skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They're pivoting to Pop-Up Video?
Ahh Maddox. Always thought he was a fairly clever writer, though his content declined in quality over the years.
Atmc is lovely. My parents live in ocean Isle and I've found atmc so pleasant to deal with.
Thanks! You make a good point about our photos. This illustrates why marketing is so hard. We wanted a more "human" element to our media, but maybe our potential customers don't care about that and just want to see features.
I live in Lincoln, Nebraska. I'm a techie, but my house isn't.

I watch your video and don't identify with any of it. I don't have smart lights, a sonos, or any of the things you would use your remote for.

Here is the other thing. I would lose your remote about 100x a day if I had one. I live with 3 agents of chaos known as children and they would put it places I'd never find.

Last, it's $50, which as silly as this sounds... IS TOO MUCH. I balked at buying a $30 replacement remote for my Roku. It feels like as a user I'd just use a phone app for all of this or at some point tell my phone or some smart connectected Google/Apple/Amazon device like Alexa to do these things.

Worst of all, my tech friends look a lot like me and my less tech friends are even less likely than I am to want a 4 button wood remote for $50.

You built a beautiful product that is really neat, but it's really niche. Too niche for me to imagine it making more than $100k on Kickstarter.

In 5 or 10 years smart house tech might be more common, but I've been saying that for a while and it isn't there yet. I was thinking smart house startups a decade ago, so smart houses might be "the year of the linux desktop" problem...

Do yourself a favor, buy a copy of Gary Halbert's The Boron Letters on Amazon. Read it cover to cover, pay attention to his advice on selling hamburgers and your next product will sell 10x as much.

Good luck!
-Brian
I thought this was laughable when it hit the front page of Reddit a few days ago, but I honestly never thought it would crop up here. The notion of religion as an inherited trait, and the notion that somehow atheism (rather than socioeconomic status) is the driver of less childbirth are utterly bizarre and wrongheaded.
Serverless Database, Global Latency 2.8 ms, Relational but no SQL (whatever sense that makes) BULLSHIT BINGO at its very best.
I have no idea why G-d put dinosaur bones on Earth. It has no effect on my belief that G-d created the world, and on how old it is.

If you feel very strongly about it, then when you create a world, make it's physical age and time age match :-p
if the field is volatile, you have an happen before relationship between the volatile read of thing before the synchronized block and the volatile write inside the synchronized block, so you have no way to see the object partially initialized.

It only works with the updated semantics of volatile (Java 5+), otherwise you're right.
:)

Here's a paper with which you might already be familiar, but it's one of the citations for the Megastore paper: http://adrianmarriott.net/logosroot/papers/LifeBeyondTxns.pd.... You'll probably enjoy it (if you haven't already!).
After 1991 they have a lot of other entertainments to spend a time on - pirated videos, more than 3 state-approved TV channels, spread of BBS, FIDO and Internet...
Quickly lol your looking at decades of payback time
Zoubin Ghahramani as Uber’s Chief Scientist
I'm not confident in representative democracy as a governance model for something as important as the Internet. The political climate in the US suggests the model's susceptible to emotional manipulation.

How about a system for people to independently register their needs & if the system is meeting them?
I'm not an active dropbox user, but I have had an account for quite some time. I just searched and I have no emails from dropbox about this change.
I'm a Dropbox Plus user and I didn't see a single email or in-app message about this.
Yes, but did you read The Archive Team initiative? They are aware of the iTunes courses, but they aren't of the private YouTube videos.
I agree with you completely; the balance indeed is among advertisers, the supply chain, and consumers.

I assert that balance, in this case, means all parties trying to optimize for their own best interests. This self-interested optimization, in turn, plays out in a give and take among all parties. The balance is maintained through checks and balances; the parties act as adversaries when necessary to prevent any individual party from gaining too much power or subverting the interests of another. Otherwise the system becomes unstable.
You were once my (first!) intern trying to hock background checks before any p2p services needed identity verifications as a service.

I couldn't be more proud. This may get downvoted to hell (or to invisible), but ef it ;-)
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA1EA45M8...
You can also turn tabs into a webpage of a list of links. Very useful for sharing.
http://www.dhmo.org/facts.html

"Should I be concerned about Dihydrogen Monoxide?"

classic
I'm curious about the relational-ness of FaunaDB. e.g. How do you efficiently maintain integrity of foreign key constraints across the entire system? How fast and consistent are secondary indexes?
You have a point. To be fair, I don't really care what happens to advertising at large as long as advertising is kept as far away as possible from me and mine.
Really cool. Are you guys running custom hardware in the yellow boxes or is it something off the shelf?
That's what it sounds like. You have to realize, that anyone that actually has a performance problem is likely to save many multiples of that monthly. Just getting an engineer to look at a performance problem for an hour is costing a company at least $100 (probably more in opportunity costs). If you can save time with some training it's totally worth it to buy a book like this and give it to one of your devs to see if they can reduce your AWS footprint.

Mostly likely most of that $70k came from corporate credit cards.
PM for Cloud Datastore here.

We also have multi-document transactions, self-joins, active-active multi-region replication by default, secondary indexes, composite indexes, a SQL-like query language, PAYG model with no capacity planning, etc, so I think it's a bit disingenuous to say it's "similar to datastore, but with full-blown database features".

Otherwise, congrats on your launch!
> The Telecom Regulatory of Authority of India has just recommended stopping the use of OTP

Was there any article regarding this?
Aw man this looks cool but I was hoping for something more lightweight than Tomightly and its JVM requirement.
Changes to computer thinking – Stephen Fry explains cloud computing
is github pages limited to jekyll? Or can you host any kind of html page? I thought about it as well but it adds a lot of complexity. Git is not easy to learn.

Oh wait, you're saying that you can do everything without using Git? That sounds good then.
The counter quote is from Warren Buffet: "When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact."

Is Craig's List a highly profitable machine because they have the best culture? Is Amazon a highly profitable machine because they have the best culture?

The obvious answer is that it's a false trade-off. You need both strategy and culture and while it's a fun quote, it's also silly.
12 guests streaming different HDR 4k is a ridiculous edge case.

Nobody is going extra for gigabit just to throw crazy 4k LAN parties.
Even though the second Keen trilogy had richer graphics, I really loved the first Keen trilogy for the gameplay. The jumps and movement felt so much more physical. Keen would make this tiny pause as if winding up for a jump each time he jumped. The later Keen just did big floaty isometric jumps that didn't have the same snap. That said, I loved and played every single one of those games.
Hah, nice. Love it, love it that a whole business can run on free/open source and selling hosting/support.
How can you fundamentally with first principal approach provide a lower rate than say Airtel?
Custom. We've also got some nice processing power & storage in our Dabbas for future plans.
My guess is that the reason they are closing this is the cost of bandwidth. Dropbox allowed to host publicly all types of large files and exchange such files by a link that did not require any interaction with DropBox to download. It seems really hard to monetize such usage.
So the race to acquire the next team dev solution heats up. Slack + github + trello equivalent
Isn't that taking advantage of a service that is not to be used for this?
One of these days I've gotta write, "why your startup should be a co-operative".
Really great tool, I currently work on a project that makes use of Spacy. Can't wait to push it into production.
religion as an inherited trait is a fact. I wonder what can you have meant.
Amtrak Defrauds the Public on Gateway Benefits
Coinbase Spring Cleaning
I've linked to the paper below, the money quote is "Authentication through OTP should be done away with"

http://trai.gov.in/sites/default/files/Press_Release_18_0903...
For some reason I still only instinctively trust Dropbox to reliably sync my files. I'm always worried I'm going to lose something if I put it into my Google Drive or iCloud folder, though I'm sure by this point it is probably just as good/reliable.

My concerns have less to do with individual files being manually added to a Google Drive or iCloud folder and more to do with how well it handles starting entire new project folders w/ hundreds (or thousands) of files that are constantly being updated.
Philosophers won't be going anywhere as long as they can safely pontificate from within gaps in our scientific knowledge, or at least, the gaps in the knowledge of so many people. It's even more tragic when old physicists turn into philosophers, but don't realize it.

In the end, people with degrees need to justify those degrees, and in Philosophy that pretty much means... teaching philosophy. Unless you're writing books that do quite well... you're teaching (or not working in "philosophy"). When you pair that with the natural curiosity people have, and the fact that plenty of people lack the desire or capacity to seek those answers in something like QM, they will never die.
What's a hidden service?
For those of you who aren't raising money or have cash flush from VCs: how do any of you, if you're in California, handle the LLC 800 dollar min tax? Do federal deductions against the business typically negate it?

I understand the reasons for not having a direct LLC in Cali (Delaware, Nevada and Wyoming are the gold standard I realize)

Just wanted to know in practice if you just bite the bullet on the stupid minimum tax or not
automate the automation so you don't have to.
Yep, not really the easy or free thing to setup when learning how to make a simple webpage.
DIY crafts: How to make pop stick table and chair – easy – Popsicle Stick
On the one hand, I am largely "pro people" and there's no question that humans have an amazing capacity to perform intellectual and creative feats that are mind blowing. But situations like this remind me that humans also have a nearly unlimited capacity for stupidity.

Seriously, how fucking stupid do you have to be to do something like this? Even if they were right that the question reflected poorly on the candidate somehow (which seems unlikely), you don't send an email like that and not expect it to blow up in your face.
> The CEO of a successful startup publicly said he wouldn't hire someone from Uber.

1. "A successful startup" is one company. Fortunately there are thousands of companies who could employ you and the vast majority of them will not care.

2. CEOs don't typically make hiring decisions for engineers at any company that is "successful" because they have more important things to worry about. I would argue that you should avoid working any where the CEO is engaged in this sort of micromanagerial moral preening.

> Many HN comments

HN is a bubble. That bubble tends to be a bit more... umm... extreme... in more than one way, than the rest of the software industry or the world.
I'm trying to find out. Oddly enough searching the FreeNAS docs on the website for "docker" returns nothing.

I've seen reference to jails mostly regarding running docker and to a lesser extent bhyve.

Anyone running running corral or a recent snapshot that can say what secure tech docker is running in?
Probably a stupid question, but if you're bootstrapping a startup into which you might (but also might not) take investment at some point, wouldn't it be better to do whatever has the lowest cost and administrative overhead, and then sign over all its rights/assets/etc. to a fresh Delaware C-Corp when/if you have investors ready?

So for example if you're in California you might do a California LLC until/unless you have a VC ready to back you. Or if you're in Germany you might do a UG (aka "mini-GmbH").

The point being to get yourself a legal structure and liability protection at the lowest possible cost in both money and distraction, and if it turns into something you want to sell some or all of to Silicon Valley you make a new company to own the old company's assets.

IA(obviously)NAL but it seems like you should keep things simple until you need them to be a certain way.
My Block Ads! site https://blockads.fivefilters.org tries to detect your browser and recommend a suitable version of uBlock Origin. Links to Chrome, Firefox, Opera, Safari and Edge extensions. Intended to be an easy way to get friends and family to install for their browser.
If my calculations are correct, that's about $87+ million USD to store 1 PB of data for one year?
I'm familiar with both; what disappoints me is the claim of novelty here with respect to autoscaling. That's just not true. To quote you:

"A serverless system must scale dynamically per request.
Current popular cloud databases do not support this level of elasticity—you have to pay for capacity you don’t use. Additionally, they often lack support for joins, indexes, authentication, and other capabilities necessary to build a rich application."

That first criterion we absolutely meet, today. Cloud Datastore has been doing that for eight years now. We don't have joins, but we do have indexes, auth, multi-region replication and a whole lot more.
Just because it's done this way at the time, it doesn't mean it's right.

To be fair, the monetization of "free" content should be done different way: utility payment model is the way to go. YouTube Red got it right, they just haven't pushed it all the way - eliminate ALL ads. Apple Music and Spotify got it right too.

As a customer, I have fixed amount of hours to spent in a day to consume content, so content providers have to compete for this time to get compensated. If you pay flat fee at ISP level, then it can distributed to content owners minus platform service fee. This way you don't stuff people with gazillions of non-relevant ads and there's natural flow to get higher quality content to attract customers to your site.

Ads are not needed to get "free" internet.
XSS is the most common bug on the internet, and there is nothing interesting or novel about this that warrants an article in my opinion. My problem is that this article makes people scared in a way that I do not think is productive. Kudos to whoever found the bug for finding it and making everyone safer, but I thought the article was needlessly clickbaitey. I agree I should probably be less cavalier-sounding though, sorry.
22 year old Canadian charged in Yahoo hacking
Sometimes I feel like smart contacts solve a set of problems by creating a whole new set of problems
There was an email in mid December 2016, another one at the beginning of March 2017, and if I remember correctly, one even before that. I'm not even a Pro user.
Here are the quick steps to do this.

Visit github.com

Create an account or login

Click the green "New repository" button

Give your website a name like "hello"

Check the box to Initialize this repository with a README

Click the Create repository button

Click the Create new file button

Name the file index.html

Enter <p>Hello World</p> in the body of the file

Click the Commit new file button

Click the Settings gear icon

Scroll down to GitHub Pages

Select master branch under Source

Click the Save button

There's now a link to username.github.io/hello under the GitHub Pages heading. You can now edit the index.html file or add css and js resources in the same way you just added the index file. Uploading files, such as images, is also supported. All without using Git.
About 7yrs ago I published a basic pomodoro app to app store . I received intellectual property infringement notice from 'FC Garage GmbH' to take my app down, which I did. The email on that notice was legal@pomodorotechnique.com, so I assume it has something to with the guy who created it.
I don't think Web Components are a "framework replacement", they are an addition.

Stuff like Bootstrap needs them to enrich their "top down" approach with CSS and HTML so you don't have to mess around with either their source OR CSS classes and "their" HTML structure everywhere to get the components right. You add their CSS & (Web Component) JS at the top and use their custom components as the "leafs" of your sites. I wrote about it here: https://dev.to/kayis/web-components-for-your-custom-elements

The other frameworks like React, Angular, Cycle or Ember will then become the Data-flow layer of the app.
Who writes NVidias bsd and linux drivers?
My brother has a PHD in video games and I bought and read that book and he laughed in my face. He said its almost satire among people in academia like Barthes S/Z
It's been excellent so far.
Teacher here. Unfortunately this myth is incredibly resistant to attempts to dispel it. It is still included in teacher training and professional development and many schools still require teachers to address it in their learning plans.

I feel it's hard to address because, among other reasons,
1. Its useful for administrators. Parents and students want to feel that you are teaching them on an individual level. Learning styles is "legitimate" enough to point to for administrators.

2. It's something of a personal belief for many teachers.
>> "Dropbox accounts created after October 4, 2012 won't have a Public folder."

Given the initial release	was in June 2007, does anyone know why this only applies to accounts created after October 4, 2012?
The second most useful feature of Dropbox (beyond being "a folder that syncs"), gone. I'm very sad about this, even though I knew it was coming. This is literally the case of "we can't have nice things because $reasons".
Perhaps, but the MPAA/RIAA and what happened to KimDotCom are also probably a big factor.
In Java 9, all updaters have been rewritten in term of VarHandle. All reference updaters are less efficient that their VarHandle counterparts because they rely on generics.

In Java generics are erased at runtime, so the reference updater code has some supplementary runtime checks.
Good advice on persistence. It will be easier if you love it. But there will also be times when you'll hate it. Sticking to the plan though is most crucial.
You vastly underestimate situation in Eastern Europe. It's fairly easily for software engineer to move to Europe, so local companies still have to compete with that.

Anyway I've looked at my homecity in Ukraine and salaries proposed are around 80-90th percentile (~$50k for senior developer).

The thing is there's no reason for a person to hold onto Gitlab. Once you get some remote experience there're a lot of companies who provide EU/US salaries even if you happen to live in Eastern Europe.
Thank you, this is brilliant.
American Gods comic creators on making Neil Gaiman's epic story their own
Once Penrose started circling that drain, I had to accept that it's just a trap humans can fall into; any human. You're older, fear is taking over, you can't make headway with new discoveries, but you still want answers. Your choice is to accept the lack of answers and be afraid and uncomfortable, or invent them, and feel much better.

http://i.imgur.com/Ag9ExDF.gif

Unlike the comic though, you can skip off the long path anytime onto the short path. It's hard to stay on the long path, especially when you realize that both paths end up falling off a cliff.
With enough scale, we can connect directly to the fibre cables entering India from the sea.
I think the infrastructure in bangalore would allow for this.
I wonder about using last-mile wireless as a way to distribute fiber internet. Something like a fiber-connected wireless hub that provides service to customers within a quarter-mile. At a density of 10000 households per square mile (pretty high) your service area is about 0.15 square miles and you need 1.5 Tbps bandwidth or so in the air around a hub for 1 Gbps service to the household. Feasible? It's a stretch, but I assumed a very high density of customers and I think many people would be happy with 100 Mbps.
In reading all these responses about the low GitLab pay calculator, does anyone have any good tips on how to underpay and still hire talent. It's pretty incredible to me.
Kinda feels like a fluff piece for their platform...
> If you haven't used a BB product, check out the thing that I think is the biggest upside of these...the built in pair of PRUs.

This is something I plan to do once I get one of these beasts, although they're probably beyond my level of comprehension. Anyway, if they can be used to synthesize signals at very high speed, what about using them to build a DVB-T transmitter?
When TV went digital we lost the ability to send a signal to a TV using an extremely cheap modulator, and last time I checked the only units around are priced several hundred quids, so if doable an application like that one could be truly interesting.
‘Instrument flight’ to the inner ear
>The other frameworks like React, Angular, Cycle or Ember will then become the Data-flow layer of the app.

None of these frameworks like dom being changed from underneath them, you will run into all sort of weirdness.
Keep predicting because it's a top 200 website and by no definition has it failed.
Really? Where on the chromosome do the "religious" genes lie? Even if you mean "inherited" as in "taught by parents"... you realize that not all atheists are born to atheists, right?
Care to extend on that "polymorphic signature trick"?
Thank you for writing this. It's incredibly important and basically no one talks about it.

I can only reiterate what you've said:
- Selling your company in an asset sale as a C-Corp increases your taxes 20-30% or more
- Unless you're a BFD and have tons of inbound acquisition interest, the acquirer is going to dictate whether it's a stock sale or an asset sale, and they will almost always want an asset sale (less liability for them)
- You should only be a C-Corp in the first place if you're a venture backed startup. Start with an LLC and just do a conversion to a C-Corp when you raise money; this maximizes your optionality.
I got the same email as the GP, but also saw a message on the web page. However, how frequently does anyone log in to the web page?

Disclaimer: I've been fed delicious lamb chops and duck at the DB office, so my view might be tainted.

Edit: I also received another email about it on March 1st
With more than a handful of upvotes and my past experience dealing with similar situations, it's neither obvious, nor unreasonable.

Beyond that, while it's clearly at your option, as far as I'm able to recall anytime you've had a submission related to you pop-up on HN you've disclosed your affiliation.
That doesn't seem right. Will investigate.
Can you share any details of what the hardware is?