skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Startups have a really long lifecycle associated with them. I have answers to the question with respect to startups I was not professionally engaged with. I don't have many data points regarding ones which I was, because the jury won't be in for a few years on the numeric supermajority of them. My set of data points where I have reasonable confidence in terminal outcome is very small relative to e.g. a professional investor who was active over the same length of time I've been on HN.

This is not a new insight, but the thing pg says about successful startups often looking like a toy appears to me to be true. One benefit of having a searchable archive of my written thoughts going back 10+ years is that I can see what I thought of e.g. Facebook or Airbnb back in the day. In both cases, I thought they were unlikely to find a business model. I was very clearly wrong about that. I am, accordingly, very careful around the fact pattern "it's clearly something people love but is there really a business there?"

Within my specific interest in B2B SaaS companies, a thing I have historically overindexed on is amazing product teams without demonstrated success in sales in the appropriate model (low-touch, high-touch, etc). I have sometimes been wrong about "Ahh, clearly they will figure out enterprise sales; how hard can it be if they can clearly ship a good product?" It is, in fact, possible to be a great product owner and not successfully build a sales organization strong enough to take a company to the sort of trajectory successful funded startups want to walk down.
Trains fail more gracefully than hyperloop - they have enough room to stand up in, toilets and exits.
What is your opinion on the state of NHibernate ?

I've started using it in 2009. I am still using it in my projects, but I am still not sure if NHibernate is functional complete or if the project is nearly dead.

It works fine for me (if it is not worth the effort I am using Dapper.net), but it doesn't seem that there is much active development going on.
How does having a company that contributes effectively zero to your country make that nation better off?

As an example look at the similarities of clothes and shoes donations from the west to Africa with opening up to parasitic businesses. All these charity efforts have done is undermine the local clothes and shoes production and market making it impossible for people to build businesses and create jobs.

If I open up a new fictitious nation to all trade and allow them all tax write off on investment in other countries then I don't get a prosperous nation. I get a basket case that cant compete with foreign existing industry, can't develop competitive local industry or employment, and likely stuck in debt because tax revenue would be so low.
Reflection is not required. I actually had the code, somehow got deleted

List myList = new ArrayList<String>();
myList.add(new Object());

this would compile.
shameless plug

at https://www.weenect.com we're currently experimenting with it in order to replace our mongodb, I think I will go with this and a mix of postgresql for historical data.

the realtime geofencing capabilities will be a very good plus for us, as that's one of the main feature of our products, i.e being able to know when your cats or dog is going too far.
#Metoo and Why an Abused Person Can't Just Move On
They had to pass a law in Australia to take away benefits if you didn't vaccinate, and they could pass a law if needed regarding childcare too.
If we would always think about “what could go wrong” and decide whether to go forward based on that we still wouldn’t use fire today.... in order to make something safe we need to make it work first. No guts, no glory.
Tastes of course vary, but I find switching to a different app is easier than finding one of a number of windows or tabs within a browser.
Considering that: storage costs are falling rapidly - update in place is a poor design, immutable far superior - pg is rock solid because of this architecture including DDL rollback - vacuum can recover dead space anyway! - this does seem to me to be a bit of a wasted (large) effort. Reducing size of headers and padding sounds good though.
I would much rather see effort spent on incremental auto refresh of materialized views. NOT IN Foreign Keys,would also be useful to enforce XOR constraints. And Table Input parameters for Functions.
Kinda dropped the ball on the NBN though, and it was entirely over politics, not reasonable policy.
If you really need to collaborate on the same file, can't you just share a session in tmux?
Perhaps when we consider that viruses are unable to form complex structures like tissues, organs and entire organisms, we must rethink if they're the same level of "life" as cells? I don't think a single definition of life is useful or might even exist, just as I don't think a single universal physical theory is possible.
Yes because you could heat the room with gas heating, which is about 3x cheaper. And if you are in an area that uses a lot of gas/coal in the electric generation, then you will significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions too.

Or you could run a heat pump, that wins about a factor of 5.

I learned this from this excellent resource:
https://www.withouthotair.com/

There's an argument that
Eclipse's abstract/generic VCS interface is pretty nice to use and there's a nice virtual file system layer that makes reifying the history of a file as distinct entries pretty straight forward, but Eclipse is a taboo in the modern ecosystem of half-assedness. (Plus I admit that there's somewhat of a learning curve to the PDE.)
May have not been the case before, some angry politicians have managed to tighten up tax and conscientious objection laws in the last few years.

So HPV vaccine is now on the national immunisation program which your child must be up to date with to claim family tax benefits.

https://www.humanservices.gov.au/individuals/enablers/immuni...
I'd like to add American Honey: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3721936/
Yes, I think you sum it up pretty nicely.
I agree that a lot of the features you list are desirable. Like many open source projects, contributors work on features they’re interested in or paid to work on. It’s likely that you could find developers who could be motivated to realign their priorities if properly incentivized.
To my surprise, it seems fairly active:
https://github.com/nhibernate/nhibernate-core

I stopped working on nhibernate around 2010-2011, when i started masters. I did only keep in touch with one friend - i am not very sociable person. So I guess short answer is, i am not sure to be honest.

Back in 2008ish, I was thinking it was going to die because Entity framework provided a great support for linq, and it had a great hype. A bunch of enterprises moved away from NHibernate (we also had a lot of legacy from XML configuration - a bunch of internal data structures were referencing xml), so it was clunky. Fabio, Oren (Ayende) did a bunch of improvements, I worked a bunch of shortening initialization times and so on. I think Ayende did a very good job with Linq initially, but there were plenty of edge cases that i remember having to fix :) It was my first opensource project as a core member (second and last was castle project) - so it has a very special place for me :)
Gaining Domain Admin from Outside Active Directory
“there is something wrong with using xxx for a yyy: people don't normally do it” seems like a logical fallacy even without considering the details, which even more people are not interested in.
Read "The Selfish Gene" by Richard Dawkins.
Yes and no. In most mlm compensation schemes, your override compensation is only calculated downward a finite number of generations.

So it is actually very common for someone at the top of the pyramid to have a smaller income than someone several levels below them. Because if you have a much larger team closer to you, you are getting a larger share of their revenue than the guy 5 levels up. In fact, he may be so far above you, that he doesn't get any share of your revenue.

In fact, I would say that your very earliest people usually earn substantially less than those below them who may still be actively working and building. (because the earliest may be retired or focusing on other things). The compensation schemes are built this way to keep people from simply resting on their laurels and not building anything of value after finding a few good men.
Looking at the Getting Started section... Is this really the best way to write text out to the console in C++, or is it just traditional?

cout << "Hello World!" << endl;

It seems like something a bit simpler, readable and predictable would be better for beginners and/or experienced devs alike. I look at that and wonder where did cout come from? Is << a heredoc or some sort of pipe indirection, or am I bit-shifting? And is endl a keyword? Does it always follow cout? Is this like a Pascal endif? Oh, it's basically just a newline. What's wrong with just "\n"? I think C++ devs purposefully make their language as obtuse as possible.

Maybe NOT starting with streamio and operator overloading might be a more modern way to start teaching the language?
MIT engineers built a device that generates electricity from the air
In circumstances old analog tech can be better my dad (who is an EE) did some consultancy with London Underground and some of the 1930's equipment was going strong where as some of the 70's stuff was breaking down.
I recently came across a digital marketing trade publication which was advertising a conference in Australia (Melbourne I think, I may be wrong).

The key subject of the conference was to be the loss of trust from consumers due to the indiscriminate collection of personal data by advertising companies / channels.

The discussion wasn't around whether or not the advertising industry should curtail this data collection, or perhaps be more responsible with it's use. The discussion was about how to change the customer's perception that this data collection was a bad thing at all. I then realised how out of touch this industry was with reality. As the article stated "Reality was always there for anyone who wanted to see it. An idiot blogger I know has been writing about it for almost 10 years."

I'm admittedly anti-advertising (especially the current approaches to "digital" marketing) but I do see it's worth when done in a responsible, balanced way. This insight into the way the industry reacts to the concerns of the customers has only confirmed my previous negative opinion.

I'm not sure if cutting out these "holding companies" from the equation will result in any change from the customer's point of view. It will probably just end up with P&G hiring a bunch of WPP staffers to run their in-house operation. This may kill off a few industry middle-men, but it will probably just result in higher profits for P&G with no benefits to the consumer at all.
"Sorry data, air may be the eventual oil."

Trivia question: How many round-trips from Neptune would it take to cause a 1% dip in Earth's air content?

Bonus question: Since the Earth is not making any more Xenon, are we losing some of this resource to the deep space every time we nudge a satellite?
Fun with Masked ROMs – Atmel MARC4 (2013)
Some consider it an asset that can be sold or passed down.
Otium
Liquid Democracy: How Blockchain Can Improve the Democratic Process
What would you recommend for someone who is starting a B2B SaaS business with a lot of product experience, but virtually no enterprise sales experience. Obviously, hiring someone with enterprise sales experience/connections is our main priority, but how would one go about learning? There aren't really bootcamps & online resources for learning sales.
Enduring file references in macOS: inodes and Bookmarks
on Windows the native ABI (or the default ABI I should say) explicitly reserves space for C++ stack unwinding on a per call basis.

A lot of the windows API can (ab)use this so it’s best to follow it, despite it being C (ish).
Switch syntastic for ale: https://github.com/w0rp/ale It's asynchronous if you're running vim8+
You can have a SIM registered on someone else's name for cheap on dark markets so i doubt price is a problem, especially when buying numbers in bulk
Like so? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gG56SCs5-E
Thank you for the detailed response.

Re privacy: At least in Delaware, I can have an LLC without having my name and address in the public domain, so such a setup would be ideal and it's perfectly legal. Like you said, it varies by state, so here's hoping that Stripe chooses a state which at least lets owners keep their address out of the public domain if not their name.

Another suggestion : setup an email capture form for people interested in LLC support, I suspect the interest would be far greater than what Stripe ever had for C-corps. As a bootstrapper, you know that there are far more lifestyle business owners who will never consider setting up a C-corp, but will jump at the chance of setting up an LLC though Atlas.
GC languages like Java is much easier to write, and can be made performant when required.
> I must conclude that you consider it a net positive and thus a gift

By this definition, whenever anyone buys anything it is a gift.
I don't think they are all that way. Some actually sell decent products. (not usually great products, but comparable to what is being sold via 'normal' channels.)

As for not paying for people's time, yes, they don't, because most everyone in an MLM is considered a business owner. So you are basically franchising a business model rather than getting hired by a company.
WW2 aircraft carrier's final resting place revealed
Haha. This reads like an Onion article.

Utter nonsense.

That this was published by Fast Company has knocked down their credibility for me a few notches.

The prerequisite for committing such a crime is having a gun. If you have a gun then you’d train with the gun at a shooting range or on some private grounds or whatever. You can buy thousands of rounds of ammunition to train with at the cost of a VR headset.

And that’s already presupposing that you can get any meaningful training from a VR game. I mean, why send soldiers to boot camp when you can send them some Occulus’s instead? Any useful training you could possibly get wouldn’t be in context of firing a firearm, especially without any meaningful haptic feedback. The point and shoot part of shooting a gun is understood almost immediately and accuracy is nuanced enough where even differently adjusted sights on the exact same model of firearm makes an enormous difference.
Why would you see such change in behaviour as something bad? Personally, I'm thankful for targeted ads from companies that I love about new products that I don't follow myself. What's your experience with them that is so negative?
That's why you should always have a domain expert on board when trying to enter a business you deem ripe for disruption. Chances are very high that you do not completely understand it.
So it’s more like “ability to respond to changes in the environment”.
With a motion coprocessors (Apple's M7-11) there is not that much battery drain.
Yes, but the top nodes almost never quit. Once you have that sweet, sweet residual income trickling in, you have no reason to quit.

That being said, as I mentioned above, the top nodes don't necessarily make more money than those below them.
Neither a government, nor a private company make the ideal issuer of identities. The only trusted person for issuing and updating your Identity is you.

Please Google/wiki self-sovereign-Identity.
Doesnt even have to be real video, game engines pass for the real thing:

https://www.pcgamer.com/itv-documentary-that-featured-arma-2...

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2018-02-26-russian-tv-stat...
Truth be told, I haven't heard of The Infatuation until today. However, I have heard of Zagat and imbue a level of trust with that brand name. I may not represent your main target audience, but I've done many searches for restaurant recommendations, mostly on Yelp (with the appropriate grain of salt). Now, I'm curious - has the idea of fully assuming the Zagat name been kicked around? It's been a while since the Google acquisition, however, it's been around so long that there's still good name recognition.
It's interesting that the 6-slide pitch deck doesn't have a "team" slide. Maybe was it used in the idea phase?
PS: Thank you. I was looking for something like this.
Detroit is one of the worst in America and being nearly on the Canadian border, I don't think many consider it "middle" America.
Depends on how you render.

I've written a OpenGL engine for a university course that use partial frame updates to reduce the number of redraws per frame.

IIRC the partial rerender variant was about 3 times faster than the full render.
If done in a smart way, of course you can. Similar thing with canvas. If letter/word spacing depends on that character, then you'd probably need to rerender more stuff.
Right, it's a universal regulation that applies to about 6% of the world population. But you make a good point, it is very hard to regulate this on a higher level. I'm just saying that the EU shouldn't expect every foreign company to accept and play by their rules, especially if it's only relevant to a fraction of their customers. What this may lead to is companies refusing to serve the EU and EU residents forced to resort to shady VPN companies to access their services - as they already do to circumvent copyright regulations - eventually resulting in less privacy and loss of VAT and other revenue for the EU.

Again, I do not want to paint an overly bleak picture - and I do support regulations like this one - but my feeling is that, due to the lack of a universal solution, this GDPR won't have a better fate than the current copyright regulations: beneficial for some, but at the cost of more internet fragmentation and discrimination. It's almost like lawmakers consistently forget that the internet doesn't stop at borders.
Washington State Enacts Net Neutrality Law, in Clash with FCC
> The pattern was marry early, have children all through marriage, marry late, have children all through marriage, marry late, show obvious signs of controlling fertility.

Western Europe hasn't married early for hundreds and hundreds of years, since long, long before the demographic transition.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_European_marriage_patt...
The Equifax breach could've been prevented by proper encryption at rest. Blockchain only makes the database distributed, but the trust still needs to be put in the "editors" of this database.
It's not really success despite waste. It's one of the principal factor's bankrupting the nation. Apply that to other major issues as you listed and we are bankrupt even faster.
It's a shame that there is no name for .ALLSRC shared between bmake and gmake. An alternative is to use a variable, but then you lose VPATH compatibility:

foo: foo.o bar.o
$(LD) foo.o bar.o ...

My other gripe with bmake is that this rule is needed as there is no implicit rule for linking multiple object files, or so it seems.
Photon CMS Released, Headless CMS Built on Laravel and Vue.js
Let me guess. I can feel it coming. You're about to segway into talking about Rust?
Ask HN: What is the best number, and why?
Aside from 42 and 73 :)
Or hit them where it hurts.

Why don't you do what I did and put your money where your mouth is. Go back to using an old style text message only mobile like a nokia (other brands are available). It is such a joy to have a simple communications device. Do it!
Do you index or do you actively manage your 401k?
Yes, not our finest hour. Particularly now that the conservatives have gotten their way.
Yuck, that’s miserable.
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Get to know our Team: - Product Analytics cares about deeply understanding how users experience the Product
- We enable Engineering, Product Management & Design to focus on the right outcomes and feature set
- We remain integral to the product process from hypothesis development, right through to post rollout optimization

The day-to-day activities: - Design, measure and recommend A/B tests and multivariate experiments on the platform, including, but not limited to layout optimization, page level testing, UI/UX efficacy, contextualization, algorithm effectiveness, API effectiveness, etc.,
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- Own and manage all instrumentation for clickstream events on the Product, across all Grab platforms
- Own the prerogative for insight generation and support rapid prototyping within the Product function. This includes working closely with Product Managers to see through analytics projects /product interventions from start to finish
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The must haves: - 4+ years of experience in Analytics, Business Intelligence or a Data Science role (we look at promising fresh graduates as well!) Prior experience with Product management will be a definite plus - Advanced SQL writing skills and experience in querying large relational databases
- Hands on experience with data analysis / scripting / programming tools like R or Python and Data Visualization platforms like Tableau / Qlikview / D3.js, etc.,
- Experience with designing, running and analyzing A/B tests and product experiments. Should also have an understanding of hypothesis testing and the basic principles of DoE
- Ability to distill data and articulate an actionable point of view to non-technical audiences and senior stakeholders using presentations, interactive visualizations, et al.
- Ability to handle multiple priorities and solve ambiguous problems in a fast paced environment
You just reminded me! in high-school I bought a shirt which I liked, but I didn't like the logo emblazoned on the front of it. I unpicked the embroidered logo and wore it regularly. I had many people comment on that shirt, and I still own it 20 plus years later, but I still can't remember what brand it was.
Oh, you're working on Necrobarista? I remember seeing the trailer a while ago and it intrigued me.

[edit]

I realized this comment was relatively vacuous, so I suppose I should say what it is that intrigued me. I had trouble putting my finger on it, until I realized that it's mainly the fact that while it is clearly a VN, it has its own distinct aesthetic. Too often I feel like VNs made outside of Japan try way too hard to look Japanese. This can work well, or poorly, but it constrains things both in terms of style and target audience.

Obviously the production values don't hurt either :)
Yes but is the issue here not that they were not told that they were being spied on?
No they definitely go out of their way to sing praises for pushing this shit on unsuspecting kids who have no idea what they're getting into, while telling them it'll only make things better.
Bolt action are usually cheaper, but a semi-auto hunting rifle is exceedingly common as well.
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