skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes. That is the idea. As downside protection, Collaborative Fund's investment was to begin behaving as if it were debt (issuing interest, that is) after 5 years. I assume the expectation was that if Buffer maintained hypergrowth and reached the inevitable Series B, part of the series B negotiation would eliminate that downside protection clause. But they didn't; they charted a course that didn't involve an imminent second round, and so that protection clause was problematic.

Again: it would be really weird if companies could simply demand their equity back. The whole point of investing in a startup is that their equity will end up wildly more valuable --- not 40% more, but 10x more --- than the money put in.
Companies do dumb stuff all the time. As long as the numbers look good in the short term you can end up with stuff like open office plans becoming common even if they are a large net loss.
Wilw: this admin is going to suspend my account
Alternatively, you can drink beer while they watch TV - even works with only one kid.
Uh I tried to summarize in the same tone as the article. That’s kind of the point of a tldr. I agree the article was clickbait and it’s obvious Google wouldn’t abandon kubernetes.

Thanks for the downvotes though.
US student debt balloons past $1.5tn
You should talk to someone who works at Bloomberg. Bloomberg is a gigantic private tech company with an internal exchange where vested equity can be bought and sold among employees and the company.
Hmm. Can website acceptable use policies really prevent you from distributing/using browser extensions?

Do we really not control our own browsers anymore?
The house as insulated as it can be without costly work being done on it and trying to plug up every leak. It seems like you either have a small residence or state of the art design to only drop 3-4 degrees after an entire weekend, or that you also live in a warm place.
I was able to attach a debugger on any app that I’ve tried.

I’ll share how to do it in an upcoming blogpost... all you need is asar and open the debugger after a reasonable timeout.
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I've eaten the best tiramisu in my life at a "vineria" located in Piazza Margana (https://www.google.com/maps/place/Piazza+Margana,+00186+Roma...), I still think of and phantasize about that tiramisu from time to time even though almost 3 years have passed since then. We also found a place with very decent food close to the Pantheon, by "decent" I mean that they had a lamb-dish as good as you'd find in any remote Greek island from the Aegean, and that is a very high compliment. Both those places are inside a 2-mile radius from the Colosseum. But, I agree, there are also countless other places inside of that radius where food is crap, only meant for tourists.
I'm going to go out on a limb here and guess you're in the extreme minority if you honestly confused Slack the chat client for Slackware the Linux distribution. That's...a leap.

Frankly the origin of Slack's name has nothing to do with Slackware Linux (or Linux in general) so I'm having difficulty following your grievance here.
congrats! when I was 12 I was war dialling BBSes and pirating shareware games. hopefully your future turns out bright.
"Productivity" as the only measure of success or team performance. I'm wondering if other industries are as concerned with productivity.

"Resources" to talk about people/skills/talent

"Cloud" when used by management

"Cyber security" (Yeh)

"Steal the IP" (it gained traction at one point)
Related: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/clbuttic
I was even thinking about shipping an app that tweaked the Slack app for you, but after this experience (and since I don’t really use it) it’s not worth the effort.
In my experience you have control and insight into machines in AWS, what insight or control do you think was lacking here? It seems to me more they didn't understand the technology they were building on.
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I have a very wide area of interests, and doing things takes time. But while I'm doing thing 'A', I think about the fact that I'm making no progress on 'B', 'C', ... 'n' and it distracts me both from thinking as deeply as I need to on thing 'A' and the enjoyment I get from getting something done. So I struggle with letting go of the desire to get everything done that I can imagine would be fun and interesting to do.
If one likes to continue living in a democracy one should not use votes to make somebody disappear. Not under any circumstances.
> He divided Beethoven’s music into an early style, imitative of Haydn and Mozart; a middle style, grand and exhortatory like the Eroica Symphony; and a late style, more private than public, that meditates on eternal questions of form.

A few things about this filter through which Beethoven is often heard:

Early on, Beethoven mastered and began to extend a particular technique of Haydn's: motivic development. There were a lot of aspects of Haydn's music which he didn't imitate, like Haydn's proclivity for witty musical jokes.

In the early pieces where Beethoven imitated Mozart, the imitations aren't anywhere near the level of sophistication of any of Mozart's music that Beethoven would have been studying. Young Beethoven in no way mastered Mozart's lyrical writing, breadth of musical allusions, contrapuntal control, formal complexity, or (especially) operatic textures and virtuosic arias. He certainly tried to emulate Mozart by attempting to write the highest quality music he could, but by any serious measure he failed to achieve this in his early period works.

At least to my ear, the beginning of Beethoven's Piano Sonata, Op. 101 is the first piece that attempts to "imitate" Mozart melodically while actually approaching the level of overall sophistication of what are considered Mozart's greatest melodies. But this is the beginning of the "late period," which is supposed to be the master composer looking inward and floating off to meditate musically by himself on Mars as a human god.

In other words, Romantic period musicophiles interpreted Beethoven as transcending all musical time and space to reflect on "eternal questions of music" at the same moment he was first able to write a single fragment of a "Mozartian" melody.

That should tell you something about the stature of Mozart.
> The key might be to out compete HN in Show HNs.

That would basically become ProductHunt. And if you emphasize Ask HN, you end up with early Quora.

The real killer, imho, would be to give automatic prominence to actual experts and "players" in their fields. The best side of HN for me is (or was) watching the interaction of "nerd-celebs" and makers, but they are now discouraged by the volume of noise (which includes yours truly). Moderation can only do so much.
> … strong typing … C …

This is incorrect. Wikipedia specifies C’s typing discipline as “static, weak, manifest, nominal”, which isn’t great, but is at least in the right ballpark. “Strong” and “weak” are unhelpfully overloaded words.

http://blogs.perl.org/users/ovid/2010/08/what-to-know-before...
It's implied. Unwillingness to abide by a request from a company's legal team, especially after acknowledging receipt, can be used against you in court. Court cases about web scraping and other site ToS violations have referenced received stop requests when considering willful violation.
Heh, I’m sure an official guided tour by Amazon of a fulfillment center will be as accurate and reassuring as an official guided tour of a supermarket by the North Korean travel ministry.
Every extra field on your signup form massively reduces conversion. Otherwise everyone would just do this.
How many people in the US can actually prove their citizenship after their birth certificate is deemed invalid and torn up? Especially if you weren’t born in a hospital. I’d wager not many, regardless of how far from the border you are.
"Tourism is part of traveling. Surely, you don't think traveling is ludicrous."

I love travel, but no, "tourism" isn't automatically the same thing.

Modern "mass tourism", in particular, consists of taking a big boat or a big bus with a bunch of people who are just like you, to places that local people never go. Then you take a picture, post it somewhere to show off to your friends, then you buy some trinkets and go to the next place.

Setting aside the question of whether or not international travel is sustainable for (say) all of China, this form of travel is ludicrous. You might as well stay home, look at pictures on Instagram, go to a buffet and and visit the mall.
I don't know man. When I was going through a part of my life where I cared enough to try it, I found dating to be absolutely tedious. Some people must just find that sort of thing more interesting or fun, or have goals or social pressures that require it.
Context can change, which can make things super awkward. Example:

https://www.reddit.com/r/xboxone/comments/9a0wuc/my_name_is_...
For me, it's being obsessed with productivity and getting things done, as well as constantly having some side project going (for fun). It's not extreme (i.e. I'm not losing sleep over it), but it does take the joy out of things sometimes because I feel like I have to be producing something to be of value. It's hard to just sit still and enjoy quiet because I feel like I need to be working on something.

On top of this, because I've been working on getting more efficient and smart at getting things done, I get impatient when people don't aspire to the same level. I find it alienating.
Kicking anxiety straight in the nuts
> Instead, Senator Sanders continues to spread misleading statements about pay and benefits. Amazon is proud to have created over 130,000 new jobs last year alone. In the U.S., the average hourly wage for a full-time associate in our fulfillment centers, including cash, stock, and incentive bonuses, is over $15/hour before overtime. We encourage anyone to compare our pay and benefits to other retailers.

It's not $15/hour if you have to include non-hourly wage compensation. It's below $15/hour. And that only applies to full time associates.

Alas, Amazon will put up more than a fight than Disney did [1]. Good practice for the next corporate targets.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/25/business/disney-world-min... (Walt Disney World Workers Reach Deal for $15 Minimum Wage by 2021)
https://picular.co/the+matrix gives the expected greens, but not as the first result sadly.
If someone made a Chrome extension which enhanced our users experience of SabreCMS I'd send them a wholehearted thankyou and probably try to hire them.
there is nothing much the library _can_ do IMHO

It's code that runs on your machine. What would prevent it to do whatever it wants? Like sending your private keys somewhere? Or using a weak form of crypto to create them so that somebody can guess them?
Also, if you use JSDoc a lot of modern editors can use that to automatically provide type hinting, documentation references on mouseover, etc.
Thanks for your experience...the "sexualized teasing" thing is pretty well embedded in my psyche too. Makes you feel like less of a person and more of just some creature not deserving of basic respect/dignity.
Amazingly, Niklaus Wirth still removes code from Oberon:

20180720 - Update compiler: ORP.Mod.txt and ORG.Mod.txt

Cash for base adr of global variables "curSB" has been removed from ORG.Mod.

Removal of this optimization makes compiler simpler.

https://www.inf.ethz.ch/personal/wirth/news.txt
I love this! It's really fun, and will be really useful for when I'm making something and can't find a specific color.
> I worked at Cisco, who had their own awful IM client.

Which one? Webex, Jabber or whatever they use for their 50k€+ videoconferencing systems? I have only had the honor with the first two and, jeez, it's a nightmare...
even better: "Preferred form of address" or whatever, as nickname has a very informal connotation.
that achieve what, exactly?
Same, on my laptop I run OpenBSD. Like you, I don't care for Youtube but if I do find myself wanting to watch a video there, I use youtube-dl. I also don't do Google, and instead of a word processor I use a text editor for just about any text manipulation; if I need "pretty printing" I use Markdown and send the output to a PDF. Netflix I get through my TV's Netflix app, or my Fire tablet.
IANAL either, but it seems like that only applies in the case of malicious action on behalf of the accused toward the contract signatory; essentially coercion.
I love mechs. I hate that no business VoIP app has push-to-talk. I keep having to switch windows to unmute, talk, and mute myself.
My comment was more about their clients opting to process their important documents on an external cloud service, not the service itself using AWS.
How hard is it to forge a birth certificate? I was under the impression it was quite difficult. Maybe with today's technology you could produce some convincing frauds, but I'm kind of skeptical this was happening at any kind of scale back then.
McDonalds ran a lot of stuff on SCO Unix, those references are pretty easy to find because they're all through SCO's marketing materials.
Sure, but it's still a valid advice that might be helpful to others.
if you search "skin" you get more or less anticipated results. I think it's using safesearch-filtered results, so "naked" isn't likely to return any actual naked bodies.
Google says its search can't be biased–that's not how search works
While I'm not certain this is the right venue for this discussion; it is a very concerning report.

In essence they're claiming people that had home births in certain places aren't US citizens, revoking their state issued birth certificates, and in some cases trying to deport them (and in others denying passports). This could make citizens stateless.

The evidence they're asking for to prove your birth is unlikely to still exist (e.g. your parent's rental agreement from the time of your birth, doctor's prenatal visits (which were less common at the time, since not free), and church records).
I wrote a number of essays in high school on my iPad (the first one) using the touchscreen keyboard. I also did digital painting using the Brushes app and my finger (later with a touchscreen stylus), and made some simple music tracks using piano and looper apps. On the original iPad, with software that was basically available since launch.

Nowadays I do computer graphics for fun, and I want to be able to create full applications, so I lug around my MacBook, but I have no doubt if I upgraded from my venerable iPad 1 I could find apps that let me play with shaders, or web-apps that let me do quite a bit more.
Bernie is wrong, it's not up to employers to provide a guaranteed decent standard of living, that job can only be done by society.
I use to have this problem. I'd plan out everything in a side project and figure out the optimal structure for where files go even. After a while I realized just going back to a "just build something" strategy is way more optimal as it keeps me engaged in the project and allows me to focus on things that matter. It's hard to make progress when you're just planning, especially since you just don't know all the details when you start... so you're planning is often not based on reality.
> Don't be surprised about legal writing. He/She as a legal person is responsible for writing in a very clear and explicit way since any misunderstanding might cost the reader or themselves in the future.

Ok, then he/she can be called out since we are on the front page of HN and there is a lot of noise and harm done.
I honestly can’t see a single reason why slack legal department, probably worth millions per year, in a company worth several billions, can write such things just to kill a free chrome extension built by a single person for non profit reasons.
I never used slack but from now on I will actively advice against using it.
When you arrive at the point that you can’t even modify your browser to see whatever you like I think that we are almost at the brink of total destruction/anarchy/“choose your not so preferred destination”.
Disclosure for slack layers: I never used your product, so I never agreed to your TOS and I would never use it hopefully.
I am not associated in any way with any of your competitors.
I sadly have to admit that sometimes I play with JSFiddle
in my browser just for fun.
If you want to sue me please go on, there is not much difference compared to what you are suing g3rv4 for.
It means that something being survivable doesn't mean that something is acceptable, favourable, or optimal.

Everyone is just pointing out that your position is a restated version of the naturalistic fallacy.
Here here! VB and Windows Explorer "devops" all the way!
I might have lost a second friend to suicide even though the last time this happened I promised myself that I would do something before it's too late.

Problem is I have no way of knowing for sure, because the only means of contact I had with him was through facebook and his account is currently gone.

He's been openly contemplating taking his life for a year now or so. Normally whenever he did this I would try to be there for him but apparently that was to little, to late.

I'm still hoping he'll resurface eventually.
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Not familiar that much, but I think disclosure means they must notify the customer, rather than being obligated to disclose on their website.
But they are risking something. As a Slack user, I find the temerity of this extremely annoying. I imagine that I'm not the only one.

If those enterprise customers are worried, they're free to lock down browser extensions on their employees' systems if they want. If they're worried about this, they should be just as worried about extensions acting on webmail, internal sites, etc.
What I like about forums like Lobster.rs and HN is they are easier to understand and replicate without too much front-end over-complication.

I'm one of those people that would rather start from a simpler base and iterate on it than start with a ton of components and get confused trying to figure out how they all fit together.
Wasn’t it removed at some point? I remember the nature of it changing but then being reversed due to negative responses. At the time I realized people were starting to use Twitter in ways not originally intended.
> I also read The Game and some PUA communities, but soured on them when a.) all my female friends told me "Dude, you're skeevy just for even mentioning them" and a married coworker was like "Well, it works on some girls - usually the type that's a total trainwreck in a relationship anyway."

I think the real value in that material is the disillusionment. If you approach it as less a collection of cheat codes or parlor tricks and more as an illustration of how what society has told you about attraction is completely, utterly, ridiculously wrong, then you'll get a lot more out of it. More modern approaches to "pick up" reflect this.
Frankly, that sounds awful to me, even as an adult; it sounds like a recipe for sedentarism and vitamin D deficiency. In my country we have 15m recesses between each class, starting from 5th grade, where we got some sunlight and exercise - at least climbing the stairs back to the classroom, but many kids played some sport or game with physical activity.
> Agreed, but the question is if that is how he sold the company to investors and to employees?

Employees obviously I can't know but the article includes him telling investors there might not be an exit.
In most of the world it is decided. The decision is click-wrap 'contracts' are unenforceable. Starting with the fact that they don't meet the definition of a contract.
C considered dangerous
Not necessarily, because you might have 30 near-equivalent spots that people can be spread out into
Okay. I'm very intellectually curious about China, and I hope other people are too. I mostly comment on these sorts of topics because, relatively speaking, I know slightly more than the average HNer, but I'll take this into consideration.
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> there are a lot of projects that I don't finish...

You and me both. :)
I second this. Over time and struggling with concentration in bullshit jobs, I've learned following tricks when I feel stuck and/or stressed out:

- I have an org-mode document with a TODO list and project notes always open. Whenever I'm stuck, I'll start decomposing the task into smaller and smaller TODO items, simultaneously with doing a written brainstorm. Sometimes I'll write out a hundred lines of text, but it does help me get unstuck.

- Similar to what you mention, I frequently write a TODO list in comment as a scaffolding in the file I work on, and I then proceed to fill the space between TODO items with appropriate code.
There is likely a difference to be made between willing and unwilling collaborators. The companies in the list don't face fines and jail time for not having contracts with ICE.
there is a whitepaper typically issued for electronic components
lets say a transistor and a latency, or frequency will be stated lets say 900MHz. that is a product of the over all switching latency of the transistor.
so when current is applied to the gate lead of a transistor it takes a small amount of time for the gate to energize, another small amount of time for the gate portion of the transistor to propagate excitation to the semiconductor portion and allow conductivity to occur...
...it then takes time to tear it all down again...this is the latency of the transistor...in practical measure maximum frequency is stated so 900MHz means you can switch on then off again 900,000 times in 1 second.
...it gets technical again regarding nyquist frequency theory and weather you are Tx/Rx ing signal, or just generating noise by cramming changes in potential sardine style right next to each other so you cant tell one logic pulse from the previous or the next pulse...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transistor#Transistor_as_a_swi...

...latency matters when a chip has to operate so quickly that someportion of the chip is left waiting for another portion to finish its job...
if you want information[signal] there is a required latency. if you flick a switch on, you have to wait for it to be flicked off before you can flick it on again...try this with a light switch, flick it on count to one flick it off count to one again flick switch on again...you should observe a light bulb light up 1sec, go dark 1sec, light up again..etc.
...now do this, flick the light switch a rapidly as possible up and down over and over again, if you do it fast enough the light will look very different it will seem to be illuminated or constantly flickering but not going dark...this is due to latency of the lightbulb filament, there is a frequency of switching that will break current and resend current to the light bulb faster than the light bulb can deenergize and darken...
The Newton came out in 1993, so the iPhone would be "like a Newton but you don't need the stylus and they got rid of the handwriting stuff"
> Bottom line: the taxpayers of this country should not have to subsidize employees at a company owned by Mr. Bezos who is worth $155 billion. That is absurd," Sanders said in the statement.

Agreed. This isn't an Amazon only problem, but they are certainly egregious perpetrators of trying to play cities and states off each other for tax breaks and other benefits at taxpayer expense.

Let's also not forget the whole "peeing in bottles out of fear" fiasco: https://www.pulse.ng/bi/tech/undercover-author-finds-amazon-...
Nothing is stopping other people from doing that now.
He he, too funny you mention zooming. I've had a bug report going for a while where their emoji sprite sheet gets all messed up if you run at smaller zoom levels. I think they still haven't fixed it properly. :)
If you think something is wrong medically, you should go see a doctor sooner than later. There's no reason you should wait.
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