skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd say this is a terrible generalisation. Buy a dedicated server with 32gb ram, 16 cores and 4tb of disk for $40 a month and host it there to begin with. Same steps: pay with your card, set up the server and go.

Once you get to the point where your cat photo sharing startup cannot be offline for more than 1 minute and so needs geographic failover with scaling load balancing your making enough money to pay for it.

Makes no sense to pay thousands of dollars to handle one request a minute and save you running "apt-get install mysql nginx" + spending half a day configuring it
Societies are not on some kind of monotonically increasing slope, they can regress and they can do so with astonishing speed.
From the start, our goal was to port VS Code, NPM, and Webpack loaders to run entirely in your browser and still work offline. With StackBlitz, the browser is installing, bundling, and serving everything — our servers don’t do any of that.

While CodeSandbox is a nice playground for React apps specifically, we have never intended (nor have any aspiration) to compete in the online playground space. We’re attempting to build the first fully in-browser IDE.
For it to be enough of the vacuum to yield real benefits in terms of The fluid dynamics of the air of the tunnel, it needs to be hard enough to be hard to achieve as in this case. It is easier to achieve than the kind of vacuum NASA might want to draw to test devices, or that somebody with a Watt balance might need, but honestly that only goes to show how horrendously difficult it is to pull that kind of vacuum
Time Lapse Building the Lego Tower Bridge in Front of the Real Tower Bridge
I fully agree, and there are already great books for easily entering those worlds:

Scheme:

The Little Schemer (a classic)

Common Lisp:

Land of Lisp (a truly remarkable, quaint book: learn Common Lisp by programming classic games; full with really funny cartoons.)

Practical Common Lisp (really excellent way to learn quickly, modern. Freely available.)
How I cut my AWS bill by 90% by going serverless – freeCodeCamp
Was anything made public over what happened on the 31st?
That's true, however optimizations like this have wide-reaching effects.
If we ever come to the point where all you need to develop a web browser is a wasm vm, don't you find exciting how much simpler a web browser would become?.

But you're not removing complexity, just moving it into the wasm-based runtime, and in the process it removes the power that comes with building the browser, which is shaping how the user sees and interacts with websites.

If every website is a blob of code that you have to execute as a black box, what's the point of writing your own browser? It'll just be a slower copy of every other, since all the potential for making it different has been taken away.
They didn't change the title from a fake-news title with the 'Digital coins may be on the verge of going mainstream' story. 15 hours ago!

I think the mods are on holiday.
hey we just have hatespeach laws. I'm not proud of them but that's what we have.
Probably true, but at the same time, there's a build-it-and-they-will-come effect that accompanies major public transportation projects, for example the Metro light rail in Phoenix. By running it from the airport to the downtown convention center district and then uptown to Bethany Home Rd. on 19th Ave., they have provided some significant convenience and cachet to the downtown area that has been struggling for decades with revitalization. Millennials are parking themselves in trendy apartment buildings near the downtown and the light rail has contributed to that lifestyle.

Will it last? Time will tell, but the trend today is to increase usage. The biggest complaint about the light rail is that it doesn't go far enough, though there are plans afoot to extend it over time.
But it is the largest and most populated state which is also "climatically challenged".
Even so, this may get people in trouble. I've just tattooed some nonsense over keyboard and got search results related to CP. Thanks God it haven't shown me image previews!

They better show a warning about gateways.
It's worth noting that conventional railways tend to sacrifice a bit of speed (relative to what you could engineer them for) in favour of being flexible in terms of how much passenger capacity can be provided, supporting a mixture of local/express services, and so forth. So the 'sweet spot' for a conventional or high-speed rail line between two locations may tend to be larger.
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We started StackBlitz long before CodeSandbox was released: https://medium.com/@ericsimons/our-goal-was-to-port-vs-code-...
The problem with embyros is that they can be inject with any DNA for a trasient positive result but these may well be discarded or inactivated during development. The recently debuked STAP cells used injected embyros as evidence and it turned out to be either a fluke or outright fraud. To prove the concept you really need a stable F1 generation to illustrate that the trait can be passed down in the germline.

I'd say that our ability to interact with the genome is still rather crude, else we'd have already cured cancer by now - we already have a pretty good understanding of the cellular biology of cancer but it only helps us so much.
GrubHub Buys Yelp's Eat24 for $288M
Loans are technically debt but can easily be income de-facto i.e. it can be used as if they are income.

When a bank borrow you money they don't actually take it from somewhere they fundamentally can create it because of quantitative easing pushed by central banks.

The digital monetary system today is a far cry from the gold based system and the ability to use money as if they are income are very real. Money is more a concept today.
Updated iPhone SE Rumored for Early 2018 Launch
It could be said that his explanations of the illusions are wrong: there is a spiral in the final image, it's just masked out by concentric circle outlines. Particularly toward the center of the image where the resolution is so low that it all blurs together anyway it is hard to argue that is not a genuine (if blurry) spiral.
I think that's true for most languages that are dynamically typed and let you effortlessly implement your own DSLs.
More Coinbase spam.
There's a Common Lisp implementation that sits on the JVM. It's called ABCL. It provides a Java API for loading and calling Lisp code as well as a Lisp API for calling Java code (although it is quite a bit more verbose than that provided in Clojure... nothing a few macros couldn't solve if it became a nuisance).

The community is what does it. I tried for years to get commercial work in Common Lisp. It never happened.
I'd also highly recommend "NASA Voyager 1 & 2 Owners' Workshop Manual" https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/0857337750

It goes into amazing detail on the history of the spacecraft and the events that made it possible. For example: the story of an intern figuring out the '3 body' problem and, from there, the concept of 'gravity assist' gave me goosebumps
GrubHub buys Yelp's Eat24 business in partnership agreement
I started off being able to mostly comprehend what's going on, but about half way down I got lost in the assembly and realized I barely remember much from my OS/Architecture courses in school.

This was a solid reminder my every day work sits atop the shoulders of giants and I am much appreciative.
Much higher chance of STDs. I was recently reading something like 1 in 5 Americans has at least one. No thanks.
I don't think most people would say that's how it should be, it's just the way it currently is. Law enforcement typically does not care about your convenience.
Wish there was more clarity on how they manage the tokens. Assuming this is ERC20 compliant but do they add their own backdoors to manage the tokens on your behalf? They should publish their token source at least.
From their examples:

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...I sure wouldn't want to maintain that site.
Clojure has the advantage of targeting the JVM and Js runtimes. These are two most popular runtimes for writing web apps currently. Clojure can also be easily integrated into existing projects on these platforms.
The biggest cost many young companies face is people, both salaries, and management/coordination overhead.

Assuming you need to pay someone at least 10k/month fully-loaded (and this is hard in SF) to manage all of this, I wouldn't bat an eye at staying on a PaaS until I got to 10-20k/month in expenses. Maybe even 30k. Managing operating systems, networking switches, datacenter contracts, linux distros, provisioning scripts, etc? No thanks.

I guess if you're worried about single dollars or tens of dollars/month you're just in a completely different place/situation than I am. With dev salaries being what they are today, the market is clearly signaling you need to optimize to use as little of it as possible.

Another thing, this article doesn't talk about serverless at all, where there isn't even compute to provision.
s/Ask HN: Who is making passive income?/Ask HN: Tell me how you're making some extra cash so I can head into direct competition with you./g
Make sense however platform independence is very hard in reality. As a startup you have to try to squeeze the biggest bang for your buck. That means to fully exploit what the platform offers and stretch to its limit. Moving to another platform requires redesigning a lot of optimization or even architecture.
I'd invest the time in golang. I never hear of Elixir outside of HN but golang appears to be dramatically increasing in adoption and interest, so if I were to put my time into either it'd be Go simply because I feel as though there'll be more opportunities surrounding it.
From free trialers into paying customers – successful customer onboarding
Microsoft Shifts from Paying Outside Lawyers by the Hour
Is it really the spirit of the tax code that $1 in profits earned by a business should really yield $0.48 to the federal government?

In my view, the answer is yes. At least at the macro level, there are no unintended consequences in the tax code. Double taxation has been widely known to anybody who has influenced the development of our tax code, for decades.

With that said, is there potentially a better way to collect $0.48 on every $1 earned in profits? Should it be $0.18, or $0.88 instead? Those questions are certainly worthy of debate.
That's a really well made point. And for what it's worth, stoicism doesn't ask you to never travel or have fun :)

The most depressing line for me was him effectively waiting (albeit in a joking manner) for his second stroke. No one should be worked to the point of fatalism.

On the one hand I love the team's dedication. On the other hand, I don't think it's just competitive pay that keeps young engineers out of that office. I imagine that the energy and excitement in the early 80s does not really exist anymore, and it's not fair to dump on young engineers for wanting that energy where they work.
Incrementally migrate your webpack project to TypeScript
This is demonstrably false.
Rad gradients!
When I say in browser I mean that the browser itself is compiling, bundling, hot reloading, & serving the app — it's not using any resources on a VM somewhere in the cloud.
In what ways, specifically? Building binaries?
Not to mention that anyone who can save money in a savings account is also perfectly able to buy some shares or funds and get capital gains themselves.
Amazon's retail business is very low-margin. Most of the profit they do make now is coming from AWS. Their valuation right now comes from investor expectations that they will eventually run every other retailer out of business and then change monopoly rent with much fatter margins, rather than on the margins they have now.
works well if you're living the iLife in Apple's walled garden. and here i am hoping for https://www.openhab.org/ to become bigger and better. i want automation without vendor lock-in (hardware or software), and without relying on closed-source and third-party services for the pleasure.

i was doing some research recently about having wifi-connected smoke alarm/CO listening device that can recognize [1] off-the-shelf alarm beeps (which are standardized) and send me an SMS & email. this turned out to be surprisingly difficult to achieve. ideally, i could hook up a microphone to a BeagleBoard of Raspberry Pi, run some daemon that monitors audio, does beep recognition and lets me hook into notifications.

instead, there are proprietary listening devices (ok, fine) that all work by sending notifications via third-party service (not fine) to some android or iphone app (not fine).

[1] https://github.com/benjaminchodroff/alarmBeepDetect
This is no longer the case. The plans have merged.

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/888053175155949572
> What on earth does this have to do with clojure? Programmers will do this in any language, there's nothing special about clojure here.

I haven't programmed in Java in over ten years, but one if its "advantages" (at least back in the day) was what I called its object-oriented handcuffs, which prevented programmers from being too fancy with their code. Every file had to be a class. Every class was an object. Namespaces were clearly and rigidly defined. Setters and getters were standard for defining properties of an object. Etc.

The net result was frustration for programmers who detested such rigidity, but relief for any new programmer coming into a project because Java made it very difficult to write the kind of "specialized beautiful code' that shadowmint laments.

Lisps in particular allow the kind of freedom that programmers love and project managers hate. And I say that as someone who loves writing code in lisp (racket in particular).
Wow, I thought gt565k was being hyperbolic when he called it a coffin. I didn't know it was legal to sell a car without airbags or crumple zones anywhere on the planet.
Judge Rules Lehman Settlement, Affirmed in Emails, Is Enforceable
Reverse engineering obfuscated JavaScript – PopUnder Chrome 59
Show HN: Anonymous Discussion Platform For Any Topic (think Reddit meets Slack)
Yes, I should have been a bit more clear. You can link with lld (we have bots running that do this; we're even setting up a bot that enables ThinLTO). But lld support for emitting PDB files isn't quite there yet.
Does it really make sense in context of the worldview, or is it an ex-post facto rationalization they're making solely because of all the communist/socialist dictatorships in the past (tankies would be the ones doing this)? I have socialist beliefs but I hate the blatant authoritarianism that a lot of people on the left espouse. I hate to make a slippery slope argument, but limitations on free speech scare me simply because what is "unacceptable" will (in my mind) assuredly grow larger and larger until perfectly reasonable beliefs are persecuted.

If your society can't exist with free speech, it probably shouldn't exist at all. Because at that point, you've become the oppressor. I know a lot of the hate towards "liberals" among those on the left is due to their opinions on capitalism and such, but given the original meaning of the term liberal (one who believes in liberalism, generally personal liberty) I fail to see why anyone would actually oppose that.
Wow, that is nice. Compact, yet intuitive with minimal clicking to target a specific date.
But what are our "thought leaders" talking about all day -- the dangers of AI. * rolleyes
The above helpful comments being said, my question now is, how long is he going to be able to run these companies separately without a shareholder revolt saying they should be put under one roof to create more value for the investors in Tesla? Right now it feels like I'm an unofficial investor in TeSpaceBoringLink as opposed to just the former.

I expect to get some hate for the comment as it's a Wall Street type complaint, but to my eye, it seems like these companies are becoming ever more similar.
When the experience is amplified by homoiconic data structures and structural editing, yes -- exploratory, ephemeral metaprogramming is a breeze. Compound Clojure data literals have a fully readable print representation that can be generically manipulated by built-in core library functions. Say I have a DSL that takes a bunch of nested maps and vectors as an input spec and compiles them to nested closures, and I want to create a large spec derived from some other source satisfying certain constraints, but it's not worth defining yet a higher-level DSL for a one-off definition that I intend to commit to source control. I can generate that data structure any way I like and spit the result out at the REPL or in an interactive buffer, then effortlessly plop that structure or any of its substructures into an EDN file or just inside a `def` or `let` binding in a regular Clojure file, which I then pass to the DSL compiler. It's much simpler than manipulating things like GADTs in Haskell. Even in Common Lisp, it might require some ad-hoc parsing code to accomplish the same thing.
Thanks, I have a revised version coming to Medium soon, turns out I missed ~20 pretty impressive companies!
prob. AD as defined at the moment is a set of "criteria" based on a number of things like time scales, and also some specific cognitive measures. I've always found things to be a little vague and there's probably a whole spectrum of different biological entities that can do these sort of things to you.

You can throw PETs, CSF tests etc at it but I never really have a high level of confidence calling it.

Basically people lose memory and certain cognitive functions...but anything could really do it.

At the moment the hodgepodge way I fudge it is: if it is a clearly progressive syndrome year over year, with an amnestic memory syndrome (vs. poor attentional state/registration), with language/naming involvement, and evidence of visuospatial neglect/apraxias, I tell them it may "likely" be AD. Otherwise I can't say if it is AD vs. vascular dementia.

There is a paper looking at accuracy of how we call things vs. post-mortem, and it is about 50/50 eyeroll. Sad but this is the limitation of science vs. mother nature at this state in time.
Also: The 1875 burning whiskey flood in Dublin. Supposedly, no one died of the flood or fire itself. However, multiple people died from drinking the whiskey, which was also full of horse manure at that point because the latter was used to contain the flood.

https://comeheretome.com/2014/04/09/the-1875-liberties-whisk...
Where is the "PT SA 45K" coming from? Somewhere in the interior US or overseas? That would be difficult to do in California.
This solution has the following problems:

1. Over provisioning

2. Under provisioning, burstability

3. Prefers capex to opex

4. Requires hiring SA / IT forever

5. Changes in architecture become prohibitive
I'm being 100% honest here. It's not a totally unreasonable position to take, and there are lots of countries that aren't dystopian nightmares who have limits on free speech. I think free speech is important, but I also think that you need an established civil society first that supports human rights and liberty, or else immediately after allowing unfettered free speech, you could end up with pogroms or theocracy.
Seems that Monsanto is running the misinformation campaign.
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Right. Well, from what I can see, even the elements on the page and the offline editor works exactly same as your project. Almost everything, even the `npm install` thing is the same.

All in all, what you have done is great and absolutely useful for quick tests.
I love new technology especially when it comes to transportation, but as a people mover this thing seems to have unsolvable problems. You're trapped in a tin can in a vacuum tunnel 20 feet or 50 feet below the surface -- what if it stops? You can't get out.

Obviously we put up with a similar predicament in air transportation, and for that matter train derailment and automobile collisions are a real and not uncommon risk of above-ground transportation systems.

But Hyperloop has this inherent issue that doesn't have any obvious solution. For transporting goods, it sounds fantastic. Move tons of cargo from SF to LA in 30 minutes, or from D.C. to Boston in 40 minutes. If nothing else, it would be great for USPS and FedEx. If it at least partially relieves the interstates of the stress and damage caused by 18-wheelers, another point in its favor (sorry, drivers).
"I am clever because tulips and Holland lol. you certainly won't find ME getting taken by all those bitcoin hucksters, yuk yuk yuk"
Unfortunately this will make the pollution worse. For example if I drive my car to work, my car does 6 miles round trip .
If someone else does the same in total we did 12 miles. However if we share one car and the car needs to go even a mile between two places, it will have to drive significantly more.
Good point - finding domain expertise for product/market fit is super important.

However, that's not something that is solved purely by capital. It also takes a lot of time (in practice, you need potential customers to describe their problem multiple times over multiple meetings, since what they think they want, what you think they want, and what really solves the problem take time to converge). For our company (applying ML/NLP in the customer feedback domain), finding domain experts willing to contribute their guidance took a while, but has been one of the most important things we've done.
There's gross margins to fund R&D, but if all that money is spent, isn't net margin zero?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/07/1...

It seems like he hung himself.
I find it amazing that you can find Roman mosaics that have survived 2000 years without any significant damage but the tile installation in your bathroom barely last 10-15 years without maintenance or renovation.

In 2000 years they will still be finding Roman Ruins but nothing from the 20 + century will survive.
...and the NextStep/OSX layout is from '88.
It is the love of the mission. The knowledge that you are advancing humanity in this concrete unique way, and that due to circumstance, if you quit it has a tangible increase in the chance of failure for this mission. It is how places like the NSA and other organizations within the government can retain such talented people. It is why PhD scientists toil in their field for much less than they could make in the public sector. It is why people choose to work at a lifestyle company making less than their counterparts at tech giants. A love of the mission/work and or a belief in the organization and its overall goals.

See: Daniel Pink and the whole autonomy, mastery, and purpose idea. This mission checks those three boxes quite strongly, likely captivating the engineers and folks on the mission :)
Oh right, the accountant advised that all leftover money be paid to employees or managers.
Polycom Video Conferencing. We use one at one conference room to video chat with another conference room 30 miles away. Works okay. A bit complicated for me.

General advice: always go wired on both ends when possible. This will optimize the connection so any lag will not be due to wireless transfer of data.
Particles from brake and tyre dust are bigger than from exhaust fumes, so less dangerous. Electric vehicles use regenerative braking so they uses brakes less. But they are heavier, but I think electric vehicle are still way better than other vehicles.
Try to solve problems. If you solve one, great. If you don't, try to solve the problem of why you couldn't solve that problem. If possible, try to solve the problem again.
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