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Note the belugas died from poisoning [1]

[1] http://www.cbc.ca/beta/news/canada/british-columbia/vancouve...
My bank (in Sweden) lets me generate virtual debit card numbers with a specified cost cap and expiration date. It's some ancient-looking Flash widget though so I suspect it's a legacy feature...
Looks like it. But this one is a year old, without any apparent resolution.
It's really NOT obvious. Check the trail of Fox News' "evidence" falling apart at the seams: http://digg.com/2017/who-is-seth-rich-dnc-murder-wikileaks
> It drives me nuts that kids growing up in my hometown now don't understand these magnificent creatures, don't feel any special connection to them.

So you're saying that to have a "special connection" to ocean wildlife we need to keep animals captive in a small pool?

Obviously we can't all go on excursions into the sea, but aquariums don't seem like the best model for understanding and appreciating wildlife.
... Remember when software wasn't cloud based?
Recognize this company is selling 25% of itself for $500k, meaning the entire company is "worth" $2m. I'd guess no one is going to buy OP's stake at these levels, given that he's likely 1/3 of what the investors are buying already.

If OP wants to, OP can not agree to any vesting agreement, keep his whole stake, and likely do significant harm to the company in doing so (of course I'm making some basic assumptions here, but I think they're fair, and about as good as we can do considering the lack of information). If OP does that he or she is actually shooting him or herself in the foot, and destroying the value of his or her own shares.

I can certainly see many scenarios where it's actually in OP's best interest to give up more of a stake, though it's impossible to know without knowing what type of company it is, revenue and growth rates, etc. If we assume it's a software startup raising at a $2m valuation I would strongly encourage OP to play the long-term game, as the likelihood the stake will be worth nothing if he or she takes 33% off the table right now is remarkably high.
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Have never been able to get Slack calls working behind our corporate proxy, gave up after many attempts, changing network settings, "noproxy" settings etc.
This is a really fun demonstration.
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> removed text duplicated from comment - maybe that was against HN guidelines

I don't know if it was against HN guidelines but it looked an absolute mess. One giant block of text.
This seems to be what you are looking for: https://code.facebook.com/posts/561187904071636/segmenting-a...
It is pretty fast from here, what is slow for you?
Three Studies Show How Robocars Will Make for Safer, More Efficient Roads
It seems to be caused by and fixed in https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/28909
Microsoft's Satya Nadella is counting on culture shock to drive growth
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Do you mind sharing how much you're starting out with, and how little you plan to spend each month? Curious how feasible this could be for me.
> IMO, the movies and games industries have much better, more objective rating systems.

If you believe that, I recommend you watch This Movie Is Not Yet Rated[0].

It's just as bad in movies :-). I don't know anything about game ratings to dispute that part, though.

[0]: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0493459/
Fair enough :) I understand the trouble that goes along with any "small time" contract breach and if this dissuades companies from doing something like it in the future, I am all for it.
I would love to see Louise Mozingo's workspace. A brief google didn't turn up anything useful.
The important bit is evolution is not optimizing for things humans understand. If you say evolution is optimizing for more copies of your DNA fragments your closer to the truth than saying 'fitness' in larger contexts. Don't forget there is more biomass in single celled organisms than single celled organisms. In terms of 'fitness' that does not seem like progress.
And Firebase too: https://plugins.mavo.io/plugin/firebase
It is not "creepy" to understand that biological sex is a real, observable thing with causal effects on our surroundings, and "gender identity" isn't.
Terry Winograd was my hero back then. I remember reading about him and SHRDLU back in 1977...
I could agree with the first sentence; the rest...not. (AFAIK, Win10 was not affected by the SMB vulnerability, no?)
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Well now your comment is dead again. And mine is probably too. I might be banned for all I know.
In 1986 the Dead Kennedys distributed a poster of H.R. Giger's "Penis Landscape" artwork inside their Frankenchrist album, and the band were charged with distribution of material harmful to minors and brought to trial. The case considered the music and lyrics as well as the artwork, but ended in a hung jury.
It just that there's a surplus of capital right now - you can tell by the way bond and savings interest rates are close to zero. The reward for risking your money isn't needed right now. People can't find enough places to leave their money.
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> dysfunctional but happy

That is an oxymoron. When someone is "happy" to live in the rain and snow on concrete without a roof, because some abuser told them if they move from there, the world will eat them and torture them in hell forever, they're not actually happy, they're trapped in a shit situation by the lie that any attempt to free themselves from it would make it worse. The fact that what they feel is happiness makes this worse rather than better. We can forgive the abused for not knowing better, but we can't stand by idly and pretend that's their free choice without becoming guilty.

> Are our own standards for freedom worth enforcing on other people's life?

Yes. If you disagree, and expect that to be any more than wind to my ears, you're just trying to force your standards for freedom on others, so your own argument defeats itself before it even hits the ground.

> A lot of families and people are dysfunctional. But are we functional enough to tell them what to do?

Same thing: Are you functional enough to tell me I'm not?
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I think it does. It's a scenario where the whole is greater than the sum of parts.

Bradley (now Chelsea) was seen as a whiny dude who was not a team player, would not take his lumps, and lashed out irrationally against an institution he felt had wronged him. An attack on the entire concept of military thinking and discipline. The epitome of "bleeding heart liberalism".

Being trans into the bargain is fairly explosive. Now it's not just her actions that are offensive, but her very existence.
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CPGs = Consumer Packaged Goods?

Also - can you take individual classes like the ones you referenced at CM? or do you need to be in the Masters Program
There is absolutely no ad hominem. It's simply a very well known fact that when it comes to money, people turn into sharks and prey on inexperienced or weak, which in our (still) idealistic business is a majority. And the original post radiates insecurity (by default the mindset "I have to give up something as somebody told me to"); somebody has to step in and tell her "please don't be insecure, you have 33%, that's your starting point, don't allow pressure from your partners force you to make a stupid decision".
Hardware failure is one thing but in my experience it's just devs not taking the time to properly handle errors and exceptions. If something fails, restart the process and report the error silently in a log, not facing the customer.
He has since amended his requirements. Listen to his interview here: https://theintercept.com/2017/04/19/intercepted-podcast-juli...
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Watch this omnicopter fetch a ball
>They could've released it before the NSA

They were looking for buyers this whole time. Perhaps you are unaware but there's an entire cottage industry of selling and buying of vulnerabilities out there. There are many zero days being sat on. No one is getting 'lucky.' They will be sold and used as needed by whatever group.

There seems to be this narrative developing about how this exploit is some rare thing. There are hundreds of serious exploits discovered in Windows a year and those are the ones we know about. There was no nation state involved with conficker, slammer, codered, heartbleed, etc. So its silly to focus solely on the NSA here. Exploits will be found, forever. We don't have the ability to make defect-free software.
Deep Learning != AI

Deep Learning is more about pattern matching, not about "understanding" patterns.
OK, for those ignorant like me:

Mega Drive == Sega Genesis.

I loved that console, impressive feat indeed!
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> 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.

Google Cloud support[1] comes with phone numbers to call at $400/month. It's a minimum requirement for anything that's mission critical. I understand that this poster was paying $25 a month typically, so it's not unreasonable that he didn't also shell for the $400/mo support package though it left him in the lurch when he had a time critical problem.

Realistically, I don't see why he didn't simply shut down the service the first day usage numbers spiked. Something that's only costing $25 a month to host, shouldn't have a huge opportunity cost when shut down.

Isn't Firebase part of Google Cloud?

[1] https://cloud.google.com/support/
> they're a business like any other and they're not interested in minimizing profit

Actually they are. Minimizing profit is sacrificing short-term gains for long-term gains. Increasing prices helps your short term profit, but you tend to lose customers to competitors. Decreasing prices means less profit right now, but you tend to convert more customers.

Companies aren't purely RIGHT NOW profit-driven. That's why many companies burn cash and take on debt. They're driven by growth (whether vertical or horizontal). Bezos is obsessed with growth. That's why they've only recently started making money. Enormous investments in AWS, FBA and a host of other products put them in the red, but in doing so, Amazon has incredibly horizontal growth.
All right, is wikileaks also doing that for political reasons? http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/08/10/wikileaks-offers-.... And we're supposed to trust that the family actually knows what really happened?
Full title is: Significant Locus and Metabolic Genetic Correlations Revealed in Genome-Wide Association Study of Anorexia Nervosa
Thanks so much for your kind words! We're always trying to improve, so even though some of the comments are negative, it's still good to hear about pain points so we can fix them.
Some people care because gender identity is eroding sex based protections. I should think women care a lot that men are now allowed in their spaces based on an internal sense of "gender".
I've worked with companies running MySQL with a terabyte of ram. Fun times.
They don't seem to understand that once you lose trust and reputation in a community you will struggle to get it back.

For example this thread has more or less convinced me to take Firebase off the table for any future projects I might have used it for.
>I wonder if this will be our fate too a few decades down the road.

If you live in California, it will be. Hongkongisation is a global phenomenon though.
Apparently the author thinks transferring wealth to one's heirs is a bad thing, but transferring it to insurance companies and nursing homes is not. But let's continue.

"What can get rich elderly Americans spending more? One way is to reassure them they’re not going to run out of cash. Tools such as annuities and bond-ladders can turn a retirement account into a regular stream of income, mimicking a paycheck. Insurance products could also protect retirees against huge, late-in-life expenses from medical care—a dominant fear. Browning likes longevity insurance, an annuity that kicks in only if you live to 80 or 85. Other options are reverse mortgages or long-term care insurance."

With only a brief comment on health care costs (>10% yearly increases), let's discuss the various solutions --

Annuities - take your nest egg that rode decades of market fluctuations, and give it to another company to ride another decade or two of market fluctuations in exchange for a fixed monthly distribution. Never mind that every 401(k) plan I ever had would start paying you out of your acct after you reached 59.5 if you wanted it, and HAS to pay you out of your acct once you reach 70.5.

The various forms of insurance noted have a couple of things in common -- 1) they are overpriced relative to the benefit provided; 2) The benefit will be known and factored into the cost of your healthcare, thanks to the miracle of the SSN.

The best deal mentioned might be the reverse mortgage, but only if your heirs wouldn't need your house - which in my experience, they don't, but in 20 years, with current employment and social trends, who knows?
This made me shiver. As a parent that's more or less my worst nightmare, to raise kids who are like that.
> If what he thinks he is on to is viable with cars in those tunnels, it's even more viable with trains

In Europe, that would be true, but I think in Southern California he can charge exorbitantly per car and people will pay it.
Diagnosing a child as a psychopath is pretty questionable. In addition, diagnoses of psychopathy in adults is difficult and expert psychiatrists have admitted even they are fooled.

I was not surprised then when the article admitted that the parents diagnosed the disorder themselves, and then shopped around for therapists until they found one in another state willing to agree with their diagnosis. I bet it made them feel good when they finally found a doctor willing to support their amateur diagnostic efforts.
You don't throw random C++ code at the compiler to see if you get the correct result.

At least, most of the time you don't.
It's strange, many news organizations report this as "200,000 organizations", but others as "200,000 computers". Which are very different. Some of the bigger universities alone probably have hundreds to thousands of infected computers. I'd bet it's closer to 200k organizations, but I don't know how that would be measured or tracked.
I don't understand the "shotgun clause" at all. Suppose we simplify and the offer must be accepted using only money in a (private) bank account designated in advance, and each person knows the other person's balance because they're honest with each other.

Then if one person has $27,000 in their private bank account and the other person has $14,000 then the person with $27,000 can offer $14,001 and the person with $14,000 is forced to accept.

If one of the parties happens to be overdrawn on that account and have net -$3.70 then the other party can ofer $5 and the overdrawn party would be forced to accept.

Now granted in the real world people can raise buyout capital from their private network on short notice -- but doesn't this show great unfairness, if the parties aren't both independently much richer than the value of the business they're discussing?

For most startup founders who own, say, 50% of a startup whose last valuation was $7 million, that is nearly all of their net worth. The vast majority probably could not so much as raise $50,000 on short notice. So, if one of the parties already has a hundred thousand, they can offer $55,000 and the more cash-strapped party would be forced to accept it.

So what gives. I just don't get it at all. Like, I don't even get the theory of why this is supposed to be fair... it just seems "obviously" broken to me -- so I must be missing something.
The money in my paycheck has already been taxed a bunch of times by that logic, so my taxes should go down, right?
100% agree. The key here is that they are targeting people who already have a CS undergrad degree and thus are likely already employed or going to be employed in high-paying jobs with good future prospects. I'm not really seeing the ROI on this.
Absolute nonsense school complaint, Tipper Gore style.
The dirtiest parts are these lines:

It won't be long, me see my love
Me take her in my arms and then
I tell her I never leave again
Yeah, it was there (along with a note on how to get free stickers) but now it's gone. Keybase stuff is still there though. Random.
Am I the only one to get this page?

https://down.xn--wda.fr/2017-05-17/2C4yYWqWk9.png

"We're sorry... The request has been blocked."

It happens from work, from home (same ISP though) and also from my servers (using curl).
It's a bit much to expect science-journal standards of rigour in a Hacker News comment. Do you disagree with "people who are inclined to find Chelsea Manning to be a traitor are also generally more inclined to hate trans people"? It seems, at the very least, plausible.
Seems pretty quiet in here, so I figure I'll do a bit of spruiking. The article is definitely worth the read; I found it quite riveting.

The most interesting part is the suggestion that there might be effective methods of treating psychopathy/sociopathy. This would be groundbreaking if true, as psychopathy is generally thought to be untreatable. In fact, it has been observed that treatment will often just teach psychopaths how to more effectively manipulate others.

Another interesting bit: brain scan studies show that psychopaths have smaller amygdalae compared to non-psychopaths. The amygdala is a part of the brain that processes emotions, particularly fear, and is implicated in 'fear conditioning'. It's basically your brain's "module" for heuristic threat recognition. For example, the amygdala of an arachnophobe will light up and send the "pump adrenaline" signal if they are exposed to a spider. In contrast, psychopaths don't seem to experience fear and have difficulty recognising this emotion in others:

"I don’t know what you call this emotion," one psychopathic prisoner said, looking at a photo of a fearful face, "but it’s what people look like just before you stab them."
I think people are getting a little tired of the Seth Rich conspiracy claims with nothing but circumstantial evidence. It's becoming some kind of rallying cry for trump supporters (who still can't seem to drop the hillary conspiracies for some reason) and what's especially annoying about it is people seem to be taking it as de facto truth despite no real evidence to back up the claim. So I don't think this as much about HN being an echo chamber. You're really not adding to the discussion other than propagating the conspiracy unless you're going to provide some evidence. Conspiracy theories don't really fly on HN.
Having looked at the source for SHRDLU (which I found very hard to understand without more context), I think a lot of it was in an early version of Prolog, "Micro-Planner."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planner_(programming_language)
Most people could reduce their meat consumption by 80% and not miss much.
Well researched, apologies for my sloth!

In a nutshell they have a monopoly and their fees for licensing are extortionate - and they won't even talk to you unless you're "very serious".

They crushed a startup I consulted with eight years or so ago by playing along and then vastly increasing their fees just prior to launch.

Also, their only API (I haven't checked but I doubt things have changed) is EDI.

So, they have important and valuable data that they don't like to license, and make hard to access when they do.

I don't think that something of such importance should be in the hands of a private entity.
it's complicated, there are many variables involved and doing nutritional research is hard.

the fat study (seven countries) was largely debunked though that doesn't mean all fats in any combination with other macros are good. that sugar is detrimental to your health seems to be a consensus but that doesn't mean other substances can't be bad.
Matt Parker (standupmath at youtube) does a presentation he calls "Clutching at Random Straws". It doesn't, as far as I can recall, specifically deal with Mondegreens, but about 38 minutes in he does a fun demonstration of how perception is a process of actively patternmatching for what we expect: https://youtu.be/sf5OrthVRPA?t=2297
While demanding data isn't necessarily a bad thing, you can take it overboard. If you state that the world is round, and I demand that you back up your claim with data, am I not being a bit ridiculous?
I don't have a problem with Walmart. They are a private company, they can pick and choose what items they want to sell in their stores. They can ask a manufacturer to make changes, which the manufacturer is free to decline. Walmart is a big retailer, but hardly the only place to buy music, even when people still bought music in stores.
That is what I thought upon reading the title, however if you go through the document, you can see that the FBI was responding to complaints from the public...which actually is impressive, if you think about it.

When I read the letter on page 13 sent by the parent complaining about, "lyrics so filthy that I cannot enclose them in this letter," - I imagine an FBI agent sitting at his desk, rubbing his forehead in frustration, scanning through this among a pile of hundreds of other similarly inane and paranoid letters from parents.

Government workers just can't win sometimes - if they address problems brought to them by the public, it's deeply embarrassing that they are addressing such insignificant problems. If they don't address problems brought to them by the public, they are flagrantly defying democratic values.

What's embarrassing is not that the government "are involved in" being morality/obscenity police, it's embarrassing that people ask them to be morality/obscenity police. It's not like they just, "got involved in it," out of no where. Squeaky wheels get the grease.
what would get a song banned nowadays? making the lyrics instructional such as a meth song or bomb song?
An interesting aspect of carrying cars rather than trains is that it makes an incomplete network far more useful.

A public transportation network's usefulness is roughly quadratic in proportion to its size, because it needs to cover both your origin and your destination. A small subway system is nearly useless, because even people who live or work near it probably don't live and work near it. You can mitigate this to an extent with busses, taxis, letting people park at stations, etc., but there's still a lot of friction.

By carrying cars, these tunnels will act as an extension of the road network, which almost certainly covers your origin and destination already. The tunnel part doesn't need to serve the ends, it just needs to exist somewhere in the middle to be useful.

If you build one subway line, it's pretty much "great, let's finish the system so we can have something useful." If you build one Boring Tunnel, it would be immediately useful for anyone whose car trips are vaguely in that direction.

I'm really skeptical it'll all work out, but I don't think it should be thought of as a lame subway.
> It drives me nuts that kids growing up in my hometown now don't understand these magnificent creatures, don't feel any special connection to them.

Pods of orcas visit Stanley Park and False Creek at least once every couple years, usually more. And thats a magical day when they do. If you think that kids dont feel special connections to these creatures that come visit downtown once in a while, you're deluded
His second channel is very nice as well. More casual and conversation based, and a bit less interesting on the topics it self. But nice nonetheless