skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Calling this "FUD" is a bit over the top. Call it inaccurate information if you wish, but "FUD" implies willful intention to deceive, and I really don't see this in the article.

Sadly, these days, "FUD" has become synonym for "this person is saying something I disagree with".
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>>Afterwards, a well-known, elite developer asked me if I programmed. When I said yes, he said that made me 50% less attractive. Then he asked me if I cooked and cleaned. To my face.

You should have smiled and told him no, because you programmed a robot to do all that stuff for you. Then punched him in the face.
If it had been basketball instead of football it would have really good.
Something is worth exactly what someone else is willing to pay for it. But does that mean that a purchase of eg 5% of a company at a high valuation makes that company worth 100% of that valuation? Probably not. Makes for interesting reading though.
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I really like the design.
"I don't know" would have been acceptably mature response, but hey, I can appreciate bland rhetoric, too.
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Were the officers in charge aware that this was going on ?
It did occur to me that he might be talking about pixels. I can put up with someone telling me to exercise, try a new programming language, break the mold. But I couldn't tolerate someone telling me what resolution to run :-0
> But does that mean that a purchase of eg 5% of a company at a high valuation makes that company worth 100% of that valuation? Probably not.

No, it means exactly that. How else do you think valuation is computed?
No, you are ignoring things. Namely that the article doesn't say that this was for the upper class at all.

Let me clue you in on some basic history.

Way back when, it wasn't just the women but the whole damn family who were working, in horrible dangerous conditions down the coal mine.

Social reform led to the children being pulled out of the mine and put in school. And it became a normative thing. The children were expected to be in bloody school. And this was an excellent result.

Slower than it should have happened, women got dragged out of the mine and put in the kitchen. And it became a normative thing. Women were expected to be in the bloody kitchen. And this was an excellent result.

Finally, men increasingly got dragged out of horrid, dangerous jobs like coal mining and sewage-toshing, and more into safer, more lucrative jobs like manufacturing or trucking or even (gasp!) office jobs. With their children safely in school, and their wives safely at home, men were expected to be the bloody breadwinners. And this was an excellent result. A massive, hard-won 20th century social advancement over what came before.

Then, a bunch of Joan Collins shoulderpad-wearing idiots out of the Women's studies department decided that this advance was "Oppression" and "Male privilege", completely missing the unbalanced expectations on men.

And since the 1970s these harpies have been putting out the kind of garbage that you linked to, trying to undermine the massive social advance that was the "1950s" family norm.

Note that the fight to get women and children out of the mines and mills was all about the working classes and never about the rich, because the rich didn't need to go down the mine anyway.

I'm sure if you google for "family wage" you can find more details about it. Here is one link I found
http://www.profam.org/docs/acc/thc_acc_dectnf.htm
See also Rivest's Sexps: http://people.csail.mit.edu/rivest/Sexp.txt
The USA regularly arrests, tries, convicts, and imprisons, foreign nationals who violate US law.

The unequal application of criterion for targeted assassination vs arrest-trial-conviction is what bothers me, from a constitutional standpoint.

Even disgustingly vile child molesters are afforded a trial. Why not try terrorists?

Doing so would be more in keeping with the ideals of the USA as opposed to the current "Empire Strikes Back" paradigm where the very foundations (right to trial, right to be secure in one's 'papers and effects,' innocent til proven guilty) of the USA are being sidestepped in the name of a "war on terror" which, in, and of, itself, is a form of terror.

Thus we have arrived at a point where the government regularly abrogates its mandate, and those who are against such acts may be labeled as "terrorists" whose demise is expedited by said policy.
How do we know she was targeted because she's a woman?

This whole jumping to conclusions is just a bit much for me.

Couldn't she just as well be targeted because she rejected some nerd who had a crush on her? Or even by another woman who is jealous of her?

That obviously doesn't make the actions any better, but seems a more plausible motivation to me than "a random guy running a smear-campaign against a random woman, only because she's a woman".
I'm conservative with my investments so I can be risky in my work life.
I like it quite a bit, and I think it's a bit better than the other options (a few of which I've tried). My only question remaining is why can't the others be updated and improved? Maybe someone with a bit more knowledge of the "culture and history" can explain. Great piece of software, though!
I did. See the other thread.
:) our front-end dev who learnt design while on the job just said "woot, thank you"
Dave makes a very valid point, which is that the market is often illiquid. Pinterest and AirBnB have $1.5-2.5B valuations right now, but how quickly do you think they could find an acquirer at that price? Quora's last round priced them at $400M, but I bet you'd be hard pressed to find someone who's willing to buy them at that price in the next 3-6 months.
They have moms for sure, and sisters maybe. But that's irrelevant. They are behaving this way because that's how they see their dads treating their moms and sisters growing up. If they see their dad treat the mom with a sexist attitude (such as by expecting her to do the house chores or slapping her ass in front of the kids) then that's how they treat women later in life.
Of course, sometimes a billion dollars of startup stock is worth much MORE than a billion dollars, whereas a billion dollars of oil is basically worth a billion dollars.

Equity in fast growing companies is high beta, but that doesn't mean it's fake.
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> Just as an example, Rails is not fully unit tested by any stretch of the imagination

And boy does it show.
I might really want to invest in you, so I'll blow the valuation up. I might even be the only person willing to pay that price. But that doesn't mean I want to buy you outright at the valuation.
"The Truth About Morgan Freeman and Meth" seems like libel.
I think this is it:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5161941
Shift-tab works with SuperTab in the console.
Ugh. I got into a spirited disagreement on HN a few months back sparked by how much I hate when magazines like Wired feel the need to entice me to read something mildly analytic by interweaving it with a human story. The author can't just talk about a law and its potential for unintended consequences, or even just the law and specific examples of people it hurt. He had to tell me a full narrative about Bob Jones and his green bicycle that means so much to him and the overcast clouds on the fateful day he had his front tire stolen when he was already late for work! I find myself skipping from paragraph to paragraph looking for actual analysis.
It stays 100% of the valuation as long as the founders are not looking for a buyer.
Extraordinarily clear? Whole books have been written about the meaning of the two overlapping due process clauses in the Constitution. The Supreme Court has been defined by centuries-long conflicts between two wildly different schools of thought (subtantitive and procedural due process). Supreme Court justices have had to construct arguments over which amendments to the Constitution even incorporate the Bill of Rights over the states.

Every time you think that some power must obviously be invested in the judicial system, remember to run the sanity check: nobody elects the judicial system. They're accountable to nobody. The framers did not want our country governed by philosopher kings.

I don't think this leg of the conversation has much to do with the issue at hand --- if there's one thing the Constitution is extraordinarily clear about, it's that the Executive commands the military, and DOJ's reasoning regarding drone strikes depends on their military nature --- but I'm in the middle of _Democracy and Distrust_ right now, and maybe it gets clearer later in the book but the impression I get is that "Due Process" is anything but clear and simple.
The following questions come to mind.

1. What is "an informed, high-level official of the US government"; is it the President only, or does it include Cabinet Members? Is it restricted to political appointees, or does it extend into civil service roles as well?

2. "imminent threat of violent attack against the United States" sounds like a definition of a legal standard, what are the elements of such a standard and would the mere possession of weaponry sufficient to carry out such an attack meet it?

3. The phrase "senior operational leader of al-Qa'ida or an associated force" is used repeatedly in the document; what qualities put one in the category of an "associated force"? Would it be plausible to say that Wikileaks could be described as an associated force with al Qa'ida? Could the Syrian government be so described? What are the strictures here?

4. Given that several known killings of American citizens seem on the face of it to violate the guidelines of this document; most notably the death of Abdulrahman al-Aulaqi http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdulrahman_al-Aulaqi it would behoove the government to explain the apparent contradiction. Or if the definition of "operational leader of al-Qa'ida" has been watered down to "military aged male"; to state that publicly.

There is no question that dealing with non-state paramilitary actors undermines the nation state paradigm that the existing law of war assumes and that there are a number of edge cases where it is hard to determine whether a given individual should be treated as a combatant or as a criminal; however we as a nation and as a society cannot afford to let our leaders become mere killers without restraint; no matter how heinous the opposition.
Web Design Peeve Of The Day:

This web site pops up an overlay asking you to subscribe, which you can handily get rid of with a nice big "Close" button at the bottom. Unfortunately, on my netbook (the smallest standard size, but still a standard size) the overlay floats so that the "Close" button is just off-screen no matter where I scroll to. Don't use fixed positioning unless you've made your overlay either really small, or very adaptive to different screen sizes.
This probably belongs on Reddit but.... you had me at Hello.
Excellent point. Let me summarize the meat of the debate politely then:

Mr Lutus's argument is that scientific theories cannot be truths because they must be falsifiable, which means that they are potentially false and a truth cannot be potentially false.

My argument is that "falsifiable" only means that a theory is potentially false with respect to our limited knowledge. A theory can certainly be both true and falsifiable, however, since all that entails is that the theory is true, and yet we don't have all the evidence that would be required to conclude that it is true with the iron-clad power of a logically deductive argument.

On the other hand, we might certainly have enough evidence to conclude that the theory is true beyond any reasonable doubt using an empirically inductive argument. Although empirically inductive arguments can never eliminate all doubt, they can eliminate all reasonable doubt. Consequently, we are entitled to conclude, given enough evidence, that a scientific theory is true. Such a theory is still falsifiable, even though we know it to be true (beyond all reasonable doubt), because there is still the logical possibility for the theory to be false, no matter how remote this possibility is.

I claim that science strives for (and succeeds in) finding such inductively proven theories.
Standard military rules apply; they were in charge and responsible for being aware of what was happening under their charge.

Also, yes, of course they knew.
I also checked the shasum by comparing 2 files.

The Mega link (Mac client) from the official web page:
bd9fe1e58343a5c03295a975697de3e64e65b42c

asiekierka's Mac link:
bd9fe1e58343a5c03295a975697de3e64e65b42c

Both file sizes are the same (9,690,941 bytes, 9.7 MB on disk). Maybe the discrepancy has to do with -a flag for 224, 256, 384, or 512 or something.

I think his mirror is safe. It's the one I used to successfully jailbreak my iPad 3. Now I can SSH into my iPad and change the hosts file for some ad-blocking and installed Flux for "easier on the eyes" nighttime reading.

I don't look forward to Apple's next update which will wipe out my jailbreak, so I don't want to customize things too much. Last time I did a jailbreak for my iPod Touch, it messed up an in-app purchasing mechanism for a game I was testing. After this experience, I dread that jailbreaks will cause unforeseen problems and prefer not having to customize every single little tech option. Still, I performed this jailbreak mostly to get ad-blocking in MobileSafari.

Actually, one snag I have: the iPad time was totally wrong, insisting that it was 8 hours ahead, and the General Settings wouldn't properly automatically update the time. Had to do a lot of fiddling with Location services and Date & Time to fix it.

Jailbreakin' ain't all that it's cracked up to be!
The epilogue mentioned that the original paper included a Gary Larson cartoon. That got me curious so I hunted down the original paper. It was worth it ;-)

http://www.mel.nist.gov/msidlibrary/doc/libes89.pdf
What's a "battlefield"? World War 2 was fought all across the cities and suburbs of Europe. It's been centuries since people flew banners and lined up to whack each other in the heads with halberds in an orderly fashion.
vim plugins are really easy to dash off and can emerge naturally from scratching one's own itches. So they tend to be developed by individuals more often than teams and there is unfortunately some tendency to make a new project rather than co-opting existing ones, particularly when it is performance sensitive as in this case - it may be simpler to just write one designed for performance than to try to retrofit better performance onto a design which isn't well cut out for it.
Damn sick stuff jake. You guys have come a long way.
I don't share those, and think he is ducking the issue by saying the memo improperly seeks justification for its geographical reach in Hamdan. Rather, it acknowledges the lack of clear guidance and develops a a legal theory based upon the history of hostilities launched by one party to a conflict from inside a neutral third country (Vietnam and Cambodia) and the executive intent of the signatories to the Geneva Conventions (as suggested by Corn & Jensen).

I'd like you to consider the possibility that some questions are not easily justiciable (that is, decidable by the judiciary), and this is why the Supreme Court sometimes declines to take up an issue on the grounds that it is a 'political question'; one for which there are no clear legal rules and the matter must ultimately be left to the approval of the citizenry via the electoral process.

I am well aware of Yamamoto's killing. Allow me to refer you to the killing of Herberts Cukurs.

But this exemplifies what's wrong with your argument. Cukurs was killed because of something he was judged to have don ein the past. There was no question of his attempting to continue his Holocaust-era activities. Al-Awlaki, by contrast, was actively fomenting war against the US by his own public statements.
That looks really great! Does it work with PHP? That's my tool as of now, soI would really appreciatedif it could provide suggestions for it.
It was their job to know what was going on.
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So in other words, it's not "Obama's Rules for Assassinating American Citizens."

Samir Kahn was a propagandist/journalist, Anwar al-Awlaki was a YouTube troll.
I call it buying air. Most products are commodity and, more often than not, effectively identical. The only way such companies can survive is through the use of psychological arbitrage.
What is the requirement to be identified as an operational leader of al'qaeda? What checks and balances are in place to prevent extra-judicial killing of US citizens outside of American soil? Are there any?

Also, what happens if, say, you happen to accidentally do business, unknowingly, with such a person and end up in the same vicinity as them when a drone strike is opportune? Is your life forfeit regardless of the other restrictions?

Why is this a matter of an internal white paper instead of a national federal policy debate? This is not a good trend.
Yeah... Frozen in carbonite...

How about non-lethal chemical agents?
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I find this firefox addon very useful: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/nuke-anything...

I just get rid of annoyances like that using it - it's not ideal, but at least I can see the site. (Also try using the escape, some places remember to program that.)
Investors who invest in a company at a valuation of a billion or more don't care about potential acquirers anymore, because an investment at that kind of valuation is a bet that the company will go public.
> Equity in fast growing companies is high beta, but that doesn't mean it's fake.

It depends. The Equity should be based on future expectations of return. For Amazon and Google, there are now clear business models to drive their value forward (for Amazon it may be rather longer term than for others) but for startups it is less obvious. Most of them have no idea how to generate value and how to grow forward, and their actual "utility" as a service may be questioned.

The trend towards over-valuing the startups currently is also coming from the fact that the housing bubble has exploded and investors and putting their cash in other fields where they expect to earn more/lose less money.
Almost two years back, we had written some points on facebook's secondmarket valuation, which we think is relevant to the discussion here -

http://statspotting.com/2011/03/the-truth-about-facebooks-va...
The gif is cool!
How to install (at least on Linux):

1. Install the Vundle plugin manager for Vim.

2. Add the line "Bundle 'Valloric/YouCompleteMe'" (without the double quotes) to your ~/.vimrc file.

3. Open Vim and run ":BundleInstall" without the quotes.

4. Install cmake if it's not already installed. In a temporary directory, run "cmake -G 'Unix Makefiles' . ~/.vim/bundle/YouCompleteMe/cpp" (without the quotes) to generate a Makefile and then run "make ycm_core" to build.

5. Open a file in Vim and start typing.
Exactly. And that’s the problem.
Agreed--I'm in for f.lux
Name the billion dollar companies with no business model. The fact is once a company is successful enough to go public it's often still risky, but it's extremely rare for them to reach that point without a model.
If the war is over, then assassination would seem to be possible breach of the Geneva convention.

If the war isn't over, then when will it be over? And is it even legitimate? The U.S. declared war on the concept "Terrorism" during Bush Jr's presidency, not on specific terrorists or al-Qa'ida. The U.S. also declared a war on "drugs" during the Reagan years. Though I'm in support of both "wars" because I'm in favor of the well-being and defense of the U.S. people, I don't think Congress or the president should have a right to declare war on something that cannot end, i.e. cannot terminate via treaty, surrender/capitulation, complete destruction, or victory.

I am a little concerned that we are declaring that it is ok to kill our own citizens without due trial, although I understand there are conditions.
I had to giggle when I took a look at the URL, "someone-just-leaked-obamas-rules-for-ass." Which made me wonder if this, rather lengthy, but clearly truncated URL was hand chosen. Either way makes you think about more intelligent filters for URL generators.
Yes, that is the ideological view exhibited here. A near perfect description of it, actually.

What you say is not, in any sense, the truth or self-evident or anything like that, it’s just one ideological view of many.
Thanks so much everybody. This has been incredibly helpful to me.
I forked autocomplpop a while back to fix a couple issues and make it easier to add new language support. Never noticed a speed issue. I always preferred acp vs the others due to its simplicity.

https://github.com/eikenberry/acp
In practice that doesn't happen. In these late-stage rounds, there is not usually a single investor willing to pay way more than other investors. And even if there were, the company would think twice before selling at that price, because it would just set them up for their next round or IPO to be a down round, which would not be good.
This is rather begging the question by defining the issue as justiciable from the outset, in similar fashion to the religious argument that 'the existence of creation implies a creator, therefore God exists.'

It's my view that the pursuit of military objectives is very much the province of the executive, and that the elimination of Anwar Al-Awlaki was an entirely legitimate military objective since Al-Awlaki was (at the least) involved in rallying supporters to his cause and exhorting them to kill Americans, and arguably directly involved in the planning and authorization of such operations, exactly the sort of threats the Executive branch is responsible for addressing.
If all you will do is write Java, and things like integrating remote debugging into your text editor are critical, and you don't care about vim's way of working, then you can find better options for that, definitely. IDEA is a great, well-polished specialist tool. You don't need a shootout to see this clearly.

Of course, you know that vim does not have remote Java debugging out of the box and that the Java community has long focused on IDEs, so this is not exactly a random benchmark you mention :)

vim is better for a more modular approach which is valuable when you will often need to change platforms, languages, tweak for a new workflow, etc. Know a good remote debugger? Sure, just use that...
What's missing in this article is the impact of liquidation preference on valuation. The billion dollar valuation that a VC invests at is simply the price they have to pay to get in the deal. For fast-growing startups competition is fierce, so valuations often become dizzyingly large.

The best case scenario is that the startup turns out to be the next Google and everybody gets rich. The worst case (and more common) scenario is that reality hits and the startup sells for $500M instead of $10B. As long as the invested capital is less than $500M, the VC will be getting all of their money back.
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We use SCons to build RPMs and deb packages. Didn't have any problems with it so far.
It seems doubtful that wiki leaks would qualify, Assange is still breathing. Also, Assad is practically begging to be assassinated( not saying it should be the US that does it), I don't know why anyone would be sympathetic to someone like him. Still, he doesn't really seemed to be linked to terrorism, and he's not really a threat to anyone outside of Syria, so I doubt he'd qualify either.
Also, the Privileges and Immunities clause has been interpreted as referencing citizens to define the class of rights being engaged by the amendment (those normally enjoyed by citizens), and not as a definition of the class of people to whom those rights are accorded.

Of course, Privileges and Immunities is also a weird zombie clause.