skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree. The truth is that every so called leader always treats the current state of life as wrong. One may say there are too much violence, whilst the other one thinks there are not enough of love. A tiger eats a moose. Is it a "violence" or just a fact? A human kills a human. Is it a violence or just a fact? People tend to love/hate different minds. But the question is, why do those minds exist? Well, it's all about the timing I believe. Let's say there are two groups of people - group A and group B, 100 people each. While Group B lives in the perfect world where everyone loves each other and the sunrise is treated as a holiday, Group A experiencing hard times - internal conflicts, wars, hate and violence. But suddenly, there is a guy named A1 from group A who truly wants to live like people from group B. A1 could actually become a great sales person, because people tend to listen to him, however his goals are different. After a while, A1 becomes a reformer, a "legend". Word of mouth does the job and now even group B knows everything about him. In a few years, group B starts to experience problems, similar to what group A has had before. Now they need their own "leader". They truly do and they find one. More or less, the cycle repeats. The thing is that group B has never lived in the perfect world. They also had their own problems they had to deal with every day. At that time, those problems were just less stressful in comparison to the group A's "hell". It's all about timing and relativeness.

AFAIK, Gandhi was born in quite a rich family. He got a law degree in London. How many people from India have a chance to get a degree in London? Or, at the very least, maybe visit a London? I personally could only dream of that, even so, I wasn't born in India. The reason why I mentioned this fact is because of a psychological perception of higher-class people. In most cases, a poor man will always carefully listen to a person from a higher-class society. The fact that he used his power in, probably, the right way, deserves respect. At the same time, there are doubts as for the source of money while he was in Africa, which results to another set of questions.

I once read quite an interesting blog post (can't really find it now) from a guy who suddenly jumped from an engineering position to a CTO. The author was shocked by the fact how people became nice and careful to him. They stared to smile him, always listening to every single word he was pronouncing. Know what? At the very small level, he became "different".

I never treated Gandhi as someone special, but this is just because of my perception. As for the love and violence - there is no such thing as more love or less violence.
There is life. There is love. There is violence.
The codified "handshake" process, you'll notice, has a written step and includes a core element of contract formation: offer & acceptance.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Offer_and_acceptance

IANAL, TINLA.
Deck: $2.1B in revenue by 2011

Reality: $500M in revenue in 2014

Moral: Even the most successful startups don't hit their seed-stage revenue projections :)
This is very similar to BitLicense which is also born in new York. It's unfortunate that they are heavily against permissionless innovation which had created $4 and $40 billion markets.
I hear you.

I get that a deal isn't final until it's in writing (i.e. signed), but whatever happened to integrity?
I drive for Uber in my spare time as of a few weeks ago - they just started serving Cheyenne for Frontier Days (and I'm hoping they keep the service on after that, though I'm not sure the demand is gonna be there)

(That is, for the precisely one ride I've gotten.. Something in the backend appears broken and nobody can request rides even though I'm online, and support hasn't been helpful on this >_<)

Can answer any questions you have, but I doubt there's going to be a lot to answer. Signing up as a driver and doing what you gotta do is a pretty straightforward process.
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Hi! I really appreciate your response!

I feel bad about the leading section of that article. A few others commented on this as well, and I quickly realized it was misguided. I am re-working that section, and page as a whole. I want to clarify that I in no way meant offense or shame or to express elitism (or hipster bullshit). The Global bread knife is totally worthwhile and an exception to my feeling on the rest of their line. Globals are, if they work for the user, acceptable knives but twice the price of their value. Thank you for the feedback. My apologies.

Building a better landing page for the video button is high on my to-do list. You're totally right about that. When you clicked that button, what information would you have liked to see? Information on our selection of makers and knives? Knives separated by maker?

I'm not opposed to sets as a whole, I'm opposed to pre-determined manufacturer sets. I guess I should say box sets? Would you theoretically be more interested in two knives that I've paired as a set than you would be in selecting those two knives individually?

Thanks for the kind words. I've had a hard time determining appropriate places to insert broadly educational info like Knives 101. I don't want people to get stuck on text walls and give up, but I certainly see how it would be helpful to have pieces be a part of your path through the shop. Any suggestions as to placement?
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From what I understand they are designed for 10,000lb rated/certified for 6,000lb and only need to withstand 2,000lb. They found one/some struts in stock that failed at/below 2,000lb. Does anyone have some other interpretation? It seems like every place I read one of those numbers it's different.
Spare time, what? Aren't you guys ruled to be employees in some jurisdiction, which makes it employment? :)
1. Assumes nobody cheats and works on the side project at work. I'm not sure how happy I'd be with an outsource agency that went radio silent for 8-10 hours in the middle of the work day.

2. They can claim just about anything they like, then you get to defend yourself.
I think you're significantly downplaying the network effects inherent in Uber's model. Yes, those network effects might be localized (each city is its own network), but they're still incredibly strong. Drivers want to be where the riders are and riders want to be where the drivers and other riders are. (As a rider, I want there to be a healthy rider pool so I can do sharing.)

Additionally, Uber doesn't have to jack up prices (with "monopoly pricing") to earn a healthy profit. In its mature markets, it's already quite profitable.

Given that, where do you think there is an opening? If it's so easy to compete with Uber on a local level, why isn't Lyft beating it in any single market (despite $1b raised)?
My point is if your can organize a paper with sixteen co-authors you can also arrange for peer review. Shortcutting the process makes no sense. Well, it makes perfect sense as propoganda. But not as sincere science.
Korin has definitely got a huge marketshare. I appreciate what they've done for the industry and the exposure they've given to crafted knives. Their website used to drive me crazy though and it was rare for me to find an exciting double-bevel knife. Love to them though.
FTA: "At the end of September, we agreed on terms and I flew up to San Francisco to do a closing dinner at a little café next to Brainwash. We had some good food and wine and I thought things were solid. We shook hands and planned to formally close the investment the next day."

I'm gonna go out on a limb and assume that the investor already possessed emails saying "Let's do this" with numbers in it. Is that different than a signed term sheet? You bet -- it's not legally binding! But it also meets all the requirements of the gentleman's agreement -- aka YC Handshake protocol:

1. The investor says “I’m in for [offer].”

2. The startup says “Ok, you’re in for [offer].”

3. The startup sends the investor an email or text message saying “This is to confirm you’re in for [offer].”

4. The investor replies yes.
One of the big problems here is that the skills involved in making money in a successful business are not skills that everyone can or should possess.

For instance, I spent many years of my life studying physics, and that is probably never going to make me very much money.

There's risk. There's ass-busting. But little chance for reward, because the skills are not directly related to networking and wealth-management.
The last mile can be surprisingly expensive in countries like Germany or Spain.
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Python "with", C++ RAII (and ADA, D, Rust, and Vala).

This is hardly a new concept.
That's hardly the system at work. "The system" attempts to address this problem. Your issue is with the people driving the cabs, not regulation.
That's not what I get from the story though.

I sense the founders used the VC as leverage. They had a closing dinner the night before and shook on it. The VC was reasonable to expect the paperwork to be finalised the next day.

YC changing their mind at the very next day sounds very convenient...
It's interesting to see some of the contemporary systems of the World Wide Web. Does anyone know of a good article exploring why the Web won and the other systems all faded away?
What externalities for uber are you referring to?
I can also tell you about having to walk thru a working class neighborhood on my way to class --it was the only place I could afford sharing rent with other classmates.

On more than one occasion, I had people in front of their buildings casually spit towards me but always managing to just miss. Other times they might pump their chests up as one might walk by...
Do I go ahead and write on that all so and so are a bunch of baddies, look at what I went thru?

Most people get similar or different shit from other people. We don't all feel like it's worthy of traffic driving blog posts.
I think the actual strategy is push idea guys into sharing equities so they get both some money for the initial investment and make it big on equity with relatively low risk if the project succeeds.

From another pov they are vc to idea guys, only instead of giving the money for equity they give the product for equity.
With the difference that they also get paid for it!
You are intentionally leaving out the part where many of the people in danger don't have a choice, because they have no connection with Uber, other than the inconvenient fact that they were counterparts in a traffic accident.
My hunch is that if the company was different, it would lose. Like it or not, this is what's required to defeat our noble overlords a.k.a. the holy regulators and the munificent politicians.
I don't know about Handshake Deals, but everybody says it's bad form to back out once term sheets have been signed- but in the single round of VC funding that I had internal insight into, our VC backed out at the 59th minute after term sheets had been exchanged and agreed to, paperwork signed. On the basis of that, we even went out and brought on our first external board member.

Now, this particular VC has only raised about 800mm, so I don't know if that makes them a Tier-1 VC, but it still made me realize that you don't ever know until the money is in the bank account.

Thankfully, Foundation Capital (an awesome Tier-1 VC), stepped up and kept us running/covered payroll and rent, until we found someone else to get money from.
I realize this article is aimed at Linux, but on FreeBSD you can simply set

vfs.zfs.min_auto_ashift=12

in /etc/sysctl.conf to handle this automatically.
Uninsured Uber driver causes traffic accident. Pedestrian is severely injured. Uber driver cannot pay for the medical expenses and there is no insurance company involved who could.

Either the pedestrian is ruined for life, or society has to pick up the bill.

That's one of the clearest examples of externality you will ever see.

Our free choice evangelists try to frame the whole issue as "one Uber driver, one satified customer who only exercised a choice, and no one else exist in the world".

It's dishonest, but that's Internet discussions.
That's a reasonable point, and I certainly don't imagine that my informal survey results have any scientific validity. I do have what seems to be a higher-than-average sensitivity to body language, however, and I have never seen the signs of stress or guarding that I would expect if drivers were trying to give me the answers they thought I wanted. Perhaps Lyft's hiring process selects in some way for people who have the kind of social awareness and self-presentation skill necessary to fool me, but it seems simpler to believe that Lyft drivers are, by and large, genuinely happy about their jobs.
Sequoia arguably strongarming its way to owning 100% of the Whatsapp series A instead of allowing other funds to join would be a prime example of this is recent history.
Yes I agree. I view the taxi industry as being made up of many separate markets where dominating one geographical market gives a company little competitive advantage in other geographical markets and hence why the taxi industry stayed fragmented when other areas of the transport industry consolidated. If this is wrong then the first business to win the consolidation race will dominate the market long term.

I don’t think Uber is in a commodity market right now (there is far too much innovation going on), I just don’t know how you prevent it becoming one in the future. Your current valuation suggests that a lot of smart money disagrees with me :)
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If this is interesting to you, you might also find the SatNOGS Project [0] of interest.

[0]: https://satnogs.org/
They pioneered cheap network hardware with NE2000.

Who would be crazy enough to network 50 endpoints over slow serial daisy chain? Arcnet was another story, but not significantly cheaper.
> (native german speaker here)

Note: I'm also a native speaker of German.

> "Treason" is a correct translation for "Landesverrat" ("land treason"), similar to "high treason" being "Hochverrat".

"Landesverrat" is the crime of communicating state secrets to a foreign power; this does not match the definition of "treason" that you find in English dictionaries [1]. "Hochverrat" is a closer equivalent of "treason".

Just because "Verrat" can mean "treason" (but also "betrayal", "treachery", "perfidy", etc.) does not mean that "Landesverrat" describes the same legal concept. We're looking at a false friend.

In fact, even the German Wikipedia page describes "Landesverrat" as a form of espionage: "Das Delikt des Landesverrates ist die Kernstraftat der Spionage."

> Yet, the press speaks of "Geheimnisverrat" (disclosure of secrets)

The press says all kinds of things, presumably because nobody knows exactly what's going on. What we do know is that the German Federal Prosecutor is investigating, and he does not have the power to prosecute "Geheimnisverrat" per §353b StGB [2]. As I said, the reporting is extremely muddled.

[1] E.g.: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/treason

[2] https://www.generalbundesanwalt.de/de/zust.php
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I just noticed that archive.is is blocked in Finland. It seems that they have self-censored the site. Is archive.is blocked in your country? Yet I can access the site just fine via proxies / Tor.
First of all, if that was true it would be a failure of the healthcare system ("society paying the bill" is just insurance with economies of scale). But that's not true. A lot of people are not aware of recent developments with uber. Uber offers commercial comprehensive insurance on all rides. When there is a passenger in the car, there is full commercial insurance.

When there are no pax, many insurance providers DO cover it under personal insurance. Some (like geico) don't, but I would wager that the majority of Uber are insured every second of the day.
If there was such an issue with churn, which isn't, the cap wouldn't be an issue because it was (as proposed) for total drivers not licenses issued.
This has been the status quo for some time with taxi cabs, so yes, I'd say regulation is definitely not doing it's job of protecting consumers.
I'm starting to get out of range of my recollection of law at this point.

On the tangent of the protocol as the protocol, I also note that it is meant to be exclusive. That is, you don't construct it by piecing together the individual events -- it's written as a once off 2-phase transaction with no other intervening steps to prevent shenanigans and mistakes.
I imagine that everyone's recollections differ. I'd hate to speculate.

Edit: I seem to have touched a nerve, but I don't know what it is. Can someone explain what I said that caused annoyance? I have the usual embarrassing secret obsession with made up internet points.
Well, they chant that in capitalist countries too...
Why would you want to invest in a startup ?, VCs can pull it off because they are playing with a lot of money and can eat the (completely inevitable) losses. It sounds like you only have enough to invest into one startup, thats an incredible amount of risk to take.
Nature by its movement breathes impermanence.

Urban structures maintain the illusion of permanence.
no nono nooooo, dont remind people about that terrible pop show with no respect of history or technology.

They say things like "Atari 420ST" on that show.
Parent is right about it being unclear that the charges are being directed at Netzpolitik.org: I've just pushed a correction, a rewrite of the article, and included the original for reference.
You can convert it to JS http://js2.coffee/ (paste into the output) there isn't that much code in there to convert.
Most interesting part of this is that you can link functions together in the following fashion: http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/Vocabulary/codot

I'm not a J expert; does anyone know if there are any other functions like this in the language?
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I wonder what 'explain it to me ELI5' would be called - a reverse recursive acronym?
So you would use "mi mute li lukin e ijo mute e linja mute. linja ale li kama tan ijo wan li tawa ijo ante. nasin sike li lon ala" whenever you want to say dag. In a section where dag is mentioned ten times, that would be kind of painful.
Sure. What's the inverse function of:

F(X) = X%2
> When the big one hits, this might be the only Internet left. Unfortunately you have to have a license to use Ham Radio.

"The big one" implies nobody's going to care about licensure or not using the public airwaves for encrypted communications.

Which implies that, if it's less than the big one, the amateurs should have the basic good sense to leave the airwaves to the professionals, and not clutter the frequency bands.
You're simply wrong.

Even if the healthcare system eats the cost (as it would in my country), it's not supposed to. That's akin to entering a health insurance contract and then demanding the insurer pays for the theft of your iPhone.

Road traffic is insured by car insurers. The Uber driver doesn't have any, the car insurer therefore doesn't pay, so someone else pays. It doesn't matter if you rationalize it with "oh, that someone else is also some insurer". It is someone not involved at all. Ergo an externality.
There are tons of fascinating companies like this. Personally I like Connectix. Almost nobody (other than early hardcore Apple users) knows about Connectix, but start listing their products and :o
http://www.amazon.com/Maxims-Morals-Metaphors-Venture-Capita...

If you're looking for a really short book with a good explanation of the entire process. The cover is a bit funny as the book is a bit old, but the information inside is still very applicable.

Edit: The content is much more about the sayings and metaphors used within venture capital. It will complement the other suggestions nicely!
For the most part, America stands alone in seeing it that way. It is widely considered a war crime, albeit in a war that was replete with them.
Let me get this straight: in June 2008, Airbnb got intro'd to a bunch of investors, who all said no [1]. In September of 2008, Airbnb had a $250k round on the table that valued them at 2.5M[2]. And then, also in September 2008 (before YC usually does interviews) they rejected that offer for YC, who ended up giving them $20k[3], with a valuation presumably around $250k?? (Although Brian Chesky says that didn't happen until November, it sounds like they got some kind of verbal confirmation earlier?)

The timeline is weird.

1. https://medium.com/@bchesky/7-rejections-7d894cbaa084

2. https://arenavc.com/2015/07/airbnb-my-1-billion-lesson/

3. http://www.quora.com/How-much-money-did-Airbnb-raise-What-is...
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It's tough selling these on your own:
http://weis2007.econinfosec.org/papers/29.pdf

The easy way, if you want to this sort of thing regularly, is to work for a place that discovers zero day exploits. You'll get a salary/wage and benefits. Here is a fun place to do that:
http://advancedsecuritylabs.com/
because you're presumably being paid as well or better as you would be to do the same job for another company? if that were the case, i wouldn't really care what the person paying my salary was doing with his or her life.
Fair enough. My apologies for the imprecision.
They probably shook hands after a meeting, as one always does. That is not a "handshake deal". Airbnb probably had similarly positive meetings with dozens of investors. All of them probably talked about doing the deal soon.

He's known for being bold and writing checks on a first meeting. Why didn't he write a check to Airbnb after months of haggling? YC, or any other investor, was free to come along and close the deal at any moment. The way an investor claims a deal is with their checkbook (or a signed term sheet). He learned his lesson and realizes his mistake. Airbnb did nothing wrong.
>Given that, where do you think there is an opening? If it's so easy to compete with Uber on a micro level, why isn't Lyft beating it in any single market (despite $1b raised)?

The market is going through a lot of innovation right now and what the end result will be is not known. I just can’t see how even if Uber wins that they have a way of preventing competition eroding their margins. All the regulation in the taxi industry was driven by the players wanting to control the cut-throat competition that existed before regulation. Competition is great for consumers, but not so good for the owners of taxis.
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wild guess: a branch of popcorntime in French?
At first, I thought (like many others) the author was speaking about a syntactic convenience for the template method pattern.

Reading various responses and closer inspection of the article made me realize that it seems what is described is more along the lines of a Natural Transformation[1] where the functors are endomorphic[2].

1 - http://www.worldwizzy.com/library/Natural_transformation

2 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endomorphism
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Yes network effects are real - the question is there much of a network effect with the taxi industry. History suggests there isn’t, but the current valuation of Uber suggests that a lot of smart money thinks there is such an effect.
True, but it's not hypocrisy in capitalist countries. :)