skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's not unique to startup - I'd say it's even more relevant to regular "corporate" software development, no?
What's unique to real startups (for my definition of "real": the ones that solve yet unsolved technically challenging problems) is: even though you may be better off using a good ready-made infrastructure, that doesn't change the game for you as your competitors also have access to it. While using a conceptually different (more powerful?) toolset might give you an edge over the competitors and a chance to indeed solve the problem you're after. Just yesterday I talked about this: https://www.slideshare.net/vseloved/lisp-in-a-startup-the-go...
Likewise. I detest the organisation and everything they stand for. And yet, i have to use it, because lots of my didn't family are on WhatsApp and not on telegram
An absolute must-read if you’re interested in biology.
More context:

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/barbara-bush-beautiful-min...
Right, the majority of time, that's what would happen. But sometimes, Earth would mine a block, send it to Mars and immediately start working on the next one, and yet Mars would win it simply because they got lucky enough to find the solution first, despite having a 20m handicap. And then Earth would have to get lucky (which would be easier, since they have more miners, but that's OK).

My idea is just that if you increase the target time quite a bit, Mars would get lucky more often.

In fact, this already happens: if an European miner wins a block, then why don't other European miners always win the subsequent blocks, since their latency to the winner is lower than American or Chinese miners? It's because the few miliseconds extra are not relevant when a block takes 10m on average to find.

My idea is just to increase the target time so that the 20mins latency are also not relevant.
Well the scooters (that I've seen) have GPS, lock the wheels, and audibly threaten you if you try to move them around.
First of all the difficulty doesn't need to be set perfectly. It just can't be way too high or way too low. Even if the algorithm is slightly off the optimal difficulty everything still works fine. Secondly, because other nodes need to validate the submitted blocks for the miners get any reward they are strongly incentivized to fill out all the information in the block as correctly as possible, including the time. Imagine mining a block and getting a 12.5 BTC reward (currently valued at around $100,000) and having it get rejected because you put the wrong timestamps -- ouch. I don't know what logic they use to see if the timestamp is valid, but even if there was a bug in this logic that was used for nefarious purposes other peers would wise up and patch the software if it hurt anyone in any way. So yes, the difficulty calculation may not be perfect and could even be subject to manipulation but it seems good enough for now to me.
Maybe I’m not paying attention but I work in SOMA (scooter central) and have yet to see a scooter parked in the middle of the sidewalk or blocking a path. They are everywhere but not really under foot.
Easier communication also lead in my anecdotal experoence to people brain borrowing all day from the resident domain expert. This is great for overall productivity but constant sidetracking burns developer will fast. When combined with performance metrics based on delivery alone it becomes a recipe for total disaster.
WebAssembly is a tool in work, supported by Google, Microsoft, Apple, etc... Currently it lacks a garbage collector, but this is planned. I would bet on wasm to be the holly graal in the future, more than anything else.
San Jose looks anything but urban. It's a big boring suburb, just like everything else between Gilroy and SF.
Hey guys! Update: We got our interview offer around 10:48 PM PST tonight. So they're finally releasing them it seems. Good luck everyone!
The package manager you get to use today depends on variables that are totally independent from your own creative process. Perhaps it’s the one that supports some tooling used by infra or security or whatever. Unless it’s an ungodly train wreck of a tool that is significantly interfering with your output, it’s not your job to reinvent package management. I’d scream to the high heavens if I’d have to resolve these problems every other project I take on - incidentally, stacks and platforms are such a moving target that I often have to do so anyway.
Who are single founders here?
Are you saying the reality is much worse? Or that Oracle has a bright side?
A friend just got an invite at 10:50 pm, for those still waiting keep your fingers crossed!
I'd suggest a Raspberry Pi 3B+ (can you even buy an original Pi?), with more than 3x the single-threaded performance of an original Pi. I'd wager comparable single-threaded raw performance to the N270, a 10 year old chip at this point.

GPU performance, I'd put my money on the Pi 3B+ over the Eee. Heck, I may even get mine running again to run some benchmarks... or Google for the inevitable raft of folks who already have.

I would need to see data supporting the assertion that it is "way slower than Eee 901". Off the top of my head, I'd expect it to trade blows with the N270. I'd also be surprised if the support for the Eee 901 was anywhere near as strong as the Pi from the retro gaming community, but, honestly, I haven't put together a retro-gaming rig since, maybe, 2001. Maybe it's time to put together two...
The latter is what I assume people talk about when they mean SEO - if you don't write copy and you aren't technical like most SEOs aren't what are you actually doing? (Obviously Keyword research is a part.)
Hey, I like your idea.

I'm not accepting clients, so this is not a plug, I'm just saying this to frame where I am coming from. I do audits and WordPress code reviews for folks like junior college districts and largish content marketing sites; these range from load-testing and auditing the servers to examining the code quality of custom plugins and themes. I also do a lot of one-off and custom WP work for similar levels of clients.

Here's one element that you might find useful that I wasn't seeing in your reviews and that I don't see in a lot of reviews (because it's a pain in the butt to do the work to uncover):

looking at the hooks/ expandability of the plugin.

Like, you might audit the actual code quality and see how easy you think it might be to accomplish various customizations without, say, forking the plug.

I'm always surprised at the variability on this point among various plugins. Some plugins are filtering all kinds of things, some don't filter much at all. Some have really flexible and easy to modify CPTs, some have a ton of functionality hard coded. Some things have really baroque systems that would be easy to expand, but they are written using some crazy complicated architecture and you have to do hours of reading code to understand what you'd want to do.

A second thing that you might look at is the nature of "paid-ness" of the plugins. There is one business listing plugin (which I hate writing extensions for) that basically breaks the site if you don't re-up the subscription every year. There are other plugins that play nice-- you buy them once, and they work everywhere just fine and if they release a new major version you can buy it again. I don't like paid-for commercial stuff in GPL, but that's at least reasonable. What isn't reasonable are licensing schemes that do things like break local/staging/test/prod environments because the license is tied to some crazy thing like the URL.

Anyhow, it's a pretty site, so I wish you well.
Epic (the EMR vendor) has all employees in an office of at most two people, with one per office being the goal.
A friend of mine just got an invite as a solo founder, bio RFS
They have a separate section on their website describing their Microsilk, which is being used to produce ties.

https://boltthreads.com/technology/microsilk/
https://ties.boltthreads.com/
Ah, I did misunderstand but I'm still not sure I agree. We could lift the codes but those spaces are still pretty much required. LA really has to invest in more public transit. As it stands now, the city just isn't walkable. You'll just end up having a car anyway and fighting for what little street parking there is.

Instead we seem to be building large condo/apartments with shops at the ground floor and parking underground. We'll see how they turn out, I suppose.
The problem is that you don't understand GDPR. Please watch first few minutes of this:
https://youtu.be/-stjktAu-7k?t=399

(or even whole, it explains a lot of things)
Yet you'll find a lot of people resorting to remote work when they need to be at their optimal productivity level. In these open office plans, not much work gets done. This isn't necessary a bad thing because working hard is tiring.
Glad i could read the title https://imgur.com/a/bFoPk
Real-time face detection in 200 lines of JavaScript
I work in a very open office plan where meeting rooms have no walls and even directors sit amongst the staff. It's noisy and distracting, I can never concentrate
It's doable sure but there is a better option so why not persue it? It's a relevant and genuine concern. Any business owner should be interested in making sure distraction free work is possible somehow in their company, distracted employees are less productive.

On the thinking about what they are doing with their life comment, not necessary and what they seem to be doing with their life is finding a better place to work. Seems pretty productive to me.
Is it compliant with GDPR - for example can admin delete all user data at request?
Have you tried one? Mine significantly dampens and distorts speech so that it becomes easy to ignore.

It's a recent Sony top-model, which from reviews seems to be on the top together with Bose regarding NC technology at the moment.
I presume it would make your pupils look super dilated, which could have all sorts of fun implications...
Technically, USSR still was worse; Even in the 80's people lived in barracks. In Moscow people were living in communal flats. US is still slightly better than that.
This seems to be another application of the organism used for the meat-substitute sold under the brand https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quorn. (Which is rather tasty when prepared right).
Facebook says users must accept targeted ads even under new EU law
Thanks for your work on cl-async/blackbird: we also used it in our recent project (and you should have gotten a couple of related requests)! I don't think you should be discouraged though: your contribution is very valuable and surely was noted, just that the whole async approach is, in my view, not in line with the general direction of where Lisp is most applicable, currently (we should admit that it's a niche language). After all, having an evented server means that it doesn't perform a lot of useful computations, most of the work is just serving some kind of existing content. I.e. you could say that the application logic is marginalized and commoditized. And Lisp is the best choice for the opposite cases, those that require and emphasize elaborate application logic and intense computation...
Did we read the same review? Terrible keyboard and trackpad, 2gb ram?
Be careful in how you phrase that. I would say graph where you say map.

Using map opens you to claims such as that a map containing the North Sea, the kingdom of the Netherlands, the kingdom of Belgium, the French Republic and the Federal Republic of Germany can’t be four-colored because they all border each other (the kingdom of the Netherlands and the French Republic on Saint Martin in the Caribbean)

Historically, other examples likely existed, as land ownership tended to be patchy in feudal Europe, and, later, colonies added borders between various European countries.
The original title is "The Teens Who Hacked Microsoft's Xbox Empire—And Went Too Far | WIRED"
> Consider a Redis-based cache: For future proofing you could introduce a sharding scheme that deterministically allocates keys based on cluster size. That would be operationally pretty complex. Not to mention also introduce complexity in edge case scenarios (e.g. your cluster size is transitioning).

This is implemented in Twemproxy and resizing the cluster is a known edge case for which Twitter developed Nighthawk (centralized shard placement).
Yeah, you really have to develop a personality that's able to deal with the interruptions. From both sides: you need to change, and you need to change others.

Besides that part, there's plenty of roles where you can negotiate time to work from elsewhere on the odd occasion. At that point it becomes a time management excercise that's mostly not too difficult to solve.

Oh, and take these types of situations into account when discussing your KPIs, if they affect them. Always have KPIs because they're not just there to help your employer - they're also your leverage in negotiations. You did better than your initial goal because of [X], but you can also be worse than your goal because of [Y]. This means [Y] needs to be adjusted. Or your KPIs.
Samsung has a "DeX"-åroduct that aims to do this:

https://www.samsung.com/us/explore/dex/

Would be nice if there was a standard so, any USB c phone could plug into a display - along with the display acting as a hub, and/or Bluetooth for keyboard.

[ed: for desktop/dock. See sibling for sentio - which is for turning phone into laptop]
.... Or let bots do searches on google, clicking on your link and never search again with same IP/browser/... combination.
Or let bots do the opposite for your competitors.

As long as google uses a metric to determine how good a page A satisfies query B there always will be the possibilty to optimize for this metric instead of actually to solve users search problems.
It'd probably just make you look like you have darker eyes.
Sometimes, no, no, probably, certainly.
Crazy conservative

Essentially every level of government (including planning commissions) in every Bay Area and L.A. basin city in control of these things is under one-party rule... and it's not a remotely conservative party.
This reminds me of Sheldrake testing the dog who knew when its owner was heading home, and studying "the sense of being stared at," etc. Institute of Noetic Sciences? Or is that too soft a science? No idea, just things that popped up as I read the quote.
I'm not the best at SEO but I agree with this - it seems that writing good content is only part of the story (but an important part.)

Similar to startups, I am curious as to how much of professional SEO success is about outreach. i.e. if I am mates with a uni professor and I write something about his topic, can I get a backlink from their valued .edu domain? What about .gov? Does this outrank better content? To what extent are forbes.com, entrepreneur.com, inc.com etc writers gaming this? (Or are they just looking for the virality?)
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Microsoft is slowly switching to open floor plans, but for now a lot of folks have their own offices, or are doubling up at most.
For $100 I think the expectation is set that there will be some rough edges. At that price point, I'd consider picking one up as a toy… even if it is giving me flashbacks of the netbook era.
Pretty funny video on the subject https://youtu.be/CXWzpKYXRXM
It's one of those things that I didn't realized was a big deal until I experienced the alternative -- I just signed up, tried it for less than five minutes, and I'm already sold on this over Slack.

(I'll also add that I recently spent over a year working from home where most of my interactions with other team members was through slack, so I'm fairly experienced there.)
Whats the name of his startup/website?
Wouldn't it be extremely flammable though? Raw amadou can burn even with the smallest spark. We used to make lighters out of it.
Is an event in the Turkish language. This year will be 4th. :)
Shades of A Gift From Earth there. Good novel.
> the full Java marketing blitz wasn’t in full swing

Pun unintended I guess, but still funny.
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Why haven't we got a YC acceptance/rejection email
After applying for the Summer 2018 batch of YC we haven't received any mail . Is no mail same as rejection ??
I am also solo.
There's also places selling them with libreboot. E.g. minifree.org
In Europe SEPA Debit is cheaper and easier than credit card and you get customer protection in case anything goes wrong.

Plus I can tell my bank at any time that a specific vendor or merchant is no longer allowed to pull from my account.
SVC is being redone in open floor plan. Those in Redmond being converted often have PMs and Engineers doubling up in the same office - two total separate use cases. Some roles mitigate this with remote work.
Just be careful about what third party packages you are using. It's not like users of other languages don't have the same problem (Case in point: I earn my salary working on several legacy Rails apps).

I've worked on a Node application with express, underscore and redis (we didn't need a full DB -- name value pairs were fine). I'm not even sure if using express is worth it. In our case it stayed completely out of our way, so I can't really complain. My only regret was using jasmine for testing. I would definitely use mocha these days. For server side, just use Node modules and ES6. No need to complicate it with transpilers, build tools, etc, etc.

Ironically, client side is much more of a hassle (I still haven't found a build tool that I think is worth using).
I considered doing that, but I found a refurb Lenovo 11e for $190. I went for it because it's a bit smaller (11.6") and is "ruggedized" for the classroom. That latter is a benefit having a 3 year old around. It also had a fair bit of its original warranty left. Buying a used laptop off of Ebay or whatever sounded less appealing.
> I'm surprised that "JavaScript" has not become a generic trademark

If Kleenex = Java and Kleenex Dispenser = javascript, your argument is wrong.
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Hi

I'm a 2x Founder, serial entrepreneur and growth strategist. I founded and exited online tuxedo rental company SimpleTux before starting my second venture, Renly, an Airbnb for commercial business space, where I am currently CEO. Additionally, I've led growth at a number of startups, including alumni from such prestigious programs as Y Combinator and Techstars. My speciality is growth hacking. I'm sure I can help and would love to set aside a time for us to discuss your goals and how we can accomplish them together. See my startup resume at www.chrissheng.com

While every company's growth hack is different due to the product/service and marketing mix, the method to discovering that hack is the same. It's an incredible amount of testing, the ability to come up with a never ending source of creative content and channels, benchmarking and optimizing. It takes discipline to stay the course and set the variables. Usually a growth hacker is either really good at analytics or creative, I pride myself on being strong in both.

Look forward to connecting.

Chris Sheng
www.chrissheng.com
The former, Oracle is pretty much the devil of the tech world.
I work for Viasat; all of our new-build offices in the past few years have been designed around what we call the neighborhood concept. A neighborhood is a set of individual offices (maybe 60sqft-ish?) with three solid walls, and one glass/wood wall with a sliding door. All the offices open into a central room that can be outfitted in a bunch of different ways. There are neighborhoods of different sizes, and basically, each team gets a neighborhood to themselves. The whole concept was developed through a series of experiments that took several years.

Some teams make use of the space better than others, of course, but for my group it's been a huge boon to our collaborative culture. The offices are well-insulated, so you don't need headphones to achieve quiet, but if you want to, you can leave your door open and hear what your teammates are discussing at any time.

Over time we're upgrading our older facilities to the same model, but in general there are few open-plan offices or cube farms in the company, and I highly doubt we're going to build more. Many years ago, our founders made it a company priority to give folks a door they can close, to get away from "it all" and focus.
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I don't know... LiceScript has a nice ring to it.
In most countries in Europe people don't really use credit cards. I only have a credit card because I travel outside Europe a lot (and want to pay online where proper payment solutions like iDeal or even PayPal are not supported).

Even when I travel outside I can use my Maestro card (tied to my bank account) 90% of the times, my credit card is more for backup purposes.

In my country (the Netherlands) you'll have a hard time paying for stuff with a credit card, most shops only accept Maestro cards and NFC payments through your phone. Though most ATMs do support credit cards. More and more shops start to not take cash anymore (expensive to handle).

I personally don't like credit cards since they are about as insecure as you can design a payment system (imo).

EDIT: I meant the insecurity of using credit cards for online payments.
how horribly selfish existing home owners are

But they don't have any power. They don't have a vote on the planning commission or the city council. They don't have a vote in the Legislature. Sure, individuals can rant in meetings to the degree allowed, but that's it -- they can't implement policy.

So if the vast majority are actually on the YIMBY side, then recalcitrant officeholders will be gone shortly... right?
VM memory deduplication has "side-channel attack" written all over it. Though I don't expect the inevitable parade of exploits to rain on cloud computing's party.

EDIT: A quick Google search shows the parade started years ago.
its also more than just ip address. if you ever log into each others computers to check mail or any other system that requires a login, that company can sell your (device,username) pair to these cross device companies, and and you get another (device2,username) pair and its decided to be the same person.

https://whotracks.me/trackers/liveramp.html: twitch, okcupid, adobe

https://whotracks.me/trackers/drawbridge.html: etsy, aol, samsung

log into one of those from two devices and anyone who wants to pay will track you as the same person
I hope the availability of nice used ThinkPads is sustainable. I guess it's fine as long as they keep selling well new and the used ones don't become popular.
Well naturally I agree with you. But words are important.

It's like if I state that The Beatles have, in total, more musical merit than Katy Perry. Well, that seems totally obvious too and one would be hard-pressed to find any sane adult who would disagree. Nonetheless it's not a "fact".

Maybe I'm being a pedant but these little things annoy me. Words have meanings, those meanings are important. Anyway, I made my point too many times over already so I'll leave it :P