skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you're a friend of the VC and he suggests you work for a portfolio company, then maybe you can rely on the VC's judgment without asking questions.

General it's always legitimate to ask these questions. Why? Because they cut straight to how the company will be valued, by a customer or by a potential acquirer.
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The best use of these questions is to get an idea whether your equity might be worth anything. Ask how many customers they have, how fast they're growing, how long does it take to onboard customers, etc. What do they see as an exit (is it a 10M, 100M, 500M a unicorn?). When do they see it happening?

If, let's say, you have 0.01% of a Series A that exits at a billion in five years. You'd expect to be diluted by half and there is around a 20% chance of exit that high so roughly ((0.01%billion)/2).20 /5 or about 2k a year in 'expected value'(or why, numerically at least, it's likely not worth it to take a paycut to work at a startup unless you're seeing substantial equity).
"The only winning move is not to play" is always great advice.
The only reason open offices are popular is because they are cheaper. The rest is just bullshit to try to convince you they don't suck and aren't just chosen because they are cheaper.
When I was in college, there was a retired guy that would come in to tutor students as a way to stay busy.

He was your stereotypical brainiac type dude - quiet, lanky, glasses, soft spoken, and razor sharp. He must have been in his 50s, but you would think he had just completed upper division math, chemistry, and physics "last semester" with perfect grades to boot.

He told me a story about how once while in his Masters program, one of his colleagues figured out how to do some cool stuff with unenriched uranium.

Almost like out of a movie, he said, the government stepped in and made sure he did not publish his research.

I wonder if we'll see that type of stuff happen with cryptography or if it's already happening. I wouldn't be surprised if these theatrics were just to maintain the illusion that they don't have access to stuff.
I guess that's why the domain name infrastructure should be decentralized. Though I'm not familiar with the tech involved, does blockchain based things, like namecoin, solve this problem?
And sheep shagging!
In a city like SF, it's very expensive to build housing, due in no small part to the city's ridiculous planning process. Developers try to offset this cost by building luxury housing, which will of course fetch a higher price when sold.
Nice to see someone working on it!

The online system is not so useful, I prefer to type when I have the option anyway. It's faster.

The offline system initially doesn't even need to be that accurate. OCRing printed text must be accurate because of the sheer volume being OCRed. Handwritten stuff tends to be of far smaller volume, and so can be hand-corrected more practically.
You're going to have to teach that automated robot to rob cars, prostitute, shoplift, neglect children, and beg for money on the streets too, if you want it to be realistic.

Even if you gave up on sympathy for addicts (and I understand, I was in Portland and have been along that hellish amtrak line) - the problem affects all of us, whether we like it or not.
Here's Jaime Vendera (measured at 120 db) doing it:

https://youtu.be/QGk8nXs6Aao

Apparently unless you're at the resonant frequency you need over 163 db to shatter glass:

http://decibelcar.com/menugeneric/87.html
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Capital is usually what makes human labor more productive; we aren't getting smarter, faster, or stronger.

For example, if you work in IT you benefit from massive capital investments that researched, developed, and deployed every bit of technology you use, from 18th century research on electricity (and probably earlier research) to every component in your PC to C to the Internet to AI, to the technology used in the global supply chain that makes it all (to much, much more) ... Should you be paid as if you were utilizing no capital, and you were working in a cave by firelight with carbonized wood on the wall?

Almost all of anyone's productivity, I expect, is due to capital investment that they didn't make.
I just tried that on the Notes app on my iphone; it didn't transcribe it or I didn't do it right.
We do custom domains for customers with SSL through netlify - though only an option if you have a static site.
I was poking around* with this yesterday, has two different simple implementation of a lispkit compiler:

http://www.cs.ncl.ac.uk/publications/trs/papers/129.pdf

*by "poking around" I mean I typed the code into a text editor for further study:

code: https://pastebin.com/6pAkqE2R
Cannabis makes my pain worse.
SF already has plenty of "non luxury" housing that has been gobbled up for luxury prices, often displacing people who could normally afford such housing. The theory is that building more luxury housing will take pressure off the non-luxury stock.

I agree with that theory, but building more affordable and below-market housing (instead, or simultaneously) will likely have a faster, more positive effect.
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So wait, it's not really doing scene analysis and presenting a textual interface to interact with a real Skyrim instance?

I want that now. Sad.

Edit: Okay, but the game is pretty good so far. I forgive you.
Someone might use this chart to make decisions for their team, and the usage patterns for open source is likely very different from someone using CI for internal development and deployment. (For instance, Travis CI is very popular, but when I've looked at it in the past, it was pricey relative to options like Codeship and CircleCI for private workloads)
> Not everyone wants to live in a super over-populated / densely populated area...

Then don't live in an urban center. That is the nature of cities, and given that land is a scarce, precious resource, it seems perfectly natural to me to not allow property ownership to be absolute and without strings.
To avoid redundancy:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15668017
Someone talking loud or having their ringer on? That’s every open office I’ve ever seen.

Headphones to minimize distractions? Distractions aren’t just sounds, but motion. Having people constantly walk into your frame of view is hella distracting. Our super hot graphics designer used to walk to the printer in front of my desk hourly. I did not want to look at her, I tried not to look at her, I couldn’t help looking at her and never was able to get back to my hard problems until she left.

Someone needs help? I’m always glad to assist, but in an open office I have to help right then, my train of thought is already lost. I my private office I can check Slack after I’ve solved the hard problem and have some breathing space, and I’m happy to amble to their office for a little pair programming.

Distractions are killer not just to productivity, but to quality. Being able to focus on all the possible code paths and solve the problem the best, most optimal way requires quiet time.

Even music is a known impediment to deep thinking, which is why headphones are suboptimal, even while they are they best option in a bad open floor plan environment.
Thought this was pretty fascinating. Apparently we can apply lower bound limits to very general classes of machine learning approaches.
I have come across the opposite problem: new hires who think they know better than the greybeards. There doesn't seem to be any correlation whether they have gone to college or self-taught.

What do you do without bruising their delicate egos?
Here's my biggest complaint with this debate - people are confusing literal with metaphorical. They make the analogy of the unbreakable safe. Encryption isn't that. You can still recover the physical phone and all of the storage chips on it.

That the patterns of bits in the chips make up some unrecognizable utterance is seemingly immaterial. I could write gibberish in my journal at home if I wanted to, and I think we'd all agree it would be ridiculous for the FBI to run around screaming about unbreakable ink
"...that if someone disagrees with them, the person is just stupid or doesn't know enough."

Believing that smart = right, thus, less smart = less right.
They don’t “do” anything. It’s genetics. Genetics are luck.
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I think I could handle a 2-3 person office fine, but I bet that fairly small shared offices on a common hallway would work for you too.

I think my fantasy ideal situation is probably like groups of 4-6 small private offices clustered in a L-shape around a shared small conference room. Next to other such groups on a corridor (or even sometimes inter-connected). Would surely be incredibly expensive office space. Oh, let's give each private office a window while we're at it then. :)

Writing this reminded me of Christopher Alexander, I bet there's a pattern for this in A Pattern Language. Looking... #146 Flexible Office Space touches it a bit.

I think there's probably way more to this than 'open office' vs 'individual offices', tons of diversity within each, well less in 'open office'. But open offices with 8 people vs 20 people vs 100 people are going to be very different, also the square feet per person, and the layout and furniture.
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Both the left-wing zealots & right-wing zealots (and others) peddle their propaganda and skewed opinion pieces on Facebook. It's not like one crowds the other out, like a coffee shop with a shared physical space might. Everybody has their own little view of the world from inside FB, curated to their own preferences and propagated by AI similarity recommendations.

Facebook itself isn't a cesspool of just 1 side, so isn't meaningfully associated with any one. Independent and overlapping cesspools of all strokes form and grow in multitudes there.
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These complaints have always felt like disinformation to me. I assume they have larger capabilities than they let on, its just they can't prosecute without revealing that.
Cryptonomicon and Snow Crash are probably in my top 5 favorite books of all time. Enjoy the read!
Please let me know where I can find today’s Series A ready companies that have a 20% chance of being worth $1b in 5 years time.

That figure probably oughta be at least one order of magnitude less.
> . Until the brute force finds a hash that meets difficulty, it’s computing literally nothing of value

It's not doing nothing. It's searching - searching for a hash that can be used to protect the ledger from attacks.

Saying it's doing nothing is like saying Dijkstra's algorithm is doing nothing until it finally finds the shortest path. That's just plain wrong. Sorry.
I as a private citizen do not want the government to have access to my files. Period. End of story. They have zero right to have access to every aspect of my life. Any "solution" that involves any government the ability to access encrypted files is not encryption, but a lie.
$1Billion for Musical.ly? Did people even use the app?
There are also tons of people that CAN'T just drink moderately. Functioning alcoholics are all alround you. I am glad that's not you, but just because it's not you doesn't mean there isn't the reality that alcohol destroys more lives than any other drug in America. Just because it isn't you, doesn't mean it's not your neighbor, or your coworker, or your cashier at the supermarket, or your nice uncle that gets a little creepy when he drinks...
It’s more accurate than the title!
I understand that you think it won't work for you. That's why we have the system of no payment until your work is complete.

The supply/demand economics are such that enough programmers are available to bang out work in exchange for quick cash.

Honestly, have you ever posted a question on Stack Overflow in a popular category? People can't wait to post answers.. for free. Programmers love to show off their talent and smarts.

Now, imagine that they were being paid. And with Code For Cash, they are. They get money as well as ego shoutouts in Slack, etc. It's almost as if it's like Stack Overflow's reputation system, but backed by cash as well as ego :P
See also: https://mjtsai.com/blog/2017/11/09/enduring-xcode-and-source...
There is no other way to secure a distributed ledger at the moment other than using large amounts of power. That leaves two choices:

1. Admit that you think that crypto currency is not worth the energy cost. Even if you believe that, it's just wasted breath on your part because they are absolutely not going to go away.

2. Propose another solution. No one else on earth has found a better solution than proof of work. Do you have something better?
Holy sh*t... you’re serious! I used to run this 10+ years ago and honestly hadn’t heard a reference to it since. If it wasn’t for your comment (which I initially thought was sarcasm), I wouldn’t be digging in again. Thank you!

Edit: you’re Scott. I had no idea :) Much respect and thank you for all the work you did on the project! My kids are getting installs soon.
That’s fucked up: “You weren’t completely maimed, so you get to make your regular crap wage instead of making even less while also rotting in a wheel chair.” Like, are you joking or do you really think that “not being disabled” counts as an increase in pay? It is Ford’s job to make sure no one gets hurt. Period. That it happens less is not some kind of reward or pay bump.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/407106

it's been known since at least 1977.

https://m.timesofindia.com/home/science/Ultrasound-waves-as-...

there's another company that confirms it works, yet denounces it for sake of supporting another contraceptive method they have produced that uses radiation.

https://www.parsemus.org/projects/ultrasound/
Toutiao is a behemoth in the media space. Will see when it invades the US
Correct.

"Schedule 1 (I) drugs, substances, or chemicals are defined by the federal government as drugs with no currently accepted medical use and a high potential for abuse. Schedule 1 (I) drugs are the most dangerous drugs of all the drug schedules with potentially severe psychological or physical dependence."

Which part do you disagree with?
Part of me is sad that Javascript has now been made OOP, after a majority of efforts pushing the balance towards becoming more and more functional (e.g. PureScript) only a few years ago.
Television is also likewise specifically tailored to get a user more and more addicted to its service. Yet it falls upon the media consumer to not get themselves addicted or wear blinders to anything else but their one program/network that encourages their particular leanings.
Suing the CIA is like trying to get revenge on a table saw for cutting your finger off by punching feeding the rest of your arm into it.
My son taught me it and I was all fussy because .... I would have preferred to learn it that way too.
I'm not sure what is happening there. When my FF 56 (Ubuntu 16.04) is has it set to true I see: example.com

When false, I see http://example.com/
Tell that to my 8000% returns.
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>Today, the Senate Commerce Committee questioned former Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer, Verizon chief privacy officer Karen Zacharia and both the current and former CEOs of Equifax on how to protect consumers against major data breaches.

That has got to be some kind of joke.

Why would they ask the former leaders of two companies (Yahoo and Equifax) who have experienced perhaps the largest data breaches of all time... "how to protect consumers against major data breaches?"

That is ridiculous.

They should have asked the current head of security from each company instead.
I don't either. Fiat currencies don't fork - you can simply exchange one for another. Another close comparison is a traded equity having a 2:1 split, except shareholders technically lose nothing. Another case would be stock dilution - though, I have never heard of a public stock diluting to 50% value... that seems unlikely. If a specific commodity were to suddenly decide it had an unreported surplus on the order of 100% of current market estimates, the consequences on valuation would be pretty significant (maybe not a 2x loss...).

I guess the closest comparison to bitcoin is; oil price is at $60 / barrel today and speculators believe there is a 30% chance that they mis-estimated the number of barrels by 100% - but you won't know for sure for another 3 months. What's should the price of oil be tomorrow?
Here in the Denver area, we have a lot of people moving here for good jobs, strong economy, etc. The locals bitch and moan endlessly.

A lady the other night at a dinner party was, in the same conversation, complaining about the "high-density" (townhouses, but she acted as if they were high-rises) housing being built in the area, and moved on to whining about how her daughter was priced out of a home in the area.

I stopped myself.
You could actually install the wildcard cert, then we can slowly backfill with LE certs. And when LE does wildcards we'll just switch to one of those.
I guess the "taint" of a failed startup would make domain names unappealing.

However if it is a name that the general public might try, e.g. pets.com, then it could be valuable, in this case pets.com now redirects to petsmart.com.
Ask HN: What silly esoteric IT thing would you name your child after?
Just to be clear, JSON is a copout.
Ford assembly workers don't make crap wages.
"too long didn't click": the answer is yes.
Procrastinating on an assigned task because you think you can do things faster than everyone else. It's a trap that I fell into often. Nearing the shipping date, I found myself scrambling to finish the task wishing I had started earlier. The learning: Even if you're faster at doing things, underestimating unknown unknowns is going to be detrimental in the end. It's better to start sooner. There's a good article that covers this hazard[1]

[1]: http://bookofhook.blogspot.in/2013/03/smart-guy-productivity...
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His comment makes sense to 99% on non-tech people, and if it was possible it would make sense to all. Would we want to open Bin Laden's iPhone?

He wants you to have your home with 100 locks, guard dogs and armed guards. BUT if a court orders you, you have to let the police in to check x, y and z. Now I don't think that a secret key can be somewhere and stay safe for a long time. It will be leaked or hacked. This places hundreds of million innocent people at extreme danger of having everything personal revealed.

So, IMO, giving the cops a master key opening all our doors "if needed" doesn't work. TSA does that, but presumably while cameras are running, and this is stuff we know it will be searched. So encryption is the best option.
Perhaps not as well known, but there are two other books in the same world as Neuromancer (The Sprawl Trilogy), with some relation between them (not much in one of the novels, a bit more in the other, but either way helps to have read Neuromancer): Count Zero and Mona Lisa Overdrive

I highly recommend them both.
It is sad how open source is all about sharing/learning until it comes time to link to competing/alternative projects.
For some reason, I immediately groked calculus and why it would be useful (maybe because I liked physics and the relationship between velocity and position is an intuitive one), but the point of linear algebra was a complete mystery to me.

Why are we multiplying these big matrices of numbers, and what is this complicated determinant thing? Why would anyone ever care what a kernel is, and what are these subspaces that keep getting referenced?

Now every other somewhat mathy problem I see can be broken down into linear algebra and I wish I had learned it better (and that it was taught with more intuition).
So. Much. B.S.

There's only one question they need to ask:

"How much are you going to pay me?"

Edit: The reason anyone would wax poetically about everything else is because he or she realizes that they are not being paid enough. It is like day trading - the moment it goes against a bad trader he or she calls it "investment"

Edit: Thanks for the down votes! It makes me feel warm and fuzzy inside to know that it is still possible to swindle people!
Except in most circumstances, there wouldn't have been any papers, because nobody was recording all their conversations. Nowadays, everything is happening digitally and is stored indefinitely by default; and law enforcement feels like they deserve access to all that.

The attempts at preventing ubiquitous encryption don't seem to be focused on crimes where there would have been a paper trail if people still used paper; they are focusing on reconstructing the last year or so of someone who is either dead or uncooperative, all in hopes of finding something they can use.

If they were targeting organizations with a bureaucracy for some crime, I think they could just demand access to all documents and get them? If I remember correctly, in the Levandowski case Google's lawyers got access to a huge trove of Uber's internal emails. If a private company can get that access, it should be possible for law enforcement as well, no?
I've never seen a site that doesn't serve a root path. You can't serve a homepage at http://example.comindex.html.

I'd be curious to see if it's possible to serve one at http://example.com?page=home, http://example.com#home, or something like that though.

In any case, http://www.tesla.com is not the URL of their home page -- it's http://www.tesla.com/ even though the browser tries to tell you that you're visiting http://www.tesla.com.
Yes. Actually so.

https://www.edcast.com
It certainly grew fast, no question. It's not a behemoth however. It has 1/5th the sales of CBS, which is just one of dozens of big US media companies.

It's very unlikely they'll be able to invade the US in a meaningful sense. Toutiao's primary business is media content aggregation. They're going to be incapable of presenting non-censored news, content, media. The CPC will require that anything they allow in their publishing space globally, be controlled and censored strictly to present the views of the CPC. What China allows their domestic companies to do internationally when it comes to media, is not very different from what they allow domestically. That's why companies like Baidu and Tencent, which are drastically larger than Toutiao, have been entirely unable to crack the Western media markets. The restrictions Chinese companies face due to the strict authoritarian regime at home, is extremely different from what companies in eg Japan faced when they 'invaded' the US 30 years ago (such as Sony in music & movies).

It's why there will never be a Chinese Reddit conceptually. Free expression is illegal for all Chinese media companies, it leaves them at an extreme disadvantage when competing globally.
> that lied about being unable to unlock the phone of the last guy they tried this with to get the law changed…

I found it very telling that they announced their inability to access the phone only a few days after the incident. It struck me as a very clear PR move that was designed to lay the groundwork to shape public opinion. My threshold for declaring that the device is inaccessible requires more time for research and effort than this.
It was Snapchat for kids
There's also the "family history of Alzheimer's" aspect. A long and graceful old age isn't on everyone's cards.