skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So, to describe situation further ...

The dot-com bust and post-9/11 biz environment were not friendly to most startups and not friendly to big hard-to-implement ideas, and the startup company was rescued in 2002 or 2003 by a sideline project (largely not using the IP in the patents) in which a large I.T./storage company saw value. The large company acquired the startup.

The 10 patent applications, in the mean time, were not maintained or perhaps not novel enough to all merit patents -- though I doubt the "not novel enough" part -- I've seen stupid patents awarded for much less innovation, and I haven't yet seen the system the patents deal with implemented or sold. So ... I think there's huge value in the ideas behind the patent applications. The patent applications all lapsed around 2007 or before, I believe because they were peripheral to large company's business and nobody realized what they had in hand.

The ideas and system behind the patents only grow more relevant each passing year.

So what I see right now:

* an idea-kernel that would be the excellent
basis for a new startup
* good documented prior-art (in the form of the
lapsed patent applications) that probably are
decent enough to defend against patent trolls
* I'm at the point in my professional career
where I want to pursue these ideas
* >>> the fact that if I were any other person,
with no prior association with the former
startup or acquiring large company, coming
across these lapsed patents, I could implement
them unencumbered and have good protection
(though I could not prevent others from
implementing the same)
* >>> since I worked on the original IP ...
I might have some obligation to the "acquiring
large company", though they likely would care
only if I were to (a) be extremely successful;
or (b) use the lapsed patent applications as
defense in a patent lawsuit

I should probably discuss with an I.P. lawyer ...

... but my inclination is to:

* build a prototype
* talk to potential investors and potential customers
* engage a patent lawyer to discuss possible
licensing arrangements (or outright permission)
to work on the I.P. with "large acquiring co"
* hope for the best

Any suggestions?
I paid up years ago because I had an open AP and didn't want to get dragged into court. Thoughts on how to get any of the ~$2000 back?
Another possibility: the cathartic outrage bandwagon. We can't really punish Trump for his awfulness right now. We can punish Travis Kalanick and Uber. (I don't know what their sales look like right now, but I doubt it's a pretty picture.) There's obviously something very satisfying about burning someone at the stake, even if he's probably guilty.
Showmanship/Entertainment. The whole point of being in Vegas or on a cruise ship (prior installation), is to have a spectacular experience. An efficient, mundane, McD's dispenser isn't quite the same.
Reviews are pretty mixed on Good Reads:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18070394-authority
This isn't a YC competitor. YC is the best accelerator out there and there isn't need for another in my opinion.

A year ago I looked at my life and realized I really enjoy and get fulfillment out of three things:

1) learning about new industries and thinking about how technology can improve them

2) developing products and consequently seeing numbers go up (users, revenue, anything really)

3) mentoring people I really enjoy the company of over extended periods of time (years)

Zero-F is my attempt to build a thing where I maximize my ability to do those things. It isn't a program or application based. It's me opportunistically building 1 to 2 startups a year with friends or people in my extended network or even new people. I provide business building insight, product knowledge, capital, recruit talent, and they bring grit.
Can't they just make a google doc?
I married a Korean American and love Korea so there's that if it helps!
Very nice. I would love to read a list of use-cases, but I'm ok if they don't exist, because this is just a nice hack.

Reminds of https://github.com/fiatjaf/questo.email
Thank you Sytse!
Private investors still want to get paid. Unless the company is 100% bootstrapped, which is almost never the case.
Up to a point, yes. Then it becomes a mess for everyone.
Occam's razor. Is it a giant conspiracy coordinated by some Other Entity with Power and Influence able to manipulate NYT as well as Google to maximize the impact of their destructive forces?

Or... because of all the bad publicity and Uber being in the limelight, those who were already feel uncomfortable about what they saw finally got the initiative to speak out... and the news media finds the story hot enough to publish because of the #DeleteUber campaign... and throw in some consequential timing at Google.
Ironically that's covered in the book. Raise prices until a drop-off - although I always thought that rule was for B2B not B2C - consumers are far more picky over the price.
Same wih nihilism.
I think it bears repeating that there has been no hard evidence turned up in any of this. Even the single non-anonymous story doesn't have any corroborating evidence or records, and the charges of "investigation" and "harassment" have been only reported by the original reporter of the story.

The fallout has been that somebody has been let go after non-substantiated rumors about his activities at a previous employer, and now people are being pressured to leave the company and end all association with the company.

This is definitely an unjustified (based on the revealed evidence) reaction, and this is how witch hunts start.

Now I have heard second hand that the work and engineering culture at Uber needs some help - in terms of hours worked and technical discipline. That sort of thing seems plausible.

However, for anything that implies this level of harassment, there had better be more hard evidence. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof.
it smells very much like a coordinated hit but it's hard to have sympathy.
Waiting is so 2016!

Actually, in Europe we have table service at a lot of bars, it beats any of this hands down, while being engaged in a good conversation the beer and anything else you like is delivered to your table. It doesn't get much better than that IMO.
To Uber Many in Tech Have Gotten Harassment Against Women in the Workplace Right
I've seen this happen. Most companies cannot hire competent recruiters. Often recruiters have no technical background, and are unfamiliar with all but the buzzwords.

This trend will probably continue until someone decides to up recruiter pay and hire engineering background candidates for recruiting roles (if possible).
Depends what side of the reward you are on.
Temporary postal mail forewards.

USPS NCOA (Change of Address) file is another major data source.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/adamtanner/2013/07/08/how-the-p...
On the subscription page for the source article:

"The Information is, for sure, the most thoughtful / smartest tech coverage."
SAM ALTMAN
PRESIDENT OF Y COMBINATOR

lol
No idea! I'm by no means an expert in the subject.
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The tweets at the end really damage this article's reputation as a reasonable piece of journalism (if that's how you choose to label Business Insider). It is absurd to claim that ones reputation is irreparably damaged by not having left the company yet. People have jobs because they need income and to support their lives and families. Even when a company is clearly screwing up (looking right at Uber here), employees can't just leave with out any consequence to their personal life or their ability to afford to live
Would you think differently about Donald Trump if he were a woman?
When I signed up for a major grocery store rewards card, I was able to put a bogus name on the form. How can they correlate my purchases with me specifically? Can they correlate the charges to my credit card with the times the rewards card was used?

(This grocery store did not have a pharmancy)
So looking at the example, you can avoid one level of indentation by doing e.g.:

if (items === null) { return 0; }

at the start. Which is fine if that's the preferred style, but if it is, then you should do it regardless of how deeply nested the dependent stuff is.
It is just awesome! Tks for doing it.
It's probably just a high energy workplace full of plenty of power moves and the resulting hit and miss that comes from that. As if sexual relations could be acted upon as if we had perfect knowledge!

Hell even if we did have perfect knowledge we would know that women find it attractive in itself if a guy will approach and based on the skill of that approach yea/nea or w/e happens, so even if we could read each-others minds there would still be the act of the effectiveness of your tactics and if you didn't play it right then things could still get awkward.

There's variance to life you know. In before anal-retentive attentiveness to how I used epistemic randomness.
This is a big problem for a lot of women even in todays IT companies. The high difference between male and female salary and number of employees is not because males are smarter. It has a lot more to do with how the females get treated already in school, and this continues all the way until most have stopped dreaming and told all their friends to stay away.
The people who want complicated drinks also tend to like complicated coffee. It isnt about the drink. Its about getting someone to listen to your complex order and then getting ti b-tch about it when they make a mistake. Add a robot and that scheme dissapears.
It's relatively easy to use regular expressions to strip that out though. I set up a catch all for my domain, and give each entity it's own unique addy to guard against this.
Care to explain the massive increase in crime in Germany then?

[1] https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/7470/germany-migrants-cri...
The entire black population of Montgomery Alabama gave up taking the bus for over a year during the boycott because they cared enough to make that sacrifice. People who care enough sometimes go on hunger strike, lie down in front of tanks, and risk arrest for what they believe in. If you need a "better offer" than what I assume is your current 6-figure salary to change jobs, then Uber's sexist, anti-worker, sociopathic ethos and the message their practices send to the world are apparently not all that important to you. There's nothing insensible about expecting incredibly mild amounts of empathy and moral courage from some of the most economically secure workers in the world.

If you're a janitor or food service worker at Uber, then I apologize for making incorrect assumptions and my thoughts for you would be different.
It is difficult to comment on whether Snap is overvalued without analyzing its potential worth. Instead, here are a few observations about Snap's business:

* It seems unlikely Snap could plummet in popularity over a few months like some mobile game or Taylor Swift song. If Snap flames out, the usage graph will probably decay more like Skype than Draw Something. The two prongs of its platform allow Snap to (1) enable communication like Skype and (2) distribute content like YouTube. Distribution and communication companies tend to decline much slower than content creators like Zynga.

* Snap's entertainment platform could finally crack interactive TV/video. This will be fascinating to watch unfold as Snap empowers content creators to create digestible, interactive video for the coveted advertising demographic of users aged 15-34. In particular, could adding a buy button marry video and commerce in a novel and lucrative way?

* Through videos and pictures, Snap can infer a lot about users: style, hobbies, habits, food preferences, and more. This is also a hidden treasure trove for Instagram and Facebook, but given the high frequency of Snap messaging, the data could be richer and more authentic with Snap.
We need to stop doing this in every thread. These women are taking huge risks by speaking publicly and asking for proof is insulting to say the least.
> Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof

That phrase was originally invoked to describe telekinesis. I'm not sure 'Silicon Valley company has problem with female employees' falls into that category.
I feel like I should plug Guix at this point. Pretty much similar to Nix, but the config language is Guile, which is Scheme.
How would accurately assess that though?

"Do you hate America?"

"No"

"K, let him in"
US man stalks Indians in Ohio, posts video saying they are taking away our jobs
This is slightly off-topic but has anyone blogged about Palm history as wonderfully as kabdib/Dadhacker/Landon has about Newton and other topics?
From the blog post explaining the bug, https://zcoin.io/language/en/zcoins-zerocoin-bug-explained-i..., how is that not a "useless statement has no side effect" warning?
Doesn't really seem that suspicious. News orgs know what sort of stories that people will read, and they have likely realized that Uber is a giant seam of news stories just waiting to be mined.
"Astronomical" was originally invoked to describe space but that doesn't stop your comment from being astronomically worthless
John Deere has gone as far as to claim that farmers don’t
own the tractors they pay hundreds of thousands of dollars
for, but instead receive a "license to operate the vehicle".

Don't most farmers finance their equipment? If the resale value is low because John Deere's policies make it difficult to use older equipment, then they won't be able to sell tractors with high profit margins because banks won't give them security. They're literally trading higher margins for more volume sales, and begging their competitors to join them to a race to the bottom.

I don't have an MBA, but that seems really short-sighted. Configuring your entire value-add chain, from R&D to sales to marketing, to focus on low-margin volume sales sounds preposterous. I mean, volume will always be meat & potatoes, but the darwinian struggle for high-margin sales is how you nurture growth.

Once the small farmer is gone John Deere will only be able to sell to huge conglomerates. Eventually those conglomerates will dabble with vertical integration and cut John Deere out of the equation all together.

Seems to me if John Deere wants to stay relevant they'd do everything they can to inflate the resale value of their tractors, and that necessarily includes sustaining a high resale value in the used equipment market.

In a world of cheap financing it's easier than ever to keep farmers buying new equipment, and more important than ever to maximize returns based on loose financing. You shouldn't need a lawyer to hold a gun to your customer's head. This obsession with maintaining control of their product after it leaves the factory seems just so epically ridiculous. And that's before we get into any of the minutiae of copyright and the uphill battle they'll face. Anything but the strictest of controls over their software will net them absolutely nothing at the end of the day except alot of pissed-off customers. It certainly won't be an impediment to Chinese knock-offs, who have very capable software engineers. Whoever is telling them that is so misinformed that I'd wonder if they were taking payments on the side from the Chinese.

I guess this is why American manufacturing is slowly dying. I mean, we're still the number one manufacturing country in the world, but despite strategies like these, not because of them.
* its future
This is an insane reaction. There is literally no other charge for which "I would like to see supporting evidence of this claim" is somehow problematic.
Can't decide if this is satire.
Anyone who has watched Law & Order knows making a deal first is best. I also bet once he is out of jail he will write a book and get hired on some TV channel as an expert and probably make more money than he did as a crook.
Given the nature of Snapchat, one would hope that mining pictures for data, as suggested in your third point, would turn away many users.
And paper notes have the unfortunate characteristic of being.. paper.. the risk:reward logic is much different if you can pick your own jurisdiction to operate from and hide behind 7 proxies. It's also a very modern business model to avoid big capex expenses like printers and special paper.
I see, I guess you just need to know to ask for it. I imagine many(most?) do not. I find these discussions and these types of articles really helpful. I would like to think we are all becoming more savvy about these a result. Thanks for the tip.
So, progressives in SV have moved from trying to get you fired if you say something they don't like on twitter, to pressuring you to quit your job if an accusation is made against somebody at your company.

Great. This couldn't possibly end poorly.
Credit card or check payments will link records.

Cellphone or MAC tracking.

In the near future if not already, facial recognition.
Good, send them back to sustenance farming
You're right, this is an ordinary claim that only requires ordinary evidence, something still lacking.
How to Fix the Nintendo Switch's Joy-Con Sync Issue
Nice project.

1) What were the reasons for using cockroach db?

2) How do you plan to sustain economically with OSS approach? Is the project linked to some of your paid APIs?

I have bookmarked it and will read the code over next few days.
If you have been following Uber on HN since it's inception you will have noticed the trend of targeted media attacks against them long ago.

Being subjected to routine attack pieces and soul-less astroturfers (who can just as easily sign up to HN and comment too) is generally a sign that a company or person is doing innovative things.
I genuinely don't understand why news outlets do this unless it's critical to the story. I've seen good examples of Tweet integration in places like The Intercept, for example, but usually they involve some other facet of the story where the Tweets themselves are consequential to the reporting. It just seems like useless noise when done like this article.
You're probably on to something there. Sadly, the opposite of this is true too - it's incredibly hard to find competent QA Engineers (not testers) because they all realize very quickly they can make more money as rank and file software devs than QA-side specialists, even if their role in QA is leagues more complex.
This is an interesting way of exploring the role that gender played in the recent US presidential race: cast the actors in the reverse genders, repeat the debates word-for-word and gesture-for-gesture, and see how our reactions change.

By swapping gender but staying authentic to speech patterns and gestures, we were able to shake the audience from their normal reaction. Trump was no longer seen as a reality star or Hillary as a female icon. Free from their preconceived biases, audiences found themselves seeing things differently and gaining insight into how others saw these two very public figures.

It was an unusual experiment which sparked some surprising reactions in a talkback session after the events. The expectation, held by myself and the majority of people polled before the performance, had been that Clinton would look “more presidential” as a man and Trump’s lack of respect for, and aggression towards, his opponent would not be tolerated in a woman. Our predictions were way off.

Here's the NYU press release: https://www.nyu.edu/about/news-publications/news/2017/march/...

And a New York Times review: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/30/theater/he-said-she-said-...

The linked video of the entire performance seems to no longer be available, but there is a short clip in the Guardian article: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jan/29/clinton-trum....
Well, they did say that after the foundation solidified, the actual 3d construction took under 24h. So it does reduce the construction time. But not sure how much hiring such a printer would cost. And how much headache the building permits will be...
Yeah, the first generation was 15" only.

Interesting that later hardware was actually laggier. I even keep my machine stuck on the Intel 4000 graphics 99% of the time.
Money does in fact change hands.
Apparently, the prevailing theory is a program to cyber-sabotage the launch systems[0].

[0]: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/04/world/asia/north-korea-mi...
Ask HN: Formal HR warning for swearing in a casual chat room – is this normal?
So, I was in the wrong and had built up a lot of steam one day around some ongoing problems that an organisation had failed to address many times over and I stupidly said something along the lines of 'I'm so sick of all the issues for project X always being last minute, unplanned and untested... I'm really sick of this shit!'

Obviously I shouldn't have sworn and I should have been more professional (despite raising the issues formally on many occasions previously over several years).

So while I know I was in the wrong and said something stupid, I was wondering if this is common place for petty sentences like this to be sort of 'bureaucratised' by HR?

Even the team in question said any formal warning was totally over the top and not at all what they wanted to occur but it seemed HR had made their mind up already.

So, I'm not trying to expose or have a go at any organisation here, I'm genuinely interested to hear if anyone else has a similar experience, especially anyone who's not in the US where I believe it's very easy to fire people etc... which is (I can assure you) not what they're trying to do with me.
λ> map acos [2] == map acos [2]
False :: Bool

Interesting.
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Maybe it's Uber secretly attacking themselves to make President Trump look bad, or to impress Jody Foster.
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People keep saying that their financials are terrible, but last I checked they were killing on Revenue [1] compared to the average IPO [2]. Especially if you consider that average revenues at IPO have been steadily dropping since 2012.

Average IPO revenue 2015: $38M

SNAP revenue 2015: $58M

SNAP revenue 2016: $350M

Add to the fact that in 2015 on 30% of IPO companies were profitable, they seem to be well within market bounds.

[1] http://www.businessinsider.com/data-shows-nearly-half-of-sna...

[2] https://www.wilmerhale.com/uploadedFiles/Shared_Content
Most of it seems pretty real-world to me. But if IIUC that std::filesystem means I don't have to write separate code for windows and linux, then it's hard not to imagine EVERYONE using that.