skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This article doesn't inspire much faith in me as a reader. The first example of a start up beating a tech giant is Snap competing with Facebook. Snap did well for a while, but things are looking grim last I heard. Likewise, the author, in the comments, suggests that the big three priorities of Amazon are AWS, Groceries, and Prime. Seems to be forgetting the two largest categories of Amazon's business - foreign and domestic retail markets. Omissions like that make question the rigor of the analysis over all.

Speaking of being able to focus on three things, why? Why that number? Isn't Amazon, for example, competing in Cloud computing, e Books, retail, tablets, content, groceries, home assistants, advertising, and probably a few other major categories? Likewise Microsoft has game consoles, office, cloud offerings, Windows, search, and again, other areas.

I think the thesis, that you can compete with tech giants, is true, but the analysis of the article is brief and poor. The reason you can compete with tech giants is because they are looking for a way to grow their gigantic companies and so they will forgo relatively small markets even if they are promising. I would not bet on your startup to beat Amazon in making budget tablets, or Apple in making premium ones, but if you can identify a niche with a customer that needs to be served you can outcompete major companies because they won't be willing to focus on that niche.

For example, you can't make a better budget or premium tablet, but maybe you make a tablet that floats to serve fishermen. It's a hit, so you work on connecting it to their fish finders, now you're building custom sonar sensors because your brand has a reputation and you want to add features to the tablet. Before you know it, you have a self-driving boat, and you're entering the shipping market automating the work formerly done by seamen. With a big presence in shipping you use your connections in China to start up your own retail website, and now you can compete with Amazon directly because you can arrange cheaper shipping of goods from China to US marketplaces.

I also do think there is some validity to the article's point that you'll be competing against the C team. I'd add on to it that as a startup you'll be more agile. If you're competing against a tech giant they'll be held up by a lot of bureaucracy that won't afflict you. You can match their dev team for competence, move faster, and compete in spaces where they won't want to follow. That's how you won against big companies, not because they are magically limited to paying attention to three areas.
The phone number is a virtual one, your right. Being a legit business is solely in the eyes of the user/customer and that is why we automatically give the first 30 days free for all new users. The only personal info you have to give us to get this free account is your email address. That's it. If you want you can encrypt everything prior to storing it on our servers. If CloudBuddy does not meet your expectations within 30 days, you've lost nothing as there is no further action required of you. The account will be automatically deleted on the 37th day if you don't delete it sooner (which you can do at anytime).
I could tell a similar story about my grandfather, who built MATV and CATV distribution systems around the Bay Area for a very long time. He had the appropriate licenses, but hated having to have them.

I get that there are exceptions, and those exceptions are the stories we like to tell -- the same way that this site tends towards the startup success stories and not the more mundane startup failure stories.

I would really rather not live in a society where insurance companies were the sole adjudicators of professional misconduct, given that they are primarily in the business of finding ways to not write checks.
This is completely useless because npm still downloads those files and the hdd space is pretty negligeble. It should def go under the category of troll driven development. This might be useful for docker images that will be distrubuted and will be downloaded a lot, but even there it's a stretch.

That being said, it would be great if npm had some functionality around packaging only the necessary files for actually running the module and removing all unnecessary files (tests, source code, documentation) and have an opt-in option to install those.
Whether it’s really yours is what we’re arguing about.

You’ve just made the interesting argument that because it’s yours, it’s yours. Not sure I’m convinced by that.
It's for Lambda
Someone watched Jon Oliver...
I guess there is the "files" and ".npmignore" which handle these, but they don't seem to be widely used in the community.
gasp oh noes that sounds so scawy :O! i hope all those Hotshot Tech Founders are okay X3!! thankees wsj.com for spweading teh w0rdz!

suck my fuckin dick, dude.
https://github.com/tj/node-prune/blob/master/prune.go#L57

Doesn't this also result in .d.ts files being removed? These are type declaration files (Kinda like C's .h files) that provide types for you without the file size overhead of the full TypeScript source.
Amazon is in a weird place right now. In the recent past, Amazon was the place to get stuff online - cheaper than most places and Prime shipping was a big win. I don't think they're going anywhere, but there's still an awful lot of stuff you can't buy on there, or is difficult to find.

Now some departments are getting more like Etsy - a Shenzhen marketplace. This is good, because there's a lot of random stuff you can get that you don't need to import. It's also bad because it's virtually impossible to know what you should buy if you don't know the brand reputation (and that matters to you).

Take 'usb cable' for example, have a look: https://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_2?url=search-alias...

Brands include Rephoenix, Luoriz, Ugreen, Syncwire, RAVPower, Rankie, Benestellar, Onson, Jecent, Emmabin, Brightsnow, Maxteck, choetech, Volutz, Kinps, the list goes on. I got to page 3 before I gave up.

What about headphones? Mpow, OneOdio, BienSound, Alihen, Sephia, ZIYE, Sadon, OMORC, etc.

I'm genuinely curious as to when sellers decided that they must have a brand name for every product, and to hell with the meaning. It's like they all read those "how to sell on Amazon by importing" tutorials.

Even though deep down I know that they're probably just as good as anything you can buy on the high street, the sheer volume of random brands is really off-putting to me for some reason. A bigger problem is that you can miss stuff in the noise - e.g. if you didn't know that Anker have a good reputation, could you tell the difference from any of the other names in that list? Seller churn is also high, so it's not like you can rely on reviews either - that product might be gone in a month.

On a brighter note it really highlights how much you're being ripped off when you buy from a 'name brand' company that's just rebadging stuff from China.
Ask HN: Do you find the self-help books useful?
Some bestsellers like "How to Stop Worrying and Start Living", "Power of Positive Thinking", "7 Habits of Highly Effective People", ..., anyone ever changed life by following these books?
Whataboutism is an old school red-scare term literally coined to describe Soviet disinformation techniques.

I wonder if most people who use the term as an argument know this, or are aware of how it got into their lexicon.

Not only does the term imply one supports one side over the other (in this case Russian trolls), the term implicitly accuses one of being an actual Russian agent..
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.

HN.
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If your Product Designer can't draw rectangles then I don't think these stamps are gonna help them.
As an aside the “it’s just Angular” thing doesn’t work for me when I Google for things...results come up with a mix of AngularJS and Angular2+ results. Searching for “angular2” rather than “angular” seems to work a lot better.
I think "Whataboutism" can be a harmful concept. It allows navel gazing fr a particular issue to be used to distract from real solutions.

Like when Israel is singled out for things that many or most other countries do to a greater extent. Countries should be judged as countries and compared to others facing similar situations, not singled out in a vacuum. And this leads to navel gazing that prevents the solution to the actual problems, because the solutions involve more than one country.

Or some feminists in the USA for instance drawing people's attenton to male avatars being default on social networks instead of focusing on honor killings and caste based rapes around the world and so on. Attention and outrage is a finite resource and whataboutism arguments squander it.
Google has 80% marketshare in search. This despite Microsoft pouring billions into Bing and hardwiring it into Windows.

Websearch has passed over the great divide and is now a utility. "Beating" Google in search is only half of it...without the advertising business, you can't survive long enough to show off your tech. Without the 80% mobile platform, you don't have a way of putting it in front of people when they need answers right away.

Of course this all assumes you can ACTUALLY build a better search...doubtful, Google may be evil but the search is still giving people what they want

Accept that 1998 is gone and that window has closed
Maybe documentation should include uses cases? Newer users to npm + node might think this does something different. Just a suggestions.
Our target market is indeed the lower to mid end storage spectrum that wish - or need to have - direct sftp access.
Our plan is to make a go of it by targeting this market segment.
Can you post some links about this?
Tyler Rogoway's article mentions the US Navy is on standby with their Submarine Rescue Diving Recompression System[1] in case their help is requested. But hopefully it's on the surface but disabled and will be located soon.

[0] http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/16195/frantic-search-un...

[1] http://www.navy.mil/navydata/fact_display.asp?cid=4100&ct=4&...
How do the other parents react when you tell them about signing? I wonder if it's related to a perception of signing as "for handicapped people" or something, or a worry about it replacing speech.
> There has never been a weapon humanity imagined, designed, and built that it has not used.

What about the neutron bomb?

But overall, yes, I agree, a rifle hanging on the wall will eventually go off.
I think this is one of the biggest problems of "remote" work teams vs. in office teams. I know it's not exactly what you asked, but it really gets at the same problem -> being connected to people (IRL) you can talk to about what is eating your life.
Awesome idea. Especially if you’re packaging your projects via something like Docker this can shave hundreds of megabytes. (Even if you’re using the Docker layer cache, any change to your dependencies will bust the entire node_modules cache.)

The caveats is that this won’t work 100% of the time. There will be a dependency deep down in the tree that needs to read a markdown file from the file system or something of that sort. These issues could be hard to debug if this tool doesn’t provide good visibility into what’s being deleted.
Nice picture there of the three honest men.

Reminds me of this:
https://ecigarettereviewed.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/to...
I just wish we had something like this still - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_coffeehouses_in_the_...
This is pretty awesome! Congratulations for winning and for having an employer that gives you the respect you deserve.
Search for 'whataboutism' wiki (and check the rational wiki as well).

> Lexicographers date the first appearance of the variant whataboutism to the 1990s,[1][4] while other historians state that during the Cold War Western officials referred to the Soviet and Russian propaganda strategy by that term.[7]
mp4 has universal support though (Except for Opera Mini, which doesn't support animated GIFs either) https://caniuse.com/#search=mp4
Changed jobs a few times, changed cities, then continents and then finally settled down. But I'm much older than you!

Started a blog over 10 years ago as a place to record my crazy experiments and to remember obsolete stuff. Not that I think many people care about ancient Unix, Novell or OS/2... I never really have much time to go back to the old chat.taucher.net thing... With the wife / kids / work it's hard to find the time.
See: http://www.immi-usa.com/h1b-lottery-2016-results-chances-pro...

Almost 199k applications for 90k slots.
For sure, and I don't personally recommend that anyone jump on a dot-0 release of anything. But Apple aggressively attacks dot-0 bugs — iOS 11 is already at 11.1.2[1], and I'm running an 11.2 dev release that's been nicely boring for me.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IOS_11#Updates
Yeah, that is a load of scatter shot whataboutism. The FA is about peer to peer trolling. Not sure what Al Franken voting for his Senate colleague has to do with that. Hillary won the Democratic primary (popular, delegate + state) without the superdelegates and Bernie campaigned for her in the general. What about that?
This. Until your side hustle income is roughly the same as your day job, don't quit.
I’ve been solo for 4 years. I never once worked outside of my home office. At times it was very lonely but I didn’t do anything about it. I started a slack group for freelancers as a water cooler and advice type of place. It’s sometimes active but most of the time pretty quiet. Anyone looking for a place to just chat is welcome to join, founder or freelancer I don’t care, we are a mixed bunch: freelancehangout.com
There is something deeply dysfunctional in our profession when people identify as "founders" instead of "engineers".
I got so excited from the title. I also want Amazon, Facebook, and Google to be beaten. I am however not excited about just another hypergrowth-driven, capture-the-whole-market-or-die, walled garden, more-of-the-same traditional startup. I want the forms of these companies to die, and a patchwork economy of more medium-sized firms each providing a piece of the puzzle without trying to capture the whole thing.

That's just me, though.
from an Indian prospective, I feel the same!I can't afford co working spaces. working from home lead to loneliness. loneliness leads to depression and constant anxiety. also being in India, there are minuscule number of therapists and still going to a therapist is frowned upon!
Hi hi, author of the story here.

I just upgraded the router I was using for this last night and forgot to re-add that dialpeer.

dial-peer voice 6129913 pots
destination-pattern 14156129913
supplementary-service pass-through
direct-inward-dial
port 0/0/0:23
forward-digits 7

That number goes straight to my conferencing system as a quick demo I thought might amuse some.

I'm doing well enough, but I felt I should write a story detailing coping with depression through tech. ;p
I can't disagree. But in the absence of Ben Franklin, I still need to get out of the house to go find a place with "buzz" to work...
I would pay at least $10 a month for a good search engine, like google when it first started. Maybe that web is gone, so it could not work, but in the old days one could copy almost any error message and get a great explanation of the problem.
I bet at least a million other people would too. Maybe $10 million a month in revenue could support a user focused search engine?
Same with space flight I'd imagine...
Sounds like my life. I'll wave to you next time I'm at whole foods.
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What about Apple? Does anyone think that they can be beaten?

What makes Apple different from Google, Amazon & Facebook? Curious to hear what people think.
The Github link has an example:

Span<byte> stackSpan;
unsafe {
byte* stackMemory = stackalloc byte[100];
stackSpan = new Span<byte>(stackMemory, 100);
}
SafeSum(stackSpan);

You still need unsafe to allocate, but once allocated, you can access the memory in a type safe way. M
>If you're in an AMI on AWS, it's a virtual machine anyway, so there's virtualization overhead which is quite a bit higher than container overhead, but there's other baggage as well such as shared tenancy/noisy neighbors, and possibly oversubscription of hardware to the virtualized environment.

Can you post or cite something related to virtualization overhead being "probably an order of magnitude higher than container overhead"

Your other points are very fair.

Any mention on costs for the docker versus Ami?
To the Screen with Hybrid External Framebuffer (XFB)
I can't figure out which makes less sense scientifically, that a cold shower somehow made you ill or that antibiotics cured a viral infection. Probably placebo in the latter case and happenstance in the first. You would have gotten sick and gotten better anyway without either the shower or the anti-biotics.

So next time you do this experiment you need to take anti-biotics in a cold shower.
forget about Schumpterian disruption, strap in for some real dystopia. Think about Apple with a standing army to protect it's assets. Think about Google governoring cities. Think about Amazon buying the interstate system. Think about Facebook having a seat on the UN Security Council.

At least one of the above will be true by 2040.
Google has recently diversified into many other sub-bets.

How about FB? What are they diversifying in?
And off-earth colonies.
LOL. Whoomp there it is.

> Lexicographers date the first appearance of the variant whataboutism to the 1990s,[1][4] while other historians state that during the Cold War Western officials referred to the Soviet and Russian propaganda strategy by that term.[7]

So you think the the commenter supports one side over the other and is a Russian agent. Nice. I suppose anything is possible looks over shoulder

Find another word.

Judging by my downvotes I suppose I am a Russian agent too. You gotta love the interwebs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-FPimCmbX8
I don't think so. Founders are engineers who are entrepreneurs. It comes with different set of responsibilities and risk.
When that day comes, it'll be too late.

You'll be the frog who was slow boiled in the pot.
Babysitter-as-a-service, conveniently available just next to the Amazon store.
that's hardly "beating" Google, or even DDG for that matter
One of the iconic examples, though it predates the popularization of the term, is well-known/documented enough to have its own Wikipedia article.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/And_you_are_lynching_Negroes
> "…maybe finding web pages on the web is just a nostalgic thing with no real benefit, but there's no doubt that Google has moved away from that as real objective."

I can't think of an example where people en masse have stopped using something useful to replace it with something that provides "no real benefit".
I'm not so sure it's that simple. Airplanes can glide, autorotation is hard and rotors tends to break apart violently on impact.
Does this still work? I’m from the Internet and I’m here for my free shit like everyone else.
Have Scientists Found a Secret Chord for Happy Songs?
Show HN: Automatically move applications to containers
While not everyone knows how to run a containerized infrastructure, everyone knows their application should run in a container. This tool can move any application to a container (i.e. Docker) without reconfiguration.

1) Goto www.evolute.io and add name/e-mail to get access

2) Download and extract (on your Linux machine)
wget https://github.com/evoluteio/chrysalis/archive/0.5.tar.gz

3) Run Chrysalis (`crysls`)

VMware
crysls --mgmt-server MyESXiServer.localdomain.com --user root --vm MyVMName

Amazon EC2/GCE/Azure VM
crysls --vm-host MyVmServer.publicdomain.com --user root --vm MyVMName

More docs here: https://github.com/evoluteio/chrysalis

4) Give Some Feedback
http://bit.ly/ChrysalisFeedback

or

developing@evolute.io

Next Steps:
Auto-instantiation of application
Auto-generated Docker files
Clustering (auto-Kubernetes support)
...
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I like how HN automatically collapses shitty irrelevant threads like the one below this now.
Dismemberment alive and other unspeakable torture is what it looks like by now. This story is a running nightmare in my head. Not least because I've met the perp on several occasions, and he did not come across in any way as the sick monstrosity we now know him to have been for many years.
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Where are you based? If you are in San Francisco, let me know if I can be of help. (my HN name @ gmail, or google my name).
Matter of time.
can you elaborate a little about which unbeatable juggernauts you have in mind?

i think where in the past juggernauts have fallen its usually due to not being wise to megatrends/platform shifts. I'm not saying amzn/fb/googl are immune to these, but they have each in their own way shown a fair amount of nimbleness in the 10+years they have been around, navigating huge shifts in consumer behavior. If they can learn from the past and prevent themselves from ossifying, they will put off their eventual decline for that much longer. I think bezos and zuck have among the best attitudes to change/learning we have ever had in corporate america.
Probably not worth the trouble, as I predict this whole thread will soon be flagged to oblivion, but here goes.

1) I can't be bothered to look for references, but the NY Times has not failed to notice (and criticize) the fact that the Trump administration is staffed by quite a few people from Wall Street. A fair question is whether the NY Times would be as critical of a hypothetical Hillary Clinton administration, if it made similar personnel choices.

2) The DNC has spent decades trying to avoid a repeat of 1972, when the "popular choice" of the party base (George McGovern) went down to a flaming defeat against Richard Nixon. The whole "super-delegate" thing was deliberately designed to make sure that party "elders" could influence the choice of nominee, so that the party base would not again nominate someone who was unelectable. This was non-democracy by design, not accidental corruption. You may not agree with the idea, but there was at least some logic behind it.

3) Russian social media influence seems to have been designed, at first, to exacerbate tensions in the US and subvert faith in US democracy. The decision to lean towards Trump seems to have been taken later on. And it could be argued that helping to build up antifa, and exaggerating its influence, would actually serve to increase pro-Trump feeling among his base.
Love it. Saved 600MB... and test cases still passed :)

I ported it to bash really quick, as thats probably easier for people to drop into their dotfiles if they don't have a Golang env setup.

https://gist.github.com/gpittarelli/64d1e9b7c1a4af762ec467b1...

If we all just do our part and send a PR setting up .npmignore for one or two of these projects, maybe we won't need this anymore
This is a brilliant idea for those of us who like to keep all our brainstorms in a single notebook! Currently, I print things out and tape them into my notebook...

I would prefer my stamps to be a little different though, so I'll probably buy a custom stamp from a site somewhere.
Colombia, Once Consumed by Violence, Became a Tourist Destination
this is a bit of an awkward question but.. have you ever come across anyone who you tried to teach but in the end was just not suited for coding? can everyone learn to code?
And BASIC!

BTW I find maths, with equations that are true in both directions, much less intuitive than programming, with functions that accept input and return output.

I suppose maths is "clear and logical statements", code is "clear and logical instructions". Does that mean maths is easier than programming for most people?