skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The team was open to moving to SF as part of the acquisition. Also, there are only three of us so it wasn't as if many people were uprooted.
Thanks for the feedback, we're actually working on the android version right now.

This is a joint personal project between my brother (a product designer) and myself (an engineer) so we definitely have taken it upon ourselves to make sure that it functionally makes sense and the UI/UX is simple, intuitive, and looks great. Just like our car/moto/bicycle/truck builds, this project is a reflection of ourselves as well.

Appreciate the reply and I will definitely reach out once the android version is available for download!
You forgot to add: In USA.
A 2Mbps profile (what they mentioned) is about 900Megabytes/hour. They use ABR (hls) so, most likely there _average_ bitrate is actually only 1.5Mbps. That means about 675 MB per hour. Which means about 600k hours where consumed by this relatively small Brazilian streaming service.

Your math is wayyyyyy off.
Max most of your comments here are well thought out and argued (I don't always agree with you), but unless you are an investor or employee what does it really matter if Peach succeeds or fails? I also thought Peach would go nowhere (not much sign of 10x), but I kept my opinion to myself as I had nothing productive to add.
I had a grant-funded summer internship at a military institute. They gave me a 1099, with all the money filled in to a box that indicated I didn't owe tax. Got hit with self-employment taxes and a penalty two years after. Pretty sure I fit the requirements for W2 and they should have paid but I'm not about to report the military to the IRS or sue them.
Tried it myself, very cool framework. Slack and atom.io use it.
> What you effectively doing is wasting time on useless stuff. This is even more useless than trying to prevent copying of DVDs or pirating games.

Can you be so sure? The Union blockade of the Confederacy had plenty of holes, and smugglers / privateers / blockade-runners made good money getting through (when they survived) ... but that doesn't mean the blockade wasn't effective all the same at weakening the Confederate military and economy.
Since recruiting excellent people costs nothing and is extremely easy this idea makes sense.

Additionally team and corporate culture are valueless, so retaining these things is unimportant.

Finally we can observe that consultants and executives are the fundamental creative loci in our economy.
> By taking out the maps, Niantic has turned their scavenger hunt into a scratch-off lotto ticket ... they broke the effort-reward cycle

You're phrasing this almost as if Niantic wanted there to be third-party mapping apps in the first place, and then changed its mind.

The game Niantic released doesn't have mapping, and didn't intend to have an open API. This can be read as an implicit statement that the game design that Niantic thought people would enjoy playing, doesn't involve knowing where pokemon are.

Presuming there was at least one actual game designer involved in creating the game, there's likely already some sort of effort-reward cycle built into the game that doesn't involve mapping. It might not be one you like playing, but that probably means that you were not the audience Niantic designed (and playability-tested) the game for.
Not OP, but the distinction is between live streams where the content is being generated very close to the consumption time (historically delivered using RTSP) and between static files sitting on a server/CDN (ie. Netflix, Youtube, etc.)
They are doing that because making those claims would be illegal. So, the absence of the hard version of these claims doesn't really mean anything, because if they did make them they wouldn't be able to sell their product at all.
Considering they are forcing the team to move to SF, there is no way Instapaper will exist in one year.
> Cars aren't designed for the safety of anyone but their occupants, though.

This is not the case. Part of the reason that all new cars from large manufacturers are as bulky looking as they are is to conform with US pedestrian collision regulations.

While I applaud this initiative, I'd like to be able to buy a smaller, nimbler car and simply avoid hitting pedestrians.
> but it doesn't make sense that a scraper, by virtue of its being a scraper, is incurring additional load

It does, because scrapers don't have normal usage patterns. They're robots and behave like robots.

> What's the difference between a user clicking the same button on the page 50 times or holding down F5 and a scraper that pings a page once a minute?

Typical users aren't usually in the habit of mashing F5, especially not for robotically long periods of time. It's basically the difference between a theoretical activity and an actual activity.

Basically, scraping is not regular usage, and I don't think it's correct to pretend that they're equivalent (or more extremely, that scraping is less costly to the website).
Isn't most of "built great products" the combination of right timing, right connections, right team, product/market fit? What really is the difference between #1 and #2?
Just came here to say that too. There's a fair amount of hubris in the founder/ceo promising things they cannot promise. I realize bthdonohue is doing it for the sake of employees and their enthusiasm to continue with the acquisition, but making claims like this undermines your credibility when you EOL the product in two years.

(I was part of one of these acquisitions and thankfully our founder made no such promises, and instead told us "nothing is going to change right now, but I can't tell you what the future holds for us")
It is hereditary too. I've seen how in past generations, children with these kind of conditions were just labeled as trouble makers and got no help and eventually failed out the system.

Just simple understanding and acceptance that this is a condition, medication or not, makes a huge difference. And yet here we are still arguing it.
This article discusses the benefits of providing few significant raises to high performing individuals rather than a nominal raise to all.

From the employee's (my) perspective:

* If I get a small nominal pay raise, I might stick around for up to the rest of the year, depending on how recently I started at the company. I don't know if this is a good idea, but sometimes promotions and raises aren't on the same schedule.

* If I get no raise, I'll be leaving ASAP.

* If I get a significant raise, I'm more likely to stay stay until next year's raise.

Having nearly doubled my salary in a short time by "hopping" at good offers, there's little reason to stick around in companies that value manager bonuses over employee retention.
It can still be taxable income without a W-2.
A lot of them are... not great. Moment.js makes it somewhat bearable in JS, but the native stuff is hot garbage.
I agree with this, but I still have a hell of a time letting my kids outside unsupervised, not because of abduction or crime fears, but because of cars. At least in the States, people don't give a crap about anything while they are driving. Excessive speeding is the norm on all city streets, marked crosswalks are a mild suggestion, and unmarked crosswalks do not exist. If 50% of the land outside of my house were literal minefields I'm not sure it would be less dangerous. I don't think anyone was abducted in my city last year, but 10 pedestrians died. A teenager was just mowed down in a crosswalk over the weekend. That scares the shit out of me.
Indeed it is sensible.

Honestly at this point in my life (58), I have more of a desire to feel great everyday then I do to have 2 more years of life when I am 93.
This illustrates another point: what is the line between "criticism" and "hate?" Can an entrepreneur accurately differentiate and classify between the two?

Many entrepreneurs just classify anything contrarian as hate because it is easier/faster.
"For most of us, yearly pay raises are a fixture of corporate life"

Was this article written in 1955 and then accidentally drawn out of the archives and posted in 2016? The annual pay raise died a few decades ago. There were countless articles about it. You can go back and re-read early issues of FastCompany, from the 1990s, where they talk about "you" the worker needs to make themselves essential to the company, because annual raises are dead and only real promotions bring real money any more.

And of course, at some point there emerged in the USA the odd habit of top managers, such that to get a pay increase an employee needs to quit and go elsewhere, or at least has to get a real offer from somewhere else, and only then will "your" company give you a pay increase, to match that competing offer.
The State of Enterprise Technology: An Analysis of 1,500 Fundings Over 3 Years
I haven't seen this in the comments so far, and admittedly I'm not so familiar with the issues at stake in the university context.... still I'll mention it...

I suspect that opposition to this is the increase of cost and employment related regulatory burden for universities. Much of the discussion I'm seeing is whether or not certain students qualify for employment status (and presumably the benefits that come with that status). However, will not treating grad students as employees reduce the opportunities available for grad students? Usually when labor costs increased like this marginal positions are eliminated. Seems like if research positions are more expensive, research opportunities correspondingly have to be reduce.

Sure, the next shoe to drop is spend more tax money on research (given the dependency of many universities on the public treasury), and the one after that is tax more/borrow more... but even if that happens over time, the cost increase seems much more immediate. (Yes, you could raise fees and tuition, but in today's environment that would also lead to demands for greater tax expenditure.)

Anyway, curious if anyone is thinking about the other side of the equation.
This smells like a major fuckup
Wonder how difficult it would have been to pull the JS portion into Java by way of Rhino.
Sam has a job I would not want - the don't f-up YC job. The stress that has to go with this must be enormous.
> Graduate students are students.
>> Yes, they are. This case is not about that, as it is not in dispute.

I do actually think this is disputable. As a late stage PhD candidate, I'm not sure that what I do for a living looks anything like "studying". I and my colleagues work on research problems with variable amounts of input from our advisors. We typically don't take classes after 2 years. I work 9-9 6 days a week on building experimental setups and tackling scientific questions that will be beneficial to both my employer (more papers + more grants = more overhead money for the University and more research funding for my advisor) and to my career. Yes, academia doesn't have a commercial output, but what I do isn't that dissimilar to what being a data/research scientist at a small company would do.

People (successfully) pursuing a PhD are almost by definition not "studying" anything; they're advancing the state of the art in their field. To me calling them students seems like a mechanism to depress salaries.
I don't see a problem with that. Different strokes for different folks. What I'm enjoying is available to you, but you've chosen to limit yourself to a constricted set of abilities, because you (apparently) enjoy the limitations.

Let's ignore the maps; pretend they never existed. I can drive wherever I want, but my time is limited. A child's time is less limited, but their location is more limited. A college student might be a mix of the two: mobile, with some significant free time. Another variable: location. In a rural location, there might not be a pokestop within several miles. In an urban location, there might be three within range of your home's family room.

From my perspective, people are already playing a bunch of different games, based on available time, mobility, location, and density of other nearby players.
I'm sure there'd be a ton of people that would love to pay to use your platform (who cares if the source is available, I don't want to run my own because once the code is written, it's ops thats hard). But then I suppose it would be hard to stay unnoticed.
Isn't this just another example of a problem created by the rules/regulations? A pharmacist is forbidden from providing the $150 alternative even if the customer specifically requests it (because of the prescription requirement and rules).

For those who need epinephrine injectors, can't they just ask their doctors to prescribe Adrenaclick? What prevents that from happening? I'm guessing it is insurance guidelines that are also stuck in the EpiPen-only world but perhaps it is also doctors being too conservative?
NOTE: I'm not attacking you, although I will use strong language in my answer. I understand the question and the reason for asking it, but I'm answering honestly, with the emotion that this question evokes. Most of us hear the term "tuition credit" and roll our eyes, because it is as empty as a politician's promise.

The tuition "value" is an old salesman technique. "This car is worth this much, but for you we're going to cut that price in half... isn't that a great value?"

It's like saying, "You should thank me because I haven't punched you lately."

I think it's laughable. The way the funding works is this: My advisor writes a grant proposal to some agency. If it is approved, the university gets a 1/3 of the money off the top. The rest goes towards paying for the expenses (servers, software, tools, and my stipend). The school makes money because I'm here, and then they have the gall to say that I receive a tuition "credit" when I'm not taking classes in the first place. Rather, the school reaps the benefits of my labor in terms of immediate financial reward as well as claims of intellectual property over my developments and my publications.

So the university makes money (that they would not get if I were not there doing research). Then they tell me that they would have charged me $X to attend, but out of the goodness of their heart they are going to waive this tuition, and I should consider it as part of my compensation so that I feel better about being paid less than market value. You tell me: should I feel warm and fuzzy about this?

"Tuition credit" is an empty number that they make up. Implying that it is a benefit to me is, frankly, insulting to my intelligence.

The only reason that I am working towards a PhD is because I love teaching, and you have to have a doctorate before you can teach at the university level (although there are exceptions, they are growing exceedingly rare).
Do you have any ETA? Sorry, I don't mean to be an ass, it's just our entire business is currently down because of this.
That's a separate project:

- https://github.com/fake-name/ExHentai-Archival

- https://github.com/fake-name/PatreonArchiver

- https://github.com/fake-name/xA-Scraper

- https://github.com/fake-name/DanbooruScraper

Or... well, 4 separate projects. Whoops?

At one point, a friend and I were looking at trying to basically replicate the google deep-dream neural net thing, only with a training set of porn. It turns out getting a well tagged dataset for training is somewhat challenging.

Well-tagged hentai is trivially accessible, though. I think there's probably a paper or two in there about the demographics of the two fan groups. People are fascinating.

Next up, automate the consumption too!
Even though I was born and lived there for almost 20 years and coming back almost every year for the last 10 years, I really don't feel this kind of fast development described in the article.
Politics really has big impact on economic development and the country has struggled as much as others within the region. It follows similar pattern like China's and it heavily got influenced by politicians who favor policies leaning toward China.
Only cities like Ho Chi Minh and Ha Noi get that much of attention and heavy investments. Other parts of Vietnam is still in very poor condition.
However, I really believe that it's a very good place for investment besides all the political mess because its workforce contains young/large/talented people.
> The GPS issues have nothing to do with getting a GPS fix. It's just a plain ol' bug.

GPS on phones aren't that accurate, especially downtown, but most applications will filter the data because of that. Ever use Google Maps for directions and make a turn different from what the app is telling you to do? Your car icon will continue down the "correct" path for 15-30 seconds before re-adjusting to the new route. This actually happens all the time, it's just more likely that your GPS is misreporting you as 20m east instead of you taking a different turn, so the app holds off on updating the display until it is more sure.

So it's a combination of the two factors. But most apps handle it muuuuch better than P:GO does.

Here's a link I was able to find on running apps specifically. Apps that deal with you being on foot will obviously have a harder time determining exactly where you are, as opposed to apps for driving where you're moving faster, in a straight line, and down a grid of streets.

http://radianttap.com/blog/2012/comparing-accuracy-of-the-gp...
I think the overall trend has been from no abstractions to bad abstractions. As a systems programmer, I like reading about the battle stories of e.g. console game developers from the 90s and earlier who practically wrote an OS, but I hope our current trajectory will eventually lead to good abstractions (in good languages).
See my edit please.
One thing I missed is any mention of inflation. If you are doing a satisfactory job not deserving of merit or demerit, wages should still be adjusted.
That removes half the point of this site if we don't talk about where startups are going to go.

People like to talk about things? I don't know how to answer your question better than that.
This is a tricky subject.

I think all feedback is helpful. (Engaging with the people who provide the feedback, however, can be more trouble than it's worth. You have to know when to let go.)

We launched stdlib [1] two weeks ago and while we saw a lot of positive reactions, there was a very vocal minority who lashed back against our "marketing speak" and lack of things like SLAs. This quickly devolved into tearing apart the product itself, with someone going as far as to say if the commercial venture is successful, we will ruin the lives of thousands of developers (!!).

The response was actually tremendously valuable --- our marketing material sucks for a developer tool. It doesn't describe what the product does well enough. Heck, it still doesn't because we've been iterating on features more than messaging.

It was easy to instantly jump to the defensive, and I think I did to begin with, but I'm learning that adversarial comments are actually just a really straightforward question disguised as incredulity. "What's your value prop?" Some people might not get it right away, some never will. But my goal, personally, is to reduce the amount of people that ask that question. :)

[1] https://stdlib.com
Perhaps. To me it sounds like a bit of a weasely and vague term. But of course different people use words differently.
The email I received:

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We are currently experiencing denial of service attacks that are targeting our DNS infrastructure.
Aug 23, 20:48 UTC
This incident affects: Hosted DNS Service.
I'm just a software developer with a side interest in climate science so please excuse any ignorance on this topic. What I find troubling is it seems, from what I have read, our climate models currently have a poor handle on co2 and methane feedbacks, both positive and negative. For example there seems to be a general scientific consensus that NOx from industrial sources (mostly coal power plants) is having some cooling effect. When these are removed, which will happen slowly but steadily as coal is retired, there will be a warming response but it is not clear how much this response will be. Similarly, you have positive feedbacks coming into place like the decline of sea ice in the arctic, less forests and more combustion of those forests, and co2/methane releases from permafrost. These are other feedbacks are known but nothing I have read has convinced me we have a full scientific understanding of the impact that these feedbacks will have.

Thats why like others in this thread I feel rather hopeless about humanity ever getting global warming under control. We of course have the problem of humanity to continue putting greenhouse gases into the atmosphere via our economic activity. This of course is co2 but also methane and HFCs. The challenge of bringing these down to safe levels while keeping not only the standard of living we enjoy currently in the west but also bringing billions more people into the middle class world wide is impossible with existing technology and incredibly hard with emerging technology. To get to a carbon neutral prosperous, middle class society for everyone on the planet will take many decades. If we ever get to that point I'm afraid feedbacks and built in system inertia will be so strong that the planet will keep on warming for 1,000s of years despite our best efforts.

TL;DR I think we as humans really screwed this up and I don't have much hope of us collectively being able to fix it.
I understand, and I don't have an ETA quite yet, but it appears that service is already starting to return. I've tested my domains hosted on Linode and a number of others that I know are and they appear to be working now. We're still working asap to ensure everything is coming back appropriately.
This says 1.5hrs before sunrise time which varies. So in January in Northeast USA this would be 5:30am
"like most engineers and other creatives"... is not the case at all. Some people do their best work in the morning and go to bed early. Yes, even "engineers and creatives".

If there's a trend at all, I'd suggest that older folks fare better in the early morning and younger ones are better at night, although I've seen counter-examples and even poly-phasic folks who do just fine.
I would imagine commercializing ALCAR to be be difficult at this point, considering you can get it cheaply in every form on Amazon Prime.
What of JITing x86 assembly into x86?
Yup...with my ex-wife is was first time we got pregnant. Browse a couple of specialty sites and suddenly everyone and their mother is spamming us with new-parent ads.

Let me tell you how much fun it was to still be getting "free Enfamil baby formula" spam for a year after she had a miscarriage.
Dunno about the U.S. but in Australua they are definitely a fixture.
That's unfortunate for them, because while they may not have been the users they wanted (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12306284) there were literally millions of them.
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Search engines respect robots.txt – not sure many scrapers do.
I didn't say you shouldn't. I just asked how often that kind of performance optimization mattered. The world is not comprised only of CRUD and situations where that kind of perf matters.

But I do agree that even if you don't have to worry about cache latency for every single thing you write, it is something you should know about.
True.

And also, the more independent dependencies you have, the more that risk is compounded.