skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sounds like what most of us want. I would like to be at the point where if my job laid me off... I can still pay my mortgage and bills and not have to worry.

I would love to develop that saas web app that many people use and it is enough for me that I could even quit my day job. And sure enough, I'm working on it too.

The solution is this: Find a common problem people have. Solve it. Charge for it. Market it. Sell it. Prosper.

If the solution already exists and someone is charging for it, than find a way to make it better (and possibly cheaper though this is not always necessary).

How I usually do this is: I have a problem. I want to solve it. If I have a problem, it is more than likely that others have the same problem too. It is almost unlikely that NO ONE but me has that same problem.

For example, I wanted a place where I could easily create a web page on the Internet, set my own URL, change the way the page looks, and share it with others. The result was a free web app I developed called MyPost ( https://mypost.io ). I shared it on here and on Twitter a few times... and now the world is using it daily. I've seen it being used in places as far as Russia and the Philippines. I had gotten the idea from another web app that .. was basically lacking a lot of what I wanted to do. So I created my own.

As far as doing your own research... sign up for a website like: http://oppsdaily.com/

Don't tackle every problem, but seek to get in touch or turn it into your own. OR just use to get ideas about problems people have.

You can also navigate to websites like ProductHunt and get ideas... sure, products already exist, but there is nothing wrong with re-creating them, making them better, etc. After all.. not everyone drives a Chevy. There is Ford, Toyota, Audi, Acura, etc. Not everyone uses T-Mobile. There is Sprint, Verizon, AT&T, etc.

It is illegal to copy a product outright where it looks EXACTLY the same. It is not illegal to make a clone of another web app. Good luck. Always be working on something.. you'll get to where you want to be eventually.
Well, I'm wrong. There are ~430 WF locations worldwide; there are 1,600 Aldis in the US. it's just that aside from southern California, they don't seem to have a lot of locations in the West. My closest Aldi is ~550 miles away; my closest Whole Foods is a lot closer.
I enjoyed reading the comments. There might be some selection bias here but more importantly it seems that everyone found the experience to be personalised. I admit that I had doubts about how an online-only programme could possibly work, especially since next year's batch will be even larger. But I think I'm swayed.. might apply after all :)
I also read Paris, and thought "stars" referred to celebrities. Oops
Ask HN: How much traffic can GCP's f1-micro handle?
According to GCP's free tier page [0], f1-micro is offered for free coupled with 1GB bandwith(?). But I wonder how many users per second can this instance handle? Will it survive "HackerNews spike"? (let's say 400-500 realtime users for a few hours per month)? Any resources to learn more about how to roughly map traffic to number/type of instance, if that is what people do?

[0] https://cloud.google.com/free/
BattleDome: The Unreal Tournament of VR Games?
Security is hard. You can't make this kind of statement if you haven't been a pentester. Do a stint for a year and you'll see.

I personally found a remote code exec on one of the biggest security company's servers. I can't be more specific, but suffice to say, it was a small oversight that had big consequences. It's very hard not to screw up the small things.

If you've written a large service, and you give me a week with it, odds are better than 50/50 that I'll at least find an XSS. I think out of fifty or so pentests, there were only two that I didn't find an XSS or better, and one was a read-only informational pamphlet.
For the niche, bonobos is not super expensive. You are obviously not the target market. A lot of the time, clothes really do make the man.

If you don't see the value in clothes I don't see why you're making value judgements. A similar analogy would be "Chipotles is super expensive, you can get the same thing for much cheaper at Applebees with a coupon", missing the point that Chipotle is competing with restaurants that are far more expensive.
They finally opened in Fremont a few years ago. A decent choice (though it cannibalizes some customers from PA)
> Music "theory" should lie outside of the domain and concern of science

Said every carpenter, craftsman and artisan that was eventually replaced by machines. There's a place for both, but it seems silly to argue against the march of progress given where it's gotten us.
I pretty much agree with you. I have a bachelor's degree in pure mathematics from a top 15 university -- I even published research as an undergraduate. Deep learning strikes me as an experimental science and even a subset of ordinary programming more than it does a subset of mathematics or statistics or statistical learning. I've read the entirety of the Deep Learning book by Goodfellow et. al. It's a fantastic book, but I was shocked at the lack of robust theory and the relative simplicity of the math. Even an introductory analysis textbook like Rudin is considerably harder, and Rudin is regularly tackled by undergraduates at any highly ranked university.

The only reason to fret about this in my opinion is if you're a PhD machine learning engineer who doesn't want the field to open up to non-PhDs. I think data scientists are used to being able to say, "hey, if you don't have a PhD, you really can't do or understand what I do" -- deep learning represents potentially a huge culture shock to that attitude. But even the Google Brain research team has some non-PhDs now.

I do think deep learning practitioners should learn the math. I just don't think there's actually that much math to learn. Certainly, if you read through the TensorFlow MNIST tutorial and you have no idea what cross-entropy is and you don't understand what the softmax layer is for, you need to go back to the basics. But these are concepts that anyone with any reasonable engineering degree can pick up relatively quickly.

As an example, I submit the five articles on Distill, a new online machine learning journal:

http://distill.pub/

Notice that only the first has any real math, and even there the math is just not very advanced -- it's undergraduate-level.
The author did attempt to address this, by complaining that you "aren't really paying attention":

* He notes that octaves are common across cultures (per Levitin, "This is Your Brain On Music")

* He asserts that 12 tones represent a practical limit to harmony; more than 12 tones is more complex than the brain can handle in its "note-expectation engine".

* He thinks other cultures could be working within his theory, but simply not taking advantage of _all_ of the universal harmonic features that Western music offers. He cites pentatonic scales as an example.

* He is baffled by the Nasca Indians of Peru, who apparently form their pitches by linear steps in frequency rather than logarithmic (I won't even attempt to use the word "harmony" in this sense), but he asserts that 1) their tuning system was probably derived because it was mechanically easier to produce a set of pipes to that tuning system, 2) they're a weird case because they were isolated.

* To finish that reasoning off, he suggests there's a "musical sophistication" of a culture which develops from linear scales (easy to carve) on the simple end to equal temperament on the sophisticated side (because arbitrary key changes without wolf intervals is the ne plus ultra, right?).

So, yeah: I'd say there's some serious cultural narcissism going on. It would be OK if he confined his analysis to Western harmony and simply tried to explain what was going on there, but by trying to derive universal musical principles from barbershop quartets, his project was pretty much doomed from the get-go. :-)
Though never quite reaches the level of WM
There is a competitive advantage in having real loyalty from employees. Treating people well makes them want to be loyal.

Even Walmart has started realizing this. It turns out that when you hire unmotivated people, pay them as little as possible, screw them on medical benefits, pay them too little to get their own apartment and in general work them harder than everyone else in that job sector that you get people who don't do a good job. In the past several years, Walmart has instituted new wage plans, better medical benefits, productivity goals from corporate that are still unreasonable but not insane and they think it is worth the money.

I don't know if Amazon has learned this expensive lesson, but a business can run with high employee turnover and dissatisfaction for a long time before it catches up to them. Once it becomes apparent it is often too late to fix without losing heavily in the marketplace.
No expertise here, but hopefully they aren't planning to do anything major with the stores. Unless I've seen a really skewed sample, the thing is that Whole Foods stores are not that large. There just isn't room to add anything major like a pharmacy at (I'm guessing) most existing locations. While they could make larger new locations, there must be better options if that was their primary focus. Even adding Amazon lockers will be tough at many locations. My guess is that they care most about the grocery aspect.
Or a Dell Precision 'mobile workstation'
They can make you (or your customers) solve a captcha before each API call.
Really neat product! I could definitely see myself using this in the future instead of messing around with gulpfiles. Is deployment limited to the pin.gy server or can I deploy straight to my own S3 bucket?
He didn't just post the passphrase, he also posted this:

"If someone figures it out, I will send you free sias"

I'd call that a clear invitation/authorization for anyone to try to crack his passphrase.
I thought this and made a quick assumption that we found a way to link decoded DNA down to the city level!
> Efficiency and cheapness would go against the Whole Foods brand.

For their existing customers, yes, but WF has become an aspirational brand.

What if the play is to gain a large number of less affluent customers by WF-labeling lots of inexpensive things?

Search Amazon for some commodity like corn meal, or rolled oats. There's a huge price difference between Quaker brand and Bob's Red Mill. Amazon could insert Whole Foods brand right in the middle and skim customers from both ends while maintaining handsome margins.
> Sounds like they never were two separate entities to begin with

“Separate entities” may just be an artifact of intelligences trying to divide sense data about the universe into chunks they are capable of processing.
Yes they do. A lot of people are really excited about the MacBook and MacBook Pro because they are so thin. I even know somebody with the new MacBook Pro who loves its speed and power while being extremely thin. He said he could not image using his older MacBook Pro (I think it was one from 2013) because it was "too thick and heavy". He didn't really need all the power nevertheless he bought one of the more expensive ones because he thought he did.

There are a lot of people who buy powerful MacBooks because it makes them feel important. Some of them tend to be sales people who travel to customers to show off some software on their $2k Hardware although this software runs just fine on a MacBook Air.

We are a small bubble who can actually take advantage of much ram (I for one need a lot for VMs and google chrome) but most people do not need more ram. fortunately, this year developers and media professionals were finally fed up with the under specced MacBooks and cried loud enough so that the media heard them. And suddenly a lot of people who already had the MacBooks also thought 8/16GB was not enough and started complaining.
"Overpaid, overfed, oversexed, and over here".
That is literally the exact thing that I thought too. Its interesting that a sentence like this can be so easily misinterpreted by multiple people in the same way.
IIRC they could mean two possible classes by using the term "Ethics":

* "Ethik-/Philosophieunterricht": basically you learn philosophy, ie. critical thinking, approaching problems/issues from different points of view, or

* "Ethikunterricht" as in learning ethical behaviour in the context of the profession you're striving to be in, which is most likely common sense crap that HAS to be taught so even "the last idiot" gets it or is at least on the record as having been taught this stuff so the school is not "liable" for potential ethics issues caused by the student.

I could very much be wrong about the latter point as I am enrolled in a similar, but more specialized "learning track" at a German "Fachhochschule" and not in a vocational school.
This argument is exactly analogous to the argument that privacy is for people with something to hide.

There's a very good response to that argument, and it applies here as well. It runs thus: sometimes society is wrong. Every advancement in our thinking starts out as a rebellion -- such as the civil rights movement in the 60's. Many of the participants did have something to hide from significant chunks of society, yet what they were doing was ultimately judged to be right.

Usually the things society judges to be wrong are wrong -- but sometimes they aren't. I want society to be able to oppose movements when they become large and vocal, and I want society to be able to ban dangerous ideas from public spaces -- but at the same time, I want individuals to be able to study and nurture any ideas they like in privacy, no matter how harmful or radical, because I want the good-but-countercultural ones to grow until they are ready to face society's judgement.

Privacy is often used to pursue vice . . . but that is an acceptable price to me, to guarantee individual freedom of inquiry.

So it is with cryptocurrencies. And for that matter, cash.

Sometimes our laws are wrong, and it is the black market which provides the demonstration and motivation to change them. Prohibition is an obvious example. Uber and Airbnb are controversial, but modern examples. Sex toys are an easily overlooked example. Marijauna legalization comes to mind, too; the laws are changing for that particular drug (and not for, say, Psilocybin) precisely because the scale of the black market has resulted in a lot of people having experience with it and giving us both personal experience and scientific data. If anonymous cash transactions were not possible, that probably wouldn't have happened.

The individual ability to buy anything, much like the individual ability to read anything, is both an important personal freedom and an engine for social progress specifically in the areas where society's mores are wrong. Sure, people almost always use this freedom to do things society doesn't approve of (either in the sense of the whole country or in the more restricted sense of their local community). Sure, those are usually things that are actually wrong. But squashing them isn't worth losing the powerful corrective force for society as a whole that arises from those few cases in which the miscreants are right.

I do want governments to be able to make laws, to be able to regulate commerce, to declare that certain things can't be bought and sold. But I don't want them to have such an efficient method of enforcement that small scale rebellion isn't possible. A certain persistent, low-level, ongoing engagement in vice is the price of moral experimentation, and I think it's worth it.
If she's a bit technically inclined, Jules Verne is an obvious choice - though I didn't read them in French, his books absolutely fascinated me as a child.

Based on your previous choice, I suspect she's much too young for Flaubert? His writing is marvellous.

On the other hand, avoid Malot and his ilk - it's just depressing stuff.
I believe the parent was comparing your post to the output of a Markov chain, not rhythms themselves. Though I didn’t have any problem making sense of it…
Why are their personal profiles tied to their moderation duties? Are these not their passional profiles but one that also is tied to their identity in another way?
They are about as different as running an online book store is to running one of the largest clouds on earth.
Is this a function of the number of existing books in the library? Basically does this appear only with large libraries? Might be worth filing a bug I have found the author to be pretty quick in responding.
Never been there, never done that, but it seems one of the things you could be doing is to put up the most interesting ideas you have on sites, just to gain the operational experience and to see what it takes to transfer an idea, any idea, into served bits.

Sidenote: as for "ramen profitable," for anyone in the situation where they're eating ramen or similar to survive, don't. Ramen's expensive and not great for you.

Buy dry black beans and vegetables. Soak the beans over night (rinse a few times during the process), then boil the beans the next day as you cut up carrots, peppers and onions. Saute the peppers, onions, garlic and similar, wash and cut up the carrots, saute with the rest just to have some place to put them. Other vegetables too if you like.

Pre-heat the oven to 300 F.

Rinse the beans once more, dump everything in a big oven pot (which you bought with the money you saved from not eating ramen and going under-nourished). Add about two cups of water, half cup of wine that can be drunk, or quarter cup of apple cider vinegar if you don't have wine. Or neither. Whatever spices you have.

Cook in oven about 3 to 4 hours. This will feed you for days. 16 oz black beans costs $1 here; the above bean stew costs in total $5 US or less. And there's actual nutrition in there, as opposed to ramen.
Just spent the last 6 months making anpr camera. Now just need to put Python on it. Fun times.
Reasonable, but not an invitation to transfer the entire amount then setup an automated process to transfer any remaining amount to your own address.
>And yes, immutability can be achieved with traditional database systems, enforcing it with cryptography adds another layer.

You mean like... mysql with encryption and sharding? So my company's mysql database is a private blockchain?
It might be hard, but if you've got those kind of resources available to you and the consequence of being wrong is hundreds of your employees might not ever be safe again, you'd better make sure you are right.

A bug in the software, discovered late last year, resulted in the personal profiles of content moderators automatically appearing as notifications in the activity log of the Facebook groups, whose administrators were removed from the platform for breaching the terms of service. The personal details of Facebook moderators were then viewable to the remaining admins of the group.

So nobody noticed that or fixed it for 2 weeks (edit: the article actually says that the bug was active for 2 weeks before being discovered and not fixed for another 2 weeks, and was retroactively exposing employees for more than a year - is that security)? Thousands of employees and nobody is checking for that?

Come on. We praise Elon sending things into space but FB can't do some basic error checking? Something doesn't add up.
Yes, me too.
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A similar analogy would be "Chipotles is super expensive, you can get the same thing for much cheaper at Applebees with a coupon", missing the point that Chipotle is competing with restaurants that are far more expensive.

Tangential to your point, but you seem to have reversed “Chipotle” and “Applebees” here.
Right, all governments need to do to prevent the "world currency" idea is say "no."
Hand-waving is nice, but...

Plants don't make air. Plants turn CO2 into O2. If there's no CO2, plants can't make O2.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmosphere_of_Mars

There's 0.6% of the air of Earth. For all intents and purposes (i.e. human / plants), it's a vacuum.

And the surface temperature isn't much better.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_of_Mars

-55C is common. An extreme heatwave at the equator is 20C. With lows of -153C.

So no, plants don't grow in a vacuum, and they don't grow in -55C.

Any greenhouse will have to be pressurized and sealed. This means that the main purpose of plants will be food, not O2 regeneration. Algae do O2 generation better and more efficiently than plants.

There is likely enough water for a small colony, if you can get to it, melt it, and it's in the right place.

> We're talking about a colony of a million people or more. With that kind of workforce available, bootstrapping an industrial complex is not insurmountable.

I suspect you severely underestimate the complexity of our industrial system.

It's very hard to create life-support on Mars for a million people. And a million people are nowhere near enough to create a modern industrial base, even with support from Earth.
60% of US households have a prime membership. I'd say the majority of Instacart's database is already a prime member anyway. Whole Foods customers would just switch to Amazon even if they move away from Instacart.
We had an incredible experience at Startup School. I finally feel connected to a startup community I thought was out of my reach. The networking opportunities alone make the program worth every minute you put into it. Thanks to everyone that made this possible!

We made Strength of Two - get alerts from people at risk of self-harm (https://www.startupschool.org/presentations/205). Any feedback/ideas would be greatly appreciated.
can we pick another mascot?
The people that are trying to justify that this is the price you pay for thinness is sickening to me. No, this is the price you pay for inferior engineering. Anything that can be assembled should be able to be disassembled without breaking it.
FYI Aldi also owns Trader Joe's.

EDIT: apparently I was effectively wrong, different Aldis:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14569051
Well what do you know, Jupiter doesn't actually orbit the sun! Not properly anyway

http://www.iflscience.com/space/forget-wha-you-heard-jupiter...
I am a consultant that writes software, does that mean I am not a programmer.

If wasn't supporting a whole raft of people who aren't my kids I could get by on 10 hours a week. Most of these people will be self sufficient in the fall. Then we will see I can get fewer hours.

Charge hourly, produce good work(actually work those hours you charge) and spend enough time learning to stay proficient in your niche of the craft. This recipe won't make you a millionaire quickly, and it won't get you a house in the bay area, but it has given me great financial freedom in the Midwest.
Then build more universities?
>We should expect mobile electronics to be sealed watertight at the factory.

That does seem to be the final destination as things become more and more tightly integrated. "System on module" seems to be where we are headed.

After all, you don't crack open your CPU to repair that bad L1 cache.

It would be nice to compromise on some sane boundaries though. Perhaps screen, "processing unit", and battery. I'd give up some thinness to mix and match those components to suit my use cases.
Only development is subsidized, ongoing costs are not.

The US could have easily contracted to Arianespace for these flights (especially as Arianespace is already a project of a close ally), and could have saved around 300 million USD for every single launch, of which there were thousands over the time frame that this was possible.

We’re seriously talking about dozens to hundreds of billions USD that could have been saved.
Touche! :D
The point still stands. If "mostly-automated one-to-one spelling and hyphenation updates" changes 'wand'ring' to 'wandering', 'worth's' to 'worth is' or 'Love's' to 'Love is', you break the sonnet.
Not quite. Elon has said you can hitch a ride back if you want to. It's part of the deal.

You'll be able to choose to stay, of course. But you can choose to leave.