skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As in

http://cbinsights.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=0c60818e...

"73% of tech exits were not VC-backed".

So, maybe that 73% consists of the quiet ones
being successful.

If you want a mentor to guide you to start
a US Main Street business, say, auto body repair,
grass mowing, landscaping, a pizza shop, etc.,
then there is no shortage of good sources.

But where did the founders of Microsoft, Intel,
Cisco, Google, Facebook, Twitter, etc. find
comparable mentors, that is, people who
had already done something quite similar and
could provide good advice? Yes, there was
advice, but nothing nearly so accurate as what
could get for, say, a pizza shop.

Net,
if are building one of the companies VCs
really need, then there isn't any mentoring
that is very close to the need. So, net,
for building a $1+ billion or, now, $10+
billion company in information technology,
largely just f'get about mentoring.
Are you saying that not fact-checking properly is acceptable?
Once you have a large enough volume of candidates, not differentiating between the candidates based on a degree is ignoring a useful signal.

And once you are sufficiently large, you can probably afford to immediately turn away anyone w/o a degree (or whatever other signals yield high return).

Complex systems don't give a shit, and it sadly makes sense.
I hope that Rust will be more memory safe than Python in practice. Python just doesn't have that "culture", and third party modules often have memory safety bugs.
I don't think this is Apple. On page 5 it specifically calls out Apple as being part of the Hobbyist market. That right there makes this even more interesting as this thorough business plan was beat out by a company recognized as Hobbyist instead of a pc manufacturer.

So who is this?
I will never use React for anything but (possibly) toy projects.

You don't need a lawyer to tell you being unable to sue Facebook for patent infringement even if unrelated to the licensed software, while Facebook is free to sue you for infringing other patents without you being able to challenge such patents, is an unfair and dangerous license.

And counting on Facebook's good will is as foolish as betting your livelihood on a Microsoft "promise" not to sue you.

Edit: fixed typo.
Accelerando by Charles Stross is also a fun book. Stross recently commented, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8939946

"My opinions have shifted in the past 10-15 years and I now think that permitting autonomous corporations to exist -- or even continuing the doctrine of corporate personhood -- are a terrible idea for humanity (because they're effectively AIs that compete with us, and not in a good way)."

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They have nothing to worry about.

First Uber isn't going to actually ever do this - programming is not their core competency, and they don't make enough to fund it for the length of time necessary.

Second it'll be decades before there are self driving cars, so the drivers can make money in the meantime.

Third, once the cars do arrive they will start with long distance highway trips, which is not what Uber does.
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> Do Ubuntu & Fedora folks have this problem too?

I do not. I have to imagine Iceweasel is fairly old at this point considering Debian is usually behind whereas Fedora and Ubuntu are closer to bleeding edge--in fact thats a large part of why Iceweasel exists[0].

0: https://wiki.debian.org/Iceweasel
In urban areas running cables and getting customers is indeed lucrative, because by running a cable into a building you reach all its numerous tenants, and there are more on the same block. Unfortunately, USA have a lot of semi-country low-density areas where there are few takers, or even would be none if it were not for regulations requiring a cable company to cover their entire area.
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> How many kids need to know linux in the future?

All of them, if they want any hope of having a programming or system administration job (i.e. the non-executive IT jobs that pay pretty darn well) in the foreseeable future. Linux is what powers the vast majority of web servers nowadays, regardless of whether they're being run by plucky startups or long-tenured industry incumbents. Windows in the server world has effectively been relegated to legacy systems and a smattering of government websites (some of which in and of themselves also count as "legacy systems"), and that market is continuously shrinking as businesses modernize in methodology and technology.
Slide 6 lists staff, including S Jobs and S Wozniak. That leads me to believe it is Apple, though I have no idea if they were involved in other companies.
Wonder why the most successful YC founders are there and not at YC?
Not sure we are talking about the same thing.
The hard part of Uber isn't the tech, it's building up the network. Two-sided marketplaces are really hard to build from scratch, when there are no competitors. They're virtually impossible once both your customers and your drivers are like "I've already had good experiences with Uber. Why would I take a chance on you?"

That's why Google has an advantage over everyone else - for them it's a one-sided marketplace, they don't need to worry about the driver. And that gives them a big cost advantage over Uber.
You know that thw biggest esport game (as in prize money) runs fine with openGL on Linux?

With valve developing source2, having ported almost all source games, and other AAA titles like Borderlands with first class Linux support, openGL it's very alive in gaming.
I see the confusion. That is listing the staff of Apple as discussed in the Hobby Manufacturers as competitor analysis. As in, this is who our competitor is.
It's a strange title, given that towards the end it seems more like he's recommending to not bother migrating from bcrypt to scrypt (if you're already using bcrypt).

But now I'm curious: the author states that neither scrypt or PBKDF2 are really designed for password storage. Can anyone explain how a construction designed for this purpose would differ?

Edit: I get that one of the goals for a KDF is to securely hash/expand a short input (password) of N bits out to something potentially >> N bits; and in the case of scrypt, do it in a way that's expensive for bruteforcers but acceptable for authentication.

Is the reason scrypt/PBKDF2 aren't for password "storage" simply because they're not usable as such OOB (missing salt handling which bcrypt gives you for free?)
but but but... $20,000! Wow! ... http://ecorner.stanford.edu/authorMaterialInfo.html?mid=2354
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Spent some time with the Highland guys recently. I like them a lot.
One of my biggest complaints against the tech industry is its rampant credentialism. Limiting capital to just the top few schools in the country is plain terrible business strategy because there is absolutely no evidence that going to a top 10 school vs a top 50 school leads to greater enterpreneurial success. I mean, who cares about Steve Jobs (Reed) and Michael Dell (UT Austin), right? We should fund Mark Pincus (Harvard) instead.
Having a large market share in third world countries who won't buy your app isn't much of a win.

>> ask Whatsapp. :)
The point, though, of the parent commenter was that just because a teacher can teach something "effectively" doesn't mean that something should be taught in the first place.

There are plenty of teachers throughout the United States who are effective at teaching creationism to their students. I think we can all agree that doing so is not healthy for those students.
What I wish I'd see more of is a fear of AI even without general intelligence. When you combine autonomy with AI, even stupid AI, you can still have bad results and significant collateral damage. See Knight Capital's trading bug, Roombas that can't distinguish between dust and dog poo, and more. Yes, Google's self-driving cars may end up being more reliable and safe than average human drivers. But that would assume the engineering team has a good handle on all situations and bugs. I'm not saying hold up progress on this front. I'm only saying that people seem to be happily buying into even trivial AI advances without both eyes open.
Sniff Sniff... I smell a buyout coming.
You reminded me of these charts by Horace Dediu:

http://www.asymco.com/2012/01/17/the-rise-and-fall-of-person...

Unfortunately the images on that webpage seem to be broken. Here's a backup:

http://web.archive.org/web/20141113180306/http://www.asymco....
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Some of these cooperatively multithreaded implementations have "green" varieties of all your standard functions; these are greenlet-aware (that is, aware of the cooperative threading & I/O loop that's happening) functions that do things like, for example, sleep. So, you might have a my_green_library.sleep and a calls_the_os.sleep; the latter of which will yield the hardware thread directly to the OS, and block that thread completely until its done. Whereas the former will perform a sort of userland context switch, and note something to the I/O loop, and then sleep until the next event.

Worse, this problem makes composition hard: you need to know the entire implementation of any function you call, in order to be aware of whether or not it will cause the calling thread to block.
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> To find room for the extra letters, typewriters needed to dispense with some punctuation, most notably semicolons (comma + backspace + colon), and parentheses (replaced in common use by slashes).

I've seen the slashes-as-parentheses on many (mostly older) documents before, but never knew why. Suddenly this makes so much sense. Unfortunately what makes less sense is official translators still using // for () these days.
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I worked at Earthlink in the mid nineties, and happened to sit next to the girl that approved all the ad placements on the site's (yahoo-like) start page. She would casually lean over and ask me if this or that medical claim seemed plausible. I typically said no. The claims were often so snake oily even the most modest biology background, or just common sense would refute them. Thankfully she had the sense to ask.
There are mallocs that indeed do initialize memory before they're read. jemalloc, used in FreeBSD doesn't do it by default, but it's easy to set an option in /etc/malloc.conf so it does so, and ottomalloc in OpenBSD zeroes malloced memory because it uses mmap much more heavily. So yes, it is more than possible to have pre-initialized buffers in C, it's just that certain OSes use terrible memory allocation algorithms, with no way of even tuning them to be safe by default.
TIL it's still 2005.

Seriously. This whole "Linux is not user friendly" myth has been a myth for almost a decade now. I've seen 70-year-olds with zero understanding of technology whatsoever use GNU/Linux (openSUSE, specifically) without problem. Let that sink in for a second.
And often that involves verifying code outside of the blocks that are literally marked unsafe. It's all of the code sitting behind some safe abstraction boundary that needs to be verified.
I think that Valve has bet the farm on Linux. Gaben seems to think that Microsoft might build their own game marketplace and use it to push Valve out.
Given Google's knowledge about the rider/user and the taxi rope and destination, they ought to be able to provide veto high value advertising.
Wozniak's is only not impressive because they left off "invented the personal computer."
> There aren't one or two ISPs because of regulation, there are one or two ISPs because the barries to entry are discouragingly high

Infrastructure and Internet service used to be separate businesses at one point, the barrier was created when infrastructure owners were allowed to kick the other ISPs out. I had dozens of ISP choices when I signed up for DSL in 1998.
The article doesn't touch on the root of the problem, which is that construction costs are totally out of control. In crude terms, "where the FUCK is all the money going???"

Here's an example. About 33 years ago we completed a very nice, very functional bridge across the Columbia River, I-205 between Oregon and Washington. It's 4 lanes in each direction and cost $170 million.[1]

Fast forward to a few years ago. There's a second crossing across the Columbia, I-5, a few miles downriver of the above I-205 bridge. It's much older and probably needs replacement. But the proposed solution would cost about $3 billion (and perhaps $10 billion according to critics).[2]

The taxpayers paid $170 million in the early 1980s. But somehow we're told that the equivalent today would cost $3 billion. And the "tax and spend" crowd are totally OK with that. Fortunately this particular boondoggle was killed by the Washington State legislature, which refused to appropriate its $450 million share. And yet the project somehow managed to spend $175 million just in EIS and some design work.

I think that most 5-year-old children have a better understanding of money than most politicians and transportation planners. Either that or it's just mostly brazen graft.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn_L._Jackson_Memorial_Brid...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_River_Crossing
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So Uber is using low wage drivers to make money so they can invest in self driving cars to completely make the drivers obsolete.

Talk about a moral paradox.
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Show HN: Founder Tap
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This past weekend I decided to put together a prototype of an idea I've been thinking about for a while and wanted to get some feedback.

The service is called Founder Tap; a better way to find cofounders and collaborators. No profiles filled with buzz words. No spammy pitches. Just curated introductions to people who are changing the world.

I was motivated to build a curated community of makers/creators because I was frustrated with other "Founder Dating" sites. I've been on these other services to find people to collaborate with, but a lot of the time the quality of matches I get has been low. For example here is a message I received on one recently:

I know you're super busy but if you have any time/desire for side projects like simple app ideas that can sell for 99 cents, I have some that probably wouldn't take too much time developing and I can do all the heavy lifting outside of the coding and get it out there...and who knows, it gains a following, sells a couple million and we're millionaires! LOL, it's simple!
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I initially planned to put a TL;DR here, but it's the best bug analysis I've seen in months - a pleasure to read! - so I'm leaving it for others to savour.

The very same bug used to be present in early Windows mobile GPU drivers - with global hotkeys making it impossible to enter Ł (with Intel GMA 950) and Ć (with ATI Catalyst). Being a Polish geek, I used to earn lots of free dinners from frustrated friends who were forced to copy-paste those letters on their brand new laptops. Funny how the same bug recurs in different types of software due to an obscure locale-dependent edge case - and it's much less known than, for example, the Turkish dotted/dotless I.
Poland has more than double the number of people than Serbia + Croatia + Bosnia + Montenegro.
The amount of secret sauce that's being shared with VCs is really up to the company. If the company is doing well, request for anything beyond the financials and strategy docs would be suspicious.
FWIW Wikipedia lists Polish at 40M, Ukrainian at 30M, and Serbo-Croatian at 19M, for native speakers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_number_of...
Wall Street demands infinite growth so the only option is to eventually enter all markets.
Then the people who don't join the union (or join but don't follow the instructions) get all the rides during those 30 minutes, and everybody who canceled all their rides during the strike gets kicked out of Uber, and word quickly spreads that going on strike is a good way to instantly lose your livelihood.

You'd have to somehow get 100% penetration, not only among current Uber drivers but among all potential Uber drivers in the area, before doing anything. Doesn't sound feasible, especially since anyone who declines to participate will make a killing.
7mph is a speed a lot of people can't run. Those are 8 1/2 minute miles. It corresponds to a speed of 26min for a 5k.

This article

http://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?thread=4612823

has some stats for a 5k race. The average time for men was 28min, and only 10% of the women were faster than 26min.

Slower speeds might skew towards women, who naturally live longer.

Another thought is that people who run fast do so over shorter distances, and their volume isn't sufficient to see a health bump.
I noticed libreoffice doing this yesterday. Very disappointing.
Elon Musk has got to step up god damnit
HipChat hacked, Atlassian passwords and emails leaked
If she doesn't own them she should consider asking her boss if she can open for Melt Banana sometime.

What would happen if you used each phone to call another phone on the rack and then put them all on speaker phone? The feedback would be fascinating.

What if you created a FaceTime array in which each phone connected to an audience member's phone? You could then place tone emitters throughout the venue and the physical placement of each participant would shape a chord assembled on stage.

So much room for creativity beyond the creative grey market businessman's greed. That was the point of my post.
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Actually, life expectancy of world class aerobic athletes (unlike power (anaerobic) ones) is a little higher than average according to studies in US, Spain, Germany, Poland...
Could be a little lower than life expectancy of those involved in moderate aerobic activities though, I guess.
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"As an frequent airplane passenger, I am qualified to both build build and pilot large aircraft."
That quote is referring to early versions from over ten years ago. If you read the end of the section you linked, you'll find a description of how they provide basically the same functionality. While one may provide a convience method over the other, any functionality in one generally finds its way to the other.
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Whatsapp is really a special case, though. They cornered a market that's relatively unique. Third-world countries don't need another messaging app.
> This required installing support for NTFS

What distro were you using? Most ship with NTFS support last I checked (though perhaps there's a higher concentration of distros without NTFS support for the RPi).

Similarly: why even use NTFS in the first place if you're doing a network share? Samba can serve files from an ext4-formatted volume to a Windows client just fine. Unless you were planning on being able to remove the drive and plug it into a Windows machine directly, there's no need to use NTFS at all.

> Every step needed to be researched through a mixture of blog posts, Wikis and other online resources.

This is true of a lot of things, no matter which operating system one uses.

Remember that Samba is designed for enterprise environments. Setting up a fileshare in such an environment with Windows is typically just as complicated (but involving a lot of graphical wizards instead of configuration file editing), since there's a lot more involved than just right-clicking the drive letter and telling Windows to broadcast it on the network.

You're right that the process for sharing files over a network with Windows hosts ought to be made more accessible for home users. Linux doesn't really have a "Homegroup" equivalent, which is unfortunate.
There are lots of call outs of source vs sink, but page 38 will perhaps convince you. It shows the sink is the input to a differential op-amp, while the source is a current source.

The same lines are connected to different circuits, depending on if you're a source or a sink.

EDIT: This looks like an interesting little box, if somebody does need the ability to read HDMI. You would still need to save it and then re-stream it, I think, to get it to your monitor.
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Posting this as something to discuss, as presentation of the topic of cyber security in the media, not because I believe that it's good journalism.
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I do. I'm running Ubuntu 12.10 because I have been too lazy to do the upgrade properly.

I get those messages if I am using FF. It's on 29 and I even tried to do the "old version" hack but it didn't work for me.

Chrome has, for some reason, decided to can upgraded to the current version--41. (I might be running beta, I can't remember.)
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You actually wouldn't have to do either of those. There's actual frozen ice on Mercury's poles, which means you have a relatively temperate environment, plenty of sunlight for energy, and water.

The atmosphere and gravity situation on the other hand are about the same as Mars.
If Google is the only company with this information how come all the car manufacturers have active projects that don't rely on their data. It's because Google has nothing that other companies don't have/need. It's not like Google magically acquired all their data. They bought most of it.