skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I believe Airbus is partnering with a startup that is working on a supersonic biz-jet called the Aerion. This probably makes more commercial sense than a large transport - people already willing to spend USD 100 million on a jet will spend USD 120 million to fly faster and quicker.

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerion_AS2
Ask HN: How to make remote work a success?
When starting to work remotely for a company where you were previously a local team member, what are the things to look out for?

I'm mainly thinking along the lines of how one can ensure proper motivation and discipline, but also adequate communication and still having the feeling to be part of something.

What are your experiences ? What worked and what didn't ?
It's still evil - what if the input program doesn't halt, or allocates too much memory?
That's not true. Antifungals target ergosterol, which is a cell membrane compound (fungal cholesterol). Also the side effects are likely due to the similarities between ergosterol and cholesterol.
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The argument AGAINST virtualization (2009)
Ask HN: How do you present your SaaS offer to potential customers?
After you've had meetings with potential customers you usually send them some documents explaining the service as well as a price quotation.

Do you share a google doc? A website? Do you send them a pdf?

- How many pages?
- Do you use images/screenshots?

Alternatively, if you're a purchaser of SaaS services, how would you like to receive the information/offer?
Quite funny. My blog page (with text only) has score 4.06. Converting it to image is stupid. Btw. I've been working with a Korean company on a couple of Korean websites. What they provided was ONLY IMAGES. All the texts were images, new content was in images, all the changes were just image changes. It was a nightmare.
Plus you can charge the Macbook from any* 2.4A USB charger with appropriate cable - and since I'm already carrying two of those for the iPad and iPhone, there's no need to carry the USB-C brick as well.

* I've had issues with some of the cheaper ones I've tried.
>>I can't seem to get tire-kicking traction though.. :(

That'll be because you're trying to provide something useful. Decorate it with pictures of Kim Kardashian's fat arse, and you'll get thousands of users.

Thanks for the link.
The score is a bit flawed as it assumes pertinent information can only be contained in text, not in images.
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how about we quit poisoning the site with political stories, both direct and indirect. Its quite evident whom most here will vote for, then cry about privacy, spying, and war, issues afterward as if they didn't think the status quo would not remain with yet another establishment pick.

If this type of shit keeps appearing here it simply means one less good site to techies and start up fans. Flush it like /.

Always vote against the party in power. Better yet, four years and gone.

time to burn off karma
Someone stole my identity on Upwork and all I got was this lousy blog post
Our upvotes are being tracked as well
Mobile Operators Are Investing in Startups to Accelerate Innovation
IPAs are still nasty, though.
Thats a very flippant comment.
Nothing lasts forever.

Having said that, the number of bootstrapped / angel-funded companies sitting there cheerfully producing a large-enough-to-be-useful profit for years on end is pretty huge. Others have given examples in other replies to this comment, but I just wanted to point out - they're not outliers, they're a trend.

The claim that the model doesn't work is rather easily falsified.
Intel DDIO FAQ: http://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/documents/...

My understanding is that DDIO is an internal feature of the processor and works transparently with all PCI devices. Basically Intel extended the processor "uncore" to serve PCIe DMA requests via the L3 cache rather than directly to memory.
2 million users, that's fantastic work - and the algo stuff sounds like a page turner in the making as well. Keep at it, and please don't ever discount your own worth.

(Not that I'm massively successful myself or anything. In fact, I'm currently unemployed and seeking .net roles, after redundancy; facing difficulties with this as I have only just under 1y of .net xp even as I've done development for 20. Refreshing / learning new skills on SOLID, DDD, CQRS, EventSourcing, etc, and trying to keep chin up. I have faith and refuse to go back to my old tools that are just about dead anyway, even though there's the odd contract coming up. Love C# and .net.)
It would kind-of-make sense but only for static pages. Pages are now an interactive applications so comparing them to size of visual representation of their initial state is not a best metric.
Well, come over to Europe!

I share your point of view, so if you're ever in my part of the world, I'll be happy to buy you a coffee in exchange for a conversation.
I wish there was a haskell-without-the-warts language with the same culture as Elixir - developer friendliness, practicality etc.

As it stands I can't help but feel discouraged when learning Haskell. Haskell feels like a research tool for furthering other programming languages...

I'm still going to learn Haskell, promised myself I would! But I do look to the Elixir folk with a bit of jealousy..
We're a startup in London (shameless plug: www.nstack.com) using Haskell to develop a containerised microservices platform, bringing in lots of low-level Linux coding along with high-level concepts such as typed DSLs.

So far it's working extremely well for us and has been a great decision - letting us build complex/reliable systems really quickly and effectively. It is also very good for attracting amazing people, and we have found a small Haskell team can deliver truly spectacular product. This does on how you architect a Haskell codebase: e.g. you could spend a ton of time focusing on the most pure approach vs. pragmatism, so it's a balancing act.
Very prominent and hugely prolific blogger, back in the Cambrian explosion of 2000-2001. If you wanted to read several thousand word blog posts on why it was right - no, a moral obligation - for the US to go to war with Iraq, several times a day, he was one of the people to follow in your RSS reader. He also posted on pop-sci and engineering topics. Eventually he wearied of the controversy of war and retreated to blogging about anime.

Actually, the blog hosting this obituary is quite similar to and probably inspired by DenBeste.
Any of those designed at Xerox PARC, or security minded ones designed in the 60's like Burroughs.
If they got rid of all that bloat, they'd be better able to cope with the load, clearly.
How to Boost Your Social Media Outreach with Influencer Marketing
Really?

HP had some iPAQ smartphones and Google tells me Sharp also produced something (for Japanese market). But yes, many manufacturers didn't make their devices available worldwide, so it depends on market. In Russia we had lots of Qtek/HTC devices.
The first HN moderation rule is "don't talk about HN moderation rules". The goal is maturity through obscurity.
Snorkeling session
Continuous Delivery Tools: A Definitive Ranking
A definitive ranking of top continuous delivery tools. https://blog.containership.io/continuous-delivery-tools-a-definitive-ranking
> I wish I had a bit more stamina with regards to eating them.

It is possible to separate out the heat from the flavor using a centrifuge. I remember seeing a cooking show where that was done to make a ghost pepper milkshake without any of the spiciness. If you're keen to explore the taste of peppers, you might look into it.
A Country Is Not a Company
How much of the potential benefits were discussed during the Brexit campaign? I thought the campaign mainly focused on the (perceived) negatives of the current arrangement?
I was trying to find an analogy, and I think this company is doing something like making TV guide more accessible and not having in mind that in a few years TV will be obsolete. Probably this will be a good business for the next decade, but it is not doing anything really disruptive.
I imagine that they will try to leveraging/monetizing the influencer marketing trend more.

Essentially a company / influencer marketplace.

They are the ones with the perfect data insight.

This combined w/ a "show ad to people who follow person N (and alike) might be a very strong ad format only they (and instagram, snapchat) can provide
The smartphone ship has sailed long time ago, and no matter what magical flagship Microsoft releases, they would never gain dominance or even notability in the mobile space. Nadella himself as admitted as much. They're probably not going to focus on winning that lost battle, just as they're not going to try to beat Google with Bing.

With all the great execution of Windows and Office, Steve Ballmer bled a lot of money on other businesses, constantly trying to overtake incumbent with generally inferior products that offered too little differentiation. Don't forget the Zune, the Kin and the early Windows phones, Bing, Microsoft Stores and so on.
Almost no new line of products released by Microsoft during the Ballmer years actually managed to gain market - the Xbox being the sole exception, since it actually managed to differentiate itself well.
At the same time, Microsoft was very slowly, but also very surely, bleeding market share at markets they traditionally dominate like desktop browsers and consumer OS.

I think Tim Cook at the very least didn't get any embarrassing failure on his name yet, and iOS is not stagnating the way Internet Explorer, Office and Windows Mobile did.
You can use the Google Cloud Vision Label Detection API (or the Microsoft Computer Vision API) to have a webpage recognise and audibly announce what it sees through the camera, all using web technologies.

I wrote a post on how I did this here: https://umaar.com/dev-tips/118-cloud-vision-image-detect-jav...
> "My first marriage was ruined by feminist indoctrination"

It seems many Trump supporters feel they are victims of feminism. Another example that comes to my mind is Scott Adams, who hit the glass ceiling twice in his early career, being told that he would be qualified for a promotion but that company policy dictates that they appoint a woman instead (in the name of ensuring equal opportunities). After that, he went on to become a cynical cartoonist (Dilbert). To them, reason has failed a long time ago and Donald Trump is "the human bomb" (the words of Trump supporter and hipster Gavin McInnes) to finally fight back.
> If an entrepreneur is worried about "Work Life Balance", I think he/she is in the wrong business.

If your only business advantage over your competitors is a willingness to sacrifice your life for money, then you'd better either be okay with doing so indefinitely or be making enough money you can call it quits before you're too old to maintain that pace.
A game engine is mostly tools, foundations (containers, serialisation), gameplay frameworks (entities, components, AI). This is not a game engine by my definition if it's marketed as "Vulkan only". Also, I have the feeling that every game should look different and have its own art direction, being able to switch the whole rendering pipeline is essential. Why not contribute to bgfx[1] really? It's a "Graphics API", not a "game engine"...

[1] https://github.com/bkaradzic/bgfx
Giant Mosquitoes – Motu Patlu in Hindi
some of those documents are quite outdated
It is not like studying a course in a organised way.. Luckily we switched to microservices architecture in my company and thus many stuff had to be rewritten. The old monolithic application was PHP and PHP was deprecated for new projects company wide. So I and my team picked GO, JAVA and Node.js for different microservices we are responsible for. (Mainly JAVA and GO, we deprecated then Node.js unofficially in our team because we did not like it at all.) So as you have a well defined project and you have to finish it in the language you are new with, you start to research and learn a lot. Tutorials, blogs etc. And when I had a problem and I could not solve the problem because of my unfamiliarity in the new stack, I started to read also after work and I started to apply what I learnt the next day. Every day I started to have less problem or finding solutions was taking less time because my involvement in that ecosystem increased. Specifically for JAVA, probably still I do not know many stuff, especially I don't have so much idea about the abandoned enterprise technologies, or legacy build tools like Ant etc. but still our applications have good quality and they are working well and my team did not receive any bad feedback from JAVA-expert fellows from the company, it means we adopted well the technology and caught the train.

I've to open a new paranthesis about Node.js. If you've never worked with Node.js before and you start in 2016 you're kinda f*cked up. The ecosystem is changing a lot and maybe 70% of the resources you can find over internet are already outdated. You start the day happy and with full batteries and you start to use some frameworks etc. The next day you realize that people already abandoned it. Beside all the disadvantages of Node.js, it's also so annoying and make the adoption process so hard. How such a simple language like Javascript could become so complicated?

GO is very cool. Relatively easy language and also very very powerful, it has a high quality community and the resources you can find are very clear. If you are trying to pick between GO and Node.js, go with GO. Your adoption will be much easier.
> Bismarck, who was right wing under the original definition

No right winger alive today holds Bismarck or the original right wingers in French monarchy as his ideal. I see that people often cite this but I'm really mystified why they do as it adds nothing to the discussion.

Maybe you hope to convince others to like the welfare state because Bismarck did too?

> Meanwhile the Tories under Theresa May are doing her best to tear down the UK welfare sector.

Her attempts are very weak for a right winger.

> I don't know from where you got the idea she wants to expand government.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2016/10/05/no-prime-mini...
On a longer timeframe, if you don't grow, you die.

Scenario time...

Let's say I have a company that is growing pretty well. After some time, I feel the easy growth stops. Let's say this is the "right size" point you are alluding to, and I was able to recognize it, spot on. I stop hiring and just work with the existing resources that I have. In theory everything should be good for a long time.

Unfortunately, I do not exist in a vacuum. I have competition, and this competition continues to expand. Eventually, if they continue to invest and grow, even past their "right size", they will take away my market share. As they grow stronger, I will grow weaker. This may cause my company to lose enough sales that I will have to fire people.

The fallacy is that there is a "right size" that will continue to be the "right size" through time. A market is a dynamic system that does not stand still. What was the right size at one point, may be too large or too small in the future, due to things beyond my direct control.

As a smart businessman, I have to understand this. I have to expand when there is room, and try to outperform the competition when the market is crowded. I need to downsize when the time is right to protect the rest of the business.

What you are saying is easier done on a smaller scale. There are many so-called "lifestyle" businesses which live by a philosophy that is closer to yours and farther from Twitter's. On a global scale, it much more difficult to follow the "lifestyle" business philosophy and succeed.
I was finally able to try it out and this is exactly my observation too.

I've got a very similar score of 0.323 for an Angular SPA with a bunch of dependencies (1,276 kB, 44 requests) that basically shows 5 jpeg images.

Would be interesting to see the result when using JPEG instead of PNG. However it's still easy to gamble, just display some large JPEG images in full size and the score will approach 1.

Edit: By the way, here's a working screenshot link for the score above (image size 3,947 kB): http://www.webbloatscore.com/Screenshots/aeea9b6a-4852-4b01-...
They screenshot the whole page.
Me too, and I still miss it.
I couldn't agree more with this.

However, I'm curious: at what point do you think the flavour-of-the-month JS frameworks actually do make sense for a development team / company? This might just be me being old and set in my webdev ways - I remember when PHP4 arrived on the scene, for goodness' sake - but I do struggle to see the business case for a lot of the current JS-everywhere, a-million-tools-for-everything environment, and I suspect I'm missing something key.
I am sorry but he is not. The original iPhone sold for $499-$599 WITH contract. The N95 was about that much WITHOUT a contract.
Uber will deliver up to 5 free flu shots and a free care pack to users
Why we are doing MVC and FLUX wrong
Almost all pages I regularly visit are not interactive applications. HN is one of the most interactive sites.

News websites in particular are guilty of downloading Megabytes upon Megabytes of who knows what to display the five paragraphs of text and the image that I actually want to see.
We shall see :-) Making statements about the future in this uncertain time is somewhat loaded with great error. And I believe it will be for good to Britons. Cheer up :-)
I'm using WhatsApp since 2014 and never used Video Call. Maybe this solution is okay.
> note: you probably shouldn't be using arcfour in general for ssh, and it might be disabled on your site

Related tip: arcfour is a less secure but fast cipher. If you are mounting a virtual machine locally via sshfs, you'll get better performance by using arcfour (10-20% increase in throughput, IIRC)
Silicon Valley Decides It’s Just Too Hard to Build a Car
I think they mean that viewing the costs induces gibbering in the viewer.
A Computer Just Solved This 100-Year-Old Biology Problem
So sad. If you had left out your last sentence, you could have actually made a valuable contribution to this discussion.
Care to explain the awesomeness you found?
The sense of community was very real with BBS's. Real friendships developed with people you would likely never meet. SYSOPs cared about the people who dialled in to their little hobby project. Many organised meet-ups and BBQs. Memories for some of the phone bills are less warm though!

It all disappeared incredibly fast in the mid 90s as ISPs and the net grew.

Social is, ironically, far less personal with none of that sense of community.
Having dealt with the Korean web (as a user) it was daunting.
Therapy would be most beneficial to the society, if you don't need to commit a crime to get it.
The answer is in your example. Patio's business was barely profitable for a few years until closing down.

Growth or death is true for most businesses, just need to decide on the growth acceleration
I rather suspect that was the intended joke.
Your comment brings memories. When I landed in US, fresh off the boat, this is what I implicitly expected of a café. So it was a significant culture shock to run into the typical Starbucks'ish café.

Thankfully Austin, TX had pretty good ones too. Metro on the drag was quite awesome, not particularly good coffee (but that's missing the point).
Funny how people suddenly loose all creativity, Brits are known to be one of the best in making others suffer with legalese moves so I'd definitely expect better.

She could for example say the EU is not cooperative, the UK will stay for the next 5 years and lower taxes for foreign investments to 5% like Malta does. That would hurt the EU a lot and I bet they'd be more open for discussions after that. If not then continue with other creative ideas, the EU can't survive a remaining UK that is actively working towards hurting the EU. (the EU probably will not be able to survive anyway the way things stand right now)

From a moral perspective you couldn't even argue that it's immoral if the UK did this as highest EU officials have publicly proclaimed that they will make the UK suffer so it'll be an example for others.
Thanks for the tips and insights, man!
You were lucky to be in a project willing to rewrite the monolith with different technologies.

By the way, looks like you're living in Barcelona as well ;)
I had one of the "things sharp produced" that was actually released in the west. If it had a cellular modem in it and they still made it I would have never bought a smartphone.
Share and play any song in iMessage for free
I think I have somewhere the 1999 original in flash format ... but so many brilliant AMV are gone :( Like Rammstein evangelion

Can we create a tube clone in some copyright haven ... the culture belongs to humanity.
Are Apple's recent releases so lacklustre that we have to turn to past glory?
Ask HN: Business bank with a secure programmatic API?
I am fed up downloading ofx files and feeding them into some other system.

Are there any banks out there that actually have APIs and decent security / PKIs?
We are really excited to introduce Spinlist SongShare today. It’s a really fast and easy way to find a song and share it with someone. That’s it. No accounts required. No sharing files. Just simple sharing of songs.
I seems you can hurt yourself - XXX Hot Chilli Burger of Hove has sent 5 people to hospital with it's 9.2 million Scoville burger. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2577255/XXX-Hot-Chil...
Second sentence in the post:

"I did not inquire as to specifics, but Steven had been in very poor health of late, having had a stroke just under four years ago."

Not sure we really need specifics.
> just display some large JPEG images in full size and the score will approach 1.

Or less, depending on the JPEG quality setting used in each case I guess. That's not completely unreasonable though - if I only want to look at a few large images (e.g. from Mars) and my browser downloads mostly just that, it's not really bloated.
Speech patterns / mannerisms might be one factor, but looks are another:

I worked on Wall St for over a decade. I regularly walked into the corner store (Duane Reade) in a high-end suit, $300 Thomas Pink shirt, cuff-links, a tie, and shiny shoes. I also had the mannerisms i was expected to take on having gone to an Ivy League undergrad.

Still on at least 5 or 6 occasions, individuals would walk up to me and ask "oh which aisle has the detergent" as if being of Indian origin automatically made me the store keeper. They saw right through my impeccable outfit, ignored it all, and saw "the Indian store-keeper guy."
So am I. Maybe BSD?
The kickoff event of the course https://www.helsinki.fi/fi/unitube/video/20543
While I understand where you're coming from (and deeply enjoy marvellous spaces like the Rylands Library in Manchester), I have to recognise that libraries have a multitude of uses, of which "providing reading rooms" is just one. For many lower-class folks, free access to information is actually more important - and that's where the "shelving" comes in. A beautiful reading room with little to read for free, wouldn't be very useful to a lot of people. When I was a kid, scavenging my local library for fantasy and sci-fi, the most assiduous patrons were lower-class, the elderly and the borderline homeless, who would come in every day to read newspapers and check out books for free. They wouldn't have come otherwise, regardless of how beautiful the reading room might have been (well, maybe the homeless, but that's it).

These segments are now better served by what the NYT dismisses as "a Starbucks wannabe": a free internet node, possibly with curated portals. It might look unfashionable to the NYT, but it's the hard truth. This can absolutely be intersected with your "reading room" concept; I just don't think either concept can survive on its own.
Why Spotify’s Discover Weekly is getting really boring?