skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It looks like it removes the files necessary for "npm install" assuming that the module will do npm install immediately when you install it. This is not true for all cases though..which is why the files should be kept around. Disk space is cheap. This isn't bad for deployments though.
While I appreciate the optimism of the post, I think it doesn't matter so much if Google gets beaten when it comes to "C team priorities". Google search is still unbeatable and still gives Google a giant advantage over startups in many areas besides search. To steal an example from the EU: flight price aggregation.
I’m in SF but always happy to do a Skype call with anyone that wants to bounce ideas.

I’m currently working on a startup to help people that are remote so love this type of discussion.

Email is my username at gmail.
At some point, a kilobyte was 1024 bytes. Now, a kilobyte is 1000 bytes, and 1024 bytes is a kibibyte.

I mean, it does make sense. But it just sounds off to me.
And with one comment on Hacker News I think I understand why people do work at Starbucks.

Not sure why that never dawned on me.
zfec is an implementation of Reed-Solomon coding, the class of codes discussed in the first part of the slides.
Nicky continues producing amazing work. It's like Bret Victor's[1] dreams come true. Check the non-linear demo [2].

[1] http://worrydream.com/

[2] http://ncase.me/joy-demo/nonlinear/?model=waves
I feel like good mental health and the side benefits of networking are totally worth the 400 dollars if it doesn’t put you in financial insecurity.
why only these 2 alternatives? I don't understand (may be i'll understand when i make $1B myself :) why so few Elon Musk-s around - i mean the guy made it long time ago back then at PayPal and instead of either - lying low or living large - he went ahead to move our civilization forward. Of course many others do continue to invest after making it, yet they do it primary to make even more money.
Or you just ended up with a lot of student loan debt...
You may be surprised to learn that the UK also performs military exercises with its former enemy: France.

It turns out diplomatic relations shift over time.
Coffee shops and go to meet ups after work.
PSP is different than secure enclaves.
My friend Sherry is a counselor specifucally working with startup founders. Her husband Rob is the founder of Drip (and probably hangs out here) . She offers individual counseling and has some great group programs so you know you aren't alone in the challenges you face. I can not recommend her enough.

https://zenfounder.com
Coffe shops and go to meet ups after work.
True - projectors should be easier to get as dumb devices. I have a wired Epson projector that provides 4k.
The Ai Playbook – part 1: Main trends in artificial intelligence
Nice job TJ. This definitely scratches an itch. Thought you were a Go dev these days. ;)
Or you could simple print out a bunch of outlines on sheets of paper and grab them when you want to draw on them.
I don't see how that is any worse than stamping a sheet of paper and then draw. And for this you might very well have the tool already on hand (a printer).
Same here. CS6 was the last release before subscription, and it's solid, with enough features for me, and I do quite a lot of image editing including using the animation timeline and 3D tools in combination with Premiere. If I need 4K video editing, I must use a different video editor though, the only downside, but I mostly edit in 1080p.
Not sure about OP, but im having fun there! Thanks for posting
I think occupational licensure is a step too far, and done so often it's creating entrenched monopolies. We should pull back from this and use certification instead.
I started a slack group for those of us that got rejected for YC, but no one participated so I shut it down. I'm also a solo founder in need of a support network. This is not about working around people but meeting up once a week for about an hour or so and sharing our progress and struggles and encouraging each other. Glad to know you are not alone. My email is on my profile. Ping me, anyone else interested should email as well.
Here's an example of how to beat Facebook:

Make a social network for children. Facebook has too much political inertia to be trusted with such a thing.

Then, as those children grow, continue to come out with services useful to them. They have to be new enough and cool enough that the kids will switch to the new service as they get older.

If you can manage to make your service useful throughout all stages of a person's life, starting with childhood, then you can eventually displace Facebook by refusing to sell.

It won't be easy, and it would take a decade. But it's doable.

You may question the ethics. That's valid. Unfortunately, ethical questions tend to go out the window: Every time a technology becomes possible, it seems to be inevitable. Bitcoin is a perfect example.

Either you build this, or someone else might. And if you care about the ethics, this is an opportunity to build something less draconian than Facebook from first principles.
Hey man, I understand you! Let's make a skype call if you want :) my Skype: azimov.andrey
Norway Idea to Exit Oil Stocks Is ‘Shot Heard Around the World’
Case in point, Assange is not verified.
I work at a coffee shop with a few other solo entrepreneurs. It helps everyone stay sane. In the past I went to a coworking space, but I finally got tired of the wantrapreneur atmosphere. I go back there once in a while to reconnect with friends.
This gave me an idea. Anyone need a virtual supervisor?

People could check in with you every few hours and ask you about the progress on your TPS Reports.

All just for 5% of your startup.
If you fail at working from home it's going to cost you a hell of a lot more than $400 a month. Time to move on that ASAP. Later when you're in a better place you can think about alternatives.
I did the coworking space thing a few years ago, it wasn't worth it. No one there was doing anything interesting. There really wasn't much conversion. It was a waste of money for me. I can work alone for a long time. It's just the loneliness that slowly builds up over a long time from not talking about the project with peers walking the same path that sucks.
Sometimes laws change in a way that makes something you own illegal. In those cases, sometimes you need to turn it in. Its rare, but it's something that needs to be taken into account as a risk when you buy something.
Feel free to email me james@opensports.net and happy to talk. =) Working non-stop/being a founder is often lonely.
I said non-native, sort of thinking of LLVM. And to be fair, Dalvik bytecode is compiled from JVM bytecode, so a stack based language was used as an IR in that language stack.
Interesting concept. I sometimes work with friends, little or no talk, or chat that doesn't require brain bandwidth, also using appear.in (great service)
Agree 100%. First firm where I worked the programmers were treated like monkeys, and the traders, some of whom weren't even that bright at the time, were almost godlike.

Some other person wrote on here about traders being angry assholes. That firm had a ton of angry asshole traders because they'd push and push and push on deadlines, didn't understand the system at all, got hacked up buggy code, never invested in unit or system tests. It was an absolute disaster.

Little anecdote: First year I was out with a more senior trader on my team over drinks. He was talking about the glory days of 08 where every single trader earned a million dollar bonus or more. I asked about the one infrastructure developer who came up with a system to use multicast to simultaneously publish our EuroStoxx signal to DAX along with a dozen other instruments. Nothing earth shattering in 2017, but it quadrupled our P&L and market share at the time.

He got 10 grand.
> But that is not the issue being discussed. Visa abusers are companies that use the poor design of the H1-B visa system to underpay engineers

It is the very H1B limit that underpays engineers, by making it harder to foreign engineers to pick employers appropriately. All the restrictions on H1B lower their wages by design.

It is not the goal of this change in policy to help foreign engineers. They dont have a voice or a vote here.

It is not the goal of this change in policy to help americans. Providing cheaper labor will either cheapen or widen products offered, much like the importation of anything else.

It is not the goal of this change in policy to help or harm companies. It harms some as much as it benefits others. Its just picking different.

It is not the goal of this change in policy to help american software engineers. The corollary of the one above is that if higher talent comes, wages of higher talent will go down, and wages of the less skilled will go up.

Let it be very clear that in any effect, the only true effect of a change of policy like this is to provide a warm filling in the chest of those who do not understand the economic implications of it.
Hi jlgaddis. It is true that we are using Comcast cable for business for our ISP. We have had good luck with them in the past. They certainly aren't perfect but for a new company like ours, they are a good fit. We plan to upgrade as we grow. Thanks for pointing out the lack of trust signals on our identify. We were so focused on getting this out that we completely missed how we had initially set this up. We will fix this. You apparently weren't the only one that had a lack of trust as this thread has been flagged (as spam?). Not sure who to ask to get this removed or even if it is possible.
I've found being around others helps tremendously compared with working solo. I believe there have been academic studies into this as well. Being around other people who are "productive" (whether they really are or not) helps my mindset. I would study in the quiet chunks of the library with other people around me, particularly leading up to big exams.
This is my biggest frustration with all of this stuff. Every hardware feature with a word like "security" in it is now tantamount to a new Intel ME or "trusted path" implementation.
I think it's much more likely that it's an accumulation of "seemed like a good idea at the time" hacks, perhaps combined with nobody actually being in charge of the overall file format. On older computers, you could sometimes save significant save/load time and/or memory overhead by just dumping the in-memory structures/buffers to disk instead of having a nice serialization format/layer. Imagine what a file format looks like if a developer does this every time a new feature needs its own data in the file, for 20 years.
Hmm, I thought "Don't tread on me" is the motto not of jerks, but of some other kind of people?
It is neat, but I don't think I would use this as a web developer. Photoshop or wacom is far more superior to any paper design.
> The reflection API is c# is also far more useful and easy to understand.

It's really annoying that you can't query a Java package to find out what classes it defines.
Anonymous delegates (which have been available since 2.0) are the equivalent feature in C#, at least as far as use cases go.
Seriously, check out zenfounder.com. it's literally support groups for startup founders.
WYSIWYG interface to create Machine Learning models
It was full of nsfw animated gifs...
It's $10 a month.
Will this meme ever die? Your data only looks at federal income tax. The is the most significant tax for high earners and it is indeed highly progressive (i.e. high earners pay a disproportionately higher percentage of their income). However lower income people get hit harder by virtually all other taxes. For instance, FICA is regressive because it is flat up to roughly a 95th percentile income and the caps out so anyone making above a 95th percentile income will be paying a lower rate than anyone who makes less than that. State and local taxes also tend to be highly regressive as well because they rely heavily on sales, property and excise taxes.

When you take all taxes into account, it is actually shocking close to a flat tax of 29.5% for the top 40% of earners. The top 1% pays about 0.5% percentage points less, the rest of the top 10% pays about 1 percentage points more, and the 60-80 percenters pay about 1 percentage point less. Even for the bottom 60 percent, it's not drastically lower they pay from 17.4%-25.3% [1].

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2012/09/19/heres...
I've worked for multiple companies, where, somewhere near the 100 employee mark, one seems to be -> sociopathic and starts stealing laptops -- or the company card.

These companies were "best places to work"
How come kx is ok with this one? I heard they sue every moving object around.
Ionic 3 and Forms
The problem never was that they can't be beaten. The problem is that they buy all the competition. Great if you're being bought, not so much if you're a part of society.
Shouldn't this be handled entirely by npm? If these files are unnecessary why do they get downloaded in the first place?
Adobe (accidentally?) released CS2 for free to everyone, complete with working serial numbers, when they shut down their activation servers a short while ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7754172

Their official stance is that the downloads are only for those with existing licenses, but then posts on the forum that said the same thing were deleted, and they continue to let anyone with a free account get the serials (for a while, an account wasn't even needed and they were just posted on their downloads page), without any verification that they've already paid for a CS2 license...

Despite behind rather old, even CS2 is probably "more than enough Photoshop" for a lot of people.

Edit: here's the actual page archived from Adobe, in case you find this unbelievable:

http://webarchive.loc.gov/all/20130108024913/http%3A//www.ad...
Wow, her content looks really great. Thanks for sharing!
Over 4 decades I've watched many unbeatable high-tech juggernauts disappear practically overnight. These will be no different, including the relentless claims of "but it's different this time!" for each one.
It's called saving money, you might try it sometime.

Seriously though, people need to see the big picture. There are many, many households in the SFBA with incomes in the 200-300k range. Buying a 600-900k house on that just isn't that hard. You put away 50k-60k/year for a few years and there's your down payment.

I'm not saying everyone falls into this bucket. But when I hear well-paid software devs whining, and let's be serious, that's what you're doing here, about how expensive it is, it makes me wonder what kind of personal choices people are making that they "can't afford their lifestyle". Too much eating out, not enough packing lunch.
From Sunday:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15683132
> I think this whole topic is more complicated than the points you gave.

And now I've read your reply I agree. Thanks very much for the additional considerations.

I had no idea the JVM applies analysis to the stack VM state to turn it into register-based code. I realize it's a JIT, but I never really thought through the implications.

Regarding register vs stack - don't stack based systems also have to decide about stack-item size? I'm not sure how this works in practice but surely size considerations get factored in at some point.

Regarding the 2/3-operand instruction problem, this is very interesting but must admit I need to do some reading about graph theory. I do very vaguely understand it but for example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graph_theory doesn't mention the world "chord" anywhere.

This indeed is a complex problem, and thanks very much for illustrating the difficulty.
And then what? There was a time that we thought MS could not be beaten. It did. And now we have Google and FB. Are they any better? Why do you think the ones who will beat FB and Google will be better?

If anything, I expect them to be worst, as SV tech geeks are being replaced by power and money seeking individuals.
Even if a compiler used "random" inputs for profiling, they could come from a deterministic pseudo random number generator that returns the same result on each compilation.
Ideally people use the "files" array. It might be nice if someone writes a bot to go around and fix large packages by adding that.
Unfortunately I don't see a way this can be avoided.There has never been a weapon humanity imagined, designed, and built that it has not used. AI will be no different.

A ban would be impossible to implement. What exactly would you ban? AI? Drones? facial recognition? Once you have a certain level of capability in these technologies, weaponising these things is the easy part.
Ah yes big companies. Doesn’t an inner circle usually develop at those sizes and the CEO would only invite the inner circle to their house rather than all 100+ people?
Everyone is bitching about how UEFI makes them not the owner of their computer anymore, as if they’re using an open source BIOS and ever had any firmware layer control over their PC.

The fact that you can argue that with BIOS you have control means you don’t really understand Intel ME and the other firmware components that actually run your PC. If you want an open platform, Intel and AMD aren’t it. If you want a modern functional platform, Intel and AMD are it.

This is why I have such high hopes for RISC-V.
I'd imagine computers are more consistent. If the situation is one the automation can handle, it will handle it pretty much every time, assuming it's in good maintenance. Whereas a human's capability varies widely based on a multitude of factors from fatigue to distractions to medical issues to plain old overconfidence.

Ultimately, it's probably easier to quantify the likelihood of an failure in automation than it is to quantify the likelihood of a human error.
> They've done a lot of interesting stuff in the language since it first came out

It was always interesting to see which features were just syntactic sugar (and thus backwards compatible) vs. which required runtime support.
https://outsense.co.il
Investors also have a fairly specific job to founders and employees taking equity vs salary: allow enough needs to be met such that seeking employment elsewhere isn't a temptation/need.

A C suite (and often to developers and pos) position at a startup that has raised funding is likely to experience 1) offers at or above market rate in leadership positions 2) A professional network of people able to afford a certain comfort 3) a stressful or dismal looking event at work.
I see an interesting parallel in this side of the Great Fire Wall. You know Tencent has its WeChat which nowadays requires identification and cell phone number to use due to Gov. policies. This discourages WeChat's usage in teenagers and children. To cover that front, Tencent actually uses its other IM product, QQ, and caters more for the children's needs.
So... what's the alternative? How do you address security vulnerabilities without pushing out a change in the code that patches the vulnerability?
I'm not aware of any defacto place in the way there was in the usenet days of rec.arts.int-fiction [0] (although there is still a raif Google group [1])

Try

http://intfiction.org/forum/

https://www.reddit.com/r/interactivefiction/

http://ifcomp.org

There are local meet-ups and groups in various places (e.g. London [2], Boston [3], Bay [4] - run by Dan who's a HNer).

Parser-based interactive fiction has been overshadowed a bit in the last few years by choose your own adventure style. And forums/blogs generally seem to be a bit of a fading medium. But there are still players and writers out there. There's a knot of folks on twitter, of course. Lots of energy in the hobby is focussed on the competition: ifcomp.

If you want to have a go I tend to recommend people start with Inform 7 [5]. If you're a programmer it's also a fascinating language design, though TADS [6] is more conventional.

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[0]: https://www.ifarchive.org/indexes/if-archiveXrec.arts.int-fi...

[1]: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/rec.arts.int-fiction

[2]: https://www.meetup.com/Oxford-and-London-Interactive-Fiction...

[3]: http://pr-if.org/

[4]: https://www.meetup.com/sf-bay-area-interactive-fiction/

[5]: http://inform7.com/

[6]: http://www.tads.org/

(Edit: links)
Try https://www.coderpact.com/
Day 1 – Zero to MVP in 30 Days: Idea number 1
I thought it was real for a few seconds.. Wow Scary!
Windows 3.1 paint had a very similar layout[0], probably "inspired" on MacPaint.

[0] http://i1-news.softpedia-static.com/images/news2/Windows-Vis...
I think the most surprising vulnerability for Google is web search. Google has been pushing away from web search for years now, with moves like AMP, vertical searches and quick answers that keep you on their domain.

If you look at the mission statement for their search team it is now something like "answer your questions" - which is great 90% of the time, but what no longer exists (with most people not realizing) is a good general search engine for the WEB, meaning the collection of websites out there.

There is no longer a sense of serendipity or of finding a cool new website, and maybe finding web pages on the web is just a nostagic thing with no real benefit, but there's no doubt that Google has moved away from that as real objective. The reality is that the web has become overwhelmed by listicles and minimum pages that go one inch past Google's definition of spam, but otherwise muck up the web. It would be amazing for a search engine to sift past all that cruft and low-effort material to find actually interesting and unique content.

In a way, simply by not being Google is already an advantage because everyone is catering to Google. If you use a different standard you can easily get different results - it's just a matter if those would be useful for anyone? Everyone mostly wants to see the "right" answer and Google has conditioned us to expect it.
Why would you want to go outside freenode? They're run by a charity promoting free communication and have encryption for registered users.
We were not aware that these options had direct sftp access. We've used Google Drive in the past but we didn't find it to be particularly user friendly (we haven't used S3).
CloudBuddy could save you some money if you have low to moderate storage needs that require sftp access.
Seriously? Some of their apps are rock-solid professional apps with good UX and (occasionally) no serious competitors. InDesign alone is a huge win.
why stop it? even at this early stage it seems to work really well - in a hall full of people it correctly identified its target (until of course presenter cheated). Also compare to a rifle bullet, this thing is much easier to shoot down.

It also fits the progress we've been making - we removed civilians from the battlefield or at least we made it a war crime, and now we need to remove soldiers from it too (especially considering that they will become inferior - slower reaction, no 360 vision, slower speed, can't fly, can't really network and exchange full tactical info, etc. - to drones anyway). Let drones fight each other.

For non-military setting it was already addressed in South Park for example - autonomous police drones will control the airspace. I think in the future any UFO will be just taken down like a car without license plates.
Personally, whenever I feel lonely I would go volunteer and help people. It makes you feel connected and really puts things into perspective (like, even if your startup doesn't do well, you would still be surrounded by people who enjoys you as a person).

Every Saturday, my wife and I volunteer at our local library (northside branch in santa clara) to teach people how to code.

We've been doing that for almost a year with surprising results. Now I'm leading about 10 engineers that I've taught from the ground up and they are happily building features for my app for minimum wage (temporarily). I'm hoping that one of my apps take off and I can pay everyone great salary.
> dumpster fire that is roslyn

you can't get your editor working therefore Roslyn is a dumpster fire.

Great logic.