skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just in case you got trapped, this is mostly a boilerplate which goal is not to help you but the author to get the appropriate image that would allow him to invest in companies that are doing well.

> How do competitors view you? Think about your 2-3 closest competitors. If you asked their CEOs to truthfully describe your company's strengths and vulnerabilities

Well, your 6 months old startup has no "strengths and vulnerabilities". It should also not have direct competitors. Only big companies have this kind of things. You have code, users and growth.

> Are you ready for a Series A?
> Imagine that instead of being the founder of your company, you're an investor

You already ask yourself these questions.

> The debate from hell

This one is decent and I'm nice. You already did this with your cofounder most of the time.

> Was your MVP truly minimal?

Who cares, you've survived.

> Stomach-churning churn numbers

You will stress automatically about churn.

> The missing key

Don't hire "key role". Only big companies do that.

> Laughed out of the room

Decent and I'm nice.

> Unexpectedly large market

By the way, only investors say market when talking about startups. While this has sense, it's kinda a concept for big companies again. Your startup has early users and say pool / niche of those.

> Unexpectedly small market

You rarely have an unexpectedly small market. Most of the time you have no market at all: you have built something people don't want.

> How does the trajectory of the world over the next 5-10 years align (or misalign) with what you're doing?

If you're growing, you're "aligned".

And on and on. The intention is not really to help you here I believe.
In some countries (not sure about Australia) it is a crime to take on a loan with no intention of paying it back. This is probably why at the start of the article he says: 'It seems unbelievable but my intention was never to take all the money from the St George Bank and not pay it back.'. Obviously it is very difficult to prove that someone has no intention of paying back a loan.
Yes, this forces you to explicitly check for errors. I find uninitialized objects' badness comparable to the badness of unhandled exceptions - neither is very hard to debug.

But full exception safety is obviously much more than just properly catching exceptions. I mean avoiding subtle traps like the ones here: https://herbsutter.com/gotw/_102/
Ditching jQuery book
I am so fucking tired of the DEA and the joke it has become. And I will also blame Obama for continuing this mess: as someone who smoked pot heavily in his youth (and still turned out OK), for his administration to continue this lie that cannabis is some super gateway drug and has no medicinal value, is shameful.

Science, bitches! Put aside your religious biases and ask: What does science say?

/rant
The point is so much of our conclusions are based off of these null hypothesis. It's like saying the iPhone will never succeed because so many other "smart" devices at the time were terrible.
Bar examiners are among the most humorless people you'll meet. They hate attempts to "lawyer out of" culpability.
What Professors Can Do About the Collaboration Problem
Now back to the regularly scheduled program of demonization, highbrow dismissal and flagging disagreement.

I hope the old tptacek who discussed ideas comes back some day. I miss him.
...Ah. I should have known.
There's nothing "disgusting" about people exercising their free will to take a job they enjoy and/or pays the bills. Is programming to serve ads better? Is being a dishwasher or delivery person?

It's become quite popular to whine about the career choices others make ("we need to _make_ more X become programmers). I think our industry as a whole would benefit from a heaping helping of "mind your own business".
In the east we have high speed roads that aren't long stretches of straight. For example, the parkways around New York (Taconic, Sprain Brook, Northern/Southern State, Cross Island, Merritt) are 2 lane 65 mph highways with no shoulders and narrow, winding lanes. The drivers also tend to be aggressive and not give you a lot of space. Handling matters on those roads. Lots of rural highways in New England are also high speed, narrow, single lane winding affairs through wooded mountains. I don't think those roads are unique to New England, but that's where I have experience with them.

If your experience with driving is sitting in traffic or driving around suburban streets, you're right, handling (mostly) doesn't matter.
All telemetry probes have to go through a Data Review which includes Mozilla's Legal team vetting it.
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Data_Collection

There's also a Medium post that went out with the Hardware Report that details more about the process behind it.
https://medium.com/mozilla-tech/https-medium-com-mozilla-tec...
FYI, this default has been flipped on Nightly, and that change should make it in to the version 53 release in April (barring any huge problems found in the 64-bit build).
I know. They could be using all of that intelligence to get people to click on ads instead.
FWIW I don't think most of it goes towards trading. They do a lot of other analysis and tool building... as well as operational stuff. I imagine there are a very large number of poorly payed staff classified as "IT"... and a very small number of highly compensated staff classified as "engineering".

I'm not privy to the internals though so I'm just guessing. Would be interested if anyone has actual data.
It's the percentage of linux users with telemetry enabled.

I get the impression that Linux users typically disable that stuff, since they tend to be privacy-conscious.
Actually it's exactly what is meant by ORM.

Object Relational Mapper: It maps Objects to Relations.

Everything else is just auxiliary functionality.

Although I get what you're saying, and indeed the facility you describe is very convenient, it's not what the term means.

I'm just pointing that out because obviously people conflate relation(which comes from relational theory) with relationships.
> It's disgusting to me that that much brainpower was/is dedicated to stock trading.

s/stock trading/advertising.
Bioinformatics Tackles the Flu
Hacking on Multiple Amazon Echos (Alexa)
But he didn't take out a loan. The bank kept giving him money whenever he wanted to withdraw it. That is not a loan. A loan requires explicit agreement and a fixed amount.
"Remind you of any Presidents-elect?" - you mean he knowingly committed fraud and then said it wasn't fraud? More reminds me of the loser of the election. ;)
Consul as a Monitoring Service [video]
Less efficient for literally 50 ms. Then it all balances out.
> What else would they do with this technology?

Why, the same as all other hi-tech companies -- remove the human from the chain, replace them by the computers, automate processes.

Will we still be able to speak about "greedy bankers" once it is all computers everywhere trading?
> It's disgusting to me that that much brainpower was/is dedicated to stock trading.

Is it more or less disgusting to you to spend brainpower on banner ads, or social media exchange of cat memes, or something? I'm honestly curious.
> And I will also blame Obama for continuing this mess

He didn't just continue it; he doubled down on it.

For some reason, Obama receives credit for relaxing laws on medical marijuana, but the reality is the opposite. Obama actually increased the rate of crackdowns on dispensaries in states with medical marijuana, and spent far more on enforcing federal marijuana laws in these states than either Bush or Clinton did[0].

After Amendment 64/Initiative 501 passed in CO and WA respectively, it's true that he didn't take as strong action against them as he could have. But that's a really low bar to apply to the president who said he "inhaled frequently - that was the point", promised to let states decide their own marijuana laws, and (when he ran for Senate in 2004) advocated decriminalization of marijuana laws.

[0] https://www.greenrushdaily.com/2016/02/24/dispensary-raids-r...
>> because the US wont be the most powerfull country forever

I honestly find this hard to believe because:

- When there is conflict in the world, countries always come to the US first for military intervention

- When there is a serious disaster of some kind, countries always expect us to send billions in aid (both militarily and financially) to help them

- When a country is trying to obtain nuclear weapons or weapons of mass destruction, they come to us to stop them

Essentially it comes down to everybody comes to the US first for everything. When that starts to change, maybe I would entertain the fact that we won't be the most powerful country. When so many countries and millions of people rely on us for so many things, our position as being a global leader won't change in the near future.

And quite honestly, I know there's large chunks of our population that would welcome some other countries stepping up and taking the lead instead of the US. It would certainly save us thousands of military personnel that have been lost over our involvement in questionable conflicts in the Middle East.
When your structs can have functions on them that modify the original struct's data, the line between object and "really really object like struct" is very thin.

I appreciate this guy's work, but DSLs make more sense to me than orms in golang.
Cautioun.

And the destructor has to check for initialization before cleanup.
In addition to the discussion in the sister comments about specific details of formal methods, there are certainly theoretical difficulties. See this post that I wrote some months ago: http://blog.paralleluniverse.co/2016/07/23/correctness-and-c...

Also, formal methods, like AI, suffered a "research winter" after making grand promises that they weren't actually able to keep. The hype initially drew a lot of funding, and with the disappointment came a period of relative neglect. Have those two unsubstantiated-hype-prone disciplines learned the lessons and are able to lower their sights to what's attainable, or will they end up wasting a lot of time and money? I guess we'll see. I think that at least the formal methods community is more cautious now, and focuses on reducing various classes of bugs rather than promising affordable 100% correct software.
This looks great. great execution! What gpu do I have? how much video memory?

I knew about paperspace the day it came out of yc.

at the time, we were working on a competing product.

but we eventually gave up on the idea. because business wise, amazon is too expensive for this kind of service, making the price not economical for end users.

I don't know too much about the technical details of paperspace, but I believe we did better at resource sharing and cost management. but it was still a tough sell, even for enterprise users.
I wonder what would be your take on the whole case if he used the funds to build successful company that paid all the funds back, and paid for strippers and cocaine.
I know what traits are, both in Rust as well as in language design, better read some SIGPLAN and OOPSLA papers about traits and OOP.
I'll be the unfashionable person that agrees with you, then.

Most developers (workers in general) at worst are merely pointless. I think you could easily make the argument that working in banking (/oil/marketing/think tanks/...) is actively harmful and that the smarter you are, the more damage you can do.

There is no iron law that says that just because you turn up on time, work hard and internalize your organization's goals, that the world wouldn't be a better place if you had just stayed in bed.
The Death and Re-Birth of Infrastructure
Market efficiency and the number of humans involved are unrelated.

When people talk about market efficiency they are talking about the markets ability to quickly allocate capital where it is needed at a "fair" price.

I think the comments about the industry being largely parasitic are generally correct. They real issue is that if there is a 100 billion dollar transaction taking place and you can make that happen 1% more efficiently any fee you charge up to a billion dollars is a "good deal" from a purely economic standpoint. That is unless someone is able or willing to deliver that same gain for less fee.

That is exactly the arms race that has so inflated the sector.
Also https://github.com/jinzhu/gorm and https://goa.design/
Yes and no. It depends what kind of renewables we're talking about, and where they are. My favorite solar tech is solar-thermal (CSP power plants look really awesome), which effectively stores the collected solar energy as thermal energy and uses this to drive turbines. As a result, it can produce power to meet demand over a 24 hour cycle if you put it in a desert. Hydroelectric power is also renewable and can produce power whenever it is needed (assuming the reservoirs don't go dry). The problem comes from wind turbines, which produce fairly consistent power over a 24 hour cycle and don't have a way to store it at night when demand drops, and also from rooftop solar installations, which obviously only work during the day.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tests_of_special_relativity

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tests_of_general_relativity
About half of the voting public only cares about science when it confirms their existing beliefs.
Exactly! Yet another politician who goes against common sense and does the exact opposite of what he said on the campaign trail. And people wonder why Trump won?!?

Edit: Are there people on HN who'll downvote anything with the string "Trump" in it? Not that I care about downvotes (it's just an int in some volatile memory on some server), but I'm surprised people would downvote without even reading.
I think the assistance provided by DGPS goes down as your distance from the correction-factor transmitter increases. Likely it's an encrypted message from the satellites themselves.
Macquarie is more interesting IMO. Was only founded in the 60s in an isolated place.
It is a shortening of "empty [of nutrient providing] calories." This is pretty straight forward. If you were to eat nothing but sugar every day, you would die. Same as if you drank water, which is "empty of caloric or nutritional" content.

Are they worthless? No. They do provide caloric value. But they do not provide any nutritional value. This isn't even really at debate, is it?
I would have yolo'd it all on SPY calls. My December 30th calls are up like 300% right now. Could have cleared $4M and paid back the loan in full.
And they likely get paid peanuts compared to the front office.
Though it looks like godbolt only has a Rust compiler up to version 1.11 (current stable is 1.13), so it may not be including optimizations in the current Rust release.
I'm from the UK and have never heard this word, and I can't think of any similar words with racist connotations.

It's also a very anglo-centric viewpoint, why shouldn't the inhabitants of Gogland[0] have some software named after their homeland?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gogland
I would've put that money in the sp500. Depending on how long he could hold on to that credit he would've made a lot of profit that he could keep.
Most people learning it professionally are doing it so they can work with an existing code base. How is learning a different language going to help them with that?
https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-negatives-in-working-in-a...
Keep in mind that C-suite compensation typically is on the scale of a few years or less, not 5-10 years which is where you'd start to care about long-term ramifications of behavior such as this.
Reason: the DEA will lose power with less regulated substances. The only goal of some bureaucrats is to collect power, not only because it allows to have a better pay, but because mediocre people are inherently attracted to power itself.
Storm: A Peer-To-Peer Cloud Storage Network [pdf]
FCC chairman Tom Wheeler announces upcoming resignation
> It's a huge misallocation of resources

These resources are self "allocated". No one was forced or coerced into joining Goldman Sachs. Did you ever think that maybe those people enjoy their job? Or that Goldman Sachs isn't the net negative harbinger of the apocalypse you claim it to be? One could even argue that the success of "the west" is due to availability of capital, of which GS has played a role.
I left Wells Fargo. It's not as hard as you think.

FWIW I went to Chase Bank. I'm not happy, I'm not sad. Banking is as exciting as a loaf of bread. The less I interact with a bank and the humans at a bank, the happier I am.
That would be a lot better. I still wouldn't approve of it, but at least he'd be doing something useful with it.

What really gets me is not just taking the money, but then talking about the whole affair as if it was something done to him, rather than something he did.
While I agree its parasitic, I dont think its the end of the world. Its more like they are taking all of the cream from the milk, and just delivering skim milk to consumers with out telling them. People notice the milk is different, but can't quite put a finger on it.

Its just part of the problem with income inequality.
I think a lot of this religious behavior stems from an underlying belief, mostly by people who've never tried it themselves, that programming _must be_ easy and anything that makes it appear hard (and especially slow) means that somebody is making a mistake somewhere. So they go looking for a silver bullet, and the latest fad seems to fit the bill.
how much you talk
Though even if all it did was value companies, a 1% improvement in accuracy on the NYSE would correctly allocate $200 Billion dollars of miss-allocated capital to do more work for the economy. And that's just in the US. Globally it could route half a trillion dollars into more deserving companies, creating new jobs, services and products and pushing down unnecessarily high prices. This is why a well functioning finance industry is so vitally important.
Right, but all of what they are doing is self-serving. They develop these things to give their client portfolios an edge over other investment firms. They aren't developing these technologies to apply them to healthcare or general science, it's just to give them an edge in the investment business.

For a company of their size and wealth, their open source contributions are paltry. A handy way to deal with arrays in Java? Wow, that's game changing...
Yahoo has some good stuff, but their brand-name is just so, so toxic now.

I hope that if the deal goes through (and I'm sure it will), Verizon will still keep the better Yahoo services running.
We are using NVIDIA Quadros and the new P100's both in "pass-through" mode so you get the whole GPU. The economics of running this kind of business on top of AWS definitely doesn't make sense (we tried for a while). Ultimately we decided to build out our own datacenters (currently one in CA and one in NY) which gives us a huge advantage in that we can really optimize the hardware and also control costs. The end result is that we can offer an instance that is twice as powerful as Amazon's g2.xlarge for about half the price.
I agree with a lot of this. Especially work around credit algorithms and alike is fraught with immoral (or at best amoral) choices.

The question is if it is more immoral than working on something like a self-driving car, that is going to yank jobs out from under a huge chunk of the population. I really don't know what the answer is.
I know these people! They are amazing :)
Using simulated annealing to find trendlines
How EAT Club Is Disrupting Corporate Cafeterias
Can anymore more "in the know" explain why an accuracy increase from "several meters" to 1m would decrease the SAR time from 3 hours to 10 minutes in the open ocean? It's not like the precision difference matters here. I could see it helping in the mountains where there's a lot of signal interference so Galileo might provide better real-world accuracy, but this doesn't make sense on the open ocean. There must be some other component to the service that's not being described.
Isn't Miranda pure-functional? Because Clojure is imperative (-functional). Saying you can't mutate is very different from saying you can mutate whatever you like, whenever you like, as long as its transactional or not observable.

And SIGPLAN papers don't really count. A revolutionary product is not the same as a revolutionary idea. Implementing ideas that have never been productized is still revolutionary.
"both parties were in the wrong in different ways, and the blame, and thus legal action, should lay distributed between the two"

Between these two only the bank, as institution or licensed financial entity, has an obligation to guard the flow of public money. The bank should not hand anyone the responsibility of overdraft limit management. The individual can be assumed incompetent and just be absolved of any responsibility solely based on that.
Gee, it's not like this is the first time a Apple product problem has been blamed on a faulty formula: https://www.apple.com/pr/library/2010/07/02Letter-from-Apple...
The world GDP is about $76 trillion; that means that the global economy produces about $120,000/ in 50 ms. Reducing the time to work on a trade from 100 to 50 ms gives a trading algorithm that much of an edge, which ultimately helps increase the size of that $76 trillion pie.
Yeah, it happens to shoes that are kept a long time.

However, I remain unconvinced that the wear pattern matters this much. It seems to me that an alternative would be to re-lace your shoes every year, flipping sides. Then the pattern would be more even, too. And probably still a waste of time and effort.
Defeated by The Washington Post's paywall? Probably not going to get many upvotes on HackerNews when it is so easy to bypass...
Show HN: SnapSlack – Send disappearing messages in Slack
i think this is really cool. Can anyone remind me (on formal grounds) why a programmer might be interested in a compiler

LISP --> GO-lang

I am a huge fan / user of Python (which is an interface to C) but that also did take some time to justify itself, no?
It is much, much more than half.
Hi there!

We built SnapSlack as part of a hackathon @eFounders, it's a fun side project that will allow you to troll your teammates without leaving any trace :p
We're looking forward to open-sourcing the whole project when we'll reach 300 signups ;)
The frontend is built using the (amazing!) zeit now.sh stack (Next.js is AWESOME).
The backend uses Meteor alongside Firebase.

Best,
As with Tesla, I skimmed for the price, and once I saw it, closed the window. I never cease to be amazed that there are enough people who will spend $100K on a car to make these businesses work.
Isn't this capitalism though? Companies are competing on products and it's cheaper to advertise than to innovate, leading companies inexorably down this route.
Yep amazing how he turned it around. I remember a trailer for a documentary on it somehow.
It means that the satellite will be in the same place at the same time every day (give or take about a hundred miles per day of drift)
I'm currently working with a publisher on a book that provides an intro C# and XML. The way that I have gauged what to put in is to think about what info I needed when I first started. That got me only so far so I took to the internet and started searching what kind of questions people are asking about handling XML. From there I was able to add topics/information that would solve problems of real people so that others who may have the same problem have a resource to go to.
I was trying not to sound hyperbolic, but you're probably right.
The way they are going with feature removal, Apple products in 50 years will be slate tablets. Made of actual rock.