skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A few things, though it's hard without much info (re: revenue/growth).

Regardless:

1. A $14m sale is a huuuge win. You'd be set for life. A 100% likelihood of $14m is something that is difficult to turn down in almost any scenario. Even if you'd eventually make $50m, your life wouldn't change much from a net worth of $14m to $50m. You could buy a nicer jet?

Let's say you take the $14m. Your life would (presumably) change drastically. That's "pay yourself $750k/yr without ever working again" level financial stability. (OK, some of it depends on taxes, but regardless...) If you raise VC, who knows what could happen in the next 5 years? IMO take it if you can.

2. If you want to go bigger, SV isn't the only way to do it. If you have revenue you could potentially raise debt. Hard to do, but perhaps worth it in your scenario.

3. If getting warm introductions is hard, just know that actually raising will be much harder.
No really. WASM is based on a stack machine and not a register machine. On the other hand there was PicoJava [1] and there is Jazelle [2]. So, maybe...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PicoJava

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazelle
After some time you realize: The hype train is traveling in a circle.
Maybe so, but I did try to fix it without resorting to a hardware sound card and couldn't at the time. IIRC the syntax of the ALSA configuration files was particularly arcane.

Not sure why that deserves downvoting.
Java 8 still has syntactic sugar for generics?
was going to say this equipment is still used quite a bit and there are many working survivors left
Buy/Rent breakeven horizon shortens nationally, lengthening in most major metros
So how is Gitlab compared to GitHub?
They don’t complain about threading, they complain about the UX of collapsing threads. On mobile, the hit target is too small (a minus sign) to hit reliably with a single quick tap.
Wow, this NetSil has a fantastic pricing model https://netsil.com/pricing/ compared to DataDog (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15315028); it makes a lot more sense for Kubernetes clusters than more legacy products.
Building a Toy Detector with Tensorflow Object Detection API
Show HN: Generative data art with Node.js and ThreeJS
Compares very favorably IMO, but you'll probably want to read their marketing pages or try it yourself.
> Isn't sexual freedom a goal?

You always have the risk of undesired pregnancy and the best cure for that is the condom, since birth control pills are basically hormone bombs, not very healthy for women in the long run, or you could undergo surgery, which is invasive and not without peril. So just use the condom already, those minty ones are actually cool.

And if we don't have "sexual freedom" it's probably because there are really good reasons for it. We shouldn't dismiss taboos without considering that some of them is why we've survived for so long.
We've learned JavaScript is a toy
New Free Version of UE4 Indiegame
A company that's been caught multiple times installing spyware on laptops[1]? My bet would be on 'absolutely'

[1] http://thehackernews.com/2015/09/lenovo-laptop-virus.html
Is there any reason why AtomicEditor is distributed only as a source code, and not as binary? Atomic requires the user to download and build from the source, which is easy for advanced users, but for beginner game coder, it might be a big obstacle. (MY guess is that it is due to licensing issue, or perhaps it is designed to keep the newbies out)
> No, their goal is to invade, destroy and dominate non-Islamic western civilization.

Yes, their stated goal is to make you afraid. It seems to have worked.

> Their literature explicitly states this.

And our 'literature' explicitly states a whole bunch of things too. Never put too much trust in a single book or in people who only have one book. At the same time, what a bunch of religious fanatics call for and what a billion or more Muslims feel like has nothing to do with each other and without the cooperation of the second the first can do some occasional damage but are not nearly powerful enough to overcome even the smallest Western country.

> It's a tragedy that the islamists are starting to succeed in Europe

They are? I haven't seen any and I live there.

Please point them out for me.

> because collectively you refuse to recognize it for what it is: an asymmetric, paramilitary invasion.

You mean: Muslims in general? Refugees?

Or are you actually claiming the majority of these folks are terrorists now?

I really have a very hard time finding any shadow of aggression in my Muslim friends, at the same time I have absolutely no problem detecting that (well beyond a shadow) in the words and deeds of the Neo fascists who would be more than happy if they disappeared by any means.

Anyway, I can see that your mind is made up on this and that whatever I say will probably just convince you more that you are right about all this so I will leave it at this point.

Best of luck with your fears.
The ability to draw a memorable thing from memory is entirely dependent on how much of an artist the drawer is. It has nothing to do with the memorability of the logo. We can all recognize the Pepsi or Coca-Cola logos, but only artists who have made mental notes of the shapes will be able to draw a likeness... And that doesn't even mean anything.
Malicious apps with 1M downloads slip past Google defenses twice
Actually, LoadRunner has gotten a whole lot of continued development over the years, at least compared to all the other products. I did some protocol work on it, Diagnostics, and RUM, plus have had semi-regular contact with the R&D teams over the years.

Also -- you can not only run it on a single "server in the background" but to a whole slew of load generators if you like. You can take those same scripts and reuse them via BPM too. Even long in the tooth, it's still an impressive suite for its breadth of solution. JMeter, Selenium, etc really aren't in the same category as LoadRunner, and yes New Relic and AppDynamics are lovely, but give me Diagnostics any day.
Welcome to Silicon Valley, it's all about networking here. I'd suggest you to sell and to update your Resume - "I created company XYZ acquired by ABC in 2017". That alone will help you fund your next venture. Also, you'll gain a lot of credibility in the Valley and you will be seen as a successful entrepreneur.

Lock your money first, then go out there have fun with your new ideas. You'll be way more focused on your baby and wouldn't even care about all this 'mafia' thing...
This is amazing! Very creative and refreshing. Art intercepting code.
I've been turned away by a black cab driver because they didn't want to go where I wanted to go.

Yes, during the rush hours they are faster than ubers (mostly because they have priviledged access to bus lanes etc). But catching a black cab at night is almost impossible.

Also some of my friends regularly get ignored by black cabs when they try to hail it.
Yes. That's my point. Somebody got it.
Have you considered traditional business loans through a commercial bank, if your revenue and growth projections would support that? Downside: debt is a drag, upside: you don't have to give up ownership stake. Good luck, whatever your path ends up being!
Their documentation goes into detail on why they dropped Lua, Squirrel and Python in the first place. It's interesting that they'd then bring Python back.
This is a brilliant result, make this toy broken language compete
Sure, but vkou didn't say "being diagnosed with AIDS was a quick death sentence" Importantly, you could be practicing very unsafe sex for a decade with no apparent consequences, which is not what one would conclude from vkou's comment.
> a high DOF iPhone portrait is better than a portrait with razor thin DOF with silky bokeh shot on a Sony A9

I agree completely. I appreciate the gear like anyone else, but it's all about the end result. A recent iphone plus in portrait mode can genuinely capture an amazing looking, high apparent DOF photo. Yes it's all computer trickery but who cares. It looks great. An expert with an A9, with the right lens, primed for the shot, might be able to do better but - and here's the important part - 99.9% of the time they're not there.
Talking to Humans: The free ebook that makes a huge difference in your startup
All of those planes were domestic flights though and wouldn't interact with border patrol at all.
Ask HN: How do you get clients?
To be fair, "getting HIV" wasn't really a thing in the dark days. You found out when you developed AIDS, because some weird opportunistic thing popped up. Pre-AIDS diagnosis came along after an awful lot of people died slowly of things that folks ordinarily don't get or don't die from.
Let me guess: you're white, male, in your 30s+, and usually in a suit when calling a cab?
cw is shorter than dwi?
Olympics' logo would be interesting to see, because I can't really think of the right color order. I doubt many people can.
Precisely. But don't let that get in the way of some good old paranoia.
It's all about talking
It has some features over GitHub like integrated CI and integrated Docker registry. I think the UI design is better. Merge (pull) requests and issues have some extra fancy stuff like multiple assignees and discussions on code that can be marked as competed or not.

It lacks in user base (which might not matter for internal use) and performance and reliability. It can be slow and it goes down occasionally. It hasn’t been enough of a problem for my company to move back to GitHub.

These observations only apply to the hosted GitLab.com, as I don’t self host I don’t know the differences there. I have both public and private personal projects as well as private company projects on it.
The Indian subcontinent had already experienced the Mauryan and the Mughal empires (both bringing immense prosperity to the region) before the British showed up and looted the place clean.
This seems like an assertion that may need to be challenged. I'm not convinced a team with no downtime is working at maximum output, let alone maximum efficiency. My experience is that teams that are constantly busy are rarely working on the most important thing, either for the short term or for the long term.
Something I realized by travelling to Indonesia is that people in developing countries take antibiotics a lot (you can buy Cipro as easily as buying Tylenol in the U.S.) and that they really do need them because they get bacterial infections from bad food or water a lot.

It seems like the best thing to do to prevent human over-use of antibiotics would be to convince developing countries to impose stricter food handling regulations and assist them in upgrading their water and sewer infrastructure so that the water that comes from a faucet is safe to drink. If people don't get sick in the first place, they don't need antibiotics.
Off-topic: I thought that tracking email opening was no longer possible in gmail? My memory of it was that you'd insert an image and track whether that was retrieved, but that GMail started caching all images ahead of time for their users so you couldn't tell if/when it was opened. See, eg, [1]. Is that not correct?

[1] https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/12/gmail...
Take $12M. You never have to work again. What the fuck do you need more money than that for?
Yeah, this choice has been bothering me insanely the last year. I am still on a 5s simply because I can't choose the right model/time. ;(

Still, in my mind, the largest betrayal of Steve's legacy is the way the affordable and awesome Macbook Air design was left to rot. It was such a liberating and democratic thing that the best laptop money could buy cost less than a thousand USD.

The low price also afforded you to not treat them as super expensive objects (which was also liberating) - I actually managed to physically kill two or three of them over the years, until I moved to a 13" MBP this spring. Which I now have to protect like a jewel, which I hate doing. I want my work station to be a tank, not a fashion piece.

All because Apple without Steve couldn't/wouldn't take risks and be innovative (in pricing) in order to expand in the laptop market. Safer for the margins to avoid expanding the user base and instead just milk the already converted suckers.
I literally just started this combo. I've been on Vyvanse but just added Lexapro to address other issues. My psych seems to think med vacations are a bad idea due to instability. Any thoughts on how they're helping out?
It really kicks the llama's ass. (Did i remember this right?)
"New, newer, newest User Experience"

https://about.gitlab.com/2012/01/13/design-changes/

https://about.gitlab.com/2017/07/17/redesigning-gitlabs-navi...

https://about.gitlab.com/2016/06/06/navigation-redesign/

https://about.gitlab.com/2017/09/13/unveiling-gitlabs-new-na...
The movie industry has eras, marked by certain production styles. In Hollywood at least, the 1970s was the era of the auteur director. A wave of directors (and actors) who had apprenticed under the famed B-movie master Roger Corman came to power on the strength of a series of absolute masterpieces. It started with Easy Rider, which was shot on a very low budget, and received massive box office success and critical acclaim. It ended with Heaven's Gate, an outrageously expensive disaster that has never even been properly released (I've seen one of the medium-length edits of it, and yes, it stinks).

The real end of the New Hollywood era, though, was the release of Star Wars in 1977. It paved the way for the sci-fi/fantasy blockbuster. It turned into a successful trilogy, and overlapped team-wise with Spielberg's fantastically successful Raiders of the Lost Ark. Hollywood, and movie fans, lost interest in the more intellectual fare of New Hollywood, in favor of kid-friendly, cross-marketing-friendly entertainment.

So it's not surprising that there was a dropoff in critical darlings after the 1970s. Movies got a lot worse - they really did. Even directors who carried on the New Hollywood traditions, like David Lynch and the Coen brothers, couldn't see the kind of success the 1970s directors had.

Of course, before the New Hollywood era, Hollywood kinda stunk, big expensive extravaganzas. Critical attention then turns to the French New Wave, and other post-WWII European film with small budgets and big emotional punches (who makes a movie like Wages of Fear these days?).

I wonder how our current era will fare? I'm thinking about the sort of epic-story serialization that the Marvel franchise and the reinvigorated Star Wars franchise is doing. How will that be viewed?
The Myth of a Dark Spirit by Omoruyi Uwuigiaren
Congratulations Gitlab team on the release! Looks like a good one, and I am very excited to try it out.
To travel over road, train, air in the US you also must ID yourself. To get a mobile phone you have to ID yourself (and sign in-person for the package if a phone is delivered to you) in the US.
I've been hearing the "boring" comment a lot lately, and I totally agree. I don't want the exciting filesystem (btrfs which just took me for a ride), or the exciting programming language/library that will strand me in 6 months with multiple man-years of work.

No, what I want is boring. That means everything works as I expect it too, and it doesn't create drama every few months when the cool kids decide that the old way of doing things isn't cool and rewrite a library i've based my application on or change the syntax of the compiler so my code doesn't work.

A few years ago, I started challenging people at work when they were trying to pull in the latest language/library/toolkit, with a simple question. "How does that help our customers". Sure, I got plenty of the 2/3rd order arguments about how making the dev team happy/more productive would result in better feature development/etc. But I've seen these kinds of changes enough to know that usually these 2nd order affects are crushed by the unseen problems that _ALWAYS_ seem to crop up after your already committed to that new technology. Its truly rare to have a new technology that is so much better than the last that the cost of switching pays for itself. That doesn't mean it doesn't happen, it just means that the immature crap everyone is yammering about is likely not that technology. Give it a couple years and if it turns out to still be around (and people are still actively switching to it) then its probably good. This mindset has produced a long list of "successful" products that pay the bills and make people happy without making a lot of noise and crashing/burning regularly.

Bottom line, I will take the old "cruddy" technology with the long list of known problems, to the new cool one with the long list of unknown problems. At least part of that seems to be what RH provides for the opensource community. The old guys that actually fix the bugs, rather than switching to some cool new product.
>There are still quiet a lot of statues of him.

That I find kind of odd. His treatment of the locals in the Belgian Congo is sort of the gold standard for imperial oppression.
> If someone feels safer driving slowly they are completely in their right to do so even if it is a detriment to others.

Many states have specific laws regarding this which may make that untrue depending on circumstances. Here's a good overview[1] so you can look at your state's specific laws and see which apply.

1: https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/free-books/beat-tick...
This is one of the stupidest things apple has done.
Ask HN: Machine Learning Dataset Aggregator/Market Place
I have created a MVP for a machine learning dataset aggregation site which can also become a market place. I was looking for some feedback from the community if there was a need for such a site and what features would be good to add. Do checkout the search page.

Also do you think there is a potential for buy/sell in machine learning dataset space.

I have added around 1000 datasets and I can add another 3K which I have scrapped.

Here is the link to the MVP -> http://classif.ai/
William Dalrymple gives a good outside in perspective, but lacks to give the perspective of the people in India, and how they feel about their own history.
It only talks about Akbar's early reign (remember he was crowned at the age of 13) and was under the influence of Bairam Khan. Later years he removed the jaziya tax on Hindus, gave them high postions in his court and would not be recognized as Muslim (see Din i Ilahi). He is also supposed to have made a lot of effort to understand other religions. There is a reason why he and Asoka are considered Great Emperors of India.
Where is the origin of this image? Is there more information available? The image alone is not very interesting, but if it has some back history ...
Some of that discussion revolves around whether one wishes to be able to audit, and possibly update, these very core services in use. Comparing apples to apples may produce one outcome, comparing the liberty of eating them may produce another.

I personally think GitLab is hungrier, and have some really great features, but I haven't had any contact with their support to know if something goes wrong that one can get unstuck quickly
It's getting better all the time. Gitlab has several large advantages over github, the major one for me is that it allows you to self-host and for companies that are conscious of their IP value and access this may sway their decision.

It's not quite as polished as github yet but with their recent funding round I would expect gitlab to pick up steam and close the gap even further. For day to day use I'd say they are now at 95% feature parity or even better, and in some cases it is actually ahead.
> If I had the chance to have a second career, I would try harder not to follow of the fashion of the herd.

As a fellow researcher, I would question you get to have a second career following his advice. I wonder if he would be standing there giving this advice as a senior researcher, if he would have followed it himself.

I agree that it would probably be more useful for science, but from what I observe, it does not help in the current scientific environment. Scientific funding is a dog eat dog world.
On a side note, this is extremely uncool for people working on non-internet connected machines. It is doubly annoying when you're using the web interface to interact with a device and click help and it 503s because they didn't bother to ship the manual on the device.

Every year it becomes harder and hard to work on machines that aren't 24/7 connected to the internet. My favorite is when people say "oh, there is this webservice we need you to deploy" and I look and it is written in node.js and has about a billion dependencies, each one of which will require its own waiver and approval.
Was it just me or are there duplicates of all of the images on that site?
Malwarebytes is now blocking completely coin-hive.com
You seem like you understand the internal native of your feelings. The guy in article does not.

The proper response is, "I feel terrible that she's not texting me back. But, it's not, in fact, terrible. I can handle it. I'd rather she did text me back, but there's no rule that says people have to be interested in me. I may very well meet someone soon that is interested in me as much as I am in them. I had better do something today to try and meet them instead of sulking."

The guy in the article is more like, "How dare she not text me. She's not even good enough for me. She's old and not that hot."
Would you please stop posting unsubstantive comments to HN?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html
Company A employs people and gets 10x on their work with high prices, they have a margin of 9x. B entices them away by offering them 2x their pay, and cuts prices 1x. B now has a margin of 7x, and all the business.
If you're not in California, you should post your region or state, and see if this post can lead to a solid, local connection.
No, it only caches when they are requested by the user - google acts more like a proxy. Essentially they're preventing the remote server from grabbing HTTP headers/cookies from gmail users but not preventing them from tracking when it is loaded, chronologically.
GitHub has an on-premises offering as well though there's no free tier.
I don't know what the complaints are about. I have observed that RT has constantly over-inflated rating for movies while they are still playing in the theaters.
As someone who came of sexual age in the 90s, between HIV and getting someone pregnant I was (and still would be - I'm married now so...) terrified of sex without a condom.
close - "it really whips the llama's ass"
2 things -

1. The British Raj is still in living memory. All 3 of my surviving grandparents were born before independence and were adults and married by 1947 (when India gained independence). They remember British rule. Comparing the criticism that an evil empire from living memory receives with empires that came before it is pretty disingenuous.

2. As an Indian, it leaves a bad taste in the mouth when tyrants like Winston Churchill are celebrated in modern Britain. His thoughts on the Bengal famine of 1943 and his inaction during that time which caused the death of an estimated 2 million people due to starvation is a matter of public record.
That timeline seems to miss that Yann LeCun was already working on ConvNets in 1988. I don't think anyone waited for the Universal Approximation theorem to start building neural architectures, it was just a tangentially interesting mathematical result.