skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you are short-changing the thoughtfulness of their long term investment partners (especially True Ventures - of which former Automattic CEO Toni is a partner). I also think you are thinking of Matt Mullenweg in the same light as many other startup founders, but he is quite different, especially in regard to his commitment to open source and publicly stated desire for Automattic to be a very long-term company, not reach a high valuation and have a big sale.

Now to your notes:

First, they don't have 20 sales people for VIP. They have less than ten for sure. Probably closer to five.

Second, VIP has more than a 100 customers, by far. And VIP business has grown ever since it was introduced, but simultaneously has become a smaller and smaller part of their overall revenues (I know this to be true). Which means other aspects of their business are growing faster than VIP.

I've followed Automattic closely for a long time. I don't at all see them as the type of company to just grab money in frothy markets. I think we'll see this money equip them to make some much bigger investments in the next couple years. They are certainly in better shape than any other CMS or blogging platform ever has been.
Google Has a Tool to Easily Translate Adwords Campaigns.
Not very ballsy if they've bought enough politicians and lobbyists.
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To be fair, it seems the site is his personal blog as well [1], well before he started the homonymous company.

It's still a garish design anti-pattern, nonetheless. All this baroque excess of late with gigantic fonts in the name of "space" and "readability" really needs to stop.

[1] https://oncletom.io/
Yeah. I didn't want to get into that, because it's a deeper question. But I think you can eliminate complete bozos.
If the user configures the emergency weather broadcast app to receive randomized data, yes obviously.

The app should be "forced" to run with modified data, because that is what the user explicitly chose. The whole point of an app is that it runs on the user's device, meaning it should be ultimately acting in the user's best interest, despite any post-facto desires of the developer. That is the whole idea of ownership - I can drive my current Honda to browse for new cars at the Toyota dealership, etc.
I don't know what you mean by 'released'. If we're talking about the same thing, it's a) a single mailing list thread and b) a wiki page, which google finds.

But as another check just revealed, DDG does not seem to index php.net very much, cf. https://next.duckduckgo.com/?q=string+inurl%3Aphp.net

It also does not find any php related content for my real name, whereas google does, a lot.

Edit: my bad, it seems to be site: and not inurl:
Are you sure you understand what happens to the cash that the trust fund gives to the Treasury in exchange for the US Treasuries it purchases? The US government spends that cash. That means that, when the trust fund needs to sell US Treasuries back to the US government to make payments, the US government has to get the cash from current funds, i.e., from current taxpayers, over and above what current taxpayers are already paying in to Social Security, or by printing new money. (For quite some time now, it has been doing more of the latter than the former.) This also shows, btw, that US Treasuries are not "securities" in the usual sense of the term, because the cash obtained by the seller (the US government) is not used to finance investments; it's used to pay current expenses.

The above is not how a standard pension fund works. A standard pension fund has to be able to make current payments from the earnings it has collected on past payments. That is originally how Social Security was supposed to work, but it is very, very far from working that way now and has been for a long time.

And yes, of course standard pension funds invest payments coming in in a portfolio of securities; but if the fund is having to sell securities outright (i.e., prior to maturity) to make current payments, instead of just making payments from the earnings on those securities, it has a big problem. Which is exactly the problem Social Security has; except that, because the US government is a sovereign government and can print money and lie about its accounting, it has been able to obfuscate what is going on.
Yeah, this does seem to be a core issue. How can we make it easier for people to start last-mile ISPs? It seems like a pretty capital intensive business to get involved in :)
I just recently switched to duckduckgo and I wasn't a fan of the search results UI (spent a lot of time in settings) but this looks beautiful!
Because it's "standardized" testing, that's the whole point. If the nature of the test changes drastically yearly, how can you compare results from year to year?
A food carnival when anyone can open a restaurant for a day
I'm not the grandparent commenter, but your first example would indeed bother me, while the second wouldn't. The scenario of someone following me around holds worrisome import quite apart from the mere knowledge of what I'm doing or where I'm going (which I used to worry about, but tried to avoid worrying about after I realized that in a decade or two, there would be no way of knowing if someone had a camera (other than their eyes, of course...) pointed at me).
Ooh, I think that's it! The screenshots aren't loading for me, though. Thanks!

Edit: I checked Youtube, and you're definitely right. Thank you! Here's the video - http://youtu.be/EbLhw_zJiFo - if you liked Electropaint you may like this.
I can't press Ctrl-F to initiate a search on this page without it pulling up a picture slideshow, taking me away from the content that I wanted to search. What a stupendously senseless display of hostility to users.

For anyone else who was wondering, there seems to be no mention of rolling resistance.
In my experience, the problem with code searches is the extra work you have to go to to force a precise search. The above example of phpng, for example. I'm totally fine with being told I might find more results with a slightly different search, but it's infuriating to not at least be given the benefit of the doubt that I know what I actually want.

Unlike the GP, this bothers me about google as well, though.
Link to a good response: https://medium.com/p/12a3018d5abc
(nvk posted the response but I don't know how long the two submissions will be together on the index page).
Yeah. To be honest, there are cases where I've been that guy.

But past a certain level, it's your job to explain your own weaknesses too. I just had a technical interview the other week and they relied way too much on definitions and whether I'd heard of this and that. I happen to do great at those but I want to be sure I can be productive (the position uses Elixir, which I'm totally unfamiliar with) so I'm suggesting they give me a take-home exam.
It's looking great! My only gripe is the lack of contrast in the results. I find it a bit harder to parse than before.

The image and video showcase is well thought out. It is digestible and smooth complement to the general search, well done!
By "lab setting" I mean someone who can run controls, and do the statistical analysis to arrive a decent data, not just portable equipment.

I guess if they are willing to measure ripeness with a margin of error of +/-50%, that'll work.
Some people are tired and not at their best after a full day of coding.

I talk to the applicant and try to work something out. I interview weekends and evenings if that's what they want. First interviews are always on the phone. Eventually, they have to come in, but by then, we are pretty sure it isn't a waste of time.
> Does anybody know if something like that is possible/already exists?

The majority of commercial JVMs that tend to be ignored on HN, provide JIT cache between runs and AOT compilation.
I would start first and foremost with mastering analytics. All other strategies will fall into place when you have accurate data to measure your impact.

If there is only one website you ever visit to learn marketing it should be Occams Razor by Avinash Kaushik.
http://www.kaushik.net/avinash/

If you want the fundamentals, read some of Dan Kennedy's books like The Ultimate Marketing Plan.

Good Luck.
But they cant cut out the middleman. Comcast doesnt have a direct connection to netflix or anywhere else on the internet.

I think Level 3 should straight up shut off their peering agreement with comcast and watch how all the last mile customers blame comcast for the issue, until such time as comcast stops playing games.
Cool. You might need to indicate that fonts are OFL not MIT licensed though.
I'm going to chime in with the awesome "Voodoo Lights" screensaver (which I purchased back in the day) http://www.soulreaver.freeserve.co.uk/voodoo.html

I should dig up the registration info and see if it still runs in modern Windows...
All certainly the case. Any sort of jargon should be well defined and well documented. Standardizing on jargon between groups eases transitions between groups, but may mean it fits individual problem domains slightly less well. &c, &c.
In general, it looks really good.

- I'd like some more focus on keyboard navigation. Make sure that everything looks good when tabbing, even if you've used arrow keys first.

- Anti-phishing: A long domain name will trim the end in the "More from ..." link. Instead it would make sense to trim the beginning.

- Needs better contrast.
So they spent money foolishly, hired too much, and assumed that the gravity of business expenses didn't matter? That sounds like most failed businesses I've seen or heard.

If the basic economics of a business don't work, it will fail eventually. You have to make more money than you spend. If you can't do that you don't have a business, you have a very expensive and time consuming hobby.
Rad app, Dan
I'm fairly certain that they do not proxy searches to Google.

I heave heard that they do use Bing and Yahoo search APIs, but this could be incorrect.
Isn't the US going to smart cards within a couple years?
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Just try to imagine HHVM in year or two. Zend PHP will be irrelevant by then.
> you are being paid for that activity through subscription fees, ads, donations, etc.

Last time I checked ISPs where heavily monetizing packet receiving to the tune of 5-10x what netflix monetizes from me. For typically slow, shitty service bundled with cable TV or phone I do not want.
> It's not the OP's fault...

Really? So now it isn't your fault for completely lying to someone, it's their fault for believing you?
I don't know what that is, but I'll check it out.
Why not just organize an event yourself then ?
Well, I've seem a lot of false positives. The questions asked tend more to the mathematical side, So I've seem smart people but with little programming experience, that didn't knew how to write quality code, pass those interviews.

The problem is that problem solving with fancy algorithm's can even be part of the job, but are normally just a small fraction.
I've never seem dumb people going incredibly well in technical interviews, that's true, but I've seem a lot of bad programmers giving great answers to those abstract problems. And sometimes, they're knowledge wasn't actually a fit.
Torrenting provided a lot of traffic that could bring symmetry to the amounts send/received. And yet it was frowned upon.
There’s no such thing as arts entrepreneurship
you can probably 10x that average per month
the point i think is scope injection makes controllers clueless about any view responsability. That's a powerfull idea. Well they are not totally clueless because one still needs to "force update the view" sometimes in Angular ($scope.$apply),but this can be avoided by using Angular promise api.
Even NIST banned SHA1's use after 31st December 2013.

http://www.zdnet.com/nist-makes-a-hash-of-sha-1-ban-70000259...

It's the "infrastructure" providers that need to push the change here, if the sites aren't going to. Use the "tyranny of the default" for positive change. Web server software makers, browser vendors, need to push for this type of changes, and not just wait around until the majority of websites have already manually made the changes, before you make that change the default. That takes too long and it's to the detriment of the web's users.
I was very pleasantly surprised by the results! I had 7-8 companies reach out to me, all of which were very interesting and strong companies that I'd like I'd potentially like to work for. I believe my post hovered around the middle as well.
As others have said, Comcast is also being monetarily rewarded here. I think the best argument lies along "the sender is in the best position to take measures to reduce traffic (traded off against their goals)."
Java style: Do not Catch Generic Exception
I read the article to try and figure out what the "MacGyver Trick" was, and from what I can tell the "trick" is "plan ahead". There's some interesting info in the article, but IMO the MacGyver analogy is incredibly contrived, and linkbait-ish.
Is it just me, or has Wired completely failed to load on Mobile Safari for months?
Redesigning Photoshop's font panel
New jQuery modal plugin is serious contender
The core issue isn't at the last mile, but in connecting a last mile network to the internet?

Maybe we make Cable companies share their last mile networks like we did with DSL?
When the source is not an authority, when nothing the source says is verifiable, and when you have a duty to perform due diligence in regards to what you report to your customers as fact? Yes, it's their fault.
I was hoping this would be cleaned-up code based on the decompiled original (like how ScummVM and OpenTTD started) but

var_10 = s1.u64;
ARGS->f13.s = f22.s;
var_B8 = ra.u64;
{
ARGS->f14.s = f22.s;
wrap_glColor3f((float) ARGS->f12.s, (float) ARGS->f13.s, (float) ARGS->f14.s, wincount);
}

Nope. Furthermore, I don't understand the license on that core file (ep.c). Are we free to improve it and recover cleaner code?
I believe this is right. The trade in ancient manuscripts is surprisingly cloak-and-dagger. (Edit: I base this on such vast experience as having read a couple New Yorker articles about it.)
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That doesn't clash at all. It's maximal freedom on both sides - you decide under what terms the developer's program runs. If the developer doesn't like those terms, the app doesn't run.

Either the user accepts the developers desired TOS on their device, and they get to run the app, or they do not.

I'd go a lower level than the legal contract. If the app says it wants X to run, and you deny X, the app is under no obligation to run. Your back yard, their code.
For the love of christ, whatever you do, please don't ever implement "DuckDuckGo Instant®".

This auto-complete predictive suggestion list business isn't half bad, but there's nothing I hate more about Google than their bloody "Instant" features.
If the ISP is letting a connection become saturated in order to place pressure on a third party provider to provide settlement, they are doing so at the cost of any other providers running over those trunks. Since switching to AT&T, I've noticed decreased Netflix performance and sometimes Imgur loads like I'm on dial-up again. I haven't checked the routes but it has me wondering if it's shared congestion. To your point, I'm not sure this is a moral hazard yet but it does seem like one of those things that could be very bad for the customer and the ISP can simply get away with it due to lack of competition.
I made an HN thread for a blog post I wrote that I thought some folks here might wish to see and might not otherwise see. I don't post to HN every single thing I write on my personal blog, much less every single thing I do generally. I run multiple websites. Most of them have not been posted here.
You can actually increase the width of the results, if you prefer. It's in the settings: https://next.duckduckgo.com/settings

Click on the "Look and Feel" tab, then change the "width" :)
Thanks Hamilton, hope you're doing well.
I've noticed the age thing too! I thought it was just me. Any thoughts on why there's that distinction?
How about the CCTV cams that are appearing at every single *^#% intersection in the Bay Area? Obviously they are recording everything and probably running the same license plate detection as well.

It's like someone (Homeland Security grants I assume) figured, we have all these mounting points already wired (traffic signals) might as well add a camera.

I figure the camera will just be built into the traffic signal in the future, and the whole unit will be IP addressable. Saves on having two different things to mount, and the light's probably already at the right orientation.
What if I told you before you came in that we'd be coding on whiteboards. That my expectations were calibrated properly for that, and that the problems would be "white-board" sized.

I've done this -- had people talk to me about their anxiety or problems with it, and put them at ease. For some, I have recommended that they just go practice of an hour or so with a friend -- it's really not that hard to code "whiteboard" level code if you code every day and practice it a little. It's such a common tech interview style, that if you are looking for a job, it's worth working a little at it.

Frankly, in a code-editor, my expectations are much higher -- I don't even require you get any framework class or method name right (or even perfect syntax) -- but the compiler will. It gets in the way of the essence of the question -- which is more about collaboration.
I don't think there is really is "general" reason. From a usability perspective if the user has a Visa and fat-fingers a 5 as the first digit it can be nice if they see that there may be an error before hitting submit (although in all honest I don't really pay attention to the icons that highlight on some forms and still fat finger numbers occasionally).

In a related topic on of my biggest pet peeves with sites is the ones that force you to choose the credit card type instead of detecting. Very frustrating to hit submit only to be informed you forgot to select the type of card you are using. To me there is no logical reason behind that.
The elements of the joke are as follows. I assumed that HN readers have a higher probability than the general population to associate words with scientific or engineering meanings. I further assumed that as this site has a high association with electronics, the electrical meaning of conductor would be most prevalent. This was reinforced by the parent post, who stated nearly exactly what I had been thinking, right down to the smirking overcleverness with which it described to motion of elecromagnetic charge. Before clicking on the link, I thought of other things that could be meant by "conductor". I came up with heat transfer and train tickets. I didn't even think of orchestras, probably because I had always been in bands, where the leaders were overwhelmingly directors, band leaders, and drum majors.

The second element of the joke is that I presumed that HN readers, having a variety of esoteric hobbies, might also have an interest in cognitive science and linguistics (particularly the AI folks), and might want to analyze the brain of an outlier. I then decided that, while less accessible to a home hobbyist than brain surgery or in-depth psychological profiling, fMRI imaging conveyed the point of the joke in shorter, more recognizable wording, without actually being a very probable outcome.

In reality, you would probably be wired up to a home-made sensor array and presented with a series of time-indexed sensory inputs via headphones and a computer screen, and perhaps asked to press certain button sequences in response.

So, in short, no, those people do not need a fMRI. You, however.... I would like to analyze your physiological response to traditional comedy and contrast that with nerd jokes....
That's probably a good idea. But hopefully surfacing the lack of good data is at least some productive.
Your circle area formula is incorrect - you square the radius first, then multiply by pi. It's quite easy to see why if you substitute tau/2 for pi - 1/2 tau r^2 is clearly the integral of tau * r, where tau radians is a complete circle. Mixing diameter and radius in the same formula and hiding the resulting factor of two in a constant is a pedagogical disaster.
>Companies that sell a product, especially an "enterprise" product need more people.

The Disruption Opportunity (that has been out there for quite a time and is very resistant to disruption :)
You'd have to optimize for that. You can add incentives for people to mix up their routes, and you can use a much smaller number of dedicated cars to cover whatever is left. My point was that if the problem you're trying to solve is "StreetView is too expensive to operate" you're not going to go and create self driving cars, you'd do something simpler.

That doesn't mean that once you do have self-driving cars you wouldn't use them for that. Or even that StreetView wouldn't be the first thing you'd use them for, since that's a good way to get more training data for your algorithms. But to suggest they'd go to all the expense of creating self-driving cars to then use them just as a cost saving measure for StreetView sounds strange.
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I don't know if you still come slumming around HN anymore, but congrats, photomatt. I'm a Drupal developer and I always think it's funny when I hear the Drupal war cry about how much more flexible or capable or whatever Drupal is than Wordpress. Seems to me that you had a much clearer idea of what you wanted your product to do from the get go, and I admire that a lot. Way to go.
> it's a 20:1 disparity in traffic in vs traffic out.

Are you talking about on this graph?

http://blog.level3.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/route_info...

Because all the numbers I see are showing about a 5:1 or 6:1 imbalance.

> ...transit providers are starting to see their industry be squeezed by the big ISPs.

No.

> ...why do transit providers even exist?

Because it's untenable (and inefficient) for Comcast to build a separate fiber network to every service provider (e.g. to start providing a service on your version of the internet, you'd have to build your own network connection to Comcast, and then again to Verizon, and again to AT&T, and again to every other ISP on the planet).

Take another look at the L3 network map from the blog post:

http://blog.level3.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/network_ma...

If you think transit providers are purely middlemen for the sake of middlemen then you're basically saying that every service provider should build out a network of that same size in order to reach every ISP.

> Settlement-free peering assumes that bandwidth usage is roughly symmetric

No. It assumes that the benefit to each network is roughly symmetric. Put another way, if Netflix videos only degrade on Comcast's network, Comcast's goodwill with its own customers will increase as a result of increasing transit/peering capacity. To a normal company, that's a tangible benefit to the agreement enough to make it worthwhile.

Comcast empirically does not care about the goodwill of its customers, which is not surprising given its monopoly of local markets. If customers had alternatives to Comcast and it became known that Netflix worked on one ISP and not the other, customers would switch ISPs en masse.
Combined with the new Sandisk 4GB SAS SSD (with 6 and 8TB models to be announced soon), I wonder what impacts this will have on exa-scale data storage.
The thing to realize is that the question is as much about collaboration and technical conversation as it is about coding. Or, at least, it is for me.
Why isnt clojurescript compiler written in clojurescript? i cant run java on my machine.
Cool. If you want to ask more once you go through some of it, feel free to send me an email.
After you explain what expertise a search engine / advertising company has with cars?