skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Responsible cash management and investor relations are not mutually exclusive with innovation. There is absolutely no reason that TSLA shouldn't have raised cash with a relatively inexpensive bond issuance or moderate share issuance in the lead-up to the large expenditures required to begin Model 3 production.

As a consequence of this, analysts rightly discounted TSLA's stock price to account for the tremendous amount of risk he was taking by operating with little-to-no room for error. The fact that he was able to operate inside of that slim margin does not indicate that he should have.

Elon himself was so flustered by the consequences of his poor cash management (and resulting discount in the stock price) that he ended up plainly manipulating the stock price and nearly got himself banned as a D&O of a publicly-held company.

I'm tired of all of this hero-worship, and the smug "this is what it takes to change the world" discussion around his insane actions. The innovation and change brought about by the Model 3 is not a good excuse for Elon nearly killing the company to maintain his pride.

Last, the fact that raising money to ensure the financial stability of the company is seen as a pride-diminishing act by Elon is in itself worrying.
If you don't have food in the pantry AND you are not able save for retirement, you definitely worry about both. People aren't machines that just consider the most urgent worry in a priority queue of some sort.
Planning your 2019 NetSec conference schedule?  a useful list
I actually keep my Kindle white-on-black.
In this case the only thing that is changing is a fault state and standard circuit components, not the code running on the device or the device being used. As long as the components are within spec the only problem could be environmental damage from the device being unsealed. I agree with some of the points you made, but not in the context of the previous post.
Is there any software for Moon, just like Google Earth is for Earth?
Very impressive work !

On a side note, the section "A word about ethics" was a welcome addition. I found this:

> If we can generate realistic looking faces of any type, what are the implications for our ability to trust in what we see.

resonated with another article posted on HN (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18309305) talking in part about the ethical impact of engineered addiction.

I guess very soon we will be able to generate "super-attractive" (as in "superstimuli") faces for virtual personas, according to targeted demographics and purpose (advertisement, youtube videos for kids, political messages and so on).

Rather disconcerting...
No, the author is right. Git us in its core a database for managing patches. Understanding the needs of Linus Torvalds as his role of Kernel maintainer is about the only good way to understand why git is so strangely designed.
3 months net?
I paid $5000 for a 2001 GMC 2500 with a lift gate and 56k miles. There are some dents and surface rust, but the truck is generally solid. Crank windows and only one working speaker. I call it my luxury vehicle because I have the luxury of not worrying about it.

I will be supplementing this with a 10+ year old hatchback for better gas mileage and less wear on the truck. I'm expecting to pay around $5k for that too.
Why Not React Native? Why Not Flutter? Why Not Meteor? Why Not NativeScript?
That is cool, but it's pretty similar in Ruby.

def repl
loop { puts( eval gets ) }
end

I guess I just prefer Ruby for general legibility. The same type of bracket everywhere makes pairing them mentally an error-prone chore. At least for yours truly.
Nah, I'm sure that would be breaking all the contracts.
(defmacro -> (&rest args)
(loop for item in (reverse args)
for result = (list item) then (list item result)
finally (return result)))
Comparing a simple compression algorithm to extensive law research is extremely disingenuous and shows a lack of awareness of what it takes to actually BE competent as a lawyer.
Announcing our work on building a Serverless Supercomputer
At the PyData DE I just saw an excellent talk about GANs and data augmentation in image recognition:

https://www.slideshare.net/FlorianWilhelm2/performance-evalu...

The authors were able to outperform Google ML by a large margin for a vision task that involved recognizing numbers from car registration documents. With just 160 manually collected training samples they were able to train a neural net that could recognize characters with 99.7 % accuracy. GoogleML performed very poorly in comparison, which I found very surprising because it didn't seem to be such a hard recognition task (clean, machine-written characters on a structured, green background).
Ultimate List of Magazines Looking for Freelance Writers
How long before GitHub moves to Azure?

Having it in RackSpace and AWS is bad optics, but they also must know Azure is not stable enough for something as large and visible as GitHub.

I expect this to be the first integration they try. Stockpiling the popcorn.
Many (public) schools seem to forget that they are bound by the first amendment like any other government entity. If the child was harassing or bullying another student (or inciting such acts) I could see an argument being made, but beyond that free speech is free speech.
Kodi has a great interface for browsing movies, and automatically tags things like director, year, nationality, and summary. My fiancée likes to flip through that to pick things to watch; it's a lot easier and faster than trying to figure out all those details from the backs of BDs, which often make it very difficult to even see the duration of a film.

And it allows me to mix together video files from BDs and DVDs with files from other sources (a lot of which are commercially unavailable, such as an Ethiopian film which has never been released except on VHS and a version of The Umbrellas of Cherbourg which has been modified to fix a color error) into one seamless interface.

Obviously, though, this is just what works for me. If physical BDs are easier then by all means go for it.
Securing Serverless: Attacking an AWS Account via a Lambda Function
IIRC memcpy is borderline UB here. It also has the same endianness problem.
Very different to Bach.
How to run AWX on Minishift
WoW was less of an explicit slot machine than a lot of mobile games. While things like item drops had a random element, it wasn't a "pay once per chance" sort of deal like loot boxes. You just kept killing mobs, and when you got a drop it was great. The impact wasn't all that good anyway, since even the best item would be obsolete in 4-5 levels.
One of my earliest memories of "programming" was the discovery that Age of Empires .ai files could be edited in notepad to change (or in my case, intentionally break) the unit build progression of the computer players.
>Her older son, who has A.D.H.D., would get angry when the screen had to be turned off, she said, which worried her.

And the solution was to take away the thing he liked most? Did this actually help anything for him, or do they just not have to deal with him having a fit now?
As a pretty stressed out T1, this sounds like some excellent advice to me. Thank you for this, I will definitely give it a read.
This is one of my favorite fun facts about our city. The other one, which I didn't realize until recently, is that our rivers are also separated from Lake Michigan by locks, we have a lower water level within the city. Between these two things, there's a significant height for boats to pass under bridges all throughout Chicago.
Is Orwell's Big Brother Here? Bezos and Amazon Team Up with Defense, CIA and ICE
That's the thing that bothers me which is why I commented.

School administrators are using the existence of any videos to kick him out by all means necessary. They don't care about the contents or the context. He said the word Hitler in one of his 10 ish videos or a joke about it. He's extremely into history and all he likes watching are youtube history videos. Playing games based on history. Sharing memes with his friends that have a historical context. Some of it isn't funny some of it is.

Doesn't make it ok to permanently ruin a teenagers academic future over a stupid silly completely explainable video less than one minute long.

Alternative school is for kids with legitimate behavior issues. He doesn't have any. It's just straight abuse to be completely honest. It's not right.
Working memory is something which some IQ tests aim to evaluate.
While I think your point is totally on the mark I am going to chime in like a pedantic pain in the arse and mention that Civ has been addictive as fuck since the early 90s when I ruined at least a month of my life playing just one more turn.

But yes, I agree with your point in the general sense!
Great work on this!
There is an article out there that talks about her repeatedly being hours late for meetings with major CEOs. There were lots of other negatives. It made her sound like a first class train wreck.

If the article is factual she was compensated $260M for turning in a performance that could have gotten a minimum wage grocery bagger fired several times each month.
so Danish call the northern neighbors the same?
Sry what? You have no issue working in that industry because those games are 'boring'? But you do not have any issue that you create something which is literally boring and only there for other people to put there money in and play never again (because it is so boring) or lose everything?
You are loosely comparing a large smartphone with tobacco; yet the reality is that an iPhone is more like matches: you can use it to start a campfire, light a stove to cook some kale or use them to smoke crack. It’s your choice what you do with the matches and it certainly isn’t the match manufacturer’s fault people choose to light the crackpipe rather than “healthier” options.

If I understand you correctly, it’s the phone fault people are addicted to bad content? The phone is just too easy to use, too high quality that unwitting victims are just defenseless? If we are talking kids, that’s a parent problem, but if we are talking adults, then it’s a problem of self-responsibility. Grocery stores have plenty of ice cream for sale: it’s up to you to not buy and eat it all the time. Grown ups ought to act like it instead of blaming shiny objects of their own obsessions. Adults aren’t victims of their phones.
Wikipedia: The normal function of Aβ is not well understood.[7]

Most of the page is dedicated to the Alzheimer's connection. Even that quote came from Alzheimer's research.

[7]Hiltunen M, van Groen T, Jolkkonen J (2009). "Functional roles of amyloid-beta protein precursor and amyloid-beta peptides: evidence from experimental studies". Journal of Alzheimer's Disease. 18 (2): 401–12. doi:10.3233/JAD-2009-1154. PMID 19584429.
Why Netflix Rolled Its Own Node.js Functions-As-a-Service Runtime
He never said these data scientists predicted the 6 year old brain and created the program accordingly. Just A/B testing and measuring what works best and what doesn't and progressively refining the product to match these findings is data science.
Double-take moment. I thought this was related a machine named "DevOops" on HackTheBox :P
Hacker creates seven new variants of the Mirai botnet
From one POV, Musk really has nothing to lose.

Even if all his companies crash and burn, he has taken a lot of resources and spent them on things that matter: space exploration, combating global warming, etc

No matter what happens, all that engineering talent will continue to exist. All that experience gained still exists. And some of the giant infrastructure that he’s built will inevitably be reused if his companies don’t work out.

I feel like he’s exploiting the capitalist system to get stuff done, and I think he is prepared for everything to collapse because much of what he has created will survive no matter what. Who cares about the numbers on some balance sheet now that we can reuse spacecraft and build great electric cars? Those numbers are a drop in the ocean anyhows.
>Not sure what the fix is either, other than ruthless enforcement of quotas.

Or just not letting kids get into those games. At some point my wife pointed out that I had a problem disengaging from certain types of games (for me it was MOBAs specifically). They are super-addictive.

It never really got in the way of anything and if I had anything else to do I would go do that, so it wouldn't really qualify as "addiction" in a DSM sense. But the issue is what it does when you don't have anything to do. They have a way of swallowing up basically ALL of your free time. And I didn't feel happier or better off for having spent my time that way, it felt more like compulsion than desire. I see a lot of young people on the internet being enslaved by compulsion like this, engaging in somewhat problematic consumption of video-games, porn, or social media.

I decided to just uninstall and stop playing those sorts of games, but I was also a grown-up with life experiences, hobbies, social connections, and responsibilities before I ever started. I knew what I was missing with "real life" by letting myself sink into that so it was easy enough for me to stop, I had other, more edifying sources of dopamine to go after. Kids, often times, either don't have enough freedom of movement to go do those things or just plain don't know what else there is out there. It's the same reason drug and gambling addiction tends to take hold among people with depression.
To me it seems the focus is wrong. Screens are not the problem. Most people having kids today grew up with screens. The problem is how the screens are used. Mobile devices and many apps have been developed to feed dopamine. This problem isn't isolated to children either.

You can disable or control this addiction pattern. Short, repeating patterns with rewards are how you feed addiction.

Turn off most or all push notifications. Don't mindlessly use devices in short, repetitive ways that reward your brain with dopamine (eg checking social media over and over for new posts). For things like social media, HN, and reddit have specific times of the day you use them and that's it.

Short cycle games like Fortnite feed this pattern too. Put time limits in place. This applies to adults too. It's really easy to play one more game.

> “Other parents are like, ‘Aren’t you worried you don’t know where your kids are when you can’t find them?’”

If this is you stop. Give your children freedom. You don't need to track them or know what they're doing 24/7. Being a helicopter parent will hurt them far more in the long run than giving them screen time.
They bought Xamarin. I'm also pretty sure they do make money from their Enterprise versions of their .NET developer tools.
The building is adjacent to a lot of housing with a diverse crowd, it borders to north-Neukölln on "the kanal", what is compared to central Kreuzberg a classical working-man district that undergoes it's own challenges. The whole area has more of a homely vibe. I concur with the ~1km. Towards the Spree river its presence would've been easily tolerated (there are business parks), Mozilla has its office there too. Not to speak of anything Berlin central or indeed Adlershof.
The Ab/Umspannwerk is a nice building of course, Berlin has a lot of these now obsolete electric facilities. A datacenter provider and other tech shops reside there for years, so did local grown startups. I wonder if the connectivity played any role, but there's lots of metro-fiber under the curbs in that part of town anyway. I still think there is opportunity for Google to pick the right location without community backlash not too far away.
Very cool, you might be interested in an open source chord-melody dataset I’m hand curating for generating pop melodies:

https://github.com/shiehn/chord-melody-dataset. I’m feeding into LSTM’s and and its working quite well in my system :)

http://treblemaker.ai/
Because a DVD is using mpeg2 and Handbreak uses x.264
An ophthalmologist would be the best person to go to, because they can dilate your pupils with eye drops and inspect your retina very closely to look for abnormalities.

That being said I believe CSR generally resolves on it's own except for more severe cases which it sounds like OP has...
This is what I would expect to happen in Manhattan, for instance, as a response to sea level rise, rather than the dystopian abandonment you see in movies like A.I.

Not that you would necessarily raise skyscrapers, but that you would raise the street level, and change the street level entrance of the building. Smaller buildings could be raised though.

It's not an outrageous idea. More outrageous I think is the idea of abandonment. Maybe people think of sea level rise as happening overnight.
Clojure does indeed have -> (thread-first), ->> (thread-last), some->, some->>, cond->, and as->. [0]

(->) inserts each form's value between the function name & the first argument in the next form.

(->>) inserts each form's value as the last argument in the next form.

The latter forms are much more niche and I haven't found need for them yet.

[0]: https://clojure.org/guides/threading_macros
10 years later I’m now operating at 100% but I’m extremely careful to be stress avoidant.

For the first 3 years of doing almost nothing productive the progress was quite slow.

In retrospect, a couple of high dose psilocybin sessions may have sped up recovery by reprogramming some of my identity that was at the core of the stress.
Tesla books revenue when they deliver cars to buyers, not when they ship them.
Scientists develop shape-shifting robot inspired by T-1000 from Terminator
Open Source: Simplifying Serverless Secrets
Modding and making my own video games got me into programming. If it weren't for games I probably wouldn't be in a field as lucrative as tech.

I'd say it's important to avoid Skinner box style games, but otherwise they can be fun and mentally productive. If I had a kid I'd introduce them to games like Kerbal Space Program, racing games (e.g. Forza Motorsport, Gran Turismo) [1], and maybe some RTS games as they got older. I think it's important to choose what games children. The examples listed above reward learning, discipline, and skill. Not luck or pure time commitment.
In the most successful of the companies of the sort you've been describing that I've been around SaaS was kept pretty minimal. This was less a policy than a consequence of just having *nix skills or a desire to learn. Also many SaaSes have relatively serviceable self-hosted FOSS counterparts.

Log management in particular is really a shell script/self hosted app kind of task, just share the money saved on Papertrail with the team and I'm sure they'll get on board.
A simpler example is Battlefield 1942 vs Battlefield 5, 1, or any of the recent entries: the first had zero unlocks; everything was available, and it was a game for the fun of it. In the newer entries, the unlocks and other bars you fill provide a sense of achievement and progress, and maybe that just gives players with fun objectives to do while playing but the cynic in me sees people gloating about 1000 kills with the Kolibri and thinks it's more about preying on addictive tendencies.
>This all happened by chance

Nobody fell down the stairs and discovered that the tumble accidentally linked their KPIs to engagement metrics.
The many point-and-shoot cameras are also fixed-aperture (they use an NDF in bright light rather than adjusting the aperture).
This nails the heart of the problem - every company needs to fulfill the needs of their customers, their staff, and themselves to continue to operate successfully. But VCs add additional needs of speed and returns.

If your bootstrapping is failing financially, or not meeting your own needs (as described in the article), VCs are a valid choice to kick it back up to try to succeed. Better that than shutting down. But the anti-VC perspective is talking about a different scenario: If your bootstrap is working, they would argue not to take on VC just to speed it up or meet some cultural expectation of a funding milestone.

Which ultimately sums up the article for me - their particular bootstrapping wasn't working for them, so they switched to the VC route.
Rent an ICE car for the couple of times a year I take a road trip. The other 350+ days a year, I can use my electric vehicle just fine.
Heck, in the US they can even just fire them when they get sick.

Well, they could, yes. But wouldn't company counsel advise them to just settle the inevitable lawsuit? (Serious question, BTW; not like this IANAL follows the case law.)
I actually looked on the McDonald's website but couldn't find anything but the 4 pack. I remember working their in the 90s and they had at least 4 different sizes (like 4, 6, 9, 20).
Not necessarily. Right now the industry is largely unregulated, but that's more a question of enforcement than any sort of real legal protection.

In the US you can't build a slot machine that accepts money and dispenses tokens that have value. That's often how things operate in Japan, but the same model is generally illegal in the US.

It's questionable if spending real money on virtual currency to buy "loot boxes" that randomly give things of value is legal. And if that's legal, it's not obvious if changing the rate of rewards is legal.
This is no different than when people were buying TVs for the first time in 1956. Those closest to the tech display the greatest fears.

In the 1980s there was hysteria that video games would turn kids into social pariahs due to the bad effects from violence and gore. But shooting a cluster of pixels in 1984 is trivial compared to running the bloods and guts of realism of a PS4. But not much is said anymore.

I think iPads are bad for kids as they become the subject matter, not that what they're trying to do. This is why iPads in education are bad IMO. Kids need to allow their brains to develop the appropriate cognitive functions but things like instance access to info reduce the ability to think, reduce the ability to memorize, and reduce the attention span of kids. In adults it's different as we're already as under/developed as we'll get.
If you're really rich, you can. Kalaidescope. But the studios really fought them hard on that.
How a Pulitzer-Winning New York Times Story Plagiarized Russian News Outlet
I think the word you're looking for is "condescending".
Git is the VCS most suitable for bottom-up learners. Which is the VCS most suitable for top-down learners?
> trading/technology headcount increased massively since then

Lower costs spur demand. Headcount went up a bit, throughput much more massively. If tech makes lawyers more affordable, that would increase the quantity demanded.
That is the question, yes, and I think that was what jhbadger meant by “successful” - that one is so in science (from this perspective) similarly to any other field; when people buy into your work, give you funding, your reputation increases, etc.
I see this too much nowadays, people who want to use cool technologies to make new software, without knowledge if it is better for the user. It is not progress, it is change.
Me too. A bit of Googling told me that if you set the variable MOZ_WEBRENDER=1 it enables it. That worked.
So the argument is that his phone is too good and he is sucked in? So a crappier phone is the answer? That’s like saying people drive too much so we should remove the air conditioner and radio.

It reminds me of the Colonel Sanders scene in So I Married an Ax Murderer: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TPMS6tGOACo