skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My favorite fake work is "I am doing research." It is also the most important work one can do prior to making decisions, however it just gets to one point where you have to admit to having enough data to move forward.
As mentioned in the comments of the article: What part of the lost traffic is people figuring out they can search Wikipedia directly?

I've noticed older people are more likely to search Google for Youtube videos than they are to search Youtube. Same goes for trying to search other sites, they'll search for something and include "wikipedia" in the query.

The younger ones I've noticed (really small sample size of "my siblings and their friends") actually search on Wikipedia or Youtube.

Until I started using keywords to search sites directly, I was guilty of the former method myself.
Sure, every community has pedants, but HN is supposed to be for news that relates to startups, technology, and web/software development. There are a ton of other sites and communities where articles like this belong - reddit, digg, etc., HN just shouldn't be one of them. Would you post this article on a web-development-based subreddit?

But hating "grammar nazis" is something everyone loves to do, and feeling mentally superior is something that the HN community loves to feel, so articles like this get up-votes while people who want to stay on-topic get down-votes.

But, oh well, just another step towards the degradation of this community and its content. NBD.
Oops commented too fast without reading the entire article. It says later -
"I hope people will, in the course of robbing them blind, actually learn what major Wall Street institutions do for a living and come to a more nuanced understanding of their position in society."
And do lawyers typically incur considerable expenses during the course of their business? I guess I'm not really sure what outlays you are talking about.
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I don't think the limiting factor in "how much cruft should we add" is bandwidth. It's the point at which it becomes so hard to use that users leave.

Example: Buzzfeed loads in 1 second for me on my work's broadband, but it's still full of junk making it hard to use. Bandwidth-wise, it could handle more crap on the page, but in terms of usability it's at the limit.

I think you actually will get a faster and generally improved web when sites are finally able to end HTTP/1 support, because it will free up web developers from old performance hacks like asset concatenation, image sprites etc, which add a lot of friction to making websites.

All that said, this demo is bullshit for the reasons given in other comments.
For web, d3.js[0] is a great choice. It's used widely and nicely documented.
[0]http://d3js.org/
I think it is really hard to know when you should optimize and when not to. Most of the time a prefer to design my code in such a way that is not fully optimized but it can be with a few tweaks. There are many places that might not be needed and it has no sense in optimizing.
I would agree with you that attempting a startup is a net positive career, and even life, experience.

I would disagree that you should grind away for it on years. If YC is confident that hustle/effort is the problem, they should be hiring engineers directly, pay them market rate, and keep all of the equity in their projects to themselves instead of having founders shoulder the risk.
Curious, how much computation per new data point ?
It is laughable to suggest the search engine "accuracy" is universal and measurable enough to say that it's "47%" better.
When I read the title "stockfighter," I thought it would be a game about joining a tech company 10 years past the IPO and you have to work your ass off for .000001% in options that'll take a year to afford once you factor in rent.
I don't think it's called global warming anymore, it's called climate change. Besides, I don't understand why it's ok for liberals to make fun of conservatives using "extreme snow" during winter as an argument against climate change but that liberals using exceptional heat during summer as an argument for climate change is ok. A few months of extra cold or heat is not enough to prove or disprove climate change. Last year we had an unusual cold summer, was that proof that climate change is not happening? We already have good scientific ways to measure climate change, let's stick to these (carbon emission etc).

I think we should start focusing on real solutions. Many conservatives are right to underline that simply increasing taxes is not the solution. So what's the solution? Innovation in new source of renewable or less polluting energy technologies. Both liberals and conservatives tend to agree here but they diverge in methodology. Liberals want to heavily tax fossil and subsidize renewable energy. Problem with that is that taxing fossil make life and the economy harder in the meantime and subsidizing often goes to cronies which is bad for innovation. Conservatives prefer having better environment for businesses which will boost innovation. Maybe there's some middle ground in there.
I've just noticed this demo exposes a Firefox bug with image scaling that I'm quite surprised to see. Not related to lazy loading, but may be of interest.

Bug: When the same image is found elsewhere on the page, Firefox doesn't bother using smooth interpolation when downscaling.

[Edit - workaround is to avoid cache, as in cat.jpg?01 ; cat.jpg?02 ]

Look at the cat's whiskers, they look rough in the smallest image. They should look smooth. So using Firebug I removed all other images on the page except the first smallest version. Hey presto, the whiskers are suddenly smooth.

http://ivopetkov.github.io/responsivelyLazy/

Of course, IE is a lot worse - its scaling is rough all the time regardless.
All the business models fit to print.
"The Headline at The New York Times is 'How are We Paying For this?'"
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Out of morbid curiousity, how many lines of code did the C implementation clock in at?
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What should we call the outgrowth of "sharing economy+" apps that aren't about volunteers doing menial tasks, but professionals?

Because at least one app that turns legal aid into a blackbox service exists, in S.F. at least:

http://www.fixed.com

There's several for medical services, as well.
http://www.wsj.com/articles/startups-vie-to-build-an-uber-fo...
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Reminds me a little bit of the Python -> Javascript two way compiler I wrote: https://github.com/timothycrosley/jiphy
Where in god's name do you live where the distinction between sun and rain is beyond the skill of your weather people?
Do you think, its because YC didn't change the actual (slacking) nature of founders in 3 months?

Peer pressure once there is no longer there and you can't replicate that easily.
It may work to radicalize a certain segment. I've noticed that some segment of those that are eagerly anticipating something find that the more information they get about it, the more they anticipate it, and the more eagerly they evangelize it to others.

I hadn't heard of this, or microcorruption, before the prior blog post regarding writing the emulator. Then I started microcorruption, and it clicked, and then I spent the next few days talking about both microcorruption and starfighter to anyone I thought might understand my eager rambling.

Let's just say I'm looking forward to reading this...
Are low alcohol content beers not "real beer"?
Why the fuck do you need AD in a container that is supposed to be only running a single process? Consider your code quality is shit and overly complex.
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I'd say most people in computer science have a comprehensive understanding of data representations so they have knowledge of things like two's complement. I think it's most important to start of explaining that verilog and vhdl are hardware descriptor languages not a programming language and get them to the point where they can visualize the actual logic being described. It's important to understand that registers can't just be thought of as a variable in the traditional sense despite looking like one at the syntax level; they're really a flip-flop that needs to be clocked. And that there is a critical delay path in the combinatorial logic that will dictate how fast your clock can be.
> They also took salsa lessons together and mentioned that men had to have other men as dance partners since there wasn't enough women to pair up with.

I wonder if this is mostly due to those men attending salsa classes hoping to meet women.
same as submitted 8 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10048798 (24 comments)
I was talking about this with a friend a few weeks ago, and my conclusion is that this is going to be like giving a bunch of 12 year olds shotguns: beautiful and messy.

We can talk about 'rules' all we want here in the west but there is no way you are going to be able to regulate this stuff and trying to ban the ingredients is just going to lead to people buying it from less reputable sources that have impurities so you will end up with spliced up babies that have a bunch of additional defects instead of just spliced up babies.

We can try to explain to our fellow citizens that there is in fact no such thing as an intelligence gene, but that won't stop them from wanting it and certainly won't stop the snake oil salesmen from selling it. We've never been here before and we learn by trial and error, just like evolution.
>By being able to construct on-demand clusters programmatically that auto-terminate on completion, we’ve been able to use ephemeral clusters for all our data jobs. For much of the day, we can have very few data processing clusters running at any given time. But periodically, we spin up many large clusters via EMR that train all of the models that we need to learn. This usage pattern is neither harder to implement nor more expensive than a serial execution of all of our jobs and matches our preferred workflow much better. For our usage pattern, this actually represents a large cost savings over a persistent cluster.

I recently started working at a startup with a similar approach. My previous company had a persistent cluster in a colo, and I found that to be much easier to develop against and use. It takes a significant amount of time to spin up a cluster, which slows down the feedback loop, and makes the development process longer.

I also wonder about cost. It seems to me that if you have enough jobs running every day, at some point you should be able to have them scheduled such that a persistent cluster has fairly high utilization, such that it becomes cheaper than spinning up ad hoc clusters. Have you done any analysis to show that ephemeral clusters are cheaper? Is there a cutoff point where that is no longer true?
Professions that require human judgments will be the last to fall to the machines. We won't have automated lawyers until we have strong AI.
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+1 on Zapier support. They were super quick when I was having an issue of not seeing a github repo in my available repos.
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Do you not lose a bunch of on-the-fence users each time you send them an email which isn't immediately useful or actionable?

That's a number which is trivially calculable. I don't know what it will be yet, but if you asked me to pick the over/under, I'm in for 80 out of 16k people on our list at present. An unsubscribe is not "I hate you guys and wish you would die in a fire"; it's the email equivalent of a browser's back button. "Not for me, not right now." Many startups let each unsubscribe punch them in the gut. Don't do that. The only way to avoid unsubscribes is to avoid email. You profoundly don't want to avoid email.

We've sent ~2 emails since... March? If I were a consulting client of myself, I'd have written somewhere between one and two dozen.

Is this email going to produce business results for the company? Hard to say. Wild guess? I get a contact in the next hour from one of the companies who has a stalled LOI saying "Oh great you're shipping let's get that signed." Depending on which company that is, the economics are worth hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Many professional email marketers strongly disagree with writing long emails. I will chalk that up to a respectable professional disagreement. They work very well for me, by any trackable metric and by most of the intangibles. I've never felt like I created much value with the little 125-word-and-a-picture squibs that the industry blasts out by the hundred million; I know (because people tell me) that some people like my writing rather a lot and are disappointed that I don't hit them with 8k words every Friday. As it happens, a portion of Starfighter's list is folks who are in exactly that bucket.

Does that answer the question? Not trying to be very defensive about this, just trying to help other startups out. The modal startup sucks at email marketing. It is, far and away, the highest ROI channel you have and probably the easiest to use well. You should send more email. You should send better email.
Well you could add in alumni then. All I'm saying is that measuring performance is not that hard a thing to do.
> completely remove moral reasoning from their repertoire and replace it with bureaucratic rule-following

Spoken like someone who truly has no idea what lawyering is about.
Explainer video: https://youtu.be/RkhswlJivMg

I believe that there is a missing button on most social share toolbars to send stuff to yourself, later. I made this and want to know what you think!

This works by providing you a JavaScript file that you can put on your page. The file looks for a predefined element class, then turns those elements into a "Remind To Read" button.

When clicked, the button accepts an email address. After input, the button defaults to sending the user a reminder email in 4 hours. The users can also manually set the delay period.

The email itself is meant to be designed by the site owner. The email can be used to promote other content, call-to-action functionality, etc. By default, the email also contains "snooze" buttons, to trigger another delayed email.
More enterprise focused. They have better support (because you pay them) and more integrations. You also get more control over your integrations as well.
The service is now ready for users.

- You can sign up an account

- Set up "projects" for separate websites

- Dashboard for monitoring which posts are delayed

- Simplified emails sent to users
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I know that Sam knows 100 times what I do about failing startups, and that some probably do fail for this reason. But I think this meme that "your startup probably failed just because you stopped trying hard enough" is awful.

Even Sam says IN THIS ARTICLE that "Also, very small startups can grow by sheer force of will, even with a bad product." Looking at the TechCrunch reviews, I think probably half of these companies will turn out to be pretty bad products in hindsight that could never have gone anywhere.
It is, as I'm fond of saying, The TCP/IP Illustrated of Money. As with Stevens, it's a bit outdated, but still the best reference.
It's widely accepted in the scientific that specific occurrences such as the ozone hole above Antarctica are created as a result of human activity in the past 50 years.
There's also a great documentary on HBO that follows Banksy's residency in NY.
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Could you expand on this? I'm curious.
A few years back there was a HFT guy that posted a few blog entries describing (and defending through it's liquidity creating properties, IIRC) HFT setups. I don't have the article, but I imagine both tptacek and patio11 (and a slew of others) have a good idea of what I'm talking about, and may be able to dig up a link. You might find it interesting (if it's not already entirely covered by Flash Boys, which I haven't read).
Sounds like a great recipe for an arms race, nuanced communication break-down, and total dissolution of civil values amongst peers, dehumanizing everyone to each other more than ever before, as we refuse to even face each other even when litigating to resolve a conflict.
This post is probably the best reason I've seen yet to be a YC startup. The investor who can call you out on stuff like this is the investor you want.
Yeah, I had a passing comment in that grain as well. At one point the head of the NCBE (Moeser) is pointing out that the average of the 25th percentile of LSAT scores was decreasing at the school of her biggest critic.

To me, that screams data mining. The average score of the 25th percentile is a very strange statistic. Why not use something more conventional like the median of the entire population? Then you could honestly say: the majority of people at this school are getting worse. The use of an obscure statistic makes it seem they went hunting for a statistic to spin a story upon.
That's why I said:

"instead of relentlessly focusing on building a great product..."

But I think it's probably very difficult to tell a great/bad product from reading a paragraph on TechCrunch.
Advertisers really are clueless when it comes to UX and wonder why ad blocking is on the rise. Next stop, auto-play video ads in search and after that, the complete death of online adverts, because by then, most people will be using ad blockers.
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Was that HN's own yummyfajitas?

https://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2012/hft_apology.html
https://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2012/hft_apology2.html
I have only a years perspective on the sector now, but I think finance has started down a road all sectors must tread over the next decade or two. We will not escape software eating our world, and while most banks have had too much money and so not confronted many of these upcoming realities, they have had twenty years of faster and faster software-isation- and I can reasonably state that finance are mostly software houses that think they are banks.

If you can't code, your future there is bleak. If you can its not that much better. And this is where we are all heading.

Yes there are challenges - but it's not often technical but organisational, project, people and process challenges that are the main issues. Those interesting challenges for good STEM people will be in transport, farming and pharmacy too by 2020.

Wages might be lower :-)
echoing what mlitchard said. Networking is a big help. Besides that, look at what is on the job posting. Try to use the same key words in your resume/cover letter. Not sure how well it would work, but addressing differences in the cover letter could work to get it past the HR and into the manger's hands.
Jiphy – indented JavaScript compiler with 1:1 output
Or the possibility of a switch from an adversarial to a truth finding judicial system.
So the bully is AllSIM; CERN are merely passing the invoice on to the relevant party...
Yes! I can confirm that from the name alone, now that you've reminded me. :)
> What's the underlying principle that requires one to proxy questions through to the place where one originally learned the answer?

The underlying principle is "Am I an organizer of information, or a source of information?"

Or for how content sources will look at it: "Do they help people find me, or do they compete against me by stealing my content and my customers?"
I think the problem of lazy loading should be solved by browser vendors (maybe adding some new attribute on img). And it's sad that it doesn't work without JS. Cannot we fix this by using noscript tag?
true - I came on here just to see if anyone posted an explanation about what the hell zero rating was
Ask HN: Negotiating with startup
(throwaway account)

TLDR: How, as a consultant, have you negotiated cash + equity deals with early-stage startups?

Experienced developer. Over a year ago transitioned from 9-5 to consulting. It's been great.

Recently was contacted by former colleague. They were in sales and knew my work as lead developer and have good opinion of me. They left that (well-paying, high-up and stable) position to become CEO of a startup in the medical space that has a very basic MVP but some unusually good traction (adoption by hospitals). Contacted me initially for an estimate to build the first commercial version (MVP++) and we (I work with a partner for larger projects) did that.

They are hesitant to pay all cash for the consulting so the other option being discussed is cash + equity.

CEO claims they raised a few 100k at a valuation of ~$8M, putting the valuation post-money (his words) at ~$10M. I'm going on his word perhaps I should verify (can I do that politely?).

Long-term they see me as potential CTO to build out the product and team, which is exciting, but we both agreed that it would be best to "try each other out" by doing first iteration as a consulting gig.

They are going to present a couple of options for the first gig: (1) is all cash (I'm assuming less than what we've asked for, which is non-negotiable from my perspective) and (2) is cash + equity.

My naive calculation for what's "fair" would be that the equity we accumulate should be the difference between our full rate and what they can pay, against whatever valuation we agree upon (say, $10M, for example).

Is this reasonable or am I being naive? I'm totally new to this part.

I'm also unsure how to proceed if they want to bring us on as the technical team. We wouldn't be founders, but I have no idea what kind of equity to expect or how much value a permanent technical team brings to a startup.
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It's okay, I totally got that. I will admit that I haven't read any of the others; I'm still thinking about this one...
What are you blathering about? You could say exactly the same about a hairdresser.
Well we do, since TFA article refers to the student as male multiple times. You take is your take. It is politically motivated.
It would be interesting to see the A/B results for video. If it's not obvious that video appeals to our senses more abruptly, then they could be late to this one.

The web's becoming more TV-like as time goes on, and it pains me that text is being forced to become a second class citizen of the web.
YC is a coaching environment. Imagine if you took a professional soccer team and removed the coaches for a month. They would start loosing and if they didn't you would find that one of the players had taken on the role of a coach. This is almost certainly what is happening here.
They are. I don't really think this.
I love the Segment.io product and the fact that the library is open source.
However, they don't allow for easily just adding a number of vendors and having that data be sent out to each vendor directly. Rather, they want you to go through Segment.io, then they send it out to each from their back-end service.
I needed something that allowed some level of abstraction for multiple vendors and call one master analytics library that does that for me. There's more that can and will be done with the code base to make adding vendors more modular, while keeping the overall simplicity up.
I can't be certain without the sentence that generated the tag, but coming from a linguistics background, RELCL is probably 'relative clause'.
Are there any stats for YC-funded startups that have grown to sustained profitability, vs continuing to exist through additional rounds of funding?
Because unlike you I read the fucking article. In it, the author directly refers to the student as 'him' and 'he'; therefore it is safe to say, despite your politically ridiculous musings, that the protagonist is male.
I hope that's coming out of your share.
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