skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://liesandstartuppr.blogspot.com/2018/09/end-of-era-tho...

> One meeting in particular pushed me over the edge, and I told the CEO that I was extremely unhappy, and we should discuss a way to amicably separate. I knew the transducer and acoustics side better than anyone, and would give the company as much time as needed to transition and pass over my knowledge. It was a tense meeting, and I went home after, and there were then a series of ... interesting ... emails and phone calls with Perry, that ended with no conclusion. Ironically, among the demands from the company was a statement for the press about how I still believed in uBeam's goals and the technology, but I declined. I got a text the next morning to come to the downstairs company conference room, and to bring my laptop, lab-book, and any company property - it was clear what was about to happen.

>I arrived and the room had CFO Hushen and CEO Perry. It was tense, and Perry sat at the head of the table in her position that she used when about to be CEO-like and give a prepared speech - straight back, leaning slighty forward, hands together. She looked at me and said:

>"Today will be your last day with the company. But before we go on to that, it is important that you understand that you are a quitter. You have quit on me, you have quit on yourself, you have quit on the company, you have quit on your team, you have quit on.... wait what are you doing?"

>At this point the speech was so ridiculous I had picked up my phone to start taking notes because this was too good not to write down. I looked up and she seemed shocked and demanded "Are you texting someone? I'm talking." and I looked at her and said "Just taking some notes." Sadly, this seemed to throw her off, and I never did hear the rest of that prepared speech. She simply mumbled then moved to telling me that I would now give an exit interview, and was again perturbed when I declined. She insisted and the CFO, acting as HR, had to step in and say that wasn't necessary. I handed over my laptop and the few items I had, and made a clear instruction that the company was not to make any statements or quotes that were to be attributed to me - I heard from the team that about ten minutes later they were all told in a company meeting by the CEO that "I wanted them to know that I wished them all the best and success for the company, and still believed in the company mission" or something similar.
I didn't know they sold homes. Kind of amazing. It's a surprising footnote in the tragedy of Sears.

The popular narrative of an out-of-touch company unable to compete with the likes of Amazon is false. The CEO is a hedge fund manager who pillaged the company, sold off it's best assets (sometimes to himself), loaded up the company with debt, and used it to pay himself millions.

http://prospect.org/article/it-was-vulture-capitalism-killed...

There is no good reason we are losing this company which has been the backbone of American commerce for over a century.
It's not of the same magnitude of Theranos to be sure. And there is no consumer fraud now as they offered to fully refund all the juicers. I think the investors have a significant fraud claim against senior management who solicited them but:

a) Juicero is broke, and "piercing the corporate veil" is difficult and expensive.

b) It would show exactly how credulous the investors were, as well as their outstanding lack of initial and ongoing due diligence and oversight.
> IANAL, but I think that would violate the Constitutional prohibition of Bills of Attainder.

No, it wouldn't. A bill of attainder declares a person guilty of a crime or specifies criminal punishment for a particular person.

The 5th Amendment Takings Clause, though, is likely to be an issue.
A lot of it is company culture. Does the boss agree to unreasonable deadlines with the client or marketing team? How many people on the team are jerks? How many are lazy or unmotivated? Is there enough respect for the boss?

Is the company fair? Do they prevent you from taking sick leave when you are sick? Do they pay a little less than they hinted? Do they compensate you for travel time if the office is in an inaccessible area?

Is the company an exciting place? Do you feel good, feel proud of being part of the company? Does the company do things that you're embarrassed of? Are the projects meaningful?
Isn't it enough to delete the older tweet? Or maybe just add a timestamp to the message.

Off-Topic: If it's not possible to write a twit with the exact text from a deleted twit, then a way to prove someone wrote a twit and then deleted it would be to have them try to write it again.
I guess Apple's ML efforts are focused on Core ML and friends and will probably treat Linux as second class or won't support it at all. But Google works on Tensorflow, Lattner wants to do it with Swift and I'd assume that for them Linux absolutely is the primary target.
Sure it's possible. It's just not efficient, practical, reliable, or safe (at high power levels).
> $13,500

> I view it as an at least 7 years of investment, if not 11-12 even.

Hmm, that's equivalent to spending between $1-2k to get a new computer every single year. That sounds like an awful investment to me, and I don't think most people would consider it a good investment to have to buy a $1-2k computer every single year. How do you see that as a good investment?
How Evolution Made Humans the Best Long-Distance Runners on Earth
To tell them about their huge security hole.
> Another feature request/suggestion for this site: Quantity of ethernet ports.

More than quantity, I'd like to see actual bandwidth, though I'm not sure how to boil it down to one field. I'd like if I could click something to weed out boards that have Gigabit Ethernet and hard drives on the same USB 2.0 bus, like the Raspberry Pi 2. [1] This info seems a little hard to track down, so it'd be handy if someone put it in a nice database like this, especially if there were citations to verify it.

It'd also be nice if I could search for a specific CPU/GPU/etc model or chipset (e.g. Cortex-A72 rockchip rk3399), GPU, etc. But I think there aren't so many matches that I can't do this myself on anything that's a possibility.

Oh, also DSPs. I think there are some SBCs that have the Hexagon 680, which I've considered as a way of doing some computer vision stuff. The only ones I found were really expensive, though (e.g. the InForce 6640). and/or ISPs (image signal processors). Really, any type of coprocessor or hardware accelerator is worth pointing out...

[1] http://www.mikronauts.com/raspberry-pi/raspberry-pi-2-nas-ex...
If I had the cash (like $25k budget), I'd go all out on a Talos II (by Raptor Engineering) with maxed out CPU and RAM configuration, and if I couldn't get OpenBSD running on it I would christen it with NetBSD.

I would love a "fully open" hardware platform, which is a non-starter in the Apple and amd64 PC world today. It'll take an act of congress (or a California proposition) to enact a tax high enough to economically make this be fixed, say 100%, on all consumer products containing microprocessors which read software/firmware/microcode from a memory store yet a) prevent the owner, if competent, from modifying the software by means of cryptographic signature or "burn-in," and/or b) do not provide enough documentation on design, where a competent owner could write his own software/firmware/microcode, and write his own drivers. This will apply to cars, microwaves, TVs, Intel/AMD CPUs, GPUs, cellphones both smart and dumb, game consoles, kids' toys, and even greeting cards, etc. To not have a 100% endpoint tax, the device must either be: immediately owner writable, or b) must have a jumper or DIP switch to enable owner write-ability, or c) must include a mechanism to accept owner cryptographic public keys to allow owner to write his own signed image, or d) must have an entry for an OEM-provided code which unlocks owner write (OEM must immediately give this code unconditionally on owner request, and may limit warranty for that particular device), and in all cases where OEM public keys exist, they must be completely purge-able.

In the age of Snowden and IoT rolling in, it's completely unacceptable that we lack Total Owner Control of our microprocessor-bearing devices. If Apple or Intel refuse, they can try to justify $1,600-$2,000 iPhones and $400-$1,000 basic CPUs and GPUs to the consumer. Closed hardware will become a national security risk if it isn't already; it's time to nip it in the bud before so.
You're downvoted, but I think you were just pointing out the reverse causality in the parent post, right? I.e. even if our brains are Bayesian, it's not that "they use a process discovered by them", it's just that they managed to decode what is the process that they were already using. Which doesn't seem ridiculous at all.
LegoOS: a disseminated, distributed OS for hardware resource disaggregation
:D As a Linux-lover, Windows 10 has been an absolute gold mine. I get to roll out all the old lines... "I need a system that just works", "I can't afford to waste time fixing it after every update", "it's just a toy OS"[1], etc.

[1] Go on, tell me why Candy Crush is installed by default in the Enterprise edition...
This makes zero sense.

If you prove that your tech won’t work, and you have a better idea, go back to your board. Because of the way venture investing works, they’d almost certainly rather bankroll you to pivot, than take their money back and shut you down.

In any case, the board usually has no control over how you operate the company. Their only choice, if they don’t like it, is to fire you - and a majority of them would have to agree to do so.

I see no evidence that the founder is somehow trapped inside her company, totally aware of her terrible idea and yet unable to pivot. All evidence points to the fact that she is still a believer. If anything, she’s now being pushed aside by her board, who are putting an adult in charge and looking for some kind of licensing deal or IP buy-out as a last-ditch exit.
Microsoft has support for cross-adapter rendering for (SurfaceBook dGPU is hotpluggable) - where textures are resident in the dGPU memory (when in use) but the render target surface lies in iGPU's memory which directly scans out that surface every vsync.

Technically, it is slightly more complex because of how vsync works but zero copy cross adapter rendering is possible.

I was an intern at the display kernel team this past summer and worked on a similar project for VR displays (which adds further complexity due to late stage reprojection and sensitivity to pipeline latency).
Trump is clearly the impetus behind the current international sanctions. They had previously been removed by the UN under the Iran nuclear deal in 2016.
> there is no approved question for the donor questionnairre

Do they not already ask if someone's ever been diagnosed with asthma, hepatitis, HIV, leukemia, lymphoma, myeloma, etc? All of which are permanent disqualifications.
LOL @ Mark Suster still in denial mode in the Techcrunch comments.
I think the "database tech for single-board computers" is SQLite. Others exist, but even without having any idea what you need, it seems a pretty safe bet to say that SQLite does it.
> kind of like when Netflix shows "shows related to" when they don't have what you're actually looking for.

I wish they would fix that and make it communicate clearly that they don't have this show, and the following are just the alternatives. Because with the UX looking identical for when there is a match and when there is none, this feels like a cheap attempt at duping people into watching something anyway.
Apple gets paid per unit of value that changes hands. What do you imagine their actual costs are for automatically vetting a 1 dollar game and transmitting it to a million users over one year.

S3 storage / bandwidth prices according to google is $0.021 per GB per month for storage and $0.085 per GB of transfer
so approx 3c for storage $8500 for transfer if we pretend that apple has to pay so much. In reality its probably much lower.

They would earn 75000 by taking 7.5% so nearly 9x the cost of executing so one would imagine that could easily cover any overhead.

In practice the revenue generated 26.5 billion for developers and 11.5 billion for apple in 2017. Even 2.5% would be almost a billion dollars 7.5% would be almost 3 billion dollars. I'm betting that apple can run an app store for 1-3 billion in a competitive market.
I have strong personal anecdotal evidence that casual hookups are much more upfront about condom-less sex and in fact I find that a shockingly high percent outright refuse condom sex (e.g. bareback only).

I'm not sure if the actual condom use rate is lower (I wouldn't be surprised) but in my experience the upfront non-condom attitudes is staggering and way higher than 10 years ago. Tech, attitudes, PrEP have shifted culture and depressingly for me lowers match rates from an already tiny population in my experience by more than 50% of guys on hook up apps !
The closest analogue in the US would be Hawaii, which is basically the Pacific island problem compounded by sheer remoteness (just about the only things more remote are French Polynesia, Easter Island, and random subantarctic islands, although I'm anchoring much of the South Pacific on places like Auckland, Brisbane, and Port Moresby). And as I've pointed out in the past, Hawaii is even higher cost of living than California, largely as a result of this middle-of-nowhere location.
I've had many occasions of clicking links from G to land on a page that should have what I want, the cached copy did but the landed page doesn't
This is unrelated comment I know. But i did not found any suuport or FAQ on this site. Can anyone tell me why it's saying that I am still a new user so that I can't post anything on this site?
how much time it will take to aactive my account?
People often ask, "But don't you end up with a wet butt?" The answer is, you use toilet paper (and less of it). Or if you're wealthy, your bidet includes a dryer.
Why in 2018 do we still have lousy file managers?
Are our brains Bayesian?

1990s Internet debater #1: "The plural of anecdote is not data"

2010s Internet debater #2: "True, but it does make a good bayesian prior"
Might not be very efficient but it's practical if you need a 24/7 flying drone.
I agree, it's benign behaviour but developer and companies should be aware of the potential for misuse. Specially, stars in Github should not be considered a proxy for quality (I say this as the #2 most popular in star count in Japan).

It's a warm reminder for the future, since as the JS ecosystem keeps growing exponentially people will very likely start to search for metrics such as star count to know what to trust. This made quite a bit of noise recently for instance: https://hasvuepassedreactyet.surge.sh/
I think at the end of the day there was simply no interest in the proposal. Nadako was "not opposed to it" but that was about it. Personally, I would have liked to not have seen the conversation ended with a "that's what we decided elsewhere" message.

That being said, this particular proposal seems like a matter of opinion (on the level of tabs vs spaces) to which no amount of argument would have really swayed people. Definitely something to learn from here. Thank you for sharing your story!
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Ubuntu mono.
https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-10-12/sears-has...

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-10-18/uber-driv...

> Over the years of propping Sears up, Lampert threw his own money into the effort, and his friends and supporters said this wasn’t only in self interest: He wanted to keep the lights on and people employed. He and ESL were willing to lend at much lower rates than others were demanding. He had Sears pay almost $2 billion into the unfunded pension plan in the past five years.

> The traditional story of financial engineering is that smart hedge-fund guys structure complicated transactions that enrich themselves at the expense of ordinary workers. But it’s at least possible that Sears is the opposite story, the story of a smart hedge-fund guy structuring complicated transactions that blew through his fortune to keep ordinary workers employed through a financial crisis. Of course that’s not mainly a matter of disinterested kindness: If he just wanted to give his money away to workers, he wouldn’t have needed the complicated transactions. It’s mostly just a gamble that didn’t pay off: He expected that the complicated transactions would help Sears to recover and make him even richer, but they didn’t.

> I genuinely don’t know what to make of Lampert and Sears. There is a version of the story in which he rapaciously extracted assets from Sears, enriching himself while starving the business, and another version in which he selflessly pumped money into the company to keep it afloat at his own expense. (“Although he has been criticized for selling Sears assets, spending on stock buybacks and collecting interest on loans to Sears, he said it is unlikely he will come out ahead financially on his long-running Sears bet,” notes the Journal.)
You say, "not a choice." I say, false.

You have chosen to take a job outside of Seattle. Seattle is crazy expensive right now. A $50K job 140 miles away in Yakima might be a better value. Or look 300 miles away in Pullman or Spokane.

Eight hour days, 15 minute commutes, ...

Gonzaga is looking for IT Techs. WSU is hiring into IT like mad right now. May be a pay cut for you. May drop your cost of living 50%. Definitely gives you more time to responsibly care for a child if that is your priority.

BECU is looking for a Security Tech Admin. Banner Furnace and Fuel needs an IT Specialist. Not as prestigious or glamorous as your current job? Well, if that's your priority...

But you have a choice.
Concept of Masternodes, PoS and DpoS – Blockchainerz
Yes, I don't know Samuel, but form his blog he has been using Ruby for 10+ years. And he is only been in a more active role in Ruby VM over the past few years.

I think it was his Fibre[1] works that caught my attention.
No idea why it hasn't committed yet.

[1]https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/14739

Edit: Wow He is now a member of Ruby Core !!!
Yeah, I mean it'll be harder to become a professional athlete or something, but you can surely do 99% of what people normally do in their lives.

There are definitely 65-year-olds who are fitter than some of the 20-year-olds you see :-)
Creating a good technical resume
When should a project be considered something entirely different? See the other top level comment about Theseus' ship. Is Angular 2 different from Angular 1 for example? Would you be mad for them keeping your star? What about changing the direction of products? There _are_ valid cases and how much something changes is variable, so there is no clear line IMHO. It depends on each individual then to make their own judgement.
Correct. A greater fraction of its weight is hydrogen due to the extra neutron, but it contains the same number of hydrogen atoms.

Heavy water masses 20g/mol versus 18g/mol for regular water.
You can now subscribe to YouTube channels directly from embedded videos
more than dollar per email address doesn't sound like very good deal to me
True, although most "organic" graphs are sparse.
they....do??
I have personally paid $1700 out of pocket for a month’s supply of PrEP, despite insurance AND membership in Gilead’s “advancing access” co-pay assistance program.

Gilead intended the program to cover about $300/mo, in order to cover your co-pay until your deductible is satisfied. That worked fine until this year, when UnitedHealthcare decided to re-class my card from co-pay assistance to a “manufacturer’s coupon” — thus accepting Gilead’s money while it lasted but still expecting me to pickup the full tab until my deductible.

:(
Well, you missed the obvious one: Puma

Writeup: http://eileencodes.com/posts/http2-early-hints/
PR: https://github.com/puma/puma/pull/1403
Activate crackle on Roku
Depends on the shop, I guess. My local bike shop carries quite a lot of cheap garbage too, but at high markup. I also have trust issues with many such shops. I know some where at least one person working there seems competent, but in most I've been, I get the distinct vibe of employees being domain-clueless salesmen paid to push things (similar to what's typical in electronics/home appliance stores).
There have now been six:
https://www.out.com/news-opinion/2018/10/09/sixth-case-man-c...
Common Clause is a deceptive villainous virus spreading its way through the community.

If you want an graph DB alternative that is truly Open Source (MIT/ZLIB/Apache2) try ours ( https://github.com/amark/gun ).
The person who wrote that did something useful with his life. You are not doing anything useful with yours.
Humans require n-3 and n-6 fats in our diet. These tended to be consumed in equal ratios until the advent of vegetable oils which increased the n-6 intake dramatically. As the other post mentions, research has found that this intake pattern leads to high levels of inflammation, which contribute to cardiovascular disease and other ailments.
> We can say "democracy is better", but there are instances where democracy doesn't work.

Just a book recommendation, but for people interested in learning more about these kinds of situations, I'd really recommend Amy Chua's "World on Fire."
That was fun to read. Especially as a 'unfortunate' owner of several Ladas (Zhigulis to be precise).

It wasn't so easy servicable, 23 miles per gallon can be achieved only with best petrol (good luck finding that in USSR) and overall quality was suffering from a number of things: quality of spare parts, drunkennes of conveyor worker, altering of main design to make it cheaper...

And besides, _soviets_ per se wasn't ahead of time, since Lada/Zhiguli was produced on Italian factory bought completely from FIAT.

So if you want to praise engineers - praise Italians first.
It’s because that’s the way CPUs / C do it. Many other language implementors are too lazy to fix it.

I have often been thankful that Python does the right thing, and often frustrated that Javascript does not.
The parent post said Saudis are not known for killing in other countries. I gave examples of Saudis either directly killing in other countries (Yemen bombing which is very controversial) or funding / helping extremist groups that kill in other countries.
What's strange to me is how many hours we've been given the same message. Today is an important day for my organization and not getting any information that hints how long this will last is a huge problem for our planning.
Yeah, reddit does infinite scroll. I'm using the mobile web version and it's awesome that way. Prev/next is annoying for binge content consumption or navigating through comments...
Since in most states felons lose the right to vote, this seems like a winning long term political strategy.
Not naming LPs and stating that they are awesome is just using your influence to whitelist market participants and is very self-serving.

Large pension funds have a lot of problems too, like embezzlement/corruption/failing fiduciary duties.

So it is pretty binary, either you are transparent or you are not. And if you are not, claiming that you are better then others, is just marketing.

It is pretty low to use someone tragic death to score some cheap deal flow points.
Yes, ditto on newegg. My heroes for fighting patent trolls and building the best shopping cart ever and having good products at good prices. Lately it's been in decline though. Haven't bought anything there for over a year.