skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Almost every day for the past several years, I have eaten whole wheat biscuit cereal. I don't think I'll ever stop.
If you wanted efficiency, you could drink at home.

A bar tender is a combination entertainer-crowd-controller.

This a robotic/novelty emulation of a bar tender. Once the novelty wears off, they'll have to be much entertaining.
Hoping others with intimate knowledge of investment banking and the market can also chime in, but here are my thoughts.

1.) Raise substantial additional capital for R&D, growth, new products, pay down debt, etc.

2.) Exit event. Allows founders, employees and pre-IPO investors to "cash out". Typically at nice fat returns since they get heavily discounted shares.

3.) Increased public awareness since IPO's usually have media coverage and a general frenzy.
Stop taking them for a few days and you'll see what I mean. Many studies have shown that patients who do not consume opioid medications have better long term outcomes than those who do. It simply isn't effective in managing pain long term, and also is not indicated for use in that manner.
Nope -- The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative is a for-profit company which allows them to lobby, etc.

The Chan Zuckerberg Biohub is a non-profit research entity that has received funding from the CZI, and the IP / license fees will be shared between CZ Biohub and the research institutions that they're partnering with (UCSF, Stanford, and UC Berkeley). Researchers will also have the ability to enter their IP into the public domain (with Biohub approval).

It'd be more similar to Pfizer if Pfizer fired all their sales and marketing staff as well as funneled all of their profits into additional research instead of paying billions of dollars to shareholders every year.

The CZ Biohub is basically a West Coast Broad Institute.
Very much agreed, but then you're stuck with ensuring all the pieces of DNA are faithfully transmitted through the next replication. Essentially you're proposing having tons of 1kbp chromosomes, so you're shifting the problem from having a hard to handle piece of DNA (the longer the harder it is to have it not sheer/break/otherwise get damaged) to faithfully moving around lots of tiny pieces of DNA, and maybe depending on the system needing to guarantee not losing one of them entirely, or ensuring that the copy number of each one doesn't deviate too much from all the others, or both.

I think yours is probably the right way, though.
You can get the audio book for $15 there.
I've never had a company refuse to give me the 409a valuation if I asked point blank for it(just say you're considering exercising and it's important for tax planning). It's important to keep in mind though they tend to purposely depress that value. But investors get a premium because their stock has legitimately more value than yours(liquidation preferences, board seats, etc). And without a liquid market, if you do sell privately you end up taking a large discount. I think the opacity is largely that it's difficult to value things, not so much nefariousness
In pursuit of better JVM Futures – Kotlin coroutines
Congrats on the success Nathan! I was at your workshop in Boston back in 2013, and read Authority in 2013. It inspired me to launch https://lsathacks.com (I had an existing book series).

I've now released video courses on the site, things are going very well revenue wise, and I'm on a steady path of much further growth. I honestly don't know what would have happened had I not read Authority back when I did.

Very inspiring to see what you've done with Convertkit, and it's making me consider more direct sales.

p.s. Here's an early writeup you did, in case you don't remember. http://nathanbarry.com/authority-case-studies/
In my experience, using a substance as a form of relief, in any amount, prevents developing healthy coping mechanisms. More often than not quitting is not enough - it takes lots of reading, therapy, experience and time to find and learn a non-harmful alternative.
Quando è nato il mestiere del fabbro
I instantly thought of this video snippet [1] from the 80s about a robot bartender, which incidentally I only know from the Mitch Murder song "In the News." [2]

>Finally, the last place you want to see a computer let alone a robot is in your neighborhood bar. Yet it seems the sweep of technology has no limits. In San Francisco this week, the world's first robot bartender was unveiled. The robot can talk, can take spoken orders and can mix two-hundred different drinks. But on the first test run, when the waitress yelled out "Give me a Bloody Mary and a beer," the robot knocked the glass off the bar onto the floor and poured beer all over the counter. The robot's designer said there were still some bugs to be worked out.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdRH9Sm_4-0&t=28m12s

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dz7rK3Eks4s
Donald is that you? Is "redsummer" a nod to the intensely orange fake tan you use?
I too don't drink soda (havent had one in 5 years or so), but why do you feel that coffee is a better medium for caffeine than soda?
Monitoring. To monitor sound wet (as opposed to dry direct monitoring) you need very low latencies. This becomes important if you apply non-trivial effects.
very cool, didn't know about this, thanks!
I can't imagine how you could learn Bayesian stats w/o starting with a basic inference class, which will cover p-values at length.
In fact, any modern PREEMPT enabled Linux can do realtime audio if you enable threadirqs=1 option, as I found out.
> The net effect looked more like trying to prevent a dog from breeding than teaching a person how to live an independent, fulfilling life.

It does look like that.

Do you have any insight into how this situation could be remedied? I'm briefly acquainted with the autism rights movement, but I don't see anything about encouraging equality of life, only how expectations should be "redefined."
What's that query supposed to return?
Are you also looking for Android interns?
It's barely below IPO price http://m.imgur.com/X58hugr
I can't wait until Senor Frog's gets a robot that can just pour the liquor in my mouth like the real bartenders do.
The maximum Pell grant plus the maximum Stafford loan will not even cover UC tuition, let alone housing or other expenses.
In my experience (have worked at 3 start-ups), if you quit, you probably don't expect the options to ever be worth anything!
Prenda Saga Update: John Steele Pleads Guilty, Admits Entire Scheme
A New Conceptual Approach to Teaching the Interpretation of Clinical Tests
Exactly. The donor tried, by partially funding it, to create a position that wasn't consistent with the org's objectives.
Treatment plans are far more complex than diagnosis. Much of it is convincing the patient to make the right choice. An AI that can sympathize and educate is a long time coming.
Tagged and Hi5 bought by MeetMe for $60M
Seriously though, I bet eventually we'll have a robot that can do that far more accurately than a human. Like a jet from one of those 'jumping fountains', of liquor, 20 feet away, nothing but net.
Login or sign up to view article? I clicked the HN "web" link but it's still login-walled.
The problem with repairs wasn't that they were using generic parts from third parties. The problem was they were using used parts. They created a huge market for stolen cars.
You just posted this yesterday. Why did you change the title to something less specific?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13796675
I think you make a good point. I'm not sure why you're getting downvoted. A very common mistake from engineers who become entrepreneurs is to not understand the markets they're trying to enter, or even their customers. They think they have a cool tech solution and everybody will see the world like they do. Then they launch and find out they have a novelty that loses money.

I don't know the specifics of this business, but trying to build a robot for X without understanding X is a great way to lose money.
I dont think its nimby-ism, i think its just the development industry recuperating from a very high-high that made them go bankrupt very quickly.

The chinese money angle is interesting, and though it can definitely help raise prices, once development gets hold of demographic growth, and a tad more, even increase demand would be met with increase supply.

One of the great problems nowadays is that supply is not catching up and lots of measures are being put in place to limit demand, but once =supply catches up (which it can, and considering prices theres little reason to think otherwise), house prices could stabilize or even go down.
Dont go too nutz about him not going to jail. An arrest on child porn charges destroys one's life. Guilt or innocence doesnt matter. Jobs are lots. Families are broken apart. Neighbours now hate you. This man's life will never be the same. And he hasnt had any day in court. We should not judge too harshly.
I'll probably be down voted for saying this...

But I really can't help but feel like Austim is being thrown around like the new ADHD...
In ancient times, there was a television show called "Connections" [1] in which the host followed the multiple links and serendipitous events that led to some modern inventions, technologies, and scientific achievements.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connections_(TV_series)
> Then they quit after 2 years and have 90 days to buy like 50k worth of stock at the strike price they were promised.

This is missing the key point of the article which is that there are also taxes to pay, not just the strike price. What you're saying is valid -- even the strike price can be a lot for someone to afford on their way out without any liquidity. But it is very important to understand that it's much worse than that at "successful" startups that have increased in value substantially over those 2 years. You also have to pay AMT (28%) on much of that gain in value, which could end up costing even more than the strike price itself.

Hopefully more startups will offer extended exercise windows of several years. Some are. See: https://github.com/holman/extended-exercise-windows
Resurrecting Amazon SimpleDB
The thing with Facebook is every day teens are slowly turning into the "old people" on Facebook (who are heavy users) and every day new teens join to replace them.
Yeah, that was kind of my point. Whether or not it's a big deal depends on who you are.
"The law argues that disabled people were harmed when Berkeley used public resources to publish something not accessible to the disabled."

But Berkeley isn't being punished. The general public, including disabled people is.

"Just because the lawsuit was brought by this specific plaintiff doesn't mean that this content was effectively "hidden" from disabled folks that may have been interested in the past."

I realize that. However, it seems to me that this outcome is, if anything, making the situation worse. Blind people could presumably get something from the audio content. Deaf people could get something from the video content. Now they can't. How is this better?
>The review that was done awhile ago showed that nonresidents reduced the amount of residents in the program

Cf. what the audit actually found:

>The audit found that out-of-state applicants benefited from lowered admission standards [italics mine], while California students increasingly were turned away from their campus of choice.

The only reason to give out-of-state students lower admission standards than in-state students is if you're not merely admitting them but preferring them, and the obvious motive in preferring out-of-state students is that they pay five times as much if not more in tuition compared to in-state students.

One way to evaluate proposed solutions to problems is "can the proposed solution solve the problem?"; if the out-of-state enrollment in 2006 was 5.5% and in 2016 was 15% and the cap is 20% (these are the real numbers) then obviously the proposed solution cannot solve the problem and it is frankly questionable whether it is even a legitimate attempt to solve the problem. It appears to instead be a way to politically grandstand by scapegoating the UC admissions departments and the out-of-state students instead of admitting there's a funding problem. The $18M in funding is also a pittance:

>UC spokeswoman Dianne Klein said the proposed policy balanced the needs of California students with the benefits that nonresident students bring — diverse perspectives as well as millions in additional tuition revenue, which added up to nearly $550 million in 2016-17.

Increasing the proportion of out-of-state students by 1% here appears to bring in about $50 million. There is not even a clear financial incentive for the UC system to bother following this directive! They would make more money by ignoring it.

The financial data indicates that the UC system will likely ignore this directive. Considering that the State used a tiny carrot instead of a big stick, they probably know this. If the State were serious in addressing this problem they could threaten to fine the UC system for discriminating against local students as was found in the audit. However this would kill the "golden goose" and result in drastic underfunding of the system because out-of-state students are currently covering a budget gap way bigger than this proposal could ever address.

So the legislature is not going to do that. They made this proposal to rile up gullible Californian nativists who think outsiders are the source of all their problems, and you fell for it.
Sure, it's the letter of the law that donations have to be gifts. But nonprofit development (=fundraising) work has lots of gray areas.

A simple example: gifts may be restricted. Restricting a gift is as simple as writing a $10 check to the Sierra Club and writing "spotted owl conservation" on the memo line. If the Sierra Club doesn't have a spotted owl program, they're supposed to get your permission to apply the gift elsewhere.

If your gift were for half a million dollars and restricted that way, you'd be trying to set policy with it.

Not all attempts by donors to drive policy are harmful to the org. And, not all such attempts are self-dealing or other fiscal shenanigans. Usually they're far more banal clashes of egos.
Vim plugin to disapprove deeply indented code
That's what my last sentence is for. If they go pure-magsafe and get rid of all USB-C charging ability then they deserve the complaints.

But if they add magsafe while also having USB-C charging then it's much better than either option on its own.

And keeping USB-C charging does not require extra ports, because you need the USB-C ports anyway to do USB stuff.
And you deserve to be. As someone who has raging ADHD I am sick to the back teeth of knee-jerk contrarians venting their feels while making no effort to contribute anything of substance.
Agreed. Would you accept:

uber having a set of informal HR processes that fail to protect employees from persistent harassment
Reminds me of the underlying themes behind Binding of Isaac. Also a brilliantly simple yet addictive game
Depends on where. The junior market is tightening, but mid and senior level seem to be still fine.
They already exist. They are called vending machines. Instead of a pushbutton these have a voice interface. Big deal. All the robot parts beyond the vending machine are just for show. If you like the show, cool. But dont expect this to reduce costs. The market has rejected vending machines in bars for good reasons.

Can this machine do the legal part of the job? Does it know when to cut someone off or call the cops? Can it spot a fake ID? Bartending as a profession isnt under any threat.
Very Kafkaesque indeed
Docomo to release AI-based taxi system
Fair enough. Technology allows people to connect who would not have been able to in the past. But I still claim that, for the average (or perhaps median) person, the net result has been dehumanizing - it has resulted in less depth of relationship.
What size is the project? Trying to guesstimate if it's worth investigating using 3rd party vs. [google] cloud container builder - speed tradeoffs, convenience, friction etc. Cheers.
I watch Sixty Symbols on Youtube and they have a number of episodes on string theory--which I've read necessarily implies extra dimensions(can't vouch for that conclusion personally), leading to multiverse theories. These episodes are straight from researchers themselves so I was surprised to read these ideas in the link provided, supporting your idea that the multiverse is hokum.

Anyways it's interesting.
Serious question: why does the IRS insist on valuing private company stock on the basis of a 409a valuation without taking into account whether a market for it even exists? The 409a is paid for by the company which (as the article mentioned) has an interest in keeping it lower. And holders of common stock in private companies, in most cases, can't actually liquidate their holdings (leaving apart cases like pre-IPO Facebook which traded in secondary markets). So the stock is effectively worthless no matter what the 409a says. There shouldn't be tax due until there's a liquidation event that allows shares to be sold.
But, if it was altered to only work at the lower pH, then it could target just the pain source at the peripheral nerves, the researchers hypothesized.

It's been a while since I took a pharmacology class, but opioids work centrally - that is, the pain relief is due to their action in the brain. That's why an opioid like loperamide (can't cross the CNS barrier) doesn't have an analgesic effect, only constipating.

If fentanyl only worked peripherally, it wouldn't have a painkilling effect.
No offense taken. I'm just trying to have a healthy optimism about writing, marketing and selling a book. 500k and 120k in sales seems like outliers. Would just be great to hear more about those experiences though.
Just as with Amazon solution, this seems to not have caching. Baking deps into a separate image is a good solution, but oftentimes you want to rely on docker caching itself. For example docker caches `npm install` quite nicely if you split up the copying of package.json to a separate layer, which allows for a very neat flow where small app diffs result in a fast build, while adding new npm packages results in a slightly longer build. Not possible with GCCB or AWS CodeBuild.. For now, a self-managed Atlassian Bamboo instance (which can and does do caching for each worker) seems to be the best way?
In nonprofit work, it's really risky to so say "no" to a donor. Typically the bigger donors know each other and can gang up on the executive director or the board unless things are really transparent.
Woops, completely forgot to complete what I was talking about the timing thing. When you first do a query, it takes 0.47s, when you redo it, it takes like 0.00 or 0.01 seconds. I have no idea how long for.
> low latency and aggregated devices

Hang on, no way, you take one or the other. Aggregating devices adds a huge chunk of latency and, frankly, I don't think is that exciting a feature anyway. Maybe for your specific setup, but generally speaking you should buy gear that suits your needs, rather than try to cobble something together from existing devices.

Having used OSX and Win7 (on the same machine) I would agree CoreAudio is less hassle and definitely lower latency - IIRC, OSX reported just over half the latency of W7 on the same setup.

That said, I'm not sure what you think is going on with ASIO, since any class compliant USB audio interface has compatible drivers inherently..
Well that's just silly. People post random stuff to HN all the time. That something is appears here does not mean that HN is the intended audience.
There's a point at which having 100 coping techniques and mechanisms that work sometimes but not all the time just don't cut it. Healthy habits need to be kept up in perpetuity even through hard or highly stressful times.
Doing a good video transcript takes more than 2x the running time of the video. A lot more. Really.

Have you ever tried transcribing a video in a level of detail such that someone who can't see the video has a full understanding of what's going on? Give it a shot and report back to us.

Source: I've actually transcribed instructional videos for disabled students.

Update: Google suggests budgeting 4-9 hours of transcription time per hour, which is closer to my experience.

You might get by with 4 hours if it was just someone talking (with no slides, etc.). If the person performing an activity (say, a lab course) 9 is going to be a lot nearer the mark.

Remember, this has to be done so that both deaf and blind students can use the material.
Thank you for clarifying why this is relevant.

To be clear, I am not claiming that Product Design has no place in HCI. I'm claiming that its just as relevant to many other areas of computer science as it is to HCI.
The quote marks indicate that the characterization comes from the subject rather than the writer.
There's one clear, immediate way to fix L.A.'s traffic: Tolls
There is prescription meth called Desoxyn.
A ZIP file for an old DOS disassembler, which Google will readily find if passed ".zip", "35" and "ketmax" in reverse order (not strrev, reverse order) as one string with no spaces. If you leave out the "35" part of the string (and just supply the other two parts), Google has no idea what I'm talking about no matter what I try - it was ixquick that helped me find the file without that middle tidbit.

Whenever I mention this bug I'm challenged with how to refer to it in a way that humans will be able to understand (without resorting to base64 or similar...) but which Google's indexer won't "get", so that the bug stays there and I'm able to point it out to people.

My point is that Google's correlation system is nowhere near perfect. (I would intuitively categorize this with the much-vaunted systems that determine context, "did you mean" etc.)
I was, and I think the penalties and number of people in "the system" for drug offenses is significantly higher than it was in the 80s and 90s. We now have more people (not percentage of people) incarcerated than any other country, even China. The rhetoric may be softer, but I don't think the judges are.

Here is a year over year incarceration map.

http://www.businessinsider.com/how-the-war-on-drugs-changed-...

Here's prison population by country:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/spl/hi/uk/06/prisons/html/nn2...

Incarcerate is the only hammer many of our state governments will even consider using for most social problems.
Anybody have good recommendations on courses or a curated study list for someone new to Design in general? Looking to learn fundamentals before diving into more detail on any specific field.
Lamp bumping telegraphs that the creators took pride in their work. It makes watching a film more rewarding to know you're enjoying something someone wanted you to enjoy, not something that was just thrown together to make money.

I've been watching Deep Space Nine lately and the amount of lamp-bumping in it (especially given that it was a television serial) makes me appreciate it that much more. (My favorite example thus far is the scene when Garak tortured Odo. When Odo returned to liquid form, even the small parts of him that had flaked off were animated as part of the special effect, even though they were barely visible on camera.)