skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just to answer the most direct version of your question, the valuation is just based on how much of an equity stake was purchased, and for how much money. So they raised $72MM in exchange for a presumed 12% equity stake in the company, meaning that they company was implicitly valued at $600MM.

As to how the $72MM (and the 12%) is calculated, that's a negotiation between parties, and there is no universally accepted "formula" for calculating this. Private equity and VC companies take risks based on their evaluation of the company prospects. If there were a magic formula, then investing in companies (and finding funding) would not be at all interesting or competitive.

Aside from any any numbers about user adoption, growth rate, or potential advertising angles, the other significant thing that an investor may be looking for is the chances of a downstream acquisition by a player looking to expand its reach. Giphy would be a natural target for large search companies, or social media companies (who might be interested in a closer relationship with an effective content source), or various chat companies (like Slack or Facebook or even Apple).

Whether an acquiring company will be willing to pay enough money for a company like this to be worth the investment, rather than building similar functionality in-house, is part of the judgment of the investors, which they can base on qualitative evaluations of the technical or sales abilities of the employees or the difficulty of the problem space.
This sounds nice in theory, and perhaps if we lived in a different type of society that would even be true. We don't though, we live in the world where our rewards are tied to our accomplishments. those rewards are the incentives for us to do the work, it might not be 100% of the incentive, but it's a large part. Of course, if someone steals your idea, but wins the race, they're probably executing better. That's capitalism, that's the beauty of competition. First mover advantage is often a disadvantage. You have to pay for all the mistakes. If you're an established player, you can afford it. If you're brand new though, you might not be able to.
After five years, you get more like a quarter to a third in trade in.
For sports cars, you lose half just by driving it off the dealer lot...

And that is assuming you aren't leasing, which a lot of people do. No trade in value there.
"Everything I did was real. I managed every transition without a sync button and I lived each performance. But still I constantly felt I was cheating my audience and the scene by presenting a pure fiction."

This was the part that struck me; the imposter syndrome, even after achieving commercial success. If you become a sought-after EDM DJ (or software developer) it's not because you were able to fool the world. It's because you've taught yourself how to give your customer what they need. The people consuming what you make already know you're a professional - and you're the last one to realize it.

Congrats to the author and her mentors for figuring out what it takes to build a popular act.
Writing from the 19th century United States tends to be relatively complex, but grammatically so, rather than the sort of existentialist run-on nonsense with which we're latterly so often abused. Here, as a reasonably representative example, is the first paragraph of The Last of the Mohicans [1]:

> It was a feature peculiar to the colonial wars of North America, that the toils and dangers of the wilderness were to be encountered before the adverse hosts could meet. A wide and apparently an impervious boundary of forests severed the possessions of the hostile provinces of France and England. The hardy colonist, and the trained European who fought at his side, frequently expended months in struggling against the rapids of the streams, or in effecting the rugged passes of the mountains, in quest of an opportunity to exhibit their courage in a more martial conflict. But, emulating the patience and self-denial of the practiced native warriors, they learned to overcome every difficulty; and it would seem that, in time, there was no recess of the woods so dark, nor any secret place so lovely, that it might claim exemption from the inroads of those who had pledged their blood to satiate their vengeance, or to uphold the cold and selfish policy of the distant monarchs of Europe.

This was an extremely popular novel in its day, in the literal sense of "popular" - by no means was it read exclusively among the elite, and indeed the literary elite of the time tended to regard it despite occasional equivocation as generally of good quality - although Twain, with his usual inimitable style, quite rightly suggests [2] that Fenimore's work in general should have been considerably less well regarded than it was. Nonetheless, that it was so regarded, and so widely read, can hardly be brought into question.

[1] http://www.gutenberg.org/files/940/940-h/940-h.htm

[2] http://twain.lib.virginia.edu/projects/rissetto/offense.html
>Under the hood, Minoca contains a powerful driver model between device drivers and the kernel. The idea is that drivers can be written in a forward compatible manner, so kernel level components can be upgraded without requiring a recompilation of all device drivers.

This sounds really smart and it looks great overall <3
On full charge the car estimates a range of 90 miles. That assumes eco mode and my driving style. It's a guess at best. The battery is at full health, I didn't consider buying a car that had a degraded battery.
How does this compare to Minix 3? THat's a microkernel-based OS, so drivers are isolated, and it's also pretty small.
Indeed. I'd already bailed for a ThinkPad a few months ago, but the rest of our office was still solidly Mac. My company was ready to upgrade, but the new MacBook Pro isn't going to be a good fit for us. That's about $25K we will be spending elsewhere.

I didn't leave Apple; Apple left me.
To me, that sounds like a useful shorthand. It would probably not at all be difficult to add support for that to the broker (apart from the usual wrestling with Rust), so yeah, why not. Though I maybe miss some implications for the RP – breaking the expectation that it is just an email is bad if you use the email as an email, and if you want to have the option to easily move away from portier.

The FB thing was more, iirc, that you don't want to enter an email and then get the FB dialogue just because you used your email on FB.
I wonder what are hardware specs on Google Cloud. I didn't manage to find anything similar for GCE.

E.g. what's the max speed of internode network connectivity within a region zone? What's the spec of local-ssd? Could be interesting to know underlying hardware.
Ask HN: Best barebones laptop manufacturer?
Hi HN, I want to build a few custom linux productivity laptops for a few friends of mine.

In terms of hardware, can anyone point me to a specific manufacturer of barebones laptops? E.g. Clevo only sells laptops made of plastic - aluminium would be much nicer.
And all of that electricity is turned into heat that needs to be dissipated, so cooling is also very expensive.
Wordpress on AWS: smooth and pain free
Or, buy a new car and expect to own it for a decade or more. It's just as economically viable. And to some the knowledge that you are the single owner and have taken excellent care of it is valuable. (As opposed to the unknowns of a used car.)
Ah, so 国 is Fqg
I think having it be entirely separated from JS was a mistake. A lot of the web is Apps not documents and the separation is often much more of a hindrance than a help.

Obviously it can be nice for organization, but that should really fall more on the individual to decide than the spec.
I know I will. But if we tax the 1% of the 1% it can easily be accomplished. Just gotta remember that the super wealthy are no longer human. Just look at Dee-Tee.
They can comfortably and on linux really well, I like them for everything but gaming/heavy 3D they are great.
Are there differences between the datacenter and consumer device markets that make something like OCP gaining traction much harder for the latter, besides the lack of huge buyers (in terms of both quantity and making a difference in buyer's operations) in the latter? Are there any potential huge buyers in the latter that could get something like OCP for some type of consumer devices started?
> Yeah, and don't forget to whip yourself regularly.

Interesting in the context of "Programmers make programs. You should probably make money."

Last time I checked, (the need of) making money was the whip ensuring people produce stuff. As a society, we put up with most people routinly producing the worst possible crap they can get away with, while inventing new creative ways to take more money for it, only because it ensures enough stuff gets produced for everyone to go around.

> If something is not worth selling, probably is not worth actively sharing & supporting either.

I beg to disagree. A lot of well-selling products today should not even exist. Marketing has much better ROI than delivering something of value. OTOH, a lot of things that absolutely should be supported and rewared isn't. Think about infrastructure, or people like paramedics.

But hey, maybe that's why I'm poor - I consider making money as an unpleasant necessity instead of end goal.
Defensive patent pool and community of patent non-aggression
To further detail the parents point on Capability and "nature of automation";

Automating processes in production activities aims to "remove" human factor(s) altogether from phyiscal activities, leaving only management and maintence personel (that is if it is not outsourced) of the automated systems in a production site. Thus, comparison between "reduction of workforce" because of more advanced tools (and animals?) and "removal of workforce" caused by automation is just... silly.

There are many reasons to automate processes, chiefly eleminating or reducing certain costs and increasing quality "consistency", as well as decreasing activity times with all the other benefits. The latter of which may be the most important for certain sectors.

Even then, if the production site managers deem it is necessary to keep workers to preform supporting activities (eg. keep an eye on dem robbits leaking lubricants), it will be either because they are still in process of being automated or quality control needs a human to "feel it" or its just a publicity stunt to show they are fullfilling their obligations to society (ha!). But automation will ultimately result in "no jobs" for workers who did the activities that became automated; there is absolutely no reason to keep workers, even with lowered wages. Remaining human workers will have to have higher qualifications and move on to a different set of responsibilities, eg. as mentioned before like maintance of automated systems; inspection, servicing... etc. instead of... y'know, doing what the automated systems do. This will effectively eleminate the need to employ low-to-unqualified workforce in a production site. Even with all the best intentions to employ maximum number of workers, total number in a production site, after fully automating production processes, will be a fraction of what it was before automation.

note: written while drunk, may not exactly be english or even engrish.
Have you seen, http://remotedebug.org? The initiative is moving forward.
Not a meaningful comparison, Power8 is being fabbed right now. The mill dosent even have an FPGA implementation (yet?). Mill is a long way from usable.
Singapore telco visits customers' homes to secure devices after cyberattack
Network switches are increasingly being based on silicon from companies like broadcom with their Trident and Tomahawk line (what Facebook's six pack use), Intel's Fulcrum chips, Mellanox, or Cavium's Xpliant chips.

An ODM vendor like Quanta makes the equivalent of a "motherboard" for those, and sticks it in a box.

Then you can get software from a vendor like Cumulus which has all the SDN goodness.

Vendors like Cisco, Juniper, or Arista sold all of those as one big product. Whitebox switching is about breaking those up so you can buy them more like you buy your servers.
I've found that quality >> quantity, and specifically tumblr is a horrible place to find gifs (bad quality, weird contexts or usage for the gifs).
Oh no, please. There are some truly awful logos in there. There is nothing wrong with not being good at creating a logo so please just let someone who is good at it do it.
The post uses "Amerikanskis" (with the "s" at the end) and it's a big tell. Only people who do not understand any Cyrillic language could come up with something like that.
In what way do you consider DOM separate from JS such that it causes difficulty for application development?
This is impressive. I'll give this a shot :-)
Looks like sharing it all has worked its magic. Keep up the good work :)
Quake-'o-lantern
Yeah, it does seem interesting (and I've seen Tsvi around the Berkeley math department). Maybe someday I'll spend the time to understand it!

When I said the thing about complexity, I was thinking about intuitionism. For an intuitionist, the only things which can be said to be true are the things you can believe with your faculties. This is where the "intuitionists don't believe in the law of the excluded middle" comes from --- just because you can see that something can't not be true doesn't mean you see it is --- or something like that.

I wonder if this logical induction is a sort of Bayesian intuitionism, extending logical faculties with probabilistic ones.

And, random thought, I wonder if there is a Turing-complete programming language you can design where you can prove something can be written in it, but actually finding that program is not decidable. Then, while it's true anything can be written in any language, this one would be provably infeasible to do so.
Take the entire usecase for ReactJS as my example
> No touchpad compares to a real mouse

Depending on your work, I think this is an outdated viewpoint.

Apple sells large, detached trackpads, and they're quite popular amongst people I know (all hardcore programmers):

https://www.apple.com/magic-accessories/

I personally still prefer a mouse when at a desktop, but it can't be denied that Apple's trackpads and their gesture support are incredibly good.
I'm seeing the same issue. Queue time keeps jumping, was down to 10 minutes, shot back up to 20. Seems that there's queue jumping or something else going on behind the scenes.
It then went from 20 minutes to 0, said it's my turn but then 5 seconds later said "Thanks for playing, you missed every shot".
Space is cheap, Land is expensive. Orbiting factories have relatively little constraint on their size. No need to worry about regulations or cleanup. You don't get hemmed in by neighboring factories.

I can see a whole number of variables costing factories off of terrestrial production in the future with land cost being a major one.
Firefox doesn't implement the Chrome Debugging Protocol, but has it's own (FDP).

Valence is an protocol adapter that adapts CDP to FDP, so Firefox DevTools (using FDP) can be used with iOS (which uses WDP)
Ah, the stable world of high finance.

DB is running close to defaulting on its debts.
Five Questions with Genius and Everipedia Founder, Mahbod Moghadam.
4 Reasons to Invest in REITs
Even if this won't replace current input methods, I think this is clever and a surprisingly intuitive way to type Chinese characters.
This. This. This.

I have "refurbished" 2 MacBook Pros now, and this is part of my process. Max out the RAM, install SSD, replace battery, reapply thermal paste, clean with canned air. When I did this to a 2009 13" MBP that got me through grad school (already had max RAM and an SSD), I found that it ran cooler than I remember it running when I first bought it. Recently, I bought a used 2011 15" MBP (no HDD, swelled up battery, popped out trackpad, missing case screws) for $100. I used an SSD from my desktop that recently became a media server, then spent $110 on 16 GB of RAM, a new battery, and screws. That machine is killing it.

This is one of the things that saddens me about everything after the retina MBP transition: we can no longer do all of these kinds of major performance enhancements on our own, and some of these repairs have become much more difficult.

Edit: I use Noctua NT-H1 because it has excellent thermal characteristics and it isn't electrically conductive so it won't kill your hardware if you get it somewhere you shouldn't.

http://noctua.at/en/nt-h1.html

http://www.overclockersclub.com/reviews/noctua_nt_h1/5.htm

https://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/Noctua/NT-H1/4.html
Title should be "common myths about introversion vs extroversion". There is nothing here, besides author's opinion, to support that the two things actually don't exist. Article caters more toward debunking a bunch of other false dichotomies.
Great to see C# still steadily moving forwards. Fantastic language, really only hampered by arbitrary limitations of the platform, and the knock-on effects of that (like the painful lack of ecosystem). I'm hoping it really starts to come into it's own in the next few years. At the very least, it could easily be an enterprise option that's actually both powerful and enjoyable.

Once upon a time, I remember C# vs Java being a meaningful comparison, but Oracle's total standstill has completely put an end to that (although I'm not actually sure who's fault that is - do Oracle deserve the blame for this?)
On that same note, I already play guitar but I've always wanted to play drums. I can't buy a kit and play in my apartment, but there's no reason why I waited 5 or more years just to get a practice pad. I do at least 20 minutes of exercises almost every day and have been for almost two months now. Once I get a kit or get on one of my friends kit's, I'll be ready.
Bad Free Trial Etiquette (Dropbox)
Is it amoral for services not to notify users that their trials are ending? Found out Dropbox Business does this today ... as well as removing already paid-for services if you downgrade during the billing cycle.
If the client certificate distribution problem was a one-time per site thing it wouldn't be so bad. The issue is that people want to be able to use multiple browsers on multiple devices, and some of those browsers are in use by multiple people.
Gson – Getting Started with Java-JSON Serialization and Deserialization
Get Rid of Mouth Odor
The idea is to buy the hardware from ODMs like Quanta, Accton, Celestica, Foxconn, etc. They already manufacture all name-brand IT equipment anyway.
Avoiding being bitten by Python: Common Python pitfalls
You are right. But on some level I don't like that huge disbalance of power, where on one hand you can take a photo with your smartphone, but someone can take a fleet of vehicles and run them 24/7 around globe, photographing everything, making hi res lidar images, georeferencing, coupling that with smartphone data, etc. I would be more OK with it, if it was open dataset though. End of rant :)
For an individual, the TCO argument for Macs still holds, but it's a bit different :

- Don't just look at the initial outlay that gets you on the Apple ladder : Macs also have a much, much better resale value than PCs, even years later. It's incremental and relatively painless if you upgrade regularly.

- You're a human, your peace of mind matters and your time isn't free. Buy stuff that brings you joy or at a minimum, stuff that doesn't feel like death by a thousand cuts day after day. And you might not recognize that before you've tried a Mac, seriously (I used to be a hardcore desktop Linux guy until 2004)

As someone who briefly lost faith in Apple last year, then went ahead and built a Hackintosh ("why not?"), I can't stress the second point nearly enough.

My high end 32GB 4Ghz Core i7 box with Thunderbolt and a 32" screen cost me about 25% less than a top of the line iMac that satisfies the same use cases. Great.

The money I saved is roughly what I make in 1-2 days, but I've spent at least a dozen evenings so far researching / troubleshooting / preparing for OS upgrades.
Plus I need to reboot the box once after each cold boot before it will see my TB devices and I can play music on my audio interface. Great. Not to mention the floor/desk space compared to an iMac.

The tinkering was fun at times, I don't completely regret trying, but frankly life is too short : guess who's going back to the Mac next time ?
I really wish Adobe would write a Flash runtime in WebAssembly. There are tens of thousands of great Flash games that are unplayable in modern browsers... Sure, you could rewrite them in js, but no one is going to.
I a frankly appalled with this new heavy handed "commitment" required. Rules - do not change people! When will we learn this - Anyone can sign this document and continue doing anything they want.. these are people's private homes we are talking about - the whole issue here was to develop a welcoming environment - or was it? One again "big daddy" wants control. I did not let my child just play with anyone or invite just anyone home - is that racist or lacking in inclusiveness? No I was responsible for her safety the environment she grew up in. I had to decide what was in her best interests for her development - all parents do this - race was never a deciding factor in my home but behavior was - if I am hosting an Air B&B guest I want to be able to use my "intuition" and be trusted to welcome people fairly - I need to feel comfortable with these people - not just accept anybody. I personally have never stayed at a B&B with anyone who I thought was racist or discriminatory in any way - why make rules for the minority and the exceptional... we need less rules and more trust - TRUST breeds TRUST - rules do not do that! Suzanna
Especially just a paragraph or two after "and have raised prices by about $200, for seemingly no discernible reason".
I already carry a dongle to convert Thunderbolt to VGA, because you can't count on conference room projectors having a connector made in the last decade... Now I just need to carry one more for HDMI.

I'm fairly certain that a USB-c to standard USB port will also be a dongle that every Macbook Pro owner will need to carry. Apple should bundle 2 with every Macbook Pro, but the whiners would still complain...
The challenge with the CCS stations is they are generally only one or two plugs. As CCS cars become more prevalent, they're going to need much larger setups, with 8, 10 or 12 plugs at each station. The wait to quick-charge is bad enough. It would be a lot worse if you had to wait 20 minutes just to get on the charger.
RabbitMQ (AMQP) publisher and consumer demo
> I'd much rather instead of me giving money to the government, the government giving money to a charity organization, and then that charity organization giving it to the people I'd want a much more direct way of doing this transaction, preferably a way that is verifiable and with little overhead.

I live in an area of the country known in the media for its giving of money to the needy. A lot of the money goes through charities and non profits. I don't see how the added layer benefits the homeless at all.
Before the Internet, publishing and distributing was expensive. But in about every craft, you have people hosting their knowledge and designs for free from the earliest days of the Internet. First self-publishing (webpages) and mail groups, later also on-line forums.
PPP found that 19% of 985 surveyed believe Hillary to be an “actual demon” [pdf]
Yeah, with an engine you can conceivably fix parts of it yourself. An electric motor is much simpler, so if something goes wrong, it's more akin to blowing a piston or a rod -- you're likely going to need to replace the whole thing.
https://monodraw.helftone.com is what you're looking for.
> live in one of the most expensive

At .02 ? Nope

Annual Average Price per Kilowatthour by State
46	Connecticut	17.76
47	Alaska	17.94
48	Hawaii	26.17
That thing looks ugly as sin... Apple should have integrated it with their charger; you're right.