skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A share price reflects the future value of the company's profits, not the past value. If the investing public believes that a large infusion of cash from the IPO will help you achieve profitability, they'll gladly invest.

Look at a company like Amazon, their net income was stunningly negative for a very long time [1] -- it's barely positive today -- yet their market cap is north of $250B. There is plenty of room for companies making losses to go public if they have a realistic plan to make profits in the future.

[1] - http://i.imgur.com/M9igHQK.png
> Consider how many relatively successful life-forms cannot exist without a very specific other species of life.

Let's ignore how "many relatively successful [extant] life-forms" versus the ones that had "evolutionary challenges." There is an enormous difference between a species survival depending on the existence of a prey species and a species survival depending upon the existence of another species for uninterrupted, cooperative and coordinated behavior. Your relation to your SaaS provider is not similar to the blue whale's relationship with krill, it is more like the goby and the shrimp.
Could you do something similar with cornflour mix?
> > It hurts men and competition by devaluing the prizes.

> To quote jstanley again:
"She's no better than me, but she is a WGM and I am nothing"

Well, don't they still have their score? I mean, I'm not into competitive chess, but everyone has their own ELO, no?

> > For whatever reasons, women aren't competitive with men (in chess, at this point in time)

> I'd also be curious to hear from you why you think the reasons for this are "whatever reasons" - I'm presuming by that you mean, that the reasons are inconsequential or they don't matter or they are not important. Why do you believe that to be the case, without first knowing what the reasons actually are?

I'm not the author, but what I would have meant by that phrase is "regardless of what the reasons are". I would have used it because the reasons are essentially unknowable, probably have many different overlapping reasons, and any discussion of those reasons is extremely likely to get bogged down in useless arguments given our collective scientific understanding of this issue at this time.
I think I was lucky in that being from the UK I was able to get it on the National Health Service but before I was referred by the doctor I didn't realise this type of thing existed or was available.
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If you haven't already, check out http://www.snpedia.com/index.php/SNPedia.

It's kind of cool to cross reference your SNPs to NIH studies.
We've already seen this. It's going to be spectacular failure.
Instead of a thumbprint, he should have used a bracelet with an rfid chip, much faster response time and his hand could have been anywhere on the handle.

Or just inject the rfid chip under your finger.
Not sure what the poster above used but I personally was faced with the same issue. I got my raw data from 23me and used https://www.promethease.com/. I think you can do it for free yourself with the desktop version http://www.snpedia.com/index.php/Promethease/Desktop but it takes longer anyway I found some useful information from it but it's to be take with a grain of salt
> All executive officers and directors as a group (13 persons) .... 61.5%

LOL 13 people in the company own more than half. The thousands of employees get to split what's left after investors.

13 people will become BILLIONAIRES and centi/multi-millionaires, while the rest of the company that toiled for years gets (maybe) a down payment on a 1800sqft house on the peninsula.

Meanwhile everyone rails against wall street inequity and the Walton family and whoever else...
Unsurprisingly used in Lasp (distributed coordination), http://blog.acolyer.org/2015/08/17/lasp-a-language-for-distr...

back to sussman
But this is definitely not "a void on the internet". We have several police officers who post regularly on the forum. Local politicians use it. Local businesses use it. Special interests organize on it. Zoning departments publicize polls through it. The people on there are making a real impact (often a negative one) on the real-life community. Disengaging because it's "just the internet" is not a winning strategy.

The moderator problem is real, and I don't have an answer. Maybe Nextdoor needs to review the behavior of moderators and have a replacement policy when they're misbehaving.
I see Hadley Wickham commenting here, so yeah...
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It is really disheartening that a company with such horrible numbers thinks they can go public. It's one thing to lose money before going public, and it's entirely another thing to lose money at increasing rates of speed and think you can find an audience for those shares.
Definitely something I didn't know I wanted! Haven't tried it but it looks great. I think you should explicitly say in the description that users will save on cellular data/roaming fees as a main use case.
Don't believe the hype. Google has been saying that they can execute javascript for years. Meanwhile, as far as I can see, most non-trivial applications still aren't being crawled successfully, including my company's.

We recently got rid of prerender because of the promise from the last article from google saying the same thing [1]. It didn't work.

1: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2014/05/understan...
The Fermi Paradox is predicated on the principle that aliens would actually want to come here. I'm not sure this is a valid assumption.

For a hot and fast civilisation like us to exist for serious amounts of time in space, it's going to have to adapt to living in space --- because, as you say, it's intensely hostile. One of the key adaptations is to stop being hot and fast. If you can live on small energy budgets you're way more likely to survive. If you live slowly then travel becomes much easier, as well as costing less.

But if you become a cold and slow civilisation, inner solar systems aren't going to be very hospitable --- hot, radioactive, space is so bent that travel is enormously difficult, everything's at the bottom of cripplingly expensive gravity wells... why bother? The gas giants are rich, but are even more expensive (to get from low orbit around one of the moons of Jupiter to low orbit around another takes about 10 km/s. You can launch from the surface of Earth for that). But further out... the Kuiper and Oort clouds are peaceful, cheap, hospitable, and chock full of light elements with interesting (if slow) chemistry.

Estimates of the Oort cloud density predict that there'll be a 20km body every 30 light seconds or so, and that there's about five Earth masses in Sol's Oort cloud alone. And Oort clouds of neighbouring stars overlap...

So I'm expecting any successful civilisation to start colonising the spaces between the stars, rather than the star systems themselves.

In this model, our own solar system could already be colonised, and we'd never know. They'd probably have noticed our radio transmissions by now, but it may not have occurred to them to answer yet. They may not bother; if we survive long enough to adapt to space, we'll be out there soon. Or they may not be able, depending on their energy budget. Or maybe they are, and we just haven't noticed. (New Horizons has a 12W transmitter and we would have to be looking in exactly the right direction to spot it. And it's way closer than the Oort Cloud.)

Of course, this doesn't explain why our hypothetical civilisation has built a hypothetical megastructure around this star. I wouldn't know why they'd want to do that (except for noting in passing that interstellar travel for hot-and-fast creatures like us basically requires a Dyson sphere for the energy requirements).

I'm planning a book. Can you tell?
As the linked article covers this is not exclusive to America, that's probably one correlation we can genuinely throw out.
Radar systems are fairly common on boats larger than ~30 ft, and you can operate those without any license at all. The latest generation devices are all broadband, working on the principle that if you spread your broadcast over a wide enough range, the power you're broadcasting on any given band is very low, i.e. legal and not causing interference for others. Maybe this guy is working off the same principle?
This is the same kind of deceptive thing as VW.
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> According to the FBI, there have been close to two hundred such incidents in the last 15 years, resulting in the murder of 486 people and the wounding of 557 as of September last year

According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_military_casualt... , in the 8-year Iraq War (2003–2011), there were 3,527 U.S. combat deaths and 32,222 wounded. Could save far more American lives, not to mention others, by keeping sociopaths out of the Presidency rather than profiling and surveilling loners.
I mean, Linux doesn't have a common native notification center. You have to install libnotify and have a notification server to use it. Granted, most distros will do it for you, but it's not really the same as OSX/Windows.
If things are as bad as claimed, then we'll have no choice but to geoengineer our way out of the problem. Orbiting sunshades to reduce insolation is one option.

On the other hand, satellite data shows no meaningful warming for almost twenty years, and some scientists think that climate sensitivity to CO2 is substantially lower than the IPCC has been claiming. Perhaps we have a lot more time after all...
@rtz12: This is excellent, thank you so much! I'll make the edit. :)

EDIT: (ps, I'm the author)
I've used 23andMe, and it told me I have twice the risk of developing Alzheimer's disease when I'm older. Considering that I've lost a few family members to Alzheimer's, it worries the hell out of me. Regardless, this has triggered me to research a bit about the disease and ways of potentially reducing the risk.

It does make you anxious, but when you have that knowledge, you feel the need to do something about it.
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> So they would likely lose > 17% revenue very soon.

It looks like they loose money on every single Starbucks transaction. Sounds like a good thing.
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Honestly, optimizing sites for search is just wrong. It's happening now, because search is not perfect and developers have to work around its imperfectness. But in the ideal future, web masters must design websites for users, not for search engines, in the first and only place. That's what's happening now and it's good sign.

Of course Google competitors must work hard. I don't see why that's a bad thing. It's not like Bing or Yandex are going to disappear in the foreseeable future.
He's putting out a signal on the order of 1 milliwatt. Interference is a nonissue.
If you are particularly slow, then yes. This is equivalent to getting at the intersection only a few seconds later, not a big deal.
If you're in a position to be responsible for others, shouldn't you already have a safety net/final arrangements?

Yes, you should, but many younger people don't. In your 20's, 30's, even 40's, you feel like death is pretty far off and you can get around to that "boring" stuff later. You may have some basic life insurance, but maybe you haven't really thought about other details. There are also things you might want to handle that aren't necessarily paperwork, such as catching up with family members.

Additionally, if you ARE someone who has that stuff in order (FWIW, I mostly do), you might decide to spend more time volunteering or doing other things. For my own case, I have my retirement pretty much covered. I mostly just work to fund day to day life and continue to contribute to retirement funds. If it turns out I've only got 2 or 3 years (or less!) left to live, I would definitely stop working entirely and spend my time doing other things.
This looks interesting. For HN purposes, you'd be better off converting that slide deck to a blog post that explains the problem and how you approached it, with as much technical detail as you can.

If you do that, please email us at hn@ycombinator.com and we'll send you a repost invite for this (an experiment we're running to give good stories a second chance at attention on HN).
While being highly educated can be a factor there are plenty of scenarios where it has nothing to do with it. A lot of places make jokes about the PhDs.
> your own BrowserBot

http://phantomjs.org/
https://github.com/babun/babun/issues/464

The zip contains a handful of scripts and executables so I think Chrome is being overly cautious.
At this stage it's not about profit...it's about volume. They need to become so big that their scale takes care of profit problems. So it's terrible that they're losing such a huge customer.
> For 100% of the XML feature-set I don't actually know of a viable alternative.

Real problems rarely need 100% of the XML feature set to solve. The breadth of the feature set is why there are lots of problems for which XML is a tolerable solution based on its inherent features (which in turn is a big factor in why it has such a large ecosystem), but they often don't make it the best solution (especially before considering the ecosystem, which is important in choosing a tool, but not a reason to avoid developing a new alternative, since any new alternative is going to start with an ecosystem disadvantage, but with adequate inherent value should be able over time to gather an ecosystem of tools.)
Very cogent point, as it seems one of the threads of the article is about reining in ambition - hence, as you note, innovating through looking acutely at the problems to solve. In line with scientific approaches, repeatability is critical. Getting lucky once? Put that champagne away! Wisdom - knowing which spots to hit, why and how - is not gestated by throwing cash and minds at a problem, in my opinion anyway. It's about taking all kinds of disparate inputs, making often unexpected mental connections and relationships, and somehow seeing a way around the problem. In my experience, that's usually in the shower.

It is also not lost on me that using his personal means and keeping the company "scrappy" has enabled the longevity thus far. That, and pursuing grants in the narrow field where there still, well, there's still money to be obtained through such channels (not true of all sciences in the US). This article is probably the closest thing regarding "hype" in the business plan. I doubt there's a marketing budget in that warehouse!
Doesn't really matter. The takeaway is that the light timings don't have to change. You would just make the man stop being green earlier.
Regarding the compressed-air problem you mentioned, have you seen LightSail Energy's (http://lightsailenergy.com) solution to it?

"Our innovation: an elegant method of capturing this heat energy and regenerating useful energy from it. We inject a fine, dense mist of water spray which rapidly absorbs the heat energy of compression and provides it during expansion."

Maybe one of the founders, @DaniFong (https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=DaniFong), can chime in.
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People who participate in online voting system are not all the voters by the way...
It's not better. No one said it was. The target audience is developers who are using it as their primary language.
Square is incredibly common these days at farmers markets and coffeeshops. This class of products has a lot of win going for it; I don't know if Square is going to own that market, but they have a huge advantage right now. I look forward to reading their financials.

edit: a roundup from the WSJ, Fortune, and other random news places suggests strong concern over the CEO situation. That seems fair. I would definitely discount the value of a non-profitable company with a part-time CEO. :-/

That said, having a "stupid simple and ubiquitous payment platform" should be a really easy way to print money. Why hasn't it? I think that story is the interesting one.
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"I believe so much in the potential of this company to drive positive impact in my lifetime that over the past two years I have given over 15 million shares, or 20% of my own equity, back to both Square and the Start Small Foundation, a new organization I created to meaningfully invest in the folks who inspire us: artists, musicians, and local businesses, with a special focus on underserved communities around the world. The shares being made available for the directed share program in this offering are being sold by the Start Small Foundation, giving Square customers the ability to buy equity to support the Foundation. I have also committed to give 40 million more of my shares, an additional 10% of the company, to invest in this cause. I’d rather have a smaller part of something big than a bigger part of something small.

We intend to make this big! Thank you for your support and potential investment in Square.

Jack"
And they clearly aren't as good, otherwise Slack wouldn't be so popular.
If a modern browser can render your site accurately, then Google can index it.
Ten years down the line the drivers will be replaced by automated vehicles.
This is kind of tautological. "We feel this way because we do." Why do you feel that it is invasive? And certainly you're using "invasive" here metaphorically because there isn't actually any coherent entity that is intruding on you.
Honestly, the old padlock-with-yellow-warning-triangle seems better than its replacement. Now a page which is insecure due to mixed content will look like a totally innocent https:// page! Yes, it lacks the padlock, but lots of Internet users are taught in school that https:// means secure.
Censys developer here, happy to answer questions about the service.
Amazon not supporting IPv6 is inexcusable. They're basically holding half the startup world hostage on deploying it.
The trick with Cygwin is that to install packages you just go back and run the installer again. So you can "think about what to install after you've installed it" if you like, but you can also get the ones you know you'll need (SSH for example) straight off the bat. It's not the most elegant system, but it's ok.
Whenever I'm out of ideas I always end up going back to the Propagator/Logic Simulator chapters of SICP and rewriting them hoping to glean a bit more about the process and usability of such an abstraction.

I usually end up writing a Propagating logic simulator (combining the chapters) and marveling at the working forward/backward ripple carry adder. This time I've derived all the way down to switches which infer unknown values based on their current inputs and used them to successfully create the reversible logic functions required by the Propagator model.

Fascinating stuff and highly recommended reading for anybody interested in alternative models of computation.
If they're being used professionally without paid extended support from Microsoft that's a bad sign.
"That means sooner or later, they'll not only be profitable, but tremendously so."

Says who? Growth is great, but it doesn't necessarily mean that profits are in the pipeline (e.g. Groupon).

And on top of that, what exactly is it that Square does that it's going to be profitable on? Is it the Point of Sale devices? Is it their Square Readers? Is it their small-business loans? They're not a terribly focused company, and maybe that's a reflection of their CEO doing double-time (completely speculation on my part).

Personally I see this as their last-ditch effort to grab some cash, to exit before the market gets worse. Their investors don't want to be left holding the bag when the IPO market gets cold, so it's better to cash out now while the name Square is worth something than to bet that they'll get bigger/better in the future.
Coming from a world that deals with credit card processors, their deal with Starbucks could have been a sweetheart deal and causing some of their losses. If they're loosing money on the deal, they could potentially reduce their loss.

Credit card gateways, like square, take a fraction of the transaction during processing. If their deal did not include the pass through rates of Amex, Visa, MC and those companies raised rates, that would be coming out of Squares pocket.
At which stage? They're going public, they're not a startup anymore. If they're still high growth they'd be going after another funding round instead of an IPO.
Look at those numbers! And for those to say that Square is innovative...their reader was basically all they had back in the day. Now that everyone has created a Square clone, payment processing is a race to the bottom and all about brokering deals with large merchants and hope that the banks and processing networks don't eat your lunch.

Throw in all the regulatory hassle of dealing with money and its transfer, as well as liability for fraud, and competing in an industry as exciting as refrigerators...
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You still have to create accounts on all of them. And if you mistype your password on one, you'll have to change it, and either you have to remember that there's one with a changed password, or go and change your password on all of them. And what if someone's taken your regular name on one of them?
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