skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Dear SEC, Reduce the costs and risks related to going and staying public - you'll easily get your wish!
But it doesn't have elevators, so you can pitch some random rich guy and get off with $ 1e7 .
The other interesting connotation is in Battlestar Galactica: cylons (and by extension all AI) are derogatorily referred to as toasters. Your comment kind of brings it all together.
I like it and would probably try to use it in a commercial project if it had a different license. It's a little laggy - when I draw a quick circle, starting at the top and letting go of the mouse button at the top again, I only get about 3/4s of a circle. Cool stuff though.
Actual innocence is a grounds for vacating a conviction.
This seems similar to cookie stuffing, which is prohibited by amazon. The idea is to send lots of low quality traffic to skim commissions from the session

A major problem is that amazon has a 2-month lag in payments (feb payment are made in late april), so it would really suck to spend $1000's on ads and not get paid.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11320169
Mark Cuban points out that the SEC should be issuing clear guidelines instead of vague threats[1].

>Cuban argued the SEC should make clear rules so private companies and investors know where they stand with regulators ... "The one thing that could make the whole thing go backwards instead of forward is uncertainty," he said.

[1] http://www.cnbc.com/2016/04/01/mark-cuban-heres-the-problem-...
You don't "win" without following the money and following the motivation.

We've developed an exceptional ability to kill people, but I'm skeptical whether that has make us safer in 2016 than we were in 1996.
How about we build a ton of homes?
> Reminds me of an old language that used math symbols and had a custom keyboard with those keys on it.

In case you're interested, that was the inventively named "A Programming Language", APL (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APL_(programming_language) ).
What "natural right" do people have to free association?

(hint: the answer is none, because there is no such thing as a "natural right")
It is likely Amazon advertised several other products on the landing page for that Zimbabwe currency, so that no doubt increased the effectiveness of these ads for Amazon and might have made that referer fee worth it.
The closer you get to the actual death, the sadder the story gets and the more people come out of the woodwork to try and help.
I posted this yesterday already: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11403135

I thought you can't post duplicate content.?
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It puts the fear of the markets and investors in the mind of the CEO and makes him or her work like a dog. As it should. There is definitely something to that. Don't meet analyst expectations and get burned. Yes that keeps you performing rather than doing your thing. At least in the short term it does some thing. In the long run we don't know how it rolls.
VCs may be less concerned with the next quarter than public shareholders, but at some point there will be accountability, since they will want to get their money. That requires an IPO, generally, does it not? Or at least an acquisition by an even larger company.
Until I added one, I didn't realize how much difference an SSD makes. The machine boots, starts programs, shuts down, etc. much faster. Roughly, opening Thunderbird locally takes about the same amount of time as opening Gmail in my browser. Things happen at web app speed.
Fantastic idea. Now you just have to convince the existing landed gentry--most of whom have the bulk of their personal wealth wrapped up in their primary residences--that building more won't actually cause their house to devalue to less than the cost of a Happy Meal. Or that building anything more dense than a single, regular-style house every 5,000sqft doesn't result in a Blade Runner dystopian future.

At least in Seattle, this has been a tough slog.
Surely USB type C should be able to handle the job
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The beauty of programming with visual nodes:

http://scriptsofanotherdimension.tumblr.com/
The Future of Game Development on Windows [video]
An environment can only bind a symbol to one expression, so the symbol "dog" in the tree environment is bound to an opaque reference to an environment (or machine), containing the dog's bindings. There can be many of these machines containing dog's bindings, but if you were to bind them all to dog, you would only have access to the most recently bound one, since binding a name in an environment overwrites any existing binding with a new one.

The solution is therefore, that we must either use bindings such as "dog1", "dog2" and whatnot, or we have a binding "dogs" which binds a list of environment objects, which we can index to refer to a specific dog. Actually, "dogs" could itself just be an environment which binds specific dog's names, like spike to their respective environments

($define! dogs ($bindings->environment (spike ($spawn ...)) (charlie ($spawn ...))))

This might be less useful than a list though as there's no way to map over the dogs in an environment.
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Well, that's only satisfying when your other thing doesn't get slower/worse because of that. And then turns out you're out of low-hanging optimization fruit and you have to choose trade offs.
> this would only net them an extra $450/mo. at most, which doesn't seem like it would be enough to have a big impact on somebody's life.

It absolutely would have a big impact. You are talking food for a money, a monthly bus pass and cell phone cost.
Instead of posting a list of articles, it's usually better to pick what you think is the best one and post it. That way we get more substantive discussion. You can always link to the list from the thread.
Robotic fast food restaurants have been built. Check out AMFare, from American Machine and Foundry, deployed in 1964.[1][2] Automatically produced a range of meals (burgers, hot dogs, chicken, fries, shakes) comparable to most of McDonalds' business. This worked, and served real customers for a year, but was never deployed beyond one test location. Apparently it wasn't cost-effective. AMF returned to their more successful product, automated bowling alleys, which they still make and operate.

There's a startup trying to do a burger machine now.[3] Typical pretty web site, no installations. Last updated in 2014. McDonalds deployed a robotic kitchen in Phoenix AZ last year, and it hasn't been heard from since.[4]

Looking at the trade magazine of fast food, QSR (https://www.qsrmagazine.com), there's not much talk about kitchen automation. Even when they discuss a higher minimum wage, they barely mention automation[5]

Most of the newer systems look less effective than the AMF system from 1964. What's happened instead is movement of more processing upstream. The AMF system took in potatoes and bulk ground beef to make french fries and hamburger patties. Today, french fries are cut in a big plant elsewhere, and patties are pre-formed and shipped refrigerated. A fast food operation today is a final assembly plant.

One idea that did not catch on was automating fast food managers out of a job. Hyperactive Bob [6] is a system from a decade ago which watched images of customers lined up and lines at the drive-through, then decided how much food should be cooked ahead of orders. (That's the definition of fast food in the industry - is food cooked for inventory?) The company is still in business, but they mostly sell outdoor displays for drive-throughs.

So robots are not a threat to restaurant employment in the near term. Maybe 10 years out, but not yet.

[1] http://archives.chicagotribune.com/1964/05/28/page/81/articl...
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmXLqImT1wE
[3] http://momentummachines.com/
[4] http://newsexaminer.net/food/mcdonalds-to-open-restaurant-ru...
[5] https://www.qsrmagazine.com/outside-insights/ten-tips-surviv...
[6] http://www.post-gazette.com/business/tech-news/2006/06/16/Fa...
Uhhh doesn't a VC need to close out their position eventually? And mark a return on their fund? If you take VC money you can't be private forever, you need to be acquired or go public.
Is there a photo of the original cuneiform text? (Just curiosity, I can't read cuneiform.)
Why would I want to sell a company that I enjoy running to a bunch of people who want to turn it into cash?

Public markets seem to be for people who want to take on some debt or are tired of being responsible for the future of their business.
> Alexander's Pattern Language was intended to (and did) have the effect of allowing ordinary people to design living and working spaces, in such a way that architects and builders could convert their designs directly into building plans

Although he found the same problem as software design patterns suffer from—people assuming the pattern language is a buffet, and adopting whichever they felt like. Attempting to correct for that later led to his The Nature of Order series, which hasn't had any significant effect on the programming community.
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https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

> Are reposts ok?

> If a story has had significant attention in the last year or so, we kill reposts as duplicates. If not, a small number of reposts is ok.

> Please don't delete and repost the same story, though. Accounts that do that eventually lose submission privileges.
Let's not make blanket statements or anything.
Phones automatically connect to any unencrypted BTS? This is really insane. I thought service providers provision the sim card with white listed and authenticated providers or only tunnel their traffic securely through foreign networks. This is way to easy. Are there apps to detect such things?

EDIT: found 2 apps claiming to be able to detect this.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.skibapps.c...

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.srlabs.snoo...
> What a strange argument, considering Amazon a primitive.

Note I said "AWS primitives", not AWS as a primitive. I think they're overly expensive unless you're using them for prototyping, as you should eventually move off to your own gear once you know what your load/compute/storage profiles look like.

I appreciate you pointing out that this is most valuable when you're _not_ running in AWS (I work at a startup that wants to use this tech in AWS, hence my not understanding why we'd waste additional abstraction for little additional benefit).

Disclaimer: I _want_ to move off of AWS to our own physical gear at some point, but our dev team is married to it because they're afraid of physical infrastructure (but its okay when critical services like EC2, autoscaling, and IAM aren't working for several hours apparently).
They aren't "playing".
> The US presiding over a series of failed states throughout the world where they endless hunt for terrorists seems like an insane plan - but a plan which seems to be shaping up as the objective of US policy.

Interesting in context of the original comment: Russia is effectively doing the same in the Caucasus and attempting to do so in Syria and Ukraine, albeit as ineffectively as the US' attempts to do so in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The US has long presided over successful, or at least stable (if not at all laudable) states in the Middle East for some time, but is losing its ability to do so, as those states lose their ability to maintain control over their internal affairs and neighbors. Both actors' failure to establish or support viable states in those regions have led to resentment, instability and radicalization, manifesting in violence aimed at them (international terrorism) and those states they've attempted to create or maintain (domestic terrorism and/or civil warfare).

Neither has had any obviously obtainable military objective for some time--while both are able to win conventional battles easily, winning conventional battles no longer has much useful effect, as they are not fighting or attempting control or defeat states, they are attempting to fight and defeat and/or control populaces/nations, which is impossible unless you wish to enact a genocide. Any goals of engendering stable, successful, independent nation-states cannot be accomplished by military means, nor can Russia or the US accomplish anything by waging a conventional war against states of equal power.
Isn't that true for all forms of investment? Including VC?
No this would require them to practice what they preach, big no no.
Not sure if you're joking or not, but USB type C is max. 100 W, while a toaster is typically > 1000 W.
Shweeeet.
A fair question and hard to answer.

No denying that Paul Bremer's administration did a terrible job putting the pieces back together, but that was fomented by the Rumsfeld Doctrine which touted a small ground force component, which was consequently unable to establish rule of law.

Additionally I would point to the case of post-WW2 Germany, in which the occupying forces left the Nazi Party in charge as administrators. This is directly in contrast to Iraq where we outlawed the Ba'ath Party entirely. And of course the whole war was fought on a lie, so there's that...

There are lots of cases throughout history where counterinsurgency doctrine has worked, and at it's core it comes down to presence and rule of law. For a good read I recommend War in the Shadows: http://www.amazon.com/War-Shadows-Guerrilla-Robert-Asprey/dp...
How would the SEC reduce "risks related to going and staying public?"
Ask HN: What would you share with HN without risk of being downvoted?
What would you share with hacker news community that normally you're afraid of due to the "risk" of being downvoted?

All readers -- please make this thread DOWNVOTES-FREE :)
Sure, we've added that to the title.
Both Windows 9x and classic Mac OS were fundamentally missing features relative to the alternatives at the time, though-- especially classic Mac OS, which (as of OS 9) still lacked proper preemptive multitasking and protected memory (for those who don't remember that era, this was a huge disadvantage in terms of stability and reliability, even compared to 95/98/Me which were roughly contemporaneous).

Current-generation Windows doesn't really have any such flaws-- the underlying kernel seems to be pretty sound, the hardware driver ecosystem around it is the most complete and robust of any mainstream OS, and they seem to be showing now that they can adapt to developer demands without doing something drastic. There's no real compelling reason that I can see for Microsoft to make a transition to Linux (or BSD, if the GPL is too toxic).
Not entirely true, the other option is that other people buy the VCs out of their stake in the private market. In sharply profitable companies, a company could in theory buy itself back from its own investors without needing to be either acquired (it acquires itself, essentially) or doing an IPO.

Of course, your company actually has to be making money to do this. Which for most unicorns is something of a problem.

All investment is essentially debt. At some point either someone else chooses to hold it at a value that is mutually agreed on, or the company buys itself back.
Galileo made non-trivial advances in science. He's also famous for his house arrest. Neither imply he deserves the reputation of "greatest scientist ever"—admittedly, not a reputation I'm familiar with. Even in his time period, Kepler probably deserves at least equal recognition.
Wow, the original source code resurfaced a month later. I wonder if that happened because of his project.
I'm going to present two points of view here:

1. Well they used to be for when society recognized that once a large societal and social phenomenon that is a large corporation (really just lots of people agreeing to work together to do something), that at some point that abstract group had some kind of obligation to the public, given, at some point, it becomes hard to separate the public from the corporations (given who staffs 95% of the roles at such mega-corps).

So basically, public markets were for allowing the public to invest in what had essentially become public phenomenon.

Also, once a company becomes public, it's fucking naive to call it "enjoyable" and assume that's as nuanced as you get when thinking about that decision.

Also, you're an idiot. "A company going public wants to take on some debt."

No, they want to sell equity, specifically because they would rather do that than sell bonds ie raise debt.
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dforrestwilson1 has a good rec. But then again, I never enjoyed the history books.

I mean, I should be less of a nut, but I do not appreciate the academic works. I say the same thing every time, and professors I know get pissed: start with Adul Rahman Munif's novels. He is a very, very interesting guy.

His stuff in English is scattered and week. His Cities of Salt magnum opum will help you see the petro-insanity from the Gulf side, in a pretty scathing critique, from a Saudi who got his citizenship stripped for what he said. Did I mention he was a hardcore Baathist in Iraq who became an author when he got too jaded and abandoned the political platform altogether?

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

You can read sources like Mid East History, but I say start finding novelist, poets, and journalists in translation. There are many in translation, both current and recent, going back at least 50-60 years of the Arab political transformations of that period.

http://arablit.wordpress.com/

The farther back you get, the more scant the first-person art and criticism you get. If you like it, start reading Arabic.

I stuck around Arabic for the literature, and believe me those in my ilk know we are weirdos.

EDIT: Removed stupidly posted second link to the same Wikipedia article.
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There are a couple of errors in terminology.

At first these phonemes (one symbol for one thing, instead of letters to make a word) symbolized concrete things;

Should say "pictograms", "logograms", or "ideograms", but definitely not phonemes, which are minimal units of sound in a language, and have nothing to do with writing.

At the end,

Fifteen other languages developed from cuneiform,

Confuses the cuneiform writing system with a language that uses cuneiform. It should probably say "fifteen other languages developer from Sumerian", though I'm not certain if that's actually correct. This is a particularly surprising error given that, right near the beginning, the article acknowledges that "It was used to write at least a dozen languages, just as the alphabet that you are reading now is also (for the most part) used in Spanish, German and many other languages."
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11398033
In the USA, innocence isn't grounds for an appeal. Actual, post-conviction DNA tests aren't a basis. Errors at trial are. So good lawyers find one. Jury instructions, evidentiary errors, procedural, etc., which is why money buys justice.
Haha. This reminds me of the Simpsons where Homer takes Mr. Burns's boat out to international waters (to circumvent local drinking laws) and the coast guard tells them to come back so they can be under their jurisdiction.

Bart: [through a bullhorn] Hey, Coast Guard! Try to stop us now, you lousy Americans.
Coast Guard: [through a loudspeaker] We can't hear you! Come three hundred feet closer!
Bart: Nice try. You're not going to nail us.
Coast Guard: But we just want to party.
Bart: Oh, really? Then play some rock music.
[Man on cutter mimics the guitar riff from "China Grove"]
Homer: [joins in] Come on, Bart! The Coast Guard's covering the Doobs!
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No, it was pretty flat. I'm amused that this sounds improbable, though. Cold isn't that big of an obstacle. I hated Wisconsin winters, but it's just a matter of dressing properly.
Perhaps Portland can learn from SF's mistake, and actually allow massive building of new housing if there's a spike in demand.
Yeah. This was another benchmark that found that an earlier Apple CPU got impressive instructions-per-clock on a couple of cryptographic functions (that aren't special-cased like AES): https://zerobyte.io/blog/2014/04/29/benchmarking-symmetric-c...

But those functions also don't really stress-test branch prediction, etc. They use instruction-level parallelism but the control flow and memory accesses are predictable. (That's almost necessary for software crypto; if execution isn't ~constant-time, you risk timing attacks.)

Looking at transistor counts: Apple said the three-core A8X had three billion transistors total. Given Apple's focus on GPU and bringing other components onto the SoC, many of those are not spent on the cores; still, in raw count, it's right up there with Intel's Core-branded CPU+GPU dies, going by a table in Wikipedia.

AnandTech put up a lot of numbers about the A9, including specs like cache sizes and memory bandwidth and benchmarks like Geekbench and SPEC: http://www.anandtech.com/show/9686/the-apple-iphone-6s-and-i...

Seems like, at a minimum, if your intuitions about mobile performance come from early in-order chips, they may not apply to Apple CPUs or even the many Cortex-A57-based SoCs out there. But it also doesn't seem like you can say those chips are up there with Intel ones in general. I guess the evergreen-but-not-wrong conclusion is that to really know your code's performance, you wan to test it on hardware as similar as possible to what it'll really run on.
Could anyone give a short description what this is about? Right now neither the submission title nor the page is very informative.
I've been tempted more than once to found a consultancy just to help get fleets off Amazon, and take payment as one month's difference in opex. I feel your pain.
LSD could make you smarter, happier and healthier. Should we all try it?
Reminds me somewhat of this[1] article.

[1] http://xkcd.com/1658/
I've done a marathon with no training once...it was a very miserable experience, and unsurprisingly my worst time ever.

In general, training is good, the more you can get in, the better, especially for beginners. Unless you're starting out with extremely good overall fitness, it will take a while to get to the point where you can finish a marathon without too much pain ir risk of injury.
Automation will change the job market structure, i.e. what jobs and wages are available, which will have two major effects:

1. Change in income distribution and therefore inequality (not necessarily for the worse, but it seems likely). People often say that automation will result in unemployment, but that's only true if the minimum wage is fairly high. The real danger is rising income inequality.

2. Change of the fraction of GDP that goes to labour (as opposed to capital). Again, seems like it will be a change for the worse. The share of labour has been slowly decreasing for some time.
> Faster garbage collection

Does anybody has more information on this or know where I can read up on it?
The Struggle to Bring Back Baldur’s Gate After 17 Years
I've found message retention to be a "checkmark feature:" It's technically there, but it's not really achieving the goals you'd hope for message retention to help with. You'd want to be able to say "Don't retain messages more than 90 days old except for the rooms I, the admin, specify." But:

* There's no API to set retention settings or defaults

* There's no API to audit retention settings for private channels

* Non-admin users can change retention settings for DMs and private rooms

* There's no way to enforce that private rooms and DMs get a maximum retention setting