skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is very true. However, I wonder if we as engineers and the like can provide a better TLDR ratings guide for marketplaces. Kinda like https://tosdr.org/ or a BBB that works... Then we as engineers refuse to build apps for marketplaces below some kind of score.

Or does it even matter if the Apple App store is the only marketplace of its kind?
Will I never guess what number 7 is?

(DNR)
John Gruber is going to love this one.
Tap the "web" link at the top of this page! :)
If you're actually paying Google money, they have pretty decent support. I've gotten support for their ad platforms, their apps for work, Google Fi, and my Nexus phones/tablets.

I see no reason for them to, nor do I expect them to, provide me support for things like GMail, or Hangouts, or their search.
- You need templates to do anything, because the standard library uses them so heavily. They're rather opaque.

- The functional control flow style, where everything involves closures, is much harder to understand than imperative control structures.
Many people would be surprised what depression feels like, and how much influence it has on cognitive abilities. The hippocampus is very involved with attention, focus, and memory and it atrophies with depression. Sometimes depression can cause pseudo-dementia which looks just like dementia except it's fixed just like depression.(One persons IQ fell from 130 to 70, and rebounded up to 115 after being treated with anti-depressants.)

You are doing a lot of stuff. Just reading about it stressful. And just because you don't feel sad I wouldn't rule out depression. If you do have depression then when you slow down in life, and take an SSRI you'll find that you're memory starts improving dramatically and you'll feel like your old self.

If that doesn't work then the other option is seeing a neurologist and getting a very expensive battery of tests with the very probably outcome "Hmm you seem fine".
Make AI startup, get acquired, quit, repeat
> However, the macroeconomic benefits of manufacturing don't necessarily require people to be employed in manufacturing, do they?

"Macroeconomic benefits" as usually measured by aggregate output measures, clearly not.

Distributional benefits, OTOH... well, not a strong requirement. But...

> As long as some of this wealth is captured for the people, then standard of living can increase.

The challenge is establishing the mechanism for that capture outside of employment. A fairly fundamental premise of the existing economic system is that the prime manner of that capture to provide distributed benefits will be employment, and there is fairly strong resistance (including from the people who would retain the benefits in the absence of employment without some knew capture mechanism) to changes to the structure.
Yes, customer service is a cost center- and cutting corners on the said customer service is exactly what previous commenters were complaining about- app store developers pay Apple n extraordinary amount of money, they should get better customer service in return.
External RAM, up to 1 Petabyte would be connected through an external FPGA, containing an epiphany link, some glue logic, and a memory controller.
Yes, initially. Pretty much everything starts off closed.

(DNR)
This is how democracy worked in ancient Athens: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sortition
I don't see how it shouldn't be; it's an entirely different set of constraints?
Facebook Messenger rolls out end-to-end encryption
I mean there's the occasional annoyance of not having the play store but been a great experience otherwise.
The reality is there is still plenty of hard, material stuff that needs to be made.

Just look at SpaceX. It's cool, it's tech and it is most certainly hard material science.

We won't be able to make it with just soft skills and software. Improving our material lives (including not wasting resources) matters.
Most clickbait titles are attached by the author.

And in this case the title is written from the heart in the context of reddit, where it has "/r/KerbalSpaceProgram" automatically attached.

I cannot agree with categorizing the act of naming the company/brand as "spelling everything out". You have to work equally hard to understand this title with or without the name. It requires reading the post and putting in the same amount of mental effort. But the stripped-down version fails to serve the purpose of setting context. It might as well be a random ID.

The posts you linked both have titles that at least set context, whether or not some people wanted more information.
Robotic contraption milking them? How about these milking robots on the farms all around me?

https://youtu.be/Aju_wqHhCBk
Homelessness is mainly a byproduct of mental illness and drug addiction. If you want to solve homelessness, you need to target those problems. I would suggest that new technology is needed, particularly in the case of mental illness. We do not have a good medicine to treat schizophrenia, for example.

The city of San Francisco spends $241 million/year on ~7 thousand homeless, an indication that throwing money at this problem doesn't do much.
From the article: "“You’d need 10,000 worlds like ours to have the chance that there would be one human who would become 125 years,” said Dr. Vijg."
Apparently, there's a man living who's 145 years old from a reasonably believable source.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/worlds-oldest-p...
I agree, but there's an inherent dilution.

It's not hard to imagine and expert proposing something really innovative, that slowly turns into "more manufacturing jobs". Each step dilutes an idea down to something that both sides can understand. The final step is generalists convincing other generalists, politicking. Maybe good parts stick, maybe not.

I have frustrations. Things work ok, i guess. I don't have a grand alternative.
Sure, I'm touch typist too, and use both left and right ctrl keys, never chorded with one hand.

You won't feel anything now, but 3-5 years down the road you might start to feel the strain.
You can get an unlocked 5x off amazon for $300.
In any large organization there are islands of mass stupidity. Apple is no different. I bet this ends with a mea culpa caused by the 1000 people at Apple who use the product who are now pissed. Note the review team operates in an airless void separate from the rest of the company on purpose; however those 1000 know where they sit.
There is a choice - and it is the right choice. Just make your software browser-based.
If people are making money on a platform, people will develop for it regardless of these issues. Unfortunate reality.
The Need for Biological Thinking to Solve Complex Problems
Show HN: My Slack community for investors is now partnered with ValueWalk
> That's a 24 hour latency on a release

The last unmasked release is 4.4.8-r1 which is six months behind.
Haha. Brutal question. I don't even know if I can count...

Big secret: There are no real stages. We didn't just have a seed, Series A, Series B, etc. And, that's the story for most companies. There are oftentimes intermittent rounds, that you can call bridge rounds or just financings. We had three times where people put in more money, sometimes a little, sometimes a huge amount, that aren't technically called anything. These intermittent financing are especially common in the early days.

I just searched my email for "sit this one out", "going to pass", "won't get there", "not the right fit", and "not going to get to the finish line", and I think we're at 200+.

Maintain good relationships with all investors, especially those that reject you.

Treat every funding like your last. Be thrifty and try to make revenue, and ultimately profit, as soon as possible. It will at worst extend your runway and at very best help you avoid the need to fundraise anymore at all. The goal is not to raise money, the goal is to build a standalone bad ass business.

That said, when fundraising, keep going and remember: it only takes one yes.
Have you ever maintained one of their CMS solutions? "Professional" has many meanings...
Perhaps you meant that she is _really_ well articulated (rather than rarely)?
The numbers you quote do not address the point under discussion at all.
That resistance is strong, but not universally or globally. It's not the kind of social innovation likely to come from America. But that doesn't mean it's a doomed prospect at the outset.
Okay, that is not blockchains for healthcare, that is third party validation for hashing. You're just storing the validation in Bitcoin's public network instead of your own secure servers. There are problems with this:

- You can't guarantee which block the transaction is on [1], which means all your customer encryption is asynchronous (slow).

- Your customers are assuming that you're keeping your private keys safe, which is not any different than trusting a non-bitcoin verification provider.

- The first quantum computer is going to destroy ECDSA, meaning your private keys will be reversed and every health product depending on your service will be trustless. Merkle trees can theoretically be used in a post-quantum world [2], but the method by which you're generating the root for the tree is not safe because you're relying on a network you don't control (Bitcoin).

How is this competitively good for healthcare?

[1] http://www.ibtimes.com/bitcoins-big-problem-transaction-dela...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-quantum_cryptography#Hash...
New approach to internet search
As long as the founder(s) know what they're doing. I've seen way too many AI startups with founders who don't even have the most basic ML knowledge but are doing it because it's the trend.
Well NPD could be a possible "problem". The problem with that though is that when one goes through certain situations, where one is clearly the "brightest" guy in the room while "less bright" men have the reins of power, it reinforces that self-ranking system. If I have a complex analogous to NPD, it's because I've been through enough shit to give me a certain level of confidence.

"People are different, they all have their crosses to bear, just as you do."

Some people just suck and should be imprisoned, killed, or disbarred from any position of authority. A lot of sucky people somehow get into positions, including being responsible for the care of homeless veterans.

"Lesser" people do exist. But I know precisely I'm not the shit. A major irony is that as the capacity for directed work and improvement improves, I'm more and more aware how "far" I am from having a certain comfortableness in my present situation.

It's the anxiety of status, because one knows what happens to those with low status. It's the anxiety of death and waste because one knows what happens to bodies over time. It's the anxiety of regret because one is stuck with memories of one chemical regime while being in a more able one. The socialite is haunted by memories of being a dullard and .
Well then you might wanna take a look at these:

https://amazon.com/Warranty-WITHOUT-battery-Zerolemon-Midnig...

https://amazon.com/ZeroLemon-7000mAh-Extended-Protection-GT-...

My battery is actually Hyperion branded but it seems to no longer be produced; that ZeroLemon one however has the same capacity and should be as good. The case is the same I have. Both battery and case have been with me for close to 3 years, no sign of capacity degradation and it has taken a lot of hits like a champ without even a screen protector.
I find it highly unlikely that HTC is simply a manufacturing partner. The Pixels look too much like HTC phones, even the ones they're selling right now.
If I'm understanding copyright law correctly (I am not a lawyer, but am familiar), Disney has copyrighted the specific adaptation of those stories from the public domain - not the stories themselves. So someone can't, say, do Snow White in the same way as Disney did (same script, artistic style etc) but they can do things like Snow White and The Huntsman (2012), which made ~$397m worldwide. I do agree that rewriting laws via lobbying is a problem. I'm just not sure that Mickey Mouse should be public, seeing as how that IP is so tied up in so much of what constitutes value for Disney.

Edit: Just read a bunch about the history of Disney and the Mickey IP. Yeah, totally not comfortable with that.
Hey Ooshma! I was at Startup School 2016 and absolutely loved your talk! I was just curious about how you built your initial product- you mentioned not being able to find a dev who wanted to play the long game. What did you end up trying and eventually doing?
But FTL travel and time travel already exist. With the former, from an outside observer's reference frame, objects inside a black hole's event horizon appear to use to travel faster than the speed of light. Not that it's all that practical. Also, a rotating black hole "drags" the spacetime around it. This means that the accretion disk can appear to rotate FTL really close to even horizon as it passes through the ergosphere. It's already traveling close to speed of light in its local frame, and you add frame dragging to it and you get an FTL total violation, from your reference frame. Of course it's a useless kind of FTL that you can't do anything fun with.

For the latter, every astronaut in orbit is a time traveler since they are moving at such great speeds that they experience tie dilation. I believe the Juno spacecraft is the current record holder of time travel since it is the fastest man-made object.

I'm not that smart, but I have my doubts about light being the universal speed limit. Baseless rant incoming:

I never advanced that far in math, but I found the notion of infinitesimal limits and infinities hard to accept and they are most likely beyond observation if they do indeed exist. So I find the idea that it takes an infinite amount of energy to move a massive object at the speed of light to be a signal that perhaps although it is exceedingly accurate, that E=mc^2 doesn't quite tell the whole story. Waxing philosophical::
Hard material science is light years from manufacturing jobs.
Sadly, it isn't so-- the further from the vulgarities of production the patches are the less realistic the experience gained from working with them.

I can tell you how to make a perfectly secure computer, grind it down and launch it into the sun.

Part of the rest of the kernel communities complaints about many of these changes is that they aren't sufficiently pragmatic for widescale use or long term maintenance.
Setting up email is easier. Running email is harder.

Mostly because when running sendmail, well, nobody cared.
I'm expecting Elizabeth Holmes to announce having herself, Sunny and a core force of bodyguards put into cryonic suspension.
> I don't have a grand alternative.

Me neither. It would be better if all sides trusted experts more, but that seems to be the opposite direction from where we're heading. Denouncing experts seems to be a wellspring of political capital these days.
24 and 60 equally fail when you try to turn days into years. That doesn't mean you give up on picking a good system for fractions of days and multiples of years.

There is no[1] advantage to having a smattering of small factors. People make much too big a deal about dividing into thirds.

[1] "no" in the same way that decimalization has no advantage, in that the advantages of either system are small and unnecessary.
Yes exactly - those channels will be part of the a la carte option for consumers I mentioned.

Right now - internet is more valuable to most people but much less expensive per month than tv in a package. TV is just not reasonably priced, especially when you still have ads on every channel.

If anything, TV should be free with the networks selling advertising and paying the tv provider for their infrastructure and audience. Basically like magazines. Give it away. Get an audience. Sell ads. Don't squeeze us from both ends and charge us for content AND monthly for each piece of shitty equipment.

Or sell channels a la carte at a fair price and make it easy. These packages are ridiculous. You have a ton of stuff you don't want. Then they reconcile viewership on the backend to figure out what members of that package should get what portion of each subscription. It's old-school. It inflates the TV price because you often have to purchase a larger package than you need to get the variety of channels you want.

Consumers are simply tired of paying for content AND getting ads.

Roku is amazing and they could enable the a la carte direct subscription model with the content providers. But for most channels right now, when you add one, you have to login with your TV provider and validate.
And, tbh, you should go slow. The internet is a wonderful place, but it is also terrible and dangerous.

I'm proud to run my own mail and webserver, but you do have to be careful
I imagine you'll be able to change AI much like keyboards. They'll have theirs default and most people won't bother changing it.
You're not going back far enough. I'm referencing back to the 1700s or so when there was education in the English language that was outside of the Church, because it did take a while after the Black Plague killed off many of the literate Latin scholars to allow the use of written language to trickle down to Royalty and others, but I've seen enough over the years to know women have earned much respect in literature. Naming a couple names seems futile because distilling "influence" or "respect" into a spreadsheet is fucking bullshit, but being able to say Jane Austen or Mary Shelley or Harper Lee in educated company reflects that there are giants in the field that are reflected upon for the merit of their works.
Thanks, sounds like lots of parallels(har har) to the SPUs on the PS3 which got a bad rep but I thought where great if you went in with the right approach.
> all networks have to have the same feature set, and that's hugely restrictive.

The ideas of microkernels and, well, TCP, suggest otherwise.
The three reasons carriers are building new cell networks for IoT
Brilliant, and eloquently phrases something I've tried to convey to myriad technologists during my time in the valley:

"When I was young my father read to me “20,000 Leagues Under the Sea,” advertising it as a great classic of futuristic science fiction. Unfortunately, I was unimpressed. It didn’t seem “futuristic” at all: it seemed like an archaic fantasy. Why? Certainly it was impressive that an author in 1869 correctly predicted that people would ride in submarines under the sea. But it didn’t seem like an image of the future, or even the past, at all. Why not? Because the person riding around on the submarine under the sea was a Victorian gentleman surrounded by appropriately deferential Victorian servants.

Futurists consistently get their stories wrong in a particular way: when they say that technology changes the world, they tell stories of fabulous gadgets that will enable people to do new and exciting things. They completely miss that this is not really what “change” – serious, massive, wrenching, social change - really is. When technology truly enables dreams of change, it doesn’t mean it enables aristocrats to dream about riding around under the sea. What it means is that enables the aristocrat’s butler to dream of not being a butler any more — a dream of freedom not through violence or revolution, but through economic independence. A dream of technological change – really significant technological change – is not a dream of spiffy gadgets, it is a dream of freedom, of social & economic liberation enabled by technology."
Uh, no, poor grammar or words or phrases used improperly can genuinely have cascade / domino effects. Brush up on "Eats, Shoots, and Leaves" if you wish to counter-balance your math-centric logic notions with how similar principles apply in written language. English is, without question, one of the more tricky (re: confusing) mutts of linguistics.
America’s ‘quiet catastrophe’: Millions of idle men
Was really hoping to play with the dynamic code generation part of their SDK, hopefully they still get around to launching it.
> what good can come out of it?

Yes, you're paranoid. A drone doesn't need to map out a museum before lobbing a missile at it. An autonomous vacuum cleaner, on the other hand, would probably love to know for sure that it has covered the entire surface.

Personally, I'm imagining a little ball that I rent from the hardware store that rolls around my house for an hour and spits out the blueprints of my house so that I can feed it into a VR program for choosing furniture.
Divorcing a man with a good income and getting custody of the kids is a good way to wind up poor. Poverty in the US tends to be dominated by women and their children. Most poor women were solidly middle class until they ended up pregnant, divorced or widowed.

Men who make good money generally have no trouble remarrying and having more kids with another woman if they want it. Stats I have seen suggest that women are more likely than men to have kids, men who do procreate are more likely to do so with more than one partner.

Iirc: about half of all men reproduce, about 80% of all women do. You can infer from that stat right there that men who do father kids have decent odds of fathering them on more than one woman.
Manufacturing jobs are the only jobs who build base value, from which all the jobs derive. Service and retail will sooner or later collapse when there is nowhere to extract money from.
They're not actually separated at birth, because if you do that their immune system doesn't get seeded by their mother's milk, and they end up dying of horrible diseases.
Xtre components: Little things matter
Yes, it is real. I'm from a small town in Montana with a strong timber industry presence, and loads of people stick around, largely because their parents want them to stay or because they don't want to leave everything they know. Often times, there's no choice because the kids didn't do well enough to go to "coastal school," nor could they or their parents afford it if they did.

People from cities exhibit this kind of behavior too, but for some reason no one talks about it as negatively as they talk about staying in your shitty rural town after high school.
I'm amazed that the founders didn't have some sort of non-compete agreement here.

Excited that it's a more extensible digital assistant though. I think the reason why I like Alexa the most out of the services right now is that it feels like the easiest to add new functionality too. Hopefully this will pave the way for more open ai assistants.
I don't follow. What do microkernels and TCP have anything at all to do with federated social networks?
Theranos lays off staff, closes labs
Maybe Marissa can take her job, post Yahoo!
> Huge score for Samsung. Does anyone disagree that AI assistant technology is table stakes for the next decade?
Great question.

The way to filter feedback is based on your target demographic. Identify exactly who are the super users of your product (hopefully they're a small part of a very large segment of our population) and then listen to only them for the feedback.

Other tips: (1) Make sure to get their feedback in multiple ways, we still do surveys every week, phone calls, and home visits. On a survey, someone might say they shop at Whole Foods. At home, you'll see all the Costco stuff in their pantry ;) (2) Set benchmarks for when feedback becomes meaningful. When over 5% of our community says something, we start prioritizing it. When less than 10% of our community uses a new feature or offering on our website, we consider letting it go.

To get to product/market fit, meeting the customers is everything. They will help you both better describe who is your exact target market (the professional mom who says she shops at Whole Foods but still likes deals from Costco) and help you refine your product for that market.