skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you're going into entrepreneurship to become rich or be considered successful, you'll hit problems.

Your comment:
>> I just don't care much about polls and stuff. For what every big time entrepreneur has done, noone thought they could pull it off.

The same is true of Lottery Winners. The odds of winning the lottery are around 1 in 14million (depending on the exact style of lottery). Yet every single week, someone wins the lottery. Simple statistics determines that you will die before you ever win the lottery, yet for ~50 people a year, that was untrue. We hear a LOT about those people. We never hear from the millions of people who play the lottery every week and don't win. Survivor bias plays havoc with our perception of the odds of winning, and so millions of people part with cash they can't afford to spend in the hope of making it rich.

It's exactly the same with entrepreneurship. We hear a LOT from the success stories. We don't hear from the failures. There's a lot less luck in entrepreneurship, but it's totally common to see two people do more-or-less the same things with the same idea in the same industry, and one of them succeed and one of them fail. It's VERY hard to predict beforehand what the winning move looks like.

So, don't spend your hard-earned cash playing the lottery if what you want is to become "rich and successful". You are already "rich and successful" ($2mm in the bank is rich and therefore successful in most people's eyes).

You have to enjoy the process, the journey, of being an entrepreneur. It has to be the end in itself, or there's no point and you'll just hate yourself more. If you don't enjoy the process of building and growing a business, of hiring and selling and managing and planning, then walk away now.

If you do enjoy it, then don't worry about "big time entrepreneurs". This isn't about that. It's about living life right now, doing what you enjoy right now, rather than looking forward to some mythical point where it'll all be better and you'll be happier, more successful, more respected and more loved.
WebGL Fundamentals
The trouble arises when 80% of your house is debt-funded, and everyone wants to realize the value of their debt.

Turns out there will be a fair few other people who also think they own your house, and when this happens to a big chunk of the population you get in a lot of trouble.
I really doubt the penalties are harsher in Norway.
So today I got an email for using Apifier.com as a scraper and apparently and infringing on the patent of Spider Search Analytics LLC.

Has anyone else who has done scraping (which I'm sure are many of you) dealt with this? This seems pretty unprecedented an insane, not for getting sued by using another websites content, but by using a scraper at all.
Stagefright could be filtered out at operator/app level, unlike this.
If Chrome is going to ship SharedArrayBuffer, then why will the resolution of performance.now() and other timer APIs continue to be neutered? I don't have any preference one way or the other for implementing SharedArrayBuffer, but I am fully against neutering timers with jitter if a vendor does choose to implement SharedArrayBuffer. Random additional timer jitter becomes a false layer of security in this scenario, and https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=506723 should be reverted.

With SharedArrayBuffer you can easily implement extremely high resolution sub-nanosecond timers and open the door to new timing attacks. For example, here is a high resolution SharedArrayBuffer timer: https://codepen.io/yossioren/pen/LVBNMR

For more discussion regarding the security implications of this change, see https://github.com/tc39/ecmascript_sharedmem/issues/1 . Some of the security problems may be mitigable with Intel CAT, although I am not aware of Chrome making use of that yet.
They are in a mess, they hire you as a consultant, you explain VCS, they get it, everybody wins.

They didn't have to understand in advance. They just had to be smart enough to know they needed help.
Yes! You can reverse engineer if you're not careful. You have to make sure you have a reasonably sufficient baseline that you're training locally on. Otherwise your delta update is extremely revealing. Even then, you have to cautious because if not done correctly you can extract the delta.
"Getting software right is important. I estimate that about 9 out of 10 people getting paid to write software today shouldn't be. You do realize that today, in 2017, most of the needful software has already been written don't you? Think about it."

I'm curious if you've read the Richard Gabriel essays. Certainly the two of us have seen something like engineering of software. Anyone looking has seen high-quality software. Yet, most software isn't written with that goal in mind. It's about taking markets, politics, squeezing more money out of existing customers, scratching an itch, etc. It shouldn't surprise you that almost no high-quality software comes out of such abysmal demand for it. After a while, it shouldn't even bother you since it's pointless to worry about what most will do to quality for reasons aside from quality.

The best we can do is convince people who might give a shit, companies that might differentiate on better things, governments that might regulate to a baseline of methods that work, and so on. Plus advocate voting with our wallets for "The Correct Thing." Best advice I can give you after way too much time doing the opposite. ;)
Exactly and with thoughts from the vocal pro side compounding over the next 1-2 years... better to address it now and make it clear that they're listening.
LiDAR Completes Sensing Triumvirate
Helicopter glide property is important because most are single engine. You could easily put several independent motor + battery partitions in this one.
It would probably train while the phone is charging and upload while using WiFi, so, no problem.
Does Your Kitchen Give You Happiness
Yep. Basically you just reverse the network and predict the source - if not done right.
Yes the aspect about how it was stored is a factor and if ammo box with mines, that is a lot of thermal shielding and maybe enough to enable the contained Sarin to avoid direct exposure and enough thermal insulation to curtail reaching that magic 147°C. Even the aspect of how stored, could increase the prospect of some being thrown clear by the initial impact/explosion. Let alone what was used in the airstrike and its characteristics.

So still reasonable doubt.

I really hope they do a forensics upon that impact sight of Chemical Weapons and get to the truth sooner rather than later.
Water is wet. In other news.
If the allegations in this suit are true, fuck Uber forever. They should go out of business, their assets should be stripped from the investors and redistributed to the users, and Kalanick and a bunch of other people should go to jail for fraud. There is no way to overlook the persistent structural problems displayed by this company. Some things could be matters of opinion (like the values of their corporate culture and so on), but there are multiple instances by now of Uber actively choosing to circumvent laws or deceive people on a systematic rather than an occasional or ad-hoc basis. I've rarely seen such a clear chase for revocation of a business license.
Boostnote is good but I wish they had latex support too.
I think the main difference is that the more experience (and age, if correlated) you have, the more accurately you can judge whether or not (A) an idea is brilliant, and (B) whether you have, or can hire for, the skills to execute it successfully.

I actually think of them as 3 separate things, not 2.

- Some people have lots of ideas, many of them terrible.

- Some people have the ability to evaluate whether an idea is good or not.

- Some people have the abilities to execute ideas, good or bad.

People can have [0,3] of these, but #2 is the rarest in my experience. And if you do have all 3, go do whatever you want, because we'll probably end up reading about you in the news soon enough.
Same here... I stay close enough to those hit hard by dystopia to see it regularly, though. It doesn't leave me. A young person recently even asked if I read 1984. I told him about things that have come to pass since I did. I said the weirdest things to me are little things that should make it obvious: tons of propaganda in media plus TV's and watches that track us constantly. People still embrace them willingly. (sighs)
The web is the only platform that has solved the sub-100ms install+load problem, which helped it solve the be-on-every-device problem. Solving those problems introduced constraints did make certain things harder. But IMO it was a good trade-off. Being the biggest software platform in the world certainly suggests it was worth it.

Let me know when Windows gets 100ms install+load and I'll be interested in the rendering model. Until then... measuring install time in seconds, or minutes? You can hardly claim to be performance oriented.
Yes. The author pushes people to the web version since it's more up to date, easier to maintain, etc., but there's a local version, see:

http://snpedia.com/index.php/Promethease/Desktop
http://snpedia.com/index.php/Promethease/privacy
But what Mac are you going to put it in...?
HK is a really good example of cyberpunk, you have both the kowloon side which is... it's hard to say "dark" but I would say it's more "real", "intense", and "chaotic" than the island, whereas the island itself has the shadowrun-esque clique of the mega-rich business conglomerates.

the only issue I see with HK being the perfect example of cyberpunk is victoria harbor keeps these two sides separate, whereas to fit the genre more I think they should be jammed up uncomfortably next to each other.

some HK films make use of the separation of kowloon / island, by placing the immaculate police headquarters on the island, but requiring the policeman/hero to go to the other side to get their hands dirty / get shit done / rescue the uncle/wife/child from the triad or whatever. when they go over to kowloon you know shit's going to go down.
This appears to be mostly about privacy concerns and on-device performance. Google hardly needs the computational power of even millions of phones versus the behemoths that are their data centers.

(and the phones are only part-time, at that!)
Ina Fried (Axios): [...] What have you learned from what pros are saying about the new MacBook Pros?

Phil Schiller: [...] Generally there’s certainly been feedback about I/O. I think the I/O has been for some great because of the performance it delivers and the flexibility it delivers. Others would like some legacy connectors, but there are adapters for that. We’re not done gathering feedback, but generally things are going really well with it.

The reality distortion field on this guy is impressive.
Hey there, Dustin asked me to chime in. We would of course love to have Adobe's software available to Ubuntu users, and would do whatever we could to help make that happen.

However, as far as I know there is no Linux port of these products, which really limits our ability to even start on it. Likewise the software license limits our ability to share it without Adobe's approval even if we could package it. The best thing that Canonical can do, and indeed what we are doing now, is to provide stable platform for Adobe to target and the tools to make it as easy as possible for them to do that.

Ultimately the only thing that will sway Adobe are their own customers showing a demand for those products on Ubuntu. The more they hear from Ubuntu users who want to buy their software, or people who have bought their software who want to use it on Ubuntu, the more willing they will be do make it happen. And when they're ready, Canonical will make sure that Ubuntu is an inviting and worthwhile platform for them to distribute their software on.
Trying to avoid getting further into the muck - I meant the very specific way of punishing dissent: attempting to reveal the identity of anonymous dissenters.
Ubuntu Unity is dead; company to shift back to Gnome
Interesting another conspiracy driven website botted to the top
What I am not sure I understand is why anyone cares what happens in Syria,

Well there's this thing known as "empathy", in regard to those who are suffering. You might want to look into it sometime.

(Then again, with a handle like yours...)
> He is the definition of human scum, and I'm glad to see the US finally step in.

I agree with the "scum" part.

For the "step in", hmm ...? If are trying to civilize Assad and/or his enemies, then that looks hopeless.

If are trying to deter Assad from more use of ugly chemical weapons on babies, maybe that can work, a little, for a while.

If trying to replace Assad, then an early question has to be -- with whom that would be better? The replacement should be better, and in such situations that ain't nearly guaranteed.

I'm no expert, but it may be that Syria divides into people who (A) more or less like Assad, at least will let him get by with rigged elections without being really bitter about it, and (B) hate Assad and all the people in (A) and would eagerly torture and murder all of them by the most brutal methods they could implement. Yes, the people in (A) might be equally eager to murder all the people in (B).

That is, first-cut, we're talking a lot of people who still are back in essentially Medieval times, maybe as if they were still fighting over very limited water and grazing land, and still isolated from the lessons from the religious, etc. wars of Europe of the past 1000 years, e.g., separation of church and state, basic humanism, etc., lessons not well honored in Europe even as recently as Hitler.

Hitler was brutal, in Medieval terms, including with gas, likely also on children and babies. So, is it too surprising that maybe a lot of people in Syria are Medieval, brutal, inhumane, etc.?

To me, from about 1/4th the way around the world away, one of the big lessons needed in the Mideast is separation of church and state, and I can't believe that any significant separation will take place there for at least another, say, 200 years. E.g., apparently one of the main recruiting attractions of ISIS -- in Iraq, Syria, Libya, etc. -- is a closed, isolated, Medieval, brutal, sectarian dictatorship. So, that stuff still gets lots of people over there to vote with their feet, lives, etc.

Over there, maybe they were having wars and, there, killing babies, etc. going way back. Some of the situations and scenes in the movie Lawrence of Arabia, a side-show of WWI, seem to suggest so.

In such situations, there is an approach to peace, that of the grave.

I do suspect that with some well placed bombs from the US, it is possible to send a message that even the most dedicated sectarians can hear, the parties can understand the message, calm down for a while, sign a deal, get some strong geographical lines of separation, maybe monitored by the UN, and, then, live essentially in peace for some decades, say, until there is another ambitious, bloodthirsty, leader eager to take over territory and willing to exploit religion to do so.
You can create a snap with Wine and a windows application together, which is one route this might go. However, because Photoshop isn't open source, we wouldn't have a legal ability to distribute it.
The OP criticised the government and didn't mention Twitter. I think he's talking about the government, not Twitter.
It seems his advisors don't so much approve, as rubberstamp.
Honestly, I am coming around to the idea that there's one "golden" technique with many riffs: "convince them they're under attack"

War on Christmas, foreigners pouring in, secilarism, socialism, sharia law, "inner cities", "gun control", the gays, "nanny state", "liberal media" etc

Once the public feels sufficiently threatened, they'll do anything you want.
I like it, especially because there's a strong artist population there, and a common theme in cyberpunk is showing what the non-techies' life is like (to contrast it to the main characters' lives), and it's quite often artists.
Syria 'chemical attack': What can forensics tell us?
They've both been bombing various factions, that's direct involvement. The both also have troops on the ground, the US has them in the north with the Kurds and the Russians had personnel at the very airbase that was bombed.

All we need now is an arch duke in an open top car.
I was a good handful of years past 35 when I launched my own business (in a non-tech industry). Certainly, working every day is less burdensome for me than for others who may have significant commitments, like a spouse or children. In my four years, during which I’ve had about 30 days off from going to work, I haven’t for a moment regretted my decision. And I should add that I don’t know if pre-35 I had enough experience to be as successful as I’ve been.

But I don’t believe my experience as described here necessarily says much for anyone else. The viability of a business is often easy to determine. I think the important considerations depend on the person making the choice. In simple terms, the key questions are about what someone values and what someone is willing to give up.

I enjoy working on my feet, making things with my hands, having relationships with my customers and coming through for them reliably and in ways they don’t expect. I take pleasure in the challenges that confront me (and the ensuing education from those challenges), I appreciate trying to teach and get more out of the (as of yet) one employee I have.

For all those positives and others, I’m comfortable going to work every day, I’m not bothered by the physical toll, and I am decent at brushing off the customer behaviors which can be infuriating. No, I can’t have the same social schedule as all of my friends, but I do see my local friends regularly and remain in good contact with those who aren’t nearby. My work definitely makes intimate relationships more difficult, but the ones I’ve had during this business didn’t fail because of my schedule but for other reasons.

At least in US culture, I think our careers are typically a form of self-discovery.* That’s not to suggest anything negative about anyone who doesn’t launch a business. But our work gives us good feedback on ourselves and our place in our world. In that framework, some of us are comfortable starting a business and some of us are not.

*I would have said any of the above a while back, but I also recently started reading the Studs Terkel book Working. It’s a collection of interviews with people about their jobs and how they feel about their jobs. From people in well-respected positions to those in positions often looked down upon, the themes shared about the value people derive from their work are illuminating and inspiring.

Book: https://www.amazon.com/Working-People-Talk-About-What/dp/156...

Some Audio Interviews: http://www.radiodiaries.org/the-working-tapes
I'm going to say that that is a fairly minor point. Most people who really _need_ pro level stuff known what they're going to use it for.

CFD guys are still using software from the 80s and 90s. Same for finite element guys. Video producers already know whether they prefer Adobe premiere or final cut etc.

Flashy new release titles matter much less than specs, I'd say. That, and upgradeability.
Pointless criticism. It's like all the numbers. Rather than resorting to boring ad hominem, why not express a reason why these do not hold? Especially in a mostly post-fact society.
Isn't this the point though?

We're moving more and more to having unified low-level services across Unices, so it stops being about stupid things like "Oh sorry, Arch can't run this because it uses its own audio stack even if we're just using audio to make a notification sound", and starts being about the things that are fundamentally different about the systems.

Think about how nice it is that we don't have to recompile most things for most kernel versions. Why do we have to set up multiple startup script mechanisms?
It's a saying, meaning the risk of homelessness is unbearable even if small. It works for rent too.

However, I think losing your house is generally a seen as a huge public failure where some people can privately take loses that don't effect their living situation in stride
How to Troubleshoot Kindle Fire HD/HDX?
Ask HN: Outsourcing your job to SEA labor without your employer knowing?
Besides ruining your reputation within that organization and possible negative career outlooks, what are your guys opinion?

Famous case:http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2013/01/16/169528579/outsourced-employee-sends-own-job-to-china-surfs-web
read AOsborn comment above. here is the link to Leslie Jones encouraging people to harass someone she doesn't like:

https://twitter.com/Lesdoggg/status/755218642674020352

some animals are more equal than others?
Nothing says federal twitter account like "Alt [Emoji] Immigration" and "Not the views of DHS or USCIS" (at bio)
I remember hearing that too. If the algorithm works that way, it would be easy to manipulate. Start a flame war and watch the subject of your choosing receive only limited coverage and commentary (e.g. a competitor's product, bad news about your company, the US war machine, etc.).
I thought I unsubscribed from r/politics...
If you haven't read up on Operation Avarice, it would be worth your time:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_and_weapons_of_mass_destr...
That changes Uber's position in the transaction. Uber pretends it is a payment processor. But this means Uber is buying the service from the driver, marking it up, and reselling it to the rider. This puts Uber much closer to being an employer.
The US which relies on free markets, insurance, and the legal system has worse outcomes than countries that do not.
welcome to the club.
I agree. Age actually makes that confidence-o-meter more accurate.
Thanks. This is very fair. I agree with your assessment that it appears to be overreach but that the President-personally angle is being overplayed here.
Ask HN: What can be potential uses of ML and AI in online education domain?
I'm a full-stack engineer with a strong interest in ML. I'm looking at a startup opportunity in online education domain. I want to know potential use cases of ML in the domain.
A standard can have multiple implementations and changes happen by committee. A monoculture like systemd changes by the whim of their developers. If some implementation is too buggy, which by many accounts systemd is, being able to switch to/develop an alternative implementation without causing fragmentation is an important distinction.
Suggested courses of action to protect anonymity...

1 - Tip off reporters nationally and most importantly, locally in the Congress person's home district.

2 - Level 23 move, tip off his/her opposition in the campaign both in the primary / general. Also tip off the Congressperson's opposing party heads. Example, if the CP was a Republican tip off the local DNC and if Democrat, tip off the RNC. This is one way the Clinton's got their opposition research.
Agreed, the config files for upstart were so easy to template out and always worked reliably.
> which considering how many developers use vim just seems weird

I am pretty sure it's still a very very small percent out of all the MacBook Pro buyers, and a lot of the vim users are quite happy with just remapping the each key and were doing that even before they got the touchbar. I think this whole buzz about missing esc key and fn row is just non relevant anymore and the vast majority of MacBook users myself included don't really care and enjoy a new great screen along with a better trackpad and battery life.
Throughout the article they kept trying to distinguish a certain subset of pro users without clearly defining how they see it. Final Cut Pro & Logic were mentioned, but there are definitely more applications that would benefit from more beefy pro machines. It's almost like Apple is using the wrong yard stick to measure their Pro market because they're asking the wrong questions.

"Do you use Final Cut Pro?"
No, I use scikit-learn!
No, I use vagrant & virtualbox to run 4 VMs
No, I use Unity
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