skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Clickbait title for a naive look at a pretty well-understood, much-scrutinized topic.

Digging in further:

- assumptions are bad. 7-8% in RE / public equities? Hmm, dubious.

- poor understanding of TVM. 12% is 3x? Except, in the real world, there are incremental cash flows on both capital calls and returns ... so IRR.

- completely ignores cyclicality. Vintage year is the single biggest determinant of venture performance.

One big plus: takes a bit of the wind out of the "we VCs are paid to take risks" strutting. Of course, professional VCs gauge risks and make informed bets. But as the author points out, it's mostly with other peoples' money. True. Entrepreneurs are the ones taking the real, personal risks.
Which would be super creepy if they were a company which is beholden to advertisers for their revenue. But alas, they are not.
Which is why the "Pro" iMac completely misses the point. Don't want a built in screen. Do want upgradability. $5k to add what I don't want and package it in a way that prevents what I do want. <Facepalm>
Imgur very much does, with a visible loss of quality.
Why aren’t Google and Facebook enriching our lives more?
Alex Honnold Scales El Capitan Without Ropes
South Africa's First ever drama series to be distributed exclusively via WhatsApp
Anyone know how to execute a mail bomb?

https://www.whois.com/whois/deltaa-com.us
They pretty clearly mean that the web behaves the same from the user's perspective.
>How about just one single discussion thread "Apple WWDC news and announcements" rather than multiple ones?

How about people vote these pieces up? How about a single post will just be a cacophony of different tangents?

>A Kaby Lake refresh is hardly news when the rest of the industry is already preparing for Gemini Lake.

Tell news outlets that and you'd be surprised.
A quick Wikipedia search turns up more fields [1]. Although some of these fields are not 100% accurate due to historical reasons (I'm looking at you IE). I'd bet there are a couple other data points they gather via JS to finger print.

Example:

Mozilla/5.0 (iPad; U; CPU OS 3_2_1 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/531.21.10 (KHTML, like Gecko) Mobile/7B405

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_agent
They're working with photos, PNG is not really useful for photos, the DEFLATE algorithm doesn't work with "noisy" data.
Given the R&D firepower of Oculus and Facebook, they are in a better position to execute. I'd bet on them winning the VR/AR/MR race. I think with continuing hardware developments, PC VR will plateau and become a commodity and the real battle will be on mobile VR where Oculus will win. If I had to bet, Valve may never venture into that space.
As of the time of publishing, roughly ~8.58 USD.
I stopped caring about this type of ambition porn in my late twenties, and I'm a lot happier for it. I'm a lazy, average guy who will probably have a pretty average life. When I stopped being so "hungry," it opened up a world of tranquility and joy that had always been there.
Felt I saw somewhere. Felt like MS Surface Pro. Good job MS. You've come a long way.
Back in the days of slow internet access, nearly every non-animated image was a jpg and loading from blurry to clear was the norm. It's part of the file format.
USSR style censorship when you can't even crack a joke in private. As for Harvard admitting people of high moral character, being of high moral character meant completely opposite things 50 years ago and now.
Because it's highly lucrative.
Why don't we store a url to the decoder inside images and other compressed files for maximum flexibility? I mean, looking at WASM, sandbox technology is sufficiently strong. And performance and availability aren't really an issue either, because for specific cases we can fall back to what we are doing now.
One huge question is: why are entire countries' TLDs being hosted on free DNS services?
I'm not sure on how difficult it would be to move to the U.S., but there's a lot of underemployed tech talent in Columbus, Ohio, and we have a pretty low cost of living too. I'm pretty confident we won't have any encryption bans any time soon, we have too many giant corporations that would be vehemently opposed to it.
GitHub: Minor Service Outage
Drops error code 500 (Server Error) here and there. Hope it gets resolved soon.
I'm still using my Mac Pro from 2008 and a still older 30" cinema display. I really need a new set up but so far I've not found the iMac or Mac Pro offerings really compelling.

I'm not really sure I want to sign up for an all in one design because displays are often useful for much longer than workstations and the last generation of Mac Pro didn't really seem like they were worth the cost.
I think their real target market is no longer pros. The pros are vastly outnumbered by people with a lot a money that will buy the latest shiny thing Apple puts out. As a company strategy to make the most money, its smart. If you are a pro looking for a serious work computer, Macs are just not very compelling.
Aside from malware, this might just be trying to get a lot of likes on a facebook page. I'm not exactly sure how it works, but there's definitely a demand for pages with a large quantity of likes. I have a page that has 100,000+ likes and I get multiple messages every day inquiring to "buy" (read: steal) the page. So, a scam like this might just be trying to fill a page with likes for whatever market exists for well-liked pages.
Surface Pro will slaughter this thing too as it runs a full desktop OS and an Intel chip.
GitHub: Major service outage
A Plan to Reform Welfare and Taxes to Provide Every American Citizen with UBI
Very good point about farm league and doing different things -- but it's not clearly the case that a VC can hold onto their Facebook or Google stock.

Generally, there are restrictions in the LP agreements that may limit the amount of the fund that is in publicly-traded securities. There may also be requirements for distribution to the limited partners of public-traded securities.

VCs are paid to make illiquid private investments and massage them through to the point that they are liquid (cash, or marketable securities). LP investors, as a whole, are less than sanguine on the VCs subsequently becoming public markets equities horse-bettors.
Yeah true, should've put it another way.
Nonviolent Communication is a wonderful book.
The dev team for Classic is much less likely to attempt to do so, and the miners less likely to adopt such a fork, since they declined to accept the fork the first time it happened.

If a fork happened in Classic to protect some party's financial interests, I think the more likely scenario is the great majority of miners opting to stay on the original branch.

I get that it's not a complete guarantee, but neither is the legal system. Contracts can be invalidated based on a judge's perception of their unfairness, on a technicality, or even on a whim.
Gemini Lake is the low power SoC (Intel Core M etc.), Kabby Lake mobile will be replaced by Coffee Lake and Cannonlake.
>Sure, cool looking stuff is great, but if you type for 8+ hours a day, you might want to consider something that won't give you RSI.

Not sure what you have in mind, but split and "ergonomic" keyboard designs have never been shown to prevent or limit RSI. They're just a marketing gimmick.

http://www.healthytyping.com/articles/why-you-should-not-use...
This is just common marketing, "new and improved" is slapped on everything
We tried to mirror the original analysis as closely as possible - we did 5-fold cross validation but used the standard MNIST test set for evaluation (about 2,000 validation samples for 0s and 1s). We split the test set into 2 pieces. The first half was used to assess convergence of the training procedure while the second half was used to measure out of sample predictive accuracy.

Predictive accuracy is measured on 1000 samples, not 20.
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It's more than just the browser, it's the exact, EXACT version of the browser which can be very revealing if you're not updating your browser (almost) every day. For example: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/40.0.2214.85 Safari/537.36
Whenever I see the ipad pro I remember this cartoon about Ballmer, cracks me up every time. http://hijinksensue.com/comic/surface-tension/
"If you see a stylus, they blew it." -Steve Jobs
Dublin or Barcelona.
At some point I would have expected that one could develop iOS apps on the iPad Pro itself (without a computer). Not yet, apparently.
Where did you get that? I am pretty sure all those Thunderbolt ports are USB-C compatible.
Google Maps can tell you how bad the pollution is in Oakland, block-by-block
Free speech has historically been considered an extremely important right as against the government. It's never been considered part of the accept all commers obligation of places of public accommodation.

It's a false analogy. A restaurant turning away a would be customer because he's black isn't the same thing as a restaurant turning someone away because he's wearing KKK regalia.

The words 'free speech' aren't a magical talisman. You have to explain how they actually apply, and in this case they don't.
I imagine Steve Jobs is turning over in his grave right about now.
> I’ll clarify: Ninety-five percent of VCs aren’t actually returning enough money to justify the risk, fees and illiquidity their investors (LPs) are taking on by investing in their funds.

Illiquidity? Well given the huge amount of capital in the markets, there is next to zero other way to invest your big monies while also wanting some above-inflation return... the only real exceptions are pennystocks (aka spread and hope for a unicorn, just without a VC as "middleman"), real estate (which may or may not crash soon-ish, given that the bubble in Western markets, esp. London, has been created by Chinese and Russian investors hoping to stash money away before capital flow regulations) and VC.

Everything other is dead: State bonds, e.g. the German bonds, even pay negative interest, "conventional" lending is also downhill, and the market is too short-term-thinking to go long on "classic" stocks.

To summarize: Yes, there is a huge amount of risk and fees involved when investing with VCs, but they are not creating illiquidity when there's next to nothing where liquidity can flow into. And only when looking via this viewpoint one can understand how Yo could get 1.5M $ VC at 10M $ valuation.
I agree and those days are long gone. Recently built a custom desktop but had to use windows. Now that Kaby Lake is supported on Macs I could do a hackintosh.
Monument Valley just got a surprise sequel
Launch HN: WittyThumbs (YC S17) – We help improve online-dating conversations
Hi HN, we are the founders of WittyThumbs (https://wittythumbs.com/), a place for people to learn how to improve their online-dating conversations. We started this company because it’s the resource we wish we had years ago.

The two of us had that sinking feeling in our early 20s that we’d missed our best opportunity to date because while everyone seemed to have thriving dating lives in high school and college, we were preoccupied by more “nerdy” endeavors. Having focused on career at an early age, we were relatively clueless about dating.

We spent years dissecting dating and learning the skills piece by piece, like it was an engineering problem. The skills and confidence eventually clicked for us. We discovered rules we could follow to help us navigate the messy world of modern dating. Looking back, we saw no reason why it had to be a grueling 10-year process. We started blogging about texting techniques and Lior coached dating professionally for in-person clients.

Having earned a reputation among our friends for being dating and texting gurus, it got to the point where tons of friends were asking us for advice every time we’d hang out. Liron wrote some custom chat software that organized all the shared texts and screenshots of various men talking to various women. Suddenly we were all hanging out in these chatrooms and analyzing one another’s texts. So we’ve seen signs that many people really need this kind of dating advice.

On WittyThumbs, you can post anonymized online-dating conversations you’ve had and get feedback from our team of experts and the user community. You can also request a private 1-on-1 chat with an expert to get realtime advice about a conversation, or about any dating subject.

We’d be happy to answer any questions you have about us, our company, or plans for the future.
"""

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12:10 PDT: Major service outage.

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Agreed, his code shows craft at every level.

Is a hashlife by him on the web? The first page of google results only turned up an older comment by you.
It's not a stylus, it's a pencil.

These are speed holes. They make the car go faster.
Thanks! Elsewhere in the EU - soon to be, "in the EU" :-( - is definitely something we're considering, but this is giving us pause: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/03/30/ec_push_encryption_...
One of my favorite HN posts [1] relates directly to this. It was called "Prolific Engineers Take Small Bites". The big idea was to 1. take small bites, 2. make meaningful change, and 3. commit often. In the original article commit refers to committing to a repo. However, I treat it as commitment in a general sense. This mindset has considerably helped me keep on track with all my projects from game development, aerospace engineering day job, software contracting, learning to play music instruments, learning to draw, physical fitness, etc.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13167421
Death March is a good one for understanding how and why projects fail.
> What is Pillow

A Python library for manipulating image, like ImageMagick and the like.

> so loading a small version spread out to full size with blur, then in the background loading full size copy to replace blurred small image, that is not progressive loading…?

Progressive JPEG is closer to refinement of previous blocks, it doesn't "add blur", it starts with smaller less precise blocks then refines them. Progressive jpeg actually tends to be smaller than non-progressive (as opposed to e.g. progressive PNG)

> Edit: also is progressive loading something that happens once or does a script have to do that every time the photo is pulled?

There is no script, progressive JPEG is part of the core spec.
When speaking of music in the home - "I can't think of anything that matters more to so many of us". The hyperbole is just too much for me anymore I think.
Unfortunately it's not an honest portrayal of events.

Disclaimer: I was a DAO investor. The DAO held 5% of my Ether at the time of the attack.

Having said that, it's not as simple as saying: I support the DAO refund because it was in my best interest. That doesn't necessarily follow, and it didn't necessarily follow for most of the other DAO investors.

I still held 95% of my crypto $ in Ether. I would have been happy to eat the 5% loss if it would have been the right thing to do and instilled confidence in Ethereum and its leadership. There were many debates at that time about what the right course of action was, and it was a very hard decision. If saving 5% of my investment meant I ended up with a worthless 100%, it would be foolish to save that 5%. And everyone else knew this as well.

I think the decision the Ethereum team made was the best moral and legally advisable choice. They had the opportunity to stop the theft of 14% of all Ether, which would have gone to a criminal actor. It required a very risky solution (a hard fork) which came with big consequences (an alternative chain which remains to this day), so the solution wouldn't be feasible for smaller attacks (as some people like the poster before you try to allege). But for an attack which threatened 14% of the available supply, a hard fork to retrieve the funds was a viable solution.

Most of the market agrees with this decision. In the time since the Ether market cap has grown to the second largest of any cryptocurrency at 1/2 the size of Bitcoin. The alternative chain that didn't fork is still alive but only has less than 10% of the Ether market cap. The vast majority of dApps are running on the Ether chain. And it's the chain that is being taken seriously by enterprise (look up "Enterprise Ethereum Alliance"). Large businesses know the founders can't simply hard fork whenever they want to better themselves. The model works around consensus, consensus that is clearly shown by the considerations listed above, and I am glad that the consensus model is strong enough withstand an attack on 14% of its supply and respond with a difficult solution to rescue the chain from a catastrophe. It makes me feel more confidence in the technology, the community, and the protocol.
It looks like FLIF doesn't really support lossy well (its sort of fake lossy).

"FLIF does not have a lossy mode, but interlaced files can be decoded progressively so we can simply use something like dd if=lossless.flif of=lossy.flif bs=1024 count=5"

You can see this in the examples where BPG does well in stream loading: https://nokiatech.github.io/heif/technical.html

HEIF would probably be similar to BPG in performance.

Still FLIF looks pretty darn interesting.
How does it compare to Google Tango? Tango needs special hardware, but ARKit is not. Even if it required, there would be a definitely device (iPhone or iPad). Traction wise Apple could win, but what about performance and accuracy wise?
A very succinct way of explaining it, thanks!
Of course it depends on how many people are in the competition. It's not the absolute placement that matters, it's the percentile. Coming in 14th in a 20-kid elementary school class is poor (though someone has to). Coming in 14th place in the Tour de France is damn good. You might not win a medal but you'll probably get sponsorships from cycling equipment companies.
I work on a large SaaS product that is deployed in AWS globally and is expected to have 100% uptime. Each service team in the SaaS has its own on call rotation and is responsible for being highly available. There are also architects and more DevOps folks (SRE team) always on call so you can always get help at 2am if you really need it.

I'm the primary on call every 3 weeks, but secondary the week after. Technically, since I'm the team lead, I'm always on call if the issue escalates to me at level 3. In practice my team is very good and it's extremely rare to get a page when you are not primary.

The team doesn't get paid extra, but it is mentioned in the interview completely up front and my company's compensation is pretty solid.

If paged after hours you are expected to work remote. If you can't get to a computer in 30 minutes you should escalate the issue (or just ignore the page). This is company policy, but I expect most companies to have some type of SLA for responding to pages.

As far as what type of pages we get...when there was flooding in AWS Australia a few months back I got paged because we lost a certain number of AWS nodes. Sometimes we deploy code with a memory leak and we find out a day or two later. Often, AWS just does something stupid (like the AWS S3 outage a few months back). Sometimes the DB cluster loses a node. Sometimes we ship code that interacts with another service in unintended ways. We NEVER interact with customers, all our pages are in response to specific technical issues. If customers need to be contacted there are people with customer service skills that convey the message appropriately. We do not get paged out for issues that are not major (e.g. the product or a major feature stops working).
No, what I'd say is that DNSSEC adoption is incredibly low because it provides practically no value over what the TLS X.509 CA system does --- and yes, I agree the CA system is terrible, which is what makes it amazing that the IETF couldn't do better.

Most of the drive to get DNSSEC deployed comes from governments, which is no surprise: DNSSEC is a key escrow system for the web PKI, controlled by governments.
I thought we might be seeing an AR app built into the Camera or Map app.

Nope just a kit for developers to build games only or does the ARkit allow access to the camera app? I'm dying to see innovation from Apple like in the camera app when you open it there's an option to view how things look in the past(100 years ago what did this spot in New York City look like.. where you can take a pic of yourself in the past).

I'm sure there's oodles that can be done with an AR Camera.

Apple and the others to me seem to be slow to innovate.
Really? I had heard that from a few sources, and done some cursory research that seemed to confirm it.

Can you provide sources to the contrary? I'd rather admit to being wrong and then become right than go around sounding like I know shit when I don't.

(My main source is my wife, who's a civil engineer for the city approving building construction. She has strong opinions on LEED because she's had to approve buildings that met city standards but basically fucked off with their LEED promises).
Backups are one of those things that I don't do well at the moment. Fortunately, Mayan doesn't have any special requirements - basically back up the database and back up its media directory[0].

My ideal solution is to have everything backed up "in the cloud" plus have a backup at home. So far I've got the home backup happening - every machine uses 'attic' to back up onto my NAS. I'm still figuring out what the "in the cloud" side looks like.

One thing you can do is keep copies of important documents elsewhere - like Dropbox, a USB drive in a safe deposit box, etc. It all depends on what technologies you trust and how much you trust them.

For OCR, I can't say I've had much trouble with it. Mayan breaks the PDFs into pages, then feeds each page to tesseract. All of that happens in a worker process and I haven't found that it has a significant impact on the use of Mayan. The OCR section for the document will be incomplete for a while though.

[0] http://mayan.readthedocs.io/en/v2.1.4/topics/backups.html
Is it just me, or does the one on the left look weirdly skewed, like the right side is bigger than the left side?

Uncharacteristic design mistake for Apple...
Apple introduces a completely redesigned App Store
It's in Apple's interest to get everyone onto the latest macOS, so packaging app updates into the OS update helps accomplish that.
Thanks! Sorting out visas etc is definitely a concern for the US, but that's a good point about encryption. It's hard to imagine Google and Facebook sitting quiet while bad stuff happened in that area.
>where Oculus will win

Daydream is going to be hard to beat. Google is poised to release standalone Daydream headsets soon. They control Android. How many people bought the "Facebook phone" compared to the many other Android phones available? I think Facebook is in far more trouble in mobile than you assume. There are no givens right now, but I do agree thats the arena they should be competing in.

My gut feeling is that Facebook VR will just end up being a Daydream app and a Facebook branded Daydream headset.
I thought they would introduce their one VR platform, since they have enough brand/market power and relationship with developers to do so.
If you feel you're underpaid, I encourage you to negotiate aggressively for what you feel you're worth. Amazon is full of resources to help you with that.

As for culture, I'd say just ask. Ask what the team does for fun. That will more or less tell you if you will fit in or not.