skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> So now we know that there is atleast some appetite for shares with no controlling interest and no indication of paying out a dividend any time soon.

Not to mention their $500 million net loss last year. There are cheaper cash incinerators.

> I'm interested to see if they try and make people view the company via GAAP accounting(PnL) or non GAAP measures like engagement, monthly users, etc.

There's no doubt in my mind -- they'll pull some social flim-flam for as long as they can. The whole thing is just nuts. No one's going to buy them now, and their pivot to becoming a "camera company" has yielded an even uglier version of Google Glass.

Man, this surveillance economy bubble feels so close to bursting...
5$ just take my money edition sans feature-request feature?
Every state I've lived in has laws requiring certain disclosures for leases and other disclosures for loans. Those disclosures include things like "you're entering into a lease" or "you're borrowing money."
check out this leaked email: wikileaks-DOT-org/sony/emails/emailid/139607

Looks like engineers were offered 10k-35k shares at a $9.90 strike price in Jan of 2014.

So $250k - $875k. Not bad, but also not millionaire status. Also ISO's will be taxed heavily.
Textwrangler is the only option I've seen that can handle huge (>100 Mb) files. Do you know any option that can handle those? I've already tried Sublime and Textmate.
You know something is wrong in America when Teen Vogue ends up on the front page of HN for a story on security nonetheless. Nothing about this presidency is normal.
One reason to like a facet of Japanese management culture: if a customer wants someone to rake over the coals you offer management, not employees.

Internal repercussions notwithstanding, externally the company is a united front. It cannot cause mistakes by luck, accident, or happenstance, because the world includes luck, accidents, and happenstance, so any user-visible error is ipso facto a failure of management.
> That sounds like it just hits the natural limits of a community? Doesn't sound too bad.

It's not too bad, unless new (younger) members are your primary source of wealth and labor. A commune primarily consisting of retirement aged and older adults will be far less productive, and will eventually reach a tipping point of unsustainability.
Could be ten years ago, doesn't matter, if they cant support consumer laptops what makes you think a 5/6 figure server they'll do warranty any better.
Double Commander is a decent OSS cross-platform GUI implementation of the same 'commander' interface
Missile Threat Map Tool: The Russia – NATO Anti-Access/Area-Denial Environment
> “We like niches where we’re dealing with emotional borrowers,” Wunderlich said.

Next: coffin leasing sold to relatives at funeral homes.
No, he disagrees with the substance. Faux-braggadocio or humorous is fine! But if you earnestly think that's the writer's style after reading the last half of the first paragraph, seriously ponder why then none of the rest of the article matches that perceived tone.

The author makes a bunch of assertions that range from misinformed to straight-up wrong. There is 0% Steven Colbert-style self awareness. No one is lucky that it exists. When you engage in personal endeavors, do them for their own merits. And especially if you're doing something that no one and nothing is compelling you to, please at least try.
That's a good idea and really not an imposition, but then again we are all now walking around with calculators in our phones and I would hope anyone over 18 knows how to multiply...
'BuzzFeed News' does legit journalism. It's nothing to do with clickbait and listicles, which is what butters their bread.
It's an issue of state law. I believe every loan I've signed included a section saying how much I was borrowing, and how much it would cost to pay it back following the payment schedule.

(EDIT):

I don't know if similar laws apply to leases, although car lease commercials usually have a similar section in the fine print. Usually that means at least one state requires the disclosure.
Ha. That's the same popup Total Commander gives you when you don't have a license.
How US nuclear force modernization is undermining strategic stability
That link does clear things up—thanks!

In the early 1980’s, a number of APL vendors almost simultaneously introduced a new concept into APL - the nested array. Each element of a nested array can itself be any other (nested) array. A new monadic primitive function, called enclose, was introduced that took any array as its argument and returned a scalar enclosed array. This scalar (rank zero) array could then be inserted in place of any scalar element of any APL array.

Unfortunately there were two inequivalent approaches; grounded arrays as proposed by Ken Iverson [...] and floating arrays as proposed by Jim Brown [...] In the grounded system, enclosing a simple scalar produces an enclosed scalar, whereas in the floating system, enclosing a simple scalar leaves it unchanged.

So enclose(x) is always a scalar, but the two schemes disagree about whether enclose(s) == s for a scalar s.
Agree. On DuckDuckGo just do:

<your programming problem> !so

Takes your search directly to Stack Overflow

If you don't like the results, try it again with !g and your search is submitted to Google.

They've got 9000+ bangs now:

https://duckduckgo.com/bang?q=
> Also known as Chesterton's Fence.

Also known as, "X is broken and we're fixing it."; "Building an X that doesn't suck."

cringe
Fairy+Tail+episode+22+English+Dubbed
Valid point, it's definitely not without its flaws. It's still one of my favourite Zelda games though.
Yah, a YouTuber walked the runway at Dolce & Gabbana's show last week. I was like wat? So I looked her up she's just funny and does cute "shorts". Makes sense. This is how celebrity works in the age of disintermediation.
We (Aptible) publish this overview guide, aimed to serve software developers:

https://www.aptible.com/resources/common-hipaa-questions/

We also publish a guide on HIPAA business associate agreements, which affect what tools and services you can use to process HIPAA-regulated data:

https://www.aptible.com/resources/what-is-a-hipaa-baa/

If you have specific questions, let me know.
> He's deliberately targeting people at a highly emotional point, to rope them into a exploitative contract.

I assume you mean it's exploitative on the customer? If two parties voluntarily enter an exchange, who are you to say that it's exploitative? I'm genuinely curious.
```it takes dedication to manage an offshore team, a daily standup is not enough, you need to communicate effectively.```

Think about it this way: Any project is composed of the business domain knowledge and execution skills. It's relatively easy to find off-shore dev teams with ok to good technical skills. It's a lot harder to communicate what you want built, how it should function and all the business rules that should be incorporated to a group of strangers who have different cultural contexts and cues and who most likely speak English as a second language. Off-shore dev teams are missing a whole lot of context that you or I may take for granted. Are you going to be able to manage a dev team without that context the same way you would manage a on-site dev team? Probably not.

Some things that will help significantly in transferring that knowledge are requirement documents, technical specs, wireframes/mockups (all that documentation that startups neglect). You should probably be looking for demos on a regular basis. Managing an off-shore team is often a full-time job, especially when getting the project off the ground.
Volunteers provided 95% of the recruiting target. Conscription is to fill the rest.
also the ability to RMA faulty gear, get support, yell at someone to send you stuff faster, although ... judging from the comments in this thread, maybe not.

fwiw, nobody in this space really gives a shit about you unless you're spending $50k or more, and realistically $250k or more on an ongoing basis. you're better off going to fry's or buying from a used gear vendor if you want small quantities.
ECC is great for detecting errors more than correcting them. Then one can do thorough memtests and decide if it's time to replace memory modules. It doesn't really prevent problems (there are unrepairable ECC errors too) as much as it leads to early detection and repair. Well worth it when you're optimizing for MTTR.

It's not a silver bullet if the user is just paranoid about data integrity (nothing beats end-to-end integrity checks built into your system, while ECC only addresses one step in the process).
You send a request to the hosting company not the owner.
There is a huge selection bias in that statement - emergent systems often don't make it past the first opposing stimulus, so you're only considering the ones that evolve past a certain point.
Oddly, his enemy at UTexas is professor Perfect in the Mathematics department.
Those legal disclaimers in the email footers are not binding.

(I am not a lawyer.)
Instagram has ~400 million DAUs whereas Snapchat has ~160 million. Even if 100% of Snapchat users have Instagram accounts, it's still not most Instagram users. Maybe you're indexing on a different number, rather than DAUs?

Wasn't objecting to the part about Whatsapp, you're right there!
That's fair! What I meant is roughly equivalent to this better-worded comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13777826
Thanks, that's clear. From the link Pamar found, the floating scheme is the one that doesn't box the scalar. Sort of makes sense because then the scalars just 'float' around.
Why don't you look at the code and decide for yourself?
> We've been working on this whole "getting along" thing for millennia, and we've tried pretty much every idea possible at one point or another.

Fallacy. "Millenia" ago we lived in huts and had a life expectancy under 30. We had sticks and stone lances. Now we have computers and nuclear weapons. Less 150 years ago modern science started in its earnest. The literally world-changing implications of technology cannot possibly be overstated. So the idea that we've not managed to fix society in the last, say, 3000 years of trying completely ignores the fact that the last 200 have transformed life to the point of making it unrecognisable, and the next 50 will do so surely as well. The impact of things like post-scarcity, AGI, or fusion power, make that point completely moot.
People don't have great ideas on what they'd do with new monies that would come a 10xManhattan size project. Tesla, VW, Toyota, Dept of Energy, DARPA, NSF, Energy Companies, Industrial Conglomerates like GE, Panasonic, etc. all work on battery research. (& many more)

The actual Manhattan project could spend the funds by building reactors with desirable end-products (uranium etc.) and building a lot of centrifuges to refine it further - along with engineering teams to design, build, and operate these things, various bomb and delivery mechanisms etc. It was the very beginnings of nuclear science, so there were many fundamental ideas to be discovered and tested out - it meant sense to spend a lot of money to travel and explore this newly discovered branch of the tree of knowledge.
This was one of the key insights I got from the book "The Plausibility of Life". The authors describe several mechanisms beyond genetics, primarily developmental, that make organisms more evolvable and help improve the odds that random mutations will be at least interesting, rather than immediately fatal.
Funeral leases were literally in the article. It was a throwaway line of something that he tried that didn't work, but the guy ACTUALLY TRIED THAT.
Furthermore, better tools can facilitate the implementation and maintenance of systems (social, governmental, entrepreneurial, what have you) that would have been unsustainable with the tooling of the past.
This is a very different kind of scumbag. This one is preying on customers in emotional distress (he actually says so himself!), and of course the threat of having your dog taken away if you don't pay up is a lot more emotional than most other forms of repossession.
You're right, I didn't phrase what I meant very precisely. This comment expressed the same sentiment much better: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13777826
Even people that just rent them? I'm thinking that's a self-selecting demographic, that operates a little differently. They lack commitment for instance. Probably not terribly uncool after all.
How much influence do deans have at Stanford? I think she's a great teacher, but from my experience, your teaching ability is irrelevant when it comes to your responsibilities as Dean.
There are federal laws covering that.

Which is ALSO why they're very clear this is a lease and they seem to be trying to ensure it is seen that way. They don't want to fall under those laws.
> capitalist parasites

Did you forget where you are? This forum is hosted by a VC firm.
I guarantee you would not find it funny if I called you a cunt. Remember none of the rest of the article even remotely matches the tone of the sentences in question, and the content larges comes from a place of ignorance.
If one party leaves the store not realizing they'd signed a lease agreement, then two parties have not voluntarily entered an exchange.
> This lack of direction can be disorienting at first... But it very quickly turned into a liberating sensation.

Tevis Thompson needs more credit for identifying with astute precision the ills inherent in the direction Zeldas were going

would we have breath of the wild without this essay: http://tevisthompson.com/saving-zelda/ ; I honestly wonder
Parent poster said they want to die (and presumably kill, for what else would risk dying?) to prevent them from _speaking a different language_ near posters's home, so I don't think killing for honor will give them pause.
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Lego to produce fan-designed Women of NASA figures
You can get used amd workstations too its not really valid to compare the cost of used 5 year old machines vs new.
I wouldn't merely call this a fat finger or typo - it's quite possible that the usage of the tool itself was so nefarious that mistakes would be impossible to avoid, given the complexity of its inputs.

Based on Amazon's decision to improve the tooling such that this category of error would be (hopefully) impossible to reproduce, I would lean more towards that being the case.
> there's no technical reason why it can't out-perform Intel

I think "engineering capabilities and experience" is a valid technical reason.

But the real "reason" is most likely branch prediction and caching. I wouldn't be surprised if Intel's NetBurst microarchitecture was more complex than the entire CPU section of an ARM processor. I'm having trouble finding transistor count for the CPU section, for ARM.
You get various attack/puzzle solving items at fixed points in Zelda; they're usually needed to solve the next dungeon, in not-really-intellectually-stimulating ways where you look at the puzzle and immediately know how to apply the item you just got.

Link Between Worlds added a shop where you can rent all the items in the game and solve everything out of order.
Austerity? Not on This Saudi Itinerary
Brain injury. Forgot C & ASM minus tiny fragments. Still haven't relearned them. Getting close to time to do that again, though. A subset at least.
Very impressive credentials and a well-deserved appointment. Being appointed Dean of the School of Engineering at one of the world's most prestigious universities has to be close to the top of career achievements for an academic.
> In the enterprise, there is already F5, NIDS etc so nobody can get in.

Completely aside from the fact that there are thousands of breeches that prove that statement wrong, one must also be concerned with insiders, credential theft attacks, and tons of other threats that a monolithic 'build a wall' security model doesn't solve.
I do think we lost of the "do one thing and do it well" https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_philosophy

Part of it is that it's way more annoying to maintain a little tool than to make it part of a bigger project with a much bigger community, it's also far harder to discover than just being in the docs a bigger project
Java was adopted very rapidly (as soon as it ran acceptably on commodity hardware) because the industry desperately needed a safe subset of C++. The pain point addressed by Go is mostly deployment and packaging, which is why mostly devops (who have rejected OS packaging for some reason) are excited about it.
The Russian government has killed more of its own citizens than any war has.
> Braga began developing solid-glass electrolytes with colleagues while she was at the University of Porto in Portugal.

Slightly orthogonal to the content: this is why it's important for the US to allow people to come to this country. Continuing research and development with the worlds best gives the US a leg up. Past ease of immigration is the reason the US has led in so many areas, constant flow of new and innovative ideas.
Power-Hunger
I wasn't positing psychosis; I was positing a spontaneous violent resistance movement forming as a rational response to conscription in otherwise mentally-healthy individuals: the same people who would draft-dodge, but angrier at the state and interested in seeing their country actually lose an unjust war.

You know, like you'd feel if you were an Iraqi citizen under ISIS.
In my opinion, recently launched Vllg.com got some of the best new fonts. I especially love Galaxie Copernicus and Sharp Sans Display set.
No, better tools simply makes the magnitude of the variations larger, it doesn't necessarily give you "better" outcomes.
Yes, anything funny (even absurdist humor) is predicated on a kernel of truth. Quite odd, then, that the article contains so little well informed opinion and even less humor.
Please stop posting like this so we don't have to ban you.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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So if I understand you correctly, if I need an appendectomy I shouldn't consult a doctor, but rather open up an anatomy book and do the procedure myself?
Those aren't the ones that get complained about the most though. It's the health and safety ones, ones that ensure that industries don't just externalize a lot of bad costs that get attacked the most.
Type 'yes'? Make it ask you to type out the deploy location. I think that helps a lot.
There was a court case in the US where Marconi's essential patents on radio transmission were refuted as everything in them were already patented by Tesla.

Marconi was a student and assistant of Tesla for a time and decided to steal his work and go into business for himself.

Unfortunately this is not widely understood and Marconi is still widely thought to have invented radio when in fact it was Tesla.
The modern leader of Russia was an active member of the government of "pre-modern" Russia that slaughtered millions of its own citizens.
And it's one of the best treatments of the subject to date....
Please don't post flamewar comments on HN. If you have a substantive point, make it thoughtfully; if you don't, please don't post here.

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One party is at the pet store buying a dog. The puppy is so cute!

The other party has a team of lawyers drafting 20 page contracts and working out how skirt laws on predatory lending (i.e, structure it as a lease).

It's basically "ambush finance".
One RFID away from dishwasher rejecting 3rd-party dishes on pain of 5-yr prison
The trouble with "affirmative action" is that in situations like this, nobody can really tell whether she earned it on her own merits or not.

It's possible she would have got the job if she were a man, I don't know. But what I am fairly sure of is that if she were a man then I wouldn't be hearing about it.
Dog leases, targeting "emotional borrowers", lease financing for funerals? What the hell did I just read?

That is literally the weirdest thing I found on HN this year...
In this respect, as long as China is a part of the world economy they'll be a part of its boom/bust cycles.
Yeah, AAA games have a mandatory review floor of 80 and Zelda games have a floor of 90. If you go below that, the developers starve because their bonus is, literally, structured around Metacritic scores.

Compare: a mediocre Zelda game (Skyward Sword) got 93, a mediocre AAA game (Dragon Age 1) got 86, only a really bad game (Dragon Age II) goes negative at 75.
Comments like this aren't allowed here. We've banned this account for trolling.

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There can be no independent abstract "world court" because there is no military to back it. The closest we have is probably the united nations security council, which is composed of US, Russia, China, France, UK + 10 others that vary over time. These actors have varying interests which keep each other in check to some degree.
One of the big advantages listed in the article is that these batteries don't explode like today's Li-Ions.

Maybe in a few years we'll look back at this time and wonder how people were ok with putting a bomb against their face every day.
Paged for "$HOSTNAME is down!"

Usual checks to access $HOSTNAME failed

Rushed to office at 6am before important process was about to run that needed that host.

Plugged in keyboard+monitor, dead screen, nothing.

Physically power-cycled server.

Stood in front of monitor+keyboard. It occurred to me it was taking longer than expected to show POST screen. About that time, I got a page saying $ACTUALHOSTNAME is down.

Walk around to the back of the racks. The monitor cable had come detached from the cable extender that I plugged into the server. I had never plugged the monitor in at all, just the extension.

The server wasn't down in the first place, it just lost a virtual interface, which I was paged for, and stupidly tested that virtual interface instead of the REAL name/IP.

And then I raced to the office just so that I could cause an outage.
From my experience their repair services are somewhat understaffed: they did a fine job as described but I had to keep asking them for status updates and it took about a month. Kind of a sharp contrast to the ThinkPad overnight shipping, same-day repair, overnight return shipping experience.

I was thinking that System76 might have problems not being in a volume sweet spot; IBM and later Lenovo could invest a lot in a fancy, well-staffed repair facility near a shipment hub, while System76 may get warranty and repair requests that feel only occasional and so just can't support huge investments in being great and fast at it. :-(

I'm still hoping to continue supporting them because of their commitment to Linux-based computing. (Edit: other people in this thread sure didn't seem to like their laptops, but I guess I had a much better experience in other respects.)
Ask HN: Would you answer Yes or No questions for 5 cents a pop? Why or why not?
I was thinking of starting a project where people can ask you simple yes or no questions and you get paid 5 cents! Just to see what people think!
Sadly, JetBrains Rider is the sole .NET IDE without F# support.
Yes gave up too. Have a fairly modern phone, loads most sites well. I can watch Netflix on ellular data no problems. But this site is unusable.