jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
This is a fabulous article and I only want to add a tiny little bit of additional context:

* Exits north of $100MM are rare, and a $400MM exit is rare indeed; virtually any such exit will be from a famous company. Valuations are at least somehow tethered to sales, and companies that justify mid- 9-figure exits can usually consider IPO... as an example of how rare that event is.

* In most sectors of the industry there are rule-of-thumb valuations based on multiples on sales. An enterprise software company aiming for a $150MM acquisition is expecting 4-8x, and needs to be achieving 18MM (optimistically) to 40MM (conservatively) sales to do that. You can reconcile this estimate by asking for current sales, this year's "number" (in a well-run company, everyone knows the number), and then asking "what's going to happen to scale the number up".

* Last time I had to think pragmatically about VC, a round that took participating preferred shares (in which the VC takes their money off the table, then takes their percentage off the table) was an indication of a weak round; if they're shooting for the moon, you're entitled to hold that against them.

* Finally, remember that if you quit, the equation changes again. When you leave, you can execute your vested options, but that costs money. Perhaps nobody in the company is less protected than former employees: investors have contractual provisions to protect their money, and employees are given retention grants, but former employees can be written right out of the deal. I've seen it happen.
I might not run (this is unfortunately a common practice), but I would be explicit in negotiation that you value an options grant without that information at $0.00. You can say that politely, or even apologetically, but make it clear that you'd give some flexibility on salary or paid vacation days in exchange for more information (don't be specific about this though).
This has been a long and busy day. I've received a lot of comments, both positive and negative. I'm not sure what to do with all of these comments.

I saw a lot of questions about where I got my inspiration. Someone built something similar at the Node.JS knockout: http://tinyurl.com/2ch3nes. I started experimenting with PusherApp and NodeJS (I've worked with ape-project.org before doing this). Later on, I attended a developer meeting (http://rotterdamphp.tumblr.com) and they talked about Node.JS and CouchDB. At that same meeting someone pointed out Jeff Kreefmeijer's work and that I'm not the first one to build something like this. But I didn't care and kept on building (because it doesn't matter to me if I'm the first to build it). If you're curious on how I've build this, then you should check out my twitter (@davidvanleeuwen) tomorrow, because I'll submit it on github and will post the link there.
In related news, Backbone 0.3.2 was released this afternoon. If you haven't upgraded your copy in a bit, 3.0+ includes Controllers, and more flexible REST persistence for legacy web servers.
I was about to comment on how this is because July and August were added in honor of Julius and Augustus Caesar, but it turns out they were renamed from Quintilis and Sextilis (which would also be misnumbered). It was really January and February that were added later, causing the off-by-2 error :)

Source: https://www.crowl.org/Lawrence/time/months.html
This article is disinformation.

A singular map and strawman-premise do not undermine millions of human hours of climate science, core samples, troves of data, etc. You believe this nonsense at our mutual peril.

The climate crisis WILL utterly destroy human civilization through an ever reducing funnel, an ever tightening noose, and we are currently in the last phase of determining the height of that curves trajectory.

There is nothing "too extreme" to attempt at this point in time.
We should be prepared to spend up to 100% of our resources in fighting this existential threat.
Certainly giving up fossil fuels is not "too extreme".
They were due to exit-stage-left decades ago.

We have the tech, let's make it happen.

And for heavens sake, enough of this fake "moderate" fossil fuel drivel.
Ah yes, you are correct:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_calendar

So Jan and Feb were inserted.

I have to leave the original up as it is because the joke is too good, but I will leave this note as a correction.
Danish has a similar madness going on.

66 is "six and three twenties"
77 is "seven and half four twenties"

I've been told that Danish accountants use Swedish or Norwegian numbers to avoid mistakes.

https://blogs.transparent.com/danish/2011/09/14/counting-in-...
What about quick release wheels? You can easily fit a bike in a compact car or two if it's something like a Mazda 3 / Prius
Only for a limited time though, releasinga piece of software shouldn't be a lifetime commitment.
Same here. Yes, it's buggy and annoyingly messing up the formatting of messages, especially when trying to use WYSIWIG Markdown. Since we're running on Office365 due to Management preferences, we started using Teams. With Franz, it's usabale on Linux. It's bad compared to Slack ofc, but not so much worse that it would justify an additional 11,75€ per user and month.
I get what you mean but tend to think of them to be so.ilar with in a different respect--that the concepts being expressed are clear. If the reason why code is organized by n a certain way is clear along with its effect then there would not be the motivation to stray from it. The problem is that often the organization is the result of achieving multiple effects rather than behaviorial factoring.
How many of you actually preordered?
There's been a misunderstanding. I agree with you that direct caloric balance is unobservable on an individual basis, it can only be approximately estimated.

I'm saying that weight and appearance are observable, and that diet is adjustable.

Want to gain weight? Change your diet a bit, observe the results over the following weeks. Repeat until satisfied.

Want to lose weight? Change your diet a bit, observe the results over the follow weeks. Repeat until satisfied.

Some people do these with old-fashioned calorie counting. Some with specialised diets. Some but dropping sweet drinks.

But unless you first internalise the locus of control, you won't get anywhere.
Thanks! I just installed Opera and it's fantastic.
Small correction, the GNex was updated through 4.3.
> We took special pains to ensure our method was lawful and the resulting work is copyright-clean under U.S. law. We did review some non-open-licensed chip documentation and code examples available for download from open file-sharing sites. None of these materials were restricted by DRM. American copyright law contains a fair-use exception that allows limited copying and examination of such materials for the purpose of understanding the ideas and functional concepts embodied in them. We believe our download and review of those materials is fair use. Should potential copyright holders disagree with our interpretation, we invite any offended parties to engage us in rational discourse.

I really hope this works out and they figure out how to get past the IP traps in a repeatable way based off of the work in China. Unfortunately, we won't know until this is tested in court and while I'm sure there is plenty of precedent, I don't think many companies will want to take the risk. Until someone does, I fear that projects like this will fail to bring in corporate supporters (like Red Hat supports the Linux kernel) that would really move both the hardware forward by leaps and bounds. If you look at all of the open hardware today, most of it is stagnant and only exists at the behest of the chip manufacturers so that they can have easily available but rather trivial reference designs (e.g. BeagleBone, PandaBoard, OpenRD, etc).

After working for a only a few years, I've developed the opinion that electrical engineering is one of those few fields where patents and other closely guarded IP demonstrably hold back innovation. When I work for big companies on mass manufactured products, 75% of the time I get my documentation from Chinese forums [1] and parts shipped in from Shenzhen a week or two before I really get a chance to engage with the manufacturer's reps. On a few occasions, I've even received better chip errata and more up to date software from the hardware pirates than from the original manufacturers! Considering how hostile the electronics industry is to their biggest customers, let alone amateurs and makers, it's a wonder that startups using cutting edge chips can launch at all.

[1] http://bbs.eetop.cn is one of my go to's
My car can't even observe speed exactly, it's off by a few km/h. It doesn't matter because the cops measuring speed expect the error and subtract the margin for me.

For "eating less to lose weight" you're looking at megajoules/week change. Theres plenty of room for impreciseness here.
Yes, 'return' is egregious. I believe it was co-designed with haskell's do-notation. So that you could write purely declarative code that was a spitting image of the imperative equivalent.

E.g.

x <- foo 2 -- x = foo(2)
y <- bar 4 -- y = bar(4)
return (x+y) -- return (x+y)

But something that's always missing in such discussions is that haskell allows you to define

a_better_word = return

and then you can freely forget about 'return' in your own code, except when you roll your own monad instances, which is rarer than a blue moon.
The first question I would ask is one about duration. Does 20 years promote the useful arts more than 10? 30? 15? 4?

Same for copyright. We currently have 95 years after the creators death. Would 10 years fill the same role, and if not, how much worse would it be. 1% worse? 5%? 10%?

In one of Eben Moglens talk (professor in legal history), he spoke how the fundamental system of government changed in the 20th century. The administrative Procedure Act of 1946 made everything subject to the rule of cost/benefit analysis, asking whether proposed government actions are more helpful than they are harmful and making a systematic and careful evaluation of the relationship between benefits and cost before deciding to intervene in the economy. The change was profound, and just about the only thing that didn’t get changed to conform with it was patent law and copyright.
Agreed, but still. I don't understand what this app exactly do.
People don't buy products. They buy solutions. And a phone is one of them. One reason apple products are successful l is that they give a solution to wide range of matters. I own an apple and I love it. not because its apple, but because it solves most of their problems. It provides them a great interface, easy solution to most of their problems, great hardware design, great battery life etc etc. Its a complete package and not just one thing.

I guess same is the case with iPhone 5C. it might have same features as the iPhone 5 in the inside, but on the outside it has a new colors. And that give completely different feel to the consumer. I am not in favor/against this kind of thing. But we have to learn that new is always better.

Thats what yahoo is trying to do. they haven't made any new product now. They have just change the feel of their product and i guess its working pretty well for them.

So my fellow entrepreneurs, even though you don't make a new improved product in some time, do change its "feel". Everyone loves change. because it make people curious. And change is the only thing that will never change.
In the current circumstances, attracting investors by tax breaks is a bit naive. Staggering amounts of money are simply getting stolen.
see e.g. http://www.boston.com/news/world/europe/articles/2010/04/01/...
Well, yes, they're considered nutters because it takes a special sort of person to specifically refuse to answer a question. On one hand you have to distrust the government with the answer to the question they're asking, but on the other you have to trust them not to remember the fact that you refused and hold that against you. It's a weird position to hold, and to a lot of people appears inconsistent.

If you don't trust the government with the census, it would seem more logical to just lie on the very first paper form that they send you. Chances are (very, very good chances) that they'll never send a human being out to check and thus will never know that you lied about whatever question you're uncomfortable answering.

It's one thing to noisily refuse to answer some question in order to raise awareness of some issue you have with the census, but if you think there's a conspiracy or that the government might use the information to round you up in the future, it doesn't make sense to attract any notice. Better to lie low, if you think that's a risk.
Reading a newspaper is a completely different experience to getting all your news online.

I started getting newspapers delivered when I was about 20 (I'm 32 now).

The funny thing is people who moan on and on and make fun of people who get their news from Fox news, with its obvious biases. But then they themselves get their news solely from Reddit, The daily show, Twitter?!! etc with their even more obvious biases and inaccuracies.

I'll always buy a newspaper, it won't be my only source for news by any means, but it's something to read at the breakfast table etc. It gives me a neat already compiled summary of what's going on. No website I've ever seen can do that well.

I don't understand your analogy with sewing. Getting a newspaper is getting an edited summary of the days news. It's a finished garment. You choose whichever paper seems to fit with your own particular politics and they do all the work for you. Getting your news yourself, trying to sort the biases out, trying to get rid of all the inaccurate news - that's like someone suggesting you sew all your own clothes. The web is full of so much crap, how do you know what to believe? How do you know what's important?

If I got all my news online, either I'd waste all day trying to find articles, fact check, work out what's going on, or I'd have such an inaccurate and biased picture of the world I'd be worrying forever about stupid things - eg if you only looked at Reddit you'd be forever worrying about gay marriage, CCTV in Britain, and all the other things Reddit loves to worry about. In fact I'd say Reddit has pretty much turned into the opposite of Fox News, which isn't a good thing at all.
Can't you witch to working full-time in your freelancing? I don't know if you can get more clients straight away, maybe (if your relation is good enough with them) you can ask your current clients for work recommendations, bootstrapping even more your full-time freelancing.

I don't know the legalities and other related things aside, but I would make a rebellion, although you look in the worst position (you are being paid the same as a fresh recruit, come on!)... Walking straight to the boss and telling him either to raise pays or everybody leaves could be quite effective. And of course, 8 people talking shit about a startup can build quite a lot of momentum to keep him from getting any more job candidates/clients.
I cranked out something similar to this years ago called in Lua and C called moonfall, actually more powerful because it was extendable, even got on smashing magazines "best of the month" or something like that, and I'm pretty sure it didn't obsolete CSS. Actually I don't think anybody used it, not even me. Maybe because Lua didn't have the buzz that javascript has now. http://moonfall.org/
Ok gotta ask... Why??
There is genuinely a tiny benefit because you don't need to declare colors etc more than once, everything else about it is trying to wedge ideas from other areas of programming into a language that contains so many abstract concepts as to not benefit from it at all.

I've worked as a UI developer for 12 years now and I wouldn't go near something like this because there is no value. At least the server side version you can pre-process and package up for live after your developers have saved literally minutes by using it. You need to know CSS inside out, so you have to then unlearn and relearn different parts just to do something you can already do with find + replace.

And worse, you are even including and downloading files that the browser cannot even interpret itself without relying on another download of JavaScript as well, so you're giving something that works 100% of the time (assuming someone has CSS on) another point of failure. Most of my time in UI has been in public sector education trying to push standards and quality from various suppliers to the Govt and seeing things like this from said suppliers (I've seen worse to be fair, but I've seen something like this before) is always an unpleasant experience.
I'm telling them to get rid of their biggest cost: printing and distribution.

Also, I'm not saying they should get rid of the classifieds section, which is a big chunk (about half? hard to find any data on it) of their advertising income.

As for reporters: they're cheap. In the range of $40-100k (from quick Google search) a year for a New York Times reporter. Much less at other papers. Hire 10 reporters to dig into corruption, waste, and fraud in San Francisco and I'd be happy to plunk down a subscription fee.
There aren't many features, but they fill in various "holes" in CSS (compared to every other programming language).

For one example, you can define "constants". That means you can define a color once with a name (say, LINK_COLOR = #aaa), then use that name over and over. Then, if you ever feel like changing that color, you only have to change it once (where it says LINK_COLOR = ), not every time.

Other benefits are something akin to "functions", and ways of "nesting" your CSS which automatically makes certain classes only apply to nested elements (this is something most people do anyway, they just do it by hand).
I'm a little skeptical. Equipment from this era was designed by slide rule and sent to draftsmen to draw up and send down to the factory floor. The solution to problems was more power.

I would imagine some wily old programmer knew commands would be latched, and maybe as maintenance fell behind, the CR would lag a little, but could be trusted to complete. Better to do CR LF than LF CR. but they both have to happen.

I dunno. Maybe this model sucked. But every teletype I've ever used was kinda scary, those things will take your fingers off. They're power tools capable of violence. I'd guess, if you pulled out the maintenance guide, and applied proper lubrication, and replaced wear parts, it wouldn't miss those deadlines. I guess you might need to pull out the schematic and verify the electronics are still in spec.

I mean, yeah, the author has a point, but I'd believe it's a wear issue that this teletype doesn't reliably return in time.
Also, don't forget that its tier-1 city. If you move to tier-2 or 3, you can cut the cost by half(seriously).
Now you have the process supervisor in your init. What happens if your supervisor crashes now?

So obviously that's not a good idea.

Additionaly it bears the problem that you can't upgrade your process supervisor without rebooting.

So what benefits does it actually provide?
Already posted 8 hours ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2483970
How about growth? Even if a job seems perfect today if there is no path for you to grow the job may not seem perfect tomorrow. A hacker doesn't need to move to management to grow but if the job doesn't allow you to try new technologies, methodologies and change with time you will grow to loathe the position.
Whales were once so ludicrously abundant in the ocean that they were a severe hazard to navigation. Now they're a rare sight.

Parts of North America were so crowded with animals that no longer exist. They've been entirely exterminated. The Passenger Pigeon is one of many examples.

Although there's nothing we could do that would destroy the planet any worse than nature has in the past, each cataclysm requires tens of millions of years to recover from.

I'm not sure about you, but I don't want to live in a barren hellscape where the temperatures are so high the ocean has evaporated.

Maybe we should do what we can to avoid that fate, right?

The "2 billion" figure assumes no alterations to the environment. We could handle more if we improve our sustainable practices.
> In particular are comic cases of when companies fail to secure things at all (e.g. leave data exposed to the public via hidden URLs) and then someone gets prosecuted because they "hacked" that company and "stole" that data.

Which is my main concern with all the attention and push for change (or rather more laws and less privacy) in relation to the Sony hack (among others). Would Congress and the media be calling for equitable action if someone had physically broken in to the Sony Films offices and stolen the data, due to lax (physical) security policies? Doubtful, they'd probably be told to buy better locks...
ICBMs control governments?
So I pulled the global RSS satellite temperature data from the RSS site and did a quick excel chart. I don't see a difference:

https://imgur.com/opgZeoQ

So which "don't actually show what the author purports them to show."
With wish fulfillment superpowers but recognizable as human.

Not all comic superheroes are two dimensional.
Well he has two undergraduate degrees, one in physics, and was accepted on to a physics PhD programme, I don't think he's just a front man.
This is alarming. If the issue really was that simple, it strongly indicates that Linux kernel developers don't put a lot of effort into investigating problems whenever a convenient scapegoat--faulty hardware--is available. For shame.
It would have been nice to get a better specification for the behavior you wanted. The fact that you called it "doTree" rather than "mapTree" implies that it is a destructive operation, but it still would have been helpful for you to say so. I tend to think functionally, and my first reaction writing doTree was "Wait, what does this return?"
Today, an s-corp founder does benefit by being able to split his/her income between W2 wages and distributions (on which payroll taxes don't need to be paid). Besides increasing tax burden, this bill will also make the tax-filing process a bit more cumbersome for s-corp founders.

If HR 4123 goes through, the tax-benefit will be removed for S-corp founders. However, venture capitalists (with carried interest income), perhaps some LLC founders (who don't take W2 salaries) will still be exempted from payroll taxes.

Unfortunately, as part of payroll taxes, s-corp founders are required to pay unemployment insurance taxes that they can never benefit from. For example, I'm required to pay FUTA taxes when I get W2 wages, yet I cannot claim unemployment allowances if my company doesn't make money in a given month.

If they're talking about closing loopholes, I think they should close the reverse-loophole that lets the fed govt collect unemployment taxes without providing any unemployment benefits. My state (WA) exempts corporate officers from paying unemployment taxes, but that just means that I pay even higher FUTA taxes to the the federal govt.
I agree with you completely and share the same dream. Having millions of dollars with which to build a corporate giant for some hotshot executives will surely distract me from doing what I really love, which is building things. Running a small company that is just profitable enough for me to maintain a comfortable lifestyle while I get to do what I love will make me infinitely happier.

You're certainly not alone.
Um, I'm not a CPA, and I definitely don't know how California taxes work, but at the federal level, isn't that (taxation at the corporate level) pretty much the opposite of how an S-Corp works?