skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Business acumen, access to credit, a market niche, decent regulatory environment... and a bunch of other stuff. Mobile barbershops might not even be legal in many places. It is a very regulated area. More training to cut hair than be an EMT.
> We all know that BASIC is a load of rubbish.

I don't think this is right - BASIC was quite well designed considering these machines' capabilities and projected use. The model of a BASIC-powered home computer was essentially that of a programmable calculator with "computer" features tacked on. You could start by PRINT-ing math expressions at the REPL, and these would give you the sort of result you would expect, using software floats. Then you could make more complex programs, using simple line numbers, variables, and a handful of reserved words like PRINT/?, INPUT, IF, GOTO, FOR. You also had PEEK, POKE, SYS and/or USR to access the hardware directly. Sure, in theory FORTH might have been more elegant, but its RPN-like approach was far from intuitive.
> The purpose of the IPO is to fund the company

IPOs traditionally had four purposes:

(1) Introduce a company's securities to public-market investors;

(2) Price said securities;

(3) Let existing investors sell; and

(4) Raise money for the company.

> Taking the long term view, maybe this IPO is just fine

Analysts overstate the importance of IPO dynamics. Facebook had a terrible IPO and. Snap had a great first day [1]. That said, burning an entire class of investors (retail) on day one, particularly for a brand like Lyft, isn't a great show. It's also reasonable to call out the bookrunner, JPMorgan, as a bad choice for future IPOs.

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2017/03/02/snapchat-snap-open-trading-p...
Burgers are made from mince meat though, so I am not sure what you mean?
Have you tried follow your heart vegan cheese?
Yes, and the expected value is positive. Unfortunately for us, the banks that underwrite the IPO choose who to allocate the shares to, and they would prefer to allocate them to clients that have a history of not dumping the stock and/or lending shares out for shorts.
No, it's not. This is a myth that refuses to die, and like the "one big thing" everyone seems to "know" about mobile security.
Most of those people were heading up enormous companies. Not small fish at all.
I’d be curious how much stock the IPO institutions sold after the opened. Do they tend to hold on to most of their stock for a long time? It could be that a bunch of people who were unable to participate in the IPO but bought the stock when it became listed on the market and popped were the main losers.

Also, that graphic doesn’t make Uber and Lyft seem all that overvalued - does it really seem unusual for Lyft to do as well financially as Delta?
Instantly burning through invested money seems pretty on-brand for Lyft.
So heart disease is the #1 killer because people don't eat enough meat? This is nothing but a conspiracy theory that somehow became popular in HN. Mainstream science continues to support that a diet high in whole plants is the best way to prevent heart disease.
> Now I wonder what will happen if I replace my personal daily driver MBP with a Linux box? 'cuz I'm not doing iOS dev right now and don't have to have a MBP. Just one little change because of dissatisfaction with status quo, and it might go either way.

This is one reason I'm all-in on Google. They were born on the web and have made it easy to use all their stuff on there.
Wow. Thats a pretty parallel path. Thanks for replying. I thought about doing an MS but didn't feel qualified since I hadn't covered much in undergrad and it was so long ago. I've thought about switching now that I've taken a significant amount of the CS core curriculum, but it would add an additional year at least to this whole process.

How did you go about getting the contract work? A service like upwork or similar?
Read this before commenting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_phone_radiation_and_hea...
I wonder how many of these hackers "just liked to solve interesting problems" for work.
There's a discussion on the mailing list about this, last updated a few months ago: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/django-developers/tr...
I'm kinda expecting vehicle cameras to be conscripted into this surveillance penchant on the back of road safety in some future autonomous vehicle standard.

But if you want to see 1984 play out - look at parenting and children today compared to children growing up in 1984. Many freedoms removed directly and indirectly by laws on the back of child safety.
> Replacing meat and dairy with vegetables

They weren't replaced with vegetables, they were replaced with sugar made from cheap overproduced corn, and hydrogenated oils. Neither of those is a vegetable.

We wouldn't have nearly the diabetes problems we have now if they were replaced by more fresh vegetables.
Next make a computer keyboard sound like a piano.
MXNet made simple: Pretrained Models for image classification
Ok, sure, what I wrote was an overstatement. But high FPS is mostly important for multiplayer first person shooters. Of course it would be amazing to have movie quality real time rendering in 120 FPS, but that is right now technologically impossible.

At the same time NVIDIA and hopefully AMD are at least trying to catch up with the techniques that movies are using for a long time, while I see games stopped at some point.

I watch new movies in IMAX whenever I can because I just love to see the new animations, even though I'm surrounded with teenagers and I feel that the stories are predictably dumb for me.
I'm a scientific programmer (not a ton of experience but understand history). It's changed a lot over time but it feels like nothing was much better than writing Fortran / bindings to Fortran until very recently (of course, take my recency bias into account). Yet, still, significant amount of "critical code" are written in Fortran. It's a slow-moving world in part because there is a lot of corner case complexity / significant logic. Parallelism in the form of CUDA / transparent GPU via Python is changing that a bit, but some algorithms are still not parallelizable.
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What a great idea. Are you updating the commit message with `git commit --amend` until you squash and push, or writing a novel on the side?

BDD acceptance tests can be written in a pseudo-prose syntax (and ideally, executed)
Did you go to UVa?
The key to memorization is repetition. Also, paying attention.

If I had to design a system that helps everyone with repetition, it would go like this:

- each concept must be explained and understood first (never progress to repetition unless you are sure the child groks it);

- afterwards, add the concept to your "spaced repetition" software (conveniently provided by the teaching institution);

- give kids some time at school when they can do the spaced repetition exercises (so it doesn't become an extra homework).

The first step avoids the kind of stupid memorization that people do when they don't have enough time, and that gives them problem (and even greater time pressure) in the future. This makes the entire thing more meaningful that current education.

The second step avoids the situations like "I felt pretty sure I understood it yesterday, but now I have no idea where to begin". This makes the entire thing more efficient.

> But don't do it in a way that makes things worse for the kids that are good at memorization.

Uhm, if you complete the spaced repetition exercise and there is still some time left, you can go play or read something. Or perhaps take a bonus lesson that is not a part of the standard curriculum.
The Hustle wrote a good article about this a little while ago: https://thehustle.co/Goodharts-Law
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At home genetic testing is changing what we think of as family. We keep seeing stories of people who are excited to learn they have a bunch of half-siblings, stories of people who are devastated to find out their parent was a serial cheater, stories of old people who are now living in fear that their indiscretion from fifty years ago might suddenly be found out.

It'll be interesting to see if this leads to a rise of therapists as people try to cope with these new realities.

Another interesting note, as an engineer, these stories are the perfect example of the need for forward secrecy. People shouldn't be able to discover your fifty year old secrets. :)
I have been casually following a few general advice kind of subreddits for a long time (/r/relationships, /r/relationship_advice, /r/parenting, /r/TwoXChromosomes, etc), and there's definitely been a noticeable uptick in posts seeking advice regarding a situation where a father found out that his children were not biologically his, or children found out that their biological parents/grandparents are not who they though they were, and other similar kinds of scenarios, because of cheap, easily available genetic testing kids.

It's a fascinating and entirely predictable turn of events, and it's not going away any time soon given how useful and profitable genetic testing is.

I suspect that a few decades from now, the notion of a time where no one could know for sure if their "genetic" family was really who they thought they were (unless you're a Baratheon) will seem quaint and romantic.
Tata/Infosys executives and their ilk all belong in prison with their company assets seized and redistributed.

There is a place for an H1B program. The effectively indentured servitude program as it exists today has no place in America.
They know where to look.
Rasterization already makes heavy use of similar acceleration structures to avoid overdraw.
> Beef only is responsible for 3% of greenhouse gasses in America. I'm not sure an "emission" tax would really affect the price all that much.

Are you only talking about directly? Because there is a huge amount of indirect costs, such as feed, transport, manufacturing.
Hi Ryan - I just applied. Don't see your email in your profile. I was hoping we could connect about the UX Designer role.
This is a wonderful announcement. I'm a bit torn since on the one hand I love Cloudflare and use them extensively for my domains/servers/websites but for personal secure browsing I've been using Mullvad + WireGuard Android (with 1.1.1.1 in the config file) for a long time and it's worked flawlessly.

I like both companies so maybe I'll just keep supporting Mullvad and recommend 1.1.1.1 to friends and family once Warp is in general availability (those "people who don't know what a VPN is").

Warp+ looks to be a solid business use case which I think fits well with Argo and their other offerings. Either way, it's good to have another proper VPN option outside of (self)hosted WireGuard.

Many thanks for democratizing this service, as is always the case with Cloudflare.
Thanks for the kind words. I'm glad it was helpful.
Not really. I'm essentially just pinning the version and then checking the updates before upgrading.
You might be thinking of the Atari ST, which became popular with musicians for that reason.
I would say that an engineer leaving can cost a company much more than the $60-70k you think the company would spend to keep them. You have to:
1) Hire a new person (this comes with costs!)
2) Train the new person (this takes time to do AND takes time away from the team for other tasks)
3) Pay the new person the going rate salary anyway
Nice idea, Didnt work on a local news site i went to ..... uninstalled
Given the slowing of Moore's law and transistor density, it seems unlikely to me that ray tracing will catch up with raster graphics in the next decade, at least not for consumer-level prices.

For the 10-series to 20-series upgrade, the highest end NVidia die size increased from 471mm^2 to 754mm^2 and the second highest went from 314mm^2 to 545mm^2. And that's with a move from 16nm to 12nm.

The 7nm NVidia card might have better economies of scale but unlike Navi, there's nothing rumored to be in the pipeline over the next year.
At least some of the people 'responsible' for this current state of affairs didn't want things to be this way.

In responsible hands, the graphs and metrics from Scrum or Kanban can be used to demonstrate how policies are actively hurting the development team. The information contained in them can tell more tales than just how we could have gotten slightly more done this week.

There may be a lack of responsible hands. It could be that it always has been that case, and you have to promote processes that don't presume an adequate and consistent supply of such hands. I don't know.

But I do know that marching fast to a drumbeat with no clear destination is road to disaster. That Scrum as it is, and even as it was described, is a giant dumpster fire and I lay an over-large portion of that blame at Schwaber's feet.
That’s a nice sentiment but in reality your vote doesn’t count because every politician and government puts these measures in at the first opportunity. You may think governments work for the people but that’s just theory.
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The graphic is simple... comps are one of the most naive method of valuing a company.
It would have been very nice to see comments with stack diagrams in the code examples. FORTH code without them becomes very hard to understand in very short order.
Any white-papers on how it works?

Just a bigger lens and better sensor? More than 20 frames of accumulation time? Some kind of "detail hallucinating" neural network?
If you're serious about russian, feel free to ping me.
I think the venn diagram sold me on the April foolsiness.
I am the author of the article.

To those commenters who write that deadlines are necessary because many, or most, employees are not motivated self-starters, I posit that this is a symptom of poor leadership, originally by their parents.

Yes, it's possible to force people who don't want to do things by using fear and control, but it's much more effective to use what we know about human nature to generate a 10x output that is sustainable and actually enjoyable.

Ineffective leadership is not an optimal solution for ineffective leadership. It's a downward spiral.

This reminds me of the people who spank their kids because they're disrespectful, but, as we know from research, spanking kids makes them disrespectful. Spanking kids just makes them pretend to be respectful while being increasingly disrespectful.
"I think much of JS's churn has been the problem that the UI primitives (HTML) are unsuitable to what people want to do."

I said the same when I wrote "The Problem With HTML":

Just to offer some perspective about where I’m coming from, I’ll start by saying that I think of these as tools that made it easy for beginners to be productive:

Hypercard

Visual Basic (obviously I mean the classic versions, before .NET. The stuff in the 1990s was genius)

Adobe Flash

Adobe Dreamweaver

I spent 1995 learning HTML and putting together simple websites. I was thinking this is something I’d like to do professionally. In 1996 my father and I went to a demo in New York City, where Adobe was introducing PageMill, their Web page creation software. My father was impressed. My dad wasn’t in the tech industry, but he was pretty smart about technology trends. He said, “Anyone who knows HTML just lost their job. This will replace the need to know any of the underlying technologies.” But that turned out to be wrong. Even now, in 2017, most companies building Web software still rely on individuals to hand-write their frontend code. Indeed, from the point of view of business productivity, everything has been going in the wrong direction.

http://www.smashcompany.com/technology/the-problem-with-html

What is curious is that the companies that have the money and resources to roll out something better than HTML have not done so. The biggest surprise here is Adobe, which owns Flash, which many people thought of as the future of the Web circa 2004. Why didn't Adobe roll out new basic network protocols to replace HTML, and perhaps also replace IP and TCP? I don't know. They had the resources to do it and instead they did nothing but stand around and watch their most important asset die.
Giving a journalist an OpenBSD laptop to replace their modern iPhone (or, I suppose, carefully-configured expert-vetted flagship Google Android phone) would be a really good way to get them owned up. For most users, laptops are much less secure than iOS devices. Most of the security engineering in OpenBSD protects users from other users, which is not a security barrier that matters to 90% of endpoint users. Most of the security engineering a modern smartphone protects a single user's applications from each other, which very much does matter.
Breakthrough-science is cool. But naming the tamed beast: Ass-Network is a late April-Fool, i hope :)

my 2 cents for the next breakthrough namefinding: virgin-ring, dudes-back, lone-snake, hikimori-party, wealth-dump, unsoviet, sciencefailedatsociety
In many cases you aren't allowed to short employer stock, it's sometimes in the employment contract you sign. In other cases, shorting your employer can get you investigated for insider trading. Also, your employer might fire you. Probably want to talk to an attorney before doing that in the future.
Yep suse is big in retail, IIRC they service about 70% of the top 100 retailers or something like that. Also the car industry seems to rely on suse quite heavily, and I think the US defense and airforce use SLES as well.
Didn't lyft itself say they have no idea if they can get to profitability? Wouldn't it make more sense to short lyft than invest in them? Ridesharing companies have been burning through investor money, and having a VERY hard time showing any real profits on the books, and with self-driving cars, the manufacturers will become their own rideshare, and likely change the model of car ownership to one of cars on demand.
> does it really seem unusual for Lyft to do as well financially as Delta?

Delta's operations threw off $7 billion of cash in their FYE 2018 [1]; Lyft's burned over $280 million [2]. In the same period, Delta's net income was almost $4 billion [a] while Lyft lost over $900 million.

Lyft is not doing as well financially as Delta. Instead, its investors are betting that it will--in the future--do much better than Delta is doing today.

[1] https://www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/27904/000002... page 56

[a] page 54

[2] https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1759509/000119312519... F-8

[b] F-4
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> If you’re happy, and oblivious to knowledge that you could be paid higher elsewhere, why would I as an employer bring it up?

Aren't we discussing the situation where an employee asks for a raise and it's refused? So the employee is already aware that something is missing and is bringing it up. If the employer ignores it, that's a recipe for unhappiness.

But even more than that, some employees are bad at asking for a raise for a variety of reasons, and might be unhappy about their pay yet feel uncomfortable bringing it up. There's a risk that it's easier for them to look for another job instead of asking for a raise directly. The employer giving them a raise without being asked for it, can prevent that, and make the employee happier and more likely to stay.

If you wait until the employee is unhappy enough to start looking elsewhere, the employer is already too late.
If the retail investors don’t like the price, they are not obligated to buy. Caveat emptor. They wanted to make a quick buck, and I guess that’s fine. It’s nice to want things. I feel precisely zero pity for them.
Yes, of course. I got a sunlight lamp and put it over my monitor. I actually went so far as sitting outside in the evening for an hour, every day. I also tried taking melatonin.

But the thing with insomnia is that it is self-reinforcing. You get conditioned to lying in bed awake, and that's what your brain then expects to do when you go to bed. And then you get anxious about it, which makes it worse. Once you have it, removing the original cause doesn't solve the problem.

In my defense, I worked under these conditions for five years before it became an issue.
I wonder what first world country would do that!
I do this with the Samsung QM49F. It's perfect and saves on desk space. I wanted the Dell but 43" was too small, soon I will get the 65" though as 49" is a bit small as well.
A "click a link in an email" exploit is probably not too expensive to burn on a journalist, and "click this link in this email" is absolutely one of the top 3 attack vectors for ordinary users.
If I wanted a lot of carbs with some protein, I could always eat quinoa or something. There's no shortage of options there. What's interesting here is a vegan protein source that's actually a nearly pure protein source.

When you are targeting specific macros for athletic reasons, a pure protein source is pretty much a requirement. During aggressive cuts, you require a tremendous amount of protein to prevent muscle wasting. For endurance athletes, low carb diets can be useful for increasing lactate threshold. There are also low carb requirements for diabetes and epilepsy.
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I heard the system in Southern Spain works quite well - some stuff here https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/electronic-health-records...
I recently experimented with Living Computer Museum's CDC 6500. It has Basic available, and it's remarkable how similar it is to C64 Basic.

In fact, if you have experience with the C64 you can use the CDC without any documentation.
Too many. Your comment probably sounds like snark to a lot of people but touches on a very real problem.
When I was vegetarian I really loved the Impossible burger when it was just coming out. I was amazed at how much it tasted like meat. Over time though it seems like most restaurants forgot how to cook them. I'd order one and it would be gray all the way through, cooked to hockey puck toughness. I stopped ordering them all together.

My guess is that as it was offered longer, fewer people would order it since it was no longer a novelty, so the cooks would forget that they don't need nearly enough time as a normal beef burger.

I'm no longer vegetarian but I'll definitely try v2 once it's more available.
Fair enough - thanks for clarifying.
The SEC is the one I would be worried about if I was a Lyft employee that was secretly hedging my locked up shares with put options.

Irregular options activity does get noticed and investigated, take a look at some SEC enforcement actions for insider trading: https://www.sec.gov/spotlight/insidertrading/cases.shtml