skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Easy but wildly incorrect due to the exponential factor.

For example, if you assume a 15% dilution over 11 fundraising rounds, then it's 0.0167% which is +$1.5MM at a $9B valuation.

at 20%: +730k

at 25%: +$380k

I picked 15% because it seemed a good middle ground. Seed rounds are often <15%, Series A/B is around 20-30%, and later rounds target <5-10%. Because Palantir did so many rounds, I would guess only a few were significantly (> 15%) dilutive.
The problem is that anything that is "aversive" in the sense of avoidance may ultimately be perceived as pain. Whether we need to associate a emotional valence with pain in the way evolution has (because evolution coopted existing systems) is an open question. We may not need to, but any function that takes multiple pain like inputs and associates with with a conserved set of behavioral responses is likely to result in something similar to our perceived experience of pain.
Just don't confuse it with pinboard-dot-com which looks pretty sketchy :)
I think that when you're not expected to publish any papers to rationalize what you're doing, you're free to use any possible ugly hack to improve your results, (using a "kitchen sink" approach where you just combine the results of lots of unrelated techniques, extracting words from the URL, using the URL to actually fetch some related textual content on the website, etc). This gives private companies a competitive advantage over research institutions - their only purpose is to "make things work", not to introduce new techniques and have interesting insight about them.
We can see from racing sports that helmets are good to have in high speed car crashes. Rally drivers, Formula 1 drivers etc all wear them.
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Hey superuser,

Great questions. Let me answer them one at a time!

Where is the code running? Every script run happens in its own sandbox on our machines. We use docker, it's awesome. People are asking for dedicated machines specifically for their company, and others are asking to hook into their own machines. Once we figure out how people/companies want to use the site, we'll put up some options for where code will be run. I'm totally open to feedback and would love to hear what you think.

I'm measuring costs right now. But I'm seeing that when we get a fair pricing model up - if you could hit these api's only when you need them, rather than have a dedicated server for them, you'd save a money. A really different way of looking at PaaS + Apis... and I'm super excited about it. Right now, I'm just trying to collect as much awesome feedback as possible for use cases, and then we'll have a better idea for how users would want to be charged. Right now, people are asking for a simple request-based model. Would love your thoughts on this as well.

Thanks again for the questions. You're awesome.

paul@blockspring.com
312.834.7265
Odds are that it will be blank by the time you're ready to shoot it :-) Film production can be sloooow, it's easy to spend hours adjusting the lighting for every scene and then you have multiples camera setups within each scene and multiple takes for every setup....
Would this produce a new volcano?

Or would the magma just freeze as it travels through the relatively cool hole?
Does it give you an online|offline status indication of your device?

Smart app though!
Pinboard dot com is run by a hilarious, crotchety Linux guy who has been around forever. He did me a huge favor by not selling that domain despite great temptation.
I feel like this @hipsterhacker tweet sums it up nicely: https://twitter.com/hipsterhacker/status/466077431061696512
WiredTiger 2.3.0 can replace LevelDB
The last paragraph mentions that Cloudflare uses LuaJIT (and C++ Aho-Corasick).

Cloudflare uses the OpenResty web server (Nginx+LuaJIT), that's quite interesting: http://blog.cloudflare.com/pushing-nginx-to-its-limit-with-l.... OpenResty is one of the top performing web servers in this well known benchmark: http://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/ , http://openresty.org/
Great concept. The generation rate is too low for me to stick around though. It might be more interesting to do 10 or 20 generations per tick.

When I read the headline, I was imagining an endless board where each player got a grid, say 20x20, where he could place anything he wanted, and all the boards would be right next to each other so you could try to "invade" your neighbors.
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After Flipkart’s 1Bn fundraising, Amazon announces $2Bn investment in India
I need some ideas for commands, if anyone had any suggestions that'd be appreciated.
And your evidence that this isn't a zero-sum game, is, exactly, what?

All of the evidence points to the fact that people have more than sufficient entertainment options and have set their budgets at a fixed point.

It wasn't piracy that killed music. It was the fact that the prime purchasers of music had a fixed entertainment budget and switched to buying video games aka. zero-sum market.
Announcement Update re: Amazon/Hachette Business Interruption
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Then I really pity her; what I went through was incredibly frustrating. As cheesy as it sounds, my heart goes out to her.

> the doctors don't want her to start college yet.

That's completely normal in cases like this. My doctors didn't think I'd return to college for a year (and I was hardly ready at 6 months). I'm back now and at full throttle again (and going on 2.5 years). I was linear, concrete, black and white and and bad at planning for 6-9 months, and wasn't fully healed for (at least) 2 years.

> She will probably be a different person unfortunately.

A lesson I've learned is that there's nothing wrong with an injury like this changing your personality. Whether it be with fundamental personality changes or lingering deficits, it's just something you live with. How you choose to deal with them is defines who you are, not their mere presence. To this day, I'm bad at planning. To get around this, I manage it like any sane person would and nitpick every detail and put myself in the other person's shoes.
Why not place the sphere into a pre-made hole so it will make it to the center of the planet faster?
I was experimenting with new technologies for this project - yes, to get the core functionality sure this would work. In this case, I wanted to make something more... complete. The communication with the device uses websockets, not polling.
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Amazon will invest $2B in India
Nukes of Hazard (2013)
Will work on that.

(Why was that last line necessary?)
On the total carbs thing - American wrappers tend to include fibre in the total carbs- European ones don't, and you should read up on 'net carb' - but basically, take the fibre value off the total value. If it's ok to do that, it'll look something like:
Total carbs: 15g
-- fibre 9g
-- that sugars 3G

Etc. :-) enjoy!
The Australian media is dutifully reporting on an organisation that I will leave nameless.

http://www.smh.com.au/national/wikileaks-publishes-unprecede...
for most ebooks it would almost be better to go in the exact opposite direction: one sale at $1000 is better than 10 sales at $1

You seem to have not understood what books are for.
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> Why would I pay $1000 for one when I can get so many others for $5?

Because market data suggests that most people won't switch. They will buy book from "the new, hip writer X" or they won't buy at all.

Someone who intends to buy something by Malcolm Gladwell is unlikely to buy something from somebody else just because it's a little cheaper.

Amazon wants to maximize sales volume whereas the distributors and authors want to maximize profit. The two are often correlated, but not always.
What is the TLDR please?
They think it's a bit much too :) https://twitter.com/Pinboard/status/494319940045111296
Does anyone know if this is how "Hola!" chrome extension works? Though I'm more curious how it instant images a secure server on each peer.
I think the valuation would be justified if they can leverage their IP and platform and are able to scale globally. Maybe the investors have seen how good and scalable their internal operations are.

You are right, India is a small market right now, but if they can build a low-cost model armed with a global supply chain, they can compete with Amazon in other markets too.
So, Siri for the terminal? Cool idea but your implementation won't scale (more complex commands and/or beyond English). You need a grammer file and some NLP library. Look at how this is implemented: http://natty.joestelmach.com/ Their core is implemented in this grammer file: https://github.com/joestelmach/natty/blob/master/src/main/an...
Take a look at this too since you wrote it in python: http://www.nltk.org/
And your evidence that this isn't a zero-sum game, is, exactly, what?

Me probably. And all the folk I know with reading habits like mine who have not bothered getting an ebook reader yet, despite having problems seeing the floor for books sometimes.

edit - I think Amazon are complete and utter [redacted] over DRM, the 1984 debacle, their general attitude, etc. That said, I think they are probably right that everyone would make more money if the price dropped on ebooks. They are going about it in a very [redacted] way, of course. And even if they are right, their tactics seem pretty [redacted]. But that's Amazon being Amazon. Just because they are behaving like [redacted] doesn't mean that their economics isn't accurate.
You're correct that you don't need an automatic scale, but it's worth pointing out that the parent specifically got his because it removed all of the barriers to creating/maintaining his source of motivation. Doing it on his own wouldn't have been difficult per se, but doing it consistently in a way that he knew was useful was not the problem he was trying to solve so he eliminated it altogether.
Maybe Amazon cares so much for the same reason Apple/Jobs cared about the pricing of music: too high a price point encourages piracy.

Once piracy becomes an easily accessible and socially acceptable mainstream habit, it's going to be very hard to claw back market share.

Right now, ebook piracy is by far not as easy and convenient as video or music. That could change as long as ebooks remain overpriced compared to physical books, and DRM impaired to boot. (Sooner or latter the general public is going to find out the hard way how much DRM devalues their "property".)

I dunno about the US, where Amazon is king, but in most countries ebook adaption is stagnating and price is quoted as the #1 reason.
Can you explain to the uninitiated, what does Redis do for you in this stack? I read the whole chapter on it in "Seven Databases" but it just didn't click for me what Redis is for. Pardon my ignorance.
google appengine free tier, aws free 1yr, nephoscale free 1yr, appfog?

vpsdime?

or if only lamp, perhaps 000webhost.com?
Very interesting, thanks for the tip. This is my first time parsing natural language like this, it is a bit challenging.
It's a fair point, but the issue is agnostic to the subject matter. Rather, the root problem is that a person or people is/are inclined to look to a fictional comedy as a point of reference on social issues. I think it is unfair to the film.
Looks similar to Prototype library. But the same mistake: extending the prototype :)
What are you options if a site/service doesn't provide an API? I am looking into creating a third-party Android app for https://askbot.com/ which is an open-sourced (GPLv3) version of StackExchange-like website. Askbot has a limited read-only API. It is written in Python and I am not sure how much work it would be to write APIs for it.
Widely-cited movies often mean different things to different people. Their indeterminacy increases citations. Idiocracy parodies advertising, GMO farming, psychotropic mists dispensed by ATMs to calm down annoyed customers, and many other topics. Is that more or less helpful to society than vampire romance or robot mayhem movies?
Duplicate: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6276961
Where do you live that Ballard is an hour away from Lake City? I live at 125th/Lake City Way and the 41 to the 40 at Northgate is 40 minutes. If you really want to take an hour, you could get on the 65 and ride where it turns into the 32 to go to south Ballard via Fremont. Though I do agree, I really hope the station gets properly built at 130th so that hours from the 41 (and maybe even 522) can be diverted to a bus that goes from Fred Meyer west to connect to RapidRide D.
> the internet. I heard Al Gore invented it

He did. He used it then to discover global warming, for which he received the Nobel prize.
Some people also look to Daily Show and Colbert Report as points of reference for social issues. Is that a commentary on those people, or the editorial postures of mainstream journalism?
> D3 is probably good for its domain, but intuition tells me you'll have a problem if you mainly use Javascript to handle a 20GB dataset. (I'm not dismissing this categorically; I am not very familiar with these tools).

I use d3 on the client with a 80GB (currently) dataset, by putting the dataset in elasticsearch. It's a pretty fantastic combination. You can do multi-value aggregation from unstructured data, or geo-spacial searches, or lightning-quick full text search.

The server has 8GB of ram and 2 cores, and with about 1.2 million new documents every hour, barely breaks a sweat.
I gave you the example of India (which derives its court system from the UK), it's not my fault you didn't like it.

A small percentage of the media may be involved in gossip, but when it comes to political corruption, we need to have complete transparency, without any compromises.

You need transparency of result, but you don't need it immediately. Legal proceedings can feature a lot of untruths as well, some of which could cause great harm. The reality is that courts in civilized countries deal with sealed evidence/testimony on a regular basis for a variety of reasons, and this doesn't substantially impede the course of justice even though it may occasionally be perverted. I'm highly skeptical of arguments that reject any possibility of compromise, because they tend to assume the outcome will be a perfect process.

Using the threat of economic consequences is a horrible reason to enable politicians to usurp power from the free press.

I think you're projecting your imagination about what the case involves a bit here. I really don't see enough details to be sure. What if the allegations under seal turn out to be baseless or inaccurate, for example? Is the satisfaction of immediate total transparency worth the damage that may accrue during a multi-year legal proceeding before the court issues a verdict? After all, you can punish guilty parties following a conviction, but it's very hard to repair an innocent person's reputation.

Where senior officials of other countries may be involved in a case, in a variety of capacities from potentially culpable to entirely innocent, are you willing to risk plunging someone else's country into political instability before you've had time to fully assess the evidence? What if the people of the country think the legal proceeding is an attempt to meddle with their internal politics, whether or not this is actually the case?

I strongly disagree with you about transparency being an unalloyed good or a panacea for social ills. Within reasonable limits (and I think a 5-year period for a complex legal proceeding may meet that standard) it can be appropriate to employ judicial discretion.

Obviously, we're not going to agree about this, but I'll put a note on my calendar to follow it up in 2019 and see what the big secret was.
I'd be more interested in seeing an infrastructure for scraping where the API functions are fixed, but the actual scraping functions are dynamically loaded so that the API user doesn't have to maintain it or re-pull/re-fork/re-compile when the website design changes.

Bonus points if one can make an ORM out of it, e.g.

for article in get_api('reddit.com').todayilearned.filter('new').limit(100):
... do something ...

Where a call to get_api() dynamically fetches the latest scraping functions, in case reddit's page design has changed.

Triple bonus points if the system can be designed in a de-centralized fashion to defend against ToSes that try to disrciminate between human eyes and machine eyes.
Same for us..

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/damian-filigree-book-thoth/i...
This one had promotion through free app of the day. Lifetime revenue was around $700. Paid around $400 in ads

https://itunes.apple.com/nl/app/snap-together-free/id5770998...
Spent ca $1500 on ads, made $20 revenue.
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Yes, but someone who is looking for a non-fiction book, with no author preference, is more likely to buy a $5 Michael Lewis book than a $15 Malcom Gladwell book.
After Flipkart’s 1Bn fundraising, Amazon announces $2Bn investment in India[0]

[0] http://www.medianama.com/2014/07/223-amazon-2bn-investment-i...
There is nothing unique about Flipkart's IP or business model that it will beat well established players worldwide. Is there any example of any Indian or other third world company expanding into US e-commerce or tech sector ?
> specifically that lowering the price from $15 to $10 lead to a 74% increase in purchases

So, if Amazon takes $5, then whoever provided the book lost money on that deal. (Profit went from $10 to $5 while sales did not double). In fact, if Amazon takes more than about $4, it's a wash (which is actually a loss because some of those 75% more customers would likely have bought the book later at a different price point). If, Amazon takes $3, profit goes up by about 2% maybe 3%, if and only if that 74% increase occurs. If that increase doesn't happen, sucks to be the publisher, but Amazon's profit went up.

If Amazon wants to move more Ebooks, why doesn't Amazon reduce the amount they take? Simple, because it doesn't pay in profit. So, Amazon wants somebody else to eat the price drop. Not exactly altruistic.

All of the arguments about Ebook (less distribution cost, marginal volume cost, etc.) apply MORE to Amazon than the publishers. The publishers at least have to find authors. Amazon does, what, exactly, to justify taking $3 an Ebook? Um, right, it provides the market domination that is effectively a monopoly to the point that it thinks it can dictate pricing to publishers.
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Paul,

How are you securing the Docker containers since Docker hasn't yet added user namespaces?
This kind of censorship has nothing to do with being a nanny state. Despite things like this, RSF still rates the US as being less free than Australia when it comes to the press, and the US doesn't have much of a socialist, 'nanny' slant. Neither does authoritarianism have anything to do with 'nanny'-ism. Is China a nanny state? North Korea? Saudi Arabia? Eritrea? What about the continent-spreading empires of the last century that were run by mustachioed gentlemen, were they 'nanny' states?

As for whether it's a good thing or not to be a 'nanny' state, perhaps have a look at the quality of life in the 'nanny' versus non-'nanny' states.
President Obama is recognized either as ...

... a mountain-bike / all-terrain-bike
(http://cdn2.spiegel.de/images/image-730849-galleryV9-vuuv.jp...)

... or a rugby ball
(http://cdn2.spiegel.de/images/image-730849-breitwandaufmache...)

... or a bullet proof vest
(http://cdn2.spiegel.de/images/image-730849-thumb-vuuv.jpg)

I guess the implementation leaves room for improvement :)
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How can you trust a product promising privacy when it runs on a closed-source platform (that is further also known to collect data on the user and to be prone to government surveillance)?

Real privacy is only possible on platforms that are 100% open-source.
I'm pretty sure by package manager, he means to install Terraform modules.

Docker still fits for your problem, so does Packer. Honestly, it's super nice to not have to worry about any external resources failing, where you only have 1 thing pulled in to deploy any type of application, and that would be the image.
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Can anyone explain the use of the "·" character?
Where would you find a control group for this kind of study? People who never tasted anything made from wheat?
-- "If I was an investor, I'd bet on flipkart, solely based on watching the change in spending habits of the urban Indians over the last 5 years. Instead on narrowly focusing on the online business if you take a broad look at the way things are changing the tier 2/3 cities in India you'll understand the investor optimism" --

That is the reason why you are not an investor.
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Everytime HashiCorp releases one of these tools, I can't help but think I should beg you for a job, I mean they're even being created in Go, which is great!
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> The error in your logic is that the size of the market for a given book actually depends on the price of that book.

This is only part of the picture. You're missing genre / topic which is a huge component.
That is not true at all. Various other companies had COD long before Flipkart. Also, COD does not work in India.

http://forbesindia.com/article/briefing/cash-on-delivery-doe...
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There is also Compcert written in Coq and extracted to OCaml:
http://compcert.inria.fr/
Carbs rot your brain, so you should avoid grains and eat like a caveman. Or maybe not? One thing is for sure, people like reading about diets more than they like sticking to them. Meantime, you can subscribe for only $$ a year.
3x 10,000 hours experience required? That would have the average age of a successful indie developers being something like 50 years. Surely not.

I assume GP hinted at distributing that experience across a team of developers.
Amazon has mastered the art of saying nothing with a lot of self-serving words :)

Their post is titled "Update re: Amazon/Hachette Business Interruption". However, they don't state what their specific demands are and why the business was (in their words) interrupted.

Amazon's proclaimed objectives aren't as important as knowing what their specific demands (from Hachette) are. I'm not a book-author, but as a developer, I set the prices of the software products I develop (Apple and Google let me do that, Amazon doesn't). So my sympathies are with the book publishers, but even if they weren't, I'd still like Amazon to explicitly spell out their demands instead of using self-serving pricing elasticity theories to sway public opinion.
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Small indigenous groups like the Inuit maybe? but then you've got a bunch of other factors to screen out. I presume Perlmutter's hostility to grains includes rice and other high-carb grains, which rules out Japan and other Asian countries where wheat is less popular.
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Not NSA directly but apparently US. Government did fund Open Whisper Systems:

"US. Government Funded Your Favorite ‘NSA-Proof’ Apps"

http://revolution-news.com/us-government-funds-favorite-nsa-...

"Radio Free Asia funds many software projects through its Open Technology Fund." (...) "The Open Technology Fund listed Open Whisper Systems as accepting $455,000 in 2013."
Your math assumes Amazon has a fixed fee. Amazon takes a percentage fee.
Some computer parts like hardisk's are cheaper on flipkart than the purchase price of an authorized retailer.
So when a customer comes to a shop, the dealer says that stock will come in 2 days and he promptly places an order on flipkart.
Why is AAPL at its all time highest now?
You probably were implying this, but just in case you didn't, this might actually be quite possible right now through crypto currency.