skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Those words “without prejudice” are lawyer speak for “I’m not going to do anything now, but I retain my right to sue you at any time in the future for any amount”.

Learn something new everyday.

However, he had given the chair as a gift of his departure by saying they could keep it. It doesn't sound like he'd be able to sue for the chair. In fact, under what grounds did Bill have the right to sue at all or ask for any amount of money or be required to sign papers if he was never officially signed in to the CEO position?

I feel a lot of information from that story is missing.
I've been involved with three startups, and met all three co-founders under radically different situations. The first startup was a game studio, Blazing Griffin (http://blazinggriffin.com) -- I was doing hobbyist iOS game dev as a creative outlet during my PhD, and demoed one of my prototypes to a guy who I ended up starting the studio with at a regular gamedev drinkup (https://twitter.com/GameDevEd). We eventually parted ways (difference of vision), but I wouldn't say we were unsuccessful as a co-founding team, since the company is still doing great and we parted under good terms.

The second was a mini-publishing house (a very strange and very different business...), which I co-founded with a group of university friends. We had a couple of common interests, and all had ideas for different projects that could overlap. These were folks I originally met socially, mostly through a dance class we all took, but we've had a great time working together and shipped some pretty excellent things. It may be because we were friends first and co-founders later, but our working relationship has been consistently really great.

The third startup is different again. It's not launched yet, but I'm building it with a three-person team of folks I put together from my day job. We're all a little disillusioned with corporate work, and realised over a couple conversations that we we had the technical and business development chops to put together something really awesome, if only it was something that we had real ownership of. Hey presto, a team of founders was formed and off we went in search of ideas (our current prototype is a no-nonsense classified listings site for apps; read about it at http://blog.theappclassifieds.com).

I'm not sure what the takeaway from all of this might be, other than to just consistently surround yourself with smart people. Find a place where people are smarted than you and interested in building the same kinds of things, and get going.
Looks like Tsung replay feature: http://tsung.erlang-projects.org/
No the trade off is fundamental. Various addition or removal of constraints on the market will presumably move the equilibrium in the direction of fewer drivers/higher pay or in more drivers/lower pay, but you can't get rid of it, fundamentally (there are other factors, e.g. rate).

I have no position on what would be (more) desirable, I was just trying to expand for the parent - you can adjust the supply more easily than the demand, but the interest of the drivers and of the companies are not cleanly aligned.
I currently intermittent fast by skipping breakfast + lunch, partially because I'm lazy, partially because it allows me to easily eat 'all my calories' in the end of the day. I really like this as it provides a 'buffer' for unexpected food, such as random cake, or random lunches with colleagues etc.

Has anyone here actually ever TRIED fasting a full 24h day? I have. I HATED it. Well, the fasting itself wasn't that bad, however, the next day my body went FULL berserk mode and I literally couldn't stop myself from eating. It was really weird and I never had such strong biological urges. That's when I decided I'd just stick to fasting until 5 pm when I eat diner.
I don't expect interviewees to "ace" whiteboard coding exercises, because the point of my questions isn't to answer the question: it's to see how you solve problems. Do you ask smart questions before writing anything? Do you put something down and then refine it? Do you handle errors? Do you understand the performance, maintenance, and testability implications of what you've written? That's what I'm looking for you to answer.

Then again, I work at Pandora, so this is probably an outdated approach...
>By oscillating super-fast, these sound waves are able to gently open up the blood-brain barrier, which is a layer that protects the brain against bacteria, and stimulate the brain’s microglial cells to activate.

You'd want to study anything that messes with that barrier pretty carefully.
Ask HN: Has political correctness in tech gone too far?
It feels as if there is a mob of silent assassins lurking on twitter and media outlets looking to out anyone who says anything that isn't glowingly politically correct.
They are sort of like "political trackers", except they are targeting mostly white, male programmers - but in reality - anyone who disagrees with their narrative (whatever it is) is a heretic.

I find it offensive that there are claims of sexism in OSS and tech. Codes of conduct. I feel like I can't give an opinion, or even make a mistake speaking without being stared down or ruining my career.

I don't want to be politically correct. But it looks like they only way to survive is to be that.

Am I the only one who feels like outsiders are assaulting tech for their own selfish agenda, and we were already diverse by design decades ago?

Someone decided to flagkill what could otherwise be a constructive discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9738526

Interestingly, that is an example of the kind of censorship that is taking it too far. I would like a discussion to happen and this not to be censored. Use an anonymous account so you can speak your mind without being persecuted.
That byte will be needed elsewhere to make it multitasking safe.
Does China Have More Competitive Internet Markets Than the U.S.?
The resulting commercial product is not the codec itself, but a set of test signals for codec verification for use by hardware vendors.

http://www.argondesign.com/products/argon-streams-hevc/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSGEjv3Tqo0

:)
Yeah, and that's only the first of two Feds that allegedly stole from Silk Road during the investigation. Carl Force of the DEA is also under indictment.

How did this not screw up Ulbricht's trial, especially since the prosecution didn't notify the defense until very close to trial date? Looks to me like the fix was in on Ulbricht's trial. Will the judge for Bridges and/or Force be as "tough on crime" as Ulbricht's Judge Forrest was? She didn't seem to give the defense a break, and gave a really harsh sentence. How much probation will Bridges and Force get?

After that, it isn't clear if Force and Bridges knew that other was engaging in hanky-panky. Also, how often does this sort of thing happen? That is, during a complicated investigation, how often does a DEA or Secret Service agent profit from the investigation?
And look how that turned out.
He also mentioned we should also be against abortion in the same exact speech. I will be waiting for the nytimes to also agree with this.

I find it a little odd why this is such good news. Because even though it has no scientific merit whatsoever, it's great that the pope believes that same thing?
What I see here is a software project using a community-centric development model not willing to do anything about a core dev publicly acting in such a way to act alienating to the community. I don't think he should necessarily be removed from the project, but to act like it's not of concern to the project at all is a bad way to handle it.
> I'm sure being a CEO is a busy job, so I understand.

Why would you understand?

It is a simple feat to respond. At the very least, he could have forwarded your email to someone, CC'd you on it, and said "Hey X, please look into this case for me."

No response to an email is above all disrespectful, regardless of how busy he might be. It also implies that he is giving away his email address as a PR move.

These pieces of information that keep dropping on HN is going to make me move my business away from Stripe too.

Stripe, why would you screw yourself so badly when you could easily have been the only viable option by simply not behaving like PayPal?..
Additional evidence of inadequate .NET implementation:

There is a ton of code & pointless complexity to minimize the time sensitive data has to remain in plaintext in memory, and zeroing buffers asap. Clearly, the "process memory compromise" threat vector is taken very seriously by the authors.

Here's a KeePass function that generates a key:
https://github.com/wrouesnel/keepass/blob/master/KeePassLib/...

Does anyone see what the problem is? Hint: disposing "ms" in addition to closing will not fix the problem.

There are ~ 59 instances of this mistake in the codebase. The author(s) seem to come from c/c++ background, and make all kinds of assumptions about how .NET works - except that .NET doesn't work the way they think it works.

The generation of the Master Key:
https://github.com/wrouesnel/keepass/blob/master/KeePassLib/...

Note that "pbNewKey" can be sitting in memory forever.

TL/DR: KeePass memory protection is completely ineffective (I only speak for .NET implementation).
Appropriate article since I just completed a fast of 19hrs. No water and no food. Muslims do this every year. Last year, on average our fast was just over 18hrs. We fast each day from sunrise to sunset for 30days. Of course, we as a group of people have been doing it for over a thousand years. Cant say we started it due to science, but cant say we noticed the lack of aging either. ;)
We were booted from stripe when a couple of customers just decided to chargeback all of their previous transactions, each of which was pretty small, without first contacting us, so it was too late to issue refunds. That pushed our chargeback rate over the 2% threshold, so we were booted. Unfortunately the chargeback rate is measured as % of transactions and not volume. Seems like a great way to screw with a competitor would be to get a few cards with different names (on one of my cards alone I can assign up to 100 authorized users with new names and addresses), make a bunch of small transactions, charge them back a couple months later, then watch your competition get booted from stripe.
In 1988, open source was a term for spies that collected intelligence from publicly available sources. If you talked about open source then and pointed to BSD, no one would understand you.

If we want to define when liberty was first a concept, it was around roman empire that started to talk about it as a concept. But that is of course not the first time someone was free. Freedom is as old as humanity, and you can't predate that.

so in order, terms was created in: freedom -> liberty -> free software -> open source.
Startup Unleashes Its Clone of Google's Knowledge Graph
By default "mobile devices without USB ports" can bypass Yubikey authentication. It can be changed in the multifactor auth Yubikey settings.
Gross income isn't income for purposes of taxing. Consider that after expenses a person may actually have lost money. Tax her anyway?
hmm, let's hope it turns out better this time http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2051879/
The first three days of 24 hour day fasts are (:edited:) mostly painful. Headaches, migraines, agitation, etc. They are not fun nor for the faint of heart. I'd suggest a five day, if you body can allow it. Days four through ten can be the most rewarding. This is all based on personal experience/opinion.
Same thing that can go wrong with every dangerous virus or bacteria under study. There are several varieties of extremely deadly smallpox, for instance, that are kept alive.
I'm curious... how many times have you moved because you felt your tax dollars weren't managed appropriately?
I believe there's some consensus that eating closer to the time you wake is more advisable then closer to the time you sleep - all other things being equal.
>Ketosis also "mimics fastings",

Can you please provide a source on this?
The longest I've gone without eating was three days... it's liveable, but I can't get anything done!

Can't code, can't solder, can't do circuit design....
The TPP aims to reduce some of China’s geopolitical resurgence by damping down the extent of China’s regional trade dominance.

Really? And how does the author of this piece of journalism, know this? The text of the agreement has remained pretty securely under wraps. The two parts that are leaked, Investor-State Dispute System, and the "Intellectual Property" section, have exactly nothing to do with reducing any geopolitical resurgence. Since China isn't part of them, putting "IP" restrictions on the TPP members can't possible do anything to China's ignoring "IP" conventions.

I think this is a complete rubbish article, just like the Sunday Time's attempted smear of Snowden. Government PR at best, perverted corporate PR at worst.
I submitted this because I personally think the situation is more complicated than that.

I tend to agree with the notion that people shouldn't be run out of projects (or organizations, or jobs) just because of their private beliefs, even when those beliefs offend me. It's too easy to imagine the mechanism that ran them out of town being turned around to run me out of town, should my beliefs fall out of fashion.

But as you note, there is a line where private beliefs stop being private and start being public. You put the line here:

> as long as he doesn't try to advertise that from within the project code, forums etc.

... but the developer in question was publishing the opinions in question on Twitter, which isn't exactly a private space. If you say something on Twitter, you are saying it in public. If you are a high-profile member of a project, the fact that the space doesn't have the project logo on it doesn't necessarily mean people aren't going to look at what you say and connect it back to the project. And it doesn't strike me as implausible that, if you're one of those developers and what you're saying is offensive to a group of people, those people are going to assume that the project you're the face of isn't a space where their contributions would be welcome. And that's going to hurt contribution to the project.

So I'm of two minds on this particular case, I guess. Which isn't very helpful, but does make it a question that I think could benefit from wider discussion. We as a culture have to hash out exactly where in these new online spaces we've created these new lines are appropriately drawn.
You've got to get past about 36 hours before your body / brain stop acting so "berserk." After that, you stop being hungry and you can look at food with relative equanimity.
What was the actual diet ?
“I Wear Goggles When You Are Not Here” – GitHub for Windows Release Notes
Jupiter's radiation belts are extremely strong. If you were on a spaceship orbiting around, say, Io, for example, you'd experience radiation sickness in a matter of minutes. And you'd die from radiation exposure within around a day, maybe two. That radiation environment is also very difficult for computers to cope with because it means that there is a constant rain of penetrating high-energy particles which can potentially interfere with electronic components.

Imagine a clock-work computer with exposed parts attempting to operate in an unrelenting rain of sand and gravel. That's the sort of environment that computing equipment has to deal with around Jupiter, in some ways it's surprising that they work at all.
Sure. It's a thing. See this:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2815756/

"Proven" is of course a continuum rather than a binary state. There's plenty of evidence to suggest that calorie restriction and fasting are beneficial across the board, and in cancer, and specifically as adjuvants. Getting that past the FDA as an official approved treatment is still ongoing, I believe. Most likely because "eating less" is not attached to "we can make a huge amount of money charging for this" so who is going to pay for all the studies and data that the FDA wants? One of Longo's innovations is to have found a way to make that happen within the system, I think.

More:

https://www.google.com/webhp?#q=cancer%20%22dietary%20restri...
I suspect the number of people alienated by a project getting into thought policing is far higher than the number of people alienated by this particular issue.
The Tree from Which Senior Developers Grow
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I came across a FLAC decoder on HN yesterday [0]. It's pretty new and I haven't looked at it in any depth.

[0] https://github.com/ruud-v-a/claxon (via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9731249)
> let things play out a little

Dude will be losing money while you get your popcorn ;)
Well no, but that does not change the game in whichever bid you do choose to participate in (and let's assume you will participate in at least one bid somewhere, and that bid will also have competitors)

At some point you will compete for the asset, and you and your competitor will have estimates of future cashflow and you will logically be willing to go down to the last cent before giving up (well the last cent, discounted etc etc)

The point is, profit is not a right of investment.
i loved computer shopper - PRINT version
"I don't want to be politically correct. But it looks like they only way to survive is to be that."

It is the only way to survive. If you say the wrong thing, even if you aren't attacking anyone, you could have your career or life ruined.

Just look at the ex-Mozilla CEO for a good example of this. He donated a small amount of money in a cause he believe in, but because it didn't go along with the community narrative, he was bullied online until he was forced to resign.

If it had been the reverse and he donated to a pro gay marriage fund and the company was extremely religious, the same community would be on the side of the CEO. This is what tells you it's all about politics and has nothing to do with what people tell you (freedom, etc).

I just don't understand why we can't just live and let live.

In the end, it means that people like me that ordinarily just want to live and let live now have to resort to under-handed tactics (like getting people fired and ruining the lives of people) to make the world right.
Did you know you can do this!?

someObject.foo = function() {
someObject.bar = 123;
}

function Foo() {
var Foo = this;
Foo.bar = 456;
}

Pro tip: Always do asynchronous operations Before presenting the object to the program state. Or you will see "undefined" bugs in production!
One thing to keep in mind is that you need to drink lots of water during that time because you'll be using your fat deposits and you need water to process the fat.
Why is the diet proprietary? Is he publishing without revealing sufficient detail for it to be replicated? Or is this some secret business oriented research that's going on?

I think it wouldn't really be science relevant without revealing the diet so we can look at the nutrients and compare that to the research.
An enhancement could be "by country".

You could also propose download button (downloading and removing ads with youtube-dl).

There is also almost free streaming solution with webtorrent.
Ask HN: Why Is It Still So Simple to Crash a Browser?
Military information support for national security purposes within the borders of the US is considered legal by the US government. It is called Civilian Affairs Information Support. The Army, it was discovered, was sending fake letters to news media organizations about experiences and events that did not happen. The Bush Administration, with the Renton Group and through the Iraqi National Council (CIA front) influenced American journalists (Gordon, Miller) to write stories it knew to be false (about WMDs in Iraq) and then pointed to the resulting publications as justification for war. Jessica Lynch's story was a fabrication and the CIA helped in the production of "Body of Lies" - this is similar to CIA involvement in the narrative development of the recent CBS production "Good Kill". Benghazi is a perfect recent example. The old terrorist boogyman line, too. Ken Dilanian was outed recently working with the CIA to 'craft' journalism about the use of Drones overseas. Speculatively: the fellowship of media executives put together by Lynton on the request of the State Department to help with anti-Russian and anti-ISIL messaging could find CAIS applications.

CAIS is a separate concept from psychological warfare that happens to weaponize American media that will also ultimately be consumed by Americans such as "The Interview" (revealed by the SONY hack leaks) or the use of front page New York Times article placement for Military Deception in the invasion of Fallujah. It is different because it specifically seeks to encourage the public to support military operations and wars: Americans are the audience.

It is also true that legally the US government is allowed to perform influence operations ("strategic communications") on Americans during states of emergency. There are reports of this being done during both Occupy and Ferguson (in Ferguson there was a media blackout zone placed over the city and the US government worked with airline companies to deny journalist travel to Ferguson to get coverage; its also true journalists were regularly and asymmetrically arrested and detained). It's true that both Occupy and Ferguson were declared states of emergency - and so it would be legal for the government to manage public perception in these cases. But we don't have smoking gun evidence to claim that there were concerted, explicit efforts.

American citizens should be aware of these things and discuss with their representatives what level of narrative support they would like their government to supply.
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> "The project's SCA architecture allowed software to manipulate field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) in the radio hardware to reconfigure how its electronics functioned, exposing those FPGAs as CORBA objects."

That sounds like a recipe for slow torture.
Making smaller circles in action: http://theartoflearningproject.org/resources/make-smaller-ci...
Acquiring visual classifiers from human imagination
Game currency purchases that aren't converted or sold are still disgustingly, ridiculously high risk, bordering internet pharmacy level stuff, especially if a lot of under-18 play your game.
You're ignoring the lifting costs. The cost of lifting a payload into space and putting it into orbit is non-trivial compared to the cost of developing the probe. Can you imagine the cost of trying to put 50 probes into Julian orbit? Or even Lunar orbit? It would be cost-prohibitive. It gets worse if you use a bunch of mass-produced designs because you'd have a bunch of instruments of marginal value to the mission increasing lifting costs.

I also think you're assuming its possible to reduce to a general set of equipment that can answer the scientific questions that we're trying to answer. If you consider, for example, the difference between the things that Philae, Curiosity, New Horizons, Dawn, and this Europa probe are testing and the conditions that they are testing them in, then its hard to arrive at a common design that can handle all these conditions.

Edit: Another thing to consider is launch windows. You typically don't want to just regularly launch stuff to put near Mars or Jupiter whenever. You time your launches such that you can get them there within a certain amount of dV budget, otherwise you're dramatically increasing your deployment costs. This means that you only have a short window in which you can send out your shotgun probes -- you can't send them out constantly even if the lifting costs were feasible.