skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article does relatively little to justify that though. It's not as if companies being privately owned before they go public (or private equity buyouts of public companies) is a new thing. The time-to-IPO is the only non-anecdotal difference in ownership structures it notes, and that's easily explained away by market conditions.

Indeed the first example it cites - Uber - is arguably an example of the opposite to the trend it purports to spot... it's a market traditionally dominated by plucky privately held small companies that's becoming centralised under a large company or two that probably will go public. Even if Uber (and Lyft and a couple of others) doesn't IPO they still are and will be owned and managed in a way that resembles a public company more than your neighbourhood cab firm.

I'd give the article more props for identifying interesting but not really connected phenomena in new companies if it didn't include lines like "whereas nobody is sure who owns public companies, startups go to great lengths to define who owns what". The idea that startup share options are more transparent than employee shareholdings in publicly held companies traded on liquid markets is dangerously misleading nonsense that looks really out of place in a publication aimed at the financially literate
I'm not sure if you realise how combative your comment is. You mock and belittle alexis-d with no real reason other than your own perception.

Why can we not talk about tools that we're using to get the job done, isn't this what part of HN is about? This isn't Product Hunt or a site for purely marketing products.
And most of them have loopholes big enough to drive a truck through. (See payday loans, title loans, hard money loans, merchant cash advance, etc., etc.)
The ACLU has been fighting similar problems in Georgia. They have won settlements for some of those affected, and have been a significant factor in getting reforms passed in the Georgia legislature addressing these issues.
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Research into fusion went down a blind alley; a means of escape may be at hand
#1 is quite a sweeping generalization that could be viewed as bigotry.
Laser pointers date back to the early 80s. I'd wager that the interval between the first laser pointers getting into the hands of consumers and the first laser pointer being used with a cat was approximately 3.7 minutes.
It's absurd because the reported incidents are so few. In 2010 worldwide 1,24 million people died in car accidents. Over 3000 a day. In 2010 the US 36,166 died.

The number of incidents related to speeding Toyota's is pretty insignificant to that number.
Web apps are boring. Build tetris.
Woman arrested for threatening to eat neighbour's children
“The Fallen Apple” Corrections (1999)
Futurism
What makes good leaders?
Just to double down on that previous point, check out the code for haproxy-marathon-bridge.

https://github.com/mesosphere/marathon/blob/master/bin/hapro...
My review of a smart water bottle
> The allure of credit cards for banks is that too few people are thoughtful enough to know that borrowing from the future is equivalent to spending money in the bank

Which is why I take full advantage of that 1-month $3k interest-free loan the bank is giving me, while keeping the $3k in a savings account which does have some positive interest. It's not much positive interest, but it's some.

Micro optimization, yes. One I can only afford because I have that money anyway, yes. But it makes me feel so shrewd and that feeling makes it worth it.
The number of captured photons is a good hard limit. dalke's answer for ultrafast photography is kind of "cheating" in the sense that they record the same event periodically so they can gather enough light. That technique can't record single unique events that fast AFAIK.
Norwegians Use the Word “Texas” as Slang to Mean “Crazy”
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Can you draw a supply/demand curve illustrating a demand shortfall + flexible wages causing involuntary unemployment? I've certainly never seen such a thing.

Classical (not Keynesian) economics does explain how a demand shortfall causes voluntary unemployment. It also explains how helicopter drops + substitution effect can cause voluntary unemployment. Involuntary unemployment is the tricky bit.
Evidence? Ever been to mcdonald?? Fat people eat buckets of food and drink gallons of soda.

No amount of gut bacteria engineering is going to help someone eating 3 pizzas and 2 fried chickens per day.
I went ahead and gave it a try. I choose the first db in my local environment, give "select * from users" for a spin. It's a table with 84k records. It's loading for quite a bit now. I see is a big table, however isn't huge. I wonder if there's something to warn about long result queries and also if you can somehow prevent this, by adding a fixed limit to a query or something like that, maybe making this configurable?

EDIT: Might it be possible to stop a running query, still loading :).

One thing I couldn't figure out from your page is how the trial works? Would just end at some point or would you remind us to license from time to time, in the like of sublime text/svn form wbond?
Hairdressers and doctors (and even more so baristas) have all the same situation, and yet they usually find means to be polite.

So no, it's not excuse, never was, never will be.
The reason for a lot of homographs with ASCII is that there are old code pages that have entire non-US alphabets and punction sets in the 128-255 range, and regular ASCII in the 0-127 range.

It's a design goal of Unicode to support exact round-trip transformation with any code page ever in use in the real world, so they can't unify two characters that appear at different code points in a greek codepage without breaking things, even if they're always graphically indistinguishable in a font.
I'm sure it would be fine with smaller beards, but I'm wondering about big fluffy ones. In any case, let us know what they have to say if they reply!
VC-backed litigation crowd-funding platforms in 3.. 2.. 1..
Right but she would go hungry or homeless...
bobjob, you've totally misunderstood me.

Addressing your issue with brute force: Firstly, you should understand that I'm a logical person, capable of moral and philosophical thought.

Looking at the problem in it's raw form, Polio needs to be eradicated before we can halt expenditure on the eradication program, which comes at a huge global cost. To eradicate the disease, we have to destroy it.

To destroy it, we use vaccines to reduce the number of carriers and available hosts to zero. This requires hosts to forcefully, or willingly be vaccinated.

Humanity finds itself staring at a few pockets of the disease which are proving difficult to wilfully, or forcefully vaccinate.

Humanity has two choices: Give up, or carry on

Carrying on produces further choices:

Humanity can, through the process of negotiation, wait for these pockets wilfully vaccinate, reducing the number of carriers to zero. No more Polio. Problem solved.

Humanity can wait for these pockets to develop their own wilful way of eradicating the disease from their population, reducing the number of carriers to zero. No more Polio. Problem solved.

Humanity can find a way to forcefully vaccinate these pockets, reducing the number of carriers to zero. No more Polio. Problem solved.

Humanity can find an alternative way to forcefully reduce the number of carriers to zero, such as selective murder or the less-selective, genocide. No more Polio. Problem solved.

Humanity can wait for nature to reduce the number of carriers in these pockets to zero through natural disaster. No more Polio. Problem solved.

These, whilst some of them horrifying, are solutions to the problem humanity faces, for the "greater good" and all that jazz. The cost and viability of these solutions are under constant consideration whether you like it or not.

Why haven't they occurred? Well,

People continue to resist the vaccine.

Developing new methods of eradicating disease doesn't happen spontaneously in small populations.

The moral price of forcefully vaccinating this population is probably on the cusp of acceptability. The practicalities are more challenging at this time, however I wouldn't be surprised if a solution of this type isn't being actively worked on.

Nature works in it's own time.

The global value of the lost life is too high for decision to be made to enact mass murder for the sake of eradicating Polio at this time.

Upon finishing, answer not needed, let me ask: If we ran out of the ability to produce Polio vaccine for the world, would you rather: murder several million people, or, condemn humanity to a future with Polio, at the cost of hundreds of thousands of lives per year, on top of hundreds of thousands of new cases of disability?
But it's not random they specifically select sentences that form a poem that is valid in the English language and is easy to memorize.

If you apply other restrictions like knowing that the authentication mechanism only allows X number of characters and assuming that the user will attempt to come as close as possible to that max but cannot pass it obviously it allows you to reduce the amount of valid poems even further.

People who are good at password cracking and social engineering can often reduce the amount of possible passwords for a specific target to about 10,000 with quite high accuracy, this is less math and rocket science and more common sense and psychology in this case.
While you can apply calories to those situations, at best calories is an incomplete model. A can of tuna and a can of coke both have 120calories. Yet its obvious that those are going to effect the bodies systems in different ways.

Also, weight is just one measurement. People that eat paleo and other diets often improve all their health numbers like blood pressure and other stuff. So there is a bigger picture to grasp.
They are being compared as they are the main options for clustering and scheduling containers. I'd agree Kubernetes is at a higher level to the other options, or at least comes with more features.

I'm not sure what you mean by "hosting external services reliably" - what's external and who is unreliable?
But it doesn't matter what method you use. Anything that checks the position rapidly will keep it from moving.
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The New Yorker had solid overview -- i.e., "how much we know about how little we know" -- of the gut microbiome in 2012: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/10/22/germs-are-us

The calories-in, calories-out crowd isn't wrong thermodynamically speaking (I am fairly certain!), but an important component of that is how many calories are being taken-up by bacteria and how many are passed through without being utilized. If my gut sucks up 20% more calories from the same food as someone else, I'm going to have a harder time managing my weight than he/she will... even if we eat and 'move' at precisely the same amounts.
Escalating conflict may be a way of increasing the perceived uncertainty, cost, and risk to the other party, and thus increasing the likelihood and size of a settlement to make the case go away, so there may be an incentive to escalate conflict with contingency. Its probably less than with hourly fees, and more than with flat-rate fees (which ISTR are occasionally offered by some for some things like simple divorces.)
Joe,

You are fully right.
My problem is where to find the team, people etc.
Maybe if you are in San Francisco or studying at MIT that is no problem, but I need advice exactl on this.
Self as Sovereign: Where do we get the notion of mind as separate from body?
How could you possibly justify that if you're not willing to juice the investor's gains when the gambler comes out ahead?
Providing open source code would be a lot more helpful. Maybe they want to make a commercial product out of it.
Tell that to the state lotteries...
I can't second this enough: if you haven't worked remotely before, you should definitely start out with a company that has a remote working culture.
Is that the official statement?
It has nothing to do with "complex and innovative" it's the difference in perception inputs needed to grok something.

I can tell you very quickly about Virtual Reality and why you should care, but you won't understand it till you put a HMD on.
This happens everywhere in the US
Probably when people stop talking about a "supposed" power-differential, realize it exists, and do something about it.

And while you're not wrong that a lot of that safety net stuff is the point of government, you'd have a pretty hard time claiming that they were doing it well, or helping everyone who needed it, especially with a lot of states slashing aid from their budgets in order to give tax cuts.
My first post here was very simple. Someone needs to show an actual "entire new pie". No one here has done that yet.

They have only said that my idea of "entire new pie" is incorrect (while couching that it is actually probably correct). How can I know the difference between my meaning and yours if you are unable to produce an instance of what you are talking about?

>There are (probably) fundamental limits to the economy. That's a different topic than the one the rest of us are talking about, though.

The topic you are all talking about is subsumed by the more fundamental limits (saulrh even explicitly referred to this in their OP). If there are limits, then there is a notion of fairness. The original premise of saulrh's argument was that "fairness" wasn't useful because the pie is not fixed (even though it is incorrectly [according to saulrh's OP] perceived to be).

I also think that there may not only be universal (or inter-universal [or other])) limits, but there may be local limits as well. For instance, once I create an entire new pie, where does it go? It would need to displace some thing, even if it's just atmospheric molecules.
This seems like a broken patch to a broken system. To use the main example from the article, Cat would crush Miller if Miller didn't have access to this method of financing their lawsuit, and Miller's lawsuit looks at least plausible, so them being crushed out of hand is a bad outcome. So, it does somewhat fix the problem of smaller litigants being able to go up against larger defendants without just being automatically crushed out of hand.

However, it does seem that there are some obvious failure states for this new system. If venture litigation becomes the norm, then only litigants who are either extremely large themselves or can attract financing will even have a chance of victory. So, the financiers become the de facto arbiters of the judicial system.

To me, the real problem is that the civil justice system is so expensive as to be out of reach for many/most people, or at least putting a limit on how big a size difference the two parties can have. All told, this isn't that different than someone taking out a mortgage to fund a lawsuit, and that is fairly obviously allowed. The fact that someone might need to take a mortgage or seek outside funding in order to seek justice is the problem, not the mortgage or financing itself.
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Jeremy Ashkenas actually made a Chrome extension called "Wait! Google sent me!" that did this for you. It seems to have gotten deleted, though.
2010? SRSLY?
I remember hearing a story of it being used a few times during flights. I guess it does work, and having a hole in your throat is not that bad, there are no arteries or much blood flow at all in there. Of course, I would still vastly prefer a dechoker! (assuming it works well)
"A method for defining an computational operation, performed by a computer system or a mechanical equivalent of thereof, in terms of the same computational operation performed by the identical system. Such computational operation is defined in such a way it consists of two separate computational suboperations - one and only one of them is defined completely in terms of the composed computational operation itself."

Sounds like it could fly with USPTO.

(And if it doesn't, you can try and confuse people by patenting Y combinator.)
Well if fat shaming could solve those problems, we would use it for sure. Until then, people will try to get smarter and find science about those problem, as always.

You can label it as excuse if you want.
You can also memorize a sentence or a paragraph from a book that you love and own (which also can be used if you ever forget, or need to share the password with anyone)).
I don't really see Uber violating tax or (real) safety rules. I agree that we don't want to see an Uber monopoly, but there's much bigger problems with them than the fact that they're fighting ridiculous legislation.

Also, it's called civil disobedience.
So if you are poor enough you can speed with impunity? If you take away their license they could go hungry.
Well, hold on now. There isn't a 1:1 correlation between credit card debt and poor spending choices. Someone who'd never charge more on their card than they could pay off at the end of the month might do it, for example, if they just got a speeding ticket and didn't have any cash to pay for it. (I'd certainly take that route long before a pay-or-get-arrested plan from the court.)
And more, for support, not fines:

http://www.alternet.org/economy/debtors-prisons-are-alive-an...

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/44376665/ns/us_news-crime_and_cour...

I can't find the reference now, but the stats from a California government investigation showed that ~90% of people (i.e. men) not paying child support simply couldn't afford to pay. They were charged 20% interest, too.

It's a common abuse of poor people: make them pay for being poor. Pile on interest, charges, fees, etc. to double or triple their debt.
> 1) Vaccinators can't access some regions of Afghanistan and Pakistan because of violent resistance to Western aid.

It might be relevant to actually mention the reason that this resistance exists[0][1]. There was resistance even before the CIA's tactics to assassinate Bin Laden were discovered, but it certainly doesn't help that we (the US) have legitimized these fears in their minds.

Forcibly vaccinating people (as you suggest below) would be even more disastrous, for the same reason. If the problem is that people are concerned about Western hegemony in their local countries, the solution is not to forcibly subject them to medical treatment by Western powers.

[0] http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2015/02/150225-polio-paki...

[1] http://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/jul/11/cia-fake-vaccin...
Weird Economics: The 2015 External Revenue Service Summit
Indeed. But it's getting to be a typical thing these days. It's more react with emotions on the story that supports the bias instead of finding out the truth of the situation. Like the responses I'm getting of made up quotes, as if that's the truth of the matter. They don't even bother to ask what my initial feelings on the matter are, it's just an immediate disagreement because I don't automatically support the narrative they like. It's rather pathetic in my eyes.
Well, I hope you're not using Windows 8.1, because you don't get the option any more. Luckily, the default - 8pt Segoe UI on mine, I think? - looks decent even with ClearType off and antialiasing disabled.
"I still understand that the police does its job, but during the experience I felt an intense hatred for the office. After a multitude of such experiences it isn’t far-fetched to imagine that the parties subjected to such treatment develop an enduring hatred for the office and everything associated to it. I guess the idea of being powerless is one of the many very frustrating things about this ordeal. Can I blame people for disliking the police if many of their experiences are as negative as the one I’ve had and probably often even worse?"

This realization doesn't seem to ever strike some people their entire lives. When harassment by authority is a common occurrence and a source of anxiety it's difficult to keep up appearances.
I had never heard of FizzBuzz before this exact moment. What a weird "test"...
By which metric would you measure this "efficiency"?

The difference between VC-backed-startups vs traditional R&D departments is that the first one seems more short sighted, and with a tendency towards a narrow subset of IT problems with high scalability and disruptive potential, while the second one works on a wide array of industries and applications where the parent company already has the benefits of economies of scale.
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If only the US were tiny, homogenous and filled with obedient Europeans.
Hmm, I'll answer my own question - you mean has a load-balancer built in, don't you?
> There's a significant difference, in that you choose to take on credit card debt, but you don't choose to be fined.

You choose to buy things on a credit card, sure, but you also choose to do the acts for which you are fined. And you can say that traffic enforcement is arbitrary, so that the costs may not be predictable -- but, then, the same is true of post-transaction changes to credit card policies and interest rates which impact the degree of indebtedness you actually end up with. (And, of course, since in many cases fines can be paid by credit cards, any arbitrariness and involuntariness that applies to fines can potentially directly produce credit card debt, so...)
Place like this are popping up all over: http://nydesigns.org/what-we-do/fablab/
My preferred general approach is that the answer to speech you don't like is more speech. Very specifically, large numbers of people can in turn collectively buy their own "free speech" through various forms of non-profits. Right now, compare the 5 million members of the NRA vs. Michael Bloomberg, who is the only person currently putting serious money into gun control.

In a way, that supports your case, in the Colorado, Washington and Oregon wins he's achieved (through non-profits fronts he's established, after Mayors Against Illegal Guns became so notorious for the number of criminal mayors in it). But not generally, nationally the needle hasn't moved aside from Obama and Hillary! publicly calling for the confiscation of the nation's handguns and semi-auto long guns (!).

But our response is not to try to muzzle him, let alone support a law like McCain-Feingold which muzzled the NRA and therefore its 5 million members working in collective action prior to it being spiked by Citizens United.

I'll also note that money only gets you a hearing, I simply don't believe that big money can "dominate the political dialog and crowd out dissenting voices who have less money" without concurrent capture of gatekeepers (like the Federal government in the case of McCain-Feingold...). The examples are legion, the latest being ¡Jeb! Bush's total failure to gain any traction outside of big money sources.

(I recently came across an analysis that to win the Presidency, you've got to do well at both getting "big" and "small" money. Hmmm, like Obama did. By that metric, watch Cruz, and of course Trump is a wildcard, not needing either and currently not playing that game at all.)
Testing windows? As basically the lone user of Safari on the various teams I've worked on, I've learned that you're lucky if people test on anything but Chrome for Mac.
Taiwanese woman may face hefty bill for US plane birth
I expected better from someone with the username laotzu.

And gentrification isn't even a proper example for Palindrome Peter. This isn't a matter of yuppies coming into a neighborhood that has a strong community but has been historically poor, aianus is talking about suburbs that have always been middle-to-upper class. Think Santa Monica, Bellevue, and the entire state of Connecticut. :3

And I suspect that Taoists really wouldn't give a fuck about gentrification. "If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you are not afraid of dying, there is nothing you cannot achieve."