skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Solo startup founder here (of a not so successful SaaS startup yet(!)). First of all make sure you have a lot of money to spend. I know you will probably be able to code it up yourself (just like I do), but you will have spendings in stuff like advertisements, graphics, email outreach programs, hosting and stuff. Depending on your niche, you will probably need a LOT of advertisement money.

First of all. Try to find your thing. What makes you super excited (next to coding)? DO A LOT OF RESEARCH on that. Seriously, I can't stress that enough. One of my mistakes. Make sure you find something that you can improve, where is an actual market (still a need for it) and what doesn't take 10 years to build by yourself.

Make sure you create something that is different and better than other products on the market. That makes it soo much easier to market.

Things you should learn right now:

- Get the basics of accountancy. I know that it is pretty boring stuff, but doing this right from the beginning will save a lot of work later on.

- Read about advertising; funnels, copywriting, value adding, facebook marketing, influencer marketing and so on. Just consume it all and don't be afraid to test things.

- Save up a lot of money. You will likely run out of money sooner than you think. Everything costs money.

- Start interviewing people that are in your target market. Find out what you can do to make their lives easier. Try to sell time and/or money (as in savings) with your startup.

Last but not least, just do it :). Good luck!
I'd love one. Unfortunately, I - and quite a few like me in large cities in the UK only have on-street parking, so no way to charge at home.

Once some of the large supermarkets start offering charging in a large proportion of their parking spaces, it'll get more interesting.
It kind of follows since before lensbabies and photoshop effects, you could buy physical filters for developing photos.
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It's malware in the traditional sense: "Programs that do things you wouldn't expect or authorize them to do that are harmful either to yourself or to others."
I want to genetically engineer extremely intelligent mice...what tools should I use? Is this possible?
California is ready to recognize a third gender
Yes, but those are special cases. For every rule there is an exception, and of course if the parts above apply you are fully in control and are well able to judge whether you should rewrite or not.

But the situation that I'm describing is not ticking any of those boxes and I think I made that quite clear in the pre-amble.
Linux security alert: Bug in sudo’s get_process_ttyname() [ CVE-2017-1000367 ]
1. where is consul?
2. less used means less reported bugs (not less bugs)
Except if you mean this NaCL, this is hardly true:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium_chloride#Miscellaneous_...
Does a baby have a will? How about a cat? Bacterium?

I'm actually curious why people believe one emergent system does (eg, people) but another doesn't (eg, evolution/biosphere).

What lets you determine when a composite object or pattern in an automata has crossed that threshold?
> It takes very little time for nation states to identify who works for XYZ company.

If it requires a person to spend time researching non-open source intelligence avenues then I disagree.

The point is by not doing something a company can gain something. That's not a big ask for the marketing team not to mention names in any public interface.

It's easy to assume that 'nation state' surveillance means that a sophisticated person will hunt down a piece of information. But that's actually quite a resource intensive request.

Quickly finding someones name on publicly available resources and adding it to a list is on quite a different level than having a hacker/trained person hunt down a hidden piece of information that must be triangulated from other disparate pieces of information. And I say this having spent quite a bit of time doxxing people for fun myself - it's a time intensive activity regardless if it was ultimately easy to do. The less information available the much hard it is to do.
I don't quite get your numbers, because 20% * IE6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 = 20% * 6 > 100%.

Or, alternatively, the 20% for all of them combined don't prove your point that "people are using ancient versions", because, as you point out yourself, "most were on IE 11".

FWIW IE 11 is around 3% globally, all other IE is around 0.5%, combined: http://caniuse.com/usage-table
The LispWorks 64bit hobbyist license costs 600 Euro. It is not tied to a single machine and can run more then one process.
>I remember the horrible Java applets and I am thankful that I pretty much never encounter any of them these days.)

Yeah, yay for progress and horrible Electron apps..
Winter, you say? Because my money is on at least another https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_winter before the real breakthroughs. ;)
Kind of a tangent regarding solar-powered cars:

Putting solar panels on a car is a good idea that sounds like a dumb idea that sounds like a good idea.

Solar panels don't actually generate anywhere near enough power to supply a car continuously. (1 horse power is about 700 watts. If it takes 10 HP to maintain highway speeds, that's about 7000 watts, more than most rooftop solar installations.) So, driving forever on a sunny day without stopping isn't something that's attainable except on specially-built cars with tiny motors and giant bodies and don't move at highway speed.

However, if I think about how I use my own car on a typical day, I drive a couple miles to work, park in the sun for about 8 hours, and then drive a couple miles home. Maybe stop on the way for groceries. If I had an electric car with a solar panel generating a hundred watts or so while it sits in the parking lot, that might be enough to keep the battery topped off.

I'd still have to plug in once in awhile if I drive around more than average or if I'm going on a long trip, but if it noticeably reduces the number of times I plug in per year, that's probably worth the added weight and cost.

(I realize that by "solar powered" you probably meant rooftop solar and charging at home or perhaps utility-scale solar.)

(I also realize that I could just ride a bike, but I'm lazy and technological cost-benefit analyses are more fun.)
Inspiring, but it looks like the business failed sometime around 2013 for violating health code / zoning laws. Disappointing, as someone who likes the idea of leaving tech to run an ice cream shop.
Yes, but it was also a previously unused laptop, so it's not all that unusual for someone setting up a work system to make sure their work access is set up. It is odd that it happened towards the end, and that it wasn't used afterwards, but I can also see it being something I might do in preperation if I had to take a short trip and hadn't set up a remote work laptop yet or my prior one was causing problems. That it wasn't used might have been that he ended up not doing any work (or any work that required the laptop) during the period he wanted it. A single normal SVN checkout during the setup would get every file in the repo by default.

Basically, I don't think it's hard to construct an entirely innocent narrative of events (assuming SVN access was normal for him). The later developments do make it look fishy, but since I doubt anyone would have thought anything amiss with the list of actions without the later events, it's far from a smoking gun when taken by itself.
Sure, but the recent popularity of the topic, and the typical subjects of the coverage (not likely Hillary voters, often rust belt and coal country folks) is probably because it's been chosen as a leading answer to the question "holy crap, how did Trump happen?!" That's why you see articles about it everywhere now.
Because 2MB of MRAM for $43¹ is not exactly game-changing.²

3D-XPoint is more like a much faster SSD than real NVRAM. Everspin and other true NVRAM companies are trying very hard and making huge strides, but scaling density up to expected multi-gigabyte sizes is really hard. 3D-XPoint could be seen as a sort of stopgap for a few years or decades while NVRAM matures.

That said, I think one of the NVRAMs—MRAM looks the most promising—will get there eventually, and it will change everything. I'm tinkering on a hobby OS to take advantage of single-level storage and cache-coherent interconnects like CCIX and GenZ.

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1. https://www.digikey.com/products/en/integrated-circuits-ics/...

2. They announced 64MB modules a few months ago, but AFAICT those are yet to hit the market.
I haven't seen any real activity from browser makers to add raw UDP APIs.
"every web browser maker seems to think that autoplay videos are great"

eh. if this is your litmus for abuse you may want to reconsider having an email account or a doorbell.
Or, you could just stick with those at IE11 (which are most) + the other 80%, and ignore those < 10% of users.
Aqui-hire. Google already established Levandowski as a hundred-millon dollar man, didn't they?

It's complete BS but that's the reason for the valuation, he can do it, Google already paid him that much and he 'wanted to do his own thing,' it's going to cost you to hire that guy.

Can you even spin up and staff a company in that time frame and integrate a lot of the technical parts in to something very meaningful in 9 months? With custom hardware and stuff that seems insanely tight (but there is a lot of money at play, you push hard) Even if there are off the shelf components that do most of the work and they're pre-integrated that seems insanely aggressive. I can only assume Otto didn't have any IP of real value other than a staff.
I like it for `compose()` function calls. Changing the parameters and order is fairly common, so the trailing comma becomes convenient for moving and adding parameters.
It might be, because "common target" implies a lack of competition.
Any solution that uses less material and is just as strong is considered optimal in my book.

It is indeed defined as the blurp also says. I am trying to find the original paper again.
WASM has 64-bit ints, did asm.js support those? How can you polyfill that without a real slowdown.
That's why nobody claims NEDC rating is useful for highway trips. You first replied to gsnedders, and I don't think he was talking about a NEDC rating, he appeared to be talking about an actual range.
>The private bank would lose 1 cent, as you mentioned

Sorry if it wasn't clear. The bank would rather deny the loan than lose a penny on the dollar (in expectation). The government would rather approve the loan, since it makes 19 cents on the dollar once you count taxable revenue. The private-banking counterfactual has the bank essentially remove 20 cents of taxable revenue from the government because they'll deny a loan rather than lose money on it.
Because housing has a long lasting effect on improved health. There are a number of studies that have drawn this conclusion.

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/01/how-hea...
At least they put this piece into the article:

>But, in Franaszek’s telling, he mostly hated life in California; the pleasure he found in the natural setting was offset by his feelings of alienation and disdain for the culture. “The only entertainment of the locals is to stare at passing cars for hours on end, drinking or shooting from their cars at road signs they pass by,” he observed in a 1964 letter.

So that wasn't very propagandistic.
However, projections are notoriously non-predictive. If you had extrapolated the gasoline prices from 10 years ago, you'd expect that we'd be paying $10 a gallon, rather than almost half of what prices were then - even in raw dollars, ignoring inflation.
If you don't have any great ideas, I'm looking for partners...I have way too many ideas than I cold realize in a lifetime.

I'd suggest not to read too much...start building! Get stuff out there. Be careful in terms of what idea to work on...ideally something you're passionate about and that can generate revenues fast and that you can build on your own. You should be able to come up with say 100 ideas, maybe 10 of which are promising. I'd also strongly suggest looking for a business partner (congrats sounds like you have a great life partner :-D ). Also get mentors. I think having a mentor+partner is far better than reading even 100 books about building a business. Btw, the NSF SBIR deadlines are in 2 weeks, you could apply for R&D funding from them if you have an idea you're somewhat confident in.

No reason not to start building your SaaS service now btw...see if it gets somewhere before you take the time off.

Also, focus on living...sports, meditation, doing stuff inherently enjoyable for you...
Why Mobility Data in the Retail Industry Is Important
>It's not the cars that are getting cheaper, it's the laws that are getting more expensive

Not quite, it is the case that electric cars are getting cheaper, and that analysts expect them to continue getting cheaper. From the article:

>“One is EV technology cost reductions because there are more breakthroughs in the cost of technology and more volume, so the cost of EVs will go down. ICE going to go up as a result of more stringent regulations especially regarding to particulate regulations.”
1. Lots of things on cars wear out over the years other than the engine/emission system. Some of the most expensive common car repairs are water pumps, AC compressors, brake lines, suspension parts, wheel bearings and brake parts, etc. EVs have all of those things, and they suffer no less wear-and-tear than ICEs. Even a full transmission or engine costs far less than replacing the battery in an EV, too.

2. The referral program is only for the Model S and Model X, which start at $70K. There is no discount and no free charging with the $35K Model 3.
The problem here is why the expected value of the loan is only 99 cents, if $2.00 of economic activity is being created?

And the simple reason is because markets are imperfect, and the downstream positive (or negative) effects of actions do not always flow upstream to the private decision-maker.

This is why governments exist in the first place, to coordinate the actions of large groups of individuals for mutual benefit when smaller entities (like corporations) would not be able to do achieve that same coordination.

We would never have gone to the moon if the government never got involved. Wisely, the government farmed out much of that work to private contractors, but government still had to be there to set a direction and get the ball rolling.
If not joke, source?
> Had Clinton won, the neoliberal faction would have been rejuvenated thereby

Probably not; the neoliberal faction has been losing strength for more than a decade, through both of Obama's elections, even though Obama himself is a neoliberal.

Clinton herself arced more progressive in outward stands over the years, because if nothing else she's a decent enough intraparty weathervane.

> Instead, the opportunity lies open for a new wave of progressive populism that has every potential of bridging the political divide

More like, instead the strategic appeal of trying pick of seats by adopting traditional moderate conservative ideals and picking up disaffected Republicans is tronger than ever.

> few people are so wedded to any ideology, left or right, that they'll cherish it more strongly than the chance to ease the suffering of those whom they love.

The problem with this idea is it makes the mistake of assuming that people view ideology as a separate question from what eases the suffering (or enhances the enjoyment) of those they care about—people believe in an ideology because, in their view of how the world works, it is the thing that, implemented correctly, will do that. Increasing suffering thus hardens, rather than softens, ideology because it makes it more urgent that the correct one is adopted.

> So tell me again, how did I make the wrong choice last year?

By contributing to the normalization of Trump.

> What would you have had me do differently?

Literally anything else. If you wanted to take a stand against blind tribal contempt in politics, probably the most powerful act independent of it's affect on the electoral college result would be voting for either of the major right-leaning alternatives (McMullin or Johnson).
First rule: Your job is to solve their problems, not to build software. Software is just sometimes a viable solution.

1. List all the problems the business wants to solve

2. Consider non-software solutions, especially anything that would eliminate the need for software.

3. Look for existing software solutions for any of the remaining problems. This especially includes simple things like spreadsheets, or slightly more sophisticated tools like AirTable.

4. Finally, for the _very_ specific problems you need to solve, consider the smallest piece of highly-specialized software to solve this problem

5. Avoid combining all of the solutions into one big project; it will only make it harder to work on and maintain in the years ahead.
I found the following link to be an interesting read on the topic: http://codecapsule.com/2014/10/18/implementing-a-key-value-s...

The author also has a 6-part series on programming for SSDs: here's a more descriptive blog post for general SSD access patterns and optimizations: http://codecapsule.com/2014/02/12/coding-for-ssds-part-5-acc...
This might interest you: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/business-bootstrappe...
RE: double counting FMA. I don't think it's that silly.

If you didn't count that operation as two different floating point operations you suddenly lose the ability to compare FMA chips to non-FMA chips. It's much simpler ​to just count it as two.
Have you been doing this for any amount of time? Because today browser compatibility is just excellent compared by historical standards. The only differences are usually that some new feature doesn't appear in all browser engines at the same time.
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100% agreed! I regretted my comment after I made it because the bike subsidy was just an example, and I responded to the example and not to the actual point of the post.
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>In one study published in the journal Sleep, researchers kept people just slightly sleep deprived—allowing them only six hours to sleep each night—and watched the subjects’ performance on cognitive tests plummet. The crucial finding was that throughout their time in the study, the sixers thought they were functioning perfectly well.

>Effective sleep habits, like many things, seem to come back to self-awareness.

One of the things I've noticed is that it's really hard to police your own sleep schedule, especially if you aren't aware of the consequences of losing a few hours of sleep. I'm working on a bot that helps you get to bed earlier, and our power users often come to us with a really clear understanding of what happens when they don't get enough sleep (e.g. "I perform way worse on my Army fitness test", "I'm not focused enough to do my side project after work") and still need to set up systems to keep themselves accountable on a daily basis.

That said, I think there's a much larger "zombie population" of the "sixers" described above that isn't getting enough sleep and simply isn't particularly aware of it. From a population health standpoint, the question then becomes: How do we get people to appreciate the effect of getting a full 7-9 hours of sleep when they don't explicitly feel the effects on a daily basis? Not only that, but how do we get them to unwind and prioritize getting good night's sleep at the time of day when willpower is low and Netflix temptations are high.

The CEO of Netflix somewhat flippantly declared sleep their biggest competition, and I think they're crushing the competition right now.

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/new...

On the bright side there are people who have used our product and seen it make a pretty big difference. The trick was getting them to start with a very unambitious bedtime goal relative to their average bedtime, and gradually make the bedtime earlier week over week until they've dismantled their bad sleep habits.
I'd make try/catch an expression, not a statement, like in Lisp -- it'd still be "let x = try {...}...". I agree that 'var' for mutable bindings is a reasonable design. In E it's 'def' for immutable and 'var' for mutable, for instance; and you can also write just 'def x' and then 'bind x := 42' further down (with single-assignment semantics). But though that's nice to have, you can do all right without it; if there was just a single form of definition, with lexical scope, I'd still prefer it to Lua or Python's designs -- clearer and less error-prone and still concise.
Thanks for replying! After I asked here I googled around and saw DFW had some mental issues resulting in odd behavior. I then wondered if that is why there was a hating fad.

About pages, one of my childhood experiences was a popular girl getting everyone to laugh when I checked out one of Asimov's foundation trilogy books from the school library. Unfortunately she and I are close friends today so there is no "what goes around comes around" story to report :)
I've always thought that the Simple English article versions of Wikipedia were always useful for non-native English speakers. https://simple.wikipedia.org/

Most people seem to be unaware of this Wikipedia aspect.
Auxiliary, I think most office jobs can be modeled as a Flow Chart (with slight exceptions that can be caught by AI).
Read "The Phoenix Project" and everything you can get on "Continous Delivery", "Kanban" and "Agile Testing." You'll want to know how to set up your safety nets--even if you are doing 100% of the development by yourself.

The Phoenix Project is especially relevant since there are extremely stressful situations the characters experience. When you are "Jr-level" you need all the case history you can get your hands on in order to get experience. Find other people's painful experiences and retrospectives so that you can realize when you are in serious trouble before things get out of control.

It is one thing to kind of be good with doing application development or full-stack development, but you'll find there are a lot of other "soft skills" (which is another excellent book to look for) that you will need to practice.

In short, you've got a lot of work to do! And be wary of anyone who claims "they've got a year of development work" in the faucet waiting to be poured out--this may just be an enticement to keep you around... cheap.
Sure. And my dry cleaning, and my weekly shopping all just fit on my bike and.. Oh. Wait.

And my friends who live 20+ miles away will be delighted to have me over for dinner after having worked up a sweat. Not to mention being lucky enough to then pedal 2+ hours after that dinner.

My partner who's got a back injury? Well, tough for them, they should just stay home.

Bikes are a great thing. I have one, and I use it regularly - but they're not an either-or proposition in many environments. The way our cities are structured, we need cars. (On the West Coast. The East Coast has the benefit of a more traditional layout, often making them more walkable)
GP said "Why does this make the front page?" instead of "This shouldn't make the front page."
> It was one of the best things that happened to Linux desktops in a long time and removing it hurts users and makes them less secure.

It would be more accurate to say it was the best thing to happen to your use of Linux in a long time, and it looks like even that is only because you're trying to use a bunch of closed source, non-cross-platform stuff.

I also disagree that it makes users less secure. The teams working on Debian, Ubuntu, Arch, etc. have much better security track records than some random web developers who've made an "app". There's no way would I trust a web based SSH client, for example.