skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you.

Are those runtimes all bytecode compatible? Or is that another layer of developer cognitive burden that the more efficient/performant/whatever choice entails, atop the whole "having a good way to write cross-platform applications" tangle?
I think the problem as described is actually a team problem.

You don't have a good team without a vision leader who is articulating the ideas and steering the company. Like a boat with no captain, labor and capital resources are important but ultimately useless without a captain who has a vague idea of the endpoint and a sense for the roadmap. Try to dig into your collective social networks and see if you know anyone who has a vision but not the wherewithal to execute.

FWIW Money doesn't magically solve a problem, it merely exacerbates a situation. Talent doesn't solve a problem without a clear understanding of the problem being solved. As much as people on HN like to devalue the importance of ideas, it is an extremely important part of the process
Disclaimer: Ridiculous pager duty was one of the reasons I quit Amazon (combined with massive failures in management, which I'll describe shortly).

The team I was on (retail-related, not AWS), shifted away from the rolling schedule with your counterparts in India taking over for the other 12 hours in order to push the "promote ownership" BS.

The only problem? Management was constantly pushing for new things to get done on extremely tight deadlines (including "emergency features" that needed to be done and in prod in days when they likely required a week of design efforts to get right, never mind actual dev time) so you have two options:

(1) Develop something stable, with good test coverage and the like, and work to fix it if it breaks... and work 20 hours to get it done.

(2) Shit something out as fast as you can and hope it breaks when someone else is on call (who likely will be too busy triaging SEV3-5's during business hours to even think about spending time fixing the root cause of the SEV1/2, rather than mitigating it and moving on...or, even worse (!) (/s) try to get the actual feature owners to fix it) in order to maintain some semblance of work-life balance.

I'll leave it as an exercise to the reader to guess at which route was generally taken.
Well, they apparently didn't roll for a US court, in a case involving harassment, as I recall. Would they roll for the NSA? How would they handle a NSL? I have no clue. Their founder has said that, although he lives in the US, none of their server admins do.
1. Give all of the money to charity
2. Ask the investors for more money
3. Goto 1
How exactly can you have a citizen that is unable to get a government-issued ID? That is a failure of the government. They either have the documents and/or government records to prove that they are a citizen, or they're not a citizen.

A law requiring citizens to have IDs to vote is not the problem. The problem is the processes that aren't assisting citizens that struggle to get IDs.
GitHub for X. Construction is taken [1]. UI/Product is taken [2]. I'm sure there are more document types.

[1]: https://www.plangrid.com/
[2]: https://zeplin.io/
world peace
solve homelessness, starvation
save puerto rico
It sucks because getting good sake in the midwest is... hard at best.

Every place that has sake has no friggin clue how to even know if something is good. Stocking up like crazy will only work so long, and making sake isn't exactly something I'd try, even given how close it is to regular beer fermentation.

I ordered a single small bottle, so even if it gets held up its not as big of a deal, I hope. Time to go call my legislature and tell them to fix the bill or I vote for the other team again out of spite.
> it's a completely superior experience to cable / OTA

Can't watch ALL games live right? That's hardly completely superior. IMO, NFL would make less money on direct sales than they do when they charge networks which charge all cable subscribers (even via retransmission fees for those of us who can't get OTA) AND charge advertisers. That double dip is going to net more money than a specialized service for NFL fans.
Why slack desktop use electron? Slack mobile app using xamarin. Why they not porting from mobile app to desktop? U must learn electron, and also not running on native
Non-citizens voting is still in person voter fraud. I'm sure it has happened, but it is vanishingly rare, you citation is about 1 person.

There is simply no incentive to commit that crime. Even less so if you're a non-citizen, because if you're caught you'll be deported. Very few people commit crimes where they have nothing to gain, a lot to lose, and a high chance of being caught. It is almost a non-issue.

There is literally no evidence that in person voter fraud poses a threat to the integrity of US elections either local or national. It is a red herring.
That's because PIA and Torguard are willing to outbid others to get that ranking :) Or so I've heard.

That's why you generally ignore online reviews.
Yes, but nobody else would. Lots of the people paying for ESPN don't do so by choice, they do so because it comes as part of their cable package whether they watch it or not (this was me pre-cord-cutting).
Is that true? My impression was always that it was a valuable enough property that lots of companies wanted in on the action, but I admit that's not grounded in sources.
Docker is comparable to a chroot in this regard. You can not break out of a chroot either, unless you are being careless with super user privileges or bind mounts. Which (unsuprisingly) people are, and that's why it's generally not recommended to use chroot alone for security. Not because chroot somehow is insecure or doesn't work as intended.

Docker for the longest time didn't even try to constrict the root user. Later versions does, but the results will vary depending on your configuration. That's why the Docker documentation states it should not be depended on for security. It is wise to heed that recommendation.
I can't totally remember if I've got the right book here but I'm 99% sure Katie Hafner and John Markoff's hacker book "Cyberpunk" features not only RTM but Paul Graham as well during this episode. It never accuses Graham of being involved directly.
i mean srsly, you know who's REALLY drowning? PUERTO FUCKIN' RICO
The 'Manhattan of the Desert': Shibam, Yemen's Ancient Skyscraper City (2015)
Or the Gulf Stream shutting down and Europe freezing. Or any of a dozen other things. And the Sahara greening wouldn't make up for it because nobody lives there to farm it.
Scratch your own itch - make an idea sharing website.
I was thinking this too.

I was going to say it might be worth looking for projects that have been validated by sales and then looking to grow them both with the team and capital.

Having something like a space with a couple ideas/ startups in it that have already been validated would lower your risk and expose you to more opportunities while growing the business. I assume.
>"But to "make amends" for something sounds as if their influence is either unprecedented or morally wrong."

I think we're too early in Mueller's investigation to definitively be able to say whether their influence was morally or legally wrong, or whether actions of employees/executives of those companies were morally or legally wrong.
my first thought was to use a chrome book :) but then I thought what if it was the kind of USB that was rigged to physically break the computer...
There's already one of those: https://nugget.one/
Read everything at http://onemodel.org . Make a better user experience (UI and installer) and flesh out some of the features planned (especially "sharing"), then $ from hosting, selling binaries, bespoke features, consulting, or ~patreon etc. Send me some of it. :) I have detailed plans & priorities (not on the site) but have been slow getting it done lately.

[edited a couple of times...]
> I'm curious if there is an interpreter written in Gallina that implements the semantics?

Assuming you only want the core language, the semantics is an interpreter -- available in Appendix A.
Given how traumatic the sport and related CTEs are, I wonder if falling salaries will spell the end of football
Let's build an Operating System!
How would you rebuild the computer from the ground up?
I've only scratched the surface of low-level systems (mostly x86 and Unix), but their complexity is mind-boggling.

We've evolved directly from a system designed in the 70s, when we had no idea what we'd want, need, or be able to do in 2017.

Forget all the inertia for a second, and imagine you've got infinite resources at hand.

How might you do it differently? Wipe the slate clean and remake everything – simpler, faster, easier, or to open up avenues that just aren't feasible to go down today.

Do you work in a problem domain where we're especially held back, by the hardware itself, or its complexity?

A couple of related links:

Gary Bernhardt talks about speedups from ditching virtual memory (at least partially)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7605687

Can programming be liberated from the Von Neumann bottleneck?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12159792

Tyranny of the clock

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11995966

Rex

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12155561

Mill

https://millcomputing.com/
I wonder if Steam Home Streaming works for the Unity editor? It's a popular and accessible option.
The vast majority of NFL tickets are sold before the start of the season so teams are still claiming sellouts, which while technically correct, gives an impression that isn't reflected in actual people in the seats. I'm not sure how the NFL counts attendance but in NCAA football each school decides on what methodology to use. Some don't count hotdog vendors, some count every person inside the stadium, some just estimate the crowd without bothering with an actual count. It wouldn't surprise me if some pro teams massaged their numbers to appear larger than the actual number of fans who show up.
That's an assumption that the NFL (or any sports league for that matter) do things that are beneficial to fans as opposed to beneficial to the bottom line of owners.

I can name a hundred things leagues have done to dilute and harm their respective games in order to increase profits.
AMP is an explicit subset of HTML, CSS and JavaScript aimed at reducing bloat. Of course you could just do this yourself is you think you know a better subset.
> they're a defense against ISPs scraping your connections and selling them to advertisers.

isn't SSL supposed to do that? At most an ISP ought to only be able to sniff the domain.
It could mitigate, but VC money will not ROI itself.
I am a bit disappointed at this article and the hierarchy of how to optimise postgres. As a MySQL specialist that has worked on a few Postgres projects, I can tell you that Postgres has a VERY RICH toolkit to speed things up. Between optimising queries and load balancing, you have indexing, partitioning.. (Postgres even allows you to index EACH partition differently) and triggers to do summary/rollup tables for you.

Its just that Postgres may need a little more coding and is less automatic than MySQL that people shy away from it..

I do like the time and information spent about spreading load accross database servers and not nearly enough people are considering splitting reads and writes from a master/slave setup.

Its just that its frustrating to me that engineers view databases as some sort of mysterious black box that you need to solve by working around it or replacing it entirely.
My idea is that you should combine ML with something that is highly reliant on human labor--especially where that reliance is starting to be the key bottleneck preventing new capacity from starting up. A good example of this would be slaughterhouses in the US; the pork processing business for example. Get some experienced workers from an existing facility to wear google glass type cameras, put sensors on the base and tip of their electric knives, and project a grid of red laser dots on the carcasses, and record the process of carving them up from start to finish many times with many different carcasses. Get enough labeled data that way and you could replace human workers in a dirty/dangerous/low-paid industry.
CoopCycle – Open source logistics platform software for worker-owned business
Tor is a solution for specific use cases. It does not address privacy on the internet in a general way. For example, if I use tor to browse facebook, I am logged into facebook and still just as trackable as I would be if I wasnt using tor.
Yeah, I probably should've submitted it with a more pleasant title. "Bobby Fischer of Union Square" or something like that.
I'm always a little shocked when people admit outrage over kneeling players but don't seem at all concerned that the sport endangers the players' wellbeing. What do you think contributes to this empathy gap?
Do you have a list of like full fledged apps that users/companies have made?
This is kind of already being done by Sunflower Labs. https://sunflower-labs.com/
If you as an entrepreneur feel that the market is too crowded or commoditized, though, that's a very good signal not to enter it. Not because it actually is too crowded, but because you don't know it well enough to come up with a unique differentiator that will resonate with people actually in that market.

When you stumble across an idea that's actually viable, it feels like "Oh, why has nobody else done this yet? I better get it out there before the competition eats my lunch." It's very likely that you're actually overestimating the threat of competition, but that's because you have domain knowledge that makes the key differentiators of your product obvious to you but inconceivable to other entrepreneurs.

From your perspective, the idea was obvious and different, and that's why people use your product. From an outside perspective, you entered a crowded market and won it by being better than everybody else. The difference is in the level of detail with which you know the market. If from your perspective it appears to be a crowded market and you just need to be better than everybody else, you probably aren't going to be able to build that better product.
"A side". Lets call a Republican a Republican. Same for gerrymandering. If you can't win fairly, win at any cost.
So does Twitter I believe....
From github electron

The BrowserView API is currently experimental and may change or be removed in future Electron releases.

Is it stable now?
I want to see some success stories (with references to real companies, not the abstract "they helped us start our company and it's a big success now" that I see in the testimonial section)
Alternative is Google Spanner. Also still new, but already in GA for 5 months now.
Acquire a small business with market validation and good potential and scale it up.
I used Fluid, now use MacPin. Apps are much smaller, essentially just the size of their JS bundles. But then you're back to cross-browser woes and no native layer.
I'd much sooner plug it into something like a RaspberryPi 2 (the one without a Wi-Fi chip). And maybe have it running some *BSD or some such. Something that isn't normally targeted by malware.
Happy to share a dozen great ideas I’ve seen that lack team and capital. Linkedin.com/in/lunarmobiscuit
Check your cloudfront and data transfer usage. We had bingbot overcrawling a number of our urls resulting in high cloudfront costs.
Actually it can work quite well without language-level support. Python's gevent library [0] shows that. It "simply" monkey-patches the standard library's IO functions to implicitly switch to another "greenlet" when blocking IO is performed. On the user side you don't really see anything of that (no "await" or similar). Admittedly, that hides possible points of context switches, but is still far less dangerous with regard to race conditions than OS threads. Unfortunately, gevent seems to be shunned quite a bit and I haven't seen other languages do similar things.

[0] http://www.gevent.org/
i think what we need is another type of walled garden, what i'm calling a freedom garden. a complete alternative to APPL and GOOG that has media, devices, apps, &c.

free software projects and linux distributions have been around for years, but the focus is often on compatibility and familiarity. i say, we throw all of that in the trash. we need fresh ideas, fresh designs, and interfaces. interesting new devices and interaction models. app stores that engage creators as a revenue channel. there's no reason why liberty and profit should be at odds. [0]

i especially think that we need to rethink how we develop applications. clouds are useful, but why are the developers on the hook for all of that compute? i think we need to radically simplify the tools we use for provisioning compute resources in a way that allows users to leverage all of their compute resources and easily attach more on-demand. this echoes back to plan 9, which has this idea of creating a virtual system out of many hosts.

we're just getting started, and there are a lot of challenges ahead of us. if any of this sounds interesting or fun, maybe you want to get involved with our nonsense. [1]

[0]: https://developer.elementary.io/

[1]: https://heropunch.io/join.html
My team built a couple bots that help us keep track of issues we are working on, schedule releases, etc. We also do all of our meetings on Slack; when you're on a call it automatically updates your Slack status to reflect so, that way your teammates know you are busy.

Whether people use all of Slack's potential or not it's a different discussion, but I'd rather have the ability to do more if I wanted to than having to look for yet another tool to solve a small problem.
I think it's worth noting that this site is run by Clay Travis, who generally seems to be an outspoken ESPN critic on political grounds. It's also worth noting that ESPN currently down to 87 million subscribers from a peak of about 100 million in 2011, so they haven't lost 30% of their subscriber base since adding MNF in 2006.
If all shots from storm troopers seem to barely miss, does that indicate that eventually we a storm trooper will miss? Or does it indicate a conspiracy among storm troopers to miss.

There are (apparantely) so many near misses for which it isn't clear why it should be a near miss. A great explanation for this near missing is the underlying fact that all NP problems contain some 'brute force' core that can never be polynomial.

Also note that the blog post does not at all concern your class UP. None of these are algorithms designed to be run. They are all about exploring abstract complexity classes.
You can control people's screens through Messages? And you can write simple webhooks and bots with a few lines of Ruby? Please send me some links, I'd love to do that.
IIRC this step is not needed/required anymore.
What a garbage idea -- you don't want to move into venture capital; the risks vs (potential) rewards are out of touch with reality. The chances of ending up achieving good returns as a VC are slim (read: it's really really hard. Given the odds and effort required, I don't understand why anyone even tries).

That said, PE has plenty of opportunities within tech though. Which is essentially what you described.
Find a problem to solve by asking people on their way out of an industry.

https://medium.com/black-n-white/the-problem-with-problems-4...
We live in the information age, people in China are spinning up factories overnight to mass produce something in demand in the west and sell it through marketplaces on websites, but we have no way to inform people what is real and what is fake.

Like, per manufacturer product reviews that are trustworthy. Seems like something akin to Consumer Reports for online merch would be a thing, but I guess there is not enough money in it.
The NFL's life expectancy is now less than 20 years. Young people aren't playing the game, because their parents don't want their brains to get all smashed up. Active participation in tackle football among teenagers fell from 9% to 7% in just 5 years from 2011-2016. The talent pool will dry up. The game will be less interesting. The fan base will die off.
iOS apps can secretly record and take pictures once you give camera permissions
If we can agree that the problem defines the solution, then you will have to work backwards to a problem that your team has unique competency at.

Restated, it is impossible to have a great team without the constraints of a problem statement. It is similar to those who claim C++ is the best language. With out the context of the problem to be solved, it is merely an opinion.
> Like a boat with no captain

They haven't even left the dock.
I do not believe so as I believe the issues are orthogonal. The livelihood of the sport is primarily driven by consumption not production IMO. You lose eyeballs, you lose everything. You lose players, more will fill their place and while the quality may decline, it will not be noticeable since it applies evenly.

Everyone knows the NFL could reduce injuries even more, but not at the cost of eyeballs. In a purely capitalistic view, players are much more expendable/replaceable than viewers. As a side effect, players will have to accept the risk of being injured for less money than they are now. While a couple of high profile NFL players have retired due to CTE concerns, in general there are many humans willing to make that sacrifice for even a fraction of what players are paid today.
Yes, but within that leashes it will prefer not releasing back what it has. E.g. if you say minimum 256, maximum 1G, if you used 1G for a short time it tends to hold onto it. This is a performance optimization iirc - it is far cheaper to wait a bit if you need that memory again than releasing it to the OS and then requesting it back again.
My grandmother was pretty "anti-tech", and thought that e-mail was just a passing fad, but I think that even she would have tried this if it meant her flowers would have been spared by the deer.
Solve some real life problem like:

1) Cancer , heart disease health related problem.
2) Depression
3) Poverty
4) Violence (how about a magic shield)

etc etc .. there are tons of real life problem that are yet to be solved and NEED to be solved for survival of human kind. Just open your heart and eyes and you will find.
in which case, if you can't trust 1 VPN, can't you jerry-rig a better VPN by daisy chaining several together, so that each VPN will have to be asked to sort through traffic?
I'm with you on commercials, but I don't believe NFL GamePass includes live games? I'm big on fantasy, so live games are important.

I pay about $30 to Sling TV just for Redzone. I've never watched any of the other channels that come with it. When the regular season ends I just cancel Sling.

I'd be happy handing over the $150/season or so directly to the NFL. Unfortunately, I'm probably worth more to advertisers just because of that.
Everything is going to be crowded these days. Are you guys based out of New York?
Watsi (YC W13) Is Hiring Senior Software Engineers
YAML and Devicetree
The biggest difference from Ethereum is not the lack of Turing Completeness but:

> Maintain Bitcoin’s design of self-contained transactions whereby programs do not have access to any information outside the transaction.

This drastically changes the use cases, and may keep both chains complimentary.