skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> They got 139 points on their launch.

Points on a HN news article aren't the same as votes in favor of the company by the HN community (heck, this one on Anymailfinder has 49 points currently; if points were a measure, Anymailfinder would be getting a positive response, rather than the negative one complained of to launch this subthread.)

> Then they received $18 million.

Not from HN.

> I'd say that's pretty positive reception in the Valley.

Reception by the HN community isn't the same thing as reception in the Valley.
But for what reason do you need a truck. Why not self-driving "Packages". You need Range? Use self-driving "Batteries". I think range problems will be a thing of the past.
Most of the sellers are the same. Same sellers, same costs.. how much cheaper could it be outside of special deals?
I did. If it has to stop at intersections, how is it not subject to being blocked by traffic? If it is rolling along the same road, what stops cars from moving in front of it? As far as I can tell, this system has no advantages over a tram/streetcar.
Apple in 2005. I was taking an investments class in community college and this was the investment decision I made as part of a homework assignment/project. Of course, sold too early to buy a house and ...
Interview processes aren't about ensuring 100% of the good candidates get hired, but rather about trying to ensure that the candidate finally selected is good.

Being several times on the hiring end of that conversation, there's a class of great people that are very hard to identify over an interview. It feels quite bad to suggest a no-go in those cases, but living through such choices, sometimes for years, increases the fear of mishaps.

These days I mainly look at track record. Involvement in projects, conversations, issues filed, quick hacks, etc. Often language or tech doesn't even matter, as long as there's flexibility and an ability to talk over problems.
Don't use this in Europe. Cold emailing is forbidden in lots of countries.

If you cold email me with your business/sales/whatever you make money with it pitch, I report you to your hosting provider and if necessary, to the local authorities.
I don't get why people don't just use "queer", which is a true catch all for, well, queered identities. It doesn't seem to take off outside of academia, where it is rigorously used and defined.
This is fairly common in the US as well.
Granted, I don't think many engineers are making out with seven figures here, but they should be making whatever their shares were supposed to be worth at the most recent valuation. That's if they joined after the last funding round, more if they joined earlier.
Simple Blocks Based DSL, Complex Natural Animations (iOS/tvOS CoreAnimation)
Hackerone and Bugcrowd do a great job. And we recommmend to run bug-bounty programs all the time.

But companies which run fast and deploy code everyday with CI/CD (or several times a day) it's almost impossible not to introduce new vulnerabilities. This is where solutions for continuous security are incredibly helpful.
It doesn't hurt to mash <ENTER> a few times

Do you happen to be an older North Carolinian? I don't think I've heard anyone use "mash" in this sense since being a bewildered Northerner in an NC elementary school in the 70's when a teacher asked me to "mash the lights". Apparently some light switches once used buttons, and "mash" was (and possibly still is) a regionalism for "press".

Is it used elsewhere too? Personally I'd use "mash" to describe preparing potatoes, and would need it for brewing beer, but I wouldn't have considered that it might be applicable to escaping from ssh. Although searching now, I see that it also seems to be a term-of-the art for rapid button pressing in video games. And I see that suggestions that it's also used in the West Indies.
No, but I'll definitely use the site! :)
google IS the nsa and u.s. deep state.

why would any competent super power allow google operate freely , if at all, in their country.

look at europe. all of europe has crap internet entrepreneuriship and is totally and utterly infiltrated by usa/nsa search.
While I have not had the same experience I recognize much of the same emotional responses. As a Norwegian I also had starry eyed grand delusions about America. A country at the center of innovation, with skylines made of glass high-rises. As a tourist in New York I maintained that illusion.

Only when I moved to the US and got to deal with American society and American in an everyday manner did I get a needed reality check. A lot of people live materialistically very good lives in America. But the poverty and social problems so visible even in relatively small towns in America is hard for many Scandinavians to accept.

And has the author mentions, it is perhaps not the poverty and social problems themselves but people's attitudes towards them which are most off-putting. While America offers many opportunities for talented people both in terms of jobs you can have, places and climates you can live I find it hard to put in my hard work into a society which has values so opposed to my own. There is this social darwinistic streak. Nobody seems to have any hope of belief that these sorts of problems can be solved. Problem solving seems to simply be about building a wall against the stuff you don't like and hide in your own gated community.

It is also bizarre for a Scandinavian to come to the center of tech innovation and see so little usage of technology in everyday life and in the public sector. Frankly America seems extremely backwards when it comes to actually implementing technology in society. We are used to paying pizza on the door with a card reader, fill out taxes and pay them online or through an SMS message. Tax info is automatically collected and filled out so you only need to verify it. Many super markets use LCD displays to update prices across the aisles and people frequently do self checkouts. While things like certainly exists in pockets in the US, it is surprisingly common how manual many tasks are done, and how much paperwork is involved in both private and public sector. Visit a hospital in the US and you have to fill in all sorts of papers. Need a subscription, more papers. And then they got to count the pills. In Norway subscriptions are sent electronically from your doctor to all pharmacies. I can request a new prescription from an iOS app.

I suspect a lot of this comes down to that there is no interest in America to improve society as such. One only things in terms of business which can make money and not in terms of how can government be modernized and work better towards it citizens. But in America there is zero faith in government. However that becomes a self fulfilling prophecy. How can you expect quality government if you have already decided government is inherently bad?

I wish it was different because I really want to live in the US. I hate Norwegian darkness and climate. I also enjoy how much more sociable Americans are. But values of American society is very hard to accept or stay indifferent to.
I'm not complaining about Windows 10 in particular.

I'm complaining about walled gardens and application "stores" that require an account in particular, even when they don't require payment information (making them not a store at all, just a walled application garden).

And yes, I have used the Windows Store once or twice, but I don't see how that changes anything.
Thanks Jason! Will be at DEFCON this year? It'll be great to meet there.
Yeah it's been pretty crazy. At the time I was considering Nokia over Tesla...glad I made the right choice.
It changes the (paraphrased) "we can tell its secure because no one has visibly compromised for profit it the way they would if they could" nature you suggested uphtread, because, for profit, you would avoid visibly compromising it.
And so the compiler, who has no way to make informed decisions, is there to tell you which stylistic issues is more likely to introduce bugs or not, while being needlessly stubborn.

A sufficiently bureaucratic compiler.
"stealing of trade secrets [...] is more of a theoretical argument"

I just wanted to point out this pretty amazing sentence.
I guess it becomes a noun when usage commonly drops the implied "methodology", as in "Agile is honored more in the claim than in the practice."
It's interesting to use this reasoning in the context of tax-avoidance that the parent mentioned. Would you rather have $[some_large_number] of cash, or $[some_large_number + some_large_numer*(tax rate)] in [tech stock]?
This is horseshit nationalism, again. What Chinese companies have made huge inroads into the American tech world? Every time they do, some commentator (probably the same guy who wrote this article) will show up to shake a big stick at them and try to chase them off, with tales of impending Chinese takeover.

The real story, there and here, is one of large corporations using whatever means they can, including their friends in local government, to increase their own power.
You assume that all investors follow the same profile for all of their investments.

This is a company which was all but guaranteed to succeed and sell in <3 years for billions.
Surprisingly, according to game theory yes.

http://lesswrong.com/lw/dc7/nash_equilibria_and_schelling_po...
The comments seemed pretty positive.
What can you really expect from someone providing this service and also favours excessive growth hacking by saying "Oh lock, Airbnb did it too!!"

shakes head
Quite a few banks have failed in the US this year without government bailouts.

https://www.fdic.gov/bank/individual/failed/banklist.html
I don't understand why every hacker tries to come up with a novel way of laundering bitcoins or tries to launder them all at once.

Is there something urgent they need to spend thousands of bitcoins on right now that they can't just launder a hundred bitcoins a day through tumblers over the next few years?
I don't think I've heard a single person say elite dangerous is better without VR. It's just so much better with it than without, I can't not use it.

Mind you, I just have google cardboard, but it's kinda similar, right?
Is ! verified or enforced; i.e. does the compiler check to make sure that the functions does terminate in some way (besides returning) ?
If I had to choose only one, I'd go with replikativ:

https://github.com/replikativ/replikativ

At its core, replikativ is a Clojure/ClojureScript library that provides a set of confluent replicated data types (CRDTs) to enable developers to build decentralized apps that need to deal with keeping data in sync.

The end-game vision of the project is actually much more ambitious, however. I'd encourage checking out the "Motivation and Vision" section of their README [1] for a more thorough appreciation of what they're trying to do, but here's my poor attempt at a quick TL;DR:

> The goal of replikativ is to build a distributed web and edit data collectively, while still allowing the right to fork and dissent for anybody... the vision [of replikativ] is to decouple data from the infrastructure and allow an open system of collaboration... by creating open data systems instead of just optimizing the privatized Internet of data silos...

This matches perfectly with my utopian vision for the future of the internet.

Users, not corporations, should own and control data. Users can then grant access rights to applications & services on a case-by-case basis, and finally be able to freely move between applications and services without having to maintain separate sets of the same data under different formats in privately owned silos like in the status-quo.

Only then can we have a truly robust marketplace of apps and services that can compete on the strength of their value proposition to users, rather than relying on the strength of their network effects to lock out new players.

I'm definitely looking to build some apps with replikativ myself to contribute to their efforts once I get a chance to hone my ClojureScript skills. I'd also love to hear about similar efforts in the decentralized data space if anyone here happen to know any of them.

[1] https://github.com/replikativ/replikativ#motivation-and-visi...
Baltimore, MD; Reston, VA (near Washington, D.C.); FULL TIME

- Java backend engineers
- DevOps (Chef, Ansible)

Videology, Inc. - http://www.videologygroup.com/

We're in video advertising online and getting into TV as well now. Looking primarily for DevOps and server-side Java developers (if your Java is rusty but you're good, drop us a note anyway). I was working for a start-up called LucidMedia Networks (hence the "lmn" in the e-mail address below), which got acquired by Videology. Our stack is Java with Spring on *nix (Mac for dev, Linux on servers) with MySQL and some NoSQL stores on AWS. The Baltimore office also has a team on a large .NET stack as well (user-facing web app), but Java teams are spread across both offices. We have some big projects in the works to replace legacy services, integrate with big partners in the ecosystem, and scale up. We do business in North America, Europe, and Asia.

In general, our interview process starts with a take-home questionnaire to assess your skills. If that goes well, then we'll talk to you about it over the phone and ask some other details about you. If that goes well, we'll bring you on-site for an interview.

Contact me directly at sahil_lmn@yahoo.com (not using a company address to avoid spam).

I actually got hired through a HN "Who is Hiring" thread, and I hired 2 people through these threads. These things do work!
Unlimited text messages and emoji anywhere in the world
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How I Dunning-Kruger'd Marketing
> the two sides looks like they'd only be about as wide as a car lane, so not as wide as a tram lane

Are tram lanes in Europe larger than car lanes? Every streetcar I have seen in the US uses a standard car lane.
Independence Day, a blue-blooded American Hollywood Film if there ever was one, is also all about unity.
What Do You Mean? – Justin Bieber – TopCover
Short interesting content to read on the go in a blazingly fast way-Tinyfold App
Never heard of diapers.com? No way. That site was/is incredible. Soap.com is still to this day how I go shopping on Amazon.
The Linpack benchmark, which is the gold standard for the top500 super computer list you're referring to, can be gamed with a shitload of GPUs. The Chinese computers you're referring to simply have an enormous amount of GPUs. These aren't generalized computers, but quite specialized one.

It is quite historic on its own, but the utility isn't quite what you might expect.
Indeed. I don't think that the question I posed is the only question worth considering. Taxes matter and should be paid attention to.

Really, stepping up to an even higher level of abstraction I think the most important advice is to pay attention and think about your options. I think that far to many people fall prey to inaction and sticking with the status quo simply because it is easier.
Because:

(1) it's an insult. Some of us grew up with 'Smear the Queer' played in school. I am not 'queer', I'm gay (or homosexual, if you want to be clinical).

(2) There is nothing we have in common with these other groups to justify conflating them with gay people. Their causes aren't mine. Gay people aren't the other letters. I neither support lumping all these disparate groups together, nor had any say on it.

Actually, why not just call us 'sex weirdos'? It's got the same meaning coming from straight people.
>So trump raises 10% import tax
This was just an example. But it does not matter if 1% or 10%. It is per day. Cumulative. Please look up the word if you don't understand it. It is cumulative until the trade balance is balanced again.
LastPass Authenticator with push notifications
Government pass laws that spark crises, goverment bails out banks. People blame Wall Street.
"There is nothing more effective than a well directed email stating that 1) you can solve one of their problems and 2) are you willing to purchase it today?"

That is considered illegal spam in lots of european countries unless you have a pre-existing relation ship with the recipients. YMMV.
The phrase "too big to fail" exists for a reason—the big banks aren't getting smaller. Unless the big banks are shoving their liabilities into smaller ones just before death, I don't think it's too relevant to the financial crisis.
What's going to happen is that TODO is going to:

a) stay in the code forever.

b) seen 5 years later where it doesn't even make sense any more and by a different person.

If it's difficult to understand or not correct don't commit it. Just fix it. It's a false economy. Friends don't let friends TODO ...
Do you manage it yourself, hire a manager, or contract with a management company? The effort of dealing with maintenance and bad tenants seems like a big turnoff, and acting as HR for a management staff almost as bad.
We have an automated system that emails you after 30 days of a toggle being on 100%. After that, it emails you once a week. Soon you get bothered by it enough you take it out. System works.
Maybe, but it does seem to cause trouble.

I think of mine as requiring an attention threshold to be passed for me to switch tasks; the cost gets higher if what I'm doing is interesting to me (often more interesting than eating, which is a problem).

Stimulants raise my baseline interested score so that I only need something to be say 50 interesting score (+ 50 from stimulants) to switch tasks rather than 100 interesting score.

I have no idea how accurate this model is, but I do know that remembering to do anything administrative is difficult; even with reminders everywhere. Somehow I can always make time to marathon machine learning dev or video games though...

Edit: This study[1] claims in a rather offhand way that up to 65% of ADHD people keep it as adults. It also shows how feedback (making a task interesting IMO) is super important for us. Probably why I'm a good programmer and awful at lots of other things.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27394915
http://www.wired.com/2016/06/google-turns-giant-internet-cab...

I'm quite confident they have the capacity. They have more than pretty much everyone besides maybe the government.
Bought a two bedroom flat when I was nineteen in a notoriously bad part of town, that was right at the edge of a gentrifying wave (and within walking distance of university). Got a flatmate who paid my whole mortgage and 50% of the bills then sold it when I finished uni for 3x what it cost me after doing minor repairs and a bunch of cosmetic work.
What is so amazing about this sentence?
Basis is providing full refunds and will be shutting down the supporting data services at the end of the year.

For reference, Intel acquired Basis for around $100 million in Q1 2014. (https://techcrunch.com/2014/03/25/intel-competes-purchase-of...)
I'm glad to know I'm not the only one that does this. I'd say my results echo yours. I had one candidate with a resume that bragged about years of shell scripting experience. When I asked the trivial question of "What is your favorite shell?" he gave a panicked-deer-in-the-headlights look and muttered something about Ubuntu.
I'm curious about this anecdote. PCs, even into the early 90s, had a keyboard buffer that was only a few dozen characters long, at most. I know because I'd frequently hit it and had learned to stop when I heard the first beep and pick right up where I left off without losing a character once it had time to finish flushing. I don't know of any system where you could have typed enough in advance that you'd have to sit long enough for this conversation to transpire.

That said, maybe this could be the case if it was a dumb terminal connected to a unix server and it was buffering in the network stack?
Maybe it's just me, but isn't JavaScript still looked down on? There's a reason languages are being written on top of it, and lots of frameworks to patch up the terrible usability of it. Just because it's popular doesn't mean it's great.
Yes, quite a few

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outer_Space_Treaty
I consider spam to be a on a spectrum of invasive advertising. Direct mail and telemarketers are other obvious examples.

A more extreme example: if a hustler approaches me on the street and tries to con me, is that still "cold outreach"?

To me if it's on that spectrum it's all sleazy, only to varying degrees. At least with blog posts and viral videos it's always my choice to engage with them.
Okay, why don't you assume in everything I'm talking about fluffy rainbow butterflies or something nice like that? Principle of charity, right? That way we can both go our separate ways happily.

If someone doesn't mean "fully statically typechecked" then they shouldn't say "fully statically typechecked". It's not an ambiguous phrase.
> I don't get why people don't just use "queer", which is a true catch all for, well, queered identities.

Some people do identify as "queer" (its the Q in LGBTQ...) OTOH, lots of people that identify as LGBT, etc., don't, for a variety of reasons -- including it being a catch-all, and also, IIRC, because to some people the term implies acceptance of a heteronormative framework.
The GitHub flow [1] is to use pull requests for everything. Aside from being a great code review tool, you can execute CI and other checks on them, even making it required for those checks to pass before merging [2]. You can quite easily hook your own checks [3], like the one from the original post or even a check whether the committer signed a CLA (Spring Boot does this [4]).

[1] https://guides.github.com/introduction/flow/
[2] https://help.github.com/articles/enabling-required-status-ch...
[3] https://developer.github.com/v3/repos/statuses/
[4] https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-boot
I think this sounds shady. The most interesting part of the article to me was the use of "email" by itself to mean "email address". This is always so confusing to me, since "email" already is a noun meaning something else.

A button saying "Get email" to me would indicate that I would be sent email if I clicked, not that I would be shown the email address of the person the button was associated with, for example.
I live in Boston, and while it isn't Canada, it can get quite cold in the winter. Plenty of people here, I included, bike in the winter. As long as you wear the right clothes have low-temperature lubricants and winter tires on your bike, winter biking isn't that big of an issue. If anything it's better than summer biking because I don't get as hot or sweat as much. Mud season is far worse for biking, but it last only a month or so if that.
Then you read another article than me. He acknowledged that China had real problems and was not any better than the US. His point was that China was moving somewhere. That is a point I can relate to, because it seems like America isn't even trying to solve its problems.

Pollution is a great point. No doubt China is far more polluted than America today. So it is far worse. However China has a much grander goals and incentives for change. They put in place stricter emission standards for new cars. They invest very heavily in renewable energy to the point where most solar cells today are made in China. They acknowledge they have a serious problem. In contrast in America a large fraction of the population are disputing that there even is a problem to begin with.

This attitude mirrors the other state affairs in China and the US. American conservatives blame poor people for their problems. They didn't work hard enough, didn't get an education, have the wrong attitude or whatever. China at least accepts that poverty is a problem. But they have to fight epidemic corruption and many other on problems on many fronts.

China no doubt is a dictatorship. But it is also a developing country. I can't see the justification for America being a de-facto police state. No western nation has as draconian punishment, no nation locks up as many people or has as militarized police. So there is no reason to be smug towards China.