jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Maybe I'm missing something, but revenue per employee doesn't seem to be rising, which is what I would expect to see out of a successful startup that has found product market fit and is beginning to gain economies of scale. All I see is a capital raise 2x the previous raise each year, with no sign of profit and only a proportional increase in revenue.

I can build a business like that: sell Hadoop consulting services at a loss, below the market price. Win lots of business by being really cheap; grow as fast as your cashflow allows, which will require annual investment rounds of ever increasing size.

When I look at Google Trends, Hadoop's long-term trajectory looks like "dead by 2024". Do we expect that Databricks will be able to justify a $8B capital raising if Hadoop doesn't really exist? If not, what's the path to profitability?

(Not trying to say anything bad about Databricks or their management, I'm just genuinely wondering what's going on.)
Is there any more toxic label you can attach to a person in contemporary America than "racist?"

Is there any accusation -- outside of actual crimes -- more likely to cause a person to lose opportunities, social connections, or standing in their community?

I can't speak to this reporter's motivations, but if a reporter wanted to metaphorically put someone's head on a pike, I can't think of any more effective way to do it than to insinuate that they are a racist, and somehow get it to stick.
I suppose. But that's not the point I think. You are coming at this from a scientific point of view, which I frankly think is the wrong perspective.

My preferred perspective is an educational one. Students were administered a test, and they failed it. It's a statement about a specific group of students in a specific time and place. They had (so far) received a lacking education. Educators and curriculum should respond to address the shortcoming.
I know who I'd want to spend an afternoon talking to
I built a small game with blueprints and it was truly amazing.

I don't use them anymore because I am just so embedded in thinking of things in code, it became tedious to constantly convert code thoughts into blueprints. But I was definitely impressed!

I would probably use it for projects that are mostly art and only a little bit of logic. A walking simulator style game for example. But if I am building out bigger systems, I feel more comfortable in code.
Because then "some" people could live their video game fantasy life of an existence in a Mad Max landscape where the job description is to roll into town in a souped up 1974 Ford Falcon XB GT and solve all problems down the barrel of a gun. So many people want revolution but they only imagine it in a universe where they themselves are holding the stick and not the ones being beaten with it.

Revolution should be the last resort not the first.
Article is spot-on about personas being misused. The author provides some good guidelines for getting them back on track, but I've had more luck simply abandoning the personas concept altogether.

Personas might be useful as a brainstorming session to identify pain points, product interaction context, and problems to be solved. However, once those key goals have been identified, why not simply abandon the persona concept for the rest of the process?

Focus on solving the problems you've identified, not appealing to 3-5 extremely specific imaginary personas.
> How is a mob storming the legislature at the direction of a politician not a coup attempt?

Especially when the specific goal is to use threats of violence to induce officials to overturn the election in which the inciting politician was defeated.

This is an act of terrorism meant to effect an auto-coup.
Since it's mentioned in the article: Does anyone have experience with lossy png tools?

I'm currently working on a project that needs alpha channels. I've been optimizing the images with pngcrush, which helped (interestingly, images put out with Adobe products where already pretty optimized, but I'm generating thumbnails locally with sips, where pngcrush often saves 60+%).

Still, for photographic images, file size often remains multiple times larger than what I'd expect from a high-quality JPEG.
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Enforcement should be limited to congregations of people. If I am walking outside by myself, and nobody is nearby, then the government should not have the right to tell me I have to go inside. This isn't a disease you get by merely stepping outside of your home.
The stock market isn't money - it is a very very valuable thing in the US economy, but as long as food prices aren't being slashed to keep demand up (and various governments have had to act aggressively to keep down price exploitation) then we aren't looking at deflation - it's just the stock market, and, honestly, the market can fix itself whenever it pleases - it has an almost negligible impact on the lives of nearly everyone, only those with a lot to spare have significant skin in the game.
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Do not give up your role.

Managing though this (while putting family first) will make you the leader you need to be (for everyone).

I think you are on the right track with "divide and conquer" strategy.

Delegate out that which cannot be done on a mobile app or in a phone call.

My own experience is that it is a checkerboard of family-time and business-time.

Thing is that we all have a good laugh when the little ones are goofing off in the background -- it is a shared reality that we can only laugh at.
> A business with zero debt financing would not go bankrupt during this crisis

There are fixed obligations that can exist outside of debt financing. Rent, for example, is one that everybody is familiar with.

Anyways, I generally agree that helping the employees is more important than saving the businesses. If a business does die, it hurts some current investor or proprietor and benefits some future investor or proprietor after the crisis is over, with some efficiency lost in between as assets are sold off and eventually bought back up (and probably you get a better off company in the long run as a personal opinion).

I'm just saying, it's not necessarily some moral fault that a business doesn't have the structure to survive the a pandemic. This is outside of normal recession-preparation.
This will work for simple equations, for more complex ones you will run into the curse of dimensionality. That's why MC was invented in the first place by Stanisław Ulam et al.
One can care about fundraising for their startup and care about raising untainted money without it being one's primary concern. Then you move the goalposts a little more and essentially say that you shouldn't be concerned with funding sources at all. The latter point especially seems amoral.

It's all a bit of a straw man. I'm curious what motivations are backing your reasons for advocating for this position?
Many of our civilisation's needs and desires have been created by marketers. Whether it is people selling expensive child care equipment or books promoting fads. You don't need most of that shit. There is some good stuff to know for health and safety but you have to think critically which is hard for a first time parent going into the unknown. We bought a lot of gear that never got used or which turned out to be less effective than simpler means.
I've always wanted to know the breakdown within the Church of Emacs of those who use it as everything including the kitchen sink, and those who just use it as an editor.

Does the former alienate a lot of would-be users?
Reminds me a bit of what Color is doing even though their go-to-market seems to be "photo-sharing with the public based on location."

Off-topic: Can we get back to graceful degradation? JS is great with trusted services, but not new ones, imho.
I know how to do something people will pay me money for. I can wander from urban center to urban center around the world (today literally or via the internet), and people will still pay me money to use my knowledge to build stuff, much like medieval stone masons (who didn’t just cut and lay stones to build beautiful cathedrals, but utilitarian structures too). Meets my definition of a craft.
Though there is something wrong with directly copying UI elements with just a text change - that should be completely frowned upon and called out imho.

Other than that - competition is good, and imitation should be seen as you are doing something good, now just make sure you can keep up or do it better consistently unless you want your competition to take over the market share.
A state that incurs high welfare costs when a company fails has an interest in reducing the number of failing companies. One way to do that is to require new companies to have capital, hire qualified employees, etc.

(No, I'm not taking a position on whether that's a good idea. I am not an economist, and I try not to play one on the Net.)
During my consulting days, this was a hard issue to get across to many clients. (Part of the reason I don't do much consulting anymore.) My time has a value. You're paying for my time. Whether you extract value from my time is up to you, but I'm going to be paid for it either way.

My consulting colleagues often disagreed with this philosophy, trying to walk some careful balance of not asking to be paid too much so the client will use you again. use being the operative word here. If the client is the type that doesn't value your time, you don't want them to hire you. It never ends up being worth it.
Is it just me, or can nobody else see this working in practice?

Upgrading to Windows 7 to get IE 10 seems like a classic "You're doing it wrong"!
if you have unlimited resources and huge datacenters - maybe you can. Try to calculate have many nodes will you need to implement COMET-like chat system for 500M users, especially when you using Python or Ruby with some async IO evented framework.
Neat, I didn't know about the Coca-cola deal. Which if you're as curious as I was, is described here: http://ycombinator.posterous.com/posterous-s08-jumps-on-the-...
It's great to see what companies can come up with. :)
Thanks.
As far as I am aware, no actual backdoors have been discovered. This has a high probability of being a hoax.
That disqualifies a lot of otherwise really good hardware. My current Thinkpad, for example, and all current MBPs, I believe. Some manufacturers also aren't very clear about the exact hardware in their machines, either. (For example, Apple doesn't list the exact CPU on their tech specs page, only the somewhat vague "2.4GHz dual-core Intel Core i7, Turbo Boost up to 3.4GHz, with 4MB shared L3 cache". That might be unambiguous enough to map back to an actual piece of hardware, but it's still a considerable amount of work to do so.)
I think it's still relevant to some degree, for two slightly related reasons.

[1]Good journalism still exists online. You just have to find it. RealClearWorld does a good job of finding quality stories, and the CSM is still top notch. Even mainstream news sources such as CNN still have good pieces; my rule for them is the shorter the better though -- just the facts.

Everyone has inert baises when they write, no matter how hard they try to hide them. But this has happened for decades, so take them with a grain of salt.

[2]Bloggers aren't journalists, they're just bloggers (sorry bloggers). If anything, they're editorialists. Cronkite's rules still apply to this crowd as well. Bloggers add opinion by their very nature. If they didn't, then they'd be classified as journalists, and held up to the same standards of integrity.

This is also my own bias showing -- I really do want Cronkite's rules to still apply today, simply because he was the standardbearer for a generation of news.
>Clearly, Amazon isn’t yet on the same side of the "loved" spectrum as the brands Bezos named in his memo. Devoted fans of Apple, Nike, and Disney will spend any amount of money just for a small taste of their products and culture. Amazon certainly isn’t in the same camp as supposedly "unloved" brands like Walmart—far from it. But Amazon just isn’t as cool or beloved as Bezos might hope.

People also fall out of love, as they have done at one point or another with many of the examples mentioned here. Be essential, that' s much better.
I still can't understand how it got through any sort of automated testing. Which they have to be using, right?
Thanks for writing this. HN is full of touchy-feely folks, hence the downvotes. For many, it's hard to look past tone. They react emotionally. Sure, maybe your grammar could be better or maybe if we forced everyone to have perfect grammar we'd never had read your post.

I also have been dissatisfied with the industry and what it has become. I got into this to create solutions, not to glue others' solutions together. This isn't fun anymore. I'm looking for something more artistic like concept art drawing. I like what you said, "can't wait to get the CRUD out of my eyes"!

I also agree on the startup point you made. Everything is about ads and how to make them better. Yawn to the max. So uninteresting. I'm afraid I don't have a cure for your cynicism. But I want to leave you with something. I was watching an instructional video of an artist teaching environment drawing technique. He said one of the fun things about drawing professionally is he has been doing it for 50 years and it's still interesting to him. Programming is mercurial and will have different "interesting" periods that will appeal to different people as it progresses. This era in programming is not my favorite.
I was there for a year. On that team. This article is quite inaccurate.
If this were to become as widely-used as the creators intend, it would mean the end of making money from information.

For example, any drug, hardware, or software with any value would appear on the site. Why spend millions/billions creating those things if they just get leaked right away?

I think it would actually mean the end of most human progress, because the ability to live off of your creativity would be destroyed. Maybe you'd pursue creative things regardless, but you wouldn't be able to make a living off of them, and it would drastically hamper your ability to create.

I'm not actually sure human society would survive a total elimination of private information.

So, in short, this is one of the most evil things I've ever seen, even if there's also potential for good.
I quoted the article. It does make a correction of sorts at the end. The full sentence:

>"Originally priced at $199 (with contract) and intended as an iPhone competitor, it now sells for 99 cents, and Amazon has taken a $170 million write-down largely attributable to unsold Fire Phone inventory."* //

So they are comparing '99c' to '$199 (with contract)'.

Meh, I should know better than to expect realistic reporting.

[to avoid any doubt I'm not disagreeing with you in any way]
Level I and Level II data from my broker's API (Interactive Brokers). It's a free service as long as you have enough trading fee's every month. TDAmeritrade has an OK API as well. Both services have some limitations on data feeds (number of symbols you can actively review). There's some lag in data (sub what a human could notice) but again these are essentially free, and unless you're trying to be an HFT or scraping stocks this shouldn't matter. Neither of those activities are recommended, the people you'd be going up against have a lot more money and much better resources.
News data is aggregated from a variety of sources and paid rss news feeds.

Yes to sentiment, yes to history (though I keep my own history for the sake of granularity and not paying twice for data), and sort of for technical indicators... technical indicators are helpful for humans, but if your ML algo is using a data set that spans a multi-day window already a technical indicator of the direction of movement in the last few days is just telling your algo something it already knows.
I've got two problems here.

1) Cloud based. No, no, no, absolutely not, no way, no how. I am not hooking up server farms to the internet. Monitoring systems stay behind the firewall. Please come up with a self-hosted version.

Moreso when:

2) They log directly into the system. Unprivileged user or not, if you've got shell on my box, "you" being a random company on the internet, it's not my box anymore. Someone hacks you and by extension they've hacked me.
I think a killer GUI feature that I've never seen would be a log that shows you the text-based equivalent of every action you take.
I'm the developer, but simple self-hosted XMPP is the goal of https://snikket.org/

There's no forward-to-mail, but happy to consider a feature request.
Well, no one knows when a new popular app appears, gain traction and how it looks like, otherwise we'd all be rich by now!

What is sure is that people said the same thing about Matrix, Bitcoin (and more) that people were saying about HTTP/the web back in the day.
Not quite "stealing". Rather, both computers are running special software used to transmit information between them using heat. The bandwidth is also incredibly low:

> [...] currently, the attack allows for just eight bits of data to be reliably transmitted over an hour [...]

It works by intentionally generating heat in one computer, and then detecting that heat increase with the one sitting next to it. Patterns in the rise and fall of the heat allow you to send information.

You can't use this method to steal arbitrary information from a computer that you do not already have access to. This title is sensationalized.
It depends on whether or not the campus police can arrest and carry firearms. If not, then yes, its usually unarmed students and employees.
I don't understand the attraction of backlighting in "programmer" keyboards. Seems like it would only benefit people who look at the keyboard. Which explains why it's popular on consumer laptops, but not why any computer professional would want it.
that is why he is great man. when you are abandoned against you believe is best for your country, he didn't give up and come up with even better solution.
It's a purely emotional issue. It doesn't need to make sense.
> The high cost of housing is caused by "rent seeking" -- a microeconomics term in which politics rather than wealth creation is used to increase someone's wealth.

I disagree with the term "politics" here, because rent-seeking behavior is much broader and can involve other tactics.
Haha, thanks! Yes is really simple for even non-devs to pick up in a few minutes and become more productive than being trapped in a GUI. We find it's a nice balance between the freedom you have with coding and schematic structure that is required to make something like this work.

We use to write purely is JSON, and when we switched over to YAML we were surprised how much easier it was when writing it day in day out. However, when config is generated programmatically JSON preferred.

For the config schema a operator concepts we took a lot of inspiration from MongoDB’s aggregation framework, and still often jump over to their docs to see what design decisions they made when we plan and build out new features.
Woah, Sarapis! I've seen MUDs discussed here on HN before but never Achaea. I wouldn't be who I am today without having played that game. Thank you for so many years of fun.
Is there some reason sscanf can not be implemented without calling strlen?
My pleasure and happy hunting.

Here's the original article that reminded me of this. Its four years old, but I still feel its a worthwhile read: https://medium.com/intuitionmachine/building-a-50-teraflops-...
Please don't do this. This is a horrible way to train dogs, and not only is the efficacy questionable but it will very likely lead to behavioral issues down the line.
The whole die was a cellular transceiver. If I remember correctly that particular spot happened to be empty on the top layer. Foundries require a minimum density of metal on every layer, so we would have had to put dummy pieces of metal there anyways. We figured why not put a picture
I've heard Czechs drink beer even for breakfast? Is there any truth to that?
Looks cool. If you want to get rid of your hook DLLs and the need for the x86ipc child process, you can use SetWinEventHook() with EVENT_OBJECT_CREATE / EVENT_OBJECT_DESTROY as min/max event values and WINEVENT_OUTOFCONTEXT to get notification on newly created/destroyed windows, all within the context of your process. No hook DLLs required.
IMO, news serves the same purpose as zip files... A concise yet accurate representation of the whole.

What we have today is curve fitting of events to a narrative, taking only the sentences which create a permutation to support the bias, not seeking summation.

And/or the curve fits an emotional goal(ie to scare readers into action).

But we can measure zip's efficiency, but it's harder to measure the true accuracy of events when summarizing, because different points are of varying levels of importance to different people.

This has led me to pay attention to the signal and ignore the noise; watching the full speeches, and viewing the sources myself, but most people aren't so inclined, they just shriek & rage, baited by an inaccurate context shrinker.

Thus, we have hyper informed people who watch full context, as well as severely misinformed folks, getting bad recaps. It is like the income disparity gap with information.
> But I thought “race” doesn’t exist?

There's a difference between being a social construct and not existing. The people who reject “race” as an inherent physical trait don't usually argue that it doesn't exist, but that it is a social construct, essentially identical in nature to ethnicity, which is uncontroversially purely a social construct.
Use Apache's LimitRequest* directives http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/core.html#limitrequestb...
So how does this work - do they sequester a large number of employees? Enough shifts for people to get a decent amount of time off? Do they sequester people on site, or just book out an entire local hotel? Are the living quarters and food appealing? Is there good bonus pay?
HTML5 is very much competing with native as well. HTML5 vs. Flash is just games on Kongregate etc, if that's all HTML5 does, if it even does, then its failed as a casual gaming platform.
And then there is Georgia, which is reading your post and going 'lolwut?'