skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Personal experience reading filings. In most states (and certainly in California), there's no need to prove any particular or even general allegation in a filing. It's basically a license to rant about your soon-to-be ex. Most people aren't dumb enough to pay lawyers extra to spout off; they just want the divorce. But as you can imagine, giving people who are hurt, bitter, and angry about a failed relationship a venue to publicly berate their partner does often enough lead to all manner of nastiness. This isn't new, either; it's been going on for as long as there's been divorce. It makes for mildly entertaining reading, but one can't really take any of it as fact.
Baby BiBli and the quest for Artificial Autism
On the one hand, the last 20 years of study on politic science didn't bring much improvement, so only certain things have room for development.

On the other, an old article on HN criticized the fact than garage science/fablabs in nuclear area became forbidden since the war, which prevents disruptive young tinklers from stumbling upon a revolutionnary discoveries.
If a VC-funded company is acquired for $5M, the founders likely aren't getting anything - liquidation preferences from angel/seed and A round would likely wipe them out almost entirely.

Equity in an early company is 100% based on potential. Why should the guy who filed the paperwork and found an investor claim all the equity for a company he has not yet built? What about the efforts of the other employees (who will probably end up doing just as much for the company)? Unless you're paying them an above-market salary, don't they have some right to the company they helped build?
The two infographic images attached to the article completely failed to elucidate.

Two red dots, and some blue and green squares, followed by a blue and green pie chart. This is followed by the same two red dots with more blue squares.

It sort of reminds me of the occasional articles you see about particularly egregious elementary school support materials. If Suzie muttonates half her mickmackles, how many glomploots will Bobby need for the spimbliz? Wakalixes make it go!

The point was that you shouldn't divvy up equity based on work already completed, because that split does not represent the division of labor in the work that is still necessary to get to a viable product. Here's how I would illustrate that:

Image 1: A person in a red shirt holds a red apple. A person in a green shirt holds a green apple.

Image 2: A bushel basket holds 18 red apples and 2 green apples.

Image 3: An apple-pie chart made from the very first bushel represents an equity split of 90% to redguy and 10% to greenguy.

Image 4: A wider shot of their orchard shows two trees with red apples on it, and 8 trees with green apples, still to be harvested.
Coming from Ruby to Python...I could not believe how damn hard it was to comprehend the beautifully explained and simple code (just 21 lines!) in Peter Norvig's writeup of how to create a spelling corrector [1], purely because of the list comprehensions (and a few other visual differences, such as partial list notation)

For example:

inserts = [a + c + b for a, b in splits for c in alphabet]

It's no different (conceptually, at least) than doing:

inserts = []
for a, b in splits:
for c in alphabet:
inserts.append(a + c + b)

Or in Ruby (OK, maybe this isn't perfect Ruby):

inserts = splits.reduce([]) do |x, (a, b)|
alphabet.each{|c| x << a + c + b }
x
end

But the list comprehension was so difficult for me to read that it might as well have been a brand new concept. But I found I got quickly over it after rewriting all of his comprehensions as for-loops, and then trying to convert them back into comprehensions. It was a good reminder that sometimes the barrier is just plain muscle/memory reflex (and probably much more so for beginning programmers...)

[1] http://norvig.com/spell-correct.html
Is it? It is also what Edward Snowden said.
In case anyone else is interested in the source code, it's here: https://github.com/wiki-ai/ores
I don't think it's absolutely true, the general case you referred to is as strong as I intended the assertion to be.
I made a detailed study of all this last spring

I think that's part of the problem--there are too many post-hoc justifications for why things happened the way they did that ignore what actually happened and why people made the decisions they did.

Dan's Parrot postmortem is still accurate: there just wasn't the will to turn P6 into a real, stable, shipping product, and there wasn't the honest acknowledgement that P6 wouldn't be a realistic replacement for Perl until far too late.
Nearly as bad as if the front fell off! (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3m5qxZm_JqM)
I'm a web designer, and i can probably help out, leave an email and we'll talk
You can politely say no and explain why. You have many clients and can't account for all the laws in each state, you'd rather deal with local laws you are familiar with and certainly abide by.

Furthermore, you can also show past works, references, etc. to support that point and convey that you like to stand by your word. Writing a contract where you're not fully familiar with the laws of the state means it makes it harder to deliver the work and experience you are known for.

When they say they want to amend the contract, what they are really saying is that they feel uncertain about certain things and feel there's a higher level of risk.

And at the very end of the day if they still insist on the changes, tell them you're willing to do that and explain to them that you will need to change the quote because of the extra legal fees.

Source: years of working with clients and making them happy
That can happen democratically, you don't need to give the final say to a single individual or small group.
Private memo lays out how the GOP would deal with Trump as its nominee
How is "dynamic vs static typing" meaningless?
Am I mistaken or are you and the parent not saying the same thing?
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Study: Type 2 diabetes can be cured through weight loss
> If it can be shown to work

Work for who? This breaks SSL encryption, a technology which the modern internet relies on.
100% agree with this, particularly on the part emphasized:

"An advanced programmer can create a program that is correct, but complex and hard to understand. For the purpose of creating an accurate mental model, <emphasis>even the program's correctness is of secondary importance: code that is understandable can be fixed.</emphasis>"
Oh, my bad, I didn't realize the first-person pronoun could be given third-person usage.
I really don't understand how that sort of behaviour doesn't constitute an act of war.

Imagine if China sent saboteurs in-country to physically destroy infrastructure being used by American businesses. That would Not Be Taken Lightly.
First, 2% is a lot. It's more than any senior employee is likely to get after year 1-2.

Second, if you're doing equal split and you have three cofounders, without a cliff you're talking about someone who might walk away with 8% of the company without even having spent a year there. CEOs of companies routinely get significantly less than 8% of the company.

Finally, the "no cliff" risk happens all the time. People leaving after less than a year is practically the default setting. I'm sorry, but as often as malfeasance among founders happens (the fact that it's newsworthy when it does is suggestive), it's not the default.
When you analyse Star Wars like that, you'll find that the things which make sense are greatly outnumbered by the things that don't.
There is a casino around there. But there's also the town of Deadwood a couple hours away, which is likely more appealing.
Tradewinds?
what does the attractiveness of his girlfriend have to do with it?
Is Markdown really "relatively new?" According to Wikipedia, it's older than OOXML, aka .docx .xlsx .pptx etc.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markdown
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_Open_XML
My first thought, any tech company to setup offices in this country are probably out the window. However, more importantly, they just made it really easy for other governments to spy on them. In their zeal to protect national security, they have done just the opposite.
They get a participation trophy at the annual awards ceremony.
That's a terrible TX/RX ratio. Unless you encode data in each request and receive small pictures only, it would take ages to send any real information. Good for receiving though.
How is Java low level. Java is a high level language. What is "low level" about Java? Do you mean statically typed makes it low level? No it doesn't. It makes it safer though. Low level means direct access to hardware and having to deal with network protocols manually and shit like that. None of which you almost ever do or would want to do with Java considering it runs on a cross platform runtime mostly isolated from the actual OS of the host machine.
"Thorium Thermal Batteries". Yeah, I dig that.
I found this incredibly hard to read, due to Wolfram's constant need to self-aggrandize. The entire tone of the piece is, "I discovered this, then I discovered that". In reality, most of his "revelations" were discussed by others long before he arrived on set.
A VC’s Usage (or Not) of 22 On-Demand Startups
Quite a topsy-turvey musing and not at all bad. Really tries to get into the meat of the concept of an English major. However, I find the following rather funny in simply how wrong it is:

>And so with English departments: if we closed down every English department in the country, loud, good, expert, or at least hyper-enthusiastic readers would still emerge. One sees this happening already, in the steady pulse of reading groups and books clubs which form, in effect, a kind of archipelago of amateur English departments.

From what I've read (ha!), long-form reading is steadily on the decline and shows no sign of slowing down. Sure, there are a few prestige outlets experimenting with formats to engage audiences, and investigative journalism is still a worthwhile pursuit, but those are sidebar discussions to what's being asserted above.

No, with technology, now audiences don't have to bother with reading for instruction or entertainment. Simply look at the history of music, and now that entire libraries of material can be put in one's pocket, the scarcity and effort factor of pursuit is nearly extinct. Books were portable. They were cheap to access.

Well, now that multimedia is not only portable but cheap too - streaming audio services, free-to-watch or subscription video services, and user-content generated platforms like Instagram/Twitter/Facebook - I see the long-form reading and thinking avenue on the out.

It makes me sad. It's a lot like the argument against learning to write cursive - sure, it's hard, but it's a challenge that spurs mental development. Long-form reading and critical thinking are inter-twined. Reading for pleasure, in modern times, is drooling over click-bait headlines, and it's not going to turn around anytime soon.
The problem I have is when these systems don't indicate whether their session or secure or not. Last time I checked, WhatsApp still didn't have it. This is especially problematic when the system has exceptions like the ones you've described. (Group chats, images, etc.)

Services like LINE also bragged about their secure chat feature, too [0] but honestly, without an active indication of whether their session is secured or not, it's fairly useless and I don't really like this "hide the complicated stuff" attitude that those services seems to be going toward...

[0]: http://developers.linecorp.com/blog/?p=3679
In fact, he may have even said it on Cryptocat; Poitras and Greenwald used it to collaborate with him. Snowden also used Lavabit to send email. Why? Because Lavabit had superior UX to his other options --- because Lavabit handled all the crypto serverside. NSA has presumably read everything he sent on both of those systems. Despite the extreme ease of use both systems boasted, they were both so badly designed that they enabled retroactive decryption.

So I think, if that was an attempt at a rebuttal, it was not a very effective one.
I understand all of that. I also believe that confronting that crap head-on and reversing the public perception is the right way to proceed, not squirreling away nuclear technology under a cover until it is perfect and unassailable.
Flash, HTML and open web standards
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Same end point I would guess ("Nuclear Good"). I just don't believe its safe to dump any amount of radioactive water given how it will look, and I don't believe that any argument will get you past the media safely. Arguing it was ok and within a safety margin is utterly hopeless.
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Sure, a private office is quite uncommon. But I don't see how you can criticize the author for a "highly developed sense of entitlement" in pointing out the shortcomings of open office plans and then making suggestions for both reducing the drawbacks and to encourage employers to allow more people to work from home.

Honestly, it sounds like sour grapes on your part:

Driven by distraction, a freelance copywriter asked for
a private office but was denied one, although he made a
compelling case for the increased productivity. As he
went away, the copywriter remarked 'Oh, private offices
are for people suffering from highly developed senses of
entitlement! I don't know anybody who has one.'
People who speak disparagingly of things that they cannot
attain would do well to apply this story to themselves.

[Adapted from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fox_and_the_Grapes#The_fab...]
Forced object orientation?
Call it what it really is: "Signal Phone Remote". This is not Signal Desktop if you need a non-desktop to use it.
It seems like you've got it backward. Kazakhstan is not making the internet more secure. They're requiring citizens to install something (their own root security certificate) that compromises the security of https. The result is that their government can eavesdrop on all traffic, encrypted or unencrypted. That's the story anyway.
The actor has little or nothing to do with these products and seems not to have brought legal action. People are strangely moved to make this stuff and others to purchase it.

Every actor/celebrity (indeed, every person in theory) has a right to control what others do with his name, image, and likeness - this is what the law calls the "right of publicity."

So you can't just paste a photo or drawing of a famous person onto mugs, etc. and sell them for profit.

That is, apparently, unless that person is Bill Murray. He certainly could act to stop this but he hasn't.

I guess this fits with his eccentric-oddball persona. Very odd, legally speaking, but a nice way to relate to the people. Don't know the first thing about the man personally but this is the kind of thing that makes me want to know someone who can be so engagingly goofy.
This assumes the females are completely dependent on the wealth of the males and I think this is less common than it has been in the past. Take the economic dependency out of the equation and female choice is much broader.

I think also, if wealth was the most important factor wouldn't it make sense for one female to have multiple male partners contributing? That would reduce the need to compete for 1 economically strong partner.
Is there evidence that disruption is happening less often? It makes sense that companies aware of it would take steps to prevent it, such as those suggested by Christensen, e.g. a separate organization with limited budget (so small opportunities are attractive to them), One can also aggressively buy up potential competitors - perhaps explaining recent apparently ridiculously overpriced acquisitions.

e.g. Intel's Andy Grove had a blurb on the cover of the Innovator's Dilemma, and Intel has certainly tried to combat ARM with ATOM. At least, they didn't lose the laptop market. Similarly, MS acted aggressively to curtail netbooks. (Through chromebooks have had some success.) Neither have had success with smartphones - but smartphones/tablets also don't seem to have had any success at all in invading laptop/PC territory, despite being more than powerful enough.

BTW: having read Christensen's first three books, I feel that he became solipsistic and over-abstact, and tried to make disruption a business theory-of-everything; coinciding with his move from academic to consultant. It amounted to: people buy what they want/need, and when that changes, a different business organization may be more suitable to serve it (accounting for things like improving different attributes; faster release cycles; different business models etc). Did it seem like this to anyone else?

I preferred his early PhD work, and e.g. his graph showing that market supply for improvements increases more quickly than market demand for improvements (so is eventually over-served, and customers shift focus to other attributes). Though I could never find his HDD data or detailed justification for this, which (IIRC) involved HDD capacities in computers at average vs median prices.
While the quantity might be just a higher, cosmic ray can arrive with more energy than particle accelerator can produce. I can imagine our bodies might not be able to handle healing from those types of events.
Hehe. Ok, now extrapolate to 8m and you have your answer :)
I most frequently use List Comprehensions in a nested manor, whenever I do that I /ignore/ the normal python syntax and do this for readability.

inserts = [ a + c + b
for a, b in splits
for c in alphabet ]

It has the effect of showing the nested loops stacked like they would be in code, but without intending.
>Magical thinking is believing a ball of meat can create something as profound as consciousness.

Reducing the complexities of the brain to "a ball of meat" is absurd. That's like saying it's magical thinking to suggest that a fragment of silicon can predict the weather.

Further, there isn't any reason to believe that consciousness is any more profound or fundamentally distinct from any other physical phenomenon in the universe, especially because consciousness is a prerequisite to the consideration of its own nature; such reasoning is akin to thinking that the universe must have been carefully designed because it's so perfectly tuned to the temperament of complex life, when there's literally no other possibility if life actually exists to wonder about why it's here.
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One of the things that I love about Clojure is Leiningen. It just takes away the headaches of setting up projects in Clojure. I think the only other tool I'm aware of for another language that is quite as useful is probably NuGet. I've never had issues using lein, just drop it into my ~/bin/ folder (I'm using openSUSE so that folder is in the system path by default), open up a terminal and type in lein and it works. I don't even need clojure installed, just the JVM, it will download clojure for you as needed!

Props to those working on lein.
Tail Blazer (file tail utility), proposed responsive search
On the contrary, play it up. Stuff like the haunted house sleepaway camps, where they can drag you from your tents, are becoming quite popular.
To debate materialism is to do philosophy rather than science. I think we started there. :)
Don't use equity to pay back cash from founders. Just use IOUs. Like Joel Spolsky says: don't resolve problems between founders with shares.
well in the entry level positions but most of those women marry other chaeabol company men - often their superiors - and then some stop working once they marry
I think that primates are instinctual hierarchical creatures, much given to hierarchies of power. I think we are also subject to a wide variety of cognitive flaws and easily misled by emotions. I think that any political philosophy based on blithely ignoring the traits of human psychology is highly likely to fail. I further think that historical attempts to do so have displayed a disturbing tendency towards spectacular failure.

You have also erred in other ways, such as assuming that an identical balance between the individual and the collective is desirable for all. Further, you've assumed that breaking down current power structures will be followed by your preferred "means of organizing society" being adhered to instead of new power structures being established.

You've also ignored tribe-forming behaviors that can be reasonable expected to occur around active, inclusive, informative news media. Or how nearly-hairless primates react to the presence of tribes other than their own. Along the way, you've also ignored the implicit power structures inherent in having news media systems and voting systems.

So, let's go back to the problem here. All historical attempts to transition to Communism have resulted in terrifying numbers of dead people. This is so strikingly uniform that I am disinclined to think it an accident. Why would this time be any different at all, given that we're still dealing with the same nearly-hairless primates?

The core of my argument is that every time someone who thinks like you gets taken seriously at a society-wide level, a crapload of people die and the end goal is never achieved. So far, you've failed to make a case that this time is different.
Well they could make using client certificates mandatory from Kazakhstanian ip addresses. Now the gov server can't connect and so can't MITM anything.
You've got a reactor in Japan that went batshit. Facts and figures won't do a damn bit of good now. After all, we've been saying nuclear is safe and that just got some great media stories.

My current hope for nuclear is thorium and I hope they have the common sense to hire a PR firm and brand it well. Maybe pebble reactors would be able to make a run at it. More PR and one hell of a story. Maybe someone like Musk to user it in as the next great thing.
> The division has said that its experimental technology can produce 50% more energy with 90% less materials than traditional wind turbines.

That's really neat but how long will these devices last?

And the newer generation wind turbines are absolute monsters, 7.6 MW in one turbine and at the tip 198 meters high, that's not so far from the 250 meters for these kites, you'd need 12 of the Makani devices to equal one Enercon E-126.

(though the windshear would be a larger factor for a ground based machine)
Something people fail to recognize or accept is that procrastination is often a manifestation of a form of anxiety. It's an actual mental health disorder, and if you see a professional, you can actually get concrete help.
Is that an exaggerated example or an actual thing that happens?
Bohemian Rhapsody's long legacy
I feel sorry for the AI when it runs into the n-dash, m-dash, hyphen, and minus wars.

Here's one example: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(poli...

About 15,000 words and closed wit no consensus.

Here there's hundreds of thousands of words: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=dash&pre...
Uber is disruptive -- to the municipal authorities who regulate taxis. Other than that, they're a taxi company with an Internet dispatch system.

There are even fewer regulated monopolies that can follow the Uber path (Airbnb is one of them). Uber was uniquely able to disrupt a bunch of municipal taxi regulators because a single taxi regulator does not have a very large budget. Uber can outspend them, set a few precedents in case law, and it was over. The strategy doesn't work in an industry with centralized regulation (USDA, FDA, FCC) or in an industry with a colossal amount of money involved (anything health care related).
IANAP, but if the values of the cells are real-world values like charge, momentum, or higgs field strength, then I don't think they are hidden variables. They are the same variables described by the standard model, but calculated discretely instead of continuously.