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No no no. Debt is not universally better. Debt can wipe out companies. It requires payments that equity does not. Miss one payment and you're in default. It's extremely risky for companies that are young and volatile.

Debt vs. equity is always a case-by-case situation. Debt is cheaper but comes with strings attached. Equity is pricey but more flexible.
I sincerely hope you're being satirical.
Dude, never ever sell yourself short. Also proposing a salary of zero implies you work will be worth zero.
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The same argument could be made about liberals and BSC.

For instance, all the sex-and-ethnicity choosing going on. Totally without scientific merit, yet the left behaves as if it's science.

The pendulum swings both ways. Trump's election is a direct result of left-side hysteria and over-reach.
Exactly! I used to be a climate scientist, and wrote open source libraries on my free time. I now work as a software engineer, and I love my job. But on my free time I now make music.
I have done my share of software-hiring and have been hired plenty of times too.

It's double-sided for a candidate to complain about whiteboard examples, code tests, and code samples in the same breath. You're essentially saying, "Pay me a higher than average salary, with no evidence that I can actually do my job". Pick two, but not all three.

I think whiteboard interviews suck.

I think code tests can often be heavy-handed.

I think providing code-samples, from a side project or something you spend an hour on JUST to use for applying to jobs, is completely justifiable.
This is not at all surprising. I mean, one of IRS' jobs is verifying that people pay their taxes. And they can't do that without access to financial records.
That's because this view is actively harmful to your colleague who does not consider their gender to be binary. This isn't the equivalent of a colleague telling you they believe gender is non-binary, it's equivalent to someone telling you "I know you think you're a man, but my opinion is that in fact you are not a man". Adding "that's just my 2 cents though, and I believe in your right to (wrongly) believe you're a man!" doesn't help -- you've still just told someone that you don't respect them or how they think of themselves, and that your political stance is that they shouldn't have the right to make that decision.
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Eich resigned, he wasn't terminated.
If you said that at work I'd think you had your facts mixed up, but unless you're in the medical profession I have a very hard time believing you'd get fired over it.

(Unless you acted on that belief in a way that hurt a coworker.)
> Your idea is not valuable, at all. All value is in the execution.

This is oft repeated, but not always true. Take the Nazis (bear with me).

The Nazis had the best execution ever. They almost drowned the whole British army, which had previously conquered the world. While fighting battles all over Europe and being one of the most bombarded country in history, they continued to produce tanks, planes, submarines, operate a bureaucracy until the very end, invent bombs and other systems that befuddled all other nations.

Yet they lost the war. The reason they lost the war is, their idea was so bad, people everywhere were willing to die to make it fail.

An excellent idea can survive a bad execution for some time. A terrible idea will ultimately fail, no matter the execution.
It would be circular if it were an argument. I haven't made an argument for it only offered it as the start of our scientific investigation. All observations of brute fact, phrased as arguments, are circular -- because the universe goes unargued for and merely exists.

What I mean is this:

You and I are having a conversation about consciousness. To do this scientifically we're going to have to point out those things in the universe that we're talking about. (We cannot begin, as socrates thought, with definitions because we dont know them yet).

So I shall collect for you all the things we have been talking about when we have said "this is conscious!". And you do the same. And my claim is that everything in this group is in this group... because ... it has a nervous system.

That is a hypothesis. My view is that this hypothesis is true and extremely well-evidence. My view is further that the only thing you can add to this group without a nervous system is something of pure imagination -- a cartoon character.

This is possible for any group: I draw a golden rabbit speaking to a silver duck. There are no such things because ducks cannot be both alive and made of gold -- as a brute fact about our universe that at its base causal interactions only play out in that way.

To believe that an electrified piece of metal could ever belong in the group of things united by their common feature "consciousness" is profound bizarre to me: what exactly is that thing meant to possess that I have?

Of what do I have when I am hungry and think of food that a piece of silicon may have? I dont know what that it, but it seems to throw away all known neuroscience to suppose it exists.

That is it not merely a cartoon fantasy, that really, the thing that makes me conscious is some peculiar abstract property of me that current running around a wire can also instance.

I have grave suspicions that neuroscientists will ever find that I possess this "structure", not least, because modifications to the way I think are easily done by insufflating cocaine (or whatever else). A drug which operates biochemically and yet modifies thought.

I'm not sure how a chemical modification to thought makes sense if the latter is an abstract property.
It truly is the worst of the coffee offerings out here. When I see people in SF walking around with Peet's I always think "why?", you are literally surrounded by some of the best coffee in the world.... hell even Nestle Sell out Blue Bottle would be better than Peet's
> Russian has 6 cases for nouns (and rudimentary 7th)

And rudimentary 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th :)

Vocative: exists for religious words (Боже - Oh God), names ending in а/я (Кать - Hey, Katya!), and some archaic expressions.

Partitive: exists as a separate case for many common mass nouns (чашка чаю - cup of tea, ложка мёду - spoon of honey) but usually can be replaced with genitive.

Locative: exists as a separate case for a small number of nouns (в лесу - in the forest, на дому - at home, на двери́ - on the door; compare with о две́ри stress pattern in the prepositional); for most nouns, it just coincides with the prepositional case.

Counting form: exists only in the plural for many units of measure and only with exact numeric quantities greater than or equal to 5 (восемь бит - eight bits; compare to количество битов - number of bits)

Paucal counting form: exists as a separate case for a few common nouns, used with exact numeric quantities between 1.5 and 4 (полтора часа́ - one and a half hours; compare to ча́са, which would be the expected stress pattern for the genitive); for most nouns, this coincides with the genitive.
Next layers have exactly same trick as the first one. I don't quite buy that it resembles visual cortex.
Especially after reading the comments on this thread, I'm really not sure HN is a good venue for discussing tweet streams. I think if Patrick wanted to write something that would spark a discussion on HN, he'd have written a blog post.
A relative of mine's name was used (or this person actually submitted it, which is likely.) I'm sure the relative really doesn't understand the issue, and this is what was submitted:

The current FCC regulatory scheme known as "Title II" represents an unprecedented increase in government control over the internet. Such over-regulation is hurting our economy and suffocating innovation. I support Chairman Pai's plan to return to a commonsense regulatory framework that allows for the internet to grow without useless government interference. The internet has flourished for decades without the heavy hand of government over-regulation. It's time we return to what works.

Obviously, it was sold to this relative as a push against the heavy hand of the government ...

If I had to guess, it was a viral facebook post pro-trump administration that gave boilerplate to paste in.
Having attended Waterloo, this isn't very surprising at all. The CS department is part of the Math Faculty.
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Scottish is incorrectly labeled on the map. Source: have scottish friends. At least I think they're my friends, hard to tell exactly at times.
There was a lottery winner somewhere who casually carried a few hundred thousand with him in his pickup truck. Parked it in front of a strip club. It got stolen, thieves got his truck and money. May have recovered some, but lots of people thought it was foolish to do so. Even if that's anyone's right.

It's just an anecdote, and not trying to sway one way or the other.
People aren't confused. Colleges do many things.

They're also very expensive to attend, and the most immediate value they offer is to get people jobs
Never heard of Oliver Heaveside and his operator despite using Laplace transforms on a regular basis for year. You learn something new every day. Thanks.
Along those lines, find projects that have "up for grabs"[1]. I was trying to learn Go for personal enrichment and learned tons about real-world Go by opening a PR.

[1]: http://up-for-grabs.net/#/tags/PHP
The LPs would likely be on the hook for capital calls related to a binding committed investment under the docs.
The key word here is "burning." If Uber's quarterly losses were caused by productive spending they could have a chance. Since their mounting losses are mostly caused by consumption the company is not going to survive.

They recently announced a plan to purchase 24,000 Volvo XC90s for self-driving, to be delivered from 2019 to 2021, at a cost of about $1b. That would qualify as productive spending, capital invested for the purpose of greater production. But that's going to be too late, and if I were running Volvo I would not count on those sales...
Yes they should release them. Such a disrespect for life is troubling. Rats are a pest, but they are also mammals, thus capable of emotions.

Many people are opposed to killing lifeforms capable of emotions - especially when there are no valid reason, like food.
You are totally offensive and your ignorance is striking.

You should go meet with some conservatives and have a good conversation or two. If you don't come away changed, then you haven't been looking in the right places.
People use phones instead of email sometimes for sensitive conversations. Do phones count as ephemeral messaging services? What about voice mail?
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welp, we could really use some vocational schools.
Gambling and drugs have great working models.
Phones have a record of the call having been made, and are subject to wiretapping.

Ephemeral messaging services have neither.
This reminds me of when the James Damore news first broke out and multiple Google hiring managers were openly bragging on G+ about maintaining blacklists of everyone who didn't denounce the diversity memo.
I for one had no idea this was not a blog post.
I have to contest 7 Habits...its conjecture on top of empty eureka after empty eureka.
Meanwhile, car-sharing companies like Car2Go (Daimler AG) already are profitable operations that already own and manage large fleets.

When driverless tech becomes available, they'll be much better positioned than Uber.
>The whole premise of GOAP felt like a way for Dave McClure to travel to remote places with attractive women.

why would he need an excuse? or did he want to travel on investor's dime?
Are you sure HN is a good venue for discussing anything?
This should be titled "Condensed snippets of accumulated wisdom, focusing mostly on software and business, that I am fairly confident of and feel compelled to share with you".

Many of these nuggets are not "obvious", for any conventional understanding of that word.

That said, I enjoyed the post, and liked the concise format.
Yes, most fatalities in Israel were people suffocating by not removing the sealing cap off their gas masks (and probably attributing their suffocation to being gassed, thus not removing the mask), or heart attacks. 95 people died from such causes, and only 3 people as a direct result of the missiles.

Which BTW is pretty crazy considering the amount of damage they did - but most people living in the Tel Aviv area simply left home for a few weeks.
I believe it's a typo, should be "model" employee.
because they would get fired or because they would face a unified front of "you're wrong"?

Cause the former is a problem. The latter, meh. If you can't figure out how censor yourself at work that's your problem. I felt like calling out a coworker for recent conduct I think was incredibly petty, immature, and damaging to a relationship with another team. I think he deserves to be called out, but it's just not worth it.

I do think you should be able to say some of this stuff in a casual conversation at lunch, or whatever. You have to be aware of your audience though.
It's the other way around, Spanish has more conjugations and subjunctive forms. That's all academic anyway, the most important metric is that more verb forms are used in commonly spoken Spanish than French. In practice, Spanish is more complex from a conjugation perspective.
Just wait until Amazon starts selling generic viagra. Don't know where I first heard it but "Any sufficiently advanced spam is indistinguishable from content".
This is the big one, boys and girls.

This is the case tied to Kaspersky.

> But he had installed on his home computer antivirus software made by Kaspersky Lab, a top Russian software company, and Russian hackers are believed to have exploited the software to steal the documents, the officials said.

> It is not clear whether anyone at Kaspersky Lab was aware of the document theft. The company has acknowledged finding N.S.A. hacking software on a customer’s computer and removing it, but says the material was subsequently destroyed. It has denied that it works with Russian intelligence.

> The sensitivity of the case was evident on Friday, when one courtroom official described the charges against Mr. Pho as “super-sealed” before the hearing. The aggressive hacking of American targets by the Russian government, including the Democratic National Committee during last year’s election campaign, is a high-priority concern for the United States, and forensic information from Mr. Pho’s computer might provide useful clues.
No, we don't base our morality on what politicians say. But if a mere 4 years ago leaders were 'opposed' to gay marriage, you cannot in good faith or in fairness to any conversation call a person who doesn't support it now crazy.
That seems like an absurd step to require for every upload. Their algorithm should really give me the benefit of the doubt after having required manual review dozens of times and always having my content remonetized.
I’ve been super happy with Coinbase ever since until about a few days ago, when the service got pretty unstable. Clearly quite some scalability issues.
I would use the hell out of this for situations where I normally engine brake in a gasoline-powered vehicle. You can basically harvest energy from the change in gravitational potential energy to kinetic energy as you're falling downhill.

One of the things that sucks about my new truck is that 3rd gear is so efficient that I can no longer engine brake on many of the grades where I was able to do so in the past. It's a much less comfortable driving situation to have to brake periodically on the downhill.
I don't think that's true particularly in this case.

This paper is pointing out that you can encode a structural prior in a CNN - but knowing the "great old techniques" will help you design the right network architecture to do that.

SVMs were a surprise when they came out, no so much a generalization as a challenge (at least at first)
Christianity spread around the middle east and southern Europe before English existed, but not to the degree it is now.
Excellent, I knew there had to be a ton of history here, but I hadn't known about this specifically. Thank you!
I got away from someone with BPD after years of trying to help, and it’s one of the best decisions I’ve ever made. I’m no longer of the opinion that people with BPD can really be helped. They’re like some form of sociopath, I really don’t think they’re capable of caring about how their actions affect other people.

It’s like trying to teach empathy to a young child after they’ve done something cruel, and it’s clear you’re not really getting through to them and their brain just needs to develop more. People with BPD stay that way their whole lives, and have everyone around them walking on eggshells every day.
> One would never refer to law school or medical school as "vocational".

Sure you would. They are 100% vocational schools. Their cost, acceptance rates, time commitment, and difficulty level may be higher than other vocational schools, but that doesn't change what they are -- 100% focused on giving you the knowledge and skills to do a specific job.
It's true that Eich resigned, under extreme pressure. Is that a good thing? It just underscores my point - that even with legal protections, there still needs to be a cultural shift towards acceptance (or at least tolerance) of people with heterodox views.
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> It is greater than aerodynamic friction.

Sure, but how much greater? How often do you find yourself wishing to break faster?
> And the ugly side of it is, we want clear class divisions.

What? I suspect that it's typically, if not exclusively, those in the upper classes that want this. The ugly side of it is human nature is selfish.
"... started requiring disappearing messages _specifically_ ..."

But that's an insinuation. Just like the govt can insinuate that people using encrypted communication are doing so to hide illegal activities.

Is there specific evidence that Uber asked employees to use Wickr in order to hide talks of illegal activities?
If they switched to using phone calls to discuss sensitive information and didn't record them, would they still be violating the rules?
I won't pay. I look often, mostly following headlines from 'Real Clear Politics' (which has both left and right-leaning links).

NYT leans too far left for my tastes, I won't pay to support that. I'll read free articles (to try to gain perspective from the other side) but no way will I pay.
Self-driving cars will first be deployed in fleets that you can request, where the cost of the cars will be amortized over the many people who get to make use of them, making them far cheaper than owning, operating and parking the car. Much of this margin will probably be captured by the self-driving car companies for the near future, but in the long term with a competitive market they should be far cheaper than current cars for the vast majority of users.
Sorry I completely missed that bit! The relative path part is set up in your jrnl config usually ~/.jrnl_config
> There are many, many exceptional musicians who will never make a living with their music, but at least they bring joy to listeners.

Over the years I've come to realize that there is an astonishing abundance of musical talent out there that will never be even a blip on the radar of the Music Industry. Big labels prefer to package and sell the slightly newer Same Old Thing with mass appeal. I could spend the rest of my life listening to musicians with zero name recognition and never feel like I've missed any good music.

That slightly new Same Old Thing is what the current software developer hiring process gets. Yeah, I got all the right buzzwords (this year) on my resumé, but last year I had all the right buzzwords, too, but I was pretty much doing the same thing then, and the year before that, back to the early part of my career. Granted you don't see much demand for cvs and Perl with Sybase on OS/2 these days, but github and ruby/python with PostgresSQL on Amazon RDS are incremental updates, not radically new.

How many skilled programmers are there out there with little-to-no background in these tools, but have the ability to solve real world problems like a programming Richard Feynman.
Don't Assume Your Data Scientist Is a Software Engineer. A Thread:
I contacted Open Garden, interested to develop a product based on their purported architecture that would be a useful in-the-field extension of my established SaaS product.

The website indicates they see themselves as a solution vendor for specific verticals. My application isn’t in the use cases on their list.

I did not hear back.

So much for MeshKit.
How is this any different than in-person conversations that are not recorded? Should companies be required to record all conversations that happen face to face?
Of course there are many things like that already:

http://www.wsj.com/articles/how-to-share-digital-photos-with...