skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
flat hierarchies are amazing in certain type of companies, I had one line manager who had additional 80 devs under him (he was purely line manager, projects were handled by PMs).

Much better and healthy org than any other I ever worked for. Especially over-layered corporations, ie banks are pretty horrible place to be. This breeds all kinds of politics, managers play their games to look good to upper management without any good work being done etc.

But if this would be some classic department where line+project management blends into 1 hierarchy, this would be too much. Smaller teams, max +-10 people most efficient.
> When this idea inevitably takes off, people are going to be able to order take-out from their neighbors, from anyone in the city who wants to cook their family recipe. It will change cuisine forever.

I had to stop myself from laughing out loud. As if such things as hygiene regulations didn't exist and you can just open a restaurant by hanging a sign out and telling someone to deliver whatever you just produced in your kitchen.

Well, probably in some part of the world you can. In some part of the world people die of food poisoning all the time, in other parts we learned the hard way that sometimes you need this thing which bothers startups to no end called regulation.
https://www.nature.com/articles/nature06288

I believe this bonobo study is considered salient precisely because it is trying to be an analogue to studies of humans that have found the opposite result.
I could see that, but then the article reiterates:

The fact that bonobos prefer bullies and humans don’t suggests that an aversion to jerks is a fundamental aspect of human behavior that may be unique to our branch of the primate family tree.

In humans, the thinking goes, shunning wrongdoers not only helps people avoid bad partners, but also discourages wrongdoers from behaving badly in the first place. The threat of social rejection keeps them in check.

There are a lot of claims in a science article without much support. I don't imagine they are stating that without basis, but not familiar with the research.
Real estate investment trusts (REITs) are a perfectly mainstream category of publicly traded investment products today.[1]

And multi-level marketing companies, while they tend to be controversial[2], also include quite a few large publicly traded stocks.

[1] https://www.investor.gov/introduction-investing/basics/inves...

[2] See the feud between Carl Icahn and Bill Ackman over Herbalife and whether it is a scam.
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Any system can be easily turned into the power of the few. Socialists have warned about that pretty much from the start. Marx warned against reactionary and outright feudal forms of socialism in the Communist Manifesto in 1848, and the argument over the dangers of authority split the First International as early as 1872 when the anarchists around Bakunin thought Marx too was too authoritarian for their liking. Later you had people like Rosa Luxembourg sharply criticizing the Bolsheviks, and the many thousands of Russian socialists and communists that laid down their lives to fight the Bolsheviks even before it became clear just how authoritarian they were to become.

The authority vs. anarchy axis is largely separate from the economic system - a number of socialist ideologies have as their explicit goal the destruction of hierarchy and government, and a further number of left libertarian ideologies share right libertarian goals in terms of minimizing the power of government, and others want to use state power to bring about redistribution or fail by bringing in systems that makes abuse too easy (e.g. Leninist party theory is pretty much begging for power hungry people to abuse it), just as you have anything from absolutist monarchists and fascists to right libertarians on the right wing.
Show HN: Bitcoin News in Realtime
The idea is relatively simple - create a crawler that checks major news sites and twitter accounts with 150k+ followers and add every new article/tweet automatically to the page stream in maximum 15 minutes.

Check it out here https://chainnews.io (if you wait enough time you can get updates if a new article/tweet is published. Greener means more recent and times are UTC.

Also some ideas that I would like to add:
- ‎Extend to other cryptocurrencies (ethereum and litecoin to start with)
- Article ranking - if an article mentions bitcoin a lot of times is usually more important as one that mentions it once. Or a tweet from someone that has a lot of followers can have a higher importance than one from an account with less followers. Same with the source.
- ‎Sentiment analysis - is the article/tweet positive/negative/neutral ? What's the trend ?
- ‎Add data from other languages (Chinese, Russian, etc) and display it using google translate.
- ‎Set alerts that are received by email (sms/mobile app?) based on ranking/source/sentiment
Brandon Sanderson is an interesting case; I have only read the Stormlight Archive books (and his wrap-up of Wheel of Time), and though I can totally see his appeal, I would also totally disagree that he belongs up there with the true greats, at least currently.

Reading his books, I feel like I'm in some kind of Marvel universe, complete with quippy dialogue and 'coolness' that to me gives a stink of 'commercialism' that I can't get past.

In the Stormlight Archive, Shallan is the best example of this: Her dialogue is so forcedly hip and witty that cringes abound whenever I read it. To me, it ruins the whole atmosphere and I feel like I'm in a plastic universe, rather than a living breathing one.

His worldbuilding is great, but his worlds are devoid of authenticity IMO.
> To test the idea, the team showed 24 bonobos another set of animated videos in which one cartoon character repeatedly prevents another one from claiming a coveted spot. The apes generally preferred the character who hogged the spot over the one who yielded.

> they showed 24 bonobos animated videos of a Pac-Man-like shape as it struggles to climb a hill. Then another cartoon shape enters the scene.

Nevermind the 'jerk' part, I'm impressed that researchers are interpreting ape preferences via cartoons
If they "passed the buck onto the general public, and let them shoulder the immense financial burden of their failures" that seems to me like the definition of an IPO.
Sure, but it still got me curious what compilers had added support.
Looking at that, you can only get workstation graphics, which is something he did not want since he does occasionally play games.
I think the criteria should be turn up on time when it matters. If there is a staff meeting scheduled at 9.30, don't show up at 9.45. Otherwise I agree that day to day most places shouldn't care
Bitcoin will not be part of US monetary policy, so the Federal
My biggest frustration with search engines is that certain websites I consider bad are common in results. These include sites that require a login to use properly (Pinterest and Quora) as well as websites that are known to have wrong information (W3Schools).

What I’d like to have is an option in my search engine (ideally that would not require a login) to always exclude certain domains from results.

That would improve my browsing experience more than any other feature. Blocking trackers is something others are already doing well.
Probably downvoted because your comment is irrelevant to the point you're criticizing.

"uber of southeast asia", "alipay of southeast asia", "wechat of southeast asia" all that doesn't matter in this context. They're all unoriginal. Parent was saying how OP is claiming to have left Google because they are unoriginal and frame themselves against competition. That's exactly what "X of Y" is. Doesn't matter what X, or Y is. That's what that expression is designed to do.
I only gave this a quick look but what's the problem with this? They're wildly optimistic projections but there's doesn't seem to be any funny math going on. That said, if they're sending out something like this while knowing valuations are not going to approach anything like that, it's pretty scummy.
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There was a story going around where apparently the premium was significantly higher if you put your name as "Mohammed", rather than "John".
Getting "work done" is fairly easy to recognize

Bob closed 20 tickets this week, and Dave is still working on that one ticket from last week. Who got most work done this week?
>>(no remains or religious artifacts please)

I can imagine some rich people would find it pretty cool to have an urn of their ashes left on the moon.
Although I agree with you, there is possibly a grain of truth to what he says. There are some states that have regulations for running a (semi) professional kitchen out of a home. It won't be just anyone who can open up a food business and start running it, but it is possible that some people not otherwise able to make it on their own could use this as a marketing vehicle for part time work.
Okay, so we definitely agree that automation-driven traffic-less utopia is a red herring! Certainly if personal vehicles are replaced 1:1 by automated personal vehicles, congestion will, on average, get worse. Even if they're replaced by automated taxis -- eliminating the need for parking -- this will lead to at least a ~30% increase in vehicles actively on the road due to empty vehicle movements. And that's before you factor in induced demand, which would be significant.

Where I think we disagree is here:

> we have the sharing aspect of the issue largely figured out already.

No, we really haven't. With non-automated vehicles, sharing only works in situations where you can amortise the cost of a driver. This requires maintaining an average occupancy of > 25 people, which in turn limits you to fixed routes at fixed schedules. Hence, bad for serving incidental demand. Automated vehicles open up the possibility of having a range of smaller vehicles that are demand-responsive yet shared. This would bridge the gap between current private and public transport options, serving a substantial travel regime where current technologies are inefficient.
There's loads of crazy stuff like that.

The quote system asks if your car has anything added to it, like roof racks, spoilers, tow bar, body kit. You go "Oh yeah, a tow bar" thinking crap this will cost extra and their backend correlation engine figures "tow bar, probably caravan trailer, old boring safe driver, low risk" and you get a discount.

The UK government gave insurers direct electronic access to driving license records. If you tell them your details they can instantly check if you've got points, or have been disqualified from driving. Insurers ask for your license details. To use the government database right? Nope, that's a bunch of expensive R&D, if you make it optional, people with bad records just say they don't know their license number, charge them more. Simple, no extra R&D needed.
Huh, we pay around 10-14 USD for a (single) nice beer here (Norway). Of course, the high taxes on alcohol makes it so that there is relatively little price difference between cheap and good beer, so this may actually be a good thing for the craft beer industry.
The problem with your theory is there are a TON of evidence it is not in any way reality.

For example, if their primary motivations were Preventing Monopoly status, and feeding their AI Research they would be embracing open standards, Federation of services, and a whole host of other things they have rejected the last decade or so.

They would have never Killed Reader, they would have never taken Hangouts off XMPP, they would have never killed alot of their API's and services web sites were using, they would have never killed the Search Appliance... I could go on and on and one

Google does not have a Grand Master plan playing 5D chess to get to the Singularity.... They are just another Top Heavy Corporation focused on Quarterly earning statements and marred in Internal and External Politics.
Radix is publishing some eye popping numbers on their DAG-based testnet: https://twitter.com/radixdlt/status/956087291696566272

We'll have to see how it functions in the real world later this year...
Pfsense no longer financially viable under the current business model
I think it's the "large teams" bit that makes the OP appear to be saying the "team" is up to 300 people. Team suggests a group of equally ranked members to me.

You can't really have a team of 300, sounds more like a management speak version of team.

Of course only the poster knows for sure their intended meaning.
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No reason to get offensive, I do get the point, I'm just saying the point makes no sense. If we get to a fully automated future (that is without human drivers interfering), we can get to twice the occupancy which is I think more than the amount of children and seniors now driving cars that didn't before, and still have less traffic.

It just runs counter to reality to think that every empty space you create is occupied immediately. After all there are less congested cities and more congested cities. Mostly because the less congested cities have a higher road/road width/road quality to commuter ratio. That's why Seattle and SF have huge issues. With the water and mountains it's impossible to get a good infrastructure to population ratio. And no, cities with better traffic don't start going on the road to occupy space just because it's there. There's always a need for people to commute paired with inadequate infrastructure.

By utilising the infrastructure better, self-driving cars can basically increase one side of the fraction. Higher number of drivers will probably happen (seniors and children especially who couldn't drive before), but they also usually I doubt it's even more than 20-30%, seniors won't start commuting to jobs they don't have, children have more vacation, they're already only a smaller part of the population.
What's nice with beer and gin is that there is short time from production start to market and getting paid. Other kinds of alcohol that needs storing for X years makes the startup barrier much larger.
It's not made up...I couldn't believe he won either, but I looked up the judgement at the court web site. Sure enough, it's there. Based on his story and reading the judgement, I'd say he got incredibly lucky with a poorly prepared judge and defense lawyer. It'll be surprising if this holds up.
Meanwhile, Apple continues its vertical integration of smartphone components. Speaking of dominance ...
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>Not sure what would have happened if the kid kept asking for money.

Depending on the situation bluffing may work.

Just name drop somebody "important".

Also learned this from... John McAfee:

Do not get out of the car at checkpoints/shakedowns.
Why would you expect that?
Yeah, the non-accident, jerky kind of traffic is the one that automatic cars will almost eliminate completely. If we get to fully networked automatic cars we can use swarm intelligence to make them all accelerate at the same time and slowly increase the speed. Traffic is gone.

And accidents I believe will also be minimized as soon as we get to full-automation. Even the less than ideal automatic Teslas seem to be faring slightly better than human drivers. Imagine how far we can get in 10-20 years. I'd guess maybe 1% the accidents we have now.
I know. I'm saying it should. Because why not?
I find it ironic that it's Intel losing out this time. Isn't it the same trick they used against AMD in Athlon64 times?

Who fights by the sword, dies by the sword, I guess.
Make sure to read the article, not just the title. They're not being fined because they're dominant, they're fined for anti-competitive behavior (aka bribe).

> Qualcomm [the market leader at the time of events] illegally shut out rivals from the market for LTE baseband chipsets for over five years [...] Qualcomm paid billions of US Dollars to a key customer, Apple, so that it would not buy from rivals. These payments were not just reductions in price — they were made on the condition that Apple would exclusively use Qualcomm’s baseband chipsets in all its iPhones and iPads. [...] This is illegal under EU antitrust rules and why we have taken today’s decision.”
Thanks for the nice writeup!
> People own cars to serve this need, because nothing else will (unless you're in a mega-city that can afford to run high-frequency mass transport 24/7).

Uhm, I guess then 600.000 inhabitant Copenhagen must be this mega-city where high-frequency mass transport runs 24/7 (a driverless metro) and people use bikes to get around in stochastic patterns at arbitrary times of day (because there are bike lanes everywhere).
I'm sorta glad the EU is taking this hard stance on antitrust, and actually following up on a lot of these violations.

Side-note: As a Dane, so weird seeing Margrethe Vestager so prolific in this, used to seeing her as one of the usual politicians.
The title and layman interpretations is wrong. Being dominant is not illegal. Being a monopoly is not illegal. Abusing dominance or abusing a monopoly position is illegal.
Even the obvious one, your insurance changes based on the type of car you're insuring.. because it's not all about cost.

It's no secret that sports cars are more costly to insure, specifically because people are more likely to drive recklessly in them.

If we didn't discriminate against people's car preferences, everyone's insurance would increase overnight.
A communist system is an anarchist one. The main split between communists and anarchists is over the means of getting there, not over the end-goal; Bakunin and Marx split the First International over differences over how to use or destroy the state, not over the society they wanted in the end.
I read somewhere (didn't verify, wasn't obviously substantiated) that the OpenBSD folks were beside themselves with anger, and that in turn others shot back that they had demonstrated a very poor track record with respecting embargoes in the past and had let slip “seven of the last five” major vulnerabilities they had been pre-warned of.

EDIT: For reference, consider some of the comments in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16110750&ref=hvper.com
> certainly not for all people, nor even for most people. Not even in Switzerland.

I mentioned Switzerland specifically for a reason, which is that it has an unusually high number of small fairly remote towns where cars are actually banned and nearly everyone reaches them by train on relatively low capacity lines, and even the tiniest rural villages are served by well synchronized bus services, directly contradicting your statement.

There really aren't any areas of the country where car ownership is absolutely essential, or even all that desirable. Sure lots of people have cars, but almost nobody has to.

Yes, of course as you point out it's a multifaceted problem that requires land use decisions instead of just blindly building train lines to nowhere. But you present our current car dependence as inevitability. It absolutely is not, it's a public policy choice we make.
It's puzzling that "x is 17" should work but then "1000 + 1 is 1001" doesn't.

The reason is that Python pre-allocates 262 numbers at initialization (-5 to 256) and the allocation uses a different method/structure for bigger numbers.

>>> x = 256
>>> x is 256
True
>>> id(x)
94900419138400
>>> id(256)
94900419138400

>>> x = 257
>>> x is 257
False
>>> id(x)
94900419504344
>>> id(257)
94900419504368

Reference: https://www.laurentluce.com/posts/python-integer-objects-imp...
Step one: understand your deal. When your hiring manager -- the founder -- breathlessly tells you "FIFTY THOUSAND SHARES" you should respond with these questions:

--What fraction of the company's outstanding shares is that?
--How many of those shares are some kind of preferred shares?
--What was your premoney valuation in your last financing round, both total and per-share?
--How much money did you raise, in return for how many shares?

Or you can ask to see the capitalization table, which if not fraudulent, will answer these questions.

Then you will have some idea of the potential value of the shares you have.

These are reasonable questions for you--for any investor--to ask. They are asking you to invest the one thing they can't pay back: your time.

What if the hiring founder doesn't want to answer these questions for a mere underling such as yourself? In that case, assume a potential share value of zero and make your decisions accordingly.
In the consumer graphics card space it seems like they need some sort of kick up the arse, organisationally.

The 480 and 580 series were just not very competitive with nVidia for graphics performance (mining is a different matter, of course) and Vega turned out to be too low volume and expensive to make much of an impact AFAICT.

Ryzen and EPYC look like a real leap forward for AMD. I hope we see something awesome and (more importantly) deliverable come out of Radeon soon.
Yep issue persists. Only the orange and blue style correctly renders the waterway fully. The others omit a portion of it. In that section I believe there is a park on either side so perhaps that's got something to do with it.

I'll share a screen shot later.
>> This is not hyperbole. This morning I saw a spy photo of an Indonesian mafia-run operation: a big seedy-looking room full of guys with stacks of phones doing fake ride bookings.

WTF? Why would the mafia do fake ride bookings? Who is paying them? Sounds like a certain company is trying to pump up their numbers artificially.

The whole ride-sharing thing is a massive bubble and OP's blind enthusiasm only confirms this. When I went to Thailand, taxi was so cheap, I felt compelled to give the driver a 100% tip.

Halfway through, the article started to sound like satire. I was expecting to get to the end of the article and see "Just kidding! seriously people; stick to Google..."
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Nothing to do with the case at hand. Qualcomm, the market leader, paid what can only be called a bribe to Apple in exchange for Apple guarantee that they would not buy chips from qualcomm's competitor in any of their product, denying competition, and going against EU's law.

If you think a manufacturer should not be able to make its own hardware parts that's your opinion and you're entitled to have it, but it's a completly different issue.
You still want to run as a regular non-root user, possibly different users. The key difference to the mainstream use case is that you're looking to minimise the impact of bugs and failures, rather than manage security and combat malicious actors/code.

For this particular use-case, you might well consider that you don't need to patch for meltdown and spectre given the perceived risk/performance tradeoff for the current patches.
>Right, but why should OS devs and vendors scramble to save Intel’s share price?*

In what universe this is what the try to do?

That might be a second order effect of what they do (although even the idea that Intel's share price will crumble and people will go to another vendor for their next hardware refresh is bogus -- Intel is going nowhere, not to mention that AMD also has their issues with Spectre, and IIRC, part of Meltdown) but it's nowhere near the target, which obviously is to ensure that a billion PCs operating today continue to operate safe tomorrow -- and not just when people refresh their hardware (!!!).
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My wife runs a online consumer facing business and her experience is hotmail account users are significantly more of a pain than any other email account type. They seem to be less able to understand instructions - it is a bit of a running joke in our house whenever she complains to me about some painful customer I ask her if they are a hotmail customer.
The minus operator still works for me. I use it frequently to exclude domains (`html -site:w3schools.com`).