skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My impressions is that late stage investors generally have lots of protection here, so that the company is forced to IPO by certain dates to avoid penalties, and if the IPO isn't at an agreed upon number, the company gives more shares to the investor to make up for it. IIRC square had such a clause, although I don't know how that turned out.

Picking the winners isn't so hard if you can protect your investment like this. The lower bounds on their expected returns isn't $0.
The containerisation approach on Linux isn't because of insularity or NIH - it's because the Linux kernel development process does not accept large, far-reaching "big bang" code drops. Instead, changes that have wide impact across the core kernel are expected to be made in a series of smaller incremental improvements, each of which is more limited in impact and more easily reviewed.
WHO ARE ALL THESE TRUMP SUPPORTERS?
Ransomware, a growing and destructive threat
Except, it still doesn’t provide a UI customizable with CSS, HTML + JS, doesn’t run firefox addons, and is generally inferior.

Sadly, it looks like Firefox will soon not do either of those things anymore.
Bare metal isn't uncool .. it just requires someone who is willing to manage it. That includes rushing to the data centre at 3 a.m. to fix a failed power supply or a hard drive. In comparison, with a cloud provider and a proper architecture, a huge number of problems just disappear: if your server stops responding, it is automatically killed off and replaced; there is no need to worry about the operational overhead of managing a DB (backups, clustering, recovery etc) when you just consume it as a service; you don't really need to worry about maintaining a separate disaster recovery site when it is actually easier just to run in active-active mode; when your box is no longer adequately sized, you just stop it and restart it as something larger. Cloud computing provides a huge number of benefits - once you have used it, it is pretty hard to go back to managing your own hardware. That said, it isn't always the best option and it certainly isn't always the cheapest.
To be fair, if a Japanese company launched sumo wrestler filters in Korea, I'm sure some people will find a way to be offended. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

(Also, never mention "Sea of Japan", or you'll be in deep trouble...)
By that, I mean it's hard to pick a more "girly name" than Clara.
They just display stuff, right? I'm fine with having those in pure CSS if it can be done in an understandable and maintainable way. But the decision to display a message in a modal popup when you click a button is functionality and should be javascript. The behaviour of the modal popup itself is fine as CSS.

Well, that's my opinion at least.
>many more things in existence are non-physical than physical.

What does non-physical existence even mean? This isn't an idle question. Surely we know what physical existence is: some capacity to interact; be causally affected or causally affect other physical things. This definition is a bit circular in some sense, but it has closure which is important.

The word "exist" has a foundational importance in all of human intellectual activity.
What is the analogous notion of non-physical existence that supports it sharing this term?

>If consciousness itself were something on the same order as an idea, then it would lose none of its potency.

When we say consciousness exists, we're not saying something of similar importance of how a child might say giant pink elephants exist. They're both ideas, but we mean something very different.
Basically, like with so many things, The Big Lebowski is right.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKjBFsyYC0g
I'm not sure what the point of this comment is, but want to chime in to say I'm always happy when people directly connected to stories on HN take the time to shed what light they can on them. I'm kind of repelled by the instinct we have to tear those people down.
To make it a classic arbitrage you would hedge by shorting an "equivalent" asset. For example, if 1/1000th of JP Morgan Chase's assets are those also in your portfolio, then for every 1000 long shares you would short 1 share of JPM.

Since JPM is far from equivalent and most VC capital you don't have access to short, in practice I assume that a) you would assume that any startup receiving financing / investments at unicorn valuations is already a winner, and b) go long a sufficiently large and diverse basket to try to eliminate risk.

Unfortunately (a) is so far from true I'm not sure this would be an effective investment thesis.
Kenji's The Food Lab book is a must buy and only $27 on Amazon right now.
The article conveniently ignores things like the number of services available, the ability to find staff who are familiar with the platform, the availability of data centres in your location, the depth/breadth of the available APIs, market share and so on ... Sure, if the only thing that you care about is cost, maybe you should use GCE. Alternatively, if you're really serious about saving money, then perhaps you should buy some second hand servers and host it yourself.
I love the philosophy of libraries over frameworks. How does it compare to knockout?
agilob.net is down, probably this feature is referenced https://about.gitlab.com/2015/07/29/feature-highlight-merge-...

Regarding PR queuing do you mean https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/4176 ?
But plenty of words can have huge impacts on mental state. Is that odd?

"Your significant other was just involved in a serious car accident and is in critical condition."

Or consider attending a (good) stand-up comedy act. That situation can put you in a very different mental state even without the use of alcohol or other drugs (although people do often combine the two).
Michael Graziano's Attention Schemata Theory is in my opinion a pretty convincing way of thinking about consciousness. Here's a talk he gave about it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=peHcu8LEgEE.

(warning: includes wacky ventriloquist act)
If you haven't already been keeping up with it, refresh your wardrobe and regulate your sleep pattern. Also, if you intend on packing a lunch, start getting into that habit now so you don't have to worry about it when you get going.
You talk as though all homeless people are in the same category; down on their luck folks who are just having a hard time pulling themselves up by their bootstraps.

Don't get me wrong, there are plenty of homeless people who are like that and who really do just need a helping hand and some support for 6mo or a year and they're back to being productive members of society. I won't argue with this because it's absolutely true!

But there are also people who are homeless because of untreated mental illness, who "choose" to be homeless because they're too far out there to participate in traditional society. These folks (probably) need help, but just giving them a house and money for food isn't necessarily the answer.

And there are also folks who choose to be homeless. People who think society is really effed up and that they don't want to be a part of it. I've met folks like this and talked with them at length and they know full well what they're doing, why, and whatnot. They're not down on their luck and they don't have any kind of debilitating mental illness; they have very well founded reasons for rejecting society and you won't convince them otherwise. They obviously have different values than most, but that doesn't mean they're crazy or wrong. If you give them a house they'll probably just laugh at the "idiots" trash it, spend the money profligately and continue doing whatever makes them happy.

Pretending that you've got a one-size-fits-all solution to a problem is either incredibly naive or just downright intellectually dishonest. I'm not terribly interested in people peddling snake oil.
The only piece of evidence you've presented is a situation from your own career.

Do you really believe you can generalize well enough from your personal situation to give such strongly worded & unconventional advice, especially to someone you know very little about?

It may be the right choice for certain people at certain times, but it's definitely not a trivial decision.
That's like me telling you that you can't make this post that you've already made. I can tell you not to make any further posts, but this one already exists.
What Sanders wants on TPP
Looks like several of these posts have been on Hacker News before. I read this one and he still has me thinking. Which approach is better? I know which one I prefer (no spoilers yet as I'd like other readers to read first and share their opinion). What are some arguments you have for either approach.
These kinds of comments are explicitly off limits on HN. You can't accuse people of shilling, or of "playing PR", or otherwise commenting in bad faith. If you believe someone is doing that and have evidence, you mail hn@ycombinator.com and let them handle it. What you don't do is chase people off threads with accusations about it.

Don't take my word for it. I'm just another commenter. Use the search box at the bottom of the page to search for "author:dang shill".

Stavros Korokithakis has been on HN for as long as I can remember. Nobody deserves this kind of treatment on HN, but it's especially galling when people who have a track record of contributing here get it from people who have no such record.
National security letters can't compel Silent Circle to actually lie. That's key. So we are faced with two possible scenarios.

1) They're telling the truth, didn't get any warrants, and (nearly beyond belief!) decided to retire their warrant canary with a completely silly and unfounded justification, leading clueful observers to believe they're incompetent fools.

or

2) They're lying on their own recognizance and are deliberately collaborating with some three-letter agency to compromise their users' privacy, contrary to the very justification for their company's existence and betraying their customers' trust.

So. Fools or traitors. Shall we flip a coin?

Either way, if you care enough about your privacy to buy a Blackphone in the first place, time to remove the battery and toss it in the bin.
You guys down-vote because you can't come up with reply and can't admit your political hero's are so brazenly corrupt.
To be clear: Choo is a framework. Just a micro one.
Don't you have Turkish supermarkets? They should stock chilli.

If not, mail me, maybe I can help a fellow nerd (ie mail a bag of dried bird's-eye).
This is NYC, FWIW. I've never lived in SF.

To be fair, the Google offer does include RSUs. However, since you can immediately sell those I think its fair to treat them like cash.
You say that, but look at what happened last time they held a convention.
God I hope so. It's a pretty fun time to be Stavros and on the market looking for crypto work.
The original message is divisive in nature.
Loving Choo. Here's basic webpack build.
https://github.com/hew/choo-webpack
That's an interesting question, but I think that Textbelt is intended to be used in a scenario where you ask the user to select their carrier in addition to their phone number.
There are almost 300 comments here and no one has pointed out the obvious: these can be used within email templates where JavaScript is unavailable. For that reason alone, I think this is pretty cool.

But sure. Always use the right tool for the job, as they say, and for application logic that tool is not CSS.
Its a Qt app. Why would you ever want to edit its UI with CSS? Its UI is controlled by the Qt widget and color themes. While its not a Qt specific feature, KDE applications let you drag and drop pretty much every element of every applications interface wherever you want and however you want.

While it doesn't have an app ecosystem, it has an extensions API and they have already ported adblock and greasemonkey over.

The amount of insane work required to make it work with either Firefox or Chrome extensions, none of which were meant to operate outside the UI architecture of their host environments, cannot be reasonably considered a major flaw. A disadvantage, but it is the cost of using a native UI toolkit instead of writing your own from scratch like Firefox / Chromium do.
I agree on having a need for that feature myself too. In GitLab we solved it by not marking TODO's when you read them but only when you take action. The problem has been when you don't want to do anything (reply, comment, vote, etc.). That is why we just added the ability to mark TODO's as read in GitLab in 8.9 https://about.gitlab.com/2016/06/22/gitlab-8-9-released/ section "Manually add Todos" (you can mark them done in the same spot.

BTW We're working on ordering issues as part of an issue board https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/17907
> There exists currently no dismantling method for the AVR vessel, but it is planned to develop some procedure during the next 60 years and to start with vessel dismantling at the end of the century.

Wow! Thanks for the link.
No, it's like telling me that I need to continue making posts, or I will be fined. This may not be pleasant, but it's certainly something that the government can do.

It's pretty well established that they're legally allowed to prevent me from telling people that I am in a certain state. It's not a stretch that prearranged signals fall under that.
what would a debt jubilee consist of? apologies in advance if this is a dumb question.
You might get paid. I've had companies go broke on me. (As a consultant, I factor in non-paying clients to my rate. It's much harder to do that as an employee.)

You might keep your job. Your definition of "good enough job" and your boss's might not be the same thing. Or your boss might lose an internal fight and your team could be laid off tomorrow.

As a consultant, I always have at least two clients active at any given time that can pay my rent and monthly expenses. I work 24 to 30 hours a week. The "marketing trick" is that you are being hired in exactly the same way I am: tomorrow you may be gone, with no recourse, nothing. In a sane world you'd be compensated for that risk; I am, as I'm pricing that into my rates and making hay while the sun shines. :)
Helium-cooled reactors leak helium

So what? Helium can't be activated (Longest lived isotope has a half life of 806 milliseconds) and it's not extremely expensive. (yet)

Most of the problems with Fort St. Vrain, the US's only helium-cooled reactor, were due to moisture infiltration: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_St._Vrain_Generating_Stat...
Taking equity instead of cash is like asking the company to denominate your salary in Bison Dollars. Worth a lot IF the plan for world domination goes off without a hitch but until then...
That's true. The only way that he or his company could truly be hurt is if Silent Circle did get a NSL and he admitted to it publicly.

If they got a NSL and he lied about it, no harm will come to him. Or if he's telling the truth, obviously.
Hah thanks! - I'm not quite sure how it compares to knockout, I've never taken it for a spin. There's a section on many of the other frameworks if you're curious how choo distinguishes itself - https://github.com/yoshuawuyts/choo#how-does-choo-compare-to...
If so, then good for him. We cant verify it. If true, I respect the combo of SEAL and serving Constitution with privacy tech.

Regarding calling shots, yeah who knows. Just reinforces worries in this space though. Uncertainty that is.
That sounds like a pretty fun job, actually. I've always had a knack for mechanical things, I write software, I use software, and I don't mind a fair amount of on-call if it's in my own house. Where do I sign up?
They do feed on flying fish, among others. Here's a good clip from the newest BBC nature documentary on it:

https://youtu.be/szuchBiLrEM
Ask HN: Options question about FMV and 83(b)
Hello,

I have a significant number of NSO (early exercise) options at a seed-funded startup. The company is doing very well and as such, I'm planning to early exercise and file a form 83(b) election to reduce my tax burden. The question now is when should I exercise.

At the moment, the strike price is the same as when I was issued the options. The company has never done a 409A valuation and the FMV was decided by the Board. We've received soft-offers from investors at a valuation significantly higher than the current FMV. Given the size of the company, I also have full visibility into fundraising and potential 409A valuation processes.

To exercise, I will borrow money from a family member so I'd like to delay exercising until I know that the FMV will go up.

Is what I'm doing legal?
Can the board retroactively change the FMV?
If the IRS investigates down the road and finds that the company's FMV at the time of my exercise is much higher, would my tax burden go up?

PS: Yes, I acknowledge the risks in purchasing shares in startups.
what?! since when? I every single thinkpad I bought since my T43P has been a total piece of shit in comparison.

Methinks you have never owned an IBM Thinkpad to make that statement.
Yes, they can try to compel you to do literally anything. Remember they tried to get Lavabit's SSL certs. Either you comply or fight it in secret court.
> Casinos are largely a means to redistribute money, not create new value. Merely redistributing money is very much decried as a bad thing when we do it in the form of welfare.

This would apply just as much to the music industry as it does to the gambling industry. Casinos do create value; they create entertainment value. It doesn't become less valuable when a company you don't like produces it.
http://www.relentlessplay.com/broken-laptop-cool-utility-mon...
I've spent a lot of time thinking on the 'hard problem.' My current stance is that it works like this:

Imagine you are a sphere. Got it? Wait—hold on now! You didn't really imagine that you /are/ the sphere, you imagined you were a sort of disembodied human spirit residing within the sphere. Now, really imagine your total existence is /being/ the material constituting the sphere. Can you imagine that being the sphere in this way is very, very different than interacting with it externally as a human?

The hard problem is trying to explain how our total experience at any moment could be as it is, when we also know that it is in some sense created by the neurons in our brains. How can a clump of twisted neurons be the same thing as the feeling of warmth or the perception of the color blue?

My solution is that our experience (in the above sense) is how it is to actually /be/ a neuron aggregate.

Additionally, I think the problem is so hard because it doesn't involve a system that exists /within/ the material universe; instead it's an aspect of the whole thing itself. This is analogous to how we shouldn't expect the rules of Monopoly to be useful in describing the physical constituents of, e.g., paper Monopoly money. We shouldn't expect the notions of 'system,' 'consistency,' 'causality,' 'time,' etc. to apply to the nature of the universe itself just because they are good for describing things within it.
It overlaps with journalism closely enough to the point where great history is just great journalism, just long-form. I imagine that aspiring journalists head straight to some technical school when they could do well to supplement some humanities work as well.

In hindsight, my choices in high school were probably gearing me up to become a competent journalist. I decided to develop my aptitude for computing instead. I don't regret it, though: the skills and models of higher-level geography and history have been essential in keeping me based rather than basic in 2016.
Do I really need to break out the old correlation/causation saw, or is that at least self-evident with this crowd?
Happy Graphics Coding with Static Staging
Show HN: A Redux H.O.R. to help simplify the state of fetched data
Traditional warrant canaries are issued regularly, just as you described it.

It would be fantastic to get more granular, at the account-level. That would be a cool differentiator for these hardcore privacy/security-oriented companies.
This is a great read that sums up many criticality accidents and their causes over the years - "A Review of Criticality Accidents" https://www.orau.org/ptp/Library/accidents/la-13638.pdf
I'm in the awkward position of wanting to strongly agree and disagree with you at the same time. I did two degrees here: economics and arts(philosophy and religious studies...as in history and anthropology, not theology)...which I think made me one of about three people in the entire university bridging the left/right subject divide.

My history, anthropology and philosophy classes were consistently professional: empirical, critical, draw from sources, develop thesis, discuss, defend, attack.

Once you moved over into anything connected with contemporary economics/politics, it was a different story, and that goes for both my economics or my political economy/philosophy classes (that's right or left for those that need to translate the euphemisms).

That there's a certain infiltration of "leftism" in some of the Errr...more contemporary/recently invented arts fields, I don't want to argue because I think it's largely true.

But if I'm honest, my economics degree was essentially indoctrination as well: alarmingly ahistorical (those of us who did economic history classes were in the minority), rote memorisation of models, never was the idea of empirically testing or competing our ideas ever floated, and those few of us who actually did read the primary sources or history of the field quickly found that most appeals to such names (Smith, Locke, Ricardo, Keynes, Marx, Say, Malthus, Marshall, blah blah blah) were often mythical figures and misappropriation rather than connected to their actual words, times or contexts.

Look, maybe things have moved on in ten years, but I doubt it, and my uni had a decent reputation for economics at the time...which I'm now thinking is directly tied to their ability to pump out large numbers of unthinking orthodox automatons...
GOLD: Risk Points Higher, Retains Bullish Offensive
Right. The tricky thing is having words and chemicals lead you to precisely the SAME state.
I think you can bring the time to initial interactive experience way down by using Polymer CLI. Looking at wedding-app.html it looks like it's loading a lot of elements which aren't on screen yet.

Take a look at the app-drawer-template example and note the line that lazy loads element definitions when pages change: https://github.com/Polymer/app-drawer-template/blob/master/s...

If you use the CLI you can create a polymer.json file that lets you fragment up your site: https://github.com/Polymer/app-drawer-template/blob/master/p... This way you'll create separate vulcanized bundles and you can lazy load them right when the user clicks on the section, hopefully improving that first load experience.

Ignore the haters on HN. Congrats on the wedding!!!
I upvoted you because this is a fairly good comment, though I think it is fundamentally incorrect.

Working really hard and acquiring technical debt isn't really an alternative to hiring and compensating employees, it's (usually) a prerequisite. A single technical cofounder can be enough to get a company to Series A, but at some point you have to hire people.

If we wanted to discuss an actual alternative, it would be to hire people in other locations at far lower rates than those commanded in SV. But that comes with its own set of problems.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contact_high
Well, as far as _we_ know this hasn't been tested. After all, it is a _secret_ court! That's the whole problem!

Maybe that's what happened here. That would be highly dismaying.
Tales from the lunar module guidance computer (2004)
Do I understand that correctly from that page that the reactor was completely unshielded at the top, and they just relied on the fact that people wouldn't be there? That seems completely mad. The past is a weird place.