skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would guess his/her skepticism comes from the fact that Excel has about a billion + 1 features. Even Google and Open Office have trouble supporting everything. In that sense, I was too loose with my comment of supporting a superset. There's the old adage that everyone uses 20% of the features in Office, but it's a different 20% for every person.

Instead of "superset of Excel functionality" I should have said "superset of Excel semantics".
Confessions of a Payday Lender: “I Felt Like a Modern-Day Gangster”
Why does that matter to you personally? As an entrepreneur, you want to go where others won't, i.e. less competitive environments.
Ah, I didn't know that. It looks like you have to enable those explicitly. CockroachDB built time travel over it's existing MVCC layer, which means it works out of the box for all tables.
Bitcoin Price Drops Below $600 as ‘Brexit’ Hopes Falter
Like all of Amazon, depends on the team. Pretty much all engineers at Amazon have on-call rotations which is what most people talk about when they complain about work-life balance here.

On-call can be good or bad, but if you're a manager and your team's on-call is awful then soon all the developers move to other teams (it's pretty easy to transfer around in this company). Upper managers know this fact, and push their managers to improve this. My current team, I have never been paged outside of work hours since I joined 6 months ago.

In terms of working hours, when I first joined I'd let myself work crazy hours and my work-life balance was unhealthy. I soon realized that A: I didn't need to do this to get my job done and B: this was killing me. I work 9-5 now, plus delta (get in at 10, work to 6, get in at 8:30, maybe leave at 4:30). On occasion, I'll put in a crazy night or something to get a big project done but I take the hours back on another day to make up the difference.

If I was in Seattle, I'd be doing the same thing. I'd make a little bit more money and I'd have better beer available.
You might argue that not rendering ads is a valid method to save battery.
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Love this. It's awesome to see something that's been around for hundreds of years and been so many people's gateway drug into the arts get a much needed facelift.
UW Sys Des '07 grad, still in Canada. 100% agree with you.
We added "Show HN" above.
Are you saying that a company with voting rights shouldn't be allowed to have influence on what goes into Unicode? That doesn't make any sense. Also, if you read the article, Apple wasn't the only party in favor of nixing the emoji.
Long-time rails guy here, really looking forward to playing around with Phoenix soon. I keep hearing really positive things, just haven't had the time dive in. I tried diving into react for a bit, but I found that it was really hard to retain unless I was working with it every day. Lots of people are telling me that the switch from Rails to Phoenix will be a lot easier though (I hope so!)
Reading the comment section of that article is quite a bizarre experience
As someone not in CA, it's a reason I have no desire to move there.
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What all of these tech hubs need is to popularize their own style of growth that can contrast favorably with SV's '80s Wall Street-esque brand of maniac growth chasing. Once a city figures out how to do that, then the "must be in SV" meme will weaken.
A lot of your hypothetical hinges on GS / MS buying at 15 and holding at prices below 24. Which is a lot like saying they actually value it at 24, but were somehow allocated shares at a bid lower than that. IMO, Google did it right with the Vickrey / second price auction, and apparently this has been formalized OpenIPO: into https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenIPO

If we assume that GS and MS have a reserve price of 24, as evidenced by the market open, then their strategic 15 and 16 bids do represent money left on the table.
And it shifts liability to the customer: given a "3-D Secure" authorization, the credit card company presumes an authorized transaction and makes it much harder to claim fraud.
For the vast majority of people I think high real estate costs are a much bigger problem than high state taxes. CA state income tax is less than 9.3% of income for most people, a home is probably at least 30%.
I do. No, not games. Recently CAD/CAM, previously GIS and other desktop software.

BTW, here's the third-party C# Windows app I use most often:
https://windows.github.com/
Australia also doesn't have a quite porous border, while it's well known that illicit materials - guns, narcotics, people - flow relatively freely across the US-Mexico border. While I would wager that mass shootings would likely decrease to some degree, expecting to eliminate all gun violence is a goal not currently achievable.
>> Bacteria that have even smaller genomes are doing that by stealing components from other lifeforms.

There are no bacteria with smaller genomes today, that was the point of making this one. I was not talking about the global environment either, but the number of options for what substances and concentrations may need to be present in the environment around a cell is certainly very large - making trial and error difficult.
Even with the ad blocker being a feature in opera out of the box?
They were trying to show that opera can achieve better battery performance based on it's features and optimizations. Does that not include the ad-blocker?
Yeah, I lived over half my life up there. West coast geography is just what I consider "normal". I don't think I could live in other regions of the country as happily.

I didn't find housing costs to be that far out of whack with the increased salary when I moved to the Bay Area, though.

And I found the soul crushingly bad traffic at the time to be worse in Seattle than in the Bay. My #1 reason was the weather, though. I just couldn't take the lack of sunshine. My mood changed so much when I moved down here. I'm sure it doesn't bother some people, and more power to them. I really miss the northwest when I visit. It reminds me of what I've missed out on, things have changed so much. Then again, I would have missed out on things that happened down here. And I've missed out on everything that happened in Omaha and Denver and...
Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7408807.
But classic econ 101 would also say that if the above was true, then everybody who thought the shares were worth only $15 (plus spread) would sell, resulting in share price dropping back to around $15.

I think you're wrong. My reasoning is simple. If the IPO investors thought that the company was worth less than $24 (e.g. $16), they would have sold already, and the price would have dropped. If they thought the company is worth $24 (or more), they would have bought the IPO at any price between $16 and $24 (minus spread) as well.

Really, the only argument for under-pricing the IPO is as a favor to the banks/hedge funds. But the question is, did the banks ever return the favor?
They say that robots are being remote controlled. So, there is an operator telling it to duck, grab, and where to go, but the robot does the actual balancing on itself.

I am a little bit disappointed that they are not using deep learning for robotics. Instead, they are simulating the robot based off a model, using Control Theory. It might be easier to get results from Control Theory but it doesn't offer a path towards more complex behavior, like Deep Learning.
It's immigration. California has had negative net domestic migration for a while. Population growth in the state is driven by immigration.
Game Theory and Bitcoin (2013)
The developer stream is public, and so is the exact build they used[1].

[1] http://get.opera.com/pub/opera-developer/39.0.2248.0/
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Thanks Colin, just added :).

(Aside: I love how useful text is a medium. In 5 minutes I can put in a quick insight to improve a decade-old article.)
There's a challenge period during trademark registration when they can voice their objections. They may be able block it if they're not too late.

> You may challenge an application for trademark registration at the USPTO by filing an opposition with the TTAB within 30 days after it is published in the Official Gazette.

http://www.uspto.gov/page/about-trademarks
Is there a good writeup on how to use them somewhere?
Bloodborne seems to meet all of these pretty well. Especially "speed over tanking", levels not needing to make sense if they're functional, weapon and enemy variety.

Cool to read it all laid out why we like certain games so much more than others.
Or he was great at communicating and has just suffered extreme mental trauma from the circumstances he was unfairly placed into.
What if one of these gets out of control/hacked/malfunctions? This is one more reason we need weapons to protect ourselves.
They might have access to more "top talent", but there will be 10x more companies after each of those 30 remaining employees as well who I'm sure will leave this caring company as soon as they get green cards.
I think lambda syntax can be a bit cumbersome, but that aside what I really miss is a clean syntax for chaining functional operations. So often I find myself thinking about data in terms of 'pipelines'. i.e. in JS:

_.chain(values)
.map(() => {})
.flatten()
.compact()
.uniq()
.value()

vs Python where doing the same thing becomes either a nested mess of function calls or comprehensions or a for loop.
"Failure" like Facebook?

A more serious question: how many secondary offerings are there?
Let me rephrase that. Doom extended the technique used in Wolfenstein, which is 2D maps and sprites, and movement in the 3rd dimension was limited. Quake used a proper polygon rendering engine. In any case, it doesn't change my point that there is a discrete change in the rendering tech between Doom and Quake that accounts for the difference in feel.
> EV certs can't be automated

Not entirely, but Let's Encrypt could partially automate the verification process (e.g. looking up business entities and contacting their registered agent with an authorization code), and then fully automate obtaining a certificate with those verified credentials.
How would that fair with Bing's ad network?
Peter Thiel Got More Facebook Shareholder Votes Than Mark Zuckerberg
Interesting comments, thanks. It is used in company names, which would make it awkward not to have an encoding for it: there are many characters used just in names in Chinese that would leave locations and people having unencodable names if the characters were not in Unicode.
Phoenix is "A productive web framework that does not compromise speed and maintainability."
It's all electric, and check out the fancy white armor at https://youtu.be/tf7IEVTDjng?t=117

Looks like they've taken the criticism from Google et al. to heart. It was hard to see how the huge, gas-powered robots louder than lawnmowers were going to work for anyone except maybe military applications. Put some state of the art Google AI into this thing and it's not far from a sellable product!
They are investing heavily on video conferencing as well..
https://www.twilio.com/webrtc
Just like people from the city might say "I can't understand how anyone in their right mind would live in the midwest"
Opera was specifically aiming at Edge in this, it seems.
Unfortunately I think this person seems mentally ill. I have a friend who in his 30s became a paranoid schizophrenic and although he was very articulate, he had major flaws in his logic and behaved erratically. He also filed many lawsuits and was litigious as well.

It sounds like this person was dismissed from his job (he mentioned it in one of his videos), and he hasn't been able to find employment because of his mental illness.

It's sad that we don't do enough to help those with mental illness. It would go a long way to making their lives better and the rest of our lives safer.
The REPL as it stands submits the query on enter, just like sending a text message. But I have written it in a way where each keystroke is sent.

The counter() function you're referring to was implemented in GridEve, which was an experiment on the UI. It was written in C# and used a different (and abandoned) backend. It was a local-only app, so the timer ran on the local machine.

Time in the client/server architecture is something we have to give a little more thought to, since we're still trying to get things working in a timeless world.
Ingenuous. Will undoubtedly save millions of lives.
But then someone like Huawei just puts themselves in the predicament of being subject to Samsung's whims. Android is allegedly open source too, but the reality is, the platform's creator decides it's development direction, and if you want the apps to work, you have to follow it.
Are the sceptics right? Limits and potentials of deep learning in robotics
Nah, was just me (the engineer) not being aware of Oracle and MSSQL. I should have written than I'm not aware of any other SQL DB. I was aware of Datomic, but it's not SQL. Just an error.
You might like this: "Botching the Bomb: The Self-Defeating Behaviors of Proliferant States".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWPGhs5Lm5Q&list=PLvGO_dWo8V...

This entire lecture series is great, by the way.
It'd be easy to make a case that Comodo is no longer trustworthy, pointing to several of their past actions, and recommending a switch to a safer provider. If the consultant does the work to make the switch happen, and the cost doesn't increase, I doubt the customer would object.
That's pretty cheap but you have to account for purchase price parity. Local goods are more expensive in America than Romania. By about 2X. That includes cost of local labor.

For example, the average Romanian wage is like 8,000 dollars a year. But that 8,000 dollars goes a lot further.
If you require students to spend X years working in Y, then it's not a subsidy anymore, it sounds a lot more like a scholarship. What you're suggesting would have to somehow be structured to let students choose not to accept the agreement, and at that point its not "for everyone" anymore.

This sort of agreement definitely does exist, though. My sister in law went to med school under one requiring her to work a number of years in rural parts of the state after residency.
You made me buy it.
They are similar in that F# was the first .NET language to say, "what could language constructs for asynchrony look like?" and implement it.

They are fundamentally different models, though.

F# uses a "cold task" model where invoking an async function returns a specification of work, which you must then start. You can start this work in different ways so that you have control over the semantics of how it executes.

C# uses a "hot task" models, where invoking the async method returns a handle to background work that has already been "kicked off". This is actually an oversimplification, because the semantics of what is actually the asynchronous thing you're awaiting can differ. But the overall concept follows this pattern.
> sentiment is very important for IPOs

Who cares. Compare Twitter ("popping" IPO) vs. Facebook ("sagging" IPO).
In colloquial American English "pension" nearly always means defined benefits.
How progressive that they at least let you unsubscribe from all of their lists with a "simple" online form.

Intel, by contrast, still takes a more conservative approach. While they allow you to unsubscribe from each individual list online, if you actually want to stop receiving their "important marketing announcements" you need to write them a physical letter.

Here's the helpful closing from one of their emails last week:

To unsubscribe from other Intel communications, contact us at this address: Intel Corporation, 2200 Mission College Blvd., M/S RNB4-145, Attn: Unsubscribe/Privacy, Santa Clara, CA 95054.
IT != software development
You mean this:

https://crash-stats.mozilla.com/report/index/bp-fa160cdc-8a2...

?
There needs to be incentives to maintain things otherwise decentralized projects join that graveyard.

Financial incentives are what lead to centralized web. If incentivised to maintain 'nodes' that might be prevented.
Ask HN: Talking to an investor for the first time. Any advice?
Hi HN!

So I am working on a startup part-time this summer, alongside a small group of people (who could turn into cofounders). We don't have a prototype ready yet, so it seems a little early to talk to investors. However, last week an investor at a meetup heard about my idea and really liked it -- we exchanged emails and blocked out an hour to talk over the phone tomorrow.

I am feeling nervous about it because I am not sure what to expect. Except for what I read on HN, I don't have a firm understanding about how the finance end of things work.

Any advice?
As long as everyone continues to believe California is some sort of special, magical place

It is when it comes to the enforcement of non-competes. True for the US in general, and a few minutes with Google makes it look like they're not well favored by Canadian courts, which prefer non-solicitation provisions, but non-competes still can be enforceable, and I can speak from harsh experience outside of California that they have a chilling effect without you ever stepping into a courtroom. Killed two neat pieces of/concepts of technology as well.

Non-solicitation can also get nasty, when it includes your former co-workers, and I've gotten the impression that they're also not very enforceable in California, I recall a court case where a salesman was able to take a customer list, which is considered to be a gold standard of enforceability in e.g. Virginia.

Massachusetts has finally started to realize this is crippling them, but the last time I checked wasn't able to muster the political will to make the change. Other locations that say they want to be the next Silicon Valley ... nope, they're not willing to give this up at all.
Something that most people fail to calculate as well is the difference in hours spent for work. If you have to add 2 extra hours of daily commute to your schedule you suddenly decrease your hourly wage by ~18% (estimating original commute of 1 hour daily). Not to mention all the other costs associated with that extra driving.
Russia aims to develop 'teleportation' in 20 years
I had a Comodo cert expiring in a year or so, but still went with Let's Encrypt since I was setting it up for other domains.
Facebook may be the worst example of an IPO done right you could have picked. NASDAQ bungled it so badly they got sued:

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-nasdaq-omx-facebook-litiga...
definitly not.
Python was late too the game yes, but I guess all the others had it way before C# (since 2012)

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

The only one that "stole" it was maybe Swift.
Ticketmaster, bet365, MoonPig, Sky TV, LateRooms.
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There were 3D games with full environments even in the 8 bit era. Novagen Mercenary, released in 1985. Freescape games, beginning with Driller, from 1987.
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In spite of the language, cultural and historic similarities between the two nations, the US and Canada do not enjoy free economic relations across borders.

This is the fault of both nations. The frictions are imposed by elected officials that limit the freedom of people to cross the border to work, dictate how taxes are paid, etc.

This also applies to investors, as investors must deal with the regulatory regime in the company's location.

I'd say things like this reflect a big failure of both the US and Canadian governments to make the borders transparent for business. All the moving expenses, severance packages, wasted training, visa fees, etc. etc. is all a total economic loss.

The people who suffer are those on the margin who get laid off or who can't afford lawyers to do immigration paperwork, or who don't quite meet the standards that bureaucrats outlined for a work visa.

Economic freedom is just as important, just as relevant to people's lives and futures as the other freedoms we value.
it's doesn't even remotely compare to somewhere like Boston or NYC or DC or Philadelphia or San Francisco or Seattle.

The benefits fall off pretty quickly after NYC, Chicago, LA, and San Francisco. As a Midwesterner who has long considered a move for exactly the reasons you mentioned, my reaction to a move to Philadelphia or Seattle or Austin (or whatever) is basically, "why bother?" I can live an "urban enough by comparison" lifestyle right here.

But, that's not true of the Big Four.
But that means the voices get out of sync during cinematics if your fps is too low
The higher investment returns are, the less money I need to set aside now to pay future obligations. The lower they are, the more I need to set aside.
Going wireless is a lot cheaper. But you are right. They had to have had either founders capital or they took bank loans after they signed contracts.
Fantastic week for the Erlang/Elixir ecosystem!

Another thanks to the teams behind all these amazing releases, and particularly (for this news) Phoenix.Presence and Phoenix.PubSub, for the wide range of new exciting applications they'll have.
The Year Without a Summer
Thank you, Jerry that was very helpful!
I think it's very hard to argue that day 1 or near-term price action on any IPO is solely based on value instead of sentiment.
Blog post OP here.

I originally wrote that I wasn't aware of any other DB that had this. I should have specified any other SQL DB, since I was aware of Datomic.

While working on this feature I searched on Google for the syntax specified ("AS OF SYSTEM TIME"), but didn't find it referenced except about a third-party Postgres extension. It is unfortunate that Oracle and MSSQL didn't come up in my searching, since they support this feature.

I've edited the blog post to be more accurate in listing some of the previous work.
Why don't they just open a US office and get their "senior talent" there, if it's that easy to hire them in SV? And if it is easier, why would they cost more in SV? Maybe because there's competition?

Also, it's a bit of a cliche that you need the best people to be successful. Organisation is far more important. That other cliche that the team is more than the sum of its parts is far more true.

I moved abroad with a very small team a few years ago. It totally broke the culture. People went on intellectual holiday, and haven't recovered. We also became insanely insular, not getting any real inputs from other financial industry insiders.
I hear you on this. I'm currently working on a writeup about the history of open source and the GPL.

The dream of having totally free and open replacements for major tools like Photoshop never really happened. There is a lot of new OSS, but it's all BSDL, Apache, MIT and other license.

I'm not like a hard core Stallman person. I don't run libre-firmware laptops from pre-2008 and I enjoy my Gapps on my phone, but I'm not a big fan of startups/monetization of everything. I think a lot of good ideas are strangled by making them commercially viable.

Cygwin going LGPL allows it to be more widely used, but overall we're going to see less OSS apps as a result.
btw, how much do doctors (specifically primary care physicians) make in the Bay Area?
They don't get bonuses nor stock, just base salary right?
Gotcha. Yeah, sticking with the bash environment makes unix style paths just work. So I haven't had a problem with that. Just thought it might be something I could help with since i use it in windows too. Cheers.
That is extremely shitty, and the people in charge should be shamed. They had to have known this was coming far before you starting there. For them to continue with that, knowing the position it would leave you in, solidifies the idea that those in charge are awful people.
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