skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's another one: http://about.jabbr.net/ but for the Windows / Azure / AppHarbor platforms.
> Could someone explain the motive to go public while operating in the losses?

The motive is to raise capital. The same as the motive to go public any other time.

> Isn't the public market more averse to companies operating in the negative.

In very broad terms, on average, sure, probably. But there's lots of factors in how the public markets react to a firm's offerings, and profitability is far from the only consideration.
I believe she used promethease.com as the other commenter mentioned (which is what I used too). She took the result to the doctor and they did a more thorough test for that specific gene to confirm (which is probably advisable with any serious/negative result before panic).
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Actually you're not sure you could do that. When do people ever stand perfectly still for hours on end? We get the difference between anecdotes and data, but it's also ok to formulate testable hypotheses in here.

Anyway this is like saying "Buying a bike won't make you thin". Yes, you have to ride the bike. But the availability of a bike in your house greatly raises the chance that you'll ride on any given day. It's indirect, but still a pretty good idea.
Also, I don't think 23&Me's test results have enough medical value to be used for evaluating health risks.

For some things they do, like they test for mutations related to Alzheimer's that can drastically alter risk, ranging from "you're probably never going to get it" to "you're probably going to get it, and there's a good chance it'll be much earlier than you would have imagined".

But their marketing material was vastly overstating the value of their results, which is near 0 for most diseases. And it was misleading people into thinking it was more comprehensive than it really was (like, it's not a full genome, and it doesn't include every SNP that we know matters like most BRCA mutations).
It does. That's what yoga is.
See those little numbers next to the names? Those are references to footnotes. Try reading the footnotes.
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A smarter strategy would be to invest more conservatively after a risky yet big one paid off
Refrigerators still see some innovation e.g. the recent "I put a door in your door..." trend:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHYTRcQF5wk
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By the same token it doesn't even have a window system, I don't think it is a good argument.
Chrome/chromium should simply depend on libnotify, just like it depends on gtk2.
"How am I talking to you right now?" Sussman asked. Sussman seemed to be talking about the shared symbolic values being held in the conversation, and at this point I started to understand. "Sure, when you're running the program, that whole thing is a black box. So is your brain. But you can explain to me the reasoning of why you did something. At that point, being able to inspect the symbolic reasoning of the system is all you have." And, Sussman explained, the propagator model carries its symbolic reasoning along with it.

I dunno. Are we talking about true "hard AI"? Because really, how much can Sussman or anyone introspect their own thought processes? We can tell ourselves stories about motivation and symbol manipulation, but those stories themselves are just more symbol manipulation. I'm not sure a sentient symbol-manipulator ever really "gets to the bottom" of true introspection of their own thought processes, including counterfactual thoughts they might have had.

This seems like an overly mechanistic approach, although perhaps workable in "soft AI"
Same here, we were super enthusiastic over their service. On top of it, some of the 'signals' they gave us are clearly wrong information. So, nothing.

We did pay a little more for our tests, but I am not sorry for it, I just wished it worked better.
I did not identify how this service differs from using multiple SIM cards with the same number, which I can get for a small fee (below 10€) from my provider (in Germany).

Does anybody know how details about the specific implementation?
I think you have hit on the one key similarity, at least in the examples cited. They all seem to feel they 'deserve' something, that the world owes them a relationship, sex, power, money etc.

When they don't get it they get frustrated and angry, and eventually violent because they feel they are being 'cheated', 'oppressed'. I've read that that Elliot guy also harboured a racist belief that he was better than african-americans, and thought it a huge injustice that he couldn't get a girlfriend but saw african-americans who could.
Yes, it's morning to evening every second booked during the roadshow. You can get it done in a single (7 day) week if you really want to take that risk.
Salesforce did a lot of acquisitions worth billions of dollars.

Looking at their financial statements, net loss for last FY was 250MM but depreciation and amortization was over 700MM.

In other words, the loss they show is just a paper loss. They make money. Unlike Enron which was making paper profit but they were actually losing money.
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Just use screen and detach it :)

https://quadpoint.org/articles/irssi/
$707m is their cut of the money that they process. I think it was approximately $24bn of money that went through the system.
Many engineers seem to either be blissfully ignorant or just way too trusting during equity negotiations. Seems pretty common to just snow them with big absolute numbers and not even mention shares outstanding.

I know a guy that took a CTO role at a company post-YC acceptance but pre-demo day for ~5%. I can't imagine what the rest of the crew is getting. Why even join a startup at that point?
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Let's go with a harmless example.

Have you ever picked your nose when others are watching? Or is there something innately offputting about doing so? Have you ever tried to "sneak" it when you thought nobody was watching?

What if you always thought someone was watching?

If you won't do something as harmless as picking your nose while being watched - what other human behaviors do you think are affected when people think they are being watched? Maybe they don't want others to know they attend a dance class. Maybe they're embarrassed to buy condoms or other contraceptives. Maybe they don't want others to see them buying medicine they need for an embarrassing medical condition.

It's not about personal threat it's about privacy.
Brilliant idea. Can you package it as a Firefox plugin?
The young bucks? Implying this guy isn't young himself? Handheld radar wasn't an uncommon project in the EECE department at my school.[0] :) I'm not entirely sure the students building radars would want to be on teams where they had to teach their peers a thing or five!

[0]: http://ece.k-state.edu/crl/courses-ece764.html

[1]: http://ece.k-state.edu/~wkuhn/
Try starting by looking up "PID loops" (Proportional Integral Derivative).
Texas currently has 14 GW of wind generation and another 11
GW coming online over the next 2 years. Seems practical enough.
61.5% to the 13 directors and 33.6% to investors = 95.1%
Everyone else = 4.9%

At a $6B valuation, that's $294M for everyone else.
Works fine for me in Ubuntu 14.04 with Unity as my Desktop environment and using the latest packaged version of Chromium.

It only comes up if you receive a notification from a website: http://imgur.com/lGOJrHb

You can then click 'Chromium - Notifications' to get what I believe to be the 'notification center': http://imgur.com/JyIVNvG

you can try it out if you open the chromium console (f12), and enter "setTimeout(() => new Notification("Insert text here"), 2000)" and alt-tab to something that isn't chromium.

Neat feature, but hard to expect users to figure it out on their own.
I ended up learning I supposedly have a 40.1% chance of getting Alzheimer's Disease. It hid the result and asked me if I really wanted to know. I am not sure who in their right mind would not want to know (though maybe that is my Alzheimer's talking). Such a thing would drive someone crazy.

I have just kept living my life the way I have been. It was scary at first. At least I know I ought to eat right etc...

I think if you are too afraid to know what your genes might say about your future then yes 23andme might not be a good fit.

Now if they would just add an edit mode...
This is anecdotal, but I feel like I see Square's competitors just as much as Square at coffee shops and other small businesses these days. I wonder if there are some easy-to-find numbers for how many businesses use Square vs. Flint or others?
Also it's easier to move around habitually when standing up, or at least for me it's that way
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In testing, I found that the cornflower mix did not conceal the magnets effectively enough for the illusion to be maintained.

YMMV:)
Just search on google for "site:http://www.yoursite.com" and you can see the pages it has indexed.
> charges stores less than what Visa charges

Their flat rate of 2.75% is substantially more than what Visa charges for "card present" transactions. The highest cost cards are 2.4% but they're going to be a small portion of most stores' card mix. I'd think most shops cost Square 1.1-1.5% across all their transactions. Debit volume exceeds credit volume in the US -- most people are swiping their bank check cards, not commercial purchasing cards and the highest end reward cards that require pristine credit -- and the Durbin amendment capped the interchange fee on debit cards (when swiped a-la-Square Reader) at 0.05%+$0.21 per transaction. That means 2.75% is 98% profit for Square on a big debit card swipe.

https://usa.visa.com/dam/VCOM/download/merchants/Visa-USA-In...

The only place Square's subsidizing the transaction fees is on very small purchases where the flat ~$0.15 of the interchange fee amounts to more than 1-2% of the total transaction, and with AmEx where, if Square hasn't negotiated better than sticker rate, they could be paying 2.85-3.5% depending on business type.

If they're losing money on the one thing they charge money for, what's the business? And how are their competitors doing it? PayPal's historically offered merchants with volume as low as 1.9%. They offer 2.7% flat rate (no per-transaction flat fee either) for their swiper.
Also it's better for the back since there's nothing to lean back on
This would end badly - around this Thors hammer, it would rip them right out through the skin.
Sounds like Asmiov's "The Strips"
I've had to do the same thing for my iOS enterprise app. The issue is that you can't play audio if you're app is in the background and you haven't used your audio session in the past 1-2 minutes.

The workaround is to play a silent audio mp3 to prevent the app's audio session from being suspended.

The proper fix would be for apps to be allowed to start audio from the background
What happens if they go bankrupt? Will they sell off everyone's DNA and personal info like any other company?
Ah, excellent, thank you!
Gary Illyes @goog said this was happening Q1 this year, and like others mentioned lots of other direct/indirect signals have pointed this way.

http://searchengineland.com/google-may-discontinue-ajax-craw...
March 5th: Gary said you may see a blog post at the Google Webmaster Blog as soon as next week announcing the decommissioning of these guidelines.

Pure speculation but interesting... The timing may have something to do with Wix, a Google Domains partner, who is having difficulty with their customer sites being indexed. The support thread shows a lot of talk around "we are following Google's Ajax guidelines so this must be a problem with Google". John Mueller is active in that thread so it's not out of the realm of possibility someone was asked to make a stronger public statement.
http://searchengineland.com/google-working-on-fixing-problem...
The site is built on Tumblr which automatically generates a sitemap for the individual posts, but not any other pages on the site. For example the "about" page is not in the sitemap, but is still indexed.
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I wouldn't care if they looked like piles of garbage. If they're energy efficient and clean, build them. I mean, we literally build large piles of garbage all over the place. If one's biggest objection to wind power is that it is ugly, then I'd interpret that as no worthwhile complaint.
When people argue that R is terrific language, I remind them that it has 4 (four) objects systems which differ in subtle ways between each other. It's programmers' nightmare.

It's not the worst language in the world, but it isn't terrific language either.
I suspect the gameplay is something different. Square when IPO'd will be in position of strength to make some waves of disruption in the market. That in itself will set Square to be the King of payment systems.
With that tone you could at least link to the document you're referencing (not the same one that the above poster linked to):

http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1512673/0001193125153...

The table on page 176 is what I assume you're referring to.
You're right. Last time I tried it Amazon told me that this format wouldn't work with my bucket (because it was created after a certain date), but now it does (with a different hostname). Thanks!
In other words, a "microgame" (in the WarioWare sense) that you've polished the hell out of would get a better grade?
Microsoft Tech Support pretty much gave up and suggested I move Windows to a different partition. Googling up new error messages looks like the problem is because Windows is installed on a mirrored and the installer wants to control the hardware directly...instead of, you know, through a standard interface.

I guess it's the world's way of telling me not to use Windows.
I've frequently seen advice that equity offers dangled to prospective employees in a pre-public company should be valued at $0/share, because of the uncertainty of any opportunity to realize any value from them, the possibility of dilution before the company becomes public, etc.

If that advice is followed, it sort of naturally follows that there is no real rational reason to be particularly aggressive during equity negotiations, and that trading equity for other compensation is a smart move.

> I know a guy that took a CTO role at a company post-YC acceptance but pre-demo day for ~5%. I can't imagine what the rest of the crew is getting. Why even join a startup at that point?

Because the immediate pay and benefits, rather than the speculative equity gamble, is good, and because the work is what you want to be working on. And maybe you like the people/culture, too.
No, that has to be their cut. If they're taking 3% then it's absolutely conceivable that they are processing $23 Billion. Visa and MasterCard process multiple trillions of dollars a year.
Thanks for hearing me out. Be well.
So they're using headless browsers. Why can't anyone do that?
Slightly off-topic: whenever that kind of argument comes up, I think of Rietveld's "sitting is something you do" (1) reply when people complained that sitting wasn't comfortable on chairs of his design (most famous example: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_and_Blue_Chair)

Sit on such a chair, and I bet you will take more breaks than when using a standing desk.

(1) the literal translation would be "to sit is a verb", with word play on "verb" = "working word", but that is hard to translate.
Why not? I have hip flexor problems and knee problems. I used to have a standing desk at work. Being able to constantly shift and go from sitting to standing was really good for me. The small movement prevented my muscles from getting too cold.

It was also great for my posture.

But then again, I didn't switch to a standing desk to decrease my mortality rate.
If you've ever created a user interface in HTML, you've used something that does not have the concept of user controls. Let's say that I want to make a numeric entry user control for entering numbers on a touch screen. This control will be made up of a collection of built-in UI controls that will work together to do what I need: let's say a text field, a couple of up and down buttons, an always-visible keypad, and a little slider that lets us move between min and max.

In most HTML-based systems, it's not a built-in or natural thing to have such a self-contained "User Control" that I can just plop in to my user interface in 25 different places and have it manage itself, and the interaction between its own sub-components. Django, for example, completely lacks such a concept (although TurboGears does have it). This is a first class concept in classic Windows programming, and also in Flux-- although it's missing from most web-based systems.
> EDIT: Also, "Why does this shopping website require me to re-input the shipping address every time I want to buy something? Why can't it remember it like every website used to?"

The option to not have my mailing address stored is a feature not a bug to me (and I guess other people that move regularly).

EDIT indeed many smaller shopping websites in the UK don't even attempt to store this sort of data -- presumably because they don't think that they can definitely comply with data protection laws.
This could be the IPO that ends the party.

What is your rationale?
Quick link to Square's full S-1 filing: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1512673/000119312515...
Those are different classes of "mass killings", Wikipedians aren't going to collect all the cases of where 4 or more people were killed, and my postings were not intended to discuss scale, just to refute the lie that this is a uniquely American phenomenon with 2000-~2012 examples.

Which is not quite what you claimed, you said "overwhelmingly", and that's sufficiently vague I suspect it's a debatable point. Paywall stops me from the WSJ article, but I know that people who study this sort of thing that I trust have said at minimum the FBI's recent study was bunk, and that's enough for me on this topic.
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In Ashlee Vance's "Elon Musk" book, Elon discusses this very issue with Square drawing on his own experiences with PayPal. Elon states that the notion of controlling both sides of the transaction, or better put, how to avoid the end user from withdrawing from their digital bank account is what he criticizes most about Square. He believes that, like PayPal, they have to create new ways for users to be able to utilize the money Square is holding onto for them by either creating businesses around say a Square-owned debit cards (ala PayPal debit card), extending the payment capabilities to partners, and essentially, just finding ways to keep the transactions within their network is what is going to practically eliminate most of their costs.
Use Ghostery, NoScript, or uBlock to disable Javascript/downloading certain files. Then add a rule for "*.css" to block any CSS being applied.

Optionally, without using any addons, disable Javascript under your Firefox settings. Then press press Alt to bring up your Menu Bar and under "View" go to "Page Style" and select "No Style". (Or "LeftAlt, Shift+V, Shift+Y, Shift+N")

You may be interested in Readability: https://www.readability.com/addons
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Could you give a couple of examples, where R is substantially superior to Python?
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November 2016: Square files for Bankruptcy. Do the simple math, they lose money year after year in bigger amounts.

This will buy Square some time while it shops around for a buyer but that's assuming the capital market is still liquid and happy and there's no market downturn.
Problem is not all photos (profile photos especially) are close-ups of a person's face. Although they could use facial tagging and maybe come up with a composite? I'm probably wrong though.
The saddest part of that story is that there was a directly comparable bridge just a few miles away. That entire bridge cost $170 million, about 30 years previously. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn_L._Jackson_Memorial_Brid...
Are you sure this is accurate? Blacks account for over 50% of homicides despite being 14% of the population: http://i.imgur.com/tOTcCRH.jpg I'm not saying "all blacks commit crime", but statistically it seems that black crime is disproportionate for their numbers.
Yeah 6'4" and muscular and I can't find anything that fits as far as my body is concerned. They think all people with broad shoulders are fat.
> Companies like FireEye are in the red but have multiplied in market cap since going public.

FireEye debuted at $20. It hit a peak of ~$85 shortly after the IPO. Its closing price today is $28.76.

As of September, 40% of the companies that went public in the past year with market caps above $1 billion were below their offering prices[1]. The market for IPOs has become even tougher since September. Just look at Pure Storage[2] and CytomX[3].

In my opinion Square is getting out to market while they can.

[1] http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-09-14/many-of-th...

[2] http://www.wsj.com/articles/pure-storage-trades-below-ipo-pr...

[3] http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/blog/biotech/2015/10...
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Tell them what you want and stick to it. If they offer less, say no.

Worked for me, anyway.
A few years ago, I was in NY for a conference in Manhattan but had switched to a hotel in Jersey for a few days to see a friend. Once I switched back to Times Square, as I was getting dressed for a Broadway show it hit me: I had left all of my dress shirts in the Jersey hotel.
Long story short, I request an uber in the middle of NY rush hour saying that I was at the Jersey hotel. After a minute, I called the driver and explained the situation. He was happy to help and the hotel front desk had the shirts waiting when he arrived. He took them to the resteraunt that I was eating at on Broadway and much to my shock, the hour long process had only cost me $21.
Needless to say I tipped the driver with cash.
I remember thinking: This is going to be a thing VERY soon.
Thanks for the advice I never thought to check out of country.
I love how much work and effort goes into misleading investors while trying to avoid SEC's big raging boner.
There's a lot of standards out there. Open is better than closed, and standard is better than ad hoc, yes...but that doesn't mean XMPP is automatically the best solution.

I'd honestly be more interested in seeing Mattermost try and write a really solid solution, and then work to standardise their protocol.
Are we taking into account the cold reserves which are melting on the poles now? Temperature won't rise too high until polar caps are melting - they serve as a buffer...

Sunshades is a good idea. Another one is to actively reduce CO2 content in air - of course, after reducing emissions in the first place.

http://www.azimuthproject.org/azimuth/show/HomePage
For those of us who got on board before the fda acted, we still get access to all that information.
And op is right, it isn't overly useful.

I know for example that I am not a carrier of cystic fibrosis, and that I have one copy of ApoE4.

But I could have worked that out with a high degree of certainty anyway - I have a first degree relative that died of Alzheimer's and no family history of CF.

It remains to be seen that the information they provide is anything more than a curiosity. In fact, it could be dangerous for the uninformed to receive this information: prominent on my 'health risks' page is that I have a 57% risk of cardiac disease, with a big red bar next to it representing that it will likely claim me one day.

What it fails to mention is that a white male has a high risk of cardiac disease anyway, and putting a giant red bar next to the words cardiac disease without this context is not likely to be confidence inspiring