skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are all sorts of reasons to use an expander after compression/limiting:

https://www.gearslutz.com/board/so-much-gear-so-little-time/...
MongoDB now available on ODS
Yep. For me it was running instances that didn't respond to requests to delete or stop. They kept charging anyway.

Support was somebody in a different timezone who complained when I didn't answer my phone in the middle of the night. I quite liked the Google Cloud offering, but to get so burnt so quickly... stay away.
Zoos had quite big success at breeding back THE African wild dog.
Use a vesting schedule, so you keep equity but your other founders effectively dilute you depending on how much work they do and for how long. So you wouldn't get to sell anything just keep your equity in a fair way.
Yes, 10% is fair, but it's also fair to be diluted down by the other founders in the future.

Experienced founders also have vesting periods. It entices founders to stay, and is a fair way to value a founder's work when they leave. Typical 4 years with major events triggering a full vest.

$500k raise doesn't qualify here.

Each partner in your case is 1/3, presumably you are all considering yourselves at the same market rate, so your time spent is the same.

If you were to have done a 4 year vest, you would be getting 1/3rd of your shares at 16 months.

It's fair for you to receive 1/3rd of the current 33% of shares which is even more than 10% today. However, expect to be diluted down as the vesting for the other partners continues.

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Here's another way to look at it without retroactively creating a vesting schedule.

Each of you have contributed to 1/3 of the business, entitling you to 1/3rd now. Going forward, the remaining founders will be incentivized to stay by having new shares allocated to them.

Say, in 16 more months, the number of shares allocated will be double what it is today, and split between the two remaining founders. Your size goes down, but in proportion to the value that you are no longer creating on the business.

In this scenario, you need to work out that future allocation before you finish the 500k raise.
Whenever we'd talk girls, if I suggested someone who wasn't a Brahmin, first they'd look at me as if I were asking them to date livestock, then they'd tell me they only date Brahmin girls.
I did not think of this until reading this thread, but the practice of leasing may be driving the longevity of modern cars, which is in stark contrast to what is happening with domestic appliances. Somewhat paradoxically, the leasing model seems to benefit from a robust used-car market.
Depends on whether it is OTC options versus a more bespoke product, but in general, counterparty risk is something which investors have more or less appetite for. If you're engaged with OTC options via the Options Clearinghouse Corporation, you're engaged in a system with "approximately but not exactly zero" appetite for counterparty risk.

If you're e.g. the sovereign wealth fund of Saudi Arabia and you call up Goldman Sachs and say "Make me a market in naked puts on Citi, at-the-money, with expiry in a year; I'm thinking about a billion dollars worth", I give you excellent odds on them being able to put that trade together for you. I mean, it will cost you a lot of money, but Saudi Arabia doesn't call Goldman Sachs up and expect it to not cost them a lot of money, now do they.
I have been using Mercurial for some years now and before that was on Git. Github used to be one of our remote repositories. The thing that Git excels is feature/bug-fix branches, which can literally be considered throw away branches. You work on one or more feature branches, independently and then submit a review request (github is just one option) and then have it merged against the actual release branch - all this without polluting the history of the release branch or without juggling with too many complex version control commands/tricks. Github wrapped around a lot of end user tooling around this concept (pull requests for example) and showed to the world how easy it is to accomplish this level of "parallel" feature work or bug fixing.

Coming to Mercurial, now that I have been using it for more than a couple of years, my experience is that, this workflow (which is now considered standard and well known through git and github) isn't possible to achieve. Mercurial's concept of branching doesn't fit into this scheme of things. They stamp each commit with a branch id and there's no way to erase that which effectively leads to a lot of issues if github has to support the model that I mentioned above - a model which is well known and popular at github. Mercurial recommends bookmarks for cases like these, which based on my experience and some of the discussions in mercurial dev list, doesn't work either. I hear they are working on a "evolve" plugin in Mercurial to sort out some of these issues. But overall, it's still very complex and requires a deep understanding of the mercurial concepts/commands to achieve what can be achieved in git pretty easily.

Given all this, I personally don't think it adds much value for github to support mercurial in such a way that the workflows remain (almost) the same irrespective of what underlying version control system you use.
This is a fine-edged and very delicate situation. That is why I encouraged the OP to seek legal guidance. The first step isn't to call in the government, but to gain access to advocates that can work with his/her family to separate fact from fiction.

With outside counsel (legal, psychological, or both) involved, if the OP has misunderstood the nature of the family members' relationships, it will be revealed. On the other hand, if the situation is abusive, having an objective third party there for support and advice will be extremely important.

I am not trying to downplay the emotional difficulties present here. Fearing that you may alienate portions of your family is entirely understandable. But not acting means you are complicit.

If you see someone who is in trouble and who needs help, face your fears and work to build the support structures that will return to them their "voice" and personal agency going forward.
I have seen studies go in both ways, depending on which costs they include or not
> It was extremely hard to write this article for fear of being looked down upon for our mistakes. I can only hope that some of you may learn from our embarrassing mistakes and implement solutions to the growing problem of service trap.

Kudos for writing it down. This kind of cautionary articles are very valuable and much needed.

Moreover, getting to front page of HN is one of the very few ways to have your case resolved by some googler accidentally passing by - hopefully someone will help the guys.
I already reviewed code delivered by several European consulting companies with worse quality than many Indian IT firms, including those on the article.

The sad reality is that the way software is delivered at enterprise level, there is hardly any company that can be shown as example of excellence.

Only price and the output of applications matter, not how they are running inside.
My grandfather had a stroke two weeks ago. It affected 3/4 of the left side of his brain, which means he couldn't speak (except for 'shit', 'god damn', 'yes/no') and couldn't swallow. Or walk, obviously.

He told us repeatedly while he was alive that he didn't want to be put in a home. He wanted to cut his grass, feed the birds and be left alone - and after the stroke there was no way he could do that. We respected his wishes and opted out of the feeding tube, but he essentially starved to death. No fluids, no food for two weeks. Those two weeks burnt up all of his savings.

Everyone in my family agrees that it'd be better if assisted suicide were legal. No starving, no pain - just a nitrogen mask, and you don't even know you're dying.

Frankly, I find your 'older-and-wiser' posturing disgusting. Obviously it should be their choice, but today it's not their choice - the government says they must suffer and starve to death.

edit for less meanness
Tom Scott yesterday made a video for laypeople on the topic of 'black box' machine learning and how it can be difficult to get it to behave as you want, too.[0]

It's an interesting watch - I'd recommend it if you're interested in learning about it.

(Heck, I'd recommend the channel. Tom does some great videos on a number of different topics.)

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSpAWkQLlgM
Ask HN: How do you use Scala?
Chelsea Manning released from prison
Many European cities of such sizes already do have subways.
From the article:

>Always heavily consider open source alternatives (something which didn’t exist for Firebase at the time… but now alternatives like Horizon and Backendless exist, for example.
That's a good one. Is there a source, or is it just a folk saying?
Exactly the same experience for me. It's so much faster, more convenient and useful, and the migration tool was a breeze to use, I should have done it years ago.
How come the optimizer doesn't figure out theIntDist is constant if it's declared outside the loop? Given that the function is templated, it should have access to its internals, and so have all the information needed to do constant propagation, no?
...And kind of Samsung DeX.
For your core argument to hold, terminating a process would have to lead to software with fewer bugs than software that that can report and recover from bugs. I don't see how that would be the case.

Second, you did not address my main argument, that anybody (including you, your code's customers/users, etc.) would be very annoyed if our software were to crash on every remaining issue in our programs. And that argument goes as far as that the behavior you suggest could lead to us not using that service, software, OS, or even computers as a whole.
Sticking with my dedicated, almost went to GAE.. thanks for post.
Investigate SRV records for load balancers as well.
Wasn't the fact that Microsoft began charging per processor, one of the reasons the antitrust lawsuit against it started?

But these days Microsoft is also beginning to exclude third-party browsers from its store, so I guess they don't care they're repeating the same violations all over again. Too much money on the line, when the worst case scenario is a slap on the wrist financially and some "monitoring" by federal agencies.
> I'm obsessive about minimalist set ups and having a synchronized desktop/terminal tmux/vim setup for development

I think a lot of us here on HN are the same way. But if you want a minimalist desktop, why in the world run GNOME? In my experience, XFCE and LXDE are both at least as stable as GNOME and far more lightweight. Or you could go all in and run a tiling window manager like i3 or Awesome.
Alan Kay should remember that evolution includes random mutations that get you out of local extrema, and "interesting" recombinations. The rate of these is maybe low, but there are examples where large organizations renew themselves this way. But I agree with the conclusion that this is slow and unreliable.
GBPUSD: Continues to Retain Upside Pressure Short Term
comment of the year imo
If you own 33%, you own 33%. That can't just be changed arbitrarily.
WebRTC video and text chat
Anyone know what the limit is for WebRTC on iOS in terms of maximum number of people doing live video + text chat?
E.g. A room with 8 video streamers and 20 text/chatters (including the 8 video streamers) is this possible? Anyone tried this - did you experience any latency issues?

Thanks!
To be honest, this all sounds like it should be a primary bank feature. I should be able to cap a recurring payment at $X for a specific vendor otherwise have it go through automatically.
For very long projects, I have seen much delay because of feature creep.

"OK you have implemented it as requested, but finally the customer does not like it, it needs to be slightly different. Can you do it quickly?"

Sometimes it is easy to adapt, sometimes next to impossible.
> for loving and caring for my gay brother

Is this the right, or the religious right?
What is Quantum Computing?
Here's the questions we thought through when our 3-person consulting firm split up:

https://ozar.me/2015/12/what-does-it-mean-to-buy-out-your-pa...

The first thing to do is read the startup's legal agreements. In our case, when we started the company, we agreed that partners (owners) could not participate in a business that competed with our own. You could leave at any time and do something competitive - but if you did, you thereby let go of your ownership. (You may also have a vesting schedule.)

If it's not obvious to you what your legal agreements mean, get a lawyer. Most lawyers will talk to you for 30 minutes for free to decide if it makes sense to hire them. Hiring a lawyer won't be cheap. You need the lawyer to tell you if you can simply walk away from the company and retain all of your ownership. If you can, then just ask the remaining partners, "What would you like to pay me to buy out my ownership?" It's simply a matter of what you're willing to accept.

Don't get hung up on valuing what the company will be worth in the future. If you can't agree on strategy, you won't agree on a valuation, either. Just ask them what they're willing to pay, and see if it lines up with what you'd accept. If it doesn't, and you can retain your ownership, and you believe the company will be worth a lot in the future, then walk away and keep your ownership.

But if you don't have that legal ability to keep your shares, then be prepared to accept a cup of coffee and a smile, and that's about it. (In our case, I bought out my cofounders because it was the right thing to do, but don't expect your partners to do the same. It's just a matter of character and your negotiation skills.)
The simple reason it isn't the RDBMS holy grail is that most project that rely on RDBMSs don't really care about CAP or strong consistency and once at scale the whole RDBMS thing just doesn't matter anymore, but things like latency usually do matter and it does sacrifice latency, despite bold claims of googlers.

I think Cockroach suits the RDBMS world much better. It understands that there is little reason to make it scale beyond a small amount of nodes in couple of nearby datacenters, but it does offer a lot compared to pre-CAP databases, meaning that it will be cheaper to operate and with no cloud lock-in risk.
If you're going to exclude purchasing products from an entire nation based on perceived issues of "mentality", you'd better ditch all of your American goods:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-06-18/gm-recall...
Girl who stabbed her lover could be spared jail because she's extraordinary
My mother is from Jamaica and I have a similar story. I was in Jamaica last summer visiting my grandmother. We were sitting on he porch and she was telling me how disappointed she was in her sister, who she raised as a daughter​, as she "gave" the daughter of the women who helped raise my mother to her sister. I remember being struck by that language. I began wondering what the real nature of the relationship between my grandmother and the woman I affectionately knew as "aunt erma." I wonder how common these kind of arrangements are around the world.
How much coffee can kill you and how it works on your brain
Call me odd, but I generally trust Swedish or UK courts.
Researchers attempt to make online communities less abusive
Keep the 1/3rd of the company you are entitled to today, and make sure the other two founders stick around by creating a new allocation of shares that will have a vesting schedule, and will dilute you down fairly over time.

There's nothing to stop the other founders from doing the exact same thing you are doing - leave and retain the company. Give them a compelling reason to stay.
Korea is building a 'city' for self-driving cars
Yeah, ideally they'd have simulated the change for a while, and given folks a few months of "your bill soon will be $xxx" emails.
Except before they changed the front page it wasn't like that at all.

The fact is "raw" Reddit is nothing to write home about and the previous front page worked around that with default subs.

I have no idea how it makes sense from a user conversion perspective, since new visitors essentially see the crappiest sides of Reddit before they even make an account to then go and learn how to filter it. I know personally if the first time I visited Reddit I saw what I usually see on the front page these days I probably would stay accountless
You're right and the trick is setting up a separate account for the debit card (ideally with a different bank).

This is generally a good approach for all sorts of reasons, not just protection from over enthusiastic cloud bills.

Keep most of your funds in one bank (and never use the cards). Transfer from this account to one or more other accounts with other banks and use the cards on these secondary accounts to pay for things. This way you're protected from suppliers over billing and banks going crazy with unarranged overdrafts (which aren't secured so absolute worst case you just tell them to fuck off and default on it).

Basically, the trick is holding on to your cash. Much harder to fix things rapidly if you're having to negotiate with a third party between you and the supplier (which is the case with a credit card company).
Hey Firebase people. I know you're here, reading this quietly. Gonna respond?
It's not being changed arbitrarily. It's being changed by agreement. Holding 33% could make it difficult to raise money in the future I presume, which wouldn't be in anyone's interest (including the leaving founder). Every founder should be subject to a vesting schedule, of course.
Manufacturers often use a term MTBF or "mean time between failure". I'm not sure if the 2000 hours spec is an MTBF or not, but essentially that is an average life with some standard deviation.

Personally, I think a pretty big swath of engines make it well past 100,000 miles now - there are usually other issues with cars at about the 10 to 15 year mark with most makes and models that have to do with rust.

Designing engines that last significantly longer on average (say 250,000 miles) would require either a beefier design, which will add weight and reduce efficiency, or exotic materials that will significantly increase the cost.

Automobiles are pretty amazing for what they are. I agree with many others that they have gotten ridiculously complex, but this is mostly because of the emissions requirements - and that said I do enjoy the fact that smog is not much of an issue (at least in the US) these days.
Not having an undergrad degree in CS would not disqualify you. We are looking primarily for people with strong tech skills, for several reasons.

When we talked to companies and alums of our other programs who are now product managers, they mentioned that the vast majority of product managers came from engineering backgrounds. This is necessary for leading teams of engineers, to understand how products work, what the tradeoffs are, and where trends are going. It's also very useful for additional credibility with respect to the engineers.

Our Master's of Product Management (MSPM) also requires students to take a technical elective in computer science, e.g. cloud computing, parallel computing, machine learning, networking, etc. We want our students to have technical depth too, since that will help with the above as well as making students better at charting out potential business opportunities.

The main advantages of this program over an MBA are that it is 1 year (instead of 2), it offers more technical depth in CS than MBA programs, and it also brings in a strong component of user experience design. This latter part of UX is something that many of our alums commented on as being important for products and for product managers. Other advantages (though it depends on which MBA track one chooses) are courses in managing people (incentives, motivations, negotiation), high tech marketing, basics of data science, and a capstone course focused on putting those skills together.

With respect to recognition, it's a tough question to answer since it is a new program. One main advantage here is the reputation of CMU's School of Computer Science and the Tepper School of Business. We also have strong industry ties and an active Career Opportunities Center to help students find good jobs.
Sure, I can do that :)

That article about GM says nothing about how the US public thinks about whistleblowing, does it? Could be wrong but I think they generally respect it.
The issue is not the notifications but the access that enabled them (which was apparently granted accidentally?)
> They have no phone number to contact, no way to dispute this other than email — which they have ignored us for over a month now without replying to our continued requests. Trapped. Doomed. We have no further options.

I don't understand why the larger internet/tech community keeps giving Google a pass on this. Anything where money comes in or out should ultimately have a support line where ultimately a human customer service agent can respond.
In particular, I like that screenhero gives each participant their own separate mouse pointer.
>Agents may be allowed to accommodate locally only within certain limits, giving an appearance of free will, but still being within planned parameters and thus producing a controlled outcome.

I haven't seen any evidence that this is an effective way of organizing an economic system, at least relative to the free market.

Modern western economies have grown increasingly stagnant as the level of central planning has increased since 1960. Contrary to your claim that "public education, healthcare and public retirement plans" have steadily been deprecated, the raw statistics show that government social spending in a major Western economy, the US, increased, on average, 4.8 percent per year between 1972 and 2011, after adjusting for inflation [1]. This represents a massive shift to more central economic planning. And this shift has been associated with reduced rates of improvement in all metrics of economic development.

[1] http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/what-is-driving-growth-i...
"Don't be evil." was dropped in 2015 or thereabouts IIRC. I'd guess when they realised it was becoming more of a joke than a motto: "Google, the company who's motto is 'don't be evil' angered customers again today when ...
Modern car engines reach around 200k--depending on the make.

The transmissions are another beast. They just seem to die at 140k, plus, or minus how you drive.

Their wasen't constant valve adjustments, or carb adjustments , distributors were dead simple. 90% of the time it was a bad condenser, or the points contacts needed sanding, unless you happened to own a British Vehicle.

And yes Amercan vechicles made in the late 70's, and 80's were aweful.

Old was not necessarily better, but Shade Tree mechanics could work on them.

There's a reason wealthy men buy old classic cars. A few years ago the average guy could buy a vice classic. Today--it's changed. Their are guys stockpiling older collectable vechicle.

Every wonder why the new cars offer just 7 year, or 100,000 miles of the Powertrain warranty?
Chinese state media says U.S. should take some blame for cyber attack
Well, that's pretty much what a virtual card is – you transfer funds to it like you would with any other bank account, and it's not in your bank. It'll be a debit card with no overdraft, so any charges over what is in the account will be denied. This won't fly with places that require a credit card, like car rental agencies for instance, but that's a non issue in this case obviously.
> Random Neural Nets should totally be a real thing.

Reservoir computing. Some are critical of this method.
I just want to say: I owned a 1975 Cadillac the 500 ci engine.
I wish I had never sold it, yet I am glad I did.

The biggest engine ever in a production vehicle, until the second-gen Viper came around.