skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Funnily enough, as jingoistic and inadequate as educational tools the most popular FPSs are, I think the first Call of Duty gave me the first glimpse of the importance of the USSR soldiers in defeating the Third Reich - while most of the TV and film media emphasized the UK and USA and the school textbooks were way too "high level", talking more about the meetings than the actual battles.

In the last campaign one plays as Corp. Alexei Voronin and it starts with a vivid exemplification of Order Nº 227 ("Not one step back!") and ends the game with you waving the Victory Banner over the Reichstag.

I've read and heard actual historical works as I got older, and it only increased my respect for IW.
Moving to SoMa won't do it, but if you have a successful exit and a personal relationship with ballsy VCs you have a shot:

http://techcrunch.com/2015/04/02/an-ex-googler-is-launching-...
>Which setup does indeed give you a binomial or normal sort of distribution

distribution of what? Still no quantity defined.

>Intelligence is a well-defined quantity like temperature

As a physicist it sounds about right. Temperature is tricky to define in non-stationary systems (aka. "real world").
I denote that kind of thing as a "Bozo Filter".
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BROOKE HERE (the guy from the article).

Some thoughts on this discussion…

ON PREJUDICES: Often I don’t get what I want because other people have inaccurate judgments concerning me. But what can I expect; who has the time to really do due diligence. And who am I to judge their judgments of me? If I were a judge at court I’d have to recuse myself because I am way too close to my own case.

This is not to say prejudice doesn’t exist. It does. And it is not to say it isn’t harmful. It is. Prejudice harms us all and the prejudices that harm me the most are my own; they keep me from being all I can be.

When I overlook good candidates because I judge them on irrelevant characteristics then I am constraining my options and that does me no good. Although it would be wonderful if the world was perfect I’ve found it most fruitful to concentrate on the problems closest to me and interestingly they usually involve something about me I could improve upon or resign myself to. I’m happier and more productive when I spend so much time trying to be part of a solution (and not the precipitate) that I don’t have time left over to theorize about what people beyond my influence should be doing.

ON MENTAL DISABILITIES: If you spend any time with the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders I’m sure you can find yourself and everyone you know in there. It seems to me that strengths and weaknesses of the mind should be considered only if relevant just as with things in the physical realm. I’m not sure where to draw the line, however I rue the day when sociopaths cannot be discriminated against. In any event, I’ve concluded that life is a terminal spectrum disorder we just have to deal with as best as we can (until we don’t have to any more).

ON SELF-DISCLOSURE: As a practical matter, if you have an obvious disability the best time to bring it up is right before it becomes obvious. For example, if you have a stutter and you ask for forbearance at the beginning of an interview then you can win people’s hearts and they will be rooting for you. But if you don’t then often they cannot wait for the conversation to end. If your disability is not obvious but might require accommodation later on then probably the best time to disclose it is after you get a job offer and before you accept.

If you choose to go public with your issues and make them a cause célèbre then in order to win broad support it will need to be clear that you are doing it for the benefit of people in your circumstances and not just as cover for your own failings. Even then, the recognition you deserve might only come posthumously, but that is irrelevant unless it is recognition that you seek.

PEOPLE I’D LOVE TO HEAR FROM: Although this discussion is interesting I wonder if any of you out there would like my help improving how you hire people. If so, please contact me.

I am retired and don’t need to do this, but I want to. If you are stinking rich I can be expensive and if you’re sincerely broke then I can be free. Either way, you have to tell me who you are. I’m at BrookeAllen.com.
The US /= "the world"

Anybody who considers "the world" to extend beyond the borders of the United States might consider the possibility that a couple of billion non-Americans probably wanted to be saved from the prospect of Hitler having so much control over the whole of Europe he was in a position to start extending the Final Solution to the "untermenschen" of half the former British Empire whilst his allies in the East continued to rape and pillaged their way across the other half. But yeah, the Bay Area would probably have been untouched.
While in general it's important that sites load well on mobile, I'm not sure that's a valid critique for a developer tools site where most users will have at least a well-powered laptop with a large screen. I'm sure you're familiar with that old saw about the correlation between screen size and productivity.
I don't think that's a great example.

1/ If the lifetime of a fund is 10 years, partners don't get the management fee for ten years. They get the fee until the fund is fully invested (usually 5-6 years).

2/ Money in is capital, money out is taxable income (unless it's carry, then it's a repayment of capital/capital gains). If the fund returns nothing, you lose your capital.

This creates following situation:

1/ 2% * 5 years is 10%, meaning as a partner you make 5% (probably a lot less, since you need to deduct expenses).

2/ Once we take into account taxes (let's say ~25% on $x), you are not making much, because your 10% becomes 7.5% after taxes.

But GPs can't invest 5% in a fund of a few billion $/€. Then again, you can't raise that kind of money without a track record, so maybe it doesn't matter.
I am particularly good at public speaking. For example I got a standing ovation from a thousand developers when I gave a talk at the Apple World Wide Developers Conference. I've also spoken at lots of user groups, including the Naval Postgraduate School Macintosh User Group.
That makes sense. I would guess that a regular (not sterilized, bagged or what-not) touch screen device like a phone would be about as dirty as a unwashed hand. I suppose if that is handled as "dirty" there shouldn't be any additional problem.
> I can tell you that Python, C, and D all throw errors rather than allow it

Python throws an error, but numpy.divide(1., 0) will work just fine (and return inf).

I'm not sure why you're saying C throws an error. The behavior of dividing by 0 is undefined by default, but on most machines these days the hardware implements IEE-754 and the C implementation will advertise as implementing IEC 60559, so 1. / 0 will give you inf as well.
Diversification. VC most likely will be more risky or volatile and return of it won't be similar to S&P500. Main idea is to mix different asset classes - S&P500, VC, hedge funds, bonds and etc, to get smooth results during good and bad times.
The act of publishing a book or an article (edit: or a cartoon), has occasionally led to far-reaching, sometimes violent, unforeseen and unpredictable systemic consequences, sometimes bringing down governments.

Yet Taleb has published several, apparently with no concern whatsoever about his own precautionary principle.
Monsanto - the creator and producer of Agent Orange is responsible for suffering and deaths of millions of people. In China and Vietnam, hundreds of people are born with serious health issues even to these days.

GMO are created with barbaric methods with unknown long term effects on human or environment. AFAIK, GMO are created by infecting DNA with a virus and mixing 'terminator' genes to be sure, that species won't have offspring.

Now, please somebody tell me, why should I trust the very same company, that was manufacturing Agent Orange, with my food. Monsanto officially stated that: "reliable scientific evidence indicates that Agent Orange is not the cause of serious long-term health effects". Now, they are saying that GMO poses no risk to health or environment. Thanks, no but thanks.
I was lecturing the Portland Startup Weekend on engineering ethics. My point was that unethical practices such as those exhibited by the Portland Startup Weekend lead to such practices as industrial control systems that have laughably weak security.
Everything Demaine works on look so new, simple and interesting. Succint DS, origami/folds proofs, now this.
Racket's object system is largely inspired by Java. So is its statically-compiled module system (in which you can't change anything once it's been compiled, unlike a real Lisp), and Raco build tool. Programming with objects in Racket feels a lot like programming with Java objects in Clojure.
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But where did the $50MM figure come from?
Using jspm, SystemJS and Babel for my latest project, and simply using let universally over var and arrow functions over anonymous functions has made this aspect of JavaScript behave like any sane language would.

I simply don't ever need to think about it anymore.
It's not that a staffing agency couldn't find me a job. It's that I regard staffing agencies as an albatross around the neck of the economy. Consider how much more could be invested in new products and services, were staffing agencies not to receive their commissions.
There are also patented non-GMO varieties, so the patent argument is not really relevant in GMO discussion.
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So the resistive heating elements that will add significant cost the the production of the panels will be embedded in the bike paths and are only useful 6 days per year?
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Definitely. And that ignores the extent to which they may not be creating any value.

I think they're a "games company" only in the same sense that people who make shitty video poker machines are. That is, they're not creators of fun experiences, but parasites on those inclined to addiction.

Business is mainly about creating value for customers; companies that make money out proportion to the value created tend to get optimized away.
I'm glad we didn't address those problems by banning computers.
This is cool. Curious what the advantages over something like systemd-nspawn? Just easier time setting it up?

Also, ubuntu has a project called JuJu. Could be confusing I supposed. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juju_(software) )
It's also not Common Lisp. I get that emacs lisp is a pretty good example of a lisp, but I do find it interesting that the Lisp designed to be the widely-applicable industry standard hasn't seen something on the same level.
> what could be dangerous about removing an enzyme?

You might stop being able to process some raw material in your diet into a more useful form, giving you a deficiency disease.

The absence of the enzyme might mean that a toxic substance in the same food stays toxic, poisoning you.

All kinds of different stuff. It's like asking "what harm could come from removing a line of code?"
So basically the idea with RSA is that all computations are done modulo N, where N is the product of two secret primes p and q.

What was done here is manipulating the high bits of N (yielding N'), and finding new prime q' slightly larger than N'/p. The high bits of N'' = p * q' are unaffected because the gap between N'/p and q' is small enough in practice.
"The intent is to stop things like what happens in South America"

... so the intent is to stop the people of economically poor but resource rich countries from having a say in whether or not they continue to have their natural resources exploited by wealthy foreigners?

That doesn't sound positive to me at all.
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> we have 3 or 4 major companies controlling the distribution, creation, and production of GMO's

One reason for that is that the legislation and regulations on GMO's are so much heavier and more expensive that other crops, that only bigcorps can afford the legal process of trying to bring GMO varieties to market.
Remember by the time you are taking $240M your valuation is either $750M or $1 billion (depending on the $250M being part of the valuation); all of which you have achieved with some $11M. That is a close to a 100x return. But even if you lost $750M/$500M in valuation before the deal and sold for $250M after raising $11M, that is still a 24x return.
"When Hitler attacked the Jews I was not a Jew, therefore I was not concerned. And when Hitler attacked the Catholics, I was not a Catholic, and therefore, I was not concerned. And when Hitler attacked the unions and the industrialists, I was not a member of the unions and was not concerned. Then Hitler attacked me and the Protestant church - and there was nobody left to be concerned."
-- Pastor Martin Niemöller

Some things are more important than work: Hitler put the mentally ill in concentration camps long before he put the Jewish people there.
I walk up and down Larkin regularly, and I've never gotten any of that kind of treatment. I have seen street prostitutes on Post between Larkin and Hyde a few times, but not consistently.
We prefer a simple lifestyle so we omit many expenses: no TV, rarely eat out, drive older cars, have no debt payments, eat only a little meat, buy high quality clothes which last through all 5 kids, high deductibles on all insurance, save as much money as possible.

I'd be glad to answer any specific questions in private. Shoot me an email at michael@ndrix.org if you want.
The inter-neighborhood "force fields" in SF are unlike anything I've ever seen elsewhere.
I would have loved to skip this article, and would have if the title were more clear that it was about BitCoin.
Unpaid employment taxes too -- the cxx levels, the investors, the board, and every single employee who paid any other expense instead of paying the US gov their money.

I wrote more about this in the past, but even bookkeepers have been held personally liable. The government considers employment taxes to be paid by the employee on the date the employee receives his or her paycheck, and the employer is merely holding on to that money temporarily. It seems quite unwise to fuck with this.

more examples here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8081173
Monsanto are evil. But even Monsanto are giving away licences to grow their yellow rice - it's free for farmers earning less than $10,000 per year. The rice doesn't have terminator genes and Monsanto have said that seed collection and re-sowing is allowed for free.

And it's not just Monsanto calling the yellow rice safe. Plenty of other studies have shown it to be safe.
In retrospect, it's always easy to construct reasons why person X has only themselves to blame. Blame isn't really a useful construct for systemic improvement, because it always lets us say, "Oh, well this won't happen to me." The vast majority of Silicon Valley's failures were made by very smart people while being guided by very smart and experienced investors.

"How could somebody be that dumb" is Silicon Valley's equivalent of "pilot error", a response that explains nothing because it can explain anything.
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I'm very skeptical of Monsanto being the only reason "hundreds of people" are born with serious health issues in China and Vietnam.

Anyway, the reason I don't take anti-GMO people very seriously is I get the same vibes from the anti-vaccination sort. Refusing to ingest GMO food is perfectly acceptable if you're worried about the health concerns, I would happily welcome more study - I just have trouble believing these crops pose a direct risks to humans. We don't worry about blood-borne diseases from plants. As I understand it, plant DNA is incompatible with our own. I'm not a scientist but I'm pretty sure what they modify can't modify us. I would worry about environmental impact - how these crops affect soil acidity or something else.

I want to stand with the anti-GMO people but it just comes off as blind fear. I'll support study of long-term effects but not much else ~
Ah, the old "you must have a vested interest" argument. Good luck with that. You also haven't raised those counter examples till now.

I've responded to the dependency list being outdated - I asked you to provide me with a later dependency list. I still am - given you stated hundred of binaries, when there aren't I'm curious what you'll come up with!

nspawn isn't for production use, or so says Lennart Pottering, numerous times.

That list of binaries is what is included in Debian Sid unstable. It's not hundreds of binaries. Heck, I've even listed a deprecated one there. If you disagree, it's easy to disprove me: list them.

You quoted the commentary of someone who strongly disagrees with socket activation. I'd assumed you quoted it because you agree. You also asked me if I "even knew what it was", which I do :-)

There is one binary that runs PID 1. The original argument speaks of PID 1 as a key problem, which is the reason most folks don't like systemd.

By dynamic event I mean an event such as a hardware device starting a service, a timer event initialising a service, etc.

Your entanglement argument uses an example that is incorrect, I didn't make this up :-) that's your argument, not mine!

Not all arguments against systemd are misguided. When I first learned systemd ran as PID 1 for what I though was everything, I was concerned. Then I looked into it further and it was all piss and wind, so far as I'm concerned. The one that I find most conducive is binary logs, I'm not a fan. But that seems to be the only thing that even folks like Linus talk about. His real beef is that some of the devs were being dicks, which is really a very Gnome like mentality.

You read into their documentation. They phrase things badly, and those looking for it read into that which I'd not there - like your claims about syslog compatibility, which you can't seem to back up.

Any ctl program needs a way of signalling to the daemon to change its state. Systemd uses dbus: so? What's the issue you have with that?

Init doesn't reap zombied processes, by the way. The kernel does this. Init doesn't do re-parenting either, it just so happens that because it is PID 1 then it's what becomes the parent by default - unless you have a kernel > 3.4 and as you say the child reaper big is set on the parent process.

You seem to have a problem with a process running PID 1 handling dynamic events like hardware changes. I don't think you've given particularly strong reasons why.
You can see a project switch from a stack-based VM to a register-based VM here[0] [1].

For [1], search page for "vdbe" (virtual database engine). Hopefully you find interesting things.

[0] https://www.sqlite.org/vdbe.html

[1] http://www.sqlite.org/src/timeline?c=2007-11-11&n=400
Bringing down a government does not belong to the same group of consequences the precautionary principle is applied to.

PP is used when a system, in this case the humanity, is at risk of total failure, i.e. ruin.
Can you at least give a hint as to who either company is?
It might be enough to have the verifiability feature of this blockchain widely advertised to scare users a bit at least...
ever heard of living social? How much of amazon's investment was recycled into purchases (obviously with lower margins than ads) on amazon when they offered a $20 amazon gift card for $10?
Ironic, wouldn't you agree, that Mohandas K. Gandhi kicked the British Empire out of India without firing a shot.

I once had a coworker, and close friend who was a Brit on H1-B in the US. I was treated like gold by the company, but he was kicked around. The reason is that I was not afraid to leave - and I did resign later, over a stupid decision on the part of our CEO - but if my friend left his job, he would have to go back to England.
Not at all. The point of his book is to educate people and reframe how they think about risk, so he achieved exactly what he intended. If one of those is to bring a more risk-based understanding of GMOs, which in turns makes people more cautious from a scientific perspective, then mission accomplished.

The fundamental problem with loosing GMOs into the environment is that there's no plan B for screwing up the earth or your health, so we have to be extra, extra conservative. Even if only 1 in a million GMOs turn out to have disastrous consequences, given enough development and use, eventually we will create something with unforeseen consequences that passes whatever standards for safety we have. But given the replicable nature of biology, it will be everyone's problem instead of a localized disaster.

The people claiming we have sufficient scientific evidence for GMOs don't understand this key point: our usual standards for evidence of safety must be orders of magnitude higher to risk the planet.
Perfect response.
What brudgers said is if you don't have control or preferred w/ anti dilution their commitment is minimal.

Common 5% in Q1 can be any number less than that in Q2.
Check out zfec - dead easy to add erasure coding to your backup scripts. My cold storage files look something like Archive.tar.gz.gpg.split.fec.

Although I don't split across too many failure domains, it still protects against isolated bitrot.
try this: ask for $50 to $100 worth of equity for every $1 of salary offset

You take that number from their last valuation?
Looks like Linux is a first class citizen:

>All HP Workstations can support a variety of operating systems. HP engineers work extensively with Windows® and Linux® operating system providers to verify top performance, flexibility, reliability, and compatibility with HP Workstations. We conduct joint engineering collaboration with industry partners long before systems are introduced.

http://www8.hp.com/us/en/campaigns/workstations/products.htm...
Show HN: Over engineered weekend project to aggregate top Reddit r/aww posts
Author here! The idea was to collect the top posts from r/aww and show them in an extremely simple to use responsive interface. Even though the site may seem very simple, being a backend architect, I think I over engineered it. Here is the technology breakdown:-

* Laravel 5.0
* A Digital Ocean micro server (512MB Ram)
* Laravel Forge setup
* Blackfire integration
* New Relic integration
* Papertrailapp integration for streaming error logs
* Beanstalkd for queued jobs.
* Zapier integration
* Pure CSS framework
* Cloudinary CDN and image manipulation
* MySQL
* Redis server
* Import.io to create a crawler API
* Bitbucket private repo
* Import.io for the Reddit and Imgur crawler

So what does HN think about my work?
This article is awful. He ignores that Agriculture drills many wells and extracts water from rivers and streams - and that water is not metered and free. There was the recent article about Starbucks getting their bottled water for free from California wells. And when he praises the ability to buy/sell water he is praising the very system that allows farmers to take their free water and monetize it through bottled water sold throughout the USA. I could go on, but all you really need to do is drive through California and look at the miles and miles of rice fields - a full immersion crop. It is exported worldwide by the multi-billionaire "farmers".
Who proposed the precautionary principle and whether they've acted in accordance with it is irrelevant when the considering the matter of whether it should apply to GMO food.
> $59,271 pledged of $5,000 goal

> Risks and challenges

[...]

> The biggest risk involved in this project is that the project get too popular which would be a great problem to have! Since everything is built by me here in Montréal there are limits on how many clocks I can produce.

Oh dear! Still, they do go on to say

> In the event that the number of orders far exceeds my expectations, I already have suppliers that could assist in the production so that everything is delivered on time.