skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I always hear that but it should be "Riches to those who do it right". A lot of first comers get killed by second comers.

You are absolutely correct.

Apple didn't have the first MP3 player, but figured out how to do it right.

Henry Ford wasn't the first automaker, but he figured out how to do it better.

Facebook wasn't the first social network, but it figured out how to beat a slew of competitors.

Silicon Valley wonks are always pontificating about "first mover advantage." It's a bunch of bunk from the same people who repeat the same cliches they hear bouncing around their echo chamber.

What I discovered in my years of bouncing around the west coast dot-com industry is that it's 60% used car salesmen/fake-it-till-you-make-it posers, 38% grunts basking in the fictional glow of the dot-com mutual admiration society, 1% genuine leaders, and 1% innovators.

A great example is the Amazon article, which states that LESS THAN 10% of buying is done online. I bet that came as a shock to a lot of people in SV, who imagine that we live in a world where brick-and-mortar is just dust-and-memories.
Amazon, unlike others, never mentions competitors: earnings call analysis [pdf]
What about Jacob Barnett? He is very young but currently doing research at Perimeter Institute.
Git is the poster child for "leaky abstraction"
> but what the regulators did in this part above is pure and simple blackmail and extortion

Settling out of court is blackmail and extortion?

If they thought they were innocent they could have had their day in court but instead they basically pleaded "no contest" and took their lumps.
You're correct that there are not a huge number of people who travel for a living and need this, but for those that do they have very likely been early Uber adopters and I'd guess are over-represented in their current customer base. They also likely spend far more per year on car services than average.

I know I only use Uber simply due to the whole "I really don't want to install 2 dozen apps" problem. My girlfriend who is in sales travels 70% of the time to about 3-4 dozen cities per year - if there is no Uber available she simply rents a car for the day. "Installing random app #34" is not even on either of our radar, and I don't think we're the exception to the rule.

As Uber/Lyft/etc. get larger of course this segment of the riding population becomes less and less important. I of course find this sad for selfish reasons!
With vibrant competition, no
I am well aware of the difference. I am simply stating facts about the business model of one of the most successful multinational corporations in the world.

It's food for thought. We should not blind ourselves to the way institutions allocate resources in our society.
> I'm fascinated by the fact that an object can be found in an equation before it's observed

The same is true of antimatter. Paul Dirac deduced its existence from the Dirac equation before it was discovered experimentally.
Public Google Doc Copy of the S2018 YC Application
That's an abuse of flagging. Assume good faith in the gp. Be happy with your reply.
Yes, I agree. I posted the question here too because the last time I asked a question, the responses provided excellent answers and related conversations. Should I remove it from HN?
Retail is an AWS customer, isn't that obvious?
This is exactly why the human is in the loop and why the solution isn't purely software — to help come up with processes and mechanisms for resolving this sort of ambiguity.

(Every outsourced bookkeeper today has this challenge, and there are a variety of options for resolving it, depending on what the customer requires.)
...half is still much better. Besides, there's a lack of local emissions (and therefore no increased asthma risk, etc) which is often under-rated IMHO.

And you're investing in a capability that will help further reduce emissions on the grid.

Think about the Tesla Gigafactory. At first, it'll be run with electricity from the grid. That means the first batteries cost 100-200 grams of CO2 per kWh cycle (well, significantly better than that as the NMC cells last for many thousands of cycles). But as you upgrade to buffered solar (and cut off from the grid to save the monthly fee), the input energy becomes cleaner, so the next round of batteries may be just 50 grams of CO2 per kWh. And by using /those/ batteries in the next Gigafactory, its effective emissions are even less.

That's why trying to electrify everything possible while greening the grid is so important: the effects compound each other. Ultimately, no emissions are required at all. Compare that to mere efficiency improvements on conventional fossil fuel tech: sometimes the lower costs enabled by greater efficiency can actually perversely lead to GREATER emissions as demand increases non-linearly.
Spatiotemporal integration of looming visual and tactile stimuli near the face
Norway, with it's many fjords and ferries has a long tradition for ferry foods. Along the (mid) western coast taking a ferry without eating a svele[1] (looks similar to an american pancake) is pretty much unthinkable :) This type of food is usually cooked and served fresh on the ferries.

I live near the Ampere ferry pictured in the article. And one interesting side-effect of electrification is that they don't have enough power to spare for a full kitchen (with griddles, etc)[2].

Now they have to sell ready-made sveler instead of cooking them on the spot and serving them fresh[3]. Electric ferries are essentially killing "norwegian ferry food culture" to much despair for svele loving passengers :P

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svele

[2]: https://www.nrk.no/sognogfjordane/droppar-kiosken-pa-batteri... (article is in nynorsk ("new-norwegian") and google translate is basically useless)

[3]: https://www.nrk.no/sognogfjordane/no-er-den-forste-el-ferja-...
I think Clojure is definitely worth learning, even if you wouldn't get to use it on your day job! For a quick insight I'd recommend https://learnxinyminutes.com/docs/clojure/ and https://github.com/functional-koans/clojure-koans/tree/maste..., which will quickly get you through the basics.

As you might already know, Clojure being a being a LISP means it has a really minimal "syntax", which is a two-edged sword. Also programming with immutable data makes it necessary to have a new perspective on how to express and implement algorithms, but luckily Clojure has good "escape hatches" to the mutable world (atoms, STM etc.).

Oh and btw I find Nightcode (https://sekao.net/nightcode) a very good IDE for Clojure, I favor the legacy 1.3.x branch but I'm sure 2.x should have benefits over it as well. Emacs had some annoying hurdles to overcome.
So, we are living in a simulation?
I'm always afraid of the (incredibly little) chance of getting shot here in Germany, because I'm sure the doctors wouldn't have a lot of experience
Hey all, OP here. I created this because I wanted to collaborate on the application with my co-founder. Hope you all find it useful, and best of luck with your submissions!

Instructions:

1. Click on File → Make a Copy
2. Share copy with your co-founders
No relation to any of those companies, though naturally we do buy Pilot pens. I mean, they're just great pens.
New 4-D Goggles Allow Wearers to Be Touched by Approaching Objects
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16584121 and marked it off-topic.
Yes, privacy matters. Have you ever seen the movie Brazil? Some reasons you ought be concerned:

- that you are mistaken for someone who committed a crime and have to deal with the bureaucracy that ensues. See for example false positives on the no-fly list. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Fly_List#False_positives

- that you commit a crime without even knowing it and end up paying for it at the whim of the government. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/3044794...

More generally, I’d like to point you to this piece addressing the “nothing to hide” mentality:

https://www.chronicle.com/article/Why-Privacy-Matters-Even-i...

Edit: that piece is paywalled. Here’s Glenn Greenwald on the topic:

https://www.ted.com/talks/glenn_greenwald_why_privacy_matter...

Cory Doctorow has also written extensively about privacy.
>Relax, it is not gonna happen.

It already is happening in some sense. Prices for many drugs people need to cope with chronic disease continue to rise. The price of insulin, for example, has tripled in the past decade.[1]

>Tech dissent is not much appreciated in yc, esp when a yc fellow is backing this.

If you're accusing me of luddism, you've missed my point entirely. Do you think we should automatically fall in line when marketing materials are posted to this discussion forum?

1. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/whats-behind-skyrocketin...
How do you know that Apple isn't doing that?
Senior Equifax executive charged with insider trading
Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes charged with 'massive fraud' by SEC
>"There are people that never fly on airplanes but still vote for Federal officials who manage the FAA. There are people in NYC who vote for Federal officials that administer cattle grazing. So what?"

Yes exactly those people vote in those instances. The key word being vote - i.e they have a say and can research the candidate before casting a ballot. The context here is positions where people CAN'T vote because those MTA board positions are political appointees. Ir'a apples and oranges. Your comparison makes no sense.

>"Or stuff like how they didn't bother to connect the 4/5/6 line to the PATH system during WTC reconstruction despite the fact that they are compatible"

Except you are wrong those are actually connected via the Dey Street Concourse. See:

https://www.metro.us/new-york/mta-to-open-passage-connecting...

>"The idea that separating LIRR from Metro North from the Subway and creating yet another set of competing bureaucracies is going to somehow help things is delusional, and a fundamental misunderstanding of how NYC area politics works."

No its quite simple, if infrastructure passes through multiple counties its under the purview of a state agency. I its infrastructure that falls within a single county or just the 5 boroughs then it should be a city specific agency.

Lastly I have actually worked in NYC politics so I'm pretty sure I have a firm grasp of how NYC politics works.

It's interesting that you choose to make statements like that without knowing anything about a person's professional background. So an opinion contrary to your own constitutes delusion and indicates that someone misunderstand how things work? Is that correct? That seems like a pretty fool-proof prescription for an echo chamber.
.NET has always had a foreign function interface (FFI) system called P/Invoke [1] or Platform Invoke. You build a DLL and ask the .NET runtime through metadata to load that DLL for you and call the functions you need.

It's not entirely cross-platform, but it is possible. Example: https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2016/09/14/pinvoke-in-net...

More details in the .NET Standard: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/standard/native-inte...

[1] One interesting reference site: https://www.pinvoke.net/
What's your interest in the subject?

There's lots of good information, but you need some basic background information for context. It is hard to establish that because so much communication is rooted in weird attempts at signalling "I'm a good person who isn't guilty of what you are accusing me of!"

The reality is that sociopaths have very high IQs and serial killers are typically small business owners, in part because it allows them freedom and control over their schedule that a full time employee typically lacks.

But when I have tried to comment on that on HN in the past, it tends to not go over well because people feel I am saying "Businessmen are evil asshats inclined to be serial killers" which isn't what I am saying at all.

Serial killers tend to have certain traits. But that doesn't mean having certain traits is some one way non refundable ticket to serial killer land.

It's interesting to me how those traits predispose individuals towards certain paths, some positive and some not. But traits are not some Greek Tragedy style inescapable destiny. And that's a really hard thing to talk about.
I don't know - cloning, pushing, pulling, and arguably fetching are all part of a normal workflow with git. You're up to 9-10 commands now.
Quasi-related fact:

Radio frequencies with a wavelength of 21cm are one of SETI's favorite places to look for artificial signals. Since it originates from atomic hydrogen (of which there is a lot), it's one of the notes that the universe likes to hum to itself---and radio-using species everywhere would probably figure that out.
The fact that the naval training base is in Chicago probably has something to do with it too.
Many times I can't even send the payment.
Sure, but it's the 10% that hurts!
Which would be unsurprising. The overall aim seems to be to reduce the legal considerations US companies need to make when responding to foreign government data requests.
until you accidentally use rebase to squash commits and accidentally squash the wrong commits...
Testing the Jai Compiler
I should have checked first. Good point, at least in regards to the article's subject matter. I would expect even less difference between the after peer review pre-print and the article.

A question about arxiv. Can the preprint be updated by the authors? I can imagine wanting to update a preprint after getting input from reviewers.

Second question. Is this research then suggesting that peer-review does little?
Not related to http://leokottke.com/
Vengeance by DDos: No one is immune
Ill accept your constructive criticism.
I don't think so. Dark matter still behaves like any other massive object, as far as I'm aware, beyond the obvious issues with detecting it.

It may be more an artifact of the size of each disk galaxy being related to the amount of mass in that galaxy, and perhaps nearly all the angular momentum each galaxy still has is from one source: the big bang. In other words, a galaxy with X amount of mass will have Y amount of angular momentum from the origin of the universe, which will naturally disperse to a size Z as a function of X, Y and the time passed since the origin of the universe. So maybe it's all one big exercise in conservation of angular momentum.
I agree with what you're saying, but tribes are often extremely biased, and might want to see what they believe instead of the other way around.

In theory, newspapers (or other authority figures) should in theory report facts while staying impartial.
Coincidence or Destiny: RIP Sir Stephen Hawking
> Translation: Go for the least common denominator. Try to be as bland as possible in your writing.

Translation: Be a professional.
Suing Equifax also makes for an attractive story, but small claims court can be an unfortunate time-suck for many people: https://jakeseliger.com/2010/08/28/dont-rent-an-apartment-fr... . Granted, most people suing a massive corporations are not likely to get the death threats I did, but lawsuits-as-time-sink problems cut both ways.
I suffered using SVN for years, when I switched to GIT it was like pulling my head out of a plastic bag and breathing fresh air. It was unbelievably rejuvenating.

Maybe if you are already skilled with one kind of version control system, GIT is easier to understand. But if you are starting from scratch with GIT, it's more difficult that way? (I am not sure, I only have one experience to lean on)
Deciding what constitutes "wast[ing] taxpayer money" IS a political decision. Clearly there is a difference between easily and well proven cases and cases with scant evidence, but determining precisely where the line lies is a political decision. Do you investigate weak cases to send the message that things won't be overlooked, or do you pass over them to minimise public expenditure, for example.
Five new Cloudflare data centers across the United States
LDAP always has the userPassword attribute which is fully comptible with Linux, you just have to change both at the same times (this is in fact what i did for one of my clients)
If I recall, she hasn’t gained any liquid wealth from Theranos - her net worth was recently reported to be zero.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/matthewherper/2016/06/01/from-4...
The sky as it was when Stephen Hawking was born
If you aren't soldering, you probably aren't testing IoT thoroughly
Yea, we definitely have to be sensitive about offering financing options directly to students.

One of the ways we handle this now is we actually ask the students to consult their family before signing anything. We also allow the students to still drop out of the program at no liability within the first two weeks.

The problem with upfront payment is that we are no longer held accountable by aligned incentives. The most predatory thing about student loans is that you still owe the same amount of money regardless of your outcome. I think our income share agreement is designed to be much safer since in almost every case where you pay anything you are also capable of paying it.

For students in exceptional situations, we'll even waive their dues or retro-actively offer financial aid since we didn't design the program to be a future burden. The way we see it, helping out a student in need in any way pays back tenfold in terms of reputation later.
Memcrashed – DDoS attack tool for sending forged UDP packets using Shodan API
Nice. Get students to keep paying tuition even after they leave the Uni.
I would say a "tag" is a better example of a human-readable pointer to a commit. Branches are similar, but automatically "grow" to always point to the tip of the branch.
> I can't speak to Let's Encrypt, but the bigger companies that make their money in the CA space are insanely serious about security.

That's really what I'm interested in, very high level security / operations standards. Not that I'm intending on running the CA myself but it's easier to understand daily trade offs knowing how it would be done if extremely high standards were absolutely necessary.

Unfortunately there is not much reading material online on this subject (I understand it may not be super interesting subject for most people) but reading the CPS really shed some light.

Thanks for your comment!
Good example.

The venn diagram between the free-speech-or-death people and the market-will-decide people is often very overlapped but your example is a concrete existing example where you COULD publish a false prospectus as an expression of your free speech but you would find yourself very quickly more poor and more incarcerated.
nice idea! waiting to see more
Amazon will do about 50% of online sales this year. Regardless of whether it's marketplace or not, it means that they see 50% of online sales in the US.

If you think Amazon is competing on just "goods sold" then yes, at this fixed point in time, Walmart is much bigger and better at that.

If you are thinking that online sales will eclipse retail in the near future (even groceries: http://www.nielsen.com/tz/en/insights/news/2017/grocery-e-co...), and that this is an inflection point in buyer behavior, then Walmart is a leader who will run out of gas soon, and Amazon is just hitting their stride.
Seems appropriate to mention here that Jason's opened the door to direct support from his fans like us: https://kottke.org/members/

Would be awesome if he saw a nice boost from the attention here!
video speed controller chrome extensions has been a great addition. Shortens videos by speeding them up and skip freely.

I generally skim through first by jumping 20secs ea, then rewind if I find anything interesting. And if the pace is too slow I 5x.
Why Proactive Growth Fuels Growth Velocity in Niche Markets
Is it an overstatement? Python is handling every bit of IO in your application. You're at the mercy of the implementation to handle it safely.

You're talking about the odds as if nothing has ever been found wrong in the stock CPython interpreter. It's certainly low traffic compared to something like a browser, but there's plenty of bad stuff[1]. That suggests it's pretty likely there will be more after the 2020 deadline, they just won't get a fix.

I'm also not sure why you're slinging around IT practice (a month is extraordinary, IMO, but CI testing updates is industry standard around here). What's wrong with good backups?

[1]: https://www.cvedetails.com/product/18230/
The goal is to make them more money than they would pay in the first place (and it compounds in later years), but I understand how you feel.
Which Pilot sued Palm?
That one's sort of understandable. Bad circumstance for everyone. Best Buy didn't do their due diligence, but you very clearly could have been the fraudster pulling the swap rather than the hapless victim.
I would argue git is not novice friendly. It's original intended audience was not lay people learning how to program. It was seasoned kernel developers working on the Linux source tree. It (made) assumption(s) it's userbase were experts in their domain.

> Naturally, people get confused and reach for the docs, which are filled with even more newbie-hostile terms like 'tree-ish', 'hunks' and 'refspec'.

Yup, these are everyday terms for an expert in computer science and algorithm and software design. If I were a student in medical school I'd expect the books I'm learning from to use the expert terminology of my domain of study when describing the body and functions and not laymans terms such as -- "the hip bone is connected to the Red-Squishy-Thing .... ELI5 me plz" ...

I agree git is complex, and can be scary. But building software is a complicated process rife with engineering pitfalls! If one is unable to properly use the Lego building blocks, then stay away :D

I do believe when used properly, a productive Git workflow using Branches and sane commit messages can help to give Visibility to your project development life-cycle and help to make an issue or task on a project understandable in scope and difficulty by segmenting ones development work into comprehensible mergable pieces (branches) within the project.