skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting points.

So, we're roughly in the same line of business only the customer relationships are reversed (10% PE, 90% VC).

What I'm writing here is from a European perspective.

(1) strongly agreed

> (2) If you're a VC, and especially an early stage one, then no, due diligence isn't necessary.

I don't agree with that, not because it is 'bad for business' but because not doing tech DD at all will dramatically increase the number of bad investments. And with the size of A rounds at the moment it will not take a whole lot of those to materially impact fund performance.

Some due diligence is required, at almost every level of investment, and the easiest way to get to that is to take some minimum amount or a percentage out of the budget to be invested and to use that for a check just prior to actually investing. The bigger the investment, the more complete the process will have to be. Especially when LPs money is on the line.

The reason why this is important is not because the money will kill you after a few bad investments. That's a really important reason, but not the only one and in my opinion not the most important one.

Bad investments eat up partner time. That's the one thing a VC is hard pressed to make more of. More money is usually easily found if that is what is needed to fix something. But partner time is a limited asset and it does not take a large number of flakey companies to significantly impact the ability of a fund to do further investments and to eventually make the fund an underperformer. It can even impact later funds. So the fewer the number of bad investments/time consuming investments the better for a fund.

Early stage (A rounds) require a bit of work, but even at the angel/seed stage it's worth it to take a (very short!) look at the tech to make sure the people involved know what they're doing and that there is no fundamental flaw.

Obviously this should not turn into a full blown DD and legal and financial are a waste of time. But a quick once-over can help weed out the bad stuff.

(3) Strongly agreed.

And I'd like to add security to your list as well as some review of how they got where they are as well as general team quality. I've seen some pretty horrific stuff over the years in this respect (CEOs and CTOs that had absolutely no idea of what their job entailed).

(4) I still wonder what the story is there.

Spot on that it is all about risk, but the multipliers in the US being what they are you're allowed to take more risk there than in the EU, where the multipliers are structurally lower.

(5) I don't see it your way. Some of the VCs that I work with have 'rusty old guys' who are also the sharpest tacks when it comes to identifying the real issues underlying a problem. All that experience counts for something and even if the tech changes the lessons learned remain.

Of course, being one of those 'rusty old guys' myself that could be a biased view ;)
Well, they beat Linode..

With DO, at least there is an additional option available for users.

With GCE and AWS, the outbound bandwidth is expensive. 1TB = $90 (AWS, GCE) vs 1TB included (Linode, DO).
I'm talking about more than public hearings, there are many disclosure laws that require using the paper of record for a county or other area.
Security Robot Pwns Toddler at Stanford Mall
User Onboarding Optimization: Getting Your Product Ready for Its First Date
Or an adult victim of coercive control, that started when that person was a child.

You've just suggested that we give power to those who exert most psychological power over their child victims.
I have both old and new themes. Oldest is from 2014. I have constant sales for all themes in my portfolio.

For example, yesterday was around $1.2k, distributed nearly evenly among themes.
Three of the four agile principles from the manifesto are:

Working software over comprehensive documentation

Customer collaboration over contract negotiation

Responding to change over following a plan

All of those strongly point towards continuous delivery being part of agile. Continuous delivery is also a given in XP, one of (if not the) founding agile methodology.

I think you need to dilute agile quite a lot to release once a year, although I daresay you can.
Healx (https://healx.io) | Cambridge, UK | Natural Language Processing Engineer | Full-time | ONSITE

Healx is a funded startup using genomic data analysis, data mining and machine learning to find existing drugs that could treat rare diseases. There are over 7,000 rare diseases that affect an estimated 350 million people worldwide, most of which lack effective treatment. Healx is a social enterprise using drug repurposing to radically reduce the time to find novel treatments for rare diseases.

We are currently recruiting an engineer with expertise in natural language processing to be responsible for our biomedical text mining work - extracting and learning from millions of relationships in scientific literature.

You'll join a small team of developers with expertise in bioinformatics, machine learning and software engineering. As an early employee in an ambitious, growing startup company you'll be able to make a significant contribution to our technical direction.

For more information please see: https://healx.io/jobs/
I probably wasn't clear:

1. I am already using Ansible - but I want to run my "build from scratch" playbook every time I push a change instead of my "git pull etc." playbook.

2. I'm not scared of losing data because of backups or similar - it's because I want to start from a clean droplet every time I push a change.

I do know in theory that playbooks are idempotent and running the 'build from scratch' playbook on a running instance should result in the same state as a genuine 'build from scratch' but there are many places this can fail:

1. Someone has inadvertently modified the environment at some point. A quick-fix or accidental change or an alteration in my playbook that isn't clearly reflected in the running instance

2. Not all ansible modules are perfectly idempotent. It's a fairly leaky abstraction.

3. If you never build from scratch apart from the first time then you're not really testing your automated deployment. The next time you really need to build from scratch you might get a shock.
To be fair, he is referring specifically to a liberal democracy, which isn't just "democratic".

By the way, I hope you realize this borders Ad Hominem. Does the US have it's issues that it needs to solve? Yes. Does that somehow void out argument that extrajudicial killings are okay? No.

As many others have pointed out, the difference is you have BLM here and Atlantic articles that point out drone strikes publishing in the US, and there is some movement (although, not as rapid as many of us would wish for) on the ground to make things better. With extrajudicial killings, it seems reasonable to assume that if there will be evil, it can be easily covered up by the powers that be, labeling critics as drugees and moving on.

One of the things about the West and the US is that you even hear about our ills and evils, while countries like China and Russia stiffle criticizing voices within their own populace. That gives the appearance of "hypocrisy" while to me, it is more like evidence of a freedom of press that we should be proud of.
> To be fair, the USB Type-C standard is capable of transmitting analogue audio through the interface’s Sideband Unit (SBU) pins.

To be equally fair, this is not a required part of the USB Type-C spec, so it's unlikely to be widely or properly adopted.

The whole thing strikes me as a net negative for the average consumer; those who want quality audio will simply continue to use high quality external DACs (assuming this isn't prevented by some convoluted DRM implementation).
Given how "successful" HDCP has been, I'd give it a month or two of survivablity. And yeah, as you mentioned, anyone with basic electronics skills (or for that matter, could follow a youtube video) could simply mod their hardware to plug whatever they want in.
Anecdotally, I'll mention that for the two founder level pitches/seed raises I've been involved in, there was absolutely no technical diligence at all. Nor was there really any technical discussion at the YC pitch (we did not get selected, admittedly).

I've always conjectured that this is why vetting the team is considered such a critical element. For instance, I have a Ph.d. and so I've found people just assume I know what I am doing in terms of tech and algorithms. This can be a disadvantage when I want honest feedback, actually.

Most VCs are much better equipped to discuss the business related aspects than anything technical. In fact, I would be hard pressed to evaluate most start-up technology outside my fields of study, because it becomes so specialized so quickly.
That statement is problematic, namely this:

> The infringing content was not removed within the specified period even though several notifications were issued.

You don't have to remove content under the DMCA, you can also file a counter-notice which gets the content host off the hook and then the matter goes to court[0].

But that also assumes DMCA which, if memory serves, was not in play here. It was a trademark complaint, which DigitalOcean has no responsibility to resolve.

Ultimately DigitalOcean's response, even with that statement, seems at odds with how the law is actually written. The other party also claimed they did respond to DigitalOcean, they just never removed the legal parody material which is their right.

DigitalOcean's understanding of the NRA's rights is more expansive than the law itself. Effectively their trademark policy is to automatically side with the trademark holder, irrespective of fair use[1] (see page 9+).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Millennium_Copyright_A...

[1] https://apps.americanbar.org/litigation/committees/intellect...
Gary Johnson isn't as insane as the other two.
This is the main difference between Machine Learning and Data Mining; in Machine Learning it's the Machine that learns, in Data Mining it's you (and the machine).
It may be common to exceed to speed limit when passing, but it is illegal. The setting of these speed limits is meant to be objective, maybe are sometimes subjective, but it is wrong to call them arbitrary.

If the car autopilot software permits faster than legal speed driving, the manufacturer is taking on liability in the case of speed related accidents and damage.
Xerox WorkCentre 5955 Driver Printer Download
Soft, sweet apples are better for pies. Maybe throw in a couple of crisp, tart ones for texture and flavor, but you probably wouldn't want to eat a pie with nothing but Granny Smiths.
Given that in the first few pages of this article, the author never mentioned temperament (tuning) systems, I had a heck of a time parsing the argument.

Well-Tempered? Equal Tempered? Mean Tone? Pythagoric?

I had a hard time even concentrating on the argument when the basic assumption regarding horizontal (melodic) vs vertical (harmonic) had some badly unstated assumptions.

Should I have kept reading?
Today, most banks run on old systems, some dating back to the 1970s, strapped together with metaphorical gaffer tape. Banks are too afraid to update them for fear something going wrong.

I wouldn't say banks are too afraid, I'd say they are being prudentially cautious. Banks have very different standards when it comes to reliability. This isn't about some system losing clicks, or likes, or whatever. Here, every single mistake can cause significant financial loss.

Just think what would happen when client trades get stuck at some point during execution. If market prices develop unfavorably in the minutes or hours until the error is fixed, the bank has to take the loss, on every single trade.

Almost all people I know who work in banking (including myself) would love to get rid of our legacy systems, but that's much easier said than done. Especially since many of those legacy systems are inter-connected.

VaultOS is based on "smart contract" technology that allows people to tailor their own products such as mortgages, loans, and overdrafts.

Those are nice new features and all, but none of that means anything if you can't replace the existing core features first.
Thank you! We've updated the submission link.
This is, while a standard, not required for USB Type C implementations.
My experience with 3.5mm jacks has been the opposite: every failure has either left the tip, ring, and/or sleeve in the jack, or broke solder joints on a multi-layered and typically unrepairable board. Or in the case of laptops, a failed microswitch for optical output failing and rendering it likewise unusable.

Granted, Lightning and USB-C have their own failure modes, but the physical construction and durability of 3.5mm plugs and jacks are a good reason to abandon TRS connectors.
"Sadly the YouTuber should have placed the information first but I see them more as a victims."

Please. Youtubers have only to put "sponsored stream" in the title to remove all doubt and be honest about it. It is a common practice, and many fans are not bothered when it happens, or think less of the youtuber since it is understood their need to monetize.

If they purposely accepted a contract that told them to hide the fact that they were being sponsored, they are as reprehensible as WB.
True--sometimes when translating from a mathematical context to programming causes some readability pains! Especially if it's something that takes advantage of multiprocessing to solve the problem.
In which case that start-up succeeding mostly by
not giving a shit about any actual business problem
and just hiring a group of excellent engineers.

But I think the acquisition amount in these cases will be small; maybe 2x? Anyhow, just enough to pay off obligations, give the founder a little money, and cover the costs of folding the acquired company.
Girl Drummer – Little Big Shots Audition
I think what really makes me appreciate building a startup today compared to the 80's is the low cost of entry.

They had to travel to editors of magazines to demo software, fax documents, manage a toll free number and of course, distribute on physical disks.

Growth hacking in the 80s without the web and mobile was a very different landscape.
I think this might be a mistake. Ever since Joyent's commentary on one of the big Amazon EBS failures in 2011 [1] [2] [3], I've been suspicious of all network-attached block storage. Then again, I haven't heard of any big EBS failures recently; I wonder what changed.

[1]: https://www.joyent.com/blog/on-cascading-failures-and-amazon...

[2]: https://www.joyent.com/blog/magical-block-store-when-abstrac...

[3]: https://www.joyent.com/blog/network-storage-in-the-cloud-del...
Rules.css – for a simple reason
You are working on a site and using a CSS framework like bootstrap or foundation or anything else and for some reason you wanted to add 10px padding at the bottom and 20px margin at the right to a HTML tag, now with rules.css file added in your project you can use the pre-defined classes with the HTML tag, which will save your development time and also helps you to reduce CSS redundancy, project is on github: https://github.com/rakibtg/rules.css
any criticism is welcome :)
Re: No homebrewed tech

Yeah the gig I had got taken over by some guys who said "Why are you doing all that yourself? You can get off-the-shelf stuff for free!" Literally the first words out of my mouth were "We didn't write our own code because we were not smart enough to use open solutions. We had product and performance requirements that could not be met." They gave lip-service to me for some months before letting me go. A year later they still are an order of magnitude below our previous performance/quality/feature levels.
Where did I say that again?
3 Trusted Ways to Drive Revenue in Strategy Games
Maybe we'll see the emergence of a profession kind of like clinical psychology for diagnosing strange behavior in trained pattern-recognizing machines :)
"Nope, game is good, don't care."

It does make me wonder how many people in the early 20th century were pretty comfortable with Standard Oil's business practices because they also created kerosene that didn't blow up in your face and kill your loved ones.
I believe write cost is ms/write

0.006 write cost = 410ms

0.03 write cost = 1966ms
Normal software is split into logical modules and layers, which you can understand on their own and then use that to reason about code at higher and higher levels. Many ML models do not offer anything comparable.
50-odd upvotes says otherwise
For drunk driving and nearby drivers, the drunk driver didn't sign an acknowledgement that he's aware of the hazards of driving drunk and did it anyway.

Signing an acknowledgement means there's something to acknowledge, like "we're not totally done with this." Any driver on the road can reasonably expect that any nearby car was sold fully functional.

The truck that the one Tesla crashed into was not (I believe) injured, although the truck's owner experienced property damage caused by Tesla (my opinion). The truck driver could have been injured or killed. If it hadn't been a truck, it could have been a white mini-van, and there almost certainly would have been injuries or deaths.

This think belongs on a test track, not crawling up my bumper.
Would you have been able to develop for it on a budget rig?

Of course a nicer computer always helps, but honestly, even nano and gcc on a Pi can get you pretty far. There's a huge difference between "download this free software on your existing computer" and "beg us to sell you this $2k+ machine that will ONLY work for this one task".
don't iPhones do that by default? Not sure if it is common in Android-land by now, my old-ish phone required a custom ROM for that.
Think of the dimensionality of those matricies. Do you really know what's going on?

As someone who uses deep networks for language processing, I completely agree. IMHO this implies that we should be careful making life-changing decisions using such models.

Though, I am not sure whether legislation at this point is useful either. The lack of understanding of new technology in legislative branches typically leads to bad laws.
I've seen this before in a Java system. A MVC Controller populated the HTTP params into a Bean, which it assigned to an instance field, and then used that subsequently to grab the value to update (don't think it was password, might have been email address iirc). This would work fine if the controlled was request scoped, but it turned out to be a singleton - so the field was shared across all requests!
I'm going to assume that on top of the complexity of programming itself. The reason is that I previously read that Facebook lets new hires work directly on the live site. They tend to just push code out there. They also do it in tools like PHP where it's harder to automate QA since no language-level annotations that make that easier. The combination of tooling that makes problems easy plus nothing stopping inexperienced people getting bad code out there means Facebook has higher-than-average risk of problems happening.

Good news is that their people are smart. Makes up for it a bit. Inexperience will still bite them, though.
EIA Reports 2.5M Barrel Draw to U.S. Crude Oil Inventories
The Mouse Pad's History: From Quality to Commodity
No its not actually illegal. Here's an example regulation from Washington state:

http://app.leg.wa.gov/rcw/default.aspx?cite=46.61.425
Perhaps I am just paranoid but I don't enjoy the complete blocking of environmental sound cues that occurs when wearing most headphones. It would be nice to have more headphones which focus on delivering an ambient noise passthrough mode.
We allow html to be embedded into one of our workflows, but you can also stick to pure markdown.
I love the dissection of harmony from a physics/computation point of view; I'm going to read this in more detail.

But the wrapping is quite off-putting to me; the author seems to misunderstand both music theory and science, and rather deeply. I don't see a scientific theory here at all. To be called science, it needs to have a hypothesis and be falsifiable, and after that get tested experimentally and proved - I don't see that, nor even a stab at a metric that is verifiable. What I see here is note relations described using science terminology instead of music terminology. That's not science, that's just someone using the terminology they're comfortable with rather than learn the accepted paradigm.

"The more factored a theory and the more emergent the observed phenomena from the theory, the more satisfying the theory." - Feynman.

It's ironic that this better explains existing music theory than the one presented here, even though Feynman wasn't talking about music theory.

The author accuses music theory of being pseudo-science, when music theory is not and never was attempting to be science, and yet the author proposes a theory of music claiming to be science that in fact isn't science.

Unfortunately, this 'theory' here only seems to contend with the first two of the 32 chapters in my copy of "Harmony and Voice Leading", and this mainly talks about what makes notes sound good, not what makes music sound good.

Also unfortunately, the author doesn't seem to be aware of what's going on in modern music theory, which is exploring things like how to compose music out of the beat frequencies that exist as harmonic dissonances between two or more notes. A lot of the physics of harmonics is currently already being incorporated into music theory.
Not really though. You already could have a USB dac plugged into your phone- heck, I have one plugged in right now. It doesn't offer audiophiles anything, and gives the average "what's the difference between a 20$ dac and 100$ dac" consumer nothing either.
> We now live in an era where raising a billion dollars of other suckers' money and developing a new "app" to take selfies or find imaginary creatures in a porta-potty is considered the apex of human civilization but investing your entire fortune in a quest to build a self-driving electric car is treated like dangerous, egomaniacal adventurism. It makes you wonder why Elon Musk couldn't just be content sitting on his Paypal money and living the lifestyle of the famous one percent. It certainly would have been less hassle.

I wish this sentiment was more common. Don't we all want the future to win?
Asimov thought there will be robopsychologists. Maybe he was right. Although, his robots had a common foundation laid out by the Three Laws of Robotics, and they didn't consume gigabytes of data to learn.
Larry the Cat
Facebook is readily complying with all of this, as they do in all countries with similar government censorship. They even gave a private company working for the German government access to delete Facebook posts as they see fit.

http://www.theverge.com/2015/9/15/9329119/facebook-germany-h...

http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Facebook-Hasskommenta... (German)

It's not too far-fetched to assume that they have access to IPs.
Heavy on buzzwords, light on details. Is it literally an operating system? Is it blockchain tech? Both? Neither?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11864211 contains an interesting discussion from the author of PyParallel about how doing IO on NT in the style preferred by Linux is slow. This leads people to believe "NT IO is slower than Linux". However, doing IO on NT in the style preferred by NT is faster than Linux doing it's preferred thing.