skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you haven't heard of this contract, its really amazing. It allows the holder to buy a portfolio of stocks up until the Wednesday of the following week based on last weeks prices.

So essentially you can invest with perfect hindsight. The counter party, Aviva, didn't write the original contact but acquired the company that did. They haven't paid out any money yet and have contested the contract many times in court, loosing each time.

It's gotten worse for Aviva as their original plan was to delay paying out to bleed him dry to make him settle, but a few Swiss banks have lent him money to live off of and lent even more so he can leaver up his bet as he's allowed to invest additional funds into this contract.

The biggest issue is that you really can't value the contract as the holder is 25 and it pays out until his death. If he lives until he's 75 its worth more than the company could reasonably find.

If you are wondering why the insurance company would write such a contract, it was originally designed to be like a savings vehicle back in the 80s. It would let you swap between bonds and equities as your risk profile changed over the course of your life.

Back in the 80's it wasn't really considered feasible to sort through all the markets and figure out in time what to invest in to make this arbitrage. But with the internet, things changed....
>If you're willing to accept that outcome you would be willing to go to trial and hope for the chance that you're willing to win.

No, you're forgetting that a long legal battle could have ruined the deal completely. It's very feasible that they settle for the almost worst-outcome of the trial to avoid killing the very deal that made it worth so much.
Most HN readers seem to down vote what's not HN hive mind. Thanks for sharing your view given that I think most won't see it this way.
oh thank you! didn't know about this.
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I think Alman's emotional arguments were a bit misplaced and while I disagreed with, at the time, how they were made, he seems to be fairly correct. Here is my interpretation of why:

> What precisely is wrong with Jeremy Guillory's case?

It isn't that there was anything wrong with it, but if you see Alman's post, they were in the preliminary stages of the company and I think jointly applied to YC. if IIRC they didn't even both do through YC together.

Let's say you and I talk about doing a lemonade stand. We apply to Techstars as Junicorn bespoke lemonade purveyors. Unfortunately, I want to use tensor flow & the latest stanford NLP techniques for our lemonade startup and build it on blockchain technology using go. You wanted to do some anachronistic throwback where the Lemonade POS system is built on nodeJS with gulp & browserfy having it be mobile-first, cloud based omnichannel.

So we have the break up.

Then I, and my new founders build an entire company based on Lemonade stands & blockchain technology. Going throug techstars with an entirely different group of people and taking the idea all the way from an idea into a product. Again for a timeline recap:

1. We both had the same idea independently.

2. Then we tried to combine our ideas.

3. Then we went our seperate ways to work on our own seperate implementation.

4. Then my team and I built Junicorn: Summer Lemonade and sold to MinuteMaid for our Concentration technology. (this is like thousands of steps you weren't part of)

5. Then you ask for some large number payoff because we both discussed starting a company but ultimately didn't.

However, depending on the legal structure and some of the other factors (e.g. massive leverage before a sale) he was probably able to make some money. He may have even contributed to the company in a way that entitled him to something. It was just pretty shitty to bring that up during a massive sale like this.
And check out ramda-fantasy while you're there!
Heh - yep. They have the type 0 which is $0.05/hr. It was a gateway drug for me <_<. Type 0 is also where I contain my scrapy farm. I find it works pretty effectively.

I'll shoot them a note linking to your comment

Also: Thank you for whomever linked to my blog post!
Does anyone know if there have been updates on this case since then?
Open-source shilling software would be interesting (and hilarious in a dark way).

But most every day people don't have the resources to pay for marketing & servers to run massive operations.
I'm glad this discussion's happening, precisely because of links like this. This explains both what happened to tower 7 (damage on the south face) and why you hear claims that it was undamaged (no damage on the north and east faces); I'll look into this website in general...
It would be nice if Formula 1 would be a test bed for advanced technologies again like they did in the 90s with sequential automatic gearboxes.
http://doc.pypy.org/en/latest/release-pypy3-2.4.0.html
Dell 43-inch P4317Q quad-client monitor could make you cry
So does this not open the door to pretty much everyone suing the US? As far as deaths and destruction on foreign soil, nobody beats good ol America.
>with some sort of hybrid of private along with the public ethereum network

i.e. they're not using it as it is
Homeowner's association exist to protect the common shared ownership of condominiums. If you don't want to deal with an HOA, buy a single family home instead or a large plot of land and then you're free to do whatever you'd like. There are definitely more nitpicky HOAs but generally you should do your research and find a community that shares your values when you invest in a multi-tenant property with shared common area ownership.
Starting at something like 3 and a half cents for an hour of cluster time with 5 nodes.
Sensational headline. Alternate: "Palo Alto zoning: large tech firms cause of concern"

They actually state they would like to keep startups around(rebutting current sensational headline.)
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California's housing crisis drowns renters as Houston's housing booms
Uber knows you are more likely to pay for surge if your phone is dying
They said they were going to sell their treasuries recently, so we might as well not let them do that while lawsuits are pending...
Operation “looting of Greece” reaches final stage
The royal family finances everything in that country, from science R&D to military to economics to ...

Given that P(funding|royal family) is very high, I'm not surprised to learn that this was also partially funded by them.

(I am absolutely not an expert in any of this. this is secondhand)
Even the brightest brain will have been stuck on something which, after the penny has dropped, will seem trivial.

I agree with the author that there is a danger of "dumbing down" concepts which risks casting a lower ceiling on our capacity for lofty thoughts. There is another risk, though, that as someone becomes overfamiliar with a subject, they lose the ability to empathise with people who cannot immediately grasp the same concept. See [0] for a mathematician's reflections on revisiting his own DPhil thesis five years on.

I would counter that making abstract concepts accessible, broadens the reach of concepts which allows for the greater potential of new concepts being synthesised. Put in another way, the more people that have some grasp of an idea, the more humanity will progress.

Using Group Theory (strictly Point Groups) as an example, there are plenty of Chemists out there who are doing great work building catalytic organometallic compounds who use Group Theory. I'm sure plenty of them wouldn't be able to tell you what a Group was nor even express what the general basis of a Group are.

So yes, while there is a need to push ourselves our capacity to think increasingly abstract, we should also not be afraid to ruthlessly simplify as the world is big enough that individuals will derive benefit from diluted concepts for generations to come. What's more is that as concepts get simplified, the next generation can short-circuit their learning to achieve greater understanding at an earlier stage in their lives.

As I've always thought: if every human is born roughly equal, thank god we haven't had to "re-derive" making fire every generation otherwise how would we ever have time in our lifespans to learn about quantum mechanics and more.

[0]https://medium.com/@fjmubeen/ai-no-longer-understand-my-phd-...
For rich people at least...
Recently I helped a friend tracking the robber of his skrill account. It's scary the amount of info that you can get from somebody that has been slightly sloppy. A tiny trace in google was enough to get sufficient info to lock him up.
I do think that shareholders simply should have lost their shares when the FMs failed--that's what happens to any other business that's fails. Why would they be exempt just because their failure was big enough to be catastrophic?

And nothing has changed. Just because the government didn't explicitly take away their shares doesn't mean they are suddenly entitled to the profits that the public investment in their companies has reaped.
No, it means that nobody had more than $300 on the hands officially. I.e. they were poor (except "nomenclature" and "valuable people").
I live nearby. Palo Alto has a parking problem, so they don't want medium and large offices downtown, and they don't want to build parking structures. So they have already asked other companies to leave.
Python 2 isn't going anywhere so long as the multi-million line 2.X codebases at big tech companies exist. Every big Python codebase I'm aware of is 2.x.
>They’re also building “style” modules, which don’t do anything except look nice.

This is underrated, at least in the article. People love customizing. They'll spend money on that. Wood, gold, ceramic, organic-whatever, glass-with-bits-of-Holy-Land, and on and on. Even for basic parts, like the camera, people will pay just to have different colored rings around the lens.

Phone cases are one obvious example of all this, but being able to replace the materials of different parts of the phone seems like the next step.

I'm not convinced this project has much use otherwise, though. Would love to be wrong. But even their demo video shows nothing useful at all.
I can't tell if you're genuinely asking or just making a snarky point, but no. It's a US Law pertaining to "foreign" governments, so I don't see how it could apply to the US Government. And it will be vetoed anyway.
I counter that is incorrect. Again, I didn't want to start a massive "Conspiracy Theory Debate". However, the pictures posted as a response to my assertion that the building was pulled prove nothing. I will rephrase my argument.

The 500 page report of which I have skimmed(as much as a sane human can) and done some keyword mining on appears to not explain what happened. I contend there are inaccuracies in it, and find it odd that it took 8 years to produce it. Regardless, the building suffered structural damage to a corner. However, the entire building collapses into itself perfectly within the footprint. Statements were made that the building was "pulled" as it was unsafe. They were retracted. I don't care about citing sources, this is public knowledge.

So I think it was pulled. However, I would strongly contend & double down on that 500 page book being an utter piece of shit that does not come close to explaining to a rationally inquisitive person how that tower collapsed.

edit:

"I remember getting a call from the fire department commander, telling me that they were not sure they were gonna be able to contain the fire, and I said, 'We've had such terrible loss of life, maybe the smartest thing to do is pull it.' And they made that decision to pull and then we watched the building collapse." –Larry Silverstein"

This quote was attributed to Larry Silverstein, 2002 PBS Documentary 'America Rebuilds'. It appears in over 8k results if googled.

edit 2: Architects & Mechanical Engineers for 9/11 Truth is a group of (as one would expect) Architects & Engineers. Tony Szamboti is probably the most prominently outspoken of the group. Some of the findings indicative of the group are summarized here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4V3WdpzaA4o
The following code uses this technique. It's valid Lua. If you highlight this and copy it to your system clipboard, running `pbpaste | luajit` will count to 5 three times:

‏=print

‎=function()
for ‎‏=1,5 do
‏(‎‏)
end
end

‎(‎(‎()))
Apart from getting in the country and finding a job, isn't that something that they could each finance personally, individually? Especially with a bit of credit, as they didn't have long-term credit rating concerns.
Had to look up BEM, this appears to be a good overview:

https://css-tricks.com/bem-101/

[ed: Having now read: http://mrmrs.io/writing/2016/03/24/scalable-css/ linked above, I can at least see where this idea is coming from. I guess I'm still thinking in documents with semantic mark-up, rather than UI widgets. I'm not entirely convinced throwing out all the cascading bits is the best approach, but I sympathize with that point of view.]

This is madness. Why work so hard to avoid how CSS selectors work? I mean, if you have a menu-structure built around divs, surely it should be enough to say that direct children of the div with class menu, should be considered menu items?

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<body>
<style>
div.menu > div {
background: red;
}
div.menu > div:nth-child(3) {
background: blue;
}
</style>

<div class="menu">
<div>Item one</div>
<div><p>Also<br />an item</p>
</div>
<div>Item #3 and CSSv3
<div>knows (still blue)</div>
it</div>
<div>Item #4 and CSSv3 knows it</div>
</div>
<div>wat</div>
</body>
</html>
Having lived in Palo Alto most of the last 30+ years, and living within walking distance of downtown, I have an opinion :-).

The problem is the mix. I almost never go downtown because it no longer has that many businesses that are much use to me. Non-retail / non-service businesses have taken up a bunch of the space, and many of the restaurants that did move in are more to service tourists (!). There is still one bookstore at least. Instead I bike/drive to california ave which caters more to locals.

The bigger problem is one of literal monoculture. I was worried when Facebook took so much space downtown; when they moved out there was a glut of vacancies. That's been soaked up by Palantir, and more -- when they move away it'll be worse. By and large let the office parks be for offices and the retail space be for retail services. It's totally reasonable for a town to want to manage this.

Building more large buildings is a decent way to address this as well, BTW.
> We depend heavily on contemporary written documents; as the ancient Chinese proverb says, “The palest ink is better than the best memory.”

I wonder if that's the best possible approach :) . You see, those documents are written by those unreliable people too...
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So $0.05/hr is pretty cheap, but agreed free trial is better. We made a little page with $25 on it if you'd like to try it out! https://www.packet.net/promo/hacker-news/
In Palo Alto the mayor is one of the council members. There is also a professional city manager.

And BTW Richard Alexander is a professional agitator who can always be counted on to call the town government jerks.
We took a similar approach. Works well for our needs.

https://github.com/emergingstack/es-dev-stack
(feedback/contributions welcomed)
You can configure uBlock Origin or any blocker that uses lists to use Reek's anti-adblock killer list. https://github.com/reek/anti-adblock-killer#instruction
There would have to be selective pressure for people with the genetics for a naturally forward leaning head.

For most people, that's bad posture deviating from a more neutral head, so isn't genetic.
>Guillory never had equity, wrote code, nor invested in the company, although he was listed on the application to Y Combinator

They applied together to YC. They got accepted, but Guillory didn't go. Vogt said he didn't want to work together anymore. A business entity was later formed, in which Guillory had zero ownership of because he left the project before it even began and had nothing to do with it. The only basis for Guillory here is that they did at one point agree to work together.

This is like me saying to you, "Hey, do you want to go halfsies on a lottery ticket?" and then you responded, "Yes". Later, I tell you I no longer want to go halfsies, then go out to buy a ticket by myself and win. You then later sue me saying you get half of the winnings because we had previously agreed to go halfsies, despite the agreement later being revoked and you having never contributed and never planning to contribute anything to the cost of the ticket.

It isn't an issue of assuming a vesting schedule, it's an issue of someone deceitfully claiming ownership of something they never owned.
>hilariously convoluted designs still lagging massively behind the electric motor.

and where do electricity comes from? From a wall socket of extremely simple design, i guess... :)

Even if one takes solar panels - the original energy of Sun fusion what comes to Earth is converted into electric energy with less than 30% efficiency at best and that is using the very new solar tech.
In my experience they still have a crazy amount of tuning to do. The translation is useful maybe 1/4 of the time. It's is what I would call accurate maybe 1/20.
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I'm absolutely serious.
Id go for two cameras, and try to hack some 3D recording out of it.

and replacement inertial sensors, those always seem to break on me.

edit: actually, it would be cool to put an FPGA on there.
> One major reason why is the #1 psychological ingredient in slot machines: intermittent variable rewards.

I first came across this concept in a Hello Internet podcast, and it's amazing how much you see it in just about everything on the internet once you've heard of it.
Proof that people just want to have their needs met. Nothing more. Nothing less.
>some sort of weaponry

An 8 pack of box cutters is $8.95. Going to school to learn to fly is within the reach of individuals - and only a few of them needed to learn how to fly. MS Flight Simulator is said to be good enough to learn quite a bit, too.

>planning and organization
The best way to get past security is just to try it out several times. Send 2 teams for every mission, hope not both are stopped. After all, when you get stopped all they're going to do is take your knife. In the worst case, they might call the cops and you're burned.

People are seriously making this out to be a big deal. The only serious barrier is finding enough people willing to commit to the same goal and being somewhat disciplined and ready to die.

Fake ID to enter the country is probably the only real thing that might require some money or connections. Then again, I don't know what passport inspection c.2001 was like. Fake ID to fly on a domestic flight is trivial.

http://www.amazon.com/Box-Cutters-Utility-Knives-Breakaway/d...
>> The 9/11 Commission stated in their final report that the "9/11 plotters eventually spent somewhere between $400,000 and $500,000 to plan and conduct their attack" but the "origin of the funds remains unknown." The Commission noted: "we have seen no evidence that any foreign government-or foreign government official-supplied any funding."

I stand corrected. Although there's no evidence as to who did the funding. I couldn't ever get my head around there islamic terrorist organisations and their different countries, even tho we in Istanbul and in Turkey had a lot of problems caused by them.
Scientists also like their devices calibrated, so add several more zeros, a yearly contract and a pelican box to keep it from sinking when you're taking lava samples on your alien moon.
Inifinite self-similar flowchart
This is a complicated topic. Content-neutral restrictions can be subject to strict scrutiny.

http://plannersweb.com/wp-content/uploads/2000/01/379.pdf
Palo Alto too: about 10 years ago my kid tried to sell herbs from his wagon on the street by at the farmer's market (no snickering: peppermint, thyme etc). The woman who "runs" the market called the cops. The poor cop said he didn't see why he should put an end to things but that if the woman kept calling the cops he'd have to tell my kid to stop...which is what happened. Really a terrible lesson in entrepreneurship, especially for Palo Alto!

At least it did make the front page of the Daily Post, which considered it "a shocking incident" and lead with a picture of a photogenic kid looking dejected.
From Wikipedia:

>> The 9/11 Commission stated in their final report that the "9/11 plotters eventually spent somewhere between $400,000 and $500,000 to plan and conduct their attack"

Still a non-trivial amount of financial support.
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Obviously, but it would set a precedent for other countries to pass similar laws in retaliation. Same reason the U.S. keeps relatively quiet about China's corporate hacking.
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Unicode could be a stack machine. Implementing bi-directional text already requires a stack which can be pushed onto and popped from (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bi-directional_text#Unicode_bi...), we just need to add more operations!
Thanks—we've edited the title above to include this correction.
NIMBYism isn't regulation?
None of which are invisible in the same sense as those covered in the article...
Palantir to Buy Up to $225M of Stock from Employees
Awesome! Just signed up. Looking forward to kicking the tires.
Chromebook is just a non touch table. Compared to the cost of an Apple device, where is the surprise?
What people are saying is nobody really cares about "leaving an odd impression on an outsider". You're acting too serious about something that's really not your business.
That's all true. But that raises the question of whether we should be burdening public schools with providing all those social services in the first place. Maybe we should be figuring out how to provide those social services in a more systematic and formal way.
I recently ran across an interesting article about how Mazda has built two cars with Miller cycle engines. Only one was supercharged.

http://jalopnik.com/5959547/forgotten-cars-the-mazda-milleni...
Ummm... Default or die: 15 tools?

I thought I was just making a website here: you know HTML, CSS, and a dash of Javascript.

...Guess not.
My intuition from a distance is a two dollar dollop of conceptual imprecision regarding meaty persons versus fictitious persons lies closer -- not further -- from the center of the recently settled issue.

Autodesk and Amazon did not buy the same company.
Could you at least cite the retracted statement? Public knowledge means "really easy to cite"

How was it pulled? How did they set up a controlled demolition of a burning building? Why would they not tell emergency services they were going to do that?

Would emergency services not have noticed demo experts with piles and piles of explosives entering and exiting the building?

Seriously, an "inquisitive mind" would ask these sort of questions. Go down to one of the on duty fire houses and ask your questions there...
>They are being asked to answer fairly narrow questions of fact about specific actions of specific firms.

They are incapable of having the knowledge needed to know when something is bullshit, however, meaning jury nullification is no longer a realistic option.