skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In short, IRR is yearly rate of return. i.e. If 25mm becomes 50mm in 12 months, then the IRR (yearly rate of return) is 100%.

Try searching up something like 'venture capital IRR explanation' and you should get more details.
Why single out the liberal elite? The conservative elite are also perfectly willing to ignore the majority opinion. For instance, look at drug legalization. The US has almost 90% in favor of legalizing marijuana with a prescription and a majority in favor of legalizing it without a prescription, yet neither has been done.
Amazing text!
It's nice for being integrated with explorer, but far from the best ui. In fact I'd hold up TortoiseGit as an example of why knowing a a ui toolkit does not make a programmer a ui expert: it's a pretty terrible ui. Don't get me wrong: If you know git well and are familiar with how to use TortoiseGit then it's functional. It's just not a good first exposure to git, nor is it easy to learn.
Startup founders: Grow trees that make apples
Would that be the one who started putting interns in half-cubes in hallways? Where the biggest buildings might not be complying with the fire code?
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Yes, especially considering the by-line of the piece. Eugene Volokh isn't a WaPo reporter. He's the namesake of The Volokh Conspiracy, a blog that WaPo publishes; and also a law professor and leading expert on First Amendment law.

EDIT: Prof. Volokh just posted in his blog a bit about how the piece came to be. See https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/donald-trumps-vile-c...
Yea, I didn't think that through at all.
Don't expect that in the US anytime soon as we haven't even mandated annual leave yet.

I really think natural light should be required for all. I went to a high school in Texas literally modeled after a prison. No windows, no natural light anywhere in the entire building. Built in 1979. What is wrong with these people?

I took my SATs at a high school classroom with a huge windows looking out to a forest setting... It was incredible
That was interesting to read, but I don't understand what the context is at all.
> Forced content removal has no place in a free society.

How about we post a very convincing article on what appears to be a respected local newspaper site claiming that you've been arrested for sexual relations with an animal, conduct some solid SEO on it, and then send you out into the job market?

Perhaps you'd revise your views on this subject. Libel and slander are ancient common law principles for good reason.
The money belongs to the employees? Only if you mean that the employer buys the health-insurance plan with money that would otherwise go to the employee as salary. (I presume that you are not saying that the company's money rightfully belongs to the employees. If you are saying that, I disagree, strongly.)

But it gets muddied because of taxes. Most people get to pay for their health insurance pre-tax, whereas if the company just gave them the money, they'd pay for it with post-tax dollars. Also, many employees contribute some of the cost themselves. So it's fair to say that part of the money belongs to the employees, but it's not fair to say that all of it does. The rest belongs either to the employer or the government.
Well its right there in Fred's article:

> we have seen founders and CEOs get rejected by more than fifty investors during that process.

He mentions 50 rejections as an outlier. He's not saying that's the norm, he's saying thats how bad it can get for companies in his portfolio that do raise money. Nor is he saying those are his best performers.

In fact, he's saying they need to change their company to raise money. Which is to say, that they started out pitching a shitty deal and had to improve it:

> As these expansion stage companies struggle to raise capital, they are forced into a cathartic (and at times painful) process of self reflection... And as a result, these companies are coming out of these hard raises with better businesses, better operating models (lower burn rates!!), and bigger visions to go execute against
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I find the prediction of the next global dust storm, and the cause, interesting. The theory is that the other planets influence Mars' orbit, and when that influence has a particular characteristic at the right time in the Martian year, Mars' global weather pattern is different.

That makes me wonder if there is a similar effect on Earth. Logically, you'd expect to see something. Maybe storms are stronger, or El Nino changes.
It's very hard to go back to step 1 when you can't reasonably hope to get something done before the next interruption.
I don't understand your concern. Could you expand here?
It's possible to get waterjet cutting in low quantities with small setup charges. We have a good number of people ordering custom keyboard plates and cases from us at Big Blue Saw.
I haven't finished uni yet, but I feel just the same. I've come to the conclusion (at least in CS) that uni isn't enough to become a programmer. Experience in a job and coding together with more skilled programmers are more important than passing exams. Uni gives us a general understanding on the subject, while specific skills we need to develop by ourselves. This is just my point of view, sorry if it doesn't help much.
That study showed a "link" (i.e. correlation) between hormonal contraception and first diagnosis of depression or use of antidepressants. That's not the same as showing the pill causes depression! Even the study authors explicitly say that more study is needed before we can definitively say there is cause and effect.
> Does Fossil have something like 'rollback'?

Yes, but not like you mean. A commit is made using a SQLite transaction, so if any part of the commit process fails, it will roll the Fossil repo DB back to its prior state, preventing DB corruption. If you're synchronizing to a remote repository, a failure on the remote also rolls back changes to the local copy, too.

As for rolling back an already committed change, even DBMSes don't work like that. A Fossil commit is the same as SQL COMMIT: the transaction is committed now, and can't be backed out without a subsequent modification.

That said, a common way to get the effect you want with Fossil is to mark the bad commit as the start of a new branch, then resume work on the previously-damaged branch. Rather than delete history, this just pushes it off to the side, as a failed branch.

This does mean that if you make a bad commit, then make two more good commits on top of it, that moving the bad commit to an "ignored" branch will also move the two subsequent commits. However, Fossil also has a cherrypick feature that would let you apply the two good commits to the good branch.

You can sum Fossil vs Git up this way, in this regard: Git remembers what you should have done, Fossil remembers what you actually did.
Adults also get personal choice as to which TV programs they watch, which beverages they drink, which candidates to vote for, whether to join the military. The option is not whether to constrain the choices available to children - it's a matter of who gets to decide. Remember, always turn things around: how would you feel if the religious right got to tell you that you couldn't raise your children as atheists or agnostics?
Wasn't my intention. I should have qualified qualified:

> between "qualified" candidates

I'm presenting from the point of view of the hiring institution. But still... If I were a law firm, I wouldn't hire a lawyer who hadn't gone to law school. Why would we behave differently with software engineers?
Weird title, if a dust storm really hits Mars, as opposed to a dust storm merely brewing on Mars, the whole solar system would likely be affected. Regardless of how big the molecular cloud would be, the fact that an interstellar gas cloud is hitting Mars is the bigger news!
Yes. "Electrically checked by your electric utility company to correspond with official Naval Observatory time." - General Electric clock ad, 1948.[1]

[1] https://books.google.com/books?id=W0oEAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA9&ots=4...
That's too bad, pidgin is the only client I want to use, regardless of the protocol...
One cannot simply pay more on average. The demand for good engineers is high and Facebook must compete for them.

I believe supply and demand with market rates is a much bigger factor on the average Facebook engineer salary than the quality of the engineer. For one, we are only dealing with a discrepancy on the order of 40-50%. Is a good engineer only 40-50% better than an average engineer?
Like all forms of art, the idea is to show the artist's feeling, not to tell you what you would personally feel.
You can still run TotalSpaces on 10.11 El Capitan and 10.12 Sierra: http://totalspaces.binaryage.com/elcapitan

TotalSpaces is still being actively developed.
After working in agencies/consultancies, I realized I could cut out the middle man and let clients use me directly. So, yes, I freelance or consult because I found a need.
There's a key difference in the suggestion, compared to the government: there could be many such organizations, each having different priorities and values which would lead to them funding different things. People and corporations interested in making a difference would have a choice.
In the grandest tradition of Anglophones, I have at times borrowed words like "merde", "schiesse", and "cào nǐ mā" (with atonal pronunciation) from other languages, whenever I'd like to express something in colorful metaphors without other people necessarily understanding it to be vulgar.

So if I were you, I'd probably take notes.

This might one day get me into trouble while traveling outside the US, which generally only knows English and Spanish.
Could be an interesting opportunity to archive these "banned" websites and create a new site off of these cases. Pretty crazy abuse of power. Makes me think about the further shift away from print media, before libel and defamation were primarily ran via printed newspaper and what not. Now the focus shifts online.
I think freedom and pay are a lot more fungible than people realize. Instead of doing the math themselves, lots of people just assume that the risk must be too high and try to jam the lever all the way towards low risk. (though there are also people making the considered decision that the stability is worth the trade-off).

What bugs me is people on both sides who act like any given choice isn't valid (like presumably all the people downvoting you).
I have a question. I've been learning to code a short time and I'll I've really taken a liking to sites like CodeWars that are based around coding challenges.
Do you think I can honestly and successfully get a job through this? I'm located in the bay area
GitHub provides a gem that does a decent job of replicating their Pages environment. It's not well advertised, but does work well [1].

[1] https://github.com/github/pages-gem
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I think each workplace by facebook will have seperate users and separate domains, so the user-count of facebook-proper will not be affected by companies have bulk access to account creation.

This should also keep facebook proper blockable.

I didn't catch the baseball theory part of your comment advertised in the beginning.
Catholic theologians have spent a lot of time analyzing this problem. The short version is that there's a pretty big moral difference between giving money to somebody (even if you know they're going to do something evil with it), and arranging for the evil yourself. You may have a pretty good idea that your employee Bob is going to spend his paycheck at the local saloon and whorehouse, but that's rather different from personally opening up a tab for him there.
I really agree that the recommendation on aliasing is just plain wrong. I prefer using singular names relating to the role-in-the-query, e.g.:

SELECT manager.last_name AS manager_name,
employee.last_name AS employee_name
FROM staff as employee
JOIN staff as manager
ON employee.manager_id = manager.staff_id

This is probably most important (as in the above example) with self-joins, but I think its a good practice more generally, and makes queries more self-documenting as to intent.
>I still consider fruits as desserts and not very healthy...
That is literally the stupidest thing I have ever heard about diet advice.
Well done on being fully brainwashed.
> In whittling down al-­Nuwayri’s opus, his selections skew to the crowd-pleasing. Large chunks of history (which made up the bulk of the original text) and scribal etiquette are jettisoned, while the heart of the translation consists of marvelous chapters on wildlife (“mute beasts”), botany and “sexual medicines.”

I'm a little disappointed by this. I understand the need to abridge it, but to skew towards the "crowd-pleasing" is a bit much. Maybe it's just me but I'd have rather had things more proportionally represented (ie have some more history!). From the sound of it, every part of this has its own wonder, and I'd rather the translation reflect that.
I've never used FizzBuzz during an interview, but I see it as a "weeder" question, and I'm a big fan of weeder questions. I always start off with really easy (IMO) basic questions, and pose progressively harder questions as the interview goes on. I want to see at what point the interviewee starts the reach the limit of his or her knowledge, rather than lead with something really difficult that I don't expect more than half of the candidates to successfully answer.

The first few questions are weeder questions. I won't stop an interview if they blank on one, because I'll allow for nerves or a general brain fart. But if they blank on say, the first three really easy basic questions, the interview is over. It doesn't happen often, because those people are likely to get weeded out by the phone screen, but it's happened a few times. And it might not be 100% reliable, but it's good enough for my purposes.
Ask HN: Investor turns around and wants to split due diligence costs
canadian throw_away here for obvious reasons.

Our startup went through a long due diligence process with an investor. Significant money was spent on accountants, lawyers on both sides. Said investor wanted us to clean our books and engaged an accounting firm. The deal fell through after the due diligence ended positive because of problems with their LPs.

Now said investor wants us to pay for cleaning the books since we profit from that. We are a bit hesitant because the long process increased costs for consultants on our side.

We would still like to work with the investor and not burn any bridges.

What should we do? We have surely profited from cleaning the books, but don't have cash to pay. Again, we would also have not hired the accountants ourselves in the first place.
Ivanka and Jared's Power Play
I forgot these were part of the old testament. So who took the hundreads of accounts and compiled it into a book?
The only reason the whole open office thing came about is that it's exceedingly easier to manage building planning. However, adults want their own office... not a huge room, not a team room, not a cubicle.

Make no mistake: this was an outcome of the effort to save money by not having to provide real offices to real adults.
That's what I was actually asking about, specifics about this case. I was aware of the previous JS vulns.

Turns out this one was actually a .swf from an abandoned metasploit project.
Yeah this is a really great resource, I'm looking forward to seeing the final book.
I realize epigenetic traits are not encoded in DNA. It's perfectly acceptable to use the term code to refer to an epigenetic "configuration". I didn't point out this fact because I figured the people reading Hacker News probably know that things can be encoded without using DNA, and I felt the distinction was needlessly pedantic.

I recognize the limited scope of epigenetics, however epigenetics do play a significant role in gene expression. To say otherwise would be foolish.

I know heritability of epigenetic traits is limited. I didn't claim epigenetic traits are being passed down between generations. If women are born with all of their eggs, the DNA in her eggs would DIRECTLY be affected by the environment of her mother. There is strong scientific evidence epigenetic traits are reliably inherited by each of the daughter cells during mitosis. Thus it is fully plausible the epigenetic code of a child could be affected by their grandmother.

If what you know about epigenetics comes from Wikipedia, you are probably about as informed as "the media". As a formally trained lab biologist, I'm going to go out on a limb and say that biology is one of the worst scientific fields to learn about from Wikipedia, especially when it comes to discoveries in young fields like epigentics.
Facebook seems like exactly the company we want to trust with SSO and performance reviews and internal corporate communications. It's coming and it's going to be amazing!

Would you like to know more?
The FAQ is hosted my NOMMULinux project (nomen omen a Linux distribution that is not using virtual memory, it was discussed on HN earlier today).

I found it to be a very nice summary of how OS manages memory, that is quite interesting even without context. That's why I posted it. It is a little bit light on the details, but in my opinion it is able to show memory management as a complete process, which many other materials fail to do (at least the ones that I've seen).
In the small startups I've been a part of, the Customer Success Manager has been more like the interface for the user to parts of the product we haven't had time to refine.

Our teams are still small, so this person has been essential in helping out in places where the product isn't as refined as we'd like: training, setup + onboarding, UX roughness, etc.

They've also been helpful in understanding our customer's pain points, so we can best direct our modest resources. We regularly learn more about what our product should be from these interactions.

Our users are also very non-technical, so they've been a helping hand getting slow-moving organizations on board. That that end, they regularly receive positive feedback from our users, and are essential at reducing churn.

I can understand why the author had an issue with Hubspot and Google- these are well established companies with refined products and larger teams. Certainly seems like you could end up as a salesman.
Also, support for running Apple's Swift language.
"After all, scientifically speaking, everything beyond our sensory nerve-endings is latent and is inferred."

This is not a scientific claim, it is a philosophical one, and a dubious one at that (http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/sense-data/).
I worked at a company where there was a combination of team rooms and offices... but all the walls were glass. You had the benefit of being able to see if Julie was at her desk so you could go ask her a question, but not hear Bob next door arguing with his wife again.

It was fantastic.

Now, I'm at FB... and I wouldn't work on a team in the new "warehouse" building. It's terrible over there, frankly.
Is it alive? Last time I checked it looked really dead.
No apparently people teach that you open the door, stick your face out in front of the oncoming bike instead. Or try squint past the door pillar and the headrest?

I really like my door not to have dents, scratches and blood all over it (especially mine) so I look in the already-optimally-positioned mirror on the outside of the door where my hand goes to check if there is some other vehicle coming first before I open the door.

And I am not even Dutch.
That's probably true for a lot of studies, but companies with legitimately useful products would still be interested in getting independent validation so they can advertise said study, right? We are jaded by Coca-Cola, but there are actually healthy things and useful medications in the world!

Of course, in reality, the escrow may not be enough to remove the bias, but it's an interesting thought.
10,000 != 100,000
Eating dropped food
American here, remember being drilled pretty hard in Driver's Ed about "hey, if you're opening a door onto an active street, look first", and I follow it pretty religiously (or did when I drove on a regular basis). I'm guessing some people get careless and it shows up in the stats. Not sure what the Dutch reach adds -- if you can't remember to look, you probably can't remember to use your right hand either.
Totally agree. I decided to get adventurous a while back on my last laptop upgrade and went with a Dell XPS 13. It had so much potential, specs were great and it felt sold but at the end of the day it won't run macOS and win10 was just not a great dev experience. Switched back to a Macbook pro after less than a month when the screen died on the XPS and it took Dell about a month to fix it.
Down for me: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...
Well, I'd never be able to find the people who implemented the open floor plan. That's one of the problems with huge companies - the guilty are to often anonymous ;-)

The problem with the sales person is that there are room set aside for making phone calls (whether personal or business) and there are always some available, but apparently that is entirely too unreasonable to expect someone with a laptop to go find a room instead of letting everyone in a 30 foot radius listen in on the call.
They also seem mostly likely to complain about politics in a loud voice, using phrasing and concepts that indicate they have a surface understanding of the system at best. Also they think they invented the blowjob.
What space would look like as you approach the speed of light
We are way different in the sense that Hired & Whitetruffle still charge 20%, but the company is doing the work the recruiter typically does. It's just a marketplace. WayUP is targeted towards student.

We only do sourcing. https://www.shrm.org/resourcesandtools/tools-and-samples/hr-...

You need to connect with someone to get their contact info and you'd be surprised how hard it is to get emails of engineers.
Oh a sysadmin who is proud to be an asshole to people. No one saw that coming
10 Terms Every Freelance Writer Should Know
What the ACA did and was intended to do (as a first order effect) was provide reliable provision of insurance for those not tied to an employer. The pre-Aca system was riven with stories of people with (eg) diabetes losing their jobs under completely ordinary circumstances, and then finding themselves unable to get insurance anywhere. The ACA closed this gap, and most of its most famous provisions are based entirely around this. I don't even necessarily think it's a great law, I just hate misinformation.

For young, healthy freelancers it raised costs even relative to trend, because prices had to flatten and accommodate the higher cost folks who would've been excluded due to existing health conditions. But afaict this isn't true in general.
UK’s chief troll hunter targets doxxing, virtual mobbing, and nasty images
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12656426
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Aphrodisiacs
Chipsetter ONE: A desktop pick-and-place machine
Great way to organize your files with TagSpaces
I don't understand how fizzbuzz weeds out the maybes. It seems more like it weeds out the unwashed masses.
> https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=30090....

Is this a unique feature or how is this handled on illumos or Solaris?