skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
when the 3 years rental period is over, you may end the rent (as the owner) only under specific conditions (see for instance http://www.dossierfamilial.com/immobilier/locataire/locatair...).

It is not like you can end the rent to get another renter (except if it is a close family). This is really crazy and have always been a turn - off for me when wondering about investing in flats (I am French)
Did Honda even build a CL550? Was that a huge parallel twin or a four cylinder scrambler? Never heard of either of those configurations from Honda.

Do you mean CB550? If so they demand a higher price because they are 1) older and 2) look way better. Super Nighthawk performance isn't much to write home about relative to newer bikes for the same price and vintage bikes look really nice.

Now is probably a great time to pick up a Super Nighthawk because as with almost all vehicles their value drops off continually for their first 20 or so years until they are truly part of a previous generation of vehicles that is no longer available. Then the value starts to rise again due to scarcity.

We saw the same thing in the 90s with 1970s domestic cars which peaked in the 2000s. It's happening now with 1980s Japanese cars and has been happening to 1970s and 80s Japanese bikes.
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Thanks for the link. The book has been added.
As mentioned elsewhere, you seem to have a lot of unfounded assumptions, and misconceptions about this sector.

It's far too much repeated work

Companies will repeat work over and over again if it's cheaper than buying it, they have custom needs that aren't filled with the data available, etc. Businesses repeat work all the time, and this is not any different. Additionally, for many businesses in the sector, they themselves are the primary source for data. For them it's not repeated work.

a good business to just do the work and sell it off to others.

Yes, that's why some aggregators exist. They make money by brokering the data from multiple sources, some primary and some resold. But they are the tip of the iceberg.

You seem to be under the impression that there is some small list of companies who are all working from primary sources, and that everyone then gets feeds of data from those companies. This would make sense if gathering data was very difficult, or had a natural resource-like limitations. So that model works well for something like diamond mining (as compared to diamond growing), because the number of diamond mines are limited, and there is a natural entry barrier. However, that doesn't take into account the fact that gathering this data is generally easy. Sometimes it's very easy, such as a sftp feed of data from a government records database. Sometimes it's a bit harder, such as needing to physically be present to obtain the data.

That means there is very little barrier to entry, and thus generally there is going to be a lot of competition, and thus many companies vying to make money.

Personal data has value just like any other commodity. So a bit of economic theory goes a long way to understanding what the boundaries of a market might be. Low production cost, high profit goods generally have a large number of companies in the market.
Should Snap buy Twitter?
> So? Java doesn't have channels either (except in third party libs added much later), but they were in Go from the start.

Channels is specific concurrency paradigm. Java utilizes others, not less powerful.
Werner Herzog dedicated his part of the Whitney biennial to Segers. See him talking about him here > https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/werner-herzog-is-...
That's been my takeaway too. Company was purchased by a huge private equity firm last fall (KKR), so I probably would have been out of there by now regardless.
Haven't read the book yet but Sam Quinones was on EconTalk recently and it was pretty enlightening:

http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2017/01/sam_quinones_on.htm...
For very high profile cases, a jury would be sequestered, meaning they are housed somewhere and not allowed to interact with the public. If they were in danger, their would be guards protecting them.

After the trial is over, though, they are on their own. They will not continue to be protected, and could certainly suffer retaliation. It sucks, yes.

http://criminal.lawyers.com/criminal-law-basics/sequester-is...
I think the only way to nuke the muscle memory from this equation would be to have it make one type a random dictionary word (or solve an arithmetic problem or something - that one might help prevent drunk deploys ;).

If the prompt was type "production" to confirm, I'm sure I'd just as readily train myself to jump the gun on that one.
In my experience most people at startups who leave end up not exercising their options due to the cost of exercising them coupled with the fact that they may be underpaid due to the assumption that their options may end up quite valuable. So basically they pay somebody 90k/year then give them ~20k/year in options. Then they quit after 2 years and have 90 days to buy like 50k worth of stock at the strike price they were promised.

So they end up paying 50k to buy some common shares (not preferred). An investor who paid 50k to invest in the company most likely got preferred shares, so the young guy who paid 50k who probably can barely afford that is now taking way more risk for a much smaller percentage of the company. If the company goes under the preferred shareholders have a chance to get their money back during a firesale of assets or IP or whatever, but the common shares are screwed.

So I tell virtually everybody unless there is a well established secondary market to sell your shares of your particular company, then don't take the options.

I honestly think the 90 day exercise is totally ludicrous in the startup world. I think that should be a major negotiation point with anybody who is joining a startup. They should just insist on it no matter what.
Doesn't really work since anyone with half a brain would remove the plus sign and after, knowing the email is more useful without that part. I've never caught anyone this way.
Ask HN: Is it no longer possible to start discussion on a self-submitted link?
I posted a neat link a few minutes ago that is a new article format Typeform has created combining a chatbot with an article to make it interactive.

Usually, when I submit a link, I like to kick off the comments in a way that adds context or clarifies if the landing page might be unclear. However, on this particular link there is no discuss button.

Has this feature changed recently? Can others see this link?

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13806064
Consumer Reports spearheads new privacy, security standard for electronics
[Apologize for the back-to-back EconTalk plugs, but I really enjoy the show!]

This EconTalk episode on Narconomics goes into a great deal of detail regarding exactly how structurally broken the supply-side attacks are; I found it quite fascinating!

http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2017/02/tom_wainwright.html
Note that (I think) Adobe was hacked, so that doesn't mean your email was "leaked" by them per se, not in the sense we mean anyway.

Also, out of curiosity, how long did it take these companies to leak your info, generally? Days, weeks, months, years...?
This is a highlight reel of the more successful fellows; has anyone done a broad survey of all fellows to see where they ended up?
Thanks - I do miss him.

I think if someone were to come up and knock on their front door, most older people wouldn't hesitate to send them away (exceptions for Girl Scout cookies, of course). But when a fraudster arrives via computer screen, they don't recognize the same threat. They believe what they see on a computer screen because well, it's a computer and everyone knows they don't make mistakes.
You must be a true Existentialist then. I quickly committed suicide out of curiosity.

"Il n'y a qu'un problème philosophique vraiment sérieux: c'est le suicide" I guess.
Our perspective depends on the relative value/scarcity of capital.

If capital is scarce and valuable, it makes sense for a system to be designed to reward and protect capital risk.

But the "standard terms" haven't changed much since the 80's and capital is definitely more abundant today than it was before. Valuations for early companies are ~10x what they used to be decades ago. Founders give up a fraction of ownership compared to what they used to.

The question is where the right balance point is given current parameters.

Also, wages have never been higher for tech employees. I'm happy to have a 2x wage level conspared to 15 years ago rather than have the same wage but 2x equity (obviously a simplification), so something's at least working well here wrt labor gaining some ground on capital.
You could certainly do it in an E. coli bacteria tomorrow. You'd need on the low end 128 or 256 bits of coding capacity, which you should be able to get out of a few thousand base pairs according to their scheme. Not super easy, but I've made strands that long using only oligos and with a little tinkering you could correct any errors. Now tie that DNA to an antibacterial-resistance gene, stick it in a bacteria, and you can selectively grow only PGP-bacteria nearly indefinitely (with some minor caveats, but yeah).

Houseplants are substantially harder for a variety of biochemical reasons including having multiple chromosomes, and more difficult selection protocols, but yeah that should be possible too and made somewhat easier by CRISPR.
I don't know if they were necessarily dystopian. In the book, the Maths survive throughout global wars and other saecular catastrophes. So sometimes they'd come out of the gate and everyone would be cavemen, other times, 1980s style civilizations with televisions and cars. Seems like a pretty rosy situation to me.
Decriminalization and an expansion of social programs to help addiction recovery. It's hard for people to get help when they fear legal troubles.

Unfortunately neither of these will happen in the next 4 years; and likely the opposite will happen, so we're in for a worsening.
Yeah thats what bootstrapping is, having enough money to sustain yourself and capitalize the business without outside investors.
2 things, 1.)if you make government enforce this, then we are all going to be paying more and things taking longer. This will push the society toward a fascist or communist states where the government is the all powerful and might beast. I do not like this.

2.) in western countries there are already laws that allow you as the consumer to remove any personally identifiable information from being shared. The ownus is on YOU to go do that, it's not hard but will require to track and follow up every year for ever. However you also have a choice of companies that you provide the information to, and what you provide. Any credit agency when you apply for credit asks if you would allow them to resell this. Opt out!

The fact that in most cases people are to lazy to read and understand what they are provinding and for what purpose is the real issue here. Government is not going to make things better or more secure or even be able to enforce this type of governance. Only you and the lawyers can do this.
NP. I'll try to find more when I get home, no promises though, pretty busy these days with life crap and can't do as much there as I'd like on the technical side (day job doesn't give me time to focus on these issues either).
High Speed Rail report estimates 11m riders between Las Vegas and LA by 2035
This absolutely falls in the 'bootstrapped' category, as long as these are not $55k of VC money, but your own.
Actual title is "Consumer Reports spearheads new privacy, security standard for electronic products" but HN won't accept it because of the length.

Also, the standard itself is at https://thedigitalstandard.org/the-standard but I felt like Liliputing provided a nice summary, so the link points to that for now.
Ask HN: What websites do you frequent beside Hacker News and GitHub?
I've been making a mind map of all the websites I often visit and like :
(https://my.mindnode.com/y4oVGAm2vzypkm3sxqzxVySu5VzN8bRhzRzPQeLs)

It's part of a bigger mind map I am sharing :
(https://github.com/nikitavoloboev/research)

I would love to hear what websites do you guys enjoy
visiting to get your knowledge and information and news from?
Hard to believe there is really an "epidemic" beyond typical fearmongering and political noise. People have always used drugs, this is nothing new. Unfortunately all the hype and noise is having significantly negative consequences to the medical community, doctors, and patients who actually need these things.
It's not really a 10 year risk, as you keep the options that have vested whether or not you're still with the company. And if the startup fails, if you haven't exercised, you shouldn't be out any money.
That post is a year old... I don't think it's talking about the same breach.
So what is the answer here? Like another poster said, there's a demand problem. How do we as a society address this? I've seen a lot of mumbles about dealing with supply problems, dealing with overdose problems, but it'd be good to head the problems off at the pass before they descend into major trouble.

I should also note, this is a burgeoning problem in the Puget Sound/Seattle region. It's not just rural people dying.

Can someone knowledgeable about drug policy / sociology provide some insight in this thread?
Of course you could, but now that we know you plan to hide you PGP keys in your plants, you're hit by the old "security-by-obscurity" fallacy. :/
I'm not sure anyone really knows why the demand is so huge.

Unemployment seems obvious, but it's not. New Hampshire, for example, if often cited as one of the areas hit the worst by opiate addiction. Yet, it's doing well with unemployment, in relative terms.

1 year old, but relevant: http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/430841/whats-matter-new...
I live in Trumbull County in Ohio, the dark red county in North East Ohio. We recently had 23 (non-fatal) overdoses in a two-day period[0]. That's roughly .01% of the county's total population - so yeah, it's getting bad here.

There were recently two shootings within a mile of my house. Several people dead. Both shootings were drug related.

I can't help but look around and believe that the needs these folks are trying to satisfy are completely human, and that forcing the users to resort to black markets leads to violence and overdoses. I can't help but think this problem in my community could be solved by simply letting people get high.

Maybe the answer isn't to make heroin available OTC at Walgreens, but supervised injection sites seem to be gaining traction[1]. I think a lot of the dark red spots on the map, like mine, should probably consider this option.

It's not like anything else is working.

[0]http://www.tribtoday.com/news/latest-news/2017/03/fri-920-pm...
[1]http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/health/safe-injecti...
My solution to carburetor issues on my CL was to replace the carburetors with another design from Mikuni. You do have the option to swap a megasquirt system on to your bike and then use sensors that are cheaper or more readily available. I'm not sure if that would be easier or not but it is an option and it is something that will become increasingly more common as "new" bikes become "old" over the next 10 or so years.
you may not be as lawfully aligned as you think you are. here's an appropriate, if somewhat forced, test that is relevant in contemporary America:

what is your position on adult use of marijuana in states where it has not been legalized?

as a followup, what is your position with respect to state vs. federal law disagreeing with each other in states that have legalized medical and/or recreational marijuana?
> «Bootstrapped» with 55k$ and an already succesful business is not exactly boostrapping to me.

That's exactly what it is. $55K is next to nothing for starting any kind of company, even if you quit your job and start as a freelancer (arguably the simplest kind of company) you'll need some capital to catch you if you have a dry spell.

Business that get started on $0 are extremely rare.
The US is probably the worst in this respect, and I heard Canada is quite bad, but most of European tax systems follow the "pay taxes only when money comes your way" principle, which puts all investors on equal footing.
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There has to be a some kind of change in lifestyle. Like you said, trying to cutoff supply will only criminalize the activity and make it worse. I've heard, among other solutions, recommending yoga, physical therapy etc. instead of immediately prescribing opiod painkillers. This is certainly an important problem and I'm as interested as you are in what the solutions might be.
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For those downvoting this comment -- it's absolutely true that model performance is discussed at length early in ML courses (usually in the context of the bias-variance tradeoff).

My only quibble would be that precision + recall are one set of evaluation metrics applicable to classification tasks. Modelers can absolutely use other loss functions.

Additionally, precision/recall do not map nicely to regression problems, so people use other metrics (RMSE, MAE, etc.).
DO-178B has been replaced by DO-178C.
This doesn't help the root cause of people starting to use them in the first place. It's helpful to some though.
If you are working at level n, then in practice you usually do need to know about n-1 and n-2. E.g. web programmers write HTML and JavaScript but that stuff strongly depends on the basic properties of HTTP and indeed TCP connections.

There is also the phenomenon that the lower level are often more stable and universal than the higher levels. Your languages and APIs might make all kinds of arbitrary decisions, but they must still somehow tackle the same basic issues of resource management, synchronisation -- concerns which bubble up through all the layers.
Shares vested x fair market value at vest. So you get 1000 shares when you join, worth $1/share. 250 vest on your first year, and that's when tax is due. But say the company grows and shares are $5/share. 5x250 is 1250 taxed income on the anniversary. Normally at early stages you're talking many thousands of shares though, that can increase rapidly.

The fmv is recalculated every year, or on any fundraise events. It needs to be a defensible number or the irs will be upset
> Fighting the "epidemic" at the supply level seems like a losing battle

Kermit, West Virginia. Population 392. They received over 9 million hydrocodone pills in a two year period.

In a 6 year period, the entire state of WV received 780 million pills. Over 400 pills for every man, woman, and child living in WV.

Seems like attacking the supply is great place to start. WV doesn't need this many pills.
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"built-in JSON serializer/deserializer" near "closures" and
"coroutines (via fibers)" feels a bit.. odd. Sign of the times, I understand, but still.

Apart from this boring grumbling, the project is very interesting. Waiting for internals (https://marcobambini.github.io/gravity/internals/index.html) to arrive.
Personally I find this [0] extension useful when it comes to using SciHub.

And yes, it seems old domains are still working.

[0]: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/scihubs/jamkadfgfk...
Huh, this is the first time I've heard it suggested that putting all of your savings into a company is not bootstrapping. And to add some detail, it was $5k initially, then $50k when it was time to focus on growth.
Big thanks for the info, that was insightful.
I had the same experience in my teenage years. I also remember enjoying 'One Hand Clapping.'
Some countries let you pay taxes on liquidation, others demand to be paid on receiving something, despite it being impossible to liquidate. The USA is the second kind of country with AMT, and that is the fundamental problem.
Come on. You don't know the difference between needs and wants?
Undoubtedly the best set of games I've played in so long!

Really great stuff and mind-tinkling :)

Kudos
Agreed. Takes maybe a few hours to understand the terms.

BUT, most technical folks are very uninformed about investing and finance in general. Many brilliant engineers at my previous employers were utterly confused about their options as well as their decision making after IPO.

So I think the difficulty also stems from a lack of development in financial acumen generally.
Almost every company ever took two to three years to establish themselves. It's not all that incredible.

That simply distinguishes every successful business ever (with a few lucky exceptions) from the ones that failed because their owners gave up too early.

Two years is about a minimum that you should be prepared to dedicate to your newborn business if you are at all serious about it.

I've written a bit about this here:

https://jacquesmattheij.com/it-takes-three-years-to-build-a-...
Completely agreed. An interaction like that during or after an interview would be a big red flag that it's not a place I want to work.
AMT and the 90 day limit on exercising after leaving a company are the main things that make options painful. There has been some movement in the industry to get away from the 90 day limit (by converting from ISOs to NSOs), but has there been any recent attempts to get the AMT rules changed for ISOs? Does anyone think the current AMT rules for stock options are fair? I'm curious how this is viewed by people outside the industry.
What is the trap / bad part in Canada?
> We don't need to send any information to our service to protect you from bad sites because that is handled locally. The browser history already exists so the load on your machine is the same with or without Apozy. We use the headers to make it efficient for a large number of sites - 1M+

Okay so the local version is comparing the user's current page vs. the sites they've gone to prior? And if it seems off based on some heuristics it flags the page. Interesting idea.

Wouldn't work for me though as I have my browser set to nuke everything each time it's closed.

> Using the extension without opting in means you don't see site privacy grades but you're still protected using a Trust on First Use model of security created with your browsing history.

I originally thought it was just this piece which would need some type of client / server interaction to either fetch the "bad lists" or send the current URL/FQDN for validation.