skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If no vesting was set up when ownership was divided, you technically own a third of the company. However if there was some implied agreement, or you want to be fair, it makes sense to give back some of the equity. I think it's reasonable to keep more than a third of your portion though. The biggest risk in working on a startup is before it's raised (significant) funding when it's worth 0$. If you're actually raising another round soon, you've together brought it from a valuation of $0 to $2M. This was the highest risk time, so without a vesting agreement you may 'deserve' more than a third of your third, e.g. half of the third.
It would be good to consult a lawyer though.
So no more cows on farms?
The title is, or at the very least can be read as such, but the article seems fairly neutral and factual.
Why be so ignorant, read the article and form your own opinion.
Both of you, why ? If it was really about page views, I assumed everyone here would know how to view a webpage without giving a view ?
For the uninitiated, what's wrong with the Washington Post?
Typical Vancouver richeousness unfortunately.
So far it looks like the consensus is that React Native is good for quick prototypes or one-offs that aren't expected to have a long lifecycle.
Elysium Space to provide cremation burial services in space aboard Falcon 9
I understand. But it does start a cycle that is hard to break out of where the zoo will simply disappear.
As interest in car ownership drops as the Millennials age and take the older generations' place, that problem may fix itself.
'Dark Souls 3' Reborn: Deck 13 Unleash a Terrifying RPG
Because if it ain't fox news or breitbart, it ain't fer me, yeehaw. Washington comPost!
I use GCP for "small stuff" and never have any issues at all: using GAE with the maximum number of instances set to 1 on a paid plan, using cloud storage to host static web sites, and occasionally spin up a really large VPS (their maximum memory and CPU core offering) for a short time periods to run machine learning and other large tasks.

So, for some applications, GCP works very well.
I imagine this is intended for large companies that have hundreds or thousands of employees. Product manager is a specialized role that incorporates strategy and business development. I'm sure startup experience would be great too, but this is different. Product Management often targets projects with multi-year contracts whose lifetime span careers.
I do think that might have played a role here, smart product naming for the Internet-generation will have an impact even in the enterprise settings!
Looks like they're trying for balance: "Manning has been lauded as a hero by some and decried as a traitor by others, including President Trump. Her long initial sentence and at times severe treatment while incarcerated — she spent long stretches of time in solitary confinement and at one point was made to sleep naked — made her a cause celebre for antiwar and government transparency advocates. Critics, meanwhile, said she put U.S. lives and operations at risk as an attention-getting antic."
Of course they're professionals, but modern Zoos are there for entertainment first. The conservation part is not priority anymore. If we need them for conservation then let's focus on that, no need to have thousands of people visiting.
> Due to all of them having an estimated 0.018% in slavery

So they didn't count prisoner labour?
yeah let's make fences and borders illegal!
The secure https://www.nature.com link works but the insecure http://www.nature.com just returns 404.
Because we had a shitty codebase that made 350 SQL calls on one page (the user dashboard), so the primary page that everyone used went from < 500ms to > 8 seconds, and the end client who had to test and accept this change didn't like it. It became unusable.

To (re?)clarify - this was 18ms per query to the SQL cloud (from a google compute engine).

Yes, were there things that could be done to reduce that? Of course. The other guy on the project put some caching in, reduced duplicate DB calls, etc, and got it down to around 3-4 seconds, but without severely diving in and learning far more about this inherited codebase, there wasn't much that could be done to make it much faster.

The other steps involved heavier caching, which changed the actual functionality of the service that was contracted before. "real time status updates" had a functional definition of being within X seconds, IIRC. Caching everything so 'new' information wasn't necessarily available to an end user for, say, 3 minutes, wasn't an option, without getting a lot of buy-in from a lot of people. Not saying it wouldn't work technically, but the client relationship was already strained.

The move to google was primarily to 'save money' (because someone had $10k service credit with google), but the effort to make it work well on google cloud and SQL combo (wasn't my call) was too much.

You can say this isn't google's fault entirely - you'd probably have a strong case - but not everyone is moving pristine clean/strong/good code over, and problems with the original base were amplified by seemingly small issues.
Few days ago HN user post a Calculus Made Easy as a pdf[0] book, I found that much interesting.

[0]. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14161876
> This is only a moral/ethical evaluation done by the GNU project.

And GNOME is part of the GNU project...

> And of course Savannah would come first

There's no reason why GitLab could not also get an A rating, aside from friction from GitLab themselves.
talent.io grabs €8M to become Europe’s #1 recruitment platform for tech profiles
This is a very astute insight on a micro-economic scale. From a macro-economic scale, this is the difference between USA and, for example, French labor laws creating 40 vs 35/32 hour work weeks.
http://fortune.com/2015/10/05/alphabet-google-evil/

...
The new code of conduct has a close approximation of the philosophy—though perhaps more formally phrased—in the very first sentence of the preface: "Employees of Alphabet... should do the right thing – follow the law, act honorably, and treat each other with respect."
Using it with spark. Scala for spark is one of the biggest production use case for scalable.
Chicken tax
They are obviously worth at least $2M and other ones want to continue, and apply some mental tricks to lower OP's share as she is obviously inexperienced/mentally weak (otherwise wouldn't post such a worded article on HN but instead went maximizing her returns). They can anytime offer a buyout (3-5x times what her share is worth right now), but they don't.
Precisely where we find ourselves and the inspiration for the article.
Average over what time?

Getting grants of AMZN (or GOOG/GOOGL) every year or so for the last ~5 years has worked out pretty well for those of us who have been so fortunate, but if the stock had been flat or moved downward I doubt you'd have many PMs pulling even half of that.

If you're paid heavily in stock you are taking on a bit of risk, and summarizing $200k in salary and $400k in vested stock as "averages something like $600k/year" fails to capture that information.
No, because the Washington Post is a political tool owned by Jeff Bezos, and pushes a neo-liberal agenda. It cuts both ways. They ran 16 negative stories in half a day against Bernie Sanders during the election:

http://fair.org/home/washington-post-ran-16-negative-stories...
Started my programming in 1975 on a pdp using fortran 4 - used punched cards for storing and running significant programs. Used something called I* to edit binary files. A fluorescent light with "crash" in big letters on it came on from time to time. Could play a few games including moon lander and some star trek game. Then it was RTFM and only a few people were knowledgeable and the run debug cycle was slow - 1 day per iteration - errors printed out on big sheets of paper. Everything seems pretty easy after that...
A cord-free digital sign that will run a year between charges
For many cities, not just NYC and SF, but yes, it is true only for major cities.

EDIT: embellishment due to baq, this tends to be true of cities which developed before the car revolution of the 50's and 60's. For example, my city has a pretty poor average walkability score, but for where I live in the city core, it is very walkable since it is the older part of the city.
Isn't that mostly accounted by using the median instead of the average?
Costs can be reduced greatly even without any technological innovation. NYC and LA spend ~10x more per km of subway than what some European cities spend. (E.g. NYC's $2.2B/km vs. Paris's $230M / km. [1]) So try to replicate what foreign cities are doing and you get significant savings.

However since either way digging tunnels will be expensive, it seems inefficient to try to do this for cars. It would be more reasonable to just build a better subway system. Especially if in the future there will be automated fleets of self-driving cars waiting for you at each subway stop...

[1] https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/1/1/14112776/ne...
Unless you explicitly enable separate tasbar buttons in Windows you still have all of your browser windows accessible only through a single 32px-wide button on your screen. And the default thumbnail preview delay is also equally frustrating.
Exactly! The confidence that the devs inspire by taking the time to explain the choices behind the tech, makes me want to find a project to test it out on.
Successful IoT Products Are Built by Unified, Cohesive Teams
There are limits to overdraw facilities, sure. But they are also included by default in many accounts.
Effective SaaS KPIs
Basicplus appears to be responding to imgabe's second paragraph, which seems to suggest that euthanasia should be an obligation, not a choice.

The legalization of euthanasia raises some moral questions with respect to coercion and self-serving misrepresentation, but in cases like your grandfather's, where a decision has been made, those concerns no longer apply.
How about bus pods directly after bus pods? It'd be comparable or even higher (20 passengers/pod).
Email Spy: A new open source browser extension for lead generation
That reminds me when PETA tried to have whaling removed from Assassins Creed: Black Flag because they felt it glorifies the harming and killing of animals.[0]

My reaction was just like "Yeah, because killing whales on a game makes me want to buy a ship and start whaling myself."

[0] https://www.polygon.com/2013/3/6/4070836/peta-objects-whalin...
Tell that to FastMail, who have pissed me off by deciding to end-of-life the "lifetime" 16Mb member account I set up for my father with a one-time $15 payment.

16Mb is modulo zero these days, but it's enough for him - he just deletes some emails when it gets full. He also gets imap access and FastMail's spam filtering, which is really very good. I can also assign him an email address from a domain that I own that is associated with my FastMail enhanced account.

I don't want my $15 back. What I DO want is for FastMail to honour our existing agreement, which was a LIFE-TIME 16 Mb member account in exchange for $15.

See also here:

http://www.emaildiscussions.com/showthread.php?p=599512

Text of their latest email is below the line:

=============================================

Back in January we contacted you with some important information about your @.* FastMail account.

We're now contacting you again to remind you that from 31st July, 2017 our 'Member' level plans will be discontinued.

To continue using your FastMail account after this time you'll need to select one of our current plans. Please note: your email address will remain the same.

As a long-time FastMail user we're offering you 50% OFF all upgrades until the end of July, which includes our already discounted multi-year subscriptions.

And if you upgrade now we'll also add all the remaining time until 31 July for free!

As an added bonus we've also given you $15 credit to put towards your subscription, which is equal to the amount you originally paid for your account.

This means if you were to upgrade to a Basic account today for one year, with the discount and account credit you are effectively getting FastMail at no charge until 31 July 2018 with a massive 2 GB of storage (up from 16 MB)!
People like to think competition results in variety, like the difference between Walmart and Nordstrom.

The reality is the unified vocational training and the court system and malpractice insurance system and fluidity of employee transfers and government licensing standards mean the variety in care available is more like the difference between McDonalds and Burger King and this aspect is extremely carefully avoided in the debates. Price competition simply will not happen in medical care, theres a lot more required to initiate it than merely messing with the insurance system, it goes very deep.

I think you miss the difficulty of walking out in mid treatment. Yes sure in theory its possible for people to get reservations at three restaurants and eat appetizers and drinks at one, the main meal at the second, and desert at the third. In practice roughly zero people do this even though in the restaurant marketplace they're hopefully not in pain or dying or semi-senile or some other medical distress, and their family isn't panicking. To get the restaurant marketplace analogy correct above, you'd have to use McDonalds, Burger King, and Wendys as your examples, so even if you wandered back and forth between restaurants, the bill would be about the same in the end if not higher on a system perspective from all the paperwork and increased transactional costs. The main, possibly only, effect of playing patient "hot potatoe" would be increasing suffering of sick people.
Which GPUs to Get for Deep Learning
> What could go wrong?

The GNU project would be promoting proprietary software by requiring free software developers to use proprietary software. As there exist free alternatives, such promotion would negatively impact the free software movement (people would say "why not use GitHub? GNU decided that it was okay!").

That is enough of a reason to discount proprietary services. It's that simple.

> much more visibility;

... for GitHub as well. Which is one of the main issues.

> We are all against slavery, but I don't see anybody on HN refusing to post a comment here because their laptop is being build by slavery[sic] labor in China. Which they all are.

Non-sequitur. "X is bad, so why are you caring about Y (which is less bad)".
Personally I lost a bit of faith in them after the whole YouTube PewDiePie racism debacle.
I have a game being mostly used by kids and it doesn't generate revenue, and it has been in the free tier of Firebase for about 2 years. This month suddenly my account got disabled due to DB usage (I only keep sessions and ids, still can't believe I exceeded DB usage). But the traffic was same as old. About 1.5 weeks ago I woke up at 6am with an e-mail telling me my account was disabled. And I had to switch to something else, spending hours. I don't recommend using Firebase to anyone anymore.
> What? they're a business like any other and they're not interested in minimizing profit

Of course, they are a business. But they look at minimising the price, increase the scale, have a monopoly and earn money.
It just occured to me that to use something like Hyperloop on Mars you don't even need a closed tube... it'd be like a normal (airtight) train.
Yes, they are "professionals", but nobody is better than the nature itself.

The whales and dolphins are not happy to do the show. This is proven and give them drugs (http://www.dauphinlibre.be/le-zoo-de-nuremberg-drogue-ses-da...) to kept them happy. Nice professionalism there.

Many other species lack diversity and therefore suffer from genetic diversity, they need to exchange species between country in order to grow the diversity, new sickness are born but yes they are professionals.

There's not real reason to stay in the old menagerie system, animals have rights to live and if we need food we need to protect them. Point barre, like we say in French.
2016/2017 BUDGET WAS OPENLY PADDED WITH THE SUM 10BILLION NAIRA
Hopefully at the end of this month we will know more about VEGA RX.
> The reason this works well for images is because you can say, ok, this output number represents a tag (dog, cat, etc) for each discrete value, and the input numbers are just an array of the raw pixel data.

> because a traditional function implementation of f(x) that takes a I of dimension say, 65535, and produces an output of dimension 1 is a hard problem

Nitpick maybe, but you do not represent each class by a number. This would create a bias to consider subsequent categories as similar (why would aardvark=0 be more similar to antilope=1 than cat=2?). Instead you have one dimension per possible-value (aka one-hot encoding) and the value in that dimension represents how likely the photo belongs to that class (with values summing to 1, softmax, if it's a one-class problem, or no such guarantee if it's a multiclass problem).
WaPo sucks, as do Fox News, Breitbart, and HuffPo (among others). None of them should be taken seriously. They're all rags that have so much political slant they should be eligible for tax free status as components of their respective political parties. None of them should be treated as "news" sites.
Paywalled. Workaround it by pasting the URL into Google and clicking the link there.
A little bit, yes, but I feel that they are at least on to something here.
The common complaint is that they're liberal. People in my circles think they're a corporatist neoliberal rag, but it's really a matter of perspective. Some people think they're one of the few institutions still doing passable journalism.
Its in vogue to hate on large news sites? All I know is it didn't have full screen adds or "sign up!" nonsense pop up without an adblocker so they are fine with me.
Several dimensions are in play when it comes to treatment of animals:

* intelligence and potential for suffering

* Duration of suffering

* Endangered status

* Usefulness as a human product

* Ability of average human to empathize with species
Completely forgotten, and one of the most brutal and disgusting genocidal military campaigns in (fairly) modern time.
> > 1. Important site functionality does not work without running nonfree JavaScript. (C0)

> Contradicts what you say.

... no it doesn't. GitHub has server code and has JavaScript code that is sent to the client for the client to execute on the user's machine. This requirement is referring to the client code not the server code. The former is more of a matter of user freedom than the latter.

More importantly this requirement doesn't even require GitHub to make their JavaScript free, they just have to make their site work with JavaScript disabled.

I'm not sure how you could possibly read the requirement as saying "all server code that GitHub has must be free software"...

> Both are abiding by laws restricting access to that content. If you have an issue with that perhaps talk to the relevant governments.

GitLab doesn't get a ding for this requirement, so clearly this statement may be true but it doesn't seem like you are required to act the way GitHub does by law.

> So to counter your point one issue is because they're using non free software, one reason is out of their control

They have written proprietary software and sell it. I admit that it's hard to fix this problem if you already have proprietary code (contractors retain copyright in some cases), but pretending like they were completely at the mercy of someone else is ridiculous.
> Some religions disavow others, so some of them must be errors, no?

Only if you think the purpose of a religion is to be the truth.
Europe Leads as Industrial 3-D Printing Takes Shape
Plato also knew Javascript and the rise of the robots. (I don't have to cite because ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
curl: (6) Could not resolve host: xip.io
curl: (7) Failed to connect to www.xip.io port 80: Connection timed out

but the front page is cached at http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:o8L_uDk...

with google site:xip.io you can see that this is mostly used to point at super-dodgy looking content (using an alternate "base36" representation of IP addresses) so that's awful

example.9zlhb.xip.io has address 127.0.0.1
Couldn't a DNN be trained to inspect other DNNs and generate human-readable explanations of how they work ? In the fewest words, with maximum poetry
Ah okay, I misunderstood. ;)
Possibly relevant (from the Firebase FAQ[1]):

Why was my Realtime Database reported bandwidth lower than average between September 2016 and March 2017?

For our bandwidth calculations, we normally include SSL encryption overhead (based on layer 5 of the OSI model). However, in September 2016, we introduced a bug that caused our bandwidth reporting to ignore encryption overhead. This might have resulted in artificially low reported bandwidth and bills on your account for a few months.

We released a fix for the bug in late March 2017, returning bandwidth reporting and billing to their normal levels.

Does not excuse the issue with support.

[1] https://firebase.google.com/support/faq/
even if a huge amount of information about the US came from russia, the nature of leaks is that you can only leak what you have.

would it be better if more light was shed on russia? absolutely.

is the problem assange? probably not; it's almost certainly the lack of leaking by the US or other governments about russia.

the biggest responsibility assange has is making sure the leaks are true. that's impossible to do 100%, but by all accounts the accuracy is incredibly high given the size of their operation.
Amazon aren't allowed to store the CVV so transactions via their one click ordering has to be CVV less. The store gets lower fees on CVV transactions, but it has never been required.
My theory is that these tunnels are truly being built to support the Hyper Loop. It's only a matter of time before they acquire one of the companies that did all of the R&D work.
Thanks Obama (genuinely).
I think the point is about how data manipulation is about 80% of machine learning work. If an algorithm is giving you crap results for some data set, once you've fiddled with its hyperparameters through cv and so on there's not much you can do besides data manipulations like PCA, ICA and the like, to try and get a better result. Most algorithms work pretty badly with raw data.

I'm guessing that, in the sciences, that is a big no-no. Imagine if doctors, seeing that a new drug being trialled is failing to cure a disease, simply started chucking out the sick subjects until all the ones that were left where healthy, declaring the sick ones to be "noise" and the trial a success. Somehow, I don't think that would fly...
You can click "web" as well.
I have started taking classes at my local community college to refresh my math skills again.
Seriously what is new here would love to know...
Don't post paywalled content
The latest episode of the Intercepted podcast is relevant: https://theintercept.com/2017/05/10/intercepted-podcast-jame...

They have some audio snippets from the trial itself on that podcast.
Dust on Mars is electrostatically charged. Moving a train through clouds of that dust sounds suboptimal.
It's interesting that this use case of running many different programs continuously is probably quite different from the rest of the high-end desktop world, where you might be exclusively in Autocad, Photoshop, Maya or some complex engineering software.

For developers I think more cores is still better (I'd add Spotify and Slack to your list of things that are always running) and yet we still prefer shiny laptops to powerful desktops.
That's basically the same as the first world, plenty still have less then 4GB.