skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks you. A lot of people commenting on this thread don't seem to realize that oral contracts are just as legally valid as written contracts (as long as all the elements of a contact are present), email records notwithstanding.
Which industry is this?
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The cool thing is not postponing stuff. The cool thing is not doing anything you don't need to.
I'm curious if something like this would happen today. With PayPal, Venmo, Interac E-mail Money Transfer, and other similar services, I would expect such a transfer (if the other person felt obligated to make one) would be nearly instantaneous.
Convertible debt is the trendy way to finance seed-stage startups these days. It allows early investors to essentially "punt" on determining the true valuation of the company at an early stage, while still ensuring that they get a decent deal when a valuation does get determined.

The way it works: instead of negotiating over true valuation early on, the seed investor hands over the cash as a debt instrument (so the startup technically owes the investor the money they paid), under the agreement that if the startup later raises a "real" (venture) investment round, the debt converts to equity at the price of the later round.

Of course, to avoid screwing the seed investors over, they typically insist on a "valuation cap" -- maximum valuation -- (so if you later raise venture at $10mm, but the cap was $5mm, the seed investors get twice as much equity as the venture investors per dollar paid). But if the venture investors only pay for a $5mm valuation, then they get the same equity-per-dollar as the seed investors.
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I've had the same experience. The only place I've seen icc being used was a CFD group in a National Lab.
I've made the switch to feedly as well, and so far I must say it has been a pleasant experience. Everything was set-up and imported in a few clicks, and the general usage experience is also pretty smooth. I got rid of the useless default interface, replaced it by compact lists. I can say I'm happy with the state of things for now.
Sure, we should bring in @tiffani, @xianamoy, @lynneluvah, @contessagibson, @KathrynFinney to the discussion. That's just off the top of my head but I'm AFK at the moment.
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Thank you! I was just searching for a Google Reader alternative.
Are you suggesting that said moral obligation should be a part of the protocol?

I feel like it would make more sense for someone in that scenario to get advice for their specific situation, rather than spelling it out in the protocol.
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I got the impression he had tried to go through support, and got no response until he ended up with $10,000 of their money. Then all of a sudden, they solved his problem.

But if it happened like you think, I definitely agree with you.
Yes, it does its work in one go so it doesn't play well with hard realtime and variable sized/large work units (unless you've got an OS that handles task swapping as needed, of course).

We selected it for our embedded devices based on its small code size and suitable license, and since we use it mostly to compress log data with lots of repetitions it works very well.
In particular, I enjoy getting to know the people who work at a local establishment and understand their taste. For instance, when it came to fine teas, I got to know one tea merchant well enough that she'd say, "This new green came in and I hated it! I thought you'd love it!" because we had entirely opposite tastes when it came to the astringent characteristics of tea. (Think a Pi Lo Chun versus a Sencha, for instance.)

While we are getting better at recommendations, the best salespeople still have a better understanding of what makes you like a product than "people like you also purchased..." algorithms. This may be particularly important in markets that are about different things for different consumers: wine selection may be about taste, or it may be about social signaling. Same is true in the transaction: it may be about the best price, building a relationship, having a relaxing escape (buying cigars, for instance), or any number of other things.
Maybe I'm an idiot, but I don't see a link for video lectures on that page.

Edit: But they are here: http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-comput...
Being successful at SEO is almost the same as starting your own company. Any one of these is a full-time proposition.

I would seek out professional SEO company's and try to find the best deal. No way anybody could do all this stuff by themselves. In the end, it will be a worthwhile investment. From my own experience it's very time consuming to get it right.
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Awesome! Been using it for about 2 months now. I am sure they will make good use of the the Capital injection...
It's a little more complex - a lot of our customers were trading wine to make a profit, and were far more price sensitive. They traded on the site in the early days.

Sadly, the novelty soon wore off, and it turns out the social element is one of the reasons why they enjoy their trading.
I actually tend to view it as $20 less than the professional version of Fusion ($99). :) Hehe. But, yes, the provider works with the trial, regular, and professional versions, so you can argue it is $30 more.

The reason is that VMware Fusion is woefully underpriced on Mac OS X systems, due to steep competition from Parallels. The equivalent on Windows is $249.

My argument is that the value you get out of something like Vagrant + VMware Fusion pays for itself in less than an hour per seat (assuming you're billing more than $79/hour). I find that to be pretty good value, rather than comparing it directly to VMware Fusion.
A colleague of mine at CERN once told me that if they ever get a nobel prize, it will be a peace prize. The number of nations and institutions brought together for science is quite amazing!
I'll admit to setting up a bit of a straw man here. I am probably to quick to do so because for most of my own life I was a conservative/libertarian type. I know that many of the points, arguments and concerns of this group are valid (like your concerns above). For instance, the cycle of dependence on government is a very real, sad problem (as noted here - http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/09/opinion/sunday/kristof-pro...).

My first point is that there is a definite tendency, especially in the more extreme right, to 1) make a knee-jerk reaction any time a solution involving government is proposed, 2) hold up private sector solutions as inherently superior to anything the public sector does.

Second, I wish to point out the plank in the eyes of the affluent who seek to destroy programs that cater to the disadvantaged, while simultaneously accusing those who vote for social programs of mooching off of their heroic economic efforts.

It's fine that you have the Left and Right starting with different default answers to problems, but both need to recognize that their "pet" solution (public/private) is not always the best one in a given situation. In a perfect world, the two sides would engage in a civil debate, considering data or even precedent in other nations facing similar issues, and come to a reasonable conclusion. Maybe some day. :)
I really respect this guy. At the time when Apple et al stockpile their gold, he puts his money up for a noble cause.
this was amusing: https://twitter.com/gvanrossum/status/1838308947
The last time I had cash on my person, it was because I was traveling, and wanted some on hand. I haven't carried cash, as a rule, in almost a decade.
dont have any numbers for you but it's typically CPU-bound and not memory-bound. deep learning is often done using GPUs because of massive-parallelism.
Agree in general but note that it allows the investors who agree to use this framework the ability to put FUD into the minds of founders who deal with investors who don't.

Especially with startups with so many newly minted noobies coming on board every day who don't have any history or business knowledge they will soon might accept that this is the way "business has always been done".
Sysbench Benchmark for MongoDB
You may want to check out Clojure.
How top-quartile runs out of merit
I always wanted to build a Github for guitar tabs, where people could fork the tab for a song and improve it and contribute it back.
This is a chart I made using my new app Gini - it's a new type of collaborative spreadsheet/charting app. It's not quite ready for launch yet, but seeing all the frenzy around Google Reader, I thought what the heck, I'll at least make something useful with it and share it with you guys.

It will be all collaborative soon (like Google docs), so please bear with me.

There are 3 main use cases I have in mind:

1. Making and sharing useful data sets and working on them collaboratively. People use Google docs for it right now, but it's nearly impossible to find sheets unless you already know about them. Also, Gdocs looks clunky.

2. Self-tracking, especially on mobile - I've tried lots of apps and always find myself going back to a spreadsheet for its flexibility. But spreadsheet apps on mobile suck big time. So I'm fixing that.

3. Business data dashboards - There are tons of dashboard apps out there. But people still copy and paste numbers into Excel. Again - because it's flexible. So, I'm building the dashboard itself in the form of a spreadsheet.

It's only a web app right now, but I'll soon be making mobile apps.

If you're interested, please sign up for the mailing list and I'll let you know when it's ready for you to use.
FWIW Google Reader never had an official API, just a hacked up reverse-engineered unofficial API which everyone took to using.
I can't think of a practical example of when I'd want to take a video or photo during a conversation.

Humorous example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UjcqCx1Bvg
Selling stuff to people isn't a bad thing. My own personal example:

I work for eBay Inc., so my job is to be a cog in a bigger picture like you said. That bigger picture is game-changing commerce. I don't know the numbers, but some large amount of people have found a way to make a full-time living selling on eBay, or Magento, or some other platform using PayPal to take payments. They feed their families by selling stuff in our marketplaces. On the buyer's side, we help people get what they want for the best price. That makes people's lives better, too.

Maybe it's just rationalization. :) But I do think that many capitalist companies create a net positive for the world.
Wow - I'm excited about the provider interface, especially for AWS and the other cloud services.

Question - could Vagrant work with LXC?
Junior developer vs Senior developer (rails)
It’s open source as well
https://github.com/howlowck/rwdwire

Created by Hao Luo
Exactly. There's a wine trading company called Wine Networks - a branch of SK Group (huge South Korean conglomerate).

They're relatively successful, but are hugely inefficient (no tech).
They are specifically searching social media sites like Twitter, Facebook, the same as what mention.net does.

Google Alert by the way does not searches Twitter, Facebook.
The Mercury language (http://www.mercury.csse.unimelb.edu.au/) does one better. It can use the fact that multiplication is associative to automatically transform the non-tail-recursive function into the tail-recursive form.
Don’t fear your kids' tech tantrums
Now we're getting somewhere!

You're right, of course, that federal agencies have the power to classify data. But I think saying that overclassification happens all the time is not a controversial statement; President Obama in 2010 signed the Reducing Over-Classification Act and the DOD IG announced last November that it reviewing DOD classification procedures. One of the 9/11 Commission members concluded: "Much more information needs to be declassified. A great deal of information should never be classified at all."

So if the only reason we need CISPA is that DOD is inadvisedly classifying botnet data as SECRET, then a sensible fix is for DOD to declassify it. Or, that failing, Congress could amend 18 USC 798 to allow that to happen. Laws, like computer security, should follow the principle of least privilege, and enacting a broad wildcard law that overrides all federal and state laws to fix a narrow botnet-classification problem violates that principle.

Also: the primary criticism of CISPA is that it overrides all other state and federal laws in allowing the transfer of customer data from private companies to .gov, .mil and other organizations. You're defending .gov->.com data transfer, which is hand-wavingly orthogonal to an explanation of why a wildcard override for .com->.gov data transfer is necessary.
I hope so. I can definitely understand why investors prefer second or third time entrepreneurs so much!
You will reduce your choice of partners very considerably. I would wager most people in their 20s have net debt rather than net savings.

My girl is extremely frugal compared to most of her friends, but we still argue about money a lot.
A surd of Lisp? Found this yesterday:

Are There Things-in-Themselves

By

Dr. Paul Carus

Title: The Surd of Metaphysics
1903

without heirs to her fathers was gathered,
Here at the auctioneer's

"things-in-themselves" will be sold.

.................

Vorwort:

The relation between the circumference and the diameter of
the circle is quite definite and concrete, but if expressed of a
numerical fraction its value can only be approximated, admitting
of an infinite progress in accuracy. So the world is determinable
and science is reliable in spite of the fact that her work can never
be finished, and however much we progress and advance in the
solution of life's problem, we can never reach the end. But this
condition of things is not depressive to a healthy mind. On the
contrary, it is an elevating idea that the source of knowledge will
never run dry, and that the waters of life are inexhaustible.

-Paul Carus 110 years ago

(note: of Carus Mathematical Monographs, MAA)
I've already stipulated that some articles are ill-informed or even wrong. Sadly not everyone who writes about legislation reads it first. But some of us do. :)
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Interesting. Thank you. I stand informed.
Kids are familiar about game sites like discoverykids and many others. Talk to them that they have the power to Create.

I'd advise having prepared quick demos:
i.e.:
1.- Their own website "I like" my grandmother, my pet, my school. Hope you get the idea.

2.- A game demo (Scirra Construct 2 has templates included, Scratch too), showing something simple that will use your Funny face (ready to insert) and show it off.
This might be by design. I think all investors probably realize the legal ramifications. The net effect of this could be to sniff out the ones who don't make good on their handshakes, since the ones who do probably won't mind putting terms in an email.
I don't understand why this would be called a "handshake deal" when the last two (and most important) steps involve e-mail. Call it an "e-mail deal" or "e-mail contract" and a lot of the mystique just sort of floats away. Now it's obvious why you need to call it off if either party doesn't want to send an e-mail, it's obvious that the handshake itself isn't enough, etc.
I bet that whoever chose the salt chose it so that the resulting RC4 key is not one of the weak ones.
If you're going to go to the trouble of running something from the terminal (even if you save time with a bash/batch script), why would you prefer this over Selenium? With Selenium you can customize the actions, extend using your favorite language (such as adding pauses or pulling inputs from a database), and if you use Firefox, you can get the same recording ability (only you can save the file and can extend via JavaScript)
Wasn't there a HN'er who ran a site called "Fork the Cookbook"? I seem to remember him posting in the Google Reader thread recently.

edit: here it is! http://forkthecookbook.com/
They are using jQuery. Their code is obfuscated, so hard to say exactly how they are doing it. But i know how I would do it. Nothing crazy going on there.

You fetch your tweets from twitter, and build your html for them, position it out of view contained by an overflow hidden div. Go through the list of tweets, waiting a random amount of time to send them all off, and animate them from the bottom to top over another random amount of time. Im sure the biggest details will be in tweaking the timers so you get them firing off well. On animation callback, run the script again on the element.
Verbal contracts are fuzzy. They rely on reputation, and an investor's reputation won't take a substantial hit from a "he-said she-said" situation.

Having the agreement recorded in writing might not be legally enforceable, but it makes it clear that there was a concrete agreement in the first place.
I totally agree with you technically, but on a de-facto basis the difficulty of proving a handshake deal is why they are effectively treated not as legal agreements but social commitments, hence Uhhrrr's comment for a clarification of this protocol.

If these "handshake" emails are enough to constitute a legally binding commitment, then the power in this relationship slides dramatically in the favor of the investment target. This might not be a problem generally, but like I wrote above, it is not inconceivable that due-diligence would turn up a real problem, especially if the investment target itself is run by shady people.

There are any number of reasonable circumstances short of fraud that would make an investor consider that the initial presentation made by a company was misleading enough to require a modification or withdrawal of the original offer. Wouldn't an attempt to modify the offer put the investor in a position to get sued, especially if it was relied upon by the company?

This protocol sounds like a great idea, but the vagueness of a verbal commitment has some value (keeping a dispute out of the legal system) that is being sacrificed in exchange for clarity.
The violation is that adblockers were blocking ads in other 3rd party apps. Manipulating other apps is the violation.

This has nothing do with the blocking ads on the web like people are saying. These instead block ads in things like Angry Birds and other apps.
I wouldn't count on it. http://shauninman.com/archive/2013/03/14/fire
As pointed out elsewhere in the thread, verbal agreements that contain all the other aspects of a valid (for example written) contract is infact every bit as binding as a written version providing you can prove it occurred. You can do this all sorts of ways - witnesses for examples. The wiggle room that enters verbal agreements are typically not the result of it being a verbal agreement, but that verbal agreements are typically more concise than written agreements, and therefore lack the specificity and breathe.

In summary, a concept of a legal contract is largely abstracted away from the medium it is expressed it. The medium only effects the ease at which you can prove that your version of the contract is infact the version that both parties agreed to.
It's just c.y.a. copypasta. https://www.google.com/search?q=You+are+expressly+prohibited...

I doubt any early stage startup spends meaningful time crafting their own T&Cs. And if they do, they should probably reconsider their priorities.
It seems some people are able to read it, some people aren't. I made it a personal goal a few years back to learn Common Lisp, and while the first month after I started learning was hard, I've never really looked back since then.

If I was to go back before that point, I'm sure I would find most languages more readable than lisp, but now that I know it fairly well, the syntax/parens don't bother me at all. I can parse it really easily with a passing glance. Maybe it's just a matter of experience.

In the end, a language is a language...if you don't like one, you can use another. I happen to love lisp, but it's a personal choice, and I can understand why people wouldn't like the syntax.
Where's the Creativity in Game Design? (2007)
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It seems to me that you are saying that if buyer and seller know each other then they would eschew the market for a more intimate trading arrangement.

This is exactly what I'm saying. E.g. Airbnb wouldn't work if hosts and guests already knew or could easily find each other some other way.
These are great specifics, and I agree with all of them. On a more general level, I don't consider someone senior until they can take a complex problem and break it down by choosing appropriate technologies for all the pieces. This is a necessary but not a sufficient condition. In the case of rails, this means choosing the right testing framework, making good scaling choices, choosing a the right ORM, etc. which coincides with the specifics from your post.
"This protocol causes a valid and enforceable contract to be formed."

Don't agree but if that were the case it would be a good reason not to use it. Details matter and this protocol doesn't have enough details (nor can it) that I would ever use it to form an legally binding agreement.

I already to a version of this with other types of investing (email back and forth essentially or sometimes a text) and the underlying assumption is that it is always subject to a formal contract which needs to be signed.
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Except Python didn't really catch up. As mentioned below, Python doesn't have tail call elimination so you won't be able to do the same example with the factorial function.
Go watch the tour of Space X. He shows their current rockets and prototypes and proceeds to explain that it was another guy that built it in his garage. Elon funded it's production.
> Question - could Vagrant work with LXC?

Easily.
It's fine wine (£100 per bottle and up). Of which about 80% is Bordeaux.

I calculated those figures by looking at widely used market stats, and then the turnover of the UK's fine wine wholesalers.
I think the general theory that conflict creates progress has some merit though, even if his choice of examples turns up flawed. There is the general example/theory of several countries in Europe with good defensive terrain protecting them being able to compete with each other for a sustained period, without one power control the entire area as in other parts of the world (ancient China, say, or ancient Persia). It's interesting.
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My biggest problem with Prismatic is the repeated stories. I mean - come on, you can always find duplicate articles where the titles are close to 100% same.
I guess you never had to analyze stack dumps from optimized release builds.
I'm from kentucky so the name definitely strikes my fancy... I think there's a lot of potential there. I think the HIPPA issues can be a possible minefield. I took care of my grandmother for months before she passed and the two features that we most would have liked would have been: 1) tracking medication dosage. She was taking this shifting cocktail of drugs 4 times a day towards the end. 2) Maintaining some short videos or self reported mood ratings would be very helpful, this data could be provided to health care providers.
Pi Is (still) Wrong.
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If you've got an RTOS with pre-emptive threading, you can do blocking (de)compression safely...but then you need extra memory for another thread stack.

It's a good implementation if that isn't an issue, but then there's a couple tiny LZSS/LZW/etc. implementations available.