skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article makes an interesting point about whether the later IPOs are leaving private capital bearing the risk rather than retail investors. It's basically correct about the beauty of SaaS, except for the obvious counter that high-margin businesses are a magnet for competition in the long run.

But it starts off with it's very worst argument, the ultimate '99 argument even: analysts suggesting Instagram's value increased 35-fold since acquisition based on the assumption that if it "fully monetized" it could contribute $2bn revenue (ie. at zero costs and zero discount rate you're still looking at a 17 year time horizon to get $35bn from Instagram, which is about three lifetimes for youth-oriented media properties) It suggests that's quite reasonable with reference to the stock price of yet-to-turn-a-profit Twitter.

It doesn't get any better when it suggests the "unicorns" are different because they're competing with non-tech-enabled businesses. That could have been a slide from the WebVan pitch deck. Plus it's very, very wrong in the case of AirBnB: Sabre et al sewed up a large chunk of the profitable end of the distribution market by solving the technical problems of filling hotel rooms, and locking themselves into the infrastructure, before the internet. AirBnB has a flair for consumer marketing, but does that really make it worth more?

The argument that the '99 companies failed because the mass of consumers didn't exist and the infrastructure wasn't ready is true, but for any self-respecting bear that's an indication of exactly why it could be worse than 99 when investors get cynical about companies peaking at hundreds of millions of users whilst still being unable to squeeze a respectable profit to justify their valuation.
Using the visual studio compiler, the build tool we use spawns many instances of VC.exe, (up to 40) and they have a tendency to allocate about 2GB each. Normally, we only use 10-15 of the cores, but a full build will be all 40, and has began to crash the compiler.
> Isn't a mechanical watch hand ∞ FPS by definition?

You guys are so silly sometimes.
Why being 'overweight' means you live longer: The way scientists twist the facts
You're not old. But it's easy to waste your youth sunk in the fear of getting old.

Also, it doesn't matter whether you hit it big or not. Big is something other people will call you, or not. After you have wasted your youth, and you can feel the years in you, you will feel their indifference toward other peoples' judgment. All you have are a stream of seconds that are filled with your own thoughts. That doesn't change no matter how famous you get.

You should focus on the things that enliven you, not the projects of great promise that will make you famous if someone notices. In the end, that feeling of being alive will be all you had.
I agree. If it's not possible to monetise it in wouldn't build it unfortunately.
I tend to just use my index finger on each hand unless I'm typing letters right next to each other. For example, in "other", I type the "o" with the middle finger of my right hand, the "t" with the index finger of my left hand, the "h" with the index finger of my right hand, the "e" with the middle finger of my left hand, and the "r" with a small movement of my left hand index finger. I hit the shift key with my ring finger or pinkie and the space key sometimes with my index finger and sometimes with my thumb depending on where my hands are.

I've been playing guitar for longer than I've been seriously typing and guitar places a heavy emphasis on efficiency of the movement of your hands and fingers. There are multiple ways to form a chord and multiple places on the fretboard to play a note, so you find the one way that is easiest to switch to quickly from your previous note/chord. I wonder if that influence has changed the way I type as I tend to slide my hands left and right along the keyboard depending on where I will be hitting the keys next.
No, sameroom wouldn't be able to access your IRC servers behind the firewall. (Which is probably a good thing!)
See http://pcp.io/docs/installation.html#deb or direct link at ftp://ftp.pcp.io/projects/pcp/download/deb/ - but I only see packages for i386 arch, so you may have to compile from source if on amd64 or other architecture.
I am in the same boat. I am trying to replace a 2010 MBP 15" with nvidia card, 8 GB ram.

for me, it needs to last 5+ years (sorry, company policy).

Anything with comparable specs (15", core i7 quad core, 8-16 gb ram, 1920X1080+ screen, decent battery life, 3yr support and <=5 lbs) comes to same price as a 15" mbp. and this mbp and others in my company lasted 5+ years without any issues. Well, i had to get my logic board replaced due to some known issue, which was covered. battery life is awesome, dont care for keyboard but its ok, hate OS X. Also, I want to move 100% to Linux but not at the cost of a good hardware. Yes, I can install ubuntu on mbp but whats the point then in paying apple tax and not everything works flawlessly in ubuntu on mac hardware, already tried it. They just seem to make the best hardware at the moment.

m3800 is very close to these requirements but ends up costing same as 15" mbp and battery life is not as good.

w540 is heavy

t series dont have discrete graphics
I don't get it. Why it's not clickable?
I would be surprised if most people followed this line of thinking.

People rush to the door to buy the newest model of iphone, why would the same not be true for the watch?

Surely the next generation will offer improved battery life, improved design, improved feature set, refinements, and knowing apple may even have an entirely incompatible set of straps.

Especially given that the watch is cheaper than a new iphone, i expect that we will see even more people upgrading from version to version.
You don't even need sprintf, Ruby supports Python-style interpolation, too:

bar='batz'

"foo #{bar} #{0.5+0.5}"
=> "foo batz 1.0"

"foo %s %.2f" % [bar, 1.0]
=> "foo batz 1.00"
> "It is the responsibility of each node v to ensure Q(v) does not violate quorum intersection".

Failing to ensure quorum intersection in my quorum slices choice will have local repercussion and may befoul nodes that depend on me but does not prevent global functioning if the rest of the topology has quorum intersection.

I think your argument here is sane, but I also believe that under reasonable circumstance we can expect the Stellar network to be well structured. Yes some edge nodes may get befouled as you would in real life if you would trust an untrustworthy bank or health insurance.
There's Candy: http://candy-chat.github.io/candy/
First impression is this is way more straightforward than other frameworks.

First criticism, this:

events.listen(dom.get('.thing'), 'click', function() {

That is a longer way of saying

$('.thing').on('click', function(){

Which could really just be:

on.click('.thing', function(){

As in, make the most common things more concise. Your current way isn't bad at all; it's just longer than it needs to be. Could be reorganized, I think.
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On an unrelated note, what does everybody think about the design language Topolsky brought to Bloomberg?
I'm torn, on the one hand it's "trendy" on the other hand, it looks like a 70's acid trip and not in a good way.
Why do citizens of those countries deserve basic income when the rest of the world does not?

What did they do to deserve that?

Why do they have negative population growth ...
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"Do not mix" is too expensive for smaller roads, and may not even be possible without tearing down buildings.

Also "mix everything" is a viable option, too, if people behave themselves. The "woonerf" (http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woonerf) is a very good solution for densely built neighborhoods (even in the USA, it seems: http://ithacavoice.com/2015/04/ithaca-housing-project-includ....

In a similar fashion, I see little wrong with cyclists driving on sidewalks. Problems only start when they drive faster than pedestrians in a busy street. In other words: if they do not acknowledge that they are guests on the sidewalk.

That is fairly typical behaviour in the Netherlands. People will cycle through almost empty pedestrian-only zones at 10-15 km/hour, slow down to walking speed when coming close to pedestrians, and start walking, bike in hand, if things get really busy. Legal? Not everywhere, but this rarely gets you a fine.
Following on that analogy: Skepticism would be the immune system. Nihilism would be an autoimmune disorder.
I think you've confused this thread with the OP's article. My comment was in reference to a bank robber who was charged with the murder and kidnapping of his accomplice when he ran away from police with his friend (who was shot). His friend died and he was charged with robbery (the original crime) as well as the subsequent crimes, as is policy in American juris prudence.
When your software aspires to move billions of dollars of value, it would ideally be written in Ada.

That said, I agree that C# and Java are good options.

What's hilarious is all of the Bitcoin startups that are running on node.js and mongodb. Would you put your kids on a flight if you knew the control system was written with javascript and mongodb? Yikes.
From Rounders: "Why do you think the same five guys make it to the final table of the World Series of Poker EVERY YEAR? What, are they the luckiest guys in Las Vegas?"
Looking forward to hearing more detail about how this works in the near future. I am curious though what are the plans to orchestrate and pull together multiple containers into an application, like Kubernetes, Mesos, CoreOS, etc? Is that coming in the Win 10 timeframe?
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A lot of the money comes from sources like pension funds. A collapse won't hurt retail investors directly but their pensions will hurt.

If Uber at $20 billion is such a great deal, why don't Larry Ellison, Bill Gates or Warren Buffet buy it outright?
Because that's totally the only thing to be able to do. There's no pursuing of personal interests, no other hobbies that one can engage in. It's just nothing but watching tv and oversleeping.
The only frustrating part to be is that, since apparently the IPO rate is rubbish, my hopes as an early engineer of getting fuck-you money are now worse than they were in '99.

So, all of us doing the hard and annoying work of building the companies are getting screwed.
I read it in Grovers voice, dang it.
Also, SIP/ SIMPLE.
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> Look at countries like Sweden and Denmark: large safety nets and you would think everyone would start a company, but it's just not the case.

Precisely, Alaska for years had payouts from its oil fund going to the residents. Combined with cheap housing the residents are quite content with the status quo http://www.gallup.com/poll/181547/alaska-leads-states-first-...

Still waiting for that wave of innovation to come out of Alaska and hit the world.
This is sort of what I've assumed recently. I hear this a lot and it always sounds like there is an implicit "do you disagree?" after the first statement to which the person is responding "no, I agree with you."
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Americans spend 76 man years per day in kidney dialysis, one of the many fat consequences.

In the 1950s a diabetes diagnosis meant you should start making your funeral arrangements, today it means getting a repeat prescription.

Mortality is not the only metric.
I use a Blackberry with a 3-day battery life. Many people have portable or add-on batteries for their phones.
There is a level beyond what is shown on the chart: the mythical O(1), constant time, which those who speak of do not know, and those that know do not speak of...
soooo, they give you Ubunutu instead and call it the "developer" edition?
This is the first time I saw this redesign and it's awful. The article title is so hard on the eyes and so is the border.
I think with "No, Totally" in particular, the "no" is refuting something implied. So with "Makes you want to hit them", you are instinctively saying "no" the cultural prohibition against violence. "No that's not normal behavior, but yeah, totally I want to hit them."

For "Would you like ice cream?" you'd say "Totally" because the connotation is good. "Don't you just want to eat the whole tub of ice cream" -- "no, totally", is a reasonable response because you're resisting the negative connotation of pigging out.

I think this is actually unrelated to the "Yeah, No" phenomenon.
Domo raises $200M at a $2B valuation
OK, I did not mean it like that. A good manager is not going to manipulate you in ways that are not for your own good (really).

Example: Say I have trouble finishing tasks assigned to me. A bad manager fires me. A different bad manager tries to manipulate me. A good manager works with me to help me learn how to get better at finishing stuff. Does that change me? Yeah, maybe it does. But unless I regard "the way I am right now" as the perfect standard for who and what I'm supposed to be, change isn't this thing to be regarded with paranoia. It's not something that you should desperately seek to undo, except that you can't quite figure out how to do so because you're different now. It's a good thing. (At least, it can be, done well by good bosses.)

Another example: My boss sees that I'm not good at Android. He sends me to some Android training. That changes my skill set, but not who I am in any fundamental sense. But my boss is still, essentially, programming people.
Let me clarify: no team member should be working more than ONE TASK at a time.

You can manage multiple small projects just fine this way. I just left a place where the team was doing just that.

> Not everything fits into scrum.

You are absolutely right. SCRUM is great for processes which are empirical in nature (same inputs, different results).

Software development is empirical: give 2 teams of devs the same requirements and deadline, both teams might return code that essentially does the same but the code bases will be different.

IT support stuff such as installing Windows is better managed with a defined process (same inputs, identical output every time).

Wikipedia article on the Empirical process control model: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empirical_process_%28process_c...
sweet! i'm looking forward to trying this out since i'd really like to be able to connect my Kato rooms to my clients that insist on using Skype or that are already committed to other services like Slack.
Skit literally means "Shit" in swedish.
The fact that Instagram is now valued at $35 billion suggests the 2012 doomsayers were just a bit off.

Is that really a fact? Clicking through to that article and reading it (which I don't recommend) shows that that valuation is based on the whims of a group of analysts at Citigroup.

From the article:

“While Instagram is still early in monetizing its audience and data assets and its financial contribution to FB is minimal today, we believe that it is quickly gaining monetization traction and would contribute more than $2bn in high margin revenue at current user and engagement levels if fully monetized,” they wrote.

It's a bit ironic that the initial premise of the article is that commentators on the Apple/Microsoft battle of the 80's had their facts wrong.
No, and your linked position paper from IEEE does not support your statement. Their position is that anyone with an ABET-accredited degree should be able to call themselves an engineer, and that licensure is required for the legally-protected titles.
Really happy with how this all came together. Congrats Windows team.
I like the idea of using the edge of the device as a scroll area. Maybe Apple tried it and it didn't work out, or it didn't translate well into zooming, or it wasn't precise enough? (You can rotate a dial with a lot more precision than a big bulbous finger moving on the edge of a tiny device.)

Regardless, I'm glad there is a way to scroll without covering the screen and adding more skin oil to it.
Generally, limited partners like pension funds diversify their asset allocation. I found this interesting presentation that shows 57% of US pension funds is in the "equities" asset class, but I would expect most of that to be public blue-chip stocks, with a small fraction dedicated to higher-risk growth capital.

http://conferences.pionline.com/assets/2014_GPAS_Study_Final...

In another interesting note, this shows that pension funds in the US grew at over 6% annually between 2003-2013. The recent horror stories you're thinking of are less about pension funds, and more about grandma's savings being tied up in her own house.
Bringing Transparency to Patent Law
they used to just give you ubuntu as an option in the business class computers to save a couple bucks
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I think sarcasm is more of a problem on HN than lame humor is. Humor doesn't always succeed, but at least it's intended to make others feel good. (Think "good humor".) Sarcasm is only marginally related to humor. It's really about scorn.

Sarcasm is verbal bile. It feels good to let it out, but it acidifies the environment. It feels like you're being smart, but usually is more of a tic, like eye-rolling. A community with high sarcasm levels is like a room full of eye-rollers—not a great place for conversation. I think that's why you correctly identify it as a dead end.
That's my main concern about WATCH. The apps for it don't exist yet, and it's possible they never will.

A pocket computer with a touch screen is a general computing device. But there's very little anyone can do with a watch-sized consumer product - especially if it lacks extras like really good fitness and health hardware.

I totally get the potential of haptic wearables, but WATCH seems like a 0.5 product with some eccentric design choices that's still on the wrong side of industrial practicality - not like a product with enough awesome to appeal outside the fan/early adopter crowd.

I'm sure Cook & Co are thinking of it as a beach head, not a finished battle. But even so - it has to entice a critical mass of consumers or there will be no follow-ups.
REALLY looking forward to this. We've needed container style deployments on Windows forever. This is actually going to make my life better...at least this part, anyway.
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Tesla announces 70D
Sprinklr has acquired Get Satisfaction
Most non-chemical propulsive mechanisms considered for space travel do not have the ISP necessary to launch from the bottom of a deep gravity well.

You don't need much ISP to launch from the bottom of a deep gravity well and thick atmosphere. What you need more of is thrust. Ion engines have orders of magnitude more ISP than chemical rockets, but you can't launch off of many things larger than an asteroid with one.
My concern on this (connected watches generally) is the upgrade treadmill this might create. So a person would buy a ~$600 iphone + a $400 watch. How often would they upgrade the watch? Lots of folks upgrade phones every year or every other year. Will they do this with a watch? Will they need to? I have a Casio watch that I still wear that's 15 years old. And an old wind up that's 30 years old. I can't imagine that being the case for a smart watch. Apple and android watch makers are gonna want folks to upgrade as frequently as possible. Just seems both wasteful and needlessly expensive at the $400 price point. Consumerism gone a muck as twer.
Xcode 6.3 and Swift 1.2 have shipped
If a program is formally proven to be correct, it doesn't matter what language it's written in.
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...within the jurisdiction of Texas, surely due to lobbying from those who benefit from the PE situation. It's the same as how Tesla can't sell cars in Texas. It's Texas...
Since the iPhone and watch have a tight coupling I wouldn't be surprised to possibly see the iPhone and watch get bundled together in the current subsidized phone carrier services.
Wow this looks great, thanks for releasing it! Nice to see even 'simple' stuff like this that can help people who aren't running at Netflix scale is still released.
Yes, children. No matter how many down votes, you are still all going to die. I am really sorry mommy did not explain that to you at age 8 or so.
Anyone found the link to the Github PR? Or is this just PR? ;-)
Ready for prime time and continuous improvements coming soon.
I've wondered this myself. We've already seen how easy it is to privatize the gains here - it's just a matter of how the losses will be socialized this time that's got me stumped.
I would also mention looking at what you do to satsify your natural inclinations.

I myself am very goal oriented. I always have to feel as if I'm moving forward on something. It took me years to realize what I enjoy most about games is the feeling of accomplishment you get from finishing them and I'm actively more productive in other areas of my life when I limit my game playing time. Not because I'm "wasting time", but because emotionally I'm not satisfied and find myself constantly working and building other things.
In a similar vein I think these lines from T.S.Eliot's poem "The Hollow Men" beautifully expresses one's struggles with the self:

Between the idea
And the reality
Between the motion
And the act
Falls the shadow

Between the conception
And the creation
Between the emotion
And the response
Falls the shadow

Between the desire
And the spasm
Between the potency
And the existence
Between the essence
And the descent
Falls the Shadow
NSA doesn't kick down doors.
I'd like one :) stroganov.a@gmail.com
If there are major losers in this game, it'll be young people who moved to the Bay Area, threw 90 hours per week into an overfunded startup for a 0.05% slice, got "fired for performance" by a company trying to dodge the press of an honest layoff, realized that they learned no useful skills munching on Scrum tickets and fixing someone else's ball of shitty deadline code, and lost their prime savings years due to Bay Area rent and job instability.

If the bubble pops in a way that reduces their earning potential permanently, it's a catastrophe. More likely, it's a blip. Valuations are inflated but salaries aren't. This period, in the VC-funded Valley, will be remembered bitterly but I think the damage will be minimal.

Still, I find it jarring that no one wants to speak for the real risk-takers: the engineers actually building the products, who (unlike investors) don't get to diversify and are the first to get hit when things go bad, but get such a small percentage of the upside.
Mentor Graphics - C++ / EDA engineers - Boston, MA

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Email resume: http://tny.im/1Q7

Few positions open at various levels of education. Former MIT startup mostly MS/Phd. Small, flexible teams working on big, challenging problems in the HPC domain.
"No, you're not crazy" seems to fit the sentiment most closely.
Kristján is the CTO at this company now. http://atmoselect.com
Ask HN: Minimum amount of vigorous exercise to boost brain power?
I briefly jogged to work without breaking a major sweat and noticed an improvement in alertness. I wondered: what would be the minimum amount of exercise you could do each day to boost your brain power? Without the hassle of showering and changing your clothes afterwards. Thanks.
And what was the reason for introducing such regulatory complexity?
You are correct that safety requires overlapping quorums. However, the trust decisions are public, as this is what allows participants to discover quorums. The scenario you describe of two groups of 100 participants overlapping at one node might or might not be a problem. The most likely cause of such a topology is a Sybil attack, in which an attacker with one seat at the table gloms an extra 99 nodes onto the system that nobody trusts. The attackers' 100 nodes might of course diverge if they are so configured, but nobody will care.

A priori, we cannot definitively answer what kind of topology will emerge. But there is certainly precedent for building a robust network out of pairwise relationships, namely inter-domain routing on the Internet.
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Sales Funnel Optimization for SaaS Startups