skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Without arguing against the power law distribution (which is real and measured), the discussion here is more about vehicle. VCs usually have an LPA that positions the fund as "smart money" (justifying the management fee and carry) and therefore coupling investment with active company involvement which must by definition hinder the quantity of investments made.

The above mentioned funds are longstanding and extraordinarily successful series of funds - an individual fund typically doesn't make more than 30 or so investments. There are certainly seed funds / programs like 500, YC, and Right Side Capital that use different mechanisms (notably: passive investment) in order to deploy more bets. The approach was arguably pioneered by Ron Conway who was at the time derided for being "spray and pray" but was later found to have exceptional returns due to the efficacy of "black swan" investing - which is to say that pretty much all of the signals that one believes confidently are good markers of a successful startup are wrong in precisely the most important category-breakout cases. Consequently a humble investor desires to both invest in a large number of companies, realizes that their active involvement is likely to do as much harm as gain (witness returns on investor-controlled vs founder-controlled companies), and constantly questions their own assumptions with portfolio performance data.

But an overall model / LPA that forces you into a "smart money" model will keep you from operating in this way.

This is where the advantage of the angel investor comes in - to take a bet and to put the Venture back in Venture Capital.

The angle I press people on is: what macro trends do you believe to be true that the market doesn't realize yet but probably will in the next decade? What companies are playing to that trend? Clear opinions on this can guide you to investments that outperform.

One example of this was the bet we took on Mexico seven years ago; VCs thought we were nuts because they only followed headlines talking about drug violence and hadn't kept up on rising household wealth and engineering+design talent. We had very little competition in finding the best deals in the country and those deals are now ripening - one is up 300x.

Perhaps this could be described as Buffet applied to angel investment - where is there fundamental likely value that isn't fully appreciated by the markets and where you have the patience and appetite to wait for the market to catch up?

I don't see a lot of VCs operating with this kind of flexibility to be truly thesis oriented.

I'm not trying to bash VCs here; for growth capital they are stellar - some businesses really do need tens to hundreds of millions of dollars to mature and that is where VCs shine. Not a lot of angel groups can pull together a $50m deal! There is room in this ecosystem for both angels and VCs; each much play to their strengths to succeed.
See what happens when big business wants to start selling marijuanna. It's no longer about being "tough on crime", it's about how quickly we can legalize it.
To Axel Voss, the European Commissions plan for a link tax is not extreme enough
Counterfeit nutritional supplements. No way to tell what's really in them.

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>But Unix itself, and all the good it brought, is a prime example of "solving [a problem] a second time" after Multics.

Not sure about that. I mean, I know it came after Multics and was inspired by it (due to some of the early Unix people having worked on Multics), including that the name was originally Unics (I've heard, as a word play on Multics, because it was originally written by one person or was originally a single-user OS, maybe), but I am not so sure that all the good it brought was from Multics. Likely Unix brought some new stuff too. Others who know better may be able to say more.

>In other words, I'd restate it in Sage Speak™: "Don't do this. Except when you need to." ;P Or, just want to have fun :P

Good one. A bit Zennish :) Check out one of ESR's other compilations, the Unix Koans of Master Foo, if not seen already ...

http://www.catb.org/esr/writings/unixkoans/introduction.html
Did you forget that there are multiple color channels? 12 bit should be 36 bit so even more is needed.
Richard Powers: 'We're completely alienated from everything else alive'
Not going to lie, thought this was someone from Cisco Webex posting a how-to on govt contracting.

Alas.
NASA's Space Launch System: Rocketing Towards Cancellation?
You say that but I'm not sure that's empirically true or just your own personal anecdote. Mainstream sub-$200 VR headsets exists today and people use them daily. AR is fun, but you I can't point to AR actually selling anything.

Even Animoji is a special case for apple. They had the face unlock tracking so this kind of face tracking feature makes sense. It's not general purpose AR though. Does Apple have any official app features using AR that isn't face tracking?

Apple is hyping AR more because they don't have any VR to speak of but in terms of what's actually released and what people are using I could see an argument that VR comes out ahead in that comparison.
> In the modern era, there is some specialized hardware that can digitize a floppy disk at the level of magnetic flux changes. For a variety of reasons, the hardware developers focused on non-Apple II platforms, and a few unresolved technical differences prevented a community of Apple II-specific preservationists from reusing it. There is some new development on this front, and I’m optimistic that collectors will soon be able to create flux-level digital copies of Apple II floppy disks, and users will be able to boot original software in emulators.

Nice timing! Applesauce is that product, mentioned here last week: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17256709

I think 4am views it as another tool in his toolbox: https://twitter.com/a2_4am/status/993247470414127104
As a dwarf fortress player I support this ≡message≡ about the use of decorative diamonds.
> In Australia university admissions are based pretty much solely on one number [1] that represents your high school results (unless you didn't go to high school in Australia), plus bonus points if you are disadvantaged

How does this work with universities that have different focuses?

From the information at [1] and at your Wikipedia link, my understanding is that the way this number works is as follows.

• There is a large list [2] of standard courses offered by high schools that can count toward your ATAR score. Each course is either 1 or 2 "units". These include courses in English, foreign languages, science, math, history, business, arts, and others.

• This list is divided into two sections. The second, smaller section is courses that are lighter academic rigor and less demanding. The courses in the first section are called Category A course, and those in the second section are Category B courses.

• Your ATAR is calculated from your best 2 units in English, and your best 8 units from the rest, which can include no more than 2 units of Category B courses.

Suppose you have three students, all with the same ATAR number.

Student #1's score came from English, Biology, Chemistry, Mathematics, and Physics.

Student #2's score came from English, Dance, Drama, Music 1, Music 2, and Visual Arts.

Student #3's score came from English, Ancient History, Latin, Greek, and Modern History.

Do the universities these students apply to just see the ATAR number, or do they also see which courses went into its calculation?

If they all applied to whatever Australian school best corresponds to MIT or Caltech, for example, would the school be able to see that student #1 is probably the one they want from these three? If they all applied to Australia's most Julliard-like school, would it be able to see that student #2 is the one they want?

[1] https://www.uac.edu.au/

[2] https://www.uac.edu.au/future-applicants/atar/atar-courses
They tend to remove the original barcode if they sell at a discount because otherwise the wholesaler/manufacturer will not sell to them again. This is not illegal. If anything it is an indication the product was real.
Custom Grid System in Stylus in ~50 LOC
goo.gl is shutting down, i think you've to find other alternative api.

By the way if you have any ideas you can check my repo and contribute, we can work together to make it better.

I think we are almost at same age
I agree that left libertarianism is its own thing, but I don't think you know much about anarcho-socialism.
There is little will/budget to improve them.

Everyone has known for decades about the test planes that can partially leave the atmosphere. They aren't economically viable and have few military applications that can't be done more cheaply already. i.e. stagnation.

Last man on the moon was in the early 1970s.
We've already decided as a society, in the US at least, that your right to privacy from your company concerning the existence of your children does not exist. The government is willing and able to inform your employer to garnish your wages when it comes to child support payments. They also know if you take dependents on your tax forms.

There are arguments to be made that this right _should_ exist, but since it doesn't currently its not a reason to stop mandatory leave
Manufacturers selling on Amazon should include QR coded key that can be verified as authentic
Ownership is a concept enabled and enforced by the society, so it’s always been that the society can enforce restrictions on what owners can do with things they own. Not running an unlicensed hotel from your property is one of those restrictions. If you don’t like it, sell it. Or get a license and comply with regulations.
I meant to say: please contribute it, instead of continue it.
I prefer kyt[0].

[0]: https://github.com/NYTimes/kyt
Really the question is are they doing enough to stop it?

The National Park Service, at least, put up guide wires and a warning sign on dangerous trails.
So...the property owner had the proper permit and the renter was in direct contact with them which leaves a perfect opportunity to cut out the middle-man (err, middle-person?) and not ruin someone's holiday plans.

A little over a decade ago I was wandering around Europe for a couple months and only stayed in a proper hotel a couple times, once because I needed an address to ship my luggage the airlines lost and the other because I got into town late and there wasn't anyone at the train station hunting for tourists -- every other time as soon as I stepped off the train there were people offering up rooms to rent in private houses for some extra cash on the side. All in all it worked out and I saved a few bucks in the process.
And this is why, despite the efforts of my parents to raise a well-behaved son, I do not answer the phone when I do not recognize the number and directly add "sales executives" people to the junk list.

I do use commercial products, usually because I actually searched for them. I then contact the company, which is usually ready to come and give a presentation.

And then comes the thing which really amazes me. I always tell them very clearly , several times: I do not want to hear any marketing bs or the fact that what they are selling is important. I already know this.

I also tell them I will discuss in very, very deep details such and such topic and I want someone knowledgeable to come or call in.

What amazes me everytime is that they are so surprised when they loose a 5 digit contract because they did everything but what I asked them, and that I end the meeting after 15 minutes.

I know first hand that selling is though. I also know that for such contracts I've need to actually listen to simple requests from a prospective customer.
I know many cases where small employers were left paying 100k's after taking on a woman for a position, and just a few months later 'she got pregnant'.

- employer had to fork over 12 months of pay

- employer had to disrupt their business and hire another person

The employer struggled to eek out their own profit to feed their own family and meet their obligations.

This is a common scam that some women will get a job, with the intention of juicing the parental leave AND then we they are supposed to return to work.... they instead quit.

This scam has cost my friends a lot of money and suffering because these women are predators and care not of others, but getting something for themselves.

And they scream "mah discrimination".
The only reason you're looking at it as a biological reality is that you're looking for ways for pregnancy to be disadvantageous in our society as our social customs and mores are today. You're assuming that the social structures and mores can't change.

The reason it's not a biological disadvantage in my mind is because society doesn't have to be structured to disadvantage people because of that biology. Other posters have made the point that if men simply took the same time off as women do then that would weaken discrimination against pregnant women. And others have suggested social insurance for companies who have to fill temporary vacancies due to childbirth. So again, we've structured our society so that pregnancy is a disadvantage and it doesn't have to be.

The disconnect is that you keep saying how things are and we keep telling you that things don't have to be this way.
Since we just asked you to please post substantively, we've banned the account. We're happy to unban accounts if you email us at hn@ycombinator.com and we believe you'll follow the guidelines in the future.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Another World (Code Review)
That helps the company in general, but on individual teams the incentives are different and the manager may have decided it was worth it for him to try and kill this behavior or just get the employee gone now so that he could get in queue for getting a replacement ASAP.
My wife been searching for a job for quite some time (about a 2-3 years), during that time we've been trying to conceive a baby, but no luck, went through few eco sessions, still no dice. We decided to give up on idea of having a baby and just relax and live our lives. Then suddenly she gets a job offer she was dreaming about and one week later, guess what? She is pregnant. Now what would you tell your wife? Give up job you've been dreaming about?
There's this part that is a strength of video games:
"One of the most fundamental principles of storytelling is to have a protagonist with whom the audience identifies... Video games are better at establishing a connection between the audience and the narrative subjects ... because ... the audience does not merely passively observe characters, but rather actively controls them."

However, curation is also a core component of storytelling. And fundamentally, it's hard to force a player to look in a particular direction inside a video game (hence the need for cinematic cut scenes, where the medium reverts to a movie format). IMHO, this is the biggest weakness of VR, and if somebody can figure out a solution to this, they will have created the next entertainment format.
> The type double provides at least as much precision as float, and the type long double provides at least as much precision as double.

We need a maliciously compliant compiler (mcc) that does stuff like set float, double, and long double all to 32-bit.
The problem you describe is reasonable. But this tariff is worse than doing absolutely nothing about it.

Companies have three options:

1. Do nothing in the US except [perhaps] selling the finished product, and use whatever components you want.

2. Use chinese components in US manufacturing.

3. Assemble in the US using no Chinese components.

Given the scenario you've described, presumably #3 > #2 > #1. And right now, almost everything is taking route #1.

So what does this tariff do for companies currently taking route #1? The tariff doesn't affect finished products, so there's no direct impact on them.

If they want to move something to the US, they'll find themselves in #2, the group that's hit with the tariff. Is it a good thing to discourage that?

It also discourages products that are currently america-only from adding chinese components. That might have prevented today's situation if it were enacted in 1980, but it's pretty much irrelevant today.
I don't think it is quite accurate to say that tourists are not paying taxes.

Tourists patronize all sorts of businesses (lodging, transportation, entertainment, food, retail) and those businesses are paying taxes. The revenue from tourists is part of that business equation. Of course there are also specific taxes paid by tourists (airport fees, port fees, hotel room taxes, rental car taxes) as well as regular transactional taxes paid by everyone (sales/service/vat).
Most hotels/motels of that size have clearly marked exits, fire sprinkler systems and are built to code. I've stayed in Airbnbs where twelve people are in an apartment meant for maybe half of that or less.

I had one host, who managed/owned several properties, run an extension cord right along the rim of a bathtub so it could reach one of those dish-style space heaters they stuck in the corner of the bathroom. Neither the cord placement, the non-GFCI outlet it was plugged into, nor the type of space heater were suited for the wet, humid environment of the bathroom.

To me, that's sketchy.
In the US a yam is just what people call certain larger varieties of sweet potatoes, and are unrelated to true yams. Having had both, I can feel where you’re coming from!
Am I the only one who wishes Starter Kits come up with a tutorial on how to build them up from scratch?
You wouldn't do so if you came to know that those friends of mine are attending Ivy league colleges while I recently dropped out of my mid-tier state university because I didn't find it time-effective, and ofc finances. Now, you would again argue that there are many factors that come into college admission, and I absolutely agree.

But, what disappoints me is I was academically & extracurricular-wise far more superior than them (except IO medals), still not a single so called elite colleges accepted me. But, I am an optimist and what I've learned about myself is I can teach myself the COMPUTER SCIENCE far better than somebody else. I don't know what will happen in few years time, I may stay unemployed or may land my dream job, but the thing is, I am always learning and I do believe that my skills will be appreciated.
Absolutely. The same goes for portability: trying to write code that can run on any platform ever created or ever will be created is a futile effort. There are so many other things more important than that, and chances are if you do end up needing your code to run on a "weird" platform, the standard is the least of your concerns. The standard is merely a "lowest common denominator".

Relevant Linus Torvalds quote:

"There are competent people on standards bodies. But they aren't _always_ competent, and the translation of intent to English isn't always perfect either. So standards are not some kind of holy book that has to be revered. Standards too need to be questioned."
When it comes to Trump (as a non-American) the old saying "Never attribute to malice what can be explained by stupidity" breaks down.

With him and the people he surrounds himself with, inept would be an improvement.

He managed to piss off the Canadians ffs, Thats the diplomatic equivalent to punching a friendly puppy.

Also is anyone during or after Trump ever going to trust anything with a US signature on again... I can't see it.
The 7 Tribes of Intellect
I know a large amount of self identified anarcho-socialists through the tech world and I know enough to understand the difference between what they espouse and how they act.
Cosmetics. Supplements. Medical devices. Bike helmets. Just to start the list.
In that case I hope Sandoz wants to start selling one of it's famous products again soon...
There’s an extension to Hanlon’s Razor that too many forget:

“Never attribute to malice what can be explained by stupidity, but don’t dismiss malice.”
Can someone also share the actual steps of going about angel investing? If through my network I hear about a team in say, Africa, looking for investment, do I then ask them to list their project on AngelList? Do I then pay via credit card and AngelList takes care of getting money in their bank? Do I then get some form of legal contract specifying my share of equity? Who enforces the contract?
Signale: The Hackable Console Logger of Nodejs
No, but does it matter? Most headlines are completely uninspired, and that's fine.
This only solves the problem somewhat. It’s accurate 80% of the time in my country but I shudder to think what would happen when it becomes really prominent.
Real property ownership is a limited bundle of rights. It has been that for centuries before you or I were born. Before deeds even existed in what is today the United States. It’s a model that has a great track record, but if you aren’t a fan of Anglo-American property law (too “socialist” I guess) you are free to leave. I hear there’s some empty land in Antarctica.
Umm...not true. There is no rail on the edge of Half Dome..you can literally hang your feet off the edge, as I have done....and it was pretty cool.
I really, really want to hear the other side to this.

That there is a serious counterfeiting problem is obvious to anyone who buys certain categories of products on Amazon. It is certainly obvious to Amazon itself. BUT Amazon is also a very customer focused company. So how has this not been solved?

Critics will speculate that Amazon makes more money with this status quo, thus has little incentive to fix things. But that calculus doesn't make any sense---maybe in a very narrow balance sheet view, but Amazon has always taken a long view on these things, and there's no way the long term damage to their brand is worth whatever they make from sketchy third-party sellers. It doesn't add up. There must be something else factored in that I'm missing.
Seems to me, good AR takes as much or more compute work than good VR. You say "oh it runs on any old phone" but with the exception of a way to strap it to your face, if your phone can do really low latency image tracking then it most likely can do a simple VR scene too.

The proof is in the pudding, isn't it? We have way more VR games than AR apps, don't we?
DELTA: Data Extraction and Logging Tool for Android
In a well-known incident in 2016, Apple sued a company making fake "Apple" power adapters, and in the suit alleged that 90% of the "Apple" products on Amazon were fake.

That such adapters are literally dangerous is clearly documented in Ken Shirrif's teardown:

http://www.righto.com/2014/05/a-look-inside-ipad-chargers-pr...

http://www.patentlyapple.com/patently-apple/2016/10/apple-su...

http://www.businessinsider.com/majority-apple-accessories-am...

https://lifehacker.com/how-to-spot-a-counterfeit-apple-light...
According to the footer he is a software engineer at Google.
I am thinking about coming aboard this particular boat i.e come to the USA. What would you do if you were me ?
I was under the impression that they were avoiding it so as not to (re)open the Pandora's box of social Darwinism.
I can simultaneously be okay with the police shooting a man coming at them aggressively with a pipe and not fear the police, because I have no intention of going after the police with a pipe.
Totally. Came here to say exactly this: the title of the article is needlessly and confusingly specific. It’s like saying that scientists are concerned about the declining US dollar value, or some such. There seems to be nothing unique about scientists who use GitHub as opposed to the rest of GitHub users, and their concerns are the same.
In Defense of Skeuomorphism
Yes, the new Reddit design is terrible. Reminds of their app which is also bad.
How is Bezos not in prison? Pretty much all of Amazon now consists of knowingly counterfeit products, many of which contain toxic materials or are fire hazards, with knowingly fake reviews. Not to mention all the illegal drugs he's selling. It's absolutely insane.