skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I challenge the idea that people in a company are working towards a collective goal.

- The goal of those with lots of equity, like the founders and investors, is that "collective goal" of company profit.

- The goal of one employee may be to keep their job, provide for their family, and spend as much time with their family as possible.

- The goal of another employee may be to learn as much as possible.

- The goal of another employee may be to get promoted up as high as possible (for social and/or financial gains).

- The goal of another employee may be to do as much social good as possible, regardless of what the effect is on the bottom line.

If a company is like a sports team, then I think it's like one that is thrown together in gym class where each student has a different goal.

- One student may actually be competitive and want to win.

- Another may care a lot about their grade, and only try when the teacher glances over at them.

- Another may just be concerned with not getting sweaty and ruining his/her hair.

- Another may be selfish and want to, in basketball for example, be a ball hog and take every shot.

- Another may just be having fun, and not be too concerned with winning.

I understand that executives may _want_ their employees to act as if they are on a competitive sports team - working really hard together towards a common goal, and then heading home at night to relax and recharge. But the fact that executives want it doesn't make it an accurate description of reality.
FWIW the hacked up workaround that bindgen uses is _beautiful_

https://github.com/servo/rust-bindgen/blob/master/tests/expe...

Basically, if you have a union of A, B, C, you create a struct with three zero-sized fields using BindgenUnionField<A>, and then add a field after that containing enough bits to actually fill out the size. Because the BindgenUnionField is zero sized, a pointer to it is a pointer to the beginning of the struct, and it has an accessor that treats the pointer as the contained type.

This makes the API for field access `union.field.as_ref()` instead of `union.field`, but that's still pretty clean.

It's still a hack, and I'll be happy to see it go, but it's a really fun hack.
I would argue that the first paragraph is a critique of capitalism itself.

The implicit assumption of capitalism is that you have a perpetual debt that cannot be repaid, much like the Christian "debt" that cannot be repaid to the Abrahamic God.

Capitalism is as much an economic system as it is a moralistic and religious system.
Very interesting stuff! I've wondered quite a bit what this would look like in the future, so it's cool to see that companies are thinking about how to change the current state into something that is more effective in the long term. Thanks again!
That's separatist propaganda: Catalonia, a Spanish region where separatists are ruling and expect to do a referendum against the rule of law in October so the region can exit Spain and the European Union and be "free", is "better" than the "lazy Spain". Rationale: in Spain there is no such thing as generalized three-hour lunch break. In fact, most industries have short lunch pause (e.g. 7 to 15:30h), and most offices take just one hour (e.g. 9 to 18h). That's only true for shops (e.g. 9:30..13:30h and 17..21h), and that's how shops work almost everywhere, not a specific thing of Spain.

I forgot to add that Catalans, myself included, have a lot to learn from other Spanish regions: e.g. in Madrid there is commercial freedom, so shops can chose when they can open, without the permission of the feudal^W local government.
The reality of illegal drugs is by making them illegal you give massive amounts of capital to the worst people in the world, who invest those profits into other awful trades.

You legalize drugs, you take away their massive cash flies and cripple their organizations.
There is also a serious bug regarding 2FA. There is a race condition where if you know a users master password you can bypass 2FA for 1 single login.

Apparently someone commented below that is a documented "feature". Wow.
5 min from the Baltimore station is a very small real estate market.
He's open sourced all of Tesla patents with the goal of accelerating the transition to EVs. For that and many other reasons it's obvious his intentions are pure. Not to mention failures in regard to high speed rail are nothing new in the US. To think this "announcement" was derived to thwart those efforts is delusional. Hope you find a way to channel your nefarious thinking toward something positive.
Elon Musk teases NYC-Philadelphia-Baltimore hyperloop
I'm still using 1Password Version 3.8.22 on my Mac. Should I upgrade?
Profiling, like much of "criminal science" such as Arson Investigation is a large part unsubstantiated bullshit. It's amazing how poorly regulated all of it is and how many innocent people are in prison, or executed, because of it.
Could we use it as a source of "reproducable randomness"? For instance, use this as an RNG during game development?
Absolutely gets dark in MN around 6pm or earlier in the winter
I really like terminology :) Can you test yakuake and kmscon[0] also?

EDIT:
[0] https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/kmscon/
I feel your pain. The website keeps crashing whenever I try to buy a data pass. However, I was able to get one yesterday by opening the T-Mobile app, signing in, and pressing the chat button in the top right. That let me text a T-Mobile rep instantly who let me buy a pass. Took less than 5 minutes.
Fountain codes (2005) [pdf]
Where is it the only legal drug? Nicotine is often regulated but legal nearly everywhere, and I don't think caffeine is banned anywhere.
So just keep inflating wages? Great idea if we want to keep the poor in poverty and continue living a waste-filled and over consuming lifestyle.
Nice! You're right in that regard.
This is exactly what PostgREST is doing, it's interface has the same expressive power as GraphQL
Tensors Explained Intuitively: Covariant, Contravariant, Rank
Could you elaborate in more detail?

(I work with Ember.js daily and am happy with it, just curious to see your thoughts)
Jan from ArangoDB here

Sounds cool, let's talk :) feel free to ping me jan.stuecke at ...
Does Basic Income Solve Anything? Grasp the Arguments for and Against
We have to separate the points here.

"Hope" is a real, tangible thing, crucial in our lives, and provably effective.

The question is do we need to accept quackery to have it? Is that sometimes the only way? I suspect the answer is, rarely.

There is so much legit and exciting work being done w.r.t. TBIs that it seems we should not have to rely on it in this area. But that's a guess. Until you've walked in someone's shoes...

Sorry to hear of your suffering.
What's the best book to read about JavaScript?
I am an old Java programmer and while I occasionally change Angular directives or play with Vue, I have little knowledge about the inner workings of JavaScript. I am afraid that most JavaScript books are outdated in a world ruled by transpilers and linters or they lay out the knowledge in a 'how-to' manner instead of explaining how-it-works.
Worth noting that the submitter of this story, user ClintEhrlich, played a main role in freeing the wrongly-convicted man. He posted about it on HN a couple years back, in a highly upvoted and discussed thread (500+ upvotes, 200+ comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12010760

Edit: it's an ironic coincidence that this follow-up feature was published on the same day of the news of O.J. Simpson's parole: http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-oj-simpson-parole-board-...

Simpson is being paroled for a robbery conviction 9 years ago but of course his most famous run-in with the law was when he was acquitted of double-murder despite a huge amount of forensic evidence linking him to the homicides (he later lost a civil suit, which has a lower standard of evidence).

In the case described by the OP, the jury voted to convict in the total absence of physical, forensic evidence. It's astonishing that this profiler's beliefs were enough to sway the jury beyond a reasonable doubt but even more grotesque is how a clusterfuck of dumb, unverified assumptions led the profiler to his conclusions. He blames the detectives for not doing "Investigation 101", and says he would not have testified if only he had known the detectives were so negligent.

As much blame as the profiler deserves (he basically comes off as reliable as a psychic), seems like a large portion of blame should go to the district attorney, who presumably knew he was so short of evidence that he had to base his case on the profiler's testimony. Can't imagine what was going through the jury's heads; prosecutors often complain how modern juries demand the presence of DNA because of how TV dramas like CSI portray and hype DNA and other evidence as ubiquitous and unimpeachable, but this jury seems to have had the completely opposite mindset.
This looks nice.

How has your experience with it so far?
Surprised, yes, but why can't people be outraged at people suffering from bad laws? That makes no sense.
I have a Haworth Zody and like it alot. It did wonders for my back.
>I can't believe how many otherwise intelligent people fail to see that this is desirable.

If there were no technical and economic tradeoffs to increasing the blocksize then yes, it would hard to see how otherwise intelligent people could oppose it. Everybody loves a free lunch. But there are tradeoffs, which you conveniently omit, which are giving those otherwise intelligent people pause, rightfully so.
I worked at a company that had this framing, and it works especially well around peer-to-peer relationships:

- If a teammate is doing something wrong, give them feedback. I don't try to improve my family.

- If a teammate is doing well, have them share what's working. I don't try to get every detail out of family.

- If a teammate is going in the wrong direction, I remind them of our shared goal. I don't try to change the goals of my family.

- If a teammate leaves, I change I relate to them. I don't try to distance myself or hide things from family deliberately.

Being part of a team is great. It's just different than family, or friends, or strangers at the bar.
Do they just mean mean "seasonal/cyclic variations in business"?
> also why would it be a good idea to use a centralized source of "entropy"....? why is NIST involved at all?

Actually there's a very good use-case for NIST's Random Beacon in [OpenTimestamps](https://opentimestamps.org/): preventing miners from backdating their blocks undetectably.

Background: The Bitcoin protocol constrains block timestamps to not be >2hrs in the future, by virtue of the (kinda weak) rule that nodes reject forward dated blocks. However, for a timestamp proof that rule is irrelevant: a forward-dated block is a weaker proof, not a stronger proof. Unfortunately the reverse is problematic: a Bitcoin block is valid so long as its timestamp is > the median time of the last 11 blocks; nodes will happily accept backdated blocks, with the only constraint on backdating being that you eventually push the difficulty up.

Now, if you assume it's only a small percentage of miners doing this, the median time past rule helps you a bit, but it's hard to model; if a majority of miners are backdating blocks, there's a risk of backdated timestamps being generated with significant (hours/days) of backdating. While that risk is mostly theoretical because it's easily detected, it'd still be nice to rule it out.

Since the NIST Random Beacon represents a nonce that NIST claims did not exist in the past, we can easily use it to constrain and detect block timestamp backdating, a useful improvement to the security of OpenTimestamps. While not a priority, I'll probably add support for random beacons to OpenTimestamps at some point, and have the calendars do this automatically as part of the timestamping process.

Of course, I wouldn't do this with just NIST: all blockchains act as random beacons, so it'd make sense to use a merkle tree of this NIST random beacon and a few other blockchains at the same time to achieve this.

And finally, yes, you're quite right: using the random beacon as a source of entropy is beyond stupid.

edit: Come to think of it, the simplest possible implementation of this would be a cronjob that just grabbed the latest beacon and timestamped it... All you need to achieve is proof that the block had a dependency on the beacon after all.

edit2: ...and it's live: https://alice.btc.calendar.opentimestamps.org/experimental/i...
Is there some reason you are excluding mounting the Leap camera on the front of your headset?
DNA testing too, complete nonsense
These are all still pretty fast No's in my experience.

The worst No's are the ones where they ask to do Due Diligence and then never open the dropbox folder. Or if you are on your fifth meeting and they just keep trying to pump you for competitive information.

So how do you know when you get a Yes?

When you get a wire or a check. That's the only way.

Even a signed note or Equity docs don't mean anything until that money clears.

The best No's I've had were from Bessemer and a16z years ago. Almost immediate and right to the point that they wouldn't invest, with specific reasoning/metrics behind them. A++ would get told no again.
Have you used KeepassXC. I am panning to move to it from lastpass, and want to make sure I am making the right choice.
It taught me about the AnomalyDetection R package, which was nice.
Blockchain analysis can tie transactions with KYC'd identities.

http://www.sandia.gov/news/publications/labnews/articles/201...

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/7xz35e/us-law-enf...

http://www.coindesk.com/elliptic-partners-with-risk-controls...
I usually actively listen to some new music or just think about a variety of topics while I walk around the neighborhood. So for me it's less about the walking but getting away from the computer/internet and just don't bother about work related things.
Another spaniard here, reading the article you get the impression that Spain is some kind of dictatorial country, where the government dictates which times you are allowed to work. It is not, companies have freedom to choose, unless you work for the public administration (where I lived, they work 8 to 15).

BTW I live in Germany now and still do a daily 30 mins siesta after lunch.
Eh? Messages are not sent as emails. They are messages kept within the site itself, a sort of private message system.
Yes, exactly. If you want to run a regression test on your game, you could compare results by feeding the string in place of your rand() function, starting from the same offset.
> If and only if the arguer's credibility has no logical connection to their argument, then attacking the arguer is fallacious.

The arguer's credibility does not affect the truth value of any statements, so it's always more useful to argue over why someone is wrong. You cannot guarantee that any segment of the population agrees with your credibility assessments. And these assessments should be established via appeals to factual evidence to begin with, anyhow, if we're to believe they should carry any weight at all. Otherwise, we're arguing over feelings instead of facts.

For people with wild, unsupported claims, it's better to simply take the tact that we have not yet seen evidence that establishes those claims and that what's on offer presently does not meet the necessary burden. In that argument, it really doesn't matter who is making the claim, only that the claim itself is not supported.
Like other comments: I have quite a different experience. I don't think you are wrong, nor that I am wrong, but rather that it depends heavily on the type of application.

Need to quickly have a basic graph for some signals in 'real' time? I'll pick LV over anything else: it will be faster to develop, more robust, and just work (until you want to customize the graph). In Python I'd first have to go look for the appropriate libraries to use, start fiddling with gui layouts, etc. And after a couple of hours it probably still wouldn't even look remotely as good as LV and still lack basic zoom/cursor functionality.

But for even basic if-then-else and loop programming (not even talking 'true' algorithms) I'm, after about 10 years of Labview experience, pretty sick of using Labview for it. You see in Python I can just do [func(x) for x in someRange if x > 0 and x in someOtherRange]. In the time I typed that, in Labview I would have maybe managed to draw the outer loop and drag the func block into it. Then I'd still have to the conditional logic, all the wriring, etc. So even though you say for some cases Python might be slower, there is no way you can do this real life example faster in LV. And that actually goes for a major part of the program logic.

edit Also a note on Python vs C for embedded and the likes: we're currently running an application where the whole backend is C++ and does things like signal processing, but the frontend is written in MicroPython and with usability in mind. As such, I can just give it to very inexperienced programmers and they can actually build something useful with it. Yet they don't even have to touch a fiddly build system or learn how to shoot yourself in the foot a million times and the backend still happily runs speedy code. So again: heavily depends on the application.
D did surprisingly well, methinks: Two places below Rust is odd, considering the vast chasm in (online: reddit/HN) mindshare between the two.

What is the definition of enterprise here? Matlab seems a bit too high up, or is there a use for Matlab that I'm not aware of?
He left out an important one: sometimes VCs say no by saying yes. It goes like this:

VC response: We're really interested and we want to do the deal, we just need to wait to hear from partner X who is currently out of town.

Translation: We are about to fund one of your competitors, and we want to string you along as far as possible in the hopes that we can distract you from other fundraising efforts so that you will be less of a threat to our baby.

Comment: It's not a "yes" until the check clears. (And even then you should probably wait two weeks just to be sure.)
But where did they get the 3 year old email.

1) They were investigating AlphaBay for nearly 3 years
2) They came upon somehow control of an email address which contained 3 year old mail that contained the password reset email
3) They are capturing and storing large amounts of tor traffic much like the NSA does on clearnet see: xkeyscore

This isn't really explained in the indictment
Yes, but at the cost of running crazy air conditioning. The only time I visited Phoenix I arrived near lunchtime and was baffled to be wandering around a seemingly modern city where the streets were entirely free of people. I felt like it I was in the opening scene of a zombie movie or something.

Personally speaking I've never seen much value in living by the clock if it puts you in conflict with the seasons. The notion that people everywhere should adhere to the same schedule regardless of local conditions is inherently absurd.
The implicit assumption of capitalism is that you have a perpetual debt that cannot be repaid

What? Care to clarify?
The idea that pyramid belonged to Cheops comes from Herodotus who travelled to Egypt long after Cheops, and in fact what he wrote down is an urban legend from the local folk, because no historic Egyptian documents could verify who built the great pyramid.
There are other much earlier historic accounts about the great pyramid from Arab historians. Who have a very different story about the pyramid.
Chester Bennington, the lead singer of Linkin Park, has died
So how will me and my friends take advantage of this?

Will we have to wait for new hardware that supports it?

Or will we be able to update drivers on our Android phones, and then it'll just work?
> The problem with the "family" analogy is it implies "unconditional love" regardless if you're messing up, failing, not performing.

On the flip side, the family analogy is used by the companies to their advantage as well. If working for "family", we all might accept less pay (for the good of the "family") and would do shitty work (underemployment; someone has to take out the "trash").
In DevOps Incident Response, Plans Are Worthless, but Planning Is Everything
I wondered where Apple and Microsoft were in this whole thing and I found this from one of the Chromium trust discussions:

"Assessing the compatibility risk with both Edge and Safari is difficult, because neither Microsoft nor Apple communicate publicly about their changes in trust prior to enacting them."

Why or why not would you want to withhold this kind of information?
Isn't the point of a fraternity specifically to facilitate these kinds of "do everything for your brother" type of relationships?
High range: Herman Miller Aeron (classic startup chair)

Medium range: IKEA Markus

Clicking: http://www.hermanmiller.com/products/seating/performance-wor... / http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/00103102/
How many small shops in Arizona are located in air-conditioned malls though?
They did exactly this on Hansa. They also used this same method to break the multisig transactions that hansa used to direction bitcoins directly to LE wallets (The dutch say 2million euros worth)
https://evans.uw.edu/sites/default/files/NBER%20Working%20Pa...

While I don't doubt the veracity of some of the conclusions (more cost per hour means hours get cut) there does seem to be a few what I'd consider "contortions" to get the desired result. I say "desired result" because sometimes people who fund these things, yes, even (especially?) at universities have compelling interest.

For instance, they exclude all "multi-site" businesses from the study (Dominos for instance so study doesn't even apply to author in the first place). One has to wonder what the results would have looked like had they not done that.

Not arguing for against state/city minimum wages, don't have an opinion either way. Just skeptical.
Nice thanks!!
Most of these basically bucket into "I'm not interested" or "I'm not interested at this time, but I think that might change in the mid-term future."

Why are there so many ways to say No? Because just saying "no" is rude -- although some of the 15 alternatives in the Medium post are even worse because they waste a founder's time. It's like if a recruiter reaches out to you: most people don't reply, or they reply with something like "sorry, this is not a great fit" or "I'm not looking at this time."

FWIW, there are many VCs (though probably not the majority) that give concrete reasons when saying No. When I got into venture capital 5 years ago, many peers told me to be vague in order to maintain option value in a company's future fundraises. That sounded dumb to me because if I were a founder I would want feedback, so I try to give useful feedback when I'm passing. That's worked out well over time, and founders whose companies I passed on often introduce me to other founders, or reach out when they're fundraising again.