skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If they would pay a dividend, would class A shares have an advantages there?

If not I can't see how Snaps stock could be worth anything at all. It was just free money for them from the IPO without any obligations to the new "owners".
IMO instead of directly manipulating choices, other solutions can be found - lower cost of living, to encourage people to plan to get married and have children, tax incentives for parents living in the same house, and encouraging gender segregation in schools and high schools to prevent teenage pregnancies.
University's should do more than science. Ideally they should be institutions of higher learning. This should include things beyond just STEM. Languages, history, religion, philosophy, literature, and on and on.
How many classes do you need to do a ToDo?
[1] Zero to Funded. He mentioned it in the AMA.

[1] https://askwhale.com/q/a9dc38
The behavior itself is in a moral gray zone. I wouldn't feel good about myself at the end of the day if I made money preying on people going bankrupt. Morality aside, it is bad advice because it isn't feasible to do that in today's world, and it isn't a valid career track. To me it sounds like he's selling a get-rich-quick real estate scheme in an infomercial.
And it seems to be happening already:

https://www.ft.com/content/c6bc4b2c-0012-11e7-8d8e-a5e3738f9...
As I understood the MCO failure, a better type system wouldn't have helped, as the issue was that another program expected metric input while the first program outputted US units.

Units can help verify that a formula within a program is correct (velocity v = 0.5(metric_acceleration)9.8 t;cout<<v.to_metric();) won't compile, for example.

But it won't help with
Program 1:

velocity_imperial v = 0.5(metric_acceleration)9.8 t* t;cout<<v;

Program2:

velocity_metric v;
cin>>v;
BurnFor(doSomeRocketScienceToCalculateEngineBurn(v))
> Isn't this blackmail? Or am I missing something?

Blackmail is demanding money, etc., under the threat of revealing saving information.

Offering money in exchange for doing something that the offering party wants isn't blackmail, or even anything similar.
Uhhh yes? The schools have only so many spots. In-state students who don't get an acceptance letter receive no benefit when some rich kid from another state or country gets in. The in-state student ends up going to a lesser school and they're worse off for it. The rich kid gets a top tier education and quite likely returns home after graduating.

So yeah. There's absolutely a conflict of interests. I'm surprised this is an unpopular opinion on HN. I expected lots of upvotes. It's a well known and widely discussed issue up here in Seattle.
Thanks for pointing out the broken links, they are now fixed. (I'm on the Google team behind this project.)
Google asks you to take a photo when it thinks you are somewhere like a newly built mall, or anywhere where they don't have many photos in general.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13806311
Nope, have a read of those links. Also when banks create this gets credited to other banks. And they lend and that, on average gets credited to their bank. The system bootstraps itself. Lending is only constrained by willingness to borrow, and in the new financialised world only playing money games gets you rich.

Read the links.
Yes it is, way too many candidates out there right now. The number of jobs hasn't changed, there are still looking for web, mobile, backend and all the basic roles. Companies have the luxury to say no to who ever the heck they want. Candidates don't get multiple offers anymore like it used to be last year so the ball is on the other side right now.

Is it temporary? Maybe...
I think it's mainly about the $700k fence.
I disagree, I think snapchat will be less vulnerable to the "parents are there" effect because it's more about messaging than it is profiles.
SNAP is their stock symbol.
pity it doesn't work with nvi as undo and redo are the same (u) and . to repeat
Looks slow?
> Pac-man succeeds because it had novel game mechanics for 1982.

Pac-Man was released in 1980, not 1982.
I think it's long- versus short-term horizons. If your state fills with less-qualified in-staters at the expense of qualified out-of-staters, that feels good now but is uncompetitive in the long run. (Consider what would happen if California's start-up founders hadn't been drawn in by its universities.) If, on the other hand, you neglect the local population then that, too, is bad. Either way, it's a question of balance.
Learning integer sequences
Gaining Influence as a Product Manager
> Absent additional state funding (lol), an enrollment cap would necessarily result in tuition increases.

I don't know why the "lol" is there, as the enrollment cap is a condition of additional state funding.
Russian Photographer Uses Facial Recognition to Find People He Snaps on Subway
Γκολ εκατέρωθεν στο Νάπολι – Ρεάλ Μαδρίτης
He wanted to be more hands-on in building a company. At YC he felt more like a professor giving out advice and he wanted to get back in the game.

Here is the link to the question asked in the AMA. https://askwhale.com/q/2c3505

Its viewable in the browser.
The same argument could be made for bank and home invasion robbers - if money were freely available she of the violence would go away.

The question is, what costs (both financial and societal) are we willing to bear to support addicts?
Yes, please put this everywhere. At least one bar in all bars.

I'm so tired of waiting to get the attention of the bar tender. It's not the fault of the bar tender. In so many places they are horribly understaffed.
I loved the whole Newton Soup system. It's a real shame that something like it didn't get further developed. I always wondered what it would look like scaled up into a cluster arrangement.
This doesn't mention transfer restrictions at all, and that's an altogether different reason that options are complicated. It's a bad idea to assume that you'll be able to sell private company shares, even if the company is popular and you've heard of other people selling. The existence of a market for the shares doesn't guarantee that you'll be allowed to get rid of them, because the company can enforce all manner of restrictions on sales.

The market for stock in a private company tends to be very small. Existing investors and prospective investors in the company can comprise most or all of it. Those folks care more about relationships with the company than getting their hands on a handful of employee shares. What this means practically is that if the company doesn't want you to sell for any reason, the buyers won't cooperate with you either.

If you're planning on selling, you should feel comfortable communicating this to the company. And they should agree to it. And that assent should be very recent and in writing.

You can find startups out there willing to buy derivatives on your exercised shares, which is functionally similar to selling shares. But this is a mixed bag, and you should read those terms carefully.

Read your option agreement. You'll note that among other things, it says that the agreement can be amended by the company at any time to say anything at all. Good luck!
Ask HN: Anyone interested in working on an OpenEMR modernization project (OSS)?
Hi everyone,

I am a developer on the OpenEMR project, the most popular open source electronic health records and medical practice management solution [0][1].

A few more people are needed on a codebase modernization project that I'm running. The project primarily addresses converting the SQL to use Doctrine2 [2] and refactoring code to use MVC along the way.

Not only can you gain experience with a modern ORM solution, but you will get to contribute to a high-impact [3] open source project that enjoys a large audience of appreciative users around the world!

If you're interested, hit me up via email (in profile).

[0] http://open-emr.org/

[1] https://github.com/openemr/openemr

[2] http://www.doctrine-project.org/

[3] http://www.emrandehrnews.com/2017/03/02/openemr-achieves-complete-meaningful-use-certification-with-release-5-0
I don't remember any hacking in FO2 (at least, not minigamed).. Do you mean 3?
Well if you're going to use the lens of AF/BB... Perhaps the woman thought she could lock down the BB with a pregnancy and thought even if she couldn't she could still go it alone....the father could be "AF" or "BB". So I don't think it's to do with AF/BB.
Also, in some countries there is the potential to build entire new towns and cities in the abundant unpopulated vastness of their territory. Mostly this applies to Canada and Russia but theoretically it could also apply to countries like Australia, Namibia, Libya and so on.

In order to build a new town, far from existing towns, you need a major engineering project to build all the transport/communications infrastructure as well as all the buildings. That kind of thing would likely be done using systematic building technology like the machine that was demonstrated.

Consider Canada with a huge supply of petroleum that could be turned into natural gas and piped to a distant shore if only the land was unpopulated to avoid the NIMBY effect. Look at the land between Fort McMurray and the Arctic Ocean. Imagine building a gas pipeline parallel with a railway and a highway along with a port city and harbour on the Arctic Ocean. You would also need to build gravel pits, limestone mines, cement plants to burn the limestone using natural gas, and greenhous complexes using natural gas to generate heat and electricity for artificial lights.

It could be done, if Canada has the will. We already know that Russia has the will because they have done this, and they are running so many big engineering projects that they are likely building up to something bigger that would help ease the refugee problems of nearby countries by absorbing them into new Russian Arctic cities. Being a Muslim country gives Russia an advantage in this area, but Canada has other advantages so the game is not yet over.
Self driving machine code is inherently unsafe, as we don't have observability for the neural networks that run the most advanced models. The safety critical portion of the code focuses around running the base functions of the car.

One of the major hurdles to real Level 5 systems is proving their correctness.
That's not how parody works.
and yet YC is the center of the universe for SV VC-funded tech startups.
The traditional Zen answer is... "Don't enter the caves of Satan (meaning bliss meditation) because you may never come out."

A meaningful life has plenty of happiness (post-meditation, so you know what's useful as opposed to egocentric actions that leave a heavy karmic wake) but you also get things done. Not just for yourself, but others. So for the Zen guys, the question says "is it better to hit two birds with one stone, or just one bird?"
I completely agree. The Selfish Gene did more to change my view of the world than any other book I've ever read. Not in a religious sense, as many others cite, but rather it laid the foundation for a deeper understanding of people, culture, violent behavior, herd mentality, etc.

It's a masterpiece.
Internet connectivity means they only need one person on duty at the central office. If this weren't immigration law enforcement, they could even outsource it. :-)
So you're saying it will get turned over to the parents, at which point it will become worthless? Like Facebook?
only tangentially related, but I recently had this idea for a short (very short) film: You see a person wake up in the morning, jump in the shower, brush teeth, eat breakfast, the whole morning routine... then they grab a briefcase or whatever and walk to their front door, which is locked. Instead of unlocking the door themselves and walking out, they ask out loud, "permission to leave the house?" [Close up of their face looking at the lock. Close up of the lock. Another close up of their face as they wait. Then a close up of the lock sliding back.] Then they open the door and walk out. Now it just needs a good title.
Students pay for 4+ years and out of state tuition is 50K so 5 students.
It's hard to tell because they kept having cuts and slowmo. It would be nice to see a video of a full drink being made.

Still, even a slow robot is preferred to having to wait for attention from the bartender before putting in your order. It's so frustrating to have to break away from an interesting conversation so that you could keep your eye on the bartender as he/she slowly makes their way to your area of the bar.

I'm at a bar to socialize, not to wait several minutes away from my friends trying to make eye contact with the bartender.
An interesting arbitrage. Quite likely generalizable, too.
Use HTML custom elements to build robots and servers
> You can have up to 5 plants at your home

I think that's an urban myth actually. I know people that got kicked out of their house for having just three plants just growing outdoor so no tampering with electricity or fire risk. They used to be more lenient but people tended to burn their house down with illegal indoor plantations.

It's weird how in a liberal country like The Netherlands where everybody wants full legalization we somehow ended up with a government that got a lot stricter instead.
FOIA Uncovers Part of U.K. Shadow Regulation on Search Engines and Copyright
One of the best books I've ever read on why the war on drugs is
a bad idea. It's written by a UK cop who was there nearly from the
beginning.

https://www.amazon.com/Good-Cop-Bad-War/dp/1785032690/
Good Cop, Bad War (Paperback)
Publisher: Ebury Press
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1785032690
ISBN-13: 978-1785032691
Apple to Accept WWDC Scholarship Applications March 27, Lodging Now Included
+1 Debt: The First 5000 Years. Fantastic! Especially for economic theory/sociology nerds.
I'm not exactly comfortable talking about my sex life on a public forum (even though the answer is "completely ordinary"). What I'm going to say instead is that, from my observation, many men on the spectrum have problems getting into a relationship (and get publicly ridiculed when they try), while women are routinely emotionally and sexually abused. It's a barely-researched topic that unfortunately holds some rather grim secrets.
In Europe and Japan a lot of TVs just had SCART with RGB pins so I don't think it was too unusual for people to have setups like this at the time. Not discounting what the author is saying, but I have to assume that designers planned for a lot of people using RGB or at least decided what their tradeoffs were going to be.
No way do Scarlett pres have the amount of clean gain we're talking for SM7B or RE20 territory. Unless you really get an excellent interface/mixer I would go for external pres.
That doesn't make any sense - Pascal and Ada and whatnot that were around in the 1980s, which means the fundamental problem can't be performance on any modern embedded chip. Besides which, you don't trade away stability for performance on a safety-critical chip!
> we can still chalk this up as a win for SV

Snap is not located in Silicon Valley, if that's what you meant by "SV".
I didn't realize MacKeeper investigates other spammers, maybe helpful in develoiping their own best practices.
It has worked for Norilsk in Russia's far north. They built it and people came including refugees from more southern climates like Ukraine. And even though they have not yet solved all the engineering issues, there are ways to deal with them.

Engineers generally like big problems like this, and a world where Global Warming will displace large populations needs to get really good at managing huge engineering projects.

Just look at Russia and their Crimea bridge, St. Petersburg bypass bridges, Vladivostok bridge, infrastructure projects associated with the Sochi Olympics, the Universiade games in Kazan and so on. And now Trump says that he plans on fixing the USA's decrepit infrastructure that has been neglected for the past two generations.

Engineering solves problems.
Depends where you are in the country. Many rural places don't have home delivery and only have P.O. Boxes. Home delivery from Amazon, etc. requires a bit of work.
On Political Correctness – William Deresiewicz
> The safety critical portion of the code focuses around running the base functions of the car.

There's the rub. They don't meet the standards of safety-critical code, but they are safety critical.

I'm not sure how this challenge will be addressed, but I doubt the answer is "write everything in C". That approach works when your code is relatively simple, but doesn't scale when the code is actually extremely complex.
Scientific Auditing Firms
> Out of curiosity - what do you think a guy that is hired to make that software to work on your mom computer would do more than help her install said software, even if through a remote session?

Because that is literally part of the modus operandi of the Windows tech support scammers?
So, it's the same thing that T-Mobile has. Or had. You can turn it off now if you want.
Schumer: The Internet belongs to the people, not powerful corporate interests
Decreasing state funding for student manifests itself in a lower quality of education; not that the student is unable to pay their tuition, but that the school is unable to hire enough professors.
I know a lot of people who moved to this directly from GA, guess this is going to hurt a lot of people!
AppOnboard: Downloadless apps and next-gen chronological heat map analytics
Robotic arms to draw liquids from bottles? Seems excessive.

Why not just use tubes?
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The author doesn't seem very good at units and things

>the radiation level inside the reactor was recently recorded at 530 sieverts.

That should be 530 sieverts per hour. If the robot was supposed to take 73 sieverts then you'd only expect it to last eight minutes. It takes 2 to 8 sieverts to kill a human.

Better article: http://www.sciencealert.com/radiation-levels-in-the-fukushim...
Any non-ASCII character search will redirect to home page.
Given that UC needs the funding to stay operational or competitive: It is extortion.
Or Pigeons

http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal....
> How would a basic type system protect against incorrectly interpreting an imperial floating point value as a metric floating point value

"Better" / richer / more refined (aiming/aspiring at least!) type systems than C/++/Java/C#/Go/etc aim to make it ever-more "powerfully convenient, effortless, and free-of-cost to denote eg. such different units as uniquely distinct (yet 'compatible' when explicit conversion is finally expressly (and visibly (and searchably)) called for) types" that all source code cannot possibly mismatch accidentally without the compiler catching it --- however the issue remains that we don't, and possibly can't have type systems that also enforce such styles (rather than just relying on a developer's/team's own discipline & resolve to adhere to such convention even in the face of deadlines & budget/schedule pressures) unless we actually totally forbid primitives like lone (semantics ambiguous) ints, lone (likewise) floats etc. Similar to "bool blindness", there's the general issue of "primitive/scalar-type blindness" always lingering. Probably some PhD candidate will write a Haskell extension for such a scenario some day soon.

Though of course the next thing the deadline-driven developer will do is construct a single "semantic" int type used for all different semantic sorts kinds and types of "ints"......
> People are

A person did. Not necessarily indicative of a trend..
That kind of thing isn't usually above board, though, is it? If I give a charity a million dollars and then make a suggestion, the subtext is clear even though there aren't any official conditions.
While I've escaped "traditional" addiction (maybe I'm on this computer too much), the lack of "quiet" is a real burden.

Workplaces. Homes -- a string of bad neighbors in multiple locations. (I mean, when they are across the street and down the block, and still make your life miserable inside your buttoned up home, they are bad.)

When I get somewhere I can achieve and trust that quiet in my life -- not all the time, but when I need it, without undo effort -- the rest of my state-of-mind simply falls into place. I'm not stressed. I'm at peace. Alone, and with other people.

I look at how much imposed stress many people in the U.S. have placed upon them. Not just nor particularly worries about eventualities, but immediate, physical and attentional stresses in their lives. And I think, that has to be a key to all this.

P.S. And the way these things can shut down physical activity -- in my and friends' experiences, a key to coping. If you can't go out and about in your yard and neighborhood without worry, your activity level may plummet.

I wonder what effect this is having on kids who no longer walk to school and maybe aren't even allowed to play outside on their own or simply go running, cycling, etc. down the block.
It has been my experience that text books are available for checkout but only for two to three hours at a time. That way you can study there at the library and do your homework then return the book.
> What I'm going to say instead is that, from my observation, many men on the spectrum have problems getting into a relationship (and get publicly ridiculed when they try), while women are routinely emotionally and sexually abused.

This is a common trait among mental illnesses and definitely makes it worse being alive.

Do you know if those on the autistic spectrum ever date within themselves and how it works out? I know for others diseases, it can turn into a nightmare (only if both haven't developed coping techniques), though not always.

> I'm not exactly comfortable talking about my sex life on a public forum (even though the answer is "completely ordinary").

My bad, I forgot some people tie-in their real lives.

> It's a barely-researched topic that unfortunately holds some rather grim secrets.

Can you elaborate on these grim secrets?
I assumed the quote marks were because he had described the amounts that way himself.
Looking forward to all the feedback here!
While I don't believe that $SNAP financials are solid (I am bearish), I do applaud them and Mulesoft for going public.

Too often today large (well past series C) tech companies (I won't name any names) refuse to go public and instead continue to take private equity and foreign investment and prop themselves up on absurd valuations with no-checks and balances. Some of these companies are absolute dog shit, yet they continue to receive unlimited funding and insane valuations in a vacuum with no market to short them.
Wall Street calls bullshit when they see it, and smart people short bad companies when they find them. Silicon Valley doesn't provide a way to short these propped-up companies, they just continue to self-promote themselves on private equity and foreign investment.
In this situation I don't think it's possible to not political.

Aren't they being political by accepting out of state students who pay more money? Are they looking at applicants bank accounts or are they looking for applicants that would be successful and contribute to the diversity of the school?

UC makes the claim that they out-of-state funding creates more spots for in-state applicants, while the audit says otherwise.

Both are plausible explanations, but we need some actual numbers in order to determine whether having a bias toward accepting more out-of-state applicants really does increase in-state applicant admissions.
Sounds like a good way to back a founder that's going to end up buried in an avalanche of lawsuits.