skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask someone who's lived for any serious amount of time in Ann Arbor whether a local pizzeria could be a "startup". Domino's started as a single crappy pizza place in Ypsi. It's an 8 billion dollar company today that will almost definitely outlast Twitter and Yahoo.

For reasons I don't quite fathom, discussions about business on HN seem all to be born without the part of their brains that understands business fundamentals. Almost every business can be made to scale (ironically, the more high-status the business, the trickier it is to scale, which is why you'd be better off investing in a crappy pizzeria than in Grant Achatz). You can build a billion dollar plumbing company. You can build a billion dollar accounting firm. Someone out there --- god, I hope it's actually a housecleaner --- is going to build a billion dollar housecleaning company. Do you really need the mechanics of how this works? Do the work. Get good. Hire people to do the work for you. Get good at managing them. Hire people to manage the people you hire to do the work. Repeat.

Nobody disputes whether the category of businesses Paul Graham describes is useful. It clearly is. If you plan on building a business on other people's money, it's vitally important that you understand almost everything he has to say.

What is in dispute is whether that category of business is so important that it should annex the term "startup". Plenty of businesses you would describe as startups don't obey Graham's rules at all, because they scaled up on a different schedule than A16Z wants businesses to, and did it without a single wire transfer from A16Z.
It's not just the CHIP that is affected by crappy USB 3 controllers, I can't flash any of my phones via the USB 3 ports on either of my workstations. It's been over half a decade, one would think the stack would be mature by now.
Yes. In LA almost all serious tech jobs are media company related.
Mobile Safari is open on every single person's phone. Those apps that you listed are the A-list of what everyone has on their phone. That doesn't trickle down to all the other apps that aren't Facebook or Instagram. Literally no one wants an app for every single site they happen to visit regularly. Hell, I've seen people leave an app and go to the site because some functionality didn't work or didn't exist on the app.
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The UK government apparently has mandated that all its apps be browser-based. They did this because their analysis found that browser-based apps cost considerably less to develop and to maintain. My own experience also bears this out.
You're thinking of the Lytro light field cameras.

https://lytro.com/
There's an fdroid repo[1] for it, but I'm not sure I trust the person running it. Because of the lovely conversations with moxie the main fdroid repo got taken down. Don't you just love free software projects that hate giving users freedom.

[1]: https://fdroid.eutopia.cz/
It's not the only example though, just the one with the widest disparity. Reddit and Tumblr are also both considerably worse experiences on their mobile sites than their apps, assuming you know enough to get the good apps.

I just keep hearing posts about how the mobile web is so clearly superior to apps and it never tallies with the reality on the ground for me.
funny Seattle only has "Silicon Canal" for the bit around Fremont where Google, Adobe, Tableau, GeekWire, Facebook, etc. have offices. you'd think between Amazon, Microsoft, Expedia, Zillow, Redfin, and the countless other tech companies with headquarters or satellite offices in the area that some nickname would have sprung up for the whole region. "Silicon Isthmus" or something.

maybe we're still riding the "Jet City" thing from when Boeing was here?
I don't know if I did it right or not. But I always end vacation as a "well, back to the grind." It isn't so much ready to be back, as afraid of how screwed up things already are. Why give them more time?
The problem with web applications is that in reality you have no chance to verify what you are running. You are entirely dependent on the website provider that the app you are running is not malicious. Thus you have no change to control your own privacy and security. For native apps you can somewhat control what you are running, e.g. by using open source software. Web apps are great for many things but I would hate to depend on them.
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I live in Oregon, where the craft brew scene arguably started: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2001/08/0808_oregonb...

IPAs have routinely been the most featured variety at all the pubs I've frequented over the last 15+ years.

Breweries make them because people want them.

People want them because they are delicious.
You can use something like vault, they have "crypto as a service"
https://www.vaultproject.io/docs/secrets/transit/index.html

You still have to bootstrap vault, but it's a pretty robust and easy to implement HA system.
I think they view themselves as an engineering services company; cumulative shipments & lifetime value are therefore more important and... meaningful.
one word - consensus.

also, I'm not specifically talking about a "bitcoin blockchain" but I suppose that's beside the point at this level of argumentation :)
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For the ancient Lenovo N100 3000[1] I still use, I have bought three extended capacity replacement batteries on Amazon. I have been using the current one for 18 months with no perceptible degradation. The one before that lasted almost five years. Both AGPtek brand, sold by different sellers. So, that is a brand with which I have some positive experience. If they make a replacement battery for your laptop, it might be worth giving it a shot especially since they are not expensive.

[1]: https://www.nu42.com/2015/10/laptop-disaster-recovery-brain-...
You would need some kind of labeled data set -- hundreds of people answering these questions whose voting preferences we already know, or who are willing to provide those preferences.

The innovation here will be in assembling this dataset. The rest is a collaborative filtering exercise.
Does it matter if the degree is unrelated to the job? Example, a dev holding a psyc degree.
Except they are more likely to give up in other fields too. Even fields with lots of women in them. So no, your assumption is not backed by basic evidence.
>I wonder why they didn't mention vaselgel [1]. When I first heard about it a couple years ago it was pitched as an injection of $0.10 of chemicals into the vas deferens that would block sperm from traveling through it.

Because how are pharmaceutical companies going to make billions from selling $0.10 of chemicals?
I agree, the recruiter clearly did not have the right idea or did not present it well.

Here is the full extent of the "Desired" requirements from the message which are usually supplemented by minimum requirements.

* Expert experience in Linux OS
* Experience in embedded system design, bring-up, debugging, analysis and performance tuning.
* An understanding of the design issues and tradeoffs at the hardware/software boundary in real-time, high-performance systems
* Expert C/C++ programming and problem solving skills.
* Python and Java experience desired but not required.
* Database (SQL) experience desired but not required.
* Multithreaded Linux systems programming experience
* Strong troubleshooting skills on hardware, Linux configuration, peripheral device and network configuration
* Knowledge of embedded programming environment using open source tools.
* Expert skills in debugging, troubleshooting, and system optimization
* Well-versed in Unit Test Creation and working with continuous Integration environments (Jenkins)
* Experience with, knowledge of and discipline in standard System Development Lifecycle practices including translation of business requirements into a System Design document, Source Code Version Control (Subversion, Git, etc.), and maintenance.
* Experience working in an Agile environment (Scrum, Lean or XP)
* Experience with Test-Driven Development desired but noe required.
* Experience conducting and participating in Code Review sessions
* Excellent problem solving skills and strong verbal/written communication skills

I searched for these on Google and found multiple posts with almost exact match.

This begs the question, are majority of the job positions out there an over exaggeration of the requirements?

Should one apply to job postings even if they do not possess all the required skills?
This is a great idea. I feel like the big picture isn't open source code for government, but open source APIs for interacting with the government. In the medium-term future, I think we should push for a system where all government documents that ought to be a matter of public record are managed in a publicly readable versioned source repository like, like a federal git server.

Other things that I'd like to see in publicly visible git repositories:

- federal laws and regulations (particularly regulations, standards, etc.).

- procedures (rules for federal processes)

- all documents for making requests of the federal government, with mechanisms for getting those requests to the right place.
Brick. Webfonts that actually look good
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Not really interested in why the KKK supports Trump, very interested in why almost half of voters do.
I've been drinking IPAs in Oregon for over a decade and the breweries haven't slowed down on making them one bit.

There are more choices of highly hopped beers than ever.

Typically half the selection on the shelf is some kind of IPA.
Restaurant requires costumers to solve complex math equation to get Wi-Fi
bottle.py + Postgres + Nginx on Ubuntu on a VPS is my go-to boring stack.

I recommend just using SQLite for the MVP. Launch then iterate.
A brief text talking about the role of design and user experience when translating a webpage or application to another language.

I mean, for instance, when you translate an Arabic article on Wikipedia, Google Translator or Bing don't alter the page layout, it doesn't invert the page menus and bars and so on.
Take a look at MinMinGuard+ xposed framework if you use Android. Also a tool called luckypatcher
For the vast majority of software I imagine most users do not have a relationship with the vendor going in. Independent repos naturally can (and do) work for large software. For example, the Mega client for Linux is provided as its own self-hosted repo by Mega Ltd, where they provide repositories for most distros.

But for, say, an app for a restaurant or a document reader, you would not know or have any reason to trust the vendor, so if they are self-hosting their own repos you are taking a tremendous risk trusting them.

The end result would probably remain the same - users might use third party repos for huge popular apps, but small apps would still need to stay centralized because there is no way to introduce a viable trust model against an organization you never interacted with before.
It's not hard to imagine that stacksort works, but seeing it in action is really something different. It's scary and awesome at the same time.
No, that's not what happened at all. Check out this passage from an interview he gave:

MR: I don’t support Trump at all. I hate him — I think he’s horrible. I’m hiding amongst the alt-right, alright? And the point is, this character is meant to exhibit and illustrate the notion that it’s this crazy social-justice-warrior-knee-jerk-reaction-triggered-happy-safe-space-seeking-blah, blah, blah, blah culture that it’s producing this alt-right. Now, I’m not dumb enough to go there. And my own politics are very strong — I’m a left communist. But I think that in fact, the crazier and crazier that this left gets, this version of the left, the more the more the alt-right is going to be laughing their asses off plus getting more pissed. Every time a speaker is booed off campus or shooed off campus because they might say something that bothers someone, that just feeds the notion that the left is totalitarian, and they have a point. [0]

[0] http://www.nyunews.com/2016/10/24/qa-with-a-deplorable-nyu-p...
> Also important to note that permanent infertility is quite a strong side effect

I know many who would see that as a blessing though: License to have as much unprotected sex as they want without the unfortunate side-effect of an unwanted pregnancy. And they get paid for the experiment in the first place too? Win-win, they would argue.
I'm fond of Verdana, which is what this site is using. Also Trebuchet MS, which has a slightly quirky feel.
The tenth time this caused me to lose data and when my home server shut itself down and failed to boot, I set my internet connection to "metered", which Windows graciously seems to have respected.

Now I don't get any Windows updates, but the possibility of joining a botnet is preferable to the certainty that Windows will ruin my work.

I'm glad that Microsoft is making the internet a safer place.
None of those statements about the Clintons give you pause or merit a response? Are you really ok with any of that?

>The only ridiculous false allegations in your comment are the ones against George Soros.

That is far too deep a rabbit hole to get into in an HN comment, but for starters, he is both one of Hillary's largest donors, and he owns the companies that make our voting machines. The very same voting machines that have already in early voting experienced a high frequency of "glitches" flipping votes from straight-ticket conservative ballots to Hillary.

>The allegations against Trump are neither (provably) false nor ridiculous... Donald Trump is just as involved with Epstein as Bill Clinton is.

He flew on his plane once when he needed to get from (IIRC) Florida to NYC quickly. Eye witnesses confirmed that there weren't any young girls on the flight, let alone females. The media doesn't push Trump + Epstein because they know they have nothing and that it would only backfire on the Clintons.

Here's a bit from Wikipedia to me about the Trump child assault allegations. Unless you have your head in the sand and want to hate Trump, they sure sound like bullshit to me.

"Another woman, identified as Katie Johnson, filed a lawsuit in California on April 26, 2016, accusing Epstein and Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump of raping her in 1994, when she was 13 years old.[52][53][54] Judges Ronnie Abrams and James C. Francis IV presided over the case against Epstein and Trump.[55] The suit was dismissed after it was determined that the address listed for "Katie Johnson" was a foreclosed abandoned home whose resident had died and the provided telephone contact information was also not a functioning contact.[52] A new lawsuit was filed in June 2016, this time in a Manhattan federal court, and without some of the initial accusations made in the initial lawsuit, including claims by the plaintiff that Trump threw money for an abortion at Johnson and that he called Epstein a "Jew bastard".[56] The lawsuit was voluntarily dismissed in September. Her lawyer stated that she would re-file the lawsuit and would provide an additional witness to substantiate the claims.[57] On September 30, 2016, a woman identified as "Jane Doe" (the same person previously identified as "Katie Johnson" in the California lawsuit) filed a new lawsuit in New York, with an additional witness identified by the pseudonym "Joan Doe".[58][59] There is no further information on these allegations outside the claims made anonymously by "Katie Johnson" and "Joan Doe".[52] Civil rights lawyer and legal analyst Lisa Bloom wrote in June 2016 that the claims by the anonymous individuals were credible.[54] However, journalist Jon Swaine reported in The Guardian in July 2016 that the "Katie Johnson" lawsuits appeared to be orchestrated by Norm Lubow, a former producer on the The Jerry Springer Show, whom he described as "an eccentric anti-Trump campaigner with a record of making outlandish claims about celebrities".[60]"
Assortative mating on educational attainment leads to genetic resemblance [pdf]
They injected test without an AI to control the side effects.
Can't copy in one day for sure, but boy you sure can. Ask zynga how they did it. Or just look at Samsung phones with latest Android. Sure there are few products like Adobe suite & stackoverflow etc which have stood the test of time, but slack is a relatively newcomer who is yet to crack into the big enterprises.
Where is the IRS code?
That's a Judicial Branch screwup, not Executive Branch.

Check out the RECAP project. So far, that's the best we've got.
If you're doing any sort of software development requiring cameras GoPro is definitely NOT the way to go. We use Point Grey for our camera equipment. Not only are the cameras very high quality, but their API is a developer's dream.

Unlike GoPro's overreaching application process, $100, or $1k fee, and an extremely limited API/features, these guys practically shove as much documentation and libraries down your throat that they can. I fucking love Point Grey cameras.

https://www.ptgrey.com/blackfly-usb3-vision-cameras
You have no clue what you're talking about. To begin with, Slavs != "slaves". Learn the etymology of the word and read up on some history: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavs Once you're done, use Wikipea or Google to look for Indo-Iranians, their physical characteristics and their movement from 4000-1000 BCE ((TL;DR blue-eyed people didn't originate in Europe). Good luck.
Agreed entirely. Curious if the privacy / non-stripped claims about Enterprise are accurate.
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For sure, I take it they're able to start making new flavors again upon meeting the guidelines? Seems like it'll just force people to outsource manufacturing to somewhere like Molecule or just fold, which is a shame. It's been a lot of fun watching the industry explode over the last few years.
Link doesn't work. So how did it manage to get voted to the front page?
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> the Federal Government of the United States is not "the People"

I disagree. It is indeed "government of the people, by the people, for the people". You may not like some particular people, and neither do I: Some are dumb, corrupt, or simply disagree with me.

But if that doesn't represent the people of the U.S., I don't know what else could. If they were non-corrupt, all smart and highly capable, and all agreed with me - that would be some other country (in a fairy tale).

It's not government of, by and for me. I want everyone else to have a vote too, even if I disagree with them.
More details in the Debian bug report:

https://bugs.debian.org/842939
I'm curious about the final section of the article which refers to anomalous neutron readings. Two obvious possibilities are that the failure mode is producing bad data or that there is water somewhere unexpected. Does anyone know more?
which drift do you have? i'm in the market for a helmet cam and was strongly considering a hero 5...until i saw this thread.
GRAPES-3 telescope indicates a crack in Earth's magnetic shield
"cue"
I'm sort of nitpicking, but Protobufs have wire-level type tags (so old app versions are able to handle newer schemes, with fields they don't know yet). They're limited, but they exist.
There are details in the Debian bug report:

https://bugs.debian.org/842939
A skydiver / hardware hacker I know has a solution to the "am I recording?" issue:

http://turnedon.camera/

It is a visual status indicator.
> kwin_wayland supports DRM backend, and freedreno provides the DRM on android devices, however we don't have access to device which supports freedreno easily. For instance I attempted to get mainline kernel working on Nexus 5 device and also submitted some device tree source files to Linux kernel tree, and will be available in kernel 4.9 release.. But sadly I was not able to finish this project

Thanks! So were you able to get a usable result on Nexus 5? Sounds like it's the best candidate for this task. Do you plan to continue that effort, or there are some blockers that you couldn't resolve? I'm running Sailfish on Nexus 5 now, which uses libhybris and CM kernel with Qualcomm blobs, but I'm interested in more open alternative, and without driver blobs as well.
This isn't a question of entitlement. It's like being given a distribution that has a proprietary libc and then everyone losing their shit once you start re-implementing the libc because you don't want to run proprietary code.

GPS, maps and other such features are fundamental features of modern phones. They're no longer "additional addons" on a phone OS.

Also, many apps within FDroid still require some play services, and it's only because of microG that you can even use those free software apps. For example, Signal requires GCM and the project will not consider fixing this (and in fact demanded that FDroid stop distributing binaries). What is a user of that free software meant to do? Maintain a fork? People did that, but Signal won't federate. Move to another messaging service? Maybe, but there's nothing that matches Signal right now (I'm hoping that Matrix gets there soon so I can get the fuck away from Signal).

Personally I'm planning on rewriting some of the bus timetable apps for Sydney and using OpenStreetMaps instead of Google Maps. But I don't know if it's possible to have any form of meaningful GPS information without Google's proprietary services. I'm shit-out-of-luck as a developer, not an entitled brat.
It's also stupid given that men are on the hook for child support in the event of an accidental pregnancy.
[Or an OCI container.]
No - OP is probably thinking of this GoPro rig:

https://www.engadget.com/2015/09/08/gopro-odyssey-rig-for-ju...
"Big Mac" by Max Boas is another one, though not a very complimentary one.
> what time point do we pick as the baseline such that actions that lead to changes after that are aggression but actions before that are the status quo?

Not just the point in time, there's also the level of aggression. Many wars have a set of ever-increasing nonmilitary conflicts leading up to them. If you're not defining aggression as a concrete military action, you have to choose a baseline for this too.

If you're allowing governmental-agression-that-may-incite-war to be counted as a "first aggression", then India is doing this right now in Kashmir. Yes, I know, that situation is more complex (and I'd prefer not to discuss it online; there's a lot of nuance lost and it's frustrating), but there are similarities in the situation.

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Anyway, the definition of "aggression" to be used in this context depends on the context of the original statement, which was the argument that India is less likely to be a security threat because it has never been the aggressor. In this context, it is about military aggression, the argument being that a country more likely to escalate a civil issue to war is more likely to escalate to nukes in this modern age. To be clear, I don't feel that India is at all likely to escalate to nukes, due to various other reasons (including possibly personal bias). But I don't think that "India was never the first aggressor" is a valid argument in support of that.
Tragedy and Hope is a fine guess, but I was thinking of an Italian professor.

My point is just there is another level of control, not banning books but silencing or suppressing them (or pick some other term that fits better)