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No, it is not manifest. Investors should ideally not invest in companies that are not "Going Concerns"[1][2]. If the company fails, all investors (including employees who invest with their time and energy) should bear the losses. The increased risk is what usually justifies the outsized returns.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Going_concern

[2] https://ssfllp.com/going-concern-rules-company/
Open sourcing does not share the cost of $500k engineers. People using open source typically aren't paying the wages of the people that wrote the code. There is minimal financial upside to contributing to open source for most people.

The challenges that open source faces are closely related to this subject. Many vibrant parts of the software world -- open source, startups, et al -- are essentially dependent on engineers willing to write code for the compensation (direct or indirect) offered. When it no longer makes sense for good engineers to write that code, everyone will suffer from their lack of contributions.
Check this one out: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/2018/04/24/schools-rem... (Schools are removing analogue clocks from exam halls as teenagers 'cannot tell the time')
Although I'm sure there are some teens that think that, don't you think "my friends are doing it", "it's cool" and "it's fun to blow sick clouds when the teacher isn't looking" a lot more likely than some existential crisis? I mean at least I was a lot more likely to think the former than the latter a couple of years ago when I was a teen
It would’ve been better if you had answered the question clearly at the first instance. This thread seemed like playing 20 questions.
I try to keep my data science work in Python limited to short scripts for reading a csv and then making some matplotlib figures. I personally find it unsuitable for anything beyond that
To me at this point I question the wisdom of even using URL shorteners.

They almost all get abused by spammers and malware, they end up getting blacklisted, and as a best practice they are generally advocated for end users not to click on them.

In a Corp business environment I haven't found the pains that come with using them worth the shorter URL.

What places are they still widely used outsider of social media?
How much data do your "data pipeline apps" process with Kafka, Kubernetes and probably other K-named things?
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Tech stack: rails + postgres at Heroku, plus a side of Twilio.
Is space really at a premium though?

Tweets and SMS can allow full-sized links while retaining character limits for UX reasons. It's almost 2020. Our networks can handle a few more bytes.

When presenting visually (such as outdoor advertising), users should be able to simply scan the link - either as text or QR code.
"I don’t use IRAs mainly because they aren’t liquid. I can’t withdraw without a penalty."

I'm not a registered tax advisor, so this is not tax advice, but my impression is that you can take money out of a Roth IRA whenever you want, as long as you don't take more than you put in; the profits/returns are tax advantaged, but the original money is after-tax.

The reason why people will argue this is a bad thing to do is because you can only put so much money in per year, like $6,000 currently, and if you take money out, that doesn't add to the contribution limit.
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The methods of the NHS are not without its fair share of public criticism:
https://observer.com/2019/10/vape-crisis-public-health-resea...
It's not. The first paragraph mentions an earlier discovered exploit for Chrome, and the rest is about a Windows 0-day that was also used in the same attack.
I find it interesting that a site who's stated mission is "promotion of intellectual curiosity", consistently lacks curiosity about ideas which question the primacy of the state.

In this case, because 'video games'. Perhaps if readers had more curiosity they might be interested to investigate the topic of voluntarism, free-association and economic theory. This is not to say that there is no room to disagree with the aforementioned ideas.

However, I feel disappointed that the most prominent comment here forgoes literacy and logic in lieu of hyperbole while citing the plot of a video game.

Intellectual curiosity indeed.
My god, if this kind of paternalistic shite spreads it won’t be long until we’re back to 30% of the adult population smoking just as a fuck you to puritans.
Focus on the value, but have a nice, easy-to-find page which details what you do.

Make comparisons with other technology, and use standardized terminology.
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I think we may be past the point where even this would work - too many startups are offering deals that are transparently awful in a way that discredits the startup ecosystem at large. I've gotten a few early-stage startup offers recently and every single one came out to be over a 50% paycut (even accepting their generous valuations) despite the fact that I made it relatively clear where the total comp needs to be for me to move forward and I was assured that at the end of the process they would be willing to make it work.

Meanwhile, if you apply the same math to the founders and their equity, in every single case they are paying themselves multiples of what they are offering me and significantly above their own market value, despite them not having done anything yet beyond getting seed funding.

What then happens is that startups like these end up getting what they pay for - they get the appropriate level of talent at market price. This maybe a market-optimal result but the cumulative effect of all these startups doing this is that most top people have sort of written off "working at a startup" as a reasonable career option, because of pay and what pay implies about the talent level of the people they would work with. This hurts all startups, even those that are willing to pay up to get the right talent. And if top engineers won't even consider your company, offering top-tier comp may backfire - you run the risk of overpaying for the same talent you could've gotten at a lower price. It's hard to break out of this cycle - consider how the same few schools are able to persistently attract the best students - and I suspect the entire startup ecosystem is trapped in it.
I'd be really interested to know the economics here too. Forestry is something that can be done for a profit, but what if it takes 1000 years to make sand?
If that's the case, why aren't we using artificial sand for concrete? Wouldn't that make more sense?
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I don't disagree with anything you've said, but in my opinion strongly typed function definitions/returns are about communication rather than dictation - I'd rather the compiler tell me that I'm passing an unexpected argument type rather than the runtime executor.

But to contradict your point, there's also a fair amount of Python which is a dictation - Guido even called his job role 'Benevolent dictator for life'. I really hated some of the guidelines as a new programmer but after dealing with them for some time I understand that consistency is far more important than preference in many/most/all cases.
I remember reading about Kahan summation, and I naively thought it would help improve the accuracy/consistency of a n-body code I was using for my PhD. I was trying to resolve a discrepancy between summations when performed serially versus in parallel using OpenMP. In the end I abandoned the approach, since it seems the issue lay elsewhere.
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- I would pay for a decent tool than lets me read articles and posts on my kindle. I've tried and paid for a few and they all suck.

- I would also pay more to those coding challenge platforms such as leetcode or codewars to allow to code and submit from a local editor such as vscode.
This is perhaps the best PR move Russia could possibly make right now. I'm honestly rooting for them.
Animals developed brains so that they could move around without endangering themselves.

I remember a bit of research that came out of Seymour Papert's work. They took kids who were so severely disabled that they were immobile, and gave them a (physical) Logo Turtle to command, and to move around an obstacle course. The underdeveloped bits of their brain that governed locomotion started growing.
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That means you are spending even less time on your startup. I've been there and done that. And despite eventually raising $20+M in VC (I was extremely lucky), it was a horrible idea that I've never repeated since (raising subsequent VC). The failure modes associated with this are well understood and nearly impossible to avoid.

Short version: you can either generate project revenue or product revenue. You build a fundamentally different company to do either, so if you spend a significant portion of your time in project mode, the time you spend in product mode is usually moot. Consulting companies are project companies, through and through. The widely regarded truism that project companies cannot be transformed into product companies exists for a reason.

I'd love for this to not be the case but I've lived it so many times that I thoroughly understand the reality of it.
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I learned back in 2000 at Ft. Huachuca, it took about 30 8 hour days for me to get through the basic Morse course, I don't remember how long it took to get through the rest of it. I do remember getting a certificate, the Samuel B Morse award, for copying at slightly above the required speed which I think was something like 22 groups a minute.
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Not just "released" - works created by federal officers and employees cannot be copyrighted in the first place. But public universities are run by states/territories/etc., not by the federal government, and there's no such restriction on state governments. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_status_of_works_by_s...

Another interesting case: works done by government contractors are eligible for copyright protection, and the copyright can be transferred to the government, which is, I think, how parts of OpenStack can be copyrighted by NASA. By that argument, professors (or anyone else) with government grants should definitely be able to copyright their work and keep copyright.

There's certainly an increasingly-popular argument that publicly-funded research work should be publicly accessible / open access, but there's no law or even norm about it yet.
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This is how far I had to scroll for a thoughtful criticism of both the tone of the article and the notion of experimental free city states.
You’ve heard of the bomb, right? From 1950 to the end of the Cold War every thinking person knew there was an excellent chance that’s they and everyone they knew could die along with the rest of civilization.

Before WW2 even the richest society in world history, the US, was by modern standards fairly poor. People died of diseases we just don’t worry about now because we have antibiotics.

This generation is not special. Everyone has to deal with shit.
Wow, I’d never heard of Memex before now, but it looks interesting! I’m definitely going to check it out.
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Using interfaces rather than null fields seems worthwhile for sets of fields. If there are several fields that could be missing for independent reasons there would be many subtypes complicating the matter.

As for the `favoriteToy` suggesting, I would much prefer the original association to the toy collection with the default ordering being by preference where limiting it to one returns the favorite and otherwise have a uniform way to query for more.
I have nothing against CW, it's just not for me. Also, I don't operate HF any longer. At this stage of my ham radio adventure, it's all about SDR on UHF and microwave frequencies. Current project is wideband (10 MHz) digital links on 10 GHz.
Seconded. This would probably remind me to check /new more often, too. I also like the suggestion elsewhere in the thread of hiding the vote counts for this section.
They're useful when you need to get people (especially large groups) to type in a URL. For example, I use them when teaching classes to e.g. fill out attendance sheets because I can simply write the url on the board.

I'd agree that if the method of delivery is a link, there is no valid reason to use a shortener.
moisture?
It would take an experienced odoo Dev to fork and maintain it. And they would also have to take the huge amount of business requests and support questions.
Maybe it does, but this is a somewhat ill-considered underhand jibe at the Germans and something that a small percentage of their grandparents were involved in more than 75 years ago.
Ousted?

Any details of the golden parachute that came with it?
UHT milk is very different taste-wise, that's the number one reason of why it's not used that much.
They shouldn’t even get optimized for taste. Otherwise you end up with super sweet apples that have less nutritional value than they used to have. It will probably be hard to define what nutritional value is but otherwise we end up fruits and veggies being bred to be fast food.
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Frozen vegetables are no heavier than fresh vegetables, and there is far less spoilage. They are, IMO, to be celebrated. Especially frozen peas & blueberries.
I kinda liked it. Clean interface, gorgeous photo/gif first design.
That’s why I included investors. One could imagine a regime change where, given the market for talent, both founders and investors realize the need to carve out more for hiring equity, and value companies accordingly, especially in the BS early rounds where it’s not based upon any real financial metrics.
I was a bit shocked by this:

> For $1 million you can buy just 183 square feet (17 square meters) of prime property, according to the Knight Frank 2017 Wealth Report, compared to 280 square feet (26 square meters) in New York or 323 square feet (30 square meters) in London.

Land in Monaco is more expensive that New York City, but not a LOT more expensive, hah.
For websocket? Yes (https://github.com/SocketCluster/loadbalancer), but you would have to introduce another layer (AFAIK) that would detect failure and reconnect to a healthy target without informing the client.
I think the flaw in that flow is that no one cares about nicotine, they just want vaping. As long as vaping without nicotine exists, there's no reason to go after the other version. Unless you're already addicted, and in that case, I'd say let's get them the prescription as well.
I really agree with your opinion, especially the words in the last paragraph. I am working in a startup now for half a year, in which all the rules you mentioned is done well, so as a fresh graduate, I never regret working for a startup. There, I have learned a lot of different skills that definitely will be my great treasures in the future. So, for the fresh graduates, I think working for a startup makes great sense that helps them find their true value.
I don’t think we disagree on any of the above.

But there were other contributing factors in the crashes that must be dealt with

I don’t necessarily disagree with this either, but it does come across as if we’re being distracted by proximate causes rather than focusing on the root cause. To someone on the outside, it sure seems like there are deeper engineering and cultural problems that deserve a greater priority at this point. Not to belabor the point, but simply issuing a procedural AD doesn’t appear to address the root causes and should just be a stop gap measure
Why do you think you need employees?
They required you to sign a form that you wouldn't trade it for goods or services? Did you sign it? That part feels like the scam.
Charter cities are, like startups, heavily supported by the partner nation. The models are Dubai & Shenzhen. Instead of being completely funded and operated by the state, the new generation of cities will be public-private partnerships between developers and nations.

A small, incremental degree of privatization. I have no idea where you get "lawless" or "fiefdom". These zones are requested, authorized, regulated, and monitored by a nation. Do you think the 3,000 SEZs in the world are lawless fiefdoms?

This is strangely hyperbolic language for what's basically a new kind of free trade zone. Would make a good movie plot, though, you've got a grand imagination!
I am also a little nervous about the new alt-meat/vegan food. This stuff has to be super highly processed to emulate the taste of something else so I wouldn’t be too surprised if we learned about health problems later.

In general the food industry likes to take single factors and promote the hell out of them as being beneficial while often making things worse (see low fat for example).
And deal with shit they do. By vaping. I guess that’s the argument.

Frankly, I think they do it because they’re bored and it’s an easy way to differentiate as part of an in-group, but it’s been long enough since I was a kid that I don’t recall for sure.

Either way, the insistence that kids were smoking/vaping (but curiously not drinking) for the watermelon flavor always seemed dubious. But until some solid research on actual motivations becomes known in a widespread manner, the ‘solutions’ will probably remain political and lobbyist-informed.
“To stream music, it redirects you to the Spotify app.”

Seemed pretty obvious to me.
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How about requiring companies to produce non-nicotine versions of equal quality? The addictive part is optional, unlike with sugar for example. Video games and Facebook are more of a grey area but removing the addictive elements is more complex to say the least. Let's remove it when we literally know it's one non-essential ingredient.
I can't understand what's meant by 'simultaneous' for observations of two stars made from different locations. I also can't conceive a geometry where the 'newly settled planet' could be asked about the disappearance and report that they're still visible.
If someone doesn't hit FU at $1M in the bank, you probably never will, which is ok.

$1M is about 20 years of coast on a modest bay area mortgage + family healthcare.
Maybe the belonging and ‘adult’ involvement in something semi-dangerous distracts them from the existential dread. I don’t know if I’d make that argument, but I do think the reasons involved are nuanced and varied.
We at least use one internally at my big corp. It's nice because instead of routing to some non-vanity URL that looks more like a raw Azure host, we can register x.company.com/whatever to redirect to it. Can only access the links and shortener from inside the firewall.
If there was zero selection then apples would still be crabapples. Diverse choice & multiple grading criteria seems like the most sane foundation.

The story of the Washington Delicious apple is a cautionary tale, bred for appearance to the detriment of all else.
This article is crap. Won't tell us even what industry their startup is in... If I had to guess, it's for good reason: it's probably on Stripe's list of prohibited businesses. (And this isn't really a list Stripe created.. it's all from Visa and MasterCards card rules that Stripe is required to follow.)

Then they continue with: it also hides behind federal regulations like KYC (know your customer) and the Patriot Act as a justification for requesting more documents

Yes... those laws apply to Stripe. That's why Congress created those laws. No, stripe won't commit a felony for you or help you evade those laws.

Then he ends it with saying he works at a bank... and everyone should use a merchant account instead (everyone should use the product his employer sells.. no issues there).

Hey guess what: all of those laws you mentioned and prohibited businesses... those apply to EVERY merchant account whether it's at a bank or Stripe.

I'm guessing this is his first merchant account, and he didn't read the contract (if the startup exists at all). For those of you in a similar situation, here's my advice (and not just for Stripe): read the contract and abide by the rules. If you can't, don't have your customers deposit thousands of dollars into it, and then violate your contract.
They get my vote just for Spinal Tape creds

> Going to 11: Amping Up the Programming-Language Run-Time Foundation
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Can you point to where that’s stated in your article?

It basically just talks about how hard it is to find a definitive study since there are so many different products.
I had that mistaken impression until this very second, and I've been buying a lot less vegetables than I should for fear of fresh ones going to waste. Guess I have a good new years' resolution now.
I'm not sure what your point is about Python 1.4. Maybe it's that you're past the point where these things trip you up.

However, there are plenty of cases where Python won't give an error message too. Make a typo somewhere in the middle of your function, and it'll quietly introduce a new variable instead of letting you know. A rarely used branch of an if-statement could hide this indefinitely. This could also be avoided (or at least mitigated) by requiring variables to be declared explicitly.
In fact I’m pretty sure Safari does this in its Omni-bar. Why it can’t be system wide I don’t know.
Would it be possible to mark the "candidate" stories in some way, to explain to the user why they were seeing this possibly lame post?

I used to be bothered by seeing off topic stuff and memes in a subreddit I visit but the sub started adding flare for different kinds of posts. I found this completely alleviated my psychological revulsion to the things I didn't like once they were categorized correctly. So, a meme on the front page would have annoyed me, but that same thing labeled "meme" didn't bother me at all.
I like the idea of seperate stacks for code and data!
You may also be interested in Hackerer.news[0] (mind the extra 'er'). It groups posts by day. Clicking on the heading switches from popular to chronological, then Ask/Show views.

[0] https://gitlab.com/karmakaze/hackerer-news
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The slang term is “useful idiots” if you are looking for something to look up and read about.
I'm not the original commenter, but I think you are vastly oversimplifying the situation. Most jobs are not black and white in one category or the other. There are people who will never be completely happy with any job, and there are local maxima, where one might not reasonably expect a better fit to exist.

>Or am I giving the average person too much credit?

Another consideration is that this is an irrelevant question for your average person, or even 99.9% of the population.
This sounds like an AML or OFAC issue. I’d guess this has nothing to do with Stripe. AML laws in the US prohibit the financial institution from giving the customer basically any information about the reason for the hold.

This leads to (understandably) frustrated customers.
Current AI is still mostly trash of the high school level project quality, linear algebra taken to the absolute possible level of insanity.