skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can set a limit buy on SPY at $0.01 but it will never be filled. That doesn't mean my limit orders aren't real or that I'm not really a market participant.

Likewise I can contact Uber and tell them I want $5/mile and they will say no and then tell me I can continue to accept rides at the bid or stay home.

Finally I can work for Juno, or by getting my own insurance and coding my own app, or for Lyft, or a mixture of the above. This is absolutely distinct from any real employment I've ever had.
Bitcoin Price at the end of february
Apple's Failure to Check Kill Syscall Privilege “Not a Security Issue”
I'm just making more of a general comment re. the website/company, not the specific post this HN thread covers. Granted, it's a minor detail, and most people probably won't hit the www version of the site, but for whatever reason it's the version of their site that my search engine surfaced, so FWIW I just found it ironic.

Peace.
Everyone would save time if the car companies just sold the schematics of their cars to each other.
Sure, but it is easy to use, easy to learn, and everyone has a compiler,
It's not all gloom and doom. Who are buying these companies? Google, facebook, amazon, Microsoft, etc. All public companies. If it's a good buy, stock appreciates immediately and in longer term.
None of that means it is safe.
>>> I think the fact that software engineers get offered $120k+ out of school to fiddle with js frameworks indicates a real shortage personally.

Software engineers from a top school, who passed the most hardcore interviews in the most selective firms in the world, to live in the most expensive city on the planet where a single bedroom flat is $4k a month.
Does this output self-modifying code, or does it also try to avoid that like ABC does?
My wife works in finance. This above explanation is completely untrue. Companies aren't scared of auditors. The auditors are scared of their clients. Only under extreme situations will an auditor turn around and fire a client. Usually they will find ways to work with them. So things like changing processes, especially for SOX, are non-issues.

There are thousands of public companies in the US, and they all have to endure SOX. It's a pain in the ass but it's not something to be feared. There are plenty of regulations that many companies need to go through that are less onerous than SOX.
I already discount equity grants in early-stage startups because they're so risky, but if management's stated goal is acquisition and not going public, I discount that equity even more. I see acquisition as a big question mark when it comes to a private company's common stock, but regular employees tend to be treated much more fairly during an IPO.

I'd also like to see regular employees given the option to cash out some of their equity during private funding rounds. Usually this route is only given to founders, but if it were common that employees could do so as well, that would reduce risk and make the uncertainty of an IPO or acquisition more tolerable.
The Mac mini at one point had a quad core option. It actually had the maximum spec option reduced some time ago. The current Mac mini is less powerful than one you could buy several years ago.
I doubt any company would accept those terms. Unfortunately the power dynamic is on their side during these sorts of negotiations. Even if you're amazing in your field, special terms like that wouldn't fly.
The issue is simply a result of earlier articles talking about how nobody wants to do Series A's anymore--VC's and companies. If one end of the pipeline shuts off, the other end eventually runs out too.
Doesn't matter if you vested everything or received refreshes, raises, etc. Your measly 10% raise every successful promotion once every 2 years is nothing compared to offers doubling for experienced engineers over the past 5-6 years (at least in SV).
some of these reasons are quite spurious. the amount of detail you need to disclose about your r&d is nowhere near a level of detail that would help competitors, and is probably less than would be disclosed through the press anyway. alphabet discloses almost nothing about many of its subsidiaries, and big public pharma companies generally dont even list any drugs earlier than phase 2 in public filings

the whole GAAP thing is also a weak argument. investors know that tech startups arent going to have tons of tangible assets and pp&e and actually like capital-light models. investors are smart enough to figure out when gaap is useful for valuation and when it isnt
Solution sounds like it’s increase the regulatory overhead on private companies.
Even with majority voting rights, you're still subject to much more stringent accounting and reporting requirements, and Wall Street can and will punish you if you don't set and meet reasonable quarterly and yearly revenue guidance. A lower stock price means less access to future capital, so you still end up doing things to please the market.
I don't know about network detection systems but antivirus heuristics used to be terrific.

You can assign 100 students to develop a trojan for a week. At the end of the week, more than 90% of the software are detected as generic trojan by the antivirus.
I quite like your reasonable, balanced approach. I've always been curious about your last point though:

> There needs to be an incentive to to do well and I'd be against cutting into that too deeply.

I've never understood why any tax rate would be a disincentive to do well. Even if the tax rate was 90%, doing well is doing well. If I make more money, I get to keep more money, even if taxes are high.

If we have tax brackets, then yeah sure there could be an unlucky minority of people who just barely land in a higher bracket than someone just under the line, so they pay a higher percentage than someone else.

But if you're well above the threshold, the amount you keep is more the more money you make before taxes. Isn't the primary incentive at all times to make more money, regardless of taxes? Or is the idea of paying a higher percentage than someone else a strong enough motivator to actually keep people from trying? Or am I missing something?
If you're lucky enough to install well-written (or self-written) plugins which withstand major version updates, you can set `WP_AUTO_UPDATE_CORE` to `true` in your wp-config and it will auto-update to any latest version. There's an added risk of plugins not working, but you'll stay up to date.
> I hope a static site generator comes along with an intuitive UI for non-technical people to easily update their own content.

This. (Although it seems a lot of people aren't in agreement) I think there used to be an app called Cactus for Mac that had a GUI and let you generate your own site. This sort of solution could work for people 1) not technical enough to run command line site generators, but 2) technical enough to buy some hosting space to drag their static site onto. If I were a hosting company, maybe I'd explore making an intuitive site generator available for free, in the hopes it could sell some light hosting plans.

For what it's worth, my preferred site generator is Poole (https://github.com/obensonne/poole). I'm not sure why it's not better known.
I am entering data and running queries on a MUMPS system right now, over SSH running OpenVMS 8.4. Last application software update: 1999.

I suspect we would keep using it, except, last I heard, HP off-shored their OpenVMS maintanance to India and declared, in like 2011, that it would be EOL'd in 2017.

edit: I retract the statement that it's running on a PDP-11, though I have to say I was told that in teleconference just last month. I remember because it was shocking.
That’s how I feel about inkjets, not HP. They are all crap though in my opinion. I had a few as a kid in the 90s but only ever bought one and then never again.

I’ve got HP LaserJets that are 10 or 15 years old and good as the day I bought them. The driver is built into most OSes.
Not sure that thesis holds water. Michael Mauboussin published the paper, "The Incredible Shrinking Universe of Stocks: The Causes and Consequences of Fewer U.S. Equities" in 2017 [0].

The Big Ideas: IPO's and being public are more expensive with less benefit while at the same time M&A has flourished.

[0] http://www.cmgwealth.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/document...
Chuwi Hi9 with good battery life and great screen pixels
Being that an automated process would probably have a rather fixed set of algorithms to detect phoniness, the crook could work around them. A thorough check will probably always involve old-fashioned detective work, often specific to the subject and environment of the photo itself.

By the way, in one photo, the clouds appear to go behind the moon. Unless it's the end-of-times, that can't happen.
I think this looks awesome. The only problem is I have two pairs of glasses - one for reading/computer and one for everything else - so I'll need two of them.

If I was them, I would add a bone conduction speaker in the stem so it can give you audible information as well.

I also like the ring input device another commenter mentioned.[1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16308730
Does anyone have a link top the court docket or know how to find it? The case is supposedly characterized as "United States v. Choi, 17-CR-308-EJD (N.D. Cal.), 17-MJ-189-DUTY (C.D. Cal.)". I'd be very interested to read it, especially what Choi said for himself in court.
> Under the new tax rules the average 1% will save $40,000 over 480k

It'd probably a lot lower.

You need to consider other code changes. For instance a filer in CA with W2 taxable income of $1.4M saves only $4,500 due to the loss of state income tax deduction offsetting the vast majority of beneficial rate changes.

ref: http://taxplancalculator.com/
But how long ago did these slimebags abuse the system, and are we sure it's still a problem in the modern era?

It seems a lot like the Uber/taxi fight - I imagine at some point somebody painted a car like a taxi and kidnapped some riders, and we needed a way for riders to be able to trust that the driver is safe to ride with so licenses/medallions came about. Now with the internet and verified identity of drivers, turns out we don't need it anymore and Uber has built a safe way to get into a stranger's car.
Getting the PR piece published on HN ...
Kotlin Android Extensions is a tad more than that. It's also a View cache that grabs all view references in a single pass. I routinely have to explain to other senior Android developers that findViewById() traverses the entire view hierarchy until it finds that ID each time you call it. This won't be noticeable with simple views, but becomes a bigger problem as complexity increases. Which also results in more wasteful calls to findViewById().

Android Data Binding does something very similar to Kotlin Android Extensions, which is why it also perplexes me to see experienced devs bind a model to a view and then call findViewById() to alter it. I'll see calls to binding.getRoot().findViewById(), which is crazy redundant.
> The difference is that I can point at the ways that GT fails, in terms of specific grammatical and semantic errors, whereas you can only report some examples of people who agree with you

What matters for the purpose of human communication is the latter, not the former. Success at communication trumps your grammatical errors (where beauty is not concerned, of course. If you're going to argue automated translation produces ugly results, then you'll hear no argument from me!).

> Not trying to be offensive, but your definition of gibberish is subjective

You're not offensive; you're arbitrary. I provided you with a dictionary definition of gibberish, while your definition seems to be suspiciously ad hoc. You've essentially defined gibberish as "whatever output automated translation currently produces", which makes this debate pointless.

Math and natural language are different. Again, the standards are different, just as in your example with child's language. No, we do not judge a computer's ability to "translate" the same as we judge a young kid's ability to speak. There's nothing surprising about these two standards being different.

Your example with Math is not particularly relevant. However, since your background seems not to be computer science [1], maybe you're unfamiliar with heuristics: in the context of computer science, a heuristic is a technique where you take an optimization problem (e.g. "finding the minimum of something", "the shortest route to somewhere", etc) which is computationally untractable and provide a
"good enough" answer which can be computed. The definition of what is "good enough" is, of course, relevant to the application of a particular heuristic in a specific context. In this sense, for some heuristic and its application, maybe 7 is a "good enough" answer even though the right answer is 8.

[1] This was written before I read in another reply of yours that you claim to be working on a PhD in Machine Learning. Fair enough! But even if you're familiar with heuristics, I think my point stands.
Monster Breeder
> but one has to be careful not the throw the baby out with the bathwater.

I think it's arguable, though, that setting up onerous regulations is itself an example of throwing the baby out with the bathwater. A ton of otherwise honest companies are required to spend money on compliance because of the actions of a (relative) few bad apples.

The thing that always gets me is that the industries that have grown up around simply guiding and auditing other companies around process and financial compliance suck billions of dollars out of the economy that could be spent in better ways.

Not saying we should throw away the entirety of this regulatory apparatus, because it does serve a useful function, but I think it would be wise to examine the cost of regulation and eliminate parts that cost more than they're worth.
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I have also wondered this. After I switched my thinkpad with a touchpoint to my macbook I can't stand using any variety of non-apply laptops. We have a few in the lab and its always a source of frustration. My Samsung and HTC phones all seemed to work fine so I agree this should be solved.
Some of those twitter comments make me shake my head... Seems like a case of sour grapes to me.
Germanic and Celtic tribes often took the whole family with them when raiding or fighting. Quoting wikipedia "Armies also often consisted of more than 50 percent noncombatants."

This could result in worse defeats - the fighting men could get pinned in between the wagons behind and the enemy in front. As happend a few times when fighting the Romans.

In fact, in the late middle ages, during the pre-Protestant religious wars, a German ancestor of mine left his castle with an armored wagon, a cannon, and his family. They lost the battle and never returned to castle. The family fled and changed their name.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_wagon

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wagon_fort

The presence of women and children with a northern European army is not very conclusive evidence that they were there as warriors
Has anyone downloaded all the books? How much data is it combined?
Meh, founders still got theirs. What do employees matter? They should working for you in order to change the world achieve enlightenment basking in the glow of your genius.
The description contradicts itself:

> Different from git: no merge conflicts to resolve!

But later:

> The only case Automerge cannot handle automatically, because there is no well-defined resolution, is when users concurrently update the same property in the same object (or, similarly, the same index in the same list). In this case, Automerge arbitrarily picks one of the concurrently written values as the "winner":

...

> Although only one of the concurrently written values shows up in the object, the other values are not lost. They are merely relegated to a _conflicts object
I mean... If the original developer can't consistently meet debt obligations, then the development goes into foreclosure, and then a new developer lowers the price...

Regardless... I still don't see a good example of a tourist destination failing while also seemingly being profitable... Niagara Falls isn't even an example of a failed tourist destination.
One obvious reason that's never mentioned is that staying private gives capital more leverage over labor. It's easy to lock in a workforce for round after round of startup funding as they wait for an IPO that will convert their paper wealth into something tangible.
I have reservations since I spent about 4 years doing backend PHP development, and IIRC when I thought of applying at Google I found that they actively block PHP for in-house projects. WP internals being PHP... I think you get the idea. Who's to say after they have established a foothold they won't push to run WP on the v8 engine and write out PHP, a language they're actively hostile to?

I've never done any WP development, but my understanding is that WP core/internals are essentially OK, but plugins have gaping security holes. I think internals are messy because WP shares the PHP philosophy of avoiding major breaking changes but their front end tooling is probably less mature (because Jesus webpack, 4 major versions in as many years, wtf)

Anyway, I hope we have reason to be optimistic here, but it looks like the beginning of something awful
My cynical view is that that's not gonna happen because it makes it more likely important staff will leave early.
> Uber has built a safe way to get into a stranger's car

The people who have been attacked by Uber drivers wouldn't agree with that statement. I think Uber/Lyft/etc. are largely safe, but their standards are pretty low, and for a long time they weren't even doing proper criminal background checks on prospective drivers. Agreed that the old taxi system was entirely broken and needed to get shaken up, but Uber was hardly a responsible darling in all this.
> To their point though, a person could reasonably support the tax cuts and seek to reduce the deficit on the premise that reduced spending would satisfy the latter over time. Whether or not the current administration is making a genuine attempt to do so is a separate argument and one that their comment did not mention.

Right, that would be an argument, but not one that's on the table. The Republicans and the President justified the tax cuts not by saying they would subsequently reduce spending, but by saying the cuts would invigorate the economy so much, any reduction in revenue directly caused by the cuts would be offset by gains in GDP.
> You can assign 100 students to develop a trojan for a week. At the end of the week, more than 90% of the software are detected as generic trojan by the antivirus.

Probably because 90 of these 100 students have no idea how AV heuristics work and what the trivial tricks are to completely stomp them.
There's a big difference between “X is correlated with Y” and “X both implies and is implied by Y”.

Instances that demonstrate that the latter is not true do not contradict the former.
ain't lot of those rules came up after Enron. That was pure fraud and not that long ago.

Also, Uber's behavior isn't helping the cause in anyway.
The endless stream of small companies to the conglomerates is doom and gloom.

Buy you or crush you. If you get really lucky you end up at Snap and are fighting for your life against a company an order of magnitude larger.
>There are plenty of regulations that many companies need to go through that are less onerous than SOX.

For example?
Because they think they can ICO? Lol
IPOs tend to be a lot more valuable. It’s more an implication of a successful exit. In either case, you have to pay off your debt and preferred stockholders before you see a dime from a liquidation event. A low value liquidation can leave zero on the table for common stock holders.
>They added an attack button, created a huge world full of secrets, designed clever dungeons, puzzles and boss battles, made magic items alter gameplay and got rid of all the time wasting grinding

As a huge Zelda fan, I think they created an amazing, interactive world for BOTW, but then slapped a bunch of shallow, generic, repetitive, FarCry 3-esque open-world gameplay on top of it and took out the most interesting part of previous Zelda games, the Dungeons. The shrines (the meat of the gameplay) are incredibly boring and unimaginative. The actual content of this game does a serious disservice to the intricate world and the elaborate, experimental gameplay mechanics.

There are no clever dungeons and the entire game is a time-wasting grind.
It's interesting that a bunch of startups in Australia have just gone public, some of which seem amazingly early-stage. I worked for a startup (ultimately exited to Intel) and recognise the stage that these guys are at as "pretty damn early" (the bit where you're almost living or dying based on B2B customer prepayments, etc) and am amazed that you can now apparently do this while public.

Ouch. Would hate to have had to file a quarterly public report showing our wounds to the public...
The San Francisco Bay Are real estate market hasn't failed... You can't use its hypothetical future failure as an example... The formation of new technical hubs is not a good indicator that the real estate market is failing or will fail.
I’m surprised that blatant spam got so many upvotes/comments.
Talk about the software companies..
They don’t want to go public because they have insane valuations yet aren’t profitable. Going public would mean losing a significant amount of paper wealth. The stock market doesn’t value “world changing technology” (flimsy startups) as highly as investors in Silicon Valley.
Are you C-level? Otherwise, those terms would be laughed out of the room.
No, that isn't why.
Need alternatives outside the reach of the us government and other hostile entities.
I heard the Android data binding compiler was written in Kotlin. At KotlinConf, they announced that Google had dropped Java altogether for writing Lint rules because of Kotlin's much greater capabilities for handling deprecated code and IDE quick fixes.
I'm sure many private company employees wish they would go public so they can enjoy the liquid stock appreciation that google / apple / fb / amazon / netflix etc employees have

liquid stock in a growing company is one of the most powerful currencies for attracting and maintaining talent. private company stock is generally valued at at least a 30% discount to public stock, and for an early-stage startup it is hard to place any value on private stock at all
In theory, sure, in practice, it's a little disconcerting.

I've worked in software since the '90s, I've seen how the sausage is made at all kinds of companies big and small. The theory of autonomous cars is a bunch of really smart folks hand crafting history's finest software. And there may be some cases where that won't be too far from the truth. But the reality on the street is going to be a zillion different competitors cutting every corner, skirting ever regulation they can get away with, and just shitting out the worst "move fast and break things" hackathon bullshit code that "sort of seems to work, most of the time" that they can manage. I know how devs and product managers think about testing and quality in the absence of dedicated and rigorous QA standards and infrastructure, in the context of life critical systems that is frightening.

Ask yourself, do you want to put your life in the hands of a code base that had some pimple faced learned-to-code-in-10-days bootcamp graduate who just "fixed a bug" in the drive software by ctrl-c-ctrl-v'ing from stackoverflow and then pushed to master? Because that is going to be the reality, not the ivory tower "well, if they did it the RIGHT way" fantasy that people have in their heads. The only way we'll get the "right" way of autonomous software development is if there is extensive and careful regulation with very rigorous auditing and process requirements. And we are nowhere near that right now.