skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was hoping you were being sarcastic. The trouble with sarcasm is it's indistinguishable from foolish sincerity, which abounds on the interwebs. Without facial or voice cues, there's no way to know. That's why you have to use the /sarcasm tag.
>Here is the wiki definition - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gross_merchandise_volume

Yeah I googled it too - a while ago - wikipedia isn't exactly a winning moving here.

>eBay and many other marketplaces use it.

That is deeply disingenuous. You originally said its "term of the trade in the retailing". I called bullsht - because I know its not used in retailing. In response you shift your argument (!!!) and reckon its used by ebay (FYI NOT A RETAIL OPERATION) - and copied the ebay stuff straight off wikipedia.

>I am not an expert in this field

Indeed.
Blogspam. Original: https://threatpost.com/wordpress-compromises-behind-spike-in...
What about finding out it didn't have generics?
After reading more, I agree with you on 1 and 2.

But for 3... so you never use languages like Ruby or Python? Variable assignment shadowing is always possible in those languages, yet for seasoned developers, it tends not to be a real issue.
Chief Engineer. Or maybe Chief Engineering Officer.
Ruby, Python, and Lua were all created in the early nineties, when the alternatives were Tcl and Perl. And it still required each of them a decade or more to take off.

This was also at a time when most programming languages did not have free implementations and companies actually sold compilers and interpreters. The programming language landscape was totally different back then.
Tesla engineer joins Apple's growing team of automated car experts
While great, this seems like not-so-easy work. Perhaps this is an opportunity for a company to charge a couple of hundred dollars monthly and create semi-automated reports for your investors.
I'm sympathetic to the goal and the individuals affected, and while the law provides some small benefit to these individuals, I think that benefit must be weighed against the (to my mind) large cost to society at large.

The law places a very large burden on search engines (and who knows, perhaps other platforms in the future) that now must evaluate and remove/deny all requests or risk expensive litigation. I think most companies will err or the side of safety and remove most requests, making censorship easy.
Yep:

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.93....
Ports and Power in the Indian Ocean
He has an awesome story. I had the good luck to interview him a little while ago for a sporadic podcast I do: http://projectidealism.com/posts/2014/1/31/podcast-episode-1...
> Where does it say this? I don't think this was ever the case for Fluentd.

It's in http://docs.fluentd.org/articles/high-availability#forwarder..., which says:

However, possible message loss scenarios do exist:

The process [log forwarder’s fluentd from the paragraph above] dies immediately after receiving the events, but before writing them into the buffer.

Is this document out of date?
My personal opinion is what killed most very good languages is the "elite" and "math" aspect of them.

By elite I mean people who thought they were so much superior to everyone else (And they were!), that they'd left the beginners and inexperienced programmers out of the discussions and decisions. But guess what, high level people who make decisions aren't always the best programmers, so C++ won because they had better sales people and were more beginners and sales friendly.

By "Math", I mean that most functional books and tutorials used to only focus on physics or maths aspect of the language, or AI.. whereas the languages who seemed to have won the war (Think Perl, PHP at the time, or Python/Ruby) were much more practical in how the language can be used to solve day-to-day pragmatic problems.

I think it's changing.. and it's really nice to see amazing concepts from LISP in the mainstream/hipsters languages..
Yeah. I can't even imagine how much revenue YC must lose for each minute of news downtime.
Batch processing is a realtime system; you can do hard realtime work (e.g. payroll) with good QoS guarantees because the workload is deterministic.

You will still find the moral equivalent of batch processing in modern realtime applications; the batches are shorter to be sure, but they are often still scheduled against deadlines and run to completion.
Krugman is a specialist in the field of licking a certain kind of bottom.
Ah, thanks - require_ack_response sounds like what I was missing. Some blogs are from before this was added in 0.12 so I didn't know about it.

I am still interested in forwarder failure cases - I have replied to kiyoto's comment talking about the HA docs, which still talk about some other cases that can lose messages.

In this case:

* The process dies immediately after receiving the events, but before writing them into the buffer.

Is it possible to require acknowledgement that the log event has been written to the buffer? Is that separate to what require_ack_response does?
Umberto Eco's The Search for the Perfect Language is a great read on this subject (http://www.amazon.com/Search-Perfect-Language-Making-Europe/...)
nope, there are examples of posts with a percentage that have no comments.

Some of the percentages appear related to upvoter count.

There is one with 9 upvoters and a percentage of 33.

My guess is it's a measure of clique voting. X% of people voted on another story together.

Not sure, that may be more complicated than needed, but it seems to be a percent measure of the upvoters.
MIT

It solves your problems, and mine. Middle ground. Compromise.

What is wrong with MIT?
Good point. Read-only Fridays are thing for sysadmins ;-)
I'm the dumb guy on my team. I'm also the boss. The main value I add is to get people to do dumb code. Most of the time. Once in a while there really is no other good answer, we have to do clever code.
Thank you! And best of luck to you in all of your endeavors.
An interesting and surprising fact about Feynman's books is that he never _wrote_ any of them, as such; he famously disliked writing. QED is essentially a transcript of a lecture (although I don't know how much polishing and editing was done by Feynman himself; probably some). Same with his collection of physics lectures. His most popular book, "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman", was transcribed from a series of interviews, pretty much verbatim.
So import doctors from other countries. Its okay to depress tech worker salaries using H1Bs but not doctors?
Similarly: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/3hfdpg/more_ma...

yet another schemer :)
I'd like to send you one. What's your email?
> The only language that is successful purely because of the backing of a large company is Swift.

Rust and Go seem to fall pretty firmly in to that category as well.
Given how much of a time sink HN is for everyone including YC startups, it may well be that HN downtime is a profit for YC.
You could simulate it by recording its position on the front page for each impression. Assume that higher positions on the page are seen more. Then your metric is something like upvotes per position-discounted impression.

On the other hand, I'm not sure that dang would get much value out of this kind of metric unless he was trying to tune the ranking algorithm or something like that.
cognitive disorders? screw that! I WANT MY BRAIN SUPERPOWERS!
GMV is only meaningful for "marketplace" businesses that facilitate sales for third parties. It's essentially the combined revenue for all parties involved in selling through the marketplace. For example, if someone sells something for $100 through eBay and eBay takes a 10% cut, that's $100 GMV for eBay, $90 of revenue for the seller and $10 of revenue for eBay.
Script kiddies are cheaper than C++ developers.
Ask HN: How much equity does one deserve as a CTO of a seed funded company?
Hi HNers,
I met a founder recently who has put out an offer for CTO/VP of Engineer title. But the offer is 20k less than my current salary and equity is 5%. The company has received a seed stage funding from a reputed VC and has gone through a incubator already. Is this a good offer?
Oh man, I wish I had that luxury in flight testing. No one likes flying on Friday afternoons. Especially when things break.
I won't lie, it was a blast. It was also an insane amount of work. Years went by like a blur.

Some of what went on over there is documented in Greg Maletic's film Tilt: The Battle to Save Pinball. Josh Tsui (from the Mortal Kombat team) just completed a Kickstarter to make a similar documentary about what the guys downstairs in video were doing back then as well.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/joshuatsui/insert-coin-...
How would home installation solar panels be affected by this? Would they be ruined as well?
It crushes me but then I look back and realize that after probably hundreds if not thousands of rejection, I am still here, I am fine, I work, I have friends, etc. In the grand scheme they didn't affect me one bit.
One thing I haven't seen much of in the Amazon discussion of the last week is the fact that there is little evidence showing chronically overworked employees are more productive than well-balanced ones.

Why has every article in the last week assumed that the Amazonians working 80 hr weeks are getting twice the work done? Has every journalist and blogger in the country collectively forgotten the concept of diminishing returns on hours worked?
Does anyone happen to know what the AOT cross-platform story is? Can I build executables that targets eg: Linux/x86_64, OS X in addition to Windows 10 (I mean as three separate binaries -- having one monster, multi-target binary might be interesting, but that would be something else...)?
This is one area where Ipython notebooks are awesome. They really do a lot to facilitate discovery and transparency in data mining.
Max/MSP is pretty widely used for music and audio: https://cycling74.com/products/max/
No. Its a bit of a regional difference. UK affiliated people prefer "cost of goods sold" while the rest of the world uses "cost of sales". They're essentially interchangeable with CoGS leaning towards enterprises that produce physical goods.

>GMV sounds like it refers to what in this example would be revenue from the finished food.

GMV was pulled out of thin air & means nothing at all, aside from CoGS/CoS with a lick of startup paint. Anyone that reckons otherwise please step forward with a coherent argument...
Natural and Artificial Intelligence (1988) [pdf]
Any answers to quiz 9? The best I got:

H4 vf n QENZ; W3 vf na FQ pneq; C2 ybbxf yvxr WGNT; H2 vf ANAQ synfu; H5 vf na nccyvpngvba cebprffbe; H13 vf n iert; abg fher jung H1 vf
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They are called TempCFO, but cost more than that. Saved my bacon.
One way to figure it out is to calculate what the 5% is worth. Here's a very rough/inaccurate calculation - that ignores option prices etc - that might give you an idea:

Lets say the company's post seed valuation is $3m (random guess). So 5% is $150k. Your shares probably vest for 4 years, so that's ~$40k/year of shares.

Given that you're (most likely) getting ordinary stock (not preferred), you should discount that $40k quite heavily.

In short: it's probably not a bad offer, but definitely comparable with your current compensation.
Depends what you mean by successful. Most industrial Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs) can be programmed with a visual language, typically function block diagrams. The blocks are then functions and the lines represent a data value and not necessarily the direction of program flow. Once you want to get beyond basic flow control and into things like loops or state machines, then one would typically make a custom block or entire program using structure text, or some variant of C, etc.
Written by Fr. Robert Sokolowski, a Catholic priest and professor of philosophy. [1]

Included in "The Artificial Intelligence Debate: False Starts, Real Foundations", published by MIT Press. [2]

[1] http://philosophy.cua.edu/faculty/sokolowski/
[2] https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/artificial-intelligence-debat...
XEDIT was still the primary editor for OV/VM at IBM during the early/mid 90s. Our PCs essentially booted into 3270 emulators -- via Windows or OS/2 -- and from there to OV/VM for most inter-office communication.
https://medium.com/@DanielleMorrill/is-my-startup-burn-rate-...
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>>Smalltalk was designed for experts.<<

We have been teaching Smalltalk to children since the Spring of 1974…

pdf "TEACHING SMALLTALK" SSL 77-2 June 1977 XEROX PARC

https://ia601606.us.archive.org/15/items/bitsavers_xeroxparc...
I feel this same way. Unfortunately, everyone seems to think otherwise.
Clinton campaign aggressively buying FB likes in countries with cheap ad clicks
This is sensitive to your definition of "active user", and what service you're selling.

It's normal to see a lot of attrition right after users sign up, especially if the lowest tier of the service is free. More interesting is how many users you retain after the initial kicking of the tires.
I would think that the end of easy money would have a huge effect on the prices of things that startups buy.

In other words, if @bgurley is right and the economics of money-losing companies have changed significantly, then historical burn rate numbers (from 'easy money' times) are not going to be particularly useful to you.
It's because Reddit is leaking.
'Magic' sphere for information transfer
Usually this is best done by in-house engineers, I think. At least, that's what the founders at my startups did. You want to really be intimate with your metrics.

I suppose it could be productized, I am pretty surprised that there isn't a super-easy plug-and-play solution (a la Dropbox, Slack, etc). Probably because coming up with something that's customizable for different startups' needs must be really challenging.
Unsurprising given it was built by the same people who built these:

https://www.sgi.co.jp/features/2001/dec/fleet_numerical/imag...

And more recently this:

https://www.sgi.com/pdfs/4555.pdf

Because pushing the envelope of HPC awesomeness was just another day in the office for folks at SGI. :)
Jsonnet is a configuration language that helps you define JSON data
Is that really that surprising, though? Assuming you train it on encyclopedias and reference material, you'd get a ton of "X is the capital of Y" sentences.
Right; in some cases it's not a personal decision.

We have a set of users who are using our site in healthcare environments, on locked-down computers that are difficult/expensive, so in some cases they're stuck on IE7/IE8.

I'm pretty sure calling them "illiterate smugs" wouldn't go over well.

On the other hand, these computers don't have access to the general internet, so in this case they don't risk running afoul of site creators who decide to be "clever" and go out of their way to aggressively (or even insultingly) demand that visitors upgrade. But restricted corporate users who hit that sort of thing would be unamused.
The X in Xedit was for Xavier Delamberterie, who wrote it while on assignment from IBM France to IBM Endicott, where I also worked.
"They may be the byproduct of systems and institutions that have taken on lives of their own and serve no one’s interests. That can happen if some industries have simply become giant make-work projects that trap everyone within them."
It's a good explanation but what should also be mentioned that you have a very high (let's say 90%) probability that you won't see any money from those options.

In economic terms this is called expected value and assuming 10% of success, expected value of the options would be $150k * 0.1 i.e. $15k.
Proofing Spirits with a Homemade Electrobalance
Interesting still based on the original Etherpad rather than Etherpad-lite which is actually based on Node.js and works much better.

Etherpad-lite has a lot of interesting plugins.
This is temporary. The fracking operations are in the process of going belly up, but pumping like mad in the meantime.
The equity is very likely to be worth nothing in the long-run. Even if it does become liquid at some point, that's going to be years down the line. I imagine there's a 3+ year vesting schedule attached to it, as well. Are you sure you'll be there that long?

Pretend the equity is worth zero and then make your decision.
You would be right, if the goods sold were purchased by the retailer and then resold. In that situation, you would have revenue and CoGS. However, often retails do not own the goods they sell. In that situation the price paid for the widget is not the revenue of the retailer. It counts as the GMV, and the revenue is the portion that goes to the retailer.
There are good points to consider on this site. However, I can find individual(s) taking credit for it. It's fine to be critical of something, but that criticism loses credibility when the critics do not clearly identify themselves. Without knowing the identity of the critics, it is impossible to understand biases and interests -- preventing readers from relating it to other information they receive on a topic.
It is. And it's done because Firefox doesn't expose the right hooks and isn't interested in exposing them. They obviously know what's happening already.

From the addon's point of view, the option is do it via regular expressions or not at all; it turns out the most users don't actually care how things get done.
Cutting burn rate is notoriously hard to do. Startups are built on dreams, and every single one of them has a longer list of things it wants to do than the capability to do them. Accepting that the status quo has changed means founders have to cut expectations of themselves and what they hoped to achieve in 6/12/18 months. Instead of cutting burn, many will start the hamster wheel of trying to raise money, even at unfavorable terms, and realize the reality only too late.

Short answer: burn rates will continue to be high until too late into the down cycle. So current levels matter, a lot.
Pshaw... Push on Friday, Patch on Saturday, Pray on Sunday that no one calls me to fix anything else!
How Coursera Cracked the Chinese Market
“Two days ago the police came to me and wanted me to stop working on this”
It's a rescued research library. Tens of thousands of manuals from different eras to compare, to contrast. It's not just a pile of books, either. It's a history of technical typography, the fonts used, the style diagrams and how they changed. Some of these books are the tales of machines that no longer exist, and of machines that will one day function again due to access to schematics and diagnostic routines. There are a lot of subtle things that these manuals may end up being useful for, keeping them from the trash means those can be thought up and executed.
American producers are bankrupt. The fields are worth pennies on the dollar. Wake up. It's over.
>This is why the idea that the free market will solve global warming doesn't stand up.

The idea that there's such a thing as a 'free market' at all doesn't stand up. It's a mythical beast.
Hackpad is wonderful. We use it as a quick tool to discuss our ideas. It's more readable, gives a proper track of changes, and is effective. Having known that it has gone open source makes feel even better.

However, didn't Dropbox bought Hackpad earlier ?
Laso Schaller's Insane 59 Meter Cliff Jump
I think you're assuming that the employees in question are permitted to install software freely on their work computers, and/or that the company decision-makers are aware of new sites/services they're denying themselves by their policy.

Firstly, the policy is there for a reason -- often something like "we paid a lot in 2003 for this custom software, and if we upgrade browsers we'll have to pay X to have it rewritten/replaced".

X may be a rather large sum of money -- easily enough to overwhelm whatever benefits they might get by becoming paying customers of whoever's new venture.

There's also a potential for a sort of catch-22; new sites/services may pop up that could even replace their old custom-built software... but if they can't even try it out and the site looks awful on their browsers, a) it's less likely they'll make the jump and b) it gives the impression of being a new-fangled flash-in-the-pan sort of thing. After all, the serious companies online put the effort into supporting older browsers.
I really admire you guys for keeping it simple. I have seen too many outages due to piss poor "high availability" design, which would have simply been avoided by not trying to be highly available! Damn, we really need a catchy term/phrase for that (besides ironic)
> There is no way to avoid an announcement about an intention to change the API, before stating the API in full. Yes, it caused uncertainty, and that's a downside, but open development is generally worth it.

It's quite possible to announce that they're starting to implement the new API, wait a year or two until it's capable enough, _then_ start talking about deprecating the existing one. Just like it was possible to finish implementing extension signing (or at least to the extent that people can automate signing) before deciding on a time frame to enforce it, or to get the automatic SSL certificate issuer (Let's Encrypt) working before talking about deprecating non-SSL HTTP traffic.

Basically, don't put the cart before the horse, let people implement transition plans. Wanting to have better things is fine; scaring people without having actionable mitigation strategies isn't so nice.
Ask HN: What should I do about job offer?
What do you do when you get a great job offer with a hot startup but your company's CEO is asking you to stay. I was going to leave the company and he asked me to stay earlier this year because he said he was close to selling the company. Time went by and no updates and I know we didn't have much money left. He was having a hard time getting more funding and a deal he had fell off. I got a new job and my CEO still wants me to stay. No match on salary but he asked me to stay because he said he is close to sell the company. I stayed once and nothing happened, I am about to purchase a home and have a new job this time with a 30K bump on salary with a great team. I know my current team depends on me but I don't have faith that the company will succeed . I stayed once already. Any advice. I like my team but I don't want to wait until the end to start looking for a job if we fail.
Did you have Javascript disabled? Upvoting with JS enabled generates an additional GET request for an image with the same href as the vote button.

Perhaps part of their security minded hacker detection system. ;)
Show HN: ImageBrowser.app – An animated image browser for OS X
Hello All,

I've been using this site for a while now, but I've always been way too shy/scared about submitting my own work.

But, I figured it was time, and I'm somewhat proud of what I've done, though I'm still working on it.

The app available on that Blog page was something I wrote about a year ago now, though I've been slow to update due to personal issues. I'm taking up working on it again, and it would be great to get some feedback.

The features requested/bugs noted through the App store are what I'm working on now, as well as supporting User Defaults, and providing some basic preferences around how the User wants it to interact.

There aren't any ads of any kind, and it should be pretty simple to run on a Mac Laptop.

I think I compiled the version available on that site for 10.9, though I can re-compile for at least 10.7 (I don't use any APIs that were introduced solely after that period).

Any and All feedback is greatly appreciated.

I apologize that this is hosted on a WordPress site, if anyone really cares.
Evernote + it's search is my strategy. I write down everything in a note and search for it later.
"I don't have faith that the company will succeed" - I would personally say this answers the question. Don't work somewhere you don't believe in.