skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just playing devil's advocate here: So they are leaving because they have low faith in the company, but still expect to be able to collect rewards on other peoples' work years later if the company happens to succeed?

If they didn't have a high degree of confidence in the company, the safe bet would always be to not exercise.
> you rarely truly know why you were turned down.

Bit of a silly article. You could say this about anything. And I don't see what the problem is with never being contacted, if someone doesn't want me for whatever reason, I don't really want to hear from them again.
Before Snap's IPO, I declined when asked to make predictions. But I did say what I thought would be the best for venture-backed companies in the long run. It is a small pop on IPO day followed by a months-long drag down to a reasonable valuation.

The small pop would signal healthy IPO conditions. The slow run down would show investors aren't in full-throttle bubble mode. We got the pop, plus some, as well as the the drag down, albeit sooner and faster than expected. If SNAP continues to between here and the offering price we can still chalk this up as a win for SV.

(Keep in mind, Facebook--whose revenues grew 54.2% from FYE 2015 to FYE 2016--trades at 14.4x FYE 2016 revenues. That implies a $5.82bn valuation for Snap. It's trading at a $30.4bn valuation, or 5x higher.)

[1] https://www.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ%3AFB&fstype=ii&ei=4-...

Disclaimer: this is not investment advice. Please don't be a numpty and buy or sell securities based on Internet comments.
I don't know how you came to the conclusion that the quality of CS graduates is poor or how that the cause of this perceived lack of quality is somehow due to courses focusing on theory. In my experience very little in a run of the mill CS undergrad program is dedicated to theory so I might come to the opposite conclusion: too many people are focused on learning how to write code with some javascript framework and not how to do computer science. So people miss important patterns and concepts because no one explained to them why they are important. Patterns you have spent years coming to understand intuitively, perhaps.
This looks like an internal incubation organization (close to say Obvious Corp) rather than an accelerator.

They make their own products/teams/companies then spin them out as appropriate, rather than having pre made teams and products apply to a program.
Looks like I got to check this out. I read Yudkowsky's "Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality" [1] a few years back. It made me want to pursue this line of thinking further, but being a work of fiction, it doesn't really offer a clear set of tools. (I wouldn't say that this book fundamentally changed the way I think though. It's mostly the continuation of a path that started with a brief, but intense study of Descartes in teenage years.)

[1] Available for free in all formats at http://www.hpmor.com/
It seems to be available on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Authority-Become-Following-Financial-...
Productivity Tools, My Stack
Not really; even with the smog the US has now that this contributes to, it is far less than before regulation, and shifting comparative advantage away from dirty manufacturing hasn't reduced the average rate of aggregate growth in the US.

The economic problems experienced everywhere but the top of the income distribution in the US are entirely distributional problems, not aggregate activity problems, and they stem from policies which have deliberately shifted retained gains up the distribution over the past 40 years or so (Reagan's tax shift being a major early contribution.) "Job losses" to outsourcing and immigration are convenient distractions because they are easy to conceptualize, but they don't really reflect the substance of the real problems.
Hybrid Electric aircraft are kinda interesting when you start running the numbers.

The weight of the batteries of course reduces the amount of fuel the aircraft can carry. However increased efficiency reduces the amount of fuel you need to carry. There are a bunch of other advantages which would improve safety.

In particular better throttle response. A problem with turbine engines is when an aircraft is hit by wind shear during landing you need more power right now, and turbines have lag. And also when you shutdown an engine in a multi-engine aircraft you have a serious thrust imbalance. Hybrid electric would allow power to be routed evenly to each fan
as needed.
Very sorry to hear this story, it must be difficult for your family and for her. Do you know about how much rehab would cost for her?
Microsoft was reporting storing a movie and operating system and some other stuff : http://thehackernews.com/2017/03/dna-data-storage.html
Haha I know, I know, terrible stats practice. Just saying.
Can Herpes Cause Autism?
That's a killer advantage Nathan! I hope it holds true as the business grows.
I don't have figures so this is pure anecdote, but I was wandering around Watford last weekend and seeing people who looked like they were in the VICE documentary I linked to above.

But yes, you're of course right that our whole approach is wrong.
I got "the emperors new mind" by roger penrose when it first came out as I was graduating high school. I found it really good and eye opening.

Various books by Tony Buzan ( memory, speed reading, mind mapping ) and six thinking hats (and others) by edward de bono really got me to see our minds are very versatile and, like our bodies, can be pushed in prodded to do lots of things

Puzzling through many philosophy books has probably given me some my more dramatic changes in the way I see the world. But not one in specific, each provided little "ah hah!"s

All of Calvin and Hobbes

The art of war,book of 5 rings, and the prince, all made it clear that strategy and winning are quite different from the sanitized western middle class life I was brought up in.
>"the USPS has a detailed process for formally putting a company on notice for mailing someone who has specifically unsubscribed, and that process ends in massive fines for continued mailing to that person."

I am doubting this is enforced in any meaningful way. I don't doubt there is a well-detailed process however the US Post Office's bread and butters seems to be Dell Catalogs and Southwest Airlines credit card offers. This fact is what killed Outbox:

http://www.insidesources.com/outbox-vs-usps-how-the-post-off...
Maybe most, but certainly not all. See: Christopher Hitchens:

"[Religious belief] is a totalitarian belief. It is the wish to be a slave. It is the desire that there be an unalterable, unchallengeable, tyrannical authority who can convict you of thought crime while you are asleep, who can subject you - who must, indeed, subject you - to total surveillance around the clock every waking and sleeping minute of your life - I say, of your life - before you're born and, even worse and where the real fun begins, after you're dead. A celestial North Korea. Who wants this to be true? Who but a slave desires such a ghastly fate? I've been to North Korea. It has a dead man as its president, Kim Jong-Il is only head of the party and head of the army. He's not head of the state. That office belongs to his deceased father, Kim Il-Sung. It's a necrocracy, a thanatocracy. It's one short of a trinity I might add. The son is the reincarnation of the father. It is the most revolting and utter and absolute and heartless tyranny the human species has ever evolved. But at least you can fucking die and leave North Korea!?"
I'm pretty sure you're clarifying, not challenging the OP by somehow suggesting Chinese-American isn't Asian-American... right?
Marketing is such a powerful thing.

For instance I pay $60 CAD / month to intercom.io for a website that isn't even built.

THAT's powerful. Made me pay for shit I don't even use (but going to real soon....I keep telling myself that)
there's no ebook on amazon, just the hardcover
Having a separate FROM image doesn't help that situation either, since you have to rebuild it.
> FB has not paid any cash dividends, neither has Google, but both have large profits. It's uncommon for tech companies to pay cash dividends

The difference is that people can purchase shares in Facebook and Google that give them voting rights. That is not true for Snapchat.

The fact that Snapchat isn't giving dividends today isn't notable per se, but the fact that it's not giving dividends and investors have no mechanism to influence the company's direction (which includes pressuring them to provide dividends in the future) is literally unprecedented.
Thank you for this. I don't know the right words to put into search engines to get good results.
I wouldn't be shocked if something fundamental is being wrecked at the atomic level as a result of fast neutrons. Sputtering is a stone cold bitch.
Good point. My thought is that to compensate the people who stick around you have to combine two things: 1) vesting period (already happening for virtually everybody), and 2) a predefined plan to give people increasing amount of options for staying longer. So basically get 20k options in year 1, 30k options in year 2, 50 options in year 3, 70k options in year 4, or something like that.. so if you leave after 1 year and have the 10 year vesting period, you end up missing out on multiple option granting periods. The dead equity often is a small portion of around 10-15% of total equity in the company. So assuming that there are maybe 5 employees floating out there in the wild with this "dead equity", they probably are comprising a tiny portion of the equity in the company -- most likely around 1% of the company equity max. If that 1% of dead equity is having any kind of real effect on the companies day to day situation or ability to raise funding, I would be thinking the company is in some serious shit.. Yea definitely agree with the IRS trying to fix this. Think of it this way, in one case the founders get a ton of money during the IPO event. They have tons of resources and time to figure out how to avoid paying as much taxes as possible. Versus if you have a ton of people who now get relatively large payouts of stock options worth say 300k or so, those people will likely end up paying 20-30% tax or more on that since they have less ways they can try to reclassify the capital gains -- and maybe will just opt to sell everything short term and pay maximum capital gains. But the rich guy who just did the IPO is like, "eh, I already got like 10 million in the bank, so lets see.. if I just say that my stock is worth 0.1 cents per share, then put into my Roth IRA, then I can cash it out in 20 years with a 1 million X gain with no taxes.."
Poachers kill one of Africa's last remaining 'big tusker' elephants
So ArrayFire allows the creation of kernels/the calling of functions in parallel/ on the fly?
Or you know, we could uphold the rule of law and punish rule breakers within the framework we already have.
Yeah, I was wondering who got hurt here -- the University at least got $2m plus what seems to be valid omics data -- when I figured out it was the investors. The money was carefully laundered through Univ of Utah so this seemed like an arms-length contract, rather than self-dealing.
"keep it in a company" at least in France won't really help you, as social contributions are collected every 3 months.

They are very good at hounding you to pay (and inversely keen on giving you back any overpaid amount ;-) ) so the incorporation does not really help here. You still owe them about half the gross revenue.
Interesting, does this create a perverse incentive for SNAP to get as many banks as possible onboard so that there's a bigger embargo on analyst commentary? Provided they can get enough banks, natch.
This is true, but I feel like you're trying to draw an inference here that doesn't really work. You're unlikely to be worth $9 billion through a love of hamburgers, but that doesn't mean somebody worth $9 billion is unlikely to enjoy hamburgers either.
One of the interesting features of Oberon the language is that its syntax allows for very fast compilation times, to the point that on today's hardware there is little need in storing library modules' code in the form of binary objects. For example, building the Oberon compiler from its sources and the sources of the Oberon standard library (all written in Oberon) only takes a fraction of a second.
How a designer learned to code and released a Mac app in 4 months
It's less tax deductions (though those should be questioned!) and more using this to deceive investors into his company.
i'm still curious; i just know i have a ton of new paper books sitting unread in my bookshelf because whenever i go to start a new one i do it on my kindle, so i've resolved to buy new books in ebook format only. i might still buy the paper book at some point, but it's lower-priority now.

(at a higher level, i'd like to write a book sometime, but it's competing with everything else i'd like to do sometime)
There's an Electron/VIC20/2600/Oric emulator that does this too: https://github.com/TomHarte/CLK - looks authentically horrid and it's got that somewhat elusive 50Hz feel.

(Not many 50Hz Electron games, though! Firetrack is one.)
Echo'ed. SaaS founder here. We had two years of slow growth before the product/market fit hit and now, years later, we're generating millions in revenue. #1 piece of advice I give to SaaS founders is to watch the talk, "The Long Slow SaaS Ramp of Death" by CEO of Constant Contact. All good cooking takes time!
If you'd like to view the "Matrix" in APL:

{⎕←(156+?72⍴54)⊃¨⊂⎕AV}⍣≡⊢⍬

This assumes you have at least a 72 character screen display in your Dyalog APL session.
Huh. "Buy my (assuredly terrible, amateurish, e-)book!" or "sign up for a free PDF copy of my book!" is one of the quickest ways to lower my opinion of a person (or website). Immediately digs a giant hole that they then have to climb out of to convince me they're not scumbag get-rich-quick scam artists or one of their hangers-on or imitators, assuming I don't just close the tab immediately on seeing that kind of thing.

Exception if there's a clear association with a real publisher and/or university, obviously.
I thought Justin Kan was Korean but he corrected me saying he was Chinese American and I had to use the AA blanket card to justify feeling proud for an entrepreneur from a different ethnicity because as Korean we are only allowed to feel proud of other Koreans.
If I told you, I'd have to kill you.
GifCapture
Software Development and the Sunk Cost Fallacy (2010)
Modern browsers seem to do quite a bit to insulate users from error status codes in their default configurations.
I would not be so sure whether it is really necessary or advantagious to have very long DNA strands as information medium. Long DNA strands are very hard to handle under many conditions (we only got into the range of 1 million bp reads last week, it probably wont be in the near future that we get some at a reasonable fraction) and provide limitations like increased replication timing (Polymerase work in the order of 1kbp per minute, else you would need many origins of replication). Shorter fragments (~1kbp) are much easier to handle and sequence and can be reached by almost random access through primers attached to fishing beads.
Front-end performance for web designers and front-end developers
Which Denmark is this? Doesn't resemble the one I live in. Neither the robberies problem nor the legal pure heroin, and most certainly not the disappearance of burglaries - not statistically, not anecdotally, and not according to the several people of my acquaintance who have had it happen to them.
>"I don't think too many people will pay a monthly fee to have their information removed from these services."

I would be interested in hearing what are you basing this on? Did you do some market research?

My feeling is that there is money in privacy, people seem to have no problem paying 5 or 10 dollars a month for a VPN provider for instance.
They all used hidden code to break the law
If you think that former early employees don't contribute to future "generations" of work, then the ethical thing to do is to offer better cash compensations and less equity. It's not really ethical to offer equity compensation that looks like it could be valuable but has significant hidden barriers to actually being used.
"It’s believed that people on the spectrum don’t get hooked on alcohol or other drugs."

Sorry, but by who? I don't recall ever hearing this and googling it turned up nothing.
Ask HN: Why is it so hard to make a contact whitelist on a smartphone?
Why can't I automatically send calls that aren't on my contact list to voicemail on my smartphone? This seems to me like an obvious feature that should be built into Android and iOS. Instead, my options are to (a) trust a third-party app with access to my phone and contacts and have it run in the background 24/7 or (b) write a program to do it myself. Am I missing something? Has anyone else experienced this frustration?
Thank you for Prisoners of Geography. I just bought it and it seems very insightful, judging by the first few pages.
StartEngine is hiring a Director of Growth
If Google aggressively delisted shitty companies like this, the problem would go away.

There's no value for society in these shit services that make people register and pay to have their profiles taken down.
My $0.02: Headcount is a major reason and you totally don't have to feel sad about it.
What is Placecot?
from the article

the deal made it possible for his company to inflate, by more than 50
percent, the number of test orders it reported to investors late last year
while updating them on interest in a flagship product, a diagnostic tool
known as GPS Cancer.

Have individual investors been questioned? No. But that's a significant increase in total orders.

Also, if this was so above-board, want to take bets on whether this was disclosed to investors as money coming from related entities?
It's eluding me, but isn't there an organization that does this?
In stoicism, you can carry on after hitting the wall by making a turn.
Eh, not really. Google and FB both structure their shares so the founders own >51% of the shares, so your votes are meaningless. In fact Google recently explicitly restructured their shares to make sure the founders maintained majority share going forward.

Market premium on GOOGL (voting shares) is 2.4% as of this writing, FWIW.
If you don't get deals because you don't shower then that's a solved problem since Roman times and you should only blame yourself ;)

Other than that, yes, billionaires have some advantages that us ordinary mortals do not have. But to stick with Elon Musk, he wasn't born a billionaire (but he did go to a private school, but that's not unheard of in SA).

Once you're past $1M net worth or so the game gets easier, sometimes a lot easier. But $1M vs $1B doesn't make much of a difference if the business tanks and you've invested all of your capital in your own business.

And that's the main reason you don't see billionaires usually spending all their money on their own projects: they spread the risk around to avoid possibly losing it all.
population density? Maybe the pill mills only located in certain areas.
Presumably, programmers who are working with the web should have a passing familiarity with the most common categories; this isn't memorizing all of them, but being able to recognize the significance of 2xx vs 3xx vs 4xx vs 5xx codes isn't an unreasonable expectation.
Is Medicaid an option?
I wonder if the IP you searched from was unfortunately caught in the crossfire of a currently-flagged subnet.
Installing TensorFlow Natively on Windows with GPU
Weebly is hiring an Operations Engineer
> [0] does not mean "no plans to make a profit" it just means what it actually says

They do not have plans to make a profit. They have plans to do things, and those things may, in the future, generate a profit, but they have not committed to any concrete timeline for generating a profit or set any estimated targets for profitability, which I think can be reasonably summarized in a colloquial context by "no plans to make a profit".
One of the hardest parts of deep brain stimulation is finding the proper location. Surgeons try multiple times to get the location right. This sounds very interesting, however I find it hard to believe that they will be able to generalize across the board. I have personally worked with DBS probe data, it's very very specialized for each individual case. I hope they are also able to working on having the locations of the implants generalize well.
If it were exact 1:1 equivalent, generating Rust code operating on a raw buffer with no bounds checks, then no.

However, existing parsers in Rust take advantage of its macros and type system to provide more guarantees at compile time, so perhaps a different approach would not allow the logic error that lead to the bug.
Snap tumbles 12% on day three, erases gains
In game or IRL? In the latter construct some meaning in your life.
I'm really hoping you meant F-Zero. If so, sign me up.
> Google and FB both structure their shares so the founders own >51% of the shares, so your votes are meaningless.

It's possible for disagreement to exist between the founders, requiring a majority coalition to be built using non-government-held votes.
"Dead equity" could also be used in reference to most of a company's investors.

That is of course, tongue in cheek. Why should employees have their investment of time and energy taken away from them when investors' one-time cash investment earns preference? Another industry double-standard.
> Google and FB both structure their shares so the founders own >51% of the shares, so your votes are meaningless. In fact Google recently explicitly restructured their shares to make sure the founders maintained majority share going forward.

Minority shareholders have rights even without majority voting control. Some of those rights do apply to non-voting shares, but they're much more limited.

GOOGL isn't particularly relevant here; all that says is that investors today are confident in the leadership's plans. That could change tomorrow, and it means nothing for Snapchat.
To Really Reform the H-1B Visa Process Will Take a Lot More Than Friday’s Freeze
An online survey at that, meaning that they can't even properly gauge if that sample was representative at all.
Show HN: Reactor – React app quick setup script
Often companies find that people don't "need" their products. When this happens they turn to advertising and sales people to correct the problem.

https://theweek.com/articles/541564/how-american-opiate-epid...

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/chasing-heroin/
I understand that it's difficult to avoid litigation of decriminalization (or, apparently, subsidization) in discussions about illegal drugs. I'm generally receptive to decriminalization.

But I'm not making a point about decriminalization. In the same way that it's counterproductive to spend a lot of time talking about prohibition in mass incarceration discussions (significant reduction in incarceration --- which is absolutely necessary --- will require us to adjust sentencing and policies surrounding violent crime among offenders who have never been convicted of drug offenses), spending a lot of time talking about free heroin isn't going to help us if the problem underlying the opiate crisis isn't heroin prohibition, but instead overprescription and negligent formulation of opiate painkillers.
I'm not sure but I believe prescribed heroin has limited side effects and is fairly safe and many come off it eventually and live to an old age. I've not seen the data though.
Regarding your first idea, you may be interested in the Shake [0] Haskell EDSL as a replacement for Make. Being embedded in Haskell, Shake still has the full power of Haskell at its disposal.

[0] http://ndmitchell.com/downloads/paper-shake_before_building-...
I found "Linux Kernel Development" a nice overview of the kernel code:
https://books.google.pt/books?id=3MWRMYRwulIC&printsec=front...
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