skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The liquidation preference reads like a 1x participating preferred statement: "We have the RIGHT to get back our capital AND then everything is split pro rata."

Shouldn't liquidation preference clauses read more like: "We have the OPTION to get back our capital OR ELSE everything is split pro rata."?

Also... can you explain the dividend clause? I understand the preference (preferred dividends get paid first), but what is the significance of 8% (8% of what)?
A Video Of People Screaming At Last Night's Game Of Thrones
Ask HN: What are your sources for programming news?
What news letter / forum / etc. do you follow? Where do you go to stay up to date about your favorite languages?

I receive JavaScript Weekly and Ruby Weekly from Cooper press, and Coding for Interview, which sends about every week a review of a programming concept.

What does HN read?
Depends what you're comparing against. If it's a poor man's generic implementation in current Go using interface{}, then obviously there would be no extra runtime overhead if the compiler generated that for you in a type safe manner; but compared to manually specialized collections or the built-in generic collections, there is quite a lot of runtime overhead. Whether the compiler costs are manageable or not is up for debate.
> shouldn't it be a commonplace thing that doesn't take so much work to get around to explaining and using?

Why? It's a reality of the world that more complex things take more time and more effort to learn. However, often that is because these more complex things allow you to do a lot of very useful things much more efficiently. I would prefer to drive over a bridge built by an engineer who learned all those difficult equations, material properties, and buildings codes as opposed to a high school kid with a few physics courses under his belt.

Programming is similar in some effects. As you get better and better you acquire more and more tools to do what needs to be done. Now granted, if you are working on an interface that needs to be easily accessible to the widest range of people it makes sense to simplify. However, cleverness has it's place in code that is expected to be read by specialists.

In the end, even if you avoid all the clever tricks and shortcuts you know, a large enough project will still be utterly inaccessible to a novice. The real challenge of projects that complex becomes less about the specific detail of how a piece works, but more about how all the pieces work together. If you're skilled enough to follow the design of a project like that, I don't think it's too much to ask that you either know these "clever" techniques, or you should be willing to learn.

Looking at your code you linked in the article, I think part of the problem is the fact that there are entire pages of code without a single inline comment. When you're doing these clever things you really need to document every logical step in order to understand and verify your through process later on. You also have to be ready to accept that sometimes you will mess up in your cleverness. In fact, If you are getting a lot edge cases that's a good signal to go back, re-read your comments/design notes, and find where you could improve your approach.

Ironically, I would argue that go channels are actually an example of doing something "clever" the correct way. These channels are very effective at separating a single concept from a whole pile of abstractions, and doing a lot of clever interactions beneath the hood in order to ensure it's all effectively synchronized. In other words, using go channels is using the same type of "clever" techniques once they've been abstracted away.
I'm curious about this as well, I was definitely 2-3 of those 15,000 letters.

If I were to guess I can imagine the amount of effort it required probably outweighed any profits, especially if he was doing the letters manually. It must of been a cool experience, regardless.

I've also used EZGram, L-Mail (for individual letters) and DirectMailManager, PostalMethods and Click2Mail for business letters, so competition may be a factor as well.
Or when MS Access came out and that was the last we ever saw of DBAs.
We offer a full variety of print services via an API. Think of us an an AWS for printing not just sending letters. Postal Methods also require you to prepay usage while we require you only to pay for what you consume.
Crunch the numbers with some reasonable estimates - you'll find that the probability of two people picking the same atoms is considerably more than the probability of one vote mattering.
Considering the address is on the domain for the original post and the poster says it's his third language... perhaps, just this once, it's safe not to assume malice.
"Until you consider how the US Government runs any program into the ground, is blanketed with regulations and bureaucracy, and generally hurts the people who it's supposed to help."

Sounds exactly like the complaints I read on my social feed from fellow Finns :).
Bootstrap is an answer to a 10 year old question posited by CSS Zen Garden: Can we make the web beautiful?

Bootstrap is a great default starting point for a website. Its a great tool for internal development where you may have to write an app but don't want to spend days making it look nice. You can do anything you want with it.

If you complain it makes sites look the same, then ask yourself how many of those sites would have just gotten a template from Template Monster a few years back...
My guess is top management may have been more worried about employees selling their laptops with trade secrets on them and then claiming they were stolen.
Here's the problem:

"I immediately apologized"

Why?
Prime.js, an "explicit" javascript framework
As I read the article the saying "lift where you stand" came to mind.

Some people believe that in order to change the world they need to be a genius... to find peace they need to become a Buddhist monk... to save a starving African child they should live in to Africa to do it.
I think that we can do all those things as we are now. We can affect positive change when we "lift where we stand." That's what that kid is doing.
Beardvertising
Quick plug here if you guys don't mind: our security product nCryptedCloud protect at-rest data in your dropbox account. Should you ever loose your laptop and want to make those dropbox files not readable on that device, all you have to do is remotely revoke the access key (from the device). Without access privilege, the data is useless. It's free for personal use. Let me know if you guys have any question or comments.

-V.
Flowing faster: foundations
Seriously? Strawmaning like crazy? How so and where? I've set up no straw man here.

Your phrasing "argue in fact" was ambiguous to my reading, which is why I asked what you meant. And yet I didn't dispute or oppose anything you said. All I did was point out that, just as I was about to do, you were making some guesses at bets/motivations as an outsider. Since I'm not refuting anything you say, how can I be proposing a straw man?

Relax, friend. I made no demands that you discuss anything within the framework of an analogy to a self-healing neural network. Moreover, I was replying to shardling's comments that there specific (implicitly factual) claims made that could be determined correct or not with some investigation if he cared--to which I simply pointed out there were no factual claims made, but that we were both positing potentialities and guesses, not factual claims.

Can we take a step back and see there was an apparent misunderstanding of intention? We were not having a disagreement.
This is so true you cannot believe how hard I laughed.

I have a particular coding style (own-prettifying), and so I can tell if I authored the code or if someone else has. I can also tell if mine's been edited by someone else too.
No, after the liquidation preference, everything is split among common holders.
Well, the problem is jurisdiction and ownership. Big Sur isn't a National Park, it's really just a region, including a State Park scattered around an area with privately owned land as well. In contrast, Muir Woods is just a very small national monument (AFAIK, hence its small visitation) and Yosemite has the protection of the NPS and federal government.

Looks like the hotel was on private land, so really the issue is the waterway modifications and general carelessness with regards to laws and regulations. Those laws and regulations are still extremely important: water is a complex subject especially in the west. In this case the river flows directly through the state park and has many ecological considerations, as well as fishing (salmon spawning) and other wildlife.

So, it's still private land, but anything that happens to a stream in California has gotta be done right or you're in trouble, and there's a damn good reason why even if you don't like fish.
Question for those of you who have used this service: how often do you get fresh fruit or vegetables that don't meet your expectations?

When I go grocery shopping I agonize over every single item and when something doesn't look fresh I change my dinner plans. I'm not sure I'd be comfortable buying perishable stuff online although I'd love it for dry goods and cans.
Maybe HTTP is simply missing the INVOKE verb for executable documents.
I think the important thing is not to understand all the code, but to know where you are and why you are there.
Best SIRI competitor
Why popular projects have overflowing bug databases
The question is why would I want to print a mail or even do this? Printing on physical paper at destination is similar to printing on a printer on the network, right ... is there something else to it that I am missing?

Why can't it all be done purely on the web itself?
This is truly excellent, I've had some such nasty stuff come up in term sheets and it just creates animosity straight away between founders and investors.

If I ever get the chance to invest back into another startup one day I wouldn't think twice to use a straight forward term sheet like this.
I don't know about a "few minutes", but spending a couple hours putting together some type of system for automatically installing your system configuration is SO worth it - probably one of the most frustration-saving investments of your time imaginable as a developer, if you haven't done it already.

After years of being frustrated at my configuration being different on every system because I was too lazy to invest a little bit of time into doing something like this, I wrote a small Python script that creates all the config files I use (zshrc, tmux.conf, etc.) - it concatenates the 'generic' piece of each config file with an OS-specific part (for Linux/Mac-specific setup) and a host-specific part (for system-specific setup) and writes the concatenated file to my home directory. There are probably much better solutions out there than rolling your own script to do this, but I like it because I know exactly what it does and how to add features myself when I need them.

Now when I start using a new system, I just do 'git pull' and 'make all'. It's extremely satisfying how with this type of setup, in seconds, a brand new system feels exactly like the ones I've been using for months/years.
Grocery margins are razor-thin for 2 reasons:

1. Most of the money in grocery is in perishable foods. There's also a huge amount of shrink from product spoiling or being damaged -- A truck driver having a bad night can easily lose 2-3 pallets (288 gallons each) of milk. If the cooler or freezer is full, pallets of product sometimes get left in the backroom aisle.

2. Unions forcing exceptional medical plans. When I worked for Safeway, and was part of UFCW Local 367, I had the best medical care I've ever had -- PPC network with low copays and it included ~$600 of dental and glasses lenses/frames every year/two. And we had no deductible as long as we worked more than 20 hours per week.

Amazon won't have any stores, so they'll be avoiding both of these costs.
Wait what? I think your going a bit far there.

I mean for prototypes, proof of concepts, and maybe 2 man fly by night 'startups' trying to get initially backing to hire backend engineers, great idea. I can even see certain 'startups' may be profitable and sustainable and just never need to invest in 'custom' backend code.

But as a general rule of thumb, in no way should software startups that base their existence on client server software possibly think its a good idea to have no one in house who actually knows how to do server software.
That is an extraordinary claim that requires some evidence.
I'm pretty sure most new car dealerships are guaranteed, by contract, to have a regional monopoly for their makes. That would be a huge barrier to anything resembling an Amazon for cars.
I have seen some really interesting network partitions between SoftLayer data centers. The scenarios I saw were actually very frustrating because these weren't complete partitions (in the CAP theory sense), but just really high latency between data centers that was very sporadic. The CAP theorem addresses the situation where there is 100% packet loss both ways, but you can get "decreased availability" and "decreased consistency" with high latency. In other words, if you plan on traversing the WAN with your system, your system should take into account the high latency situation as well as classical split brain.

P.S.: at some point we stopped having these issues and overall I think SoftLayer is a great provider, at least for their bare metal offerings.
I've tried the both of them and generally I found dm-crypt + LUKS to be superior. The problem of e-cryptfs (which I believe what Debian uses for home directory -- at least Ubuntu uses) limit usable file name length because of the way things are encrypted. While it's not often the case I would exhaust its length limitation, but if I do, it's bit frustrating...
Google Will Soon Launch A Free HTML5 Development Tool For Creating Web Apps
The liquidation is pro-rata for the common shareholders. So once Preferred gets paid, the common splits the remaining pro-rata. With the actual docs (Shareholders rights agreement that goes with the purchase, it would be clear).

8% of the amount invested. This is a standard term to allow investors to get paid if the company is in business a long time is cash flow positive, but not likely to have a liquidation event. VC funds typically have a 10 year life and need are way to return money to their LPs.
And thus why they changed direction to Mattermark.
To add to a comment below -- naive Bayes is a simple classifier which doesn't really have much in common with full-on Bayesian methods.
OMGPOP was only about Draw Something, which faded as fast as it grew. Zynga's mobile focus needs to be around making its most popular games more mobile, or building new "mobile-first" games. Aside from Words with Friends, their most popular games like Farmville have failed to get popular on mobile. Why not? Mark Pincus would like to know, too.
Show HN: Simple Add To Calendar JS Script
Hi HN, it's my first week at Hacker School and here's what I've been working on since yesterday. It's a simple JS script you can use to add an "add to calendar" button (for websites with events). Would love to get your thoughts/ feedback!

http://carlsednaoui.github.io/ouical/
I have ruby scripts that talk to JIRA (which is the one we use at my shops(and most shops I worked at), however if I have to I usually just end up using their system separately (like going into it manually and updating it. It helps me keep my update to the system very accurate and complete.
Clickable: http://carlsednaoui.github.io/ouical/
Here's how I see it: either Fujimoto was predisposed to a sushi career (his sushi destiny guaranteed, though with uncertain timing) or Fujimoto would have been equally amazed by any old thing his rich friend showed him. There's also the whole question of: out of all the sushi chefs in Japan, why Fujimoto?

But back to the dichotomy: I have no reason to believe Fujimoto was predestined for sushi. On the other hand, I would be shocked to know that the rich kid, though he couldn't have known at the time, held direct power over Fujimoto's future. What if the kid wanted to play soccer? Or play Pacman in an arcade? Or launch bottle rockets? Could Fujimoto have been equally good at those things?
Dear Amazon, could you expand this to Finland?
Sure, absolutely.

The standard mechanism for this is accelerated vesting - I think Nivi wrote the definitive bit on it, here:

http://venturehacks.com/articles/acceleration-termination
Isn't hibernation actually a potential risk since the state of the machine is stored, which could potentially provide access to restricted files?
>without specifying its pdf or how you could derive the pdf

Would you or anyone happen to know of a good book that discusses the derivation of various advanced probability distributions? It is quite frustrating that every ML or stats book I come across run through various distributions without giving the reader any sort of motivation or intuition behind them. Without that intuition how am I supposed to have any idea when to apply one vs another?
It was a bad policy for all sorts of reasons, but there had been a really careless loss the previous year. Something like a hundred thousand customer credit files were left on an unencrypted laptop in the back of a reeturned rental car. Like I said, they rescinded it before anybody actually got fired.

You can usually learn more about the history of a company by reading its employee handbook than by reading its "About Us" page.
Amazon India is now live
This is ridiculous...

...ly awesome.
I disagree completely. I live in Seattle and work roughly 50 hour or more weeks, and I enjoy spending my free time with friends or working on projects.

I already leave my apartment for work at around 8:30 am and, after stopping at the gym on my way home, I'm usually home around 8 pm.

If I make a grocery store trip, this adds probably 45 minutes to an hour, meaning I get home at 9 pm, which sucks.

I've started getting produce through a local CSA-type delivery service, and it's so convenient and easy. I think Amazon Fresh will work well for people who are busy and have the disposable income to spend an little bit more on delivery.
No problem. :)

Note that my experiences with this are all in the US. Now that I think about it, in cultures where there is more pressure to have kids of the "right" gender, there are other really good reasons to not tell people the gender even if you know...
Considering how frequently people steal street signs, with Route 666 in the US having had a long history of theft, presumably renamed to avoid problems (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Route_491), these things will disappear double-time.

They are very clever, but how can you anchor these in such a way they won't disappear?
Modern space programs operate on a skewed risk tolerance mostly for public relations purposes. Given a billion dollar program with a $250 million final build and launch cost, NASA and ESA will chose to spend $750 million on R&D and launch one mission with a 95% success chance instead of $500 million on R&D and two missions with a 80-90% success chance (money spent on R&D has rapid diminishing returns on the success rate of satellites, whether you're talking about CubeSats or billion dollar satellite arrays, and two launches at 80% has a 96% success chance). NASA knows that most projects (Mars Science Lab excluded) can be done such that the budget pays for two launches instead of one by spending money on cheaper components (a single CPU made specifically for high radiation environments is like $1mil+) but when it comes to public perception, 2 failed launches sounds better than 3 or 4 (despite the fact that the latter would mean 6-7 successful launches versus 3-4 for the former).

The $370 million was probably the cost of the four satellites and the rocket + operations. It might include R&D but not most of the scientific operations part of the grant (there is tons of science to do before and after a scientific mission like this).
Presumably, when a company is laying someone off, ex-employees don't have to worry about non-poaching agreements they might have in place with the employer. The easiest person to hire is someone you've worked with in the past and liked, and the easiest job to pick is one working for/with people you know.
Still No C99... sobs
I don't know the man or his works, but on my first reading, I thought he seemed like a misguided liberal.
How is that legal? How doesn't that fail against competition laws?
regarding perishables, Japan has companies that do "cool delivery" where the tricks are refrigerated, so maybe that will catch on here as well.
Yeah, yeah, so Sean destroyed some pristine wilderness for his lavish wedding, but I heard he drives a Tesla. All is forgiven!
I believe (subscribed) recruiters can already search by which profiles have been most recently updated. Just keeping track of that info plus the linked company would be enough, particularly if they expose it via an API.
> Instead of seeing yourself as one person deeply embedded in a particular community, you may end up coolly looking across humanity as a detached god.

If you're worried about that, you might be better off being concerned about the increasing fragmentation of culture. As I recall, studies show that my generation knows dramatically less about those in their immediate neighbourhoods and are more likely to rate themselves as happy with those neighbourhoods. Or, to put it another way: We don't know those around us, and we don't care to know them or be known by them.

> You might end up enlarging the faculties we use to perceive the far — rationality — and eclipsing the faculties we use to interact with those closest around — affection, the capacity for vulnerability and dependence.

Well, doing something that saps the energy out of you may not leave you with much capacity to get along with others. But the anti-rationality bend to the article seems rather unwarranted. It's not like the idea that smart people are less capable of love is well supported.

> But a human life is not just a means to produce outcomes, it is an end in itself. When we evaluate our friends, we don’t just measure the consequences of their lives. We measure who they intrinsically are. We don’t merely want to know if they have done good. We want to know if they are good.

The two are tried together. You can't see someone's soul. Do we care about what someone is inside because we consider them an ends in themselves, or do we care about what someone is because that's strongly indicative of outcomes? I would tend to suspect that if our guesses of what someone is didn't correlate with outcomes the relevant happy feelings of being around good people wouldn't last very long.
I hope Amazon is using this to take over last-mile delivery. That would be an amazing opportunity to roll out something like http://www.cargocap.com/ - though probably not in a typical US suburb.

In a somewhat denser city, doing last-mile delivery by something other than a people-killing, air- and noise-polluting truck just makes a whole lot of sense. I know it's far off but there are few companies other than Amazon that I would trust to pull it off.
'comments' don't imply interaction. You need the capability of a back and forth, not just drive-by words tossed on top of the pile.

The typical facebook wall post will host plenty of interaction. The typical glued-on comment section with spambot frosting? Perhaps not.
I've got three random followers the first day I setup a vine account, even though I had no vines uploaded yet. I really don't want every vine I make to be shared publicly. This definitely limits my usage of this app.
The Echo Nest: How We Resolve Artists on the Internet