skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This article would seem more generous if it sketched a proof of the impossibility (using field extensions). Since it was worth proving for the first time in the mid 19th C I don't think it's appropriate to make fun of mid 20th C folks who didn't have access to Internet or mathematical expertise. I get that they're cranks but it's understandable that they hadn't got the memo.

Also would have been nice to mention https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neusis_construction though I appreciate that pre-Wikipedia, info was much more difficult to track down even if one was aware of it.
I agree it doesn't have anything to do with YC. My point is that it seems like its gotten worse and worse as the years go on, toi be a startup employee.

Since YC is dependent on their being high caliber startup employees available for its portfolio companies, then at some point perhaps they might want to look into what can be done to help improve the outcomes for employees.

I mean, I think you can argue they did a lot to help founders, mostly with advice, term sheets, etc but founders were never really getting screwed.

You can argue, and I guess I sort of am, that employee's are now getting pretty screwed. It used to be that the unwritten rule was that in roughly 5 years of founding you'd know if you were going to get a payout from your shares.

Now a days 10+ years without any liquidity event are not in anyway uncommon.
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Although for the sake of this discussion I agree with you, I could have a lot of fun making a list entitled, "things companies have done to people that are worse than firing them."
Most customers the store is targeted probably appreciate the store.

You are pro user, so you value freedom. Normal users want safety and convience.
Real-Time Programmatic Advertising Visualization
I'm curious if anyone has a sense for how much they made from this? I just don't have a good sense for scale and dimensions of this.

If it went undetected for so long they must not have been at least somewhat conservative in their approach, so say 5mil DAU times 1 click a day at $0.25/click. So, million-ish dollars a day?
Part of the issue is how lax attitudes are in mobile development when it comes to security. There are probably dozens of top apps out there that have insecure command and control type setups
In general, "the game has become a lot more harder to play without spending money on it" doesn't mean that the game is doing poorly - it's a sign that they have gotten the user growth/initial advertisement that they wanted, and are working on the revenue part.

After all, for such games, if you're not going to spend money, then you're not a customer - the only reason for allowing you to play is to use you to advertise the game to potential customers; making it harder to play freely might be the only way to turn you from an user to a customer.
There's also a quite well known sprite/pixel art editing/drawing application, named Aseprite, which has a similar model - the author sells it as a paid app in its compiled form, though he also makes the full source available on GitHub. I have huge respect for him for that, and that it seems to work for him!

https://www.aseprite.org/
Only if Uber knew they had done something wrong. If not, bailing on him now just places the blame squarely on him.
Linguistic Analysis of WannaCry Ransomware Suggests Chinese-Speaking Authors
This is the kind of malware that is difficult to block imo. As long as the auto clicking is done at a suitable interval, there really is no easy way to detect it.

The question is: would such an attack work on Apple devices? I'm assuming that the iOS API provides similar functionality to apps running on the device.
Constructing the sentence is algorithmic. The key part is asserting that the sentence is true. For instance ZFC will prove that A:(ZFC cant prove GodelStatement(ZFC) OR ZFC is inconsistent).GodelStatement is an algorithmic function which takes a list of axioms in some formal framework.

Now, lets make ZFC' which is ZFC + 'ZFC is consistent'.
ZFC' can prove A(as it contains ZFC) and uses the consistency of ZFC to prove A':(ZFC cant prove Godel(ZFC)) .

Similarly, a program decides a set of problems(like does this Turing machine halt or does this diophantine equation have solutions) with access to its source code will be able to algorithmically generate the problem instance on which it will not halt. You can modify the program to create a new program which will use this information, but it will be a new program.
1942...A golden oldie!
Definitely. Yours is pre-computed, my suggestion / comment was just about giving raw stats for employees to compute and verify themselves.

I guess yours is more palatable to give out than giving the raw stats that can be leaked.
Ahem, https://kangax.github.io/compat-table/es6/

Safari does pretty good I'd say. "The new IE" was pretty overblown.

Safari is my go-to daily driver for speed, OS integration, and battery life. I use Chrome for developing, but maybe I'll give FF another shot.
Uber: Hey, we're really sorry that things didn't work out but "here's some equity for the time that you worked here" oh and by the way here's the estimated value of that equity if we win the lawsuit or don't win the law suit.
Probably not. The biggest hurdle here is that it was Levandowski who took the documents on his own initiative. Even if he'd been asked by someone high up at Uber to steal the information he might escape criminal prosecution but he'd never keep his money.
yeah +1
even chips with AVX2 on all cores slow down when it's fully used. The Xeon Phi has a pretty low clock, 1.3 ghz iirc.

Still, it gets you GPU style performance on vector workloads without needing separate hardware and software stack.
Likewise. I had to go to Ubuntu 14.04 to get reasonable Linux performance out of my NUC5i7.
I vote for Person of Interest. I still maintain that this is the most sensible portrayal of the topic of superhuman AI in the history of television.
The article is available: https://www.nature.com/nmeth/journal/v14/n6/full/nmeth.4293....
That and "brigading" where someone directs a bunch of people to an issue from Twitter, Reddit, etc.
Haha, good work. This is nuts!
liquidation preferences, or rachets as they're sometimes called. founders should be very wary of such things. (other) investment terms should already account for the investment risk, otherwise the deal is mispriced and should be reworked to remove rachets.
You don't think Google's out for blood? Didn't they announce a Waymo partnership with Lyft a couple of weeks ago?
Yandex taxi is really, really the best ride hailing service I have ever used. Wish them luck with self-driving cars, that would be a real challenge to start such a thing in Russia where drivers could be insanely careless about safety rules. For example a couple of times Russian taxi drivers asked me about WTF I buckle up for - is it a traumatic experience or something? :D
And most of those things would also go on a list called "illegal things companies have done".

Probably not a good idea to do something illegal in the middle of a lawsuit.
Yes, I will try to take the bile out.
> In fact, I wish hotel rooms were commodities that competed on two factors: cleanliness and quietness.

A commoditized market has products, by definition, that compete on one factor, price.

If you care about cleanliness, quietness, or other qualitative features being areas of active competition, you don't want a commoditized market.
To be fair, Uber says that they didn't know about Levandowski (allegedly) downloading the docs from Google. We'll find out once they get through discovery.
Uber. You don't see it because most of the cars are unmarked.
This is often called "metering" and I agree it can be a good thing if, for example, you are selling an experience good where people cannot accurately predict how much they will want to pay for it until they try it--it allows you to charge less up-front.

But I think in practice when you see this used in consumer goods sales, it's likely because the manufacturer is exploiting psychology in which unsophisticated consumers do not accurately predict their costs. For example: https://academic.oup.com/qje/article/121/2/505/1884013/Shrou...
I always assumed that it makes sense to have the query cache active. It just makes sense logically.

On my production server, "SHOW STATUS LIKE 'Qcache%'" currently gives me:

Qcache_free_blocks	2184
Qcache_free_memory	7629288
Qcache_hits	328939349
Qcache_inserts	14440714
Qcache_lowmem_prunes	7814306
Qcache_not_cached	290027559
Qcache_queries_in_cache	7497
Qcache_total_blocks	17225

About 20 hits per insert. Sounds good to me.

Anybody here who is more "in the know" then me and can tell me what I can conclude from these numbers and/or which other stats to look at?
You're an endangered species ;) Why are you still working on a Winphone 8 app if I may ask?
Your car buying analogy is flawed. When you buy a new car, someone has built it for you. It's cost effective because the manufacturer builds a great number of them. You can be fairly certain that it works and if it doesn't you'll have a guarantee.

When you rewrite a software system, you do it yourself. You don't know whether you'll succeed. You might end up with worse end-results. The assumption here is that no off-the-shelf software can be used to replace it. Hence rewrite.
If he has done what he has alleged to have done, he deserves to lose everything.
True. Both haves of what I asked for are stronger than what Godel demonstrated.

But for this argument to be applicable to the Theory of Mind, it seems to me that it is exactly what Lucas and Penrose are claiming to exist.

If the only un-provable sentences are Godelian constructions, the whole issue isn't philosophically interesting. But that's not true, to my understanding.

So, there are statements that cannot be proven in, say, ZFC. Some of these statements are, I assume, "interesting"; they aren't simply constructs that are designed to be unprovable. Finally, for Lucas and Penrose's arguments to be meaningful, some of those statements should be obviously true or false---that is the only way for the human mind to not be limited in the way ZFC is limited.

If the truth of the statement is not obvious, then I'm not clear on how the human mind is stronger than the formal system in question. If the truth is obvious, but the statements are all variations on "I am lying" designed specifically for a given formal system, then I don't see how this is an actual interesting property of minds.
I think no one will ever dare to hire Levandowski. His career is over. Maybe still too early to draw any conclusion, but I can't seem to have any counter potential excuse or reason to believe the self-driving programs weren't stolen. Why on earth would someone like him do that? Conceited arrogance?

Now I don't understand taking the Fifth. If everyone takes the Fifth, how do you convict someone? Find evidences, and have the a grand jury find the person guilty?
Source? AFAIK, the suit was against Uber because Google's employment agreement means that they can target the company rather than the employee, but not the actual employee.
Billionaire Spends a Fortune to Move One Tree (2016)
The Road to Tyranny:  a Conversation with Timothy Snyder
That's really terrible news. My condolences to the Kalanick family in this difficult time. I hope his dad recovers soon.

I'm going to call my mom today and tell her I love her.
Same model as before where you are contractually required to return it, except you get a rebate after the cartridge is returned within a certain timeframe.
It also nailed Snowden leaks before they actually happened!

I also recommend watching Person of Interest. It's a really in-depth discussion of issues a superhuman AI could create within the level of technology we enjoy today, as well as ethical problems relating safe AI and people's right to determine their own fate.
> It's done under the guise of security, but is really just immature hazing.

I so agree. I saw things like this in the military. At that time it was tools...

Before aircraft takeoff and between shift changes; all tools must be turned in and accounted for. If one is missing all personnel for that shift and the one coming on have to go together for a tool search at every jet, vehicle, etc. This means every person searches as a team until it is found - this could be 50 or more people, 1/2 staying late from the previous shift! Depending on the supervisor they may also ground the aircraft squadron temporarily- ensuring that the pilots and admin staff also know who lost a tool.

It was extreme hazing - but at least I could assume that it was done for a good reason - true safety. If a jet starts up and a tool gets sucked into the engine bay people can die - not to mention the damage - it would be career ending for those found at fault.

Unfortunately like anything some joker I saw used it as an opportunity to harass someone they did not like. People could pocket a targets tool for a while, and turn it in anonymously at some point into the search when they felt enough damage had been done.

When I saw someone do that and justify it as a lesson - I decided that my integrity is more valuable. I have not regretted that particular decision yet.
He'd enter into a contract with whoever bought Microsoft's IP, presumably OracleApple or Teslabet. Old corporations never die, they just fade away.
Well, if you sign the contract and the contract is legally "fair" (i.e., you weren't coerced, nothing fraudulent took place, etc.), then it doesn't matter what you say. The EULA isn't the only thing defining what agreeing to the contract means. The general framework of contract law in your country defines it as well.

We can quibble over whether EULAs are enforceable contracts due to one reason or another, but you can't just say, "Well I don't agree with the meaning of the EULA, therefore I'm not bound by the agreement".
Google's employment contract with Levendowski specified that all disputes are resolved by arbitration rather than court.
From what I understand, no that isn't similar enough on its own. I do not understand this part of the law "very deeply" but basically, there are a few things that google needs to prove

[EDIT: NOTE BELOW](1) Levandowsky took information from google in some kind of physical way (files on a thumb drive, network transfer etc), it doesn't count if he just took the files by "memorizing" them in his brain

(2) The information that was stole was secret, and highly beneficial to google/waymo

(3) Levandowsky used the information that he stole to influence designs at uber, and specific uber designs can be traced back to information in those docs

Proving these 3 things in a civil case is tricky, that is why waymo is trying to get a lot of "discovery" which is basically the ability for google/waymo to gather information on ubers corporate network.

EDIT: (1) isn't true, but there are some strange edge cases around what stealing is, like, if levandowski is developing the state of the art stuff himself, and had been working on it since before waymo, what is his knowledge, and what is google/waymo's trade secrets?
For people that are curious:

Why Trisecting the Angle is Impossible: http://www.uwgb.edu/dutchs/pseudosc/trisect.htm
"the Store is booming on the desktop...The half-billion desktop Windows 10 users are eventually going to turn in to a half-billion desktop Store users, and it’s going to happen faster than anyone thinks"

This seems remarkably optimistic and entirely at odds with Microsoft's history with this sort of initiative.
Just a heads-up, standardnotes.org is very broken (big area of overlapping text) in IE11.
I dont use it, but in practical terms, I think btrfs is safe to use, from what I've been reading. There are some corner cases where something might bork, and you'll be staring at a recovery job, but hopefully no data will be lost.

The main thing that I think is stopping widespread adoption is that none of the developers seems to want to come forth and say "Here's a stable, rock solid version. Go nuts.". There's always a caveat or a disclaimer. Use at your own risk and all that.

When even the developers are kinda jittery about it, it isn't exactly reassuring.
If anyone could contribute to any organization
Also see Splosky's well known essay https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-...
No. I open the app every day for 45-60 minutes when I go for a daily walk, no funny business.
It doesn't appear to me that EU citizens are paying a one-time fee for a lifetime license. It appears to me (though I'm no lawyer) that they are paying a one-time fee for a subscription. I don't know whether it's time-limited or lifetime, but it is a distinction with an actual difference, and may affect how EU law regards it.
Long awaited release full of joy!
You're right, I went to far classifying this as a pyramid scheme. My point was to separate investment from speculation. I believe we can categorically separate the two.

With investment we can have win/win/win situations. For example: an investor purchases a bond with a yield (thus making a profit), the issuer -- a producer of some good -- uses the capital to buy more efficient machinery, thus enabling him to lower costs and sell more product (thus making a profit), and the end result for the consumer of this good/product is a decrease in price (a net profit also).

While speculation does have economic value, the profits made by speculators is zero-sum: those who bet correctly take money away from those who bet wrongly. As such, it's categorically different from investment, as outlined above.

On further thought, though, perhaps this classification of speculation only applies to commodities, and doesn't make sense for stock. After all, instead of paying out dividends, companies can just use this money to buy back stock, thus transferring profits to investors in this manner instead.
> didn't this whole thing start when a vendor sent an e-mail to Google that was intended for Uber, and the contents of the design in that e-mail were sufficiently similar to Google's designs that Google started this process.

Yes.

> Was the design not similar enough to prove Uber's use of Google's IP?

It may well be, at trial, in court.

> Am I remembering or interpreting the story incorrectly?

No - but it still has to be demonstrated to be true to the extent required for a civil case.
According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold#Toxicity, the gold ion is toxic, but there are no chemical processes known to occur in the human body that can solubilize metallic gold.
If your own testimony is the only available evidence against you, that'd be a weak case.
html`<h1>oh hai ${name}` won't get any complaints from any linters by default, while h('h1', `oh hai ${name}` would throw an error.
Yep.

What they should have done was add a notification in the error log when you startup-- "Query Cache is enabled. Are you really sure you want to do that? Read http://whatever/qcisawful.html for more information."

And this should have been added to the final releases of every version all the way back to 5.0.

For people saying "please, it's been off since 5.6 in 2013", my company's primary product runs on Percona 5.5 (2010), and our secondary product, is actively developing the _next_ version on Percona 5.6. That isn't particularly unusual.
Also for projects that regularly receive a good dose of Twitter hate (e.g. systemd).
This looks interesting, but I don't know enough about the field to say whether this is an important/well supported/used language, or not?
Thanks for your reply! I'm thrilled to hear that MySQL is taking strictness much more seriously with the above-mentioned strategies. It looks the top few of my biggest gripes are getting addressed, and that's exciting news.

Could you elaborate more on MySQL being the Ikea of databases? What exactly does that mean, and how do those things differentiate it from PostgreSQL currently (and how will they in the future)?

If it's mostly just around new-developer friendliness, I worry that MySQL has more of an (admittedly somewhat exaggerated) reputation as the "PHP of databases" right now: it's easy to use out of the box, but in a way that doesn't discourage poor practice and results in traps and land-mines for future development. How do you guys plan on achieving such a (laudable) goal without bringing about the kind of baggage that stereotypically has come with it? FWIW, I suspect the strictness changes you mentioned will go a long way towards addressing that, but I'm curious if there's more you have in mind.

PS. Apologies if I've set up a bit of a straw man in my last paragraph. I'm trying to predict what your answer to the prior paragraph might be and pose additional questions based on that answer to avoid an extra round-trip.
Market prognostication isn't generally good for your sanity or financial wellbeing, and MarketWatch is kind of a trash site, given to talking about technical indicators and support levels and other BS like that.

That said, there are a number of aspects to the current economy that I find deeply worrying - incredibly high housing/healthcare prices that are seemingly disconnected from reported inflation metrics and median wages, the US at record debt levels relative to GDP (if you count household+government debt), worldwide cash printing, with only assets growing in price to match, and a ferocious property bubble in China. If the last one pops, it seems likely that the money flowing out of China into US property markets will drop out, which would take out the upward pricing pressure, and probably ding US property values quite rapidly, since most people here can't reasonably support the cost of houses here on median wages with anything over rock bottom interest rates. This would seem to make existing secured loans a whole lot less secured than they were before. Also worryingly, banks are compensating for unaffordability by requiring less money down, and covering the difference with PMI (insurance). I think the US populace might simultaneously be nearing the breaking point in terms of the debt it can support due to years of easy money discouraging frugality. If spending dropped off due to an inability to spend more, that would ding the corporate earnings supported by credit, which would spike PE ratios, unless P dropped a lot.

In short, if these things come to a head in proximity to each other, it seems like we might really be in for a shitstorm, which may include a large dose of inflation and bond yields rising if central banks need to redeem a chunk of that US debt they've been gobbling up for its historical safety, in order to compensate for flagging economies to meet their spending obligations.

I really hope I'm wrong (and please tell me why, if I am), but our fundamentals don't seem to support the prices, unless the market is saying the dollar is worth a whole lot less than we think it is.
There is local service called RuТaxi that had 1 million rides daily and recently merged with least one other service. I suppose it's could be less popular in Moscow, but according to RBC it's larger than Yandex, Uber and Gett together. Source in Russian:

http://www.rbc.ru/technology_and_media/03/05/2017/5908a5de9a...

Paywalled English version:

http://www.unquote.com/cee/official-record/3004782/ufg-backs...
Well, that's why I hate it. It destroys any meaning words have.
I don't think that would be the case at all. People choose hotels based on price, location, amenities, and reviews. Making it easier to compare vacancy listings isn't all of a sudden going to make the customer seeking a 4 star hotel, choose a $50/night motel because of the price differential.
Would that be MITx 6.00.1x?
Off target effects from CRISPR is not new. The method leverages DNA repair mechanisms in the cell to do the recombination. All errors involved in those DNA repair mechanisms (there are distinct ones) would apply here。
Maybe the Apple "walled garden" keeps the animals from eating your fruit.
There are many ways to make an employee's life worse without doing anything illegal. You tend to see them in dysfunctional companies.