skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Context: The founder of Metafilter, mathowie, is stepping down from day-to-day operations. It's been an oasis for online discussion, and it's down to him. He ran it by himself for a few years, out of pocket.
True enough. Is that the actual state of affairs?
I don't see where in the article it says anyone involved was drinking.
People from baltics are well-educated and exhibit no cultural gap, so I believe they mostly benefit their host nations. But it is not granted for every pair of countries.

Poor countries often only have bad choices. Either you leak population but get money from abroad workers, soften tension and enjoy capital movement - or you try to restrain population, get even poorer (less eager capital, same amount of export-able work for less people), face grief and political instability.

In that respect you can compare Baltics with Ukraine.
We can blame France (and others) for colonialism, and for the unnatural borders that African nations have, but remember, the actual existence of African nations is still due to the people there wanting to have nations of their own. In Africa, this process largely happened during 1950-1970.

No one "forced" the concept of nations upon Africans, except by setting an example for what nation states can achieve. The time of colonialism was largely the opposite of having nations. It was the nations that overthrew colonialists.
> It requires letting go identification characteristics that are just given by birth and mentally moving on to what her or his truely personal identification is, ie. result of her/his personal efforts, like education, life/work experience, personal spiritual and intellectual development, etc...

I don't know what's so great about this. Is HN, a conglomeration of (mostly male) economic and educational elite, a "more evolved" state of social organization than a small-town church, which might draw in people from different economic walks of life?
"I'm feeling lucky"
Leave this stuff on reddit. Many of us initially came to HN to avoid things like this.
Would have made sense to build it closer to the equator? As from my orbits class the more you get closer to the equator, the bigger is your launches time-window to hit the target orbit.
Texas sounds unreasonable, does anybody knows/sees other good reasons?
Ugh, I hate these graphs. Cumulative graphs make even moderate or bumpy growth look predictable.

I guarantee the company KPI here is acquired users / month, not total users. Look closely: January 2013 was probably a kind of scary month. October 2012 was awesome ... and they didn't repeat it until 2 years later.

This is great for investors and the public, but you can't drive with this graph.
Divided by the 64,000 employees who are suing, the company is really paying nothing. There doesn't seem to be any punitive fine. Where is the deterrent to stop companies from forming non-poaching agreements in the future?
Possibly, if she even remembers what she looks like enough to place her in the photo next to you. Otherwise you're just showing her a photo of two random people.
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Contact me directly at sahil_lmn@yahoo.com.

I actually got hired through a HN "Who is Hiring" thread, and I hired 2 people through these threads. These things do work!
This is true in my experience too
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2) You are incorrect here. # of outstanding shares isn't a secret in the events you describe.

3) This is not a safe assumption at all. Just because it worked well for you in one situation does not mean that it will work out in all scenarios.

The reason that companies sometimes don't disclose this information is that when you state ownership as a % it can seem minuscule emotionally. Anything less than 1% just doesn't seem like much even if it actually it.

That being said I don't think this is a good enough reason. Companies should disclose this information and then educate candidates about how to interpret the numbers.
Former Mooresville child compensated by federal 'vaccine court'
It's funny you mention suburban drivers. I have lived and have friends who lived in both suburban and rural areas and I found that without exception rural drivers are far, far, more likely to drive drunk.
Why not? Pools are still huge, and at least the "ethical" members of a pool could move their processing power to a different pool. If individuals are bigger than pools now, that means even fewer people have to collude to get 51%.
You need to ask for more than just outstanding shares, but about also liquidation preferences and convertable notes as well. Otherwise, you won't get a true understanding of the value of the options.
I don't get it. What is it? Could you just present a video of you using your product?
Not to minimize drunk driving deaths, but it's hardly "rampant." About 10,000 people are killed each year in drunk driving accidents in the US. 30,000 a year die from falls.

http://responsibility.org/drunk-driving/drunk-driving-fatali...
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr64/nvsr64_02.pdf
People with good social radar can make a good distinction between things like character and awkward/ugly. It's people who lack such radar who confuse these things.
If Apple doesn't make an map-app that tells you which way to turn by vibrating selectively left-right on the watch then they don't deserve to succeed.
How big is the supply of free houses? Can Utah house every homeless person in the US who decides to move to Utah for a free house?
Well then clearly all we have to do is legalize everything else they do too!
Hey.

Can you elaborate a little? Not sure I understand what you are saying.
Of course the majority of stupid people will be outside of America (statistically speaking), the world is huge, you stupid :-), in comparison with your 'Murica! But I am inclined to believe that the ratio of stupid people in 'murica might as well be higher than in the rest of the world.
Klabnik is a big voice in the Rust community. But regardless of how he might come across here; he is almost always positive and constructive when talking about the language.

For that matter: the constructive part was in the other post where he suggested some improvements. I can understand if the pull request is seen as aggressive, though.
so your'e a Telco guy going into bandit country why the fuck wasn't he escorted by a couple of bricks (fire teams).

From what I know of telecoms during the troubles that is how it worked in the border areas between Eire and NI in no way did one engineer (lineman) drive in his van to a site in the more dangerous parts of the contry
You should learn Functional Programming. But why and how?
Any chance you could share this? I love pushover!
This is the best comment in this entire thread. People see 1% and immediately think small when that is not, in fact, the case.

They have almost never thought through the fact that it generally takes a lot of people to build a successful company so that 100% needs to get divided up into a lot of little pieces.
Good point, but do they seriously do that? It's stupid.

If you overwrite data in place that's being concurrently read, you get garbled data. So you must guarantee nobody is reading it. One way is to lock the data for both readers and writers using a mutex of some form. Another way is Linux-RCU style[1]. Both make readers always pay a price for what should be an uncommon case.

It makes more sense to me to put your updates in a new place, and if need be copy them over the old data once nobody can see the old data anymore.

[1] http://lwn.net/Articles/262464/
I don't think you have to be on the payroll of the cartel to want to never find the cartel.
I think the case would be more like you accidentally used the thrusters too much at the last minute and tore a hole in ISS. Or your docking mechanism failed horribly and showed safe when it was not safe
I'm not the OP but I did similar things and had similarly bad grades. Now I am doing well for myself, so the stories about how I got kicked off the track team for academic ineligibility or had a college pull an admissions offer due to bad grades senior year are funny and amusing anecdotes.

Anyway, looking back here is what I wished I did: try to build relationships with the teachers. Use every chance during school to talk with them and get to know them. If they have a personal connection then they have a lot of freedom to help you out. Feel free to zig while other people zag. It's OK to let everyone else compete for the top grades, just stay hungry and do an awesome job and get really excited by your own thing.

Also, homework really sucks. But in all honesty and seriousness, I really wish I had done my math homework. Math is such an important skill, and there really is no other way to learn it than to just suck it up and do the problem sets.
No, it's not bullshit. It is a different domain of expertise. And, yes, there are things you can study to up your game in this area.
This story is about people who are acting to foment change. If they were cowed by the law chasing them, this wouldn't be in the news.

Around here, as a consequence of depopulation, a lot of schools have been closed. Door to door busing is as much a financial choice as anything else (Which sounds insane, but there you go).
ah, i remember those early dinners and fancy cheese plates that weren't orange nor formed into a brick.

i've found that potential employees are getting more and more savvy about evaluating culture.

One thing we do at Sincerely to share our culture and evaluate the candidate's character is to play a board game at lunch during interview days. The candidate drops their guard, treats communication less like an interivew, and we get to see deeper into their real character. And they get to see one of the ways we like to interact with our teammates outside of shipping products.
Look at it closely. It's neat, but it is different from the frame-oriented approach of Wireshark / Network Monitor. It's great, but... different.
For the First Time in 30 Years US Unemployment Fell in Every State in 2014
(Ab)using css3's :nth-child selector to invent new ones
https://grack.com/blog/2015/01/09/abusing-css3-selectors/
Ask HN: How were you screwed over on stock options?
The previous item: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9145126 has an interesting discussion of stock option terms, and it turns out a lot of people have been screwed over on stock options in one way or another. What way did a start-up prevent you from gaining from promised stock options?
The short seller did nothing wrong. Shorting simply means he borrowed the stock in order to sell it-- sell high, wait for the price to drop, then buy low in order to return the shares to the lender. The buyer on the other side of the short sale should have done more due diligence. No one forced them (be it a person or an institution) to take up that position.

The Chinese company (or some affiliate) was the one who had pumped the stock up. The short seller was just a regular market participant who was rewarded for his hard work and diligence.
Since codemac mentioned public transportation, I think it was a comparison to urban, not rural areas.
There is a sizeable brain drain, but it's not really that large, especially when you consider that you can get half of an American salary in an outsourcing firm while living somewhere where cost of living is a fifth of what it's in America (numbers out of my ass, but you get the idea). The poor nation also gets oversea investors who want to have things done cheaply and strong labor laws ensure you won't have the Chinese situation of people working as more or less slaves.

Of course that doesn't hold true for all occupations. Doctors being a sore point, for one - they can't make what they would abroad mostly because most of the people are still paid miserable wages and won't be able to afford healthcare which would pay really high salaries to doctors.
There are lots of successful actors, politicians, business people, sales people, etc. who are subjectively "ugly" to many. It's rarely about looks.

Social skills, on the other hand, are important but, much like physical fitness, can be learned and trained unless you have a serious disability. Someone not willing to invest in their social skills might well deserve to fail a 'character test' for that reason alone.
Sounds an awful lot as a managerspeak. Estimations are hard - and in general, it's hard to make predictions, especially for the future, and here we're talking about estimations of a future moment.
Indeed. I would say this makes the issue even more difficult to deal with. As you say, people who weren't even reporting directly to her maintained the code of silence over breaching email account rules. If memebers of the government themselves aren't going to be whistleblowers then how can the use of personal accounts be monitored?
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You are probably right it seems far off now.

But I'm sure ray-traced engine is the killer-app of the Oculus Rift, and companies like Valve and Epic are aware of that gold rush. Once people see ray-tracing on VR they are not going back.
"Hey guys, here's this payout for this lawsuit. In other news, there won't be any raises this year."
R.I.P. wonderful person.
Is anyone else wondering what movie they were watching?
It would be interesting to see if anyone associated with the show has made money of this - surely if you know, a week or two before it airs, of a piece that's going to destroy the reputation of a company then you can trade on that to great effect.
Unfortunately, I couldn't install it w/ go get.
> On Monday, a judge set bail at $100,000 for Robert Malsch, accused of drinking and of driving more than 100 mph before rear-ending a car and killing the driver inside.
They are almost as far south as they can be and still be in the United States, which is where the company is based.
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Odd, the photo caption doesn't match the article text. "Robert Malsch, accused of drinking and of driving more than 100 mph" vs "He faces vehicular homicide and felony hit and run charges."
Well yes, millions of people die every year from causes we could pretty much summarize as old age. None of this has any meaning if you don't differentiate by age.

Thankfully, the CDC has done that, and here it is in an easy graphic:

http://www.cdc.gov/injury/wisqars/pdf/leading_causes_of_deat...

Unintentional injury dominates deaths in ages 1-44, and indeed the biggest killer of people ages 5-24 is traffic:

http://www.cdc.gov/injury/wisqars/pdf/leading_causes_of_inju...
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How did they screw up the middle east by creating countries? Almost all of the borders in the North of the Middle East are the same as they were 1000 years ago, barring the size and influence of Turkey and the break up of the Levant (which was largely a good move). South Middle East has it's issues, sure, but they're mostly political/religious than anything else and have to do with oppression rather than borders.
You have a depressingly narrow definition of character.
How much similarity is there between the JVM's G1GC, CMS or other collectors and Rethink's compaction? It looks like the heuristics and trade-offs are very much the same. (Latency, hard space constraint, usage patterns.) Okay, you don't have to do pointer/object graph chasing, but queries and consistency and whatnot has to do something similar.
Isn't force a large assumption on your part? Is Obama actually in control of the NSA, making them do what they do?
Congrats John. An accomplishment well deserved! Way to put your nose to the grind and bust a$$!
It most definitely is a feature, not a bug. We all dissociate, but to a much lesser degree. When it happens repeatedly and to extreme degrees of trauma it allows the victim to continue functioning (surviving) without being overwhelmed by the past trauma. It's (somewhat) similar to how ships have compartments that prevent the entire ship from sinking in case of a collision.
> "I didn't always understand the details of the questions they'd been asked"

> "she doesn't understand what people are talking about"

Come on dude. Be better than that.
Ask HN: At which tech companies do employees act (and are treated like) adults?
I am being serious here (this is a throwaway account for obvious reasons).

I enjoy working in the tech industry. I like working with people, and get a kick out of creating and shipping products. But I am getting somewhat frustrated with the childish Valley work culture.

Unlimited snacks and tricycles at work are not selling points for me. I can feed and entertain myself just fine. I would simply like to work with people that get stuff done (efficiently) ... and then carry on with the rest of their lives. Less small talk, more productivity.

Are there tech companies in or near SF where this happens? It would be great to get a list going.
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My wife has epilepsy and has auras or deja vu or other spacey feelings before a seizure. After having seizures, she doesn't really know where she is or what's going on and isn't able to talk at all for at least an hour. I wouldn't be surprised of DID had many similarities to epilepsy, so I would guess this guy's girlfriend gets the same auras, deja vu, or spaciness too.
I would assume as the poster is talking about raves, they are referencing ketamine or MDMA, and both of these are more than capable of making you forget who you are, let alone who your friends are.
What else can you assume, though? You have no information at that point.
There aren't really alternative other options (aside from a DD and or just being responsible). Most rural people can't even get a cab.
Thanks! It's world-wide, but I believe European labels are more strict in terms of having to explain what exact doses you are using of the aminos.

But that doesn't mean you can't lie, or get screwed by your raw material supplier. That's why the companies that actually follow the existing laws and test their incoming and outgoing product have been way on top of this and those crappy suppliers.

FYI - About to post a blog article in an hour or two that you'll enjoy. It's about the ongoing NY Attorney General supplement testing fiasco.
It does not sound all that unlike certain types of Alzheimer's episodes.

In addition to seeing my Grandmother completely forget who I was from one minute to the next, more bizarrely she would time warp and believe she was 16 years old and seemingly remember everything/everyone at that time of her life very accurately. Not until now, granted I was very young then, did I ever realize that at times she may have not known who she was, but sitting here now I am sure she would have experienced that as well.
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> Wait, I thought shorting meant he effectively sold shares to some other, unfortunate, investor.

Why should we give a pass to investors willing to expose themselves to excessive risk from being uninformed about their investments?

Let's look further at this short selling behavior as it scales. What happens if investigative short-sellers become muckrakers noveau: sufficiently pervasive and influential that they collectively become the market "conscience" that so often seems missing?
I understand perfectly this because I had a Galaxy Nexus and as soon as I got Jelly Bean update Bluetooth stopped working properly. Now I have a Nexus 5 and it's by far the best phone I had but recently and as much as I like Lollipop this kind of bugs without updates are unacceptable. For use iOS also had have problems and I remember my first week with iPad air 2 where safari crashed the whole system but Apple managed to fix this.

So this leaves my thinking I will not get a Nexus as my next phone. I would rather get an iPhone or a HTC/Samsung. I won't do the same mistake for the third time. I love nexus and his potential but Google doesn't care about their costumers.
Does ghostnotes work in jvm based apps as well? Like pycharm or intellij idea? Does it work on tabs in those programs?

I tend to make short todo lists when I code. Those lists are spread in a specific folder on my system. This is much better. I code in intellijidea and pycharm, which are jvm apps. Hope they are supported!
" I've yet to find any group of YouTube videos that could set me on a path the way my 11th grade science teacher did."

While I agree with most of the article, I find YouTube channels like CrashCourse immensely more educational and inspiring than sixth form teachers (11th grade in NZ) :) And while I can barely remember my early teacher's names, I certainly know Hank and John Green.
As rkuykendall-com mentioned, its as far south in the US as you can get without overflying other land, and they've gotta stay in the US to prevent ITAR violations.

[+] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Traffic_in_Arms_R...
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I was going to go with "record [edit: on her cellphone] her talking to herself explaining who I am and who she is". I would be really worried about the reaction of a stranger or some security-guard-trying-to-be-a-hero.
Cars are pretty safe, but I'm always a little shocked that we don't have governors built into cars with sane limits. How is it even possible to do 100mph and why should that speed be allowed? Cars should top off at 75.

Not to mention, why are cars dumb machines? If someone is going crazy fast in an area where there is no safe way to decelerate, then the car should not allow that speed to be reached. Freeway speeds should not be allowed when you're not on the freeway.

The self-driving car isn't the solution here. Its too sci-fi, too out there, and no one can make it work with snow and rain right now. We middle a practical middle-ware nanny and we need one quick. We need a new Ralph Nader focused on intelligent safety systems and advocating for them to be law. We'll never stop drunks, but we might be able to stop drunks from performing fatal strikes. Its great that they caught the drunk, but that doesn't bring Mike back to life.

Personally, I dont think we're getting to these self-driving cars without these kinds of baby steps. Best to start advocating them now, which will give us public support when fully automated cars are truly here.
Preferred shares and invitations to board meetings. If I'm taking a pay cut, I'm an investor and want to be treated like one. If you're so big that you can't offer real equity, you're not a startup, youre an established business, so you should start paying competitive salaries and not use the "We're a startup" excuse to distort the market to your benefit. And competitive means it actually competes, not "competitive".
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Looks very similar to customer.io (though it only send emails currently).
It says he was accused in one part and then later they make it sound like it was some sort of road rage / anger thing.
If you listen to the story, he shorted the stock, knowing it was a fraud, and then exposed it.

He knowingly created more victims of the scam.
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