skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Public share holders are, statistically, unwashed masses [1]. It's a bunch of quants that look at your P/E Ratio, earnings, etc to figure out if you're a good bet. If not quants, they're just people following some stock trend and bitching when it doesn't move up all the time. Few people take the time to get to know your business, your goals and your history. It's this lack of insight and depth that's led to the problem that modern companies have, which is only looking out for this and the next quarters' profits.

We see it with Amazon. That company has goals. It has expensive goals. Sometimes it doesn't make money for a few quarters. Ever damn time there is minor hullabaloo about how Amazon needs to focus on making money. They should cut jobs. Get more automation. Stop working in various Cloud offerings. Reduce their R&D. All of this is because a company shouldn't, apparently, focus on 5 to 10 year plans.

If I ever get out of my depression and really work on my startup, I won't IPO on anything that I actually care about. I'll plow through the early years living like a college student on Ramen if I have to. Then the company is mine to do with as I please. I know that there will be policies that won't please the market (for example 10% of the net to charity, primarily local to Palatka and Putnam county Fl).

I'm glad to see a possible trend in the tech industry of becoming entrepreneurs rather than rock stars. Don't get me wrong, I bet fame and its trappings are fun. Unfortunately they don't seem to really benefit the company or the product.

1 - https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/unwashed_masses
It wasn't IBM - IBM actually made fun of virtual memory while their engineers caught up with the competition.

I know that the RCA Spectra series had virtual memory in the 70's. The Spectra series was a 360 clone with the same instruction set. RCA developed virtual memory and converted their TSOS (Time Sharing Operating System) to VMOS. Univac bought the Spectra line and converted VMOS to VS/9. I worked for Univac at the time.

Virtual memory may have been used earlier by the Scientific Data Systems (SDS) Sigma series, later bought by Xerox. I was once a peripheral device to a Sigma, hooked up for an ECG.
I don't think anyone has ever said "native GUI" in the last 20 years. It's pretty nonsensical if you actually break down that passage to it's core components because it doesn't actually describe what specifically is "native":

- the libraries? But that's a programming interface for drawing graphics, not itself a graphical interface.

- the aesthetics of the widgets? This would be a more accurate interpretation, but the problem with that interpretation is that you could design web pages to look like Win32 forms and people widely consider HTML applications to be native.

- the layers of abstraction between your code and the rendering of your user interface? What about people who use .NET, MVC's or other wrappers?

- the author of the toolkits (eg MS toolkits for Windows, Apple for OS X)? So would that mean there's no native Linux GUI's because Linus Torvalds hasn't written any Linux widget libraries?

Saying "native GUI" doesn't really describe your point. Which is why I made the distinction between widget reimplementation being drawn natively on the OS vs widgets being drawn via Microsoft or Apples own APIs. This project being the former and your point being the latter - both being native in their own way yet different in their details.
As a quick 'part answer' to your question, a lot of the reasoning behind so many rounds for many companies is actively choosing to stay unprofitable by pouring would-be profits (and new investment dollars) into gaining more customers. The idea being that as long as you "know" you can get your customer to be worth more than you paid to acquire her, eventually your company will be profitable once you slow down (or hit a 'max') with user acquisition.
I don't know his source for 1900 or whether it refers to deaths in 1900, or people alive. However, here is some useful context about this idea.

The keyword for this phenomenon as used by the US Census is "Lifetime Mobility". It's calculated by comparing on long form census forms the given state of birth to the current residence. Obviously this doesn't take into account moving during one's life and moving back to one's hometown, so it's not entirely accurate for a measure of people who never leave home. It also has a very coarse granularity of state. In any case the finding was "Fifty-nine percent of people in the United States were born in their state of residence." Source: https://www.census.gov/prod/2011pubs/acsbr10-07.pdf

A 2011 Census analysis of migration data shows that mobility varies by region. At https://www.census.gov/newsroom/releases/pdf/2011-11-15_migr... see page 22 and note that for all age ranges, 50% or more remained in their state. For the midwest and northeast though numbers are higher - about 60-70%. The West is the anomaly with much higher rates of in migration. On page 23 we see Louisiana has the highest number of people remaining in state, 78.8% and Nevada the least at 24.3%. On page 43 we see the information we are looking for. Century trends of those born in the same state they now live in from 1900-2010. This is fairly interesting and surprising. It shows a century of very little migration in Pennsylvania where 76% live and were morn there, but decreasing numbers for Florida, with 65.2% born and living there in 1900, but 35.2% living there also born there in 2010.

A 2008 national phone survey went into more detail looking to break that state claim into those who never moved from their hometown at all. They found that "nearly four-in-ten — have never left the place in which they were born". Further along it explains in more detail "57% say they have not lived in the U.S. outside their current state: 37% have never left their hometown and 20% have left their hometown (or native country) but not lived outside their current state."

http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2008/12/17/who-moves-who-stay...

So, if the number in 1900 was actually 50%, it is 37% now for people who never move from their town of birth.

A genetic analysis of strontium isotope ratios in early hominid teeth suggests that very long ago 90% of men stayed near where they were born, but 50% of females moved away to other areas.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/early-women-had-to...
There are certain things that are a bit more elegant if you can have a custom query language. One example:

query UseFragment {
luke: human(id: "1000") {
...HumanFragment
}
leia: human(id: "1003") {
...HumanFragment
}
}
fragment HumanFragment on Human {
name
homePlanet
}

You could definitely have some JSON to represent this but it might turn out to be more trouble than it's worth...
How Customer Segmentation Empowers Personalized Videos
The 5 courses all NHS staff have to do
I've used \v support, or lack there of, to fingerprint web devices during security audits.

Whitespace is often defined as space, \t, \r, \n, and \v. However many specs, like HTTP, will sometimes exclude \v. Depending on the underline functions products use in their HTTP parsers, you can fingerprint servers, WAFs, proxies, load balancers, whatever when using \v to separate HTTP headers lines or name\value pairs
I still love the UI of instapaper a lot more than the one pocket has on their iOS version.

The main reason I switched to pocket was that Instapaper doesn't seem to have support for PDFs.

I don't need any of the "position syncing" and other stuff. I just want to be able to download the PDF and view it offline in the same app that helps me do this to blogposts.
the query contains by far more logic than should be put into json

you could map it to json - but technically you could map everything to json - doesnt mean you decrease complexity

the parser is the lowest problem of parsing and optimizing those queries i'd assume
Indeed.

This is also the case with Iceland, where the althing is also commonly cited as the "oldest continuously functioning democratic parliament in the world".

This sounds great, and does wonders for national pride. Especially since most Icelanders have an extremely rose-tinted view of their own past (thanks to propaganda during the independence campaign in the last century), and most are not aware that the only people who had voting rights were landowners, and everyone else was basically a slave. That's not really a democracy by any definition.
Readability I guess. The new syntax looks pretty good to me. A little heavy on the (( and )) but very obvious as to what is being asked.
I very rarely feel compelled to reply to throwaway accounts, but this is a great comment. Inspirational. Thanks for sharing.
I was under the impression that ccTLDs are administered/ran by the country they belong to (eg, I thought .us was administered by the US government). It sounds like I'm wrong though, my bad.
Non android badge android devices are my point.
Don't forget the movable walls. Finding your desk should be the first adventure of the day. Include randomly missing floor tiles behind some doors if your wallets are deep.
I play with Android and Windows Phone in my free time, but I also have experience with cross platform development.

One additional issue is that an abstraction layer also adds up in development time. Someone needs to write the platform specific glue, create abstractions that work across all platforms lifecycles, debug if errors happen in the middleware or device firmware...

So it is not always a clear win to not have focused device teams.

Each OS is very complex and no developer can know all of it.
Hang around with really smart developers. The quantity & quality of your learning is directly proportional to the number of smart programmers you've got around you.

This is a gaurenteed way of getting from good to great. This works even when you don't make a conscious effort to learn.

The question is how will you get around smart people.
Well, you might go join a company where you believe smart people are. You might want to contribute to interesting open source projects. You might just barge into your local tech meetup and say Hi. Whatever it is, make sure you are surrounded with smart people. It has always worked and will.
I find it interesting that two quotes from individuals is enough to get you to think all techies think the same.
Stable distribution of curated open source Go packages with long-term support
Lee Byron is talking about it at React Europe right now, here's the live stream (which supports play back): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UclvvqNtNNo
I doubt it was done deliberately to be funny - using S for Score, h for Hashtag and t for time are about as standard as you could get.
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Georgia Leads a Push to Help Ex-Prisoners Get Jobs
I use STL and Boost, it seldom goes over 8MB.

However stay away from Qt if you don't want over 30MB with almost no mobile support.
I'm guessing you might want some 'small' parts of logic, like the unary operation. Guessing!
How do you find an RSS feed of all archived Instapaper articles? This is needed to connect Pinboard with Instapaper.
Story is "better" with this related tweet https://twitter.com/acarboni/status/616360772478722048
This reminds me of the cancelled Superconducting Super Collider in Texas.

The argument to keep building it was they'd already invested billions and it would cost millions of dollars to stop building it.

I guess that cost would have been from contract guarantees to the builders or something.

Looks like when the Soviets stop building something they just walk away.
An even greatest example of such architecture are the older buildings (also called the brown buildings) of the Technical University of Crete (Greece).

They are full of various shaped classes, most are in a free polygon form. It is not unusual for a large cylindrical pillar to be in the middle of a small-ish class, obscuring view to the blackboard, or for a seat to be one meter to the front, 3-5 meters to the side of the board.

The shape and placement of buildings confuses the first year students, many of whom don't feel at ease until the second or third year. We used to joke that they would make a great Doom level.

Despite the university being in a remote area with great weather, windows frequently are absent, or small and placed high.
Linked from the Google Plus page, but kinda easy to miss, the original photos are from this Gigazine article: http://gigazine.net/news/20150615-kddi-faster/

It's in Japanese (and thus I can't read it), but there's a LOT more photos. It's really neat to see these aspects of undersea cabling, particularly the actual gland/port in the wall. Locations like this feel monuments to me, and for security reasons are pretty rarely seen.
My process: keep a bug journal. If I hit the same bug I hit three months ago and go through the same research to fix it, then I know I am not progressing. Ideally through this process I will learn what it is that I don't know and then learn it.
There was a comment on the original blog post that while they (Facebook) use GraphQL they still fall back to Flux for some of the data handling.

Was this solved ? Did they manage to handle all the data needs of their apps with GraphQL or is it still limited to certain areas ?
New quantum-dot spectrometer is small enough to function within a smartphone
Poland vs. the United States: civil liberties
I do the same, but JNI is a big pain, specially given how Android team deals with those pesky NDK users.
Friedman and Hayek were not socialists. One of the points is to get rid of the massive government overhead of distributing welfare. This particular aspect is anti-socialist.
The bulk of Chicago isn't highly multistory buildings, and most of the early skyscrapers were office towers, not residential.

What Chicago has that San Francisco hasn't is land. The city sprawled both north and south along Lake Michigan, and westward.

San Francisco has less space in the city proper, yes, but it also wasn't filled out fully until the 1950s. Now, of course, it is fully built up, and the only way to add more people is to grow up rather than out.

Chicago, though, also has highly developed suburbs, which were principally served until the 1960s by commuter rail, radiating out in all directions. Contrast with SF which had only one line south (CalTrain) through what remains a comparatively sparsely developed area (the Peninsula), and limited East Bay service (though the Key System did exist until the 1950s).

It's simply easier to build out more metropolitan infrastructure in the midwest.

Chicago is also within reasonable rail distance of much of the East Coast. By the late 1850s, it was less than two day's travel from New York, and well under one by the 1930s (about the same, by rail, as now).

http://railroads.unl.edu/documents/view_document.php?id=rail...

San Francisco was four weeks' travel in the 1850s, and still 3-4 days by the 1930s.

Today, California is increasingly practically limited by water access.
France spends 600B/y in social spending. That's about 15k per citizen (minus children). 1/3 of the GDP.

So let's change it to a Basic Income of 1000+/m for everybody...

Many will loose a lot... because that's what France is already spending, for a lot less than 40ish M citizens.

I know downvoters would love this to work.

But think about it: today, the system cares for people with a handicap (for which 1000/m is not enough), for single families (for which 1000/m is not enough), etc...
You just can't have everybody receive the same amount and remove help from those who need more...

So Basic Income will need much more money than what is already spent... just to take care of inequalities it will create.

If you think a country like France needs more redistribution (than 1/3 of the GDP), okay... but Basic Income will not achieve that.

Proponents often say BI will replace social spending. I think that's impossible.

If you just want more taxes, just say it. Be clear. BI is not clear at all, even if it looks easy to understand.

Source:
http://www.contrepoints.org/2013/09/30/140878-france-champio...
> Time to start up MY startup, Rent-A-Tiger

This reminds me of something said in the introduction to the Head First book series. The human brain hasn't really caught up with technological developments; it has a hard time looking at "boring" things like text/data and paying attention and retaining information, but it is really good at identifying threats (like, say, a tiger).

If you could find a way to trigger tiger cues whenever something important has to be remembered maybe you could actually boost productivity with Rent-A-Tiger :p
The page is in Russian, here is the Google Translate link: https://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fralphm...
That's a great point. I wish everything written by Farhad had a warning label on it for gross stupidity.

Sarb-Ox is clearly a big deal. However the bigger challenge facing these "stay private" companies is their massive need for cash. Traditionally, private companies generate a lot of positive cash flow which they use to support debt loads from either banks or the bond markets. These companies are starting to access the debt markets (witness Uber's large LOC and recent convert issuance) but without the cash flow to back up that debt. This will become an issue, because as of yet there is no private market for equity capital to be used to pay off debt at par - private equity and VC investors are not in that business as they have time-limited funds which need to produce positive cash returns in 7 - 10 years to pay back the LPs... The public markets represent the largest pool of permanent capital out there so unless the Unicorns stop bleeding cash they will have to come to the public markets eventually.

AMZN seems like the best possible outcome for these companies.
They're examples, it's more a reflection of the general tone of the discussion the last few years.
Show HN: Glee [Beta] – Dead simple app for delivering personal customer support
Fascinating. Why wouldn't it have been scrapped for parts or at least the metal?
Harvard Reveals It Had an IT Breach Impacting 8 Colleges and Administrations
Why offline-first matters, and what developers should know about it
I found the article to be misleading and of pretty poor journalistic quality. It reads like a rant and I would hope that HN would not make an exception for a Techdirt rant.

For example: the line, "Craig himself has contributed to this misleading perception with this tweet implying he's giving his own money to EFF" was especially confusing since the proceeds of a lawsuit are in fact "his own money".
A fantastic read, reminded me of Bill Bryson style of writing.
Available IPv4 address blocks have dried up, now there’s a waiting list
Business Insider has a partial translation of most of the captions: http://www.businessinsider.com.au/photos-of-russian-abandone...
How about randomly switching the HVAC from 55 degrees to 90 degrees? Or maybe cutting the power off for a few minutes each day?
Improved Competitive Analysis of Online Scheduling Deadline-Sensitive Jobs
Wikipedia is fighting to stop Europe from banning photos taken in public places
Probably because scrapping it would've cost a small fortune and what's left over just wouldn't be worth it.
DanBC basically answered your question. The thing to keep in mind is this is pretty rare.
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When I travel somewhere for say a week, I notice the place usually seems a lot bigger the first day or two when I don't know my way around. After a week you realize it isn't often so big.
What if the actual indian ocean timed out? That'd suck.
Why people think C++ is complicated?
The communications department in my old college campus was in a building designed to be deliberately confusing -- you had to go upstairs to get into the basement, hallways changed direction unexpectedly, etc -- with the idea that that'd get the students to communicate with each other because get it we're lost and have to ask each other directions and it's the communications dept see we're communicating get it get it huh do you get the joke hilarious

yeah they tore that sucker down a couple years ago apparently
Towards semantic version control
I believe it was Burroughs who first did virtual memory. This was before the IBM Model 67 and the research at University of Michigan.

So my first major gig was a startup called Telemed located first in Park Ridge then in Chicago, in an office building at the end of runway 27 L. We built this system of collecting ECG data over the phone line in three-channel FM, converted to digital and then processed by Sigma 5! Sounds like the same system that you were hooked up to. How about that.

The Sigma5 didn't have virtual memory, but the Sigma 7 did. But this was well after both Burroughs and IBM had commercial offerings.

The Sigma series was produced by Scientific Data Systems, later bought by Xerox. Made Max Plaevsky the largest Xerox until Xerox bought University Microfilms.
And if it is faster than boot2docker with VirtualBox, great!
How so? It can only break the company if you're raising additional capital post-IPO. If you're not raising additional capital, your stock price and the volatility surrounding it are only a number that a stakeholder decides to sell at. It has nothing to do with your company's operational capabilities.
We have that; it's called UTC.
I've a colleague who said "I was raised by television". Growing up, I didn't have TV until 9th grade, so I couldn't understand. Then I watched kids of my friends and family - one of the easiest ways to make them quiet (so the parents can get their work done) is to put them in front of a TV.

It is sad but true
I think I've worked at that office.
Nice portfolio, looks like a direction I would like to go in (as a founder/dev). How did you decide to open in Berlin next to Shanghai?
Silk Road: Undercover agent admits stealing Bitcoin
I'm a dev that uses git, and I have outstanding written and verbal skills, but I've never led a team, and certainly not for 3-7 years. I've never had a group of people working under me in dev roles. Is that a deal-breaker?
Why Did Apple Kill Newton OS (1998) via Pastly
Economic growth more likely when wealth distributed to poor instead of rich
No need for swearing, just don't include a cookie banner. Seriously, what's going to happen? Absolutely nothing. The ICO actually admitted as much in the UK.

The cookie law is the result of tech-illiterates trying to inform other tech-illiterates of something that they shouldn't need to care about... 2nd party and 3rd party tracking should be, and is, managed by the browser (or User Agent, the clue's in the name) not every single website the user visits.

Meanwhile, Greece is being sold down the river by an anti-democratic EU, the USA seems as troubled by racism as ever, and we're now walking jovially down the road to irreversible climate change... but not.. ZOMG COOKIES! OHNOES! WE MUST MAKE COMPNIES WARN EVRYBODIE!

Imbeciles!

Okay, rant over. Normal service will resume shortly.
Misleading headline - it's not about "photos taken in public places" but "photos taken of copyrighted materials displayed in public places"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_panorama
sigh, yet another site which needlessly doesn't work without JavaScript. It's a pity, because the article itself is great.