skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Stitchfix has done a good job learning my size, but I wish I actually could "shop" at stichfix. When you get a box, there's a foldout paper that shows you examples of what you could wear these new clothes with...but I don't own any of those thing.

I wish they had some sort of follow up experience that would let me "complete" the outfit.

They talk a bit about why they don't have any sort of online shopping here:

http://multithreaded.stitchfix.com/blog/2015/07/07/personali...
I'm not sure. I think poor agreements lead to more wars.
Since making the jump to a 4K display, I've really felt my urge to have a second monitor drop off hard. UHD solves the problem and removes the display gap.
F150 Curb Weight: 4,051 to 5,238 lbs

Model S Curb Weight: 4,647.3 lbs
Thanks again your insight is always refreshing. Also i don't think you saw my other comment what debit card service do you use that lets you keep balance in BTC and transfer to USD upon purchase? all the ones i have seen transfer to USD when you load them.

Thanks again!
The problem isn't the critique of ideas, most people are happy to have an intellectually honest debate about their merits and shortcomings.

The issue is instantly accusing someone of serious moral failings and painting them as a social pariah to be ostracized, the instant they put forward a locally unorthodox view.

One group is constantly expanding the area of topics that are taboo, the other believes that having taboos is a bad long term plan for society.
Is Universal Basic Income a Good Idea?
Let me suggest to suppress that instinct and read the article again. There's not a shred of "git hate". Quite the contrary: The author is a Git user himself and has detailed suggestions to improve Git and its ecosystem. That is a good thing, not "very unfortunate".
Also, Git is easier than what exactly? Than the proposed improvements? I suspect you haven't read the article. This is neither a "Mercurial vs Git" nor a "Git sucks" piece, which you should have noticed while reading.
As a mid-30s guy, I use Facebook primarily to share pictures and updates of my son and things we do together with my friends and family.

Every. Single. Person. that I personally know despises the political crap, occasional venting of some personal problem, and news outrage fishing that comes across on there. I wish there was some way to "categorize" these posts, and to allow me to simply filter out what I don't want to see. As an example, there is a person I am friends with on there who I greatly admire and enjoy being friends with. But every time I see "Drumph" with a big red background, I sigh and scroll on. I don't need that in my life.

Even if that makes me miss the odd post here and there, they are practically valueless anyway and seeing only the categories of updates that I want greatly outweighs that minuscule loss.
I mentioned this before in a previous thread on this topic, but I can't support the EFF on this. This is, at the end, an argument against control over ones own data: LinkedIn might be doing sketchy things with your data, but it's all stuff you voluntarily agreed to in exchange for their service. If any shady data aggregator can vacuum it up and do whatever, I didn't consent to that and I'm not getting any benefit from it. The EFF shouldn't be defending that right.
I've used LeanKit's Kanban board to enforce per-lane WIP limits. It works quite well and is, in my opinion, one of the most important aspects of using Kanban boards for software development.
This vote was made on November 8 2016.

Clinton was in favor of maintaining NN whereas Trump said that NN was burdensome regulations that need to be scrapped.

Trump won.
Well I know without anyone reading or commenting on anything I link to I’ll be downvoted into oblivion for even trying to support conversations I’ve had with multiple physicians, still as a physician yourself I ask you to at least weigh in on the following...is it not true that while genetic mutations can be the sole cause of disease that most disease are triggered by a combination of genetics and environmental factors (i.e. not the same as a protein dictating whether you have brown or blue eyes)? To my point re the microbiome google points to multiple studies including but not limited to:

> Here are just some of the health conditions that involve our microbes:
Acne
Antibiotic-associated diarrhea
Asthma/allergies
Autism
Autoimmune diseases
Cancer
Dental cavities
Depression and anxiety
Diabetes
Eczema
Gastric ulcers
Hardening of the arteries
Inflammatory bowel diseases
Malnutrition
Obesity

http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/microbiome/disease/

>Recent microbiome genome-wide association studies reveal that variants in many human genes involved in immunity and gut architecture are associated with an altered composition of the gut microbiome.

https://www.nature.com/articles/nrg.2017.63?WT.feed_name=sub...

>Researchers have discovered that a powerful guardian gene known to protect against a variety of autoimmune diseases, including type 1 diabetes, is triggered by the bacteria in our gut.

https://newatlas.com/guardian-gene-gut-bacteria-diabetes/511...
You can put up a "no trespassing sign" on your property (although there's some debate as to how much that actually counts for - a quick search pulls up https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/201...)
I don’t blame, i point a pattern :P
It would be a funny assertion to say that you're less free to speak in SV where the worst you'll get is a tongue-lashing vs China where the worst you'll get is quite a lot worse.

How would you even fix this freedom? Somehow constrain people to not speak their mind when they disagree with you? Constraining them through government would obviously make us less free so that's out. Constraining them through culture is no different than what's already happening, it just makes people like Sam the winner instead of people who disagree with him. So again no freedom difference.
tl;dr - It sounds to me like you're being taken for a ride.

From what you've said, it sounds like:

1) The company has no tangible or intangible assets (no money, no viable product, no significant physical assets, no distinctive IP).

2) The company has existing liabilities (existing full time employment contracts that would have a cost to exit, maybe some rental agreements too).

3) Passive shareholders hold ~35% of the equity.

4) Two employees hold 50% of the equity, without any vesting conditions.

These conditions sound like you're starting a company from scratch, except with some extra weight on your back. There are some problems with what's been proposed to you:

- ESOP rather than shares: usual things to watch out for with ESOP: what is the strike price, what is the vesting period etc. I've seen offers that included stock options which would mean negative cash flow for the employee (i.e. cost to exercise the options over 4 years is more than the salary over 4 years).

- Even if they gave you shares instead of options, they're offering you a smaller cut (5% instead of 25%) AND their shares aren't subject to vesting but yours are!

Perhaps there are details I've missed or that I've guessed incorrectly.

But if someone offered me something like this, then I'd make a reasonable counter-offer (worked out from scratch from the objective facts, not based at all on their offer). If they were to act shocked or otherwise indicate my counter-offer is far off what they would be willing to agree to, I'd shake hands and walk away.
YC could open up an office in Padova, where Galileo spent the 'happiest years of his life'. Be happy to help, although we're pretty content here in Bend these days.

Regarding Beijing: I think he may have been in something of an 'expat bubble'. Speaking with other entrepreneurs far from home, it's easy to focus on that. Try criticizing the political leadership, though.
It's only a matter of time. When was the last time you thought about logging onto MySpace?
The media were not running on data.

The data gave her 70%. We're in the 30% of universes where Trump won.

In this scenario, you might argue, these are just talking heads. But they are not being asked for a view in order to look popular on TV, they're looking at data and interpreting it in a way that they are happy to be professionally accountable for.

Wisdom of crowds in the context of talking heads shooting the odds on a media out is not going to be as accurate as wisdom of crowds for economists being asked about economic issues.

So, you know, be careful where you're drawing lines here.
> assured Gorbachev on February 10, 1990: “We believe that NATO should not expand the sphere of its activity.” (See Document 9) After this meeting, Kohl could hardly contain his excitement at Gorbachev’s agreement in principle for German unification and, as part of the Helsinki formula that states choose their own alliances, so Germany could choose NATO.

So, if unified Germany could choose NATO - that will mean that NATO is expanding.

So, basically TLDR - some vague promises to Soviet Union, some vague promises from Soviet Union.

Of course current Russia will twist history the way they want.
Is that a practical "should" or an ideological "should"?
the basic idea is that heuristics help us make quick and dirty inferences such that we don't need to overload our "brain processing power" every time we are tasked with a decision.

ex: the gambler's fallacy is mostly a fallacy if events are i.i.d, which often isn't the case in real life situations.

many are labeled as a "bias" once we make the observation that it failed us. but of course we should try to optimize regardless.

this is tangentially related:
https://www.thecut.com/2016/06/how-only-using-logic-destroye...
> the only people having babies in Silicon Valley are seemingly Indian and Chinese, along with a smattering of Mexicans and other immigrants. I have a bunch of white friends here, and of the ones who have had kids or are planning to in the near future, they fit into two groups: 50% have moved back to their hometown already, and 50% are planning to.

I have a feeling that you are seeing there a hyperlocal trend influenced by the particular local demographics. In the east bay from Oakland and north and in the mid peninsula, SF, and the North Bay, there are a lot of white families with kids (along with the other demographics you mention except perhaps fewer Indians)
I would imagine the initial funding does not include the cost of the rocket. The risk of this effort is not in the trans-lunar stage. Reliable solutions for that can be purchased off the shelf. A seed-stage company needs to prove out the custom tech required for its own application, then if there's a business case what they're doing in the first place they can go raise additional funding at a higher valuation to cover the cost of launch. No reason to suffer many times more dilution on that now.
There are some states with specific rules for personal residence, but it's inconsistent.
The Four Eras of PARC’s CS Lab with John Maxwell, PARC Researcher Since 1978
Those doors get turned off at night, just like a server can ignore an HTTP request
The original stream is here,

https://www.fcc.gov/general/live
For ETH, https://ethgasstation.info has not let me down.
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Christ, I'm the opposite. I like Facebook for getting all the banal minutiae about kids and holidays and who's fucking whom out of the way so on the rare occasion I hook up with friends we can talk about whatever it was that drew us together in the first place.
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I don't think Bitcoin is like gold at all because I don't think there is a common belief that "it is an effective/secure means of storing wealth."

A small number of people think that now because Bitcoin is in a huge run up. If bitcoin crashes 90%, it suddenly stops being a "secure means of storing wealth" and, instead, is a means of throwing away your wealth.

If the market psychology changes, bitcoin becomes worthless.

Gold has the same problem, but has a huge historical record of actually being somewhat stable. And there is a price floor for practice demand of gold, though I'm not sure what that is.
I have a hard time believing this will be approved. Given how much regulatory scrutiny the AT&T/Time Warner merger is under as a vertical merger, it would be wildly inconsistent to then approve a horizontal merger of this size, even if the AT&T/Time Warner merger ultimately goes through.
Face ID is by far my favorite feature of my iPhone X. I was expecting the camera to be the number one feature. Don’t get me wrong, camera is fantastic. As good as I expected and then some. But Face ID just blew me away. I was always having issues with Touch ID. Whenever I have sweaty hands, or sometimes just randomly it would fail. Since iPhone X I almost never have to actually enter the lock code. It just works. And in rare cases it fails it works on the second try when I retry it “properly”, fixing the usually obvious reason it failed, e.g. not facing it right etc.
How would someone classify Bitcoin’s rise from $0.08 to $31 from 2010 to 2011 before dropping to $2 or its rise from around $100 to around $1200 and subsequent crash to around $200 from 2013 to 2015?

I would say losing 85% to 95% of its value in a relatively short period of time after a large run up could be considered a bubble bursting. The thing that is interesting is that each time this has happened with Bitcoin the price settled somewhere ABOVE where it was before the last bubble.

I do think Bitcoin is in a bubble right now, but I think it could go much higher (maybe $50-100k?) before crashing, and I think the price after the crash will not go below $5k or $10k. The current wave began around $1000.

So what I think we are seeing is actually mass adoption of a new technology in waves that are increasing exponentially.

There has never been anything like Bitcoin so it is difficult to use lenses of Bubbles in the past to explain what is happening with it.
Maybe Sam just has serious moral failings? If everywhere he goes people have a visceral reaction to what he's saying maybe there is some ethical shortcoming there. He's the common denominator in all the situations.
basically that opinion is a joke.
the problem here is, is that he things that if somebody peers directly with a internet exchange, that he can just have as much bandwidth that he wants.
which is somewhat correct.
but the whole argument is incorrect. since actually peering with a global exchange means that ALL isps can actually use the same bandwidth that you provide to the exchange.
this is good for competition since else only ISP A could have a good connection to youtube (because it is inside his network).
but most of the time there are at least 3 ISPs and any ISP would actually do everything to get more customers on board which means that other ISPs would have a weaker service.
public peering is as fair as something can get, since if you pay for it you can actually get the exact same amount from the cake than anybody else.
with private peering things are different and sadly these things are done way too often. private peering means that a big telco does not peer with the public exchanges, which means that to get traffic to them the traffic needs to somehow find his way into their network. they do that to actually force others into private peering, because they can get way more money out of it (they actually can ask for money from the customer and from the data provider).
and they would do it even if some service would be inside isp network b...

btw. in germany DE-CIX is one of the biggest internet exchanges around the world. but somehow the big ISPs only peer with it, with a really really low margin, only because they make ton of money with private peerings.
LinkedIn sent HiQ a C&D. They were indeed told that they were banned.

Let's try a thought experiment: you're at a supermarket, and you're abusing coupons to the point where you're holding up the line for everyone. Someone complains to the manager, and the manager escorts you out of the store and tells you you're banned for life (as an aside, I wish this would happen to extreme couponers).

The supermarket also has automatic doors and a self-checkout. They're also pretty understaffed, so there's a good chance you won't run into anyone stocking the shelves as you're shopping. A few days after you've been banned, you waltz in through the automatic doors, grab some items off the nearest shelf, go through the self-checkout, and leave without a single employee getting a good look at your face. At the end of the day, the manager starts fast-forwarding though the day's security camera footage looking for anything odd and notices you've been in the store. They call the police and have you charged with trespassing.

Do they have a case, yes or no?

I say yes.
With other westerners or with Chinese people? I think that is a crucial detail that was left out.

Anyway, some people are building a future that others do not want to live in, so it is no wonder that some ideas are going to be received harshly. Nonetheless I understand that we cannot predict the future, so maybe, what people think will happen, won't. But people are fearful of a possible Pandora Box event.

I personally do not like those who are so excited, by the business or technology they are building, that they never stop and think about the consequences. I also do not like those who think, "my intentions for the use of this technology are wholesome, therefore I am not responsible for any harm that can be caused by others using this technology maliciously".

New ideas should be explored, but with caution.
Serious question: why do people want this so badly? Just nostalgia? (Too young to have see the OT movies in theaters, so I don't have that)

For me, sticking the cheesy fox logo and fanfare at the beginning of the movies would make them worse, not better.
And the court of public opinion often doesn't consider the law and that's their point. Even if completely justified under the law it can be bad PR.

For example, McDonalds could have refused to give St. Jude winnings for one of their Monopoly games because pieces were given to St. Jude in such a way that broke the rules. Or asked for the money back once it was found to be part of a fraud scheme.

Is McDonald's going to back out of paying the winnings and eat the bad PR of "Refuses to give money to hospital known for saving dying children." just because they have the legal right to do so? Hell no.

[0] http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0109/10/lt.12.html
Ford F150 Truck: 4,051 to 5,238 lbs

Model S Curb Weight: 4,647.3 lbs

Cadillac CTS: 3,652 to 4,016 lbs

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The Model S is anywhere from 1000lbs to 500lbs more than other vehicles in its class.
> Instead we decided to humiliate the Russians

By providing billions of dollars to them in humanitarian help, credits and jobs?

Humiliation, for sure.
In China, you can even get disappeared in your own home. It’s called “residential surveillance at a designated location” — indefinite house arrest under police watch. It’s used routinely against both irrelevant dissidents and high-profile targets like artist Ai Weiwei and Nobel prize winner Liu Xiaobo.

Maybe, in Altman’s Panglossian view, house arrest is just an opportunity to think deeply about inconvenient truths.
> The constant pursuit of ideological purity in the Bay, the desire for diversity of skin tones and orientations, but not of ideas, taking offense as a viable way of establishing social hierarchies. It's all very tiring.

Well said, so well said that I'd like to tweet it and share it, but I won't, because of the exact problem it describes.
Or maybe just that people are confident that they will find a bigger sucker to sell to.
bullshit. do you live in CA? do you have any f'ing idea how expensive it is to live in CA? $100K/yr does not get you very far.
> This is uncomfortable, but it’s possible we have to allow people to say disparaging things about gay people if we want them to be able to say novel things about physics.

I think you'd end up with a lot more of one than the other. Personally I don't think there is a pressing need to encourage people's homophobia in order to gain some speculative amount of "innovative thinking", or whatever.
This gives me peace of mind. Thanks for the clear logic.

I was 10 when the dotcom bubble happened and 18 when the Great Recession started. This is the first time in my adult life where I've had the money and opportunity to 'be part of something big' but I think you're right and that I should just use this money to pay down the last of my debt.

I read yesterday that some 40% of the Bitcoin market is controlled by a small handful of hands. This is part of why I am hesitant to invest without asking here first.

Glad I asked!
I don't think so. `%in%` is built into R (or at least in the base package).
I looked at that development quite closely (for an article for a German online magazine) a couple of years ago. There were a number of companies trying things like this.

Recently I was asked to write an updated article and I checked what happened to all those companies. Most of them went nowhere. Unfortunately. It seems to be a very hard problem to reduce the carbon footprint of concrete.
as a card carrying libertarian johnson voter, trump was right.
There are lots of people working on regenerative medicine and gene therapy for autoimmune diseases (ive worked with several researchers focused on type 1), but unfortunately the field isnt there yet.

hemophilia a is a disease caused largely by deficiencies in one specific protein. massive technological breakthroughs in recent years have enabled scientists to deliver genes to human cells to consistently, accurately and sustainably produce specific proteins. so treating diseases like hemophilia a has become tractable

however, autoimmune diseases are much more complex and there is no single protein or molecule that causes the diseases. in type 1, people have been trying to discover 1) the "triggering" event and 2) the autoantigens that cause the disease for years, and it looks like there is no "silver bullet". current drug technology can target only one, or sometimes two, disease-causing molecules, so for a disease where many molecules each play a small part, we dont have the answer yet

there are a few promising type 1 companies (semma, viacyte, others) trying to turn stem cells into insulin producing cells, but those cells are often rejected by the bodys immune system. some other companies are increasing the number of "regulatory T cells", basically T cells that inhibit autoimmunity (caladrius, celgene / delinia, parvus, lilly / nektar); these have shown promise but it isnt likely theyd be curative, as they just stop the autoimmune attack but cant regenerate beta cells that are already lost

if youre interested in type 1 research, diatribe is a great website that aggregates the latest science and presents it in a way that is easy for non-scientists, specifically patients and their families, to understand https://diatribe.org/
No, he's asking for ideas to be criticised, and for the people presenting the ideas not to be ostracised.

You can say "it's a bad idea to work on extending life", but following on from there to cast the person presenting the idea as unethical is doing more harm than good.
Squarespace reportedly raises about $200M at a $1.7B valuation
I've stopped leaving Amazon reviews. Recently I was bored and went through a few bits of network equipment and PC hardware I purchased and reviewed a few of them. 3/6 of the reviews were rejected for being against community guidelines with no reason provided. Even after reading the guidelines it's not clear why they were rejected. I put in effort to describe why something got its rating from me. For example, I discussed the strengths/weaknesses the network equipment. From now on I might leave a star rating, but I'm not wasting time to get a review accepted. I'll leave that to the shills.
Red Hat Adds Common Criteria Security Certification for Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Amen to this!