skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When Jet.com came out, I often checked it against Amazon, and did make some purchases through it. But there's some odd gaps, it has no category through which I can buy Blu-rays, for example. And it has huge inventory gaps on very basic current items. I honestly forgot to keep checking what I could get through it, as the gimmick of adding up a bunch of items for savings rarely amounted to very much.
But the title is "Making django CMS as easy to install as WordPress." Or did you just change it?
False start on ProductHunt?
Somebody just submitted our product to PH. We weren't ready for this at all.
Is it possible to "hide" it and re-submit later when it's ready? I feel like it's a real false start.
What should we do?

ps: here is a ProductHunt link: https://www.producthunt.com/tech/chatbottle
The service we're working on is not yet released. It works fine, but we planned to redesign the website and cover kik and skype.
Article works like this:

1. First I start with my pet theory (China kills foreign competitors to local companies)

2. The headline case does not support my theory with facts

"Uber in the ride-sharing market; in fact, Uber felt it was treated fairly by a government interested in transportation innovation. According to reports on the ground, Didi used its local knowledge to act more nimbly in satisfying Chinese customers."

3. I draw stories from fantasy world

"But my guess is that if the American ride-sharing company had been more successful, China would have put a Mao-sized thumb on the scales."

4. I go on as if the facts (Uber being clobbered) support my pet theory.

5. Page views + Expert!

(I'm not saying China doesn't protect it's companies)
Is a plea bargain a successful defense? Only if you are really guilty. If you got bullied into taking the plea, it's an utter failure. Depending on how you weight the two parts of the assertion, it isn't unreasonable to call it mostly false.
Thanks for responding anyway! I started to reply myself but couldn't figure out a way to phrase it without either resorting to hectoring, or getting dragged into the kind of legalistic, "rational" tarpit that's really the underlying problem. Your point is spot on.
Part of what concerns me about the UI discussion with LO is that the choices are held up as either Microsoft ribbon-style UI, or the current UI, as if because Microsoft adopted it and there wasn't a complete mutiny, it was a good idea.

Remember that Microsoft Word is entrenched in lots of places for various reasons, and it would take a major screw up before people wouldn't continue using it. I think what happened with the ribbon is that there were somethings that were better, and other things that were not, so people shrugged and went on with their lives.

This doesn't mean the ribbon was better.

Personally, for me, the ribbon is inconsistent. The context-aware part is good, but it's implemented inconsistently. So for me, I prefer the current LO UI even as I see room for improvement.

The upshot is that these discussions of LO "being so far behind the times" strike me as odd, because they come across as assuming that change is necessarily good for change's sake.

There are more serious problems with LO in my mind, such as the equation editing markup system--it's something that used to be light-years ahead of Word with, and now is lagging significantly.
No, but the article was.
In his defense, he is probably closer to correct than other organizations that push such messages:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quiverfull
Unfortunately, there is an underlying assumption in many debates, arguments, rants, discussions, and wikis online that simply presenting others with "THE TRUTH" is sufficient to change their viewpoint.

I realised a while ago that this is unlikely to be the case. Unless someone is ready to be convinced of some particular fact or truth then you can talk at them until you are blue in the face and not get anywhere.

It doesn't matter what clever logic you use, what pretty diagrams you make, or if you are polite or rude or patient or pithy. If someone has convinced themselves of some truth or other, then no statistic or image will un-convince them.

Ultimately I believe that it comes done to differences in philosophy. Like a web of ideas in which each person is trapped, any statement from the outside world is filtered and altered by what people already believe. Even seemingly 'obvious' things such as what constitutes evidence; or what does it mean for a sentence to be true; or what is 'research'.

Maybe I've been reading too many wikipedia talk pages.
Thing is, snopes and politifact debunk slightly different claims, but agree broadly on what happened. And it is not, that there is some "obviously right" claim^1 that needs debunking, but over a broad range of reasonable choices it is just the choice of the author which claim he wants to debunk.

^1 Actually there is, as many as there are readers.
Marriage should be a social declaration of dependency, not anything romantic or sexual. If I want my dog to be able to visit me in the hospital, who are you to judge that? That dog is my pride and joy.
> it starts with mentioning the controversy over the law that's going to force UTAustin to allow students to carry concealed but doesn't mention how back in those days dorms had armories, and some of those armed civilians providing supressive fire were students who retrieved their rifles from their dorm's armory.

It also neglects to mention that under the new law, students would have to be licensed and therefore over 21 years of age-- e.g. only seniors. All serious studies indicate it will be an absolutely tiny fraction of the student body:

"A review of student demographics at five large public universities and gun license statistics show it’s likely less than 2 percent of students who could carry a gun on campus." (http://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/headlines/20150314-f... )

Furthermore, concealed handgun holders are less likely to commit a felony than the ambient population, or the police:
https://www.txdps.state.tx.us/RSD/CHL/Reports/ConvictionRate...

I agree the account is far too anecdotal to make any meaningful statements. That having been said, having looked at the statistics, I'm not convinced states with concealed handgun laws are any more or less safe. I think the data is too noisy. It certainly is not driving safety, nor is it reducing it (e.g. a 2nd order effect). As I lean libertarian, that means I tend to favor CHLs.
> I’ve been telling my students, “Take a chance, you can get another job on Monday.”

For students, maybe, especially if they're entry level jobs. However, for anyone even mid-level, I don't think this has been good advice for several years. Perhaps in SF it's been fine, but even for many mid-level (and certainly sr folks) I know, finding another job "on monday" has not been the case. (getting an interview, especially via a recruiter, has still been relatively quick, from what I hear).

Employers have been far more picky than I think many people expect. Compounding this is that they sometimes have suboptimal folks in particular roles, and those people tend to exacerbate the problem when interviewing/finding new folks.

In any event, glad to see somewhat balanced view, vs the extremes we normally see.
Don't quite understand why this would be better than sticking an sftp server in a docker container.
Interestingly not a huge exit its "just" 3x. (Edited from 6x I looked at investment not valuation originally) For all the news around Jet taking on Amazon I'm not sure this is signaling a win for them.
So how does Coinbase do it?
Yes. I would suggest anybody who poses the question "why not" to try to actually implement SSH from the scratch! I've looked at some "smaller" implementations than OpenSSH and they are still, like you say, "weird."

SSH appeared to me to be an implementation of the console application that got crypto and network code bolted on, everything kept together almost with the Sellotape. And it doesn't change when somebody has to re-implement it as most of the "features" have to exist for a thing to work.

However, there are also some advantages in using SSH for some purposes: for somebody who knows what he does, just the key management is actually less weird than the whole SSL thing. The tunneling is also very convenient and I like it.
HN advocates the principle of charity - assuming the best possible intentions of the people you're talking to. In this case, that would mean assuming this person means something different when they use the phrase "fully statically typechecked", stating what you mean when you say it, and possibly linking to some source material to help further explain. It's quite possible they have the same understanding you do, they just are using the terms differently.
I just have a point about the last piece of advice:

"Make small convex investments. Learn a little bit of a lot of things–machine learning, internet of things, virtual and augmented reality, 3D printing."

I find a lot of advice to be diametrically opposed to this. Many other people advise you to "go deep" in a single topic and be the expert on that topic. (It also seems to contradict the point above it, but only if they are both read a certain way.)

So which is better advice? Is there a study out there?
Notably, this is mostly a "post-truth era" because the truth is now available. It's not like Nixon was all about honesty, it's just that we have unprecedented ability to fact-check the claims we hear.
He does not seem to state any reasons he thinks "Winter is Coming".

The earnings of Facebook, Apple, Amazon, and Google tell a different story than his.
The quote was "normal banks can", not "average banks do at the same rate or worse". The point is that the same challenge exists with physical banks, it's just been solved better because they have had more time to develop the security protocols.
they would only need to file for bankruptcy protection if they could not cover the loss from their own funds.

Right now with the price falling that could be an easier proposition tomorrow or next week.
> In the days of Google Drive and MS Office being available on pretty much any OS and device, do we still need an old school desktop office suite?

Neither Google Docs nor Microsoft Office's web offering are terribly powerful. Neither respects its users' privacy. Using neither is particularly wise should one wish to compete with either company, nor if one is doing anything which any country those two companies operate in might object to.

So yeah, a local office suite is necessary if one wants to do office-suite-style computing.

I'd argue that style of computing is inappropriate, but others are free to disagree and do what they wish.
I'm a proponent of publishing code that's useless, obsolete, buggy, poorly documented, etc, if the rights holders are so inclined. The reason is that I think it can still be useful as training data for, say, designing new programming languages/tools around coding patterns seen in the wild.
It's been well established that children of parents with high education levels, formal or informal (which describes the HN audience well), are themselves more likely to be successful and well educated. Nothing really controversial about that.
I get it -- lack of confidence yields doubt yields double-checking, verifying, testing, not taking things for granted, etc. It's a means to an end. It boils down to effort and thoroughness. As a programmer, that's always been true over the course of time.

In the end, confidence (to me) is about how one personally feels. IMHO, the great thing about programming is that it removes personal feelings from the equation.
In this particular case, they have no external investors. They say in their announcement: "...but as a small company without external investment..."
Web App Feature Reach: I Want to Use
There are also some significant vulnerabilities [1] in SSH by design / by default that must be disabled if used everywhere.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11052745
this is excellent news. I love amazon prime, and have a hard time seeing me switching, but Amazon needs a competitor, even if it isn't huge.
List of conferences to attend and speak for Front end/JavaScript enthusiasists
So that sounds like success (even though it's sad for datajoy users)! You guys tested the waters with 2 products, one has found product-market fit, and now you guys are focusing on growing that one.
> post-truth era

The most terrifying statement I've ever heard from the US government is this quote[1] that the NY Times[2] attributes to an unnamed aid to G.W.Bush, which was supposedly said by Karl Rove.

The aide said that guys like me were "in what we call the reality-based
community," which he defined as people who "believe that solutions emerge
from your judicious study of discernible reality." [...] "That's not the way
the world really works anymore," he continued. "We're an empire now, and when
we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality [...]
we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too,
and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors... and you,
all of you, will be left to just study what we do."

We have a serious problem if this nonsense has started to become accepted enough to justify being called a "post-truth era".

May I suggest trying to get as many people as you can to read Sagan's "The Demon-Haunted World"[3]? A free democracy cannot rely upon snopes (et al) as the only filter of facts from opinions and lies. Remember Sagan's warning:

I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time --
when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all
the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome
technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing
the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the
ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority;
when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our
critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good
and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition
and darkness...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reality-based_community

[2] http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/17/magazine/faith-certainty-a...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Demon-Haunted_World
Just Marc Lore things.
I really wish philosophers would stop using a half baked understanding of trans folk as an intellectual plaything.
Its a conservative problem actually. We can all (especially Californians) blame Reagan for that one http://www.nytimes.com/1984/10/30/science/how-release-of-men...
$500M invested, previous valuation ~$1B, so a "3x" exit.
Articles like these never fail to drive home just how much of a US patsy the EU has always been.
> the reason #AllLivesMatter is offensive is not because all lives DONT matter

I'm not sure I agree with that wording. To be clear:

* No lives matter outside the narrow scope of humanity.
The universe is an uncaring void. In the context of the
universe, no lives matter.

* Within the context of human society, all lives should
matter. Fairness requires a certain amount of equality
and equity.
There are a lot of product categories I've found its impossible to compete in because jet has this combination of impossibly low prices, and stupid high cpc's on Google. I wonder if an acquisition will bring things to more sustainable levels?
Jerks are also piping /dev/random into it, looks like that may be crashing it.
This is gibberish.
I hate the ribbon. I can never remember on which tab has the button I want. I just click round the tabs in circles trying to find the appropriate button. The ordering of the buttons on the ribbon seems random too.

Why can't Microsoft implement an optional menu bar? It's ridiculous.
American Universities do seem like they are playing dress up in the clothes of the older aristocratic systems whilst having dropped the key features that made these systems desirable.

As an example, take analytical reading, writing, and discourse. They used to be a key component (the trivium of Grammar, Logic, and Rhetoric) of higher education, and they are still valuable skills. Being able to dissect, evaluate and challenge an argument is the basis for making informed choices. The clashing of dogma that stretches from politics to tech discussions might just be down to us not knowing how to argue. So we lob things past each others heads like that makes sense.

As of now, it's been relegated to being touched gingerly at the end of highschool, and taught hush-hush on a need-to-know basis during graduate studies.

It's a pity because we could fit that in and a dozen other things. Cut the fat. We go through 12 to 20 years of education at tremendous costs. I sincerely believe that we could get an order of magnitude better value. We retained the means of higher education but lost sight of its ends.
I have plenty of rebuttals, but scan Ethics Watch for 30 seconds and tell me it's even worth my time spelling them out.
At a company, devs and come and go and they are just people working in a job. The difference is that at this time in history, there's a huge shortage of us. A company can hire as many secretaries as they need, and its a lot easier to hire directors and vps. But if you can't hire enough devs, a company that builds software isn't going to be able to do anything. The acute shortage is the difference.

If there was a big shortage of say people with business skills, then they'd be worth more, or sales. Good sales and biz dev is always valuable. But there's not really a shortage of them, in the same way that there is in software.

To give an example, I worked at a startup. We had millions to pay salaries. We were paying 150-200k in salary. We couldn't ever grow over 5. We wanted to hire about 20 more. We had plents of designers, office managers, and leaders. Devs were far more valuable than a new hire in those other areas, because we were short. I left after a while, we couldn't ever hire anyone to work on a group I was supposed to lead.
From this use case, where one person makes a file, and then an attacker forges another one with the same hash, MD5 was just recently broken and SHA-1 is far from it. Also, it's not immediately clear if a pair of broken hashes is also broken or not (depends on many things, and I probably don't even know half of them).

So, I'd say this is safe, for now. Yet, I also get bad feelings when somebody either comes with an MD5 hash or uses a SHA-1 as the most secure option.
I think the author is touching on the fact that there is so much uncertainty around this due to children being so long term that putting off making your family for short-term financial reasons doesn't make a whole lot of sense. The short-term gain from putting off kids is small.
It is redirected to an url with https with Pebble's official email, so it might as well be legit.
Does the advent of docker containers make creation and deployment of more complex systems as easy as wordpress?

(I'm asking, I don't have any real experience of docker)
I'm always baffled when the commentariat is expected to provide rigorous reproducible double-blinded academic, multiply sourced, incontrovertible hard evidence for their opinions.

This is a comment board, not a pendant's paradise.
Writing an OS in Rust: Better Exception Messages
> If the only coffee shops around are Starbucks, you're living in a shithole.

I don't disagree, but in my opinion picking a very mainstream, arguably mass-market, but still decent place for a first date over the one-of-a-kind local shop is useful signalling.

It makes it clear that you're not trying to impress by the choice of venue and you're not trying to project a particular lifestyle, and is a form of expectation management.

I don't believe that the hardcore multitasker in the example, gaming but somehow still money-making, typifies the average millennial either, but since the population of non- sexually active millennials is a subset, perhaps he's less of an outlier in that group.

At the risk of subjectively overgeneralizing in the other direction, perhaps that some of us perceive none of these anecdotes as very typical 'young people' behavior suggests that quirkier people have less sex than people whose behaviors and opinions wouldn't have stood out to us as much. Or we could just be too biased to what we think is 'normal' behavior. It's an intriguing point.
I think this is good advice- risk management is important in managing your own career. It's easy to get complacent with recruiter outreach hitting your InMail at a steady clip but macro, micro, exogenous, endogenous factors can shift your short-to-medium term career prospects significantly.
I'm not sure if "segregated" is the right word. The economic gap between Stockholm downtown and a suburb is smaller than, say, the gap between Washington D.C. and a small town in West Virginia.

Does that mean the United States is hopelessly economically segregated, with permanently unassimilated redneck populations that refuse to join the urban mainstream? If that's an unfair interpretation, why make the same kind of rhetorical leaps about European cities?
Comma.ai is releasing 7.25 hours of self driving car data
For two years?
Right just realized that
I think it's like any other type of investing: iterate on what you invest in every x days/months/years and make adjustments based on how their value changes. Also, diversify.
I expect nothing more of Slavoj Zizek.
He does:

> Vulnerability is here. Falling valuations. Layoffs. Shifting geography.

He also isn't saying the winter is coming, but that things might be changing and we should be prepared if they do

> To reiterate, I’m suggesting preparing to make good decisions if the rules change drastically.
The conflation of Thiel's libertarian ideals with his pursuit of life extension technologies was made by Thiel himself, as quoted in the same article:

“I stand against confiscatory taxes, totalitarian collectives,
and the ideology of the inevitability of the death of every
individual,” he (Thiel) wrote in libertarian journal Cato
Unbound seven years ago.

The tone of the article doesn't seem to be mocking him, so I don't think it is a hit piece. If Peter Thiel does literally believe that injecting himself with the blood of young people will extend his life then blame him for that, not the people reporting it.
assuming the server you are connecting to has DNSSEC, SSHFP is the taylor made solution for this problem.
Unsurprisingly, their FAQ covers this:

https://www.producthunt.com/faq#my-product-was-submitted-by-...

Please try to find an answer yourself before asking for help.
Dynamic Pricing and Major League Baseball
If you have 6 months in the bank, then you don’t need to make decisions “suddenly.”

I think it is sound advice. Life does not wait for anything. Would you rather be a poor person who raised a family, or do you want to be a rich person who waited too long? Assuming you want kids at all, of course.

If you have the financial discipline and spousal support to have 6 months saved up, then you can apply that discipline to raising the kids. No private school that you can’t afford. No designer clothing or unnecessary shoes. No TV with ads that awaken consumer envy.
And my favorite piece of advice: Don't take advice from people less successful than you.
Actually it makes perfect sense, and has happened in previous thefts.

I'm an investor and I think it's worth holding onto a currency if I see it as a good store of value, it doesn't matter if not everyone on earth is using it (eg: does everyone use gold? Could everyone use gold? No. Still a good store of value). So please don't speak on my behalf.
performance. sshfs is dog slow compared to NFS on a local network.

Also, coherence: sshfs manages to hide a lot of the ugly details, but you'll meet coherence problems on sshfs much more often than on nfs. They both do aggressive caching, but nfs gets help from the server side and is thus usually better.
Link to the referenced paper, http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2796407