skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A couple points on this though:

1. Whether you're an incubator or a VC, batting average doesn't really matter. All that really matters (from a financial perspective anyway) is that you don't miss out on the super successful hits. I think it was one or two years back that pg said that something like 70% of YC's total return, since founding, was Dropbox and AirBnB. Thus, while Overleaf has become successful, at the end of the day it's not something that would really move the needle much for YC.
2. It's all about percentages, so of course you're bound to miss some winners. It's also possible that since Overleaf's addressable market (scientific paper writing) is not gigantic, YC might be less rigorous in finding "diamonds in the rough" if a startup's addressable market is not that big (pure speculation on my part).
3. Numbers 1 and 2 should highlight that the needs and goals of investors and founders are not 100% aligned. Investors want to find the few mega home runs, while I think most founders would be happy with a double or a triple. Kudos to Overleaf for their perseverance and success!
> I have it on good authority that some portions of FB (such as Messenger) flat-out refuse to use it.

That is not true; Messenger uses React Native for some features.
Which hunt meets law of unintended consequences
Even if his work has had a negative impact, why would the field have to wait for him to die to progress?
Some people have thought about this topic for years, but Twitter ignores such knowledge because destroying civilization is more profitable. http://anildash.com/2011/07/if-your-websites-full-of-asshole... http://lesswrong.com/lw/c1/wellkept_gardens_die_by_pacifism/
True, and we are free to criticize them for abusing their power. Further, we should reconsider the high amount of trust we place in Google, et al.
If they were accepted they might not have become the success they are. Programs like YC can put different types of pressures on a business.
>python

Is already there.

>perl

There'd be porting effort, if not using their POSIX compatibility framework. Else, effort would be put in making it build.
China May Soon Surpass America on the Artificial Intelligence Battlefield
fzy: a fast, simple fuzzy text selector with an advanced scoring algorithm
Instead of saying the emperor is naked, he asks for the AC to be set to freezing.
Autonomous cars will do ride-sharing, years from now when autonomous cars eventually become legal and accepted. And every ride sharing service will buy them, because every car company will sell them.

Car rental companies are the most likely first bulk buyers of self-driving cars. They already buy, store, maintain, and clean large fleets of cars. They're all set up to handle the problems of a big fleet of cars used by many people. Uber doesn't have that infrastructure.

Car rental companies would like to have a car pick you up outside baggage claim and drive you away, rather than using a shuttle bus to get you to their car lot. Customers will like that, too. Even if the cars aren't self-driving on all roads, if they can get from rental car storage to the airport and onto the freeway, that's enough to justify the technology.
Unrelated, but about a year ago I downloaded Sonic the Hedgehog 2 from the Xbox Store onto my Xbox one (I think it cost £0.99).

Anyway, it was about 500Mb in size and it runs Sonic 2 on the Xbox One's Xbox 360 emulator, which is then emulating a Sega Mega Drive.

That just blows my mind! 8 x86 cores to emulate 3 PPC cores to emulate a mega drive.
One distinction appears to be that Laverna syncs through an adapter you maintain (like Dropbox).
If Uber just focuses on ride-sharing, without innovation, it's unclear to me how they could survive.

They seem to scale in reverse. That is, an Uber that runs in the US and the UK will cost more to operate than an Uber that runs in just the US. An Uber that runs in one state will cost less than an Uber that runs in a whole country, and so on. The more diverse an area you serve, the more legislation and markets you have to deal with, more hours you'll have high customer support load, and the less well you will be able to analyze and react to trends in individual markets.

What stops me, then, in an era where Uber isn't fueled by investor money every trip, from being a competitor with Uber? Raise a few million dollars, get a simple app together with a few friends, and then convince drivers to try (take a lot of short Uber rides and pitch good drivers) and riders to ride. I'd have less staff, less overhead, and therefore less costs. The savings could be passed on equally to the drivers and riders. I could give discounts on nights when there was a big game, I could advertise in local areas, I could poach good drivers from Uber, etc.

It seems to me there is no way for Uber to be competitive if they aren't using investor to subsidize the price of rides. There is nothing, that I am aware of, that is impossible or expensive to replicate in their tech.
I'm not entirely sure I understand your metaphor in this case. I appreciate that it had something to do with efficiency but then I got lost because a 20:1 farmer-to-other feeding ratio seems incredibly unrealistic and made it hard to understand whether the ratio was relevant to the metaphor's point or was just an off the cuff sort of detail.
I recall reading an economic study on polygamous societies in the Middle East that concluded the same thing about why women would be ok with it. Financial security.

Edit: I find it annoying that I'm getting downvoted for just saying I once read an article that studied similar phenomena. To be clear, I think polygamy is a horrible thing, especially in countries where women have far from equal rights. That doesn't mean that the circumstances that make it systemic shouldn't be studied.

Edit 2: I realize that I didn't particularly contribute anything enlightening to the conversation with this comment either. In that case, downvote away. :)
No, they can't sue you for using React any more than, say a maker of a coffee machine can sue you for using it to serve coffee in your restaurant. You still retain the BSD license, which is an irrevocable, worldwide right to redistribute React.

Facebook has thousands of patents. If you sue Facebook for patent infringement, their lawyers are going to comb through their patent portfolio and look for things that you might be infringing on. That's standard, and to be expected, with or without the React patents clause.
His point is broadly accurate, but is slightly ignorant of history with the implication that we need to invent “moderating Internet forums” over again.

I expect letting bluechecks moderate twitter would turn it from a libertarian dystopia into a corporate dystopia though; when the WSJ rediscovers neo-Nazis just to write articles about how well dressed they are, it’s good that all the comments are mean to them.
> Ethereum makes the assumption that given a user-defined algorithm and a user-defined input, that within the limitations of the EVM whether or not the algorithm will halt can be determined.

No, it does not make that assumption. It simply limits the algorithm to a finite number of steps (opcodes in EVM) based on the amount of ether that was paid for.

Imagine an actual Turing machine - a symbol based ticker tape. Each operation of the machine is one step. You can run it for a given number of cycles and stop without knowing or needing to know whether the algorithm expressed through the Turing machine will halt or not.

See this explanation of what "gas" is on the ethereum network: https://ethereum.stackexchange.com/questions/3/what-is-meant...
So, the evolution of human goes.

At least if we look on this from perspective of evolutionary theory of sex[1], which states that males are subject of natural selection and it is the main reason behind inventing sex differences in evolution. Unsuccessful males are cheaper to population than unsuccessful females, so there are less unsuccessful females and more unsuccessful males. From ETS perspective this reasearch an evidence of evolution, if there are no differences in reproductive ability between males and females, than evolution is stalled. But we see such a difference, than it is possible that evolution is goes. And probablity of it is bound to likelyhood of ETS to be true.

I wander, what the selection factor is?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geodakyan%27s_evolutionary_the...
To be honest this feels like the same thing that's been sold as a miracle cure my entire life. Cut taxes, and if that doesn't work cut them more, then try a tax cut, and if you're still not getting what you hoped for then maybe a tax cut will work, and have you tried cutting taxes?

We have decades of evidence that this doesn't work. I used to live in Kansas where the governor made a priority of his "March to Zero" on taxes, as a guaranteed sure-fire can't-fail way to make businesses happy and lead to more investment in business in the state, more businesses relocating there, more jobs, etc.

And it was a complete and utter failure. It is now in the process of being repealed by people who were left with no choice other than to admit it failed. It is time for people who advocate this to understand that while it may sound great when deduced theoretically from first principles, it does not work in the real world.
Did a Bail Reform Algorithm Contribute to This San Francisco Man's Murder?
Asian woman who quit Google: 'The culture there is really discouraging'
And there is a definite limit on the number of people who would ever consider using Overleaf. I detest MS Word (and word processors in general) and use Overleaf, but the market for TeX solutions is obviously not in the same league of scale as Dropbox.
I would posit this was a "winner take all" outcome compounded by economics and biology. High infant mortality, as well as the high risk of death from even a simple infection or injury, would be enough to reduce the number of males in a population, to concentrate means into the hands of a few. Then, the progeny of these hardened or simply lucky few would be better insulated from disease or injury than other males, perpetuating the cycle.
The misconception comes from the days when athletes stopped taking PEDs a month before competition to avoid getting caught.
I've given up on using any sort of branded app for notetaking. At best it's open source and the maintainers will lose interest in a few years.

When you write things down, you're investing in your future. It's silly to use software that isn't making that same investment.

After trying Evernote, wikis, org-mode, and essentially everything else I could find, I gave up and tried building my own system for notes. Plain timestamped markdown files linked together. Edited with vim and a few bash scripts, rendered with a custom deployment of Gollum. All in a git repo.

It's... wonderful. Surprisingly easy. Fast. If there's a feature I wish it had, I can write a quick bash script to implement it. If Gollum stops being maintained, I can use whatever the next best markdown renderer is. Markdown isn't going away anytime soon.

It's liberating to be in control. I find myself more eager to write things down. I'm surprised more people don't do the same.

Edit: here's what my system looks like https://imgur.com/a/nGplj
hey mate, just wanted to say sorry about how life turned out, you're at least in a position where you can do something else if you wanted to...most people are not. I know, it's small comfort.

My first startup, 3.5 years of blood and tears, literally walked away with nothing (internal politics). No equity, I couldn't afford to exercise my options.

Also, wanted to quickly add, i also had to pay out thousands in legal advice to even keep my options! we didn't even get proper option certificates in the years i was there...place was a mess.
Having been an insider on at least two topics where the HN comments section consensus is confident and authoritative-sounding and detailed but way off the mark, I'm beginning to doubt this. (Not going to say which topics).

The "avoid gratuitous negativity" policy has helped, but we are still very much in a place of "most negative opinion wins" which pushes some discussions way off of reality. And those are just the ones I know about.

Turns out that sounding smart or righteously indignant (or usually, both) doesn't make something correct. Just a weird rabbit hole of darkly gratifying negativity. I guess I'm waking up to the fact that our flavor of "discussing ideas" might not actually be that more high-minded than Reddit or Facebook.
Very cool!

Just wanted to say that the nodes app in nextcloud is very handy too!

Actually, if Nextcloud could embed this Laverna somehow... that would be awesome.
The key feature of Snapchat is that it allows you to communicate emotions. If you were forced to sign all your tweets with a facial expression, you could still upload text-only, and detect nasty/hostile facial expressions and ban such communications
Welch left that company in a sorry state, and a lot of the financial machinations that pumped up that stock were played out (and worse became liabilities) by the time Immelt arrived. (Welch turned GE into a leveraged bank that happened to make generators and plastic)

GE's stock performance imo is more about how the market no longer favors conglomerates and relatively boring industries.
> how hard would it really be to organize a single day google search boycott across the web

- DDG and probably even Bing would go under.

- It's just a slap on the wrist for Google.

I think a better idea is to create a distributed, federated crawler and search engine that does not depend on a central point of failure.

Alternatively, we could still use Google for long-tail, technical searches and use a different one for important queries such as politics and social.
Though we do have 4K tvs now.
I really can't comment on the specifics of Immelt or GE. But one question I've always had around situations of supposed lack luster performance is this...

How much worse would it have been had they not been at the helm? And of course the logical follow-up of how do you know that it could actually be turned around?
Binding arbitration is also the safest way to screw people since arbiters tend to be far more easy to corrupt and there has been a long history of harmful rulings in the space in the US. The problem is the side with power gets to pick the list of arbiters and the arbiters know this and act accordingly. The times broke a story on some of this covering some of the worst rulings and issues a while back.
I hate to say it, but correlation is not causation. Unless you can provide some studies that show people who get rich e.g. from lottery winnings, also lose their weight and vice versa with proper controls for depression and the like there is no reason to believe that an increase in economic inequality will lead to an increase in obesity.
Sure it does. Uber is like Dropbox for cars. WTF are they doing?

If you fired 75% of the people, and focused on selling rides and selling cars to drivers, the company would probably coast and make money for years.
Who's a better Duo?
Upgrading a PC is a one time thing you need to do once every few years. You'd be "upgrading" your console by putting it in the bin and buying a new one, so I'm not sure what the argument is against PC gaming here...
I wonder how much native look and feel really matters. Swing copped a lot of flack for not having native controls but I think this problem was miniscule compared to poor performance, bloated download and complex API. Web apps don't use native look and feel but have nonetheless been very successful.
I find it interesting that Mastodon was built with a lot of input from communities frequently harrassed on Twitter.

It influenced early design choices (the "retweets" count is not proheminently displayed ; fine-grained options for muting/blocking/banning).

Plus, in the end, isn't per-community-moderation the only way to avoid the "one rule fits all" dictatorship?
I'm going to give this a go.

Self hosted Dokuwiki has been my note taking tool of choice, usable on multiple devices, easy to backup, easy to export notes but markdown sounds good.

Is it possible to share notes or make notes public?
It's still broken
So is Ethereum's VM simply not Turing complete, then? :) Since by its nature it can not possibly compute every Turing-computable function. If so, why was it even advertised as such?

edit: Haha okay, so I guess I'm not the only person who stumbled on this.

https://media.consensys.net/ethereum-isnt-turing-complete-an...
Here's a more canonical version of the exact same logic in react:

const Root = ()=> <ConnectivityIndicatorView/>

class ConnectivityIndicatorView extends Component {
state = { isConnected: false }

componentDidMount() {
const isConnected = Math.random() > 0.5
this.setState({ isConnected })
}

render() {
const backgroundColor = this.state.isConnected ? 'green' : 'red'
return <View style={{backgroundColor, width: 20, height: 20}}/>
}
}

And here's how I would actually write it in my own app:

const Root = ()=> <ConnectivityIndicatorView isConnected={Math.random() > 0.5}/>

const ConnectivityIndicatorView = ({isConnected})=> {
const backgroundColor = isConnected ? 'green' : 'red'
return <View style={{backgroundColor, width: 20, height: 20}}/>
}
I've been window shopping for something similar to Tomboy notes. This seems like a nice compromise. Thanks for sharing.
Yes, it's difficult, and I wish the airlines provided better information and booking tools.

But my point still stands: if someone _knows_ they are too big for most economy seats, and still buys a ticket which doesn't guarantee a suitable seat (because they don't want to pay the price, or because they don't want to change their schedule to a day when such a seat is available, or because they choose an airline which doesn't let them book seats at all) then it's not fair to put 100% of the blame on the airline.

Don't get me wrong, I'd like there to be a wider variety of seat sizes in economy (maybe smaller folks like me could get a cheaper ticket for a smaller seat!).
C example from the Linux kernel: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tglx/history...
To increase the competition via decentralization of the government control of internet
If there is a hardfork and you're staking then I'd imagine you'll also be automatically staking on both chains, nothing to do. Hardfork only matter if you're transacting at the time of the fork, your transaction could be replayed on the other chain or if a reorganisation happens, in that case you may want to wait until the fork gets resolved.
One of the biggest use cases of Evernote for me – OCR notes with search. All my important checks, slips and papers are going there. It's seems that Laverna doesn't have this feature. So it's not an alternative for me.
What's the longest amount of time you went abstinent -- from regular masturbation, that is? If you can't remember the last time that you, either willingly or by accident (without sustained, concerted effort), then you might benefit from treating your condition as you would treat the, let's call it "condition", of exploring an unfamiliar, new language like Rust, Julia or maybe SQL. That is, maybe you can treat it like something that can be conquered with concerted effort, and with a kind of topical "syllabus" or roadmap for expanding your familiarity with the "subject" and "practice" of being abstinent from auto-stimulation or masturbation.

Maybe you will begin to see this problem which has plagued you and many other alike since youth as what is really is: Many different problem-types, with which you can familiarize yourself through structured exercise, just as you would exercise familiarity with written composition, software design or design OSS or pet software products. That is, maybe you can steer into what you've been evading your whole life (or your adult life), and treat with more of a nonchalant, indifferent, bordering on optimistic temperament; give it a goddamned name, examine get to know explicitly what it's into, when and where it's available, and what's been motivating you to conquer it like you conquered that last big thing you can think of.... (But writing this out kinda feels like an armchair prescription for another visit.)

"This is Water" is a David Foster Wallace speech that isn't necessarily appropriate for this subject, but I suppose it is since, somewhere in it he says,

"How to keep from going through your comfortable, prosperous, respectable adult life dead, unconscious, a slave to your head and to your natural default-setting of being uniquely, completely, imperially alone, day in and day out", then, "A slave to your 'Default Setting'", and ultimately onto, "[the] 'Truth' is about life Before death."

In it, he eventually lands on his theme, which is that we're not alone in regularly betraying our aspirations to each of our own "examined lives", and that there's something that's inherently insidious and subversive in our unexamined, reflexive thoughts, assumptions and beliefs. He likens this tendency of ours, this "Default Setting", to an ocean's Water, of which we should remain critical, and vigilant as we navigate and observe our reflexive thoughts and reactions. He suggests that we can avoid a kind of "Waking Death" through the resilient and continued practice of modest, critical awareness and acknowledgement of our subversive tendencies.
> Maybe, but this is not why we have patents.

Yeah, and? I wasn't saying so.
How do you create/edit notes on mobile?
I really struck a chord, didn't I?
You don't have to bear the burden alone. There are people available to listen and talk with you a 24x7 at 1-800-273-8255 (U.S.). Please consider talking to someone.
After getting into YC, you can see the large amount of different companies and markets and products they try to reach, but for sure the one thing the all share is billions market size.

Also, they are always clear that not being accepted into YC should not be the end of the company and you can try later even with the same idea.
Then you were right, I should've checked before answering.
What I really really want is a tool that keeps notes in github, therefore an open/standard/robust way to do offline, merge changes, resolve conflicts.

I've lost so much data from Evernote's atrocious conflict resolution that it's my central concern. I don't see any mention of that here.

Use case: edit notes on a plane on laptop, edit notes on phone after landing, sometime later use laptop again and zap.
Another flavor of this surprise: JSON.stringify doesn't "see" undefined. JSON.stringify({foo:undefined}) returns "{}" :)
Org mode in a git repo. Easy enough. Don't need a fussy rendering step. Generate a PDF or HTML from org. Regardless of how you do it -- plain text will endure and using git makes it really simple. Markdown can never "go away" and neither can org files. They are inherently readable with cat and the naked eye. If I can't legibly read it with cat / less it will eventually leave me disappointed in some way.
Nba 2k17 || blacktop online- Who's the better DUO