skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I dealt with a pair of founders that prided on having grown their company without needing funding.

Turned out they deliberately forced every freelancer and supplier into arbitration. Complained about the quality and just withheld payments. It always ended up in settling, which meant that in the end they paid less.

Of course they had to find new ones every time but hey, the market is huge.

Ended up settling too.
Step One: Identify the thing you enjoy most in life.

Step Two: Arrange your life so that you can do as much of that thing as possible.

For me, that "thing" was climbing and traveling. So I got good at writing software and spent the time and effort to shift into contracting. That let me work short gigs in high cost-of-living places and sock away enough to travel most of the year, setting up shop at various good climbing spots as and when necessary.

Step Three: As your priorities shift, alter the above as necessary.

Eventually, having wives and kids seemed to also be a good idea, so we're living in a place where, in addition to having the best concentration of high quality bouldering in the world, they also have an international airport and good schools. (And patisseries).

Find the thing you want to do, then arrange life so you can do it.
> learning geography by flat map projections only

well, the map is flat more or less at closer zoom levels, so the general problem seems to be purely about lossy compression.
Andorid phones (the modern ones anyway) do support the MTP protocol... but it's horrid if you're trying to do something like transfer large files for storage of any type; it's like it was written with the old 4GB file limits in mind.
what is the cause of burn in? is this a fundamental problem with oleds or will it go away with as the technology matures? thats what i really want to know because oled is next in line for dominance in display technology and that would suck if it came with burn in.

off the top of my head, i would say that the burn in is caused by degradation of one of the color elements in the leds. the blue elements were a problem for a long time -- they would degrade very quickly. i would guess that the blue elements of this display begin to lose their integrity much faster than the other elements, so if you leave those blue elements on for a long period of time you will cause those elements to go bad and then from then on you have a pattern of burned out blue elements, causing burn in. so if this is true, apps that are meant to display bright static images for long periods of time could do everything in shades of red and green, leaving the blue elements off completely.

this will also hopefully mean that all the cool screen savers from the 90s will be given new life, and maybe we can even have a new renaissance of screen savers
> Clinton spent 1.2Bn and had loads of young people working on media.

clinton was also under fbi investigation, had wikileaks slow-dripping internal documents, and had a divided party (which clintonites didn't seem all that concerned about at the time).
I don't know why you're downvoted. It's an interesting thing to think about. Personally, I'd be eager to try it out for a year or so. I set the goal, my computer tells me what to do.
Jugg App
If only all humans would spontaneously just decide to do away with every single instinct which evolved over millennia and cohere with your particular utopia de jour. But alas, those dumb apes just may never sufficiently enlighten themselves.
There is just no way I would accept ‘burn in’ as a ‘normal’ part of the tech, on such an expensive device.

Rather than just whining about it, I’ve simply done the only thing I can do and not bought the latest iPhone. An infinitesimal drop in a near-trillion dollar ocean.
Wish they would have mentioned the widevine drm Shit show
> Further, impeachment proceedings are 100% political, not legal.

This is just straight up incorrect. If you read the Constitution, it states in Article I Section 2:

"The House of Representatives shall chuse their Speaker and other Officers; and shall have the sole Power of Impeachment." [1]

Then in Section 3:

"The Senate shall have the sole Power to try all Impeachments...and No Person shall be convicted without the Concurrence of two thirds of the Members present." [2]

Checks and balances are political now? Hoooo boy.

[1] https://genius.com/1290855

[2] https://genius.com/4027445
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I reduced the time to respond. But my response was still basically correct for you also.
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> Clinton spent 1.2Bn and had load of young people working on media.

And she just flat out cheated, in a way that was so easily discerned (even before this week's statements from Donna Brazille) that it almost definitely cost her tons of votes. As an individual she is by far the most responsible for Trump, especially considering that her campaign even sought to prop up Trump early in the race! And worst of all, she opted out of a landslide win by picking Tim Kaine instead of Sanders as VP.

I have no particular problem with investigating connections between Trump and Russia, but even if the worst of the allegations are true they 1) are about on par with Clinton's behavior in the election and 2) would barely make my top 20 list of appalling revelations regarding American politics. Americans need to step back and get some perspective -- as if the US doesn't do exactly the same or worse in almost every other country on earth.
This site has been up and running for a good few years now, but the code behind the service has recently been rewritten in go.

The aim behind the rewrite was to ensure that the service could continue to operate with only a small server powering it - the alternative being cancellation.
Social media is not the root cause. It's merely one of many tools to achieve the main goal which is society's root problem:

The root problem is this: America has slipped for a long time now. It has at its core been corrupted systemically by a destructive value system. Its culture is now based on the idea that to dominate those around oneself is the right thing to do (on a personal, social, national, international and worldwide level).

And those who feel the need to play this game will dominate. They will reinforce and perpetuate this vicious circle - until society collapses. So you might want start counteracting now.
Ha, I wonder how they judge legitimate public interest. Say Trump.. hypothetically tweets about how North Korea "won't be around much longer!" and North Korea interpret that as a declaration of war, is that in the legitimate public interest?

Last time they said it was OK because it was newsworthy, but now they're adding it to the public policy it needs to be newsworthy and in the public interest? Should lead to more interesting debates.
GPS is "just" each satellite sending out a constant readout of its current time, very precisely. By reading these from several satellites it's possible to figure out what the actual current time is and then from that determine the time of flight of each signal. Which gives you the distance to each satellite, so if you know where each satellite is you can figure out your own position too.

The point is, it's time based, and it enables synchronization of clocks across the globe to sub-microsecond accuracy. Google uses that feature for keeping its distributed databases synchronized as well. It's not just an alternative to NTP, it's a way to keep systems in sync to a very, very precise degree. Which requires constant communication with time reference servers. They don't put a GPS receiver in every server, just a redundant cluster of them in each data center.

Consider a transactional write using Spanner, the way it works is that the system connects to all of the relevant database shards, it knows what all of their clock accuracy levels are and so it knows how long it needs to wait to negotiate a transaction lock. This is only possible due to the high accuracy of time synchronization. Meanwhile it's buffering write data/instructions to all the hosts. Once it gets the lock it then sends out commit instructions. The whole process can take mere tens of milliseconds for a handful of hosts and only a few hundreds of milliseconds for hundreds of hosts. Which is remarkable when you consider the scale of the problem.
Actually, my code is solid. Visual Basic .NET is a fully solid language for high end production software. It's not the old Visual Basic 6.0 which supposedly was mostly a toy.

I never used the 6.0 thing but learned VB.NET right away for my present project.

On Windows, there's nothing more solid for high end software. E.g., my Web page programming is the ASP.NET part of .NET. The SQL Server programming is via the ADO.NET part.

There's nothing in my production code like PHP, Python, Lisp, etc.
I'd have thought the metric to watch was "% of moves made which seemed kooky to human experts", not "% of human experts moves with which the program agrees."
Factoring is a method of financing your business, say to buy raw materials to produce finished goods for sale. They want access to your receivables to make sure they are repaid. What the GP is referring to is a collection agency, where you sell a debt to them for $.10-$.30 on the dollar and they have all the rights to collect.
This may interest you, AI as an artificial belief system. http://us1.campaign-archive.com/?u=78cbbb7f2882629a5157fa593...

My interpretation is that AI can allow you to rapidly load and unload mental models so that you're free to devote 100% of your mind to what only you (a human) can do.
The Reason Some States Don't Observe Daylight Saving Time
"Dopey Prince" is a famous tweet
It's all background, and narration of the expedition to collect samples. There's nothing about new results.
They’re not even asking for their love to be returned though. They’re just disappointed that Apple is releasing poorly tested products. And that’s troublesome because bad quality directly affects Apple's sales and reputation, so it should be in their best interest to fix it.
There's a smallpox variant called monkeypox that seems to come from contact with animals from Africa which is communicable, incurable, and deadly about 10% of the time. The smallpox vaccine is only 85% effective against it. They suspect various African rodents of spreading the disease, so scientists are trapping them, freezing them, and shipping them off to laboratories for analysis. There have been several outbreaks in African and the disease once spread to America because some animals brought over from Africa were kept in the same facility, and then infected, other animals sold as pets. One of these pets was a prairie dog that bit and infected a 3 year old American girl.

The rest of the article appears to be background about them hanging out in remote villages near the site of recent outbreaks.
Ah okay that made sense thanks!
They're currently funded many different ways: federal grants, federally subsidized loans, government (both state and federal) subsidized savings accounts, state funds, various scholarship charities, loan forgiveness programs, endowments, etc. Seems like centralizing all that money and decision-making ability into the hands of the President and the U.S. Congress would be a net loss.
The article you link to speaks about television, not cinema. Furthermore, its claim that the visual medium encourages passivity:

"you can just sit back and watch everything unfold without effort on your part. You’re less likely to pause to reflect on what’s happening."

does not apply to the considerable number of filmmakers (and occasional television content producers) who employ Brechtian alienation techniques.
Why people use autocorrect is beyond me. Chats with my friends are littered with addenda where they correct what autocorrect corrected, it's insane. Just type what you mean to type -- a spelling mistake isn't the end of the world.

But changing a word for another makes a sentence unintelligible and blocks or at least seriously slows down communication.
Doesn't it sound scaringly similar to an advice on how to free yourself from drug or alcohol dependency?

How to prevent to get there in the first place? If of any help, I can testify that life post-facebook is as colorful as one would expect.
What Is a Viral Loop? And Why Do You Need One?
So you won't blame Apple, but will blame Google? :)
> Because the OS can guess correctly more often than a typical user can type correctly. You can always proof read its work at the end.

No. Certainly not on a desktop, where I type much faster than any suggestion can appear (esp. infuriating on IDEs); usually not on a phone either, where "corrections", while sometimes faster than me, are always wrong.
I know you're being sarcastic, but I agree you need to understand the value of something before you ditch it. Hierarchies have their benefits, but I do believe that we can keep the positives and remove the negatives.

Good example is Linux kernel development. It is hierarchical, at the same time, there are strong institutional guarantees that prevent this hierarchy to ossify too much (kernel can be forked by anyone, people up in the hierarchy have limited power over your life).
A skeptic might read several news sources as as to get a more complete picture of what is happening. The problem is that this requires some time and attention to details while reading. What other options are there?
Bullshit. Just like punycode TLDs. And I say this as a guy from a cyrillic country. We invented a footgun and then promptly shot themselves with it.

Instead of making everyone use safe ascii charset for IDs (domains, names like the one in the article, etc.), we go for stupid fuckton of language charsets that cause such problems. All in the name of accessiblity or whatever. And all this does it let people continue living in their language-specific bubble instead of just learning the main international language: english and living happily ever after.

And now people suggest some crutches like restricting the data to some subset of unicode. Never learn.
You can go to at any age, or start by attending in night courses in open university, in most EU countries. There exist also private schools where you pay for full tuition.
Should they also be forbidden from using Linux, Windows, macOS because it allows for the same exploit? Should everyone on the world be limited to iOS and ONLY iOS which is limited to ONLY apps (and soon media content) Apple allows you to use?
I just cited a source that debunked some of the Russia claims, which were said to be "added to the trash heap." Why are you ignoring this?

There are lots of good reasons to oppose and impech Trump. Something is wrong if you can ignore the authoritarianism, corruption, and unconstitutionality that exists here in the US--that both parties support, which is why they won't use them as reasons to impeach Trump--and you have been coaxed into a need to make a reach for a dubious conflict-stirring story of half-truths and shifting standards.

You should ask yourself who the parties are that win after every election, no matter Republican or Democrat, and what they stand to gain or lose. Why you, instead, follow the machinations and war cry of authoritarians that have lost all credibility is probably a testament to the human bias to follow authority figures.
I have found that in a start up there is only place for one person at the top. There are going to be disagreements between the both of you as there are in any team, and it doesn't matter who is right and who is wrong as there is actually no objective way to determine this in advance and ultimately one path has to be chosen or your company will land up in a deadlock, hurting moral and I am sure you will agree with me that this is a far worse position to be in for a startup. Ultimately the 'CEO' is responsible for the company's strategy and must answer for any failures, this does give them the privilege of having the final word when it comes to which strategy to follow. Over time this could lead to feelings of resentment between founders when a member of the team believe they are always being over-looked.

My recommendation is to ask yourself if you truly see yourself working at the company for an extended period (10+ years). Realising that the CEO is just another employee of the business and is probably going to face unbelievable stress in their lives over the next few years, possibly lose their house and/or girlfriend/wife, have the business take over every aspect of their lives while earning less than most of your employees, and still having to wear a smile every day despite living through the apocalypse, be grateful that isn't you.

Work hard, support your CEO where you can, as they grow you should to, build something you can really be proud of in terms of the product and the business structures/processes over the next 3/4 years, pick up your shares, and leave with the respect and admiration of your team.

You'll be in the possession of a large chunk of equity that should be growing quickly + your voting rights, not having to sacrifice everything in your life to continue growing the business, and not having to carry the stress that building a successful business brings.

In terms of your practical day to day responsibilities...
Every IT business needs an accountant, lawyer and a technician; as you get a little bigger you are going to need a 'CEO', professional assistant and sales/marketing manager. Those roles are pretty clearly defined. My suggestion is find one that you really enjoy doing and write your own job description, exercise some responsibility, but otherwise take everything you don't enjoy about your job and make it someone else's problem. If that means hiring someone to do that work, do that, if you can't hire someone, then ask your ceo how he expects it to get done... Don't be confrontational about it...but it can be a great place to start the conversation around roles and responsibilities. Remember, you're building a start up to have the opportunity to create a place you actually want to work, that also means having the opportunity and the responsibility to craft a job you want. You're not going to get it all your way, but at least you've exercised a lot more freedom than many get to have.

And remember, regardless of your role or position, be respectful, be humble and be a professional and you will always grow.
Which lacks a detailed quick start guide. Do they still require visual studio for development?
I'm not sure it would help that much. For example pop.ru and рор.ru look identical to my eyes in my current font.
> With that, they also enforce a rule which Google does not have, that any connection to the internet which is not necessary for the add-on to function (ads, telemetry) have to be opt-in.

This sounds pretty cool and reasonable. But extensions still can modify the currently displayed website, right? Doesn't that make it trivial to submit data somewhere? E.g. <img> tag with GET params, as the most basic form of this.
> ...an obligation to carrier any and all speech?

"Any" and "all" are absolute words like "always" and "never", so no.

I think there's room to create something like network neutrality but for speech. It doesn't need to apply to every single site on the internet, just like network neutrality doesn't apply to every single server connected to the internet.

But there is an analogy between the companies that provide the backbone of the internet and the companies that provide the backbone of public discourse.

> "If I were Facebook..."

Morally and ethically, facebook should not be able to influence public discussion to fit their worldview, including banning thoughts it finds too abhorrent. The (recent, to the internet) push to do so is just a new wave of the things described in the Scarlet Letter, Fahrenheit 451, and 1984. It's getting pushed too far and things will happen people will regret.

Should there be legal protections? At the moment, I think the discussion is worth having. If you asked me ten years ago, I would have said no, but it's apparent to me that something is different this time. I don't know if it's network effects or what, but it seems like a few companies are carriers for the public speech of average Americans and if they all decided that the thoughts of, say, libertarians were dangerous, we could end up with another round of the Hollywood blacklists, but that affect everyone and in much less tangible ways (algorithms that change and cannot testify, lack of objective data to prove suppression happens, etc.).
You know what, I'm going to use this post to tell you what happened last night when I hit play in firefox.

Nothing happened.

I saw The spinning loading wheel and the firefox/netflix header saying "blah blah audio video software being installed try again blah restart blah"...

I waited, I reloaded the page, I googled, I checked the DRM settings, I did blah blah blah.

Wasted time and frustrated I then opened microsoft edge and everything worked.

You know that firefox share is at 8% according to W3Counter? You know this kind of crap will only reduce this?

And then we'll only have the big daddy corporate sponsored browsers.

And all because users want to watch netflix.

What a bag of mediocre horse shit.
Ask the BLM movement. Why did they feel the need to block traffic? Couldn't they have just posted on facebook?

Besides, frequency of something isn't a good measure of its importance. "How often do you feel the need to vote?" is also the wrong question to ask.
It seems most of the issues you are running into is not a bad OS, but bad applications. Granted they are baked in, but appart from Camera, Calculator and Safari I think there’s little to no downside moving to a third party app.

Why bother with the stock apps at this point ? They have had 2 to 3 times better alternatives for years and years now, some even free with basically no barrier to switch.

I feel like beating on Apple apps is a bit like crying about Microsoft making IE shittier or Google making another chat app. Why not move on ?
I'm confused.

You cited a source which debunked the Russian hacking claims, but there's been a lot of evidence of Russian media influence (which is an obviously exploitable weakness).

This didn't have anything to do with Trump. You're reading a lot into what I'm saying.
>Following that logic, aren't neo-nazis human? Don't they deserve "dignity"?

Banning them from insulting other people’s dignity and threatening their safety is not diminishing of their dignity.
One party that is arguably one of the most divided political parties in modern US history.
Why 'A'? Is it failing somewhere and some else condition going to executed? Just wondering..!
They are two things a human brain does when playing chess or go: evaluating a position and mentally playing some positions (by doing a search tree).

The AlphaGo neural network is able to do the first part (evaluating positions) but the search tree is still a hand crafted algorithm. Do they have plans to work on a version with a pure neural network? (i.e. a version which would be able to learn how to do a search tree.)
The Fragmentation of Society
Ironically China's Central Bank is to blame for the enormous, and questionably productive, private debt... the true extent of which is opaque.

For more info the Aug 2017 IMF report is worth a read: http://www.imf.org/en/Publications/CR/Issues/2017/08/15/Peop...
I feel like visualizations rely too much on the existence of a meaningful isomorphism. That is, once a problem is visualized effectively it becomes trivial and though applicable to future similar problems the isomorphism itself is too domain specific to be generalized. It feels like trying to find an analogy that will help you find all future analogies.
How would OpenAI's self-play be different?

https://blog.openai.com/competitive-self-play/