skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is great advice—many founders reverse the cause and effect here.

We think of them as milestones in the company's success. For example, as a SaaS company selling to government (often bucketed with enterprise), us reaching "Series A" means we have a repeatable sales playbook and defined customer acquisition funnel. It may be inefficient, but we can say that roughly X dollars in equals Y dollars out.

The funding is a tool that can only be used once we have reached that milestone in our company's maturity. Seed stage companies can't put $10m to work, and shouldn't try to, because they aren't at that point in their development.
FWIW, Samuel Morse obtained a $30,000 grant from Congress in 1843 to build an experimental telegraph line between Baltimore and Washington.
It occurred to me that this might the right time for something like Law-Hub (a la Sci-Hub). Oh, the irony.
Intercontinental Hotels Confirms Breach
serious question
is C still worth to learn in this age?

I have tried to learn/write in C/C++ but I still choose more modern language to write my apps like java,ruby,python

related SO http://stackoverflow.com/questions/417816/how-popular-is-c-f...
After any idea is implemented, there are people who say the same. Coz most ideas are out there, they need dedicated implementation.
I agree with you to an extent. However, none of this changes the fact that consistent exercise increases the rate of metabolism significantly and generally leads to better mental and physical health. It also doesn't change the fact that eating at a caloric deficit will always lead to weight loss. A caloric deficit alone is not enough for one to reduce to a healthy weight as they may also be losing large amounts of muscle mass. Conclusion: Consistent exercise and a well-balanced diet are still the best ways to become healthy and maintain health.
You are completely right. Shipping automation has a lot of potential.

I don't think Uber has any strong competitive advantage in the self-driving space relative to all of the other players. I've been wrong about these things before. The thing that may put them at a disadvantage is their history of ignoring regulations compared to companies like Google. Even if they develop the technology quickly enough they may be screwed because a competitive technology is the one that gets licensed by the DOT because other companies play by the rules.
Linguistic prescriptivism is pedantic and wrong.
Was referring more to general case, like using less regulated labor abroad (China, Mexico). It has an impact because workers in the US or other first world countries are essentially in an unfair competition those workers can't demand benefits or higher salaries, and the US workers can't "skirt the law" to take lower wages or benefits (for example you can't pay a factory worker $2 / hr in the US). Put it another way, the law essentially says "If you use workers here, your minimum cost is $X. You have unlimited freedom to use workers elsewhere though, and you don't have to follow these rules in that case."
Backing into World War III
SimGANs – A Game Changer in Unsupervised Learning, Self Driving Cars, and More
...Moving companies?

Tmobile, Verizon, AT&T and Sprint uses 0 rating.

That's the entirety of the American wireless infrastructure.

It is literally impossible to use 4g wireless communication in America without patronizing directly or indirectly a 0 rating neutrality violator.
I liked comment about manual memory management ("This memory model is why Jesus weeps when he has to code in C") and on page 151 in features table "Jesus weeps", made me smile.
You must mean something cheap, portable, relatively small, etc - because ground penetrating radar is a thing:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground-penetrating_radar

I could see something that could be "attached" to a cell phone (via bluetooth or such), attached to a stick or such (like a metal detector) - would be useful. Sonar would probably be the cheapest way, but the power requirements would be fairly large (at least as much as what's needed for a fish-finder, I would imagine).

Hmm - gotta give some thought to this!
VLAs were added in C99, but not universally adopted (particularly by embedded systems compilers, for obvious reasons), and then made optional in C11.
Immigration ban probably.
The Bot That Flies Like a Bat
I also don't see what is illegal here - isn't it basically counting cards?
How much did the CNCF have to pay for the code?
I didn't say "outsource", I said "open an office". There's a world of difference between having a team in a different office and outsourcing.
Perhaps you should look at this two presentations first:

https://media.ccc.de/v/31c3_-_6243_-_en_-_saal_1_-_201412292...

https://media.ccc.de/v/32c3-7130-the_perl_jam_2
Ask HN: Which books are the best to learn Python Django?
I am learning Django framework. What are the books, tutorial or videos to learn Django?
Entrepreneurship and Skiing? Retreat in the French Alps – April
Ask HN: Experienced JavaScript Hackers – Can you please review my code? :)
I recently built this minesweeper game for Node.js. The github link is here <https://github.com/fej-snikduj/minesweeper-nodejs>

I'm relatively new to programming, and recently completed a 3 month bootcamp. While I thought the course was great and we learned a lot of different frameworks, I did think there was too light of emphasis on creating quality code - it was kind of the bind leading the blind in that case.

Now that I'm starting a job search, some feedback from experienced JavaScript hackers would really help me out.

I'm looking for comments on: styling, structure, readability, modularity, proper use of comments, and even proper git etiquette. Feel free to comment, or shoot me a message. And please feel free to rip it apart - I only stand to learn.

Thanks in advance!
> Maybe I'm not rational but I'm much more worried about Microsoft having access to my data than some random "Russian" hacker.

Russian hackers, past, present and future, routinely steal information and use it against the victim, whether we're talking about individuals or corporations. And I'm just talking about login credentials or credit card information, nevermind more personal data like phones or even intellectual property.

Microsoft hasn't done any of that, as far as I am aware.
Even mathematicians rely on abstractions every day to do their jobs. Don't sell yourself short.
Completely agree. I lived in Hungary, where the crime rate is relatively low compared to the whole Europe. But you can't actually go to an open market without securing your pockets. Now I live in Scotland, which amongst the highest crime rate countries in Europe, but it feels much safer to walk through Glasgow than to walk through Budapest.

This is because every single small pickpocket is reported and usually caught. Not to mention crime definitions like "breach of peace", with cases like "shouting in public" or "pointed his finger on walker". Police would laugh on a reports about these in Hungary.

I didn't like Amsterdam (or what I have seen of it) though, same insecure feeling.
>They fought a lot of times even when they were just regional (the region being Europe) powers.

Which is part of my argument: they fought on their way up, to secure dominance in Europe, and then went on to divide the world between then (or failed to, like Germany).

I also mention something similar later, when writing about Eastern Europe, that nation there's also fought as they developed to define their borders and reach, until those "solidified".
she didn't create a compression algorithm.

More akin to enabling GZIP in IIS...
> Flying is not a valid commute solution and never will be because of physics. All things equal, the energy requirements to change elevation will be too great to justify adoption.

That only ensures that flying cars will always be more expensive than ground cars, not that per capita income will always be too low to have mass adoption of flying cars.
Even if the user wants to do this, seems like a good thing to have off by default
There's nothing special about Paleo except that for some people it's easier to restrict total calories by cutting out the things that Paleo cuts out.

By that logic, I consider Paleo to be a trick. Not in the dishonest "deceive" sense, but rather in the card trick sense, or the "one neat trick" life-hack sense.
IRS Asks to Postpone Upcoming Hearing with Coinbase
Can we all please agree that if something is not designed for road use, it can hardly be categorized as a car?

Im all for stuff like this, but "flying cars" implies something that is practical as both a road vehicle and a flying contraption of sorts...
I'm very excited about this. I've been looking for a good open-source statically-typed web stack for a long time, and the Rust community delivered.

Now, when this works on stable, it'll be awesome!
Darn it Canada! Can you stop being nice for a second while we in the US figure out what we're doing? /s
Look, I honestly don't understand what you are talking about. Why suddenly we are talking about undecidable?

I have not experience in this area.
Yeah, exactly. Each amazon site has 100% different products. You have to just search for the same product and hope it's there, or find something similar. Even more difficult when the other site is not in English.
Four easy reads to understand distributed systems issues
"Relying too heavily on external variables is fraught with peril since it leads to programs whose data connections are not at all obvious" - k&r, ch. 1

Who are these Kernighan and Ritchie guys? They obviously just don't understand "good code", terrible book!
> When England and France and Germany etc fought, they were huge colonial powers (or wannabe powers), controlling large parts of the world. So they were in competition, and there were great stakes from the outcomes of such battles.

More importantly, Germany and Italy both came late to the colonial acquisition game, and both were trying to industrialize at a time when their access for raw materials like natural rubber could only be obtained by gaining colonies at the expense of other powers.

In 1945, the US imposed on France and Britain a new regime: they had to start letting go of their colonies, but in return, the US imposed peace would allow any country to complete for raw materials by price rather than by power.
> Which is a property of our formalism, not reality. Any state we'd care to actually observe necessarily has finite precision, so the internal mechanics of our formalism to model this process utilizing infinities is an artifact only of our formalism, not of reality.

But this is exactly my point. The fact that our observations have finite precision doesn't say anything about the underlying reality. That's the part that you're asserting. If it also turns out that assuming the underlying system is continuous results in much more compact theories than assuming otherwise, why is the obvious conclusion that spacetime is in fact discrete?
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The counter-argument to this being that the safety checks imposed by Rust prevent errors in the first place, saving debugging time and getting features out more quickly.
Tell that to all the Chinese companies that are in the midst of marketing hexacopters for city transportation...
>In the US, maybe. The Eu enjoys broad support on the 'metropolitan' centre-left across Europe - only being opposed really by the extreme left and the centre to far right.

Same in the US I think. I wasn't talking about democrats (the US "centre-left", but about the actual left.

>Also, maybe the US should be careful what it wishes for. The UN, for instance, was set up post WWII to project US / Wilsonian values around the world. While trade deals / supranational agreements are inconvenient sometimes, the US may end up missing them when they're gone and the US has to deal with a truly multipolar world again

Let it come, I say!
I don't get it. Trump isn't the only one nixing the TPP. Sanders was going to nix it too, and so was Hillary (unless she was lying). Have you forgotten that Hillary came out against the TPP too?

There was no choice for a candidate who was pro-TPP in this election, except earlier on during the GOP primaries. If you're pro-TPP, the best you could have gotten was Hillary who, considering what she said about it, might have tried to amend it instead of nixing it altogether.
It really doesn't matter very much what opinion the President has of the electoral college, the President doesn't have much say in the matter. Perhaps the President could use their position to push for change, but that would be the extent of it.
The End of Work – 2020?
Glad it was of help :) Good luck to you.

Because I am impatient, I found this page to further fuel my silent rage against the time it take for the state to process anything: http://www.sos.ca.gov/business-programs/business-entities/pr...

I got my copy of LLC-1 returned to me 8 business days after they stated they had processed it. Your LLC will show up in the business search the next day after they processed yours.
Thanks for all your work on this Chris! Great news to kick off the week.
Hello,

I logged in purely just to respond to you. Inconveniently tight is an understatement when it comes to public transport. You're dealing with a beast that can appear ANY time within a 30 minute radius around the "estimated" arrival time. And if you miss it, that can be an hour out of your life. Combining the fact that now you'll miss your transfer(s). This also ignores all the prep time that goes into catching a bus such as packing your things, ensuring you have the money, getting out of the office (where people don't respect or understand the bus schedule).

I also didn't account for things such as crosswalks and rude drivers. I assume every crosswalk will be about 10 minutes to cross, given lights and drivers general disrespect for pedestrians.

For reference, I've gotten so angry at my local Public Bus system I started a blog to deal with my rage issues caused by it.
Ask HN: What book(s) do you wish existed?
For "book" you can substitute any coherent work of prose that is approximately the length of a novel (~50-100k words).

No particular restrictions on genre (if fiction) or topic (if non-fiction), audience, format, structure, medium, price, etc.
The amount of negativity in the comments section here is astounding. How could you not be excited and happy for this promising young woman's achievement? No, her work will not put her on the shortlist for a Turing Award. But it is something any engineer should be proud of, and has real impact for millions of users.

You have a right to be unimpressed, but if you're taking the time to say "So what?" or "This is just a recruiting ad" then you should probably rethink. I never thought I'd say this, but the negativity here really indicates the kind of latent discrimination that so many URMs & women in tech complain about. I have literally no other explanation for it -- a senior engineer at Google could have implemented this compression and it would still be HN worthy, and nobody would be calling the blog article a fluffy PR piece.
So it sounds like they're saying that overlearning is what takes us from from "oh, huh, I was wrong" on encountering new evidence, to instead saying "no way, the evidence has to be wrong."
Was very interested some years ago but lately I think many of the things I don't like with for example C# has snuck into the syntax.

Capital letter keywords etc.

Wish it was more like Perl 5 and more performant.

But we shall see, it might change a lot the next years as it matures.
60% of poor adults choose not to work. I'm sorry you consider reality to be "disgusting".

http://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/publication... Table 3 Page 21

My uncited study says that your uncited study is wrong and the authors of your study are Nazis.
I'm not implying that it's hard in a clean-room sense, I'm implying that changing things over time means you might end up with different code than if you did it clean-room today.

The interfaces matter a lot more than the implementations; we spent a lot of focus on the actual interfaces, stabilized them, and internal improvements are always landing.
Looks like that's about Perl 5, not 6. (I am not going to watch such long videos without more info up front.)
H1Bs sponsored by Microsoft / Google are the lucky ones. When I started back in 2008, in the east coast, they gave me 50K and I had 10+ yrs IT exp, with previous Wall St company experience too. When my contract expired, they were so shocked why I quit so fast ;P. The small desi company in NJ who sponsored my didnt know they were shit.
Vuedux: Familiar Redux Bindings for Vue.js, Inspired by React-Redux
> For the House to win and be profitable, the average person has to lose on average.

and if people always lost, vegas would collapse because people would stop going.

You could make the argument that any other expensive hobby is also throwing away money:

* boating: buy a brand new boat for $65k, sell it 8 years later for $35k, plus $5k in total operating costs/insurance. You just "lost" 35k (not counting interest)

* rock climbing: buy $3k of gear and travel, $2k on lessons. Fall and break your arm for $6k, $11k "lost" for a couple years of entertainment.

* "travel", spend $6-10k on hotel, airfare, meals, in 2 weeks, all we have left to show for it is "memories". Great "investment".

(disclaimer: I'm not actually against the things I just mentioned. Only pointing out that they are "throwing away money" just like a weekend in vegas). Unless you're some hyper-disciplined monk who only uses money for humble necessities, you, too are throwing away money just like people do in a casino.
A Hacker Just Pwned Over 150,000 Printers Left Exposed Online
> (the claim that these standards are "discovered facts" is just insulting to the engineers that worked on them)

As an engineer, I don't see why. Discovery is still hard and valuable work.

I personally also think the use of terminology like "discovery" rather than "invention" reinforces that you don't have some divine, exclusive right to control what you've created, but that discoveries are to benefit all of humanity. The government gives you a time-limited exclusive license as a reward for taking the risk and doing the hard work to make these discoveries.
Love the concept, but I can't see this as useful as an App, since pretty much every use case I can think of I'd want to be at my computer for.

I also find it kind of amusing that you're advertising esports advice from a woman who plays on a CS:GO team which can't even compete with a mediocre ESEA-IM team... she might be an absolutely amazing teacher and amazing person to work with, but she isn't good at the game, which really undermines your marketing strategy.
Funnier on Bloomberg! Sort of. I guess they don't do physics there.

I love the closing:

"Kalanick’s bet on Uber Elevate is another indication that while Silicon Valley seems on the surface to be consumed with politics and protests these days, the march into the future continues apace."

Yeah, okay. Oh Uber is based where?
If you want the font on your webpage to be larger, change the pattern of magnetic data stored on your hard drive.

This is what you need to do. Do you need more specifics?
Depends... I think we are really close to have viable "flying cars" in the form of electric or even hybrid gas-electric multirotors... Give it 5-10 years Im sure we will begin to see multirotors being used for personal transportation.
Looks like they're using the BSD license in this project, https://github.com/facebook/zstd/blob/dev/LICENSE

So no need to worry about the patent clause in this case right?
A New Adorable and Addictive Puzzle Game: Pigu's Polar Puzzle Pandemonium
“I Don't Trust Anything That We Didn't Build”
> The optimal altitude flown would be lower for shorter trips

Where does the column of flying cars go? Do they expand vertically or horizontally as traffic increases?

In the underpopulated area's of the US where 10% of the population lives this is a feasible mode of transit, what about the 90% that actually have traffic?

If the cars broaden vertically it's a safety risk, if the cars broaden horizontally it's a violation of property rights (and a different safety risk), if the cars don't broaden it rapidly becomes inefficient and dangerous.

Also, with the advent of KERS and other regenerative systems cars will be able to recapture the bulk of energy consumed for elevation changes. To my knowledge there's no such effective system for planes. So the efficiency on cars is still higher than air vehicles.
I'm biased because I used to work with many of the people Uber hired for self-driving cars, but they bought really great engineering talent. Great talent doesn't mean much though if the management is bad, and after their whole illegal testing in California debacle it makes me cautious.

That said, I didn't realize just how far ahead Google/Waymo is with regards to self-driving cars. If you check out the report of autonomous vehicles (HN "discussion" here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13554796) they are already operating on highways with zero problems! The data is limited, but that is promising.
Substantial amount of Perl6 goodness is already baked one way or another in ES6/7, Python 3.x, Scala and even the modern C# and C++14/17. Speaking of stuff like concurrency, C3 resolution, object proxies (a.k.a AUTOLOAD), introspection/reflection, promises, reasonable regex engine, etc.

As far as speed is concerned - with the modern approach to concurrent programming, it does not really make a difference which of the above languages you'd choose, as long as your architecture is right. IO::Async may in many scenarious be faster than Node, Perl devs are probably 2x the price of a JS guy...

So the question for Perl6 is really - when, if ever, is it going to have tools like npm, make, pip to simplify the maintenance of a project. Not to mention proper debugger (i.e. Perl6 debugging plugin for VSCODE).

Perl6 is a lot of syntax even for Perl5 oldies like myself, and I'll need a very long list of assurances to convince any client/manager/colleague to take this road. Because chances are I end up being the only living soul on the planet able to maintain my Perl6 code.

After all - R&D is not only about the initial writing (that'd be 15-20% of all time), but also debugging (huge part), CI (some 15-20%), and post-release support.

Unfortunately languages like Scala and ES6 are presently way more appealing with already-complete ecosystems of tools and editors. They also provide pretty much the same performance for likewise non-enterprise projects. On the contrary - in order to introduce Perl6 in an enterprise (where Perl5 is still considered an option), one would have to have a very convincing set of arguments...
Happy to be at a place where my skills are appreciated. More of my friends will soon be ex H1Bs.
>> The big factor here is that casino's specifically forbid the use of devices intended to affect the outcome of the game. You go to a casino, you have to play by their rules. If not, they can argue you are attempting to defraud them.

I understand that they may kick you out for being too good (he must be "cheating"). And the argument about using a device to aid you might be a more concise definition of cheating of some sort. But I've never noticed any posted rules that one would reasonably be expected to know about. And the use of the term "fraud" is important because then it becomes a legal issue with big consequences beyond getting kicked out or banned from a particular casino. OTOH a casino doesn't need to post the law for people to read. Does the law defer to the casino rules? That wouldn't be appropriate IMHO.

There are "house rules" and there are laws. I'm kind of wondering where those lines are and what specifically these guys did that constitutes a felony. What specific aspect of their scam was illegal. I'm not disputing that it was dishonest and in effect a scam of sorts.