skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To put an example on it, I think he's talking about Facebook buying Instagram, and that sort of thing.
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Gross revenue is way easier to calculate than profit. I like these terms much better.
Dead Tourists and a Dangerous Pesticide
What Silicon Valley does better than anyone is create
exits. They know how to get people who they have made
money for to turn over a lot of that money to buy the
companies they have invested in. They know how to put on a
show to get a company to an IPO. They know how to go out
and get hundreds of millions of dollars to bridge companies
with 10s of millions in revenues to their IPO and more
importantly to make sure the IPO happens.

This is Mark Cuban. He sold Broadcast.com at the height of the dot com bubble for 6 billion dollars. 520,000 users sold to Yahoo for $11,000 apiece.

https://www.quora.com/What-was-Broadcast.com
Hm. Many thanks for the info.

I'm a 45 year old developer who's rolling the dice hard and heading out to SF next week. I've had a lot of talks with recruiters over the past few months and they've all crashed into a wall where the phrase "Oh, you're in Texas" kept coming up.

I understand companies want to keep hold of their cash these days, just in case, so no flying me out to meet the folks, but we live in the future now, don't we? Skype, WebEx, and a couple dozen others exist.

Anyway, Mohammed, mountain.

I may borrow the general approach of this, if you don't mind, in working out options when I'm out there.

And if there's anyone out that way that's looking for someone who's been doing C#, did PHP, teaching himself functional programming and is working his way through Euler (81 solved so far - friend key: 51000425304827_c78cb3e2345fa50b98591ce10f15341a), then drop me a line at [career][at][richardvasquez][dot][com].
Take it a step further with every commit.

https://github.com/mroth/lolcommits
Are you saying that it's art because it's creative? Can you simply list some of the "art"?
I spent more time on the site than I anticipated. Why? Because some of the polls were interesting, and other polls (the questions) revealed news I hadn't heard of yet.

So yes, I would revisit again and again, provided the quality of news and questions was high.

My advice is to stay away from the lowbrow, lowest common denominator stuff. Be intelligent,informative and interesting.

Nice work btw!
I guess a lot of people won't buy a VR system if they get forced to set up a camera for it.
Could be worse. USB speeds go, in order, Low Speed, Full Speed, High Speed(!), SuperSpeed(??).
Toiling in anonymity is something I enjoy. Privacy is priceless.
I have to agree that this is one of the biggest downside of Backblaze as I’m right now dealing with recovering data from an external drive that has failed. According to their support staff there’s no way for them to extend that period which makes me super nervous about getting the data and verifying it’s all good before they delete it (I did not notice the drive has failed until I got an email from Backblaze telling me that they will delete the backup in 15 days) Their 30-day retention policy on external drives defeats the purpose of having the backup.

The second problem with Backblaze is the recovery process: they decrypt the files on their servers and store unencrypted zip archive for 7 days or until you download it. I would much rather see them create a restore process where encrypted data is downloaded and then decrypted locally.

I’m evaluating Arq, and so far it looks very good. Upload to S3/Glacier is super fast.
Ask HN: Can Oculus Rift be used for coding?
What does this have to do with anything? The US does not bankroll the ISI. The US is in an undeclared war with the ISI.

My guess is 100% of HN readers know about the US's role in bankrolling the Afghan insurgency, using a terrible Pakastani dictator as a vector. There are no good guys in that story: the Soviet occupation was horrifically violent and repressive, and there was never any chance that the Afghani warlords who replaced them would form a just and stable government. The state of Pakistan is one of the most paranoid and aggressive in the world, owing to a longstanding and seemingly permanent conflict between their giant neighbor to the east; not least because the state of Pakistan was in part a reaction to genocidal violence against Muslim Indians.

There are no good guys in the history of Pakistan and Afghanistan. Now what?

Prior to World War 2, the US forcibly annexed territory and orchestrated the mass murder of Native Americans. How does this factor into your consideration of Nazi Germany?

If you're looking for good guys in any of these stories, you're thinking wrong.
While not a great post by HN standards or necessarily on-topic, this strikes me as the type of tough feedback I would want to hear as a startup founder, or acquirer.
Your point is well-taken, but I suspect 'aw3c2 might be concerned about the CDN "fingerprinting" multiple-resource requests (so that a particular exact combination of files is known to be required by a small [possibly singular] set of sites), which isn't addressed by your referrer suggestions.
Weird.

I have one program here using libstd-3e5aeb83-0.9.so, libgreen-83b1c0e5-0.9.so, librustuv-2ba3695a-0.9.so, libcombinations-6b2260d9-1.0.so, and libbisect-441e5ec3-1.0.so (the last two are local libraries). And I have another that doesn't, according to ldd. Both compiled with the same flags.
For an intro to stoicism you should start with Seneca's letters and Marcus Aurelius' Meditations before you jump into Guide to the Good Life (which I do not recommend, despite Derek's praise of it)

Also, check out the upcoming book 'The Obstacle is the Way' by Ryan Holiday - http://www.amazon.com/The-Obstacle-Is-Way-Timeless/dp/159184...
Would you say most engineers are used to discussing compensation in annual terms, while buyouts are usually computed in forward-projected earnings terms, anywhere from 3-8 years for most small buyouts depending upon various factors? If so, then a $2-5M per head figure works out to $667K-1.67M per engineer per year for a 3-year projection, and $1.67M-625K per engineer per year for an 8-year projection. Even factoring in the overhead costs (an additional 50-100% bump to the annual figure), that is still a healthy amount of surplus capital in the picture that engineers should keep in mind when getting recruited, and should be negotiating for in prudently-structured stock grant terms if not in cash.

So it isn't $acquihire_price_per_engineer - ( $my_annual_compensation_pkg + $overhead ) = OMFG!, but it still pencils out to a healthy amount per year anyone who is a principal contributor should be aware of.
Avid tried two versions back also for video: https://www.avid.com/US/avid-tv/MC6-Marketplace

I don't know anyone who uses it.
Whonix: An Operating System Where IP and DNS Leaks Are Impossible
The latter is a gentler way of saying, "no, I want your solution to this trivial problem".

The former is a question about your work process; for instance, if they say, "ok, so build Twitter" and you respond rationally with, "what of Twitter should I build?", they're probably looking for how you operate in an environment with underspecified work. It might be a good idea to talk about how you'd defend your decisions to draw the boundaries of the problem; why you chose to ignore e.g. streaming updates or following; &c.
Some money buys freedom, too much limits other freedoms.

It's nice to have the free time to do projects and ventures for the cool factor and betterment of others.

(Recommend Lessig & campaign finance reform if in the US... single biggest issue.)
If the companies knew about the data collection but were prevented from speaking about it due to being served with national security letters, does this admission change what they can talk about? And/or does it indirectly confirm the existence of NSLs?
Researchers Show How Lost Sleep Leads to Lost Neurons in Mice
Quirkys new ac unit
As someone who has both looked for engineering jobs and also staffed engineers on my team in silicon valley, I'd suggest people to be a little less shallow about their employers.

Yes, you can work somewhere with free lunches/perks/nerf gun wars. However, you should always ask yourself 'Will working here make me a better person?'.

This could mean providing more financial stability or a huge boost to your resume via gaining expertise in a sought-after area. I hate the argument that 'If I work at Google, I'll be more marketable to future employers'. No...as someone who's hiring, I don't care if you were some guy/girl at google. If you worked on BigTable, awesome you're probably well-qualified for any job in that area and will be paid as much as you want. If you're employee number 70,001 and worked on designing icons for 'Google Trends', you shouldn't expect a huge payout at your next job for being 'Ex-Googler'
Remember when 640kb was ought to be enough for anybody? Never say never in tech world. Someone might and probably will come up with tech to realistically render individual grass blades, just like they did with TreesFX, hair strand simulation technology used in most recent Tomb Raider game.
A) I was seriously abused as a kid and was quite suicidal for years.

B) I have a deadly congenital condition which was not diagnosed until my mid thirties. Being a homemaker allowed me to take care of myself enough to not die in spite of not having a diagnosis.

Had I pursued a career, most likely I either would have committed suicide at a young age or died mysteriously of my undiagnosed disorder.
After a Year of NSA Revelations, Facebook Exec Talks Security, Safety Measures
I wonder if "experience" could be defined as brain damage by some biologists, too? :)
I, too, am a student. We all learn from each other.

We can't say where we will end up in life. No one knows this for certain. Being responsible and planning for the future are good things. Taking good care of yourself financially, mentally, physically and emotionally are all important now and for the future.

Life happens while we make plans. Many times, life interferes with our plans. That's OK. That doesn't mean we should stop planning. Understanding that we cannot predict or control the future will transform our suffering.

We can live now and plan for our future and have peace inside as well.
I don't see how a hedge fund is qualitatively different from a VC firm. They're both allocating investment dollars and hoping to make big money on the return.
You can "paint" houses; you can "paint" the Mona Lisa.

Don't get so caught up with the language.

It's all about the mentality.
don't see anyone else talking about this, but this seems to be the first time ever you can get access to the source code of a state of the art game engine essentially for free.
How the Code Rebels Beat the Government – Saving Privacy in the Digital Age
This is a preview release of Crypto 101, an introductory course on cryptography. It's a follow-up to a talk I gave last year at PyCon.

To paraphrase David Reid, abstinence-only crypto education isn't working. We need easily accessible crypto education for developers. This book, and, once they're done, the included exercises, hopes to help.

I will happily answer all your questions here, by e-mail (see profile) or on twitter (@lvh).

In case the website breaks down, here's the direct download URL: https://9d0df72831e4b345bb93-4b37fd03e6af34f2323bb971f72f0c0...

here's a magnet link: magnet:?xt=urn:btih:e4af18f490672c6f7982a03f427e099014013774&dn=Crypto 101March2014.pdf&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.openbittorrent.com%3A8 0%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.publicbt.com%3A80&tr=udp%3 A%2F%2Ftracker.ccc.de%3A80&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.istole.it%3A 80
I suspect a lot of the original bitcoin folks, typically being some variant of libertarian or anarchist, couldn't care less what some random unelected multinational organization says.
This is a fascinating and well-written account, but it's off-topic for HN and will produce no useful discussion. I flagged it as soon as I saw it, and hopefully you will too.
Larry Page at TED makes me skeptical about Glass
Tesla’s bet on winning the global lithium race
Your comment on atheist shows your ignorance of what atheism is. Not sure if that's the one you're after but Rabindranath Tagore wrote this :

I slept and dreamt that life was joy.

I awoke and saw that life was service.

I acted and behold, service was joy.
I think when talking about confidence or success these categories of knowledge don't account for the whole picture.

Knowledge isn't the only thing required to be successful at something, it doesn't account for skills. When I say skills I mean something that requires training over time to be able to do.

I know I don't know how to balance on a rope, if I learned successful methods for balancing on a rope I still probably wouldn't be able to do it. I wouldn't be successful until I put in the hours to dig those deep trenches between feedback and response. I might know how to finger a chord on a guitar, kick a soccer ball or make a compelling argument but I probably won't be very good at those things until I practice them

Maybe my interpretation of the word 'know' is too narrow but it seems like these 'learned skills' would fall under a seperate category of things that you can only get better at with experience.
No, the reason they made their engine and IDE free is to cater to indie developers, hobbyists, and students. Unity is to these people now what Flash used to be ten years ago—an initially simple but ultimately powerful game-making tool. And the small percentage of those that graduate beyond just doing it as a hobby or experiment end up sticking with the tools they know. It's a very bottom-up approach to the market.

Remember also that they offer a Pro version that costs money, and that they restrict the use of the free version to companies that make less than $100k per year.

There are a lot of people wanting to get into game-making these days, since tools have gotten better and the indie market has proven its worth. It's telling that Epic is putting even more emphasis on their tools than their games these days. In a gold rush, as it's said, the ones that get rich are the ones selling pickaxes.
The end of secrecy: 10 transparent company blogs worth following
I like the concept. Could you explain what exactly "establishments on the ground" mean in your About us. Do you think this is scalable globally or is it only meant for US for the moment?
Lastly what kind of leads are you talking about here - can you give couple of examples?
Some video games give me that feeling of "death is imminent" when the 1st person character jumps off of a cliff or falls, but it only happens the first time, so there's a good chance that it's possible to help overcome the fear of heights with VR.

I'm horrified about being near the edges of buildings and cliffs, and in my mind it's perfectly justified (less chance of death away from edge).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:CCTV_Beijing_April_2008.jp...

Also this building freaks me out imagining actually being in that building. I'd much rather have a support column under me. If I worked for a company in that building and our offices were on those floors in the middle I would probably be forced to quit. Oh, and it's in an area known for seismic activity, nope.
Looks cool, but I don't understand the 20$ a month fee, I don't think it will make them any money and it will hurt adoption.
Nothing should be secret, and keeping secrets about expenses the government pays for is explicitly unconstitutional.
How do you get info about whether they do 4 hours of work a day?
The good news about sim sickness is that most people get over it with practice. Not only that, but there are many reports from Oculus DK1 users that warming up to the Rift cured their motion sickness outside of VR! As in "I can read in the car for the first time!"

The bad news is that while better tech in the DK2 and better design in new software can significantly reduce motion sickness, I doubt we will ever completely eliminate it.

The really bad news is that nausea is funny. It's great for catchy headlines and quippy comments. I'm really afraid that the Rift will get a reputation as a "vomit helmet" and that will lead the masses to dismiss it. That would be a tragedy.

It's really important PR for VR to get the word out: If you feel sick, stop. Don't try to push through, you'll make it really bad. Try again much later. With practice, it will get better and better. When you get over sim sickness, all kinds of awesomeness awaits!
Banks, Corruption and Crypto: Can Bitcoin Change India?
Feels like I've seen that logo somewhere else...

http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_litovxgoHb1qz7ewm.jpg
Most movies / tv shows are already currently available digitally or without DRM (Netflix, Hulu, Apple, Amazon, etc).

I think the point of all of these articles is that they should be available day one, for $1.99 or some other trivial amount, until then they are just being ignorant.

This is not going to happen. Early adoptor content will always be higher, just like it is for many other things. The new Stephen King book is going to be $25 in hardcover for a while before it is $5.00 in paperback because all of his rabid fans are happy to pay that much to read his new work immediately.

The same goes for media, there is going to be a premium price period, even if it is digitally distributed, because it makes business sense to do so overall.
I'm just impressed that the designer actually made the product and put it out on the world.

So many of these design-art products are never actually made, which to me is ignoring the entire 'craft' side of the profession--the point of design is to make things actually exist.
Try https://turtl.it

It offers a hosted option (the default) or an open-source server you can run internally if you want more control of your data (or don't want to pay). Disclosure: I'm building it.

Note that Turtl uses IndexedDB to store everything (encrypted) locally, but also syncs to the server. This means if you wipe your local storage, your profile will be re-downloaded back to the client (only un-synced changes will be lost).

Mobile versions are on the way.
You need people who know how to find the answer to such questions. I would much rather hire a Java developer who knows how to implement equals() and hashCode() correctly, with a unit test to validate it, and knows that if they have any questions on say searching and sorting that they should reach for their copy of Knuth v3 first before writing a single line of code. That to me is a much more valuable employee than one who can spout off how a Linked List works.

90% of programming is problem solving. Knowing how to solve a problem is much more useful than being able to spout out the right answer.

(To echo the first poster. Number of times in 20 years outside of a job interview I've had to implement a Linked List: 0)

IMHO Google, Facebook et al are largely the cause of the current recruiting mess because companies who don't understand what makes a good employee for their company have been cargo-culting Google, Facebook et al in the hope that will "make it rain" for them.
I appreciate the reflection on morality, but with the RIAA / Hollywood lobbying to basically destroy the Open Web (as well as other simply horrible behavior), all bets are off, with these industries. They deserve total obsolescence.

This is not to say that entertainment itself should become obsolete, of course! Only that the existing power structures of Music and Movies should be replaced with something that works, something that does not try to enslave and prosecute people.
On a plane, on the bus, I often find it pretty hard to open a laptop because of a too small space between seats. I remember researching HMD (head-mounted displays) few years back and I couldn't find anything affordable. But $350 for the dev kit seems pretty nice and made me wonder again.

What do you guys think?
Meet as many people as possible (you're already paying for it)
Has anyone used it for coding?
EFF Fights Destruction of Spying Evidence in Court Wednesday
Entry-level tend to fall into two categories in my experience. One are the "...but I'm willing to negotiate" types that end up getting 10K less than their likely value, and the others are the ones who ask for some stupid number like you mention and end up blowing a handful of solid opportunities before eventually learning how the game is played. For both, it's part of the learning process.

I agree that ranges are not a bad idea, but having a target number to quote (even if it is a few K above what you are willing to take) and a basement number (will not accept below) is a good idea.
The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking

This book was my first introduction to stoicism. I loved the book and idea behind stoicism. I meant to find more but had forgotten about it. Thanks for the book suggestion.
No one denied complying with 702 orders. The main contention about PRISM isn't that the entities receiving data requests knew that they were receiving these requests, the main contention was/is about the "direct access" allegations which is what these companies actually denied, that and knowing the government codename for the program.

Bad reporting.
Yes, but.

I am fortunate enough to be in this position. In my 50s, in good health, and I don't have to work if I don't want to. I've always dreamed of being in this situation and now I am. So what am I doing with my time?

- Still enjoying not having to get up and go to work, and not having to work for idiot managers. Sometimes I waste whole days going nothing (thanks, 2048). I worked in startups for 25 years, and have been mulling over my "pattern": I meet a charismatic founder, get seduced, work my ass off. That's a lot less attractive now. The getting seduced part depended, in part, on the golden carrot. (But only in part.)

- Exercising a lot more.

- Working on my pet projects, with a degree of urgency that varies over time. I don't need these projects to pay the bills, or to be loved and used. I get my jollies out of writing the software.

- Consulting, but being very selective about the projects I pick. They have to be interesting, and hopefully related to my pet projects. I've had some success here.

- Learning to play piano. (Would have been so much easier if I didn't stop when I was a child.)

- Enjoying more time with my wife.

- Getting back to teaching (software, of course).

Here's the "problem": At my age, (and due in large part to my temperament), I'm still not thinking very far outside the box. I can afford to do lots of new things, but I'm having some trouble figuring out which ones to actually do. Why?

- Software: I've always written software. I always will. I need to make time for other things.

- Inertia: I tend to do what I know, and expand out from there gradually. I seem to be incapable of ravenously seeking out novelty.

- Need ideas: After many years of working very hard, putting job and family first, those are the things I tend to think about.

- Need to say yes more: Except for the teenager living at home, I can go someplace warm and windy and windsurf for a week, anytime I want to. Not sure why I don't. I'm starting to say yes to more impulsive things, but it definitely goes against the grain.

- Frittering time away on small projects: I took on too many, so for a while, I had no time for anything else. I'm in a lull now, so I'm again contemplating how I want to spend my time.
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Google won't face email privacy class action