skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a thought experiment, what I'd like you to do tomorrow, is the first stranger you see spend 30 seconds staring at them. Not discretely, square on staring at them, keeping your head ideally still to prevent (hypothetical) camera jitter. You'll quickly discover why effectively no one that owns heads mounted devices has ever used them to take video of consenting people (ignoring the fact that why bother anyway, when there's essentially no social stigma for whipping out your phone to take a video/picture and it's considerably more comfortable to try to be discrete since your head doesn't need to be directly facing your subject).

I own a pair of glass, and while the thing has loads of problems (unergonomic , thermal issues, and terrible developer's experience being the main ones) nothing breaks my heart more than people just repeating back click bait about the end of privacy, because as wearables go I think there's a lot more potential in HUDs than smartwatches and the like.
I agree we need to companies that don't chase exponential growth. That being said, I am not sure if this advice is broadly applicable:

1. If you take VC money, they are not going to keep giving you more money if all you can show is linear growth. It may take a really long time for the company to become self-sustaining and just will not work with VC economics. Expecting them to change their mindset is not realistic unless the fundamentals also change.

2. If you don't need VC money, then you probably are not chasing exponential growth anyways. You have limited capital so you build a sustainable business (if your idea has legs) by chasing meaningful growth. So this article does not impact these companies.

3. If you are one of those rare companies that need some good amount of capital initially (hard to penetrate industry like healthcare or finance) but once established, maybe you can build a sustainable business without a lot of new capital. For this group this advice may make sense, find VCs who believe in linear but sustainable growth but you are definitely viable and the returns are still going to be attractive as you may need only 2-3 rounds of funding.

I would guess the number of startups that will fall under #3 is going to be really, really small.

In short, the article could have just argued for more bootstrapped businesses. But then, there may be many such companies already and we just don't hear about them... So maybe the article's point is to make more of those startups more visible so not everyone thinks they need exponential growth.. That just requires all consumers to crave stories that are ordinary so media companies can start writing less sensationalistic articles... maybe that's the billion dollar startup with linear growth!
As Airbnb’s First COO, Here’s My Plan
Surely a lot of frauds but where are the flaws?

Instead we have:

- Open source flexibility: Hundreds of competing coins seeking to optimize upon an original design

- A decentralized payment system: Beyond the reach of currency-manipulating state actors

- Programmable money: The key ingredient for trustless and automated next-gen services and products

- Working as designed: 9 years strong

- And soon: Scalability to global volumes

https://twitter.com/bramcohen/status/959973688035631105
Work in a SOC as part of a well funded security org at a Fortune 50.

A company's SOC ideally isn't in the business of reporting crimes, unless they're dealing with a very serious threat actor. In that case, we may notify the feds, but we'll also notify others in our line of business, including direct competitors. Sharing intelligence will help you long term. Trying to get the feds to crack down on a criminal gang operating from eastern Europe won't do much.

Machines that are compromised are isolated, analyzed to pull out indicators of compromise and intel about the methods used, and then nuked and disposed off. There's nothing left to even turn over to a criminal investigation, let alone anyone who wants the machines to begin with.
SOX was 2003 - and after it was implemented a bunch of folks nearly took down the world economy all while saying they complied with both SOX and the "highest ethical standards".

The folks who wanted to take down the country faced almost NO consequence and SOX did little to prevent it. Seriously - thousands of companies jump through regulatory hoops - and the aggressive players get off with nothing.

There are lots of people (most people) working to do the RIGHT thing. It's SUPER annoying to have people put in huge efforts to get a bunch of small things right, and then to have goverment totally fail to enforce truly 101 big things.

I would trade out some of the stuff that 4,000 companies and 100,000's of individual have to jump through for even 100 companies getting some actual enforcement action. Everything from IRS audit to anything else you can think of, just at least make there be some consequence for the 101 style abuse of the systems.

Even auditing another 10,000 individuals, 200 additional executives - the number of folks putting money offshore - with full disclosure now available through leaked documents and information sharing, there should be 1000's of cases to chase this stuff down, not just voluntary disclosure programs.
> Plot what?

The frequency of hurricanes v. time and the intensity of hurricanes v. time.

I would have thought that was obvious.

>You've made an assertion, but you haven't supported it.

First off, I'm not the one "making the assertion". The burden of proof lies on those who are claiming that the frequency and/or intensity of hurricanes is increasing over time.

Secondly, sure I have. I've provided a link to actual hurricane data that demonstrates it conclusively. Given that data, can you produce a plot using any generally accepted method that shows an increase in the frequency or intensity?

Hint: No, you can't. Because no such relationship exists.

> They say what was a pretty terrible hurricane in 2017 would have been a lesser storm in <2017 (due to sea levels and water temperature).

That's your counter-argument? "They say"?

Okay.

P.S. what do you think is the approximate value for "sea level rise", say, in the last 100 years?
Missing from the article is that unlike most self-cloning animals (I know of no other), Marmorkrebs, has a triploid genome.
How is Lightning impractical? I encourage you to try it out on testnet right now, it works great. It also solves your PoW concerns.
A single instance of a remarkable individual highlights how odd that one person was, however.
Show HN: Free dataset of all cities in USA and Canada with Zip, NPA/NXX and more
Inside Uber's Effort to Fix Its Culture Through a Harvard-Inspired 'University'
I use slack as my RSS notifer
Key:

bufferless - Don't wait for an image, just stream pixels as fast as you find them

clockless - No world "ticks", the world is an append-only log of "percepts"¹ which can be projected onto any time.

stochastic - Don't wait for certainty about a pixel, just push out the most probable ones first

signed distance field - Afformentioned "percepts" don't have well defined boundaries like a polygon, instead "fields" centered on a point describe how light moves around them. Any two fields can be trivially summed, so you can ignore most of a scene when searching for a specific pixel near a small number of local fields.

Together they allow you to supply the eyes with nearly zero-latency data with arbitrarily low computing power.

¹ As an aside, there is evidence humans don't see a "now" tick either, we perceive "fields out of time" directly, log them, and interpolate their relationship to "now" thereafter, such that we feel that we are "seeing" something which our eyes have already stopped reporting about. Thus SDFs and clockless rendering are a natural fit and map well to human perception.
DARPA's $200M JUMP into Future Chips
No doubt you have experience that I don't. But if I'm reading a comment about audit controls, and it can't keep track of how many numbered points it has, I'm going to be skeptical.
>https://money.stackexchange.com/questions/22795/is-there-a-d...

This has a different answer than Investopedia.

The difference is subtle, but it is there.
How about Wells Fargo, 2016? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wells_Fargo_account_fraud_scan...
Yes, agreed. See my other comment upthread.
Larry Tesler Interview – The Laws of Interaction Design
...By requiring you to keep your computer up 24/7, no?
The people who fund the VCs are pension funds and endowments. I don't think that actually reflects the wealth divide.
This existed, although I believe they shut down after a year or so:

https://techcrunch.com/2016/09/27/pearls-rearvision-is-a-bac...
And the reason is because there is lot of money to be had in private markets, especially with companies like Softbank raising and giving out tons of money.

If we dig further, this is an after-effect of keeping the interest rates low for a long time. That means access to credit is much easier. So, there is no rush to profitability and going public.

But, given that interest rates are now slowly rising I predict we might see more and more companies going public and IPO to raise money.
The idea of extending file-related system calls to remote pathnames was present in a few systems in the 1980s: ITS, Lisp Machines, VMS, probably a bunch of others I am not aware of. You can see the vestiges of this in Common Lisp pathnames. Kent Pitman provides a good summary in a comp.lang.lisp post from 2002: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/comp.lang.lisp/UCeOl3sUlFQ/V...

This approach is much more powerful than the Unix style of mounting. FUSE provides some degree of extensibility, but it is not composable. Pitman's post mentions the "chained hosts" of VMS. GNU Emacs TRAMP has a completely general and composable mechanism called "multi-hops": https://www.gnu.org/software/tramp/#Ad_002dhoc-multi_002dhop...

Using explicit remote pathnames as opposed to mounting is a very powerful idea, and I am glad it is becoming practical today. I think it is possible to write something like a portable Parrot as a library and set of shadow include files you could use to recompile applications.
Banks sell derivatives indexed on vol, like vol swaps and var swaps.

VIX futures also reflect stock market volatility, and their prices are based on S&P option prices.
Aspose.Newsletter February 2018: C++ APIs Released for Email Programming and More
Laughed when I saw this Apache Groovy code slinking away at the bottom of the article:

> To start using Android KTX in your Android Kotlin projects, add the following to your app module's build.gradle file:

repositories {
google()
}

dependencies {
// Android KTX for framework API
implementation 'androidx.core:core-ktx:0.1'
...
}
I've always wondered this same thing ever since I was fascinated as a child by the lurid green photographs of Ganymede (Jupiter) and Enceladus (Saturn) from Voyager 2, only to later discover that they're false color images.
More generally, unsolvable online crime is arguably an unavoidable cost of online privacy and freedom.

No kidding. A world with zero crime can be nothing but an authoritarian dystopia.

Just as with encryption, having backdoors for some good guys (cops) puts other good guys (dissidents) at risk from bad guys (repressive regimes).

On the other hand, encryption can also be used by companies to oppress and control their users ("walled gardens", DRM, and the like.)

Maybe the underlying philosophy here is that absolutism is never good, regardless of intention...
Well, not secretly, but otherwise people are free to leave your home if they find your recording obnoxious.
I had in mind the ^RUA, which only started to break out from the previous top after 5 years, nominally, so you're right, not a decade, but not good for someone trying to retire within that time frame (which doesn't seem like you were).

Still, I worked for a fund that swing traded futures for better returns and less risk than holding the market during this period…
Yes - that's Gradle's language de jour right now, though there is a ton of effort being put into supporting Kotlin as an alternative scripting language for it. I think you could use it right now actually.
Maybe they just get a daily report?
Hardware Acceleration of Bayesian Neural Networks
Berkshire has never been highly valued. It's never gotten a premium because of the "Buffett magic". If investors want to spurn it and let it trade close to book value, I'll happily buy even more.
Can I offer my computer to Sci-Hub to store and retransmit encrypted content for them? If I could run software that would assist Sci-Hub, I would.

Is anyone else doing something similar?

Sci-Hub is important - it's one of the most important resources we have today. How can we support Sci-Hub?
Should be upfront with the startup employees if that is the case. Paper money is not real money.
I think massive endowments (foundations, trusts, universities, etc) are pretty clear effects of a large wealth divide
I am just asking here and not contradicting, but then isn't React Native too an alternative to learning Kotlin?
If I understand this correctly, asexual reproduction in plants is called apomixis[0] and the dandelions and blackberries have been doing it for millions of years.

In animals it is called parthenogenesis and happens in lizards, snakes, birds and sharks[1]. All of them have been around quite some time on earth, also.

What helped these species to be so resilient to a devastating infection when other animals that reproduce sexually (Central American frogs, North American bats) are being wiped away so badly by fungal infections?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apomixis

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parthenogenesis#Natural_occurr...
Two previous threads had comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7046178

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=520004
A look at the original paper (http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/aaa5fb) tells us that they found "frequent Fe Kα line energy shifts observed in the gravitationally lensed quasar RXJ 1131–1231 at a lens redshift of z = 0.295 or 3.8 billion lt-yr away."

Going from 'line energy shifts' to 'DISCOVERED PLANETS in ANOTHER GALAXY!!' is way too big of a leap. This is click-bait science writing.

Getting people interested in good science is great, but slathering it in gooey layers of sugary crap will eventually lead to people tuning out of anything that doesn't SCREAM.
Note that jobs paying exactly minimum wage are bundled into the "low" graph before the change but into the "high" graph after the change. I'd like to see an uncooked graph.
Agreed. Google seem to be very siloed internally. That manifests itself in confusing narratives like pushing PWAs (web) and Instant Apps (Java) simultaneously, or supporting both Chrome OS and Android.

So instead of asking how this is good for Google as a company, you have to look at whether it's good for a single project within Google. PWAs and AMP seem like the most likely candidates.
You’re Entitled If You Think You Can Just Be Yourself
Class action lawsuits are pretty good at that. Which is what equifax is going through.
> Then why didn't the multinationals come to share technology and set up manufacturing in India?

Because the indian government didn't demand it as a condition of entry like the chinese government did.

Have you never wondered why western companies have to engage in 50/50 ventures with chinese companies into china instead of just entering china like they do every other country?
DevOps Security at Scale: Focus on Flow and Velocity
To put my point more clearly, when Warren passes away Berkshire's value isn't going to change. It's probably not going to add value at the same pace as it would with him leading it, but it's value is still likely to continue to compound significantly faster than the market. What Warren has built is embedded deep in the core of how the entire company operates.

So that's not much of a risk at all.
Great, lets pivot into child care.
> WP internals being PHP... I think you get the idea. Who's to say after they have established a foothold they won't push to run WP on the v8 engine and write out PHP, a language they're actively hostile to?

The thing is that there would be no point in doing so (which, admittedly, hasn't stopped Google before).

Right now Google needs WordPress. Without WordPress, where is Google going to place ad spots? Facebook? And WordPress has PHP as a massive underestimated advantage - every Tom, Dick and Harry can spend 5 minutes to install WordPress on a $5 a month shared-hosting plan, something no Ruby/Rust/Go/Java/C++/Node/Erlang/Fashionable-Language-Of-The-Week can do.
Porsche had (or has) similar issues with opening the hood without power.

https://perryandcoblog.com/2009/11/17/porsche-carrera-911-99...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ss6-8TJYIqE
Taxes do accomplish something real. They are paying for grandma's healthcare, Johnny's schooling and Jim's GI benefits. Everyone needs to contribute their share or the kids don't get educated, grandma dies and Jim defects. In principle, my individual contribution is not going to maintain a large national program. So if I'm interested in saving a large national program, my individual contribution isn't going to do it. I'll need to adjust the tax policy of an entire nation. This is why my position is more complex than my own personal contribution. Hopefully you'll appreciate this.
Related (UK parks):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16311087
oh, sure! speaking as a mono-lingual american, I'm pretty certain that all french phrases of the same length sound more or less the same (and quite romantic).
Related (US cities):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16311163
With respect, your comment is not particularly well-informed concerning either PHP or WordPress. WP is not written in PHP in any modern sense of that term. They got suckered into maintaining backwards compatibility with an API written before PHP had support for classes. The codebase is entirely procedural, and cannot be modernized. WP internals are frozen in time in 2001, and WP development does not resemble modern PHP development, which has reasonably good tooling.

So, the good thing is that Google will not push WP to run on an alternate language, because the entire value of the project is its API compatibility. That's also the bad thing.
This is absolutely mind-blowing.

Also, since humans are now very numerous and so good at surviving, makes you wonder if humans could mutate this way too. Makes it seem like you'd just get outright pregnant instead of ovulating, which may be a bummer.
Ruby (event-machine) VS JavaScript (Node.js) – you can't guess who wins
Swissport secures euro 325M term-loan commitment from Barclays
If you want to try a poor imitation of the real thing, I made one here:

http://typwrtr.com/
If you're a normal person, the market crash in 2007 meant that you got almost a decade to buy additional shares of stock super cheap, and increase your eventual retirement portfolio substantially.

Volatility is not risk.
C'mon, I love to rag on Apple as much as the next person, but if you've got the motivation to find Apple's bug tracking app and submit a report, it's not much to ask that you include some logs as well.
>Arguing that we should all collectively pay more does not require one to individually contribute at that higher rate

It’s about sticking to your principals — if you disagree with the tax cut, the last thing you should do is benefit from it. Give the government the money you would’ve paid had there not been a tax cut. Doing otherwise gives you no right to complain about it.
How a Blind Doctor's Code Helped Thousands Read Again (2017)
Try building something without capital. It's really really hard.
Most of those endowments are pension funds for teachers and other non-wealthy jobs...

The majority of the stock market is owned by a few funds as well.

Both are individually poor examples of the wealth inequality as a driver of trends in the capitalization of tech businesses...

One is an alternative to the other. And typically the biggest investors/funds/endowments do both as a diversification strategy.
Sooooooo

>git merge --strategy-option=theirs
Well if you and the millions of people whining about the tax cut paid extra...

It’s about the principal of the matter. If you disagree with the tax cut, don’t benefit from it. Take a stand.
You’re forgetting family offices. Family offices are huge and growing LPs in PE and VC.
Genuine question, in your opinion why did Google killing Reader effectively kill RSS? Why did people not move to alternative products? I was never a Google Reader user myself so I never needed to move.
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Netflix might have been a problem for blockbuster, but I think the real problem was redbox. The vast majority of foot traffic in the blockbuster was for the recent releases, and they did everything in their power to screw new release renters, and god help you if you ever returned something late.

So, the instant gratification, want to watch the new release crowd quickly discovered they could get their fix for $1, and if they forgot to return it, no big deal it was just $1. The tiny little machines meant that they didn't have massive overhead, so not renting movies on mon/tue/wed/thur wasn't a big deal.

So for slightly more than a single new release a month you could have a much larger back catalog with netflix, and for new releases and quick turnaround you could rent a movie for $1 instead of $5-6 or whatever the standard 3 day thing was at blockbuster.

Their problem was that they were fat, dumb and happy screwing their customers and creating ill will. When a couple reasonable alternatives presented themselves boom, the bottom fell out faster than they could react. Although in hind site, I can't really imagine what they could have done. Maybe trim the stores down to a few deep catalog sites with a subscription model like NF while sprinkling little robotic boxes everywhere? Who knows, the end result would have been much lower profits, and if there is one thing history tells us, its that corporation have a really hard time when their margins shrink. Its just to hard to trim the fat.
anecdotally, i tried adding up how many ipython sessions I currently have open for various reasons on my workstation.

I stopped at about 15. REPLs are incredibly useful.
Asexual reproduction gives an individual (in the genetic sense) more time to reproduce while also acting as something of a checksum on the genome as a whole. Survival during disease outbreaks would certainly be increased if one didn't need to balance infection versus dying of old age against somewhat more genetically advantageous sexual reproduction. It's an interesting delay tactic.
The interest on university endowments funds financial aid.
This date applies only to OpenVMS 8.4. New releases are planned, for example, 8.5 will be released this year. See the current roadmap: https://www.vmssoftware.com/pdfs/VSI_Roadmap_20171215.pdf
No because that clearly is an action in favor of better energy. (Not the best energy, not great environmentally and perhaps bad economically and healthly, but good for energy)
What gave you the impression that WP was object-oriented?