skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does anyone know if there is research about whether this at all impacts/plays a part in causing dreams?
...until it stops being enough, either due to gradual tolerance making them seek a stronger and stronger fixes, or due to something that disrupts production by the yeast-culture.
That would be DPRIVE, which he mentioned as well -- http://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/dprive/charter/
With the right project, skills, dedication, some funding and a little luck it is quite possible for a single person to build a business that produces $100K to $200K per month free cash. I understand that SV culture of building for $100MM+ exits but that is utopia. All you have to do is run the stats against total business startups (and failures) per year to confirm this claim.

As for single vs. multi-founder companies. I see SV from afar as an environment where young VC's incubate all manner of ideas by young inexperienced people. It's an educated shotgun approach. And it obviously works or it would have died off a long time ago.

In that context I would say it is absolutely imperative to have more than one person on a team. Why? Because business is hard and most 20-somethings today have never done anything even remotely as hard in their lives. When business slaps you around and tests your limits and you are an inexperienced young person without a support system around you failure is almost guaranteed. Add co-founders to spread the stress, discuss, find solutions and feel like a team with a dose of guidance, money, advise and the benefits of the experience of good VC's and you can make interesting things happen.

Again, in that context, yes, you need multiple founders.

With more experienced entrepreneurs who've been tested in business I don't think the solo founder thing is a problem at all. We can manage the business just fine and we can hire good people to do what's needed. The benefit of experience is that problems are met with aplomb and a mental and business toolbox that turns mountains into hills.

Money is a a thing separate from the single/multi founder issue. You can fail miserably with lots of money and a large team and you can succeed with little money and a guy coding at home (PlentyOfFish anyone?).

What money can and does do is light a rocket under a good thing at the right point in time to make it go. Money is like the blood in the veins of a business. Without enough of it you are not going to go run a marathon and win.
Still, humans are clearly far better than apes at parroting what they hear from humans.
And only the first actually refers to the language.
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Or 100000x that traffic. One $1/month site that bursts to unexpectedly excessive bandwidth could wipe out the margins on thousands of such sites.

Storage is easy to set limits on in advance, but you're going to want some sensible limits on bandwidth usage too. With some care, you could do so via throttling (fixed average bandwidth with bursting) so that you never need to cut a site off entirely.
This is very nicely done.

It vaguely reminds me of Site44[1] - which does with DropBox what you are doing with your zip upload. Your pricing is better. And they don't have forms. This one simple thing adds the only back-end functionality needed by well over 1/3 of the web sites out there today.

[1] http://www.site44.com/
Thanks, it seemed like the right thing to do :)

I had the transcript done by a professional, and then went over it and corrected. That said, there are still some places where it may have errors, so if you find an odd statement, take it with a grain of salt and check the recording.

Corrections taken in comments, of course (don't think gist does pulls :(
Please see the FAQ regarding job posts: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html.
But you need to automate it, you need something that generate JNI wrappers and that it generates Rust wrappers around it and vice versa.

With ObjC, you have similar problems and same goes for C#. It would be nice but I don't think it will happen anytime soon.
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Ah ha! Thanks!
You can, by several means, infect computers on the way to the air-gapped facility.

People will use it to store sensitive information, and now you have access to it. You just solved half of the problem.

Now, how to get this data? Internet? No. air-gapped. Send someone to retrieve the machine by force? Too risk and will alert the enemy. Solution: infect the cell phones of the people working there.

Your machine will be continuously broadcasting the information you want and when the infected phone come close to it, communication will occur.

Totally feasible.
This is specialty genetically engineered yeast, not the ordinary bread-leavening kind.
>> If he felt his actions were consistent with civil disobedience, then he should do what those who have taken issue with their own government do: Challenge it, speak out, engage in a constructive act of protest, and -- importantly -- accept the consequences of his actions.

basically the government (caught red handed in violation of fundamental rights of the people) insists how civil disobedience must be done where is the main point of civil disobedience is ...? In particular interesting how they're trying to insist that civil disobedience can't be without martyrdom, and thus implicitly they try to scare people away from civil disobedience. Nice.

>Right now, he's running away from the consequences of his actions.

right now he is suffering from consequences of his actions - he sacrificed his good life in the US.
> Prices are a function of supply and demand.

Sure.

> When you say "nut trees require a lot of water, and thus nut prices are going up in the current drought" this implies that supply of nuts went down during the drought.

No, it doesn't. It could equally (in a real market with humans instead of an ideal market with rational actors -- particularly, in a market in which the perfect information assumption of rational choice theory does not hold) mean that demand for nuts increased because purchasers (not necessarily consumers -- nuts are purchased by lots of processed-food makers) expected supply to decrease in the drought, and there was a desire to stock up before that occurred.

> if some farmers are increasing acreage, there must be others who are decreasing by even more, otherwise prices would be going down, not up.

Even if we assume that the price increase must be supply driven (rather than demand driven based on price expectations based on beliefs about future supply), this is wrong, because it assumes that production per acre is constant, rather than, e.g., declining in a drought. If production on the same land use drops in a drought, then you could have reduced supply driving prices up without reducing land use -- depending on elasticity, this could conceivably even increase the total revenue of almonds sold -- leading to increased incentives to bring more acreage into production.
How did you get "surprise or excitement" from "general positive sentiment"?
This is where I see Periscope going. Imagine a web app with that type of view for a breaking news event. An algorithm picks the best or most diverse streams and shows them synced side by side.
It is truly tragic how much heat and energy is wasted in the world by static websites requiring to run huge piles of horrendous PHP to render their unchanging contents from a database through Wordpress on every request.
Six or so years ago, a friend of mine and I were talking about how the US had destroyed poppy fields in Afghanistan on a large scale (I think to block Taliban funding or something) despite the WHO listing morphine as a critical drug in short supply.

Being enterprising sophomore Bio students who had a basic grasp on cellular machinery, we then somehow spun that story into the idea of mass-producing plant alkaloids from rapidly reproducing microbes (except we imagined bacteria rather than fungi). We always had "crazy" discussions like that and I never gave it a second thought afterward.

What's really funny to me is what a pipe dream (no pun intended) it seemed like at the time-- maybe the beginning of a bad sci-fi story at best. But here we are today and it's so incredible to me that this team was able to bring that idea to life.

Now I'm left wondering what other crazy discussions will turn into practical real-world applications in the next six years.
$10/hr workers cost ~$30k fully-loaded per year. That's $1.5M for 50 employees.

If we assume 30% margins, then materials costs are $3.3M and "profit" is $1.6M. Subtract off employee salaries, and he's netting $100k/hr. And that's not even accounting for taxes or other fixed costs (eg. realestate). Given the strong competition in the electric motor market... he's living on a razor's edge.

If he can eek out higher margins, like 50%, then he's doing $1M pretax. It's not bad, but not great -- especially if there's volatility. Still a razor's edge in that market.
Nuclear Weapons. Justin Bieber. Sarah Palin. Pet Rocks. Vibram FiveFingers. Need I say more?
Stories like this make me glad that I don’t live in California.
So basically you do not have numbers to back up your claims.
I'm impressed at the progress made, and that unlike some forks, this one comes back together into the main product. Shows how important "being the change you want to see" is.

Hopefully module developers will jump on board and update their native modules. Some people will get shocked at the massive 'jump' to version 4 thing, but we'll get over it.
The relevant difference is that animals feel pain but plants don't, because they don't have nervous systems.
> I was critiquing a certain mechanism, which claimed that an increase to input costs could, in itself, cause in increase in supply.

That was not the claim. The claim was that an decrease in supply of one input (water) could drive market conditions which lead to an increase in consumption (in the course of production) of another input (land use).
A question of utility
The list isn't in order.
That's probably a necessary but insufficient stepping stone to intelligence -- that is, the kinds of behaviors that lead to large scale, relatively immediate multiplication of value.
Prices in SF fell by more than 40%:
https://us.spindices.com/indices/real-estate/sp-case-shiller...

In established neighborhoods, it was probably more like 20%, but there were still foreclosures and a lot of deals to be had. Even 4-5 years ago, there were condo foreclosures near the Caltrain station at 4th and king going for around 300-400k. Granted, SOMA has improved as a neighborhood more than pretty much anywhere else in the city, but it is a myth that property values don't fall in SF. They do and have every 7-10 years (91, 01, 08...), though the long-term trajectory is obviously up.
Other people came away with similar thoughts. Perhaps we'll hear more about that from him in other channels.
Torture, and forced medical/psychological experimentation. There's no bottom to what happens there.
A perfect example of just how fucked out society/government/agencies have become. I am not particularly crazy about the guy but this is one of the reasons Trump is doing so well in his bid for the Presidency. He is saying thing politicians don't dare say because their survival depends on being liked rather than saying things people don't like to hear.

I think Trump said (I don't follow him, not sure) that in today's messed-up system we would not be able to build any of our great cities. From Los Angeles and San Francisco to Boston and Manhattan. If you wanted to undertake projects of that magnitude you could not get it done in a thousand years.

That says a lot.

Here's a town, Cambria, where building a pipeline to the ocean was stopped by environmental nazi's. The fanatics think they are doing earth good and feel self-righteous about opposing such a thing.

What's the situation now? Nearly HALF of the forest is dead, with more to come. And they are not even sensible enough to allow for common sense removal of the dangerous dead trees. Which means there's great potential for a massive fire that will take out the forest and the town --and probably cost lives.

Real fucking smart.

Look, we don't have to destroy our environment but we also don't have to destroy ourselves. Nobody wants to live in an industrial dilapidated mess. Yet here's a perfect example of environmentalists-gone-wild effectively destroying a complete ecosystem. It will take a massive amount of time to have this forest recover from the death of half it's trees (or, worst, as this isn't over yet).

In the end, it's sad.

Last night I had dinner with my parents. It was my Dad's birthday, he is 87 and in great health. A life-long entrepreneur who taught me a lot. He has voted Democrat all his life. He is so sick of the bullshit that last night he told me he is definitely voting for Donald Trump if he gets the nomination. So said my Mom, also a life-long Democratic voter. There were another five dems at the table, from 60 to 75 years of age, who said exactly the same thing. I was blown away. Could not believe it. That's how bad things have gotten.
I suspect that you are right about the profit margins hence the bosses stressed behaviour. The point I was making is that we should not just apply tech wages to every situation - many people are living on wages at, or not far, from minimum wage.
Why would you think complex language would be a net advantage for all apes? Also, assuming that it, there is no guarantee that that eventually is in the past. Maybe, if left on their own, chimps would make the transition in a century or so, or in 20k years, or never.

The idea at the time was "let's push them hard to see how far they can get". Was the answer a guaranteed yes? No, but neither was it a guaranteed no. After all, we know that the ape called Homo sapiens did learn the trick, and we also know how much of a difference pushing a human towards a goal can make (see for example the Polgar sisters or quite a few tennis players).

That's why I mentioned robins and blue tits. AFAIK, we don't know why robins discovered the bottle opening trick, but never managed to engrain it in their culture, while blue tits did.
If that happened, it had nothing to do with bribery and corruption, but incompetence.

Kaspersky's refusal isn't a sign of their integrity, but avoidance of an obvious trap. I'm not saying they don't have integrity, but even if they didn't, it would be very dumb to take that bribe, especially in a country very familiar with corporate blackmail.
I'm pretty sure he worked for EA.
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That's exactly the issue. You should not be surprised when you are hassled. Currently, you can be pulled over for doing 59 in a 55. As far as I can tell nobody does 55, unless it is in a 45. You shouldn't have to guess what is acceptable in each county or town. You should know what the real speed limit is.
Appreciate the time and the resource. Funny enough all of your advice is still applicable, but note there are major differences in services between: a. Fighting a parking ticket (YC company), and b. Fighting a traffic ticket (us). For example the later requires a licensed attorney, some traffic tickets are mandatory court, etc...). I think some others in the comments equated the two, so I'll take that as there is room to improve our communication and convey our service more effectively.

You and Dang should definitely keep doing this for HN

Edit: I just viewed their website and I am taken aback, they did move on from parking to include other forms of tickets.
Make it simple and obviously correct, and don't crash.
TL;DR: IANAL but money laundering laws are usually designed to prosecute a wide range of methods and usually involve attempting to prove intent as opposed to whitelisting specific methods of laundering.

The long explanation:

It's complicated. US law tends to be specifically designed for one application in mind and then ends up being expanded as new applications rear their heads.

The IRS (tax collection entity for the US federal government) classified BitCoin as an investment a few years ago (as opposed to a currency). This suggests that other non-state created digital crypto-currencies are considered investments as well (IIRC Canada's mint was trying a digital currency, hence the "non-state created" phrase).

Money laundering statutes aren't new enough to know about [1] crypto-currencies, but they are effective with dealing with the conversion of money to products/services and back for the purpose of obscuring the original method of obtaining the currency. I don't know much about money laundering except what I see in movies+TV (specifically Breaking Bad).

I've heard that buying large value gift cards (plastic charge card versions of "gift certificates") are required to be reported to authorities by the retailers.

Recently a school sports coach was prosecuted for violating money laundering statute when he divided up one payment of $10,000+ into multiple smaller < $10,000 payments after his bank started to get suspicious about the nature of the transaction (which is required by US federal law of the bank). He violated the because he altered his payments "to avoid mandated financial institution reporting" of his transfers.
Personally I think the mandatory threshold is stupid since people know what it is[2], but I feel no sympathy for the man in this case since the payments were suspected to be him paying off a student that he raped/molested. And yes, I realize that being accused of something is not the same thing as being guilty.

[1] http://www.fincen.gov/news_room/aml_history.html
[2] although the US Patriot Act allows federal investigators to use _any_ change in financial habits to trigger an investigation, not just transactions above the $10k level
There are an order of magnitude more lifestyle companies than there are YC or VC companies, most likely employing an order of magnitude more people.
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Three senior officials lose their jobs at APA after US torture scandal (The Guardian)

"As the American Psychological Association copes with the damage reaped by an independent investigation that found it complicit in US torture, the group announced on Tuesday that its chief executive officer, its deputy CEO and its communications chief are no longer with the APA.

All three were implicated in the 542-page report issued this month by former federal prosecutor David Hoffman, who concluded that APA leaders “colluded” with the US department of defense and aided the CIA in loosening professional ethics and other guidelines to permit psychologist participation in torture."

Link: http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jul/14/apa-senior-of...
Or if you simply do what the REDACTED government did when they released StuxNet which is infect thumb drives and leave them near by the building in the parking lot. People pick up and plug in anything.
The relationship between subsidence and groundwater pumping was actually discovered in the Santa Clara Valley in the 1940s. As a result, percolation ponds were built in the 1960s to recharge local aquifers and ground water pumping by the Santa Clara Water District (which serves Sunnyvale) was reduced to sustainable levels. Subsidence basically stopped in 1969. If it has returned, that would be a sad development.
Very cool. I wasn't aware of site44. Thanks!
What you're missing is that water is not an input cost for many of these farmers. The farmers that have cheaper access to water are increasing production of these same water intensive crops, because they are more lucrative. The problem is in assuming a level playing field in the market, which it isn't entirely, due to how water is dealt with in CA.
Hard to beat the on-boarding experience—just input your number and get going. I like the thought that went into making it as simple as possible.

The response times seem instantaneous, which given what's going on under the hood, probably wasn't the easiest to accomplish. The speed went a long way to keep me engaged and trying new queries. What tech stack does any given query hit and what pieces needed the most focus to keep request latency low?

My major question is, when would I use this over Siri?

Siri is usually good enough for the same types of queries I tried. Good enough and faster access to Siri will probably make my use of something like Myra limited in current form.

For a more concrete example, if I am in the Mission and I don't know what's good to eat, I'll hold down my home button on the iPhone and ask siri: "restaurants in the mission". From there it's easy to get into Yelp and then do all my further refinements and actions without needing to text or form any more natural language queries.

Now, if future functionality is in place that gets over that 'good enough' barrier, I think this is on to something.

Kudos.
Please do also remember that the diameter of a hydrogen atom is 10^-10 m.

So, the distances were talking about are actually at the level where quantum mechanics and the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle matters.
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Which inspired http://bellard.org/dvbt/, far more impressive.
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You're only looking at half his argument. Nut costs are up, because nut trees are thirsty. Everyon eknows this, so consumers accept that nut prices go up (also nuts are more popular than they used to be). As long as nut prices are going up faster than nut costs, so will nut acreage. It's a mistake to rely on simple supply-and-demand to analyse this situation because laws of supply and demand are generally considered in an atmosphere of perfect competition, and ceteris parabus - all other factors being held equal other than the water cost, in this case. But neither condition is true. Nut pricing is not just a function of production cost, but also of public taste, advertising, availability of substitute goods, and so on.
> So the basic TL;DR: please don't use really ancient terminal programs that are vulnerable to this stuff.
Disappointing that he would make this statement and then not bother to recommend specific ones to avoid and/or use.
Think you mean "insiders owned 80% of the stock". Bill Gates only owned 66% of the stock at founding, splitting it between him and Paul Allen, and early employees owned some too.
Yeah. And if you find a broken system you've generally got two choices:

1) Work for it.
2) Don't work for it.

I agree it's actually complicated to determine which is more effective in creating change. But I think you and I have merely chosen different approaches on this spectrum, rather than fundamentally disagreeing about anything deeper.
Those are outliers and are rarer than you think. Ask anyone who offers free hosting how many of these large sites they have.

Heliohost, as an example, only restricts sites based on CPU Usage. Free hosting of up to 500MB, unlimited bandwidth. But metered CPU Usage. Even then that's hard to hit.
If people stop eating meat we would have more food for each person rather than less. See:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10062999.

It's completely wrong to say that anyone would go hungry because we stopped farming meat. The market would easily adjust and provide other foods at a lower cost.
Probably because those of us who do live here have seen it.
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When people bring up arguments for parameterizing numeric bit width I kind of shrug now. You don't get debugged code for free when you change the declaration. You have to walk through all your arithmetic regardless - any sufficiently large program will eventually depend on something like overflow behavior or the existence of an extreme range of values. In all likelihood, you're safer off copy-pasting and editing when you switch up primitives like that.
Hey all.

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So that's the only current domain but any short link domain can probably be purchase by say godaddy and integrated I presume