skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I wish the light bulbs we already found were legal

Are you hinting at psychedelics? I'm familiar with their documented ability to open up different kinds of doors, but not this particular one. Colour me skeptical.
> how can slaughtering [animals] for food be considered ethical?

Life begets life.
Death is part of life.
Where necessary, living requires killing.
Where people cultivate The Golden Rule, life will get better and death will get fewer.
Sharing info that directly leads to defacement of a website does not nearly equate to painting all over various surfaces over the course of multiple years.
Desk: The Ikea one that came with the coworking space.
Chair: Bigbox ergonomic, on best sale when I visited.
Monitor: 23" that was my TV in my first Redwood City Apartment 5 years ago.
Keyboard: Kinesis Advantage. I love this thing.
Music: Always. Have a personal 'focus' playlist that's 118 hours of coding bliss, nothing but fat beats, no vocals.
Hours: 8 to 5 every day of the week.
Not necessarily. If the 2B in sales is highly volatile, and/or requires a lot of equity investment, you might rationally prefer the 1T in sales if the latter is highly stable (utility) and highly leveraged (tiny amount of equity).

Otherwise: agreed that these things are rarely reduceable to a single scalar (amount of profit).
I think you need to review the definition of the word "most", and then read the section on what is on-topic, as well. When you do, you'll realize that there is no black and white objective line, and that's by design.
Is this bit of philanthropy being flaunted now because he wants some collateral name recognition and attention for his screening room pitch? bunch of news articles tagging him with that and the cancer money.. (for the record, I know who he is, just wondering about the timing of the two subjects -- it seems too coincidental)
No, it says "most stories about politics".
I washed your car once. The car was clean. You own the car and all the papers are under your name. I did not immediately ask for payment, and did not sign anything.

5 years later, when you sell your car, I show up and say I am entitled to ownership of your car because I washed it 5 years ago. There is a photo of me washing your car, so I am clearly involved. Do I own a part of your car?
Whats the NAND mirroring thing? Could you explain?
Intel actually provides a lot of code to the Linux kernel. At least as of a year ago they were the top contributor to it: http://www.linuxfoundation.org/news-media/announcements/2015...
I'm very aware of who I buy from on Amazon, so hearing that people are confused is both surprising and not surprising. I've also done FBA integrations so I know about how all of that works as well.

I guess I can see some merit in your assertion if I consider it the long-tail of online sales. That likely explains why I never notice it as I don't hit that segment often and if I do I venture to other retailer sites.

As an insight into an Amazon customer though, I'm ok paying Amazon slightly more than a third party seller or other website. The reason is fairly simple. Trust. I've almost never had a situation where after contacting Amazon customer service I've been unhappy with the resolution. The only times it has happened are with third-party, non-FBA sales. There is little that Amazon can (or will) do to help you in those cases. Eventually if your are REALLY upset they try will try to make things right, but the initial process falls back to you and the random retailers. So, I really don't mind if Amazon's price is higher (slightly) as long as I know they have such liberal customer satisfaction procedures. This is obviously my experience. I've read of others that had bad experiences as well.
yeah probably a p/r firm job. a well paid one at that.
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I'm sure, but that takes a heck of a lot longer.
Did it have to match those exact photos? I think he took a photo (or a few), used that (or those) to find the social media account(s). Then he could use whatever photos of that person he wanted to match up with a photo he had teken.
I'm amazed by the improbability of this guy's life. He had an abusive father and a schizophrenic mother dropped out of school at 15 then worked as a sound engineer for a famous rock band, built a successful high-end auto repair business and then became a best selling author. I have to admit I was skeptical reading the article but his story seems to check out (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Elder_Robison).

I wonder how relevant his experiences with autism and TMS would be though to those of us with less extraordinary lives. I mean I'm guessing that having a life like this would tend to suggest that someone's internal mental makeup is somehow rather non-mainstream as well.
Does any suspect that this might all just be PR posturing? They found a zero day exploit but they don't have to say what it was. They don't have to whether or not more interesting data was found. Nothing. Could it be they are just trying to save face? Granted they've looked quite foolish in all of this but still.
It seems you're forgetting that everything is buffered and all events are timecoded. This is how pretty much all music software works, and it means the final audio is synchronized down to sample precision, regardless of any hardware latency. If the hardware is too slow and you're doing realtime, the audio will stutter, but this doesn't affect timing precision within the audio stream.

For example, when a VST plugin is asked to process a block of audio, it receives a buffer and an array of events with their exact positions in the buffer. All components are connected to each other in this manner. So even if you're using a slow language, timing will definitely not be randomized, though perhaps, as you add more code, you will reach the point where it's too slow for realtime slightly earlier than if you were using a highly efficient compiled language.
An article written by Robison:

An Experimental Autism Treatment Cost Me My Marriage https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11313452 (26 days ago, 560 points, 313 comments)
Apologies, the correct link is the This American Life episode linked in the story I linked, but that episode appears to have been pulled offline. Here's a transcript: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/484/t...
Securing Android Applications from Screen Capture
Open redirect on Google.com
Dude, we're talking about Chicago here, the town were Jon Burge operated for over 15 years.
I don't really have alot of experience in this, but sam says there that Jeremy left the YC interview, doesn't that mean he wouldn't be on the application? I'm sure there's more to it, thus why I'm asking.
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Same here, I only get issues after around 100MB.

Most editors start to struggle at such file sizes, which is a shame, but try loading 100mb into Excel. The only editor I found to work nearly instantly is vi; nano takes almost a minute to load large files.
Sure, a linter can handle that situation. But linters can handle the semicolon-free style just as well[1]. There is no real value-add from semicolons; they're just a matter of stylistic preference.

[1]: https://github.com/feross/standard
Ruby “rackdb”: “rails dbconsole” for non-Rails Rack code, e.g. Hoodoo or Sinatra
I do know ultralight backpackers. But, yes, I can't see them carrying a Kindle as opposed to maybe some pages ripped out of a book :-) Maybe a certain class of long distance hikers but now we're getting into vanishingly small markets.
It's not particularly efficient, but probably the easiest way to draw Voronoi diagrams on the GPU doesn't require a shader at all. Instead, use an orthographic projection and draw cones for each vertex with the cone's apex at the vertex and its axis oriented into the screen. Then the GPU's z-buffer takes care of choosing which vertex is closes to the given pixel.
To me it sounds like he probably ended up on the far sensitive side of the spectrum, but well within normal. But, even if he was an adult, he didn't have the mental tools to handle the emotion - I read it as if he suddenly got the intense and open empathy children can have. You don't go to a six year old and describe the suffering of refugees in detail, because it'll give them nightmares. Just having a general idea of someone's suffering can be overwhelming for a child.

I know people that are very emotional, and can get overwhelmed by seeing others suffer -- but people that are absolutely "normal". I wouldn't call it "average" (for adults anyway) however.

I do think he's wrong about not having had a limited form of empathy: literally feeling other peoples pain is empathy. That doesn't mean he didn't care, or loved before - but it absolutely sounds like he had trouble: "understanding and entering into another's feelings" (from WordNet, my emphasis).

It's a fascinating story, like a real-life "The Speed of Dark", by Elizabeth Moon (in part inspired by her son):

http://www.amazon.com/Speed-Dark-Ballantine-Readers-Circle/d...
My turn!

Desk: Some guy was moving out from the building next to me, so I bought his plain brown desk for like $20

Chair: Whatever was the imitation aeron from staples or office depot, can't remember which.

Monitor: Mostly on laptop, but have an LG plugged into my desktop, which I now barely use

Computer: One desktop, ASUS, from newegg, bought almost four years ago, still works well. Three laptops, (two thinkpads for work, and one personal MBP Retina). It's too many to deal with.

Keyboard: For my desktop some POS $10 I bought from a student supply store, otherwise laptop keyboards. Favorite keyboard is the MBP one, the typing flows so easily on it.

Music: All sorts of shit, sometimes I'll have food network playing in the background for hours.. dunno why, just helps me work, otherwise, my wife's chillstep bullshit, otherwise, 50's-60's indian classical music.

Hours: Hybrid Vampire / Regular.
> Wow... Seems to me that the guy is far from being over with his burnout. He's still obsessed about work, numbers... and went from reading "non-technical" books to "self-help" books aka psychology technical books.

This is a very ungenerous interpretation of the article. Did you read it or just skimmed it? It's very clear that he is in a far better place now. The books he mentions are just a few that he found useful along the way, nothing wrong about that.
> they are a hell of a lot more honest per capita than the people on the street

My experience is that police are people much like others, including "people on the street" (who does that refer to?). Like everyone, most generally are honest but when they are under stress or have something at stake, especially the approval or loyalty of their peers, they often will pursue other priorities. For example, what is the difference between 'don't snitch' and the 'Thin Blue Line'?

I think a great challenge for police is this expectation that they are superhuman: That they will manage dangerous, stressful situations day after day, year after year, with equinamity and without it taking a huge toll. That they are knights in shining armor who will charge at the bad guys without fear or PTSD. That they have supernatural integrity and the massive systemic problems that clearly affect police throughout the U.S. somehow won't affect them.

Whoever is reading this, if you were a cop - working in a toxic organization with highly toxic customers (criminals), dealing daily with situations so bad they had to call the police (how many times have you been in situations like that in your life?) - you'd probably behave similarly to the rest.
On CNBC he claimed he had spent most of his time for the last 3 years on this project.
I thought this was going to be about link rot or something but not security...wow, quite fascinating
C'mon, the point is a lot of people were inspired by a young woman forming a powerhouse medical company. Now we've found out it was all smoke and mirrors for years, and everyone who looked up to her was let down.
In interviews and watching YC develop, i've admired how measured and thoughtful you have been in contrast to my reactive style. The judgement has always been excellent in hindsight.

This is obviously emotional, professional and personal for you and I think that limited your objectivity. It isn't that this needed to be objective, but that your role is as an enabler. In my opinion this should have been written by the founder, and your post should be a comment or set of pull qoutes attached to the article or referenced by Cruise.

It is a worthy cause (or seems so) but at least sharing the post or contributing to a founders post allows the perception & impetus to be on the company, with your direct support.

That said, the message and what you've conveyed seems correct, just not up to your usual standards.
But you will most likely have it anyway.
I would not eat them alive either.
Sennheiser is looking for VR content creators to shape the future of VR audio
Look at the last photo in that same article. If you're holding it with your left hand, the cover is on upside-down. Also, every photo in every article I've seen, as well as Amazon's own marketing, shows it held in the right hand only. It's clearly a device designed for right-handed people. I realize that's the world we live in, but this is the only reading device I've seen on the market that favors one group of people over another.
What you are describing could probably be construed to be Adverse Possession by a motivated lawyer. In this case you would actually now own the tree, and thus the previous owner would not be able to sell your tree in the first place. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adverse_possession "Adverse possession is a method of acquiring title to real property by possession for a statutory period under certain conditions, viz: proof of non-permissive use which is actual, open and notorious, exclusive, adverse, and continuous for the statutory period."
Henry Kissinger is no debutante
Silly question: if he did in fact work on it for a month, isn't he legally entitled to minimum wage, even in the absence of any employment agreement?

(Obviously that's very different from, and much smaller than, a nontrivial equity stake.)
Maybe the WSJ has been tough on Theranos but there are other journalists who were big boosters, who now feel like they were misled -

http://fortune.com/2015/12/17/how-theranos-misled-me-elizabe...

Once one journalist finds one problem and does the legwork and prints it, others who know of problems find that journalist because they know he/she will do the legwork and get the story out.

The company then puts their side out to journalists they think might not put them in a bad light, who maybe get special access if they don't ask the toughest questions.

There's a natural triage of journalists in these battleground stocks/stories into pro- and anti- factions, even if the journalists are doing the fairest job they can with the info they get.

Not to say the company, the competition and other interested parties don't feed tips, leaks and tough questions to one side or another.
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I know for places like top-tier consulting firms (e.g. MBB) people regularly say that 1 yr of work translates to about 2 yrs of typical 40hr/week type of work. I think the highly right skewed distribution of tenure contributes to that.
Alright, so say they use Spacemacs (Which really should be the Emacs default). Now how would they justify their choice?
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>no backlit means I can read for hours

You can read for a lot of hours on a tablet, which is a lot better than Kindle epaper for the types of material you describe. There was a time when some sort of epaper/LCD convergence seemed to make a lot of sense. Today, though, while I prefer a small Kindle for flow of text, an LCD tablet really does win for formatted and graphical content. I still prefer paper for some situations but, given digital, there's really nothing wrong with tablets.
Can you hook it up with your focus playlist? And / or suggest the artists that comprise most of the music?
Very reminiscent of the dismissal of Yudkin's sugar theory.
Can anybody tell where the power button is? The Paperwhite has it at the bottom, which isn't ideal for setting it on the elliptical machine.
You and I planted a tree together. It looked like it was going to be a nice tree, so we filed a joint application for funding from the city. The application was successful but I left before the funding came through.

Years later, it turns out that this was a bona fide money tree. I think you and the city should put my name on some branches, since I was there in the beginning. If it takes 48 months for the tree to reach maturity, and I was there for the first month, then 1 branch for every 48 of your branches seems fair.
What exactly was he waiting for? Hedging his bets? I get that this may be legal, but he seems to have only become interested in his stake because it might suddenly be worth something (alot). I'm actually surprised he's not worried that his sudden claim might not cause enough problems to lower it's value, i.e. scaring off GM.
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Home:

Desk - Cheap, generic L-shaped desk from Office Depot / Office Max / etc.

Monitor - ancient 17" CRT that's never actually used, but is still powered up for indeterminate reasons. I do all my actual work on my laptop exclusively.

Chair - broken down, cheap, generic office chair from Office Depot / Office Max / etc.

Keyboard - laptop keyboard

Music - Mostly "Y". What? Usually just my personal music collection, which is mostly heavy metal and hard rock, on shuffle. Sometimes I'll go to Youtube if I want to hear a specific song I don't have in my collection, or maybe pull up a shoutcast stream for some trance/house/whatever, or classical music.

Hours: Definitely vampire hours. If I didn't work a "day job" and never had to do anything that involved being on someone else's schedule (eg, meetings, phone calls, etc.) I'd pretty much always work from about 8pm to 7am or so.

Looking at this, I realize I need to spend some money on upgrading my home office setup. Hmmm...
Interesting! I'd always dismissed the idea of having a cofounder out of hand as "too risky", but that kind of provision would make the idea much more palatable.
I have no concerns about cell phone radiation but I'd just like to point out that the high carrier frequencies don't necessarily preclude effects on low frequency systems. The modulation envelope probably extends down quite close to DC (think about the modulation induced by a cell phone adapting its emission to towers) and virtually any non-linear circuit can act as a rectifier/detector. I used to work in an accelerator physics lab and the low frequency effects of RF leaks could be interesting.
It's... slightly complicated. In theory OpenVR is "open" in the same sense as OpenGL in that it is an open API that anyone can implement (but which doesn't have a standardized open-source implementation). However right now that aspect of it is just theoretical since the only runtime implementation of OpenVR is the SteamVR runtime (which is only distributed through Steam) and Valve are solely responsible for defining the API (there's no equivalent to the Khronos Group for OpenVR).
Is Ubuntu 16.04 running well for you? I'm also on Dell XPS 9550, but I'm running 15.10. Had some serious issues with the initial install, wondering if I should risk the hassle of upgrading.
Maybe... I'm really excited for Microsoft's HoloLens, for example.

Pretty certain they're still a couple of years from mainstream adoption though, but I can certainly envision lots of business uses.
There was an relevant section in the Google SRE book notes posted here the other day about injecting faults into Chubby, their distributed lock service, which was too reliable.

Ex: Chubby planned outages
Google found that Chubby was consistently over its SLO, and that global Chubby outages would cause unusually bad outages at Google
Chubby was so reliable that teams were incorrectly assuming that it would never be down and failing to design systems that account for failures in Chubby
Solution: take Chubby down globally when it’s too far above its SLO for a quarter to “show” teams that Chubby can go down
Yeah! It's a pretty big omission in my post that I don't talk about other methods of generating Voronoi diagrams, but I wanted to keep it relatively short.

Chris Wellons has a great article on the method that you mention: http://nullprogram.com/blog/2014/06/01/

It's also mentioned in the OpenGL red book: http://www.glprogramming.com/red/chapter14.html#name19
Speak for yourself. My primary computer is a $200 laptop.
I don't think it would be as intense for a long period of time. He effectively got a new sensory capability and it was all new to him, but he didn't understand how to processes it for a while. It appears to be useful to understand social situations, so it may be worth considering.

There's was no mention of the warmth you feel when someone who loves you genuinely smiles at you. It's rare, but a great feeling.
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There's a reason why most companies incorporate in states like Delaware, and additional liability isn't it.
No one said you did. I simply stated what I owned and explained how I use it, and how it performed.

I imagine the same performance as my 2 year old laptop is equivalent to $500-$800 desktop today.
I actually have had suckling pig; it still smells like bacon so people get over it pretty quickly. I also bet people don't consider pigs to be as smart as they are.
Im kind of surprised why this perception exists, when most of the kernel/Gnome/systemd/driver developers are actually employed by Redhat. Canonical actually employs very few people.

Redhat is the largest Linux company out there and the only thing it probably does is ensure software is well supported.

I ran Ubuntu for 10 years before switching to Fedora on my laptop. And I have been blown away.
Agreed. Everything I read that he said I can relate to. They are feelings that if presented with the same situation I think I would probably feel.

I read this story thinking about how difficult it would be to go from not feeling it, to feeling it. I've spent decades learning and adapting, he had no time. That would certainly be very overwhelming.
Of course on the other hand: wouldn't it be amazingly convenient for the meat industry if just as a massive drought was bringing forth a renewed wave of criticism against the wastefulness of alfalfa for feed; with factory farms being heavily criticized as horrifying cruel; antibiotics in animal feed being blamed for bringing about the MRSApocalypse; hormones being blamed for... well just about anything; along with shit lagoons destroying the environment and cowfarts destroying the ozone layer there was a sudden rush of studies showing that you should be eating more meat.

I mean. You know. It plays both ways.
It's a lot more than the VCs do? By giving you the millions to hire a staff, get an office, etc for years?

Working on something for a month absolutely doesn't entitle you to a share of the proceeds two or three years down the road, if there was no written or verbal agreement. You can make a claim, sure, but it should be thrown out quickly, and you absolutely should not wait until a blackmail-friendly situation to make it.

Even if he had options, he would have had to exercise them years ago at most companies.
I have used Voronoi diagrams (and their corresponding Delaunay triangulations) for interpolation routines.