skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Read this as throwing in the towel with Google announcing cheaper storage plans last week with renewed emphasis on the enterprise mkt?
The answer is inside sales. Sharefile, one of the leaders in this space for enterprise, has a well-oiled inside sales machine(50+ reps cold calling all day long). When Citrix failed to acquire Box, they acquired Sharefile.
Are you Scott Hansen? Or just a fan of the musician? Just curious.
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$250M feels tiny for a tech IPO (and for an IPO in general).

Does anyone have any data around this?
The type of fraud that is endemic to many marketplaces is exactly what can be prevented by going with the Stripe Connect approach. In a nutshell, what happens is (a) fraudster creates a fake "store" in your marketplace, (b) they run purchases through that store with stolen credit cards, (c) they attempt to have the funds transferred to a bank account. Your own founder even talked about it [1] and I've had to deal with this quite a bit at http://nextproof.com

Actual merchants in the marketplace are rarely affected other than the user experience. But when all the chargebacks come back to you, it severely affects the bottom-line. I also think the user-experience has improved quite a bit (with Stripe Connect, you can have users provision their own Stripe account during signup).

I would also argue, given how how "lean" many startups and MVPs are, many marketplaces are actually smaller and more at risk than the sellers they serve. Most marketplaces don't have $200M in funding and data scientists like EventBrite ;)

[1] http://techcrunch.com/2011/06/16/founder-stories-eventbrite-...
Why do you think the article mentioned Twitter ?
Why would anyone "acknowledge the legitimacy" of beliefs that would e.g. prevent them from visiting their spouse on their deathbed? There's no middle ground here.

Also, it's worth trying not to use the term "witch hunt" to describe attacks on a group which has held an oppressive majority for hundreds of years and which is actively continuing to attempt to deny the rights of a minority. The analogy does not hold.
That would be a hell of an accomplishment, seeing as how the Nazi Party hasn't existed for more than half a century.
I don't disagree with "salespeople are very expensive", but they are clearly not bringing in enough revenues to make the business profitable. Is it the sales people fault for not bringing in enough revenues or the company's for spending too much on sales and marketing? Time will tell, but a $170m loss is no joke.
By trying to keep these guys from getting married, Eich made it personal.

As the court decisions have shown, keeping them from getting married was an unconstitutional imposition upon their civil rights. Whereas them deciding whom to do business with is totally legit. Freedom of speech does not mean freedom from consequences.
Uh... I think you're reading things into what I said that simply aren't there.

JohnBooty seems to think that the donation was a purposeful public statement, and in particular that the goal of the donation was to make said public statement, which is why there is no public information on any other political donations that Brendan might have made. I was pointing out that there is no information on other things simply because there hasn't been the same level of scrutiny, and that Brendan wasn't exactly going out of his way to speak out in public about his views on this issue (which is why 4 years passed between him making the donation and anyone noticing it). How you got from that to what you think I was "implying" is a bit beyond me.
Also, Google's team (mostly from Carnegie or it's off-shoot teams) has been working on the problem for more than a decade as they took the Stanford car which came from Thrun who came from CM.

The problem to go after initially is best conditions highway driving. Additionally, low-speed (<=20MPH) is reasonable challenge. Where things get tricky is building out a model for medium speed (30 - 40MPH) where there's pedestrians.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOSvpPZzGpo
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Funny how the comment author hasn't replied yet eh?
And one that steers the direction of the company every single day. Mere employees don't.
Odd, some numbers are "whited out":

"Based on shares of our capital stock outstanding as of January 31, 2014, upon the completion of this offering, a total of &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; shares of Class A common stock and"

Can't figure out the valuation.
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That's actually a very interesting point. I know Mark Zuckerberg owned a really big chunk (~30%) of FB when they IPO'd. Anyone with insight know if the norm is closer to Zuckerberg or Levie?
That would be correct we were living in 1990s. Today blocking access to social network can be interpreted as direct violation of right to communicate.
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From the article, it seems that the problem is on the iOS side, not the PC side. Having a converter doesn't change the protocol you have to speak on the device itself.
Top lines of the FAQ currently

> What is RPCS3?

> RPCS3 is an open-source Sony PlayStation 3 emulator for Windows written in C++. It currently runs only small homebrew applications. The source code for RPCS3 is hosted at: https://github.com/DHrpcs3/rpcs3/
Perhaps I'm missing something - how could donating to Prop 8 be in support of abolishing the marriage institution?

Full text:

Section I. Title

This measure shall be known and may be cited as the "California Marriage Protection Act."

Section 2. Article I. Section 7.5 is added to the California Constitution, to read:

Sec. 7.5. Only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California.
So are open carry in most countries. You don’t come off as pedantic, just US-centric.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brendan_Eich
Brendan Eich (/ˈaɪk/; born 1961)[1] is an American computer programmer and creator of the JavaScript scripting language. He is the chief executive officer at the Mozilla Corporation.
What would be a normal percentage for a founder to keep in their company?
This needs a donate button. There's more fun here than in most AAA titles. Hell, you could turn all of these into Android/iOS apps and make millions.
Yeah, the gross margins are telling just part of the story - the sales & marketing scaling with revenue looks scary. I don't think a company with a p&l looking like that would necessarily want to go public. I see it that they've either 1) exhausted venture money, aren't an acquisition target, and see the public offering as funding of last resort because they're nowhere close to being profitable or 2) they see this as very close to a market top and are rushing to take the company public before the music stops. I don't like either very much.

edit: I should make it clear, I'm just repeating your point for emphasis in my first sentence. I'm in agreement with your whole post.
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> In lisp, the source code is itself a perfectly ordinary lisp value.

Isn't quoting necessary to "reify"/refer to the actual code as data?
> On mutually recursive tail calls, yes, the runtime doesn't have support. Because it misses support for TCO, you're ready to call the JVM "godawful"?

Some JVMs such as Avian support this feature, so they may not be godawful. I haven't used them much, so I don't know.

> For the JVM, a prototype for optimized tail recursive calls is in the works and given the attention that invokeDynamic received lately, I have no doubt it will be implemented for JDK 9 [2], especially given that people like Guy Steele are calling for it [3].

This is great to hear, thanks for telling me about it :)

It sounds like I will have a better time in JVM-land next time, if I ever have a reason to go back.

> TCO is considered an optimization, not a guarantee, so if you want it to do a TCO by contract, then an annotation makes sense, no?

In JVM-land, this is the case, which is why I said one should be careful to use the annotation. I don't have a problem with using the annotation. I do have a problem with TCO not being guaranteed in the language spec (like Lua), or at least supported by popular runtime+compiler combinations (like C++).
Political stance is one thing, but he then specifically took action to ruin their lives. They're not acting based on against what his stance is, but on the actions he specifically took that personally and demonstrably hurt them.
Ray Kroc started McDonalds when he was my age.
Reading the Risk Factors was a bit depressing.

http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1372612/0001193125141...
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> I wish you would give Brendan the chance to repent.

They have, and he hasn't. This is mentioned in the article.
> including boycotting chick fil-a for it's owner's beliefs

Comparing Brendan to Chick fil-A is actually totally absurd comparison.

1) It wasn't the owner in the Chick Fil-A case, it was actually the Chick-fil-A organization itself that was taking anti-gay marriage actions. Those actions also went well beyond simple donations.

2) Even if it was simply the owner, the owner gets his money from customers. If he then spends than money in ways that negatively impact you then it is perfectly rational to take that into account in your purchasing decisions (eg, it seems perfectly rational to think "for $3 I get a chicken sandwich and $0.05 towards a cause that I don't like"). Brendan donated $1000 of his own money: the marginal success of Mozilla is extremely unlikely to have significant impact on gay rights. There was strong evidence to think that the marginal success of Chick-fil-A was going to have significant impact on gay rights going foward.

3) Chick-fil-A also used to force it's employees to Christian prayers before working (and it isn't clear whether they still discriminate likewise for Franchise owners: it settled out of court for large sums with several non-Christians who were treated negatively in this way). Chick-fil-A have taken actual hate-group actions as an institution, which seems completely unlike a single man giving a fairly small donation of his own money to a cause.
choosing not to spend your money at a company is far from a witch hunt
They are looking to issue $250M worth of stock. That's not their valuation.
It's closer to Levie. It's very rare for founders to be able to maintain strong control of their company through multiple funding rounds.
> Since this is a politically charged issue, I will say that while I am personally in favor of abolishing marriage altogether, I think actively working to deny gays the right to marry in the interim is an exceptionally absurd idea.

Which aspect of marriage are you referring to, the religious and/or legal ceremony?
Oh too late :p.
Nobody boycotted duck dynasty because of someone's beliefs. A television network decided that it was probably bad for their bottom line to be seen to support someone who believes that black people were happier pre-civil rights.

Nobody boycotted chick-fil-a because of the owner's beliefs, they stopped giving the company money because they were made aware of the fact that some of that money would almost certainly support a cause they didn't want to support.

There are bright, shining lines between right and wrong. This isn't a fad, it isn't a witch hunt. When there is a minority being refused a right that the majority has, something needs to be done. This isn't hard.

> I don't know what it is about gay marriage that draws people in to this ridiculous witch hunt.

It's that we've seen this movie before.
The IPO is seeking to raise $250M. The S1 doesn't actually say how many shares they are planning to offer, so you can't say what the valuation would be. I'm guessing somewhere between 5-10 times the $250M.
Gay rights is not a "moral fashion" as some people are calling it.

This is a group of people who have been systematically terrorised throughout history, and some people still want to keep that status quo that holds them down as second class citizens, with less legal rights (like the right to immigrate in order to live together.)

Screw that meta-ethical/normative moral relativism[1].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_relativism
I just blacklisted you in my mind for unironically proposing that.
That's actually irrelevant to the question of who will be the winners in payments processing.
A couple of projects have looked at solving the trust issue by implementing a distributed exchange without counterparty risk on top of the bitcoin blockchain: https://www.counterparty.co/ http://www.mastercoin.org/. The idea is that the protocol itself handles escrow and matching orders instead of going through a centralized exchange.
Got a link to this trivial Play app that takes forever to compile (and the equivalent lightning fast Haskell app), or shall we just take you on your word?
I would say virtualpostmail - the starter plan is $5/month. I'm pretty low volume - I really only receive replacement credit cards when the old ones expire, plus the all important IRS correspondance (why I can't communicate with them 100% electronically baffles me!)
Neutral, eh? Good for you. What a bold stance. Are you also neutral on the topic of interracial marriage? Because the saga of gay marriage is basically replaying that story 50 years later: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loving_v._Virginia

Eich isn't in hot water for his personal beliefs. Indeed, as far as I know, he's never stated them. People are holding him accountable for his action, which was trying to keep gay people from their right to equality before the law.
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Discrimination of what kind? They are not publishing an app in an app store. Are they discriminating against Mozilla? Are they blocking Mozilla browsers from their site? Are people being persecuted, imprisoned, or killed for using Firefox? Are they working to put Eich in an internment camp based on his beliefs?

The word "bigotry" is a very big stick to swing against two people who could be killed in many parts of the world based on who they are. Bigotry implies a more systemic persecution than the economic decision they've made here.

By way of comparison, I'm not "discriminating" against Sony based on my boycott of their products for pushing out rootkits to their customers.
For comparison purposes, it's analogous to those who spoke out against and worked against interracial marriage. If Mozilla were to promote someone to CEO that donated money to a group attempting to outlaw interracial marriage in California, you'd hear no end of it (and rightly so). Those who support equality in marriage laws see someone opposing equality in marriage laws as just as bigoted as someone opposing interracial marriage.
I am a a happy user of everything they make, including the hundreds of open source node modules!
Mass port blocking is easy.
Not so hard and less disruptive is DPI of all port 53 traffic, blocking only requests for Twitter.
In addition, you block the IP address range of Twitter to foil the smart-asses who use hosts file.
> But the pro-gay-marriage crowd seems to go beyond that... These people don't even acknowledge the legitimacy of any other beliefs but their own and refuse to stoop to the level of debating the other side on intellectual grounds.

I reject your implication that because I am pro-gay marriage, I have refused to give other viewpoints any sort of legitimacy. I have, in the past, and have come to the decision that pro-gay marriage is the correct moral stance. You may disagree with me, but I am not ignorant or blind.

> It's to say that dismissing the legitimacy of other's beliefs besides your own shows a pretty absurd level of intellectual hubris

Why is Brendan donating $1000 to Prop 8 not "dismissing the legitimacy of other's beliefs", but a boycott is? Where do you think that money goes?
Why 20% for puts? Although loss for puts is capped at 100% of margin value, BTC is as much liable to go up 20% or 20% in a short period of time.

How often is margin calculation done? And what is the time period allowed for option sellers to cover their margin?

Also, what happens if my counterparty can't pay? Is the exchange going to step in and guarantee the trade?
I would be very surprised if in an average day you don't buy product or services from a company that has donated or has C-level executives that have donated to some cause that attacks you or your family. I know of at least one company that donates to a group because of the group's work in China that is directly attacking the families of their customers in the US.

Before this goes to my personal views: I'm not Californian so I don't vote there and I am one of those small government folks that believe the government should only do civil unions (no mention of marriage) as a matter of contract law between two or more consenting adults.
The US government, obviously.
That's interesting, but by far the largest market is trucks, taxis, and delivery. I don't know why everyone is focusing on consumers when it's basically just a convenience.
Equivocation is being used way too much today as well.
So, $250M actually falls short of the $292M they are burning through every year. The net loss of $168M a year means the $250M buys them almost 18 months of runway.

Their growth looks less impressive when you consider they spent $292M to only grow revenue $65M.

In short, they are spending $5 to make $1. It's possible the customer LTV is actually $6 over a period of years, but they might not be able to borrow enough to make it back in time.

Am I the only one that thinks that a company turning a profit is not like flipping a light switch? If you have a culture of overspending, you aren't going to wake up money and start running a tight ship.
> What it does wrong is when copy/pasting code or when moving a class/trait to another file/package, it sometimes misses the imports for the implicits that the code is using. You can't really blame it, since an imported implicit is not hard-wired in the same way an explicit reference or type usage is. Depending on your perspective, this may be a feature and not a bug :-)

This does sound like a feature and not a bug, yes.

> It's pretty hard to translate from Java to Scala and you're right that it doesn't work. On the other hand, idiomatic Java code is pretty freaking far from idiomatic Scala code and I think you should either leave that Java code as is (mixed projects are easy to configure) or you should translate it in idiomatic Scala code by hand, a task that no transpiler could do.

I agree, but some of the team used IntelliJ's make and apparently our particular project configuration had trouble with Java in some projects, so where there wasn't much Java the solution we went with was to move it to Scala. There were other more reasonable solutions available like "Fix the config" or "Just use xsbt bro", but it wasn't my call.
So only selling covered calls are allowed, in other words?
I'm not really buying the argument that government-provided benefits are enough of a "bribe" to be a significant factor for why people are getting married. Indeed, marriage rates (at least in Europe) show a net decline. My guess is that it is primarily an effect of looser social pressure (it is considered normal, even in more conservative areas, to live as a steady couple without being married), which also correlate with a decline of religious attendance.

So the tax-provided incentives are clearly not sufficient to compensate for this decline, and I really doubt they contribute significantly in most cases.
Sorry, it was a typo.
Well, let me help you out. Brendan Eich choosing to pay actual money (taking a direct action) to oppose the existence of gay marriage (alienating a large community) is what I'm referring to.
Profitability seems very very very far away

Just to add, right on their S1 risk factors:

We have incurred significant losses in each period since our inception in 2005.
We incurred net losses of $50.3 million in our fiscal year ended December 31, 2011,
$112.6 million in our fiscal year ended January 31, 2013, and
$168.6 million in our fiscal year ended January 31, 2014.
As of January 31, 2014, we had an accumulated deficit of $361.2 million

Granted the risk section is usually the absolutely worst case scenario, but it's interesting that they're losing more money at a faster pace each year.
Boycotting is a perfectly legitimate means of expressing one's opinion, in a manner that is in no way 'dismissing the legitimacy of other's beliefs'. If you believe it matters to an oil company where you pump gas, go for it; if they agree with you, then maybe they'll do something to win back your business. Hard to see that as a witch hunt...
> This would be a dream - a railroad-esque type journey that is not at the wim of the location of pre-laid tracks

Not only that, but I could fulfill a life-long dream of solving a crime on a train. :D
Zuck is a huge outlier. FB had a $15b valuation by 2009. People were throwing money at him, so he took very little dilution. Also, his control provisions are way more favorable.
They are actively working to disenfranchise Brendan Eich of his employment. They are doing this on the basis of his political stance. This is bigotry. They are bigots. What's worse, they're hypocritical bigots, because they're trying to pass this off as some sort of anti-bigotry stance.

All social justice is like this. It breaks down under the merest of scrutinty.
It was heavy sarcasm.
well I guess it doesn't stand for next step a, or they didn't need any more names than 'a' and never went for 'b' ;)

Also it could be "Next Step Administration", "Next Step Access", etc.. there are a billion possibilities, I'm not saying apple doesn't give access to NSA, they surely do, but I'm saying they obviously won't do it this way ;)
I wonder if some sociopath will start a robotic startup that threatened to set back robotic car progress due to recklessness just so Google would buy it in order to shut it down.
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I have no business, I'm a simple user and I have my values and they say: "Do not trust people that mix work and personal issues". It's my opinion and I respect yours as well.
Box comes from a very different situation from the astronomic growth and beast that was pre-IPO FB.

Realize they've raised at least $414M that has been reported.

At many of those rounds it was likely possible for founders/ early employees to cash out options. FB/ Mark had enormous leverage because it was an unstoppable growth machine. Box is a great company, but still has to battle to grow sales into revenue/ profits, as is evidenced by the S-1.

(http://www.crunchbase.com/company/box)
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Is anyone else missing the text from the page? Chrome 33.0.1750.154 m, no extensions.

http://i.imgur.com/a7lfdrY.png
I assure you that marriage is an entirely different ballgame than raising some taxes. Did you read the entire post?
True, the levels of horror are mixed here, but the crying was something that hit me this morning. If more of out politicians, public servants and even taxi and bus drivers cycled a few days each year, I'm sure the roads in Britain would be a very different place.

Similarly I'd love to see people experience some of the pain and danger they seem willing to put others in. The cycling comment was flippant (and my personal bugbear) but I think it is part of a whole spectrum of engagement and understanding that we should expect from those that want to and chose to run and operate the mechanics of our countries.
Should companies be allowed to deny jobs to communists? To people belonging to Muslim Brotherhood party of Egypt? To members of Greece's Golden Dawn? To freemasons? To members of German American Bund in 1939?

Hiring is supposed to be done according to credentials and explicitly ignoring belonging to a political party - and there shouldn't be any differences between major parties such as Democrats and minor parties such as American Nazi Party which apparantly was a real thing until 80ies.