skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the difference between the dot-com boom and today is that back in the '90s, companies that were essentially speculative ideas with no proven market were receiving high valuations, whereas today companies that are targeting a proven market are receiving high valuations because they need to raise (and spend) a lot of money in order to successfully penetrate the market and grow quickly enough to achieve the economies of scale they need to compete effectively.

Marc Lore's a good bet for this particular market. He's already built a successful e-commerce company from scratch and sold it to Amazon. It appears that his plan for Jet.com is to tailor prices for each individual shopper in real-time, effectively targeting a profit margin of 0%. People in the US are familiar with the Costco/Sam's Club retail model (i.e. where you pay a membership fee to access discounted prices), and real-time, personalised pricing is incredibly powerful. You get to price off an individually-defined demand curve for each customer, and if people get familiar/comfortable with discounts that are applied to a shopping basket, rather than individual items, you reduce the competitive impact of a low price advertised by your competitor.

Also, it looks like Jet.com plans to operate as a marketplace as well as a traditional e-commerce company: https://developer.jet.com/getting-started
"fuzzy" is a bit of an overstatement, all it does is match substrings with missing letters. If you type "orrange", it won't match. If you type "otange", it won't match. All it does is match the "oange" kind of typo (including "oe", which doesn't make any sense). This means that you'd get all kinds of weird suggestions that don't make sense as soon as your haystack has non-trivial size (like matching movie titles or artists), and might not find what you're looking for (no prioritization).
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This is the kind of link that makes me scratch my head when I see it on HN, because my preconceived notion of "hacker" includes "understands operating systems", in which case this knowledge is old hat (as he acknowledges). If you don't already know OS minutia, nothing written here is going to shed much insight.
First, think of what you will do if your client refuses to increase your rate. What is your BATNA? Are you prepared to walk away?

If, after rejection, you plan to continue with the client at the same rate, you will need to make sure the negotiation process does not sour the professional relationship moving forward. This means making sure that you're emotionally prepared to be rejected and also negotiate in a manner that does not come off as aggressive or manipulative.

The best way to ask for it is to highlight the clear benefits you have delivered already and to paint a vision of continued benefits moving forward and then ask for your new hourly rate. Ultimately it's as simple as that.

You will need to overcome objections be referring to the "market rate" and positioning yourself as referring to objective external standards.
I don't think it ever was a question of tools, but rather who is allowed to use those tools.
But forces the user to make more inputs and adds cognitive overhead. I think you'll find that many users would disagree with you.
>You simply can't bank across a border

In my experience that varies. I have bank accounts in the UK, US, and Spain and in terms of saving money and transferring it there's usually no problem. Where it is localised is borrowing money against property. If you want a mortgage against a Spanish flat you have to use a Spanish bank and so on. That kind of makes sense as if you run off and don't pay the mortgage then the bank is stuck with the property and it's easier to deal with one down the road where you know the laws and regulations than one in some random other country. Especially if evicting tenants and so on is involved, things get pretty complicated.
Hasn't this been covered through the Utilities, already? Most utilities here allow you to buy different plans, normal electricity, or electricity generated from renewable sources. At the end of the day it's just a 'accounting trick', as it's not like the green energy is being routed specifically to you, you get the same energy, most of it from a coal burning plant, but your payments are earmarked (in the accounting) to pay for existing or new green energy projects, and you hope they're audited such that this is actually true (as opposed to selling 15% of their electricity as 'green' when their green sources are only 5% and growing slowly).

And this isn't even any different from having your own solar, unless you're in a remote location unconnected to the grid and uninterested in interconnecting to the grid. Most people who have solar simply get two energy meters. One of your power being generated and going to the grid (not to your own home), and one of power from the grid going into your home. It's pretty rare that you actually use the energy that the panels on your roof generate. Which means that whether those panels are on your own roof, or on the other side of the planet, doesn't really make any difference as long as they cost the same and have the same sun conditions. Except of course for the fact your home rises in value with panels on them because panels are essentially a small currency printer that takes sunlight as its ink, which has value.

Which brings me to the weirdness of this project. People with roofs get free panels and some free electricity. And people without roofs have to pay for that, which is obviously going to be quite expensive. Residential solar is already 2x, almost 3x as expensive as industrial solar projects, plus solar is still more expensive than your utility in the first place, and then you have to pay for extra panels for someone else's energy bill, plus the panels you do pay for aren't owned by you and don't add value to your home, and of course the energy of the panels doesn't even go directly to you, or hell even directly to the person whose house's panels you're paying for. I don't see why this would be a better idea than buying solar credits, shares in an industrial solar farm or green energy from your utility. It sounds like a waste of money to me, magnifying the very concern that is keeping solar from taking over the energy market.

For example that's what vandebron.nl does here in the Netherlands. They essentially sell green energy credits (I call them credits not because it's not green energy, but because it's delivered to the grid in general, and not to them specifically) to consumers by facilitating the financial link between independent producers (e.g. a farmer who has a wind turbine and who can sell to 600 households) and the consumer.
Where can we read the confessions he's responding to?
Just look what Europe would be without the Euro. We had that before. West Germany had the Deutsche Mark (DM). It was basically the anchor currency for most European countries. Germany changed it monetary politics? Everybody tried to follow. It was like the Euro, just with different currencies and a pact to keep the exchange rates stable. Main difference: the monetary policy was made by the German Bundesbank and not the ECB. Though both are in Frankfurt/Germany, the ECB is an European institution.
Ask HN: Is it better to learn code by yourself or ask for help?
Suppose you've been working on a huge messy codebase for a few months. You don't know yet everything about how that code works.

You get a task to add/modify some functionality estimated for an hour. At first, you have no idea how to do it.

What would you do:

* Go through all of the code related to that functionality, learn by yourself what it does and how it works. In this case you spend a day maybe learning the code.

* Ask somebody to explain what you have to do in this task, how things related to that functionality work, what code you can reuse, what code you have to develop from scratch. In this case you spend 20 minutes talking to your colleague and about hour modifying the code in exact places your colleague told you
vimeo? youtube?
Amazon has an estimated 7~8% operating profit margin on its retail business [1] which is circa $6bn (on ~80bn revenue) - you could imagine an argument that suggested that competing with them is only possible given a consumer mind-share that's only available if you're practically the single destination for consumers. There are niches in which other retailers can flourish but that, if you want to gain that sort of wallet share, you need consumers to identify you as a place that anything can be bought at a price that makes it not worth shopping around, and that you can't grow into that role, because at any smaller scale, Amazon can (and has shown that it will) outcompete anyone with those ambitions. It's risky, and nobody would even consider it if capital wasn't extremely available at the moment, but if you genuinely believe that they could become a viable Amazon competitor in the retail space, then burning a few hundred million acquiring customers and making a name for yourself in the process doesn't seem so irresponsible.

[1] http://seekingalpha.com/article/3017856-amazons-profitable-r...
Your first sentence is as best only partially correct. You would have to include corruption by the prosecutors, who are the ones who file the charges.

In any case, you have attempted to distinguish between "behavior of police" and "problem with guns". This is impossible, as everything to do with police response is an issue with the "behavior of police", including their response to an often armed citizenry. You can only use your argument by begging the question, and assuming that these entangled issues are easily separated.

Your best example, which you say is "not long ago", is at 23 years old almost a generation ago. Your justification is even weaker than mine! You argue that an 'impromptu militia' has (occasionally) helped protect property during civil unrest and therefore must be preserved. Yes, and probably somewhere a pistol butt was used to break the window of a car and rescue a baby that was trapped inside, so we have to make sure everyone has a pistol handy during hot weather.

Your example with the Katrina response is equally tenuous. That appears to have been an illegal order by the local police, which then lied to the courts about their actions.

Census records were used to round up Japanese during WWII. Do we therefore stop taking a census? Police have also illegally misused driving license information and similar records (see http://www.copwatch.org/databaseabuse.html ). Do we therefore stop tracking those records? The answer to those rhetorical questions is "no". You haven't explained why this example of illegal police use of the records is meaningful, other than to say that no records should be kept, for fear of abuse.

But all of this is besides the point. You said "The reason we can't talk about gun control is because both sides have problems which neither side wants to address.", but I still say that your characterization of the two sides is 1) limited, because there are more than two sides, 2) incorrect, or at least highly selective about the issues, and 3) hasn't pointed out the issues that someone like me, who is for much more restrictive gun control, isn't willing to address.
I had a similar situation in which a coin I tossed managed to end up stuck in a small gap in the celling. I remember having to get up on a chair on top of a table (I must have been under 10 at the time) to get it out. Good times :)
Most systems developers are proficient with C. Code isn't going to be safer in language XYZ if developer isn't proficient with it, no matter how awesome XYZ is. This also ties into the legacy: there's a lot of code in C out there that you can't simply replace. Also keep in mind that most of the "safe" languages depend on runtime which isn't written in a safe language. So you're just pushing the problem somewhere else.

Even pretty bare metal languages like Rust aren't very well suited for OS development (yet) since they come with certain assumptions about memory subsystem. Which has to be implemented to be used. This is also true for C - there's some stuff in every C standard library that has to be written in asm, once for each supported platform.

So the bottom line is: there's always something underneath. You can get to a safer place by minimizing these pieces of "unsafe" code and writing code in something else above or, what OpenBSD does, you can abstract and isolate things away and use the tiniest possible solution for each problem and achieve safer environment by proper separation of concerns.
The Appendix he refers to is here:

http://science.ksc.nasa.gov/shuttle/missions/51-l/docs/roger...

You can see that he effectively summarized some major points of it in this TV interview using only simple story about the kid and the mother.
It's been a long time since I've built a computer myself, but back in the day the Intel chipsets weren't the only ones that could boot Intel processors unless I'm mistaken there were always 1 or 2 alternatives. Or is this not the case for laptop systems? And what about AMD, do they do the same thing?

http://shop.amd.com/en-us/business/notebook/20DE001RUS

They do have laptops with AMD chipsets.
Hack does not fix all the weird warts PHP has given us, there are far too many of those :)

It does give you some level of sanity (aka types). It also gives you tooling (autocompletion, ability to do basic code refactoring, etc.).
I liked it a lot. Would recommend to those interested in NASA or Feynman. Or fans of William Hurt.
9 Human Traits to Keep in Mind While Building Your Online Marketing Strategy
> Population growth is not a requirement for GDP growth. It also doesn't always help, plenty of countries have historically shown vast population growth with mediocre economic growth.

In developed countries most GDP growth is linked to population growth. See the US. Not taking into account that the US has an artificial inflated GDP.

> Their economy has increased several fold in that time

Long ago, different situation.

Besides that, the limits of using the GDP as a useful number have long been shown. The Iraq war with its trillion dollar cost helped the GDP a lot...
For military and the upper echelon of politicians these matters have very practical security implications.

If a leading general cheats on his wife, foreign security agencies know about it if they're doing a good job. Or they hired that mistress in the first place. Given that you wouldn't accept a cheating significant other in any culture, that can be seriously damaging to the country you work for.

It's not restricted to those jobs too. If two of the biggest companies you can think of compete for a contract, evidence a cheating CEO does not want to reach his wife could easily affect the outcome. That particular extra martial affair is no longer your own private matter, no matter how you try to frame it.
I think even Feynman would admit this is not the case, he had no simple way of explaining magnetism because it is inherently complicated.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MO0r930Sn_8
Sorry for the dealy, I submitted too many messages and was halted.

>>So Algeria, then. I must confess, I'm not really sure how to find Algerian news - is there even a free press there?

Have you tried Google? I think you'll most likely stumble on elwatan.com, liberte-algerie.com, lesoirdalgerie.com [in French].

As to whether there's free press or not.. By "free press", do you mean a country where journalists aren't harrassed by the Government, spied on, stopped in airports, have their laptops seized, etc?

Yeah, they mostly don't do that here. They're more vile than that: exerting pressure on advertisers not to advertise in certain news-papers to stress them financially. They rarely prosecute journalists, and when they do, other journalists write about it and the abuse.

I invite you to read our news-papers and make an opinion for yourself. An example would be and exchange between Le Monde and Liberté where they exchanged their cartoonists for a period of time (Plantu & Dilem). Plantu said Le Monde would never green light some of Dilem's cartoons that Liberté greenlighted because they're so politically incorrect (dark humor after tragedy, etc). Yes, he went to jail many times at one point. But he did them anyways and stayed. That's the price he paid for it to be normal.

There's also Le Matin's first man who was emprisoned after publishing a book where he talked about details on the private lives. He was sued for defamation and jailed.

It's not perfect, but we're making progress here. It's frustrating because it's not fast and I'd like the country to be much better. Same as everyone, I suppose.

Also, people here can go on forever about corruption, but don't care much what the politicians do with their lives. The newspapers don't publish names of people who aren't public figures who've done something bad not to embarrass their families. You don't have to pay for what your family members did. They'd just publish initials and age.

>I agree with you that the situation in America is ridiculous, but do you really think Algeria of all places is less sexually repressed and prurient?

That was the point. You expect more from people who have a lot.

When we look at the U.S. from here, it's amazing how a country that was born yesterday has done so much in so little time. This is something I'm actively trying to understand. This is why I study it, its structures and politics, how things work, etc.

I wouldn't be surprised to see a perfect country work. I'm more amazed when there's a big country with so much problems and brokenness somehow still manage to work! That is the the thing.

How can a system that has a lot of problems still manage to function and make the citizen's average quality of life above average.

Still learning.
I think it actually was. Central planning is a Bad Thing because Soviets did it and it went bad, so nowadays its inferiority is treated as an axiom. But back then optimization theory was just starting to develop and was never actually applied in practice, and we didn't have enough computing power, nor instant communication infrastructure. I think we should revisit the concept of central planning with algorithms doing global optimizations based on real-time signals.
Honestly, I don't see myself buying a smartwatch any time soon, but then again, I don't see myself buying a watch any time soon, period.

That said, it's obvious that the majority of watches sold will be smartwatches sooner or later. After all, if you've already made up your mind on having a watch - and yes, there are applications outside of fashion and jewelry - then why not get a smartwatch? Outside of the Apple bubble, the difference in price will be negligible.

There are two open questions in this context: First, will the Apple Watch come to dominate that market? Most likely, it will go the way of the smartphone market in the medium term: small number of units sold with comparatively high profits purely for brand reasons.

Second, will there be a land rush of application development comparable to when smartphones and tablets really came into their prime? Most likely not, or to a much lesser extent, for a combination of the reasons that you mentioned and that smartwatches will basically be appendixes to smartphones, where that land rush has already happened.
I think OP is missing the point. Browsers of today are taking over the space which Java tried to capture (remember "write once run everywhere" slogan?) but failed. They provide (mostly) unified development platform. But the catch is that unification comes as a direct result of the fact that they are meant to be something else. Any other unified platform faces an uphill battle while browsers are... just there. Are they perfect as a development platform? Hell no. But in absence of every other option, well... we take what we can get.
Because twitter needs to know you have visited the page.
What about receiving calls wherever you are?
The neutrino mixing angle Θ13 probably, written in latex :-)
Congrats, it looks good and translated well into English. A platform for independents to upload their event and take bookings would be good. These types of events attract a local market/patronage and so that's where your market is for each User (Independent). So in terms of business models you could open your platform for free to the User (independent theatre/event/act) to add their event and take bookings and they could in turn charge local restaurants, businesses etc to advertise through them to their local market; your platform takes a commission of the advertising revenue. Some functional outcomes your app should offer Users; 1) advertise their event and take bookings (done); 2) demonstrate to local businesses the demographics of audience they are attracting to their event (you can capture this on booking-no big deal) 3) provide simple digital marketing tools for the User to promote the event and their advertisers (off the shelf integrations are fine) and 3) collect advertising revenue from participating customers. How all this comes together is a considerable undertaking but you already have a working MVP you just need to work with Users (independents) and Customers (advertises/businesses) to get the product right for both and a businesses model that supports growth. Do that first before building any scale into your product. Good luck and congrats again.
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I wouldn't totally write off HTML5 drag and drop, if you want to interact with other apps and enable drag between window it's the only game in town https://github.com/stevendwood/html5-dropzone
Thanks! I was looking For possible use cases 😊
The images look great in landscape mode. But it's still an absolute crime to disable zoom.

Skype has the most egregious dropdown - country code with 200 menu items - when it would be so much easier to type the country code along with the number.
Does anybody can use sudo in a way that it adds additional but limited privileges to certain user groups securely? I'm sure it's used only for giving admin privileges to the admin group 99% of the time. If your OS needs a tool that allows users to run processes as another user then maybe your OS needs finer access controls instead.

And for the 99% use case I think a few lines long C code would suffice.
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"Our hypothesis is that it arises because finance tends to favour relatively low productivity industries as such industries usually own assets that are relatively easy to pledge as collateral."

My alternative hypothesis would be brain drain from production R&D into finances.
Word map should probably be world map.
I think he was. I understood this way too late after my studies.

Now when I am learning something I always try to explain it in my mind (or write it down) to imaginary 'student'. It's so effective it's amazing. It lets me catch many knowledge 'holes' in my new studied topic. Whereas I used to just read the material (multiple times) and imagine that I know it. If somebody does not know what I am talking about just try to explain some topic you recently.

P.S. AFAIK, teaching is the best way to study/learn new topics.
Amazon to invest $5bn more in India – to expand and launch Prime services
You are not seriously comparing $30 with $500?!

Besides there are zero features it offers besides a mobile phone.

If I what to show off how rich I might be I'll get myself a Rolex.
Why not support both methods? Chrome lets you type, or use a calendar picker (which itself has flaws, but at least they're trying ...)
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Memoization is a good use case for currying which I blogged about - https://taylodl.wordpress.com/2013/11/05/functional-javascri...
On the other hand, any list of "significant length" is best served by a dropdown.

None of the options he shows in the article works well there.