skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This. The most important part of marketing your X is building a X that matters. This applies whether you're doing a startup or playing in a band. The best promotional tactics will flub on a bleh product that nobody cares about. You'll waste time and money trying to sell something that people aren't interested in buying.

A lot of good marketing is about figuring out how to position your offering in a way that allows people to talk about your stuff. The marketer is really a facilitator- you have as little and as much influence as that sounds.

The promotional stuff at the end, that's the victory lap, that's the easiest bit. The million (or billion!) dollar question is- who does this matter to, and why, and how do we put it in front of them in a way that makes them agree? The rest is just elbow grease.
In hindsight I think the market was just far too small and did not have the expendable income to pay for such a service.
It worked on the Facebook mobile sites that use the touch UI (x/touch/iphone but not m).
Um. No half-life 3? pfft.
All the code is of the highest quality. It is studded with ASCII character cabochons and menaces with spikes of attention to detail. It is engraved with an image of Toadyone surrounded by dwarves. The dwarves are battling an invasion of new bugs.
Your main question seems to be the least relevant. You're speaking to the "2%" because many of them hang out here and all you have now is reasons that they turn off JS. I think what you really want to know is 1) What kinds of sites can get away with failing completely when js is disabled? 2) Are there any good estimates on the number of people who regularly browse with JS disabled? (Because I'm not sure if your 2% estimate is correct.)

As for the primary question, personally I think that application-sites like GMail, Google Docs, etc can get away with posting a polite message that "this site requires Javascript". However, any site where text content is the main attraction should show the content without Javascript being required (so, News, Blogs, etc).

However, if you're working for people who were doing web development in the 90's, who insist that every single feature of every single page should work without Javascript...you should run. Those people are dinosaurs and they're living in the past.
You're at least partly right, but I would argue the conspiracy types are already well acquainted with "alternative" news sources (infowars, Coast to Coast, random bloggers...).

Additionally, (and this is just a personal feeling), but something about top-down "reducing airtime from fringe views" feels very wrong. Who decides what a "fringe view" is? By that rubric, Creationism is perfectly legitimate since it's widely held.

I think we'd all be better served, morally as well as practically, by letting the loons be loons and let people make their own decisions rather then trying to explicitly control who gets airtime. Bring on the denier and let them get annihilated in a debate against someone who knows what they're talking about. This has the benefit of not invoking censorship boogeymen (which may or may not actually exist) and doesn't hand over the "we're being oppressed" card to them.
"If it flies, floats or fucks - rent it." That's the saying.

Also, I wouldn't recommend anyone join the game industry for any period of time. I've never been in it, but I know 7-8 developers and they're all usually miserable and stressed out. Not only that, they make about 60% of what I make and they have no equity or reasonable vacation schedule.

It seems to be a very rollercoastery industry, where one moment people love what you made and then hate it the next. If you're a developer, you're basically a tool to implement the nonsense game designers come up with and your project manager is a cross between Gordon Ramsay and Tim Gunn. It sounds like a nightmare.
Assumptions are inherently risky but ultimately you always end up having to go with your gut. That doesn't mean you shouldn't do the background research and talk to people first though! Even if you are right, you'll very likely discover that the proto idea you have now needs changing or tweaking in ways you would never have imagined had you not talked to some people in your target audience first.

I'm actually working on something right now that started like that. There are a load of large, well established incumbents operating in the market I'm about to try and pitch a tent in but none of them offer a service that does what I want. My gut told me I wasn't the only one who'd prefer my approach to the problem, so I talked to a bunch of people, refined the idea a little, did a load of research and when that all came back positive I quit my job and started building it. I'll let you know how it pans out :)
Nothing is impossible, but it comes down to probability. The probability that you will become a billionaire is quite slim. However, the probability that you can retire early or make close to a million or so is exponentially higher.
What exactly is propelling Voyager through interstellar space?
How does this compare to Bloomberg?

From what I've seen, people in the financial services industry have gotten very good at using the Bloomberg Terminal commands to examine this kind of data.
SEO - takes a while to get picked up and also some trial and error, but once you've got it will bring in a trickle of leads every day. This adds up.

Guest posts on industry blogs - My experience is to make it easy for the person to put the blog up - have a few ideas ready when you contact them. Make it awesome and they'll ask you to write another one.

Advertising is hard and expensive. Repeat advertising is HARD and EXPENSIVE. Its hard to convince people to buy your stuff with ads/landing pages. Its expensive to run ads. Great for driving traffic before you've "earned it" other ways. Measure, measure, measure and iterate. Spend time on different ad variations and turn of the bad ones. An increase in CTR from .05% to .1% doubles your clicks!! Spend some time on a landing page. Make sure you wow these people so you get referrals and stretch every last penny of your ad dollar. Use retargeting - its way cheaper and way more effective. Takes 5 minutes to setup w/Perfect Audience All of these things stretch your marketing dollar farther.

Referrals - ask people to refer you. Or better yet, WOW them and they will do it for you. In my experience, people ARE ok with doing business w/new companies that aren't super polished. Make up for it with ridiculous service and responsiveness.
The whole point of the post you were replying to is that arguing about what the word "functional" means is beside the point. To many people there is a categorisation of languages to which Haskell and Scala more strongly conform than Lisp and Erlang. What that category is called is of secondary importance to the discussion.

Semantic arguments are tiresome, and I wish more people would focus on the content of the discussion, instead of arguing about how it might better have been conveyed. Sometimes people misunderstand the commonly accepted meanings of terms, and it's worth correcting them. But if people start arguing about terminology, then it's better to just define terms and move on, since there's clearly not a consensus worth teaching anyone.
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An attitude like that and you'll never work there.
I know that as engineers we'd like to avoid talking to strangers as much as possible, but there's simply nothing better than speaking with your potential customers.

Having a competitor is a good sign, but how do you know they're profitable? How do you know they're solving the problem well enough that they're even worth imitating? How do you know they're not frustrating the hell out of their users? If you speak to potential customers, you'll know.
If you artificially create an environment that empowers minorities to harass straight white men without consequence, of course you'll get more minorities.

It's not exactly embedded programming.
It's slow to load at the moment, so I'll describe what it does.

PennyWhale lets you search, manipulate, and compare financial data with natural language queries along the lines of "how much cash does $GOOG have" and "show me the PE ratio for $AAPL".

Seems like a really good research tool!
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Somehow, Nigeria didn't make the list.

http://arstechnica.com/security/2010/01/victims-lost-93-bill...
I don't think that's a useful measurement, because solar systems are too far apart. You can leave a solar system and then travel a long time before you get to another.
Well, no, it's not meaningless in the context of TFA:

http://blog.metaobject.com/2014/06/compiler-writers-gone-wil...
Here's a Google n-gram of the two terms:

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=climate+change...

...I wonder if there is a similar tool for other types of publications besides books.
Do you have to use one of their example questions for a free demonstration? I asked one of the questions and it asked me to log in.
On the topic of Lisp and monads, it occurred to me recently that Lisp "lists" are actually rose trees, and rose trees are a free monad. Which winds up being a more Haskelly take on "In Lisp, you're writing out the AST".
For things like "var" and "def", I'm coming to see them as a smidgen of up-front verbosity to prevent much later monstrosities.
They probably tried to focus on companies that began as internet companies. Microsoft and Apple most certainly did not. Google, Facebook, and Amazon most certainly did.
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Fundamentally, PennyWhale is targeted at a different market. While Bloomberg is tremendously powerful, it's also very expensive. We think there's an opportunity for the retail investors here.
This is cool!

We've been working on something similar, but the opposite direction (for world trade data). Instead of trying to NLP our way out of the problem, we pre-generate and index a bunch of possible questions, and let full text search handle the rest.

It's interesting, because theoretically NLP should be able to "understand" what you mean but in reality I find that even if you parse sentence structure and extract some meaning, you're still at some level hardcoding the possible things that can be queried into the code.

So it's a neat tradeoff of whether it's more worth it to create a mini query language, or go full natural language, or go somewhere in between.

...

Anyway, try it out by clicking on the title (keeping it a bit hidden for now for testing purposes): http://atlas.cid.harvard.edu/explore/tree_map/export/usa/all...

Things you can try (mix and match too!):

- "wine italy"
- "france"
- "germany spain"
- "germany export wine 2002 to 2012"
- "turkey feasible"

...

If you want to see the code, check out our github:

https://github.com/cid-harvard/atlas-economic-complexity/blo... (search view)

https://github.com/cid-harvard/atlas-economic-complexity/blo... (indexer)

Apologies for any mess, I recently joined and we're undergoing a huge overhaul right now.
I know a software engineer that became an immensely successful actuary with minimal additional education.
> bitcoin has has really only had one hard forking change to enable pay-to-script transactions.

... which wasn't a hard fork. The only hard fork so far was the move from BDB to LevelDB for chain state data.
The speed it already has. There's practically no friction in space, so any speed it picked up from its engines and gravitational slingshots is kept. Newton's first law.
What does that mean for false positive and true negative?
Nothing, it's just momentum (or newton's first law of motion, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newton's_laws_of_motion)
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What did you ask? There are a few premium features right now (holdings data, interactive financials). If you want to make an account I'll give you a free upgrade :)
That'd be a great way to make a pointless format even more pointless. But, sure.
One of the best things I've ever watched. Another very compelling thing to watch in this vein is that HBO special where Carlin, Seinfeld, Chris Rock and Ricky Gervais discuss their craft: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKY6BGcx37k
... to teach nodejs for dinosaurs.

This title has a buzzword for pretty much everyone who ever clicked on anything on HN.
Not again, they're basically saying "Remember the last time we said it? turns out we were right."
Banning debate is antithetical to thinking.
References needed. What is the source of the information?
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It's a pity you have to specify a ticker. I was really hoping it can do the hard work for me.

https://www.pennywhale.com/app/queries/execute?utf8=%E2%9C%9...
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It did not work pretty well so far. It works horribly wrong for most of the people in this planet.
That's how the reference client works. That's not necessarily how miners operate. If they're acting in self-interest, they'd accept fee-per-kb irregardless of priority.
If you like ADOM, you should note that it got crowdfunded a while back to create a sequel. I believe they even released some public "betas" recently. (figured I'd mention it in case you hadn't heard :)
What's the best of learning a CMS or Framework? or which one should a beginner start with and how can I go about the first steps?
Why would Google ever sell user data? It's worth much more in their hands alone.
If a false allegation has been made publicly, then it must be debunked publicly as well. Otherwise, it remains as such in people's minds. It's both illegal and immoral.
As a fellow receiver of venture funding, I think you need to have more explanation than that if you want to be convincing.

You took investment money. If you're a typical startup, you plan to take more. Investors are in this for returns. VCs are in it for returns in the timeframe of their particular funds.

That you're not planning to get acquired makes it sound like you have no plan. What you really need is a plan to stay independent and sustainable forever. Which means having some sort of plan to pay off your investors. And if that isn't being acquired, then I presume that means an IPO within 10 years. That is an unlikely outcome for any startup, and personally I'd say it's especially unlikely for an infrastructure company.

As an aside, I definitely think it's possible to go after something big while planning to flip the company. However, in that case it's important to talk as if you won't be flipping the company.
Oh yes please, that looks very good in my opinion.
I actually really like the Y-meter, though I'm not a fan out completely hiding the numerical rating of the topic. It might be worthwhile to still show the number for those who are curious.
Very true, and you can be sure we'll pay a bit more attention to the 0.1% biggest repositories from now on.
I am a naturalized US citizen who was born in the former USSR republic, which then became the independent country Ukraine. (PSA: it's pronounced ukrAIne, not UKraine, and definitely not "the UKraine"). My original name was Igor Andreevhich Partola, where Andreevich is my father's name with a -vich ending. My birth certificate was issued in the USSR with this name, but since the USSR was no more, and Ukraine started using Ukrainian as the official language, before coming to the US, my middle name on my birth certificate translation got changed to Andriyovich (Ukrainian version). Thankfully my first name did not have to change.

When I got to the US, I stopped using my middle name altogether, both to avoid having to spell it on the phone, etc. and to minimize this type of confusion. In most cases I had no issues, but the immigration process was stumped by this. In general, immigration officers are not really prepared to deal with foreign documents and foreign names. You'd think by now they would have seen it all, but seeing a birth certificate from the USSR and a translation of it in English was something that stumped most of them. Going from being here on a visa to getting a green card is a grueling process because of issues likes this. By contrast, going from green card to citizen is a cake walk since they can simply refer to your US-issued green card as a form of ID.

P.S.: I am lucky that my last name does not change between genders. For example Ivanov and Ivanova is the same last name but one is masculine one is feminine. I have heard from friends about having issues with this too.
Have you looked at einhorn? We've been running HAProxy under einhorn for a while now, using something like https://gist.github.com/ebroder/36b2f4f3aa210b9d9f3d to translate between HAProxy's signalling mechanisms and einhorn's signalling mechanisms.
Why don't they sell a locked demo version which hides most of its functionality and ask for a key to be obtained by opening a paid account on their website. They can make a subscription model then.

Do Apple make that illegal too?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7996271
Route has not method 'route'. Check your route
As USF CS Alum, its always refreshing to see Parr doing what he does best. His style and approach to learning was thoughtful and enlightening.

One day in class, my assignment source was corrupted and I had to reassemble it from compiled byte code files. He made an impromptu lecture about it for the class to learn about. He didnt shame me but wanted everyone to be enriched from best practices.
Edtech is a growing space, but a very difficult one to work in (my own experience as founder of letsgeddit.com taught me that). The best solutions seem to target teachers with better tools than they're used to, and expand on them as channels to reach other stakeholders in education (parents, admins).

Notable companies taking this approach include:

http://www.classdojo.com/ - ClassDojo, which gamifies classroom behaviour management is and is incredibly popular with teachers.
https://www.remind.com/ - Remind101 (now Remind), helping teachers communicate with students, parents and other stakeholders.
http://www.showbie.com/ - Showbie, a document management, submission and grading platform.

Another interesting take is by snapping up some part of the curriculum and providing adaptive learning software geared to that (Math and English are popular), like Front Row (math): https://www.frontrowed.com/ and NoRedInk (english) https://www.noredink.com/

There are also platform approaches like Clever: https://clever.com/ and Edmodo: https://www.edmodo.com/

Finally, there are the more niche 'enterprise' tools platforms like Securely which help lock down school devices, and Panorama who provide school and district level suervey information on student wellbeing.
This uses Kubuntu rather than Ubuntu Unity
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Which is why, I guess, going on 4 years now Mongo has has an open issue to implement unicode sorting and still has not.
I didn't like the position of the comments. For me, I like to read the article, then jump into the comments. With it being all the way on the other side of the screen, I could easily see myself getting lost and clicking the wrong comment button.

Otherwise, I enjoyed the look.
Parr is one of the best CS teachers I know.
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Regarding point 1, the way in which I start the server has fundamentally changed but is still only one command - I know I have to do "docker run" to start it, rather than "python run.py" or similar. In virtualenv I have to remember two commands; "workon bla" and "python run.py".

Regarding point 3, yes I think docker in production is ok, or soon will be :)
This is almost exactly Meteor's "Leaderboard" example [https://www.meteor.com/examples/leaderboard]. Not much code goes into that, and I think it's pretty approachable for a non-programmer.
The culture of secrecy and non-competes is designed to filter away, even before the interview, candidates (a) unsure about their willingness to commit

What are the benefits of working at RenTech? They seem to be asking candidates to take a huge risk to their careers, due to the legally-mandated secrecy. That suggests there's a proportionally huge payoff in working there. What is it?
I write about this kind of thing quite a bit.

http://www.strategicmessaging.com/marketing-communication-es... is on marcom essentials vs. nice-to-haves.

http://www.strategicmessaging.com/marketing-in-stealth-mode/... is specifically on stealth-mode marketing (not quite an oxymoron).

And http://www.strategicmessaging.com/strategy-for-it-vendors-a-... is the strategy (not just marketing) worksheet that a whole lot of tech companies have relied on.
We've been using HAProxy 1.5dev in production for a few month, including SSL. It's been one of the most simplest and stable parts of our infrastructure.
Just use HTML + hResume. hResume is based on vCard and thus the name and address fields are actually sensible rather than hacked together without considering edge cases. It lets you use prefixes and suffixes (like Dr, Prof, Rev, PhD, MD, JD etc.). It lets you format text using HTML tags. You can link to it.

If you want JSON, you can export it from the hResume using a parser.

Unlike JSON (or XML), non-programmers can read HTML in a crazy new piece of technology called a web browser without having to run it through any transformation tool. Want PDF to send to a company? There are a few WebKit PDF renderers available.

Want to style it? CSS.

Want nice fonts? WebFonts.

It's a web page. Crazy idea.

Classic version: http://www.microformats.org/wiki/hResume

New version: http://www.microformats.org/wiki/h-resume
Y-meter seems like a great concept from the UX perspective. Reddit should take notes from this one too.
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Just a couple of points.

1. It is an error to couple this library closely enough to the rest of a project's code to cause the condition you note to exist. This kind of library is best used in a small project or as part of the implementation of a user-defined abstraction interface (an abstraction specific to his project's use cases that would not make sense being included in the library code). A small project will compile quickly anyway, and the second kind of project will only need to be compiled if the abstraction's interface changes.

2. C++ compile times aren't that bad. I won't argue that it's not bad in large code bases: it indeed becomes atrocious when the codebase becomes large and spread out over a large number of compilation units (or when coupling is excessive).
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Thanks, the original post is my friends, I just called her to come online and give back explanations / background if anything would like to know more
Agree.

To add to what you've said, 9 times out of 10 I'll actually click to scan the comments first, not the article. Comments often provide some summary that indicate whether an article is worth reading or not.
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Naspers is not an Internet company, and didn't start as one. Listing Naspers is equivalent to listing Time Warner, Disney, Reuters, or Bloomberg. It's silly at best.

I'd say they filled in weak data points when it was convenient.
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You are an intimate data bundle
It's probably not needed when working on a single project - although even then Docker has some advantages, like being able to have another distro in the image than you have natively - but it makes your life infinitely simpler when you need to work with two or more projects with differing dependencies.
Apart from the great pay you get to invest in RenTech funds. I might be wrong but I think at this point theyre just working to manage their own money and not taking any money from investors. Above all else - working with smart people is its own reward.
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I think all employees can invest in the Medallion fund, which has a 50%/year return.
Yes, lets do this.