skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Doing so, he knew, would require years of clinical trials in preparation for a new-drug application submission to the F.D.A. “That’s the only reason people were afraid.”
saying someone has a sordid past because they've been sexually harassed makes you, well, a victim-blaming prick
Well, They are still going to have to figure out how to "Seamlessly" mirror nodes because it's going to suck when half of one of those boards dies. I do wish them the best as my inner nerd loves the idea.
The United States of Vehicle Theft
Thanks! Its ok for now...
Sounds like a poor deal. Given that open, I'd forego the 4 weeks severance which appeared to be in exchange for the NCA.
I used to program in Visual BASIC 6.0 which was considered slow at the time. It is just a matter of using the proper algorithms to speed it up. Almost any programming language targeted at beginners or newbies is going to be considered slow because beginners and newbies don't know the proper algorithms and code tweeks to speed things up yet.

When you deal with sloppy inefficient code, almost any language is going to be considered slow.

I remember trying to make a paint program with Turbo Pascal 3.0 back in the DOS days, it was slow until I learned better algorithms in drawing things and how to write directly to video memory instead of using built in commands like plot.
My point was just that users want the same experience as they got when they started using the site for the most part. Too many changes and you risk driving away your user base. Changes being anything from visual components to mechanics of the site.
I mostly use Brackets in my work and it's really good for editing JS files and has a lot of stuff like themes and plugins.
> only 3 of 13 root servers are outside of America's direct jurisdiction

Time to change that?
ssh-add (at least on linux) has the -c option, which tells ssh-agent to do exactly this.
uncharacteristic of what?
Cost per transistor is still plummeting IIRC though, while for them cost per drug is rising.
As in many things in life, the people and organizations that are actually on your team are perfectly obvious, and they never feel the need to tell anybody how on your team they are.

The only people who feel the need to tell you how on your team they are would be the ones that are not on your team at all, and expect to get some kind of benefit for the people whose team they are actually on by convincing you otherwise. I.E. by screwing you over.
Perhaps once the pax guys (spender in specific) will stop trolling docker and containers in general for once! We can hope.
Perhaps I've grown too cynical in my old age, but I always figured this was just the grocery lobbies' doing.

We could outright ban the bags (which we have for plastic, not paper). Instead, they literally nickel and dime you every time you shop.

Sure 10 cents a bag isn't a big deal, but 3-4 across millions of customers per year, and now you're talking serious cash.
The point is that the user experience for craigslist is the same to user.
It's pretty much the worst AMA I've seen. A lot of circular talking and non-responses, just shows that he's a company man till the end.
What people are really saying when they say you shouldn't write history is that your SCM shouldn't support work in progress checkins. Not supporting that just makes your SCM inflexible.
One minor nit. Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad is not "most of the railroading west of the Mississippi". The Union Pacific Railroad is larger, including larger west of the Mississippi.
Pao has been acting as the COO of Reddit for a while now. While running operations she also did the Alien Blue deal, built a mobile team, and oversaw the AMA app. Everything new that has happened product wise at Reddit in the last year has had her hand on it. You should judge her by that.
Did you build it with this script from cadecanyon? It looks nearly identical. Either way, good luck!

http://codecanyon.net/item/hackers-news-community-script/795...
Apparently that is William Whyte's rule:

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/OfficeNewYork.html
Careful, we really don't want to set any precedent for pushing American law onto other countries - PATRIOT ACT anyone?
FYI, putting two spaces ahead of each line in a code block will wrap it in a pre-formatted tag. In case you didn't know.
"sordid" ? She got harassed by colleagues, but _her_ past becomes sordid?
I solved it by clicking on the last "Content" button in the menu bar and switching the language twice (first to the second option, then back to English).
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I get it now, oops!
No this is not something to respect someone for. This is unprofessional and a liability; if anything Yishan said wasn't documented and documented really well the OP has a libel case. It doesn't even matter how true it was.

He also publicly spoke out about someone's work ethic and performance of which we're only getting one side of the story anyway. If his real name is associated with his reddit profile then future employers will see the CEO of a public internet company lambasting him. Whether it's deserved or not at the time is irrelevant; there are plenty of people who, for one reason or another, do terrible at a job and later are highly valued. This could ruin any attempt at redemption.
October 1: Yishan wants all employees to move to San Francisco.

Early November: "jk, we're moving to Daly City."

Even though Daly City is a BART away, the fact that this decision happened in 1 month is absurd.
> Maybe someone can leak where Wong wanted the new HQ to be.

Sam himself obliges: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8604199
I'd take a bit of copy-paste over premature generalisation any day.
This seems petty; you really didn't need to post the details of the resignation. Sorry Sam.
I'm saying her claims of harassment are dubious and are compounded by the equally dubious discrimination lawsuit her husband is filing against the Dakota. I'll eat my words if she wins her case.
> but also some long term contributors have ceased contributions because they considered bzr to be too much of a hassle

I wonder who those could be. I can't remember any major contributor leaving because of bzr.
More on the case against De Lorean, 'cause it's interesting history and a textbook case of entrapment:

On October 19, 1982, DeLorean was charged with
trafficking in cocaine by the U.S. government, following
a videotaped sting operation in which he was recorded by
undercover Federal agents agreeing to bankroll a $1.8
million, 100 kg cocaine smuggling operation in exchange
for a $24 million cut of the eventual profits. The
government was tipped off to DeLorean by confidential
informant James Timothy Hoffman, a former neighbor, who
reported to his FBI superiors that DeLorean had
approached him to ask about setting up a cocaine deal; in
reality, Hoffman had called DeLorean and suggested the
deal (which DeLorean then accepted) as part of his
efforts to receive a reduced sentence on a 1981 Federal
cocaine trafficking charge that he was awaiting trial on.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_DeLorean#Arrest_and_trial

and further:

At this point, DeLorean became suspicious that he had
become involved in a dangerous and illegal operation,
possibly involving illegal narcotics or organized crime
(or both); he felt that he needed to remove himself from
the situation as soon as possible.
[...]
However, in the face of a thinly-veiled threat by Hoffman
that DeLorean’s daughter would be murdered if he backed
out of the deal, DeLorean continued to communicate with Hoffman.

http://blog.legalsolutions.thomsonreuters.com/legal-research...
Were there other decisions by Yishan that you pushed back on? How many? Possible he felt that he did not have enough influence as CEO, not enough confidence from the board and couldn't run the company as he desired.
While this looks simple, many of the details of the construction of the first nuclear devices are still classified. So part of the reason is that simple explanations of the design do not necessarily reflect a simple construction.

On the other hand, you get a taste of a story about how John Phillips got his Undergraduate senior thesis classified for being to informative on how to resolve some important technical details around the actual explosive design for a pit based weapon.

http://www.universitypressclub.com/archive/2013/02/the-a-bom...

Plutonium is difficult to handle and accumulate in significant quantities. Here is a fun video that gives you an appreciation for the danger and rarity of the element: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLufmakbiU0

*Edit: I linked the wrong youtube video. While the above is fun, this one gives you a better idea about the manufacturing difficulties of working w/ Plutonium: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89UNPdNtOoE

The bottom left corner of the periodic table is apparently filled with wildly interesting elements that do super bad things to your body. They get hard to come by- and in some cases they only get created in the laboratory. Maybe that's for the best.
I guess maybe part of what you might be missing is that these "Lambda functions" can (will be able to?) be kicked off by all sorts of different AWS events, so it can replace queue + workers where you're generating tasks from your own code, but it might also be able to replace the code that generates those tasks too.
If you listen to Amazon at their shin-digs, they tell it like all of these new services and features are in response to requests from existing customers.
In the article, they note that a study found that the small plastic bag charges tended to strongly influence behavior without an outright ban.

Personally, I see it as a win/win. The grocery stores get more money from people obsessed with plastic bags, and the municipality reduces the number of plastic bags wasted.
The 25 function limit is probably one of those small defaults that's easy to change, like the 20 instance limit.
If you've seen how shitty HR is inside almost every VC firm, harassment claims would seem a lot more plausible.
Your temperature is just plain wrong, the standard atmosphere model states -6.5°C per 1000m. This is means that the temperature was -97.5C below surface temp. So -70C is more likely.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Standard_Atmosphe...
> It's about not giving yourself the impression that the learning curve is insurmountable, you can do it

Perhaps I can, but with mercurial around I dont see why I need to. I think no one in their right mind claims git cannot be grokked. They question whether that effort is well spent given there are equally effective alternatives that people find simpler to use.

Other than github I fail to see a compelling reason going for git apart for the linux kernel development workflow of course. Its not a bad tool but not quite the "you possibly cannot and should not do without it" that it is made out to be.

I find this comment very telling https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8602259 I would rather do without all that.
The joke was probably intended as a jab at unreasonable managers, but joke-Page did catch an important engineering flaw: After you use the wall-socket-powered time machine to travel through time, there is likely to not be a wall socket at your destination...
Thanks for the clarification as, at least for me, it did not sound true but the additional details help. That's pretty interesting. Yishan seems like a pretty reactive person especially considering the drama of him ousting a former employee on their performance publicly.
I read those comments as: board+Wong agreed on centralizing to Bay Area, disagreed on exact new HQ location/lease, board seems to have insisted on SF city proper, Wong wanted elsewhere. (Turns out per ~sama: Wong wanted Daly City.)
Just an old guy's ramblings:

To percentages, I say take the cash and apply it to your college, or your own startup. Charge them in blocks of hours, and they pay up front for each block. If they can't pay now, they won't want to pay you if the money starts rolling in. Figure $120/hour in 10 or 20 hour blocks, depending on development needs.

To me, the "they had a difficult time finding someone" is a red flag. You should be in a position to fire them as a client without a messy breakup.

If you are considered a part of the startup, make sure you are not putting yourself in an actionable position. If it goes belly up there will be a reckoning in terms of unpaid bills, and the people they owe will go after everyone.

Again...just ramblings. I'm sure others will be a bit more cheery about it :)
It's not quite as easy as it looks. The implosion has to be perfectly symmetrical, or else the core will pop out the side instead of being crushed. Think trying to spear a cherry tomato with your fork. That in turn means that your chemical explosives have to be carefully arranged and they have to be detonated at the precise correct times. In fact, one theory of how the Permissive Action Links (basically, the stuff that makes it so a bomb needs a code to be detonated instead of any random person just pushing a button) work is by encrypting the timing sequence, so that without the code you don't have the information needed to detonate the bomb, rather than relying on some physical lockout. Working out the timing and building the device accordingly are both tough.

Additional difficulty comes in when you want to either increase the bomb's power or decrease its size and weight, both of which are important for making them practical to use against an enemy. There's a lot of work between Fat Man, which weighed 10,000 pounds had a yield of 21kt, and a modern weapon like the W88 which weighs 800 pounds and has a yield of 475kt.

But still, once the basic research was completed and available, producing the materials becomes the primary difficulty in building a bomb.
Is your thesis there really that individuals in the federal government (beyond those at the IRS specifically charged with being concerned with it) are so concerned about tax compliance that it is one of their primary motivations when doing their job?
I actually did read the article and saw that. That tidbit was interesting.

I understand your view and hence why I called myself cynical.
Thanks for the feedback and great question. We're in the process of formalizing a statement in our Terms of service that will require us, should we go out of business one day, to let users download their purchased books to read off Glose.

Also, fully agree with your feedback on public domain books! We have a pretty good selection of those and are working to expand it. We loved Readmill as well, and we want to build something even better and sustainable.

Would love to hear more of your thoughts about this.
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Here's a TEDx talk from 2009 that goes into some of the difficulties: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AeodWP0B-pw

The TLDR is that you have to do a whole bunch of things that give away that you're doing it, take a lot of time and money, make you an easy target to be disrupted in your task, and failing all of that, can kill you pretty easily along every step of the way.
Killed your brain? Nah. This was about those types of image macros, though it was more about their relative shelf-lives compared to eachother than short life in general. The supplemental materials are informative:

http://www.nature.com/srep/2014/140926/srep06477/extref/srep...
I hope not. Then again I recently learned many resign via email instead of in person. I feel like an old person now.
Yes. And It's just one of the many aggregation addresses used by the virus' creators
What's the benefit of moving to Daly City vs SF proper? I'm not from the bay area, so I'm not familiar with why this would be a problem.
The joke is that it's a time machine. Someone brings a working one of those to office and I wouldn't care if it's powered by a butter churn.
You should take a screenshot. See if anyone else can find something you might have missed, or can confirm that you found a winning solution.
Not sure whether to trust employees more or less ;)
Tolerating intolerance is not an act of love, but of apathy--both towards the bigot, and the bigot's targets.
Maybe I'm a bit naive, would this be something EFF could handle or perhaps FSF?
You got lucky. With most domain owners, your personal connection will just cause them to up their asking price.
Digital Ocean has something called "Private Networking" that's internal to the data center but shared with all other customers. It's not obvious from reading the website that this is the case.
I was about to ask how the BadUSB brouhaha affects the YubiKey, but then I just realized that (of course) my own smartcard reader is plugged in via USB, so the situation can't be that much worse.
It was never a "jk, Daly City." From the initial announcement it was mentioned that they were considering options a little south of SF proper.
A lot of interesting drugs are developed and marketed only overseas these days. The Russian pharmaceutical industry has come up with a lot of interesting ones lately.

For example:

http://pharmstd.com/page_22.html
It doesn't sound like part of the deal was for 1-click defaults to be changed. It sounds like there was an assumption this would happen implicitly by giving it to everyone, but they underestimated how many Discover card users were already on 1-click:

The promotion was structured in a way where anyone with a Kindle, who used their Discover card to buy a digital good (e.g. mp3 or movie), would get a $10 Amazon Gift Card. The reason the good had to be digital is because to buy a digital good you need to use your 1-click default card, and Discover’s primary objective for this promotion was to get users who had a Discover card, to make it their 1-click default so Discover could be the card of choice for holiday shopping over the course of the fourth quarter. That was the only way Discover could justify spending $10 when someone ordered a $1 .mp3 music ﬁle.
Wow, I hope not. I have most of the things they added turned off in settings, and the UI of the site as it is seems very difficult to improve upon, as long as all the images and such are off.

I would much rather they focus on making it fast and stable (I quickly tire of "we took too long to make this page for you"), and leave the UI alone.
Inflight breakup situations where the pilot breaks free in their seat are so rare...

Do intuitions developed about airframe integrity in an aviation context necessarily apply to spaceflight? Normally I wouldn't think automatic chute deployment would have much value without a full ejection seat, although in this case it saved a life. Did the designers of this craft actually have a meeting in which they decided that the likelihood of this exact sort of incident is so much higher than an intact-vehicle incident that an automatic chute is warranted while an ejection seat is not?

For some reason I suspect that a couple of years from now we'll be reading a tell-all about the culture of risk-taking at "The Spaceship Company". (Whether such a book is warranted or not.)
Go home, Eugenics. You're drunk.
"All problems in computer science can be solved by another level of indirection" - David Wheeler

That's what "containers" are, of course. There's so much state in OS file namespaces that running any complex program requires "installation" first. That's such a mess that virtual machines were created to allow a custom OS environment for a program. Then that turned into a mess, with, for example, a large number of canned AWS instances to choose from. So now we have another level of indirection, "containers".

Next I expect we'll have container logistics management startups. These will store your container in a cloud-based "warehouse", and will continuously take bids for container execution resources. Containers will be automatically moved around from Amazon to Google to Rackspace, etc. depending on who's offering the lowest bid right now.
The time horizon for moonshots is way too long for the average VC. Google started working on autonomous cars c. 2010, and I'd be fairly astonished if they're available for sale to the general public by 2020.
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Most of the Python things I would want to do have slow startup times. Generally I keep my pythons running. But node is super quick to start.
I'm not sure, we received our gigs through referrals. I've long thought I should set up a landing page for this kind of service—this seems pretty well-received on HN so maybe I'll finally get around to it now.
Moving an office like this scenario and timeline can and in most cases, does cause tectonic shift in the company's dynamic. There's a ripple effect through far reaching aspects of the employees lives that effect there work.

On another note-
Office location can be the most personal aspect of business to an exec processing the decision. A territorial undercurrent is in play.
Awesome, this looks really handy for game development. Love that it's cross platform with Intel and ARM SIMD extensions too! Has anyone used it and have feedback on how well it works?
The latter makes sense. At the same time, neither the postal service or municipalities have the liberty to say that Best Buy is at a given address when you'll actually find a Fry's. Well, they can claim it, but no one's going to believe them after they make the trip.

I think that's the big difference: The Iran TLD isn't just "owned" by the country, the TLD is supposed to factually represent the location of the country's IPs. It's similar to how only government agencies or the like are supposed to have .gov domains.
Where else are the users going to go? Try WhoaVerse.
Payment for digital goods is the only payment that's left from the Checkout shutdown (other than Android).
45% of profits, may or may not be good. Off the top of my head, they will have...

* hosting costs (and everything that goes with that)

* payroll & benefits (are they paying themselves?)

* taxes (the rate they are taxed is dependent on the state they incorporated in and the type of corporation they are incorporated as (Sole Proprietor, LLC, S or C Corp))

* misc.

It could turn out that they don't run a profit, yet still generate revenue. If you feel that it has legs, you may want to ask for a percentage of the company. This would make you an employ and would allow you in the future the potential to receive dividends on profit. This is taxed at 15% instead of normal personal income tax rates. (obviously i'm looking at this from the USA point of view.)

Just my $0.02

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It was already folklore back when I was first part of a company discussing new office locations, in the 90s. (My father may have even mentioned it when I was child.) Since then, I've observed it often – though in fairness that may be confirmation bias.

The ~cschmidt sibling reply highlights a Joel-on-Software post about the phenomenon from 2003, attributed to a 20th-century urbanist/organizational-analyst, William Whyte, perhaps as coined in a 1958 book.

Here's a critique of a Connecticut tax incentive from earlier this year that notes all 5 resulting corporate relocations reduced their CEO's commute:

http://www.raisinghale.com/2014/07/16/connecticut-taxpayers-...
Well, Mozilla's CEO had actually donated money to anti-gay causes.... as opposed to reddit, where what the ex employee was saying was false
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I don't want it to sound like you are being dishonest about this, and it's possible there were things going on in Yishan's head that you were not aware of, but "a new team at reddit" in 8 days makes it a bit hard to believe this came completely out of nowhere.
>There are a few reasons for this that get dismissed by the day to day practitioners.

Perhaps they get dismissed because we all went through the process of learning haskell in order to become day to day practitioners, so we know these reasons are made up nonsense.
I would add a Logic Programming language like Prolog to the list.
There is always a solution which doesn't require guessing.