skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The talk raised interesting points about hiring. Jan said that most of the early hires were people from their own networks that currently were "unemployed" or goofing around and that's why it was easy to hire them. So it sounds that they hired people that they knew and trusted but who, for an outsider, would look like were not great at execution.

And yet, Whatsapp is clearly a startup that excelled especially at the execution. They successfully build multiplatform product that included OSes that were traditionally seen as cumbersome to build for (Symbian, Java ME). Many, many companies have struggled and failed to do that. It also seems that they scaled really well (compared to e.g. Twitter)
or, y'know

AHK
The NBC article gets its data from a CATO institute report.[1] In it, they touch upon the problem with extrapolating from previous data: they note that 9/11 accounted for 98% of all foreign terrorist fatalities in the past 40 years. Terror attacks obey a power law where extremely rare events account for most of the deaths. Considering the weaponry that exists today, it's fortunate we haven't had anything worse than 9/11.

Moreover, you're not accounting for the US response to terror attacks. I think we can both agree that the reaction to 9/11 was far more harmful than the attack itself. So if you want to reduce total harm, reducing the likelihood of terror attacks seems like a good idea. If that means collecting 0.1% of phone records and (under judicial oversight) occasionally checking if foreign terrorists are in those call logs... well I'm willing to make that trade-off.

1. https://object.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/pubs/pdf/pa798_...
> The name is misleading.

I think the name is very clear for the purpose of discerning the creator's intentions.

> Let's not start calling every application firewall a clone.

We're not. We're calling this specific project, which explicitly describes itself in its header as "a GNU/Linux port [sic] of the Little Snitch application firewall" a clone, because that is its stated aspiration. That it hasn't yet copied all of Little Snitch's features after 17 days of existence doesn't countervail that.
Yes, you totally understand this. This is a little bit like content addressable. :) Thank you for commenting, if you have any ideas about how to improve it I invite you to submit an issue or PR!
> What could hunting and fishing look like should our public lands fall under state control? Turn to Europe

... where plenty of nations have Right to Roam over private lands for their citizens? Can't see that ever happening in the US. Hunting isn't widespread in Europe, sure, but hunting isn't the only thing that you can do on the land.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_to_roam
Yeah, I was thinking this might have a niche in medium businesses/etc, but tbh if they have a bored tech guy they've probably already asked him/her to help automate basic tasks (for which any number of Python/AHK scripts already exist or can be trivially created)
The 90's… really strange times when there was a split between "desktops" and "workstations", with different OS's, CPU's and what not!
"Culture" in American vernacular essentially means non-anglo food (90%) plus festivals and other folk things (10%). I know, it's weird.
I'm not sure what you mean. Please clarify...
The Bolt is a great car, I wished it were more available. The last number I saw was, that they were delivering about 1200 per month - Tesla is at over 2000 cars per week, and that is before the launch of the Model 3.
If you've got some ideas about how to improve it please submit an Issue or PR! Thanks for commenting!
Do I understand correctly that the body which depends on fees and fines for sustenance is taking care of levying fees and fines?
Sounds like if it is attempted it will violate, to put it mildly, some ethical barriers...
I think that's exactly what he's doing in this thread.
it wouldn't take a dedicated team to detect if a seller is uploading a high amount of items.
> You clearly don't know dick about

Would you please stop posting uncivil comments to HN? We ban users who do that repeatedly, and you've done it repeatedly just in this thread.
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>Then they relabeled every bathroom in California as being "All Gender." What does that even mean?

Gender neutral? To make a historical comparison, consider race segregated bathrooms. At one time we had "white" bathrooms and "colored" bathrooms. Now we just have "all race" bathrooms. There are some people who think we should do the same with gender discrimination. Some (myself included) say we should do this even if not for transfolk.

California's bill (as I understand it) does not go nearly this far. Instead, it only requires that all single-occupancy bathrooms be gender neutral; and I have yet to meet a single person who even pretends to understand why he have gendered single occupancy bathrooms.
I would disagree. Twilio should be able to do it better and less expensively than Uber. The only think I can think of is Twilio refused to lower its prices or there's a glaring deficiency that Twilio is unable or unwilling to fix.
I was a system engineer for some electronics subsystems for rigs like Winner on the Norwegian continental shelf for 3 years.

Will try to check back on this thread in 30 minutes if anybody has questions that I can answer.

Edit: just checked, no questions. At work in a few minutes so I won't have time now.
Let me rephrase it:

They took their existing mindset/hard work, stopped spending it on military (in part due to a paradigm shift and also restrictions imposed by foreign powers) and started spending it purely on industrialization, technology, infrastructure, trade, education, science... a self-reinforcing effect that made them incrementally more productive.
Etsy has to invest effort in making sure that legitimate sellers don't have this gamble. They have to be sure they're only penalizing the spammers. It's not unlike insurance fraud, do you feel it's a gamble that you're getting insurance because the insurance company won't pay out or will pursue you for fraud? Probably not. Yet they still try to identify and prosecute the fraud. If the site is dominated by spammers selling stuff from the dollar store everyone loses. You have to make it so that it's not worthwhile for the spammers. A deposit is one way. Pursuing legal action for contract violation could be another. Another industry with similar issues is banking.

It's not easy but you have to invest in maintaining the credibility of your platform. Machine learning helps but these problems have existed pre machine learning and can have more traditional economic solutions.

EDIT: The deposit could also depend on your prices and sale volume. This way really small players can pay in with a lower deposit. There are probably many variations but again the key is to make it a losing proposition for the spammers/dollar store guys assuming you want them off your platform. If you're only doing machine learning/filtering the cost to attack the system and try to get in is too low.
I am old enough to remember when Jeff Sessions was radioactive enough to not be confirmed by the US Senate. What more needs to be said?
I'm mystified that my iPhone cannot figure out that it's not getting anything (or enough) through Wifi and should switch to cellular.
Perhaps, but it'd then just be on the same level as any other broadcast medium that puts out such a message. I presume the more partisan of the cable news channels are still allowed to say "hey everyone, vote!"?
What would a "pure iptables front end" be and how would it learn about connection attempts? (Serious question, it's quite possible I'm forgetting an API)

The used technique, redirecting initial packets to a netfilter queue and then marking the connection to offload further processing to the kernel seems like a reasonable way to do this from userspace.
I don't get his outrage, one side will always complain. Depending on the state they could lose or gain rights if the feds transferred it.

But the feds and states are quite separate when it comes to taxes, budgets etc so why shouldn't both own land too?
I recently watched two episodes of 'Fully Charged' on YouTube that featured real motoring journalists singing the praises of electric to the extent that I don't think that they are really interested in old fashioned cars in quite the same way. One of the guest journalists was Rory Reid of Top Gear fame and I have since warmed to the guy and rate him (rather than think he is some Top Gear sad petrol head person). The other was the guy from the UK Channel 5 motoring show - Johnny Smith - and, again, he knows his electrics:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDoItji6Gdo

These people are important influencers and they are not making the sad 'Top Gear' jokes about electric cars. Check out how the Renault electric sports car is 'sold' in the above video, why would you buy a conventional hot hatch when you can have something with serious performance that is pretty handy for getting the child seat and baby gear around? These motor journalists also seem pretty pleased with the quiet, the 'brrm brrm' noises are not important unless that is all a car really does, along with lame power slides around a deserted level airfield.

My favourite phrase learned from electric car journalism is the 'guessometer' the range the car apparently says it has.

Electric cars are great however I think that autonomous and electric cars will make roads safe again, so pedestrians and cyclists can use the road without fear of instant death. We will be able to lower the arms race of driving around in tanks, therefore electric bikes will make a lot of sense as will pure pedal bikes. My estimate is that the liner for the front 'trunk' on a Tesla weighs as much as my bicycle so there is a long way to go before I upgrade to a fancy electric car to 'go greener than I am'.
What is 'native'? All apple trees are Persian, in the end. Just because there are a few species that outcompete others, doesn't mean that we need to freeze whatever is the current state of geographic dispersion of species to the 'gold standard', that we will defend and maintain at all cost.

I explicitly seek out exotic seeds to see how they will behave in my climate. Diversity is good. This whole 'native first' (or rather, 'native only') needs to die already.
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Good luck on your project! Be sure to visit r/rust in case you have any trouble. The people over there are very helpful.

There are couple books/guides around about good practices in rust. You should be able to find with proper googling. If you can't, comment here. I should be able to dig it out from my bookmarks.

And about Douane, I don't know a lot about what you said, so I can't comment on it. It definitely didn't feel polished but it was honestly the best one around, so again, good luck with your new endeavor.
> Gender balance is a good thing for the economy and our future as a nation. With that in mind, it makes sense to "promote" fields to women where they are a minority and promote filed to men where they are a minority.

I agree, but the promotion is coming at a time and place that's way too late. Get the 14 year old girls to start experimenting with programming instead of worrying about being labelled a geek and then you'll start to see some real progress. Get toy stores to have electronic toys that aren't always in the boys section. Just don't expect the business world to fix a cultural problem that it didn't create and can't fix.
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yea... they're all pretty crap. Need linux to really bring it alive.
No, Vim can only have one buffer active at any given time.
Three thoughts. First, the overwhelming majority of users who we stick up for with comments like this (including the GP) aren't affiliated with YC in any way, so I don't see what problem that would solve.

It would insult readers' knowledge and intelligence to put nitpicky disclaimers on everything, especially when the affiliations are all public. Presumably you knew these things without special access; why assume less of others?

HN is a spirit-of-the-law, not letter-of-the-law place. The principle at issue is that fellow users deserve to be read charitably. I don't see how that needs any disclaiming.
> Thirty percent of underrepresented women said they were passed over for a promotion, a rate significantly higher than white and Asian women

It's weird that racism outside of tech is generally considered "whites vs everyone else", whereas racism in tech is "whites and asians vs everyone else".

Its a bit like when google got pinged for lack of diversity, because they had overrepresented asians and underrepresented blacks. Enough asians in fact, that in order to have their employee makeup match the general public, that as well as blacks, they'd have to hire more whites.
It's surprising that telecommunications and Internet still haven't fully merged into a single service.

These days I don't even buy phone credit anymore. I just make calls on my phone using Skype - It's so much cheaper.
Taskbar might be more appropriate. Or even browser tabs, given he went with the browser.
why? it holds up to wear and tear better than plastic and lets heat escape.
That's not the point. Sure, everything can be disabled - if you know there is something that should be disabled. Do you? I am 100% sure I don't. LittleSnitch notifies you about such activity and conveniently offers to block it. But it's the notifying part that makes the difference (which iptables can't do because of all the noise on common computer setup).
"Sure, but the cost of schema maintenance is grossly overstated by those who simply aren't familiar with the tooling to do so."

Scale ruins everything. Most SQL databases are pretty terrible at schema maintenance at scale (i.e. hundreds of MySQL shards). This (among other ways that scale ruins the RDBMS) is what led to NoSQL in the first place at the largest of web properties.

Sure, joe average startup probably doesn't have the same problems. But that's marketing.... The relational model and SQL have been beaten up for decades by those who prefer to remain closer to the metal.
> Would you also attribute American success to the spoils of war, colonialism, Manifest Destiny and African slavery, etc.?

...yes?
Absolutely, wouldn't you?
Curious: how do you detect that some plugin is phoning home with iptables? Especially if it is cleverly written to only do it when there is lots of other traffic?
The model S is the quickest, safest production car ever made. It's even adding to its safety lead, getting safer over time. It may soon be able to make you money ride sharing while you're not using it.

Include things like, no oil to change, cheaper to fuel up, awesome giant touchscreen for nav and control, great all wheel drive option, extra trunk space in the front, low center of gravity, it really all starts to add up to awesome.
I agree. I think all EVs will ideally have at least a 100 kWh battery pack, which is what will give that 300-350 mile range. Higher-end cars should be switching to 150-200 kWh by 2025.

This is also why I think nobody should bother building EV chargers anymore unless they are at least 350 kW (the latest standard for CCS). Because once they are built, they'll probably stay the same for at least 15 years. 50 or 100 kW chargers will seem useless in 15 years.
I do depend on a completion plugin, other than that it might just work. I'll have a look at it - thanks for the suggestion! Did not know it existed.
You can use any IDE and also use every other component of OpenShift.IO ( like planner, build, pipelines )
I looked at a Tesla. I was a bit disappointed about the quality of it considering the price.

So until it becomes a true luxury car, I will stick with petrol engine luxury cars.

Tesla is still just a "tech demo. " Like you pay a lot to try out a prototype kind of thing.

Kind of how buying a Hololense dev kit is expensive. It's not the quality of the lense that makes it expensive but rather the new tech.

I wonder if Model 3 will change this.
You should check out China. The speed they are electryfing their land transport makes breakneck looks like a crawl.
It is full with electric bikes, mopeds, small cars, large cars, busses...

Not sure if party decree or self driven but very impressive.
I had a friend who had a similar experience but he feels the $30 one is better, the cheap knockoff is lighter and some parts have stopped working...
I'm still not sure what about the Higgs excited the general public. Or why it hasn't applied to e.g. gravity wave detection, especially since that one is much easier to explain and understand.
"What at first glance appeared to be a positive story very quickly divulged into a financial nightmare."

Just wanted to point out that the author is a bit of an idiot.
Gresham's Law?
Yes. There are even companies which provide only outbound SMS. Their customers are usually spammers, broadly defined.
I'm not making a moral case that America should police the seas, but simply pointing out the practical reality that the US Navy actually does control them, and hence we're the natural party to propose and also enforce any agreement.

The truth is that if the US does nothing, mass fishery collapse is the most probable outcome. It will hurt poor, seafood-consuming nations much more than it hurts the US.

Is this more important than any of our other priorities? That's up for you to decide.
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The article is about a major tipping point in the industry. There probably won't be a single winner - all of the major auto manufacturers already offer, or are developing, EVs. Drivers are expected to choose those electric models in increasing numbers.

From my perspective, a big loser would be Toyota. They seem to have invested heavily in hydrogen fuel cells, which appears to be the wrong technology for a number of reasons, and squandered the significant lead they had with the Prius. It's too bad; they were among the first to mass produce automotive battery packs. A plug-in hybrid Lexus RX would compete directly with Tesla...
Real auto sales numbers don't come from manufacturers. They come from state DMV registrations.
Really? Twilio pulled in ~$277 million last year. Uber was supposedly 12% of that.

You're saying it would have cost Uber more than $33 million and change to do their telephony?

I strongly doubt that. Uber doesn't need all of Twilio's features. They can build out just what they need much cheaper.

This is the same situation people find themselves in with AWS, etc. It's less expensive _initially_. There's a point where this becomes not the case.
Uh, thanks for the downvotes? My point is that there is no express public transit service from LaGuardia to Manhattan; there's a express private service, and most people know about it. If you look on the Internet it's pretty visible.
> I like the idea of more of a 'painting' style where I colour in different blocks of the week for different projects.

Thanks for your feedback! So you mean that you would rather use mouse to do (by painting) instead of keyboard to put those numbers, or you mean that you would be able to "paint" how much you worked on projects at the end of the week? Somehow problematic could be to set minutes.
Custom designs used to make sense when general-purpose computers were expensive.

Nowadays, it's cheaper to stick a generic ARM SoC in your product and install a LAMP stack on it. It's also easier to find cheap developers that way. My router is just a bunch of CGI scripts running on an outdated Linux distro.
https://developers.facebook.com/industries/ecommerce/
So now every time I add a column I have to update the schema as well. That's making change management harder, not easier.
It's more "We haven't yet discovered an effective delivery method, therefore this technique is in the same place as a hundred other techniques that kill things in cell cultures."
What's so bad about that?
No doubt. It doesn't take long to find my own HN comments long before this story openly speculating that if the IME wasn't intentionally a backdoor, it had been made into one.

I also wonder how the timelines of IME match up with respect to the Clipper chip controversy as well, for that matter.
The issue of addiction - especially meth and heroin - happens in rural / backwater areas as well as in urban / expensive. Santa Cruz and other parts of the Bay Area have huge meth and heroin problems.

I've recently started spending a lot of time in a more rural part of California. I drive through areas that have "trashy houses" and "trailers", but as you mention there is also some very beautiful landscapes.

I've also found the people to be generally much nicer / kind to those they may not know than all my years in the Bay Area. But, the area does have it's warts as well.
Most discussions are best as one-offs and there isn't much substance in the Who's is Hiring threads either.

Maybe the team should think of a small UI change to distinguish official threads from non official ones instead of restricting a community from entering certain helpful meta data on a free form text field.
Is is possible to run this on my own hosts?
I have a Leaf and while my next car will have longer range, it will be electric.
> Firstly, have to write out the SQL, then convert it to the ORM format, only to find the ORM doesn't support something you are using, so you rewrite the query in a more long winded way, then convert it to the ORM.

Or you could avoid the conversion step entirely. If the ORM is useful 90% of the time and in the way 10% of the time then use different tools for the 10%.
Apparmor/ selinux?
No disagreement on the first part.

I remmain to be convinced that Japanese demography will prove of any negative consequence whatsoever in the long run. globally, population neds to shrink. The Japanese are showing us how to. The West how to not.
I found Boston to be super provincial (outside of the university crowd), and way overpriced for what it offers. Moving there from a city like Chicago was really quite a shock for us. A fraction of the culture and food scene for a multiple of the price. We spent a year there and ended up moving to Providence, which is much better value for money and also has better food.
Great news. Beyond the direct savings in CO2, and of course zero emissions inside cities, electrical cars play an important role in shifting towards renewable energy. Electrical cars do not only add their own storage capacity to the grid, mass production of electrical cars is going to push battery prices further down. For switching to an all-electric car market, battery production has to increase about 100x, with the corresponding consequences on the prices.

There will be an interesting point in time, when electrical cars are just a fraction of the market, but prominent enough, that they are considered desirable by a large part of the buyers. Once this point is reached, there will be strong pressure on combustion engined vehicles, as they might still sell based on peoples needs (mostly price, range) but no longer the fancy desired technology which causes people to buy the more expensive and fancy models.
Source? The usual websites seem to quote monthly manufacturer numbers for all companies that provide them, which doesn't include Tesla (quarterly only). Meanwhile, Bolt sales are still terrible.
I remap CapsLock+hjkl as the arrows. And CapsLock+Space as Return.
But of course I want them to be right at my fingertips. Not on an external "far away" device.
I don't know enough about Linux networking - I didn't realise the distinction between iptables and netfilter. Off to do some reading - thanks.
Require is the wrong word. The question is were we better off with or without them having a patent. Not keeping RSA a trade secret seems like a win for society.
Ask HN: Should Microsoft rebuild Windows as a *nix based OS?
Is it a good idea?
... Why wouldn't they just use the credit score?
except that Apple doesn't go after the low end of the market anyway, so that doesn't really matter.