skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
90-99% of startups fail[1], which should be mentioned in a post with that title.

[1] See e.g. https://s3.amazonaws.com/startupcompass-public/StartupGenome...
You'll be pleased to hear that many of those in congress who have the highest NRA scores share your view.
Does anyone here have the actual statistics to back this up? In terms of Joules of energy, what is the cost of a nucular power plant? Equally, in terms of joules of energy (rather than some fiat petro-dollar debt money with compound interest), what is the price for any competing power source, be it a coal plant or a farm of wind turbines?

It seems we can do the maths for this easily to dismiss solar and wind, but, when it comes to nucular we are in denial. It takes a lot of energy to dig up Canada/Australia/wherever to get the U308 stuff, then a whole lot more to process it. Then there is the building of the nucular plant plus the decommissioning. Oh, and the waste disposal along the way, not cheap in raw energy terms.

Some costs such as the brains of the boffins needed to build these things may not have a raw energy price, that you might have to measure in pobble beads and pence, but, I just want a simple energy in -> energy out ratio. Do nucular power plants actually work out as cheap as the proponents imagine?

This I do not think is clear because there are so many other reasons nucular power plants get built. In the UK we ended up with so many nucular power plants because of the Cold War 'requirement' to have the bomb, and to create the bomb grade material needed for the U.S. (where there never were things like 'fast breeder' reactors).

France lost out when the oil reserves were carved up by Churchill and Roosevelt after WW2 so nucular became quite a thing in France. Their power is cheaper than what there is in the UK and most of the rest of Europe. So nucular is cheap, the French proven it so? Again, not really. They had their own reasons, e.g. also desiring nucular weapons, a seat at the UN and some (non-fossil) power. Sure, economics came into it but there were these other imperatives.

There is also the matter of 'Lockheed Martin' accounting. Bribes, billion dollar cost over runs, project delays, pork barrel politics and vested interests. We don't seem to have that in Denmark where the wind turbines seem to come from these days but nucular is mired in 'Lockheed Martin' accounting issues.
That is not necessarily true. Just because you can serialize a set of ideas does not mean that they can be interpreted or understood in their serialized form alone. You almost always require a parser that has some structure which will convert the serialized ideas into something with significantly higher dimensionality where it can actually be understood and operated on.

Just because I can write down a function (using only a single dimension) that operates on 10 dimensional data doesn't somehow imply that the data is suddenly one dimensional.
Great news. My own cloudflare fronted site appears to be using HTTP/2 and is noticeably quicker, despite all images still being hosted on another HTTP/1 CDN.

https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com is also now HTTP/2, which is the main improvement for me.
Meh; you can't trust the first version anyway, which makes anything happening later on the page just as broken.

If it's an additional source being added much later on that you are concerned with, that's always been a broken design that Douglas Crockford warned[1] about years ago.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V13wmj88Zx8
> His main argument is that if his cellular automatons can achieve emergent behaviour similar to real physics, then it is evidence for it being the underlying mechanism in the universe.

Then it is a hint that possibly it might be the underlying mechanism of the universe. It's not exactly evidence.
> the right to bear arms is key to even being able to rebel

This couldn't be further from the truth.

Every successful armed regime change has had state military sponsorship. But most regime changes are brought about peacefully, and then the army changes sides.
There are co-workig/shared spaces you can rent for a decent price. They get you out of the house. Just online interaction all the time wears thin on some more than others. Cost them out and factor that into your costs in case you get cabin fever.
We already assume every airline customer is a terrorist, so this isn't that big of a stretch.
Data that doesn't fit the NYT narrative:

"It looks like Kwajalein is affected by a local subsidence induced by building construction (or some sea level “correction” in order to have it going up).

The Majuro records, for sure, contradicts any (sic:"and") acceleration claim; even a general “rise”.

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/07/31/the-marshall-islands-a...
Backpage v. Dart: Posner smacks a sheriff’s intimidation campaign
Oh, that does sound a lot more reasonable and I made an incorrect assumption.

I take it that you still need a phone to make a signal account though?
How Hackers Are Using Fake LinkedIn Profiles to Steal Your Information
> Look at the definition of poverty and you'll agree it's certainly a form of poverty, but again compared to the majority of the planet doesn't really cut it.

Poverty is defined along a spectrum, not relative to some kind of global nadir.

> Living paycheck to paycheck is generally an unfortunate choice or lack of education, but the point remains that there's a paycheck.

You're misrepresenting the situation by arguing it's a lifestyle choice. When you're poor it's very hard to save much of anything. Housing, transportation and food can quickly eat up most of a weekly paycheque.

> Our ability to generate the paycheck or our ownership of assets on average outstretches the vast majority of the planet.

Nobody is arguing the US the is place to be if you have money. The point I'm trying to spell out for you is that the averages you discuss are massively skewed by huge inequality. America's middle class are no longer the world's richest and they are shrinking in number. More, America is increasingly opting for a a system of governance that is leaving more and more people behind, especially its most vulnerable.
> then because of that the poor in Africa are in someways richer than the oilmen of "Dallas".

Not really; they're still poor, what actually happened is the world changed making things only once not available to anyone available to everyone. That really has no bearing on rich vs poor. Saying I'm richer today than Henry the VIII is clearly wrong, even though I have access to much greater technology and can do things he couldn't, he's was still vastly wealthier with the ability to do whatever he wanted.
You're still needlessly leaving money on the table with your plan. What if (made up numbers) I am currently making 50k. To move to a new job, I would want 60k. The job budget is actually 70-80k. I tell them 60k, they say "Great!" and accept. I just potentially lost $20,000 per year.

So you have two options: ask for a range up front and get people that turn you down because of it, or waste your time with interview processes with people who wind up low balling you. I choose the former. Or the third option, you presented, give them a minimum up front and leave tens of thousands on the table, save time, and also potentially wind up working for a company that is shitty in its hiring practices and attracts employees accordingly.

Negotiation isn't a matter of how much you would be happy with, it's a matter of how much you can get.
> // On the off chance the browser supports the new font loader API, use it.

> if (document.fontloader) {

> document.fontloader.notifyWhenFontsReady(function() {

FYI it's `document.fonts.ready()` promise now.
> how that sort of behaviour doesn't constitute an act of war

You need photos of explosions and dead babies to convince your populace to go to war. Making a case for war between nuclear powers on the basis that "some website for geeks became a bit less reliable" isn't going to cut it.
Because the name of the newspaper is 'Thi Anglo Sacson'. The reversed N is another decorative glyph.
Clojure = Functional programming + Lisp + Decomplecting.

The first two are big enough to spend months on. Expecting to learn it all in a week(end) is unrealistic. See "Living Clojure" http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920034292.do

Your brain will thank you.
What Changes in Society Lead to Mass Killings?
yeah i think that's what he is saying. I also think if you get to sell your company for almost a billion dollars, you get to say fuck you to the haters in any way you want to.
Haskell, Erlang, and Clojure all have sane lambdas (assuming that's what you mean by "properly implemented functional syntax"), and list comprehensions are useful and idiomatic in those languages. Agreed about sequence names feeling out-of-order in nested comprehensions in Python.
I think that would make for very depressing reading. It would be comparable to making a documentary about everybody who ever played the lottery. For the most part you'll see people that lost. Year after year after year. And then there would be the lottery winners. A couple of them.

The middle is quite narrow, it's good money for a relatively large number of people but it is still a very small fraction of the total number that 'went for it'.

Still, better to try and fail than never to have tried, worst case you'll learn more in 3 years than you'd otherwise learn in your whole career.
> What is matter made of? The answer, whatever it is, cannot be matter.

Sure it could (in principle) be; its matter all the way down, and there is no lower-level thing of which matter is made. (Though, actually, I think the standard answer to "what is matter made of" under current way of interpreting things would be "energy", but then you could repeat the exercise with "energy" in place of "matter" and its the same issue, mutatis mutandis.)
Mods, this needs a (2006) tag.
As the article says, Mumford & Sons and Hannibal Burress have already been using the system. It should be easy for you to show that people have leaked videos from shows where the pouches were used.
You're betting on a a startup's product to stick around longer than a tech giant's?
I can't log in when I stand up
Raise awareness but also provide a solution, i.e. "gov. is spying on you here is how to avoid it: guide on how to use a VPN or something".
No, that's not why no deal happened. I suspect it was because he was not raising money but because he was selling some of his own shares. In other words: he was trying to take some money of the table. And those are very hard deals to close.

This is the key line:

> I tried to sell some of my shares in a secondary transaction at less than a fifth of that price – and I was turned down by every VC I asked.

So, he eventually actually made more on those shares, about 80% more and lucked out. But there is no way of knowing what would have happened in an alternatively universe where some VC would have bought a chunk of stock from Justin. Maybe then this deal would have never happened. You don't get to play twice, but it's nice that it all worked out so well for him.
Thanks for posting that!

I wear an Xcel wetsuit right now, but based on your story I think my next one will be from Patagonia.
> Twitch had raised $42 million, and had been valued at around $100 million several months earlier

WTF? The Twitch case is nothing like what 99% of entrepreneurs face.

$42M? Try having $42 in the bank and then saying "haters gonna hate".
A client/server architecture has technical and efficiency advantages as well, though. We host an AGPL v3 licensed SaaS application for our clients; they can switch to self-hosting at any time, so they're hardly captive, yet none has ever made the switch.
Any list comprehension that is

1. Longer than ~80-120 characters

2. Can't be explained in 1 comment line

Should be written as a nested for loop IMO.
I don't discount this theory, i've wondered it myself a few times in recent years. However, i'm not sure of the data to back that theory. The article itself says that the job situation has improved in the US. The question is around the opportunities that open and close based on having a degree (eg. over qualification vs under qualification vs expectation).

It also mentions that the data is from 0.1% of students. While that's still a fair number, there's room for error.
Employees get a reasonable fascimile of a market salary and the perks commonly afforded employees in your region/industry with probability equivalent to the sun rising in the morning, as of day one, for every payroll period until they're formally separated from the company. If this describes someone's situation, they're an employee. If not, they're probably a co-founder (or being horrifically exploited).
Ah, starting an arms race, eh. A GoPro under your shirt (poking out between the buttons) would work fine if you aren't even trying, and there are plenty of more stealthy solutions that a visit to Amazon and $10 will get you.

My first thought was "I almost want to go to his show and leak the video". But then I realized, that's probably exactly what he wants. Free publicity for announcing this scheme. Free publicity when the video leaks. Free publicity when Twitter discusses it. Free publicity when he "gets mad". Free publicity as analysts analyze what it all means.

Brilliant. I haven't heard from Dave Chappelle in years, but here he is on the front page of a startup-oriented news site.

Also good marketing from that startup that makes the pouches.
How would the telco get their Private Trust Anchor into the certificate store ? More social engineering, i suppose. At the app level though, a chain resolution like what you describe is not required.
Correct, the first edition didn't have the footnotes.
Well, Bill Murray personifies detachment and irony -- and those two things have been almost holy in the last 2 decades.
The problem is that the relation of the body to the loop specifications is reversed, so the inner loop is most proximate to the body in the first, but most distant from the body in the second.

The specification of the inner loop should always be most proximate to the body, not last independent of the location of the body.
The puzzlement consists of using "universe" in two incompatible contexts without paying clear attention to the distinction between the contexts.

The first context is the ordinary one in which the universe is roughly the container for everything that is including ourselves.

The other context is one in which the universe is a simulation of a container for everything that is including ourselves that is indistinguishable by us from an actual container for everything that is including ourselves.

It's fine to use the latter definition, so long as one recognizes that the use is very odd and problematic and any conclusions one draws while using it are simulated conclusions about the simulated container and not conclusions about the actual container for everything that is including ourselves. To put it another way, if the universe is a simulation then "light" and "speed" and "C" refer to elements of the simulation and need not have a one to one correspondence to entities in the actual universe. Human knowledge can only be knowledge of the simulation.

Our knowledge is limited to things it is possible for humans to know. If we're in a simulated universe, then we can only know about the simulation.
> What is the crime that replaces drug possession?

Theft.

(As I've explicitly mentioned at least once. :) )

Other possibilities: False statements to authorities. Possession of a (loaded or unloaded) pistol in the cab of your vehicle, without possession of a pistol permit. Trespass. Assault. Traffic violations. (And then arrest for failure to appear for the same, or jail for failure to be able to pay the fines for the same.) Parole violations. (Here's where evidence planting gets you back to the quick path to jail time.)

You've gotta understand. The criminals who were running this scheme were dedicated. There are a wide variety of crimes that could be used for a relatively quick frame-up.

When you know that the DA isn't gonna closely examine your case, you know that IA isn't going to expose your scheme, and you're fairly certain that the folks you're targeting can't mount an effective defense, you get to do all sorts of things that reasonable people would expect to be impossible.
From the Zen of Python:
> There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it.

If you have something written as a simple for loop, there's a real danger that you're moving in the wrong direction by translating it into a list comprehension.
Certificate pinning is absolutely targeted at stopping the use of rogue root CA's installed in devices. OWASP does a pretty good job of covering the topic.

https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Certificate_and_Public_Key_P...
Wanting to be a famous actor is "ridiculously ego-laden" too -- for certain various of ridiculous.
Very nice explanation. Thanks a lot!

So if I understand correctly this would be somewhat akin to having a "universal clock" that is ever increasing, and that can be read/seen by anyone (like you said, universally). So you only need to know the "time" on the clock, when you do something, so that afterwards you can verify that indeed the "timestamp" happened.

Is this somewhat of a correct analogy? At least that's how I understood it.

In any case, it does seem interesting to be able to have a universally verifiable time keeping "signal". I'm guessing there must be other uses as well.
1. Why are the number of turing machines finite.

2. But to simulate a single step of the turing machine, you will have to simulate this turing machine too, so what you will end up doing is recursively simulating the first step of this machine to infinity.

3. Why do you assume all the programs in the world are turing computable.
I don't understand why you feel that there needs to be a space in order to have a collection of nodes and edges that connect the nodes.

It isn't as if there is an actual line connecting two dots across space.

It's just, there's a set of "points" (there doesn't need to be any things about these "points" other than that they are distinct. You could think of them as urelements I guess.), and another set of "edges", which are each a set of two elements from the first set.

A pair of "points" are "connected" by an "edge" iff the set comprised of those two "points" is in the second set.

This doesn't need a notion of space to work, unless you need like, an idea of space to have collections of things. So unless "the collection of odd numbers" needs an idea of space, then graphs don't need space.
Sending multiple emails with ActionMailer by Zamith
I'm not so sure his comedy is timeless. There are many, many comedians from earlier eras that one might have thought were timeless, but watching them today, they don't seem funny at all. WC Fields, for example.
This should be required reading for anybody doing a hardware startup, not just those using kickstarter.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jJU3lzU7OU
Thank you for being (seemingly) the only person on HN who understands that startups are a lottery. A very, very expensive lottery.
Did you miss the explicit side-effects in the code above? This isn't like a map/filter in terms of fold, it is a very stupid way of writing a 'for' loop.
No. You called gd1 a crackpot because that's an easy way to gain karma when people express views contrary to the HN consensus.
Maybe let your father live his own life as he wants it and don't judge him?

(Ironically, that's a common advice people give to parents regarding their kids).

Besides do you know what's REAL melancholy for an "older, divorced dad"?

NOT partying at all, and not having people to love/care for them. Second worse, would be only having boring older people conversations and pass-times. If they can be that relevant that even 20th year olds are OK to hang around with them, more power to them.

What would be indeed be lame would be to TRY/WANT to party with younger people, and them rejecting you. Or partying with younger people but not being able to connect with another person out of "party" scenarios. Which I'd guess is not the case here.
Communities like these have been tried 100's of times in most countries.

Basically the type of person willing to give up current access to family, friends and job to go there are predominantly weird.

The exception is young people chasing jobs and education ie college towns, San Francisco, SoHo

Or tax havens.
> At first I thought, "bummer," and although I would love to have pics from that night

Honestly, when I hear this, I think, "Why?" You want block the views of the people behind you and watch Prince on a 3x5in screen when he's physically right in front of you just so you have some grainy, poorly-lit photos of your own instead of looking at the professional photos of Prince that are available online? It harms the experience of other fans. It harms your own experience. It harms the performer's bottom line. There's literally no upside to this.

Practice some immediacy.
Perhaps it will bring you clarity to understand that the first place this information was published was The Guardian. [0] It's a British newspaper that circulates physical papers, in addition to its Internet publication.

It's possible that in this day and age no US papers would have picked up the story, limiting its impact in the US. However, a story this large and important would have been picked up in the 1970's, just as the Pentagon Papers and other such stories were.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Guardian
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I'll give you a hint: they run customs.
> Ah, starting an arms race, eh. A GoPro under your shirt (poking out between the buttons) would work fine if you aren't even trying, and there are plenty of more stealthy solutions that a visit to Amazon and $10 will get you.

Eh, at least that doesn't block my view when I'm standing behind you.
DotGO 2015 Rob Pike's Simplicity is complicated
The search for a faster CRC32
I can see somebody's phone starts ringing or otherwise making a noise and they can't get to it to turn it off.

I play chess and phones are banned from events (they sometimes have metal detectors at the door of large tournaments). Which causes a problem if you don't have a nearby car or hotel room to leave them in. Although recently they have tweaked the rules to allow phones to be in your bag (turned off).
As a viewer of live shows, if this decreases my chance of having my view blocked by some asshole who has decided to view the whole show through a grainy 3x5in window instead of experiencing life, I'm all for it. When I go to this sort of thing, I try not to bring my phone anyway.
Show HN: Notify – CLI to notify your phone
Fortunately, for such founders, Hacker News negativity is a rounding error.

Edit: it's not so great for Hacker News though.
Didn't ask the doctor. I guess it was the old bogus excuse - I was afraid I'd get something serious confirmed.

Anyway, I've stopped using earplugs during sleep and vertigo has gradually (slowly) disappeared.
Playing in the NBA a very, very hard thing to do. As a player, you look around and all you see are highly paid athletes in the media. On the other hand, trying to secure a lucrative contract extension can lead to rejection. The passion and tenacity to fight through this negativity in order to feed your family is what Latrell Sprewell is trying to elicit. [1]

[1] http://www.si.com/vault/2004/11/15/8191994/getting-by-on-146...
I'm pretty sure you just illustrated my point.
This is slightly off topic but am I the only one surprised at the litany of permissions they require for the android app? Some make sense (like SMS or camera) but device & app history/location/identity/device ID & call info/contacts/calendar/microphone/phone seems like a smash and grab. I saw moxie speak at a conference once and he specifically called out the device id/call information permission as evidence that google doesn't care about your privacy, so why is his privacy-enabling app requiring it?? I thought these were supposed to be the good guys (and girls)? The good guys (and girls) don't do 'collect it all.'