skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you go with SAFEs for a early Angel round (< $1M), how do you distribute equity for the founders, early (first 3-5) employees, advisors?
Yes, it absolutely is. Outlawing private communications between citizens (or subjects, in the UK's case) is not the first step down this particular slippery slope, it's well past the halfway point.

I recommend watching a movie called The Lives of Others, to those who don't understand or agree. It should be available on either Netflix or Amazon, or if all else fails, the Pirate Bay.
"Thus, there seems to be little upside to laptop use in class, while there is clearly a downside."

Thanks to bs articles like this that try to over generalize their results, I was unsure if I "needed" a laptop when returning to school.

Got a Surface Book and here's what I've experienced over the last 2 semesters.
- Going paperless, I'm more organized than ever. I just need to make sure I bring my surface with me wherever I go and I'm good.

- Record lectures, tutorials, office hours, etc. Although I still take notes to keep myself focused, I can go back and review things with 100% accuracy thanks to this.

- Being at 2 places at once. ie: Make last minute changes before submitting an assignment for class A or attend review lecture to prepare for next week's quiz in class B? I can leave the surface in class B to record the lecture while I finish up the assignment for class A.

If you can't control yourself from browsing the internet during a lecture then the problem is not with your laptop...
> It would make sense if systemd delivered on its promise of automatically detecting service dependencies (through socket activation mechanism).

New features require time to gain wider adoption. Some services already support this, but most don't (yet).
It matters if they want to sell to consumers in the US
This is exactly my usecase. I replaced my NodeJs ORM layer with PostgREST and express apis layer with Aws ApiGateway.
I'm very cautious about exposing my home network to the Internet. I can't really see putting my primary data storage on a system that's fully exposed if some critical vulnerability is discovered. I need everywhere access to a pretty small portion of my data.

Even given properly managed encryption one has to assume the system could get wiped which makes other backup regimes necessary. As you say, hard to get bulletproof. Not that most people are bulletproof today.
You guys desperately (I'd like to type that 37 times in a row for emphasis) need a serious, one-click to start, interactive product demonstration (without requiring my email first). I should be able to instantly step into serious business use examples catering to multiple industries (eg whatever industries you guys might choose to target first), so you can show me what it can actually do.

I clicked on product tour, entered a name, and then got this ridiculousness:

Me: Johnny Cash

Bot: That's interesting

Bot: Ready for an adventure?

Me: No

Bot: Oh no, why? It will be fun!

Bot: Are you sure? :(

Me: (pre-scripted) ok, I can try

Bot: Great, so let's try again.

Bot: Do you want to do something relaxing or should we go crazy?

---

That's where I quit. Unintentionally creepy bot is slightly creepy. Am I talking to a serious product bot, or is this get trashed and sleep on my couch party bot? Wild and crazy times ahead.

Potential customers should be able to dive right into a conversation with your bot tech. You should be extremely eager to show me what it can do in a live conversation and you should have stellar pre-built examples for that purpose all available from one click on the home page. My take away from my experience, is your bot tech can't do much so you're not immediately getting into showing off its capabilities (I don't know if that's the case or not, but if this were any other site, that would be my take away from it, and I'd never return).
Used to swear by my HP OmniGo 100.
> I see a bright future for Elixir, and a breath of fresh air for Erlang.

Is Erlang really that much of a barrier? Erlang was a touch odd, but I didn't find the language itself that mind-bending. Wrapping my head around the proper way to structure things and the proper use of the OTP libraries was much more time-consuming. That level of architectural thought doesn't magically go away because you changed the language.

About the only thing I found irritating was a lack of language support for mutable hash tables, but I thought they fixed that at some point.

And Erlang's bit packing/unpacking borders on magical in terms of expressiveness and speed. I wish other languages would adopt it.
If there was an open source and federated equivalent to the features Discord provides I'd use it. There is no such product. Matrix is interesting, but the experience is no where near as polished as Discord and friends and that matters for mass adoption.
Short answer: AWS S3

I've written a lightweight JS app authenticated by AWS Cognito that uploads my photos to S3. It even has a thumbnail making Lambda function, and a comments sections for family and friends. I wrote about it here: http://www.pesfandiar.com/blog/2017/03/10/serverless-photo-s...
>White people make up roughly 62 percent of the U.S. population but only about 49 percent of those who are killed by police officers. African Americans, however, account for 24 percent of those fatally shot and killed by the police despite being just 13 percent of the U.S. population.

Which is meaningless, since black people commit more serious crimes than white people.

If you break it down by people suspected of having committed a felony, you're actually more likely to be shot as a white guy.
there is, PostgreSQL
https://blog.2ndquadrant.com/application-users-vs-row-level-...

(and saying GraphQL can't work with databases I think is wrong, it's the same as saying OO languages are not a good fit for relational databases)
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We are looking for a PhD-level scientist to join us in developing predictive models and other components of automated trading systems. You will apply modern statistical machine-learning methods to large, high-dimensional data sets. The work will range from data preparation to model development to production software implementation.

We are successful and growing. Willingness to take initiative, and a gritty determination to productize, are essential.
We hire on the basis of exceptional talent. If you excel in a technical field such as statistics, mathematics, computer science, engineering, or operations research, then we encourage you to contact us.

The following criteria, while not all requirements, illustrate the demands of this role:
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+ Evidence of strong mathematical abilities, e.g. publication record, graduate coursework, or competition placement
+ Substantial programming experience and interest in software development techniques
+ Competence in solving large-scale computing problems
+ Track record as an applied researcher
+ Demonstrable clarity of thought (not optional)

Interest in financial applications is essential, but experience in finance is not a primary factor in our hiring.
Benefits and compensation are highly competitive.

The above job description is just a starting point in terms of possible duties and seniority. We can be very flexible for the right person.

Email CV/request for more info to charles@voleon.com
Great site, I can see I'll be using it alot!

What would be really nice is if you could add in a m2 ssd drive type.
That's a good list. I'm curious about what you're referring to in 6. The only thing I can think of is beneath Nessus, but I can't for the life of me recall how it plays into what Severian writes (or perhaps rather what he doesn't). It's been a few long years since I was last there though.
Here's the test. Reverse the situation. Off-duty cop is buying a car and random good neighbor black person sees all the same "suspicious behaviors" and begins an armed confrontation with the person they believe to be stealing a car. Suddenly pointing a gun at a "suspicious person" is no longer "lawful and proper" behavior. At a minimum, the civilian goes to jail for being reckless.
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I can probably help, send me an email.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanya_Grotter
Or just sucky upstream - my local cableco, Wave, has a 1Gbps DOCSIS3.0 service - except the upstream is a paltry 10mbps - that's a 100:1 down/up ratio.
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Hardware wise, Vive's tracking tech supports larger tracking volumes and is more scalable. We'll be able to add quite a few more tracked objects to a Vive scene.
I was using Google Photos until really recently when I decided I'm just not comfortable giving them that much un-gated insight into my life... Switched over to iCloud and I have no regrets. Google did some fun/novel things with my photos and their ability to render hundreds of photo thumbnails quickly on my mobile was impressive but I can live without it for privacies sake.
Forget "wrong". It is a dysfunctional way for the system to be set up.
> It was in 1956 that Beijing realized it had to go easy on Pyongyang, despite Kim’s maddening obstinacy, because the alternative was to surrender the country to the Soviet influence.

Well there is no Soviet influence anymore, so how does that have relevance today?

> Like Mao in 1956, Xi is tired of North Korea, but he is keen to emphasize that China won’t crack the whip on anyone’s behalf.

So they would prefer the US go in directly? How does that benefit them? China could probably get rid of Kim and install a friendlier government and be the hero of the world.
Of course there are grey areas, and it's appropriate that they're decided by the courts. I'm sure nobody would argue that a lossy copy of a work protected by copyright can still infringe, even if the lossiness was deliberate and intended to differentiate it from the original to a minimal degree.

Copyright of literary characters is one of the harder ones to define, and perhaps a system more like patents would be more appropriate for them, but that's neither here nor there.

Let's stick to computer science for a while. Imagine I have come up with a sorting algorithm for integers with significantly better time complexity than existing options. I can describe that in any number of programming languages, in natural language, in pictographs, etc. It's a skill that people can learn, or a tool that could be embedded in silicon and used for financial gain. Doesn't that sound more like an invention than a creative work? Shouldn't patents be the best fit?

Don't get me wrong, copyright and patent systems the world over hace significant class, but for us as software engineers to declare that patents shouldn't apply to our work because it is somehow fundamentally different to the other science and engineering disciplines is just arrogance.
Sorry, but that is not a good comparison. I would assume that off-duty cops (rightly) have more authority when it comes to these types of situations.
https://github.com/happi/theBeamBook for the VM

http://erlang-in-anger.com/ for introspecting it in production
"Absolutely nothing wrong" is a little bit overstating it.

She wasn't doing anything illegal, sure, but it was a bit reckless to arrange the transfer so that the buyer was expected to go alone, onto someone's driveway, to replace the license plates and drive off with the car without talking to the resident or owner.

Imagine if you sold your Magic cards to someone and told them, "oh, they're in my bedroom at 123 Elm Street -- just jimmy open the window and fish 'em out. If anyone asks, just give them this handwritten note."

Or, "Cool, just pick up the keys from under my office desk. Walk past security, just ignore them if they stop you, and fish them out of the cabinet. Pick the lock if you have to."

No. Bad idea. You look like a thief doing that.

Could they have handled the situation better? Definitely. But it's a bit much to act outraged that anyone would misinterpret her actions.
Honggfuzz
Thanks for the response, it's good to know what's causing the problems with messages and that it's being worked on. I'll try to contact support next time I have voice issues with my group.
+1 on the missing trust... needs to be addressed.
Things are by no means perfect, we have the same cases of sexism, harrasment and scandals as everybody else. But it would never occur to me that it is inappropriate to be alone with a female colleague at work.

How believable would a claim of sexual harassment be if everyone you asked said, "I have never known him to be behind a closed door with any woman but his wife"? I mean, that's the point of the article, right? Folks spun all kinds of rumors about the first century Christians. Peter admonished them to live such that anyone hearing those rumors would laugh them off as ridiculous. Ever wonder why Billy Graham was never caught in some sex scandal while his peers all around him were? He was never alone in a room with a woman other than his wife. (And, without personally knowing the man, it probably helped if he never had sex with anyone but his wife as well.)

You acknowledge the same scandals as in the U. S., and yet I don't understand how it's all weird and shit, like "Saudi Arabia". Estimate for yourself how many of those cases wouldn't exist had the parties involved gave not even the appearance of impropriety. Let's say, hypothetically, one party accuses the other of sexual harassment. And, because we've been temporarily granted psychic powers, we know the accused didn't do anything of the sort. Well, if there have been a lot of closed-door meetings and one-on-one sessions at the bar, some people are going to believe the rumors.

And it's not just sex. I've known a number of church pastors over the years, and to a man and woman they'll tell you they never touch the church money. Easy to shoot down rumors of dipping out of the collection plate if no one can say they've ever seen they pastor touch a single dollar bill. Of those that do count the money, I've always seen two people in the room. It squelches rumors, and probably most importantly, removes the temptation. Whereas I've been reading a surprising number of stories over the past year of children's soccer/football and baseball leagues losing tens of thousands from unaccountable team treasurers embezzling the funds.

Some people are going to believe the rumor regardless, that's just the way they roll. Others will need a little convincing. My advice is not to give them any more ammo than necessary.
I just wish they were more professional in their communications. Service went down hard this weekend and their response was a cat GIF. Hard to justify to anyone in business that they should take it seriously. A shame when their tech is such a great match for professional collaboration, and all it would take to grow it organically would be less marketing copy not more.
Thanks for vouching.

I often read HN through the HackerNews Robot on Telegram and more than once I see interesting stories that seems to have been flagged off the site even if they were upvoted a lot.
Just to dispell some common misunderstanding in this area: People with anxiety, depression, and bipolar disorder can act in ways that make people think they're just as "crazy" as people with schizophrenia. There isn't a hard dividing line between schizophrenia and other "less severe" psychiatric conditions. The definitions of them are fuzzy and it's better to think of the whole thing along the lines of a spectrum of affectedness.

My point is that anyone can be "broken"... Not just people with schizophrenia. And sometimes, for both schizophrenia and other conditions, accepting that you're somewhat broken in a way can be very helpful. It allows you to accept help more easily and relieve yourself of personal blame for the ways you may have acted or continue to act due to the condition.

Source: I have a schizophrenia-spectrum disorder.
What normally happens in a situation like in your example is that the SAFE or note investors would convert their principal into Series A preferred shares and the remainder would be issued as common stock.

So, in your example, for each dollar invested, seed investors would have 1 preferred share with 1x liquidation preference and a price of $1, and 3 shares of common stock.
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>I'd be fine with using Skype, the problem is no one I communicate with uses Skype.

Have you tried asking them?

I've had good experience with meeting people half way. I tell people "I'm not going to use facebook messenger. If you want to know why, I'll grab my laptop and give you the full hour long litany of every crime they've committed against their users since the company was founded, but the short version is I'm just not. I'll use any communication mechanism you chose that a) does not require facebook or google accounts and b) works even marginally on an android phone without google play services or a linux desktop.". You'd think that would be a short list, but it's not, and I've never failed to find something everyone is happy with. Once it's installed, everyone gets push notifications and no one actually cares who the provider is.
What I want are leading commas. Much tidier and one small thing you wouldn't have to edit/think about when adding and removing list items.
... yeah? Is there any evidence at all that suggests that the average consumer significantly changes their behavior at all to avoid advertising?
This is exactly the attitude that the author is taking issue with.

Many inexperienced developers use PHP and make a mess. But try to remember that there are also many brilliant engineers at Facebook and other companies using PHP and doing amazing things with it.
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Slack has great UI but the app just feels sluggish compared to Discord, esp initial load times.
modern protection on power lines do not use thermal
Magnetic circuit breakers like the panel in your house.

The current passed by a tree branch depends both on the resistance of the branch and the voltage of the line. In the video I linked it was clearly enough of a short to ionize the air and cause an arc that would damage equipment quickly.
Dude, people have already seen the receipts on this scandal. Only thing left is for the women affected to come out with the screenshots.
I went to a public elementary school which had only mixed-grade classes (2–3 grades at a time), and it was just fine, and didn’t cost any more than having one grade per class with kids all precisely the same age.
The real concern should be an acquisition by a large tech company. Reminds me of Microsoft buying Skype. A lot of enterprise companies could be interested in selling discord to their corporate clients...
I wonder if they'd be as nonchalant if US military support were withdrawn. It's like a school boy being nonchalant about bullies because he's friends with Conor McGregor.
I loved Geoworks. It did things on my 386 that Windows 3.1 had no hope of doing ever (like loading and working). Also, the banner program wasn't just useful with dot-matrix printers. I had an inkjet and remember many birthdays printing out banners for my family (we used Scotch tape to put them together). Good times.
Unfortunately, a lot of people appear to hate Erlang's syntax to the point that it's a barrier to adoption - or Elixir never would've picked up at all. I don't understand it myself, but there we have it.
tptacek gives the detailed answer below. My view is that residency requirements for in-state tuition are facially unconstitutional.
> do better examination of patents so that BS ones don't get issued

The patent in this case is 18 years old. Some claim things are stricter now, others don't.

> allow third-parties to invalidate patents by showing prior art to the patent office for a nominal fee

This is possible[1] and the article mentions cloudflare is doing it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reexamination
Voice presenting for a recording is more of a practical art than we really give credit for. Unless you do it a lot, you aren't going to be very good at it.
Haven't experienced any problems so far.
That is completely different because religion is not based on testable and provable increments increases in knowledge, rather superstition and guesswork. You clearly do not understand the scientific method.

You'll notice that rockets successfully manage to get to the moon, vaccines successfully save millions of lives. Obviously you are a fundamentalist with a point to prove so I'll stop arguing.
I read it a little differently. The whole article is about how Erlang/Elixir fails at its core reason for existence (fast message passing between distributed processes) and all the complicated work-arounds they had to implement to avoid actually using this core feature of Erlang.
They learn about negative numbers and multiplication before they learn to count past ten? Or they just learn counting without learning how to write the numbers?
The thing is that the "all" is actually _not_ generic in this case. The GraphQL server implementor has to specify a field called that specifically.
tl;dr no.
Yea, we probably should. Too many feature requests, not enough time to let us clear out the technical debt and make our stack nice and modern :(
True! I'm excited to see them, but I haven't spent time with them so can't really rely on them with a recommendation. Right now, the Vive controllers are a step back.
Thanks for the response Kristy. You are absolutely correct that there are ways to fix these problems if you have good lawyers (and leverage). But in my experience this rarely happens. Conversely, I see the default conversion into the same new share class all the time (as a result of negotiation leverage or just because nobody involved knows any better). How does that compare to your observations with your obviously much larger portfolio? For example, what percentage of yc companies using SAFE did the pref+common conversion that you described?

Of course the other concern is that you actually have to be cognisant of this issue - or have a lawyer who is - to catch it. Maybe the SAFE could just mandate the pref+common conversion?
Going from the similar Israeli experience (back in the bad old days of conventional state-to-state confrontation) - it's all bluster, it's never going to happen, until suddenly it does. Usually when the bluster (as in 1967) leads to an unexpected commitment to action.
Obviously they can be wrong, and you can prove that by submitting real research, not by vacuously dismissing it as false without doing the legwork which Cantor did.
Out of curiosity, what kind of a machine was that? I didn't think you could get that much ram in an 8086 ...
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> What I hear from my Native-born Korean friends is a lot of nonchalance. The North Korean threat is all bluster, no action. Nothing is ever going to happen. They are going to threaten, maybe shoot some artillery, but no major offensive ever happens.

I bet that since they live it, if they freaked out they would have no chance of having normal lives, so they just blow it off as a form of cognitive dissonance. If that is the case, I really wouldn't blame them.
You know, I honestly don't see it. From what I understand, you're implying that this is something that we can't/shouldn't talk about either?
All I ever learned in high school math was isolated "number tricks" that had to be memorized and then performed on que.

Parrots have deeper understanding than was required of us.

I didn't even get a cracker.
I took a class that basically covered a lot of papers. The lecturer spoke at a mile a minute and it was nigh impossible to write all the important info by hand and the really important parts are not on the slides. Typing on a computer allowed me to write all the juicy bits that made studying a breeze.