skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These are exceptions to the rule.

Living in Poland, I see so many good ideas and good teams, that go absolutely nowhere because they begin with the local market, and struggle to achieve ramen profitability, while their global counterparts achieve scale and funding to ultimately take over the market.

There is a small niche of successful copycats that grabbed the local niche, and maintained the lead over the years due to strong network effects - like a local reddit clone (wykop.pl), or a local ebay clone (allegro.pl), but that's almost it.

All the other projects either failed to get off the ground, or got killed when globally oriented startups entered our country.
I'll think about it. In the meantime, I have a few pro tips that may be useful.

One trick is you can drag the icon from the QuickTime's window's title bar (or command click on it to reveal it in the Finder). Along with the ability to drag things while doing Cmd-Tab and Cmd-` that was added to macOS at some point, it makes it fairly easy to do drag and drop to other apps.

You can also use the Open Clips Folder menu item in the RetroClip menu.

Finally, you can also just disable the banner for RetroClip using the notification center system preferences and have it be stealth, just like screenshots are, and then just navigate to the ~/Movies/RetroClip folder in the Finder directly.
Tutorial: Building a Slack Slash Command App with Airtable as the CMS
Transmute is like, the most unsafe thing possible. It basically checks if the two things have the same size, and that's it. You're responsible for everything else.

See all the warnings and suggested other ways to accomplish things with https://doc.rust-lang.org/stable/std/mem/fn.transmute.html

This is UB becuase `Foo` is not `#[repr(C)]`, in my understanding. I haven't checked if it works if you add the repr though. I don't think I'd expect it to.
Good point. Equal is probably fine.
I would suggest finding a forum that your target audience visits. If they respond well to your idea they might just turn into your first few customers.
Unintended consequences, vesting edition
Secrets of dispatch_once (2014)
I'm getting flashbacks of when Windows95 would auto-play videos after opening a folder on a CD-ROM.
Ok, let me be more precise. The universal healthcare system which pays for the large majority of healthcare costs in most developed countries does not work as an insurance (it’s paid by taxes or compulsory affiliation unrelated to actuarial risk). In some cases, one has the option to contract private insurance to pay for the parts not covered by the public system. It’s debatable to what extent this is comparable to actual healthcare insurance, because it’s not insuring the catastrophic events (that are already covered) but the relatively small and frequent out-of-pocket payments and some particular things like dental and vision care.
It is. But you're not developing a lasting institution which survives any one individual's bus. Further, a team kept artificially small tends to produce crap due to understaffing. Large companies can also fund work on particularly interesting problems with a long-term pay off, something that many small companies don't do because they need profits now.

There are also substantial personnel issues with smaller companies: lack of HR, legal, finance. Nepotism, lack of accountability, etc all tend to be factors in smaller companies. Of course, benefits tend to be less too. (I've seen all of the above).

I would work for the right startup. But most don't meaningfully compete on the "adult" factor until they are distinctly larger than a small team.

I've never been yanked by big companies as a worker[1]; the smaller the company, the more yanking I've had to deal with. I attribute this to a present and functional Legal and HR team, along with money to hire adequately competent people.
Wow. If you try to do it on a large scale it would be somewhat dangerous too, I suspect.
Instead of taking tablets, try adding as an ingredient into your daily food. I think that will make it much easier to eat. Try cooking any Indian curries and turmeric is 90% of time default spice.
About a half-teaspoon or so of turmeric, and about a teaspoon of black pepper. A teaspoon of black pepper might be a bit aggressive, so adjust it to suit your taste, but my mom seems to think lots of pepper is necessary to reduce coughing/phlegm when you're down with a cold.
I guess I just submitted this too early.

Dupe (which should be deleted I guess?): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16222839
>> Fairness in general is very complicated issue.

That's what I'm getting at.

>>Suppose our model tells us that blue agents are much more likely to default on loan, and this is in fact the underlying reality.

That's a cute thought experiment. Unfortunately, it is assuming human behaviors are caused by skin color. I do not believe that is 'the underlying reality'.
The Era of Quantum Computing Is Here. Outlook: Cloudy
In traditional compensation plans, you get “X vacation days” as part of your compensation plan[1]. It can be as low as 0 since there’s no legal requirement for them, but if it’s more than 0 then thecompany also provides an earning schedule. At some companies, they allocate all PTO at the beginning of the year. At others, they allocate a prorated amount per pay period. For example, say you have 12 PTO days and are paid twice monthly. You’ll “earn” 1 PTO day per month, or half a day (4 hours) per pay period.

You can then either roll them over and stockpile them, or take them. A lot of people take less vacation than they earn, and when they terminate employment they have an accrued balance. The company is required in some jurisdictions to convert this accrued/“earned” PTO time into their equivalent salary for that amount of time and pay it out as a lump sum.

[1] Startups and other companies that advertise “unlimited” vacation are different. Unlimited is really a euphamism for 0, but with an explicit agreement to still let you take “unlimited” days off even without having any days accrued. Since you don’t accrue any days, they don’t owe you for any when you leave.
No one wants their data on a public blockchain. A private blockchain doesn't solve this any better.
Yeah, that's from the same channel :)
What are you talking about? Google bends over backwards to support China. I would hope that this comment is not informing you for the first time that the Great Firewall [1] exists and Google China [2] happily complies just like Apple, that is how law works.

Where are you getting this idea of "walked away with some dignity and authenticity left"?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Firewall

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_China
Surprised that a programmer quitting is covered by the financial press.
Try mixing it with honey and have it, it will be much better.
Services, monoliths, modularity
The blog post from Astro Teller (of X) subtitled "Cybersecurity needs a moonshot":

https://blog.x.company/graduation-day-introducing-chronicle-...
I thought that Joey Skaggs regarded his body of work as pranks and performance art pieces.
If you are moving from one health care provider to their competitor, you will find it is difficult to get the data successfully (and entirely) moved from one organization to another. Typically you will need to personally gather the data from the one provider and physically move it to another. In some cases they may provide a CD, DVD or thumb drive but it's more likely you'll have piles of paper.

Having a copy of your medical record in a format that is easy to carry and, even more important, easy for your clinician to read will go a long way towards insuring your new doctor, etc. has enough information not to do you more harm.
Amazingly useful, I would say. Two use cases I hadn't thought of.

(Actually I just thought about jokes.)
Well, it's totally sandboxed, no network connections are allowed either in or out, and the video is only stored in memory, not on disk until you press the keyboard shortcut, so it should be pretty secure.
I'm sure most people give nary a thought to the risk of using Google.
This is obviously a sad day for her family, but Insimply never knew any of this before now, and I am amazed.

Now as one of many, many freelance software consultants, discovering that she was probably the world's first, makes me a trifle teary eyed, and wonder if we have just found our own patron saint.

Is there a charity she supported?
Entities such as your employer and potential employers can know the same level of information about you by paying (or hacking) companies like Equifax for it.
aren't all ponzi schemes illegal, regardless of whether they're disclosed or not?
Combine that with Blockchain
Nuclear power buffs should be pleased. This is the first positive step forward for nuclear power for as long as I can remember.

50MW of power is powering roughly 50K homes for a year. It'll probably be for industrial usage at first, but either way it will take pressure off the power grid, and probably make the grid more resilient to boot.

It's difficult to imagine a catastrophic failure scenario for these since they don't require mechanical pumps. But, I'm guessing there's some industry folks here that have more of a nuanced read on this.

(edit: yay Oregon!)
There are levels and levels to what's going on in the writing. The early chapters are there to set up that he's lying to you, in a way that's heavy handed and devilishly subtle at the same time. Reading Gene Wolfe is like playing a poker game with the author, and no matter how hard you try to pay attention sometimes you look down and chips are missing, like Penn and Teller were just "explaining" a magic trick to you. It's frustrating and difficult and fantastic all at the same time, but obviously not for the same market as someone expecting a typical coming of age fantasy novel.
> They were not legitimate software from trusted sources.

Infected email attachments, unless they come from a trusted sender, I consider "useless positives" because nobody, with the appropriate training, should be opening them in the first place.

Kinda along the same lines of tracking portscans and counting those as "thwarted cyber attacks", like many government agencies tend to boast about, it's nice for padding stats but is it a real security gain?

Afaik by now one of the most common successful attack vectors is drive-by kits [0], increasingly served trough advertisement channels. Ad-blockers/disabling Java minimize this risk quite a bit, with low overhead, while having the added comfort of making the web more user-friendly.

Which to me is the most sensible solution, unless one really likes opening weird email attachments and/or plugging in untrusted devices.

> I don't think that in any of the cases the user would have had a warning to blindly click through.

If the user is already careless enough to connect untrusted devices and/or opening random email attachments, then I have no trust in said user to heed any of the following warnings, as he/she already had to ignore previous best practice warnings to get there in the first place.

[0] http://www.securityweek.com/internets-big-threat-drive-attac...
I realize it's a pretty hard problem - and hadn't java already demonstrated the feasibility of it, I would have doubted it to be possible at all without major surgery to both language and runtime (special scoped types etc). So I guess my question is: is there something about C# or .NET that makes it much harder to do escape analysis than it is in Java world?

An evil example is

class Something
{
private static readonly Something _inst;
public Something()
{
_inst = this;
}
}

Where the reference leaked just by instantiating it. Does java detect that this escaped the stack? How?
Yes, this is very frustrating! I often select a word to mark my place when going off to do something else. Can you share your solution?
I find it funny I just randomly highlighted your comment, as I was reading about you wondering why people randomly highlight.
> But in a certain sense, Satan is not absolutely evil and not having no good characters at all. For instance, as the example mentioned in the article, Satan is quite empathetic towards his fellow fallen angels -- and this empathy, would often invoke reader's empathy to a certain extent.

Or he has the charisma of a sociopath.

From the OP:

>>> The point of all this mirroring is to show how closely evil resembles good. Poole writes in Milton and the Making of Paradise Lost that Milton “regards evil as disarmingly close in appearance to the good,” and it is only by careful moral reasoning that the two can be separated. Shortly after Milton returned from Italy in 1639, where he met Galileo and spent several months participating in various Florentine literary salons, he wrote in his commonplace book, “In moral evil much good may be mixed, and that with singular craft.”

>>> ....

>>> In short, Satan says all the rightly compassionate things only to the “right” people, who are, of course, his people, and only when his own interests are at stake. He is unflappable only in front of a crowd, courageous only when it is personally advantageous. He acts like a good leader, father, and husband—and even argues with nearly perfect reasoning that he is more morally upright than God himself—all while serving only himself. He is a god of unchecked liberty, and, therefore, in Milton’s view, a god of chaos and destruction.
So it doesn't use IPFS at all.
Insurance doesn’t work well for common events if the administrative overhead is large compared to the economic loss insured.
It is not this interview, but I found out that Ted Nelson has a Youtube Channel. The link is: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCr_DXJ7ZUAJO_d8CnHYTDMQ

In there you can find interviews/talks in full length:
For example: this might be of interest to you:

Ted Talking Fast: How Computer Documents Got Dumbed Down-- and the Alternative
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDrHkNgGQDs
I’ve used front at Heap for about three years.

I’ve been extremely happy with their direction over the years. It started as a seemingly simple shared inbox. What attracted me also was the hot key setup was the same as gmail. This made switching from a rather hardcore gmail config to Front really easy.

At the time I predicted we’d outgrow it when we hit 10 people but we haven’t yet and the thing that will likely cause us to outgrow it are our customers.

The main thing that Front is missing for me, and it’s ok if they don’t service my specific needs, is a lack of ability to easily automate things based on information in either: our webapp, or our salesforce accounts/opportunities.

Being able to route conversations automatically based on external stuff we don’t have in front yet is becoming essential.

In fairness, if we had the resources we could implement a lot of this ourselves with their API, so it’s not even a very strong complaint against front.

The app is electron I believe, but it’s bloody fast. I care about my teams productivity and happiness a lot more than bells and whistles and Front is a pleasure to use day in and day out. I’ve sent something like 30000 emails in the past three years with Front (I know because Front also provides decent analytics!) and have never been frustrated because of Front. The same was not true for Zendesk, Desk, Helpscout, etc...
Found the easily triggered neck beard. He never said anything about God.
Looking through the comments, I'm really glad I posted the paper itself to HN, rather than the various writeups of it.
You can sell papaya seeds for $200/treatment.
Computer scientist claims clues to deciphering mysterious Voynich manuscript
How to correctly specify default options in ES6
200ml of hot (not boiling) milk

1 tsp of ground turmeric powder

A pinch or two ground black pepper

If you’re not used to turmeric, I’d suggest starting with half tsp as it’s got quite a strong flavour (especially when not cooked with other spices)
Like zumepizza? Relevant panel discussion at last year's startup conference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlW3wau3Lis
First primates born using Dolly the sheep cloning method
Fake celebrity porn is blowing up on Reddit, thanks to artificial intelligence
Everyone without statistical training thinks sample sizes are too small, but rest assured these studies are usually planned very deliberately. Power calculations are usually done in advance to determine the necessary sample sizes needed to demonstrate the magnitudes of different hypothesized effects according to a desired confidence level.
After reading the story I immediately thought that the point was that most of us live in Omelas. I don't think I have it in me to walk away.
I'm the editor (Stephen Cass). I really should have added "independent" to "similar" in my response there, but oh well ;). Anyhoo instead of emailing me, you can just let me know here if this thread has inspired you to want to see a longer version!

We're unlikely to just drop the raw footage (for the same reasons that journalists very rarely publish scans of the notes they take during interview, or the raw audio of any recordings, because part of our whole raison d'etre is editing things), but as I indicated, if there's enough interest to justify the resources, I could argue for a longer cut.

(Also, ProTip re: the poster below, yes, my personal email is publicly available with a google, but no, it's not a good idea to send a lobbying email to a journalist's personal account when there's a known-good work address available, not least because who knows when that email is going to be seen, and depending on the journalist's filters, it might never be seen at all.)
That's not entirely true. Causal inference is an enormous field and is just beginning to become more of a part of mainstream ML. ML is largely "minimize predictive error," but it's not limited to that.
50 Cent Forgot Taking 700 Bitcoins for 2014 Album; Stake Is Now Worth Millions
I use it to keep track of where I am on sites like HN that have some combination of wide content, small fonts, and tight line spacing. It gives my eye something to flick back to when I'm scanning back to the start of a line.
1000 should really be handled by automated tools. Takes useless burden from the reviewer, and emotionally easier for both sides too.
Why in the world would you need a nueral net to unload/load a truck?
wouldn't the world be better if data was open and easily accessible on everyone?

new morals would develop around reality rather than the fake image we are able to project. with constant surveillance i hope we enter into a more honest world.
I actually created an account on Medium only in the hopes of finding an option to disable this horrible feature, needless to say I was disappointed!
50MW per reactor at 12 per plant is 600MW. Or 600k homes powered by a single power plant. Nuclear is now very safe, and cleaner than coal. I am glad this project is moving forwards.

EDIT: Opportunities for more skilled jobs is always a plus too.
>but the article contends that it does not provide "meaningful" privacy which is not true.

Which part is not true?

>As others have commented here, signing is not comprehensive in practice on a per-package basis.

Great, lets fix that. It is orthogonal to HTTPS. Anything else?

>No, but a bug left open in a bug tracker indicates an intent to fix.

It also indicates that it did not have a low cost/benefit ratio.

>This one is being marked WONTFIX, which is not OK.

This point is already addressed under the "Why not provide HTTPS anyway?" section which points to the costs. This indicates strongly that the decision is about cost/benefit. If you have any ideas to lower the costs, propose them. I guess it would first require you to get familiar with all of the ground level logistical details, so maybe an unfair request.
Here's a little more detail https://news.uci.edu/2014/09/10/brain-inflammation-dramatica... and a lot more detail https://experts.illinois.edu/en/publications/interleukin-6-f...
Gyroscopic forces are not the dominant force keep a bicycle upright, this has been demonstrated with bicycles with counter-rotating wheels. Steering geometry of the front wheel is what self-stabilizes a bicycle.
Previous discussion is here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16220666
> I got the idea to write RetroClip after playing the game Fortnite Battle Royale and winning, and then having nothing to show for it besides a static screenshot.

You should try Shadowplay or the equivalent from your GPU vendor :) Great job on the project.
Nothing says "We are are scared that you are going to erode our unreasonable profits" more.
My solution to this is to have a fixed vacation time (like most companies), but the following years vacation time is docked by the amount you didn’t take, creating a strong incentive and justification to take all of your vacation each year.

On top of that, a randomly selected day or week per year as mandatory vacation (to build team resilience since any person might not be available).
It is not just a bomb that can blow the arctic. It can destroy all human civilization. And at this point, we may have lost any ability to do anything.

Edit:
Doom scale...

1 Inconvenient storms.

2 More frequent natural disasters.

3 Destroying coastal cities.

4 Causing hunger, wars and mass migrations.

5 Decimating human population.

6 Destroying human civilization.

7 Destroying all humans on earth.

8 Destroying all life on earth.

9 Destroying earth.
PicnicHealth (YC S14) is hiring front-end engineers to fix medical records
I've been communicating with the MakerNexus board for the past few weeks, and attended an info session at Hacker Dojo last Friday. The principals have a very well-thought-out business plan, and solid credentials in both business and the maker movement (all are former TS DC's or multi-year members, and/or have run professional fabrication businesses).

The board is pledging total transparency on income, costs and roadmap -- no middle-of-the-night shutdowns.

Ultimately, I think this formula (reasonable aspirations, frugality, volunteer contributions and charitable donations, transparency, driven by and for makers) is the key to success where TS failed.
I forgot to mention, Turmeric is a natural antiseptic. Can be applied to small cut wounds and protects from infection.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK92752/
Well it's your data, you could do some data science and NLP to study your life since 20 years ago.
Rust is a language that offers you lots of compile time checks, and an escape hatch called unsafe that says “trust the programmer here.” Yes, it is possible—and easy—to make mistakes in the place where you have asked to be trusted, not checked.

We have a big pedagogical task ahead of us in teaching safe practices for unsafe Rust, and defensive coding practices in unsafe Rust.

We should also think of if we can improve unsafe Rust to be harder to misuse. There are improvements coming in compile time evaluation, and those can potentially make the compiler much stronger when it comes to detecting memory errors in unsafe code at compile time.
Quantifying the Effect of Tether
iPhone SE is the model for you. Top quality, small form, half price. Best value / £ on the market when it came out.

However: It’s dated now, almost two years, so keep an eye out for a potential successor. If they don’t release a successor, then they played their cards very well and roped tons of us into their system with a too-good-to-be-true model. There’s probably a name for this play in economy text books :p
Great news. I have always believed Ponzi and alike schemes should be as legal and available as any other kind of gambling and lottery as long as the people introduced are well informed abut the nature of the scheme and the risks it means. I know some people who had participated in a distributed Ponzi scheme consciously and with notable success while I don't know a single person who had won anything above $2 in a lottery.