skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Conversion is treated as a taxable event. If you claim the IP is worth $0 but sell it two days later for $10M, you're going to have problems.
I spent about well less than an hour getting an LLC registered in Oregon. All online too. Pretty impressed with the state for how smooth the process was.
One of my points. Hard (And dangerous) to pin things on genes with so many factors at play.
Right, and I was pointing out that your comment doesn't make much sense.
The line is Body Shop->Paint->Trim->Chassis->Final Vehicle.

Final Vehicle is concerned with testing and certification and whatever other finishing touches need to be performed. It also operates the repair department, and the 'yard' with all the defect jobs. Our yard was so packed the company was renting new yards away from the factory.

The repairmen who worked in the bays and yard were stone cold experts on the vehicles and they kept written logs. Those logs were typed up and put in the database by the office clerks. These were mostly signal. There were also networked terminals at some stations but not all down the line.

Finding the root cause of an issue was basically like git-bisect. You knew where a part was added and where it ended up. So you just needed to narrow it down. For a high priority issue, I'd go do a visual inspection myself at the mid station before a part got covered by another part. Broken? Go to the mid station between here and start. Not broken, go the other way. We got stumped sometimes, but mostly we could narrow it down pretty fast. For the workers, it's impossible to lose your job so there isn't a care factor about covering up shoddy workmanship.
Hmm, I'm normally against tipping, but now I'm wondering if this might be a solution to the problems with 5-star rating systems.

I've often thought that it would be better to have a simple thumb up/down for quality control and then a separate above-and-beyond option for recognising exceptional service, but that requires friction on the latter option to make it work properly. Initially I was thinking just requiring a minimum comment length would work, but having to tip e.g. $1 might be a good alternative to that.
Since you found the answer, why didn't you mention it? It's nice that you gave a citation, but that's a 100-page document that you linked to.

The answer is that if you are single and under 65, then you don't have to file a U.S. tax return if your gross income is less than $10,350.

(As usual with the IRS, nothing is simple. There are reasons you might be compelled to file anyway and possible benefits to file even if you were under the threshold. But you can still give the short answer of $10,350, and a link for the long answer.)
Some of those reviews don't pass the smell test

http://fakespot.com/product/authority-become-an-expert-build...
You can't? I thought there was a Crashplan plugin? (Also, even if you can't run it on BSD, couldn't you just setup a VirtualBox jail and run Crashplan on that?)
That's a good description of how some parts of the world work. It might even be a good description for how the US should work. It is not even remotely a good description of how the US does work.
There are restaurants that have tried, several in Brooklyn currently do. I guess we'll see how it all plays out.
You don't have to believe me, look at a crime map or read some statistics.

People who have a decent income and stability aren't likely to be driven to crimes of desperation, such as burglary and robbery (among many others), so even without statistics you can imagine why it would be true.

"Persons in poor households at or below the Federal Poverty Level (FPL) (39.8 per 1,000) had more than double the rate of violent victimization as persons in high-income households (16.9 per 1,000)."

https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:WrnC-F...

http://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/2161330...

This isn't my theory and it isn't new, so I'm not sure why you don't believe it.
In this case it wouldn't really matter. From a copyright perspective, he might as well as copy the source code line for line. Wouldn't matter if the guy created it on a desert island having never heard of the original game and claimed it all a coincidence. It still infringes the copyright in the character, story, graphics, etc. But if the game is shareware or the code is, then it's fair game.

Just like I can't reverse engineer a Harry Potter novel from watching the movies and claim immunity from copyright.

People using cleanrooms are not worried about copyright, they're worried (primarily) about violating NDAs or license agreements. They have to prove that the engineers figured out everything on their own. Especially important when the thing you're copying is from a company that you may have had NDAs or license agreements with in the past. Or employ engineers who may have worked at the competitor and have trade secret knowledge in their head. You may end up with similarities of implementation, but have the clean room logs to back up your story. Even a clean room won't protect you from patent infringement if you end up with an infringing technology.
Paragon?
PR Conversion Rate
That's honestly why I continue to use Uber despite all the negative press. They continue to hold the line against the excessive tipping culture in America and I want to support them for refusing to give in to pressure to add a tipping option to the app.

Any driver who aggressively solicits for tips automatically gets a low rating and a note from me.
Those are tip numbers reported by Square. Original reply was to comment about tipping at restaurants, not POS tips. I found 16.1% surprisingly high for Square tips, actually. But even then, 15% is below average.
tipping is a shady way of shifting the cost and more importantly the risk of employment onto the customer

über barely scrapes the minimum of a viable living for their drivers because they exploit the desperate.
Risk is one of the things that debt can represent, sometimes, but there can be debt that doesn't involve any risk, and there are risks that don't involve debt.

What's risky about using a credit card to buy a kayak?

And how does investing money you already have in small cap equities represent a debt?

I think for the vast majority of individuals just trying to make good personal finance decisions, "don't take on debt" is (on average) great advice.
20% is not the normal minimum in the US.

Edit: here are some supporting links.

15-20% suggested with 20%+ recognized as a minority opinion and for extra good service: http://www.cnn.com/2015/03/02/travel/experts-guide-to-tippin...

The highest tipping state averages 17% and the lowest averages 15%: https://qz.com/189458/the-united-states-of-tipping/
DNN Programmer
Buzz Aldrin says this is the problem with Elon Musk’s plans for Mars
But I presume that webassembly will allow a program to ship with its own managed environment. So you can have a .net program running within a CLR within webassembly.

The return of Silverlight! (which I welcome by the way)
Well, the article spends most of its time complaining about the ontology of modern physics, calling it "unclear" among other names.

That kind of rhetoric stands more as a testament to the author's lack of mathematical maturity than anything physically meaningful. Perhaps there's a good point here about the current state of pedagogy in physics these days.
ugh! I hate tweetstorms[1] I would love it if you could remove the redundant metadata surrounding each tweet except for the timestamp, so the whole thing reads like one continuous piece of text. You could even do a two-column layout and place the timestamp in the left column so the tweets become simple paragraphs with no metadata polluting it [2].

[1] https://twitter.com/vjk2005/status/805686306940579841

[2] rough mockup: https://twitter.com/vjk2005/status/842231336932802560
Not unless the city changes its tune on micro-trenching. It's not financially viable to dig up the street just to lay fiber for the last segment. At least, not for a small company like Sonic.

Some supervisors have recently proffered (again) plans for the city to lay fiber underground. Unrelated, there are also plans to move the existing aboveground utilities in the outer neighborhoods below ground. Both sound like a colossal waste of money unless paired with required work like sewer replacement. In any event, like the sewer work I can't see how the timeline would be any less than a decade or two. (If you Google news articles discussing plans to move utilities underground you can find cost estimates. Spoiler: it's unfathomably expensive!)

Aside from micro-trenching, I think the best hope would be FTTN/FTTC. But the holdup there are the NIMBYs worried about larger utility cabinets on sidewalks. And because AT&T isn't keen on competing with Sonic, who would also benefit from newer cabinets, they've put that work on the back burner. Like Comcast I think AT&T has decided to opportunistically improve their network. So, for example, I'm sure all those new buildings in SOMA are getting fiber. But if you're in an older neighborhood, theoretically they may never come; not with FTTH or FTTN.

There's an epic, multi-year thread discussing all of these San Francisco issues.

https://forums.sonic.net/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=1085

(Probably best to go to the last page and work backwards.) The CEO regularly answers questions there. But Sonic tries to keep secret from AT&T and Comcast the details of their expansion plans. You may not be able to get any answers to the most important question, especially if you're not in the Sunset or Richmond.
Expert.
I first read that as "pasteurized" - and was very confused ;)
I don't understand one point. Bakeries and petty shops are not the places where people sit or spend more than a few minutes. Even if you were to,you are busy grabbing a coffee or a cigarette. Even though the number of people is very high, I dont see myself going to a petty shop ,buying a token and using the internet.Would love to know your counter.
I know it's easy to dismiss it but wasm will be th e biggest deal in the world.
> How is it easiest?

Raw meat, eggs, and such are very easy to cook and make delicious.

Tofu is already highly processed, and beans require a length cooking time. By any definition of the word, animal protein is less time consuming to make more delicious than plant protein.
What's the problem with running a CLR within webassembly?
It's not just Uber -- I've seen tip jars out in Australian food stalls with signs exhorting patrons to tip.

I like not having to tip, too, but it's like the Prisoner's Dilemma: once somebody starts successfully collecting tips, everybody else feels pressure to ask for them and then the whole economy adjusts to accommodate them. That's how I think we got where we are.
Binary search :)
I love your way of thinking. Assuming proper waterproofing, hiding it underwater would be the most unexpected thing you could do. I'm a smart guy and that thought hadn't occurred to me, even if I only dedicated 3 minutes of my time to the process. The majority of people would naturally assume it's on land; to place it in the water automatically ruins the consensus assumption.
Having worked for some charities, there's sausage being made there too. Just like the government has spots of greater than free market efficiency.

I don't think one or the other is strictly better. You point at corruption and waste wherever you find it, then you work to make it less.
It's not normal to tip for takeout, but if you want to, 10% is the standard tip as opposed to 15% for table service. But again, a takeout tip is not expected, especially for a simple order.
> This is simply not true

How could you possibly know this?
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Thanks for the summary. I had found that forum thread, but have no desire to read 100+ pages.
> Why do we need to eat like them?

You're shifting the argument. The point isn't that we need to eat like them, it's that we want to, and meat is delicious.

> The amount of protein in seeds, tofu, seitan, nuts, legumes is plenty for almost anyone.

By that logic, there'd be no point in manufacturing sports cars or macbook pros anymore, because normal cars and Chromebooks have enough power for "almost anyone".
Not to mention the numerous results from Google SketchUp and Autodesk SketchBook that popup when you're searching for "sketch <help-me-with-something>"
Huge scale is what FaunaDB On-Premises is for; the pricing model is different. That's what NVIDIA uses for example. Nevertheless, we will have volume discounts and reserved capacity in Cloud too.

I see where you're coming from. People make the same argument against using cloud services at all when you can buy hardware yourself and operate it. The lack of flexibility is the hidden cost.

Our cloud pricing is competitive with other vendors, most of which require you to massively over-provision in order to get high availability, especially global availability, as well as predictable performance. In traditional cloud databases, you have to provision for peak load. Usually this is an order of magnitude difference from average load. An order of magnitude difference happens to matches your Spanner example exactly; however with Spanner, you still have to manage your capacity "by hand".

Architecture docs are on the way.
What’s Apple’s next chapter in podcasting?
Uber should pay that and it should be priced into the model. If the market is unwilling to pay then it should go under
Ignoring the holes in your historical retelling of events, these examples do not fit my criteria as all three listed benefited from outside support from large powers (India::Russia/Britain, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia::China, and Egypt::Russia/USA). As such, my point still stands...
I drove for Uber in a resort town and was appalled by how difficult it was to make any money at it even though I was paid twice the metro rates. The biggest problem is all the unpaid work and investment Uber drivers have to make just to drive for Uber and then Uber takes a huge cut.

There are a lot of sunken costs involved in becoming an Uber driver. The driver then has to recover those costs with miserable earnings. I suspect the burn rate of Uber drivers is unsustainably high.
Why Today’s Tech Themes Are Poor Predictors of Tomorrow’s Hot Startups
Companies Try to Boost Productivity by Micromanaging Seating Arrangements (2013)
> Lately? Have you read what I linked? From day 1, Uber has been of utmost evil. This is not new.

My point is that the average user of the Uber app is not aware of any of this. They were likely recommended the app by a friend or read a vaguely fawning article in a magazine, or saw an ad online.

So it's not fair to say every Uber user endorses their behaviour. They don't know about it.
People always say this, but nobody can ever point to a solid example. Do you have hard numbers that government social programs are less efficient than charity?
Do you know anyone who actually works in food service? I do, and they'd be pissed if everyone skimped with a 15% tip. It's 20% for adequate service, 25% for excellent.
> It still infringes the copyright in the character, story, graphics, etc. But if the game is shareware or the code is, then it's fair game.

What? No, I'm talking about the engine, not any of the art/text/music. I'm assuming that someone would purchase the game and basically replace the main program binary; the replacement engine would use the original, copyrighted game assets, but would never be distributed along with the engine.

> Even a clean room won't protect you from patent infringement if you end up with an infringing technology.

That ought to be safe, with the game that the post is about.
Whoa, that was much more effective than I thought it was going to be. The first impression from the tool sidebar is overwhelming, but patterns quickly emerge and you can pick up speed fast.

It's very satisfying to see layouts "just work" through the application of one or two simple but descriptive commands.
I have not noticed any overall service problems in Korea, Japan, or China.
Government spends money with more accountability and with more efficacy than charities do.
Any high end cut of meat (dry aged ribeye, tuna belly) is orders of magnitude harder to make realistic than low end meat.

With high end stuff, you're really catering to the connoisseur. And if you can tell the difference between a dry-aged ribeye and a wet-aged ribeye, think about making a lab grown substitute for that level of discernment.

In fact, I read somewhere that the reason California rolls were invented was because somebody noticed that avocados have roughly the same fat content and mouthfeel as tuna belly, and was swapped in.
There's a FreeBSD port for CrashPlan using Linux compatibility, can that be used?

https://www.freshports.org/sysutils/linux-crashplan/
When I was in LA recently I was tipping 15% for good service. Hope the waiters can make rent! /s
Tons of Charities pay their CEOs a shit ton of money. Boy Scouts CEO made 1.6 million as of 2010. I think it was Operation Smile that paid theirs over a million as well.
Hey now, hey now.

There are all sorts of questions that we don't even know how to postulate rigorously, the question of consciousness being but one example.

Others smarter than I have commented on the symbiosis between science and philosophy, that once we learn how to precisely formulate a question it becomes science. Before then, it's philosophy.

In my experience, a huge part of the battle in truth seeking is simply folding the right questions to ask.
It also makes it easier to service your car. If you own a Tesla and need warranty service, and you live in middle America, you may have a long drive ahead of you. If you own a Chevy, it's rarely a problem.
At his price point, he'll probably get a continual trickle of customers. I sell a book called "Rebuilding Rails" -- not as successful as his, but I've also made a few tens of thousands of dollars, so not nothing. And I reliably make a few more thousands of dollars yearly, years after I wrote it.

After Ruby is a "hot" language (years ago), it becomes a legacy language where companies will pay money for assistance with their products. In the $10-$15 niche, you need individual engineers to think a language is neat. In the $40-$10,000 niches, you need companies to think they can save some engineering time.

Both can be very valuable.
It's also not very convincing as a meat substitute, IMO. There's something about the texture that's off. This is regarding their chicken strips - maybe their burgers are better.
There are already talks about compiling Go to wasm: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/18892
oooh, it's like agile, but lightweight.
> This is what drives me crazy about vegans.

Do you think all vegans are the same? There is no need to make a huge generalization about a group that is so diverse.

> The protein IS higher quality, easier to digest and more balanced

I've never seen anyone claim that meat is easier to digest than plants. Do you have a source?

In terms of quality, you first need to define quality and that depends on your goals. Whole plant protein comes packed with fiber, while animal protein comes packed with cholesterol, IGF-1 and saturated fat. If your goal is to prevent heart disease and cancer through dietary means, plant protein is higher quality.

> Eating nutritional yeast and balancing your legumes, tofu and other protein sources to get a proper assortment of B vitamins and amino acids IS harder.

This statement makes it clear that you don't know much about vegan diets. This is usually a concern I hear from pre-vegans or people who have been vegan for 2 weeks.

> not saying anything except it IS easier. Stop lying.
If I was ever worried about getting all 9 essential amino acids in a single meal (believe me, most vegans don't think about it), I would eat beans and rice, or lentils and potatoes, or edamame, or tempeh, or quinoa, or hummus and crackers, or a peanut butter sandwich, or tofu. For me, this is a lot easier (and cheaper) than preparing meat.

If you've been eating meat for 20 years, it will be easier for you to keep eating meat, no one is disputing that.

Now, eating out is definitely harder as a vegan, but like the parent said, it's because the way society is currently setup, not because meat is easier to produce.
Yep. For whatever reason, charging $50 for a restaurant outing and expecting a $10 tip gets perceived as being a better deal than a restaurant that charges $60 and does not allow tipping.
Ideas on interpreting machine learning
The Bolt is not a crossover SUV. It's a compact hatchback car with low ride height.
Please don't insinuate that someone hasn't read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions that."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13882117 and marked it off-topic.
I'm going to second aerovistae. I think there are plenty of glaring differences between Uber and Tesla that make your comparison just amount to throwing shade:

1. First, I haven't heard many people argue that they think Musk's end state isn't viable. That is, Musk has already proven you can build a great electric car, the question is just whether he can solve the production issues and scale up (especially battery production) fast enough before he runs out of money. But if he does get there before he runs out of money, people agree he will have huge moats around his business with his technology, brand desirability and the gigafactory. Contrast this with Uber, where a lot of people think that in the end state (when VC money stops subsidizing every ride) that it will essentially be a commodity business with very poor economic fundamentals.

2. Uber has had story after story of fundamental problems with their corporate culture, while everything I've read about Tesla appears to be almost the exact opposite.
Why Racket? Why Lisp?

http://practicaltypography.com/why-racket-why-lisp.html
"Rule #1. Don't ever leave the car and setoff overland."

Rule #1 applies equally to desert conditions as well. Shade, potential water and source of things to burn to signal for help.
Relevant reddit https://www.reddit.com/r/Showerthoughts/comments/5zncj2/all_...
This is hilarious, and sad. What a broken system.
I got a raise of around $30,000 as a result (ish, hard to measure) of writing my technical book. I'm also sufficiently well-known that I'm unlikely to ever have trouble getting a Ruby job. That's hard to quantify exactly, but I think it's fair to say it's worth $5,000-$10,000 annually, as a rough equivalent.

(My book sells for around $30-$40 rather than $15, but the math is similar.)
Ask HN: Where can I learn about the latest in IT infrastructure?
Stuff like this probably isn't the most common, but I'd love to start digging around topics like storage, networking, security, etc. enough to understand why the work of the startups in the space is important.

Are there any recommended readings, sites, books, communities that are recommended?
JS is not to everyone's taste. And certainly not to mine. In the line of business world, there would be a huge value added being able to use the browser as a distribution mechanism for what are effectively desktop apps, developped in a high level but statically typed language like VB, C# or Java.

I don't think downloading the app everytime is a big deal on an intranet/local wifi. Also with things like the core CLR, the assemblies should be smaller.
McDonald's gives mobile ordering a try
I didn't read anywhere in there where he says don't do what he did.

He lived his life the way he wanted to, there were some rough times. Now he has a family, different priorities and resources, so is taking those into account but still generally living the same way.

My tl;dr would be "I was always in debt when I was young. Now I have a bit of money and prioritize those I care about, but after that's funded I'd rather have great experiences than a larger bank account."
There are tip jars, but there's no expectation to tip (at least in Sydney), it's just a thing if you're feeling generous that day.