skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It isn't just psychological. There is very real risk involved.

An awful lot of entrepreneurs don't succeed the first time, but eventually figure it out.

Now imagine you're married to someone who just folded a company that ate two years of their life and most of their savings. How enthusiastic are you for the next run? I don't call that a psychological effect. The partner is right - there is a very real risk of failing again, with worse outcomes. If, however, you have enough zeros in the bank (or an account at the Bank of Mom&Dad), eh, it is "just" a failure.

That isn't my story, but somewhat close. Started a company, we never quite "hit", but we hit profitability, were growing organically at a healthy clip and never had to take money. Made a mistake around the end of year three that killed us in year five. And that's how I spent 15 years of savings. I've come close to trying again, but I'm now at an age where that's increasingly stupid without a substantial cushion in the bank, unless you happen to like the taste of cat food.
It's difficult to hate what you don't know.

People in small midwestern towns don't know tech bros. They do know Facebook, Google, Apple, and Amazon. Uber is probably a mixed bag.
Something I often think about is whether having a job - the agency to by one's own hand change one's prospects in life, to "provide for one's family" - is our equivalent of this "less confined space." In a post-automation post-scarcity world, despite boundless entertainment and resources (things that would make rats perfectly happy)... would ennui still drive people towards self-destructive behavior? And in fact, would the optimization of that entertainment (see: usedopamine.com ) actually prime people's brains towards addiction, towards whatever form the next opioid epidemic might take? We understand so little about our own minds and how they might respond to the world we are ushering in.
Good on him for recognizing his grandfather's contribution and giving back to his community. It's easy to lose sight of where you began once you become successful.

I hope his grandfather also got a nice ROI :P
I enjoyed the book. What are some better ones you recommend?
We tell you what are the most ticketed blocks and neighborhood in SF where more than $124m worth of parking tickets were issued
Self-driving shuttle crashes in Las Vegas hours after launch
Kiss smooth native scrolling goodbye.
It's shocking how class-based Silicon Valley is. You would assume investors look for innovative ideas and capable people to execute on them, but nope. Ideas don't matter and it turns out when investors say "team" they mean "what club memberships does your team have?"

Silicon Valley investors basically just invest randomly in people based on their membership in a club. It's only because a small percentage of them turn out not to be complete idiots that it works at all. The smartest of the 99% receive no funding, while the entirety of the 1% wealthiest do.

It's an insider's club built around the "top schools" (as they call themselves). You're either in the club or you're an outsider, and only a handful of token outsiders are needed for display purposes.

If you want help in Silicon Valley, you must have either: 1) a rapidly growing business (traction) 2) been accepted into a "top school" (pedigree)

It's not a conspiracy per se, it's just a result of rampant cronyism and nepotism. How do you think investors get their jobs after all...

Some notable examples of non-rich founders, that the rest of us can hope to emulate: Steve Jobs, John Carmack, Palmer Luckey, Linus Torvalds, Larry Ellison.
It's not about the stat dictating behavior its about the structures and systems that cause people to by necessity internalize that mental model of risk.

They aren't making the decision because of the stat, the stat is simply reporting behavior that already exists.

Stop reifying entrepreneurial success in this 'passionate' way because it misattributes reality. That type of self-reinforcing narrative allows this stat to continue to be a thing, and keeps outlier cases outlier cases rather than doing anything to change the underlying variables that make it a reality.
Reminds me of the anime "Psycho Pass". It's set in the not-so-distant future where everyone is monitored and assigned a "crime coefficient". Without giving too much away, the system starts to show its weaknesses when a criminal is able to murder people and commit crimes without being detected by the system.
This is the exact same conclusion Marx came to about labor.
What if someone packaged openvpn on a $50 box with home assistant pre intalled and had gui wizards to set everything up? Seems pretty doable to me. Just needs a founder.
I really don't think banks give loans to restaurants. I'm gonna need to see a citation here.
not sure if you are having a laugh, but it made me think of something: i dont understand the thinking that says "entrepreneurs are good" prima facie. it matters what kind of businesses they start. its so weird how we ignore this. if most entrepreneurs start predatory payday loan companies, we wouldn't want that. i guess this is obvious, but sometimes i wonder about the balance of "entrepreneurs". i guess this similar to a critique i have with how people use money as the sole metric of success. its the same thing! it matters what you did! in both cases, i think the mistake is using a more general measure in place of more specific ones. specific should always dominate general.
Why isn't it a solution to ask businesses to pay to validate the person they are conducting business with?

How does schools do background checks? How does the police force do it for their officers? Why can't the same method be used for a bank?
Chrome will soon prevent irritating, unwanted website redirects
Or, a virus finds our environment just barely hospitable enough and adapts like all life does, multiplying like rabbits in Australia.
React Native vs. Ionicdingding
> The government is largely the cause of the flaws in the existing system. The last thing we should do is expect the government to fix it.

“The software developers are largely the cause of the bugs in the existing software. The last thing we should do is expect the developers to fix it.”

I mean, I do believe private businesses should be held responsible, but one way to make them do that is by regulating them through an agency with higher authority, which probably means government.
Looks fine to me. Dashboard came right up. Also, I have an extension that shows their price constantly and it was changing all day.
I used both Flow and TypeScript extensively at my last job (coda.io), and through a series of thoughtful discussions and debates, we chose to migrate to TypeScript, even though we had already started using Flow in parts of our codebase.

Microsoft did a really good job putting resources behind TypeScript, making sure tooling and IDE integrations are good, and generally getting a ton of momentum going. TypeScript is fast-moving, with bugs fixed and features added at a high rate, and the quality of discussion on the issue tracker is high. Flow, in comparison, was not evolving as fast.

Flow touts global inference, which I think means better types when you don't necessarily have annotations on module boundaries, but I mostly care about what's possible in a greenfield or well-annotated codebase.

Flow deserves a ton of credit, and Microsoft probably studied it in detail, but I think the advantages are overblown at this point. Take the soundness thing. TypeScript added null-strictness a while ago, and recently they improved function type polymorphism. The reality is that both type systems have limits and you sometimes need to type something imperfectly or use an escape valve ("any"). In most cases, however, TypeScript gives you more sophisticated tools to construct the types you want, so you actually get better types. Maybe TypeScript lacks a theoretical underpinning for soundness, but there's no reason it can't continue to get "more and more sound," with it harder and harder to find good examples of unsoundness.
You should check out Binder which can spin up docker containers and installs dependencies from requirements.txt by just giving it a GitHub repo.

I've used it in my class for those Windows users who always have trouble installing things and it's worked very well so far.

https://mybinder.org/
TLDR

Truck pulls out from side into path of self driving bus, bus stops, truck keeps going and "grazes" bus
Unfortunately there's a lack of reliable data, but from the offers I've heard, of my guess would be that someone making 100K in Austin would be making 50% more in SF, and possibly making double if they got lucky. That may in part be due to my familiarity with the area though, but again, I know more people in SF making 200K as right-out-of-college-kids than I know people making 100K in Austin.

As far as Seattle goes, I think that the state tax makes up for most of the comp differences, and housing is cheaper there, so its a better value if that's all you're optimizing for.
Well thank god, that makes way more sense!
And if you were at an auction, would you review Warren Buffett’s bid to ensure he doesn’t leave with the item you want?

I know AMD has access to some resources, but If Intel decided he was a strategic hire, the game was over before it started. It’s not just that they are richer, it’s worth spending more to them because you could argue it ties into their most important long term IP battles in related areas like massively parallel computing, ML, etc.
It would be expensive by design no matter what the technology.
Entrepreneurship is like one of those carnival games where you throw darts or something.

Middle class kids can afford one throw. Most miss. A few hit the target and get a small prize. A very few hit the center bullseye and get a bigger prize. Rags to riches! The American Dream lives on.

Rich kids can afford many throws. If they want to, they can try over and over and over again until they hit something and feel good about themselves. Some keep going until they hit the center bullseye, then they give speeches or write blog posts about "meritocracy" and the salutary effects of hard work.

Poor kids aren't visiting the carnival. They're the ones working it.
> I do think it is unfair though to say that only the wealthy are entrepreneurs, because that wealth came at some point through someone themselves making the jump.

When we talk about entrepreneurs, it is important to distinguish between those who start from scratch, those who have upper middle class parents and those who are born truly rich. For the latter two buckets, it is not that those folks made jumps; its just that their parents accumulated enough wealth over time that they were able to provide their kids with enough cushions.
Just a few weeks ago, I hooked up Sentry to our co.'s client-side app, which is a widget/plugin of sorts that's installed on at least a few hundred thousand sites.

Errors on even a tiny fraction of our users can be significant -- we immediately hit the free tier cap. 20B/month does not surprise me at all, especially considering some users are going to be overzealous in their event reporting.
The secret things they *don't* tell you when you're building a raccoon detector
The one in Canada as well.
Evidence accumulates, it does not spring into existence.
I'm sure there is a trove of useful and important crap on that phone.
> it should also be the responsibility of the individual to do due diligence

How? ask them to carry a copy of their address proof and id proof? As an individual, do you feel ok to have copies of your id and address proofs in the hands of low level clerks?
There's plenty.

Here's a pretty comprehensive list that someone else made: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14647119

Here's another FOSS that I found: https://github.com/pirate/bookmark-archiver
Not on a Model S you can't. Which is really annoying when you're in one as a driver or a passenger.
Small orders are much more expensive to deal with. Higher shipping and handling costs, extra customer support load, etc. Why bother selling a few hundred or thousand devices with all that overhead when you can focus on selling large volume orders? Their supply might also be constrained, and they want to focus on shipping the large orders first so they can cash their checks.
One of the other issues that I've seen with Untappd and many of the other beer rating companies is that their ratings systems are heavily biased by the nature of their users and/or weird algorithmic quirks. I believe that this has caused some beer rating services to become fairly disconnected from reality: For example, the first 4 beers on Untappd's top beers list are discontinued Goose Island beers, and 7 of the top 10 are from the same two breweries (see https://untappd.com/beer/top_rated).

Disclaimer – I'm pretty biased in this assessment (helped build BrewGene, which provides a similar beer rating + recommendation service). Here's our top 5 for context:

* Trappist 12
* Heady Topper
* Pliny the Elder
* Sip of Sunshine
* Pliny the Younger

(http://www.brewgene.com/content/top-100-beers. We have apps that are more modern if you're looking for better beer!)
One of the Oldest and Most Distant Objects in the Universe Has Been Discovered
Why the Netflix Phishing Email Works So Well
I agree with this 90 year old codger, and that's why Tesla should stay profitless for another 10 years. The real prize is ahead.
Even if the stat held for longer than a month, it's not surprising that for each subject matter expert there are 99-ish casual contributors.
Make the liability for data safe keeping in the company that holds the data. You don't see medical records have issues like this, because the laws surrounding it is quite fierce.
Steven Soderbergh's New App, Mosaic, Will Change How You Watch TV
If you watch DeMuro's review, have a look at the two 3D-wheely-buttons on the steering wheel. I think those would work well as a tactile interface - the only problem now is the mode selection. Couldn't a software update give you the mode selection on the left-right click on one of those things, and then you have 3 degrees of freedom to adjust with the remaining knob functions? Not saying this would be a perfect solution, as you still (1) have no good indicator for the mode other than the center touchscreen and (2) need two actions instead of one to do anything. On the other hand it would now be a complete hands-on-steering wheel based approach, so the tradeoff could be worth it.
He Solved the DNC Hack. Now He's Telling His Story for the First Time
I feel kinda sad for CouchDB who has been providing the same feature for such a long time yet still is perceived as an experimental db...
You force companies to secure data by giving out enormous fines to the company and criminally charging the negligent or incompetent corporate officers.
Right and with that much work you know how to fix a menu so your food cost is managed. You know how many servers you probably need for that day of the week and how likely they are to disappear. You know how your staff will steal your booze, pocket the tips, or kill you clientele with a food allergy. You know how many people will complain and you will have to comp their bill. You know you should stock pile supplies because the vendor will run out. For an industry that is terribly easy to get into as a bus boy/server, prep cook, its amazing to me that more people don't just start there. Or maybe they do, but they don't write hand wringing articles about how they failed.(hopefully because they'd didn't and are too busy working). I once heard a story about an area for wine production in USA that you could buy for reasonable amount of money. Every few years, a 50 year old man would come and buy it, and start to work it. After 10 years about the time he might be getting the hang of what it all entailed he would be tired and sell it to the next 50 year old. The locals just watched the same story play out over and over again...
Your argument that bitcoin is worth wasting a large fraction of the worlds energy is that it lets you get a hooker easier?
Do you only eat food grown in your own state

Even if you did, it doesn't matter. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wickard_v._Filburn
He forgot the part where some of the executive team is offered a big payout for retaining employees for a period of time. At which point they at incentivized to straight up lie about how great it is to be bought and sold like cattle. That sweet, sweet stock vesting will make it worthwhile. And then it never quite seems to work out, but the horror only settles in after they get theirs.

Man, do I have some latent resentment...
Yeah, seems like it would be all too much work to have a conflict with an alien species. I mean, why even bother? We're probably pretty early to the civilization party anyway.
To be clear, if they're sending real-time updates on the keypress counts of each key, it's quite simple to map that to a traditional key logger (ie, the contents of what you typed).
So, can one of you Steve Jobs clone-prophets hurry up and advocate for some nice big rotary knobs and flip switches and try to get us over this 'no-physical' fetish?

Just wait a few years until everything is touch-screen'd, and then reveal it like it's a new idea.

"Wow! That knob has ten indents! One for every level of setting! I don't even need to look at the screen!"

Sell it as a UX feature, like everyone is selling this trend.
Robot ‘Sophia’ Gets Saudi Citizenship, Raising Eyebrows Online
Uber Partners with NASA to Bring Flying Taxis to LA by 2020
huh?
https://www.fundera.com/business-loans/guides/restaurant-loa...
Seems like he kinda missed the point.
Fair enough, my rage is misplaced. It is hard not to get worked up when it seems like everyone is out to replace the old ways with these newer, more dis-empowering "cloud" alternatives
> We just tend to look up instead of down.

because no one strives to go down
Fair request and it was actually the New York Times so my mistake:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/31/business/too-many-restaur...
> desk

:)

> liquid crystal [...] cell membrane is just a latex bodysuit for the ER

Has anyone seen an attempt to collect or catalog such analogies? "One way to think about <concept>, is <one-liner or short story>." Maybe something like http://bionumbers.hms.harvard.edu/ , but for analogical conceptual understanding, instead of rough quantitative understanding. My very fuzzy recollection is bionumbers grew out of one grad student thinking "I don't have a quantitative feel for my area", and starting to collect numbers. Could we do that for stories?

> upload your brain [...] crazy

Well, there's https://xkcd.com/793/ (clueless physicist meets unfamiliar field). But also... part of what makes science work, is fear of being embarrassed by getting it wrong in front of the community of one's peers. And to avoid that, extensively sanity checking with local peers. Trying to think clearly without those, using literature and smarts, but disconnected from the field(s), is hard. And bonus hard points for multidisciplinary questions.
In the USA, what builds credit scores is showing a pattern of using revolving credit and servicing the debt over a period of time. You are penalized if you use too much of your available credit. You are also penalized if you use too little of it, as I found out when I paid off the balance of the one remaining card that held a balance, and saw my credit score hit by about 15 points shortly thereafter. There are other rules, too.

Basically, I can only conclude that we are encouraged to be 'good citizens" by borrowing money and paying interest on it while slowly paying back the principal. People who live on a cash-only basis, which was considered to be a respectable practice not that long ago (borrowing was shameful) have terrible credit scores.

So what, you may ask?

There are very real and increasing disincentives to having bad or no credit. Creditworthiness (in the form of a nice, easy to understand number) is being taken more and more by various entities as a sign of responsibility and even good character.

A credit score is now used by some entities, beyond the mainstay car dealers, to judge risk and character: apartment rentals and employers, to name two.

I'm not suggesting that all employers and apartment management companies do this, only that the trend (I have no citations but it should be searchable) is on the increase.

The bottom line is that in the USA today, credit scores depend on how - and how much - you borrow and repay.

Furthermore, the higher your credit score, the better you are treated, to a degree: better rates on loans, no problems getting a job (all other things being equal), and so on. The opposite is true for bad scores.

This is one of the many ways we are corraled into greasing the gears of the economy, and it is a wasteland for cash-only operators (unless, I suppose, they have a huge amount of cash).
For those of us unfamiliar with this stuff, would it be accurate think of a "template engine" as a sophisticated "printf"?
Violent? Don't be so earth-centric.

The universe has been around for billions of years. Humans are a flash in the pan. We're gnats. Pond scum. Fungus. We're no more interesting than your average gas cloud. We're like tree bark.

I really love a good sci-fi movie about aliens, but the vast majority of them have humans and earth as being something special. To me that looks preposterously unlikely.
OP brings some great points (I've had a lot of trouble with an inherited code-based UI in Swift), but I was dying to see code examples of the 'correct way' to use UIKit and its patterns, particularly Dependency Injection, as I've yet to find a solution that I'm comfortable with. Can anyone link a good example?
If they have utility tokens for example
You can sue an importer or distributor, you can't (reasonably) sue a local Chinese company. I'm not sure this attitude has to be jingoistic or irrational.
How does it work in countries where the opposite is true (e.g. Sweden, where the "personnummer" is public info)? Why is there not massive identity fraud there?
How tf can you not live on 20k a year...
As a full stack dev who has never written iOS apps, I have tried to understand the conceptual basics and how they compare.

> Cocoa Touch is (I suspect) deliberately very simple: there’s Target-Action pattern, Dependency Injection, Delegate and MVC

Can anyone enrich this explanation?
Because as the previous commenter mentioned, you’re then in the position of needing to share out much more intrusive info to many more people. It’s also a pain in the ass from a customers standpoint given the statistical rarity of someone being impacted by ID theft.
The first big red flag for me (besides that the whole thing pretty obviously started as a mid life crisis) was how little time it sounds like he spent working at his friend's bar in the three months he needed to put in to qualify for the liquor license. How could he not take that seriously as an opportunity to learn about the industry? I would bet money that the answer is he was afraid to learn that running a restaurant is actual work, not an episode of chef's table.

His lack of preparation is mind boggling, but completely deliberate: the less he knew, the more room there was for fantasy. Beware working with people like this, who want to skip straight to the end.
Google Guy, Please Check Your Math. How Network Bias Predicts Sexism in Tech
Nest files patent for “smart chime” system for home security system
That's why probably btc will be the gold of 2020s and another crypto will act like currency
But once that front door is open, people will be able to walk around in the house and figure out how to 1) finally disable the thing for good, or 2) find a more universal attack that doesn't use that door.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Jewish_pogroms_in_the_Rus...
Federal tax is still a small chunk of the taxes paid in America, it's still guesswork and the "tax breaks" are even more prevalent there.
Meetup.com is good for this
SpinX: A robot that cleans your toilet and seat
Maybe the Russians could help you out.
Tokes is a cryptocurrency that does this