skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know about the science behind it, but as a teenager and young adult I had numerous episodes in and out of mental institutions and was diagnosed by various professionals as bipolar, schizophrenic, or borderline personality disorder. I tried several antidepressants and "mood stabilizers" some of which never worked and some that worked but with side effects I couldn't accept. During this period of my life I was definitely occasionally a danger to myself and others.

About 10 years ago, as an adult never having tried any illicit substances, I started using cannabis and found marked improvement in my mood and focus. Since then, smoking weed every few days, I have had zero "episodes", I am happy most of the time, am in a stable long-term relationship with a new child and am generally a productive member of society.

I have tried to research scientific studies that explain these results but have always found the corpus lacking. I think these interactions definitely deserve more exploration.
> It would cost billions of dollars to even attempt to go after ESPN. The primary value ESPN offers today is ownership of broadcast rights. Yahoo can't afford to outbid Disney on those rights and shareholders would never support risking that much capital on such.

I'm talking about web-based content first. Anyone who follows sports knows that there is a wide open gap ready for someone to take a swing on actual sports coverage. ESPN has turned into a steaming pile of trash. You want more articles on Johnny Manziel, have at it ESPN. We're gonna cover real sports on my Yahoo.

The better broadcasting play is to get into streaming / broadcasting for new sports. Be it eSports, rugby, lacrosse, and any scrap of basketball you can get your hands on -- NFL is going to collapse in the next generation or so (ask any Gen-X parents if their kids are allowed to play football and you'll understand why) -- so just give up on getting rights to the current powerhouse sports for the time being.

> What you're describing would never make money.

Killer content always makes money when you know your demographic and don't sell your soul too much. I wouldn't emphasize the aggregators, those would be portals. The trick is that much of it would be re-written on the actual Yahoo site by real journalists once something gets hot. Then you no longer give the traffic away.

> It would be a complete waste of time and wouldn't move the needle on Yahoo's business.

This is because you don't know how to monetize. Content isn't the end game, it's the easy advertising. Yahoo! Finance is an under-utilized tool. The content on a powerful domain like that would be used to inexpensively gather new users into the profitable toolset - the end game could be to build out a trading platform, for instance.

LOL at Yahoo's needle, BTW.
Any day better than what you get on Kickstarter. It's a start and a full-audit costs 25-50k which would literary defeat the purpose of this.
Everybody saying "lawyer", ignore, that's expensive and bad advice, you already know what the lawyer is going to say, lawyers are incredibly cautious and not particularly flexible or business savvy in helping you, all you'll get is a bill and no help with anything except what you already know couched in terms of a lot of statements designed for future "I told you so"s

Fire: probably, but not because this infraction was so bad or impossible to deal with (the victim herself said so) but because the guy appears to be a bad egg, just really bad judgement and other employees or customers might not be as adept as she is at dealing with it. So, unless his contract somehow protects him, or he is God's Gift to Business Development and your company is down the tubes without him (in which case you'll still need to figure out a way to head-off/handle his future infractions (promote her above him?)), you don't need to spend more time dealing with this.
So, people should just stop trying to improve things?

XKCD 927 should be considered harmful, as while it is true that's how things sometimes happen, to start quoting it everywhere is to try to shut down people from innovating, and that's anything but helpful.
For 911 only? I seriously doubt it.
Oh my God. That takes me waaay back. I had totally forgotten about that.
I think you'll find MIT's gatekeeping is extensively systematized. : )

Which is not to say that MIT admissions don't sometimes revolve around human elements, and moreso the process of landing RA positions, but the sheer number of people gunning for these opportunities its its own kind of gatekeeping. These human factors, the networking and outreach and so forth that goes into "surfacing opportunities," are fiercely pursued now, to the point that it becomes another hoop to jump through even past the grades and SATs and internships that we think of as the "system." One can certainly learn to play the game, but it'd be awfully nice if we didn't have to.
You are discounting the power of small investors. There is a good chance that your unaccredited investors altogether will cast a larger network than your VCs. Also if done right they could become super fans and the best possible promoters of your product. They definitely bring something to the table, but it will be somewhat different than what you'd expect from a YC.
Scott Wiener seems to be a big part of the problem in terms of increasing the regulatory burden on new development. Have I missed something in his actual record that indicates he is removing restrictions on new housing development?
Yeah, but apparently building out public transport pits you against the petroleum industry (which has held sway in the US over a century).

This isn't an either-or, it's a case where special interests have shot down the more efficient approaches, so we're left with what we have.
A description that, I think, would also fit HN ...
WTF HES FAPPING
nope, but I wouldn't argue if you called it an unregistered security.
This goes under the name of "Unit Economics" and is reasonable for small startups to use.

That's fine. But I think the meat of the article is that there are startups/businesses out there that are using so much smoke and mirrors with financial reporting that it has become a ridiculous process to read a "we are profitable!" press release.

I get it - there is an arms race out there to get funding for the "next big thing" which will require hundreds of millions of dollars to get off the ground. But whatever happened to a sound business plan, an experienced team, and a sound business idea? And the "next big thing" is now so saturated by so many players that the arms race seems to be exponentially increased for any possible idea that might have some traction. It is a race to the bottom.

Facebook and Google are such outliers that VC has resorted to throwing cash at the next 1,000 Mark Zuckerbergs, which only one or two probably exist in the next 10 years.

Capital is chasing returns that are not sustainable.
Isn't Yahoo Fantasy the #1 fantasy property (not including daily fantasy)? Also all of these are ad supported products -- and no amount of premium/freemium add-ons are going to make more money than what these have made historically on advertising. It's barely worth considering anything other than ad supported models.
WHY IS THIS NEWS???!
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When I worked for Microsoft, this part:
"Then, you simply start over with another brand new, small thing, and grow it from there, while lending it the HR resources of the core."

...never worked. Because the core businesses (Windows and Office) were $10B products. Investing a little bit to get a 0.1% move in revenue there, brought in $10M more. It was bloody difficult to persuade anyone that the $ should be invested in a brand new startup idea, rather than re-investing it in the core, growing business. And who can blame them?

There were two businesses that mattered, and everything else was a distraction. Actually after a while, the combination of Windows Server and SQL Server became a business that mattered, too.

In those days, everything else was a weed that might/could grow, if it could shoot up and grab some attention and look pretty, before the groundskeeper just snipped it off at the base.

If you look at what succeeded at Microsoft since then, it has not been "investing in some some small thing." It has been MASSIVE investments in things, like Azure and Xbox. Of course, MSFT also made MASSIVE investments in plenty of things that did not work out.

But the point is, proposing to start with a brand new small thing, was a sure way to be asked to get with the program, or leave the company.
Yeah, it seems like most editors now it's not that hard to customize the settings--so I end up futzing around with the colors every now and then to see if I can come up with something better. It remains a not very satisfactorily solved problem.
As a founder the biggest turn off for me is the fact that you cannot take on more than 500 non accredited investors. As soon you exceed that number and rake up $25M in assets you will be forced to go public, which is absolutely bonkers.

Now to me equity crowdfunding is inherently powerful that you can make investments as little as $100. This dramatically lowers the risk, and makes it a small gamble for small time investors. But as an entrepreneur with a max of 500 investors you end up with a mere $50k, which almost defeats the effort for most startups.
"Public SMS" is a more apt description.
Try Phosphorus, an HTML5 Scratch interpreter: http://phosphorus.github.io/#63476480

Also, Snap! is basically Scratch without Flash, but with everything awesome from SICP: http://snap.berkeley.edu/run/
please have the parser accept the following ASCII formatted unix stream: FirstName LF MI LF LastName LF

except don't allow trailing whitespaces at the ends of lines so more like

FirstNameLF

MILF

LastNameLF

*if she's a MILF, definitely get her first and last name... did I just ruin it?
I predict Twitter's character limit will either double every two years or it's user base will.
Smart contracts are enforced programmatically, that's kind of the point.

The future is always hard to believe until it's here.

You can say you disagree and state why. But please don't call me a gullible idiot and then try to dress it up in fancy vocabulary. This kind of reply seems common in your comment history, like you're just generally angry around blockchain threads for some reason.
I wouldn't say es6ml was "guessing", it was based on the old loader spec that was removed from ES2015, and was quite accurate. It's no longer relevant though, since whatwg/loader is quite different.
Devcards for ReactJS
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You would invest time and effort and money in overtaking much larger or smaller, leaner properties that are all experiencing negative growth in an industry that has seen a bottoming out of it's primary revenue source and a race to the bottom in quality?
that's correct. don't know about today, but SMS users were still fairly substantial in 2011 when Twitter introduced native photo uploads. they wanted to be able to include the photo URL in the SMS.
Not sure I understand this pricing implication. Did you run separate ELB for each domain name?
That's not correct, Yehuda. For HTML especially, we work on a rough consensus model wherein features are not added to the spec unless they have multi-vendor implementation interest and review.

If you'd like to analogize to the TC39 process, features are merged into the HTML Standard once they've reached TC39 "stage 3".
Should be able to!
Twitter popularized those URL shortening services. It is now kinda like Chinese foot binding tradition(making feet shorter to conform to social expectations) - was popular for some time, but then it went away. The same could happen to URL shortening companies out there.
non-competes came up the last the Pittsburgh was discussed here. That is certainly a biggie. The state could pass a law and have done with it, but also, startups could be coached to drop non-compete clauses from their hiring offers. And of course, hires could cross that section out before accepting -- and be willing to walk away if that doesn't work.
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But would their sobriety test hold up in court or what happens when you fail their field test (but pass the other test). If it doesn't hold up in court (because the scientific tests confirmed sobriety), why would they even bother doing both tests?
As far as I know, breathalyzer are far more accurate (less false negatives and positives). This makes me wonder why they would even consider doing the other test. They could catch actual drunk drivers with the time saved and have less work to do (because they don't need to file out paper work for sober drivers).
A lot. We've had the "big 5" industries fighting against us for decades:

* Pharma (because of the amazing and un-patentable medical applications of it)

* Private Criminal Justice and Police Unions (Marijuana is one of the easiest things to make an arrest on--private prisons profit, probation companies profit, inmate phone services, phone providers, ankle bracelet companies, police equipment companies, etc. all profit. For Police Unions, marijuana-related crimes accounting for a sizable percentage of police stops and arrests, legal weed means less jobs and potentially lower pay. Additionally, Marijuana is easy to identify from a distance due to smell, and gives an officer probable cause to make a stop and search for other illegal activity)

* Paper/Textiles (Hemp!)

* Alcohol (Legal weed potentially means a loss of sales for the only major legal intoxicant.)

* Tobacco (Legal weed means something for people to smoke that isn't a cigarette.)

Some of these industries are shifting. Big Tobacco, for example, seems to be trying to join the party, and has made some moves that indicate a desire to enter the industry. I think Paper and Textiles either will come around or already are, as I think Hemp could be easily incorporated into the existing industry.

But yeah, I believe that Big Pharma is as big of a part of this as police unions and Big Criminal Justice.
Not any more, Marshmallow permissions are on-demand.
Ha! Yes!

Love that analogy!
It definitely makes sense, just be careful what you install and don't give root capabilities to apps that have no business having them.
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Yes. Totally fair point.
You have to give shareholders a return through stock growth or through dividends.
Unless it's a steel company startup in a country with a newly discovered iron and/or coal resource, or a taxi startup in a country with no previous taxis.
SF should work on rezoning some hub areas higher density, and build (lots of) unit blocks. For comparison, I live in a suburb that has had the zoning rules changed to allow for transit-oriented development. Houses are being moved out and being replaced by 5 story apartment blocks. I live in one of those, a 3 minute walk from a busway station.

There will probably be 50000 units built in my the city in the near future. However, Brisbane, Australia has twice the population of SF, and a possibly irrational building boom happening though:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-01-27/brisbane-to-see-50,000...
oblig: s/affect/effect/

Still I think the 140 character limit was in part due to their continued success; I know when I look at a tweet, I'm not going to get a 1000-word dissertatino on a subject - I will get bite-size pieces of info (for the most part, except for the multi-part diatribes or conversations, which I generally ignore).

Link anxiety is a real thing - I'm less likely to click if it's going to absorb my attention for 5m+.
Why? It helps me. I use it medicinally. Let's fix the laws.
I would not want to be holding US debt, this election cycle.
What phone are you using to pair?

I agree, I really like cars with the 3.5mm aux plug but the two cars I have most experience with (Hyundai i20 and a 2010 Falcon AU) don't have them.
Philly and Baltimore (and Maryland) also have ridiculous taxes. City wage taxes and business revenue (not profit) tax, and relatively high state taxes. You would have to be insane to locate your new business in the city of Philadelphia, for example. The Delaware Valley region is fine, but not the city.

Most of the old northern industrial states and cities are so riddled with taxes and regulations and union corruption it's hard sell to start up a business there. You'd be better off carpet-bagging to business friendly locales.

People are moving in large numbers to Florida and Nevada for sound reasons.
Probably getting downvoted because the assertion that modern C++ solves memory leaks is getting kind of tired as far as Rust discussions go, and is also missing the point.

Rust doesn't solve memory leaks, it solves memory unsafety- things like use-after-free and iterator invalidation that modern C++ does virtually nothing to help with, and that vulnerability statistics show are still huge problems with programs written in C++.
I'm surprised anything I said was controversial.

The Korean War was the outcome of previous events -- it cannot be seen in isolation. How do you suppose the Koreans, as a people, saw the division of Korea imposed by both the US and the Soviet Union on them? What was the charismatic leader in the South that would have unified all of Korea in general elections? Say free elections were held -- true, non fraudulent elections -- and a communist government won... what do you suppose the US would have done?

What about this, from the same Wikipedia article you linked to?

> Appointed as military governor, General Hodge directly controlled South Korea as head of the United States Army Military Government in Korea (USAMGIK 1945–48) [...] The USAMGIK refused to recognize the provisional government of the short-lived People's Republic of Korea (PRK) because it suspected it was communist.

The US and Western powers were totally unwilling to let Korea fall to communist hands, whether it was by force or otherwise, and were willing to use force to prevent it. What I'm saying is hardly controversial and was the US foreign policy for much of the Cold War.
It's just an illustration. I think there will be far more valuable blockchain applications than digital gold, and those will be easy to fork.
Gamestop is not really a good example to end the article with as a company that has given up on innovation. They've pursued the other strategy: buy it. Since 2010 they have made several acquisitions including Spawn Labs, Simply Mac, BuyMyTronics, Spring Mobile, and a bunch of Radio Shack stores.
Cisco and it's spinning out approach comes to mind.

They probably got this right.

Amazon is another company that is innovating disruptively despite it's size.
Neat! But I guess it doesn't work for all games?

http://phosphorus.github.io/#64974428

Snap looks cool, though! It can even import Scratch projects! Neat!
How about a Docker instance?
Yeah but who just has $3,000+ dollars sitting around for a competent defense attorney? I make six figures and would have a very hard time doing that. Maybe some take payment plans, but my credit is shot... And don't even pretend that public defenders are worth a shit.
You're totally right. The site has been updated to remove that effect.
I think your definition of innovation makes sense only in the context of corporate or SV innovation.

In a more general context, innovation takes on the other meaning.
"Rust is more like Python; many people write libraries, many of which overlap and some of which work."

Odd comparison, Python actually has quite a comprehensive, well used standard library, which usually gives you enough to get going.

Using NodeJS as an example would've made more sense, where most libraries/modules are user written.
That's buying something, but is it innovation?
What manner are you short Treasuries? Any recommendations?
Ok, give everyone a tax break determined by the number of trees on their property.
Can you name a safer financial instrument than US debt? Its definitely not fiat currency nor metals (incl. gold).
I'd like to point out the very underrated DrRacket (https://docs.racket-lang.org/getting-started/index.html), with some very nice material that works at the middle school level (http://www.bootstrapworld.org/)
If you think you know something about the value of treasuries in the future there is a fortune for you to make in the financial market.
Fair points, and I agree with the impaired judgement thing too, and you're right it is a false equivalence.

I'll be honest...

What I meant to say was, talking from experience: when I smoke six bongs of straight or strong mix, there's no way I should drive a car. Mostly because I'm too busy laughing or sleeping.

Whereas last time I drank half a bottle of spirits I woke in a strange bed and could see my car out the window and had no recollection of how it got there.

Alcohol is one hell of a drug.
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So are you saying that, for example, the change to CORS from <script> in <script type='module'> has multi-vendor consensus?
This is a long standing problem with Twitter.

For me, the best way to deal with it has been "Lists" (note: they're hard to figure out and use, and the interface and location of lists is different on every platform).

Twitter has long known that feed management is a major issue for users (especially new users). Unfortunately, they seem unhurried to do something about it.
Note New York City has less of these issues because over the centuries it gained control of its neighboring areas from other counties, something San Francisco never did.
Yes, though it's only a talk with lots of generalizations. He probably has more nuanced views in private.
I'm in my fourth review already... They should just let our bots be. After all they are on our FB Pages.
Yep! At that point, the problem isn't a blockchain-specific one, it's a more general problem of reconciling conflicting truths. A common, trivial solution is to rank sources of truth.
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> If you think you know something about the value of treasuries in the future there is a fortune for you to make in the financial market.

No, if you actually know something about the value of treasuries in the future, there is a fortune for you to make in the financial market.

If you merely think you know something about the value of treasuries in the future, that's a different story.

But, anyway, the grandparent post wasn't expressing knowing something about the value of treasuries in the future, they were expressing a perception of risk, which is exactly the opposite.
congrats! clojure all the way!
I'll plug an open source lib I wrote called shp2stl that converts shapefiles into 3D models suitable for printing.

http://dougmccune.com/blog/2014/12/30/using-shp2stl-to-conve...
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