skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess he meant, a real product making money + a profit.
It's been a long bumpy road for Jawbone, 20 years is really sad to see it ending like this.
The reason that they couldn't do this faster is that until recently they were not in a legal position to ask for payment because they hadn't negotiated a deal with the organisations who collect royalties on behalf of songwriters - and it is important to understand that a songwriter isn't always the same person as the recording copyright owner and sometimes neither of those people are the artist, and in the early days particularly sometimes none of those people was the person uploading the music to SoundCloud. Legally making music available to stream is legally complex.

So they were in a bit of a chicken and egg situation - they needed to monetise the service but couldn't because they weren't legally able to, and to compound this they were sitting on a liability because technically they had been infringing the copyright of songwriters - but to do a deal to be legally able to monetise they had to be able to generate some sort of revenue stream to be able to get forward investment to settle the terms of that negotiation.

TL;DR - Soundcloud couldn't charge people without potentially being sued at some point about a copyright issue. To be able to charge people they needed to settle that problem and it seems like that all went on too long and now maybe they've hit a point where the model for monetising soundcloud isn't working as fast as they hoped.
We're like... 6 days into July. The hottest period in CA weather is July-September. Somewhat early to call.

Plus, again, the rain and weather in winter and spring is record breakingly anomalous this year. So "this year so far" is not really a sane comparison.

The trend overall has been clear. Using this year is like when people say "we had record snowfall in upstate NY this year, so much for global warming, nyuk nyuk". It doesn't follow.
If any of you guys are into analog computing, just as an FYI, there's a sub-reddit dedicated to the topic (full disclosure, I started this particular one). analogcomputing.reddit.com

There's not a ton of content there yet, but please feel free to add anything you come across. I'm a fan of the idea and suspect, like the author of this piece, that there is "something there".
That's the whole point about path dependence. We went down this massively more complex and expensive path because we didn't do a few teeny weeny little things to network interfaces and permissions back in the 90s.
The specific term for this AR technique is "image overlay".
My number one skill is "Googling"
No doubt, though I would argue those are the exception rather than the rule... which is why it should be an ignorable warning, preferably requiring a code annotation to turn it off. But it absolutely be something a modern IDE should flag as a potential error (IntelliJ, for example, has whole classes of these types of inspections for Java, Kotlin, etc).
I'm guessing that, despite the passive voice, kevintb is actually asking why those users flagged it.
if layoff-aid.com is your site, you should 301 to HTTPS.
Yep, I use OBS. Its awesome, thanks for all your hard work on it!
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cc or double charmed Xi.
I have less control over whether my house lights on fire than if I make lots of trash. Also, if my house starts burning, it's an immediate threat to my neighbours' safety. If I leave trash outside, it's a less-immediate threat to their comfort.

Economically, clean streets are non-rivalrous (my clean street costs little more than my neighbor's) and retroactively excludable (through fines). This makes it a public enterprise good, akin to mail or trains [1].

Case in point: mattress and A/C sellers in New York City dispose of your old mattress or A/C for you. If pick-up of such things were free, fewer would do that. One response might be to regulate every thing one might purchase that could produce big trash. The other is to just make people who choose to make big trash pay for it.

[1] http://www.pitt.edu/~upjecon/MCG/MICRO/GOVT/Pubgood.html
The author's so called analog computers can be built by using FPGAs. And the term he might be reaching for is called data-flow programming.
I have had good luck getting rid of old things by posting them for free on Craigslist and leaving them outside. If it's at all usable someone usually comes by within an hour or two.
Is this not already a thing? I needed an old chair disposed of a few days ago, googled "Seattle Trash Removal", got like 10 results, and the next day somebody came by with a truck and took my chair away. Is this company different because they have an app? Because they offer speedier pickup?
VR needs good software and the reality is that it is just not there yet. If it does not come by the end of this year there will be a problem.

I think it will happen though for the one reason that Bethesda is delivering Doom, Fallout 4 and Skyrim for Sony PS4 VR for this Christmas. That will give Sony a big reason to keep yelling about PS4 VR and will restore the faith of people like me who bought a VR headset early that is now just sitting there waiting for good software to use it with.

The next challenge facing vR beyond that point is whether the three titles mentioned above deliver on the promise of VR - if they do not then VR is finished, at least for this round of enthusiasm about the idea.
The dev kits were dev kits. For developers. Just because you could go onto a web site and buy them doesn't mean that VR was released.

I think we can conclude it's not going to catch on once they have delivered on the promise of VR and then the market goes meh.

The Rift and Vive (the only VR worth anything) are both very far towards the early adopter side of the spectrum and I think everything follows from that. They are expensive, difficult to set up and keep working, and have expensive dependencies. Prototype hardware already exists that shows all those problems are tractable.

So to me the question is only does VR run out of money before it develops a viable product. Sure there is some small question of what the market will think of what VR has to offer, but when you offer it to people for "free" the reaction is uniformly positive. The only barrier is cost and convenience and whether those lines intersect with the cost to produce VR in time (or ever).

I think those lines will intersect as you can do it on hardware that is O(mobile phone) in cost. Just not actual mobile phones. Those are trash for VR.

I think it's really unlikely that the in four years the market will be so small as to support zero VR. I think it's comparable to the first iPhone which was really not that great.

I know I will use and keep buying VR displays forever even if they freeze at the current level of technology. Even when someone is offering me 16k OLED 2d displays with 240hz refresh rates. There is no substitute for a fully tracked POV and proper depth perception.
Ask HN: That website with product/startup ideas?
There was a website (either as a submission or a comment) that was posted recently that basically was a list of startup ideas/problems to solve. I know this is hopelessly vague, but anyone else remember it?
Sad, they were great back in their bluetooth microphone heyday but after I had to return the Jawbone Up 5 times for just basic manufacturing and quality defects (and to their credit they were fast each time) within a few weeks of each replacement... it was clear they were on a terminal decline (this was about 2 years ago).

You can't produce bad product that consistently and survive.
The days of consumer hardware company's access to startup capital is over. With so many high profile VC backed (Fitbit, GoPro, Hello, Juicero, Coin, Pearl, ect.) and kickstarted (Lily.ai, Pebble) failures, no one is willing to risk it.
> Instead, you program it by changing the interconnection between its many computing elements – kind of like a brain

This is one of the worst "brain" analogies I've read lately.
it's not, it just gets the writer more clicks on his/her headline
Docker is like an extended satire of Unix multi-tenancy in code form.

"Damn it... another f'ing package broke. Fuck it. We should just tar up whole Linux distributions and push them out as updates."

"Hey... that's a great idea!"

"What?"

"Tar up whole distributions and..."

"No! No! I was only kidding! Wait! where are you going...?"
Yeah I remember seeing the CEO speak at one of YC's events. They even had their doors chained up when they ran out of money many years ago. If I'm remembering correctly they almost sorta died twice prior to today. Resilient but seems they never could get to sustainable profits.
Unroll.me: You stole peoples mail spools and sold them to the opposition. Selling peoples lyft receipts to Uber -- you should be ashamed of yourself and the legacy of violation that you left in your wake.
To me -- this is one of the worst abuses of peoples trust that they granted to you. You are scum.

I have no sympathy for any of your antics or tales.
Yes that says quite a bit about how highly he was regarded, plus he did also assist in promoting the survey of the town, opening it up for development. Parkes was central in many aspects of development of the colony over his lifetime, including bringing to an end convict transports from England, providing universal education, commissioning landmarks such as Martin Place and Centennial Park which frame modern Sydney, and above all getting the various colonial states around the table to form the great nation of Australia.
you were claiming that a generalization doesn't hold for specific cases... which will never invalidate a generalization, because a generalization works "in general" not for specific cases :)

you only get to vote for the president?!

do you live in a democracy where you can vote to get things changed? or perhaps people in america just like it that way.

maybe it is naive, but other democratic countries are moving ahead with more progressive ideas.
> my reality was augmented because everywhere I went I thought "I wonder what Pokemon are around" and would check the app.

But you're not augmenting your senses that perceive the reality. Using the app to check if an entity exists near you is nothing more than just a reference check; it's like looking up Yelp reviews for the restaurant you're in.
I stand corrected! Thanks.
I believe it's called the double charmed Xi baryon, but I'm not sure if it has a pet name.

There's a whole bestiary of particles like this one that don't really stick out as particularly interesting, I imagine it's simpler to stick to the boring descriptive names.
For folks playing at home and wondering "What is Robinhood?"

From [1]

> Robinhood is a stock brokerage that allows customers to buy and sell U.S. listed stocks and ETFs with $0 commission. ... we are able to maintain a lean bottom-line and pass the savings along to you, the customer ... Robinhood is an SEC registered broker-dealer and member of FINRA & SIPC.

[1] https://support.robinhood.com/hc/en-us/articles/202844869-Ab...
Yes, however for example I live in an unincorporated area and have to either contract my own trash removal, or haul it myself to a county trash site and pay by the bag to throw it away.

I pay about $25/month for weekly pickup. Some weeks I have less trash and could skip the pickup, but that doesn't save me any money. Some weeks I forget to set it out for pickup on the designated day and I have to wait until the next week.

If I could get my trash picked up on demand whenever I have a full bin that would be something I'd seriously look at. I think it's a great idea.

Unfortunately I think it would end up being more expensive. No way ad-hoc pickup out in a rural area is going to be cheaper than a truck sweeping through the area once a week and servicing all the houses on one trip.
Soundcloud is a German company based in Berlin...
VR needs a killer application. It needs a Lotus 1-2-3 or VisaCalc. Most likely will will come in the form of something productive.
If the false positive rate was even just 1 or 2%, it might be too noisy to warn about. Perhaps an annotation to opt out would be more apt.
I think there's still a ton of potential though. The right company just needs to come up with the right formula.
The population may shrink randomly, but the survivors will move from less productive (and less paid) jobs to more productive (and more paid) jobs.
Hired.com is pretty good too. I'm now happily working at a low-key company that I would've never heard about thanks to Hired.
> In fact, a couple of biomedical researchers have proposed that grant reviewers should strive to identify only the top fifth of grant proposals, with the final awards decided by lottery

This works if there are enough funding opportunities that you can have repeated trials. If you only have the same funding opportunity once a year... it may also be a disadvantage.

But overall, I support her movement.
Oh, right. I'm Canadian. I regularly see new games range from 60 to 100 CAD.

I don't have a Playstation myself, I play on a PC when I do. The rest of what you said sounds about right.
The brain is not an analog computer.
We've made improvements based on that feedback, thanks! We also sent you a message but didn't hear back. If you're still interested, we'd be happy to help. You also mentioned that we should hire your team - We'd love to if we had the capital, but we'd rather place you somewhere that can pay you a lot better than we can :)

Ravi Grover, Elevator CTO
While I do love vim, its own high level of internal implementation brokenness doesn't really have much bearing on how one implements this sort of thing in a real multi-language IDE.

And as for your question, the answer is ... yes. Sure. Why not? That's what we already do in nearly all IDEs.
It doesn't seem like a controversial position for those of us who enjoy music to wish there were some professionals making it.

If we are going to have professionals they must make money some how & the current status quo requires them to be constantly touring.

Talk to them and this is taking its toll both in longevity & album quality. I listen to albums a lot more than live concerts so I find this concerning.
I happen to be one of the "incestuous" Brazilian boys. Also, I came from ThoughtWorks. I doubt thowaway999 considers me one of the "bad ones", but I do need to give my two cents here.

1. I fully agree about the fractured organisation with lots of in-fighting.

2. I relate with the statement about "confused hipsters who couldn't differentiate between language du jour and its monads and delivering a product". I think it was more a matter of very clever yet immature kids that loved to play around with eccentric language features. That was not the root of any problem, though. The problem was lack of leadership to curb the in-fighting and give the engineers some direction so that they don't get lost on their drive to experiment around with whatever they feel like it.

3. It's ironical to blame the ex-TWers Brazilians _and_ the monad-loving hipsters. From my perspective, these were distinct groups. The Brazilians were not the stronger advocates of monads and other Scala typing tricks. Quite the opposite. The few Brazilians that were more fond of Scala were not ex-TWers. In short, simplifying the blame to one nationality is very short-sighted.

4. I'm very curious about who we supposedly bully. Or who was bullied at all, for that matter. Perhaps, I was too far from the director ranks to witness that. I'd imagine a director could do something about lowly engineers bullying people.

5. About ThoughtWorks, there's another misconception here. There's a strong cult-like culture there, yes. It happens that the former ThoughtWorkers that joined SoundCloud were exactly the ones that we dissatisfied with the cult, and joined SC in search for a better work culture. The ones that I knew personally have some quite strong feelings _against_ the "social justice" hypocrisy that is rampant at TW.

6. How were we "incestuous"?
> The days of consumer hardware company's access to startup capital is over.

So I haven't worked at a hardware start-up but it seemed pretty difficult even before these companies to raise funding versus a pure software play. I'm not necessarily convinced this makes it easier or harder. Is there a specific reason you think it will be harder now?

Also, for what it's worth, Fitbit and GoPro are still going. I'm convinced Fitbit can get back on the growth curve as long as they can get a new product out the door that consumers want. Tall order for sure but I don't count them as a failure yet.

GoPro want to move to doing software more so than hardware. Considering their software has always considered to be lackluster to borderline terrible I'm less convinced they will turn it around but also not yet willing to say they're a failure.
It would be interesting to simulate that airflow in LTSpice, given that that analog contraption can do it.
You should do a similar experiment with BTC, or BTC+litecoin+eth or something like that. The APIs are already there.
> I still think the latter is bonkers for several reasons (SIGABRT being one)...

The fact that we're typing this, and it works -- without the entire world falling apart because of crashes in complex library code -- demonstrates why this is not remotely bonkers.
because they have an app and are probably going to be using unlicensed "contractors" to dump your garbage in unlicensed locations and call it industry disruption. I can already see the lawsuits.
composite particle... yawn
for those who are not aware of what 3uh is posting: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/24/technology/personal-data-...

https://theintercept.com/2017/04/24/stop-using-unroll-me-rig...

yeah, lady, you're pretty low on the ethics totem pole right now. Not too surprised honestly from somebody who used to be a headhunter/recruiter.
>> But that doesn't mean that it's not valuable to use incomplete information to speculate on a diagnosis in other settings.

Jesus man, how do you write something like that in the comments for an article about removing mental health stigmas and improving care for those effected?
ICanProve: digitally signed screenshots and session logs for legal evidence
The half-marathon is a race that commemorates the Greek soldier who ran halfway from Marathon to Athens after the Battle of Marathon.
It's discriminatory.

If you read them, you might later want to separate the articles by quality.

(Now, seriously, since so many research institutions are government quasi-government run, separating quality from bias (honest or dishonest) is very hard.)
In 2014, there was piles of "success stories" for VCs to look at and the market was hot. Most of those successes have turned into down rounds or complete shutdowns in the last year.
Why do you hate GitLab? I've had it deployed for nearly a year and some recent releases have resolved many of my concerns.

> I've just realised probably any Digital Ocean engineer can get root on my box if they want to right :-(

I would assume yes.
ha nice! I didnt know robinhood api was public. Any pointers?

Did you set it up as some formal entity or just through your personal account? Any pointers to learn about the restrictions. I'd love to so some interesting apps myself.

Update: I think i found it - https://github.com/sanko/Robinhood . Thanks!
Why not just run a single web server and set it up to serve public_html from people's home folders?

The difference to that multiuser system is that we want people to manage their own infrastructure. That's the real reason for the bloat - no matter how much that VM server costs, I bet you it costs less than paying people to administer a shared infrastructure. It has nothing to do with ports.
The author's so called analog computers

Why do you say "so-called"?

can be built by using FPGAs.

Also, FPAA's (Field Programmable Analog Array)[1]

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Field-programmable_analog_arra...
I see it's a British commonwealth thing: http://www.dictionary.com/browse/ask

Still it sounds like business executive jargon such "spend," also a turnoff.
These are 1st generation products in the same sense that the original iPod was. Sure it's not inaccurate to say that walkmans existed in the 70s, but it's not an equivalent product category.
> I listen to albums a lot more than live concerts so I find this concerning.

Or .. disconcerting?
I disabled secure boot on ubuntu because I couldn't get the virtualbox kernel module... So pretty sure the modules have to be signed.

Anyways, with Lenovo who is to say they didn't leak their private key out shear incompetence :)
Well it's definitely not a Turing machine.
Storing that many certificates is a total waste of engineering. (On both LE's and the SaaS's side.)
It's strange that the article does not mention anything about hydraulic macroeconomics and MONIAC, they were once widely used to verify theories in economics.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MONIAC
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydraulic_macroeconomics
Risking discussing religiousity:

Java as a language has some rough-edges: multiple inheritance and verbosity. Personally, I'd use Kotlin if there were a requirement to run on the JVM.

In terms of the JVM:

Erlang VM is under-appreciated: each "process" (not an OS process and lighter than an OS thread) has its own heap so there's no global GC pauses, share-nothing and let-it crash doesn't take out Erlang VM.

For anyone stuck on JVM, look at Azul's free Zing for shorter/less GC pauses and a generally faster JVM.
It's so easy for Shenzhen to just copy them though. There's nothing defensible about hardware.
Indeed, all of the US units are defined in terms of metric standards. There is no standard inch.
Man, this is exactly what I browse HN for. I'm concerned this won't hit the front page because it sucks you into the story for 30 minutes before you come back to give an upvote. So strange to see a story like this on sbnation though. Seems more like a sci-fi story than a sports story.
We have the same thing in Australia. There were public announcements that the eastern states would be in permanent drought a few years ago. Then it flooded... so we have public statements that climate change will raise the number and severity of floods.

Politics != Science
But the tech talent in SF was laid off today.
I think y'all are overestimating the risk. He isn't throwing it away. He's mentioned here that it's max 1 trade of 1 share every 5min. The initial portfolio is very diversified, so barring a concerted attack this experiment's returns likely won't be much different from a random actively managed mutual fund -- with the advantage of having no management fees and no trading fees either.

And he can stop the experiment any time.
> you were claiming that a generalization doesn't hold for specific cases... which will never invalidate a generalization, because a generalization works "in general" not for specific cases :)

Very true

> you only get to vote for the president?!

We vote for the president, senate, congress, and local representatives. We rarely vote for individual issues (like say Brexit) on a national level, those are usually decided for us.

> do you live in a democracy where you can vote to get things changed? or perhaps people in america just like it that way.
maybe it is naive, but other democratic countries are moving ahead with more progressive ideas

America is a Constitutional Republic not a true democracy. We don't even get one vote per person. Our votes are broken up into statistical areas that are winner take all. And I can assure you that many Americans don't like it that way but it is very difficult to change in a two party system. Which is why many people (millennials more than any other group) are pushing to end the 2 party system.
humans need about 12X the time

That's a great point. I might need to be less enthusiastic about my bet in the future.

Canidae exhibit an extraordinarily high degree of phenotypic plasticity.

Another great point. I'll further revise down my odds. I've often wondered about this. How has it come about that Chihuahua and Great Danes are both Canis lupus familiaris?

Do we have any idea why dog exhibit extraordinarily high phenotypic plasticity?