skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I presently Run Jumkey.com - currently Positioned as India's largest Jewelry Destination.
Its been a Roller-coaster ride so far.

Have kept our Operational cost very low.
Worth mentioning, we are still a small team of 3, very complementing,
managing the whole eCom, mobile apps(iOS and Android) and
without any external funding - Completely bootstrapped Venture.

Let me share my experiences so far -

1. Think Really-Really-Big from Day 1.

2. Reaching Profitability is easy in eCommerce, if the cost of operations are kept low. Know where expenses are going most.

3. Learn to Say NO to Crap Investors.

Don't raise money from wrong Partners.
Raise money only if you really want to. Needs, wants are different. Sooner or later you'll suffer otherwise.

Jumkey was approached by Top Investors, and we've told NO.

4. User on-boarding experience is very Important.

5. Build Partnerships.

Build a network of Partners who shall build the Brand and do sales for you,
Delegate sales & marketing efforts to specialists. Delegate tasks. Don't be a Jack of all.

6. In the early days, what matters is - Growth Hacking and Building Trust, Confidence.

Growth Hacking makes more sense than Spending Millions on advertisements.
We Invested heavily(time) on Growth Hacking.

Results = have 50K+ Combined followers from Social networks.

Biggest transition happened to me was - turning into as a growth Hacker, being frugal on expenses, Saving a lot of money.

7. If you're in confusion, Consult early.

8. Finally, Validation based model is the key to Run any Business.
Cloud isn't any more a buzzword than Internet is a buzzword or network or cumputer were buzzwords before that. From what I can see it looks pretty decent, just costs and arm and a leg like most books from Springer. If anything it will likely be quite dry and academic with lots of references.
World's First Robot-Staffed Hotel to Open in Japan
Time for the outer space research to get big at Isro bAngalore,India
This is inconceivable. However, UKIP has an important influence on UK politics even if they only win a few seats in the sense that both major parties are mortally afraid of loosing voters to UKIP. To avoid that, the big parties take some of UKIPs policies on board.
So this would be easily rectified by using a case for the pi?
Lest we forget, the first engineers relied on folk wisdom and empirical knowledge before rigorous processes and accurate physical models existed.

That also means we have a few millenia of catching up to do!
Your omission of which subreddits specifically is notable. Please, tell me why the site's reputation, community and society as a whole is improved by enabling r/niggers with a platform.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7947782
Our technical writing prof in school made it his personal mission to wipe those filler pauses from our lexicon. It was remarkably difficult to adjust at first - you don't realize how much you do it until someone calls you on it every time - but I definitely found presentations and such came across much more clearly without all the uh, er, and ums. It feels very uncomfortable as a speaker to simply pause silently, at least at first; to the listener though (unless you're unusually awkward about it) it seems natural, and can single-handedly make you come across as more thoughtful and compelling.
Well, I can't say what will happen in the UK. Time will tell but nothing is impossible. You seem to underestimate widespread despair and irritation the EU spread throughout Europe.

SYRIZA in 4 years grew from a 4% party to a 36.5%. Now it is steadily floating above 40%. The local centers of wealth controlling the mainstream media outlets are strongly against SYRIZA, making counter-arguments and spreading panic at every step the current government takes, which results in further popularity spikes.

Take a look and how the NSDAP rose to power in (1925-33). It's kind of watching history repeating itself like a farse. Even in Germany today, the anti-immigration 'Pegida' party on the rise[1].

In 2014 EU elections the FN came first[2]. That was before all this anti-islam frenzy driven by the Charlie Hebdo tragedy, alledged Jihadists killing live one hostage after another, etc.

Keep in mind that Hollande was a huge disappointment for the French population and since each vote counts equally I can't see how bankers are going to protect the current 'status quo' in France.

What Varoufakis says (that the only ones who will benefit from austerity are the extremists) is totally spot on and it's already happening...

[1] http://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2015/jan/13/german-...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Parliament_election,_2...
Is it INSURED?
Taag- Article sharing made more personal
Looking for genuine feedback - much appreciated!
Totally agree with you, yet here is anecdotal evidence: as soon as I introduced it, Slack has had huge success in our company, yet when the time came for getting into paid tier (20 seats), the answer was a resounding "no" from the top of the chain.
Good Progress on the Handheld Pyra Hard Design
The only thing easier than being a white man is complaining about how easy it is.
I've implemented 300 tickets. All of them typo fixes. You've only implemented 100 tickets like Bitcoin payment integration and the DB migration. I should get a raise.
You got downvoted because your post doesn't make sense.
Sounds like mandatory maximum rather than minimum? You're limiting from above not from below.
I would suggest C only if you are a reasonably proficient C programmer. Actually, even then, I would suggest using Python.

Choosing any language means that you are pigeonholed into using the DS that the language supports and have to think about things from the language's perspective. But just the ease of writing and experimenting with Python code makes it a great language for writing algorithms.

e.g. https://github.com/pratikmallya/interview_questions
Anti-vaxxer book being destroyed in Amazon troll campaign
I appreciate the effort, but I think Foundations of Computer Science covers the same material, only better and more rigorously:
http://infolab.stanford.edu/~ullman/focs.html
My wife and I travel a great deal and have had the chance to spend at least a little time in relatively undeveloped areas where people still fish, farm and so on to provide some or all of their regular diet.

Note that it being a primarily agrarian situation is important. The situation is very different for poor people working in factories for example.

>or explain that historically people never worked as much as they do nowadays

One striking thing is how much free time people in these areas have. Particularly in the afternoon its really common to see lots of people (children, adults and old people) simply hanging out.

Typically they have very limited capacity to store food so once you have enough fish for the next day or two, for example, there is very little value in catching any more. Although there are periods of very hard work (planting crops and harvesting crops in particular) there are plenty of occasions when the day's work is done relatively quickly. Your home is adequate against the weather, firewood is adequately stockpiled and your family's food supply is secure for the near to medium term so there is little value in performing additional work.
To be fair, this is what BBC News call their "Magazine" section, which tend to be even less rigorous than the already paper-thin reporting of the main news site. But it's no coincidence that Magazine stories are treated as part of BBC News overall, and the clickbaitiest headlines routinely end up in the right-hand "Most Read" and "Most Shared" panels.
Do you buy lots of high end audiophile stuff on very short notice for consulting gigs? If so it seems like cultivating a personal relationship with your vendors would probably pay out in spades. If not, I'm not quite sure what your problem is unless you need high end audio gear in every hotel room you visit?
BI is a massive political hurdle. A much smaller one is:

1. Dismantling the disincentives to hiring more people for fewer hours each

2. Dismantle the "40 hours is full time" as a legal fence that prevents people from wanting to drop under it (sharp benefit cut offs instead of gradual phase outs)
The link makes more sense without the anchor:

http://the-paper-trail.org/blog/the-elephant-was-a-trojan-ho...
Do more research. Read more books,online marketing guide sites. Know your target customers well and find the channel that can reach your target customers.
Yeah, unless you resolve that, it's just a matter of time before you get compromised again.
> If you're getting your work done, on time, and to the quality specifications, who the hell cares how many hours in the week you work?

This is a simple question with a very simple answer: Because if you can get your work done in 15 hours, that means you can handle more work. I can't think of a single project I've ever worked at where there wasn't bugs or backlog or refactors that I could work on during spare moments. What kind of place do you imagine working for that doesn't have these waiting to fill in time?
The book covers more advanced data structures too. You'd be amazed by the experienced developers was use basic arraylists, and occasionally hash tables without any idea if how they actually work. They get systems to work without knowing the underlying details, which for some industries is seemingly considered ok.
> _So it’s no surprise to hear that Google have retired Map-Reduce._

As a Googler my reaction to this statement is "LOL". We still do a ton of map reduces.
By telling her that minumum (or median) wage is not the be all end all.

Rate of economic development, cost of living and personal debt matters as do relative changes in wage levels.

The minumum wage doesn't matter at all also, when you have ~40% youth unemployment and 27% general unemployment (so those people's wage is zero).

If Americans, for example, started getting mass 40%-50% pay cut across the board, a huge amount of them would end in bankruptcy, small business closed, houses lost to unpaid loans, etc.
Thanks for all the feedback everyone. Incorporated everything to make the code as good as possible, want readers to learn as much as possible. Just to be clear, this article was my way of highlighting Rob Pike's point that concurrency isn't parallelism, not to make it seem as if Go didn't support or was falsely claiming true parallelism.
For the 'growth' aspect of business, here's a great site - similar in look and feel to HN: https://growthhackers.com/
Lost typeface's printing blocks recovered from river Thames
tshadwell, the article was meant to help people who don't know even know about GOMAXPROCS. People are equating concurrency and parallelism, and the title is a reference to Rob Pike's talk concerning this exact topic.
At the same doesn't India have significantly higher (like orders of magnitude) costs to criminal and civil prosecutions? I think that few nation states of successfully competed/emerged onto the world stage when at a disadvantage of that magnitude.
Ah yes, Google, working hard to make '1984' a reality for the purpose of profits and advertising.
Yep, and the title is a reference to Rob's talk on this.

I refer to it in the post:

"Rob Pike, one of the creators of the Go language, dedicates an entire talk, "Concurrency is not Parallelism" to this ...."

Wrote the post as a real world example to demonstrate Rob's point.
Completely agree, nothing beats the docs.
Thanks again, very helpful and updated all relevant code in the post also.
Fixed the issue, thanks wpeterson
>Are you kidding? You make it sound like Greece is doing everybody a favour by wasting EU money.

Maybe you should read up on the situation a little, instead of believing any old populist crap you read, because those comments border on racism.
SpaceX to attempt second landing on autonomous drone ship at 2:50pm PST [pdf]
Link to Web Cast: http://www.spacex.com/webcast/

CSR-5 link is still up, flagging webcast as dup.
SWM: still several orders of magnitude harder than being a beautiful woman.

Seinfeld as evidence: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kb72AJDFAjE
It is still cheaper compared to 1984 standards.
Some questions do only have a few right answers.

I'm perfectly willing to grant him climate change - climate is very complicated and despite present scientific consensus, it is very possible that future discoveries will turn our understanding of the subject upside down. On the other hand, the theory of natural selection is firmly established by evidence (by experiment, even!) and any future corrections will come as Einstein's relativity came to Newton's mechanics - refinement not invalidation. To believe otherwise puts you on the same rational footing as HIV denialists, 9/11 truthers, birthers, and alien abductees.

It's not enough to be an iconoclast, you need to be an iconoclast with good critical thinking skills.
Someone commented "Fire photon torpedoes..."

In light of Heartbleed and Shellshock, I propose calling this the Photon Torpedo vulnerability.
That's my first assumption. It's less strenuous and breathy to sustain an um, at least for me. There's a clear parallel to duh (like uh) usually concerning topics of [obviousness and stupidity] and hmm (like um) usually concerning topics of [deliberation and intelligence].
shrugs

The clock isn't ticking that fast. I have some experience here . I was the second technical hire at a company that went on to sell for nine figures. I founded an unsuccessful company. My second startup (as a founder) went on to be a successful and ongoing thing (revenue in the 7 figure range). For the last two years I've been with a nicely growing early stage startup.

I'm throwing out my resume to establish that I'm coming at this with nearly 15 year of startup experience.

I've rarely put in more than a 40 hour week at any point in my entire career. While I understand the idea that you are racing to product market fit.. I've never bought into the idea that effort is the thing that drives it. You need to be focused. You need to work hard, but you also need to keep your mind and body fresh. It's more important to produce great work at a reasonable speed, rather than bad work really quickly.

Those pre-PMF days aren't a sprint. They are most definitely a marathon, just one with a clear finish line. When I think of great early stage teams I don't think "high output", but instead I think "methodical" and "relentless". They are constantly analyzing the problem they want to solve. They are clever about soliciting feedback. They build prototypes leveraging every useful shortcut they can. However, few of them (again this is my experience) approach these early days with 60 or 70 hour work weeks. The benefit just isn't there.
There's also the strangely named Lamestation

http://www.lamestation.com/

And look, it has a Flappy Bird game!
Vue.js meets most if not all the criteria outlined in this article. I've been have great luck with vue.js after a nightmare of fighting with writing a big SPA in Angular.
> Or docker could roll out an update to leverage the existing namespaces and combine that with a user controlled whitelist of public key & namespace pairs.

Could, but haven't.

> The reason docker has enjoyed this much success is because they understand sharing is #1.

Except they have fought tooth and nail against a standardized specification until App Container Specification was released. Docker isn't about "sharing", it's about vendor lock-in.
You can use the Wiimote via bluetooth, it works great
Antrix has done a great job of marketing secondary payload opportunities. Many university-satellites have been launched by PSLV; they've become the de-facto small-satellite launch provider in a lot respects. My alma mater has launched a couple of satellites successfully [1], with the first one, Delfi-C3, launched from Sriharikota in 2008 (still operational!).

Europe has been trying to push Vega [1] as the European offering in this market. It's exciting to see how the launcher space is developing, especially for small payloads. I know a few startups that are targeting this space because of studies, like undertaken by SpaceWorks [1][2], that point at the expected explosion within the coming 5 years.

Given that I'm working on space debris risk mitigation at the moment, I'm looking at this from a somewhat different perspective. Most small-satellites to date have been launched to low enough orbits that they can meet the 25-year de-orbit guideline without too many issues. With the commercial market rapidly expanding though, there are a lot of applications that require higher orbits, and that's when space debris becomes a huge issue. Keeps me in a job!

All in all, great news for ISRO, and hopefully a sign of more international collaboration and commercial expansion in the years to come.

[1] http://www.delfispace.nl

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vega_%28rocket%29

[3] http://www.sei.aero/eng/papers/uploads/archive/IAC-14.E6.1.3... (PDF)

[4] http://www.sei.aero/eng/papers/uploads/archive/SSC14-I-3_v1.... (PDF)
I love how the old research into this is just ignored. There is a ton of work which has showed for 20 years or more that map-reduce is just a subset of interesting parallel computation patterns. eg: http://pubs.doc.ic.ac.uk/parallel-skeleton/
The Knockout example in this article is a bit strange - Knockout is not a framework (it is explicit about this) - but besides that, Knockout components actually do allow the "framework" to decide when things are instantiated.
Of course the government will try to somehow undervalue the new currency (probably by printing more - although historically German central bankers and Governments are not flexible like the Swiss for example), however doesn't depend on them.

If everyone in Europe and abroad wants to park their assets in the new stable DeutscheMark, that alone could destroy exports. In the meantime everybody around (current markets of German products) will becoming a weak buyer.
Even when you are working with DOM, if you are on a device with limited capabilities (e.g. mobile devices), depending on the number of elements on the screen the bindings can cause the DOM to take a long time to render.

Normally not a huge issue, but it helps put AngularJS + Phonegap in an even worse position than before against native apps.
I wasn't expecting a full page of hate against architects.

I worked with bad ones, I worked with good ones, but seems the majority is just against the whole concept of centralizing responsibility.

Most common reason I see cited is disengagement and increase in workload because their arbitrary decisions.

What's the opinion on CTOs? The startup culture around here seems to keep those in better consideration, but are they really that different in responsibilities?
Honestly, I think you both have some good points.

Any manager who consistently pushes their team to work 50+ hours a week is probably not doing their job correctly.

On the other hand, in a startup particularly there are always certain cases where everyone has to work 80+ hours a week for a while (ex. this is the closing date of the acquisition; for every day you delay integration, we are losing thousands of dollars in revenue.)

Good startup management is threading the needle between the two.
Nope it didn't. That's as much Greeces fault though as it is the EUs. It's not like the EU didn't knew what was happening.

I'm not saying that Greece isn't to blame. Of course it is. But it's not a one-sided situation. Takes two to tango on one hand.

On a more important note, all the money from the bail-outs where driven to French and German banks, while Greece kept borrowing.

So the plan was not exactly to save Greece, it was mostly to save French and German banks...
The "subsidies/gifts" given to Greece were accompanied with instructions for not competing in traditional markets Greece played in, for changes in agricultural policies that lead to the destruction of agricultural exports, and de-industrialization.

The big players of Europe, mostly Germany, used the EU "subsidies" to ensure an economic policy that destroys the periphery (and makes it a short-term market for their industry) would be followed.

Just an example of similar BS continuing to this day: Germany pushes for embargo against Russia for example, which Greece follows (hampering tons of exports it had) but German companies do not (it is estimated by German sources that 80% of companies continue to do business as usual with Russia). Essentially Germany faking a moral outrage against Russia to push for its economic interests.

There are some crucial differences between Germany and Greece however:

1) Greece didn't cause the death of nearly one million Germans, due to invasion, executions, and famine. Germany did.

2) Greece didn't bomb German cities. Germany did (Greek ones).

3) Greece didn't destroy Germany's infrastructure when its army left the country (out of spite). Germany did.

4) Greece didn't force Germany while being an occyping power to give it a huge loan it never repaid.

5) Greece never denied to pay war recuperations to Germany. Germany did to Greece.

6) A couple of decades after Germany slaughtered it's citizens, Greece did send hundrends of thousands of workers to work in retructuring the German economy as cheap immigrant workers (gestarbaiters). Strange how those "lazy Greeks" (and Turks) created this "German recovery miracle").

7) Greece didn't force EU legislation and economic/monetary policy to favour its exports and industry. Germany did.

8) Greece wasn't caught bribing German politicians millions or Euroes in order to close certain deals against the Greek state's interests. Germany did. And then it offered protection to people involved in the bribes.

In general, when you have a 100-pound gorilla pursuing its interests against a monkey, it's rarely the monkey's influence that determined most outcomes...
it s very nice but Tesla cars are way more pricey than the comparable competition.
> It’s an understandable mistake—it’s hard to understand the capabilities of the internet.

It wouldn't just be a mistake, it'd be a mistake followed by an industry-wide refusal to admit to the mistake, over and over again. I suppose iTunes could be a counterexample, but (from a brief search) the DRM-free stuff is for music. I think movies still have it.

> This is a completely irrelevant point. Of course piracy hurts sales.

Sorry, sometimes I gloss over things and my point doesn't get across properly. I know this is irrelevant to the current point. What I'm bringing up here is another claim I remember hearing from a camp that claims to know better than the music industry executives. Perhaps it's unfair to lump you all together, it's just part of why I'm skeptical to hear this stuff now.

> Yes, there are things we don't know, but it's a pretty big leap to assume that these unknowns are good reasons to concede on an open web.

Probably me being unclear again. I didn't say we should concede on an open web. When I talk about "good reasons", I'm talking from the executives' point of view. It sounds like you're talking about some sort of universal good. I'm saying that there's what we want, which is an open web, which we shouldn't give up on, and there's what they want. All I'm talking about is understanding our opponents' incentives, and not assuming too quickly that it's just based on them making a mistake.
Businesses are already mixing map reduce with other approaches. On the Hadoop platform we have Spark, YARN, Storm etc which all work on the existing infrastructure.

Map reduce however is still perfectly suited for many batch processes.
> But I manage to fill in the corners with mindless tasks like answering emails. I think 80 hours a week is only achievable with the help of drugs i.e. caffeine

I work 60+ hours a week at my startup and 20+ hours on various side projects.

I also am completely anti-stimulants (include caffeine). If you truly believe in what you're doing (in my case, engineering the future of culture to retain intellectual thought while simultaneously building my financial independence), it's trivial to work long hours through adrenaline alone.