skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes we all remember when Facebook failed to defeat MySpace...
Worth listening to this story from Marketplace: Why are there so many mattress stores?

https://www.marketplace.org/2016/05/02/world/why-are-there-s...

Basically, mattresses in the US are sold at a very high markup (couple hundred times the cost) so it's an easy way to make money.
Sounds kind of like the rebirth of plan9
One example is not indicative of the larger picture
Amazon is scary, startups can develop a new product and spend millions on consumer education and establishing a market, working out kinks, etc, and once it's proven Amazon can simply swoop in and dominate the market (almost any market with their breadth and network advantages).
Starting to downvote all bloomberg articles because their ads stop my music on mobile when i try to read their articles. Not a new behavior but I'm sick of it.
For anyone interested in Software-defined radio (SDR) I can also highly recommend the Cyberspectrum YouTube channel [1].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPmwwVknVIiXGzKhtimTM...
Yes! Tesla will take any death due to a failure of self-driving quite seriously indeed and work to fix the failure mode.

Whereas humans get the same kinds of fatal crashes over, and over, and over...

The Australian government has a "Black Spot" [1] program to provide federal funds (often millions) to fix up locations with a history of crashes. Bet it's cheaper to make those fixes to software.

[1] http://investment.infrastructure.gov.au/funding/blackspots/
Apparently I misunderstood why he would need to "re-block" you.
Try sending an email to your local Labor MLA (state lower house) if you have one, or MLC (state upper house) if you don't. They're real people who care, you just need to make them care about this stuff. Which needs lots of people caring at them.

It will probably feel useless because it won't make a difference right away, but it's got a better chance of a good outcome eventually than a rant on HN.

I know I froze to death one year in a very cold flat which I couldn't heat with a 1 or 2 cm gap under the doors. Every time I'd cook I'd cut myself because my hands were too numb to control the knife. (The rest of the time it was okay because I'd just wrap up under my doona on the couch or wherever.) Now I live over a bakery in an old building so there's lots of old heat and heavier construction keeping it tolerably warm.
"Things changed after enough time and revenue with a huge gap between ASOP and Android experience."

No, things changed for other vendors and for other parts. You can, AFAIK, still happily compile Google's entire kernels.

You are thinking of userspace.
Also how MySpace failed to defeat Friendster.
Repo of the day!
It probably costs like $20 and a WordPress plugin to set up a video hosting/social network site.

If that's impossible to achieve maybe there is some analogue of Darwin's law about whether your content deserves audience.

But the real thing isn't the platform. These groups are after the audience. And that I see Google as having having no moral responsibility to provide.

They aren't locked out of the internet at all or prohibited from creating/distributing content (with which I would take objection). They just can't use a private companies distribution channel at the same level as other users to get eyeballs. Cry me a river. It's not the end of the internet.
I got a sour taste in my mouth for Casper when I learned of their Federal lawsuits against affiliate bloggers who reviewed their product. I personally felt like Sleepopolis's review of Casper was as fair and observational as one could get with such a thing.

Lawsuit Details:
https://sleepopolis.com/blog/casper-sues-sleepopolis-with-fe...

Casper Mattress Review:
https://sleepopolis.com/mattress-reviews/casper-mattress-rev...
How do you figure? I see you keep posting that Linux can run proprietary binary blobs. No one is arguing against this. The argument is that these binary blobs will ship by default inside fuchsia OS and that the creators of fuchsia have chosen a license that has no provisions against this.

You can't change the Linux kernel and then close the source and sell it. That's why the GPL is much better for users and other licenses are better for businesses.
Weaponized Vegetarism
I'm pretty sure it must depend on the method of consumption. Eating is probably fairly non-toxic but smoking pretty much anything produces partially oxidated hydrocarbons which aren't great for your lungs. There may be enough other chemicals in canabis that reduce the harm of combustion but it's unclear to what extent.
> Both started around 2009 so it is about same age as Go but not as popular among developers.

They didn't hit 1.0 (and the corresponding backwards compatibility guarantees) at the same time.
In addition to https://www.oppslist.com (as some have already mentioned), check out https://www.indiehackers.com. Although not all the businesses are entirely passive per se, there are a lot of interesting stories and projects that you might find inspiring.
It was a Bayesian spam filter I wrote and trained to recognize free food instead of spam. I signed myself onto about 800 mailing lists.
It's interesting that they cite DRY as one of the reasons for refactoring the code to use closures, as it appears that in their later example of sorting, the two lambdas they pass for sorting ints and strings are identical other than type. Interestingly, it looks like that repetition could be solved by a macro that generates the function given a type. I'm not surprised super familiar with Go; I'm guessing that it doesn't have any sort of macro system that could do this, or else they would have mentioned it?
Affiliate marketing.

I'm making about $10k/month from several sites I don't really update. The trick is to install yourself in some customer acquisition path no one else figured out. When I started my first attempt I didn't even expect to make the domain registration fee back over a year, I did it mostly out of boredom.

Don't look out for affiliate solutions specifically, but keep an eye out for them. Especially when you found some product/service that's hard to find, but very valuable - do they have an affiliate program? Great, that's your chance - especially because, being a customer, you probably know better than them what's their main selling point!

No more details than that, sorry. I'm not trying to sell you anything. In affiliate marketing be super wary of those that try, most likely that's their real income source.

It's mostly a parasitic income but sadly that's how current economy is, honest productive work pays the least relative to what it brings. Mostly thanks to central banks that artificially prevented a giant systemic reset.
For those looking for a new mattress, I'd highly recommend Thr Mattress Underground[0]. It's an unbelievably comprehensive resource for mattress reviews and discussion, and goes into great detail about the mattress industry in general (and the "disruptors" including Casper, among others).

[0] https://www.themattressunderground.com
The Car Was Repossessed, but the Debt Remains
citation is in the article: https://www.nature.com/nm/journal/v23/n6/full/nm.4311.html
This is correct; Authorized Participants are the ones who exchange baskets of securities. It isn't really possible for individuals to exchange shares directly with the fund manager, but that's not an issue because the secondary market prices are kept reasonably close due to the professionals. The amount you can expect to lose relative to NAV (the actual value of your shares) is around half the bid-ask spread at the time you buy/sell.

It also helps with tax efficiency since the creation/redemption process allows for shares with significant appreciation to be retired.
I've trialed Apache Nifi and it's very powerful. It's also a little unsettling as you use it thinking about how the NSA used it ...
scala handles the generic-edge cases using lower-bounds and upper-bound types - and scala runs on JVM. But there could be any other edge cases that cannot be solved easily thru scala's lower-/upper-bound types... (don't know enough)
App.net lost to Twitter. Netscape lost to Microsoft. Yahoo lost to Google. Ouya lost to Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo. Coin lost to existing payment cards...
Lookup "Zinus Memory Foam 12 Inch Green Tea Mattress" on Amazon. It's an incredible mail-order memory foam mattress for under $200. 7000+ 4+ reviews.
> Knowing of projects that require it, and specifically which parts, or that are already using the static libdpkg library are very valuable, so that those parts can be improved.

What would be the best way of contributing this sort of information?
First, it's already been done.
Like, all the time.
People already do this with Linux and ship it in user devices.

Either you believe such a thing is GPL compliant, in which case, yay, they already could do it.

Or you believe they are violators, but nobody has been able to stop them, in which case, that falls into my "in practice, ...".

Because in practice, it has not stopped them

Either way, nothing has changed :)

As for arguably-compliant ways:

Because they can already do like nvidia does, and just have the interfaces be in the kernel, GPL that, and then load binary blobs?

Also remember, even the company doing something more shady (as far as anyone knows), vmware, was not successfully sued for their kernel GPL violation.

So theoretically, they could just drop all pretense and not even do that.
Technically there are 505 due to dual-share classes for 5 of the securities in the index.
Kind of a side thought but we have kind of a strange cultural definition of what constitutes a drug. There are plenty of common foods which have physiological and neurological affects.
I shared a cowork space with some of the founders when they were struggling with a previous soon-to-fail startup. It's inspiring to see how things worked out the second time around.
A parody of what?
As I interpreted it, that's not their position.

They're saying that if Google were to pursue their OS goals, specifically using Linux as a base, then they would likely end up doing things that would earn the scorn of the Linux community (at least; it's more likely that what they want to do is GPL-violating).
Who Is the Warren Buffett of the Meme Economy?
OWF came up in a meeting recently -- may not be as awesome as NSA wants you to believe.
There is also meetup groups in San Francisco [1] and Melbourne (Australia) [2].

[1] https://www.meetup.com/en-US/Cyberspectrum/

[2] https://www.meetup.com/en-US/Cyberspectrum-Melbourne/
>Neglecting magnitudes of fourth and higher orders...

What if we don't?
HEADLINE: faster release cycle

DESCRIPTION: In the past I've often ran into stuff in Debian just being too old for my needs. I don't need the bleeding edge, but two years is a really long time. I've switched to Ubuntu a few years ago, but not being a fan of Canonical it would be nice if I could come back to Debian.

DISTRIBUTION: stable

ROLE: full stack web developer
Agreed on all counts. A particularly bad day or days can absolutely wreck a person, and until someone or somebody close to them has gone through the process there is really no explaining how real a thing it is.

In Ian's case, some combination of alcohol, depression, and police violence (seriously, go read the coroner's report) seems to be the cause.

What's entirely absurd is the number of people here who, hat in hand, are all too happy to say "well golly gee another terrible victim of mental health problems" and ignore the likely sexual abuse ("cavity search" in polite terms) that Ian suffered at the hands of the police.

If the same story happened here with !police, you can bet your ass that people here would be incensed and crying about how something must be done, but yet given what happened here everybody seems oddly okay with blaming the victim and spreading the vague explanation of mental health.

That's not right, that's not justice, and that's not what we should be doing.

Then again, it's a lot easier than realizing how fucked the system has become while we've been screwing around in startupcanistan.
I've read enough articles where anonymous or hypothetical actors are given feminine pronouns by female authors that I'd say the convention is to favour the pronoun that represents yourself, not to default to masculine ones. Writers choice.
Yet another little corner of life where I'm left wondering out in the dark. Absolutely not denigrating anyone's preferences - it's just that I simply don't get it: Give me a slab of foam rubber - and maybe give me a new one after five or ten years - and I couldn't be happier. Fancy mattresses range - in my limited view - from quite on a level with foam down to way too squishy.
Thanks Mattbgates. Dreamhost is new to me. Will checkout.

Are there reasons why you did not consider other cost-effective clouds likes Google, DigitalOcean or Exoscale and etc.?
I'd be happy to talk if you want. I don't have a bunch of help to offer you, it's what I've been living the last little while. My email is in my profile if you'd prefer to discuss privately - I have no shame so... here's my thoughts.

Take it from me though quitting doesn't solve the problem. It just means you're unemployed and burnt out!

I've been in therapy for quite a while now and really not seeing much in the way of significant progress, but things are getting better in an incremental way.
That reminds me of being at Melbourne airport wishing to consume the last of a bottle of Absinthe and being sad that no one had ice...
Your dislike is unfortunately a common flaw with Casper like foam mattresses which largely just have a number of layers of foam on top of one another. You can reinforce or line the edges with firmer foam/material so that sitting on the edge is more comfortable and robust, but I think a lot of mass manufacturers avoid that to keep their costs low.

I recall seeing the difference by going to a custom foam mattress store.
I am the same, relearning a lot of linear algebra. It's a great book and my choice, so far, for this process. It does jump around a bit in some places but I have found, if something is not explained I keep on reading and some time later he comes back to it. Highly recommended.
The i5 has 2 cores, different memory bus setup, cache setup, etc. If you're saying it has the same rough level of horsepower, that makes sense. Not at all the same architecture though.
> What are the downsides to code review? I don't buy that it is a velocity thing.

Without code review, my flow is:
a) do the work
b) test it locally until i'm happy with it
c) check it in
d) changelog the change
e) push the change
f) check logs
g) if it works, great; if it doesn't work, consider rolling back, or rolling forward -- either way, go back to a for the code changes to fix the fix

With code review, it becomes:
a) do the work
b) test it locally until i'm happy with it
c) push it to the code review tool
d) wait a while to see if anybody sees it
e) ping somebody, because everyone else is doing work, or eating lunch or whatever
f) wait for them to actually review it
g) if they approved it great; if i have to address things, that's great too, but I have to go back to step a
h) check it in
i) changelog the change
j) push the change
k) check logs
l) if it works, great; if it doesn't work, consider rolling back, or rolling forward

I hate waiting around, and I hate interrupting people, and I hate switching tasks. I want to do my work, and get it pushed out there. Mandatory review for every change means I have to wait around or interrupt people. While I'm waiting, I need to be doing something else productive, but I also need to be watching for a notification that my code was reviewed so I can go push it and see if it works (or address any comments), and switch tasks again. Meanwhile, I have to be prepared to be interrupted to review other people's changes, or I'm blocking them from getting their work finished.

In a world where pushing takes a long time, reviewing everything is more acceptable. When you're pushing to an app store, it's not really possible to have multiple releases in a single day or fast feedback loops, so it makes sense to get more eyes on every change.
CS is one of the main reasons I haven't contributed more to Atom.

I guess when Atom was started it made sense to use CS, not anymore. Hopefully Github will switch to ES6/7 or TS.
Which is interesting, given this: https://sleepopolis.com/blog/casper-sues-sleepopolis-with-fe... . Someone else posted it in this thread.
> So building production software is stated as 3rd most important goal.

Nowhere in that sentence do they claim the list is ordered by importance.

> Go was designed for writing production software that needs to be reliable.

That might be true, but it doesn't actually say anything about how successful they were in reaching that goal.
Fidget Spinners Are Over
This sounds very cool.
What level of detail are your sites?
Are they static sites with your affiliate links on the front page?
Where do you find your affiliates that are buying leads?

I'm very interested in this and am trying to figure out how to do just a basic affiliate site setup.
CenturyLink made millions by ripping off customers, lawsuit claims
Sure.

So why not GPL (v3) it anyway, if the GPL is so ineffective?

After all, what you're telling me in your posts is that Google wants vendors to contribute back, but it can't force them.

I don't want vendors to be able to create proprietary extensions. You claim Google also doesn't want vendors to create proprietary extensions.

So:

- If the GPL is effective, why not use it?

- If the GPL is ineffective, it can't possibly hurt and at the very least it sends a positive signal. So why not use it?

Edit: I'm not sure why you edited your post rather than reply. But I don't think you have really answered my question as it is put here. Is the GPL effective or ineffective? Ineffective, you seem to say. So what's the harm? You claim you care about sources being released. Am I understanding you wrong?

Maybe some employees of Google don't like the GPL. But simultaneously they want all driver sources to be released? But simultaneously they think the GPL is ineffective and won't achieve that?

Your post doesn't really add up. Could you list the reasons why Google isn't using the GPL for Fuschia as bullet points, or something?
Here are a couple of YouTube video's showing the early stages of the Fuchsia UI:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPhQ-8fXft8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vu0VGj5xf60
Some very cool stuff.... useful from both a practical and anthropological standpoint.
May be you need to look into https://www.indiehackers.com. The site is great that it contains all the information / stories / ideas, about developers who sell their projects!
>Version 54.1 class files are intended to be supported only by implementations of Java SE 10

Java SE 10, the platform, will support value types. One can interpret the ambiguous term "Java 10" as either "Java 10 the language" or "Java 10 the platform". Applying the principle of charity[0] will yield the right interpretation in this case.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_charity
Or Ikea.
This is great. Thank you!
Casper itself is a clone. There were/are at least two other foam mattress companies in San Francisco alone selling the same thing years before Casper existed.
With current Debian, you don't need to do anything at all, and in particular you should not pass --dbg-package. Instead, dh_strip will automatically create a -dbgsym package containing detached debug symbols, if your package contains a library or binary.

Also, make sure that you build with debug symbols enabled in the first place; the default CFLAGS should do that.
I've mentioned this before [1] but affiliate sites work, particularly if you are already doing web dev.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14473272
> I simply don't get it...give me a slab of foam rubber

I drink my coffee black and my espresso unadorned. I'm not "wondering out in the dark" why some prefer a cappuccino or venti frappé whatever-the-crap. People have different preferences.
Heh, perhaps the right answer is "Let Go hit its natural limits and kill itself" rather than trying to get its stewards to fix it. I suppose that might teach a whole generation of programmers what happens to codebases over time when you don't have the ability to build robust abstractions (or teach the rest of us something if it actually works out). It's just scary to actually let this go (pun intended) because the more successful Go becomes, the more likely each of us is to have to work professionally in a language without e.g. parametric polymorphism.
Show HN: Cloudureka-Compare your cloud cost with AWS,Google,Azure,DO,Exoscale
> Basically, mattresses in the US are sold at a very high markup (couple hundred times the cost) so it's an easy way to make money.

then, is there any reason why no-one disrupts the market with cheaper mattresses?
Don't forget the difference between "free software" and "open source". Open source was, from day one, pushed as a tool of capitalism: big companies could make more money if they collaborated on common code with each other. The free software movement (whence the GPL) always operated on the idea that, in an ideal world, software wouldn't be copyrighted at all and everyone would just publish their source because that was the right thing to do. The open source movement (whence the MPL) merely argued that open source was the profitable thing to do.

A lot of companies embracing open source have succeeded in building an OSS utopia for themselves internally, and selling software as a service to other people. There's an unprecedented number of people employed by big companies working on things that are nominally free software, but it's free software to do things like large-scale container management, not photo editing. (The free software folks, to be fair, did see this happening and responded with the AGPL, but that strategy seems to have had about zero effect.)

And even Photoshop has realized that switching to a billing model that more closely resembles SaaS than traditional proprietary software is more profitable. But a better comparison is something like Thunderbird vs. Outlook or LibreOffice vs. MS Office: those fights have ended up with both participants losing out to Gmail/Outlook 365/etc. and Google Docs/Office 365/etc., which are free-of-charge, high-quality, and even more non-free than proprietary software that in theory at least you could disassemble.
The quote is right. The only enemy of your startup is yourself. MySpace fucked up in so many ways that it's surprising that they managed to remain somewhat relevant until around ~2010 or so.
The point is that you're very unlikely to get to that spot, and you don't have to think about that in the beginning. And even then, if you focus on your own company and execute well, you generally don't have to worry about your competitors - it's yours to lose.
Not necessarily passive, but an idea I was reminded of recently might be worth pursuing.

Matching students with exam proctors.

Online education is the future (and to a large extent the present!). A common requirement for students is to find an exam proctor. I had to do this myself. I was lucky enough to know someone that qualified (a high school teacher) but a lot of people won't. Googling for a proctor service didn't help much. There's an obvious need there.
plotnine is an excellent port of ggplot2 to python.

https://plotnine.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html
All right, it seems HN did not appreciate my joke about the life-cycle of front-end JS frameworks.
security and UI performance... color me doubtful...
> why?

Because cloud providers have started to build their own hardware to eke out performance advantages versus other cloud providers. It's not a far stretch to conclude that Google will prioritize its kernel's development for its proprietary hardware and not have to release any of the secret sauce to the public.
That's what's happening
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