skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not a business, it never was worth even the IPO value. You are trying to make a business out of 140 character text messages which is pretty silly.
Hype is a thing that can turn against you quickly when you don't deliver exactly as promised or more. See 'the AI winter' for an example of that.
That might be the case. That's pretty much a definition of software development: 1) there is always a lot to do, in any code base 2) doing that for years, even if it's just improving the same code base, will give new challenges and experience.

If you don't have work to do and you aren't learning and progressing then you aren't doing software development, at least not properly.
> It's the wrong way to think about organization of logic.

This is not an objective statement, it is one of subjective preference, about which people (demonstrably, by the very existence of Ruby) disagree. The right way to think about organization of logic is not an objective fact, and...

> You can make it work, but it's just not good style

...neither is "style".
So if I understand correctly, essentially trying to better scale the model, and provide some nice dashboard for the company getting insight, but it's not so much a product as it is making the model a bit more approachable?
The best part about Google Reader was I could easily share articles with select friends and it would show up in their streams and comment on it. Feedly is pretty awesome but I miss that.
When supply of talent availability outweighs demand for the talent, wages go down or remain flat. McDonalds, Dairy Queen etc all have an abundance of high school aged kids to work the counter every year as an example of ample supply and relatively flat wages.

When demand for talent out paces the supply then wages should generally continue to rise until some equilibrium is established. Tech is on the rise side of this. A side affect is it has made it harder for small businesses to afford senior engineers. Many companies are also playing games primarily using foreign workers that essentially is manipulating supply which allows them to control wages.

There are of course other reasons an employer could be priced out of the market or unwilling to pay market wages of course. Maybe they just can't afford a senior engineer because their business isn't mature enough, it happens so they need to get creative. e.g. Use an outside firm or hire an individual who has less experience and hence has a lower cost.
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Similar to the reason why lawyers, doctors, architects and accountants don't have labor unions.

What about the American Bar Association, American Medical Association, and other similar groups? They're maybe more like guilds, but they also do a lot of lobbying on behalf of their profession, and provide group insurance and other services.
In chrome, I'm getting extremely similar times for the two approaches without caching (I am in-network, so my roundtrips are ~1ms). With the style.css fully cached, I'm getting ~15ms faster on the sideband approach than with inline styles.

Can you expose your methodology, or are you using a common tool for testing these things?
What are the advantages/disadvantages of each one? I am a little lost here.
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Could someone explain the title? If this is a "different" YC, what was the original?
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I use 'xie', but 'they' works too.
Wasn't that historically how laws have changed?

More particularly, the people want this. Because the people like it. The economy is rough for everyone outside Silicon Valley right now and they love the fact that with some hustling they can make a good side income. Any company that helps people make money will be loved by people and when the people pressure the government, that's a very powerful thing.

Remember, Al Capone was loved by the people because he funneled a lot of his money into helping the poor and funding soup kitchens and things like that. That made it much much harder for the government to take him out.

But unlike Al Capone, who was considered a gangster and a crook even by the people who loved him, the sharing economy is seen as morally good. People think they should be able to rent out their apartment whenever they want. They think they should be able to give people rides and so on. These companies are doing nothing wrong in the eye of the people, they only laws they are breaking are bureaucratic laws. Which are the kind of laws people break all the time anyway.

Not saying those laws don't exist for a reason, because they do. But they've been in effect for so long that the reason has fallen out of the public conscience and people don't understand why these "outdated" laws shouldn't be broken.

At the end of the day, taxis don't drive around London with a bale of hay in their trunk like they're supposed to.

I may have trailed off there, my point is that in the eye of the masses, these companies are doing the right thing. And that's powerful.
Nitpicking: it's not because the flow is laminar (which it is), but because it's approximately a Stokes flow.

If you sit down and non-dimensionalize the Navier-Stokes equations, you end up combining viscosity, density, a representative velocity and some representative distance into what we call the Reynolds number (Re). There's two smart places you can put it, and for very slow flows that's in front of the nonlinear term. When Re << 1 you can neglect that term, and you get the Stokes equation, which is time-reversible. If you can grok what the convective derivative really means, this starts to make intuitive sense.

I said there's another place you can put the Reynolds number, and that's 1/Re in front of the viscous term. So if you have an extremely fast flow, you can neglect viscosity, which also makes intuitive sense. Such inviscid flows are the gateway into understanding turbulence.
I think they mean it in the second sense listed, more than any other type of power, but not a majority (>50‰)
IANAL but I don't see that a violation. As long as he isn't selling or renting it out for a price then he is fine. I have a feeling that provision is there to make sure people don't try to sell credits, screw over the buyer, then the buyer tries to complain to Amazon.

Steam has a similar stipulation - and a lot of people are pissed about it. Basically you can't buy or sell steam accounts - and if you are caught Valve will suspend the account. I personally think it's completely stupid and if actually challenged would not hold up in court (I think the first sale doctrine fits perfectly because if you sell your steam account then the games are no longer accessible to you). But again - I get why, they don't want to put up with scammers or stupid people who try to sell an account and disappear before they send the credentials.
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I think the analogy breaks down when you consider what sharing economy companies do is explicitly illegal, especially in the places they operate. Granted, there's been differing levels of enforcement from various agencies, but Hillary has been mentioning addressing it from the federal level. Point being, there are probably changes/regulations coming to the current free for all that is the sharing economy.
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Alright, well I should just do it and wait if something happens. I'll add it, thanks!
...and there's really nothing stopping it from falling much much more. There's really no justification for the value placed on this company--or many other tech companies that have interesting offerings but haven't actually managed to create a real business.

TWTR will likely be marked as a turning point for the 'tech bubble 2.0' when tech companies get put in two camps. Those that are real business and those that are not. I don't think we're in a 1999-esque tech bubble but there are a lot of hyped up companies that aren't real businesses that need to get washed out of the system.
No, it shows that that individual is capable of sticking something difficult out through the long term. Are there people without there with that quality that don't have degrees? Certainly, but you don't know whether someone without a degree possesses that quality or not (and yes, false positives are a thing, there's always a risk).

Admittedly the value of a degree has likely been diluted in recent years given that college standards seem to be getting more relaxed, but that doesn't mean that it's not still a somewhat useful signal, especially when you have to filter hundreds (if not thousands) of resumes for a single position.

Just like nobody ever got fired for buying IBM, no one got fired for hiring the candidate with a degree. Believe it or not, there may be more reasons behind this than 'self doubt' and 'insecurities'.
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Do we need better initial valuation standards?
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It's about optionality: startups of all types can now do more with less. SBIRs, access to college labs, in-house prototyping facilities: these can certainly help, but what's exciting is that they're no longer required to iterate on prototypes. So little funding and time is that it looks a lot like software.
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> Feeding Forward is looking for people who are hungry.

At first, I thought this was a metaphor, but clearly it isn't:

> Please note these internships are based in SF and are unpaid at the immediate time, with possibility for hire after 60 days.
> I thought P/E is calculated for companies with a positive EPS. Twitter is loosing money. Not sure how you came up with P/E of 87.

Short answer I got it from my bloomberg terminal.

Long answer.

P/E is different from estimated( or forward) P/E. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price%E2%80%93earnings_ratio
I agree. It's the opposite of delusion, quite grounded in reality.

And I agree with your second point. Their current level of network effect / lock-in should give them plenty of runway to find new ways to grow and/or monetize.
Mindfulness is a practice which causes focus on one's thoughts, emotions and mental state in the present moment. It is NOT about monitoring stuff that is occurring outside that state, which is the intent of the watch. Saying it helps "keep up with communications" is a rationalization. Nobody has to be instantly available to everyone.

If you want to be more mindful, get up and walk away from the screen and don't get into the habit of attaching them to your arm.
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Personally, I wouldn't say television has declined. I'd say my tolerance for crap has.
AWS is a giant construction store like Home Depot, where you can find everything. Rackspace is local home improvement shop, with good service, which was doing fine until Home Depot build it's store nearby. Now people have less and less reasons to visit it. Some folks like it for the old times sake, though. DigitalOcean is your buddy who works at "Hammer&Nails Manufacturing Inc.", he can get you nice hammers and nails pretty cheap if you ask him, but not much else.

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Looks like bad science to me:

"the researchers tested 16 women"

But if you don't also test some men in the exact same chamber you know nothing because you have no control to compare to.

You can't just compare to published studied because you don't know if your equipment is properly calibrated.
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You are technically correct. Silicon Valley uses P/E when calculating valuation/revenue, because startups are rarely profitable.

They aren't equivalent in the same way that user growth and revenue growth are not equivalent to profit growth. A misinformed statistic for a misinformed view of how to build a successful business.
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I think the "social impact" in the above quote is more interesting than the "financial impact." It's not just their most successful business, it's the business that is most reshaping the world—doing the most controversial things, affecting laws and regulations wherever it goes, etc.
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Sure, but I was thinking more along the lines of the SBIR/STTR-based incubator ecosystems at major research universities. They too have good advice and a strong community, and also have more domain experience, rentable high-end lab equipment, proper wet lab space, clean rooms, contract personnel, regulatory consultants, industrial hygiene assistance, etc. I don't understand (but would like to) what the value proposition of YC is over a good university incubator---superior general business advice? (I could easily see that!)

Apologies, my original post was incompletely expressed.
Advice about how to create a good startup turns out to be more generalizable that I originally thought. The hardest problems--mostly around people--are more similar than they seem.
Sounds good, but how much CO2 production do those precursors imply? I've seen too many over-enthusiastic write-ups for bio-solar technologies that don't include the carbon cost of the inputs.

Of course if the answer is "not much" then this could be big.
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What are your requirements? I can recommend to you a Toyota Corolla or a F150 pickup truck but without any knowledge what you need there won't be good answers. Some startups are blogs, others combine several third-party APIs and yet others are very data intensive.

(I'm running AWS, Linode, DigitalOcean, bare metal server myself, all depends on what the project needs).
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