skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I cannot really figure out what it is you offer/sell. Give to what or whom? Why? The centerpiece of your homepage is a screenshot telling me to give some unrecognizable web page about 'ad-bombing' a penny. Your pitch has to be intuitively understandable and in some kind of context.

Also, I get that you've jumped on the infinite scroll bandwagon but you have an INSANE amount of white space that you could be using to get the point across. I think you're mistaking cleanliness for conciseness.

Hire a good copywriter and a designer who is actually into good design, stat!
That is a vertical layout. It goes top to bottom, not left to right:

1 4 7
2 5 8
3 6 9

So, no, that doesn't solve the problem.
We're selling one called Flutter - http://flutter-app.com

We're about to close it down, its got customers and MRR
With my 6 (almost 7) year old I've been giving him 2% daily interest on whatever is in his chequing account. He's aware I'll scale it back when it gets out of hand :) But so far he spends enough on nerf equipment that it hasn't posed a problem yet! Now he wants to keep more of his money in the bank to see it grow, and I didn't have to say that specifically, which was the entire point.

A rule I did have to institute later though is that if he forgets to ask for his interest that evening, he doesn't get paid.

We also have to rely on his last bank receipt to calculate the amount owed because it appears impossible (at least here in Canada) to open an online account for a child his age.
10 Celebrities with Large Numbers of Kids
It's from the "old" days when there were many different email networks. The ".internet#" parts tells how to route to different gateways/networks.

See http://www.faqs.org/faqs/mail/inter-network-guide/
Amazon Targets Etsy with ‘Handmade’ Marketplace
(2) could be solved by marketing the same book differently. I agree that (1) has value, and (2) has some value when classifying customers.

However, this thread started because many adult sci-fi and fantasy readers look down on YA books. That's the purpose for which I'd suggest that the distinction doesn't make much sense.
>their answer amounted to "be working somewhere else".

It does not amount to that. In many, many, cases people start looking for jobs wishing they could stay at their current job.
I wouldn't be surprised if small nudges like that have far reaching effects much later in life.

I suspect that having a nudger around who cares enough to do that kind of nudging is what really matters.
These people are building our world. Comforting, isn't it?
Making the Case for Haskell
> That specific technique is a perfectly fine idea

I don't know… This whole thing reminds me of "The King's Breakfast" by A. Milne. Is it so hard for scanner to make exact copy of a piece of paper? It doesn't sound like a rocket science, really. I don't want it to try and compress anything, to leave watermarks or whatever. If I feel I need a better compression — I'll use a separate tool (which Xerox can provide if it wants so), I don't want my sanner/photocopier even to try modifying image somehow without my specific request to do so.

Maybe I don't understand real technological reasons of doing so… but then I really don't. I cannot think of any possible reason of such step being necessary. Except if it doesn't have enough RAM to store image as is, but that really sounds unlikely.
It's hard to think of a more appropriate fate for anyone who would live there than each other.
I remember the nudge of my dad that he wanted to treat all his sons equally. So the same financial rules and support for all of us. He learned us to value fairness.
They still make these! I have one lying around somewhere, I'll see if I can find it and share an image.
Ah, my bad! I was a bit focused on "Pinterest style" and shared the first thing that came to mind.
About time! MSVC is usually behind the curve, but I used OpenMP in Visual Studio as early as 2008.
Hello and Thanks for reaching out to the Dev and Operations community. I am a devops engineer who is very familiar with Amazon AWS, Backspace Cloud and Google Compute Engine. Is there a way that we can get free trials of Amazon azure. AWS provides you with free credits for a year to run a few services and try their APIs and also try their services. This has been useful because it allowed me to learn about their products without having to pay for them. Then I have been able to use my knowledge and promote AWS service at companies I have worked and pay for AWS.

Is there such a resource with Microsoft Azure?

Thanks
I don't know about anyone else, but my thinking is either I buy it pre-order and get it as early as anyone gets it, or I don't think about it until it 'ships within 24 hours' (or I can walk into the store and buy one). Therefore, I would completely expect there to be low demand right now. At least if other people behave like I do.

I didn't pre-order the Apple Watch because a watch (which I haven't worn regularly in decades), doesn't carry nearly the impact (that I can see yet) of a new touch phone that solves huge frustrations with existing phones, or a tablet the finally fulfills the promise of digital books and magazines from the 90s.

Perhaps it's missing the killer app that would help me 'get it'. I guess that means I need to workout more?
MassChallenge growing into influential force for global entrepreneurship
Honestly, I kinda feel sorry for Apple. Multiple Google Wear watches with better designs and what seems to be more supporting apps came out before the Apple Watch, just completely spoiling their party.

Since Google Wear seems to be the better platform, and I don't own any iOS devices anyhow[1], I wonder when I'm going to start seeing decent <$150 watches that have 2-3 day battery life and use, say, color eInk to get that battery life.

[1]: Compare my Nexus 5 vs the iPhone 5S (which both came out around the same time), my Nexus 5 has more CPU power, more RAM, faster RAM, faster flash in both IOPS and flat out sequential, a higher res and bigger screen, more brightness, better contrast, better performance (in speed/distance, latency, and energy usage while active and idle) with Bluetooth, WiFi, and Cell, and also will be supported for OS updates much longer by Google than the iPhone will by Apple, and the Nexus 5 has NFC while the iPhone 5S doesn't; and the price comparison of the 32GB model of both, the Nexus 5 was somewhere around $200 cheaper.

Now, compare vs the iPhone 6 that came out about a year later: CPU is about the same, I still have more RAM but about the same speed, flash caught up, screen is same size but Nexus 5 is still higher res, brightness and contrast are about the same, Wifi, Bluetooth, Cell performance is about the same, iPhone finally got NFC, but it still suffers from a much shorter support track for iOS updates, and it still cost a lot more.

So yeah, given all of that, I still don't understand why Apple refuses to compete with Android phones.

Edit: Downvoting me to Apple fanboy is not the correct reaction. Google, LG, HTC, Samsung, etc need Apple to compete with them, and vice versa.

I'm afraid phones will stop getting better if Apple keeps going down the path they're on.
This line stands out to me:

> Income is not something that employers or the government ration out to you based on a rigged system. It is a something you generate yourself. It is the byproduct of your hard work, combined with learning and mastering the system itself. Even the system itself is subject to your control if you choose.

It's easy to interpret this as a positive statement about the way things simply are, but I don't think the author quite intends it that way. When pressed, he might say it is a positive statement, but the clearly intended ethical significance of the statement—the fact that it has deep consequences for the way his son should act—suggests we can look deeper.

Specifically, it's important to understand the normative dimension of the statement: that when "income is not something that employers or the government ration out to you based on a rigged system", that is a good thing. And most importantly, it's possible for things not to be that way—whether because the laws or government of your country are not set up the right way, or because you yourself have the wrong attitude about your work.

The attitude interpretation is probably what the piece is focusing on (and what most readers will take away), because obviously the author can't teach his son to solve problems outside of his control. But the author is thinking about systems too.

When he says "the system itself is subject to your control if you choose" it's clear that there are plenty of systems where this is not the case, where the system is so huge or arbitary or irrational that "learning and mastering" it is not possible. Examples might include oppressive dictatorships, bloated bureaucracies, or sweatshops (especially to a child).

------------

The point I'm trying to make is that we have a responsibility not just for our own attitudes and actions, but also to shape our world in such a way that it is possible for the right attitude to pay off.

Edit: the author's point about how the son's savings account enables him to be generous is a great example of this. This is called "moral luck" by philosophers--the idea that certain conditions need to obtain before a person can be virtuous. The idea goes back all the way to Aristotle.
Sure - I'm (perhaps predictably) brendanp at microsoft. I'd be happy to talk more.

thanks!
I always over time consider options, Microsoft doesn't have Gates running it any more so maybe they really are turning over a new leaf. It was heavy on my mind this week and lead to the question, not making any hasty moves.
Maybe he's self-selecting for sociopaths/people who are good at telling him what he want's to hear? I've always wondered about an organization consisting of psychopaths. You disguise it as a consulting firm, at which point it severely cripples the target company as they infiltrate and demoralize. Then the evil mastermind covers his short positions/options. Seems like it could make for a good book or movie anyway.
Clickbait on HN. Great.

tl;dr "The biggest lie is that the employment relationship is like family," Hoffman says.
Ansible has plenty of cloud modules for AWS. you can describe your whole AWS environment from VPC , Security Groups, Routing tables, etc. You might not be able to find everything but you can also use the AWS Cli to handle IAM roles and user permissions. You have to use a mix of both Ansible and plain AWS Cli to achieve your goal.
He's not breast-beating, just making a clear, compelling, well argued and well illustrated case...

Or, you're right, it might well be my thing :-P
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No problem. I saw that post a few months back and thought "wow, finally!!" but once I implemented it I realized it wouldn't work. Unfortunately going from vertical to horizontal requires fixed height flex elements.
> It does not amount to that.

Assuming no relevant facts were omitted from the description of events, it does, in the context of the question it was offered in response to.

> In many, many, cases people start looking for jobs wishing they could stay at their current job.

Sure, they do. But the answer to the question "Where do you want to be in your career?" in those cases would focus on the things that they wanted to enable themselves to stay in and love the job with their current employer, not the fact that they are looking for outside opportunities (the latter might be mentioned in the context of specific desires and the fact that certain outside opportunities seemed to be the only way to realize them, but even then the looking for outside opportunities would be secondary to the main answer about desired job features, not the main answer to the question.)
I'm glad to see MMM here on hacker news!
The Inside Story of How the iPhone Crippled BlackBerry
Example of Using JWTs as API Keys
I appreciate that the voting keeps the conversation from devolving into a competition for laughs. But, sometimes it seems that HN has no sense of humor whatsoever.
The "killer app" is leaving your phone in your pocket or purse.

And then there's a "better than sum of parts" thing going on.

No longer wearing my Pebble Steel which had that "phone in pocket" killer app and week long battery, because the Apple Watch support for Microsoft Exchange Calendaring is so phenomenal.
"is the language named after some design philosophy that it is supposed to embody"

They stole it from a previous language and then swiftly forged the wiki:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swift_(parallel_scripting_langu...
http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64/benchmark.php?te...

The results for MRI and CPython are similar. I hate to sound harsh, but what's the point of incrementally optimizing perl, MRI, or CPython when the result is still going to be an order of magnitude slower than SBCL, LuaJit, V8, or CogVM? In fact, I suspect enough person hours have already gone into optimizing these C runtimes that had they known better when they started, they could have already had something like SBCL by now.

Performance matters. By simply changing your language to one with a modern implementation, you can save considerable money on hardware. The argument that Perl/Ruby/Python are so much more expressive/powerful/whatever and therefore are worth the added cost is much less compelling when there are other, comparably dynamic languages like JavaScript with implementations that are much, much faster.
Replicating SF's product portfolio won't get you their customers or (perhaps more importantly) their sales team and culture of sales.
Everything Sounds the Same When You’re Depressed
It's counting the founder's salary as profit. In these small businesses? founders usually have to do a good bit of work. what do they say? you are buying yourself a job?

if you're making 33.3% of $50k-$500K per year... the very top end of that is close to what you'd get working for someone else, and usually you don't have to put down a half million to get those jobs.

So, while I don't think I'd sell you my company for 3x SDC, I completely don't blame you for wanting to pay less than that. It'd really only make sense if you were sure that I had things setup to the point where I didn't have to do any work (which is something I can deceive myself about... I don't see how you could get a solid answer out of someone who had an interest in deceiving you.)
Yep, if you were the kind who buys before you can have it, you probably bought day one. Social sites like are didn't show people watching the projected ship times and waiting to order till they feel like they know when they'll get it. That's not yet.
Their entire ads platform is in the "enterprise space".
iCracked (YC W12) Is Hiring UX Designers and More
Are we overrunning the server? Seems like it's gotten slow.

At first indication the #s seem pretty accurate for where I've worked, though they only capture base salary. (No bonus, equity, etc)
"Python-based scripting language, designed to make games."

:(
If your kid asks for something, don't just tell them it's too expensive. If you don't want them to have it find some good reason, but not always "it's too expensive". The kid will get a distorted idea of the value of things.

A few years ago I finally figured out that the reason my mother always says things are too expensive is that her father committed suicide when she was just seven years old.
I know people hate Ballmer, but who would you rather have at your side of the negotiating table, humble Nadella or bulldog Ballmer?
According to this, I've been depressed my entire life, ever since I was born.

This is depressing.
It was introduced as part of the Intel transition, prior to public release.

Internally, Mac OS X ran on commodity PCs for quite some time before that and didn't include DSMOS.
You may be thinking of references from HR. Those won't tell you anything insightful about the candidate. But if I know someone I trust who has worked with the candidate and can give me a strong recommendation, that's a huge factor in my decision.

In other words, my ex-coworkers's co-workers make for a great filter.
Your parent did not describe promotions-as-reward-for-loyalty.

Merit/track-record is a key metric, but not the only requirement. Interpersonal skills, future plans (loyalty, career track, etc), attitude, potential...
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This information is all publicly available already. Nothing new other than the interface.
Mr. Money Mustache really helped me with life as I ran my startups, because he taught me that I could live a great life with almost no money. Therefore, even if I failed, life could be great. This simple bit of wisdom massively reduced my anxiety, once I internalized it.
I love his blog because he not just tries to educate people about personal finance or money as an end to itself but about money with a purpose.

An attitude like his can almost be considered subversive today. If it wasn't for 'keeping up with the Joneses' the world could be a much better place and more people could live the lives they actually want to live.
Firefox is not a "they" it is an "it." As a computer program, it has no obligation to Mozilla to make them money.
Here's the actual document https://www.federalregister.gov/articles/2015/05/20/2015-116...
>The going rate for a SaaS business is roughly 3X yearly SDC ("seller discretionary cashflow" -- revenue minus costs required to run the business as opposed to e.g. the owner's salary, distributions, interest expense, etc).

Fascinating. I just messed around in Excel to see what the DCF discount rate would be, and it's exactly 25% discount to get to the 3x number.
I'd agree with that except the part about mentioning Slack compatibility. I wouldn't mention Slack at all without their permission.

Since the OP says that this is for another project, they might get not only a C&D for the chat code, but the original project might be infringing as well. Even if it's not actually infringing, it might result in some legal fees.
I like your post. Good balance against MMM, and one that matches what I've seen of my friends from immigrant families.

Granted, those who survive to adulthood from that kind of pressure seem to be extremely successful go-getters. But I also know of my peers who instead felt isolated from their "Tiger" parents, and instead ran away from home and never looked back (until their bank accounts ran dry).

The extreme pressures of the "Tiger Immigrant Parents" can be unhealthy. But as long as the pressure is done in moderation, it seems to lead to a number of "elites" who do well in school, get great jobs or become community leaders.

One day, I guess I'll have to make that decision on what kind of Father I will be for my child. For now though, I'll take advantage of the stress-free bachelor life (and at worst, deal with the responsibilities of being an uncle)
This site redirects to a malware site called "securesignupoffers". It only appears to do so if your User-Agent looks like a browser, and a quick search suggests that that site attempts to exploit your browser.

It's a server-side redirect, not a script redirect, and searches suggest that it's commonly installed on exploited servers via web server configuration. If the person running the site sees this: check your .htaccess and other web server configuration, and see if your server has been compromised. (Check your browser too.) Might also be a problem with the hosting provider.

Meanwhile, could the submitter or an HN admin please take some steps to prevent exploits of HN readers, such as changing the URL to something innocuous (such as example.org) and posting the original URL in a comment?
Made this in less than a week :) full time tho
Argos: Fast Cash (Doc about HTF in Europe)
Looks great, like an OS version of http://apiary.io
In the context of the original post and your original response, I can agree with that statement. I'm thinking of situations where I don't agree in general... but I don't think it'd be useful to bring them up.

+1
Elon Musk founds a school for his 5 children
Ask HN: Suggestions for improving current sentiment analysis algorithms?
Hello everyone,

My group is working on our thesis project for Hack Reactor, and one major aspect of our project is exploring and trying to improve upon sentiment analysis, in our case specifically for tweets.

Of course, natural language processing is something with decades of research behind it, so expecting to make something truly new and better is relatively unlikely. Nevertheless, our goal is to do what we can, build something we can be proud of, and build something that could be at least of some value to someone.

Our approach to sentiment analysis currently utilizes the concept of "layers." It seems that the sentiment analysis libraries we have found so far merely find out whether certain words are likely to be positive or negative in sentiment. Of course, this algorithm stops working as soon as language becomes even remotely complex or interesting.

One of our "layers" that seems to work especially for tweets is an "emoticon layer," where we identify emojis used in tweets to help in sentiment analysis.

Other potential ideas for "layers" are a "negation" layer or a "movies" layer that identifies movie keywords.

Our project is completely open source, and we'd love to open up to suggestions and contributions from the Hacker News community. This is our first week (out of about three) of working on this project, so it is still very much in an infant stage. We're all relatively new to coding, so we're just trying to figure things out as we go.

If you are interested, here are the relevant links to our project:

Deployed website (has inputs for various kinds of searches, and returns our current, very basic, sentiment analysis results) - http://crowdparser.azurewebsites.net/

sentimentjs NPM package - https://github.com/crowd-parser/sentimentjs

web app repo - https://github.com/crowd-parser/crowd-parser

We'd love to hear your thoughts and suggestions, and thanks in advance!
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Yeah but it's a different sort of "enterprise space". They do a bit of "big data", a little of infrastructure (much-neglected Apps, which are mostly oriented to SMEs anyway) and ads.

They don't sell a reporting package (i.e. THE enterprise tool), payroll, ERP, OLAP, consolidation tools... none of that. That's the real big-corp "enterprise" stuff, and they don't seem particularly interested in entering that space.
>And now he wants both workers and employers to begin having honest conversations with each other — conversations that admit employment isn't for life, that loyalty only lasts so long as it coincides with self-interest, and that the relationship doesn't have to end when the worker leaves.

I read this and immediately thought of McKinsey as the best company that manages the relationship between the firm and the individual throughout the latter's professional career.
You shouldn't be comparing Perl and the rest with C, but Perl with other dynamic languages that have modern implementations like Lua, Lisp, or JavaScript.
I love that I have been able to send in a few things to get repaired over the years. They encourage it and make it so easy to do. I have memories connected to that stuff - being in the Weminuche Wilderness above the tree line and my down jacket making the difference between a somewhat uncomfortable night and total misery. Their stuff is made well and has been good to me.
About in the way you would expect. In general, demonstrable recent growth tends to bias valuations upwards. Remarkably worse churn than average tends to bias valuations downwards. Remarkably better churn than average tends to bias them upwards.
I JUST came across this press release from CCFA and it turns out this project is headed by my GI doc... is your study associated with this IBD Plexus program?

http://www.ccfa.org/news/ccfa-launches-IBD-Plexus.html
Noted. It's a placeholder, and will likely not survive the launch of our first game in its present incarnation.