skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ironically if they go further into South America and end up in the crazy deregulated market of Peru, where it seems like most car owners operate as taxi drivers, Uber will find their value proposition being that of the regulated taxi industry (pay more and wait longer to get registered drivers who are less likely to take you to a dark alleyway full of robbers and more likely to fix the dents in their car)
I've seen the jump vertically 10 feet, hover, and then squeeze through a 4" hole in a deer fence...

No, I'm using wire covers over my raised beds. Luckily some plants appear to be safe, so far, e.g. tomatoes and peppers.
Software Arts, as in Visicalc, used Prime computers. I see from a biography of Dan Bricklin, the less technical of the two, that:

Prior to forming Software Arts, he had been a market researcher for Prime Computer Inc., a senior systems programmer for FasFax Corporation, and a senior software engineer for Digital Equipment Corporation. At Digital, he was project leader of the WPS-8 word processing software, where he helped to specify and develop one of the first standalone word processing systems.

And the more technical partner Bob Frankston was an MIT type. I remember one Software Arts employee, friend of one or more, or maybe Bob's youngest brother, who was a friend of mine, mention that among other things they appreciated what the system adopted from Multics.

Being bit-sliced, the Prime micro-architecture you mention was microcoded, which of course would fit with their following the example of the successful System 360, many models of which had to be microcoded because the logic family they used pretty much had only one speed, they made micro-architectures narrower, down to 8 bits as I recall, for the slower machines, and the 2? fastest had none.

Honeywell's rejection of microcoding helped made Multics and GECOS systems terribly uncompetitive, at least by the time Visicalc was being developed, although the macro-architecture allowed you to easily hook up 6 CPUs in one system (and 8 with a horrible kludge, as I recall).
Well, we still use leeches today in modern medicine, so there's clearly some efficacy on display.
For contractors, they should have terms in their contract that assigns all copyright in their work exclusively to the company.

http://www.epiclaw.net/2011/01/10/beware-work-made-hire-lang...
Good luck. Keep in mind rabbits/deer/squirrels spend all their waking hours trying to get into your garden.
Not having read the article, I wonder if this might be a common response in mammals -- if you're too sick to eat for two whole days, immune system "assumes"[1] it's missed something, and tries desperately to get you back to healthy enough to forage/hunt...?

[ed: well, that's entirely wrong, based on the article -- it's the body killing off as much dead weight as possible in order to hang on a bit longer -- then healing back up when food is avaliable. Oh, well :-) ]

[1] By which I mean there is some complex time-delayed protein-signal-avalanche that is somehow tied to long periods without nutrition...
Yeah, I'm not suggesting that everyone should optimize right out of the gate for acquisition, I even thought about making a more detailed set of points on that, but decided it was overkill.

I think it's like this:

- There's a base level of prep for acquisition that just falls under the category of "good operational cadence for a company". This is the basic level of keeping the books clean, organizing your papers, etc.

- Then there's a level of prep that it makes sense to do when you think you are getting close to a term sheet, or planning to start to actively seek acquisition. This is the much more detailed indexing of contracts, covenants, tracking down old shareholders, etc. Hopefully if you did the above point, this is made easier, since you're at least storing everything in one place

- Then in the DD phase, there's going to be requests that you just can't prepare for, because they're out of left-field. If you've done #1 and #2, you can invest most of your efforts on those.

But to your point:

> If a deal is worth doing, it's probably not going to live or die based on how many tens of thousands of dollars you can whittle off closing costs.

It's almost never a matter of closing costs. It's a matter of momentum and risk. Yes, if a company is 100% convinced that they absolutely must have your technology/customers/IP/whatever, they'll overlook many many flaws.

But, if you go into the due diligence process and things are overly messy, it throws up red flags and creates delays, neither of which are in the entrepreneurs favor.

The DD folks and legal counsel for the acquirer are there to be a voice of reason and caution - the messier things are, the more likely they are to start cautioning the acquirer. Typically, the corp dev guys are raring at the bit, since this is what they're there to do. Legal is meant to act as the countervailing weight to that.

Risk is unlikely to kill the deal outright, but it could delay things and create uncertainty in the acquirer. All of a sudden they start talking about putting an extra 10-15% in escrow, or doing an earn-out instead of a straight acquisition, as a hedge. Or they decide they want to interview a few more customers before they pull the trigger.

Which is where delay comes in - the longer the interval between term sheet and deal signing, the worse off for the startup. Not because of the legal costs, but because:

- it's disruptive to the business - your whole life becomes dealing with due diligence, not to mention the stress level

- it gives the acquirer the chance to rethink their decision or consider another route

- business conditions could change - your biggest competitor goes up for sale at a bargain basement price

So, in the end, you're not optimizing for cost, and prepping for DD is definitely not worth doing pre-product or at the expense of building your business. But it does reduce risk and improve the likelihood of deal close once you get to that point.
I'm a bit confused here? The OP basically said "your LLC created the IP and now a C-Corp owns but it never legally transferred it". IANAL, but from what they've told me, if IP is transferred from one entity to another you must make a transaction. You can't simply say "I made this so wherever I go to next, that entity owns it"

Source - I've had the same situation and discussed with a lawyer.
This is a mischaracterization of the past 30 years. In the 1980s, American's really were told to drastically reduce their fat intake due to a misunderstanding of LDL. It remains recommended to only be 10% of your daily intake of calories -- a statement of the percentage of calories you should eat as fat, not a statement about excess calories, which can be regarded as bad in general regardless of their source. If you look at what took place in the following 30 years since this stance, fat intake has in fact been reduced quite considerably in the United States, yet heart disease has increased. This has nothing to do with worshiping "ancient wisdom", its simply identifying an error science made (which it is allowed to do), and rectifying it without historical revisionism.
Because you will be excluding connectivity. Maybe you think that only affects far off places and not your stuff and your networks, but be aware that many mobile networks are using IPv6. The number of mobile devices keeps increasing. One day you (or the boss) will get a new device and it will have connectivity problems. Google and Facebook will work just fine.

Sure there is NAT and various other things carriers and ISPs can do, but that will increasingly be the slow path, and possibly even charged for.

You can put your head in the sand, only to have this issue bite you badly and urgently one day, or you can start now slowly but surely making sure everything appropriate is done. For example you can make sure purchases of equipment and software claim to work correctly (how will your VPN work?), do whatever training is necessary etc and gradually add IPv6 to your infrastructure and clients.
I immediately thought about that after posting, but in reality markup is a clunky and expensive way to dictate this and it would create a lot of waste for something that would be used infrequently.

An interesting idea that comes to mind is the concept of a Mobile Stylesheet / .mss file that would define elements by ID / class and dictate what those elements would represent in a mobile UI. Then you wouldn't have a bunch of needless data-mobile-intent="blah"
John Taylor Ghatto & John Holt have already laid down in great detail of the problems of government schooling and solutions to those problems as illustrated in many of the comments in this thread.
"They can't ignore laws just because those laws are inconvenient to them."

I completely agree with you, but at the same time, for whatever reason companies (Uber / Airbnb) have been able to completely ignore rules & laws to the tune of tens of billions of dollars (in valuations).

It's almost "might makes right": ignore rules and grow as fast as possible, with the hope that you'll grow faster than the legal system can take you down. By the time the legal system could do anything, you're big enough to change the rules.
Very much this. Many, many, many years ago when I made my living doing freelance tech support/AV for hire, I lucked into a well known recording artist as a client who needed some help with the computer equipment in his studio. My rate was already $80/hr before working with this client but word quickly got around and I had more clients than I could manage. I upped my rate to $160/hr and coasted on this for a couple of years.
Let's see, what can I be outraged about today ... ah, here we go!
I'd argue that, with the possible exception of creative artists (authors, musicians, painters, etc.) there's no such thing as an "irreplaceable" worker. Even founders--there's plenty of companies that have been successful after replacing the founder with another CEO--sometimes even more successful, if an experienced executive takes over from a wet-behind-the-ears founder.
Chris Lattner: Swift supports # scripts
By comparison, the taxi & limo industry does $11 billion in sales across the entire US market.

For Uber to ever justify just this funding round, they'll probably need to become roughly the size of 1/3 the entire taxi business in terms of sales (assuming $3.x billion in sales and $600x million in profit off that base, and assuming a reasonable 20 to 30 pe ratio over time).

I'm guessing Uber is betting on selling customers a lot more than their current service offerings. There's no other way they can justify this type of valuation.

As of 2013, Uber was only generating $200 million in revenue for the entire year (according to the leaked numbers). Uber could grow crazy fast and still not justify this valuation for six or seven years. That's quite the long term bet being placed here.

http://www.ibisworld.com/industry/default.aspx?indid=1951
Drawing random names out of a hat, by the looks of things.
The SO docsets are specific to a tag. Some of theme are gigantic. Therefore you have the option of downloading them in their entirety for offline use (I think the iOS one was 300-400MB's) or you can download just the index (which was like 20MB) which allows for fast search results but needs a connection to retrieve the full content.
What I learned from rebranding our company in 4 short weeks
Ahhh -- thanks for the link. I was just trying to dig up an old NANOG thread which discussed Gmail's use of the same technique.

I noticed class E address space in my gmail activity log years ago, and a wink from a googler implied this is what they were doing. Nice to have confirmation.
Do something for free and people start getting upset when you don't do it.
Google's algorithm out for a vendetta.
If you are writing web applications and haven't at least skimmed through the HTTP RFCs, then you worry me deeply.
There is more involved than just calories. It's surprising that this myth continues to hold, when we understand how differently macronutrients are treated in the body. Calories are a second-order effect: you don't gain weight because you eat too many calories, your body demands more calories because it is hormonally/nutritionally imbalanced and, therefore, shunting energy into fat cells instead of allowing it to be used for energy. And this doesn't get into the fact that a high percentage of chronically ill patients (CVD, diabetes, dimentia) are thin.

Having dealt with being overweight most of my life, I can't help but believe the reason the myth holds on is because it is a way to justify judging fat people as less than skinny people since they just "can't control themselves".

Eat a better macronutrient ratio, and the body responds positively, even for isocaloric diets, whether for weight loss[1] or for maintenance[2]. But, really, isocoloric doesn't mater; what matters is ad libitum eating. Ironically, every study that I've read that compares low carb diets against low fat diets allows ad libitum eating for the low carb but restricts caloric intake for the low fat. Why is that? Even with that constraint, the low carb diets win[3].

1. http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/early/2014/04/30/ajcn.113....

2. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22735432

3. http://nutrition.stanford.edu/documents/AZ_abstract.pdf (I have a lot of respect for Christopher Gardner. He's a vegetarian who started this study because he believed a vegetarian diet would trounce other diets. It didn't, but he didn't try to game the results. That's an unfortunately rare behavior in nutrition research where so many people seem to be more concerned with proving their idea correct than finding the truth.)
If anything, on HN users constantly talk about the fact they'd never work at a startup unless they were a co-founder or a late stage employee.
As for WWDC, the videos from the Swift sessions are on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLxwBNxx9j4PUPPcHVrrCH...
Stripe: Open Source Retreat Grantees
Brits use pounds and miles. Australians use dollars and kilometres. I see no problem.
The Process Paradox
Do you honestly think Uber can do that while simultaneously removing per-trip, tax medallions, and other taxi related revenues from the city coffers?
Swift sessions from WWDC 2014 on YouTube
It'd be interesting to see what an HN server would look like.

I'm glad Mojang is protecting their (often very young) userbase. Perhaps they also need a "Minecraft for non-players" faq that they can point paying adults to.
Oh yea I totally agree. Some people definitely can't control themselves and in their case closing down the account is definitely best. I had a friend who broke his civ4 cd so he'd stop playing so much... He just ended up pirating it a month later haha. I should have specified in my comment "if possible".

I've considered the messaging app but given the immaturity of app permissions and Facebook's abysmal record, I figured I'd stick with the incognito login thing.
>the lack of concrete support for the rebels in Syria, notwithstanding the brutality of the Assad regime or widely-accepted evidence of chemical attacks. If the US were actually intent on toppling that regime it has had ample opportunity to advance that goal, but has chosen not to do so.

Obama, who is hardly a hawk, was politically unable to act due to citizens understandable war weariness. Putin has no such restraints.
You see, the discussion - as I get it - was about very status of the copyright law - i.e. whenever there's a legal basis for a lawsuit or Mojang threats are void. It wasn't about server operators who don't give a damn about that - sure there are some.
Oh no, not .... looking weird! Raising silly questions! What will people think? Just try to be as normal as possible. Wear whatever other people wear, listen to the same music as other people your age, and don't ever say anything controversial.
"The on-demand-transportation market is enormous"

Yeah, but it's such an easy problem to solve. I already had a few car services on speed dial so this wasn't really a big problem to begin with. All they did was centralize and market it. I live in NYC which is probably the #1 taxi market in the world and have rarely heard someone having trouble calling for a cab.
As @nkozyra says, understanding what all the links do is hard, however there are automated ways of converting common types of webpage layouts into structure data for native presentation.

For example, our startup (shameless plug) utilizes a computer vision technology to automatically extract structured data from articles, images, products, and videos, etc: http://diffbot.com/products/automatic/. These can then be used to present native-experience views.
This looks like the 6th round of funding[1]. The title here indicates that about 14% of the company was sold (series D). The series C round with Google Ventures took about 13% (according to this article). Series B was from Jeff Bezos and co. which didn't have a valuation but Uber was quoted saying "We sold very valuable shares"[2]. Let's call series B funding at ~10 - 15%. Series A usually takes 20%. Seed and angel rounds take any where from 2 - 10%. Another 5 - 10% go to early employees I am guessing.

So based on my very unscientific guesswork, Uber has sold off somewhere between 66 to 92% of their company.

I'm not very versed in this topic, but is it typical to have sold this much of your company at this point in the game?

Let's say they IPO soon. Do they (the founders) stay in complete control of their company? Or is that related to how they split up the stock and the terms at which they sold their shares in each series?

[1] http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/uber

[2] http://techcrunch.com/2011/12/07/uber-announces-32-million-i...
"They can't ignore laws just because those laws are inconvenient to them."

But that's how you disrupt markets!
apdinin, thanks for sharing your perspective, professionally however, you shared that you chose to go into IT instead of humanities academia.

I see the value of literature in conveying the human experience but don't see the value of literary criticism. I like to read on my own and the direct experiencing with the author with their characters and stories, and forming my own interpretation. I've read Harold Bloom's literary criticism and found it wanting, like an old man hanging onto the vestiges of the past century of whatever someone called the "Western Cannon" and isn't his theory of authors' "anxiety of influence" a bit formulaic, a little bit derivative, a little bit obvious. Not everyone attended Execter and then attended Yale and took Harold Bloom and Bloom's mentor's literary course and read from Shakespeare to Dickson to Faulkner, and said "yes" eagerly and thusly beamed at his literary professor's exaltations as the sunbeams shifted dramatically its orientation on late New England spring afternoons through the ivied windows in the harrowed lecture hall. How do you go about to qualify Jack Kerouac and Murakami who takes as much influence from Jazz? Or novels composed of text messages?

Conversely, I form my own interpretation from Zora Neale Hurston and Richard Wright and find it a bit presumptuus that these so-called "multi-cultural" AFAM professors cram down their sociological manifestos down in their criticism; why should I care about the African American or Chicano experience told by Henry Gates Sr. pontificating, when I care about my upbringing as an Asian American and see only through that selfish lenses and rightfully so; and instead like the strong black female characters' sexual awakening and relate to the search for that sexual fulfillment under the strict matriarchy and small-mindedness of her ethnic community that has internalized that hatred and hierachies that was imposed upon them such that the enemy has slowly become themselves,

Our reading experiences is a sensuous, viceral and private one and I don't see why a literary professor's interpretation of that great work is worth than my love for erotica or Michael Crichton or a mom's love for Anne Rice or a monkey's love for a banana. As for comparing literature to coding, coding in the sense of "startup's, exit's" is like comparing Emily Dickson to the slave traders traveling in tugboats in deep south, individual monastic pursuit vs. merchantile activity. Emily may be poorer but she certainly didn't feel a need to overcompensate with digital humanities.
Screw Peter Norton, I want to know what happened to Patrick Norton! :(
Are you really referencing the US Government's guidelines in the process of arguing how wise our ancestors were compared to today's food science?

You might as well ask Coke and McDonald's about their idea of a food pyramid.

Our ancestors knew exceptionally little about food nutrition. They ate what was naturally available to them, as they had absolutely no alternative. Doing something by default because it's the only option, does not make you wise. Our ancestors were in fact ignorant about nearly anything to do with the properties of food / health / nutrition et al. And they also did incredibly stupid things because of that ignorance, history books are filled with this fact.
So when people ask me to be their friend on facebook, what am I supposed to say?
"chances are the DD process isn't what's going to kill it "

Except to keep in mind of course a few things about deal making:

a) Time kills all deals. It's more true than not.

b) Strike while the iron's is hot. [1]

c) Never make deals without some time pressure on a buyer (leads to "a" and lack of "b"). Either artificial or real. (The "never" of course needs to be qualified for the situation for sure).

d) Don't make open ended offers. Why? Time pressure (managed carefully of course) brings people closer to emotion which can make them overpay for something. Now of course everyone wants a "win win" situation so why does that matter? Because, once again and in general, people are either happy with what they have negotiated or they are not. Paying 1 billion for Facebook or 3 billion, assuming the same outcome as we have, would still be viewed as a good deal.

All of the above is generality of course and obviously specifics of the situation do matter.

[1] Go at lightning speed and don't delay. Things do happen to people you are dealing with. Health, accidents, life changes all sorts of things. (Example is Lewis Katz who perished in a plane accident about a week after closing his newspaper purchase). Oh yeah, stock market and general business climate as well. Don't play games and don't delay (other than if you are using it as a strategy of course).
No? If I ran an unlicensed taxi service out of my home using my car I'd be banned too.
Black cabs. Car services were always cheaper. It's just illegal to hail one. Same thing in NYC.
Show HN: SoundCloud Grid
And a functional version in Nimrod: https://gist.github.com/def-/ccef8bb54170b639c497
An interactive application would be more interesting, say via Facetime or Ipad device.

Beyond a reminder to take medication. Can Grandma acknowledge she followed the instructions or received the message? Bonne chance à vous!
Not created, introduced.
Some numbers about NSA's data collection
If you can't seem to control yourself, it absolutely should be binary. For others, practice in moderation.