skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a nice fantasy, but sadly not correct. Delivering an important share of the production value is valuable on the business side, that's true. But it's not the major factor. It's one of multiple bargaining chips. Knowing the right people is another. Building hype for the product is another. Being directly involved in the sales process is yet another. And there are multiple more.

An enterprise is more than what it produces and therefore an enterpreneur also needs to be more. Not more in the sense of "higher level" but more in the sense of multi-tasking. Scale out, not scale up.

And being mediocre in each area is actually quite okay if one therefore is able to understand which area is currently the most important. If you have an exceptional product but nobody buys it, the hype building part is very well the most important area at that time, as an example.

So yes, craftmanship is important. It will make you produce great things, and the production of these things may make you a success as entrepreneur. But it's by far not to be singled out as The Major Factor.
At least they aren't running OS/2 Warp.
I'm not sure how you're interpreting that as the response to the political problem instead of "trying to calm down an agitated audience so that the response to the problem can actually be discussed". Peaceful, democratic govt doesn't work without dialogue, and this seems like a ham-handed attempt at getting back towards dialogue instead of yelling.
The Future of Computing: Logic or Biology (2003) [pdf]
> the parent means his comment as a positive thing.

I don't see a sign if that!

> HN is for posting things that strike our intellectual curiosity

Even cat's videos strike intellectual curiosity to some that doesn't mean it should be on HN.
GDAX has withdrawal limits of up to $25M/day, however if you're liquidating that much at once, you're better off OTC. GDAX USD accounts are only FDIC insured up to the standard $250K.
This crosses into incivility. Please don't do that on HN, even when someone is wrong.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Any competent C programmer shouldn't need any explanation of that simple example.

Granted pointers, just like objects in more "modern" languages, take some while for new programmers a while to get their heads around.
Are there really no sources that state that things other than aspirin inhibit platelet aggregation?
Why Do Humans Reason? Arguments for an Argumentative Theory
We've had this since 1997 for car tax stickers in Finland when they decided it was easier to just install a computer in every cop car that has the db. Same db also has info on insurance and inspections and also the check has been recently made automatic on the camera when previously the officer had to manually enter the plate.

I wouldn't be surprised if the data about the scans goes the other way too.

Proof of registration was made electronic in 2016 and again checked on the computer.

Driving a car isn't a right but a privilege so I'm on with this.
And suddenly we are back to the human help desk again.

Who is going to decide what is reasonable cost for covering the replacement trip. Is a bus ticket ok? cab ride? limo? Should the cost of time be counted for?
Coincheck to Repay Users Who Lost Money in $400M Hack
It is a DSL, but it's literally as thin as it gets. =) `method_missing` calls define properties. I'd take YAML+ERB over HCL for sure, though. And Cfer treating everything as objects gives us a really simple packaging mechanism for reuse--they're just gems.

Objects just work way better for reuse and aggregation than text, IME.
The way huftis stated it, it is indeed impossible.

In the popular, solvable version of the puzzle, the group also gets the information if each guess was wrong or right. It's not at all about encoding "9 bits of information in 1 bit".
I’ve been following one of its creators on Twitter[^1]. It’s been incredibly inspiring seeing this game come to fruition from humble beginnings.

[1]: https://twitter.com/noelfb
Even though my primary working computer is a PC, I always default to Apple keynote for presentation slides. I feel it just works better for me. At my work, we make presentations all the time, and our presentations are generally more detailed because we want people to be able to review them later.
(I screwed up; commented on the story one below instead of one above.) The story and the comment have been moved here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16250408
Can we try to avoid getting personal?

There is evidence suggesting diabetics are more susceptible to conditions related to elevated blood-brain barrier transport. So that might not exactly translate to "dissolving", but the effect is the same.

"Changes in plasma glucose levels (hyper- or hypoglycemia) have been associated with altered BBB transport functions"

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4306190/

[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17143608
While I think the abstract alone is succinct, the authors present their theory a bit more in detail on their website: https://sites.google.com/site/hugomercier/theargumentativeth...
It seems the ATM has not evolved very much over the past 20 years. Any ideas why?
that’s a narrow view. Maybe I need to debug an old server on the intranet? Maybe some provider only allows FTP downloads with checksums via HTTPS?

Protocols should become useless before dropping the client from standard distributions.
Actually, OS/2 has been used for ATMs ( I've seen them in the EU, long time ago ).
Obama set the record for most deportations, but sure...
Does Harvard discriminate against Asian-Americans?
I was troubled by that also. I live just outside of DC, about 15 minutes, and rent is $1200 a month. I think this person had a cascading effect of bad luck, less so housing crisis
You are the reason why websites like Glassdoor exist. Acting unfairly and feeling mistreated for not succeeding. What the hack...

I bet if you talked to the reviewer from the beginning he would've taken down the review immediately.
It would be cool if voters were willing to pay for public spaces, real public spaces, rather than waiting on the charity of companies through moral expectation, charity which could be retracted at any time, or diverted for any whim.
Your quote doesn't appear in the article, and this article also contains no code. Did you comment on the correct story?
I was not saying it was lacking those features. Feature plans are aces up sleeves for new releases. Multi-release planning turns out to be a great way to "time box" the current release.
> Or it is "missing features" from other stuff like "Zendesk is ok but it doesn't do ...".

The guy who started freshdesk said he read lot of comments on HN about how zendesk sucks so he started freshdesk to solve those problems.
The article repeatedly states that DC chargers can deliver more power than AC chargers, but I don't see how that could be a thing. Is it some limitation with the onboard power supplies?

It's my (limited, third-party) understanding that dual chargers on a Tesla will gladly saturate a 240V 80A J1772, while a single charger will take 48A off a NEMA 14-50 @ 240V.
A company called Better Place tried to do this with lots of investment capital, but they couldn't make it work.
Bitcoin Cash Supporters Prepare for the Network’s Next Six Months
The original getopt was a really tight library.
fiat wallets hacked. this is good for bitcoin.
Cryptocurrency historical market price data scrapper written in Python 3
I believe you can filter salaries by location.
I love how you put the whole business case into a single comment.

Officially they track an objective interpretation of the company. Only few companies would really get positive review though. So they also offer a way for the companies to improve their reviews for cash. And that is the main income probably.
The auto industry has spent billions of dollars promoting a completely unrealistic image of motoring. When was the last time you saw a car commercial where someone was stuck in traffic on their commute?

The median car journey in the US is just over 12 miles each way. 93% of households drive less than 100 miles on any given day. Current electric cars have more than enough range for the vast majority of users the vast majority of the time, but people have been trained by marketing to place excessive weight on abnormal journeys like road trips.

The majority of households have more than one car, so it would make perfect sense for them to have one electric car for routine journeys and keep an ICE car for those rare longer journeys. People who do actually take the plunge and go electric consistently report that they charge much less often than they thought they would need to, especially away from home. If we had a realistic sense of how we actually use our cars, EVs could achieve >50% market penetration without any infrastructure at all.
Knowledge is everywhere, science doesn't tell you to be narrow minded. If you deny human kind's past experiences, you would just end up reinventing the wheel. It is always hard to find the reason behind anything as it requires us to find the pattern first. Call it symptoms in medical science. Human kind has been doing it since its inception. Ancient texts are just there to help you out. Remember that there were no technological advancements as of today, still our ancestors had found reasons and solutions (cures in medical science) to many problems. You do not need to really trust anything, but what I am saying is that you cannot also simply deny it.
then why does it take so long to find kidnapped kids when we know the car the perp is in?
I bill by the hour too.

It's the only sane way to do it, and contra to your intuition it stops micromanagement and makes clients respectful of your time. Clients don't know or care about context switching for other clients, they care about the quality of the work provided, so take care of that and you'll be ok. It's not like you'll be constantly switching anyway. Usually I'll work all day or all half a day on one specific thing anyway.

In terms of accounting for each hour, there are software tools to help with that.

Just click when you're working and click when you stop and the software tallies up the time.

I don't provide clients with hourly breakdowns of everything I worked on, I just send a bill at the end of the month that includes total hours worked that month.

Regular video calls and email, plus delivered results are sufficient proof of work.
NYT has a history of hiring engineering rockstars. I believe creators of libraries like BackboneJS, UnderscoreJS, and D3 were at NYT when they had invented those amazing pieces of work.
Nope, you just end up thinking that compactly as you type.

When I learned C it was a given to code efficiently. Pointer manipulation and efficient structure packing was expected, and therefore taught. You'd rule out of an interview anyone who didn't easily grok it.

It's probably no surprise that the fastest GUI editor I've used to date ran on a 7.1MHz machine. Such is "progress"!
The Nature of Computation [Book Review by Cosma Shalizi]
German federal police use Trojan virus to evade phone encryption
It isn't obvious to me. Others have sung 'We Shall Overcome' as a gesture of solidarity after hate crimes or killings. For examples:

"'We Shall Overcome': Mourners Honor Orlando Victims At The White House" from http://dcist.com/2016/06/emotional_scene_outside_white_house...

"'If that young man thought he was going to divide this country he failed miserably': Thousands unite and sing We Shall Overcome at Charleston prayer vigil" from http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3132292/Thousands-ga...

"NAACP leaders joined local clergy and others to call for police reform in Chicago. After speaking with media, protesters linked arms and knelt in the street while singing "We Shall Overcome," blocking traffic." from http://abc7chicago.com/news/jason-van-dyke-posts-bond-leaves... .

"Citizens were joined by religious leaders, city leaders and a Huntington police officer and walked through the streets singing, "we shall overcome," and chanting, "stop the drugs, stop the violence."" from http://www.wsaz.com/content/news/Prayer-for-peace-vigil-held... .

There are also examples of "We Shall Overcome" being sung by politicians for something other than murder:

"House Democrats sing 'We Shall Overcome' shame GOP during sit-in" from http://www.kens5.com/news/politics/national-politics/house-d...

Is the embarrassing part in the Swedish case the it was a politician who tried to organize the singing? Or was it the implication that immigrants in Sweden are treated like black people in America? Or the expectation that immigrants would both identify with the American civil rights experience and know the song? Or something else?

If a politician in Sweden were to lead people to sing The Internationale, would that also be seen as an "empty gesture of solidarity"? (My assumption is that socialist-leaning Sweden has politicians who sing the national anthem. https://www.thelocal.se/20090406/18692 says 'the [SDU] party also offered up renditions of socialist and communist songs such as "the Internationale" and "Song for Stalin"' so it's not like it's an uncommon song there like it is in the US.)
Observing some of the people I know looking for startup funding they are pretty focused on getting funding and less so on having a profitable business. The plan seems to be funding, try to be the uber or blockchain for something then seek more funding. Bootstrapping forces you to look for ideas which are actually cash profitable which may help account for the difference.
One solution is to purchase your car from and register it to a front company. This way they can still track license plates, but not easily associate them with owner names.
The problem with Powerpoint is that it is 'not the web'. So a great amount of resource goes into a deck of slides with the graphics department doing images, someone else getting reports and someone else editing the whole thing for the boss to present.

There may actually be great things in this presentation, things that should be on the main website but they are not on the main website, they are only available in this proprietary presentation format.

By now the small to medium size business has a whole team of people bothering themselves with these presentations and probably working in CMYK for the graphics. This team did not think to try using HTML and the web, they got stuck in Powerpoint, Word, Excel and the 1990's way of working non-collaboratively. Information gets prepared for the boss in these slide decks rather than be widely available for logged in web users to the company website.

PDF files used for website design proposals are my pet peeve. However it is the legacy workflows and duplication of effort that bugs me, when companies aren't willing to step up and use the new tools but bumble along the 'Powerpoint way'.
> The insane gun ownership in this country could be a benefit.

I'm sorry, it's hard not to be a little snarky here. Yes, the guys who wrote the original rules for the country considered gun ownership so essential that they placed it second only to the freedom of expression. I don't like guns, but they represent a failsafe that we hopefully never have to use.
If you have ssh access, you have sftp access. If your company still uses rlogin and ftp, then get a new job before they get hacked and blame whoever touched the server last.
The bill says, rather, that the term "embedded software", for the purposes of the act, can be taken to synonymous with terms such as "basic internal operating system", "internal operating system", "machine code", "assembly code", "root code", and "microcode" that one might find used instead.

In other words, where it talks about making available any "updates to embedded software" it can be considered to be also talking about making available "updates to microcode" or "updates to the internal operating system" if that's what they are called.

Would you like a law that people can avoid by using different terms for things?
How is the price of rent going up the fault of landlords, when terrible urban planning (and NIMBYism) has limited housing in the Bay Area for decades. In the Bay Area, blaming landlords is shooting the messenger. The truth is that in a lot of these places existing homeowners are happy to see people priced out. At the same time, job growth is getting more concentrated in expensive urban environments. Local governments respond to local (property) tax payers, who don't mind gentrification. State and national governments do nothing, because the political pressure is zero. So, yeah blame the landlord.
When you really get into spatial imaging, splitting hairs on definition is really important. To the layman, it's basically what you think of as a hologram. Holography is a photographic record of a light field. Leia might be more accurately described as a spatialized parallax display. With a light field you would be able to infinitely change your depth focus to any item in the volume because the entire light field is captured.
this is how they did it somewhat later in plan 9, with macro's:

ARGBEGIN{
default:
usage();
case 'm':
m = ARGF();
break;
case 'p':
pflag = 1;
break;
}ARGEND

https://github.com/9fans/plan9port/blob/master/include/libc....
https://github.com/9fans/plan9port/blob/master/src/cmd/mkdir...
> More critically, repair information.

You might want to read the actual bill, rather than the news article. Clue: section 3.
I people didn't need cash this problem would go away. I think of this occasionally when I visit our local bagel shop, which like many bagel shops in the area does not take cards and has an atm onsite.
"That’s how Kernigham and Ritchie did it in 1978. Nowadays they just haul in the software weenies with their fancy objects and methods."
No, we use getopts(3C). For decades now. I even use getopts in my shell programs. For old UNIX hands, using getopts in C or in shell programming is certainly nothing new. How, you ask? Simple! Watch this:
while getopts hDd: Option
do
case "$Option"
in
h)
Usage
;;

D)
Debug=true
;;

d)
Destination="$OPTARG"
;;
esac
done
shift `expr $OPTIND - 1` # I did not use $((OPTIND - 1)) for a reason!

Bam! Your program will now behave exactly as every other UNIX executable, especially if you do not name it with .sh postfix and make it executable, the user won't be able to tell the difference between it or say, ls(1)!
Having said that, the example in the article cements what I've been saying all along: C is more than fine in the programming hands of a thoughtful mind.
This seems like a nice product, but unfortunately I can't create an account - after signing in via my Google account, I was redirected to a page [1] with an infinitely looping loading gif. I tried clearing my cookies for the domain, but no luck.

I'm running Chromium 64 on Linux.

[1]: account.goswitchboard.com/signup
I followed the original link as well as this calculation. Why not use this to map them directly (instead of breaking it into 12 bits and 4 bits) ? We'll just have some unused headroom in 16 bits. This would seem more natural than thinking of the 12 + 4 solution.
Most likely they intended to comment on this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16249936 (which is next to this item on the front page at the time of writing)
Show HN: Ewolo track your workout progress and body weight together
Such speculation happens in a lot of resale marketplaces. Stubhub, for example, allows speculative selling (selling tickets you don't have). There are "brokers" who see tickets listed elsewhere (like Ticketexchange), create mirror listings on Stubhub at a higher price, then buy the tickets from the other site if they get an order. That's why you can see +/-40% of listings vanish from a Stubhub event page at the 4-hour-before-start mark -- sellers generally have to pre-fill listings after that.

If an order is placed and the tickets don't exist (or the seller can't get them at a price that allows profit after all and chooses to flake out), Stubhub can just refund the buyer and wash their hands of it. Easy peasy.
It's an interesting idea. At what point, though, do we draw the line between what a character set (like Unicode) should handle, and what should be handled by a higher-level layer? I'm thinking that things like boldness, italicisation, and super script aren't really the job for a character set.
If the plot was terrible, the visual aspects didn't impress me at all (it looked way too shiny and polished, some elements were trite - the snowy-white locations, the red desert ones; or taken from previous movies, for example Spielberg's AI). The music was generic but bombastic. The kung-fu fights completely unnecessary and pointless.
Well all public companies are a bit like Amway in the sense that they have a lot of stakeholders which have an incentive to help the company grow. Amway is a very successful business after all.

I'd say that cryptocurrencies are more ethical than Amway though because they don't try to make a profit by selling starter kits.
> Why are they "competing"

You should probably read a book on how our economy works.
Thanks for the context!

Are there intentions to standardize JMAP under IETF?
> Is it some limitation with the onboard power supplies?

I'm pretty sure it's a limitation of the rectifier circuit in the charger.
What's missing: The complexity of life. Even in Europe with its stronger social welfare it doesn't take much to get seriously tumbled. A job loss coupled with a depression episode is enough to derail one's life.

I being Deaf know many people who struggle in Switzerland. For example they don't understand the letters social welfare sends them. Hell, even a hearing woman whose son attends kindergarten with my son, openly admitted that she had an episode where she stopped opening letters because she was just overwhelmed.

Here at Hacker News there seem to be people who are successful and simply don't understand that they were lucky. They learnt to navigate and overcome hurdles. But what about people who grew up under not so ideal circumstances and will be always somewhat limited in their resiliency?

It's not completely their fault if they stumble.
No you don’t need information on whether the each guess is right. (And, of course, if the group is playing it correctly, every guess except possible the first one is correct.)
I disagree but ok.
As others have mentioned, it comes up in information theory, or maybe in some subfields of combinatorics and probability. I learned it tangentially in various parts of physics.

But I might just recommend going to the source! which is Claude Shannon's seminal masters thesis on coding: http://affect-reason-utility.com/1301/4/shannon1948.pdf . It's surprisingly readable and worth at least skimming if you like this stuff.
The "hack" in question involves replacing the hard drive.

Secure Boot should be able to prevent this even with physical access.
Tesla was offering battery swaps for their Model S at the mid point between LA and SF, but the customers were not really interested in the service. After some hours of driving people want to take a break anyway, and with fast charging, that is sufficent to recharge the battery without taking any more time for the break.

The big thing with electrical cars is, that they can be plugged in while parking. So every morning, you start off with the full range of the car, and often you can plug in at work too. Battery capacities keep growing, so you get more range awailable this way and fast chargers get faster, reducing the recharge times on the road. This progress shrinks the szenarios in which a battery swap would be needed.