skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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From what I've seen over the years and heard from YC founders, it is not uncommon for YC to invest in competing businesses. They have a lot of companies, and it is very likely that at some point there will be companies that evolve into competing with other portfolio companies.
Because the money is on the bank, and it's shareholders property.
The shareholders can change the administration council and hire people that will use the accumulated money to make more money, or use it paying dividends. The shareholders are the bosses, and chooses who occupies the administration council.

I don't know if my hypothetical example was clear.
> he computer boom is mostly over with the low hanging fruit taken. Prior to that we had IC engines and electricity, but nothing on the horizon seems to have that kind of potential to radically reshape society. And to double the economy every 25 years you need regular dramatic shits.

Then the next revolution happens. I'm sure people were pessimistic during periods of lesser innovation before electricity, telephone, phonograph, movie camera, consumer appliances, radio, television, PCs, internet, smartphones... there's always something new. There may be many reasons to believe there won't be 3% growth — "the computer boom is mostly over" is not one of them.
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tariffs on their own are not necessarily productive, they have to be used in conjunction with policies that spur domestic competition.

But most developed nations appear to have gone through a protectionist phase when building their industries, and often beyond, either by imposing tariffs on imports or subsidizing exports, manipulating the currency, providing cheap credit, fat government and military contracts, etc, etc, and that includes America.

And it most certainly applies to China now.

Tariffs and other policies should be designed to balance subsidies, eg the effective postal subsidy for Chinese goods (I use the term loosely, in many cases) delivered to American homes.
When traffic grinds to a halt, rail is the only thing that moves at a normal pace, because it has dedicated right-of-way.

You can create bus lanes. But if you're talking about "going out to the suburbs", then eventually you're going to get stuck in the same traffic as everyone else. You still have to compete for the same intersections, and you're probably going to end up in places that don't have dedicated bus lanes.
Bus Rapid Transit is actually expanding rapidly. Even public-transit-anemic San Francisco has a BRT line under construction on Van Ness.
Evolution is nothing more than dumb luck trial and error. There has to be a better way. I remember a quote from Gattaca "I not only think we will tamper with Mother Nature. I think Mother wants us to."

It would be folly to think that we know how to improve the Human genome. I don't think we understand enough of how the genome works. We certainly can't predict how genetic changes will affect an organism. But I'd like to think that someday we will get there
Browsers (and most other HTTP clients) already send the Host: header, and that appears to be a pretty good way to mitigate DNS rebinidng attacks. It does not save you from things like <img src> attacks.

One common use of local HTTP servers is with the express intent of hosting web pages (not just an API endpoint) that's rendered in an embedded web browser widget, or perhaps even in a real web browser, because the web is a pretty good way of showing UIs. A common example is CUPS - if you're on macOS or most desktop Linuxes, http://localhost:631 is likely to bring up the CUPS admin interface. So browsers saying "I'm a browser" is not really the (un)authorization you want - many times you want browsers, or embedded widgets made from browser code, to access them. So if the Host header isn't enough, there isn't really a better answer than proper authentication. (CUPS is pretty hardened now, but one good solution for CUPS would be a command-line utility that generated a session key and printed out a URL like http://localhost:631/?auth=a1b2c3d4.)
I really doubt people are watching 30+ hours of video per day per user (ca. 1TB/month).
Add salt and fat; we started taking those out when we started adding sugar.
Also, some companies pay dividends, and after make loans to the bank (paying interests), to do investments.
"Advanced Social Thought" is really just a western pseudonym for "the shadows of judeo-christian morality". I wouldn't be so quick to under-estimate them so quickly. Chinese art & philosophy is just as profound as those in the west. America may seem secular but our attitudes towards death and the individual are the result of our Christian roots.
My 96-year-old grandmother has macular degeneration in her eyes and neuropathy reducing sensation in her feet. She can neither see the road very well nor feel the pedals accurately. The state of Florida just renewed her license for six more years.

I'd say it's irresponsible of her to keep up the license, except she has no options. The town she's in recently made it illegal for residents of her park to drive their electric carts across the street to Publix or down the sidewalk to the doctor's office. Those are the only two places she needs to go. Some of her friends who had given up their licenses in favor of electric carts are now SOL. They have to rely on favors to buy food and go to appointments.
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"Who knows what will happen" = Only YC knows whether or not they'll sell their shares post-IPO.
Unless it is prescribed for the wrong reason and the dosage is incorrect, which is possible thanks to bullshit research.
It's not, but this provides a hybrid approach which blends the best of both worlds. It allows companies to raise capital globally without being fully subject to SEC laws (depending on implementation and the SEC's willingness to play ball) while also eliminating much of the fraud and bullshit inherently baked into a trustless system by leveraging existing legal structures.

At the end of the day it depends on what the goal is. Is the goal to lower the barrier to entry for new companies to raise money, or is it to create some idealistic free market? The former is possible and useful, the latter is not.
It is worth noting that while you can represent single NTSC frame time exactly in Flicks, it still does not fulfill their goal of representing "also 1/1000 divisions of each" for NTSC. To get there you'd need 1 Flick to be 25 times smaller, i.e. 1/17640000000 seconds. Although this would go below 1 ns, which was also one of their constraints, but I'm not exactly sure what importance that really has.
I would hope that it would not be removed if there is a performance difference. Not all systems are multi user, thinking stuff like includeos or systems that can control their interaction such that the risk in very minimal and not worth the cost.
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http://www.shadowstats.com/alternate_data/inflation-charts and links from that page explain further. (The difference has been ~5% understated inflation rather than 10 or 5 times as much, but whatever.)
I grew up in a law enforcement family. Stuff like this MIGHT get you out of a speeding ticket at best - depending on just how fast you were going, your attitude, and the mood of the officer that stopped you. Serious offenses meant you were going to jail, period.

Here in Houston, you see people with a stack of "100 Club" stickers on their back windows. A friend of mine who is a deputy for a nearby county said that the bigger the stack, the more likely the driver is an ass and the more likely they are to get a ticket...
Seems to me the better option would be to assemble the microbes from non-decaying base materials upon arrival. Not that we can do so yet, but it is almost certainly tech we will see within our lifetime.
No they can't. Its not a law. It is just a directive that the government will not do business with isps that do not comply to certain standards.
I don't know Go, but could you point to more details on the "channel hell"? I would have assumed it was a good way to structure parallelism so I would like to see why not.
Awesome! \o/
Rail can arrive and depart at predictable times. That’s insanely important in a transportation system. Buses (at least those without dedicated right of way) are dependent on traffic conditions. I’ve regularly had to wait 45 mins or more for a delayed bus.
On the one hand, I don't want this to happen to me either (but I'm more likely to retire somewhere accessible than the suburbs). But on the other, this whole situation just screams entitlement. They'd rather stay in their houses with all of their stuff, which even their own kids don't want [1].

Just imagine if they would actually move out of their houses: it would open up more housing, making it more affordable to new homeowners. It would alleviate transportation subsidies to better serve others. It would lower ambulance costs and reduce time to service. Just by putting older folks closer to the care they need.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/18/your-money/aging-parents-...
I will restate what I wrote above: CBS is the number one network channel. There are a big three: CBS, NBC, and ABC.

Disney owns the third biggest channel, Comcast owns the second biggest channel. Fox isn't even on the playing field, and is cashing in their entertainment arm.
Your hypothetical deal with Apple will get thrown out of court for two reasons:

- It's lop-sided, as in they get something for nothing, comparatively speaking. Courts don't see such contracts to be valid.

- It's understood that users mostly don't read ToS, and instead rely on their general understanding of what ToS may contain, plus or minus some deviation. Anything that's way outside reasonable deviations fails the "meeting of the minds" test, and is also held invalid.

The shareholder agreement is a different matter. The investor most certainly is expected to read the agreement, and they do. And both parties are exchanging plausibly valuable things - stock for money.

I'm not a lawyer, this is not a legal advice. Seek professional advice before taking any action based on what you read.
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Query performance is primary, write importance not important ...
but not much beyond that. almost guaranteed profit
This is great advice, I just want to add few things.

1. When ever you come up with an idea, write it down in a designated notebook,

2. Next make a list of why it would work and why it won't,

3. Study the pattern.

If you had made enough idea you will see how you think. You will find out if the self doubt is coming out of fear or a logical argument. Whatever the outcome, you would be in a better situation to take action. When you are ready to take action

4. Pick the idea that has highest market potential and suits your strength

5. Elaborate it into more detail by brainstorming and taking notes to strengthen you conviction.

6. Execute! Execute! Execute! Don't look back
This right here is extremely frustrating to me. There is approximately zero marginal cost to distribute that back-catalog, but they just keep it locked away. I think Amazon does the best job of the legal sources I have seen, though I find it hard to stomach paying $4 to watch a movie made before my parents were born.
or Ruby and Opal... The claim of that website is BS.
> The casualness with which such a rich asshole deprives thousands of people of their rights without any fear for consequences is absolutely disgusting.

>> "He shot and killed his neighbor, Timothy Newman, a man who had repeatedly challenged Campbell over his access-blocking proclivities. Campbell first claimed it was self-defense because Newman threatened him, but last year he finally pleaded guilty to negligent homicide. He’s now on probation, under a 20 years suspended prison sentence."

Just WTF? This is absolutely insane. Other people end up in the chamber for such things (not that I like the death penalty or other excessive punishment, quite the opposite). The sign that if you're rich enough you can get off with murder is a threat to the core stability of society.
> There is a lot of better choices with more return of investment.

Except it has actually been one of the best choices to put your money for quite some time. Things can always change, but an average annualized return of 38% over the past five years is really hard to complain about.
While it's not a complete net-neutrality across the board. Having lived in Montana before I can tell you why they did this despite being Red State. Montana has always been a state that values strong state rights. It was one of the last States to have a speed limit.

So state preemption would rub a lot of Montanians the wrong way. Montana also has a democrat governor at the moment.
I always thought that universities being economically powerful could be an advantage so they could be another pillar of civilization, less beholden to corporate or government influence. I do wonder if they are using that power well recently though.
Outgoing Rep. Ryan Zinke (R-MT), who left the House to become Trump's Secretary of the Interior. Probably, an edit to the article removed an earlier reference to Zinke and didn't clean up the remaining reference to the style for a first rather than subsequent reference.
There should be county sponsored transportation for medical appointments. Also it seems uber could work?
Is this public discussion an attempt to "zero in" on this problem? Does anyone outside of Intel "agree" with their current approach? This is a more reasonable situation for the Torvalds method than many others in which he uses it.
We have this system in Boston and it works alright (it's called "The RIDE"). Boston doesn't have great transit by European standards, but it's still better than pretty much everywhere in the U.S. except for New York. It's always crazy to me to read these transit threads and see so many people who can't comprehend a day to day life that doesn't involve owning a car!
You are right, but I am talking about investing for long term.
For short term, most of the time, just the price chart is analysed.
Just to write here, long term and short term (speculation) is totally different. I was talking just about very long term.
Thiel got the cold shoulder "Trump reportedly told Peter Thiel they'd be friends for life — and then ghosted him" http://www.businessinsider.com/trump-told-peter-thiel-theyd-...
Thank you. That makes a lot of sense.
Speak for yourself, I own some Amazon shares and I like their financial prospects... Bezos is playing the long game and I'm happy to be along for the ride.
That's true, but nobody would be able to bet on it being useful specifically to them. (I'm thinking about simulating LHC stuff, searching astronomical data, the sorts of things where at the time of computation nobody has a clue who will end up benefiting. Protein folding might be off-limits depending on who wants to know how it folds, and why.)
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This sort of activity is routinely prohibited by the share purchase agreement, and exactly for that reason.
I grew up in Queens and these are definitely a thing. My sister's father in law is (retired) NYPD and gave her one. She used it to get out of a ticket for biking on the sidewalk, of all things.

> you just let the card be visible when reaching for your license

I was always told to hand them to the cop underneath your license, but never explicitly mention it.

Edit: I've also heard stories that well monied institutions (hedge funds, etc) will hire security guards from retired NYPD in part to gain access to cards for important employees.
You have a gift, value this gift by continuing your education. Get a degree and many more doors will open for you.

Don’t treat your life or your career like it’s a race. It’s a marathon, and most of it is still ahead of you.
Montana's former Congressman. It said so... about four words later.
Nuclear weapons have not been banned in the past because the nuclear states hold veto power in the Security Council .... a result it's taken a long time to create a real ban

The Non-Proliferation Treaty was signed in '68, the Nuclear Weapon Ban Treaty only hit the General Assembly last year passed 122 to 1 (with the nuclear states and their cronies abstaining) and is still awaiting ratification
This is a negative value article. It spends a lot of time dwelling on a low-value semantic argument that "when people in business say 'AI' they really mean machine learning". Sure, but these words have been used synonymously for a long time - my grad degree ~15 years ago concentrating in machine learning was called "AI"; who cares? Then the article goes on to claim:

>I anticipate that after this passes, we can start to do the right thing — focusing on using machine learning to build things that are meaningful and realistic.

UGHHH. Why did you hide this in a long article making the 180 degree contradictory point that AI (which really means machine learning, remember?) is dumb?

This article is a disservice to its reader because it downplays a huge shift in the world that any ML practitioner should understand very well: machine learning/AI will ultimately replace a lot of what humans do, and it's moving at a faster pace than ever. I've led several small-ish projects (1-2 people, 3-6 months) that could replace dozens or even 1000s of experts in their respective fields. There are thousands of people like me, and there are more every day. The buzz may wear off, in the same way Time Magazine stopped talking about how the internet was going to take over the world after the dot-com crash, but the effects and the efforts will continue unabated.
Not sure that's true. Absolutely massive target for blackhats. Security has to be off the rails good
It's hugely wasteful and ultimately not affordable, to build out such massive infrastructure that then needs to be maintained with taxes. Most cities have extracted the initial funding for this infrastructure: roads, water, sewage, storm drainage, sidewalks, overhead or underground cables from the developer. But the tax base can't really support that beyond the initial life for that infrastructure without raising revenue. All city and county fees, taxes, and fines all inevitably go up and quality of infrastructure still goes down.

And that's in cities. Extend it out to podunk and they have to be subsidized, even when they don't know that's what's happening. And it's getting bad enough many counties in the U.S. have started to revert paved county roads back into gravel because they simply don't have the money to maintain the paving. They're worse full of pot holes than gravel. And the locals don't want to pay their fair share which might mean a dozen families sharing 50 miles of road - it's the exact opposite of economies of scale. Their incomes obviously have not kept up with the cost of even maintaining local roads... but there's no market force that's really correcting for this either.
White paper doesn't really matter in this regard. Bitcoin has been praised for years as a potential replacement for fiat currency, and the people doing the praising would use speed and low cost transactions as the hallmark of Bitcoin. The white paper is nice for getting an idea of how Bitcoin works.
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VR is being applied across all verticals and industries. We covered a company called PayScout who does VR donations for non-profits and helps them increase awareness around their giving campaigns.

https://latechnews.org/non-profit-donations-go-vr/

I figured VR is the next mode of person to person communications with our already existing cell phones we carry everywhere.
It depends...did you approach them, or was it a cold call for something you may not need?

For the first:

- Do your research

- Know what you need (vs what you might want)

- Know what you can pay (conservatively, and at a maximum)

- Don't be afraid to say no

- Don't be afraid to ask questions

- Never feel pressured into a transaction - go away and think/process things

For the second:

- Don't be afraid to immediately tell them you're not interested (in fact, you should do this by default if it's something you don't need)

- Know your finances, so that you're aware of what you can and can't afford (this might be impetus to cut off the call sooner rather than later)

- If it's something you may need, or have looked at, the points above apply

An interesting thing I've discovered (anecdata) - salespeople are wary of engineers, because we rarely take something at face value. If you are one, make sure they know this early on (either state it, or make sure they know you know something about the domain). In the past it's done two things for me:

- The sales person is less likely to make wild claims, and will be more careful to make statements that can be backed up

- Often, they become less pushy, because they know they will have to work for the sale (rather than rely on emotion and ignorance)

One last comment: don't mistake courtesy for friendliness. Sales people are there to do a job. They are not your friends (you don't owe them anything), and it's the exception to the rule that they will have your best interests at heart. Keep this in mind while you're talking to them.
You are right. Today it represents just an expectation. On future, the P/E will decrease and stabilize after the company make profit and consolidate.
> A great thing about being alive today is knowing how much less humans will suffer in the future. A tough part of being alive today is knowing that you're likely to miss out on it, and will instead suffer greatly.

Ah, no need to worry about that just yet. Future generations will most likely have their fair share of suffering thanks to climate change and pollution.
I assume this was a code or configuration change, which had an unexpected/unintended effect, and then got rolled back.
YMMV writ large.

I've got an iPhone 5, works just fine for what I need it to do, take pictures and video, notes, basic smart phone stuff, be a phone.

I don't need any fancy bells and whistles. I've learned fancy bells and whistles come with their own costs, like, they're annoying after a while. In fact I've got a backup phone of the same model and I'm considering getting a few more, just in case.
if there's no expectation of dividends ever being paid, the share price should be 0
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Exactly how their current app works. You download from the app store then login to access the content. Each game is it's own app on the app store. Maybe it violates TOS but their current app and others like spotify use the same mechanic to restrict access.
> Up until the release of Isomorphic Go, JavaScript had been the only game in town providing the capability to create truly isomorphic web applications.

Ummm, Parenscript[0] has been around for eight years.

Not to take anything away from Isomorphic Go, which definitely looks cool.

[0] https://common-lisp.net/project/parenscript/
How mant times can you get the 20-40% salary increases ? Very soon you will hit the band ceiling