skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ok, I simply linked to that as an example of a device that can interface with the free ath9k driver. Looking at https://www.qca.qualcomm.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/AR92... I can't really see any closer detail inside of the black boxes labeled "Baseband
PHY and Wireless MAC" and "Host Interface" but I can make a very educated guess that they are running some very simple RISC and/or DSP with code off a ROM responsible for performing all the non-analog functions necessary for wireless media access control (e.g. error recovery, finding free channels, Rx/Tx buffering) and for interfacing with PCIe bus, outside of functions that handle higher level of the networking stack that are more practically implemented in the ath9k driver code running in the x86 cpu.
I'm a dual-citizen who has done software startups in both countries.

The advantages of Canada are:

- free health care, especially important for self-employed

- retirement plan easier to contribute for self-employed

- easier tax preparation (no AMT, no IRS 20 rules, etc.) resulting in lower overall taxes for self-employed with deductions

- cheaper to hire educated people

- no federal deficit, so no looming financial crisis

- virtually no police shootings, SWATing, executions

- French/English divide is not an issue outside of Quebec

- good to excellent public schools, few discipline problems

- no global income reporting.

- no Selective Service for you or your kids

- Toronto is an interesting combination of finance/software/mfg, great place for robotics, makers, etc.

- Canadian Tire money can really add up!

- if you're middle class, it's good to be the king!

Advantages of USA are:

- much easier/possible to get venture investment

- Silicon Valley

- often the dollar is higher, though I'm not sure why

- if you like guns or are far rightwing, welcome home

- good place to practise trauma medicine/prosthetics

- if you're the 1%, it's good to be the king.

Same in both countries:

- 401k and RRSP are very similar

- same ACH network

- same timezones.

- same urban housing prices

- same culture, but the USA has guns and Canada has
politeness.
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Ireland has mistakenly legalised ecstasy and ketamine for one day
In Brazil, the amount of mandatory ethanol in gas was raised to 27%, to stimulate ethanol producers.
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And exploiting cheap, non-union labor in the US.
60% of maximum volume is a poor metric due to a complete ignorance of decibels, power and how the two are related together.

If 60% means 0.6 times some maximum number of decibels, then this is not scale invariant. For instance 60 dB versus a maximum of 100 dB ("60%") is not the same power ratio as 30 dB versus 50 dB (also "60%"). In the dB scale, we subtract to show ratios; we don't indicate ratios between decibels. For instance, 10% of the maximum volume (in terms of power) means 10 dB below.

If 60% just means 60% of the volume position between 0 and MAX, that is also hokey because it depends on the actual taper curve. Analog volume pots use various ad-hoc "audio taper" curves. Digital volumes tend to be better: the steps based on dB increments. The increments are not always the same across the volume control range.

The maximum volume varies between amplifiers and headphones. What does that even mean? Maximum level at what percentage THD? Many sound systems can go a notch louder, if you accept greater distortion, and some people listen to rock that way.

A sensible starting guideline might be, say, "at least 20 dB below the maximum output intensity which 'typical' headphones can reproduce without distortion". That is still hokey in a number of ways, an important one of which is that the user usually has no interface for dialing in a 20 dB drop; such markings are only found on the controls of some pro audio gear.
> Where are Xerox Park and Bell Labs today?

Bell labs was financed because AT&T had a monopoly status on landlines; whatever the costs, AT&T could just raise fees for a cent and cover all expenses. AT&T lost its monopoly so it could no longer pay for Bell labs.

so this monopoly status was good for Bell Labs, but it also covered up the many gross inefficiencies of a monopoly body and it did limit competition - and growth.

> I believe the green economy merits much more funding than it is currently receiving by government

I suspect that this is a value based judgment.

Who is to know if the next growth period will rather be based on nano technology, or maybe will be based of artificial intelligence? I guess that civil servants are in a bad position to make such judgments, because they bear little personal responsibility for their decisions.

If one looks at the internet boom, then one can discern many stages here:

- first was the fundamental research that explored the subject of packet switching networks; this was funded by the US military
- next was the gradual development of networking technology, which took some ten-fifteen years.
Here there were many actors, part of them from research and part from industry
- next came the first boom-bust cycle of the nineteens; whatever one thinks of it, it helped to build the required networking infrastructure for wider adoption and it helped to create many technologies that were important for the next stage.
- next came the present growth based on targeted advertising / private sector surveillance based on social networks.

No one actor could have directed this process; public sector did facilitate basic research, it created the prerequisites for growth, but actual growth was still several steps away from that; at any of these stages it could have been stopped by some misguided policy decision.

Prof. Mazzucato seems to underestimate the risks that entrepreneurs had to take during this process;
Research financed by the public sector is a prerequisite for growth, but state dirigims would not have led to it either;

Dirigism in France created the minitel network, but that is not quite the internet of today.
Sorry. That was perhaps a poor choice of words. I mostly just meant that older folks might be more inclined to skip YC based on the existing YC knowledge that's freely available.
I've always wondered about this argument in an environment suffering from an obesity epidemic, often blamed on another corn product, high-fructose corn syrup.

Having lived in many different countries, the cost of food in the US is incredibly low. I assume (and have heard) this is mostly a result of subsidies to farmers.

All the while, US exports of 'corn based products', which I assume is also corn, has continued to grow http://www.fas.usda.gov/data/us-exports-corn-based-products-....
"the images revealed dividing cells" - with the present participle "dividing" - to me suggested isolation prior to division; hence the question.

The solution you proffer is the expected situation but then the images would be prior to isolation or they'd show _divided_ cells (which is entirely uninteresting and tautological I think).
We never sought funding, and our revenue is north of $1m. It took 3 years, and lots of sweating, and lots of risk, but we own 100% of the company and bank 100% of the profits. We're up 40% year-over-year, which means we can hire more people. Lots of people will laugh at 40% - "that's not 1000%! How will you ever get to $1B??" This is the world we live in.

It seems to me, 4-6 years ago there was a healthy dynamic between funded startups and bootstrapped businesses. Now, I rarely hear anything about bootstrapping, as if getting funding won the day, and now bootstrapping is laughed at.

You can't begrudge every business that raises $100k. That's an insanely paltry amount, and anyone giving that money away both a) expects the founders to live on ramen and Red Bull and b) makes 99 similar bets in hopes that just one of them won't fail.

People should start believing in sustainable businesses again, not that their "Tinder for dogs" iOS app will become a billion dollar business. Because - and here's the truth - they almost definitely can't.

Do your 5-9 because you one day want it to be your 9-5. Build a 9-5 you want to work at for years. Build a business, not a startup.

Building > begging. Trust me, it's a wonderful feeling.
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I know that. It was a general point. In a pure democracy, 51% has complet power.

Also while the US is a formal republic, it does often emulate a democracy. Based on common belives the constitution is reinterpreted, or simply ignored. This has been well documented by legal scholars such as Richard Epstein.
Great article by a guy who truly knows what he's talking about. Josh was one of the investors in Uber's first round of outside financing, back in 2010.

The tl;dr

- don't assume VC inbound means that you'll be able to raise a series A.

- it's easier to raise less, and increase the amount if the round is oversubscribed (having a higher target and having to cut it is a strong -ve signal)

- raise a larger seed. $2.5mm is a number Josh gives in the article. [note, that doesn't mean you should go and raise a $10mm seed round and expect to be evaluated the same as other series A companies when you raise one - smart investors will evaluate your progress relative to how much you've raised]

- pick seed investors who are good at helping seed stage companies. [josh and frc are a great firm, behind some great companies - obviously this is a content marketing piece, but in this case it's also totally true]

- make sure you have enough seed money to reach the key milestones that you need to hit, where those milestones make you an attractive target for a series A

- your seed investors can help prepare you for the A. in many cases, this is exactly how they view their role.
Not to mention that it's essentially impossible to find non-ethanol fuel nearby to put in my motorcycle. It's not exactly the best thing for carbureted engines. I understand that I'm in the minority and I wouldn't expect an otherwise sensible policy to change on behalf of people who commute on motorcycles and scooters but I wouldn't complain if it became easier to avoid.
I agree, I am surprised they didn't quietly settle. The all male dinner party with Al Gore alone is pretty damning, in my opinion.
I assume you're referring to the customers who spend hours assembling this stuff?
Jade does this elegantly.

http://jade-lang.com
That's what I meant by "I can see how it could happen". I guess I imagined that they would have confirmed the major features with further microscopy prior to publication; perhaps that's harder than I imagined but once you've seen STM images of atoms it seems like recognising DNA in a sample should be easy.
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Iptables Golf
We've all seen regex golf - now can someone create iptables golf? This would be targeted at remote administrators - successfully implement the prescribed conditions with the fewest iptables rules without locking yourself out. I'm not the only one who locked him/herself out of a remote machine trying to edit iptables, right?
If the rumors are true, that mix could also eat through an otherwise reasonably efficient four-cylinder in record time, which would be a shame.
> PS Yes, I know there are some tags that don't need end tags (e.g. <img>)

e.g. <p>, <li>, <tr>, <td>.

> But that's just messed up.

Nah, it's pretty straightforward once you wrap your head around it: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/syntax.html#optional-...

> </>

This reminds me of @annevk's XML5 concept: https://annevankesteren.nl/2007/10/xml5
The major differences are that the E-3 can be renewed indefinitely, but it is technically not dual-intent. The E-3 cap has also never been reached.
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They seem to mention this at the end of the slides.
Still a blogpost I reference. That 'REST' has taken over, even in the enterprise is great, but its time that we start to really do REST.

But we need better tools and more understanding of these topics befor we really get all the benefits.
This is such a trivial complaint and breaks readability/usability for no real advantages.
Does anyone know what the relative cost of MTBE is vs. ethanol? One of the reasons ethanol is added to gasoline is to increase the octane rating. We used to use MTBE instead. I'm curious if the argument against ethanol continues to bear out when considering alternative octane boosters.
(This is an updated version of a comment from a similar discussion 3 years ago)

A layout I've worked in, and that I'd happily work in again, is this:

+---------+---------+
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+-----+ -+- +-----+
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+-----+ +-----+
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+-----+ +-----+
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+-------| |-------+

The area in the middle is a common area for the group. It can have a table or two and chairs so people can hang out there, or even bring their laptops out and work there, when they are feeling social.

The bottom and middle side rooms are private offices. They should have doors that close and be reasonably insulated from sound, so that a worker can work without disturbance when they want to. Ideally, the wall wall facing the central area should have a big window (with drapes or blinds!) so that the person in the office can see if anything interesting is going on in the central area. Each office should have its own light switch capable of turning off all lights in that office.

The top two rooms can be bigger offices, or conference rooms, or break rooms for breaks that might be too noisy in the central area.
The gap in the bottom wall is the connection to the hallway.

With this environment, you can easily work in private, no distraction mode (go into your office, close the door, and close the blinds, and you can even play some music on speakers without disturbing others if that helps you work), or in full social mode (take your laptop to the middle area), or in between (work in your office, but leave the door and window open, so you can keep an ear and eye on what's going on in the social area.

Note that if you have two groups working on different things, but that have a manager or senior engineer working with both, you can extend this concept and put the two groups side by side, with a large office (or more) in the middle connecting to both:

+---------+---------+---------+---------+
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+-----+ -+- +-----+-----+ -+- +-----+
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+-----+ +-----+-----+ +-----+
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+-----+ +-----+-----+ +-----+
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+-------| |-------+-------| |-------+
Maris is a buffoon.
Such a bummer there's nothing out there that solves this. Oh wait, slim, haml, PHamlP, shpaml...
I didn't say government, I said society.

It's sad that people don't realize that or value the contributions they could make to their societies, to lift their cultures and countries, instead of compounding ever more advantages. It's brain drain. It's rather supremacist in nature too and not unlike colonialism.
By any interpretation, responding to a complaint that she was being retaliated against and a request for clearer HR policies regarding this with a suggestion that she and the man who was retaliating against her could have a good life though they probably wouldn't be able to work together...well that's damning enough. You don't need to suss out whether he was actually suggesting she or he quit for this to be the case.
But, he didn't offended anyone. Negative karma seems too harsh for a newbie and discourages them from participation. In real life, we don't do that to a person, if we think he is not adding value to the conversation.
Brazil uses sugar cane, so the process is more efficient than in the US
Not forgetting the stalwart JavE (http://www.jave.de/), although it seems unmaintained, and isn't non-destructive/object-based/whatever you want to call it.

I like Monodraw, and I know you're an indie developer, but the price seems bonkers for what it is, even at discount. If others pay it, though, I guess the price is right :)
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Hah, but aren't most HTML documents a mess of </div></div></div></div> at some point :)
Higher natural testosterone levels in the aggressive and eventually stronger boys? I was disappointed they didn't even mention testosterone.
They were probably trying to play chicken with Ellen and hope that she would be scared off by having to testify about her relationships, etc. in a trial. However it seems like they played right into what she wants and now all their dirty laundry is being aired in public.
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And it will remain so because all those who could possibly affect change are taking the easy road to America and compounding our returns and advantages.
I have seen a 7-8-9-10 both left, and amazingly, picked up. Weird stuff happens when people don't throw the ball hard. This particular feat was by a friend's wife. If you throw directly in the middle of the 8-9 they will fall sideways and get the 7 and 10.

No pro will ever leave this though. Not possible throwing at normal speeds.
> Next you'll tell me people aren't born knowing what gender they are, but rather it's "socialized" into them.

That just depends on what you mean by gender. There are many things around gender that are social constructs. For example, pink being a "feminine" colour. Do you believe that DNA encodes females to prefer pink[1]?

[1] http://www.npr.org/2014/04/01/297159948/girls-are-taught-to-...
The fact that the end tags are named means that people are also tempted to write markup like:

<strong> one <em> two </strong> three </em>

This is technically invalid, but some browsers will "helpfully" parse it and apply strength to "one", strength and emphasis to "two" and emphasis to "three". This would be avoided if the closing tag weren't named.
At my workplace we use SAS Enterprise Guide for some of this stuff. I like it because it has a drag and drop GUI that non technical users can utilise to extract data (It executes SQL queries in background) and do simple operations (like aggregations, statistics, graphs, merging, filtering etc) At the same time it has a decent programming language underpinning it and pretty advance statistical capabilities.

On the down side it still suffers from some of the problems the article references. Some non programmers, even quite technical people simple don't grasp concept of querying and joins.

It is also horrendously easy for the auto generated SQL to be horribly inefficient the default appearance of the plots and other graphical output looks ugly etc, which leads to people doing things like extracting subsets of data from SAS and then pasting it into excel to manipulate it. Which is kind of self defeating.
The damning part isn't so much what is there as what isn't. The only appropriate response from a manager after being told by an employee about possible sexual harassment is to look into the facts and take action to correct the situation or fire the offender as the facts warrant.
> When weird nerds watch the cool kids jockeying for social position on Twitter, we see no difference between these status games and the ones we opted out of in high school. [...] “corporate culture” that’s as loudly promoted and roughly as genuine as the “school spirit”

These bits resonated with me more than I had expected. The declaration "life is not like high school" is only partially true. College offers a temporary respite since are significantly more likely to be around people with a distinct interest in building things and learning things, in an environment where the "politics" are somewhat restrained.

... But afterwards, back in the "Real World", some of the same high-school factors return, as you see an increase in the social and financial predators, parasites, and empire-builders.

> We don’t always live up to this value as well as we should[...] In our ideal world, though, your identity and personal history are orthogonal to your commit history.

To use an analogy, this is like the ideals of "rule of law" or "freedom of speech" in various countries. Even when there are chronic violations in practice, it's still hugely important and valuable that the culture still holds it up as a goal. Even among two nations equally authoritarian in practice, the one where the population all knows and recites the social-mores of democracy is much much better-off and more likely to achieve them.

The creation and maintenance of a widely-believed idea (especially one which is sometimes inconvenient to individuals and institutions) represents an enormous and ongoing investment in collective effort and willpower.

The fact that we even have a collective shared-ideal of "we judge you by your work" is an achievement worth celebrating and continuing, even if we individually fail at it, or even fail at it a lot.
I wonder if the infertile eggs are a sort of decoy? Those eggs look like they might be large enough to make an attractive meal for a bird.
that certainly seems sensible on the surface, but I have to say, even if every single thing Pao said is made up, the fact that they held an dinner party with Vice President of the United States as the guest of honor and did not invite a single female partner is pretty hard to explain in any sort of reasonable fashion
Thanks, it certainly did help beyond YC. The YC network is fantastic and I have to say the in general the YC brand open many doors. Both with customers, investors and recruiting. I don't know if you are also doing a startup, but if so, good luck :)
The flag offers optimizations -- except they don't exist unless you compile a version of ES6 code for chrome only.

Sure other ES6 browsers will ignore the string and move on, but they will have other ES6 compatibility issues. For example, Chrome's "fat arrow" doesn't do the lexical bind to the parent scope that the current spec requires. There are a ton of situations where this would break your code if you ran it on FF (and there are other differences).

The only option is to transpile into ES5.1, but ES5.1 breaks the optimization requirements.

Thus, using the optimization flag means building to Google's JS engine (we've been there with IE), while building a shared version means you cannot use the flag.

Let adds scopes. Scopes are bad for performance (this is why closure compiler removes them). Removing them (if safe) is one more thing for the JIT to do. It's has little to do with efficiency and a lot to do with forcing another language's preferences on users.
How much petroleum is used to produce ethanol, from seed to harvest to processing?

The answer seems to vary depending on which side of the ethanol/no-ethanol fence you ask. It's hard to find real numbers.
Costs aren't always in straight dollars. Many people would consider HR to have a bureaucracy and agility cost far beyond the amount it costs to hire an HR staffer.

Only "bad HR" would have that side effect. Good HR is a wonderful, wonderful thing. I've seen both sides. Btw, good HR isn't just about the HR people. It's about good HR people and a CEO/COO that wants them to succeed.
no federal deficit, so no looming financial crisis

Huh? Canada's debt-to-GDP is as bad as the US.
Not every point deserves a response, especially not those that refer to women as "vaginas."
This is an important point, American farm output is strongly manipulated by other subsidies and regulations. But I don't think there's any reason to believe that rising domestic corn prices would not have an effect on the larger domestic and foreign food markets, or that the effect would be good.
You say you disagree, but your experience doesn't support that.

"It was hard and it required sacrifice." because of the implicit bias brought up by the GP. For someone in their mid twenties, no relationship or dependents, moving for 3 months is no big deal. Good, even.
its funny how all of those shows are the ones that are hated by any one with a bit of intellect.