skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not really. $14M vs $100M is an order of magnitude difference. By the time you hit $100M, there's a lot more than just dilution. There's early employees, an option pool (~30%), down rounds, advisors, etc. And, there's liquidation preferences – someone with only 10% could have a 2x liquidation preference. I'm not saying it's likely, but it's also not insane to think they'd only end up with $10M out of $100M.
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> Audiences did not want to see remakes of old TV shows (bad news for Baywatch and CHIPS).

21/22 jump street suggests the problem isn't with remakes of old shows but rather the quality of the remake. I was interested in baywatch, it got bad reviews so I didn't bother.

People don't want to see bad movies. I'm tired of the idea that comic book movies and sequels are all bad movies.
I'd suggest 2 things:

1) Have you incorporated the buyout offers into your deck? Showing that other companies recognize your company's potential even in its early stages should make a positive difference in communicating value. Consider having another go at fundraising and use resources like AngelList and FB groups related to your space to help with identifying investors and getting intros.

2) Research and Apply to YC - By "research", I mean pre-screen by contacting a few partners to ensure the investor contacts relevant to your company type, stage and size are available; and that investment terms would be and whether they're amenable to you (since your company is more advanced than the typical entrants, the standard 120k-for-7% shouldn't apply).
I suggest you simultaneously pursue the buyout and continue trying to raise your funding.

Neither event is 100% likely to succeed, hence do both. If it turns out you get to choose which one happens, that's a nice choice to have.

And please strongly credit other posters' observations about 'bird in hand vs. two in bush'. If the buyout were 100% probable, my advice would be to do that. There isn't a shortage of opportunities and personal financial security will increase the range of those that are feasible for you.
> I've failed hard here. I'm open for advice.

I would suggest that you have not failed if you have an offer to buy your startup for $14m.

Not everyone is Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, or Jeff Bezos. That's OK.
Cool concept - finding a positive/supportive community online centered around an activity that has been marginalized in real life.

I thought the article would be about internet addiction and taking "draws" by hitting social media or forums a few times a day, which seems like an apt analogy from my perspective.

The ending was kind of abrupt...no moralizing or drawing of conclusions really from the author. Kind of odd but also refreshing.
So the list of packages they're truly open sourcing is intentionally small, then. They're only truly open sourcing the ones that are very popular and that had a huge amount of outcry over the license. That makes it worse.
I use the one true keyboard and CTRL is already correctly-positioned. Once you ascend there's no going back.
Note that not all of those genomes continue to persist. People often have a single dominant strain, but what exactly that strain is varies wildly over time.
Filling it with black would be the most sensible solution. Especially since it’s an OLED display. Their current solution is to fuck with the original website design. Maybe the website devs wanted their horizontal bars to stretch from edge to edge and not be padded by whitespace? Quite brazen of Apple to interfere this prominently with other people’s work.
Exactly! Proving that movie execs are good at making S#!& up that makes them money... and selling it to the media.
Seriously, big thanks go out to Wordpress. They're no small part of this win for Free Software.
You could equally end up a few years down the line with Kubernetes being an order of magnitude better but also having required two orders of magnitude of work (over those years) porting your companies infrastructure to it.

or a few years down the line the zeitgeist has moved to Locutus and no one but Red Hat is driving anymore.
He did have some periods of inactivity. He didn't want to add other maintainers because he wanted to keep the code quality as good he wanted as far as I know and that's also why he didn't accept pr's, because the code quality wasn't good enough for him.

He was also totally ok with the fork to gitea.

Gitea exists so that more features can be added faster, not necessarily keeping the code quality ideal.
Good job facebook
Literally not true. You’d just revert to BSD if you sued.

So same protection as now.
Depends on the structure of your team and the stage of your company, doesn't it? For example in the first year of STOMT i developed STOMTs backend / API but in the meanwhile i do not code anymore and my focus fully transitioned to other things: sales, hiring, fundraising, legal, bureaucracy, etc...

Which is a good sign i guess. I miss my IDE though... a little bit.
:)
Good one, first few lines almost gave me a brain aneurysm before realizing what Im reading :-)
No, they need to please everyone who chooses to see it which means they need to be categorisable before viewing so people can knowledgeably choose not to see it.
there are plenty of rich, workaholic, yuppie addicts. professional drive is oftentimes counterbalanced with substance abuse.

makes me wonder what kind of crazy bubble you grew up in. what a strange belief to have.
Oculus never opened up their Constellation API , so I don't think so .
Somebody was asking about this on Reddit (/r/flying I think) a few months back. Short answer is that the FAA does not take kindly to receiving payment if you don't have a commercial license, and if you do then there's better work out there than Uber-for-cessnas.
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If you sued Facebook, you would have lost the patent grant, but not the copyright. With the new license, there's no patent grant at all, so if any code in React is patented, you're in the same boat as you'd have been if you'd sued in the prior situation.

Edit: It seems like some consider MIT, unlike BSD, to have an implied patent grant based on its wording: https://www.scribd.com/document/46088081/Closing-the-Loophol...
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Relying on a JIT to get good performance is arguably a bad thing anyway, since JIT compilation makes performance harder to predict. Of course, in the end you need to measure what you have, but you should also be able to make educated guesses about performance when you don't have something to measure, e.g., when you need to select between several alternative designs, and implementing all of them would be prohibitively expensive.
Here's where the 'pointing toward the future of computing' bit comes in:

Similarly, Laser Socks is a fun demo by itself, but what we as researchers hope it points toward is a new type of computing that instead of isolating humans in artificial digital worlds, provides a medium of expression that is continuous and integrated with our physical and social worlds

So this is one 'application' built on an 'OS' developed by Bret Victor and Robert Ochshorn which was called Hypercard in the World, though the latest version is called Realtalk. More info here: https://limn.it/utopian-hacks/
perhaps making a big deal out of it on mainstream media made it less unexpected? Odds are, it was a data-driven (shift in hype/marketshare) decision.
This is all so complicated, and there's so much conjecture and uncertainty from the community. Engineers interpreting legalese is a bad idea. We need impartial lawyers to explain each of these licenses in plain English, including the ramifications and side effects to consider, and put the debate to rest.

This has all been so tiring.
One huge problem is that very little of the literature is in computer readable format, otherwise we'd probably already have translators and more open exploration of alternative notation systems.

But I don't know how much of the problem is our notation, versus the fact that learning to read is hard. It's almost like becoming fluent in a foreign language, which we know gets harder as we get older. I started learning to read music when I was 6. I don't know what it's like to learn reading as an adult.
I think you're missing the point. An object and child hierarchy is too high level for what I'm suggesting. Just expose the graphics library and let the programmers handle the rest. If you want something hierarchical that's simple and efficient to move an object and all its children around, great. You write that for your applications. Make it into a framework if others want to use it. But if somebody wants to use a different approach for their application, they should be able to do so.
I learned yesterday that Mudge's degree is from the Berklee College of Music (a top school for music performance):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peiter_Zatko

So I think that's a great example of how someone with a music degree could potentially be one of the world's top infosec experts. (Also I believe Chris Palmer, who used to be my boss and currently works on the Google Chrome security team, has a degree in linguistics but would probably have been rather tempted by a music degree considering his huge passion for music performance.)

I think it's worth considering what really does make for good infosec qualifications, but it's easy to see that it's not necessarily a university degree. (Also considering how many leading infosec experts didn't finish university.)
PrEP (pre-exposure prophylaxis) is Truvada, which is part of the anti-retroviral regimen given to many HIV(+) patients. The idea is that any virions that enter your body are killed before they have a chance to set up shop.

It is a reasonably simple, safe, and effective drug, so it really should be available from any PCP. However, some community physicians do not prescribe it for one reason or another. HIV/STD clinics are almost always happy to see HIV(-) patients who are interested in PrEP.
Yup. There’s going to a lot of self congratulation going on in the comments but basically all this has done is remove explicit granting of patents.

Like... ok, great, better really hope you never get into legal issues with FB now
> and save lives too

Is this purely anecdotal, or is there something more to this statement? Just curious because it doesn't seem to fit into this general discussion, and I would imagine almost any taxi company also has anecdotes of saving lives.
Unfortunately this doesn't meet the standards of civility for this site. Please make your point more thoughtfully.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I've always joked about doing this, but I'm surprised to hear this actually works for you. How long have you been doing this? How far do you go for your vacations? What kind of team do you work on?
Yes, people do Queen-farm by doing exactly that. Then they sell them for Re-Queening that many commercial beekeepers do to reduce the risk of queen loss after the first year (normally they live 2-4 years).
> There are some really fancy civilian receivers out there that can leverage Y code to a limited extent without knowing the encryption key

Would you have links to any examples?
I doubt it was related. The wheels to get this in motion must have started months in advanced, probably around the time ASF started advising against this license (labeling at as Category-X [1])

[1] https://www.apache.org/legal/resolved.html#category-x
> a win for the open source community as a whole

I'm not sure how changing course from a direction that could have neutralized patents, to one engineered so patent aggressors aren't hurt, is something that can be considered a win for the open source community.
That depends on your history. You won't become an expert over night, especially in your age (this sadly is a factor). So pick something close to your history and as always... go for passion, otherwise you just won't be good enough. Passion can fill a huge part of your lack of experience in this new domain.
The author of this Facebook Engineering post confirmed that React Native's license currently is the same as it's always been: https://twitter.com/dmwlff/status/911348886882607104. I don't want to get into a big discussion about precise details here but pragmatically both the MIT and Facebook BSD+Patents licenses work well for most businesses, in particular those that aren't seeking to claim patent infringement against others.
"Addiction is a chemical dependency. It is neither a disease or a crime [...]"

Apparently the AMA and others disagree:

https://www.centeronaddiction.org/what-addiction/addiction-d...

"Addiction is defined as a disease by most medical associations, including the American Medical Association and the American Society of Addiction Medicine. Like diabetes, cancer and heart disease, addiction is caused by a combination of behavioral, environmental and biological factors. Genetic risks factors account for about half of the likelihood that an individual will develop addiction. Addiction involves changes in the functioning of the brain and body. These changes may be brought on by risky substance use or may pre-exist."
Is it really bad that I still use Winamp daily? I keep seeing things come up about how people remember it with nostalgia. I've never found a better music player which supports so many formats (XM, YM, S3M, MP3, OGG, et al).
So, sucks to be WordPress or are they coming back now?
I can assure you that openshift will always be Kube++. It's just a Kube distro. The fact that today you need to compile in those extensions is a detail that we and others spend most of the time addressing.

Odds are, most of the things you use in Kubernetes were because someone working on OpenShift wrote, tested, performance tested, and stress tested in production.

When LTS OpenShift is a thing, there will still be an OpenShift trucking along right behind the latest Kube. We always try to strike the balance between being on the bleeding edge and making sure end user clusters continue to work. In fact, a lot of the bugs in patch releases are found by the teams working on openshift and opened upstream right away. But an OpenShift user never sees that, because we only ship once it's stable.
The root cause of the heroin epidemic are the legal drugs cartels in the US. Wherever they have been banned from giving addicting painkillers to people (like Portugal) heroin abuse has been going down pretty heavily instead.

But we wouldn't jail our precious Wall Street people, would we? 60.000 people dead per year is just...a little statistic...most of them Trump voters or black people anyway!

No problem killing thousands of brown people in the war on drugs though. They shouldn't try to corrupt the American population with patent-free opioids!
It sounds similar to Spaceplan: http://www.crazygames.com/game/spaceplan - Not quite black and white, not quite text based, but similar. I loved it, and was surprised to find that there's an extended edition available on steam: store.steampowered.com/app/616110/SPACEPLAN/
Good look for Facebook
+1

I think people don't recognize how "little" money you need to replicate a big salary. 14M at 3% is $420k/yr. And as long as you don't spend every last dollar, that number keeps going up...forever.

Build whatever you want at that point.
When I was a teenager, I wrote a connect four game, and my brother would play it. Every time he'd win, I'd jump back into the code. I realized it was a fruitless cat and mouse (not only because the game is trivial) but because of the pacing of my "fixes" -- if I could have had the final version completed before he first played, he might have been stymied, but the iterations seemed to give him an easy path -- he only needed to solve one problem at a time.
Maybe you meant the swiss knife of databases.
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Nice. Now if only Facebook changed their attitude regarding tracking and profiling of users, letting users be the "product", grabbing the attention of users with psychological tricks and fake news, then perhaps I'd consider using and supporting their open source projects.
"There are dozens of us! Dozens!"
It's been almost twenty years since this happened. How long do we need before we are allowed to make rational decisions instead of emotional ones when it comes to terrorism and the 9/11 attacks?

Sure ~5,000 people died in 9/11 and that's awful, but how many people die in car crashes every year? How many people die from smoking, cardiac issues, diabetes, gun violence, drugs, workplace accidents, medication non-adherence etc etc? How many people have died in the wars that we started on the (incorrect) grounds that they would prevent future terrorist attacks? You don't see us going crazy trying to prevent any of these causes of death even though they amount to far more deaths than terrorism ever has or ever will.

Please stop fear mongering and look at the data. Just because something is scary and different doesn't mean it's actually a real threat to the United States. It makes absolutely no sense to expend the resources and effort that we do given the scope of the problem.
Who do you think maintains overlayfs and user namespaces for containers?

Red Hat :)
It's not just a choice about selling out or not. Do you like being at your current venture or can you see yourself doing something else? Do you want to take it to the next level or not?

If you want to walk away and focus your mind on something else then go take the money. If you want to grow this business then start networking and maybe visit your bank (commercial bank loans can often work out cheaper than giving away equity).
The problem is that there actually are patents covering GraphQL. So anybody who writes an alternative GraphQL server implementation is potentially infringing upon those patents.

The issue with the GraphQL spec is that people actually want a patent grant for alternative implementations, but there isn't one.
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Literally is true. In the presence of patents BSD license alone (and MIT, too) would basically mean you’re infringing on their IP, and they can and will bring action against you on the basis of your use of their software, even if your legal action against them was over completely unrelated patents.
> You can’t just decide to stop cancer unlike addiction.

Non-substance addict in recovery here.
You CANNOT (by definition) “decide” to stop having an addiction.
I’m not gonna get into a huge discussion but would like to point out the (ongoing) work looking at the various genetic markers that increase vulnerability or statistical predisposition to various substance and non-substance addictions.

http://neurowiki2013.wikidot.com/individual:genetics-of-addi...
The real problem is slow help popup. Everybody wants to do help in a browser now, so pressing F1 probably means a slow browser launch. (Not sure about this; I use LibreOffice only.)

Just fix Excel so that a second press of F1 makes the help screen go away, even if the browser is still launching.
Grains are cheap to buy. What these guys grow is expensive stuff out of reach for poor families.
Agreed. Wordpress helped making it happen faster that's for sure.
Let me explain in a light-hearted way how it feels to be bipolar, ok?
First they laugh at you, then, actually, they keep laughing at you.
> priced at XX/yr instead of X/mo

I understand I risk looking like an idiot but did you mean X per user per month? If not, what's the difference?
From a medical standpoint, HSV and HPV are largely cosmetic and very low priority. HPV is/was perhaps a slightly higher priority because it can rarely lead to certain cancers, but the vaccine Gardasil aims at those types of HPV.
I know that you asked for more money, but basically what helps you to stand out is passion (and the implications it has).
You can make a lot of money by building something on your own, climbing up the management ladder or becoming a domain expert. Going into a technical direction helps, as those people are wanted. It's not an easy questions so definitely, try to find a vision of yourself and something you're passioned about and stick with it, the rest will evolve.
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There we go !!! Thank you. Below is the link that was featured on HN. I believe it was a bit simpler back then.

http://jhollands.co.uk/spaceplan/

Edit: I was able to find the HN post as well:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12279552
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Suppose that you are running a company that stores PII, in order to... Generate credit reports that banks and car loan places can use to evaluate your credit-worthiness.

Suppose (Shockingly!) that you operate in a country with strict regulation about how you can store sensitive PII. Suppose that in order to operate your business, you need to be in compliance.

Your business processes have to pass regulator audits - you need to limit access to your data, you need to keep it encrypted while at rest, you need to take steps to prevent exfiltration...

Suppose that you're in compliance, you are licensed to operate with PII and life's great.

Now, suppose that another company, called FaxEqui buys you. They come in, institute all their own business processes, open up all customer data to interns, change all passwords to admin/admin, unencrypt your database, and have a direct link between your PII, and the internet. None of this is in compliance with the regulatory environment.

The regulator takes one look at this, and pulls their license. They FaxEqui then proceeds to write to anyone who will listen, to complain about how unfair it is that 'their' license was revoked.

The point of this licensing process is to audit and control a company's internal processes. Buying a company that has such a license does not magically bring your own internal processes into compliance.
>Facebook may very well end up in the majority's good graces with this move.

Really? They are doing the minimum possible to prevent an exodus from their stack after a public outcry.
A great video to show just how over the top are the Chinese shipping companies over anything you have in US:

https://youtu.be/alKYwsy-Zf4
The clinical trials should be interesting. Hopefully it maintains efficacy.
Proving identity to an AT&T rep or a hotel security guard in order to validate authorization to access your account or room is not the same thing as the government demanding your identity in order to go from place to place.

Yes, they both involve proving your identity but that is where the similarity ends.
For all the shit facebook got before, this is a pretty surprising move. I don't think anyone could have predicted this.
Show HN: Helm chart for OpenFaaS (wip)
I've said it before but basically every other post on HN makes me want to learn Ada out of spite.
Would be great to get some feedback on the helm chart - especially from anyone who is thinking about playing with Serverless or deploying OpenFaaS on their Kubernetes cluster.
Check out https://github.com/jcs/lobsters (Ruby on Rails).

For the source of news.ycombinator.com see this thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14371189
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15315861
this is such an underappreciated point. many US movies are now developed with an international audience in mind.
Can someone explain why this is good news? As I understood it, the former license was as permissive but additionally to that included a patent grant?
That is so pomo.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHjkMThH0aE and the subsequent videos might be more interesting. I remember seeing a really good video explaining and demonstrating this system a few years ago, but can't find it again unfortunately.
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