skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually believe it or not, as some other commenters have said, Section 220 gives every shareholder the right to get all of the information they would need to estimate the value of their shares. This would definitely include financials and cap table. The reasons so few invoke (IMHO) their rights include:
--They don't know their rights
--Most employees want to stay on the good side of their company
--Companies can and usually do fight these requests making it costly (in time and sometimes legal fees) for the employee to get the information they need
--The request for information has to be done in a very specific way for it to work. For example, you may have to go "inspect" a physical copy of the company's records at the company rather than receiving anything electronically

--Jeron @ capshare.com
People who don't jibe with deifying the market shouldn't themselves talk about "The Market" as if it was some kind of natural force.

The market, ie, people individually and in groups buying stuff, value stuff according to the goals of those buyers. Saying that the market as done a terrible job of pricing in the future costs of climate change to society makes no sense; it was never supposed to!
Not for fast point-to-point travel.
Welcome to the human world! That's just how things work in this world (esp. the industry). We're not logical (or rational) all the time to pick all the "right" words, and while I agree with you on ambiguity of the term, I should also mention that "new" words are indeed required to describe the new things. The way I see it, to name something new, you have three options:

1) Borrow a word from a foreign language;
2) Coin (invent) a new word yourself (e.g. "foo = bar")
3) Give new meaning to old words.

DS is made using the 3rd method. It's vague, it's ambiguous, and it's just not "correct"! But that's exactly why people will "remember" it, as a puzzle and an anomaly. That's how the word sticks in the mind.
do 50k installs of this app equal 50k sales?
Hold on We May Actually Be in for a THIRD Oracle/Google API Copyright Trial
This is not how it works. It's more like he sees you buy one gallon of milk at 399 then decides to go buy others. He has NO idea if you're going to buy it or not. He's taking a risk.

What your described is more like real front-running: A customer places an order, the evil broker sees it and goes out in front to buy for himself then gives the customer a lower price.

Your buddy in the Ferrari reliably making money requires him to be able to properly predict. AND you're missing the other side of the trade! The poor shopkeep that priced at 399 when you were OK paying 401. Why should he lose out?

HFT market makers solve this.
I didn't do well on a relatively simple question about finding the contiguous elements with the maximum sum in an array. My solution was correct, but not at all the simple, ideal solution. Someone asked me how I'd write/model a simple game like Space Invaders, so I showed him a couple of tiny prototypes I'd written and discussed how the code was organized.
'Tranquility', Ambient Mix
Shell One-Liners to Generate Random Passwords
So assuming they have a similar problem where 'ls' is aliased to 'dir'. Who should have trademarked 'ls'?
Your expectation of consistency is impossible.

If you're asking about https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12285576, that wasn't off-topic, and it was substantive because it alluded to a historical fact (assuming that fact is true—I haven't checked). It was a one liner, but not overly snarky. I don't see a need for moderation there.
Guillain-Barré (normally 1 in 100,000, it's 1 out of 5k-10k with Zika ) is quite scary as well, basically you get locked inside your own body and either die or have a multi-year recovery if they identify it within the first day or two. I know two people who have gotten it in the last year:
http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/local/story/2016/apr/04/n...
None of those things really seem acceptable regardless of what version you are running.
> If we don't have self-driving cars everywhere on highways moving cargo, then we won't have self-driving taxi cabs for many years after

This seems wrong. Wouldn't taxis be first, since cargo still needs to be hauled off and loaded by someone/thing? Many of the those drivers double as laborers.
Wow, it's the "really cool little things" that make articles like this so interesting. I just learned of “cryptophasia”... a secret language that twins share as kids. While scientists question whether cryptophasia constitutes a discrete language, they agree it offers a provocative look into the birth and development of language itself.

If one sees a copy of one's self, does one learn to recognize the other's state based on theory of mind and proprioception? Huh. Very interesting.
I'm sure you're supersmart and I started to read the first paragraphs, but your personal blog has too much ads for my liking...
Flash Boys uses a totally fabricated use of "front running". It's worse than people that call copyright infringement "theft". That book is probably one of the worst books I've read as far as accuracy goes. At least that I'm aware of.

Seriously, at one point, Lewis suggests that the trading station of some big trader is hacked. That just by typing numbers without submitting an order, stuff jumps. This should send huge red flags off on anyone that's even remotely familiar with anything similar to a computer. But it's another "see how rigged it all is?" anecdote blended in with his nonsense.
I would like to have a machine working AS-IT-IS - without any automatic updated and changes. I would like to decide WHEN to update and what to update (only security issues or everything). I hope I am not the only user with this needs...
How about living somewhere more environmentally friendly? Like... Not in a desert. Plenty of water elsewhere in the USA.
i completely agree. reading HN, people seem under the impression like a year from now all the taxis in the world will be autonomous. in my opinion (not that it means much), we are years away from this happening.
ISS is in the wrong orbit for a spacecraft to launch for Mars. The inclination is too high.
-> Lewis declined an interview request because he is on deadline for another book project.

For those interested it looks like his next book will be about Behavioral Economics.

http://nymag.com/scienceofus/2016/06/michael-lewiss-next-boo...
Along similar lines, I think you meant "astute observation" [1], not "succinct observation" [2]. The latter is accurate, since he didn't use too many words to get his point across, but probably not what you intended to point out :)

[1] http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/astute
[2] http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/succinct
Yeah I feel this way about Lyft in Boston
Why can't self-driving electric cars be government/co-op owned to provide mass transit? It would be orders of magnitude less expensive than light rail in almost all major metros (NY, SF, CHI all have the benefit of being fairly dense, allowing subways or elevated tracks).

I'm in Tampa most of my time, and it will be impossible to service that much sprawl with light rail or bus service. And if you don't like sprawl, you're going to need to change public policy to deal with dense real estate costs.

There is no free urban planning lunch.
But where does it all end up? In the ocean? In the atmosphere? Frozen in glaciers? Is it that global warming is making it rain in other areas instead?
You are acting like the employee has no choice. If they choose to take a lower salary because of the allure of stock options, that is their choice. Nobody is forcing them to do this, and that employee can happily choose to work at one of the 99.9% of other companies that don't offer stock based compensation.

And again, there is already is a law in place requiring a company to give this information to shareholders -- the one the OP is talking about. I'm not defending the company that is breaking the law, I'm defending that the existing law is good enough. The fact that one company is breaking the law in one situation doesn't mean it is a widespread problem.

But I'll bite on the hypothetical. This is a widespread problem and people are being defrauded left and right. What should the new law say? What disclosure is required of the company, and to whom? The text of every funding round so the potential or current employee can investigate all the liquidation preferences (which are often incredibly complicated and company specific)? The full cap table so I know the equity amounts of every shareholder? The full details of any past share transactions and the associated prices? At what level of disclosure are people not getting abused anymore?
Heh, I live in Toronto, 5th largest city in North America.

I've accepted the fact that public transit systems here will never be great. It will only be ever be barely good enough. There are a ton of factors affecting this, but at this point my faith is with the private sector.
Please don't respond with deliberately uncharitable interpretations. It's not plausible that Cuuugi meant it that way.
On average, Lyft Line has actually been a bit more expensive than Uber Pool here in SF, but Lyft pays and treats drivers better, so I'd rather have the difference go to the guy trying to make a buck.

Also, if Uber beats the competition, I doubt they're going to keep fares as cheap as they are. Be prepared for fares to double.
If Uber is investing heavily in self-driving cars, there's a case to be made that Lyft represents a "purer" investment in ride-sharing without assuming the cost/risk of that massive expenditure.

Uber is betting that they'll be first to self-driving cars, Lyft is betting it will be any one of a dozen companies that aren't Uber.

I think that's a pretty reasonable bet. If/when self-driving cars hit there's no way they'll be limited to ride sharing, so the chance that Lyft will be able to benefit from general availability is high.
I am using the latest AVLinux with the latest Ardour on a machine dedicated to Linux-Audio. I get lots of dropouts/xruns, crashes in Ardour etc. MuSE not running properly at all (losing connection to jack).
The only things running reliable are Renoise, Tracktion, MuseScore and SuperCollider and only if I don't use jack, but just alsa exclusively.
Been very disappointed with Ardour. Always crashing with demanding plugins (e.g. drumgizmo), with "kind of" video support etc. Also disfunctional in some areas like Midi-Editing, CD-Cue-Export, layered Midi-recording. User interface too complicated and obscured. Hate to say it, but I considered dealing with Ardour to be a waste of time.
Chrome apps can have extensive permissions that web platform does not provide.

- Full TCP/UDP socket support (AFAIK this is never coming to the web platform)

- Bluetooth support (Web platform is getting this, though)

- Filesystem support (e.g. get persistent read/write access to user selected directory. Web platform probably won't get this)

Notably the socket and filesystem permissions are not available to extensions. Most of the other permissions though are available in extensions.

https://developer.chrome.com/apps/api_index
For the "average" 30 something American, probably anything over 150k.
You know who the Yann LeCun is, don't you?
Navy's F-35C Landed So Precisely, It Tore Up a Runway
What is really interesting about that is Google's ability to price it as a loss leader propped up by the ad business. They could even tie in a new AdWords extension to let people pay to have customers driven somewhere.

They could completely undercut Uber on price AND have better data sets.
YES. This is the difference between LEVEL 3 autonomy and LEVEL 4 autonomy, which I didn't know about until this week.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomous_car#Classification

Level 4 still a LONG time coming. That was underscored for me by this interview:

http://thisweekinstartups.com/george-hotz-commaai/

George is kind of arrogant and brash... but even he says "I don't know anything about level 4". Everyone thinks level 3 and 4 are the same thing, but now that I've heard him dismiss level 4, that actually gives me more confidence in his startup.

Those are two completely different things!!!

Google has been working on self-driving cars since 2009, and the DARPA challenges were around 2005-2007. We're not even at level 3. Level 4 might not come for decades after that.
I do not see how this is different from the airline business, where several airlines co-exist in the US
The arctic is, as usual, going crazy this summer. Terrible weather for sea ice melting (lots of clouds, storms), but we'll probably still end up at the 2nd lowest sea ice extent when the minimum is reached in Sept. Happening right now is what will become the longest-running arctic summer storm since records began. Even more intense storms are forecast for 10 days time. Read more here. neven1.typepad.com/blog/
The Brain That Goes Through Phases: Temporal Metastates in FMRI
This is going to be really annoying since hardware access from HTML5 is still very rough and not even standardized. Stuff like talking to a serial port isn't even on the radar (so good luck programming a board like BBC micro:bit, Arduino, etc. without a native app), and efforts like WebUSB are still extremely early and not even a full standard. I feel like the product managers making this decision are completely oblivious to the major gaps between chrome app support & HTML5 support. This line in particular is basically a giant middle finger to folks in this situation: "Developers who can’t fully move their apps to the web can help us prioritize new APIs to fill the gaps left by Chrome apps."

So in short, Google proves once again to _never_ take a bet on their technology.
I will add HID API support, that apps have and extensions don't.

https://developer.chrome.com/apps/hid
I'm curious to know your logic, because in my opinion it doesn't really follow.

In a city, not only do you have better/more frequently updated map data, but you also have a large corpus of cars that can share info with each other, which will be a big aspect of driverless cabs. Also the speeds don't get as high, so safety is a bit easier. Also flooding/snowstorms/other things computers can't yet handle well are more of a problem on the open road.

Your assertion that moving freight must come first, to me, has no apparent logic behind it.

If you think about it, taxi cab drivers barely need any qualifications to drive a cab. Truckers need more, almost as if trucking is a more demanding type of driving. By that alone, I feel like it's fairly apparent which would be easier to replicate on silicon.
That's 50k weekly active users.
Fax machines.

PC Word processors (vs. typewriters).
Deutsche Bank Whistle-Blower Spurns $8M SEC Reward
The big attraction of the ISS is laboratory where gravity can 'removed,' which can be useful for understanding processes on Earth. This is valuable to some companies. Right now a couple companies are currently running experiments on the ISS.[0]

Proctor and Gamble wants to better understand why colloids(shampoo, liquid detergents, medicine) separate, because that affects the shelf life of their products. If they can turn off gravity, they can figure out what other processes cause colloids to separate besides just gravity.

As far as manufacturing goes, there are not many products that are worth making in space right now. You need a product that is more valuable per unit mass than the cost per unit mass to launch something to LEO.

Now the interesting thing is that there have been commercial products manufactured in space. Latex microspheres were produced on the space shuttle and sold as calibration sources for microscopes.[1] Because microscope calibration needs literally microscopic amounts of these microsphere, per unit mass the product was very valuable.

[0] http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/news/comm...
[1]http://www.panix.com/~kingdon/space/manuf.html
[1]http://www.panix.com/~kingdon/space/manuf.html
Does this mean postman app is gone as webapp ?
So what are developers of existing paid Chrome packaged apps suppose to do for existing users?

"Starting in late 2016, newly-published Chrome apps will only be available to users on Chrome OS."

As someone who has been building a Chrome app this sudden change with a lack of notice has made me very nervous.
"The eight-hour day movement or 40-hour week movement, also known as the short-time movement, was started by James Deb and had its origins in the Industrial Revolution in Britain, where industrial production in large factories transformed working life. The use of child labour was common. The working day could range from 10 to 16 hours for six days a week."[1]

It is the second time this month that this misconception about Ford comes around, I am curious to know where it comes from.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eight-hour_day
I'd start at https://developer.atlassian.com/static/connect/docs/latest/i....
Ok. Fair points. There are other causes of high prices in certain domestic sectors.

For higher ed, I do think the people who work in the administrative layer are "credentialed" too. Maybe that's wrong. But these administrators and even their assistants frequently hold post-grad degrees. And it's true that the admin layer has ballooned.

Others point to federal educational loan guarantees as a big reason for higher prices in higher ed.

For health care, it's true that Doctors are behind the push to keep their own numbers limited through licensing requirements enforced by state laws. And Medicare is not allowed to reimburse patient care provided by MDs in other countries where costs are lower and systems are more efficient. I believe domestic doctors are helping to keep that constraint in place.

But, yes, sure, there's also big pharma, big hospital corporations and big medical device manufacturing -- all of which appear to have captured their governmental regulatory agencies.

The main theme seems to be that a system of laws creates and maintains an expensive domestic market for goods and services with well paid domestic workers.
I had assumed that I had done a bit too much tinkering and broke something. I'm glad to know that for once something didn't break due to my incompetence :D
Exactly. We went to the moon, and back, with a roll of parchment and a pencil strapped to a bunch of explosives. (Ok, a calculator and a rocket).

In my opinion, self driving cars are closer than the naysayers think. The cars don't have to be able to handle every situation initially. Driving from my house to the local shopping centre is only 4 turns, this could be a preprogrammed route to a designated autonomous-vehicle drop off point.

I'm going to say we'll see a lot more of this in the next five years.
It depends on how complex the automation is. I'd no doubt use a pipeline in places where you'd use perl/python.

As for interactive use and robust automation, Bash isn't as bad as you'd think. The reason I'd go to python is because of script complexity, not lack of robustness.
I'm currently writing a toy library to play with hierarchical graphs – if Ao is a minimal implementation of Antimony's CAD, this will be a minimal implementation of the graph engine.

Beyond that, it's a small matter of programming – I'd want to find a UI paradigm / library that's less cumbersome that Antimony's, as the UI programming adds a lot of impedance to development.
Apologies if I misrepresented him. As you say, he did think digging and filling holes would be good for the economy. And I think for people unfamiliar with his reasoning, that is the example that is most clear of his viewpoint: that deficit spending is good during recessions, regardless of that spending's actual value.
Uber is almost at "google" levels of generic trademark, where people say to call an uber as a generic for any rideshare ride.
Spacecraft dock with the ISS without the robotic arm, the arm is used only with the current version of Dragon spacecraft because it's not certified for unilateral docking.

The next version of the Dragon will dock with the station by it self just like the Soyuz does.
With climate change we've had a noticeable increase in coastal flooding.

So maybe that's where.
That is pretty interesting, though it's also possible Lyft's got itself into a tight spot with finances (debt service or other obligations).

If the ride-share service industry can't support two major players, questions of why emerge. Is it not sufficiently large, and current expectations are horribly overblown? Or is it subject to natural (or unnatural) monopoly effects to some massive degree?
It could be a Europe vs. other region thing, or similar, too?!
> Books have always cost that much

How much renting them used to cost?
"I don't see how using markdown is any worse than using a typewriter."...errrr...i think we have moved past the typewriter somewhat
A high-end graphics card is $700+, the 1070 you mentioned is toward the upper end of the "mid tier" market. Cards like the 1060 and RX480 are considered low tier.
I'm assuming that both teams are technical. If so, I don't see any reason as to why your own team can't build the API that they need.

Become an autonomous team, break down all dependencies.
IIRC Russia is planning to launch a new space station it's going to be build around a similar module to Zvezda which they already have mostly built they aren't going to reuse the existing one.
Oh, you with your pesky questions.

Aren't the emperor's clothes simply fabulous?
> There hasn't been much good science out of it yet.

I strongly disagree with this statement. Here are 1052 pages of summaries of the results of scientific experiments on the ISS.

http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/iss_tech...
Sounds similar to the monopoly on SIM chips by cell service providers.

We were not always required to have the same (or any) textbook in some of my college classes. Sometimes, multiple alternatives (with brief reviews) were given.
It seems more like a rush to the finish to me [1], rather than a slow crawl. The goal doesn't seem to be to create a 'perfect' AI driver before deployment, just one that is good enough.

And after all, we only really need a statistical improvement over human drivers for it to be worth it, given that the software in these cars can be updated over time.

I guess it would be nice though, if we had a really tough standardized test course, involving various common situations with pedestrians, cyclists, etc.

On the other hand, we test human drivers on real roads too.

[1]: http://www.driverless-future.com/?page_id=384
Does it really matter for that particular region? Evaporation increases, weather patterns shift.

And even when the rain falls somewhere else it might just cause a flood and run off into the ocean.
That's not a chi, it's a calligraphic X. $\mathcal{X}$ in LaTeX.
Quoting from the article:

> But since the technology has not been perfected, the cars will come with human backup drivers to handle any unexpected situations.

Getting those last 0.01% of situations right will take a long time.
Using a Platform model internally
Incidentally they just released a Windows native application earlier this month (posted on HN yesterday): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12315371
Pretty sure we are at level 3 already.

Tesla has "good enough" L3 already on the road, and I highly doubt Tesla's Autopilot is anywhere near as sophisticated as what Google is working on in their labs.
I don't know but there is no free version at the moment. Looking at the updates in the description it mentions that they will refund any unsatisfied customers, that was in 2013 so it was for sale back then too.
Having lived in California for 30 years—in arguably every major city in the state (LA, SF, San Diego, San Jose), multiple times in multiple neighborhoods of each—fully autonomous point-to-point car sharing networks honestly sound less pie-in-the-sky to me than a mass transit system that is efficient OR well funded.

But we did just spend twenty billion dollars on a bullet train from Bakersfield to Merced, so there's that, I guess.
The post said existing apps will continue to stay in the store for the next few years at least. So you have at least a few years to adapt.