skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
His personal ownership was a problem as it created a conflict of interest between his personal property assets the the company, so you have scenarios where he is engaging in related party transactions [1], i.e., potentially entering into lease agreements at above-market rates, to benefit himself personally, and (as the sibling commenter pointed out), having highly valuable property assets, funded by company loans, that remain in his personal ownership even if WeWork goes out of businesses.

When the company owns the properties, that ceases to be the case, as there is no conflict of interest between property owner and occupier as they are one and the same.

He is (and was) still always legally obliged to act bona-fide in the interest of the company (i.e., act as much for the benefit of minority shareholders as his own).

It was just harder to scrutinise when he was both the majority shareholder of the company, and landlord for some of its properties. That is no longer the case.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Related_party_transaction
Very interesting concept. I found that the transitions were too quick for me to read the descriptions at the bottom of the page. It might be nice to set this transition interval or perhaps click to advance.
It is only bad for the sellers. If you are a buyer, it is great. You get your money back and get to keep the item unless it is a super expensive item.
If you divide the company into 30 fixed groups of people and then each group appoints a representative to the other groups, you've just created a hierarchy. If you want to avoid hierarchy at all costs, that means not allowing any one member in the group to be the leader or the representative to the other groups. I don't see how that's even possible, given that in almost every group of human beings you're going to have someone who wants to take charge.
> It's not like Google can promise to prop up the next Idi Amin

I wish this were the case, but western companies are constantly supplying both software and hardware to repressive regimes. Hell, weapons!

Though the fact that we believe that western tech companies can't make those promises means that there's at least public support for making this a reality
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You've listed a lot of technologies that people have used to create successful products with long life-cycles. In particular C, C++, Java, JavaScript, Qt, OOP... if anything is notably missing from your dumpster it's probably Adobe AIR.

Nothing in this industry lasts forever. I'd certainly rather inherit a Java/Swing or Qt app from the early '00s than an MFC or Carbon dinosaur.
Hindu Chauvinist party. Really? There are dozens of countries with Islamic constitutions. Do we call all their leaders Islamic nationalists? There is a serious effort to malign democratic norms in India unless it is only for Islam, which was the state of affairs for J&K. Hindus in Jammu and Ladakh which were part of the state of J&K were second class citizens. That has been removed. Property rights of females is also restored unlike the Kashmiri Sharia influenced constitution.

Kashmiri separatism is another in the line of Islamic jihadi separatism. It was co-opted by the Pakistanis because they only consider that Muslims can live ruled by Mullahs and Sharia and an Islamic constitution.

You will probably find 75% people in India or more in agreement with Modi's action. The whip of the largest opposition party quit his party because he agreed with BJP's actions. Remember that the resolutions passed parliament with 66% of votesin the Rajya Sabha and 84% in the Lok Sabha. That is greater than the numbers of the BJP so many other parties joined them in this.

India's 1.3 billion people will have no problem fighting another war with Pakistan if again attacked over Kashmir.

The international media might as well get used to it.
I'm not familiar with this particular research direction.

On the more general area Mallat has a good and approachable (not very technical) book on the area: "A Wavelet Tour of Signal Processing". Worth a look for anyone intrigued by wavelets.
Mesh networks please! Briar, Meshenger , heck maybe we need to make a cell phone app to provide internet connection sharing over WiFi and or Bluetooth ad hoc networks.

Can it replace full isps? Almost never. Can it enable light text based things like emails, ordering supplies or cashless trxns? Maybe...

The biggest problem is scale of course, having such a large geographic area would require most of the population to have this mesh app active at once plus several 'exit nodes' with access to actual isp traffic somewhere in other regions.

IDK this is a spitball reaction that I considered not posting as it doesn't seem very thought provoking like normal HN comments but if it Sparks discussion then it will have done its job.
The talent pool? I was hiring in LA and the pool was an inch deep and a mile wide. Lots of shifting through the bad to get to the good, and then good luck competing with google, Netflix, and to some degree Snapchat.
"The internet" may be a concept, but the router your part of the mesh connects to is a physical machine that may be out of power. The GP's questions remain valid and unanswered.
> It is absolutely true that Yahoo! never figured out how to turn Tumblr into a business and ending up losing its shirt on the investment.

Given that Yahoo never figured out how to turn search into a business, that speaks volumes of their ability to connect dots.
Amazon is paying dearly for that which is why amazon is getting so strict on sellers these days. Also the overall shopping experience on amazon is going to hell. Just look up something like a USB battery pack. You'll see dozens if not hundreds of dubious weird sounding packs for sale. I'm convinced that half of them don't even hold the amount of energy they claim to hold.
Are each contract's hedging instruments independently hedged some how? I read that you invest in markets that "go up" if housing goes down, but let's take the 2008 financial crisis how do you defend against a rolling collapse? Are the markets you're betting in truly independent from each other? How much failure in the markets can you weather? Copious amounts of secret sauce?

Seems like an awesome idea in principle...
What am I missing here? why are they doing this? There has to be some other gain somewhere else.
I recently had to use a bit of Scala for some load-testing, I've never had so much trouble doing something seemingly so trivial; in this case, sending a JSON HTTP request. It was honestly a matter of hours. Pretty humbling experience!
Possible explanations:

Everyday, I'm shuff-lin'.

or

Have you any idea how successful censorship is on TV? Don't know the answer? Hmm... successful, isn't it?
This is a fascinating idea, and reminds me of the dreaded [1] rewrite, where you rewrite the application because the new system will always be better in the new framework...

But this is different, if you write things simply, so the code can be ported easily. Then you're essentially making the code easier to share, without tightly coupling it to a specific platform... seems like a big win to me

[1] http://wiki.c2.com/?RewriteCodeFromScratch
I for one look forward to our federal overlords thinking they have any clue what kinds of transmissions deserve security /s.

Seriously though, the legal tradition just hasn't caught up to the idea that somebody can possess information outside their person that can't be forced into the eye of the law.

I've thought about this a lot and my best conclusion so far is "give up the encryption keys in exchange for immunity against legal cases that aren't yet open that the secured data might reveal, or you're guilty by default". Seems like the kind of thing prosecutors might think twice about, and it gives them a trump card in extraordinary circumstances. I don't love it, but all the other ideas i can come up with leave one party so heavily favored that either freedom dies or the government won't stop whining.
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There is no such thing in the Constitution. “The executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America.“ Contrast France’s Constitution, where there is a President (Title II) separate from the Government (Title III). To the extent there is a civil service trying to be independent of the President, “deep stars” is a colorful but not altogether inaccurate term.
I was thinking of a another counter-argument:

Should we allow prisons in the united states to have "master keys" or "back doors" to allow firemen to evacuate prisoners in the case of fire?
Should be titled "The Usefulness of Reinforcement Learning in Academic Finance", as I don't see the usefulness to real finance. Too many assumptions, short-cuts etc.

That is the problem with quant finance. It has turned into an overly academic industry, churning out publications for the sake of publications. IMHQO.
Two questions:

1) Did the yield curve invert before the dot com crash or 2008?

2) Was this thought of at those times as a recession indicator. Was it being widely discussed? Or was it off the radar?
Even when they thought it was a hardware button it was still a software one just at a deeper layer? Good cautionary tale!

Wonder if malware could do reconfigure some chips (not necessarily macbook one) to go into parasitic power mode or something, that is when the power is supposedly off they keep running with power taken from some data connection.
I worked on a defense contract for an upgrade to a radar system for the USAF years ago, MITRE was the 'IV&V' contractor for the project.

They had smart engineers, we had smart engineers. At each step along the way in the classic waterfall model they would ask (early) why the design was a certain way / (later) why the code was a certain way. Not adversarial, but making sure the customer (US Gov't, taxpayers) were getting what they paid for and not a snow job or wishful thinking.
I don't want to hear about the salary right off the bat. That's the least interesting part about things. Founders looking for early engineers should take a different tack. After all, I'm not going to be employee 3 just for high comp. The task had better be damned interesting.
Yup, sellers need to look very carefully before they decide to sell with amazon. I used to sell on that platform but pulled out. At the end, I wasn't even making money on my sales after fees, shipping etc. Also amazon shoppers are overly picky about product quality and amazon just bends over backwards. That's what really nailed the coffin for me. Now I only sell on ebay and I suggest other sellers to do the same, especially if your margins on amazon are low.
Luckily, work is being done to emulate various human organs [0] so that we can move away from animal testing.

[0] https://newatlas.com/organs-on-chips-testing/33337/
> Imagine the Spanish military marching into Catalonia, shutting down all means of communication, arresting most Catalan politicians, lawyers and activists, and then unilaterally dismantling the Catalan parliament and constitution, just because people in Madrid felt so

I can't tell if you're being ironic. Because many similar things happened to Catalonia two years ago: arresting Catalan leaders, suspending parliamentary rule and autonomy, violently suppressing protests and dissent, censoring the Internet, imposing martial law.

Many of Catalonia's political leadership and activists are still in jail, and facing years of prison: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/02/12-catalan-leaders-fa...
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-41678086

The only thing that categorically did not happen from your list was an incursion by the Spanish military into Catalonia, although even that seemed possible for a period of time.

I agree with your stance re: autonomy, but Catalonia was a rather poor example.
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If the government wanted to cripple cryptocurrency in a country, all they'd have to do is turn off the electricity.

Sure, some people would have off-grid power, but enough to have a reasonably functioning economy? Unlikely.
My point of view is this:

India has always been bad at communicating effectively, clearly and loudly. Just read that Pakistan is claiming that India will attack AJK etc. I do not know the internal plans of Indian Army etc but I strongly believe India is not going to do it. But Pakistan make up so much stuff, put up fake videos, get embarassed but still they do not stop talking negatively about India and everybody else. The crying baby gets a lot of attention though even if it is crying for silly or fake reasons. So, for the Indian government, it has to make more noise than the crying baby, but also presenting supporting facts.

Now, the moment the controls in Kashmir are suddenly lifted, forget Pakistan, the opposition politicians and everyone whose wallet/influence is going to get lighter themselves will talk so much against the current government and create/add fuel to the negative sentiment in the Kashmiris. So, it is better to have controls to prevent violence. Better to not lose precious lives than otherwise.

Having said that, as some one above pointed out above, it is also mandatory for the government to ensure the availability of necessities. It is easy to criticize, not that we should not. But any big action like this will have something not going according to plan. Not every thing to extreme detail can be planned perfectly. So, I do want and hope that the government gets to know the ground realities, ensure availability of the necessities and also, with proof, talk about it wherever it can.
The Steyr TMP is definitely an injection moulded plastic toy. The Makarov also appears to be plastic but the light makes it hard to see for sure.
That link says he transferred them at cost, which means he still made a profit off of them beside the company. The fact that he even did that in the first place is very questionable.
We explored using fast wavelet transforms to compress EKG samples for an ambulatory cardiac monitoring device, but the risks of regulators not understanding the math behind the compression meant we walked away from a ~3:1 compression of the sampled waveforms and attendant bandwidth savings.
Another one being the Philippines - Canada case

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/23/world/asia/philippines-ca...
Fundamentally Spectre is a privacy issue, just not in the tracking sense here, right - it's a side channel by which memory can be leaked.

Anyway, the reason I brought up timers is that things like getting the screen's refresh rate, or measuring how long a canvas render takes with a particular font, (etc.) are all data points that can be used in a fingerprinting profile. I worry about the negative impacts of mitigations against those kind of measurements. I don't think it's possible to catalog all the various routes by which data could be inferred by timing. If things like this are in the scope of what Webkit is trying to prevent, I'm fairly nervous.

Off topic, but just for some game industry perspective: often we don't want to sequence exactly at the refresh rate (especially if it's variable or frames are being dropped) in contexts like logic loops or physics simulations that need to happen at specific frequencies regardless of how quickly frames are drawn. For example, synchronizing a client "tick rate" with a game server's requires millisecond precision.
> It's just about the only thing the Koch brothers and Soros can agree on.

Is that really true?

To me, both Soros and the Kochs seem to be somewhat close to classical liberalism. Mostly free people, mostly free markets, etc.

As such, to me, they to have more in common with one another than either has to the Trump crowd or the Sanders/Warren/AOC crowd.

My understanding of Soros and the Kochs is somewhat low resolution, so I would be happy to be corrected on whatever I am not seeing here.
Exactly how many people does she think are going to vote in panchayat elections in Baramulla, Anantnag, Sopore, Shopian, etc? Has she checked the turnout last time?
This is BS. Pakistani jihadis are not overcome with any kind words. The isolation of Kashmir was the problem and the government has taken the solution that the majority of the country agrees with.

The only people complaining are English language media who Modi has never cared about.
Can someone please explain what the purpose of this is or why one would want this?
To empathize with Barr, I can see how he doesn’t draw much distinction between his experience at Verizon and the question of encryption.

He experienced the pain and consternation of regulation, and now feels erudite calling BS on “his old industry” as the defender of All Things Right.

But of course, when Hacker News is called upon to “nerd harder” we always rise to the challenge. Except when the difference is, in fact, fundamental.

Back doors have a way of becoming front doors for the wrong people. And absolute power corrupts absolutely.

All of that was true before. It’s just that now getting the wrong set of keys could now open a billion locks at once.
Looks like he got one victim already:

"Still have not received my package even after paying for expedited shipping. Order was shipped 4 days after ordering. I would like a refund for payment of expedited shipping."

Seller now has a 0% feedback score so it is pretty obvious to any buyers that the seller is garbage. The real interesting thing though is the buyer is complaining about a refund on the review so it kind of leads me to believe that the buyer doesn't know how to do a refund lol?
Your platitudes are meaningless without a practical replacement. We don't use plastic for the fun of it - there's nothing else that can do what plastic can do, especially for the price. What's the alternative?
All I have to say about that is if you think everyone's being indoctrinated except you, you're probably wrong.
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I hear that Janata party trying to get Jan Sangh people to resign their affiliations went over like a lead balloon in the seventies. BTW, Kashmiris liked them. RSS people can keep their membership and be called secular?
There were numerous direct references to Valve, explanations of issues in the context of Valve, and commentary from Valve employees.

As someone who really liked the ideals and concepts of the Valve handbook but struggled to see how to extend them to my own (hierarchical) workplace, I found it quite enlightening.
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What should I google to read more about this kind of thing?
The data in the article was comparing more modern stats with other stats starting in mid 80s which is why I gave 30 years. You could probably expand it as far back as the 50s and probably still be accurate
Are algorithms like this ever used by cartoon-style video games to improve apparent rendering resolution?
Is this the official position of Indian Government right now? I don't think so. When was the last time India said they are eager or even open to holding a plebiscite if Pakistan military vacated it's part of Kashmir? AFAIR, India has always said Kashmir is it's internal matter and integral part and they proved it by literally annexing it 10 days ago. So no, Indian Government does not believe in paragraph five at all or any of the UN resolutions passed on Kashmir. If it did, instead of unilaterally "deleting" the Kashmiri parliament and constitution, it would have held talks with Pakistan about how to hold the referendum.

Also, if you cite UN sources then you must also agree with the reports about human rights violations in Kashmir by the UN and organizations like Amnesty International, right? If so, then you shouldn't be justifying what is happening right now but opposing it as that is the position of the UN. Otherwise you are just selectively citing things that re-affirm your point of view.
I’d be happy with one that gives battery alerts at less than maximum volume.
Indeed. BIOS isn't perfect but it's small and simple and provides enough to boot an OS, whereas UEFI looks more like an attempt to create another OS to run before the main one. It's a great example of design-by-committee and second-system-syndrome.

Linus' rants on this topic are always worth a read: https://yarchive.net/comp/linux/efi.html
> what percentage of time goes into it

Who would verify the amount of time spent by private individuals recording videos using their own equipment in their own homes?

> what percentage of total income comes from it

Why would that matter? It seems odd that YouTube's employer status would depend on whether or not the would-be employee has other sources of income.

>other hard measures like that

This doesn't seem like a realistic "evolution" of employer status. I'm not saying the definition won't ever evolve but it just doesn't seem practical that a private business which offers a free service to consumers would suddenly become an employer of those consumers based on how they use the service.

I'll also add that turning YouTube into an employer would have problematic consequences for creators, e.g. as an employer, YouTube would be in a position to make editorial demands of creators which would put them right back where they started (create advertiser friendly videos or you don't get paid).
That only takes care of liability, not the PR cost of having people die due to a side-effect of your drug.
Betteridge's law; I love this sort of thing too, though I hope it comes sooner and humanity/society breaks new ground in science at a more rapid clip (compared to the morass many believe we are currently in)
You do realize I’m replying to a post about how the more relevant term is “Agency Directors”?

Now you’re replying to me about high-level HR decisions biasing the processes of government agencies. I don’t think there is anything to elaborate?
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