skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are a couple things you should know going in, or at least by the end of the first call:

1) What is this PE firms model? Google them, cold call founders of companies they've bought, etc. Some will want to buy you to integrate with existing entities. Others want to accelerate your growth, based on their operating model. If you don't have time to figure this out, you need to know all of these details by the end of your first call.

2) What do you want out of the deal? Ever entrepreneur should have a number or a vision, or both. You need to know what gets a deal done for you.

3) Why are they reaching out to you? Is it exploratory or already vetted and strategic. Before you say anything of substance, you should understand where they are at in the process. Oftentimes the level of the person you are speaking with dictates the seriousness of the conversation / interest level.

4) Are they winners? Funds can't help but brag about their successes. Who are their big exists? What do they return to their investors? How many funds have they closed (and when)?

If you have any additional questions, my email is in my profile.
This feels like a clickbait title disguised as wordplay.
> Do you think Australia is homogeneous? (way, way more per-capita immigration)

There have been plenty of studies that show immigration to poor US neighbourhoods reduces violence [1]. I don't fully understand what you're suggesting here?

I'm from Toronto, we have tons of legal immigrants and while some carry violence over from their countries (gun violence is a big problem in Somali [2] and Jamaican enclaves here) but otherwise it's extremely safe, likely thanks to immigrants not in spite of them.

The article I linked even suggests the best solution they found in Minnesota and Toronto for reducing gun violence was hiring Somalis to go into Somali neighbourhoods to increase inter-community reporting and educate kids - which supports what I said about approaching this on a cultural basis. Not as a general 'gun problem'.

> Do you think if you remove those "ghettos" from the US stats AND the stats of other first world countries you will suddenly see the US leap ahead?

I can't tell if you're trolling or not... I tried to answer your other highly suggestive questions already but I don't think I could take any more of these seriously.

[1] https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Immigration_and_crime

[2] https://beta.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/why-so-many-s...
A quick note, civil forfeiture is clearly illegal under the fourth amendment but courts have moved from a literal interpretation of law to a "the law means what I think it should mean in my better wisdom"* interpretation in regards to the constitution.

* See local and state firearms prohibitions, wiretapping by the NSA, title nine sexual assault courts, presidents declaring war without congressional approval, paris accord agreement without congressional approval and many other examples.
I believe usergrid runs off of Cassandra and Parse runs off another NoSQL DB. Maybe Mongo?
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Let's hope this brand evolution is better engineered than the web page that's announcing it. The scrolling is appalling https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYPWaKHmAhE
This is good to hear. I may give rust a shot. I have a lot of inertia, though, because I already know how to set up and maintain my cross-compile toolchain.

I've also heard that Go may a viable option, at least on ARM, and I'm considering giving it a try for my next embedded side project.
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Wow, that broke my browser (chrome, no less). I love innovative UX, but multiple internal scrollbars, a <noscript> tag that shows up as text at the bottom of the page, hijacked and then broken scrolling. Looks more like a college web design project than something that would come out of a top web company... yikes.
My response to this site as someone who has had a paid Dropbox account for years:

Oh no. Oh... no. follow link to dropbox.com Ugh. What happened?

I'm now under the impression Dropbox will go out of business and I need to explore alternatives.

Edit: I think I identified what makes me intensely dislike it. The color scheme and design screams "This is no longer for you, it's for hipsters."
I'd recommend adding the same restrictions to cell phone accounts too. An authorized user can do basically anything except close the account.

I just helped grandma dig through her account and found cousins on the account, started with basic service, upgraded their service, and then got phones via monthly payment on the account. And not basic phones, it included an iPhone 7s Gold 128GB ($750 at the time).
If you have the OS level setup for read-only access, can't you also flip a physical write-protect switch on the media at that point to defend against even that?
Very excited to see a Go SDK for it, too! Can I use it for real-time as well?
This is the configuration language that Google uses internally. It's used in Bazel (which was open-sourced from Google's Blaze) and, I believe, in many other places inside Google.

Unlike Google's Jsonnet, which doesn't seem to have become very popular, it goes way beyond mere declarative templating, as it's actually a minimal implementation of Python, complete with functions, lambdas, for loops, etc.

The Google documentation for Bazel's BUILD files provides some context:

The concrete syntax of BUILD files is a subset
of Python. Originally, the syntax was that of
Python, but experience showed that users rarely
used more than a tiny subset of Python's
features, and when they did, it often resulted
in complex and fragile BUILD files. In many
cases, the use of such features was
unnecessary, and the same result could be
achieved by using an external program, e.g.
via a genrule build rule.

Crucially, programs in the build language are
unable to perform arbitrary I/O (though many
users try!). This invariant makes the
interpretation of BUILD files hermetic, i.e.
dependent only on a known set of inputs, which
is essential for ensuring that builds are
reproducible.
The high functioning ones, you're totally right about. I never even realized it til now.
the primes look similar to sqrt(x*y)
http://skipperkongen.dk/2017/03/09/ether-mining-1/
Quorum based (Paxos)
Ideally there's a public partnership between government and the private sector rather than any one side bending the knee, but not so close as to have any secret handshakes.
Historically, it wasn't always obvious which "service pack" one wanted to jump in at, or whether the .0 release was any good, etc.
This reminds me of the style of The Little Schemer[1] which a lot of people love but which I found to be plodding and insufferably condescending.

[1] - https://www.amazon.com/Little-Schemer-Daniel-P-Friedman/dp/0...
Resilio Sync, although I'm not necessarily advocating for it. It's nice to have an option where nothing is in "the cloud".
>"There's a whole lot of may and might in all that; but you have to see it from the perspective of a smoker, not a non-smoker."

I was responding the the OP's statement that saying e-cigarrets were unhealthy was a bold claim.

There are always things that might be considered less harmful but that does not mean they are considered healthy.
Right, we were worried about this also. The best solution we could think of is include an NSFW flag on ads that an admin (myself and Max) can force, which prevents the ad from being rendered by default.

The "bad bytes" are still out there, but at least we don't have to subject the consumers of our frontend to it unless they opt in.
> The Senate wasn’t designed to represent “the people” anyway, it was designed to represent the interests of the sovereign states — of which DC is not. The House of Representatives is what represents “the people.”

This was how it was designed, and if state congresses still elected federal senators, this argument against DC having senate representation would hold water. Once the 17th Amendment changed it to direct election of senators, the chamber no longer represented the interests of the state, it now just gives the people in less populous states a lot more influence over the law.
Urgh, gross. Visual vomit — totally impractical and communicates nothing.
"In the crucial early hours after the Las Vegas mass shooting, it happened again: Hoaxes, completely unverified rumors, failed witch hunts, and blatant falsehoods spread across the internet."

It's the nature of the internet and social media. People rant, rave and gossip. It's not google or facebook's job to curate what people say, think or do.

I wish google and facebook and the social media companies would unite to fight back against traditional media. They've been attacked for the past couple of years relentlessly.

> their active role in damaging the quality of information reaching the public.

With all due respect. If google/fb/social media wanted to filter out quality of information, they would ban theatlantic and the rest of the traditional media.

At the end of the day, this guy is just complaining that people are being people. Eventually things get sorted out.

Looking at the guy's stories list, it seems like all he does is whine about facebook and social media.

https://www.theatlantic.com/author/alexis-madrigal/

Who is alexis madrigal that we should even pay attention to him?
Well the common thread in all of the statistics are guns.
My initial impression was they were intentionally breaking color theory rules, maybe as a way to stand out. It gives off a trendy, hipster vibe. I can't imagine this aesthetic aging well.
It's probably totally subjective but I find the typeface needlessly "wide" and the colour palette unpleasant -
especially that dark red and cyan combination in the new homepage [1]. It has some sort of retro Microsoft Frontpage '97 vibe.

[1] https://i.imgur.com/rcZxsLs.png
FB should keep a hash of details on people who have deleted their profile and opted out of tracking in order to prevent re-creating shadow profiles.
But few projects are designed to only support FreeBSD. In the UNIX world, Autoconf still reigns supreme.
I mean, if he didn't speak to his mother for the last 15 years of his life it was probably pretty horrible.
Any tips for transitioning to contracting? Should you be in a certain place (experience, ability, etc) or is just about taking a leap of faith?
> What's ring voting?

Coordinated up- or downvoting from multiple accounts
In IDEA, right?
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Chewing tobacco is still carcinogenic.
Good points. For a PRO version, these are the most requested features so far:

Twitch support.
Netflix support.
Vimeo support.
Youtube search & comments inside Sideplayer.
but the prognosis for prostate cancer is very good though (except for African Americans, in which it is markedly lower). How about lung, pancreas, esophagus, and stomach cancer

But perhaps more research for breast cancer will lead to better treatments for all cancers , even if the focus on one cancer is excessive
The write-protect switch on SD cards is not a physical break of a write line. It's merely a signal to the host saying not to write. A malicious or badly written driver can disobey it.
Because you are inhaling foreign chemicals into your lung in higher then normal dosages.

We do that all the time. Ever worked in a newly constructed building? Wondering what that smell is? Plasticizers, monomers, adhesive solvents, etc.

Same with a new car. Or cooking over the stove, bbq'ing. Or walking down a busy street with cars on it.

Just because you are inhaling "foreign chemicals" doesn't mean there are significant risk associated with it.
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Even better, try reduce(fold) first.
> IANAL but If you want to fix this get your parents to sign a power of attorney over to you.

If you are said parent, which of the kids do you absolutely trust to never ever screw you over no matter how much incentive there is and no matter how hard a times they fall on?

That's what I'm worried about when getting old(er). You give your trust to an amazing person in their 40's with the best of lives. They'll take care of you. Then they fall on hard times 10 years later and oh hey look they have power of attorney over all this money maybe if they help themselves juuuuuust a little bit ...

When I was 10 my dad drained my and my sister's savings[1] account that way. Just a little, just to get over the hump in his business, he'll put it all back later of course. 20 years later and afaik he still hasn't.

Having access to other people's money when you have none of your own is terrible. I don't know if I'd trust myself with that, let alone somebody else.

[1] of course it wasn't really our savings, think of it more like a college fund my parents started for each kid when they were born
This makes me distressed and angry. The last time I felt like this was when I read an article telling about several cases when cops raped women through "body cavity search". Unfortunately, there are several other cases of extreme injustice and evil acts committed by people who are not and will not be punished.

An idea that has been on my mind is to create some sort of virtual wall of shame. It would put the name and picture of those people who have done such terrible things and have not paid for their crimes. It would spam their emails and social media accounts with messages. It would send emails and messages to their relatives and friends. It would create ads targeted to where those people live telling their story. The goal is to do everything in order to not let such crimes be forgotten and to not let those people live normal lives again, at least in the virtual world.

I don't know if I will ever put this plan in practice and I know it is a dangerous idea, but each time I read something like this it makes me more willing to start this idea.
That typeface is just dreadful. Dropbox is a utilitarian business product, not a mid-century art exhibit.
Don't send when someone is outbidded add a pendingReturns mapping of addresses and when someone is outbidded keep a track of returns and add another function for withdrawal

https://solidity.readthedocs.io/en/develop/solidity-by-examp...

let users pull vs push

I am also working on a Ethereum contract, Solidity language has great risks but also is great fun
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Lately, since pkg was introduced I find myself installing stock packags most of the time. Only if I want X compile time feature enabled I'd use the ports system. Updates are faster as well. I used to `make world`, now I just do `freebsd-update -r <release> upgrade`.
nicotine replacement therapy

That's what e-cigs are.
I see what they wanted to do, but I think they misjudged their users. The non design oriented people using this will probably think that this is horrible - which it is (for this purpose). This kind of playful and color heavy design isn't new or bad, it's just that it has a really hard time breaking out of the art/design magazine area. It's impractical, forces the user to look extra hard, uses non-traditional color combinations with weird contrasts. Whoever greenlit this made a mistake.
I understand the principle of two plus two equals four and I'm not saying we should make two plus two equal three, something mathematicians have warned would harm everyone's ability to do basic math, nor do I want to ban math all together.

I simply want people who are doing arithmetic to help us make two plus two equal three when criminals try to use math.
Not only this - microSD cards don't even have a WP switch any more, and on full-size SDs the thing is more unreliable than worth the trouble...
> that's a fail, period.

I disagree. If that's what people are viewing and if that's where the discussion of the news was happening then google should reflect that.

If 4chan was the only source google was pushing then fine. But as long as google is posting a wide variety of "news", then anything, including 4chan should be allowed.

Edit: People forget that the TMZ and even the inquirer used to be attacked also but they have produced fine journalism from time to time. And establishment organizations like Rolling Stone, The Atlantic, NYTimes, etc have produced terrible journalism from time to time.

No entity has a complete monopoly on facts and news. We should have diverse set of news/opinions/etc.
A couple of questions:

What's the underlying synchronisation mechanism?

Is it based on CRDTs?

How does this product differ from Gun.js and realm.io?
I think the salient point is that thinking takes more time than not thinking. At least in my experience, the policy is generally to push features, not to think (slowly or otherwise).
Might and may are one thing, the OP said definitely, and that's a bold claim as we don't yet know if it's definitely anything. Had he even said probably that'd be ok, but definitely, no, that's not supportable.
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> HN has become a bit of a mouthpiece for large organizations

In don't mind (in fact, appreciate) this aspect of HN as long as it's done openly and civilized.

> Best idea I have is for HN to add a profile field like: "Organizations: [google]" which would prevent voting on any Google-related submissions. It could also add a disclaimer in each comment these submissions, so users wouldn't have to remember to do that.

That's a brilliant idea.
Appalling. One of the few New Yorker articles I've read to the end, really hope more come to justice.
I get the metaphor and all, but I found this statement to be pretty over-the-top:

> Our old logo was a blue box that implied, “Dropbox is a great place to store stuff.” The new one is cleaner and simpler. And we’ve evolved it from a literal box, to a collection of surfaces to show that Dropbox is an open platform, and a place for creation.

Maybe this is just an intermediate step in an attempt to preserve some brand continuity, and something more radically different is coming later, but the new logo sure looks a lot like a blue box to me. I literally didn't realize the logo next to this text was the new logo, I kept scrolling down looking for something that wasn't clearly a box.

I actually agree that the new logo is an improvement -- it really is "cleaner and simpler" -- but I think it is ridiculous to look at that new logo as anything more than (or other than) a stylized box.
I looked into this for normal instances, definitely not profitable. Spot instance may profitable until more than a few people start doing it. Ideally this could run on a decentralized cloud, like Golem for instance
Yes, I always have .sw? at the top of .gitignore.

I never do manual commits here; every single commit is always 'wip'. I'm basically not using that feature of git. I'm just using it for (dumb) history/backup and distribution.

I always setup the git repos with ssh, not https. The central (for each environment) git repo is a bare checkout on my personal account on a linode or tektonic VPS.

In short, since I can ssh from my various client machines to these central servers with no password, the git pull/push just works.
Seems very similar to Spotify's recent-ish rebranding. Which makes sense as the same agency appears to have worked on it https://www.wearecollins.com/work/spotify/
Possible, but doubtful. For ages the default state of software was closed-source, and yet the desire to share and be free did not dry up. People yearn for freedom, and in its absence they will make it, but mildly-comfortable half-solutions have a great way of defusing movements.

But slowly the pool of exploits will dry up, either because we stop using C or because we finally figure out a way to write C securely, and we'll find ourselves decades behind at the necessary task of producing hardware that is open by design rather than open by accident.
Second paragraph dives straight into corporate quarterly bonus bullet point bullshit! What about the human! This is easily the worst in memoriam I think I've ever seen. Written by some HR droid? What an embarrassment, I think I just discovered why I'd never, ever work for Intel
I have to admit, the daughter murdering Parks and the judge seemed more and more possible as the article went on with the government seemingly fully in on it. That would definitely send a message.

It must be terrifying to feel so helpless against the state.
I think #1 or #2 are probably good ways forward (but I don't exactly have experience in this area). I think putting video ads in something that's meant to play Youtube with it's own ads (or not, if you paid to remove them from Youtube) is likely to run afoul of some odd clause in how Youtube is allowed to be embedded. If they are image ads, it's garish and uses valuable screen space, so people won't like it,

The real question is whether you have interesting enough features to support a Pro version that aren't trivial enough to implement that someone will come by and offer the same thing for free. If the original app was $500 and is technically as simple as it seems, I wouldn't rely on it being hard to create a competitor to keep people from offering a free version that has all the features of your paid version. That is, unless you can secure a contract with some paid service that you can integrate with that others can't. Contracts are probably the best way to raise the bar for competitors, especially if you can secure an exclusive contract in some manner. I'm not sure what this would be, so it may not be feasible.

In the end, I personally would probably go with a Donate or Patreon link (Patreon if you want to create more cool stuff (maybe for for free) and see if people will subsidize your projects. The alternative is to either get pressured from free offerings because your solution isn't hard enough to keep them away, or from paid competitors because the market warrants it, or maybe you sit right between them and it's hard enough that a free offering isn't as good or available, but it's too much pain for too little money for a competitor to compete. If you hit that sweet spot, it's probably easy money, but it might not be a lot of money (otherwise the competitors would still be trying).
So you’re concerned about their ridiculously slow (or capped) internet connections, but not about the impact on their CPUs or batteries, or visually how it performs?