skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Need to take dilution into account here. If we assume a (optimistic?) 1% stake, that's $650M.

YC recently (1-2 years ago?) started giving 120k. Before that, it was 10-20k. So let's say half of what you said is the total investment = 65M.

That's a 10X return. I actually was expecting higher. Am I missing something in my numbers?
Ask HN: When should a founder shut down vs. pursue product/market fit?
HN, what are your thoughts, or experiences on when to keep pursuing marking and product/market fit, versus realizing there is absolutely no chance and should just shut down?
Excellent point, most of the companies couldn't exit at whatever valuation they raised money last.
"Caveat: As with all fusion companies, they're only 10-20 years from being ready to market : )"

And always have been ;-)
1. I agree however there hasn't been any analysis done on the situation of these claims. for example how long after this lady returned was she put on a PIP? what were the terms of her PIP, as in what did she need to improve? did an insurance glitch happen to other people in the company or was it just her?

2. what policies have actually been violated? again no analysis has been done (publicly) for any of the existing claims. if amazon does an analysis and finds that things were done according to policy and that policy is not out of the ordinary from other companies, they would have to divulge personal information about these employees which should not and I'm sure wont happen. maybe the ceo of the company can instead make a broad public statement that this should not happen and that if it does happen to report it to him personally?

4. in the scope of how many people who currently or have ever worked at amazon, this is effectively one or two people.

5. they were too busy being sick to report why they got a bad performance review and what they did to improve it?

6. what? I said that no one has said what they feel is acceptable and no one has reported how long they were performing poorly. of course one day is reduculous, but is 6 months?

7. now you're following along with all the rhetoric. as others have reported, the anonymous reviews are usually used to provide good feedback and help people get promoted. emails on weekends and midnight are just a random anecdote from the nyt article that didnt go into much detail. cut-throat backstabbing? that's the first ive really heard of this. survive or die? is that not true for every company out there?

8. just because it's a company doesnt mean it can't be a witch hunt. additionally if you read the comments many people are demanding bezos' head on a pike. regarding the culture, what about the people who do enjoy and thrive in that kind of culture?
I wish the article would start by explaining what the hell "onboarding" is, since I've never heard that word before...
> that means every dumb game system rush to try to run as root. as you can see with steam.

You are tragically misinformed:

user@host:~$ find ~/.local/share/Steam/ -perm -4000
user@host:~$ find ~/.local/share/Steam/ -user root
user@host:~$ find /bin -perm -4000
/bin/ping6
/bin/ping
/bin/su
/bin/fusermount
/bin/ntfs-3g
/bin/umount
/bin/mount
user@host:~$ find /bin -user root | wc -l
201
user@host:~$ ps aux | grep -i steam | grep root | wc -l
0
It's interesting how much a quote can change when taken out of context.
The good old times. :)
Researchers tackle software security tools
ZeroStack finally out of stealth Hear our story
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10054717
Maybe after seeing their smart phone flopped, they're going with an inside-out approach.
I could defiantly see some stricter privacy laws being passed - also might I'mpact google etc if they have to start vetting staff in the same way big telcos do.

Back in my BT days I knew team leaders who had to get PV'd (aka TS) clearance.
ha! minus 4 points. Why the downvote?
Amazon underground
Is there a calculation for REAL ROI?

Not based on current valuation but based on actual exits and money returned to YC?
The actual head of the Secret Intelligence Service is known as C:

https://www.sis.gov.uk/glossary.html
Since you are using some lean startup terminology, what is your data telling you?

How much empathy have you gained around your particular customer and problem? Have you seen any other obvious pain points that you could be passionate about solving?
~11% of their investments were in the last batch so I wouldn't read the ~30% dead rate as conclusive, a lot will need more time to die.
That's your call. People break promises all the time. I find the prospect that you choose to believe peoples promises will uphold over time naive - that's my perspective and equally as valid to me as yours is to you.

People do things for many reasons you are not privvy to all the time and while they may seek comfort in the arms of someone outside their relationship, doesn't automatically justify violence and rape. I find this argument to be as laughable as those making arguments that same sex marriage is comparable to marrying animals.

If understanding and accepting human nature for what it is makes your life not worth living, then only you can evaluate that.

I choose to believe that people are inherently good. I choose to believe that while their interests align with my own, they're likely to make good on that promise. But I equally believe that accepting someone else's promise without question or qualification is naive at best. I cannot expect them to honour that promise when their interests are no longer aligned with mine.

Does that make my life not worth living? Of course not. I love people, I enjoy being around them. People are amazing, wonderful and fascinating creatures.

...but to expect that one person uphold a promise they had no hope of truly understanding when they made it, for the entire duration of the remainder of their life... and then holding them accountable for failing to keep it. That's beyond ridiculous, I don't care what religion you are.
https://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2012/12/24/never-sign-a...

> There isn’t any upside to signing the PIP because, once one is presented, the decision to fire has already been made. A manager who genuinely wants to improve a person’s performance will communicate off the record. Once the manager is “documenting”, the relationship’s over. Also, people very rarely pass PIPs. Some people get the hint and leave, others fail and are fired, and in the remainder of cases, the PIP is ruled “inconclusive”, which means “not enough evidence to terminate at this time”. That’s not exactly an endorsement. For a PIP to be passed would require HR to side with the employee over management, and that will never happen. If the employee is under the same manager in 6 months, there will be another PIP. If the employee tries to move to another team, that will be almost impossible, because a “passed” PIP doesn’t mean exoneration. The reputation for instability created by a PIP lingers on for years. What I am essentially saying here is that, once a PIP appears, you should not sign it for the sake of maintaining a professional relationship. There is no relationship at that point.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=473232

http://www.askamanager.org/2013/05/what-to-do-when-youre-put...

> Okay, here’s the deal with performance improvement plans: They are indeed very often the last thing that happens before you’re let go. In theory, if you meet the terms of the plan, you’ll preserve your job and be able to move forward, but in practice, by the time you’re on one, it’s often because things aren’t working out and aren’t likely to.

> To be clear, that doesn’t mean that PIPs never end in success. Sometimes they do. But because they so often don’t, it’s smart to be job-searching meanwhile, because they’re so very much the writing on the wall giving you a warning that you might lose your job at the end of the process. (However, don’t let your job search interfere with your focus on work. If you have to pick between the two, choose work if that’s likely to make the difference between meeting the terms of the PIP and not meeting them.)
GraphQL requires backend infrastructure to use, which takes time usually to plug into the planning pipeline.
Men cite their own work more often that women cite their own work
I worked in AWS for a bit and my favorite joke was to flippantly suggest mturk as a solution to some convoluted architecture/process.
In a properly managed company, these are separate things.
That is because you remember the world of privacy, the generation that has grown up with facebook do not.
Often times yes!

First employees have an outcome differential of 10x vs founders. This is often marked up to founders taking on substantial risk. But the way funding works these days, with EIRs and networking, the founders are taking a lot less risk than you'd think.

The total comp laydown of a startup has the potential of being very good, but also, potential needs to be discounted against not hitting the huge hockeystick.
Windows 10 and Microsoft Edge on Linux with Qemu-KVM: HowTo and Demo
Partial screenshot of the affected systems:
http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/11/sony-pictures-hacker...
SPAR is the other exception.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spar_(retailer)
The article seemed to try to indicate that Parker's (outragrous) treatment was indicative of a more systemic problem, but I didn't think the argument held up very well.

So Woodworth collects a lot of revenue by enforcing the speed limits. Good for them. What is the connection to Parker's case? Is it just the implication that the town is too focussed on revenue-raising? That's pretty weak.

As is the implication of racism, really. This one incident seemed arbitrary, not targeted. Again, without evidence of a wider pattern this just seems like one (egregiously) bad case of motivated reasoning in a town that (charitably put) seems generally to be interested in upholding the law to the letter.
Ultimately it's the citizens that are to blame. It's elected police chiefs or sheriffs, elected mayors, and (usually) elected judges that create and perpetuate these systems.

I mean, look at Woodsworth. There's no lobbyists, SuperPAC funding, Koch Brothers money. There's no excuses. The people could vote every wrongdoer in this story out of office tomorrow. They choose not to.
He made some campaign promises I liked, but then he didn't follow through.
Edit (whack entire previous post): See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polywell#History , which is current up to January of this year. That includes a link to a presentation in January 2015 to Microsoft Research: http://research.microsoft.com/apps/video/default.aspx?id=238...

I just found out about that video in the course of checking this comment out, so I have not watched it. No idea what's in it.

Edit edit: Digging around an ethusiast forum at http://www.talk-polywell.org/bb/viewforum.php?f=10 , I see there's also a paper at arxiv.org from Jun 1, 2015: http://arxiv.org/abs/1406.0133
This is a very large study:

"The new study (while confirming the 2013 work) is much larger and crosses many disciplines. This one is based on an analysis of 1.6 million papers written from 1950 to the present in the scholarly database JSTOR. While some first names are not gender exclusive, the study looked at first names that correspond with either men or women, but not both, at least 95 percent of the time, according to various public records. Papers written by people with names such as "Jody," which did not get to 95 percent association with a gender, were excluded from the database."

Because of the size of the study, the results are likely to hold up upon further analysis.
Destroying currency doesn't destroy wealth. It just transfers it from the person who held it to everyone who holds that currency.

It's a very modest deflationary effect.
This is actually something used by Stuxnet, believe it or not. http://www.theverge.com/2014/8/7/5977885/hackers-made-irans-...
When JavaScript frameworks have CEOs, you know something has gone horribly wrong.
Annoyingly Google have called their newest SMS thing Messenger too so it's an ambiguous term even on my phone.
Why the 21st Century Demands Holistic Education
True. Although, the name was chosen way earlier than Magic's launch actually! So it's a coincidence.

But it's all AI - no human assists :)
I think the best way to go around this is use Tinder to get matches with locals, then ask them through chat.
Yeah, that had to stop a bunch more people to recoup that $30,000+ in court rulings.
JS-DOS V0.74 – Good old DOS games in web browser
This and 'Desiderata' by Max Ehrmann are pretty much the only poems you need to ever read.
My Induction at my first job after being issued with my labcoat was an hours instruction on how to boot the PDP11/40 and I was told ah the company library has a book on FORTRAN go and learn it :-)
Give or take demerit points, in my area of the world there are 9 points and when gone you no longer have a driver's license. It's for severe infractions such as DUI, reckless driving, excessive speed.

Although for a speeding ticket one point is harsh maybe 1/2 point or 1/4 point if less than 30km/h over the posted speed with a 10km/h grace (speedometer error/wind etc.).

No monetary gain or loss for either side no incentive to catch speeders going a little bit over the limit and a big incentive as a driver to not get caught.
Another interesting future aspect of HetNet technology
http://www.netmanias.com/en/post/blog/7388/kt-korea-lte-h-lt...

What GoFi is doing is actually not at all new and has been around a while (the wifi / LTE hand off) the third provider is always been possible with multiple SIMS which has been around for quite a while.
My reaction is still mostly schadenfreude.

If/when these people are caught, they should face the consequences of their actions but I'm not going to wrap paranoia over my own peccadillos in fake outrage over internet privacy.

I'm opposed to people doing unauthorized things with other people's property on general principles. I'm far more concerned with the IRS's data breach because every victim was legally compelled to submit certain personal information to the IRS. Everyone on Ashley Madison was there voluntarily for nefarious purposes.

Catch them and prosecute them but don't cry crocodile tears either.
Do they do it for traffic stops in rural Louisiana?
Two US  journalists shot dead live on air
OS X for Hackers: Yosemite Edition
10 Reasons for Having a WordPress Business Website
I am using React and all the trendy tooling for my personal projects, even if it's just a simple website. Why? Because that's an opportunity for me to learn new stuff.

I can't use React at work, but I don't want to stagnate either. That's why I'll always be using the most ridiculous trendy technologies for side projects.

I do think that's how most of frontend developers live nowadays.
Nix is what Guix is based on. You can think of Guix as the 'GNU Version' of Nix/NixOS, meaning it provides free software packages, and IIRC it uses Guile Scheme, rather than Nix, to describe all the packages and OS configuration.

It's a toss up as to whatever you like. I think Nix has a bigger community, more packages, etc. But Guix, strictly speaking I think, is a 'superset' because changes from Nix often flow into Guix (and Guix can use Nix packages directly), as Guix is built directly on the same source-code as Nix - but not the other way around. There are some other differences, like the fact Guix uses GNU dmd while NixOS uses systemd, etc etc.

It's all just personal preference I think. I use NixOS because it's reliable and has a decently sized community, and a lot of packages. It also has really, really good Haskell support, and being a Haskell developer, that's a pretty big plus to me. Having non-free packages isn't so much of a stickler for me. I think the Guix people are doing good work, though, and a distribution for free software and the GNU project is very important - so I wish them the best even if I'm farther away.

You'd have to try both of them and make a decision for yourself IMO. But I warn you: the rabbit hole is deep, and will require learning. And when you come out - you may be immensely displeased with the current state of affairs. :)

(Full disclosure: IAMA NixOS developer.)
I personally use the agnoster theme from oh-my-zsh. With the required powerline-patched font, its very readable and has enough git info to keep me informed without taking up too much space:

https://gist.github.com/agnoster/3712874
I think you should think about it in this way: Do you see any branch leading out of your current product? By a branch leading out of your current business, I mean not both of product and market should change at the same time(minor tweaks are obviously ok). If you don't see that at all then it's time to shut down. One thing that I'm over-simplifying is the patience required to make it to product market fit. If you are making big pivots every month then you are basically trying to avoid the trough of sorrow but if your product is not changing at all even after 6 months despite nothing working and everything being tried out on marketing, then you are too late in making a pivot. Here's an interesting article about this by Mattermark founder:
http://www.daniellemorrill.fundamine.com/2013/03/zombie-star...
A Dubious Deal with the NSA
Should have walked out of the room and filed a grievance on the spot.
Introducing YouTube Gaming
220,000 Chinese iCloud accounts breached due to jailbreak
Also, please do not take this as encouragement to start an accelerator.

Accelerators on the whole are a terrible business, and we try to be up front about that with everyone who comes to us for advice.
Can also confirm, handover is smooth on republic. The 1GB plan is a little lower than Google Fi as well. 2GB is the same cost as Google, 3GB is slightly higher.
That's one of my favourite charts about fusion.
I think in the context of institutional racism (what some snidely call the "academic definition" of racism) it's not as striking to see it in the headline. The issue of race in our country is much more complex than individuals and their interactions with each other. Both are important, but the assumption seems to be by the people doing the objecting that the only one of consequence is personal/individual racism between people.

As far as the chemist goes, I think that despite the polite societal norm to refrain from mentioning it when it's irrelevant (which shouldn't go anywhere in my opinion) in the context of a news story we should mention it more. There's a serious issue with getting women into STEM fields and surfacing it even if it's irrelevant might deter the perception by young women and girls that they should avoid those fields. But that's my ignorant opinion without any studies to back it or anything. I could be entirely wrong.
Doesn't look like. But 5% of 65 billion is 3.25 billion. Nice ballpark stats.
Backstreet Boys and 'N Sync Are Making a Zombie Movie Together
The comic-book-style intro on that page is awesome!
I've been following Ukraine politics for years, from before the 'Orange Revolution'.

It's funny, one 'spontaneous' revolution fails due to in-fighting and corruption, so the next time round, they just run the opposition strait out of the country, for all practical purposes ban their party, and there's a string of 'spontaneous' suicides of opposition politicians. Never mind the crackdown against the opposition in the east (when the uprising in the east merely started as a counter-maidan - with about the same level of violence and arms).

And of course the media is doing a fine job of covering up the fact that Ukraine's economy has tanked over 10%, and even their western debtors are losing patience over Ukraine's inability to pay back loans. They also omit certain facts, like that from the 1990's up until Yanukovych was overthrown, Russia basically bankrolled Ukraine's economy. They were given cheap gas, their debts were forgiven, their products were imported, and Russia looked the other way when their gas was being siphoned off... And the most pertinent detail, they forget to mention that the bulk of DPR forces are made up of defectors from the Ukrainian armed forces and retired soldiers.

Anyhow, the only difference between modern day coups and coups like Iran 1953 or Chile 1973 is that the CIA is much more covert these days. 'Spontaneous' uprisings (that happen to be accompanied by perfect logistics and media coverage) that just happen to put US interests into power. Soft power and cultural/media influence wins minds today. They spread the American dream, convince people it will happen if only they rebel against their own leaders, and chaos and destruction follows. The US convinced Libya, Syria, and Ukraine to rebel, and now all 3 are plunging into failed-state territory.
If you want this to stop, presumably you need to step out of the middle age and allow actual automated speed cams as every other country does.

Now, there are two sides here. A matter of fact debtors prison for poor people and a vicious cycle where they keep accumulating more fines through inability of paying is a travesty of law.

But I can hardly sympathize with the discussion on speed traps, in a country where apparently 10mph over is considered a crass misuse of law (here, this nets you a month long driving ban) and tickets need to be written by officers, which naturally drastically limits enforcement, and driving on a suspended license is seen as a violation on the level of failure to use turn signals. Frankly, driving without a valid license should cause your car to be immediately and permanently impounded and any license only reissued on a retest after a ban. We can't get into a situation where having a valid license is more or less immaterial.
That isn't the mark of a person who loves what they do. It's the mark of a person with an unhealthy obsession. Working long hours is neither necessary for a quality product nor healthy long term.
Wow, that's incredible, thanks for the link!
That's if they choose not to register for VAT you can register for a VAT number in the UK as self employed under any threshold.
In many cases the savings from VAT returns might be sufficient to justify the cost of handling VAT on your end.

How ever non-UK member state suppliers complicate things, if you are VAT registered in Germany, you are treated as a VAT registered businesses/individual by the HMRC so in this case the reverse VAT charges need to happen (the company which received the service in the UK will clear the VAT on the invoice).

http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/manuals/vatpossmanual/vatposs14100.ht...

What i don't understand is why they've simplified things beyond reason for B2B but complicated things in B2C, heck what happens if you have a tax exempt business (UK example: self-employed people with small earnings exemption) and you cannot register for a VAT number or produce a VAT invoice and you have B2C transactions with other member states that now require you to charge VAT?
Humor?!? How dare you, sir! Arguing about the smallest minutia of javascript frameworks is no laughing matter! Why, just last week a friend of mine used Angular when he should have used Angular2, the fool! His arms turned black and fell off! Do you want your arms to turn black and fall off? I thought not!
Very interesting. This contradicts how Google advertises the service though. They say the transition is seamless. Unless they are playing fast and loose with the definition of seamless, this does not seem to qualify.

According to their website it is expecting signals to slowly get worse and have time to start transitioning before it drops out. A sudden loss of wifi for whatever reason probably confuses it. I would expect walking down the street away from your wifi would cause a smoother tansition.

I also expect those dialer codes are not meant for use during a call, and that is why a transition is queued up.

Have you tried driving from a Sprint deadzone, where you are on TMobile, to a TMobile deadzone where you would have to transition to Sprint? This would show if it can actually transition between the two during a call. Which others seem to say works.