skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
'Whether or not there a separate disclosure about a specific transaction (including its price and form of consideration) depends on the size of the acquisition relative to the size of the company and whether the acquisition is "material." Accounting rules define "materiality" in an intentionally broad way. From FASB Statement of Concepts #2:

The omission or misstatement of an item in a ﬁnancial report is material if, in the light of surrounding circumstances, the magnitude of the item is such that it is probable that the judgment of a reasonable person relying upon the report would have been changed or inﬂuenced by the inclusion or correction of the item.

In practice, a company's auditors will set a materiality threshold based on a company's revenue, assets, and net income. Thus, big companies can make small acquisitions without disclosing much.'

from https://www.quora.com/For-a-public-company-when-does-the-siz...
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> were... implanted by God to waylay followers without enough faith and basically confuse us?

To give you free will. The free will to believe in God or not believe is the most fundamental free will there is.

If there is incontrovertible proof of God then there is no free will.

Judaism does NOT believe there is proof the earth is only 6000 years old (i.e. young earth creationism has never been part of Judaism).

The Earth is both 6000 years old and billions of years old. (And I mean real years, no semantic games on the meaning of "year".)
If I were to make a computer analogy, I would probably say that Tesla in having to deliver the Model 3, is right at the point IBM was when they were finishing up the IBM 360 series: it will be a make or break product release for them.

http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/ibm100/us/en/icons/system3...

quote from Thomas J Watson Jr.:

“The expense of the project was indeed staggering. We spent three quarters of a billion dollars just on engineering. Then we invested another $4.5 billion on factories, equipment and the rental machines themselves. It was the biggest privately financed commercial project ever undertaken.”"

(note $5 Billion number was in 1964, inflation-adjusted, that is many billions more)
dpkg might not show it. Struts can be bundled in any java application and you'd never know.
Andreessen Horowitz backs San Mateo bike-sharing startup
Indeed. Even execution slippage is greater than brokerage fees for a reasonable sized round-trip trade at a discount broker.
Idk. I worked at MS during the period being discussed, and it felt pretty toxic to me. Maybe its just that no one listened/cared back then... Having gone to HR, I can attest they cared as little about harassment then as Uber is displaying now.

What's interesting to me is that people seem so surprised with the level of toxicity in the software environment for women. Uber didn't happen in a vacuum. That behavior accumulates over time via interactions with hundreds of different companies. And thousands of HR reports that have been ignored. All of which have brought us to this point.

HR hasn't cared enough to stop it ever. At any company I've worked at. Brutal assessment, but spoken from a place of real experience.
Though I'm a meat eater, I have a strong suspicion that the arrival of high-quality meat alternatives will cause a societal shift away from eating meat to the point where it would become rare. As it is, giving up meat is a huge decline in quality of life and its easy to rationalize meat consumption.

It needs to be actually comparable in quality and the price needs to come way down though first. It's easy to imagine a future where the _best_ meat is actually grown in this way and is nonetheless cheaper than more environmentally friendly than raising animals.

And of course, then it becomes possible to build meats that correspond to no actual animal
Skimmming is definitely not a bad thing.
I have a bit of confirmation bias here.

I never found most hip-hop lyrics being so deep that hey need some annotations for explanation.

Then it felt like very far fetched to me that people who considered annotating hip-hop lyrics now want to "annotate the world".

And now they can't live up to their promises, which perfectly fits in my, probably wrong, model of hip-hop culture in general.
It seems a great pity that the US doesn't have a dividend imputation system.
Also, seemed like the Chicken was fried. Everything tastes great when it is fried.
Is the company "brilliantly managed" because they still exist? What is an example of this management brilliance? At this point, all the company has proven is that it is able to convince investors to give it money. I see a bloated company with over 100 underpaid junior-level engineers putting out subpar software.

The radical transparency may be a fun experiment and it may provide a lot of interesting data to parse, but it's not a good way to run a real company. It screams of impractical idealism. A lot of companies are bad, but GitLab wants to make sure that you know they're bad from a distance. In theory this is all great and nice. In practice, it hurts the company in both commerce and recruiting.
you can't say that and also have 'ACID consistency' on your home page.
It looks very cool! How does it compare to Commander Genius? http://clonekeenplus.sourceforge.net
They aren't being criticized for writing an electron app. The criticism is that they've written something that should be lightweight but isn't. Further, it probably is not useful unless it is lightweight.
Ha, that's great!
OK, you're right that he wrote the example incorrectly (mine was a copy-and-paste from his). The point still stands though.

> "Smartcast to Int is impossible because value is a mutable property that could have been changed by this time". Right you are.

I disagree. It cannot have been changed by that time, not unless it was changed in another thread, and it would be really, really nice for a language to have built-in threading intelligence to prevent that from being necessary to check. That's what I'm saying. TypeScript is single-threaded, so it can be certain that another thread hasn't changed it. Go is multithreaded, but except for genuine globals (which need to be protected by a mutex, but shouldn't be used for just about anything) you're piping information from one state to another, which again doesn't have a synchronization problem.

If you have to manually mark a variable as "safe" every time you use it, you're just going to need to do that constantly for lots of variables. And you still are stuck getting the thread safety right: The above code isn't safe if something from another thread can change value. Which I guess is the point of the exclamation points, but ... somehow I prefer the Rust approach of "Mark this block of code as unsafe." Not that I've used either language.

The fact that it works correctly as a parameter, though -- that does hit the 80% case, at least.
SV VC-funded startup that began in TX as an LLC and transitioned to DE C Corp. Working fine for us (so far). We started as a TX LLC pre-funding, which worked fine and was easy for our purposes. Only 3 employees (2x 50/50 co-founders paying engineer out of pocket 50/50).

When we started getting term sheets, the big law firms for general counsel were willing to take us on under the expectation we pay them back until we closed our Seed Round. They helped to structure the DE C-Corp, transfer everything to the LLC, and directed me on all the paperwork that needed to be filed.

Winding down the LLC was easy, but you just need a controller/accountant to help you close the books properly and file the paperwork.

If you intend to go this route, my only major recommendation is to pick a name that is different/slightly different than what you ultimately want the company to be called. We ran into naming conflicts, which was an unnecessary PITA.

Second side-piece of advice: ask the general counsel to give you a fixed-cap cost for closing the round. We got stuck in some licensing negotiations as part of the close, which made things way more expensive than they should have been.
What vehicle that Tesla produces is most similar to the bolt? Tesla produces high end luxury cars. The Chevrolet bolt is not that.
Who Is Karim Baratov, the Alleged Canadian Yahoo Hacker
Study finds group meditation reduces drug-related deaths in general population
snapshot time as in wall clock time? What is the time source?
NVME M.2 Bandwidth Tests
How is it a huge decline in quality of life?
I think so but we are going to run the cost regressions again and make sure it's in line with market.
I feel a little bad contributing to such a very off-topic thread, but...

I'm familiar with how compensation is determined at Mozilla, and we use something similar but with different inputs. GitLab seems to be using rents as their determiner with New York as a baseline, which means way underpaying people in most markets. If they adjusted those numbers by the average percentage of income applied to rent (I believe a readily available number) then the numbers might be more reasonable.

At Mozilla we have a smaller number of regions, I think it's each nation plus three tiers in the U.S.: Bay Area/New York, Chicago/Seattle (not sure what all is in this bucket), and the rest of the country. Then we get data from some company that provides us with market rates for different given titles. We target salaries at the top 25th percentile (not a 25% bump like GitLab).

So given a title, people's compensation is figured as somewhere between 0.8x and 1.2x that market rate, depending where you are in your career. Each level bump is about 1.2x the previous level. So typically you might enter a Senior Engineer role at maybe 0.85x the compensation, and as you grow into the role you get to 1.0, and as you are approaching the next level you get into the 1.1s.

I think it's a pretty fair process. Especially internationally you can't relate salaries to each other well given different labor laws and taxes. Assuming our input numbers are right, our compensation is by definition competitive across markets – though in practice all sorts of weird things can happen over an employment history, like when a person moves.

All that said, it's clear we get a better value from people in cheaper markets, even while those people in practice also get a better value in terms of compensation. So far that hasn't been met with any adjustment in compensation, but instead some acknowledgement of the dynamic during recruitment.
As someone who grew up and lives in Manitoba, some of this rings false. The temperature was described as -35F (-34C). People that wander away from their cars inadequately dressed for that sort of condition only technically die of hypothermia. They mostly die of the complications of having their extremities frozen. They don't tend to have enough time to go though the stages of hypothermia. There would be no time to drift off to crazy land, they would know things were going wrong right away.

In the same vein, if they don't have a scarf or other face protection (which for some reason was the case for the skier in the article) and there was any wind they will immediately freeze their face. This can take less than a minute. This is incredibly painful and could be expected to cause pretty much anyone to get back in the car.
On one hand, I can see that too. On the other, it would be cool to have the Keen games as an option on something like a little ARM computer, and if what the other commenter said is true, and the game's just blitting a bitmap into a texture and displaying that, there are plenty of libraries to let you do that, while providing a number of different backends. Let the library figure out the actual API to use.

On the third hand...it would probably be super-simple to just port the thing to SDL2. And that might be a fun, short project =)
It was an exercise in creative problem solving. I'd query the data to find out where on the line the most (costly x incidence) problems were occurring and then devise a solution. If a worker was scratching the paint every time he put his tool down the secure a fastener, we'd get a heavy rubber guard fabricated, change his man assignment and have him put down the guard before he did his little peice, or even better change the tool if that was possible. If you are curious, yes there were workers who would damage the vehicle every time and let it go to rework. Don't even get me started on labor. :)
Hire entry level and train them. Have a kick ass culture so they want to stay. Preposterous I know. I've seen it once. In reality, job hoppers are the minority I've found.
I think they missed Google's launch of Spanner their distributed strongly consistent DB.
When you stop doing what you like/love, it's a huge decline in quality of life.
You're absolutely right on the pricing and go to market strategy.

The regulatory frameworks are still up in the air. I know from having attending the 1st and 2nd Cultured Meat Symposiums in Maastricht that both the USDA and the FDA are looking at clean meat. While both agencies seem pretty open and friendly towards it, they unfortunately both think they should be the one to regulate it :-)
Azure WebSites are dependent on Azure Storage and our application has been restarting all day long. Our customers are not happy. I find it interesting that they are just now admitting to this issue. Does anyone else have major issues with Azure or is it just us? It's not just today, this occurs on a weekly basis. I would guess we have random app restarts at least twice per week. Every time we reach out to MS, they say "sorry, Azure storage reset"... whatever that means.

Our internal logging indicates our server has restarted 9 Times in the past 24 hours.

4:13AM, 4:14AM, 4:15AM, 4:35AM, 10:05AM, 1:15PM, 6:09PM, 9:11PM, and 11:33PM - all UTC.
From a "math perspective," the equals sign is a statement, not an expression. It is asserting the state of something. In programming, we're not 'stating' that `a = b = c = 2`, we are performing an operation to make it happen. This is why in some early languages the assignment operator was `:=` and the comparison operator was `=`.
It seems like one of the big issues with the marketing copy here is some of the word tricks being played:

Any first-read of "The first serverless database" has the implication that the database is serverless. Comments from FaunaDB folks in this comment page clearly indicate that they mean is that it's the first database for serverless, which is a pretty bold claim, given Google and AWS and any number of other providers offer databases that are accessible from serverless things, so it essentially boils down to "The first database that's marketed specifically to serverless use cases", which is maybe true but also kindof not a useful trophy to put on the mantle?

This is further muddled by the blog post linked to from the launch announcement (https://fauna.com/blog/escape-the-cloud-database-trap-with-s...), which includes "FaunaDB Serverless Cloud is an adaptive, serverless database". Nobody is reading that and thinking "ah, an adaptive database for serverless apps".

To describe it as "The first active-active multi-cloud database", is possibly true if you mean "the first time a single company has sold a publicly-available database-as-a-service running on multiple cloud providers". But the text says "database" where "public database-as-a-service" would be the accurate term, leaving the reader with the impression that no existing databases can be set up on multiple cloud providers in an active-active HA config, which is absurd. Fixing the copy here should be pretty easy, and they're already headed in the right direction with the next bullet point, although it as well refers to "database" where it means "database-as-a-service".

It feels like somebody on marketing really wanted to have a list of firsts, so they toyed with definitions of words until they thought they could flex these into being technically accurate. I get the same feel from the closing argument in the linked blog post: "The query language, data model (including graphs and change feeds), security features, strong consistency, scalability and performance are best in class. There is no downside.". I don't think I want to trust a database if the folks designing it couldn't think of any downsides.
The big difference is that we use a logical clock and batches of operations so that we aren't dependent on atomic clocks. We also have a different API style, and plan to run on all the major cloud providers. You'll be able to do consistent operations visible to application code running in different providers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZQMdlNOMew
I absolutely love Musk and the idea of Telsa. Hell, I would love to get me a Model S, if I could.

But I completely agree with you. I think the Model 3 will end up costing way more that $35k, to turn a profit. The timeline will slip and it won't come out until 2018. The whole solar city deal was premature.

I think Musk knows this isn't going to work, at least for a while. I think he knows Telsa is going to have a more expensive Model 3 and they're going to bleed cash. Telsa will lose money on every sale of the Model 3. I bet money, he plans to ride the stock for the next 5 years until they can get things turned around.
This is great news. It's great that the bigger players in container runtimes are working together more, it makes me hopeful for the future. This is great for users and developers.
Does spaCy have a C# .NET wrapper, or can it be used from other languages/frameworks through a REST API?

I'm using the CoreNLP C# wrapper, so I'm wondering if something similar (.NET Core compatible) is available/doable for spaCy?
LLCs can grant equity just fine. Please don't spread FUD.
Newly Formed Rakuten AirMap, Inc. Shakes Up Japanese Drone Industry
Reverse Culture Shock
Safari has been doing something like this since Mavericks. Any idea how it compares?
Yes. This is what most people do. The C Corp making no profits with no employees is a total waste.
Federal judge in Hawaii freezes President Trump’s new travel ban
I also forgot to tag this as (2015)
Any feed backs are welcome !
posting to watch. I know similar services on the old continent but there's no point in startupping in europe, it's just a mess all-around
Like changing 80% of all meals to something less desired?

"huge" is debatable, but certainly a valid standpoint. In any way: there are pros and cons and everyone should weigh them against each other: health, price, animal cruelty, taste etc.

My compromise e.g. is non strict (and hopefully non dogmatic) vegetarian with preferably organic diary products.
You are assuming that the database is being directly accessed from the end user. If the database is being accessed from within an application running in a datacenter, then you only need a database in that datacenter.

2.8 ms to access data within a datacenter is both good and believable. And if I'm building an application, it is a latency figure that matters to me a lot.
I don't agree that all orthodox jews subscribe to it, although I do agree that it's a commonly held belief.

The universal values held by Orthodox Jews are the articles of faith of Maimonides ("Rambam")[1], which are included in regular prayers. Maimonides is, as a result, extremely well regarded among Orthodox Jews as a source of values.

Maimonides took the position that Genesis (Bereishis) was to be considered allegorical when its plain reading conflicted with science[2]. This was a source of debate among his contemporaries, and it's uncontroversially the case that he strongly believed this.

As a former Orthodox Jew, I don't think that Orthodox Jews are doing themselves any favors by teaching their children that if they believe that the Torah is not in conflict with science, they are violating basic, universal Orthodox values when Maimonides disagrees with that point of view.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maimonides#The_13_principles_o...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegorical_interpretations_of...
It doesn't take much investigation to start seeing problems, or to see major lapses in engineering from both a concrete (e.g., bugs) and a process (e.g., data loss) perspective. The data loss event that made it clear that GitLab a) never tested its backups b) didn't have a real monitoring/alarming system to inform its employees when things broke c) did not have processes enforcing clear separation between production environments and d) did not know how to configure a PostgreSQL cluster, among many other basic flaws, is just one recent example. The postmortem for that event included the accidental disclosure of a serious DoS exploit, itself the symptom of poor engineering practice (hard-deleting all content flagged as spam, making it impossible to redeem erroneously targeted content; a user could maliciously trigger such deletes with minor effort), which was live on the site until a couple of hours after that disclosure was discussed on HN. As I understand the ticket explaining this, the entire spam cleanup system was shut off until they could teach it not to hard delete anymore. Many other junior-level mistakes are regularly discovered and discussed, both on their bug tracker and elsewhere.

Other than that, GitLab is a beast to install and navigate and it requires a lot of resources. Rails is slow. The UI is weird (frequently end up not finding the repo I want due to the way the "trending" tab works). There are other issues. I'm not a GitLab contributor so I don't really have more technical detail, I just use it sometimes.

It seems like you're just assuming they're a great company with a well-engineered product because you like the corporate image they project.

I don't know of anything about them that makes either themselves or their product "amazing". It is somewhat usable, which is good; I'm not trying to besmirch the earnest efforts of people to make something that works, and indeed there are some uses for something like GitLab. That doesn't mean that GitLab is "amazing" or that their product is flawless or even good.

The most exciting thing about GitLab to me is remotely distributed teams, which I usually love seeing, but I think they've gone about it all wrong.
Exactly!

If you owe a bank $10MM and you default on the loan, you have a problem.

If you owe a bank $10BB and you default on the loan, the bank has a problem.
I gave up animal products and found a pretty good increase in quality of life.

It happened when other changes were occuring in my life, but I lost weight, hung out with other vegans, felt better overall.

It can really depend on when you live, but being vegan in most US metropolitan areas is pretty easy these days.

As for lab meats, they're great and I'm generally for them, but acting like we don't have viable other solutions is a bit silly. Lentils, beans, nuts, seeds, seitan, tofu, all great sources of protein.
> Yes, it's like with JavaScript itself, it had some issues in the past, all the big issues were resolved but the stigma is still there.

Honest question, because I use Javascript just infrequently enough to have to look this up every time (and it's possible the reported solutions are old), is there a good concise universal way (or two, at most) to determine the type of the variable I may have? It seems it's always a tossup between typeof, instanceof, == null and == undefined, and to my eyes that's way too many.
Tesla caters to specific high-end market, which it dominates by far. Many also tried to copy the iphone and ipod but also failed