skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I love articles like this it's inspiring...but it really doesn't offer any new insights other than the fact that

Every one man success story on HN was largely possible due to existing audience from another entity that took years to grow

It's pretty disheartening once you read the article and it boils down to this very requirement: You Need An Audience First.

I'd like more insights and details in how lone entrepreneurs of HN were able to grow their audience.

Because when Step 1 is have a big enough audience the rest of the steps are pretty much a no brainer. It's this step that most of us are struggling with.

I've spent years in seclusion writing a SaaS that ultimately resulted less than the annual wage of a North Korean factory manager and it was rough both physically and mentally but it all boiled down to the fact that VC funded startups were able to do huge PR and buy ads, write blog posts, increase Adwords bid prices etc while I was not.

So yeah, you can succeed with a one-man biz outfit but not without an audience. It makes sense why Linkedin is valuable, why Pinterest, Whatsapp, Oculus, Twitch gets bought out even without revenues.
No, you work to get great stuff done. Whether or not your teammates are a worthwhile investment (or whether they even belong at the company at all) is a complicated calculation.

In this case the author describes a jerk who's more effective than the rest of the team combined. In this case, I kind of wonder whether it was a mistake hiring such a team.
People that lie, who are dishonest, lazy, don't wish to work hard and look out for their interest before the company's interest are the worst kind of jerks. These jerks are seriously threatened by any kind of person who is not afraid to speak up and call them out to their shenanigans.

I've seen this before, where the team was building a skyscraper with cardboard boxes, and the "brilliant jerk" called them out and they fumed and morale was low. The jerk left and the team supposedly started meeting their goals and was releasing faster.

Well of course they were! the lone voice that was the gatekeeper was gone and all sorts of garbage was being committed to the code base. The skyscraper went up faster, and one day it came crashing down never to go up again. I was a consultant that saw this. So I always take "jerk" with a grain of salt. Of course, people should be kind, diplomatic, and caring, but they should also tell the truth and the bitter truth. I'm conflicted on the entire training thing, I believe that senior developers should teach, however, unless the company is willing to budget time for that, it is on each person to learn and shore up their skill. The company should train their developers if they are not up to par.

Work is were work happens, if you wish to learn and grow, study furiously outside of work. It's your responsibility as someone that represents themselves as a professional and asks to be paid a fair wage to learn. Some of these lessons the "senior developers" can teach are worth hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars, I don't see junior developers cutting checks to them for those lessons. Let me reiterate, work is were work happens. If you are fortunate to find a mentor that is willing to teach you, be grateful for you are blessed. If you apply for a job and the company never talked about training you, it's your responsibility.
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But the point of both articles is that these groups are not even unified within themselves, much less can they collude effectively, or out-maneuver the various forces that would not want them to control everything. And even if they could - what then? Managing even one company is difficult, trying to coordinate several thousand is essentially impossible.

More pedantically, you're assuming those groups could take all of those assets from where the owners of those assets put them (including bonds, commodities, foreign investments, etc) and put them into the US stock market. Even if they did so they're barely above 50% of the US market cap (put at 25 trillion by World Bank).

http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/CM.MKT.LCAP.CD?locations...
https://academic.oup.com/aje/article/180/9/890/2739176/Mater...

>Low iron intake significantly interacted with advanced maternal age and metabolic conditions; combined exposures were associated with a 5-fold increased ASD risk.

Maternal age and iron intake aren't genes. Neither is folate:

https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/c...

and if I'm reading this odds ratio (0.26) correctly, maternal folate supplementation may prevent or ameliorate up to 74% of cases of autism:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4167931/
I'm not really talking about the middle American working class. They are certainly capable of coming up with solutions. But when someone says "nobody is providing solutions" I can only imagine that they live under a rock with a community of people who are incapable of coming up with solutions.
I agree for price, you can't really beat Distrokid but disruption can come in other forms. Other competitors may think of better features, more connections, or simply better marketing. I don't know.

Will this likely happen? Nah.
> To be left-leaning in the 60s and 70s was to be alternative to the mainstream. Today, to be left leaning is to be mainstream.

Not really. It's true that a position left of the center established by the balance of the parties in government is mainstream in the population, but that's because the parties in government have moved right relative to the population (the Republican party consistently, the Democratic Party merely on average as a result of the big rightward jump of the Clintonian "third way", from which there has been some subsequent minor movement back toward the left, with some ambiguous signalling that bigger moves in that direction are possible in the near future.)
Eh, I'm not really the target audience, being neither a (this decade) user of Apple's platforms nor a developer for same. Still, I thought it was interesting enough to justify the read. I'm interested in how problems like this play out in the broader sense, and (some) modes approaching paranoia have shown themselves to have predictive utility in recent decades.
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You're being super vague so I cannot give a good response. If you treat people as people, assume good faith, and ask genuine questions you'll be treated just fine.

I rarely find people on the conservative side of the political spectrum are actually interested in doing that, because they don't act like they think of gender non-conforming people as people. They might, but they certainly don't act that way. I'm gratified where I'm proven wrong, but such people are few and far between.
Ask HN: VC Money
What would life in tech like, without VC Money bloat ? startups, jobs, sustainability ?
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> I just wish the vaccine establishment would just be honest and admit that some children have to suffer or even die for the benefit of the "herd".

I think this is the problem. If doctors told parents that their child could die or become paralyzed from vaccination, and that they can't predict it or stop it, then vaccinations would be much less popular. So the establishment lies for a good cause (to protect the herd).
Sure, but DC/OS has yet to demonstrate that it can do any of that. Mesos has demonstrated that it can handle clusters at scale, but I don't know of anyone running the full smorgasbord of all 30 services on a cluster that big, and its the other 29 things that's going to fail at scale.

And again, if you are going to be running DC/OS at that scale, then you are going to be running the enterprise version, because you aren't going to be running that much magical shit on million dollar hardware without someone being paid to troubleshoot.

That might be me in a few years, except that Mesosphere seems to be attempting to kill me in the short term by killing non-DC/OS mesos/marathon while crippling non-enterprise DC/OS. So looks like we'll be migrating to K8s and hoping that in a few years K8s scales. The "K8s doesn't scale" argument is losing ground with every new release btw.
I am not implying his built in audience was the reason for the success.

DistroKid is successful because pud is a badass entrepreneur and a passionate musician that understood the pain point and executed beautifully.

But at the same time you can't underestimate - or edit the story to not include - the value of early traction and a built in "free" source of eyeballs while you're tweaking product market fit over four years.

The price of Pud hitting #1 on HN w/a piece of start-up content marketing is a little sort out - for the rest of us in the comments section here - about what lessons to take away from the content, and what else to consider.
a distrokid API would be pretty useful.
Fo shizzle my nizzle. Snoop wrizzles dope lyrizzles, but his rich vocizzle is confizzling.
anecdotal
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Thank you for sharing your story. As a guy who's about to get married, I began paying more attention to articles like this one. I am now ware that early diagnosis is important. I will make sure to see the right specialist if I suspect something.
Its sometimes interpreted as cheating if you leverage any other thing you may have developed. Like an audience or previous product.
Yes, it seems that vaccination of the mother leads to less protection of the infant. That is why some argue the vaccination age needs to be lowered:

>"An increasing proportion of children in the United States will respond to the measles vaccine at younger ages because of lower levels of passively acquired maternal measles antibodies.
[...]
Our data indicate that, in the future, when virtually all women of child-bearing age will have vaccine-induced immunity, the recommended age for vaccination may be able to be lowered further without diminishing vaccine efficacy"
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8545224

This isn't politically acceptable because people harbor a myth about the reason newborns are not vaccinated.
Recommended watching on causes of Autism:
https://www.ted.com/talks/wendy_chung_autism_what_we_know_an...

3 major factors that are highly correlated:
1) Using a particular drug
2) Age of father
3) Being male

Majority is genetics though, so if the two parents are both highly intelligent and/or on the spectrum, good chances the child will be as well.

Autism is principally caused by the brain neurons developing too quickly during development, and then not reaching the same levels in fully developed adults. One theory thrown around is it's the rapid neuron development, so having intelligent parents means you have a chance of overshooting the threshold of "safe" development resulting in Autism.

I presume this study has better, more-up-to-date metrics though.
Entirely possible. But the viewer may also just be in an environment with skilled jerks that have driven off skilled non-jerks. So whether the viewer is a jerk, nice, or indifferent won't necessarily change the apparent correlation they observe around them between jerkiness and skill. The danger lies in generalizing that observation and assuming it applies outside that environment.
Do you think that is the logic employed by even one out of 100 anti-vaccination people? Do you think your post is an argument in favor of higher vaccination coverage or lower?
Believe me, I'm the first person to kindly point out that something is "Googlable" or, in the case of programming, direct someone to the docs. With this, I couldn't believe that Wikipedia would engage in such a unethical practice - didn't even search for it considering that Wikipedia is generally a great org.

Thanks for the info.
He is also a good marketer. Thats the key.
That analysis makes sense, if you leave out the VCs. They would also like a return on their investment, and if they thought going public would be profitable, you can be sure it would have already happened.
Ten years ago was 2007 and plenty of people were aware of the NSA. There was a movie from the 90's with WILL SMITH that featured NSA overreach.
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Your usecase reminded me of the Netflix problem, which is given x movies that the user has liked, try to recommend movies to them based on a large dataset that has thousands of users and their movie ratings. For music, there is a similar dataset[1] and problem on Kaggle[2].

The way the system is evaluated is by building a model that will predict what rating the user will give a song even though the user has not rated it yet. Then the difference in predicted and actual rating will be computed as the testing error in the model. Some basic techniques for building a model are regression and matrix factorization using SVD (singular value decomposition).

Your usecase might be slightly different from this problem, because you wouldn't have to predict the rating other users give a song (only for yourself) and you want your model to change on the fly given a skip and dislike. A simple, but possibly effective solution might be to search the music dataset that contains the listening history of 1M users to find songs you haven't rated before and download it to listen.

[1] http://labrosa.ee.columbia.edu/millionsong/
[2] https://www.kaggle.com/c/msdchallenge#description
You've contradicted yourself. You initially said:

> Nothing about this attack is going to impact the effectiveness of ASLR in the cases it was designed for.

Then you said:

> This article makes it sound like ASLR has been completely defeated, but it's only defeated in a context where the attacker has significant control - even if that's a likely scenario.

That is indeed a highly likely scenario, so it's simply wrong to say "nothing about this attack is going to impact the effectiveness of ASLR".
No, you're right, I'm sure that somehow Sony managed to hire an entire team of sys admins that were so incompetent that none of them actually realized just how vulnerable their system was.

like... every. single. one. of their sys admin team was really that oblivious. Out of all the people they hired, not even one competent got accidentally picked up somewhere along the way, during all the years they were were running that network before it happened.

Or maybe, their sys admin team was acutely aware, but management didn't give them the autonomy to choose to fix it, and anyone who spoke up and tried to push for the issues to be fixed got labelled as "not being a team player", or a "troublemaker", or even ... gasp ... an "abrasive jerk".

And then they got booted, and everyone else learned the lesson and just shut up and kept collecting the paycheck.

And then suddenly they get hacked, and then finally management was willing to spend the money on securing things better.
You really don't have to worry about all this if you're asking.

Most people use VPN for security purposes. Now, when I mention security, there's various kinds. It can vary from hiding from state-attackers, to not wanting to be surveilled, to just torrenting stuff to avoiding a nasty letter from your ISP.

If you have nothing to worry about in the last paragraph, then the other case is organisational policies or accessibility. Routing all client traffic through a companies server because some companies' internal servers only allow requests from whitelisted IPs and drop all other packets. Of course, as a consumer/employee this is not something you have to worry about but it is something for sysadmins, and/or the security person who makes decisions at a company. And looks like there are a few of those in this thread. Hence all these discussions.

If you want to get into using VPNs, I'd suggest getting a server online first, something from digital ocean, AWS or Gcloud. If you want something super cheap, I suggest OVH's VPS. And the best tutorials in my opinion are from Digital Ocean[1]. If you only know how to use Ubuntu, here's[2] what you want.

[1]:https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tags/vpn?type=tutoria...

[2]: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-...
Now you know why the CDC freaks out at the slightest hint of a measles outbreak.
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On the topic of Delphi, try FreePascal / Lazarus? Free, dependency free development even with GUI designer. FreePascal (non-GUI) supports an ungodly number of platforms!

Otherwise, can't recall much else, discounting cheating with e.g py2exe.
I try to limit myself to being no more than 50% of the comments on a review. I know what that probably sounds like, but with experience, and especially if you study ergonomics like I do, you learn that certain patterns of code that look OK are actually accidents waiting to happen. This bizarre pattern you're using has caused 3 regressions already, and we are not interested in there being a 4th.

To keep it to a dull roar, I do a number of things. Be consistent, prioritize, shop my concerns, and never go first.

By consistently bringing up your top concerns eventually they'll disappear from the code reviews, or others will start making the comments before you can. As things improve you can start bringing up lesser, or deeper issues. If things don't improve you start asking your peers for help communicating the importance of the issue. By going last you let other people contribute, demonstrate consensus, cover issues so you don't have to be the messenger, and you know roughly how many comments the code is going to get.
If their entire feed is overwhelmed, eventually people change their mind. At least 30-40% of the feed in one study.
source: https://youarenotsosmart.com/2017/02/11/yanss-095-how-to-fig...
paper: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-9221.2010....

Trouble is in today's world, you get to filter your data sources to things that you already believe in.
> "Stop. That's stupid, try again."

If you can't say ~why~ it's "stupid," your comment is not useful. And if you do say why it's stupid, those reasons are much more important than the inflammatory adjective "stupid," so just say those instead.
Pretty much, the main differentiator I think is, do you just want to learn the topic, or do you want to get a job in the topic. One requires a lot more work than the other
Did you replace the coffee intake with other liquids? Usually when I see people experience "caffeine headaches", they tend to be the types who get most of their liquid intake from caffeinated sources. So, they end up with a headache from mild dehydration.
"Amazing how", "Interesting how", "Amusing how", "Funny how" followed by some trite, oft-repeated generalized remark are not very productive ways of starting a constructive conversation. There are plenty of real issues to be discussed around this protest in particular. The general ideological issue you're pointing out here has been beaten to death, and not constructively, with no agreement or resolution or even steps made in that direction. I don't know if internet forums are a place where such a discussion can usefully be had. Regardless, comments like this are no way to initiate such a discussion.

Perhaps you think this submission isn't appropriate for HN, which is a perfectly legitimate position. If so, please flag it and move on.
"Create energy" in this context means "Create usable energy through an energy conversion process." As I stated above. So yes, you are correct, if you're being uncharitable to the flexibility of the English language.

>And what do you mean that conservation of energy doesn't always hold?

I mean what I said. Conservation of energy is not a law of nature, it's only a local approximation to the Conservation of the value of the Stress-Energy Tensor. Which when manipulated conservatively, can and does result in the creation and destruction of energy.
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NSA are the worst conspiracy theorists. They have it so bad they try to surveil the entire world.
This one is much easier than the convoluted answers - just use the accurate quote. Don't remember it? Google it, tends to find them easily. If it's completely apocryphal you can just say apocryphal or don't attribute it.

"Paraphrased" typically has a somewhat different connotation, especially when you're using a direct quote.
> people from here might consider it perfectly normal to blame feminity when woman does something stupid or just makes them angry [...] That does not necessary means the person who said it is sexist

I am going to be descriptive here. Non-judgemental. But: that... is sexist. By definition. It perpetuates the idea that "being a woman" is a thing that can be blamed for an action. Continuing to talk in that way perpetuates sexism.

> You are expected to dislike feminism even when you are pro-equality.

Again, this is structural/cultural sexism. You might not want to hear that, and you might not think it's a problem, but that's what it is. So when you enter a place where the culture is not accepting of that sexism, I don't know why you should expect not to have backlash if you continue to act like that.
No. It is a counter argument.

When the US can destroy Uranium centrifuges in Iran [1] with a virus that got distributed through several 0 days in thumbdrives, that is extreme coordination that means the organization has extreme power. The type of power that, if it got into the wrong hands, could hack and undermine faith in the stock market (or banks).

When the NIST proposes an encryption algorithm, but it turns out there's reason to believe [2] that they designed an algorithm with a complicated mathematical backdoor, that is coordinated.

When Jason Bourne came out we thought it was a dystopian thriller. Turned out to be a playbook.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuxnet
2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_EC_DRBG
There are two DistroKid banners on Fandalism.com.

According to our tracking URL, the main one has been clicked 57,543 times, converting into 207 customers.
"some Sun guy" being founder Andy Bechtolsheim, who was already a hundred-millionaire at the time.
EdX as well,

- 6-00-1x https://www.edx.org/course/introduction-computer-science-mit... (started)

- 6.00.2x https://www.edx.org/course/introduction-computational-thinki... (March)

All are good and are pitched at various levels of complexity. The Princeton course uses Java. Okay if you're into that sort of language/thinking. MIT is using Python. Found one using lisp,
"Systematic Program Design" ~ https://www.edx.org/xseries/how-code-systematic-program-desi...
How do you add periods when texting?
These are the methods I'm aware of:

- Tapping the space bar twice (I only recently learned of this)
- Switching to another keyboard page for punctuation
- or on phones with keyboards that support it,
using the period button next to the spacebar
Yes but as it is open source everybody will know who game what.
American society is as good as it gets when it comes to inclusion. No other country, except maybe for Canada, had to deal with multiculturalism as much.

Humans are complicated social creatures by nature. There will always be cliques, competitiveness, the us against them mentality, etc. It's who we are. It's what got us here.
What country if i may ask?
I'm just spreading more accurate information than usually found in these threads and leaving my opinion out of it.
TensorFlow is not a clone of Theano. It's based on the earlier Google's platform DistBelief, mostly known outside of Google as the engine behind 2012 Youtube cat videos paper. Like DistBelief, TensorFlow was designed from the ground up to be scalable across multiple nodes.

Theano, on the other hand, seems to be focused on the optimizations for the single machine, single GPU code. It only recently got the ability to run each function on a different GPU.