skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a sillily emotionally-loaded comparison. An open source project is hardly a child, neglected or otherwise.

The proper course of action here is a fork, which has no equivalent in your analogy. Gruber's Markdown remains as he likes it, under the name it's already widely known as. The new Markdown-based language picks a suitably disambiguated name and becomes what its maintainers want it to be.
Can you share the rough deal size and investor payback? Most investors have 1x liquidation preference, and I can totally see them getting at least that, even if they didn't write it into the contract; but if they are asking for more than 3 or 4x on a short term deal, then they're just being greedy.
I've heard people complain about this approach because if you tried to refactor, someone could have written class = "large rounded btn" in one place and "btn rounded large" in another, making finding all the variations more cumbersome.

That doesn't mean it's a bad approach, but that is one concern I've heard about it.
Really appreciate everyone's replies! A related question about my example: what if I want to assign the pointer dereference to `tmp` to improve readability (rather than avoid multiple traversals). Is there any reason not to use a tmp variable (presumably with a better name)?
Someone who knows more than me; does this intend to complement TCP, or replace TCP? If the latter, how would one use NDN to implement a system that naturally fits the "conversation" model of TCP, e.g. an MMORPG?
If the battery spontaneously combusts in the hold, you have a serious problem. The fire will be quite large before anyone knows about it. If your laptop catches fire in the cabin, you'll probably scream immediately, and they have burn proof fire bags to shove the laptop into.
Could server-side Dart replace Node.js?
The fringe benefits of quitting
Gentoo was the first distro that I used full-time on the desktop. It was my distro of choice through most of college, running on my trusty (albeit excruciatingly slow) Fujitsu P-2046 laptop. This laptop (really one of the first netbooks) had an 800 Mhz Transmeta Crusoe processor and 256 MB of RAM (later upgraded to the maximum of 384). Needless to say, software installation and upgrades were extremely painful. A larger package (X11, OpenOffice, Firefox) would take over a day to compile, during which time the computer was only somewhat usable.

Those were the days. I've been mostly a Kubuntu user since then, and have enjoyed having my software installations be constrained by network and disk speed. I've also enjoyed not having things break on a regular basis (though Canonical has really tried to emulate that functionality at times).
Theoretically, you could form special purpose vehicles with the intention to exercise your rights without putting a lot of your own money in. But yeah, I am with you, on the most successful companies, valuation ends up being too high for a seed investor anyway
Really, just for pulling weeds? Maybe you thought I meant a robot that can do arbitrary household chores. I actually meant specialized robots for specific tasks.
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I heard an interview with Ed Begley, Jr. where they talked for twenty minutes about his eco-friendly lifestyle. His house has super-insulated windows, walls, and doors, recycles rainwater, generates power from solar cells and a wind turbine, and has a stationary bike that generates electricity for the kitchen. His yard is planted with drought-tolerant garden of California-native plants. He rides a hybrid-electric bike whenever he can.

Toward the end of the interview, the interviewer, seeming overwhelmed, asked, "Well that's great for you rich guys, but what about us ordinary folk?" (I'm paraphrasing both sides of the conversation here.) Begley said, "You think we started with solar panels in the 1970's? We didn't have any money. I started with rolls of insulation in my attic. Saved me thousands of dollars. Start with something small and inexpensive."

You don't have to be an activist, but if you don't like the way things are, pick one thing that can help. You're right that picking fights with strangers probably won't help. Maybe you have a friend who's a dick online. You and a couple friends can ask him to tone it down. Maybe decide to only offer helpful criticism to newbies for a week and reserving taunting for friends. Pick something small and make the world a little better.
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Last weekend I had to do exactly that, taming the monstrous cliffhanger upgrade of my MythTv system that still was running a kernel 2.6.15 and hasn't really seen much change since 2009.

I don't think any other distro would have allowed me to upgrade the system without a reinstall. Even though I screwed up because I didn't RTFM and didn't install everything necessary for booting the system with OpenRC, I still could salvage the system by booting with a rescue stick (based on Gentoo of course) and chrooting into my system and fix it this way.

Now it's running a current kernel and it is ready for the installation of the new digital receiver card.
A Curious Mix – “The love of knowledge is a kind of madness” – C.S. Lewis
>what if I want to assign the pointer dereference to `tmp` to improve readability

I personally find code like that harder to follow. The first version is clearer than the second (and you forgot to take the address of foo->bar->baz[i]).
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>What do you do when you realize you are not a programmer?

You could start calling yourself a "recovering programmer":

http://prog21.dadgum.com/56.html
I don't think you would use TCP for an MMORPG; UDP is more common in games because a dropped frame here and there doesn't matter to most games, and it's worth the lower overhead.
AFAIK the docker registry is built on top of Flask.

https://github.com/docker/docker-registry
I would like to keep it confidential, since my investors likely read HN. Deal size was above 5 million but less than 10 million. They are pure common, no liquidation preference or anything like that. For all intents and purposes they hold the same shares and rights as myself.

They invested more than they would receive in a sale under pro-rata terms, so they would have a loss, but still a partial return on investment. You say I should honor terms not written into a contract and give them a 1x preference? Seems silly to me. If they wanted those terms, they should have negotiated it. I do not feel entitled to give them more than what they negotiated for. These guys are a professional fund and this is the name of the game.

Unfortunately, it looks like unless I cave they will just let the company die. They ultimately know that the sale means much more to me than it does to them. All the pressure is on me, to end up with 'fuck you' money. They likely do not care about the money as much as not having to write down a loss or something. If I was to give them what they want, I would walk away with close to nothing after having spent significant time working for almost no salary.
How to design APIs that last
You guys have a serious patience problem. Sure, it was a bit frustrating, but come on.
> It's pretty straightforward, as ethical dilemmas go. "Excitement" comes nowhere close to justifying breaking your word.

Agreed - this is inexcusable.

If you lose an investment because a later-stage investor is keen on you cheating existing investors out of what you already promised them, I'd say you dodged a bullet - you don't want them owning any piece of your company.

If your later-stage investors are so keen on working with investors who are willing to renege on their promises and legal obligations to earlier investors, that says something about:

(A) The types of entrepreneurs they want to work with

(B) How they themselves can expect to be treated in later rounds, when they are now the "earlier investors".
You can realistically skip 1 and 6, control it with your smartphone instead. Or, you can simplify the problem by using more constrained verbal commands. I was told that speech recognition works very well when you have a simple grammar instead of an open-ended language.
Ask HN: Technologies to use for a pet project
I have been out of side projects for a while and been only working at Java (server side). Hence I have no idea what new technology is out. So to learn new technology + build a pet project I need your suggestion.

The project I want to build requires

- A neat UI (I like Vaadin but not sure how good it is)

- Cross platform UI compatibility - Server Side to do transactions, printing on different machines, Roles management etc

Thanks.
In the state of CA, the payment terms must be in the lease:

If the agreement does not specify the form of payment, any form will be considered acceptable. If rent can be paid in person, the agreement must include the days and hours payment will be accepted. If rent can be paid only by mail, then it is presumed paid on the date it is mailed, if the tenant can show proof of mailing. If rent can be deposited at a financial institution, the owner must disclose the account number and name and address of the institution, which must be within five miles of the tenant's residence.
That's not really a big deal with 3D models. Except for the texture, it's all vector data that can be trivially scaled. But UE4 does define its own standard for convenience where 1 unit = 1 centimeter.
That's great and all, but it's been made clear the exploit would have bypassed MFA, because MFA isn't used to restore backups. This is a tricky problem, since your phone is probably your MFA device. One easy thing they can do going into the future is once anyone acquires a device with fingerprint ID, allow that as an additional required auth factor when restoring from backup.
I dont know about all the other items on the wishlist but you might be able to find what you were doing/watching when.
https://github.com/gurgeh/selfspy
Not to be insulting but… are you unable to read text? Because the problem (which has nothing to do with visual clutter and has to do with modularity and contextual overrides) is explained from the third section "Contextual overrides".
Vents can be blocked if you are trying to make it explode . . .
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My understanding is it just doesn't protect iCloud backups, which is what were compromised here - also why things deleted from the phone were still in the cloud.
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> Is there any reason not to use a tmp variable (presumably with a better name)?

Nope -- shouldn't hurt at all.

It's interesting to me that LuaJIT recommends not using temp variables like this because they can hurt optimization for LuaJIT. That's obviously very different than C in almost every way, I just mention it because it was so surprising to me that there is a situation (in any optimized language) where a temp variable could hurt optimization.
You don't think it's weird that recklessly operating a motor vehicle on public streets isn't abhorrent? I agree with you: it obviously isn't. But...
Tools – The Hackademic
Hopefully this tanks used Moto X v1 prices?
Using data attributes is even less likely to ever be optimised as data attributes exist specifically to store browser-opaque programmatic content.
As usual, people ranting on HN without bothering to read what they're ranting about.

You're assuming centralization. All that's in the specs are slots for a locator and signature value. It's left up to the application to define trust semantics be it PKI, WoT or whatever.

http://named-data.net/doc/ndn-tlv/signature.html
... Do you want me to note that in my calender?
I just threw up in my mouth.

4chan is mostly visited by gamers, otakus and adolescents. It's hardly any meaningful representation of society. Most people don't know what 4chan is.

Twitter is infinitely better than 4chan for what you're saying. On Twitter, even non-anons speak their mind freely. On 4chan only because of their anonymity do they speak freely, but in real life they probably don't have the guts.
If your goal is just to "burn" the memory, why not write your own loop that copies some arbitrary piece of data that the compiler can't optimize out over the memory's contents? Do something like fill the buffer with its own pointer address.
> and you forgot to take the address of foo->bar->baz[i]

Ha, I was afraid of that. :-) Still re-learning when I need that with arrays and when not.
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I think you missed my point.

memset_ptr is a const (not changed by this program... theoretically) volatile (allowed to be changed by the system, theoretically) pointer to memset. In THIS PARTICULAR CASE, memset_ptr points to memset. The compiler however doesn't know that it won't change due to another processes, but we do. So the compiler shouldn't be able to optimize out the call directly to the function pointer because it introduces a possible race condition: the program reads that memset_ptr points to memset, then the pointer changes (due to some other process changing it), but the program still calls memset, and not memset_ptr. The optimization allows for a possible race condition to occur.
Unlike other manufacturers, the international editions of Sony phones have all of the HSPA+ and LTE bands to work well on AT&T and T-Mobile and these days you can get back the extra upfront cost of buying an unlocked phone with monthly savings. International unlocked phones also generally qualify for Sony's boot loader unlock program. And you often can even get a good deal from a SE Asian gray market exporter.
IRC has irssi which is compiled for windows, and effectively feature complete at this stage of its existence. And its feature complete in the sense emacs is feature complete, anything you want you can script in.

But yes, most windows IRC platforms are complete trash.

(I use IRC).
Government taking money -> instant outrage.
Cloud Back-end for an iOS App Using Parse
It would be interesting to know what the small loans are actually being used for. Are they being spent on healthcare bills? Clothes for their children? Or are they being used to pay off another bad debt like a credit card?
I'm pretty sure he's mentioned at a QuakeCon how much of a pleasure it was developing for the iPhone/iPad. Can't find the video but I think it was at 2013 QuakeCon.
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In an ideal world, everyone would honor their agreements. In the real world, the behavior Aaron is describing is happening whether we like it or not.

Angel investors who are concerned about their pro rata rights can't pretend that they exist in an ideal world. They can do one of two things: passively accept whatever they get, or take action in an effort to get what they want.

If you recognize the motivations of founders (and the pressures they may be put under), it is clear that the behavior of the angels themselves can either incentivize or disincentivize founders when it comes to honoring the obligations they made under different circumstances.
I'd say "depleted" but we're all missing the point.
Which just shows your NDK experience.

Outside of frame buffer, OpenGL, sensors and sound APIs, everything else is only available via JNI.

Even the Play Games API only got a C++ wrapper after lots of pressure from the gaming community. At first, Google just posted a DevBytes video how to build a basic JNI wrapper for it.
Excellent analysis.

> Amazon has perhaps 1% of the US retail market by value

> With Amazon, Bezos is deferring that profit-producing, investor-rewarding day almost indefinitely into the future. This prompts the suggestion that Amazon is the world’s biggest ‘lifestyle business’ – Bezos is running it for fun, not to deliver economic returns to shareholders, at least not any time soon.
Incorrect.

Because a JIT may have enough knowledge of the underlying system to know that the pointer is not pointing to a memory-mapped / DMA'd / etc area, and as such can be assumed to remain constant.
absolutely

--> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8274902
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Ask HN: Extracing HP-UX Based HDD Image into BSD or Linux FS
Here in the lab I've got a HP/Agilent (the label on the device says HP, but the software on it already carries the Agilent brand) HP86142A Optical Spectrum Analyzer.

When we got this device the first thing I did was opening the case, get to the HDD and take a backup image.

Eventually I'm going to root the thing, by restoring that image and thereby conveniently replacing the bytes in the blocks carrying /etc/passwd (there's apparently no shadow system on this thing) with a password-less login entry for root. If somebody wants to have a go at brute forcing the password (this seems to be one of the ancient crypt based, easily broken entries), here's the passwd entry:

root:z1sH85tcwYkQg:0:3::/:/sbin/sh

Anyway: Until then I'd really like to extract that HDD image into a filesystem I can traverse using Linux or BSD. What would be your approach of choice on this?

The ultimate goal would be to reverse the drivers talking to the spectrum analyzer hardware and maybe implement my own ones so that I could run Linux or a BSD on it.
It'll be interesting to see how their profitability trends as they adjust their prices. I've seen a trend over the past year or more of dramatically higher prices for things I've previously purchased from Amazon. I can do a 1-for-1 comparison on receipts, and see the huge bump. In some cases, those products are more expensive everywhere, but in most cases, I'm able to find those items at a price close-to or better than what I'd originally paid at Amazon if I shop around. It'll be interesting to see if they've trained consumer mindsets enough to retain them as customers if more shoppers notice a similar trend.
$20m / year is a mom & pop business?
Equally interesting is that they tend to pay them back by hitting up their relatives for cash (which would have probably been a better idea in the first place!).

http://bucks.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/02/27/why-borrowers-use-...
And here I thought the article was going to be about mail transfer agents.
Well, I'll add a disclaimer that my comment was from a rough theoretical perspective. To successfully "remove the antenna", you're going to have to make sure communications don't continue to function on any remaining parasitic antenna - I wouldn't be surprised if removing just the obvious antenna still left you with a phone that worked in 80% of places. I don't know enough about cellphone chipsets to know if the mixer/external amp are integrated, or are still discrete things that can be removed. But you'd have to investigate these details on a specific model of phone and then measure the its actual emissions before you could have something even approaching a "guide".
OCaml has industry presence and is big in Europe universities.

I seldom hear about the others except on research papers.
A little bit over the limit also gets you a ticket. Cops aren't judges, they don't get to choose the punishment, only enforce the law.
Pro rata is most important in the case of a down round. Your ownership really dilutes in that situation.

For what it's worth, I've definitely been asked nicely if I would consider not taking my prorata because space is needed. When things are THAT tight I am often asked to sell shares to the new investor as well.
It's possible to behave ethically in a fallen world. It's not even that hard. Your pose of hard-nosed realism is actually more repugnant than just straight up saying "I'm breaking my agreements because I want to".
hockeybias: you are shadowbanned and have been for the last 5 years
Last time I checked, there was nothing specifically preventing an implementation of C from doing whole-program optimization at runtime, even to the point of dynamic library calls.

So: this is not something you can rely on always working. Yes, it works currently, but it is not guaranteed to always do so.
Which you sync to the cloud using iCloud, and you've lost access to your computer because the drive failed and now you can't answer the question because you can't access iCloud to get the information back out :P
US Trained Alaskans as Secret 'Stay-Behind Agents'
Certainly plausible. If the CPU optimizes one path but not another, in principle that's some information. In practice, gathering enough data to get that above the noise floor and turning it into something useful besides would certainly be difficult but maybe not too difficult.
Yup. Also, don't forget about what small amounts of Mercury https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7Ilxsu-JlY

or Gallium https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7Ilxsu-JlY

could do. Happy flying!
I would guess quite a few, if only indirectly.
I'am primarily a command line irc kind of guy but I worked with a team that was all Windows. To get them on IRC, I introduced them to Quassel. It's QT based and it works just fine.
From: http://paulgraham.com/good.html:

In Patrick O'Brian's novels, his captains always try to get upwind of their opponents. If you're upwind, you decide when and if to engage the other ship...

In this case, Amazon is upwind of becoming a giant, profitable company. They could have taken profits earlier but it would have shrunk their overall pie.
> Therefore, it's unlikely a "dark pattern" by a nefarious public agency that the people need to "outsmart".

Sounds like bull. They could trivially offer whole-fare counts and give whatever price that represents with a "you save $x" note.
Or, for that matter, use a dynamic library and it can still go wrong! (hypothetical future JITter or somesuch)
That would certainly explain the smell.
This behavior of the VCs towards angels is as old as the hills. They want control and will screw with anyone who stands in their way. In fact, I have long speculated that a requirement to make partner at some firms is how smooth you are when screwing over a founder or angel.

The truth is that the smaller investors don't have leverage. And so they swallow hard and sign the paperwork. I applaud YC trying to stand up for the little guy, but I fear they will be unable to fight the seduction of founders of hotshot companies by big-name big-money VCs whispering sweet nothings into their ear.
Yes, the numbers are absurd. I feel sorry for LPs in any seed fund run by somebody who is handing out $10 million valuations.

As for the $1 billion exit, according to CB Insights, in 2013, 19 tech companies went public or were acquired at a billion-plus valuation. That represents slightly more than 1% of all exits. Over 70% of the exits were under $200 million. So any angel banking on billion dollar exits would probably be better off going to Vegas.
...but still not guaranteed, which is what this is striving for.
They are family owned and operated, yes! In almost all the cases I know of. I may be using the term wrong though.
Tourists are also probably more likely to buy an unlimited pass and avoid the hassle of topping up completely.
Momma's got needs!
So, there are going to be exceptions to these notifications when law enforcement does all of these things, right?

If so, then it's still security with an exploitable backdoor.

Edit: For the downvoters, and those who might choose to downvote, I guess that you don't understand that LEO backdoors are a real thing that can and are actually exploited? Here's some reading:

http://www.wired.com/2014/09/eppb-icloud/

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2006/03/more_on_greek...

If your secure system has a way for a number of third parties to conveniently and quickly gain clandestine access, that means that someone who's not in the group of third parties that you intended to permit access will inevitably gain access.