skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In Belgium, there is political discussion on whether or not AirBnB hosts will have to register in the future. This comes a few weeks after Uber has been made illegal in Brussels (Berlin is said to follow). I see more government interference for such services in the future and on one point they are right: they are not playing by the same rules as their competitors (established channels such as hotels). That's why maybe the valuation of AirBnB will drop in the future.
STS-128 launched 4 days after a scrub. STS-134 had 3 days between attempts. STS-74 was scrubbed due to weather at landing sites, and launched the next day (about 30 hours later).

The older shuttle launches generally had less penalty for missing their launch window because they were not going to ISS (or Mir or Hubble) and didn't have to wait for a very specific launch window for rendezvous, which can take days.

Apollo never had a scrub, which is nice because missing your launch window to the moon can mean waiting another month. The Saturn V could turn around in 2 or even 1 day, theoretically. They did have to do a few holds.
How can you see that?
And for what is probably the least safe way to split wood, http://www.thestickler.com/

It attaches to your car-axle and is a giant screw that splits wood.
I think not (rather, it depends), if they listed the day after say receiving a wire transfer of the amount, their NAV would only be higher by the $500M, so in a sensible world, investors would be buying the cash along with other assets essentially. This wouldn't pump up the fair value, as there would be a dilution (or likely anti-dilution) aspect to the NAV of each share post the transaction.

If on the other hand, they were to find immediate use for that amount, they could justify it being put into tangible and intangible assets whose fair value is higher than book value. Though since the grandparent poster states that they already make $250M in revenue, if they are making a net profit, the cash will only be useful in the medium to long-term for expansion.
Well the ugliness here comes from the creation of a completely generic wrapper generator for any (constructor, destructor) C pair. If you just want to wrap one pair, you can typedef on unique_ptr and you're done
Here is a better article.

http://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1279619

But they are both still wrong.

A. The rate of Keys per second on both are way low, and B, you don't have to test every combination, Certain combinations will tell you that whole chunks of possibilities are not possible.

In truth most of the time you can narrow the potentials to 1% of the total possible to determine a range for the right answer pretty quickly.

Granted if it was as slow as 77 Billion years .7 billion years is still a long time. But no, these numbers are orders of orders of magnitude wrong.
The fuzzy math behind the search for MH370
Cassandra is open source and used in a large number of IoT applications. Most famous one being Nest.

Also as far as throughput Netflix is doing 1.5 trillion (yes trillion) transactions per day in production on Cassandra.
I use a Fiskar X27[0] splitting axe and swinging that into a 12" round log of white birch or white spruce at -30C to -45C is like cutting through butter.

[0]
http://www2.fiskars.com/Gardening-and-Yard-Care/Products/Axe...
That Russian spy-boat Elon Musk tweeted about seems to be moving away from Cape Canaveral:

http://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/home/centerx:-79.71987/c...

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/457190623640969216

Anyone know where the stage is supposed to be coming down?
California's last mail carrier by boat
Want a Samsung Chromebook 2? Be prepared to wait.
Hmm, it appears you're right. I was coming from a proper P&L perspective: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Profit_and_loss_statement#Usefu...
Karl Polanyi
Gracias por todo Gabo!
Some folks are following along with this afternoons rocket launch in #techendo on freenode.net
The parent specifically mentioned Nigeria. Africa is not a country, and his comment may not apply to say, South Africa or Morocco. You're the one generalizing about 3rd world countries, not him.

If you think LLE or even the FBI is going to open the diplomatic channels necessary to pursue someone in Nigeria over access to a consumer-grade router, you're kidding yourself. For all practical purposes, these laws do not in fact apply there.
What Illumina really needs to do if they want a software ecosystem is make a simple Illumina network API for their sequencers, and post an Illumina mock sequence producing server on their Github. https://github.com/sequencing
Reuse of the Falcon 9 first stage probably won't make huge news waves until they land the stage back near the launch site.
I used all of those things - irc, the web (gopher), etc., at 9600 baud for years. Wasn't a problem.

Also, you don't really need to configure a browser - just use lynx, which will ignore most of the bandwidth hungry aspects of a site.
I saw the HN article questioning Zidisha - Modern Microcredit I think. My experience has differed from that author's impression, and I have tried to be as transparent as possible to explain with hard data why. But I cannot explain HOW this difference in experiences with Zidisha occurs. My concerns with Kiva are more far-reaching, but no point going over that now. I receive many emails asking precisely this question, which prompted me to embark on an overview of the sector, explain the options available (there are more than you might think!), and to examine the individual players in each option. Ultimately you need to decide what you actually seek to achieve, and which model you prefer. Do you need to use a P2P at all, for example? What about simply opening a savings account in a regulated microfinance bank and leaving your funds there, potentially earning a small interest rate? Your funds will be used for the same purpose, lending to microfinance clients, but you won't know which? And if you prefer the P2P mechanism, as far as I can see the key questions are: lend or donate? Lend at interest or interest-free? Lend via an MFI or directly? Once you answer these questions you will have narrowed your search down significantly, and can then do a more detailed analysis of the options available. I think you should think about these questions, and be aware of the options, before you try to select who you should invest with.

You are right that MyC4 is euro denominated. However, I had a quick look at their FAQ:

https://www.myc4.com/About/MAIN_FAQ#WHO_CAN_INVEST

Seems to be available to everyone.
That took you an hour?
When given the option to either abort the process or put hardware into an unrecoverable state and requiring a reboot, you leave the assert in for production.
Not at the moment, but we are considering a few alternatives.
Nice! yeah it's a bit rare. Is it just me are there a lot of parallels between software and the fire service? haha.
> For one, there's significant variance to how family units function across the human population.

This article and discussion seem to be pretty squarely focused on the west (and particularly the US). I've lived around the world and realize that the norms are very different elsewhere, but here at least the expectation is for adults to leave their childhood home in their 20s and we have policies in place to encourage that (ex. mortgage tax incentives).

> Yup, sounds 21 to me. Quick to anger and lash out, quick to judge, moral certitude, and lack of empathy.

I might be quick to judge (often a useful trait), but nothing about this made me angry. And, in case you missed it, my second point (that it's not necessarily their fault) was specifically because I emphasize with the situation of people who are adrift in their 20s. As a country, I think we've in many ways failed them by providing insufficient educational and employment opportunities. That it's not their fault doesn't change the fact that living at home at 28 is a failure of the normal American life.

> So blanket statements like this reek of cultural superiority and lack of education, frankly.

Interesting that you dislike blanket statements, yet that's exactly what I was objecting to in the article (the blanket characterization of people in their 20s as "emerging adults").
Would it be possible to add "live webcast at 2:30pm ET / 11:30am PT"?
Singapore is not nearly as isolated as NZ is. It's on a major ocean shipping lane and is just a bridge away from Malaysia. The problem isn't that NZ is reliant on imports (all countries are to a degree), it's that it is expensive to ship things there since it is out-of-the-way.

That being said, there probably is also a cultural element. I wouldn't really say it was a cultural shift. It's more that the relative stability and increasing globalization in the latter half of the 20th century gave Singaporeans the opportunity to realize their entrepreneurial ambitions.
If you have a large enough table of primes and factors RSA 2048 is only about 5% harder to crack than a 1024.

If you don't have one it is billions of times harder. How large is your Prime table? How large is mine? How large is the NSA's?
Adding to Sam's post I'd like to see employees made aware about tools like 83(b) elections to decrease their tax liability.
>Perhaps the best way to think about it is to try to come up with a total compensation package with the same expected value (using the company valuation of the last round, or a best-efforts guess if it’s been a long time since the round) as the employee would get at a big company like Google

Am I missing something or is this saying people should be offered an 'expected' equal compensation package to what they would get at Google? What would the incentive be? Google is a company with quite a bit of projected longevity, career progression, and very good perks. Why would I choose a startup with inherently greater risk for only the same reward?
"...porque las estirpes condenadas a cien años de soledad no tenían una segunda oportunidad sobre la tierra..."
Ah, did not see that. It's confusing since the Falcon 9 Wikipedia page also has the Falcon 9 Reusable: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falcon_9#Falcon_9-R
I think it still is a proper P&L perspective to label this revenue. Similarities in other markets:

- a payment processor doesn't label all money flowing through the system as revenue, just their cut of it.

- a marketplace like Etsy has gross merchandise sales that tracks how much has been bought on their platform, and revenue just accounts for what they took in
This article starts with a flawed premise, that the right way to create a managed pointer is something like this[1].

std::unique_ptr<void,void(*)(void*)> big_ptr(malloc(1), free);

The wasteful thing about this is that you have to store the deleter (free() in this case) right next to your void* for every pointer you manage, so the unique_ptr is twice as large as it needs to be. What you'd like to do is store the deleter in the type of the pointer rather than the pointer itself. It turns out unique_ptr can handle this. If the second template parameter is a type with an overloaded function call operator, then unique_ptr will use that to delete. We can wrap it up like so.

template <class T, void F(T *)> struct unique {
struct deleter { void operator()(T *p) { F(p); }; };
typedef std::unique_ptr<T, deleter> ptr;
};

With this helper type you can now declare a similar managed pointer

unique<void, free>::ptr small_ptr(malloc(1));

but this time notice that the deleter function is the second template parameter and not an argument to the constructor and the following holds.

assert(2 * sizeof(small_ptr) == sizeof(big_ptr));

[1] I used malloc() and free() so those of you following along at home can easily try this out for yourselves.
Google Trends Debuts Email Notifications For Search Topics
These guys got a YC interview. Problems solved: None.
I am not saying that their app is boring, but still, it doesn't solve any problem as such. And I wonder why they would need mentoring / funding for this kind of product.

http://www.reddit.com/r/startups/comments/23a9cy/we_got_a_yc_interview_heres_our_pitch/
"Accounting for" means they made sure it was strong enough for the expected loads.
Another TCP/32764 backdoor [pdf]
I think he is saying to use the "expected value" calculation that guys like Michael O. Church and the others who warn of the dangers of overvaluing options. Generally, this applies a heavy discount to the potential value of the options to account for the increased risk. So the compensation package should be salary + EV(options) ~= big company. That leaves substantial upside in the case of a success (and if you are joining a company and taking any options at all instead of salary, you should be betting on this anyway).

Google may not be the best company to pin to, since they offer pretty generous stock grants from what I understand.
I found them from the article's history - I can see dead articles history as an admin.
never underestimate the value of #1

I think many people agree that's how doubleclick became a $3B acquisition. Doubleclick closed $40m in jun 97 and another $86m in 98. So they (luckily or cannily) raised a ton of money right before the dot com crash, slashed spending, and owe a piece of their success (definitely not all, but a piece) to having the financial reserves to be one of the few companies to weather the crash.
The specs for $20 is same for DO and Linode excepting for the 8GB extra HDD on Linde.
This is an excellent idea. I'm often out of town for 2-3 weeks, but I can't take multiple bookings because I don't have anyone to change the linen & take out the trash.

I'd also like some way of organising the key drop-off.

A couple of companies are already doing this as a standalone service:

http://proprly.com
https://apoio.co
https://www.airenvy.com
Correct, I failed to mention this in my original post. My fee was $35 (3.5% of $1000), and my total bids have been $1818 over the period, so this equates to about 2% overall. Unsure if I have to pay this 3.5% to get the funds out again. Have you thought of speaking to PayPal to see if they would waive this fee as they did with Kiva? They seem fairly sympathetic to microfinance, and this is an innovate model. However, they may perceive you as a competitor to Kiva, particularly as they now have Kiva Zip, and I imagine Kiva themselves would prefer to retain exclusivity in this waiver of trasnaction fees. No harm in asking. Post their response here!
Up-And-Comers: Seed Money
Processed foods that dilute protein content subvert our appetite control systems
Startups are trivial by nature
A powerful, precise language aptitude test is entering civilian life
Exactly. And we've built an environment where it's not possible or not pleasant to build these types of places.
Startups are often about finding money machines. Ideally these guys are constantly asking questions like:

1) What is the lifetime value of a user?
2) What is the lifetime value of a property owner who lists with us?

Once you start to be able to define the LTV of various user types, you then look for way to trade money for users/customers. If a property owner statistically averages $1000 in profit for airbnb over 3 years, you'd be willing to buy a user like that for <$999, right? Not so fast, though. $999 is a lot of $ and 3 years is a long time. Funding like this allows Airbnb to "buy users" (thru paid channels, growth teams, etc) at a rate that would be impossible with just organic revenues/profits.

In short, imagine businesses as an engine where you put $1, and (hopefully) $1.25 comes out. Young businesses don't often have enough cash to fully take advantage of the engine they've built.
Because "kids these days" are refusing to do them, yet demanding they have better lifestyle then the people who are doing them.
Jerry also streams on twitch[0] from time to time. It's very rarely, but he plays with viewers, does puzzles, does blitz tournaments on chesscube.

If you create an account on twitch, you can have it email you when he starts streaming. Because of the amount of people that get that email though (1000+, that's just the people that tend to watch him), it normally doesn't arrive til after he's been streaming for a while.

He also did live commentary on the Anand Carlsen games through twitch.

[0] http://www.twitch.tv/chessnetwork
Gabriel Garcia Marquez, The Art of Fiction No. 69 (1981)
It depends on your SoC, but most of the time your application won't be able to access HW codecs and then you have no choice but using the mediaserver.
I think that if you pull OMX functions from libstagefright you are actually using IOMX, it's the regular OMX IL API but using IPC with the mediaserver.
One of these things: {Uber, Airbnb, Tesla} is not like the others.
Am I missing something, or is the example in the README installing plugins uselessly?

.use(events)
.use(each)
.use(dispatch);

It would be less confusing to defer that to examples that actually use these plugins.
8 Tips for Leading A Game Development Team Into The Unknown
This is a great post, and I agree with almost everything Sam wrote. I think problems #1 and #4 are unfair (you might get less than you deserve, or less than you thought you were getting), but problems #2 and #3 are extremely unfair (you can't take what you've earned with you if you leave the company, or you have to pay taxes on something that has no liquid value and might not have any value in the long run).

I'd love to get Sam's (or anyone else's) thoughts on the 10%/20%/30%/40% 4-year vesting schedule that was mentioned. I don't like this schedule for two reasons:

1) It creates larger discrepancies in what employees earn over time relative to each other. If employee #1 joins today and gets a 2% grant, and employee #20 joins in 2 years and gets a 0.2% grant, then in year 3 of the company, employee #1 will vest 30x as much as employee #20, instead of 10x with the current 25%/25%/25%/25% scheme.

2) This scheme seems to replace and/or ruin refresher grants. Currently, if you do a good job, you get refresher grants every year or two. With the 10/20/30/40 system, you're already getting higher and higher compensation over time, regardless of performance, and the bump from refresher grants while you are vesting your original grant becomes minor. Furthermore, the drop from what you vest in year 4 to what you'd vest from just refresher grants in year 5 becomes much more dramatic and much more likely to push someone to look for other work.

What do others think?
The Flu Tricked Google. Can Wikipedia Do Better?
It still is: https://simple.crate.io/ :-)
I like CodingMadeEasy[0]. It's made by a guy (college drop-out) that is working on his own start-up of sorts, trying to become a game developer. He has a nice MonoGame tutorial, for example. His other tutorials are mostly related to game development as well, I think. And certainly not limited to C#.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/user/CodingMadeEasy
do you (or anyone else) know what happens if you do an 83b election then leave the company before 4 years?

Also, this doesn't really help post A, particularly if you're getting pretty senior and have a bunch of experience. At my last place, I would have had a $50k bill to do an 83b. I could write that check but goddamn is that a lot of cash to part with.

edit: thank you @rosser
Interesting idea. I've been thinking about this a lot lately.

I love the full stack and want to pursue it as my post-grad career. That being said, it seems like full-stack people are only really valuable in situations in which their full-stack capabilities of wearing multiple hats is competitively needed.

IMO, that only happens in the early stages of a startup or temporary resource constrained company (i.e. a project etc.). I.e. the working arrangements are in somewhat temporary in nature.

So the biggest issue I see with become a full stack developer is how to chase after these inevitable temporary work arrangements. That's my biggest hesitation: How do I make sure I have a constant stream of work if I assume that my current gig/work is gonna be limited in time.

I'm no expert, but I don't expect the conveyance of skills to be a major problem, it's more like a matching problem of people who need something done, but can't afford to hire multiple people for that.
The best solution I have heard is from Adam D’Angelo at Quora. The idea is
to grant options that are exercisable for 10 years from the grant date,
which should cover nearly all cases

That is an awesome idea, and really classy on Adam's part.
I cleaned it up as best as I could:

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Niels_Olson/...
> Don't appreciate your tone. Relax buddy, it's Friday.

Wow, sorry, I didn't know you were an internet badass, that changes everything.

As for relaxing, have you considered taking your own advice?

> I'm arguing for introducing thin abstractions over the underlying API to handle lifetime issues, and encapsulate icky, SDL-specific details and types as they arise.

Yes, now that you point it out I can certainly see a careful balancing of the tradeoffs between having to maintain custom code versus the ability to create more extended abstractions in your summary declaration that unique_ptr is hard to read, hard to use and not RAII.
The starving artists, musicians, olympic athletes, and startup founders are temporarily not-yet-rich.

Not having won isn't the problem, it's being satisfied and not playing the game which society shuns.
I actually had to explain 83(b) elections to HR at my current job. I don't think it's just employees that need to be made aware of them...
This is generally helpful, but generally avoid advice from people who refer to signature algorithms or cryptographic hash functions as ciphers.

It should also be mentioned how you came up with your ordering of TLS cipher suites, in declining priority

1. Forward security is preferred (ECDH|DH > RSA)
2. AESGCM > AES256 > AES|AES128 > 3DES
3. ECDH > DH
What about Lorde?
Ad Spend Growth For Bing Is More Than Double That Of Google’s
I suspect they have bigger ambitions in the "sharing economy". Airbnb (and uber) have demonstrated very good execution so makes sense to place $$ with them.
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Typically, the company will buy back unvested shares at the strike price if you've forward exercised them.
its actually sql on top of elasticsearch
The occurrence of cellars is dependent more on the geography in the US. For example in Florida where the water table is very high, it makes little sense to dig a cellar since it would constantly have to be pumped out. However in the midwest and north east cellars are quite common.
actually the extensions system in gnome is kind of magical. You go to extensions.gnome.org using Firefox and click a button and suddenly your alt-tab behavior has changed. It is awesome - I think the phrase "extensions" has come to connote "complications" ... but is not the case in Gnome.

I'm actually impressed at how they built a javascript API to be able to mess with core UX !
All that said, I don't think the price x qty numbers are meaningless.
You can get away with having users open accounts and install software (like dropbox) to use your service if they know it's good - but for potential customers who don't already know your product, I'd want to make it easy to see how good/useful/cost effective your service is.
Getting the Incentive Auction Right
"It requires zero administration." I am skeptical.
I suppose you simply wrap the functionality in a class with a destructor? That's what I thought at first too; however, the author mentions in the comments section on that page something about this interacting in a hard fashion with C++11's rvalue references, and copy and move constructors.

Another use on here suggested a shorter and more efficient way to write the code [0].

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7610571