skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Okay, so yes, you are mechanically correct in that if you sold 10% of your shares for $1m, you would get the cash not the company.

However, the way funding events work in real life is that new shares are created by the company and then sold to the investors.

As a very math-simple example, I have 1m shares in my company, and I own 100% of them. Some VCs want to take a ~33% share of the company for $5m. My "board" (me) creates 500k new shares, and sells/gives them to the investors for $5m. Now there are a total of 1.5m shares, of which I own 1m, and the VCs own 500k.

EDIT: sometimes, though, a founder will sell part of their shares to the VCs during a funding event. That's usually to help give the founder a little liquidity and cash.
Super nice. Combining this with most support for updating issues via commit messages this makes it stupid easy to almost never leave the code. The only thing you likely can't easily do is deal with issue comments but that would be killer too. Never having to use the githib UI would be the ultimate workflow boon. I'm never a fan of needing to access websites and remember their UI as it feels disjointed from my typical working experience.
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Some might argue that they already have ruined the Internet. National firewalls, massive endemic surveillance, and political-industrial shenanigans involving the telecoms controlling the backbones are a significant threat, and not trivial to route around. When powerful parties begin aggressively policing the content on the network instead of just controlling the infrastructure, that is just the evidence that we have already lost.

Viable efforts to decentralize, universally encrypt traffic, and support true identities alongside pseudonyms and anonymous users started too late to avoid stepping backwards on service quality while moving forward on network freedoms.
+1 to this, I've had friends with a strong programming background join companies with zero knowledge of the language being used. They just learned it on the job. Fundamentals won't really change, syntax can be picked up.
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Speaking of BTC tickers, I also recently discovered this amazing, pure HTML, Bloomberg-terminal-like realtime BTC price site:

http://bitcoinwisdom.com/
I find Wolfram endlessly amusing, in an uber-nerdy way. He is a money-hungry egomaniac. In interviews I have read and from what I understand, he is utterly devoid of charm. But he is a brilliant man.

And Mathematica is an amazing piece of software. (Or at least was -- I haven't used it about twenty years. Twenty years ago it was mind-blowingly good. Nothing was even close.)

And 'A New Kind of Science' was a fascinating book. It hasn't quite ushered in the revolution Wolfram still seems to expect, but it was fascinating nonetheless.
I guess my comment wasn't strictly limited to this court decision but I wouldn't consider it as French-bashing. I have nothing against your country and compatriots, and I have enjoyed many fun moments there. However, I and my two French flatmates are genuinely curious how France can continue on its current public-spending/entrepreneurship-throttling trajectory.
>you may want to retire there

Having kids and retiring usually do not happen at the same time.

>a few of my friends, who were settling in France for personal reasons

So they're not French. Your first comment is definitely wrong then.

I believe they were referencing the circulaire Guéant[0], which comes from the previous government, wronged many skilled workers & French companies as well -- it sets a 'national preference' for hiring.

0: http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circulaire_du_31_mai_2011
privacy? isnt the point of persona?
It's not that they can be altered - it's that the path can be manipulated so that the path "looks" better. Generally there needs to be some collusion in that regard however since it's oft easy to steer traffic by AS-prepending (making ingress swing across multi-homed AS), but harder to control the egress.

If you can announce a relatively concise prefix of traffic you know you want and nobody notices it's pretty easy for this to go unnoticed for a period of time. As the prefix gets smaller that's harder to control however (since more specific routes will generally be installed in the routing table over less specific).

That being said it shouldn't be trivial to announce networks you don't own. This is where the people process oft breaks down.
Nope I hadn't because I always considered myself 'just a coder', and immediately discarded any other kind of job. Thinking about it I have full stack experience and have often been part of the design process, so thanks for the advice I'll consider other areas too!
Lie on your resume. Then grab a copy of "PHP For Dummies."

Development is development, no matter the language.
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Has he given his reasoning for that? Does it tie into his privacy concerns? I have read a little about how his computer is air-gapped and such, but I don't remember specifics.
I just copy it all over the internet. I can't countenance making multiple trips with a usb key, or even worse lugging around an external hard drive.
If you are half-decent at JS (specially if you actually can use Angular) I can get you a job in London (or even near Basingstoke if you now happen to live there) no problem, I'm literally swamped with work requests and got so many colleagues looking to hire decent frontend developers (probably Rails too but I don't do that so don't know that well)

IMHO if you are in UK there's no financial sense in staying outside London as jobs (and their compensation) are much better here

(contact: paolo-at-paolomaffei-dot-it)
Then you might also check out passportjs[1]. Thanks to Node, it's not as drop-in-ready a solution as Python-Social-Auth, but it covers quite a bit, and third party providers are pretty easy to add.

I had troubles with crypt on an older version of Node, but it's almost certainly been resolved by now.

[1] - http://passportjs.org/
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Yeah PHP supports // or # as comments so the C language support gets you most of the way there if not all.
Are we even looking at the same model? It isn't just a model of a woman, or even a model of a sexy woman, it is a silly low-quality hypersexualized caricature of a woman.

I also generally feel that a lot of sexism-claims are overblown, but I don't think that the model used there would be appropriate in a workplace or for any serious sales pitch.
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Ask HN: Recommendations for Statistics textbooks or classes?
I'm trying to gain a solid mathematical understanding of statistics so that I can start learning data analysis/machine learning.

Do you have any recommendations for online classes? Also, a good textbook would be indispensable. I've searched on amazon but "Statistics for Complete Idiots" books abound.
Also, http://hackerjobs.co.uk/ run by Peroni (aka Steve Buckley).

http://www.jobserve.com/ is also decent...
Worth noting the US top marginal tax rate has been above 90% at several points in history.
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Well in the UK, thanks to some new regulations (RDR), they have to justify every charge and itemise.

The number of IFA's is now dropping rapidly. They're moving into real estate and selling cars where they can continue to rip people off.
I'm excited by companies like this. I think you actually get the ability to do something that transcends just making a product and selling it. You get a chance to change what it means to grow and run a business. Groove might end up being very influential and meaningful beyond just customer support, like 37signals has. That's hard to do if you are shooting for an exit in 3-5 years just to be swallowed up by a big company.
EntityFramework + LINQ is an amazing combo for getting things done quickly. And Visual Studio provides the best debugging experience I've ever had. Couple it with ReSharper[1] and you're in code heaven. At least until you run into one of the INT_MAX subtle quirks of C#/.NET, at which point you feel like throwing your dev machine off the roof.

[1] http://www.jetbrains.com/resharper/
Mozilla being reliant on the search box and being reliant on Google are two different conversations.
HN does not hate PHP, .NET, VB, Java. Its just older languages and HN is about discovering new things, and working on cool new languages.

Even if PHP or Java aren't "cool", they are really nice to program with when you master them.

And its good to learn to quickly learn other languages. In 20 years Rails, Node or Mongo might not be there anymore, its good to not get "habits" in IT.

PS: Java has one advantage, you can create web/software and android apps with it. Mobile is pretty trendy right now. But it will take you a lot more time to learn then PHP.
Amazing interface btw, well done.
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By "little blogger" I don't mean to compare him to other bloggers. I meant that he's little in comparison to French banks.
I used Wikipedia as source and in that article Jawa Report was mentioned as original source. I don't follow that blog,

Your ignorance of your sources does not change anything. The Jawa Report is still wrong 99.99% of the time. Citing them does not prove that profiling works, it proves profiling does not work because the false positive rate is through the roof.

If all terrorist starting to act like old ladies playing solitaire, we would know because you are already profiling those groups who would do that.

You have this unfounded belief that profiling is effective, as if the people trying to evade profiling are dumber than the people doing the profiling - despite one being a bureaucracy and the other being a bunch of loosely-affiliated individuals able complete freedom to change tactics on a dime. Everything you say follows from that. Telling me to "think" doesn't make it any more true, all it does is prove you don't have any facts to support your conclusions. Everything you've cited has been proof to the contrary of your own claims.

You would preferred if Lars Vilks was actually murder by her.

Yes, that's exactly what I wanted. Spelling out how you are wrong, how everything you cite has racist connotations means I am evil. I'm going to take that accusation as proof of unwilling concession on your part and end the discussion here.
If the kids today happen to learn a love for higher math thanks to Mathematica, I hardly begrudge Wolfram a few extra licenses down the road.
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Product Management might be a role worth considering. There simply aren't enough technically-savvy PMs in tech companies.
The plan was just to take down the site completely and redirect the domain to the project page for now, but if there's a demand for the free version, then I could be convinced to keep it up. Right now, I'm not seeing that demand though.
I think "what HN likes" here is throwing you off. I don't think this is about fashion.

Good programmers care a lot about good tools. Different tools also have different communities, which means different views, different standards, different approaches.

I've done projects with great tools and projects with shitty tools. For me, it makes a giant difference. I can spend my energy on solving real user problems, or I can spend it on beating back the idiocy of bad tools. I can spend it on learning from a community that is serious about pushing the field forward, or I can spend it trying to motivate a bunch of no-hopers who picked programming over dentistry because the Computer Information Systems degree was shorter.

I think it's totally reasonable that this person wants to avoid the mire of clock-punchers and half-assed enterprise tech imposed for "business reasons". They're trying for a tactical retreat, not abject surrender. That's the spirit I think HN should support.
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HN hates a lot of stuff. Most of the people here are out of touch with reality. I see a lot of "entrepreneurs" whose startups didn't go so well, or people working in a super cool stack for peanuts, but hey! they get to work on all those cool languages.

Don't mean to sound harsh but... Suck it up. I work with C# ASP.NET.
Do I like it? No.
Do I hate it? No
Does it get the job done (performance wise)? Sure does.
Would I prefer to work on another language? Yup.
Does it pay well? Yup.

If you are a good programmer it does not matter the language you work on. I know a lot of sucky RoR, python, [insert cool language here] developers and I also know a lot of great PHP, ASP.NET, [insert HN hated kanguage here] programmers. As long as you are a good logic thinker, work on whatever puts the food in the table and hopefully enjoy it.
I'm not sure I understand the question. What do you mean by "you have money in your personal bank account?" Are you saying that some of the money put in by a VC ends up in your personal bank account? If it does, it's through a salary you withdraw from the company. VCs, or any investor, will want X seats in your board, which will also give them a say about your salary. So if you got $1M in funding, no sane board will allow you to take a $700K salary.
Your win from the investment is that now your company has money to move faster, by hiring more talented people, buy equipment that is important to the business, pay vendors, etc. In short, to scale. You, the founder, keep a % of the company throughout this time, but you'd only see it translate to real money in the case of an acquisition/IPO/sell off. Your motivation, then, is to increase the value of the company so that % you have in the company will translate to more money in the cases I mentioned.
After this long answer, I feel like I still haven't actually answered your question because you're probably asking about something more subtle :-)
Hi. Co-founder here. Thanks!

We're talking to a few law firms now. Small/mid-size firms believe their structure is a competitive advantage over Big Law firms. Our dashboard is a good way for their customers to see that advantage.

We just added integration to Xero. Quickbooks and Netsuite will follow, so we'll be well positioned to help small/mid sized law firm.

Re: standardization. It's industry and matter specific. Patents and IP work is very different from litigation and insurance work. But, within each vertical we have opportunity for price discovery which is really exciting to me. Fixed fee legal work is growing in popularity because attorneys and their clients are tired of watching the clock.

I like your analogy of a a legal bill to a log file. Though, hopefully SimpleLegal isn't "like" an analytics dashboard. Hopefully it is an analytics dashboard. Or at least a giant spotlight pointed at one of the largest P&L line items where companies currently have almost no data.
What a ridiculous post. The quote in question is a reference the Trojan horse, so unless you are suggesting that loading Mathematica onto the Pi will, in fact, destroy it, I don't see any merit to this analogy. And while it's true that Steve Wolfram is incredibly arrogant, so too is the act of publicly shaming him for refusing to share his code, no? The man has spent the last 25 years perfecting his product and along comes you, acting like you have some God-given right to inspect its inner workings. Gimme a break.
> over 5 years
Pity. 27. Ne2 looked really fun. If 27...Bf5, 28. Nf4! b1=Q? 29. Rxb1 Bxb1 30.Nd5 +-. If 27...Qa5, 28. Nf4 also. Strangely, the move didn't get mentioned in the Chessbase analysis, or the official commentary.
Wow. lot of negativity here. I think this is a great product and I would gladly pick it up when it becomes available. Indiegogo is a no go for me.

Here are my thoughts
1. DLNA != this and many have already outlined why so no point repeating.

2. Great features and the need for software is a minor hiccup considering how feature rich the s/w makes the solution. I would consider making the software portable for windows.

3. Not all platforms have hdmi. What about display-port compatibility (adaptor?)

4. I'm less concerned about b/w like some have pointed out here. The use case is not always high quality video as long as the quality is above SD and wifi doesn't cut out.

5. I'm guessing that with a s/w option, it should be possible to do this wired on the laptop end. But, the TV end is always wireless. I would love to see a wired option to eliminate wireless as an option. Not sure if there is a wired solution that exists today to do this.

Anyway, congrats to the team. Seems like a great product.
I first started exploring advanced math, graphing, and basic programming using Mathematica, and as much as I love OSS and FOSS math software, I think 12-year-old-me would have a much harder time with FOSS software today than even the Mathematica of more than a decade ago.

Having good free software is very important! But I wouldn't pull back on providing this software, especially where it could be used to provide a real benefit on learning, based on free software ideals.

Octave & co. could see this as encouragement to get better support for themselves on the raspberry pi as well! I see no reason why they can't all coexist.
That baffles me how some people are so much bitter toward France they take any occasion to take a cheap shot.

> xenophobic view on immigration.

Given this ranking http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_foreign-bo... I don't think we have any advice to receive from anybody on the question of immigration. Granted there are some problems ampiflified by the economic crisis but given the rates of immigration we had to absorb in the previous decades I would say the situation is not that bad.
How transferable is the learning? If they are learning real math, won't they be able to switch to FOSS (or anything else) soon thereafter?
Funny, I expected more from HN than people using the term "Murica". Also, before complaining about the quality of comments one should give the system time to correct itself as people vote on them. Otherwise you may end up with a highly visible comment that refers to outdated information..
Have a look here as well http://workinstartups.com/
Right now the chess produced is still more interesting than the algorithms themselves. Once we've hit diminishing returns there, it's likely that they'll realign as you've suggested.
Additionally, magazines are typically published with the date they should be removed from the newsstand, not the date they should be sold. This is different from newspapers which typically publish with the date they are first available.

Side-Note: this is why the current issue of Time, which is a magazine, will have a cover date a few days in the future while The Economist, which considers itself a weekly newspaper not a magazine, will have a cover date of the previous Tuesday.
So you can set up apache to host movies on a home network, then stream them with VLC? That sounds like a fantastic solution. Is there a solution for playing music this way on something resembling a stereo that supports playlists?
"Ladies" is probably the word you're looking for.
I think it's more typical to issue, for example, 10M shares, take 3M for yourself, and leave the rest for employees/VCs/whatever (rather than issue new ones, in a first round)
Interesting, but it seems like it is dropping frames all over the place. I suppose it would be good enough for presentations but not for movie or game use.

I suppose with later iterations it could improve, but I would rather just plug the HDMI directly into the laptop and use a wireless keyboard/mouse if needed.

On another note, I find it hard to believe that Apple still hasn't fixed the color space issues on OS X (it only occurs if you use a different profile other than SRGB). It is clearly visible throughout the video showing the purple menu bar highlight when it should be blue.
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They had open-office layouts 100 years ago, too. Back then, though, they called them sweatshops.
France has no jurisdiction. U.S. courts will not enforce this civil judgment. Our 1A precludes them from doing so. And the blogger in question said he's not going to France.

(BTW, a civil judgment is not "a crime by French law.")
It saddens me that so much focus is being put on the price speculation aspect of Bitcoin. 9 out of 10 articles I see about Bitcoin are about its price. The last Senate hearing on Bitcoin was already quite aggressive about this, and some suggested that maybe Bitcoin should be regulated as a commodity instead.

Hopefully this price speculation frenzy of Bitcoin users won't lead to its demise, and to Bitcoin being declared (or at least thought about) as irreparably not a currency.
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This answers my question, thank you.

I had never thought of the company itself creating more shares, this is what I was missing in my thought process.
What if 90% of a politician's campaign funds came from one source?

It doesn't have to be overt, I doubt Mozilla makes many decisions by asking themselves, "will this make Google happy or unhappy?"

But consider that Mozilla knows what Microsoft and Yahoo's top bids were. Their ability to switch from one funder to another is dependent on how high those bids were.
How come btc-e is missing?

https://btc-e.com/api/documentation
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This judgment is unenforceable in the United States as a matter of public policy (thanks to our First Amendment). So it's merely an attempt by Société Générale to muzzle critics.

If Mish were a multinational company with operations in France, it would be different. But he's not. So he can gleefully ignore it, as he is, correctly, doing.
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Nice work, quick & simple. Installed. Step 2: Make an ncurses version.
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Apologies, different sets of friends :]

Set nr 1: French people in London
Set nr 2: Non-French people trying to settle in France

Yes, I heard French support for families with children is spectacular. That's what I meant. I just don't understand how it can continue. I lived in a few countries and the French "balance sheet" just doesn't make intuitive sense to me.
What in God's holy name does GDP have to do with free speech?
I don't know about Columbus[1] since he was always a bad guy when I grew up, but I still think Edison gets plenty of good press.

1) went to school on reservation - "Discovered" is not the word used
It's not. I'm just giving a data point, as is jc4p, as is codegeek. So are the up-voters.

What part of what I said gave you the impression of entitlement? I didn't say "I deserve to read this without ads". I said "I stopped reading because you put a massive pop-up that filled the entire screen and prevented me from reading it, I don't find that acceptable, and so closed the tab".

Would it be better to have no feedback about why people are bouncing?
Who is using Python 3?
So he should wait until the point where posting a comment would just result in it being buried?

Maybe a better solution would have been to reply to those "bad" comments instead of creating one, but it's kind of rare to see so many free bashing in HN that you don't really want them to stay on top for too long.
No, he DOES now. The original intent was, beside whatever political motivation, to give an "example of speech that is not protected by the First Amendment". Exactly as he wrote.
Addenda will be in Malayalam though.
seems like buying a Raspberry Pi just became an extremely cheap way to get Mathematica, then.
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