skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It often feels like 99% of “startup wisdom” comes down to “have a rich family that supported you emotionally and then paid for your college, and then let you start a company at their house for free”

Or perhaps more to the point, "the best ideas to try are the ones you need investment to try, and oh hey that's what we do here. Don't go building a business that's profitable from the start, where YC can't own part of it. All that internal pressure to make money early on isn't good for you; what you want is external pressure to make LOTS of money later on, assuming your social network for pigs didn't fail."
A startup doing this: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/18/your-money/mortgages/loft...

And now apparently Fannie Mae is moving into this space:
https://www.wsj.com/articles/gig-economy-grows-up-as-lenders...
And if you host your own?
One of my first thoughts about this was, to prevent recovery by another entity. I imagine it would make for interesting and informative study.
> not reducing regulatory overhead.

Actually, they do address this - it's one of their baked in assumptions about 'integrated roofing' (they refer to those costs as PII):

"The roof replacement visionary pathway also benefits from savings in other cost categories. For example, the PII cost is reduced because we assume the PV permit cost declines to a standard $200 per system."

Given the huge complexity of various city, county, and state regulations, I think it's highly unlikely that permitting costs would go down for a system that is integrated into the roofing material. And if I'm wrong, I can't see them going down significantly - permitting and inspection fees are an income stream for cities and counties, and they do't just reduce them because of a PDF from the NREL...
Obsessing over minutiae won't help you to see the bigger picture.

You can paint Get’er done people with that brush too. Efficiently producing wrong code helps nobody but yourself.

There are flavors of good engineering that allow the team to maintain velocity year over year. Too often those techniques get thrown under the perfectionism bus and then later the team blames “bad luck” [edit or ‘stupid people’ not them] for their failures.
Crossed wires: The first transatlantic cable was seen as a folly and a hoax
George Church wants to give you the power to sell your DNA on the blockchain
Probably more like value reasons. What's the point? Would that drive more users to Facebook? Or current users to spend more time there?
In Finland this is already happening. This app is being used (and it is actually very useful, too): https://www.buddyhealthcare.com/news/supporting-pediatric-su...
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Definitely more so then bitcoins.
From context, "we" is the drug company running the clinical trial. And his first sentence did read very strangely, as you clearly weren't talking about anything other than an anecdote. :)

Having said that, his point other point seems to be valid. Tamiflu does not make a claim as to helping someone in your case, afaik.
Even in Australia which, last I checked, is not in the US, uses up and down to refer to north and south. That seems fairly independent or state as well. For example ins Perth you go "up to Geraldton" and in Sydney you go "up to Brisbane", and "down to Melbourne".

The whole out and over thing seems more regional to me. In Australia "out" is generally just "far from here" and "over"... well that isn't a thing, at least in the dialects that I'm used to. :-)
RE SpaceX, I agree. You could clearly see that the presenters got the info that the center core landing failed, and they were just about to tell so. I understand the rationale behind that decision - the 'media gloss' is still important to the success of their core goal - but it left a pretty bad taste in my mouth.
You absolutely have a point, but the dynamics are different. Multiple such companies compete to be your e-mail sender. No one is competing with Facebook to receive money from companies who believed they could reach their audiences inside Facebook.
https://twitter.com/{user}/lists
For me one example of a toy that became a tool after a few design/development iterations is Postman. It started out as a basic browser extension that let a person make HTTP requests to an API endpoint and displayed the JSON/XML output for you in a pretty formatted result section.

Then after a few iterations it has become a very useful and capable tool for API exploration, testing, and design.

They key for me is to have a tool which hides its advanced features behind a sliding door, where you can reach for the complex feature when needed, but not be bothered by it when you don’t.
> I'm genuinely surprised someone managed to spin something like Google advocating for a secure web into a monopoly agenda

You are surprised to see people expecting more monopolistic behavior from the biggest monopolist on the web?

I have bridges for you.
I work at Arm in the UK. They also have offices in France, Sweden, Norway, and Hungary.

It's a great place to work:

* You're surrounded by smart people

* The work is interesting

* Short hours

* Flexible: if I want to work from home or run some errands during the day, I can drop an email "where is <insert name>" to let my team know. No need to ask anyone.

There are hardware and software roles, with everything in between: hardware design and test, infrastructure, cluster, web applications, compilers, and a lot of internal software tools.
There is not strong indication that the drug worked well or even at all. It was taken long outside the window where its best applied.
Chances are that in your case, the illness has run its course and the pills were taken at the time you would have gotten better anyways. I’d bet that sleeping two days had a much stronger effect on your recovery than two doses of tamiflu.
That’s why we - as a society - do not accept clinical trials that do not conform to a minimal scientific standard, statistical significance being one of the requirements.
Well I personally don't believe in hiking shoes; I like a solid boot with ankle support, and find the hiking shoes sacrifice performance.

Yes, they are heavy, but they protect me from all sorts of absurd trail problems (ice, rocks, mine tailings, "punji sticks", weird grades and rock edges, etc). The stiffer sole prevents arch fatigue.

(Trick, which I did first for my off the shelf Asolo boots: I had the cobbler take them apart and put in a device that was basically a plastic half pipe with a flat plate at one end. The plate went above the boot sole and under the internal sole (under my foot) and the half pipe ran up the back of my ankle. Gave be a lot of additional stability on uncertain ground and prevented pronation). Even those Asolos were only about $300 and lasted a few years; I had the sole repaired at about 400 mi and then tried again, fruitlessly, after another couple of hundred. But they were super comfortable.

I had my boots custom made from a guy I met through my (then) local camping store in the Prenzlauer Berg. Cost about 1000 Euros. Sounds like a lot but on a per mile basis they have been cheap and they fit my feet like a glove.

Your best bet would be to talk to your local cobbler (what repairs can they make?) and your camping store because you need a local network who can support your boot. Also Dave Page in Seattle is THE GURU hiking boot cobbler and may recommend something. I have found the uppers of Asolo and Vasques boots to be outstanding, and I use a pair of modified Asolos as my jungle boots.

Oh, and despite what I said about hiking "shoes", I did hike from yosemite to the desolation wilderness (tahoe-yosemite trail) in Chaco sandals which have no ankle support. I wouldn't do it again, and all my toes ended up bloody, but it was actually pretty good.
> I suppose there is always a physical limit on the total capacity of low latency addressable ram and storage you can manage to shove into an architecture.

Some people even argue that, due to these physical limits, storage access time tends to scale O(sqrt(N)) with the size N of the storage, including for RAM.

http://www.ilikebigbits.com/blog/2014/4/21/the-myth-of-ram-p...
> Unless, of course, you're talking about the famous SOCIAL NETWORKS. In which case they were -- and continue to be -- toys.

That's only from the perspective of the user. From the perspective of businesses using the data for marketing, the actual customers, social networks are definitely not toys.
winamp 2 almost certainly runs fine under wine.
Fantastic Algorithms and Where to Find Them
As a Google Waterloo employee I personally think much of the food at Google NYC is better, maybe the best I've had at Google. Not all of it, but some. There are certainly more options, as we have only one cafe here but there are many in NYC.

But I haven't been there in 5 years, so I can't say that with certainty, things may have changed.
Sylabs, Home of the Singularity container project
> The Lobby lets candidates buy affordable 1-on-1 calls with company insiders to help them land top finance jobs without needing an inside connection.

This one made me smile. It’s only a matter of time until the employees of these companies directly monetize their connections. It happens indirectly already through hiring bonuses and quid pro quos though the latter is on a much longer timescale.

There’s also the possibility of only losers trying to monetize their connections, thus watering down the overall value.

I’m not sure if the idea will generally pan out as employment agreements may bar this type of practice but it’s either genius or terrible. Best of luck!
Thanks for the very "heart felt" advice. The hospitals that we have traction all have great champions. Coincidentally we are working with Redox on a few deployment already. I'd love to chat with you more. What's the best way to connect?
maybe deeper moat :-)
(but I get the point)
Is it fully tested yet, that page says their new tower "will" (not does) provide testing? It's not the sort of thing I'd want to be an early adopter on.
Right, that burden becomes coffeepot.com's. Supposedly they would already be doing due diligence to make sure that the dynamic DNS requests were from legitimate coffeepots that they themselves manufactured (rather than say the fraudulent activities of a botnet using their open DNS for communications). At that point they should also have enough security information to verify if they should sign a certificate presented to them by their manufactured coffeepot under their certificate authority delegation to *.coffeepot.com.

To my knowledge you can even piggy back off of ACME's protocol work from Let's Encrypt, even if the auth/validation checks are different for the different security models.
"we" - the entire scientific establishment (a.k.a. the scientific method).

"It does however mean that in at least one case the drug worked and it worked very well." - unsubstantiated.

Ironically, you've (again) drawn a conclusion based on only your own experience. Which is why, as pointed out above, "we" don't run single patient clinical trials. Your recovery after using the drug simply cannot be attributed to the drug. In addition, it should be obvious (considering the contents of the comment chain to which you are responding) that it likely was not the drug that accelerated your recovery in this case. Does that makes sense?
ReasonML has a much more advanced module system via Functors. As far as I know Elm has nothing like this. Despite a fair few arguments over incorporating type classes into Elm, the creator is pretty dead set against the idea.

This does make Elm a lot more approachable, but after a while can feel quite restrictive.

There is bucklescript-tea, which is the Elm architecture in for Bucklescript (and thus also Reason). It is pretty much an exact match, so technically there isn't really anything you are missing out on by going with Reason. In reality the Elm community is more mature which means there is more documentation and libraries available. However bucklescript does interface to javascript a LOT easier - which does open up a much wider ecosystem of javascript libraries.
I have definitely noticed that before, though I'm not sure that I'd prescribe the percentage as 99%. I have definitely seem some relatively poor things defended as "perfectionism".
Interesting. I wanted to suggest an exact opposite.

I'd love to have seen those products of yours. In the alternate universe I live in, almost all the SaaS products I see are toys, never progressing beyond MVP phase.
The email doesn't come from your server, it comes from Lets Encrypt.

https://letsencrypt.org/docs/expiration-emails/
Also just saw that the book is available on the Internet Archive in multiple formats like text, PDF and EPUB:

https://archive.org/details/WhoSaysElephantsCantDance
That was only necessary because, at the time, there was no other way to get a large number of wildcard certs issued for their domain in an automated fashion.

With ACME that will no longer be the case. Let's Encrypt will allow you to do basically the same thing for free with ~20 devices a week[1] starting on February 27[2], for example. In the future, commercial CAs may choose to offer similar services with more relaxed rate limits.

[1]: https://letsencrypt.org/docs/rate-limits/

[2]: https://letsencrypt.org/2017/07/06/wildcard-certificates-com...
Not really new. I think of Stripe and Docker as examples.
We'd love to explore the UK but have no clue what's the best way in. Any suggestion?
I'm assuming 'uptown' is a typo in your mockup?
Like, almost everybody? Since Democracy.
Sure, their management was erratic. But the bottom line, their combination wasn't technically reliable (why, is already what you are saying).
Ah, ok. I read "they" as "cron jobs".
Does it support milkdrop?
Couple that paid $90k for a private street in SF is forced to give it back
This man is a machine.

Love his stuff!

Now async/await and Reason is good to go ;)
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https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2018/2018-02-08-A...

Apple submitted this DMCA to GitHub, and admitted, under penalty of perjury, that this source code is legitimate. Additionally, if it was fake, they wouldn't submit a DMCA.
At what point does it become cheaper to buy real estate in cheaper cities and use the excess money to attract talent there?
Rusting isn't biodegrading, it's chemical. Of course the lines aren't distinct, but they seem much clearer than you're suggesting.
Those prices are astronomical, though. $240 for a pair of shoes, when according to the author of the original article, something that serves the purpose is available for a dollar a pair?!
For a brief moment of my life, I got up as soon as my alarm went off. It was always exciting to see what MP3s were downloaded overnight from the queue.
Don't underestimate the lobbying of electric utilities. In some very sunny western states they tried to make private solar illegal. When that failed, they made it so expensive that it's not an attractive option.

(High mandatory fees to tie into the grid, and making it illegal not to be tied into the grid, according to a homeowner I know who tried.)
Stocks plummet as interest rates keep on rising
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I remember when the Trail Gloves came out, Merrell seemed to be really into minimal shoes. They even had what looked like dress shoes but with a thin and flexible sole, like the Trail Glove. Last time I looked for new shoes Merrell was pretty disappointing, it seems like the minimal shoes didn't sell well enough.
Why Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google Need to Be Disrupted
I'm sittin' here playing SPC files via Winamp in OSX (using Wine). Works a treat.
She was more interested in the animation than the launch. Overall a bit underwhelmed, slightly intruiged by the launch but not much more. She's not quite sure why daddy is so excited that there's a car floating around in space. I clearly need to work on her inner space geek.
Analysis-Ready Mosaics: Introducing Surface Reflectance Basemaps
Curious why Y Combinator doesn't open this up to all startup companies just not the small % that went through YC already.
The primary advantage of MDF is dimensional stability. Dimensional stability is highly desirable for surfaces receiving veneers or high pressure ("plastic") laminate finishes. It's not really intended for structural applications, but for furniture and cabinetry it can be a reasonable option.
HN should ban the adjective "cute" from all posts. Does using this adjective make you feel superior?

Also, it's kinda amazing how this issue gets brought up so many times on HN and is proven to be false (there are tons of examples where extremely successful entrepreneurs came from poor upbringing, and in many cases the bad condition was what motivated them to push further) and yet you keep seeing the same argument over and over. For gods sake there are even people who used to serve in prison make a great business that you will never be able to create in your whole life if you keep thinking that way.

Sure, it would be great if the world was more fair. But it's not.

You can either bitch about it on HN like this like a sour social justice warrior, Or, you could go do something.
Also, currently solar roofing can be a bit of a tax-code hack (depending on where you live). If you buy a new roof, and then put solar panels on top, only the panels get green-energy tax benefits, but if the roof is the panels, then the total cost of the roof is used for calculating your tax benefits.

Larger installs will usually hit caps on the benefits before this matters, but smaller installs in places with high caps can collect more.

[edit] Reading other comments, it's apparently also a permit-hack, as panels need to be permitted separately from the roof (and in HOAs may be subject to board approval).
They built their business on the lowest form of tabloid clickbait that could possibly be imagined. You can't go from a position of 0 integrity, and then say "Hey, we're expanding into an integrity market. You're simply ignorant if you don't read our content".
If the property is more valuable there is no bubble. I do agree some lenders might get this wrong, but an overall increase is pretty reasonable I think.
this book also have a forum for it, albeit low traffic. http://forum.thejsway.com/
I'm sorry but I disagree. Mature Rust is not the same as mature C++. If you are a commercial entity you would, in my opinion, be fool-hearty to select a language like Rust, mature in the sense you mean or not, as the main language of use. Or at all quite frankly, for the single reason that it is more difficult to employ quality people as the talent pool to draw from is far too small. And it is also the reason I never invested myself to learn it, for its technical merits or not.
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> It would be very psychologically difficult for someone whose relative just died to accept a "blameless review",

Yet that's precisely what the aeronautic industry does.
Eh. I've kinda been off and on the wagon for the past 7 years. The routine is the same - lose the weight. Feel great about myself. Then I either decide to chase performance goals - or to pack on muscle. I do that for 6-12 months and then something in life happens that derails me (having a kid being the biggest one).

This last time I got started, over a year ago, I was 240lbs. In 10 months I dropped to 180. At 36 and the fact I wasn't as strict with my diet as usual in the hopes it would help for a more long term lifestyle change rather than just a "diet".

I tell people I just do it because it's maintenance, because who like "that guy" that goes to the gym all the time.

People like their friends and family and co-workers doing something positive and constructive and are great at encouraging it. But eventually that person sticks with it, talks about it a lot - it becomes this constant reminder to others of their inadequacies. It doesn't matter if you taught yourself a new thing, lost weight, got shredded, read Infinte Jest, picked up a hobby of some for or another. It's always the same. They get annoyed at you, they talk smack about you. Hell, sometimes they try to sabotage you.

So i just tell people, it's maintenance. That I don't really enjoy it. That I just don't want to be fat or feeble when I'm too old to do anything about it. Even with my own wife - I'm a little reserved to talk about my failures or successes. Less so than with others, but with her too.

But the truth of it is - i love running. On a treadmill even. And I really love lifting. I love having short and long term goals and meeting them in concrete ways - or learning from my failure to. I find it stimulating and challenging. Not to mention stress relieving. Going to the gym, pumping some aggressive music is a nice break from the types of passive-aggressive hipster STEM bros I work with day in and day out. It's a nice break from being Dad. It's a space where the only person I have to compete with is myself and I really enjoy that.
>Apple could send out takedown/cease and desist to any and all sellers if they wanted, based on the reviews of counterfeit.

That's not the issue here, it's that they sent it to Amazon making false allegations about H2F.

Again, the fact that they don't have liability for their lie doesn't mean it wasn't a lie.

I'd note that the standard for a motion to dismiss is to accept the pleaded claims as fact, so they should accept H2F's claim that their products were geniune.

>one seller massively undercutting the rest

As the complaint says, several other sellers were pricing low.
Paul Graham and Robert Morris Have Retired from Y Combinator
While it worked great for Winamp and a few other apps, the process was a negative for others: MySpace being a big example. People modifying their pages to look like Angelfire/Geocities sites from back in the day killed any interest I had in them.
I'd love a link to where the author found those 布鞋 on TaoBao. that seems like the best bet.
I'm using the one from http://hn.premii.com/ and when logging in it takes me to the HN website login page. As I said it kind of looks like an OAuth flow but probably isn't :)
It’s not strict
Seconding Vivo. I've been wearing them for about a decade, from the time they were called Worn Again. Love their shoes.
No, but the fines can become punitive to a level it no longer behooves you to continue.

First offense: $1000 | Second offense: $5000 | Third offense: $7500 and so on (daily).

Disclaimer: Invested in a startup that does AirBnB surveillance/reporting for jurisdictions.
Hiring is not done on a rolling basis. Each position has a window in which it can be public (usually a couple days or weeks). HR is working through the last batch of applicants. Check regularly and you'll see more positions opening up.
> under their certificate authority delegation to *.coffeepot.com.

Where can I get a certificate with the CA flag set for mydomain.com? I did not know this was an option for mere mortals.
Probably they're more expensive in the US than the UK. Wait till they have a sale and get them for 50% off.
Oh, if that's your sentiment, then you will LOVE this article from 2012:

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2012-09-30/presenting-worlds-...