skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, the $6m was a secondary investment. That is, the founders sold their personal shares to the VCs. That money is not intended to build the business, it's a cash out for the founders so that they're not tempted to take other liquidity offers.
I think Hungarian citizenship is about 300k, it's a new thing. EU passport and good location.
It wasn't missing its guaranteed # of I/Os per second, so I figured the slowdown was just "one of those things" and not an out-of-spec issue. Happy to send you the volume ID if you think someone would want to investigate (and still has data from the start of April) though.
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PEP 492 (async/await in Python) is accepted
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I always think that people dislike the sound of German because of its media representation. When it's only ever spoken like the political leaders in Triumph of the Will, it's understandably unpleasant. But I find spoken German quite beautiful (so much so I studied it throughout college).

A good example of nicely spoken German is "Die Bombe die Nicht Tickt" (a reading of a short story by a German band whose name eludes me). Also the main character in Goodbye Lenin.
...but you can't pick CA.

Something Aerospike didn't realize.

(And nope, sorry, I'm completely uninterested in your anecdotes about how you haven't personally lost data when [1] there's a clear data loss scenario highlighted in the post, [2] Aerospike actively recommend services like EC2 and GCE that routinely partition, and [3] there are people in this thread who have experienced the same problems).
The other filter people use a lot when searching for toys is age. They could remove the ages filter too, and expose you to all toys without any distinction. Just a toy firehose. I don't think the gender filter is helpful, but maybe it is to some people. But then it's Amazon's property, so I don't care about it, so long as they don't remove the gender filter for adult clothing.
I have roughly fourish separate monitoring systems for Appointment Reminder. DMS is the one which is least tied to me, so I use it for Tarsnap (the most critical thing about AR that can fail "quietly") and as the fourthish line of defense for the core AR functionality.

(This may be slightly overbuilt, but I felt it justified to get peace of mind, given AR's fair degree of importance to customers/myself and the enterprise-y customer base. In particular, I would not have been happy with any monitoring solution which would fail if I lost network connectivity at the data center.)

$15 a month is far below my care floor for making sure that my backups are working and that I do not get sued into bits.
I'm pretty sure that 'cha-ching' is mostly what matters. Hate to be cynical but..
I'm responding to the situation described in the parent, not Secret.
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I wasn't advising employees to pretend to work, I was advising employers to avoid this situation. That said, working less and taking less responsibility means less stress for many people and so their quality of life does rise, without the compensation falling, so it's kind of a win. Not the kind of win some of us are after and certainly not the kind of win most of us would acknowledge we're after, but a win nonetheless...
Usually my thought process goes something like:
"Hmm, that's weird, why doesn't this work"

"Oh..duh"

"...okay nope that wasn't it. "

...googling

"Ahh that should fix it"

"F!&*"

"Oh, duh that was simple. That should fix this part and then
I should get this to output the right....hmm, that's weird"
Since all IP of Grooveshark including trademarks and visual assets have been transfered to the music industry this service will receive a CnD any minute now.
According to that link, the price for 1X and 2X dynos is dropping from $35/month to $25/month and from $70/month to $50/month, respectively. That's cheaper, no?
Exactly, it is a game version of 'work' and it is designed strictly for your enjoyment and tuned to the psychology that brings those rewards.

Work in a game and real-life can be fun if you are accomplishing things and moving in a general progression direction with some success.

In the real world, you can accomplish things and move sideways or backdrift based on many other factors than what you put in as work or capital, in other words, not as fun all the time and not really specifically tuned as a game design for fun.
Store what in the cookie? Every ad the user has seen across the entire web, along with how many times they've seen it in the last N minutes/hours/days/weeks?

A cookie won't fit all that data and a more traditional database generally won't work. In memory k/v stores like Redis won't work due to data size (TBs of data). Hbase/Cassandra/etc sort of work with latency in the 5ms range. That's fairly expensive in a 90ms SLA, but you can make it work. It does limit the amount of work you are able to do.
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> Maybe it's just me, but I find work to only suck when there is a long commute time and it's 2015 and our stupid company is still running Ruby 1.8 on rails 2.3, there is no automated testing, the javascript is an unreadable pile or .rjs mess, and literally every bug is some variant of "undefined is not a function" happening at run-time (for which I get yelled at).

That's why you come home and program in a perfect world of Haskell (or some other toy), just like the farmer chooses the virtual farm over the real one.

> The article calls this "the realities of work" and that the inherent difficulties and uncertainties are natural to the problems of the "real world" and must be accepted.

In a certain sense, you're correct - the challenges to overcome in a game can have the same magnitude. In other sense, you're not. At the end of the day, game is still a game. Maybe it is the responsibility that you feel that makes the difference. In the real world, the stakes are higher; cannot that be the ultimate reason why the work sucks?
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Your comment is unpopular with other real estate investors on this board.
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Ah, they finally renamed the not so roll-off-your-tonguey "Auchtung die kurve".
Agree. This applies even more to the "clearing the snow" game mentioned at the end. The work to clear the snow repeats every time it snows and each player can remember what happened the previous time.
Also if you like Pinball and are near the bay area, come to California Extreme July 18-19th. It's fantastic, hundreds of pinball games and classic arcade games for one glorious weekend each year in Santa Clara. http://www.caextreme.org
First of all, I'm not totally sure a huge seller like Foxconn has less negotiating power with logistics company than Apple (actually is probably higher). Then, Apple could negotiate the logistics but still account the merchandise as FOB Destination.
Source: negotiated this kind of deal for consumer electronic products.
Sure, it can get crowded on the weekends. Still totally worth it, worst case you wait for the guy in front of you to finish the game you want to play.
And the weird thing is, I would not be surprised if Maris actually did believe it was a "bank heist" to take that money off the table when they did, but realizes that he might have to work with these guys again in the future (or might want to) and so he must try to un-say what was said.

I'm also not surprised that Byttow and Bader would feel they deserved that payout for the work they had put into the project to date. There is a unique kind of point of view I've seen when folks have dealt with a lot of negativity about what they are doing, and then suddenly it is the new hot thing. You're burning up your lifeblood into your startup, and some rich guy comes along and says "Hey, really? You going to just skim that cream for yourself?"

But what it really illustrates how the startup founders and the funding folks are not really aligned. The funders want to see a big return on their investment, the founders want (in part) to get rich, since the money involved is the same, you have two groups pulling it in two different ways. Hence the lack of alignment.

Everyone comes out of this a bit wiser, and with an appreciation for what is at stake, and the next time it goes differently. Everyone's thinking "evolves." Usually though, it isn't so public.

Lesson #1 - yes you can take too much funding in a round.

Lesson #2 - nobody's perfect, and everyone is learning.

Lesson #3 - Reactions are just as important in understanding someone's character as their actions are.
He gave the same (or at least substantially similar) talk at SCaLE this year: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RH7m5LYv5s
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http://research.modesvu.com/post/118179144182/highlandvalley
How did this point somehow not make it into the article, is what I'd like to know.
Haha! The phone is unreliable. Try fumbling with your phone in such a situation.
It's more than a little ironic that you're posting this on the internet. People were using your same argument to argue that DARPA never should have funded the creation of the internet in the first place.

Unfortunately for your argument, most people want the benefits the government can provide. They want to be protected from things like money laundering and fraud.

I agree the government over steps its boundaries sometimes, but there's no need for the hyperbole. This is hardly on the same level as the NSA wire taps or the stuff that led up to the American Revolution.
Is OpenCL even necessary anymore with the arrival of SPIR-V?
Volume and latency requirements make it more difficult to track individuals on the web. It's an easier problem to solve in 50ms. It's also much easier to solve when it's only a million individuals rather than a couple hundred million individuals.

Like most problems, scale makes it hard.
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The post seems to mention crossplatform support for SIMD.js. Does Intel's version work on ARM, too?
Remember every dollar not paid by Apple and the like is an extra dollar that some other poor US tax payer has to pay. Given that everyone wants the services that taxes pay for (if not move to Somalia) then the taxes should be raised in a way that causes the least amount of distortion to the economy. Letting some companies pay no tax and others 36% is highly distortionary.

I would also be more convinced of the idea of not taxing the money coming in to the USA if it had actually been taxed in the countries where the profits had been made - let me introduce you to the Double Irish Arrangement [1].

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Irish_arrangement
Thanks for the post mortem. Did you do much customer development?
Exercise != payout

Exercising options generally gives you shares in the company, not a payout. A payout would require selling the shares. Normally you can exercise vested options at any time very easily. Selling those shares you received from the exercise for cash is not as easy.
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Do you mean they sell their customers' emails or are you just talking about their own marketing emails? Because they do send a lot of crap but I opted out of those and haven't had issues since.
Show HN: PostOffer.io – Startup job offer visualization
Had enough friends asking me about ways to value their startup offers that I created this site. It uses the binomial options pricing model to calculate the value of stock options to give you the fair market value of your offer.

Tell me if its useful or missing anything, any feedback is welcomed!
Canada has something similar too.
Interesting to think that first responders may someday be able to check a person's "black box" to be able to assess certain aspects of their condition.
http://www.renderlab.net/projects/WPA-tables/

wifi security is a pretty soft layer of additional security and definitely should be considered cheaply penetrable for purpouses of defense.

But like I said you can just harvest the PSK off a device without cracking anything. An unprotected shared secret on all nodes is not very secret at all.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=AK... Why do you assume if you're not violent the home invader won't be?
It is not that rich/poor is directly g loaded, just that g is highly correlated with income. Quality of schooling is directly related to the income. The more you make the tests reflect past education quality the more you bias it is favour of the rich and dumb against the poor and smart.
My knee-jerk reaction was to think of the privacy implications, but then I realized that most people will jump at the chance to upload their minute-to-minute health status to the cloud.
The smartphone is on it's way to becoming a "Star Trek tricorder"
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True, but as you said, income can originate from existing wealth especially for the very wealthy.

Overall, it looks a little suspicious to me because the Manhattan island looks like one of the worst places to move to especially for upper class, but also has one of the highest education levels in the county.
Achtung die Kurve!
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Not really, you have full control over your availability. You can dial it up or down however you like. A lot of people start with hourly jobs on Toptal while keeping another gig or a day job and then switch to full time on Toptal when they're ready.

Disclaimer - I work for Toptal
I don't think "assess" is the word you meant to write haha.
How does it get binaries onto the device? Mbed had something similar, that bit always seemed awkward.
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Had enough friends asking me about ways to value their startup offers that I created this site. It uses the binomial options pricing model to calculate the value of stock options to give you the fair market value of your offer.

Tell me if its useful or missing anything, any feedback is welcomed!
What do you propose to do instead of providing affordable rental housing? I can't imagine it'd be practical to provide free housing after all.

I guess I'm just a little confused because you definitely sound like you have a strong opinion on the matter and disagree with what other people think should be done but don't really get into specifics about what you think should be done.

It sounds like right now we have a safety social net for poor people, but you don't think that's a good idea. Does this mean that you think we need a safety social net for people who aren't poor as well? But if they aren't poor why would they need one? Perhaps I'm "part of the problem" so do enlighten me.

Also, at least based off your situation, it seems like what we really need isn't just affordable housing but treatment for those with mental illness. Despite the fact that I actually have health insurance I'm still hesitant to get treatment because it's so expensive.
exactly. at some point in the future, deaths are going to be regularly recorded in consumer biometrics, for example.
I was curious as well and Googled it. Apparently, the Erlang Runtime runs within a single OS thread and implements its own thread scheduler in user space. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/605183/how-if-at-all-do-e...
As it so happens, I'm thinking about consulting on exactly this. I have plenty of game design experience; last weekend I stumbled into a hackathon where I ended up giving an early-stage founder some ideas to radically improve an experience that everyone agrees sucks right now(consumer medicine). Based on that data point there's plenty of room to make this work, above and beyond the existing gamification tropes of putting badges and rewards on things. (Badges are an easy sell, but in essence, it was already there - recall "employee of the month" or "reward coupons.")

My pitch would be to make play - not just "fun" or compulsion loops, but the whole dynamic of playful activity - an organizational improvement process. The best results, as with most things, would need deep structural commitment, but there would be room even for a limited engagement to make some progress.
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It's only EU-wide as long as Malta is in the EU.

Which may not be for long if the EU decides it doesn't like Malta selling EU-wide residency permits.
We use Breeze.pm for task management at our 30 people company. It is a lightweight Trello-like dashboard with just a bit more functionality than Trello has.

We've been using it for about a month, and looks like it's exactly what we need. Previously we used JIRA, but it would be more precisely to say we made several approaches to start using JIRA, and every time after sing it for 1-2 weeks we slowly ceased. It looked too heavy for our small company and our environment, no one wanted to deal with it.

Now with Breeze.pm we have project dashboards, some integrations with HipChat, Github, Slack. Notifications, calendar, groups of projects, search and filters - and a nice and responsive UI attached. We also like the developer of Breeze who is open for questions and suggestions.
I too consider working in software to be fun.

But a vast majority of "work" out there is nothing like working in software.

So yes, it is probably just you (or us rather).
Ask HN: Rescinding a Job Offer for Another
I'll be graduating soon and I've been having second thoughts of working for a company I've accepted an offer from. (I interned there, enjoyed working there and their product)

After reading this however (Any Stories of Employees w/Equity Successfully Taking Home Over 1M? 500K?): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9225960

It has pushed me to reconsider. The number 1 company I want to work for instead is Uber mostly because of it's astounding growth -> I'm more likely to get rich.

HN, what are your thoughts?
anchoring the exit valuation at $1B means any valuation that's already greater than that at time of grant (if user chooses that option) produces a zero outcome for equity value.

You should consider making outcome valuation a flexible number, or capping the current valuation at < $1B.

This also lacks a concept of future funding rounds that inevitably produce dilution.
A presentation is designed to be mainly useful for the presenter. In an actual presentation I could see it useful to navigate between main chapters when I get questions at the end. Now that it is shared and some people have minor problems navigating it at first is much lower priority. Maybe the shared slides could be linearized.
Probably not, but I wouldn't really know. As I understand, device manufacturers (Nokia, Samsung, Motorola, Intel, etc.) and Khronos were keen on WebCL (and presumably OpenCL), but browser makers such as Mozilla (and presumably Google and Microsoft) weren't, so WebCL is pretty doomed.
This game is amazing. Having a lot of fun with it. It's damn hard!
An advantage of using something that isn't text is that our tooling can also be better. I think we've all had the experience of git diffs being complete messes due to some variables moving around but git matching the wrong parentheses

I agree that with a language like python (or most all languages) syntax doesn't become an issue, but if we can reduce complexity on one part of the editor, maybe we can introduce stronger _general_ refactoring tools (not just language-specific ones).

Anyways I think there's some good research happening in the domain of program editing (light table being one thing, albeit derived from some other tools), because the objective isn't to write hello world quickly, but to be able to quickly and confidently iterate on larger codebases (much like what vim lets you do quickly for simpler formats)
i do like that, thanks!
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9406815
Which when discussing typical memory usage is about as useful as saying "X86-32 has a per-process limit of 4GB!"
But militaries don't form hippie communes, at least that I've ever heard of.
According to their most recent investor conference call, they are at about 5 weeks of channel inventory for iPhones. (Essentially at the low end of the range that they said that they want to be in)
Any source for this? I don't mind if it's Hungarian.
thats a fantastically interesting response, nice. Are tehre statistics for these sorts of things, i think that'd be a really interesting article on its own, comparison of violent crime rates against various occupations.
This is why I'm so disappointed that I haven't seen any of these devices let you log to your own servers.

I'm not saying make it easy, I can hijack a DNS entry and host a server pretending to be you, just open the protocol and let me host the darn server myself.

The give-away to their goals, is that these devices you buy are one-time purchases that rely on cloud services. Who's paying for the servers your device is uploading to, and how are they coming up with that money now that they have this wealth of health data on you and millions of other people. I have nightmares about what most business people would do in that situation, and it's why I stopped using my device.
There's a minor industry devoted to customized imagery and colors for consumer product. There are startups set up to serve that market, with online design tools.[1][2]. Custom shoes and sports equipment are doing reasonably well. The T-shirt industry has been doing this for at least half a century. Bain, the consulting firm, has an article on what works in product customization.[3] Basically, let the user tweak minor stuff, but not change much.

None of these companies actually let the user affect product function much. It's all decorative, or sizing-related. Autodesk has gone further, with Autodesk Homestyler, which is a free CAD system for home interiors.[4] This is a descendant of Autodesk Kitchen Designer, which was for sizing kitchen cabinets to fit a kitchen space. This lets you lay out a house, existing or planned, add commercial furniture, and view the house in 3D. Available for desktop, browser, and mobile. Despite being an impressive tool, it's never caught on. Probably because most people are terrified of starting with a blank screen and designing their house.

Carl Bass, the CEO of Autodesk, thinks that user design mods and product customization will be important, but aren't here yet. Autodesk has come out with a range of low-end CAD products. They now have their own 3D printer, and there are things like their 123Catch, for turning sets of pictures into 3D models. The technology is doing fine. But designing your own stuff isn't an instant-gratification thing.

[1] http://www.dogma.com
[2] http://www.fluid.com
[3] http://www.bain.com/publications/articles/making-it-personal...
[4] http://www.homestyler.com/floorplan/
Thanks for the feedback!

Yep I did realize the $1B issue too. Am building a way to dynamically set the exit valuation, probably next weekend.

As for dilution there isn't really a good way to factor that in. I still believe that using the BSM options model is a much better gauge of value than what most people use so hopefully it provides some benefits there.
On a sidenote, a lot of EU countries will grant citizenship to descendants of nationals (specific rules vary, but this includes off the top of my head Italy, Poland, Greece, Germany, Ireland, Croatia, Hungary etc).

This obviously doesn't apply for the world at large, but many people from the Americas are likely to have some european roots.
While I completely agree with your list of things that make work less fun, I think there's one important thing missing: the fact that you have to do it. It's strange but I like to program in my spare time, and I love to learn more about CS in general. But, when it's a job.. it kind of takes the fun out of it, because you have to do even when you no longer feel like it.

Just my opinion though!
Show HN: Have fun while working – new app (gamification and task management)
Unikernels are very able to schedule threads to CPUs. Often, that scheduling is static. But, when your intent is to run a single process exclusively on the virtual machine, static scheduling is actually preferable.