skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> They absolutely do. They have the power to dilute your share to nothing, and they have the power to make special deals which cut you out of receiving anything.

This is an exaggeration. Founders/officers don't have the power to dilute the common shareholders "down to nothing" unless they believe it is best for the shareholders. All officers have a fiduciary duty to the shareholders, and can be sued if they violate this.

People get confused because in cases like this the company sells for $100 million and the investors get something, the founders get something and employees screwed. Then they take to leap to say employees ALWAYS get screwed! The truth is, if your company raises $150 million and sells for $100 million, its a fire sale. If you are an employee, you are never going to get anything in a fire sale, so you had no reason to expect anything in the first place. As an employee, you will only get paid with equity if the company grows REALLY REALLY BIG. If the company isn't growing, or isn't growing fast, employees not get anything. This isn't a scam, this isn't some founder trick, its just the way companies work. If the company isn't growing REALLY REALLY FAST, leave!

Yes, it is sleazy for the founders to be showing a document with a "what-if" valuing the company at 5B when it ends up selling for 100M. But as an employee you must be able to differentiate between a 5B company vs a 100M company, that is literally a 50x difference. If you can't, how can you possibly complain?
Chrome welcomes Speedometer 2.0
I also emailed Stephen.Cass[at]gmail.com for the uncut version
That’s corporate jobs I’m talking about. We refactor and support that awful ASP.NET web app written hecticly 10 years ago by some hipsters, we develop products for markets which are not so profitable or prestigious. There are almost no cool hip startups and those existng are not worth attention because they pay peanuts and usually are just proxy for cheap labour. I think we are talking about completely different job markets.
The one skill every software engineer should learn
Thank you for the suggestion. Do you mean like the demo on the bottom of the homepage, or something else?
It might matter if iCloud is breached (ie, their encryption is cracked).

But since HIPAA doesn’t apply to what patients do with their own data that is not as applicable. For example, if I add my medical record to Dropbox and it gets hacked, that isn’t a hipaa issue. But if my doctor puts my medical record in Dropbox and it gets hacked it is and either my doc or Dropbox have to handle the breach notification per hipaa.
I can't speak for everyone, but for myself and people I've discussed this with in person, it's not intentional; it's more of a tick.

That said, I find it does come in useful for keeping track.
Your preface to the UserLand thread was fantastic. "We haven't even INVENTED twitter yet, but I promise y'all will ENJOY the hell out of this series of comments-with-character-limits, but you're gonna do it IRONICALLY."

It's been about a year since I talked to Ted Nelson, and I suspect the talk you saw at Almaden would've been close to the height of his bitterness about HTTP. He also speaks frankly about the deeper aspect of his bitterness, retrospecting on the 70s back in 1990:

http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_4D37F2D8E1054BA49999027B...

I am curious about your current assessment that he refuses to collaborate with other people. Obviously he worked with other people to get Xanadu to where it got. And I don't have enough inside knowledge about the competitive strategy of Netscape or other commercial hypertext vendors, but I'm sure there was a lot more going on around the open sourcing decision. At least with nearly 20 years of hindsight since the open sourcing, he seems perfectly clear-eyed about the failure of the Xanadu project.

I would love to hear that postmortem more than I want to read the released code, too. But when I asked him about it, Ted just seemed a lot more interested in talking about the good ideas from Xanadu. Sure, he strikes me as a little grumpy, but I don't know anyone my age or older that isn't a little bit grumpy about computing. After I watched that WGBH interview, I developed an enormous amount of empathy for the fact that he had to live through the 70s.
Why do you think it may be underpriced? A policy with a payout ratio of 1.0 can still be highly profitable for an insurer.
Mark-sweep-compact is another GC algorithm that supports bump allocation, and doesn't have the 2x overhead of semispace.
This seems to be the (extremely unreasonable) standard held by parties who are either statistically ignorant or statistically malicious.

A vastly more reasonable standard, but easy to confuse without stats background, is e.g. http://ttic.uchicago.edu/~nati/Publications/HardtPriceSrebro...

Attempting to censor nodes in a classifier’s Bayesian network will strictly result in some combination of A) the classifier routing around the damage and B) the classifier producing worse results. Either way, we’ve accomplished nothing. The linked paper, on the other hand, still allows the classifier to be accurate without giving incorrect results across protected categories.
MythBusters: A Deep Learning Edition [pdf]
I disagree. I think the "whys" belong in the comments- in fact, that's the most important part of the comment if the code is cleanly written. I don't want to be happily coding along, get to a glob and have to go to the repo pane, hunt for the commit that explains this particular thing, then read a commit message. Put it in a comment in the code. Pretty please.
Haha this is awesome, although I do not understand why would anyone do this. Just buy a domain for $5-$10 and point it anywhere you want.
where to get historical data?

where to get real-time data?

what api allows you to trade stocks?
> but the way the organization works at a higher level was making everyone's life miserable

Isn't this attributing the cause of leaving to management as well, just not direct managers?
No, it's closer to [m]achine [c]ode [sema]ntics.
At least you can block connections to google stuff
In general - yes: https://github.com/dotnet/coreclr/issues/1784. However, nothing more specific I can say...
Individual Plan changes in March 2018
I remember having to suppress a giggle in high school when I ran into "The Vine"[0] in the Norton Anthology of Poetry. It was nice to know people were still the same 400 years earlier.

[0] https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/50721/the-vine
> Who says they are the best? Maybe you are

Maturity comes with losses and gains: amongst the latter is understanding (and becoming content with) one's limitations.
On the other hand, Apple vs FBI has shown that this is something they do take seriously.
Trapped particle makes 3D images
Don't count on it, write it out (unless it's much uglier - in which case, still write it out, but leave the original code in a comment.) New architectures, new platforms, a mess of shader languages, and the practice of customizing shaders for big titles leads to driver/compiler teams being chronically understaffed and overworked.
A good spec is really hard. I am thinking about writing parsers for HTML and SMTP which are super difficult.
What's depressing about that? I know unemployed graduate students. I've taken cabs driven by PhD grads.
It might have been prom night.
what about people that want to actually write quality?

You need to decide what your purpose is. You need to find metrics to measure quality and success.
Newly discovered Android malware contains never-seen surveillance features
Alphabet launches new cybersecurity company, Chronicle
You nailed it. We have so many diets within our company that there is no way we can go out together and everyone to be happy. Even ordering snack is a torture.
There is a lot of good things going on in .NET Core about this. Here is a good description of Span: http://adamsitnik.com/Span/#slicing-without-managed-heap-all...
Nice work daeken!
Our main product we do sell outside of the app store. It's a much bigger and more complex app, and I like not having to pay Apple a 30% cut on it, and I also like the ability to push updates whenever I need to without having to do app review.

That being said, what I like about the App Store, and I'm just getting my feet wet on this with RetroClip, is that I think it's easier for users to trust you on the App Store. The app sandbox gives people some confidence that an app is going to be well behaved, and if it isn't then Apple can always pull it from the store. That's not to say that our non-App Store stuff isn't well behaved, it absolutely is and we take it very seriously, but being in the App Store maybe makes it easier for users to have confidence in us.

I also think the in-app-purchase trial-ware model that a lot of developers (myself included) are starting to adopt on the Mac App Store makes a lot of sense to me. Even $5 is a lot to pay for software if you can't try it first, and I think that was a big problem early on with paid software in the Mac App Store.
So is this outdated now?

> The review goes into four examples for which details are available, all of them complete wipeouts, and those would seem to serve as good proxies for the rest given that no curcumin trial has ever reported any convincing positive results.

http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2017/01/12/cur...
Shameless self promotion for HN: https://thehftguy.com/2017/09/26/hitting-hacker-news-front-p...

Being on the front page for a few hours will bring you more visits than google search for 10 years.
Come on man. I’m not bitching about jobs lost. I’m bitching that as a society we are still petty. We cannot even rally to commit to support ideas like free education or healthcare or even maternal leave. And it’s people like you who choose to completely ignore the obvious point I’m trying to draw attention to — dominant attitude of profits over people — in order to misrepresent me as someone who is bitching over jobs lost to progress. I hope we lose all those jobs. The day we no longer have to have people flip burgers or bag groceries will be a great day. But if those businesses are taking in more wealth now, why not spread it around? Better schools and healthcare. Better opportunity. Why not?
Google doesn't necessarily need innovation
> which is why insurance is a terrible model to apply to routine medical care

Yet, insurance is the only ethical model to apply to (routine) medical care. A society in which only the rich(est) can afford the medical care their specific situation requires and the rest is left to fend for themselves cannot be considered humane.
Ooops, my model was flooded with beer when I typed it. Indeed I meant model...
Yes, you can. Please try to make sure the information you write is correct. Quick look at the repository I linked above would have made this clear.
Startup Liquidators
Having worked on modeling data and sharing results with customers, I agree simpler solutions can be better for ease of explaining alone. Additionally, the loss of x percent accuracy with lower-tech solutions can sometimes be worth it because they are easier to train and reason with. This is particularly the case when you are just looking for loose directional indicators and correlations.

If simple solution gets 77% accuracy, and complex solution yields 80%, I would wager that most of the time you should just stick with the simple solution.

One specific example that comes to mind is in sentiment analysis where you can achieve "sufficiently" high accuracy with well tailored Bayesian approaches. They are super fast to train and reason with. If a customer/consumer wants to know exactly why a piece of text is positive or negative, the n-gram probability matrix is extremely easy to inspect. Subsequent re-training and fixing is also much easier than re-training a large neural network, svm, etc.
No, the person does not know it for certain. You're correct that it does connect to "the real ipfs network". And you're right that it is amazing!
Or nuclear option with NoScript to liberate yourself from these annoyances.
Introducing CSS Gridish
American democracy is failing. The courts are finally starting to notice
I Made My Shed the Top-Rated Restaurant on TripAdvisor
Note: this was a relatively small sample (40 total, split in half for placebo/not), who were elderly people who already have "mild" memory problems, and given a concentrated turmeric derivative rather than just sprinkling it over food.

In summary: very cool, and I'd offer these curcumin supplements to anyone 50+ but sprinkling turmeric on your breakfast cereal ain't going to do much for high schoolers.
Governments can sway the immediate price by saying "We're outlawing bitcoin!" Good luck with that, btw. But they have little effect on the technology. It's supposed to be subversive, and every time Visa or Chase or governments or banks talk poorly about it, it means it's working as planned.
It's a good idea. I'll think about it.

I definitely would recommend using ScreenFlow for capturing screencast type videos where the content is at least a little bit pre-meditated. It will let you crop the screen after the fact, pan around, and do all sorts of neat edits. It's really well done and worth the money. It might fit your use case better. I'm not affiliated with it any way, just a happy user.
How much stress is placed on the components for this test? Do they use a fully fueled rocket or is there only sufficient fuel to complete the burn?
I think because it's enabled by default with most publishing platforms/cms it will naturally just stay alive into the future. It's a great medium in my opinion, and I prefer to use my feed reader to keep up with sites I would never normally visit on a whim.
Well, I for one favors GRRM over Tolkien.

Tolkien has perhaps the richer universe, but GRRM is all about the people. And to me, that's what truly fascinating. All the characters are interesting, and relatable in some way (even those that are evil, or very different).
People use Google's services (and other privately owned, and «you are the product», ones) because it's the most convenient way they know about. Sometimes it's because it's the most convenient way (lack of credible competition, self-hosting isn't an option for many companies), and sometimes it's because the alternatives are less known (commercial products based on OpenStreetMap are way better than what google maps offer, but few people know about them).

An organization like Mozilla could make open-source-based and privacy-aware services for many Google products with ease if they wanted to. (I mean, Framasoft is doing it already and it's a really tiny French non-profit organization !)
Most of the time the company should share with you the most relevant info: # shares outstanding, liquidation preference on the term sheet, strike price of shares, FMV of shares and so on. If they don't then run. They're making you a deal you can't properly evaluate.
The white paper is great
You're right! This is a change to a major government agency's core values statement.

I don't think I've ever been a place where public-facing statements about core values are considered important or major. They're generally treated as on par with mission statements or mottos - something nice to have but not particularly significant. I've even done government contracting, including for the NSA. Core values don't generally get checked on a regular basis much of anywhere.

You're absolutely right. This is a change to the small public face of a major intelligence agency. Yet, I believe this is a minor verbiage update of no particular import.
>Because curcumin's anti-inflammatory properties may protect the brain from neurodegeneration

My very first question was: Please provide a possible physiological pathway for this. I'm so glad it was answered in the very first sentence. So many of these "Superfood does X" studies are just trials with 10 people over a month, with no explanation as to __how__ it could possibly happen. It significantly increases the skepticism I have whenever something like this comes up

I also did not know Turmeric had anti-inflammatory properties. I guess I have reading to do.

Also interesting that they used (what seems to be) a name brand supplement instead of Turmeric
I had to start The New Sun three times before it got fully under my skin. It might take a couple of chapters.
What about people who invested in real estate in 2008 via banks, lax regulations, and trickery? What was the lesson there?
> It's not for no reason, it appears that it can increase yield.

Based on a study that is so recent, not to mention something that has not proven to pencil out in the first place, that there is no reason to believe it is used widely in practice. Especially for crops before the current one given that the science was completely unknown before that. If your friend's problem just started in the last few months, maybe you're on to something.

But also, I will point out that 3rd leaf stage is quite early in the plant's development. What mechanism allows the glyphosate to remain in the system until harvest? At least with desiccation it is understandable that some glyphosate will come in contact with the actual consumable product. The consumable part doesn't exist in third leaf.

> Go do some research, the answer is "yes". Extra wheat berries/bulbs/seeds (?) are grown

Okay, how? At the end of harvest the crop is out of the field and stored away/already consumed. That's what harvest means, after all. Remember, you literally wrote: "it looks like glyphosates applied at the end of the harvest increase yield."

How are the berries that are already in the bin, which could be stored thousands of miles away by that point, maybe even already eaten, going to multiply by you spraying a barren field with roundup?

This is the strangest agricultural claim I have ever heard – and being a farmer, I hear a lot of strange claims about agriculture from 'city folk' who have never been outside of a city.

> But if there is no financial incentive, why would this _ever_ be done? Yet, we know it is being done

We already established it is done for desiccation in certain climates. Your links say so, my links say so. My direct experience with agriculture as a farmer says it is a practice that is done with crops, but not so common in wheat. Your own link even confirmed this. There's really not much more to say about this.

> I don't know which specific foods (or which specific wheat types) affect her. I will have to ask her.

How, exactly, have you come up with the theory of glyphosate being the link when it appears that you know almost nothing about her condition? I am starting to get the impression you have an axe to grind rather than an interest in finding out what the source of the problem is, be it glyphosate or something else.

> The post from Bob's Red Mill was clear, some of his suppliers use it. So nothing is "slipping through".

Yes, the post is quite clear. The post explicitly states that some of their suppliers that collect from multiple sources may take in loads that have had glyphosate applied. When you mix those loads in with all of the loads the supplier has collected from many farmers, you're going to have pockets of grain delivered to the mill that cannot be reliably detected for the presence of glyphosate due to the reasons I outlined before. This is what slipping through means in my mind. If the product commonly contained traces of glyphosate, analysis would quickly detect it every time.
> I meant individuals rarely keep gold as a store of value.

I think individuals with an actual portfolio of investments will hold gold or have some exposure to gold.

Also, you wouldn't expect gold to be widely held when you consider things like Executive Order 6102: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_6102

Basically, the US government forced everyone to sell their gold in 1933. US citizens only regained the right to hold gold in 1974.

Governments are going to find it much harder to enforce such an order when it comes to cryptocurrencies.
A widget that users could place on the homescreen of their launcher.

It had a shortcut to open Firefox itself, one to open a new tab and one to a lightweight search interface.
>In this case auto insurance rates are ... a mechanism that imposes [the stereotype] on new drivers.

The argument for restricting discrimination on a gendered basis relies on the socially instructive nature of vehicular insurance to teenagers.

That feels exceptionally weak.
I was really surprised by this. When I moved to the state I had to get immunization records for my kid’s school. My pediatrician was able to pull up some automatically, but it was missing some. She asked me about it, I told her that the kid got the shots didn’t know the exact day. The doc added that to the form that I gave to my school. I was shocked that there was no real data checks.

What’s even crazier is that I once had to travel on official business to some travel restricted regions that required a ton of vaccinations. My proof that was checked by immigration in lots of 1st World and 3rd world countries? A little yellow folded up piece of paper with checkboxes and initials from a doctor.
One time I got laid off for not closing enough stories. Meanwhile the guy that was kept on was the source of a lot of bugs. So what is that if you generate your own problems and "solve" them?
So when someone quits or is fired, how much earned but unused vacation time do you pay back to the employee?
What do you mean exactly by "these things"?

It may be that the blog post is difficult to understand simply because I have written it poorly...
It also got hacked because the contract was broken.

Its fine -- those that do not learn the histories of the past are doomed to repeat them
I remember this too.
Step 1? Maybe if you don't want your model predicting crime based on race, sex, or other sensitive features, you shouldn't train your model on race, sex, or other sensitive features.
Looks like the original paper was published in Oct 2017; that critique is dated Jan 2017
I made a spreadsheet to figure this out and the reason I dont mention that risk more is that is only at risk of happening after around 900 tokens are sold - until then the contract will always enough ETH. If 900 tokens are sold, the contract will have over $100k worth of ETH which I really hope never happens.
I’m not an aged codger but beyond that I agree with you wholeheartedly: I expect, nay demand, desktop and mobile native applications for email in particular, and just about anything in general. All this “go through a browser” stuff with its lack of locata storage, overlaid interfaces (browser chrome above web-designer's UI), and muli-tasking metaphor breaking (switch between apps to go to browser, and then select the tab you want) drives me insane. Yes, it's a uniform platform and it needs to exist in case somebody wants to access through the web, but they shouldn't be forced to use only the web-interface.
I could hardly know, from reading a few blog posts, enough about the man to say. I can claim that, given his history, the world is pretty much Yegge's oyster, so he's in a position to do a huge variety of worthwhile things. That he doesn't is obviously entirely his business, right up to the point that he makes public declamations combining world-blindness, triviality and self-important puffery in such an appalling way.
Now that obesity is a global crisis it might be smarter to eat one marshmallow now rather than two later.
Dogecoin Founder: Crypto Community Has a Lot of Growing Up to Do
Great content. Cheers!
This is the reason that I plan to either work at Big N companies, where my equity is given to me in RSUs, or start my own company. Working at a startup in any role that's not a founder or an exec seems like a total scam, unless you have an incredible amount of confidence in the founders, and their integrity.
This isn't the first. Not by a long shot.

I remember these 'transpararent ponzis' from years ago.