skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sounds like you don't have an equity plan yet - I'd start by proposing one to him. Propose a 50/50 split, but between technical and non-technical, then explain that if you need to add an additional non-techincal founder it will have to come out of his 50%.

This conversation can lead a number of good places - 1) he gets motivated and things go back to the way they were at the beginning, 2) he agrees to add a third person and split his share, 3) he decides to walk away, perhaps with a small share of equity for work already done.
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I can't speak for others, but I was never taught the "until marriage" clause, and I graduated high school in 2011. We were taught that abstinence was the only way to completely remove the risk of pregnancy or STD/STI, which really doesn't change once you're married or whatever.
Perhaps this is the result of increased computing power, search engine use, and the internet in the 2000s. Since computers can now let you automatically organize, tag, and find any kind of music you want, there's less need to manually break down music into larger categories for organization. Combine this with YouTube and social media dictating what's popular or has gone viral, and you end up with a generation of consumers that sees movies, fashion, movies, and culture more as a constantly moving trend than something that stays static for a long period of time.
If my mom had just died in an accident and there was a friend in place who I trusted to take over and mind the store while I went and rebooted my soul for a few months, I'd probably take leave too. Seems like it's likely a net positive for Uber in the long run.
I am going to wrap this article around a bigger more general concept. I might be going off topic but bear with me.

The difference between a startup culture and a corporate culture is the difference between a creative company and a disciplined company. "Discipline" is like a swiss knife, something that can work anywhere and everywhere. Creativity only works in some places, in places that are desperate, in places that are still making basic decisions, in places where the problems are high and the solutions are few.

A disciplined company has no problem being acquired by a creative company. But a creative company has many problems when they start masquerading in a disciplined company. (Read: Microsoft acquires Company X and writes it off 5 years later.)

Working in a disciplined company is easy for most people. No manual required. Working in a creative company is difficult for most people but easy for creative people. Most foreigners or people with diverse minority backgrounds have a difficult time adapting to very social environments. They would rather stay strictly professional and confined to their work.

But here is the problem: what is the point of having diversity if social interaction is nil? How messed up is your social world if it does not include unsocial minorities?

There is a balance that is needed. Google started as creative and became more corporate and also became more "boring". (Sergey Brin's word)
Free*

* If you pay them $500+ for the computer
Well, if they're "potentially as harmful", then probability is on the side of making the switch to an e-cig.

It can be better, or the same. Can't be worse, and you might leave it altogether in the end if you make the switch.
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Whats sucks is when there are no Meetups near you.
Apart from the obvious bad manners implied by blowing huge clouds of smoke in a space where people are tightly packed, as in a queue; what problem do you have with e-smoke exactly? The smell?
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I agree that the controls in modern games are much more complex, and so are the games. My argument was more about things like "go into town and talk to X" or "find this thing to unlock the door" type of game elements.
The same can be said for pipe tobacco.

I went to an 80 year old's birthday party recently and he has been smoking since WW2 or thereabouts. His advice - get a pipe and buy tobacco from a proper tobacconist. In that way he avoids all the chemical horrors of regular hand rolling tobacco. Normally this stuff has flavours in it, stuff to make it burn and stuff to keep it moist. The difference is huge.

My advice to the government is to ban adulterated tobacco products so only dry rolling tobacco is for sale. Then to apply a minimum age to buy tobacco with this age rising one year every other year. In a relatively short period of time tobacco will become as rare as pipe smoking is.
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Your experience has been positive because the closed-source platform fueled by $350,000,000 in VC hasn't had to address revenue issues, yet.
"vocal, vicious and vindictive" are the words you use to describe people who are saying "Respect the wishes of people who want to be referred to in a specific way".
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Uber eyeing purchase of car-parking startup Luxe
So they left their education behind in Cuba?

Or what you're saying is that they went from middle and upper class to temporarily lower class due to escaping Communism, then back to middle and upper class where they started. Pretty amazing, but it actually proves the point of the article rather than disproves is. People in the middle and upper classes stay there. Often even when they migrate to a different country. It's what happened to my parents so it's not unique to any particular heritage. It's a class phenomenon.
At least here in Switzerland this is definitly a legal business arrangement that you could go to court over. Proving your claims will be more difficult than if you had a written formal agreement, of course.
I wouldn't call it corporate, I'd call it professional.
Not only that, I personally found out I was fooling myself. Sure I was working until 8PM-9PM many days but found that I wasn't getting much at all done in the mornings. I'd hit my productivity stride around 1-2 PM after lunch.

Getting in and starting early, finishing up early/mid afternoon and then enjoying the evenings either working on my own thing or just spending time with the SO has significantly increased quality of life.
They're meaningfully different in how they approach failure.

StrongLifts is worse off in this regard for the reason that they teach reducing volume once you start running into plateaus in order to artificially progress. "Benching that lift too hard? Well cut out 40% of the volume and keep going!"

Starting Strength fails in teaches the idea of deloading by dropping weight then taking a run at it without changing any of the training methodology which is arguably a reason for the "spinning the wheels" approach you see from several lifters who claim to run the program for months on end upwards and beyond a year. It's also seen as a less ideal program for its poor split on upper/lower volume and really benefits from accessory lifts thrown in when the lifter is capable.... but at that point you might as well just run a better program.

They're decent programs in that they get a untrained individual to put up enough weight to get themselves out of a horribly weak position but they don't teach anything meaningful for long term. Other programs achieve the necessary linear progression that is capable during your noob gains without having stupid programming quirks that lifters need to unlearn when they move onto intermediate programs.
>Until relatively recently, the terms "gender" and "sex" meant essentially the same thing and could be used interchangeably

Um, no, absolutely not, it's literally the opposite, the term "gender," was essentially introduced to be distinct from biological sex. Its entire purpose for existing is to be different from "sex."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender

>Gender is the range of characteristics pertaining to, and differentiating between, masculinity and femininity. Depending on the context, these characteristics may include biological sex (i.e. the state of being male, female or an intersex variation which may complicate sex assignment), sex-based social structures (including gender roles and other social roles), or gender identity.[1][2][3] Some cultures have specific gender roles that can be considered distinct from male and female, such as the hijra (chhaka) of India and Pakistan.

>Sexologist John Money introduced the terminological distinction between biological sex and gender as a role in 1955. Before his work, it was uncommon to use the word gender to refer to anything but grammatical categories.[1][2] However, Money's meaning of the word did not become widespread until the 1970s, when feminist theory embraced the concept of a distinction between biological sex and the social construct of gender. Today the distinction is strictly followed in some contexts, especially the social sciences[4][5] and documents written by the World Health Organization (WHO).[3]

>If someone wants to hold the unscientific (and IMO weird) view that, for example, "otherkin" is a gender, that is perfectly fine by me.

Gender is not a scientific concept, it's a social one. Gender categories and concepts are not uniform throughout history or cultures.

Even biology isn't so clear cut, there also exists people who are intersexed to varying degrees. Is it "unscientific" to call someone who has female sexual organs but has a Y chromosome a women? Maybe, but it makes sense on a social level and if she wants to be referred to as a woman.
For someone who recently lost a mother and still have a badly injured father. This is totally understandable regardless whether he is a CEO of Uber. For a regular employee, he could request for a sabbatical. But as a CEO, that's difficult given there is no CFO, CMO, COO existed.
It's a bit offputting that the SC4 calls itself a "hardware-secure module" which seems to be a unique term (vs hardware security module).
I'm surprised this isn't higher up, that's what confused me. How can they report a new discovery while simultaneously testing a new measuring device?

There's a lot about the article that smells bad.
Huh, interesting. I didn't even know GPG could handle devices as such. I was just looking for a device that holds my key files (like for email, ssh, ...). Would of course be great if you could hand the device some plaintext and it would encrypt it without the key leaving it, but I didn't even think about that to be honest. But it makes sense :-).
From Fiction to Reality: A Beginner's Guide to Artificial Neural Networks
While its the app is an interesting art piece or commentary on the way we consume disposable fluff content, The Atlantic seems to be,(excuse my language here) "getting up its own ass" about the significance of this app. I'd argue if the app offers purely disposable content, wouldn't the users find the app itself disposable? At least with other social networks, there's the "social" part that is somewhat meaningful to its users.
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I have in mind is a platform that lets anyone donate money to those less well off. The only measure of how well off you are is how much you donate. The system takes the money donated and every month it averages the donations. If you donated more than average you get nothing, if you donated less than average you get topped up to the average. The system is built on a blockchain, where each person who donates has a verifiable real world identity (let’s say their picture and their fingerprint, as an example) and all the funds they donate and get back are fully transparent.

I’m trying to think through the permutations of all this, because I actually think it could be robust and self-regulating, e.g. in general it just moves money from people with more money to people with less money, no strings attached.

I am absolutely aware that this is potentially open to gaming, money laundering, and a zillion other bad behaviors, what I'm wondering is whether there is a way to make it self-regulating to the point where I just want to give a dollar to someone that has less money than I do and the system does that.
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Resume-driven development - never heard that term before. Now I have an excellent descriptor for what I see all too often.

Maybe O'Reilly should release a book on RDD?
Aqueduct is a server-side framework for building and deploying REST applications. It is written in Dart. Its goal is to provide an integrated, consistently styled API.

The framework contains behavior for routing and authorizing HTTP requests, persisting data in PostgreSQL, testing, and more.

One thing that makes Aqueduct really interesting is that it runs the application on a few isolated-memory threads. This is a concept interpreted from the Erlang/Elixir that leverages Dart 'Isolate's. (Here's some documentation on that: https://aqueduct.io/docs/http/structure/)

The aqueduct command-line tool serves applications, manages database schemas and OAuth 2.0 clients, and generates OpenAPI specifications.
Agreed. The reason I would recommend Starting Strength for beginners is the tremendous detail in written instruction, forums with free feedback on form, and zero ambiguity about training program, which act together to remove the barriers to entry for many beginners.
"Abstinence only" is terrible at any level. It's a good idea to encourage abstinence, but withholding education about birth control and STD protection is dangerous along the same lines as withholding vaccines.

Getting back to the original topic, we need to know more information about the other additives in e-cigs as well. There are kids at my child's high-school that smoke non-nicotine e-cigs supposedly because they like the taste (they come in fruity flavors).
That's unfortunate, but there are a lot of projects out there that depend on TOML, and it hasn't changed since 2015. It's de facto stable at this point.

The author has said as much: https://github.com/toml-lang/toml/issues/330
> I have seen quite a few experts in their field and they didn't work long hours but everything they did counted.

Yeah, that is a much better position to be in than someone who is drowning in useless make-work all day.

But, after having reached this level of good set-up, one is now sort-of in competition with everyone else who has reached a similar good set-up. Well, even just ignoring the competition part, which is maybe a red herring, obviously you are self-gating how good you want to be by working more or fewer hours. So maybe these people decided a certain amount is "good enough" and didn't want to push past that, which is totally fine. But I am just raising the point that you can always push further if you want to.
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nice! btw, wrt the `Memset` function, if you have something like

func foo(b []byte) {
for i := range b {
b[i] = 0
}
}

the compiler turns it into a `memclr` call which can be pretty fast: https://github.com/golang/go/commit/f03c9202c43e0abb13066985...

Perhaps there could be a performance boost to a simple for-range loop if `value == 0`?
For back pain, yes weight training definitely helped me too.

For wrist and elbow pain from computer use, however, weight training made it worse for me. At that time I did a bit of googling and for RSI seems like rest and stopping the repetitive motions is best. The exercises irritate the same nerves. To solve the issue, I switch to a trackball instead of a mouse. (To be clear, weight training was miraculous to me when I first started, but for RSI, fix the cause)
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http://christophjanz.blogspot.com/2016/06/saas-funding-napki...
0) that's most definitely not blank page, I have noscript and it does load content.

1) what kind of response is this?
Looks promising. But didn't see anywhere in the docs how does this work.
* What's the underlying server?
* Does it transpile to Node.js?
* How does the third party module system work?
* Which are other readymade libraries that can be used with this?
That's a great idea, thanks for it.
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Take a look at the article by Cody Brown regarding his coinbase account being drained of ETH and BTC due to the same fundamental problem: way too easy to steal someone's phone number.
> That’s because the culture was mostly about the business of software, how you build it, how you sell it, how you support it. If you were excited about that, you automatically belonged. You didn’t need to stay late, or drink alcohol, or play Rock Band, or play board games, or not have kids to pick up, or go to church, or not go to church, or do anything except show up 9-to-5 and care a lot about good software.

Yes! Yes! Yes!

I don't drink, and its kind of sad that I get to miss out sometimes because I don't go to the bar. Because I like to bike instead, why can't I not feel pressure to go to the bar and do my own thing after work?

Handling work stuff at Work I feel is the way to go.
(And we'd also really love to hear any critical feedback.)
> I'm convinced that React only has a role to play in SPA's (or self contained widgets)

Convinced by what? Many do use it outside of SPAs.
yeah what is with that? I want all the boxes ticked!
He spewed a lot of rethoric in his speeches, but I doubt his actual economic measures were specially socialistic.
Yes, totally agree! We're going to make adjustments to the algorithm so that books by the same author show up less (obviously if I'm searching for Harry Potter I'm probably not looking to be recommended six other J.K. Rowling books).
Health Effects of Overweight and Obesity in 195 Countries Over 25 Years
> If all that isn’t convincing enough to turn you onto weights, perhaps this is: maintaining strength later in life “seems to be one of the best predictors of survival," says Peterson. “When we add strength...almost every health outcome improves.”

This sort of thing is repeated a lot, but isn't this just a correlation? We don't know which way it goes. Maybe sick people get weaker, rather than weak people get sicker. That makes just as much sense.
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Are they teaching abstinence "until you're out of high school"? Otherwise it's either "until marriage" or "until death." I think most kids understand that marriage usually involves sex, even with bad sex ed.
This post makes it sound like you are on the junior side. IF that's the case, I'd absolutely advise getting a "desk" job first. Get your skills way up. That feedback loop will absolutely be tighter if you are a junior.

With remote work, it's about what you can show for it, not just the words. What do you have to show for what you've learned?
piece of crap won't let me edit but
salary: 80k (1 yr) -> 110k (2 yr) -> 145k (3 yr) with about 15-20k from consulting work on my own in the past year
I'm not sure if you were being sarcastic, but there is: it's called Xcode.
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Regarding the "banana" example near the end of the article, it reminded me of an essay[1] I read on Fravia+'s website Searchlores[0], about searching for physical real-world objects. It doesn't mention to speak the name of the item out loud, but rather to use (if possible) holding a similar or identical object as a physical reminder:

"""Sometime it also helps to have an identical (or as similar as possible) object in your hand: thank to this "physical reminder", the brightness and color of the target will be more evident while searching for its brethren."""

I have tried this on occasion, and while (obviously) I can't say for sure that did the trick, it seems like it would have a similar (or perhaps even stronger) benefit than saying the name of the object out loud. I expect doing both would be even better.

If the site was still alive, I'd send in an addendum to that essay about it :-)

[0] http://search.lores.eu/ -- An incredibly useful resource, mainly about finding stuff online. Be mindful however it was written for the web as it was ~15 years ago (many tricks no longer work). Also try not to be put off by the Stallman-esque idealist rhetoric ;) RMS and Fravia+ used to be good friends, in fact (Fravia+ has since passed away). And like RMS, he too turned out to be prophetic/right often :)

[1] http://www.search.lores.eu/objects_searching.htm
It runs directly on the Dart VM, which has its own HTTP server implementation. That's the interesting thing about the Dart VM - it's a C++ executable with no ties to JS. Third party modules may be provided by through Dart's package manager, https://pub.dartlang.org.

It's command-line tool runs the application, but there isn't much from stopping you from just using the `dart` command line tool and a Dart script to start it.

edit: Basically, you can run this on any machine that can install Dart.
> If you want to indicate the gender of a person, there is absolutely nothing wrong with using the terms "male" or "female".

In English, "man" and "woman" are the preferred terms for male and female humans, respectively. "Male" and "female" are clinical and dehumanizing. It's like saying "Laura is gestating an embryo" instead of saying "Laura is going to have a baby." They're also just grammatically weird, because they're adjectives that have been turned into nouns. It's like saying "Ben is a Hispanic" instead of "Ben is a Hispanic person." Finally, they're one letter longer for no benefit.

Neither of the reasons people use "male" and "female" instead of "man" and "woman" are any good. The first is attempting to sound educated by using French-derived words like male and female in preference to German-derived words like man and woman. The second is that "male" and "female" punt on having to refer to the person's age, and in our era of perpetual adolescence people are terrified of being considered a "man" or a "woman."
To be fair, J. Craig Venter's use of shotgun sequencing was poo-pooed by the NIH, which provides another example where the maverick had merit. It's kind of a difficult position to be in as a funding agency- you want to fund all of the cool things, but you need to balance that with practicality, which leads to risk aversion. It'd be quite a different world if our federal budget were a bit different and everyone were awash with cash. :)
I often wanted a tag system, but this is not what I was picturing, I think. I'll rather like to have a database and an entry in the context menue to tag files without moving them. It should also be able to identify the file if is being moved or renamed.
This was published earlier and in a much more readable format at:

https://blog.tartanllama.xyz/c++/2017/01/20/initialization-i...
When you can point out a "market failure" that resulted in famines that killed millions of people, maybe we'll have something on the same scale to account for.
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Similar bills have been introduced repeatedly in WA over the last several years. Rumor has it that both Microsoft and Amazon are somehow responsible for defeating these attempts. There is a 2017 bill that made progress in March this year, not sure what the latest status is. [1] [2]

By now one would think all US states would be eager to imitate California and simply reject non-competes. I think Colorado is close but not quite as radical.

[1] https://www.geekwire.com/2017/scaled-back-bill-aimed-providi...

[2] http://app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary?BillNumber=1967&Year=2017
I'm running a CopperheadOS that I built myself with microG added, and I've found it implements enough of the Google services (including push and SafetyNet) that everything I care about works well, including banking apps. YMMV.
A quick jaunt to Stack Overflow Jobs, Glassdoor, or h1bdata.info will show you that in the vast majority of cases, no. Different markets have wildly varying pay.

If you meant "overall net income", then the Houston dev would likely come out ahead after taxes and rent/mortgage.