skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And those shares would lose money specifically because of what they want to accomplish. Your “fund” would lose more from the stock loss than the gain from attempting to influence policy.

And you’d need a $100 billion fund to even get noticed. Even Warren Buffet isn’t calling the shots at Apple.
Couldn't quite find the phrase for it. HA isn't at fault, but does cause shit SD cards — which are the norm — to fail.

I was unsure if it was a random failure or attributable to my use of the card. The parent comment cleared that up for me.
It's not Microsoft's responsibility to provide benefits for contractors or subcontractors. It's up to those contractors' actual employer (assuming W2) or themselves (if 1099) to provide those benefits. If you're a contractor under W2, you need to take that up with your direct employer, not MS. If you're a 1099, you need to negotiate a sufficient rate to provide yourself with ability to provide yourself with the benefits. I formed my own S-Corp and hired myself as an employee when I was contracting. Better rates than going through a higher agency. Made sure my rate was high enough I could afford health insurance (~$400/month as an individual). You have to negotiate these things, not just take an offer or leave it. Group you're contracting for is always going to low ball it, if you accept it as is, you're at fault. Contracts are negotiable, not take it or leave it. If they say it's take it or leave it, you leave it - they're not going to be worth working for, anyway, and they're going to have a really hard time filling their need.
Degree requirements are generally for the corporate jobs.

Retail management is loaded with art and English majors.
So this could be what is causing all these nearly undiagnosable cases of autoimmune disease?
Quite interesting, he may be on to something BIG.

Ever hear of Butchers Warts?

Yes, warts that butchers get, apparently they are caused by a virus in beef blood.

Additionally, Skin Tags are also believed to be caused by a virus.

I know for a fact, Pork causes me to have outbreaks of Skin Tags, I figured this out over 30 years ago.

If I avoid Pork for several months, no more skin tags, but if I eat some, even unknowingly at the time, then I develop skin tags in multiple places.

I believe this research is fertile ground for some big discoveries.
The paper should show how the calculations can be made, along with the results of that calculation, preferably on a publicly available dataset. A common strategy is to describe the calculation in highly convoluted or specialized language (mathematical formulas) in order to reduce the number of people that may try to reproduce the work.

Having reviewed papers on multiple occasions, I wouldn't spend much if any time looking at the actual source code if it is available. Every paper submission is rushed because it needs to be ahead of what anyone else is doing (at least in CS and related fields).
Thanks, I linked to the right book, but I wrote the wrong title because I was originally going to recommend that one but changed my mind when I remembered what content was in what book.
What caused misery in Russia was that after the collapse of the USSR, the way “democracy” and “capitalism” were implemented was by handing over the country’s natural resources, infrastructure, machinery, etc. to a few kleptocrats, with everyone else left to fend for themselves. As far as I can tell this was done with the support and encouragement of the USA and Europe (especially various wealthy Americans and Europeans who made a whole lot of extra money out of it).

It took a few years for the Russian mafia to consolidate power, but now the country looks to this outside observer like a mob-owned dictatorship with a weak economy, weak state institutions, little public accountability, no future orientation, poor career prospects for the well educated, etc. The main sources of power are (a) sizable natural resource reserves including gas, (b) nuclear weapons, (c) a shameless government which is willing and able to stir up a lot of shit in other countries.

> When did Iraq get Democracy?

It’s hard to form any kind of “democracy” when a foreign military comes and destroys your local infrastructure, dismantles your local institutions, kills a substantial proportion of your population, sparks off a civil war, provides local paramilitary groups with loads of weapons, etc.
Some of the worst code bases I have ever seen are cloud-based SaaS products. Including one that was bought by a large database vendor in the last 12 months for north of $US1B.
This is very true in my family as well and seems seldom talked about. I've been on both sides of it because I work M-F and my wife works Saturday. If we can get out to the playground or something it's lovely, but on a bad day stuck in the house she can't come home soon enough and I am done.
This would seem to negatively impact the rental market for long-term tenants, no?
This is highly interesting. After taking ciprofloxan 10 months ago I'm still trying to get my damaged mitochondria back in order.
Not so much platform first as user first. Platforms are nothing without users and developers are nothing without platforms. And luck isn’t needed when your platform is already the best. :)
Interesting. First disrupting hotels with holiday rentals (airbnb) which is now disrupted again by a hotel.
>In terms of benefits, SV companies, modern tech companies, are typically the cream of the crop, so I think it mitigates the need.

There are a lot of lower level tech employees in modern tech companies that don't have the luxuries or benefits software engineers do and get stomped on all the time. It's really only engineers who have 'cream of the crop' jobs and benefits.
Nitpick:

> Dividends and buybacks are what you do with profits.

Retained earnings are a thing, and they are not automatically accounted for as investments.

In practice, growing a cash hoard might conceivably be better for an individual firm, allowing it to make new types of investments or add stability across the business cycle.

In practice, I think most of the capital returns people get all upset about are coming from companies that have gargantuan cash hoards. Wishing those companies would expand their investment and hiring is nice and all, but that’s all it is. A wish.
As a bug bounty hunter, this is nowhere near normal. The average payout for a single vulnerability is over $500, so even finding just one vulnerability a month would be more than mentioned in the article. Full-time bug bounty hunters often earn thousands to tens-of-thousands per month, making it far from a "struggling" profession.
"Compared to your typical Airbnb, no one “lives” in Sonder apartments except for its guests. Each rental comes with a living room space and kitchen so people can cook and relax like they would in their own home. Units range from studios in a heart of a city to sprawling a six-bedroom unit in downtown Montreal."

This is bad news for cities that are already short on housing. You're taking what could have been space for housing and erasing it with larger, lower-density hotel suites. Very luxurious and pleasant for the travelers, sure, but you're ballooning the space taken up by the "hotel" and magnifying the market pressures on everyone else in the process.

What's pretty surprising about this article is the breathless, unquestioned enthusiasm for these kind of ideas. Is this really a sustainable model for urban centers and hotels? Is this how we want to conduct our cities and use our most precious, economically productive spaces?

I'm pro Airbnb--when the room is actually rented out by the renter, everyone including the little guy wins. But this is a very "rich get richer" style of tourism with the fig-leaf of the share economy strapped to its extravagance, right?
No, I was wrong, and later found out that they've had a CLA for a while (you only find out about this when you submit a pull request, it's not mentioned in the contribution guide).
we will could bases?
24% of American are under 18, so wouldn’t be expected to hold stock.

That means 2/3rds if adults do, which is pretty good!
I don't know where you're getting that from. Qualified dividends are taxed as long-term capital gains. They have the exact same 0-23.8% brackets as LTCG do.

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualified_dividend (perhaps not a "legitimate" source, but at least a jumping off point for more information).
My experience is hackerone reports are almost 100% low effort spam, managed in an opaque manner. I would not choose it as a platform for a new bug bounty program.
> I may have. It sounded like you were highlighting the paradox itself, while I was intending to highlight the way the paradox lends itself to abuse.

My intent was to illustrate that not all intolerances are only relative degrees of the same thing (as claimed in the popular 'conservative' talking point); some are categorically distinct, and in a web of interconnected intolerances the two types that I identified interact in asymmetrical ways.

I mostly just wanted to write down an idea that occurred to me on my walk home from work. I don't expect something that long to play well in an internet forum. It's meant as an interesting abstraction, not an airtight position.

> Perhaps ironically, your comments about Damore and the memo are exemplary--the memo contains zero offensive generalizations; it's been picked over and no one has produced an 'offensive generalization'--only phrases that allegedly contain offensive hidden messages. And because of those hidden messages, the mob pats itself on the back for helping to suppress Damore's "intolerance" (by the way, the same mob was rationalizing the New York Times hiring Jeong despite her four-year montage of overtly racist tweets). Again, I don't want to focus too much on any one example, because there are so many others and I don't want to steal attention from the broader phenomenon.

Have you read this: https://blog.ycombinator.com/ask-a-female-engineer-thoughts-...

It's quite literally the only piece of coverage I've seen of the Damore saga that I mostly agree with. Otherwise I think I've said what I have to say about him and his document. If you want to project politics onto me, I can't stop you, but I don't think it's productive. My opinions on this issue aren't political.
Less dividends is good. This helps the $SPY $300 targets for this year. Also, helps AAPL go higher, $250 targets as they pay dividends. Everything is coming together for 2018!
IRC turns thirty
Apple put restrictions on phones that it manufactured, google put restrictions on phones other people manufactured.

I don't support either, but there is a clear reason why what google did got caught by anti trust laws.
Is it possible to use this with Nginx auth_request? I use bitlys oauth2_proxy like so because it doesn't support websockets.
FDA Approves Psilocybin for Depression Trial
I mean, I'm not being pedantic about root cause. Like I've seen name brand cards fail while in read only mode. It has nothing to do with HA, and everything to do with the cards.
Ban buybacks and companies would just issue higher dividends instead. Money is fungible, and buybacks and dividends are more or less equivalent mechanisms for companies to return free cash to shareholders.
At least one red flag, regarding the "first chapter by Freud — preserved in the Bullitt Papers in 24 pages of his German Gothic script". – Freud used latin italics when writing in English.[1] Another one, the notion of an agreement on not publishing as of spring 1932 and the remarks on the non sequitur on Bullitt's side as made by Freud to Marie Bonaparte in Dec. 1933 do not add up.

I find it exceedingly difficult to align this portrayal, especially regarding the additions with anything we do know about and by Freud. (As we're speaking here about a time frame of 1930-32, senility on Freud's side is out of consideration.) Also, the author seems to be a bit on the Freud-is-dead wagon, the promotors of which usually tend to convey a crude caricature. ("And Freud’s ideas took hit after hit, including multiple revelations that he had fudged or misrepresented his findings." – However, I've not seen yet any of this which would stand the scrutiny of a comparison with source material or the claims actually made by Freud.)

[1] Compare https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2014/06/hands-on-sigmund-fr...
That's fair, but currently being "the best," doesn't ensure that status.
Really? And yet, many people in low wage jobs don't get vacation. And even if they get vacation, if they take it when it's inconvenient to management, they get fired. And even if it's not inconvenient, a week off in the desert costs either money (the gear isn't free), or health(without gear, that playa dust is pretty bad for you)

What's toxic is unreflecting statements that proclaim general truths for everybody.
I've (unfortunately) read the whole thread. You've jumped to an uncharitable conclusion. A bunch of people have pointed this out. You can disagree while assuming good faith. It's too bad you aren't doing that here. I agree with you that it isn't a very good choice for licensing terms.
Buybacks are the natural state of the market... They push prices higher, or more likely they support prices if the company takes an opportunistic approach to shares repurchase. The problem is when the reporting season comes and they cannot do it:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-04-02/stocks-lo...
the sheer size of the value extraction from employees

If I start a business and purchase a $1M machine and pay someone $30K to run it and make $100K in profit, how much value extraction from the employee am I doing?
I see what you're saying, and it makes some sense.

As you say, though, LYAH is almost certainly not at 99% market share. It's definitely not at the 100% market share HTML has in Web development.

The universe is too complex to design a statistically-valid study for everything you want to know (though I definitely understand the urge to do that). At the end of the day, anecdotal evidence may not be great, but it's often better than nothing, and nothing is often the only other practical option.
Check out Alibaba's rapidly decelerating platform revenue growth (which is where they make all of their profit). Their top line was bolstered by throwing very large sums of money at one business deal after another. Their platform sales growth declined from 36% to 25% from just the prior quarter.

Their profitability almost entirely disappeared as well. They're spending large sums of money to buy cheap revenue, and burning up their margin in doing so, swapping high quality sales for low quality sales. That might be ok if they didn't have a $442b market cap to support (which was premised on them generating a large amount of profit from a high margin ad platform).

It remains to be seen whether growth at any cost is a smart approach, or whether it's going to result in driving into a jarring brick wall instead. Junk revenue has consequences.
Yes, if you already know Netflix. For pretty much every non-Netflix level app, people are unlikely to be googling for your specific app. The little game TinyWings has made millions and they wouldn’t have made anything of it weren’t for App Store discovery. People overestimate their own importance in the marketplace — discovery matters. If you sell an app for $2 and you have an acquisition cost of $0.60 through, for example, PPC, then you have spent the same you would have paid in App Store commission and then you have to still handle billing, chargebacks, credit card fees, have a download server to handle the traffic as well as tax collection for every single country in which you sell.

Look at profitability of Android vs iOS — almost universally iOS makes a far greater profit that more than offsets the commission. I wouldn’t want to buy an app outside of the App Store because frankly, I don’t trust most developers with my personal information nor do I trust them to not engage in practices that are contrary to my privacy or enagage in sloppy coding that might subject my device to security risks. As a consumer, the App Store is great.
So, how come India survived democracy?
Perhaps they should be keeping management on a tighter leash if the only likely outcomes they're capable of are "vanity purchases that destroy value" and buying back stock.

If you've got mountains of free cash, there are a lot more exciting opportunities out there. You can afford to make higher-risk/higher-reward investments. You can buffer yourself from that next surprise recall/product failure/fulfillment problem. You can make sure you have a stake in anything that looks like it could someday be an existential threat.
Most Americans have spare bedrooms for when guests visit. You could have your guests stay at a hotel but typically that will be really far from your home which sucks for everybody. Having Sonder or Airbnb style short term rentals distributed throughout cities could allow people to live in smaller apartments, eliminating bedrooms that sit unused most nights creating more space for everybody.

To be clear I'm not talking about the model of renting out your spare bedroom on Airbnb because nobody actually wants to do that. I'm talking about full time airbnb studios / 1BR's obviating the need for guest bedrooms.
The Dark Arts of Advanced and Unsafe Rust Programming
Emphasis on "is taxed."
I used to ask that, now I play the stock market. :) Well I really used to ask, why is my salary not higher and how can I make it higher, but it just would have never been what I wanted.
Do you fully trust all the JavaScript you run?
If you have relationship with powerful software reseller that can boost your sales 50-200% - they can charge 50% and in some cases up to 75%.

It's not unheard of for young software companies to give 100% of software sales to powerful partner to immediately boost visibility and brand awareness.
>use our most precious, economically productive spaces?

If that space is more economically productive doing something else, then it will be easy to outbid Sonder.
Humans, animals, plants, and single cell organisms directly consume sunlight as an input factor of production for various biological processes without paying the sun anything for it.
If you have little or no ordinary income, a decent chunk of qualified dividends and long term capital gains pay 0% federal income tax. $77k for joint filers in 2018. [0]

Not a particular trustworthy site, but whatever:

[0] https://www.thebalance.com/how-to-use-the-zero-percent-tax-r...
> On June 10, he [Wilson] refused to sit again for the portrait that Sir William Orpen was painting of him because Orpen had drawn his ears as large and protuberant as they actually were, and he was persuaded to sit again only by the promise that the ears should be reduced to less grotesque dimensions. They were.

> Evidence in Bullitt’s papers suggests that he rejected a number of Freud’s passages, all of which might be perceived as unfounded and indecent. He jettisoned speculation that Wilson masturbated excessively and had a castration complex, and he nixed a passage in which Freud directly links Christianity with homosexuality.
What is this Twitter army of Amazon drones cheerfully defending warehouse work?
Do these use any sort of security element to store the keys? Or just stored in firmware?
The funny thing is, even if Google does go back into business in China, it won't be long before its IP and servers are looted in exchange for the bolstering of native Chinese businesses. Where's the long-term vision on this one?
Hacker News is one such site that is very basic and has none of the stuff you outline as modern features. You know what? It is by far one of the most performant and enjoyable websites I use daily.
This article is so outrageous. These "categories" show such a limited and misinformed understanding about humans, which definitely does not take into account scientific literature. This makes me angry also, because it is articles like these make people wary of seeking help when they need it (rightfully, there ARE so many bad therapists and bad information out there).

If anyone wants to have an informed conversation with me about these topics, DM me on twitter @AzimuthPsych. Happy to provide useful and evidence based information.
In tech we create problems that nobody ever had, then solve them, then take privacy as payment.
You have painted this false dichotomy.

In Apple's world: The users come first. Everyone else second.
Dr Rhonda Patrick's podcast, Found My Fitness, is excellent.
> Yes any able-body person that wants to can work and take a week off if they wanted to. Most don't

it's really alarming that you believe this
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17817334
You make a great point. I hear this one a lot from those I admire deeply. Two counterpoints to discuss:

1. I am convinced that fraud and crime are directly related to exploitation, and are the result of decisions and actions of people in a position of control. Those in control know they are committing these bad acts, and continue to do so, making them "baddies." As someone who was never in a position of managing control, but who eventually gained insight and perspective into the underlying business practices, when I recognized the fraud and crime, I made the decision to quit and report to the legal governing bodies. My opinion is that it was in the right of the company (and management) to "go for gold," but they went too far, broke the law, and were appropriately punished. I don't believe I was bankrupt in that I severed my relationship immediately upon my discovery of their true nature.

2. This may be semantics, but my point on companies relying on "benefactors" was actually more of a capitalism argument, in that a company can succeed regardless of treatment of employees or practices of skirting the generally-applicable moral ideals, so long as the end user is benefitting and continues to patronize the business.

I do appreciate your feedback because I am always doubting myself on certain projects as to the setting of my threshold for revolt: is it when I feel someone, somewhere is being exploited, or when I know that the business practices are actively and knowingly conducted against the current law?
>You can disagree while assuming good faith

Yes, but bad faith exists, and the assumption of good faith is not always appropriate. I don't think that Dgraph is operating in good faith, and the evidence is enough that I am unable to suspend my disbelief. If I were Dgraph and my actions were so severely wrong that people were assuming bad faith, I would want to quickly correct that. But in fact, most of the concerns have gone un-answered.
This is fair, and it looks like the more interesting discussions have bubbled up above this, so my concern appears to have been misplaced. Cheers.
No matter how well you treat them, it is still inescapable that many are bred and raised only to be slaughtered for food while they're still young and healthy. For some reason many people do not consider this to be cruel, but there are those who do and can't rationally support this industry.
Misread "TLD" as "domain." Whoops.
It's not just OK to suck, it's crucial. You can only get good at things you can enjoy sucking at.