skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's clear that you're aware that your main issue is a sales/marketing problem and it looks like you've got great feedback from the directors you contacted.

Do you know what the timeline is for their 2018 budget? Will you be able to make it till then?

Also, what types of companies are you going after? Larger companies have longer sales cycles due to decision making, planning and implementation time. Is there an opportunity for you to go after smaller companies? What are the objections being raised by your potential customers? Is it strictly due to budgeting or is it because you're an unknown startup - if you're an unknown startup, onboard 1-2 clients for free, get their logo on your website and sell to the other folks.

How big is your current salesforce? Would you be able to align yourself with consulting/implementation firms that might help get your foot in the door? Would you consider hiring a salesforce that is 100% commission-based to try and get you the sales?
JavaScript has been called "Lisp in C's clothing". What it lacks is macros basically but you can get a lot of practical work done in JavaScript and it is as mainstream as it gets. So how about a JavaScript OS/Machine/Hardware anybody?
I don't know then. This is what I get on a fresh compile - note that it even specifies the framework paths in the command line options:

antimass@gem:~/github/ChrysaLisp$ make
echo x86_64 > arch
echo Darwin > platform
unzip -nq snapshot.zip
cc -c -nostdlib -fno-exceptions \
-I/Library/Frameworks/SDL2.framework/Headers/ \
-I/Library/Frameworks/SDL2_ttf.framework/Headers/ \
-o obj/Darwin/x86_64/main.o main.c
cc -o obj/Darwin/x86_64/main obj/Darwin/x86_64/main.o -Wl,-framework,SDL2 -Wl,-framework,SDL2_ttf
antimass@gem:~/github/ChrysaLisp$
It's a real TLD, see [1] and [2]. It's just not controlled by a central registrar like a traditional TLD.

[1]: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7686

[2]: http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/ietf-announce/current/m...
Yeah I don't think that's a fair categorization at all. It's all free. And his dedication and commitment is to be commended. This is a free, multi-year, live training program that has been ongoing since 2014.
OP here: That's an even better idea! Good idea!
Shouldn't you judge the research based on the research?
Bots can be useful. Good bots (ones that don't pretend to be humans or ones that don't fake human engagement) should be allowed and regulated.

The bad ones though ruin the experience for everyone (and defraud advertisers).

I've previously attempted to classify bots somewhat:

https://medium.com/@iTrendTV/dumb-bots-have-ruined-twitter-s...
Interviewed by some startups (Berlin) I have been asked if I know or to explain them what they are doing... and the funniest thing is they were serious.
Bitcoin's market value is now larger than Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley
I sympathize deeply with the complaint that science is too bureaucratized. I myself left science when I realized I'd never actually be able to work on anything close to what I wanted to work on. Instead I'd likely end up like so many others as an endless postdoc slave or constantly trying to play politics in a bureaucracy instead of doing interesting work.

That being said, the problem with alt-science (or alt-anything) is that inverting a biased paradigm simply yields another biased paradigm. These folks are just anti everything the mainstream of science is for. Let's say the mainstream is wrong with a 50% probability. In that case these folks will also be wrong with a 50% probability. They'll just be wrong in the inverse.

This is not independent thought. Every single conclusion they reach is in line with a political agenda. It just happens to be a different political agenda than the dominant one in most academic institutions.

This is also not an independent venture. Just as mainstream science must conform to a certain political zeitgeist to chase academic and government funding, these folks must also conform to a certain zeitgeist to chase funding from right-wing personalities like Robert Mercer. I highly doubt Mercer would fund an independent scientist who concluded that excess CO2 will likely cause climate change. Art's funding will dry up as soon as he reaches a conclusion Mercer doesn't like.
Check this out: https://youtu.be/DG79PYeqZ78
I thought it compiled to BEAM bytecode, is that wrong?
Ideology isn't when you ignore something's weaknesses and shoehorn everything within its framework. Blind adherence to an ideology can cause that, but it's not what the word means.
The thing that comes to mind is that maybe the incident should create a notification that also generates its own dashboard specific to the components that are (likely) involved. So rather than scanning or hunting for the right collection of indicators, they're all in the notification (or a URL within it). Note: I'm pretty sure this doesn't exist in a turnkey form.
The tf.data API
If the drug is out of patent and it is very profitable, why doesn't anyone set up a company to manufacture and sell it cheaper in the US?

Same question with epipen.
I wouldn't use Quill.

The developers are passive-aggressive to the notion of rendering Quill content outside of the Quill Editor, having ripped out the APIs to do so from newer versions, and silencing conversations in their Github Issues.

You can see the latest flare-ups here:
https://github.com/quilljs/quill/issues/993

The project also has secondary smells such as inventing weird names for existing concepts; 'Delta', for example instead of 'data source' or something more intelligible.

Lastly, it markets itself as feature-complete, but has failed to implement support for something as basic as tables, which have been repeatedly requested for the past 3 years.

Personally, I would be afraid to build anything mission-critical upon it.
Is it worth the hassle to disable ad-blockers?
Research that contradicts the positions that anti-vaxers hold tends to not be judged by anti-vaxers on its merits. The typical narrative is wailing and gnashing of teeth about big pharma, sheeple, dogmatic self-serving faith by established academics, etc.

The wonderful thing about research is that when enough research gets done, you can cherry-pick a research paper that will agree with any belief you hold. [1] If you then proceed to ignore all the results that contradict it, you have an unassailable position. After all, you're just a yet-unrecognized Leonardo.

[1] https://xkcd.com/882/
I don’t think that’s quite it (i.e. that modern amateur photo colorists are intentionally aiming for a 19th century tinted photo style).

The bigger problem is that real images have varying chroma and hue within single shapes, but actually mimicking that when coloring a black and white photograph takes a huge amount of skill, attention to detail, and work. You have to think about what the lighting was like, what material it was striking and at what angle, what lens filters the photographer might have used to capture the image, etc. and then you have to go in and painstakingly paint all of those fine gradations and textures in.

It’s especially difficult to do a convincing job with skin, but most materials are hard to color convincingly.

It’s much easier to apply color to whole shapes as a blob, but this looks terrible (very obviously wrong) when you make the colors very strong.

If you want to try for yourself, get a Photoshop expert friend to find some color photographs (without showing them to you first) and convert them to black and white, applying whatever kind of intermediate processing he/she desires as long as it results in a roughly photorealistic looking black and white image.

Then you try to photorealistically colorize the photo, spending as much time and effort on it as you want. When you have something you are satisfied with, compare to the colored original. It’s very likely that the colorized version will look pretty bad in comparison, even if it looked vaguely okay on its own.
There are more minimalistic (and smaller!) and more compatible images out there though. So, we got the goal of distroless, but its good execution is yet to be seen!
Great guide. Reminded me of some of the learnings from the Pokémon Go hacking expeditions I wrote about last year (https://medium.com/@salqadri/a-peek-into-the-pokémon-go-hack...).
I love Zig Ziglar's Secrets of Closing the Sale.

Another great one is Little Red Book of Selling (https://www.amazon.ca/Little-Red-Book-Selling-Principles/dp/...) but it might not be suitable in your current situation given the time crunch.
"Replicants are like any other machine: they're either a benefit or a hazard."

Yes. Make bots legitimate, with verified bot status for ones that are truthful and helpful to the end users.
Aggression is usually skillful when targeted at improving the predictive model which led to undesired circumstances and usually unskillful when targeted at individuals.
The brain evolved to enable survival machines for genes to make predictions. He who builds the best predictive model fastest wins.
> The way Lisp can still win in today's world is not by trying to replace C on the system level, but by "embracing and extending" C at the application level.

Interestingly, another current top post on HN is HPAT - A compiler-based framework for big data in Python (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15466829). This replaces C level languages with something like Python for a specific domain. That could be somewhere lisp wins as well?
> Does anyone know of any particularly cool ClojureScript electron apps?

LightTable was cool.
> Today, the company has a lot of standardized procedures and tools around the consumption of external open source

That MS consumes open source for their own good comes not at all unexpected to me. However, consuming is not contributing. I believe you made to point that MS now contributes to the OSS community. I may have misunderstood.

> I'm not sure what your point is about the reimplementation of the Linux kernel API inside Windows. Most large software companies build some amount of closed source software

Most companies don't clone FOSS but build on top of it instead. Also most companies are pretty open about using OSS (crediting the projects and their source code). I haven't seen a single written line from MS crediting GNU and the Linux community for their work. They only credit MS and their own people. (Some recent examples: [0] [1])

[0] - https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/wsl/2016/07/08/bash-on-ubun...

[1] - https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/heyscriptingguy/2016/09/...
Do you know of any good sources to learn GraphQL?
Maybe you need to speak to the right executives - i.e Risk, Compliance, Legal, etc.
But come on though, the flipside of bringing in skilled migrants is that it enables employers/elites to maintain the status quo of not investing in the futures of British people - unless of course those people are members of the ruling class, in which case their entrance to Oxbridge, tasty internships etc. is more or less guaranteed.

Though the left tried to stifle this fact for years, it's now generally accepted that immigration has suppressed the wages of native British workers. Surely we should be more concerned about solving any skills shortage by training up the people that are here already? Or should we just throw them on the scrapheap and import cheap migrants? I don't often get roused to anger by debates like this but when it seems like immigrants are being privileged over native Brits it does seem like a pretty massive pisstake.
Small reason, to know what's going on in tech.

Big reason: to read the comments[1], not articles (most are trash and can be summarized in 4 sentences) surrounding interesting topics. I actually really like when socially controversial or political topics come up on HN, though I know some others don't, because the discourse level is so much higher than say, Reddit or NYT comments. I want to hear smart people comment on these things much more than I want to hear a magazine article pontificate/give a singular opinion/blame people.[2]

I think there is huge value in this community, you guys debating, mentioning interesting stuff, inspiring or encouraging, etc, way more value than if I spent 30 mins a day devouring other "new content" sources.

I used to be addicted to reading the news, and for what? I think we gain next to nothing from it. It's trash, fear-mongering, clickbait and submarines. Try going without it completely for two months and you'll realize you missed absolutely nothing except the crisis in X and how celebrity Y hates Z now and you should too. It's all trash.

But good communities with commentary and solid rules? Real back and forth, articles with instant skepticism and poignant additions? Way more valuable and interesting. That's why I keep coming back.

Thanks for commenting, everyone.

~~~

[1] Sometimes if there is someone I think makes a lot of great contributions, I'll go to their comments page and read the last few comments they made, example: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=gwern

Sadly almost all the users I really liked have stopped commenting.

[2] A good example of what I'm talking about is the Boston Review article that this article is complaining about: http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/10/09/in-favor-of-futurism-be... (I think the whole SSC article is worth reading)
Being originally from Odisha I am curious to know the name of the company.
I've had this exact same thing on my todo list for a long time but have never had the time to invest in it.

Netflix Vizceral kind of fits the bill as well https://github.com/Netflix/vizceral
Thank you, if that's true then I stand corrected. Something to consider though is the NIH is under constant threat of cuts which might discourage going deep on hard problems:

http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2017/03/16/52039014...

Also $30 billion is only 0.75% of the projected $4 trillion federal budget for next year. Just percentage-wise this seems like something that should be low on the list for cuts.
Can you not just get it from an online Canadian pharmacy?
Intro to Data Analysis for Everyone
I have no delusions of having enough time to ever follow through all of these videos, but it's still an idea that appeals to me. Something I'm curious about though:

If I wanted to follow along on a Mac instead of Windows, how different of a process am I looking at?
UE is Unreal Engine, not Unity. Presumably Unreal Engine 4, which gives full source access to anyone who agrees to their EULA and takes patches through GitHub.
Oh I meant Unreal, not Unity, should have spelled it out. Unreal source is available.
You cant fake this- this is heart, soul and spouse sacrificed to teach the world how to make games. I guess if you cant feel that passion for something -it must be kind of scary.

I can not throw a basketball into the hoop - and if it would save my life. Now i could downplay all the NBA players, calling it a "nice hobby", a gimick to sell shoes.
Or just admit with a nod of acknowledgment- that i will never be this good. Literally cant be. And its okay.
Ask HN: Attending a C# interview in 5 days with no prior experience. Any tips?
Although I have worked with C I think C# is bit different. I am reading Headfirst C#. What other resources do you guys suggest?
>All are bugs that static typing has had tremendous success in preventing.

Please do elaborate, it could be a great post.

But If you mean to say that locking issues can be prevented because you can apply STM (software transactional memory) by using suitable Monads, then, well, i can also have STM in a dynamic language, even applying it by wrapping code in an "atomic" context (i.e. see the STMX library for Common Lisp) so the statements contained within are performed atomically (and thus guaranteed to work or either roll-back.)

As for memory leaks, Haskell (if that's the HM language you had in mind) automatically manages memory, so I would guess this isn't a problem at all. However, automatic management memory management is orthogonal to "static vs dynamically typed".

Thus, i'm curious, and yes, i don't have enough experience with HM-type languages, which should be the way to go if one wants to use static typing...
I'd also venture to say Verge qualifies as a legit privacy focused coin.
Try; xcode-select install
Wow did I miss arguably the most important box to check, KISS?

Seriously, keep it EFFING SIMPLE. The more complex and involved it is the more things can and will break.

Does no one follow that anymore?
These types of guides always overlook the most important principle of software security:

Always avoid reading, storing, or interacting with secure, personal, or otherwise "interesting" data. As much as possible, strip this information from your application, so that when it gets pwned the blast radius is absolutely miniscule.

Create software not liabilities.
white people are a protected minority group in the eyes of facebook/twitter
You can always do it temporarily and just for that site.
Hostels?
I like that this app is about meeting new people without being a dating app. Tough to pull off but they have done it by focusing on getting people together for cool, local events.
He's not that bad. and it is interesting to watch language design as it's happening
Universal basic services work better than UBI to combat 'rise of the robots'
Image showing part of the admin menu https://i.imgur.com/Os1W6CS.jpg

Video demo (with some outdated style) https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/ju4b5gj9uv1mqmc/2017-10-...
You'd still need to write the glue code that correctly maps one program's output to the other program's expected input. I don't see how this is materially different.

If by "Unix philosophy" you mean creating modular software, then sure, we're already doing this. If you mean pushing unstructured ASCII data through actual pipe(2)s, then I'm sorry, but this is not a workable solution in 2017.
> I was looking for actionable advice on content marketing and I don't feel I am seeing much of that.

As a professional in the field, do you happen to have any recommendations on sources that do have actionable advice? It's an area I love to learn more about but haven't done enough work in it to suss out the good sources from the fluff pieces.
Firmworks has a open source implementation of OpenFirmware which is part of the OpenBIOS project, can be used with Coreboot, and implements TCP/IP with various protocols including HTTP, all in Forth.

http://www.firmworks.com/ofwfeatures.htm

http://GitHub.com/openbios/openfirmware
NO. Nothing I wrote above has anything to do with what you've written here. (It's so irrelevant, I have to ask: did you read my post at all?)

PG 7.x was 2000-2003. A full 5 years after MySQL was released.. and 7 years after mSQL.

The performance of mSQL versus pre-Postgres95 has nothing to do with a setting in PG 7.x released years later.

The performance advantage of mSQL was directly related to the stripped down DBMS that was developed to replace Postgres (AGAIN IN 1993) and the incomplete SQL implementation (AGAIN IN 1993)... both tradeoffs that Postgres did not make.

The issue you're referring to is a separate performance issue that did not occur until years later.. after MySQL already won the marketshare race.

Between the start of Postgres in 1986 and PG 7.x, there's about 14 years of history you're forgetting.
Jamie Dimon says if you're 'stupid' enough to buy Bitcoin, you'll pay the price
Yup, most game developers love sharing/talking about the craft. It's not an industry you join if you aren't passionate about the process of developing interactive content.
New Story (YC Nonprofit) Is Hiring Sr Software Engineer
Odd to see Gibbs on this list. Guy's an animal. I do listen to his music all the time during work.
> That being said, the problem with alt-science (or alt-anything) is that inverting a biased paradigm simply yields another biased paradigm. These folks are just anti everything the mainstream of science is for. Let's say the mainstream is wrong with a 50% probability. In that case these folks will also be wrong with a 50% probability. They'll just be wrong in the inverse.

This also implies another huge problem with their worldview: They can't do original research. Not because it requires funding, not because the Men In Black will shut them down, but because the results of that research might be politically incorrect within the politics of the group that is doing it.

The field is sterile. All it has is anomaly-hunting, which looks like research until you realize how dishonest it is, and endless whining, a droning blare of outrage at the people who are mostly ignoring them and making a concerted effort to advance actual fields of study.
Easier said than done in the real world.
Also, ProseMirror is definitely seeing wider adoption than the parent implies. Even from this thread alone, we're seeing Atlassian and startups pop-up attesting to its good design.

Your points are fundamentally correct, and I would argue that your parent is attempting to limit the potential of ProseMirror, in order to preserve the need for Quill.
As many bright minds have pointed out, this is like comparing an international currency to some private company's internal GDP
How about rich countries would accept paying a little more for their stuff?
Not too bad, Casey does a good job of separating the platform code from his game code. Also he's using emacs.
The difficult thing is to divide a big problem into a set of smaller ones that together solve the problem BUT such that those smaller solutions are valuable on their own, not only as part of the bigger solution that is your eventual goal.

So the problem is not so much to solve a problem but to FIND a problem whose solution is useful on its own and perhaps also as a sub-solution to bigger problems.
A comment thread from a couple years ago that resonated with me: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11087399

I watched about a dozen Handmade Hero episodes, and I was a bit annoyed that every session resulted in a random hunt to fix a bunch of bugs because there was not sufficient abstraction. It wouldn't be so bad if the abstractions were upcoming, but Casey seems to have an aversion to abstraction and I stopped watching because I grew bored of watching him jumping around in a bunch of files trying to figure out what memory write caused an issue at run-time.
This seems like the kind of question liable to open a whole can of worms about free software and what it means to "own" a program
Markdown, for documentation
Fun story: I once wrote a primitive Twitter bot as an experiment, and forgot about it. It's been running on a Raspberry Pi unattended for a few years now, tweeting random stuff and periodically "engaging" with a predefined set of topics.

It has a Klout score. It has more followers than me.

[edit: spelling]
Heh, this story is always interesting when it comes up. The Harper's article is well-written, too. It just boggles the mind that this kid actually made a frickin' unshielded nuclear reactor core. He actually did it, the absolute madman.

I like how the police brought him in as a kid for having a nuclear device, he made a superfund site out of the whole deal, and he still grew up to work aboard a nuclear aircraft carrier. The Navy must have known, right? I wonder what those conversations must have been like.

Also, I am super not surprised that Wikipedia says, "He was inspired in part by reading The Golden Book of Chemistry Experiments." That book is just goatshit insane; the '60s were clearly a silly time, because the 'also by this author' section includes The Golden Book of Wild Animal Pets. Which, uh...I don't know. I got nothing.

Anyways, it's public domain, but before you hand it to a young child be warned that it includes phrases like, "making Hydrogen in the lab," and "have a bottle of household ammonia to sniff if you get too strong a whiff of Chlorine." Yikes.

https://archive.org/details/GoldenBookOfChemistryExperiments