skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No we aren't. Birth rates slow to replacement levels or lower in first world countries. Look at Japan, or the US and Germany which are only growing due to immigration.
Uh, Grasshopper went < .5 miles up, Blue Origin went into space.
Huh, voluptuous looks pretty much exactly the same as schema. Or at least a subset of it, as it doesn't have And/Or/Use, as far as I can see.
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Just write the next thing in Python 3, there's not really that much to learn right away as much as there are minor surprises that you can very quickly get up to speed on as you encounter them.
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To be fair, Dr Dobbs' audience is working engineers, not PL researchers, and even researchers haven't had much success in non-text languages.
"and everything offers Ubuntu debs"

This, great hardware support, and decent stability are the main reason I use Debian-based distros. Almost anything is a deb away.
The impression you got is, well, somewhat distorted. While 48 million are estimated to get sick from foodborne diseases annually, only 128,000 are hospitalized [0]; while the ratio between 513 sick in the Chipotle outbreaks to the 48 million annual sick from food borne diseases is miniscule (on the order of 1 in 100,000), the ratio between even the 20 hospitalized (of 53 sick) in the E. coli outbreaks in the whole set of Chipotle outbreaks to the 128,000 hospitalized annually from foodborne diseases is (while still small, by itself) a lot bigger than the ratio of the Chipotle-sick to the annual total sick (1 in 6,000 instead of 1 in 100,000).

(Also, the annual total sick-from-foodborne-illness count is an estimate, the sick-from-the-Chipotle-outbreak count is confirmed.)

[0] http://www.cdc.gov/foodsafety/foodborne-germs.html
Writing is approximately five thousand years old. Symbolic algebra is about a thousand. Text will be with us for our lifetimes.
In March 2013, in Boston, Mr. Moglen publicly blamed the ever-receding launch date of the FreedomBox on a fire at the dev's house.

Or something like that. I wasn't really paying attention!

The whole thing sounded like vaporware, and I hadn't yet heard him speak about matters of privacy law and software freedom--topics on which he is on far better footing!
It would probably use much less fuel to boost the trajectory to land in Florida than to turn around and fly back to Texas.
Also, pre-Gingerbread was abandoned by everyone nowadays.

Even Gingerbread has been abandoned in the last 18 months.
That's some invaluable info. Thanks!
Which states do Product Hunt makers live in?
The point was that the measurement is what it can impart on a payload (presumably one going UP.) So your point doesn't seem relevant.
I like analytics if the price is less than 50ms per request. We use GA and statcounter for analytics anyways. Charts that show how much static traffic you saved are nice, but with bandwidth close to free, it's not a big deal. CDN analytics need to be better than GA at which point I will not only trade off latency but convert to premium all the way.
> Tech employees need to wake up about common vs preferred shares, and that the former are worthless.
> ...
> They are worthless because they are designed, as a financial instrument, to be fake equity with no real protection from dilution and liquidation preference.

You've muddled orthogonal concepts together here.

1. Common shares are not worthless. In general, just ask any founder who's had a successful exit. Founder shares (unless purchased along side financial investors for hard cash) are always common shares; if your straw man were correct, then there would be no wealthy founders.

2. Liquidation preference is a negotiated term which does have a rational basis for existing. Whenever you're putting in a larger proportion of the company's cash than the ownership you're buying, it is crucial to have protection against someone essentially liquidating the company for the cash. Say investor X is putting in $8 into a company that has $2 in the bank, but X is only buying 10% of the company. If the company is liquidated for that $10 tomorrow, X gets back $1 and the common stockholders get $9. (There are other protections against a perverse liquidation incentive, too, but this is the economic one.)

3. The "real protection" from dilution is raising reasonable tranches of capital at a monotonically increasing series of valuations, which valuations actually correspond to a clearing price between bid and ask. Three key items here: "reasonable tranche," "monotonically increasing," and "clearing price."

a. Reasonable tranche: raise reasonable sized rounds, because huge rounds create weirdness (lopsided power, outsized compensatory "asks" by investors, etc.).

b. Monotonically increasing: needless to say, down rounds are the big dilution problems. Sometimes they happen because life isn't perfect and problems come up. Sometimes they happen because the company screwed up and raised too much at too high a valuation previously.

c. Clearing price: if the company and investor actually agree on the "true" valuation then it's easy. If they still try to force a deal where the company wants a crazy "optical" valuation that the investor doesn't really see, then you'll get layering-on of sweeteners to make the effective valuation much much lower than the notional, but all kinds of terrible side effects may accrue.
What do you want to make? Make that. Don't learn another language just for the sake of learning one.

For example, o you only know Objective C and want to make a web app? Then learn a web programming stack.
To your point though, and to press it further - if companies require that you exercise your options in a window after they vest or they expire - they were never really options to begin with. In essence, the vesting schedule on expiring options is a timeline for you forking over risk-filled cash or forfeit part of your "compensation."

The advice seems to suggest if their options expire if you don't buy them at a certain point (except for leaving the company, which makes sense), say no and ask for cash. If they can't pay, now you know where you really stand.
Where can one learn about these?
I believe before the collapse Enron's management would berate employees who sold stock in their 401-ks. Management actively mislead their own employees. I've heard this from a number of sources (including a family friend who left Enron a couple years before the collapse.) Obviously, take my comment with a grain of salt since it's mostly based on anecdote.
Generating Sequences With Recurrent Neural Networks
http://arxiv.org/abs/1308.0850

Generating Text with Recurrent Neural Networks
http://www.cs.utoronto.ca/~ilya/pubs/2011/LANG-RNN.pdf

Bitcoin whitepaper
https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf

Ethereum paper
http://gavwood.com/Paper.pdf
Ask HN: How to show my girlfriend programming is awesome?
Hello HN,

I have been programming for almost six years now and I'm almost done with my bachelor's degree, so I'm comfortable programming in a variety of languages.

To someone who does not know what programming is, or how it works, it is quite hard to understand what I am going to do for a living for (hopefully) the rest of my life. But my girlfriend asked me to teach her a bit about programming.

So right now I am trying to construct some kind of introduction to programming for someone who does not have a technical or mathematical background at all.

For me it was using YouTube and books to teach myself, though that does not work for someone who just wants the taste. What should I start with?

I was thinking about Python, easy enough to hide some abstraction to start with, and an easy transition between console and the web in case she likes it.

Please give me some tips to show the fun side in programming to a total newb!
This is the ??? (I don't know what to describe it as) post here. You took the one sentence I just loved from the article and pooped on it. Then tried to tie it in with details of a non syntax related item and process. Next, you said a two character syntax for describing something as complex as an if statement was somehow too much burden?!

Not sure what the future of programming languages is. But if humans are involved I suspect there will be a visual representation. And that means syntax. And that syntax will matter then just as it does now.
> The real unicorn, for an employee, is a middle- to late-stage company which has successfully executed, is growing, and ideally hasn't had any formal external valuation events.

And, like a real unicorn, it doesn't exist. At least not in today's funding environment.
> Did it not ring a bell that a company that can't give him cash but can instead offer compensation out of thin air in the form of options is in trouble?

This is not an accurate heuristic for "how good is a company doing." There are many legitimate reasons you'd want to pay someone in stock instead of cash.

> And then there are the golden handcuffs were an employee is scared to leave because their options have too high a fair market value and their tax costs would be considerable.

This is definitely something to consider. If your options agreement allows you to early exercise you can avoid all of the tax penalty and remove the golden handcuffs if you exercise immediately (before you have realized a gain) and file your 83-b with the IRS. If it doesn't allow early exercise you probably don't want anything to do with it.

> I recommend joining young companies that are willing to pay you a lot of cash for your exceptional ability and experience (execution is critical at this stage across the entire company from engineering to sales) and maybe take it easy on the option grants. Some stock is fun but don't count on getting rich on it.

I'd recommend learning as much about business as possible, and consider working at a startup an investment, and you an investor. If you aren't comfortable investing then you shouldn't be working in startups. There is basically no reason to work at a startup if you aren't favoring the equity ($, work-life balance, perks etc. are all going to be better at BigCo).
Who should I be going to in order to have legislation drafted, sponsored, and co-sponsored in the US to prohibit the pursuit of debt that is time-barred (and enforce penalties for attempting to do so)?

This is a problem that needs to be fixed. I would like to find someone who is willing to help fix it.
And it completely leaves out Taiwan. It's a developed, democratic country with both a population and PPP GDP on par with Australia.

Whatever the political motivations, this is just shoddy scholarship.
I'm still using the old approach, which is adding a local directory as a docker volume, where all my artefacts are stored.

nginx then serves them under a unique path.

I would very much like to see gitlab offer the ability to get artifacts via some API so I can remove all that hackery.
Typically, when you leave a company that issued you incentive options, you are forced to execute within 90 days or forfeit the shares entirely.
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Nigeria bans credit card use abroad
Correct. All our customers can disable SHA-1 fallback from our control panel. While a US-based bank, for instance, may decide it's better based on their risk assessment to not SHA-1, a Syrian-based refugee organization may reasonably have a different risk assessment and therefore decide to support it.
> But it's only pointing out that Chipotle makes a bit deal about its ingredients and how they are good for you

I think its more accurate to say that Chipotle makes a big deal about how its ingredients follow the latest food fashion trends.
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Absolutely not! I do, however, think it's extremely questionable when VCs lobby for taxpayer money to fund for-profit bootcamps that they invest in to train people for the skills their companies need. It's outsourcing the cost of training to the taxpayer, all while driving up the value of their bootcamp investments. Instead, these companies should drop their "we're a poor startup that needs people who can hit the ground running", and actually train people themselves. These "startups" are funded by extremely well-off VCs who could afford it. They shouldn't ask the middle class to pay for it for them.

Democrats and VCs have a very tight nit relationship.

http://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-obamas-1...

http://www1.nyc.gov/office-of-the-mayor/news/114-15/mayor-bi...
And McDonnell Douglas did a vertical hop of a rocket in 1993 with DC-X.
Security theater comes to CES
WW3+IRAN+SEZ+ILLUMINATI+WILL+BE+DEFEATED+IN+2016+JESUS+ARRIVES+2017+-+YouTube
We're using LÖVE for Pocket Rumble

The game supports lag-free rollback netplay using GGPO, and Steam matchmaking with ELO leaderboards

And since LÖVE uses lua, mod support is no problem to implement, so we'll have steam workshop support too
(It's not released on Steam yet but will be soon!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EL63nVwisAs
> The anti-gmo thing is a stupid fad. Unfortunately, they have to follow it

Plenty of restaurants, including large chains, are not. They choose to follow (and, at the same time, promote) it, they don't "have to".
The premise of this argument is that the people who earned those options remain employees until the company gets liquid. If you leave, you're usually required to execute.
I would say it is much worse when that stock is your employer's. Yet, people still gladly take their employers stock (or options) as compensation (whether straight up comp or in a retirement plan.)
Weak Service Portfolio?

Off the top of my head:

SSO ID Service /
Cloud Photo Storage /
Cloud Document Sync /
Cloud Backup /
Email /
Instant Messaging /
Music Store /
Music Streaming Service /
Cloud Music Service /
Movie/TV Store /
App Store /
Push Notifications /
Payments /
Video Conferencing /
Game Centre /
eBook Store /
Shared Calendaring /
Notes /
Large File Sharing /
Personal Assistant /
Maps

Weak?
Bruce Schneier has one of the best posts I've ever read on why Encryption is important here: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2015/06/why_we_encryp... -- great resource to share to people who don't understand it.
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Spotify – Large Scale, Low Latency, P2P Music-on-Demand Streaming http://www3.cs.stonybrook.edu/~phillipa/CSE390/spotify-p2p10...

and many others but this is the one I liked the most
Think about it in terms of composability of validators; "having a key" is a property of the dict/object, not the value that is stored there. I feel your intuition, but experience says otherwise.
They actually had a successful 1km test.
Ask HN: How often does your team collaborate with a team in a different company?
and how (any tools or processes?) do you do it? I'm generally asking about development teams, but all answers are welcome.
What "telephone" game - the "straight from the horse's mouth" version (which I read yesterday) includes a direct threat to the tech industry.

> Clinton simply demonstrated her extreme ignorance

The first Crypto War over the Clipper Chip and years of key escrow debate was part of Bill Clinton's administration. There probability that Hillary Clinton being "extremely ignorant" about encryption is laughably small.

> calling for computer scientists to think about the issue

She knew what the computer scientist position was 15-20 years ago.
Interesting idea.

Because Felix von Leitner (Fefe) has been arguing the same. Every time he tries to discuss something, he gets long, carefully argued info via email, and completely retarded insults via Twitter.
Blue Origin technically went into space for about ~30 seconds. The space officially starts at the Karman line (100 kilometers) and they reached 100.5 kilometers for a split second.
You mean like how Google got ECC forward-secure TLS deployed across the whole Internet?

I have nothing but respect for Apple's stance with regard to cryptography, but Google has been more instrumental in getting strong crypto deployed on the Internet, and, just as importantly, in sweeping the minefield of crappy 90s crypto that defined most Internet crypto until recently.
There are several options one must weigh when they are deciding on job offers.

Where you work is so important and yet so many people seem to put such little effort into negotiation, risk assessment, runway, overall comp, etc. etc.

If you're taking equity in place of a market rate salary you better to be absolutely 100% sure you know you're taking a massive risk and forfeiting real dollars for hypothetical dollars that 9.999/10 will never exist.

Note: A great read about equity http://blog.alexmaccaw.com/an-engineers-guide-to-stock-optio...
And Martin Fowler has one of the best posts I've ever read on why privacy is important for a democracy: http://martinfowler.com/articles/bothersome-privacy.html
So is it fair to say that you are proving to the compiler that your function will return a sorted list (rather than you handing an arbitrary function to the compiler, and the compiler decides whether it returns a sorted list)?
Backup codes you've printed out and stored safely, as is usually done with 2 factor auth.
Alternatively, if you need a bit more power, there's Fadecandy from @scanlime: https://github.com/scanlime/fadecandy
Judge Dismisses Lawsuit Against Apple Over iMessage Delivery to Androids
It’s in the financial interest of much of the technology industry to vociferious campaign for encryption, but they don’t. If Google stopped using any encryption, don't you think their business would suffer?

It may be in their Apple’s financial interests to do so, but it’s also the right thing to do. As you (partially) say, they care about the user experience. That experience includes taking steps to protect user information and they’ve had a long track record of doing just that. They did this long before it probably had any noticeable effect on the bottom line.
"Unified-theory-of-reinforcement neural networks do not simulate the blocking effect"

Sci-hub link: http://www.sciencedirect.com.sci-hub.io/science/article/pii/...
Thank you for the informative response.

1) Ok, Google/FB common shares were worth something. Those are extreme outliers in exits, and had ethical founders. But founders have another option if they drive the common share value to nothing - retention bonuses. They can say, ok we will make all the common shares worthless, but you can just give me a huge package as part of the aquisition. So employees can't rely on founders looking after common shares out of self-interest. If you read the article, it looks like that's extremely similar to what happened in this case.

2) All these financial experts can figure out a way to protect their necks without leaving the employees necks under the axe.

3) Real protection would also be voting rights, which generally preferred shares get a lot more of, and then less tangible things like invitation to board meetings, something mere employees accept is absurd to expect. As long as employees agree to sacrifice compensation while being told they're not investors and don't deserve to be treated like one, they're getting hoodwinked.
I'd love to be able to "drop" a connection without sending a FIN to the attacker. Leave them hanging on a timeout.
You might expect Amazon to take a stance to reassure AWS customers. Their AWS sales people like to tout AWS's encryption capabilities and the fact that they weren't part of Snowdens leak
Yeah, I am aware of that, and frankly their track record for GPL compliance is shitty too, but it was a comprimise of sorts. It seems really sad to me that it's 2015 and we still don't have an allprotocol router/firewall thats enterprise ready and open source... maybe that's just my naively idealistic side speaking though.
Unions can't do anything about the company you're working for running out of resources. That's not what they are for.
Republicans are also much older than Democrats. A very large portion of Republicans are retired and collect social security which is paid for by younger more likely to be liberal Democrats who don't have to time to volunteer because they are working to support their families and pay into social security to support retired people who just happen to be more likely Republican. The popular conservative argument against a basic income is that people will just suck the tit of big government and be lazy. That retired people on social security volunteer with their guaranteed minimum income is proof that a basic income does work. People instinctively care about other people and they do not want to be bored. Thank you for pointing that out.
Employees do have access to an investment to an investment nobody else does. It's just that they need to do due diligence on par with or better than an investor to avoid getting taken advantage of.

I've turned down more startup jobs than I can count. When I interview at a startup, I thoroughly research their market, their competitors, their product, and their business model. I ask questions about how they came up with the idea, and how they know other people want it, and what questions they asked when they did their market research, and how the idea has evolved in response to new information. How did the team meet? What's the company culture like, and what do they value? I ask about financials - are they profitable? What's their runway? What's their revenue and revenue growth rate? Is it recurring revenue or revenue for one-off contracts? What's their churn rate? I ask about funding - who is their VC? How many rounds have they taken, what's the preference overhang, how many more do they anticipate taking? (And then in my head, I'm running over the financials to see if this squares with their growth & revenue plans.)

If they're cagey about this, I walk. Some companies are, and that's their right, and I'm not going to work for them. Others are very impressed that I'm doing this level of due diligence, because it shows that I view my time there as an investment, and will invest the same level of diligence and effort into the job itself.

Equity compensation itself is not the problem. Equity itself is great for employees - they have an information advantage over every other shareholder of the company (including the VCs), and if they're an early hire, they can have a meaningful effect on the value of that equity. But to take advantage of this, they need to do due diligence as if they were an investor - they are, after all, they're investing their time, which is far more valuable than a VC's money. Equity is much more highly levered than salary - its value depends on how events play out, not just on what you've agreed beforehand - and so you should make sure you have enough information to make a reasonable guess at its value before accepting it.
What most likely happened was that investors together owned closer to 80% of the business and possibly had liquidation overhangs and some sort of anti-dilution that ended up in a similar situation.

That's what liquidation preferences and overhangs do for companies that raise 100m+, they eat in the common.
It's an accurate point that needs to be made imho.
Do you think this is a good start to build beautiful UI kit over bootstrap?
My own opinion about PL research is that programming is concept serialisation: the programmer has a model of the system (or part thereof) in their head, and the role of the language is to turn that into a byte sequence that is amenable to both being turned into machine instructions and being de-serialised into the heads of other programmers.

But different programmers have different abstractions in their heads, and find different things intuitive. That's why things like ColorForth and APL exist; to a tiny fraction of people and problem sets they're intuitive, to the rest obtuse. I suspect this is why people keep thinking Lisp is going to take over the world despite 30+ years of this not happening.
UK resident here: why were employees paying tax on the nominal value of the shares? Is it not possible to structure the compensation so that tax is payable when the shares are sold (capital gains) or on any dividends paid on the shares?