skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
investors expect founders to pay themselves. they don't want founders to worry about day-to-day personal expenses so that the founders can concentrate on the business. that's part of the fiduciary and ethical/moral duty to making a startup successful. it's not contradictory.

but investors also expect founders to be frugal and make wise monetary decisions. the more you pay yourself, the less you have for marketing for example (and marketing is crucial to every startup). it's in your best interest as a founder to take enough in salary to not worry, but no more. so the business has the best chance of being successful. if founders are taking more than that, then it's an indication that they don't believe in the business or at the very least are distracted by other matters.
As for South Korea, it can bulldoze over North Korea with conventional weapons. It doesn't need nukes to defend against North Korea. On the other hand, China has so much firepower that having a few nukes won't tip the balance much, so nukes are not much useful against China either.

Sure, but they’d have turned Seoul into a series of shallow craters however, and you should assume that China would use the DPRK as a proxy in another shooting war. Meanwhile having the credible ability to destroy a few major Chinese metropolitan centers probably has more of a deterrent effect than you are admitting.
MacOS 10.13, thoroughly reviewed
Joseph Marie Jacquard was a genius [1]. Google should not use his name and implicitly appropriate his invention without proper acknowledgement. It bothers me that Google hijacked Jacquard's name for their own project, especially with such emphasis on looming.

With decency, they could at a minimum have acknowledged his creations, influence, and inspiration. Their about page [2] does not acknowledge Jacquard's existence. Even worse, Google has trademarked the name "Jacquard", to appropriate that name in relation to tech-infused weaving [3].

Contrast with the Pascal programming language -- Blaise Pascal was honored explicitly when this language was named after him; the creator, Niklaus Wirth, never dreamed of using this name without explicit tribute, since the naming was intended as a tribute.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Marie_Jacquard

[2] https://atap.google.com/jacquard/about/

[3] https://www.trademarkia.com/jacquard-86643715.html
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Apple also advertises their own services in their OS. My iPhone and MacBook spam me with iCloud ads constantly.

This isn't really an excuse for MS. Really I'd just like both operating systems to not bug me.
Vinge as well. The Tines in "Fire Upon the Deep" were similar pack creatures. Different configurations could lead to different types of people. Though they never went near light-speed, switching to radio instead of the normal ultrasonics also affected them, as did walking in narrow canyons (due to echos) or firing a canon.

Also, the group personality is affected by the individual tines.

The traeki in Brin's Uplift universe are a related example.
My apologies. I misread your comment and didn't interpret that part in the context of the "1940s and 1950s".
If you're not paying yourself your actual value in salary, then you should be diluting the investors because you are investing your missing salary into your company.
Ugghhh - that parallax attempt in the Photos section is so gross.
You can still do this with your phone - these machine learning images are all controlled as a completely separate tab in the photo app. It's the consumer's choice to (easily) turn it off and on. In my own personal tests, I found that I could better capture totally backlit faces that would have made terrible photos with portrait mode and the outcomes were great. When your objective is to capture a fleeting moment in the best way possible, this is a great advance and I welcome it.

If I want to shoot Sony Alpha SLR and edit the raws, I'll do that. But most of the time I just want to share what my family's doing with the rest of my family and this makes it really easy to do it well.
Fanatical racists or nationalists?

...Or the insufficiently fanatical...
> Why do you think all ideas that need to be taken seriously should be provable, provide solutions, or, indeed anything other than the author's own sense of alienation?

Because they're part of the Social Sciences.

> This isn't science and doesn't purport to be.

Well, it certainly purports to be.
A programmer's job is to make things easier for the user, not for himself. That's why we get paid the big bucks.
I didn't know it came with a non-skull plate, but to answer your, erm, question, I think a skull on the desk is not really an option for an office which clients would visit.
If they're solved problems, what difference does it make what form and package they arrive in?
Everything Apple has done since iOS was first introduced (or arguably the initial iPad support in iOS 3.2 ) has been incremental improvements. But drag and drop is one of the bigger ones, IMO on-par with the initial multitasking support which incidentally was the update that finally convinced me to buy an iPad.

For an example of where this smooths things out, I've been using Readdle's Documents as an approximation of a local filesystem for a while now. Saving an image to that before was tricky; iOS doesn't have a way to isolate an image out of a page, just copy or save to camera roll. So you could save to camera roll and then import it over, but you lose the filename in the process and replace it with something generic like "Image 10". Or you can do weird workarounds like using Workflow's "Get images from page", which pulls up a slideshow of all the images on the page, which you then get to scroll through and find the one you wanted.

Now you just drag it and put it straight into the destination. You can also drag the URL bar over, which saves the URL as a new text file.

And if I have data in Documents that I want to use elsewhere, there's no shenanigans required with piping it through share sheets, I just drag it out and use it.

If you want something less permanent than a file manager, the popover multitasking is also a good platform for temporary "shelf" style data buckets. I'm currently trying Scrawl Pouch, but I've seen a couple others that looked equally nice. It's basically intended as a drag-and-drop destination to temporarily store any type of data until you want to drag it back out somewhere else.

This can be the obvious stuff like images and links from Safari, PDFs and other files out of Documents. You can also drop things like map pins, which can be shared via messages or email or dropped as links into Pages documents. I haven't experimented a lot with 3rd party apps, but presumably we'll see this show up in other ecosystems, maybe dropping things like audio effects between a family of media creation tools, or someone could make a 3rd party service for sharing paintbrush presets that you could drop into Procreate.

They've also brought in the "spring-loaded folders" behavior from Finder for this. If you're dragging a URL and you want to add it as a Safari bookmark, you can hover it over the sidebar button to pop it open and then navigate to the folder where you want to drop and save it. Or after the sidebar opens, you can hover over the Reading List tab to put it there instead of bookmarks. It's integrated like that throughout the entire OS.

A whole lot of things that just weren't possible on iOS are now a 2-second interaction.
Well, the Egyptians managed to keep their culture alive for 3000+ years until the Muslim conquest.
Why not list it on flippa and sell it. Doubt it makes a lot of money for you but, by the time you deal with giving it away you'll at least get a little out of the time.
That all depends on the amount raised and the stage the company is in.

But if after an 'A' round you are still paying yourself subsistence level wages then you are doing something wrong.
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Martin Shkreli.
+1 for Postman. Is Simulacra adding something, or is it really basically the same message?
"launch early" = MVP = no "gold plating" = the VERY least product that will get people to use the product __regularly__ (not just try it once).
He didn't dare criticize Socialism.
One third of the games I've purchased on Steam are available on Linux.

I guess the perception of whether or not Microsoft effectively has a monopoly in the gaming PC market segment really centers around the games you play.
it's pretty obvious that, if those standards were being followed all the time, we wouldn't be having this conversation.

i am talking about an ad hoc, fairly simple thing one can do, if one is writing user-facing code. it's a rule i follow, and i offered it up as something other people might want to try as well.
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I prefer:

for (let node of document.querySelectorAll("li"))
node.classList.add('foo');

or:

Array.from(document.querySelectorAll("li")).forEach(node => node.classList.add('foo'))

And if any particular pattern repeats in the code I'm writing I'll just create a helper function for that pattern (most of the time locally). Like:

let qsa => s => Array.from(document.querySelectorAll(s));

There's nothing to test about that.
That first link is nice if you're creating a simple informational page about one topic, and it's part of a website without much in the way of a header, navigation, footer, or widget elements.

But as useful as that is at some level, that's not the problem most people struggling with design have. They struggle to make a full website where everything logically fits together and where the structure of the site makes it easy for people to navigate between pages. One which also looks nice and modern compared to large platforms like say, Facebook, Twitter, Medium, etc.

For example, I could design a simple page about a single topic easily enough, but I struggle trying to create a full platform with a flat design aesthetic (or what not).
> If you protect mothers by giving them welfare, you get more single mothers.

Sure. But is it really worse for society to have single mothers on welfare than to have mothers trapped in toxic marriages for financial reasons?
Because the facts don't support it. There are a number of app-based minicab services that are able to comply with TfL regulations. Uber here is failing an extraordinarly low bar - report serious crimes when your drivers commit them, do not implement a system to decieve regulators. The regulators are not coming down Uber-like apps in general, or on some theoretical - they are coming down on Uber in particular for its history of action, with evidence-backed specifics.
Why would someone work if they can divorce, keep the kids, and get paid forever?

Because unless your ex is very wealthy AND your alimony increases over time to keep up with inflation, alimony tends to not adequately support a middle class lifestyle by itself.

Because women tend to outlive men and tend to marry men who are older than them (average: about four years). When the ex dies, you will be penniless if you didn't also work.

Because as the kids grow up, if you don't have goals, interests and earned income of your own, your life can wind up very empty.

I'm a divorced single mom (with adult special needs kids who still live with me) who gets alimony. These are some of my reasons for working to build an income of my own.
I agree so much! My little company does mental health practice management and communications yet it’s incredible hard to “start small” because your being judged against all the incumbents. Even if you have some clever tech (we do,) nobody wants to use it if you don’t at least compare somewhat to the existing competition. If I were building photo sharing in 2006, maybe that small, sloppy and iterative approach would work great, but when you’re taking on entrenched incumbents, it’s hard, especially in a space related to health. I guess you could build one feature and be really great at it, but users are rarely shopping for that specific feature, especially if it’s novel and they don’t realize they need it yet.
Naltrexone is an opioid receptor antagonist, so it has a very plausible mechanism of action. It disrupts alcohol's effects on the brain when you drink after taking naltrexone. This disruption can cause the alcoholic to quit (or significantly reduce consumption) naturally over time.
Please elaborate, what about the 90s era version?
You can wrap that in Array.from() to take advantage of foreach, filter, etc..
Addiction is an "every minute" kind of thing. Sometimes you can put something off for an hour, or know that e.g. dinnertime is the time we open the wine, so you can wait. But then after an hour, it's still there, and another hour, and another, and then you break down and give in when it is late or you are alone. Which then negates/resets any value gotten from the initial delay. So I don't think this is a placebo at all.
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Egyptian culture survived the Hyksos, the sea people, the Persians, partly the Greeks and the Romans but was eradicated by Christian fanatics.
It doesn't take 10 minutes for a LaTeX or Word user to get frustrated with docs. What doesn't it do:

1. user defined style definitions

2. citations / bibliography

3. anchoring

There are plugins that can help, but at least where I work using these is often banned to avoid the risk of leaking corp info.
Yes but "talking to your customers" is universally applicable and valuable advice. One could argue that it's of even greater value if you're targeting a niche with only "a few customers" because you need to ensure you really deliver enough value to get them onside and paying a rate that ensures you generate a profit.
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It doesn't call home with each data point; that would mean that radio is never standby and the user would notice that his battery is quickly dead.

No, location history is a _feature_, where saved datapoint set is submitted in batches, when the radio is active. And of course, you can turn it off (I did).
MacOS High Sierra’s biggest updates happen behind the scenes
Old-Age-related Time Dilation aside, it really has been a long time since you needed to pay for packet sniffing. I haven't done so since Microsoft released their internal "Netmon" tool to the outside, I think around 1993.
'each' is not. forEach is.
Whatever happened, she did in fact report it to the police (after realizing that Uber wasn't going to on her behalf) and it is coming up in the courts. Presumably the courts will hear her characterization of the events then, as well as Uber's, which is all we've heard so far ("he gave her a hug").
true about the throw-a-way. I could imagine just how much burden this would carry on mail providers if even 1% of the population created a throw-a-away (or more than one!!) for trying sites like this. At 7.5 billion people on this earth...
That's basically where this goes if I'm understanding your right, but this is the first one and they're the only one making it so there's no standard. There's two totally separate items here. There's the cloth with the woven in conductive fibers and the Bluetooth dongle that takes that touch data and translates it into commands by extracting gestures. If this takes off in a big way and more companies get into it you'll probably see a standard develop around the attachment between the woven sensor and the dongle to communicate to your phone.
It wasn’t my machine but I think that had been done. It thought it was a nice new iMac.
This might be true if this were the sort of advice that argued that startups should always swing for the fences, or always take unreasonable risks, in the hopes that a portfolio of such startups will result in one or more big winners. In fact, this is not the case. Our advice is intended to increase the chances that every startup that follows it will be successful. Like any advice, you can surely find counterexamples where the advice will not be a good fit, but we would argue those cases are rare.
Most (many?) nuc users use the mini-pci flash storage devices. My NUCs (I have 3 of the skylake ones with 32G of ram) have 250G Samsung SSDs and those suckers just scream.
What problem is this solving?
This is a great writeup by VALVE on the subject: https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Source_Multiplayer_...
The post discusses how this is a social norm at their office. Why such a strong response?
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I've seen the group before. What exactly do you guys do? Is it just a networking with a few corporate demos?
I would check out the writings of 37Signals (now Basecamp)/RoR founder David Heinemeier Hansson, who advocates bootstrapping for not-necessarily small markets.

His talk "How to unlearn your MBA" in particular was fantastic in providing a counterpoint to Silicon-valley style Startups: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlhAkNWC1qo.

He directly comments on the YCombinator model at 53'57" (https://youtu.be/MlhAkNWC1qo?t=53m57s), but the whole thing is worth watching.
"commuter" is Levi's jargon for cyclist (well, cycle-commuter).

They call their bike-specific pants the Commuter line.
It's always interesting how they implement security features. With Vista MS introduced UAC which is a major headache if you develop any automated tools. But most users I have observed will always press "Yes" automatically because they have no idea what the message really means. The result is that life got worse for developers often forcing them to do less secure hacks and overall no gain in security.
The Egyptians didn't use slaves to build the pyramids

http://harvardmagazine.com/2003/07/who-built-the-pyramids-ht...
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It is not scifi, but I think some mention of Tuck Everlasting should be made. The book was really important to my understanding of death when I was growing up.

Unfortunately it looks like the author, Natalie Babbitt, passed away last year. So they can't interview her.
Yeah, let's not get rationality and reason in the way of our emotions.
> Because they're part of the Social Sciences.

Critical theory? No. It's more part of the humanities.

> Well, it certainly purports to be.

Absolutely not. Why do you think that? Even many actual social scholars (historians, anthropologists) would object to being called scientists, or, at least, would always emphasize that if you want to call what they do science, it is not science in the same sense as chemistry.
MacOS 10.13 High Sierra: The Ars Technica Review
Yes, this. If we didn't have phones as much as pervasive connectivity, through whatever network link is nearby (a phone, a watch, or a building with wifi), then the idea of how we interface with software changes. We could do it though voice like Alexa, or through smaller interface devices including those woven in.
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There's a book called Start Small, Stay Small that is really good for the purpose of solopreneurship if that's your thing.
I'd rather give it away to somebody with the energy to put into it, but perhaps not the money to buy it. Passing it forward :)
In addition to JIT-compiled code there also are libraries that do runtime detection of available processor features and dispatch to optimized implementations. Pretty much anything number-crunchy such as software image/video processing will do this.
Well, it's a unique idea I'll say that much. Is it a mainstream one? Probably not, but if you had fun making it and you're not aiming to make a business out of it, that's all that matters.
I always sort of read it to myself. I use parens within normal writing as an aside (for example, this one), so I put the part that you read within the brackets and the reference in the parens.

In plaintext you'd have a claim (and parens directing you to see the citation at citation.com).

In hypertext you'd have a [claim](and a link to citation.com).
I have the skull case one at work. I decided to go with the skull instead of the plain cover even though I hate those sorts of things normally. But I don't see the skull as the NUC slots onto the VESA bracket on the back of my monitor. So I don't see it. I run Linux on it and had no problems apart from disk space so far. Obviously you can go for more than the 256gb SSD I went for.
YC's Kirsty Nathoo gave a great summary of startup mechanics here: https://www.startupschool.org/previous
If only vendors in this industry would step up and provide stickers you could put on computers you own so you could make them look like whatever you wanted.
In the morning, usually setting things up for whatever operations are scheduled for the 0800-1200. In the evening, squaring things away from whatever we did that day and maybe prepping for night helo ops.
A chromebox with a new seabios rom (so it can run a normal Linux distro) would be a decent compromise between those two extremes.

I have an Asus chromebox doing this, very happy with it.
>Perhaps new projects shouldn't be using jQuery, but it's possible that some devs who just churn out code without watching the industry aren't aware of this.

Or maybe those devs are watching the industry but don't care for the direction it's urging them to take, e.g. locking themselves into complex frameworks like React for simple crud pages that have the basically the same DOM each and every time they're loaded.
> Its easy to be nostalgic but it really sounds like sears had already fallen significantly behind by the time they shutdown their catalog.

It's not unique to Sears either.

I know a few people who work at the Target HQ in Minneapolis and have heard stories in the past of executives being astounded by online shopping, especially the idea that people would do comparison shopping while in the store. Target has significantly increased their digital offerings since then but it's still far from the experience of Amazon.
Your JS knowledge appears to be severely outdated. Instead of the first you can now write:

Object.assign(target, object1, objectN);

The second:

element.classList.add(className);
element.classList.contains(className);

And the third has been fixed at a community level, as we've learned the value of API strictness, obviating such checks.

I don't think anybody was against jQuery back when the alternative was helper functions, I certainly wasn't. But that's five years ago at this point. Modern JavaScript looks nothing like the code you posted, it's actually been built up into a pretty good language.
Hmm yeah opensourcing it could be a good idea, I'd not considered that.

Latency.at looks great. Saw you on the HN homepage today, congrats!
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The problem with Windows tracking is not that apps track you (here the solution would be easy: just don't use the apps), but that the system itself snitches on you.

Are you starting an app or search for document, using the windows shell? Your phrase goes to Bing. That's much harder to avoid than just not using an app.
The average cost of a wedding in the U.S. is around $30k.
The most direct effect of Uber being complicit is that their license is not being renewed.

And yes, as the article states, there are prosecutions in both cases.
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Those are PCI-e so they're substantially faster than their S-ATA equivalent.
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One of the reasons I go camping is so that I can visit the stars. Some of the first questions that got me going in science was the idea that I could actually look up and see the stars around which other worlds rotated, and wondered if there was some alien kid looking back at me. Later when I realized the light was thousands if not millions of years "old" I thought, "Here I am looking at you alien kid, a million years from now." We bought an easy to transport Meade 90mm telescope to take with us camping.
Even if the police dismiss your claim, don't they keep a note somewhere and pay more attention the second time the guy is reported?