skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would be greatly interested to know what it means for later employees who had RSU's since this effectively might set back the IPO dates by at least a few number of years. How does this effects them ?
This is far less common than you would think. The vast majority of rounds are raised by the company's board and shareholders approving additional stock to be issued.
http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/features/fluoride-childrens...
That's nice, but not what I had in mind. I was thinking a live 4k video stream with local audio -- so an "actual" digital window.

Slideshows and stills are nice -- but they serve a different purpose. Think of it as a different kind of augmented reality -- putting a "real" window in your windowless office etc.
Especially if you're not already "read in" how how modern exploits are designed, this is a really, really excellent blog post.
The company could also opt to settle portions of their employees' RSUs for cash if they wanted to offer employees liquidity even in advance of an IPO.
I think this might be a violation of the GPL

More discussion here: https://www.reddit.com/r/coding/comments/38vbme/13_15_yrs_ol...
Most of the world doesn't need hundreds or thousands of servers... most businesses need fewer than fifty or a hundred. And growing is pretty easy... Once you hit a certain scale it absolutely makes sense to consider migrating, but that's the point where you have teams of dedicated employees.

And even then the costs of moving off of the cloud solution may never be worth it.
I've been reading HN for 4+ years now, and I think that practically every post in that thread is spot-on. HN has turned into the very thing that I thought the guidelines were designed to prevent. The internet doesn't need another reddit, it's bad enough as it is.

HN has become host to feminist shilling and corporate endorsements, on top of the already flawed content model that encourages disengagement to the point where people are just reposting headlines and treating HN as a comments section for the article itself.

Either way, there's something to be said for constructive criticism like this, and HN can potentially learn from this.

It won't. But it could.
Companies generally expect to get a lot more than just money from their early investors. This is definitely a nifty idea for giving people an incentive to participate in a nascent 2 sided market. However it's not quite a no brainer as you're describing, there are trade offs here.
> Especially the wheelchair example is a very good reason

Yet they still build stairs and escalators.
Can we please keep politics out of our technology sites? Thanks.
Most communities are a joke to other communities. Whether it's online communities, religions, races, countries, hobbies, whatever.
Doubtful. There's a lot of tools available now to avoid limits. The JOBS Act (2012) increased the limit and gave additional carve outs to 2,000 shareholders or 500 un-accredited investors. All of AirBNB's new shareholders are accredited investors – it's not like they are taking angel or friends-and-family funding at this stage. Also, employees that exercise their option grants are not generally counted anymore toward these limits – it's considered part of their compensation benefit.
is it substantially more than a graphical frontend to clamav?

and since clamav is GPL, does that mean subscribers get rights to the source?
Is there any information to be had anywhere about terms? We hear the valuation shouted from the rooftops, but with nothing about the terms, its hard to know what the big number really means. Specifically, does anybody know if this a common stock purchase, or is this some kind of convertible preferred stock/convertible note with a liquidation preference?
In the link there is interview where they explained.

No they did not build a Browser from Scratch. They wrote a UI for Default webkit engine that comes with Android.

Is it a technical accomplishment? Not by any means for a professional. But it is awesome that these kids figured how to do this and mostly appear to be self learners.

Edit: Reddit Thread here talks about using a GPL Browser (built over Webkit engine that comes with Android).
https://www.reddit.com/r/coding/comments/38vbme/13_15_yrs_ol...
Public markets don't give regular people anything. At best it lets middle and upper class people pick off the left overs that Goldman Sachs & Co can't figure out how to take for themselves. I'm talking about giving the first 1,000 Airbnb users equity at angel prices. That's how you get life changing multiples for very small tech investors.
I feel like I read this article literally every day on HN. What's the goal? Predict imminent bubble bursting every day for years until it finally happens to yell "See!? I told you so!"?
Does Being an Only Child Actually Mess You Up?
I hadn't really been able see how useful well-known Symbols would be until I read this. My only thoughts now are that overriding binary operators in ES7 would be an amazing feature addition.
How to download YouTube video
They're already going to sell the equity to someone. Airbnb could sell equity to its users instead of private equity groups.
This guy needs to wake up.
This charming film is appealing and enjoyable to all ages while gently reminding us to attend to our emotions -- just as the main character learns that sadness has its place.

All dramatic performances are simplifications, from scenery to the focus of the content. Usefully simple that is; like any map for instance, which would be unwieldy (at best) if at full scale and containing every detail. Clarity is found by stripping out superfluous details.

To my ear, the author of the article had to really stretch to find a way to complain about this flick.
I think that link needs a bit of updating - JS has lexical scoping and tail call elimination now.
I think this idea could work for most startups, not just Airbnb.
Maybe it's just the right thing to do.

When VA Linux IPO'd they let everyone who had contributed in some way to their open source distribution into the family and friends plan. I was one of them and managed to re-pay my mum for lending me the deposit on my mortgage.

Note that I don't think you can classify it as a bad example just because LNUX was a spectacular failure after the IPO. The F&F situation had nothing to do with their failure.

Sometimes it's just good to help the people who helped you build a business.
The for in my example (which is directly from the linked page) is a while loop written in a compact form. My complaint is that a for loop should name a definite end number without a condition. I think the WHILE portion of the ALGOL-style for loop you give is problematic (and given the example unused). Having a condition as an end condition is error prone.
Ask HN: Material Design graphing libraries (javascript)?
Can anyone recommend a JavaScript graphing library that follows material design guidelines?

The only one I can find is http://www.chartjs.org/
Some are kinda on point:

[1000 points] Some hot-button political issue that we know nothing about

[-1 points] An O(n) time algorithm for multiplying matrices

And that's why I have been phasing my tech news away from HN.

It's really enjoyable watching the 4chan folks take the piss out of here--though a lot of the posts are, I suspect, newfags (in the vernacular) posting purposefully bigoted things in language that isn't typical to /g/.
According to Wikipedia, reverse stock splits remove everyone with less than the split factor from the cap table. So if it was a 10-to-1 reverse split then you'd need at least 10 shares or you'd get paid out in cash

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_stock_split#cite_note-...
Ah, I needed that
It sounds like they really ran afoul of the stable page writes bugs that exist in Linux 3.2.31 to 3.9.

Thread discussing the bug and a test program to show the issue.

https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/10/9/210

Patch introducing the bug:

https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux....

Patch fixing the bug:

https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux....

It causes a huge dropoff in latency and throughput by causing all filesystems to block even when they don't need to.

In short, 3.2 is lethally bad in terms of database workloads.
I think this is spot on. And he's backing up what he's saying with his own money. I hope the best for him and everyone he helps.
Clojure also takes this approach with core.typed as well https://frenchy64.github.io/2015/06/19/gradual-typing.html

I personally haven't found a place where this is necessary yet, but who knows what might happen in the future. :)
well I guess CL doesn't have s-exps either then who knew! https://www.cs.cmu.edu/Groups/AI/html/cltl/clm/node59.html
So what is the chance for this article to coincide with:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9788627
I've started writing my own ES9 specification to get a jump on the really cutting-edge stuff, it's influenced by functional languages but only ironically.
The Downtown Project Suicides: Can the Pursuit of Happiness Kill You?
I hate to tell you this but HN has always been about "corporate endorsements" - this is primarily a startup site, which means you're going to see a lot of VC and SF culture around here.
> I'm curious why you think he was clearly suffering from mental illness.

Because psychopathic behavior is classified in our society as a personality disorder?

> Did he leave a long broken worded diatribe full of references to imaginary voices and animals? Did he have a recorded history of increasingly frequent or intense mental breakdowns?

No, but he did write a > 2,500 word manifesto (I'm not linking sources, this is all on Wikipedia) justifying his actions and stating that he knew what he was planning to do was morally and socially wrong and that the people he intended to hurt were innocent. He confided in friends, over a full week before he carried out his plans, what his plans were. That seems to me a cry for help by any standard.

> Certainly just because someone commits mass murder does not mean they are 'insane'. They can merely be evil.

And that certainly stops the conversation and limits us from beginning to understand what is going on that is causing psychopathic behaviors to manifest. Calling it "merely evil" is dismissive. I'm much more interested in trying to understand what the hell is happening in our society by exploring the mental illness angle since it is grounded in medical science and not some nebulous "evil" or "insane."

edit/ I'd also like to say, I don't think it is minimizing mental illness to call mass murderers mentally ill. My own brother is diagnosed schizoaffective and I don't consider him a potential or future mass murderer just because of his health issues. That would be ridiculous.
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I have nothing to say other than good. This is how it should always have been. To all the people who disagree, you are entitled to your opinion, and to all those who can now celebrate their love with all the peace and respect of any other person, congratulations and I wish you all the best.
Can we please stop posting articles behind a paywall? I can't read this at all, not even in incognito browser mode.
GiveWell[1] and Open Philanthropy[2] would probably be of interest here. (I am a donor to some of GiveWell's recommended organizations but otherwise not affiliated with them)

[1] http://www.givewell.org/

[2] http://www.openphilanthropy.org/
But most of the time the law has provisions for edge cases, such as the Romeo and Juliet laws that exist in many states (laws that override the age of consent when the age difference is small).
It's refreshing to see what people post without fear of retaliation or identification on the web.

Gold!

"Ask HN: Why won't VCs invest in our dating app, and why is it because we're women founders?"

"[1583] We taught 13 women from Sierra Leone node.js"
To some that question is the same as "Why don't you plan on being a billionaire?"
I liked this one

> Anonymous 06/26/15(Fri)17:51:52 No.48697104
[600 points] [meta] 4chan technology board satires hacker news, hilarious.
Greek Prime Minister Calls for Referendum
Microsoft apps no longer support Facebook Connect due to API change
It is listed as the only packaged solution for ClamAV, otherwise you'll need to build from source.

See: http://www.clamav.net/download.html

Edit: There is a Homebrew package: http://brewformulas.org/Clamav
try out, http://images.jlee.biz/tw/jason
If you copy and paste the link into Google, you can find a version you can read without paying for the subscription.
It is not a violation of GPL because we referenced tint browser in the about section of the app.
Ever since reading the referenced op-ed from the New York Times, I have been curious about the effects of low dosages of lithium. If a large dose can counteract bipolar disorder, it seems reasonable that a low dosage would have at least some amount of calming effect (which is what the NYT article claimed, with reference to some studies done on populations with naturally high occurences of lithium in their water supply).

So about eight months ago I started taking a low dosage of lithium, in the form of drops added to my drinking water, in a dosage that amounts to about 2-3mg per day - similar to the amounts in naturally occurring high-lithium drinking water. (In comparison, therapeutic doses are several 100 mgs per day).

Anecdotally, it might just be placebo effect, but I do feel it has had some effect. I have always been a bit anxious, particularly socially, and I feel that has diminished over this period. However, this experiment coincides with a better exercise regimen, and also simply growing older, so it's difficult to 100% attribute the effect (if any) to the added lithium. It would be very interesting to see more studies on this.

If anyone's interested you can buy these drops as 'trace mineral drops' from the Great Salt Lake.
Being spammy and dishonest is not going to be welcome in any community, whether it's Google Play or Hacker News. You were accused of acting in exactly the way you admit to have acted.
do you mind sharing the link to this plugin ?
> Amazon is documented as giving these guys some serious discounts.

So do hardware vendors.

I think this kind of argument doesn't help, once you are big you get discounts everywhere.
No, it's not a Chinese buyout. You're talking about the acquisition of maybe 2% to 3% of their equity. It's meaningless in that regard.

There are two companies in China that could afford to buy Airbnb, that would be reasonable potential buyers. Tencent and Alibaba, neither of which are about to attempt such a purchase. It would cost ~$40 billion to buy them today.
That was the original title of this thread but someone changed it.
If you have 10 shares or 1 share in a company with tens or hundreds of millions of shares on the cap table, your stake effectively doesn't exist, so getting a cash payout is probably in your favor.
The purchase page says that it for non-commercial use; no link to a commercial version. Looks like it is still free in the App Store FWIW.
That reminds me of the time I googled "Google" on Google while visiting Google and the universe ended.
The Crisis in Non-Fiction Publishing
Sorry, but DEK?
Steve+Jobs's+Top+10+Rules+for+Success
Is this Real Life?
That makes us even.
Right thats why I didn't understand why the original comment thought a reverse stock split is in the cards
How do you authenticate something you are? Specifically across a medium like the internet? Fingerprint scans?
Oh lord, I misinterpreted this as ClamAV going commercial. :phew:
Would the average AirBNB host be an accredited investor?

Also, I hadn't heard that employee grants are not considered towards the investor limit, is it just that holding options doesn't make you an investor or is it more than that? Can you point me towards some reading material?

Edit: It looks like "Shareholder's of record" as defined in the JOBS Act might exclude employee incentive share programs (as long as those plans were exempt from registration under the Securities Act... not that I know what that means)

Edit2: See erichurkman's links.
And is a sociopath who flagrantly spammed to get traction, and now figured out an awesome way to privatize profits while socializing negative externalities.

Honestly, he's one of the biggest pieces of shit on the planet. Fuck him, and fuck the god-awful illegal AirBNB that my neighbor runs. I know he's rich and therefore thinks he's God, but he's a piece of shit and all the people sucking his dick only do so because he's rich. He's a worthless sociopathic cunt.

FUCK HIM. FUCK HIM IN RIGHT IN THE FUCKING ASS.
This is a pretty neat concept. I'm not sure if this is what its doing but it seems like it.

It seems your master password is like a seed for the encryption or something so that's why it can always be the same. If thats pretty much what it is its pretty smart and simple.

I also like the option for the account clues.
It's fair to be concerned that some startups a receiving absurd amounts of money. But that's it. "Some." The article uses super-outliers like unicorns and Uber to make a bad point.

It's not going to result in a full-on bubble until everyone gets funding for a stupid idea.
But you have options for number of shares to buy and when you get the options you have no idea how much each share after the IPO would be so you make a wild guess and evaluate your offer. What happens after reverse split is, number of options you have decreases and the prices of each share after IPO is still the same or around your guess. That's how you lose money with a reverse split.

I know. It's all because options have no value and people try to evaluate them but still...
Those are probably the ones I hear most.
>If A = ∅, then id_A = ∅, which is exactly the result we'd expect, so I don't see any issue.

The issue isn't with the example you gave, but with the idea in general that being able to produce a term of a given type in Haskell means that that type is necessarily inhabited.

>This is true, in a sense, but also a little bit misleading I think, since technically every type in Haskell is the set of terminating value with that type plus _|_

Well, ⊥ is empty, so naturally every type is itself plus ⊥. In fact, that leads to an important observation, which is that any computation in Haskell could potentially be non-terminating, not just those with type Void—and so it's really not the inclusion of the bottom type that causes things to break down, but the ability to produce non-terminating computations (more specifically, non-coterminating, i.e. non-productive "lazy" computations).

Unfortunately, the alternative—making it impossible to produce non-terminating computations—is more than anything a matter of rejecting everything the compiler can't prove terminates, which is kind of limiting, termination being undecidable in the general case. On the other hand, the sorts of computations humans design are generally much more well-structured than an arbitrary Turing machine, and so probably much easier to prove (co)termination for.
Doesn't seem like it, it's a GUI app that runs CLI commands and flags for ClamAV, which is separately installed, according to Mark Allan, the developer of ClamXav:

https://www.clamxav.com/BB/viewtopic.php?p=2386#p2386

ClamXav was never open-source, it was previously freeware/donationware.
The Chinese economy isn't doing that great right now, so people were puzzling over the stock market boom. But as you say, these two things are almost completely separated at this point.

Now if someone could tell me where to park my RMB savings...real estate? Stock market? Under my mattress? The real problem is that investment opportunities in China really aren't that great.
I'm curious why anyone would run ClamAV on their Mac. Is this just for IT compliance?
Why not just copy/paste that into a .sh, put #!/bin/bash at the top, check it into source control, and call it good enough for now? I guess they call that a "Dockerfile" these days :)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shikata_ga_nai
I agree that the (now-flagged) post calling me out on my snark was fair, I would not have used that tone in real life.
The true lazy person starts with a cookie-cutter template whenever they start a new project. It helps when the path of least resistance is also the best practice.
A plan to fix San Francisco's housing crisis – but homeowners won't like it
Just zoom out to the 5 year view, same effect.
This isn't how investing works. You can't just hand wave a situation in which one of the most successful tech companies ever should have offered its early shares to more people. If you went back to the early days of AirBNB and told the early members they could either have the $1,000 from renting their room or .01% of AirBNB's stock, almost all of them are going to take the $1,000. Tons of VCs passed on AirBNB because they thought it was a bad investment.

I'm not against crowdfunding, I think it is great. But to pretend that angel investing is some sort of easy money is ridiculous. Companies like AirBNB which are successful are incredibly rare. Most companies fail and return nothing. Valuations for companies have also gone way up and there is no way to know whether investing now is actually a good deal or not. That is the point of investing, you are hoping for additional returns by taking more risk.
We are currently in a software-driven expansion, previously it was the Internet, and before that, silicon. This software-driven expansion will not go on forever, at some time in the future, things will change.

Timing the market to avoid bubbles is hard. It's better to be diversified, and have cash on hand to weather a market downturn.

Will they still call it silicon valley after the third bubble pop?
Employee option grants don't count. However, if they exercise and tern them into actual stock units, I believe they do count.
I had my freakout about ClamAV back when I found out it is owned by Cisco:

http://blog.clamav.net/2013/10/cisco-community-and-open-sour...
Douglas Hofstadter, of "Gödel, Escher, Bach" fame,
has is own idea on the question: "I Am a Strange Loop".
(Both good and highly recommended books).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Hofstadter#Published_w...
> Haskell's philosophy to "avoid success at all costs".

How? I think you are misunderstanding the philosophy. Like SPJ once explained, its 'avoid (success at all costs)' and not '(avoid success) at all costs'. It basically means, 'don't compromise on your principles in order to achieve success'.
> . . . people are just reposting headlines and treating HN as a comments section for the article itself.

This is exactly what I do. What is the right way to use HN?
Doubtful that the average host would qualify, especially since the average host is using their home to host AirBNB guests, and your primary residence does not count toward the monetary requirements to be qualified as an accredited investor – net worth over $1mm, annual income over $200k [0].

As far as the shareholder limit, Cooley LLP has a decent overview of the JOBS Act's changes [1]. Holding an option grant never counted toward the 499 limit, but previously if you exercised your option grant (through equity compensation), you may have counted toward the 499 limit. Now, most option holders that exercise their grants are exempt from this shareholder count.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accredited_investor

[1] http://www.cooley.com/jobs-act-what-does-it-mean
echo !! > build.sh
I've recently donated to the mosquito nets. I don't see where they recommend institutions for medical or scientific research.
I can't tell if this is a joke or not?
Yeah, and also the stupid 4chan racism and constant fear of "SJW"s.
How about a startup where one can dial a 1-800 number from Japan and get someone in ,say, Europe, who is also bored, and the two can rant to each other about how bad things are , and then go back to their lives ? International PainBuddy program, Dial-An-Agony . 1800-call-pain !!
Best part, we pay a couple of life coaches to analyse some rants and provide anonymous advice
4) Not being a self-centered, libertarian asshole.