skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is pretty cool, but it would really impress me if it could autocomplete facts based on contexts. I wish I could open a text editor and begin writing while Anycomplete(-plus) crawled the web for links to factual data based on the writing so far. Otherwise the context switching is time-consuming and discouraging.
By that definition, 3 out of 4 millenials are priveleged.
At that point, I'm not sure it's a useful term any more.
I would posit that it is not old vs new but the vision you have of what you are building. If he had used ClojureScript this would still be just as good. If someone uses PHP and jQuery on an uninspired vision it will not be very good.
CrowdMed (YC W13) Hiring a Chief Technology Officer
The majority of comments in this thread so far are along the lines of "How is financial help defined in this context???" yet it's described in the article:

"The type of financial support varies substantially. Nearly 30 percent of those receiving help accept health insurance and approximately the same percentage welcome assistance with purchasing a home or renting. Auto insurance was another big contributor, with 26 percent of young people receiving help to pay for it, and 23 percent getting help with utilities."

Come on people, don't start typing out a response if you haven't even looked at the link. Especially considering it's like 10 sentences total and anyone could skim it in a minute flat.
If you post a comment that violates the guidelines by being uncivil and the community rightly flags it to death, the thing not to do is repost it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Watching my sideproject die and feeling kinda deppressed
Hi,

I while ago i posted here in hackernews post about my side project
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11982006

I love designing stuff i do it on my full-time job, i do it on my free time, i do it when i wake up, i do it before i go to sleep. When i started I was super motivated and productive. Now i feel that I am stuck and something ain't right.

156 days have passed and i have some harsh takeaways from my experience.

Building side project which takes more than "few weekends" to build is fcking hard.

Working with developers that have full time job and are helping you in free time sucks.

Being a 1 man army didn't work out in a long term - got burned out pretty quickly

So whats this post is all about?

I am looking for guidance, light of the end of the tunnel, anything that can get the spark back. Co founder, investor, buyer, mentor.

Or maybe should I let it die and move on?

Data:

Stack - Python, MongoDB, React.js
Users - 2.7k
Maintaining app - 80$/month
Lack of perspective may just be lack of experience. Sharing yours helps people broaden theirs, so thanks for doing that!
Pros and Cons of Chatbots
I've used it with Influxdb, Elasticsearch, and Prometheus.

They all worked great. I can't think of any reason to use Graphite.
This essay is absolutely fantastic - one of the best pieces of writing I've ever read on growing a company. The description of the phase one/two/three CEO Model makes a ton of sense, and the examples given (SpaceX mission, Pixar culture) were enlightening.

I have just one criticism: I think the headline under-sells the rest of the essay. I see this more as the YC guide to growing your startup beyond phase one.
Have a look at grammars in Perl6 and the new regexen. Light years ahead of anything else. Perl6 also does numeric division properly and, if I'm not mistaken, eliminates NPEs so what's not to like?
I think America is in a state of flux in terms of society's perspective on the appropriate level of financial independence of young adults. For baby boomers it seemed like you hit 18 and were ''up and out'' and expected to make it on your own. If you didn't, you were looked down upon as lazy or a mooch. But looking back at history, that attitude is an extreme anomaly. I just finished reading a fantastic book about Winston Churchill's personal finances: ''No More Champagne: Churchill and His Money'' [http://fave.co/2gSQoYF]. Besides being like crack cocaine for any Churchill fan it is a fascinating look at the personal finances of successful families in Britain 1700(ish) through post WW2. Families were successful because of their ability to pass lasting, sustainable, income-producing wealth down the generations, where it seems to have been used, by the cleverest heirs, to pursue career opportunities that were closed to those without means. And of course this was considered totally normal and expected, and if you didn't receive assistance, you were at a relative disadvantage. It wouldn't surprise me if we are headed back to some sort of hybrid system like this where if in 50 years you live in a very expensive coastal city it becomes reasonable to assume that your family contributed the majority of the resources needed for your lifestyle. Housing prices in these areas in particular have become so expensive that it's hard to foresee another outcome.
In the placebo group value A is x %. You want to know if in the treatment group value is at least x + 10 %. How many people do you have to test? (Without getting into details about study design. :-)

Anyway, you don't think power analysis à la Cohen is useful?
You can get a more recent Python from Software Collections, too:

https://www.softwarecollections.org/en/scls/?search=python

Up to Python 3.5 and 3.6 will probably follow shortly after release.

This is blessed and QA'd by Red Hat themselves, so it's as good as it gets.

"My distro only has Python 2" has to be one of the worst excuses not to use Python 3 :-)

Obvious exception are systems tools (did you know that Ansible modules have to compatible with Python 2.4 since that's what CentOS 5 uses?). But those are the absolute minority.
Logojoy assumes that your need for a logo will outweigh the artificial roadblock that they place in the workflow. The only problem is that they've provided no carrots leading up to the roadblock, so I have no motivation to continue. I need to test the service and have confidence in its quality before I sign up for anything. Never mind that I don't actually need a logo, I'm just curating a resource for future use. So I have no innate momentum besides mild curiosity, and I bounced.
I'm not sure I understand where the Trump is against gays things comes from. He's probably the most pro LGBT Republican candidate in the history of the country, and arguably has a better track record than Clinton.

Personally, I think political correctness is a problem, but that seems like a conversation for another time.
To be fair, I think his main point was that the article was trashy for suggesting that millenials receiving help was unusual (and not to bash the parents of the 1 in 4).
The problem is that most contractors will feel trapped by the sunk costs -- fallacy or not.

If you've put a month of work towards something, and they say "funding's coming through, give us a couple weeks for the first payment," you have two choices: keep working and have a chance that you'll get paid, or stop working and be guaranteed you'll never be paid for that month you put in.
I doubt they will do this because they serve custom ads to each user, and to split and merge video files is considerably less efficient than just loading different files.
It's a little disturbing that being a functional, supportive family is labeled as "privileged."

But I can't argue against the reality that having two parents who stay married, are not abusive to each other or their children, and are generally functional human beings is something of a luxury.
About "family cash flow management":

In my country it is quite common that parents first pay for a wedding and then help as much as they can with buying/building a house for newly married couple. It is considered parent's duty to help their children kick-start their own family.

And because that usually means that parents won't save enough money for their own retirement then the children are supposed to take care of them when they do retire. Most of the time that helps maintain strong family bonds, but sometimes it does exactly the opposite.
Zim wiki Alt-D. Otherwise pen and paper.
Thanks for posting and sharing your story. It was an inspired use of a learning get algorithm and we can all learn from it. Well done.
How does each social networks regulate how employees use their platform?
The Internet Archive is building a Canadian copy to protect itself from Trump
I think this could be done using MicroPython as well (e.g. https://github.com/micropython/micropython/tree/master/esp82...). Should be the same functionally, but using Python 3 instead of Lua.
>There are ultimately two types of tool makers.

i subvert logical fallacy by acknowledging 'the undiscussed third'
He was partly right that most people have nothing to say to each other. But that doesn't seem to stop them from talking anyway.
There has been no shortage of ways to escape Docker containers. If you want to lock down applications, SELinux will be much more useful, even if far from perfect.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13065881 and marked it off-topic.
What do you mean by True Grit?
I wouldn't let that stop you from evaluating it. At my last few jobs I've used Grafana with Elasticsearch and Prometheus without a problem. I've never actually used it with Graphite. The only downside I've seen is that the queries are unique to the data source, so when looking at many of the examples online you have to figure out the equivalent for your's. There might be a performance difference, but I wouldn't know it since I haven't used Graphite.
Very roughly Cornell Notes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornell_Notes

I have an "actions" column on mine.
I'm inclined to agree. I don't see any reason to sign an NDA unless it's actually required. If the other party doesn't care enough to validate, they're probably not using the NDA for its intended purpose anyway.
I think it was probably all the down payment for a house talk.
There are far more problems than NDA's and IP ownership going on here.

Moreover - I don't think the failure to sign an NDA would change the nature or 'who owns what' for the most part (unless it governed paid work, which most NDA's don't - they are simply 'non disclosures' i.e. 'keep this a secret' type docs).

Finally - it's hard to imagine a contract that specifies that the code that consultants write is 'owned' by the company - when payments are not made.

A consultant could require that the code does not belong to the company until it's paid for, legally.

More pragmatically - all legalities aside - if a company is not paying for services rendered, it's easy enough to withhold the code.

If the company wants to move forward - they can pay for it. The last thing a startup wants to do is start a big legal process and go through courts to 'get access to their code'.

In the end all these problems are not due to legal documents, they are due to people not being paid for services as per their agreement.
Why Mindshow Embodies Everything Magical about Virtual Reality as a Medium
Though it's a good idea to not sign an NDA unless required - any company worth their salt will (very reasonably) ask you to sign and NDA if you're going to be working on their stuff.
I wasnt entirely clear in my previous comment, grafana allowed clients to issue full queries against all datasources the user has access to. So if you have one datasource with metrics of all your users and want to give them access to dashboards that only display their own data, that is not secure.
Are lab rats treated poorly? My (limited) experience indicates that scientists are generally as humane as they can be, and the rat lifestyle isn't any worse than say... A pet rat. Maybe Im an outlier.

My point is that if your experiment requires a GMO organism, the organism can never have decided to participate, since it would require choice pre-conception.

If GMOing a rat in to a forced experiment is bad, isn't doing that to a human much worse?

It's still worth the cost using humans, but harm reduction would suggest using rats instead.
The Schwerbelastungskörper and Hitler’s Grand Plans for Berlin
We have. We became reddit about two years ago, just after dang took over. I blame the rule against complaining that HN is turning into reddit, but also dang's niceness initiatives, the interventionist moderation (particularly "detaching" negative posts from threads) and the way your own posts don't grey out any more when downvoted.
performa prototype build of a thing you've already built. You'll gain the new knowledge in context, making it even more valuable.
If you are smitten by this, first of all do not decline the invite to get it out of your calendar. It will notify the sender, telling them there is indeed a live human on the other end. For those looking for at least a temporary fix:
https://www.macsparky.com/blog/2016/11/how-to-fight-calendar...

I can't imagine that this isn't a hot issue for Apple right now. It breaks a lot of the trust in iCloud IMO.
just like a bunch of people don't click on ads.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grit_(personality_trait)

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2316174/Does-true-gr...
The quote is based on a UBS Investor survey of "affluent and high net worth" investors [1]. And the milleniums surveyed have 6 figure incomes. So a far from the average.

The actual break down of the top assistance assistance categories are Health Insurance, Buying/Renting, Auto Instance, and Utilities, so bills. The insurances are probably from being on their parents' plans. This is pretty consistent with what I hear from people I know. Their parents aren't paying for everything, but they do take care of 1 or 2 of their bills for their children.

[1] https://www.ubs.com/content/dam/ubs/microsites/ubs-investor-...
Good luck on the SSA disability. We just went through that process, for my Significant Other. It took 3 tries, but when it went in front of a judge, it was finally granted. In her case, it is Fibromyalgia, Chrons, and the start of RA.

And from others I've talked to, unless you are in a wheelchair (and maybe not even then), they will automatically deny you multiple times, until a hearing is scheduled. From what I understand, it acts as a filter for people that can "technically" go back to work (even if they are in extreme pain, if someone doesn't have others to support them, many applicants don't have a choice but to work when they really shouldn't).
This is an excellent tutorial. I have been looking for something like this forever: "One should be able to learn React Native directly through this tutorial, without starting with React" Thank you!
Good. I (sort of) work in that sector and investments and grant/donations support often goes to things that look good in the marketing, and show low overheads. Imagine investing in startup based on low overheads. I know, it isn't the same but the end result can be very poor. Some of the biggest names in the aid-charity business are truly awful at implementation. And there is little transparency, so it is very hard to learn what is truly effective.
> Reading through the comments that are linked it looks like you mostly had technical concerns about the work. Is that correct?

> Clearly the perception of your actions is different than you intend. In your comment here you make it sound like no one had even attempted to do resolve these issues. But that's not what the author of the article believes, and given the public record I'm inclined to agree.

From that original discussion on LibreSignal:

"If the only thing that the remaining people here want out of LibreSignal is a websocket-only solution and gmscore isn't an option for whatever reason, I would consider a clean, well written, and well tested PR for websocket-only support in Signal. I expect it to have high battery consumption and an unreliable user experience, but would be fine with it if it comes with a warning and only runs in the absence of play services. However, I also realize that still won't help people that are trying to build a Google-free experience on Google's platform, since we still don't have the things we need to be comfortable distributing software outside of Play."

I have repeated that many times. That was June. Nobody has done the work, but plenty of people have written articles like this. The latter is definitely easier.

> Your key point is that you're content if people do federation in their own, outside of your domain. That's fair. But what I'm saying is the dream of a federated secure messaging system that's also popular is something which you have the power to chase if you commit to it by making it a core feature of Signal.

Again, we already committed to making it a core feature of Signal, and it was a disaster. We've learned from our mistakes.

If it's something that you think is important, please get involved in the project and come up with a plan to introduce federation in ways that actually deliver on the promise of metadata hiding, anonymity, and censorship circumvention as well as avoid all of the problems that we documented based on our initial attempts.
> Guido has already said that Python 3 is the future of the language and development on Python 2 will come to an end.

Eventually Python 2 will come to end. He issued this statement in the past and it didn't happen on the timeline he had hoped. At PyCon this year an extended life for Python 2 was announced, until 2020 IIRC.
thanks for your response!
Unfortunately, a lot of those kinds of expenses are precisely the ones that you can't float on credit as easily, and must have cash in hand (or in check) to cover. I've never rented anywhere that would let you pay a security deposit or first-month's rent on a card. Even things like movers often enough have worked on a cash or check basis, in my experience.
Hey! Small world for sure. It was 90% of my time, I did a little freelancing for existing clients. I started work on it in September 2016.
If that's the case, mea culpa. I'm simply here to provide perspective.
Your car came with a manual?

I thought we were supposed to help write the manual by contributing copy edits to the sales flyer...
Yep, tensorflow was actually the reason I tried WSL. In my case, compiling tensorflow in WSL is also a lot faster than doing the same in Windows with CMake/MSBuild.
Using it with InfluxDB, Prometheus and Zabbix. Works like a charm. One of my favorite tools!
Oral tradition in software engineering
The module standard that is present in ES6 is a very different beast than CommonJS
You're right that personal attacks are not OK here, but we also have the responsibility not to respond in kind.
I can confirm the moment that signup box popped up... it lost me interest. I have no interest in signing up for something I do not know what it will produce.
It seems difficult enough already to find those fossile bacteria, but how do people know that these bacteria were oxidizing sulfur?
> Lots of library maintainers can't be arsed to put parentheses around their print statements

Sorry, but this comment is really misinformed. Most libraries do not exactly have tons of print statements. Library compatibility across 2/3 has more to do with the changes to strings.
One difference I see is that QFS is block-based and each file is composed of multiple S3 objects. Hence, there is no file size limit.
I guessing my kids won't even drive. autonomous vehicles and all.
Soracom launches SIM cards and services easing IoT rollout cost
I prefer the Perl 6 version, it's self-documenting:

perl6 -n -e 'say "$_ is prime" if (+$_).is-prime'
I was surprised it was that high. Really? 3 out of 4? I mean I know college loan expense is much, much higher now than it was when I went to school, and current graduates have a really bad deal. But don't hardship deferrals still exist and other options for low-income graduates? Don't people get roommates anymore to offset rent? I had crushing (6 figure) student debt after grad school, but it was really only crushing my ability to save--not crushing my ability to eat and get a roof over my head.
Master list of joint bitmoji slack commands
Worse yet, they are playing tricks with the perspective. Look at the loading ramp. That's actually the rear gate unmounted and used as a ramp. But see how photographing it from that angle makes it look so much longer.

The entire thing is a deathtrap. A used toyota pickup is better in every regard.
Front-End Application Libraries and Component Architectures
Thanks for the introduction to 'sed 1d', which is something I've somehow never come across and resorted to horrible head|tail hacks to strip fixed header lines off things.
The tools story that you raise is a real challenge, for users and for the team. I agree with you. As we were reaching RTM, we realized we had gotten ourselves wedged, pretty significantly. We had fortune 500 customers in production on our pre 1.0 RTM betas who were pushing hard for a 1.0 RTM runtime stack. At the same time, we came to the conclusion that the tools were not ready and needed significant changes (many of them breaking, as you call out). We decided to ship the runtime as RTM (now twice) and leave the tools in preview. The customers who were pushing hard are now happy (modulo the tools changes) and we're continuing to push forward.

If we were to do it all again with the knowledge we have now, we would skip all the changes and move directly to the final plan. We're sad about the resets, both to our users and because we were not nearly as efficient as we could otherwise have been. We're now on a much more solid plan and are working to land it.
What's always fascinated me about manga is the progression of space, rather than time.
As someone who is not too familiar with Graphana but is tasked with deploying it (shortly), just curious about the alerting and some of what I can do with it? I will read through the release page, but it's fun to get it from the horses mouth, if you're still available to comment?
Really well done! I was just playing with it and noticed that when I combine an inline icon with a name, the icon hangs way lower than the middle line of the next. Is that a bug? A design choice I don't understand? As another point of feedback, some spinners when searching icons and loading logos would be really nice. Maybe because of the HN effect or maybe for some other reason, but it took a few seconds for lots of actions and I wasn't sure if stuff was supposed to be happening or not. But the product is fantastic and I hope to use it soon.
What does it actually mean "to have a mentor" or "to mentor somebody"? What
kind of activity is this? Because I constantly see people talking about it,
but I've never seen a satisfactory explaination.
I'm currently using Prometheus, Grafana, and Alertmanager. I'm a big fan of the linux terminal, versioned config files, and separation of concerns but the rest of my team prefers web interfaces so I'm basically the only one maintaining Alertmanager. Grafana Altering looks appealing.

What have other people had success with?
Hey, I wanted to thank you for taking the time to explain this. The situation and its context is much more clear to me now.
What is a Tensor? [video]
If that is what you care about for some reason, you would set x+10% as the null hypothesis, right? Not sure what that scenario is supposed to have do with power.

Also, this isn't really about what I think, rather I would hope people check the Fisher 1955 ref and go from there.

What I think though is this whole idea of testing vague/vagrant hypotheses (eg the example we used here) is wrong in the worst way possible. The null hypothesis should be deduced from some theory, or at least correspond to what you care about. I have shared this paper on the site many times, I think it should be standard reading in high school: http://www.fisme.science.uu.nl/staff/christianb/downloads/me...
I did:

youtube-dl 'https://cdnapisec.kaltura.com/html5/html5lib/v2.47/mwEmbedFrame.php/p/684682/uiconf_id/31013851/entry_id/0_gaag5ixq?wid=_684682&iframeembed=true&entry_id=0_gaag5ixq'

And that was the filesize I got.