skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can think of preferred stock as both a loan and shares. If the current valuation is $3m and you have 10% preferred stock, then you have the choice of taking your loan back ($300k) or keeping your shares.

If things go well (company value increases), then you have to take the stock. However, if things don't go well, you get to take all of your money back before any common shareholders get any money.

So in marginal cases (where the company doesn't become very valuable), common stock tends to be worthless and preferred stock still has a chance of having some value.
He almost was :p
The Solution is the Train - that I don't understand why has not dominated in US, though it being a big industry in earlier part of the 20th Century
I switched from Firefox to Chrome about a year or so ago. No complaints so far. I'm not going to talk you out of it. I think it's a good idea to switch.

Multiple threading= 1 process per tab

A bit more lightweight than Firefox when both are loaded with plugins.
Jeff Bezos responds to brutal NYT story
Actually, Gregory Clark in A Farewell to Alms points out that bother the richest and poorest people who've ever lived are alive now.

In earlier times levels of poverty now experienced would have been fatal and populations would have fallen. Today we allow them to live. But in crushing abject liberty. Transmitted to their children.

Which is preferable?
I was thinking that some people would want to figure it out for themselves so I didn't want to spoil the challenge for them... I kind of hoped someone else would post the solution.

Anyway, here is a solution: http://play.golang.org/p/Mg8x7sJ-hR

In other words, just insert the following line:

type int string

The thing is, "int" is not a reserved word in Go. It's just a predeclared binding. You can rebind it -- even use "int" as a local variable name, like so: http://play.golang.org/p/0_iTzkg-5m

There are other interesting cases. For example,

var true = false // Perfectly valid Go code!

I think of it as a prank because you could sneak such a line into somebody's code and the compiler would not help them realize what had happened, it would just complain about a lot of nonsense like 1 not being an int. In the "var true = false" example, there would not even be a compiler error, you'd just get baffling runtime errors.

For a list of all the predeclared identifiers, see here: http://golang.org/ref/spec#Predeclared_identifiers
I suspect you are a poor driver.
Theoretically, self-driving machines will be traversing highways fairly accurately in ten years.
The problem is with "pure" H2O. Water is REALLY good at dissolving things, which it does better if nothing is already dissolved in it. The warnings I have received Are the drinking completely pure water will leach minerals out of your stomach/intestines. There is a big difference then the "public" version of pure and the laboratory grade version of pure water. No water found in nature would be considered the latter.
What I love about that movie is that google tried to use it to re-recruit people from my internship (I mean we all interned at google togeather so in reality it was more of a reunion but still...)
Obviously, bandwidth is not the same as latency.

GPUs cards makers the trade of between bandwidth and latency i n favor of latency. When you're doing mostly branch free processing in large chunks that's the trade of to make. All you need is a strait forward pre-fetcher and you don't need to worry about latency.

That's not true for general purpose CPUs that perform lots of branches, that need to predicted (so we can predict what to fetch). The data processed on CPUs tends to be different (structures vs. vectors) and lots of pointer chasing (vtables, linked lists, hash tables, trees). That requires lower latencies since the access pasterns a lot more random.

The stated goal of HBM is taming the power consumption (and thus also heat) of GPU systems while keeping the same (or higher) bandwidth. The name HBM stands for high bandwidth memory.

And while HBM has a lower clock frequency compared to GDDR5 (like 1/4) it has a much wider bus. The bus on HBM is 1024 bits vs 32 bits for GDDR. At one time it can send 32x times the data in the bus. 32x / 4 = 8. The transfer rate of is 8 times bigger. The recent radeon cards with HBM now have memory transfer speeds of 256GB/s vs the 48GB for GGDR5.

Again, HBM trades latency for bandwidth. It negates some the latency drops due to 1/4 of the clock by putting the HBM memory on die vs off die.

I think you're conflating a few different arguments. GPU workloads are not latency sensitive, so in GPU land transfer speed (bandwidth) is speed.
Just a caveman assessment of "atom bomb bad, flower good" is intellectually weak.

A wannabe cold warrior fantasy of "without the nuke, the godless Commies would have put the boot to the civilized world" is just as intellectually weak. I thought this furious jerking off over Regan-era revisionist talking points was passé in the current century.
Over 90% of accidents are caused by human error. That doesn't mean it's necessarily the truck driver's fault, as there are other drivers on the road. But if it isn't his fault, it's the fault of another driver. Considering how long truck drivers drive for and in what conditions, I wouldn't be surprised if much of that 90% is actually attributed to the truck drivers themselves instead of other drivers.
what about poor people in a rush :(

(don't live in LA is probably the answer, ha!)
Funny thing is: this is the same price payed in Brazil for a 100mbps MPLS link.
Would like to see this or another tool open sourced so I could install it on my iPhone
This system sounds an awful lot like the freight rail system. That seems like it would be easier to automate, too.
It's rather disingenuous to compare truck crash fatalities to plane crash fatalities. Almost everything kills people more often than plane crashes.
I'm not able to comment on all parts of the article, but one thing stuck out at me: deaths were up from 2009-2013, but so was the volume of freight being shipped: http://www.transtats.bts.gov/osea/seasonaladjustment/?PageVa.... That makes that particular statistic quite dubious.

Disclosure: I work for a SAAS company serving the logistics industry, which is why I knew that. I don't really have an opinion about how regulated the industry is. My personal work doesn't deal with that, and I'm pretty ignorant of it. I'm quite willing to believe that this article is accurate at the big picture level.
> I'm carefully optimistic since this would be in there interest of the trucking industry

How would self-driving trucks help the trucking industry?

It seems like driverless technology will only make the business even more commoditized than it already is, and the only ones that make any money will be the one or two companies with the iPhone apps where you push the button to get your truck.
Sorry for the inexperience, but what is "Lean Canvas"?
OK, just as long as trucks aren't driven through telepresence. Drone operators in the trucking industry might challenge their military brethren in terms of innocent people killed.
Was working on a similar project that I never managed to finish. I think this is a really useful tool. One thing missing is custom input widgets.
Like flying cars?
Superintelligence – Answer to the 2009 EDGE Q: “WHAT WILL CHANGE EVERYTHING?” [pdf]
Now Apple equips macbook only with shiny screens: you can't buy a macbook with opaque screen, like some years ago. So I suggest to use a external monitor as me.
Highway construction crews must love people like you.
Programming the Quantum Future
Price and drivers mostly
>assuming 10% of success, expected value of the options would be $150k * 0.1 i.e. $15k.

That is wrong because the post-seed valuation ($3m) already has the risk of failure baked into it. i.e., those investing at that valuation already know about the high risk of failure. If the startup had a 100% chance of success and the seed-stage investors could be convinced of that fact, the post-seed valuation would have been about ten times higher.

Your calculation would be correct if $3m were what the company would be worth if it succeeds, but it is not.
Never had a single accident.
Index the charge to income.
It's just an ad, don't worry about it.
That's what scares me about self driving cars. right now a three hour commute each way is not really feasible but if you could sleep in your car it would be very possible.

We may end up with even more sprawl and more cars on the roads.
The Selfie Showdown (Social Network)
How well it work compared to Weblock?
uBO is cool- I'll be switching to it from AdBlock Plus straight away & start saving a few milliseconds on page load with its CPU usage being less.
You plan on deleting that spreadsheet any time soon?
Guns alone don't kill people (at least if they're not programmed to do so automatically), but as humans sometimes act irrationally, one could say if the population had less guns then there will be less deaths by gun shot.
Hey guys!

We will put right license here. Just tell us what to write to not break other licenses. We updated old images and added own new.

So how to be here? I think we should add license of original authors (while Olga updated them and put into ai). And put own license (free to any use) to others. Could you make right pull request here?

P.S. Work is not aimed to harm anyone and we
How Does Verizon’s “Supercookie” Work?
"The article touches very briefly on many possible explanations without ever coming to a conclusion."

Agreed, which makes the "...and now you know the chemistry of why" closer all the more infuriating.

I also agree that the evaporation/infusion of gases seems a likely explanation, because I've noticed that if I leave the fan on overnight near my glass of drinking water it starts to taste unpalatably stale a lot quicker. At least, it does to me.
The cost of running rail to supply all the routes currently served by truck now (and generally in the last 50-60 years) is so high that it's infeasible. The less populated and poor the destination, the higher the costs (and most remote areas are both sparsely populated and poor). I think you're seriously underestimating the vastness of the US and the remoteness of the majority of it. Sure, given enough investment and dedication, a nationwide rail network would have been possible but the decision to build America as a car/truck country was taken in the late 40's/early 50's and it's too late to reverse that, even at a governmental level. People expect to live in remote areas now and have all the comforts of a city. That's simply not possible with rail at a sane cost. Not only are cars and trucks more flexible, but the transportation expenses can be shared between commercial and personal transportation. People in America generally don't take trains (and don't like them) and outside of small regional areas, passenger trains are mostly a novelty that run sometimes days late. Between the geography and people's attitudes/expectations, there is no room for trains in America and it shows.
Because in the real world of web development applications are hardly ever written directly on top of the server. They are written on a framework, that sits on top of an HTTP server abstraction (like Clack), that has pluggable servers.

That way, if a new server comes out (e.g. Woo[0]), you don't have to learn all of its internals and rewrite the entire application using it -- you literally just change a keyword argument in a single function call, and now your application is running on a different, much faster server. If someone writes a plugin for Clack (e.g. clack-errors[1]), all applications built on any Clack framework using whatever server can use it. A Hunchentoot plugin works for Hunchentoot applications.

Using Clack is sustainable web development.

Sure, for a five minute demo, Hunchentoot is fine. But why teach bad practices?

[0]: https://github.com/fukamachi/woo

[1]: https://github.com/eudoxia0/clack-errors
Apple is providing a new OS service that's relatively easy for devs to use... so yes, there will be plenty of free apps that hook this new service up to existing blocklists.
Oh, yeah...and we figured out that most network traffic was, in fact bursty. So another nail in the coffin, as it were.
I have an 8-gig mem 64-bit Windows 7. I run almost no extensions (usually just firebug and ghostery and web developer).

It's not any one thing; it just seems to bog down, and I can't noodle out why, except Firefox seems to be the common denomator ATM.
I think that the trucking industry is one of the biggest employers in the US. Are you OK with devastating these people's lives for extra efficiency promised safety?

Before we push for more automation and job losses, we need to revamp the whole political/economic/social system to ensure a more egalitarian income distribution since the vast majority of the Earth's population are proletariat who exchange their labor in return for capital to make a living.
Ok. My memory of it was from a bit earlier, I first saw it sometime in 1986. You would have had to add the cost of APDA membership to the $150 stated in your link. I found an OOPSLA conference report that described seeing a demo of the Apple Smalltalk+MacApp product.

I also found a flyer for Smalltalk-80 on the IBM AT for $1000 from around the same date.
I also don't think too much about licenses problem and make things instead. Please, help us to add right licenses where appropriate and feel free to add yours to keep all such artwork in one place.
This is a reasonable way to get a simple hello world up, but for those new to lisp, know that this isn't how most people develop.

Firstly, it is rare to see the SBCL REPL used directly.

Most commonly, lisp is developed via an IDE that will include a full-featured REPL (there are several; for sbcl SLIME is what is most commonly used. ClozureCL has its own IDE on OS X, and commercial lisp implementations will ship with their own).

GNU clisp has a more feature-full REPL, so you may see that used occasionally.

Secondly, lisp has a build system called ASDF. There is a tiny amount of code needed to setup a simple project, and there is a tool named "quickproject" that will generate it all for you. With all the improvements to ASDF in the past decade, I never do a "write lisp file, then load it" anymore.
It is not clear from the sample screenshot, but do you know of Conkeror? Sounds like your wet dream!

http://conkeror.org/MozRepl
of course, everyone knows that it's a problem that white people get shot by cops too. But bringing it up frustrates the white American liberal because they can't get truly mad about police shooting unless it disproportionally affects (non-asian) minorities. I mean, they'll talk about it, but everybody wants to pretend they're on the front of a new civil rights movement and signal how progressive they are. It gets old.

The problem is that when you take away the racial angle, you might discover that America's pretty violent, and that fact might have an impact on how many police shootings there are.
Not everyone wants to pay the apple "tax" just to have a quality display. Although I work on a Macbook, Apple gets a solid premium for what goes into their laptops so the OP may just be trying to get a better value for his money.

As for me, I'll stick with my Macbook for now because of the work I do and that fact I really do appreciate the hardware and I don't mind paying the premium.

As for others to check out, I saw a really nice display on a Samsung laptop not too long ago, not sure the specs but man was it super crisp.
John Oliver on Online Harassment [video]
I have that x1 carbon. Figured why cheap out on something I use everyday.
maybe this is not the right thread, but the truth is well described by Torvalds: Why is Linux not competitive on desktop? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNnGMBMJKNM
.. err, no - US has 88 guns per 100 people, and Canada has 30. See the list here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_of_guns_per_capita_by...
Well, we already have one of the worlds most extensive road systems. Building the same with rails would be a monumental undertaking, but putting smarter trucks on the road would be almost free. So there's that...
'Also, humans ofte dislike trace flavors, even when they like the flavor : it subconsciously tastes "dirty".'

Interesting. This makes a lot of sense to me. I sometimes dilute fruit-flavoured soft drinks to reduce the calorie load, but there's definitely a point when they're mostly water where they suddenly become slightly unpleasant. Like, say up to 90% dilute is fine-to-nothingy, and 100% water is of course fine, but 95% dilute is worse than either.

(See also reusing a soft drink bottle for water without rinsing it first.)
For those also getting 503'd

https://web.archive.org/web/20150821123901/https://www.eff.o...
You joke, but for years now certain corners have been trying to open it up so so that Mexican trucks/drivers to operate in the USA.
> It has pushed to allow truck drivers to work 82 hours a week, up from the current 70 hours over eight days, by eliminating the requirement that drivers take a two-day rest break each week;

There was a different problem with the two-day rest break:

> Must include two periods from 1 a.m. to 5 a.m. home terminal time.

Because obviously the trucking industry shouldn't be working graveyard. That's the part that was suspended. It screws with scheduling. 1 a.m. to 5 a.m. is arbitrary.

http://www.fmcsa.dot.gov/regulations/hours-service/summary-h...

> discouraged the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration from investing in wireless technology designed to improve the monitoring of drivers and their vehicles;

Either this is VERY recent news or just misleading. This is happening as far as everyone can tell. The mandate for electronic logging devices in all vehicles should be coming down late September, with a deadline of October 2017.

http://www.ccjdigital.com/e-log-mandate-advances-fmcsa-sends...

http://www.overdriveonline.com/eld-mandate-poised-to-begin-t...
Driving while tired can be as dangerous as driving drunk. The occasional 14hr drive isn't horrible, but if you do that several days in a row, you're going to be really tired. So limiting the hours per day a truck driver drives seems like a good idea. As does "shift" driving.

Collision avoidance tech also seems like a good idea.

That said, I don't think we need the government to do anything.

Drivers can unionize and demand better hours. Insurance companies can require collision avoidance tech be installed. Etc.

And if you really believe the government needs to be involved, then it doesn't hurt to try both the government regulation route, and the self-regulation route at the same time. The latter could get implemented faster than the government....
(Didn't downvote.) There is rarely, if ever, a singular "the solution" to an issue. Trains, boats, planes, trucks, couriers, etc. serve semi-overlapping needs. Trains did dominate the U.S. before the auto industry convinced people cars and highways were "better," and local commuter trains were scrapped over large parts of America. Yes, Europe has loads of them and you can't book an actual train ticket from Paris to Amsterdam (Thalys) online ahead-of-time either.

As a result of this indoctrination, a cultural allergy to trains became a core value of Americanism... single-occupant car == freedom, train/bus == low class.
Show HN: LinkingWords, connecting through words
1) the wtfpl is incompatible with the cc by that the gopher is licensed under. Please replace and properly attribute renee.

2) the wtfpl is not an open source license, or a software license, at all.
Why are there files from 1972 in the Go repository?
Trucks are much more versatile. Rail still reigns supreme for transport in a handful industries, however.
As simple as possible. But no simpler.
And Amtrak only exists because the USG didn't want to let all passenger rail services die completely, so it's propped up by tax dollars.
Ask HN: How Do SpaceX's Stated Goals Make Financial Sense?
How will SpaceX's investors ever see a return on their investment by sending humans to Mars by 2020? More broadly, is space exploration and planetary colonization even compatible with capitalism, without governments making the investments?

Today, SpaceX's revenue comes from selling its services to the US government. If the US government foots the bill to send humans to Mars, then SpaceX would certainly stand to profit handsomely. But if that's what Musk has in mind, he's not in a position to dictate the timeframe. Additionally, NASA's stated goal is to send humans to Mars in 2030, not 2020. Thus, I think we can establish that Musk intends for SpaceX to finance the mission.

At best, the first humans on Mars will do some science experiments, take a bunch of video footage and pictures, and then come back to Earth. But where does a ROI come into the picture?

Musk likes to talk about colonizing Mars, and sending humans to Mars is certainly a necessary first step. But then we have to send infrastructure to Mars. Nevermind actually creating a livable environment through terraforming, creation of an atmosphere, seeding the planet with an abundance of life, etc. Just facilitating the construction of sustainable buildings that would allow long term human survival will be a technological feat requiring huge investments that don't have obvious paths to returns besides enabling the next step in the colonization process. Each subsequent step magnifies this point.

What does SpaceX stand to gain, from the perspective of a for-profit company, if it pivots from selling the use of its rockets, to using those rockets to send humans to Mars on its own dime?
> but Congress seems to be buying it.

They are not buying it, but being bought.
My god. It's full of ugly.
I read the 100 “best” fantasy or sci-fi novels--they were shockingly offensive
Some truck fleets like SWIFT limit the top speeds of their trucks. That's how they got the nickname/abbreviation "sure wish I had a faster truck"
The 100 best novels written in English: the full list
> (almost) all the low hanging bugs have been picked clean

This has never ever been true. Every new framework has to design mass-assignment protection hopefully. Every new language needs to handle file access. Every new authentication library will have to rediscover reams of textbooks/whitepapers.
Nukemap
Communication Free Learning is actually a recently proposed algorithm to resolve constraints. The research paper it originated from is here: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1103.3240.pdf

The "Communication Free" part of it means that we can update variables' values in parallel without having to communicate the updated variable values between the processes updating the variables.
If everything was going to be automated all at once, this "devastation" might be the case. But it won't happen all at once, it happens over the course of a decade or two.

In almost every case in history, automation has increased jobs and increased the quality of life.

Your post reminds me of this story:
"Prof. Friedman visited China in the early 1960s and was taken by a government official to see a public works project. Chinese workers were building a canal. Friedman was struck by seeing everyone digging the canal with shovels. Friedman asked the official, "why no heavy earth-moving equipment?" The official said, "oh, this is a jobs program." So Friedman then says to the official, "then why don't you just give them spoons instead of shovels to create even more jobs?"
I am confused .. did the Chinese police come and ask him to stop working on it? Which country is he in?
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/21979690/whats-the-story-...
FTA: "The trucking industry, through its chief trade group, the American Trucking Associations, insists that it needs longer work weeks and bigger vehicles so that more trucks will not be needed on the road, which it says could result in more accidents. That logic is laughable, but Congress seems to be buying it." .... and later:

"Howard Abramson is a freelance writer who was an executive at American Trucking Associations from 1998 to 2014."

Gee, I wonder what's the backstory there?