skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A seed investor/advisor once said to me the biggest mistake he made with his first company was waiting too long to sell. He put in three more years of hard founder-type work on its growth, and with investment dilution, wound up hardly making more than he would have made if he'd sold early to a buyer who was ready to put their own money into scaling.

Especially in the enterprise market, where requirements are complex and sales cycles are difficult, selling out to a big company that has all the pieces in place already can make a huge difference - not just in your bottom line, but the chances of long-term success for your baby.
I thought The Mummy was pretty good. I mean, it didn't change my life, but as an action/adventure type I liked it as much as the typical superhero or whatever movie.
"I am not aware of any other service with a comparable number of properties and reviews."

Trivago?
I agree, but this exists to a significant extent already (though more would be great) - it's a really, really good time to be into low-budget indie flicks.

The problem is that your local multiplex is not going to be showing independent films, nor are they going to be blasting marketing cranked up to 11 on all channels, so it's much harder to hear about them, and in some cases, much harder to see them period.

But the scene is alive and well - I've gotten a lot more into over the past year or so, and have really enjoyed it. The accessibility is poor in some places (in the middle of Manhattan is pretty great), but absolutely worth it.

I find IMDB and Metacritic to give pretty solid coverage of these films, so that alleviates some of the discoverability problems.

If you have small theaters near you, please patronize them - better yet, convince a group to go regularly. They need the business, and I think you'll find a lot of worthy films.
Is there any way to get the old winamp back? I'm thinking a 2.96 binary with compatibility mode or something. I just want to try it again to see if it feels as good as I remember it.
"For most of recorded history, India (Bengal in particular) was the world's largest economy - over 25% of the world's GDP[2]"

You mean in those parts of recorded history when everyone was dirt-poor, only Bengal had more people? I've read my Maddison, India was no better than anyone else at the time.
California also has that law:
https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySectio....

Also Alaska (http://www.legis.state.ak.us/basis/statutes.asp#28.35.135)

Also Colorado (http://law.justia.com/codes/colorado/2016/title-42/regulatio...)

And Montana (http://leg.mt.gov/bills/mca/61/8/61-8-311.htm)

Seems like a common regulation in certain states, particularly those with a lot of mountain terrain. (It is often not feasible in any circumstance to pass on the left on a mountain road, so I can see why these regulations popped up.).
In a windows environment, any reason to use Gitlab over TFS?
This will cost us (developers) extra time.

I just added 'viewport-fit=cover' to my project and boy am I tired! ;-)

In the words of Aaron Rogers: relax.

The CSS frameworks (Foundation, Bootstrap, etc.) will have this baked in the next time they're updated.

Compared to the drama we as web developers have dealt with in the past, this is pretty minor. Apple gives you the CSS you need:

@supports(padding: max(0px)) {
.post {
padding-left: max(12px, constant(safe-area-inset-left));
padding-right: max(12px, constant(safe-area-inset-right));
}
}

And if you have a recent Mac, you can test it in Xcode 9's iPhone X simulator.

We as developers have plenty of time: the iPhone X can't be preordered until October 27; the first customers won't have them until November 3rd at the earliest: https://www.apple.com/shop/buy-iphone/iphone-x

I think we're going to be okay.
Particularly with the implication that what is being talked about is juicy insider gossip.
Are you the sole owner? If so, take the $14m. Preferably (if you're not American) move to a country with no capital gains tax before selling. Make sure you make your windfall count. Invest the money well, enjoy life, and start something new in a few years.

Rome wasn't built in a day. Unless you're 75 years old, there's always another idea you can build into something huge.
Drugs are cheaper and largely subsidized by governments with high incidence of HIV.

*I'm South African, antiretrovirals are free.
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Shoot me an email (see in my profile); I'm an angel and see a lot of deals of that stage. At the very least, I could give you some feedback from an investor's mindset.
Enterprise Gitlab is miles beyond enterprise Github IMHO, if for nothing else just the integrated CI/CD. Trying to set up a third party enterprise CI/CD and then getting it to play with enterprise Github is a pain in the ass.

With Gitlab you set up a runner instance with their CLI and you're good to go.
If you haven't tried Gitlab yet, I would give it a serious look.

You can self host it which is cool and means that if the company's funds dry up and they stops development (hopefully never), you can continue using the product. With Google Code shut down and Github losing 66 million in 9 months in 2016, it's an important question to ask about where you keep your source code.

Featurewise, I haven't noticed anything that I can't use Gitlab for that I wanted to do. The interface is still less familiar to me than Github, but that seems to be a function of it being changed relatively often as well as the time spent looking at it.

I also like how much Gitlab embraces open source. They recently acquired Gitter and will open source it. Even though I mainly just use it as an alternative to the still more popular Github, I'm considering picking up one of the Enterprise plans to help ensure the development pace continues like this!
Movie development is already a hugely involved drawn-out process. Arguably it's already too focused on what the audience wants.

And for all the talk about data-driven decisions, it looks to me as if Amazon and Netflix are increasingly shifting to throw a lot of stuff against the wall and see what sticks themselves. Nothing wrong with that necessarily. It's basically how VCs work :-)
As of a few years ago, a new variety of Gardasil, called Gardasil-9 was approved by the FDA and it induces immunity against more varieties.
> no threat of 1960s style of unprotected sex wave.

Are you implying that unprotected sex is bad in itself?

Edit: It was an honest question.
Your phrasing leads me to believe that you distrust how web standards organizations approve new features? If that's not the case then I invite you to join the W3C Community Group and help avoid insecure additions w3.org/community/webassembly/
Last week I released page.rest and got 10 paid users in 24 hours
Who's the 'our' that's taking ownership of culture here?

Also, just logically speaking, the parent wasn't talking about assimilation into a culture they despise, but rather about subordination. I don't agree with their perspective, but I'm more sympathetic to it than I am to yours.

The number of apologists for colonialism on this thread is depressing.
Maybe it's a temporary thing? Not sure. I remember I got the binaries.
I wrote PSReadline (readline for PowerShell) and never bothered implementing overwrite mode.

It took about 3 years before anyone complained, and I think there is still just the one complaint.
Black cabs do it regularly on Oxford Street.
Overwrite mode is basically a relic from the old fixed-width record days. We just need to think up a better use for the Insert key so people don't fall back on making it the overwrite toggle.

Maybe in a word processor it could bring up the "put a picture/graph/whatever" right here in this document?
I used to load trailers for RPS, which became FedEx Ground. Described it to people the same way, too - "like real-life Tetris." Only it was even more like Tetris because of the time pressure and randomness. If you waited too long trying to build the perfect tier your chute might fill up, triggering a sensor that stops the whole line, and earns you derision from the other handlers and a visit from the manager to see what's wrong.

And we didn't have an idea of the complete contents in our heads ahead of time either; we just had to deal with whatever came down the chute one piece at a time. (Though you might be able to store 5-6 pieces off to the side, but that gets clumsy fast.)

One strategy to try to accommodate that randomness would be to have a lower row for one size-range, progressing horizontally, then another row on top of that in the same tier, for some other size-range. Going even further you could even start a second tier in front of that, with two more sizes. But that also could screw you if the one in front (or on top) starts to get too far ahead of the one behind (or on the bottom). Then you're back to setting packages aside and tripping on shit...
Site C is going to be necessary as we transition to electric cars, unless we want to burn the fossil fuel centrally instead of distributed.

We won't need it until it's painfully obvious we need it, and be we I mean all the places BC supplies electricity to (California). BC has plenty of generating capacity to meet only BC's demands.
Lateral thinking.

Try getting a job that way though - you're looked at as if you're too much of a risk.
Swindon – A Rust WebServer
> 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.

If that's the way you want to live your life, it is fine. But don't try to impose your ideas to other people.
Template metaprogramming is the ability to e.g. say

int x = factorial<5>::value;

and have 'x' initialized to "120" (i.e. execute computation at compile time, not just define new types). Can you do anything like that in Rust? I only read a few about Rust, but my feeling was that it has powerful generics, but NOT template metaprogramming.
Google launches crowdsourced TV show and movie reviews
You don't mention the types of firms that have talked to you about acquisition (e.g. are they they types of "large companies" likely to be your customers, competition, or other). Depending on their motives for wanting to buy you outright, you might be able to suggest they buy part of the firm in exchange for a cash infusion. You might be able to run the same playbook with > 1 of them and solve your capital crunch for a while.
Yeah, herd immunity is an interesting concept and one the anti-vaxx people completely hose up.

For example, a measles vaccine doesn't work on a small percentage of the population. Herd immunity says though that as long as some large percentage of the population is immune, those which the vaccine do not work will be fine. The anti-vaxx people end up pushing the percentage vaccinated below what's required for herd immunity and hose the whole population. Idiots.
That Starbuck logo, is that a mermaid with two tails?
Without a court order:

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

They can do much more with a court order, and the court orders almost never get turned down.
Did you watch Silicon Valley episode 1?

If you still don't know what to do after that, just watch some more episodes.
Where in the sentence is the purpose of corporations mentioned?

There are definitely corporations that provide employment, tax money, and/or charity work without generating monetary value (how long until Facebook actually sold anything?). But you're larger point is correct; those companies either don't last, or don't stay in that state.

The entire point of the New Deal was to provide employment first and foremost (then, why not do something possibly useful with those employees? Hence the infrastructure.)

> take money from people as well as borrow large amounts to do it.

How is this different from any other corporation? Every company I interact with - including the ones I don't pay - takes value from me; and most (if not all) have taken loans and/or investment. Usually it is money, and I get back something; but it's not like I gave Equifax my personal info [from which the took monetary value].

While yes, taxes ARE categorically different than prices (and bonds are different than stocks), you can still definitely adopt the perspective that they're how you pay for all the civilization supplied by the society you're a part of. And if you don't want to pay for those things, there's still ways to stop; and you don't even have to give up all the things you're getting for the price you're no longer paying.

I'm not hating on corporations. I'm saying that I would expect a corporation whose primary purpose is employment of people to do a poor overall job of adding value to society; at least compared to corporations with goals of delivering products or services.

It's not a question of "does this not produce value", it's a question of which kind of value is most produced.

...And I'm probably wrong anyway, because that's basically what temp agencies do.

Overall, your reply sounds like a comment arguing with an imaginary person you disagree with as if your imagined reality resembles the real thing. Try starting with a question next time, it'll help you figure out if what you think is going is actually what's going on.
High praise at https://twitter.com/worrydream/status/911269264392306688.
Interpreters can go a long way, but JIT code generation is required for really fast dynamic language implementation. That's quite a bit off for WebAssembly: https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/blob/master/FutureFeat...
If you are profitable and you think the industry is ripe for the taking, consider taking a loan. The downside is unlike VC money you will have to pay off the loans slowly.

Also, and I might be reading this wrong, looks like you haven't got much feedback on your deck and model. Consider getting some feedback including an industry expert.
The correct spelling should be mnemonic.
Your hardest decision ever: the balance between $14M in the pocket now which is more than 0.001% of Earths' citizens will ever have or potentially lose it all/win big depending on future uncertainty.

I'm really happy I'm not in your position but if I were I'd take the $14M. This is probably also why I'm not fabulously wealthy.

As far as the local venture scene is concerned: look abroad. US, UK, DE, FR all have lots (more than 1,000) active VCs in total, if your story is as good as you say then at least one of them should be willing to fund you.
Try this site, it has all the versions http://www.oldversion.com/windows/winamp/
You know how every time there is a snow/ice storm you see all those cars (SUVs in particular) spun out in the median and large semis jacknifed?

Those are the drivers who thought they could handle their vehicles.
I configure all my email clients to not display external images and ask for confirmation if a RR is requested.

In the gmail web browser client, that is in the general settings:

(*) Ask before displaying external images
IMHO, HN is HN (deeply loved and mostly used) because of its minimalism and saying No to almost everything a modern web designer would think of in their user stories - except performance.

It's insanely fast loading. Just text. Pure text. Sometimes on desktop I replace the yellow background with white (css hack) otherwise my colleagues ask me what am I looking at yellow all day.

Maybe a sort by most voted, most discussed and most recent would help but again not sure, sometimes playing by whatever available and randomness adds a greater flavour than controlling everything.
> A $14m sale is a huuuge win.

OP hasn't mentioned the current ownership structure. It may or may not be a huge win.
> You can self host it which is cool and means that if the company's funds dry up and they stops development (hopefully never), you can continue using the product.

You still have a git repo on both github and bitbucket, even if they stop development you will be able to download your code and host it anywhere you want. No?
To me, Gitlab's UI is a hybrid of Github and Bitbucket. Best of both worlds. IMO it's just a matter of time until it surpasses Github in terms of usability.
Now, you raise a good point noting that Github's been operating on losses. How will Github make enough money to sustain growth as it becomes THE go-to place for developers of all kinds and levels?
I am not living in the US and am not aware of these laws, but they do make sense in the wording above.

In the story these comments refer to the driver had no real place to stop his truck and I believe he was justified in going slow on a rainy/slushy road in a heavy track on a decline.

If you are driving slowly you should be letting others pass you whenever possible. I'm actually quite amazed that you actually need laws for that (not that our drivers are better in any way, it is just common sense).
Thanks! We're excited for you try it out too! And as always, send feedback or create issues for anything you see that needs improvement.
Trump would beg to differ.
take the money and run.
Infants make more attempts to achieve a goal when they see adults persist
I'd honestly just start with musl libc. The one Emscripten supports mostly just imports the same syscalls as Linux, with some ugliness to be able to do some DCE. If you clean that up your embedder will only need to implement those syscalls.
For god's sake, negotiate to $20M and retire early.
Dropbox Integrates with iOS 11’s Files App in Latest Update
English-To-SQL: Generating Structured Queries from NL Using Reinforcement
It is when that increase in border security wouldn't have prevented the attack.
It's a team of people, so the $14MM wouldn't all go to a single person. It's certainly a lot of money, but it may not be retire in comfort money.
What is your revenue and profit margin?
Every time I have to move I start fantasizing about living with very, very little stuff. The question is, how little?

I happily lived with a couple of suitcases of stuff in college, but that didn't include any furniture or kitchen gear.
I think a willingness to look critically at your own past is a virtue, and it makes sense that people in a given country would be more concerned about their own misdeeds.

Also, the scale of the British empire was much vaster than the ottomans or the Belgians, and we’re still dealing with the repercussions of it the empire and it’s collapse all over the world.
One should also be cognizant that their on-prem lags behind the cloud offering, so don't expect to launch GitHub Enterprise and get the same features as .com
A big reason Java failed was that it was painfully slow. Starting the VM and importing everything took tens of seconds on old machines, and still takes a couple of seconds on new ones.

Then people started worrying about security and all of the Java applets broke because nobody wants to go through that code signing process.

I have to admit I don't know much about the security model of WebAssembly, but I wonder if it will become as annoying as Java in the future.
Agreed. I would add a second question to your first: What are the risks of implementing this into production? Get them thinking as a matter of habit about both of those in tandem - what's the customer benefit, and what are the risks of doing it, and does the former justify the latter?

Also, all programmers have a burning desire to build stuff from scratch, which is part of what's driving yours to incorporate cool new stuff like this at a risk to your revenue. No can do. But it may be worth exploring side or 20% projects specifically dedicated to building stuff from scratch. Get their itch scratched on non-revenue projects that serve as potential useful on-the-job training and tech evaluation, while possibly getting something of value out of it.
All I can think of is adding text into whitespace preceding alignment; but that's not such a common operation (at least not in my daily usage).
> To travel over road, train, air in the US you also must ID yourself.

No you don't. If I drive a car, I have to have license and show that if asked by the police but that is a requirement of driving. If I am a passenger, I don't have to have an ID. I can take an airplane flight without an ID, that has been shown time and time again. Taking the train and ID'ing yourself might be condition of being able to use a train, not law.

If I am out and about, I don't have to show the military my ID, I don't have to show security guards my ID and if I am not accused of a crime, I don't have to show the police my ID. Try that in China.

> 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.

Not true. I bought a T-Mobile SIM card with cash and activated it at home and I could have put anything into the address information. I have never once shown my ID when dealing with my T-Mobile account. Try doing that in China.
How exactly would that occur?
Just hit the play button. ;)
Like Strong Sad! http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_lEbPtIKmS_U/SaAuUZOmJrI/AAAAAAAABb...
The only other change is the W3C decided to rename "constant" to "env", since these are essentially environment variables for browsers.

You can read all about it at https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/1693#issuecomment...
TFS (even Team Services) is lacking behind just a little bit as far as features go. Specifically, No user interface for forking repos (though I think Team Services is getting this soon).
Side question. It seems the conventional advice here is to take the money.

What if it was far less, say half that? How much is too little?
Too bad they didn't bring the 4:3 aspect ratio of the T60/61 back.
A case can be made that since the British looted foreign countries to create their infrastructure it is only fair that the citizens of those countries be allowed to enjoy the fruits of their ancestors' labours.
If those people do, why are the studio executives complaining? Perhaps it's because "Ticket revenue was down at least 12 percent, and ticket sales were at their lowest point for the season in 10 years. Audiences did not want to see remakes of old TV shows (bad news for Baywatch and CHIPS). They did not want to see badly reviewed franchise entries (the take for the latest Transformers installment was way down)."[1] (linked from the article).

[1]: http://www.philly.com/philly/entertainment/movies/dunkirk-gi...
>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.

You can buy a prepaid phone and minutes with cash in the US. I bought an Android phone and a minutes with a prepaid card just a month ago (with a credit card, but if I could have used cash), and activated it without giving any personal information.
just skimming through, it looks like she's using past data to try to predict the future (call time and location, etc)

this seemed flawed from the start

it is an interesting project though
Things like Fathom Events are already managing to run more niche content a few showings a week. (Example: there's a Studio Ghibli film doing 1 showing an evening at 3 theaters around town for two nights next week.)

It's not inconceivable that we'll eventually see a similar platform for (more) indie movies, using a screen or two a couple evenings a week. Movie theaters are hard up for money, and I suspect would happily take a full theater for any film they can do small batches of.
I often wonder if movies will simply occupy a niche market in the future. I wonder that about a lot of industries. Appealing to huge demographics with excellent movies would certainly be more profitable, but what if the current status quo of rehashing comic books over and over again is profitable enough? That's certainly a safer bet.

Monster truck rallies cater to a small subset of society, and they're probably not going anywhere. Nobody wonders why the monster truck rally industry doesn't try to expand its audience; they do what they do and it's profitable enough to keep them going. Why change what works?

Capitalism is like evolution. You don't have to be excellent to survive, you just have to be good enough not to die.