skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, some people have the opportunity/time/money to run an unprofitable startup for awhile and some people don't. Wealthy people can try again when their first idea doesn't take off. They also generally don't have to sell as much equity (especially in the early stages) as a middle-class person would.

Still, starting businesses is something that people (who have at least some amount of free time and spare money) do, and it's usually desirable for those involved that they succeed rather than fail. Talking about startup strategy is a useful endeavor for anyone interested in such things, and that isn't exclusively wealthy people. Plenty of rich people try to start businesses that fail, and many don't have any interest in running a startup.

I wish there were more opportunities for people who aren't from at least middle-class backgrounds to succeed in these kinds of things, but unfortunately that's not how society is currently structured. I think wider access to healthcare, education, food, and affordable housing would help.
This is great and brings back a lot of old memories. Something that would help this spread (perhaps if it was hosted somewhere dedicated to it), is allowing a URL of an MP3 or a list of other audio files to be included in the link so people can share a song "the way it was meant to be played."

Thanks for your hard work and for making sure it wasn't broken in Edge. It was really satisfying to pull it up on my Windows 10 Mobile without issue.
I'm in California now (and have been for over half my life, at this point), but I suspect I'd say "back east" when talking about my past, at the very least. For me, there's a sense of time involved, as well as direction.
Just says "Loading ..." for me when using SlimJet? Chrome works.
> if you happen to evict some 82-year-old grandma in rent control who is using AirBnB to pay for her meds

It's whole apartment rentals that are illegal. Where is grandma living while she is renting out her rent control apartment, that she pays $900/month for, on AirBnB for $300 a night? Maybe in her second, supposedly not primary, home in Florida?

In any event, I don't suggest they evict hosts. What I suggest is they go after AirBnB for continuing to accept blatantly illegal listings, like this one for example: https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/16148374

While section Section 230 of the CDA is an issue, the fact that AirBnB is taking money from the rental turns this into more than just a third party publisher of information. If Cy Vance wasn't too busy taking campaign donations to look the other way for powerful people, I'm sure he could direct his office to come up with something. Or Berman in SDNY could.
Don’t forget Merlin design is based on an engine developed during the Apollo program. The lunar descent engine.

There has to be some savings in that when Musk and Mueller developed the current engine. But that’s fine. I’m good with our tax money from prior programs helping future endeavors.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Descent_Propulsion_System
I don’t think there’s any kind of software job that’s prestigious by itself. There are a handful of individuals that are famous within their circle, but that’s about it.

Regarding salary, a job pays more to the extent that:
a) it needs to get done and
b) there are fewer people able or willing to do it.

Examples:

* web development - high demand (every business needs a website), but also high supply (relatively easy to learn)

* security - low demand (except after a breach), arguably lower supply (pentesting isn’t everyone’s cup of tea)

* machine learning - high demand (at least from startups), low supply (need advanced knowledge of statistics)
When I own a private house, I'm responsible for maintaining it. The government's not going to fix my roof when it leaks.

My tax bill, however, is still a bit higher then $14/year, for acres of land in the middle of a land-strapped metro area.
> Can't wait to see where Kalanick takes it next.

How? He is no longer the CEO of Co.
The saltstack quality/release cycle may be the cause of some of the pileup.

I experienced a minor issue with saltstack recently and submitted a new issue. Turns out the saltstack devs had already addressed the issue, but the fix was staged for release weeks later. Between the time I reported my issue and the release of 2017.7.3 this week, my issue was marked as related to a half dozen reports of the behavior in different circumstances.

While regression testing is a good thing your infrastructure software is a Good Thing, the process of staging known bug fixes will tend to multiple the number of open issues as multiple users report their findings.
Most of the immigrants to the US have very low education compared with the general American population.
We changed it to a shortened version of the subtitle in keeping with the HN guideline "Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait." The article title was arguably a bit baity—on the edge, admittedly, but threads are sensitive to initial conditions and the title is the biggest initial condition.
I worked for the USPS at their national training facility, and most of the people there were contractors. The "real" USPS employees, the ones being trained, were employees. Apparently the reason was due to USPS employees getting really good benefits as they get to participate in the federal retirement program which includes a pension.

They don't want to have to pony up for all the support staff, even though we worked at a facility, 8-5, 40 hours or more a week, with basically an infinite contract length. They paid for our healthcare plan as well - like an employee might get? :)

There wasn't really anything to complain about, as the pay and benefits for even the contractors were really nice (we had "unlimited PTO" before it became a thing in the startup world), but the debate about employee vs contractor is interesting in this particular case.
These results are not surprising. Until I was able to contextualize his suicide with respect to Lewy body dementia and the symptoms thereof, the death of Robin Williams really got to me and made me feel lower than I had in years. I am still incredibly saddened that he's not around, but again, I am better able to put it in context.
> Charlotte Garden, an associate law professor at Seattle University, said [U.S. Magistrate Judge Jacqueline Scott] Corley’s decision is a “doubly big” win for GrubHub due to California’s relatively high standard for establishing workers as independent contractors.

Would someone familiar with the California standards summarize the contractor/employee test? The article doesn't make specific reference to the criteria. (I'll hunt the internet now myself, and report back.)

edit: From the California Tax Service Center...

> Does the principal (you) have the right to control the manner and means in which the worker carries out the job? The right of direction and control, whether or not exercised, is the most important factor in determining an employment relationship. The right to discharge a worker at will and without cause is strong evidence for the right of direction and control. When it is not clear whether you have the right to direct and control the worker, you must look further into the actual working relationship by weighing the ten secondary factors.

There are secondary tests as well.

http://www.taxes.ca.gov/iCorE.bus.shtml
Looks like he's also trying to sue Amazon for the same thing.

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/4537667/rittmann-v-amaz...
> Additionally, does the weakness of his case and the precedent that was established from this verdict affect future cases about contractors vs employees?

A trial court ruling isn't binding authority even on the same court, much less others, and unless it is (unlikely) a published decision, it won't, IIRC, even be citable as persuasive authority in other cases.

Now, if it gets appealed and an appeals court rules on the case, things change...
It's slightly ironic that SpaceX has brought economies of scale to the space industry and Telsa is struggling with scale in the automotive industry.
Yeah, CORs is a wrench in the works for this stuff. Even our audio source is subject to CORs because we want to be able to do EQ and visualization.
> I’ve got HP LaserJets that are 10 or 15 years old and good as the day I bought them. The driver is built into most OSes.

Sure, but HP from 15 years ago is not HP from now.
Why Young Americans Are Having Less Sex
> refutes the claim that the lamp oil market is a toy.

GP never made that claim. The point is that lamp oil was perceived as a toy before people realized the (blindingly obvious in hindsight) utility for indoor lighting.
Please don't post rants on divisive topics. That's one reason the site guidelines include this: "Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I think it was owned by something similar to a HOA. Because the HOA didn't pay a minuscule property tax bill, the private street went up for auction, and a private citizen purchased it. That private citizen now has the ability to charge the residents for use of the street, including the right to park in front of houses.
Next thing you know, someone's going to rediscover commedia dell'arte!

edit for substance:

Plots of Commedia dell'arte scenarios, well known in England at the time Shakespeare was alive and writing, bear close similarities to the broad strokes of the plots of many of his plays. ( https://thought.artsci.wustl.edu/podcasts/commedia-dellarte )

This doesn't really connote plagiarism.
Is there any way to see the actual ruling? Not finding on search.
Not a physicists either,

These "non-physical redundancy" you are referring to can't be picked out totally at random. They do have some interdepencencies.

My understanding is that at each point in space you can pick a DIFFERENT gauge transformation, but there are some constraints. And if you do a sort of integral through a path of these points, the sum of that thing represents EXACTLY the electo-magnetic field along that path.

A very famous physicists made an economic analogy, using currency exchange rates between countries as gauge fixings:
https://arxiv.org/abs/1410.6753
Which browser/OS are you on?
Value is a view on a thing and not an intrinsic property of that thing. The value of currency is that you can buy things with it, now or at some time in the future; the value of the things you buy is subjective to you.
Also http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal....
I’ll ask again, what do you think should have happened here? Auctioning off delinquent property isn’t great, but I have trouble coming up with something better.
Show HN: Attention-Based Guided Structured Sparsity of Deep Neural Networks
Am I in the minority to be appalled by the actions of Lawson (and people like him)? Clearly, you are not a full-time employee if you are employed on an as-needed basis.
Any plans to do this in Austin, TX?
In addition to what dragonwriter said: Even if arrogant people think that, in what way does that mean that there is no natural business cycle?
Genomic shared data securely analyzed using homomorphic encryption [pdf]
From the whitepaper "Nebula Genomics, blockchain-enabled genomic data sharing and analysis platform".
Interesting because homomorphic encryption for genomic data is a thing [1](2015) [2](2017)

[1] https://eprint.iacr.org/2015/133.pdf

[2] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/...
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Fiscal policy depends mostly on monetary policy I think. The amount of money government can borrow is bound by central banks. But, central bankers don't respond to voters, so basically they can do whatever servers the financial system and it stability.

Of course I am joking, they simply have no idea what they are doing, since it is virtually impossible. I grew up in post communism country and I have cold sweat when I hear about price control. And somehow price of the money is centrally managed.
Flow states have been studied for a while now:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_(psychology)

I feel this diagram sums it up very succinctly:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f6/Ch...

Powerful stuff.
Well said.

I think that what’s becoming clear is that the downsides of our 21st century Information Age is similar to last century’s nuclear age. Like radioactive materials, data is extremely valuable, but prone to leaking and no one’s figured out how to store it safely long term. It can hang around for ages, and if (when) it gets out in an equifax-style meltdown the consequences can be devastating.

The only way to safely store it is to not have it.
> from which you can only get back if you can produce fuel on the ground

Is this actually realistic?
Having political or cultural influence, or holding market dominance aren't crimes in a capitalist economy. Those aren't valid reasons to "regulate" the success out of those companies.
Please tell me what aspects of life must be held to scientific standards and what should not. If you had to have a scientific study before every decision you made, you wouldn't be able to walk 3 feet. Why is personal health something in which every judgement and decision must be backed by a double blind study? If you eat something and feel bad, don't eat it anymore. You don't need to wait for a test or study to tell you that. Please don't misinterpret me - science is incalculably valuable at saving lives, but it's not the only tool in our belt.
The big issue is that the companies have absolute power over facilities that should be mankind's possession and thus managed with explicit laws and a justice-like system offering due process.

Google is managing mankind's search engine with a secret algorithm and they can arbitrarily decide your site's presence or position in search queries with no recourse (granted, it's hard to define a fair way to do this, but still).

Facebook is managing mankind's person-to-person communication system and you have no recourse if you are banned, if your content is removed, or if you are trying to publicize some content and the newsfeed algorithms are unfavorable to you.

Amazon is managing mankind's delivery system and you have no recourse if they refuse to carry your products.

[Apple is less of a problem because they are merely monopolizing iOS devices, and there's an easy fix in terms of forcing them to open source iOS and license any related patents, so that iOS apps can be made to run on Android devices]

Reddit is another huge problem as they manage (and especially allow random moderators to manage) mankind's discussion forums with no regard to free speech, with arbitrary bans and no enforced transparency.

One option is to enforce competition: this could be done for Google by only allowing them to operate their search engine for up to a few consecutive hours per day, can be done for Amazon by allowing them to operate only a few days per month, for Facebook by forcing them to federate their social graph, so that people can host their accounts on any service and still have the same interaction and for Reddit to also federate their forums like Usenet is federated.

The other option is to be force them to manage all these facilities in the public interest, with explicit and published rules of operation (e.g. Google and Facebook must publish their ranking algorithms) and with all protections like free speech applying, according to well-defined rules and providing due process for any decisions that are adverse to anyone.

Obviously these should be as much as possible be general laws, like extending free speech to apply private spaces as well, forcing to put any software that can generate lock-in (e.g. because it implements a proprietary widely used API or manages a proprietary widely used file format) in the public domain and forcing to federate any service that benefits from network effects.
In the same way that ex. Bitcoin has intrinsic value as means to write data to an immutable public ledger, both of these applications are insufficient to justify the value each of these things hold.

The fact of the matter is that intrinsic value is not a real thing, and as a model it makes bad predictions for assets primarily intended as mediums for exchange and value storing.
Will the implementation also include a memory leak? Part of the experience...
If you have an example, send it my way! I believe the Analyser node cannot get output from a tainted source.
I think it’s pretty reasonable to state that gig economy employees are contractors, for the most part. If you set your own hours, then you’re your own boss.

The problem - in America, at least - is that contractors are denied benefits like health insurance and pensions/401k plans. But the issue of an inadequate social safety net is separate and much deeper than a mere employee/contractor distinction. Otherwise it remains a game of IRS musical chairs.
Ha! This is the perfect investment for you in particular. Maybe you can find some kind of startup that annoys tech employees in growing cities until they leave :)
I'd love to hear some discussion on the following:

I really like developer focused companies like Buglife. However, what path could Buglife take to reach a $1B dollar company?

The post notes that they are currently in 300 apps. I'd assume the majority of these 300 are on a free plan. Let's assume that they hit a growth spurt and end up in 10,000 apps. Let's also assume that every one of those customers is paying for their Premium plan. That works out to a little over $2 million a month in revenue.

Not only that, but there are already very established companies in this space (Fabric/Crashlytics, Firebase, Sentry, etc.). It's also fairly trivial to switch to another provider.

How do companies like this propose they hit that $1B mark?
I'm guessing it's opportunity cost. The money you are spending on Starbucks could be earning ~4% in a low-risk investment.
SlimJet
Version 17.0.4.0 (based on Chromium 63.0.3239.52) (Official Build) (64-bit)

Windows 10
Perhaps Jobs really was correct when he said: great artists steal.
My doctor gave me a flu test recently, which involved swabbing my sinuses with a cotton swab and putting it in a plastic test kit about the size of a matchbox. Within 5 minutes she was able to tell me that I am positive for Influenzea B. What test is this that it is so much faster than the one you've mentioned?
This reddit thread still contains a copy of the code. >.<
Were you a 1099 contractor, or an employee of a contracting firm? Big difference.
Then Jesus will come.

Everybody has their version of the apocalypse.

No one cares which companies are the worst, they are all bad in their own way, but if you claim that the number one priority is to break up Facebook because they could harm people in the future with their omniscience, then don't get mad when someone calls you out and tells you it's been happening for decades, even without all of that techno-knowledge you are so afraid of.

But they know where you are and what you do! yes, so what, they can harm you without knowing, they have been. They've been telling people what to think since they invented talking.

Superintelligence is coming and guess what? Governments are gonna own it, full stop. Not a company, not two. Governments, with guns. And for the looks of it is gonna be China. The NSA has been fighting against the odds this whole time but who knows, maybe they still have a chance. Facebook is just a pawn, the tip of the wedge, and you've fallen for the distraction.

Or do you really think breaking up facebook will completely halt development of AI?
I could try answering to that in detail, but others (smarter than me) did that already.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00843932
Some suburbs take only seconds to review red light camera citations
Here is the same thing, the errors are:

TypeError: Object.entries is not a function(…)e.(anonymous function) @ console.js:32

Skin.js:127 Uncaught (in promise) TypeError: Object.entries is not a function(…)
From the ruling by the court:

Other dishonest conduct during this lawsuit further supports the Court’s finding that Mr. Lawson intentionally manipulated the app to get paid for not working. During discovery he produced a resume that falsely represents that he attended a Loyola Marymount University Master of Fine Arts program from August 2012 to May 2015, and even lists a specific grade point average; however, Mr. Lawson was only enrolled in the program for one year and did not graduate. When confronted at trial with this misrepresentation, Mr. Lawson testified that he listed all three years because he was “still involved in various activities” and he felt “still part of [the Loyola Marymount] community.” (Dkt. No. 208 at 48:13-16.) This explanation is not credible.
I don't know about oil, but I thought airplanes were rich people's silly toys at first? And then WW1 happened.
in fact, that'd be quite cheap.
Depending on the definition of the word startup, most (if not all) successful open source communities started off as a toy. The Ethereum foundation is a recent example of this.

I also personally think that "toys" are great for building and sharpening one's skills, much like Lego in the real world. This can be everything from you trying to "sell" your toy so other kids will come play with it, all the way up to learning how to glue software components together and make it work. Some technical toy projects have steep learning curves, and as an engineer myself, I see it as an opportunity to learn things I otherwise wouldn't working on a "serious project".
> For a while, Bitcoin was used for transactions that people wanted to keep secret from government authorities, like drug deals. It soon became apparent, however, that if authorities wanted to track these transactions, they could. For instance, Silk Road, the first major online drug market, which made use of Bitcoin, was shut down by the F.B.I. in 2013.

This is pretty weak reasoning from one of the "top 5% economists in the world". The Silk Road shutdown was (reportedly) the result of poor OPSEC on the part of Ulbricht and has nothing to do with the anonymity characteristics of Bitcoin.
Maybe so, but that's no reason to make HN threads worse. Please don't post unsubstantive comments or call names in comments here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The graph can start from 0 if 0 is meaningful. But it isn't - we don't want a 0ppm atmosphere, we want one similar to that of 150-200 years ago.
I'd say there's pretty broad consensus that avoiding confiscation and imprisonment carries intrinsic value.
This is an electron app.
Ohh right, thank you for explaining. Hmm but e.g. a lot of new websites dont work on any available browser on my computer. The problem is so many new sites need a new computer to work properly—as if they're only tested by people with new computers—not that new computers have a problem with old sites. Maybe I should, uh, buy a new computer. :-) But I figure there are as many people using computers as old as mine, as using brand new ones, maybe not. But I've realized there are two kinds of backwards compatibility, thanks.
> JD always screwing things up with the current romantic interest

Ah but see, JD had different romanic interests throughout the show.

And Gilligan was trying to get off the island.
Why? Small to mid-sized farming is inherently less efficient than large scale farming. Yes, there's a market in designer kale, but it's tiny. Farm efficiency is a great achievement. In 1820, about 77% of US workers were in "farm occupations". Today, 1.5%. Now that's productivity.
No. Employees and employers can both be shitty to each other.
This is cool but it makes me wonder about all of the electron apps that are coming out. Is there something more efficient that could do the same? Why are QT and GTK not nearly as popular?