skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It shows how important avoiding competition by being in an overlooked industry is, or selling quickly before it becomes a slug-it-out battle between well-capitalized growth companies.

By contrast, the 3 GitHub founders each took home about $1.25B from their $7.5B acquisition. Mark Zuckerburg's Facebook stake was worth about $20B in 2011, out of the roughly $85B market cap. Larry & Sergey own 11% of Google today, 15 years after it became a public company. Kevin Systrom netted about $400M from Instagram's $1B sale. The three YouTube founders took home around $700M of YouTube's $1.65B sale. Jan Koum and Brian Acton together took in about $11B of WhatsApp's $19B sale, including continued stock incentives (they may've forfeited some by departing FB early). AFAIK Markus Frind took home nearly all of the $575M that PlentyOfFish sold for.

I was also surprised at how low the founder ownership stakes were for Box (3% IIRC) and PayPal (Elon Musk was the largest founder shareholder at about $85M of the $1.5B purchase price). It really does pay to keep capital requirements low, profits high, and get on the hyper-growth curve before taking lots of capital rather than taking lots of capital so you can get on the hyper-growth curve.
> I would go so far as to say that I never actually learned anything in my undergrad CS classes.

I'm not sure whether to think your school had an awful CS program or you went into your classes with the wrong attitude.

There are lots of practical skills that get taught in universities that aren't direct trade knowledge -- you didn't feel like you learned how to learn? Or were exposed to new ideas and parts of the field that you otherwise wouldn't know about?
Why is that everyone in the village died of smallpox, except for the milkmaids, who never got sick? Is this some kind of milkmaid magic? Or is there something in the biographies of each milkmaid that causes them to become... ah, what is the right word? It's almost as if they are, ah, "immune" to smallpox? Is that possible? It's almost as if they get cine (aid) from the cows (vacca). One wonders if we could deliberately give this vacca-cine to people?
These are all good points. Also, I think another point often missed in the discussion around social signaling is that certain schools create a higher opportunity for a reference check. Upon reviewing a candidate early in her career, if she went to X, I know someone who graduated the same year, I can ask that friend/co-worker what that person is like. I think this is especially beneficial when someone doesn't work at a large company their first job out of school. It is less about the school name on the diploma, and more about obtaining an additional reference firsthand.
>Back when rust first got started was there someone on the team that knew Ada well in order to take lessons learned. It seems kind of crazy if there wasn't. It would be like Tesla not having anyone from a traditional car company involved in initial design.

Or like Go only taking into account C, Limbo, and CSP.
Not only that - not all hospitals follow this assembly line, if this chain of hospitals goes under what about the opportunities for someone doing the routinely 1 part of the surgery.
Glass is a mineral; the earth's crust is full of practically the same thing.

Glass can be reused; sterilizing and re-filling milk bottles is a thing, for instance.

Plastic doesn't really recycle; it downcycles. Plastic from higher grade products usually can't be used for the same grade, only for lower-grade stuff.

Downcycling is less of a problem for glass.
Vaguely clicker game related comment hijack:

I wish Android required a revokable permission to hide the status bar and navigation keys.

Clever ad supported idle games on Android exploit this to hide the clock, making you unaware of how much time passed - for the same reason Casinos avoid having visible clocks like the plague, and I consider this rather morally problematic, and thus in need of a dedicated user controllable permission. (See Kongregate's Realm Grinder for an example.)

Or just ban games that do this from Google Play.
depends on what your definition of "afford" is. i was accepted into MIT, but there was no way my family was going to make their contribution amount and the total debt i would have had to take on was way too high.

there's a large gap between people that get enough aid and those that can just pay out of pocket. i got bored at the university i could afford, dropped out, and ended up in the tech startup world. MIT would have been great, but they way they assess need means people in my position (middle class) can't/won't attend. it sucks, because i would have loved the challenge and the atmosphere, but it didn't make financial sense.
That's why if they're smart they'll liquidate like andreesen and cuban. The company may be worth a fraction of this.
The issue then becomes how do you properly protect the magnetic medium inside.
At the end of last year, a great systematic rewrite of Sublime's Go grammar was merged. So at that (admittedly surface-) level, it's doing very well.

I just maintain my own on-save hooks, build systems and plugins to integrate various quality-of-life Go tools. With the benefit of being able to tailor any such functionality to exactly the way you like to work and nothing more, it's far less effort than it would be to create the all-singing-all-dancing comprehensive package that is absent.
If by 'pinnacle of apple design design' you mean actively user hostile, then yeah!

The handles on that thing were rough.
I was fairly close to some of the people at Google involved in this.

This narrative misses a lot. The most important part was the purchase of FriendFeed by Facebook and the failure of Google Buzz (the more open predecessor to Plus).

The narrative I've heard is more like this (It goes back over 10 years, so the context is much different. Google was much smaller, and there were many doubters about Facebook).

Facebook was founded in 2004

By 2007 it was clear that social networks were a thing, but there was a very strong feeling among technologists that they should be more open.

During 2007 a bunch of pretty well credentialed Googlers left to start a more open social network called FriendFeed. This aggregated open sources of content from all over the web.

This worked fairly well technically, and people at Google were generally supportive of it (there were many Googlers on the service, and they were actively working on things like PubSubHub[1] to make open aggregation services work well.

However by 2009 it was clear it FriendFeed had product issues. It was being used just as a republishing tool (primarily from Twitter) and they ended up selling to Facebook.

This upset a number of people at Google, who were relying on it to create an open alternative. These people were involved in the creation of the (mostly forgotten) Google Buzz[2], which was basically a clone of FriendFeed.

Buzz failed as a consumer product, so then Google attempted the pivot to Google Plus.

[1] https://github.com/pubsubhubbub/PubSubHubbub

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Buzz
Right, which has always been possible by setting your own DNS server.
... I'm saying it's NOT an engineering problem, it's a problem of people NOT listening to engineers. I don't think I could be much more clear.
The vast majority of patients don't care about price because their insurance is covering it.
GroupOn. It has gone poorly.

https://www.google.com/search?q=groupon&tbm=fin#scso=_X0-dXJ...
You're making the (implied) assumption that self-driving vehicles will be successful, and furthermore, deployed across a wide geographic area.

I would invite you to come to Minnesota in the winter and drive a car for a few weeks, and then proceed to make the same (implied) claim.
Just to stress that the plural of 'anecdote' is not 'data'. It may be true - or not. But it's important not to assume it's true just because a few stories say so.
Absolutely.

If you consider a $40 ride will only yield about $25 for the driver, there is a lot of room to give more to drivers.

Sad to see this sort of cash grab by the current Lyft shareholders.
It's funny how many of these massive companies attempted to build internal alternatives that were ultimately abandoned. IBM gave it a shot with Watson Workspace, only to shut it down last month and redirect users to Slack channels.

https://help.workspace.ibm.com/hc/en-us/articles/36001562237...
I thought the not-so-secret about IPO's is that there's nothing 'Public' about them. Ie by the time you can get to them, you're too late.
> Cisco firmware update for RV320/RV325 routers simply blacklisted the user agent for curl.

Oh Cisco.
I like slack as a company but it’s so trendy I can only imagine price will soon outpace any realistic valuation. I doubt an average investor will be able to buy it at anything close to the ipo price.
The D-21 perched on the M-21 mothership is just insanely badass.

This was almost 50 years ago. I feel so cheated!
This is an interesting take on it. Thanks.
Another issue with the "check after creating and delete if you find a conflict" is the client that created the other file could do the exact same thing and delete its file too, because both clients saw both files.
Unfortunately, there's not much about Johnson in it, especially not his early career.
Total fraud isn't the only sort of corporate fraud though. Legalized insider trading would really open the floodgates for financially incentivized 'whistle-blowing' of any sort of fraud (as well as basically anything else that could conceivably move the market...)
Are you going to short it?
He definitely is. Google his name for a start with some stories. He is a legend in the aviation world.
The value of reusable plastic devices in a pollution sense is less that the device will be ~20 years older by the time it's thrown away, but rather that there will be so much less plastic used overall than if disposable devices were used for that purpose for that time.
People with mental problems are always going to exist. Using them as props to keep chopping away at the boundaries of free speech is foolish.
Revealing a paper that another student had written, would violate that student's FERPA rights, and potentially lead to abuse. For instance, if you knew that your papers were all going to be gathered in a centralized database, would you share your innermost thoughts about any sensitive topic?
the last few times i took either, the drivers had both uber and lyft apps running in their cars... i wonder what the split and overlap in drivers is between those two companies.
There wasn’t much of a real estate price change in that area when Okta IPOed or GitHub was acquired (both a couple blocks away from Lyft/4th and King).
What does a doctor make in the USA vs India?
They are often given to the commencement speaker. In this case, I would argue it is a marketing or political move.
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I imagine you will, though, if you hold a broad market index fund.
Poorly... for now!
Let Boston Dynamics ‘Handle’ That Package
I think that is a very out of touch thing to say. If you're poor you can probably get financial aid. If you're upper middle class you can either afford it or get approved for a loan, but the median household income in the us is $53k. From there to about $100k is too poor to pay out of pocket for an elite school, and to rich to financial aid.

Plus, you have to get approved for loans, and have parental co-signers. For me personally my parents had no interest in co-signing a $100k loan. For others their parents may have really bad credit.

If you want it enough there are probably ways, but as an non-rich 18 year old (or parent of an 18 year old) it's a a HUGE gamble to take on that kinda debt for a degree that you might not even finish and if you do it might not pay for itself.
Ban fullscreen games from Google Play? That sounds like an overreaction.
There are just so many apps demanding access to your clipboard, WiFi configuration and other stuff for no valid reason I'm actually glad to see Google is doing something. The only part that seems annoying is messing with what and how can apps access on the external storage. The μSD card and the OTG-attached thumb drive are exactly the places where I store content like audio, video, ebook, documents and other files, I use them the same way I use my laptop hard drive, having to grant root rights to an app every time I want to perform an operation on these files feels annoying and weird.
Ask HN: Why don't most self taught developers start with Computer Science?
If there is one major difference I can point out between software developers that went to school on CS education and those that didn't, it's that the ones that did not go to college for CS did not necessarily seek alternative sources for CS. They go head-first into programming concepts.

What we get from that is a more varied mixture on how much CS fundamentals these self-taught programmers know. And many of them tend to stay on the surface of programming topics, using higher level tools but more concerned with learning programming languages than learning about programming languages.

So I think maybe this is just part of a more generalized concept that self-taught endeavors are less interested in concepts and theory and more interested in "just doing"? Or do they not encourage the discipline to start on theoretical subjects first, and then build up from there?
How does comparison work if one of the strings contains invalid UTF-8 sequences? Does utf8byte() interpret the invalid subsequence as a U+FFFD REPLACEMENT CHARACTER or does it return an error?
New LTE vulnerabilities discovered by KAIST [pdf]
> It was being used just as a republishing tool

So, like Google Plus. Except that an "open" publishing tool is at least more useful than an entirely proprietary one! Let's face it, Google dropped the ball here.
Maybe the trick is to extend agriturismo, and offer not just the opportunity to stay on the farm grounds, but also pay for the authentic experience of traditional artisanal farm work!
And yet it's more often than not recognisable as a male voice. But anyway, they're not changing their gender, they're changing their sex. They will tell you that there were of the female gender before transitioning.
Maptable: Converts datasets to heat map, filters and table [JS]
I do not subscribe to this idea that we must limit speech in order to preserve free speech. While much of the arguments for this philosophy sound good on the surface it is very much the slippery slope.

The advent of the radio and other broadcast communication mechanisms caused this same stir and is part of the reason why we have the FCC. This kind of thought process translates our freedom of speech into freedom to listen. someone else is deciding the speakers and what they are free to speak about thus controlling the conversation. Once the conversation becomes one sided you don't know what you're missing.

The first amendment to the United States Constitution that seems very direct in its wording and that's often what people refer to but I much prefer the wording in the United Nations universal declaration of human Rights article 19.

"Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers."
Nobody has mentioned VoIP yet. If you think about corporate VoIP networks, it's pretty clear why spoofing works. There's no secure out-of-band signaling available when everything is made of standard IP packets passing through normal networking equipment. This stuff got plugged into the public switched telephone network without adding authentication first.
It could also be because the stock market has been a little shaky lately, and everyone is expecting a recession is around the corner. IPO and sell the stock now, before the market crashes, rather than during the crash.
Ugh, don't wonder that too hard. In this case, reality is probably worse than what you can come up with in your own imagination.
Also, one very nice benefit this has is that balenaOS has safe, automatic updating of the base system.
I'm going to assume good faith and spell this out plainly:

1. People in the US, Europe, Australia, et al. "recycle" plastic.

2. The recycling companies in these regions export commingled and low quality plastics to reprocessors in China

3. The commingled low quality recycled plastic can't be reprocessed economically, and ends up in a river.

At any rate, the EU number you cited as well as NA numbers are about to rise, because China cut the world off from dumping it's garbage there: https://e360.yale.edu/features/piling-up-how-chinas-ban-on-i...

That is probably the reason for this plastic disposables ban, and more that are to come.
I don't know if you're right, but Dropbox's 52-week high was 43.50 and its low was 18.50. It closed today at $21.72.
At minimum, use robots to keep crawlers out of these sites. Or you're going to be getting letters. Cloning people's content in ways google finds isn't cool.
Until we have free (or very affordable like Canada) public college any rule like this is very classist.
Re: sip, why not just use a custom HTML file. I store vast majority of my data in custom HTML files custom written with custom js and CSS and custom elements. Level of customizability is extremely high and you can represent the data with infinite flexibility and you can display your data via an infinite number of views and it's just a matter of switching stylesheets. All hail the age of custom written HTML pages intended for personal use! Hooray for the practice of keeping your data in HTML! Boo markdown which is tremendously tremendously overrated. The age of writing HTML for other people is over. The age of writing HTML for your own private consumption is on us!!!
Best Fun Factoid I've heard in awhile!
Yield curve inversion, IPOs Of profitless companies, longest economic stretch without a recession. The cycle has to end at some point. I’m not saying when the recession will happen, I’m saying it will eventually arrive.
Lightning Motorcycles unveils Strike e-moto, with up to 200 mile range
That’s true and I agree it’s not LGBT friendly (obviously). The vast majority of that list is nit picky though. I’d even say it’s a dishonest reframing of issues that have nothing to do with LGBT. Definitely not helpful to make a point.
You can make a certificate with multiple principals, but in order to add/remove some group access you'll have to reissue the public cert (and add previous to CRL with removal of some), which is OK for short-lived certs. With multiple issuers, you can add/remove public keys for different CAs but the resulting meta public key will be a set of keys actually.
How and when are its arguments evaluated?
If you are specifically asking about unit tests and not testing in general, they don't save my day as much as give me confidence that my code is working as it is supposed, specially at the edge cases. I'm not a fan of mocking alot of stuff because it takes time to maintain, so in general terms I prefer testing higher in the pyramid (eg integration testing).

As for saving the day, I find that they are very helpful with refactoring, specially in dynamic languages. When the business rules change, first thing I do is rewrite the test, the just make it pass.
>Narayana has been able to get the retail cost of a heart bypass, its most common operation, down to $2,000, about 98 percent less than the U.S. average.

I'd like to see where they got these numbers. The average Medicare payment for DRG 236 (Coronary Bypass without Cardiac Catheter and without MCC) is $23,500. Something doesn't add up here. After adjusting for wage differences I'd imagine the numbers are much closer than this article implies.
Your welcome!
You're the guy behind VLC for Android? Amazing job, it really is an essential app I couldn't live without! The only problem is years pass and I still can't find how to turn a directory into a playlist without hand-checking every single file in it (for me this usually means hundreds).
csvq: SQL-like query language for CSV
If you want to see one in real life, the Museum of Flight, in Seattle, has a SR-71/M-21 with the D-21 drone.
One other perspective: Each of those companies--Google, A16Z, GM & Fidelity, Rakuten--are comprised of, what?, tens of thousands of shareholders. If we include mutual and indexed funds, and the retail investors who buy in to those, then probably millions of shareholders.

Versus two.
No, people just have an issue with the pretentious way you're making your case.
With the bond yield curve inverted VCs know that it's time to sell.
I guess we're still talking past each other.

> It's hard to imagine it could not have made a significant amount of money on ads.

Yes, I agree. And Google knew this better than either of us. Therefore no one at Google ever would have said, "We need to close down Google+ because it is not making enough money." It was making zero dollars, because they chose to give it no way make money, directly. There was no sign-up fee, and there was no advertising.

Your original comment that I was replying to:

> Had they done so, I wonder if they would've considered the platform more viable long-term?

They don't need to turn on ads to know if it is viable, because they can just turn on ads in their heads. "Google+ has this many users, who use it this often per day. Therefore, if we were to turn on advertising, it would probably bring in about $___________ per year." They did the math. They thought it still wasn't worth it.
Yeah guess so. I was new and didn't figure it.
Shorting is always dangerous. Put options are safer as they don't have unlimited downside.
I'd note that "Death to the West" has a very mixed set of meanings.

Often is isn't meant as a threat, but instead is a political statement calling for the end to the hegemony of the West. However, sometimes it is meant as hate speech (often when associated with calls for the destruction of Israel).
Sincerely, the point is not of is actually going to reduce plastic in a big enough scale to make a difference, the point is that it will make business come up with alternatives and progress us towards a solution to plastic use that can then be applied in a more extensive way.

The EU, although not bring perfect, is usually the place where these kind of measures start, and I am grateful for it.
Indeed, this is a decentralised problem in need of a decentralised solution. Also relevant are https://hypothes.is/ and IPFS.