skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>if any member leaves.

This brings up a very interesting issue under the Delaware Limited Liability Company Act, that is without an Operating Agreement in place that allows a Member to resign their ownership, the Delaware Law is controlling and does not allow a member of a multi-member LLC to withdraw (resign their interest) prior to dissolution and winding up of the company. One may be able to get the other member(s) to consent in writing but at the point someone wants to leave, good luck getting the other(s) to sign anything.

Edit: it doesn’t appear the Stripe Atlas LLC comes with an operating agreement; therefore, the Delaware Limited Liability Company Act is controlling and a Member would not have the right to resign their interest prior to dissolution.
Look at Racket. It hosts multiple languages including prolog/solver variants. Racket is made to create variant languages so you could start with a working system and change it to try designs. Here's just a few relevant Racket links:

https://docs.racket-lang.org/racklog/index.html

https://docs.racket-lang.org/parenlog/index.html

https://docs.racket-lang.org/datalog/index.html
I am pretty sure you can disable the algorithmic feed in the settings. It's under "Show the best Tweets first" checkbox in the "Account" page of the Settings.
Here's a great video that covers "AI winters" for those who are curious: https://vimeo.com/170189199
Why would you control for the Hawthorne effect, if it's aligned with your intended effect?
Really beautiful stuff!

I'm in the process of launching BreezyPDF.com which can generate equally as wonderful PDFs from the HTML/JS/CSS you're already using.

Here's a demo of turning a complex dashboard into a PDF: https://ruby.demo.breezypdf.com
How do you create incentive structures for new employees who have to spend months (years?) coming upto speed with giant state machines before they feel remotely confident of the the effect of their changes? For better or for worse, currently the glory is in writing new systems rather than improving existing ones.
Pretty sure you can only be a "disregarded entity" (schedule-c) with a single member LLC. Beyond that is get's more complicated.
The Forever Nomad
What? It's absolutely fair to criticize the NYT for manufacturing a narrative regardless of intention. That's just dishonesty. It's not reporting, it's creating a story, regardless of if you think what they're creating is noble or not. If it's not lying to the public, it's pretty damn close.
Pretty sure the Catholic Church has similar principles.
I imagine processing the data, deciding whom to audit, and tracking the process is more complicated. Heck; they're probably using ML for audit red flags
I've only used it with a Python kernel so far, and doing eval on each or all blocks in the buffer (org-ctrl-c-ctrl-c, and org-babel-execute-buffer). Haven't had problems so far.
Small development teams have a hard enough time with that. I can't imagine that is even remotely possible within the bureaucratic framework of a government agency.
I took it as a gag, but maybe it’s just because it’s so ridiculous to me.
Funny what the Crypto world has now become. Why I still believe in Crypto? For any new innovation to well, be sustained, it needs funding to last. Speculation helped get Crypto there just like speculation helped the dot-com to thrive. However, speculation wouldn't keep us there. We need to stop with the scams and jokes and get rich quick schemes (bitconnnnnnnect) in order to build lasting innovations.
You can be an LLC that is taxed as an S-corp as well, but only make sense if you have significant profits which you wish to reduce your liability by paying dividends instead of payroll taxes. -- I am not an accountant or lawyer --
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Thanks for clarifying! Is whatever the kernel does now in transition to user space expensive because it's somehow proportional to the amount of actual memory that the kernel is using or has reserved?
Should it be written in Go, or Rust?
> their location on the water

Which I misread as "the location of their water". Which is actually quite serious. See

https://www.wbez.org/shows/wbez-news/in-dayton-ohio-an-econo...

> As states like California face major water shortages, city officials in Dayton sense a business opportunity. ... the self-filtering, self-recharging freshwater supply, along with the rivers, once made Dayton attractive to water-intensive industries in the 19th century.

> Mills, factories, and countless little breweries lined the river before Prohibition, and Dayton was a hub of innovation and wealth.

> ...

> “We’re running into limits,” says Peter Gleick, the head of the Pacific Institute, a nonprofit research organization in Oakland, California. “...In the past we’ve sort of assumed enough water would always be available, and I think we can no longer assume that’s going to be the case.”

> ...

> “Back to the midwest” — that phrase is music to Karen Thomas’s ears. Thomas is the head of water marketing for Dayton (yes, that’s actually a job).

> “We have an abundant water source,” she says. “We don’t believe that we would have to worry about water.”

> ...

> “Water is a public good, but it’s also a commodity,” she says.

> An economic development team in Dayton has conducted talks with several food processors, manufacturers, and beverage makers that could use an inexpensive and abundant supply of water. Companies that choose Dayton would face little of the regulation placed on water diversions in the Great Lakes basin; here, if you can drill a well, you can drain it.

The article continues on to pollution issues in the Midwest, so more twists ahead.
Equity for cofounder
My startup went through a very prestigious accelerator, during which, my co-founder left. This resulted in a solo founder company throughout the program.

I hired a few friends (as contractors) to help during the course of the program and by demo day, the company has become quite attractive to investors.

I am thinking of bringing on one of my contractors (he is also a friend for about a decade) as a co-founder.
I've been advised to give up to 10% with below market salary (vested with cliff), or 5% with market salary. I can't afford paying market so my questions are

1) Is 10% good for a cofounder? If not, what would experienced entrepreneurs suggest?

2) Would a ramp vest over 4 years be recommended ( Year 1 - 1% (with cliff), Year 2 - 3%, Year 3 - 6%, Year 4 - 10%)?

3) Would it be beneficial to change the vesting schedule to 7-10 years (instead of 4) and vest ~1% a year (with a 1 year cliff) ?

4) Is 10% too generous over the lifetime of a startup? (Financing rounds (3 rounds at 20% each), 7% for accelerator, 20% for employee pool) This leaves a total of 13% (in an average case) between founders - so really should be 6.5% each between the two of us.

Thank you for answering
After reading many articles about virtual memory and how kernel space is mapped into every process I don't understand why it is necessary. Why can't process only have mapped it's user mode space? Also it only seems to be case of unixes and windows. Not sure how exactly it's done in OSX but "Mac OS X does not map the kernel into each user address space, and therefore each user/kernel transition (in either direction) requires an address space switch." https://flylib.com/books/en/3.126.1.91/1/
I think the problem Brendan is pointing out is that if we look at a task that appears CPU-bound, we might think that one solution to make things go faster is just make the CPU go faster. But beefing up the CPU won't help, because it'll just spend the same amount of time waiting for e.g. the TLB to make the round trip lookup.

I think this is really a discussion about the Von Neumann Bottleneck (VNBN). The slowdown here is caused by the VNBN, but %CPU utilization is "disguising" slowdowns caused by this bottleneck as a CPU bottleneck.

The VNBN is the primary reason Intel spends so much of their die space on caches -- it's really holding us back. Intel is basically a glorified SRAM vendor, selling vast blocks of memory attached as closely to a processor as possible, because it's just so damn expensive to fetch it from anywhere else, thanks to the VNBN.

> Aside from hyperthreading: you can't really do something during the stall.

This is true, but hyperthreading doesn't truly help us because the unit of concurrency -- the thread here -- is too coarse, and everyone is competing over the same resource: memory bandwidth (again, thanks VNBN), so any time you spend on another task is going to increase return time of the original task you were waiting for.

But we can do something here --- use a different architecture. Imagine a dataflow machine, which sidesteps the VNBN entirely. Now if your processor is stalled waiting for a TLB return, there’s a vast pile of work that can be freely executed. Sure we have other resources at play now (like whatever message passing bandwidth we have), but we no longer have to worry about the VNBN.
Yes. IBM should be best positioned among AI-aware companies to augment and extend "deep" knowledge-bases into the enterprise. The information infrastructure of Jeopardy Watson was impressive and ought to open doors for IBM to partner productively with other info management vendors to modernize and advance that corporate infrastructure which is driven by deep information. But instead it appears the short-term ROI-think of their non-technical SVPs is what's led them astray.

IBM continues to make the mistake that the flash bang uber-sexiness of ML (esp deep learning) matters more to the enterprise than deep info management (something which IBM can proffer while most competitors can't). If IBM were smart, they'd leverage their deep experience in databases and IR and promote that side of AI -- smarter info management. IMHO, this could do much more for their bottom line than the stupid pretense that Watson really is HAL 9000.
How is an LLC taxed with foreign members? Is it tax exempt in the US and does the income accrue to the partners (i.e. foreign companies and/or people)?
> How do we separate business logic in a self-contained way that can be independent of hardware and (from a certain level) software?

As strange as this may sound, documentation. Software is at it's core rather brittle it's designed to operate inside of a very specific system and trying to make it portable is only reasonable when you know the target ahead of time.
couldn't help but think of https://youtu.be/jk6gjqMrOy8 after reading your comment

anyway, that tangent aside, considering how many of the individual elements in a phone tend to be sourced from Asian countries. I guess not not using my phone, im actively subverting and appropriating Asian culture(s because yes i know there's more than one and I was getting too into character—

anyway i know that totally isn't your implication, I was just taking the expression that I perceived and the meaning I inferred from to the logical extreme to demonstrate my distaste with this whole white male native speaker archetype. sure I would certainly count myself as one, but those are just a bunch of adjectives serving to do nothing more than to elucidate what it means about you to think these things. i can certainly tell you that I and the majority of white male native speaking individuals are nothing like the stereotype you're trying to evoke. we aren't all scientists, aren't all engineers, we aren't all beauticians, and no single one of us lives in a world that is solely their own. Every part of society and the corpus of human knowledge has really just been a super long drawn out game of telephone where the telephone line never terminates and just loops back around. That and there are several telephones attached to it in such a way that physically proximate ones will simultaneously reproduce the vibration traveling across the telephone line. perhaps a bit abstruse

but I think it brings home an important point. namely, i don't think a white person had their hands on this device between it being sealed and being opened at the store.
I'm sure academics have thought about such information representation problems. As for industry, why would they be interested in that? It's like killing the goose that keeps laying golden rewriting eggs.
Yep I don't believe in free will and agree whole-heartedly with everything you said.

I still believe people make decisions and that those decisions have consequences, I just think the decisions can likely be traced back to the state of the universe and physical processes rather than poofing out of nowhere. Of course, even if quantum mechanics means that there are some random processes at play, that doesn't change much since it is still quantum mechanics at the root of those "poofs".
Is software prefetching (__builtin_prefetch) useful for performance?
See now I wasn't doing that. But here you are decrying oneupsmanship by trying to one-up me. And telling me the weight of my words at the same time you say oneupsmanship carrys no weight.

Do you realise that you are the thing you dislike?

In this instance, I was remarking that a person who thinks of themself as a loser is also the person who is likely to have adopted this cynical and resentful worldview.

A person who opts into this "winner/loser" dynamic has already adopted the world view of one who can lose and will do so.

Living-out-your-values doesnt entail winning or losing anything, rather, it is life measured by authenticity and integrity not "victory".

The low self-regard, resentment and entitlement in this search for "victory" is fair game for mine and any one elses criticism.

I dont need you to tell me the weight of my words, they are weighed according to my values, not yours.
Yes, not giving ownership away to a party with no contractual obligations to you.
To be fair, 140 million taxpayers account for a lot of punchcards.
Show HN: Play with my WebGL balls
When I think about treating laws and recipes as code, I think of the difference between absolute machine computation vs a process that collaborates with human judgment. The "stupidity" of computers' literal-mindedness is something that non-programmers just don't seem to understand. Some recommended things to consider:

- Aristotle: laws are for the general case, judges for the particular. This gives the saying, "Hard cases make bad law." It's good to have rules, but keep people in control.

- Michael Polanyi: not all knowledge is "formalizable". Actually recipes are an example of his: two cooks following the same recipe may give drastically different results.

- Roger Penrose: If the human mind were a computer, why does it seem not bound by the constraints Gödel's theorem implies for a formal axiomatic system?

I wonder if the author's book engages with any of these people?
Complaining != asking for clarification. Sometimes the reason for downvotes is not obvious.
>Nowadays, "working-class, blue-collar" stuff does not make money, and if "working-class, blue-collar" people identify with the economic system which designates their labor as a cost to be repressed rather than a service to be rewarded, I'm not sure how much I can do about that.

Maybe by pointing to blue collar work that still pays well. A buddy of mine is an auto mechanic and is the sole income earner for his family. They do just fine in St Louis (another city like Detroit and Pitt). Another friend of mine is a pipe fitter for gas pipelines who works 3-6 months a year and earns ~150-200K depending on contracts. Spends the rest of the year surfing and diving.

Trades do, in fact, make money. Pay attention to how much you spend next time you call a plumber.
Perhaps the public could be forced to realize that they are responsible for what data they share and with who?
Cue the Simpsons meme:

"Am I out of touch? No, it's the cord-cutters who are wrong!"

Stupid tactics like this are only prolonging the inevitable (and signal incredibly poor, visionless management).
No, it's still more or less a O(1) operation, it's just expensive to fully flush TLBs.
You'd think they'd want to get the TV price/cost as low as reasonable to fight cable cutters.
Assuming the LLC is taxed as a corporation, that 8.7% only applies to the portion of income which actually came from customers in Delaware.
To be fair, you can kinda talk to Google assistant in a "question response" type capacity and it does pretty well.
I upgraded from 100mb to 1g for 400 person site and no one noticed.
Check out https://breezypdf.com, which is reasonably priced with horizontal scaling.
The original title on Hacker News here ended with something like "distributing free software". I took issue with that because it was about distributing copies of Windows which is not by any definition free software.

I wasn't protesting the general case, just this instance. If the title hadn't been misleading to me, I wouldn't have cared. I don't generally care about licensing issues around Microsoft Windows. Though this one is an interesting case.
The latest incarnation if Swift, of course!
You can ask the same about stackoverflow reputation.
NPR is "publicly funded" in a colloquial sense (pledge drives, etc), but it is not significantly "publicly funded" in the sense of "funded by the government".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NPR#Funding

»During the 1970s and early 1980s, the majority of NPR funding came from the federal government. Steps were taken during the 1980s to completely wean NPR from government support, but the 1983 funding crisis forced the network to make immediate changes. According to CPB, in 2009 11.3% of the aggregate revenues of all public radio broadcasting stations were funded from federal sources, principally through CPB;[37] in 2012 10.9% of the revenues for Public Radio came from federal sources.«
>I think it shows just how divergent the news.ycombinator community has diverged from ycombinator (the incubator).

This is a prime example of the holier-than-thou sentiment that's part and parcel of the crypto community.

This is a fantastic art project that showcases exactly what value cryptocurrency brings to the fore. That you're acting this way towards someone looking to make a side-hustle work on a website about side-hustles is incredible self-delusion.
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Not it wasn't taken. You give over the use of that data to FB when you use their service. Just like you do when you get a loyalty card in Safeway or pay with you credit card.

Calling that stolen is mixing your personal opinions with facts.
How do we know the hardware will adequately support full self-driving if it doesn't actually exist yet?

That seems overly optimistic, if not an outright fabrication.
Happy birthday, Don Woods
> Facebook clearly is a public forum.

Facebook is not clearly a public forum. My close friends do not constitute the public, yet CA got access to data that only those close friends would have otherwise seen.
Top clueless moron technotopian article of 2018.

"How did we humans manage to build a global civilization on the cusp of colonizing other planets?"

No, we are on the cusp of climatological, ecological, environmental and economical disaster.
As a kid I logged hundreds of hours in Vvardenfell, and I love this series of articles, thanks OP
You can get A LOT of data for free through their standard streaming API. If you are creative you can pull in about 100 million tweets per day.
It's not about giving up on the legal system, it's about taking responsibility and not sharing data with people you don't trust, or don't trust to keep secret.

The gdpr makes people think that they don't need to think about what they share and with whom. Do you really think companies are going to significantly change just because of this? I highly doubt it. Sure there will be some things, but in the end many of the same patterns and uses will emerge.
Yes, that’s right. Good point!
$10k isn't the high end, either.
Depends on the decade you ask it.
Im very surprised this doesn't violate the bundling antitrust laws [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bundling_(antitrust_law)
Since it seems unlikely that governments will ban the use of data by companies for certain purposes like this or pay citizens a universal income for simply providing data to companies online, at least in the near-term, this seem like a ripe opportunity for more "counter-AI" and/or privacy apps.

I love using Ghostery to provide privacy. Why aren't there more consumer-facing apps that provide privacy or indicate when and how consumers may be manipulated by algorithms? Say you paid (nothing's free) an app to monitor your internet activity, allowing it to track and indicate how your personal habits may be exposing you to bias/bad decisions? I think this could help provide the average consumer with a sanity check. Knowing that you're being manipulated and someone is making a profit at your expense probably is one of the biggest motivators to alter human behavior, at least in Western society.

But hey, I still refuse to get Amazon Prime, so what do I know about the average consumer behavior.
They might notice the corresponding upstream speed increases though.
https://github.com/huytd/kanban-app/issues/1
I worked next to a team in the late 80's where one service center prototyped a wage reporting program that brought in >$150m the first year. They asked for $2M to expand it nationwide. Refused until Clinton came in.

It's easy to throw stones but I doubt anything built today by anyone on HN will rival problems as complex as DEWS, ATC, IMF/BMF or Sabre and be around in ten years, let alone 60.
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If they violated the ToS — which as I understand it they did — that would mean it’s more accurate to say “abused” here.
You know what ruined Twitter for me?

Having them clog up my twitter timeline of people I don't _even_ follow with their tweets or the LIKES of people I do.

They distorted what a timeline was and thus the follow button essentially became ruined.
I can grab the data, but the surprising thing about fatal crashes are the typical circumstance. It's an experienced driver driving during the day, in good weather, on a highway, in a sedan style car, sober. There are two ways to interpret this data. The first is we assume that crashes are semi-randomly distributed, so since this is probably the most typical driving condition it therefore naturally follows that that's where we'd expect to see the most fatalities.

However, I take the other interpretation. I don't think crashes are randomly distributed. That that scenario is absolutely perfect is really the problem because of humans. All a crash takes is a second of attention lapse at a really bad time. And in such perfect circumstances we get bored and take road safety for granted as opposed to driving at night or navigating around some tricky curves. And that's a perfect scenario to end up getting yourself killed in. And more importantly here, that's also the absolutely perfect scenario for self driving vehicles who will drive under such conditions far better than humans simply because it's extremely trivial, but they will never suffer for boredome or lack of attention.
Knewton is very cool, thanks for the link.

I'm assuming they break things down into traditional objective units within a standard curriculum and material that is relevant.

That's great but it is a very manual process.

Remember Yahoo curated keyword recommendations from the 90s? This Knewton approach is more like that. What I'd like to see is more like a Google Search in this analogy...something more flexible and comprehensive.
This article lacks state-specific advice.

If you have a California HQ or nexus a S Corp is usuallly better tax wise than a LLC. Talk to a lawyer/accountant.
Unless it's fiber to the home, I doubt there's any difference. I assume they just make up numbers or relax some constraints so you can get "up to" some arbitrary bandwidth, but your latency will still be garbage, you still won't have upload, and you're still sharing the same pipe with your neighborhood.
Seems trivial to do blind tests.
Fear of damages isn't control. You can't force an ex to delete those nudes for instance, or prevent them from letting their friends view them.