skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I worked at a place that sent such robots to clients. They said it worked well. My guess is it was an improvement to no physical presence combined with the novelty factor.
You can't really compare wallstreet and tech industry. One of the them just extracts commission through transactions of others while companies in tech do create some intrinsic value ( well some of them atleast)
A great deal of tech, especially today, is just re-writing things from the past, closing up the protocols, and then putting marketing behind them to make it look like you're inventing something. Slack (IRC) is one. Look at the dozens of instant messaging clients that are just clones of ICQ from the 90's. Social networking sites are pretty much rehashed (albeit giant) BBS systems.
"A New Search Engine"

I really wish the moat weren't so big on this one. The path Google is taking pretty clearly ends with no merit driven organic search results.
Maybe, but not everything is about shipping, the are a lot of areas that sorely lack a specialized search, and have nothing to do with selling stuff.
The issue with giving advise on medical information is there is no one "right" way. It is the same with a lot of domains like education or finance.
In a way it is better for a search engine to put out information in a more meaningfully related way for a user to easily find stuff and be able to get a broader / deeper view of a subject by himself / herself.
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You should also check Picnic CSS if you like micro frameworks!
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Wow that's a big one then, I wasn't a Computer Science student but I like tech. Tried to learn Java a couple years ago and gave up, decided to go with HTML/CSS on Codeacademy as baby steps and did Javascript from there. If Kotlin is easier than that I'll definitely try to learn it ASAP I'm really interested.
Couldn't agree more. Engineering managers that have removed themselves from the ability to contribute will also lose touch with: design, build systems, architecture, qa, etc. At that point they are just a bad PM.

When I was a vp eng. what helped me the most was having ONE feature that I owned. I was forced to use the build system, go through qa, fight with design. It was never something massive, or hindered other groups, but if someone on the team bitched: "this framework sucks because.." -- I was able to jump in.
Fun fact: not only population is no longer growing exponentially, it doesn't even grow linearly. The growth is now _sublinear_, and it looks like we'll have peak population around 2070. Problem solved. Let's do something more interesting.
I think this kind of culture is more of result of having someone else's money in the equation. For wallstreet it is of client's and in tech industry it is of investors.
not really very hard to imagine. money doesn't always equal good at logistics...
I didn't downvote you, but consider that I answered the GP's question and solved a problem they are having, and you added some snark.

There is plenty of talk in this space about trading off machine resources for programmer effectiveness, so while your gripe is technically accurate that ship has sailed long long ago.
I didn't notice until I saw you comment. It's pretty minimal, but works fine.
Payment provider uses expired TLS certificate
Community-driven software standards
+ a meta-point: Learn these through experience, not in a classroom. Having managed engineers in industry and also gone through a masters program in engineering management, 90% of what makes me a decent manager/leader/coach today can be attributed to the former.
The Language That Stole Android Developers’ Hearts – Backchannel
I scan RSS feeds of the obvious sites: NYT, WaPo, ZDNet, Ars, Verge etc

Otherwise I go to Twitter, HN and The Guardian every day, plus Reddit, Amazon and Facebook every few days (often it's to wish someone a happy birthday).

I also like The Wirecutter for reviews, Authority Nutrition https://authoritynutrition.com/ for food info, Dilbert and xkcd for cartoons, and YouAre Not So Smart https://youarenotsosmart.com/ for essays.
Misunderstanding how marginal taxation works not only seems common in the US, but I suspect it's something that is encouraged, as a way to get poor people to support cuts in taxes on the highest brackets.
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Is there any website or network of great successful businessman who can answer some general questions on visitors startup.
I'm glad you qualified that, because splitting Yugoslavia was not peaceful. And Kosovo and Serbia is still a hot spot.

But yes, wars stopped because after WW II, they decided the madness had to stop. That led to the formation of the EU. Countries that belong to the same economic group seldom go to war. ECOWAS serves the same purpose in West Africa.

Assuming you're an American, you should be blaming your govt. rather than Russia for the what's happening around that region. I know you won't believe it, but that doesn't change the facts.
I've used Picnic before and I love it. I hope mini is as promising as it looks!
How is ebay better?
The only counterfeit item I have bought on either site was a dell laptop charger on ebay a few years ago. It used to overheat and stopped working after only a few weeks use.
Another time a product was never shipped and I had to go through the paypal dispute resolution process which worked fine if a little slowly.
I'd have thought ebay would suffer from the same problems as amazon with counterfeit products and fake reviews and then it also has the whole shill bids problem.
I moved over to amazon for almost all my online shopping and so far have not had a problem though I appreciate that may just be luck on my part.
> What are some "weaknesses" of Google

A search engine that also has a near monopoly in browsers and phones is a pretty big moat.

Since the bulk of browsing is moving to mobile, it's almost like you have to start with an Android killer and worry about the search engine as a second step.
Roundabout - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCXtcXD17qU

Taxiway - is a path for aircraft at an airport connecting runways with aprons, hangars, terminals and other facilities.
Countries in decline develop/adopt vicious , suspicious, irrational and self damaging policies. I find it funny it funny that the USA's solution for dealing with its diminishing influence and decline in productivity is to look back. Maybe a 3rd world war will help their economy again and recover the industries that supported the expansion o the middle class and the progpanda of the so called "American dream"? Maybe return to slavery?
The price per auth was incredible when I priced it out once. It was going to be several hundred K per year just to support normal 2FA with it.

The other thing they advertise us 2FA for actions. So not just on login, but on actions. Imagine getting a 2F push notification that someone is transferring 5k out of your bank account, accept?

That also means the price isn't just logins, but could also be sensitive actions!
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According Stackoverflow Typescript is winning:

https://insights.stackoverflow.com/trends?tags=go%2Ctypescri...
Not the chap you're replying to, but we had that in middle school. I'm 27. I think it was a reasonably new thing here. I don't remember them teaching us much about economics, all I remember is a lot of drug paranoia, and how to make a CV that wasn't awful (which to its credit I felt was worthwhile)
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Where there's division, there's conflict.

Ordered by number of conflicts, in decreasing amount:

Tribes > Nation-states > Unions.

There will be more wars when the European Union breaks up. Or when the US does.

Conversely, Africa will greatly benefit from becoming more united in the same way the West has. This is now being reverted (see Trump, Brexit), so you just wait and see where that takes us.
According to a former South African coworker - the number 1 problem in Africa is corruption. Terrorism is a byproduct of that.
Silicon Valley season 3. I love how that TV show is skewering the entire Valley and shows how ridiculously predictable we are.
I do the same as well.
I too will not be reading this.
There is StaSh — a Bash-like shell for Pythonista (scp, git, ptinstaller, mail, pip, etc) e.g., you can run: `pip install youtube-dl`.

Pythonista for iOS can be used for automation (Workflow for programmers).
For my recent books, there have been third-party sellers that materialize almost instantly, before any of them could have possibly received a copy. They are probably using merchant-fulfillment, where the merchant holds the inventory and is responsible for shipping. Most of these are probably legit, because they can buy from a distributor on-demand (probably CreateSpace, i.e. Amazon, which is the same company that prints my book) and resell them. But there are dozens of sellers, so I have no idea which are legit.

PDFs of my Kindle version have also shown up immediately on download sites. It would not be hard to make bootleg copies on-demand, list them, and ship them to customers. Not all Amazon customers use Prime, and may be willing to wait a week or two. To get Prime status, the sellers would have to use FBA and ship inventory to Amazon.

Note that this is how every other product on Amazon works, and there have been plenty of complaints about counterfeit products: http://www.cnbc.com/2016/07/08/amazons-chinese-counterfeit-p...
Show HN: Styles as composable higher order components (React)
MacRumor regulars have turned quite sour on Apple.

Don't get me wrong. It's still a pro Apple site with a pro Apple fan base, but it has a very strong contingent of Mac fans, many of who've been around since well before OSX, who feel, justifiably, completely neglected by Apple. Despite the fact that one could make a strong argument that these Mac fans are the reason Apple existed long enough to even make the iPod in the first place.
My information from buddies who were there is at least six years old so do with it what you will.

Organizations such as AQM have so much support and capability that local governments are often afraid to oppose them directly for fear that things will escalate and they'll lose the entire country. This often presents logistical challenges for US forces.

American forces are working on multiple levels and approaches not just "direct action".

It's not just about Somalia. Somalia is the poster child and gets the most press but really a drop in the bucket. Africa is a big continent with systemic challenges and those challenges are the perfect power vacuum for these groups.

We've been there since before 9/11. It's an ooooold fight.
Frome wikipedia: "Global human population growth amounts to around 75 million annually, or 1.1% per year." 1.1% is exponential growth when the base is growing, just like 1.1% compound interest displays exponential growth. It is still growing exponentially, although the rate is declining.
"We" as in Hashicorp?
It seems like everyone I know likes to hate on Medium - either because the content is lousy or because the business model is broken. And yet, I end up clicking on something that takes me to Medium on a weekly, if not daily, basis.

Medium feels like it's ubiquitous and mildly despised at the same time.

At the scale of Comcast or Facebook that might be a sign of success. But I suspect it's a pretty bad sign for a company in Medium's position, given what they're trying to be.
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If the rate is declining, the growth is no longer exponential :)
There's an additional security issue when a URL shortener is abandoned and malware groups pick up the domain.
The Phenom 100 is single owner-pilot too.
"and it looks like we'll have peak population around 2070"

So how do you factored in all the possible coming or not coming atomic/biological/chemical wars + new breakthroughs in medicine/agriculture?

And since right now "More than 100 million people worldwide are facing acute malnutrition and risk starving to death" [0]
I would call it a bit cynic to say "Problem solved".

[0] http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/politics/number-of-p...
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Sourceforge got desperate for money and they started modifying installation packages to contain crapware, an example is FileZilla. I try to stay away from sourceforge since then.
Anecdotal, but I lost 1/24th of a 2 year vesting on a all-cash acquisition, despite a clause that seemed to say that event would vest everything. The amount was small enough that I didn't make a fuss.
Prolog is well suited for small (toy) combinatorial optimization, useless in practice. It's no wonder the whole 5GL idea tanked mainly because Prolog just couldn't deliver. Yes, I had fun with SWI Prolog and 2nd order abstractions, but in no way I am going to use it on large problems, though I might implement pieces of Warren's Abstract Machine when I see fit.
agreed. The gorilla cookies (which if you're from the UK, taste exactly like Hob Nobs), apple sauce, and fudge brownie also deserve special mention as among the best in MRE cuisine.

but my personal favorite was the dehydrated potato patty, which oddly enough tasted about the same as the dehydrated beef patty (unless you added water).

the chicken ala king...i had almost forgotten about; there's a workaround though which i've done many times: pour it into your canteen cup along with the coffee and hot chocolate packets (inside every MRE), add water and heat it--actually edible this way, and the coffee kills the smell almost completely. Try not to splash any on your skin.

but by itself, the chicken ala king is just hideous--if the Geneva Convention would allow it, could be used it to interrogate POWs.
The funny thing is that as and end user, I can use authy to replace my Google authenticator, since it also implements the same protocol. So I use it for all my 2fa codes, mainly so I can access it from places other than my phone if needs be. I wonder if authy has monetized my use case somehow (adverts most likely).
This is different. He I specifically addressing what the bad guys should do. If he talked in more technical terms without spelling out what the bad guys should do, your argument would be legitimate.
Do the parachutes work reliably?

Presumably once it's deployed you lose all control, and land wherever, which might be okay if you land on a field, but what about a lake?
You can only estimate what's known.

If the problem is in fact known, your estimate will be the time to pull in a library from GitHub. If it's not to pull in a library, you're into unknowns.

Asking to estimate may work in aggregate if your 'gut' is good at assessing the amount of unknown your devs' face (e.g., 2x as much unknown work - multiply estimate by 3), but not in the specific. The specific amount of unknowns in a given task are unknown.

To translate a requirement into code will take exactly as long as it takes to discover and bridge the unknowns. You can't do anything about that, other than (a) change the requirement, or (b) change how much is known by the developer.
Having tried both, I prefer mini but just by a little.
There are thousands of tribes in Australia. Where is their civil war?

It isn't as simple as you say, because a tribe is more than you seem to think it is. I can change my country, I cannot change my tribe.

Having many tribes does not mean unity is impossible.
This is why you should use clever language features such as macros (C) and pointers to member data (C++). If your code looks like this, there's no scope for accidentally comparing two fields in the same object, or comparing different fields in the two different objects:

return less_helper(pt1, pt2)(&pt::x)(&pt::y);

with pt::x and pt::y being integers, this ends up the same size as the open-coded version on the clang versions I tested, but two instructions longer on the gcc versions I tested, because gcc does not succeed in eliminating a needless comparison of y<x. (x86_64 in both cases) This could be fixed by taking away the automatic conversion to bool and requiring the last comparison in the chain to specify that it IS the last one.
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Dining on a Boeing Business Jet (converted 737): https://corporatejetinvestor.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/...
I'm always glad to see articles about integer programming as it's an incredibly powerful tool which deserves to be more widely known.

However, I'm not sure the example chosen was the right introductory problem. As illustrated, we don't get the certifiably optimal solution because the true optimal solution may involve one of the duties we didn't randomly generate. If we don't get the optimal solution, why not just use a heuristic? Yes, there's a brief allusion to column generation which can address this problem, but surely there's an introductory problem which can be solved without requiring the user to think about column generation or similar?
Pay-what-you-can Soup Bar serves meals made of food once destined for the dump
Genuinely interested in what you think the difference between a system that "recognizes this and has ways of self correcting" and "regulation" is...
The answer to solving world hunger is not necessarily reducing human population. Are you sure it is me who is cynical here?

Additionally, more humans are expected to die from obesity than from hunger, as of now.
> 2. Replace Email

> This will be done by notifications and direct messaging. Kids these days don't bother with email.

Pg is not talking about personal emails for messaging. Personal messaging is mostly "read, reply, and forget", and you are right that this is now better served by instant messaging protocols (modulo the fact that there is no universal IM protocol).

He is describing work emails, as a "todo list" as he puts it. You get such emails from your colleagues or business partners. They generate work for you and you cannot just reply and forget about them. You need to work a long time (either doing research or the actual work), and get to that email thread later. It is a "shared" todo list, and you send messages to synchronize the state.

Google's Inbox is built exactly for this purpose, although I believe pg wants something more revolutionary.
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How have you automated your life with python? (if you have)
picture two exponential growth curves, one steeper than the other, over time the a trend moves from the steeper curve to the less steep curve. The "population" whatever it is, is still growing exponentially at the less steep curve.
unsafe memory and unsafe concurrency.
i will not expand further, because it will be downvoted by the rust fanboys.
What is puzzling about MOND and to lesser extent about Dark Matter is that both uses violation of Newton mechanics to justify themselves when we know that Newtonian mechanics is wrong. The problem is that we cannot yet model behavior of galaxies using just General Relativity. Typically models assumes Newtonian physics with minimal accounting for relativity. However there is no sound proof that it is a valid approximation. The General Relativity is extremely non-linear and even small contribution may lead to very big consequences.

We cannot yet rule out that there are no problems with dynamic of galaxies. It can be that we model them using wrong approximations.
"- environmental degradation is based on two exponential growth trends: human population and per-capita consumption (driven by economic growth)."

You left out one detail: environmental degration per consumption. This is a really important factor, and is probably easist of th tree to minimize, and is being minimized every year. (Assuming that you didn't equate consumption and environmental degration).
What could they possibly be thinking?

Nobody wants this, except the gov't.
> Presumably these slightly damaged books were originally printed and sold by the publishers

Frequently, those copies are fraudulently written off as destroyed at the cost of the publisher; the publisher didn't make their money off the sale.

> If these promotional copies already being sold by other bookstores then what's the problem?

Being sold in a mom&pop bookstore is a very different case than being sold through the biggest internet retailer.

> If they shouldn't be sold then the publishers should clearly mark them as not for sale.

Sometimes it's the authors who get the promotional copies and attempt to give them out to fans or friendly distributors as a method of marketing; some of whom are dishonest about their reasons for asking for promotional copies.
Its called fit-bit, just be healthier. All people suffering heart disease only need to look at their parents and think "what did they die from or what are their health problems".

My father is a big guy, so I think about what I eat and I walk to work.

For most medical stuff I agree that an ounce of prevention is worth more than a pound of cure. But we don't need to create more tests and we certainly should think through creating businesses that want to create revenue from it. There is an insurance industry we need to contain.
This is one of the most overtly authoritarian proposals for internet regulation I've ever heard from a democratic, Western nation. How in the hell are the people of the UK supporting something like this? As an American who cherishes liberty and freedom, I'm shocked that anyone could support these laws in the UK. They are straight up Orwellian...
Are you talking about the west or the whole world?

Because if you're talking about the whole world, I'm pretty sure you're incorrect.
"not all startups have to become the next google or the next unicorn"

No, but you do have to survive. That's hard enough for any company, but it's much harder when you pick a small target market that can't be trivially replicated in other verticals.

So sure, pick a problem that you know well, but be realistic about the achievable market size, and don't start a business that requires huge scale to work (i.e. a search engine), when your target market is tiny.

(Also, as in all things, beware survivorship bias: just because counterexamples to what I'm saying exist, does not mean that the likelihood of creating one is high. Nor does it mean that the counterexamples are doing as well as you think they are.)
Not part of The Valley and not in the sexy start-up space but it happened to me when I sold my company.

They wanted us to meet minimum revenue numbers for 2 years but month after month they (A) wanted to take the bulk of our available time to do their needs and (B) certainly weren't going to PAY for any of that work. Pointing out the incongruent mandates were met with ignorance or "we'll figure it out later" with no later actually happening.

My co-founder and I left as soon as we could and never looked back. Fortunately our earn out wasn't an all or nothing, so we hit a bunch of the milestones and got the bulk of our money. Still a little bitter over the whole thing.
Just buy a 50¢ adult diaper and go to the bathroom without leaving the comfort of your seat.
The items you mention are intellectually interesting, but somewhat counterintuitively, do not influence population growth in the way that one might expect. Case in point: breakthroughs in medicine and agriculture.

One might expect that access to food and medicine leads to population growth, but in the long term, countries with the highest levels of access have the lowest population growth. It's quite a strange phenomenon, and it is basically this trend which leads statisticians to estimate 2070 as having a peak population.
Microsoft had XNA. That didn't turn out too well for them.
While I can understand some of the arguments in favour of regulating internet content, it amazes me people are still talking about pornography like some ancient demon from which our children must be protected at all costs. Does anybody still buy that rhetoric in this day and age?