skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The same thing happen recently Shell made a takeover offer for BG Group. In Feb 2015, BG Group shares were at their lowest point in 8 years (https://au.finance.yahoo.com/echarts?s=BG.L#symbol=BG.L;rang...). Then Shell makes an offer and the price bumps up. But not enough to make back the losses on the shares in the past 8 years.

Shareholders will vote on the offer, and have two choices.

1) Vote No would mean they back SolarCity to increase the share price back to at least where they paid for it. If the No vote is successful, the price instantly loses the gains its made in the past 24 hours, and potentially drops a little further.

2) Vote Yes if shareholders think that the gains they'll get from having Tesla shares (dividend, price gains, cash flow, capital to expand, etc.) will make the SolarCity business a better business/more competitive, etc. There may not be the same doubling/tripling/quadrupling of share price than if they stay a separate company, but it's a much lower risk.

Same thing happened for the BG Group/Shell deal. In the end, 99.69% of BG Group and 83% of Shell shareholders approved the takeover. I think we'll see something similar for the SolarCity/Tesla deal as well.
If LA is worried about housing affordability, the best thing to do would be to work to get President Trump elected, so the city can get rid of all the people who have no legal right to be there in the first place.

What would housing costs look like in an LA without illegals?
Mediachain – A protocol for registering and tracking creative works online
I do not have the personal resources to sustain doing that -- whereas the other person absolutely does. Perhaps if I film myself sleeping with his wife, then someone with financial resources might help out.
Read any rape trial transcript, or even an account of someone who took their assault to trial. Read the questions asked the victim. They are invasive and degrading, and they are intended to paint them as scandalous, lying, drunk, promiscuous skank. Your personal and public credibility will be put under intense scrutiny.

The accused then takes the stand, and insists that yes, you clearly consented to being assaulted at 2 am behind a dumpster, when you were too drunk to speak.

And if, heaven forbid, the case falls apart, you'll likely be sued right back for slander, damaging your attacker's public image, loss of income, etc.

That's the defense's job in an adversarial legal system. That doesn't make in any better for victims.
Headphone Jacks Are the New Floppy Drives
No, they're under pressure to protect their coal supply line.

They know that they have to move to renewables soon and eventually coal power generation will be banned, so they're trying to burn as much of their stocks as they can before the stuff in the ground becomes worthless.
There's a risk that another company will offer to buy it before this happens. The board of Tesla probably feels this is the right time to get in on a promising business.
I work on the Netflix Billing Team.

PostgreSQL was indeed a very attractive option, but we wanted to keep a path to Aurora open. When we were working on the migration, Aurora was still in beta, so instead of going to Aurora directly, we decided run our own MySQL instances on EC2.
Different scenarios. Netflix could sue Amazon for breach of contract if there were evidence of them mining their data.
Nokia Technologies may be Silicon Valley’s scariest ‘startup’
taking very simple steps, like the ones I outlined in my first comment, are only common sense, and can only work in said individual's favor.

Except rapes do get committed by "trusted" people, so we're left with "common sense" advice that is either massively paranoid or useless.

But something has to be said about taking responsibility for one's own safety and well being, and being intelligent about not getting into situations like these.

The article is "being intelligent about not getting into situations like these". You, on the other hand, seem to be trying for a just world fallacy.
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It's a good point, but I disagree that it's more important. Especially since you probably don't really know the details of how your fellow employee was being treated by the company.

Is there any consideration that someone who leaves without notice should perhaps reflect upon the employer, and not only the employee?
Paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1606.06565v1.pdf

Google Post: https://research.googleblog.com/2016/06/bringing-precision-t...

It was a pleasure for us to work on this with OpenAI and others. John/Paul/Jacob are good friends, and wonderful colleagues! :)
Musk isn't voting on either the Tesla or SolarCity shareholder votes, meaning this 22% becomes "abstained".

Edit: Yes he is...sorry, he only recused from the board meeting/votes, not the shareholder votes that are yet to come.
Programming language with gradual and duck typing that targets PHP and JS
Really strange. Surely Keccack (SHA-3, among other things) is "foreign" encryption? Although, I suppose it might be a bit theoretical in the sense that no one yet has a product that uses it in a configuration for encryption, rather than just hashing?

I suppose SSH doesn't exist, and isn't from Finland either.

http://keccak.noekeon.org/
Lotus Improv did this in the early 1990's.

Improv was an attempt to redefine the way a spreadsheet program should work, to make it easier to build new spreadsheets and to modify existing ones. Conventional spreadsheets used on-screen cells to store all data, formulas, and notes. Improv separated these concepts and used the cells only for input and output data. Formulas, macros and other objects existed outside the cells, to simplify editing and reduce errors. Improv used named ranges for all formulas, as opposed to cell addresses.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotus_Improv
> A 2D grid of editable cells without a type system

That sounds like a big improvement on the model we all use every day: a 1D grid of editable memory locations without a[n inherent] type system.
> ... against any scapegoat that can be blamed for this assault. Mexicans, Muslims, China, Free Trade - all perfect targets.

The definition of scapegoat implies that the reasoning or blame isn't valid.

If you're an out of work construction or retail worker, replaced because a foreigner not paying taxes and using currency arbitrage can out-compete you, then the foreign worker is not a scapegoat.

If your city's main factory was moved to a low cost country while enjoying tarif-free imports, then free trade agreements are not scapegoats. They ARE the reason you are unemployed.

If you just finished up training a foreign guest worker to do your job, and are now unemployed, the H1B system IS to blame.

Forget about the morals or fairness of it all - it's not the point I'm arguing. And it's likely Trump would be unable or unwilling to enact his promises if elected.

But trying to frame legitimate reasons for the economic problems of 80% of the population as some sort of 'boogyman' sold to the rubes is disingenuous and just flat out incorrect.
That's basically the definition of a merger arbitrage strategy - short the acquirer and long the acquisition.
If you think about it, Apple does something similar by having Samsung fab their processors.
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The FPH (Fast Parallel Hash) schemes are, as their core is CSHAKE, which is a user-customizable (parameterized) SHAKE, which uses the Sakura construction.

In the Sakura paper's conclusion, they state:

"In the current FIPS 202 draft, the SHA-3 extendable-output functions chosen by NIST adopt SAKURA for sequential hashing as a special case of tree hashing." Similarly, the FIPS 202 document refers to SAKURA when it talks about the XOFs SHAKE128 and SHAKE256:

"The two SHA-3 XOFs are also specified in a manner that allows for the development of dedicated variants. Moreover, the SHA-3 XOFs are compatible with the Sakura coding scheme for tree hashing in order to support the development of parallelizable variants of the XOFs, to be specified in a separate document." [1]

[1] http://www.nist.gov/customcf/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=919061
I shared this not because of the shot but the Frenchmans reaction. Sportsman like and appreciative of the skill and luck needed to make the recovery - a great moment for both players
Here is PDF link to the paper: http://deepeco.ucsd.edu/~george/Publications/15_causal_feedb...

edit: article -> paper
Huh? There's nothing to say he wouldn't have done the same if it was his own cousin doing that...
Pssh, it's not like any of those people whose biometrics are stolen are in important decision-making roles. Oh wait...
So I should start a burger joint and give away food for free to prove I can handle the throughout and my cost will be essentially zero?
Elon is the chairmen of both companies... It's definitely unusual.
Kodak's detection of atomic bomb testing
Exactly. And when FeeBees "ask" it is, ultimately, at the point of a gun.
If you're agreeing with my original assertion that household robot tasks are more general and more difficult than atari games, great.
Regarding Rentec, the only decent book on their history has been in "The Quants". Are there any others?

https://www.amazon.com/Quants-Whizzes-Conquered-Street-Destr...
Actually if you have a good relationship with your coworker and are struggling to go though his things you could just call him up after work or even during work to help you out ?

There is always ways to make things work when relationships are good.

Most people have little reasons to switch jobs if they are happy.
If you're having fun, it's not wasted time. Otherwise, this would totally be wasted time.
Columbus Beats San Fran and Others for $40M High Tech Transportation Grant
Tables are a fine way to explore the testable state space of moderately complex functions where there's natural or explicit discrete points in each dimension / argument. It's easy to see which combination is or isn't tested when it's in a tabular form, vs almost any other approach.

For actually driving logic, it tends to be somewhat user unfriendly unless there's something intrinsically table-oriented in the domain. The best table-oriented program I ever worked with was a disassembler; naturally, machine code (particularly the x86 series) lends itself to tables since unused / reserved opcodes in one generation turn into prefixes in the next.

Tables do make explicit the entire state space, though, and if followed to the logical cross-product extreme, are agnostic to the hierarchy imposed by OOP. But the geometric space explosion of cross-products makes you want to create new abstractions to cover more ground, and you start to lose what tables gave you to begin with.
I noticed, but I'm sort of mystified about why you wouldn't agree with that opinion. Clearly the command line is an order of magnitude more abstract than practical electrical engineering.

We need different people to understand different layers, and as long as there are enough people paying attention to each layer, there's no problem.
No, the parent is right. Elon Musk runs two companies. He has some stake in SolarCity right now, but doesn't run it.
> In addition, as a result of their overlapping directorships, Elon Musk and Antonio Gracias have recused themselves from voting on this proposal at the Tesla board meeting at which it was approved, and will recuse themselves from voting on this proposal at the SolarCity board as well.
Source: https://www.teslamotors.com/blog/tesla-makes-offer-to-acquir...

They're not voting in the board meetings, so can only recommend it to the board and then not vote.
Optimizing CTRs is not at all zero sum. Advertising a board game to me instead of beyonce tickets doesn't take my clicks away from Beyonce. I'm just not interested in seeing her show. Another client might be the reverse.
Stay out of my cave!

(It's the new "get off my lawn!")
They only migrated their billing infrastructure because the rest of Netflix is already in AWS. As far as I'm aware, the only non-AWS Netflix component remaining is their CDN. (And it will likely remain that way.)
The higher skill a job requires, the less impact quitting without notice should have on colleagues, with respect to "pick up the extra slack." As far as I can tell from reading around, it's going to be a long time after even a two week notice before a replacement is in place (if at all).

You should probably send emails to people about what's where, etc. Or try not to have loose ends. And I can understand colleagues feeling snubbed without a goodbye, much less a happy hour.

I'm not advocating without notice, but when it happens, around "here," I just don't see much of an impact.
Sorry I took awhile to respond, I was travelling. I will be updating it so that the boxes are relative to the weight you give them.

Once all the todos you list add up to 100%, you will be able to check off each todo.

From feedback I've had so far, the UX needs a lot of work and I'll be adding in a quick FAQ that explains the program.
Thanks for not turning it into a fight! (And I apologize for my contentious tone; I was inappropriately gearing up for battle there.)

I thought you might be thinking of Bruno, the scientist who really was burned at the stake; it's a good thing for everyone that this wasn't for his science. (Of course, it would've been better if people weren't burned at the stake in general. Certain modern elements have reminded us of how painful a death that was...)

I also learned a few things about Galileo from Biography Base's article on him; thanks for that link!

The more I learn about that case, the less it sounds like Religion versus Science and the more it sounds like a conventional miscarriage of justice. A frail, sick, stubborn old man should never have been treated like that, even though he did call the Pope a simpleton. The Pope is the Pope, and has certain standards to maintain; it doesn't reflect well on Christ when His Vicar abuses the courts to make trouble for people who insult him.
I recommend Causality by Judea Pearl, he has a pretty good discussion of why science is the study of causal models: https://books.google.com/books?id=LLkhAwAAQBAJ

Basically, if you do not have a notion of causality, you cannot specify a predictive model, which is a pretty fundamental part of science (although, of course, not all science deals with predictive models; sometimes even finding the correlation is an achievement).
That's because they've already migrated their videostreaming infrastructure to AWS (and some in Google Cloud Storage as a failsafe).

This Ars Technica article from February summarizes the multi-year effort: http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/02/netfli...
So cool. This is the first time I've heard of homomorphic encryption. In my case, Open Listings has a lot of real estate data that we're not allowed to vend programmatically (sale prices, list prices, property characteristics). It would be interesting to be able to release this data in a legally encrypted form and let data scientists train predictors. We currently have an offer creation API that's being used by algorithmic investors but they have to get their data to decide what to bid on from another source. My immediate questions maybe someone here will know the answer to...

1) Is it legal to vend a dataset that is encrypted this way if you're not allowed to vend the original? The OP implies that it is, but that seems too good to be true.

2) Is there software purpose-built for this type of thing? What's good in this domain? Our stack is mostly ruby but we're polyglots.
Former Apple engineers escaped to create their own cloud startup
I drive over forty miles a day in the Washington DC metropolitan area and I have never noticed a Tesla on the road, not once.
Yup that's the code that I'm wondering about.

The case I ran into was in a Rails 4.1 app where ActiveSupport::Duration (which subclassed BasicObject) was used like this: "rand(10.minutes)". That raised an exception in 2.3.0 but worked fine in 2.2.3. The fix was simple - "rand(10.minutes.to_i)". But still, I don't understand it.
Any decent company would give you a severance payment of at least two weeks when laying you off.
Yep. Here's the full conversation again, it starts with this tweet: https://twitter.com/tqbf/status/705825790529662976

That was rude, unkind and you shouldn't have posted it.

Happy to have people read both the Twitter thread and the one on HN, I think I said things that were worth, if you'll pardon the phrase, speaking up about.
Small suggestion - I would love to see upgrade instructions somewhere in blog post announcements.
Animats' comment was provocative but within the range of substantive conversation. It contained specific information and wasn't purely ideological.

This comment, on the other hand, is just trolling. You can't comment like that here, and since this is a throwaway account, I'm banning it. Please don't make throwaway accounts to break the site rules with.

We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11950484 and marked it off-topic.
There is a valid use for that and it's a faster response time by the rep
RedEye could let your phone see 24-7
The simplest static analysis tool is your compiler. It's great to consider more advanced ones. But IMO you should maximize the benefit from the compiler warnings before graduating to a full static analysis tool. It's terribly simple to opt-in to warnings from most compilers. Most of them allow you to opt in to classes of warnings, opt out of specific warnings and treat warnings as compilation errors.

This approach (specific warnings + warnings-as-errors) is ideal for keeping a codebase consistent among a team.
Many integrated CRUD apps are best written as procedures (call them REST endpoints if you prefer) that (ultimately) use SQL queries to update a store of facts. In a heterogeneous world, the idea that you have an authoritative model defined in any one language, that merely uses the database for persistence, is untenable. Objects with hidden state are a poor way to model facts about the world.

Having been a follower of OOP since the early 90s until my disillusionment in the mid 00s, to my mind only a handful of problem domains are best modelled as interacting graphs of mutable objects, and the set grows smaller over time. I'm increasingly unconvinced that procedures+SQL done well is inferior to the average developer's OOP code. And if OOP hasn't delivered that kind of mental leverage, then it's mostly a sham.

(I should add that I'm far more inclined to try and model things functionally, with functions that turn input into a set of logical diffs rather than straight-up database modifications, than actually advocate all-out procedural programming with raw SQL. But even raw SQL is superior to effectively performing complex queries in a non-relational language, where the indexes are built by hand and passed around.)
I didn't say it wasn't unusual, just that the SEC and FTC likely won't bat an eye.
1) TSLA is spending money it doesn't have to purchase a money losing company that does very little to help spur electric cars. Even if they did, the purchase and association with TSLA would have to somehow have a halo effect that doesn't currently exist. This will not happen because there's no way to increase sales of either. They could have just had a licensing deal or something, instead of purchasing the company at a premium.

To purchase a company that is so far away from your core-business model, ie. electric cars, is insane and fiscally irresponsible. Terrible ideas like this are what distract companies and cause them to fail. Look at Time-Warner purchasing AOL. SCTY is a financing play, that just happens to use solar power as its vehicle. It's maniacal rationalization to believe that this actually helps either business or will justify the purchase price.

2) See #1.

3) Anyone who thinks this is a good purchase can't read a financial statement, because otherwise they would see what sort of cash-flow-negative situation both TSLA and SCTY are in. Companies like this do not go and buy money losing companies that also burn cash.

4) See #1.

5) See #1.

6) I disagree with you.
I specifically require material deception as an overt act that establishes some level of mens rea for that very reason, but my construction is meant to frame discussion of their motives around overt acts, rather than attempts at mind reading, which are far more susceptible to personal biases of every kind. Having elements of the crime that demonstrate criminal intent is not, in fact, a construction unknown to law in general. The elements of a crime like shoplifting might require elements like both concealing the merchandise and attempting to exit the store. You can see that the act of concealment gives information about their motives in a way subject to fact-based inquiry, rather than having to attempt to read someone's mind. And people can come to a fact-based conclusion about this, as the jurors have to say this person didn't actually conceal and remove the merchandise, rather than saying this kid looks like a good guy, or that kid looks like a thief and deciding a motive from that.

So I think you'll find that the better-constructed laws require overt acts that inform us about motive in many (but not all) cases, rather than mere inferences about motive. Though I certainly agree that there are reasonable facts which one can use to infer mens rea from. Good intent can also be inferred--that's why I specified a safe harbor for people who were trying to simply do the right thing and report a bug they'd found. Someone who reports a problem to the site owners in good faith is simply not someone I think we should be hitting with criminal penalties in general, though this might be weighed against other things like attempts to ransom the bug or sending DROP DATABASE injections and whatnot which could wipe out any inference of good intent.

That said, I've always said this was my view of how the law ought to work. Implicit in that is that the law does not, in fact, work that way, so I honestly can't disagree with you here--the law certainly doesn't work my way, and this is all my own thinking on how it ought to work in my own view. So inasmuch as you're saying the law doesn't work this way, I completely agree.
Humans can learn how to figure our the score, can learn the state/action space itself, and can learn new games without external intervention. All those things are hard-coded into a system where you just string together a bunch of agents trained separately on different games, and where another human has to add a new agent for a new game. Humans learn the gameplan and any game-specific features. We don't have programmers plugging it into us for each new game.
Really. I get an employee discount at my company. I must own 100% of the company.
And there's nothing wrong with that, since if you view A and B as actors, they're both (because they're inhuman corporations) psychopathic monsters who will fuck you over in an instant
> I also think Sheryl knows that she can be the kingmaker and not the king to be successful.

Another example of this is Uber's Ryan Graves. He was Uber's original CEO, but was replaced in December 2010 by Travis Kalanick[0]. At that point, Uber's success was by no means ensured, but Graves stuck with it, and now he's a billionaire anyway[1].

0: https://techcrunch.com/2010/12/22/uber-ceo-super-pumped-abou...

1: http://www.forbes.com/sites/ellenhuet/2015/03/02/uber-billio...
Try living in a state with (former) subsidies. GA's lousy with them.
Linux users should use cross-vendor U2F support rather than hardcoding device ids into the udev rules:

https://github.com/amluto/u2f-hidraw-policy
thanks for the write up, real work examples are so useful!
You need to ask your Keralite friends to prepare some beef.