skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: What's the largest business you know of run by a single founder
I'm trying to understand how big solo founder companies can get before they take on other staff. Is there a ceiling? What are the challenges?

As a reference, I run https://doarama.com and looking for comparisons.
Does anyone have an image of the periodic table with the new elements in it?
It's indeed the noise. I work in a co-working space for a few weeks now - the noise is unbearable.

Also, prepare for lots of folks with hearing issues once the headphone overuse kicks in. It won't be pretty.
Between subscriptions and ads, I can say from first-hand knowledge that The New Yorker is definitely one of the more profitable Conde barns/magazines.
> one can safely say that by just tweaking/updating existing maintenance related policies, a plenty of new jobs can be added.

Actually one can't safely say that as one can see from the 2007/8 bail out. The supposedly "shovel ready" projects weren't (if they were indeed shovel ready they would already have been funded). There was a lot of approval that had to be done and many of the jobs were for skilled, not unskilled labor, so really couldn't suck up that many new people. The economy is structurally quite different from the 1930s when the WPA could, if not bail the economy out, at least reduce the burden and get something for it.

In addition, where's the money? The current plan, AFAICT, is to sell off infrastructure (bridges, highways, water systems) in perpetuity and let the new owner charge tolls and the like. A system that hasn't worked that well in the US since the 1800s.
I was speaking to a more general monitoring approach where you might want to know p99 latency, request volume, error rate, etc, for each service to use in alerting and trending. This is a common use-case for application monitoring that isn't addressed well by a pure tracing approach.

If you're looking specifically for the 100% audit trail case, I'd look at DynaTrace or potentially Instana.
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PropOrNot is american propaganda. No need for such a long article, it's quite simple.
One of those times where a sarcasm punctuation would be useful.
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Vendor locked on ECS, why would anyone chose that over Mesos / Kubernetes that can run anywhere?
Zenefits doesn't want to be an insurance company, they would much rather be a broker.

But to actually answer your question, a broker is a tool for the consumer / provider to facilitate sales. If there's a better replacement tool, we don't need brokers. For example, travel agents used to be the best tool to find and purchase flights, but they have been replaced by Kayak and competitors.
> Try this, I do it every time I'm home: watch people watch the news

Do you think that's unique to television news, or do you think the same is true of people reading newspapers (analog or digital)?
Cost of electric cars however will fall as the batteries get cheaper. Hybrid cars will fall in price but not as much simply because the batteries are a smaller proportion of the cost.
‘Avalanche’ Global Fraud Ring Dismantled
The thing to wrap one's head about, in regard to the "pro-Russia"-slanting body of opinion (and not infrequent bursts of outright disinformation) that have become increasingly prevalent in the past few years (not so coincidently with the start of Putin's apocryphal 3rd term): These people think this stuff up largely on their own, because it suits their own (half-baked) intellectual agenda (faux anti-globalism, "the enemy of my enemy is my friend", and all that).

Yes, occasionally they'll suck up snippets of dialog, or memelets that might first have originated in sources actually supported by the Russian government (and indeed, there are more than a few bonafide trolls out there in certain media outlets; and of course, the occasional Putin-enchanted celebrity here and there; etc).

But by and large, this contact is incidental. And if people go around denying that the invasion of the Crimea was really and invasion, or that we "don't really know" what happened to MH-17, or (as one very educated acquaintance of mine said to me recently) "Have you read Putin's Syria speech? It was actually quite thoughtful"... it's probably not because they've been brainwashed by RT and Sputnik News... it's because that's the way they think things "ought to be" (and because they apparently don't to a lot of primary source reading... they're very susceptible to letting their intuition and gut feelings run amok over the basic chronology of recent events). Sources directed by the Russian government might provide a bit of an echo, and "fluff" this mentality up a bit... but I suspect not by all that much.

Or as the quote at the end of the article puts it: “To blame internal social effects on external perpetrators is very Putinistic.”
Mellanox is now one of the role model vendors in the FreeBSD ecosystem. They have a handful of BSD developers as well as sales and support staff that are in tune with the needs of high scalability FreeBSD users.
Tata is in Markham right? I wonder what the split in on-shore/off-shore will be.

One interesting point is that Markham itself is a pretty popular "off-shoring" location for US businesses.
I wonder how much it cost to make that atom
https://www.iupac.org/cms/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/IUPAC_P...
I would counterargue that the pervasive "A for effort!" sunshine and happiness that you're trying to embed is just as dangerous, if not more so, than the bile and snark you're trying to ward off. The success of the overall startup ecosystem needs to be equally supported by the naked, cold truth than it does by blind optimism; ultimately it does no one seeking lessons and guidance any good to look retrospectively at the case study of PH and conclude "Wow, what a great company, they did nothing wrong! Ryan forever!"

Also, just because you prefer to read fluff replies of support and cheerleading and just because you are tired of people calling out editorial and financial conflict, it doesn't make the point of the replies you find bothersome moot. But it's your igloo and not mine; by virtue of me being here I am ultimately a guest at the discretion of you, and thus am bound by your rules in order to stay. I can also appreciate that your specific role can feel like shoveling shit against the tide, and that it's a thankless, rote task that can be at times extremely unpleasant. So, fair enough.
In the ML world, yes. But the biologists know how to do the experiments, most of which is raising fish and looking at them under a confocal microscope. Give them an effectively infinite supply of confocal microscopists and they could raise a lot of fish.
I don't think I've read anything this condescending in years.
Polydextrose.
Is the combined platform going to be called AngelHunt or Product List? :)

One has a decidedly more edgy sound, while the other could not be more bland and boring.
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I don't care about people coming up to talk to me. It usually means they have something they need help with or an answer to. What bothers me is the noise, and no noise cancellation set of headsets work because they block out white noise but not people talking. In fact, noise cancellation headphones tend to enhance voices, since there is no background noise to dull it.

Lights don't solve this. Hats don't solve this. Walls and space solve this.
Thats not bad. Ill be in touch. :)
Best Reading Lights
A lot of the NY freight is probably going into Port Newark-Elizabeth (Which is considered part of the Port of NY and NJ) but the resolution isn't high enough to show that. So there's probably not nearly as much freight going into NY proper as there looks to be.
> the pervasive "A for effort!" sunshine and happiness that you're trying to embed

You've imagined this. Nobody wants that, certainly not us. The day that HN shows signs of it becoming a top risk, we'll adapt accordingly.

Meanwhile, the risk that I'm talking about (and that you've been worsening) is the one that keeps us up at night. So yes, please follow the rules when commenting here from now on.
No you didn't because in the headline of the last article had Tim Cook CEO of Apple saying that Google sells user data. You'd know that if you read it.
I thought there were there to connect coal fields in the Powder River Basin to power plants in the midwest.
Measuring city size is a tricky endeavor. Municipal borders are pretty arbitrary and so not a great way to decide what the real size of the urbanized area is. The OECD has a methodology they call "functional urban areas"[1] that starts by identifying linked high density clusters and then refining from there.

Using their methodology the order is: LA, NYC, Chicago, SF, Houston, DC, Miami, Atlanta, Dallas, and Phoenix.[2]

[1] https://www.oecd.org/gov/regional-policy/Definition-of-Funct...

[2] https://www.oecd.org/gov/regional-policy/functional-urban-ar...
Seems like we could crowdsource these lists. We could sign up for the ones we like, inserting them into our blocker plug ins and let FB know which ones we cared about.

(Then we could live in even more extremely segregated bubbles!)
Hard to say, in general they do exclude paid traffic and only report "organic traffic' when they self-report numbers.

However comScore is its own thing so I'm unsure and would guess it includes paid-traffic.

That said, typically I've found Omniture numbers higher than comScore and IMHO are a more accurate reflection...

TLDR; I'd say the growth is genuine.
Nestle is a truly evil company. Like james Bond villain evil. I avoid their products like the plague.
Based on the timing for past ones, I'd say before 2017.

https://riscv.org/workshops/
Why would that be a firable offense?
I know this is created by a VC firm, but strange that they equate starting a company to requiring to raise money.

"Though the majority of founders say we’re in a bubble, 9 out of 10 founders believe that it’s a good time to be starting a company."

If you're not looking to raise, it doesn't matter if there is a bubble or not. Or am I missing something?
I think you're missing the point by looking at the false extreme that Vess offers.

A more realistic example would be a lightbulb that is known to catch fire vs a lightbulb that is dimmer than most. As you know basically everyone has chosen the dimmer lightbulb over the brighter one, except in special scenarios (movie set lighting, etc).

Travis is just arguing that most people don't need the super bright light bulb that's gonna catch fire (buggy and badly audited AV software) because windows defender + {bignamebrowserofyourchoice} will be good enough to satisfy 90% of people.
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JavaScript all the way down (React, Express, Node, Somata)
The Flow Framework is an abomination to engineering, and should die a pathetic death. Liberal annotations, codegen, aspect weaving and bytecode manip, requires a special JUnit test runner--it embodies all the aspects of the Java culture that I despise.

I rather like the idea of SWF, but its API is too low-level, it has poor tooling, and the workflow/activity versioning is awkward and makes the systems too rigid. I am glad that AWS is moving to data-driven workflow definitions, that means they can build much better operational tooling (like the GUI) to manage and understand workflow executions.
There is a company-stocked closet full of "construction materials" for this purpose. Of course, it's still an open office...
Demystifying WebRTC's Data Channel Message Size Limitations
The money-making part of a gas station for most of the last century has almost always been the convenience store, not the gas pumps. People will still need restroom breaks and quick snacks in an electric car present/future.
Maybe you need to write the app and build the product behind it that lets people insure any vehicle for any journey and any amount of time with the proviso that it is not your vehicle and that the vehicle is otherwise insured and road legal. If the process was no more thought involving than paying for parking.

The business logic behind the insurance could be very different, a lot would be known about the journey to be undertaken, the app could be recording what really is happening, with a source of crash sensors and satnav it should be possible to identify what happened in ways current insurance can't do. You could make it so an app has to run during a one-off insurance permit, you could not do that for normal insurance.

You could get different rates for different cars that you can borrow, therefore if making a big one-off journey it might pay to borrow the eco-mini-car instead of something flash. Going into town then the sportscar might be worth the higher rate as the journey could be short. So you could end up borrowing different cars.

Now if you allow some charge back to the owner 'profit' then people just might have a fair incentive to lend you their vehicle. The app could even tell them how many pennies they are to earn.
So you're switching your entire operating system because of Apple's lack of creativity with new laptops? Seems like a bit of an overreaction (unless you're planning on building a hackintosh).
If ever something deserved the title of unobtainium...
>I think ranking may also be improved depending on the rate of upvotes (besides just quantity), e.g., if a submission gets 4 up-votes in an hour it'll have a higher rank that receiving 4 up-votes over 4 hours.

Sure, that's true but go to new submissions page and look at the posts that got 4 votes in 15 minutes. None of them are on the front page let alone in the top 10.
Ask HN: Confluence alternative for internal documentation
My team/company uses Confluence for all of our internal documentation and I personally can't stand it. It's hard to navigate and create directories/documents, it has a painful text editing interface, and I personally never figured out how to effectively organize your personal pages. What are some of the other alternatives people use and how well have they worked out for your team?

Thanks!
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I've looked at Zappa in the past; it's very impressive, but it's overkill for what we're doing - we're only processing files and running a Django ORM instance behind it. And because we have quite a high throughput, running a Python 3 shim behind Python 2 would increase our costs by too much.

Thank you for making it though. It's a really cool part of the Lambda ecosystem. Excited to hear there's something in store for Py3 :)
Another detail: Is the pill pure enough to be consumed safely by a human? (Or at least by a rat.)
Will you be sponsoring visas?
I've never gone full log analysis on this question but several times in my career I've wondered "Am I really getting less done than I used to or am I mis-remembering the past?"

Doing a surface analysis of that highlighted lots of places where I was doing something I wanted to do and later counting it as "wasted" time. So for example if I spent an hour watching a television show and later felt I had wasted an hour watching TV, I could go back and re-score that to "I wanted to watch television and I did, why are my priorities for that time different now than they were then?"

And for me, there were two things that were key to me getting better with my time. One was to be explicit about my priorities, and the other is the bin packing problem.

If you spend three hours on things, separated by 15 minutes between hours, you end up "losing" 45 minutes because 15 minutes is too short to spin up a new task but long enough to be meaningful.

If I wanted to address the bin-packing problem then it meant being a lot more thoughtful about planning my use of time. And doing three one hour things back to back (with a plan to switch tasks at the earlier of "I'm done" or "it's been an hour" that coalesces the three 15 minute chunks into one 45 minute chunk which is enough time to watch an hour long TV show if you can skip all the commercials.
We can all tell that your conclusion was written before you read any studies or started on any premises, so please just stop having this conversation. One man's modus ponens is another's modus tolens, and all that.
Such a bad solution. The guy is complaining about a loud sales team, his team making phone calls and talking and a goddamn gong. The red light solves none of those problems. Sound travels regardless of whether or not you have a red light on or not. Headphones only go so far too. I don't WANT to listen to music or have my ears covered all day!
This is why the ACA was great for startups as well -- a shame it looks like it may be dismantled.

Of course while a UBI of some sort is necessary to deal with the widespread loss of jobs it is hardly sufficient. Most people want to feel useful (mostly as part of something rather than a starter of something) and addressing this need for dignity and acceptance is crucial. Else we'll have more social unrest.
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"The supreme happiness in life is simply to serve as a warning to others."

Oh my god, I'm in stitches. What a fun project, thanks for sharing!
None of the kernel data structures are saved or even visible to the process - the kernel memory (on Linux x64 everything mapped in the upper 128TiB) is not readable by the process.

You can have a problem if the kernel system call interface changes, but that is a problem for every executable. You would need to re-compile everything on the system.
I haven't tested it and no one I know still reads regular newspapers so it would be difficult. Perhaps reading is more active, or it's easier to "rewind" when your attention drifts off for a while, because people can definitely string together some summary of a book they're reading or read.
Glenn Greenwald had this story nailed a few days ago: https://theintercept.com/2016/11/26/washington-post-disgrace...
Please don't go there here.
I stopped using 3rd party AV ~10 years ago personally. For family and friends I used to recommend Kaspersky because it usually scores highly on tests, but now as I spend more time looking into the industry I think I'll just tell them to stick with defender and ublock, and I'll remote in whenever they install a virus.

I'm entirely on windows by the way, same with family, friends generally.
The same can be said about the Zenefits users. They don't care about the 5 dollars per user that they can make in revenue. They care about the x000 dollars in insurance dollars that they make off of them.

The customer is the insurance companies, not the users. The users are the product, so of course they give it away for free.