skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most of the biggest tech companies we respect today started with a lot of potential, a lot of risk, and offers for early exits that would have made the founders rich. The founders believed enough in themselves and their vision to tell these people to go fuck themselves, they were going to go their own way. The reason people react negatively to this is because they see huge potential in Oculus and don't feel Facebook has the incentives to execute on VR the way Oculus was poised to, especially now that the founders/execs effectively have lost their ability to control the company (PR statements notwithstanding.)

Honestly, it feels that for all the talk about the huge future of VR by Oculus, if they really believed in it, no number would be big enough to get them to give up control of how that future is built. Most entrepreneurs who are in the business of changing the world are not that interested in relinquishing any control to someone else no matter how much that will get them paid.

I'm pretty sure I know what the deal is here, that Facebook basically told them that they can take their investors out of the picture and have the full resources to build the best consumer product they want to with custom hardware. This certainly would sound enticing but the problem is that as soon as the going gets tough that lack of absolute control is going to start to rear its head. Zuck is going to have the final call on everything, and when the VR wars heat up you can be sure he is going to make different decisions than an independent Oculus would.
Sure, but people who want to preserve a high-fidelity archive of a message board can do that too.
Mattermark and their rankings are going to be looked back on as just as useless as a professional blogger. There are hints of positives for you to take away (and make wide sweeping bets across companies with - if you're an investor), but the outliers end up being outliers in a number of ways. Pretty much all the ways that make prognostication like this precisely pointless.
Collectible antique coins are also currency -- a buffalo nickel is still legal tender, but you'd be a fool to use it in a bubble gum vending machine. Nonetheless, the IRS treats them as property, for purposes of taxation.
Not surprising this is a common mistake. It seems to be a frequent practice to store keys (and other user/pass combos) in source code despite the obvious major security risks.
How is pre-ordering not just a form of fundraising on Kickstarter that skirts the laws around crowsourced investing? Couldn't a startup just go on Kickstarter, promise some type of product to be delivered x months in the future, raise their seed and focus on getting bought w/o ever having to give up any equity?
No table of contents? Anything meaty in the book? I've got some web scraping that I need to do this week, for example. Was going to use Python and BeautifulSoup but since it's throw away code, I could possibly use Go. I don't want to reinvent the wheel though.
I completely agree with Notch on this one. Facebook are just buying Oculus because they need to show the investors and board they can innovate. Facebook is a dying product, they're losing users, making bad design decisions and know the only way to remain relevant is to buy up other business regardless of the niche.
"In the Now" with Adrian Jank
Saving tagsets for quick access from the RiteTag browser extensions is so easy and fast, I demonstrate in an animated gif in this post: https://plus.google.com/100575455878135404735/posts/5JcB6jsd...

(Just doing this for those who don't login/register, but want to see the other tabs and one of the things to use them for)
I agree they've done a great job with Instagram (and on that alone I don't get why people aren't willing to give them the benefit of the doubt) but Friendfeed is not a good example. They didn't extend the product at all. They didn't shut it down but it looks today like it did when they bought it. The team was moved to other things.
I'm also thinking of the same thing.. I doubt you can get at this number by usual means since everything is about their growth potential

By the way, there is an alternative hypothesis, that the valuation is just not there: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7471471

Do you think it makes sense?
It does. Thanks.
True, and your right. It's good for them. I am just so apposed for so many reasons and I rarely feel that way about google products. Oh well.
The TOC is on Manning's site. http://www.manning.com/ketelsen
It sounds like you are thinking of a database abstraction layout, something you probably have an object relation mapper sitting on top using it, easy way to get structured models in and out of (non)persistent databases/caches.
Agreed that this should get quite a bit more elaboration to put it in perspective.
This is seriously cool. I've used database-answers before, but most of the schemas are outdated, hard to follow and or incorrect. If I get the time I will gladly contribute to this because I think a well designed schema is very important.
TOC is here (you must click a link on the submitted link to see it): http://www.manning.com/ketelsen/

I don't think you'd be doing yourself any favors using go for a throwaway scraper.
My new best friend.
I'd be interested to know what you think of Twitter as a potential owner.
What would you do if you were FB? As people have said, they may just be pulling an AOL, which sucked for TW's shareholders but was great for AOL's.
I would rather pay $70 and signin with Facebook than paying $1000.
Actually, hashtags are not just for marketing, nor is RiteTag. People get plenty done, such as bringing people to #hackforgood or hackathon events, search for lost children, and more. But without a hashtag grading system, they really have no idea which hashtags are best for getting discovered.
Is your name a coincidence?
First off, it's really more profound than any little statement like this can make it, and you're better off reading it for yourself. That said...

It's been years since I read it, but I'll put forth a few ways to read it, though I'm probably wrong, as I said it's been awhile.

One is a sort of Stockholm syndrome, in which you come to see and appreciate the others' point of view, but you're too close to see any of the drawbacks that were obvious and clear to outsiders (readers?).

More literally speaking, the protagonist with every reason to hate the system that even set up traps to catch its own "enemies," ends up convincing him that it's necessary, hence, "He had won the victory over himself."

(Cue "Mission Accomplished" photo-op? Heh.)
Here is an example from the UK, August 2013 (not sure what the current status is). I have no dog in this fight but to me this does not seem like tolerance on the part of the gay couple, this action comes across as somewhat spiteful.

"Millionaire gay fathers to sue the Church of England for not allowing them to get married in the church.

The first legal challenge to the Church of England's ban on same-sex marriage was launched today - months before the first gay wedding can take place.

Gay father Barrie Drewitt-Barlow declared: 'I want to go into my church and marry my husband.' He added: 'The only way forward for us now is to make a challenge in the courts against the Church.'

The legal move means an early test for David Cameron's promise to the CofE and Roman Catholic bishops that no church would be forced to conduct same-sex weddings against the will of its leaders and its faithful.

...

'It upsets me because I want it so much - a big lavish ceremony, the whole works.'

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2383686/Millionaire-...
No, I understand you exactly. But I'm also paying attention to the last 30 years where this keeps getting tried and either it doesn't work or it degenerates into a 2nd life analog.

There's nothing magical about 2nd life, but in a first person POV and in 3d.
I can't imagine Carmack working for Facebook. This is surreal. As Palmer noted in his blog post he was skeptical when Facebook first approached them with the idea. I suppose Facebook eventually made a monetary offer they couldn't refuse. Whether Facebook makes it a VR advertising unit or Facebook Glass, it's likely to be something very different from what Oculus envisioned as an independent company.
I don't think that's true. I'm connected to a VPN using the built-in VPN client but none of my traffic is going through it (i.e. Send all traffic over VPN connection is unchecked) and my public IP is still the one that my phone has.

EDIT: It seems that the displayed IP is only incorrect, but the service still works over your local IP.
Personally i'm much more concerned with why "i love programming" appeals more to one gender than another, and would prefer to see the cause of the problem tackled first. Abandoning the wording removes any need to have a conversation about things like gender-leaning language in the first place, further burying the issue.
As an early backer of the Kickstarter it's not my reaction at all. The Kickstarter was only about getting a single product delivered: the dev kit.

Once they did that, any obligation they had to me was filled. Basically, that already danced with me. They're certainly free to move on to the folks with more money now.
This has been explained to you about 100 times already, why not start with your best argument instead of pretending the question has never been asked before? For the record I support raising equity through things like Kickstarter and lowering the accreditation threshold for small investments, but you're being extremely disingenuous here.
Moving from Amazon to Google (Play Movies & TV, YouTube [especially given the perennially rumored subscription service]) doesn't really move the needle very much for Netflix in terms of depending on a competitor. I doubt Google would get much traction with Netflix if they made that argument for migrating to GCE.
That's correct. Technical authors definitely don't do it for any financial gain.
Nobody can be in your friends list without your consent.
Botangle is an RPG for Online Education.
As per number 2, are these GH specific or can they be sent upstream?
What you're saying is essentially that women should be discriminated against simply because they don't use the same phrasing as you. You're arrogantly demanding that they change the way they see the world simply because you don't like it. A person who doesn't say they "love" their job can still be as dedicated and passionate about it as you are -- they just put it in different terms. If a particular group of people is more likely to use different terms, then to discriminate against their terminology is to discriminate against that group. I'm sorry you can't stand that other people don't "love" their job, but why is it any of your business? If they do the job well and are comfortable doing it, then there is no reason to discriminate against them.
> I definitely want to be a part of VR, but I will not work with Facebook. Their motives are too unclear and shifting, and they haven’t historically been a stable platform. There’s nothing about their history that makes me trust them, and that makes them seem creepy to me.

Interesting how it all boils down to trust. You could think of all kinds of amazing possibilities, but if you don't trust them, it's 100% off.
Of course it allows search, and you can even customize that search if you have been subscribed for a long time by using your own mail client. Mailing lists also have a similar benefit to git where many people have archives (even if they are incomplete) so the content can't just be massively deleted easily.
​In many aspects, you are correct. It's more of a guiding repository helping you properly architect your web application, especially people who don't use ORM's and manage their application structure on a data level. It gives you an idea as to what you should be building into your app as opposed to guessing and missing something further on down the track.
what about the product they bought?

I don't expect financial payout from a McDonald's franchisee because I bought some hamburgers from them.
What's funny is that everyone would breathe a giant sigh of relief if, when asked about the deal, Zuckerberg just grinned boyishly and said, "It's a VR company run by Carmack, and I'm a multibillionaire. Of course I wanted to own it."
> The ones I would want to hire, even if they haven't used Clojure, would be excited about the idea and at least conversant in the advantages (and disadvantages) of functional languages relative to OO languages.

The problem isn't necessarily sorting through resumes or giving good interviews. It's that all of the developers you want to hire have satisfying and rewarding jobs.
Haha. Then I'll hope I'm wrong, but come up with clear reasons why this will be mainstream and mass market.
Here is something I hacked together with some fellow HN lurkers, in case the YT API stuff tickles your fancy: youstars.herokuapp.com/#/michellephan (using Michelle Phan's channel just as an example since it looks good).

Doesn't do anything too complex with the API, mostly just using the custom YT player. I checked out your user profile and your company. Great to see people doing stuff with YT analytics. It's something I've worked a lot with myself.
The true innovators maybe are the ones that exist by themselves without being "acquired", or before they get acquired (Apple was, is and will probably surprise again in the future, as will Google and Microsoft)

Once they get acquired...well...Skype Hotmail etc etc...(who are they again?)

And that's ok I guess, there's a lot of drive to create and grow (hack?), being top efficient and innovative on a shoe string budget, until you get a nice big fat pay check.

Maybe the little guys with big ideas are only "useful" until they get acquired, by that I mean that maybe it's more of a natural process that one thinks... Maybe by the time the technology is "invented", showcased and becomes stable enough to be "mainstreamed", it's time to collect your dollars and medal for "honourable service to xxxxx industry" and either move onto something else that will be cool and make you more (or less) money eventually and produce more internet "apps" addicts, or retire to the beach.
Ask HN: Looking for quick work ... NEED HELP
Hi,

I'm single founder and I need to create some money ASAP to pay my mortgage and other stuff. Worst comes to worst is I do service/manual work but I would like to leverage my technical skills. Here is break down of me and what I'm looking for.

Residence

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Canada with Canadian citizenship.

Education

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Math and Computer Science

Experience

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15 years of software development experience working for companies with 10,000+ employees.

Technical Skills

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- Java
- JavaScript
- Postgres
- Perl
- Linux
- JGit
- Lucene
- ClearCase
- Git

I'm a full stack web applications developer so I can pretty much do everything from tweaking your servers, automating process, help with scaling, and so forth.

Proof

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I have a working product that demonstrates the skills mentioned above with the exception of ClearCase. I also have a product website and a HN account with a 5 year comment trail.

Looking For

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Remote web related work that shouldn't take more than a few weeks to complete with me working 12-14 hours a day. I can work longer if you don't mind me only spending %50 of my time on your problem. My startup is always going to be my number one priority. This is a very temporary situation I HOPE.

I prefer to be paid under the table with Paypal or something. I was making a 6 figure salary when I was working but I'm obviously willing to work for significantly less. I see this a quid pro quo situation. You get an elance type rate with my skillset and I get paid ASAP.

If interested, please send an email to needmoneynowyes at gmail.com

Thanks
It's better to address the problem directly (investor eligibility) rather than trying to invent technological end-runs around it, because the law is not deterministic and such technological instrumentalities are very transparent to regulators..
Yep. I bet the Java community has far more top 1% talent than Clojure.
Would you find it magical if it were truly immersive 3d where eye movements would scroll and an Omni-like 3D treadmill actually worked?
to be fair, put in zuckerberg's position, I would do the exact same thing.

the last thing I would want is for my house to be surrounded by people who won bidding wars just to own property near me.

it's not like he bought all the surrounding lots and kicked the residents out; iirc he actually went out of his way to essentially set up a pseudo reverse mortgage for one older couple.
> GoDaddy

Yikes.
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It's a tough question Kickstarter might ask itself, but then again since it gets a cut of all the funding that comes through it, why would it want to stop (over)funding these company projects. I think at this stage it won't change unless it is forced to from a third party.
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Sorry if I'm not completely convinced by your half-sentence dismissals of those incredibly multifaceted organizations you listed.
The Church of England and the British Government are not independent. That's the problem. They are unfortunately inter-related to a great degree.

See:
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_England_Assembly_(Po...

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supreme_Governor_of_the_Church...
I'll go ahead and dance with anyone for 2 billion dollars?
I'd never use any router provided by an ISP. Use your own router and their device as a next step DHCP server.
But most people go to Kickstarter to fund the development of a particular product, not to boost the corporate entity that produces it. I mean, it's not that Kickstarter buyers are against people earning a living and making a profit, but something like 9 out of 10 Kickstarter projects are 'labor of love, we want to make it accessible to you as cheaply as possible,' as opposed to 'we want to build up a lot of buzz and then have a ginormous exit/IPO/get rich beyond your wildest dreams.'
How long until Facebook acquires kickstarter?
...and does it make sense that they would?
I like wit.ai but I don't think their pricing model is sustainable for many developers.

At bulk pricing you get 25000 queries/day for $1500/month. At 30 days/month it comes down to $.002/query.

Assuming you generate revenue from advertising and you are able to display one ad per every query. You have to do $2 CPM or better to break even. Which is about the current market price [1].

There are other revenue models than mobile ad, but taking that example the developers would have to give all their revenue to wit.ai which would not make any business sense.

[1] http://www.quora.com/Mobile-Advertising/What-are-current-mob...
Rules of being acquired:

1st rule: you do not talk about the money
2nd rule: you DO NOT talk about the MONEY
3rd rule: you talk about how the acquirer and acquiree shares the same vision and dreams that would enable the acquiree to build great things.
No it's even worse. Now I have to work even harder to have the marginal experience I can have from my desk.
Listing WFH Jobs
Picked from FireSpotting by mattt416. Seems relevant to HN as well.
Sony has a pretty good record when it comes to supporting gamers and not trying to get one on them at every chance... cough MS cough
Google builds their own servers, since at least 2005 - http://www.cnet.com/uk/news/google-uncloaks-once-secret-serv... and builds it's own switches, owns an ARM chip design company and "may be" building custom server chips - http://gigaom.com/2013/12/12/google-may-be-making-its-own-cu...
It would be a big step, but I doubt they couldn't afford it. They make more money per employee than Apple does.
Topic aside, I'm now officially jealous of those who post to StackExchange/Mathematics, because they can post Latex and see it rendered:

<p>$$z(t) = \int_{-\infty}^{\infty}R(\omega) e^{i\omega t} \mathrm{d}\omega$$</p> -> https://i.imgur.com/fLFlv7f.png

I can do this when I create a page on my site (I also have MathJax installed), but none of the discussion groups I post to supports Latex rendering. I keep thinking this will eventually become universal, but IMHO "eventually" is taking too long.

Anyway: http://www.mathjax.org/ (it's free)
For tax purposes does it matter when the device is obsolete or when it reaches the end of it's expected lifespan as functional hardware?
This just makes me uncomfortable. It's part of the reason why, when I had FIOS (about 4 years ago), I pretty quickly disabled their WiFi and used a separate access point. At that time, the SSID and key were hard-coded and were printed on the bottom of the router, and if I recall correctly, the key was directly derived from the MAC address of the router.
~33M units shipped, at prices between $5 and $27 a pop, depending on platform and date of sale. So that'd be somewhere between $165M and $831M in revenue (with the actual figure being pretty far from either limit) off of something that originally amounted to little more than a hobby project.

Yeah, it's hard to imagine he saw that coming.
Why Apple Will Never Make Printers Again (2009)
Did he not just say, "stuffing lolcats into your feed?"
Oh shit. Sorry for the spoiler. It didn't occur to me that I'd be spoiling the ending for those who hadn't read it. Good one, me!

There's more context and events in the story which fit in with this ending, but I should leave them for the discovery of reading it.
Glad to see this book is being brought back to life. It was originally supposed to be written by Evan Shaw, who I believe work(ed/s) for Iron.io, but it became abandonware. Demand for the book was quite high so I'm glad Manning has found authors that want to actually finish it.
Probably, but in the end, it doesn't matter: there is a single, widely archived mailing list that almost everybody knows about.

Outside the several mailing lists we have, there's nothing resembling a central repository of security research and industry gossip. It's possible that it all could be done better with a custom web forum, a VIP room on Chatroulette, or a well-designed UUCP dead-drop - but so far, despite many attempts, nobody really succeeded with that.

Plus, F-D is awful mostly because it's a fairly accurate mirror of the security community itself (and certainly many of the web forums I have seen). More often than not, this is what makes the headlines - not a novel sandbox escape exploit that bypasses kSLR.
You know that's a really good question. It would make enormous sense for them.
> Zuck gets on stage and talks about this world of global connections, and articulates this sweeping vision of a utopia where your whole life is enhanced by Facebook, but what we actually get are cat photos, fake cows, and people yukking it up about celebrity buzzfeed articles.

Have you ever considered that this may not be Zuck's fault and that, in fact, this may actually be what the connected world he talks about actually wants?

Do you want Facebook to somehow force the world to become not just more connected but more enlightened? Are we to be cut off from facebook if we post one too many cat photos or stupid chain letter memes? Is that a power we really want anyone to have?
Yep. AppEngine is a platform, not a pure infrastructure offering. GCE is the pure infra offering.
I don't understand your reasoning – the point of selling equity is to have more money available for immediate use. If they had followed this path, they might have raised even more capital.
Nothing to do with each other, but eBay made $1.4B on the deal.
Judge dismisses Ceglia lawsuit over ownership of Facebook