skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, I have. I am sure there are a lot of flaws in my method so take everything with a pinch of statistical salt.

I wanted to test the appetite for retail stores for an application that enables them to sell online, via Chat apps like Facebook Messenger.

Here are the steps I followed.
Step1:
Put together a couple of videos in Keynote
- https://goo.gl/iHzhDg
- https://goo.gl/HL847L

Step2:
Put it on my phone VLC player

Step3:
Walked door-to-door "selling" it. Basically, walk in to a store and say something along the lines of "I am this awesome person who is helping a few businesses sell online via Facebook Messenger. While I cannot show you all the details yet, here's a peek at the product (use the videos to explain a couple of use cases). Would this be something you would pay $XX/month for, to be a part of? If you are interested give me your phone number, I can call you when I let my next batch of customers in"

Step 4:
Out of 20 stores I approached, 12 or 13 said they would pay. (If they are asking questions about your product andhow much it costs, that itself is a huge win.) I then discounted that by 80% to predict that even if only 1/5th of the stores that said they would pay, actually paid, i would have got at least 2 paying customers if I had a real product that day.

It actually took me a year from that point, but I am "piloting" with my first customers (1 from that intial walk-in) this week. This what eventually the product looks like. https://goo.gl/ShkkWr

In my opinion, you should definitely sell your product before you start coding. It will not only build a customer base, but tell you IF there is a customer base and make the product you eventually build, better.

If you do it with a video like me, Its OK to fake a few details to make it seem as real as possible. Trust me, its better to rot in hell for "lying" to a potential customer, than explaining to your wife why you spend the savings on building something, nobody wants!
Putting the I back in IDE
Luckily, it's just blank without JS, so I was able to move on quickly.
Bots are active though, right?
ICQ was king over here
Is the website available on any known platform, including any selectric-based platforms?
> Merritt remarks: "There is no theory that predicts these types of galaxies [without dark matter] — how you actually go about forming one of these things is completely unknown."

Is there a theory that predicts galaxies with dark matter, or states how they come to be that way? I thought the whole dark matter concept was "we don't know anything about it".
I'm not sure resource scaling is what's needed here. Just good ol' caching. Shameless plug: I built Cachoid[0] for caching as a service (leveraging Varnish mainly) to help with situations like this.

[0] https://www.cachoid.com/
If you care about your results being private, spend 1 minute going through the settings. Not that hard.

https://i.imgur.com/Tb10FN7.png
https://i.imgur.com/vgtA6PB.png
The first hit I see on Google is "blackgirlscode.com", a website to encourage black girls to get into technology. It's the fifth hit on DuckDuckGo. The other hits seem rather innocuous. DDG features "hot black girls" at the number 3 spot.
I've been testing 1PW7 Windows beta, and I'm testing against a local vault. Would surprise me if the Mac version only supported 1password.com cloud vaults.
Were the overseas IBM contractors paid in units of "full page scrolls"?
The point is that the galaxy shows that dark matter exists /independently/ (i.e. as its own particles) of normal matter. This is huge.

Up until now, there was a branch of physics that tried to explain dark matter as a phenomenon that is caused by normal matter. This discovery shows that such an approach is unlikely to work.

For all of this, it does not matter /why/ there is no (not a lot) dark matter in that galaxy. Although that is probably the next question physicists are after!
”they had proprietary fonts... which they made free at about the right time to have reaped profits without fueling a competitor.”

Are adobe fonts free? They opened up the Type 1 font specification when Apple and Microsoft threatened to make them irrelevant because TrueType fonts were good enough (at least for consumers) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TrueType#History)

”pdf is free-to-read, pay-to-write.”

I think you can legally create a PDF writer that supports most, if not all, PDF content without paying any license costs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_Document_Format#Intel...:

”Anyone may create applications that can read and write PDF files without having to pay royalties to Adobe Systems; Adobe holds patents to PDF, but licenses them for royalty-free use in developing software complying with its PDF specification.”
I wonder if there are also galaxies that are just dark matter. (Of course, it'd be hard to observe them. Maybe it would gravitationally affect galaxies near it.)
Oops, I mixed up TLS and AV1. Right, mailing list is off limits to me.
The article includes a correction, Ron was not the founder of their self-driving unit:

This story and its headline have been updated to reflect that Ron was the co-founder of Otto, a self-driving truck company Uber bought. Uber's self-driving efforts predated that acquisition.
K. Go gaslight someone else bud.
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If you care about your results being private, spend 1 minute going through the settings. Not that hard.

https://i.imgur.com/Tb10FN7.png https://i.imgur.com/vgtA6PB.png
> apple directly supports its phones for 4 or 5 years

And it keeps getting better.

http://iossupportmatrix.com/
GDPR is one of the reasons I’m hoping for the collapse of the EU.

If a US company has no physical presence in Europe I see no reason why they should comply with their bullshit.

And under a Trump administration... good luck.
I ran a webserver that friends could use. I got a CnD because one of them had a php tetris game up.
Well, it sounds like you're one of the few companies that's actually thought this problem through. Bravo!
This is why when I actually do anything with tor it's always curl -H ""

Using something as complex as firefox for anything important is just stupid.
Sure, renters are in a tougher spot. However the scale of the problem has expanded to include property owners - people we'd previously consider to be pretty financially secure.
Looks like. So this would be the first galaxy that actually seems to rotate following the laws of gravity as we know them.

The data on the 10 globular clusters the team tracked showed them moving much more slowly than would be expected. That led to an estimated mass that was extremely low for a galaxy—on the order of 10^8 solar masses. Using the amount of light emitted by the galaxy produced an estimate of the total mass of stars in the galaxy that was also in the neighborhood of 10^8. Normally, we infer that there's dark matter around because the galaxy appears to have a lot more matter than the amount provided by the stars we can see. But in this case, there's a minimal difference between the two.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/03/galaxy-seems-to-lack...

Edit: 10^8, not 108.
Ugly politics was the majority of my feed until a few years ago when I made the effort to unfollow chronic posters of all persuasions.

Not to mention the flood of pro/anti gun posts after each massacre.
Cruise's CTO, a former Uber manager, is out
Solar wind is a negligible factor in the trajectories of large-payload rockets - it's more of a radiation hazard that any interplanetary crewed mission has to deal with.
I imagine if this keeps up, the Ecuadorian government will follow other articles in the written commitment and will take away his cell phone, impose a two week curfew and will not give him any pocket money in foreseeable future.
Great article, great webdesign. Thank you for this submission.
great post, I wonder how much of the online forum software helps or hinders these goals with the respective features each offers.
This test has been around for a while, more recently under the name "veil of ignorance" -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veil_of_ignorance
Julian and Snowden are both trying to avoid the same fate. Both know they will not receive a fair trial in the USA.

There's no justification for his extradition to Sweden as they no longer have a warrant for his arrest. The UK has him under arbitrary detention.

Julian is being unfairly persecuted because his method of journalism is effective and seeks to shed light on corrupt systems of power.
> A medical emergency requiring an ER and an ambulance can easily cost as much or more than an ordinary person will earn in their whole lifetime.

The majority of hospitals with E.R. in the US are non-profits that receive federal subsidies to help them exist.
Comparing is not judging or blaming. The GP suggests that both TPB and Google are in a gray area, which I partially agree with, but I think they are in different gray areas.

TPB, as described, is in a moral gray area - "We know some of the uploaded stuff is immoral" - so they delete what's immoral (their judgement - child porn/copyright stuff/anything between), they arbitrarily decide what you see

Google is in an algorithmic gray area - "The algorithm decides what's best for you, we want the best for you, but we won't judge what's best for you" - so they do nothing and hope for the best (and least damage), the algorithm arbitrarily decides what you see

Both seem like different routes to the same hell.

Edit: Spelling, clearer wording
Here's[0] a game I wrote a while back to learn Elm; it's a mashup of Tetris and Boggle. It's web, but I _think_ it should run on OSX (use full-screen for the best experience).

[0] https://jstaab.itch.io/tetroggle

Edit: linked to the actual game
how about cold calling or networking events / meetups?
> Basically, say that you point your webcam at a perfectly black sheet (0x000000 in color). Will you get any actual entropy from this? No.

Umm... Why not?
The "face-planting" could be regional. It's possible North American and European users might drop off swiftly while FB continues to grow in other parts of the world.
It's time to consider Sublevel as an alternative to Facebook
Meltdown security patches issued by #Microsoft exposed to severe attacks
I was working with Opencv's python wrapper a few months back and I didn't find a lot of options in it. It maybe because the wrapper didn't include most of the things from native C++ code. Is there any proper way to start with Opencv?
A tutorial for the sam command language [pdf]
Well, we were right about induction currents, gravitational waves and anti-matter, so it's not as if filling in the gaps is always incorrect.
This don't change my comment still many of them are fakes. I know people who have 5-6 accounts active at one time playing different games with 500+ friends on it. Many of those "friends" also are fakes, some even with the same profile picture of "real person" with fake data but I have nothing against FB, every medium is abused.

It's just interesting that not a single research was done on this topic that I know about. :)
Precisely. Social preference is still a preference like any other. Google makes it its job to understand what the user is looking for. If they need data on what is an acceptable result they have the means to collect it and fold it into their algorithm. When people search for three black teenagers are they really looking for three mugshots? Is that a good result in any conventional sense, purely judged in a QA system sense, and without prior? There is at least a query specificity or query extension problem here.

Whatever proxy they are using to find relevance is broken in this regard, and it's important to recognize that there is still an engineering problem despite, or despite it looking like, a political problem.
It wouldn't be a puff; it would happen over a significant period, during which their other business would still presumably be growing. And it would give Lyft substantial time to adapt competitively. So no, I don't believe it's a threat.
Just tested this with http://www.ExpressVPN.com client on MacOS and it protected my IPv4 Public IP from being exposed but it does leak the local (NAT) IPv4 Private IP that I use on my internal network.

Not good that it leaked anything but at least the public IP is hidden by their software.
i don't even use netflix recommendations.
cinesift.com is one way to find stuff, but really anything but netflix for netflix recommendations.
Not everyone is lucky enough to have thoughtful relatives, yet not horrible enough to completely shun.
Ask HN: Technical resources to learn how electric cars work/are build
That may be true (e.g. Facebook knows my musical tastes as of 12 years ago, which aren't relevant today), but I might be willing to pay that price in exchange for transience. A social network that resisted bulk archiving by third parties, and removed content in a permanent and legally-binding way after a given interval, would be providing a genuinely useful service. When you put something up on the regular web, its lifetime is completely out of your control. Sure, there would be screenshots and individual copying, but such a service could prevent bulk mirroring.
And myspace had 75m monthly active users at its peak.

This really does look like a bad comparison.

Maybe you could adjust for total internet users then and now but I doubt that would make a difference.

Edit: (dubious) source:

https://startupbros.com/myspace-the-rise-fall-and-rise-again...
Constitution Compels Sessions to Dismiss Mueller Non Campaign Cases
i guess it's called https://flickmetrix.com/ now
Except that the rigging makes absolutely no sense.
Instagram seems like it would be the most resilient. It's so low level, with few gimmicks, you just share a piece of media. Humans will want to share with each other until the end of time. Snap and fb have interesting features but it's less clear whether they will always remain popular.

What are some shifts that can take Instagram down? The main one I can think of is decentralizion and owning/controlling your own data, but that would hit almost everything.

Do you think the shift away from these sites will be structural/technological (again, like if the world generally moves towards a different business model than data collection), or do you think these sites will be hit for specific reasons?
> Eventually somethings gotta give and I am assuming it will be much higher state and property taxes

Well since y'all refuse to consolidate governmental units, it will be higher property taxes. A typical suburb with 50,000 people has its own police department, its own fire department, its own library system, its own parks department, road department, etc. Two school systems (K-8 and high school), each with a full administration! Drive your car, cross an intersection, and now you are in some other identical suburb of 50,000 people with all those same governmental units.

I know you want your community to feel like a little village, and your community is better than the one next door, so you'll never vote to combine into one. This is how much it costs.

Someone pays $15000 per year tax on a $280000 house. I pay $9000 per year on a $650000 condo. I share the cost of a police chief with 2.7 million people and you share it with 50,000.
Ask HN: Does FB's chronological sort work for you?
I don't love FB's algorithm and often change to chronological order instead. About half of the time, it ends up feeding me very old posts (from days ago) even though it shows me newer posts if I'm in FB-algorithm-mode. I have had this issue for many months, if not years. Do others have the same problem?

The cynic in me assumes that FB is aware of this issue, and that they don't mind it being broken because it means more people end up using their algorithmic ordering. But it's possible that I'm one of the only people with this issue, or that there's a less cynical explanation for such a seemingly simple/obvious bug persisting for so long.
It's taken me a while to get to this point, but I enjoy the challenge of managing both sides of the house. I've learned that if I participate in a non-tech meeting, there is a high probability that I will be useless at coding the rest of the day. For that reason, I arranged my schedule to have almost all meetings on Mondays and Tuesdays. I've also learned that coffee helps me express my vision more effectively but can ruin my concentration, so I use it for "people" days. Also, little technical interruptions don't bother me so much as interruptions that get me thinking about a new course of action. When I'm not certain about the course of action I go into processing mode until I figure it out, which keeps me from making any coding progress. Recognizing those interruptions and logging them outside of my brain for later processing has helped a lot. I'm sure I have a few other little tricks too... Routine is really key for me.

My team is small and nearly everyone works well independent of my management. I expect that my coding time will diminish as the team grows larger.
A Solution to the Elm – Config Conundrum
Ian Lance Taylor is wrong in that thread. Interior pointers don't make anything harder: this is a solved problem with card marking. Indeed, .NET has interior pointers, and it doesn't cause any problem at all.

Also, I don't believe that the HotSpot GC needs to use read barriers. Read barriers are only necessary if you're concurrently compacting objects (like Azul C4 does). If you have concurrent mark-and-sweep and stop the world only during compaction phases, read barriers are unnecessary.
Look for services, apps or programs you use that are open source and make contributions.
Why did you buy that account for 500$?

And are you saying that the previous owner of the account is the one who didn't want it tied to him anymore, so he sold it to you (and you are therefore providing an anonymizing service to him?).
I didn't know about that either. What's this good for?

One immediately obvious use is basic navigation. That line above I want to go to is 13, so '13k'. Now I'm there.
Prosthetic Memory System Successful in Humans
Aint nobody got time for them?
// Note Peter's comment below
> missing most — if not all — of its dark matter

Is it just me or does this seem a bit like saying a landline is a wired cell phone? I thought dark matter represented what's missing, so if it's not there then nothing is missing, right?
Is DuckDuckGo Really Private?
Benedict Evans tweet: https://twitter.com/BenedictEvans/status/955539670103859200?...
> There is nothing inherently special about someone who runs a small vs. big company, except for experience.

I think the question is, given that someone can do one of those things really well, how likely is it that the same person can do the other really well too?

It seems obvious that the kind of traditional business ceo that investors often want to find to replace a founder is not going to be successful as a starter. Let's just accept the common assumption on that one.

I'd argue that what makes a great startup founder often makes a terrible leader for large corporations. I think every great founder has a reality distortion field (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reality_distortion_field) which projects their vision, keeps them pursuing seemingly bad ideas in the face of insurmountable odds and allows them to overcome the biases and assumptions that dominate so many business decisions.

Some leaders expand and adapt this to build great, crazy companies: Steve Jobs, Elon Musk, Zuckerberg (maybe). Often they also create a cult-like, maybe toxic, certainly messy corporate culture that still somehow succeeds.

Others can't do this: Travis Kalanick, Elizabeth Holmes, Parker Conrad. They let their "startup founder, growth at all costs, thumb your nose at the rules" attitude destroy their company culture and embroil them in ridiculous, easily avoidable legal issues.

In my experience, a corporation's culture is the manifestation of the most extreme personality traits of its leaders. There is a time, when crossing the chasm, that the exact traits that made the company grow rapidly and the founder extremely successful are the ones you want to suppress to create a stable, efficient and effective collaborative endeavor involving thousands of people: a corporation.

I think (and this is due to some reflection on my own ideas) that if you reject the idea that there comes a time when a company should abandon "burning vision" in favor of stability, process, predictability, and broad appeal, you're actually rejecting the idea of a corporation as a hierarchical system of power deployed to efficiently organize the work of thousands of people. And I'd probably agree with that. The traditional corporation needs a traditional ceo but it's a damn shame that every revolutionary startup has to end up as a traditional corporation.
But it would include Russian prostitutes.
Don't think about entrepreneurship. Think about things that interest you.
Immerse yourself in those things and make as many strong connections as possible to others interested in the same things. Take advantage of the fact that you are in school where it is much easier to meet other motivated people. Opportunities will then start to present themselves.
This was mentioned in the article and the problem is the developer got a cease and desist order, so they stopped working on it, and now it's only available from shady sites.
Believe it feeds cancer growth, not that it is a cause in itself.
How do we know that gravity is constant in proportion to mass and not a function of time? General relativity tells us mass slows down time, but we assume slowing down action doesn't affect gravity. If gravitons, or other quanta of gravity, exists wouldn't general relativity infer that massive objects have less gravity in proportion to mass than less massive objects?

We know from general relativity that massive galactic cores have less time in proportion to their mass compared with galactic arms, which have more time (action) relative to their mass.

Why wouldn't general relativity's slow down in time also mean less gravity in proportion to mass?
I've done a number of 1.5 to 1.9 migrations, if you need help figuring out what API endpoints/etc have changed I can give you some guidance if you ping me on k8s slack; mikej.

Once you get onto 1.8+ w/ CRDs you can manage your SSL certs automatically via Jetstacks Certmanager; https://github.com/jetstack/cert-manager/tree/master/contrib...
Actual title: "California's Housing Prices Need to Come Down"
>We don't interview each participant to ask them how they were traumatized, we only look at the statistics.

Yes, because implementing something like that would be near impossible from a legislative standpoint. Legislation has to be spelled out and enforceable or it will do nothing.

And affirmative action is not there just to prop up the numbers. It is there to push companies to hire minority groups.

There are two reasons for this. For example, on college campuses, the supreme court has upheld that it is lawful to use race as a factor in admissions because a well rounded or diverse student body is a desirable trait that will produce better outcomes for all involved. Including the white men.

The second is that it is trying to undo the many, many years of oppression (i.e. slavery) that carries generation to generation.

Programs like affirmative action are trying to tip the scales for these descendants to give them a chance to compete. After all, they were systematically disenfranchised as a race. It makes sense that we attempt to systematically bring them back up to speed with the rest of the population.

>we just assume .. numbers need to be fixed first and then the rest of it will follow

We don't have to assume anything. It is both empirically evident (as well as just "duh") that getting a higher percentage of minorities into jobs and higher education will result in a higher percentage of their children having the opportunity to do so without something like affirmative action in the future.
Facebook pauses app reviews, disables new user authorizations
This hits me too on some projects of mine. Infuriating. I find wrong stats worse than no stats.