skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not clear to me whether you're building a financial model in Excel, which will then be automatically updated with actual data (for periods which have been completed), or whether Excel is just a way for you to gather the initial data.

You're solving a worthwhile problem, as most businesses could do with planning better and thinking more about the key drivers of cash flow.

If you are targeting businesses that are looking for investment, then presumably you'll need to output an Excel-based model that investors can inspect (for correctness) and play with (to test the impact of different assumptions). It sounds hard to automate that unless you create a bunch of templates for different types of business with different growth drivers and revenue/cost structures. You could probably build one which could be used by most SaaS businesses, for instance, and another for restaurants and cafes etc.

I've found that getting people to explain to you how their business will work is the hard part. Building the Excel model once you have complete answers is the easy bit. Updating it for an ongoing business, and integrating actuals alongside projections, is a little more tricky.
"I am single, 41 and pregnant"...

I don't know when pregnancy became a part of a person's identity. I guess this adds to the coolness factor these days because you have to try harder? Sigh.
Heterosexual CEOs have wives...
Of course. Terrible mistake!
How does Yandex compare against Google? Is their search experience and their algorithms similarly advanced?
One of the things my father told me when I was very young was, you should not be proud of things you cannot control (birthplace, sex, race, etc.). He also told me that God (or gods) do not exist. I have not found a reason to discard those two.
Got a real use case for this?
The biggest problem for a startup is getting out there, and getting transaction and revenue. Not penny pinching over what servers your going to use. You want to use as much pre-made stuff to give you the biggest head start as possible.

When you take off, you can raise money to pay people to move you over anyway.
Completely agree.

Also as theory is essentially useless as it does not predict anything.

They are throwing darts in the dark and making it sound cool.
It's funny because Frozen was a massive hit in Japan by all accounts. There it had nothing to do with coming out. Instead women really loved the women power and could relate to having to conform to a certain image etc. So perhaps that's the greatness of Frozen. Each culture makes it their own.
I think the moral is that you work with what you got. And that a lot of modern technology makes us more efficient in terms of personnel numbers, but if your personnel isn't constrained, that's not overall that much more efficient. Like, if you can't easily change drawings in a CAD program, that's a pain, but the solution is to hire dozens of drafters to redraw them.
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If your job was to blather on air day after day for however many hours you'd probably say a couple dumb things too. Everyone has "known" Tim Cook was gay forever so it's not a hard mistake to make.
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What's the next feature??
Are you going to become a marketplace with the download button?
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To me this is like saying if you've ever written a bug into production software it should be career-limiting.
You know when in the worlds only constitutional secular democracy it becomes impossible to actually be secular and be elected, when school boards constantly try to teach stultifying pseudoscience to our children, when demand for equal time for creationism and evolution or outright refusal to teach evolution in biology classes becomes the norm, when even coming out as gay or atheist in large parts of the country can get you in trouble at home or at work or the street, then remaining silent and polite is the worst thing to do.
I'm not a proponent of this unsupervised mass data collection. I wanted to point out that your example is an especially counter-productive one.
Back then, a whole lot of people (women) working on Apollo were typing up memos.
I interpret this as:
We are here for the journey experience and there are many different journeys!
It's not one incident that makes it scary. Its the fact that the FBI thinks its okay to continuously deteriorate long-standing constitutional protections because they know it'll help them catch more criminals. You know what also catches more criminals? Collecting every single American's technology information for the purpose of back-searching it in the event of a situation. The impersonating of press (which I completely disagree with your characterization of the event) is apparently standard protocol. By giving them the ability to steal their email format and letterhead style, they essentially have the ability to impersonate the press. Granted, in the publicized case, they only used it to act as a link to a news report about the suspect they were attempting to place malware on, but I don't think it is too far-fetched to see this line continuously move closer towards impersonation and further away from the clearly legal line.
Endorsement's come in all kinds. Quick name the leader of China? It's not like the leader of the worlds largest economy is irrelevant is it?

PS: I had a vague idea that Angela Merkel was and or is Germany's current leader, but other than name and tittle I am drawing a complete blank. For a leader to have a positive image they need to be 'well known' and not demonized.
You could just set up a Wordpress website with a custom post type for each customer & custom fields for the record key/values.
Cool! I love how it applies the concept of reusable software.
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I was responding to your comment about why this statement would have been controversial if it had been "being heterosexual among the greatest gifts God has given me", and explaining why taking pride in being in the Majority/Dominant group (I am proud to be White, I am proud to be Straight, I am Proud to be a Man) is so different than taking pride in being a member of a marginalized group.

Clearly there were a lot of things that put Tim Cook in the position that he is, far, far, far more important than his orientation; I.E. the fact that he is on earth, that he is human, born after 2000 BC, etc... are all more significant, but now we're going down a different rabbit hole than your original comment.
Where does it say this? (I guess it's been removed?)

And why does it matter to you whether or not the author considers being pregnant to be part of her identity?

IMO it would be more healthy to comment on the content of article than than the author's identity.
I got a Comodo wildcard ssl certificate through namecheap for $94.
No, it isn't a new position, but let's not pretend like Catholic church has accepted evolution either. Catholic church still believes in theistic evolution, i.e. evolution where god must interfere at critical times and not in unguided evolution though natural selection, which is the actual scientific theory. Theistic evolution is not evolution and it is in principle unscientific.

If you really care to find out what Catholic church says about evolution take a look here:

http://conservation.catholic.org/magisterium_is_concerned_wi...
I have a personal assistant in Mexico. I tried to ship him my old iPhone 5 so he could do some iOS app debugging for me. FedEx wouldn't ship it and told me that Mexico customs would confiscate it. Way to go Mexico!
>Labeling things you don't understand or make you uncomfortable as "weird".

Interesting given the article we're all commenting on!
Let's look at the facts[1]:

"As of June, Apple has had 75 billion cumulative App Store downloads, paying out a total of $20 billion to developers, with $5 billion paid in 2014 alone. According to app-tracking site AppShopper, there are 1,211,461 apps available in the App Store, including over 1 million iPhone apps and 610,000 iPad apps."

There are literally billons of dollars sloshing through the App Store, not even counting ad revenue. Yes, most of the apps released don't see any of that. But some of them do. It absolutely IS possible to make enough to make a living selling apps on the App Store, or on Google Play for that matter. There's over a million apps on the App Store, and if only one percent of them is producing meaningful revenues, that's still over 10,000 apps, many of them likely supporting multiple developers. And I suspect that, even though the median payment is a pittance, it's more than 1% making revenue. And again, this isn't even counting ads!

What libre smartphone OS has that kind of revenue potential available to developers?

1) http://www.macrumors.com/2014/08/05/app-store-july-record/
Great example of issues I would probably never catch if I tried to implement all of this in-house. It just wouldn't get that level of attention once it was already working.

"Oh, that's easy, I could implement all that in a weekend" - One, no. And two, no. Problems are always deeper than they seem, and it's usually the extra 90% that determines how well it works.
Being opposed to gay marriage does not imply being against homosexuals. But they presumably don't see eye to eye on the subject of gay marriage.
I was wondering if anyone had information about this.

It looks like it ties to Microsoft HealthVault. That is not available in Canada. It appears (from the outside) that MS sold the "rights" to HealthVault to Telus, whom did absolute nothing with it. Does anyone know, is that the right read of the situation? Can MS ever offer HealthVault to Canada or will we have to hope that Telus will?

Also, to the people below. As far as I can see, even a service to forward the hardware from the US to Canada, this probably will not work. If you register your live account in Canada (which you probably would, so you can put a CC on it) then you will not be able to active HealthVault on your live account - it will send you to a Telus page.
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Biblical literalism is largely an American Protestant thing. It's very recent (on the time-scale of Christianity). The Catholic church doesn't subscribe to that view- they've endorsed evolution for decades, for one thing.
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Actually the problem is even worse because Brendan never expressed that he is anti-gay, he just sent a donation to activists "Only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California." [1]
And to me this does not represent that he is anti-gay.

1- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brendan_Eich
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This is the first thing I have excited enough to buy from Microsoft on launch day since Windows 95.
>>> seeing as the entire field is built on the work of a gay man.

That's a rather inaccurate, cringe worthy and generic statement. If your saying only one person contributed to the field of computers in 2014, that's sad.

We tend to glorify individuals in the eyes of media and forget [1]others who contributed to where we are today in technology.

[1] http://www.computerhope.com/people/ - list of people who have contributed to computers.

Edit: Thanks to oneplusone, I realised that he was speaking about Alan Turing. But why base a field on only one person regardless of sexuality. Why is sexuality the issue in the first place?
It still looks to me as if you did not understand the issue being addressed. Its not about absence of binary encodings. Regarding "Java umbrella, which is not exactly known for gathering good engineers", I won't comment on this quality of statements.
I agree.

I think there's a related point though where socialism or any political ideology never really got near religion: becoming part of people's identity. People without a shred of personal beliefs nearer to Catholic cannon than to Protestantism or secular perspectives will continue thinking of themselves as Catholic.

If you are Catholic it's easier to forgive Catholicism than it is to forgive The Church. Nationalist creed (I am French or American) is the only thing that comes close.

I think there's also a taboo about criticizing people's religious identity and by extension their religion that was learned many wars. Stalinism is publicly criticized in a ways that Christianity or Islam would never be.

But regarding this comment, it's the personal level that gets me. Homosexuals place in 2014 was achieved despite objection and obstruction of the overwhelming majority of our religious institutions and text. They are now partially and begrudgingly coming around to where the public already is. They are being patted on the back for any lukewarm embrace of homosexuals. Gays taking them back is offensive to me. It's like a wife embracing an abusive husband that almost killed her when he gets out on parol.
How did everyone know? Or even, guess? I assume there are a few factors which generally correlate with being gay, such as never being seen dating a girl or trying to stick with gay fashions?
the worlds only constitutional secular democracy

whut? There are several, and most don't have the problem you're talking about. Which one are you talking about?
First Nokia, then Motorola. It just goes to show you that even if you're at the top in a huge market, you could be forgotten about within an instant.

RIP: Sun, DEC, Silicon Graphics, Microsoft
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Well, if the Ara ecosystem takes off, it could lead us in that direction.

A modular system to build any computing device you need. Remove the battery and put it on mains power. Replace the GSM radio module with ethernet. Install an ssh server, then pop off the screen. Who ever said you had to build a phone?

I know it's unlikely, but let me dream.
Good point, but in some cases, function comes at the cost of style, and vice versa. For example, the larger screen, the more functional it is, but the more hideous it is too (as a watch). The MS Band's screen may be less stylish, but could potentially be more functional than the Apple Watch.

(Side note: I'm not an MS fanboy or Apple basher -- I have owned and loved iPhones since 3GS. I actually think MS has done a terrible job w/ gadgets, and that this is the first one I'm honestly interested in.)
He has also a book about it: http://www.amazon.de/The-Quest-Consciousness-Neurobiological...

I have read it half way, a lot of information there.
Are you actually asking me to disclose customer information and taking my (obvious) refusal to do so as calling BS? Interesting. Look, I have no skin in the game, if you're happy forking over tons of money for stuff you don't strictly speaking need then more power to you.

All I note is that MS thinks YC is important enough to designate a person to sway them to the MS stack and SAAS products, this is a tried and true strategy (get them while they're young) and it will likely cost you dearly in the long term if you aren't able to oversee the long term disadvantages of such a move. If you have a long history of using microsoft products and switching to open operating systems and stack components would mean lost time due to re-training then by all means stick to what you know.

It's funny how in one subthread here people are arguing that hosting and bandwidth are the major expenses for any start-up and now it's hosting and costs are 2%. In the end every situation is different and every situation has a different cost analysis for the workload envisioned. Seeing the guts of many companies has shown me that if you're doing something that requires large numbers of expensive licenses or metered bandwidth / cycles / storage then you're probably going to regret that choice at a later point.
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What kind of chair is he sitting on in the first image?
A simple optimization can probably make things much better. If you think of it, the delta between panaromas corresponding to two adjacent points is very little. So, compressing image data across panaromas instead of each separately, I think, will make it _so_ much better.

Interesting thought exercise, thanks.
Is the two-year timeline reasonable?

I really hope it isn't. I've made much shorter estimates for a nearly identical application, with time penalization clauses.
I absolutely love questions that can be answered in about five seconds of research:

http://www.apple.com/itunes/charts/paid-apps/

Most of the games I would argue the value lies in the mobile software, and even for cloud-powered games there's none where the client is valueless. There's also a bunch of fitness apps, photo editing -- one of the top five is an alarm clock! Lots of apps are "financially successful" without just being a shim in front of a cloud server.
That kind of inflation is just a side effect of format encapsulation. You're representing a path format inside the JSON format, both of which need to escape their delimiters if they're to be taken literally. I still think a single consistent escape character is cleanest.

The same argument applies when I have any defined escape character or delimiter that I want to use as a literal.

I'll admit it's less human readable if you have a key `\/` but I can't think of many good reasons you'd want that as a key, which is what makes them good escape characters and delimiters.
If we get into this sort of semantic aerobics, we are just talking about words.

The context of the statement is a message to the general public, in America. The language he used has a particular meaning in the context.
I'm not serious about exercise but I'll buy one. I work with data and I'm curious about what my measurements look like. i tried other apps but they required too much effort, so the cost/benefit wasn't right for me.
Disclosures of that nature are not at the same order as writing bugs into production software.
A more apt comparison would be to accidentally reveal a hidden feature of your application to the public.
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Seriously, I hate everyone who bought an Android phone instead of a Palm Pre in 2009-2010, because if they did, we would still have the incredible things they came up with. Not only did they have C++/Javascript/HTML as their programming stack and not only did they provide directions on their site on how to root their devices and boot custom kernels over USB, they had wireless charging built in and had a great wireless charging stand that I used on my HP Touchpad for years until it finally gave out. You can have the tablet standing at any angle you want, working on it (boot into Ubuntu with a wireless keyboard, why not? It's a Palm) while it's wirelessly charging.

But no, Google was cool and Palm was old hat, so now they're gone and we are using Java to make apps and charging by laying our phones flat and plugging our tablets into the wall.
> crosoft is thinking radically different for how the future watch should look likes

How exactly? It doesn't look very radical to me.
Indeed there is. Did not know Tim was from Alabama though, represent!
I don't understand what the Church are able to do given that their teachings are based on the Bible and not society
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This is interesting. What are you using to sandbox the user-defined Node.js code?
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> Had a Swedish guy (shop owner) living with another guy and they both had a bunch of kids. Described the other guy and kids as his "family."

This is quite a stretch. As the father of a young child I have seen Frozen more times than I am proud to admit, and while it could be that the large man in the sauna is the shopkeeper's husband, he could just as easily be the shopkeeper's son, while the smaller woman in the scene is the shopkeeper's wife.

Even if you assume this to canonically be a gay relationship in a Disney movie (and it would, I suppose, be the first), it's a tiny throwaway moment in the life of a minor character which is easy to miss completely. This is hardly "taking a stand" as the grandparent post suggested.
My impression was that Denton mostly does that with people who essentially work to oppress gay people (right-wing politicians, Fox journalists, and so on and so forth), and, yeah, I'm fine with that.

For people who aren't doing anything particularly wrong, though, especially those in positions where being openly gay is severely against the norm (as with Cook, who is, I believe, the first openly gay Fortune 500 CEO _ever_), it seems inappropriate. Say Cook had been outed back when he was COO; would he have become CEO? I'd like to say yes, but it would have been a brave move for the board.
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YES! I couldn't agree more. Thank you for making this comment, specifically this part, "...the proposals I've seen so far seem just beyond the ken of the forehead-slapping simplicity...". To me the existing proposals are a complete aberration when viewed along with the rest of the JSON spec and standard REST implementations. I'm really happy to see that GitHub took the simpler more intuitive implementation as well.
Excellent advice, the only thing I'd add is that it's like this for everything that isn't core to your service when you are getting started.
Selling user data would be completely against our mission and values, and I think it would be extraordinarily hard for such a change to make it through the internal immune system for such things. I think Mozilla is less likely to do bad things with your data than just about any other company (or government for that matter) out there.

(Disclosure: I work for Mozilla. I am helping write an updated set of privacy guidelines for engineering teams, to be as explicit as possible about how careful and respectful we need to be with data.)
Like most websites of such projects, its missing the "What is X" that explains what problem your "product X" solves. (yes you are selling your product)

And gives context such as being a supplement to Y and an alternative to Z. After reading every page, i still have no idea what it does, what its for and how i can learn more about Y and Z so i can understand why i need X.
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How is an integrated GPS cutting edge? Polar has had watches with GPS for a while now..
He is referring to Alan Turing I believe.
What? I hear about straight male CEO's relationships all the freaking time, probably more than I hear anything else about them.

Here's just one example:
http://articles.latimes.com/2013/apr/16/business/la-fi-0416-...

Do you really need a list?

This is important because gay people have not been allowed representation or public acknowledgement. Until this month there were 0 openly gay CEOs but hundreds of openly straight CEOs in the public eye.

Well done Tim Cook, and my personal thanks.
> While everyone is trying to make a watch that looks as traditional as possible, Microsoft is thinking radically different for how the future watch should look likes. That's some guts

Not as much guts after Samsung already did it:

https://www.samsung.com/us/mobile/wearable-tech/SM-R3500ZKAX...
Looks like it supports data relay to MapMyFitness Suite of Apps, which I would think could then relay it to HealthKit if there is not already a direct export from MS's iOS App.
We built a site for a Russian supermarket and tried using Yandex maps as that's what they wanted. Was accurate for Russian addresses, as you would expect, but ended up switching for Mapbox so we could heavily customise it.
entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem. We don't understand “our own” universe and pulling a “parallel” one out of the proverbial hat is supposed to help anything? I just view that as a violation of Occam's razor.
I dont see a point in using yet another proprietary branded chromium, that sends info to yandex instead of google.