skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seems to basically be about overcoming perfectionism and getting over your big ego, both of which are common problems. It is better than I expected it to be:

Yes, you can do things like this. You can use custom operators, you can wrap things in things that process things and give you a thing all in one line of code. But are you actually helping anyone, or are you just masturbating in public about how clever you are?
> "Anything but going all the way to zero" seems like the current tone.

You don't invest in a company without expectations of ROI
It's profitable at most electricity rates:

https://whattomine.com
Honestly I think with the mass availability of escapist devices innovation is largely over.
I could counter that you need to get over your own bias, which is the implication that a CEO is going to be successful or is suitable for the role simply because he went to Harvard.
Dat: powerful data sharing from your desktop
Can we stop describing ICO raises in USD? They raised ethereum tokens (ETH). The value of those tokens is specious, as there is no liquidity for the volume of ETH raised.

Based on current ETH/USD rates, the USD figure given translates to ~614K ETH. The value of 614K ETH has ranged from 92MM USD to 240MM USD in the last two months, and has been as low as 4.3MM USD since the beginning of the year.
I'd be interested in examples of technical solutions evading the legal system. The Pirate Bay example is mistaken -- there are millions of people that use Pirate Bay with no VPN with no ill effects. But if you have specific, correct examples, then this is an area of some interest for me.

Regarding your point about obfuscation, I feel like people aren't thinking this through. It's on Github. The commit messages are public. Finding whether you're blocked is as simple as grepping the logs for your domain. And if you feel the people filing the DMCAs aren't technically capable, you may be underestimating them.

The advantage of having it on github far outweighs the negatives. How many contributors do you feel they gained from this publicity? Possibly at least one, which is one more than EasyList would've had otherwise.
Blockchain, decentralized apps - perhaps based on Ethereum, perhaps not. They have the potential to enhance capitalism in equivalent ways as the current wave of "sharing economy" startups (Uber, Airbnb) has done, or even surpass that.

- it's much easier for more people to become investors, since buying coins/tokens will become increasingly easier and common.

- you won't need to be located at a specific startup hub to launch successful business, because it's so much easier to get investment from around the world.

- it has a great approach for solving the "network effect", where no one can challenge the major players with strong networks, by providing strong incentives for early adopters to join and grow their networks (either by buying very cheap tokens, or producing content that will render them "free money").

- it enables the creation of new business models that might disrupt (ugh, sorry) several existing industries, due to how they solve the trust issue between parties that have no reason to trust each other without a central controller entity. Some are calling this next wave of startups the "Web 3.0".

Sure, it looks like the wild west now, and there are all sorts of problems from scams to scalability issues, but maturity might be only a matter of time.
That's not quite true. The vast majority of VC money is to scale up a company. Only a small minority of investments, aka a portion of seed rounds, are done with the technology (and subsequent business model) merely in a hypothetical whitepaper stage.

This company might be different because they demonstrated their ability as IPFS is fleshed out but as others pointed out Filecoin is a different beast entirely and they are basically starting from scratch again.

The higher end of 6-18 months of pure dev time is a long risk range to get an untested product out. But I guess they have plenty of runway now to work on it with this massive ICO. Let's just hope they don't spin their wheels forever in research mode and spend their time and money wisely.

It's entirely possible someone else figures it out before them and this play will be a game of scale. I've heard this idea from more than one person well before Filecoin was around.
Fruit cake at weddings seems like an English tradition. I don't remember seeing one at the dozen-or-so American weddings that I've attended over the last 10 years. The closest that comes to mind was at my wedding, where one layer of the cake was flavored with lemon, with a stripe of Raspberry jam in the middle. But that cake was light and fluffy, in contrast to the dark-colored mass of nuts and dried fruit that I think of as "fruit cake".
To be frank, it's called being the better man.

Progress isn't made when both parties refuse to cooperate. And one side isn't absolved of responsibility just because they believe the other side to be not worth their effort. This is petty.
Automated driving plus Uber style infrastructure plus electric vehicles and improved batteries will start to change the way people use them significantly. Private car ownership will have peaked and begun falling, people will just order one on an app and let it drive off after they've arrived to the next job. Cars will spend much more of the day on the road instead of parked outside houses or offices rather like aeroplanes. Perhaps not a revolutionary or surprising idea in itself but I think the speed of this change will be surprising in hindsight.
Tweets are great, because they're public and therefore often actually get a response (I guess because companies don't want to be seen as ignoring support messages?). When I email a company, especially if it's a large company, more often than not my message seems to get ignored.
Ahh see, I didn't even know it was a company.
Maybe you want to check out https://nlnet.nl/NGI - and make a suggestion...
Software will eat programming jobs.
Clearly not.

Does 60% of Americans being overweight today mean that it's likely that 60% of people are naturally and biologically incapable of maintaining a healthy weight?

There are genetic differences among underweight and overweight populations, so it is "possible" that the distribution of healthy weights to overweight people is natural a result of those genetic traits, and not the result of advertising and availability of high calorie foods.

We should stop treating obesity as though it's a problem, right?
Dotcom was accused of doing things that are illegal in both the US and New Zealand (and around 200 other countries...). That's why New Zealand cooperated with the US's extradition request, including raiding Dotcom for the US.
> I would imagine municipalities' manual route planners wouldn't be that great.

Depends. If the same routes have been in use for a long time, odds are they are already really optimized. Bus drivers will take the same route year after year, and make suggestions to optimize it (often times by "going off route" now and then, which is very much against the rules, but at times very much needed), and those suggestions will get rolled in next year.

5 or 10 years of incremental improvements add up.
Exactly. The only problem with soundcloud is how much money they waste.
https://www.indiehackers.com/businesses/hacker-news-books

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1765307
I get similar impression from other side.
I have met stanford phd having very poor math background. Yes it is true but unbelivable.

I think the problem is with higher education system not the hype.

Standford/cmu should make their degree more rigorous.

I am sure if cs231n include fisher vector in their course and some maths derivation in their assigment,the number of student would drop logarithmically :)
Didn't read article, but bus routes are optimized for efficiency. They're optimized for driver hours. This is what I read online... I'm not sure how true this is.
https://bestmotherfucking.website is where it's at.
Yep! As we mentioned in the article, it was poor scoping from our part which we 100% own up to. Equally though after pushing on with Stripe after the transition we have found it way more suited to our particular needs.

That's not to say Braintree wouldn't work for others. As we stated, it's an awesome solution and we couldn't fault their support at all.
Lecturer = Fei-Fei Li at Stanford. Syllabus http://cs231n.stanford.edu/syllabus.html
Can you point to examples of large conservative corporations firing people for expressing liberal viewpoints? I feel we do not read about cases like Google's very often, so I'm not sure what you mean by "taste of their own medicine".
I find it funny how "fantasy" is so templated. There's a right and wrong way to make a "fantasy" map. In honesty, I want to explore the bad example at the bottom of the page. I want to know what created those very rigid and artificial looking landforms! The "good" example looks like a generic island.
Donut Manifesto: The importance of donuts
Amazon Mturk has been a good way for me to get the opinion of people on potential products.
To expand on this, CSS totally supports the basic performance of styling native apps provided you use features with the ergonomics of styling native apps (i.e. inline styles).

It's when one wants to be able to better declare what the styles will be that you have performance implications, and as pcwalton says these are worse for native styling frameworks since they don't have much optimization work put into them.

(Also, wrt the original comment, all this font-size handling isn't particularly a perf issue. There are other minor font perf issues, but this isn't one)
Ask HN: Can Shopify support a marketplace idea or do I need custom solution?
I've read "Do things that don't scale" and "Ideas are worthless; execution is everything", so I'm putting this out there to hopefully obtain some good feedback and direction.

I want to create an art marketplace that sells original works. Signed or unsigned, the work would be original and potentially from a set (limited number), authenticated by myself with the support of the original artist. No prints or mass reproductions.

In Model 1, the artist would hold the item, but have an agreement with me to place the product on the marketplace. At time of sale, I would be responsible for (somehow) transferring profit to the artist, and the artist would be responsible for packaging and shipping the product.
Pros: I'm not touching inventory.
Cons: I lose control of photos, which provide the consistent "look and feel" of product listings. I would also rely on artist to ship timely.

Model 2 - have agreement with the artist and list the product. The seller would ship the product to me. When sold, I would provide payment to the seller, and ship the product.
Pros: I would have full control of the product photos, and timeliness of shipping.
Cons: I'm responsible for storage of all inventory. I'm responsible for taking all photos (lots of work). I'm responsible for product damages before consistent photos of the product, but would need to store the product until it sells. If it doesn't sell, I have to ship it back.

On the topic of doing things that don't scale, a small marketplace that will at first suffer from the classic "chicken and egg" problem will be manageable for me, but I'm not sure about the logistics of the two models. I would prefer to never touch inventory.

Will Shopify support what I'm trying to do? I know marketplaces are tough, but people have been able to achieve it in the past. I want to execute on the idea but do it smartly and obtain feedback from everyone here.
Fun autocorrect barf: monad <- Monday. That being said, I hate IO Mondays too, they're the worst to start the week.
Don't look it's car UX
False. See 828 F.3d 1068 at 1077 (9th Cir. 2016):

>From those cases, we distill two general rules in analyzing authorization under the CFAA. ... Second, a violation of the terms of use of a website--without more--cannot be the basis for liability under the CFAA.

They say this because (Id. at 1076):

>"Not only are the terms of service vague and generally unknown . . . but website owners retain the right to change the terms at any time and without notice." [676 F.3d 854 (9th Cir. 2012)] at 862. As a result, imposing criminal liability for violations of the terms of use of a website could criminalize many daily activities. Accordingly, "the phrase 'exceeds authorized access' in the CFAA does not extend to violations of use restrictions. If Congress wants to incorporate misappropriation liability into the CFAA, it must speak more clearly." Id. at 863.
It is a hypothetical scenario but it illustrates the fundamental difference in perspectives:

In scenario (1) otherwise qualified female candidates are overlooked during the hiring process due to systemic biases in the industry. Programs are instituted to reduce these biases. This puts men at a disadvantage (relative to the status quo), but actually merely equalizes the playing field.

In scenario (2) there are not enough qualified female candidates. If that is the case, then any program which increases the hiring of female candidates will likely cause the hiring of sub-par candidates, causing all of the issues you describe.

I can understand why people would object to (2) but I don't really see a problem with (1). I also don't understand why people assume that these programs actually lead to the hiring of sub-par candidates? I would think that Google's hiring practices would filter out unqualified candidates regardless of gender.
If I get a idea for a project og business idea
One of the first things I do is checking if where is existing business or similar and go through what they offer and what where price is or if they make any
Next write down what they offer now compare your own idea and ask yourself how can I be different and why should customers choose me instead of the compitors
I disagree, I don't see any evidence that he is being dishonest.
I think its pretty short-sighted to say that ICO craze will not result in economic growth. As one early example, take a look at the Ethereum DAO, which allows arbitrary investors to participate in opportunities that may not otherwise exist.
At one point, back in like 2012 when trap was all the rage, SoundCloud had interesting stuff coming out every day. I'd listen to it in the car, and was annoyed at the bug where turning your phone to landscape required switch apps then switching back to trigger SoundCloud to actually reorient itself. It was my source of new music, and going to trap shows and clubs in the Bay Area, I'd know what was being played even if it was super new. I remember making a joke at one point when some friends commented on my SC usage that "I only listen to music that was released today".

We lived in the future for a little while there.
sure, of course I agree that if cultural impacts or discrimination are the cause of these discrepancies, then perpetuating that is disrespectful. However, if biological differences cause them then affirmative action is disrespectful of those differences.
I feel like you're trying to drag me down exactly the road I warned about.

This page is about James Damore, so why are we spending so much time talking about white supremacists and Nazis?

Unless you can directly justify the connection, I'm going to continue pointing out that making such irrelevant and unjustified associations is a common smear tactic.
Still as difficult as ever, but I'm not in a hot sector for fundraising.
It doesn't look like Filecoin does this. Proof of stake also solves this problem for other crypto currencies. Ethereum is one of the big ones that is planning to move to PoS. I seem to recall reading somewhere that BitShares will too.
Likewise, I hate googling for a discussion or review and finding a thread half filled with "This user has deleted their comments with a greasemonkey script..."

Besides, after an hour or so your comment is definitely already in Google and any HN crawlers, and probably on archive.org shortly after that.
Found this linked to from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14990716 and it seems really interesting, but as I've not heard about it before I'm really interested in hearing others' experiences using it.
Here are the issues I ran into:

- In Webextensions, retrieving something from local storage is an async operation. In Jetpack, it was a sync operation. This has the potential to create race conditions if you're updating a cache. It's OK in my application, because a double update is harmless.

- Webextensions, by default, will run in incognito mode. That's because the "incognito" key in manifest.json doesn't support "not allowed" yet. ([1], table "Browser compatibility") That should have been both supported and the default, as it was in Jetpack, because it's a form of permission. Requires a one line workaround.

- The use of "id" requires a better explanation. When upgrading, you have to use the same ID your previous non-Webextension used, even though that ID ends with "jetpack". The documentation doesn't indicate anything like that. But the AMO uploader detects this and gives a good error message.

The new development and debugging environment on desktop is nice. The add-on worked the first time on Android, so I didn't have to use the more difficult environment for mobile debugging.

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/WebExtensions/ma...
I prefer to think if it as an Innumeracy Tax.

A friend once commented on the subway advert that went:
"All you need is a dollar and a dream"

His comment was:
"We'll keep the dollar and you keep the dream".
From what I have read, Woz is in a league of his own. If anything he doesn't get the credit he deserves.
Think about all the extra space on all the harddrives in the world that isn't being used.

For example, when you buy a new computer, with a 500 GB drive, 400GB of it isn't going to be used for a while.

Hard drives may be cheap, s3 may be cheap, but that extra 400 GB of hard disk space? That space is literally FREE.

Hard disk space is weird, because there is so much completely unused space out there, that would be literally free to use.

Filecoin will allow this free space to be put on the market.
Why not just use a base 64 representation?
As a follow-up, this idea came out because I have somewhat recently taken a huge interest in art, not helped by my binge watching of Bloomberg's Brilliant Ideas documentary series on various artists. I have collected some prints/reproductions over the years, but didn't see a marketplace to buy authentic, original works from artists. I check Craigslist occasionally with varying degrees of success. Thus, the idea was born.
> They completely change up the product and drive away the users, and the entire thing collapses like a house of cards.

The company will collapse if nothing is done. The only downside to trying something new is that the company might collapse a little bit sooner if the new direction doesn't work out. On the other hand, there is a chance the company can be saved, so it seems like they might as well try it.
What I don't understand is how you get a gig teaching a course at Stanford while being an undergraduate student at Stanford. Is this some sort of special seminar course or something?
Wow for an in-browser music player that almost always doesn't work I am totally not shocked it is dying.
The Israeli Military Is Buying Copter Drones with Machine Guns
I think your feelings on this will depend mostly on your relationship with your employer. Running programs during lunch makes sense as people have engagements before and after work that would be harder to break than changing lunch plans.

Some employers really do want to do things to help employees, and some of them cannot pay more just by waiving a magic wand. Of course, since the employee is usually the one with less power, the employer's motivations can feel perverse, even if they aren't.

Regarding mindfulness meditation classes at work, I think it is mostly a good thing, as it's something that can be used outside of the office just as well as in the office. However, I don't think it's okay to require employees to take such classes.
The WebSDR at http://websdr.ewi.utwente.nl:8901 (based in the Netherlands) can be used to hear the station as it is broadcast. Set to 4625 kHz, USB.
> That men and women are biologically different is a 100% fact.

For anything that's biological, that's perfectly fine. You won't see anyone suggest men to go to a gynecologist either ;).

> Why do we have to try and make them equal?

Which inequality make sense to you?

> celebrate people as individuals

The goal is to help individuals be who they want to be and not be judged for the sex they were born with or their nationalities.

You are from India right? Perfect example, because of outsourcing, many people believe that Indian people aren't as good in development. You are probably really good, I don't doubt that. However, there may be some people that see on your CV that you are from India and quickly decide that because you are from there, you are less qualified than someone else. Maybe the stats does prove it to be right in general, mostly because outsourcing was a great way to boost India economy, but as an individual for you, they are wrong.

The thing is, changing theses bias are extremely hard and theses bias had a pretty negative repercussion over the years. We need to hire more of them to make sure that theses bias disappear and create an environment that won't make them fear it.

We need to be careful though not to lower the hiring requirement though in the process. We need qualified people that won't create worst bias with time.
The way I interpreted the article was that more money is being poured into the seed stage funding, and late-stage funding is drying up. This has also been my experience working for a VC backed startup and seeing our competitors recently go out of business because they did not build sustainable models and couldn't get late stage funding.

Investing more at the seed stage also makes sense because it allows the investor to diversify with a smaller amount of capital, and potentially exit earlier (if the company can get late stage funding and the early investors can get out through it or a secondary market).

This behavior is in line with your observations of a concentration of investment in winners (and in line with GSV Capital's public statements from the 2Q earnings call earlier this week). It is also consistent with the article's statement that now may be a good time to quit your job, as seed stage is frothy.
Well said. Its hard to quantify it in an objective context, but there is something just viscerally disgusting about taking something so old and spiritually significant to humans and perverting it into a tool for efficiency.
checks library
Yup, that's how I have it in all my cyberpunk books. :)
A quick Google search reveals the following.

"Admiral identifies audiences with ad blockers turned on, works to re-establish those users (by opting in to a lightened ad experience, say, or asking to be whitelisted) and then makes a small cut of every ad served to the reacquired audience."

Source: https://adexchanger.com/publishers/another-ad-blocking-solut...

tl;dr
Admiral is a startup that measures an audience's "ad block rate". If the rate is high, they then work to "establish explicit value propositions with users and then serve them with minimal tags and tracking". It also mentions plans to try to process micropayments.

"Admiral is built for a world where ad blockers have won."

Source: Id.

tl;dr
Unless the founder has changed course from what is described in the 2016 article, as far as I can tell, this startup relies on widespread usage of adblockers. If users do not use adblockers, then this startup has nothing to sell.

VC: "What happens if the ad blockers block the servers that serve the ad blocker tracking image?"

Founder: "I'll send them DMCA notices."

VC: "Excellent. I'm in."

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For an experienced Ubuntu user, who knows how to configure their system to their liking, including switching the DE if desired - what exactly would be the benefits of migrating to Mint?