skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Universe steps on the gas
> I don't think they're buying solar city, isn't it a pure stock swap?

Yes, but SolarCity is losing $300 million per quarter right now. Who do you think will pay that bill?

Tesla will, now that they "purchased" it. In fact, some companies sell themselves for for NEGATIVE dollars (aka, we'll pay you to take this failing business off our hands). Becoming the "owner" of a failing company means that you now have to pay for it.
It doesn't appear there was one. Apple used a loophole in Irish tax laws that meant Ireland wouldn't tax certain income. It sounds like Ireland apparently acknowledged in a ruling this was a correct reading of the tax laws, which binds Irish tax authorities to not challenge Apple on the issue.

The thing is, if my understanding of the facts is correct, it was a correct reading of the tax law, not some special one done for Apple. So this ruling was not a "deal."
This is a common misunderstanding. You have two choices when distributing GPLv2 software commercially: you can either provide the source code alongside the binaries (section 3(a)), or you can provide a written offer to provide the source code on request to any third party (section 3(b)). Non-commercial distribution can forward on a 3(b) offer rather than making their own.
Oooooh. Did not know that. Thanks!
The risk of this happening was almost certainly accounted for in the contractual relationship.
That's why you always build two.
Kingsman anyone?
On the contrary, venting LOX is very common and easily visible in the lead-up to nearly every Falcon 9 launch. Google "falcon 9 lox vent" for plenty of videos/photos.
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Baidu open-sources its deep learning software
Only if they received code from kernel.org with a 3(b) written offer.
You could have done it just a few years ago. The international tax rules are tightening though, so you've missed the boat.
One of the hardest parts for me was getting the cluster sized appropriately so that all data stayed in memory. Overflow to disk slows things down a lot. But, sizing the cluster can be tricky if you're generating a lot of data structures in the tasks.

I only use RDDs, so I put a lot of thought into the processing flow so that unnecessary data wasn't shuffled. If you're reducing PairRDDs, make sure that the data is evenly distributed. Also, I'm guessing you read the optimization docs, but a huge amount of network I/O can be reduced by choosing the right types and collections and optimizing serialization. And, of course group within partitions first, then within nodes, then across nodes. And, of course, go for fewer bigger servers with lots of network bandwidth.

There are a lot of tricks, unfortunately. And, since I don't know your experience level I won't bore you with things you probably already know.
Conflating risk with "position to be lucky". It so happens that to most people, actual big opportunity is often available only at the levels of existential risk.

As in "you may become homeless" level of risk.
GNU Octave

A free numerical computation environment, mostly compatible with Matlab.

We really need help with JIT compiling. We have a toy LLVM implementation, but it uses the unstable LLVM API and we gave up trying to patch it up with every LLVM release. It is now a white elephant that we allowed to starve to death. The problem we have is that the kind of people who are attracted to contribute to numerical computing are very different from the kind of people who know compilers and programming languages.

Anything would be better, whether fixing and extending the LLVM implementation, or picking any other free JIT compiling backend. Ideally, because we like to help each other out in GNU, we would use libgccjit (David Malcolm used Octave as the original inspiration for libgccjit), but this is not a requirement.

Our collaboration infrastructure is a bit byzantine, but our bug tracker is here:

http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?group=octave

Our mailing lists are here:

https://savannah.gnu.org/mail/?group=octave

And our code is here:

http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/

(Mercurial is not the problem, we like Mercurial. It's mostly Savannah that would be nice to improve or replace.)

We are GNU. Our license is GPLv3+ but we can accept code under any compatible license.
A brief history of artificial intelligence
Yes, in the email leaks it was disclosed that:

- Michael Lynton (the CEO of SONY) had been in consultation with the State Department over The Interview, and had been giving the Bureau of Information Programs (one of the State Department propaganda bureaus) early screenings.

- Lynton was in consultation with both State Department officials and a RAND expert on nuclear non-proliferation, North Korea and regime change (Bennett).

- The Special Envoy to South Korea had been speaking with Executives of SONY about plans to have The Interview smuggled into the North.

- Clinton staffers and CIA officials were on site during the production of The Interview.

Indeed, the North Korean hacker group attributed by the FBI for the attack (Bureau 121) has a mandate to (and history of) target media companies partnering with adversary states to develop propaganda as a deterrence strategy.

If you Google around for those names and themes you will stumble on articles from various reputable sources that cover it as well as original emails themselves in Wikileaks.

It should be noted that the Wikileaks dump of SONY also implicated them in partnering with the US State Department in other business related to "international messaging", while "The Interview" was merelyl a high profile case.
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First, my point is that there is a larger objective where synergy between the companies exist and serve a strategic purpose. Namely, each is a component in building a next-gen energy company.

So, the tactics Analemma_ 50 and I are discussing are what other sustainable, renewable supply options exist. Because that is what SolarCity represents. Does it make sense to buy troubled SolarCity before they go under, or does it make more sense to buy another solar (or insert renewable here), or does it make more sense to start over on that component. Those are the alternative tactics I am interested in, which I am not aware of.
By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest --Confucius
Very cool! Couldn't find a way to generate a link to a direct spot on the map, but if you go to Kennedy Space Center you can see the shuttle external fuel tank and booster rockets on the pad (no shuttle though).
Yep. This is why every station I have on Pandora plays Pearl Jam, the Cure, and Bad Religion. All range from "OMG, again! why!?" to "mild boredom" in how I feel about them. No matter how many times I dislike Pearl Jam and Eddie Vedder songs, they keep coming back; something like 30 or 40 dislikes, now, but the will of the crowd is that someone that likes the things I like is clearly supposed to like Pearl Jam. (One could argue this is a problem in their algorithm. By the third or fourth dislike of an artist, that artist should probably be purged from the possibilities.)
This is the thing that should NEVER be done: https://github.com/jsdoc3/jsdoc/blob/master/package.json#L26
Might it ever be possible sign in to Duet via Google Apps login?
I agree. I bet that the 80+ hour work weeks are going to result in death someday.
Pomodoro Timer for MacOS and Windows
Nails it. Though there may be a case to be answered regarding Ireland's tax arrangements with Apple and other MNCs, the crux of this is the EC overreaching their mandate.
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Would they do so if human cargo?
Fortune can favor the bold, with boldness still being correlated with failure. There are plenty of hard-working people in the game, willing to take big risks and skillful enough to follow through on them, who still end up losing.
The Israeli government has approved the deal with China, if they didn't want it to go through they would have blocked it, their MOD has oversight on virtually all exports and international dealings.

Israel needed AMOS-6 more than anyone else because communication satellites are important for national security and are used by military and national defense agencies.

Even if somehow your crackpot theory had merit delaying the launch would have been an easier and cheaper way of tanking the deal than sabotaging a rocket.

This wasn't an Iranian spy satellite, Israel has no interests in hurting it national security, economy, and reputation by blowing their own shit up, I don't even understand why people would think they blew it up.
I don't understand your point, and it seems to me that you didn't understand mine.

Of course the human mind (which is NOT identical with the brain, not a good idea to conflate those terms) is influenced by the outside world. Sense organs (and the sensations in consciousness that arise due to them) are the means through which external reality causes changes in consciousness.

Why is it wrong to call that "senses"? How is that abusing the term? It's the literal meaning of the word.
There are failures and there are critical failures...

For the less well off (initially lucky), the line between those is much thinner.
Maintain? These are hardware vendors. Once it's shipped they rarely care.
You can put captchas where they belong—on comments etc. Instead, Cloudflare punishes people simply browsing; they nuke the 99.99999% of visitors that have zero intention of interacting with the page beyond doing few GETs.

Oh and don’t forget they’ll even put the captchas on subdomains, like img.domain.tld. Go visit stackoverflow via VPN/TOR and watch how the site has no styling/images even if you do their stupid captcha on stackoverflow.com. They’ll still serve you another one on static{1-50}.stackoverflow.com. Fun.
The New Yorker - New York City, NY (Local only) - FT

- Lead Engineer

- Product Manager

Titles and specifics are TBD. I'm leaving my role at The New Yorker (Director of Product Engineering) and they're looking to fill two roles to replace mine.

Job spec is also TBD but reach out if you're interested.
Before keyboards everyone taking CPS at my university (1978) were taught to write out code in yellow lined paper.

We handed in our code to the (female) adjunct for review. Run time was expensive. Then we made our deck of run cards.

I used this "write it out by hand first " method during my entire tech career.

For me, writing it out was a really good way to learn (next to actually teaching others)
Pushing for the entire internet to use https is hard. Pushing for ISPs to be barred from reading http pages is easier.

My (Indian) landline ISP even writes to http pages, injecting ads for higher tier internet plans and letting me know that I've reached my data cap (after which I still have internet, but at a reduced speed).

Tor is good, but slow, and many websites block it or show captchas.
Hard work and luck are both necessary and both insufficient for success. That's the very clearly stated argument of the article.
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This may well work though:
http://time.com/4471451/cathy-oneil-math-destruction/
It's happening.
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Through emulation. How useful...
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Willing to relocate: No

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Email: see ABOUT or CV
Human language is like a scaffold of metaphors, on upon the other. George Lakoff, of course, wrote the book on this.
Yes I am aware that profits are taxed and not revenue. Parent mentioned reduction of costs as a compelling reason of locating in Ireland, as well as low taxes. Corporations are legally obligated to maximize profit for share holders.
Yes it is true , very few people may about privacy and they wikl use VPN softwares on mobiles. Rest don't bother. Even if you run http site for user name password it is ok here except for financial transaction. But i am sure irrespective of the vendors all providers can do what they want the license of ISP they have but they need to keep meta data and they provide it to government as and when requested by Dept of Telecom , no warrant or court order required as it is covered in ISP license and CAF agreement with customer. This applies to all internet connection not just retail customers. I know airtel injects a page when i run out of the bandwidth even though my dns is google DNS.I would rather fight for food safety, health safety and garbage collection in cities(None of the major cities know how to do it and IT Hub is full of garbage everywhere) etc... than worry about any of these
I am so sick and tired of this meme that, unless you allow businesses to break the law, you're being 'unfriendly to business.'
I thought the (forced) schedule was considered a feature, to allow users to know when to expect updates and to have developers know when work had to be finalised for inclusion in the release.
"That's why you always build two."

Unless you're a Raman. Then you'll build three.
The last and only major PF syntax change was, what, 5 years ago now ? 4 years ago ? Any other changes are relatively minor and reflect other changes, such as features being removed or added.
Q&A with both buyer and seller of a 6 figure web app. Ask us anything
Hi HN!

kareemm and derrickreimer here.

I (Kareem) was part of a partnership that bought Codetree in June from Derrick for six figures. Codetree is a project management tool for GitHub issues.

We haven't seen anybody fully open up the kimono around an acquisition like this before, so we're going to try something we've never seen: we're both happy to answer any questions you have to demystify the process around buying a business like this.

Here are some things you might want to ask about:

- specific numbers

- the mechanics of buying a business

- our psychology during the negotiation

- why we chose this business

- how we found it

- deal terms

- the risks of buying a business

- etc

Some more context

Here are some things we (the buyers) have done before buying Codetree:

- We've built products at places like ESPN, Microsoft (via acquisition), and MySpace (back when it was bigger than Facebook!)

- We've led product and dev to help Chimp.net grow from an inkling in the founder's eye to more than $150M in donations to charity.

- We've bootstrapped four successful SaaS businesses, sold one of them, and folded two others

- We've started one venture-funded company, an online marketplace that was sold in 2010

- We've run product and dev teams at two venture-funded companies

- Combined, the three of us have been writing software professionally for 45 years

After a year of figuring out what the next business was that we wanted to start and/or run, we ended up buying Codetree.

Derrick has also been pretty busy: just after selling Codetree to us, he sold Drip - an email marketing company he co-founded - to LeadPages. Two acquisitions inside of a month!

It's 10a PT and we'll be around for an hour or so.

Ask away!

EDIT 1110a: Wrapping up. Not a ton of questions but thanks for the ones you fired over, HN!
Totally agree. The entire solar space is over leveraged - there is already an oversupply issue on the solar module space, and nobody has figured out a consistent business model(s) that make sense over the long haul. One hiccup in the overall economy will send many of these companies into bankruptcy. There will be a ton of assets available for investors to scoop up, ala Sun Edison.
Same as if being on an ISP though.
I sort of agree with this. I got my start typing listings from Microhobby[1] into a ZX Spectrum... I was around 5, so I guess a big chunk of my early learning was by osmosis!

[1] http://www.microhobby.org/
How to delete your Google+ profile
Unicorn Down Rounds
J>E is the worst, Spanish is also not great. Google Translate is especially bad in places where the speakers will assume their interlocutors will infer significant amounts of information from context—because Google Translate has not actual knowledge of the context.
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