skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On the other hand, if you suddenly have 100 times the traffic an image on your server got hotlinked elsewhere, wouldn't you want to know what is going on? There's upsides and downsides.. I can't really make up my mind what I'd prefer, other than the utopian option of "all users know what they're doing and how to configure their browsers".
I've been bootstrapping my last project basically all by myself (UX/UI, microservices, devops, mobile apps, etc) for the last 15 months. I'm saying basically because one of my former (failed) startup cofounders is helping me every now and then with some development tasks.

It's a market data app with a custom technical indicator for a specific commodity. I've found an external commercial team specialised in this industry niche and they're going to start sales in the coming weeks (after the remaining regulatory hurdles are cleared). This is a top-notch sales team working for Fortune100 companies, so I'm doubling down on them for 15 to 50% of the revenue (depending on sales)....

We tested the tool internally for some customers and was an incredible success. People is literally waiting in line to get it... so I'm also arranging external accounting + support teams.

I hope (knocks on wood) it'll generate me x5 to x10 times the salary I was offered in management positions at 2 of the biggest spanish startups (tuenti and social point).

In the coming months I hope to automate everything for all the teams via Slack ChatOps so I can have more free time and start new projects before Christmas...
Elon Musk wrote a paper on it[0].

[0] http://www.spacex.com/sites/spacex/files/hyperloop_alpha.pdf
By modus tollens, C can't be a good language, then. Gosh!
The only question this post raises for myself is: why is this in MY news feed? its not interesting, its not news. I gave up facebook in 2009 and I don't care at all for the Zukerman empire.
That's not out-of-the-box
You could do all the comparables you want in 1999. That doesn't mean valuations were justified then.
I agree that YAML's a mess, but not requiring a client-side agent is a pretty big win in my experience, and to be honest none of the configuration management systems I've used has had a particularly comfortable specification language.
AFAIK all modern browsers offer the ability to turn off JavaScript globally. Add-ons such as NoScript for Firefox give you more control though. I use NoScript to have all JS disabled by default on a page, and turn on/enable specific sources as necessary. On zencastr, I noticed that the page wasn't loading so I temporarily white-listed the site, and it is visible now.

A common and, IMO not-unreasonable view is that all content on the web should be viewable on the web with just HTML and CSS (sometimes even without the latter) and thus JS should never be required save for specific tasks such as in-browser computation and the like. That's a bit extreme for me, so I just white-list scripts as needed.
I created www.3D-Avatar-Store.com, a neural net driven, single photo to realistic lip syncing 3D avatar web service. It's a WebApp and WebAPI aimed at digital artists and game developers so they can put themselves, friends and customers into games, VR/AR, educational sims, advertising or whatever. I'm shutting down, as the revenues do not cover the extensive support requirements of indie and pro game developers, plus the hardware requirements force me to run a collocated server cluster that is moderately expensive to maintain - about $700 a month. Game developers, operating in their eternal crunch time panic, need a lot of support and they expect it to some with the API contract. I tried for years to raise financing, but investors need a lot of education to grasp 3D animation production, they have unrealistic expectations (always comparing our output to VFX from major release films), and often predatory terms that such investment never went through. If anybody wants to try taking over, they can contact me.
All of those things are attorney issues. The real estate person has no skin in the game other than the sale, and can and will baffle you with bullshit to close the deal.

If you're relying on a real estate person to take care of legal problems, you're rolling the dice.
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We are... you just have to be careful how you do it so that you're still able to operate in the same marketplace with the current incentives (we cut our own fee without cutting anyone else's).
And this is exactly why the Go language philosophy treats errors as return values of functions forcing it to be handled right where the function was called rather than later somewhere in the code as "exceptions" which are apt to get missed.
I've run http://www.hogbaysoftware.com as my full time job since late 2003. Except for a few years (2010 to 2013) I've been the only employee. Dates might be off by 1 or 2 years but here's an abbreviated history:

- 10k first two years.

- Growing somewhat steadily to 250k around 2010

- Revenue (this is period when I was working 3 others) grew to 350k) by 2013

- Crashed to 40k in 2014, 2015 after cutting bunch of apps and going back to being just me as only employee.

- With luck foundation is back in place (http://www.taskpaper.com), hope to reach around 100k in 2016.
I'm working on something right now and legal is kicking me in the balls too. I've tried to delay the expense as long as possible but it is inevitable.
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I suspect the awful loading time on both the demo and the repo is this code is sitting in mainland China. I haven't even been able to see the demo

There is no license included and non of the dependencies are included in the package.json. Still trying to get it to run locally just to see if there is anything of interest here.
“I recieved a free or discounted product in return for an honest review”
You said,

> The people involved have been the ones artificially creating the problem by refusing to follow established community standards (the package versioning policy)

and

> The tool does not fix real problems. It avoids a real problem, which the authors of the tool created in the first place. The problem does not exist if packages use upper version bounds. They refuse to, and then release a tool to move people to a curated subset of packages and versions instead, bypassing the problem they've imposed on everyone in the first place.

-- in fact they are no different from e.g. bos and amazonka and many many others; it's a view, we oppose it.

> then they release a tool to "solve" the problem they created, all while spewing FUD about cabal and the actual haskell developers and community.

Again it is demonstrable that they didn't create any problem. And they don't say anything against cabal that thousands of others didn't say. And on and on through your whole chain of nonsense.

Just give it up. They have a view we reject. The solution is to continue to argue against it .. keeping in mind that what we are asking for is torture to maintain even where you are dealing with only 10 external dependencies. It happens that I have just spent basically all morning dealing with dependency problems with four or five pipes-related libraries which keep rigorous upper bounds. Frankly it's unimaginable what yesod or amazonka would have to go through basically every morning with 10-20 times as many other-people's libraries to keep track of. There needs to be some automated way of doing it.
So do it. You could build it as an irssi or znc plugin
They acted quickly and avoided a worst-case outcome. As such it was effective.

However, arguably the bank bailouts could have had much better terms for the taxpayer - most of the upside was realised by bank shareholders who were not wiped out, rather than the taxpayer who bore the risk.

For comparison, Warren Buffet also recapitalised some banks in the depth of the crisis, demanded and got long-term warrants that paid out truly humongous amounts of money once bank shares rose back to pre-crisis levels. Tax payers - in comparison - got a few percent of interest rather than adequate compensation for the risk they bore.
I've learned the hard way that CM is a Hard Problem. Any solution is going to be a trade-off, which is why there is space for multiple solutions.
Interesting, do you have a source for that? All I recall is that LinkedIn is struggling and it's hard to understand why MS would pay 26bn (http://www.recode.net/2016/6/13/11920416/linkedin-acquisitio...).
I wasn't expecting to see familiar names in this thread. I remember when you started OS! Fantastic to hear it's going so well.
Consulting firms generate revenues. Their assets are mostly human capital, but their value is generally a multiple of current earnings, not "a pure function of future earnings".

Most banks hold a decent amount of highly specialized, illiquid debts that have no active market and could reasonably be compared in terms of liquidity to real estate or capital goods.
Besides being off-the-books and under-the-radar, how was Madoff's operation different than that? Genuinely curious.
The listing contract specifies a fixed commission that typically gets split with a buying agent.

If there's no split, the listing agent gets the full commission.
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I am not sure I understand your point. How is that different from what I wrote.

And no, there are no line in an IFRS balance sheet for "human capital".

[edit] and on your second point, I don't think I agree. You will pretty much always find a buyer for financial assets. Unless they are so rotten that no one thinks they are worth what you have them in your books for (which may be the case for some Italian banks).

Where I think you are right to be careful with banks is with the size. If you need to wind down a massive international bank, you need to find buyers for a awfully large amounts of assets, and that will likely damage their value.
This is a very dangerous sentiment to share without the constant reminder that feminism means that each woman should be able to live how they desire. It's great that women who want to be with a man who makes more money than them can do that. However wow is it dangerous to point out that what "most women want", without making this caveat.

Let's assume most men want to play sports, this while interesting is totally irrelevant with respect to my individual rights as a man to do what I want with my life. Similarly, what most women want is totally irrelevant to feminism and the rights of women. They should be able to live as they please, independent of what "most women" would like.
Thanks for the additional perspective there. I'll have to keep that in mind.
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Ask HN: What is your profession?  (Request poll)
I am a physician; would like to know how many other physicians are active on hacker news. Also curious about other professions, but I don't have enough karma to create my own poll yet: http://news.ycombinator.com/newpoll

Physicians: post your software side projects.

I used to be active in the autohotkey community.

Also I write software for radiologists: http://garglet.com
(Very!) naive question: what were those 6k in legal bills for?
Personally, I have a tiny VPS running weechat, tmux, and mosh that let's me keep history and stay connected 24/7.
$15.8 Billion current market capitalization. I wonder what their assets under management is? If it's higher, that would seem to say that the market values them less than the work they do.
It's completely plausible that the post-Brexit Deutsche Bank is undervalued by the market due to panic and uncertainty, and Snapchat is overvalued by the market due to hype.
Another loop optimization
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A bank is solvent, Madoff wasn't. Madoff didn't have any asset, the cash you would have invested with him had been used to pay off other investors.

A bank has assets, the money you lent the bank (through your deposit) is invested in a mortgage, backed by a property. You will ultimately get your money back. but it is a timing issue (and therefore liquidity), not a solvency issue.
To be clear. DB has not announced bankruptcy. This is a chronicle of the significant fall in stock price since the financial collapse in 2008 and an enumeration of the trouble it is currently in. Whether or not it winds up in bankruptcy is still to be seen. DB is calling for a bailout, but if they're the only ones in trouble through mismanagement of risk then they will probably be allowed to crumble. (probably should crumble)
There are other out-the-box alternatives. IRCCloud was mentioned in comments.
Years ago my optometrist suggested I do this exercise. I've been doing it at regular intervals throughout the day for the last 10 years or so. Can't say my eyesight has improved but maybe it's prevented it from getting worse.
Actually everything you do in Angular or React you can do in vanilla JS, so your point is moot.
Quassel is nice and I'd recommend it, even when I stopped using it for a year and moved to AdiIRC (mainly because I found the customization on AdiIRC is more fun to play with)
I've been using async await or async yield. Never been more happier.
I can't read Chinese, but I'll just throw out that Lyx has a fairly great wysiwyg equation editor. It's sort-of latex based which makes it easy to input stuff, but you can actually see the equation unlike in normal Latex which is pretty unreadable.
It is on linux. Ubuntu has the combined client and the separate client / server ones ready to go.
I was recently thinking while working with ES6 Promises that I liked to have something equivalent to Haskells `do` notation. Or Scalas `for` comprehension.

Does something like that exist?

If not maybe I should try Kleislis instead. But I'd like my code to be accessible for my colleagues. And it's my rule of thumb that I try not to use point free constructions (like Kleislis) because a lot of colleagues will no longer understand my code easily.
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Ask HN: Opinions on Technical Recruiting
Hi everyone,

I am an undergrad student currently attending the University of Waterloo and I am working on a project involving technical recruiting.

I want to get a general idea of the various opinions that people have with regards to technical recruiting and technical interviews. Hopefully we can get answers from both sides of the process (interviewers and interviewees)!

1. Do you find that the standard system of technical interviews (data structures & algorithms) is an effective way of assessing candidates? Why or why not?
2. Do you feel that the industry values experience?
3. How would you change the recruiting process?

Any comment is appreciated. Thanks!
Its main features are that it runs in command line on Mac and it doesn't have dependencies? Why would anybody install software that does nothing, even if it doesn't have dependencies?
On second thought: I guess Async Await are like a `do` notation specifically for Promises...
I have been working on https://testingbot.com for 4 years now. Providing browser testing through automation. It's a lot of work, learned a lot in those years. Profitable after 1 year. Still growing year after year, eventhough there's quite a lot of competition
"Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT) and LinkedIn Corporation (NYSE: LNKD) on Monday announced they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Microsoft will acquire LinkedIn for $196 per share in an all-cash transaction valued at $26.2 billion, inclusive of LinkedIn’s net cash"

http://news.microsoft.com/2016/06/13/microsoft-to-acquire-li...
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It's worth point out that we have additional direct evidence of dark matter besides the rotation problem, like most thing's it's not perfectly cut an dry smoking gun evidence but:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullet_Cluster

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abell_520
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Silicon Valley is great for growing tech. If you want stability, may as well work for a large tech company somewhere cheaper. (Though IBM has proven than stability is illusory) It's also getting to be very expensive for "2 people in a garage". Where Silicon Valley excels is hyper growth.

Try scaling to 100+ engineers in Pittsburgh or Chicago. Try meeting VCs daily I between Series B and C. It's harder everywhere else than in Silicon Valley.

The area also has an energy that comes from high energy educated transplants that is hard to replicate. I've seen it in New York but not as much elsewhere in the US.
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But that still doesn't actually answer the email provider question.
Enterprise Value is different than Market Cap.
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Ah, i see now, well that wasn't my intention at all.
Yup agreed. We can either suffer the pain quickly and use state funds to help insure depositor accounts as DB collapses or further prop up the very banks that drug the economy to it knees (while partaking in a host of other illegal activity on the side).
Oh, but Ansible does require a client-side agent. It just happens that the
agent is the same one as you use for interactive purposes, which is another
big no-go in the long run (when you let your servers' users configure SSH
server to some extent, and then you need to make sure they don't cut out your
configuration management tool).

Also, configuration management tool should be, apart from downloading
configuration from somewhere, independent from any external server/service.
What other big banks does Europe have that might stick around? Having all major banks US based would be a huge issue for Europe.
I use MRI ruby locally, JRuby on production servers.

I have had no real issues with it to be honest. Never any incompatibilities. Some slight care needed when picking gems to make sure no cext but it is rare that I find one.

I use JRuby on the CI box to make sure nothing untowards goes to prod.
As someone who hasn't done much with it yet, care to elaborate? It seemed easier for me to grok than Chef.
It will be very hard for the German govt to let them fail. They are very much a point of national pride, and deep in the culture. I suspect the ramifications in Germany would be as big as Bear or Lehman.
> The antagonistic pleiotropy theory actually advocates exactly that inverse correlation, more investment into young years for increased reproductive fitness at the expense of worse later years.

Which would be great if you had any evidence that BMI is largely influenced by such antagonistic pleiotropy. But since BMI is not a disease like Alzheimer's, it doesn't even have prima facie plausibility. This shouldn't be hard: does low BMI in youth predict high BMI at middle or old age? I've never seen any result ever hinting at this, and no one believes that.

> I have concerns about the validity exactly because of the expected tiny effects.

Yes, it does make it harder, but fortunately, that's what we have polygenic scores for. Do you have any power analysis suggesting that the sample size here is inadequate?

> Polygenic traits with extremely high heritability (height being the prime example) top out at 10% of variance explained even when considering all alleles.

Totally wrong, where did you get this idea? The height polygenic score is at >>10% of variance (see Wood or http://ije.oxfordjournals.org/content/45/2/417.full ) and BMI polygenic scores are already at 10% and will go up since all the twin and GCTA estimates indicate larger heritability than that.
What is relevance here?
You mean macro-economic plans that rely on exponential expansion don't work?!?
If that is so then why don't we just accept the religious answers to these big questions? Some supernatural entity is in the control of everything that's the answer and we are done. The goal of any science should be to answer questions such that those answers can help us solve the problem humanity faces and not just make us feel proud sitting in our chairs that we know answers.
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It's a little different. They have trillions of asserts backed up mostly by debt and a small dose of equity. This is how most banks operated, and why they are so volatile. (Lehman was 30 to 1 debt to equity. Most banks are somewhere between 10 and 30 to 1)
I see how this could work in the future, but in the current market how do you attract buyers without a commission?
What does using a bsp tree gain you in this case? Wolf was all tiles so using a data format that reflects that makes intuitive sense to me. Bsp gives better occlusion culling maybe?
Since when Snapchat is a publicly traded corporation?

Snapchat valuation is nonsense.
This seems to do same thing as tmux+weechat on server and weechat/weechat-android/glowing bear as client but graphical.

If you want try tmux+weechat combo but don't have/want to setup a VPS, create an account at hashbang.sh. It's a free shell service and we drop new users in weechat instance running tmux.
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I agree. Although in the case of banks, a panic can be self fulfilling. DB may be well capitalised and have sound assets, but if there is a market panic and no wholesale investor will roll their funding with them (as happened after Lehman went bust), and retail depositors start a run on the bank, the bank will go bust. Even if it is solvent.

The liquidity requirements introduced after Lehman should be sufficient for banks to sustain another Lehman scenario but you could imagine an even more severe stress.
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Did a censor filter break today? First article offering a positive view of men in ages.
Well gave up trying to run or preview this math editor. Also its using MathJax which is already known to be very slow compared to roll your own or Katex.

I guess I'll stick with MathQuill which lets you preview as you type.
http://mathquill.com/
Yes, I would say so.
Link.fish looks promising, I can see it being a useful tool. Best of luck with it.
GDI is an immediate mode graphics API that conceptually cannot be used with GPU style batch rendering. When each drawing operation is just a command record to be sent to GPU for later execution.

Yet things like GDI::SetROP2 make no sense in GPU context when rasterization is made in parallel. GDI uses integer coordinates - not that scaleable. GDI::COLOR type limits R,G,B by 0..255 values only... Too many problems.

But I shall admit that Direc2D API, that is C++ thing, could be made in more GDI-ish, plain C, style.
What sort of work are you looking for?
I see, so that's the next another future optimisation path, parse regexps in a way that grall can optimise.

Exciting!
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You're right about Henry Coe, hands down the best backpacking in the Bay Area. Their backcountry is broken down into zones, inside those you can camp wherever you please.
> Tesla has now reviewed the logs and says that there’s “no data to suggest that Autopilot was engaged at the time of the incident."

is a quoted directly from the article. It is also the title of the story.
I'm not kidding at all. Advertisers spend money all the time that is literally no different than burning money in a dumpster fire.