skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1 An extended period of lost market share in their particular category

2. An extended period of financial losses or a pattern of annual losses

3. Serious management problems that raise questions about the business model or long-term strategy of the company

Gee, that sounds exactly what happened to the company I used to work for.

I'll add a couple more red flags to the 3 mentioned in the article:

4. As an engineer, you get calls from a supplier asking why accounts payable isn't returning their calls.

5. Poor employee benefits as the company can't afford to offer what is typically offered in the job market.

Additionally, they constantly tried to raise more capital with stock offerings to cover "general business expenses",
and merged with several other companies in similar condition to make a bigger steaming pile of high entropy /low energy content matter to offer the gullible investment community.

There are a lot of these companies out there. They should be culled as they are toxic to the economy. The problem is, you have C-level management and investment companies which specialize in dicing and slicing these troubled companies to present to investors, and that prolongs the pain to customers, investors, and employees.
It's always hilarious when people get offended on behalf of someone else. Particularly when the someone else is theoretical.
Ad dollars were the wrong choice of words, its more gaining mind share and users.

So do you really believe FB did it for the good of the people and that this free basics thing is good? What do you think a poor guy without access to proper resources like food, education will gain by sharing likes on FB?
You should have a look at this if you are jumping to conclusions about the way the word "gay" is used (actually watch the video its more informative).

http://www.theguardian.com/education/2015/dec/21/the-gay-wor...
indoctrination
> Also, you can't "zopfli" something - it's a noun!

They should have googled it.
How many people do you know that have ever purchased anything from a Facebook ad or clicked on one other than by accident?

Ads are increasingly about product placement, brand presence and being top of mind. Especially when you can be sure that 80% of your clickthroughs on Facebook are from some bot network that Facebook doesn't bother to crack down on because it adds to their userbase metric, which is what the derive such a high valuation from. [1]

I'm sure coke, nestle, and other branded basic commodities (food, drink, clothing) would love a way to show ads to this low-income segment.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVfHeWTKjag
IMHO, stating '"manned up" is stupid shit' is at least as stupid as saying 'manned up,' but probably more so: where the latter is just a bit juvenile, and can be used deliberately for effect, the latter is just childish. It shouldn't be taken any more seriously than emanations of 'Timmy is looking at me!' from the back seat.
Your comment aggressively misses my point.

In a broad, idealistic sense, yes, I would like each person in the economy producing at maximum. (Assuming we could agree on an ideal value metric, which I'm not sure we can.) There we agree.

But if I am narrowly self-interested (which many humans are), and if I value positional success over absolute wealth (which many do), then I am better off participating in a system of oppression where the value of other people's production is diverted into my pockets. Which is why the great bulk of human history takes place in those sorts of conditions.

> My maternal grandmother raised 9 kids during the Depression without the assistance of any men after divorcing her husband. She worked very hard; so did the kids.

Good for her, and I mean that sincerely. But it's not proof of anything. The question to ask isn't, "Can you name an outlier?" Instead try asking, "What was the average condition of women during the Depression." Or, "Would your family have been better off if women's labor hadn't been systematically devalued for centuries?"
This is a simple UNIX pipeline, not multi-hundred line spaghetti of korn, c, bash or even zsh shell scripts.

No builtins were used in the example, just core utilities deployed the way they were designed.

Rewriting the wheel is completely bogus, doubly so when you ultimately make calls to those utilities, as is common when 'admins-cum-programmers' start getting their hands dirty with Python.
Watch for — yes. But this often leads to prejudice instead.
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Truly terrifying.
Idle observation, The blog shows what simple, text, and minimal graphics / pics ( In this case there are Zero ) can load incredibly fast...
I'm going to offer a different take on your problem than the traditional response from this community, which is, "It doesn't matter, it's about execution." This is a perfectly valid answer, but there's another valid answer as well, and I thought I'd throw it out there in the interest of completeness and in case you're interested in it as a viable alternative.

Original and good ideas come from becoming an expert in something or by learning about something that is on the bleeding edge. By definition lots of people are coming up with SaaS solutions for AWS, etc, because it is absolutely not bleeding edge anymore. Let me be clear, this doesn't mean you have to be a technical wizard (though sometimes it does). Uber sounds like an obvious idea now, requiring little technical wizardry (at least to get the idea going). However, in 2009 it was probably only obvious to the few people who were at the intersection of understanding the just-launched App Store and what technologies were going to be ubiquitous in smart phones (and that smart phones would become ubiquitous).

Other ideas do require a good deal of technical wizardry to be on the forefront of. Wrapping containers in an easily understandable cli and making them mutable through a secure daemon API required a lot of technical acumen to accomplish. Thus we have Docker.

Notice that the more technically challenging project in my examples (probably) resulted in less financial reward for its creator(s). However I'd guess the creators of Docker enjoyed building what they built and are doing fine, financially speaking.

Go out and play with something that interests you and see what comes of it. If you stick to it you'll have fun and probably make money along the way. Maybe you'll become a billionaire (though, it often seems, to me, to be more trouble than it's worth) or maybe you'll just be able to sustain yourself doing something that you love.
idk a/b the whole issue. didn't read the medium post.

when PG referred to a quote by Stieglitz as "pie in the sky" thinking, tho, I thought, "maybe out of his depth"
You mean SUSE?
"Either more money, fewer hours for the same money, or some balance between the two."

You're probably right that this probably how most people are motivated. I think the OP is talking about high-performing people at technology companies, who aren't mostly motivated by short-term pay rate or leisure time. They tend to be the best people precisely because they have more drive to succeed in the long-term than collect the best near-term paycheck or maximize leisure time. The best people in these companies could make more money for less work right now-- if they wanted to.

I'm not actually saying that's always (or even usually) a good thing-- the most common deathbed regret is working too much.
1000m waves doesn't really sound believable.
I wrote some 6502 protection code for Atari game cartridges. The problem was that a cartridge could be copied (trivially), then loaded into RAM at the same address, then run. There were many disks running around with cracks of cartridges that you could just load and run. The goal of the protection code was to detect whether the code was running in RAM or ROM, usually by hiding writes that would cause crashes or be detected by the game logic.

Once I had about two weeks to spare on a protection system; it used a couple levels of decryption and some delaying tactics so that the title would crash minutes after starting.

A prolific Atari pirate lived in my apartment complex. After the cartridge shipped, I asked him about it. "Oh, that was a hard one. It took me and my friends three days to crack."

Time and numbers are not on the side of DRM. (I'm also unconvinced that Atari lost much money to copying).
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They already served the time but there was an issue with the sentencing from the first trial and they have to serve the remaining time.

Source: http://www.vox.com/2016/1/3/10703712/oregon-militia-standoff

> The Hammonds were convicted of arson in 2012 for setting fire to public land adjacent to their ranch land. They have already served prison sentences for their crimes, but they now must return for an additional term after federal appellate judges said they had been illegally sentenced the first time.
No real logic. All politics. The BBC is publicly funded and an enormous success, which is an embarrassment to those singing from the free market hymn sheet. But also, it's obviously a direct competitor to other media companies in the UK, who are very politically powerful (Murdoch, for example).

Same goes for our national health service, which is currently being gutted for the same reasons.
Taking what the parent comment said and what you've said, I can see both points.

In defense of the parent, anyone that practices a trade (singer, actor, artist, programmer, developer, engineer) typically doesn't identify themselves as one of the aforementioned titles unless they get paid to do so. Now, mind you, that doesn't mean in the most traditional sense that lack of monetary reward/success doesn't disqualify their skill but, in this world, it certainly validates ones work/interest.

To make my point, society typically doesn't label someone that can sing a 'singer' unless that is their profession and they get paid for it. Even though I script and do 'some' programming, I wouldn't dare call myself a programmer.

I believe that one shouldn't get too hung on titles. For me, at least, I find a sole definition limiting because there isn't a single title that describes everything that I'm good at, however, there is a single title that describes what I'm good enough to get paid for.
This is barely literate invective. It does not belong here. That it's generating enough upvotes to get to the front page of HN is a symptom of increasing politicization that's really degrading the quality of submissions.
When I was fresh with Gluster, I was blindly following tutorials for how to fix a split-brain. Backstory: I inherited this, so I had to fix it as quickly as possible.

Basically, you can mount individual bricks in /tmp and run a 'forcefully fix this split brain.'

I left this running to let things get happy overnight in a screen. The following morning every single file was gone.

I had left a tmpwatch on /tmp to remove all files in /tmp after a certain point in time. We had a backup, but it was a few days old. That was a fun weekend.

It is the worst feeling in the world, and one that I'll never make again... at least like that.
One could argue that kids and teenagers use these apps to learn promoting oneself successfully. This is a useful skill to have.
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To be absolutely clear, the family members who has to go back to jail are saying they have nothing to do with what the militia is doing and that the militia is serving their own needs.

According to Vox, the militia has a history of doing this around the country and they're not even from the same state that this case is in.
> lambdas are just syntactic sugar at client side

No they are not, as they make use of invokedynamic. Certified JVMs must make use of the opcode and not generate anonymous nested classes, as many think they translate to.
Obviously facebook is motivated by ad dollars, but people get some benefit out of it. Maybe that poor guy will see some image that makes him laugh.
Yes! Much of an improvement, definitely. Especially since it approaches maturity now.

It's going to take a while until it gains wider acceptance as a production language in commercial projects though.
"Increase the array sizes by at least a factor of 100 to get anything meaningful."

Ok, let's do that and see what happens:

python -m timeit -s 'import numpy; data = numpy.arange(10000000).reshape((1000, 10000))' 'means = numpy.mean(data, axis=0)'

D code

import std.range : iota;
import std.array : array;
import std.algorithm;
import std.experimental.ndslice;
import std.datetime;
import std.conv : to;
import std.stdio;

enum testCount = 10_000;

void f0() {
auto means = 10_000_000.iota
.sliced(1000, 10000)
.transposed
.map!(r => sum(r) / r.length)
.array;
}

void main() {
auto r = benchmark!(f0)(testCount);
auto f0Result = to!Duration(r[0] / testCount);
f0Result.writeln;
}

Results

Python: 14.1 msec
D: 39 μs
D is 361.5x faster
Most of the people who will actually end up using the service will be middle class people who can afford to pay for the internet and have been doing so but want to take it for a spin and see how it feels.

The poorest who can't afford the internet don't even have the devices capable of displaying the modern web pages properly. The cost of internet comes secondary to the cost of the hardware necessary to access it.
I'd expect it's easier for BBC, since English content is probably easier to sell around due to the larger number of English speaking countries. Quite a many audiences aren't comfortable with subtitles, so dubbing is suddenly required for content originating from smaller language areas.
If it were for rational people, we wouldn't have spring beans application around. World isn't built on technical excellence.
It'd be kinda cool if there were a filesystem which were the unholy offspring of venti and git (with garbage collection) and the ability to roll back to any non-GCed point in time. Of course that'd only get one so far, and eventually one would still need backups. But it sure would be convenient.
My DIY multi-room music system
> You are free not to use it if you want.

This argument can lead to a lot of unpleasant places. It's the regulators job to decide what offers are coercive to the poor, and make it illegal to offer them.

It's generally illegal to offer to buy an organ, buy sex, or buy someone in to slavery because the only people that would consider that offer are being coerced by their circumstances. I think that the same (obviously to a lesser degree) is true of facebook's offer here (but not of netzero's offer). They are not free to choose, they are coerced by circumstance.
The Art of Unix Programming (2003)
I believe those are the direct rottentomatoes.com "User" scores. So aggregated from a large population of users for rottentomatoes.com; I would consider that to be a pretty good representation of the average American population who uses the internet.
There's nothing wrong with only having 1 or 2 close friends.
Wow. I was not impressed by PGs essay. He had some points, but seemed to be looking at the issue from a very narrow point of view. I gave it a 'C.' I would love to see a high quality criticism. But this? I don't know if this has any points; I couldn't get more than a few paragraphs in. As another comment put it, "barely literate invective."
I don't really want to search for a reference, but one other person posted with the same interpretation and this one got upvoted, which suggests at least some other people understood it the same way.
Is it possible that the author's use of "manned up" concerns growth and ascension, i.e. boy -> man? There is nothing wrong with being a man, some boys in this society should try it some time.

Example, from my father when I was a boy: "Son, sometimes you'll be in situations where you just need to man up and go through it alone. I won't be there, your Mother won't be there. It will be just you and any wisdom you may have."
It should however also be noted that the people who rate stuff on IMDB or Rotten Tomatoes (namely, people who go on the Internet to look at movie reviews, discuss, rate etc.) are also probably most of the target audience for streaming services in general. While "Big TV" also caters for the older demographic, people who like reality tv (yes, apparently they do exist, I don't know...) etc., which still make up probably the majority of the viewers. Things will most likely change in the next decades, when the older viewers die out and a whole generation expects streaming and on demand and maybe even expect "stuff that is not shit" on TV - though I won't hold my breath for the latter.
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> is a symptom of increasing politicization that's really degrading the quality of submissions

Yes, how strange it is that when PG posts a particularly inflammatory piece about income inequality people might want to respond to it.
I've actually been thinking of using a CRM to manage my personal relationships........
I don't think access to cat pictures justifies shitting all over a country's chances of building out proper infrastructure just to provide a profitable but censored service we'd never accept ourselves.

Net neutrality was the last bastion of freedom online, but it's somehow too high of a standard for societies with lower rates of internet access?
>The statement even admits to collecting data for other purposes in the negative - otherwise the would simply say they "scan ... collect or use" the data at all.

OTOH, this is obvious. If you drop an analytics tag on GAFW or you track data for purpose of bug collection, or you are even keeping server access logs, then you are de facto collecting data.
Very interesting article. I mostly agree with the idea of social fragmentation. I think it is no coincidence that we like to call ourselves "individuals". Maybe the thought reflects our current zeitgeist but it seems almost natural (nowadays) for humans to emphasize our differences / our individualism. However, it seems very interesting, that as much as we like to differentiate ourselves we also tend to some kind of collectivism (e.g. trending sports, technology (iPhone/Android), etc.), even working for the same corporations (Google/Facebook/Apple...) which also appears contrary to the article. It may be true that the speed of change is accelerating but I can't agree with the idea that we already reached a fully fragmented society (yet) which is here to stay.

Another interesting part was the analogy to Ford's vertical integration. The trend definitely went from fully integrated mega corps to fragmented networks of corporations. The car industry is a perfect example. It would be exciting to know if PG thought about Tesla/SpaceX and it's current move towards a higher level of integration (producing more and more parts by themselves) in order to control the quality of their products. It may be sign that we are on the edge or maximum of fragmentation and there are trends emerging which pull us back into consolidation (maybe in another form than it used to).
Another somewhat infuriating problem related to this is with subtitles, for certain shows. I believe this is due to licensing, and if it is, it's a really prime example of licensing rules having absurd consequences.

In another region, the shows in the language of the region where you pay come with subtitles in the region's native language(s) that can't be turned off in a pleasant way through the UI. It can be done via a hack where you can provide the player with your own custom, empty, subtitles file, but this has to be reloaded for each new episode / movie that you play. It took me a good while to figure out how to do this via forums, it's certainly not something Netflix suggest or encourage, or even seemingly acknowledge, in their help sections.

A related problem is that for shows not in the language of the region where you pay, there aren't any subtitles in your language, even though back in the region where you pay, that same show is available, of course with subtitles in your language.

I don't know if it's Netflix themselves, or draconian licensing conditions that lead to this absurdity, but I suspect the latter as with Netflix's own shows, the problem doesn't exist. It basically boils down to this: because I'm in a non-English region, I can watch a show in English but I'm not allowed to just understand it - I must watch it with subtitles! If it's a non-English show, I can watch it but I am not allowed to have help understanding it with English subtitles, even though they're obviously and trivially available. What is the point of these rules?
It's amazing how one man's "pig" can be a ton of other people's "best IDE that there is".

At least in the case of Visual Studio...I don't hear quite as many people naming IntelliJ as "the best". Not even close.
I completely agree. In civil suits it may make sense, but when someone brings up a possible violation of federal law by another party, they shouldn't have to be harmed directly, they're helping prevent their fellow citizens from being harmed by someone or something breaking established law.

It's really sad.
Duff's device can be used as a test of familiarity with good old unstructured way of procedural programming. If you find it weird, you don't get it. More practice needed.
The article paints a very harsh criticism of the current US "established experts" on Russia. I wonder why such an important designation is being appropriated by these "fools".
I'm not claiming it's the correct interpretation, and honestly my googling is coming up short because of the vast usages of that phrase on urban dictionary, but honest to god I had never heard a misogynistic interpretation of it before this thread. I never use the phrase in real life because it sounds vulgar, but it's surprising.

If my interpretation was correct, I wonder if it's sort of a 'niggardly' situation, where people stop using a word because it sounds similar to something vulgar.
Why I Stopped Using Evernote (2014)
Kokonsa.com – My Girlfriend's Vagina Is Too Big for My
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It's not a super-active project these days, but I'd also mention OpenJazz: http://www.alister.eu/jazz/oj/

I did a homebrew formula for it a while back, though there's a more complete one now in homebrew/games:

https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-games/blob/master/openj...
Doubt it. Money is a bigger motivator to corporations than moral outrage.
Silicon Valley’s cultists want to turn you into a disruptive deviant
Useful Things I Learned from Having My Genome Tested (2014)
IntelliJ includes it's own Java - so it doesn't expect anything special.
Big Pimping (2010)
Comparing the Upgrade Process of Dart and TypeScript Apps to Angular 2
The biggest thing I like about intellij over eclipse is that it uses the java and maven versions I want it to, instead of ecj and a bundled maven. This probably doesn't affect many, but was constantly a problem on some weird legacy projects I worked on. I agree that the other differences are largely superficial. (I've yet to pay for intellij)
What was said applies to the labelers, not the labeled.