skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"he made the claim it would be easier to gleen useful data from what we've collected"

He's probably right.

"Would this fall into the "premature optimization" category of common mistakes?"

No. I don't believe so. You don't have to optimize your data. In CouchDB you need to convert it to JSON but that's a pretty straight forward process. I wrote a perl script to do that for data I was working it.

You can create databases that work on a specific dataset if you want, or create a single database and load it with everything you've got.

From there you design "Views" that work with data in the "files" you store data in. When you run the view the first time CouchDB creates a B-tree that is then stored and used to find the data you're working with and return the results based on your criteria.

That B-tree is where your data is "optimized" and CouchDB does that for you. The B-tree is updated whenever you add or make a change to your dataset, so you don't have to do anything to "re-optimize" it.

This is all fairly easy to do and the learning curve is fairly short. If this is being run in-house I'd recommend developing your app on a Raspberry Pi. You may find that's all you really need.

You can setup a CouchDB on a Raspberry Pi with over 250 GB of storage for around $100. (http://wdlabs.wd.com/products/pidrive-compute-centre/). This actually provides a pretty great way to distribute your app and data too, and gives those who have access to modify it themselves.

You can develop your app on a Pi and from there if you need more power you can replicate everything you've got to a Cloudant DB, or install CouchDB on Google Cloud or Amazon Cloud or a spin up a DigitalOcean VPS and install CouchDB on it. You've got several great options there.

CouchDB has a built-in tool to replicate your data to/from other CouchDBs so this is incredibly easy to do. Pretty much push a button easy.

And don't underestimate what you can do with the Raspberry Pi. They run CouchDB just fine. I'd be glad to send you step-by-step install instructions for CouchDB 2.0 (latest version) to help get you started with that.
You should go into politics. Meanwhile, the law is the law and that's how it stands. What you (or I) personally feel they deserve or not doesn't matter.
If you managed to get a YC invite with no registered company, then I suppose you could wait on everything (and hats off to you in that case :))

If you end up not getting into YC, though, I'd say go ahead and register the company anyway. You'll need it in order to take angel money or give out stock options.
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Lot's of scientists and engineers and physicians are still doing what they know best. These kinds of knowledge and skills do not go away with age, and since practitioners of these arts are constantly learning new things, and looking for better solutions to problems, people in these fields often work until the very day that death catches up to them.

Programmers tend to be just like these other STEM like professions. Although with age we tend also to broaden our horizons a bit, perhaps into genomics or massively scalable systems or new approaches to cyber security.
Recruiters get paid to find candidates. One of their biggest assets is their book of contacts. I don't see an incentive to share that information with their competition. On the other hand your past employers definitely do share certain details about your employment with recruiters.
Yes, or it's asterix-ed reincarnations.
A Note From the New CEO of Lobstero

https://www.somethingawful.com/news/juicero-lobster-pouch/
>Why can't we just watch YouTube videos in Chrome on a mobile device?

Because Google owns Youtube.

Google's primary business is online advertising.

Full-blown mobile browsers could have ad-blocking extensions, which Google does not want to happen on Youtube.

They purposefully attempt to stop people from being able to access Youtube on their phones outside of their official app.

There are restrictions on certain videos w.r.t. if it can be played on a phone or only on desktop - I don't know if this is licensing (music, etc) or what, but they care quite a lot about this.

They also have Youtube Red, which is a paid service that lets people play videos with their screens off, which you could theoretically bypass if you aren't using their app.
WikiLeaks Document Reveals Samsung Smart TV Records and Sends Your Voice to CIA
"The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees oneself of the chains that shackle the spirit... the arbitrariness of the constraint only serves to obtain precision of execution."

- Igor Stravinsky
Labor is a smaller fraction of the costs to produce batteries. Consider they only have 850 workers, so even if moving to China saved 50k per worker it's not actually that valuable vs much better IP protection.
This doesn't address the fact that pigs are no less capable of experiencing pain and distress than dogs and cats. And most people in western cultures would not be okay with killing dogs and cats that are not being useful to them. So even though the cognitive dissonance and the framework that sustains it is well understood (look up carnism), it's still pretty strange when you stop to think about it.
Here's your article, good sir. "As Juicero gets publicly shamed, let us not forget that juice itself is a lie" https://qz.com/965505/juicero-turns-out-to-be-pointless-so-i...
HE was illegally kidnapped from a country to be brought to the US. Anyone thinks Russia can't do the same live in lalaland.
This company has to be a front for something; there has to be more to this story... I refuse to believe this is real. $120 million raised!
IDK. I feel bad for the devs but I hate being punted from safari to the app store. If this cuts it down 66percent that would be awesome ux. Really sick of the huge green button that says "proceed" and the tiny "no thanks" that takes you to the actual site. Reddit is a perfect example
Trump is no angel, and I sincerely hope you did not take my comment that way. I hate Trump, he is a myopic, self-centered late stage capitalist that can't handle basic logic.

That being said Obama was no angel, TPP, SOPA & PIPA were all corporatist bills he fought for alongside Keystone XL, and he was happy to feed the military industrial complex while warmongering overseas while letting the drug wars continue in the US.

Why waste our resources on stupid wars and bad policies that most Americans dislike?
It's very interesting that you ask for help and yet are extremely combative.
Introduction to Creating React Components and Publishing Them to NPM
You aren't at the NYT.com, this is an uncurated niche technology site that aggregates a massive amount of bubbling news content.
I am a mechanical engineer (a machine design engineer in fact) and this press looks like would happen if you hired 30 of 23-year-old me fresh out of college, gave them an effectively unlimited budget and said "make me the swankiest press you can imaging". Lots of clever ideas and fancy machined parts with no thought for cost savings or whether there's an easier way to do something.

15A 330V DC motor? To squish a bag of pulp?

The best things I've gotten career and skill wise from more senior engineers has been the feedback where they looked at a design and said "looks fancy, but what were you thinking?".

This machine looks like it needed some more grizzled manufacturing veterans to inject some sense into the design process.
Is there a single case of a company suffering a loss because of a Github or Slack data breach? Is there a single case of a company suffering a loss because of their own systems being breaches? It happens all the time. Look at Sony -- their data would have been safer stored on DropBox than their own internal servers.

You claim "risk," of using 3rd party services but can you quantify it with actual data?

Slack's entire business is secure business communication. Are we to think that our teams are better than Slack's when Slack's core competency is secure communication?

Should companies install their own phone lines because the 3rd party phone companies can't be trusted? Is there not risk when your internal teams who aren't necessarily domain experts, are building and maintaining systems that are outside of the company's core competency?

The security value of doing it yourself is nothing but anecdotal and not based on any actual data.
Yes, you're generally either an employer or an employee in a modern economy. Is this news to anyone?
Pre-2000, I remember most questions revolved around data structures. Linked lists, hash tables and various trees & such. For my line of work, it's critical to know.

The "you're one inch tall and stuck in a blender..." Yeah. Google / Amazon were my first experiences with those kinds of questions.
It's disturbing that you have no knowledge of a very real side effect of these drugs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychotic_break

> Several types of psychoactive drugs have been shown to correlate with psychotic breaks

It is common knowledge amongst psychiatrists and psychologists, and has been for decades. For most people, no problem. For some people, big problem. Most people that have a psychotic break never fully recover from it either.
Report: Some six-figure salaries considered low income in some Bay Area Counties
Thanks for sharing.

I'm assuming you are happy to receive feedback?

Does the cookie statement have to be so large? On first load it takes up ~ 3/4 of my usable screen space on an iPhone 5S in safari? It also feels unusual to be at the top of the page as opposed to hovering over some space at the bottom of the page.

Also on iOS lots of unnecessary line spacing (to the right of images) occurs when listing headlines.. image heigh, font size and line spacing could be worked to look better.

Congratulation on achieving the performance gains however :)
Because GCP has 2% of AWS market share and they want to break in
First, I am not alone in thinking we should get rid of the corporate income tax. Most economists of all stripes agree (there are some good explanations here: https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2010/10/why-we-...)

To answer your points:

a) Yes, consumption drives the economy, but consumption does not 'multiply' like investment spending does. It would be much better for the economy for someone to buy a tractor than a speedboat, for example; the tractor is used to create more wealth, while the speedboat does not produce anything. We want to incentivize the investment type spending.

b) Yes personal consumption is already taxed. We would have to change the way and rate we tax to offset lost income, and do it in a way that is not regressive. If we get rid of corporate income tax, we can raise capital gains and income taxes on wealthy people without overly penalizing them.

c) Yes, you can obviously use money earned from one company to invest in another. A good tax structure would recognize that and encourage it.

I think all of this comes down to realizing that taxes do two things, raise revenue and drive behavior. We want to make sure the behaviors we cause are the ones we want as a society, while at the same time raising enough revenue to do the things government needs to do.
It's not the IRS as much as the loopholes bought by special interests.
$400 for a juice machine is not crazy; if you spend that much on an ordinary juicer you can make gallons of carrot juice for a very low price. (It saves money, it doesn't cost money)

You do have to clean up a mess, but if your time is that valuable you can hire a maid to do it for about that $5-$8 price point of the packs.
> You put effort into something, your satisfaction goes up.

I enjoy menu planning, shopping, and cooking more than most people.

OTOH, I also enjoy ballroom dancing, and a variety of other non-cooking hobbies. Sometimes, I want to devote lots of time to cooking. Sometime, I want good food at home with the care I (or my wife) puts into cooking without the rest of the organizational and planning overhead. Blue Apron excels at the latter case. It's more packaging than I'd prefer, and than I need for the use case because I have a pantry well stocked with basic essentials (which is where the worst of Blue Apron's packaging excess tends to be), but for something that works in a diverse market and without gotchas, I see why they do it.
I'm guessing a possible resolution is to disseminate the responsibility that a CEO holds.

I've never been at that level of management, but it appears that other players (inside and out of an org) require a single point-of-contact, or ultimate authority.
I think this might be better, simply because 1:1 relationships are easier to coordinate than 1:n (chair and council), or n:m (council and lieutenants), which dissemination might bring.

My counter question is: where would the buck stop?
These aren't legacy systems, just a few years back Kroger started moving off IBM 4690, which was a legacy OS. That is gone from most areas of the business at this point, hence the expectation to be familiar with SUSE.
https://cloud.google.com/storage/transfer/

Ingress is free on all major clouds, but you still have to pay to get the data out.

(I work on GCP)
(Half-)joking, but the irony is, with so many interest and high-quality parts, the press looks like it could be a desired object for makers. In particular, it contains:

- two motors, one of them exceptionally strong
- a durable drive train
- a control board with flash memory, wifi, a camera and a USB plug for flashing without additional tools(!)
- a durable aluminum frame

Those parts look like they could be building blocks for some interesting hobby projects. Did they ever think about selling to makers?
The 51% attack works because you can use the majority of CPU hash power to write a longer chain faster than the rest of the network.

I don't quite follow what you mean here: longest chain wins is a central tenet of cryptocurrency design, and even if you did something with consensus in the product a majority could still hardfork away from that design. Am I missing something here?
Ask HN: US Visa for foreign founders after first seed
Hi guys,

I'm working on a project and I'm raising about $ 100k from some friends and angels(some are based in US)

I'm a european citizen and some investors want that I move to silicon valley(and I'm ok with that), but how can I legally do ? what visa options do I have ?

I've heard of E-2 Visa[1] but I don't have any money in cash that I can invest into my business.

I know that i should hear a lawyer but I want first understand what my options are(and if I can use my startup IP as asset)

How do you have done ?

Thank you.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-2_visa
Honestly, this just sounds like a money grab to me.

I used to pay accident insurance. A serious car wreck can wreck your finances for the rest of your life, leaving you too maimed to work (or to make as much as you used to/should), with a pile of medical bills and ongoing expenses due to lasting health effects, etc. A million dollars really isn't all that much money for such a scenario.

But, hey, maybe you would like to give me your dominant arm for, say, $10,000 and then spend the rest of your life contemplating if you made good money for it or if it cost you more than that over the long haul. (Or, we can just leave this here as a thought experiment, since I don't actually have $10,000 and don't actually want your arm. That is just the amount of money loss of a limb was typically worth on the policies I used to pay claims on.)
Yes, we would; one of the main reasons we don't currently is BECAUSE of the corporate income tax. Currently, capital gains are 'doubly' taxed, first as corporate income and then as capital gains. We can offset a decreased corporate income tax by increasing capital gains taxes.
Also not OP but I am an ATL engineer:

I moved here from Philadelphia and was surprised that from an engineer's perspective the tech scene was significantly better in ATL. There were more jobs at more interesting companies. Obviously this is anecdotal from one job search 5 years ago. Philly might also be surprisingly poor.

One cool company here is BitPay. Not sure what they are valued at these days but they are a big name in the bitcoin world. I think they have some solid engineering there. I worked with Oracle for a couple years here right after they acquired a company called Vitrue for $300 million. It's not unicorn status but that was one of several acquisitions around that time. Acquisitions like that in Philly were much more rare.

There are a lot of huge corporations here which can continually spin off startups and Georgia Tech is a good source of new engineering talent. I think Atlanta has a healthy tech scene but not one focused in headline grabbing areas.
This is not my specialty so I may be getting some details wrong here. I don't mean so much that globular clusters are ergodic as few-body interactions are ergodic. It has at least been proven that three-body interactions are chaotic, which implies that all microstates are accessible to the system. This is a necessary requirement for ergodicity, but I don't believe that it implies that the interactions are necessarily ergodic. All I really know is that in practice globular clusters are observed to obey equipartition of energy, as are the average outcomes of large numbers of few-body interactions.
I work in an automated Amazon facility - robots carry the bins around to human associates who do the Moravec's Paradox - ridden work requiring fine motor skills and quick visual acuity (those bins can be very messy) or the simple labor that wouldn't be cost effective for a machine that probably costs more than my car (such as pushing juice carts around the facility.)

The problem is, humans are up to the task - if you push them hard enough. A robot isn't going to be more cost effective than that for a long time to come. Given Amazon's culture, I'm not certain they would replace their human workforce en masse even if they could, as long as meat remains fundamentally cheaper.
No, I just object to the general idea that any given machine is useless simply because something can be done manually in the same or less time.
When a zero day drops the size of the security team is irrelevant.
Stupid question:

Interface.py follows a pattern Ive seen in Java but not in Python. Am I simply too much of a Python noob?
One way to do this is to point out how the requirements are vague, lack context and fail to state how the requirement will benefit the business. Point out how it is sloppiness in documenting requirements that leads to scope creep, cost overruns and ultimately, failure of the business. Tell management that if they really want to give developers responsibility for finding out what is needed then they should fire all the business analysts, project managers and product managers that are not doing their jobs properly.

Alternatively, they could accept new processes that make sure requirements are clearly written and include acceptance criteria.
> How many times will you move the goalposts in a single conversation?

You completely missing my point isn't moving the goalposts, and it's kind of offensive to have you dismiss my comment like that.

> But the fact is that the door did not open because of power failure

No, we don't know that. The article didn't say it was because of a power failure. It just said they didn't open. That was the whole point of my comment, that you're making an assumption as to why it didn't open, but the article didn't say why it didn't open, which means it could very well have been due to a cause that would cause all other car doors to also fail to open (namely, the frame bending).
I still have warm fuzzy feelings about Netflix because they make cancelling so easy.
So, no one was really able to answer my question last thread. In fact, I mostly got snarky condescending replies. I've stopped caring about such things though, so hopefully good-faith questions are still welcome:

What's wrong with Uber tracking Lyft drivers? What is wrong with using a competitor's API to get real-time tactical information about them? Not only did it not harm Lyft drivers, but it actually aided them: Several of them were offered hundreds of dollars by Uber to switch companies. Most drivers are trying to make end's meet, and from speaking directly with drivers, this was seen as a universally positive thing. "I was like, yes! Where do I sign? $400 bucks is amazing. Too bad my car was too old for Uber."

Though I guess if Mr. Gonzales wins his lawsuit, it will give the answer to these questions and more.
this used to be true, but with the number of psychoactive research chemicals there is no way to be sure what's on the paper without testing it.
Before I entered the tech space ten years ago, I had won some scholarships because all I wanted to do was public service either through the government or non-profits. For me volunteering was initially a way to increase the CAS credits (an IB requirement in high school), but eventually morphed into probably the BEST way to feel good and to recharge. I don't know what it is, but being community-focused activates something in the brain that is different from the more hedonistic side and helps re-center all my efforts at work. I'm weird I think though - most people don't actually care about helping the least among us and I can understand why. It's literally all cost, but somehow if you do it, you get this great sense of accomplishment and if you do it with friends, it's even better.

For me, the following volunteer activities are great:
1) Group activities, like building housing in the bay area - Habitat for Humanity cannot keep tech from at least literally building housing for San Francisco despite the local community not wanting us to. Other group activities include meal preparation, food bank help - I strongly suggest organizations like OneBrick

2) mentorship/tutoring - it's quite rewarding when you can teach someone something. You know that it'll live with them for a while and you've literally touched a human life

3) Donating - I know people hate this, but if you do it, it's probably more important than you just putting a little bit of your time.

In general, I think of volunteering as really a form of consumption actually which benefits society
That's good though; you should be using extremely light weights until you get the movement down. Most people want to rush in, but fitness is a lifelong thing, not something you achieve in three months.

If you look at any decent, beginner's weightlifting program with an emphasis on the big movements (i.e. not bodybuilding programs) they'll all start the same way; perform the movements often, start with little to know additional weight on the bar, and add weight progressively (linear progression.)
Brood Parasitism in Brown-Headed Cowbird
Keurig is not that bad. The system is out of patent so you can get off-brand brewers and cartridges that aren't quite as good in quality but are unlikely to cause a terrible mess in a hotel room.
No idea in your case, but this place is merciless when it comes to any misinformation. That means that downvotes come easy, but that's also one of the things I like about HN.
Why would you want the resulting uptime (u1 * u2) plus the added egress costs for cross cloud chatter?

Cross cloud just seems like a bad idea all around.

Edit: Maybe for a migration?
Well, since you can't put food stained plastics in the plastic bin (or do you guys do it?), it has to go into the residual waste, and it's that way with many things.
To be fair, that's a cheap strike to go straight for hypocrisy as a means to win this argument.

Whether or not the person posting the argument "animal testing is bad" eats meat doesn't change the question - "should we fatally test on animals."

I'm a bit disappointed that nobody is really engaging this non-sarcastically. A couple are talking about "drawing a line" somewhere but nobody is being allowed to say "all life should fall on the safe side of the line." I think there are interesting arguments for this position but right now HN is being aggressively hostile to that position.