skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HNs: How much money should your startup save vs. invest in growth?
My cofounder and I were discussing how many months should a company invest in growth vs. save for employees, rainy days, pivoting etc. Obviously there is no one size fits all answer, but I'd like to know the right questions to ask.
We could really use a good journalist to go out and find the answers to those questions right about now.
> It sounds like they did

Which parts of the specific GDPR requirements did they comply with?
The crime of "insider trading" is a type of securities fraud. A plain reading of the law would not seem to apply to purchasing a home. But historically securities fraud has been used to prosecute a wide array of behavior
Those numbers don't come close to matching what I find when I search. For instance: https://tradingeconomics.com/ireland/gdp
How is it not? There is definitely an implication...they even discuss the legality of it. Amazon employees have purchased hundreds of thousands of pieces of real estate over the years, how many articles were published discussing individual transactions?

"Apple Employees buy a home in SJC before iPhone launch" "Goldman Sachs Employee buys home in TriBeCa during bonus season" is not something you read regularly.
This is actually what the study you are referencing said:

"Almost all national survey estimates indicate that defensive
gun uses by victims are at least as common as offensive uses by
criminals, with estimates of annual uses ranging from about 500,000 to
more than 3 million (Kleck, 2001a), in the context of about 300,000 violent
crimes involving firearms in 2008 (BJS, 2010). On the other hand,
some scholars point to a radically lower estimate of only 108,000 annual
defensive uses based on the National Crime Victimization Survey (Cook
et al., 1997). The variation in these numbers remains a controversy in the
field"

Page 15 of https://www.monticellocollege.org/sites/default/files/blog/G...
Much of that is driven by low-value resume screening services many big companies use, a la:

"Sorry, we see you only have "Ubuntu" and "CentOS" listed on your resume, the client requires Linux experience, we've decided to pass on you.
>Bin Laden was hiding in Afghanistan and the government there tried to protect him instead of handing him over.

They asked for evidence and when the US said no they said they wouldn't hand him over.

Unlike his previous attacks, Bin Laden initially denied being behind 9/11.
I have a colleague that worked on some HR software at his previous employer. He said their clients fired so many people that he was tasked with making a hotkey for it...
> It seems odd that society feels entitled to decide what the richest person in the world should and shouldn't do with their money.

IMHO society is entitled to decide whether or not the concept of "private property" should be part of the rules of the game at all. And it is certainly entitled to decide whether or not a vast amount of wealth and power should vest in the hands of a single individual who is accountable to no one. It may be that the answer to both of those question is "yes", but that is not a straightforward consequence of the laws of physics.
then why are you on HN?

Just because there's "news" in the title doesn't mean I consider it to be newsworthy. I'm hear for the same reason a lot of people are: keep up on the industry, and something to dick around with between builds. I mean, I'm not a monk, I dick around killing time like anyone else. But HN and a few mailing lists is about it. Reddit, Twitter, FB I don't waste time on (Reddit, once in a great while r/o on select subs).

In summary, HN is my "People Magazine", for lack of better comparison.
Speedy: a Rust port of babel and closure-compiler
If you don't need fiat, however, a decentralized exchange using a transparent smart contract is ideal (e.g., IDEX).
It is a business choice: rely on external people who do research all day or try to invest your own time. The question is: What's your core business?
I interviewed with G-Research a while ago, and this was pretty much my experience too.

Everyone i met there - interviewers, other developers on the team, bosses - seemed great: really smart and absolutely lovely. I'm sure i would have enjoyed working with them. They did some aggressive pursuing after the interview. But ultimately, the environment was just too weird and paranoid for me. A real shame.
as social animals, we manipulate each other constantly. all it takes is a word, a grunt, a glance, a micro-aggression, even an unwitnessed action. are you suggesting we regulate all human behavior?
There are plenty of non reproducible phenomena that are studied scientifically and UFOs wouldn't be any different. Funding can be allocated to deploying observation devices with instruments specifically for this purpose. Evidence can be cataloged and analyzed to find patterns. Unfortunately no prestigious scientific institute is going to allocate the proper focus.

This isn't happening to the extent that it should because of the stigma involved, not because of the lack of evidence or lack of capability to investigate that evidence. There are no good hypothesis that fit within the framework any conventional scientific theory but that doesn't make the evidence any less reliable.
Efficiency of this model is only 2.56%, so... probably not yet.
2:56 certainly looks like sustained powered flight to me.
They noted that the first successful test was at 50% and effectively a power glide. Further in the video you can see they do achieve a sustained flight that reaches the end of the gym and is more than just a glide.
Good point, but allowing a device given away for free to anyone with a bank account to test a PIN opens up a much bigger risk than limiting it to merchant terminals.
non-amp link: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2018/11/16/chinese-scho...
RedisGraph Launch and Demo at Redis Day London [video]
You prob dodged a bullet then. We give out take home exercises (not my idea but whatever), and we tell the client we don't care which config mgmt you use just pick something you're comfortable with. We use TF+Ansible but we would never frown upon work that's something using Salt, Chef or CFEngine.
The Jupyter models is hard for this, but if you only allow in-order execution (like a repl, say IPython whose kernel is used in Jupyter) you could do something like this.

We tried plugging in the rlundo tool https://github.com/thomasballinger/rlundo to IPython, it works ok, see http://ballingt.com/interactive-interpreter-undo/ for the long story.

I wanted something like this for live programming and felt like I needed to write my own interpreter because the behavior you need is so different: http://dalsegno.ballingt.com
> But it’s not industrial the ways we are.

I find this very unlikely. If you do some computer simulations, you can see that if "life" has minimal amount of freedom to get modified, it diverges to really interesting objects and exploits a lot of phenomenon happening in its virtual universe. Something as absurdly unlikely and crazy as symbiogenesis occured multiple times in our planet. It's unlikely if there is life out there, it'd stay simple and invisible.

My hunch is that life is extremely rare, if it exists at all. We know from computer science that evolution is a very good method to find ever-improving local optimas, so to me it's very likely if life exists, it'll evolve to galactic empires in a few billion years. And thus thanks to Fermi paradox, this convinces me that life must be extremely rare, or the Great Filter must be very effective or intergalactic communication/travel must be extremely expensive.
But people do science. We bring our bias, limited vision, and our politics and opinions.
What "free market" are you talking about? The US has been moving rapidly towards being a highly regulated social democracy over the last 50 years. Central economic planning by local, state and federal government has steadily replaced the right to private contract and property.

I recommend you look at the raw statistics on:

1. The absolute level of inflation adjusted social welfare spending per capita.

2. The percentage of GDP consumed by social welfare spending by the government.

3. The number of regulations in force.

Between 1960 and 2018.

It seems like the more social democracy fails, the more the alleged dominion of the free market is blamed. You would think from hearing all these laments about "neoliberalism" that we're in a free market paradise, when exactly the opposite is the case.

>>They would have to confront the idea that much of what they are told is highly influenced advertising and propaganda purposefully created to mislead them into one action or another.

You can start by taking your own advice.
even if one thinks they are "trading" on insider info, how does one think companies gobble up parcels of land into a bigger parcel piece by piece. By also trading on insider info (that they want the whole large area). It's not considered illegal or immoral in a real estate context.
That’s interesting. Perhaps the intention is to completely ruin the employee’s dignity and will (and render them more compliant) by forcing them to beg several fat middle managers for the privilege of doing their own job.
What Einstein meant by ‘God does not play dice’
I used to do that kind of thing when I just got out of school but later took it all out. I had heard the algos were smarter and went through hoops to take all that out. Guess that 'hack' still works.
I think only Amazon Europe account was leaked. We have account in couple of countries and I got the email only on my UK account.
Tyler Trent Fights Cancer
Wonder if there'd be any lisp or clojure dsl that compiles down to fairly minimal c/cpp, so that you wouldn't have to have the cuda program be a string
I have successfully reinitialized enough Win32 in a forked process to be able to throw up a MessageBox, but without source I'd never be able to confidently state that every Win32 call would work correctly.
Don't care. Coding competition ruined the fun of coding. And whiteboard coding interviews are bullshit.
Cool, is your implementation public somewhere? I'd be interested to see it.
Because as resumes coalesce around their (admittedly, really fucking terrible) conception of what a good resume looks like, they all start becoming completely indistinguishable from each other, which makes them worse. As someone who's sat on both sides of the table (screening resumes, interviewing, hiring, and applying/being interviewed) a lot recently, the worst thing you can be isn't being inexperienced, it's being boring.
Who cares? There's no shortage of condos for sale! In case anyone is deeply concerned about the moral implications (because there are 0 legal implications), there's actually a luxury condo glut in NYC right now. https://therealdeal.com/2018/08/19/condo-glut-is-to-blame-fo...
Man, why do people insist on using others to host their tor hidden services? It seems like the last thing you'd want or need to do. It's super simple to set up a hidden service from your home computer and host. I've been putting all my clear web sites on tor as well for years. Lots of bot traffic but never any problems and plenty of real traffic too.
I think that an ability to extend (or, in a sense narrow down) the language via compiler plugins says something good about the compiler's architecture.

GHC was designed as a research-friendly compiler, and it seems to stay so.
> I'm sure I'm way behind 99% of the people on HN

Two things about this:

First, I seriously doubt you're in the bottom 1% of HN users when it comes to programming ability. Not only is it statistically very unlikely, but there are many people who read and participate here who aren't programmers at all. While I realize you probably didn't mean that statement literally, in my experience being self-deprecating is something of a self-fulfilling prophesy. You're almost certainly more skilled than you believe yourself to be.

Second, speaking of skills as "ahead" or "behind" without context isn't very precise. I'm mostly a back-end web dev, but I have a little over a decade of experience. A brand new developer fresh out of a bootcamp that teaches modern React would be "ahead of me" if the task were to build a SPA front-end for an existent API. On the other hand, I would be far "ahead of them" if implementing the API itself was part of the task.
Without giving you the address Amazon would find it difficult to argue that you are the seller and not them. Which will probably become relevant in a case about counterfeits on Amazon's site.
>you can get a decent phone for under $150.

A smart phone? If so please provide a link. The "cheap" smart phones I have found are $300 ish, which ins't terrible, but this general trend towards a $1,000 smart phone is insane. I am not spending more for a phone than the cost of a decent laptop.
https://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/28/business/that-line-at-the...
I'm usually an amazon hater (with a shiny amazon prime subscription...) but I agree with you, this is a stretch even by amazon hater standards.
I'm tempted to do this, but openly. Like a bold heading that says "Buzzword Section." Maybe with a parenthetical explanation that although it makes no sense, there are no lies in it.
Improving your resume is a nice tag for also getting competitive intelligence.
> any online retailer has to be trusted

Well that is down right crazy. Most sellers are people in their garages drop shipping 3PL. I'd trust them if they were background checked....maybe
Hah, no we didn't use Mongo at all. It was just the lie.
I really wish clojure would adopt a heredoc syntax to make embed language snippets and docstrings nicer.
The major downer is the lack of a quality small screen phone that supports current-day phone networks.

If the SE was updated with the latest modem, it would be wonderful. A CPU/RAM bump would be welcome but not strictly necessary. Leave the headphone jack alone, or if you must remove it at least replace lightning with usb-c for consistency's sake.

I'd pay whatever it costs for the equivalent XR - being larger is an anti-feature IMO.
Labview has m-script (which is matlab like)
Eh, not really. If he had been killed by a random brick thrown by a random protester, we could credit that to "protest". Louis XVI was arrested by the national army while attempting to flee the nation. After months of imprisonment by civil authorities, he was sentenced by a national assembly to be executed in the normal fashion for the time. That's really stretching the definition of "protest".
> It's management's decision to get as much blood out of their workers as possible.

Isn't this why the majority of SaaS products these days are about delivering ultra-granular analytics? We already use them to maximize purchasing behaviour from consumers, so why wouldn't we use it to maximize worker productivity, aka squeeze as much output out of the workers per unit of input as possible?
I think it got black holed by the mods.
>Rovelli's position is that time is not fundamental, not that it does not exist. It emerges from something more fundamental.

Well, I'm a layperson, and I'm guessing you are a physicist (or at least much more inclined towards it than I am), so I'm hesitant to argue here, but...

If that's what Rovelli means, he really should say that :)

I've got The Order of Time in front of me and in it, as well as plenty of articles and interviews (targeted at laypeople), he says time doesn't exist, uses phrases such as 'A world without time', etc. Good portions of the book are prose where he muses on things like the meaning of life if time doesn't exist. He calls our perception of it an illusion.

> our block universe

In Order of Time he specifically says '[Our world] is not a "static" world, or a "block universe"'.

I feel disconnected here, because I'm definitely not able to argue with what you're saying, but Rovelli's words from a book 23 years newer than your referenced article, seem to directly contradict what you're arguing - he explicitly states he does not believe we live in a block universe.

>Galaxies probably don't cease to exist at the moment they cross out of our causal cone with the metric expansion, or soon afterwards. We exist even though there are observers who saw our ancestors cross out of their causal cones. Do you think the density and spectrum of the CMB evolve very differently for them and for us? Do you assert that such a question is meaningless? Do you think Rovelli does? (If so, why do you think that?)

No, I am saying specifically that saying something is happening /now/ when it is outside of our light cone is a meaningless statement. It's not a matter of whether or not something exists when outside of our light cone (Though in some ways, as it can never effect us, it might as well not), but whether or not something distant can happen now. It doesn't even need to be outside of our light cone - just far off. 'A present that is common throughout the whole universe does not exist. There is a present that is near to us, but nothing that is "present" in a far-off galaxy. The present is a localized rather than a global phenomenon."

Early on in the book, Rovelli argues that the concept of "now" or the present really only applies on a scale that's about the size of the Earth.

As for what I believe, I'm not sure. I think Rovelli makes compelling arguments. But I could say the same about Smolin and others. I think I lean towards Rovelli's interpretation, or at least what I (hopefully!) understand of it.

I'm perfectly willing to accept that you could be totally correct here and that I am wildly off base - but what I don't understand is why Rovelli's non-science paper writings seem to argue very differently than what you are saying. Am I misinterpreting them? Is he dumbing things down for the layperson? Why does he explicitly say we do not live in a block universe, and that time doesn't exist?
How do you anonymously host a service from your home computer? I'm new to all this.

I also checked out your site. I hope to be at your level of expertise one day.
It really does. Thankfully I have a 2016 mustang, and would have a really hard time justifying a new one to myself.

I am looking forward to my next car though. I am thinking I will probably get something from the 90s. Maybe a jeep.
No.

Per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropospheric_ozone you see that ozone in the lower atmosphere is a pollutant.

We want lots of ozone up in the stratosphere. Blocking UV, well away from us.
Most important tidbit in there is actually nothing to do with Amazon HQ2 but rather his recapitulation of a subtlety of insider trading which most people do not realize or necessarily share his perspective on:

>Insider trading, I often say, is not about fairness; it’s about theft. There is no general prohibition on the use of material nonpublic information in stock trading, and in fact investors are supposed to find out new facts, and trade on them, so that prices can be more informative. Insider trading law is really about the misappropriation of nonpublic information that belongs to someone else — a corporate CEO using information that belongs to shareholders, or a therapist using information that belongs to her client — rather than the “level playing field” that prosecutors love to talk about.
Sanitize your inputs...
Thanks for finding the paper.

Sucking almost 3A out of the battery, it's not going to fly very long, but that's also a fairly inefficient power converter design. There is lots of room for improvement.
http://chiselapp.com/ is where most of the active TCL repositories are stored, at least for fossil. For git, it seems to be a mix of GitHub and gitlab.
I live in a remote area, and so far have found the only carrier that has any signal at all at my house is Verizon. So I am pretty much stuck with them, unless I get at network extender/signal booster for another carrier and install it in my house, which I am not too keen on doing.
As a symbolic AI scientist I am really interested in making graph read/writes faster for fighting the complexity curve.

The graal seems to be graph processors (ASICS) e.g this Darpa project that promise a x1000 vs current x86.
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/darpa-intel-qualcomm-graph...
But I never thought of using à DSL (excluding openCL that I consider far less domain specific) and that is an excellent Idea, the benchmarks are promising !

But I Wonder How does this compare to those algorithms run on a modern GPU (or even with HSA)
"We've fired the missiles, sir"

"Excellent... when do they hit?"

"According to our calculations... ohhh about 6 weeks from now"
They speak to this right in the article.

> but the Journal reports that one brokerage firm sold nearly 150 units just last week, 15 times its normal volume.
https://bps.space/ has some additional details, including the flight computer that does thrust vectoring (on a model rocket!).

This makes me want to build model rockets again..
And a very welcome story after uBeam & Theranos.
I didn't say it's a language problem. The problem is having to run arbitrary, not vetted code from random sources just to book a flight or order a pizza.
To be fair, the title says classic and contemporary. Probably would have been better to just say "High Profile" or something instead.
I am in Eastern Europe and have account only in US Amazon. This morning I also got that email..
I thought of the same episode. Either way it seems very dystopian no matter who is providing the ratings to influence citizen's prospects.
The mempool also spikes in high vol environments because of all the arb opportunities and systematic trading involved
It seems fairly obvious that a right to privacy will have to be enshrined into the law at some point, if for no other reason than to preserve a diversity of thought and perspective in society. Unfortunately, it seems that no amount of individual tragedies will move the public toward useful regulations on certain issues due to emotional, cultural, and financial factors (see gun control) and it remains to be seen whether or not digital privacy is one such issue.
Principles for Dummies
The point is that by not reporting the number, they can let the number slip without pissing off investors. I am not sure how letting that number slip will lead to higher quality though.
It's sad that there isn't a single item related to implementing a compiler or an interpreter here.

That is how I got interested in computer science, and I can bet, a significant fraction of the others here had that experience too.
I think "Line at the Ferrari dealer" is pure clickbait.

Additionally, this is talking about a macro trend across an industry, while the current article is talking about 2 employees out of hundreds of thousands.

The article from 15 years ago is also not discussing the legality.
Is there a good resource for learning the design principles/best practices. When I look at the design I’m immediately wondering why the thrusters aren’t longer, but I’m sure others have thought a lot about this and I’d like to read up. Or is most of this still primarily located in scientific journals?
There's nothing particularly wrong with incentives via gamification to retain and encourage usage of their platform. Drivers drive more, riders have more rides, Uber and Lyft make money, drivers sign up more drivers for rewards. It's a classic viral loop
How does this relate to the visual programming stuff? Can you go back and forth or is it a separate thing?
I live in USA, have only ever used Amazon in USA, and I got the email.
Talk about poor timing to go into crypto
The President of the United States has specifically stated that he favors doing trade deals with the leaders of nations who buy his real estate properties.

If I had to measure, using myself for scale, how little of a shit I give about two nerds at an internet company buying condos where they may be working next, it would be at about bacterium-level.
Barnes and Noble Plans to Open 15 New Stores in 2019
Would explain the billions of new spam emails I've been receiving.
Except you need missiles to go much faster than ion thrusters can go. 11 mph is enough for someone to shoot down your missile with a rifle.