skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you to the author for sharing your experience and insights. Some tips for being a better angel investor and reducing risk:
1) I can't stress this enough - learn the ABC's of private investments. I have seen a ridiculous number of angel investors as well as founders who don't understand the fundamentals of private equity investments and returns - even people who have been working at a startup for several years.
2) Limiting yourself to meeting with and investing in startups an industry in which you've worked, so that you understand their industry, better evaluate them and add value
3) Limiting yourself to meeting with and investing in startups in industries in which you or close colleagues and friends have worked so that you can consult with them regarding the potential investments
4) Joining an angel group, such as Band of Angels, so that you have a group of fellow angels to learn from and discuss investments with
5) Meeting with successful serial entrepreneurs who make angel investments to ask what they look for
6) If you have not founded a company or worked at an early stage startup, learn Lean Startup methodologies
7) Make sure you understand how a startup achieves product-market fit
8) Put together a list of good people and companies who can help startups you invest in, with everything from operations to tech to growth
There's much more, but this is a start.
Yeah, this is the sort of thing that might push me to the open source lifestyle. Now if I could just get a decent Linux laptop...

Actually, that might be the only thing holding me back. 100% of my computing is done on a laptop. I'd have to start using desktops again to get a decent experience.
It's not ego, it's just "do not negotiate with terrorists" approach adapted to the workplace.

If you make such concession for one employee, the next day you'll have 5 others with similar demands.

EDIT: One more thing: the reason why it is often easier to get a raise by changing jobs instead of negotiating it in your current workplace is information asymmetry.

Your current employer knows you all too well, so it is hard to convince them to pay you more. Potential new employer does not know that much about you, plus they are in need of new employee so they are more likely to give you more money.
I believe they already are? Glassdoor
I am 55 years old. In my twenties, thirties and early forties I ran a lot and did things like pull-ups push-ups and crunches. The past 10 years have been much more weight lifting.

I currently lift 5 days a week

MWF -- benchpress, leg press, leg curl, seated rows and back extensions

T TH --- pull-ups, leg raises, overhead press, bicep curls, deadlift, dumbbell lateral raises and shoulder shrugs

At times I have been focused on lifting heavy and relatively few reps. Currently I am biased the other way, a lot more volume at lower weight.

Mix in some walking, jogging and "sprinting" for some cardio. At times I have reduced the weight training and bumped up the cardio for several months.

Goals: mix of health, functional strength and looking good

Eating: I have been on intermittent fasting for 4 years. Style is 16:8 with the occasional 20:4 or even 22:2 thrown in. I do not really restrict what I eat, but 90% of days I break my fast around midday with a very large multi-ingredient salad so that I am starting with the healthiest food.
I look forward to a time when journalists doing journalism is what's valued in the news.

When technology to fake things is everywhere, maybe we'll pay for accurate newspapers again. With something other than our willingness to be manipulated by advertising.
I think that "no different" is a stretch here. The way you choose to communicate with someone to achieve an end is important in itself.

For a hyperbolic example, imagine you had a partner who wanted you to lose weight because you'd got fat and found you unattractive as a result. They choose speak kindly to you about how they feel to see whether they can change your behaviour, and own the possibility that you're not interested in what they have to say.

Is this <em>no different</em> to them using some subtly crafted speech (based on their in-depth knowledge of your insecurities, etc.) which creates some shame or self-doubt, whilst not making their real position or motive clear?

Or equally, one of your children's friends wants them to try a new legal high; in case (a) they describe how they find it and what it's like, and in case (b) they use some social pressure about how everyone's into it and it looks cool, etc.

Or you go to your doctor, and she offers you a new drug for your ailment; in the first case she describes the evidence base for it and any potential down-sides in statistical terms you can easily appreciate. In the second, she conjures an image of your ailment worsening progressively until you are a drag on your family and you die resented and alone; this is a possible but unlikely outcome if you leave the ailment untreated.

In all these examples the two paths are no different in terms of someone trying to influence someone into trying something out, but most people would find the first options preferable to the latter.

I think the point is not that all attempts to change someone's mind are manipulation and so completely morally equal, but that some kinds of manipulation are hurtful in themselves either because they are deceptive or because they hurt people.

A show HN post may be trying to manipulate you, but hopefully it is not using deceit or an emotional over-reach to do that.
I agree, though in that case I'm not sure the UK/EU legislature would have been needed at all. It also doesn't address the part of the problem that they were trying to address in the first place, limiting cookie use to where/when it is most essential.

Realistically, you can see if informed consent is being achieved if the number of sites with ad/tracking software installed drops. "would you like us to keep tabs on you on behalf of FB's advertising platform?"
The basic idea of capitalism is some ventures / companies will fail. Trying to hang on by underpaying people is generally just forestalling the inevitable and closing up shop early is generally better for all involved.

That said, if your growing etc and just have a cash crunch then stock is generally an option.
Blockchain!
Machine learning!
Cloud!
This is the most Buzzword Compliant mainframe we've ever made!
I'm pretty sure it's still illegal to spam cell phones, but enforcement is impossible with the current phone infrastructure.
IANAL, but unlike patents, copyright violation only occurs if you actually copy the work - independent creations are not infringing, even if similar. While the standard for showing that the work was actually copied is usually not high, especially since these are usually civil suits, some link in a random Google Drive might not be enough.
My primary activity of choice is trail running - I run ultra marathons (and organize a couple a year too!). I do a mix of body weight and lifting 2-4 times a week as well. We've set up a pretty sweet home gym so I have no excuses - it's between my home office and the kitchen :-)

Diet is moderate carbs, higher protein and fat, but damn I like ice cream.
Don't see it as a threat, see it as me finding out what the market value is of my labor and then informing you about it. I'm going to do due diligence before asking for a raise, if our company was launching a product and I found out what the market value of it was you would presumably be thrilled. I work as hard for myself as I do for the company, just like I know that the company works as hard for our customers as we do for our shareholders.
They get paid to carry those calls, so why wouldn't they forward them?
I'm not sure I buy that, at least not over the long term. People on the front line are going to see the effects of drug abuse more sharply than anybody. There's no way drug companies would be able to mislead a good doctor. Maybe once or twice, but eventually any doctor will start to see problems that they are creating.

I think I would put most of the blame on doctors. IIRC, doctors themselves have a pretty bad record with respect to drug abuse and addiction.
There's a demand from the deep learning field for those 1070 and 1080. They go as fast as they show up if priced correctly.
How to use dynamic imaging to increase e-commerce conversion rates
I would argue that you were simply too early to market, now that Uber succeeded there are a ton of cab hailing apps trying to keep cabs relevant.
True, but the "remember me" checkbox is sufficient consent:

> Persistent login cookies which store an authentication token across browser sessions are not exempted under CRITERION B. This is an important distinction because the user may not be immediately aware of the fact that closing the browser will not clear their authentication settings. They may return to the website under the assumption that they are anonymous whilst in fact they are still logged in to the service. The commonly seen method of using a checkbox
and a simple information note such as “remember me (uses cookies)” next to the submit form would be an appropriate means of gaining consent therefore negating the need to apply an exemption in this case.
I receive 3 - 4 per DAY on Verizon. Though, some weeks it's lighter; maybe 1 - 2 per day.

It's really bad. Gladly, that's my work number, so if the numbers aren't in contacts, I don't answer.
The Psychology Principles Every UI/UX Designer Needs to Know
For a lone manager, chasing short term gains at the expense of longer term might be the most rational strategy for their own careers.
The goal of archiving is making a perfect copy. Transcoding ruins that.
Can recommend this link; it's a one-click victory in buzzword bingo:

> As businesses adapt to capitalize on digital, trust will be the currency that drives this new economy.

> With z14 you can apply machine learning to your most valuable data to create deeper insights.

> In the digital economy data is the differentiator. IBM z14 can rapidly derive actionable insights and enable progressively smarter decisions for better customer experiences and new revenue streams.

> IBM z14 can help you accelerate development and delivery of secure, scalable services with new economic models.

With such key features as:

"100% encryption is 100% mainframe"

"Trust – the foundation of digital relationships"

"Facilitate new secure services with Java"

I actually like IBM mainframe tech, but this page is hilarious.
Yes, but it sounds cooler!
They are targeting all porn sites, commercial or not.
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%22that+just+works%22

<Product name>. <What it does>, that just works. Made by <name> in <city> with love.
We've been happy teamcity users for years.
PocketCasts also supports chromecast
Depends on the cryptocurrency in question, but yes, a cryptocurrency working under a Proof-of-Work scheme like bitcoin, will use more energy than credit card systems. I'm not sure it'll ever be possible to outperform centralized, digital systems on an energy usage level. What I was critical of, was the comparison to physical money. Energy usage isn't really that important a metric for payment systems though, price is probably more relevant, where some innovations in cryptocurrency might come to be competitive with credit cards.
Sure. I'm using it for a mildly distributed locally focused offline-able content addressable store _(that's a mouthful)_. Think Camlistore, with the things that I wanted. Personal storage is the main use case but with some limited database capabilities.

As such, the records stored in the .. store, need to be indexed with provided fields for later retrieval. The indexer is responsible for this. This ends up being far more like a "database" than anything, honestly, as my queries can be complex, or simple. Eg, tags:foo title:hasWord:bar, etc.

So basically the indexer should be able to run a full suite of database-like queries, I just don't care about the data being retrieved, only the id(s) that matches the queries. To reiterate, the indexer is just responsible for returning the content hashes/ids. The content addressed store actually stores/retrieves the data. Needed operations are all the standard ones: AND, EQ, OR, NOT, PREFIX/SUFFIX is nice too but not required, etc. and of course FullTextSearch.

Anyway, hope this answers your question.
While a factually correct description of what was made available, I don't think that's quite the intended meaning of "open source".
KDE is a large project but in the scheme of things... nobody uses kde except a minority of enthusiasts.
you're name's likely to get further up the redundancy list than you'd probably like.

But you don't make PEOPLE redundant, only POSITIONS.

If you are using redundancies as cover to target individuals that have annoyed you, then you will be shortly staring at the business end of a tribunal.
Your DNS lookup is 10x more reliable than the telco infrastructure.
Cool thanks, I'll check out Flowstone!

And I agree with all of your second paragraph. I'm probably still going to be skeptical of any "general purpose" flow-based IDE, but who knows, as programming matures over the next century we might eventually have a good grasp on the similarities between domains, and how to design better and/or visual tools that work in many domains. My theory could be totally wrong too.
Your argument is moot, if you replace Swift with Objective C.
Also you don't have to abandon previous iOS versions to support the latest, it just doesn't make sense to when 90% of the users are on the latest.
Instead of writing your own invoicing application, what about writing a custom front end to an existing web-based app (using existing API)?

That way you can focus on the specific UI you need and not mess with recreating everything else. Your UI doesn't need to be browser-based.
You're right that businesses presently are not charities or good-will missions, but perhaps they should be. The way most businesses are currently run (ie, as profit mills chasing growth at any cost) is detrimental to the environment, society, and the economy itself. Business for its own sake is stupid AF.
After watching the video from that link, I'm very fearful for what people are going to do with this technology in the next decade. This combined with Adobe's new "speech photoshop" will make excellent propaganda.
They provided a completely rational explanation for what's going on.

Simply waiting 4-8 weeks treats the vast majority of common issues. Either because they get better, the environment changes, or because the brain ends up ignoring repeated stimulus. Which is the secret to much of this stuff, they don't say just wait but because treatments are designed to take a while a significant number of people will make the association.

PS: Some include useful diet changes and exercise, but people often ignore their doctors giving the same advice so YMMV.
How's the SQL engine implemented? I had a quick look at the xlwings code on github and couldn't see it...
There should be no age restriction on reality. The censored images in news are an affront.
If you are writing systems code, you will be writing unsafe code; it's just how it works when you are working with the underlying kernel and hardware.

The best you can do is attempt to contain it within "unsafe" blocks, but as has been proven by others in the rust community already this will not save the rest of your "safe" code from crashing if you write a bug.

There have been memory safe languages for longer than c has existed; rust is just the latest.
Let me share a few real life use cases for you -

when I go to pubs/restaurants with friends in Shanghai, one of us would be using AliPay to pay for the whole bill, then he/she would be using AliPay's "AA Pay" feature to show the QR code to get money from everyone. I guess your paywave card won't help you on that.

shared bike is extremely popular these days, it costs you $10c for a one hour ride. paywave card is useless for such innovative products - the amount of each transaction is too small, plus you don't want to see a card reader on each bike as there are 10 million such bikes now.

EFTPOS style devices were popular in China, the quarterly statement from Chinese central bank shows that around 6 billion debit cards and half billion credit cards were issued in total.

http://www.pcac.org.cn/file/File/1490069955.pdf
How much do one of these things cost?
No, but he did offer up a possible explanation for the symptoms disappearing. That GP had changed diets and tried acupuncture may just be coincidental with the pollen running its course.
If your employer is who I think it is - you still have many years to go. :-)
You might want to check out the project I've been working on: https://github.com/seemk/WebUdp

It's a minimal WebRTC server implementation (SDP, STUN, SCTP, DTLS and everything else) contained in a single library. Note that it only implements a subset of the specs to get it working and probably still is buggy (experimental!) as I'm developing it while working on another project that uses it.
You forgot that they mention blockchain technology.
> Still, I'm sure no-one actually has a problem with the concept of preventing under-18s from watching porn online

I'm sure lots of under-18s would have a problem with that. The vast majority is unlikely to accidentally end up on a porn site.
Believe me, I hear you. If it weren't for the need to keep the copper landline for the comfort and safety of my elderly father, who I had move in with me after my mother's passing, I would have nuked all landlines years ago.
One thing I believe that's not being properly considered is the fact this is really a multilevel problem - if you want to make a smart IoT device you still want a reliable device. "On top of" is absolutely the best concept. Yes, the biggest computational bang for the buck comes from stuffing linux or something similar in, but who doesn't react with a smile when they see a multi year uptime reported - it's not rare, but it's not anywhere near a majority either - Start with the basic circuit, on top of that you add microcontroller logic to mediate between the higher level ARM SoC or whatnot and the base circuit, and just as importantly, you've also got a microcontroller based watch dog that will kick linux if it falls over. My experience in building this https://hackaday.io/project/21966-quamera is to never stop asking "Quis custodiet ipsos custodes" (anybody proffering analog solutions will be ignored, analog is hard and I am stupid)
Bandcamp is amazing. The terms are easy to understand, the pricing is fair, the audio quality is guaranteed (they require uploads to be CD-quality lossless foiles, as a minimum) and it's super easy for the musicians to manage tagging and even physical merch sales.

It's exactly how music sales and distribution should be done.
Never stay at a job once you've shown your manager you have other offers. Use the current job to up your salary in the next job. Again never stay...you'll be gone in time for sure.
During my Jenkins build I am creating a file with the number of database queries per test, since I am generating the file it can be in any format.

How can I feed this to Jenkins and plot it over time?
The one important part in all the buzzwords:

> New software pricing tied to business value

So, it's like a tax on your business, if you succeed, so do they!

All joking aside, has anyone used mainframes for a greenfield project in the last 20 years? I'm genuinely curious. I've been under the impression the only reason they're still around is because of the massive 20 Million LOC cobol apps hanging around.

I've often thought I'd much rather have a cheap, featureful "walled garden" PAAS for side and small projects, as opposed to wrangling vms and containers all the time. Mainframe could fit this use case.
In the days when I used VMS it was common for applications to be tied into the hardware. Therefore you only really ran a fairly bespoke set of applications that were specific to your business. Therefore it is never possible to eulogise fully about the cool wonders of VAX VMS as everything was domain specific.

I worked in remote sensing at a time when UNIX workstations were taking over the show. Again applications were tied into the hardware so if you needed an SGI for your code, that was what you had and again it was hard to fully explain the merits of a given platform in a way that makes sense to a Windows user.
Sounds like you can use all sorts of different tech but web2py might be easy - the default forms are tabable, it's quite quick, easy, relatively secure and doesn't need updating all the time. Against it's not so modern and makes it hard to do stuff like chat messaging.
Studies have shown that beyond a point money in and of itself doesn't boost happiness. In addition, the social aspects of work are highly beneficial - and the lack of social interaction leads to depression for many retirees. I know people who are very successful in their jobs and very well off who are absolutely miserable. I know others that don't earn a lot - they earn enough to be secure and live well - but derive tremendous happiness from their job.

In addition, the answer depends on your company, work environment, the impact of your work on others and the type of person you are. Does success at work mean elevating your team, helping customers solve their problems and improving the lives of others, or does it mean stabbing colleagues in the back, getting customers to buy products that either aren't helpful or even hurtful to them and making the lives of others worse by harming them or the environment? Are you the type of person that feels better improving the lives of others or enjoys the feeling of deriving benefit from tricking others?
> if you put some thought into how

While you were over there thinking about it, I had already completed the job. Which was my #1 requirement. It doesn't seem like you'll ever understand that different requirements often result in different tool choices, but that's ok.

> But now you're probably worse off

Probably not. I now have several things automated that I once had to do manually. I may not be the smartest person in tech, but I'm smart enough that if I need a better solution than Ansible at some point in my career then at that point I'll simply learn the better solution. Different requirements = different tool choices.
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I am realising that a weekly exercise on 'inversion' should be a must-do for founders/investors.

Inversion essentially means think hard about:
"What factors can cause my venture to fail?, How to avoid those factors?"

This sounds simple but it could be a very powerful idea.
https://www.farnamstreetblog.com/2013/10/inversion/
Depends on which way you cut the data, looking at occupations, time period, and geographic location. I've looked and have found data and reports suggesting they're flat (keeping up with inflation) or slightly outpacing inflation. Some specific sectors and skills have seen significant growth.

The number of people employed in IT services as a whole as increased which has likely helped keep wages more stable. It's still a good career as far as salaries go.

One thing I've found that makes digging deeper challenging is the preponderance of titles and roles. Title inflation could disguise wage growth to some degree.
It's a really hard topic to navigate; on the one hand you don't want your 12yo daughter to watch disgusting and mostly misogynic videos, and on the other hand you have freedom of speech and net neutrality. The thing is: Do I have to tell my kids at age 8 that fisting/gang rapes/... are not how you really do it, and tell them what it's really all about? Or should I wait until age 11? Or will they come asking (I doubt it)? What if their friends already showed them at age 6 at school, is the damage already done then?

And yeah, 6yo do have access to porn if they can read/write by then.