skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just to be explicit:

- I have never been part of a recapitalization or carveout (though I did do diligence on a couple of companies that would have recapitalized as part of a fundraise if funded)-- other than the normal term of stepping up the incentive option pool as part of a capital raise.

- Even so I pretty strongly feel there are times they are necessary tools, and are mostly used in this way.

- Of course, anything can be abused by people with poor ethics.
The amount of oil in the ground is effectively infinite with regard to any sane carbon budget, so this could only really make sense in the short term.

Ultimately in time I suppose you could consider plastics recycling as a way to extract less oil. If, for example, you could recycle 80%, then you only need to extract 20% of the oil, which is likely to be far better for the environment (less fracking etc).

On geological timescales a lot of the stuff we are doing is bonkers. It looks sort of OK now because we've 'only' had 100 years of it.
SHA2 is not designed to be used as a RNG. SHA3 might be a little bit better with its "streaming" modes, but there are many far better and faster ways to get random bits.
I beg to differ. People in Latin America, in general, value conversation and connections more than people in the US; the dating scene reflects this (I saw the same dynamics with non-dating connections). A latina girl who didn’t consider me romantically compatible was more likely to still enjoy hanging out and playing cards with me (looking at my online friend list, a lot of them are women I dated in Latin America, including, yes, ones who made it clear they didn’t want to get romantic with me), while the women I dated from online in the US were more like “I’m not meeting my goal of finding a mate here, so I don’t have time to waste on just a friendship”.

Yes, there were two woman from church and social circle I dated in the US who I was able to keep productive friendships with (a couple are still my online friend today), so this isn’t a hard and fast rule. But, I have more than twice as many friends online from Latin America who were girls I briefly dated compared to US friends who were girls I briefly dated.
I wonder if you could scale it so that the goal behaviors were also a market equilibrium. So no complicated prohibitions for going public, but each additional report (aided easily by going public) would cut into your own earnings some percentage. But on the flip side, each additional report costs the company money too, so they have monetary incentive also for pushing a fix before someone else finds it or you decide to give up waiting and go public with it anyways. With each on appropriately decreasing scales so there’s always appropriate minimum and maximum payouts.

I assume it'd be hard to convince companies it may be in their better interest to set up an incentive structure this way. But perhaps a third party platform could find some such mutually beneficial equilibrium.
Does Bad Romance even have the millennial whoop?
That's because...they can. Because the behavior of the statement is undefined.
Oops,

Just found 2yr old email from SignalFx asking if I interested in a Director position :)
> Section 2. Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each State, excluding Indians not taxed. But when the right to vote at any election for the choice of electors for President and Vice President of the United States, Representatives in Congress, the Executive and Judicial officers of a State, or the members of the Legislature thereof, is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such State, being twenty-one years of age, and citizens of the United States, or in any way abridged, except for participation in rebellion, or other crime, the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens twenty-one years of age in such State.

I’m not sure if this question has ever been addressed, but I’m not sure this requires a popular vote for electors, but rather if there is such a popular vote the suffrage has to include all adult males.
>> The founders had a very good rationale for putting it in.

> Yeah, slavery.

No, tyranny of the majority. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyranny_of_the_majority

Even women couldn't vote, so it's not fair to say that slavery was the rationale. No reasonable person today would say that the 3/5 Compromise or denying universal suffrage is desirable.

Other commenters have also mentioned a necessity to ratify the Constitution. That also applies here as well.
I didn't say no side effects. But even an infinite loop with no side effects is well-defined if the controlling expression is a constant expression; see the link in my previous post.
This actually reminds me of the conversations I had with a Cuban classmate. He explained it as a combination of propaganda and “elders” memory. His grandmother would always tell him about how bad it was before Castro and Communism and the government would be spreading propaganda about how great things were; it’s a potent combination.

I expect China is in the same place, things are so much better for the average Chinese citizen and the propaganda machine is running full tilt.
Yup, this is very common.

Exact numbers are pretty confidential. Ballpark numbers from something a few years ago: tech company sold for $400+ million. CEO got $10 million, head of sales $5 million, CTO $1 million, middle managers $20k, and regular employees $5k. VCs got everything else.

Seemed pretty standard from what I could tell.

Not a new practice at all; first heard of this happening to a friend about 15 years ago, his share class was revalued to zero at the same time as the acquisition of the startup he worked for.

And this goes back even further: https://web.archive.org/web/20050208022306/http://www.suck.c...
Tiger Global led the Series E round in June at a $500m post-money valuation. That means they get a 2x in a few months. This looks like it will be a fantastic exit for employees too!
And some libraries that were included are now recognized to have been mistakes, e.g. std::sync::mpsc
I think iCab also had tabs right from the start (so '99)
1. The overwhelming majority of rejected H1 reports are garbage.

2. It is not the case that all reporters want their findings disclosed publicly, even if they're rejected.

3. Reporters already retain the right to publish findings however they'd like. The worst H1 or a client can do is kick you off the platform.

4. A bug bounty platform that mandated disclosure of any sort would lose all its customers to the platform that didn't have that mandate.
Yep. Not only do you avoid plastic but you eat better too because you have hard lines that are not to be crossed.

No more chocolate bars, ready meals, pot noodles, bags of crisps or whatever else.

Even if you end up buying a bag of rice in plastic you're cutting down the waste by a huge amount because even a small one gives you ten or more servings.
As posted elsewhere in the comments, this link went a long way to explain it for me:
https://portfoliocharts.com/2019/05/27/high-profits-at-low-r...
I think the protesters will offer a different slant. From what I've read, they genuinely understand that what is at stake is their freedom to choose their own path. They've watched as China has gradually taken control of the governing body, the media, the financial management and the police. Each transpired more or less over a number of years, but each was also worrisome and that worry and anxiety pent up. The trigger for the current mass-action was not an economic event, it was a judicial one: A new law was proposed that would enable any court in China to charge and then extradite a Hong Kong resident without checks by Hong Kong's judges. Effectively, it would mean that Hong Kong's judicial system was subordinate to China's judicial system, and therefore, did not have a judicial system at all.

There have been many foreboding events that portend the loss of liberty that Hong Kong residence fear. Liberty is what they are fighting to keep. Not wealth.

Addendum: The Chinese judicial system is as one with the communist party. It does not operate the same basic law that Western countries, and tenuously Hong Kong, operate. Under China's judicial system, people literally disappear for months or more with no information provided to family or employer. Many times, they never return.
If you don't want to participate in bug bounties, don't participate in them. It's not like it's hard out there in 2019 for application pentesters. This is a "world's tiniest violin" argument.
What you're describing is not morally wrong since you'd probably be shown the door unceremoniously if the shoe were on the other foot (turnabout is fair play, after all). It's a risky career move to leave without notice, though.
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To dumb it down, what you’re describing is when a press release says a $1B acquisition price, but officially it’s technically a $500M acquisition, and a coincidental $500M bonus/incentive pool that the acquirer is choosing to award to whoever they want, under whatever terms they want? That’s called a carve-out?

It would be nice if someone maintained a list of all of these “tricks” and what to watch out for in your options agreements. I try to pay attention to this as a layperson, yet I am frequently learning of more lingo and new deal structures that introduce a lot more risk to both founders and employees.
Sell to one, whatever it takes. Then publicise the crap out of your first ex-horseman, if the advantages are real the rest will follow.

The key is publicising your user, not your company. Because (1) it benefits them so they will be happy and (2) the rest of your customers care about what peers are doing, not what vendors are providing.
Splitting the bounty does nothing to fix the incentive problem, since it's the same outlay from the vendor whether they fix after 1 report, or a year later after 20.

In reality, vendors (or at least, serious vendors) aren't gaming H1 to stiff bounty hunters. If anything, the major complaint vendors have about H1 is that they aren't paying enough --- that is, they deal with too many garbage reports for every report that actually merits a fix.
Banks collapse often in the US. There have been 63 since 2008 with over a billion in assets.

28 since 2010.

In germany unless you're with DBAG it's not clear the government would step in and save you.
>when you're very poor, economic circumstances matter more than political freedom

It's more than that.

Back in the 70s, Westerners could very easily make the case that the USSR was corrupt, inefficient, hopelessly backwards and fundamentally organised in the interests of the state rather than the people. The evidence was abundant, even to Soviet citizens; any possible defence of the Soviet system was predicated on blind ideological faith or a tapestry of lies.

Contemporary China is a long way from perfect, but a Chinese citizen could quite legitimately make the case that their system is superior to Western democracy on a pragmatic level. There are hundreds of millions of Chinese people who grew up in squalid shacks with no running water but now have a lifestyle that is recognisably middle class. They're on the tail end of the longest and fastest period of economic growth in human history and they're still growing - we can quibble about the percentages, but their GDP growth figures are still spectacular. While many Westerners are struggling with homelessness due to a chronic shortage of housing, Western newspapers are writing about China facing a crisis due to building too many homes.

We're not talking about North Korea, we're talking about a political system that can be legitimately defended. It's not whataboutery for Chinese people to point out the manifold problems facing many Western democracies right now - there are advantages to democracy, there are advantages to Communism with Chinese Characteristics and there's no prima facie case for the superiority of either that relies solely on pragmatism rather than ideology.

If Westerners want to promote democracy in China, their arguments will need to get a whole lot more sophisticated. Why is political and social liberty really so valuable? Why are the rights of the individual more fundamental than the rights of society as a whole? Why should troublemakers be allowed to destabilize society with impunity? Given the current political climate, finding better answers to those questions might also prove rather valuable domestically.
> we use separate accounts for different clients

Why though?
> I'm also very pessimistic about "better-informed" people. Receiving news from different sources doesn't make you just. You can't receive A and B and just average them.

... you don't average them. You use critical thinking to evaluate the information with regards to its sources, their agendas and integrate those sources. When there are contradictions you try to understand why.
I think I get the tradeoffs but while my company would be a perfect fit for rust, we do all our development on an airgapped network. Custom registries are a thing now, but picking and choosing which packages our IT will consider trustworthy and then taking the subset of that with a license our legal will approve an then prunimg things with dpendencies that are now missing is a huge task that needs to happen at regular intervals and probably leaves some pretty big gaps in functionality. Its a shame, I like the language.
Gold is essentially the same plus liquidity trap (think of Bitcoin and it's deflationary nature)
Wow I didn't know that, he must be sweating.
I live in New Haven and saw on our handy recycling flyer [0] that pizza boxes are listed, with no caveat, as being a single stream curbside recyclable item.

Which is great, because pizza is a whole thing in this town. We eat a lot of it.

So I was surprised to learn, if you go poking around and find the RecycleCT website [1] and hover your mouse over the pizza box, up pops this note. "No food residue. No liner."

Never in my life have I had a pizza box without grease soaked through it.

Maybe they've just given up, and knowing it won't be recycled anyway, they don't bother to make a fuss about what can go in the bin? Is this flyer just there to make us feel better about our waste? Because otherwise that's a pretty major note to forget to mention. Pizza boxes are recyclable, just as long as there's never been any pizza in it.

[0] https://www.newhavenct.gov/civicax/filebank/blobdload.aspx?b...

[1] https://www.recyclect.com
No, nothing like this has ever been observed in humans.

Per Wiki:

> There are no reported human cases of clonally transmissible cancers that can independently survive and be transferred in the manner of CTVT and DFTD. However, instances of one human passing cancer cells to another through physical contact have been reported. These cases typically involve organ or hematopoietic stem cell transplants or cancers transferred from a pregnant mother to her fetus.[66] The difference of these incidences from a true clonally transmissible cancer, however, is that the cases of human transfer were one-off events — the actual tumor did not have properties allowing it to be continually transferred throughout the population, and therefore the tumor clone went extinct with the death of the host individuals.
Oh good grief you’re right. This is doubly sad because using an ensemble metric for per-author eigenfactor seems like it would be tractable.

Carl Bergstrom is a smart guy so I suppose the practical implementation of the above must have some wrinkles, but with enough brute force it seems tractable. What I despise more than anything is the gaming that takes place for “impact factor”.

I do OK by standard metrics but would very much like to know where I stand by less easily gamed metrics of influence.
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New Relic’s stock is down 42% on the year so I don’t see them doing very well. An acquisition would make sense.
You just suggested a way that manufacturers can make it easier for consumers to recycle, did you not? You seem to be confirming the OP's point, which is that the current state of recycling is rage-inducing.
>>>The federal government funds a large portion of everything from infrastructure to education to healthcare,

Stuff that should be handled at the state and local level, with granularity specific to each state's unique geographic and demographic circumstances. I would limit the Federal-level influence to just establishing/recommending common standards (kinda like ISO standards) that multiple states can choice to implement.

Maybe if we didn't have Federal taxes, the states could charge more for additional services without over-burdening their populations. Federal income tax is one of many reasons why I consider Woodrow Wilson the worst American President ever.
So we just switched from Angular 1 to React.

We decided about a year ago. So I spend a year writing side projects in React and Redux. In the meantime, a new dev was hired to begin writing the React/Redux code. I just jumped into his code today and tried to add my own stuff, and I feel like I'm learning programming all over again, because it looks like absolute gibberish compared to the code I had been writing on the side.

So even if you are using React and Redux, you can write code that has virtually no resemblance to another repo.

It's insane.
At least from a licensing perspective, you should be all set. Virtually everything in the Rust ecosystem is permissively licensed.

Trustworthy is another thing altogether though. How do you handle this process in C and C++? Both of those languages have fairly spartan standard libraries as well.
Also I wanted to add that internal passport is valid for a long time and you have to change it only twice in a lifetime: you get it first time at 14, then get a new one at 20 and at 45 years and that last one is valid forever (of course if you don't happen to die). So although there is a fee to pay, it is not really expensive.
Are you arguing that it's fine when Westerners do it, therefore it's fine when the Chinese do it? I'd argue it's not fine when either does it.
Yes, 300+ feeds in Feedly (pro account with some "mute" filters)
That's a good point. It's not as though adding a little demand is likely to do anything other than increase supply in this case.
A summary of College Daily rebuttal to the piece:

https://supchina.com/2019/08/21/college-daily-fires-back-at-...
> The energy required to photosynthesize will never be more economical from artificial lighting than the sun

What about capturing and redirecting natural light, to replace or supplement the grow lights?

I've seen "light well" systems that direct natural light around the building using mirrors and tubes (e.g. in office buildings to decrease lighting costs and combat seasonal affective disorder), so this seems like a natural extension of that concept.
So, your suggestion is that change should be organized without talking about it, did I understand that right?

Gee, the authoritarian brainwashing really is strong with you.
More about the proposed law:

https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/3012611...

One of the foreboding events before that:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causeway_Bay_Books_disappearan...
It doesn't have to be the absolute fastest, it just has to work.

What is far better and faster than SHA3?

And while SHA2 wasn't designed for that use, it's easy to make simple and provably correct constructs that turn a secure hash into a secure RNG.
> but a Chinese citizen could quite legitimately make the case that their system is superior to Western democracy on a pragmatic level

It is even easier to look at India, where the putative democracy the country has has not led to any kind of economic miracle for the poor.
nearly everything we acquire ends up in a landfill eventually, plastic or not. Plastic unlike metals can never be restored as good as new. The recycled plastic will always be inferior. Metals do not have that problem.
I'm not sure this has anything to do with pitch, but thanks for the link anyway. As a late millennial, I was pointing this out to people around 2013-2014 as an example of how all new pop music sounded the same. The Lumineers and Of Monsters and Men (both mentioned in Metzger's piece) were bands popular with my crowd that are especially guilty of this repetitive riff.

It seems to have been dying out since then, though I'm sure pop artists will come up with something equally irritating to put in all their songs.

The name does seem a bit unfair to me. It's not a particularly millennial thing, it's just what's common in pop music right now. It also doesn't sound like a "whoop" at all to me, which makes the name doubly confusing.
But what if GUI applications that were considered lean and mean in the 90s were common on today's hardware? Wouldn't those applications be really fast and light on resources?
> Better to be poor and free than economically sufficient at the pleasure and whim of a dictator

Just how poor have you ever been?
I recently set up a non-profit and consulted with lots of people in the field. I found out that most non profits have overheads of 15-30%, which I found to be pretty shocking. I think a majority of the public would too.

In some cases there are real reasons why overheads need to be this big, thats ok. But managing this communication has got to be a pain in the ass, I think most of the product would be around catering for this and not true transparency.
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The truth is that plastic generally can't be recycled, and we should stop pretending as such. Consequently it would make sense to tax it and generally discourage its use as much as possible.

Polluters get away with overusing plastic packaging precisely because consumers stop caring when they think it can be recycled.
Advertisers used to have to take them seriously. But thanks to the new revolution of commoditized ads, they don't anymore.
Um, perhaps it's because the entire entertainment industry views tenors as having talents that are worth developing, and baritones as disposable extras?

(Baritone here. We ARE disposable extras. But can't they pretend at least a little?)
It's worth adding that those states aren't even close to as homogeneous as most tend to assume. Only 60% of California voted Democrat in 2016, and you have to assume the turnout for Republicans would be higher if it wasn't guaranteed that their vote (for president) was meaningless. With the current system, you can cater only to the populous parts of California and win the whole state, and that goes for most other states as well. With a popular vote, that ~30 to 40% of California is relevant again, along with significant chunks of other states.

It's also worth noting the math really doesn't work out, the electoral college makes it easier to win the whole thing while carrying less states/votes (Which really shouldn't be surprising). With both the popular vote and the electoral college, you only have to take the 10 most populous states to win the whole thing. But the difference is that, with the current electoral college you generally only need to get 51% of the vote to win the whole state, which is significantly easier and turns states like California from a 60% to a 100%. With the popular vote, to actually win in that fashion you would have to take almost every vote in those states, which is practically impossible considering the diversity.