skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I understand that, bu usually HN refrains from commenting repetitive one-liners.

The main reason I come to HN instead of just living on reddit is that the chance that the comments refer to content in the article and not just the sentiment of the headline is much greater.

Also, comments are somewhat unique. The trouble with reddit comments is that they are completely overrun with extremely predictable memes or express some sort of emotion (usually outrage or hype) without adding anything.

I really fear that HN turns into a subreddit, because I have no idea what site I would go to next.
Research suggests type 2 diabetes could be transmitted like mad cow disease
It takes some getting used to, but eventually the Lisp style is just as readable as the non-Lisp style.

For actual coding (in an editor vs reading in a browser) it's even easier with things like matching parenthesis highlight, jump to matching brace, and rainbow parenthesis mode.
Thought most corps that have investors are S corps?
plain CSS and Bootstrap.
Do you mean to say that the ones I see in grass and parks are some beekeeper's? I'm doubtful, but that would be pretty interesting. Are there that many amateur beekeeper's? I figured they were much less common a backyard project than chickens.
The 409a sets the FMV. That's the whole point of getting it done.

So the logic is circular. Yes, any options issued with a strike price at FMV are "by definition" not in the money at time of issuance. But I can tell you from multiple experiences soliciting 409a valuations that the FMV of common is incredibly debatable, and is often essentially just negotiated between the founders/board and the valuation firm to be as low as possible (for the benefit of employee exercise).

The valuation firms are absolutely not always taking all differences between classes of shares into account. My comment was hoping maybe this paper would provide a method that we can all agree should be used for valuation of common stock.
Here you go: https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/58rn52/can_someone_el...
I think the bull case is built mainly along Tesla's brand. For a normal car company, the more cars you make, the less you can charge for them. You dilute your brand by going mass market and become something approximating a commodity. I think there is a case to be made that quantity will not dilute the Tesla brand as much as it dilutes other luxury car companies, since the brand isn't built on scarcity it's built on a something like a superhero.

So the bull case to me is that Tesla may be able to do what Apple did-- have a small
fraction of the market and take home the vast majority of the profits. And this isn't because other car companies will be less profitable then they are now, it's just that Tesla will redefine what profit margins are possible on mass market cars.

Toyota has $260B revenue. Imagine a company a quarter of the size, with a 25-30% profit margin.
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I am a history major turned software developer who spent the past two years working on an additive manufacturing startup I co-founded. I'm willing to learn whatever is needed, at any level of the stack, to contribute to your team's success.
I am interested in contract projects as well as full-time positions. My GitHub is https://github.com/outkaj.
You're only supposed to testify as to things about which you have first hand knowledge, and you aren't supposed to speculate. So if you don't remember something clearly you should not say it.
Although I share this concern, I can't really square with the idea of freedom of expression. Because someone may do something, I don't think it's good reasoning. And as far as I know, there's little or no evidence linking drawings of fictional characters having sex to child abuse. I think it's strikingly similar to the argument that violence in video games may cause people to act out similar violence in real life, i.e I don't agree with it.

Until there is sufficient evidence, I will tend to err on the side of freedom. Unfortunately in my country (England) such depictions are illegal and I have campaigned online for the past couple of years for its repeal - though God forbid I do it in person.

I think we are living in a very strange world in which drawings are illegal because they might cause people to do bad things.

With regard to the idea that drawn CP is a form of propaganda, I must disagree. In propaganda there is intent, and there is no intent I can see in lolicon hentai manga to encourage abuse. In fact, many manga contain warning notices saying that such things in real life are hideous crimes.

And even in the instances in which it is propaganda, so what? People must be shielded by the law from propaganda?

The HN mods have put a flag on my account which says that I'm not allowed to post very often because once I was posting in quick succession on a political topic. As such, if you reply to this, my reply may be an addendum to this comment.
Thanks for sharing. But in my opinion, it is more the problem of the management.
If the developers can finish the jobs the management assigned to them with quality, why to care how they spend their remaining effort?
To make remote working work, a mechanism should be there. This means at least:
- Assign reason work load;
- Review and evaluate the deliverables;
"If you see something, say nothing and drink to forget."

https://topatoco.com/collections/wtnv/products/cpb-wtnv-sees...

(No affiliation, just a fan of the podcast)
Let's clarify that 'your take on the demographics' was an article about Australia that was not specific to the tech industry.

Here's a relevant piece from the Los Angeles Times.

'One example: Google's own data showed women were promoted less often than men because workers need to nominate themselves. Women who did so got pushback. Based on her studies, [Joan C.] Williams [law professor, UC Hastings College of the Law] found that women are rewarded for modesty and penalized for what men might see as "aggressive" behavior. Google began including female leaders at workshops to coach everyone — men and women — on how to promote themselves effectively. The gender difference among nominees disappeared, Williams said.'

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-women-tech-20150222-st...
And the whereabouts of the ranch depend on the time of day... does Larry Page have a secret lair in space?
Could someone explain how this costs $5? Does that mean if you already have most of the parts laying around? I'm actually curious.
> why does an IV bag cost $500?

It doesn't outside of the US.
"the U.S. government would reduce legal immigration by half within 10 years of its enactment. Republicans propose to achieve that major cut in part by limiting green cards the government grants to extended family members while prioritizing applicants with high-skilled, highly paid jobs."

So, they want you to come here, just don't bring your family along.
Of course they snoop on your files. You're uploading to their system and they really have no incentive, nor requirement, to give you privacy. Anyone who uploads sensitive files, from porn to bank statements, to Dropbox should know without a doubt that someone is probably going to see it. The only way around that is to encrypt locally, then upload.
A lot of the time they're also provided in other formats, including plain text. It's still got pages and line numbers (they're essential for citing to), and it uses an ASCII form feed for new page, but it's better to work with. You can actually pipe it to port 9100 on a common network printer and it'll come out about right. There is also software to work with these transcripts.
Maybe I'm too "left wing", but if you ask me short selling, complex products and high frequency trading are among technological "improvements" that have led actual stock exchange to an ugly mess where biggest profits are made by "scamming" efficiently other users.
Should regulators forbid (or tax more) some (or all) of this mechanisms markets will quickly resume to what they should be, places for people to invest money on companies that produce value.

So yeah pretty impressive to see that currencies based on unicorn blockchains of the future jump right into the old bandwagon of making up complex financial instruments that few people really understand on top of an experimental core concept.
Yes, after all it is fictional and nobody is harmed.
Thanks for letting us know! At first glance, it seems to be an issue related to Heroku. We just tested the request invitation feature and it is working again.
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Sure, but looking for or even trying to force an admission which may be useful down the line is different than actively trying to trip someone up.
This reminds me of the "video games promote violence and shootings" argument. Let's ban GTA while we are at it.
Because the operators all take a list of values it's sometimes convenient to format them like any other long list, with each nested sub-expression on its own line to form a tree:

(setv result (- (/ (+ 1 3 88)
2)
(* 8
(+ 3 2)))

Another possibility is to use a (let ...) to give nested values temporary names, like:

(setv result (let ((first (/ (+ 1 3 88) 2))
(second (* 8 (+ 3 2))))
(- first second)))

It helps if "first" and "second" have meaningful names like "velocity" or "force" that can describe what they are.
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I have had the same thought. I'm guessing, given how long lisp has been around. That the ideas is well research.
Harsh, but fair.
I wonder if someone could write an RNN to fill in the black boxes?
It's also a matter of what sort of information is exposed. Video is something most people care about. Audio, not so much. The latter tends to be far less embarrassing/incriminating.
Your -if- clause sans curly braces definitely still parses.
Aren't all the alt-coins examples of this happening? That anyone can fork a blockchain and give it their own rules?

The market value of a coin isn't limited to a strict mathematical function of mining power or exchanges backing it. That's the point Matt is making.
<So if you commit a felony at 18, you can't vote even when you're a 100?

I can tell you with 100% certainty that there are felons that vote. I believe the system in our county is not perfect and thus mails out a voter registration to a convicted murderer that served his time and is now free.
Mark Zuckerberg turned down an offer from Yahoo.
Evan Spiegel, from FB.

Plenty of CEOs have career ending incomes / bonuses already.
I don't think the current algorithm is actual a barrier to practical use. The worst I've had to suffer for it is a few extra lines of code here and there. This RFC might make things easier to use, but if it fails in that, it doesn't really prove the concept is infeasible.
I feel like there's a small minority of people who enjoy elevating kurzweil into a quasi-religious genius figure because of his speculations on the singularity, but he's really just an above average software engineer who happened upon some ideas which captured the public imagination. Easy to forget he's human too sometimes.
This is definitely something we hope to do. Since we're still getting started, it's a matter of prioritization (not if, but when). We would love to hear more from you about your needs and that could help us expedite the feature. Could you please email us at contact@scratchworktool.com?

Along similar lines, we've been trying to plan an API for developers to use with our product. I'd love to hear if anyone has ideas.
An entire article that sidesteps the fact that yet another socialist country has failed.

"We will end poverty as we know it"

Nope, sorry....... try again.
You're not wrong, but this isn't just about taxes. In the case of Square, apparently they got a 409a valuation done that set a FMV for common of $9.11 and then issued options with that strike price as is standard practice.

Anybody who exercised immediately at $9.11 probably wasn't subject to any tax liability (assuming appropriate 83b election). Employees exercising at that price may have fooled themselves into thinking they were already $6/share in profit-land, which would be incorrect and is the point of the article.

But the bigger problem to me is that employees were fooled into paying $9.11 for something that was actually worth far less.
Partly this is a recognition that Japan Inc. has historically awarded a blended compensation package which includes salary, benefits similar to most first-world countries, and a host of non-pecuniary terms which are not broadly enjoyed across all W-2 employees in the US. ("Expectation of lifetime employment" is a biggie; there are substantially more subtle terms, too, like "We're going to take care of you, and we sincerely mean that, and you trust us to sincerely mean that.
This will manifest itself in behaviors which American companies would describe as quixotic to irrational to outright disturbing[+].")

The non-pecuniary terms have been weakening in recent years but salaries have not been increasing at anything approaching parity. The non-pecuniary terms are not small relative to the total notional compensation package.

One reason that Japanese companies are having difficulty hiring folks is that their candidates have marked-to-market the non-pecuniary terms. There is a totally defensible reason to value Toyota's standard offer as of 1975 at being worth an integer multiple of the salary part of the package. It is very, very difficult to make the case that a traditionally managed Japanese company's non-pecuniary terms are presently worth $50~$100k per year given that one will be taking advantage of them in 2017 to 2062 as opposed to 1975 to 2020.

[+] One of my first conversations with a boss at a traditionally managed Japanese company involved my expected timeline to get married and what the company's role in that process would be; my boss assumed that it would be sourcing the bride.
Only two regions have good availability for AWS services.

For example, email (SES). Only Virgina and Oregon. And Oregon goes down too.

If all you needed was VPS, you'd probably find better offerings elsewhere.
>So, they want you to come here, just don't bring your family along.

They really don't want "you" to come here at all, this is just a way to push the Overton window towards that end. What better way to preserve American jobs than banning immigrants? /s
Ask HN: Thoughts on memristors?
I'd love to know the HN crowd's thoughts on memristors.

How far off they are from production?

Technical problems to be overcome?

Economical problems to be overcome?

Compatibility with CMOS?

Scaling capabilities (ie can it match Moore's Law?)

Anything in general :)
It doesn't but what you are charged for a medical service/medical supply has very, very little to do with what your service/supply actually costs.
Litigants are wasting money with the status quo. Not because of the format, per se, but because of a lack of reasonably good NLP-based search and summary tools. Much money is spent paying people to review transcripts by hand, when the bulk of the heavy lifting could be done with software. I know the market well enough to manage the product development and sell it but lack the NLP skills to build it. Anyone interested in talking about it feel free to hit me up.
I do. After I got a facebook friend suggestion related to an in-person voice conversation that I had just been part of, I started trying to cover my microphone as a habit.
Please change the title to something more clear, like "A Lisp IDE written in LTK", perhaps add "real time" somewhere in the title.

Also, for future post I suggest avoiding to the bad tone about other languages. Not everyone is enlighten. (And one day you will discover Racket.)
us-east-1 pricing (for EC2, S3, etc.) is usually lower than other regions
Nicely said. I did do that for 1.5 out of the 4. While I didn't state it well, my argument was meant to be for replacing one or two of them, not all of them.

Voice is probably the hardest one to replace all 4 of them on.

For Facebook's network effects, I mentioned Twitter which is not one of the four. I did mention that my main use I've replaced with Google Photos. I did that because it's free & great. If I hated Google, I could use several paid services that offer similar benefits. Snapchat is becoming more popular with the older people I know. Instagram was great before getting bought out by Facebook so we can't count them now.

I think maybe one point that needs to be made, is if you want a "free service" you must be willing to let your data be sold. That is the big problem that many people have with a lot of the above free services.
> Are there really people who would turn down a hundred million dollars for a chance at a larger potential payout in 5-10 years?

Sure, and the numbers get far larger than $100 million.

Larry Page and Sergey Brin for example, turned down very large acquisition offers, including for at least a billion dollars from Yahoo, at a time when they didn't even have a serious business model.

Mark Zuckerberg turned down several large offers for Facebook when it didn't have a serious functional business. He could have walked away nearly a billionaire before Facebook had even printed a dollar of profit.

Bill Gates turned away numerous, large acquisition offers in the first ~10 years of Microsoft's existence. IBM was interested in buying them for years.

The Snapchat owners turned down ~$3 billion from Google to go public instead as an exit. Even after the beating their stock has taken in the last few months, the market cap of Snap is $15 billion today.
Because their talent is XFS instead of Btrfs? I'm feeling a subtext here that maybe Btrfs is an unalloyed good, and that's just not true.
There are some good examples of him not wanting to answer anything, but this isn't one of them. Read the next 2 lines!

> Q: Do you recall when? [asked again]

> A: No, I don't remember when we did that.

They were probably talking over each other or something.
> overpriced Vibrams

A particularly odd criticism, since Vibrams cover the same price spectrum as more traditional running shoes, and both groups are essentially centered on selling shoes for just above $100 (and have been for more than a decade now).
Probably because the example used was not an instance of that
disclaimer: i work at google, though not in anything remotely related to this

despite all the naysaying in the thread, this seems like a really good use of AI to me, especially if it can grow to learn your preferred/habitual speech patterns. if you type "awesome. thanks." a lot in reply to emails, why should a tool not make that a one-click operation for you? canned email replies does sound like a very unambitious/unexciting arena to develop this technology in, but the basic idea of AI working with you as a sort of surgeon's assistant who puts the right instrument in your hands just when you need it excites me just as much as the sexier "100% autonomous everything" applications.
I think people are just a bit paranoid given what happened with Kite over the past week.
Yeah, really. At this point, I don't think anyone should be surprised that an investment involving bitcoins is high-risk.

If Bitfinex violated it's own terms with this change, then there might be a case for suing in civil court, but something tells me that Bitfinex covered this with their lawyers before making the change.
A bunch of people did what you did. That (before their correction that has you so riled up) lowered the coefficient used to distribute BCH from 0.8539 to 0.7757.

The BCH you attempted to acquire for no cost would have come from other customers in the form of that smaller coefficient.
Yeah, and then they realized that most tech companies rely on it.
You definitely should cite... What if they are wrong... You can always blame the citation...

Polywater is the perfect example of why you should citate. Just because someone publishes something does not mean its correct, scientific, or proven.

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

http://science.sciencemag.org/content/167/3926/1715?sid=8b4e...

Science takes time.

Write a good paper and cite, cite, cite! If your citations are ever demonstrated to be incorrect or fraudulent other researchers can continue work to disprove the citations and work on correcting the errors.
I certainly agree. tpallarino seems a little surprised though!
The disposition makes it look like Levandowski was very difficult to work with:

Q. "Anthony threatens to leave the team if he isn't the single leader." Do you see that.

A. Yeah

...

Q. Sebastian says:

"If he is the single leader, a good number of team members will leave." Do you see that?

...

There is more but copying and pasting from the source is really hard.
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> These platforms are private entities - they get to choose who is welcome.

I feel like we're talking past each other. My belief is that when a corporation becomes large and omnipresent enough, it's basically a de-facto government, and should probably be constrained from abusing its power in similar ways.

Imagine that YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, Reddit &c decide that idea X is inappropriate. It will become difficult for us, as a society, to have a discussion about X, because it has been suppressed in our dominant discussion forums. That's not a healthy thing for an open society.
And brought all of Venezuela toward the eventual disaster under Maduro that was the necessary result of his policies.
It's amazing how this made it to the front page of HN and I had no idea until now. I actually discovered this by googling a couple hours ago :)
So, nobody ever goes in to manually fine-tune the models? Or do they just review individual frames and call it "not watching the footage"?

And apparently they trust every sysadmin, every researcher, and every programmer that they currently and will hire... Someone always has the keys to the kingdom (or the capability of stealing said keys).
The recent Canadian and European takedown cases covered here on HN weren't about "stuff I own", they were about "inconvenient information I want to remove from public view". Still covered under copyright law.
Not all of us are running systems in their moms basement. "Challenge the norm" is great for people who have nothing to loose from a business perspective.
Their stuff, and everyone elses, is easily available for download, DRM free, without a fee of any kind. DRM has never stopped that. Netflix knows that. I have no doubt DRM is required for every contract they have with other studios, but they could show they're not fools by allowing me to stream their original content without having to allow closed, proprietary binaries to run on my machine to do it. I have no interest in maintaining terabytes of video and manually managing distribution to multiple device. I don't think many people would. I'd rather pay the $5 a month. I won't enable DRM in my browser, ever.
An important point, yes. Screen time can't be all there is, and we use Circle[1] to monitor and manage it.

[1] https://meetcircle.com/
Lightweight but powerful browser?
What happened to Chrome? It now uses almost 1.5 GB memory thanks to its 100 Chrome Helper suckers.

I want to switch to a different browser that can run well in 300 MB, but is feature rich enough to support YouTube/Gmail and does not hang often.

And please, no IE suggestions.
Not sure if there are billions of dollars involved. For all we know, it could be just speculators trading crypto between each other.

I could not find any stats on the amount of fiat flowing in and out of these "exchanges", which, by the way, have zero oversight and tend to disappear every few months or so.