skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you switched to the bull side, you would basically have the opposite article and it would likely have as much merit or more.

They are obviously going to IPO at some point. With the hassle of IPOing, the nature of their business and the easy access to private capital, they'd be dumb to IPO sooner than later.

The secondary market for shares is extremely active and employees can sell a limited number. So almost anyone has probably cashed out as much as desired at this point.
Author here.

The front page of HN is proving to be a great way to stress test this. I'm surprised NginX (serving the static content) and Node.js (all the websockets communication) is handling 50+ players, no problem.
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Or buying money with future money. Or the promise of future money.
He said he witnessed both. If you see a mugging, are you directly involved?
Plus, it's not that helpful to look at lobbying spend as a percentage of revenue. It takes a certain amount to be in the game. Then you get some decreasing returns.
> What is immense is its valuation of 80 times earnings even while the product is literally running out of humans left to be new users (let alone humans who have money).

This is what amazes me. The last few humans left without a facebook account are those earning $2 day. What possible business model can sustainably boost earnings 10x from here?
Some jurisdictions keep rape trials in camera for precisely this reason pending a guilty verdict. A great deal depends on the degree and credibility of the allegations made about the foreign counterparty, which I think the court is more qualified to assess than the public.

As for why yu treat some politicians and public officials with kid gloves, the short answer is because they run countries (to varying degrees) and a domestic legal issue, while important, may not be so important that it justifies the risk of destabilizing another country, since Australia will still need to deal with the country in question after the individuals in question have left the stage. Ultimately, the value of diplomatic relations may exceed that of short-term legal transparency, depending on the circumstances.
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Actually, analyzing messaging streams has pretty high cross-over. But I suspect it's mainly acqui-hire and the product in its current state goes away.
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Re: dilution. If you started with 0.1% of $2m, that's $2000. If each round diluted by half, your 0.00005% of $9b is $4500.
> The secondary market for shares is extremely active and employees can sell a limited number. So almost anyone has probably cashed out as much as desired at this point.

That's an interesting point. Can you go into more about how that might work? I had assumed they were just internally selling shares to other employees, but could it be they're selling shares to external buyers? I'm not clear on how that works.
A Caltech professor, David Stevenson, proposed a temperature-resistant probe immersed in a blob of molten iron: Stevenson, David J. Mission to Earth's Core - A Modest Proposal. Nature, 423, 239-240, 2003a. No radioactivity necessary, and the PDF is here: http://mathcs.albion.edu/~mbollman/Honors/ToTheCore!.pdf
I seem to have lost my bits :-) Somewhere out there are 2 blue boxes that I can't tell apart from a sea of other blue boxes.

This is thoroughly fun!
Dropbox has one of the worst websites on the Internet. Seriously!

E.g. people have mentioned that "packrat" would have helped in this situation. But try finding that service from the pricing page. Hint: NOT THERE. Someone here linked to some explanation in their "help" section. Seriously? Such an important feature is only mentioned under "help"?

Even if you go to sign up for the paid version, Dropbox Pro, packrat isn't mentioned [1]. Their horrid website alone is enough for me to not want to do business with them.

Someone else here has succinctly summarized the situation [2]:

One reason I'm not worth a billion dollars
is I would never have let Dropbox ship like this!

[1] https://www.dropbox.com/upgrade
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8105548
Fun reading. As an aside, I've grown wary of data visualization tools tied too closely to a particular language. Each one is a little different, and while cranking out simple plots never takes much effort, making them look just so for presentation always involvers learning yet another low-level syntax. I've come back full circle to Gnuplot (http://www.gnuplot.info/), which I originally learned nearly twenty years ago while working on my Ph.D. It forces you to learn a shitty DSL, but you can get at Gnuplot from any environment that supports writing to text files and calling a sub-process. Plots are tweakable to your heart's content, and it does a fair job with 3-D graphics. I've reused a surprising amount of code originally written to plot error-control code statistics from Octave into a Ruby project that analyzes wireless network performance. Pretty cool!

But if you need interactive 3-D plots (e.g., a wire frame that you can rotate), look elsewhere.
Palantir is pretty mysterious to me. Frankly, I don't see the demand for their software being high enough to warrant their size and number of employees.

I guess I'll just have to wait and see what happens.
Its more of a 'brute force' method ... genetic algorithms take one or more variables and randomly change them. Then keep iterating on a solution that works - you don't need to know why something works only that it works better than the previous solution.
If you click a cell and it becomes occupied before you can click the "place cells" button, you can either click the cell again to "unflag" it, or refresh the page. I'm assuming this is the problem you're describing.

I should add some hover-state that shows the cell's owner on the board.
Thanks for the explanation, I hope that's worth it for the folks who've been hanging on there for years and years.
I happen to be the creator as well, so feel free to ask me any question you may have. Tech, business, traffic or anything.
You should re-read the gag order, nowhere does it mention anything about tainting a jury or case of any kind. This is purely a political power move to prevent causing issues with trade partners/international relations and you should be concerned like the rest of us something like this is taking place.

Really makes you wonder what else is being hidden behind the Abbott government curtain? This definitely won't help LNP's already diminishing support and further plunge Tony Abbott's dismal approval rating down even further (if that is even possible).
I've used NetBeans, Eclipse, vi and Jetbrains' offerings (Rubymine, PhpStorm). For portability of skills, power, and general usability, I'd absolutely recommend PhpStorm (it includes WebStorm's functionality, plus support for PHP). It will set you back about $100 (normal license), but absolutely worth it in my opinion.
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I only tried one (hard) image, pizza-, sandwich- bloody mary https://imgur.com/30OgNdd. Rekognition seems to be working better than submission

Rekognition:

7.55% fruit;
0.92% dinner;
0.88% produce;
0.87% alcohol;
0.84% sliced

Toronto:

50% American lobster, Northern lobster;
12% plate;
7% crayfish, crawfish, crawdad;
7% Dungeness crab, Cancer magister;
4% king crab, Alaska crab;
4% butcher shop, meat market;
4% grocery store, grocery;
4% pomegranate

I find this interesting because I thought Hinton's group had state of the art tech. Who are these people and how do they do it?
Congratulations. I wish I'd visited Palantir in NYC; I've spent some time in Palo Alto and know people in DC (and downrange), but never met any of their NYC people. It's pretty amazing how I'd had the company pigeonholed as "government contractor" (which is a huge business in its own right), but the commercial stuff seems to be growing even faster.
Yeah bicycles actually can be "rented for a month" (or a week or a day or an hour). There's no way you won't beat the 4 MPH your car is getting. (Incidentally I hope never to purchase a used car the engine of which has been subjected to that treatment every weekday for years.)
Addendum to the why:
- If you lean towards one side, the other side is incentivized to dismiss you.
- If you're in a case with lawyers, both sides actually want jurors that they can influence, rather than jurors that will come to their own, unexpected, uncontrollable conclusions. That would be a dangerous wildcard.
+1 ketogenic...in fact for me, lost 100lb on ketogenic, then slowly added back carbs (increasing exercise) gained back 20lb. went back on ketogenic, isocaloric and less exercise...immediately dropped back down
Ah yes, a hover state to show the owner's cells would be perfect.
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This seems really neat. I tried it on an iOS 8 device and it hung on the verification screen. Is anyone else seeing that?
We don't even need to look to that subjective standard. We grant people exclusive rights or patents for sharing novel techniques with other people skilled in the art, yet I have never seen a professional software programmer look to patents for information or algorithms. It just doesn't happen.

So the tradeoff here is exclusive rights for zero public benefits. That is not the way it was intended.
Welcome home to India! I'm another Cornell alum here who did the same. You're certainly not alone. I moved to the US after my undergrad and studied and worked there before returning home to eventually become an entrepreneur. One of the driving factors in my decision to return to India, was that it is a lot easier for an Indian (citizen) to be an entrepreneur in India, than it was for a H1B visa holder to be an entrepreneur in the US. That visa is not designed for that purpose. For me the decision was straight forward. And I was surprised to find how many folks with similar backgrounds had come to the same conclusion. And fortunately, India as a startup destination has only become more attractive in the years since I've returned.
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Did we not pick "Super Supreme" due to the existing association with a certain pizza perhaps?
Because they are energy dense and not particularly satiating. A slice of bread can be 75-100 calories, a bagel 200-250 calories, a bowl of pasta 400 calories. I like to translate my calories to miles. A mile walked or run burns ~ 100 calories. So that bagel is 2 miles, that bowl of pasta 4 miles.

I'd rather eat fruits and vegetables, yogurt, cottage cheese, eggs, fish, etc.

To be clear, I don't avoid grains entirely. I'll have a slice of toast with 3 eggs at breakfast, or put homemade granola in my yogurt, etc. I eat rice with sushi or chicken tikka. Challah is one of my great weaknesses. It's just that grains are so readily available and easy to eat too much of, so I limit them when I can.
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Employees typically would not buy other employees' (or investors') shares.

Basically buyers and sellers need to find each other, agree on terms, send it to the company for right of refusal and then transact (and pay a large legal fee).

Different companies have different degrees of willingness to entertain the secondary market. With a stated desire to remain private for an extended period, Palantir may be more amenable than most to secondary.
This was pre-trained on ImageNet classes. You can find more information here: http://www.image-net.org
Once you deleted your own local copy, the folder of photos on Dropbox was no longer a "backup." You just moved your one copy elsewhere. You essentially had NO backup. And everyone should know, you should always have at least two backups. (Again, you had zero.) I wouldn't even consider Dropbox (without Packrat) a valid backup destination either, because any changes get synced.

Sorry this happened to you, but better backup practices could have avoided it easily.
Thats a round figure. Most books here cost about 8$ - 9$. And some they sell on heavy discount. Compared to local sellers, its a good one
https://twitter.com/sarek1024/status/494289598806523904
Yep. It is more about who you know and the ability to pay people to talk to "those people" full time.
You can very easily turn that feature and pop=up off.
I see the power is applied at the pedals rather than the wheel, how do you like that? Any issues, any concerns about longevity?
Your point didn't really prove that reskinning didn't work. Reskinning is not a guaranteed process, but it can and does work. Especially with the app store.

Release a version, make improvements, release another version reskinned the next week.
> does the idea fall within one of the four permissible classes, those being process, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter.

It would be a process in exactly the way that software is. Obviously the process can be carried out by a human (as can software), but never mind that, we'll just tack on a prior art typewriter or computer input device to make it a machine, right?

This whole mess is a result of the Federal Circuit reading everything too broadly. "Process" traditionally meant a manufacturing process or the like. If I'm not mistaken the only "software" patent the Supreme Court has found valid covered a manufacturing process.

And that's where software patents should live, if anywhere. Covering novel machines that happen to require some computation rather than novel computations that happen to be done by a machine.
Dear Github.

Please buy these guys and enable this functionality for gists.
Needs to be quality on mobile too.
I believe http://www.bizbuysell.com is the spot for this
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And when the parents or custodial guardians don't have any money? When a family is getting free lunches, you can bet they aren't going to pay for damaged books or computers.
We also have District Courts, which are superior to Magistrates / Local Courts and and a whole bunch of different kinds judicial and administrative tribunals.
What is to stop the this arbitrage being driven down to third world income levels by something like mechanical turk?
That's basically what I said, and this is optimization not machine learning. The problem is the genetic algorithm fits the the specifics of the FPGA and the environment it is optimized in, and doesn't work reliably in other environments or FPGAs.
How much are the local government and arab royalty investing? I see a lot of european partners.
We could totally let people import a gist and instantly API it.

Do you have example gists you've want API'd? We could take a look tonight about how to implement this
> One can "try to be altruistic" all they want but if they cannot package it in nice words, then they are merely going to be [rightly] ridiculed for the "attempt"

But that's not what actually happened, as far as I can see; Linus' post on the GCC bug tracker appears to have gotten the GCC developers to pay attention to the bug, not to ridicule Linus for using nice language on their bug tracker but insulting language on his own mailing list.

> the mere fact that Mr Torvalds can get it right in one context but not in another shows that he in fact knows the difference between right and wrong

I would say it shows that he knows the difference between one context and another. Whether or not that difference is also "the difference between right and wrong" is one of the points at issue; you can't just assume that your personal opinion about that is shared by everybody. As you pointed out in an earlier post, it's up to each of us to decide that for ourselves.
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AdBlock Plus also increases the amount of memory used by Firefox, to the order of 60–70 MiB + about 4 MiB per iframe.

https://blog.mozilla.org/nnethercote/2014/05/14/adblock-plus...
The analogy here would be trying to write a giant enterprise piece of software ... without the benefit of any experience as a developer

Where I'm from (the UK), people don't try to write giant enterprise software without any experience as a developer. They _do_ buy houses without a buyer's agent, and have done so for a long time, without problems.

There _are_ special functions which require the help of professionals:

- Conveyancing: actually executing the sale and ensuring ownership is transferred. This is dealt with between two lawyers, one on each side.

- Surveying: checking that the property is in sound condition and, if the property will be financed by a loan, appraising the value to ensure it's suitable security given the size of the loan.

Each of these services are provided by regulated professionals (solicitors in the first case, chartered surveyors in the second). Each are subject to a flat fee (i.e. not related to the sale price) which is the hundreds of pounds (not thousands).

I don't see how the US market is so structurally different (vs. the UK) that (i) the buyer needs an agent, and (ii) fees are so high.
This appears to be about the Reserve Bank of Australia/Securency corruption scandal, which has already been all over the Australia media since 2009? Given the recent dates, though, apparently there's some juicy info in the affadavit (which was not released) that hasn't been leaked to the press yet.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-11-30/rba-officials-face-par...
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I guess I read "infrequent" differently: anything a user can do will inherently be frequent given enough scale. On the other hand, that "export everything ever to CSV" button in the admin panel? That can take a few CPU seconds. It won't matter, because only five people even have the ability to hit that API endpoint, let alone the inclination.
In fairness, if you really wanted to do it in one file, you'd just pass an html string to an instantiated django.template.Template()

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/templates/api/#com...
Complete transparency from end to end would require more than just open source. You'd have to be able to build and run the software itself, which on an iPhone costs $99 a year to do and poses significant technical challenges. To go further you'd have to transparency at the hardware level as well. Your own device, built by you, with software you compiled yourself. Maybe then you'd achieve the level of security that you're aiming for, assuming you are competent enough to evaluate the software and hardware you are using.
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Millions of dollars, but try to send a DM with a link and you get "internal server error", just like you got a year ago.
It's interesting how transparently self contradictory the document is. Clause 5 simply says:

> The purpose of these orders is to prevent damage to
> Australia's international relation...

In other words, the entire purpose is political. However this was obviously insufficient grounds, so the next clause says:

> These orders are made on the grounds that they are:
>
> necessary to prevent a real and substantial risk of prejudice to
> the proper administration of justice that cannot be prevented by
> other reasonably available means; and necessary to prevent
> prejudice to the interests of the Commonwealth in relation to
> national security.

So suddenly it is about "justice" and "national security". So the suppression order to suppress corruption is corrupt itself, and doesn't really even try to hide it, safe in the knowledge that it, itself, is supressed.
Ask HN: Where does Amazon get the money for growth investment despite losses?
Where does Amazon get the money to keep investing in growth if its making losses? Is it by just giving away more and more of the company as stock?
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Palantir is a govt contractor. They need to be big to be heard and be in charge. They want to be Lockheed, Raytheon and Boeing. They can't be big without hiring tons of employees so they are hiring tons of employees.
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While it's true about the QLD government, that's not to say our court system is largely healthy (esp compared to most other nations) and needs active awareness. Being aware of what the QLD gov does is not at decrement to the standing of the courts... it should strengthen it.
There's more than one court system in Australia; the order above was apparently made under Victorian jurisdiction.
I sear this is like the sixth distinct solution I've seen claiming to be the first of those...
I like how you think :).

You need to get the book shipped to your place first and then you need to ship it to the buying website. You will need to get involved at one point.

If you hire someone from US to do this, they will start flipping books themselves leaving you.
But you're giving up the freedom to decide what content you consume. Chromecast is the media equivalent of AOL. I know what I want to watch/listen to, so let me decide, instead of hamstringing me with apps, or making me jump through hoops to circumvent the restrictions.

Plus, if you're watching a movie, or otherwise streaming for a considerable length of time, you're on wall power anyways, so whats one more cable?

Function > Form.
Shush! We can't have anyone be reasonable, now can we, when we are talking about democracy and transparency! Them corrupt fat cats are holding us down, and sunshine desinfectent something, and Assange is being framed, and Down With The Man!
I think there are people out there that would call this business model "finding the least objectionable and most useful way for users to fund the development of the tool they value".
For every copy an e-book would sell at $14.99, it would sell 1.74 copies if priced at $9.99. So, for example, if customers would buy 100,000 copies of a particular e-book at $14.99, then customers would buy 174,000 copies of that same e-book at $9.99. Total revenue at $14.99 would be $1,499,000. Total revenue at $9.99 is $1,738,000.

That seems like a hard won data point, I'm surprised they threw it out to the public domain. It makes intuitive sense to me though. I buy a lot of ebooks and when they're really cheap I just buy them immediately rather than track them somewhere to go and purchase when I have time to read them later. My kindle has probably a half dozen books to read on it at the moment, and I imagine if they were $20-30 each I wouldn't be that flippant about it.
Thanks, I didn't feel like typing all that, but that's exactly right.
Well for OLTP style processing there are hundreds of use cases. The Neo4j guys have a few on their site to give you some ideas: http://www.neotechnology.com/neo4j-use-cases/

For OLAP style processing there are also many uses. The most common is to look for clusters in large and complex sets of highly related data. (People, for example.) Cluster identification can be used in examining crime networks, disease propogation, finding likely "influencers" for marketing and political purposes, finding many-dimensional patterns of things people tend to buy, and so on. Apache Spark/GraphX is one such tool set.

Twitter uses offline graph processing to suggest who you should follow. Many companies use it (real time or offline) to suggest other items you might want to buy.

And more.
Revoking Login

You can also let people completely de-authorize an app, or revoke login, by making a call to this Graph API endpoint:

DELETE /{user-id}/permissions

This request must be made with a valid user access token or an app access token for the current app. If the request is successful, your app receives a response of true. If the call is successful, any user access token for the person will be invalidated and they will have to log in again. Because you're de-authorizing your app, they will also have to grant access to your app as if they were logging in for the first time.

https://developers.facebook.com/docs/facebook-login/permissi...
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