skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just think you need to flesh out your case more. What exactly is your beef? That they are operating something that doesn't have value, but burning VC cash? Perhaps the niche you're operating in simply isn't profitable?

Seems like you're arguing that VC are funding something worthless or not worth much... but that you should be getting paid for building the same product?

I'm a nobody in this field but know enough about you to get that you're extremely productive and talented. Why not go this route:

https://www.indiehackers.com/

Plenty of so called "lifestyle" businesses that make plenty of money. Of course it's not that easy, but find a niche and build a great product. Pure tech plays like cloud deployment infrastructure seems to be operating at such a hyper-competitive level, that there's no way to avoid either big VC money, or Google/Amazon themselves.
Did you get a copy of the cap table, liquidation preferences, etc?
In the stock() function, replace AAPL with $1.
An old episode of Build and Analyze discussed participation in the Starbucks promotion: http://5by5.tv/buildanalyze/80
American medical R&D spending amounts to something around $500 per capita per year. Our total medical spending is $9,000, which is more than $5,000 above the OECD average. Medical R&D spending makes up a mere 10% of our excess costs (and that's only if you assume the entire thing is excess) so I wouldn't describe it as taking it on the chin, nor does it seem reasonable to paint us as altruistic martyrs for paying for so much medical research.
I think the problem is brand dilution. HN is a niche site mainly for technical discussion, and "anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity", with a very narrow definition of that. It's not a general discussion forum.

You can understand this better if you imagine that HN is just a subreddit with a very strange customization.
It still very much exists.

Source: I work there
Ask HN: Closures in JavaScript loop no longer have performance penalty?
In fact it appears that Chrome makes it faster - http://jsben.ch/ZX5Td

My suspicion is it inlines code of the function in first code block and avoids long calls.
Yes this use WKWebview, now that Google has made iOS chromium open source; is there any project trying to integrate blink engine to it? Although of course it cannot be released to Appstore.
Interesting-- that will definitely be something we deal with for some time.

An article from you and your team about what to do/not to do during the migration and on the road ahead could be good PR and mutually beneficial to all parties involved.

Hope you publish something when you can!
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I'm not a blockchain "expert", but this seems somewhere between misguided and insane to me. How could this possibly better than a secure web server and http user interface by any metric?

- security: how could this possibly be better than a system under your own IT's control?

- security part 2: introduces a whole new set of vulnerabilities and ways for things to go wrong. e.g. a miswritten "smart" contract.

- speed: how could this be faster than a web interface and a single server?

Blockchain solves one main problem: Decentralization. The reason for decentralization is the lack of a single trusted authority who says e.g. whether a particular transaction has occurred or not. In this setting you still have and need Daimler to be the trusted authority (unless I misunderstand), so the sole raison d'etre for blockchain is gone.

When you add that to all the downsides and security risks ... let me know if there is an easy way to bet against this.
Even after cutting staff, SoundCloud only has enough money for 50 more days
> This doesn't touch the real problem.

Well, that.

But also the real real problem: Economic professors making up social theories by conducting a "simple experiment using a game" (and childish slides).
I am an indie developer already. It would be possible to avoid VC, if startups weren't able to offer everything for free for long periods of time. Competing at a the level of skill instead would be nice, their product certainly does not require a team or funding TBH.

Hell there's even a timeseries startup, been around for ~5 years, they had no clue how to write databases, got paid for 3 years to finally realize columnar makes sense for analytics... no offence to them but you see this all the time, re-loaders with some vague trivial "vision", bunch of clueless VCs and buzzwords, and boom they have millions. It's such a sad way to compete, at least have the skills first. It's like no one wants to actually earn things these days.
Can you link me to your Omega Centrifugal? I have one of the Omega Vert units and it gets the pulp extremely dry from apples, oranges, greens etc. I previously had a Breville centrifugal unit that foamed and heated the juice up a lot and that's what I read a lot about and saw in the extensive YouTube reviews and comparisons. For what it's worth the hardcore juicers I've talked to say you can't store juice from a centrifugal unit for more than a day due to the oxidization which causes the juice to spoil faster. This is admittedly anecdotal and not based on peer reviewed trials.
Low hanging fruit or not, this is the kind of effort that will sway public opinion.

This is the direction that needs to be undertaken with as much or more fervour than business automation applications.

I'm inspired!
Rainbow tables are formed by chains of passwords and their hashes. The rainbow table only includes the ends of the chains, so you can throw away the middle of the chain.

Rainbow tables are a tradeoff between storing every hash, and generating them during cracking. You get to pick how much space you want to spend to speed up cracking.
> Upgrading and maintaining Nano Server will be done through updating the container image.

Sounds like the SmartOS approach.
you don't need to waste any more money altering tests. you need to strip the aba of tens of milllions of dollars of revenue by letting lawyers from the east coast and texas have reciprocity.

there are at least 5 to 10 thousand lawyers in the u.s. who would motion into the california bar and pay reciprocity fees if they didn't have to take any more totally stupid and utterly useless exams for existing practicing attorneys.

it costs existing attorney in other states 400 more dollars to take the california bar exam than it does california law students. and guess what, the bar exam is 1 day of time for existing lawyers, who are allowed to skip the mbe which is a second day of time required for california law students.

so , 400 dollars more for half the time spent accomodating .

absurd.
https://www.calbarxap.com/applications/CalBar/info/fees.html

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And don't forget! Make sure to read the intro with this in the background: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfSSQ3Vejao
> This is the main application for Bitcoin IMO: custody and trade settlement in securities.

Could you explain what problem bitcoin (or blockchains in general) solve in this space, or what improvement they can bring?
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Please adjust your equations for time.
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Don't run OS betas if you don't want crashes.
I assume that it has less to do with upsetting the social hierarchy than it does with the possibility that my wealth might be redistributed to someone else.
You've just described SQRL
I was cofused. In the one chart, 0% of VCs reported that their own controbution contributed to success, then father down 27% of VCs reported that value add was an important factor in value creation. Anyone have additional insight?
Nice! You guys rock. Any blog posts to share about why Clojure was chosen and how it's working out for you guys?
Be very concerned if the child starts hearing heartbeats from under the floorboards.
This write-up is wrong and incorrect.

At the seed stage, VC's actually do not make decisions this way.

I am going to give you a simple example: if a VC were presented with an opportunity and they knew for a fact that this was proprietary dealflow and if they did not invest, the company certainly would die, i.e. had precisely zero viability but for their (and only their) investment, are there conditions under which they would invest?

The actual demonstrable answer at the seed stage is "no."

This proves that the write-up is incorrect. Not how VC's make decisions.
https://bitbucket.org/nato/notp/src no need to link to a specific revision.
IMO, you need more inflation to make it too costly to just stockpile money.
There was a great episode of PBS' Nature on corvids' cognitive abilities and tool use:

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/ravens-discover-the-brainpowe...
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It doesn't really explain though. Are the sensors detecting something chemically unique to males / females? Or are they taking images of each mosquito and differentiating between them with ML?
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Any medium really. Rainbow tables are compressed (by throwing away most of the hashes). The amount you throw away determines how long it takes to crack.

For example, A rainbow table might use chain lengths of 10,000. This means that for every 10,000 hashes calculated, only 1 (really 2) are kept. Each chain ends up as a row in the table, which is then sorted. When cracking, the target hash is hashed and reversed up to 10,000 times looking through the table.

The more compression the less space needed, but longer look up. The original Windows XP rainbow table cracking CD published along with the Rainbow table paper was only ~500Mb, but was able to crack pretty much every windows password.
Yeah Permethrin works, I use it for my kids when they go camping.

I assume it's like everything - once too many use it, it will lose its effectiveness. But not yet!
Is this what they are going to use?

https://www.hyperledger.org/projects/sawtooth/bond-case-stud...
Reaper gives you years of updates for your $60.
it's publically accessible afai can see. Not sure what problems you're facing o.O
> I'm not talking about stupid ideas like communism but things like raising the minimum wage.

The minimum wage is an old rally flag, but it affects the bottom 1% when the problem is the top 1%. It's not the difference between the 1st percentile and the 25th, it's the difference between the 25th (or even the 90th) and the 99.9th.

The policies to fix that aren't the "help the poorest" ones, they're the ones that help small businesses and help consumers. Trust busting, lower housing costs (especially middle class housing), reducing regulatory compliance (paperwork) costs on small business, government spending on infrastructure, municipal fiber, patent-free basic research funding, etc.

Minimum wage is a distraction from the things that would actually help.
Good list, would love to hear more details about their success stories and use cases.
One of Descartes’ most famous ideas was first articulated by a woman
I'm not asking you to accept any aspects of any culture spreading around you - I'm asking whether you believe every culture must eventually subscribe to Anglo-American universalism?

In concrete terms, do you think Japan would become a better place if it had fewer Japanese people and more non-Japanese? This isn't a question about Japan's so-called population problem - keep the population the same but make it have fewer Japanese-descent people.
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Does node.js support webgl now?
There's no need to store anything. You have a list of hashes you'd like to reverse. You compute the entire search space and compare each.

No storage, other than the hashes you're attempting to reverse -- which for a data dump from even a large site like Yahoo wouldn't be very large at all. Megabytes.
I believe one way is to generate a frequency similar to female wingbeat frequency that attracts male mosquitoes and separate them that way. I am unsure if there is a difference in the frequency between genders.
Good code bro.
My takeaway is that somebody who is confused about library design is more likely to enjoy a heavy framework, but that their choice of framework is mostly arbitrary.
> but things like raising the minimum wage

There are very valid reasons to think that raising the minimum wage is worse overall for low-income earners, by locking marginal-skill workers out of the job market forever. There are more technical solutions supported by many economists (for example, the EITC) but they are more complicated to understand and don't make headlines.

Not all policy disagreement is pure evil, and you're doing yourself a disservice by thinking "everyone who wants to help the poor should be for a high minimum wage". Even if in the end you disagree with the logic, it's not a position held out of malice.
You don't have to store all of the possible passwords, just the hashes for all of the real passwords that you are trying to crack.
It's mostly because circuitous jurisdictional turf battles. The bacterial approach involves applying something to the mosquitos to kill them, rather than modifying the mosquitos, so it apparently counts as a pesticide, which puts it under EPA purview. Producing genetically modified animals is subject to FDA review instead. Apparently the EPA has a lighter touch, as the Wolbachia mosquitoes got approved by the EPA for use in the same area that was originally going to be the site of an Oxitec test in the Keys that got squashed by the FDA.

See https://phys.org/news/2017-04-florida-bacteria-infected-mosq...
good but would be better if there are more features
With nexe [1][2] and pkg [3] you can now package ClojureScript on Node.js as a static binary, and startup time is now a lot better compared to Clojure on JVM. Go would definitely be better in terms of speed and performance. So it's a tradeoff to make between relative size, performance and having a single language stack, increased team productivity and reduced team overhead.

[1] https://github.com/nexe/nexe

[2] https://clojurescript.org/guides/native-executables

[3] https://github.com/zeit/pkg
You're right, that should read "25 machine cluster which would reverse your hash in about 12 minutes -- assuming similar password features"
In the report, I didn't see much mention of traction, revenue, social proof, etc.

For technology, sure, bio-medical VCs can evaluate that, but I doubt that information technology VCs can or will.

For deal flow, a common remark of VCs is that an entrepreneur who contacts a VC direction is just "coming over the ransom" which means that they are to be ignored. From that contempt, tough to believe that VCs care much about deal flow.

A common remark is that VCs lose money on ~90 percent of their deals but that last 10 percent, or even the one best deal, makes up for all the losses and makes money besides. Okay, then, necessarily what the VCs are interested in are exceptional deals. That is, they are looking for another Microsoft, Apple, Cisco, Google, Facebook. Okay, then in their deal sourcing they have a fundamental problem: They are getting too much of their deal flow from their colleagues, and that's not promising for finding the needed exceptional deals.
Obligatory link to Black Mirror-inspired hackathon project "Brand Killer": http://jonathandub.in/cognizance/
Directly in the article:

"What's especially intriguing is that this study reveals that people didn't like to see other people's fortunes reversed. So this isn't about selfishness or protecting what's yours. It's some kind of fear of upsetting the hierarchy that goes beyond greed."

The article then goes on to present possible hypothesis for this behavior.
If I remember correctly, this came out of a OneWeek project - Microsoft's company-wide weeklong hackathon. Very cool to see a final published version of this!
True. Up until about five minutes ago, accusing a VC of sexual harassment has substantially less effect than a bad Yelp review.

That aside, his point stands. Personal testimony is evidence. Seriously people deciding whether to act on personal testimony have a variety of heuristics and tools for deciding to what extent they weight a particular piece of evidence.
Agree. Just a small comment/remark/nitpick: For theoretical reasons, the copy must be a "destructive" copy, not a "photocopy".
Lesbian mosquitos...hello?
We managed to have affordable housing 50 years ago with vastly less wealth and vastly inferior technology. We should be able to manage it now. The fact that we don't is purely due to the utter failure of our politicians to manage housing policy in a way that benefits the average citizen.

And given that this is a democracy, yes, we are entitled to have a government that operates for our benefit. That is not too much to ask.
With pkg [1][2] and nexe [3] you can package ClojureScript on Node.js applications as a static binary. Of course, Go would be better in terms of size/performance, so it's now a matter of making tradeoffs between relative size/performance and team productivity. But at least for teams using Clojure/ClojureScript, this gives you that an additional option, where none existed.

[1] https://github.com/zeit/pkg

[2] https://clojurescript.org/guides/native-executables

[3] https://github.com/nexe/nexe
"When the researchers tested children, they found that rank-reversal aversion doesn't develop until children are 6-10 years old, which suggests that this aversion is learned culturally as the child grows up"

"In addition, the Tibetan herders who participated in the study had a markedly higher level of rank-reversal aversion than other subjects. This also suggests the trait is cultural"

An all too common kind of sloppy thinking, which generally kills my desire to read any further. No such thing is suggested. The trait may be learned, or it may be completely hardwired, kicking in action between ages six and ten. Different populations may have evolved different inbred attitudes to equality.
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I agree completely. Language is alive, and learning words is much easier for me if they're in context.

I'm not learning Latin, but I am learning Chinese. I wrote http://pingtype.github.io to put spaces between words, colours for tones, pinyin romanisation, and a literal translation on the line below.

I could probably do the same for Latin. First I'm doing English-to-Chinese (the other way), then I might try Taiwanese and Japanese, but the structure of the program is all the same. I just have to gather the data for each new language.

Comment if you're interested, and I'll let you know when I finally get around to working on it. There have been a few Latin/Greek posts on HN that get upvoted a lot, so I think there's some demand.
> Maybe you could be more specific about what you're proposing because I feel like I am not really understanding it.

Cause less money to be created by banks and more by the government, and have correspondingly lower taxes (or even negative taxes) on middle income people.
I would say the problem they are trying to solve is security settlement between different institutions. I guess right now each institution has their own database of who owns what and it's difficult to transfer ownership between them.

What if there was one or many massive global shared ledgers all these institutions ran nodes for? You could transfer ownership of a security between someone in China and Europe instantly.
Inequality is not just being used colloquially here.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gini_coefficient
> each other to share informal blacklists and whitelists.

Exactly, informal. That's my point. The suggestion here isn't that informal lists exist, its that they are publicly announcing that it's being formalized. That's what makes this a big deal.

I still feel like you're not reading what I'm writing and keep trying to make a point responding to a wider discussion in this thread.
There are realistic measures and we're using them now, it's part of our progressive tax system where wealthier pay more than poor (both in percentage and total dollars).

Clearly there's limitations to alleviating income inequality that can't be solved simply by the redistribution of wealth.
I'm wondering the same thing. Is there any way to do this?
We lose linguistic ground to the neo Marxist ideologues that seek to tyrannize the use of the English language.
Assuming the Ford era began in 1900, we could say this was towards the end of the Ford era. I guess we had overdone on immigration and started regretting it.
The phrase killer app first appears in print circa 1986 according to Google Ngram Viewer [0].

While a search for just app with Ngram Viewer would contain too much noise, we can reasonably assume that app must have been prevalent in technical jargon before that time, else marketing campaigns would not have used it.

Archive.org isn't reliable for this kind of query.

[0] https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=killer+app&yea...
Yes, I currently work here.

Should have made a disclaimer!
Just like male facial hair - it doesn’t start appearing until the teenage years so its appearance must be cultural :P

When you have a preformed ideological conclusion then logic is the first causality in any study.
It's hard to understand in a lot of detail what the experiment was doing.

It seems like an alternate explanation is that people don't like to artificially pick winners and losers, but they're willing to lessen the gap between winners and losers if it's too big.

There are philosophical concerns about justice and utility in messing with organic selection mechanisms. Perhaps a fear of instability plays into it, but it seems like there are more nuanced narratives that can be applied as well.
I live in the southwest US too, and the Tesla seemed impractical until about a year ago. Now, however, they have pretty good supercharger coverage.

http://www.teslarati.com/map/
This is why I use ublock and noscript.

Fuck advertising.
> Developer time is cheaper than hardware 99% of the time.

I find the exact opposite to be true in most cases.
> The minimum wage is an old rally flag, but it affects the bottom 1%

I was skeptical when you suggested that it was that small, but the most recent Pew study says that only 2% of workers earn the federal minimum wage in the U.S. [1] But they go on to point out that 30% of American workers earn "near-minimum wage" i.e. ≤ $10.10/h. If minimum wage were increased to $9/h, that would probably affect the earnings of nearly all of those people.

[1]: http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014/09/08/who-makes-mi...
Thank you. This argument is absurd. I'm fucking tired of social justice warriors trying to take over everything with their God damn oppression Olympics.
I don't think there should be a minimum wage. I think it's an obvious misuse of government, an unnecessary encroachment on civil liberties, a waste of political effort and momentum, and will only hurt the people it's trying to help.

I'd say I'm right about this, so why isn't over 70% of the population in favor of eliminating the minimum wage?