skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can you have a short position in a privately held company? I don't think so, but maybe there's a financial vehicle for that.
> Then why are there tons of educated Estonians moving to the UK doing the low level jobs then.

Better weather?

> And first amongst former soviet states is not exactly knocking it out of the ball park.

Clearly, they should be ZEROTH.
Pearson is trying to change into a media technology company. I honestly don't know what useful information they will have to give a edu tech startup, or any tech startup. They outsource the majority of their tech work.

They are currently firing employees across the globe and re-organizing the company yet again so they can pivot away from traditional book publishing.

The terms from their press release say they want established (though young) companies that have a product ready to go to market. What value are they going to provide?
I suppose that most of the data structures which are naturally understandable in their recursive forms (like merge sort) would already be accessible via libraries.
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I ditched this service when they paused ads while I muted.
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I agree, this is stupid. Python is clearly the superior language, there is no need to constantly compare it.
If anyone is using this, I'd love to hear about their experience. We default to recommending Stripe to our customers, but will probably need to offer Braintree support in the future as well (in case they already have a Braintree account and want to use that instead of creating a new Stripe account).
Do you think having a dedicated record button instead of just tapping would be better?
I want my cheese (an essay about complexity in everyday life by Scott Adams)
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Sure. You can absolutely replicate chunks. But you start kicking the problem upstream. A rack down is a couple pb, so you start doing a ton of cross rack transfers to get your replica counts back up. Now you're gated on nic/TOR/agg switch throughput. A DC down and you're gated on nics TORs Aggs & intra DC network. And this keeps adding up $$$ the further you get.

Ms had an interesting paper on data locality in storage last year. Can't recall the title offhand though.
Hell, 40,000 people are demonstrating on the National Mall about climate change/Keystone XL, getting arrested, and the Obama administration doesn't give a damn. Why the hell would anyone think 100,000 "signatures" on an online petition site would make a difference?
He says it slides but "gets nowhere near 4x". That's clear enough to preclude 5x.
For the record, I read the article. I forwarded it to colleagues interested in the space, and the only thing worthy of it for me was my comment -- don't start one of these without a business model.

How did it apply to the article? Everything they did, didn't ultimately find a sustainable and repeatable business model. Instead theres all this perceived market validation of "oh look, investors say we're valuable", instead of market validation that's sustainable and repeatable.

I don't know anyone there and mean no one ill will, but without this, it certainly makes people wonder how making businesses lose money with deals for people who never come back is something you want to repeat, or how it can educate customers to become better customers (and pay full price).

I appreciate your judgement of me to be "pithy", but it's not. Snarks annoy me just as much. You can jump to the conclusions that you want but it's often fair to ask what someone meant instead of deciding what I meant in your positive and constructive open-mindedness.

This place for me is about learning to create a real business and not the lame bantering about distractions from this one requirement of any successful startup.
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Off-topic: Don't get me wrong, I'm on the side of whoever is telling the truth here, however, this CNN report/posting seems to be right on time in favor of Living Social, how does that work? do the PR department just email CNN and ask them "Hey, can you make a blog post quoting an internal mail to dimiss the lies PrivCo said early today?" No sarcasm here, does it really work that way or is just my imagination?
> the filing takes issue with Amazon’s proprietary DRM,
> AZW: “Ebooks with the AZW DRM can only be read on a
> Kindle device or on another device enabled with a Kindle
> application…the Kindle app works solely with ebooks sold
> by Amazon.”

Being able to read books from Amazon only on a Kindle or via the Kindle app isn't a big deal in practice, because there are Kindle apps available for every major platform and on the web.

The claim that the Kindle app only works with Amazon books is flat-out false. I know for a fact that it supports DRM-free Mobipocket files, and I assume that the Amazon document conversion service works for the app just as it does for Kindle devices.
This comes on top of an article a few days ago that (to people in the business at least) was almost as preposterous, in which their ranking criterion for VC funds was number of acquisitions. http://www.privco.com/top-20-venture-capital-firms-with-the-...
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It took 90 minutes to shoot one set of images and 60 minutes to copy those images off the memory card.

Note: USB 3 card readers (that we were able to buy) are not really "usb 3" :-(
IMHO PrivCo's report appears to be a good ole-fashioned hatchet-job. The real question is who is PrivCo working for? Or are they just trying to generate press with down news?
If they keep ~50% of the coupon price wouldn't that just mean $250mm then? Still a big number.
Fulfills my contention that in advertising/promotion, specs are an excuse for inadequacy. Most users don't care what the numbers are, they just want the darn thing to just work. Apple has brilliantly embraced this, reducing admission of specifications (ex.: iPad RAM content) and pushing technology to the point where it just doesn't matter (ex.: "retina" displays - nobody cares how many pixels 'cuz you can't see them). Sony has long been prolific in their specifications, which as a then-fanboy I learned were hard limits more fulfilling of marketing checkboxes than usable performance (ex.: yes, it's a 50GB drive; no, you can't use 10GB of it because we're obligated to store "installation copies" of software which you can't get to). Maybe Sony is realizing that, to most users, it doesn't matter what hardware the games run on, just that they DO run and convincingly so.
The title made me LOL so bad
Right. Sorry about leaving out the last paragraph. But one might try being short on a related public company, say, GroupOn.
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I was unpersuaded by the argument shanley put forward that specific phrases in use by startups were in fact code for abusive and immoral behavior. So yes, I was (and continue to be) dismissive of the argument. Until harryh mentioned it, I had no knowledge of their sex.

Perhaps not surprisingly, I care very much about good corporate culture and effective teams. And have worked at various times, and various places, to change behaviors that were antithetical to that. Weeding out and shutting down those 'proxies' you mention. I see that as part of what 'management' does, when its working well. I don't believe I've ever stated that I condone any form of discrimination, direct, indirect, or proxied.

I also recognize in myself a tendency to react strongly to speech which indiscriminately maligns what are generally good conceptual frameworks. A similar example was Steve Yegge's maligning the entire concept of Agile programming. It hits a sort of conversational reflexive kneecap in me, resulting in a nearly involuntary response in rebuttal.

It is, as you say, 'just a message board.'
There's so e serious irony there if those are the numbers, given that that's what the merchants are supposed to be doing.
Should've been more like "called it". Agreed, it doesn't meet the legal definition of prior art.
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You said.

> The contents of those scriptures have been retranslated countless times. Besides this fact, they were only written down about 500 years after Gautama Buddha died. Third, the words that were written down were those as transmitted by ordinary people, who had a huge gap in level of consciousness between them and Buddha, so they didn't understand exactly and didn't write down Buddha's exact words.

This could be true.

> Buddha said that he never taught anything of his own.

What is your source for this? How do I know that your source hasn't also been re-translated countless times? How do I know it wasn't only written down 500 years after Gautama Buddha died?

The majority says that the Buddha taught that we could end our suffering in our life. You say he didn't. You say he taught something else, but you offer no evidence. I'm just wondering what your evidence is.

---

edit: I truly mean no disrespect in this. I'm just curious.
Well now the story is updated. Quoted below:

UPDATE: Just got off the phone with Hamadeh, who is standing by his original report. He says O'Shaughnessy is misleading his own employees, and that classifying the round as "equity" is a technicality given all of the debt-like provisions PrivCo continues to believe were attached. He also says that PrivCo spoke with a LivingSocial spokesman prior to publishing, and sent him a draft of the report with a request for any needed corrections. When nothing came back four hours later, PrivCo published.
As you might imagine, now I've got a new call into LivingSocial.
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LinkedIn is a bit scattered when it comes to technology. They also made a big dog and pony show about how the vast majority of their mobile app is built in HTML5, and why that is the best way to do it. A few months later they made a lot of noise about rewriting much of it in native, and why that is the best way to do it. We had an internal debate about whether to use the wrapped web or native, and it was humorous seeing both sides using LinkedIn, and their vigorous arguments, as the foundation of their positions.
Except that the hospitals themselves say that the Medicare cost is typically around 10% less than the cost of the service/product.

The solution to a 10% shortfall is not to gouge those not responsible for that for at least a 150% minimum profit (up to 800%).
If you believed the Privco report when you first read it, I have a bridge you may be interested in.
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They can't claim the merchants' money as gross revenue, if they are using GAAP. It's the same issue that Groupon ran into and got slapped for.
This is exactly what I would do if I was an evil publication: make a prediction as to the trendlines of a business, write up a report full of false evidence, send a draft to the target and then declare it was the target's responsibility, not mine, to ensure that my report was correct.

What's different after this followup is that now CNN/Fortune is suspect too, because repeating this verbatim is unethical.
Here's a link straight to the fraud data: http://blog.balancedpayments.com/death-taxes-chargebacks-bal...
Yeah, I've been dabbling with it for like 1.5 years but got more serious in the last 6 or so months and it's fucking awesome once you get over the initial hump.
Also /r/edmproduction/ is your friend. And look into Tom Cosm's tutorials. Feel free to email me (it's in my profile) if you want to talk more.
The stocks of mined but unused coal are pretty small. It's very bulky and so expensive to store. Even oil doesn't have all that much storage, which is why when the market went into high contango traders had to rent oil tankers to store the oil they were buying on the spot market.

As for CO2, the method the article is talking about makes it convenient to capture CO2 (at an energy cost) but transporting and storing it once captured are far more difficult problems.
If we look at Groupon as a model, it becomes clear that SG&A is the major expense for a deals company like Living Social.

Earlier in its existence, marketing was also a huge cash sink for Groupon. This has improved for them as their product matured, but it's likely that Living Social is still spending a huge amount here, too.

http://investor.groupon.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=7002...
> You could just as easily serialize Python code and eval it.

That seems to be the consensus among all the people replying to me. :-) Fair enough. The difference I see is that lots of Lisp authors praise "no syntax" and code-as-data, so it seems to be encouraged, whereas I don't see Python programmers encouraging use of eval. Lisp seems designed for this kind of meta-programming. And it's really cool! It just makes me nervous.

As an outsider, I really appreciate the responses from you all. Basically you seem to be saying, "It's not an issue. We use it for macros, not for untrusted inputs. Don't call eval and you're fine." Obviously I wouldn't want you to do anything else. :-)

Anyway, thanks for the replies. It's great to have a community where I can ask Lisp users about something like this and learn what they think! It's something I've wondered about for a long time.
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Was the "UPDATE" to the article published when you left your comment?

UPDATE: Just got off the phone with Hamadeh
[PrivCo CEO], who is standing by his original report.
He says O'Shaughnessy is misleading his own employees,
and that classifying the round as "equity" is a
technicality given all of the debt-like provisions
PrivCo continues to believe were attached. He also says
that PrivCo spoke with a LivingSocial spokesman prior
to publishing, and sent him a draft of the report with
a request for any needed corrections. When nothing came
back four hours later, PrivCo published.

I'm not sure if he's just trying to salvage a poor decision to go forward with this article, or if there's actually something here, though.
Hey, it's the person I know at Google!

I came here to say the same thing that you did. The article smells of someone promoting their own venture rather than really critiquing Google.

Both times I applied to Google, I was asked who I knew at Google. Having said that, I didn't get the feeling that saying "nobody" would have really been a deal breaker for them.
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It would have been nice if they had shown the new color rather than showing people talking about it. It's like drawing a picture about a new sound that you have just heard.
I was introduced to both Lisp and PLATO in 1992 at UIUC. I was very confused by statement until I realized you meant Plato, not PLATO, which has very little use in today's world.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PLATO_(computer_system)
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Lovely responses, I'm gratified to see so much interest in this topic.

Have to observe though, its pretty easy to make things work out by assuming a planetoid or large asteroid. Yet the vast majority of objects in the asteroid belt are under half a km in radius. Prospectors don't get to pick where the metals are. And by mass, or count, or chance, its overwhelmingly likely to find it in one of the small asteroids.

If you assume towing an asteroid into orbit and then mining, now we know its a tiny asteroid and the dust is still a problem. However it seems foolish in the extreme to haul gigatons of slag to orbit and then mine it, instead of just hauling back the valuable stuff. The energy costs are going to make or break the feasibility of any space mining project.
Probably depends on what direction you think you will go in long term. Companies tend to gain knowledge and expertise over time so it less common to to shift hosting models (except early on).

At just one rack, if you want to own hardware you would usually just rent a single cabinet (Can be pretty cheap depending on location).

The number of servers in a rack is variable depending on the power. We got 208v / 30A , so we can pretty much fill up a rack with redundant power.

In our main facility, we currently have 4 racks in use which are not full yet and a 5th already provisioned for growth.
Somewhat unsurprisingly, doctors who own an investment interest (or outright ownership of equipment / facility) are 3.7 times more likely to order CT/MRI scans.

That is purely human "greed".

I somehow doubt that self-selection of patients needing such imaging is occurring.
I would disagree. With modern processors and memory you can cram a LOT into one cabinet. We run with Dell C8000's and R620/R720's and they are 'wow' level fast. Given that you can cram dual processors and 256GB of ram * 8 into 4U with the new C8000's you basically can have around 2TB of memory and 16 physical cores in 4U... that's a lot of hardware.

Addendum: I should say though that be aware the C8000 servers are hungry beasts for power. I believe they are nearly 9A at full draw.
This definition would seem to make it impossible to be mistaken without lying. If you're wrong, the thing you said isn't true, so it's a lie. That hardly seems like a reasonable definition.

I would bet that you say things all the time that you do not know with 100% certainty but which seem likely enough than you assume them to be true. I have never met someone who does not.

For example, have you ever told somebody that you were meeting somebody else when you were not looking right at them as you prepared to sit down for the meeting? What you actually mean is that you believe you will meet them based on your understanding of a conversation you had. You could have heard the wrong day, they could be right about to cancel, your car could break down — you get the idea.
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LOL, well didn't I say ignore the music itself?
The update makes PrivCo look even worse, by implying that it was LivingSocial's responsibility to ensure that their bogus report was accurate. Look, I can play that game right now: I'll write a 3 page report on Dropbox's impending bankruptcy, send it to them, and when they don't respond report it as fact.
This is pretty revisionist. There were lots of years and internet enabled phones between wap and iPhone (eg Nokia symbian devices).
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You see clearly!

Although JS, warts and all, is no joke at this stage. It will die hard, but my hope is that JS VMs become multi-lingual in as good a way, or better, than the JVM and the CLR. Certainly better in terms of diversity of implementation, reach of the Web, and consequent interop testing in the large.

/be
If you're at the superstar level you don't generally apply for a job, you get headhunted. Typically someone who you know will be used to reach out to you to setup an informal conversation to test interest which is generally followed up with meetings with other senior staff, etc. before a formal offer is made.

References are generally taken much more seriously at that level as well (i.e. taken from mutual acquaintances who have incentives to be open).
The P2P app could make itself more trustworthy. On OS X, it could opt into the App Sandbox such that it could not read files unrelated to what it has downloaded.

If you run fs_usage against Spotify on OS X, you will see that it is reading files in other places than where it downloads to.
tl;dr they keep taking in massive amounts of investment but are still not profitable.
> What's different after this followup is that now CNN/Fortune is suspect too, because repeating this verbatim is unethical.

You trusted them before?
You could have a contract to sell that would function similarly to futures or options. I doubt anyone would take the other side of a contract like this for LivingSocial though.
It's hard to show something that does not exist.
How has nobody said "CTRL ALT DELETE" then "CLICK POWER BUTTON IN CORNER" yet? It's stupidly easy.
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I have built quite a few rails apps using TR. The braintree ruby gem makes the whole process very easy. I would hesitate in using this because you still end up explaining a lot to during PCI compliance. IIRC during the PCI compliance my customers had to do a whole lot of work even when we were using TR. Splitting your process into multiple steps and doing validation using JS is much much easier IMHO.
oh hey, you did blamestella as well? nice work!
RSS Feed for the Best submissions would be a nice addon.
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Sorry, but my view of what is really "useful in today's world" is what the language has that makes it easy to get at, i.e., make use of, other software, e.g., TCP/IP, device drivers, operating system services, authentication services, APIs, something old written in Algol, Cobol, Folderol, Fortran, C/C++, etc.

Actually there is a theme that a language can be interpretive and, really, still fast enough if mostly it is used just as thin glue to connect other, efficient software where nearly all the time goes. E.g., IBM's in-house mainframes on their VNET were long run heavily with just their interpretive language Rexx: VNET was a little like the Internet except the network was less smart and the computers also played the role of routers. At one time IBM had 3600 such mainframes around the world. I've been using Rexx on Windows as a scripting language and want to convert to PowerShell due to the better access to Windows services.
You should know:

- http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5226117
- http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5230585

1700+ karma in 16 days and you complain? Come on now.
I completely agree with this. I would be very hesitant to join a company that doesn't do a thorough job at evaluating potential employees, even if they have a sparkling reputation this would be a huge red flag for me.

As well an interview to me is two way. As much as the company is evaluating wether I am a good fit for the company, I'm evaluating wether the company is a good fit for me. If I am actually good enough that I should be offered the job without an interview then I certainly should be good enough to prove it in an interview.

Also anybody who feels above going though a company's interview process should be a massive red flag as an employer.
I am chill :)... Mastering/learning obj-c is on my todo list. Thanks.
Why does it matter here if the tax-exempt organization is religious or not? Pretty much every tax-exempt organization is going to have an agenda---if it didn't, it probably wouldn't exist. Why are religion-based agendas less tolerable here?
More than I trust TechCrunch, less than I trust Reuters.
Yeah, that isn't right this one should be deleted.
Most likely, a quick liquidation for something a little more than 110M. Given that they appear to be first in line, it could be a nice return, even if the totality of the investment is a dog.
What if I told you...

Obama doesn't give a shit?
I don't have a firm opinion on the matter yet. I was initially suspicious of the initial report as I had never heard of them (PrivCo). However, I do work in advertising/PR and if someone submitted a claim like this to a spokesperson within four hours, we would at least say there are considerable and factual errors with your report, etc. This of course may have happened.

My interest in following this story is personal as I live in DC and have many friends still employed at the company.

I'd disagree that CNN is being unethical here, their story/angle is about the process and getting to the bottom of the PrivCo report.
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Does anyone know which ports this uses so I can apply QoS filters to it at a router level?