skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nice analogy! I should probably use that...
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They're acting based on what his stance is. The actions can't exist independently of the stance. The differentiation that you're artificially trying to conjure does not exist.
You could build this by just removing the symbols that would trigger the check, either in a modified compiler or in a preprocessor. Go is pretty easy to parse so you should have an easy time of it.

If you want your unused symbols, you could insert "_ = unusedSymbol" instead.
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Hmm... does anyone know how many employees they had in each year?
Or most probably: it doesn't matter at all since compilers aren't generating code that depends on such details?
I'm somewhat astounded to hear they have 972 employees. I would have guesstimated somewhere below 200. Even with a huge marketing push, I'm a little at a loss for what they all do.
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7445761
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. These losses and accumulated deficit reflect the substantial investments we made to acquire new customers and develop our services. We intend to continue scaling our business to increase our number of users and paying organizations and to meet the increasingly complex needs of our customers. We have invested, and expect to continue to invest, in our sales and marketing organizations to sell our services around the world and in our development organization to deliver additional features and capabilities of our cloud services to address our customers’ evolving needs. We also expect to continue to make significant investments in our datacenter infrastructure and in our professional service organization as we focus on customer success. As a result of our continuing investments to scale our business in each of these areas, we do not expect to be profitable for the foreseeable future. Furthermore, to the extent we are successful in increasing our customer base, we will also incur increased losses due to upfront costs associated with acquiring new customers, particularly as a result of the limited free trial version of our service and the nature of subscription revenue, which is generally recognized ratably over the term of the subscription period, which is typically one year, although we also offer our services for terms ranging between one month to three years or more. We cannot assure you that we will achieve profitability in the future or that, if we do become profitable, we will sustain profitability.
The Koch Brothers as you misrepresented their stance and perpetuated a myth.
You're most likely to find such people among principled libertarians. By their very nature they:

1) Don't care what consenting individuals do.
2) Want the power and influence of the State reduced.

Some of us are reasonably pragmatic and acknowledge that the State isn't going away any time soon. Therefore, we prefer that the State be as egalitarian as possible.

Others are less tolerable of pragmatism and do not support any expansion of State power. This has absolutely nothing to do with sexual orientation and is easily applied consistently.

Moreover, libertarians are very unlikely to even acknowledge marriage as a right. It's only meaningful in our society as a "right" precisely because governments grant special privileges to married couples. This discriminates against ALL unmarried people---not just gays.

If governments weren't involved in marriage, ALL of this would be a non-issue. People could choose to celebrate or signify their union in whichever manner they choose. To an anti-State ideologue, claiming that "well governments are involved so you might as just give them more power" is just a non-starter.

I get that participating in a lynch mob can be fun. But my only point here is that there are legitimate arguments for the other side that don't require bigotry. (Since other commenters were claiming this to be impossible.) This is an inconvenient fact for a lynch mob acting on limited information.
I'm referring to the legal distinction between single and married people, and the benefits married people get.
For me, gay marriage is on a level of fundamental human rights and equality. That everyone should have the same rights under the law is literally one of the central beliefs that the United States was founded on. If we're giving benefits to couples who are married, gay couples should be entitled to those same benefits. [1] I don't see how anyone can say anything to the contrary. If I heard something remotely convincing then I would probably accept it, but I haven't. Largely the opposition of gay marriage is just bigotry because it makes someone uncomfortable. [2] The issue here is that those beliefs aren't legitimate, they just deny another human being rights that they should have.

[1] I'm not sure whether we should give benefits to married couples at all, but if we are then all couples should be eligible for them if they desire.

[2] Besides the opinion of a single person on HN, I've never seen anyone against gay marriage because they are against marriage as a whole. Its always that it offends them in some way.
Seriously? I understand this is pretty emotional topic for a lot of people here, but this is just absolutely ridiculous.
I wonder if I could do the following... Any help would be appreciated.

Here's the scenario: a seller is selling something expensive. Some buyers may prefer purchasing by credit card (simple) but others may prefer to wire money to the seller. To guarantee the transaction, we would take an authorization on a credit card for, let's say 10 days and if the buyer transfers the amount during that time, we remove the hold on the credit card. If he hasn't transferred the money after the elapsed time, then we would charge the card.

Would Stripe or Balanced support such a scenario and if so, what would be the fees? Is there any impact of having a lot of CC holds that don't go through?
They legally are required to list every imaginable risk. The actual chances of some of these happening are not that likely.
> we grew from 369 employees as of January 31, 2012 to 972 employees as of January 31, 2014
Could this reflect pressure from investors for a payday? If they feel this is a moment the market believes the business still has "opportunity" even if they don't expect to see it, so they want the liquidity event.

Completely agree about the unflippable profitability switch. Profitability is a direction, not a destination.
>> "Still somewhat amazed at how discussion around a successful example of product-market fit degenerated into such bile"

The original title was the problem. Unfortunately the original title was created by the HN submitter (as far as I can tell) and it wasn't 100% accurate. If there's one thing people on HN do well it's pick holes in things that aren't 100% correct. It doesn't excuse some of the bile you're referring to but I think it reinforces the need not to create our own titles when submitting and to follow the HN guidelines around submissions.[1]

[1] http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
It depends entirely on his contract - I'd expect most CEOs to have a clause about their conduct causing harm to the organisation. Even if not, it's legal to convince someone to leave, which is what usually happens in public embarrassment cases.
Nope. She doesn't own anything. You are reading the wrong line, the 25.5% is DFJ.
"I feel it's complicated like every other polarizing topic"

What's complicated about allowing people to do what they want as long they are not hurting others?

By saying "it's complicated" you are saying that you have some complicated thoughts about something that is absolutely none of your business, Why? I seriously want to know, I don't understand this obsession with what others do if it has no effect on you what so ever.

You are saying that you yourself should also not be free to marry who ever you want, do you propose to set up a jury to judge who can and cannot marry?

Please help me understand what's complicated about this issue.
Helloooo... This is in USA. Does the word "lobbying" ring a bell?
Huh. White power is a political stance. One widely reviled. So is antisemitism. So if I understand you rightly, you're basically saying that everybody is a bigot on a variety of formerly-controversial issues.

I guess if you want to define the word that way, sure. In which case, I'm proud to be bigoted against racists. But I think words are more useful when they don't include 99% of the population.
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this is not a personal matter. It's a public issue. For example, there are plenty of Arab businesses that boycott Israel and their products. Are they mixing work and personal issue?
Shy people will get pinged by their friends and feel like they've been invited to share. I think that's what they're getting at, not positive.
I think I speak for many that we like Aaron but don't know if Box can become that iconic enterprise software company that Aaron or others in the company would like us to believe.
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Yes, I remember that though his ownership might be ~30%, his voting counts for >50%.
If you just multiply by -1 their earnings acceleration is fantastic!
Isn't that insanely many people compared to what they deliver? Many more than DropBox (300+?) and JottaCloud (~10) without me being able to see why.

Edit: You were before me, so added my comment as a reply to you instead.
I agree on the S&M expenses. What's scarier is that this is a very competitive fairly undifferentiated market, which means you can't live without salespeople. Which means they're going to hit the wall at some point, because as it stands right now, they are spending about $1.40 in sales ALONE to bring in $1 of revenue. Now that's scary.
It seems conceptually crazy to me to buy a put option in such a system where I would be exposed to USD/BTC as well as having no recourse against an anonymous issuer (for 80% of the underlying price).

How do the site's creators think market participants will handle these conditions?
They chose Eich because of professional issues, not his personal beliefs. I hope no company/organization chooses employees by their personal beliefs. Private life is private, he can have whatever beliefs he wants, I don't care. That doesn't affect his work as CEO or any other post. And if it eventually does, then I would stand against it. Until then, private life is private, I don't care what he does in his free time.
At the same time, while they spent $1.7 of S&M expenses to generate $1 in revenue in 2012-13, they decreased this to just $1.37 in 2014, so that's an improvement given that S&M is 2/3rds of their operating expenses.
Eich's response to the publicity surrounding the donation in 2012: https://brendaneich.com/2012/04/community-and-diversity/
I like to maintain a history of things I've searched for. I'll often have to monkey with the terms and the sequence to get anything good out of google for the stuff I look for. Sometimes it's just useful to have it separate.
Every employee affects the direction of the company in some amount, commensurate with their hierarchical level, security clearance, expertise, etc.

In normal, day to day operations, the CEO tends to have a bigger share of influence than other employees, but he neither has sole influence, nor always the biggest influence.

One could very well argue that Jonathan Ives had a bigger influence than Steve Jobs on Apple's direction around the time of iPod's release, for example. That product singlehandedly changed Apple's market segment and consumer perception.

In short, a CEO is just an employee, often getting paid more than the average employee, and often having more influence than the average employee, but not always.
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Didn't the hstore2 patch add this for hstore? Wouldn't it be easy to take the same function and make ti work for jsonb?
It's not too common, but larger amounts aren't unprecedented: two big ones that had even larger ownership were Microsoft (Gates still held 49% of Microsoft at the time of IPO) and Amazon (Bezos & family held 52%, with Bezos himself holding 42%). The Google founders also owned a combined 32% (16% each). Those companies were rather more successful than Box, though.
"Covered calls" are covered by the underlying asset. That's not the same as a 100% margin requirement.
According this site 1500 ghana cedis is about $567 USD

http://www.likeforex.com/currency-converter/ghana-cedi-ghs_u...
Ask HN: Where should someone buy a SSL certificate?
There always seems to be talk about some SSL cert service (VeriSign) that has been hacked or gone under. I'm trying to buy my first SSL certificate and there are so many options out there that its hard to know which one, what are the risks? Is any certificate authority okay? Will self signed certs be good enough?

Clearly the issue is the man-in-the-middle attack, which I have a high level understanding of, and makes every CA susceptible to the same attack if they are compromised.. but are there good CA's that people have had experience with? Is it less safe to get a wildcard cert than individual certs for each domain?

Thanks HN
This looks like an excellent product. I think I might try it out. I say "I think" because I wonder whether or not it might be too small for the things I would use it for. Might there be an option for larger (say A4 or US Letter sized) versions in the future?
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Every social justice warrior is a bigot by definition.

Thankfully, your kind is a very tiny percentage of the population.
I'd be much more scared if they were NOT ploughing money back into the business in order to grow. IPOs are fundraising events first and foremost. Virtually all companies that IPO are operating at a loss (ie, nearly synonymous with "growth company"). The sooner HNers recognize this, the sooner they will get involved with multi-billion companies.
Come on pg. This isn't real tech. This is just a battery in a box with a $1 microcontroller. We could hack this together in a day in my basement.
Yes, yes, proposition 8. There is a big fucking thread up there if you want to partake in more cheap shots.
That's a very reductionist point of view that doesn't seem useful as an intellectual tool.

Bigotry is not just a description of actions people take but the context in which they take them. Eich, in the context of this specific economic transaction, doesn't belong to a marginalized group. These men who are withdrawing their app do. Eich has taken direct action against them and they are responding. In this case, I believe they could be considered to be defending themselves by trying to deprive people who want to do them harm economic opportunity. I'm pretty much okay with that.

So, yeah, I guess you could say they are bigots. But that train of thought doesn't seem to me to place this situation in any useful context other than "all social justice causes are bad". Am I missing something?
No one is being forced to take a stand. Eich chose to take his own stand by donating $1000 in support of Prop 8. It is completely fair to judge him for that action.
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Neither. Name is from an AI character in a game called Marathon. Which was in turn named for the historical scientist/astronomer.
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There's a variety of options. You could, for example, turn on and off email notifications completely, to the tune of your schedule. (You might need Tasker for that though)
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The majority / minority argument does not hold. Oppressed minorities are not always in the right. Arguments around gay marriage / politics / Brendan need to step back and argue the issues, not the size or relative social power of the groups involved.

I happen to agree with your side of the issue, but let's talk about the issue, not make it a David and Goliath straw man debate. The term "witch hunt" may or may not apply. As an example, we might say that during the French Revolution, the proletariat (oppressed majority, wat?) went on a witch hunt against aristocracy (minority holding majority power) and members of the royal court, regardless of their fault.
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My understanding from a few conversations with the peachy guys is that they started out with a really simple idea of what it was going to do, but in the process of getting it production ready they kept discovering problems that needed yet-another-hack to work around. It sounds like a lot of clever engineering has gone into it, but I personally probably would do USB and digital processing instead of analog (you can get crazy powerful USB-capable micros for pretty cheap, e.g. mchck.org)
Well, it kind-of explains why they have the losses they have.

In business, usually it's possible to achieve whatever revenue you want; the hard part is getting there without a headcount/other expense basis that makes you bleed money instead of earning it.
It's only a matter of time. Maybe universal gay marriage will not be achieved in my lifetime but it will be achieved. If people have power to bring it closer with their efforts or monetary contributions - they are welcome to do so, but it is still quite inevitable. This topic might hold relevance and controversy for now, but ultimately - it is not. Just another footnote in history.
It's illegal to discriminate against someone on the basis of their political stance. Nothing you can say will ever change that.
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Does it make sense to get in touch with developers first, to find out where they'd like you to focus, or to find out if there is already ongoing work on an issue?
A general word of warning. (Disclaimer I'm for gay marriage, but that is not the point of the following text.)

I have been subscribed to the main mailing list of the German Pirate party for four years now and from this very rich data set I can give you the following piece of insight:

Discussions about LGBT issues will invariably degenerate into pure horribleness. It might not be obvious to most people why this should be the case, but believe me, if there is only one single troll that knows one of the big red buttons to push, the whole thing goes off the rails.

I'm reeeally uncertain if I should do this, but to illustrate my point, I'm now going to describe one of those buttons: Many of the LG and B people are not really comfortable with the T people (and some are quite T-phobic!). A troll that identifies one of those anti-T LGB posters can "craft" a post that destroys any room that might have been there for meaningful discussion.

At least this has been my experience on that particular mailing list. While the conversational level of the HN community is fortunately well above that of said list, I already see some pre-pathologies which indicate that HN might not be immune to the LGBT-shitstorm-effect.

My personal feelings about this particular instance, without knowing any details are this: Guy I've never heared of before with anti gay-marriage history becomes head of Mozilla? Dude, show some heart-felt sensibility for the issue, tell everybody that either you've changed your views or that at least your professional actions in this regard will follow the broader community attitude, and then let's move ahead to other issues.
People outside of HN mostly haven't heard of Docker or CoreOS, though.
Nice turn of phrase, but I hope you do realize that this is being attempted, and has been for quite a while now.

Easier said than done.
inspired by https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7454387
"they are clearly not bringing in enough revenues to make the business profitable"

I didn't read anything thoroughly, but there are times when more revenue does not take you closer to profitability. Wasn't that the big downfall of pets.com? The more they sold, the faster they lost money. Could be that Box has sacrificed revenue to conserve some cash (i.e. if their costs per customer were higher than they charge).
Interesting! I'd love to see how they're building their decision up.

Nielsen offers the reverse of this service to large multinationals so they can determine where to send their sales reps (like Coca-Cola wanting to know where all the new convenience stores in Africa are).
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Aaron is the CEO and his Salary is only about $155K, seems too less as compared to other executives. I know that their majority of the compensation comes in the form of Stock but can anyone explain why and how it works for executives?
I've noticed three classes of bad English. The apologetic folk, who will often try to explain things in multiple ways, or be extra-verbose, in an effort to get their point across clearly. Second, the unapologetically bad folk, who write a semi-incoherent sentence and respond poorly to requests for clarification (often simply repeating the same sentence). Third, the lazy native (or fluent) speaker. This is an entirely new class of errors, which is easy enough to read through (being native and lazy myself), but sends a strong signal that I shouldn't place too much importance on what I'm reading.
This could be huge...wonder if Tesla/Solar City would be interested in buying them?
It's not like he hasn't been at the company all along in a management capacity. I don't see how this changes anything or why anyone should choose now to retaliate as opposed to any other arbitrary time.
I believe Eich has and will continue to have his franchise. Voting, you see, being one of the civil rights guaranteed to us. Like marriage, it turns out.

Being a fancy CEO, though? That's not a civil right. Especially not if attempting to deprive gay people of their civil rights makes it hard to perform an important function of that fancy CEO job: the recruitment and retention of staff.
It could be a new tech. While there are quite a few BMS chips available around, from a bunch of companies [ http://liionbms.com/html/BMS_IC_table.html ] it is possible that they did some careful research onto what charging cycles are used in these products and found charging cycles that work even better for particular battery chemistries.

On the other hand, research is tough and it is so much easier to learn about the existence of a few hot words (like BMS), file a provisional patent and smooth-talk an investor or two with 'BatteryOS platform' . Considering that they are comparing their charging cycle with the "conventional" charger and throw words like "Chevy Volt, which only charges its battery to 50 percent capacity" I'm finding this scenario as a more likely one.

Still. It is not like I wouldn't like having more well designed LiIon BMS/charger combos on the market! There aren't many available and it's always nice to have more choice! So good luck!
I have to admit I haven't done much serialization in the last large number of years but I am working on a game design and was thinking that serializing the levels would be a good way to store it until they are loaded. Then after the user plays, save the level so they could go back and play it again, but pick up where they left off.

This looks like a clean implementation.
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Author here - will be writing up a blog post soon about building the waitlist / referral system. Any questions/comments appreciated!
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