skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You mean the competitive contract that SpaceX won to deliver supplies to the ISS? I've seen a few people claim that was a subsidy, but that's a bit far-fetched.
I don't see why I'd want to use this, instead of something like Twitter Moments.

But perhaps more importantly, there is nothing on the front page of the site to explain what the product is and encourage a signup. The Explore link is tiny and I nearly missed it (that is probably closer to what your front page should be like). And that catchphrase "Travel Your Memories" doesn't make sense to me.

But on the signup form, what is a "PHUSER"? I don't even know how to complete the signup form. Is that meant to say Username? (It should also be an Email Address, not an "Email id".)
I thought I was being helpful with my comment. That was certainly my intention.

It was a correction to a misunderstanding. As neither of the two authors I referenced replied, I assumed that either they didn't see it, or accepted the correction, or dismissed it and moved on.

The arguments weren't about the large issues of the day, but the arguments were wrong based on a misunderstanding, and surely the world is improved when you have an understanding of things, great or small, rather than misunderstanding.

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With regards to your statement, you don't prevent odor by adding odor. You attempt to change the quality of the odor you emit by mixing in other odors with purported desirable qualities. You create an admixture of "good" and "bad" in a stronger odor.

This is not prevention.

If you have asthma or other respiratory condition, a strong odor can trigger that pathology, regardless of the qualities of that odor that would cause you to think it smelled good or bad. The strength of the odor alone is the trigger.

In that case you would much prefer the people around you used an anti-perspirant with as little extra odor added in as reasonable.

Or maybe you don't have any respiratory pathologies, but you find strong odor distracting. You might actually prefer low levels of body odor to strong levels of some deodorant.
> Also the default Defender antivirus is so slow

Hah! You must not have used Mcafee Enterprise. I recently moved to Defender and the difference is startling - my laptop fans literally never stopped whining with Mcafee, as it was constantly gobbling CPU. With Defender, it remains silent, and CPU usage is low. I've used other AV systems too (e.g. Avira), and for sure they're better than Mcafee, but I'm impressed with Defender. Don't see any reason for me to use anything else.
Holmes is fictional. Graham and Bezos are salesmen in every sense of the word. See my post for Catsmull.

It's not so much about having an incredibly high bar (though I'll admit it's unfair), but just being aware that what they are selling you as insight might not be as insightful as you think it is. Most people don't have the experience to know whether they are wrong (I don't), this is the inherent danger. We also tend to gloss over when they are wrong.

Skepticism is warranted, though maybe not the cynicism.
Am I missing something? That still sounds profitable just based on the data I read in these comments:

7 ton / acre * $220 / ton - (435000 gallon / acre * $0.40 / 1000 liter)

$881.34 / acre
For some interesting context on "Amazon's dominance", in 2017 they managed a total marketshare of 4% of retail. Surprisingly even if we restrict it to e-commerce only, they 'only' achieved 44%. [1]

[1] - http://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-captured-4-of-us-retai...
> and finally customers love it.

I think this expresses everything that's wrong about a lot of other companies. And if they can't figure this out, they deserve to fail. How this can even be considered a "moat"? You'd think customer trust/experience should be at the root of good business, especially repeat business.
SpaceX seems to be pursuing their usual "let's bring stuff in-house as much as possible" strategy.

If you think about it, no existing supplier can produce enough gear for this satellite constellation, so either SpaceX is paying a supplier to build an assembly line, or SpaceX can pay the supplier for tech and build a SpaceX assembly line.
Which is mainly also overblown [1] and one of the first world wide, anti-imperialist campaigns in modern history. And wildly successful if I might say.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Legend
The genesis of the learned optimism movement was Dr. Seligman locking dogs in a cage and giving them electric shocks until they gave up trying to avoid them. This is somewhat glossed over in his books...
Apparently they made the rats work on maintaining legacy software.
I wonder why the pilot didn’t attempt to go straight up.
Unless the rats turn to stoicism. Then the joke’s on the researchers.
I can't see any area in which Amazon has a monopoly by the section 2 definition.

What is it that I can only buy from or using Amazon and where there is no ready substitute in the market? (Saying I can't buy Amazon Basics AA batteries or an Echo doesn't count [IMO] as I can buy Duracells or Google Home things.) Almost invariably when I look for something on Amazon, I also do a Google shopping and Ebay check.
First, fix the landing page - you need to present value before you can expect a conversion. This means making something that is interesting and aesthetically pleasing.

Second, if this is a business idea, I'm not sure how you monetize this. Is it ads from user visits? If so, you are going to need a ton of user visits.

Third, up the social media game. If you want visitors you need to make these articles/timelines sharable and unique.

Fourth, I'm in agreement with others here when they say this is not a timeline. Medium/Wordpress provide the same functionality. This can be replicated in Wordpress/Medium just be including subtitles with dates in between paragraphs.
I do not think it is good public policy to wait until companies are abusing their power before something is done about their size; that suggests the problem is not size, but behaviors which should already be illegal if they're wrong regardless of size.

Are they a natural monopoly? If so they should be regulated as a monopoly. If they aren't a natural monopoly, then why is the market not more competitive; and why is it wrong for policy to create a competitive environment? And isn't there an opportunity cost in every case, even if you don't know what it is? What businesses aren't being created because of Amazon's sheer weight?

Many of these questions are asked and answered (not entirely satisfactorily in some cases) in the case of Standard Oil.
California has a very strange water system. It’s not really privatized, only ~5% of California’s water is provided by private parties last I checked. Californian water rights promise significantly more water than the state actually has (which will cause some problems).

The water districts and utilities do most of the price setting, as I understand it. The water districts are largely controlled by farming interests who do not want pricy water.

This info may be out of date, since I work in a very different water market (East Africa), so if someone knows better please correct me.
"African or European" - refers to Monty Python's classic film Holy Grail

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFQgwwXOfR4

note: Watch the witch scene later in the film - there's a coconut and swallow at the start of it.
More than a few dogs show this behaviour.
"It should absolutely be concerning to us that Amazon is dominant even in these smaller markets"

Serious question. Why? Every market has a leader, a dominant player, and sometimes a couple of them vying for the top against myriad smaller players. Why should I be "concerned" about this natural state of affairs?
Definitely not and it would probably put most agriculture in California out of business. Farmers can't compete with cities on price.

https://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21647994-why-go...
ELK+OSQuery+Kolide Fleet
In my experience, this is a bad idea. The negative thoughts can use the rationalization engine in your brain just as well as the other parts, so engaging with them on rational terms has, for me, only given them more influence.
That's obviously a false extrapolation on cultures.

In Paris you're not spending one euro on espresso typically. It's going to be closer to 2.50 to 3 euros. Adjust that to dollars, you get more like $3 to $3.70, adjust for income differences you get $5 to $6 (US incomes are far higher than French incomes, and especially if we're comparing eg NYC vs Paris).

https://francetravelplanner.com/go/paris/shop/costs.html

Americans have not been conditioned to accept high prices for drinks. When was the last time you wandered through Walmart's beverages section? Their grocery section has half an aisle for inexpensive coffee and tea products, and then another half aisle for inexpensive soda products. As another example, cases of water at Walmart go for $4 for a brand label pack of 24 to 32 500ml bottles, or $0.13 to $0.17 per unit. If anything, most Americans are conditioned to expect to pay very cheap prices for purchased beverages. That's why Starbucks is considered expensive to the average person.

A small group of high income Americans find it acceptable to spend what is a trivial sum for them, on such product experiences.

The notion that many Americans are spending $15-$20 on daily beverages, is laughable. The median income is $30,000. You want me to believe a lot of people are spending $7,000 annually on beverages? Yeah right.

It's equivalent to saying: in the US you can buy a vast array of great wines for $10 to $20, while in France people are paying $140 for wine.

Sure, some people in France are. It'd be false to pretend a large number of people in France are doing that regularly. Few Americans are actually spending outsized sums of money on beverages.
I hope so, but there's no guarantee, because that says "new apps", not "app updates".
I believe it's ACH payments
Reasons to think that, in terms of influence if not wealth, Facebook has peaked
Read support is fine, write support varies from nonexistent to merely crippled. One implementation allows you to write to NTFS only in the case where you were overwriting existing bits in a file, and even that was buggy.
I do not know the validity of other hackers because I got acquainted to the darkwebsolutions organization early. They provided me with a crypter and also they helped my niece with an untraceable grades change. i can tell you more about this as they provide a wide range of services. I have a circle of satisfied friends too. Mail darkwebssolutions at gmail dot com. I will help in any way I can to hook you up.
There was some overlap, e.g. William Kidd and possibly Edward Teach (Blackbeard).
Is the human brain a difference in kind or a difference in degree, or both?
Ah yes, the world without "shitty jobs" utopia. "Shitty" as compared to what? Who should do those jobs? Robots?

Assuming what parent said is true, except for paying employees much more than competitors and education options, what should they do in your opinion to make the jobs less "shitty"?
But as a consumer, why would I place my trust, and store my value in your shallow liquidity token when I prefer to just hold dollars?

Certainly the company ICO'ing benefits from the infusion of money selling their token, but what is the value prop for all these different tokens for consumers? (read: not speculators or investors)

Also, if the tokens trade for fiat on an exchange, then they certainly would be volatile as far as what value they can be exchanged for. How can you ensure the service doesn't become more expensive?
Or just realise that a 1.9kg toy should be ignored rather than evaded. What happens if a goose or swan or pelican flies near a helicopter?
jq has a more polished CLI and can do 'everything'.

jmespath is more limited, but is well specified and easier to fit in your head. It's also much more appropriate for using as a library from other projects, since it has clean implementations in many languages. It's also an advantage in this case that it can't do everything, since you can more realistically provide untrusted user input.

jmespath's default (Go) CLI isn't as fully featured as jq, unfortunately.
I was making an unfair inference about the pilot's mental state, so I removed it. With that being said I still strongly question the relation of the drone to the crash physically and believe the effect of the drone on the pilot's decision-making is the interesting part of this story. Landing as an evasive maneuver doesn't make a lot of sense to me and the actual cause of the crash seems to be a situational awareness issue.
Floating-point is (almost) never necessary to achieve acceptable performance in one specific compute workload. The value of IEEE 754 floating-point is that it makes it much, much easier to write correct numerically stable programs, because the arithmetic has a scale-invariant rounding error model (assuming no over-/underflow), and the results in the case of over/underflow are fully defined, so no unpleasant surprises like UB for integers.

For (almost) any one fixed algorithm with specified input scaling and known error tolerance, you can choose an appropriate fixed-point format and come within a reasonable constant of floating-point performance on generic hardware, and exceed it on special-purpose hardware. The real value of floating-point is in writing libraries that deliver good performance and acceptable numeric results without any a priori knowledge of input data scaling. This is critical to allowing people to quickly re-use and repurpose all the existing numerical computing software for new problems, and allows engineering tools like Matlab to be useful to people who are not numerics experts.
Amazon re-invests nearly everything back into the company, that is to be desired and they deserve to win because of it. Competing with them is hard due to this intense research and development investment culture they have.

It would be hard to claim they are a monopoly with Wal-mart out there but also in cloud computing, there are many competitors. Amazon just knows how to develop not only products but markets for their product.

Amazon has helped small to medium retailers sell on Amazon and small to medium development/technology companies compete with infrastructure.

Amazon will hopefully disrupt healthcare with their new venture with Berkshire (who owns Geico and should make healthcare/insurance more consumer focused like auto insurance) and it is a welcome initiative. They might even solve the fixed pharmaceutical pricing market.
Obviously your equation is a big simplification, but you’re missing a lot of the input costs.
Thanks for the offer, I got 75% through writing you an email and finally managed to get some data exported via https://overpass-turbo.eu/, so I'll work on that for now. Thanks though!
I suggest you do this startup for free without getting paid, so you can improve your reputation and experience.
Microsoft’s Blazor project runs .Net in the browser
‘Lost’ ancient Mexican city had as many buildings as Manhattan, laser map shows
Amazon's warehouse employees can't pretend Amazon doesn't exist because their local and state governments have flattened local economies in exchange for a fulfillment center being built in the county.

Do you have any other advice for them, or do you want to keep repeating these naive reactionary defenses of the status quo?
So no mention of JSONiq which came before JMESPath?
This is a quite racist and unnecessary comment. It doesn't belong on Hacker News.
Helicopters are hard. It might not have had enough time to do that (before hitting the drone)
It’s lowest common denominator because it is so common. If there were only a handful of Starbucks it would still be highly sought after. Now, you can’t turn a corner without seeing Starbucks.

Same thing happened to Godiva.
I like the irony :D

"Eight reasons Facebook has peaked"

"please follow me on Twitter or Facebook"
It's just a client-side thing then, right? I can send email to a GMail user from a non-AMP client and I can receive email from a GMail user. I don't think there are any mail system interoperability concerns, are there?
Why was the Belgian court illegally collecting data in the first place? ;-)
You make a great point. An interesting question is, are anti-trust laws in their current form, adequate for the networked era?

When organizations are able to use their network effects to decrease competition in markets (FB / Amazon / Google) does that create a negative outcome despite clearly delivering a better product for customers in the short run.

It's clear that network effects and big bank accounts decrease innovation and competition, and it's hard to think that won't have long term negative effects. Just think, is starting a social network a smart thing to do today if your only option is being bought by Facebook, or having them integrate your innovations into one of their services?

That being said, innovation thrives on constraints, and there is no indication that these companies wont fall prey to new technology and user demands. It just seems less likely given the powerful position they are all in.
I think this can be said about any franchise or marketplace vs small business.

For example:

If you started your own car rental company, at a glance it might be tough to compete with the 10 or so large companies that exist today. There's no way you're going to compete with them when it comes to advertising. They have an army and seemingly infinite funds for raising their brand awareness and you don't have that.

Let all of those 10 popular rental services race to the bottom on price and deal with razor thin margins (which works for them because their volume is a lot higher). You can't compete there.

You need to win on things like customer experience, support and maybe even go after a different target audience. Niche down, create a really good service and crush just that segment of the industry.

Justify your higher prices with your own uniqueness and value.
Climate is the big one, land and access to water (I know this seems weird for California but they do have it). You could grow in West TX, southern NM and AZ but the water logistics are not there. You see the same crops in FL, but they have less land to support the same kind of agriculture infrastructure as they do in California. The labor situation is a symptom of the above factors, by its very nature its mobile. If you had the farms to support it, the labor would follow.
Oh come on, that's a weird definition of "ample", considering the frequent droughts and that water rights have always been a huge source of dispute in the western U.S.

The question is whether there's enough water for both farming and huge cities. Cities can pay much more, so if water rights were transferrable, farmers wouldn't grow almonds. They would sell their water to cities and retire.
This feels like a "I flipped my car dodging a squirrel" situation to me, as well, although the FAA models do support the potential of 1.9kg toys to cause fairly substantial damage. I think that given all documented collisions mentioned in the article resulted in zero-to-minor damage to the larger vehicle, drones are probably best ignored as well, but to make such a sweeping generalization in something as safety-critical as aircraft will probably require years more research.
What would you say the main reasons for staying with Xeons are for your type of research?

We use Intel MKL in some applications. We just use the BLAS interface, but Intel MKL is generally the fastest BLAS implementation. Obviously, it is optimized for Intel CPUs.

Also, with many vendors it is easier to get >= 768GB RAM 64 core machines using Intel Xeon CPUs.
Why is it new app? When will it apply to existing apps?

I don’t have a X but I have apps that still don’t support the iPhone 6 screen size. Not ancient apps that have never been updated.

TiVo updates their app regularly. Every 2 or 3 months. But it still doesn’t support the screen size released four years ago.

This is a good move but at some point it needs to apply to existing apps or you end up with an obnoxious loophole.
Ask HN: Is it possible to run a front end as a service business?
I want to create a SaaS business whose main value prop is a clean frontend interface through a JavaScript SDK. My concern is that some users may just pay for one month and just copy my frontend components and keep using them. Is there anyway to protect from that happening?
Project Euler [0] comes to mind, although it's more of a collection of math problems to be solved by programming. Definitely not a guide or tutorial.

[0]: https://projecteuler.net/
I think the EU was right to do it, because they realised how important the web is. But we didn't really feel the effects. Normal people still used IE, until they didn't.

In the end, I think Microsoft brought the demise of IE on themselves, because of how terrible it was. They couldn't undo that reputation, not even with Edge, which still feels clunky compared to FF or Chrome.

So this example is ambiguous w.r.t. hands-off vs. hands-on regulation at best.
Maybe completely ignoring a domain is different than a implementing subroutine that ignores indexing a domain's images but not its other (text-based) content?
FreeBSD 9 has been EOLed a while ago.
Raychat update customer support iran
Your math checks out - of the top of my head, 435,000 gallons is approx 1.6 million liters - 1600 m^3 * $0.4/m^3 = ~$640/acre of water, for $1440 of product, or ~ $800 profit (for just water costs)

One variable we are missing is transport costs - that $0.40 is for generation, and transportation of water from the ocean to the central valley would probably be expensive.
Justin Kan's founders guide to raising a series A
Oh, wow! Indeed. That's disappointing.
I assume sending will always work as expected (they aren't about to start demanding things be AMP formatted), but who knows what your client might render an AMP email looking like.
But who knows, that might change:

https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2017/11/8/1661171...
While getting paid?

No, they sent them to get their Ph.D.
> That's not Amazon's fault; that's the business' fault. This is no different than the Walmart's, Barnes and Nobles (remember when there were small bookstores?), etc. of the world.

One way in which Amazon is different is that they were able to loose boatloads of investor money to get to where they are today. That is not true for your father (who I empathize with) or even with Walmart or Barnes and Noble who have traditional investors who were not willing to allow the type of pie in the sky losses that Amazon got their investors to go along with. For one thing Amazon was a new (internet) business and those others were existing businesses. So this is not a case of simply 'work smarter and harder' or even close. Amazon is a special case. And despite what anyone thinks it was not assured in any way that they would get to the dominant position they are today. Honestly it defied many of the traditional rules of business. And only worked because Bezos (like Musk, Jobs) was able to be both a celebrity, visionary and have the type of control that they had. Not the same as what your Dad can do no matter how smart and driven he might be. [1]

[1] Back in the day there was a tv show about a blind man that made it through medical school. I believe it was based on a real situation (man became a psychiatrist). In any case an outlier like that does not prove 'it's possible' at least on any repeat basis.