skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yup. Noting also that incorporation costs are generally a fixed ceiling, whereas the conversion costs are a likely minimum. ;)
I only recognized... I guess 3 of these. A bunch of them could be total nonsense and I have no idea.
Ask HN: How do I get customers/users?
I have a marketplace company, (here’s a listing - https://tinyurl.com/j7atzhb) that connects people that are looking to dine-out at great restaurants for great value, by allowing them to book value packages in advanced.

We have 10 live listings with value packages up to 35% off, how do we market them to get bookings?

The owners of the restaurants want to see results, and I'm looking for actionable tactics on how to get users/people booking these packages.
It's the only lag I've seen on any AMP, and the ads didn't complete loading, so I assume something to do with ad loading is the issue.
Not really a dupe, since it's a link to the official Gitter blog instead of Venturebeats
Ten years with DragonFly BSD network stack [pdf]
It seems like something that should be constrained to social network circles. It might be useful to post graffiti on any site on the Internet - within my group of friends.
Some of them I knew or I thought I knew. They came up when I was "researching" for the article :)
He was/is a major investor in Genius:
http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/6752952/eminem-partne...
But at the end of the day a lot of low-level employees are the ones making this stuff happen — they're doing the gruntwork and ghostwriting this stuff. They might be shielded by some specific data that is direct top-down evil, but many people are complicit.
I don't think the thesis of the article is that it hinders reusability, though — it's that anything built on the DOM presents significant limitations compared to what we can do with JavaScript.

The example of passing dynamic styles to a web component is a good one: since attributes have to be strings, you have to handle serialization somewhere rather than have it Just Work, like it does with most modern JavaScript frameworks.
Make the Internet Great
The poem makes it sound like it is under a visibly marked blaze, at an eddy in a river or creek that is easily navigable solo with a bare minimum level of strength and skill.

Does GPR detect objects underwater?

Seems like you only need a camera for your drone, looking for man-made markings near waterways.
Raise your hand if you're surprised that the only unfilled seats are the ones who will be in favor of fewer ads. I wonder how many meetings have been held already to discuss strategy, in their absence. I also wonder whether it will matter, with 7 seats for ad agencies (4+3; I'm not fooled by this "expert" bullshit for one second), and 3 for anti-ad advocates, plus some rando.
Template strings look like a better way to do JSX, imo: why can't html`<p>Hello world</p>` be made to return the DOM element for the p tag?
Done! Thank you!
Would you please stop using HN for partisan battle? That's emphatically not what this site is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html

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Firefox supported embedded xml for years (e4x) but took it out. Jsx feels a little bit similar.
Would you please stop posting uncivil and/or unsubstantive comments to Hacker News? We ban accounts that do that.
Discussion at: https://gitter.im/gitterHQ/gitter

The goal seems to be to have the code open sourced by this June, with all history included.

Stack details here: https://stackshare.io/gitter/gitter
This sounds awesome :)
I'm not sure "unpopular" is the way I would describe Uber's perception because I think many people's perceptions are framed with consideration of how they might act or feel in the circumstances that have been described.

I've observed that companies make quick judgments about hires based on where they have worked all the time. That there are favorable and unfavorable companies to have on one's resume is among the premises of career management. Keyword search bakes that premise into the hiring process.

It is worth looking at a case where it is known that working for specific companies excluded candidates from consideration: Silicon Valley's no-poaching cabal. If those companies used key-word search to exclude candidates there was nothing illegal in and of itself in that act (it was the collusion among companies that was illegal). It is as easy as flipping a bit to divert a resume with 'Uber' to the bit bucket as to the advance buffer.
Previously:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8205993
Right -- it's probably more accurate to say that a perfect vacuum has no temperature than to say it's at absolute zero.
But a life well lived is not worth to examine.
What I got from this was that you got your job because you learned to say the right things and show off the right stuff to the person(s) interviewing you, after 100's of failed attempts. I guess statistically, you were bound to get a hit eventually.

"Do a huge volume of work. It is only by going through a volume of work that you’re going to catch up. And the work you’re making will be as good as your ambitions."

- Ira Glass

Yeah well... That doesn't necessarily translate into quality work in the real world now does it? I'll even go as far as saying that that quote in particular is the TLDR of this story.
Ooooh, yes. Testing error-handling code is another thing I keep on forgetting to do.
looks like its not so precise
It never made any sense. The problem domain is just too trivial/tedious.
NetBSD 7.1 released
> Hitting Absolute Zero Has Been Declared Mathematically Impossible

Wait ... wait ... this isn't about mathematics, it's about a mathematical model of physics, of reality. The title is both confusing and confused. Also, if something is mathematically impossible, declaring it so means nothing (because mathematical truths don't rely on human authority).

There's an interesting scientific finding behind the title, but the title is a disaster.

In any case, there's a simple heat-energy-transfer equation that can be used to show that achieving absolute zero isn't possible for the simplest of reasons:

Q(t) = Δq * e^(-t * f)

Q(t) = temperature at time t
Δq = initial temperature difference
f = a rate-of-heat-transfer factor
t = time, seconds
e = base of natural logarithms, equal to lim n -> ∞, (1+1/n)^n (2.171828....)

If you plot the temperature given by Q(t) over time (the temperature of one body being heated or cooled by another), you see that the temperature never gets to zero, because the rate of heat transfer depends on the remaining temperature difference, and as that difference approaches zero, so does the rate -- and neither becomes zero.

It's simple mathematics, but its meaning is located in reality, in physics. If that were not true, another mathematical relationship could be substituted. So it's not mathematically impossible, it's physically impossible. This kind of mathematics describes reality, it doesn't substitute for it.
Those aren't really competitors, though. At least not in the spirit of the op comment.

> I haven't found Genius to be significantly better at annotating lyrics than any of it's competitors

So again, what competitors are they talking about?
Better DOM APIs, surely. It could be anything from JSX to https://github.com/Matt-Esch/virtual-dom/tree/master/virtual....

When all you can pass to an attribute is a string, it's very hard to seriously talk about useful extensible custom components on the web :)
Self-Sovereign Identity and the Legitimacy of Permissioned Ledgers
Reminds me https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Trail_of_the_Golden_O..., which is hidden in France and people have been searching for it for decades.
Civil society urges EU to stop the copyright “censorship machine”
Based on just a skim of the story: I'm sure that people will complain about this, and I'm sure that there genuinely is much to complain about—advertising is, almost by its nature I think, an adversarial business—but:

Ever since ABP announced the Acceptable Ads program, the biggest complaint lodged against them has been that it's within their control, and so in their interest not to enforce policies strictly in their users' interest. (See https://hn.algolia.com/?query=Adblock%20Plus%20Acceptable%20... .) I am certain that this latest step is not perfect, but it is a step forward, and a sign of at least apparent willingness to listen to the community, and I am glad to see it.
An LLC can choose its tax status - that can be as a sole proprietorship (for single member LLCs; basically it all goes on your personal return), as a partnership/S corp or as a C Corp.

I agree that you should either do a domestic LLC or a Delaware C Corp depending on whether you want a lifestyle business or a high growth venture capital-backed startup.
All of these are much better solved by literally everything else :)
Language learning by adults is not so different than as a child
The Case for Going to Venus
The only ads I bought were about $2k of Facebook ads, which converted into about $1.6k of pledges. Not a winning strategy. I hired a couple people with experience in FB ads to help me with the audience, but the CTR of 3-4% at $0.25 CPC did not convert well.

As for mailing list, I had 1,000 people signed up and I sent an email newsletter to 55k people who use my other service (which is compatible with this hardware), so it was relevant for them as well.

Of the lessons learned, building up the mailing list is quite possibly the biggest. Just having ads running that you optimize for months beforehand is a good setup for running ads during the campaign itself.
Why couldn't you rebuild the SD image from Yocto?
I played Carmageddon for that. Well, that game actually made me a more cautious pedestrian.
Introducing Avegant Light Field
Thanks! Check it out when you have a chance. Hope you like it :)
A single stream of data is a bit unimportant, with BT and potentially multiple users on a home network. I'm getting gigE this year, and between 4k streaming, BT, and two teenage daughters, I fully expect to saturate the connection.
New data shows black holes eat stars in fits and starts
When it's going to be open sourced then we could finally implement a proper matrix.org bridge. Currently all messages are relayed through a special gitter user called matrixbot
what about windows ? :(
That's actually a super-persuasive theory, I'd buy that.
I predicted Genius' certain doom at the time of their funding and got heckled by Marc Andreesen:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6531937
I think the point in the article about how you structure your application is the big strike against Web components.

To me they are fine for when you want to compose things by nesting them but bad at any other kind of composition.
Is it more stable than those two?

I can't see the point in Twitter (neither could a number of my colleagues when it was mentioned at a dinner a couple of weeks ago, none of them used it).

MySpace was a genuine competitor, but allowing teenagers to style their own HTML made for some horrendous pages.

Facebook had a nice clean interface, as well as network effects. I was signed up to a similar service at the time - HighFive I think it was called, but the network effect was what snowballed with Facebook and led to its success. At the time I didn't see either one being better or more stable than the other.
"Tell me about that one time you solved an interesting problem?"

I agree if that was the only thing you asked, you wouldn't get a good answer. However, if you then dug into their answer you can probably tell if it is BS or not.

I remember having this exact experience with a junior dev who claimed to worked on some interesting projects at Uni, but when you dug deeper, you realised he knew very little about the technology he supposedly used.

That said, my company isn't really interested in hiring people who can code an algorithm to balance b-trees. My company just need people who know how to ask questions, write maintainable code, and use a profiler.
I doubt CA will let it go. Now poaching Homeyer might be possible. ;)
New York City sues Verizon over unfinished fiber rollout
Get paid to hack on hardware TimVideos in GSoC
Would you please stop using HN for political or ideological battle? We ban accounts that mostly do that. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html
Completely disagree. The nyt readers (I'd assume) are generally well educated, but despite my education I'm in no way able to assess this information. By reading the NYT I'd expect to be informed about an area which my education has not covered.
This kind of point mutation is exactly the kind of issue that CRISPR is capable of fixing. This can be done today. The issues are specificity and delivery of the fix. Delivery is hard to do non-invasively without side effects, and the 'fix' must not only correct only the error, but also not 'correct' a non-error elsewhere. Getting the 'patch' to the right place, and making sure the patch only affects exactly this sequence is now the hard part - actually creating the patch is doable today.
If there's a chance you will want to be raising funds or giving out equity than it might be cheaper to form as a C-Corp, temporarily elect S-Corp status, and elect to remove that S-Corp status when need be.
It's also the main problem React faces when trying to incorporate/integrate with Web Components. React Components can be arbitrarily complex and accept arbitrarily complex properties.

Web Components work ok as "leaf" nodes: then it's just a component with string props/attributes.

The inverse is nigh impossible: Web Components can only deal with strings, so you would end up with yet another incompatible wrapper à la Polymer if you want to do anything remotely complex.
Yep. And the folks in China would be slackers if they weren't putting back doors as devices roll down the assembly line (likewise for manufacturing accessible to US interests).
Please don't post unsubstantive comments. If you have a point to make, make it thoughtfully; otherwise please don't post. Comments need to be more civil and substantive, not less, as a topic grows more divisive.
It seems to me that uncertainty is more uncertain a theorum to base your beliefs about the universe on than entropy.
Everybody loves it because it can never become profitable. Except the small handful of folks on the wrong side of that wealth transfer, that is.
I also was in charge of hiring programmers at some point in my career. I made it a point to give programmers a simple project to take home and get back when they where ready (at most a week). The project was very close to what the hired candidate would be doing if we chose them.

I told the candidates that they did not necessarily needed to show me a working application (although that would have been great!), but simply to document what architecture, language and approaches they would use to implement the task.

Also the task could be documented in a few hours, and those that got close to coding a few classes might have spent a day at it. Now the argument could be made that I did not remunerate this people, but keep in mind the work they did was not expected to be more than a few hours.

For me, this is an ideal technical interview. Also, I ended hiring a candidate though this method, and he is by far the most productive and creative force in our team.
This got my hopes up that flex-basis: content was working in more places.
Show HN: Cognitive API recommendation chatbot
They're not really able to attract much talent. Look through the LinkedIn of some of the GitLab people. A lot of them are very junior (this is the first "real job" for one guy I looked up), and they, rather clearly, have an amateur leadership team, as exhibited by their recent spectacular failures, their underwhelming commentary on remote team management, their naive idealistic implementation of "radical transparency", and their grossly inadequate compensation calculator.

Most likely, one of their founders is technically adept, there are a small number of other experienced people onboard because they incidentally live in areas where the compensation calculator doesn't screw them, and most others are riding on those coattails.

GitLab is really a sad story of lost potential. Most of the time, you can't fix these kinds of problems, because they start at the top and flow down (and you usually can't replace the top). A well-engineered GitLab alternative would be welcome.
In math notation I would expect a = (b = c) to mean "a" is a boolean whose value is whether b equals c.
It was so easy to register weird domain names back then. Our contribution was satan.com. The guy who owned the domain name eventually sold it and it goes nowhere now. For a few years in the late 90's the entire site was just a badly drawn MS Paint image:

http://web.archive.org/web/19980625181403/http://www.satan.c...

Clicking on that was a mailto: link that sent mail to an internal mailing list that we had. Got some good laughs from it but we could never figure out what to do with it. The archives are still floating around somewhere...
where did you see GHE asks for $250/user? seems the most expensive package is $21 [1].

[1] https://github.com/pricing
I think it's pretty clear that HTML alone is not sufficient for creating the types of web applications we are today — otherwise, no one would have bothered to create or adopt React/Angular/web components in the first place.
I am type (D) don't move particularly fast, but produce decent code - when management isn't pushing me to be type (A).
I am surprised Google does not have a seat at the table.
Ask HN: Should I become a security engineer?
I'm an undergrad majoring in Computer Engineering.

I've always been interested in security and love cryptography. I read up on ciphers, hash functions out of interest. I'm surprised when people say Keccak is the best but they've never heard of BLAKE2. I spend most of my day on a vulnerability whenever one is found, and why it happened. Whenever I write code, I consider malicious input from the user and take care to not let it break the application in any way. I have a mindset of simplicity rather than more features.

Is netsec the field for me? I can't seem to find the correct job title. I've been looking at some Security Engineer jobs but most of them deal with network engineering only, and talk nothing about knowledge in crypto and assembly, or experience with Android etc. Although I love networking, I can't find application oriented security jobs.

Where do I start looking? Where do you start looking when you want someone with a security mindset to test your application's security?

PS: I'm looking for a summer internship so if you're looking for an intern, I'd like to get in touch.
duplicate, please check before submitting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13871915
`git pull gitter`
Thanks. You'd think they'd would have checked and mentioned it (the article is much more recent, 2017/03/17)!
I'd have to say Starcraft. The multiplayer mode with super low latency was designed to be run over 56k modems (or less). It's become a case study for the right way to handle realtime gaming networking.
Well, OK, if you are using C or something, and traversing through binary it is hard.

But if you are in python, and given a string object, and told to reverse it without using the reverse method.... Yeah, that's easy. You should be able to do that.

People are usually expecting the latter.
It took forever for GitHub to get protected branches. It was quite frustrating. Glad they finally have it though.
JSON Libraries Patched Against Invalid Curve Crypto Attack
I think the video of the "car" moving around the paper map shows a lot of the value. You can rapidly prototype UI elements, experiment with camera angles/motion, etc. Amsterdam's streets in particular would have numerous difficult features (sharp turns, driving under bridges, tunnels, etc.) that would make it ideal for solving edge cases.

Full disclosure: I work at Uber, but not on this team, and have no insights into their process outside of this blog post.
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Please avoid introducing classic flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say about them.

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More like `git merge gitter` :)
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe's_law

Is this the same Poe's law referenced in a pull-quote, above the fold, in the linked article?
Major security breach discovered on WIRED.com
Does anyone know what's going on with Google fiber in Atlanta ? Did they kill it midway, or will they still cover Atlanta ? Don't see much activity on their site.
Just get a job as a ticketing agent at the airport, you know when people are going on vacation, you know when they're coming back, and most of them show you a driver's license with their address on it when asked for ID.
What's So Great about a Curved iPhone Screen?
Congrats! LogDNA is one of my favorite products. We're likely moving to Kubernetes shortly and were actually worried about logging, so this makes my life a lot easier
Competition isn't the only reason companies struggle. They often are solving an insignificant problem that people don't need a solution for.
JSX appeared before template strings where even an idea (I think :) ).

The thing though, JSX doesn't return DOM elements. It's a very thin DSL on top of React.createElement calls. Since it's Javascript all the way down, you get a number of benefits:

- you are not constrained by limitations such as "attributes can only be strings" or "children can only be DOM Elements". It's all Javascript expressions

- React knows the return value. It can do efficient diff'ing against its internal DOM representations and only update the actual DOM as needed (same goes for other virtual dom implementations such as snabbdom, virtual-dom etc.)
I have put a write up here...
https://medium.com/@swalta/journal-of-a-bot-wrangler-88af8c4...
Welcome any feedback and suggestions :)
Dark matter is missing from young galaxies
Show HN: A Pomodoro app for your menubar/tray
> I think you are vastly underestimating the size of the rockies.

I would bet there is probably more than $1M worth of (naturally available) gold to be found in the Rockies, and it is spread around, so it's much easier to find than a single treasure.
New Views, Commentary of Shuttle Launches (2010)
Lisa Wray?
No offence, but that seems like an ultra niche product which may be part of the problem. Clearly some people like the idea but home automation + wood seems iffy to me. Worse only 4 buttons seems like a poor fit for home automation. One button suggest getting as many as you need, 4 is kind of an odd compromise.
I remember Ogrish.com... Also, Maddox...
Perhaps Ben Horowitz was blinded by his own passion for rap music and relationships with artists themselves and knowing how much was left to be explored and explained... except perhaps most of the world often doesn't share that interest in depth or possess that depth to share in the first place.
You can use any authenticator. Authy is actually probably the best nowadays.
I think the author is saying there are municipal bond investors who would finance the deal (via the municipality) were there successful responses to the bids you reference.
LOL, these are literally just XSS attacks, the sky is not falling. This is such clickbait. Posts like this make the security community look bad IMO. Report it and move on.
Who are their customers?
31 film rolls from WW2 soldier discovered & processed, results are breathtaking
Joto – the first connected display that draws with a pen
Thanks Sandeep. We assume that it is easier to charge money to enterprises than open source communities. If we see strong adoption and feature requests from the enterprise we'll consider adopting an open-core model and charging for it. For now the adoption is mainly from open source communities and we think of our costs as a marketing expense.

Do you know of any enterprises using Gitter?