skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To dismiss fund raising as a "distraction" as they do belies the importance and seriousness of choosing good investors that benefit your company, on terms that won't hamstring your growth later.

A "one size fits all" approach like what they're pushing sounds more like a pay day loan than a legitimate business partnership.

I worked with a startup that took a $150k seed-stage investment on a $1m valuation, but the terms and the investors were terrible. My partners and I were too inexperience to know we were being ripped off until the time came to raise real money and our first investors were blocking every funding attempt and giving us "counter offers" at significantly worse terms.

I'm not saying these people are doing this, or even that it's a bad deal, but I would advise serious caution and diligence in matters of fund-raising. It's worth spending more than 15 days to get a deal right. Properly funding a business is not a "distraction;" it's a primary component in running a business.
I'd be interested to hear your complaints with git-merge-recursive. Unless your common ancestor is multiple ancestors (eg, criss-cross merges), which I can't imagine is really commmon, it shouldn't differ appreciably from git-merge-resolve except that it can do rename detection.
I built and open-sourced something like this a while ago: http://nopassword.alexsmolen.com

HN thread here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4570600

It's a great concept, but like any new authentication mechanism there's a usability and security cost due to the lack of familiarity.

Plenty of authentication mechanisms are "better" than passwords, but passwords are well-understood and flexible, which is a huge advantage for almost all sites.
Investing a lot of money in something that won't payoff for 10 years or so probably means they're not desperate.

Perhaps it looks that way to someone who doesn't understand anything about business, but there are easier ways to make money than investing in a lot of long-term research that might not pay off.
Tried out the OCR yet?
Does it need to be something new?
Imagine robots helping people out with menial tasks while trying to sell them stuff.
These are the best performing PE & VC firms out there
Yeah, lots of devastating injuries this year.

I don't know if there are other fantasy NBA fans on HN, but I'm sure there are a lot of NBA fans. I've seen a few instances where people built something regarding the NBA. I don't know a lot about other sports, but analytics is also a very hot topic in the NBA for a couple of years now, so I'm sure there are NBA nerds reading HN (Wouldn't be surprised to see someone from APBR, for instance).
> You don't store data as HTML

You do if your data is a document.

And after CSS was introduced, HTML was definitely not supposed to be presentational.
reddit is open source, you can spin up your own instances of it just like telescope.

you could also buy a domain and redirect it to /r/secret101010110000
Haven't all cockpits now become much more secure? I'm no expert, but it's my understanding that the pilots can seal themselves inside. Anyone trying to get into the cockpit would become a sitting duck, even if they were ruthlessly executing passengers with their simple weapons, 50+ people (likely including an air marshall or at least a strong, fit, high level athlete) should be able to overcome the hijackers. Post-9/11, I doubt many people take the "I hope they don't turn the plane into a missile" route.

Short of getting several automatic weapons on the plane or some kind of chemical weapon that can kill or incapacitate everyone on board, pilots being able to seal themselves off, coupled with internet and cell phone access getting better seems like it would make a repeat 9/11 extraordinarily difficult.
This is why I said intuition. What I meant is that N = NP would suggest, for instance, that the amount of effort needed to appreciate a brilliant piece of music (e.g. Mozart, not any music) is in the same "space" of the amount of effort needed to create it.

You can find many examples of things in nature that are "hard to solve" yet "easy to verify".
some immediate feedback - take it for what it is. I was a little confused by the title: "The biggest, fattest, online FAQ" - Why would I care about FAQs? FAQs are boring, hard to find on most websites & not really an option any more on most web apps. I want immediate answers to my questions - so maybe changing your messaging around that. Moving away from FAQs to something along the lines of Yahoo Answers..
Looks a like an article written by someone who doesn't know anything about Internet security.

It's a good thing to bring to the attention of people problems with the site.

This is a useful criticism: "Information sent to and from the servers is sent in plain text making Man in the Middle attacks very potent".

This isn't a useful criticism: "The website has no security".

What does that even mean? It's s dumb article written to appeal to the echo chamber of people who are totally ignorant about the topic at hand.
I thought the line was going to be "I don't think that means what you think it means."
The Next-Gen USB Plug To Be Smaller And Finally Reversible
Dropbox is a pay-to-upload business model but cyberlockers use a pay-to-download business model (they used to pay referral fees to uploaders, but this was so obviously shady that everybody is dropping it). The judge in the Hotfile case ruled that Hotfile had vicarious liability for copyright infringement because they profited more from distributing more popular content.
Same. I had to drag the scroll handles to get it to work.
Sample size and power for rare events
Well, they could charge for signing your public key...
Nice job, hope to see more features down the road.

I run FantasySP, which has been monitoring rosters for years now. Though the biggest difference is that we want our users to sync their fantasy league so their rosters are always up to date. When big news happens, injury or otherwise, we email the user immediately.

In fact, we also monitor the waiver wire for you.

http://www.fantasysp.com
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The Apollo 8 flyby scenario is amazing. It's awesome how much this changes my mental model.
I am not the person you are responding to, but multiple day interviews are pretty common in silicon valley. A few weeks ago I did a whole day interview of nothing but frigging white board exercises while they stared in their phones and look annoyed when I talked to them., and didn't question me about my resume or otherwise try to figure out if I was a fit or skilled beyond implementing memcpy twice in a row (I shit you not). That's a bit unfair, there were good questions, and good interviewers as well, but it was still just "find the bug", "implement XX". Then they called me and asked for another round. Uh, no. I then hear I'm ungrateful because they were prepared to throw a bunch of money at me. Oh la-de-friggin-da.

Hmm, obviously had something to get off my chest there. But interviews can go 2-3 rounds on the phone alone, 1 day or more on technical, and then more to actually talk to the team. It works for some companies because they have a steady stream of people that want to work for "Google" or whoever. Then everyone w/o the reputation of Google decide they should be like Google, follow suit, and you have the current madness.

There is the fact that a bad hire is extremely expensive, and it makes sense to be careful. But what working, skilled person has the time for such impersonal, multi-day efforts? When I put my resume on the street I had multiple inquiries from Yahoo, Amazon, Google, not to mention a bunch of smaller players. Just dealing with the proposed phone interviews would be a full time job, and I'd have to take a month off to go interview with them just to make an informed decision (why take the first job that comes along).

Something is seriously broken. So long as it is possible for me I'm not going to play the game, and do it the old school way - connections, people that know my work, and so on. But the trouble is, your connection ends up at a big company, and they are powerless to stop the HR/"best practices" juggernaut.
My guess would be the default "fast-forward merge when possible". In this case there is no merge commit. When more is committed on top, you can see no trace of a merge anymore.
> I thought this was clearly a cynical way of living. However, it was quite successful for this guy. I stayed on with the company for several years after I graduated. During that time, my mentor had been promoted to VP and then general manager. With his help I was promoted to his old position.

Maybe I'm misunderstanding what you're saying here, but I don't see it as being all that bad.

Sometimes when I go to meetings I don't know what the overall "strategy" is of my boss. I don't want to stay things that might fuck up his plans, so if a client is asking me whether we are doing X and we should be doing X, I don't immediately say "no that's a bad idea" even if I think so, because I know the value of presenting a unified front.

Behind the scenes I can tell my boss that I don't think doing X is a good idea, but ultimately people tend to be wishy-washy and showing a lack of confidence or a lack of cohesion with your team is a bad thing in and of itself.
Except currently, I know most of my passwords. Losing my email access would suck on so many levels I don't know where to start, but at least I can still log into my bank/credit card sites/etc. to start mitigating the potential damage. If everyone went to a system like this, losing your email means losing access to everything you don't have an active cookie for, instantly and with no ability to recover.
To be honest I don't see the issue at all here. Fundamentally the following all make sense to me intuitively:

git checkout dir (lets assume cwd is in a git repo)
cd dir && git checkout .

And for completeness:
git checkout file

I don't buy the argument that something could be a path or a ref is bad in this case. It allows for both common cases simply. Want to update a single file/directory git checkout that file. Want to checkout a revision? Checkout the sha1hash.

Basically what I'm saying here, is reusing '.' is more of a problem for hg in that they're repurposing an already common idiom in unix.

If my arguments to why aren't convincing we'll have to disagree that this is a git "fault" or "inconsistent ui". I think of it as neither however.
The big problem with something like this is that it introduces an attack vector that could compromise all of its users accounts at once and thus making it a major target for attackers (and spy angencies). I don't see any solution for this in a world where even companies with extensive security know-how like Google are successfully attacked.
I'm working on integrating Evernote into my everyday life, and finally just purchased the level of Dropbox I need for backup. I have 5 devices that I use semi-regularly to all the time and it is fantastic to be able to shift between all 5 devices seamlessly.
A good argument could be made you are stealing more economic value from every reader of HN who reads this comment filled with rhetorical questions. Should we call the police? Probably not, because that would be an ass-hat gesture of bad faith. Similarly, sending every customer a paper bill (that costs $2.00/per) for every incidental economic cost of 1/20th of a cent is not only bad social form, its just dumb economics. The game changes when you opportunistically take advantage of social graces. That I will not debate. The purpose is to do the math and to understand why some things are benevolent "social graces" and others are malevolent behaviours. Theoretical moral relativism (or equivalence) taken out of context is empty logic, tho.
This would have been relevant to me a year ago, before I started using <insert password manager with browser plug-in here>.
Python 3 is five years old
And now you've discovered why economics is a social science. It builds models of human behavior. Humans are non-deterministic at this scale. As soon as you build an economic model, it's possible it stops working because its existence influences the behavior of the humans its modeling.
What change-making algorithm do self-service checkout machines use?
Actually, it's the other way around: investment bankers conned society into giving them cushy jobs. When you look at the bulk of those accounts, what so you see? Pension funds. How much control do average people have over their pension funds? Almost none, because there are all kinds of rules and regulations "to protect the public" -- except that they don't, so the cycles of haphazard investment and bailouts repeat themselves.
Viewfinder is joining Square
Commits are not directories. I don't know why you would want to muddle the two concepts, but doing so would make git's UI more inconsistent and would break the principle of least suprise moreso than it is right now.

Just because Mercurial does it, doesn't mean that it is thought out or makes sense.
At end of day: svn revert -r
don't be silly, you just claimed that it doesn't matter whether you have 3 meter blades or 30 meter ones. Of course the swept area matters.

P = 1/2 x ρ x A x v3
where
ρ = air density,
A = swept area
and v = velocity of the wind
A bit OT, but the article talks about organizing your bookmarks as Webclips, so I thought I'll ask the HN crowd:

I have close to 1,000 bookmarks and I'm really too lazy to sort them, but there might be some useful stuff in it. Thing is, I don't know without clicking on them.

Does anyone know of a program that crawls all the bookmarks and tries to automatically tag them?

I could simply wget everything, but I'm more interested in some sort of tagging, classifying, indexing based on the headline and keywords, although not all bookmarks are articles.
Although I'm not sure if it's exactly what you're looking for, org-mode for Emacs is pretty awesome.

http://orgmode.org/
OneNote was my savior during my year of law school. I'm painfully disorganized while taking notes, OneNote saved me huge amounts of time by keeping everything all together. It basically won't let you be too disorganized without actively trying.
Thanks, this is for me the best part. To be honest, I really don't know how realistic it is. All I can say is that I plugged in the numbers and that's the output.

You can read about it, if you haven't already, on http://lab.la-grange.ca/en/showing-an-apollo-mission-free-re...
Terrible terms will attract terrible companies.
Say we find an algorithm to solve SAT in O(x^1000). P would equal NP, and yet the set of problems we currently label NP-complete might still be substantially harder to solve than to verify.
Deontological Software Development
The truth of this statement makes me weep inside.

Jump at the chance to look at the codebase. A whole day coding, I get the concern there, but yes, otherwise, I urge you a thousand times, look at the codebase.
Why You Should be 203% Behind ECPA Reform
Yay, now I can stop doing "git fetch && git rebase -p origin/master" and go back to "git pull --rebase".
Oh god, I'm no Google fan, but I'll never love Oracle.

Google is leagues ahead of Oracle in almost every way possible.
I just realized one of the reasons I like OpenBSD and DragonflyBSD, but not FreeBSD and NetBSD from that graph. Those nice straight lines with no branching.
Antonio Pizzigati Prize for Software in the Public Interest
That is interesting. If true, it would be the first GNU/Linux derived OS to achieve UNIX(™) compatibility. Whether Linux distributions could trivially be made compatible has been a hypothetical debate so far ("nobody wants to pay the licensing fees.") It would be big news to see that borne out. Hopefully more details will become available.
It's a postmortem of an article who had 20,000 unique visitors and stay 20 hours on frontpage of hackernews.
What, the email account? If someone has access to your email, it's game over right now anyway.

That said, please use Mozilla Persona instead.
Wouldn't install how/why? Both Steam and Wine are in the Mint repos, there is no reason they shouldn't install.
It might be helpful to have secondary prizes for jailbreaks for only some of the models - i.e., maybe the 4S won't be jailbroken but all the others are; this still deserves some commendation.
I believe that is not a typo. What they are saying is that this job is a GS-15 job with a salary of 123k-155k, and that in order to be qualified to apply for this job, you must demonstrate that you have at least one year of experience working at a level equivalent to GS-14.

No bones about it, this job requires wading through A LOT of crap. But so does being a successful startup founder, or senior executive at a big company. It may be different kinds of crap, but no important job is every easy. I do believe doing this job well could in fact change the reality (to some small degree) of how government works.

The only chance we have of making the system better is to have capable, good people trying to make it so.
"Something substantial" is still a computer costing less than $800, or one that is four years old.
Suburban upper-middle-class district in the Midwest.

Most everyone went into the office planning on shutting up and saying nothing; only a few actually managed to do that. But no, absent other evidence, they only punished those who confessed.
Harvard prof talks about real potential of delivery drones
The potential impact of something like this on the whole system is to push up the prices of all online advertising. Given that advertisers will continue to pay to present ads as long as the return is justified, it's almost "a victimless crime, like punching someone in the dark".
Net result: nobody uses lobste.rs.
Yeah, BF4 on wine may be unplayable (I've not tested it). About the GPU, My MBPr was shipped with an NVIDIA GT 650M, which is not that bad. And the new one got a 750M.

With those GPU you can have med/hight settings on... on Windows.
I'm really impatient for the release of the Wine version with the graphic boost, it should be able to run most game at 70-90% of their Windows counterparts.

The big problem is with the retina display, you have to run game at 14XX X 9XX to have decent performance, but it can be ugly, because of the display not being at its native resolution.
Why do you think our terms are "terrible"?
Personally I've found the reasons to jailbreak have decreased more and more over time. A perfect example for me is Control Center replacing what I used SBSettings for.
Is this investment in commercial robots or consumer robots?
>It's not like every Windows PC has the same screen resolution and hardware, yet it's the biggest gaming platform...

No, but it has excellent binary compatibility, long term game APIs, and stable 3D and audio driver APIs. Which is what matters for desktop gaming, and what Linux does not have.

As for screen resolution and hardware capabilities, those matter on mobile (e.g iOS vs Android), and mostly for applications, not games.
nope.

if i merge two branches, push that to the remote and i wan't to undo it.
Appropriate to do an orbital mechanics thing for a company called La Grange (=> Lagrange) :oP
Hello

Nope, we are not doing it ;-)
Check my Angellist profile: http://angel.co/jberrebi

We have a very good reputation in this market and are helpful! You can check!
> They just see the facade of the hosters

There is nothing much we can do about that though, other than beat people with the clue-stick until such time as they grow a protective layer of cynicism.

I'll help by educating people where I can, but there is a point beyond which I refuse to take responsibility for people doing the wrong thing because they don't know any better and don't take a second to think: often it is down to things looking too good to be true (to the point where zero/little techie skills/experience are needed to see this) or things quite obviously being dodgy - if people lose data in either case I have little sympathy. Maybe losing important data is the only way they'll ever learn.

Give a user a good fish and they'll be fed without poisoning today.
Teach a user to fish safely and they'll potentially be fed safely for life.
Users who refuse to engage their brain and learn to fish safely? Let 'em starve or get poisoned.

Of course if you see data you might want in future hosted in an impractical manner, take a copy now and make sure you put it somewhere (or several somewheres) more safe.
A true fact stated in a certain way can lead to false impressions e.g. Group A is poorer than Group B, or Group A have less years of education than Group B. If however, Group A is on average younger than Group B, then the differences may disappear. Is is still "true" to state those "facts" without the extra context?
Why You Should be 203 Percent Behind ECPA Reform
I think you're over-estimating how much money it takes to get a relatively good gaming computer. You could probably build an entry-level gaming machine for around 700 to 800 dollars. Add in a keyboard, mouse, and a nice monitor and you'll probably end up closer to 1,000 USD. That's still 200 to 300 dollars cheaper than a Macbook Pro or an iMac, and 100 dollars cheaper than building the equivalent system running Windows (OEM Windows Home Premium is 100 dollars).

That would be equivalent to, say, buying a desktop from Dell (300~500 USD) and an XBox One (500 USD), which is a reasonable cost if someone wants to play the more graphically intense games.
Ask HN: Anyone using Microsoft PowerQuery?
I've been playing with it lately - I dig it. I was just looking up some World Cup results with it - it's great for filtering and finding "quick and dirty facts" from HTML pages. There's tons of uses (can query Hadoop, JSON, etc).

Anyone else using it?

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=39379

Example: install it, open Excel, and flip to the POWER QUERY tab. Tell it to open from web and use this page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIFA_World_Cup. Lots of fun things to check out.
my complaint is exactly the comment i made. 'works most of the time in one situation' is not working. its a bit magical - i've only seen it do something insane once and i can't remember the specifics, but it introduced me to the concept and made me want to turn it off.

i really don't mind conflicts. safety over rushing every time...
A lot of that struggling could have been avoided if the proper tools were available. For example, the compiler could automatically include two code paths - one AMD64, one OpenCL - and use the best one or switch between the two based on performance or runtime considerations. Language-level improvements (like what Erlang and Haskell have) could make writing parallel code much easier.

I said that APUs are the future of computing not because I'm favoring parallel applications, but because boring old manufacturing constraints are making greater single-threaded performance more difficult to achieve. What we have now is about as good as it's going to get, at least until we see 3D chips or molecular nanotechnology.
Is the internal culture at Google really that toxic? I'd expect the usual backstabbing and empire building to take a back seat to Getting Shit Done® at there of all places.
Why Vert.x is better than NodeJS and Akka
No, it's all Google internal politics.

In my experience big SV companies have classes of staff on payroll merely to prevent them working somewhere else where they would represent a bigger threat to the core business. Google seems to have more than normal of this type of character.
How Dirty Jobs Disrupt the Idea that Pre-Existing Passion Matters
YOU should be drug behind a vehicle until you see the equivalency. All you're doing is reiterating that YOU consider this crime so heinous that the rule of law shouldn't apply - which just happens to be close to what this guy did.
I never thought this approach, but you are correct. Sensitive people are true believers and thus much harder to corrupt.

I don't have the faintest idea on how we could achieve this on our televised democracy, but I'd be interested on reading other's opinion on the matter.
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