skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If it's a potential 7-figure deal - go find a good merger and acquisition (M&A) attorney, it will be WELL worth your time and money. If you end up going through with the deal, you want to make sure you don't make reps and warranties that could damage you in the future. I've been through 2 acquisitions as a founder, once through a competitor. Part of any legitimate inquiry besides "just talk" is a term sheet. If this term sheet isn't under the NDA - you could shop it around a bit. They want you. The person that is willing to walk away has all the power. Definitely be skeptical at first - they have nothing to waste but time until the deal is signed. Don't be annoying when talking with them, but don't give away "trade secrets" - it's hard to advise without knowing the context of the business - but I'll try my best.

This is getting more into the valuation side, but if the multiple you speak of is based on 8x EBITDA because of some sort of recurring revenue/profit, then you could find investors elsewhere (easy). If it's based on an IP valuation and you are a company in debt and not making money, that's a different story. Just the fact that someone is interested in acquiring you (whether it's just a fishing expedition or legitimate) will bring confidence to other investors. Regardless, it's a personal decision. I always think of it like this - if you were to not take the deal, and your company went bankrupt in 2 years, or you did take the deal and your company grew 10x in 2 years - which would you rather do? If you are not ready to sell your company, then don't do it. In my last company, we got 3 potential buyers before we sold - everyone wants to buy a successful company (especially now that so much capital has been pulled out of the markets).

Regardless - congratulations. Whether this is fishing or real, it's a great milestone to reach - so be excited about it.
To be fair in this case it is the same people doing the rewrite as the original version so I guess the theory is that the hard-won knowledge has not been lost and can be integrated into the new code.
I've got an idea. Spend everything on food stamps. Than rinse & repeat.
When I first found one of these it changed nukes for me, properly permanently. Before that I had always assume that if terrorists gets their hands on nukes then it was goodbye world, maybe a few people survive the slaughter but you can kiss the city goodbye.

But the kind of yields they would get are so low that they wouldn't do much damage unless you were within a few blocks.
It looks like a fantastic app - very intuitive. I get that this is a side project, but is the restaurant bill splitting problem a real problem that needs a better solution?

You made such a nice looking, well thought-out app that I think you could be doing a great job of solving real-er problems.

If I could make stuff like you do, boy howdy...
Did you read the article? It stated that not charging the the car WILL NOT lead to $40,000 bricking.
Whether or not the two things are equivalent in one way ("you have it with you") isn't what we're discussing. Am I wearing this book in my hand? No I am not. The ring on my finger? Yes. "Wearable" is a word that means a specific thing. It doesn't mean "something you have with you".
"Was this type of prestigious degree more or less required?"

Yes and no. It's kind of funny, actually. My degree certainly helped get me in the door. But once in, I encountered a virulent strain of anti-intellectualism that runs pretty rampant in Hollywood. More often than not, my Ivy degree was viewed with disdain by various bosses and co-workers. Somehow it made me soft, or "entitled." (The latter claim being patently absurd, precisely because I earned entrance to my college by dint of having sacrificed my entire waking life to studying and grinding in high school).
Wikipedia says that the area would be uninhabitable for up to 48 hours. The intent was not to make the border region permanently unavailable, but simply stall for time to mobilize other defensive forces.
I've never seen one. Can you point out one article or link?
Absolutely. The author even claims that all is needed is a reboot of the hardware controller. This would seems even more scandalous that it costs 40 grands.
I don't doubt that. The question becomes then, how much does that GDP growth increase federal revenues? If it doesn't increase it by $1 per $1.73 in GDP, it's still a net loss IMHO.

Also, the mere fact that food stamp recipients are prevalent and increasing signals a failure in our system.

Not saying we should get rid of food stamps, they're a necessary safety net, but that figure is misleading. How much should the government spend to increase GDP?

Is it valuable to have a high GDP and a high federal deficit? Or will that just end up in necessarily higher taxes down the road (so we don't end up like Greece) that will wipe out that GDP growth?

It's a sticky issue that can't be boiled down to a simple statement.

$1.73 in GDP growth != $1.73 in revenue to the government.
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I wonder if they're releasing the 3D models too. Would be pretty cool to load them into a game engine and say, walk around the space shuttle.
Isn't government spending counted as part of GDP? (It's counted as consumption)
Calif. state attorney promises suits against data-vacuuming mobile app makers
Beware, however, that you can't do it often. I had a request for an expensive app refund denied because I had asked for (and been granted) a $0.99 app refund a few weeks earlier. So save it for when you need it.
Some bugs that it has already found: http://gcc-python-plugin.readthedocs.org/en/latest/success.h...
The fact of the matter is that, for technologists, there isn't an easier way to become rich than doing a startup.
Living a comfortable life (e.g. making $100 - $250k) by working for someone is not the same thing as having $5, $10 or $100mm in the bank. It's not even close. If you're making $250k, chances are the work you do is extremely hard, you're always on point, and if you cease performing at that level, you'll be fired, whereupon you won't be able to maintain your lifestyle. So I question the premise that there are actually easier ways to get rich than doing a startup.
If that were true, obviously the government would merely need to 'print' a trillion each year in free food stamps to be distributed to the populace. All food costs could be Fed funded through magic dollars.

Magically it would generate a 'profit' of $730 billion per printed trillion per year for the general economy.

Except the stimulus programs, from the first that Bush fired off, to the Fed's QE programs, to the trillion dollar fraud Obama made shovel ready (har har) --- all have one thing in common: they've all failed to improve the US economy in any meaningful way.

Work force participation rate? hyper implosion. Government dependency? skyrocketing. Real wages? declining. Inflation? pain at the pump and grocery store. Trade deficit? Near all time record highs. Savings rate? miniscule. Household wealth? Less than 15 years ago. Standard of living? Hasn't moved in in 50 years. Debt? On the moon and rising faster by the day. Entitlements? $100 trillion unfunded disaster. Stock market? Hasn't moved in 15 years inflation adjusted.

and on and on
Wikimedia based C++ reference
That's awfully sanctimonious. Do you cut personal checks to websites who's content you enjoy? If not, they need advertising dollars, and advertising can bring in way more money when anonymized tracking is used.
Yes, I'm on a Mac. Good point with the simulator. Never looked into it though.
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I submitted this because I believe it's new (some of the pages only have on the order of 15,000 page views). It's better than the other online C++ references I have found, and because it's a wiki, I think it has potential to become the best C++ reference online.
No Business Like Snow Business
ok, pronoun breakdown because apparently I did poorly.

We=Engineers in general

I = Me personally

you = potential designer of a wearable display, could be
replaced with "one"

If the displays work as well as you describe (I hope they do!) then they would be great for mass production in a product like this(a glasses based wearable) in 5-10 years or so when they are inexpensive.
The thing I have with collecting data, even if depersonalized, is that it's practically taken without consent. I'm completely fine, for example, with giving detailed, but anonymous usage statistics to Mozilla, because they nicely asked me if they may do that, to improve Firefox. I'm not okay with people just "taking" those statistics from me.

Tracking should be opt-in, not opt-out. I shouldn't have to tell you to stop tracking me, you should need to get my consent to start tracking me.

>it's worth noting that advertising is what pays for all the free content you enjoy on the internet

Which is why I whitelist trustworthy domains I frequent in Adblock Plus. Again, opt-in.

Also, advertisement need not necessarily be targeted. You can run generalized ads just as well. Sure, it might not be as profitable, but if the trade-off for more profit is less privacy, then I'm afraid I'll give priority to the latter.
I hear people say this, but personally I've never used any ad block and I nearly never see ads. Unless something weird happens like that one add that seemed to reach up into another one, I really never notice them.
The fact that a specific amount of some economic activity caused a specific increase in total economy activity doesn't mean you can extrapolate it to infinity. Google has a (large) positive return on capital, but that doesn't mean that Google could generate infinite amounts of money simply by plowing arbitrary amounts of capital into its business.

So, yes, it is probably the case that $1 trillion in food stamps would not generate $1.73 trillion in economic activity. But that's not really a counterargument about whether the current spending has a 1.73x multiplier.
yes, half-joking about that. That's definitely what did it for me, as a programmer who's always been pretty good at music. I think that with overtone we can build abstraction layers up and down to enable really cool stuff for people that would just like to think music in its own terms, instead of projecting their thoughts at the inflexible interfaces of the tools they have.
Assuming that Shire has a patent on Vyvanse, then this is more like limit production of A+B and create product C that is more expensive and has an artificial monopoly (patent). This will then drive everyone that needs products A or B to your new product C. Profit!
Thumbs up.

I think the point to get from this post is to not allow failure stop you from achieving absolute success. Or as they put it during "those" days, try and try until [die] succeed.
If the replication is asynchronous then SQL databases are not durable. So the most important feature of SQL databases generally isn't one.
Any hints? :)
As this article points out, after deep discharge you need to 'reboot the battery management system' which means many 'bricked' cars can be brought back without buying a new battery. Battery chemistry means they lose capacity after a deep discharge, but that does not make the battery pack useless.

However, many of the people that bought a first gen Tesla are also the type of people when told 'you just lost 2-5% of your total range don't do that again.' Will say, just replace the battery. And when told 'That's 40k' they will say 'I don't care just replace it'. Which is a different situation.

PS: Don't forget you need to buy a 100,000$ car and not drive it for months before this becomes a real problem. Most people that can afford to do that have a vary different view of money than the average person on HN.
I salute Tesla Motors for their progress in the premium electric car industry. However, the problem to me isn't the batteries or the technology. The company reminds me a good bit of the DeLorean Motor Company in that it will make an impact but will not be another Ford, because they have a marketing problem. Most think of early automobile companies as having products that sold themselves, since they competed against horses. This is just not true. What Ford did well was not just production- it was marketing. They could have had interchangeable parts up the yin-yang, but without the advertisements, the word of mouth, the product placement in movies, etc. they wouldn't be where they are today. So, let's assume that Tesla has a great product, which I can't say because I've never seen, driven, or ridden in one in-person. They need to mass market it. Even if everyone can't afford one, they need to want to own one. I don't, because they haven't made it sexy! If they mass market it, they will get the revenue they need to attract the investment to really start the product cycle seriously. Get a seriously decked out but quasi-affordable Tesla car in a Bond movie and maybe they'll be set for life.
This is a great solution, we get a few restaurant clients that just need a simple site, but when you add in all of the integration the simple becomes a bit of an effort for what many restaurants can budget. I sent your white-label page to my partners as this would be perfect for those clients.
Yeah that's not part of the test. Just use your level2 password for the http auth.
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ICD-10 codes are important to many positive improvements in our health care system,” said HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius.
The government centrally controls the production of narcotics, and people are wondering why there are shortages? It is obvious the purpose of their central control is not working, people who need the drug can't get it, and people who want to "abuse" it are still able to acquire the drug. I doubt we will see the sane solution of just stopping control on the production of these drugs.
Speaking from some experience:

As a buyer I always want to see stats before making an offer. As a seller I will give basic revenue figures and then ask for an LOI with a # or at the very least a number in writing to see if these people are serious.

I think when you hit a certain price range you're better off taking an M&A firm that works in your market. 7 figures is definitely in that price range. The really good firms take your company, wrap it up, and basically take it to auction.

If you're really serious you need an advisor + counsel to make sure you don't screw yourself over. Taking advice from people on the internet is never a good idea.
That's understood. In this case, I particularly referenced a trillion dollars, which isn't a gigantic sum in our economy any longer. It's a mere rounding error on our liabilities.

You also can't print magic dollars to continue to fake economic results without suffering consequences that completely wipe out the supposed gains that are being claimed.

For example, even just 6% real inflation times ten years becomes a disaster for a middle class whose real wages are flat lined. Every dollar the Fed shovels into the system, becomes inflation somewhere.

Food stamps = pure inflation in a government system running a $1.3 trillion deficit. The Fed has to monetize it all. Whatever you're supposedly gaining through one program, is completely wiped out by the inflation.
"DevOps is ruining my craft"
Pawnshops for the prosperous accept wine as collateral
Protestors to deliver poisoned iPhone factory workers’ letter to Apple
A Comprehensive Introduction to Clojure
A Disclaimer is not Transparency
Poll: Sublime Text 2 License?
"Sublime Text may be downloaded and evaluated for free, however a license must be purchased for continued use."[1]

I have been loving Sublime Text 2 for over a year now (Sublime Text X!) but have only just today bought a license.

How 'bout you?

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[1]: http://www.sublimetext.com/buy
It's mentioned in the abstract of [1], but not really expanded upon.

[1] http://www.dam.brown.edu/people/mumford/Papers/DigitizedVisi...
I'm referring to an HTTP API (RESTful if you will). HTML forms only support GET and POST, but browsers support GET, POST, PUT, and DELETE via XMLHttpRequest.

Also, access to a lot of services' APIs don't come from browsers at all.
Sorry that it took me two days to get back to this; if you're not reading the comment threads, that's okay.

I did indeed forget the one statement which makes this rigorous (and nontrivial): technically this definition for [ΔF]ᵢ = Fᵢ − Fᵢ₋₁ is undefined for [ΔF]₀ , because our sequences don't have a -1'th element. For these we take [ΔF]₀ = F₀, which in some sense means that F₋₁ = 0.

I don't know why you want to require that "F₀ = F₁ = 0, etc." -- perhaps you were, in the back of your mind, iterating through the negative numbers, thinking that they were positive. ^_^;;
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I don't think hashing by itself means much. Especially when working with tightly-constrained values.

How about k-anonymity?
Some intrepid blogger ought to do a round-up of all the seminal Usenet posts like this. Thinking of Linus announcing Linux, Larry announcing his pagerank/webcrawler, etc... Although, it seems like something like this is probably already out there (?)
Generating power at a central power plant (which can happen to be solar/wind/other renewable method rather than coal) and using that energy to power cars is much more efficient than having thousands of miniature power plants burning gasoline/diesel carrying people around town.

Here's the thing: this is bullshit.

Did you know that only about a third of the electricity produced at an electrical plant ends up making it to our wall sockets? (And that's not even calculating the efficiency of the appliances that use that electricity!) Compare that to an internal combustion engine (~1/4 of the energy getting converted into a mechanical form) and we're not really looking at much of an efficiency gain.

Proponents of electrical vehicles have simply not done the math.
What does Ubuntu want to be when it grows up?
I totally agree with the points in the article. I actually have actively pushed myself to learn from my own mistakes since I was around 22-23 yrs old. For me, it was a natural, logical way to learn.

I looked at it like riding a bike. Almost noone says they cant ride a bike if they make a mistake and fall. They try to adjust their balance better or think about what caused them to fall. They key is that they get back on the bike. However, in other areas of life, people dont think that what they are doing is like riding a bike when it really is.

With that approach I was able to teach myself programming, linguistics, etc. Its kind of awesome to read this article a decade or so afterwards.
Who would have thought that such a short time later it would be the revolution in information access that we take for granted, and the lack of warranty bit that'd we'd be fighting to uphold.
I know I'm not meant to feed the trolls, but I do think it's important to imagine what life would have been like in Germany all those years ago if Facebook had existed.
It's an easy change, you just need to move the searchFocus() call to outside of the touch event. This should do the trick:

setTimeout(searchFocus, 0);

Update: I gave you a pull request on GitHub.
PUT is not supported in the browser [1], but web APIs are mainly intended for non-browser clients to access. A client app that consumes a well-designed HTTP web API will use POST to create a resource, PUT to update a resource, and so on.

[1] With the caveat that the Javascript XMLHttpRequest API does support PUT and DELETE.
Thanks for the feedback! I'm working on other problems as well, but this was a real pain point for me last semester. I'm a senior in college and eat out in groups quite frequently. It's always a real pain when the check comes and everyone seems to have forgotten basic math. I made an iOS app for myself to solve the problem, and then my friends Ivy and Nicholas convinced me to polish it and put it on the app store. So hopefully other people find it useful too!
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Many nosql databases support queries. If you are using one of these then you are in a better place for features like that than you are with heavily shaded SQL.
Freight forwarding and shipment companies: challenges and technology
Direct link to the underlying document (PDF):

http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/privacy-final....
In the city I live there have been a number of high-profile accidents involving buses and trains, buses and other buses, and buses and other traffic. The drivers may get an extra couple week course, but they are still driving a giant vehicle, and I don't even think many of the drivers are necessarily 'better' - if your entire population drives pretty much every day, then they are all effectively 'professional'.

The same goes for the 18-wheelers, as we often see quite a few accidents involving those on the highways. Sometimes people even walk away from these accidents when they are driving the bigger cars. The smaller ones... not so much. The fact remains that the larger, heavier cars are much safer when involved in accidents with cars even larger and heavier than they are - in most cases. There exist very well engineered and safe smaller vehicles, but that will only get you so far. I hope it gets better over time.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second-system_effect
Sander, lorax thank you for your input.

We discussed the concept internally and decided that we won't ask for any user demographics on the registration form.

Later, when we have a clear way to use user demographic, we will create a value proposition for them to enter it. Eg tell us your profession so that it will be visible to other users and get new leads.
I believe industries where workers need to "Pay Dues" to get to the higher echelons are ripe for disruption. It is a sign that the big players they "Think" they have monopolistic power in their economies and run their businesses such. However, this is a sign that they are complacent and could be disrupted.
I can understand your point, although I have a small beef with the consent point (you're visiting the website on your own consent, after all). More importantly though, you're basically pitting your privacy against someone else's money. Of course you're going to rank your privacy higher.

What if it was your privacy vs less content on the internet because more sites go out of business?
No, but unlike a book, I can clip my phone to my belt (well, if it were 10 years ago and I still thought that didn't look terrible). Given Bluetooth and PANs, there's just not much different between what's in my pocket and what's on my belt.
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SizeUp is also a nice tiling window manager for Mac OS X
This is my frustration with getting news from blogs. Had this appeared in a standard newspaper, I am confident the reporter would have contacted Tesla and asked them directly if they did indeed charge $40,000. Hence, I am not comfortable taking the original post completely at face value, since the author (from what I can tell) did not perform the kind of reporting I expect from journalists. That leads me to doubt basic questions of fact, such as whether or not Tesla charged those people $40,000.
Right. So why are you wearing your belt (hooked through some fabric loops on your pants) and you're not wearing your phone (resting in a fabric pouch on your pants)?
Where are you now, and how did you decide to get there?
This article was brilliant, the kind that seems obvious once you read it. Made me Joel's fan since.

My unfortunately long experience with maintaining code has taught me how true it is.

I would add that most often the maligned code is the only existing documentation of a company's workings.
Might when it's out of beta, but I'm currently enjoying Chocolat: http://chocolatapp.com/
Yeah, especially since you are working in this space, you really, really need to see these. They're not 5-10 years off like they were 5-10 years ago.
Has the site developer never heard of Youtube? Why should I have to install the cancer that is Quicktime on my Windows machine at work?
I would buy it regardless.
A rare look at Apple's production line in China