skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the conversation above was more about people who put in very long hours because they're passionate and so forth, or they're obliged, or whatever the reason the 'company culture' is a certain way. I think flexible hours that you describe is a far more popular idea (and probably a good one if you ask me).
Hrm. I wonder if the differing bugs just comes from which one people are doing more.

I often have to fight to get people not to expose huge amounts of state whenever they build a module, so by far the most common bugs that I see are people being too loose with turning things that really shouldn't be modules into very fragile, cumbersome modules that depend on being used only in specific (undocumented) places with specific (undocumented) setup.

If I was in the opposite situation, and everyone I worked with already inlined code all the time, then probably most of the bugs I'd see would be related to people reusing variables, abusing hoisting by making spaghetti references to variables that are defined later in the function, etc... and in that case I could definitely see myself agreeing with you.

I have on occasion wanted the ability to define an anonymous function that didn't inherit variables from the scope that it was defined in. So I'll give you that - I would love for the ability to make an anonymous function that only has access to variables that are explicitly passed in. If I could isolate variables going into a closure as easily as I can isolate variables going out, I suspect a lot of the problems you're talking about would be easy to solve.
Both of those entities are news stations that own a website, not websites that run a TV station. The website is 10% of the picture.

More importantly.. check the results. A majority of Fox News viewers believe things like Obama was born in Kenya, or Saddam Hussein really had WMD, despite these being obviously false. Multiple studies by different organizations have indicated that Fox News viewers are less informed than no news viewers on any political topic involving 'alternative facts'.

The proof is in the pudding.
I don't really mind the new design itself, but the new font looks too blurry to look at on my non-retina mac. ( I suspect the ﻿-moz-osx-font-smoothing:grayscale) and it is insanely slow.

Luckily I can still revert back on GSuite for now.
Wake me when we have DNS over HTTPS for anything except web browsers. Plus, someone running an MTA is very likely running a recursive DNS server on the same network, if not the same machine, that uses UDP or TCP for upstream queries. Anyone positioned to MITM SMTP is likely positioned to MITM DNS.

EDIT: Ah, perhaps you meant that with DNS over HTTPS, MTAs will need an HTTP client anyhow. IMO the path of least resistance will be adding HTTPS, DNSSEC, or w'ever to machine-local resolver services. But point taken (whether earnest or sarcastic =)
I think they expect to get a better deal but that it will be offset by demo day investors.
It’s still way better than outlook or protonmail imo
I've been going to Demo Day off and on since 2007, and one big thing I've noticed is a change in who gets accepted. I see a lot more "sure bets" and a lot fewer "long shots". When I go to demo day now, I see a lot of companies that are fairly interesting, founded by an amazing team with a lot of accolades and/or exits or previous experience, and most of the companies have already launched and have revenue.

What I don't see a lot of anymore are two people who just finished college (or maybe they didn't even finish yet) working on something that could be amazing or a spectacular failure, who haven't launched yet or have no revenue yet. Look at Dropbox, reddit, and even your own startup, JTV, which of course morphed into Twitch. All of them founded by guys just out of college, all of them now worth over a billion dollars (and unless I'm mistaken, all of them pre-revenue at demo day). And while AirBnB was started by guys who had a couple of years work experience, they didn't have much experience with running a company or anything other than a few years working in industry (and of course also worth well into the billions).

It feels like for the most part the risk analysis has shifted from "a couple of folks just out of college with an amazing idea" to "a couple of folks with a proven entrepreneurial track record and an amazing idea".

I'm not saying it's good or bad, but it's definitely different.
In my experience this approach offers nothing, because the whole challenge is in writing the right tests, and you almost never know what the test is supposed to be like until after writing code for a while. There’s a symbiosis between knowing what test needs to be written and knowing what code needs to be written.

No part of specs, TDD, BDD, etc., actually ever captures the reality of this, despite every Name Brand Workflow always claiming to.
> And in some states, like Florida, if you vote by mail it is 10x less likely to be counted

The headline of that article is "If you vote by mail in Florida, it’s 10 times more likely that ballot won’t count". That's not equivalent to what you said.

If there's a 99% chance your vote will count and 1% chance it won't, a 10 times more likely to not count changes that to a 90% will count/10% won't count chance. Using your wording, it would change it to a 9% will count/91% won't count chance. Those are vastly different things.
Agreed. The notion that "Wow, any woman would've left this man for a guy who makes more, so this is an extraordinary relationship" sorta reinforces the assumption that men must be the breadwinner in any normal relationship.
What's the difference between a desired and expected result?
Played with your excel and while the difference is not the same as I calculated with AngelCalc, it still seems the dilution from this new YC deal will be greater than the old YC deal post-equity round in basically every circumstance.

Essentially, with this new deal, after equity financing YC will own 7% minus the dilution from the equity round minus dilution from any options pool increase [1]. Previously, after equity financing, YC would own 7% minus the dilution from the equity round minus the dilution from the SAFE round.

While it's true founders are getting a little bump on YC absorbing the dilution from a Series A option pool re-up, in my experience these are typically 5% to maximum 15% increases. Whereas the dilution from post-YC SAFE rounds are typically 15% to maximum 30%. So YC is assuming a potential 5-15% dilution in their ownership while avoiding a 15-30% dilution in their ownership. Translation: YC will own more post-equity financing than they would in the old deal.

This puts a burden on the founders to make up for that increased dilution by raising the post-YC SAFEs at a higher valuation than they otherwise would, which will likely make those raises harder. Alternatively, they can raise their Series A at a higher valuation than they otherwise would to make up for YC's extra ownership, but that will make those raises harder than they otherwise would be. So there is a real dilution downside for founders here.

1: in reality YC will continue to own 7% after the equity round because they'll exercise their pro-rata right during the equity round but that doesn't change the underlying point being made here so will ignore it for simplicity.
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It's fundamentally whataboutism. How does Google or any big tech company relate to the majority of police abuses against black people. The abuses in the US are fundamentally unaccountable police and police departments out in the field committing crimes against people without a voice. They are not demanding data from tech companies to arrest and disappear them for thought crimes. Google and Facebook operating in the US has actually helped shed light on these crimes.

They are two completely separate atrocities that are only discussed together to distract from one or the other depending on who is whatabouting.
Not in the US, it isn't.

In any case, the point still stands.
This time is quite different. When AMD beat Intel technologically, Intel still had the lead in process technology while AMD had better chip designs. Now, time has changed. TSMC leads Intel in process technology while AMD contracts TSMC to make chips. AMD will have both the advantages in chip design and process technology. It is more likely that Intel will fall further behind TSMC, as TSMC has been investing heavily (more than even Samsung).
Thank you for the advice. This is exactly one of the reasons I just moved to Washington to look for work. The state supposedly just implemented strong ban the box laws in June.
ASP.NET Core MVC would be the way to go today actually - runs on Linux, does a lot of stuff for you (it's IoC container is pure magic) and is quite fast (IMO)
Thanks, I actually never heard of App Groups before. But this totally explains it.
Owning production systems means you can't make mistakes and break things. People are already doing what you're saying can't be done, everyday, when they change production systems.

He's saying you should figure out the path from A to B and get there in small steps. And make sure your tests pass at each step. Don't make big changes that are hard to propagate and merge with others' changes.

Basically, avoid the classic "nobody change anything, I'm doing a merge today!" situation.
Many versions of GCC do, including the version of 5.5 I tested above, but the mitigation optional (enabled by specific command line arguments) and off by default, so they don't impact this test.
Should We Give Our Screens a Primitive Social Consciousness?
> We've been asking for voter id for years and you've been opposing it for years. Why is that?

Ignoring for the moment how improper it is for you to take such a personally accusative tone: The voter ID opposition has been thoroughly justified by the lack of evidence that the problems it solves are real enough to need solving, and by the fact that even the slightest awareness of the context surrounding these voter ID proposals makes it clear that they are not good-faith attempts to make our elections more fair.

In short: nobody's falling for the lies. They're too transparent.
As a Brit, through history classes and exams, I didn't learn anything other than how brilliant Churchill was. Then in my 20's the internet appeared and Churchill's real history was there in black and white. All it did was make me question everything I'd been taught about Britain and the establishment.

Questioning everything from then on, only lead to the concrete conclusion that the British education system and establishment (aristocracy, business, corporation of London, parliament, the lord's, judiciary, the class system) was designed/evolved to keep them rich and holders of power ad infinitum.

The rest of us, the plebs, we're/are kept deliberately misinformed and devoid of virtually all the opportunities "they" had and still have.

The plebs that rise up the ranks into politics, banking and business are brought into the club and the system of corruption and ignorance continues.

The US founding fathers knew what they were doing with the declaration of Independence.
It was intended to be more of a general question on shorting, but thank you for your analysis - I shall cogitate on it; I'd certainly agree Tesla has problems.
I wouldn’t call Stanford third rate for UX. That being said, I suspect there are too many lazy, entitled, people at Google.
They logged me out of all my accounts and now I can't log back in because of their ridiculous 2FA setup. I never provided them my phone number, so they need me to use their code generator via an active login...except of course I no longer have any active logins. This is the most ridiculous possible edge case for a $X00B firm. #SoftwareIsHard
Just as Microsoft developed Patch Tuesday, Facebook should have Forced Logoff Friday
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Gladwell's Revisionist History podcast had an episode called "The Prime Minister and the Prof" [1]. The episode goes into Churchill's relationship with India and a friend named Frederick Lindemann. Gladwell discusses evidence from a book called, "Churchill's Secret War: The British Empire and the Ravaging of India during World War II".

[1] http://revisionisthistory.com/episodes/15-the-prime-minister...
I've recently seen some compelling and simple internal tools that were built on top of Google Sheets in unexpected industries far away from SF.

An online spreadsheet + UI + optional external API calls seems perfect for fast development of a large number of straightforward internal-facing apps, including lots of things that are currently done on paper.

For those limited and simple use cases Google Sheets is a far more usable "serverless" platform than a lot of stuff in the hype cycle right now.
This documents a lot of the mistakes startups make when applying to YC:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yiOcCPvyNE
The western front was relatively small part of the WWII.

It was the Eastern Front and the U.S material support to USSR that really decided the war.

It's interesting to think what would have happened after Pearl Harbor if Britain would have not been so strongly involved. The US could have still sided with the USSR and defeated Germany. Without the Western Front the war between USSR and the US would have been more likely aftermath. Maybe we would remember in horror the bombings of Hiroshima Nagasaki, Leningrad and Moscow as the end of the WWII and US victory. (After Germans were defeated and surrendered, they immediately wanted to fight with US against USSR).
Lol; but if you were tasting the house then the materials will still affect the flavour despite having been burnt.
Sort of like how in Safeway every single bottle of wine is "on-sale". I know it works on many (most?) people but if something is always on sale isn't just for sale?
"his failings are not as important as his heroism"

We should be willing to see both sides of people like him and accept them both. A lot of people have the tendency once they think someone did something great in one area to deny that person's flaws in other areas. So yes, Churchill did well in WW2 but he did very stupid things in WW1 costing lot of soldiers their lives and was a complete racist.
Have you a source for Japan cutting off it's supply of food, I'd not read about that before.
> The things churchill said and did were no different than what hitler said and did.

That is an obscene statement and likely the cause of your downvotes.
“History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.” — Winston Churchill...who was principally a writer...
In the context of a society with gender norms like ours, it is special and probably quite unusual. And typically in male-supported households the woman is responsible for housework and child care, which clearly wasn’t this developer’s primary occupation. We can certainly hope for a world where this sort of thing is commonplace, but it’s not the one we’re in right now.
I actually have an open PR to add WebSocket endpoint support to CF Workers (so a Worker can act as a WebSocket client or server, instead of just a proxy). The main hangup though is that we need to figure out how to charge for long-lived connections. We obviously don't want to apply the normal time limits in this case. Hopefully we'll find time to work through this soon. :)
Something that might scale better is just having a rating out of 5 for each of the different areas e.g. team, progress to date, risk, potential reward, quality of idea etc.

At least it would allow them to focus on specific areas.
And how much did the environment they live in change over ages?
I think the word is used to describe that we simply can't fix this problem with biology because it inevitably is a problem at a lower level of matter
Samsung Is Building 10nm ASIC Bitcoin Mining Chips
Lol come on now, no need to be facetious. There are six income brackets broke down with the vote tallies for the respective candidates. The exit polling is not done for the Electoral College, and does not change the fact that every income bracket greater than 50k voted for Trump more than they did Hillary
Someone mentioned the calendar widget but what seems to be missing from the new UI is the wonderful calendar integration where dates and times are turned into links that I can click on to create a calendar event directly from an email. That to me was the dealbreaker for switching to the new UI, and am disappointed to hear that they are removing the option to revert back to the classic UI.
Ok, well maybe we're at cross purposes. You did use the word plausible originally, and again in reply. It depends whether you bring any context to a given judgment or rely on intuition on statistical distributions. I think that when appraising the plausibility of bad faith you should take past behaviour into account.

I can totally see a situation where a well meaning PR person says "what can we do to slow down this story?" and some engineer says "we have this mechanism but it wasnt designed for this purpose..."

Compare with yesterday's fun and games when the same metanarrative was reported. "We could shift more units if we had phone numbers"."we do but they were given to us for an expressly different purpose" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18082017

When you're in this position, ethics is a competence. They may be great at shipping code but past experience suggests that there are deeply inadequate decision making processes.

Apologies if this misses your point again.
There's 4 voting sessions per year and, in my own opinion, about half of the topics being voted on are quite silly. This might induce some voting fatigue.
Check:

In November, 1917, Vladimir Lenin rewarded Joseph Stalin for his support of the October Revolution by appointing him Commissar of Nationalities. [ source : https://spartacus-educational.com/RUSnationalities.htm ]

The Germans agreed to let the Russians negotiate a peace treaty. Lenin, leader of the Russian revolution, sent Trotsky, his second in command, to the Polish town of Brest-Litovsk to make the negotiations. Trotsky refused the terms of the treaty initially, but had to sign in March 1918 when the German army responded to his delaying tactics by resuming an invasion of Russia. [ source : https://classroom.synonym.com/significance-russian-withdrawa... ]
You forget perhaps that we HN folk are not typical. What you describe is not widely accepted, not by a long way.

To most users FB is absolutely a pure(ish) content exchange medium. They treat posting like sending SMS or what have you, an 'open' exhange, and not entirely unreasonably IMHO given 11+ years of precedent.

With that in mind today's event becomes significant. It rams home that FB is in control. And frankly that's new to most people!
But it’s certainly a step up from standard corporate catering
Earthwork sculpture honors ponies that lived and worked in the old colliery
It’s also interesting that almost no one mentions % of what — the whole company or of the current option pool.
Never, to my knowledge. It has been done in animals though:

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/05/15/two-surgeons-in-china-develo...

And anyway, it's not really the point. There is no reason, in principle, that the brain cannot be repaired in place.
The fonts are atrocious and give me a headache to look at. I already have damaged eyesight so that makes things worse as it is.
I thought his mum was the one that squandered his inheritance
How are genetic algorithms guaranteed in any way to give you a global optimum? I thought it might just work better when your search space is non smooth.
It's actually a nifty idea, could be implemented as something like blockchain in terms of distribution and syncing diffs among peers.
Well, yeah. It sucks when you work on something for a few years and it turns out to be not fun. Starting with a proven idea is easier, for sure.
It's asinine that we are still debating this. There really isn't much to debate at this point.
ASP.NET MVC didn’t exist in 2008. Maybe as a preview, but it was hardly a good choice at the time.
why flawed...

the tree structure and government participation?
the `xattr` terminal command relies on the system installed Python, though this seems to be the only example.

If you look at the source in `/usr/bin/xattr` it does some work to deal with different versions of Python. All the work ultimately gets handled by the xattr module preinstalled with the system Python. This module has Apple's copyright in it and is different than the `xattr` module on pypi.

Wonder how this Python one-off in macOS came to be.
They treat posting like sending SMS or what have you, an 'open' exhange, and not entirely unreasonably IMHO given 11+ years of precedent.

Back when SMS was new, people treated it like it had time end delivery guarantees, even though it had neither, and messages could sometimes be delayed by 20 minutes or an hour. I even had a girlfriend accuse me of lying because of that.
That seems certainly to be true of YC, but I'm less certain about VC in general. YC aside, the major benefit of VC money is that it can make getting more VC money easier, since it's bundled with social proof.
Basically Shadowbrokers claimed to hack the NSA with a datadump of the NSA's hacking tools. They offered a bounty for it and nobody took it

Eventually they released a sample which contained real exploits with unheard of vulnerabilities

A few weeks later the Wanna-Cry ransomware had weaponized those vulnerabilities and spread world wide really quickly, attracting way too much attention and a fix rolled out

The attention revealed that the exploit had been weaponized almost immediately a few weeks earlier for a very smart and stealthy Monero mining botnet, which made way more than Wannacry did

People still use the leaked NSA exploits to hack computers and run Monero botnets.

https://cointelegraph.com/news/newly-detected-malware-uses-n...

yes, we've all heard misinformation about bitcoin being untrackable, but Monero is the real deal for now, with the pros and cons and possible attack vectors researched and published about
I'm not defending slavery. I'm saying that if you buy food or clothing you almost certainly are buying goods that used slave labor in the supply chain, whether or not you're aware of it. Ethical consumption is impossible and trying to whip people to do it is a distraction from actual solutions, which would involve state intervention.
It's sad that the 'educated' laugh. You'd think with all their wisdom they would be able to reach out and save the feable minded. Instead they just laugh from the ivory tower. It's a sad world we live in. Even sadder that it's widely accepted as okay, even lauded.
Well hell I'm worth something. Facebook, Google, Apple and others just happen to be collecting it and stealing my value.
I've outlined what would please me personally in another post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18096082

In short, I'm not impressed by gross profits (Revenue - COGS), but I agree with the Tesla Bulls that operating-profits (Revenue - COGS - SG&A - CapEx - R&D) is too strict.

My definition of Tesla sustainability is (Revenue - COGS - SG&A). EDIT: Seems like this value is called "Operating Income".

That is explicitly what would please me. SG&A (Sales, General, and Administrative) costs MUST be accounted for because Tesla decided to avoid dealerships. So all sales staff employed by Tesla need to be accounted, if you are planning to build a sustainable company at a sustainable price.

> It is time for Tesla skeptics to admit that they were wrong and recognize the sheer audacity of Tesla's achievements. It is time to admit defeat.

As soon as Tesla reaches positive "Operating Income" (Revenue - COGS - SG&A) for more than one quarter, I'll gladly admit that I was wrong. Sound fair?
Selling shovels is the way to go
Egg noodles are mostly flour or maida based. Atta noodles will be marketed as whole wheat noodles.
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