skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems this provides a slightly different service. It creates email reminders to remind you to go back to an article. I don't think Pocket has that functionality.
In Spring, 2001 I was in the midst of filling out my H1-B forms to become a permanent resident of the US when I came across that form (that I had to fill out to keep the process moving forward) - I just looked at it, and said to myself, "Really, I have to answer whether I have ever been involved in 'Genocide'?"

I felt insulted enough that I just dropped the process and I've been on a TN visa ever since.

Seriously - If I had been involved in Genocide, do they expect me to answer "Yes?"
They should also take a cooking class to understand project management. Seriously.
This really only makes sense for companies that are looking to exit or IPO, though stock options for any other kind of company aren't that compelling.

For other companies that are interested in playing the long game, I think it makes more sense to explore alternative compensation structures like profit sharing, etc.

As an employee looking to work with the typical exit-seeking startup, I would probably not be interested in the deal.
Brandon, update the copyright in the footer at least. "copyright your company" ....
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‘Confessions of a quantitative easer’ casts doubt on benefit of program
>The interesting thing about this chart is how unprofitable manufacturing is

And it isn't just manufacturing; resource extraction is similar. Look at Glencore[1], the Swiss mining conglomerate: $1.5BB in profit on $214BB in revenue (190,000 employees).

There are more "efficient" uses of capital. Unfortunately, someone needs to do the building and mining.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glencore_Xstrata
Banks are required to file Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) for anything unusual or, erm, suspicious, regardless of the dollar amount.
Does it only work in IE?
Amazon AWS re:Invest 2013 Live Stream
Some constructive feedback:
1. Maybe offer a few price points?
- i.e. select how much salsa you want $10/month?$20?
2. Will shipping glass containers with liquid be costly/dangerous/risky?
3. Did you try any google adwords?

The HN audience probably has a inherent bias TOWARDS saas services/subscription models.
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I was very interested until I got to the part of no LTE support. That's a deal breaker for me. I had a Samsung S3 that I busted and opted for the Samsung S3 Mini at one point, and the lack of LTE cost me dearly. I literally couldn't browse the internet unless I was on Wifi.
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> The content isn't interesting[1] because bilateral free trade agreements are public[0]

That's like saying that weather forecasts aren't interestings because the weather is public. The point is that we want to have a public discussion on these agreements before they are signed.
> Two banks, two high tech, the rest oil/gas/mining. Kind of depressing.

Why is this depressing?

It looks like the people manufacturing things for the economy are being rewarded. To me this seems like the economy is working properly.
The missing piece here is that WiFi/Bluetooth/GPS chipsets ARE usually using ARM CPUs internally. GPUs generally run a funky DSP-like core but there's still some kind of OS scheduling tasks and running code to interact with the main CPUs.

The cost of laying down a fully-fledged CPU has reduced to the point where it's simpler and less risky to use an off-the-shelf ARM core (or similar), instead of a big bunch of hard logic combined with coefficient. And most of those CPUs have some sort of runtime, which is an OS, depending on where you draw the line on that.
> - brought down an Ecuadorian diplomatic flight over European airspace, on the mere possibility that he might be on it

To be clear it wasn't just any diplomatic flight. It was the plane carrying the President of Ecuador.
How does the circular reference prevention work ?
Yes, you would. That's what basic income is. If you make $1,000,000 per year and basic income of $10,000 is introduced, you now make $1,010,000 per year (before taxes).

You're misunderstanding me here. I'm saying the exact opposite of what you think I'm saying. My point is that the market for wages would find a new, lower equilibrium to compensate for the new basic income. Since there's only a finite amount of money in the economy, and we can't magically give everybody that much more, it has to come from somewhere. A Basic Income approach would still have to redistribute the existing money, not create additional money (at least not on such a scale). The average total income (basic income + wages) would remain largely unchanged (modulo changes in tax structure, GDP growth or shrinkage, etc.).
They were apparently trying to understand performance issues with adblock, so they can fix them...

// TODO(mpcomplete): remove the extension-related histograms after we collect
// enough data. http://crbug.com/100411

const bool use_adblock_histogram =
ChromeContentRendererClient::IsAdblockInstalled();

https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=100411
It's not really comparable, but minimalistic spreadsheet applications always remind me of Dan Piponi's Haskell `loeb` function [0]---a "one-line" "spreadsheet" "implementation".

The blog post is very interesting to read, but here's the meat. We're looking for a function with type

loeb :: Functor f => f (f a -> a) -> f a

and without thinking about the meaning of it, we can implement it as

loeb x = fmap (\a -> a (loeb x)) x

which embodies a certain, strange kind of recursion. It turns out that it's "spreadsheet recursion". We build a list of functions from lists of a to a like

test :: [[Int] -> Int]
test = [ (!! 1), length, (!! 0) ] -- think [A1, length(A), A0]

then `loeb test` "completes" the list by applying the "result list" to each of the functions of the source list.

loeb test == [3, 3, 3]

Laziness lets the recursion proceed despite "evaluating" the list from left to right. Infinite loops still fail

loeb [(!! 0)] == [............ waiting

It's also interesting to think of how to do "spreadsheet recursion" on exotic data types like trees.

data Binary a = Branch (Binary a) a (Binary a) | Tip
deriving (Show, Functor)

depth Tip = 0
depth (Branch l _ r) = succ (max (depth l) (depth r))

top default Tip = default
top _ (Branch _ a _) = a

> loeb (Branch Tip depth (Branch Tip (top 0) Tip))
Branch Tip 2 (Branch Tip 2 Tip)

[0] http://blog.sigfpe.com/2006/11/from-l-theorem-to-spreadsheet...
Regarding Risk - what are the issues/concerns about bankruptcy in Singapore? In the United States, most of the risk is borne by the lender, and, in the event of financial collapse - the individual usually is able to come back swinging after a few years in the penalty box - which certainly reduces the downside to taking risk. If they finance with venture capital, or a LLC, then even those several years in the penalty box aren't a concern - ALL of the financial risk is borne by the VCs.

The reduction of cost-of-failure plays a very large role in whether people are prepared to risk failure.
AWESOME advice, thank you
I'd really love to see one that supports a hierarchy of JSON data, such as a treegrid.
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At first, I was terrible at maths at University and indeed had to retake a year due to my awful attitude. Oddly enough after almost flunking out completely I came to really enjoy the more abstract mathematical aspects of CS (e.g. lambda calculus) and even in the mainstream maths classes I ended up getting rather splendid marks which eventually led to me getting a 1st.

At a post-grad level I then ended up working in an Electrical Engineering department with Control Engineers - rather ironic for someone who started off almost failing because of maths...

Maths went from something I had no interest in, and therefore did terribly, to something I loved.... maybe it was age/maturity or just plain getting a scare!

[NB I'm very happy we had the UK style degree grading system rather than GPAs]
SSL seems to conflate 2 ideas, proof of identity and an encryption layer. Would it be possible to have the encryption layer without requiring a third party to handle keys?
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Thanks for the tip, but I'm far from working with javascript right now[1], I was barely trying to understand the trick. I love the fact that this 'app' is a 6x6 variables grid layout javascript editor in disguise.

[1] I just finished skimming through eloquent js and js allonge, and this still eluded me.
Working hard at math might be necessary, but it doesn't have to be painful! I have found learning about the history of math has me puzzling over difficult concepts on my own time because it is fun.

The book I am reading (Journey Through Genius) is really good, but not very advanced math. I would love to find some self-study math courses that approach math not as a bunch of symbol-pushing but as an art with a history.
The Verge article claims that they still make a profit on each phone[1].

1. http://www.theverge.com/2013/11/13/5096680/motorola-moto-g-a...
I'd assume he would. First of all it could be a risk not to and second, why wouldn't he?
Ok, but where do I sign in with my Windows Live account?
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Um no. Google docs is free for the same reason IE was free. The economic value is tremendous, such that the creator is willing to spend billions on it.
No, no I didn't.

The term 'real' isn't that hard to define. It consists of everything that exists when I cease to exist. It is everything around me that keeps going when I stop going.

Therefore, awake, asleep, on drugs, it doesn't matter. My perception of the world is just that, my perception. The world exists whether I'm here or not. To argue that reality is dependent on your own personal perception is one of the most egotistical and self-centered things I've ever heard.

Again, the 'everything and nothing is real' argument just comes across as sophomore existentialism, nothing more.
All great advice.

I’m still working through the price points, and I’ll probably offer an e-commcerce section as well.

Shipping the salsa isn’t much of a problem. The brands I’ve been talking to have their methods down pat and it hasn’t been a problem thus far
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all web giants should do this!
Why only URLs ?
Replace it with a textfield (140 Chars) and it is a reminder for everything.
Auto-Conntect with Calendersoftware would be nice too.
I have a feeling this would be ill advised outside of at-will states.
great overview at quora.com

are you estimating the market for such (Cloud-IDE) tools being currently $465M or did I misunderstood that - interesting when now the first key (legacy) development IDE providers (MS - VS) are moving towards that approach as well.
I don't think the intention was to imply "everything is equal". I think the intention was closer to "everything has a cost" or "you can't simultaneously optimize for everything". AKA the Project Management Triangle.
Agreed. Some is better than none, and fugly code is better than no code. As long as you have a clear mention that you're working to improve the code's quality, most (competent) people should respect that.
It's a perfect example of getting caught up in the implications of the solution of a hard problem before you've got it solved. Why if we only had access to limitless cheap hydrogen we could...

There's endless neat energy things we could do with limitless cheap hydrogen once we have it. This one isn't even that interesting, just academic pipe-dreaming.
I think you're looking for Mindscape Web Workbench (http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/2b96d16a-c986-...)

Not part of VS proper but if you can use extensions it's a good alternative. I haven't used it unfortunately as my work doesn't really keep me in VS for web dev but the tooling should be rather decent from what little I've touched. YMMV though, obviously.
Why not a Nexus 5? It didn't skimp on any of those things and is $349 unlocked on the Play store.
Although it is impressive that an app like this can be created in such few lines of code, I think it is a bad precedent as a programmer to have a goal to write as least as many lines as possible. It leads to hacks and unmaintainable code. I would rather have a method that has 10 lines of code that can be easily understood, then a method with one line of code that is only understood by the creator. That is not to say that one shouldn't focus as code reduction via re-usability, but one should always write code the can be understood by others.
I've never understood why the good cell phones (unlocked) always cost something like 500, 600 euros. Glad to see someone trying to push the prices down, especially if it's not Samsung or Apple, to help keep some variety in presence.

Seeing Motorola as "a Google company" is really weird to me.(https://www.moto-g.com/ ), for some reason it makes me feel like Google is going to become the next GE or something.
Wait. What? I thought this problem was already solved. My Lumia 920 easily lasts through the day without requiring a charge and is already almost a year old.
Motorola Brazil seems to be down right now, probably updating for this phone.

motorola.com.br

I'm very anxious to see how much they will charge. The Moto X goes for R$ 1499.00 unlocked or US$ 645.

Electronics arrive here at ridiculous prices unfortunately.

The Playstation 4 will be released at a US$2,000.00 price point.
I'm not talking about fallout from spying, but from finger-pointing. The US will find out who leaked the document, and they will act accordingly.
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> in addition to a traditional stock option grant, we’re offering our first fifteen employees, or however fewer it takes to get to the next financing, an equal share of 15 percent of the company

This is additional to a standard stock option grant. Though I'm not sure what is meant by "traditional" here I assume there is some other amount of options with a standard cliff.
I don't think so. I'm using it in Chrome and it works perfectly fine. :)
On the other hand, you are taking what appears to be a general observation and applying it to this specific instance. Sure, there are plenty of free spreadsheets available. But what about other areas? There's plenty of areas still where a well executed easy to use minimal version of a product can compete in the existing for-pay ecosystem, and as we are discussing, minimal can pay off since 20% of functionality may take 5% or less of the time it would take to do 100%.
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This sounds like a great offering for an unlocked smartphone. I'm personally in the market for a cheap, unlocked smartphone, and if this is as good as the reviews sound, I'll probably buy one straight away.

But I think the real test for this phone's market share will be the subsidized price that carriers offer it at, which would have to be substantially lower than current subsidized flagship smartphones. I don't think most smartphone consumers value unlocked phones enough that they would pay a similar amount for one as they would pay for a subsidized iPhone 5S. A subsidized 5C would still be even cheaper than the unlocked Moto G.

A subsidized $50 Moto G vs. a subsidized $100 iPhone 5C though? I could definitely see that taking off.
I see. Thank you for the resources :)
We took a somewhat similar approach in college by building an autonomous Mindstorms robot using lejos. Here's one of the first test runs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHZfAInCor8
Enhanced isn't domain hosting, it's domain aliasing, which is a big difference.
Don't feel bad about yourself. I had a history teacher on college who was a very important political criticize of Hugo Chavez government. Each time she was going to talk about politics, she took the battery of her cell phone.
I'm currently going back and learning linear algebra from the excellent MIT OCW course [1]. I somehow didn't have to learn linear in the course of a CS degree at a big state school. Focusing solely on learning this one subject has allowed me to get the subject at a much deeper level than learning enough to pass a test.

I'm hoping to move on to statistics, which I slept through because I was an immature shit-head my sophomore year.

Then a review multivariable and diff-eq, and the end goal is to do the full Stanford Machine Learning class, taught by Andrew Ng [2]. I also really want to tackle "Underactuated Robotics", which is another MIT OCW course.[3]

[1] http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mathematics/18-06sc-linear-algebr...

[2] http://see.stanford.edu/see/courseinfo.aspx?coll=348ca38a-3a...

[3] http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-comput...
Thanks!

The way I see voting as a positive right is that it's a lot of work to implement. Keeping people from interfering with your right to vote is definitely part of that, but a small part. The actual holding of elections, which takes a lot of time and money, is something the state does because people have a right to it.
I'm not sure I understand. Are you saying that a 1:1 threading model without preemption will be more performant than an M:N threading model without preemption?

How would this affect the performance of applications that spin up thousands of tasks?
I wonder if this could be interpreted as an "implied contract:" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At-will_employment#Implied_con...
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Don't prove your point with outliers. He's literally the richest man in the world.
Like the OP, I also went to journalism school and can confirm that, while Statistics 101 is sometimes a highly recommended elective, math is seen as not needed, especially for those who want to tell "stories with impact."

I would've agreed back then as a student, but I also happened to be studying computer engineering so I took math for granted. In the professional world, it's astonishing how hard it is to explain ratios and basic enumeration to those who didn't try math, and how that greatly affects the range of story ideas you can conceive of.

And I say that as someone who still has to look up the quadratic equation...something virtually all college grads learned at least in high school. But there's a huge chasm between knowing that the quadratic equation exists and is applicable and not remembering that it exists at all.
There could easily be a trigger for this where if the company cancels their end of the at-will agreement, the equity is deemed to vest at a certain rate.
To be fair, time was considered to provide a pretty universal total ordering up until fairly recently, i.e., 1903.
why the downvotes? I asked for genuine help in here.
What I mean is that I find it difficult to justify that kids in Scotland get their fees paid and those in England (and probably elsewhere in the UK) do not.
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In Japan, for example, the trade parts of TPP are very very important.

This is a big treaty, just saying it's about Mickey Mouse simplifies the facts.
I didn't attempt to claim that my proposal was the economic state of the art. I claimed it was a jumping off point to illustrate how to do monte carlo modelling in the third paragraph.

If you showed me your business forecast, I would indeed tweak the model until I felt the probability distributions governing the assumptions covered all the plausible values. The net result would likely just be a very fat distribution that said nothing. And if so, that's useful information to have.

That's very nearly the result we get here - note that the Basic Job estimates range from $300B to $1.5T. See Scarmig's excellent comment which cuts to the heart of this matter.
FM Radio support is very common in Europe and a lot of people use it.
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I hit a wall in college where math just stopped being something I intuitively "got". I'm sure that given enough time and motivation, I could have continued being "good at math" even at the higher levels, but these were luxuries I did not have, given everything else on my plate at the time.

My biggest problem with math, especially once I got into academia, was how it was taught. So many professors would scribble what seemed like nonsense on the board (symbols that change from professor to professor, or even from lecture to lecture) and then go on to say things like "...and the proof is trivial" or "...it obviously follows that...", and I'd sit there wanting to shout "NO, NO it's not obvious!"

Finally, I'd find a tutor to explain to me what it was I was missing, and it really WAS obvious. If only it had been taught that way in the first place!

Admittedly, not everyone has the same learning style, but the classes I took seemed really tailored towards the students who already had the intuition that I lacked.
Life's too short to work in a boring company.
You need killer #prodmgmt talent. We need to talk. PICK UP THE PHONE.

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You can't use 3g? It's plenty fast for internet browsing (Right now from my phone I get a ping in the range of 60/120ms, ~10mb down and ~1mb up).

Or there are other problems?
haha, no worries! I’m just doing this for fun anyway. It’s definitely a good learning experience.
So, essentially all the states. :)
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I know he mentions people doing their own googling, but I'd like to recommend this coursera course: https://www.coursera.org/course/maththink

It's one of my favorite MOOCs of all time, a fantastic intro to mathematical thinking.
Will do Brian!
Non-ssl rendering of local hrefs is lenient. Browsers don't complain. With forced ssl, however, badly constructed hrefs will force the browser to complain that a SSL enabled website has non-ssl hrefs.

Most people don't understand that a href needs to be absolute or how to easily fix it.
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> If the records are only hard copy, then there is no requirement to convert them into an electronic format just to provide them to an individual.

Correct. Yet over 50% of providers have an EHR. And that number is growing every month.

> If you've been practicing since say 1970 or so and haven't converted everything to electronic format by now, why bother?

Because Meaningful Use incentivizes you to do so. The government gives you money.
You can't give 15 people 15% each, that comes out to 225% of the equity. Or is he saying that the 15 people will split the 15%? Because 1% that doesn't vest until a liquidity event isn't that special, it seems to me.

I would not work for this company.