skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And to take that even further the framework or the frame of reference can make dragons a rational explanation. All it requires is that you buy into the premise of some initial claim. Its not just that they need each other its that they can be used by each other to bukld all sorts of worlds.
Linus' story is that early on in the history of Linux he was not direct enough in his criticism of a kernel dev's code to make it clear he wouldn't accept it into the kernel. So the kernel dev kept working on the code in the hopes of it being accepted, and then when Linus finally made it clear it wouldn't be accepted the dev became-- according to reports Linus heard-- suicidal.

Consequently Linus says he decided to go in the direction of communicating in the manner that he is now known for. (Which makes me wonder-- if he had a personal encounter early on with his sarcasm causing the same bad outcome, would he have decided as confidently to go in the other direction?)

Regardless, I think jaromil who maintains Devuan is a great counterexample. He's quite nice and non-sarcastic, approachable to newcomers, and he seems to be able to herd cats just as well.
Since we are doing this, Maths is common in India as well. I'd never heard "Math' used in an Indian context.
Do you prefer it over Google Photos?
صور سكس بنات عرب اتش دي صور سكس شراميط
Try SMPlayer.
Well in TIO 2.0 that is coming soon it will not be that long.
Mandrake/Mandriva used to be my favourites until early Ubuntus.

Haven’t tried Mageia lately.
For RDB? Sure. For EC2? Depends on many factors. Storage per safe, backed up and versioned gigabyte? Can't see anyone competing there.
Long live the best player ever mpc!
Do a lot of people share this pain? It sounds like a very niche problem to me (as a macOS dev).

But if those bookmarks/notes is a problem to a lot of people, then it might just be worth looking into.
"If you want to make money angel investing, you really have to treat it as a full time job, not because it makes you more likely to pick the winners, but because it makes it more likely that the winners will pick you."

plenty of good entrepreneurs have great angel investing track records doing it part time (Elad Gil, David Sacks, Aaron Levie)
Lessons learned from being a mentor
The game of international capitalism is one where if you aren't working both smart and hard then somebody else is going to eat your lunch and leave your company's corpse on the side of the road.
On codegolf.stackexchange.com we have answers that need all 60 seconds. This would not be viable
> Summary: beginners almost never invest well.

Investing in startups is closer to betting on horse races than stuff like the S&P 500 or buying bonds.

There're a lot of people who will sell you systems. There's a lot of form guides. In a booming economy more people take a flutter on the fillies. And every once a while a thoroughbred emerges that is simply unstoppable.

But in general, only the bookies win.

The main difference is that in horse racing you can bet on a single horse and in the course of a few races, you'll probably bet correctly and make a little scratch.

In startups you can only bet the trifecta: you'll probably never hit it in your entire life, but the payoff is much higher if you do.
> the vast majority are happy with the result

See the congressional job approval numbers
http://www.gallup.com/poll/1600/congress-public.aspx

> If HRC had won, we would not be seeing these calls for reform gain attention

Does it matter what inspired people to ask for reform? They have a valid point that for solidly held districts, the minority's voice is completely erased in Congress.
My journey towards Software Craftsmanship
And now, think of an idea that they also can play any audio ADs , like on FM radio, while you are waiting for other side to answer. :-)
Thanks for your comments. Agree, chat feature between players would be interesting.

Are you aware of any libraries for this? Something like intercom which allows integrating chat between players in an easy plug to play manner?
The house had mice for a while. I set down live-catch traps, which are a metal box with two levered entrances that trapped the mouse.

After a couple of catches the remaining mice blocked the entrances by packing them with junk they found on the floor.

I always wondered if that was random behaviour or deliberate intent.

You really have to wonder just how smart animals would become if they could speak and train subsequent generations like humans do - never mind if they somehow invented reading and writing.
Not quite "eliminated", and I don't have a source in English, but drug overdose deaths fell by about two thirds between 1995 (Heroin prescriptions started in about 1994) and 2012:

http://www.suchtmonitoring.ch/de/3/7.html?opioide-mortalitat

In 2015, there were about 10 cases of needle-borne HIV infections in Switzerland, out of a bit more than 500 overall.
Biologist here. Biologists don't try to predict whether a drug will have side effects before giving it to humans. They simply give it to mice. If we do have some strong reason to suspect it might be harmful to humans, we might do a primate trial, but usually not as those are expensive.

People do make statements like "Drug X has target Y, so its side effects should be limited to A, B, and C", but no one takes those claims seriously. It's too hard to predict what a drug will do, and in fact drugs are frequently used in practice without any knowledge of mechanism of action.

The point is that biology is fundamentally empirical here, because in complex systems it seems that rationalism/theory is not that useful.

> Economics is hard because you can't do repeated trials.

Yes. The problem is that they pretend they can predict results of interventions when they demonstrably cannot. Economists are simply used to justify policy decisions made on some other basis.
WannaCry for the Web
16 megapixel photos and 1080 videos are free. The amount of people who need limits above that are pretty slim. It'll be 1-2 years before top phones go above 16 megapixels photos. So even longer for a more than small percentage of people to have those phones. Among those that do, including me, I'd be okay with most photos being downsized to 16 megapixels from say 21 megapixels in 3 years. Google Photos might also increase the free limit in a few years like they did once before. If they don't increase the free limit, I could see people like me wanting the full size photos and videos in maybe 4-5 years. Quite a long game for Google to be playing when they have been keen on cutting spending in recent years and increasing profit.

I hope they do commit to Google Photos growth momentum over profit seeking, but hard to be optimistic these days based on their recent record (and no I'm not talking about Google Reader).
Piggy-backing on this a bit with respect to the article, moon bases will need to be quake-proof because, given long-standing and continuing human behavior (and arguably, life's behavior, at its most fundamental level), they will need to be bomb-proof.
My two cents, heavily influenced by Blank's book :)

While any sentence-long description will be an oversimplification, I think fitting everything under the sun in a "1st way" is counterproductive. If all we're talking about is how they succeed with Ron's components in mind, then there are at least a few ways.

I see the the need-being-met thing as a spectrum. The more unmet the need is, the less likely competition is a problem at that moment, so just solving it is sufficient (who knew having a car was actually a 'problem' versus purchasing transit from 'a' to 'b'?)

I've also seen that sometimes a product that focuses on a niche and does it REALLY well is better (for that niche) and NOT cheaper, but they succeed too (e.g. Veeva).

Sometimes a product that focuses on the lower end of the market is cheaper and not better (i.e. functionality) but ppl underestimate the long-tail of non-users. (maybe like Gusto vs. traditional payroll providers or RelateIQ vs. Salesforce)

On acquisitions, I've heard that acquihires usually make little-to-no money for the investors. But as beambot also mentioned, the business could be acquired for hard tech that, even if no customers/bizmodel, some other business would find value in having (maybe like Facebook>Friendfeed or Linkedin>RunHop). But to reverse engineer that from day 1 I imagine would be even harder than building a product to an unmet need haha. You don't know if the bigger co is working on it internally or if they'd scoop up somebody else. Wonder if this was Meerkat's plan, gone awry <-- speculation. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.
Do you think Descartes pretended to be religious?
Nope, doubt it's a feature many people care about. I should specify that in my comment now actually. Thanks.
The investor names only "one way" to succeed (though alluding to a second one that this investor does not name):

>To make a product that fills a heretofore unmet market need, and to do it better, faster, and cheaper than the competition.

This is an insane sentence. Let's make it only slightly more insane to throw it into starker relief:

>To make a product that fills a heretofore unmet market need that nobody has expressed or even thought about until the company announces it, and to do it absolutely perfectly, instantly without any development time, and make it free for the consumer, while getting money from a sustainable high-margin source and having a proprietary moat that makes it impossible for any other market players to enter even a similar market. Also I'll add that the company must have such strong network effect that the utility of any competitor's product is negative (people would regret getting it even for free) unless the competitor is able to get at least 98% market share.

That's pretty insane, and if you re-read what I quoted you will see it's the same kind of insanity.

Why do people even write stuff like this.

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EDIT:

Downvoters don't understand my objection. I'm not going to edit this comment. If you don't get it, you don't get it. This investor literally named "good, fast, cheap" (except as: better, faster, cheaper) as three of four requirements that must be met. (The fourth named requirement being "heretofore unmet".) You cannot get more insane than this except in magical la-la land where there are no trade-offs of any kind. It's absurd.
They work like separate markets. I'm in the Bay Area (from New York) with 5 to 6x the frequency with which I'm in San Francisco. I believe this boundary also applies to fund flows--Pitchbook had a study (having trouble finding it right now) tracking correlations between California VC firm HQs and companies invested within the HQ zip code or a tangential zip code.

San Francisco seems to have found its niche with B2C while the South Bay focussed on heavier stuff, e.g. satellites, ML, et cetera. Highly-correlated markets, but similarly distinct as New York and Long Island.
I really want to use mpdn because it uses WMF but I haven't gotten results with it like I have using MPC-HC and madvr. Anybody know any other program that's as advance as mpc, compatible with madvr and uses Windows media foundation over directshow?
With hindsight would you take the same path with your career and funds? I find myself at this crossroad right now, both financially and professionally, so found your article useful - thank you.
I don't think so, you can exchange your money through services like ShapeShift where it remains anonymous at the other end and you can make the exchange to fiat money via Localbitcoins. There are many other alternatives we can think of.

I think it would be good to have an optional KYC/AML attached to cryptocurrency transactions. In this way they can be more popular and more connected to the regulated world.
This article makes it sound like kindness is just expending extra time for the same message, and it's magically "nice".

That explanation of kindness doesn't make sense. Some people try to be nice and, by mistake, end up being rude. And business people make deals quickly all of the time, using jargon and cutting out pleasantries while still being kind.

No, kindness is a skill of words and actions that must be developed over time. It's about navigating complex ideas and decisions effectively.

For instance, "no" is generally rude, not because it's too short, but because it doesn't provide good feedback on a complex idea. What is the proposer trying to accomplish? What existing alternatives exist, or what others might be explored?

If you don't have the time to give good reasons, then point them toward others that you trust to give good advice. E.g: "This proposal is unacceptable. Discuss with group XYZ and explore alternatives." Or even: "This proposal is unacceptable -- the proposed use case is not important enough to justify what you are trying to do."
Ucity – The open-source city-building game for Game Boy Color
Also worth mentioning the "competitor" of word2vec: Stanford GloVe https://nlp.stanford.edu/projects/glove/

Haven't had the opportunity to measure the difference in quality, and I've mostly used word2vec until now (with vectors I've trained myself after lemmatization and PoS-tagging of a corpus), but the fact that GloVe provides you different trained models from twitter, Wikipedia and so on is pretty nice
>women and men also need each other far less than they used to on a practical level

In my naive, rosy understanding of the world practicality has never been the main driver of establishing a relationship, but rather a nice-to-have side effect. No automation can replace a meaningful romantic relationship, and we're still social animals that need more than Facebook friends. And no, settling down is not the only reason to find someone.
Why not use something like a Tropf-Blumat system? It doesn't need electricity and is self regulating. You only need a water source (it can be a barrel of water at some height or a regular water source) - it stops feeding water when the soil is moist enough. It uses ceramic cones to regulate the amount of water.
Programs all need to update all the time anyway.
> But the cool kids don't beg. The cool kids — the ones who really know what they're doing and have the best chances of succeeding — decide who they allow to invest in their companies.

The company I was an early employee of (that ended up being a "unicorn") was not a cool kid, and we certainly were begging people to invest both at the angel stage and (especially) the series A stage. And those people got a really really good return on their money.

This isn't to say there aren't valuable signals perhaps involving "cool kids" status, but there are a lot of diamonds in the rough.

> I figured it would be more fun to be the beggee than the beggor for a change, and I was right about that.

As a much smaller time angel investor myself than the author, I'm still the beggor. You are only the beggee if you are writing 25k+ checks (and more like 50k-100k to really be the beggee). If you are writing 5k or 10k checks, you are going to be begging people to take your money, cool kids or not cool kids. So if you are looking to get into angel investing today without allocating 6-figure amounts to your hobby, I wouldn't advise doing it for ego reasons :)
Python has/had a terrible packaging story though. As you said, dependencies weren't really documented. Rust, on the other hand, documents all dependencies in Cargo.toml. And dependencies can easily be parsed from Cargo.toml without the need to execute any code (as would be required in the case of python)
Nice read but I would use rtl-sdr and SDR tools to reverse engineer this kind of stuff. There are lots of good tools can be used for this purpose in SDR community like this one:

http://www.rtl-sdr.com/waveconverter-an-open-source-rf-rever...
I need to upload invoices every month from all ~20 SaaS products I subscribe to an accounting software. Most of the invoices can be just redirected from email to another SaaS that will let me download a zip file containing all invoices from a date range. Other software requires me to login to the product, navigate to a page and download a PDF or print an HTML page. I have browser-automated all of these laborious ones as well so everything will be in that zip file. Saves me 30 min monthly and especially saves me from the boring work.
gotta love this line:

"We aim to be a drop-in replacement with bug-for-bug compatibility."
Hopefully some people step forward, I'd hate to see MPC-HC come to an end. :(
You can download a play-only version of it I think, I'm not on my desktop to check rn. I too would like a code mode, but check out Flowstone and its earlier incarnation which was called synthMaker. Current version uses Ruby, previous version allowed code in C and assembler but I'm guessing that might have been hard to bulletproof.

I'm certainly not against any code, it will always be important (I like assembler too believe it or not). But I think it's really important for IDEs to develop good structural tools. I think a lot of the resistance to flow-based programming is from IT people who kinda want to stay in their department, just like there was resistance to software from ASIC programmers, resistance to high level languages from low-level programming experts and so on. People are always wary of a new level of abstraction, partly because it involves a loss of control I think.
I work with a school for the visually impaired in the UK and would definitely like to trial this - also with a team that supports VI children in mainstream schools. Is there any way to get an alert when it appears in the UK appstore?
What's the relationship between the baseband OS and the Linux-based OS running on the RPI?

Could the baseband OS be toggled on and off by a command from userland running on the RPI?

edit: typo
I think that must be the case - it isn't available in the UK :)
I'd love to see more about this, seems very interesting language. Something to explain how/where this is/could be used, maybe few more complete examples to show the language etc. Also some notes about performance would be great, I guess it is reasonably fast by the looks of it, but that is pretty vague.
I do, but that's largely because I'm fully embedded in the Apple ecosystem so haven't really evaluated the Google approach properly.
are there mac binaries for xi and lime text editors
Most unethical behavior doesn't pay. Some unethical behavior is staggeringly profitable. I don't want to go into detail, because the less known these things are the better.

I think there are two main cases:

1) business models based on the exploitation of others, and

2) low margin businesses where ethical players get crushed by those willing to take unethical/illegal shortcuts.

Luckily you _can_ become successful even if you rigidly adhere to the highest ethical standards, you just have to choose your business model carefully.
And Oakland is nonexistent entirely!
Not "in general", but there is a long list of unethical behaviors that, sadly, can contribute to success. Selling snake oil. Abusing monopolies. Flat-out lying.

However, it's not good to go to the other extreme. I've seen companies fail because the CEO bent over too far backwards to be ethical and as a result let people walk all over him. One of the qualities that seems to be required in a successful founder is a willingness to be an asshole when circumstances demand it (and being able to tell what those circumstances are!)
Please don't violate the guidelines by rudely complaining about downvotes:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> Diverting people from using Lucene/Elasticsearch would then be a breeze.

Maybe. But most people's problems with Lucene/Elasticsearch aren't really speed. They use Lucene because its feature rich and been worked on for almost two decades. And there's plenty of strategies to mitigate any speed problems (caching, sharding, etc) with lots of knowledge spread throughout hundreds of orgs to the point where "making Elasticsearch fast" is something you can hire someone for. Lots of sunk cost in the Lucene stack.

Not saying what you're doing is without value. Just be conscious that "speed" is only one of many, many factors when evaluating a search engine. In fact, as someone who regularly helps clients evaluate search solutions its very rare that it comes up. "Fast enough" with the right features for the problem is really want people want.
That's funny, but also sloppy as you note. I would bet the default tick labeling is every 5 in whatever plotting library they use.
Tooling is definitely far from mature. It's treated as a second class language in .NET, and on top Linux is treated a second class OS.

I just tried to start a project with F# and ended up abandoning, and am looking into Rust right now. I considered OCaml but its lack of multicore support and the ecosystem situation made me drop it.
I'm wondering, what library do you use for skype ?
Just like _actual_ cash!

The bank doesn't scan the serial numbers on the money I deposit and yet they somehow correctly credit my account.
The YC network effect is the secret sauce. Most YC companies would not even be able to bootstrap if it wasn't for YC alums like AirBnB.
I have friends who have lived in a San Francisco (and Berkeley!) for years who are too sketched out to visit Oakland, weirdly.
It's arguable, but the massive decline in global poverty over the last 30 years is arguably the largest. Details are complicated, but things like comparative advantage > free trade seem to have been working.
Maybe SF entrepreneurs have moved on to crowdsales/ICOs those that have been in SF in the recent spree would certainly give that graph a pop . . .

"In the first half of 2017, ICOs have outstripped traditional blockchain venture capital funding, raising $327m of funding."[1]

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2017/07/15/the-decentralization-of-st...
KYC/AML applies to the person, not to the serial numbers printed on the bills they hand over.
I think syntax highlighting makes sense. People do write code right into things like this. In that case, syntax highlighting helps if that's what you're used to. Also it is helpful even if copy pasting for readability if you're normally used to syntax highlighting.
Some people can
Culturally and politically they're completely different. Don't be fooled by the short geographic distance, that's like saying Canada must be just like the USA because they're right next to each other and English is the primary language in both countries.
Do a careful reading of your banks terms of service and you will likely find a clause either barring you from doing this completely, or voiding fraud protection.
and, must like gambling, the winnings are very skewed towards the top small percentile. so, even if you know more than 90% of participants, you will probably get owned.