skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I love the easter egg in browser console. And a very nice design, kudos to the designer for that.
The overall experience is disappointing though. Clicking on Learn More About Topic did not work. Signup has multiple issues already mentioned in other comments.
Having developed multiple community based products myself, I know how hard it is to get first users. If you can create some aspirational value for early users, that can work wonders. For example, the fact that facebook was exclusive to Harvard made it aspirational for others. Another trick is to make the entry invitation based, and let every new member invite a few others. Need for invitation creates aspiration and allowance of 10 creates social gratification for those who join. Of course, execution of these strategies is an art in itself.
Congrats, all. May all our journeys be this incredible.
He's talking about the baseball team, the Cleveland Indians, and the "Chief Wahoo" logo.
> You can if there is a pre-arrangement, or at least the sender and the recipient.

That's the point. My dealer and I have that context. The police don't. (Hypothetically speaking, of course.)
Facebook has built its own switch. And it looks a lot like a server
No, I'm pretty sure you're correct. See my above disclaimer.

Three goals a match, though, still seems more like something rare enough that you might prefer to focus your attention elsewhere and be alerted when they happen than like something that will slowly drive you insane. Do the matches happen at predictable times?
but "driverless car" does, as you would know if you had RTFA.
It's worth noting that I have a friend who was brought out of many years suicidal depression by his faith in God. I say that simply to add balance to our anecdotal judgments upon religion, albeit he isn't part of the Jehovah's Witnesses.
I'd say this is a well thought out analysis, especially compared to other articles that make it to the front-page.

"Snapchat is Intrinsically Worthless" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6671371
Of course Uber isn't worth $17 Billion dollars right now - no one would argue that. The valuation is based not only on what the company is worth right now, but on what investors expect it to be worth in the future.

My startup got into an accelerator at a $500,000 valuation. Were we worth that when we started? Of course not. The hope was that we would be by the time we got out.
That CEO might not be able to take the job without that extra $100k. People buy houses; get loans; get families; split up and end up paying alimony; incur all kinds of other costs. It doesn't take a lot for someone who comes from previous high paying jobs to have commitments that makes $200k/year tight.

I agree with your overall point that it's a red flag if the CEO demands lots more than they need (and they should be prepared for questions about why they're asking for a certain salary), but drawing a specific line does not work.
I just wish he had named it "ping" instead. "Ping me when you... do X" sounds much better than "Yo me..."
Uber is worth $17 Billion because that is how much someone paid for it.*

The question as to Uber will ultimately be worth $17 Billion when those investors try to sell their shares is another question.

And to that question, the Aaron Levie tweet is a good heuristic - "Sizing the market for a disruptor based on an incumbent's market is like sizing the car industry off how many horses there were in 1910."

*of course they only bought part of it, but the easy math of 'they bought x amount for y, so total worth is z'
Uhm... why don't you read paragraph 8 one more time.
Thanks. I vaguely remembered the case from trademarks class, but that was a few years ago. :)
Hi stagas, great job on wavepot! Is there any way we could get in touch off of this thread? My startup company is working on a very similar idea, and I think it would be great to know each other. If you'd like I can send write down my email onto this thread. Hope to talk soon!
>> “For my base case valuation, I’m going to assume that the primary market Uber is targeting is the global taxi and car-service market.”

Uber is not (only) competing with taxis and car services. They are competing with vehicle ownership.

This single assumption dramatically affects the size of market Uber is serving.
EDIT: Nope, I'm wrong; as pointed at below, Apple charges $1/month for unlimited service, whereas Amazon's offering it free.

INCORRECT FORMER COMMENT:
Apple has already thrown unlimited photo storage into iOS 8 (http://www.apple.com/ios/ios8/photos/), so I'd say they've responded preemptively. :)
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I'm faaading aawaaaayy ....
> but the author completely brushed off the entire reason why investors are valuing it at $17 billion.

The investors "value" it at $17 billion because there is a remarkable lack of investment opportunities in general, and an unremarkable lack of investment opportunities with the payoff potential that modern investors are chasing.

If everyone wants to strike it rich and become the next billionaire (or, if you're already a billionaire, then a multi-billionaire), you'll invest absurd amounts of money into whatever you can find. Mundane opportunities might take decades to double your wealth, if not more. And what else are you going to do, spend it?

This doesn't just mean that bizarre concepts that aren't worth anything soon get obscene valuations, it means more modestly smart ideas get obscene valuations too, supposing their true worth is as of yet undetermined.

Too much money to invest, not enough opportunities = weird shit.
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Are "logistics" companies valued higher than other industries?
>Credit Cards are rather uncommon outside of Europe

And the U.S., where they are ubiquitous.
Amazon's Fire Phone will come with free, unlimited cloud storage for photos
Investors are as stupid and biased as any other subset of humanity...they just have more money with which to display their prejudices.
100GB for $1.99 per month, and a terabyte for $9.99 per month
I think Google offers unlimited photo storage, too, but only up to 8MP resolution.
the dynamic perspective seem to be new, seems to be using 4 infrared cameras on the 4 corners on the front of the phone in order to track the persons head. Not sure how well it would work however.
> How do you use node for front-end? I've only ever seen it used for back-end.
I thought the same thing and almost posted your exact comment, but if you click the second slide, it says:

"iCloud Photo Library helps you make the most of the space available on your iOS device, so you can spend more time shooting pictures and less time managing them. It can automatically keep the original high-resolution photos and videos in iCloud and leave behind lightweight versions that are perfectly sized for each device. You get 5GB of iCloud storage free, and other storage plans will start at $0.99 per month."

So it would appear that Apple is making a more seamless way to store and view all your photos on iCloud rather than on device, but is still charging you if you exceed 5GB worth.
It sucks that http://siliconpr0n.org has burst into flames. People would probably be more excited about this if they could check it out.

Similarly, you could check out the Silicon Zoo (http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/creatures/). Very cool stuff!
There are a few alternatives to Rapportive that are gining traction. Check out Connect6 (connect6.com) for starters. It works everywhere not just Gmail -- some have described it as Rapportive for the Browser.
Oh wow, I didn't know that! Awesome. I'll watch those videos on my lunch break. Very cool :)
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A person experts involved in the TC audit have reason to believe is involved in the TC project sent an email, which I read, which said (paraphrased) "We started TC to get Windows disk encryption. Windows now has better disk encryption. We're done."

I know that's shocking to OSS developers, but not everyone cares (at all) about Linux.
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Do VCs have the patience to wait for the availability and legalization of autonomous taxis and transport vehicles?

Amazon basically reinvented the Sears catalog for the modern age, it was business mobile known to work.
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> You get 5GB of iCloud storage free, and other storage plans will start at $0.99 per month.
The head tracking controlled perspective changes in 3D games seems like it'll be awesome.
> probably never heard of the Universal Service Fund,

That may be, but I have. And if the ISPs are reclassified as Title II, perhaps one of the outcomes would be the use of the USF to bring broadband to underserved communities. The USF does quite a bit more than 'connect the poor to phone service.'

* It helps ensure that consumers in all regions of the nation pay similar rates to those in urban areas.
* Discounts that make basic service affordable for low-income consumers (Link-Up America and Lifeline)
* Subsidies for rural health care, centering around video conferencing infrastructure and high speed internet access for rural medical providers
* 'E-Rate,' which provides subsidies for internet access, telecom services, internal infrastructure and maintenance of the connections to schools and libraries. It pays a percentage based on need.

If broadband ISPs are reclassified as Title II, that may expand USF to even data costs from rural to urban areas. I'd say that's a win.

> [... VOIP & USF ...]
It probably shouldn't: the reason it is right now probably comes down to ISPs not being required to contribute to the fund, and VOIP services come closest to the layman concept of what telecommunications is. They had to make up the gap of contribution caused by people dropping traditional telephony services for VOIP services, and Skype and Google Voice didn't have the FCC lobbying power that TimeWarnerComcastVerizon did.

> [Depression-era FUD]

USF was started by the act of '34, but was seriously updated in '96 to include things like "access to advanced telecommunication services."

Unfortunately, since broadband ISPs aren't Title II, they're probably not included in that.
> Amazon's infrastructure seems to be built without essential safeguards

Their amazon's infrastructure
Amazon AWS has 2FA, clearly not used (unless it actually was an inside job).

As for the cooling off period, I'm not sure. Perhaps you can get the contents back, but it may be cost prohibitive.
How is this any different than what, say, Apple does? Even Google is onboard the closed "experience" these days.
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I liked the idea. Looks like a great hack into startup knowledge. I would think about adding some sort of crowdsourcing of link adding, to tap into user-generated content, but for an MVP it is great.
This phone is exclusive to AT&T. Not sure why this late in the game they would want to sell only through one carrier and that too AT&T!
It’s not unlimited and it’s not free. You have to pay for anything beyond 5GB.
I use BTSync to sync some of my server content. Why should my BT traffic wait behind your stupid Netflix movie! I pay for 12Mbit connection, and I expect to get a 12Mbit connection regardless of weather the rest of the people in my neighborhood are watching Netflix, downloading BT, or playing online games. It would be ok if ISPs would advertise a high and low speed for a connection. That is, telling you that they will do their best to deliver say 50Mbit most of the time, but you are guaranteed at least a 10Mbit connection at all times.
Although it seems like the only reason for four on the front is so that you can block two with your hand and still have two left for distance finding.
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> I'm not arguing that Uber is worth $17 billion

No one is arguing that. Investors are valuing Uber at $17 billion, which means future value, not current worth. I know you know that but many people seem to be confused by high valuation by looking at current revenues which is weird from supposedly tech bloggers. And you're right about its future in logistics too. Huge potential there.
This has been ruled on previously.....and previously overturned.

So much for the trademarks office being a non-political office - https://www.facebook.com/LiveFootballChat/posts/101523093022...
Actually, according to title, just the boots.
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There was a rather good, if not morose, documentary about those who jumped off the GG Bridge, called "The Bridge"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bridge_(2006_documentary_fi...
It was well made, but the whole spy-cam footage thing got some pretty negative reception iirc.
It's such a stupid idea that I'll hate myself if I don't at least try it...
All I can say is this:

If you can delete it with a single control panel, it doesn't count as an offsite back. Fire the devops
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A followup to a link I posted a week ago, "It's Time For a Hard Bitcoin Fork", discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7890215
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Perhaps.

After working for a few years in the financial industry, I believe that interchange fees are fundamentally immoral. The US interchange market is fundamentally broken, and they act as a perverse incentive.

I make it a point to use cash when I can, especially with smaller businesses. I feel like I'm getting my money's worth.
> I don't recall any mass adoption of 16:10 followed by a mass migration to 16:9 in the last decade, which is what you're stating happened.

I don't quite agree with what you're stating I'm stating. (I realize that this has gone on way longer than the original reply warranted, but...)

User teh_klev said that they were sad that 1080p "was becoming" the norm on medium sized panels, and that 1920x1200 wasn't becoming the norm, instead.

I replied that the transition to 1080p had already occurred, some time ago. I don't believe that either teh_klev or I implied that there was mass adoption of 1920x1200 (16:10), only that teh_klev would have preferred that there have been such a mass adoption, and I was suggesting that that preference (which I share, though I didn't mention it[1]) became moot last decade.

[1] though it turns out that if the screen is large enough and the resolution high enough, I no longer care about the precise aspect ratio...
So, possibly the angel was the original source of the app idea? That makes the $1m investment claim easier to swallow.
I have no idea, but spending on logistics is several orders of magnitude larger than on cars for hire.
Are you honestly suggesting that if I moved to a house in unallocated territory, that I not only have the right to demand that someone run power to it, but I have the further right to demand that somebody do so at no greater a rate than the guy who lives next door to the power plant?
The addition of music streaming to Amazon Prime certainly makes a lot more sense now. I have a Nexus 5 that I keep meaning to upload my music to, but I usually end up listening to an instant mix of Google Play freebies.
I respect Aaron a lot, but that's an unhelpful comment.

An investor is trying to think through a fair valuation. If we can't value off of the horse & buggy market, then what are we going to? Henry Ford's H&D (hopes & dreams)?

I think for any company, especially those attacking an established industry, that those markets that have a higher probability of being attacked should be valued higher.

So yes I would say the horse & buggy market, at that time, SHOULD comprise the majority of the valuation for Henry Ford. There are other use cases that could be imagined, but I'd discount heavily.

Then as time goes on, and people start figuring out NEW uses for cars that were not even possible with horses and/or expanding the market, then we can begin weighting those components more heavily. Eventually, the horse & buggy portion will be a minority part of the valuation.
Agreed. I found the article's body did not support its thesis for two main reasons:

1) The scenarios in which Uber becomes worth 17B or more based simply on its role in the transportation market didn't seem all that unlikely to me.

2) As you mentioned -- the probability of Uber becoming a major force in Logistics/driverless cars/etc. They've got Google behind them after all and many figure that's the end game -- myself included.

It's unfortunate whenever a somewhat reputable outfit like 538 feels the need to clickbait by taking a contrarian position, but then again. I took the bait. Well played, 538.
I think "Yo" is very powerful. But you also need some kind of response. Like "Yo"<->"No," or "Yo"<->"Aight."
During the Target breach card data was scraped directly from memory of the POS machines via malware. It wasn't being stored anywhere.
10x faster is 10x faster, regardless of the size of the data you're moving.

There's a reason that Macbook Air reviews report that it's shocking fast and snappy for such a (relatively) underpowered machine.
As a lifelong cyclist, both competitively, and transportation oriented, I still try to find time for #2. Sometimes just walking around, no matter where you are, gives you a different perspective about things. When I'm angry, depressed, what have you, the first thing I do is just put on my running shoes and walk for an hour. I used to try to walk home or to work once a week instead of biking or public transit, just for the experience. It's definitely saved me from myself more than once.
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Is there any evidence the transaction was stored, except insofar as storage was necessary to carry out the heist? The credit card data could have been intercepted while being input (e.g. by a keylogger).
Codespaces virtually murdered
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As such at this point in time we have no alternative but to cease trading and concentrate on supporting our affected customers in exporting any remaining data they have left with us.

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Correct. The four front-facing cameras are low res, b&w, low framerate.

ETA: I worked on this feature for lab126.
Common carrier regulations date back even farther than the depression and they work perfectly well with airlines, prohibiting discrimination.

Title II is appropriate. Broadband connections are the telecom infrastructure of the future, and they should be regulated as infrastructure.

Title II reclassification doesn't have to include price controls as individual portions of Title II can be forbeared.

As for VOIP, the general rule of thumb the FCC set for CALEA compliance works here as well: is the service a replacement for traditional phone service? If so, then they pay into USF. If not, there's no burden.

http://askcalea.fbi.gov/archives/voip.html
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Another point: it would help to know the terms associated with this investment to decide if it was smart.

Author treats stock as if it was a public company, which is understandable. i.e. these investors bought $1.2B of stock at a $17B valuation, and would need to see massive market growth, massive share, and margin stability to make 2x their money.

However, it's reasonable to assume they got preferred stock. So their return profile looks like: if Uber is worth anything more than a couple billion dollars (which they may view as near-certain), they get their money back + interest. Then they hold an option should Uber execute like Amazon, as others have suggested, and dramatically exceed their near-term market potential.

Valuing this is quite tricky: presumably the people who invested $250M less than a year ago thought: I only have to clear ~$400M to get my bait back, now that number is 3-4x higher.

While it is highly likely that the new investors have some sort of preferred return, it's possible (though less likely) that have a participating preferred or some other more complex instrument. Maybe the market price for straight preferred was "only" $12B valuation, and the company said: "How about we 'guarantee' you a 2x return, with a participating preferred instrument, but we want a 50% higher price, so in an upside case we are diluted less?"

This stuff is pretty common in these later rounds, though admittedly more on the "bubble unicorns" than the true unicorns, who have utmost market leverage. But you can see how even just the vanilla preferred stock would really change your personal calculation of whether you want to put your nest egg into Uber at this price.
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Totally possible, we'll probably add that in some future release.
Totally agree - how many opportunities are there for large-scale investment in private companies with the growth Uber has been seeing?
the dude totally dismisses driverless cars as something that uber could do 'because it hasn't succeeded yet.'

they've already spun up 'on demand' services for ice cream, pedi-cabs, mariachi bands, kittens... multiple times. so it's not like they haven't demonstrated they could start new markets.

once driverless cars become common, do you really think people will just have their driverless car sitting at home doing nothing all day? wouldn't it be nice if you could hook your driverless car up to a API that would keep it busy and give you a cut of the revenue? uber could do that.

so now imagine a world where cars now generate revenue for the people who own them, without them needing to hire a driver, find customers, or do anything besides pay for occasional repairs.

17 billion is a bargain.
I replied to another comment asking questions about how Europe interprets their regulations. But, here's the pertinent parts for the US:

The United States has: "Provide access to the outdoors so that animals can exercise their natural behaviors" "Support animal health and welfare"

My experience with US organic farming is dairy and chicken. I work with farmers quite a bit through the extension office of my college employer. The organic farmers in my area practice (in my opinion) very loose organic practices.

For example, access to outdoors was available, but in an enclosed area (run for chickens, small pasture for cattle). This, by no means allowed the animals to "exercise their natural behaviors," and yet was within the legal definition of organic, and allowed them to sell their products to grocery stores and markets as 'certified organic'.
Aaron Levie would seem to be an expert on how to create massive valuations from relatively tiny revenues.
There are no VPs, directors, etc. We tend toward functional titles: programmer, support, sales, member of technical staff.
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It takes all of 30 seconds to install the Google Play Music Manager, which will eventually upload all of your music.