skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't see it that way.

Bitcoin "miners" are absolutely middlemen. Right now they take a cut mostly in the form of the block reward; later it is assumed they will take a cut in the form of rising transaction fees.

Anytime you have a blockchain that (A) anyone can join, (B) transports or represents value, and (C) is vulnerable to "51% attacks" the system only works when there is an equilibrium among the stored or transacted value, the compensation for miners, and the electricity that they burn doing the mining. Otherwise, the value that can be extracted with a 51% attack exceeds the cost of mounting the attack (PLUS the cost of not participating in the blockchain with that amount of hashrate, which pushes the needle somewhat but doesn't change the fact that there must exist some equilibrium point)

(last I knew there was not a breakthrough in block chain technology that protects the blockchain from being rolled back by an attacker who holds over 50% of the hashrate for an extended period of time, and that allows double spending and other unintended transactions to occur)

It's true that in principle these miners can be anyone---maybe even you---but the reality is that they are vastly, overwhelmingly ASIC miners running in places without metered electricity. They are your faceless middlemen, absolutely 100% by design leaving you without even the meager recourse your government probably requires you when you feel you're wronged by your banks or credit card companies.
Given the tax scheme is published well in advance, they certainly seem to be worth something---else who would take them?
This is roughly correct. The 90-day exercise window isn't just something made up out of thin air to handcuff employees and keep them from leaving.

It's explicitly written into the tax code that an option must be exercised within 90 days of leaving a company if the option is to be treated as an ISO. ISOs are arguably more advantageous than NSOs, which is why this is the default.
Well, if you could 3D print rounded furniture...
> In just five to six quarters of your growth projection, they'd have caught up to the Facebook sales multiple.

>> Put another way, Snap has a year and a half to hit $2bn in revenues

"Five to six quarters" is the same as a year and a half.

> 50% growth for 2019 = ~$2 billion in sales, which gives them the 14 price to sales multiple on today's market valuation

In 2019. We are comparing Snap's price-to-revenue ratio, adjusted for expected growth, with Facebook's. If you increase the time Snap has to reach a price-to-revenue threshold then you've reduced its growth. That, in turn, requires a higher price-to-revenue ratio to make the growth-adjusted PRG comparable.

Going from $404 million to $2.06 billion in 3 years (instead of 2 or 1.5) means a 70.4% growth rate (instead of 122% or 190%) [1]. That produces PRG ratios of 1.07, 0.627 and 0.399, respectively. Higher than Facebook's 0.266.

[1] http://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/cagr.asp
Give 'em a megabuck and they'll probably put you on the board. Three Ws: work, wallop, wealth.
You can do this with gmail.

For example if your gmail is root@gmail.com

You can do root+yahoo@gmail.com, root+reddit@gmail.com and such on.
> My understanding is that all operations are carried numerically and the only way that would prevent accumulation of errors would be to perform them symbolically and solve them numerically just at the end but I suppose that would be extremely inefficient.

You can solve the problem with extended integers, but not as easily as you would expect. In 2D, it takes something like 2n+logn bits of computation to accurately calculate things for n bits of coordinates. So you need more than 70 bits just to calculate 32 bits accurately. And we almost always need 64 bits, nowadays.

And this requires "binning" which breaks things like measurements of "parallel". It's not an easy problem, and it requires lots of test cases.
Silicon Valley programmers pressure friends to quit working at Uber
Are you looking for anecdotes or data?

What conclusion are you hoping to reach here?
Investors have the option to read about all the these low level details and can chose not to invest but in reality that does not happen.
In my opinion, there are several advantages of a company going public. The foremost being accountability. I guess it's a bit psychological. Once you are public, inherently that feeling imposes some financial discipline on you as a founder/CEO. Then there are the mandated standards that force discipline upon you further. Next is the cheap availability of capital. Public money is one of the most economical ways of financing large sums of capital, on realistic terms. Third, you are not at the whims and fancies of a select group of investors. You can structure the company shares in ways that can either give you complete control or lets you keep strategic control while allowing you to de-risk your investor cohort.

That being said, one of the most frustrating parts of being a public company is SoX compliance. This is not just for the CEO but for any executive/VP dealing with finances and sales. Every large sale takes a bit longer because now you have to have this additional layer of scrutiny. When you are used to silicon valley pace, these delays can frustrate you, but you eventually get used to it I guess.
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Robotics/instrument control, manufacturing automation, AI, image processing, computer vision, systems level stuff, large scale network/system engineering, whatever. Fields where you're solving hard problems that haven't been solved a million times already.
There may be intermediate buffering, but the panel is still updated in a scanning fashion.
> But, if it was altered to only work at the lower pH, then it could target just the pain source at the peripheral nerves, the researchers hypothesized.

Do you know how this interacts with anti-inflammatory drugs?
4) Use outsized market cap for acquisitions. Facebook for example picked up Instagram for a billion dollars, in large part (~70%) using its very lofty valuation/shares as exchange. Basically in net an incredibly cheap acquisition of an incredibly valuable property.
employees don't currently have the transparency to make this objective decision.

founders and board members are very opaque about this information, the prevalence and the covenants of preferred shares.

the state of delaware has created greater transparency requirements for securities holders of private companies. fortuantely it is still trendy for companies to incorporate in that state despite the 55+ distinct jurisdictions under the federal umbrella. unfortunately, employees have found themselves in legal battles with their own companies for attempting to leverage these regulations.
It's a tricky business. ask twitter
In my experience, tendinitis and carpal tunnel syndrome are hand and wrist examples, tennis elbow, there are neck problems, upper back problems, shoulder problems, general muscle balance problems.

I developed a click in my wrist from mousing for 10 hours a day at work, without a break. (Yeah, I know it is illegal, and so did they.) That took a few years to go away.
40? Ha! I have shoes older than you..

Not really.. but I am a bit older than 40 and if what you are looking for is a steady source of income, I would recommend you to look for places that have large investments on older ( >10 years) technologies that you already understand. Younglings don't care for stuff like Foxpro, Cold Fusion, SQL Stored procedures, etc.

*It kind of sucks, but pays the bills :)
US may need to follow Philippines anti-drug campaign.
Hey, there! I'm on the spectrum (Aspergers), so take this as face value..

I've been in a relationship for almost one year now (my first serious one). I'm exceptionally independent and spend a lot of time to myself coding and working on projects.

My sex life is... different, I think. I'm bisexual and so is my girlfriend. I think my sex drive is much lower than most people. I crave it occasionally (maybe, seriously, like once a month) and it feels more mechanical for me than emotional. I enjoy it and it's fun, but it feels like work a lot of the times. I'm very sexually open and sex positive, too.

I'll answer more questions about my relationship, if wanted.
I am getting an HTTP ERROR 500.
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Japan is and will remain Japanese. The same can not be said of Sweden.

I think I see a bias here: culture is valuable, unless it is western. In the future, it will not be possible to go visit Swedish culture.
A simpler version of the same idea has been implemented before, eg. the Nottinghack BarBot
https://youtu.be/20SI1o-t1F4

When they demoed it at EMF camp 2014 they had a mobile interface where you could select from a menu of cocktails and thet you waited in a queue for it to be made.

Some more details of the design can be found at https://wiki.nottinghack.org.uk/wiki/Project:BarBot
Sadly she only has Medi-Cal. Which only covers care for when she is detoxing. No rehab.
Game theory on your comment, sure... but I was just referring to "price per record/line item" -- how to separate these???
I see this as a Boutique Incubator. Something smaller, with more closeness between mentors/investors and the team.
Zcoin implementation bug enabled attacker to create over 500K Zcoins
I wrote up most of the video's in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13807203 so anyone can ready them.
> A good bartender on a busy night can make ~100 drinks an hour

The article states they're good for 120 drinks/hour. FWIW.
Forgot to mention that my SO and I tend to have sex once per week. She lives a little distance away and it just makes more sense to see each other on the weekends, in my opinion.

It allows us to maintain our (awesome) relationship and keep our independence.
They already spend less than most comparably-ranked universities. If you take a look at the link I posted on the top-level comment, you'll see that expenses per student have been increasing pretty slowly.

Of course, waste should still be cut if it exists. Are there any specific programs that you think should have their funding reduced?
Bah! Just always return 200 and if there's an error, make your users look for an error property in the json return value that contains a thoroughly unhelpful error message, like "I'm a teapot." ;)
Affordable Care Act Repeal Bill Published [pdf]
It's as ridiculous as it sounds, but they go through a lot of effort on the corporate side to make sure they're in the clear. It's a lot of CYA paperwork and stuff demonstrating they've done what they could have. And then out-of-court civil suit settlements that are sealed so no one knows the details and can't form class action suits or coordinate well enough to initiate a criminal investigation (their family member's accident seems like a one-off to them, they don't know the extent of the problems).
I think they have a fair idea of what they're talking about, but you've both rushed to reply without thoroughly reading. Seems they missed where you talked about it being okay as long as you can monitor realtime and you've missed that they missed that.

You are wrong about the need for proprietary ASIO drivers for all devices, or that many of the best audio interfaces don't support Windows.. One manufacturer is not "many" and while they are high range, it's definitely arguable whether they're the best.

Anyway, in my experience it's rarely the hardware itself that requires the majority of setup, and either way it's a once-off. Unless you're the kind of person who uses the same template for every recording session, in which case you have bigger problems than setup.
Viewers don't explicitly note the event, but they do become more immersed. The movie wouldn't have been so much of a landmark if they just plonked the animation on top of the live filming with no thought to lighting and environment.
I think the crazy way Donald Trump used his charity demonstrates that it is probably pretty easy to abuse charities in the US. I am not trying to make a political point, I'm sure there are liberals who take advantage of charities too. But if Trump wasn't running for President, would anyone have noticed how the funds were being used?

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-election...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-used-258000-fr...
"accusing Google of manipulating search results to favor its own products over Yelp’s."

Is Google innocent of this? They certainly do put their own products at the top of the list in many cases.
Ford Testing 3-D Printing for Prototypes and Car Parts
I will admit to having only skimmed it, as well as reading the cnn [0] piece on it, but literally the one expansion-of-coverage move that Trump kept talking about - interstate competition - doesn't appear to be part of it.

[0] http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/06/politics/republicans-public-ob...
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There is like 5,000 programming languages around.

If you "just" create another one, without any novel contribution to the "languages" domain, you are basically just creating noise.

Nobody will use your language and nobody will write about it.

So.. .what is the point?
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I'm currently on sabbatical doing French immersion, and will be available for work from April. I prefer remote, but somewhere in a French speaking area is also possible.
Dates of recording for the videos on the home page of startupschool.org? Would be helpful to prospective students.
A Compositional Object-Based Approach to Learning Physical Dynamics
> "Five to six quarters" is the same as a year and a half.

You said they need 290% growth for years into the foreseeable future. You were wildly exaggerating. They never once need to hit near 290% style growth rates in the next three fiscal years (including 2017).

You seem to be intentionally ignoring that they don't need 290% type growth to reach FB's sales multiple rapidly.

100% -> 70% -> 50% growth is perfectly reasonable based on historical comparisons and what Snap has already managed.

By the end of 2018, their 21 sales multiple would justify the contrast with Facebook's 14 type level, based on the much higher growth rate.

Or, let's be even more realistic about it. Their stock declines from here as most are expecting. They have a $22 billion market cap instead. Their sales hit $1 billion for 2017, and then $1.7 billion for 2018. Their multiple at that point (13) is below the Facebook 14 number. That's a mere seven quarters or less away now, performing at a growth rate that is likely to be hit or nearly so. That's assuming they don't outperform on ad sales and deliver even higher growth.
There's no long-term benefit if out-of-state students don't stick around after graduation. This is an even bigger issue with international students due to immigration laws.

There is a difference between less-qualified and under-qualified. The difference between a 3.7 and 3.8 high school GPA is negligible. Top state schools are so competitive that we're splitting hairs.
It seems opioids work centrally and peripherally.

From WP:

Opioids act by binding to opioid receptors, which are found principally in the central and peripheral nervous system and the gastrointestinal tract.

Recent investigations discovered opioid receptors on peripheral sensory neurons.A significant fraction (up to 60%) of opioid analgesia can be mediated by such peripheral opioid receptors, particularly in inflammatory conditions such as arthritis, traumatic or surgical pain. Inflammatory pain is also blunted by endogenous opioid peptides activating peripheral opioid receptors.

Here are some of the studies mentioned:

* https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4565585/

* https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4173362/

* http://www.nature.com/nm/journal/v9/n8/full/nm908.html

PS: I have no idea of what I'm talking about, just doing some basic research, so take it all with a lot of salt.
Sounds like a great strategy. If you can't beat them, just join them :)
> the JSF project has been reported to have lots of software defects

I haven't read anything that differentiates between these two possible scenarios:

1) Poor engineering, execution, etc.

2) The bugs expected in this software project. When I think of it this way, I'm amazed it ever was completed (but maybe I'm thinking about it the wrong way):

* Meet the specifications of not only three U.S. military services but also militaries and other entities in multiple national governments (with all the politics, compromise and complexity that involves).

* Invent and implement technologies to provide capabilities so bleeding edge that few people will imagine some of them for years, if not decades. There are no prior designs; nothing like it has ever been done. Part of the point is to exceed competitors' engineering capabilities by as much as possible.

* Integrate these technologies into a massive system of systems, arguably the most complex system in the history of humankind.

* The system is human-rated.

* Performance is the highest priority; there is no making easy compromises of performance for safety: Human lives, the outcomes of battles, the fates of nations, and the course of history may depend on performance.

* Accomplish this in secret, greatly restricting your access to outside resources. Will this work? You can't publish a paper and get feedback, or make a presentation at a conference.

* Accomplish this in coordination with thousands of suppliers in many countries.

* Because it's hardware and very expensive, your ability to iterate is limited. My completely amateur guess based on the above is that it's a massive, decades-long waterfall-style project.
The article that this discusses appears to be https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/04/world/asia/north-korea-mi...
This mentality is dangerous and pernicious. We have vesting schedules for a reason. They'd be reaping the rewards of their past work, not other people's future work.
DRM in HTML5 is a victory for the open Web, not a defeat
Of course there is risk involved in any formal legal action. But equally, a business is not above the law just because it has a lot of money, and having expensive lawyers doesn't magically mean you win every case.

With $100K in dispute, it would be surprising if no lawyer would even be willing to take the first steps, or if the cost of paying one to do so would be so outrageous that it wasn't worth considering if Google really were pulling a fast one.
This language appears in your stock option grant agreement (or some other very similarly named document). It's probably about 10 pages. You probably signed one when you received your stock option grant. It's full of legalese so a lot of people don't read it very carefully.
They most likely are written in C/C++ because the training algorithms are computationally intensive.
That's possibly the most bullshit argument I've ever heard.

Any founder will tell you employees are more important than investors. It's possible to build a successful company without VC—it's impossible to build one without quality employees.
As comments, usually. As near to the tech debt as possible.
Are you sure it was exact question about largest element in a one-dimensional array and not some highly obfuscated question about bees, trains and traveller bags?
The Soup was cool and really ahead of its time. But then I also think that the Newton was slow and a battery hog compared to say a PalmPilot, partly because one had a fancy innovative OS and the other was relatively simple.
We're on the list. Not sure I'm happy or sad.

Original title "These Are the 50 Most Promising Startups You’ve Never Heard Of"

Our company is in this list.

Have very mixed feelings:
- Happy for the PR,
- Unhappy because it means that our marketing team hasn't done a fabulous job on driving awareness.

it means we could probably do a better job
Congrats - I've been following Nathan's journey for a few years now. I am not a customer of his web app, as his product was not built for what I do, but nevertheless I have been reading his annual 'report cards' and have bought a couple of his e-books.

Just curious for those that are lambasting his methods of marketing - how do you sell or market your products or services? Are you even involved in the marketing & sales aspect of a business, or is your role just coding, devops, finance or other?
If you're in the U.S., look into contracting/consulting directly for companies. Companies pay handsomely for a couple of things: (1) risk reduction and (2) pain relief

I don't recommend trying to meet their needs for #1. I just mention it because I think a lot of people give risk reduction away for free i.e. fixed price contracts. If you do decide to offer a fixed price, at least double your rate. You'll still lose money but maybe not as bad. ;-)

Pain relief, on the other hand might be in your wheelhouse.

Let me clarify; sometimes when a manager needs to get certain projects done, throwing 6 junior programmers isn't going to cut it. Sometimes a manager needs someone who has a lot more fk ups [where do you think experience comes from?] under their belt and now knows what to do. If you can be that guy, you can make his pain go away to the tune of $150-200/hr.
MD's are often compensated based on patient assessments. "Rate your doctor" sort of things. How do you think opioid addicts rate doctors who tell them they have had enough?
> Twitter's revenue is $2 billion+, Facebook is $27 billion+. Snap's $400 million looks measly

Apples to apples etc...

TWTR revenue 665M in 2013 (the year they went public)

TWTR revenue 316M in 2012 (the year before)

FB rev 5.09B in 2012 (the year it went public)

FB rev 3.7B in 2011 (the year before)

SNAP rev ??? in 2017 (the year it went public)

SNAP rev 400M in 2016 (the year before)
> If the attacker managed to liquidate their Zcoins at an average price of $1.25, they may have netted themselves upto USD 750,000.

If you are a skilled programmer / security expert / mathematician, crypto currency exploit creation seems to be an extremely lucrative hobby.
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Just to add a bit to this:

Renoise is really rock solid, fast, light-weight, powerful, Lua-scriptable, and really cheap compared to your typical commercial DAW, like Bitwig. I think I paid less than $80 for Renoise, compared to about $400 for Bitwig.

The tracker paradigm is very different to the piano-roll paradigm that most other DAWs use. If you can get used to the tracker way of doing things, which is very keyboard-centric (kind of like vim and emacs), then you could be very productive, if not you might be better off with a traditional DAW.

Finally, trackers are usually used for making electronic music, and might not be the best fit for other types of music, or for making or editing long recordings. You might be better off with something like Ardour or Bitwig for that.