skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You could perhaps consider turning a such 'response to a prompt' into a full-blown post on whatever easy-to-use blogging system (Medium, wordpress.com, hell even pastebin or its ilk?), and linking to it alongside a comment.

On HN, I often check specific commenters activity, or new comments in a thread that can be days-old, because I often find hidden gems. A link to more elaboration would definitely count as such. Perhaps an audience of even just a dozen or so people like me might be worth it.

EDIT: Coincidentally (I swear), there's exactly a dozen of comments that positively engage with your comment!
The UPS store will notarize stuff for like $10-20 bucks FYI.
And what about email newsletters you subscribed to? Those you _want_ to receive?

Because is about those ones the article is about.
I would agree the language can be confusing but they language isn't exactly propriety. There are open source implementations of it like mathics.net
your bank can usually notarize the document for free.
Although curiously the most tightly constrained place I've worked was a swiss bank (horrendous) even more than a UK government agency, my personal experience of working in such a plant is that there is a lot more diligence than your usual business workplace and that the office is very much separate from the station. You never need (and need is key) to copy files from without for instance, (no Windows behind the curtain). The budgets are much bigger and due to being very process heavy, deadlines are theoretical minima only, certainly management are not as you describe. Generally staff were very highly educated, very security conscious and in absolutely no hurry.

I felt the comment was blaming in that they would serve as an example and that that would be okay as they were at fault somehow. We do not know the infrastructural constraints in terms of legacy software with regard to whether they can safely take patches and it is unrealistic to expect large organisations such as Maersk to be able to do so automatically in my view. Having some small inkling into the matter, I feel that people must be arguing from a point of ignorance to suggest otherwise. I have even seen these script kiddie fans cry 'patch your shit' as if it is okay to release malware to global scale companies and they are somehow absolved from blame. It certainly is not.
You get it. Few people understand what's happening in every dimension at every point, but getting a feel is doable.
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Hi, game developer form here. If you have any question I will be happy to answer.
fold? he did the exact opposite of "fold"

he released the hardware plans, specs, and software as opensource. You can go build it, today. And if you have a supported car (currently certain honda civics, and accura ILX's.. soon honda crv, toyota prius, and chevy bolt/volt) you can actually use it, today. There are videos on youtube of people doing exactly that.

Changing your business model, is IMO.. the opposite of folding. it's adapting.
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don't kill humans as a rule won't work just don't recognize that "meat-bag" over there as a human goal accomplished rule circumvented. or maybe it's lower which colors are skin colors? how do you define valid colors? to define human properties?

At the end of the day I think there is a reason for the old saying the exception that proves the rule.
To own a firearm in Canada you have to pass a certain test. I made a simple quiz app (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ca2.testprojec...) that would help people prepare for that test. My main goal was to learn how to make apps. It did generate revenue in the beginning but it was enough to buy coffee a few times a week. Then the government updated the firearm regulations and now everyone has to take a mandatory course before they write the test.

This change effectively made my somewhat useful app almost completely useless, at least in my eyes, because now there's little incentive to self study.

I could have tried harder to market it but I'm glad I left it alone.

Lessons learned:
- Politics suck. Any business related to firearms is going to be vulnerable to government regulations.
- Money matters. Once you start charging for something, you automatically feel the need to deliver a product of higher caliber. You also get immediate validation on whether or not your idea is worth it and how much it could be worth.
This. I do it all the time. They have no problems with it.
I built Uncover (https://uncover.cc/), a service to track your favourite authors' newest releases. It's monetized with Amazon affiliate links.

I wasn't expecting much from it; my goal was to break even on server costs and domain, so ~20$/month. To date it has made $0*

(*technically it did make ~$2 in revenue, but Amazon deactivated that account, I had to sign up for a new one. So my actual received total is $0)

Ultimately it's not a huge deal; I built the project for myself, and it serves me well. I've already discovered 3-4 books I likely would have missed, so I'm super happy to have put in the time!

Lessons learned: When you build a super-niche product mainly for yourself, don't be surprised if it doesn't automatically attract a following. Also, don't set yourself up for disappointment: build stuff because it's fun, not because it's a means to an end.
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Ah, then we're much closer together than I thought.

However, there is no reason future computers will be limited to current (Turing) technology instead of being a collection of many co-processors with differing capabilities.

The main point though, is that since consciousness is housed in the physical brain, we can dissect, understand, and recreate fully-functional synthetic versions. While each person is in their own subjective world, the brain which is responsible for it is an objective object that is open to study.
I'd say the vast majority of their customers are just people who want crafting supplies and it happens to be the nearest big box store for them. I think a relatively small fraction of the population is as politically aware as you suggest.
Yes, my bank branch notarizes for free.
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In the past, I have built both a large enterprise-grade mail/calendar/contacts app which interfaces with Exchange, as well as a chat app:

https://www.checkpoint.com/products/capsule-workspace/#overv...

https://itunes.apple.com/il/app/check-point-capsule-workspac...

RN list views are terrible, as all the data is held in memory. For a chat or a mail apps, that's catastrophic. "Paging on the server" is not a solution; users want all their data on the device.

In my previous comment, I actually meant a different scenario than displaying a list. Take any proper mail client or a chat app; the first thing they do once a user logs in is start preloading previous data that can be found in cloud / on the server. Depending on the amount of data available, that is a very serious undertaking in and of itself, doing it efficiently enough in the background while updating the UI where needed upon insertion. This is just not possible in a single-threaded JavaScript.

Your mindset of only holding a small subset of data on the mobile is erroneous and is empirically not what users want; it's a web mentality and has no place in any app development but web. We went with this approach, albeit for security reasons. The result was the vast majority of users were unhappy. Users wanted a full blown Outlook in their mobile, and there was no reason not to give it to them.
Michael Bazzell is an expert on (both sides of) Open Source Intelligence (OSINT: data collected from publicly available sources).

https://www.amazon.com/Michael-Bazzell/e/B007GNUI92/

He maintains a virtual machine "pre-configured for online investigators" and a podcast.

https://inteltechniques.com/buscador/index.html
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Looks like they're just trying to get additional sensor data to train their neural nets (crowd source the data). I'm not sure if a single camera from a dash mounted mobile device plus vehicle control data is enough for training a neural net for fully autonomous driving, but it's certainly valuable for driver assist features.
> inane drivel from "thought leaders"

I think you mean "innovators". Even though 9/10 times they claim ownership on things they've contracted out on their parent's cash.
Ask HN: How to find a lead gen expert?
Hi HN,

I’m involved in a business called Coze (www.cozelinen.com), a luxury linens brand (towels, duvets, blankets, pillows, etc.). We are a subsidiary of a large UK wholesaler called Gailarde which supplies the likes of Travel Lodge, NHS and the Ritz.

We spent a lot of money on the design and build of the website but to our disappointment have done very little sales on it (under 10k). We tried some lead generation through Google, Facebook, influencers and print magazines and spent around £5000 for a £3200 return. However, we have very limited knowledge about online marketing and we don’t have any in-house specialists.

So, we’re looking to hire someone externally to help us with website conversion optimisation, funnel optimisation and lead generation in order to increase our sales. We want someone with experience and a proven track record. I'm considering trying Upwork but I've used it before and it's difficult to differentiate between different experts.

How do you guys go about finding lead gen experts or does anyone have any suggestions of someone you've used that you recommend?
The nurses/system are liable here - they should not have the authority to just change a dosage, but if they do, it should be reported back.
Amazon emails me directly whenever me favourite authors release a new book.
It'd be pretty easy to check if the certificate is invalid using something like a bash script [1]. Or you could script ssllabs to check for you (they give the site a failing grade if the Wosign cert is found/invalid) [2].

Note, I haven't been able to test that script on an actually broken site with a Wosign certificate

[1]: https://pastebin.com/ZVMM3PJZ
[2]: https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=google.com&hi...
As part of my graduate work with George Konidaris we've been exploring the creation of symbols and operators with ML. The goal being symbolic planning for continuous systems, however I see similarities in our approach, and the goals of rule based systems.

There's a journal paper that's under development, but here's a conference paper that addresses some of George's early work: http://cs.brown.edu/people/gdk/pubs/sym-prob.pdf
I wanted to do the same before. the idea was a platform for software as service.

You see, not all software are ideal to be implemented with pure web technology, although the limitation is quickly going away.

One example is expensive 3D modelling tools, such as Maya and 3D studio max. they are still desktop apps. They suffer from high piracy rate due to their prices. this is a negative feedback loop. You price them higher, you will have more people pirating them.

So this streaming Qt thing is a solution for quickly making a conventional desktop app into a web service and you can charge people with subscription.

This is a combination of the power of server machine and the convenience of the web. As web is not as capable as desktop app on 3D rendering, threading and direct accessing to GPU hardware.

Streaming the software ui is a viable solution for SAAS already, for example, as I know, both office 365 and the online version of libreoffice use this approach.

What I wanted to do was making a platform to make this easy. But I eventually gave up, because I think the biggest developers who would adopt this are heavy 3D graphics companies, and that narrows down to Adobe and Autodesk, as computer graphics is very labor intensive and monopolized. They both are big enough to develop their own solutions.
I'm curious if other assistive software solves this need at the OS level, or if you other similar tools are already known to the community that it would be useful for.

Windows has built-in speech control that lets you scroll and click, doesn't it?
Hmm. Think this is a far stretch from being a cellphone prototype. What I'm seeing is a wireless microphone with a number pad prototype.

I get that the implied concept is to take power hungry components and offload them to a nearby transmitter device, but we have that already: a wireless phone.
> But, it would have been nice to use them in some contexts and not just deny their existence.

My high school classes in Victoria, Australia, had tests and exams both with and without TI CAS (graphic calculator that also does algebra and calculus with a pretty screen) and I agree that it's pretty nice. Interestingly, I think our curricula were based on the UK's originally.

I think it's similar to learning all the simpler math. You're taught to add large numbers on paper but in the end doing it with a calculator saves you a lot of time and effort. Learning to use a CAS or Mathematica or the like seems essential if you're going to be working in a field that uses calculus for practical things like engineering, medicine or finance.
echo | openssl s_client -connect somewhere.net:443 -servername somewhere.net | grep -qE "(WoSign)|(StartCom)"
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You forgot Intel, Microsoft and Apple
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I've got a project with hpc related with bioinformatics (in particular, benchmarking aligners like bowtie[0] or bwa[1]).
What is the best way to get started in this field?
I've a CS background.

http://bowtie-bio.sourceforge.net/bowtie2/index.shtml
http://bio-bwa.sourceforge.net/bwa.shtml
Wait. Next year?! They're not encrypted already!?
Who did you shop it around to?

This sounds like a really useful idea; I've seen piles of duplicate bug reports arise when a common issue hits many people at once. One suggestion (if you didn't already try this): you could go to major Linux distributions and projects that get a huge number of bug reports, ask nicely if you could try it over their bug reports, see if you can get good results, and offer to provide it to them for free if they'll mention that they're using it. Then show the results to companies with projects that get similar volumes of reports, and ask them to pay for the service.
I haven't. Donating money to the IRA used to be very fashionable in Boston bars throughout the 80s and 90s (According to my Northern Irish Protestant family). I also remember when a Hollywood actor also publicly donated to the IRA as well.
True. If they could make a Bluetooth earpiece powered this way, though, they'd have a product.
Before I made LiberWriter, which has made money, I created a site called "Squeezed Books" with the idea that it'd be an open-source wiki type book summary thing. Book summaries are handy for popular business books that could have been a 5 page article rather than drawn out into a book.

The lesson: Advertising revenue is not a sustainable thing unless you get massive amounts of traffic and have low costs.
That's what you took from it?

(paraphrasing) US Gov, terrified by how an entire country unified with violent hatred (Nazi Germany), hired Freud's nephew for white-picket fence propaganda to keep "the beast" in American psyche buried.

Or how cigarette companies hired him (Bernays) to turn women smoking cigarettes from huge social taboo to "sexy" -- look at recent movie, pop icons etc on how this one marketing stunt has impacted American culture.

Sorry if you felt helpless after watching it. I found it informative and feel it contributed to my awareness of insidious advertising.
If I understood correctly, it is technology similar to GTK+'s Broadway
https://www.google.com/search?q=gtk+Broadway
So, for myself I needed something for audiobooks. Audible is owned by Amazon but AFAIK they don't offer a similar service.

Also, I don't want email notifications. I get too many emails, and ignore anything in the "Promotional" tab. Plus, I'll see the email while I'm at work, which isn't when I'm looking to find my new book.

I wanted a thing I could check when I finish my last book, to tell me right away what has come out since.

EDIT: But yeah, I also recognize that this is an extremely niche set of circumstances! Amazon's email notification service is probably what most folks would want.
Based on other comments here it seems like SA sees large price spikes that this should smooth out, so I suppose it's possible it will pay for itself not just in a more stable energy utility but also in real Dollarydoos.
Yeah, I sometimes have nested tmux and cu in ssh. Remembering how many times to hit `~` or Ctrl-A to get the right 'depth' is an art :)
i want to thank you for this kind of response. ive been commenting on hn more lately, and its suprised me how quick people are to ignore the nuance of something and just say its "bad" or "good". yes, i know thats essentially what i did in my original comment. but you are challenging what i said with specific examples, and that makes for interesting discussion. and i agree, not all ads are bad. and i think your point about some of them being works of art in their own right is something i strongly agree with- i've scored a couple commercials and have a bit of experience seeing the amount of thought that goes into some of them.

that being said, if were just restricting the discussion to movies- my personal strategy now is to wait until i hear from people i know that something is good before i bother. its not a strong interest of mine, so im pretty indifferent overall. the other way i decide is if i see people on twitter i follow say that something is good. or, i hear about something that has actors or directors i like. so, i think this stance leaves me highly susceptible to marketing. but the fact that marketing is influencing my movie choices is not evidence that its a good thing-

if no one marketed movies, would we still watch movies? i think so. maybe not as many, but probably with more enjoyment overall. just a guess.
do you have any art / music / film interests that are too specific to be overcome with marketing? i do, and i actively seek new stuff, which i am able to find, without the "aid" of sophisticated, organized marketing. i guess thats my counterpoint to the idea that marketing is helping to find stuff in this arena. i can see how teasers and the like can generate excitement and interest in a positive way, and thats a separate point.
I'm in the same position. Once there's a decent events board with good promotion, I'm quitting Facebook for good. Until that happens, I'm stuck there.
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My PhD was in a sister field to the one these researchers are in (we split when they built terrestrial particle accelerators, while we kept looking at the natural ones in the sky).

This is tongue in cheek stuff. The way one might speak to a colleague to give them a 'hard time' about their research. No offense intended!
There aren't many tried and tested solutions for grid energy storage.

Pumped hydro is probably the best known and longest used. It's reliable and low risk. It's only practical if geography includes two adjacent large bodies of water with significant altitude differential. This isn't exactly rare but it's unusual, so pumped hydro isn't often a solution.

Other than p.h.? Thermal (molten salt)? flywheels? These are rare and early in development. Each has its own reliability issues.

If grid-scale storage is needed, it seems like Li batteries are the best understood, lowest technical risk option for now.
I don't think you're being fair toward Mozilla. They had a meeting with Symantec and reported on it; there were no details because Symantec is going to soon publish everything. They probably had the meeting only because Gerv was in the area. Mozilla have been transparent the whole time.

Google's approach is clearly different to that of Mozilla, but IIRC they have never pledged transparency. They're a commercial entity and they're doing what they think is right and/or is in their interests.
They need to install backdoors first, duh.
They will most certainly do well! They're essentially a Broker++ since they are treating the haulers as their customer too (or at least saying that). Brokerages have traditionally treated the haulers poorly so if they can get the relationship with the hauler right things should work out really well for them.

Either way I predict success. Down the line they'll be acquired by Waste Management, Republic, or Waste Connections to become another Oak Leaf.
Neither page offered any sort of metric on what constitutes 'accurate'. so how do you know FitBit doesn't just have a lower standard than Apple does?
I could see an argument for how it is double-dipping... I'm not sure I agree with it though.
Hahaha, brilliant.
The autoscaler will add minions when there is a pod that cannot be scheduled. It doesn't help in balancing existing things, but at least the new pod should be able to go there.
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He threw a tantrum on twitter to save face. If you want to admire him for his hacking efforts that's one thing (and honestly I don't even agree with that for his work on self-driving cars), but he hasn't done much to build a business yet.
Dspam used to be great, but now it's mostly unmaintained :(
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> > Call your shot. Before you run code, predict out loud exactly what will happen.

> M, okay, but what exactly do you mean by that?

I frequently do a variant of this, although not always out loud. One way to debug a problem is to randomly vary various bits of the program until the problem no longer appears. Another way to debug a problem is to use the scientific method: develop hypotheses, then test those hypotheses with an experiment. I think he's saying to develop hypotheses, and then run code to test them.

edit: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11859090
Well the case is that our normal prescriptive preferences don't maximize possible futures. That's actually what we mean by prescriptive: they remove weight from futures we don't actually like, and give it to those we do. We call them "preferences" because they prescribe a non-maximum entropy (constrained, nonuniform) distribution over future events.
Oh.

When I saw the title, I thought they would start to use GnuPG or PEP or maybe switching from SMTP and MIME to something else.

And then it seems that they're still where the rest of the world was a almost decade ago, and starting implementing TLS.
Could you talk a bit about what you've done to promote it? Or has it been a hands-off, 'whatever traffic the marketplace provides organically' kinda thing?
It's not about the financial aspect of it. Create the site and the content--that's the hard part. You can always monetize the site/content later on.

Affiliate programs come and go, same with ways to monetize a site. You can always change out the ads on the site, that's fairly easy.

It's getting the traffic and building a site that people like is the tough part of that equation.
With the latest hype around cryptocurrencies (Bitcoin, Ethereum, etc) I decided to build an app to track the coins value. It offers some other features such as portfolio manager and notification alerts for prices.
Built it in 3 weeks (more or less) with React Native.
iOS version is coming pretty soon, it already works but since I do not have an Apple Developer account I'm holding a bit.

Medium post: https://medium.com/p/cryptotrakr-track-your-cryptos-599c83bd...
It's practical advice.
Sorry to hear about the closure, Aaron. If you or your colleagues are interested, Parabola Labs is hiring React and Node engineers in SF. We build tools that let non-technical people leverage data science and automation. https://parabola.io/ Feel free to email me at brian [at] parabola.io