skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Loopt only made millionaires in a technical sense - they turned $39M of investment into a $43M exit after 7 years. I would imagine most people can do this, e.g. by sticking the money into bonds or ETFs or something. In fact, with $10M of the exit earmarked for employee retention, it seems likely that at least some investors lost money. If investors are willing to lose money on a promising company, making millionaires out of their millions isn't hard at all.

EDIT: I found this old HN thread from Loopt's exit. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3683994 Top comments are telling:

"Michael Moritz (Sequoia partner) is still on the board of Green Dot, now a publicly traded company worth north of a billion dollars. Almost the entire board is Private Equity/VC guys, they do this kind of inside baseball all the time, it's no sweat off their back to do Moritz a favor."

"Buddy exits like this one and the Hunch exit are very demoralising. They make startups look like some sort of game. As you indicated, Loopt was clearly dying and yet people still got rich off of it."

(Of course, none of this should be taken as a negative view of Loopt's founder, who now leads YC - the chances of having a good exit are so low and so randomized that a qualified, smart, knowledgeable founder can still simply be unlucky. But it's still a fact that he was unlucky, and we shouldn't pretend Loopt was a successful exit.)
> My belief is that everyone has minor bouts of mania and depression, and bipolar people just experience it more extreme

if you read about the symptoms of bipolar disorder you will see that it is a bit more complex than this.

http://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/topics/bipolar-disorder/index...

Take a look at the list of manic / depressive episode symptoms. Every single one of those applies to me in a very extreme way - i have been hospitalized once and believe i am going to be again soon as i feel very similar currently as i did in the past.

Edit:

oh also forgot to mention - i appear to be the kind of bipolar which comes with a touch of psychosis... its definitely more complex than the minor ups and downs of a normal person.

second edit: yes you sound bipolar and should probably get it under control because its pretty much wrecking my life now and had i not ignored the signs / knew what to look for earlier in life i would be in better shape right now.
I would imagine the insurance company wants all of things you speculated on. Insurances companies would love to know which statistical bucket you fall into, so they can charge you more or less based on your risk of making a claim.
Learn something new every day... Thanks.
I wonder if will see a future soon where a director can fully edit the positions and physical actions of the actors at post production.

basically, the whole scenes will be transferred to believable 3d models seemlessly, and you can reanimate parts of everything. I feel like that's doing to happen for sure, for big Hollywood productions at least (like the Marvel stuff)
I very much like your fixed fee / month business model. Exactly what I need, I will likely become a customer soon.

Is there a similar service out there that has fixed pricing for web/app development?
I find Runar Bjarnason's talks to be interesting; one of my favourites is 'Constraints Liberate, Liberties Constrain':

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqmsQeSzMdw

The essence of it is that constraints actually allow for easier composition and more modularity. It had a real impact on the way I think about the design of systems.
There's an emotional weight to having social media accounts open. There's a lingering thought of visiting them when they are active. When you delete them that weight eventually goes away. It's like getting clean of an addiction. Did you ever play a video game that you were addicted to? Same idea.
It seems somewhat counter-intuitive to go to an on-demand video delivery service and want to see a lot of text though, no? People didn't go to Blockbuster to go read a description of the movie on white note card. I see this mentality a lot on HN and it seems like there's a large population of "get off my lawn" techies who only want the WWW to be text and nothing else, ever. Not trying to criticize your opinion, which I know I probably am, but I just find that is a very vocal and common trend on here. Maybe me having grown up mostly with Web 2.0 and on I just have a different set of expectations of what the WWW can provide me.
"Console hacking 2010"[0][1] - The story and history of the different hacks and security bypasses around the Sony PlayStation 3 gaming console. Absolutely brilliant.

[0] https://events.ccc.de/congress/2010/Fahrplan/events/4087.en....
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KNZsNTPlec
Actually the hollowing out of the middle class means that American consumers are more price sensitive than they would be if they had larger incomes...
Anything by Bryan Cantrill (Joyent, prev Sun) or Arthur Bergman (Fastly, prev Wikia).
> cargo cult religion

Unfairly dismissive of the deep philosophy involved in the founding of this country. There are many solid underpinnings of American individualism, whether you agree the principles or not.
The thing is there is a global power structure now, it's just not accountable. This is always my problem with anarchism. There's never not a power structure. The difference is whether or not the power structure has been designed with people's individual rights as a core principle.
I read this article a few times, but I don’t see any quotes of actual communication from either the dental insurance or the toothbrush company. If the second box contained a letter with the purported message, why not post it? If the author received warnings about being in violation of the “free” deal, why not post them? It’s hard to tell here what has actually been said by the insurance or toothbrush vendor vs inferred by the author.
Deletion is too extreme for most people. Facebook is a monopoly for users and in an oligopoly for advertisers. This is a market failure [1].

More reasonable: escalating partial dis-engagement. Here's what I did, sequentially, over the years:

1. Turn off notifications for the Facebook app on your phone;

2. Turn off notifications for the Facebook Messenger, Instagram, et cetera apps on your phone;

3. Delete the Facebook app from your phone;

4. Delete the Facebook Messenger, Instagram, et cetera apps from your phone; and finally

5. Log out of Facebook on your desktop.

It took me 2 years to go through from step 1 to step 5. It has made me happier and more productive. I still have a Facebook account. But the friction of grabbing my laptop and logging in forces me to consider "is this what I want to do? Or am I thoughtlessly reaching for the crack pipe?"

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_failure
Enums in Python
Also 'The Forge of God' [0] by Greg Bear [1987]:

"We've been sitting in our tree chirping like foolish birds for over a century now, wondering why no other birds answered. The galactic skies are full of hawks, that's why. Planetisms that don't know enough to keep quiet, get eaten".

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Forge_of_God
Although you'd be forgiven for still being suspicious I'm afraid.
Even after several years, I would not presume to know everything I can do with a platform. You learn something new every day. Also, a skill one language and frameworks can translate to experience in other languages and frameworks. The discipline I got from being a Delphi developer taught me how to handle UI messages, threads and IPC, which are the exact skills I used in order to write a native Java application for Android from scratch. So no, nothing is lost. Just be world-class in your chosen platform and you are an expert in many others automatically.
The Mother of All Demos, presented by Douglas Engelbart (1968)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJDv-zdhzMY
Is that a good thing? Who owns it now and what is their motivation?
We Really Don't Know How to Compute: Gerry Sussman - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3tVctB_VSU

Zebras All the Way Down: Bryan Cantrill - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fE2KDzZaxvE

Jonathan Blow on Deep Work: Jonathan Blow - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ej_3NKA3pk

Simple Made Easy: Rich Hickey - https://www.infoq.com/presentations/Simple-Made-Easy

Effective Programs - 10 Years of Clojure: Rich Hickey - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2V1FtfBDsLU&t=845s

The Last Thing D Needs: Scott Meyers - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAWA1DuvCnQ
I’m not so sure we live in the best timeline anymore.
I think it's lack of content. Or lack of good content more specifically. From my perception about 20% of the titles on Netflix are in any way worth watching. The other 80% are just there taking up space in the listings to make it look like I have a lot of choices. I rarely watch anything on Netflix anymore because I feel like I've watched what's worth watching. I check it occasionally to see if there's something new, but I mostly keep the subscription because it's a family deal and others in the household still find some value in it.
Hah, never heard of the Facebook trick before. Thanks.
Not a word about genetics? Not a word about the feminisation of the education system? Maybe the richer and more educated are better because they inherited better genes? Maybe nothing change because the system is now completely feminised and as we all know females are not geared towards changes and innovation?
This is nothing compared to the bundleware fiasco in 2015. Surely that should have been enough to lose trust in SourceForge and abandon it?

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/05/sourc...
> Pretty much anyone who doesn't read, at least somewhat, for pleasure (or on their own time) won't develop good reading skills

This matches my own experience. For as long as I can remember, I've read. My parents read to me as a very young child, and as I grew older, I was encouraged to read. I had access to the local public library, the Scholastic Book Club, and probably a few other things I'm forgetting. By the end of middle school, I'd read every Star Wars Extended Universe book and every Pern novel published to date (and the former was not a small list, even then).

So then, come high school, everyone was tested for the new reading program that was supposed to get everyone's reading ability caught up. My test results came back as reading at above college level, no intervention needed. That surprised even me at the time. I was told I couldn't be removed from the mandatory program, but I didn't need the points either, and so I should just read whatever I wanted from the approved books list and not worry about it.

I recount this, not to toot my own horn, but to point out that by having been such a voracious reader as a youth, I probably had far more practice at reading than many of my peers. And practice is what really develops and cements a skill. All those years spent reading gave me a great deal of practice. And if someone's not reading for pleasure on their own time, as you said, they're not getting those opportunities for practice.
Mining in general is problematic. If you break up a bunch of rock and leave it lying around, all kind of stuff will leak from it.
What's wrong with "gotten"?
Interestingly not the first account I've seen on here bad mouthing Cruise: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=tmpnam1234567
The newish (this news is not that new) owners completely rejected the adware/malware junk, so that's long gone.
I was wondering the same thing the other day: looking for inspiration but also experienced recommendations and UI patterns. Found this with a quick Google (I have no affiliation): https://blog.chartmogul.com/saas-landing-pages

Also I found Pinterest to be a good resource for finding designs (more so than Dribbble, Behance, etc. surprisingly.)
I was going to mention Growing a Language, but since it's already been posted, here is Alan Kay's "Doing with Images Makes Symbols": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2LZLYcu_JY.
"Bufferbloat from the plumber's point of view." I haven't found a better explanation of the problem. Because of the way it is explained, the idea to solve it becomes obvious.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5KPryOHwk8
Not only do I agree with you here, but I agree with you strongly on this as well:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16686723

This is why I prefer clients and browsers small enough that I can edit and recompile quickly even on a computer with low resources.
Let me suggest you start a food diary as a useful tool. I have been successful in mitigating certain somatopsychic symptoms largely using diet.
The past is such a weird place, not least because there's just so few people actually in it. The 19th and 20th century revolutions in agricultural technology exploded the numbers of human beings on the planet, particularly coming on the heels of the depopulation of the Americas in the 16th and 17th centuries.
You can shoot yourself in the head today. You’re going to die anyways. Why do you continue to live? It’s the same outcome right?
Travis CI may base builds on wrong commit
There was a recent interesting paper on the arXiv which argued that the ubiquity of small-world networks was vastly overstated.

Can't find the paper anymore - did anyone else see this / have a link?
Of course it's going to look awful with broken images. What a weird article.
Even in that case the reputation has been forever tarnished and anything that remains there is no longer needed.
All by Itself, the Humble Sweet Potato Colonized the World: Study
Bryan Cantrill's USENIX talk - Fork Yeah! The Rise and Development of illumos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zRN7XLCRhc

He gives a history of SunOS, Solaris, and OpenSolaris up to the Oracle acquisition, and then onto post acquisition and the creation of illumos. It's a brilliant talk and a must-watch for any Unix enthusiast or historian. Bryan is an incredibly engaging speaker.
Yahoo and AOL Mail soon to scan emails
No, that won't happen, because the consequences are severe: they're instantly, globally, permanently and publicly blacklisted as a spam server.
Not a proper tech talk, but hearing Ben Chestnut talk about the early days and growth of MailChimp stuck with me.

https://vimeo.com/34081566

Bootstrapped to over half a billion dollars in revenue. Worth many multiples of that. Built it Atlanta, not a startup city. B2B, but with a more creative ethos than most VC-backed startups in SF. Just an extraordinary story, well worth the hour it takes to watch.
So the ant (allegedly -- I'm eagerly awaiting that source!) saw a dot on the ant in the mirror, and tried to remove the dot on its own forehead. The key point: that looks an awful lot like the identification of the self with the reflected image.

The issue you brought up about the mite is a bit orthogonal to this point. I can give you that the ant was concerned about the possibility of having a mite, and the point still remains that the ant thought it was on its own head only on basis of a reflected image of itself. (Compare to the alternative behavior: the ant tries to get the mite off the reflected image, never making any attempt to remove it from itself.)
they don't exactly file tax returns, I wonder how it's calculated
The github monoculture isn't about individuals setting their own repos so much as items like submodules and issues and code depending on github. Go modules use the github url in the import statements. GH is a lot more ingrained in the community than SF ever was
The app is totally free, and it will remain so.

I am hosting and providing the summary api, so I am counting on provinding paid nlp apis.
In the same way that ADHD is very much agreed to be over diagnosed, do you believe bipolar might also be over diagnosed? I have seen family members conditions worsen after treatment(which may just be a coincidence), or maybe the inadequacy and/or causation of treatment.
It doesn't really matter that much whether its 12, 16, 24 byte. The difference is that, given how postgres is doing it at the very least, can pass anything bigger than 8 byte (on 64bit arch), in general purpose registers. So function calls (which are below all operators), tuple deforming, etc, we'll instead pass those types around by reference. That always will infer another pointer indirection, and in many cases means we'll have to copy more because the datum is now dependent on the underlying tuple it has been extracted from.

Whether it matters - it's hard to say so in a general manner. I'd try to avoid using a pass-by-reference type for the columns I'm aggregating billions of rows of, when reasonably possible. I'd not go to huge lengths to do so.

Tuple deforming performance doesn't change much if it's a fixed width pass by reference type, rather than a variable width one.
I remember there was a paper regarding scale-free networks. I believe it was discussed on HN a few months back:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16144867

But I also (perhaps falsely) remember a discussion that seemed to challenge the small-world networks as well, so that may not be the discussion I was thinking of. I may not have engaged my brain at the time but I'd be surprised if it was small-world networks given the widely-reproduced evidence for the effect.
I think the impact on most non-trivial projects is quite a bit more than 30 minutes. If you have all of your development processes, tools, testing, and release-building built around SVN, switching to git would be a fairly major undertaking, and if your project is working well with SVN, why would you want to change?
You aren't refuting his point. His point was that OP was romanticizing his own country.
From what I've gathered and seen around the web the problem isn't really that git isn't decentralized, it's that it's purely a code versioning tool. With GitHub you have a community, an issue tracker, a wiki, possibly a website hosted with them and so on. Honestly, the biggest hurdle is just community. By not using GitHub you are losing a ton of potential contributors and users just by lack of exposure. It saddens me a bit, but I can live with it. I host my own Git, am setting up a Drone testing server but still mirror everything to GitHub.
99%¹ of computer vision problems are 80% solved. The problem is, you need 95+% solution to be practically useful.

Binocular stereo vision has just approached general applicability, and SfM is mostly used in very constrained environments (traffic analysis) or with large computational resources with manual correction (offline 3D mapping from aerial data).

¹ Numbers are metaphoric only, based on experience in scientific and industrial CV.
I'm inclined to think that "good students" are very often intelligent people pleasers who will drive themselves to achieve in order to win the attention of teachers, parents, awards committees, and friends and neighbors. These students often are "good at all things"—if our evaluation criteria is earning good grades in school. Good grades in school, nevertheless, only means so much.

Perhaps Ms. Mayer is most comfortable hiring such people.
Bi polar is just a meme these days, every second woman decides that she is "bi polar" which is just a way to justify their general childish behaviour and lack of accountability. That's why it is always refreshing to hear about bi polar men, they seems to be the real deal.
I remember reading about his large ham radio antenna setup in the desert. I heard him a few times on the bands over the years as well.

Sad to hear he's a SK, have fond memories of staying up to listen to coast to coast as a kid.
This article explains the discarded wrapper for Cocoa Glorfs I found dated Blorfna 37523.
Coast to Coast AM was my go-to bedtime routine as a kid. I'd get tucked in and then sneakily turn my am radio on and listen for hours.

It wasn't even that I liked the content so much, as I liked hearing Art talk to callers and how he was never condescending and just took their stories as though they were telling the truth. It really stuck with me then that he just had a crazy open mind - and I feel like that's had lifelong impacts.

It also really got me into radio and eventually I ran our college radio station - engineering and all - to try and recreate the excitement of live radio.

He had a great call with George Carlin that was really fun and interesting one time that is worth a listen.
This is a small script to create a PocketMod from a pdf.

#!/usr/bin/env bash
INPUT="$1"
OUTPUT="$2"
PAPERSIZE=a4
pdftk "$INPUT" cat 2 3 4 5 1down 6-8down output "$OUTPUT"
pdftops -level3 "$OUTPUT" in.ps
psnup -p"$PAPERSIZE" -d -nup 8 in.ps out.ps
ps2pdf -sPAPERSIZE="$PAPERSIZE" out.ps "$OUTPUT"
rm in.ps out.ps
They had one small airline (Cape Air) using it for a long time, so I don't quite get your point. It was built, but almost nobody bought it. Google did squash it roughly 2 years after buying ITA, but it was pretty much dead anyway.
What are the problems with Template Haskell?
Unfortunately for the new owners trust, once lost, is hard to regain.

When setting up a new PC last week, I had to spend a non-trivial amount of time searching for a non-SourceForge source for a particular tool. SourceForge was one a trusted source, but because of their bad behavior I have to assume they are up to no good and avoid them like the plague.
Successfully launch your minimum viable product and maximize its potential
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/where-we-live/wp/2015/02...

There is a market for home inspectors to prevent the purchase of a property with issues.

I have yet to hear of anyone having a civil or criminal suit taken against them due to issues with a property (not saying it hasn’t occurred—just that I don’t know of it occurring).
Vodaphones how long do they keep cell site gps inform by court order
The defining factor between Bipolar I and Bipolar II is that you have been essentially never been hospitalized(and never had a completely documented manic episode). Ignoring psychosis the defining characteristic of a mental illness is often abnormal behavior which is slightly subjective. It is essentially the scale of the issue(mania typically) when it becomes a mental illness.
when I took the SAT, I first took a practice test and scored quite poorly on it, but when I realized that all of the things I had missed were tiny details, or very literal interpretations of questions, I scored very well on the actual test. The same was true of the math test, as well. The SAT is basically testing how easy it is to fool you with a trick question.

However, in defense of the SAT, I'd wager that this is pretty strongly correlated with critical reasoning and ability to succeed in college and beyond.
There is a difference between political prisoners and criminals. There is a rule of law in the US which means you cannot arbitrarily imprison anyone; there is due process and a trial. That is missing from the Chinese Judicial System which makes it much more akin to Slave Labor.
I can’t feel bad for him.

Two questions:

Why is he still using SVN in 2018? This wouldn’t have happened with Git. If our hosted git repo got hosed, it would be a simple matter of sending out a slack message and the developer who did the latest push, repushing the code.

Why is he still using SourceForge? They wrapped software in malware and adware. Even if the new owners don’t. Why would anyone trust them?
does ecommerce count? mcmaster.com
I'll say it's probably closer to 3 minutes for most -- how can you be a developer today and not have at least touched github once or twice?
The investment by non-US carriers intrigues me, because there is no significant overbooking problem worldwide: its a mostly US phenomenon as I understand it.

The rebooking-because-cancelled, thats a huge problem anywhere. So, I suspect the JV partners are looking to benefits for unexpected surge loads and overflow from late/dropped flights in a tight jet schedule.
I still will never use them again for any purpose. Better alternatives exist.

Is there any compelling reason to ever use them again? They are a dinosaur with a history of herpes