skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In the limit case, if someone wrote you a million dollar check, no strings attached, what would you do?

There are never no strings attached. At the very least there are social expectations. Some people feel expectations very acutely and try hard not to set expectations they aren't sure they can fulfill.

> if you could raise a seed round while giving away a minimal amount of your company and not giving away control, why wouldn't you?

You have no idea when or if a liquidity event might happen or how big it might be and you want to make as few promises as possible to keep your options open, including holding no substantial assets at all.

You don't want to add another person to the list of people you have to loop in to conversations.

You don't want to leak information into the tech establishment.

You expect big dilutions later on and you want to keep as much equity as you can initially.
I guess I haven't had any UI issues with it as far as asset popping, although going through their "big update" and the related auth problems left it pretty much unusable for a full week.
This is true, my strategy hedges bets. Get enough cash to cover expenses and save a lot -> no downside. Still participate in the potential upside.

Low risk, high reward is the name of the game. A job at Google or Facebook, if you can get it, is just as stable these days as a job at a startup is.
Monty Hall, not Haul.
Virtual DOM Benchmark
I did this with all of my various t-shirts. Hang them on the pole backwards. When I put away laundry, hang them on the pole forwards.
Han would solve it by shooting the inmate first.
> What I really want is a brand new VW pop-top van, as are still sold in Europe. But those don't go to the U. S.

You could probably get a Ram Promaster SWB with pop-up roof for about what an equivalent VW van would sell for, were they sold here. If that's too spend, there are always 10-20 year old Roadtreks that are in good shape for under 30K, and if you get a Ford or Dodge based one it's even quite good off road with a locking differential.
I did something similar a couple years back - but much simpler. I just bought a cap for my truck and stuck my sleeper futon mattress in it:

https://www.instagram.com/p/tLu_9wAR4p/
Also not a lot of thought, but my immediate reaction would be that none of the land that was "given away" (or provided to people) would be high value whatsoever. Basically just plots of land with viable homes, community space, no outright ownership.

Private land would remain private.

Of course, then you have "slums," essentially, and problems that come with that.
The assumption that the computer you are modeling has an infinite amount of memory finite number of caches is a useful assumption as it dramatically simplifies the analysis and still allows you to use big-O to somewhat accurately analyze the performance of a real computer.
I do not agree. Understanding of and agreement on the details makes it possible for people to be open to such a broad idea. Currently, the details are discouraging, so it makes sense for proponents to downplay them, but in the long run, they will have more success solving the prerequisites and working their way up. My opinion is that a career in robotics is the most effective way of solving those prerequisites.
I've always liked that last sentence. May I suggest an edit to the second sentence? I've always though, Happiness is something you make. But happiness is something that you don't make directly. Its something that naturally arises, by making life choices, that allow happiness to occur naturally.
Honestly, I am disappointed that even though they built a circuit with an oscillator they didn't make a robot that moves.

They could have easily made a manta ray robot like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTjhXKIXc90
Personal escrow is very common today, through credit card deposits.
remembering my wtf from debugging phantom console errors:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/24490323/google-chrome-ca...
>Is something with a very bad taste addictive?

Yeah, nicotine tastes horribly bitter.
Not bad. Sadly this one has no (secure) digital parallel.
You're already at the mercy of every CA whose certificates are trusted by default by browsers. You can request additional verification, but that's not going to stop someone from turning the screws on a CA on the other side of the planet, whose certificates are nonetheless accepted-by-default by users' systems, and as long as they're not totally foolish in deploying that cert (i.e. it's used in targeted attacks only), you'd never see it via certificate transparency.

(And yes, for the record, HPKP blunts the compromised-CA weapon somewhat, but adoption has been pretty crummy. IIRC the latest iOS Safari and IE don't support it at all.)
Blockchain voting has yet to solve the biggest issue with voting: membership. How do we know that every vote came from a person who is supposed to be registered and that each person cast exactly one vote?

Hard problem.
Does the $1.5M earner not add up to anyone else? His expenses are $6K a month ($72k a year, but call it $100k). His after tax income, call $800k. That leaves $700k unaccounted for - and he's talking about saving $15k for his kids college, or not being able to retire for 15 more years? I don't get it.
Lots of interesting things to read, thank you! (To the others as well.)
How open is Sonos' API? I've been thinking about investing in some of their audio hardware.
I would use priceyak significantly more if they supported the following features:

1. Support more sites. I need staples, bestbuy, and sears mainly for now.

2. Add ability to collect portal cashback, customizable to select the highest paying one at the time of purchase. Track whether purchases got the cashback and provide a list of ones that didn't so they can be reported to the portal.

3. Ability to place orders using gift cards uploaded by the user. Related: use store points (like sears shop your way points) if available.

4. Support product limits per account, so e.g. if a product can only be ordered 3 times on an account, automatically order from the next account if more than 3 sell.

5. Support listing on Amazon and fulfilling using retailers. Right now priceyak only supports eBay listing.

I'm considering building something like this myself, but I don't have much interest in actually running it, I just want something that works. If priceyak had something like that I'd use them instead of rolling my own.
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I think that this is the endgame. The car companies (or Uber or Google) will provide fleets. Competition between them will keep prices low enough to dissuade people from buying cars of their own. Uber/Google/GM/Ford would probably not want you to have the sharing app if you're not part of their world.
Use Mozilla’s LocalForage for Key-Value Storage in Ionic Framework
If a platform like Equidate (https://equidateinc.com/) allowed shorting that would be king.
This resonated with me: "Life is easy. Humans are fucking badass -- we absolutely dominate our environment and are so smart and powerful."

I really understood that in the desert in Utah, where I got the feeling that I wasn't supposed to be there, far away from any semblance of civilization, but there I was surviving just fine with the help of our machinations.

I bought my RV for what you did, and its a perfectly comfortable home... a home that goes 80mph! I've been to almost every state now, and lived on hilltops with "million dollar" views, been in the desert under the stars, worked from deep in the rainforest in the pacific northwest, all for less money than rent for my apartment was. We can live comfortably for about a week completely off the grid. I would have bought a smaller, more offroad capable van, but I live in it with my fiance, so that was untenable.

I don't know how long you've been doing it, but there are definitely stressors and downsides that accompany the lifestyle. My RV was broken into once and I had everything stolen, and since then I've been constantly on edge when being away from my vehicle, so I often wish it looked beat to shit to deter people from messing with it. Also, staying in parking lots sucks and is sad if you're doing it for any extended period of time. I definitely have a missing sense of community and permanence, but its been a great journey!
We have not had an issue since 2013. All the content "must be legal to share" as stated on our upload page.
Taking a step back, it seems like you want to present a perfect solution to your boss that he can just adopt. I mean this in a friendly way, but that's not your job. Your job is to tell your boss what you want. Your boss's job is to figure out how to meet your needs.

Along those lines, I would just tell him politely that you'd like a plan to get your backpay over time, you'd like a raise although you understand that funding may preclude that, and you'd like your non-compete to be altered so at least it doesn't apply to your consulting work, since the scope of the consulting work is so broad that you wouldn't be able to ever get another job. You can mention that given the natural instability of a startup, this fact is stressing you out and making you lose sleep.

I would also ask to "paper" the backpay, so you have more than a verbal commitment on that.

If you talk nicely and respectfully about these issues, it is very likely that he will agree to the one term that doesn't cost him any money. (He will likely stall on all the other terms.)
Well, humans are many times fooled by fake or biased news. Some can be caught by simple verification or confrontation with other sources. Some require a deep research or specialized knowledge.

It's not easy to train an algorithm to outperform humans when complex context is required.
Self-funding can be slower but can eventually create a large business.
> It would take > 3 senior people to replace me.

Everybody thinks this and it's rarely (if ever) true.

> my non-compete pretty much covers every industry you can think of.

They can't afford to pay you but they can afford to sue you?

> The company owes me more than $60k back pay.

You are never going to see this money.

> I know for certain 3/5 of the remaining devs would definitely leave if I left

You don't know this for certain and even if it is true, not your problem.
We have academictorrents.org too!
Correct me if I'm wrong, but quick calculation indicates that Tesla using only energy from Cholla (one of the dirtiest plants in the US) would produce about the same amount of CO2 (13.6kg per 100km) as 5L/100km car (Ford Fiesta) would produce (12kg per 100km).

As you can probably improve your electricity mix quite easily, it sounds like that from fuel CO2 emission perspective, electric car is always at least as good choice as gasoline car.
Think about how you will get back to the box you got assigned to. Like what do you have to see in order to return to box 89, where you started?
SourceTree has a tabbed interface as well now. The diff viewer might be interesting if it's really good but I think that to require an external viewer where the company focused on that as a product. On Mac most of the good options are paid though, might help you.
for claudia I have a policy of replying to issues with ideas on how to implement it, and closing the issue one week after if there was no activity. got a fair few happy contributors now, and more people know the code base so they respond to users on the chat channel even when I'm not around.
>Long before that is the case, there'd be no incentive for the manufacturer to sell the car at all; they'd make more money just pushing the button themselves the minute the car rolled off the assembly line.

If they sold a car, they get profit immediately. If they kept the car for their own fleet, it would take longer to earn the same profit and then add additional overhead of maintaining the fleet, the reservation system, refunds, additional litigation, etc. Also, if the market is super saturated, they can sell cars to companies unable to make a profit. The manufacturer still gets the sale even thought the car doesn't realize a profit through a fleet.

The smart move would be to sell cars and also keep a fleet. It really depends on how well they could manage the fleet being a car manufacturer. They are quite different businesses and you don't get much overlap, other than the vehicle at cost and perhaps maintenance parts.

The even smarter move would be to franchise the fleet so you push off the management and operating costs but increase your sales and take part of the profit for branding, advertising, etc. The fleet would of course cross brand the vehicles.
Can someone more knowledgeable explain the practical applications of this (beyond therapy)? Is it read-only or can it be used to stimulate different areas of the brain to create artificial sensory input? Can we have the matrix now?
I use p2k.co, which works ok enough for me in the free tier that I haven't bothered implementing my own...
TL;DR: Surprisingly... Communication :-)
Ok, but what are the costs beyond $100k? Even the worst cars as far as maintenance (BMWs and such) can make it to $100k fairly reasonably. This is even more important in the Tesla apparently because after 8 years you're shit out of luck on the powertrain apparently, at least according to another post here, and that's where the actual expensive parts lie. If this guy comes back in a few years (after the warranty expires) with this same Tesla at 200k still going strong and still having spent only a couple thousand max on repairs, that'll be a real achievement. As it stands, this simply shows the Tesla is not a total lemon, incredibly useful information, but expected.
I wonder if that's a good way to do business if Tesla wants to generate a profit in a few years. Seems very pricey.
“«Baffling» «signal» «from HD 164595»” is probably none of the above
This is an extremely confusing statement, considering that Angular2 is only at RC5 and has had many major breaking changes to the API and core components ranging from 3 completely different router builds, introduction of NgModules, greater integration with Observables, a compiler still being developed, etc all since it left "Beta" in May.

I'd have to guess you left Angular2 to go back to Angular1 considering the current state of development
Interesting that the $1.5 million-a-year CEO is okay with the taxes. Maybe it's because he's British.
Because when you're doing anything outside of git commit am- "whatever" it's nice to be able to see the complete implications of your actions, what files have been modified, what lines in those files have changed, etc.,
Nice job, thank you! Now... how can I disable it? Next time I'm on a public wifi network, this is going to be sending out probes for Chromecast devices, and it's only a matter of time before someone finds an exploit.
Your data is super old; the AB-level exam was discontinued in 2009, and last year we had nearly 60,000 students that took the A exam.

But your point is therefore even more valid: not all of these students are going to be at top schools.
It's the perception.
In Europe the middle class and the lower classes share more of the tax burden than the rich.
This what pretty much keeps them fixed in their respective bracket.

When you pay over 50% of your income in taxes this includes VAT, property tax, national insurance and other taxes rather than just income tax you never actually accumulate wealth under almost any circumstances.

You end up being dependant on the social services that you mostly fund because you simply can't get a head regardless of how well you are paid.
This is why there is almost no new money in Europe especially the continental countries.

Taxation in Europe is an industry many EU countries have tax revenue at 50% of their GDP that's not a healthy system.

And as far as wealth redistribution goes that's also a myth, EU countries have lower corporate tax rates than the US they also have lower capital gains taxes with some countries having them at 5% or lower.

At the end it's the middle classes who gets screwed the most with the lower classes not far behind.

VAT and high import tariffs make the EU a pretty bad place to live on average and below income.

Food is expensive because importing cheap food is hard and by the time you save enough money on a "luxury" item you get stuck with 20% VAT premium on everything.

The US tax system is by far better, the problem in the US is lack of focus on public spending and programs, you spend more public funds on education and health care than Europe but the result is questionable at best.
This not only shows that the taxation in Europe is too high but also that the US can have a single payer system without additional taxes if it restructures Medicare and Medicaid and its state and public schools.
Much like a flip-book animation, frames were drawn on the outside of a cylinder. The cylinder was rotated to get the apparent effect of motion, hence rotoscope. Ideally the rotation was linked to a shutter. I saw it on youtube or wikipedia.
> Does anyone have any inside knowledge of when, if ever, DTrace might become a standard/official part of Linux?

Never. Due to dtrace being licensed under the CDDL it will never be mainlined into the upstream kernel. I would be keen to point out this does not mean there is a conflict of licenses from a legal point of view. Before anyone starts making claims like "you're not allowed to do this", see the use of the ZFS kernel module in recent releases of Ubuntu. I shall say no more on the matter as a refuse to be drawn into a licensing debate...

Getting back on topic, those seeking more on user space providers should check out this video from Bryan Cantrill.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6chLw2aodYQ

Full disclosure I never had to run Solaris in production so I can look back on Sun with rose tinted glasses. That said I still long for many of the features it pioneered. Seriously ZFS would eliminate half of my production problems and dtrace would make the remaining half solvable.
For some stuff the repair/improvement more than pays for itself in either increased sale price, or reduced time on the market.
I would prefer if any group of of people could exit from a parent government, without any preexisting precedent of autonomy.

Maybe the right level of governance is the one people choose from themselves instead of the one into which they were born.
He didn't say how many kids. Or how many mothers.
When I was about seven years old my grandfather took me to a Sunday market and bought me Blazing Saddles on VHS, it was the first time I understood what comedy was (at seven, my laughter mainly came from watching the campfire-farting scene) and it wasn't until much later I understood the comedy behind the racism. From then on, on every trip to the market, I would come home with a new and increasingly crude VHS (a few weeks after he introduced me to the Young Ones, and then Bottom) – he seemed to find humour in giving me things that he knew would annoy my mother.

Despite being born in the eighties, and in the United Kingdom, I still grew up on the comedy of Mel Brooks, Gene Wilder, Richard Pryor. I'm going to miss Gene Wilder, just as I miss Pryor.
Your comment reminds me of a scene in the movie iRobot, when Will Smith's character asks a robot if he can write a symphony or paint a masterpiece.

The robot replies "Can you?"
Tell HN: Why you shouldn't use snopes.com for your headlines
Go to news.google.com and search on news for "North Dakota". If they haven't removed it, there will be an article from snopes.com involving North Dakota and Indigenous Tribes. This is a failure of automated news and a lesson.
These clickbait titles make me go ballistic.
What ifs are tricky. What if the fifty states of US of A have decided to go their own way?
I don't think he plans on company, because really how much creepier can you get than: "Do you wanna check out my van?" or "Come back to my van with me"

Even though I know his whole backstory, I still wouldn't come right away and I'm a 25 year old dude...
yes, your 4G connected phone. 50GB of data for 19.99, isn't that great?
It's nice to see a competitor to 23andme in the consumer "web frontend to a warehouse full of Illumina machines" space. It would be nice to see a bit more detail though, as (presumably) it's sequencing SNPs and potential customers might want to know what SNPs are covered before forking over their money. If it's whole genome sequencing+assembly for $50... wow.
First thing that jumped at me.

He also says "I wish I could pay off the mortgage". From what he described, he should be able to pay it off in a year or two.

Doesn't add up.
Here's the state of things as far as AI-written films:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LY7x2Ihqjmc&ab_channel=ArsTe...
What was this nonsense I remember from gradeschool about planets aligning having a gravitation effect on the sun such that it'd start spewing fireballs at earth? Of course nothing happened. The amount of gravitational force from a mountain as you drive by it has more of an effect than the planets. It's kinda like, how does astrology affect us again? Can you be precise? I mean, other than for entertainment as by its own standard it's a real thing.
Google's login open redirect issue
> Perhaps it would make sense to iterate in Docker, and then convert that process to Vagrant once you finish.

I disagree; writing convergent Chef is easy. (Actually convergent Ansible isn't, but that's just one more reason not to use it!) So I just re-run on the same machine. When I'm confident, I nuke and rebuild to make sure that the first pass, and not just later passes, work fine. When I'm doing this for other people, they don't have to rebuild at all unless I have to break compatibility (which is rare, if ever).

Using Docker for this means wasting time using Docker instead of doing what I'm actually going to send to production. In a cloud environment, I get so vanishingly close to nothing for using Docker that it makes little sense to use it in development, at all. (I've tried. It's a slower, clumsier experience that results in a duplication of effort even before you have to buy into the gong show of k8s or whatever you want to use in order to actually manage your disaster.)

> It's a concern when you're launching many machines at once to develop against.

My standard VM flight for my current project is eight machines. It uses four gigs of RAM, and that's mostly because I decided to be pretty generous with RAM usage (none of my services really need half a gig of RAM when running in a development environment; there isn't enough data in a dev environment even to fill the caches). If you are doing the "oh, we have a billionty microservices" thing, well, sure, you might stick yourself in a rough place, but in the overwhelming majority of situations you're also probably engaged in masturbatory exercises that don't help you ship and I think you have much bigger problems on your hands.

As far as developers with unsuitable hardware go--meh. "My boss is too cheap, so I need to use the wrong tools" is, and thankfully for the foreseeable future will be, someone else's problem. And that someone else should quit. (I was being pretty conservative with 16GB of RAM and a quad-core; that's just my laptop, I have a workstation for serious work.)
SRL – Simple Regex Language
Assuming they've made it easy to swap out, it might actually be significantly cheaper. Repairs can be done at a central location, by experts who do it all day long. Customers are back on the road quickly and happily.
I'm guessing that his income grew rapidly and this may be his current "run rate" if everything goes well (or of course he could be inflating the # for PR purposes).
I wonder how this will play out in April. I seriously doubt the company is properly withholding & paying the payroll taxes. I guess it's not even clear whether or not they'll be filing a W2 for her.