skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I read through the full version. One point that may be lost in all the comments, that I think is salient, is that this was his father's company to begin with. The son helped the father bring an internet presence to the business (eg, go the business online). Yes, the father took advantage and it's likely not ethical, it was still the business that the father started.

Of course, it could be argued that it was a new business when it exploded on the internet after near-bankruptcy, however, it could be argued the son was just "helping the family business," as their was no formal business agreement (it sounds like). This may be a tough legal battle to get really anything, and sounds like your father would fight it tooth to nail; it may be a a very long road that you don't want to go down.

IMO, you might do better just continuing to help out here and there (as you've got things pretty well in shape it looks like), and distance yourself somewhat both emotionally and energy/work-wise. Lighten up just a bit about it, and you'll likely get 50/50 anyway, when your Dad is ready to stop working/retire. This way, you have a better chance of not fracturing the relationship as well, and it allows you to sort of emotionally unwind.

Yes, continue to be the break/fix guy and the architectural/platform guru as needed, but don't invest that kind of emotional (and actual work/cycles) energy anymore, if you can possibly help it (obviously this will be difficult given the history and attachments etc). Sort of unwind yourself a bit, and I think things may just naturally work out.
There are parallels to Craigslist/POF here. All 3 sites have a reputation for being ugly, and having glaring "usability issue" yet are extremely successful and resist even common-sense change.
> The vast majority of hours spent has nothing to do with any editorial functions.

Unfortunately, I have to admit that most of the money I pay for scholarly papers goes to Springer/Elsevier shareholders and not the editors who barely edit.

But the principle still remains. Reading through crap papers so you don't have to is hard work that should be paid for. (And editors have to do this before sending stuff out to reviewers, or else the reviewers drop out.)

ANd I would rather pay the editors out of my own pockets than expect the authors to do it, or an ad-supported mechanism, because if you're not the customer, you're the product.
Other Virtual Assistants Are Sexist Too
Why do the instances need to be subs? It seems to me you just need NNTP extended to support voting and a few other features (most—probably all—of which could just be messages with new defined headers and, in some cases, no actual message body.)
Large crack in East African Rift is evidence of continent splitting in two
How much are the investment bankers earning on this?
MesaLink relies on ring for its crypto operations. Ring is written in a mix of Rust, C and assembly, with most of the C and assembly code coming from (Boring|Open)SSL.
> RN seems to be the ideal: truly native components but a JS programming model.

I'm not sure i would call React Native "ideal". I think it's "progress" though.
So i bought in, who knows where this will go though :)

One of my hopes it that just like NFLX, once the company focuses on producing / licensing it's own content they can do really well.

I'm interested in hearing what others have to say on this! Did you buy, will you buy? Why?
Maybe my perception is off, but it seems like we're getting lots of tech IPO's in a relatively short time. Stitch Fix, Dropbox, Blue Apron, Snap, and Roku to name a few.

For a long time we weren't seeing too many big tech IPO's. Did something fundamentally change in the market to lead to this, or did all these companies just happen to make it to "market maturity" around the same time?
I suspect that landing on aircraft carriers is a skill that they do not want people to forget. For example, the military has recently started teaching officers celestial navigation because GPS can be jammed [1].

[1] https://www.npr.org/2016/02/22/467210492/u-s-navy-brings-bac...
If you can get in touch with the owner, I imagine they would be willing to drop that price significantly since it's a good fit for you but you clearly don't "need it."

$1,000 in the hand is way better than $2,500 that never comes.
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So rather than downmods, I'd be really interested to hear why people disagree with this - apart from the argumentative "delusional" comment.

Is it wrong to work hard to improve your children's future prospects?
I've been using b2 and linode and I would benefit from having those two services connected :)
This sounds awfully similar to Augeas CLI. Not that I endorse Augeas in any capacity...
> physically show numbers

That is backwards compatibility, not lack of innovation.
You have (some) cryptography on the chip.

> Checks physically show numbers

That, again, is backwards compatibility.

> ACH, involves banks FTP-ing massive text files

Yes, that sucks.

> no used standard for peer to peer

Wire transfer?

> Massive data breaches by banks

Massive data breaches by everyone, this is not a bank problem - this is an industry-wide problem.

> response to endemic fraud is to revoke cards

What is your point here? Would you prefer to revoke a certificate instead? But we already established that pesky concept of backwards compatibility and real world.
> A very modest improvement to this system, known as PIN and chip, came to the U.S. recently after years in Europe and Asia.

Chip and PIN is a private initiative. I don't know why it took off in Europe/Asia and not in the USA, but it has little to do with the state.
I think the author really underestimates how hard it is to stay relevant as a social network while trends and attitudes shift. So far Facebook's continued success has been pretty impressive. Some examples of great moves: Adopting oAuth to make Facebook the backbone of auth on the web, buying instagram when it was small, moving the company to be mobile first, buying whatsapp and making messenger a world class experience and now integrating the best features of Snap to counter that threat. The focus on messaging was especially brilliant given the current trend that people are moving away from social to a more messaging focused experience.

It's pretty amazing strategy regardless of how you feel about Facebook's recent issues. I would wager that >99% of CEOs would have failed to spot those trends in time and stay relevant.
This is one of those things people who pay cashless think (including me, although Im not in the UK) because no one pays attention to how other people pay for things.

As of July 2017, 42.3% of transactions used cash in the UK:
https://www.theguardian.com/money/2017/jul/12/cash-contactle...

The US has a similarly high percentage also.
This has investment bankers quaking in their boots.
Capacitor creator/Ionic co-founder here. Didn’t expect to see this on the front page! Disclaimer: it’s still alpha.

We’re building Capacitor based on feedback from the Ionic community to improve our ability to move across platforms such as App Store/web/electron, make it easier to interact with Native SDKs, mix web and native UI, and manage native app projects/tooling.

One feature I'm really excited about is having Web UI implementations of many Native experiences when running on the web/electron. Here's an example of how the `Camera` plugin looks when running in the web: https://twitter.com/maxlynch/status/961749127657910272. This uses our new Ionic Web Components so you can easily use these controls with low overhead even if you aren't using Ionic.

We hope Capacitor will be useful to other web developers that want to build mobile and desktop web apps, even if they aren’t using Ionic, and we’re building support for hitting the hybrid sweet spot of native UI shell (nav/menus) with web content.

Capacitor will eventually be replacing Cordova in Ionic’s toolchain so it’s going to be a core part of the experience.
I think the bigger story here is the NYC Pension fund holding $895 million in FB stock.

http://www.pionline.com/article/20180330/ONLINE/180339994/ny...
Connections Between Automatic Differentiation and Delimited Continuations
Spotify Revenue (Euros)

2017 4.09 billion

2016 2.95 billion

2015 1.94 billion

Net Loss (Euros)

2017 1.2 billion

2016 539 million

Impressive revenue growth, but I can't understand the valuation given the losses.

I love their product though.
Sure, but that amounts to a criticism of particular devices or clients that can't be verified. If it was meant as a criticism of this repo, the answer is still "PR and fork".
The Bitcoin DAO: Jury Rigging a DAO with Multiple Meshed Multi-Sig Wallets
iPhone Users Are Pestered to Enroll in Apple Pay
Paradigms of Computer Programming
(https://www.edx.org/course/paradigms-computer-programming-lo...)

Amazing course, though it uses Mozart a little known programming language, drives home the functional paradigm in a lucid manner. I am surprised that Peter Van Roy's book
(instructor of the course) Concepts, Techniques, and Models of Computer Programming is not as well known as SICP.
Remember what the stock market charts looked like last time? Stockpile some cash, invest when it falls out.
I don't but I'd be surprised if it was too far from 1:1, at least if you narrow it down to the exploitable bugs.
Nand2Tetris was my favorite. I can't say the information (particularly the first half) has much practical application for me, but it was a lot of fun and deepened my understanding of what's going on at a low level. Homework is very well designed with a simulator you download to test your work on, then submit for automatic grading.

Udacity's Differential Equations course was pretty awesome too. I had taken Calculus previously, but I believe it's pretty approachable even if you haven't. The homework was very well designed, and involved fun problems like computing gravitational slingshots and curing diseases.

Coursera's "The Unwritten Constitution", also has a similar "The Written Constitution". Both are pretty awesome and really gives an in depth view of what the constitution is about (spoiler alert: it's about slavery), and even points out holes that haven't been challenged yet. Homework was writing essays and grading other people's, so not that well designed in that respect.

Coursera's "Coding the Matrix" is a Linear Algebra course. I took it the first time it was offered, and you pretty much had to buy the accompanying book to follow along. And the book unfortunately had a lot of "first version" issues. A lot of the homework wasn't explained very well, but it was all auto graded code. I think the issues with the book have been addressed with the second edition, not sure about the homework. I had already taken linear algebra before, so this was mostly a refresher, but even I found it hard to follow along in the last part, and never completed the last homework assignment.

On Youtube you can find "Fundamentals of Small Arms Weapons" from 1945. It shows how the action of a small arms rifle works. It starts as just a tube with a bullet, and works up to several different types of fully automatic actions. It's just a couple hours long.
> The company says that in 2018, shares traded on the private markets between $90 and $132.50.

> Losses for last year were 1.2 billion Euros ($1.47 billion), which compares to 539 million Euros ($661 million) the year before.

Well, there's the short of the year.
No-paywall link via @WSJ on Twitter: https://t.co/41otdGaCcO
I don't get this argument. Don't the underwriters provide an obvious service that will always have utility for some private companies: risk management?
You don't need to do any of that. It's a machine that makes exact change. Is your purchase $52.27 but in your wallet you have 39 cents in coins and $64 in bills? Counting is for computers. Just dump the contents of your wallet into the machine and let it figure it out.

And you can't count processing failures on one side but not the other. The machine can't read your card. The network is down. Some jerk at the bank fat fingered something and now you have to spend six hours on the phone sorting it out.
I usually prefer apps too but it's only because apps have native controls that are first-class citizens in the UI - they don't float around and aren't as prone to being mis-clicked. Apps generally have better performance than the website too.

Sites that have more static text with large text controls are fine in the browser, but that's usually the exception.
> but ~90% of their other products exist for the sole purpose of driving business to their ads products.

This is flatly false. While certainly, many of the products are used in ads, yes, very few products exist for the sole purpose of driving ads business. A few examples of things that don't: Drive, Docs, Gmail (GSuite/B2B), GCE (B2B again), ML, TF, etc. (again, B2B offerings, as well as being used for all sorts of internal things that have nothing to do with ads), Youtube (Red, TV), etc.

While many things certainly drive ads revenue, there are very few things that you could argue exist solely, or even mostly, to drive ads revenue.

(Am Googler)
> they want to nationalize all private banking

That would be crazy. But I can't see where the article says that, nor can I see it said in the opinion piece by the chairman of the Swedish reserve bank which the article links.

The chairman of the Swedish reserve bank makes two suggestions:

1. Modify the RIX system of settlements in the reserve bank. One suggested modification is to extend its operating hours, currently it closes at 17:00 each day. I don't think anyone would consider that a radical proposal.

2. Force banks to handle cash, i.e. if you want to be a bank, then you have to let people withdraw and deposit cash at your branches.

This second point sounds almost bizarre, a bit like demanding that you can't be a restaurant if you don't serve food. But the current situation is that the major banks in Sweden have rapidly reduced the number of branches that handle cash. Swedbank, one of the big four, has roughly 100 branches in Stockholm, the capital, but only two of them handle cash.

You can deposit small amounts of cash in ATMs, about $1000. Anything beyond that and you have to make a trip to one of the two branches that still handles cash.
You tend to if you use a motherboard with an older chipset with a newer generation CPU using the same socket (and it hasn't already been updated at the factory).

Intel example: Using a 7th generation Kaby Lake CPU on a 6th generation Skylake chipset motherboard. Example of required BIOS update: version 1.F https://www.msi.com/Motherboard/support/Z170-A-PRO
I only realized later that it wouldn't really work anyway guessing from all the missing dependencies.
Meanwhile I'm wondering why Amazon is optimizing for people with families, since it seems to be their MO to hire young people who don't know better than to work 60-80 hours a week.
The first paragraph has an assumption that might be proven wrong. This generation might not have children like the previous generation did, at least not in the same numbers.
Edit: Apparently I was wrong, they still paid a bunch of bankers for advice, but technically they aren't making anything by skimming off the top like most IPOs.

I think nothing.

It's a direct sale, so the insiders (including the employees, not just the execs) get to sell however many shares they want directly to public shareholders.

So the company doesn't make any money either, just the shareholders. I suppose at some point the company itself could sell shares, and then maybe a banker would get involved, but since it would already be publicly listed, I'm not sure they'd have to be.
I've actually already tried negotiations via domainagents.com--they don't seem to want to go below $2,000, which is unfortunate. But like I said, not a big deal either way. Maybe later on.
Personally, I think it's unwise to bet against Zuckerberg, and here's why I think so.
He has struggled with the Peter Principle, and IMHO beat it, which I gotta say is not an easy feat.
But he also bet big on things most wouldn't.

FB has gone though crazy struggles before, but if my understanding of both PG and YC is correct, you bet on the people, not the product. I have a feeling that if FB Inc has to reinvent itself, it will manage to do so.
Also it looks like the most recent offering of the class started just yesterday, in case anyone else is looking to take it.
It depends on the sensors you need access to. An iOS PWA has access to Geolocation, Magnetometer, Accelerometer, Gyroscope, Camera, Audio, Apple Pay, etc.
> does anyone really need 32GB of RAM?

That sounds an awful lot like the infamous "640 kB ought to be enough for anybody" quote

> Is anyone seriously running into issues with only 16GB of RAM?

Every day.
But this is somewhat nonsensical. Is a slaughterhouse ethical because no kids are allowed to walk into them? Are they unethical because they would kill a person in the wrong place?

It would be unethical to build a slaughterhouse that traveled around and had the potential to go into a populace. It seems odd to call the slaughterhouse itself unethical, when it was the building of the machine that is the problem.

If you are giving agency to the machine, then you are wanting to teach the machine ethics. At some point, I can see that happening for "intelligence." Not for "intelligent machines" though.
What you say is accurate, but income and wealth volatility are different things. Do you have any numbers about the percentage of Americans who will spend time in the top 20% or 10% of the wealth spectrum?

I'd venture to guess wealth volatility is far lower.
Redundancy? BackBlaze still only operates one (or two but in the same region) datacenters.
Fast SSDs are still orders of magnitude slower than RAM access - SSD latency is on the order of 10s of microsecons, while RAM access latency is on the order of 10s of nanoseconds.

You're in luck because your working set happens to fit into RAM, and the rest is written to swap out gracefully and doesn't pull itself back into memory. But as soon as you're actually working with more than 16GB of data at once, you're in trouble.
Profiting off Darwin Award candidates?

Sounds like a Black Mirror episode (several actually).
Based on the near-universal disdain for the redesign here in the HN comments, I'd like to go on record predicting it's going to be a huge success amongst non-HN types.
if you want to focus on Statistical Learning, I can recommend Introduction to Statistical Learning Using R[1] by Prof. Hastie and Tibshirani.

[1]: https://lagunita.stanford.edu/courses/HumanitiesSciences/Sta...
My understanding is that MesaLink uses the low-level crypto from BoringSSL (transitively via ring) and the high-level protocol code from ring, which is written in Rust.

Most memory safety problems in TLS implementations come from the higher-level protocol code, not the implementations of the raw crypto primitives. In fact, the latter benefit from being written in as low-level of a style as possible to mitigate timing attacks.

Edit: Brian Smith has an authoritative comment here: https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/89aiyw/mesalink_a_mem...
The value, well it is "investor demand"

The going public part -- well that was foretold with their last round of financing (it was a condition) and this was a strange way to do it.

You may love the product but will it last is the question. If I were going to bet I would say that 5 years down the road someone buys it for pennies on the dollar or it goes bankrupt due to toxic debt.

I wonder what the short position is on it.
The Case for Incentivized Mesh Networks
I think it was somewhere around $30 million spent on bankers for the non-IPO. (Which I guess is less then what they would have spent on an actual IPO? Although in that case, the cash raised from the IPO would have paid for the banker expenses.)

Edit: this is where I got the $30 million figure from: https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-01-16/spotify-w...
What's the kinkiest sex you can think of? Because if it what you're thinking of doesn't soak/soil the sheets and mattress, then you're not thinking dirty enough. Hotels will at least toss the mattress and bill the customer under those circumstances.

Have you ever worked hospitality?
Assuming you're talking about academic computer science papers, you're right that it is not "say something of merit you find personally interesting". It is more "convince the reader that something you find personally interesting has merit."
Interactive map shows history of San Francisco place names
Glad to see they're moving beyond Cordova's main issue: trying to fully automate the native build processes with disastrous results.

I am perfectly happy opening up Xcode to build and configure. Same with Android Studio. Trying to find a "Cordova solution" to very common build tasks was a continual nightmare for me.

I ended up just switching to React Native to wrap a progressive web app. It makes no sense since I'm only using a single React component (UIWebView), but the build / deploy process was just so much easier to manage than the mess of Cordova scripts and outdated/broken plugins.
I used to teach people not to pipe curl to bash. Now I just add sudo -n tests to my scripts and see if they have passwordless sudo. It turns out, a lot of people have passwordless sudo.
Are blue apron and stitch fix tech companies? I thought they were just sending out boxes of stuff to subscribers, with a website/app for taking orders?
> Did something fundamentally change in the market to lead to this, or did all these companies just happen to make it to "market maturity" around the same time?

One successful IPO will beget a whole raft of follow-ons in similar segments to profit from the 'atmosphere' as much as possible. Until the first one that bombs, then it is immediately game over. So there tends to be a bursty nature to this IPO thing.
I think they are dumping their stock on the public before the market takes a downturn. For most of these stocks the only way to go is down.
>Well, there's the short of the year.

I think you're missing SNAP.
$30 million was the original estimate - I haven't seen an update since.

https://www.bloombergquint.com/markets/2018/01/16/spotify-wi...
They're actually making more from Spotify's direct listing than they did for Dropbox's full on IPO... So much for disrupting the business model!

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-03-26/spotify-l...
Except I wouldn't call that a bias. Bias is prejudice, and in this case would mean something like hiring people for certain characteristics that are irrelevant w.r.t. to the job. Even where ethnicity and race are concerned, it doesn't necessarily imply bias. If, say, a black social organization only hired black people, it wouldn't necessarily be biased. Why on earth would they hire, say, white people?

If you were starting a company and you wanted to attract people that value education and want the best for their children and see SAT scores as an indicator of quality, then yeah, you'd do exactly something like this. There's nothing immoral about it, unless you want to debate the effect Amazon will have on the town. What's immoral is the weird guilt and self-flagellation involved in thinking there's anything wrong with it. Who gains exactly from plopping Amazon HQ2 in some shitty town?

If there's anything I worry about, it's the growth of Amazon and its bed fellows.