skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> With inside information, it's not available to people outside the tipping network at any price.

Let's take a stylized version of a recent insider-trading case:

- A company ("Conglomacorp") employs someone ("Big Mouth") to dispense inside information to investors. Usually he does this by sitting in his office and answering phone calls. (This is common, and definitely legal.)

- A particular investor ("Shylock") develops a friendship with Big Mouth, and regularly goes to dinner with him. At dinner, Big Mouth tells this investor company information.

- Shylock trades in Conglomacorp stock.

- It's stipulated that if the information that Shylock received had been dispensed during work hours, there wouldn't have been any legal problems. But he is prosecuted on the theory that, since it was dispensed at dinner, outside of work hours, he should have been aware that trading on it was illegitimate.

How does this case fit in with your ideas of insider trading? It's certainly not the case that "[the inside information is] not available to people outside the tipping network at any price". You have to be a big enough investor that the investor relations desk has time for you, but that's open to anyone.
Cars are still regulated and will have to pass safety and compliance tests. I think the companies themselves also realize that they're going to have be extremely careful with updates, not the least from a liability point of view. But, where there's a will, there'a way, and mainstream OTA car updates are entirely inevitable in my opinion.

But the traditional car manufacturers do no have this will. It does not fit their world view. The idea of an OTA that changes the car is abhorrent to them. They looked at bemusement when Tesla did UI feature updates OTA, confusion/doubt when Tesla changed driving dynamics OTA last year, and horrification at the "self driving" features recently deployed. And they have no plans in this regard either, they are entirely convinced they are right and the rest of the world is going mad and will surely self-correct. The luxury 2015 model German sedan you buy today will NEVER receive a new feature, or even bugfixes except at a dealer, while Google and Apple are all about creating new platforms spanning multiple products & years. And that is why the Germans will lose.
Of course, which is one of the reasons the article is silly.
Just clicked the demo http://www.lavancier.com/adblock/ and: "Ads are enabled in this browser. :)"

Now guess if I block ads?
So put in an iptables rule that restricts it to their network and make people remote in to use their client. Done and done.
Tesla doesn't have the software resources of Apple and they're making it work.
In my city, actually 2 different ISPs were started by a bunch of hackers trying to provider better internet for their own peers. It seems to be at least not impossible to do so.
Except with C++ instead of Java and the DOM instead of Java API's.
> Take another look with a free trial account?

I'm not OP, but I tried that in a bake-off a few months back. Setup went well, I got some free trial credit-- and immediately found my account turned suspended due to fraud concerns. Note that this was the same payment details I was using (and continue to use) for Google Apps for Domains.

If GCE can't get the simple things like billing handled, I've got little faith in their ability to solve the harder problems.

Curiously, a few months later (this week in fact) I got a message out of the blue telling me that my account was unsuspended. Rather obviously, I had already gone with AWS around mid-summer...
Plus it's self-hosted which is always nice, especially if you are worried about what data you are sticking in there.
But if you're employing someone to predict stock movements, you presumably are paying them to provide you with advice that will result in profit rather than loss which would make the "why" somewhat implicit. As well, a major red-flag should be raised should anyone tell you "do not ask me why."

Insider trading is legal now if you are powerful and wealthy and not an appropriate candidate for some sort of selective enforcement of the laws, it seems.
It's up to the founders to reach out and try to figure out how to solve the problem. If they don't do that YC isn't going to perform an audit or hold a bunch of seminars or something.

TBH most of this is basic competence. YC can't ensure that all of the companies are competent in all aspects.
Because the newspaper regularly needs to discuss numbers on the order of billions, and it's nice to save a couple of syllables over "thousand million" every time. The newspaper only occasionally discusses 10^12s (mostly in the context of how much debt the US is in, go figure) and "trillion" is fine for that. (The long scale trillion is 10^18, a useless sort of number.)

Larger numbers rarely need to be discussed outside contexts where you'd use scientific notation anyway.
> The USSR was very nearly defeated by the Germans,

It's actually not that simple. Germans were very close to capturing Moscow and Saint-Petersburg, but the industry had been evacuated to remote locations which would have allowed them to keep on fighting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_World_War_II_evacuatio...

Of course, Hitler with resources of European part of USSR and especially oil fields of Caucasus would have been much more formidable enemy but he was still quite far away from complete victory over USSR.
I'm sure you could find plenty of negative reviews on the site as well.

Just because someone says a product is great doesn't mean they are being paid to do so, or even that they received it for free. It could just be that the product is great for the use case they reviewed.
I wonder if you have traveled to other parts of the world where there is "no zoning" and seen the reality of those places? I'm not talking about situations with some sort of theoretical Libertarian solution to tragedies of the commons but the reality on the ground.

Zoning laws were a reaction to the situations arising from a state devoid of zoning. I assume and have confirmed in my opinion that they are a good solution to those problems, if not always implemented in an optimal fashion or twisted through the actions of special interests.

You can of course claim that there are no problems arising from a lack of zoning and that the introduction of zoning laws is purely political in nature rather than functionally positive for society as a whole, but I'd like to see some real-world evidence rather than philosophy or assertions of opinion as fact.
.nu is common in the Netherlands as well, it means the same thing in Dutch.
… but does Apple’s personal computing software knowhow
translate into the high-reliability real-time code
required for a safe, reliable and, of course, elegant
electric car?

It doesn't have to. Not all the software in a car is high-reliability real-time code. My prediction is that Apple will make all the user facing software and buy all the rest.
The reason I think so is that it's not enough to write the
high-reliability real-time code. Besides thoroughly testing it you will have to get it approved by authorities - worldwide.

Proud incumbent automakers look down on the interlopers. Dr.-Ing. Dieter
Zetsche, head of century-old Daimler-Benz, has no patience for Silicon Valley
companies intruding on his turf:

“What is important for us is that the brain of the car, the operating system, is
not iOS or Android or someone else but it’s our brain […] We do not plan to
become the Foxconn of Apple,” Mr. Zetsche said, referring to the Chinese company
that manufactures iPhones.

That sounds like a Daimler car had a Daimler brain but that's just not true.
The most important ECUs are made by companies like Bosch, Continental or TRW.
These suppliers sell to all car manufacturers and they will be more than happy to
supply one more.

Thinking about it this makes me really curious how Tesla handles this. Has anyone an idea which third party ECUs from which suppliers they use?
Going through the three letters in AGW:

Anthropogenic: "there's more snow falling in Antarctica than ice melting" says nothing about humans being responsible one way or the other.

Global: more snow falling in Antarctica says nothing about overall global conditions, e.g. average surface temperature. Changes in circulation patterns can cool one spot and warm another.

Warming: more snow falling in Antarctica does not, by itself, even say anything about temperatures in Antarctica. It's not like raising the average there (-49C) by a few degrees would turn snow into rain. It could however increase the likelihood of precipitation.
The Case of Sleeping Beauty
Global warming =! man made climate change.

Climate change is the more broader and comprehensive view of man's impact on the current climate and it goes far beyond greenhouse gases and the common causes of global warming.
Greenland for example which is one of the current largest contributors to the rise of sea level is melting not only due to warmer sea and air temperatures but as latest studies show due to changes in the albedo mainly due to (black) carbon deposits in the ice.

The change in the albedo of glaciers in some areas was not considered until fairly recently to be the major contributor and catalyst to them melting, and this also affects land glaciers which were previously considered more resilient to sea temperature changes and could even serve to mitigate or dampen the affect.

Climate change also deals with other issues such as massive deforestation, salinity and acidity changes in water which affect gas absorption which can lead to thermal and molecular expansion, as well as many other things.

The climate is complicated and the fact that moisture from the air is deposited on land based ice in Antarctica doesn't change the fact that man made climate change is a real fact, heck pretty much all climate change models actually predicted that land ice thickness would increase when sea ice is lost at increasing rates as the increased moisture of the air would increase precipitation, and precipitation over Antarctica isn't a good thing it means that the air is getting considerably warmer because cold air has almost no capacity for water vapor[0].

This of course also that droughts would increase in places that we actually need them because air is getting warmer and the global jet streams whisk it away and before when the air would normally get colder and lose it's water vapor capacity and condense which would make it rain over land and most importantly populated areas we see now more precipitation in places like Antarctica and worse the oceans.

http://web.gccaz.edu/~lnewman/gph111/topic_units/Labs_all/Wa...

This issue is way too complicated which is probably one of it's biggest issues because people who like to dig their heads into the sand like to use simple anecdotes to disproof something which sadly we know too little about to understand, but enough to know that we should be quite afraid of.
> AirBnB should implement the rule that you only get to list 1 rental. That would solve this problem, and allow them to stop lying to everyone about who is actually renting on their platform.

That proposal is a one way train from a $25B valuation to $2.5B valuation.

Of course, if AirBnB loses a number of these key regulatory battles that too could put a serious damper on their biz. Hence, their massive lobbying efforts.
I pay to use the Consumer Reports content. I think if Guru3D became the 'Consumer Reports' of gaming hardware, then they could probably get paying viewers. Here's some other ideas. As long as they are doing test builds, how about selling detailed instructions for those builds. And if they get all this hardware donated by vendors, how about selling the rigs they build. Perhaps they can get a "brand" markup - sort of like selling NASCAR pace cars.
But in that case there'd be so many people in the wronged party that some enterprising law firm would be very happy to set up a class action, if there were some point they thought they could win on as being genuinely unconscionable.
The things you're describing here are common to many large organisations - is Google a university?

Tellingly, you don't mention the primary reason universities exist - to educate, regardless of the profitability of the subject. This is exactly the opposite of YC's primary goal, which is to make money and avoid unprofitable investments.
That's a bit like my time system I've been pushing.

http://kybernetikos.com/2012/11/26/modern-times-a-new-clock/

or just the clock

http://kybernetikos.github.io/UIT/

You need to share your location so that it knows how to rotate the numbers on the face and how to draw the sunrise/sunset times on the dial.
Sort of like how there's very little reason for Holland to try to prevent the ocean from coming in?
I understand that. I myself do it quite often for even trivial things, and then realize later that, well..., more than 60% of my country is rural, and I am here talking why Surface Book is better than Macbook or some such consumerist triviality -_-
How do we even measure the value that had been donated to various irc technical efforts over the last 26 years? Millions if dollars in person-hours is probably not unfair to imagine.
The theory that people will be healthier by decreasing fat and increasing carbs has led to our current obesity epidemic. I would classify the science performed that got us to this point as fulfilling your requiremen.
Terrible example. When the iPhone launched, it could make calls and send messages extremely reliably. It was foremost a phone. Copy/paste wasn't a core part of that functionality.
Offshoring the Economy: Why the US Is on the Road to the Third World
Considering the developers will have their friends and family use these machines, I believe the incentive is there to get it right.

Also, isn't self-driving vehicles a more difficult software challenge than guiding a rocket?
In addition to the large legacy company alternatives (big tech companies, big car companies) there's lots of room for startups like Renovo Motors to innovate here. I agree the slower moving of those big companies has the most to worry about on multiple fronts.
In a free market with well-informed participants, argument from popularity is entirely legitimate.
How to Grok Higher Order Classes
It makes me wish that Netflix, et al. provided a bit more in the way of configuration/control options. In this case, the ability to turn auto-play off. One checkbox, with a bit of code behind it.

Realize that not everyone is in the same boat, connection-wise. And with data caps continuing to loom, some would like a simple setting to help guard against accidentally running over.

Also, believe it or not, some of us like the credits. And with outfits like Marvel stuffing teasers and jokes in after they've run, that interest may be increasing.
In the last 30 minutes they fixed the misspelling but kept the text as it is. This means someone is currently following this problem and thinks they are in the right by doing this.
> Your comments lead me to believe you have skin in the game because you seem determined to not acknowledge that the value of something is what your customers will pay for it.

None what-so-ever, other than having several websites I enjoy that use ads for revenue generation. My current work is in Business SAAS.

> If they aren't willing to pay for it then it has no value in the market, regardless of the value you've assigned to it.

You don't understand markets. If a minority of users aren't willing to "pay" for it, that doesn't make it without value. By your logic, movies are pirated by a minority and thus, they have no value. With movies it matters less because they've compensated for it by charging people that actually pay more and more.
If you are Paul G./YC, what do you do about this?

Nothing unless it gets bad press. Why do you think they care about "egregious" behavior?

Quote From: What We Look For In Founders - Paul Graham - October 2010

[...]
Naughtiness
Though the most successful founders are usually good people, they
tend to have a piratical gleam in their eye. They're not Goody
Two-Shoes type good. Morally, they care about getting the big questions
right, but not about observing proprieties. That's why I'd use the word
naughty rather than evil. They delight in breaking rules, but not rules
that matter. This quality may be redundant though; it may be implied by
imagination. [...]
No. If you bought a high end watch from a shady dude well below market price and without any papers, you could be found guilty of a crime (posession of stolen goods) before the law changed as well as after the law changed. Nothing has changed there.

However, if you bought a used watch at a reasonable price with some plausible documentation, this is where things has changed somewhat.

Before, if you had bought the watch in "good faith", i.e. there was no obvious reason for you to suspect it was stolen when you bought it, you were entitled to keep the watch even if it was later found out it was indeed stolen. Even if they later found the previous owner, he wasn't allowed to have it back. He had to go after the thief to get compensation (even if the thief is unknown).

That last thing is what changed. If they find out the watch is indeed stolen, you have to give it back to the previous owner, even if you bought it in "good faith". But you have not committed a crime, you will simply have to give back the goods to the right owner. Now it is you as a buyer that has to go after the thief for compensation (because he scammed you by selling stolen goods).
Because sloppiness and bad habits tend to propagate.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10451143
Both he and I realized that there's lots of answers to modern problems in those old papers, as history repeats a lot in IT. The field has a problem of passing wisdom down to next generations or just generalizing solutions. The constraints and OS/hardware competitiveness also made lots of inherently interesting solutions to problems that you're unlikely to see re-appear outside of embedded or special-purpose. Fun stuff to read.

If interested, Timeline of Operating Systems is a good start. Just pick summary of anything major (minus DOS's) and dig into references if it interests you.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_operating_systems

The capability systems were also forward-thinking with much modern work on OOP, isolation, etc slowly reinventing its methods. Easy extension plus strong security/reliability were their thing.

https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~levy/capabook/index.html

Here's a paper vezzy-fnord shared with a lot of nice examples with features that defined future work and some still ahead of modern systems:

http://brinch-hansen.net/papers/2001b.pdf

Lots of old stuff that still beats modern, mainstream stuff on key metrics. Hopefully, you'll dig into some of it and enjoy the "arcane" stuff yourself. It's arcane, but sometimes awesome too. :)
It seems very unfair to the thousands of people who have donated time, money, and services to IRC over its life span to dismiss it as not having gotten value.
> My prediction is that Apple will make all the user facing software and buy all the rest.

That's actually a very interesting point in light of the Foxconn comment - it seems to make a lot of sense for Apple to get the car hardware from a Chinese manufacturer, e.g. Geely.
Looks like you guys just corrected the spelling of your website name on my profile (previously "LIIVECODING.TV"), which is still accusing me of spamming. Is this the kind of improvement you had in mind?
The unfairness of this makes me rather sad. A handful of YC companies make mistakes out of >800. Why the need for a snide remark toward Jessica?
Sigh. Don't get me started on our abuse handling. That said, any system will have false positives and I'm sorry you got hit by that. I assume you didn't bother talking to a person (and I don't blame you).

I think my comment above still stands though: everything has improved a lot (particularly technically).
I think the main issue was it's reliance on the Pepper Plugin API. Which several people have said was mapped closely to Chrome's software architecture.

Technically it was a plugin for Pepper and the only difference between it and Flash was that it was open source and only available to Chrome.
Are you technical? If you are, this should really be a "take care of it then talk to my cofounder about it" type of thing.
It is not about resources, but culture. Apple have a culture that delivers extremely high quality hardware, but they don't have the culture to deliver good software.
They're not shooting the messenger.

Proposition F
>Limits short-term rentals of a unit to 75 days per year, regardless of whether rental is hosted or unhosted.
>Requires proof that the unit’s owner authorizes using the unit as a short-term rental.
>Requires short-term hosts to submit quarterly reports on the number of days they live in the unit and the number of days the unit is rented
>Mandates that the city post notice on buildings with a unit approved for short-term rentals and notify by mail owners, neighbors of the unit and interested neighborhood organizations.
Source: Ballot Simplification Committee

AirBnB created a market in an area where existing laws didn't apply. This is part of legislation catching up.
In addition to the Big Brother stuff, I wonder why they even care how much bandwidth their users use.

As long as the links aren't congested, why care at all? Bandwidth is cheap and it's not like they are charged by the GB in any case.

Their upstream either charges a flat fee or by the 95th percentile. The Netflix example is really wierd, as usage is at it's lowest during the night.
Slack has 1.1 million users _total_ (http://www.fastcompany.com/3047819/with-over-1-million-users...), meanwhile Twitch uses IRC, and has ~3.3 million per day alone (http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2015/01/29/twitchs-viewers-reach...), using stats taken eleven months ago while more than doubling its monthly viewer numbers every year.

Freenode isn't the only network out there =)
> Terrible example. When the iPhone launched, it could make calls and send messages extremely reliably.

Unless you were holding it wrong ;)

> Copy/paste wasn't a core part of that functionality.

So, what complex car functionality do you reckon is non-core and can be cut by Apple?
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Founder Comment was over 1 hour ago and the seeming libel and doxxing of Lazer's full name, and employer are still up - an apology in words but not actions - messing with someones employment is egregious.
If you can write a law that will enforce that my boss lets me do that, sure.

(The real issue is that the legally-regulated opening hours for e.g. banks are too late in the day)
My best guess on webapps vs, say, infoproducts is that there's more avenues for failure in a webapp.

With an infoproduct, you've basically got:

1) Screwed up your market research, no market.
2) Screwed up your marketing, no-one hears about you.
3) Screwed up the content, problem obvious.

With a webapp, you've got all sorts of design and usability issues. Features are non-obvious even once you've got the core value proposition down. Viral loop is trickier to engineer. Onboarding is a thing. And so on.

But that's just my guess.
Shift-JIS is still the most common encoding for Japanese channels (but not being able to embed ODOA isn't an issue there either).
Using solar panels to take hot shower instead of burning gas does not constitute "making vast changes to our way of life".
WebAssembly is about as close to Java applets as Flash. I can recommend the video that was linked by corysama to get a fuller picture of the WebAssembly design.
It is a open market of tools out there... if IRC fulfilled the need and developed features that people really wanted they would be there.

Why does gchat, snapchat, whatsapp, fb messenger exist if AIM had been fulfilling the need of the market?
If 90% of their business comes from 'power users' and investment firms and not 'locals renting their home while they are out of town' - then AirBnB is founded on an extraordinary lie.