skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Often people behave differently when things are going well, than when things start to fail. For example, when the runway (amount of time left before the available funding dries up and the company goes of business) starts to get on the short-side, the stress level is likely to increase.

People don't always have a realistic view of what they are heading into (and this includes ourselves).

As with most anything worthwhile, the inspiring challenge for today will likely have some periods of the "daily grind". Be realistic with yourself - are you willing to stick through some of these times, or are you likely to jump ship at the first sign of difficulty? There is a balance to strike between perseverance and knowing when it is time to leave. This can be tricky.

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Revcontent, native advertising network, purchases ContentClick
Microsoft continues to shit the bed with naming in their next .NET release
Technically we don't know until the SEC filing. This is why IPOs become down rounds.

Sometimes a public ally traded institutional investor can shed light on a private companies value based on required public disclosures.
And if you read the official history of MI5 the one time an ex police man was put in charge didn't go well - and that's the official history which is going to be circumspect.

The FBI should have been reorganised along with the secret service and BATF after hoover died into two organisations one doing MI5 s role and one as a federal police force.
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I would think it's ridiculous to expect a thread to be able to grab 100% of the GPU, personally. If a game isn't fullscreen, I'm not prioritizing its framerate; it should (be forced to) play nice with my desktop.
My cofounder and I are Stanford alums and our team has previously built several apps that were featured by Apple.

I'm excited to be revealing Funder. We describe it as "Startups are silly. Let's make fun of them." and I think you'll love it.

Funder is the first app from Lemonade.io, a team on a mission to measure and improve creativity. By playing this game, you are contributing to the world’s largest research dataset for creativity assessment and education.
SF Affordable Housing Advocates Rally to Block Affordable Housing Measure
57 points, but no comments?
Windows Mobile was completely open too. There were several independent stores out there you could buy from.
California state wants to ban sale of encrypted smartphones |
Oh, good grief. That brings back terrible memories of infinitely nested tables and transparent PNGs. And the font tags. The font tags.
I think so. With amazon buying Twitch for 1B a few years ago, I think the competitive gaming industry (which Twitch primarily caters to) is well into it's rising phase.

A major gaming peripheral company reached out to me about Game:ref (they wanted to make sure the anti-cheat hardware is compatible with their mice) and a major game developer also reached out (asking about how the hardware would theoretically integrate with their games). Unfortunately, apart from courtesy calls, however, I haven't been able to really get to the next level.
There is a third way which is put the company into hibernation. I was faced with this with my startup a bit more than 10 years ago now. I ran out of runway so I laid everyone off, paid the bills, and got a job. I then bought out everyone else, worked part time on the business and built it back up over then next few years to the point where I could return full time. I could have started a new business, but I believed that there was a lot of value in the old business [1] which proved to be correct.

1. Some caveats here. Firstly, I did not have many people to buy out and they were willing to sell at a reasonable price. Secondly, my business is in biotech/bioinformatics and we had put a lot of resources into R&D. This R&D had real value that could be used to bring the business back to life.
And the nasty part of this trap? If someone does start mimicking you, but with a clean new UI, and your market share starts to slip, so you say "fuck it, I'm gonna do it that way too", then you will force your users to make a choice.

Stay, and have to relearn the whole website, or leave, and have to relearn the whole website.

I feel like one thing I've learned the hard way is there is such a thing as getting successful too soon. Once people start voting with their feet or wallets on your solution, you're stuck with it. "We'll fix it later"? "Later" is gone, kids. There is no "later" anymore, we have what we have. If you don't like it it's time to start on a new project.
Quantify "git doesn't handle large repos". Large in discrete size or file count?
I'm always reminded of this clip from "Silicon Valley" [1] when this comes up.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OH9CXhWV6zE
And still does daily. Try having multiple email accounts and trying to use the GoogleDrive Web UI from more than one at once ... not bad for a ~$400+ BN company !
That is true, but with the caveat that there are often terms to what investors pay. If I invest $1,000 for 0.000000000001% of your company, but with a requirement that I am repaid $2,000 in the event of a liquidity event (plus some participation), it's not really much of a risk for me: I'm "guaranteed" a 100% return. The valuation is somewhat meaningless in this situation, except maybe in terms of marketing.
While everything you've said is technically true, straight out of the textbook, I don't really see how it contradicts what he says.

These high-capacity models (neural nets, decision trees, boosting) do overfit like crazy and tend to be used as black boxes without any domain knowledge. The key in his statement is when he says "given enough data," because having tons of data is one of the best ways to combat overfitting (given enough data, variance is negligible). And the fact that we can measure how much they overfit and take steps to regularize doesn't change the fact that, for example, deep learning is really way more of an engineering discipline than a mathematical or statistical discipline. And these are not criticisms of those areas at all: those are exciting areas of research precisely because there are so many unsolved problems and areas where we are working without a solid understanding!
The VGA/HDMI converters ($10/$15) cost more than the computer. (!)
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Serverless Framework V0.1.3 – Reusable Project Templates Reduce Config
Great analysis. I would add another chart -- likelihood of more investment / buyout -- both decrease as you get closer to zero runway.
> How similar/different is the OffscreenCanvas proposed spec from the CanvasProxy proposed spec? I thought there were going to be synchronization nightmares to CanvasProxy and that is why browser vendors avoided implementing it.

I don't know enough about our graphics stack, or the CanvasProxy spec to answer that. I just try to show why people should be excited about the hard work done by Mozilla employees, contributors, and volunteers.

Also, specs are not laws until they're candidate recommendations, and a lot will never be implemented. I should do a "how a bill becomes a law" post about web standards bodies...

> Is the DOM canvas neutered after calling transferControlToOffscreen? Meaning, can you get a context and draw to the canvas concurrent with the Web Worker, or is the DOM Canvas inaccessible after control is transferred?

Open your dev tools and find out. Fewer chars than your question typed out:

a = document.createElement('canvas'), a.transferControlToOffscreen(), a.getContext('webgl')

// null

> Thanks AGAIN, Mozilla!!

We've got your back, son.
7 reasons the tech sector should be scared
QNX is not a unikernel, it's a microkernel. Unikernels do not have an abstraction for unprivileged, memory-isolated and independent processes. The application is by definition in the kernel.
Heh, awesome to see people have already been talking about it!
There is quite a bit of IP law handled in Texas thanks to patent trolls in East Texas. So I can see there being some interest in getting it covered. MA? Maybe it is interesting from a historical perspective since it is one of the older areas of the US.
Lol I like that!
Hey! I just tweeted you. I had a meeting with a really big potential customer and had to run. Hope you understand. Anyways, if you're interested, check your tweets from @PimDeWitte :-)
Well, frankly that was the question hah. Ok, I realize it’s too industry-specific.

Let me ask you more practical question then:

It is time for us to fundraise – our team of 3 is running out of cash to finance full-time involvement. This investment round should include marketing expenses as well.

We can measure our viral growth, but our core monetization is to be commissions on the influencer ads sales. It is quite deferred – more like the 2nd product phase – the shoutouts for shoutouts will be accompanied by shoutouts for cash over time. So at this point I can't really make any judgement re marketing spend vs. ARPU / MRPU etc. – the nature of our influencers is pretty different from the other companies in the industry because, as I said, we cover lower segments of influencers. ...and it is awesome, because it's the hardest market segment to cover, it's the major part of the market and at the same time it has the highest level of credibility / engagement for advertising effect …but we have no time / resources to test it.

Moreover, we haven't tried any paid methods yet – so, we'll have to start trying different ones before we figure out what works best for our case.

Any ideas re how we justify our marketing budget for the investor?

For now, I am thinking to:
(1) take something like industry-average number for marketing spend – probably $7-14k per month (not sure how it'll work out but at least I have public reference to this number) and start trying out Instagram ads;
(2) get at least your respectful opinion and refer to it in talks, i.e. it is normal for such a first-in-its-kind venture like us not to know this stuff for sure – Aaron told me :))
It's not the same as using something like DTrace on a live system, but he's describing it as though eliminating the flexibility implies some sort of event horizon.

This also bothered me...

virtualizing at the hardware layer carries with it an inexorable performance tax

Hardware has been adding a lot of virtualization support over the last decade, and it's generally been a net performance gain as far as I'm aware. I could see things like IO scheduling potentially being an issue. Although, IO performance on top of operating systems in general does not particularly inspire confidence.
The Unicorn Economy
I can't really sympathize with startups affected by recent Fed movements. If you picked investors that actually care about a ~1% change in risk-free interest rates, well, I have a pull a Captain Hindsight here ...
Have to disagree. They're still preferred equity instruments with unique trigger provisions. Higher up in the capital structure but not debt; you can't credit bid using these instruments in a Chapter 11 scenario and they aren't afforded the same protections in bankruptcy court. What attracts investors to debt instruments are the interest payments. You'd prefer PIK (payment in kind) interest on debt as opposed to cash payments in a low interest rate environment but that doesn't translate to pref equity instruments.

The unique feature of debt vs equity is that debt has a concave investment profile; you know exactly what you should be getting upon maturity (principal + interest payments). Equity has a convex investment profile; you get the residual value after subtracting face value of debt from the enterprise value.
I very rarely see native English speakers use "he" as a gender neutral pronoun. It's usually plural they (when stating generalities) or singular they [0]. I find singular they much less ambiguous and sexist than "he" and you'll rarely find someone taking issue with its use, something that cannot be said about generic "he" as can be seen above.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular_they
I think this article is targeted at larger companies with employees, where you need to think a bit more carefully about how much cushion you need, and when is the "last minute" to pull the plug. Depends on the country, but in many, not paying employees salary/wages you owe them for work they've done is a bigger deal legally than going bankrupt with other kinds of debt is. So it's usually better to start laying people off before the very last minute, vs. holding out until you literally have no money left, at which point you just don't send out people's final paycheck. The 2nd approach can lead to a very messy bankruptcy, with lawsuits and government labor agencies involved.

As the article says,

> If you don't do this [i.e., lay off staff and shut down gracefully] and instead end up with zero cash and outstanding payroll, tax or other obligations, things will get Very Bad.
> The separation of different forms of content...

There's a point to be made about the separation of print and web, but you also should consider that text is much more easily saved than images/video/interactivity. The NY Times is a journalistic paper, and part of journalism is to create content that will be readable for generations later. If someone comes along 20 years from now and tries to read about an earthquake, are they going to be happier seeing a giant "video 404" or being able to read it?

> The font in their title...

While I doubt I'd launch a product with that font in my current design, there's not necessarily anything wrong with harkening back to a design scheme that over a century old. The NY Times logo and font associate journalism that's austere and unchanging, and for that I'd say they're serving their audience quite well.

>The discoverability of content...

I'm fairly certain you're not meant to complete the front page. It's not a bucket list of things you need to check off, it's to give you access to the news that's currently relevant. If you go to one of the subpages the content discoverability is much better.
Ohhh. Yeah, you only used it once. So using it twice is still open to experimentation. Hackers, have at it!
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It's not a contradiction.

Many dream jobs tend to lose their luster by the time you can actually get one. The entire blog post describes their disillusionment.

When I was a kid, I wanted to work at Epic because I imagined they'd just play Unreal all day. By the time I could write software, I'd ruled out the entire gaming industry as a place I wanted to be employed. If I got a job at Epic, it wouldn't be because of my childhood ideals, but it would still be my childhood dream job.
You'd be surprised how many people that are perfectly capable of running a business when things are going well and the company is expanding are totally clueless to running that very same company when it is contracting.

The best thing for someone in a situation like that who is unable to handle it is to pass the helm as soon as is feasible to someone who does because otherwise it will be 'game over' in short order.

So it is very well possible to run a successful business without being able to figure out how to reduce burn, the problem is that success is never forever.
Lego to double production in Hungary to avoid brick shortage
I didn't even mention imagemaps.
The rising income of first time home buyers
I like it, but the install have quite a lot of dependencies which was kind of annoying.
Not to mention that you cannot outlaw mathematics.

Because the only way to prevent people from sharing open source code for end-to-end encryption that takes back-doorable companies like Apple and Google out of the loop is by outlawing the math behind encryption.
Er, what? If they're profitable, the further capital and financing becomes a nice-to-have, not a need-to-have. It's no longer a business killer when it goes away.
So it's a weak copy of Capistrano 2, but 10 years late and written in PHP? I'm confused, what is the benefit of copying an established software package. You'd be better served using the Capistrano 3 for complicated deploys and Mina for simple deploys. PHP is an awful language to write a DSL and in my opinion just plain awful to use. I prefer to write Ruby, but I don't rewrite every system I depend on in Ruby.

For the record I'm maintaining a site written in PHP and I dislike PHP for real reasons(poor tooling, poor REPL, poor standard library, poor syntax) not just because it's not the language I've used the most.
Good point about ice sculptures. However, the difference with ice sculptures is that you know it is going to melt before you start.
In the way string theory does it -- unify SM (or generic QFTs) and GR, that is -- there emerges several new things that could give answers to dark matter (for example weakly interacting SUSY particles) and dark energy/cosmological constant (possibly ("anti"-)branes and other sources of positive vacuum energy).
> They can subpoena the data and throw the person who controls the key in jail until they release it

I think, a lot of the time, they want to read data from a device owned by someone who's not jailable any more—i.e., dead people.

Reading data off the phones of murder victims—the activity you'd expect "digital forensics" to properly refer to—would be pretty useful, if it were possible. I imagine a lot of police work has gotten harder in the move from "little black books" and feature-phone contact lists to everything about a person's contacts/calendar/call history/etc. being on an FDE-ed smartphone. Manufacturer key escrow services seem almost sensible in this light.

The other use is in reading data off devices of someone who's already dead because law enforcement just killed them. I can see both good and bad outcomes of that: if it were quick to do, it would help to map e.g. a hired hitman to their client, or a gang-member to the gang-leader. But it would also encourage/enable "shoot first, ask questions [to devices] later" tactics, which is just plain horrible.
Many of the sciences do suffer from systemic incompetence, if not fraud.

There is evidence that dissent in climate science is punished. That alone is enough for me to pull out the microscope and take the words of minority researchers seriously.
Which non-computational things can you do in JS and Python can you not do in the other and vice versa? I believe my machine can only do computations.
Next time you see that, point out that the hardware is itself basically virtualized to monolithic OS's with microcode, shared I/O, and multiplexed buses. A version could work for unikernels if that worked for UNIX. Performance issues come more from how it's applied than the concept itself.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_top_title_holders_in_G...
Just because the issue is settled legally doesn't change the fact that non-smokers are impacted by smokers. That's why I called smokers insensitive rather than lawbreakers. As an American, there are many things that we're legally allowed to do that I'd still say makes the person doing them an insensitive asshole. The law isn't the only tool we have to control unwanted behavior...social mores can actually be one of the best tools we have since they're less rigid and can change over time.
Yea, I was thinking "centaur" too!! It's perfect.

How about "hafling" for new startup with <$500K in angel funding?
The eGPU Problem
Probably true but there are still a lot of founders out there who reject or deny this or are simply oblivious.
A lot of people call themselves "data scientists" these days, even though their methodology is neither published nor peer-reviewed.

In most cases, map-reduce DBA would be a more accurate title.
Actually, that isn't true.

People lacking basic means can often work, trade, scrounge, repair, etc... to get a working, usable system. And they will do that too.
I know it seems hopeless but there really are some great mobile games out there which do not try to trick you or screw you around to get your money.

If you like puzzle games (I assume you do, since you mention Andoku Sudoku), you should check out games by Pyrosphere[0]. Especially look at Lazors[1] and The Weaver[2]. Also fun to play is Hoplite[3] and the training mode in Lichess[4]. All of these games are free, though Hoplite lets you pay to unlock an extended endgame, it isn't necessary at all.

[0] http://pyrosphere.net/

[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.pyrosphere...

[2] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.pyrosphere...

[3] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.magmafortr...

[4] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.lichess.mo...
true that. But the problem here is that people keep writing SSL instead of TLS => People who have to setup https will implement SSL instead of TLS.
> Subsequently in the 00's, escape analysis made pretty
> giant leaps forward, leading to the memory system you
> have in Rust today.

Rust doesn't use escape analysis, its analyses are based on Cyclone's regions system (which did arise in the mid-'00s). Or are you implying that there's a lineage leading from escape analysis to regions systems? (I'm unclear on Cyclone's own heritage.)
That's a great idea. So far we've had mixed success posting solutions to specific problems (e.g. sync your github issues to a spreadsheet), but each solution only appeals to some small subset of people, and doesn't convey the enormity of the set of problems DataFire can solve. A higher level post that uses DataFire to solve multiple problems aimed at a single goal would do more to stimulate people's imaginations.
Well-written article! Hopefully OS X will open this up so intensive gaming can actually be possible for MBP owners.
Especially when you assert X, and someone asks for more information about X, mocking them for not knowing X and saying that you're not willing to be their teacher... that's just being highly rude. Even to say, "as I said, see [URL]" would be helpful, and would take no longer to write than what you [vezzy-fnord] wrote.
No doubt LexisNexis and WestLaw have certain value added services that have certainly been developed through the years based on their positions as industry leaders, but you can't deny certain business practices that box out any potential free competitor.

Reflect back on your law school days. I bet you received a free student account to either or both LexisNexis and WestLaw (accounts worth thousands of dollars given for free through 3 years to train students on their programs); probably free training to your class from certified company representatives; donations to your school/creation of computer labs for exclusive rights to the students; etc...

I recognize your point about not being a monopoly, but that is in the Google - competition is only a click away - sense of the word, there are all kinds of anti-competitive practices and the marketplace reflects them.

If you want further indication of West willingness to engage in anti-trust/anti-competitive behavior take a look at Rodriquez v. West Publishing Corporation and Kaplan, Inc., where West for found to collude with Kaplan to create monopolies in Bar prep and LSAT review classes.
If it was because of loops, wouldn't there be infinite games?
If they are using them!
The goodbye message is a superb idea, just so everyone knows how professional you were during this period (even though your boss was not).

Just send it before your official termination period (if you specified one) and not after. You should be completely off company resources once you are gone. Include your personal email address in the farewell letter, but do not check company email once you are out the door.