skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a list of companies that have raised money but it doesn't appear that there's a list of companies that are profitable. Disappointing that only VC-funded startups are highlighted.

Quid began with a list of around 50,000 private companies that had received venture capital or venture debt in the past three years

Ohhhhh. There's the problem.
The discussion is in the context of playing classic arcade games. A new lightgun would not work with these games.
Yes but they shut down the experiment and partially drain the detector to let crews in for repair, maintenance, etc. In order to get it started again, there is a whole complex procedure to flush the chamber and refill it.
World’s richest doctor gave away millions, then steered the cash to his company
The game isn't raw vote count, so Trump didn't optimize for that.
Thanks. I guess I'll take mine in, then.
The Event Viewer seems to be a common element in all these scams, maybe MS should add a warning to indicate most errors are harmless?
BlackRock 15 page report on Robo-Advisors
I totally understand your perspective, but I think people are interested in 'buying' artificial intelligence. It may be out of ignorance or maybe it's the way the market is describing 'help with implementing artificial intelligence.'
not debating notebooks.

but for desk PCs where Apple only has iMacs anymore?

the big ultrawidescreens need powerful GPUs and a displayport (not usb-c yet).

use an ultra for a day, high rez and high Hz, then try go back to a classic LCD. like going to retina on phones.
apt remove pulseaudio pulseaudio-utils
then reboot, not really that hard.
Thanks for the update, glad to hear YC is going to address the issue and that a terms of service will be added too; adding privacy policy would also be nice.
By "pretty common", you mean, "I've heard of it", right?
Optimized R and Python: Standard BLAS vs. ATLAS vs. OpenBLAS vs. MKL (2014)
Yes, it seems like quite a silly move from Apple. I imagine a lot of their recommendations come from technically competent people (developers) suggesting a Mac to non technical friends.
There is an experimental package manaent which most likely will become defaul in Go 1.9
There's also MSR Liqui|> that lets you program simulations in F# https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/language-in...
Design Hunt for Slack
You can use last number barring to block their calls. My best attempt at wasting their time was 28 minutes - normally would not bother but I was ill and needed something to distract me.
I have some sympathy here - generics is hard to get right, and language changes are forever. As a Go user, I have absolutely no problem with them taking their time on this and only introducing it (probably with Go 2) when it has been thoroughly thought through. There are workarounds (writing for specific types, go generate).
Couldn't light guns be emulated? Use something wii-mote-ish, and then when the trigger is pulled, wait the requisite time after the next frame to trigger.
‘It does not feel like transparency’ Atlanta dumps 1.47M pages of public records
I noticed that Pieter Thiel is not a guest lecturer for the MOOC. IMO, his lecture in the "How to start a Startup" series titled "Competition is for losers" was just eye opening. Very contrarian and it changed the way I think about competition.
Your first point definately sounds plausible.

Another theory I have is that my perception of good results changed over time. It could be that for the first time in my life I know enough about the domains I'm looking up that I can differentiate the good from the bad. On the other hand even with that, when I enter a new domain, e.g. AI it still feels "less discoverable", even though there are definately good introductions out there that you can find when going beyond Google.
I like the fact that many people consider "reading source code" a way to get Go answers. Go code, the standard library in particular, is really readable.
This article's main table suffers from the inaccurate assumption that funding round size and frequency correlates with promise. What's worse, Quid is including a "hotness" factor for the sector the startups work in, so the piece can be sure to include the most faddish, hyped technologies currently in SV. Not impressed, but great PR for Quid.
(Fellow CB here) I have had the same experience. Although I think this phenomenon is because of a heavily empirical bias in biology, not because the experimental data that is usually paired with comp bio models is actually all that useful in supporting the model.

"Generate hypothesis with CB and present experimental data that is mostly irrelevant to it" seems to be a good recipe for getting Nature papers, actually.
Most DAWS might have drum machines but most serious users end up using a third party product. The built-in ones are undeniably good but thinks like Kontact/EZDrummer etc. are on another level.
It takes seconds to turn macros off in Office, far less time than it takes to convert someone to LibreOffice. Meanwhile, straightforward fuzzing is still producing RCEs in LibreOffice.
Design Books for Inspiration
How to clean your headphones like a pro?
I wasn't aware that bitcoin ATM is a thing, thanks! It happens that there is one in my city, which is a great option.

Any suggestion on how to approach business/merchant accounts (where lack of privacy is less of an issue)?
It would seem that if you're modifying the cabinet to use a different type of monitor, you could also modify the gun. Is there some kind of light gun-like technology that does work on LCDs?
Some are clearly designed for warmer climates, but some are suitable for colder ones as well. I'm here in Norway and my spouse and I have been looking at alternative house building. Prefab has come into our radar more than once.
How to Build an Audience – Part II
Saying phones ARE computers is being completely pedantic.

Of course they are. So are microwaves at this point. So are toilets at this point.

I fail to believe that you just "missed" the real point, that the form factor and the user interface are (and need to be) quite different from a phone to a desktop.
I don't know about details, but if you enter a book URL (e.g. at Springer Link) into Sci-Hub, it sometimes also brings you to the corresponding page at LibGen. So I would assume that there is at least some collaboration between these two sites.
Swift for Android Development
You can already see the rapid appreciation starting in the console CRT market. All the most desirable monitors have doubled or tripled in price over the past year. A 20" monitor easily sells for several hundred dollars, and the larger ones run into the thousands.

More and more people are starting to realize that emulation is no substitute for the real thing, and the supply of functional, high quality CRTs will only continue to decrease.
I think GP meant advertising FOR the site, not ON it.
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Absolutely agree with you here. Our aim here is not to make people better entrepreneurs, but rather to share our experiences and learnings in hopes of guiding entrepreneurs on their way to building their company.

Like previous commenters have mentioned, much of the advice/content is bound to be readily available online, and nothing replaces firsthand experience. However, we believe that in this environment, founders will be able to glean some new insight through advisory sessions and group office hours.
My campus had a range of buildings from brand new to 300 years old. I never found anywhere that the key didn't work, although I didn't try in residences or places likely to have money. It for sure worked in newer and older buildings. I think it was used by facilities so that they could clean, although I can tell you there were a lot of places they could have cleaned that they clearly didn't. ;)
There is a big difference from all other VMs, a lowest common denominator UI/UX across all devices, even the JVM does better in regards to integration with the host OS.

This has not changed since the HTML5 is going to change the world kind of thing, and I doubt WebAssembly will change that.

Simple stuff like Web Components are still pretty much a Chrome thing and WIP everywhere else, let alone more specific OS APIs.
What a $150k investment and 4 months in Silicon Valley taught me
> every prostitute

In the first century, the Latin that was spoken in the streets of Rome (the Vulgar Latin) was very different from the literary Latin used in books, speeches, and other kinds of formal writing - which is what one learns from today's textbooks. (The same was true for Greek and also for languages of many, if not all, other "civilized" communities of the time; it is still true for some of the languages spoken today.)

[Edit: Sorry for the misplaced comment.]
Prefer Mosaic. You'll see.
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The lawyer is a public defender in Tacoma.
>When asked what changes would most improve Go, users most commonly mentioned generics, package versioning, and dependency management.

and:

>What changes would improve Go most? (first: Generics)

Number one issue mentioned.

So much for all those insisting that Go users have no issues with the missing Generics and don't miss/need them in practice.
Because how trivial would it be to modify a PDF maliciously and change data, forge results, etc.?

The same reason why we encrypt traffic using TLS, even if it's "mundane" traffic like tweets.
In computer vision there is a well-known problem of estimating the color of the lighting.

I worked on detecting the player's skin color for a recent computer game. We decided not to use an RGB camera for pretty much the same reason as seen in the strawberry illusion - the computer would see those strawberries as gray. An image with unknown lighting might look fine to a human but it's hard for a computer to estimate the actual color of objects without also seeing objects of known color, such as a color card.
What's strange is this is not at all a new problem, and Google has historically been quite good at fighting it.

The original search engines ranked pages by their content. Naturally this led to gaming by including keywords (remember huge invisible sections of pages that just repeated keywords thousands of times?).

Google's original PageRank algorithm was a complete breakthrough for this, almost completely disregarding content and instead ranking results based on the text other pages had used to link to the page. This was so good, in fact, that most of the other search engines from the time didn't survive.

This once again led to large-scale gaming with techniques like link farms, and a small arms race as Google came up with ways to squash these new techniques. The quasi-legitimate "SEO" industry spun out of this.

I think now we're in the same cycle again, and at this moment scam sites are winning. What's to be seen is if there's a looming breakthrough, or the arms race will continue.
Automatic upload of activities from FR305 to Strava under Linux
Between the new default GOPATH and the support for vendoring, I'm not sure I know what getting rid of the GOPATH would even mean anymore.

As a Go programmer since the 1.0 days, the concept of the GOPATH that existed when I started using the language is long gone.
The best response to some cyberattacks may be to ignore them
If it's doing that, you might want to check your ~/.asoundrc, which might be specifying pulse as the default ALSA device.
Exactly. They already do custom roof trusses in factories along with standard sizes.
Just want to point out this is a terrific display of data. Easy to read, grasp and scan through. Much better than some so-called data visualizations that confuse rather than present and clarify.
How do you avoid branching?
To get more data.
They spoof caller ID data. I rarely if ever receive a same-number spam call. If they wanted to make my phone number unusable, they could.
Every second comment in discussions on the matter on HN ever is about how "people don't want them" and how those asking for them haven't really used Go to see how it doesn't need them in practice, and other such inanities.
What's wrong with struct tags?
A Ponzi scheme involves early investors being paid with the money of later investors. Unless you sell your shares, you're not getting money out of Uber right now. Instead, Uber appears to be as Yglesias famously said of Amazon: "a charitable organization being run by elements of the investment community for the benefit of consumers."
What I wore
Just use tor
What does this reformulation have to offer over Plan 9's union mounts, which let me create arbitrary hierarchies to my own specifications instead of following someone's arbitrary "standard"?
Show HN: LayerJS universal concept for animated sliders, menus, modals, parallax
Then I would encourage to get yourself over to your local community college and learn why things are the way they are in the legal system. You'll spend a fair amount of time talking about the different schools of thought on law in what law is and is supposed to do. First of all, you need a conviction or a confession to call him a criminal. This, or any other case, has nothing to do with any _one_ person or party. It has everything to do with _everyone_ else. You're not seeing the lasting consequences beyond The People v. Random Pedo. To be honest, society doesn't really need your input on how law should work if your only criteria to strip someone of their freedom or to execute them is whether or not one has been accused. You'd function more appropriately in 17th century colonial Massachusetts. The exclusionary rule in this country has only existed in its (mostly) current form since 1920, but has been a legal concept for many centuries. The main question to be answered in Silverthorne Lumber Co. v. United States involved the applications of 4th amendment. In general, if our system of law allows for derivatives which are illegal obtained then you have no need for the 4th amendment protection. I shouldn't need to tell you what happens when militarized drug agencies execute a no-knock warrant on the wrong house. I shouldn't need to tell you what happens when a sheriff beats the shit out of a guy they picked up off the street to force a confession. I shouldn't need to tell you how this could be used to destroy the life or credibility of a political opponent, or to shutup a media organization. I shouldn't have to tell you that this would be a grand method for imprisoning more minorities on the basis of race, or that this would all but ensure a fair trial is impossible. But...your argument is about _legitimate_ evidence obtained illegally. I may have to tell you that if your solution were to be implemented then you'll need to tell the rest of us how we go about prosecuting the prosecution. Who's going to bring that lawsuit against them? And you may have to tell the rest of us what the legal test is to ensure that illegally obtained evidence is also not _manufactured_ evidence, because insofar as I am aware, no such legal test exists.
How do they calculate that? Chrome Network dev tool just shows Google/Youtube/Doubleclick resources.
Ah. We're not going to be advertising FOR it either. I'm mostly just surprised as we haven't intentionally added any advertising tracking code to the site.
Stack Overflow ranks first as a Q&A resource.

Here's a chart that shows the number of new golang questions created on SO each month: https://apps.axibase.com/chartlab/c1acecc0/5/

golang is trending up, 20% increase year on year.
I credit micro breaks and stretching as the main reason I got over my severe RSI [1]. Never really heard that surgeons had similar problems though, but I guess it is the same mechanism - too much fine motor action for too long without a break.

[1] https://henrikwarne.com/2012/02/18/how-i-beat-rsi/
Earlier submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13802227
It's possible they were at a college campus that had electronic entry for most buildings - there are a lot of those these days, and some have been operating over the whole campus for 10-15 years. Graduate school + edge of this range and they could be in their mid-40s now.
TalkTalk need to do more to fix this issue as they were responsible for not keeping customer information secure. Admittedly they did give out free stuff last year as a sort of compensation. However if this annoyance is not resolved soon TalkTalk's reputation will slide further.
Generics have been around for decades. It seems very unlikely that Go will discover some entirely new way to implement them. They'll end up implementing them the same way they would have if they'd done it years ago. The tradeoffs are well known.
Never used Kontact or EZ Drummer, but seems like it would be hard to beat Ableton Live Suite's combo of drumracks and stacking effects per drum sample... Do you have experience with both? Any reason I should look into the former when I've invested in the latter?

edit: Nevermind, after looking at Native's offering (Kontact), I can see it has a lot of advantages for a certain kind of music, but that isn't the music I'm writing...
>I have some sympathy here - generics is hard to get right

What does "right" mean? All kinds of languages, even pet projects, managed to implement them just fine.

Except if we mean "perfect, in a way that avoids all engineering tradeoffs".

But why would Generics especially need to be perfect in a language full of other engineering tradeoffs?
Frustrated by trompe l'oeils, a defiant Hackernews uses concentration and focus tricks to hack his biological GPU to dump raw eye input while waiting for his Idris proof of the commutativity of addition to finish compiling. Optical illusions disappear. But to his horror, the rest of the world is actually naturally blurry. Another Hackernews shows up to satirise said idiot's "experience", as massing clouds of Strikeforces of all sorts loom darkly in the distance, smelling neural buffer overflows.

(Honestly, though, that website is amazing. The "idiot" was purely for effect.)
The company's not going to bother me, but it just takes one stalkery-minded person to start a personal vendetta. As someone with a unique name and a variety of Googlable data, I try to be fairly careful about who I piss off.
Sponge can soak up and release spilled oil hundreds of times
But, also, number one liked issue: simplicity. The go team doesn't say they don't want generics, they say they haven't found a non-complicated way to implement generics.
In other words, censorship. Would CNN be considered more authoritative than Fox?
Apply SQLite migrations to your Android database, 1.0 released
Redundant labeling is kludge, not a hallmark of an easily accessible UI. If an element in your interface requires multiple labels to make itself clearer, then you did not design it well in the first place.

In any case, the longer label could have been implemented as a simple mouse-hover tooltip, instead of an extra button alongside the primary button that expands to a menu with a single item (with its own icon too!)

I'm not just comparing it to macOS; the Windows UI is heavily flawed not only in terms of efficiency in usage of system resources, it is inconsistent with itself, and baffling no matter which school of design you adhere to.

The option button was just one of the immediate examples I could point out in a quick reply. There is still a lot to pick at in that screenshot without comparing it to any other OS.

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As an aside, I don't think that "average" or new users are a good gauge of how well-designed a system is; people can learn and put up with horribly unintuitive interfaces out of necessity when they don't have any better alternatives. Just look at computers and phones and other devices and systems of only 20 years ago. Many will make you go "how the hell did we live through that?!"
Yes, those are default search results and the same content that drives Google Home's voice responses when you ask it a question. Originally Google stuck to Wikipedia/Knowledge Graph types of answers but have expanded this in recent months to try to answer just about any question you search, however dubious the answer's source.
Study shows link between loneliness and time spent on social media
Now they have to make it cheap. Unless the manufacturers are able to create this product in a way that is cheaper for oil companies than what they are currently doing to clean up spills, this will unfortunately probably not matter. Hopefully they can because it looks quite impressive.
Alex (Stormpath CEO) here - we're working on self-service developer pricing for Okta. We're announcing the news before pricing was baked so our customers and users could have as much transparency as we could offer, as early as we could offer it.

I'm a big believer in clear, transparent pricing that works for all customers. Please stay tuned.
Yeh. I guess you can't knock a company for taking advantage of its monopoly power by maximizing their own profits, but it does feel like there's a gap in the market for someone to really innovate the (live) TV space in the way that Netflix/Spotify have innovated.
Do you use an audio interface? What have you found is supported well by Linux? Saffire Pro 24 + Addictive Drums + Logic is what is really keeping me tied to macOS at home.
I wasn't aware of the bitcoin equivalent, I will definitely have a look. Thanks for the heads-up and thanks registering :D

I guess it will be a bit challenging to start things up, but will give it a fair shot.
I disagree, if Tensor Flow was a market sector, that would be weird... but "Artificial Intelligence" as a term is the equivalent to "Web Development" as a term.
Maybe it would be better if submissions included a short summary? so for links to external news articles that summary could be the actual tittle.
That the worst drought and famine in living memory is happening right now in the horn of Africa, especially in Somalia. Worse than 2011 famine, worse than 1992 famine where the USA and UN had to invade, worse than 1983-5 Ethiopia famine (remember We Are The World?).

Please give what you can, people and livestock are already dying by the hundreds: https://www.icrc.org/en/where-we-work/africa/somalia

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-39166746
There is also algorithm/database based IP that is unique and worthy of separate purchase.