skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ixonos Oyj : Where is Java today – and what’s ahead
Just saw this - I made a related comment above.
I love your breakdown, especially the 10%, so sadly true. But is it right? is the question I get asked a lot, and its a tough one to answer without getting into all the intricacies of what you actually did to the data to get it into a form where you could answer the question asked.
Malaysian here. Dengue is an unfortunate fact of life for us - the tropical, wet climate here makes for a great breeding ground for mosquitoes. It's not unusual for a person to be sick for a month or so due to dengue.

The fortunate thing about dengue is that it is rarely fatal. A combination of IV fluids and a lengthy hospital stay is usually enough.

The unfortunate thing is that one of the most effective methods of reducing dengue occurrences is banned in the US - spraying DDT.
Will Samsung top Apple by withholding revolutionary tech?
Christ these are features we should be excited for? Give us proper lambdas. Give us pattern matching on types with extraction. Give us first class functions. Give us higher kinded generics so we can stop duplicating code. None of these things are impossible to do without breaking compatibility, so just do it already.
I don't think that's the problem here. The problem the developers of the game have seems to be the fact that Canonical is claiming "the authors of Binding of Issac [sic] declined to make their game available" when the truth is they are the one who rejected the game. Put it plainly, they lied. To me personally, it felt like Canonical is trying to appear "open", while in fact they are controlling their own store's content, just like everyone else.
EU Charges Samsung With Patent Abuse Over Apple Cases
Debian does remove them by default. One of the problems FSF has is with the contrib and non-free repositories
Page weight is an issue generally, but particularly for people on mobile where there are often relatively low bandwidth caps before the insane fees kick in.

Page "girth", the number of different parts of a page that need loading via separate requests, is often a more significant issue for performance, again particularly on mobile devices but this time because wireless connections tend to be less reliable and even a modest increase in dropped packets can really hit your effective page load time.
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Oh that looks promising and it`s easier than my current solution. Thank you! For years I used the following small note saved on my mac to perform bandwidth tests of my application.

#create firewall bandwidth configuration
sudo ipfw pipe 1 config bw 15KByte/s

#add config to firewall
sudo ipfw add 1 pipe 1 src-port 80

#change. during testing
sudo ipfw pipe 1 config bw 115KByte/s

#delete. after testing
sudo ipfw delete 1
Actually, yeah. How about worldwide nxos crashes due to the leap second bug? Or the various poison bgp updates that've made the rounds? Or overrunning an ospf domain? Anyways my point, if you read the sentance after my quote, was there's a distinction between sole source provider and "ha". Multi source supply is due diligence. But it's not a perquisite for or solution to high availability systems.
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Well, miscommunication happens very often. I can't think of any reason Canonical would do this on purpose.
"Too expensive" isn't necessarily a fallacy, it depends on your funds size and your hedging strategy. If a startup requests for more money than you can afford, you don't invest, even if it's awesome.

From a founder point of view, I think fishing for the investors that missed the bar by a few centimeters is a clever strategy.

I would personally favor an involved investor over a rich investor any time of the day, because an investment isn't just a spreadsheet you agree upon.
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Too much drama. I'm sure this will be sorted out.
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Feels a bit like this whole issue is conflicting the management team with the investors - which is obviously very common in the startup world.

Need to take a step back and look at the primary purpose of acquiring investors: taking capital from them now in exchange for future cash flows to them later. To maximize this in favour of our business, we need to take the most money for the minimum amount of equity sold.

Now look at the primary purpose of the management team: to use the assets and resources placed in their care to create the highest future cash flows possible. This includes the tasks that Chris is conflating with investors: secure deals, find the best lawyers and accounts, getting meetings with difficult people. The management team is then compensated directly for their efforts.

The above is how it works in traditional companies. The investors invest capital and decide on the management team. The management team actually runs all facets of the business. In the startup world this relationship is not as simple, as the founders are both the primary shareholders and the management team itself.

What Chris is proposing is not as outlandish as it sounds - he is proposing joining the investors as part of the management team by selling shares to them for cheaper. If a share is worth $10 on the open market, but we sell it at $5 in exchange for valuable help from investors, then we are doing something very simple: we are paying these investors to be part of the management team, and in this case we are paying them $5 per share. This is a good option to take if the skills they bring are worth the $5, and a very bad option if we could hire better/more skills by taking the $10/share and then directly hiring on the market.

TLDR: Nothing to see here - you can pay people in equity or in cash, and the choice is as difficult as it ever was.
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Reverse Network Effects: The biggest threat to today's social networks
Money Quote:

Reverse network effects often cause a large and thriving network to implode. As a network scales, it’s ability to maintain a high signal-to-noise ratio is the leading indicator of its usefulness. Networks can, in fact, scale very well and prevent reverse network effects from setting in if they have:

Appropriate level of friction in network access and usage, that prevents abuse

A strong curation system that scales well with the size of the network

A highly relevant and personalized user experience

A democratic model for users to build influence
If valuation is not important, why take 5% for your $18K? Why not 0.5% ? 0.1% ?
Why not approve an angel who wants to get at least 5% for $150K ?
The reason why the "machines are winning" is most of the humans are held back by idiotic corporate structures and processes. Take HR for example; I've yet to see an HR department deliver real value that boosted performance.
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Exciting SU 3D printing/DRM startup looking for founding CTO
Eh, no what we see in nature are laws of nature in action.

And we cannot explain the hexagram exactly because we do not have the formula that produced that pattern. What our models do is to give us an vague idea of what is happening.

There are barely any perfect geometric shapes in the nature, at least at the macro level.

Strictly speaking, math has to yield to the laws of nature as it does not exist outside the laws of nature (as mathematics is in our minds). But that is kind of sideways thinking, as of all the concepts and ideas that are achievable through mathematics we are mostly interested in those that fit to the world around us and we discard the others. That is the reason why so many people get this "Oh my god it is all connected!" feeling.

It is precisely so, because we are mostly interested in the aspects that fit the world we see around us and we selectively discard the aspects that do not fit. In a sense we are writing a story we want to hear.
Flipboard Proves — Again — That Android Tablet Apps Don’t Have to Suck
Better example: automated cars. http://www.truckline.com/About/Industry/Pages/ProfessionalTr... claims 3.5 million truck drivers in the USA.

Add in the zillions of vans distributing stuff to smaller shops and taxi drivers,and one could see a huge impact on employment. Of course, not all of this will go (making deliveries probably will require the presence of a human), but firms will find ways to decrease driver's hours. For example, a truck driver could drive his car to the neighborhood where his truck makes deliveries instead of to the warehouse. More likely, companies would seek part time 'delivery assistants' that live in the neighborhood. As a second example, large multi-truck deliveries would need only one driver for handling the paperwork.
Binding of Isaac was originally written in flash (I think it's since been re-implemented) but don't let that put you off: it's a polished piece of gaming perfection.

The theme probably puts some people off, but the underlying mechanics are perfectly judged.
Too bad, China. Rare earth monopoly isn’t enough. You have to be able to use it
What you've said could also be summed up as the difference between 'dumb money' and 'smart money'.

The latter might be more 'expensive' but also more valuable.

I disagree with your TLDR. There's definitely something worth seeing here as Chris has just described a fundraising tactic that's useful to be aware of (it's not one I'd have thought of independently).
The book is called Surviving in Avalanche Terrain by Bruce Tremper, he's involved with an avalanche safety center in Utah (I believe he's the director there, but don't know for sure - book not at hand). It's an absolute must-read if you want to get your feet back on the ground and learn about the mountains. I'm learning a ton and enjoying the process.
I'm now curious if there are a segment of investors who use valuation to drive their decisions, even if its irrational to do so (valuation in Chris' case was a 2x factor, whereas success vs non success is a 100x one). If they exist, it may be worth targeting them.
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I made a similar mistake. I saw it, but saw no clear way to post different addresses for shipping and billing. I asked if there was a way on their facebook page, figuring that if I got an answer explaining how, I would pay (was planning on a $10 payment actually), and than if I didn't get an answer, I would just opt for $0 payment and put in my shipping address.

I then went about my business, completely forgot about the question I asked on facebook (because they never answered), and never ended up submitting the form.

Oh well.
The Psychology of sexism in geek/scifi circles
All of you people pointing out that AdBlock and NoScript and using w3m really helps reduce load times:

you're right. And missing the point.

A large chunk of the world is permanently bandwidth starved, and most of the mobile world lives on transfer caps and long latencies. If those are plausible scenarios for your audience, you need to reduce the quantity of invisible bits you are sending them.

What's an invisible bit? Any bit that does not directly create text or images on the screen is invisible. Anything that runs client-side. Some of it may be necessary, but most of it is probably boiler-plate or general-purpose when what you actually need is more limited. Reduce!
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I gave it several chances and it's a terrible game, it does a great job of annoying the player.
But the effects are still rather limited to nausea, pain and the systems influenced by stress response (esp. some immune system functions). You have to look at the absolute change in the body. Which is rather limited.
Stress in general can be reduced by more effective means (CBT, relax. tech.) than sham treatments.

For practical application there are other OTC substances you can take (such as adaptogens/anxiolytics - e.g. Ashwaganda & l-theanine) which will have a placebo effect (obviously differing on method of deliver (white coat vs. self, injection vs. pill) and additional effects.
Maybe a naive question, please forgive if it is, but why does using a string make it harder to maintain?
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Was there any way to enter different shipping and billing addresses? Right now I can't have anything shipped to my billing address, and on that form, I didn't see an option to set different addresses, so I couldn't pay for it. If you do this again, I'd recommend having that option (or making it more apparent if it was there).

(I was actually planning on paying $10, until I couldn't see how to enter different shipping addresses, at which point I changed my plan to pay $0 and enter just my shipping address. And then I proceeded to fail at both plans, not submitting the form at all due to my own forgetfulness.)
I've just had a look at the CLI functionality. About a year ago I've been looking for something similar and couldn't find anything light enough which just let me add TODOs on the command line. I ended up writing my own in about a hundred lines of Python which implemented the most important functionality. It had no way to filter or anything (that's what grep is for though) but it worked well. By now I have abandoned todo-lists completely after realizing that merely organizing my work won't get the job done. The best way to deal with work is to actually get it done, rather than procrastinate by just thinking about it.
Searched for New Zealand and got nothing. Searched for a specific city like Auckland or Christchurch and got matches. I am used to better results from Google.
My first book on computing was 'Pascal Applications for the Sciences - a self teaching guide' by Richard Crandall. A wondrous, stimulating and amazingly wide-ranging book in only 246 pages published in 1984 - the early PC days.
I think it's http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinsons_law :

Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.
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Is Amazon working on its own version of AppleCare for Kinfdle products?
You would expect that investors would help your startup more if they had more equity from a lower valuation and were rationally trying to maximize the expected value of their holdings.

However, in seed stage investing in startups, investors do not end up looking at their equity stakes when they decide to help or not help a startup.

The primary determinants of whether an investor helps you are:
1) Whether they are the type that generally want to help the companies they invest in
2) Their relationship with the founders
3) How successful they perceive the startup will be and whether they feel they can contribute to that success
Exactly! We just raise corporate taxes so high that the money collected can support unemployed masses, thus reaching the long sought after ideal of work being the option and not the necessity. Each person will have the choice to either work towards elevating his social status (via creating his own invention/company/piece of art/...) or just collect the state check.
Thanks for that, didn't know about that site. It's good too see someone in Australia working on this stuff. Love you you can watch the price too.
Dengue has always been around in the tropics and subtropics.

"There are around 50 million cases of dengue fever around the world each year according to the World Health Organisation (WHO). Of those, about 500,000 people contract severe dengue, which is a potentially life-threatening." [1]

It's a nasty disease, but it's no Ebola.

[1] http://www.health.qld.gov.au/dengue/info/worldwide.asp
But if the math we have is accurate because we have distilled it from the inaccurate, the question remains why is it accurate?
Much as I want to, DDT isn't the wonder-pesticide it is sometimes seen as (it affects not only birds - the german article has more info on wildlife, the english more on human health effects):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DDT
Also, I want to see how you drain Florida :-)
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It's for US originating flights only. e.g. New York -> Paris will work, however Paris -> New York will not. But i guess they are adding additional counties.
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A&A are fantastic, yes they are a bit more expensive but they really do outshine every ISP in the UK with their no-bullshit attitude, and I love the way they take BT to task when things aren't 100% working properly.

I used A&A before I moved to Ireland and really miss them. I'm stuck with Eircom (there is virtually no land-based provider choice in Ireland if you live outside of Dublin) who are a financial basket case and suffering from virtually no infrastructure investment outside of Dublin.

Internet access in Ireland is like the UK was back in 2002/3 and the Irish government wastes millions of euros on half baked 3G/Wireless schemes that don't work instead of fixing the terrestrial system properly.
My TLDR didn't imply that the decision or discussion wasn't important - choosing the equity structure is an incredibly important part of any business. Using the valuation number to try and buy skills and experience is novel (I think?), but the underlying idea is very much not novel.

When you hire an engineer, you can either pay him $100 or give him $100 worth of stock. If the engineer chooses to be paid $100 in cash, you need to acquire that cash. If you have revenues, you can pass those onto the engineer. If you don't, you can sell $100 worth of stock, and pass on that $100 to the engineer.

Valuations are identical - you are selling off the stock for cash - it is identical to the case above when distilled, and the actual choices involved are the same. Example:

Option A
Investor 1 who will give $100 in exchange for $100 stock
Investor 1 will not help the company recommendations etc.

Option B
Investor 2 who will give $50 in exchange for $100 stock
Investor 2 will get you a meeting with Investor 3 (X)
Investor 2 will help you with his experience (Y)

The above Option A and Option B is directly equivalent to the engineer dilemma above. You need to take Option B only if Value(X + Y) > $50
These are some pretty obvious advice, but some of the links provided is good
I've tried a lot of testing services like this, mainly web based ones that either take screenshots of a virtual machine, or allow you to remote control a virtual machine with a web browser. You really don't get a feel for the performance and responsiveness of a browser unless it's in real time and latency free. A lot of the services I've seen also have to have the page available on a web server for them to be viewed, which isn't optimal when you are attempting to make tweaks.

I've found it a lot faster and more effient to use VMWare Fusion and a series of prefabricated Virtual Machines. A couple of installs of OSX (you'll need to patch VMWare to get around their restrictions) and Windows will get you a very nice testing suite that can handle a variety of configurations.

The main caveat to virtual machines—licensing aside–is that you'll have to store a very large amount of data to have them all running. I've around 8 installs that I run at least once a week, totalling over 100GB. It won't break the bank, but it's something to think about if you are resource-limited.
I blame the THQ bundle. Seriously, all that awesome for just a $1 minimum. After that all these previously amazing indie games just look like flash toys.
I don't get what you're saying?

There is a large private insurance market outside the US. A lot of private insurance is augmenting state-run schemes, just look at Germany - the Krankenkassen system is not that different (lots of players, government mandated, plus private additions if you like shorter wait times or private hospital rooms).

What I was trying to say that if you're limting yourself to a single market like the US, the growth potential is not that big, same for your target market size and ultimately the amount of money you can make. as an investor something like Workday has more "fantasy" in terms of potential growth than something that caters to a very limited, national audience.

The company I work for launched a similarly national product and killed it after 6 months. Would have worked in the US, but then what? Our other stuff is truly global, so now that we cover the US fairly well we still have a lot of growth in OUS markets.
They just run things on a net-365 basis is all.
> Right. The idea is that you use app specific ones at first, then, as you find they're useful and stable, you make them a generic one.

Ok, but do you think there will will ever be a generic definition of "user" or "product" or "photo" that can access the full experience of e.g. Amazon, Google, Facebook, Flickr and GitHub?

Regarding Atom, Google adopted a extended version of Atom in for some (but not all) of their products, but no-one else adopted it in almost a decade, and Google are now deprecating it. (I'm sort of blurring the difference between link relations and media types, but they seem entwined.)

URIs and shared media types are great for interoperability, but my guess (we'll see if it comes true) is that pretty much anything beyond that isn't going to get traction. Hypertext was around before the web, but I think a big reason it took off is because had very loose interoperability demands. (e.g. links can break.)
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Most of the housing and transport costs are due to the extreme inefficiency of working arrangements which telecommuting is disrupting.
Oh c'mon, you do have a solution, exercise a bit of patience for 24 hours (if that). I bet most people complaining about this only found out about the film in the past few hours.

It's hardly the same as waiting for months before Dexter turns up in a format you want to pay for in your region.

Perhaps there is no strategy here, perhaps they just wanted a bit of extra time to make sure that their download and payment services were up to scratch so that there isn't a repeat of the JetBrains 75% off calamity.
If remote working was normal there would be potentially huge shifts in demand for housing. People don't necessarily want to live where they do but that's where jobs are.
And you thought getting into Y Combinator was hard!
This cool flight search has a "by Google" on it.
http://matrix.itasoftware.com
just a random thought on a spiritual bent of mind
http://jayasreesaranathan.blogspot.in/2010/07/saturns-polar-...
I find it interesting that it basically has the same function as Kayak Explore: http://kayak.com/explore - but with a completely different presentation.
Rent is set through competitive pricing. If suddenly the wage floor fell out of the service industry then rents would fall too. This is economics 101.
I'd like to mention David Leavitt's The Indian Clerk: historical fiction about Hardy and Ramanujan. I enjoyed it very much.
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Yeah, not international yet.
I've always wondered about the possibility of creating a stack system, application, and scripting language all designed to work together though.