skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most startups do not get acqui-hired, even if they have users. So shouldn't you instead be asking, "does the fact that most startups fail limit your use of startups?"

That's a valid question. But it's also one of the oldest questions in technology marketing; it is among the top 3 objections to sales new enterprise companies face. There's a billion dollar business (escrow) built around the problem.
Even if you do "trust" your boss, I still feel like there's a carefully curated image of yourself you want them to see.

It's a pretty basic strategy - if everyone else is fluffing up their reports, you sure don't want to be the one who isn't.
> hn predates reddit.

It doesn't. Paul Graham has said he made it to be like Reddit 'used to be' (in the early days, most of Reddit's users were sock puppets of the founders, and it was pretty high quality).
Sold or valued at.
I had an interaction like this in Canada. The options they give you are to give up your passwords, log in to your online banks to show them transactions, etc., or have everything confiscated.

The reason they did it to me is because they thought I was a drug smuggler. They got that idea because I was going to China and didn't have a fixed itinerary, which they found to be incredibly suspicious.

I'm not sure if the non-techie cop was playing good cop/bad cop or not, but he was yelling at me and accusing me of being a liar from the beginning. Because I knew I hadn't done anything wrong and wasn't lying, it was pretty comical, but it became really upsetting once they started threatening to seize everything if I didn't give up my passwords.
I submitted this earlier, it hit #2 quickly, and then was penalized into oblivion. I suspect someone incorrectly believe it was a joke, and applied tho joke penalty. I can't get ahold of anyone to fix this, so I'm re-submitting. Very sorry if this is considered bad form!
"a discussion is not constrained by exactly what served to start it, it explores other tangents"

I think you're derailing the conversation. The author brings up a good and interesting point and you go on a rant about privacy and the government. ~99% of people on this website already agree with you. You're preaching to the choir. It's what's called a "circle jerk". Mutual masturbation. Letting out your pent up frustrations.
Not directly. But the GPL variants impose restrictions that are often incompatible with business use.
I'm tall. When I fly for business, I get extra legroom / business class or don't go.

sfo -> nyc: i'm giving the company an absolute shit 16 (round trip) hours of my life. So they're going to pay some money to make me less uncomfortable, and if that's a problem, I don't go. Bosses tend to react poorly to flat out refusal to travel except when it's reasonably comfortable but that's their problem. If making me miserable (and unproductive; I can't even fully open my laptop in coach) to save $700 is a problem, then fuck 'em.
AGPL is the standard answer to this question, isn't it?
That's unlikely because ice is fairly dynamic. These geysers are proof that new ice is constantly being formed, and over the timescale needed to see any sort of evolution, the ice layer would have been reformed countless times.

It'd be like finding fossils around Kilauea in Hawaii. You don't because there's new land being formed all the time, and there's not enough time for fossils to be formed.
I think you're confusing stupid idea with bad idea.

Twitter was a bad idea. A stripped-down social networking site in a crowded marketplace ... unlikely to succeed. But succeed it did. Now it's a wonderful idea. But making a twitter clone now ... bad idea.

Now, a twitter clone with a 2 character limit, that's not a bad idea. That's a stupid idea.

I take on bad idea projects all the time, albeit with a warning to the client. I refuse to take on stupid ideas. I don't do crazy.
It runs pretty slow with newest nvidia drivers on a 2 year old lenovo laptop with a decent graphics card. Getting sub 10fps. It's impressive that it works though.
I think any email marketers who want to get around this easily can. Just change robots.txt to not give permission to Google fetching the images. Copyright will laws will prevent them from wilfully ignoring that, presumably.
The difference between entrepreneurs and employees
$20 says it's a race condition being caused by multithreaded access to a nonatomic auto incrementing ID...
Just for anyone else who hadn't heard of it yet and searches for it, it's apparently spelled "Daala".
>>> He screwed it up

To say that Pandit, who became CEO in December 2007, somehow screwed up Citibank, reflects a misunderstanding of the history of the crisis.

The CDO and MBS markets had been in place for a decade, and were already cratering when Pandit was brought on, and in fact he was brought in to replace the previous CEO following "unexpectedly poor Q3 performance."

Pandit took a reduced salary in 2009 following the collapse of Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers in fall 2008, which eventually led to the creation of TARP funding. His compensation was only brought back after 2 years and 5 consecutive quarters of profitability.
Its some of what raverbashing has said. We are doing some lower level Windows stuff with it and share code with other groups. We tried VC Express about 5 or more years ago but found that some stuff did not work properly and haven't revisited. Engineering time wins out over $300-$400 cost / dev every 4 or 5 years.
while i'm sure there's many other examples, in that particular case it's just the maximum value of an unsigned 8 bit integer, as defined above on line 1252.

it would be a bit better if it explicitly had a nice #define but recognizing the values of common powers of two (minus one) is a useful code reading skill.
The chart is in fact for the year of founding, not sale. For 2013 it would be companies founded and sold in the same year, and I would expect that to be rare.
And then you can cause Google to DDoS someone else's site by sending out spam containing lots of image URLs.
This is really nice, already sent in a pull request! I've been meaning to learn about WebGL for a while, I think I'll give it a try this weekend.
And she said "We are all just prisoners here, of our own device."
This reminds me my biggest hobby project when in high school; I was so fascinated with 3D plots that I spent I don't know how much time to create a compiler from math formulas to to machine code so that I could plot this kind of things on my Amiga (without a math coprocessor). What amazes me the most is not that you can now animate that in real time in an interpreted language in a browser, but how easy is to learn all these things through the internet, instead of having to find a book in the bookstore and hope that it could have what you needed...
I remember suggesting that closed and open allocation can be mixed. For example, Intel can use closed allocation for the fabs and open allocation for the actual engineering.
Gmail performs image request when the user actually opens the message
It is an interesting idea to let unaccredited investors to enter the space. The benefits to them are obvious. I'm wondering if the value prop of high interest rates (5-10%) or short, secured loans (1 year) are more attractive?
To turn solar power into a reliable source of AC power off-grid you need an electricity storage system that will easily cost more than the PV installation itself. Micro-hydro, if available, provides a very high capacity factor output without the need for an inverter / PCS / battery.
Even if there really are only two primary e-commerce platforms, I would say that Google Shopping is definitely not one of them. It's a terrible experience and nobody I know uses it intentionally.
Wow seriously? I'd be interested in reading about your experiences.
I'm 38 and found the local Amiga club in high school, most of the members were older professionals that used Amigas for work: film scores, video editing, etc. Unfortunately, never owned one. But I was very impressed. Amiga video, audio, graphics, multimedia, multitasking was mind-boggling awesome in the early 90s.
Can someone who knows Danish law explain what it means to be held "without a warrant" in Denmark?
Photographer wants everyone to work for free
No, that was some members of the Oxford Union on an international fact-finding mission.
Don't try to be funny here. Be insightful.
I think you mean 4bit.
If you read the documentation, I give an extended argument for why this is useful: it enables more object-oriented protocol design.

http://kentonv.github.io/capnproto/rpc.html

Also, it is not the case that the new RPC's input type has to match the old one's output. You can take just one object embedded in the old response and use it in the new request.

Please do look at the examples.
Thanks for the reply. I do have a couple pretty simple projects in mind. This may be the impetus I need to go ahead and get started. Thanks!
Nearly forever. You don't have JavaScript, most malware isn't designed for platforms that old etc...
I do a lot more Nodejs stuff than Rails, but I’ve gone from a MBP to an Air, mostly for the battery life. It’s done quite well for everything, including Adobe suite.

One thing though is you can forget trying to run dual monitors on an Air if you’re into that.
Except with tags you could probably have multiple groups for single posts rather than having multiple posts in separate groups (or subreddits).
Can you give some info about your setup?
Huh. I don't think it's just you - that looks like some properly nasty code. Formatting is all over the place, lines are commented out, comments are useless and obviously wrong in places...

I don't really speak C++ though, so maybe this is normal.
Does anyone know how many are actually sold vs valuations?
I'm considering to apply for the support position, is there anyone I can speak to for more information?
Why 2013 Was The Best Year In Human History
Exactly. Just as with legislators and judges, there is no incentive whatsoever for a patent examiner to exhibit competence. They get paid the same, win, lose or draw. When they screw up, it's always somebody else's problem.
Well, yeah, if what he's talking about are nucleotide bases, it takes three of them to make a codon. So if you have a sequence ABCABC, then ABC might be a codon (which codes for an amino acid, like a "bead" in a necklace that makes up a protein), BCA might be a codon, and CAB might be a codon. Then at the same time you could go backwards. So really there's six potential different codons that a single basepair might be involved in. But that's probably not what this paper is talking about.
It's much like every tech person who has ever been asked to take a look at some gadget/computer to "fix".
Well, duh, yeah, that's it :p I am running my Linux host under Virtual Box and I don't believe I have 3d acceleration enabled, if it would even work if I did. Thanks for pointing that out!
If there really is a substantial difference in the quality of two software developers then that should play out in the amount of value delivered. The article lost me at:

> Conversely, what about the guy sitting in the corner who works 9 to 5, and seems to spend a lot of time reading the internet? Is he just very proficient at writing stable reliable code, or is his job just easier than everyone else’s? To the casual observer, the first chap is working really hard, the second one isn’t. Hard work is good, laziness is bad, surely?

If the brilliant developer is spending a lot of time reading the internet, never staying late, and producing the same output (minus bugs) as the weaker team, then maybe he's not providing quite as much comparative value as he thinks he is.

Note: Some discussion on here regarding sys admins. I agree the situation is different in the maintain-working-systems roles vs. the create-new-products roles.
This is standard procedure. The alleged criminal is remanded typically up to 4 weeks at a time, and optionally isolated. This can go on for a bit if the alleged criminal is expected to flee, destroy evidence and that type of thing.

The headline and the article fail to stress why he's being imprisoned. It's unrelated to Pirate Bay, and has due to extensive intrusion into Danish government and police databases. Don't mistake this "cracker" type for some kind of brave fighter against restrictive copyright regime.

According to the article he's in solitary confinement.. "among violent criminals".
Pirate Bay Founder Extradited to Denmark, Now a Political Prisoner
I thought that 99% of the images included in emails for tracking purposes are single pixel transparent GIFs - so no biggie in working out which ones those are...
Winning a Hackathon: By the Numbers
Rage in Kiev
I imagined that such a geyser has a limited lifespan. Same mechanism as why islands like Hawaii or the super volcano in Yellowstone come in chains. Same thing could be happening on Europa: the icy crust moves and the "hot spot" is fairly fixed. Or a local vent collapses after x years and another weak spot opens. In those scenarios the area surrounding a geyser could preserve a chapter of the planet's history.
Twitter exchange between Alan Rusbriger and Keith Vaz MP
He was already in prison in Sweden, but was extradited last month and is in police custody, but apparently being denied visitations from family and his lawyer requires a special order which the police have not gotten. It's trumped-up stuff and not due legal process, but at the same time it's not like he's being held in a secret location after being thrown in an unmarked van. Here's hoping his rights are respected more thoroughly soon.

http://torrentfreak.com/pirate-bay-founder-held-in-solitary-...
Simple, secure messenger based on the idea of mentions.
Well, you were thinking, anyway, for a brief, shining moment. I misdoubt you will again, and for longer next time -- once you start to get a taste for the habit, it's all but impossible to kick, not least because you don't want to.

Now I have to come clean: I gave you a trick question, asking you to define a function which in fact is trivial. Do you know Lisp? Never mind, it's simple enough, not least because we can cheat by assuming the definition of 'legitimacy' -- here, I'll give it to you in Lisp, thus:

(defun mob-legitimate-p (&rest args)
nil)

Let's assume I feel, for whatever reason, that you done me wrong. Let us further assume I find it meet to express my resulting dismay by first blacking your eye and splitting your lip, and then aiming a loaded shotgun at your brisket and demanding that you put right my grievance, in the precise fashion I see fit, lest I splatter your thorax across the opposite wall.

Now, leave aside the question of whether you've given me cause for grievance, which you'll note was nowhere mentioned in your homework assignment. While I'm aiming that shotgun at your chest, how legitimate do you think you'll regard my grievance? How does it affect your consideration that I find it meet to back my demand for redress with violence and the threat of more violence? Regardless of how I might make or you might evaluate my case in the abstract, what effect do you consider my actions to have on the legitimacy of my claim?

And, finally: Can you define in rigorous terms why it should be in any way more moral, or less deleterious to the good order and conduct of any society, for many people to engage in actions analogous to those I've just laid out? It's not right or just or meet or permissible for me to act in that fashion, but the common theory seems to be that, if I go out and round up five hundred more who're pissed off just like me and we all come back with shotguns, or Molotovs, or what-have-you, the very same actions are somehow ennobled thereby. I've heard a goodly number of arguments for why that is, but none has managed to convince me; perhaps you'll be the first! In any case, I hope you'll attempt so to do, and look forward to studying the result.
The Best-Educated Generation in American History Isn't Educated Enough
It doesn't even mask repeat opens: as buro9 found in the sister comment, the image does not get cached, Google's proxy will request it again each time it is viewed.
My understanding is that GMO crops have snippets taken from other species' DNA. Those sequences would be internally consistent, and only the patch between the native and foreign sequence would be affected.
Edward Snowden, The Dark Prophet
"I know the mail has been delivered and the user in question exists and is seeing my ads"

No, you just know that the email was delivered to the user's inbox. You don't know if the user looked at it or just trashed it.
Yeah, this seems like this could be totally unrelated to TPB.
It comes from the jackpots (or the continual revenue stream) that such predatory patents provide.
There can still be mandatory passport checks at internal borders even with Schengen. This is a while ago, but back in 2001 I crossed the border from France to Italy a few days before the G8 summit in Genoa [0]. Passport checked, questions asked about itinerary, and a French couple on a motor bike was turned back due to not carrying their passports.

On the other hand, that is the only time of quite a few crossing where this have happened.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/27th_G8_summit
Apparently Disqus holds posts like this for moderation, though. Maybe because of the link.

The site owner can set how comments are moderated, if at all.

They may have opted for some degree of spam-checking, or they may have decided that all posts need explicit approval.

Given the nature of your post I'm skeptical they will allow it, link or no link. :(
3D printer aids visually impaired schoolchildren in Japan
TheBiggO, a site for service barter. Opinions?
See the site here www.thebiggo.com
The two of you are confused. The image link doesn't even have to return an image in order to successfully send information to marketers.

An image link in the email to:

http://thisalways404s.com/404/slg_read_my_email

will work just fine. So, Google will follow the link and compare the files and... wait a second, the information we care about - that slg read my email - has already been transmitted.
Seriously, I fail to see how this is news.
Obviously, when 7 billion people are involved (or whatever the current population of the planet) the dynamics of this are complex and take time to play out. My point was countering the "jobs lost!" hysteria with "jobs get created, tends to balance out." Pardon the lack of encyclopedic thoroughness in a 3-line post in casual discussion.
You don't think there's some approximately fixed ratio between thin client/webwallet adopters and those who run the binary?
Almost half of one snapchat (with only 20 employees).
Now is a great time for the next generation if VP9 really is patent free or fully licensed OR Daala is ready to take on H.265 AND that Free solution matches or beats H.265 AND that Free solution can get itself in hardware (particularly mobile) solutions in the same timeframe as H.265.

The other possibility for the Free next generation solution is if H.265 licensing is unreasonable (as H.263 was and H.264 wasn't).

For the current codec generation the ship has sailed, the deployed base of H.264 devices means the battle is over.

[Edit: replaced 'open' with 'Free']
So they strip the images and show you a text only email and tell you to deal with it.
The first "positive" news today on our site is about execution in north korea... I guess automatic filtering is not ready yet to such kind of tasks....
How often do you expect new Cisco builds to be published? Will the releases be versioned so Firefox version X knows it will always install OpenH264 version Y from Cisco's binary blob server?
Intrusion Software now export-controlled as dual-use under Wassenaar Arrangement
RSS feeds are great for that
I already have the games on physical format, but there's no downside to having digital copies of them, for free and legally :).

These random things are what make me love GOG (I have like 50-60 games there, and counting); I'd rather have more GOGs and less Steams.
Well, from the same article: »All a worker as (sic) to do is load the bricks into the machine in the desired pattern and gravity does the hard work«

So it is a more ergonomic way of laying bricks; you're doing it upright, not crouched down. But you still have to lay them. You can't just throw a pile of bricks into it and get a road out without workers doing anything.
Whoa, what the hell happened to my ability to write today? I drank waaaay to much coffee today.
As a Danish person I was also confused about that when I first read it. I think it's a misuse of the word "warrant", and more has to do with whether or not they've charged him (I think).
> junk DNA

Properly referred to as "noncoding DNA"... until it is proved to be coding something.
It's 40MM or more. There are some significant outliers, like Dropbox and AirBnB.
yea. At 40% margin (from elsewhere in the thread), that's $28,000 profit, for an annual profit so far of just over $50,000. If we assume that all the salaries except his own are coming out of that gross before profits so that $50,000 is for him alone, then it's a decent income for a college kid - although I'm not sure if that's a fair assumption, and given he says he has no idea how to bookkeep, I don't know if, say, all the student fees were paid upfront for the courses next month, but he hasn't taken out the instructor fees for next month because they haven't been paid yet. So it's very hard to judge whether he's actually got a solidly profitable business going - but to be fair, he does say "It’s not much, but it’s a start" so it's not like he's yelling "I HIT IT RICH GUYS".
Sexy, Perverted Fruit
There is ONE way: fetch every single image right away regardless of whether the email is even valid. And then don't store the cached version if there is no valid email. Otherwise store it and display to the user.

Sure, in theory that works. In practice, you make an easy may to do a Denial of Service attack against Google or innocent third parties so it in actuality would never work.

Send a million emails to Gmail accounts that each have fifty links to 1 MB JPG files hosted all over the Internet. The size of the file you send to Google in the email is what - 1k? The size you are making Google download is 50 MB. This is a 50,000:1 attack ratio. You could take Google down with a 56k modem.

You could also launch a denial of service attack against any other target, courtesy of Google. Send a million emails to Gmail users that downloads JPGs on a target web server. You can even make up the JPG names to be non-existent. Again, figure your email is costing you 1k in transmission and Google is putting tremendous strain on the target server downloading 404 error messages.
To put this in perspective, any company that has raised 10M or more is likely to be valued at something near 40M. The numbers seem less startling to me after factoring that in (my first reaction was that there must be a lot more acquisitions than what we see in the news).
I always described the Amiga experience as "a computer from ten years in the future... then Commodore sat on their thumbs for twenty." Or at least that's what it felt like when I got my A1000 versus abandoning my 1200.

I've been using Macs since the time I put my last Amiga away, and it's never felt as cool as the Amiga did. More useful, much more powerful, but never as flat-out cool.

God I'm getting old.
Hmm, I certainly thought he was implying that things used to be better. The fact that "journalistic credibility was hard to come by" was surely a good thing, no? It means readers are applying more stringent standards to what they read. As opposed to now, when (supposed) journalistic credibility is easier to come by, but worth much less. . . .
How To Become An Awesome Storyteller
Is your system really clean just because your Antivirus program says so?
Hm, I thought asm.js didn't expose shared memory (yet(?)).
And?

Anyone can check for the existence of gmail accounts in this manner without screwing around with images.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXK1pmxM3qg
wow, so spreading
Thanks for the reply, and NICE! Keep it up.
Experiment: Is the lean cycle wrong?