skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why are these chips required? The video doesn't explain it, and it seems like it's just ultrasonic triangulation.
You have to report the "paper capital gains" for AMT purposes but that doesn't necessarily subject you to paying the AMT. And if it does, you will at least get AMT credits you can apply towards future tax years.
Of course, we do not know the author's exact situation, but this is the impression I got as well from the posting: he is unhappy with the status quo. Blaming the author for being "self absorbed" is counter productive, it always takes two people to make the marriage work, and the wife is just as responsible. Marriage counseling seems a very good option.
It sounds like it was successful "Data upload from tracking plane shows landing in Atlantic was good! Several boats enroute through heavy seas." - Elon Musk

Link: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/457307742495993856
Sure, but you're less likely to be fired at short notice from a big company. Unless you do something stupid or illegal you will be put on a performance plan and have some time to get your act together. Lets say you're working at a startup on a h1b visa, if they decide to let you go with little notice you have a limited amount of time to line up another job or leave the country.
Nike will stop making FuelBand hardware
"Diet was hardly their only problem."

In terms of growth, it was definitely the major problem.

People did not evolve to get the majority of their calories from carbs.

Now, the "carbs are absolute evil!!!!" people do take it to an extreme, but it's just a fact that signs of nutritional deficiency (e.g., stunted growth) appear in the archeological record as soon as a group of people move from a high-protein, hunter-gatherer lifestyle to a high-carb agricultural lifestyle.

If there are any exceptions to this, I'm unaware of them.
Technically, most hotels do own the property they offer. Hilton, Hyatt, Starwood, Marriott, IHG, Choice, Wyndham are all brands. They sell the reputation, that the owners of a hotel building buy (i.e. franchise) and pay royalties to.

Sometimes a hotel brand owns the hotel building, sometimes a hotel brand manages the hotel, and sometimes they do both. But in the vast majority of cases, the hotel brand is in a franchising agreement with the hotel owner, and many times the hotel owner will hire a management company to deal with running the hotel itself.
I'm in New York and don't intend to go to the valley any time soon. Four reasons:

a) The compensation game is less ridiculous here. With pressure from the finance industry, all companies (including startups) tend to offer decent salary and don't over-rely on equity compensation.

b) I don't like driving. From my limited experiences, it seems that it's necessary to (occasionally) drive in the Valley.

c) SV seems way over-hyped. Yes, people are building some cool things—but far more people are just making knock-off apps and it's all a bit of a bubble. When the tech bubble pops, SV will be hit the hardest.

d) I don't want to live in a (tech) monoculture. It's interesting interacting with people from other industries and living in a real metropolis.
I don't think it's the right structure. I like the idea of open allocation (which is more defined) in a decent company better (although that, too, is rare). Paying typical young people to "do whatever" is not going to lead to the kind of performance that would sustain the fund. Also, I love the idea, but I feel like a lot of the best people are going to still go to YC. There isn't really room for more than one YC, because (like academia, which is all about reputation) most incubators are a reputation drag.

Also, I think "startups" generally suck. By startups, I mean companies built to become billion-dollar concerns (and willing to throw culture and people under the bus to get there). I'm starting to think of that as raving narcissism. People should want to do great work without that instant gratification and entitlement of Big Exitzzzzlol!!!!111

A better idea is this: http://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2013/05/07/fixing-employ... . The idea is that people sell call options on their time, as a consultant. Let's say my fair market value is $200/hour now. I might sell a call option, struck at $150/hour, exercisable within 5 years. That's probably worth $100-150 because I'll be more skilled in the future. It lets people finance their career needs early, but it also makes the consulting market astronomically more efficient because the option-holders (who would tend to buy underpriced options) have an economic incentive to find work for talented people.
- https://www.youtube.com/user/1veritasium (wonderful science education stuff)

- https://www.youtube.com/user/EEVblog (electronics stuff)

- https://www.youtube.com/user/lindybeige (irreverent but informative takes on historical stuff)

- https://www.youtube.com/user/bkraz333 (Ben Krasnow, amazing DIY home laboratory stuff)

- https://www.youtube.com/user/urbanTrash (Frank Howarth, fantastic wood crafting)

- https://www.youtube.com/user/minutephysics (well explained science stuff, see also:)

- https://www.youtube.com/user/minuteearth

- https://www.youtube.com/user/wickiemedia (if you've even been curious about pro audio, live or recorded, this channel has tons of great tutorials and explanations)

- https://www.youtube.com/user/setiinstitute (SETI talks, probably boring unless you're really engaged with cosmology, astronomy, exobiology, or space exploration, but if you are then there are some amazing talks)

Also, I've found defcon and ccc talks to have some amazing content occasionally. Try searching for "defcon" or "30c3" to get started.
Nike exits the wearable market
What is iBeacon? A Guide to iBeacon
Did they have the parking brake on?
Not a big deal if so, though inadvisable.
It is not really aggressive if you are planning on growing your company. Typically, a high growth oriented venture funded startup is looking to get about 12-18 months of runway from their funding, hit some metrics and get funded for series A, repeat. 2M seed round at 5 employees means avg per employee spending of 260k / year. This is assuming you're not bringing any revenue in yourself.
> startups try to have very small option pools after their A rounds, because the dilution only comes from the founders and not the investors in most A-round term sheets.

Why is this the case? If you try to align the interests of the investors with the interests of the founders, you'd find that this would put you at odds with your investors.

A company's total value might be quite a bit higher by having the ability to offer large amounts of employee options (just as an example, the ability to easily hire media personalities with a big followings without breaking your bank), which is good for both the founders and the investors.

I understand the investors are trying to protect themselves from the founders deciding to give a ton of shares to their friends (and then potentially back to the founders, in other ways), but I wonder if there is a better solution to this.
I don't disagree, the dissonance comes from conflating source to truth. It was once expressed in the adage, "It must be true, I read it in the newspaper!" which of course has no such authority. And more importantly how it is true is important as well. My philosopher friends go on and on about this. Critical thinking is really helpful here, and yes there are many folks who are not critical thinkers.
It's obvious the author is not 100% happy in his marriage, and it is definitely very very true that entrepreneurship requires a lot of sacrifice on part of the family - but I see the source of his frustration. He feels he is the only one responsible for his family's financials. Only he and his spouse can resolve this situation, and what way they end up going is up to them. It is unfair to put all the blame on his, though. It takes (at least) two people to run a family, you know.
The next generation of mobile interaction design.
Nike to stop making wearable hardware
I'm not in any of those professions, so I can't say for sure, but at the very least I assume they understand the medium itself at such a deep level they automatically break down any story they read to different stages. For example: the deeper, structural level, the broader social context the work was created in, the literary context (other works explicitly and implicitly referenced), and so foth.

I know something like that happens with me now when I look at art after going through art school - Micheal Parson's "Talk about a painting: A cognitive developmental analysis" is an excellent paper on the topic. AFAIK it's only available behind a paywall though:

http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/3332812?uid=3738736&ui...
It depends entirely on the food and the specific process it may have been subjected to. Applying excessive heat to organic compounds can denature them, removing nutritional value, even if it doesn't burn food.

Preservatives might cause certain foods to retain food-like properties and flavor (saltiness, for example), even though the food has aged more than might be superficially apparent.

So, if you have a food that has been cooked at the factory, and then it traverses various temperatures during shipping, ages on a store shelf for months, then gets over-microwaved in a convenience store, and then eaten, it might taste like an all-beef frankfurter, but from a nutritional perspective, it's shoe leather.

That's not the worst thing that could happen to meat though. In general, most people tend to agree that "pink slime" is the worst material that agribusiness is still allowed to call "meat."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink_slime

The poultry counterpart to "Pink Slime" is called "White Slime", since Pink Slime refers to beef. Pink slime is actually a thing, and many of us have probably eaten some of it, somewhere along the line.
No one was caught off guard by Apple (ARM was previewing 64-bit ARMv8 designs over a year before the A7), nor has Apple's move to 64-bit even really mattered at all: Realistically Apple could have iterated their existing core and they'd be exactly where they are now. There is absolutely no reason for Qualcomm to need to respond to Apple, as it isn't like Apple is going to get some design wins with Qualcomm customers.

Qualcomm has the ability to modify ARM designs. That doesn't mean they should do so, especially given some of the metrics that show the A57 to be a stellar design. We'll see how it performs in practice, and sure Qualcomm will then start iterating, but ARM's own literature show it as being a much more significant performance boost than was seen from the A6 to the A7.

EDIT: To indirectly respond to mrpippy (given that HN can penalize if you reply more than once) - two fast cores are better than four slow cores. But four fast cores are even better than two fast cores. The A57 is, on paper at least, an absolutely formidable design, which is exactly why Qualcomm didn't foolishly pursue a NIH agenda. It will, if ARM promises come to pass, yield significantly better performance than the Apple A7, which is a part of the reason most other vendors waited on 64-bit. I'm fairly certainly Google will have the 64-bits ready when the market needs them.
Video Game Designer "Lord British" Goes to Space
Just an all around interesting guy.
Use sourdough in your crust.

I've basically been using these instructions for a few years and have nothing but rave reviews for my pies no matter what toppings I put on it: http://www.varasanos.com/PizzaRecipe.htm.

See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1464760, and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2023280.
Yes,

But I show add there is even a view with no "Great Filter" at all. That is the claim that life on the Earth has developed with a steady, linear increase in log-complexity whose zero-point is fairly close to the big-bang. And thus the human species developing now is developing about as early as it could have, as quickly as it could have and so there's no surprise that no civilizations earlier than us elsewhere exist even if we plausibly expect these civilization to be appearing now.
I just found a job a couple months back, and I love it so far...but my eperience in the marketplace was terrible...tech recruiters are so bad...I am all for anything that moves the ball forward even a little bit in this arena and this seems to be in the right channel. Hopefully this is still around when I am back on the market again.
Sirix – Beyond Versioning of Persistent Trees
Nike discontinues FuelBand
With all this talk about universal basic incomes and automation taking away jobs, etc etc, there really might be something to the idea of switching to 73 5-day weeks. I wouldn't be in support of taking away Saturday and Sunday ;) but a 3-day workweek of W-F followed by a weekend of Saturday and Sunday could have real possibilities!
Don't forget lack of domesticated food. Pretty much every plant and animal we consume has undergone selective breeding, and many are not even native to our prior environments.
The technical aspects don't matter. (Although ObjC is getting significant benefit from 64-bit pointer tricks.) Now that 64-bit exists, many customers demand 64-bit. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAOtC9QfXac
That's dramatizing it a bit much. The text is still there. If you're interested in reading it, you can. I regularly highlight grayed out text to see what it says, but I also read YouTube comments for fun. If you feel the grayed-out text is too blatant, then ask for a feature where you can use Javascript to toggle downvoted comments for visibility.
Nike Fires FuelBand Engineering Team; Set to Exit Wearable Hardware Market
Also, some people prefer to avoid conflict, and this approach maximizes conflict avoidance. Not saying you should seek out conflict, but you can err on the side of going too far out of your way to avoid it as well.

Why do I say this? Oh, no reason.. I just like typing things in boxes on the Internet!
Another possibility is that this is a "rare moment" in the history of Earth - we've have maybe 3.5 billion years of life while we've had 100K years of being language using animals and 10K years of civilization.

Still, perhaps every moment is rare in some way but we have the advantage of having a way to express that.
Can you maybe elaborate on why wikipedia scraping and other tries have not worked? Have you looked into https://www.google.com/trends/correlate and https://books.google.com/ngrams ?
I would expect the biggest factor is lower traffic over Easter - and that the "gravity" calculation isn't fully normalized for total traffic volume. (The new queue is probably slower than usual too).

IIRC it's usually like this over holidays.
I can't contribute but I just want to say you are awesome and I hope you succeed! It'd be an incredible contribution to our democrasy!
My understanding from talking to drivers is that when they announced the price change for UberX, they cut their commission from 20% to just 5%. So that means Uber now gets $1.60 and the driver gets $11.40 from a $13 fee. If this is a margin growing scheme, everyone at Uber needs to take remedial arithmetic.
Yes, but there's no oil or gas to trickle into the reservoir. I wanted clarification because the colloquial term for mechanically powered boats is 'motorboat'.
Regulation stifling innovation. Sad.
Digital Public Library of America to add millions of records to its archive
This misses the point. Prostoalex's point is that a senior engineer can pull $300k+ at a place like Google/Facebook/etc., all while working less than 9 hours a day with lavish perks.

When a senior engineer goes off and tries to work at a startup, it is precisely because they want to try playing the lottery (with a very fat equity slice), not because they're going out to try and get a ultra-competitive cash salary.
For big dev shops, sure, $225/month is just the cost of doing business, no big deal.

It's way too much for the Indie crowd, though, and that's Unity's big problem these days; it's being attacked from below by UDK, where the far lower upfront cost appeals to indie devs and tinkers, AND from above by UDK, which is a much better pro-level AAA framework than Unity, and for which the $$$$$ no cut of gross revenue licensing cost isn't an obstacle.
It'd be a waste of everyone's time if all their results were just a bad IQ test. I checked the first paper, and as expected from competent researchers, they did check for general intelligence, using RAPM scores: http://blogs.bournemouth.ac.uk/research/files/2013/06/Psycho...
I feel like I remember PG telling me that large founding teams (more than 3) were highly correlated with failure.

If I were to guess why: The more relationships you have on the founding team, the more likely you are to have ONE of them blow up or have someone lose their nerve/interest. Early startups are fragile things.

Seems like you could go with a hybrid approach (start with 2-3 founders, raise a small amount or self fund to hire 1-3 stars for small salary/high equity comp who couldn't go without a paycheck).
Before I choose to build using a new feature, I'd love to see a clean breakdown of which features "cost" more (performance) on devices. For instance, does "real time global illumination" kill the framerate on iPhone4?

If there's already a checklist like this somewhere, please share with the community, as I'm sure there are many other Unity3D devs here.
if you find this interesting, probably also worth giving this a read as well:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7600057
Program comprehension seems like a fascinating research field if you enjoy figuring out why we do the things we do as software developers. It seems that we do indeed explore code, but we do so in somewhat systematic and predictable ways, which in turn might give us ideas about how to write our code to be more readable.

If anyone is interested, I suggest the publications of Anneliese von Mayrhauser and A. Marie Vans from the mid-90s as a possible starting point. They did a lot of work to reconcile earlier theories and paint a more unified big picture. Václav Rajlich is another name to search for, with several interesting publications in the early 2000s.
One of the ways that Unity appeals to indies though is the free tier. You can get started with Unity without paying anything at all. And if your project gets serious, then paying the monthly fee isn't such a large barrier. That's how it worked with my project anyway.
By hiring 5 employees I meant a total headcount of 7 or 8 including founders, which will burn through nearly $2M in 18 months.
Except all it takes is one bad incident with some negative publicity to spoil the perception that adding this fee ensures you'll be safe. People will ask - why were we paying this when it didn't seem to prevent "X" from happening.
Grace Helbig

https://www.youtube.com/user/graciehinabox

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I think both author and you are correct. There is a misunderstanding in the 'permission' term. Author uses it generally and you specifically as in Android permission.
I see rewriting code to understand it as basically the ultimate form of taking notes while reading something, since you can run your "notes" and verify that they're actually correct, and you can't get away with just glossing over things you don't get.
For the amount of time I spend in an Uber, it doesn't make sense to pay $1 for EVERY ride. Pennies per ride would make more sense.

If I was Uber, I would charge a $1 per year membership fee to ride UberX to take care of insurance and background checks. Based on the amount of users, that should be more than enough to cover insurance and background checks on every ride I take. Would also be nice subscriber revenue for Uber even though it will be trumped by their overall bookings number.

Just my two cents.
When you're new at dealing with PCB houses, you may need to incorporate their suggestions and make some changes to conform to their design rules. It's the kind of thing nobody gets right the first time. It's not uncommon to swap your CAD files back and forth a few times. Treating Dropbox like a shared drive is one way to do that, although it's not what the service is really meant for.
Might I suggest looking at https://sourcegraph.com? Currently it's just code search, and doesn't do code review. But it does understand the code at a function/class/module level. And that makes it fundamentally different from a lot of other code reading tools out there that just treat code as text. For code search, that means it can do things like show you how other people actually call a given function. For code review, it would make it possible to reason about changes to functions/classes/packages instead of lines of text. (Disclaimer: I'm one of the creators of Sourcegraph; would love to hear your feedback)
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/04/18/how-do-you-say-n...
Nike fires Fuelband team, will stop making wearable hardware
Obama to hit Y Combinator headquarters in Mountain View on May 8
You could interpret the comment as protein concentration in humans stays constant.
http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?ClosuresAndObjectsAreEquivalent

http://okmij.org/ftp/Scheme/oop-in-fp.txt

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2954642/methods-and-prope...

http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book-Z-H-20.html

Some examples. The first is a discussion on it. The second and third have examples in scheme. I'd type more but I'm on my iPad. If I get time later I'll steal time on someone's computer to type up more.
Well, there's Ikea, Nokia, and... hmm, I'm not sure what economic factors are important in Denmark and Iceland. But I'll bet they're very different than those prevailing in New Zealand, whatever they are.
Well, he just tries to reinforce that we have two symmetrical interconnected systems and yet they have to figure out how to talk to each other. What he has on the screen.
You might as well put up a sign-up box on your home page, to start collecting emails. Then when you launch your beta, you'll have a set of customers ready!

Good luck.
I find it surprising that in 2014, most of the tools we use to read code treat it mostly like any other text. With the exception of some IDEs for some languages (e.g., Eclipse and Java), very few apps for browsing code actually understand its structure, i.e., the hierarchy of symbols and namespaces and the implicit graph defined by module imports, function calls, type references, etc. We're relying more and more on external, often open-source libraries, and are therefore spending more and more of our time reading through other people's code. Yet the tools don't seem to have caught up.
Sounds like a great project but don't you fear that you will be sued immediately by TurboTax? Any large company I've done work with in the past has had me explicitly sign agreements that would prohibit me from going out and creating competing software with the domain knowledge I had obtained.
The Iraq War Never Ended
From Musks wiki page: Also, in a 60 Minutes interview on Mar 30, 2014 with CBS journalist Scott Pelley, Musk and Talulah are still happily together in their marriage with Elon's five children from his first marriage with Justine Musk. [0]

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elon_Musk
Fair enough.

I suppose it depends on whether you're running a startup with revenues or not. I am operating from the assumption that by series A you're about at the 1m arr revenue level and your revenue + funding are funneling your growth. YMMV with companies with low/no revenue.
I'm curious about this bit:

"It causes considerable problems for companies when employees sell their stock or options, or pledge them against a loan, or design any other transaction where they agree to potentially let someone else have their shares or proceeds from their shares in the future in exchange for money today."

What are the problems with these schemes? I'm presently employee #1 at a startup, and 99.9% of my present net worth is tied up in illiquid paper there—the rest is a 10 year old station wagon and some Ikea furniture.

I'd really like to be able to pledge my options for a loan to buy a house, so I'm curious to know the issues which may arise from such an arrangement.