skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"How did your family accomplish this 10 years ago?"

I don't see how that matters. I'm not going to be successful convincing 100+ people flung across the country to go back to how we used to do things. They like Facebook, and likely aren't interested in their crazy uncle's rant about Facebook. They post their news there, and not anywhere else.

"How valuable is the family news if you need it curated"

FB is my source for things like "who graduated", "who is pregnant", "who got married", "who got a new job", "how that horse on cousin Fred's ranch is doing" and so on. I like to know these things.

By "curated", I mean something like a scraper that could pull out posts from family people and put it somewhere so I wouldn't need to log into Facebook and get exposed to a bunch of other stuff I don't want to see...and the pervasive tracking. I also mentioned it's probably not practical.
Not true. There is no pressure to use a "corp phone" as your main device. It's not even hinted.
I'm pretty sure that's not actually legal. It might even constitute breach of contract, depending on what your contract for services states with them. I am not a lawyer, but given your track record and this behavior, I'd highly advise you to stop being a Sprint customer. This behavior, if not illegal, is at least highly unethical.
For the sake of all the other HN founders here building our own apps and trying to sell/monetize, how much did you get acquired for? I think it’d be super insightful to get a data point here.
> As for the acquisition number… that’s why you’ve read this far, right?!

Yes.

> We settled on an amount equivalent to how much I’d earn as a US-based engineer working 6 months, but then multiplied by X for the traction/success factor already achieved. And I also still have a stake in the project going forward.

Working where in the US? Software engineers can make wildly different amounts of money depending on where in the US they work. Even within SFBA and NYC, a subset of companies pay significantly more than others as well.

So why not just say the actual acquisition number?
wrong... I have a po box and they do deliver to it..in Indiana in the United States in fact UPS switch weekend delivery to use Us postal services
Thanks for sharing that link. What he’s saying here is very relevant today.
I can't really be bothered to drive 30 minutes home from work, wait for the package, then drive back. For 90% of my orders I'd be more than happy to have them delivered on a Saturday, which is what I do for Amazon since they give me that option.

I buy a lot more locally, but there's just a lot of things that need to be purchased online these days.
Identification&direct delivery of ureteral relaxants for kidney stone treatment
Ahaha... I didn't know how to explain that better...

We both waved our hands up and down in the air like a handshake but we only had video... is there a name for that?! :D
Speaking from personal experience, I usually see several results for any search. Granted, there's a big selection bias there, but 20% seems way too small.
I do use it almost every day, using Textual and ZNC. Mostly on the IRC networks of private trackers and freenode.

I’m pretty sure that if I’d run a small company I’d use https://www.irccloud.com/ instead of Slack.
When you add a GSuite account to your android phone, you have 2 options: (1) Add it so it as full access to the device, or (2) use "Work profile" when adding it.

(2) https://support.google.com/work/android/answer/6191949?hl=en

If it was added with option (1), the GSuite owner can wipe your entire phone. With (2), I believe only the work profile can be wiped.

If it was an iPhone, I'm not sure the controls for managed devices (I don't think it has a work profile type isolation).
+1, untrue
You are glad your employer has deep access into your personal phone?
AdvProp (ImageNet STOA Without Extra Data)
You need zero teachers if kids are motivated and have access to the Internet. All teachers have done in my schoollife could easily be replaced by playing back a video.
> Because often the instructor or professor may ad lib based on a question from a student. It may result in a really good answer that probably won't be in the official lecture notes.

Exactly, that's why I said everyone should get a copy of the official notes beforehand and write down their own notes on them.

It's much more efficient than slavishly copying everything you hear, making it harder to pay attention.
Propublica, because they do really amazing journalistic work, both in partnership with large for-profit news organizations as well as independently.

The American Cancer Society, which does a bunch of amazing things, including having "Hope Lodge" facilities near major cancer treatment centers. When we were in grad school (and had less than no money) my wife needed daily cancer treatment for 6 weeks at a hospital that was hours away from our house. She and her mother were able to stay at Hope Lodge completely free for the entire length of her treatment.

Wikpedia, which I use every day.
Very exciting product. Congrats. Just joined the waitlist and had a waitlistception.
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It's probably more of a nuisance for people wanting to use the content. E.g., copies with different metadata or tags.
My current favorite non-profit is the Center for Election Science [1] which advocates for Approval voting primarily, and improved voting systems in general. They write great content explaining the differences in voting models and have started to have success in their campaigns, such as in Fargo. They seem to really make the most of the modest amounts I've been able to give, which is always appreciated. Highly recommended if you're not aligned with the two major parties and/or wish alternatives were not marginalized by the vote-splitting "plurality" voting model we use in the US.

[1] https://www.electionscience.org/
Just Detention:

https://justdetention.org/

Fighting against rape and sexual assault in US prisons.
https://www.onedollarglasses.org/

I think it's an excellent idea done right.
They create local jobs and provide the poor with glasses, something they haven't been able to afford.

They're a German non-profit (EinDollarBrille e.V.), their German website is
https://www.eindollarbrille.de/
Shouldn't this be served from firefoxfulldevicevpn.com ?
I’m for a both-and approach. But if you can only do one thing, save people through “utilitarian” means.
I started using IRC around age, I dunno, 10-12 (30s now), lots of efnet then freenode, at one point I was an ircop until our childish antics got our server desynced. I don't use it anymore. Between the insular cliques and the fact that I can look up archives of 20-25 year old messages I wrote on there because you never know who or where someone is writing logs really turned me off as I got older. I'm in a few community slacks and discords nowadays but I'm not a frequent user there either.

I dealt with a lot of user drama as an ircop on a large network. I really started to turn negative toward it (especially efnet/dalnet) when I started noticing that toxic users would basically create profiles of other users to use for trolling, blackmail or whatever else was on their imagination at the time.

You can think you're fairly anonymous but when you start having the casual conversations that IRC can lead to and a lurker is logging each users text into separate buckets they'll eventually be able to infer quite a bit about you over the 5+ years you're around casually chatting.

I'm just not comfortable entering rooms that have 50 active users and 900 lurkers anymore. This is probably a fairly paranoid outtake since I've seen these things happen, but they do or have happened and it really wasn't that infrequent back then (early 2ks).
Show HN: Emvi – Knowledge management platform for companies and teams
Really? A second phone is awesome. Pretty big fan of compartmentalization of business/private, even if i am not a heavy phone user and not prone to change employers much.

But I do have my own phone anyway. We even have a separate wireless network for private devices and guests that is not subjected to any filtering or security screening. All that is really worth having 2 devices in my opinion.

There are also a lot of security benefits if work phones are only used for specific tasks and are locked down as much as possible.
Draw UML Diagrams with ASCII
In the past I've done a regular small bit off each pay to United Way here in Canada.

Outside of that I like to give to Sick Kids Hospital in Toronto when I can (or take part in their fundraiser lottery). Also Heart and Stroke on occasion.

I've previously volunteered through UN Online, though I'm not sure if that counts as donating in the strict sense.

And Wikipedia at least once.
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I grew up in a poor, rural area of Michigan. My family was thoroughly middle class, but the houses immediately surrounding us were not quite. Some people in a quarter mile were down at or below the poverty line. As a result, my parents used to pay for semi truck from the local food bank to come out to our rural township hall so that people wouldn't have to make a 40 minute drive into the nearest small city to get the food they needed. This was quite a bit more effective than simply giving canned goods to the pantry, since they generally have a surplus and can get more at bulk rates as seconds or dented items from the warehouses for less than you can pay even on sale at the grocery store, but they don't have the money or necessarily the knowledge of where the truckload delivery would do the most good. Unfortunately, the township no longer wants to host and run that handout day anymore, so we no longer can. I'd like to see more community oriented, local charity like that, but I'm honestly not sure how to make it happen, especially now that I live in a larger, more affluent metro-region and further away from where I can directly see the need.

Otherwise, I donate to the Institute for Justice because I have yet to see a case of theirs that I wasn't entirely behind.
Should Comedians Have Audiences Sign NDAs?
Nice work and congrats.

Do you mind sharing the "x" multiple in the acquisition? I think in tech the norm is a 10-14x multiple for acquisitions...but this case seems different in a few way (6 months, no investors, etc...).
There's truth to 'dead battery bounce' after all (2015)
I haven't used IRC in about a decade.
Yes, that is indeed what I said. I even explained the tradeoffs and why they are acceptable to me. Was something unclear?
Hello HN, co-founder of Emvi here!

Emvi is our approach to a real-time knowledge base and we finally opened registrations for public Beta. We found that existing tools structure content in a tree-like hierarchy which tends to limit reach and scalability.

For Emvi we implemented a concept that is closer to pages like Wikipedia or Medium - articles are linked internally, curated to lists and grouped by tags. Our goal is to make it accessible for both technical and non-technical users and to keep the content maintainable for the long term.

Some features we already include:

* Powerful search with filters and sorting options

* Activity feed and notifications

* WYSIWYG-editor with real-time collaboration

* @-mention any element (articles, lists, users, groups or tags)

* Full article change history

* Fine-grained rights management for users and groups

* Multiple translations for articles and list titles

We are currently working on comments and embeds and an early API is available on GitHub[1].

Feel free to share your thoughts and questions in the comments.

Cheers,

Daniel

[1] https://github.com/emvi
I'm not trying to blame people who live now or decide how this should be fixed, I'm only pointing that it is much bigger and deeper issue to be described as lightly as in "got angry". I should have worded it better.

Also, could you give some examples of colonies which were not related to European countries?
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I'm not clear on how market cap relates to the amount of debt in the way you're phrasing it.

The dollar amount of bonds + interest that corporations have to pay back doesn't change day to day like market cap does. The S&P500 fell 33% between Sept - Dec 2008. That didn't change the amount of debt corporations had to pay back. Unless they received a bailout, all that changed was that they could now borrow at near-zero rates.
That only works on Android, if you have an iPhone, you always give your phone over to the employer.
The most copied StackOverflow snippet of all time is flawed
Well I thought the message was to only turn really good cops into robots, someone strong enough to deal with the existential hell you're about to put them through.
It really depends how you approached it. CBD flower from the colas is still selling well even if biomass isn't. CBG biomass is still selling at $200-275/lb. An acre costs about $10k to plant and yields 2,000lb of biomass. Most people lost their shirts because

1) they weren't growing on contract and didn't have buyers lined up
2) didn't grow for smokable flower
3) had their plants herm due to bad seed stock or environmental stress
4) their hemp ran 'hot' with THC over the allowable levels and they live in a state where the AG commissioner cares. Was up in Oregon and the farmers were telling me as long as it's under 2.0% THC they get a pass. In more strict states it's 0.3%.

Source: am a shareholder in a large CBD cultivation/manufacturing business.
The actual warning came from Oregon:

https://www.fbi.gov/contact-us/field-offices/portland/news/p...

They do provide some solid advice, like checking settings and making sure it gets updated. It's probably good that they send out warnings like these, most people probably don't get any thought to any IoT stuff at all. I don't know how big a target TVs are in reality, but it can't hurt to get people thinking about these things.
I guess you tell your current or future children that their feeling of excitement at the realization that they can build anything they can imagine with time and effort is less legitimate than the pure rush you experienced on a C64 just because you didn't have any access to reference material?

I just think you're being a bit of a temporal chauvinist. I'm not angry with you and it's okay if we disagree. :)

https://vimeo.com/312006066
Storing that amount of information in a way that an unknown alien species would be able to read (even assuming technical expertise greater than our own) is a huge problem.

Keep in mind that they don't know our written or computational language and there's nothing about our technology that is inherently self-explaining/obvious.

Even the assumption that they'd use binary computers (rather than trinary, or other technology not based around electrical voltages) is open to debate.
> Working where in the US?

Doesn't matter, because it's multiplied by X plus equity.

> So why not just say the actual acquisition number?

Because he didn't want to say the number, but he wanted to say that it was high enough to justify his effort.
Is your newsletter going to continue? If so, where is the signup?

Also, I had never heard of unreadit.com before reading your article and it looks exactly like something I've wanted. Thanks for that!

Congratulations and thanks for writing it up. It was a great read.
Work profile can't wipe the whole device. Setting up the MDM profile as primary profile does allow that - but it's very clearly communicated.
>Condos can present a weird situation for packages delivered by small 3rd parties delivery companies. Amazon delivery services didn’t have the codes to get in like FedEx/UPS/USPS or keys to the lock boxes.

I live in a condo with keyfob access, and Amazon and Lazership are able to deliver right to my door. It probably depends on the condo management. Personally, I like the system I have right now; my neighbors could potentially steal my packages, but that's pretty unlikely, and random people off the street can't easily get in, so it's generally safe to leave packages at people's doors. I have a neighbor across the hall who's had some packages sitting in front of their door for a week now (they've probably been on vacation).

If I owned a single-family home and had a bunch of time on my hands, I'd probably engineer a drop box of some kind that shippers can drop my packages into, but that other people can't get them out of.
Yes and I'm not denying that. Also the midwest hasn't seen radical overvaluation of property that the coastal areas do. Since demand is so high there, the value of the property is not determined upon is "worth," but on someones ability to pay. You can see how that becomes a major issue when things crash. Suddenly many people lose out on the value of the place they paid for.
It's an interesting. In Chrome the way you can drag tabs out of the window and easily arrange youtube-tabs on the screen while they play works much smoother than in FF. But this new FF approach is kind of another way of solving that problem.
I'm pretty surprised by the lack of seeders. Out of the 2438 torrents listed, a third have 0 seeders, another third have 1 seeder, and all but 5 have less than 10. Hopefully the publicity boosts those numbers.
But how does rolling it out US only first help with the fact that Wireguard is buggy.

They are already rolling it out slowly via a waiting list. Limiting that to US only doesn't really change how "widely available" it is in order to iron out the kinds. Seem more likely this is regulatory related.
You know you are in a huge production bubble when all major cannabis producers use as their main metric their production capacity. Aurora cannabis even went as far as to lower their Average net selling price of wholesale bulk cannabis by 4% in the last quarter, due to not finding the demand to keep up with the production boom of the industry.

Reminds me of the scene in the "The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power" where oil was booming and production was hardly centralized which led to big fluctuations in the price and an overestimation of the demand, and therefore of the necessary supply.
I mean "wave away" in the context of "Yes, I already tried that."
> Lastly, you can always contribute books. If you buy a textbook or book, consider uploading it (and scanning it, should it be a physical book) in case it isn't already present in the database.

There's no easy solution for scanning physical books, is there?
I extracted a few color codes and this looks alright.

XFC4-Terminal Config

ColorPalette=rgb(0,0,0);rgb(234,57,145);rgb(85,183,8);rgb(192,132,1);rgb(66,158,224);rgb(157,101,214);rgb(7,139,139);rgb(208,208,208);rgb(128,128,128);rgb(255,95,175);rgb(175,215,0);rgb(255,175,0);rgb(143,180,255);rgb(175,135,215);rgb(0,175,175);rgb(255,255,255)

RGB

0,0,0
234,57,145
85,183,8
192,132,1
66,158,224
157,101,214
7,139,139
208,208,208
128,128,128
255,95,175
175,215,0
255,175,0
143,180,255
175,135,215
0,175,175
255,255,255

Hex Variant:

#000000
#EA3991
#55B708
#C08401
#429EE0
#9D65D6
#078B8B
#D0D0D0
#808080
#FF5FAF
#AFD700
#FFAF00
#8FB4FF
#AF87D7
#00AFAF
#FFFFFF
“Without C, we wouldn't be having this conversation” – Kamran Amini [audio]
Leaving it with neighbors seemed like it was much more common 20+ years ago. I remember it happening pretty frequently when I was in college. It seems to have gone out of style.
Related: Looking at harddisk cost per terabyte, quite often extern drives are cheaper than internal ones.

For example right now in Germany I can get a WD 8TB USB 3.0 drive for 135€ but the cheapest internal 8TB drive costs 169€.

Any idea why? It's puzzling.
Wikipedia, it's essentially a modern day library, and amongst internet resources, it might have had the biggest impact in my life. It's always been there for me to look up a concept, settle a bet, or to explore when I'm bored.

The National Coalition for Sexual Freedom [0], because it's bizarre what is still illegal in the United States between consenting adults.

[0] https://www.ncsfreedom.org/
Building a Helm 3 Chart for an Express.js Microservice
Android supports clear isolation between work and personal profiles, so you don't need to lug around two phones just so you can have your separation. Unfortunately it seems that said people used iOS which doesn't allow that.
There is no figure you could pay me to support what Disney has become. Some people don't have a price attached to their ethic. But tfa shows that plenty still do.

When is a company so toxic that you should deny them your talent and hard work, no matter the paycheck? I feel like most people have this line in the sand, but few express where that Line is.
This is the third time this has been submitted in five days. If something isn't popular the first time, that's not an invitation to delete the submission and try again the next day.
Let's say SF.. I'll say half a year's wage im SF is 100 - 125K. What's X? 4 to 10? So I'm guessing he got $500K to a million.
With the exception of Google being Google the resizing tabs are definitely top ten on my gripes of Chrome.

Safari used to have fixed size tabs as well back in the days of yore, I still miss those.
Agreed, it’s always so odd to see an open source project using Discord or Slack. You basically just throw all your support work and knowledge into someone’s proprietary silo. In a few years you’ll never be able to find anything that was already discussed.

IRC Channels on freenode are usually archived or at least a bunch of people have a local archive of everything.