skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is some of the worst writing I've read in quite some time. It seems like we're so excited about the chance to upvote bad news about Uber that even poorly written (and poorly reasoned) pieces are bubbling up.
>>"Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars."
>Funnily enough the moon is much closer than the stars. ;)

Sure but if you MISS the moon, you'll be stuck heading towards the stars until you run of of oxygen and die.

That's the point of this saying, right? ...
AirBnBs are fantastic until you have a bad experience. When that happens, you realize how little recourse and options you have; you're basically screwed and need to scramble for solutions. This is not so bad when you're on a vacation and have some flexibility. It is 100% a total nightmare when traveling for work and have other responsibilities to attend to.

Hotels have the advantage of:
1) Consistent product quality
2) Established process and channels for addressing complaints
3) Recourse when things go wrong

AirBnBs have the advantage of:
1) Cost, cost, cost
2) Uniqueness in accommodation environments
3) Greater flexibility (especially as it relates to cost) in terms of location and specific accommodation needs (kitchen, multiple beds, etc.)

Those who rave about AirBnB, I suspect, have never had a really bad experience. I used to AirBnB all the time, but a few bad experiences really turned me off on the whole platform. You get what you pay for, and with hotels, that extra cost provides "insurance" for when things go south.

These days I'll occasionally AirBnB when on vacation if the costs are significantly lower than a hotel (and this is only ever the case if you're booking relatively last moment). Never on business trips - only if there are literally no other accommodations (at sane prices), which is only ever the case when booking last minute in specific cities (SF, NYC, Tokyo, etc.).
Doubling Down on Vertical Software
Which platforms (hardware) are good for this? I mostly want to mess with Linux on the Pi, but wouldn't mind trying some assembly on a cheaper board to learn more about bare metal programming.
I'm watching in amazement that they are still able to raise money at all. Damaged brand, losing on every sale. There have been some examples of such companies in the past (Airlines during the oil crisis for instance) but at least those had competent management.

The drivers have long ago figured out that they shouldn't bet on a single horse so even that advantage is eroding.
Finding the speed of Light with peeps
I got views but didn't get any invite. Maybe they will send bulk rejection?
I'm incredulous that 'pythong' is not in there.

I can't not-type it.
This guy (whom I've never heard of) actually quotes himself on his own about page.

"I am quoted as stating: ..."

That's some next-level self-promotional mojo.
Tried again with music...

Even of high quality, there is a background sheesh kind of noise, similar to what you get if you play a 3D printed record.

On higher compression it's turning into something rather crumbly, with a recognizable tune but horrible sound quality.

So, yeah. Not quite usable.
The most common way to get to the top is being born at the top.
This article opens up with an analogy between nuclear war and an Uber down round.

Why are people upvoting this?

sudo sh -c 'echo "127.0.0.1 markstcyr.com" > /etc/hosts'
If the people with the money don't believe the hype it doesn't matter because they won't pour good money after bad. These people did not become wealthy by backing losers. What it means is they may be able to raise money in the short term but with worse deals than they have been getting, and in the medium to long term even that will start to dry up. How long can they burn cash to make a market that they can exploit. They may put other ride sharing companies out of business but small taxi firms will pop back up again so they will never be able to monopolise the market such that they can start setting a price that would result in a good return for investors.
Apples to oranges.
liked kara swisher's point on cnbc, that so much wealth + influence has bought into uber that it is truly too big to fail. too many wealthy investors and deep SV network will ensure that it not melt down (unlike ?).
There is a lot more to entrepreneurship than a high education level. Young people are more educated than ever, yet small business creation is lower than ever[1]. A business requires startup capital, which is tough to gain when you must start your career in $40k-$100k in debt. The salaries of recent grads have been lower, too. Cost of living, especially in housing and medical expenses, is going up every year. With dwindling social stability and a hobbled ability to save, the only ones who can safely risk starting a business nowadays are those who already have capital.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/on-small-business/wp/201...
Say It with Me: Root-Mean-Square
I think the more important insight is that what you work on is as important as how hard you work. This is especially true in today's world of automation, where things that took one person literally a year can now be done by machines in a few hours.
I think we would have failed at nr 3 (Check out the way this specific feature of the overall product is cool”) we have so many cool features of which we are insanely proud!

We are solving several hard problems in ways that make it really easy for our users - this IS our core value proposition.

Of course there is a really big market behind all this too, and that is exciting too, but for now it's hard to get excited about a 60bn dollar market, when all we have is a couple of users a month raving about how ridiculously awesome our product is, before getting stuck at one of the deeper parts of the system....

Because this isn't another shallow startup like a SnapChat or a Twitter or an AirBNB (not meaning this in a derogatory sense - rather they are solving rather direct and simple to articulate market needs of end-user consumers, rather than complex business problems)... Its probably far better to self fund and grow organically, which is what we've been doing for the past 3 years.

Our strategy isn't "try something for 12 - 18 months" and if it fails to get massive traction shut the doors.

We know our market is important, we know it is big, what we don't know, is whether our approach is something that can crack it, since we are approaching the mountain from a straight up vertical face. (busy looking for alternatives to give us more intermediate profits)
The Amazon is another example of having flow reversal - presumably things got very damp as water levels sorted themselves out.
In general, this is good advice for dealing with price objection in the negotiation of a premium product. It correctly emphasizes long term relationships over a single sale. It also encourages you to stick to your guns on maintaining margin instead of chasing revenue - critical for premium products.

Where the article loses me is when it advocates telling the customer that you'll lie to help them get a better offer from the competition: "I'll even help you negotiate a lower price by sending you an email underbidding their latest offer." This is ethically wrong. But if that's not a convincing argument, it's also pragmatically a very bad idea. Maintaining integrity is the only sustainable business practice in the long run. Lying & cheating may work once, twice, or a dozen times, but it will catch up to you. Even more pragmatically, you've just told the customer that you can't be trusted, that you'll lie to make a situation more favorable for you. That's undermined your relationship when it's purpose was meant to do just the opposite.
Yes, Airbnb and Stripe are shitting themselves.
How does that make him a terrible writer?
The point stands, however. John Wesley, founder of the Methodist church, would read and write sermons as he rode (obviously not at a full gallop) from church to church, if legend is to be believed. These days he might, at best, listen to a few podcasts as he sits in traffic.
I think IE and Safari just don't support Unicode in domains.
Amazon is continuously expanding its offering in every market it can get into. Think of it not as one company but as 30 or so very well run start-ups that all charge for the product. Long run I'd be bullish on Amazon and less bullish on Google simply because Google is as fragile as the advertising market and there is no knowing where that is going. But for Amazons products there will likely always be a good sized market and they could become profitable very fast as soon as they decide that's where they want to go and stop the expansionist phase.

To Jeff Bezos it's just one huge land-grab.
Do a bit more history study and you'll realize people used to say the same thing about Amazon. It's only recently that people decided to acknowledge the fact that Amazon's "burning money" is a feature not a bug. You said "Amazon at least has proven it has a valuable model...". What you don't realize is it took almost a decade.

This is actually why I have infinite respect for Jeff Bezos, he stuck around through all the criticism (almost a decade of constantly hearing "it won't work! they're not making any money" even though they have been clearly the market leader for a long time and I'm sure he had clear vision all along) and finally managed to get to a point where even the naysayers gave up.
About slide 51: "No Multi-line comments"

You can use triple-quote strings as multi-line comments: https://twitter.com/gvanrossum/status/112670605505077248
I use gcm for `git commit -m `, interestingly.

I only use a few git aliases, most things I'd rather type out.
Both of these require active threats.

"Stand your ground" laws just mean there is no duty(law) to seek retreat above all else before actively defending yourself.

"Castle", in California, simply means that if an intruder has bypassed a control (picked a lock, broke a window, etc) to gain entry then one can proceed on the assumption that they are there to do grave bodily harm. (And thus act accordingly.)
Machine Learning is just a tool belt. AI is the idea of intelligent machines being able to solve problems (and recognizing them) on their own. Therefore of course AI can utilize the tool belt that is Machine Learning.
Isn't 5GHz blocked by pretty much everything? So if you're in your house, the carriers won't be able to interfere with your WiFi?
I think nature's solution to this kind of inefficiency arises by adopting a new social behavior rather than evolving a new DNA-based physical ability. It's easier and faster for a group of animals to appoint a guard to protect others during sleep than for the species to evolve a superior brain.
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All of NASA's imagery, in one clean, searchable place
When Apple announced the removal of the headphone jack, my initial guess was that it wouldn't really affect me all that much. There are only 3 times that I use the headphone jack on my phone: while driving (I use a cassette player adapter), while exercising, and on the airplane. Obviously, I'm not going to be charging my phone while exercising, so that use case doesn't really matter.

As for when I'm driving, I ended up buying a small bluetooth receiver to plug my cassette player adapter into, so now I can just connect to that wirelessly, and continue to charge my phone (if needed). I'm fortunate enough to live less than 5 miles from work, so charging while driving during the week isn't really necessary for me. However, it's definitely nice being able to charge on weekends if I'm driving farther distances.

On the plane, I think there are enough entertainment options (in-seat entertainment, iPad, iPhone, Kindle, Switch, etc.) that I don't foresee running into a situation where I haven't been able to charge my phone because I've been listening to it non-stop. I just traveled from LA to Milan and back last week, and I think the lowest my phone's charge got to on the plane was ~50%.

So, for me, I don't miss the headphone jack. BUT, with that said, I think it definitely helps that I have a 7 Plus, just because of the larger battery. Before this, I had a 6 (not Plus), and near the end of it's life, the battery was absolutely atrocious. I think that's now my largest concern (although maybe not as much with the Plus) with the lack of headphone jack.
Inculcating a culture of work ethic into the majority of the population produces a surplus that may then be extracted and utilized by a specific class of people who do not wish to work hard.

Arbeit macht frei.

As far as I am aware, every human culture has always demanded more work than strictly necessary from the working class in order to support a relatively small proportion of non-workers or light workers. At the band/tribe level, that is generally very young children and very old elders. Larger organization units tended to reserve some of the light work and non-work for administrators and enforcers. For a while, we have had concepts such as "education" and "retirement" that take the place of child labor and dying at your workstation, made possible by improvements in productivity in the working class.

So for those whose hands never acquired a callus, it has long been necessary that other people do harder work. Indeed, we even had more odious lies, such as "you must work hard, because you are my property," or "work hard, or you will be removed, and your family will starve."

Sometimes, the promise of promotion was not a lie. The very best of the hard workers were elevated to encourage the others, but never quite far enough that they might question what is really done with all that hard work.

We have robots and power generators now. None of us can work harder, faster, or more cheaply than a fully automated factory running on raw materials and electricity. The former economic necessities are no longer required. But no one is prepared to come out and say "no one really needs to work hard any more, and you will only be able to reach the top by owning the most productive capital" because there are so many people out there who have been toeing that line their whole lives, working hard without reaching even a local maximum. The economy isn't entirely automated--not yet--and we still collectively need some people to work. No one wants to be the one chump in ten that has to bust their ass every day while everyone else just lies around goofing off.

So we have the "bullshit job" phenomenon, to distribute and obfuscate who is doing all the actual work, making the other 9 put up the appearance of work for the sake of the one still actually doing the critical labor, or dividing up the work so that 10 people each do 10% of a real job and 90% flimflammery.

What we should be telling the kids is "own something now, before it is too late."
I don't think I've ever heard anyone tell their children "hard work gets you to the top". I believe what is actually more often said is "if you don't work hard, you won't get to the top". Subtle, but crucial difference.
Optane = Shit, for thing.
Kallithea is good enough for this use case. We are using it in a 15 member team, without any issue.
Your Living Room Walls Deserve a Makeover Tips on How to Get It Right
But... you are using another online service to host the service yourself, no? And presumably they are also throwing in backups and redundancy of some sort... certainly it would take you a minute to set those things up, test them, monitor they are working... And isn't GitHub basically like everyone's resume these days?

I don't know... at some point you sort of just have to trust someone... be it the hosting provider, or the service provider. And I'm old... but I've had to untangle issues with CVS / VSS / SVN / etc... over the years I don't want anything to do with that crap -- if I can punt it to someone else to manage I'm OK paying some tiny subscription fee.

I think there's been one day in the last ~10 years when I couldn't use GitHub. To me that seems worth the $20 a month, or whatever they charge now.
I am poor. I would like to fix the environment. How do I affect change? How do I go from helpless to helpful?

I have no money, I have little spare time, limited range of travel.

We see these unfixable problems with climate and no real way of tackling them.

I spent an hour picking up plastic from the beach, could I turn that time and effort into something? Like money or karma or something else.

I can't do it for free as I need money for food. No one wants to pay me to do it. How do we solve this?
> Tetris is an obvious example

And is unwinnable.
>As a side note, I still bet most of this forum is against this ambitious personality, affirming at the end of the day that "there is more to life than your projects, go out and live, meet someone, fill out your social schedule, etc."

Sounds like you are conflating being ambitious with being entrepreneurial. It's possible to have a meaningful career without starting your own business, not to mention building something of value without it. And all of this is possible outside of the valley. There is a particular trajectory for a business that the valley is amenable to systemically and culturally, but that means very little.
> If a place is not safe/sanitary/etc., and AirBnB still allows it to be listed, people will have a bad AirBnB experience and stop using AirBnB and/or that renter.

Well that's one way to regulate a market. But those are soft regulations. You do those things because the market demands it.

There are not so soft regulations, these are done because the market wouldn't know enough about them to demand it. Like making sure the fire suppression system is actually installed, inspected, and functional. The fire exits aren't locked the wrong way. I assume you test each smoke detector in your rental before handing over money?

While you have a problem with regulations some of them don't bother me. I live near the beach. 50 years ago I wouldn't be allowed to set foot on it because of my skin. It seems silly now but the gov't came in with teeth and said, "hey what you are doing isn't right." The market was rewarding these hotels for being racist shitheels. Gov't regulation put a bullet in it.
>How are you going to detect and sue someone for what they do on their own computer?

MAI v. Peak is the case that proclaimed the "RAM copy doctrine", which says that loading a computer from disk onto RAM constitutes a new copy under the Copyright Act, and therefore may infringe.

The specific case was about whether Peak, a computer maintenance and repair company, had the right to load diagnostic software that the computer's owners had purchased. The Court ruled that they did not, and that by copying the program data from disk to RAM (that is, running the program), the computer technicians had violated copyright.

Congress addressed this case specifically with reference to computer repair by carving out a special exemption for repair technicians to run the software that the computer's owner had purchased. Said exemptions don't apply to anyone else, though the owner can "make or authorize the making of" copies if they are necessary to actually use the product (I don't know why the owner's authorization to make a copy wasn't good enough for Peak).

Practically speaking, of course it's unenforceable on the large scale because as you say, it'd be hard to detect who is doing it, and the more fuss they make about this type of stuff, the more damage they do to themselves.
I wasn't defending Mozilla so much as comparing, and specifically comparing a non-profit with two definitely-for-profit corporations. To me, it seems like even without knowing anything about Mozilla or the for-profits the balance of probability for which is least likely to be "evil" falls on the non-profit side. Additionally, the point about Google paying Mozilla is a little silly (even if it were still true): one of the corporations we're comparing here is literally Google, so whatever Mozilla is doing is rather unlikely to be worse than what Google is.

Of course, for this specific case of non-profit and for-profit, there's a decade and more of history bearing out the sense that Mozilla is far better than the corporations from this particular political/privacy/no-ulterior-motives stance.

Additionally, I don't see why monetary/resource efficiency is relevant: the thing that actually matters is the product, and while being efficient/nonfrivilous is likely to help make a good product, it doesn't actually seem like a relevant end goal. Everything else equal, I'm still going to buy from a company that "wastes" 99% of its money if its product is better than the one that doesn't "waste" anything.
Try Lakka. Better performance (especially on menus) and generally better UX than RetroPie or any other emulation frontend I've seen. Several common controllers, including (what I use) bluetooth PS3 controllers supported out of the box, with sane auto-mapping for all supported emulators (no more manually mapping controls unless you just like that kind of thing).

Only tricky bit is that you have to have blessedly-pure ROMsets for automatic per-system playlist generation to work (it's hash-based), but that's a minor hurdle (and going through it will encourage you to clean up any "messy" sets you have, which isn't really a bad thing). There's a stickied post on their forum that'll give you the names of what you need. And you can always manually create playlists or launch individual ROMs, regardless.

Not affiliated with it, just a big fan of what Retroarch/Lakka and related projects are doing for emulation.
Apple's Achilles Heel
Flagged.

This is obviously just poorly written clickbait to piss people off. Unicorns shouldn't be worried about Uber's down round unless they have as many skeletons in their closet as Uber does. Apples to oranges. I think Uber is a horrible company, but I also don't think that random clickbait should be getting up the ranks on HN.
The title doesn't match the content ("gets you to the top" versus "get on in life") and makes the mistake that the only way to consider yourself a success is to become upper-middle class. It is wrong to teach all underprivileged youth that the only thing standing between them and their own professional practice is working hard, but it's not wrong to teach them that a good work ethic will make other things in their life easier.
Nice thanks. Seems like it mostly reduces the number of colors?

Also like how clearly you can see the overdrive introducing noise into the previously pure blue sky at the top
People in India are angry at Snapchat but they are boycotting a wrong app
Patricia Cornwell Investigates Jack the Ripper
I consider my utility roughly equal to that of close friends and family and will try to trade it favorably, such as spending 30 minutes to save them an hour. This is applicable to suffering as well.

With strangers, the expected return would have to be better, probably by a factor of ten or so.

One of the problems with this approach is that estimating expected utility gains (especially other people's) is hard.

And of course you get the weird edge cases with people (think serial killers) deriving pleasure from hurting other people, so you have to use some kind of objective measure that applies at least to most of the population, rather than just trusting the other person that "it really does it for them".
Looks, pretty cool. Kinda reminded me of uservoice [1], how do you think it compares?

[1] https://writt.uservoice.com/forums/260510-general