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> Companies that, by and large, struggle to break even without telling a compelling story for how they'll monetize (let alone achieve or retain) that huge projected subscriber base.

The companies we're talking about in this discussion, late-stage (Series D and on) startups, already have a large and quickly growing user base. And, yes, most of them have real revenue.

There are, of course, some that don't. Take Snapchat for example. Is it really that difficult to see how Snapchat will monetize?

Everyone worried about whether or not Facebook would ever be able to monetize, but it brought in $4 Billion in revenue last quarter. Last quarter! Twitter isn't growing as quickly as some would like (only 4 million new users per quarter) and has its own share of problems, but it's still on track to bring in ~$2 Billion in revenue this year. It lowered revenue projections for the last quarter of 2015... to $650-710 million.

You mention Uber: Uber's gross revenue is expected to hit a run rate of about $10 billion by the end of next year. Even with Uber only taking 20% (=$2B of that), that's $2 billion in revenue. And they're still growing 300% year over year. That is a holy shit number.

So, yes, there is objectively a big difference between this time and last time.

Could those companies be overvalued? Certainly. Do they need to start bringing in more profit? Yes, but even the most bearish investors admit that takes a lot of time. There may even be a downturn in the market, but it is not going to be 2000 all over again, when every tech company with the exception of a couple vanishes overnight into thin air.
Naww man its perfect. That's a perfect scene in an almost perfect movie.
The latter has 30 days of canned goods food supply on the supermarket shelves; the former perhaps 3000 depending on how awful the plague is.
$5.45 million if you can hold out until 2016!
I think your theory and the one outlined in the original post are not mutually exclusive. There will be a culling of the chaff.
There are a few challenges here.

Unless you fundamentally alter the way trust funds shelter wealth and income across generations, then all raising the inheritance tax does is widen the gap between the 1% (who you will tax) and the .1% (who will remain out of reach and become relatively more entrenched).

Second is the fact that we live in a global economy now and taxes that are not applied globally will encourage human and capital flight. If, for example, you gutted trust funds or raised inheritance taxes to 75% in the US, you would likely find many wealthy families relocating (and expatriating if necessary) to more favorable jurisdictions. For a few generations now the US enjoyed unrivaled status as the best/safest/most desirable place in the world to live (for most people), but this is already lessening as the world becomes smaller and more connected. It's already much easier for me to imagine raising my kids in London or Singapore (especially if I'm worth tens of millions) than it was for my parents.

Personally I would be in favor of a globally applied inheritance tax set at a high level but the devil is in the details and I don't think we'll get there in our lifetimes.
Uh, no facebook, no thanks.

They don't seem to understand that their users want facebook to be a social network not a hub that controls their whole life.
This man interviewed himself 38 years in the future
I would even find this useful when writing python and defining nested dictionaries and lists.
>"While I generally agree with the attitude behind your comments, they do not agree with actual research practice."

I am well aware of this problem. I expect you will have no more success convincing these people that replication is necessary than you would convincing a fervent religious believer their deity does not exist.

These juvenile research practices really need to stop though. It is driving the most intelligent and competent potential contributors away from careers in these areas.
I'm not sure on the exact phrasing. It can either mention Plaid by name or some complementary descriptor about "banking level security". It just shouldn't say credentials aren't being stored when they are being stored by a partner.
That's a different situation.

Listen, its extremely clear: If you don't want to act like an adult and support the stuff you're charging money for, then don't charge money for it. Don't hide behind this bullshit of "it's a side project!" It's not. It becomes a real project the second you charge money for it.
How is that relevant? I mention a bad thing, you mention an even worse thing, case closed somehow?
This matches my own experience quite closely. Good list.

There is a lot of head scratching with XCode project configuration (for me at least). It's very unintuitive.

clang (though XCode) is much, much faster compiling my projects than cl.exe (through VS) even though I'm using precompiled headers in the Windows build and no PCH on the clang build. VS2015 is supposedly much faster but I still have a few compilation issues I need to work through before I can switch to it.

The debugging experience on Visual Studio is much more pleasant.
It means that the candidate who won was wearing a label that said "change". The label may be unrelated to the contents (or the policies) of the candidate - it may well be more marketing artifact than reality.
So, this is a silo'ed reimplementation of RSS feeds, but with push notifications and privacy problems?

I'm really starting to feel like I'm becoming a major pessimist about new product announcements these days.
The need for babel will (hopefully) go away in the future, though. So using ES6 features with Babel will end you up with a simpler project eventually, as opposed to writing ES5 with some libraries to do the same.
He's talking about net salary, not .net jobs.
Thanks for trying, but that's not democracy.

"You have to code, and then you have to get your changes distributed to more than half the world" fits no definition of democratic governance ever. The two are so far removed, I'm having trouble really understanding how you can conflate the two.

But I'll be charitable, and try and make sense of it, because you seem genuine (and genuinely confused).... I guess if you take a concept like "majority rules" and interpret it to its most shallow, then you can bend what you just described up there into a kind of democracy, but democracy isn't actually that shallow an idea.

It's about the distribution of political power to the people, not just "majority rules". That's why people get to vote on things that influence them, even where they're not subject-matter experts. Your typical bitcoin user is affected by Bitcoin design decisions, but has no say in them and no means to change them.

No, "just code it and get it adopted by 51% of the network" doesn't count. That's a far, far, far higher barrier to participation than a poll tax or a literacy test, and those have been dismissed long ago as crude methods of taking democratic power away from the people.
It doesn't seem like this chart takes inflation of the $ into account either, making it irrelevant over time. $1.25 was a lot more valuable even 30 years ago than it is today.
We don't, but a lot of people won't resist when one is being pushed on them. The facebook app just has to force enough "Install now!" Banners in their customers(/"products") daily view.
How is this any different than navigating to FOX or CNN's facebook page, liking it, and setting the notifications to "All Posts"?
No but an SMX is the GPU equivalent of a CPU core... And there are 24 of them in a GM200...
More accurately, it is a mobile app downturn.

My opinion:

* Downloading a new app has lost its novelty. It used to be "there's an app for that", now it is more "is it compelling enough to load an app to do that?"

* Mobile web is good and continuing to get better due to better phones, browsers, and web sites. This is making apps less necessary and thus less compelling.

Personally, I treat my phone like my house. I am vary particular about who I invite in.
ECM is still very much functional, fortunately, this seemed like some kind of a restructuring move.

Disclaimer: customer for many years
Sounds like a sadly universal experience. It's really unfortunate — Go is an interesting language, but the place they tell beginners to go to interact with the community is so utterly toxic to anyone who wants to ask any kind of question.
This is less a comment about this specific app and more a comment about notifications in general, but I have found that my day-to-day quality of life and mental state has improved tremendously by disabling all push notifications except for phone calls and text messages.

Each buzz on my wrist or ding in my earphones that someone had written on my wall, or mentioned me in a tweet (let alone the non-social notifications: that your farm is ready for new crops, that your fantasy football team just lost the lead; that your apps have been updated) took me out of whatever I was doing, forcing me to trade focus and clarity for a tiny, hollow reassurance that I was up to date.

Since disabling them, I've felt calmer in my work and personal life. I've been able to focus on both actual tasks and actual leisure much more easily, as opposed to dropping out of them to check on my phone every ten or so minutes (at which point I inevitably get sucked into a different app or timesink.)

Maybe I'm just weird; maybe it's just a placebo thing. I dunno.

There are a number of reasons why this app may be helpful for you. But I urge you to ask yourself before downloading it: how important is it to you to know when the newest Verge article comes out? Is it really worth your time and attention?
It does, in fact, take inflation into account. As well as purchasing power parity (PPP) across countries.
>>In general I've found the trope of "the rich don't pay taxes because of their fancy lawyers and accountants" generally turns out to be false.

It's not that they don't pay taxes at all, but they definitely pay less than they should. http://money.cnn.com/2013/03/04/news/economy/buffett-secreta...

There's no way you can believe otherwise, a millionaire can afford all kinds of financial experts to work 40hrs/week to move money all over the place to avoid taxes. It's unreasonable to think they don't (ab)use that ability.
It does make a lot of sense for notifications to be unbundled from social networks, individual apps, and the phone operating systems, but there really ought to be an open protocol for this stuff.
This is, no exaggeration, the saddest comment I've ever read on this site.
Not sure we are in disagreement. The cause is monetary policy. More money equals growth in the economy it also causes inflation, forcing people to protect their money by investing.

This was not mentioned in the article. The need to make more money is a symptom not the cause.
Please do not spread this false ideas. As other diseases toxoplamosis damage nerves in human foetus, either kills or make permanent damages in the nerves. But this is not the same as "converting adult people in remote-controlled robots", there is not a single proof of such evil plan, or that the parasite does this on purpose.
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> It's entirely plausible that some things are "kept safe" from the whims of the people.

In fact, that's the reason that the US is a republic, not a democracy - to keep things (somewhat) safe from the whims of the people, and yet to create a system where, if the people want it enough, they'll get it.

And yes, if the people want it enough, they will in fact get it in the US. It's just that the media amplifies screaming. Those who scream are much more often in the minority than the media makes them appear.
That analogy would make sense, except for the fact that rhinos are real and very intimidating. Shouldn't a rhino be a unicorn that has survived an IPO or something?
Buffet doesn't pay lower taxes because of fancy lawyers and accountants though. He pays lower taxes because capital gains are taxed at a lower rate than ordinary income.

We can certainly debate whether that is good policy or not, but it has absolutely nothing to do with any sort of fancy tricks.
TensorFlow is currently a single-server solution pthreads app.

But assuming you're serious and not dabbling, you can build a ~27 TFLOP server for <$7K in parts or buy it assembled for ~$9K.

http://exxactcorp.com/index.php/solution/solu_detail/225

Or if you just hate the thought of money burning a hole in your pocket, pay NVIDIA >$15K for the same thing with a pretty NVIDIA logo:

https://developer.nvidia.com/devbox

If you're dabbling, just go buy a $1000 TitanX and you're instantly a minor deep learning superpower.
It's also worth noting that obtaining Series A Funding[1] is more difficult than ever. The bubble is not with growth stage companies, it's with massive Unicorns that earn 0 dollars.

1. http://firstround.com/review/what-the-seed-funding-boom-mean...
> Professional game developers don't have any issues with walled gardens.

That's nonsense. Tell them that doing double work is a good thing (especially for the limited budget). No sane developer likes walled gardens and lock-in because it always translates in complications (not caused by real technical reasons), and doing the same work multiple times to address stupidity of vendors who push said lock-in.

> That is how the industry has survived

Saying that industry survives on lock-in is like saying that technology survives on the lack of progress. I.e. it's a completely backwards thinking.
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There is the (internet) story of an engineer that could only log in when he was sitting down. Standing up he could not login.

The problem was he had cleaned his keyboard a couple of days earlier and put some keys back wrong. When he was sitting down he logged in by touch typing. Standing up he looked at his keyboard when he typed.
It looks like one of the modes is mainly intended for fixing unmatched parens before switching into the other mode.
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I can appreciate that. Seems like a tough thing to keep on top of.
hahaha, really? I'm curious, is there any writings or media on this phenomenon? was it similar to the danish "Do it for mom" campaign (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B00grl3K01g)?
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> Amused that the first sentence is "Terminology is an occupational hazard of philanthropy", I think he meant "hard words are often used by people who give money away"

Or you could have read literally the next three sentences and learned what he actually meant.
Its weirder than you think. No banks have owned loans for a very long time. They're resold to various quasi government-ish organizations (think, like the IRS or the federal reserve, although not the IRS) in exchange for cash raised by selling mortgage backed security bonds. All kinds of random individual and orgs own those bonds. They pay off pretty well almost a sure thing when the first derivative of interest rates is negative, not so well at zero to positive.

Banks and mortgage brokers act as commissioned sales forces for the MBS bond market, basically.
Sorry, I had lost the context that it was a network firewall (not a host firewall), and missed the 'one step away' as well.
That's not a particularly meaningful number without knowing the total amount that was inherited.
Yes, I hope for npm3 too, but at the moment everyone in my team tells me it is far to slow to use it for anything :\
According to the view generally accepted in economics, more trade absolutely equates to more wealth.

"In every voluntary exchange we give up something we value less than what we receive... and so does the person we are trading with. Trade benefits both parties and this benefit is an increase in wealth for both."

http://www.fte.org/teacher-resources/lesson-plans/rslessons/...
Sorry I haven't followed the node community for a while. Are you referring to this: https://github.com/yortus/asyncawait?

Is this becoming popular / the new standard?
Your watch is wrong for 1438 out of 1440 minutes each day, or 99.86% of the time, assuming minute precision. I haven't made a very high percentage of bad calls yet, AFAIK. Clever one-liners that are barely relevant to the topic really don't add anything to the conversation.
One person's notifications are another's interruptions.
there is quite a bit of politically impolite theorizing on the internet these days about the rise of women in the academic and business contributing to the decline of marriage and rise in inequality (as a whole). i.e. women don't marry down, and men are falling further behind.
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Well, yes, but HN often links to blog posts and news articles about a court opinion rather than the opinion itself.

A summary (that links to the opinion) tends to be more useful to non-specialists than a document beginning with: "United States of America v. In the Matter of the Application of the United States, No. 3:2015mc00021 - Document 1 (N.D. Ill. 2015)"
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So, Pushbullet?
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Part of the problem is that Apple and Google will steal any successful idea and incorporate it into the OS. Categories that could be thriving competitive markets are subsumed and the category killed. Huge potential markets like notes, calendar, voice recording, video conferencing, fitness tracking, game leaderboard/achievements. Even little utilities like flashlight. Some categories are outright prohibited, like phone apps or app stores on iPhone.

Basically the game is rigged, apps are just a testing ground for ideas that Google and Apple can ripoff at their will. If you're extremely successful and lucky the best you can hope for is an acquihire. But usually they just steal the idea and kill the market.
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We are very experimental at the moment, but my startup[1] is doing something along those lines: we a trying to create a toolkit for building cooperative organizations.

[1]: https://infinite.ai
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My thoughts right now are: how will this reflect on Atlassian IPO?
When did "goer" become one of the 1000 most common words in English? Is this really within the self-defined limits?
Elm looks absolutely fascinating to me, but one of the things that strikes me is odd is the prevalence examples that eschew markup for the canvas. Not a bad thing per se, but definitely a departure from what most JS Frameworks and tool sets show off.
Wow, that seems a very bad case of 'their loss', and collectively 'our loss'.
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It says the destruction of collected info not pertaining to the target must occur within 48 hours but prior to this it says they frequently need to diff multiple sessions possibly at different locations to pinpoint the target and eliminate others.

Does this mean they cannot run sessions separated by > 48 hours, since no diff would be possible afterwards?
I love having the ATM around, in the train station, in the convenience store, etc.

But the entire bank attached to the ATM has almost no value. I think I've talked to a real live person in a bank like twice in the last three years.
IFTTT?
That's really great feedback - I will update our FAQ to clearly state where the data is going and some basic information on the security protocol.
We are "connected" enough - thank you.
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Has there been any research into generating a PRNG using a genetic algorithm whose fitness function is the Crush and Diehard test results?
The songwriter point is a strange one. I don't think its a feature or result of today's commercialism. For example, see Doc Pomus and Mort Shuman -- the "Every song you love was written by the same two guys" of the 1950s/1960s.
The "sagging interest rates" are a product of Fed monetary policy, and much of the fee-generating behavior you describe has been motivated in some part by the Fed's monetary policy too. But please don't let that stop you from blaming the banks.
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That is a valid choice. However, I think there is a difference between "that's not an option for me because of my preferences" and "that's not an option, period".
> Most programming languages have several syntax rules. Lisp has one: everything is a list.

Oh, not again.

The author is confusing s-expression syntax with Lisp syntax. Even s-expressions are more than lists (conses, cyclic conses, symbols, vectors, strings, various numbers, structures, ...) and the s-expression reader knows about more than pure s-expressions - for example comments.

Not every s-expression is a valid Lisp expression. For example (let "let") is not a valid Common Lisp expression. The syntax for LET is:

let ({var | (var [init-form])}*) declaration* form* => result*

This is also using the syntax definition for 'declaration' and 'form'.

Lisp has built-in syntax (provided by special operators in Common Lisp) and arbitrary complex syntax provided by macros.

This is valid for other languages with a notation based on s-expressions, like Scheme or Clojure.
In the former case, you have a few people and (relatively) a lot of resources. In the latter, you have a lot of people and nowhere near enough resources. That's going to lead to more desperate violence, by many orders of magnitude.
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Back on track BEFORE its IPO. Which it didn't. And now it's employees' ISOs will get diluted. Let's just say I'm glad I didn't join when their strike price was crazy high in the last few years.
The things that mattered to me were, in Obama's favor: taking a stab at reforming our nation's ultra-shitty health care and winding down the two big disastrous middle east wars (Iraq and Afghanistan). Check and check.

What mattered to me, in opposition of the other guy: Mccain joked about bombing Iran and inflicted Palin on us. (There was probably more at the time, but that was 7 years ago!) Romney actually never seemed like a terrible candidate or politician to me, and in another time I don't think we'd have been so bad off under a Romney presidency, but I still think we were better off for voting in Obama
for a second term.

I'm sure there were a lot of campaign promises I wasn't really paying attention to, and that stuff obviously wouldn't matter to me now.

I also think a lot more can be done at the local level, and to a lesser extent, the state level, in terms of dealing with policies that actually matter in our lives.

For all the talk about federal government intrusion in our day-to-day, I think it's probably 99% bullshit.
In the Parinfer introduction, 'C Style indentation' is mentioned.

What I can't understand is why 'C Style indentation' isn't the default convention, at least in modern user-friendly Lisps. One of the biggest problems people have with Lisp is the readability of grouped parentheses, but the C Style indentation example shows you can write Lisp without them.

I get that it's nice when programs fit in less lines of code, but isn't readability more important than line count?
There is much more weird stuff in c++ than in any other language. Especially rust.

Add to that that you also have to deal with the Makefile/Cmake garbage. Another solved by rust (rust is shipped with cargo which release you of the makefile hell).
Ironically, the only good thing I see on this is the non-notification part. A (very Twitter-ish) succinct curated content filtering/aggregation app.
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He's most likely not. There are honestly people that believe this, rather than a more nuanced view.