skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Start with a simple idea, and rather than work to keep it simple, parasitic add-ons!

Look at gas stations. It used to be they sold gas, and maybe oil. But evidently there's no money in gas, so now they all sell unhealthful snacks and bottled water (itself an environmental disaster, which this kind of retail establishment has fostered). And there's not enough money in that, so now there's video advertising at every pump. Buying gas has become extremely unpleasant. Plus, distracting everyone all the time has ruined our what little social cohesion we had.

Now drivers are going to be asking you if you want any snacks. Because, research will show, if you ask TWICE, customers are 12% more likely to buy. Uber already has a parasitic burden which needs to be shed; namely, the idea that the only way to succeed is by being a criminal enterprise.

Parasitism is a deep property of ecosystems, so I guess we just can't have simple services and products that work, but it sure would be nice. Is there no better way to compete?
CUDA uses a single-source approach, meaning that the host (CPU) and device (GPU) code are in the same file. So it requires a special compiler (nvcc) that splits the original source files, compiles the host and device parts separately, and then merges the result back together.

This requires nvcc and the device compiler to have exact knowledge of how the host compiler compiles every single construct (thing e.g. about alignment and padding in complex structures), and they must at least be able to parse the syntax of the host include files (which e.g. fails if the include files have C++11 syntax, but the device compiler only knows how to parse C++98).
What do you mean "worth pursuing"? Do you mean that you can't find an idea worth investigating further? Or do you mean that you can't find an idea that survives a month of concentrated market research?

The latter is reasonable. The former isn't. You should be able to come up with lots of ideas worth following up on.

Let's play a game. Someone give me a product category, and I'll list ideas that are at least worth more research.
I've thought about taking money, not because I need the money, but because I am interesting in tapping some expertise. However, it has always been unclear how much expertise is exchanged for startup capital.
I have issue with the "Blue/Red Ocean" concept. Google is supposedly a Blue Ocean idea. Really? Sure, their approach was novel but the search market was already saturated by Alta Vista, Lycos, Yahoo, etc. You could say the same about Facebook with the competition of Friendster and MySpace.

In both cases they took a new angle that let them expand well beyond the existing market, but the market did exist and was already developed. I would say that most "Blue Ocean" ideas seem to be more like "Red Ocean, with potential upside".
foreign-born*, but yes, that would be acceptable.
People would rather HODL their investments in retirement, networking, and social constructs than uproot and jump into the deep end of another nation which presumably has its own pitfalls just waiting to trap naive gaijin.
> This comment makes it seems like it's a foregone conclusion your business will be a success.

Startups are a game of optimism. The mindset is: in it to win it.

It's totally OK to be visualizing the finish line and your equity turning into a Tesla, house, or yacht. And you're all sharing the success. It's a huge motivator.

> And, while I'm on that subject. DON'T leave your day job when you start your side project. Just keep your day job until you're making enough money with your side project before you leave!

You can't survive in this field on a 4 hour work week.

Let's be a bit more generous and assume we've built a savings with full time job first. What is the other founder bringing to the table while the programmer produces tangibles?

Billing code, dashboard, homepage, getting users, retaining users, design/ux, debugging, customer service/support. This takes months of grueling work.

You have to go all-in. And a co-founder that's less than 100% is a serious red flag. Why would I want to share ownership with someone who saw this as a side project, when I view it as center of my life?

Get what I mean?
> This encourages an anti-marriage, anti-stable family pattern.

Welfare state is not "let's financially encourage the disintegration of families". It's "let's help individuals that suffer from the lack of a family support system".

People on unemployment benefits still look for a job, because they value their dignity over money. Similarly, most people want to be loved and cared, and wouldn't destroy their own family over a (meager, by the way) monetary gain.
Reagent-grade 95% ethanol isn't denatured. Because then it wouldn't be reagent-grade. What we had in biochem labs had tax-exempt labels.
> In order to obtain the optimal amount of benefit, the family unit must already be in a disintegrated state, eg non-married, non-cohabitating, with offspring present.

Aggressive means-testing is a compromise outcome, as attributable to conservatives as to liberals/socialists.

> This encourages an anti-marriage, anti-stable family pattern.

Most of the think-tank pieces pushing this assertion cite the same sociologist, W. Bradford Wilcox, whose work is supported by AEI's Institute for Family Studies. Here's what Wilcox says about what his empirical work demonstrates [1]:

> one of the study’s co-authors, said the study’s findings show that welfare is “not the most important factor in explaining why we see a pretty marked increase in single parenthood and unmarried childbearing in the last 40 years.”

Discussed at greater length in [2], reaching the conclusion that

> Taken together, these results suggest that marriage penalties associated with American social-welfare programs play only a modest role in shaping the marriage decisions of contemporary couples with new children

So even the primary academic proponent of this theory, when pressed, admits his own empirical studies don't justify his favored causative hypothesis -- that the effect is mild at best.

It's unsurprising, then, that these think thank pieces focus on logical deductions about homo economicus rather than empirical datasets and statistical tests. Social science at its best ;-)

Now, none of this is to say that means testing shouldn't be reformed in order to encourage marriage! And in fact, I agree with Wilcox that welfare shouldn't discourage marriage.

But we have to respect the science here. Your causative assertion about causes of structural changes to American families isn't justified, even by the people most eager to prove such a link. And as a result, we don't have any reason to believe that reforming welfare will have anything other than a "modest" effect on the structure of American families.

So, what variables do effect family structure? Even according to [2], the answer isn't welfare, but "stable, decent-paying work and good relationships are far more important predictors of marriage and childbearing decisions for such couples than are calculations related to social-welfare benefits."

Which, incidentally, dovetails nicely with the article's conclusions: lack of access to stable, decent-paying work and a breakdown in social relationships.

So the article may be "rife with misconceptions", as you say, but its root cause analysis appears closer to the mark than your assertions. And that's even true when we only consider evidence from people who are most aligned with your world-view!

[1] https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/aug/3/welfare-disc...

[2] https://ifstudies.org/ifs-admin/resources/welfare-and-marria...
Great point. This is why I advocate for taking money early on, but only increasing burn when a profitable business model is found.

This is the best of both worlds.
Can you elaborate? It's always been my understanding that the visa can be extended past 6 years in 1-3 year increments if you have an approved I-140. Without losing your "place" in the green card line.
Read the FAQ entry I linked to. (Specifically, the "How can I replace Wayland's Window Manager?" heading; the anchor doesn't seem to work properly.)

Standalone window managers aren't a thing in the Wayland ecosystem, no more than they are under Windows or macOS. Much of the functionality which would be implemented by an X11 WM is either built into the Wayland compositor, or delegated to clients.
As Canada Bill Jones said, it’s immoral to let a sucker keep his money.
The real advantage of CloudFormation comes in combining it with the AWS APIs -- you can define your infrastructure as code in Python, NodeJS, Java, Ruby, &c.

* troposphere (Python): https://github.com/cloudtools/troposphere

* cloudform (JavaScript, TypeScript): https://github.com/bright/cloudform

Driving infrastructure with a general purpose programming language actually works pretty well in practice.

As things have developed, I've come to question infrastructure-specific external DSLs, like Salt, Terraform, even Chef to some extent. Infrastructure is not any less programmable than payments, machine learning, graphics, app servers. Why can't the tooling be provided as libraries, consumable from ordinary programming languages?
It literally isn't vodka. Everclear is a rectified spirit (pure grain alcohol) Vodka isn't anywhere near as distilled. It's less pure, a lot less.

Plus vodka has a ton more water.

Any time you create a liqueur you should use rectified spirits (Everclear/Crystal Clear/Golden Grain/etc) not vodka.
I think startups die because they are pressured to spend a dollar or more for every dollar that comes in.

Bootstrapped businesses are forced to retain cash for a rainy day. It is anti-fragile vs the fragile nature of a negative/break even cash flow business that depends on a steady stream of investors who introduce other investors who introduce other investors. It's built on ego and not on fundamentals and humans are fallible.

These days you can just get a loan from a bank if you have a high enough MRR to cover the interest rate. No equity, no control traded for a 3rd party who's sole interest is ROI.

I've personally seen bootstrapped businesses that had healthy MRRs rapidly transform into a race to zero or negative cashflow. When I questioned the robustness, I was told by a software engineer angrily I didn't know what I was talking about and that perhaps my economic degree wasn't any use lol. I don't think he's equity is worth anything now but the whole scenario reminded me of the Horse in Animal Farm.

The fake it till you get bought out by a giant is a lottery. Don't trade your life for one.
But productive.
Yeah, his previous stint at Fusion-io went public and reached only a $2 billion evaluation. Loser!

(That's not to credit him specifically with any if its success, but hanging a "failure" tag on him is just odd.)
I remember using bitvisor (a very thin hypervisor like Xen but for intercepting sys-calls or hyper-calls) to see if Windows XP and Windows 7 send anything without being caught by the OS level firewall. It was actually but I never investigate further. So with a grain of salt, I would never trust what Microsoft provides a way to increase the trust of people who are worried. Also in this documentation, it doesn't mention what is the data actually but it only says some keys and ids.

I would like to see how the OS I have paid for (not everyone is just upgrading) can be stopped of monitorings. Granted I am coming from Linux and Mac but it took me a lot of time to find the checkboxes and there is still no way to know if I have unchecked them all and if they are adding more of these in the future updates. Which may be this tool can be helpful for me knowing oops I missed one of those apparently.
We’ve been mystics, building false realities in which to inhabit (gods, daemons, myths and legends) since we had the cognitive capacity to do so.

I find it exciting. We each have within our heads the ability to sculpt reality not just for ourselves but for the human world as a whole. We just tend to imagine bad realities - vengeful gods, despotic dictatorships, the dangerous and unknown “other”.
Kenji now steers away from this method: "But to be completely honest, it's one that I don't really use at home that often. With the fat/flour all-butter technique, it's really not necessary—the dough is easy to roll out as-is—and in fact, I've even heard some folks complain that the additional liquid that vodka allows you to add makes for a dough that's too sticky to roll out. If you're a pie crust veteran, you'll find it very odd to work with.

There's also the fact that the recipe violates Rule #1 of my home: don't waste alcohol."

http://www.seriouseats.com/2015/03/science-of-pie-7-myths-th...
They won’t get negative feedback but run a very real risk of getting booted off the platform. Preshipment Order Cancellation is a big part of the Order Defect Rate. Let that get too high and you won’t be selling on Amazon again. In most cases it’s worth taking a loss on an order to avoid canceling it.
You don't want to drink that stuff. It contains traces of benzene. Benzene blocks the 95% ethanol/5% water azeotrope, which has a lower boiling point than ethanol.
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> Anyway, I'd say that reality in this context means "subjective reality", the complex of our individual beliefs of what is real.

That's exactly the problem: the phrase is an attempt to identify reality with 'the complex of our individual beliefs of what is real'. In other words, it identifies the objective with the subjective. It erases the distinction between reality, and what one believes is real. Losing that distinction can only be harmful in our world which—I agree—"is becoming increasingly more complex and layered".

It's one thing to acknowledge the power of of ideas to shape one's perception of reality, but the particular tactic used here (of coopting the world 'reality' to mean something antithetical to its most common definition) is underhanded.
The Bible describes the conquest of the Holy Land as being both a fulfillment of promises to Israel and a consequence for the behavior of the conquered. Earth and everything in it is God's so the authority of Israel wasn't in military power but fiat by the creator of the universe.

Of course, most don't follow Biblical theology, which more or less amounts to "Trust God. He wouldn't have told them to take the Israel if it was unfair." The Philistines taking Israel simply because they want it, in contrast, would be sinful.

> We often make the mistake of looking at these stories through a modern lens, and ascribing morality to them that simply didn't exist at the time.

Right. The "everyone's just conquering stuff" morality isn't accurate either, though.
> fast enough for most use cases.

I take issue with this. In terms of speed, python can't even hold a candle to java. Even when using pypy, which isn't 100% compatible with cpython.
Which MBTI type is Jordan B. Peterson?
.z.ph is extremely convenient. I'd be horrified if he removed it. I'm sure its just a line or two anyway. :)
I've seen cases where the scalper bots bought all of the tickets, and re sold them for two to three times the list price. And then I get there to a show that's maybe between 50% and 60% of capacity that's been 'sold out' since quite literally 30 seconds after the tickets went on sale.
The linked study doesn't agree that "that is a misconception and has been debunked". It says it's true:

> As indicated by other reports, myopia was found to be associated with ... education and nearwork.
Suddenly the whole Uber prospect starts to sound like a dystopia I want no further part of and I'll take a cab or the bus!

"Would you like a snack or beverage?" "No thanks"
"sure? We have Red Bull, Coke, choc bars, chewing gum" "Like I said, no thanks"
"We have a special discount on Coke today" "still no"
"OK. I see from your Uber account you're a software developer, that's great!"
"We have a short presentation that's just perfect for you!"

(Do they lock the doors, time-share style, until you've watched all of it?).

"Hi Uber passenger, ABC Recruiting have a great job opportunity for you.... " (pitch continues)
"...press button below to go straight to in-car interview!"

Just no.
The only difference I notice between window managers is configuration options: is there a shortcut to send the window to another workspace..? Can you resize when maximized, etc.

What features would you personally miss?
If concert halls / theatres actually cared about scalping they’d require ID on admission. But they don’t, so they don’t. They care about concerts selling out, and they want to outsource the risk management of optimising the price to the market. It’s like a futures market they can hedge in. All the crocodile tears in the world won’t change that.

I will maybe, maybe accept that ID’ing is a barrier in the states, but in Europe everybody and their dog has id. Yet: scalping persists.

I don’t blame the resellers anymore, frankly.
The internet is inherently social, we don't need to reify that aspect in explicit sites for 'social networking'. It's a weird cargo-culty skeumorphism of a natural thing. I think we need maybe point-to-point and broadcast comm standards but not social networking sites that try to trap you and own you
> I did try tasting it and it was awful. Pure ethanol is near odorless, but gains a smell from the oxidation of ethanol to acetaldehyde. The lab grade stuff had a very strong smell.

Yeah, I wouldn't recommend putting an undiluted form of almost anything in your mouth. Nobody puts pure acetic acid on their french fries, nor does anyone drink pure citric acid, so I don't see why anyone would think pure ethanol would be much better.
It can be extended if you have an approved I-140 but also if you have a pending I-140. What's going to happen if you switch the job on a pending I-140? And an I-140 could be pending for years in case you are not aware.
Even approved I-140 (after 180 days) is not clear cut because the AC21, which allows this, states something to the effect that it's fine if you change to a similar job. How similar? It's up to the USCIS to decide.
It's more subtle than that. According to the Bible, Cain was the first human born on Earth. It think that's meaningful, we are all human and all of us have Cain's nature in ourselves.
You're setting up a false dilemma. American History X and Breaking Bad each do good jobs of showing evil without making evil behavior one dimensional.
Would it contain those traces if it were produced with molecular sieves rather than benzene?
Switched to Firefox after Google supported inclusion of DRM into w3c standard and never looked back. It turned out latest Firefox is pretty decent browser.
No, the quote is saying that if you dehumanize your enemy by portraying them as evil, you can get people to commit atrocities against them. That is, the chain of causality is "portrayal as evil" => "commit atrocity", not "civilian death toll" => "not controversial". In fact I don't even see how you could read that into the quote.
What Is Response Time in Performance Testing?
I found the first discussion before posting, but I figured after 7 years there would be enough people who hadn't seen it the first time around to warrant a new post.

Is that not OK?

I didn't notice the second conversation. If I had, I'd probably not have re-posted it so soon.

Edit: Actually, I can't find the 2015 conversation in the search.
He murdered his brother out of raw jealousy. Aesthetically and poetically there's plenty to draw from, but I think it's hard to argue that Cain's behavior was in any sort of grey area.
I don’t know if it’s necessarily dependence or not. I think SV has trouble enticing US citizens from the rest of the country to move here because they won’t pay enough to provide a similar quality of life. In the 20years I’ve been here I’ve had to transfer tech from places like MD, NJ and Texas. In all cases we managed to retain very few of the engineers from those locations. If I had to guess we’d get 1 out of every 30 engineers to move to the valley. The primary reason we could convince so few was the high cost of housing. In those days the difference wasn’t anywhere near what it is now. recently at the big web monopoly I work at, we hired a director level from Colorado. After a year, he chose not to move due to high costs of housing despite >$300k salary and probably a very valuable RSU package. He left.

I think wages in the Valley would be significantly higher if companies had to entice US citizens to move here. I think the wages would be higher because they’d have to provide quality of life/lifestyle at similar levels to elsewhere. The relief valve of foreign workers, the vast majority simply want a green card allows people to accept a lower standard of living relative to the rest of the US.

That and the fact that once established foreign workers tend to hire same. Example: my Chinese colleagues only seem to be able to refer other a Chinese when we are hiring. Don’t mean to pick on them, other groups do it too. But also in 20 years I’ve never once seen a Chinese colleague refer a non-Chinese National (or even Chinese-American) for an open req.
I have yet to hear of a natural, malevolent monopoly that formed without some kind of government protection to keep out competition (a.k.a. rent seeking), in the forms of direct government contracts, complex startup-averse regulations, government LICENSING, etc.
Indeed, but we use brandy for vanilla extract to add a little more flavor.

Back to liquer: fill a jar half full with pitted sour cherries or grapes. Fill the jar the rest of the way to the top with sugar cubes. Add vodka until everything is covered, put on the lid, leave in a dark place, and forget about it for about six months. The liquer you get is spectacular, and the boozy fruit is phenomenal on something like ice cream.
How much do Apple and Google send, I wonder.
Isn't WebSocket dead and buried, replaced by HTTP/2?
These companies have sold investors on the value of their social graph. Nobody was quite sure what, exactly, that value is, but it I think it is clear that it has one.

Early on, celebrities organically grew followings. This gave them a direct, bidirectional channel to their followers - there’s a value of the service, more than the graph. Later arrivals to the platform had a problem, and so did the service provider: how do you promote yourself to a broad subset of the network, quickly?

Recommendation systems have been around for a long time, so that’s part of the solution. But if you wanted a quick spin up, word of mouth and algorithmic solutions weren’t going to go that far. And what if you had an unpopular brand and we’re looking to improve it? Those things almost worked against you. Deliberate promotion is another outlet, but people are looking for viral magnification of their message. This is, I would argue, a real value to the network. Spontaneous memetic propagation.

This is possibly the only real value of the network at scale. But you can’t sell it, at least not directly. The appearance of deliberate, centralized control does not yield the desired result. People can distinguish emergent network behavior from facile promotion very easily, subconsciously even. The value of the network is in social ties. So people whose friends genuinely like something - they are more likely to like that thing, too.

If the service provider is going to leverage the power of the network for themselves, they need these bot networks. They need to sell indirect access to the network, because direct access is not the desired product. And the network effect is very powerful, as we increasingly see isolated subgroups creating virtual echochambers, and others paying to exploit and shape those shape those sub graphs.

These networks are powerful and potentially dangerous artifacts. I think we should have asked in 2009, could something like the Arab spring happen in a developed, stable nation? But nobody was asking that, I certainly wasn’t. It is a interesting time to be alive.