skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can explicitly add it as an extension from the Chrome Store.
(I actually did this, because I like the manager/link sharing functionality... even though it means putting up with the awful bookmark-adding dialogue).
This is one of the most fascinating talks I've seen in a while. Thanks lispm.
They also don't get a real market price for their shares.
I know this isn't how it works but I'd love to see 1) free private repos (like Bitbucket) and 2) Mercurial support (like Bitbucket).
What font is being used in the deck?
Name names please. Perhaps it's naive, but I imagine that if we have a specific instance to work with we're much more likely to be able to force change.
I see it as the cost of forming a startup is much lower now so they can stay private longer.

I don't think that is true. Sales and marketing is still very expensive. SaaS needs a lot more cash investment than traditional software, since you are only making the money back gradually. Many of these unicorn software companies are raising a half dozen rounds.

Also, the easier it becomes to write software the for the internet, the more a startup has to do. Yahoo! could get to a breakout stage just by having an HTML page full of links. That's not going to cut it these days. So I'm not sure overall if starting a company is much cheaper, even at the early stage.
I hate how people implicitly demand counter-points when others express their hatred regarding Steve Jobs being commonly referenced as an example of walking to be creative.
You keep saying "many", despite being asked to back it up with something better than anecdote.

I talk to plenty of people with a clinical diagnosis of depression (of all severities - some use self guided CBT from a computer; some use face to face CBT; some people were detained against their will in hospital; one or two even had ECT.) If we're trading anecdotes most of these people did not have situational depression.
The irony here is that they don't need to as publishers could get opted in to a class action suit.
If your password for foo.com is foo-hunter2-XYZ and your password for bar.com is bar-hunter2-XYZ, you've got problems.
We don't have to read tea leaves about what Schneier does or doesn't think, because the engineering issue here is straightforward. Ferguson wrote a paper about the CBC+diffuser construction, and what it's goals were. On a previous thread, 'pbsd even pointed out that the performance issues made sense: the CBC+diffuser construction couldn't easily benefit from hardware AES instructions, which harmed performance.
1/14th of the entire world used whatsapp.
League of Legends is not a great example IMO. That game has a huge grindwall. Gaining access to just the gameplay-affecting elements of the game — not even looking at the cosmetic items — would cost hundreds and hundreds of dollars and take huge amounts of play time on top of that.
I don't know. There are some things, like veggie "burgers", that just leave me more hungry after I've eaten it.
A fair point, if you have modular construction with redundancy you can replace "factory parts" that break/rust/fail. I wonder what the repair process looks like for a bridge or other structure that's "printed out of the box" (on site).
But why would you put your IP on another company's servers? I guess if the value of your company was something other than your code then it would make sense.
>In return

In return for what? I've read your post several times now and it's unclear what you are referring to.
GCC and clang have __attribute__((always_inline)). VC++ has __forceinline. All of these will always inline unless it hits a recursive call. They do not attempt to avoid code bloat from the programmer telling it to do stupid things.
You might take a look at Field Notes ( http://fieldnotesbrand.com ); they have a few different options.
Jackass of the Week: Christopher Mims
pretty good writeup. Learning nohup was a life changing experience for me.
I use smartling at work. There are a host of similar services out there
somewhat related - excerpt from Cryptonomicon -
The percussionist stands up. "Every radio operator has a distinctive style of keying—we call it his fist. With a bit of practice, our Y Service people can recognize different German operators by their fists—we can tell when one of them has been transferred to a different unit, for example."

and this article by Schneier - Identifying People By Their Writing Style - https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2011/08/identifying_p...
There is a ton of application code out there. Not super secret IP involving a secret new method to compress audio.

It's mostly CRUD applications with some business logic mixed in.

Nobody is trying to steal your CRUD code.

Edit: just to clarify. I don't mean your crud code specifically. Just crud code in general. Maybe you specifically have some super amazing IP to guard.
Even better - this works with compressed favicons.

Take http://pastie.org/10242118 and create yourself a favicon file:

dd if=/dev/zero of=favicon.png bs=1M count=4096

gzip -9 favicon.png

you can now crash lots of browsers with minimal bandwidth usage :)

demo: http://dev.tomjepp.uk/
That ship sailed about a decode ago.

And I know you probably think IP/code is a company's most valuable asset but for most companies that's not even close. A company's most valuable asset is how it goes about delighting customers.
Why not just use Dillo? It's around since forever and it renders web pages vitrually before you strike enter. Description seems to match Dillo exactly.
Sure. But the author of the article invoked the Constitution.

I find it annoying when the Constitution is invoked as a shield in lieu of a substantive argument.
Website Listing Entry Level Positions Only?
Entry level, New Graduate, Junior... it's hard to search for these kind of positions, especially in tech centric areas. Just wondering if anybody is trying to intelligently aggregate them.
Which is why I wrote, "While not quite the same".
Sure. Many companies use Gmail, for example.

The risk/reward payoff is different for every company, and there are many who will outsource the hosting of much of their IP because the alternative is often a hindrance to companies who want to ship their core product.
I'd think there are probably <1% of software developers in the world compared to whatsapp users (or even Facebook.) Just so many people with the interest and training to be programmers at this time. The question would be how much each makes in revenue for a customer.
That's a good example, thanks. It looks like he still has a job with the school district and he's not hiding.

The job of high school principal is one, also, where I think there should be space for someone's private opinions to qualify or disqualify them for the job, just because of the enormous trust and power we place in them. I'm not sure what I think about these comments, but in general I think it's fine for us to be more cautious with schoolteachers. Especially because he currently has a job with the same school district on "administrative duties", I expect that if he expressed the same opinions as a back-office employee with the district, or in many other individual-contributor careers that do not involve management or oversight, he would have been fine.

I'm curious how we can measure that it's getting worse. In 2003, this teacher was fired after sending an e-mail (we had no Facebook back then) with certain distasteful remarks about race, and claimed to be a "victim of political correctness":

https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1696&dat=20030308&id=...

In 1995, this teacher was fired for making a single, though completely unacceptable, comment to some students with racial slurs:

https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2519&dat=19950130&id=...
Your link supports the assertion that systemd doesn't play well with the community -- Linus goes on to say:

It does become a problem when you have a system service developer [Kay] who
thinks the universe revolves around him, and nobody else matters, and
people sending him bug-reports are annoyances that should be ignored
rather than acknowledged and fixed. At that point, it's a problem.
> I didn't grasp anything new or enlightening

Repeating the "obvious" is very important. There is a constant fight against entropy, miscommunication and attrition of experience in any team, and things like these add up in a huge way. The more years I spend in the field, the more I realize the need to "over-compensate" affirming and syncing up on stuff like this.

And aggregating stuff like this into a list is tougher than it seems. This is one of the most balanced values summaries I've seen (for my subjective taste!) - not being too vague, but also not "hard-coding" specific methodologies or buzzwords.
Focus, dedication, specialization, experience, and superior choice of technology.
When Andreesen talks about "tech funding", what do they mean by this?

A lot of VC funding that used to go to "tech" companies is now going into much less profitable types of businesses that should not be considered "tech". Businesses that most VC's don't really have a lot of experience with.

For example, their investments in Soylent, Walker and Co, Dollar Shave Club. It is REALLY hard to make money in these types of businesses when compared to software. They could be in for a rude awakening...
> In what world are you owed a Silicon Valley salary? Only at a Silicon Valley company, and even then only if you signed the piece of paper that offered it.

In a world where you are highly sure of getting what you paid for.
You don't seem to complain about Govt paying 800million for stuff that
does not work, but about people getting paid what they would elsewhere.
That does't sound simple, because I'm not going to remember the site specific password requirements for each of the 250 logins I have within my password manager.
Github Enterprise[1] is a bundled on-premises offering (virtual machine you host yourself). Atlassian has a somewhat similar offering named Stash[2] (I am not particularly a fan of Stash personally though).

[1]: https://enterprise.github.com/home

[2]: https://www.atlassian.com/software/stash/
In return for forking over the vast majority of their income. It doesn't just vanish (well, except for credit card interest...that does just vanish). The "vortex" that the grandparent's referring to is the money that customers are shelling out for services, which then becomes a tech company's revenue. But in return for shelling out that money, they get mobile phones, cloud storage, a place to stay in every city, on-demand transportation, access to service professionals, a second income stream, exposure for their business, and many other things of value.
Facebook revenue grew 8000% from 2007 to 2014. Clearly not all "unicorns" will perform this well. And maybe none will. But possibly they avoided discussion of these companies' P/E because the data is both unavailable and unreliable given their size?

It's not just a canard that these companies are "not focusing on revenue".
It is proof that building a proprietary business around open source is profitable.

It is not proof however that being full on open source in everything you do is profitable however I wished that to be the case.
Good point. I wonder what the numbers are on how this affects the returns for employees.
Wouldn't the use of named parameters solve the confusion aspect that's cited as the reason to not use boolean parameters? Not that the use of enums or distinct function wrappers is a bad approach (it's probably more elegant), but the hash approach does eliminate quite a bit of ambiguity.

With languages that include full pattern matching support and atom/symbol literals (like Erlang and friends, for example, and like most other functional languages IIRC), you could alternately match on a particular symbol instead of relying on a boolean flag.
^^on-premise^^ means they give you a VM and you run it on your servers.
That's not what extortion is.
This makes a 4GB file when decompressed and is plenty large enough to crash a 32-bit browser. You may need a larger file to reliably crash 64-bit browsers.
The question is, do you need to handle UTF-8? In most cases of sever management having LATIN1 would suffice, or appropriate localized 8-byte encoding.

You can apply the same argument to any other obscure encoding scheme, not just UTF-8. The answer is really to pick the encoding which will suite the most usecases and won't be painful to use.
So you need a bit more time to run it through Mechanical Turk to check for porny scenes and perhaps spoilers. I'm not sure why this is a hard problem.

But perhaps I'm tainted because I find Netflix to be annoying, on the whole. Crappy playback options, iffy streaming of HD (even when torrents have no trouble), inconsistent audio and subtitles, and an atrocious recommendation system that seems aimed at wasting my time than recommending good content. More and more I find myself using Popcorn Time, even if the content is on Netflix.
> super secret IP involving a secret new method to compress audio

Pied Piper?
Thanks again, Christian.
Rockstor 3.8-0 now available with Syncthing,Transmission,BTSync,Plex,and more
I don't agree. Lots of startups don't have sales and marketing in the early stages. The grow through word of mouth or iterate/pivot to find something that becomes a hit. Somebody like Yahoo would need to buy and maintain a lot of servers to scale up but now with cloud computing, you can grow quite a bit with Amazon AWS until you implement your own infrastructure.
> it's an overly broad definition if you classify political action as speech.

The Constitutional protections in the first amendment of free speech, press, assembly, and petition are all largely motivated by the desire to protect political action, because restrictions on any of those things inhibit political action.

Its an overly restrictive definition of speech that excludes political action.
Speculation is based on logic.
But if your password for foo.com is 10,000 rounds of PBKDF2-SHA256(foo-hunter2-XYZ) and so on, this is extremely effective.
The FED doesn't have to play by the rules. They are above the law. NOTHING will ever come of this until we audit then END THE FED. We don't need a private secret bank controlling our money.
I don't understand why McDonald's is valued at $100b. Personally, I don't eat hamburgers, so they get no money from me. After all, it's irresponsible to eat junk food. So I have to ask, do they even have revenue at all? How are they still in existence?
I think you might find http://webtask.io interesting for similar use-cases where the full spectrum of http methods are supported.

The premise is a sort of RPC service running arbitrary javascript code within the life-cycle of a request. The huge benefit here is the ability to securely expose secrets to webtask code, allowing you to do things like connect to a database, stripe, 3rd parti api, etc.

Let me know if you have any questions on this model.
Well that e-mail is not a contract... They don't have the brightest bulbs working for them.
I tried out lambda to handle backend requests with a go executable. For a trivial request/response it took 100-300 ms for the first request and 3-100 ms for subsequent requests. Using better hardware tended to help with the subsequent requests but there was still a lot of variance.

This is too slow and has too much variance for my purposes, which is to respond to user events. Even if I added an optimization of having a go process which lives through multiple lambda calls, the first request latency sucks. (And I haven't verified that the optimization would work - unfortunately you can't use sockets which would make it simpler).

TL;DR: pls support go (with consistent performance)
I tried a system like this for a while, but it became too complicated to keep track of. How to classify a website? What happens when one site gets hacked? Etc...
probably not exactly what you're looking for, but better than a stick in the eye

http://www.jobdensity.com/QueryGrid.aspx?q=886&t=junior%20so...
I haven't been on-the-grid much lately for a couple of reasons:

* Doing a lot more meatspace stuff (guitar, bass, photography, etc).
* Getting ready to move to Iceland to go back to grad school in the fall.

Once things calm down with the move I'll likely be writing/coding publicly a lot more again.
> Quite literally what a syllabus is for, so I imagine the former rather than the latter. If it were the latter - they already have the syllabus so what's the problem?

A syllabus covers high-level topics/concepts, not specific types of content students would like warning about, so I can definitely see room for a policy about adding something like "involves discussion of sexual assault" next to "students will read and discuss works of fiction about life in the Southern states during Reconstruction", if you're reading The Sound and The Fury. (It's been a while since I read that book, please don't take this as a claim that the book needs a trigger warning.) If there are multiple choices of classes to fulfill a literature requirement, students could just choose to take a class without such a content warning -- they already have that choice of class.

But, you're imagining and I'm imagining. It'd be nice if we had some actual journalism here to answer that question!
The Getting Better Moment
> Freedom of association doesn't enter into it. It was mob justice, and her employer caved.

Her employers freedom of association does enter into it.

> Do you think that what happened to Justine Sacco was "good" or "fine".

There are lots of exercises of people's freedom of speech and association that I don't find "fine" or "good". And, yes, in many cases that includes exercising freedom of speech to campaign for adverse employment consequences for someone on spurious grounds (whether based on speech or otherwise), or exercising freedom of association to accede to such demands.

OTOH, the problem is not a simple free speech issue, even when the mob reaction is reaction to a speech act -- freedom of speech is involved on both sides.
>But why would you put your IP on another company's servers?

Not sure I understand this. Isn't uploading your code to an AWS box "putting your IP on another company's servers"?

Unless you host your own email, servers, chat, storage and backups, you are putting your IP on another company's servers.
For my Chromebook, I use a chrome app called Browsepass. It's still pretty rough, but it at least lets me open the KeePass database:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/browsepass/pihdapf...
IPO's are dead and so are options.
Re-emergence of moderate iodine deficiency in developed countries: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/05/130522131000.ht...

In New Zealand the emergence of moderate iodine deficiency resulted in a mandate of adding iodized salt to bread: http://www.health.govt.nz/our-work/preventative-health-welln...

The reasons for the deficiency look a lot like the US:

"The re-emergence in iodine deficiency appears to be due to:

* the increased consumption of commercially-prepared foods (manufactured mostly with non-iodised salt)

* the declining use of iodine-containing sanitizers by the dairy industry

* less salt being used in home prepared foods as a response to the health messages to reduce salt intake"
You are standing on one side of the fault and you move 10 ft north. Your pylon is standing on the other side of the fault and it moves 10 ft south. The total relative movement is 20 ft. If the assumption is that all of the relative movement is accommodated at one pylon then the pylon must be able to move 20 ft in a single direction. If the direction of the fault offset is unknown then the pylon must be able to move 20 ft in all directions for a total distance of 40 ft. We appear to be talking past each other here.

My response is not an appeal to authority - I'm not saying "it's true because I'm an engineer". I walk you through the entire logical process, so you're free to agree or disagree with any of my arguments.

This conversation clearly isn't going anywhere so I will just reiterate my point and leave it at that: an above-grade structure will perform no better than a below-grade structure if the fault deformation occurs at the location where the fault crosses the alignment. This "potentially impossible problem" is a problem for both surface and underground structures and cannot be designed around from the structural side for the magnitude of displacement that can potentially occur in CA and, in the end, it is just a risk that has to be accepted or designed around from the systems standpoint. This is alluded to in your own linked documents and noted by the the statement:

"It is also likely that in the event of a severe earthquake, Hyperloop capsules would be remotely commanded to actuate their mechanical emergency braking systems."

I guess to answer your question: I'd probably believe me.

Have a nice day.
He never said it was. It could be something like <Base Password><Third letter of URL><Fifth letter of slogan> etc.

Just because it's predictable to him does not mean it's predictable to all. There are ways of keeping predictability while still obscuring it from everyone else.
> So... what makes them valued at 2B? Do they have any
> revenue at all? Maybe they can hook up with linkedin?

It has been speculated[1] that certain companies/endeavors derive some part of their value from the fact that VC firms and other investors view them as a "force multiplier" for _other_ startups. They have some amount of value simply as being an integral part of the overall software/startup ecosystem, and investors may want to keep a good things going. Further, investors may desire to keep Github from being acquired by some larger company with a different agenda. Investing at a high valuation may result in a lower likelihood of an acquisition.

Certainly Github would qualify, if that is the case.

[1]: http://words.steveklabnik.com/is-npm-worth-26mm
Using C locale is useful when processing very large data files in a shell, e.g. on a server. For example, uniquing or set difference will work many times faster (and doesn't require the slow/fancy collation calculations). But yes, it's a good point, of course it shouldn't be used on your desktop globally or apps will break. I'll clarify that.
2B/9 Million Users = $222 per user

2B/21 Million Repos = $95 per repo

obviously they're not pulling in that kinda cash, but I'd love to see enterprise pricing.
Is a16z focused on the seed stage now? That seems to be what they are selling in these slides.
McDonalds has a huge amount of revenue! Are you kidding us?
Note that they use the valuations of public companies to argue that the market isn't overvalued, then spend 90% of the presentation arguing that all of the value is being "created" in the private markets, and that IPOs are dead.

Moreover, they're basically arguing that it's logical for investors to pile into these late-stage deals, because waiting around for IPO is a losing strategy.

If you believe this data, it doesn't tell you that there isn't a bubble. It says that if there is a bubble here, it's mostly happening off the books, and depends on the huge public exits of a handful of mythical creatures.

Also, slide 38 is an argument for the "No Exit" way of looking at startups: we've got a boom in low-cost, early-stage deals (2x growth since 2009), coupled with an ever-more-ruthless culling of the herd, where most of the aggregate funding goes into fewer (<20) hot deals than ever. Investors are taking a cheap call option on your youth.
Sorry for the poor phrasing. Decreasing salt intake is a healthy thing to do these days, which will likely also decrease one's iodine intake.
Even worse than that, sometimes people get fired for political donations. Mozilla CEO Brendan Eich was "pressured to resign" (fired) for supporting Prop 8. You don't even have to say unpopular beliefs, you just have to hold them privately until someone uncovers them through digging through your records.