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by ykler 8y ago
It sounds like a lot of the criticism is that employees don't get enough compensation or don't get it quickly enough. With options, the variance is too high, since even companies that raise a lot may fail, and liquidity takes a l
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by ykler 9y ago
OK, sorry that I misunderstood you. But for what it's worth, lots of people with no connections have bootstrapped or gotten into incubators and then gotten funded or just hustled and got funded. For instance, just yesterday I talked
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by ykler 9y ago
What are the principal sources of excess overhead?
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by ykler 9y ago
Do you have evidence of this? This web page suggests that the extra costs in the UK are not that high: https://www.crunch.co.uk/knowledge/employment/how-much-does-... In some European countries it is hard to fire
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by ykler 9y ago
It sounds like you're complaining, but if it is really so easy, just become a founder. In a way, it is impossible for there to be an unfair distribution of wealth between people who do A and people who do B if everyone has the choice
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by ykler 9y ago
I don't know if you can really put a p-value on this result without a more specific null hypothesis, but anyway it looks like this tournament result provides extremely weak evidence that Stockfish is better than Houdini. In the round
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by ykler 9y ago
Obviously it is a problem that social security numbers are often accepted as proof of identity, but the article seems to be saying that permanent id numbers are bad even apart from this. I don't understand what the argument is though
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by ykler 9y ago
Hard drives need a gas because the heads use it to float over the platter. And helium is hardly that rare that it is an issue; it is used in balloons for children.
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Researchers watch video images people are seeing, decoded from their brain scans(kurzweilai.net)
2 points by ykler 9y ago|0 comments
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by ykler 9y ago
Yes, or a full-featured programming language. Even though I don't really know or like Ruby, I still like that Vagrant uses it for config since it is at least possible to do complex things if you need to.
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by ykler 9y ago
Wow, that is a shockingly steep dropoff! If you believe this chart, clojure will be extinct in another year. Could there be some other explanation than that clojure is really in a death spiral, like maybe Indeed has been growing faster in
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by ykler 9y ago
I just glanced at this, and maybe I don't understand, but it sounds like psycopg2 namedtuples only work on one table at a time; is this right?
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by ykler 9y ago
I don't want a full-fledged ORM, and I sort of like SQL, but just normalizing nested objects to put them in the database and then unnormalizing them on the way out is really annoying to do in raw SQL in my experience. Every time you w
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by ykler 9y ago
Yeah, if that is right about China, it is pretty damning. And sure, given how few data points there are, it is the kind of thesis that would be impossible to really definitively confirm.
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by ykler 9y ago
"People talked about putting a telegraph on every desk in America to improve productivity. But it wouldn’t have worked. It required that people learn this whole sequence of strange incantations, Morse code, dots and dashes, to use the
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by ykler 9y ago
Dude is 29 years old and already this timeless bullshit that in my day kids were idealistic and now they just care about money. (Although, maybe there are fluctuations about the mean and 1985 was an extreme.)
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by ykler 9y ago
Obviously most writing systems are derived from older systems, so I tried to only list systems that might have independent origins (although both the Semitic and Western systems come from an area that had writing for a long time, so it is q
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by ykler 9y ago
No, this is why we have the first amendment. The second amendment is crap. I have no very strong opinion on whether people should be allowed to have guns, but the issue is not very relevant. Governments will always have way more force th
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Ask HN: Did lunar calendars cause right-to-left writing systems?
3 points by ykler 9y ago|4 comments
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by ykler 9y ago
This is very interesting. Why was it thought that at-large districts would dilute the black vote? Blacks were a minority in every southern state, I believe, so naively one would think that they would stand to benefit from at-large distric
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by ykler 9y ago
The article is specifically about exceptionally good restaurants that are moderately priced. And San Francisco has historically been famous for this (at least I heard about it a lot growing up in Seattle).
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by ykler 9y ago
The French Wikipedia article has much more info than the English one.
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by ykler 9y ago
In what sense is Kafka (or your use of it) hacky? I have never used Kafka, but I have always thought of it as being more solidly engineered than Redis but also more complicated and perhaps tricky to deploy (based on blog posts I read).
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by ykler 9y ago
This is ridiculous. Obviously if you want to test whether a raccoon understands the concept of displacing water with rocks you can't just have one experimental setup. You have to present the raccoon with very different cases where it
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by ykler 9y ago
The Draggable JS homepage doesn't have this problem. Is this because it doesn't use HTML5 drag/drop at all?
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by ykler 9y ago
Couldn't you frame this as, "Kudos, King County, this is a great thing that will help improve the lives of people in King County. Let's try to get it in Chicago, where there are even bigger gains to be made."?
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by ykler 9y ago
I'm unclear about what he means by "Don't blindly sign NDAs". What are the risks, and what items to watch out for would be on the checklist my lawyer would ideally provide?
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by ykler 9y ago
Speaking as someone perpetually puzzled by the American healthcare system, from an economic standpoint, it seems like it is primarily the responsibility of government or perhaps the insurance industry to fix this. (Government, of course, i
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by ykler 9y ago
First of all, the whole thing is limited to patents, which are a small part of the IP of most IT companies. If Microsoft uses GraphQL, Facebook can't freely pirate Windows. Second of all, you can still sue FB over patents, you just h
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by ykler 9y ago
No. How did you manage to get that interpretation?

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