skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It isn't a matter of recognizing the 1%. You should be braking for yourself 100% of the time. If you occasionally fail to do so, the car will manage to save you 99% of the time.

It is crazy to see a situation in which you should brake and to intentionally choose not to with a non-autonomous car.
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> To all the haters

This is a form of name-calling, which the HN guidelines ask you not to do in arguments. And the "if you can't think of... maybe you shouldn't be" is also a jab. Please don't do these things in HN comments. They add no information, just provocation. Consider how much better your otherwise fine comment would be without them.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html
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Yeah, you know why, right?

So they can screw you over with "Unknown until later" bills, complete lack of being able to control your funds and services, and what I call "Comcast Bills" (AKA: pay what we tell you and GTFO).

Just read my previous comment (or the top one of this story). Doesn't even matter if you're an enterprise with a site license of 150k people.
JavaScript's "logic" may be single-threaded, but it's asynchronous event loop solves a lot of problems that a single-threaded synchronous model has (like what Python has by default).
The browser is a terrible app platform that 'won' primarily because the incredibly minimal levels of holistic design in it meant everyone could agree on it, because doing so gave power to nobody in particular. The downside of that approach is, well, it's just a mishmash of things that don't work well or fit together properly.

It's not even really decentralised. From the birth of the web it was driven by Netscape, then Microsoft, then MozCorp, then Apple for a while, and now Google, with bits of Opera thrown in occasionally. There has always been at least one dominating browser maker adding whatever random features they thought would be cool at the time.
She does mentions how to deal with that problem:

> If you do the first two things I told you, make something people want and focus, you’ll get growth as a result. And that means you can use growth as a test of whether you’re doing those two things.
It can be both. They can feed back on each other.
You can do all of the above and still fail. Often, success or failure is luck-based and completely not skill-based.
The OP explicitly says nobody could find a service like this. I was very surprised, did some research and responded to that.

I think its always good to do some fact checking...
I also think it's super important to make something you can sell in addition to making something people want. Frankly, there are so many things people want but not every founder has resources or is well-equipped to sell it.

Your goal as a founder is to maximize chances of __your__ success. Having the right founder-market fit goes a long way.
Are there collaborative translation services for open source apps and products? One could of course use google translate, but it would be nice if the translation is done by humans who actually use the product/service they are translating.
I think long term they are going to want both sides of the equation. That way they don't get left in the Dust if Android improves and they can play up e-ink as differentiation vs simply missing features.

Basically, they can look more impartial by saying we think X is better, but we also sell Y if you really need Z. Much like how Amazon sells Fire and Kindle with some versions of Fire costing less than any version of Kindle.
What's the backend made of?
Correct. GCD has dispatch_queues, and each block on the dispatch queue will be executed on one of a pool of posix threads.
I agree. Google open some of your data. This empire defense bullshit game doesn't belong in the 21st century.

...and hey you Snowden's inside Google leak that 128k model already.
Could you elaborate on the changes for the NVRAM devices that you'd like to see?

My understanding is that the 3D XPoint type devices are just exposed as a regular mmapped device and provide storage which is still a fair bit slower than DRAM, but a lot faster than SSDs.
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The only way not to fail is not to try. Even then you could argue that you failed to try :).
That chart showing a big bump after 2000 and 2008 was intriguing, I was curious to know how it looked before 1996
Does anyone knows what "bubble" happened in 1990 in San Francisco?

https://www.google.com/publicdata/explore?ds=z1ebjpgk2654c1_...
only for a short period of time before getting to address a judge
Are you a tank, healer, or dds player in Warcraft?
Do you produce food, build houses or treat sick people? Most people don't. Productivity has soared in farming and construction. Healthcare, not so much, but that might be next.

The nature of work is really diverse across cultures. Hunter-gatherers hardly do any. Rural cultures have most people farming. I think about 1% of people in the USA are farmers.

Most jobs in the West are, well, bullshit jobs. Busy work. We do them despite the fact we could feed and house everyone with perhaps 9/10 people not working. It's merely a social expectation that we should all work, and a preference, not a necessity, to punish those who don't.
Is that TypeScript in the examples? Haven't done JS in a while(angular), so it seems like TypeScript has become the de facto standard now.
Besides the fact that on android, the app requires what appears to be every single permission, be aware that all companies dealing in media have a designated Party official liaison who usually sits in the office and has more decision power than the editor in chief.

Based on my experience working and developing in China, I would say I can all but guarantee that the Chinese government is viewing and editing all data as it pertains to wechat. All chatlogs, all private conversations, all financial transactions, all GPS coords for checkin locations, all of it. They may not be doing anything with it, but it's being stored.
I think you misinterpreted what the parent comment was trying to say.

My take-away from it has been that the new "managerial" role will include much more responsibilities and more "hats" to wear. In other words, the manager will have to be the subject matter expert, the business analyst, the project manager and the administrator, all rolled into one.

So, in the case of banking, the "manager" will identify the need to say, automate the underwriting process for handing out institutional loans. They will design a list of tasks, create functional requirements, create constraints and the desired outcomes based on input values. They will also be responsible for providing everything necessary for the actual engineer team and their interaction with the QA team, as well as reporting to the executives.

In short - expect to see more overlap between senior IT roles and product/resource management, and more responsibilities rolled into single roles.
People who can't adapt will be out of jobs.
Speaking for myself, I've been burned repeatedly by remote labor and remote teams. Any theoretical cost savings were squandered by the increased amount of time overhead in project management and "do over" work. I'm now advising a startup which had to start from scratch on its MVP a second time because the first team…simply walked away after six months of work.

I'm sure there's blame to be spread around, but personally after nearly a decade of trying to use remote labor for coding, I won't do it again if it's my money at stake.
I had a remotely similar experience a few years back, although they were very helpful and canceled the invoice.
> - You are limited to x number of blocking operations, where x >is the number of workers. It means you cannot do massively >parallel I/O such as network operations with it (e.g: a web >server).

Celery can use eventlet/gevent instead of multiprocessing for executing tasks, so this should be possible (granted, not sure if using it as a web server is a great idea)

>- Tasks cannot communicate with each others;

This is not true, they can send messages to each other

>- You must juggle with the workflow of your tasks (is it ready >? it it dead ?). You can use await stuff() with a try/except;

If you have to juggle it means your workflow design is not good enough. I.e. you shouldn't wait for other tasks, you should have callbacks and errbacks.

Also, note that a try/except does not guarantee the operation will be completed (e.g your asyncio app can be killed).

I'm not sure there's much point in comparing these, they are wildly different concepts: Celery is a distributed system, asyncio is for async I/O, the GIL is only a problem if you can't start n instances of your app.
Hey shujito, It's built with PHP using Laravel. And the Database is MariaDB.

Let me know if theres anything else you'd like to know
Moller is going nowhere. He's been advertising the same thing for decades with little progress, adjusting the years on the web site so it always seems to be just a few years ahead. He's been in trouble with the SEC for his fun-raising activities. He's been trying to do VTOL with souped-up Wankel engines, and that just isn't working.

Here's Moller's brochure from 1974.[1] Forty years of hype. That guy is responsible for flying cars having a bad name.

[1] http://www.downside.com/scams/moller/
OK, we'll change the URL from https://cloudflare.github.io/cf-ui/ to that, which gives more background.
Great tool. Used it to automate SAP in a project a couple of years ago. Was using it with a .NET framework though, so it is was a total pain.

That led to me writing Sikuli4NET about a year later.
https://sourceforge.net/projects/sikuli4net/
I think conferences and conventions are the kind of thing that you can get some utility out of once your business is somewhat established and running, but not so much when you have a new startup that you need to take off the ground. Since YC focuses on the latter it's understandable that they would advise against them.
> I have no basis to do so except illegal piracy

Why? Pirates are the only ones who aren't affected by DRM. That's why I torrent Netflix shows even while paying for Netflix. I can play them anywhere, even without a net connection.
I worry that you would not have posted this response if the top comment had said "Dear dissenters,". However I think you're right about the extraneous and specious "maybe you shouldn't be working in distributed systems" claim.
Raise your EQ but don't spend too much time worrying about what other people think of you. The business exists to reduce transactional costs between the things needed to build and sell your product.
If the software is open source, you can relatively easily find somebody to do it for you for $100/hour or so. That's within the scope of many individuals.

$100 000 000 is outside of the scope of pretty much everybody.
nope. This is the new javascript <3
I wish I could, but the simple terms and conditions are on the front page.

Your startup qualifies if it is less than:

5 years old ~ almost 200 years old

is privately held ~ public institution

and earns less than $1M annually. ~ Billions of dollars, no clue.
This is a platform that millions use, this isn't a simple freedom that developers don't have for not using Apple's platform. If Google doesn't support their developers, even if they've already made millions, Google will lose a decent amount of market after developers leave their platform because of these law suits. Imagine 2 or 3 of Googles major games dropping support for Android because law suits they lost in court.
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I think it's just ES2015 with JSX.
For every postdoc out of those 10, there's a 100 graduates fighting for a position and 1000 undergrads fighting for an internship.

At any given time slice, skills in a given field are a pyramid. If we assume that the unsolved problems require the highest level of skill to be approached and solved, then there will _always_ be a shortage of problem-solvers (as the problems left become increasingly more difficult and complex)

So yes, it is a lack of skills.
In practical terms, performance without understanding can lead to highly surprising/counter-intuitive results when algorithms are applied to real-life problems. This doesn't matter much if you're doing movie suggestions or something like that, but it does matter in many other areas that could benefit from AI/ML.
You mean remote employees, or outsourcing development to an overseas team for a specific project?
I think the difference you're talking about comes down to /why/ you're going to the conference.

If you're going to meet either of the two main goals - growth, talking to users - then you're going to do those things, not to go to a conference.
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A clean OS with clean simple package management and a modernized init system that isn't a tower of babel would really have me sold.
They mention browser password database in the article. If true at the scale of 32M people that would be an even bigger news. Twitter may just be the beginning.

Maybe the malware authors are processing and leaking the data per-website for monetization purposes?

Another way would be that only a specific twitter app has been targeted by the malware.
The Winner Take All Myth in SaaS
Celery can use async I/O too! Using the gevent pool you can have e.g. 4 celery worker instances with 1000 threads each.
Increase the amount of helicopter-style traffic by 10x, and eventually congress will make the FAA enact new regulations.
Consider deprecating Bower
Spin off a shell corp for each individual patent that is litigated, if a loss ever occurs, the only thing "on the line" in a bankruptcy is the single patent that presumably just lost.

IANAL, but I suspect this is exceedingly rare.
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> So actually nobody bothered to Google for that?

Please don't be dismissive of new work on HN, especially in Show HNs: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html.

People are allowed to make things even when other things like that already exist, and they're welcome to share them here. The spirit of Show HN is "hey, I made this," not, "I declare a claim to priority".

A better way to post a comment like this would be to mention specific other projects in the space and ask how this one differs.
I hate to point it out, but history is littered with examples of cases where following the law and using non-violent diplomatic approaches failed, necessitating the use of violence (in the eyes of those who felt they had no recourse). It's the very reason just about every nation has a military, for instance.

In a nutshell, if you think beating someone up to get what you want is wrong, then you must necessarily think that military force is wrong, and maintaining a military force is also wrong.

You can also look at some pretty extreme examples: if you're a Jew in 1930-something Germany or one of the nations it occupied, and a bunch of soldiers are coming to take you to the camps, is it unethical for you to use violence against them? Of course, you might argue that's a bad example because the other side already initiated the use of (or threat of; they're carrying guns) violence so you had the right of self-defense. But that's no different than having a legal system that you feel is unjust: if you don't agree with the legal system's ruling and resist or ignore it, then they'll send men with guns to force you into submission using violence.

Now you can argue that there's a huge difference in magnitude between being taken to death camps and losing a patent case and having to give a large sum of money to a patent troll, but I think the principle is the same, it's just a difference in degree. All human conflict is like this: we have systems we try to use to avoid solving our differences with violence, but at times, these systems fail and at least one party feels the price/risk is worth it. Luckily, if you look at the entirety of human history, the amount of violence has been steadily falling, and we're probably at the least violent point in history, if you look at humanity as a whole.
just as a side note. She pretty much says that "ugly duck hiring" (hiring start-ups that seem to be on a good track but have burned too fast through their money) may be a thing to make money with.

PS: And i don't like the "not fail" part. You don't want to not fail. You want to succeed. If you fail and succeed the failing is fine.
Sometimes there's an argument that following the advice reduces your chances of failure. Ultimately like most things in life, it's a healthy dose of luck combined with hard work.
This is just plain incorrect.

Yes, the original API was written in java, but Sikuli scripts are written in Jython. I did an entire automation project using Sikuli written in jython without any hiccups a couple of years ago.
Remote working: Is your Internet connection good enough?
Celery is neat. Something that sort of bothers me with it though is -- and this is maybe totally something that is my fault, I just can't figure it out -- sometimes workers will just stop processing things. For unknown reasons. I've set up some alerts to automatically slack me when this happens, so I can go in and see why they're stuck and restart them. Still haven't been able to figure it out. Happens maybe once every month or two.
He is one of my favorite writers. Cash flow is something that is super important in every business. He talks about cash flow in a few of his posts.

I wish in the business economics class that I took at University the professor came in and talk about cash flow every other week. Because running out of cash is the worst. Trader Joe's doesn't really care that I have a million plus in receivables, they are unhappy because my debit card got declined.
I think by definition, you can't 'brace' for 'a bubble'. That's the central part of the metaphor that the bubble 'bursts' as a sudden event at a time you can't prepare for. The act of anticipating for a 'bubble' and preparing for it is the exact kind of behaviour that prevents it from happening.
> So while I’ll tell you that it is going to be harder for you as a woman,

I read this phrase a few times. I'm genuinely curious - and didn't really see it in the article - what are the reasons for which Jessica is referring?

Edit - downvoted for asking a genuine question...? Did it ever occur to anyone that I may be asking to see how I could help, seeing as I'm involved with a few startups?
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I don't understand why you consider a problem to intermittently call mathematica's kernel in a multi-hour session. There's nothing that would make this not work. The mathematica C interface launches a copy of the kernel and communicates with it over a straightforward protocol.

In this case, I wrote that interface and open sourced it. http://library.wolfram.com/infocenter/MathSource/585/
Focusing on growth and revenue sounds like the right thing to do for a p2p dog walking marketplace, or a SaaS enterprise meal planning app, but what about the startups solving big problems? Is month over month user growth relevant to a nuclear fusion or jet airplane startup?
Put a hard time out on the worker and it will be killed and restarted if hanging for X period of time.
Well, in some stores, RFID on all products already exists.

Especially as they were originally added to prevent theft, and are now kinda for free, it’s quite cheap to add that feature.
Presumably, reconstruction after the earthquake in 1989.
What about Android apps (like Facebook) that collect phone numbers, contact lists, geolocation data, record sound without any user authorization?
Nobody cites every package they use, it's not feasible. I use a lot of packages, and some journals have a limit on the number of citations you can have. I only cite packages when it provides specialized statistical functionality.

For example, I do a lot of work with data from complex surveys, and I always cite Lumley's survey package because without it I wouldn't be able to do the work. On the flip side, I use Hadley's readr package extensively because I think his I/O functions are more sane than the defaults. I'm not going to cite readr in every paper I write just because I'm too lazy to type stringsAsFactors = FALSE when I read a csv file.
You're associating "car" with "something a homeowner can regularly control." I associate "car" more with "a personal vehicle."

I'd rather high speed chunks of metal not be under individual control, personally. Road or air.
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> It may be just a lucky shot and then you close your defense.

See Greece in WC 2010 as an example of this as a deliberate strategy.
It would be wonderful if these sorts of articles (which efficiently generalize advice based on thousands of data points) could back their assertions up with a few telling case studies. It's often too easy to nod sagely at advice like "don't loose focus" but not actually recognize the pathology in ourselves in our day to day lives.
It's not only about resources.

Things which are not controlled by a company, or at least a foundation of some kind, are essentially a commons. The tragedy of the commons then goes into effect.

Who is responsible for upgrading the system? Nobody.

Who resolves disputes over technical vision? Nobody.

The internet and web 1.0 were an aberration - they came out of government funded research (DoD/CERN/universities). People built decentralised things because their salaries were very safe and accountability against any kind of commercial metrics (like userbase size) were non-existent. But at the same time, beyond salary, they didn't have big budgets to run centralised services. Early internet protocols are a reflection of the funding model used to build them .... NOT what was technically the best approach and NOT even anything privacy related! Which is why despite being decentralised most early internet protocols didn't really think about privacy much: those weren't research topics that interested the government funding sources.

In a sense, the early internet was a product of a hard-left entirely state-driven economic model.

So we now have a strange kind of rose-tinted glasses effect where people hark back to a better era of cooperation and friendship, a time without dirty dirty things like "profit" and "digital rights" getting in the way. This is a common theme amongst those on the political left: stuff was better when it was run by the state.

But the state didn't want to continue funding the internet in perpetuity, so it was opened to commercialisation, and since then virtually all technical progress has been driven by the profit motive and by implication, the ability to make lots of money by getting lots of users on your centralised platform (which are a lot easier to build anyway).

Is this worse? Maybe. It's capitalist. Whether that's better or worse than what we had before depends on your political perspective.
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