skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Since Facebook's IPO, which tech unicorns still feel bullish?

Here are the tech IPOs I can think off the top of my head. Maybe it's selection bias (I only remember the ones that don't look healthy), but this is what I thought of, and they all are not doing well compared to their IPO price, or were on a heavy downward trend:

- Box http://finance.yahoo.com/quote/BOX?ltr=1

- Pandora http://finance.yahoo.com/quote/P

- Twitter http://finance.yahoo.com/quote/TWTR

- Tableau http://finance.yahoo.com/quote/DATA

- Groupon http://finance.yahoo.com/quote/GRPN

- Twilio http://finance.yahoo.com/quote/TWLO (too short of time to tell, but including it here anyway)

LinkedIn had fallen far from its high until Microsoft bought it: http://finance.yahoo.com/quote/LNKD

King (Candy Crush, etc.) was bought by Blizzard but even with the premium it sold at, it was still about 25% off its IPO: http://fortune.com/2015/11/03/activision-blizzard-king-digit...

Of course there have been other unicorns, less sexy media (including non-American) darlings that might be doing just fine. And of course Facebook still looks strong, but FB always seemed like it would do string, at least out of all the other social networks. I admit that I'm not much of a Snapchat user, even though many of my friends have migrated over. But does it really have the same potential as FB to integrate itself into all areas of digital life? Even if SNAP has strong underlying numbers, it'd be an outlier if it remained strong 3-5 years from now.

On a sidenote, would love to see an update to this NYT interactive at the time of Facebook's IPO: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/05/17/business/dealb...

edit: added KING (Candy Crush makers)
They realize, stop using it for a few weeks/months, starts missing it and then come back again. I myself have gone through a few such cycles. This is frustratingly similar to trying to quit an addiction.
guns, lots of guns [insert matrix gif]..
This is a lot of analysis to hang on leaked 2014 numbers. It's a rapidly growing and changing company.
The CCV check Chrome does doesn't compare the entered CCV against anything stored at all. Instead, it charges a small amount to verify the credit card. See my comment below.

Your mileage my vary, but I'd be very surprised if it does.
They got damage at 6000 lux with pretty much all the light sources. The interesting result is that they got significantly more damage with the white LED source than with other sources at 500 lux.

Someone else was nice enough to post a link to the paper:

* http://www.sciencedirect.com.sci-hub.ac/science/article/pii/...
Receiving money from someone does not require any action. They deleted my account because someone else sent me money and that person had more than one account. The fact that they said that I violated their terms of service does not in fact make it so.
Have you ever considered using Etsy or similar sites to sell your products?

I had thought of doing something similar (some handmade product, I mean, not leather) as a side biz, but then thought it would not scale as a solo person, so have put it at least on hold, if not dropped.
My lessons that I would add to this:

lessons 1:
there's a good chance, depending on what you are doing, that you do not need Redux - avoid it if you can. much docunentation seems to imply that it is a necessary hand in hand element of react development - not true. I have never found any situation in which I need redux.

lesson 2:'
use "create-react-app", and if humanly possible, don't eject from it.
Now how about adding a two way data/file transfer spec to WIFI Direct?
Automation would be a primary reason. Gerrit and Rietveld [1] allow Google to build bots and tooling to land commits, allocate build infrastructure resources for tests, and rollback tree-breaking changes. GitHub would not be quite so hackable.

The automation would be even more important for a codebase like Chromium that receives 5-8 change lists every minute [2].

[1] https://github.com/rietveld-codereview/rietveld

[2] https://codereview.chromium.org/
Using MongoDB as a Puppet External Node Classifier
I use SugarWOD every day, it powers the crossfit gym I go to. Gotta say you did a great job, I can't imagine such a community built around the gym without it.The fistbumps are a really great feature!
Yes, although this is very new. I always had ad revenue from the websites.

I must admit that it is hard to build a "side project" that aims for organic traffic. I think I got very lucky there.
That's a great price point for high CRI bulbs – but the reviews on the page you linked to make them sound massively unreliable!
Cool thanks - I'll look into what might be causing the back button behavior.

> Im sorry but setting up a cronjob to download maxmind + include jars into project seems easier and faster than incorporating a third party web service.

Sure, if you've got the required sysadmin and dev skills, and a server to host the file. Not everyone does.

We also return additional data beyond geolocation, such as the ASN and hostname, and have additional optional fields such as company name and domain, and carrier details. You could download multiple databases and do it locally, but it's even more effort.

> about speed, since you call such a database yourself most likely, you are not gonna be faster than local lookup

Oh sure - it's not quicker than a local lookup - it's quicker than _other_ IP geolocation APIs.
Gerrit and Github are not "very similar". They are quite different. (Something that would be rather immediately clear to anyone who used either for some duration)

> And besides, if they want to they can just diff it on their own machines with whatever tools they like!

Oh yes, a very compelling argument when discussing workflow tools is to suggest local diffs. Bravo!
"Linting also helps catch errors like reassigning consts and speeling errors"

Hehe.
More like one week on the market. The first boards shipped the 23rd of December.
Why Do Jellyfish Glow?
There are ways besides cutting their rates, to deal with people who refuse to pay their taxes. Hangings, imprisonment, seizure of property...

And what a surprise - rates today are much lower, yet tax evasion continues to be a problem.
>That would eliminate even the thin handkerchief of SS being a sort of mandatory government-run savings program

It would have been called mandatory social savings if that was its intended purpose. It's not. It never was. It's social security.

>one of the arguments that people regularly make in favor of SS when they feel it's under threat: "it's your money"

This is actually one of the arguments used to try and justify privatizing it and handing over the money to Wall Street to invest instead (Bush tried to do exactly this and Obama made noises about it).

>And by removing the contribution cap, it'll suddenly have a lot of very wealthy enemies

It ALREADY has a lot of very wealthy enemies who are trying to privatize it. One of the most prominent is Stan Druckenmiller, who is fairly open about inciting intergenerational warfare - telling "millenials" that "boomers" are the cause of their problems and that the "fix" is privatizing social security and austerity:

http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2013/10/who-should-young-peop...
A company based in a Muslim country and owned and managed by Muslims investing in a secure complex to store alcohol is like a government of a fiat currency-using country investing in a secure complex to store gold bullion, I suppose.
I read the linked paper and it's of a very poor quality. They fit an epidemiological model to the current data and then extrapolate it blindly to the future. (The fact that it worked in the case of MySpace is not as impressive as it sounds since by 2014 MySpace was long dead.)
Patreon has the problem that I can't support someone with $0.50 per month because of transaction costs. Almost all patreon tiers start at $5/month and go up from there. There is a very small percentage of things I use the internet for that I am willing to pay $5/month for.
> Previously, we could simply exchange Indian currency to any other currency abroad. But now there is no way for us to exchange money in US.
> My whole family will have to go to India to exchange money, one person can only carry a maximum of Rs. 25,000. So six members of my family would have to take time off from work and go to India to exchange 1.5 lakh Rupees. Moreover, it would cost us around Rs. 6 lakhs to make a trip to India.

You shouldn't have kept so much INR with you in the first place. What is the necessity to keep 1.5 lakhs hard cash in US when you can't even use it? Most of my NRI friends don't even carry cash. Even when I travel abroad I normally use International Debit/Credit cards issued by my bank. If there is a dire need to carry cash I normally convert it to dollars as soon as I land in the destination country.

You kept this stash of money without converting it to the dollar equivalent. It makes no sense to me at all and raises even more suspicions. Also, most of my NRI friends have NRO accounts which they have already used to deposit their old notes when they visited India during the demonetization phase. So it is purely your own doing to hoard INR in a country where it is not even recognized for trade.

> I don't want any privilege, I just want my hard earned money back.

In all possibility, you won't get it back. You had all the time in the World to convert your INR to USD through a local money exchanger. But you chose not to and decided (for whatever reason) to hoard it instead. If I were you, I would have converted my INR to USD as soon as I landed in US. I would rather have US dollars than have INR. If I needed INR I could have easily converted it back when I landed in India.

> I am not a blind bhakt. I lost 1.5 lakhs in this Modi's scam, this scam also destroyed my father's business in India. Modi killed over 100 people and destroyed millions of jobs, so he can write off bad loans worth billions for his cronies.

Nobody killed anyone or destroyed "millions of jobs". It is your own doing. You chose to stash INR instead of converting it to USD as soon as you landed in US.

He never said he will "write off bad loans". You are now spreading pure propaganda. He only classified these bad loans as NPA. Learn the difference between a loan write off and an NPA before spouting nonsense.
Be careful, though. Soraa, for example, makes fancy LEDs with CRI 95, and they use violet LEDs behind the phosphor. The problem is that the phosphor lets a decent fraction of the source light through. Soraa even has a nice graph on their spec sheet, and it has a violet peak.

Also, a neat fact: all CEC qualified LEDs are high CRI.

(P.S. I bought a GE Reveal once and it had the worst color fidelity I've ever seen. Some normally bluish surfaces were distinctly green. I don't understand how it has a high CRI.)
Sivers had a piece recently about balance in art and work. He suggested having a job that's purely about the money, and art on the side that is untroubled by concerns about commercial viability.

https://sivers.org/balance
I see a lot of it too .. the fact that a lot of people want to stop using it is telling us whats coming for the company..
I have replied in detail to your comment above.
I've got a top-end Sony 4k TV (x940d with full-array local dimming) and some of the first content I watched on it was the Rio Olympics in over-the-air 1080i. The quality was simply stunning. As you can imagine, the Olympics broadcasts would have used some of the best cameras available. Upscaled 1080 content is absolutely superb, and I often have a difficult time determining 4k from 1080p at ANY distance.

That said, I'm not sad I went 4k because the set really IS that much better than a 1080 set, especially a low-end one. Sony upscaling and motion processing really is where it's at.
You've taken some factoids from history and attached some simplistic "just so" explanations for events. The U.S. has egregious acts in its history but it's inaccurate to presume that its success is solely due to plundering the world economy. Do remember that European, African, Asian, Oceanic, and Latin American countries experienced a massive improvement in their economies post-war; how could that happen if they were haplessly at the mercy of a cruel victor's reserve currency?

1. Bretton Woods worked out to the disadvantage of the U.S. in the long term. Massive budget deficits brought on by Vietnam War borrowing and ballooning social programs, as well as trade deficits, led European countries to withdraw gold from the U.S. in order to preserve the value of their currency reserves. Leaving it was the only option to both stop the drain of gold and also to escape currency pegging so the dollar could be floated to reflect the trade deficits.

2. The reason why OPEC adopted the dollar was for maximum convertibility; at its inception, the dollar was the most circulated currency in the world. It was, at the time, the one backed by the most gold. The Euro did not exist and the Yen was not as strong or stable.

3. Resource pillaging surely occurred, but in that time period, massive improvements in domestic manufacturing, resource extraction, and agriculture accounts for the largest increase in U.S. citizens' wealth. Multinationals accounted for a small proportion of U.S. revenue.

4. The U.S. didn't "win" against the USSR despite what Mr. Reagan may told you on TV. The USSR failed economically due to a drop in oil prices due to its undiversified economy and the political impossibility of stopping social and military expenditures without upsetting Communist Party elites. The U.S. received paltry economic benefits from the Soviet unraveling. If anything, it received increased competition from suddenly available labor pools. Political advantage does not translate to economic advantage.

5. Outsourcing began long before the internet was significant. The cause of outsourcing was the improved political stability of countries with competing pools of labor and the improvement and commoditization of technology.

It's convenient to adopt a zero-sum outlook on global trade, to assume that if a country does well it must be at the expense of others. However, study of history does not support this conclusion.
>you have to admit a 17 year schedule is amusing in todays world

No I don't.
Hah yes we did. Wires. Of course everyone wants wireless though and while it would've improved the overall experience I'm not sure it would've saved the company. Other market factors were making more of a problem than just delivering good tech :/

In further thinking about the idea, once the wifi devices are time synced like this, you can also begin to use that signal for localization in addition to the traditional optical or electromagnetic tracking. Fun!
Zcash Multi-Party Computation Ceremony [video]
FindTime – the easiest way to schedule across companies
Win+X,I (cmd or PowerShell, configurable, and the default that is about to swap hence all the articles lately) and Win+X,A (the same shell, but this time Admin).
Yep. FB fatigue is REAL!
If things get dicey enough that they start taxing Roths, you can bet that they'll tax traditional accounts enough to claw back the original tax deduction plus interest.
sagas are a steep learning curve and absolutely knowing what a generator function is essential before opening the docs. They are a very productive tool and worth the time imho.

They allow your redux containers to concentrate on selecting state and triggering actions and the async stuff stays out of the way in 'workers'.

Defo worth a look if your redux project has more than a few pages.
David Byrne on not being afraid to fail
> John Cannarella and Joshua Spechler, from the US university's mechanical and aerospace engineering department, have based their prediction on the number of times Facebook is typed into Google as a search term. The charts produced by the Google Trends service show Facebook searches peaked in December 2012 and have since begun to trail off.

Well, yeah... The more people are already familiar with facebook, the less they will be googling/researching it. If anything, considering the popularity of Facebook at the time, it should have been seen as a sign of vitality.

I'm pretty disappointed that the Princeton researchers were so blinded by googlinums that they forget those googlinums don't exist in a vacuum. Probably why mechanical and aerospace engineers aren't fit to make predictions of a social nature (among other engineers, too, sadly).
How long til Elsevier sues scihub? What scihub does isn't possibly legal, is it?
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How Mobile Video Is Changing the Way We Witness Crime
In subjects like physics journals are already an anachronism as everything is published and referred via arXiv anyway.
Well we know what the alternatives are; cut benefits or expand immigration to balance out the demographic bulge of retirees.
From a user's perspective, data showing me traveling to and from my home directly is not very anonymous.
I second this. In my experience Mobx actually speeds up initial development. And it is easy to learn. The same cannot be said for Redux.
"John Cannarella and Joshua Spechler ... have based their prediction on the number of times Facebook is typed into Google as a search term. The charts produced by the Google Trends service show Facebook searches peaked in December 2012 and have since begun to trail off" as more users started using their phone instead of google to experience the Facebook.
Radio Bursts Traced to Faraway Galaxy, but Caller Is Probably ‘Ordinary Physics’
The First Connected Condom French
isn't this like duo? https://duo.com/product/trusted-users/two-factor-authenticat...
That part of NY State was called the 'Burned-over district' because "the area had been so heavily evangelized as to have no 'fuel' (unconverted population) left over to 'burn' (convert)". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burned-over_district
Does Scaleway serve customers outside of the EU?
Sounds like you have some background on this. Would you elaborate? In particular, how the differences make the research unlikely to be meaningful with respect to humans?
This is sort of a self-fulfilling prophecy, or at least it was when the Boomers made the same decision...
> The reason why this doesn't work is that we have to pay for the services that help all of society. Fireman, police, roads, electricity, making sure that the food we eat is basically healthy. You could argue that "you" are a special person who will never rely on society for anything. You'll make your own clothes, fight your own wars or whatever. But we are all related.

It does work. Modern society has agreed upon on taxing earned income to provide shared services. That's where the money to pay for all the things you describe comes from. The roads, firemen, police, you name it. It all comes from income taxes (or that and real estate taxes for some of the local stuff but primarily income tax).

By taking care of your grandchildren and generally being helpful to your kids, they're covering you end of all of those as well. They earn the money that buys you food. They earn the money that puts a roof on your head at night. And all that money would be taxed per usual. Arguably you'd be paying more taxes in this setup that if each of you split out and made a more meager existence due to the progressive nature of taxes (i.e. your son making $50K pays more than if each of you made $25K).
It's one of the most popular social programs ever run in this country and that's why 'every few years' the efforts to privatize it go nowhere. Even the current unified Republican government won't dare touch it, and no one would want to more than Paul Ryan.
Interesting article. Shame about the lack of illustrations
While I agree he's likely looking into the possibility of a political career, I'm not sure anyone will be elected President in 10 years.
No. But the installer that wrapped around the thing the user actually wanted certainly can.

You know. These adware "downloaders" that completely hose your browser unless you find the correc checkbox full of double negatives to check.
Is this being posted for humor value?

This was written in 2014, the researchers saw a small trend and extrapolated that the trend would continue, causing 80% user loss from 2014 to 2017.

Since 2014, FB's active user count has increased from 1 billion to 1.7 billion and the stock price from ~60 to 120.

This article is a great example of a very terrible and very wrong prediction.
9 women can make a baby in a one month. I used billions of data points to train my model.
How do you tell the difference between a $1 steak and a $10 steak?

I'm not a huge wine drinker, but I drink a bit. I feel that price is more about consistency. If you get a $30 bottle of wine, >90% of the bottles are going to be good.

If you get a $5 bottle of wine, there are some good bottles, but most of them are not good wines. I've had some very good bargain priced wines, but I've also had my share of $5 wines that taste like vinegar.

There's also diminishing returns. Generally a $30 bottle of wine is going to be a lot better than a $5 bottle of wine, but a $100 bottle of wine isn't going to be proportionately better than a $30 bottle.
> But tech has been low-risk for the last few decades.

We only know that because we have the benefit of hindsight. But for somebody growing up in the 80s, 90s, and 00s outside of Silicon Valley, I don't think that it would have been seen as low risk when they were deciding what career to pursue.

Think about it. The reason software engineering has been a great profession for the last 3 decades is because an unprecedented number of software engineering jobs have been created in that time span. But most of those jobs didn't exist 3 decades ago (or even just one decade ago).

Somebody who can hack it as a software engineer can probably also hack it as a doctor or a lawyer. Choosing software engineering over law or medicine was definitely taking a risk. You probably had to relocate for a job, whereas jobs in law and medicine exist in most of the country. People were making good money as software engineers, but you couldn't be sure that would continue (I mean, there was the crash in 2000).

Again, not in hindsight. In hindsight, it was a reasonable choice, especially since you avoid huge additional schooling costs. But if you were making that decision 10 or 20 years ago, it was definitely taking a risk vs. the established career paths that law or medicine offer.
That's WAY too complicated. Just run the power through a high-frequency tank oscillator to convert from 60Hz to a much higher frequency with just a coil and capacitor.

Or, do what I did. Just make the rectifier directly out of LEDs itself - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDnCHyF7o5U And from there you can power your devices with the leftover DC power.

LEDs are seriously far more robust than they were a decade ago.
Is that the one who made all the departments compete against each other like they were separate companies?
This isn't a solution because, while yes, it does allow them to access some/all of the specific journals and articles the academics would need to use, but the schools/country aren't going to advocate for this since they want the contract with Elsevier in general even if they don't like the terms.
I often find it nearly embarrassing to check my "Stories" section on the bus, because right there at the top is some sort of sensational headline with an out-of-context, usually quite risqué photo.

In the recent past, the first few tiles would show some Kardashian sister in a wet shirt, bathing suit, or less. Just a couple days ago, I want to say, was a revolting picture of just two large tongues lashing one another... One of the best parts about my jailbroken iPhone 6 was that I could tweak Snapchat to hide those (along with the "Featured" Stories below, today in which is a whole communal story dedicated to eating pasta).
Open source SaaS pricing
The most likely is 3) Your HR department doesn't want their highly compensated employees' contributions to be rejected because the plan is top-heavy and is too cheap to make a safe harbor contribution to avoid that.