skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a difference between "layman", "well known expert in their field", "so and so with a degree in $field" "well known expert in their field with a masters in $field"

If you read my reply, I don't question the guys qualifications, I was objecting to the blanket statement of "you must have a degree in $field, to be expert" - many papers in technology, are written by people without degrees in that field.
THAT is why ~/ gets so littered? :(
Spideroak is great and I was lucky enough to get in on their unlimited storage they offered a while back. I still only use around 200GB so far, but with the amount of photos my wife takes of the kids it is rapidly expanding.
Perhaps not, but it gets humans used to the idea of traveling to and living in/on/etc. worlds that aren't exactly hospitable. Additionally, the sulfuric acid clouds in Venus' atmosphere might be useful for various industrial processes.
I retract my statement. This used to be the case, but appears to no longer be so.
I'm just so utterly amazed that they could measure temperature with such precision for so many years. I'd imagine rooms full of temperature calculator people crunching numbers from their precise temperature measuring instruments. Bravo!
My main issue with Dropbox is their deceptive practices of the past. I can't trust a company that behaves like that.

http://boingboing.net/2011/04/21/dropboxs-new-securit.html
They have products like Carousel, which is not even capable of sharing photo albums with others with a direct URL, which was the number one core feature Dropbox had since one day.

Meanwhile the competitors all support it (Flickr, Google Photos, etc..). I'm clueless why they neglect it but it's just silly not to do. When you think of how everyone is trying to get the Photos scene right.
Quit law and code
PSVita Native scene just keeps moving forward
My experience is that Dropbox is currently "lucky" that they support (and work well) on Linux, while none of the competitors do. That at least means everyone can use it together, without requiring multiple solutions.

Their "business accounts" implementation is incredibly poor for people who already use Dropbox (ie the people to best please and most likely to spread the good word). For some bizarre reason they decide on this weird merge of one business account and one personal account. If you have more than one of either then tough luck. If you don't want your personal stuff and your business stuff co-mingled then tough luck too. If you want exceptionally confusing web pages with hostile flows, then they have you covered. (Yes, I just set up another one today and it was beyond painful.)

What they should have done is how Google etc handle it. You login with multiple accounts, have a selector between them and everything just works.
i think that part of the issue is that these problems are so far down the optimization stack at this point, that they are seen as late optimizations.

development should start simple, and problems should be solved as they become apparent. to do otherwise would be counter-productive.

imagine how complex development of a text editor would be if we assumed that we had such major constraints? at this point, it is good to revisit some of those optimization, as we strive for small improvements, but to entertain going all the way to bare metal is just ludicrous.

while i am grateful for the knowledge from such resource-driven development (i did that too, writing video games for 286/386 and 68040 we were quite restraint-driven), i am happy that we can think of these sorts of optimizations as further down the pipeline optimizations, and don't need to consider them day to day.
Not sure if it ticks all of the boxes you need, but take a look at Nasuni.
Some docking stations have legacy ports (serial, parallel, maybe modem), most have yet more USB ports, some have a second ethernet port (and both work), some have a turnkey solution for locking the laptop to the docking station. Often three external monitors is something you can get.
My point is, none of those "worths" is $0. You cannot simultaneously say something has value but is worth $0 simply because it is illiquid.
Just be glad that you have't had days and days of pegged cpus. :(

I'm actively looking for an alternative.
Don't be mad. The author's first computer was probably an iPad.
In my experience, you might see a startup get bought once or twice in your career. It happened to me. While it has been amazing for both my career and my income, I have not seen anyone around me get a dime from equity. If you get bought, it's probably not going to make you rich - if anything, you might get a bit of dough, get into a great shop, and have to make some utterly disturbing choices like pick up and relocate. This week. Do it go or you're out of a job.
Huron?
That's interesting because in playing with 9Front (Plan9) yesterday, I noticed that rc's ls doesn't ignore dotfiles. I guess they fixed it there.
Why I kept my startup in Australia and why it was crazy
I hope the DropBox employees still have enough money left to reserver soccer fields.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awPVY1DcupE
You're in luck. There is a similar post about Dust2 : http://johnsto.co.uk/design/making-dust2
So much in so few time.

ps: just remembered that we had a lazy day in primary school where teachers brought asymetric bikes of all kinds (oval wheels, tilted, etc). No inverted direction though.

pps: how long would it take to learn new patterns with training wheels ?
This is a valid point, but go to almost any startup pitch event where potential talent is in the audience -- "Work hard, play hard" comes to mind.

My favorite learning experience (from a startup perspective) is also the one I think was the biggest failure. So much tech and a lot of dedication on my part, but looking back, the lost time with my wife. All of it really due to a lack of planning and an over commitment by management expecting engineering to step up. I don't ever recall being asked for estimates, just what needed to be done. I was in my tunnel at the time, building things.

I look back and the pre-devops, "devops" call at 1pm on a Saturday (after a 60+ hour week, they didn't have / hire sys admins before launching) was basically the end of line for me. Thankfully, the wife and I were driving back down 1 from SF to the Central Coast. We took our time and nourished the lack of coverage.
Response timing can be indicative of the key, especially if you have the crypto algorithm's code (source/IR/machine code).
It was never an official API it was a goo hack.

http://kaeruct.github.io/posts/how-to-use-the-youtube-js-api...
You really think any other US-jurisdiction-based provider is safer?
Yeah I get a fair bit of high CPU usage, I hear the fans on my old MBA and quit/relaunch the process. Doesn't happen too often, only about once a week. :-/
The real challenge is how to compete with a storage platform when online storage is turning into a sort of commodity. Companies like Google and Amazon are racing to the bottom on cloud storage pricing, so competing in this space completely depends on the value you are adding on top of storage.
Research Highlights from PLDI 2015
After the recent discussion here on this topic I thought I should write a longer post about why I think it is crazy to try and run a startup in Australia despite doing this myself. Hopefully this post will at least generate some good discussion like Alan's did as it is an important topic.
I like it. I like that you do the 20% difference thing. I have never seen that before, and it's clever and aligned well with the goals of the developer. You're basically saying "if we can't get you at one of our customers, we'll find someone else and grind out a great offer for you." You get paid better if it's your own client, but if there is no fit, you at least still go to bat for your engineers.

It's up to the developer to accept it, though, right? They can back out at any point, right?
>In what definition of democracy?

In the definition that says the ultimate source of government power is the people. You seem to agree that this is a reasonable definition of democracy. This means that they are a legitimate target when it comes to espionage or terrorism, yes. If you don't like it, move to a dictatorship.
I just had an offer that had, depending on chosen comp .1% to .17% equity with a 10k loss in salary all for an extra .07%. By the way, they have a lot of convertible notes and are pre-series A. I turned around with a counter offer/request that pointed out the equity is largely worthless with no anti-dilution provisions, while seemingly gearing up for a heavy dilution.
It boils down to this: You'd have to be dumb to store important stuff on Dropbox. So you only share non-important things on it. And for that, it's not worth paying. You might as well us the many free alternatives. Storage is free now.

Dropbox is doomed for these simple reasons.
Have you ever tried mobaxterm? It is that good for Admin you get XForwarding and great tools.

Local tools is different, but administratively you get great ssh and well that's all you need. I go full screen and tmux and I am good as gold. If need be XForarding is available but people that install X on servers need to be put through tiny cut on a slide that ends in a pool of rubbing alcohol.
I've said the same thing a few times -- life on the web would be much easier in many ways if they used html tables, but renamed it to "Grid" or "Layout" or some such.
But, if you're able to stick to the plan you outlined you're probably living on $40k the entire time, which means you can live the rest of your life on that $1 million, due to the assumed 4% real return and 4% withdraw.
In terms of this one concern, more obscure services probably are safer than one which is so overwhelmingly popular, and it makes a difference if the service does not have your data in plaintext.

Of course it's easy to give up other kinds of security in exchange for reduced profile to NSA, that's a whole other issue.
I would like to hire you for your honesty
Are Syncthing or Tarsnap US-based? No.

And Syncthing is just a tool that does multi-way sync across devices you own. If a company wanted to replace Dropbox with Syncthing, they would have to run one or more servers to provide the "always on" feature that their employees' "sometimes on" laptops sync to.
That's one advantage of bootstrapping. When you do decide to raise money, you can make sure you cash out some of your own shares as part of the deal.

Since they were already cashflow positive, they were free to say "no deal!" to any offer.
Attacking a persons 'trustworthiness' instead of dealing with their arguments and evidence is pretty much the dictionary definition of the ad-hominem diversion. It doesn't interest me to learn that he kicks cats or dresses in lingerie and calls himself Marjorie at the weekends. If you believe that he is wrong, then show where and how he is in error.
I have a hard time associating Condoleezza Rice with leading the charge on personal privacy. As long as Dropbox chooses to continue working with her, I will continue to steer my coworkers and friends to use one of the many, many other competitors. Even though there is no other evidence that others are better, selecting Ms. Rice shows poor judgement by Dropbox.
Hopefully, nothing else. :) The designer may have done something slightly different when he exported the file from InDesign.
1) Replace keycaps
2) Replace software key map
3) Profit!!!
Most of the value is in the site. You don't see people fundraising for their friend's family on Kickstarter - it's known as being a hub for products.

Venmo's situation is also different, since they use ACH to move money (very cheap). GoFundMe might accept credit cards, which means there are industry standard processing fees of roughly $0.30 + 2.9%. (It's in best interest for GoFundMe, Tilt, etc. to push users towards debit card payments since the associated fees are lower.)
Is having a LinkedIn required?
I think this hits the target.

As far as I understand, granting an option now with a currently "fair" strike price which "vests" in the future (but only if the person is still employed), does not create a taxable event at the time of vesting. However, granting an option in the future at the exact same strike price at the exact same time, creates a taxable event.

So my understanding is that option vesting is "simply" tax-preferred.
egnyte might also be worth a look.
<cough> sshfs... :-)

(I know, I'm hellbanned.)
This was my experience as well. I had to destroy my personal account once I left the company because they couldn't unmerge them and transfer to a new account. This was like 3 months ago and I was shocked that they still didn't have this fixed.

Now we use Google Drive and it just works, figures out accounts, has great permissions stuff for teams, etc.
There's a Facebook group full of people like that: https://www.facebook.com/groups/PennAppsHS/

Many members of the group are now founders of venture-funded startups, Thiel Fellows, etc, so odds are that the next big tech personality is very likely to be in the group
I did not know that - but you are correct, at least according to Lenovo's statement on the vulnerability[0].

[0] http://support.lenovo.com/us/en/product_security/superfish
From your link:

"Of crucial importance here: the data for the bottom panel of Figure 6 is from a folder called CENSORED on Mann’s FTP site. He did this very experiment himself and discovered that the PCs lose their hockeystick shape when the Graybill-Idso series are removed. In so doing he discovered that the hockey stick is not a global pattern, it is driven by a flawed group of US proxies that experts do not consider valid as climate indicators. But he did not disclose this fatal weakness of his results, and it only came to light because of Stephen McIntyre’s laborious efforts."

Geez, that's so damning.
So presumably you could do the following on your entire database:

for each query in my codebase Q:
for each possible combination of indexes I for Q:
create hypothetical index I
run EXPLAIN query Q
if Q uses I, create I

If EXPLAIN doesn't actually run a query, and creating hypothetical indexes doesn't actually write anything, the above could presumably done in milliseconds, no?

Why not take this one step further and just enable an autoindexing mode in postgres using the query history as a heuristic?
I dunno. I think it's just a matter of time before the dolphins start exploring the cosmos.
I'm really sorry about that.

telegram-bot and tg are great projects. Rest assured, many people (including myself) appreciate all your hard work.
>but for zero-knowledge guarantee I'm OK with that.

How can you guarantee that when the client isn't open source?
Kerry: U.S., China committed to cyber code of conduct
By no means suggesting CO2 isn't responsible for global warming - quite frankly I have zero idea, I just try listen to what the experts say. However, this article in particular is pretty offensively stupid. It shows some graphs that indicate a correlation between CO2 and heat increase. That's by no means scientific evidence for a cause. Again, not saying there isn't any evidence CO2 is the cause, it's just this article is incredibly misleading.
A significant proportion of digital signage and kiosk systems run Windows, for a variety of reasons. Things like departure boards and PoS are often based on proprietary client software that is integrated into unrefactorable legacy backends. Fitting a Win7/8 install into less than 32gb is possible, but it just isn't worth the effort when hardware is so cheap.
>Make simple changes to any project in an afternoon, no matter how large it is.
How? How do you help me "orient myself"? What do traces have to do with this?
And please don't say mu.
Yup -- always up to the developer. We don't create any contracts that binds them into anything.

TBH, we can't take credit for the 20% thing. It's been done before (by itself).
Why would anyone ever want that? Because people have different opinions about what is best. You are absolutely entitled to think that a more populous Ireland would be a bad thing, but you're being downvoted because you can't seem to see that that's just a personal preference, not an absolute truth.

Personally, I live in New Zealand (population: 4.5 million), and I'd strongly prefer it if we had twice as many people. A bigger population can sustain a healthier economy, with more opportunities for everyone. However, I'm well aware that I'm an outlier; most people think differently and I respect that.
Alas, Google Drive (used to?) suck on Linux.
Unlearning how to ride a bike [video]
It does do the 'why', in a way. Why does the OSX ls do -foo-? Well, because the source OS did it that way. It wasn't a decision by the OSX people, but inherited.
Supreme Court: Raisin board unconstitutional
Lots of useful and insightful information here, thank you so much. That's extremely helpful!
I think the idea of the creators was to make people independent from a telephone company, no need to even own a SIM card..
There's still no official google drive client you can install on linux. WHich is bizarre, considering chromebooks run linux and obviously sync with drive.
'You're in My House': Obama Shuts Down Heckler
If read in isolation, the paper seems pretty convincing that something is amiss. However, it looks like some other scientists have generally confirmed the findings from Mann et al.:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hockey_stick_controversy#Furth...

I haven't read those other papers.
hey nice video!!! im doing an internship in Modesto, Ca for web development and find your react ui builder to be pretty interesting. Im doing a talk on new technologies and techniques and am going to be doing it on your React UI builder. I will be talking about what is it, why its useful to me, the pros' and cons'. I will do my best to describe how to use your builder. Once done I can send you a link to the blog, and maybe even my talk. Thanks again for putting in the time to build this.
Genuine question, as I am not well versed in valuations:

How can a company be "valued at $10 billion" when it is sharing the "$904 million global market for business file-sharing"?

Is it because of the term "business" file-sharing, whereas there are non-business customers who are also paying for these services that make it worth substantially more than $904m? Or is there something else about valuations like this that I am missing?
One thing that's almost made me switch is how they handle sharing links now. Putting whatever you're sharing behind a (imo deceptive) sign-up/sign-in pop-up. So I've gone from something really clean looking when I share a file with someone to something that looks like I'm asking them to sign-up for Dropbox. Does the paid version get rid of this?
I took linear algebra, performed adequately, and the only time I ever found it useful was when I was trying to get a grip on OpenGL. After hanging around a lot of indie developers I discovered that having knowledge of low level graphics programming is not as useful as say, being artistically capable. A lot of devs rely on content creation engines like Unity so being proficient at low level graphics programming isn't exactly an asset.
Non-paywalled story

http://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2015/06/22/416538...

Decision

https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/14-275

Previous discussion on HN

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5855890

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5476048
You can't really but if you were to think about it that's how I would go about it. You can test different values and probabilities that you think are (likely|conservative|optimistic) and go from there. That gives you a range and a ballpark for different scenarios.

Personally though, if I can't predict something with > 90% accuracy/reliability then I'm not interested in investing in it.
My sister is trying to figure that out I believe.

I have a portuguese grandpa (as in, actually from Portugal), my family even owned stuff in portugal, but somehow all the documents proving it disappeared. My sister and some cousins will try to figure it out, if that fails option B is travelling to portugal in person to ask for a copy of the documents there, if that fail, then getting a job in Portugal and hope they will give a citizenship...

But seriously, most of my family that are portuguese descent are retretting that their ancestors left Portugal and want to return to Europe, even with all the crisis there, it is still better than Brazil (or most other south-american countries).
You don't.

Which is so disappointing because for a moment there they were getting my hopes up about Spideroak, but I can't get behind that in light of their proprietary client. Not even interested in trying it, its a non-starter in my books.
Why did he leave Yahoo?
I'm excited about this. Facebook has aggressively evolved its Security org over the years and they have given security a whole new level of focus in the past few years. I was there for 8.5 years and watched them grow and reinvent themselves a few times. I think FB's Security team is one of its crown jewels and it's great to see Alex joining FB. This will shake things up further and will likely lead to more great things.
You can't do that these days on modern devices and platforms. You can't run your own software. You can't run unsigned software.
What is a DDoS Attack?
For the salary negotiations, you take 20% of the difference. What do you do? Do you wait for the candidate to get an offer, then actually go talk to HR at the company on their behalf, or do you simply coach and tell them "Hey ask for $XX,XXX more!"
> hope that helps

Yeah thank you. That looks like a message bus, but with many more features than just a bus.

My account is only 5 hours old because I created it to ask my question. I am relatively here and I was just lurking before.
That's also why I decided to stop using Dropbox (for personal and professional use) and I keep on telling my friends and co-workers to use a more secure and encrypted one.

When everyone begins to care about personal privacy, how could they chose to associate with Condoleezza Rice ? Is there even a worse choice ?

Edit: I'm using Hubic now, hosted by OVH (very very bad desktop app right now, but they're making progress, and it's cheap, 50€ for 10TB / year)
these are great. thanks!
If merpnderp were to say the null hypothesis is that the longer-term trend (1.2K/century as stated) should continue as expected even into recent decades (or perhaps "correct" the data for that relationship because we're assuming it's not up for debate), then the data for the past ~20 years would show a departure from that hypothesis, would it not? In that case, the point being shown is different from the null hypothesis, and may be significant. Am I missing something?