skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some observations from a startup that I was involved in prior to the turn of the millennium:

The company had achieved some small success with a tiny number of customers, but not enough to pay the bills on an on-going basis. Scale required appealing to more customers. Our key barrier to success was that the two key founders (CEO and CTO) had a combined emotional age of 6. They did come to hate each other. Mostly did not talk to each other, for days at a time, punctuated by occasional screaming.

CTO did not have the ability to absorb feedback about making the tool easier to onboard customers, with the result that we would lose potential customers out of the sales funnel because it was just too gruesome to integrate the tool into their work flow (this was a complex electronic design
automation tool). No amount of customer engineer or sales feedback could give that message traction with the CTO. Forcing developers to play the customer engineer role during the sales cycle did not result in reducing the complexity of on-boarding, it resulted in non-scalable one-time hacks that made one customer's benchmark work, and nothing that could be generalized. I lay this outcome at the feet of the CTO that allowed this kind of short-sighted engineering to happen on his watch.

The CEO, by his secretive behavior, created a paranoid culture. For the CEO, information was like coinage that he would spend on you when it suited his purpose. He later made good money in the expert witness business, because he was extremely good at keeping his story straight, and remembering to whom he had told what. He tended to avoid long discussions in large groups because that could expose inconsistencies. And he wasn't only stingy with information, he was stingy with money. One of my most famous quotes about him at the time was: "If he needed so spend a quarter on something to make engineering more productive, he would spend a dime." I've never been one to demand a fancy environment, a used solid-core door from a surplus house held up by two used filing cabinets will hold up a monitor as well as any fancy desk, but I want a decent monitor for my daily coding.

Anyway, my take-aways are to avoid paranoid cultures, spend appropriately (neither too little nor too much) on the things that actually matter, and make sure that key decision makers are able to absorb feedback without going non-linear.
Using Google Trends alone for calling a trend a success/failure isn’t fair, as a spike can be correlated to confusion about the term, and it’s a safe assumption swarms of non-techies were Googling “how do I buy Bitcoin and get rich?” in November.
Have you tried contacting the manufacturer of the video card you want? Sometimes they have wait lists you can opt into.
Really? It seems like

find * -type f | join -v 1 - <(git ls-files)

gets me maybe 90% of the way there.
"Trough of disillusionment."
There's actually a way to do this, for a long time. In older versions, you'd see a wavy underline on certain words it was less confident about, letting you choose alternatives. The current version has a "Tap to edit" link.

Problem is discoverability. And having a mountain of "this request was wrong", without knowing what the answer should have been, would require too much manual sifting.
yep. the only intrinsic value i get in exchange for 1,300$ AMZ share is the link explaining the value of an intrinsic value. what exactly can you claim from amazon in exchange for a share? except for a kick in a butt from amazon security?
Stephen Hawking AMA on Reddit (2 Years Ago)
You joke, but a sudden drop in traffic like that could very well cause a lot of automated actions to get triggered and a lot of alerts.
You speak for those who can't.
any reason why you wouldn't use tf eager?
Isn't uber just waiting for automated drivers (self driving cars) to show up and save them? I have three businesses at the moment that all use people to do things that maybe one day can be solved by AI/tech. My customers don't care how I get it done and aren't impressed by tech anyway. If automation shows up and helps me then my margins go through the roof. But as it is, the margins are pretty good anyway.
All the known techniques for NLP and NLU are mediocre. From Apples perspective, it makes a lot of sense to not invest so much money for such little gain. Google Assistant is supposedly better, but I don’t notice/care. Google/Amazon pour a lot of money into their personal assistant tech, but the end result is hardly noticeable or useful.
I didn't realize there were Amish on the internet with a HN account but here we are. How's the horse and buggy doing? If we held true to your beliefs, we would still be running around with fig leaves or loin cloths.

The market is the final arbiter of what makes a successful product. Not your perception of what constitutes value or utility.
> What happens when the second operand is negative or larger than sizeof(left) * CHAR_BITS? What if it's equal? And the >> and << operators are not even symmetric in their definitions: left-shifting a negative value is undefined but right-shifting a negative value is implementation-defined!

As a lover of C, these questions are totally irrelevant to me. What I've taken away is don't do things that do not have intuitively clear semantics. Use bitwise and shift operators only on unsigned numbers. Simple as that. And really I haven't found a need to do anything else. I think many of these complex rules are historical accidents or come from supporting a peculiar architecture or kind of hardware that's no longer relevant. In any case, remembering all these pesky rules is not C. C is simple. Remember how to stay away from the dubious operations and you're fine.
Fading or becoming more ubiquitous?
One rolling eye leading to hundreds of thousands followers (and more) and a political crisis.

chineese people aren't stupid, and they have been doing business with the rest of the world for decades now. Everywhere on shanghai you see ads to learn english... What do people from the communist party think ? trading goes both ways, and i don't see how chineese people won't want to openly express their views on the political conduct of the country, just like almost evrywhere else.
Considering your lukewarm dismissal of an academic dataset based on a disagreement with one particular data point out of 206

I can't find info on the other 204. I see 2 names listed, one a famous case I already had heard about. So I tried to find details on the only other data point where I was provided a name and came up short on the kind of info I would like to see.

Your comments are not written in a good faith fashion. I don't plan to engage you further.
Seeing that Alexa only works in English and German (https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=...)

Siri is still better than Alexa for most of the world....
For whats worth i think that in college you mostly learn to learn... So what u learn Isn't that important, to me you are just proving that u can learn fast.
Lagging indicator.
That's not good enough. That's like letting bank robbers go just because they got caught and forfeited their gains. The punishment must exceed the monetary gains to account for the less than 100% probability of things like this getting caught.
I've used something similar --- a null-terminated string, with a length prefix at a negative offset. Resizeable ones have an "allocated size" field before that one. This makes for strings that are both easy to manipulate and compatible with existing functions that only read a regular C string.
Show HN: Salmonz.io – Multiplayer Game made in 5 hours
You can play here - http://www.salmonz.io

To be fair, the mechanics and the basic of the game was created in 5 hours. I've been improving the game since I released it 4 days ago.

This game was made using modd.io platform (also made by me)
Can't agree more!
Through i am afraid there hugh work to be done before i can use it at work since i find we are increasingly rely on vendor's sdks to workaround hardware limit and slicon errors
This isn't an issue of bias from bad sources. I took issue with very specific complaints that were largely only true of Bitcoin, which has been undermined by corporate interests.

The ICO / ponzi scheme / overnight stock expert craze is ridiculous and I do not take part.

But Bitcoin Cash (closer to the vision of the original bitcoin whitepaper that she herself mentions, which she should know Bitcoin has now deviated significantly from) has been a transparent, expansive, and welcome addition to my other payment channels, much like Bitcoin used to be in the heyday.

I enjoy using it when and where I can, I enjoy the decentralization, the lack of reliance on the banking system, etc.

I am precisely that narrow part of the population she is highlighting.

Most of her points are entirely correct, but besides her conflation of some of Bitcoin's problems with other cryptocurrency, she ultimately discredits me and others who understand exactly what the point of cryptocurrency is, and its benefits to our lifestyles, with the dismissive phrase, "See you at Burning Man."

She must associate cryptocurrency with a specific kind of character and then attack that character instead, in order to drive her argument. That's fallacious and misleading.
That's true, although there's no reason the stack allocator couldn't record this information somewhere as well.

And if the memory allocator doesn't know about the string then you could just revert to the existing behaviour so you're no worse off.
I, for one, welcome this "cooling down" of the hype.
Asimov on Physics. Pretty much Asimov on anything.
During high school, I strongly remember what seemed like the entirety of career advice provided just before we selected the key subjects that would dictate which university/college courses we could apply for. There was a bland jobs guide book. We laughed at "crane chaser" and "cheese maker". Then we all stumbled forwards with no idea what we were doing.

Austen Allred had a tweet recently about how dangerous it is to get career advice purely from your parents. My parents are fantastically supportive, but I've ended up in a tech/software industry that they would've been oblivious to during their lives/careers. I could've definitely received far better and stronger advice during pivotal years. I made a misguided university choice, quit after six months, then stuffed around for a few years before starting the business that I still run 20 years later.
Good observation. Normalization of a new thing doesn't necessarily mean it's falling out of favor. My non-techie wife even knows what Bitcoin is now and isn't trying to understand it anymore.
Hopefully not. They usually jail people for disrupting the harmony of their society but I think intent matters.

E.g. organizing protests or selling banned books, but I don't think an unintentional meme starring oneself is up there as a jailable offense.

However I do see her job getting harder as a result. E.g. getting assigned to more boring stories, being denied a press pass.
I used to do this with the transcripts, as well as translating PG's essays into my native language. They were extremely popular. Just posting them on Facebook goes viral about a quarter of the time. I would highly recommend it.
Whats the difference between Launch HN and Show HN?
Bing maps is an inbuilt service in Windows and if Microsoft has one principle it's to "not break apis and services"
Siri has 20x more active users than Alexa. Not sure about Google.

While they are perceived as having fallen behind, Apple is still way, way ahead.

And when she works, like driving directions, people aren't even aware they're using Siri.

Damned impressive given the car is moving through a vast network of roads/traffic/construction while instructions are being given.

Meanwhile, Alexa gets to sit at home and help with baking timers...

The competition will help everyone (no matter what platforms you choose).
Iowa House rejects traffic camera ban, approves regulation
tf.eager is much slower than pytorch.
I wish the comment was still here, I hate this kind of self-serving censorship HN practices.
They are soooo receptive when you tell them you are just buying one.
This site doesn't work for my mobile device at all
"for free" means that I can watch it at no cost, or are you releasing it with a free license as well (such as CC-BY-SA)?
Looks like the perfect use for this software.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxDBlZu__Xk
Surely it needs some good work to make it more realistic, but we're not that far. Should they use it without advertising whose celebrity is being imitated, could they still be sued?
If non techies aren't trying to understand it anymore what does that mean the next step for them would be? Adoption?
I would say the term Bitcoin on its own is commonly enough understood. Even to non-techies.
Sounds like the genesis for a new sci-fi movie.
Find the Google Assistant very useful.
Having two newborns has made me come to appreciate Alexa in a whole new way: my hands are almost always full with one (or both) babies and being able to use my voice to control the lights, play music for them, set reminders or alarms for myself, has been a godsend.

While my wife was bedridden after her C-Section surgery, she loved being able to use Echo's ability to call other Echo's in the house (or outside the home) when she needed something. Kind of like an intercom system. The problem with the iPhone is that it was usually either on the charger, or battery was dead, or it was left on vibrate. The Echo was always 100% reliable for her, which is really critical when you can't even get out of bed.
Misleading article. The sharp spike in the graph was due to the drastic increase in the bitcoin price. This was the time when Bitcoin hit all time high and so the # of searches for the term.

Now that phase has passed and so the search trend is coming back to as it was before the spike. Also, it will go down because now more and more people already know about crypto. Not sure how that is a bad sign. Totally misleading article.
It may be the case that Theranos could not "figure it out" as it may be impossible to do what they claim they could. In that case there is no reason for Theranos to exist as the real fix would be to do what existing labs already do (draw more blood) and they would not have any competitive advantage in their field.

The correct move is to always be honest with results and to pursue one of two strategies. Spend the rest of the money they have attempting to perfect a machine that is likely to never work, or return the rest of your investors money and close up shop.

The healthcare market does not tolerate fuck ups. If you are working in this space you have to be tough and competent. Things need to work as advertised or you will be sued out of existence.
> It's also very othering and very blamey. It labels the guy a sociopath and comes from an assumption that this is all downside, some kind of defect that he needs to work at compensating for.

There's a lot of disparate things in these two sentences:

1. It's othering: so what? Everyone is unique and different, and any time you talk about those differences it's othering. If you view othering as a problem, then literally any conversation about differences between people is problematic.

2. Blamey? What is the article blaming him for, exactly?

3. I don't think the article assumes this is all downside. I also don't think you can ignore the fact that psychopathy has very serious downsides.

4. Psychopathy is absolutely something he needs to compensate for in order to be a prosocial member of society. The fact that he seems willing and able to compensate is amazing and admirable.

> Surgeons typically lack empathy. It is what allows them to cut into people. I could never do that job.

I'd love to see where you get your information that surgeons typically lack empathy. Maybe some do, but many don't and function just fine. I personally don't lack empathy, but I think I could cut someone open easily if it were to help them. I'm not a psychopath, I just have a strong sense of the difference between hurt and harm: I can hurt someone if it helps them rather than harming them.

> The guy is probably an excellent scientist because he's a sociopath. The article doesn't address that fact.

The article probably doesn't address that "fact" because there's very little to support a causal link.
> And when she works, like driving directions, people aren't even aware they're using Siri.

What does that actually mean? When people talk about Siri; they’re talking about the thing that you talk to. I don’t think anyone thinks they’re not using Siri when they’d actually are.
all employees within them... have been killed

I don't know if I like a response plan that by definition omits any consideration for rescuing people or treating any injured.
Book Review: Clean Code by Robert C. Martin – Ed Nunes
Thanks! I am a soft dev, considering a transition to PM in one or two years, so I just want follow good people for now. I am man, but the leader of Product in my startup is a woman, I sent her these links. I think it is a great opportunity. She is young and awesome, a good mentorship can make her even more incredible
the more these stories come out, the more that Holmes is coming off as sociopathic, to me at least.
Perhaps. If my wife, for example, was asked by Western Union if "is Bitcoin okay?" for a money transfer to her brother, she would probably now say "sure". Where 5 years ago, she would have resisted. Brand awareness.
The Amiga was originally designed to be a game console but the company was forced to pivot after the video game crash of 1983.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiga#Concept_and_early_develo...
You can set your preferences to "see dead comments".
I was extremely hesitant to give Google my phone number, then I realized Google has access to everything on my phone. It's just a formality.
I will bite, despite suspecting that this is a useless argument to wade into :). What do you consider "valid quantities?"
Let’s be honest here - none of us actually know what went on.
> Maybe I'm just surrounded by extremely lucky people

I'm going to hazard that location, socio-economic status and skin color each could have more to do with it than luck.
They lack ports, everything needs an adapter, internals are locked tight, the weird touch bar is a waste of money and battery life, hate the trackpad, the keyboard is horseshit and suffers from thermal throttling. (Also I hate the fact that they don't have the light up logo on the back anymore)

Other than that though, the screen is pretty good, the OS "just werks" and sound isn't too bad either. Battery holds up pretty well, the build quality holds up pretty well too.
The title is written that way for a reason.
For anyone interested in why there's a lot more to it than this argument, the first equation:

Mg = C1 * Rg * Rg

Is not a good assumption for the discs we observe in the universe, because they do not have a constant surface density. The picture is further complicated by the fact the many disc galaxies also contain a central bulge, large enough to effect the potential (to say nothing of Dark Matter).
From the SEC's original complaint:

https://www.sec.gov/litigation/complaints/2015/comp-pr2015-2...

> 44. On March 2, 2011 , Shkreli stated in e-mails to MSMB investors that "MSMB returned +4.24% in February 2011 " and had "returned +41.71 % since inception on 11/1/2009." In fact, by the end of February 2011, MSMB had virtually no assets. MSMB had suffered over $7 million in losses in its account at Executing Broker as the result of its trading in Company A on February 1, 2011. Even setting aside the losses at Executing Broker, the net asset value of MSMB's prime brokerage account and the cash balance in its bank account amounted to only about $58,500.

> 45. Shkreli continued to send "performance estimates" until September 2012, when he informed the limited partners that through June 2012, MSMB had "returned +79.49% net of fees since inception on 11 /1/2009." At the end of June 2012, however, MSMB had no assets in its prime brokerage account or its bank account.

He lost 100% of his investors' money and was creating fake financial statements to lie to them about his massive losses.

Eventually, he used other people's money and huge gambles to recoup these losses. He also entered into fraudulent 'consulting agreements' with disgruntled investors from his hedge fund to make them whole using a different company's assets, essentially stealing from that company's shareholders.

All of this is incredibly illegal.
It's kinda weird to measure a non electronic message in units of electronic terminal widths.
Clearly a fanboy, I see. Numbers don't mean anything, technically. Siri is imposed on every iPhone owner. That should account for the numbers.

Also, you trust Siri for directions over Waze-integrated Google Assistant? Good for you player!

As for voice comprehension? I pity the fool who cares compare Siri to Alexa. But what do I know? You probably have a MacBook, an iPhone an iWatch and could not imagine anything better in your life.
Microsoft offers $250,000 bounty for new speculative attacks
Sure—I didn’t mean to suggest that those traits are associated with ASD, but rather that I could be misinterpreting my own experiences, which could be caused by something entirely different. Self-diagnosis isn’t very reliable.

You’re right that I’m concerned about possible diagnoses. I’d like to know what’s “different” about me, but if it’s “bad” and would be used as justification to treat me with suspicion and remove my agency, then I’d rather nobody else know. :P
Basically this: https://github.com/antirez/sds
I wouldn’t mind a PoE-powered, full gigabit SBC in the same form factor and similar price. Any such thing exist?
I agree with you, also "bitcoin" is sort of just a catch phrase at this point, a lot of people got in for because of bitcoin, but pay more attention to altcoins very soon.
Those later PCs, like 486 and up had what Amiga didn't. Interactive CD-based games (like Myst, Rebel Assault, etc) and could run faster (Doom anyone?). Still lacked "something", even though some of the software started to migrate over with the advent of Windows NT (Lightwave for example).

Earlier machines, 386s and Quadras were a joke compared to Amigas (1200 and 4000).
I don't understand why an identical twin was needed to learn this.

Couldn't an astronaut's DNA be sampled before and after a mission and compared?
Also, "fake it until you make it" might work for photo sharing apps and such but it should never be the case when human health is involved. Holmes and people around her were no other than quacks who promised the world to whoever they met.
> This is because JS is a good choice for most things.

It really isn't, though. Maybe less bad with ES6. I feel like this was thrown in to mollify the scores of people who <strike>wasted their lives with</strike> invested a lot into javascript.

I know the unfortunate story of how javascript came to be the "web language". It's a shame even a tiny bit more thought didn't go into it.
What signal could it pick up on before you leave work besides when you get in your car or after you leave somewhere?
I don't see any dead comments.

Are we referring to this comment? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16589161 - it does not seem to be currently dead, so perhaps it was vouched by someone.
Yes. The space shuttle had reusable boosters. Retro rockets for landings were used in th Apollo and Viking programs.
Eh. Theranos got “positive press”.
> Jeff interrupted him and said that was “not accurate.”

Not accurate to say that Amazon is selling its own infrastructure, or not accurate to say that they had the internal competencies to launch AWS due to building their own infrastructure? I've always assumed it's the latter -- AWS is an abstraction of tools they needed to build anyway -- rather than literally sharing compute etc. with Amazon services.