skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't have a "home" country, but the discussion of that is too long for this comment thread.

I had an developer subscription for one year, 2012-2013. I made YouLing, a mouseover translator for Mac. It got about 557 downloads. It was free. One person donated $25. The developer subscription costs $100. It wasn't profitable, so now I just self-publish on my Github.

http://peterburk.github.io/programs/index.html#youling
I spent many evening hours working, and did not foster the relationship. I stayed up late at night, she was going to bed alone. Even good relationships need constant work.

Secondly, I think working for myself somewhat transitioned me from "boy to man" so to speak, not in a good way. I became less inherently trusting of other people, and sometimes the stress wore on me and I became distant.
You can download some sample escape sequences to see what it does.

Like this one: https://github.com/joejulian/xterm/blob/master/tektests/usma...

Download it using the githib raw link and cat it while the xterm is in tek mode.
There is a shortage of grad students in many departments.

Cutting PhD students would require cutting the number of undergrad students educated and classes offered to them. This would prevent science and engineering students from getting their bachelor's on time because of requirements for science sequences. An undergrad 4-year degree becomes 5 years long or aren't completed at all.

The need to expand class offerings to teach undergrads requires TAs to teach labs.
Our department is already over-offering classes compared to the number of grad student TAs.
I worked in a few kitchens for a few years. I regularly read reviews on yelp and I would say that near half of the negative "reviews" that showed up on there that pertained to what I myself witnessed or pertained to the kitchen were mostly to totally unfair. The one's that were fair I owned. One of my favorites: one star review for not being seated without a reservation on mother's day. Another favorite review: "I've been a regular here for quite a while and love this place but my porridge was too cold this one time: one star." Another gem: "Food is A+, waiter only refilled our water once: one star." (Pretty much any negative review that centers on waiters can be disregarded; they don't want to eat, they want to be served). I also witnessed outright lies by apparently angry and, I assume, tortured miserable people who were looking to be displeased in every realm of their life. You find those kinds of people in fine dining a lot, rich entitled pensioner types with no respect whatsoever. Unless there's a major sanitation or corruption issue on yelp reviews I take them about as seriously as youtube comments.
You'd think that you'd work at a restaurant a little while before trying to start one. Learn the ropes a bit, etc. That has got to help with your chances of success.
That's awesome! I really hated the previous change to orange. Too similar to SublimeText, which sits right next to VS Code in my dock.
Nice! Our team was discussing the available options in this space the other day. New Relic Browser came up as well as
SpeedCurve. We're looking for something we can track custom metrics with, so this looks appealing.
There were several waves of smallpox, influenza, measles, mumps, typhus, cholera, bubonic plague, tuberculosis, yellow fever, whooping cough, etc., which ran rampant through the Americas, often simultaneously ripping through the same communities.

I don’t know what native virus you are referring to (citation?), but it is estimated that in many parts of the Americas population collapsed by about 90% in the course of a century or two (sometimes faster), and the scholarly consensus is that this was largely due to Eurasian diseases to which people had no immunity.

The societal collapse brought on by disease also led to internecine war, helping depopulation along. And obviously the numerous instances of genocidal slaughter by Europeans and forced migration later contributed to the final native depopulation of many areas.
Yeah, I've never understood why this is so frequently forgotten. How rare is this route anyway?
I just read it as "the compute required to reach 100% uptime would cost more per minute than we lose per minute that we can't access the app." I.e., an entirely business-wise consideration, even if phrased in terms of engineering tradeoffs.
His lack of financial planning was the most astonishing part of the story to me, even more than the naive optimism around starting a restaurant which seems to be a trap lots of people fall into.

Chancing your family's meager nest egg on a long shot gamble when you have a wife, kids and a mortgage is shockingly negligent.
Oh, I misread. I was thinking "chip" as in "chip and pin" (like an ID card). Implants would be kind of over the top. Not a fan of that idea.
All of this is hyper-focused on cars. The amount of investment still needed in this space for SEMIs, RVs, extra-wide SEMIs, etc...

I don't think we'll have complete autonomous driving until we have true AI. Sure we'll continue to innovate the standard car, but most everything else will wait.

One of the things I do is drive on roads that have 3-4 inch rocks everywhere (I drive my truck camper to places far away from humans). How do I tell my truck to drive 3 inches forward onto a leveling block so that my RV is more level without a steering wheel, breaks or gas it forward.

RVs specifically have a lifespan of anywhere from 20-40 years - and I'm pretty sure the owners are not going to suddenly stop driving them.
>>We who live in Cities like Bangalore have got Card swiping machine with every merchant

May be in places like Kormangala, Marathalli or alike, where techies pay 1.5 crores for a 2BHK home, or rent it for 50K a month. And shop at DMart's and BigBazaar.

In rest of the Bangalore, we don't have merchants with card machines going around the corner. In my home we buy vegetables from push cart vendors, and other groceries from the shop around the corner. They don't have card machines. Their profit margin, and people shopping there, have their thin incomes, where they can't afford to pay for the infrastructure or the transaction fees.
what percentage of people from poor countries manages to emigrate? any correlation between the traits needed to want to emigrate from your poor country and the traits needed for entrepreneurs? any correlation between being able to emigrate in the first place and general genetic advantage (you are not going to emigrate if you have a disability, are chronically ill, were not lucky enough to go to school and learn to read/write/fill the appropriate forms)?
I’m the engineer that wrote all the initial replacement algorithms and I currently work on the Instacart fulfillment system. We never have designed or even considered a system that would attempt to profit off not found items, that’s insanely anti-customer and unethical. We do suggest items on the storefront, pre-purchase, but our substitution recommendation system is entirely driven based on any specific requests from you (that order or previously) and a collaborative model driven by prior replacements.

We are also working on better ways to collect preferences from folks; I’m not sure when any of that would be going live.
Indeed. Which means they have the worst of both worlds - hard to hide your identity and no common standard for everybody. So now there's all kinds of alternatives - licence, passport, 18+ card, birth certificate(!). RealMe is pretty nice from the user's perspective to avoid all that crap.
I think there are cases you can work yourself into a tough spot.. but even there.. if you receive significant funding full rewrites are possible and often done. However, if the thing that doesn't scale is directly related to your business model you may be in trouble..
Maybe this comic would help you understand if it is that difficult:
http://thewireless.co.nz/articles/the-pencilsword-on-a-plate
Master storyteller. Unfortunately his work has dated because of the advance of technology: he set his wonderful characters and clever plots in "future" worlds that, for example, have no computers -- let alone ubiquitous, wireless communication. So it is sometimes hard to get immersed in his worlds.
Nah, they don't open the letter, make a copy, store it, etc...
> In 2011, I applied to operate a booth at the Toronto Underground Food Market [...] my fingers cramping so severely from peeling 100 pounds of potatoes that I almost called 911. [...] I lost money

So his first experience was extremely painful, almost landed you in the emergency room, and you lost money on it. What valuable lessons he learned going forward?

> I didn’t care.

None.

> Eighty per cent of first-time restaurateurs fail. I knew this. Opening a restaurant was the least sensible, dumbest thing I could do. My wife, Dorothy, a daycare worker, was coasting toward the end of a maternity leave, and we had two kids to feed.

It's so rare to see people brag about being reckless, irresonsible, and wasteful of resources they cannot afford to waste.

> “Are you sure you want to do this?” he asked. “I don’t think you know what you’re getting yourself into.”

Friends who knew what they were talking about tried to warn him off.

> My shifts consisted of a few leisurely hours chopping veg and prepping salad dressings.

Any opportunity for experience is to be strictly avoided. "The law says I need to know how a restaurant works? I know better!"

> My role was largely symbolic anyway

No it wasn't.

> As it turns out, no one invests in first-time restaurateurs, no matter how mind-blowing they think their cooking is.

Man, I wonder why? More to the point, it's clear he never did.

> I realized it was far from the downtown foodie scene [...] Admittedly, I had an ulterior motive: the place was a 10-minute walk from my house and close to the girls’ school

He purposefully chose a bad location, knowing it was a bad location, because it was convenient for him.

...I've got to stop reading, this is actually enraging me. It's so dumb, and he seems so proud.
It's far far less risky with the ACA now since that is based on income and you can qualify for subsidies. Also straight out of college is less risk too if you can be on your parents insurance until age 26.
Intel GPU drivers are open on Linux. How is that worse than what AMD are doing?
Forking the iPhone
From my admittedly limited experience of being acquired by a Fortune 200 scientific company, it seems to me that the empty promises and planting of false hopes - to get key people to stick around a few months - is pretty much SOP in any kind of *tech.

Chances are the outgoing CEO or GMs compensation is tied directly to how many key personnel he can keep on, in order to maintain profitability.

After they (the deal team) brain drain the key personnel, they cut the dead weight, move any existing profitable parts of the business to an existing facility, and then shut it down before moving on to the next acquisition a week after that.

At least that wss my experience in biotech...
it’s “Instacart,” not “InstaCart” and [citation needed]

(disclaimer: engineer @ Instacart)
I think you both make important points. Coming from a blue collar family and having started my own business only to go bankrupt, I can say there is a strong culture of avoiding risk in my family and those sort of lessons rub off on you regardless of your intelligence. It makes you less apt to take subsequent risks, or even take the risk in the first place.
How do you solve the case of a scammer loaning tons of money from a bunch of lenders and moving to a different state? The answer can't be "only loan money you know/trust," because that excludes newcomers to an area from loaning money.
I wonder how/if this could be done with sysdig.
We actually take a lot of pride in our front end (most recently, to make as accessible as possible). Can you be more specific?

(Engineer @ Instacart)
Hey, I was there at the event (I did the lightning talk at the beginning). Would love to answer any questions about Chia that anybody has, that I learned first-hand from Bram.
That looks more like they got ahold of an Intel PDT installer and used the special cable. I call bullshit on a home grown setup.
> That has always worked out great in the past, right?

Yes, absolutely. Sometimes centralization is a better solution. You pointed to one example where a shitty company failed. I'm not suggesting replacing the SSA with a scummy private company. Not sure where you're getting that idea.

I'm talking about the SSA changing their processes to include a more secure method of verifying identity without leaking information.

Same risks, same organizations, better technology.
None of the "youth" (two) were rich-kids.

Most however, had significant education and work experience (MIT, Stanford, Amazon, Google, MSFT).
SQLite supports concurrent reads and writes since 2010 with the introduction of the "write ahead log"

https://sqlite.org/wal.html
Unless you already send wires regularly, they'll tell you to go to a branch once you click send.
Seriously. That and the sheer draining drag of chefing and Bourdain's desire not to die of a heart attack next to the fryer. The whole book portrays restaraunteering as a brutal, taxing business and even contains profiles of some clueless owners.
If ETs are able to travel around the Galaxy at faster than light speed that means that they have have the ability to harness absolutely enormous amounts of energy. Probably each Extra Terrestrial ship has multiple Tsar bombs worth of energy at their disposal. Their society must have developed some sort of maturity to make war and violence obsolete, much like World War has become less prevalent with the advent of the atomic age or they would have annihilated themselves early on.
It's not an option on the table if you ever get VC money. VCs want you to sell down the road, because if you stay in control they can never make any exit. It's an implicit agreement that you enter with VCs from the get go.
Thank you for explaining; I think we both agree that the code is the easy part.

I guess I did Market Analysis, although I didn't know that's what it's called. I made a list of all the universities in Taiwan, and then found all the ones with language centres. Then I went to each of those websites, found the contact email address for the language centre (or in some cases, individual teachers). I emailed them from my personal GMail.

I sent 102 of those emails. Only one replied, telling me that I can post it on their Facebook.

I tried contacting some famous polyglots to just give me feedback. One of them was actually rude in his reply, told me to post on the forum, and then banned me (links are banned, but I wrote to tell people to search for it). The others didn't reply.

It's been almost total discouragement by everybody except my Chinese tutor, who I pay so I can study with her once a week. I actually have to pay people just to talk to me. This is why I get discouraged and give up on other projects, because I really need a community to discuss these ideas.

I imagine some kind of group where 12 people can share their resources (providing basic income within the group), and have each person give a presentation once every 3 months.
It's classic corporate bully tactics. Most people will let themselves be steamrolled and the corporation knows it. If one person (you) complains they will gladly refund because they know twenty others will not be able, know how, or care enough to pick the fight.

It's the same strategy as "unexplained" charges appearing at random on people's phone and cable bills. Concede one battle, win twenty others. Massive fraud being perpetrated every day gets a pass because:

1) each individual fraudulent act is so small the cost of fighting it is greater than the insult perceived by most victims

2) arbitration clauses

3) monopoly

4) corruption (kickbacks &c)

5) delegation of customer service to automated answering systems; it's easier to bilk your fellow man when he's invisible to you

Don't ever kid yourself, these policies are intentional and calculated, with malice aforethought. You can be certain spreadsheets and charts were created, examined and became the basis of an affirmative executive decision.
Can't agree more that URL syntax is overcomplicated. Even existing URL parsing libraries behave inconsistently and lead to security vulnerabilities [0].

[0] https://www.blackhat.com/docs/us-17/thursday/us-17-Tsai-A-Ne...
Just don't make me memorize a 4096 bit key :)
Where are you coming from ? I live in Bangalore and been to Delhi. Every shop including kirana's have wallet facilities. Now they are graduating to UPI. And its backed by statistics by RBI. Mobile payments increased 61% last year.[1]

Indian's are just like any other middle,lower-middle income society. They are careful where they spend money. Your parents are part of 'late majority' in the Diffusion of innovations curve [2]. Look what collage kids do not parents.

[1] https://telecom.economictimes.indiatimes.com/tele-talk/mobil...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffusion_of_innovations
Yay maybe people will start learning elsewhere that giant corporations' best interests aren't their customers.
The tech industry is basically printing money, so we workers can afford to be picky about the conditions we choose to work under.

Restaurants are ultra-competitive and have very thin margins, so people who work there can't.
In a word: yes.
> It costs them nothing

Nothing costs nothing. Interstellar travel has to be expensive in any kind of form, whether resources or time. There's no free lunch for anyone.
"Then why are such a high percentage of entrepreneurs immigrants from poor countries?"

Is this true? I mean, most immigrants to America are from places like Mexico and India and China ... so it makes sense we don't see a lot of 'French immigrant entrepreneurs'.
IoT Is Insecure, Get Over It! Say Researchers
Good luck not getting arrested over your training data. And even humans can't tell the difference between a 16 year old and a 25 year old from nudes.
Any openings in montreal?
Sure, but just because you got sent to the hospital doesn't make you a doctor.
Good, let the people have their choice, and accept their choice when they make it.
So if you move to a new town, you can't get a loan because the bank doesn't know you?

If you're an immigrant?
If you're a protected class?

The whole point of the fair lending act is that lenders have to use consistent lending criteria across population groups. Going back to the pastoral days of personal relationships with bankers is the wrong answer.

PS "lending" not "loaning"
Can we trust a state more?

Most likely they will be city-/county-owned, in urban areas, with private companies handling long-distance and rural areas.
Please contact our support team in these cases, we absolutely aren't deliberately choosing more expensive items in order to profit -- see my comment elsewhere on this article, but we primarily look at your previous preferences and the preferences of other customers.

If you chose the cheapest possible option, it does seem inevitable that any replacement would be more expensive :-)

And, sorry that we were frustrating to you.

(engineer @ Instacart)
Nice job! The site is easy on the eyes, gorgeous and fast.

I'll definitely try it out a bit more and spread the word.
While the article has a some good points about not over-engineering unless you need it, I’m really put off by the pissed off and dismissive attitude. Ex “here’s another wannabe who never bothered to learn”, “This pisses me off“, “I’ve spent 15 years” etc.

This shows the author doesn’t really understand why you might decide to use an architecture that departs from the apple MVC orthodoxy, and despite “years of experience” never worked on a large, multi platform project, that tried to avoid 1st party tool lock-in, or actually implemented in-depth testing beyond the anemic xcode support.

The truth is that Apple mostly cares about providing a good UI SDK with general platform services, but is agnostic about how any one app is architected. It makes sense they will preach the simplest and most general pattern: MVC.

Or how about not pissing on other people’s valid ideas because you are offended and want to show off your own contrarian cleverness?
"This article is the typical BS that assumes "entrepreneurs" only do SV startups or want a big exit." I don't think it assumes that, and I don't think we should just resign to the fact that rich kids get rich.
Please god, if i had a choice between amazing food or consistency I would choose consistency. Too often I've had some absolutely amazing meals, and the next day the chief is different or the staff is different and that amazing meal is now sub-standard and pisses me off.

At some point in your life `Money` isn't really a problem anymore. What is more of a concern is the quality of the experience and the food. Considering if you've had a good, over-all happy meal then you don't think about the money and cherish the experience. On the other hand if the experience and food is sub-standard or poor then you hate it more because not only have you wasted your money but you've wasted your time and also other people time.

One thing I would say to restaurant owner's is procedures, standards, and having consistent meals is more important than anything. When taking my family out to a restaurant I just recently had a investor meeting with and the food is amazing and then the food is sub-standard then I feel cheated.
Author of the article here. Yes, there are plenty of different ways to wind up a company. But the primary goal of the series was to go over the most common legal terms in investor agreements, so I took this last piece as an opportunity to mostly cover seniority structures and liquidation preferences.
TonyAlarm app is designed to excite you when waking up in the morning.

In order to shut down the alarm clock, what you do is simply follow the instruction and accomplish three simple tasks which are designed to hype your body, mind and spirit.

What you will experience:
1. Alarm sounds - Groovy music beats that hype your brain
2. Task One - Writing positive self-affirmation statement will slowing change your beliefs and thoughts, thus will change your action and life.
3. Task Two - Shaking the phone will boost your blood flow and excite your body.
4. Task Three - Smiling to the camera will "trick" your brain and make you happy. In addition, you need to turn on the light to do that, and the light will wake you brain up.

Keep doing these daily and make it as a morning routine, it will slowly change your life, to better. We hope you will enjoy it!
I'm glad you are having a positive experience -- it's really heartening to see feedback like this.

(engineer @ Instacart)
>Then why are such a high percentage of entrepreneurs immigrants from poor countries

Not sure about other immigrants but for me it's probably because life itself has been so challenging that startup life doesn't seem that hard. I have been running my own startup with challenges of getting customers, employees, development done, customer outreach, interns and all that wham-bam with no investors and also trying to keep my family sane for more than an year.

But one thing is for sure, I won't give up till the very end. My bipolar startup has been an year of yo-yos but hopefully tomorrow is a better day
Those are two separate statements.
1. It's an ID number in the Social Security System.

2. It's also now used as an authentication mechanism by many businesses (because it's relatively ubiquitous and banks, gov, etc. assumed that the SSN owner would and could keep it secret) :

a. accepting card payments on stripe (https://support.stripe.com/questions/why-do-you-need-my-date-of-birth-and-4-digits-of-my-social-security-number)

b. driving with lyft (https://www.lyft.com/drive-with-lyft under "What are Lyft’s requirements?")

c. also for bonus points take a look at what happens when you search google for "SSN for resetting" and marvel at all the banks that let you reset your password with your SSN.

(update to try to fix formatting)