skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Total BS.

They have a MBA with no uni reqs as well.

I have built two companies from nothing; for a total eval of 3.5 million. I had a financial sponsor and references from well known sand hill road vcs.

I applied and quickly got rejected (on the first day of the applicants are reviewed).

Everyone accepted to the program are f100 employees with existing MIT/Mass ties.

MIT sees the end game, and it is not providing $80,000/year edu to the .1% who can afford it. Its pumping $$$ from enterprises who can afford it while locking HPEs to the enterprise sponsoring them.

TOTAL BS.
There are methods of transportation other than cars and feet. Google has buses for example.
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Now, when Steam decides that you have violated their ToS in some way, they will close your account and lock you out of everything you bought. This happens, rarely, but happens.

Do you want to be dependant on an idea of a corporation that they will treat you fair?

Are you OK to give away your washing machine and oven just because you had troubles with finances and you missed one payment?
So how does knowing that Maybe is a monad solve a problem for anybody not programming Haskell?
Churches are already exempt from paying real-estate taxes on their religious buildings. And they're exempt from paying taxes on any income they get from investment, too. It's a net wash - as long as churches have exempt investment assets of some sort that fund their religious and charitable activity (and not unrelated businesses), we're not getting tax income from them either way.
The magnitude of the impact, however, would be much different between the two.
It would be interesting to see how well it works to send encrypted and steganographically hidden messages over spam.

To most people, it's just another dumb piece of spam with a crappy JPEG attached.

To others, it's an encrypted message hidden within the JPEG, identified by certain key phrases in the come-on text, possibly within the Bayesian poisoning which amounts to sequences of random words anyway.

To GCHQ and the NSA, it's... well, if they want to dig through all the spam in the world looking for hidden messages which might not be there, let them.
True, but it is reusing an (alien) middleware on top of that. I like react-native and have used it, but a <Text>, <View>, or <ScrollView> isn't the same thing as directly using the native widget APIs yourself, or using the native tooling like Android XML files, XIBs, etc. There's a class of apps where you really need the direct access, and currently for React-Native, that means writing native modules and tying them to markup, which invariably leads to people trying to create versions that work on Android and iOS unified by a single <Element>.

React-Native works, apps like Discord prove that. But Gmail and Docs tried the approach of running their huge apps business logic 100% in JS on mobile, and the performance and memory usage didn't meet expectations. If you try to do something like run formula recalculations on a 20,000 cell spreadsheet, on a low powered Android device, the performance is much worse than running the same code in Dalvik/ART.
With the incredible emergency we have, you would think, someone would be working hard to change the laws. It's an entirely man made emergency, that need not be. Perhaps it'll take a start up company of politicians to "change the world" to address these types of issues.
The 9 page Republican tax plan draft is pretty awful.

Not just awful in the sense that Trump promised that it didn't benefit rich people, which it does ("It's not good for me, believe me"). The elimination of the estate tax on the top 0.2% of estates in America is the most egregious example. The immediate write off of depreciable assets, elimination of AMT and reduction of corporate taxes largely do not apply to small businesses. In particular, the immediate expensing of depreciable assets may further serve to exacerbate irrational purchases of equipment by small businesses, potentially locking them into unprofitable business practices, while benefitting large corporations that make these specialized products (see the corn glut). No comment on whether this is moral or not, in the end it brings profits to big business at the direct expense of small business.

But its also awful in the sense that its not even close to complete or reasonable. Half of the 9 page document is just empty words and opinions that have no business being on a document meant to form the basis of our new tax code. Republican analysts have yet to make up for the optimistic 1.5 trillion dollar projected shortfall introduced by this tax reform, and the various "tricks" being discussed to bridge that gap are unpalatable at best. Clever accounting reminiscent of the practices that brought Enron to its downfall, punting the problem of shortfalls 10 years down when the debt becomes to big to ignore. Taxing of retirement plan contributions and proceeds which will be borne by middle class workers. If this is all the Republicans have to show after 2 years of bluster, I can't see any significant reform going through.

Moreover, the duplicitous wording of the document gives less reason to view the Republicans in a charitable light. The whole section on the "zero tax bracket" and dependent deduction elimination represents little to the lower class Americans it purports to help. Replacing the deduction for non child dependents with a 500 dollar tax credit is a tax increase in most cases. The unspecified increase in the child tax credit is also balanced by the loss in the $4000 deduction - there is no reason to expect an actual effective tax break of significant magnitude when the Republicans can't even give us a flat answer. The elimination of most itemized deductions perturbs me as well - give people even less of a reason to spend their money in incentivized manners, punish the middle class further? We'll see what exactly they eliminate, if its comparable to the nearly doubled standard deduction.

"Finally, the committees will work on additional measures to meaningfully reduce the tax burden on the middle-class." It's amazing how long it took them to produce a mere 9 page document, much of which contains words that impart no meaning. I've written essays in high school longer than this.
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Velodyne (LIDAR) started out of the Darpa Grand Challenge - Team DAD (ie, Team Digital Auto Drive):

http://archive.darpa.mil/grandchallenge05/Team_Applicants/Te...

Basically, the founder of Velodyne (subwoofers), David Hall, got interested in robotics (from what sounds like the hobby angle, via combat robotics).
In which countries/cities does TaskRabbit operate?
I wonder if Google could just buy this "Mountain View". Seems like an acquisition might be the easier way to go. I wonder what the market cap is?
S is sign.
M is mantissa.
E is exponent.

The only term there you might not remember from high school math is mantissa, and a search engine will precisely explain that in two sentences, in terms you do remember from high school math.
> There are some downsides.

You can say that again. Just look at the John Deere debacle that's been happening for an exceptionally good example of why this is a terrible idea. Physical good = ownership = full end-user control. Anything less is dangerous for consumers.
For a while; money isn't everything, and once they have enough of it, people will leave to chase whatever they're really interested in.

https://www.theverge.com/2017/2/13/14599186/google-waymo-sel...
You know what? I got your answer, I have this beautiful 0-mile device without all those gadgets and crap. No keyless entry, no GPS, no radio, no (power)windows, no thermostat, minor software and computers (just to control the engine and emmissions). If you want add-ons you add them yourself:

- GPS -> mount your smartphone

- Thermostat -> more/less clothes

- Radio -> get a bluetooth headset for your helmet

- The list can go on and on...

You just described my motorcycle! Beautiful 0-miles engine (took it out of the dealership this week). It has no unnecessary stuff and that's what I love the most about it. I do pretty much all the maintenance myself and the community of motorcycle riders is very supportive and helpful to do so.

Now... Why isn't there a car company that builds cars on the same level of complexity? I know comfort/luxury sells. But there should be a tier of cars that are easily serviceable.

Meanwhile, I highly recommend you get a motorcycle :)
Who is it affordable by though? By that definition a Manhattan penthouse is affordable.
It's sort of like how Ball both makes mason jars and has an aerospace division.

They went from mason jars -> aluminum cans for food -> aluminum cans for satellites.
You have a point, but if the law catches up with this idea, then I don't think this should be a problem.

I.e., stronger rights for people who use services.
"Unexpected maintenance" outside of normal working hours = good on you.

"Expected (planned) maintenance" outside of normal working hours, and during expected high volumes of usage = WTF.
I suspect the ambition is less lofty. They know people use TR regularly to deliver and install Ikea furniture and they figure on taking a slice.
> you can't be just rational and the fear will disappear.

Are you sure? I find that mentally walking through a checklist of true-true facts makes my sweating/shaking/vomiting go away (for a while)
So, he essentially tricked some social media manager into giving him a password (probably the same used for both). That's even weaker than I expected.
I'll acknowledge that I was wrong.
Oberon was already a later software.

Earlier Wirth designed a personal workstation called Lilith with a stack-architecture CPU and Modula-2 as its system programming language. This was in many ways similar to Smalltalk or Lisp Machines, but with reduced complexity.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lilith_(computer)
I recently had this experience:

* Day 0: order a bunch of IKEA stuff with delivery

* Day 15: get message saying all items ready for delivery, on Day 30

* Day 20: I call shipper and ask if we can reschedule for Day 37 -- no problem

* Day 35: shipper calls and says oops we actually only deliver to my town once a month so it'll have to be on Day 60

... many phone calls with contradicting info and "check with manager" ...

* Day 40: I pay a local contractor to pick items up from shipper's warehouse.

(No refund on shipping because it was "my fault.")
I’ve always wanted something like the old DOS edit or turbo vision editors with CUA key bindings, to the point where I maintained my own for several years around 2000. On Linux “ne” is not a bad choice, though I’d like an upgrade.

Remembered why I didn’t stick with it now, it doesn’t have menus and there was a bug that has been fixed, will try again.
Not for this editor, but here's a really impressive introduction to Kakoune, another small but excellent app

https://github.com/mawww/kakoune
https://vimeo.com/82711574
Yes it is affordable by those who can, you know, afford it. That was the point OP was making.
I am looking for more of these kinds of ideas. I do not believe tax should be a function of Govt because Govt has become a function of two political parties with two different ideologies. There are incentives for both sides but it has become a biased system. I am looking for ideas that decouple tax from Govt. and the ideologies of political parties. If a political party likes to spend more then they should not raise taxes to achieve those goals. Also it does not inspire confidence that our Social security fund will not be sufficient though we are paying taxes because now people are living longer.
It is, if you're a billionaire who can afford to buy it.
No, their analogy was pretty spot on. Yours is ignoring a huge amount.
This seems to be an interestingly generational thing. As someone who learned to write prior to the 1990s, I may attest that the pen used to be controlled by balance and cautiously applying pressure. (Actually, you were punished in school, if you were caught holding the pen with grip.) This is also, why classic fountain pens, art pens and fine liners feature front pieces of a textureless, glossy material (because grip actually counteracted the control of a pen, if held that way).

[Edit] Somewhen in the early 2000s Wacom changed from thin and glossy to thick and rubbery pens for their tablets (i.e., from balance to grip). I'm still failing to become comfortable with those...
Yep, you're right; I wouldn't call it a hotspot either. I must have been reading too fast.
Error relative to the original numbers or to the result?
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TaskRabbit is a perfect adjacency for Ikea because it’s not easy to assemble their furniture without help.
You can thank planning rules that require large amounts of parking for that.
That's right. "Affordable" by itself doesn't say anything about who can afford it. If we were talking about affordable for the middle class, we'd call it "Affordable for the middle class." This is why the term is a misnomer. All housing is affordable, but the term is being used to describe something other than affordability (subsidization).
I did that, sort of. But I was an exec(ish) before I founded a company.

I think founding a company helped my career, but not necessarily faster than working on a similar exec-level track for 2 years.

Reading this article was interesting to me. I really bristled at the descriptions of founder and employee, but exec feels comfortable. I really enjoy owning a set of responsibilities that's not redundant with anybody else in the organization, and I enjoy working on internal relationships in order to help everybody get their work done better ("politics").

Maybe at some point I'll found another company, because that pressure really does force you to confront the weakest parts of your professional skillset. I learned a ton about myself by doing it.
If you got rid of mortgage interest, then almost no one could afford to buy a home.
I hate sounding both old and weird but I cannot shake the feeling that much of the claims of economic health and growth in the US is... if not fake (I’m not totally nuts) but not accurate. My most charitable interpretation if I’m right is that we’re using the wrong metrics (possibly intentionally) that give a distorted view of the economy. But I keep hearing employment is great, productivity is great, stock market is great, and yet it seems like most anecdotal evidence I see and read about suggest this is all hollow, and things are actually really bad for the average American.

I don’t know. I know how it sounds. But I can’t stop thinking that stuff isn’t adding up. And this article is one more to add to the pile of “how can this be happening if the economy is actually healthy, at least in a way that means people’s financial lives are healthy and prosperous?”
> Common Keybindings

> Micro's keybindings are what you would expect from a simple-to-use editor.

Formed one idea.

then,

from the FAQ:

> Does micro support Vi keybindings?

> No, if you want to use Vim then use Vim.

Well then.
It does, but not at an even amount. The tax deductions lower the cost of operating a unit for renting, but that doesn't mean all the money saved gets translated directly to benefiting the renters.
Yeah, TLA+ just verifies the spec, not the actual code. You still need to write tests and use code review and the like.
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Yes, we call that Society and as you're seeing Puerto Rico none of the tech matters if you don't have basic infrastructure. They definitely add more value than us.

Are they under-represented and under-valued? Probably. Just like IT, they only get noticed when things screw up or go wrong.
You are both correct and incorrect.

As others mentioned, product/sales/marketing/etc can all be replaced just as easily as developers.

However, and I think this -may- be your point, the work generated by those groups is understood by upper management as a key to success, whereas upper management likely does not understand that having the best tech is also a key to success (and, honestly, it's one that can many times be partially overcome by sufficient marketing, or overshadowed by bad product people, or...).
To quote another comment "prosecutors are as vicious as the law allows them to be".

That's their job.

* Legislators create the law. (legislative branch)

* Prosecutors sue for enforcement of the law. (executive branch)

* Judgement to use JUDGEment in applying the law. (judical branch)

If you have sucky laws or indescriminate judges, fix those. Don't cast dispersions on prosecutors for prosecuting laws they didn't write, for sentences they don't make.

Not maintaining the balance of powers is how you wind up with out-of-whack and mismanaged governments.

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EDIT: Prosecutors are the inverse of defense attornies. Why is the DA defending this scumbag of a human being?!?! Because that's their job: provide the best possible defense for accused criminals. Likewise, prosecutors provide the best possible prosecution. Denegrating either one for their role is misunderstanding their functions in the judical system.
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Scheme can be compiled. https://github.com/cisco/ChezScheme
Oops! Right you are. I just recalled that there was some issue with a large number of <insert important item for MCMC here>. I should have reread the threat before linking it.
Ugh, the new, remodeled, Ikea in Seattle got rid of the self checkouts. Checking out now takes at least 15 minutes. Sometimes more. It's awful.
> I wouldn't think it has to be 'single-payer' to get past this but... I don't know.

For a start, eliminate the tax discrimination that makes employer paid health insurance cheaper.
The top captures all the economic growth: http://time.com/money/4371332/income-inequality-recession/ .
> It's truly Orwellian that regulations that make housing less affordable get called "affordable housing".

To be fair, developers sell units at what the market will bear, rather than on a "cost-plus" basis. Raising developer costs doesn't impact the final sale price.

Now one could argue that reducing developer profits means that fewer developers will try to build... but it's properly zoned land, not developers that is in short supply.

Or maybe you mean that the requirement that some of the housing be "affordable", means only projects that the remainder of the units are "unaffordable" will be built... but that's the case anyway; given the scarcity of land it doesn't make sense to build affordable housing unless forced.

Not that I'm in favor of housing subsidies. It turns a few well-connected or lucky people into lottery winners, and doesn't reduce the overall cost of housing.
I never said they should be tax free, only that as a small time investor they should be modestly taxed.
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The problem is that keeping things the old way apparently doesn't work out too well for the environment. Moving to services aligns the incentives such that the environment can benefit, and the use of products can become cheaper too.

So, imho, what we should do is give customers who use services better rights.
The base Jeep Wrangler looks like that, but in fact, it has anti-skid braking, stability control, and electronic engine control. Everything is too integrated. In the first year, I had a bug where the software would crash and restart going uphill in hot weather. The engine would stop and restart, the transmission would downshift, all the lights on the dashboard would light up momentarily, and the CD player would reset.
If you got rid of the mortgage interest deduction, the market clearing price of homes would fall.

(Add an income-based tax subsidy on principal payments on homes—either up front or as part of loan repayment—and you'll do a lot more to improve affordability without doing as much to encourage debt.)
I like this list, but please edit the title to follow the guidelines: If the original title begins with a number or number + gratuitous adjective, we'd appreciate it if you'd crop it. E.g. translate "10 Ways To Do X" to "How To Do X," and "14 Amazing Ys" to "Ys." Exception: when the number is meaningful, e.g. "The 5 Platonic Solids." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
This is totally a sales pitch.

You can tell because when confronted with an alternative that works and is viable you get the age ol' "Yeah well anything is possible"

Of course, what is current was also possible, you're ignoring the fact you're buying into the current dogma and repeating it.
Generally I ask what their plans are going forward to extend the product and it's obvious they have none plus don't even know what the product is. When they just want to know the user base and location of the users that's a really bad sign.

> sometimes they just say what they're planning to do if you ask

Haha, I wonder why they would do that.
Goods and services are always (and will always be) separate for those at the top of the economic food chain. Why should it be different for those who are less privileged? Looks like a likely avenue for exploiting or at least taking control/power/freedom from other people.

Don’t count on service quality laws to make up the disparity caused by losing the right to full ownership of one’s property.
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I would really like to see a fully featured terminal based editor that is built with modern keybindings in mind. I've given Emacs a solid chance but ended up switching to Atom (weird keybindings and configuration that kept breaking made me leave in the end). I like most things about Atom. The package system. How it's configured and navigated. But there's a simplicity (and memory footprint) of the terminal based UI that is missing to really make it the perfect editor (for me).
Oh, sorry - missed it in the FAQ. My understanding (which isn’t particularly well researched) is that any 3G or 4G packet data requires implementing algorithms (compression and error corection stuff) which are unfortunately encumbered with software patents, and cannot be implemented in a FOSS manner unless someone paid the licensing fees for everyone (similar to Cisco paying the H.264 patent fees for OpenH264), or the patent pool gets bored and relinquishes their patents.
“Who said anything about {x}?” is an idiomatic equivalent to “Why did you bring up {x} unprompted?”

I think you're trying to say that unlabeled formulas are no better or worse than unlabeled graphs and the like, but calling a formula a “string” is muddling it up. (If that is what you meant.) Because we're talking about floating-point data types, people are likely to think of the string data type.
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If you're on Earth, you can assume that the satellite is closer than 30000 km or so. Light takes 0.1s to cross that distance.
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With constantly rising real estate prices, this is hardly surprising. Rent is crazy.

Time to switch to free high education system.
I think that the government should guarantee housing for everyone, but the mortgage interest rebate doesn't do that. It does allow some portion of the population that couldn't afford a home be able to do so, but that doesn't hold for anyone. Why don't we instead funnel those funds into HUD and provide housing as a right either through urban development projects or through subsidizing privatized low income housing construction (possibly by eating a tax reduction via incentives)?

FYI, I'm an expatriate living in BC, Canada where housing prices are insane and almost nobody can afford to buy a home, but the economic reasons here are more specialized to the region.
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These are great details, but they don't really answer my question.