skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: How to handle a hard-working yet clearly underperformant founder?
My partner and I agreed to work on an app full-time for a 52% (me) 48% (him) split. We both agreed explictly that we were going to work on the entire stack.

7 months later we are very close to launch, and I have built pretty much all the business logic and key IP, while he has built most of the front-end. The front-end however was clearly a simpler piece, and I'm not too happy with the results given the time he's spent on it.

We have discussed this, and he agrees that his contribution to the business logic has been sparse at best. I've given him plenty of opportunity to get involved, but he hasn't been able to contribute anything due to a lack of skill.

He has offered me to rebalance equity to 60%/40%. However, this doesn't adddress my key problem, which is that I may be stuck with a partner that never ends up pulling his weight. Not only do I feel that he's underskilled in programming - I also feel that he's not good at product management, marketing or operations either...

I've considered splitting up the partnership, and offering buying him out or even forking the codebase and go our own ways. He would clearly get the better end of this agreement, but there is still a lot to build and I would rather compete than be in a bad partnership.

On the other hand, he is a really honest and hard-working guy, he's tremendously motivated to continue with the project, and I don't want to give up on him. Plus splitting would be the messier option, even if done in friendly terms.

What would you do?
Maybe that would be an incentive against conflict ?
The risky business of hiring stars
It didn't seem that serious based on the subtitle:

>No one knows for sure, but there are indicators that can help us guess. We can chart these indicators to give us the illusion of foresight.

Maybe it's a parody?
There's always a chance of unintended consequences. But of course doing nothing isn't always the right answer.
Computational Biology and Math: Am I Just Faking It?
Cute site :-) Btw we have the added issue that the volatility of volatility appears to be rising. Meaning periods of apparent big calm turn into big price swings more rapidly.
Lowest volatility ever in 27 or so years according to VIX apparently, which is actually a warning sign.
The numbers represent reported values and the real data may be significantly more?

The writer has clickbait syndrome?
College degrees are oversaturated, but there's no real alternative outside of a few fields where education isn't as important as experience.

College degree nowadays is basically a pre-requisite for not getting your resume thrown out at first glance.
How about some examples of "undistorted markets" resulting in unambiguously good outcomes first?
Most of the government ag subsidies go towards meat, dairy, and corn. Gotta keep that bacon and high fructose corn syrup flowing into Americans, and corn flowing into the animals.
Binding? None whatsoever. If this goes to court (which it won't anytime soon), a judge who doesn't feel strongly one way or another but is a constitutional literalist might be vaguely influenced. And a judge who would already be inclined to rule in favor of net neutrality might cite it in a decision.

(IANAL)
Good luck with that. Usually there's a exodus from speculation the minute things get hairy in the market. Nobody speculated in crypto right?
In Australia prostitution is completely legal ... There are brothels all over the place

It can vary from state to state.

Under Tasmanian law it has never been illegal to be a sex worker, however Current Tasmanian Legislation – Sex Industry Offences Act 2005

Provides that it is illegal for a person to employ or otherwise control or profit from the work of individual sex workers (brothels are illegal)

Allows two sex workers (but not more) to work together in a partnership arrangement, provided neither controls or manages the other;

Makes it an offence to offer or procure sexual services in a public place – making street prostitution illegal for both worker and client

1. https://www.justice.tas.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0008/1...

2. http://www.scarletalliance.org.au/laws/tas/
They would have gotten there quicker... like my richer friends who where bank rolled by mum and dad.
Well, he's using the VIX, so it is technically market implied future volatility. Whether it has predictive power is open to debate, but it is technically a forward-looking indicator.
How do you collect the data for this??? Wondering how you measure your completeness, for instance.
You did well (you are a lucky dude), but I'm sure there was someone else who pulled out in 2003 and looked foolish.

If it was obvious, more people would have pulled out.
Writing accessible software is very challenging, and a lot of the documentation that has historically been available was typically sub-par. I usually try advocating in favor of web accessibility, but in many cases developers just don't know any better. I'd definitely count myself among those that still have a lot to learn.

I've noticed that the w3c is starting to push hard on improving the status quo, especially during the last few months. The latest WAI-ARIA Authoring Practices draft [0] is superb. It includes examples, documentation on the different keyboard interactions, and suggested aria properties.

As the documentation quality increases, it gets easier to raise awareness among developers. My experience has generally been that once you raise the point and you provide a clearly defined solution, many people are happy to make changes. For example, I've occasionally convinced friends with inaccessible video to either publish transcripts or write articles / blogs with the equivalent knowledge.

[0] https://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria-practices-1.1/
Elon Musk has earned every tax payer dollar he has received. From what I can tell by reading the news, the man works himself and his companies insanely hard. Perhaps this argument could be made about any other organizations or institutions, but not Elon Musk and his companies
You can see the writing on the wall now, with stocks being pumped up around the world by central banks and with margin debt at an all time high.

The problem is, it could be years before there is a collapse, or it could be tomorrow. That's a lot of yield you might be losing out on. A near similar argument could be made in 2014. You probably could have doubled or tripled your money in that period.

And even if there is a correction, not all equities will decline significantly (some will stagnate, or just decline a few percentage points, some will still double), whereas others will lose 80% of their value.
Probably would conflict with the massive agri/farming industry lobbies
You need to switch Javascript on.
I tried it and it works. U+FF0B gives a plus sign when used in an HN title. It's a fair bit wider than normal, so may look a little off but not as off as "and". Here's a line of 10 U+FF0B's and a line of 10 +'s for comparison:

＋＋＋＋＋＋＋＋＋＋

++++++++++
I don't know why you are being downvoted (I am no expert), but it seems like the segfaults are a big deal.
Not currently, but possible in the future. I will clarify that in future posts.
Possible Amazon cloud failure worries tech community
The real question is when?
I don't know about farming, but where's the evidence that oil companies are on some kind of special Government support? This StackExchange answer[0] goes into a decent amount of detail on exactly what "subsidies" Shell is receiving and why.

[0] https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/39112/does-shel...
Taking it to family and friend gatherings and playing the quickdraw game has now become a norm. I love that it facilitates silly interactive sports where my mother in law is giggling as she outdraws my nephew.
I've tried training people in the past who have zero knowledge and it's pretty hit or miss, mostly miss... it really will only work if they are highly self-motivated and find it really interesting, otherwise things start to go downhill quickly when coming to the more difficult material. I initially tried this with her and she ended up getting pretty flustered and annoyed with me when it came to trying to explain how object oriented programming works, so much so that we didn't talk for awhile. And she is an extremely bright person - HS valedictorian, graduated w/ honors from Berkeley with a liberal arts degree.

She ended up moving to SV for the bootcamp she did (Coding Dojo). There are some remote ones that I believe are supposed to be good but I wouldn't be able to recommend any in particular. For most people I recommend doing something like this because of the total immersion, access to a variety of fairly strong engineers (the instructors) and other students in the same boat. Aside from that, my friend is a big fan of the Udacity nanodegree programs and has done a couple since her bootcamp to level up her skills and stay sharp.

For some basic getting your feet wet right now sorts of things, I am def a big fan of material like Eloquent Javascript, Learn Python the Hard Way, Hartl's Rails Tutorial etc.

I would say though the best thing you can do for her right now is to give her tasks that are actually productive or helpful for you and then build on those. Like perhaps you have a bunch of unused css on a project that you want culled, throw her a basics on CSS guide that maybe takes an hour or two to go thru, then create a story for her and walk thru it. Get her familiar with source control, the layout of the project, etc. Getting a sense of accomplishment quickly and repeatedly will help get someone over the initial hump, and will esp. drive them forward when they get stuck.
Well it was literally added this version: http://pytorch.org/docs/0.2.0/distributed.html

Does it meet your needs?
I've been running the corporate Windows 7 install that came on the laptop inside VirtualBox with great results. Saves me from having to dual-boot and gives me nice extras like having the corporate VPN connected inside the Windows VM only for the things that need it while having the rest of the traffic on the normal network.
Given that like 75% of corporate profits are used for share buyback schemes, stock market is a rigged shell game.
It fits with existing conventions for word extensions and it's perfectly understandable. What's the problem? This is how words join the existing language.
Does it make sense to have "marketcap" / GDP if the Nasdaq/DowJones has non US companies like Alibaba? Or is it taking these into account?
I think the OP was being sarcastic.
I liked the factorial calculator.
> Without enough domestic farms and oil fields the US would be extremely vulnerable to foreign sanctions etc. in times of conflict.

By treating agriculture as a free market, without protectionism and subsidies, we'd allow the developing world to actually develop, reducing the frequency of "times of conflict."

As a practical matter, the argument you've given is just a (common enough) red herring. Stopping the United States from trading with its primary trading partners would be somewhat less practical than trying to keep Rome at its peak from importing grain from Egypt.
I've got the most recent generation, and in addition to killer battery life, the battery charge times are incredible. I basically don't have to think about it -- plugging it in while I'm in the shower gives it enough charge to last the day. Seems to charge about three times faster than my phone...
I shouldn't find this shocking, but so few feminine sounding names on the list of contributors. Bummer.
Billionaire bunkers: A look inside the world’s largest doomsday shelters
>> If the world's economies ran on bitcoin we would need a stupendous amount of energy to keep the miners running.

And we'd have to, to keep bad actors from doing similar. It's a terrible idea!
2017 Mobile Payment Usage in China: A Cashless Reality
I don't think OP was addressing morality, though, just raising the practical question of "isn't this a jailable action?"
Nit pick: only about 5% of Saudi Aramco is going public, the total company is worth $1-2T (although this is a matter of some debate, as you might imagine), so aggregate market cap will only increase by $50B.

[0] https://www.cnbc.com/2017/04/24/saudi-aramcos-valuation-repo...
> Now, two types of people usually have difficulty seeing this: those that played life in 'easy mode' (well off parents, good education, etc) and can't see how it's not as easy for everybody, and people who managed to overcome bad chances and who, due to confirmation bias, can't see that the chances for what they did were slim for others in the same boat but attribute it all to their hard work and smarts (and the lack of those in others).

* I dropped out of high school, got my GED

* Worked for a call center doing Verizon Wireless tech support, got customer service experience for my resume

* Worked for Support.com, got desktop support experience for my resume

* Worked on Taos' service desk, was there at the right time for a Salesforce.com Developer opening and was lucky enough that the people interviewing me decided to take a chance on me

* While working at Taos there was a co-worker in the NOC working on a little C# WinForms app that I helped out on occasion, he thought highly enough of me that he gave my information to a friend of his

* Said friend of my former co-worker decided to interview me, I've now been working at my current employer for three years and have been promoted twice

My abilities were a key component of my journey from a low-paying call center worker to a "Sr. DevOps Engineer" making twice the median household income in my area, but they wouldn't have mattered at all without a tremendous amount of luck.

If I hadn't decided to quit working at the call center to try and go to college I wouldn't have ended up working for Support.com, since I applied there over winter break as required by the state unemployment office.

If I hadn't started working at Support.com my resume may have been tossed in the bin when I applied at Taos due to having no documented desktop support experience.

If I hadn't started working at Taos when I did I wouldn't have networked with the people that led to my current employer, they got a government contract when I was leaving that required help desk personnel to get security clearance and I would have never applied in the first place. Not to mention they gave me an opportunity to prove myself as a high-school dropout with no degree, one which I probably only got because I was already an employee with positive references from others I interacted with.

I think it's easy for many people to underestimate where pure chance plays a part in their lives and careers, but I know I could have easily wound up doing menial low-paying customer service work forever without it. I merely had the means to take advantage of opportunities when they came up, but nobody gets anywhere without the opportunity to do so in the first place.
CPU/GPU benchmarks always look like complete ass, I've considered just designing a simplified design template people can use on websites or in video reviews.

Digital Foundry's frame rate and frame time graphs are particularly egregious.
I also have disabled all versions before TLS 1.2, any key exchange other than x25519 (I wanted to avoid the NSA curves) and all encryption/mac algorithms other than Chacha20-poly1305. It works just fine with the last Firefox ESR and Chromium that way.
Look at the incentives of the people who made Bonzi Buddy and Comet Cursor. That kind of crud and malware will continue to exist as long as spying and advertising are the prevalent business model, which they still are. This isn't going away with a walled garden, in fact the device manufacturers welcome it with open arms.
Peter Thiel Has Been Hedging His Bet on Trump
This is a nice intro to linear algebra but doesn't really get into how it's related to deep learning. A good read is Vector, Matrix, and Tensor Derivatives[0], which goes into the linear algebra needed in multi-layer neural networks, specifically during the backpropogation phase.

[0] http://cs231n.stanford.edu/vecDerivs.pdf
https://xkcd.com/525/ ? :)
I went to the comments instead of the link to take a look at whether there was a second source that didn't involve hitting a CCC page. Chilling effects indeed.
How i got into my spouse's  account
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I think you're underestimating the issue with attackers, if the world ran on bitcoin, attacking it becomes much more attractive, so use must indeed use more energy. It must use enough to make attacking bitcoin very unattractive.
Sure, but streets need to be paved. Backyards not so much.
Show HN: A go package to capture stdout and stderr generated by your code
Don't forget that the US military is a huge subsidy to the oil and gas industry and conventional auto industry. I'm sure Tesla would gladly do away with subsidies if Exxon/GM gave up theirs. In any case, I'll bet GM/Toyota have received more electric car subsidies than Tesla. Ridiculous article.
His main point as I understood it seems to be that the problem is the direction of the organization demands that it continue to grow in that direction. More data means more power which demands more funding but also leads to less effectiveness at what they are actually supposed to be doing. It's really smart that he is confronting the problem by trying to create a legal framework that can steer the ship in a better direction. I really appreciate his work.
This is a misleading partisan hit piece. The R party has decided they don't like Musk and this is part of their noise war.

Some of the dollars are indeed shameful, but standard business practice that we need to shut down _everywhere_. If SpaceX is getting 'subsidy' dollars I'm sure it's not 1/4 as much as Boeing/Lockheed and the rest of the defense contractor crowd get. If Tesla factories are getting tax breaks that's because there's a nationwide race to the bottom with every local jurisdiction falling over themselves to give away breaks in hope of luring just this sort of thing. We need to stop that race to the bottom _everywhere_.

And solar subsidies I'm for. F' CO2 emitters.
The T4[567]0s series are tapered at the edge as well. The -s suffix is the lighter version, basically similar to X1 series but with more ports/battery options/upgradability.
Government regulations on cleanliness in restaurants completely destroyed the rat shit covered segment of the restaurant market and marginally increased the costs of running a restaurant.
Men can be just as “maternal” as women, study suggests
Thus crashing my browser and answering the question at the same time.
If nothing else, I like how this might stir some interesting discussions about the state of the economy.

One thing I'd like is a link to the cited data to make it a little more serious and conducive to debates.
> they have been more than capable to support the industry and take credit for it's successes

Well let's face it, we're all getting a huge break from the government right now in a ton of different ways, so they do get some credit for making the laws incredibly lax around here.

Even Trump's government gets credit until it screws up this
sweet deal we're on. And if you wanna see how sweet it really gets, go into fintech. All your opponents with lots of cash on hand are basically operating blindfolded with both hands tied behind their back.

Regulators literally have no idea what to make of us in that space. They largely leave us alone so long as you have even semi-competent legal advice. If you have good legal advice? Well you end up recreating financial institutions in all but name and without any regulation (e.g., Digit).

> simultaneously demonize tech workers as unempathetic racists, sexists, and gentrifiers

I wanna get to the rest of your post, but I just can't leave this alone. I'm sorry to shift the focus here, but we really don't need any external help on this though, do we?

The racist part of the story has legs because folks like the "unnamed" google engineer writing screeds about how no, actually, it's the rich conservatives in the majority who are unsafe. Because tech conferences argue they're a safe space for men who's primary ideological focus for their publications is proving black people thrive under slavery. Because a constant dribble of stories like Kixeye exist to support population statistics that are... statistically unlikely by pure chance..

The sexist part of the story? Gosh maybe if our industry stopped doing so many things that enable abuse of women, the narrative might not be that we enable the abuse of women. Similarly, if we paid women more or less equally within rank and gave them equal opportunity in the workforce... This problem might exist to a much lesser degree. Uber's ripping itself apart not because some women choose to speak out; it's because the public is discovering obviously unethical and probably illegal behavior.

Tech gets special attention, I grant. It's outsized, growing fast, and is consuming and reformatting other INDUSTRIES as its primary fuel source rather than more traditional business models.

> I would definitely consider him to be part of the Democratic establishment.

This is an excellent example of a perception gap. See, I've always seen him as fringe because of his views on transgenderism, his decision that racial slurs are free speech he should exercise, etc.

Unlike, say, Clinton or Obama who've obviously changed their opinions on this subject (or decided to portray an image largely indistinguishable from someone having changed their image) Maher has continue to expand upon it. Maybe he was center-left when he started, but it's difficult to say he's on the left side of the cultural equation these days.
I think the reason wasn't section 936. The reason was more the local government not putting to good use any of the benefits from either the bonds or local companies setting up.

Instead of using those funds to improve education, technical training, create buildings/projects that made sense in the distant future where funds/companies would not be so incentivized to stay here.
They went and started building pointless infrastructure projects with arguably benefits or ROI almost always with some sort of controversy on the project builder/developer intentions.

Building statues, pointless sports venues, really expensive projects with zero to marginal benefits to society/Puerto Rico's economy long term.