skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Respectfully, I hear this advice for sales all the time, and it sounds silly unless you've already built a relationship. If someone cold-calls me and starts asking open-ended questions, they're wasting my time.
What is the problem in gamifying Slashdot? You can be "funny lvl 42" and "insightful lvl 8" for example.
Surprisingly I found out recently that reading on my phone was not that bad. I was sure I will not like it, and never gave it a try.

But visiting NYC this December, I found myself in situation GP described. Spending time in the subway, or waiting on a line for eating or buying stuff. I transfered the book I was reading (and really liked so I wanted to read more) from my tablet to my phone, and reading when it was possible.

On the phone, the pages are small, so you can read them quick.

Of course it was a novel and not some tech or science or whatever needs great focus, but I discovered a new way of reading.

So why not give it a try and see where it leads :) ?
I'm guessing this is how they determined this was a valid metric, everybody with a catbot user statistically looked like a hacker, and nobody didn't look like a hacker.
Don't come up with ideas. Finds problems.

https://medium.com/black-n-white/the-problem-with-problems-4...
Is there any industry or history where you can draw from personal experience?

What inefficiencies have you noticed?

What problems have you noticed from the consumer end of your relationships with businesses?

Could you make something obsolete with automation, or make something else more efficient and profitable?

You don't need to be the first one to come up with an idea for a startup. Most startups fail, even if they came up with a very new and unique idea.

You just need to be the one who does executes it better.

For people starting out, I would suggest looking at "inevitable" trends. Things that seem like they will certainly be popular or prevalent in 2 to 5 years.

Examples:

- Cannabis legalization: It's virtually inevitable that cannabis will be legal in all 50 states, there's lots of room for ancillary businesses.

- Crypto currency: This is becoming more and more mainstream. If you can come up with some way for the average person to benefit from and want to use crypto, there's great opportunity available for you.

- VR: The tech for vr is improving every year, and mainstream adoption is increasing. There's still no "killer app" for VR (a "killer app" is software that convinces people to want to buy the hardware en masse).

- IoT: Adoption is increasing for smart lights and other devices, but they're still a luxury for most people. Can you come up with some connected everyday device that people can't live without?

Look at what's working well in similar industries that could work well in emerging industries.

One of the first "successes" I had was to create very simple apps for Android in 2008/2009 which simply showed quotes from popular celebrities. The technology was not impressive at all, but it was obvious to me that many people would get smartphones in the next few years. I learned that you could take something people love in one medium, and reproduce it for a new and emerging medium to gain "free" marketing as the medium grows.
Google will inevitably become a blundering bureaucracy like every behemoth before it. The inevitable corporate politics will cause it to crumble from within. My bet is Chinese companies will outmaneuver Google outside western markets (US and EU). Also, Google is primarily an ad display company. Global marketing firms should support competitors to blunt Google’s dominance, especially outside the US. Finally, the EU will declare Google a monopoly. All this will take a long time though, just like Microsoft.
So if I'm understanding this right, you can get permanently banned from all of these games (http://store.steampowered.com/search/?category2=8) just for having a certain username? That's crazy, no matter what the username is.
New Nvidia EULA Prohibits Deep Learning on GeForce GPUs in Data Centers
Why limit to small business? Talk (not email) to a company with a lot of money and figure out their biggest pain point. That is how I would do it now if I had to start over
Yeah, this would be the question for fault tolerance and the whole world of distributed systems that inevitably comes with it.
The only “correct” answer here is “linked list”. Any other answer is officially “wrong”.

I’ve had interviews like that. If the fundamental basis for the question is wrong, and the person asking the question doesn’t understand the material in front of them, then it doesn’t matter.

What’s annnoying to me is when companies keep contacting me about job openings they have, but where the interview process works like this.

There’s a reason why I don’t work at companies like that, and I no longer respond to invitations from companies like that.

I won’t name any names here, but I don’t think anyone here would be surprised.
Your interpretation of Binded's Terms of Service is based on statements that are taken out of context. The complete ToS is at https://binded.com/terms
> OK, so you can't.

Even if I can't, the success of AXD301 has never been replicated, has it? So it's rather a one-off wonder than something indicative of the platform's strength.

For the past 20 years Erlang has been advertising itself as the language to create distributed and scalable services, microservices etc. In 2018 if you really want to build something like that, you are much better off grabbing off-the shelf Java components because there are literally zero tools available in Erlang, and you will have to implement every single thing from scratch yourself.

While Erlang was busy boasting how great it is for distributed/parallel computing, and how other languages suck, other languages and platforms (primarily Java/JVM) caught up with it, and then surpassed. While Erlang stood in one place never moving forward.
You wrote: "it didn't help that he was "wrong" in his numbers"

That is a misreading of the text.

He said: "Our planet will get a little warmer. It is hard to say whether it will be 2 degrees Fahrenheit or only one or 5."

The change in the instrumental temperature record from 1959 to now is about 1C, or 1.8F - well within his range of 1-5F.

He also said "there is a possibility that the icecaps will start melting and the level of the oceans will begin to rise". He did not, as you summarize it, say that Greenland and the polar ice caps will have melted.

We believe the ice caps have started to melt, and the oceans begun to rise.

This is within the range of his estimate.

It's possible to calculate what the sea level rise might be if the ice melted. However, he did not give a time frame for what that would happen.

You wrote "we should have listened 100 years ago to Teller and taken action".

This event was in 1959, which is only 59 years ago. The "100" is because the talk was on the centennial of the American oil industry.

100 years ago would be closer Arrhenius's original research on the topic, from 1896, than it would be to Teller's talk. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svante_Arrhenius#Greenhouse_ef...
Of course, that will never work in any sane place. The point I was making is all these "sabotage" behaviors are actually the sorts of things that get you promoted at toxic places.
Same here (searching with /ncr): https://i.imgur.com/V0E3uGx.jpg

Maybe Google already deindexed the site? Or maybe OP's results are based on his search history?
I might suggest to look at the full videos instead of the edits, especially if they have a clickbait title.

They are usually one-hour long videos or more, I know. But that clears every doubt.
First things first: for my relationship which I had been working on, I finally got married to the woman I've been with for 7 years now.

My business, NoteToServices ( https://notetoservices.com ) became official this year, though it was registered 2 years ago, I could actually make it legit.

For my side projects, I was happy to release two web apps which I did a Show HN for one of them: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16041245

Call Me Private ( https://callmeprivate.com ) and Text Me Private ( https://textmeprivate.com ) are two services that allow you to purchase virtual numbers to mask your own phone number for more privacy.

I also created a website called ScamShare which allows people to share the latest email and phone scams they've received, explain their situation, or just generally get the word out there about these scams and scammers to fight the good fight! https://scamshare.com

Had some trouble with my turning-5 years old website, Confessions of the Professions ( http://www.confessionsoftheprofessions.com ), earlier in the year, which were theme-related, so I've been in the works of finding a theme that really stuck with me and lately I've admired Medium.com, who also admitted that they've indefinitely removed custom domains, but I really wanted something similar, for its aesthetic beauty and simplicity, so I managed to update a theme to my needs.
Segment Your User Base: Depth of Engagement
@floatingatoll's interpretation of Binded's Terms of Service is based on statements that are taken out of context. The complete ToS is at https://binded.com/terms
True, never thought about anonymous sources. In that case, some sort of verification network could work okay, though it's always going to be tradeoffs regardless of what route is taken.

However, there's no excuse for stories based on public sources not to link to or provide a reference for those sources. If your source is another news site, blog, wiki page, forum post, video, etc... then you should damn well be linking to the original. Doing otherwise is like taking ownership of someone else's work, especially if you do what some sleazy sites do and rehost the original work as well.
I moved money out of CB on the 22nd and it's in my bank account now.
Fantastic write up. If the author is here, how did you keep track of this sort of graph-based information while working on this? Did you just keep a notepad?

Despite this write up being extremely depressing I had a laugh at the following line from the article:

> Interpol didn’t want to comment on the site and Europol says they don’t work with the Russians.

Aaah politics.
This reminds me of the classic "network auralizer" (http://peep.sourceforge.net/intro.html).
And? So switch one form of escapism for another?

We could all benefit from less social media, less articles ( like this one from qz ), less news and less books. But what's the point of this clickbait?

You could "escape" and read 200 books and that wouldn't be any different than wasting time watching tv or going on social media or reading silly articles like OP's.

Reading books in and of itself isn't a "noble" pursuit. Especially when most of it is clickbait formulaic nonsense.

Instead of reading 200 books, why not select a 2 or 3 important books and learn those well? Reading the bible or knuth's the art of computer programming is actually a worthwhile goal. Reading 200 formulaic saccharine books that rot your brain isn't.

QUALITY over QUANTITY.
Isn't this related to recent Linus rant about security patch from Google Pixel team?
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/11/20/security_people_are...
I was an existing customer. Google sent me a notification to request a card and warned that all applications would be shut down if I don't register one.

I didn't register a card and all applications have been shut down. I will not register a card.

Basically, GAE cannot be used anymore for amateur, high school and student projects.
It’s…a hard problem. I think it’s normal and natural for young people to explore their bodies & sexuality and share that experience with each other. It’s fraught on all sides with problems, though—when it gets shared with the world, either by choice or by betrayal; when the people involved are very young or even prepubescent; when adults use their power and maturity to exploit them; and so on.

I started having sex when I was 14, after waiting for a long time with the same partner, and I feel like I personally was mature enough to handle it responsibly. That doesn’t mean all 14-year-olds should be doing that. And the concept of consent here, doing normal activities like having sex and sharing images of yourself, is murky—I did things that were illegal, but (I feel) neither wrong nor harmful.

Maybe the law just needs to be more adaptable somehow. But I feel like there’s always going to be tension between expressing yourself and being protected from exploitation.
Valve can easily query who has the usernames catbot, and then correlate it with hack like activity, and draw the conclusion that false positives aren't an issue in the real world.

After all the banwave only hits once.
I call it the circle of life. Old code devoid of support, and with it old systems and old companies even, wither and die to make way for new code, new systems, and new companies. Sometimes the new thing is the same as the old thing, sometimes it’s really new.
> Section 1. The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.

Nothing in here about "shall not be denied or abridged because of lack of photo ID".
Kotlin/Native 0.5 and iOS
This title needs fixed. I had no idea what I was clicking on
Do you have friends working in different fields ? Spend more time understanding their day to day job. IT people lives aren’t a good starting point to come up with new business ideas. Use other people’s lives instead.
Come up with a way to support creators by buying individual articles, videos, podcasts, etc. Ads aren't gonna work for much longer, Patreon type solutions don't seem sustainable for everyone and people won't be putting down money on dozens of subscriptions anytime soon either. There needs to be a way to pay for content like a physical product.

First person or organisation to fix this problem will rake in the cash.
Ah... I misunderstood. I thought you were sending them notes on your impressions of the candidates themselves.
So they had people willing to pay for the product, but not enough runway to launch?

Why not get people to pay in full ala Tesla and use that money to launch?
My $200 August is smart enough to unlock when I approach. For $700 I’d at least expect it to massage my backside as I walk through or something.
>Bezos actually bought WashingtonPost so it does not die.

Thats a very charitable reading of what he did.
Thanks!

At the moment, the data is delivered via CoinCap websocket. This will soon be changed over to CryptoCompare so multiple fiat currencies can be supported.

It was build with React, MobX, and Sass for styles.

I'll definitely add VWAP to my to-do's! Thanks for the input.
Thanks for pointing that out, you can write your code in separate file then include in the HTML. i have updated the docs to note that.
CUDA -- got a bunch of performance critical code that is a perfect fit for the GPU.
Patents protect one business against other businesses. Copyright protects one business against the public.
The problem is all of those mechanisms give hackers a lot of leverage to evade banning, and they will be abused.
Customer Obsession meets reality.
> The latter has been inflated to near-eternity by corporate lobbying whereas patents still, in practice, have a limited lifetime which itself also hasn't really grown over the years.

It's because there is no incentive for large corporations to stop the former while there is plenty for companies to stop the latter.

Large tech companies have been fighting against patent trolling and they have the money and power to enact change.
$400k for a PE? Maybe in SV, and you’re working for a company that is already worth hundreds of billions of dollars.

Outside of that environment, I think that number is a little unrealistic.
That's basically a sales email where not only do you ask the potential customer if they would buy but also to tell you what they would buy. I would advise against that.

Instead I would suggest:

1) introduce your self and inform them you are interested in their area of business.

2) ask if they'd have the time to chat to you about it on a call or perhaps over a coffee.

3) book the meetings (some will say no, that's fine).

4) at the meeting ask them about their business. Be genuinely interested. Don't sell them anything. These aren't sales calls or meetings. Listen to what they say. Ask how they do those things. What's the best part about they way they do it, what's the worst, what tools and processes do they use and where did they hear about them from.

5) write it all down and after 3-7 meetings looks for patterns that indicate problems or processes that you could solve.

6) given those problems return to your new friends and ask them what the world would look like for them if those problems you identified were solved (no pitching solutions). How much better off (if at all) would they be. How much more time could they save, how much more product could they sell, how many bew customers could they find or old customers could they keep.

7) record everything and look for patterns again.

8) come up with some ideas to solve the more valuable problems. Use the Mum Test technique (don't reveal your ego) to identify if they would pay for your solution (ask for money on the spot, you've enough report now to push the boat out a little).

9) once enough people bite, have a crack at it!
If the correct answer was [123, 456, NaN...] then it would actually be a good question for the reasons you bring up.

The thing that makes it a trick question is that map calls the given function with the value, the index, and the original array. And parseInt takes a value and a radix. Which means your 4th entry is parsed in base 4, your 8th is parsed in base 8, etc....

So the correct answer is [123, NaN, NaN...], and that makes it a trick question.
>when you see a random black person and a white one and an asian, and a jew, your average racist will factually be right in guessing their relative intelligence

Wrong. Individuals are not populations. The most you could say is that if someone guesses a large number of times they'll be right slightly more often than not. This is not a trivial point.
Looks like it is speculative execution based, and does not affect AMD

https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/12/27/2

AMD processors are not subject to the types of attacks that the kernel
page table isolation feature protects against. The AMD microarchitecture
does not allow memory references, including speculative references, that
access higher privileged data when running in a lesser privileged mode
when that access would result in a page fault.

Disable page table isolation by default on AMD processors by not setting
the X86_BUG_CPU_INSECURE feature, which controls whether X86_FEATURE_PTI
is set.
>"The CPU does not care about your abstractions. Abstractions are entirely wrt the human dealing with them."

Yes!

>"Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute." - Abelson, preface to [SICP](http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/sicp/book/node3.html)
As someone who shares your skepticism of the cloud, I can say that people don’t switch from bare metal hosting (something like SoftLayer) to AWS/GCP for the cost.

If you do the math like “we have 1000 cores and 2048Gb of RAM and 10Tb of RAID’ed SSD” and then plug that in to the GCP calculator... it’s going to be at minimum 1.5-2x your bare metal cost.

That’s not even including bandwidth which is pretty much free at bare metal hosts unless you’re doing a lot of egress.

The calculus changes when you realize that you’re over-provisioned on the bare metal side for a variety of reasons: high availability, “what if”, future growth that’s more medium term than short, etc.

Then you scale back the numbers you’re plugging into the calculator and things are still expensive but now within reason.

Couple that with things like global anycast region aware load balancer, firewalls (an in-line 10GigE highly available firewall costs a lot of money), ability to spin up hundreds of cores in 5 seconds and the value proposition becomes clearer.

It still depends on your work load, but there’s a lot more to consider than just straight up monthly cost.
Have you tried? Don't assume, test!
Asymmetric knowledge is hard to come by, people aren't going to give it away here. For what it's worth the few times I've had an idea that turned out to be valuable (retrospectively) it was because I learned a new technology. Might be worth specializing in some niche tech for a few months instead of focusing on product ideas.
> Is Rust ready for scientific computing?

Did Rust ever get integer generics?
Wanna make that kind of money? Go found a unicorn and get the silly money VCs to flood your company with cash, and then take your platinum parachute out.

In other words, go be Elon Musk or Steve Jobs.

If you’re not already Elon Musk or Steve Jobs, then that might be a little harder for you to do.
A Third of Antidepressants Are Prescribed for Something Else
> only one or two dozen people in the world can understand them

It's more that only a few have bothered to.
If I paid that kind of money I would expect my door to unlock for me when I approached it.

For $700, it better open the door for me. I can get locks to merely unlock it for me for half that.
Here's a paper with the specific details of why P25 has troubles with reliability while encrypted:

http://www.crypto.com/papers/p25sec.pdf

"Because of the above-described property of the error
correction mechanisms used, especially in voice frames
such as the LDU1 and LDU2 frame types, there is no
mechanism to detect errors in certain portions of transmitted
frames. This was a deliberate design choice, to
permit undetected corruption of portions of the frame
that are less important for intelligibility."
That’s apples and oranges, though. Super Mario 64 wasn’t a PC game. For a better comparison, how about Super Mario Sunshine (2002; not as popular as 64 but pretty popular), or perhaps Super Smash Bros. Melee (2001; currently one of the most popular competitive fighting games)?
As the article says, rushing through a change this large with a performance penalty just to fix KASLR is very unlikely. KASLR is a fairly weak protection that has been broken many times (particularly on Windows – and yet Windows is still rolling out a similar patch).
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This is similar to my site http://www.poemgenerator.com. Not using markov chains but concept is similar.
That sounds like the precheck screening procedure. I've seen them use it for everybody rather than just paid precheck members once or twice.
They're military grade toys, and therefore expensive... Found an article which says they cost about $50k each.
Completion of DUC wells doesn't have much if anything to do with predicting or waiting for a particular price, as most E&P companies are all hedged on a yearly basis. It's more about the manpower/equipment needed to frack, which is currently in short supply.
IMO, if you’re not caring about the business problems your company is facing, then you are going to be ill-suited to help solve them.

In that case, you should probably go work somewhere else where you can care about the problems being faced by the business.

All IMO, of course.
can't we namespace it? like Otto: So Close ?
Something I've wondered is why we don't have other companies lobby against extending copyright, and have them make it as hard as possible for Disney to get a sympathetic ear from government. I mean, in theory the likes of Google and Facebook (who could potentially benefit a lot from less restrictive IP laws) would be rich enough to outspend Disney on lobbying here.

Or is there a reason the government would listen to one multinational corporation or billionaire while simultaneously ignoring another?
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It probably doesn't right? Also these devices are probably not iOS devices we are talking about but Android devices.