skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In B2B, there is a sales activity called Appointment Setting. Appointment Setters do nothing but cold calling and scheduling appointments. They don't attend meetings or, in many cases, even work for the company that has something to sell. They learn just enough to know whom within a company to target. Appointment Setters typically are paid in part based on the number of appointments they set. You don't hire them as much as you turn them loose... These are the purest hunters and good ones are relentlessly effective.

Once the appointment is set, the person who actually makes the sales visit is a specialist in selling the product.

If the product or service is highly technical, the sales person may be backed up by sales engineers, who join the sales process at the point that the prospect is making a more serious inquiry. Sales engineers may just respond to technical questions, or, they may actually develop prototype or demonstration implementations of the product.

Pairing up Appointment Setters with introverted technical sales personnel can be an effective strategy to maximize sales production.

In the end, companies that succeed have learned how to best sell their products and services, whether it's a smartphone cover and no humans are involved in a sales transaction except the customer, or whether it's a weapon system sold to the Air Force that keeps a sales team of 20 busy for years, or your local Toyota dealer.

There is no one-size-fits-all, but if you need to figure out how to sell your stuff, you can look at successful companies that reflect yours to learn what worked for them, and then assimilate what looks effective for your business, instrument the process, and iterate.
I know that is Uber's view, I think it's mistaken and unsustainable. The lack of a sustainable policy is what creates the existential risk.
Page views would be helpful, how often they are updated, topics covered, and maybe even voting.
It's a non-compacting collector.

In principle the downsides compared to compacting collectors is reduced cache locality, fragmentation, somewhat higher allocation overhead and higher memory footprint.

On the other hand it is a lot easier to implement concurrent collectors when objects are not moved.

> The changes that transformed WebKit’s collector were landed over the past six months, starting with the painful work of removing WebKit’s previous use of copying.

It is curious that mozilla chose the opposite, doing the painful work of turning a conservative, non-moving collector into a precise, compacting one.
> The current tech offerings are old, buggy, slower than molasses in winter, and doesn't work as promised.

I'd remove the word "current" because almost every tech offering they've had has been awful ranging from the thing someone's nephew built to the website someone hacked together to Quickbooks.

As a result, even the non-technophobes are hesitant to jump in. It becomes a matter of "the devil you know" as opposed to hating tech in general.

And at the same time, they probably have tech in their lives - like their iPhone - which "just works" most of the time and the contrast is even more frustrating.
Great article!! And i think it can probably be summed up with the sentence, unless your product has:

- a long history of data

- data that has low correlation to other available data sets

- a very small group of people who have access to this data( ie exclusive deals with a few funds)

Then its unlikely that you will be able to sell your data for any meaningful amount of money.

A few things the author wrote that I think deserve some attention.....

> You do hear the occasional story where a hedge fund paid a couple of millions a year to obtain a specific data set, and occasionally more. But there’s a reasonable chance that this type of price came with some kind of exclusive. Also, those contracts also probably have a limited shelf life, as the value of a data set decays over time, as per the above.

This is very true, almost certainly your data set is not worth millions a year to any specific fund. And if it is, its because you agreed to make your data set exclusive to a single fund.

Each data set requires its own special mess of tools for cleaning it, integrating it, figuring out how to generate a trading signal from it, putting it into production and then once its in production constantly monitoring it not only to verify the data is good, but to make sure it actually benefits the trading system.

I wrote this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13140352 a while ago and it got a very large number of up votes for what was essentially a rant that we're now drowing in data.

Hedge funds today share alot in common with AAA video games wrt to data. You used to be able to make a game with 2 people, then it was 10, then it was 50, then 100, now its 500+ for a AAA video game.

Hedge funds have the exact same issue due to the explosion of data. I know alot of funds that are skipping on data sets, due to lack of bandwidth to consume them all.

> First of all, unless it’s already commoditized, you probably don’t want to sell your data to the Bloombergs of the world.

Most hedge funds won't be your direct audience, they'll already have spent money to buy data from Bloomberg and Reuters. The few, say top 100, that might buy your data directly could be your market, but these funds don't exactly have huge sales teams ready to talk to you. Which means you need to hire someone who knows the landscape to sell your data. Your sales team might be the best group of 25 year old Stanford grads around but they aren't getting in the door of most quant funds without an introduction.

This is the website of one of the worlds most successful funds. https://www.rentec.com/Home.action?index=true
Look up Sanger sequencing.
You are listing Web browser engines. This article relates to JavaScript engines (eg: SpiderMonkey (Firefox, Servo), ChakraCore (Edge), V8 (Blink)).

V8 has some details about their GC (garbage collector) here[0]; ChakraCore here[1]; SpiderMonkey here[2].

Now, they are all generational, incremental and concurrent, but each with particular tweaks.

The approach detailed in this blog post is similar to one taken in ChakraCore, except it sets barriers on fixed-size blocks of memory, while Riptide uses objects.

[0]: http://v8project.blogspot.fr/2015/08/getting-garbage-collect...

[1]: https://github.com/Microsoft/ChakraCore/wiki/Architecture-Ov...

[2]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Projects/Sp...
I know that feel. I apologize if I came off aggressive!

Meh, no worries. I'm a veteran of early Usenet and /., you'll have to do better to come across as aggressive to me. :-)
David Bohnett was the founder and probably knows who that is. I'll send you an email with how to contact him.

These days he is a VC based in LA and does a lot of philanthropy: http://www.bohnettfoundation.org

He has one of the original enigma machines: http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/culture/la-et-cm-i...

And here's a very good hour-long interview with him about Geocities, can't recommend this enough: http://www.internethistorypodcast.com/2015/05/david-bohnett-...
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Call it what you want: I'm both agreeing with you (who said that mass migration by Europeans to the Americas was bad) and with the other guy who said that what's going on in Palestine is wrong.

Simply put, I can't think of a single example where a mass migration of people turned out to be a good thing for the people already living in the destination. If it's "racist" to claim that the Native American societies suffered horribly (and many were completely obliterated) as a result of European colonization, then so be it.

It's weird, I've somehow gone from a leftist to a racist right-winger in just a few years without changing my opinions at all. It used to be that recognizing the tragedy that was European migration to the Americas was more a sign of someone of a more liberal persuasion. Nowadays it seems the opposite is the case, only the "racists" feel a sense of shame about what our European ancestors did to the Natives. Weird.
>>For example, we figured out how to run our own global anycast network for "cheap". I would love to share how to do that with people, there is approximately zero information online or in books on operating anycast networks.

Will subscribe to your RSS feed, but wanted to specifically say that I for one would love reading about your cheap anycast network setup & operations framework. Thanks again for the original Geocities rescue and great work on the direction that Neocities is heading!
I can't believe how all these security experts are suggesting the Guardian retract a factually correct article because stupid users might switch from Whats App to SMS. Do you really think the average user is that stupid?

Maybe the Guardian article prompted thousands of people to learn more about cryptography? This is probably the first time many people have learned that a security protocol can have flaws.

To me it sounds like a bunch of security experts are angry that they weren't quoted in the most prominent security story of the year.
That's why Uber invests so heavily in self-driving cars.
I like this xkcd's comic cosmic perspective:

http://xkcd.com/1732/
>No way to vote on comments, no formatting or embedded images (which work with all clients, including the web UI), no way to edit comments after you've posted them, no easy way to subscribe/unsubscribe to just one individual thread... need I go on?

Last point aside, these are all in favor of mailing lists, you know.
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Glasswire looks pretty similar to this. I haven't tried the various paid versions, but even the free one shows a lot of useful stuff.

https://www.glasswire.com/
Sublime sounds like exactly what you want. I use the mouse all the time, especially when I'm doing a lot of reading and navigating. For these tasks the mouse is actually substantially faster. But when I already have my hands on the keyboard I can use vim commands to do quick navigation instead of moving my hand to the mouse. I think mouse based interfaces are much better for reading code, which is a lot of what I spend my time doing, and Emacs and Vim don't support that very well.

People may think their ace-jump and fancy motions are faster than the mouse, and they may be faster than the overhead of moving your hand to the mouse, plus the clicking, but when your hand is already on the mouse, the mouse is so much faster.

One great thing about Sublime's vim emulation is it is better about interacting with mouse use than other vim-things, including vim itself.

I also find Sublime is great at not taking "mental energy" like you mention. Multiple cursors can do basically the same thing as vim macros, but with macros I have to think hard about whether my commands will generalize and exactly what I want to record, but in Sublime I can see immediately if things are working (yes Vintageous works with many cursors).

Similarly the infrequently used commands take much less memorizing. I can do weird finds like "find in all .rb files in project, whole words, case insensitive" and then immediately convert my command to a replace without retyping all the other conditions or using an entirely separate command. In Emacs I'd have to Google how to do this since I do this kind of thing infrequently.

For tying to shell there are Sublime Text plugins that could do that, and writing your own would be easy. Personally I use one that allows me to run my selections through a Ruby script, or even evaluate my selection as Ruby. Example: I wanted to sum a comma separated list of arguments, so I select the first comma, spam "cmd+d" to select the rest I wanted (but not the whole file), type "+", select in parentheses, then replace the selection with the ruby evaluation. It was super quick.
I'd recommend using FUSE for experimentation. You won't have to like hack on the kernel and rebuild it all the time and stuff.

https://github.com/libfuse/libfuse
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Since when have you ever seen a probability in a newspaper?

(the climate scientist number is probably closer to 35,000; and when talking of surveys and samples, reporting the sample size causes everyone not professionally trained in statistics - that is, almost everyone - to underestimate the "power" of the survey.)
You seem to be ignoring human nature. Those few hundred million people are not going to simply accept their fate and go quietly into the night, these climate refugees are going to migrate, and do whatever is required to survive.

The social unrest caused by this will be a powder keg that could and most likely will explode into a major conflict. Humans are the exact same savage beasts we were 70000 years ago. We havent evolved, our knowledge has. Institutions keep us in check and without them... scary stuff. Stuff like the Walking Dead is pretty tame comoared to history. During the dow fall of the Aztec empire, they sacrificed(heavily disputed) between 4000 and 84000 people in just 4 days.
All it takes is a few upsurges in populism and Uber might be forced to do it on someone else's terms and without preparing investors for it. Even with first world labor standards, Uber is a superb business model.

I had Uber eats delivered the other day by a guy driving a beautiful newish BMW who seemed like an out of work white collar worker, not a livery driver. There is tremendous value in having short-term, minimal commitment structured employment options available, the services I recommend offer more value to employees than they cost because they are hard to find in a turnkey fashion for someone who needs them.
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This is spot-on. As someone who works in enterprise sales, the best performers (if performance is based on growing investment from the client into x product), are challengers.

Sales tactics, like aggressive selling or throwing everything at the wall see what sticks, does not work in enterprise sales. The enterprise sell is complex and nuanced based on all the decision makers and influencers. It helps to be less of a "classic-sales" person and more of a doctor. You want to diagnose, understand, and provide a recommendation. Often-times like a doctor, the client (patient) does not want hear or accept the solution (antidote). This is where the challenger mindset comes into play, the great sales folks are pushing for the "true solution" even if the client-team is not onboard. It can take time to get a champion on the client side who sees the light. Just to be clear enterprise sales only works if the solution is solving true business outcomes.

For selling to new clients, its important for the sales team to run a client diagnostic to understand if the product (solution) has a right to win. Its just the start of understanding the client. I will say getting to know the client and their hurdles is crucial and the clients are experts at their problems. But, they are not experts at solving it. That is why the sales person is there and why the product exists.
Build a Chrome extension on a 15 minute break
Can you share any more details or links? It would be really helpful for me. Thanks!
Forget "afraid". Developers have better things to spend their time on than jumping through hoops to learn the obscure workflow of an old community.

If I have the choice of a) contributing to the latest hippest JS browser framework right away, or b) spending several hours setting up a custom email-based work environment, then contributing to the driver for my bleeding-edge Skylake system, I know what I'm going to choose - despite having way more experience with kernel hacking (in a corporate, GitHub-Enterprise-using environment).
That depends on the technology. The technology I most often work with will have lots of fake DNA basepairs in a soup, which has the real subject's DNA broken apart into fragments and attached to a substrate to keep it from moving. The fake DNA basepairs bind to the complementary real basepairs and emit fluorescent light when doing so. En masse, the fluorescent light gets captured on camera and each of the possible basepairs' colors are scored, to provide a call for that basepair. Repeat the cycle a few times, map the lights to the same spots, and you generate a sequence of basepair 'reads' which are then sent further down a software pipeline for later analysis.

...the later steps in the pipeline involve using lots of complex math to reassemble the sequenced fragments back together, either using a reference assembly (such as the Human Genome Project) or else de-novo assembly (which basically _builds_ a reference assembly through lots and lots and lots of effort).

There are other technologies as well which I'm not so familiar with.
>>So we figured what the hell, jumped on in, got some iPad bundles from Square to use for this [...]

Did your employer at least ask for a refund from Square?
And that is probably the reason for the milk up front. The name-brand milk producer is paying big bucks for space in that cooler near the checkout, enough to offset the supermarket's probable loss in sales of their own store-brand milk in its normal location in back.
I think the Wii U was simply a "DS for the living room"
Apologies if my first comment was unclear. seems like we agree.
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Bezier curves from the ground up
Yeah, that's exactly what it is. Most Web UIs that implement pull requests though only support Pull Requests between repositories hosted on their platform. You can't just provide a url to an arbitrary git repo to pull from. In principle though, there's no reason they _couldn't_ implement a feature which would allow that.
> I too, was intimidated by the math & magic of ML when I first took Andrew Ng's Intro to Machine Learning Course 4 years ago (my first exposure).

Thank you for your kind words and encouragement. I will take them to heart.

I got my first taste of modern machine learning when I took Andrew Ng's ML Class (sponsored by Stanford), in the fall/winter of 2011; I completed and passed it. At the same time, I was also taking Thrun and Norvig's AI Class; I had to drop out due to personal reasons.

In 2012, after Thrun founded Udacity, they released the CS373 "Build Your Own Self-Driving Vehicle" course (I probably have that title wrong for the time; they changed the name of the course later) - it was meant as a stand-in for the original AI Class (I think there were licensing issues or something that prevented them from presenting it - they later incorporated it as a part of their offerings). I jumped at the chance, and completed that course as well.

When they announced this Nanodegree course, I knew I had to apply. So far, things are going well with the course. I'm in the November (2016) cohort, and currently working on the behavioral cloning project.

I do have in mind several personal projects to pursue, once I can come up for air from this course (most of my free time has been consumed by it). I do need more education, though, which is why I want to pursue the BA and MA. Two of my weak areas are calculus and stats/probabilities - which ML is heavily reliant on (plus, I really want to understand what is going on "under the covers" as well).

Onward and upward!
Strangely, many tech folks seem to have normalized some very wild fantasies about what the NSA does.
What should it mean except the plain meaning?

The new Zelda is coming out for Wii U. That's certain.

I have no idea what point you're trying to make.
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I'm about to buy a .xyz domain, and - out of curiosity - looked up the TLD on Wikipedia, and found the defamation line from the original submitted title on Wikipedia, with the linked PDF as a source. (For those who missed the original title, it was something like "On .xyz domains, it's forbidden to defame: Justin Bieber, Oprah Winfrey, and Daniel Negari".) Mostly I found it a curiosity, but I was hoping it might spur some conversation about issues with centralized control in DNS.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.xyz
One wonders why the Federation never told the Ferengi about the only currency ever successfully used on Earth after the invention of replicators, Dogecoin.

I choose to retcon latinum as a device that physically encodes a cryptographic key, writes a signed hash into a subspace blockchain, and continually supplies computation power to the latinum validation network. It may look pretty, but it is actually a sophisticated ASIC that runs entirely on ambient photovoltaic energy.

So you can replicate latinum, but in order for it to be worth anything, you have to possess a specific bar that the network has designated to be split, or you have to replicate more than all the other latinum already in existence, to perform a 51% attack on the network.
Wow I was downvoted for saying that management needs to be held accountable for criminality?

The cycle repeats because there is no disincentive to stop it. How many people went to jail after the 2008 crisis? I think you could count them on one hand and still not use all you fingers. Nobody will go to jail for Wells Fargo fraud either.
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You're opinion is correct. I completely misunderstood your position based on the previous conversations I have had.

The problem is that you're missing context on the other guys position, and the "conversation" that had gone on between us previously. His idea is that white people are inherently superior and therefore have the right to take what they want at the expense of others. He threw all sorts of nonsense statistics at me in an earlier comment.

Sorry for the misunderstanding.
This is a large topic and I've been thinking for a while. In essence, there are 2 major things we need to educate more.

1. Science. To the point that average joe understands that the prediction of climate change is concluded from the same scientific methods that helped us finding cures for diseases, inventing computers, and sending people to the moon. Science is not always perfect the same as we dont always have perfect cure for some diseases at the moment. But that is the best we can do for now, and it's the work of many experts over many years. So it is logical to either believe it or contribute to it scientifically, financially, auditing-wise, or something else. After all we believe in scientists not because that they have the title, but because we believe in scientific methods, in scientific approach.

2. Social science. Pure science is about causality. Social science can teach us value, what is good, what is bad, and happiness. Then we can discuss whether not acting upon climate change will make you more happy or less happy.
That's pretty much what my company does, and we're a SaaS company.

Simple is better oftentimes.
I don't think so. For the individual blogs, most people only write one or two a month. If you import the OPML into RSS OWL, you can go through and look for stuff that interests you. If you find a blog that frequently has interesting stuff, add the feed to your primary on-line reader.

These types of lists are good for people who do nothing but submit to HN/Reddit/Voat all day when they should be working. O:-)
Maybe if you can't believe it, there's something about the situation that you haven't grasped. Consider the possibility that practically every expert in the field isn't wrong about this, and that you haven't come to some surprising new insight in the time you've given to thinking about that.
Why do you think it's better than Sublime? Doesn't Sublime have those features mentioned?