skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The comment I replied to was suggesting a second tunnel may need to be constructed to handle increasing traffic volume. My comment was pointing out that this is difficult for a number of reasons including the geographic reality of Seattle. The comment also assumed a car-first approach where roads have to meet increasing demand which is also not a priority in Seattle in 2017.

When the project is complete capacity will be the same or slightly larger than the capacity of a roadway built in the 1940s. Seattle has doubled in population since then. The current viaduct barely serves our needs and the new tunnel and surface street combo will not solve the transportation problems alone. We need fewer single occupant vehicles.

Cars are not given top priority in project planning. Just because one tunnel and one road are being put in place does not change that. There are transit corridors downtown that do not allow cars. Most downtown streets are a maze of one ways that make navigation difficult. Parking requirements for new construction are continually relaxed, reducing available parking across the city. Car tabs are expensive to fund for transit and discourage driving. Seattle has a lot of anti-car policies.

Planners here would like to spend more on building out our light rail and increasing bus/bicycle ridership than they would on adding subterranean exit ramps to a bypass tunnel.

e: Seattle's public transit system is largely bus-based so new road construction tends to take that into consideration with reserved lanes and stops and little attempt to serve the volume of cars.

Also, I don't think anyone claimed the tunnel project was supposed to solve traffic problems. The issue is that the viaduct itself is old and unstable. The tunnel is a combination of a safety improvement to a state highway and a subsidy for Olympia's favorite construction companies.
Therefore you cannot look at each component in isolation.
Probably not, but it would be amusing to see the Met's response to a large protest.
My mother and her sisters are all diabetic and while my yearly blood work always comes out fine, I've always wanted to do some additional testing because I've noticed my mood is affected by meals.

Thank you for taking the time to write out your comment, I will be buying the testing supplies in the coming days.
Maybe you should stop citing shit newspapers like el país too then. Thank you :-)
To be fair, there are a LOT of early employees at Facebook that got churned through, or who didn't make it to the executive tier. Chamath almost got churned through, but he hit it big on the Growth team. That's the difference between an early employee with $10M and an early employee with $500M.

Moskovitz (now Asana), D'Angelo (now Quora), Vernal (now Sequoia), Bosworth (still at FB on hardware/Building 8), Cohler (now Benchmark), Hammerbacher (now ?), Chamath (now Social Capital) ... those are some of the standouts off of the top of my head, out of hundreds of early employees.
Can you point out any source about fake news from anti-secessionists?
Are the reflections in examples like this physically correct? My brain kind of expects the floor to be strongly curved when reflected in the sphere. Maybe it's just the unfamiliar, unrealistic environment?
The signs out front are to discourage drug seekers from coming in the door. They’ll prescribe it if you need it.
At least in bash, quoting the command disables any alias. Maybe also in zsh?
What frightens me is the scenario of human thought being overwhelmed and left in the dust. Not being aided or abetted by computers, but being completely overwhelmed, and we are to computers as cockroaches or fleas are to us. That would be scary.

This implies to me that his definition of intelligence is really centered on what we as humans do. And that is interesting, but less interesting than a more general notion of intelligence.
I like your comment and a lot of your thoughts are common. Allow me to help alleviate some of your concerns. I think the root of the issue is that many "Startup Tarpits" are not talking to the right customers early on. I also think you have only worked with marketing people who didn't use a methodical, scientific approach to user acquisition.

Don't hire a marketing expert. This is a bad first step. You should define a very specific subset of customers and talk to them. Find out their problems after talking to 10 very targeted people that fit into a user profile. I recommend reading "The Mom Test" (it's a book about how to phrase customer development interview questions) as a basis for how you talk to potential customers.

User acquisition efforts are not only measurable on a larger scale. You may have this idea because the people you worked with may have had a big company background. For a startup, it is very necessary for your advertising campaign to define a cost per click, find a conversion rate, and then test many different advertising phrases and avenues. This helps put a direct cost per user acquisition price on each campaign and you can compare apples to apples. It takes "voodoo money burning rituals" and turns it into numbers that are measurable.

If you rely on free marketing channels without a clear focus on who is using your product, it is very likely that you have 10 customers who fit 10 completely different segments with 10 different ideas of which features will give them value.

They key is learning. When you estimate future software releases, you typically point a story using things you have learned from previous, similar stories. When you attempt a new advertising campaign, you should use past learnings to determine which ads and messaging will work for different segments - how much they will cost, and how many users you can expect to get based on past results.

In summation, startup marketing should have a focused, scientific, numbers driven, methodical approach - just like writing software. If your marketers are not doing that, you probably aren't working with the right marketers.
Great scene description language
I've been trying to cut sugar out of my diet recently. Eventually I'd like to at least feel comfortable treating it like alcohol: only for consumption in social settings and not too often.
Best job hunting hack that worked for me
Ask HN: How do you pivot to a completely new product?
Hello,

We have been working on this product for about 8 months and luckily, everyone seems to be quite connected to the idea as it was solving a painful problem but due to the way we approached our solution, it was totally impossible to monetize the service.

We are in the process of pivoting the service completely to a different target group while keeping the same logical/concept of our solution. The problem we're facing is that it seems quite hard to find a problem with our concept or in some cases, too many competitors.

How do startup pivot to a completely different product, what strategy or approach should be used?
Discussion on F-Droid forum: [1] F-Droid repository apparently lacked correct F-Droid for a few days. Fixed now. Successfully updated to 1.0.

[1] https://forum.f-droid.org/t/why-isnt-f-droid-on-f-droid/1385...
Yea, I mean if it's only 3 out of ~194 that's a short list.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct-to-consumer_advertising
adds Hong Kong, and that's it.
Had the same, was diagnosed with sleep apnea.
> It really has changed the way I use the internet.

I agree so much. I cannot recommend umatrix highly enough. It has put me completely back in control of what sites can and can't do. I block everything by default except for first-party CSS and images (e.g. *.ycombinator.com when I visit news.ycombinator). It's great, and not at all as bothersome as I thought.

No more HTML5 pop-ups, deceptive ads, no more auto loading videos, no more sneaky audio, no more weird javascript that slows my browser to a crawl, no more tracking.

Honestly people, give it a shot. It's amazing.
low-carb "lazy Keto" diet where all I did was keep carbs under 20g net per day

Looks like a strict keto to me, anything under 30g net carbs per day will put you into ketosis.
Considering that many essential nutrients are provided by plants which also provide sugars, you'd have to eat synthetic 'food' in order to avoid all sugars.
I said probably because I thought about it myself while writing that comment. I also have good experience with it, but if sqlite only talks SQL then just creating string representation of binaries would already be prohibitive.
Yes, after the EV1 was an unexpected smash hit in the marketplace, GM went on to be the #1 vendor of electric cars for the next decade! Musk completely ignored that.
Well, you can do baby steps.

There are so many ways to promote stuff.

For example content marketing. Start writing a blog, when you get the ins and outs of blogging, start to use it to promote your product.

This year I wrote a blog article almost every week. Then I started to promote some educational videos I recorded for Skillshare. Made a few bucks on the side with that.

Just focus on some "type" of marketing that is easy for your and try it.
I replied to jayniz, maybe you didn't see it.

It's in the article 1.2 of the Spanish Constitution:

> La soberanía nacional reside en el pueblo español, del que emanan los poderes del Estado.

(The national sovereignty resides in the Spanish people, from which emanate the powers of the State.)
Machine learning could lead to economic hypergrowth, new research suggests
I've experimented with both Home Assistant, Domoticz and OpenHab. They're all pretty good in different ways, but in the end in decided to roll my own.

They all have built-in scripting, but it's pretty common to send events to mqtt and use some external tools for scripting. In ended up using node-red, because it looked interesting and was really easy to get going.

After a while it seemed like the only reason for using any of those 3 systems was the device support, and since I was just using z-wave, for which there is a nice node-red library, I decided to do it all on my own. It only took a couple of week nights before I had most of the things I needed.

It did feel kinda silly to do drag and drop programming, and I did en up using the function node a whole lot, but in the end I stuck with it because it allowed me to show the family what it does and how it works.
Suppose a simulated intelligence was indistinguishable from real intelligence.

In what sense would it matter that it was a simulation and not real?
I'm not going to say Redux-zero isn't useful, but if you're just calling some functions that update the state, how is it even related to Redux?

Redux is all about reducers. "Redux" with "no reducers" is an oxymoron, like "pottery without clay" or "cow herding without cows". Redux is a few tools and an ecosystem to support you in handling your state with nested reducers. The value is the predictability you get from using reducers.
The way you and your parent comment are discussing "marketing" I would think would be more accurate to discuss as promotions/promoting.

This is an example of killing the language, and it minimizes the nuance involved. Advertising and promotions are a subset of marketing.

Edit: To be clear, I work in the area of addressable market/ /go-to-market strategy/ product definition/ competitive analysis and I have never had anything to do with outbound, promotional messaging.
Look at the electoral results. PP, the current governing party in Spain, doesn't get good results in Catalonia.

Its main opponents, PSOE, does get decent results there, as does the alternative, PODEMOS.

So they have absolutely nothing to lose, politically speaking, losing us.

Not only that, but they have used, and still use, Catalonia as a ghost whom they fight, in order to gain votes in the rest of Spain.

And lastly, there are active cases against them by justice, all this is casting a smokescreen so people won't notice if they are declared guilty,or when they pardon their friends.
Yep: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_burial
You believe no atrocities have ever been legal under a democratic society?

Really? I suggest you study more history if you believe that

Along with the rule of law I am fascinated by the difference people give to "democratic" society, as if that is the best, or some how perfect
My reaction to this is basically "nothing to see here".

Libraries get renamed all the time. Whether the authors thought it was problematic or not, they decided to rename it so that there's no question. Who cares?
Cryonics + post enough incentive for someone to wake you up. The best incentive for someone to wake you up I came up with is putting lots of money in cryptocurrency and remembering the private key and writing "Will pay X BTC to anyone who wakes me up"
Encyclopedia put it at your fingertips. Our household had
a general Encyclopedia Americana, then specialty encyclopedias for subjects such as science, the occult, and a couple others not coming to mind at the moment. Most kids I knew had at least a basic encyclopedia at home. I mean...
how else would you do your homework?
Sounds like they were thinking of some kind of way of running Postgres on a blockchain, vs using Postgres to process the blockchain.
zsh seems to have much more flexible alias rules than bash:

> alias \'sudo\'='ls -a'
> 'sudo'
. ..
Is this a variant of Space Saving or Frequent algorithm?

Space Saving: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.94....

Frequent: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3260653/algorithm-to-fin...

And there is a variant with a Sketch function, known as "Filtered Space Saving". I cannot find a working link to the paper, but here is a Golang implementation of it:

https://godoc.org/github.com/dgryski/go-topk
>it's killed far fewer people so far.

Sitting curled up in a chair for hours straight staring into a phone is killing you a lot quicker than you might think.
But it turns out they're only outcompeting other turtles.
I'm pretty sure the strong curve is because (normal) floors are finite planes, and usually we don't look so close from the sphere's equator in real life.

Once I wrote a raytracer in Lisp based on pg's code in ANSI Common Lisp, so I've seen the results of changing camera positions.
If you want to build everything yourself you can get stuff for very cheap eg a pir sensor for 1$ and it will be a good learning experience. If you think it's fun you can even start selling stuff, there's a huge market with huge margins.
The new bike could've made your commute more efficient.
Aaaah. Makes sense.
+1

IIRC both combat divers and people with certain kinds of epilepsy benefit from carb free diets as it reduces risk of passing out (for combat divers with rebreathers) and epileptic attacks (for epileptics).
Indeed. This was the same fallacy that killed keyboard slider phones. Sure, their sales were poor... but the reason why is because they generally came out 8 months later than the non-keyboard version without improved hardware. So by the time each keyboard phone generation came out, there was already newer hardware with newer features on the market.
The Android client is on F-Droid. Nice. People who don't use Google services can download it easily.
We all don't know the details of the settlement, but we DO know George can sing about it. PoC's in rap would be nice.
It depends on where the camera is, how far the floor extends and the reflection angle (which might be different for different materials / IOR).

https://imgur.com/a/PCG4O
Rajoy is not Assad. He knows there are more effective methods than just shooting at demonstrators
That certainly doesn't seem to outlaw people casting votes for independence.
Yes.

Thomas Jefferson said something along those lines. I think every generation might be a little extreme. Every other generation, certainly.
The Mexican Fisherman

The American investment banker was at the pier of a
small coastal Mexican village when a small boat with
just one fisherman docked.

Inside the small boat were several large yellow fin tuna.
The American complimented the Mexican on the quality
of his fish and asked how long it took to catch them.

The Mexican replied, “Only a little while.”

The American then asked, “Why didn’t you stay out longer
and catch more fish?”

The Mexican said, “With this I have more than enough to support my family’s needs.”

The American then asked, “But what do you do with the rest of your time?”

The Mexican fisherman said, “I sleep late, fish a little, play with my children, take siesta with my wife, Maria, stroll into the village each evening where I sip wine and play guitar with my amigos, I have a full and busy life.”

The American scoffed, “I am a Harvard MBA and could help you. You should spend more time fishing; and with the proceeds, buy a bigger boat: With the proceeds from the bigger boat you could buy several boats. Eventually you would have a fleet of fishing boats. Instead of selling your catch to a middleman you would sell directly to the
processor; eventually opening your own cannery. You would control the product, processing and distribution. You would need to leave this small coastal fishing village and move to Mexico City, then Los Angeles and eventually New York where you will run your ever-expanding enterprise.”

The Mexican fisherman asked, “But, how long will this all take?”

To which the American replied, “15 to 20 years.”

“But what then?” asked the Mexican.

The American laughed and said that’s the best part. “When the time is right you would announce an IPO and sell your company stock to the public and become very rich, you would make millions.”

“Millions?…Then what?”

The American said, “Then you would retire. Move to a small coastal fishing village where you would sleep late, fish a little, play with your kids, take siesta with your wife, stroll to the village in the evenings where you could sip wine and play your guitar with your amigos."

(Of course, the MBA glosses over scaling the catching of fish, as though all fish have the same qualities.)
Marketing is crucial when you have the right product. If a startup spends tons on marketing and there are product deficiencies, then users are going to come and go.
You don’t seem to understand what a monopoly is. Tell me a single category in which apple is a monopoly. High profit margin != monopoly.
Not reading this article but I don't think there's anything to this. Pretty much all the most-lauded product designers have been continuing in this tradition ever since it was born - that it's not ubiquitous is attributable to timid and price-conscious clients. I don't think Google has any internal ideology whatsoever that is pushing this - they're just a company new to the hardware space who has lots of resources and a desire to build brand cachet, and they see hiring respected designers and getting out of their way as an effective way to do that.
There has to be more to it than just homogenous ground composition. Surely drilling into granite is harder than clay or something? Also my understanding was that the SR99 tunnel is through both fill and clay.

http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/Projects/Viaduct/About/Tunneling
I've been using Home Assistant for about 1.5 years on an RPi3, controlling some outdoor and indoor lights using a Zwave hub. It has been rock solid and never given me any issues.

Thank you for this awesome software and community!
That’s the standard zombie argument. It’s weakness is that the premise is not reasonable. If the premise is true, the argument is compelling. But there is no strong evidence that the premise is true or possible.

Please note that I haven’t taken a stance on this here myself, so there’s no need to argue with me about the truth or falsity of the premise. I’m just explaining the problem with the zombie argument.
I guess technically you are right, even meat has some carbs in it because muscles hold some glycogen.

The closest thing I can quote is the experiment that Vilhjalmur_Stefansson and Karsten Anderson took part in, eating only meat for a few years

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vilhjalmur_Stefansson#Low-carb...

http://inhumanexperiment.blogspot.com.cy/2009/09/two-brave-m...

In the end, the one-year project stretched to four years, during which time the two men ate only the meat they could kill and the fish they could catch in the Canadian Arctic. Neither of the two men suffered any adverse after-effects from their four-year experiment. It was evident to Stefansson, as it had been to William Banting, that the body could function perfectly well, remain healthy, vigorous and slender if it used a diet in which as much food was eaten as the body required, only carbohydrate was restricted and the total number of calories was ignored.
Sad. Hope the family gets what's due -- being burnt alive would be a good start.
No, OtherOS only existed due to it allowing for different import tarifs.
The CISO who told Kaz that he's a mad bro for wanting to remove OtherOS support was fired.
LLite: language friendly literate programming
This was a great read. I wish more company leaders would open up to personal stories like this. At the end of the day, you realize that behind the corporate bureaucracy and struggles, the people who run companies are people as well, and they deal with real-life struggles just like we do.
But what’s the difference between $10M and $500M? In both cases, you can stop working for a living and do whatever you want with your life instead.
You don’t get to redefine monopoly to fit your argument.
Update: author website:
http://AnneOther.com
Spain has SEAT, Renault, Citröen, Ford, URO (Urovesa, they are in between of mass production and a specialized manufacturer) at least. The only one being Spanish is URO.
Coincidentally, it is also a short name for the home assistant software in English.
Or just put some gold in a safe so you don't have to worry about your crypto's value going straight to zero.
I'm using AnySoftKeyboard now.

Data mining and machine learning just doesn't sit well with me even though it can't directly be traced back to a individual. At the end of the day all of it will be used for one thing: selling more services and products to me. Convenience comes with a price.
Ah, the vouch option seems to only be available on the comment permalink, and not on the general comments page. TIL, thanks!
https://twitter.com/JordiGraupera/status/914406594779205632
https://twitter.com/JordiGraupera/status/914408451870265344

https://twitter.com/LordRennard/status/914434884990652421 Here's one of the international observers verifying too
Is there anything out there for setting up a DMX controlled light strip to something smart?
lack of sleep causes euphoria (endorphins I think, not sure). but messed up sleeping is related to mental issues.
Take a look at the sides of the I90 E tunnels. Tunnel walls tend to jump out at Seattle drivers. Gotta give people some breathing room and I'm sure there is some consideration for leaving space for emergency vehicles to squeeze by. I am also hoping they increase the speed limit inside the tunnel since there are no ramps. I think there is probably consideration for making it easy for buses to navigate as well.
UEFI Programming – First Steps (2009)
it doesn't, but lots of people get hung up on that kind of stuff.
Of course they do, but ceding full control directly to them is hardly the best counter to that.