skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The user ought to be interested in a term Microsoft has loved in the past. Total cost of ownership. If a user is looking at paying $35 for hardware + $119 for software and doesn't have a desire to pay for real support, as opposed to the imaginary support you get as an oem pc buyer, and we aren't interested in calculating the cost of power and net connectivity etc then the TCO is $154.

For $154 you can get a lot more computer with linux. The implication is that for cheap hardware only very cheap software is competitive because people willing to pay that much money would be better spending it on a better computer.

The unit cost of duplicating software is so close to zero that it might as well be zero and people are willing to give away great software so selling it becomes a challenge.
Second one I got was an Indian man.
WebApp vs Mobile makes sense there would be differences. From the conversations here, Electron apps use the same code (???) as the web app would. Kind of an apples oranges thing
People don't want to live in the valley. With their push on cloud it makes sense to bolster their regional offices as sales territories solidify. An added bonus is most teams will have a bit more flexibility in where headcount is- just look at the growth in Boulder, Austin and Chicago the last couple of years.
Well, if you actually read the article, it says they’re not just spending it on vast estates, but are building more data centers around the country, plus building new product development campuses in NY and SV.
>Blame the laws, not the company.

Why not both? If I move to a country that legally allows me to do something horrible, people will rightfully call me a bad person regardless of the legality of the action.
Believe me, I'm constantly checking for updates from EHT. And there is a radio photo of Sgr A* in the article, near the end.
Yup, I already read that before asking, hence the question. Is remote really that big?
Good question! Small team for now.
Me: https://twitter.com/tylertringas
Head of Platform: https://twitter.com/bentossell
Amazing group of mentors: https://earnestcapital.com/earnest-mentorship/
We shouldn't care what economists think, only what they can prove. Evidence-based policy is what is needed.
Exactly. Nothing wrong going on here.
Anyone helping early stage startups is doing god's work as far as I'm concerned. Technology is what pushes the world forward and anything that helps that is, with limited exceptions, a very positive thing.

My questions/comments/criticisms after a brief look, please correct me if I'm wrong:

1. It funds startups that already have growing revenue, which is fine, but that's the hardest part by far. So it might filter out all of the best startups who can just choose to grind it out a few more months, having already overcome the biggest hurdle. Taking the calculated risk of funding startups that are pre-product/market fit is where the real magic happens.

2. It's legally complicated which means a smart founder would definitely want a lawyer (unlike SAFE), which could be quite costly. It could (potentially) scare off future investment as well.

3. It converts to equity (optionally, which seems scary) to a hefty ~10% valuation, which is more than YC takes in exchange for a much, much better deal because they all but guarantee successful startups will raise a large amount of money at a very high valuation. In effect this costs a startup maybe 3-10x more than YC on the VC route.

4. Like TinySeed, I think it also ignores the inescapable fact that startup investing is a hits-based business regardless of what anyone wants it to be. One out of 50 investments is going to be worth more than the other 49, so it makes sense to align interests with reality. By focusing on getting paid from the biggest winners, you can afford to be much more generous and high-minded with the rest.

5. Also like TinySeed, it doesn't seem to account for just how high living expenses can be for founders with families, etc. Having to negotiate with your investors about paying rent is going to feel a lot like having a boss, which could be very demoralizing for founders. YC is extremely careful not to make founders feel like employees for good reason.

6. Having to negotiate the amount of investment also seems less then ideal. Knowing exactly what the deal is would be much better than having to haggle as the start of the relationship.

7. Wildcard: have you considered evolving this into an ICO-funder for startups? Equity crowdfunding with an initial seed investor seems like a huge idea.

I applaud the effort and hope it becomes huge. I wouldn't bother commenting if I didn't!
The identity function is a perfect hash function, no quotes needed. Several programming languages uses it as the default function for hashing integers. But it doesn't have a good avalanche which is important for some use cases. You could, for example, use it to make guessing urls harder.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avalanche_effect
When prepared correctly, foie gras is the single best-tasting food I've ever had.
The SDM is unambiguous: enclaves can access any memory that the host process can access. The enclave can also modify most of its callers registers, including RSP, RBP, and RIP. The Intel SDK uses these ability for reasons that might be considered unwise.
You got it. When these birds were thought up, that was state of the art. Two years ago a dude I'm elmering told me he heard brazilians when he was tuning around with his sdr toy, so maybe they are still doing it today.

The uplink freqs are not any that are licensed for any amateur use, these flights are operating between 250-350 MHz.

Edit: look what I found http://mt-milcom.blogspot.com/p/alphabravocharlie-frequency-...
Neural variability limits adolescent skill learning
The WSJ article says there's a criminal complaint too, in New Jersey. https://www.wsj.com/articles/sec-accuses-ex-apple-executive-...
You're dismissing my point and deflecting with something that I neither referenced nor disputed.

You made this claim:

>the "anti-brown people" narrative absolutely dissolves in the face of the massive overrepresentation of Indians and other Asians.

Nothing you have said constitutes absolute dissolution of this narrative. The one measurable claim you made was overrepresentation of Indians and other Asians, which holds no water in light of drastic underrepresentation at the senior level. After I pointed that out, you responded with why you believe that discrepancy could be justified. How does that constitute irrefutable evidence that the narrative is misguided?
The Pulp Magazine Archive
When trying to detect ad fraud, one problematic scenario is that of replay attacks. It's basically when a scammer records human behavior on a site, and then replays a mix of actual their sessions to fraudulently click an ad.

The Quora answer is interesting but it's not clear to me whether the "I'm not a robot" box cannot be defeated in a similar manner.
The pollution issue can be solved by simply regulating polluting businesses or just banning them.
Fortunately no amount of US law restricts a foreign company.

The U.S. Tax law stops at the U.S border. The U.S. needs to compete at the global level. Ireland's tax law is not by coincidence.

Fortunately companies have a choice for now.
I agree, with one slight correction:

"...than Amazon's money does."
I think a lot of people do blame the laws, that's why they want to change the tax laws to make this sorry of dodging harder.
+1

The best rebuttals I've heard are

1. Potentially reduces accounting compliance (but the argument is that public companies have this either way)

2. Less frequent taxation (only when owners have capital gains)

3. Creates a greyer area for business expenses, that businesses might fight

4. Regulatory market that REITs currently enjoy (that effectively have this)

The major arguments for it are transparency, simplification, more progressive passive income taxes.
If you use a stopwatch or equivalent, the user may get weirded out. Maybe do a rough-count in your mind and take a note, but to emphasize time above other factors may be a mistake, except for special domains or circumstances.
A "minimum viable product" can raise the range of capital discussed on the FAQ via crowdfunding (Kickstarter, etc).

Not every product category is suitable for crowdfunds, but for those that are, a successful Kickstarter campaign is also an effective marketing launch, worth a small fortune by itself.
This isn’t relevant here. Enclaves can access any memory that the user host process can, plus their own memory. The kernel is off limits, except insofar as the enclave can exploit Meltdown.
Those images are infuriating!

Click all boxes with traffic lights. Ok, well, this one box just barely contains the bottom right corner of the traffic light. Click. Nope, that little corner didn't count. Try again. Ok, well on this one, the right side of the traffic light is only barely over the line, so I won't click it. Nope, that sliver of the light mattered this time. MF!
Do Women Age Slower Than Men?
As if to prove my point:

https://itep.org/amazon-in-its-prime-doubles-profits-pays-0-...
[Didn't read the doc properly]
Yes, everything inside the canvas is part of the same giant automaton, and follows the same rules.

In fact, @imode, if you want to look at one of the smaller state machines, look at the scoreboard code in https://github.com/ericu/CellCulTuring/blob/master/scoreboar.... It's a seven-segment display with some tweaks and a hack to show the game-over message. I initialize the scoreboards by drawing the segments in hard-to-see colors so that they're invisible when they're turned off. Each cell of the scoreboard always knows the current score; they propagate the updates to each other as fast as the find out about them. Each segment has an ID [a different color field] and a lookup table that tells for which scores e.g. ID 3 should be visible. So then when each segment is supposed to be visible, it sets a high-order color bit to show up. That's one of the few places that I actually have to set bits just for visibility. For the ball, wall, paddle, and such I just chose the bits such that you could see what the cells were naturally--I didn't have any bits to spare. For the sub-space of bits allocated to the scoreboard, I've got plenty extra. I was considering doing a fancier font using a 1-hot encoding instead of 7-segment, but I wanted to get this done.
What are the major reinforcement learning achievements and papers?
Yes, all of your more traditional mediums will start with black and white for the same reason that color is vastly more complex. No one should start to paint in color until they've got a good foundation on just getting shapes correct.

While I haven't taken any formal classes in photography, I started learning around 2000 which is about the time digital started taking over. I started with film, then quickly moved to digital. None of the digital materials I used ever recommended starting with B&W. And the more formal classes I've looked at (but not taken) don't appear to start with B&W either. At the very least, they cover a lot of color stuff, where the older film classes only covered B&W, color was considered very advanced.

I honestly think B&W photography is actually harder than color when talking digital. That's because the scene you see has color in it, and it can be tough to imagine what shapes will be dominant when converted to B&W.
Being able to income average by carrying forward previous losses is not a ridiculous loophole. Many businesses have a much longer cycle of investment/payoff than a year. Boeing, for example, when they develop a new airplane like the 747, can have massive losses for 8 years or so before turning a profit.
"How about you just log into my spying system?"
As I said in my comment on the Netflix tax thread [1], not necessarily.

Highly simplified example: if you spend $100 million over five years on inputs, all while receiving no revenue, and then sell your gargantuan output product (say, a mega-robot) in the sixth year for $100 million, then you haven't yet made a profit -- even though your books show a $100 million profit in the sixth year. Paying no taxes in that year would be reasonable.

If anything, my understanding is that corporate tax law is unusually harsh about such long-term projects, limiting how many years you can carry forward losses.

The specifics of how they got to $0 taxes matter, and not all reasons are shady. Some are, of course, like deducting arbitrarily high IP licensing fees to your foreign sockpuppet subsidiary. In that case, sure, hit 'em with both barrels.

But please, attack them for the right reason.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19097415
Nasa's Opportunity Rover Dies on Mars
My wife is a genetic counsellor, and as part of her work she regular has to use this one formula to calculate the probability of this one genetic condition I can't quite recall.

Because of the complexity and the importance of getting it right, it took her around 10-15 minutes every time she needed to use it. She, and her colleagues, are pretty much luddites so a basic calculator was their only tool.

I spent 10 minutes writing the formula in javascript, dropping it an html file, and running a few test.

She absolutely loved it, and shared it with the rest of the staff. Apparently some counsellors at another clinic heard about it and requested it as well. Someone thanked me at her Christmas staff party.

In terms of effort to build vs. hours saved and end user appreciation, I don't think I'll ever top it.
Opportunity Zones make this decision amazing for them.

Every large company with their eyes open will be buying real estate as part of that tax plan benefit.
I told a room of 300 people that I see a therapist
The majority of the vehicles in the Tesla data set suffered from missing data or other problems that made it impossible to say whether the activation of Autosteer increased or decreased the crash rate. But when QCS focused on 5,714 vehicles whose data didn't suffer from these problems, it found that the activation of Autosteer actually increased crash rates by 59 percent.

Sounds about right. Some jackass was showing off Autopilot last week in the parking garage, and promptly crashed into a parked car.
Absolutely, and I wish you the best of luck in representing your views to your father. I know how painful such a disconnect can be.

This is a good intro to the broad issue of volcanoes and climate: http://www.cotf.edu/ete/modules/volcanoes/vclimate.html

A more in-depth treatment of sulfur aerosols in the upper atmosphere: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratospheric_sulfur_aerosol...

Here’s a breakdown of all the gasses typically releases during eruptions and their various effects: http://volcanology.geol.ucsb.edu/gas.htm

If there’s anything else I can do, please don’t hesitate to ask.
ProPublica published an article that is related to this a couple months ago. It's worth a read: https://www.propublica.org/article/how-the-irs-was-gutted

Furthermore, one of the authors was just on a truly excellent episode of the podcast Why is this Happening?, which does a great job of summarizing the article and offering additional insights. https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/can-we-tax-rich-jesse-...
How about essential services like affordable healthcare, education, job training, housing and transportation? Every other major country has no trouble providing these, only the US.
The Melian dialogue (basically might makes right) is probably the earliest and one of the most realistic descriptions of the rationale used by conquerors to justify their actions [0]. People haven't changed much in the nearly 2500 years since Thucydides' death, it's just been a constant stream of new excuses in the form of race, religion, and nationalism. That, in a period of history that we believe to be significantly less advanced than our own, he laid bare an essential truth is a credit to him. He deserves a place on the bookshelves of all, right beside Machiavelli's "The Prince".

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Melos#The_Melian_Dial...
> I'm really sick of articles like this...If shit like this bothers you, write your local representatives and ask them to change it.

Articles like this are the reason why people write their representatives.

Your comment is a subtle exhortation to do absolutely nothing about the tax policies that lead to results like this.
This might surprise you, but it actually has to do with what traffic coming out of TOR looks like. Well in excess of 90% of traffic coming out of TOR is spam, bots, malicious, or some combination!

Google isn't going out of their way to punish you for trying to protect your privacy. They're trying to stop unwanted traffic. By unfortunate happenstance, you appear to be disguising yourself in the exact same way a shocking amount of bad traffic is.
reminds me of martha stewart
Look, they're bent pipes because it's faster, cheaper and more scalable. If you do authentication, you need the satellite to process and validate each packet before repeating it. That means that suddenly you need a processor - a beefy one, to handle so many signals at once and understand the modulation, and you have a delay between receiving and sending. You also have new failure modes to worry about, new components that can fail, protocol lock-in, maintenance, etc.

Bent pipes are perfect. Not everything needs to be overengineered to hell. A handful of pirates aren't a big enough deal to boil the ocean with a DSP. And assuming that the signal is Manchester-coded, you can defeat the pirates in future models with a simple analog filter to remove their noise.
The CSS transitioncancel event is coming to Chrome and Safari
The last damn thing we need is a government determining what is and is not hate speech.
Thanks, I will research it. Read a lot of papers so I can’t remeber if I’ve seen that theory or not!
> An indexed array is a degenerate example in which the "hash" (pointer) is presumably a lot smaller than the key (index).

No, it isn't.

The "0" in arr[0] is (in most cases) a 32-bit signed integer. If you're using a signed 32-bit int to index your array, you're using a hash length of 32-bits. You won't be able to index more than 2.1 billion unique items without changing your data type. Even if you're not using all those bits, you're still using 32-bits to index them. The fact that you're storing something that may have more than 32 bits of information is irrelevant, because your array (a naive hash) doesn't consider them real values.

If you want to store a set of N elements in an array or perfectly hash a set of N elements, then the set of all possible indexes or hashes must have at least N elements.
Let me rephrase

Individuals are valuable regardless of group memberships. Therefore it makes sense to avoid leaving large groups of people behind, regardless of which group it is.
Fare thee well.
Second ITEP article on HN recently that bemoans a tech giant not paying taxes, without any substantive discussion of why. Corporations don't just decide to not pay tax; Amazon is operating within the law.

It's nothing but punditry to decry Amazon's tax rate without seriously discussing why it's so low and whether that underlying reason is good policy or not.
This article repeatedly calls out "Congress" and "Trump" as the major responsible parties. I don't see how that could be conveyed much more clearly.
> idles at 165mb of memory usage

I was starting to build an Electron app recently. My "hello world" app was using about 200mb, and so I was thinking things looked pretty good, and it wouldn't be too heavy if I was careful.

Then I noticed there were actually more system processes involved with the app that I realized, it was really using about 400mb.

Then I starting resizing the "hello world" app's window. I maximized it, minimized it, and shook my mouse furiously making the window all kinds of shapes and sizes. After this the app related threads were using about 1gig of memory. Just for a "hello world" app.

Now I'm always hesitant to accept claims that an Electron app isn't using much memory. Are you sure you're looking at all the related system threads?
Linus Tech Tips had an interesting video[1] last year about a Zotac micro-PC which costs something like $180[2]. It got me thinking, if the included Windows license cost $100 (though I'm sure they get it cheaper as an OEM) then the device would fall into the Raspberry Pi's "a computer for less than $100" range. When dealing with tiny cheap hardware, the cost of Windows no longer fades into the background (like it does with a $1000-2000 workstation) and becomes the most expense part of the device. The "free-as-in-beer"dom of Linux really stands out in these kinds of situations.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32g1ByDRzO0
[2] https://www.amazon.com/ZOTAC-Fanless-Dual-Core-1-10GHz-ZBOX-...
While this might be the legal reality (I'm no expert), what exactly is the EU's recourse should a US business be found in violation?

If you have a US business, hosted with US servers, using US banks, accepting payment in US dollars, with no intention to operate an office or hire employees in Europe, what's the EU going to do about a GDPR violation? How does it enforce and collect a fine?

Again, I'm no expert, but it doesn't seem to me like the EU can do anything in that circumstance.
never implied they did anything illegal. im pretty sure their numbers this year is 100% legal as well. Nor im implying they did anything wrong, they're doing whats best for them which you and I would have done. I just refute the notion its "fair" that the tax structure is quite harsh on private individuals (id go as far as claiming is dependant on private individuals) but creates the situation for corps that using clever accounting to pay a fraction of the supposed sum is considered graciously courteous.
So what are you suggesting; Amazon should voluntarily send a bonus check to the fed? That's just ridiculous. I'm also not convinced that following the current tax law is "something horrible".
Taxing pollution has nothing to do with income taxes. Taxing pollution is "internalizing the externalities", not "they made some money let's take a slice."