skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm an exclusively pumping parent right now.

Naya isn't the first company to try to do something like this. Willow and Anabella are two other companies/devices trying to sell people on a better pump. Anabella's indiegogo campaign has made the rounds in all my pumping groups like 100 times on its promise of getting 100% milk out (it's a common idea that pumps right now can't get all available milk out like babies' mouths can). Willow is being sold on the idea that it fits in your bra without any tubes or hassle, which is a big deal for people wishing to discreetly pump in workplaces and such.

But having used the top-of-the-line (Symphony and Ameda hospital grade pumps) all the way down to home-grade and manual pumps (Spectra S2, Freestyle, etc.) in the past 6 months - pretty sure it doesn't matter how effective the pump is or how comfortable it ends up being. The act of pumping itself is very difficult for many people and time consuming, and when you have employers, coworkers, and family/friends that don't respect your need to pump, you end up not pumping rather than doubling down with your $1k pump.

Especially in the face of the fact that most parents in the US will qualify to get a free home-grade pump through insurance (including through WIC etc.) and that without insurance the average pump is only $100-200 plus supplies another $50-100 - along with an expectation to replace the pump every time you have a new child (the pump itself does wear out - I wear them out prematurely due to EPing :) )... I think these companies face a lot more problems than they're willing to acknowledge. VCs may be frustrating to work with here, but a lot of questions remain. I still wish these companies the best of luck though, as all technology has to start somewhere and then maybe becomes cheaper and more accessible over time :) Breast pumps decades ago look like torture devices in comparison to what's available now.

edit to add: full disclosure, I haven't purchased or preordered any of the crop of new pumps. pretty much none of them support my (large) nipple size, and none of them seem to have worked closely with EPers as it is difficult to near impossible to find a pump that also promises that they'll have parts available for replacement. due to pumping all the damn time, I have to replace parts fairly frequently.
IT horror stories involving IBM don't really surprise me anymore. I'm more surprised by the companies and governments they continue to game with their low ball bid tactics.

I once worked with a large team from IBM that was staffed with Indians that did the work both onsite and offshore in India and it was without a doubt the worst code quality I've ever seen in my career. There were classes with 10,000+ LOC, methods with over 1000 LOC and dead unreachable code that wasn't even commented out. Speaking of comments, if it wasn't automatically generated by the IDE there would be none. But the most horrific example of their lack of attention to detail and code quality was the absolute absence of any unit tests in this massive project with millions of LOC. The only unit tests ever written were by me and those unit tests were subsequently disabled/commented out when some other developer decided it would be easier to disable the unit tests rather than to modify them to adhere to the changes they were making. It's a shame more clients don't hire independent code auditing companies to inspect the code their paying millions of dollars for.
I think you're confusing the GOP's motivations and their rhetoric. See also: their failure to repeal the ACA despite having the presidency and a majority in both houses.
>...rinse-test-repeat kind of job... people with patience and who can interpret data and who can be comfortable with uncertainty and then can make their bosses comfortable with uncertainty on timelines.

somehow that isn't a definition of a technical superstar. I suppose a superstar is a DC/Marvel style character who do software engineering impatiently, skipping the test-debug-fix-repeat ... Well, save for the missing Batman mask it is basically the lowest productive engineers i've ever met, and probably you really don't need these superstars.
There are a couple of fixes that have been suggested.

1) Ban tackles. This has the advantage of being safe for all children who don't tackle, but possibly increases risk as soon as they start tackling because they have no idea how to tackle safely.

2) Stop grouping child rugby players by age, and start grouping them by both size and skill. This is especially important since schools have increased professionalism of the game - they're all more serious about it, which risks more injury.
There are way too many emoji, but Unicode can handle them. We need to keep them out of things that have to be typed correctly - domain names, URLs, usernames, passwords, and variable names. Other than that, they're harmless, except that everything now has to handle the astral planes. Most of the emoji are 3-byte Unicode characters.

How are IOS 11 animated emoji encoded for transmission?
Dragon ball super
What a waste of taxpayer money.
I am all for moving away from fossil fuels, into renewable energy, but this is just ridiculous.
The oil enabled the developed world we live in today, without oil we would never get to the point where SF is one of the richest cities on earth. If anything the oil companies should sue the city for a share in revenue.
You don't have to provide consent to having a CRA host "your" data, because you're not the customer unless you buy a product from one of them.

CRAs are regulated by the government, with things like GLBA, CFPB, FCRA, and other acronyms covering what they can and cannot do, what their responsibilities are, etc. The CRAs have all been fined for improper handling of data, failing to adequately vet data provided to customers, etc.

CRAs get data from two places primarily: public records and CRA members (banks, credit card companies, retailers, etc.) The public records stuff is just that: public. Anyone can get it if they ask and are willing to pay the costs to gather it.

Member data is provided by members to CRAs, and you absolutely grant the right to them to do so when you signed up to use them. When you get a bank account, or credit card, or sign up for a store card, or really agree to do business with any entity on a financial basis, you approved it with your signature.

Your statement about "covert surveillance" is factually incorrect. You have a right under the law to view your entire credit file as held by all CRAs once per year. I also think (not sure) that you can get a copy if you're turned down for credit due to information on a credit report. So how is it "covert", if you not only know about it but can see it?
That's not the same thing- coal contains microscopic diamonds but you'll have a hard time scratching sapphire with it. Incidentally, alumina is much closer to sapphire than any pottery. Alumina is the sintered powder form and you need really good quality, high density stuff to be able to break a window. It's also a near-requirement that it has very sharp points.

Alumina will effortlessly scratch gorilla glass, any metal, tungsten carbide and even a lot of sapphire glass. No kind of pottery will do any of those things.
Does Tmobile offer 2FA that isn't SMS based?
Building a Desktop UI in Go, Is It Worth It?
Yeah, this is just 'wow' level work. And it's going to be a NIGHTMARE to fix. I don't think most people realize how much of a ballet it is that chips on devices like phones are doing on a nanosecond-to-nanosecond basis. The thermal and energy management is utter voodoo. They're allocating work to different parts of the chip calculating the time it will take for the last hotspot to drop close enough to thermal equilibrium to be used again without straight up destroying the circuits, dancing activity all around the chip just to avoid frying it. To them layer on top of that 'well you have to do it in a way that emits not a single bit of useful information in any form, thermal, radio, energy, etc'... someone somewhere who is very smart is having a very, very bad day.
Any thoughts on how to market a Newsletter?
This hardly sounds like a disadvantage considering deployment sizes most setups have in production anyway.
i think it was probably link pre-fetch that triggered the firewall rather than a dns lookup.
> Legislation is a tool. It has lots of hangups, a legacy from thousands of years of history. It’s not always the best tool for the job. I’m not an anarchist, I just feel we’re get more milage from better browser behaviour and defaults than laws in this particular instance.

I care about a lot more than browser data, though. I don't really care how they're getting the data, I think they shouldn't be able to, and if they do it should be because they have to have it in order to provide a service to their customers, and they should be so strictly limited in what they can do with that data that conducting any business unrelated to it is incredibly risky even if they don't intentionally leverage it to their advantage. Credit card companies collecting & selling data, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, banks, magazines selling subscriber lists, cable companies selling your data, all of it should be banned. When collecting user data can't be avoided, it should come with scaling, large bond or escrow requirements to cover customer damages (which ought to be set at a high level with the leak itself considered damaging, no further proof of damage required) in the case of leaks. I want companies to treat personal data of users as something like nuclear waste: try not to make any if possible, and spend a lot of money making sure it's safe if you must keep it around.
I like to do this though experiment sometimes.

Let's assume some sort of Basic Income is enacted. A standard livable amount for all adults, that will scale with inflation, and even with number of dependents.

Some people will still work. Will still pursue hard working jobs that contribute to society, that push our capabilities as a species forward, and add value (important). But think about most of the world and people that you know...I'd imagine that on average, people would elect to not choose to - for lack of a better term - "work hard" to boost their income if their basic needs are covered. Some folks would just love to let others take the wheel, and enjoy their netflix and soylent in peace. This needs proof of course, but I believe that's an assumption we can make for sake of discussion.

Now...we all know that automation is coming. Already we see many of the tasks that humans depend on for survival and prosperity being done faster and more efficiently with artificial intelligence and robotics. Things like harvesting natural resources, agriculture, production of goods, and even building infrastructures. The responsibility of these tasks is shifting away from the people, and into the hands (clamps?) of specialized machines.

So, assuming 1) we have individuals who are having their needs provided for, but not making a measurable contribution to the survival of the species/system and 2) we are trending toward automation and hyper optimization for all the processes that we depend on for survival...when do AI and/or algorithms start to find that certain people are not worth being provided for? Who manages these systems? Someone that we elect? An artificial entity?

I'd honestly love to hear others thoughts on this. I know I would rather fight and claw for survival than pray to someone that they don't choose me to shoot off into space.
In case you're not aware, on Android there's also F-Droid, an app store with only open-source apps, maintained by a non-profit organization. At least when I'm looking for open-source apps on Android, that's where I start looking...

https://f-droid.org/
Mostly unknowingly, I would wager. The consequences of deciding to buy a car with DRM are too far removed from the time of purchase. Also, because the mass market isn't knowledgeable enough, it has a higher tendency to simply accept the rising cost of maintenance as inflation, rather than a concerted attempt to raise costs to the consumer.
Unfortunately I don't guard my name + number like I do my passwords. Who knows how they found it, in a post equihax world I'm not sure anyone can consider this private.
Am I the only one who gave up reading Seveneves because of pages and pages of complicated orbital mechanics?
Google Cloud Dataprep Hits Public Beta
Also, I think most websites don't even need constant access to the DB, because the data doesn't change often.

Compile a static site from SQLite when someone enters new data, push it somewhere to be accessible and be done with it.
I absolutely loved this blog post. This, incidentally, is the perfect thing to blog about if you're looking for ideas. Just read books and things outside what is normally part of the engineering culture, in the meanwhile keeping all the things you're good at (e.g. mathematical modelling) or interested in in the back of your mind. When you stumble upon the intersection of things you're technically good at and things you read about, do some cool research or write some code and then post it on HN and there you go.
This is a misunderstanding of how both macro inflation occurs (money supply growing faster than true value of wealth it abstracts), and how price is set (supply and demand).

UBI does not "create" new money and just give it to everyone (which would cause inflation). It's a wealth redistribution. That is, many people will see their income go down under UBI (probably most HN readers for example). The money supply will represent the same amount of wealth, what changes is who owns that wealth and as a result who decides how to use that wealth to consume.

Regarding price changes, price is set by the amount of a good/service demanded by consumers, and the supply of the good/service created by suppliers. High discretionary income does cause the demand for certain goods/services to go up (especially luxuries), but UBI is so basic at $1k per month it won't make much of a change in the demand curve because the type of goods/services that will be consumed by someone living on UBI are so fundamental they are already consuming these goods at the same rate under the current system.

So far as housing is concerned, UBI will pretty much "explode" the supply of acceptable housing for people living solely on UBI since they get access to housing in the entire US instead of having it constrained to locations where they could conceivably "make a living." I'm sure you realize what happens when supply increases drastically but demand stays somewhat constant (everyone has to live somewhere and you can only live in one place at once) -- the price of housing on avg will plummet considerably for UBI'ers.
By omitting the article the noun will become a name, and by extension, a person. This will allow you to grow a more personal relationship with it.
It should be noted that the parent is basing his conclusions on Modern Monetary Theory[0], a heretodox economic theory in which fiscal policy is unconstrained, deficits aren't relevant, and a country is always able to spend.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_Monetary_Theory
> Try to strike up a conversation with the stranger you’ll be sitting next to for the next X hours.

I absolutely despise being spoken to when I'm on a plane (usually because I'm taking early morning flights and am utterly exhausted). Just keep in mind many people reallllly don't want to talk to anyone, so if they are curt or not very talkative don't take it personally. Some people just don't like talking to strangers.
/s/cipher/horse/g

/s/NSA/Trojan/g

If the guys that know about horses don't trust these lightweight foals kindly gifted by the Trojans then I think I should take their feelings on board. Everyone remembers what happened after Snowdon.
If I want to manipulate a device, I'll buy a raspberry pi. My phone isn't a playtoy; it's something I need to just work transparently.

Really though; there's very little you can't do with an iPhone as long as you're willing to pay $99/yr and write some code...
The cost gets distributed. Exxon certainly won't just lose money. They'll raise prices.
No, the entire point of Experian et al is to reduce the number of loans that can't be collected on for any reason, including but not limited to fraud.

Assume a credit rating agency can lower a lender's default rate from X% to X'% but introduces an additional Y% of fraudulent loans. If X - X' > Y, that's a good deal for lenders no matter what the absolute size of Y is.
I've tried recording WebAudio output and it's actually really hard. I think you'd have to store a representative data structure rather than the data coming from the nodes.
same here - actually, today we use zeppelin, which is kind of a pain to setup on a cluster.

I see that you are using Reactjs. If you can build something that can connect to spark and python, I will pay for this and so will lots of people.

One of the big unsolved issues where we want to really throw money is have a notebook that my analysts can work on and then I can take straight to production and have it run multi-user.

There are lots of startups attempting to do this on top of Jupyter, but I believe building this from scratch is the right way.

I'm literally crying right now for a reactjs + d3js dashboard running on pyspark that multiple people can use simultaneously.
Yes, but the cities of Oakland and SF use fossil fuels and energy made from fossil fuels, correct? The harm isn't in extracting the oil from the ground, it's in burning it. There are a whole host of people guilty of that, including everyone who puts fuel into their internal combustion powered car and turns the thing on.
If you want a low-end ARM laptop, buy a low-end ARM laptop.[1]

[1] https://www.pine64.org/?page_id=3707
I made my case against the compose in the post.

Composing xor, rofl, lol isn't any better (esp in terms of readability) than it is individual maps.

What would be better is this:

const makeHilarious = compose(rofl, lol, xor);

things
|> pluck('bar')
|> map(makeHilarious)
|> reduce(differenceWith('id')
US manufacturing output hasn't declined overall, it's just manufacturing employment that has declined. The US can make all of the things you mentioned, though it's often more expensive.
The pole expedition is one of the parts of Anathem I consistently skip, sometimes opting to read the part where The Protagonist deals with The Obstacle.
Is any of that 1.3 trillion in exported goods a value-add on top on goods imported from China?
> I still had 15% to finish, I got so frustrated that I just quit and never even had the curiosity to know how it ends.

I hope you will finish. I understand the gap was both abrupt and left quite a bit to be desired. I was shocked and disappointed as well, felt like it was the easy way out of telling a storyline that was becoming increasingly complex.

In the end I very much enjoyed the great parts of the book and thought provoking dialogue between characters. That being said, I could nitpick on the parts I do not like but I prefer to celebrate the parts that were incredibly enjoyable.
BigQuery JSON Schema Generator
Well that's a bit of a gross generalization, wouldn't you say?
Try to imagine for a moment that you might be over looking a very important feature of any breast pump: comfort. This is the main reason my wife chose this pump. It's the only pump on the market that doesn't use air. Air imposes a much different discomfort relative to the Naya, according to my wife. She's very pleased with the product. The price? Sure, expensive. We're lucky to be able to afford it. The app? Don't care about it. Consider us your exception.
The problem with the third book was that it rapidly expanded in scope and grandeur but was the same number of pages as the previous books, so concepts and scope and scale which had enough exposition in the previous books simply fell short in the third.
EDIT: I realize I'm responding to someone who wasn't the original commenter. This comment is written saying "you", etc, but I'll leave it as-is, with apologies to iamdave.

> Oh ok, so VC's do like it

Some VCs liked it enough for an initial round. But you're using that to imply that the article's claims about VC reactions to their current attempt to raise money is "spinning a yarn", with zero evidence that this is true.

> Ah, got it. Their product is too expensive for too small of a market.

No it's not. Hospital-grade Medela pumps are much more expensive than the prices listed in the article. I don't know how the Naya compares to the hospital grade pumps, but the current crop of home-grade pumps are really really crappy, and if the Naya can improve on them, it can absolutely demand a higher price. And I don't know how large the pump market is, but given that pumps are something that every single mother can use (whether or not they choose to do so), I don't think that's a particularly small market.

The real problem isn't market size, it's competing with the free home pumps many parents get, and convincing people who do buy pumps that it's worth paying for the better pump. If their product is significantly better, they have a chance.

> I'm male and I've been sexually harassed or had a casually racist comment lobbed past me more times than I can count by a potential investor. It sucks.

Cry me a river.

In the context of this article, this line is actually pretty insulting. You're casually dismissing a really serious problem that female CEOs face on the basis that men occasionally see crappy behavior too. It's not at all comparable.

> It is not however why it's proving hard to close a massively risky, and I assume hugely expensive A round.

Bullshit. It sounds (and I can very easily believe this) like the VCs aren't even getting to the point of properly evaluating the product and company, because they're too hung up on it being a female CEO with a product that the male VCs don't have any experience with and think is "gross". Here you're completely dismissing that and just assuming that the VCs are actually doing something that the article provides direct evidence to the contrary.

If Juicero can get funded, Naya should be able to get funded too. The problem is VCs could easily understand the appeal of Juicero's product, but they don't seem to be even trying to understand Naya's product and market.
It really doesn't.

Some people use it that way sure, but they're wrong. You can either help point it out when they make the claim or you can be a part of the problem.
I thought this was an excellent comment with some very strong arguments, good food for thought.

So yes, the problem is one here the credit bureaux get to externalize their risk. I was arguing with your rejection of the 'insurance model' for bringing some of those externalities back in house. Your proposal of strict liability is really just a banning of the industry in disguise: without the possibility of insuring away those risks it's not viable to stay in business - an agency is going to get breached even if they are as careful as possible. I don't think the lobby (and it'd be bureaux and lenders lobbying on the same side) would permit that outcome, no matter how strong the political will. It's too far reaching.

My response is, insurance doesn't preclude elimination. Those bureaux aren't going anywhere tomorrow. Incremental reform along the lines proposed by whatever grandparent we are both under provides a path to improvement, better risk management for individuals, and it could perhaps ultimately lead to your desired end state of a completely restructured consumer credit market.
It's extra surprising to me, because I've been doing some nontrivial procedural Web Audio stuff, and I've also never checked my project in FF, but now that I do I find it sounds identical to Chrome.

If you wouldn't mind, please post what the problem was if you figure it out!

Edit to add: my best guess is that you need to add a "setValueAtTime" call between these two lines, so that the exponential ramp has a scheduled value to start from.

https://gitlab.com/inverted3/drum-machine/blob/master/src/co...