skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I want to help clarify this valuation.

I think it is not clear from the article why Mullenweg (CEO) suddenly thinks they are capital constrained. Let's do some back-of-the-envelope numbers.

Their Enterprise VIP service (managed hosting basically) is useful, no doubt. And @ $5-10K a month, it is chump change for enterprises. But how many massive blog clients like New York Post, NYT, or CNN, would you need to make back $160 million. If you had 100 such clients, you would be grossing $10-20MM, and, probably netting $2-4MM profit. You would need a lot of clients to make back that $160MM but it does not matter.

Let us say you hire a sales team of 20 to do full time enterprise sales. That's $5MM investment per year. Let's say they bring in 50 new enterprise customer every year. That's $5MM/year recurring revenue. So the money spent on Enterprise sales is well invested.

But you can't spend $160MM on marketing/infrastructure for managed hosting.

Did they just take advantage of frothiness in the market? I wouldn't blame them; I mean if investors want to give them the money, then great.

Make no mistake. Wordpress is a useful platform. They could a lot to keep improving blogging for a long time. And there is lot of value in being the CMS host for enterprises. But $1.16 billion?

Can they IPO at this valuation? I think they can; money goes from small investors pockets to big investors pockets in the unending cycle.

I think that's what this is about; this will unfold over the next 2-3 years, as the new investors want their returns.
Should Apple finally call time on smartphone patent wars?
Random thought: Companies like optimizely have key data on its customers (conversion rates) and it may be valuable to a VC to have a board seat / access for the data alone. Not alleging any malfeasance here, just think it is an interesting angle.
GTA V to Skyrim: the ten most beautiful walks in gaming
Could be. But unlikely. See my detailed comment below.
"However, only qualified people can pass."

If only this were true. There is a whole class of people out there who are stellar face to face and not great for your specific technical/business situation.
Maybe it's easier to see by example. Knockout doesn't do so well when the state isn't trivial. Build these in Knockout, I dare you to try. (Once upon a time, I tried, and failed, and now I use React)

http://wingspan.github.io/wingspan-forms/examples/form-twins... http://wingspan.github.io/wingspan-forms/examples/faceted-se...
Most low-performing police departments, in terms of solution rates, have more serious problems than a lack of data.
As someone who is currently looking for a job, I'm slightly annoyed (with myself) that I missed it. There are several salient points already made about its merits and drawbacks, but please consider this a vote for some kind of periodic recurrence. Being that I'm looking for a relatively junior position, I did appreciate @glimcat's comment re: taking job posts at face value, and I think that the possibility of having companies approach a candidate that has previously had no idea where s/he is shooting in the dark is refreshing, affirming, and motivating.
Array_map is slower and more of memory hug than foreach in PHP
Take a sick day -- have a "doctor's appt". It's really not that big a deal. "Hey, I have to come right from work, do you mind if I don't wear a suit so I don't have to go home and change" -- it's a well-understood problem.
How do you guys feel about telling us a bit about your algorithms and data structures? I'm always fascinated by that kind of stuff.
Otherwise, in what possible high-pressure situation will you ever be expected to solve an obscure data structures problem on a whiteboard. With no syntax checking or debugger. In front of three scrutinizing neck-beards. Answer: Never.

THIS. ALL OF THIS.

I recently had a technical interview where I was asked to write some Java code that printed out every 7th number. I could not, for the life of me, figure out how to do it. And I've been a software engineer for 25 years.

I realized later that it was because I was nervous about how I could present myself in this once chance, and that made all the rest of it difficult.
Chairman of key House committee agrees to proceed with NSA reform bill
Because given away for free to generate traffic on google properties, therefore Google will not ship features in Android that would be detrimental to the monetization of an android user by allowing them to control their privacy.

Personally, given the existing complexity of Android I find it funny that they said it would make things too 'complex' to give users control of their privacy.
Introducing Starsky, an opinionated, high-level Node.js module for RabbitMQ
This would all be fine and good if Level3 didn't make money from selling bandwidth. Comcast doesn't have to buy a connection from Level3; Level3 will give Comcast a link for free because they know they can turn around and charge their own customers for access to it. Comcast is really just cutting out the middleman here; and that scares Level3.
Improving Chrome’s Security Warnings
The original post title didn't include the .com, so said "WordPress parent company" which is inaccurate. It was probably submitted to be technically accurate. Now that the post title has been adjusted to include .com, it would make more sense to use that here.
I do love the absurdity in the UK where recent employment contracts (last 5 years or so) often state that "all your everything are belong to us" (IP, copyright, creative output, thoughts, ideas etc), yet companies also want applicants who actively contribute to or release open-source software.

Having worked under such terms, I've never felt I could participate in open source without jeopardising the project.
FSBO Startup gaining traction
I remember prices just 3 years ago, and I can agree with you on that.

SSDs just have advanced surprisingly far in these past couple of years. Be on the lookout for PCIe SSDs on your refresh! They might be ready by then.
Not really true.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/After_Dark_%28software%29
It does. 150% (more than the parent) of the genes have teamed up with a foreign 150% of genes against the parent.
Just as a counter point, I was a huge fan of the changes in version two. "Wizzy and interactive" can be incredibly important for a wide range of applications. Half the reason interpreters are wonderful is that they drastically reduce the "idea to running" time, and having interactive widgets can do even more for that. (Not to mention things like animations and UIs, which are just useful sometimes.) Similarly, notebooks are a great way for me to publish content, and a very large portion of the things I write are written as IPython notebooks.

As an aside, everything in IPython 2 is available from the keyboard and all shortcuts can be viewed by pressing the Help menu or 'h'. 'Add cell above' is now just 'a' (and below is 'b') when in command-mode. I expect that learning to use the new modal interface can be a bit of a hassle, but for me it turned out to ultimately be really awesome.
If I ever get to lead a software team I will make part of our product open source and then ask potential new hires to complete a real task on that codebase. I think that would be the most realistic display of their coding ability and quality and at the same time they could get an idea of how the company manages and reviews code.
There are already PHP 6 books out there from 2009 (planned v6 renamed to 5.3): https://www.google.com/search?q=php+6&tbm=bks

They could name it PHP 7 to avoid further confusion.
Because the cost of a packet is borne by the receiver...

That's true for hot-potato routing, but CDNs generally use cold-potato routing.

As for monetization, both Netflix and Comcast are getting paid by their respective customers.
Is the presentation available anywhere? The slides just don't cut it for some of this.
Design Hack #1: Apple's home page redesigned with just Keynote in 24h
It is really beautiful. The minimalistic user interface is much more usable now. And the results for some test queries I ran were pretty good. Great work! I'm going to switch my default search engine for a few days and see how that goes.
There's one key point to everyone's comments thus far, I'll just reiterate it: This is a marathon, not a sprint. Work too hard, too fast, or too long, you'll burn out and get discouraged, quit and say that it doesn't work.

I have a full time job and work on my two WordPress plugins on the side. I make sure that every day I accomplish at least one thing relevant to them or something I'm starting.

Just one thing. It seems so easy, and yet, there have been days I got distracted, bored, busy, or just plain uninspired and didn't do it. Those days are the ones that I wish I had back.

If you make progress on something every day, even a teensy tiny bit, you will head toward your goal. Progress does NOT mean:

- Reading HN

- Tweeting about your business

- Looking at Facebook

- Reading business books

These are distractions (for the most part). And they're GREAT sometimes. But we tend to overindulge and think we're making progress because we read 5 new articles about X on HN today and feel "invigorated". That feeling will fade. You need to do something sustainable.

Action is sustainable. Visible progress can be tracked on a daily basis. After 30 days, you can look back and see a LONG list of things YOU DID. That's inspiring. And it makes you want to do MORE. And MORE.

Once you have momentum, the other key thing you need IMO, is a trusted person to bounce ideas off of. Someone who won't listen to your bullshit, only someone who will listen and call it like it is, not how you want to see it. Most friends are bad for this--they will be an echo chamber. You need honesty. Not ego stroking. This is HARD. It is VALUABLE as hell, too.

Those two things will make a huge difference in getting you moving forward. That's what I rely on daily.
The assumption that only qualified people can pass a technical interview is somewhat wrong.

I have had my fair share of false positives. And probably I have been one or two times the false positive. And this is something that everyone can relate I suppose.

Sometimes you just need luck - like the gotcha question being something you have debugged soon in a language you are not that competent at.
At least in Finland, probably in Sweden too speed limits change often (every 6 months) due to winter. In my experience the GPS databases are extremely often not in sync, and you can't predict which speed limits change and when. In addition, there are electronic speed limits that change depending on the weather in real-time. OCR seems like a better option for these conditions.
The one thing that really has to go is whiteboard coding.

A smart candidate will bring a notebook computer, loaded with suitable IDEs etc ready to go, without being asked to. Impresses people when you tell them to continue the interview while you write the requested code (multitasking, competent enough to spare nontrivial brain cycles answering unrelated questions).
How could they block this? It's an incredibly general use case of their API.
Yes, but this puts a lower limit on the latency of each individual request, not on the throughput. Consider having 4 3-level tree lookups that you need to perform. If the first level hits L1, the second L3, and the 3rd is in RAM, you'd have about 10 + 40 + 100 = ~150 cycles of minimum latency for each request.

Serially, you'd have ~600 cycles cycles of total latency for the 4 lookups. But if you can do the lookups in batches of 4, you can overlap your latencies and increase your throughput. You can issue the 4 parallel first level lookups, then 4 second level, and then the 4 third level in very close to the same ~150 cycles that you require to do a single complete lookup.
Does this work on IE?
Looks beautiful. My only criticism is that you could make better use of all the whitespace the the right on the search screen. Maybe expand the width of search items to fill some unused space + increase the number of search items above the fold.
Surely, though, it's easier to just do a coding problem in the evening? No worries about coming up with a lie for your employer, no possibility of suspicion, and some people have to take sick days out of their vacation time sadly.
The line which seems so clear to you now will only get blurrier.
Girl dances in Small Spaces. Try watching this without smiling.
Thanks a lot for your response (and to the others who responded as well, appreciate it!). What you're saying makes sense, but just to play devils advocate...

Disclaimer: The blog I'm about to post was linked from Comcast's blog. They claim he is independent, I know nothing about him.

"Netflix could use multiple providers to connect to ISPs and could also use third party CDNs like Akamai, EdgeCast and Limelight, who are already connected to ISPs, to deliver their traffic. In fact, this is how Netflix delivered 100% of their traffic for many, many years, using third-party CDNs. Netflix likes to make it sound like there is only one way to deliver videos on the Internet when in fact, there are multiple ways."[1]

It would seem to me that if Comcast is using all the bandwidth they've purchased from Level 3 than it's a simple reality for them that they'll need to increase that bandwidth or they'll see reduced service. I don't see why this is explicitly either side's problem. It seems like it would be great if they could figure out a mutually beneficial situation, but I guess I fail to see the moral hazard. If Comcast doesn't want to upgrade their network who cares? Barring, of course, the monopoly argument, I see no moral hazard here.

I also see no reason that this has anything to do with net neutrality. It seems like Netflix is simply so big they have to act more like an ISP than they used to.

[1] http://blog.streamingmedia.com/2014/03/netflix-level-3-telli...
Was it called "tranquility"?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tranquility_(video_game)
Size Matters: Table Rows and Database Data Pages
DDG has been my primary search engine for nearly 2 years. I love you guys for both your service and your mission.

You've struggled in the past with local searches and map inferences to non-address searches (think "Godwin Park Houston").

I threw those at next.ddg and the result back were very good. I don't see having to !g a query for these in future.

I'll edit as I use the beta in the next few days but first impression is "Hot damn, it works! Good job!"

Edit 1: There are still dot coms and business I search for that I don't get the "map this for me" option. Examples:

https://next.duckduckgo.com/?q=cpap.com

https://next.duckduckgo.com/?q=men%27s+warehouse (do I want a wiki article or do I want to find the ones close?)

https://next.duckduckgo.com/?q=whole+foods

Edit 2: The UI is so clean and nice.
Yay for autocomplete and image search! I really have no more need for Google.
I wonder if Amazon filed for a patent for this? Would there be prior art that anyone knows about if so? At their scale I am sure it wasn't an "easy" feature to add, but it is simple (and obvious). I see many e-commerce sites doing something similar if they could legally.
Just sent you an email. Looking forward to hearing from you!
No, though Rez is awesome. This was a PC game, with the polygons in columns, and if you entered the columns, you'd float along. You'd have to jump from one to the next, in mid-air.
Two techniques worked really well for me when interviewing candidates:

Take a problem that I recently solved or trying to solve and turn it into an interview question.

Email them a coding problem that's very easy to understand.
You are showing the wrong projects/contexts apparently. at least they differ to my of2 list. status of the contexts/projects arent taken into consideration?

folders are shown as regular projects?

why isnt creating an action instant?

how do i know about the current sync status?

you dont support an offline mode?!? :(
Wow!

Loved it, very clean yet all the info is there

Plus image and video search! Really nice to have a clean image search interface with a clear download button. Do you proxy my search to youtube? What other sites are there?

EDIT: also, great response to browser zoom
The article is an incisive analysis of the pernicious effect of money on politics, though it mostly repeats arguments that Lawrence Lessig has been making for the past five years, and adds little new insight to the conversation.

Towards the end of the article Reifman proposes a thoughtful but perhaps overly-simplistic solution: a populist "culture war against the corrupting influence of financial power in government." But he doesn't develop this idea or offer any roadmap for how it would work. And it isn't clear that the culture war strategy which has been so successful for single-issue advocacy--e.g., marriage equality and marijuana legalization--would be a successful model for an abstract, theoretical, and systemic issue like campaign finance. Or at least, it isn't clear how this would work in practice.

Perhaps I'm underestimating the public, but I think it's considerably difficult to create meaningful conversations about the conceptual topics--e.g., theories of representative democracy--that are at the heart of this issue. While this issue is undeniably important, it is also--to all but the political science nerds among us--also undeniably unsexy, theoretically tedious, and difficult for the average person to relate to. I would be interested to hear him flesh out suggestions for how to develop a successful culture war that effectively educates and engages the public on these complex issues.
The parser needs to be rewritten really.
I've always wondered. How do these guys hit google search so much without hitting limitations?

Google is pretty aggressive at banning bots, and I can't imagine Google have given a competitor API access or something like that. Proxies is out of the question for this scale too.
That's amazing.

One could imagine n(number of pages)-dimensional space in which any point represent some possible pagerank distribution. We consider backlinks information for each of n pages as an axis in new space, thus deriving transformation matrix A. Out true pagerank would be the point(vector) in this space which doesn't change its position after applying transform described by A.

Don't know what to imply from that though :)
The button icons are a few px off - very unsettling.
It's kind of a neat thing, for sure, but what are we thinking are its practical applications? Possible use as an assistive device for the disabled, perhaps?
Part of the issue is the monopoly most broadband providers have in the US and Canada.

If you had two truly distinct cable options, say Comcast and TascCom. Your friends with Comcast say Netflix sux, low quality, lots of problems. Your friends with TascCom say netflix is awesome, great HD content, too bad there's only like 8 3D movies! You'll sign up for TascCom. Comcast's board will get angry they're losing customers, and fix their interconnects. But it's all a dream, there is no TascCom, there's only Comcast.
I started using DDG a long time ago when it first came out. I asked for a few stickers to add at my IT department, but I got a good bunch instead.

There are now random DDG stickers in various cities around southern Ontario.
SHA-2: Very cryptographic. So secure. Such growth. Wow. But no one is using it
"the distinction here is active vs passive surveillance"

I fully agree with the rest of your comment, but this part is a distinction without a difference, ultimately. With more and more complete passive surveillance, active surveillance will be less and less necessary. I think the best way forward is Brin's sousveillance idea: if there are no legal restrictions on recording anywhere, this at once evens the social/legal playing field, and prevents wasting increasing resources on stopping something which is increasingly difficult to stop.
Well kudos on letting my right click and copy URL from search results! I hate how Google insists on using https://www.google.com.bo/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=we... - yeah Google, totally makes sense.

Godspeed duckduckgo!
I'm not disagreeing with you, but the downside of one-off type advice from varying people is that you are limited to only discussing topics which can be covered within a limited time frame. Surely a lot of good can come from that, but having a more long-term mentor lets you get quick feedback on things with little overhead, since the mentor will already be familiar with your current skill level, the project you are working on etc.
Protecting the OpenSSL Private Key in a Separate Process
Marketing Tests – Part 1
Give it a year or two. Seriously! 5.5 was just released a little while ago and 5.6 is just in beta now.
Historically, ratios were used for peering between ISPs of the same type. When one backbone peers with another backbone, 1:1 ratio can be a simple proxy for equal value. (ISPs liked simplicity in the old days because it made the Internet cheaper than the complex telco X.25/ATM/SONET networks with their complex tariffs and settlement.) When a content provider peers with a broadband ISP, they can exchange equal value without exchanging equal traffic.
Some JS frameworks lend to more difficult debugging.
Ask HN: Best resources for hackers to learn marketing?
Cool! We always received a fair amount of feedback about better local search and the redesign attempts to plug a few holes. Any feedback would be great; we're just getting started!
Above a certain threshold, yes. But I have seen so much utterly crazy hacked-together crap, which was clearly not caused by changing requirements, but rather either incompetence or negligence. I'm guessing that so have you.
> Proof of stake is better,

It sounds like it should be, but it isn't, lacking PoW, there's no reason not to create many possible blocks and without central check-pointing the whole thing falls apart. The problem with proof of stake is that nothing is at stake.
This is fantastic. I already had DDG as my search engine, this just takes it to the next level. I'll be looking forward to the full release. Kudos!
> Plus, whenever some interface I've built feels awkward or there's some duplication, often times I find that, while thinking and trying to refactor it, the language tries to drive me to the cleanest solution

Yes, this is my exact feeling when I'm still learning it :)
Absolutely, and in the United States there's a standard mileage rate that the IRS will let you use for computing a tax deduction (if it's for business), which companies often use as the amount to reimburse. For 2014 it's $0.56/mile. Obviously a company is under no obligation to reimburse you for travel expenses to an interview, but in the case of a long drive like that I would certainly ask. In fact, for a 3-hour drive each way I would probably also ask to be put up in a hotel room the night before the interview, reimbursed by the company, so that I wouldn't be tired from the drive on the day of the interview.

See http://www.irs.gov/2014-Standard-Mileage-Rates-for-Business,... for more details.
I think OCR may have reliability issues, but most road signage has consistent properties (size, height, font, etc.) that could be easily optimized for.

It also covers the (admittedly limited) situations where no GPS is available (tunnels, skyscrapers). If there are temporary changes in speed limits due to construction or other events, OCR could immediately identify those with no need to download new information.
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