skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a native west coaster I would not say "I'm going back east" but I might say "she lives back east".
The third thing that goes wrong when you take your toy too seriously is that you immediately start optimizing on the things that you believe serious businesses should – profit and margins. While these things are important in the long run, focusing on them too early injects an impossible set of things for an early startup to do.

How is this not in direct contradiction to http://paulgraham.com/aord.html?

Can somebody shed some light on this? I don't necessarily disagree with Aaron but its tough to make any sense of it when one YC person tells you one thing and another YC person tells you pretty much the exact the opposite.
Whenever I see, "In case you missed it," I read it as, "Now you have to decide if checking for new tweets is worth re-reading a half dozen tweets you've already seen."

So far, the answer is usually yes. I follow a lot of good people and the fear of missing something is real. But it's not 100% yes and I don't think the trend line looks good for Twitter.
It might be that being a private street, the residents are responsible for maintaining it. Like paving the road, sidewalks, sewer repair. Those things can be a substantial expense for an individual.
Chelsea Market has a lot of unused FAR, I think 300,000 square feet or more. Also not landmarked so easier to redevelop.
Beanie Babies looked like toys early on, too.

Just because something found a market doesn't mean it's not still a toy.
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Another point that I’m not sure gets much attention is that, as these companies build huge campuses and spread out to multiple locations across a region, how co-located are employees anyway? Sure you can move people around to be with primary teams but it’s certainly not like everyone can pop over to talk with someone or can depend on a lot of serendipitous hallway conversations.
Sure. You need a balance, and creating flawed works is a part of the process--I wouldn't deny that. But creating work after work, for the sake of creating, doesn't necessarily lead to better work; going through the slow process of refinement, revision, and self-criticism, is necessary. There's a saying that music teachers often repeat, which is that practice doesn't maker perfect, practice makes permanent. You have to step back and think about what you're doing, and that does mean sacrificing "productivity," at least for a while.
In England, if you're fairly traditional, you would always say up to London, Oxford, or Cambridge (and, from the latter two, if you are a student and temporarily expelled, you are "sent down" - or "rusticated", to use a lovely word), whether you're starting from the north or the south.
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No community is perfect. HN has some groupthink too, but honestly, it's an order of magnitude better place than anything else I've seen on the entire Web[0], so myself, I'm sticking to it.

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[0] - except maybe LessWrong of old, but I was (and still am) too dumb to be able to contribute anything of value on that site.
A private street is not necessarily something glamorous. I live in a small townhouse community and our HOA owns a small street.

Why I say it's not glamorous is because we have to come up with ~$100,000 in the next 10-15 years to do major pavement replacement (not resurfacing or sealcoating), because this street is not maintained by the county. For a small townhouse community that has not been properly saving for major capital expenses like this, this is not fun.
I believe it was not due to this but due to mass savings. The square grid layout uses more material and in a less symmetric way too.
Ah I see.

Interesting about the final part of the landing occurring with a single engine even with a 3 engine landing.
Makes me wonder why they don't do something like 9 engines for the breaking burn and then switch to a single engine for the landing part.
It might just be that is their final plan but 3 is easier to test than 9.
They could charge for parking, for example.
> I guess the question is, what are the "certain purposes"?

Posting on the web, apparently.
I once tried to explain to my French host family when I would use 'oh' versus 'zero' when describing numbers, but I couldn't come up with a rule. My phone number has a 0 in the middle of the area code ('four oh eight') but elsewhere in my phone number, I use 'zero'. I couldn't correlate zero-versus-oh to position in the string nor what came before or after it. Yet it's totally natural to me to use each in the 'correct' place. I think others do, too, but I don't know if we have the same 'correct' place.
> Usually agreeing with everyone else is good and disagreeing with the majority will get you downvoted or shadowbanned.

Isn't this the inherent nature of a fact-based platform? And most HN posters are probably quite rational and fact-based?

I wouldn't come to HN if it was a place where people could air stupid, non-fact based opinions and have them treated without criticism or derision. people can hang out in their Facebook group if they want to assert the world is flat.
I'm ok with some karma for the deliquent homeowners, but I see no reason why this should turn into a giant cash prize for a private citizen.

I have noticed that people who support the buyers tend to point out the problem with wealthy and powerful people getting special treatment. I'm against that, but it doesn't remove my distaste for making money this way.
I'm just saying that implying that this feature would mean telegram start selling user data is nonsense. This is what the first comment was implying.

Ofc telegram can sell user data like any other company, and may be doing it for months for all we know.
Look into QML : http://qmlbook.github.io/en/ch04/index.html
No. In most places I have lived in the USA, streets are not only public property but they regulate what can be placed within so many feet of the side of the road. So basically, they restrict your land use next to a road, even if you own the property. This is so they can add a sidewalk or expand the road at some point in the future.
> clearly predatory real estate schemers

How are they predatory? They purchased a parcel of land on a government-approved website through a vetted legal process and followed all the rules.
This misinterprets what I'm saying. Which is: people that focus on perfection are too often working diligently on their own, sweating details which are unimportant to the quality of the outcome.

I frequently meet people that believe themselves to be 'perfectionists' but whom create poor quality work due to a reluctance to let other see their work before it is 'done'.

In order to get perfection, you need to be doing the right thing. In order to do the right thing, you cannot be working within a bubble.

Edit: I think everybody read things into what I said which weren't there. "Look an anti-perfectionist! He must be against quality work. Little does he realise that we can be faster by focusing on 'perfection'." This is true but you need to make sure that you are not adding finesse to the wrong solution!
This is interesting; the couple bought the street which has a privacy gate - do they own the gate too? Is is possible that they owned the street but could not legally access it (by not owning the gate)? Does that affect the case/transaction? I'm not familiar enough with the details.

> Overhead View: https://www.google.com/maps/place/Presidio+Terrace,+San+Fran...

> Street View: https://www.google.com/maps/@37.788234,-122.4593631,3a,75y,2...
Could you elaborate on their aloofness? What exactly do you hope to achieve by regulating them?

They seem to take the privacy of their users far more seriously than other competitors as well as the government (US - net neutrality).
I'm sympathetic to the idea that rich people are being treated differently here. That's almost certainly the case. It's also, of course, always fun to see a bunch of rich folks get some kind of comeuppance.

But, to me, it's also pretty clear that the original owners were in the right here. You shouldn't be able to lose something worth $90,000 because of a small administrative oversight without some kind of notice from the government about what is going on. The world shouldn't work that way for anyone, rich or poor.
The real estate fire sale started in 1992 along with the spin–outs of various divisions (some of which completed, like IBM Federal Systems and Lexmark, others were halted by Gerstner like AdStar (storage systems) and Pennant (big printers).
Yes, they do both control a lot of information that people see, BUT Facebook already changed their news feed algorithm and many tech companies are making changes. Not saying they're doing it perfectly or even well, but still.

On the other hand

Tobacco companies for years lied about the risks and promoted false science

Energy companies regularly fund climate change denial organizations (see Heartland Institute)

Monsanto sends detectives after farmers who get tangled with them (https://www.organicconsumers.org/old_articles/Monsanto/farme...)

Tyson, Purdue regularly keep chicken farmers in poverty and silenced about chicken farming conditions.

Volkswagen created emission cheating software to hide their emissions...

Again, tech companies aren't great and control a lot of information, but what about the food we eat and the air we breathe?
Forced to sell it back. This isn't the USSR.
Integrity is one of the components of security.
Microsoft absolutely did get slowed down by the government. Badly. It would have been illegal for them to integrate the way Apple did with MacOS, long before iOS rolled around.

The role of the government is to correct for market failure. A company that has the power to be a gatekeeper (for other companies) to the industry (and uses it) is too big.
Paying for an account also leads people to feel they're entitled to do whatever they like with it, which might be counterproductive to encouraging civility.
I still don't quite see why you wouldn't just use a named struct, but you can create a alias for the NamedTuple type

const MyAlias = NamedTuple{(:a, :b),Tuple{Int64,Int64}}
MyAlias((2, 3)) # (a = 2, b = 3)
On my part, I dislike the argument "there are people doing worse things than me, so don't try to stop me doing bad things!".

It's not one or the other.
Stabilized wood definitely has a lot more in common with resin than with wood, in its mechanical properties.
> Amazon could conceivably control most American retail activity in the future, though it has a few retail titans that could conceivably stand up to it if they get their acts together [1]. At best, we seem to be headed towards a retail oligopoly.

Isn't that precrime?
According to Google's own statistics, even Android users now spend 70% of their time on HTTPS sites: https://transparencyreport.google.com/https/overview

For Windows users, it's more like 80%, and 85% for Mac users. And those numbers went up ~10% over just the last year.
So in the Dutch equivalent of Secret Santa, we have a tradition where the gifts are cheap, small and silly, but the giftwrapping should somehow be an elaborate prank. Does the US have something like that? Sounds like something people in college would do.

Anyway, I bring this up because friend of mine once decided to encase a small gift in the centre of a bucket full of pykrete.

The joke obviously would that the receiver would just have to wait for the thing to thaw because it was impossibly hard to break it. Then they discovered that somehow, the woodpulp in pykrete makes it extra insulating. On top of that, since it wasn't a flat slab but a roundish sphere (low surface area compared to volume), it didn't exactly absorb ambient heat quickly either. So that other friend apparently had to wait over a week before the thing was thawed enough break open.
And they mention 21.6 mpg as an assumed average, so that seems to match up.
As a Canadian I think we are at a point where there's diminishing returns to education now.
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I use Reddit the same way. Whenever I want to explore a new interest, I start with /r/[that interest] - almost always there's a high-quality community there, full of domain experts and often lots of useful resources collected in the sidebar. I stay away from general and political subreddits.
That would not be "profit margin".
Patent trolls generally follow all laws. There are all kinds of legal ways to make money that I find extremely distasteful.
A bug bounty os a program run voluntarily by the owners of a service.

This is more like exploiting a security hole and then claiming a moral right to your gains.
I view this as more of a general, why should somebody learn Ocaml instead of Haskell?

There's a couple of reasons.
#1. Ocaml's type system is nearly as expressive as Haskell's and includes several features that Haskell's does not. Polymorphic variants and functors being notable ones.

#2. Laziness is very hard to get right in practice. I'm sure Haskell enthusiasts will not be very happy with that statement, but I think it's true. It's the reason why one of the biggest users of Haskell (and the most notable example of Haskell in industry), Standard Chartered, uses their own Haskell compiler that's strict by default.

#3. Less productive in practice. For example, long build times are a huge problem in practice. See https://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/45q90s/is_anything...

for comments from the Haskell community, including GHC maintainers.

Really though, I don't think you can really go that wrong with either. Transferring from each language to the other one isn't very difficult, and they're both excellent languages.
Not to the same degree.
I just warranty deeded my house into an Ethereum smart contract. AMA
And there were others bidding on it as well, it wasnt a secret these people just happen to win the auction.
I think the archaic English equivalent is "here", "there", "yonder"?
https://www.nature.com/articles/ngeo2248
Is it that shocking that people may own real estate sold by the state?
Social media is a business. You're there to generate content that engages people with the platform and increases its value, and those sites are designed to optimize you both as a content producer and a product.

And the shareholders do appreciate your willingness to do that for free.
Defective service is defective service. The tax bill was being being returned every year and the city made no meaningful attempt to contact the property owner before auctioning off the property.

The same result would have happened with anyone who could afford an attorney to pursue rescission of the sale.
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Previously only owners of the surrounding houses could use the street. The new owners could have opened the street up for public use harming the privacy of the house owners. The plan of the new owners, if they had won, was to sell the street back to the house owners at a markup so that they could get their privacy back.
It'd be a very interesting experiment to figure out how to effectively teach wild crows new skills.
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One of the fun things about advice is that you'll find things that seem in direct opposition, even from people who generally agree.

In this case, though, context is critical. PG's point here is around startups that have been around for a while, on which people are working full time, that are meant to be businesses. I'm trying to get at the part that comes before that stage.

In this case, the additional context I'd look for would be around what the creator/founder is trying to do and how successful they've been at doing that.
It's hard to determine consumer harm. For example Walmart is often considered as beneficial to the consumer because of price but you could also argue that harm is done by limiting choice and innovation.
A bureaucracy-induced property ownership spat between two groups of affluent people in a state that has defined limousine liberalism and a city which has personified it.
No. No. No other company on the planet knows where billions of people exactly are and what they're doing at a given point or can predict their behavior. Not Coca Cola or Monsanto or any of them. There are very, very specific reason why people on HN are complaining about big tech now. We're mainly well-educated and have read a lot of sci-fi written by well-educated people.
Then yes, you pay the maintenance overhead for doing so. I do it too, since I want to mess with these things and run things I can't easily run on shared hosting and if I'm taking care of a server and HTTPS for it anyways adding another site isn't much effort, but for just a static site it's overkill most of the time and kind of "your own fault" if you make it harder on you than it is.

That said, using certbot made it so painless I just started doing it at some point for everything I run and I only once had a small hiccup configuring a renewal-hook.
I remember when I only had enough spare space on my Centris 610's HD (it was 80MB) for two or three MP3 files. I just had my two favorite songs on my computer that I would listen to with some MP3 player. It may have been a version of Winamp for System 7 if there was such a thing but I can't remember. I think the songs were Chemical Brothers and Crystal Method.
Science said "Too much protein, i.e 1g/lb of body weight, was bad for your kidneys". That's what I meant by against science.
Yes, most streets are public and maintained by local government. But anyone who owns sufficient land can build a private street on it. A piece of land doesn't magically become public just because you lay down some asphalt and start driving on it.
This was a situation where a speculator saw an opportunity to get rich off an oversight, and it didn't work out. Hard to be too sorrowful about that.

Wouldn't mind seeing more of a penalty for the rich landowners, though.
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Today I discovered a fast pace game that gets me off my chair every round ha-ha. For more than 16 years of online gaming I have to be honest, this is the most brilliant game I have ever enjoyed. The game name is Generals you can find it at generals.io
It is a simple game and fast one, it’s a map consisting of boxes (closest to my mind to describe), you should defend your general and take over enemy generals to expand your land and army size, the last one to survive wins (given that you eat all generals in the round). I play the free for all round it consists of 8 players. You get 1 additional army at your generals land every 1 second and every 25 seconds you get 1 army per land you have explored. So the more land you acquire and explore the more your army will become every 25 seconds.

There is an in-round chat where you can chat with other players. You need to run a right strategy that I have not yet discovered so this is going to be tempting for you to try out the game and figure out your own strategy.

So far, here is what I did: I send small groups of scouts to explore land and gain as much as land as I can in the first two rounds of free army (after a period of time you get extra army per land you get). Then I start hunting the nearest general to take over the opponent’s army. Once you defeat a general, the entire army is under your control so the more generalss you defeat the stronger and larger your army becomes.

I have done some research on the game as well and apparently, a new company called MUGA GAMING,LLC has acquired it. They seem like a promising online gaming company with lots of traffic and player base. The new company reset ranking to make the game competitive and started a new ladder season.

Very nice game in my opinion - a must try out! www.generals.io - you can also download the application to your android and ios phones
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"We didn't feel we had conquered Everest, we felt that Everest had relented."
That reminds me of the episode of DuckTales where Huey, Dewey, and Louie convince Scrooge McDuck that it's Saturday in order to get their allowances early; the entire global economy must follow suit in order to keep doing business with the most powerful duck in the world; and chaos ensues.
>What company do the police get to tap my computer?

Comcast, TWC, etc. Record everything over the wire since the patriot act and store it. Search with a FISA warrant. They could pay a private company to infiltrate it.
My son, 8, has dysfluency & stuttering. My daughter, 5, too has speech development issues, dysfluency being one. I worry what the future holds for them. Already, it manifests itself as social isolation, especially for my son.
> Airbnb unfairly plays up this angle while ignoring the fact that many hosts are larger businesses that are taking up housing stock to run an unregulated hotel. There are also plenty of people holding multiple leases (especially in NYC) to rent one place out on Airbnb where you can easily make more than the rent per month.

Not just "many". In New York specifically, it's literally over 50% that are illegal, by virtue of being whole-apartment rentals. Whole-apartment rentals of less than 30 days are not legal.

Ironically, many of the people that AirBNB used to use in their PR campaign as the faces of the "little guy" using AirBNB to "make their rent" were actually people who lived in rent-controlled apartments, which is (almost always) illegal in practice, even if the whole apartment is not being rented.
There is a difference between losing your property because you can't afford the taxes and losing it because you didn't know that taxes needed to be paid and the state didn't bother to tell you.
So, the statistic is counting people who were educated elsewhere and then moved to the US afterward. Essentially letting the US take credit for other countries' educational programs.

I think if we just counted the average education level of people who grew up in the US it would be much lower.

The US attracts educated people from all over the world, but it does not do much to educate the majority of its own people.
I'd say the term "weird filter bubble" fits your ideas of embedded -- attiny or running linux, with nothing in between -- far better than it fits the HN idea of embedded.
Very technical presentation, but it contains nuggets of that I can't wait to try once I get home! Do you have a blog that lays this out in a way that is aimed at the general Julia programmer?
> The world shouldn't work that way for anyone, rich or poor.

But it does. These types of "investors" exist in all markets, and they are about the real estate equvilant of shady debt collectors.

They buy properties that have delinquent taxes and once the city sells you it there are "no backsies" - the homeowner/whomever needs to now deal with the "investors" that bought the property from under them.

It's extremely common that those who owe those back taxes had no idea - or at least they claim so. That's never a defense I've seen hold up.

The problem is that the rich aren't paying the piper this time, and then changing the way things work. They are simply saying "eh, obviously that's wrong! fix it!" while completely ignoring the thousands of people affected in exactly the same manner each year.
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