skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually Windows is almost obsolete these days.

Linux dominates the smartphones, servers and the supercomputers.

It's the software development model and the ideological underpinnings that made Linux technically superior, so I'd be careful not to wave them off as some religious nonsense.
Companies with great products rarely go bankrupt in my experience (while the product is great of course).
Well, Wikipedia seems to agree with that tautological definition.

While McDonald's alone increasing their price wouldn't be inflation, it could become that if a significant part of the businesses in that location increased theirs as well.

It's just really hard to find examples of this today. It's mostly limited to holiday hotzones, rent and similar.
> you’d still need a very large number of missions to make construction and maintenance of the moon base cheaper than just directly going where you want to go.

We can't forever just launch point-to-point missions from Earth's surface. The Moon meshes up well with industrial space activities around Earth, which we'll need anyway, and which'll create plenty of demand around itself for missions and resources.

> It has a far side that never faces the earth, but the sun shines there just like it does on the other side.

Sure, but a) lack of atmosphere while still having stable ground underneath helps, plus b) lack of RF noise from Earth would really help radiotelescopes, which was what I was thinking about when writing my previous comment.
If you have a 10% stake though then it's completely fine for you to talk to the board whenever you want in your capacity as an equity holder. But that's different than talking to the board in your capacity as an employee.
> first employee

> only equity being offered

> no sales or funding

They want free labor. Don't do it.
It took me weeks to get Circe working on my project.

But this compiler plugin makes it infinitely easier:
https://github.com/tek/splain
I’d remind myself the following:

- ideas are a multiplier to execution and essentially worth nothing without the execution

- a business-savvy founder who is willing to walk the walk, knock on doors, sell the product, is a multiplier to the viability of the product.

- 9 out of 10 (or so) startups fail. So most likely, this one will fail. How much (calculated in hours * $100/h) am I willing to pay for one lottery ticket? A ticket which will guarantee a maximum of $?

- I need to pay my rent, insurance, food, student debts and save, or I’ll be in trouble soon.

- I have a limited number of heartbeats, a limited amount of cognitive resources per day.

- I am asking a question on a public forum about this situation. This automatically classifies it as a non-“hell yes!” decision.

- I would prefer a different arrangement but the founders are not open to what I really want. How do I feel about a career of compromise?
Single founders introduce a few other common failure modes that are alleviated by having cofounders: giving up, mental health, stamina, running out of money, and missing the market opportunity. It's like you can trade one big point of failure - cofounder dysfunction & breakups - for death by thousand paper cuts.

(Note also that institutional stakeholders would usually rather have a SPOF that they can identify and intervene in, rather than a bunch of little failure points that might sneak up on you and are very difficult to stave off. This may or may not be in the interests of the individual founder, who often has an information advantage and better mitigation strategies for identifying and counteracting these other failure points.)
Alas, the ability to smile is something that is innate, and some babies do smile right after birth. (rare, but it happens), but it is not necessary tied to emotional content.

"Neonatal smiling occurs from birth to one month of age and shows no emotional content. Smiles are spontaneous and often occur while the baby is drowsy or during REM stages of sleep. Baby smiles are subcortical in origin and will actually decrease with maturity (so premature babies smile more than full-term babies)."

Also there is proof that babies seems to be able to smile even though they are uborn/ still in the womb, which means the ability to smile is a universal human trait that is culture independent.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-196020/Babies-smil...
True. I have had cases where prior poor judgement has placed whoever I was working for in a hard spot.
This is the exactly the pattern you would expect to see though if the variance of mathematical ability is higher in men than in women, even if mean ability is precisely identical.

The sex ratio gets progressively more extreme as you go further out in the tails.
> The ISS is going to de-orbit in the 2020s,

Only because we are going to allow it. We could, you know, keep it in orbit and continue to use it.

> I think NASA should be allowed, broadly, to choose its own missions and goals, and stick with it for longer than one administration. Their work takes more than 3 year election cycles.

I could not agree with this more. Having every administration fuck up their agenda every 4-8 years is not productive.
YouTube tightens screws further on channel owners
And if you tell them that they are barking up the wrong tree, they run to social media to get you labeled as a "hater"...
I read the problem as being a cultural one, not a financial one.
Viewing your screen should be subject to permissions simply because it can supersede all permissions to access sensitive data.
> parents often live in communities that don't pay taxes that support public schools

how? pretty sure in the US everyone pays property tax (directly or indirectly), some of which is used to fund the school system. you can't just opt out of paying into that system at all.
Honest question: How do you estimate family financials of people interviewing you? Judging by the school they graduated or from the comments they make during the interview?
Great lessons and advice in here. I have a question - did things change much pre and post funding? Or did the toxic situation pretty much stay the same?

Reason I ask is that my current co-founder and I have an excellent working relationship at the moment, and a part of me worries that if we raise funding, it may impact on that somewhat - especially if we have other board members etc. who will start to dictate how we should proceed etc.
I would be shocked if Scholze didn't win this year.
“Some people really benefit from hearing advice that everyone knows...”
which parts in particular are obsolete and terrible?
Words do in fact mean things, and that's why there's so many of them. Abuse and misuse are two similar words with distinct connotations. Abusing something means it's intentional and is causing significant harm. Misusing something means using it in a way that could be accidental or intentional, but is contrary to the way the thing should be used.

I have to agree with the other person, unless this was done intentionally and the programmer knew it would cause damage, calling it abuse sounds overly dramatic. I think the word misuse is far more accurate here.
It's still used in quite a lot of enterprise production applications, would say it's on the decline but no where near dead.
Would you give one of those people the option to trim weeds?
I used to love FL24, until it stopped supporting its Mac client which I paid for, rendering it useless. All you get is a message asking you to subscribe to the program you've already paid for.
> The reason being is that, not only are you almost certainly wrong, but it doesn't matter.

I've noticed that, in this field at least, everyone does come from a much more wealthy background than I do. I once talked about my experience of working at McDonald's as a youth once and got a lot of weird stares. Kids of doctors, professors, etc...I think it is mostly because they went to good schools in the first place, there aren't that man poor kids that go to CMU or Stanford. Heck, it is much worse at the PhD level.

The other points are valid: given the talent shortage in our field, they mostly don't care about your background. It is much more relevant during promotions in dysfunctional orgs.
You also need the assumption that the judges are unbiased and that people have equal opportunities.

Lots of room for explanation from many angles here.
If you want to listen on a port under 1024 you require superuser access or special privileges.

https://www.w3.org/Daemon/User/Installation/PrivilegedPorts....
Facebook “likes” are a powerful tool for authoritarian rulers
This doesn't surprise me at all. Unfortunately, social media is not social at all. It's not just the medium everyone uses to talk about and prize themselves, but also the medium that people use to silently ostracize others, who in turn use the completely fake and narcissistic posts of whoever they deem popular, or "cool," as a metric of how good their own lives are and, ultimately, fall into depression whilst failing to understand the fakeness of what they see.
Well they might do other things in to your house, now they have the keys.
Here's (another) SA article[1] that seems to somewhat counter the claims found here; namely, that joy, laughter, and humor are not "culturally adapted" but built into our neural correlates. This is a famous (and ground-breaking) study conducted by Jaak Panksepp[2].

Maybe smiling is culturally-specific, but laughter certainly isn't. I'm not sure if there's much of a difference between the two -- to me it seems to be a difference of intensity (of emotion) and not a difference in kind.

[1] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/rats-laugh-but-no...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaak_Panksepp
> If he doesn't cash in, someone else does.

That doesn't make it right. It just makes him amoral.

"I had to murder this guy, because if I didn't, someone else will!"
I think most behavioral finance people would agree 95% of Americans should follow this "dogma" because the biggest risk for them is making dumb speculative investments.

The top 5% can approach investing with a more personalized strategy, but for most of us, esp. those who don't give a damn what a stock is, this advice is pretty sound.
It's not defeat to fall down, it's only defeat when you stay down.

Getting to the Moon, especially with something more serious than samples pickup mission, would signal that we're back on our feet again.
Some examples of what specifically you’d automate?
Try explaining that to Poettering. [1] [2]

[1] https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-Au...

[2] https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/437
The key line is "When autonomous vehicles are allowed on roads". There's no actual self-driving store out on the streets.
Why not have three or ten co founders? All could bring value in different ways:
> Wikipedia seems to agree with that tautological definition.

It reminds me of when I saw a technical analyst on CNBC sagely note that the reason the P/E ratio was high was because the Price rose faster than the Earnings. Sheesh!

It is not inflationary if McDonald's increases their prices. Spending more at McDonald's means you have less to spend elsewhere. Your spending does not create more money to replace it.

Consider if the money was a fixed number gold coins instead, and you'll see that anyone raising prices does not result in more gold coins.
Not really, you get a fat tail effect at extreme ability reducing the differences. A more likely cause are highly capable women bailing on the field.

EX: Women live significantly longer on average and the oldest women lived 6 years longer than the oldest man. Yet, the 16th oldest person was a man and 6% of oldest 100 people where men. And 6% of the top 100 living people are men https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_oldest_living_people
Interestingly in the latest StartX session there are more single-founder companies than not. Not sure if it the first time this happens, but it definitely didn't used to be like that.
I think the opposite is true.

First, the backwards compatibility is a key feature. You can open a project written several years ago, and add a new feature to it using the latest language syntax without being forced to rewrite all the old code.

I'm not quite sure about stock visual studio (since I don't use it), but Resharper (and their new Rider IDE, which I've played with a bit) is pretty good at highlighting code doing things the old way and even automatically rewriting it for you. This seems to be getting better as they take advantage of what the Roslyn compiler can help with.

.NET Core, native, and the work of Xamarin only means more cross platform support, which allows broader use beyond just the Windows world. The ecosystem is starting to get caught up now, and between most popular libraries being available and the feature parity reached with .NET Core 2.0, things are looking great for it to grow even more popular.
I'm not sure what you mean—why would you assume there is a fat tail expect in the first place, and not something approximating a normal distribution?

And even if you presume something like a Pareto distribution, the likelihood ratio between two distributions grow through the tails if their variance is not identical.

edit: I see you bring up longevity, but I don't see why this is relevant to a discussion about variance in mathematical ability or intelligence? See: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S019188690...
I completely agree. I just think that we're seeing a category of developers that consider the front-end to be of higher priority, with everything that goes with that mindset.
He should institute a Barany medal instead. It's an interesting idea, but the Fields medal is what it is at this point. It would be very slow to change, and even though his article is well researched, it's a bit idealistic and the interpretation of the original intent isn't black & white.
I've been outside the US. People care much less about where you've come from than in the places I've been (in Asia and Europe).

Of course class exists in the US, but if you're able to move up in a tax bracket people won't judge you for having come from a lower tax bracket.
I'm not entirely sure but I think Netflix might have just "fixed" this. After finishing one stream I got an error screen telling me to reload the page. After that the next stream switched back to 720p.
This is impressive enough that it might turn into a real language instead of a hobby language. I think improving the speed is the top concern. Everything else seems to be already in place.
I downvoted because the first claim is so badly wrong. Containers solve several problems which many places struggle with, the most important of which is having a common baseline for every project. Having a clear ops/dev responsibility boundary, tools, auditing, documentation, etc. which is identical for every team, every language, and every environment is huge in any organization over the smallest startups.

That’s a shame because the rest of your comment is right: that space is on the red hot point of the hype curve and there’s a ton of money being spent so someone can brag that they’re doing the same thing as the cool kids at Google or Netflix when in reality that’s like saying you’re an Olympic marathoner because you bought the same shoes. It’s profitable now but I wonder whether we’re due for some backlash.
youngest father known to men
Thanks, that's really interesting. I guess you mean RoI and those are yearly numbers? You've multiplied your money by 17? If so, those are some great bets, congratulations.
If the roles are separate yes. If the roles are mixed where you are being paid in stock then it should he fair.
Docker is really starting to be used a lot in data science. Kubernetes too as it makes it easy to run that code in a distributed way. There's starting to be an ecosystem of tools that help with this too. Such as Kubeflow [0] which brings Tensorflow to Kubernetes in a clean way. I work on one myself [1] that manages the data as well as using docker containers for the code so that your whole data process is reproducible.

[0] https://github.com/kubeflow/kubeflow

[1] https://github.com/pachyderm/pachyderm
> Why Don't Babies Smile from Birth?

Have you SEEN a birth? Now imagine being on the other side of the equation! It's amazing we aren't all born with PTSD.
That’s because they’re not Lyft’s cars. They’re personally owned vehicles with the owner in the vehicle monitoring its condition at all times.
This sounds like a bug (or maybe two bugs), not the result of any sort of policy decision. So, before taking a combative stance and trying to shame them into fixing it, it's important to make sure the relevant information has actually reached the person who actually could fix it, and they've had some time to work!
The disconnect isn't just between Black and White it's between the poor and not poor. You'd be surprised if you heard the conversations between some upper middle class Blacks and if you didn't know what color they were, you would think they were some of the most racist White people in the world. (I'm Black).
Or a CGI generated face with googly eyes. Make the robot head transparent and spherical, with a one way screen for the stereoscopic camera, and holographically project your avatar (with googly eyes) inside the sphere looking in the same direction.
A bit like this:
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/08/27/3d-sphere-star-wa...
That's pretty much how I do things. Using unique diceware passwords for logins, and have another diceware password for accessing a password DB.
Something like JS 'permissions' could help here. I.e. load a script but limit how much CPU/GPU access it has plus determining if it has DOM access, XHR access, etc. So you load the script and tell it what it can do. Also developers taking security more seriously. But it is rarely a priority, since risk reduction is not paid for today.
>> Interviewers don't care about how much money the candidates have because...

No, hang on, I get what the OP says and it's a reasonalbe assumption. In large companies with rigid hierarchies, people will often be sort of subtly flash (!) with their money, because it basically marks their position in the hierarchy. You can see this in the clothes people wear, their cars obviously, their phones also obviously, the other tech they proudly display, discussions about where they're going for holidays, or for the weekend etc etc.

If you're getting hired in a company with that sort of culture as a recent graduate, say, coming from a less affluent background, then it's easy to feel somewhat excluded.
When I first read this discussion, I just assumed that BrowseAloud was some sort of ad-tech or analytics code. But it's assistive technology for screen readers. The list of web sites that were compromised were web sites that were trying to do the right thing to help disabled users.

Ad-tech is a giant security hole that can't be fixed without burning it all down, but BrowseAloud could be fixed.
“The Mechanics of History”
Unless you are over 50, Between now and your retirement age, the long running story of the greatest accumulation of debt in peace time will likely have come to its conclusion which will invariably be either high inflation or financial collapse. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Some people's savings will get wiped out.
Highland Park is a city within a city that pays no taxes to DISD.

Zuckerberg grew up in Dobb's Ferry, which is just outside of New York City's limits. He ended up at a private high school with an endowment of 1.15 billion. Now he's worth 70 billion. Not to pick on him (just an example), but there are many ways the elites segregate themselves.
Return of the Decentralized Web
Reminds me of this post from a month ago: “Improving your data science workflow with Docker”

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16071612
Easy: $1 invested does not equal $1 in market cap. Not sure where I read this, but there was a post where a guy wrote he invested $5,000 in a coin and it increased the market cap by $4m.
Mars vs. Moon debates are getting ridiculous these days. Why not both?

Thanks to NewSpace, getting out there is only going to become cheaper; we can, as civilization, afford both. Let ESA and NASA and China race to the Moon. SpaceX wants to go to Mars. If either succeeds in the next decade, we all win. The knowledge and experience gained is reusable for either, it goes into the same pool. And if we keep fighting over which destination is better, we won't get to any.
Gregory Maxwell Eyes Bitcoin Smart Contracts After Blockstream
Random conversations, Reddit personal finance, podcasts. Reason is, the interest is low and by investing the money elsewhere you can get a higher rate of return.
Thousands of websites worldwide hijacked by #cryptocurrency #mining code
The irony is that Applets are back, now they are called WebAssembly.
I wonder at what age kids start to display non-Duchenne smiles.
Pretty much everything on your list is not possible with our current technology. More importantly, it's feasible to develop this technology on Earth.

The problem with going to the moon (or anywhere else in the solar system) is that the only thing we can do right now is science experiments. And there's a lot more impactful science that can be done for far cheaper than sending people outside of our gravity well. If you want to do anything else, then you have to develop a lot of technology to get to the point. But the space bugs want to see humans go to space, and they generally don't want to see effort being expended on the research to let humans do anything useful because it's not space research.
That is mentioned in the article, still relevant though.
On the other hand, see "Quantum Machine Learning Algorithms: Read the Fine Print" by Scott Aaronson:

https://www.scottaaronson.com/papers/qml.pdf
Solid aims to radically change the way web applications work
I'm glad you found it useful. Here's a related bonus link :-)

https://www.quora.com/Is-there-a-programming-language-thats-...

Dr Kay has been loudly telling us for a long time that we are on the wrong track whilst having already delivered a complete alternative. One can only wonder what his perspective feels like.
How about: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yitang_Zhang
I'm over 30 but I think this is a great strategy if you have risk tolerance. It's not for the faint of heart however.

Another interesting strategy would be investing the risky part of your retirement into startups or tech you believe in. But you can't do that by law unless you are already rich(accredited investor).
Your comment exhibits a lot of disdain. Sorry to hear about the interviewing trouble.

> I'm trying to get hired at big 4 tech right now. Every person interviewing me is a rich kid. All of my competition is rich kids.

Touring these big tech companies was discouraging. They're all very diverse. Rich white kids. Rich Asian kids. Rich female kids. Rich European kids. Rich Indian kids.

I'm not sure there's anything I can ever do to make it past the social/socioeconomic judgment round of these interviews.

Is your primary issue that everyone interviewing you is much younger than you are, or that they have more money? If the latter, is it because they presently have more money or because they had a better socioeconomic upbringing?

I’m not trying to invalidate your experience, just understand it. But unless you specifically mean ageism, I don’t see how you could clearly link prejudices in these interviews to a difference of wealth.
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