skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was a technical cofounder who built a company on Firebase+Stripe like you did. When we were acquired it was for the loyal customer base we built in a niche space, and the relationships we had painstakingly built over several years. The CEO of the acquiring company gave us valuable insight that the value of the code we built was not even a minor factor in the acquisition price/decision. Our first project at the new company was to migrate our customer data and backend to their infrastructure on AWS. Unless you have built something proprietary that solves a technical challenge in a meaningful customer-facing way, which seems unlikely based on your description, I would suggest moving on. Best of luck to you on future endeavors!
Show HN: Ck8s – Kubernetes in Minecraft (Computercraft)
Very good question. I've been thinking about this for awhile. This is fairly common on the PE industry but I'm not aware of this happening in VC / startup world. OP, can you please post the links of websites that you mention list the SaaS companies please?
In C++ if you’re using the STL, std::map (tree) usage is way more common than a hash (std::unordered_map). I couldn’t tell you if its for a good reason though, or if its just because “map” is a lot shorter than “unordered_map”
I have a friend whose wife is from the Netherlands, and she confirms this nearly has in-joke status among the Dutch - "we speak English better than the rest of Europe because we're in love with American TV and we can only get it with subtitles".
Source code is here: https://github.com/cswarm/ck8s
Smallpox has an exceptionally high side effect rate. And that was what I was talking about.

"Adverse Outcome From Vaccine" > "Adverse Outcome from Disease" as a general phenomenon.
No, I recall reading that the batch processor closes/re-opens the file, scans for n carriage returns where n is the current line number, executes that line, and repeats. These are the sources I found.

http://xset.tripod.com/tip3.htm "COMMAND.COM reads and executes batch files one line at a time; that means that it reads one line, execute it and rereads the file from the beginning to the next line." Perhaps this is a really old version of COMMAND.COM? Perhaps it's poorly stated but actually meant that it "rereads the file from the beginning of the next line to the next line".

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/fileio/local-... "Command processors read and execute a batch file one line at a time. For each line, the command processor opens the file, searches to the beginning of the line, reads as much as it needs, closes the file, then executes the line." This also seems to agree with my original claim.

I tested this with a batch script generated by

print("@echo off")
for i in range(1000):
for j in range(1000):
print("rem hello world")
print(f"echo {i}")

and ran it using COMMAND.COM in a Windows 95's VM. It appears to run in linear time. Either COMMAND.COM was fixed, or both sources are incorrect.
Unmatched offers could still provide some information.
Grad school is worse for public health than STDs
Substitute thighs for the breast and you might have something. As has been noted, chicken breast is the skim milk of the meat world.
There is a major genetic component when it comes to handling sodium. Some people can eat a huge amount with no ill effects, others are much more sensitive. This is still an area of active research, so take any nutritional guidelines with a grain of salt.
You need an assignment of IP for the code. Otherwise the copyright and thus, ownership stays with the company or whomever wrote the actual code.
I’m not persuaded there are so many more longform or knowledge content creators today, publishing more of the contentful “fan fact” (as opposed to “fan fic”) content that mattered to them enough to publish.

I find roughly the same amount of useful information now as 20 years ago, buried by the content-mill spam from the “countless people” you mention.

I’d argue peak content may have been 2002 to 2007 or so. The original content mills (HuffPo 2005; Buzzfeed 2006) even had mostly useful content while honing in on the viral content form.

There’s likely more substance now than then, but the signal to noise ratio is so much worse you’d have a better chance of finding the needle in the haystack then.

I’d like to imagine people with something to say can and do still self-publish. Perhaps a reason posts about personal blogs are so popular here.
Nah. Insane is a really heavy word to use here. Everyone is different. And 60 is really low, insane even, for the average sized human regardless.
Ternary is one of those things where the theory looks beautiful until you need to start putting circuits together. Then it's kinda shitty.
You can try to sell them your app, but nobody will want it. A pile of code without the people who built it is next to worthless, and even with the people who built it, a product that doesn't have 'secret sauce' isn't worth anything.

If you open source it today, and give it away completely for free, you will be lucky if one person forks or stars the repo, then never looks at it again.
A long time ago, before Analogue Terrestrial TV (OTA) was replaced by Digital broadcasts in the UK, I was visiting a friend in Amsterdam. I was surprised to discover that she was watching BBC television. The signal was strong enough to be received in Amsterdam, and I often wonder if this is why the Dutch are historically better at English because they watched so many British TV shows.
Right, it’s like used underwear. A daily driver for one person doesn’t mean it’s a fit for someone else, and even if it is there is no appeal.
Doesn't matter if you love it or hate it -- realistically, most families simply don't have the money to do anything else. You may hate it, but you're still making dinner every night for the kids.

I think a big distinction needs to be made here between individual working professions (whether married or not), and families with kids. The ways in which they cook and consume food are miles apart.
I read that Imzy raised $11M, so selling the IP for $1M when they shut down seems necessary to recover money for the investors. Honestly it surprises me they could even get that much for a failed company’s code base. Unless you are saying the CEO personally got that cash? That sounds more noteworthy.
Instead of calling it 'piracy', call it 'archival work'. Done!
Sorry, I misread your point. Nevermind, I thought you were talking about something else.

> What do you suggest is the solution then; other than making enough money / hitting the startup lottery jackpot and retiring before having kids?

Maybe not a popular opinion but I firmly believe that the state needs to use the parent's tax money into protecting it's newest citizen by providing generous paid time off to its caregivers. Lots of states in Europe do it successfully. The US implements some sort of social Darwinism in which the more well-off kids get either more facetime with their parents or higher quality care.
You might find this podcast interesting.

StartupsForTheRestOfUs.com

If you're still interested in doing your own thing, maybe something new with less deadlines.
How much do the major news networks make overhyping and overplaying headlines that take things completely out of context, like the oceans running out of oxygen or some other bullshit? How many decades did we hear cholesterol and fat were bad for us before that was flat out debunked? You act like there are good guys and bad guys here and not 5000 shades of grey and that it's easy
or desirable for Google to be an arbiter of truth.
You can just google 'buy a saas business' and there's at least a half-dozen places that come up. Flippa, FE international, Empire Flippers, etc
I don't mean to go all cui bono, but the company behind the study[] has a remarkably consistent knack for getting the message out in mainstream publications (HBR, Bloomberg, Economist) that the world's economies must learn English or fall behind. That may or may not be true, but the company's business is "language training" in 116 countries, seemingly with a focus on teaching English.

[]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EF_Education_First
Why on earth would anyone consider returning to a former employer a month later just to give an exit interview?
The article "Evolving the Global Brain" was thought-provoking, especially in the context of our discussion about the history of information and the exponentially increasing amount of information for humanity to gather/produce, process, curate, archive.

It's an attractive concept, that human society is structurally similar to a brain, and that an individual is a neuron. (If humanity is the brain, I suppose the rest of the Earth is the body. We're not doing too well as the self-appointed brain of the operation.)

My first reaction to the analogy of "endocrinal" (one-to-many) and "neural" (many-to-many) decision making, is that it's missing a primal psychological/biological motivation of humans to seek to dominate others of its own kind as well as all of nature. I'm not familiar enough with biology to say definitively, but I'm pretty sure the endocrinal system does not actively seek to subjugate the neural system (or vice versa) and dominate the whole body.

Social organization, it seems to me, is more a function of power, very small groups gaining advantage and dominance over vastly larger groups of people, than that of collaboration for mutual benefit. (I might be a bit too cynical of political motivations and authentic democracy these days.)

From the final paragraph:

> ..the current global brain is only tenuously linked to the organs of international power. Political, economic and military power remains insulated from the global brain, and powerful individuals can be expected to cling tightly to the endocrine model of control and information exchange.

I'd disagree with this, and say that the global brain (if we mean the Internet and its empowerment of globally networked intelligence) was born from the wombs of "political, economic and military power". It never achieved escape velocity to become a truly free, autonomous and collaborative, neural model of decision making.

To backtrack a bit:

> Well-connected collective entities like Google and Wikipedia will play the role of brainstem nuclei to which all other information nexuses must adapt.

The most powerfully well-connected collective entities are international political/financial/corporate entities, and indeed do they more or less dictate how all information nexuses (nexii?) must adapt.

One biological analogy that comes to mind, is how propaganda and "disinformation" act like neurotoxins in the social brain, introducing noise/entropy, skewing its coherence, and preventing well-informed and orchestrated cooperation.

Another is how established political powers have a well-developed "immune system", composed of mass media, legal structures, military/police force, surveillance of the public. This immune system could be seen at work, for example, at the environmental protests at the Standing Rock Indian Reservation.

The final sentence of the article:

> This formidable design task is left up to us.

By this I assume the author means, evolving the global brain. Quite a challenge! From my perspective, it's going to be a historic struggle: design or be designed.
Almost all foods seem to get destroyed in the freezing process and lose their texture. I have found that at my supermarket they sell refrigerated meals that just need to be microwaved and they taste outstanding. As long as you make sure to stir them half way through so they don't dry out at the top you could literally serve it at a restaurant and I don't think people would notice.
I converted several non-technical people to Signal, and a few were devastated to learn that getting a new phone meant that they lost their message history. They refuse to use it ever again.

The other sticking point is the phone number requirement. A (female) friend shared her “Signal” contact info with a professional acquaintance who doesn’t understand boundaries. After ignoring him on Signal, that led to unwanted SMS messages and even phone calls. For such a privacy-focused app, I don’t know why they are not more interested in protecting phone numbers.
The ancient solution is to pair them with rice or wheat.
Information efficiency defined how?

What specifically becomes more efficient about computation?

Very curious, I never heard of this before.
I don't really see what's wrong with this unless it wears out the hardware.
Is this something you’ve actually seen? I’ve often wondered.
A shining example of how far off the mark Cisco is.

Pretty sure this is just a marketing piece, but regardless, the industry needs to stop thinking of software development and operations as inherently separate. Developers should operate the software they write.
I was just looking for "The Last Train" (1999). Couldn't find it on netflix, amazon, ebay, or the library.
I'm sorry. NO. Just No.

Speaking as someone who not only invests in websites but authored some early studies on the fair value of micro-sites (back in 2012) that deal is utterly bogus.

The value of the business is in the traffic and audience, not the code. To be honest, getting rid of the legacy code and moving the site onto my standard platform is a major goal of the early integration process. I do not pay for code (sorry).

What you have been handed is the back-end of a potential product, the market value of which is unproven (since you haven't been given the customers). While I'm sure the technical quality of the work is excellent, there are multiple strikes against it from a business valuation perspective. Fight for your share of the store profits.
They aren't impossible to find, there are loads takeaway sandwich stores as well as buritos. You just have to look a little further than takeaway that has a drive through.
std::unordered_map was only added in C++11, which explains why it's not used in legacy code. Habit, inertia and a desire to keep codebases internally consistent explains why it's less common now.
That was only added to the Android version. Not possible on iOS.
This was quite a while ago, and the library sort was QSort which had a lot of overhead due to its calling convention. Today I'd have no problem using std::sort instead.
Or thinkpieces claiming that "Safari is holding back the web".
One of my favorite movies. Not because it was that good, but because the various incidents in the movie are exaggerations of things that actually happened in the 1970s at Caltech. (Caltech wouldn't let them film it on campus, but the film crew hired techers as extras anyway because their costume department could not duplicate their look.)
There are lots of people saying the code is probably useless and I’m among them, but you’re far from it. That is a difficult, modern stack that lots of people would need help implementing. You’re clearly quite skilled, and the consulting and labor markets would reward you handsomely. Use it as a sales tool to get a healthy stream of base income. There is always another startup if a job isn’t for you. Your location is increasingly irrelevant. Hopefully you can apply those valuable skills to a problem you enjoy solving.
You should reach for the best tool for the job instead of giving job-specific reasons for your general choice. Without going into detail explaining how your bullets either don't apply to most uses, prematurely code for a future case that may not exist, dismiss performance, reference other languages as if language implementation is not a factor in the choice, etc... suffice to say they both have their place and in general you probably shouldn't reach for an ordered map over a unordered one without reason. I.e. it shouldn't be your default choice in most languages and it'd be bad advice to give other programmers.
I like the channels that let me do this myself. The video ends, there's a clear transition (important), and then the spiel starts. I just turn it off. This is fine.

The bad ones are the ones that dedicate the first 3 minutes to some horrible mobile game (JonTron, etc.), or do mid-video cuts (New Rockstars, etc.), or, by far worst of all, do a very smooth and clean transition into the ad before you even knew the video was over, so for the first seconds you don't even realize you're watching an ad (Kurzgesagt).

I know creators need to get paid, so for all but the last, I don't mind them too much and just skip ahead (but will definitely be using this extension). Ads that are hard to distinguish from content are abominable, though.
As someone who has actually worked with a codebase with plenty of such expressions, I suspect it was really an "accepted practice" at some point in time, stemming from a mindless interpretation of the "be explicit" guideline taken too far.

The worst part is that sometimes these redundancies grow and combine to create even more confounding expressions, frequently resulting in monsters resembling this:

if ( ((((!(var)!= FALSE)) != TRUE)) )
{
return FALSE;
}
else
{
return TRUE;
}
All the claims that cloud computing is some boon to developers makes me suspect they might just work at a terribly organized company.

If you make developers pull double duty as sysadmins, then outsourcing surely makes things better for development. But it's still more work than handing the infrastructure and administration over to people that specialize in that. A well managed service is a ticket away, not getting someone who "knows docker pretty good" to have another background responsibility to neglect until it sets on fire.

Throughout the cloud boom I've worked at a company with a great IT department, not just a glorified helpdesk. The division makes sure that we provide a sane deliverable that doesn't need constant handholding and 10 hotfixes a day, and they give us the peace of mind that it's not going to go sideways. They sweat the details so much that the rare issues that have escalated to the head of IT and myself at the same computer investigating something were still relatively minor in the grand scheme of things.
Not to sound defeatist, but we've now an endless amount of charts pointing to the significant changes that came as a result of political and economic decisions made in the 70s, including their effect on income and wealth inequality, and what has come from it?

We've had revelation after revelation in not only this regard, but also the exposure of the gaming of tax/visa/migration/residency/etc. laws to shelter the gains from those changes in an untouchable manner, and what has come from those?

What do we, as a society, want to do about this? What can we do about it? What are the side effects possible from any actions taken on it? Therefore, what will we do about it?

The answer is likely not much. We might elect someone Sanders-esque, but the result will be the middle earner taking a further pummeling. Eat the rich? Revolt? They're untouchable. There's a reason many have been building or acquiring elaborate "fall out" shelters in remote areas of New Zealand and elsewhere. It'd also probably be met with economic and societal collapse, and all that hidden money would come back to scoop up the deals in the remains.

I'm not saying something shouldn't be done, but good luck designing something that will continue our mutual relative safety, security and prosperity. Not to mention the high likelihood that if actions were taken and the shit did hit the fan, the likely candidates to have the finger pointed at them will be those of us in tech and those in finance, and when you can't access the CEO for a battering then the cronies who built their systems will probably do.
Are you sure that was a hard requirement, and not just a stated one?

My earliest jobs all stated that in their requirements, but were happy to interview and hire me anyway. (Later on, "or equivalent experience" became popular.)

I've never worked for the government but wasn't Edward Snowden an NSA employee while also being a high school dropout?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tryptophan#Recommended_dietary...

Soybeans: 0.59g/100g of food
Beef: 0.23g/100g of food
Chickpeas: 0.19g/100g of food

Doesn't look like a vegetarian or vegan diet would cause any sort of tryptophan deficiency.
That's like the bare minimum to avoid obvious nutritional deficiency. For optimal health and athletic performance most people can benefit from significantly more.
This sounds interesting to me, but I couldn't tell what it was from the readme. The title says it's a protocol, the first sentence says it's an ecosystem, "What is GUN" says it's a community, an image says it's data structure. The code example makes it look like some reactive framework. There are gifs that seem only vaguely related.
Code is worth nothing.

Dump it and start something new.

It's a sunk cost.

I've got vast amounts of code from previous projects. All worthless.
I’ll add that cross-platform webRTC integration may be a strong thing to open with; it sounds unique and of value to those who would know it’s even possible.
> Now ask your self, will you really get surgery for convenience and productivity sake only? Any sane person will say no.

That's a bit of an unsubstantiated and far-reaching statement.

Why not? People get surgery literally for appearance sake only. A great deal of orthopedic treatments are for convenience and productivity only. You can make this argument for just about any elective procedure. Yes, some people have body dysmorphia, but not everyone that desires an rhinoplasty is insane.

Despite low risk, most cosmetic surgery is riskier than a PEG tube placement. In the US, PEG tubes are routinely placed by non-surgeons (GI docs) and doesn't require general anesthesia.

Current PEG tubes carry risks and day-to-day complications that make this a bad idea for other reasons, but that doesn't make elective procedures fundamentally insane.
Could you please elaborate? I'm pretty sure I only get 10% at best of the implications of this. I understand crystal clear what you mean — very much agree.

FWIW I can't stress enough that this is just a question / thought experiment, whose point is probably to explain why we could do better but don't, and with good reason (boiling down to "not worth it, at least yet, possibly ever" I suppose, but the details are the meaty part for me).
That would be year 22, because renewals start at 10 years.
Great thanks. If you make progress on this and are looking for business partners, please let me know and we can try to connect offline.
They might have people in a couple of different rooms, and plenty of short Ethernet cables but not enough long ones. So a switch allows them to run one cable between rooms and use a bunch of shorter cables within the room.
Yes, you are totally right, Yazz Pilot sucks on mobile right now. Our first priority is to get it working well with Google Chrome on Desktop (most Enterprise users still chained to Laptops). Second priority is to get it working on Firefox well. Third is Tablets, and last is mobile.
One of my favorites as well, which was why I was unhappy living with only a VHS copy. It was quirky in all the right ways.
Yes, that is correct. That is one of the constraints of stateless share-nothing processes. This is also described in one of the principles in "The Twelve-Factor App": https://12factor.net/processes. All common/permanent state must be stored in common storage for all the processes.

Depending on the kind of permanent storage needed, you could use one or more of the managed databases offered by Google Cloud. Here is an overview: https://cloud.google.com/products/databases/. You could also provision another open source database yourself either in Compute Engine or Kubernetes Engine, e.g. MongoDB. There is a lot of these on Marketplace, again for example MongoDB: https://console.cloud.google.com/marketplace/details/click-t....
It's a nice, even a probable, idea. I suppose it's good enough to try to hook readers in to the actual science. The paper itself has no talk of fruit flies and no support for this claim.
Can this basically be a sign there are not enough buyers for the treasuries volume that is being issued?