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As the comments above point out, this isn't correct.
The homeless industrial complex. See also the weeping and gnashing of teeth when anti loitering laws are enforced in BART stations.
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It's good to know that the she watched the episode. Has anyone in the valley gone through this or?
On the BSDs, there's no real distinction between the two, and the names are just there for compat.
Honestly not how I thought this would end up (watching it as a semi-informed observer), but glad it seems to be trending this way, given the info in the proposal.
Thank you for your feedback!

My partner has exactly the same thoughts. The market is indeed extremely saturated and there's huge money in it. However, I haven't seen good websites (in my opinion, that is) without all that clutter and visual noise.

Our focus is more on simplicity and we don't want you to spend hours on our site. Instead, we want you to quickly find a job, send your resume and move on. When you need a job, of course.

We too discussed the problem you suggested. That, however, imposes an additional burden on job seekers. Think about it. Interviews used to be 50 minutes long with one interviewer. Now we have phone screens in addition to face-to-face interviews, tests, job seekers have to fill out forms with hundreds of fields, meet with a bunch of interviewers, post JSON objects to URLs and other "clever" things.

This is not normal and we want to change that. I wonder if anyone else has given a thought to the whole situation.

Anyway, it's not our final decision and right now we just don't have the capacity for all extra stuff.
If you get $240 million in investments, and then sell the company for $250 million, I fail to see how it was successful (or "building a unicorn") at all.
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It does say "stupid" right there in the title :-)

The article about prime gaps is interesting, thanks for sharing.

There's a paper[0] that appears to use a very similar technique to achieve an RSA backdoor, however I don't have access to the full article. From the excerpt[1] I was able to find (just now - I wrote the code quite a while ago) they appear to choose p, randomly generate n with data spliced in the top half of the modulus, and find an acceptable q. The paper seems to argue the scheme is secure against those who don't have the backdoor key, but there are some pages hidden in the middle of that.

0. http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F11693383_9

1. https://books.google.com/books?id=skYDCAAAQBAJ&pg=PA128&lpg=...
This is very confusing without Bitcoin in the title.

The word bitcoin does not appear until about 2/3rd into the page. Couldn't figure out what the article is about until then.
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Looks like it links to a 404?
Yes, once you formalize (in computer code) a bit of mathematics you can run it, but i'm pointing out that you don't need to formalize (the correctness of) a program in order to run it. I guess it is not much of a distinction, because a (non-formalized) mathematical argument can also carry "invariants" (like loop invariants in a for-loop) that somehow cross-check its correctness.
How can I come to these comments and not see a single thing written about China?

Secretary of Defense Carter stated that he would rather have the TPP succeed than have another aircraft carrier.

The TPP, from a national defense perspective, is one of the aces in the US sleeve. It is a way to isolate China, who would like to be a superpower, who has overtaken the US in terms of economic might, and who is challenging the US for geopolitical power, from the rest of the Asia-Pacific economy - unless it plays by a specific set of rules.

Extremely strong exportation of US intellectual property law into the Asia-Pacific? Yeah, that has nothing to do with the battle for the new world and the past 16 years of US foreign policy to 'Pivot to Asia'.

I'm not saying the TPP will be good for US citizens. I am saying that it will be one piece in something 'good' for the United States as a world power. It's true and unfortunate that what can be bad for one can be good for another. But let's call a spade a spade.
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An interesting exercise is to think about what would have happened if that $200 million spent on advertisement on Hooli campaign gave a positive ROI.

Than Richard would be really happy right now.

What Richard should have done, is before accepting that $200 million, spend some of his own money on Hooli's ad platform to see what it was like, what kind of return they're looking at. If its good, take the money. If not, walk away.

But of course, it's very easy to make the right decision after already knowing the outcome...
The homeless industrial complex.

Not sure I really like the phrase (or, rather I do, but it feels unsavory), but agreed. Seems as though every 6 months or so I hear a rehashing of the situation on KQED's Forum; invariably, the discussion swirls around San Francisco's situation is so complicated and needs so much more money to fix. Then I read these articles and the situation doesn't seem so complicated. As you allude, parties with conflicts of interest have stepped in to complicate it...
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Nope. Then again if you're doing a for...in you probably don't care about order.
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Everything you say is true ... the story seems plausible simply because Ellison has been shown to be a ruthless businessman in other cases. I'm so glad that (generally) discussions on HN evolve to either discuss fact or they're shown to be shallow. Where is the evidence? Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?
Well, it was a serious question. Like in the python language you can create a string a="foo" and another b="foo" and a==b but it's not true that a is b. So it seems like this univalent axiom is saying that this does not happen, and so a is b.

I wish I knew enough about functional languages to ask the same question there.
idunning this is very well articulated. We are completely committed to open source, and working for ourselves just is so much better.

As for JuliaBox, we are grateful to AWS for the credits. They rescued us once, but going forward, we have to figure out a way to make it self-sustaining. I feel it is reasonable to have some level of sustainable free JuliaBox access, with charges for higher compute and storage - kind of like github, although it is not an apples to apples comparison.
If the average block is currently 40 % full that means not finding a single block for an entire day would result in a transaction queue of 57.6 MB - that sounds hardly like a problem.
That's fair, I just find them super useful in various situations, for example filtering over an array with Boolean to remove falsey values.
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You ask £40k and 1.5%. What's the worst that can happen?
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Listen to this guy. I'd much rather get a big 401k match and have the money be mine than trust that my pension will be there based on the whims of the company and market.

Look at the airline industry. Plenty of pensions have been restructured during the string of bankruptcies. Pensions are guaranteed by a federal body, but only up to ~$50K/yr I believe. You'll never get less than that, but you $100K/yr pension might get cut in half and the gov't will say "that's the best we can do".
If anyone is interested in the other papers that are presented at SIGGRAPH 2015, Ke-Sen Huang usually has a complete list with links to preprints and videos. You can find the list for SIGGRAPH 2015 here:

http://kesen.realtimerendering.com/sig2015.html

My favorite paper this year is "The SGGX Microflake Distribution" by E. Heitz et al. Sadly there aren't many papers on rendering this year.
Implemented right, a government verifiable block chain might be a cheap way to get the people of Greece to pay taxes.
I've lived in that area for a few years now. There's still drug dealing and prostitutes along Larkin between O'Farrell and Geary, but a block north where your friend got egged there's now a stylish cafe and an art gallery. The line of gentrification is so sharp sometimes it's almost surreal, and it's been moving south at a brisk pace the past five years or so.
I haven't pressed the button, primarily because I don't care about it, or the result. I was given gold for some benign comment, and haven't even looked up what that means.

Though, as I was writing this, I realize I don't care about achievements in games. I'm there for the experience, where several of my friends insist on 100% completion. I wonder if there is a correlation, as the two could be seen as a waste to those who value experience and real world accomplishment over badges and accomplishment achieved through drudgery.
Chipotle's "No more GMO food" announcement was the worst "great news" I'd heard in a long time. It was clearly just for PR and nothing else. It's good to see some sanity--this obsession with "clean/pristine nature" which has no rational basis has to stop.

Related TED talk: https://www.ted.com/talks/pamela_ronald_the_case_for_enginee...
You can find $1200/month apartments all over LA (may be not Santa Monica). Is that true for SF ?
The article says that Richard would have personal liability if the sale didn't go through. That doesn't make sense to me - can someone explain?

Edit: the article says both Richard and the investors would have personal liability, but isn't a purpose of a corporation to avoid personal liability?
Lots of people advise job hunters to be skeptical of counter-offers. For example:

http://corcodilos.com/blog/7874/should-i-take-a-big-counter-...

The job offers you got suggest that your current employer has been happily underpaying you by 50% of your market value.

Also, you're comparing a "hard offer of £28k" with "informally agreed to better the £28k offer". Don't turn down the hard offer until you've gotten a real commitment. And you'd need to get that commitment before the £28k offer expires.
Agreed. Asking for equity can only send positive signals about your long term view of the business - you've nothing to lose in my mind.
If you would like to get deeply into the weeds on most important facets of the debate on GMO crops, this is the best set of articles: http://grist.org/series/panic-free-gmos/
50ms! Wow... take it from me, you should have used Solr.
How much of the value of the company is tied up in it's technology?

Your leverage at the moment is, if you decided to get another job, you would walk away taking all knowledge of the current system with you. Imagine you quit, and something went wrong the next day - how long would it take them to fix it?

I think your boss did you a huge favor, taking a risk on you this first year. Now you are no longer an unproved dropout, he owes you a real wage. Keep both of those in mind.
The failure modes listed in the paper are models with a lot of concavities or self-occlusions. Looking at the video, it looks like the elephant cup succeeds because of surface tension properties of the water, which let the surface on each side of the trunk "snap together" when the trunk begins to be completely immersed. It's that wrapping or stretching that lets it be more than a simple light projection, which would fail due to self-occlusion.
Awesome writeup.

I've occasionally thought that there's a lot of time to be saved in machine learning systems by making the floating point operations a bit more noisy. Use maybe eight bit (or even four bit) numbers for the matrix entries, with the philosophy that the overall degree of freedom in the system is enough to make up for this local rigidity, while you gain a lot in terms of both storage space and evaluation time.

Along these lines, I saw a great demo of a robot a while ago which used 256 binary devices for movement. Each of these devices is the diagonal of a quadrilateral; when the device is in it's 'on' state, the diagonal is long, and when it's in the 'off' state the diagonal is short. Chain a lot of these together, and you can get pretty good accuracy aiming for specific points in a two-dimensional space. The demo I saw was a three-dimensional version of the same concept, of course.

So likewise, we chain together lots of linear operations to build (say) a deep learning system. The weight space is very high-dimensional, and the decision space is the much lower dimensional classification/regression problem: one probably needs a lot less than 64 bits of accuracy in the weight space to approximate a point in the decision space.
They have to. There's a bug in the JavaScript spec that makes you do this :-) they are perfectly correct in doing what they are doing, if they didn't then funny thing would start to happen. Sad, but true.
well the worst that can happen is that he does not get hired: no salary increase, no equity.

And this is not even the worst that can happen. I have withdrawn (let them expire) offers from people that after receiving my first offer tried to strongarm ridiculous bonuses. The reason I have withdrawn the offer is that it made me clear that the person does not understand their worth to us - hence would likely be a trouble later on. I did not negotiate and just let the deadline stand.

I am tired of all these advices that make it sound as if asking excessive bonuses and money does not give off bad impressions. It actually does.
It's really a minor criticism and I know ES6 resolves the issue :-)
Ask HN: How much money does an average VC make?
How much money does an average VC make ? And how much does the top VCs make and how much personal wealth do they accumulate over their tenure as a VC.
Why would the CEO Richard be liable for the wages surely that is the company's liabilities not his personal one
I feel that explanation answers the question perfectly.

It's not about the fact that the hardware looks and interfaces the same, it's that it lasts longer, performs reliably and predictably and comes with support. Even if you design for failure, it's much better to have 1 drive fail than 3 in a system.

The enterprise stuff will just be more durable and usually more performant in every way so it's worth the cost, especially when most companies are not tech giants with all the engineering talent to build something like cold storage from the ground up. FB/Google/Amazon/Microsoft/Apple are very specialized high-tech companies who know how to do this and not representative of most "enterprise" customers.
You: I want £40k and 1.5%

Corp (in 1 week): "Thank you, but we cannot entertain your offer. We wish you all the best in your future endeavors".

You: Ok, let's negotiate.

Corp: "We've just filled in the position with suitable candidate. We'll keep your resume in our database for 6 months in case we might get openings down the road."
Unfortunately you can't guarantee results with advertising. However, you can mitigate some risks by taking an iterative approach and testing things before doing a large integrated campaign. You can save a lot of headache by running some targeted facebook ads to see if they resonate with your audience before buying up a bunch of tv or radio points.
There's types as defined in a spec, and types according to type theory.

In short, I think the spec is incorrect in its use of the concept of types; or incomplete.

You'll note that the spec uses the concept of "internal properties" to distinguish between the different things one can do with values. From a type theory perspective, these internal properties and the implied permitted operations come close to type definitions. It's a matter of perspective, then, when one is using the word 'type' as defined by a particular language's spec, or 'type' as in programming language pragmatics / type theory POV. For the generalist programmer who knows more than one language, a broader concept of types is usually more useful.

Further, the spec uses these internal properties solely to define the semantics of the language, and they are not necessarily visible artifacts of any implementation. Talking about them as if they were concrete confuses the map with the territory.
I think it's much easier to forget about "types" and think of objects instead. Trying to divide JavaScript objects into "types" will surely get you frustrated. If you absolutely want to check what "type" an object is, for example a sanity check for arguments passed to a function, you should make your own isMyType(obj) function and not rely on typeof or toString.
I'm not insinuating, I'm telling you.

Incidentally, can you not see the irony of your own statement? Please, stop with your valueless comments. This article is and remains a perfectly valid submission to HN.
I find this article much more interesting as a cultural snapshot than a cautionary tale for founders. $20 million in investment before creating a minimal product, $200 million to find out users won't pay for what you made, and everything propped up by a shell game around online ads. The assumption that the founder of this should have walked away with a fortune is just the cherry on top.
The single issue is whether it is safe or not. Articles telling me how great it would be for poor, despserate farmers in third world countries as a last resort choice is really a fringe issue that is - I suspect - cloaking the point on purpose.
Yup, Julia Computing has been around for all of last year, and it has been publicly known, but perhaps not widely, as I gather from the comments here. We talked about it at JuliaCon 2014. See: http://juliacon.org/2014/

The terms are used a bit loosely. Commercial support is what I think of as a scalable product, which is different from consulting and training, which are services we provide.

Having Julia Computing has meant that we can do Julia for a living, helping our customers who also love Julia. A win-win!
You wouldn't know it from the article but I thought the anti-GMO argument went something like: sorta different from natural breeding; long term effects unknown; moving anecdotes notwhitstanding, necessity is modest; crates some unappealing situations due to the scope and dynamics of food production.
Sounds like this is roughly based on the Microsoft/Facebook deal. MSFT invested $240M at $15B valuation but won the right to be the ad platform for FB globally for some period of time.

Not the same as forcing the investee into ad spend, but that's what it conjured up in my mind when I read it.
What's up with the summers? I know that Boston (and New England generally) can have very cold and snowy winters. I had visited in fall once and it was great. Interested to know how summer is.
I've actually had a brief look at Cx a couple of months ago, and it looked very promising! Unfortunately, due to private and job-related reasons I didn't have the time to look at it in depth.

There's one thing that irritated me though: Reading from a port twice seems to trigger a clock cycle (did I get that right?). My intuition tells me that this is a huge source of bugs, comparable to the infered-latch-instead-of-combinational problem in VHDL/Verilog. I might be wrong though, since I haven't actually designed anything with it.
Take out the ref=hn from the URL. Somebody forgot the '?', it seems ;)
> The reason I have withdrawn the offer is that it made me clear that the person does not understand their worth to us - hence would likely be a trouble later on.

Or just doesn't have much experience with (salary) negotiation, which, for most roles that aren't sales or HR, isn't necessarily a problem. The people who do this for a living (employers, recruiters, etc.) are always going to know the rules and the social norms better than the ones that don't (most employees).

I don't really know what you mean by "ridiculous" in that situation, so it's hard to draw any conclusions, but I will say that most good engineers are pretty bad at negotiation skills, and IMHO withdrawing an offer is quite an extreme move.
Or perhaps you've experienced the Zappos culture first hand, and, for whatever reason, don't think that this is a good idea.
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Talking your book much? This story is so contrived that it hinges on a comically inept founder taking $200M to solely spend on an advertising campaign on the platform of the person investing it. If this is the best example a VC can offer to cram down valuations then I'm pretty sure founders are going to keep reaching toward those unicorn valuations.
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Personally, I think negotiating for equity in terms of percentages is a mistake. The better way to do it is in terms of financial outcome.

You make X dollars in salary every year. You model the equity as a lump-sum bonus paid after 4 years (divide the liquid value of the options by 4, mentally applying as a deferred bonus for each vesting year).

To make that happen, you ask management for some outcome scenarios --- a "low", "medium", and "high" outcome, for instance --- that values the grant you're getting.

ie: "If we're acquired for $50MM, your options would be worth $Y". You make $X/yr, so, if the company is acquired, you'd effectively have made $X+($Y/4)/yr. Are you happy with that number? Then agree.

To dig into the low/med/high scenario, two helpful anchor numbers: first, the company's valuation at its last round (if the medium option 20x's valuation, that's, you know, worth knowing), and second (and I think more important) the multiple of trailing revenue that represents. In other words: in the "medium" outcome, how much revenue do your employers propose the company to have done in the preceding year, and what multiple does that imply for the valuation?

These are easy numbers to get your head around, implicitly capture the percentage of the company you're getting without making that the terrain you're negotiating over, and (most importantly) forces your employer to be clear about where the numbers are coming from and how the business will actually work.

The other way to do this is just to value equity at $0.
Another interesting idea is ditching the format of a classic polynomial. Multiplication isn't the fastest thing ever.

I wonder what would happen if you ran the same minmax scoring scheme through an general instruction synthesizer for the same complexity cap?
I believe it says the investors could be liable.
Indeed, headphones for example have much, much stronger magnetic fields.
You also take on another dozen millions in additional liability which you have to pay on top of the 240 million.

It was very successful for "Hooli" who basically channelled back their 200 million after investment and got another 200 million after the sale.
For the second example on the memory leak section (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/A_re...), wouldn't just changing "el.style" to "this.style" fix the memory leak?
In general, I have seen a range of about 20-30% in long term.
It's true that it seems like I'm being underpaid - I wouldn't say they're happily doing so. We're a young start-up struggling for cash and to make ends meet. Hopefully the funding round will alleviate that to a degree.

Also thanks for the link. I hadn't thought of it like that.

From my perspective, £18k (and indeed £28k) is a lot of money. I'm 19 and I'm getting paid to code, I know it's naive but I think it's awesome. I love the people I work for/with and I love my job. I come across adults who haven't had that their entire career.

Edit: Just to follow up on the counter offer. The process of raising this round of funding has been such a whirlwind. I don't think there is anything untoward going on. I think a case of Hanlon's Razor: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon%27s_razor
The vision and neurology section at the start was all messed up, but the review of approaches used in different games was great! Oh nostalgia :)