skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because they benefit from YC's value prop, it's in Sama's and PG's interest to beat the Big Startup, Fast Growth, VC train, Silicon Valley drum. It's not disingenuous, it's literally what they believe and are committed to. But it's not the only way to be happy as a technologist. I'm not even convinced it's the best way to be happy as a technologist. YC put those materials out 1) as a branding and marketing effort and 2) to be helpful (part of their brand). In order for us to get quality resources like these for doing something small instead of big, we need folks who have a sustained interest and experience in beating that drum as well. Maybe we need a "Slow Tech" movement akin to the Slow Food movement.
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No treaties are negotiated between citizens, and mosttreaties are negotiated in secret. We usually don't hear see intermediate drafts of agreements until well after they've either passed or failed.

This is a good thing. We want negotiators to have freedom to throw out unpopular ideas, and the only part where public scrutiny is important is the actual final text that our governments might sign.
And how economically sustainable is that turning out to be for most people? I've automated my own job a couple fo times, and although I've enjoyed working int he arts over the last couple of decades there's constant downward pressure on earnings driven by technology. I'm not a very entrepreneurial person by nature, rather I grew up revering craftsmanship and buying into the idea of a social contract that supported some degree of economic continuity. This has not worked out well for me in economic terms.

Now, I don't blame entrepeneurship or technology for that, but it's not so simple to just change your personality to fit the economic imperatives of the day, and I simply don't desire to spend all my time as a disruptive wealth maximizer. The whole 'software is eating the _____ industry' mindset is the technological equivalent of slash-and-burn agriculture - it's not a sustainable strategy for the population at large, and we're seeing that reflected in many countries by the drift towards electing increasingly radical politicians of both left and right.
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Of course it is.

It compromises Mozilla's claims that they still put users' interests first. Furthermore, they insist that these promoted tiles is something that people want, whereby it absolutely bloody obvious that nobody, except for Mozilla, wants this junk. These tiles basically show that Mozilla can act against users' interests and in a blatantly disingenuous manner. This in turn makes you question the rest of their efforts that are branded as pro-user.
Because the mob doesn't actually care about the actual people or even the issue. They just want to see someone, anyone lynched.
NASA announces Mars' atmosphere was stripped away by solar winds
> Plans like imprisoning every mentally ill person and injecting them with some compound against their will.

Yeah that's legit horrifying.
I agree and you are saying the same thing I did. I just pointed out that dogging on a company's technology choice, because you don't like it, despite the company having ~300B market cap, is silly, especially since the article talks about iOS, the # of engineers, and their company culture of moving fast & breaking things. That has nothing to do with PHP itself.

It is extremely rare that an internet company fails because of their technology choices. At the end of the day - the user does not care about your technology. They only care about the user experience and the value your product delivers.
Some independence is a good thing as insurance for the case of a trade (or actual) war and such, but beyond that, there is little reason to pursue it -- after all the most independent nation out there is probably north korea :)
From this discussion on AtariAge:

http://atariage.com/forums/topic/243904-star-raiders-source-...

...is this github repo of the source:

https://github.com/robmcmullen/Atari8bit_StarRaiders

The thread is very interesting itself, much technical info to be gleaned.
Yeah. Everyone in the whole world will simultaneously be able to have better than the current best seats in the house.

Courtside?
50 yard line?
Right by the mid tower in Dota2?
There's room for both a "raw" feed and a "filtered" feed.
That's my business. 2 partners (me: President and Founder, partner: CEO who I hired), 4 employees, and 2-3 at-will contractors for sporadic work. Revenue barely $1MM but growing, probably to $4-5MM in 3 years. Really love what I do and happy to be out of the BS VC silicon valley groupthink crap.
By the usual means that complicated issues are explained to the public - professional journalists poring over it for clauses of public concern. How many people actually read through the ACA, or the myriad budgets and semi-budgets passed in the US over the past decade with much even shorter public-disclosure periods than this?
Telefonica has nothing to do with the Pocket extension, they just (as far as I know) run the rendezvous servers that support the Hello feature.

Mozilla wanted to ship a WebRTC implementation, but it's not much use having webcam and microphone input unless you can send them to other people, and in this age of NAT and firewalls, that needs a rendezvous server. Mozilla had already had fruitful business interactions with Telefonica with FirefoxOS, and a telco seems like a reasonable choice for hosting a long-uptime network service...

In exchange for donating server hosting, Telefonica gets to display their logo in the Hello UI. I don't know if they also shelled out money in addition to hosting a service, but 80% of Hello's code is Firefox platform stuff (VP8 encoding and decoding, etc.) not Telefonica stuff.
Pushpin (http://pushpin.org) may be in line with what you're thinking. It separates connection management from backend logic. In fact the project itself is a handful of microservices (Mongrel2 is used as a separate process for the HTTP handling).
How many people own autositer.com?
I shared this: https://github.com/Planimeter/grid-sdk

It didn't catch on here. Sharing it on /r/gamedev helped though! Audience counts!
@sama have you thought about running a kickstarter to publish a hard copy version?
For more genomic data check out www.solvebio.com

You'll need to register for a (free) API key to access public data, although we're removing that requirement in the next few days (I work here.)
"replace null with" returns almost 70 million results on google, so maybe this is a more common occurrence than I believed.
Does Twitter have anything near 1000 employees? I wouldn't expect that.

I'd also expect the sever and trafic cost to scale from a "minimal" of around $100k a year in proportion with revenue. That is, I don't see how that's a good target for investiment money.
Mozilla didn't tell him to do anything. It just responded to what he did.

People have freedom of speech, not freedom from consequences.
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How can I find jobs for small software business like that (especially in Seattle!)? I want to work in a smaller environment that's not necessarily trying to be a "unicorn", but those seem to be the only jobs posted here on HN for "Who's hiring?". On other job boards, I mostly just see larger corporations hiring worker drones. I just want to write good software that solves interesting problems and make enough money to get by!
> He had been talking about harming himself and that's all we needed to have him involuntarily committed for 72 hours.

Frankly, I find it kind of disturbing that you can have anyone you know committed for several days just by lying to the police.
Thank you for this. More people should read Bloom; I was pointed to his work--by a Ph.D. in political science, as it happens!--and it crystallized a lot of my own severe misgivings about the way we teach (and don't teach).
> lifestyle businesses

I really hate this term. It makes it seem like anything that's not a high growth unicorn startup is somehow a failure. It's like a way to give it a label and somehow look down on it.

(don't mean to aim this at you - just a general remark)
Well played sir, well played indeed.
I guess you missed the "it just doesn't enjoy widespread adoption outside the digital world yet" part. Suggested reading:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Currency
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiat_money

>bitcoin offers zero protection and zero recourse if your money is stolen or lost due to a crash/virus/hack/forgot to backup my wallet before formatting (and when this happens, the user is always blamed, duh, you should have bought a trezor!)

That has nothing to do with Bitcoin, but with the user habits and possibly his operating system choice. If you go out taking pictures of your credit card and posting on Twitter (as a lot of people do), don't check your account balance often (as a lot of people do) and constantly let strangers have your credit card info (as a lot of people do online) then you'd say that's an issue with credit cards? No, it's an issue with the person's habits.

>With a credit card none of this happens, and if money is somehow stolen from your credit card, the card is quickly deactivated and the victim is fully reimbursed for any fraudulent charges.

That is by design, as it avoids several issues* with money held or processed by banks or any other institution. It's a trade off, sure, but when it comes to my money I rather trust myself to keep sane habits than trust the payment processing website, the bank AND the gov. not to screw me.

* It can't be stolen nor lost if properly stored, unlike the info you must supply when purchasing with credit card (see Ashley Madison and others). Nor can you have your account frozen, like when buying with Paypal or wire transfer (if the bank or gov. find it suspicious), nor are there chargebacks in case you are a seller (if you wait the appropriate number of confirmations)...
YNAB recommends the manual entry of purchases to better understand the relationship between the things you buy and your money. This has helped me be much less impulsive and more aware of the large money sinks in my life (lunch!). Whatever setup works for you to help you budget though, it is great software.
Definitely. In this case, these are literally identical boxes I'm talking about (I have three from the same manufacturer, they put the same company name on the inside of the case).
Ask HN: Service to determine if company 1099 reportable?
Has anyone seen or heard of a web service that can provide an entity's 1099 exempt status based on their name and Tax ID?
Isn't that the basic idea behind OFX though?

I mean, role specific credentials with limited rights seems like it would work perfectly fine with the existing OFX spec.
The hardware may be identical and only the software different. They may be able to get away with fewer devices in congested areas if the throughput is better without Listen Before Talk.
Daniel J. Bernstein asked a question:

* https://twitter.com/frioux/status/661348744604991488

For what it's worth, see what I wrote on the subject back in June:

* https://www.mail-archive.com/supervision@list.skarnet.org/ms...
I truly appreciate how much time and effort Mozilla puts into Firefox privacy. I do wish however that some more effort was spent on stability and performance. It seems like every day I hear coworkers growling that Firefox has crashed on them and while I'm sure that plugins are a huge part of this it's not exactly easy for the end user to pinpoint where the issue is occurring.
I feel like this needs a "when to give up" section. Like at some point it's obvious right. When is that point. Should you just destroy your entire life and never give up no matter how long since it's been since you've had steady growth? I've seen startups struggle for years with average growth or really slow linear growth where real profitability was years away. Do they just continue? Is that the advice? What about their employees who are being paid less than market value?
In seeking to patent an organism, they are treating the novel organism as an invention. Copyright doesn't protect purely functional elements, only creative ones, which is why we have the idea of patenting inventions — so patent seems like the right system in this case.
> Giving your online account credentials to access your banking information is complete madness. It's a giant security risk

Is it? My bank requires multi-factor confirmation to set up a new payee for electronic transfers and sends several emails for any transfer. You couldn't actually steal any money just by having online banking credentials.
Oohh, thanks for this tip.
Do you know any better tools?
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>I don't see this as a concern for Mozilla.

They make a lot of money from people who rely on advertising like Yahoo and Yandex.
$3Bn is still vastly overpriced. What's their P/E again? You can trade at a loss while you're flush with cash, but not forever, you have to grow your way out somehow...
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"replace null with" will include lots of hits relating to situations where you substitute database nulls with a default value (all of the hits I get on the first page seem to be that kind of thing, from the snippet), rather than replacing the string "null" with an empty string in a string.

So, those 70 million hits are probably not an indicator of the popularity of the latter practice.
Will this work even if both APs choose the same channel? (In both cases the APs get stronger signals from other networks than from each other, so it's a realistic possibility).
Windows 2000 was not consumer OS
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"It's also not able to force you to study topics you don't want to, or take an entire class worth of material instead of a single Wikipedia article" - It's entirely possible to cover a class worth of material & study topics you don't want to without paying for someone to help you do that.

I think the point is that given two people that learned a course (say computer science), with one learning formally at a university and the other learning through a combination of sources on the internet, and they both end up with roughly the same knowledge and competence - the one who went to university is likely to have more options open to them.

A system that requires that kind of money to "certify" people of their skills is unfair as it blocks off the chance of certification for a large population of citizens. (-Certification here is one that is accepted by other members of society such as employers).
Note that you should be using Tor Browser instead unless you specifically want the 3rd party sites to see your real IP address, or need to use a browser that is more compatible with standard browsers.
Damn this is sweet. User-mode networking has been fairly widespread for a while but user-mode storage stacks have been pretty rare outside MirageOS and a few other places.

I wish I had an NVMe device to play with this.
Hmm I'll believe this when I see it (and not the ridiculously faked demos in this video).
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I understand THIS project's intent which is to learn and discover how possible it is to achieve, However the fact that I'm seeing more and more Javascipt apps being released for desktops really disappoints and scares me. The performance, weight and often security concerns that come with JS frameworks is frightening and while it's fantastic that JS is perhaps lowering the bar as to who can write an application (perhaps) - it's also making it easy to do the wrong thing.
Only the rest of the worlds did not recognize it!

What happens to colonies can be seen in the plenty of former colonies that still struggle to get out of poverty.
Goldman Sachs is pulling out all the stops to hold onto its junior bankers
Since only a small percentage of startups are doing significant R&D, that seems likely to just direct money towards general business development, the majority of which ends up being "business model innovation" combined with straightforward web development, vs. science/engineering innovation. Granted, that may not be much worse than the status quo if it's currently funding a ton of non-R&D things anyway, but it doesn't seem likely to really stimulate R&D, either.
Also the glues in carbon fibre are probably not ideal in the event of a fire.
Exxon Mobil Investigated for Possible Climate Change Lies by NY Attorney General
Greenwood Cemetery is another great spot. Much more calm than Prospect Park on a nice day.
Yeah, I also say it with some distaste. This is the path I'm personally pursuing though, and I'd love to have some better terminology to describe it.

I wouldn't call it a "small business" either because, to me at least, that brings to mind a small consultancy and does nothing to communicate the "sell widely but stay small and focused" approach of the intentionally-small digital B2C business. (Mouthful there, huh?)
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How do you sync it with your service? Or do you keep copy of the contacts info in both locations?
The ACA wasn't negotiated in secret. Budgets are normally continuing resolutions; they only negotiate the delta from previous years, which is usually small. And again, budget negotiations don't involve years of secret negotiations.
> Which people? "Mentally ill" people aren't a homogenous group, and the fact that someone is mentally ill and living on the street does not imply that they are incompetent to make personal decisions due to their mental illness. The relation between mental illness, poverty, physical illness, etc. is complex.

I was referring to patients who lack control over their mental faculties at least to the degree of the man on which the article was written.

> There aren't simple answers, and this person isn't these people.

Yes, this person belongs to the general collective I described above. Clearly when I said "these people" I meant people like the man in the article I was talking about.

> Or was he, as he seemed, competent -- but voluntarily decided to discontinue the medication?

He may have been in the driving seat when he hypothetically decided to stop taking medication, but ultimately he lost control of the wheel. If a person is not taking care of themself and so out of your wits that you stand for hours at road junctions staring blankly forward, they need to be saved. The authorities must assume that though the decision to stop taking medication was voluntary, because the person lost control of their mind, maybe that person's decision was misinformed (or as you suggest, accidental). By analogy, ust because the driver of a car intentionally didn't buckle themselves in (maybe they wanted to die, or like the risk, or were just eccentric), doesn't mean that when they crash and their body flies out, that we shouldn't hospitalise them.

> And that's great, but its a mistake to project what you think you would want onto other people as their preferences.

Actually there is no mistake here: it's a fact that there are other people like me who want this protection from the state.
Random, how do you draw those charts?
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Those aren't the only choices though. The objection is that you shouldn't force people to use auto-updates, because it impedes their ability to use their software.

Let's say I'm writing software for something important with a deadline, and my OS decides to update itself and break some of the libraries I was using. That would be completely unacceptable. It's almost no worse than walking up to my computer and smashing it to pieces.

You have to be able to control updates because that's the only way to ensure your system is stable. It may not be secure, but stability is often more important than security, especially during critical periods. Most people want their computers to work today the same way it worked yesterday. If updates didn't break things, nobody would have any reason not to get them. But updates are destructive.
If this opens up a possibility to (easily) isolate objects per depth, as in deep compositing, then it would be worth the price of admission alone.
It's more complicated than that. Think about it from an energy point of view - if it interacts with something it makes (transforms) energy.

Where does that energy go? Normal particles get hot and make blackbody radiation, i.e. photons.

Dark matter can't. Does it have a temperature? Can temperature flow between the particles? Without blackbody radiation you are going to have some violations of the laws of thermodynamics.

Unless dark matter has some other particle to act as an equivalent. So you are hypothesizing an entire family of dark matter particles, and a whole set of new forces.

Two entire universes each with entire sets of particles, that only interact via gravity. We could have a second sun and a second earth, that overlap us and never know it, we would just think that the gravitational constant is different (because our perceived mass is higher).

Sounds like a wonderful setting for a science fiction/horror story.
> the more "modern" way to do that is to use a hyphen, like "re-evaluate"

The modern (at least, American) way is mostly not to do it, like "reevaluate".
I don't think it was dismissive at all. When a post rises to the front page of HN people are going to post comments both agreeing or disagreeing. In my case, I don't see what all the hoopla was about or how this was upvoted to page 1
I see what you're saying, but I still don't understand why it's a privacy concern.
The Intel consumer one, the SSD 750, is relatively cheap (around £300 or so).
Because it is a shorter form of the word it abbreviates. 'mm' is shorter than 'millions'.
"at least two natural languages"

I'm half that good!

It seems like our profession hasn't changed much at all. Makes me feel like I'll be well prepared for the workplace 40 years in the future.
No I didn't. I am in no way suggesting that Marxism is correct, but I do think we have a problem with capital accumulation by the very wealthy.
There are many other ways to fingerprint you. Blocking the canvas alone doesn't really achieve anything.
Errm - where did the parent say anything about inheritance?
Nice straightforward assembly language program (not too much data, no meta-programming).

I have to mention Yoomp! Same machine, new game 30 years later:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNxICcU3bPo

Another video implies you can buy a physical version of the game (I mean cassette and diskette media).
i used tracktion many years ago and remember reading about the underlying juce framework, but i was dissuaded by the lack of bindings to other languages. i know real-time audio is inherently low-level, but are there any plans to expose the api to other languages to make it easier to experiment with?
I'm Entering Startup Weekend. Suggestions?
This is my first Startup anything I've ever done. I've been much more involved in the maker/hacker community.

I know C, C++, Python, JS, Node, Java, along with circuit design, design technology (CAD/CAM, parametric solid modeling), and usability regarding physical designs. As stated, I'm entering this as a developer (other two choices are designer and nontechnical/business). I could competently join as designer as well, depending on product.

I just finished Sam Altmann's Startup Playbook, and received some great suggestions. Yet it leaves a hole for the first "56 hours". How do I play this out? What am I to expect? What areas of startup business should I avoid? If I don't take away a business from this, what other takeaways can I utilize for a "Startup Weekend"?
I was surprised that article didn't trigger a bigger response on HN. It is a little over the top, but it leaves a lot to think about. The Unicorn, disruption PR wheel has drowned out the virtues and benefits of other forms of entrepreneurship.
Congrats on the cliche HN post. Stopped caring about what you said after reading your post.

He also runs NPM, btw.