skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> the timing of the expense is different as it front loads the expense (because of the interest accretion)

I would expect that if a firm could make a good case to its auditors that the revenue derived from the use of the leased asset was expected to be higher during the early years or lower during the later years, or vice versa, then the auditors would allow a timing adjustment somewhere.

If my corporation has just signed a 12-year operating lease for some property in Los Angeles with the intention of profitably obtaining revenue from the property only during the 2028 Olympics, do these accounting rules lock me into such unrealistic reporting?

Many years back, I spent quite a bit of time on similar but different issues of recognition of revenue and expense, and it seemed that if one could make a good case, there was flexibility, but everyone wanted to abuse it. Is the flexibility still available in reasonable cases, gone now in general, or gone only for specific classes of contracts like operating leases?
> it's rather challenging to accomplish when your child's friends and peers are all equipped with such devices _and_ the teachers assume that they are available.

Especially that last part is increasingly becoming an issue. While Germany bans "smartwatches for children", we Germans don't bat an eye about introducing expensive and delicate Apple iDevices as learning tools in schools.

On one hand that's cool on the other hand I'm not sure I like the idea of a publicly funded education system funneling kids and young adults into the closed garden of Apple and all of it is paid for by tax-payer money.

There have already been cases where parents were told that their kids had to change classes if they are not willing to buy a 500€ Apple tablet (+200€ for insurance and a case) [0]. I can only imagine how this plays out down the line; separated education based on the financial situation of parents.

[0] https://www.abendblatt.de/region/stormarn/article207832695/S...
I've found that even just a minute or two back in their case gives them enough additional listening time that this has never been a problem for me.
Can $20m really push up the price that much, when talking about a $125bn market cap? Seems like a pittance.
I'm just going to start flagging all submissions of pages that have modal popups. Does that make me a jerk?
To me it looked like one of the points of Git was that one could work on anything from the entire repository locally, i.e., for example, without having an internet connection, e.g. when on an airplane. (I think having one huge repository is the problem here.)
Well, we know that Orcas teach their young to hunt using waves, and by beaching themselves [0]. So it's not a stretch to assume that this is acquired knowledge, and not instinctual.

[0]: http://www.nature.com/news/2007/071214/full/news.2007.380.ht...
Could you elaborate on how the Vietnam War succeeded in "protecting US business interests around the world"?

In my view, first, the Vietnam War has little to do with "business interest," more with containing the spread of communism.

Second, the Vietnam War did not succeed in containing communism. After the US's withdrawal, North Vietnam took the entire country, and North Vietnam allies came to power in Laos and Cambodia.

So I'd count the Vietnam War as a big loss in terms of containing communism, and a neutral in terms of protecting US business interest.
It seems to me that there is a limit to diagnosis accuracy period.
After reading replies I guess I should have been more specific. Early on there was some hype around the idea that 3D printers would become as ubiquitous in homes as paper printers once were. I bought in to that a little bit, but it seems like that is (and probably always was) tremendously unlikely.
Some more, and recent, info: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-42012116

UK gov has been cutting disability benefit, but it turns out they've been underpaying by maybe 0.5 billion.
Google reader was epic! Although the development when it comes to RSS readers and such went into overdrive when Google shut it down. I think The Old Reader has replaced most of Google Reader's features, but not all of them by any means.
>these people want others dead, removed, or subjugated purely because they're different.

And the other sports team just wants different things to be done. Admittedly not as drastic... yet.

>And that is something that in 2017, the human race should be saying a very strong "No, get to fuck, you scrotes" to.

In 2017, almost 2018, the human race should have learned how to control these kind of ideologies without using brutish tribe mentality.
For those interested in this subject, check out the work of Heather Dewey-Hagborg:

http://deweyhagborg.com/

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/creepy-or-cool...
Google Cloud Platform SDN Andromeda Latency Cuts by 40%
I was sceptical at first, but you should really give the Airpods a try. They work really really well. And recharge fast. Just put them in the box if you don't use them for 5 to 10 minutes, and they'll be almost fully recharged -- ready to go for hours.
Arecibo Telescope Wins Reprieve from U.S. Government
Bay Area*, Two Beds*, Two Baths*, Utilities Included, $340* a Month
How much will this shift the Capex verse Opex dynamic which typically is perceived to be one of the many motivating factors towards cloud computing adoption?
The internet like several large systems people depend on were created by major institutions for major institutions and any attack on them would weaken the institution doing the attacking. Bitcoin however, was created mainly to circumvent major institutions, so they have no vested interest in protecting it unless there exists 3rd party grassroots pressure to do so.
Ethernaut
Fun read, but man, the hubris! I play chess a fair bit and have gone through various stages of study, though admittedly never a month full time. But man, no way do I think Max could beat even an intermediate player (say 1800 ELO) 3 out of 5 games. It just isn't something you pick up in a month.
That's convenient, so you would support people only willing to be interviewed by sympathetic interviewers who agree with them on controversial topics. How are these things supposed to be worked through if no one is willing to engage in a debate about them?
Can we save ourselves a really long, pointless political argument?

They ended the entire part-time-partner program, and transitioned some of the part-timers to advisor roles. Thiel is one of multiple part-timers not to become an advisor.

You are not going to get an answer, or more "context", from YC about the political implications of this change. No matter how many times you ask and how carefully you word the questions, you're not going to pry loose any first-hand drama from this situation.

I'm happy Thiel's no longer involved with YC. I'm disappointed that it took this long, but we can't always get what we want. There are people here that disagree with me on both those things. We all knew that about each other. We probably don't need to beat it to death.
I think it's still a domain specialization to a degree. The domain being, mobile.

Being an expert in iOS is more than just knowing how to program in Swift/Objective-C. It encompasses a deeper understanding of mobile development and the apple ecosystem.

True senior level iOS people will understand core user interface design principles as they relate to mobile, and will be intimately aware of Apple's Human Interface Guidelines. They'll understand mobile accessibility and be deeply familiar with the myriad of tools in iOS. They'll understand internationalization and how to design an application to support various calendar systems, and text layout paradigms. They know the ins-and-outs of Apple's provisioning and certificate system and can quickly sniff out configuration issues. They understand how important testing is and how well supported it is. They know how to setup automated builds using xcodebuild, and how to support automatic unit and ui tests.

The list goes on and on. Certainly one could just be an app developer and stop there. But being a mobile domain expert in my opinion is a much more valuable albeit niche position.
> Your coins are securely stored across computers all over the world.

Please lets not start this debate. Times and times again it has been proven that software is not secure. OpenSSL was also thought to be secure for quite some time too..
A similar question i asked, got good responses. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14290025 . But i have the same question and thought too.
They are also guilty of posting fake job offers to work at Honeypot, just to let you know later that "we already have candidates at an advanced stage of our hiring process." (one day after the offer being published)

"However, you know, Honeypot is a tech focused career platform and we currently have a number of positions that match your profile."

I'd avoid them
Ditto.

Connecting is far and away the biggest pain I've had with my AirPods. I don't have a problem with their charge (despite using them all day) or with them falling out or getting lost.

I bought them to remove the hassle of the cables getting knotted and caught on things and, on that front, it's been amazing. I frequently forget I have them in my ears at all. I even fell asleep wearing them the other night and woke up to them still securely in my ears.

If Apple could just improve the connecting and disconnecting experience, I would be absolutely thrilled.
That describes me exactly. Coincidentally, I turned 40 a few months ago.

I took my current job with the goal of transitioning into a leadership role, either product or management. I was walking into a situation where I knew people already here and was hoping to leverage that. Those people left a few months after I started, and now I'm kind of stuck on an island. I've approached my current boss but he's completely uninterested in promoting any sort of career development.

Bottom line is I'm burnt out, depressed, and bored out of my mind. The idea of learning Yet Another Web Framework fills me with dread (I'm currently doing Node/React stuff and hating it), not because I don't think I can learn the tech, but because it's no longer fulfilling in any kind of personal or professional sense.

So, I really don't know where I'm going, or what I'm going to be when I grow up.
> Go deep on security

Bingo.

Security is one of the few cross-discipline, cross-domain specialities where it is possible to be a reasonably good domain expert and still have a good coverage across other domains. The fundamentals don't change. (And I say this as someone who's been immersed in the field for 25 years, so of course I'm biased.)

There are few other domains that can offer the same level of constant demand.

The beauty - and the depressing aspect - of security is that maybe 10% of security is about software. The remaining 90% is all about what is between people's earlobes. To become good at security, you'll need to learn how to explain extremely difficult and often subtle concepts. And you'll have to do that for both technical and non-technical crowd. That's a fantastic and continuous trial by fire. It's also lots of fun!

Bonus: because everything is a tradeoff, you really can't avoid the engineering approach. Teaching the concepts and reasons for tradeoffs to less senior developers will be part of the job specification. Fun.

> language/framework of the week

To quote something I have often stated in our interviews - there are only four programming language families. Everything else is syntax.
"Are we even talking about the same thing? There are absolutely groups that commit more crimes than others. Do you honestly need a citation for a claim like, "young men commit more crimes than elderly women?""

You should be able to cite something for that claim, yes. But you know we're not talking about those kinds of groups; we are talking about the ones that are highlighted on sites like Breitbart.

"Feminism is bigoted (but probably correctly so) for highlighting men as the reason there isn't equality."

Feminism doesn't highlight men. Feminism highlights power structures, many of which are put in place by certain men.
The Disable HTML5 Autoplay plugin for Chrome still works pretty well ...

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/disable-html5-auto...

The author has stopped maintaining the plugin though because Google is supposedly addressing the issue at the browser level.

Edit: This seems to be the recommended fix for Chrome ...

Set ...

chrome://flags/#autoplay-policy

to ...

"Document user activation is required."
My thoughts exactly. On the evolutionary timescale we have been studying animals for a miniscule amount of time. Unless some "new behaviour" is caused by human influence, I am very sceptical of claims like this. "Orcas have learned to x" == "Humans have learned that Orcas do x". Still a really interesting read though.
This promises to be a nightmare for small business. By way of a few examples, a company will need to evaluate whether its right to use tangible personal property is actually its own property subject to personal property tax, sales tax and use tax. Generation transfer and businesses sale valuations will be impacted on a perishable lease "asset" values. There will be disputes about the differences between Fair Market Value and GAAP value. Even colocation, SAAS and software leases with terms greater than one year may be impacted by this rule.
Plantronics Backbeats Pro (the original in-ear bluetooth buds). They've survived 8 years, multiple marathons, being dropped onto concrete, dropped into a pool, stepped on, dog chewing, and being left on the dash of a car in 100+ degree weather fully exposed to sun. After 8 years of near-daily use, they still have 6 hours of battery life (they were originally rated for 8 hours).
I would love to learn more about best practices and tools for digitization, specifically focused on archiving sentimental items.

Tips and tools for (relatively) inexpensive, private (not advertising/tracking-funded) and secure sharing of digital achives with extended family members would also be most appreciated! Thanks for the pointer to https://omeka.org/.

Personally I have settled for private YouTube videos with email list access control as "better than hard drive failure" but I'm not totally happy with the choice. I would have preferred Google Photos but there is no free bulk upload option (import via Google Drive keeps original quality).
You owe $100k, but you also have something of value (worth approximately $100k when the lease was entered, but should be adjusted for transaction costs of subleasing). Over time, your payments reduce the debt (this balances out), but the asset also reduces value, which reduces your overall balance. Adjustments for marketability of the leased property should also be made.

If the property isn't marketable, maybe the current asset value is $0, but that's rarely the case.
All jobs for almost all people are "dead-end" jobs after the age of 35. Given the pyramid structure of corporations and the workforce, unless you are a select few who are on the track to upper management/executive positions, you are most likely going to peak by 30. It's why so many people change careers. It's either accept the dead-end job or see if the grass is greener elsewhere.
As they say - any publicity is good publicity. Anyone talking Amazon proposal will now also discuss this stunt from Brunswick.
What word in the comment is difficult to understand?

I am also confused as to what having a Ph.D. has to do with your ability to understand concepts in what I am assuming is a completely unrelated field?

A Ph.D. signifies advanced knowledge in a particular subject, not a generalized superior ability to understand unrelated concepts.
Thiel is clearly a libertarian nutter of the Bannon varietal, from his statements and interviews.

To them "all regulations == bad," lacking nuance and honest reality in preference to utopian illusions that align with the interests of unlimited greed.
> Do you think banks exist for free? What are the costs of maintaining a system of banks capable of acting as a trusted custodian in such a transaction, covering every jurisdiction the globe over? Have you amortized the cost of aircraft carriers, diplomats, social and class mobility, the set of externalities that ultimately end up reconciled through war and collapse?

Whew, thank god Bitcoin got rid of all the aircraft carriers. And class mobility, I was wondering how to solve income inequality, but who knew it was as simple as Blockchain! Blockchain! Blockchain!
Well. It would a while to explain the business and technological fundamentals if you don’t already understand them. Check out their whitepaper (https://basicattentiontoken.org/BasicAttentionTokenWhitePape...) for their long-term vision and truly ask youself if this is implementable as a browser extension.

Browsers need disruption anyway — chrome is increasingly buggy and slow, and I trust “the person who literally invented browsers, javascript, and the modern internet” to write another one.
Spotted the one who's never written cobol (or jcl).
They didn't feel he was a good fit, or maybe Thiel didn't want to transition to whatever they replaced the partner program with. Simple as that.
Not sure if this is related, but when I was getting EFS working last year I noticed that CloudWatch graphs were often complete nonsense due to EFS not logging zeroes for idle filesystems but CloudWatch treating this as "missing data" rather than "implied zeroes".
None of this stuff really sounds "defensible", in the marketing sense, to me. This is just programming. It's the goal of the platform to make programming as accessible as possible to everyone.

It's better to be good at mobile than to be good at nothing at all, sure. But I'd be really careful about picking a specialty that amounts to "my domain of expertise is AppKit", or "my domain of expertise is Scala", or anything like that.
BTW, with respect to your experience, O_DIRECT can use page sizes that are any multiple of 4k (e.g. I often use it with 256k blocks). Using 4k block sizes for the I/O transactions is a default behavior for O_DIRECT; if you are seeing 4k I/O blocks in a database it almost certainly means something is misconfigured or being used incorrectly.
I mean, unlike a lot of aggregation sites, HN has a specific policy about link titles, which is generally sensible and does the right thing. (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html)

Sure, in some cases, implementation of this policy fails, and something is rewritten that shouldn't be, or something should be rewritten that isn't. But, I'd estimate maybe 80% of all discussions about titles, that I've seen, have been valid concerns, and typically resulted in a rewrite.
I'm pretty sure you could have fit just one more "Amish" in that sentence.
The cost to own and manage is still greater, but it for terms longer than one year it will likely raise costs to lessees, and will certainly impact their balance sheets.
This is only tangentially related, but is there any standard advice to get git on a remote file system (ceph) to run fast with a long history?
> You could even make the contract payment requirements dynamic based on the home’s value over time (ie it could scrape data about other sales in the area from Zillow etc

What computer runs the scraper? How do I know I can trust the response of this computer? What if the scraper gets banned or breaks?

> If the owner misses a prenegotiated number of payments, then the contract considers it a default and automatically releases the documentation.

How do the token holders know the documentation they will receive upon default will be legit?

How is the relationship between tokens and ownership stake enforced?

What does it mean for multiple token holders to each receive a copy of the executed deed?
In the reference implementation from Microsoft it most closely resembles a CDN: you give it a list of servers to back the git database when it needs to look up an object. You distribute those servers as you see need to, based on very similar logic to CDN distribution. For instance, you probably want at least one available per office to keep content close to the users that need it.

Even if a CDN is more "hierarchical" rather than P2P, it's still distributed, it's just distributed on a different axis than you are perhaps expecting.

Furthermore, to a very large extent that's an implementation detail. The GVFS protocol itself [1] is a very simple REST API, and there is absolutely nothing stopping you from building a GVFS "server" that is literally backed by IPFS or BitTorrent or some other P2P file system.

[1] https://github.com/Microsoft/gvfs/blob/master/Protocol.md
> Eighty years after the discovery of dark matter...

This is me being pedantic, but when was dark matter 'discovered'?
However I think the attitude is taken too far. In some countries (most notably the UK, Australia, New Zealand, especially Canada, and some US states) even possession of drawings or stories depicting completely fictional characters who appear to be children, is illegal and punishable by prison. In the UK for example, a report in Parliament found that under this law established in 2009, there are about 20 convictions per year under it.

This is a perfect example of "protect the children" as an excuse to take away some liberties - most notably setting a precedent in the countries I listed that it is not only possible but also completely valid for the State to decide what fiction one is allowed to possess.
Sure, let's not argue. But it's fine to be curious.

Sam has said that he won't cut Thiel for political ties. Thiel is cut. Does this represent an internal shift in momentum, or an external shift in appearances?

Combine that with some recent news regarding Thiel. I wish I'd paid more attention to it. It was something like, Thiel was making a move against a certain company. So maybe it has nothing to do with politics, or that politics are an incomplete answer.

If we won't get an answer, that's fine. But it's unnecessary to shut down the conversation so harshly.

There could very well be a non-political reason for this move, and HN is one of the best places to shake loose counterintuitive truths.

I guess what bugs me is the lack of curiosity here. Everyone is acting relieved to be rid of Thiel. The underlying dynamics are interesting, and there's no reason it has to be an argument or polarizing.
Oh the memories...

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No, I haven’t. I’ve outlined a rationale for helping when there’s reasonable evidence that the benefit provided will outweigh the harm caused. Eg, antibiotics for the average upper respiratory infection vs antibiotics for sepsis. In the context of diagnostics: if the prior probability of disease is such that the outcome of the test doesn’t meaningfully change the likelihood, it’s bad for the patient to create a situation where for legal purposes I must now act as though the probability is much higher than it is.

And no, we aren’t actively refusing to learn if we are helping. We want the data collected in a meaningfully structured way that actually answers the question of whether it’s helping. Garbage In/Garbage Out doesn’t answer that question.

You say it’s unfair, but go reread my post. My concern is that my arm gets twisted into doing things that are -bad for you-, not bad for -me-. Whether you like the reasoning or it’s conclusion, nothing in it is about being unfair to you. It’s about trying to do my absolute best to live up to my ethical responsibility to optimize your health outcomes. The only part of it that’s defensive is the part where I don’t ignore test results, because it will get me sued out of medical practice in the rare occasion they’re true positives. And I would like for that not to be the case, but there we are.
We built a bot for anomalies
Thanks for the advice(and I mean that in all seriousness)! I need to start making some more friends it seems, and while I've been employed for 12+ years, my work history doesn't quite meet that standard yet.. looks like I have some more hustling to do..