skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a rather enlightened view of how SV works. I was the primary engineer on Uber's promotion and referral system for most of last year and ended up transferring to the internal audit team. I have a knack for risk identification and management.

There is a difference between a well-run company with manageable burn that must raise capital to continue growing, and a company where the realistic prospects of a capital infusion are slim and the financial situation is dire.

I used to work in the game industry, and both studios I worked at ended up gradually laying people off and eventually shutting down. Layoffs are the expectation for a struggling company - sudden shutdown is a sign of poor executive leadership.
duckduck the phrase "generate graph paper" -- there are many sites offering a wide range of PDFs generated to your specs.
Honestly I would refrain from blaming her. There are just too many variables, many of which we can't talk about, to judge someone.

Perhaps offering support, direction, and a way to rectify what is "seemingly" a mistake is more helpful.
Under the same conditions of linearity and Gaussian noise you can get essentially optimal performance. Of course, why would you when the KF is so much more efficient.
Let us wait until you have 400 employees.
"According to this science fiction scenario we've concocted, and Elon Musk, who obviously knows what he's talking about, it will be illegal to drive your car in exactly 14 years."

... is what this non-story amounts to.
I would still worry without offline backups. Malware or a malicious actor could delete the built-in backups from _all_ sync'ed devices by modifying each file 6 times.
When I was a student (Cadet) at West Point the Social Sciences Department (colloquially known as "SOSH") sponsored a viewing of that film and invited the director, Eugene Jareki, to come and conduct an open forum discussion after the viewing. Probably one of the highlights of my time there. After the Q&A some of the cadets who were SOSH majors stayed to ask a few one-on-one questions and I got to ask him (and I'm paraphrasing here) whose responsibility it was to fix this obvious problem - a problem so obvious that the United States Military Academy's Social Sciences Department chose to show this film to a bunch of people about to fight these wars. (Granted, there is a statue of Ike that sits outside the Jefferson Hall Library[1]...so maybe there was some Old Grad hero worship going on.) His response was that he hadn't really considered who's responsibility it should be beyond the obvious (all of ours), and that he didn't mean to convey that responsibility on this generation of war fighters, but that he did have faith that younger people would be able to affect some change here.

That was a number of years ago. I suppose he meant the long game of when the young people grow up.

As an aside, the namesake of the documentary comes from the propaganda films made during WWII.[2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eisenhower_Monument
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why_We_Fight
Thank you for your kind comment and help, i appreciate it, most of the comments here and the e-mails i got made me consider somewhere else, when i posted this post i only saw California in my head even though i don't mind going elsewhere at all.
Grinding wheels wear from left to right. You dress it to a certain diameter and then particles come off the left part before they come off the right. That way SOME fraction of the width is at the proper diameter.

This is why you never ever grind full width. Of course, once you grind long enough that you wear the whole width, game over.
We've been using compose.io with good success.
At the very least, Title 18, Section 1924 of the U.S. Code: "Unauthorized removal and retention of classified documents or material"

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1924

http://jonathanturley.org/2015/07/24/state-department-and-in...

Other possible violations here: http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2015/03/16/hilary-clin...
Tesla didn't fire its workers, and had a plan to keep the business operating by selling to Google for billions of dollars (which apparently Google was on board for). When selling proved unnecessary, Musk stopped discussions with Google. It was a very different situation: Musk didn't cause the business to shut down, and had a plan for dealing with their runway running out.
The 1964 movie "Seven Days in May" touches on this topic, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Days_in_May

"President Kennedy had read Seven Days in May shortly after its publication and believed the scenario as described could actually occur in the United States. According to Frankenheimer in his director's commentary, production of the film received encouragement and assistance from Kennedy through White House Press Secretary Pierre Salinger, who conveyed to Frankenheimer Kennedy's wish that the film be produced and that, although the Pentagon did not want the film made, the President would conveniently arrange to visit Hyannis Port for a weekend when the film needed to shoot outside the White House."
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> trading on insider information means revealing that information

Did I miss the blank space on the form that requires you to fill in the reason for your trade before it gets executed?

Joking aside, you do not reveal your intentions by executing a trade. Let's look at a hypothetical. Say all of the sudden someone dumps 5% of Apple stocks. Information has been imparted, but this is imperfect information. If you own Apple stock and you are weighing your options, you can't know the real reason behind these trades. If you did know the real reason behind the trades (e.g. announcement of a 1% dip in growth in Q4 2015) you could evaluate what you think that does to the value of the stock instead of trying to reverse engineer someone else's logic.

Another Example: How about knowing that someone will happen in ~2 months time, so you slowly sell stock off over 2 months. How does this impart significant information to the market?
Then you use normal graph paper!
Will Maren Kate remain in her role as CEO?
Thank you for opening source! Added to my reading list.
Sometimes the unfortunate part of the education system is that you have to teach yourself a concept or skill. It's admirable that the individual mentioned was a straight-A student, but its almost meaningless compared to the people who have been teaching themselves how to code, hack, tinker with hardware, etc, since they were a kid.

I read Sean Parker's bio on Wikipedia sometime back and it explained his "autodidacticism". It got him far very early in his life so much that he didn't have to attend college. Granted not everyone has the kind of innate skill that some of these so called geniuses or prodigies do, but you can certainly learn a thing or two from them.

As far as working in teams go, again, nothing is preventing you from gathering two or three of your good friends and building something together, no matter how useless the end product turns out to be in real life. This way, you are not restrained on your idea or your methodology in building, you learn from trial-and-error and build on your experience, and if the product does turn out to be something remotely useful then that is one more thing to write on your resume and talk about in your interviews. Work towards getting your degree and do well, but always work towards making yourself better; don't solely rely on coursework and professors, because that won't take you very far.
18 U.S. Code § 1924 - Unauthorized removal and retention of classified documents or material

> (a) Whoever, being an officer, employee, contractor, or consultant of the United States, and, by virtue of his office, employment, position, or contract, becomes possessed of documents or materials containing classified information of the United States, knowingly removes such documents or materials without authority and with the intent to retain such documents or materials at an unauthorized location shall be fined under this title or imprisoned for not more than one year, or both.

> (b) For purposes of this section, the provision of documents and materials to the Congress shall not constitute an offense under subsection (a).

> (c) In this section, the term “classified information of the United States” means information originated, owned, or possessed by the United States Government concerning the national defense or foreign relations of the United States that has been determined pursuant to law or Executive order to require protection against unauthorized disclosure in the interests of national security.

I'm not aware of whether she had stuff that was classified, but as Secretary of State I'd say most of her communications would be somewhat confidential.

If not black-letter illegal, it's still extremely dodgy, and dangerous. Remember when Palin got hacked?

If almost any federal employee (even ones with low-level clearance) was caught doing this, they'd likely have security assist them out of the premises immediately. Yes, some people do bend the rules, and get away with it, but only if there's nothing they handled that would cause any issues if it were posted on the internet.
Copyright has succeeded a thousand times more than its failed. It's pretty great for the most part. It enables a vast, vast number of jobs and new creations. It could certainly be better. But I'd much rather have what copyright as it exists today than for it to not exist at all. And don't forget that GPL is only enforceable due to copyright law.
Alleged ISIS leak compromises hundreds of U.S. military and intelligence emails
Consider: how many businesses would be in business tomorrow if they announced today to all their users and customers how much cash they had left on hand. How about the ones that are operating in the red, should they all tell everyone?

In the end I respect that they stop it at the very moment they could no longer pay instead of owing everyone one hour of work.

Without more information, I would say they handled it okay.
Poachers won't 'like' these tech companies teaming up to fight the ivory trade
Where there was no competition, Standard Oil provided oil. Where there was competition, Standard Oil provided oil at zero or near-zero profit.

The former is a situation of supply where there was otherwise none, and some is better than none. The latter is a situation of competitive pricing, and competitive pricing is better than non-competitive pricing.

How is this worse off for consumers than the situation without Standard Oil?
The Man Who Made the UK Say “I’m Sorry for What We Did to Turing.”
Ask HN: How to be a good bash script writer?
Assume elementary knowledge - pipes, redirection, awk/sed/cut/standard Unix tools.

How does one get to writing scripts that are -

(a) portable

(b) easy to debug

(c) clean and easy to modify

Where can I find good sample scripts?
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> The closest solution I've seen is to download some exe file that presupposes that I have Windows installed somewhere so I can...

My guess they did that because it's probably just like BartPE or other PE products - it copies files from the underlying OS.

> Is it really so horrible to sell their product to someone who wants to run their OS under VMWare?

There is nothing stopping you from running Windows in a VM - millions of people do it all over the world.
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Of course the hacks are illegal, he was asking whether using the data should be classified as insider trading.
This was in February 2015. WeChat hit ~400MM MAU about a year before that. You've got the causality the wrong way around.
Wait, Wait. Hold a second. I am not sure I read that correctly.

Are you telling me that until 2012, for every confidential hearing that American congressman could attend, every budget proposal or allocation they had to vote on, every bill (say on the environment, or regarding corporate or financial regulation) they had to pass, or every declaration of war they had to approve, they were allowed to choose the outcome and personally profit from it?
Didn't GM et. al. go bankrupt the same year Telsa nearly did?
6 months' notice would be absurd, and enforcing that (either legally or as an industry norm) would mean a lot of otherwise promising businesses would have to die prematurely "out of an abundance of caution".

It's a speculative startup in a new category. Most of them fail. You won't get 6 months' notice when they do.
400 employees will mean I still have a spreadsheet that tracks my cashflows and ensures I run a regular town hall to inform employees where we are. At what point does one not have such a spreadsheet/dashboard/report?

Heck, a 400 you should have a part-time or full-time CFO who manages much of that for you to avoid such situations.
> WP is "a deploy once with ftp/sftp" cms.

I think a lot of developers--myself included, for a long time--don't really appreciate why this is the reason WordPress is as popular as it is. The vast majority of the criticisms people make of WP are valid, but good luck finding something else as easy for a non-developer to not just install and configure, but to actually maintain in a relatively secure fashion. (I also don't think developers appreciate how good modern WordPress is as this -- not to say that it's perfect, by any stretch, but once it's set up correctly the damn thing is self-updating. As long as you stick to popular, actively-developed plugins and put effort into keeping them updated -- which is frankly a pretty low bar, since it's about three clicks on the dashboard -- WordPress isn't likely to be a serious security concern.

I don't see how WordPress's general audience would be in the least concerned about its failure to be a "twelve-factor app," do you?
> JVM still lacks some serious functions, namely, links and monitors. I'm not that sure you can emulate those on JVM reliably without implementing them as fundamental operations.

You don't emulate them; you implement them -- just as BEAM does. Having them baked into the runtime serves no purpose. The JVM operates at a much lower level than BEAM -- just as BEAM is implemented in C, it could be implemented in Java, except that the really hard parts (JIT and GC) are already taken care of. Think of Java as C + JIT + GC.

> it still needs to talk to Java code, which doesn't have yield points.

That's not a problem. First, Erlang code talks to C code, which doesn't have yield points, either. Second, the JVM doesn't need to rely on yield points as much as BEAM does, because it is much more kernel-thread-friendly than BEAM.
Please don't post political horse-race stories to HN.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Yeah, but by-and-large people are using it for a blog/CMS. It's definitely packed with features, but that doesn't make it elegant or fun.
You should also take a look at his writing at Dealbreaker, where he used to write before joining Bloomberg View. http://dealbreaker.com/author/mlevine/
> The main reason we don't like insider trading is that we like participation in the market by relative amateurs. A system that allows insider trading discourages participation by amateurs, because they do not have insider information.

While I agree with that in theory, in practise we see that the rest of the market is so hopelessly skewed in favour of insiders in one form or another it's like a sticky plaster on the stump of a severed leg; just look at the Facebook IPO, or high frequency trading.
This is an easy thing to say, but I can understand why a leader would choose to do otherwise. The risk that employees will give up and bolt thus turning failure from a likelyhood to a certainty are very real. You can't just ignore that.
I often wonder/worry that these sort of "bailouts" and acquisitions reward founders for poor decision making.
Not to mention being a top contributor to the Linux kernel, clang/llvm, mysql, doing almost everyone's security research for them (including, notoriously, finding most of the issues that get released in Apple security patches), etc. Facebook sure does a better job of evangelizing their own open source stuff, but I'm not sure that means they're actually contributing more. Even some of Facebook's "contributions" are ripped off from Google, like buck.
I can still remember a time when an HTC PDA was literally the hottest tech on the market. How fascinating it is to see how much has changed in less than a decade.
Read about her husband's background, and you may perceive a pattern.
> 6 months' notice would be absurd

Why? What's wrong with "here are our numbers; as you can see we're at about 6 months left of runway but we have X, Y and Z that we believe should take care of it without issue"?

Seems like being transparent in the finances would be a good thing. To me at least; I know as an employee I feel much more comfortable when I know how the company is doing. It at least let's me know I have some solid time left should the worst happen.
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Fuck you Paul Graham!
> Hey man, some people (like me) just don't like to work on the JVM, despite it's advantages and superior features like the GC. Just accept it.

I accept it, but the fact of the matter is that -- like it or not -- there are at least two orders of magnitude more people who use the JVM than BEAM. You're comparing the world's most popular runtime with a runtime that's not even in the top-ten.

Some of your complaints stem from exactly that difference -- the JVM is designed to operate much higher workloads than BEAM, and people use that -- hence Clojure's slow startup etc (the JVM starts up in < 80ms, BTW). But, again, your observations don't change the fact that if Erlang stays on BEAM it will forever be a niche language.
The KF is very efficient.

It's optimal for linear Gaussian systems and computation is polynomial in measurement dimensionality k and state dimensionality n:

O(k^2.376 + n^2)

(Yes I had to look that up.)
Only in hindsight.
New recording of MLK 'Dream' speech released
If wikipedia took the stackoverflow model, every article will be closed as off topic.
Running Services is Hard
At first I thought "this statement is madness!"

Then I thought about our burn, what the spreadsheets look like, how we estimate runway, and so on, and I realize this is uninformed madness.

If you believe this, then you understand that 400 people losing their jobs is the definition of the wholly controllable burn.
Do you understand that the Unbranded Stable version and Firefox Stable version have the same codebase? You can use that version for testing or if your users don't want signing they can move to that version. They lose the cute icon and branding but the code is the same.
Two comments, important one first.

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Important: Wikipedia really has become accepted by the establishment. I have seen decision makers, at the table, with Wikipedia open during tumor board. I have seen staff physicians showing patients information and even reading up on side effects and mechanism of action. I have seen a dean ask a presenter to pull up the wikipedia page on a cutting edge test, in the middle of a discussion about whether to bring in said test.

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Usual, unimportant wikipedia banter: I edit almost exclusively in biological sciences and almost never run into edit wars. The one time I did, I tried to start the article on DigitalOcean, and it quickly boiled over into an extremely dissatisfying experience. It makes the DMV look efficient and cordial.
IPython 4.0 Released
The Azul guys told me they treat any pause > 20us (or maybe 40us, I don't remember exactly) as a bug.
> Lets say someone asks you to make a mud pie[1] and put bits of lavastone in it.

This is begging the question (in the original sense of the phrase). The process is usually not somebody saying "make me a mudpie with lava stones". It usually starts with "how do I make a more attractive mudpie?" There are countless ways of doing so. You could use marbles, leaves, different mud, different levels of consistency... But maybe using lava stones gives you the most bang for the buck. So then you are really filling a patent on "method and system for increasing mudpie attractiveness".

The infamous Amazon one-click patent can similarly be viewed that way. The patent is not really solving the problem of "how do we enable purchases with one-click?" (the solution to which is blindingly obvious) but of "how do we get people to buy more things on our online store?" Now, the path from there to "one-click buying" may also be obvious, no doubt, but it's not as obvious as the path from "how do you build one-click?" to "here's how" simply because the solution space is so much bigger.
How is it acceptable under any circumstance to not let your employees know until the final hour when you need to shut the doors that the company is facing financial trouble? This isn't a simple 'shit I screwed up'. It shows a fundamental lack of respect and empathy for your employees who expected to show up to work Monday for _your_ company and get paid. Even a simple, 'we are running low on money and be here at your risk' a month out would have been sufficient.

I do wonder if VCs need to require first-time founders go through a crash course in Business, Finance, and Ethics 101.
You understand that the addon signing process is automated right? Addon signing is not the same as AMO review. You can sign your addons and distribute them on other channels if they don't match AMO review criterias.
This seems to be a commonly-aired complaint when these discussions come up.

My guess is that it happens when people dive in to fix something that they "know" is wrong, and feel strongly about - and then get upset when it's reverted because they provided no evidence. No one likes rejection, but some take it far too personally.

If your first foray led to escalating to dispute resolution then maybe you don't have the right temperament. Not everyone is well-suited to being an encyclopedia editor, and there's nothing wrong with that. (Pro tip: Post your suggestions/argument in the "Talk" page first).

While the system is easy enough to use, there are also cultural/social/bureaucratic skills to learn.

BTW: The articles on "politically charged subjects" are the result of years of work and are generally pretty OK, if bland. Undoubtedly you could change them in ways you would find more acceptable, but it's unlikely that those of an opposing viewpoint would agree.
She was the CEO and particularly deserves credit for the abrupt nature of the shut-down and having not given employees warning. It was an extraordinary mistake, one that any CEO should get lambasted for.

There are not too many variables when it comes to her responsibilities on that matter. It's crystal clear that she made the wrong choice in how to deal with the situation.
I've seen this! I guess it's my best bet. The only thing that was scaring me away was the pretty low resolution (even for other near-eye displays I've seen).
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Do you warn employees and possibly risk losing those with a low risk tolerance? Or do you hide this from them and lay them off with the legally minimum notice and possibly no safety net?

I prefer to be a leader that promotes respect and care for employees, and assume the former choice is thus a better one.
Before dropping down to assembly or even intrinsics, check out ISPC. It's a little tricky to learn how to use varying and uniform and the compiler crashes here and there, but my god if it doesn't produce crazy fast programs.
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Talk to kids in China, India, Japan, Korea, etc. about focus on grades and the tremendous pressure of getting into prestigious schools. They have pressure.

Students in North America have it easy compared to them. Are students in East and south Asia just harder than their north American counterparts?
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