skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Same. Same amount, different format!
I think he needs more Karma points to add a poll
There are almost certainly a lot of inaccuracies in here. I saw a few on a quick skim of the article.

Like what?

It's easier to spew hate than it is to build value.

It's also important to provide a viewpoint that isn't just blindly parroting what a party tells you. This is hardly 'hate'.
The standard candles are Type Ia supernova which are when white dwarfs exceed the Chandrasekhar mass and become neutron stars. It is thought that when neutron stars exceed the maximum mass of a neutron star (which is not well known, by the way) they form a gamma-ray burst.
Heard about this the other day, gave it a try, didn't see any value in it.

Most importantly, as far as I can tell, there's no way to share an arbitrary link. If you create a new trove it's a requirement to specify an existing trove as a source - your "picks" from the source troves comprise the newly created trove.

Therefore, users can't share and curate so much as sift and sort what the editors have already deemed worthwhile. Apparently, the only recourse for seeing specific content added is sending an email [0].

0: http://info.trove.com/faq#sources
Not much to say other than: Wow. Great Job.
Could you elaborate on the inaccuracies you found? Because your current comment contains not much more than an egregious and bald appeal to authority
I apologize if I misunderstood you - so much simplistic inequality talk lately.

I completely agree that government corruption (and simple incompetence) are a big part of the reason the poor are poor and many of the super rich are super rich (e.g. Carlos Slim and Latin American telephone monopolies). However these are two separate thing. If having a few super rich was the price of elevating tens of millions of people out of extreme poverty, I would be very happy. This is what has happened in China. If we could encourage this in Congo, it would be a big win.

Other than what is already being done by people like Gates the only idea I like is having government focus on things it can do well and avoid doing harm. But I think everyone knows this already and it must be almost impossible to do.
Cloact (React.js + ClojureScript) becomes Reagent: Undo is trivial
Silicon Valley accounted for 80% of California's job growth in December
The current San Francisco influx is unsustainable. If you're somewhere else in the world and thinking about coming here to do a startup, I wish I could convince you to change your mind.

San Francisco is incredibly expensive. Rents have shot up by ~50% since 2008, office space is following the same trend, and competition for (even mediocre) programmers is intense. Worse, a lot of the cultural diversity that made San Francisco interesting has been driven out by the high prices -- it's a much more homogenous city than a few years ago, where mom-and-pop shops and other neighborhood amenities have been replaced by places selling $10 "artisinal grilled cheese" sandwiches and "mixology" bars where you can buy your choice of $15 cocktail. SF feels increasingly like a city for wealthy yuppies, because...it is a city for wealthy yuppies. Living here on anything less than a good engineer's salary is becoming a tall order.

Which brings us to a very important point for all the young programmer dudes: when you all crowd into the same tiny city and bid up the rents into the stratosphere, your available dating pool shrinks to a puddle (yet another consequence of the skewed gender balance in tech. sigh.) All the pour-over coffee in the world doesn't make you happy when you can't get a date, and those artisan cocktails are far less cute when you're jockeying for position at the bar in a crowded room full of guys. If you're a 20-something male programmer looking for a date in SF, I feel badly for you. Hope you like BART, because you're going to Oakland (if you're lucky!)

Once upon a time it was only a mildly bad decision to locate your startup in San Francisco, but you could justify it with the appeal of a diverse, cosmopolitan city. Right now, there's a very real financial penalty (rents, salaries, taxes), and the cultural benefits are waning. There are a lot of great cities in the US, and on the internet, you can work from anywhere. Try those instead.
Walmart certainly takes it to predatory levels. I only used them as an example of what can happen to businesses that focus on "sustainable profit" above all else.

I'm not sure the strategy of "earn zero-to-no profit to gain market share and scare away potential competitors" is inherently evil or predatory (though it certainly can be).
The people who campaign for GPL software authors to change their license seem to assume that the authors of the software naively chose the GPL, as opposed to choosing it for its particular spirit.

That's really important distinction that people don't realize about the GPL - it's designed to protect the rights of the END USERS. And that's great when the end user is you and me, but it's also not surprising that we, as developers, will happily throw end user rights under the bus if we think we can make some money (e.g. SaaS, app stores, etc.) or profit otherwise.
You pay for results, not for time. And you can use an existing market to define a price.

Time is often used to measure compensation – lawyers are well known for being paid in hourly fees –, however, in the long run, only results counts. And concerning the market, for how much could this bug have been sold, for example to the NSA?
CryptoCurrencyFactoryFactory :-)
And they paid cancellation fees.
I am pretty sure there are people out there who have completed all levels without powerups/extensions/etc, so I think yes. And with the wheel of fortune thing, you don't even have to pay for powerups.

The only one I've had a problem with so far was 417 (which is basically a lottery level), but if I didn't have enough free powerups in storage, I am quite sure I would get lucky one time...
Sama, you may have missed it in your "quick skim" but Stripe isn't actually growing that fast (~50% / yr). Braintree is growing much faster and even stodgy old paypal isn't too far behind in terms of growth rate. For its size and valuation, the growth story is fairly underwhelming.

As for the trackrecord and judgement of the investors, no argument that they are among the best. But only Khosla is new money, meaning they are the only one that took significant new risk (although they got plenty of downside protection via liquidation preferences, as we explained). Sequoia and Founders Fund were already heavily invested in Stripe, thus making it a much easier decision to "re-up" in this new round and pad the company's war chest for the highly-competitive slugfest ahead.

I/we don't hate Stripe. In fact, I think they're a great company. I just think the narrative around this funding round when it was announced on Wednesday glossed over the legitimate challenges that the company faces.
Given that Stripe is about to process payments for Twitter, I wouldn't be tremendously worried.

As a side note - Braintree was around before Stripe. Remember that. It's not Apples to Apples on their size, it's about growth, and as PG has publicly shared several times, Stripe is growing at a ridiculous rate. https://twitter.com/paulg/status/403183731449413632/photo/1
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Why is Scrypt not a suitable solution?
Uber has stated that their pricing is based on the number of people requesting rides (within some time slot if I remember correctly). So a snow storm might be deemed a natural disaster, but it might also lead to more people requesting rides (also triggering the price increases).

Yes, if there's not an increased demand during that snow-storm but they're caught with 5X prices, I think they'll be in trouble under those "price-gouging" laws.
> What kind of things to people use FreeBSD for?

ISPs have been big users of FreeBSD. While HN is a lot of startups going on about agile, continuous integration, Jenkins, etc., those of us in enterprise and ISP environments like stability and little change.

When deploying a new mail system for 100k users, for example, I want to set it up, get it working perfectly, and then not have to touch it (exception: security updates, of course) for the next few years.

FreeBSD is rock solid and lets you do just that. FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE was announced in November 2009, if memory serves, and I still have DNS servers running 8.x that I rarely have to touch (and won't have to until June 30, 2015). It Just Works(TM).
Yes. Other factors as well. I just said a large part... not the only or the largest. Another one is that you are not more than a couple hours from snow (assuming we're not having a drought like right now), the beach and the forest. I'm sure other places enjoy this diversity of nature as well... but we do have it pretty good here.
I use pgAdmin III

Some features I like:

* You can highlight code in the Query window and hit play and it only runs the highlighted code.

* You can export query results to CSV easily from the Query window File Menu.

* Stores history of commands run, can run them again with a click ("Previous queries" in Query window).

* Not all options are available by default. File > Options > Browser > Display to show more stuff.

* Can run EXPLAIN with a click.

I also sometimes use IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate which has a good SQL editor
The New Internet Economy: A Chat With Alibaba CTO Wang Jian
I think I was conflating a few things.

One of the problems I was remembering was how difficult and inflexible it is to write a fast and efficient AST in C and export it to a scripting language intact. The only viable way that I could think of was to convert the C struct to an Objective-C graph and export it to whatever scripting language via some bridging, such as JavaScriptCore.framework (ugh JSExport) or maybe MacRuby, or similar.

But writing the AST in Julia itself might very well solve the fast/efficient problem, and since it's a dynamic language, scripting comes for free, with a first-class AST.

Another problem was how I couldn't mix Objective-C and C semantics when writing my AST. If I wanted to represent a collection in my AST, I had to basically hand-roll all the methods in NSMutableArray myself.

So ultimately I'm not sure I expressed myself properly, but I'm still excited about diving into Julia as a scripting language. I really believe it could solve this kind of problem. I can imagine new platforms being built with very little supporting platform-specific code which exports a few building block APIs to Julia and lets the script to the rest.
Played around a bit for a few minutes and threw a few of my usually handwritten SVGs at it with disastrous results. View boxes don't seem to work, dashed lines, symbols, any kind of shape reüse in general; groups are ungrouped automatically, but apparently properties defined on groups are not propagated to child elements when ungrouping. And it manages to lock up Firefox and IE completely.

Not terribly impressed so far, but then again, I'm not a designer or an artist and I manage to write SVGs that fail in various renderers due to implementation deficiencies. But those I tested were not even complex or used advanced features.

At the moment I'd guess this is aimed at the most trivial vector graphics possible, i.e. only basic shapes, stroke and fill. It might work for that, but that's well beyond what I use of SVG or Inkscape usually.
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Gett probably should sue Uber, but what sucks is they (Gett) would have to divert precious money, time, and resources to fight a much bigger company with deeper products and better lawyers, which takes focus away from product and growth, which decreases their probability of success long-term.

Very shitty, lose-lose situation for Gett. The fact that they got "free PR" out of this CNN article is probably small consolation.
Many people could mine on their desktop PCs (if they have one) while they sleep or are at work with little impact on their normal usage. The Bitcoin ASIC market has so many problems that the more mature PC supply chain would be a huge improvement.
This article seems very dismissive of Stripe even though it claims to be fair to them.

"But that was before 2011: When PayPal realized it was hated and named a new president in David Marcus who dramatically changed the culture "

Really, is this true ? The above statement seems to claim that Paypal is not that hated anymore. Current paypal users who have been long term users, I wonder what they have to say.

"The reason PayPal held its ground for so long despite its poor reputation is because it had the most consumer account data and the most name recognition."

Umm, I would say No. The reason was "monopoly" and companies like Stripe have been a major reason that the monopoly has dwindled.

"PayPal had become the big, ugly monster, screwing up transactions left and right with a mix of poor technology and bad customer service. Merchant accounts were frozen haphazardly, and the company often took its sweet time unfreezing them. PayPal was so widely loathed among developers, founders, and customers that even with its advantages of scale, ubiquity, and familiarity, companies were eager to try something else."

Is this all really in past tense ?
If you value the same freedoms the FSF embraces but prioiritize positive software freedom more than negative software freedom, its a lot less clear that a LLVM's Free-but-easier-to-use-with-or-in-non-Free-systems nature actually harms software freedom rather than enhancing it.

Agreed.
Stop Blaming Target, Here's Whats Wrong With The Data Security Debate.
The parent stated "free" (as beer). We're not talking "free" (as speech). And free as beer it is, it is never on a bill.
Coffeescript is way easier to learn than Illustrator.
I lived in both states and the weather in the Bay Area isn't enough to justify the heavy income tax, sales tax and cost of housing. It's great that it's in the 60s and 70s year round but with zero rain fall you got other cons making up for pros in that category. Sure Texas is hot and that is a downside but agreeing that the weather in the Bay Area is worth an insane amount of extra cash isn't correct.
Agreed that Braintree had a head start and that's not to be overlooked. Also, landing Twitter would be a big coup, and potentially lucrative depending on what kind of commerce they enable. But I'd dispute the claim that they're growing at a ridiculous rate. Everything we've heard puts it close to 50%/yr, which is not great given their size and valuation. Braintree was above 100% last year, Square grew 200%, and even PayPal grew 30%.
Not sure. It just came to mind when scrolling and seeing all those men faces. Can't believe that the Mac could be SO correlated with men's achievements.

It just says: Look, in the past 30 years, the Mac was where men did great things. OR, we selected 30 great things that happened in the past 30 years. And men did them. And Apple was there.

Really?
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I'm not sure -- I think it just a patience vs. money trade off.

Which levels are you talking about? Definitely there are levels where it all comes down to luck, but even with 0.5% of winning, you'll probably get there after a couple hundred games. I'm not even sure it's a good business decision for them, more like poor design imo -- I suspect there are more people who get frustrated and quit than those who actually pay...
Wow, I can't imagine how much it must suck to have your event funds withheld when you need to pay for venues, travel, equipment etc.

This is one of the reasons why we don't let people use their own payment gateways.

Thanks for the tip.
There are consequences larger than "hey, stop that."

Even Uber's legal representation said they could be liable for damages:

If Uber employees intentionally diverted Gett drivers from legitimate business by making phony calls, that is an unfair business practice, illegal under California law," he said. "It is also an intentional interference with Gett's business which makes them liable for money damages.
Basically your comment boils down to "I skimmed the article and it seemed hateful and inaccurate". And then something strange about spotting exponential growth being left to the big boys.

On the contrary, I read the entire article and found it useful. The author admits that getting accurate numbers on Stripe isn't possible at this point. I wish Stripe all the best, but it still has a tough road ahead.
This sounds like a PR poke... Didn't you say, "Hypermedia and RESTful principles drive the largest distributed application ever: the world wide web. The web operates at massive scale and has been in production for over two decades."?
I live halfway around the world, but this is the company I buy company food from:

www.saludable.com.uy

and I wanted to give you some feedback on why I chose them :) . some things they do really well:

- well planned menus

- excellent packaging

- individualized tags on packaging

Prices are about U$ 12 per individual meal to U$ 17 per 2 meals (what I pay) but that's not comparable to the US of course.

you can email me in my profile if you want me to send you some pictures :)

I mention this because on your webpage I can't see how you package the food. I also think the menu is too spaced, it would be better in a compact table form (ymmv of course).
OP - Can you please run your original query with a minor variation-

select
dashboards.name,
count(distinct time_on_site_logs.user_id)
from time_on_site_logs
join dashboards on time_on_site_logs.dashboard_id = dashboards.id
group by time_on_site_logs.dashboard_id, dashboards.name
order by count desc
I think the OP is not saying "it was impossible to learn", but "the amount of effort required to learn wasn't worth the return I would get from it". The latter may well be a sensible decision.

And it's great when someone tries to makes the learning process easier, and even better when they open source it.
It strikes me that asking "Who was the last person to quit, and why?" is a big faux pas in this area. Am I wrong, or is it common/OK to ask this kind of question?

It's been my experience that very few people "quit." Separations from startups tend to be very neutral, leaving it ambiguous whether someone quit or was let go. It's not hard to read between the lines, but discussions about this are not very up-front.
Stripe cofounder here. Needless to say, this article contains many factual inaccuracies.

More broadly, articles like this are part of why we didn't announce our previous financings. If you don't also announce metrics, it's easy to write articles like this.
>The extension from "call the car company to get a car" to "use an app to get a car" is a pretty obvious innovation, particularly in NYC.

Sounds like downplaying success to me. Everything is obvious once it's done.
Why do you have to live in San Francisco city itself. There are many places in the Bay Area more affordable than San Francisco.
A healthy debate requires viable alternatives, that is, LLVM. Doesn't look like a setback to me.
I almost remember when Uber was the good guy. Stories like this keep popping up everywhere.

It's a competitive market, but there's better ways to grow than attacking competitors and banning developers (earlier story) who try to do interesting things to extend your service.
Agreed. I've always said "Jay-Sohn" as well; although I recently saw a job description that was looking for "2+ years of Jason experience"... too bad my name isn't Jason :)
For example, the liquidation preference is a standard 1x, not 2x, which is a very important inaccuracy.
Of course, there is no denying that the area is great, I lived in the Valley for a few months and loved it.
“It’s literally inconceivable that someone starting a company would choose to use Braintree or PayPal,” Rabois says. “Stripe has become the monopoly for new startups.”

You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means. Really.

Braintree and Venmo are services that he could not even conceive of a startup using? I suspect that they might have like.. um.. facts that might dispute that worldview.
Nothing particularly new here, but it's another reminder about the actual goal of Free Software. A lot of people still don't understand the major distinction between Free Software and Open Source.
Did they bother to check PG's Twitter account? I mean, do they think he's lying?
I'm sorry, but comments like this seriously irritate me. Your words here reflect some basic misunderstandings of the science involved, but rather than concluding "I don't understand this", you've instead suggested what amounts to a conspiracy theory. Quite apart from the deep insult this implies toward generations of physicists, you're baselessly contributing to the erosion of public confidence in science.

The quickest way to counter your claims of suppression, I think, is to do a Google Scholar search for a term like "black hole information paradox". No, we don't entirely understand what's going on there, but figuring it out has been one of the most active and fruitful areas of research in relativity and high energy physics for decades.

As for your "breaks the warranty on the space-time continuum" claim, I'd love to know why you're choosing the "spherical coordinates" coordinate system as the fundamental one (so that we should judge coordinate stretches as "too big" relative to its measure). Not that I like the idea of specifying one reference frame as "preferred" at all, but if I had to, the only natural choice would be the reference frame of a freely falling observer. And that's precisely the coordinate system we typically change to in order to show that there's no essential singularity at the event horizon. So please don't lob insults at the active physics community based on your own misunderstanding of the theories that they spend their lives striving to understand.

[Credentials: I'm a professional physicist: a professor specializing in string theory with a background in general relativity.]
Maybe I'm misunderstanding you, but empirical data on human behavior is notoriously more difficult to both collect and control for than data on more basic processes. I think it's glib to suggest that the effect here should be easily measurable. I also don't think the actual effect is relevant in the first case: no reasonable ethical accounting would gauge the immorality of the act in proportion to its final impact on wages.
Bit of a tangent: my first "traditional" merchant account provider processed 6 times PayPal's volume last year ($1.2 trillion), and charges as little as 0.09%+$0.30 for debit cards versus the 2.9%+$0.30 flat rate all these 3rd party processors start at. Why do so many startups write off going straight to an ISO/MSP? Or do they, but Stripe/Braintree make better offers? They don't all have BS fees, and flat markups over interchange are becoming the norm for pricing. Popular payment gateways like Authorize.net have drop-in libraries for just about any language or shopping cart you can imagine.
(why does Gett give out their drivers' phone numbers?)

Presumably so that the customer can contact the driver if they need to pass on instructions about a specific place to be picked up, etc.