skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's very surprising how rare it is for employees to find out exactly how money flows into and through their organisation. I suspect developers are the worst here. But when you think about it, it's basic common sense to understand what pays your rent and how your relative value figures in that system. And if you think of a company as a system, an automated machine for generating revenue, it starts to become hard to resist having a good nose around the contraption with a screwdriver.

That oddball dev who started hanging out with the sales and marketing people, forwards strategy and innovation articles to management, and started churning out powerpoints is the one who knows what's up. It's not just 'playing politics', it's developing deeper and wider situational awareness of the company and the market. It's stacking the odds in your favour and it's even more effective when so few do it.
Coinbase is infamous for delaying customer transactions, including crypto-to-fiat conversions. They've shut down access to accounts without warning or explanation. There are several dozen reports of them withdrawing money from bank accounts without crediting the account holder for the corresponding amount of cryptocurrencies.
> I got the names mixed up

Fair enough. I forgot he was encouraged to go to C++ by anybody.
>humans can't hear higher than 48kHz

Well, it's a true statement! (But yes, I agree)
I am not sure this case really fits what I thought your point was, but a shared sequence would help here:

CREATE SEQUENCE student_id_seq
START WITH 1
INCREMENT BY 1
NO MINVALUE
NO MAXVALUE
CACHE 1;

And anywhere you create a student you would set default to be next value in the sequence:

ALTER COLUMN id SET DEFAULT nextval('student_id_seq'::regclass);

Although, in this example I am pretty sure a valid limitation of the model could be that students must be created with "Active" status...which then confuses me slightly since you wouldn't really partition by status since updating the status of a student is an action so I would move the user record at that time. Which is no longer partitioning per se.

But this is one (probably naiive) way to handle this case.
Interesting that "Before it was news" is on the list of fake news sites, its a page aggregator like Reddit and hacker news, fake articles can be posted, but doesn't make the entire site fake.

Community news/comments can be wrong, but that's a far far different than a site intentionally promoting fake propaganda, which is the true meaning of a fake news site.

And even then, propaganda can blur into a political view, then even farther into down right lies.
Do we know if this can be federally overturned under the almighty Commerce Clause?
These are used frequently in Blue Bloods
No, that is not revenues even in a pro-rata sense. That's a liability on their balance sheet.
Filtering by Metacritic scores please! They're more useful than Rotten Tomatoes for TV shows.
Click the "web" link on HN to read paywalled articles.
StateBox
On the other hand, as long as the current streaming services' back catalog of available movies and TV shows is so ridiculously meagre, BitTorrent will do pretty well, I suspect.

I wonder who's going to supply that back catalog. Both Apple and Amazon have a fairly lackluster collection. For the real good stuff, there's FilmStruck (which has a small but revolving portion of the Criterion Collection), MUBI and Fandor. But it's pretty ridiculous that you have to subscribe to a combination of these to get access to quality media.

Meanwhile, companies like MGM and Warner Bros. are sitting on huge, underused back catalogs from their entire company history that's not available to watch, not even on DVD.
Could someone explain what would make the Google cloud platform a better deploy target for my elixir application than any other?
60 second Intel exploit
>And this burns an incredible amount of electricity. And all for what? Just to show proof of work.

No. PoW is just an old name from the 199x spam fighting. The point here is planet-scale consensus, not "proof of work". One way to achieve distributed consensus in untrusted non-static environment is to randomly choose master for a given block. Imagine that everybody just throws a dice, and whoever gets 6 becomes that master. How we make sure that there is only one master for a given block, and that when you say 6 you really got 6 as i have no way of checking whether you even threw the dice at all? Satoshi's great insight was in building such a verifiable and statistically [for several minutes] single-master dice by using the good old hash based PoW.

Now, if somebody could come up with more energy efficient way to achieve that consensus at such a scale...
> More seriously: people should comply with the agreements that they sign. Don't sign an agreement that says all of your assets are actually Apple's if you're not happy with it. Read all of the fine print and don't be surprised later.

You have read every single word of all the TOS you ever signed? I find that very hard to believe.

> Don't buy stock in a privacy company if you're not happy with the constraints on it. One of the common key differences between private and public companies is that you can't sell or transfer stock in private companies without their approval. You know that when buying it initially, or when agreeing to receive it as compensation.

If we talk about the letter of the law, then you don't need to sell the stock, you can sell futures of it at your own compliance. The company can't prevent you from doing that by letter of the law. But the SEC can. The contract is only enforcible in practical terms because as an employee or investor you are disallowed from making any legal claim about the stocks you are entitled to.

Also, the argument that it is 'legal' is entirely a different thing. I never mentioned legality, I said ridiculous. Its not a moral, economic or practical argument to say that something is 'legal'. Saying something is legal is one of the lowest forms of defense for an action. Its saying that the only purpose of it is that they cant put you to jail for doing it.

> There are legitimate reasons why private companies don't want their stock to be transferred willy-nilly. For one, it makes the cap table larger and more complex, which complicates further funding or purchase agreements. Two, if the cap table grows too large, then the company may become subject to onerous SEC regulations that are more appropriate for public companies (but without receiving the corresponding benefits). Three, since shareholders are entitled to certain information about the company, private companies limit ownership so that they're not obligated to share this information with people they do not trust. There are probably more reasons.

Very nice, but there is a much more important reason why companies want to not be able to sell off shares: they benefit economically directly because of it. Because the owners get the shares back when people dont buy them, and they have information asymmetry with the employees. AS an employee you have a lot less information.

If employees could sell their stocks willy nilly, every employee that leaves a startup and doesnt want to buy stock to keep would sell them in the open market, which would dilute the value of companies big time while making employees richer.

Hm.
Check out soared's comment above. Basically, 1-pixel images like these are used by companies to track when someone views their content. It's a very common practice - most of your emails probably contain tracking pixels so that whoever sent them can tell if you viewed the email. If they see a request on their server for the URL they put in the tracking pixel, they know you've opened the email.

In Bylock's case, it was most likely a tracking pixel embedded in advertisements for Bylock that the other apps were displaying. The pixel helped Bylock track how many people were viewing their ads.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16202205
Regulatory requirements are the hard part. The governments (of many different countries) are by no means required to license you to do what they do - it's not just a storefront, it's tons of financial regulation, they're even fdic insured for cash deposits. It’s a legal challenge
What do you mean 'who knows what will happen'? YC will have a big payday.
What disingenuous hyperbole. The infractions for which you can use these cards result in fines, not jail time; failure to pay these fines typically results in wage garnishment, not jail time: http://www.sdcourt.ca.gov/portal/page?_pageid=55,1272338&_da...

(Jailing people for inability to pay fines/be garnished is a moral issue, about which there's been lots of rumbling lately: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UjpmT5noto)
In California there's an equivalent called the CHP 11-99 foundation. Used to be you could buy license plate holders for a few thousand bucks that would elicit beneficial treatment.
I think, on the whole, it’s a fair policy. Certain countries (China) have been known to engage in dumping[0] of solar panels. So it’s a valid trade policy to protect against dumping.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumping_(pricing_policy)
I do not understand your sense of ethics at all.

If the lawyer is in some way writing a will that benefits the friend more than the other wills the lawyer writes, or (worse) benefits the lawyer, that's unethical. If the lawyer is writing the will but just not charging, that doesn't seem ethically questionable.

If the doctor is stealing flu shots from the clinic that could have gone to people who couldn't pay for them except via insurance or another program, that is definitely unethical. If the doctor ... happens to have flu shots lying around? does this happen?? ... and has nothing else to do with them, healing people is part of the doctor's mission.

Letting people go after they have committed a misdemeanor is not part of a police officer's mission. It's rather the opposite of it. If a lawyer takes up a client's case, and argues weakly in court because the other side is a friend of the lawyer's, that is absolutely unethical. If a doctor prescribes a medication that the patient doesn't need because a family member works for the pharmaceutical company, that is absolutely unethical. And these things don't happen on a regular basis.

I'm sure that the doctor in your example would love to give flu shots to everyone, or the lawyer would love to make sure everyone has a will - they just don't have the time to write wills for everyone without pay. But the situation with the cop is the opposite: the cop spends less time not pulling someone over. The cop does not have a limited amount of tickets they can overlook; the cop actually has a limited amount of tickets they can write. If the cop wants to give everyone a pass on speeding tickets, that seems great. But they clearly don't - they are saying "I have one set of standards for my friends, and another for everyone else," which is unethical. The doctor and lawyer aren't saying that.
Considering the url of the article reads "rules", it's probably OP that editorialized.
I would argue the primary purpose is to abstract away low-level and repetitive actions while retaining the ability to tell a computer what to do.

A fully visual programming environment would have more in common with standard programming languages than a spoken language.
They show up in several episodes of "Blue Bloods." The daughter-in-law of the Police Commissioner uses one to expedite a gun purchase. A guy uses one to when he gets pulled over for speeding and the find a gun in his car. The beat cop son gives one to a girl. There are several other times, too.
Before the final turns of the tax bill, I think the PTC solar credit was on the chopping block in the senate version. I suspect the ITC is temporarily protected by needing some extended regulatory process timeline to kill as early. I'm no tax expert but I recall reading that the PTC is more oriented to commercial solar producers and ITC residential.

I suspect the only real hold back of the administration is that it is understaffed to fully attack all of the solar programs effectively.
This what? Stating the obvious?
One of the privileges of being a U.S.-based founder is internationally, no one asks you to answer for the actions of Uber, Exxon, or pharma bro as though all companies in the U.S. came from one homogenous mass.

I'm not talking about criticisms of a particular company when it's the one being discussed. Should Theranos be criticized for their own failings? Yes. Should every U.S. startup be suspected of being similar because of another company's actions because in a population of 300M, someone else did a thing? You tell me...
A significant proportion of clothing production has moved to places like Bangladesh and Thailand (as labour costs in China rose over the last decade), and I'd wager that maintains the pressure on China to keep their prices low and not be able to gouge now that American manufacturers are mostly out of the picture.
You forgot to include your footnote.
I'm not sure I understand this:

"The NTSC variations (~29.97, etc) are actually defined as 24 * 1000/1001 and 30 * 1000/1001, which are impossible to represent exactly in a way where 1 second is exact, so we don't bother - they'll be inexact in any circumstance."

The NTSC color subcarrier is exactly 315/88 MHz, so one could make the flick something like 1/528th of this period. The frame is related to the subcarrier by 525 lines by 455/2 color clocks.

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorburst

So one NTSC frame is exactly 63063 flicks, one 30 Hz frame is exactly 63000 of them, one 24 Hz frame is 78750 of them and one second is exactly 1890000000 of them.
Rails is a framework, and to use it you need to know both Ruby and, if you want to do anything on the client, JS.

Really, the page explains what "isomorphic" means in this context...
Step one: Don't read the book

Step two: Take a completely different story, already written, and paste the name Starship Troopers on top of it

Step three: Whitewash the Latino main character

Step four: ?????
Heh sorry, yeah that's probably not a good way to depict that. What's a better way to show it?
I supplement the big ones with FilmStruck (has a subset of the Criterion Collection), MUBI and Fandor. Together they have a decent collection of "older" (pre-2010s) films.
Having also applied twice with two rejections, I didn’t feel like I got much value out of it, if any, and I didn’t apply the next time around.

I might apply this time with no idea just for the heck of it, I have a dozen ideas but don’t really like any of them, which is why I’ve been building a lifestyle business instead of building a startup.
> Robert Heinlein’s original 1959 science-fiction novel was militaristic, if not fascistic.

The novel was certainly militaristic, because the protagonist is in the military, and also in the middle of a war. The society described in the book does not in any way appear to be fascist, however. I think it is completely reasonable to ask whether such a system really could exist without being fascist, but the fact is, as described, it's not.

In the novel, the human government requires 2 years of service before adults get the right to vote. One important aspect of the system is that if someone wants to serve, then the government has to take them. Even if you were blind, if you wanted to serve, the government would have to find something for you to do for two years. And afterwards, you'd have the right to vote.

In the book, most Earth adults have not served and consequently can't vote. But on some other planets, almost all adults have served and have the right to vote.

Lots of movies have done a disservice to their source material, but in the case of Starship Troopers it has always seemed particularly unfair to me. I know that lots of people (not all) who have read the book feel the same way.
Anecdotally, it's illegal free streaming services that I see people using as much as legitimate ones like netflix.
you forgot "if and only if the public finds this valuation believable"
What we need is the ability for people to do 1:1 forward or options trades on their existing private shares. So if you have 10,000 RSUs or options in Coinbase, you can instead write an options contract and sell that to investors that will only exercise on IPO. The trick is making these contracts tradeable on a secondary market but I don't see how Coinbase or whoever else could regulate that, as long as there is a solid legal contract underlying it.
This is a further twist of a stupid US policy.

Solar panel manufacturers cried foul while China simply out-managed the US players on the supply chain, so the US slapped tariffs on Chinese finished panels. China says, ok, so that's how you want it, and then they slap tariffs on cheap US-manufactured polysilicon. Most Americans (and sadly, most American politicians) don't know that up until recently those cheap Chinese solar panels started life as gravel, coal, and wood chips in America's rust belt. And jobs. Well, not anymore. South Korea, not near as foolish as the Obama administration, and not subject to the same high retaliatory tariffs, is now taking over the lead position in polysilicon. They didn't even say thanks.

Let's tour a polysilicon plant near Moses Lake, WA. Whoops. Closed down a few years ago when they couldn't compete with other countries for China's voracious polysilicon appetite. Hemlock Semiconductor, once the largest polysilicon manufacturer in the world, is hemorrhaging jobs left and right in Michigan. Both Hemlock and Wacker announced huge new polysilicon plants in Tennessee, investing billions, then mothballing them before they hit production because Uncle Sam suckerpunched the US polysilicon industry by playing anticompetitive with the US solar panel industry.

This made sense to an extent when the Democrats were in charge, because US solar panel factories were in blue voting areas and US polysilicon factories and suppliers were in red voting areas. Now it's simple pandering and incompetence.

Be careful with labeling it "American manufacturing". We've lost our worldwide leadership position and while we may buy American more at home, the rest of the world is moving on without our dominance.
On the other hand, the accepted use of selective gender abortion (where the problem made the male/female ratio out of wack especially in rural areas IIRC) in China versus the controversialness of abortion being legal in the USA (re: the persistence of attempts to limit access but observing the minimal literal interpretation of Roe v. Wade) might explain a willingness to let people make choices in China over the USA. Where else are you going to read that!?
Ideally I'd want some kind of fund holding a lot of stocks. Individual companies are too volatile for me. I tend to buy high and sell low when investing in individual companies.
I work in a city on the east coast. About 1/4th of the people I work with are from or have lived on the west coast.

I notice no difference.
A little known fact is that validating a block with 1 Bitcoin transaction or all the world 10 minute transactions in Bitcoin would spend roughly the same energy.

The energy is spent on security independent of transaction volume.
> Instead they have an awful terminal console, an oddly verbose shell language, and a slow case-insensitive programming language.

The terminal is absolutely horrible. If you are going to use powershell, try ConEmu. I also agree with you on the language drawbacks, but it's object-oriented nature makes up for it in my opinion. Whereas on linux/unix you are generally passing and processing text to and fro, the ability to deal with objects can make things a bit easier and more robust.

But considering that the windows world had to live with cmd/ms-dos forever, anything else seems like a god send.
This is potentially one of the biggest pieces of news of the Trump Administration.† As worldwide deployments of photovoltaic power grow exponentially, electrical energy will become dramatically cheaper starting in the mid-2020s, at least for diurnal uses. Consequently, the prices of goods produced by energy-intensive industries, such as aluminum and solar panels, will begin to drop precipitously, and new energy-intensive industries will become economically feasible, opening up vast new areas of the economy.

And, if these tariffs stand, the US will be at a 30% cost disadvantage in all of these areas, until at least two or three years after the tariffs end, perhaps as long as ten years. This will be a crippling disadvantage for US economic development; entrepreneurs in these industries will wisely avoid investment in the US.

Edit: the actual ruling is https://ustr.gov/sites/default/files/files/Press/fs/201%20Ca... and the tariff is 30% in year 1, 25% in year 2, 20% in year 3, and 15% in year 4. So it doesn't quite reach the mid-2020s when photovoltaic installation really skyrockets, but it seems likely that this tariff will be renewed and extended.

Edit: I added a comment at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16209749 with calculations about the physical size of the panels needed for the energy-source transition.

† I say this advisedly. I am well aware the Trump Administration has withdrawn from the Paris Accords; nearly started a second nuclear war, this one with North Korea; implemented a Muslim travel ban; and officially withdrawn from the TPP, although that was almost dead already. I am seriously arguing that handicapping the US economy in this way is at least as significant as these.
Bootstrappy conservative state rolls up sleeves and delivers municipal/coop Internet after being forsaken by for-profit corporation. The news story almost writes itself.

I’m unable to find any financial issues with Montana’s budget, and their bond ratings appear to be adequate to receive a great interest rate in order to borrow for a build out.
I think the argument is not that people can't imagine paying for multiple services (though I would expect there is a breaking point, since you're already paying your ISP), but that the friction of having multiple bills, multiple accounts, multiple apps on your devices (if they're all supported, etc.) will make the whole arrangement unappealing.
I get what you're saying, I think there is a human element that can never be factored out entirely. But to do it on such an industrial scale that you have to get a card printer involved is pretty brazen.
The army occasionally escort trucks full of cash. I've never seen a soldier here guarding a shop or a bank.
Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments?
The Moon will put on quite the show at till appear in the skies on January 31
Could it be that it's because Netflix arrived late in France and by that time it had already sold the rights to broadcast House of Cards in France to some pay TV network? In Australia we had similar issues. If that's the case, the situation should "normalise" in a couple of years, since the rights are usually time-constrained.
https://www.politico.com/story/2016/09/trump-shatters-gop-re...

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2017/nov/...

"Trump received about $239 million from donors who gave less than $200 in total. That amounts to 69 percent of the Trump campaign’s individual contributions;

Hillary Clinton received about $137 million from $200-or-under donors. That made up 22 percent of the campaign’s individual contributions;"

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2016...

"President-elect Donald Trump didn't need $100 million of his money to win the White House in the end.

Trump contributed another $10 million to his presidential campaign in the closing days of the election, bringing his total investment in the race to $66.1 million, new filings confirm."