group is in charge of bitcoin, I'd personally would rather not assume any specific predetermined purpose, and just look at how the system is functioning and what the fundamental characteristics and dynamics seem to be.
I wonder why we haven't seen good open-source imitations of Dropbox yet, and why there isn't a good open protocol for file sharing. The last such protocol I've heard of is WebDAV, but it seemed to have been neglected by OS implementers (Apple's implementation was particularly bad). Also WebDAV was missing many modern features.
> Your article shows that teachers were making girls feel unwelcome because they didn't understand the cultural in-jokes.

I wonder if anywhere has tried running a female-only CS path (e.g. at a private non-coed institution) long enough to generate its own identity/culture, and then what would happen if you "transplanted" some of those teachers and students into a mixed-gender situation.

Could that "prime the pump", providing a cultural anchor point for more females in the mixed-gender place?
In egregious cases, you could probably sue the board and win. Another user here discussed an example where employees were diluted to a literal penny right before a sale.

If the employees didn't win in that case, then there's some fundamental, structural flaw in American laws.
Life Hacking: Abandon Your New Year’s Resolution and Trust Einstein
> In addition to selling utilities to keep digital files safe and accessible, Dropbox intends to offer software that businesspeople use for hours each day to create content and get work done.

Aaaaagghh!!!

Just... no. Dropbox used to do one thing well (modulo creepy stuff [1]): sync a directory across multiple computers. This wasn't so hard to do, but shockingly, Apple and Google didn't just implement this feature and make them obsolete. They could have been satisfied with owning that market, but now they want to create yet another office suite? Ugh...

[1] http://venturebeat.com/2016/09/20/dropbox-now-asks-for-acces...
I can't help but see this balkanization of Python as a sign that the core language is falling apart.

How many interpreters are there now? And how many of them have even close to 100% compatibility with Python 2.7 or 3.N? Guido has lost control of the language, but has he's still officially the BDFL there's no real standardization body. His stubborn view on functional mechanisms have held the language back syntactically, breaking BC with Python 3 without fixing the language's fundamental problems... it really feels like Python is lost in the desert.

Which doesn't mean the language is dead, but it's rudderless. I think we were all hopeful when Guido joined Google that we'd see real direction for Python, but that obviously didn't happen.

Not that Python is dead, obviously - still lots of great projects are written in Python. But I don't like the language's future.
This was my experience as well. I did have working knowledge with similar tools though.
My four-year-old son is the same way. He talks to my Google Home all the time, asking it weird questions (which it sometimes answers! "Hey Google, are you a robot?" "I prefer to think of myself as your friend."), getting it to tell him jokes, turning our Christmas tree on and off via IFTTT and a WeMo switch. It's all very natural for him.
Was Dropbox more attractive to you when it offered 100GB storage since you would have used more of it?

Why do you consider Linux support worth $0 (since you want to switch from one $1.99/mo service to another) instead of a number between $24/year and $120/year?
This looks interesting, I wasn't aware Amazon had entered this space. I'm not sure I trust Amazon either, but at least they're explicit in their desire to take my money in exchange for products and services.

Edit: it doesn't appear to provide any ability to organize photos yourself?
We do 9-5 or 8-4 and everyone "kind of" take lunch during those 8 hours and managers don't throw a fit about it. Unlike my last employer, where managers were sticklers about covering lunch hour or favored eat your lunch at desk kinda deal. I would be totally fine with a 8am-7pm -- disciplined 10 hours day. I don't have a family, but i can see people appreciating and spending a three day weekend with their kids. Also for young people, this can take the concept of "seekender" to more literal levels.
You're probably right, if I did have kids I would prefer 5x6h until I shed that responsibility (they leave the house once adults).

But as someone without kids, being able to take short flights or trips every week over 3 days would be awesome.

I guess ideally, since 5x6h and 4x8h are only two hours apart, a utopian workplace would offer its employees either option -- the people who chose 4x8h would make 2h more wages weekly.
"There is no Drive app for Linux at this time."

Meanwhile three years ago the message read: "Drive for Linux isn’t ready just yet"
Well, I'm not literally an idiot either. Your fallacy is that I'm worried about Musk's business encountering a shortage of lithium. I'm not. I'm only wondering if a massive worldwide transition to lithium-based batteries triggered by his move might cause or otherwise encounter a lithium shortage in the foreseeable future (say, 40 years from now). This is not a worry about him or his business, this is a worry about the longer-term effects quite beyond that.