skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Using Ansible and RESTful APIs to Provision OpenStack Infrastructure
The Big Green Bang: how renewable energy became unstoppable
All but number 4 is completely reliant upon Etsy not getting their act together.

I would say the safest is actually #4 without taking VC or going public. Etsy already validated the hand crafted market, but imho it isn't a devour the world market. The desire for ever expanding growth has increasingly forced Etsy to effectively abandon this market, leaving a hole for you to step into.
Uh, we got here because a smart primate species evolved on a planet that formed around a heavy-element-rich star about a dozen billion years after this universe emerged from the inflationary paradigm? There's a couple gaps, I'll grant you, but science has this question pretty well covered, all considered.
The arbitrary speed limits on US highways have hurt US Auto industry and world auto industry a lot in terms of kinds of roads we build and the kind of cars we built.

Imagine how much innovation that could not happen there.
C# has async/await and TPL, e.g. .ContinueWith(...)

Javscript has promises and async/await
A more complete analysis of death rates compares the cause of death vs the otherwise expected lifespan of the person. Cancer and heart disease are major killers, but they primarily affect old unhealthy people.

Car crashes and suicides are much more likely to kill young people -- while they may be a relatively small proportion of "total deaths" they are a much larger contributor to "loss of average lifespan"
This might be just me, but the most important thing to me when I get advice is:

- who am I getting it from

- what do I know about their life/experience

- under what circumstances

Because that let's me adjust how much importance to put on it. Getting advice is generally not the hard part, figuring out which advice to follow and which to discard is.
>People are going to be on their phone at 70 MPH no matter what do-dads are in their car

Somewhat disagree. It's not a distraction panacea (based on various studies) but if we had voice recognition and natural language processing in cars that really worked well, there would be a whole lot less temptation to look down at a screen or type.

Not justifying people who do so. Just observing that better tech would largely eliminate any reason to do so.
I think it's in large part because of American's low expectations, which feeds into the quality of people, and it becomes self fulfilling.
OK, so I get an unmetered symmetric 100 Mbps uplink for less than $50 per month. It happens to be through a private ISP, so I'm insulated from this bullshit, unless backbone ISPs play dirty. But anyway, I want Internet connectivity for many reasons, and they're constantly changing. The idea of getting hobbled general access plus full-speed access to some restricted set of services is insane. I mean, would you expect me to order access specifically for whatever I wanted? There's also the fact that I hit just about everything through VPNs, so ISPs wouldn't even know what I'm accessing.

I don't get your question about "why consumers are paying for both installation, the bandwidth itself and the services they access". I don't pay for "installation", but rather for access, by month. I only pay for a few services, and never see ads. For the most part, I only pay for the unmetered 100 Mbps uplink.
Google's Standalone Daydream Headset Prototype with WorldSense Tracking
Orchid – Laravel Admin Panel
I remember trying to learn continuations during my CS degree, and evidently even today I still don't understand them. The examples don't seem to help either – how exactly does the control flow function?
It mostly proves that cloudflare can scale. Not that long ago Dan asked us to log out due to server load so that pages would be served from the cloudflare cache rather than that they had to be generated on the fly.
It's a huge mental barrier for a lot of people... but can it overcome by talking to something you know is a bot?
Not really.But I moderate now that I know how it can affect other things.
The art believers have downvoted.

You are smart. Educated. Cultured and wise.

Your god is bigger than my god.
My gut reaction was the same as yours because I would personally never use a service like this.

That said, the existence of career consultants proves that there are people who do enjoy this sort of advice and direction. I don't see this becoming a unicorn startup, but I could see it becoming a niche service that some people really enjoy.
I've went through this process with a couple companies running medium-size infra. Basically every month we would import the detailed billing report into a google sheet (SQL queries in your spreadsheet are awesome btw), do some analysis on the heavy hitting services, and come up with a couple solutions to address those. Rinse and repeat. A few big hitters I remember off-hand:

1. Obviously shut down and remove anything you're not using -- instances, ebs volumes, etc.

2. ELB - paying per-request for many small requests; and you pay double on the bandwidth in some cases. Switched to terminating ssl using nginx on the frontends and using dns load balancing to save a pretty good chunk of money.

3. vpc endpoints for s3 - can be significant savings if you're doing a lot of I/O on s3 from private instances in a vpc over a nat gateway.

4. new instance types -- the newer instance types typically have more compute/ram/disk for less money, migrate to them.

5. Consolidate services onto a smaller number of VMs where it makes sense

Once you learn some of these tricks, you just sorta do them that way from the start on new products. Best practices in terms of spend on these platforms.
Thank you for at least trying to enter the discussion.

I hope those who read this don't downvote because they, like me, disagree with you. Voting on comments is about pushing productive conversation to the top. I, for one, would like to open the doors in this echo chamber.

With that in mind, let me politely explain why you are wrong.

> What we want to do is expand competition by making it easier to compete.

I have not heard a single argument of how dismantling privacy protections (via S. J. Res 34) or net neutrality (Title II Communications Act 1934) can in any way accomplish, or even assist in this.

Have you? I would love to hear it, even if I disagree with it. I want discussion, not rhetoric.

> I support the FCC regulating governmental entities, not so much private ones.

The FCC was put in place to regulate private entities. Whether you agree with what those regulations are, it's important to understand that distinction. If you want to totally dismantle the FCC, I would love to have a discussion about that, but here we are discussing net neutrality, since it appears the FCC is here to stay.

> Net neutrality should, if enforced by government, be legislated, not initiated by a regulatory agency.

I'm fine with that, but I haven't seen or heard of any bill designed to accomplish that. Have you? It's also worth mentioning that, where possible, I prefer state-level legislation, but that federal-level regulation is inherently needed to enforce net-neutrality.

> because they thought such a large change was unfit for unelected bureaucrats to decide.

That is a reasonable point, but let us not forget that those unelected bureaucrats did decide it, with input from millions of Americans. While that is a clear reason to not implement this regulation, I do not see it as a reason to abandon the regulation.

> Guess what, that tax never went away. It's the same thing with regulations. They just keep piling up.

That sounds plausible. What regulations are piling up? Maybe we should get rid of some that we think are unnecessary. I don't see privacy protections, or net neutrality as unnecessary, or even detrimental.

Darn. I got to the end of your comment, but I didn't find much to talk about. I'm still wondering: do you want net neutrality dismantled? Why? I have been honestly searching for an argument (any argument!) against net neutrality, but I have not found one. That's not very common. Usually there is something to consider. I haven't heard it, and I am beginning to fear that I never will, and that's just depressing. That would mean that Ajit Pai really is a corporate shill, and that those 6 big ISPs really do have way more legal clout than they should. So sad.
Think about how much you would save in cooling...
First, what do hundreds of quiet cars have to do with one really annoying muscle car that likes to rev their engine at stop lights to show how cool they are?

Second, how do I know that I need to roll my window up when I arrive at that stop light?

Third, it takes about 10 seconds to roll all of my windows up. By that time my ears are already ringing.

Sorry, I had a car pull up beside me yesterday under a bridge and rev their engine. My ears are still ringing.

shrug, guess I can't always can't always get what I want.
Fun was not accounted for because of different preference curves for different people.

There are people who genuinely don't enjoy exercise, despite no indication that they would somehow not benefit from the effects.
People are willing to accept talking to a rubber duck can be helpful, why not a bot?
I'm not sure what that has to do with net neutrality. Care to elaborate?
Ah fair enough that's probably true. Though at the time we were told it would be considered a security violation if anything but Firefox version X.XX was used for govies or contractors. But who knows.

I do not miss the insane amount of bureaucracy :)
It makes sense - most of the infrastructure was built before the car. So it's not really feasible to accommodate large vehicles.

It's not even possible for them to put the toilet anywhere other than INSIDE the shower in many places because the apartments are so small. Sometimes they even have "floor urinals". I get a laugh out of it every time but they do have some serious size constraints in many places over there.
Machine Bias: Man Is to Computer Programmer as Woman Is to Homemaker?
Chess is clearly a very poor game, as this review [0] attests! Sample: "In a definite nod to Tetris, Chess eschews any kind of personality and styling in order to emphasize its supposedly addictive gameplay. Unfortunately, that gameplay is severely lacking. For one thing, there are only six units in the game. Of those six, two are practically worthless while one is an overpowered "god" unit, the Queen."

[0] http://wargamerscott.tripod.com/swordandshield/id19.html
I see your point. The conclusion^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h rant below stands somewhat apart from the rant above it.
Sorry, that was my bad fiddling around with the title. Corrected it.
There's that, plus the time that it takes for the automatic transmission to decide that yes, you really do want to accelerate, and yes, maybe it ought to get around to increasing the RPMs one of these seconds.

Electric cars opened my interest car performance. I now have a higher performance ICE than I ever thought I would spend money on, but I still miss my tiny little electric Fiat 500e, even though my ICE is definitely better at 40-80mph.

Fiddling with gears, monitoring RPM, what a terrible system. Feels like a steam engine after being in an electric.
> In my experience, they tend to be used as lab support, for example, ordering reagents, managing the annoying aspects of big projects, etc. etc.

The thing is, as a PI, someone has to do this. And while I too would like to spend my time working independently on research projects and not having to do time consuming lab support stuff I'd rather not do, I also need to be writing grants to keep my staff scientists paid.

Also, the whole argument to staff scientists representing institutional knowledge also applies to support stuff. "We don't order from X any more for reason Y." "Collaborators at Other University are usually two months late, built that into the timeline", etc.
Naturally. What's on second.
What problems are you working on?
It's the starting and stopping that kills mileage.

Rabbit starts don't really matter (modern engines don't waste a whole lot of fuel anywhere in the power band).
Use "Paste" from right click menu. Configure your environment to use a different paste keyboard combo. Use the old X11 clipboard with middle button paste.
License compliance in the open-source supply chain
Well, there's JSON-LD (JSON Linked Data) already.

It's for making interoperable APIs, so there is a good motivation for namespaces. But the namespaces are much less intrusive than XML namespaces. Ordinary API consumers don't even have to see them.

One of the key design goals of JSON-LD was that -- unlike its dismal ancestor, RDF/XML -- it should produce APIs that people actually want to use.
Beyond that, there's just fewer ways to pay for staff scientists.

There's no RA/TA lines available for them. There's no "training grant" for staff scientists, etc.
Fidget Spinners: Why Being Interesting Can Do More for You Than Being Useful
Circle 2.0 (in beta) has the ability to use faster machines (and is also just faster).
As someone that moved to SF from Sydney and didn't have a strong network here I think this would have helped.

One thing is that I have no idea who is on the other side of the chat. If they are giving me advice about one of the most important things in my life is there a guarantee on the quality of that advice?

Are you guys in the next YC batch?
Yeah it sure isn't immediately obvious that this would be so, but without a doubt it is true because the same experience has occurred several times since.

So I have an escape charge in Florida (escape, not absconding) for not returning to a county work release center in Orlando many years ago. This was a really dumb thing to do because now, whenever I'm jailed I often get thrown in with the "high-security" inmates whom are also known as the murderers and anyone looking at over 20-years if convicted.

My last time through the system in Florida, I must have spent 4-5 hours a day playing chess with an alleged murderer whom was infatuated with the game and trying very hard to get better. I was in for some possession charges...bullshit really but because the old escape charge there I was.

This man had deep respect in the jail as his brother was at FSP/Raiford actually on death row for an execution-style murder committed about a decade earlier. The alleged murder this man committed was related to that very incident.

Anyway, I had played his brother for several months back "in the day" and was the only person in the jail who could beat him, and to be honest, I became somewhat a legend in C-block for my game. Remember, these people in this block often sit in county jail for 3-5 years waiting for trial and such, so the "institutional memory" actually lasts a long time in such a dismal place.

Long story somewhat short: By spending so many hours teaching this man to play much much better, he put the word out that no one was to fuck with me, and I was not only really safe, but was fed and taken care of by the group.

Very odd experience, but every word true.
> I can live with hypothetically throttled Netflix

Sure, Netflix, boohoo.

But what about when Comcast blocks savenetneutrality.org? This throttling argument comes up a lot, but it's just the first small step in a logical progression that allows big corporations to censor anything they don't like.

Think, the private version of the Great Firewall of China. But it's ok, because the free market did it, right?

I see your point: things most likely won't change until they get really bad for a good number of people. However, things can get much much worse without John Q Public giving much of a shit. That's why NN is really important now and we can't just let things devolve in the hopes it will spur some bigger shift.
Indeed. The lack of continuity is killer, not just for the people working in that lab, but for science as a whole. That model is how we get shitty unsupported bioinformatics packages, experiments that no one can replicate, etc.
What are the skills that a public school CS teacher should possess?
That is not a problem unique to Emojis though. Some people construct multi-symbol things that would make a screen-reader call them what they are instead of what they "mean". Take for example the shrugging man made up of slashes, with a Japanese hiragana right in the middle of it!

It is a fundamentally wrong assumption that Unicode made: they thought if a code existed for everything, people would always use the code they are supposed to use. In reality, people seem more likely to choose symbols based on what each symbol looks like, and make their own composed "words". You practically need machine learning to correctly decipher what each string of symbols really "means".
ThinkType: use ThinkPad keyboard on non-thinkpad computers
This is probably a holdover from typewriters. Backspace moves the cursor. Rubout erases.
And this article cites various studies that call into question just how "fundamental" it is.

Did you even read it?
Reminds me a lot of StrongIntro's (YC W16) website

https://strongintro.com/
> each of the two political parties

What about all the other parties? Independents?

Edit: cnnsucks explained it more clearly:

> The commission may not have more than 3 members from the same political party.
Hard to believe, but in a certain Eastern European country, ISPs are competing to lay fiber to private houses, for about $10/month. That's a symmetric 100mbit to Frankfurt.
I am likewise a staff scientist by choice. I'm confident that I have abilities and track record that would allow me to start my own lab if I wanted to, but I value being able to do science instead of writing grants full time. Our current system excels at taking bright scientific minds and turning them into middle managers.
Is there any difference between schools of thought amongst Stanford Business School, HBS and Wharton?

I'm not familiar with Business Schools so this is a genuine question.
> people definitely do choose their linux distributions based on ideology

Sure, sorry, I meant that it's not the norm, not that it never happens ever. My post was unnecessarily argumentative in tone, due to frustration with some past urbit discussions here.

> A network designed and organized based on a particular principle can impose that principle on the way that people on the network act

This is a very abstract point, which may be true in the general sense, but I was talking about Urbit in particular. Consider two assertions:

1. Urbit is so amazing and useful and wonderful that it's reasonable to imagine people all over the world using it every day for decades to come
2. The guy who wrote Urbit is racist/authoritarian/something else, as proven from a close textual analysis of his old blog posts

The point I was ranting about is that it seems like the truth or falsity of those two statements is completely separate, and that the former ought to be a lot more interesting than the latter. I don't think that's proven to be the case.
Depending on what is considered "similar", every extra password character may exponentially increase the number of similar passwords.
Control as a modifier key (not a bucky bit) certainly predates that, if the dates in the link are correct.
Shameless self-plug: You can use Fierce! A DNS reconnaissance tool - https://github.com/mschwager/fierce
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Yea, young people almost only die in accidents, so obviously cars would be a large proportion of their almost infinitesimal death rates.
As a graduate of one of them, I'd like to think that there is a bit of self-selection by personality / philosophy into each school. If I meet someone in a meeting that went to one of those three, I can usually determine which one they attended based upon their general demeanor.

That said, I wouldn't say there are large philosophical differences between them.
A modern electric car like a Tesla, Bolt or i3 (I've driven all of them) really takes off like a roller coaster. Silent and instant smooth acceleration. They are amazingly fun to drive.
As exciting as this is (and it really is) it's yet another thing that explodes the number of possibilities for optimization. It's getting towards the point of unmanageability and I hope there will be a movement towards, if not auto-tuning databases, assistive tools for exploring both this and indexing possibilities.
This is way outside of my expertise or experience, but this thread got me curious.

Here's what 3 minutes of googling indicates:

* most states have b corps
* most states that have b corps based them on the Model Benefit Act, drafted by B-Lab
* Delaware has b corps, but they are not based on the Model Benefit Act
* whether the Model Benefit Act was used affects all sorts of things (requirements, reporting, standards, decision makers, enforcement…)

So it seems fair to say that delaware has b corps, but they are not like the others.
It's about incentives. If your employees know that they're stuck in the office all day, they have fewer options; their non-work activities are limited to browsing Facebook, reading blogs and looking at cat pictures - They can either do those things or actually do work.

If they're at home they can play computer games, go out, watch a movie, etc...
“A reminder that the goal of a given computer program is first of all to meet some business requirement may come across as a platitude. In practice, the excitement of technological challenges often slowly causes attention to drift from the end to the means…”

—Stephane Faroult, “The Art of SQL”
If you did read it, you'd know the article claims that systemic bias leads some to be privileged over others in society, thus causing them to be more willing to take risk since they perceive less risk in the first place.

The "white male", in that case, is used because it was an American study, and in America "white males" are privileged due to socioeconomic structural biases.

The article goes on to point out that in a more egalitarian country like Sweden there is far less gender bias in risk taking, which further supports the article's claim.

The article then goes on to discuss similar biases in China, where, again, males are privileged, though obvious they aren't "white" in that case.

If one is reading this article without an intent to take offense, one would realize its conclusions would lead us to predict that, in truly matriarchal society, it would be the women who would predominantly be risk takers.
More than just similarity...

https://www.getboost.io/4cce970cbfd7f28431e7dd91cb13ff98.png

https://strongintro.com/images/backgrounds/city.png
Your workload doesn't need to be super constant either -- I think I ran the numbers some time ago, but for larger boxes, if you needed the machines for more than 8 hours a day, it was cheaper to run them in a DC and just leave them idle the rest of the time than to run them for that 8+ hours on AWS and shut them down for the rest of the time.
I'd extend that to:

2/2 of BS = BS