skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Their search backend is, in my experience, significantly faster than you'd expect of latencies through a typical app backend - request-to-render in 10s of millis or less. They run their search indices directly inside an nginx module, it's an interesting architecture to read up on.

The JS they kick you off with is a pretty decent way to make a thorough, not-trivial search experience, you can get much more than a list of results (faceting and such builtin)

(https://community.algolia.com/instantsearch.js/)

The all-over-the-world bit is an optional part of paid plans, it's quite possible HN isn't using the global DSN
Breaking into Tech: How One Platform Is Simplifying the Way in for Candidates
Seriously. What world does this person live in? When I think “lawyer”, “almost nothing” isn’t the first thing that comes to mind.
Glyphosate found in granola, crackers and oatmeal
Congrats on getting traction.

I think you are too small to consider funding.

Even though you are downmarket I would look at raising your plans. Looks like your average is around $23. Even though you are downmarket of clearbit they should be higher.

You can grandfather in your existing customers. But I would rework your pricing so you start at $49 min and move up from there. Structure your plans where the more value your clients get their plans increase accordingly. So build in a way to upgrade them to higher plans as they use your app more.

$1-2k per month sounds like a lot to support 30 customers. Look at ways you can still provide a great app/support and lower your burn rate.

Don't look for funding, maintain control and keep adding signups. That $1-$2k is you investing in your business and then you can have 100% of the profit in the future. I think you can lower your burn rate though.

Good luck taking it to the next level.

If you haven't checked these out yet give them a listen:

DHH Startup School Talk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CDXJ6bMkMY

Listen to their archive, great tips and inspiration from what Rob has done over the years.
http://www.startupsfortherestofus.com/archives

Search for patio11 on here and check out his posts, podcast and book.
Fujitsu is also launched a wearable to detect and prevent truck drivers from falling asleep at the wheel.

http://www.fujitsu.com/global/about/resources/news/press-rel...
Both I think.

"Most notably, safety spans a wide range of concerns from the fears of sci-fi style sentience to the more near-term questions such as validating the performance of self-driving cars."

I feel like the term "Singularity" is used in too many ways by too many different people to be useful unless you define how you're using it but Brin seems worried about AGI.
Hi,

This is part of a project where the entire app code is shared across native and web apps. The app uses React Native for iOS and android, and react-native-web for the web app. All three apps run from the same code.

Due to this constraint, the only way to define styles that can be reused across web and native is to use react native's `StyleSheet` api.

About this:

> a button can't be both a Google style button and a Facebook style button - and the code doesn't have any checks for that.

Button receives a single string prop that defines the button style, from there the bool values are calculated:

```
const isDefault = imStyle === 'default';
const isPrimary = imStyle === 'primary';
const isFacebook = imStyle === 'facebook';
const isGoogle = imStyle === 'google';
```

This assures that a button can't be both Facebook and Google button at the same time. But I agree that it probably makes sense to move Facebook and google buttons to separate components since they have fixed icons that are always meant to appear on the left side. Right now, you'll manually have to enter the icon name.
It's my understanding that an IP address is not personal info and that nobody can, say, make a GDPR request for information associated with an IP address. An IP address is not personally identifiable information.
"there's a branch of conservation that reflexively opposes almost everything."

Sure. There's also a branch of business which says to screw the long-term environment health and environment consequences for short-term gains.

That these exist doesn't mean that either viewpoint has relevancy for what's going on here.
Are we supposed to share articles behind paywalls on HN?

Edit: I wasn't aware of the entry in HN's FAQ related to paywalls. See comments below.
> Why? Does this really make sense? You write it once, it runs a multitude of times. Why is the extra 30 minutes (maybe) to implement in Rust worth more than the extra CPU cycles over countless runs?

CPU cycles are cheap - my CPU is idle most of the time - and my time is expensive. Given that the script in question is fetching a file over FTP, the time taken for that is going to swamp any compute time (even in the Python implementation). Even if you could make a version that ran instantly, how many times would I have to run the script to add up to saving 30 minutes of my time? It doesn't sound like the kind of script that's going to be in use for decades.

> It's going to be less error prone and faster.

Sure, but the overwhelming majority of the time "faster" doesn't matter. So I'm much more interested in comparing languages that have the same safety properties, and whether it's possible to get the same "less error prone" effect from a language that's easier to work in than Rust.
Avoid facebook, instagram, twitter, youtube, reddit, TV and hackernews (which I couldn't). One can easily recoup another decade of life
Do you have a link to the court documents? This whole thing seems like a mess regardless of who is right. Although I'm quite sure these recovery discs do not allow you to install windows without a license.

They never did when I used such discs back in the days, and why would DELL be allowed to distribute software making such a thing possible? Of course you could argue that he has manipulated the program on the disc but as far as I know that has not been proven and he is claiming he did not.
It's really not. Have you ever read one of those proxy voting guides? Investors propose all manner of stuff and the board systematically asks you to vote against.
I wouldn't be surprised if those numbers are exaggerated (or fabricated) in order to facilitate widespread acceptance and adoption of surveillance.
The Matthew effect in science funding
You may be right in terms of Latin, but now that both words are being used as English expressions, the original Latin can only be a guide, not a rule. In formal writing I'd try to get it "right" but informally if it doesn't make it harder to read, it's fine imho
An awesome thought experiment that helps to illustrate the concerns with AI is the paper clip maximizer: https://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Paperclip_maximizer

While this particular essay starts off with the AGI premise, this could easily be reworked to assume a relatively "dumb" by highly connected AI. For example, one that is able to buy/sell stocks, place orders from suppliers, sell product and adjust prices, and rebalance workforce and automation lines could still cause some major damage before anyone would notice.

There's also a pretty fun clicker game based on the essay: http://www.decisionproblem.com/paperclips/
> Probably a dozen other good ideas exist- this is hacker news, I'm sure we could invent a hundred more.

> The only challenge is going to be convincing the powers that be that it's on their economic interest to pay you to do so.

Maybe instead we can come up with ways to hack the powers that be to pay for these things? That seems to be the real issue to get past. I'm sure we could think of ways to engage millenials in voting campaigns to influence this policy. I don't know a lot about politics but I'm sure there's other ways of applying pressure as well aside from voting.
Source that Microsoft lied? Gov Exhibit 17. There are probably many more.

There are about three or four lies on there, which anybody familiar with the computer recycling business can confirm.

Microsoft had no potential sales of genuine operating systems through this conduct because any license these discs would have been useful for was affixed to the computer and not included with the counterfeit discs. Hence, the loss and restitution amount were falsely stated.

As to the fanciful notion that Microsoft was somehow called in at the 11th hour, with zero involvement in the case prior to that moment, one would only need to talk to any attorney versed in criminal law to disabuse themselves of it.

Prosecutors don't bring cases they aren't relatively certain they can win- that's why they have a 93+% win rate. That means contacting the "victim" from the get-go to make sure they're willing to cooperate and testify.
Happy to do resume review, if you're interested - itamar@codewithoutrules.com
(n+1) Code Red: Organizing the Tech Sector
Marking a database record as "dead" to hide it from view without actually deleting the data.
"it was surprisingly difficult to get states to actually comply with treaties or laws made by congress"

Yes, exactly, and so they lost the war. It was the more process-oriented North that won the war. Despite the fact that Lincoln violated habeas corpus, the Northern territories otherwise continued to follow the law, raise taxes, obey the draft, obey the courts, and get organized enough to win. The South never had that kind of organization, nor any commitment to building a society where everyone would follow such a process. Indeed, one reason that rebellions tend to fail is they are made of people who want to break the rules, the very rules that might allow their rebellion to succeed.
How much more research do we need to say people will live longer if they "[consumed] a healthy diet, controlled their weight, took regular exercise, drank in moderation and did not smoke."
The problem is, it looks like a child did it. Not a criticism per se, I personally like its design, but to outsiders (guys with suits), it looks somewhat amateur / immature (and these guys tend to care a lot about those things). And, yes, sometimes these people want to know what they paid for, whether they are customers (in b2b) or they are giving money (like a government agency or something), and a neat slide with lots of logos and oral explanations is often the way to go (pun unintended). Python's logo is an animal, too, but it looks clean and low-profile.
And those arguments would fit with what he actually pleaded guilty to - copying the designs of the recovery disks and making them look legitimate. They aren't arguments (but IANAJ) that claim the software is e.g. legitimate windows installations.

He was sentenced for software piracy or thereabouts, but he literally can't do that because windows is not a physical disk, but a license. He did not sell licenses. The discs, as was stated as such by expert witnesses, were worthless. The contents were freely downloaded from Microsoft itself.

Of course, there might be a clause on the website that you can't burn those images and sell them. But those can't be tied to a monetary value because the images were distributed for free.
So the GDPR is entirely irrelevant because we could just give fake details to companies? And giving correct details to anyone, ever, is in fact “misuse”? That’s not how the law works, nor is it how it should work.
hey its me your wife
Today is the End of Life date for Node v4 and v6 is moving into maintenance mode
If it's anything like the cookie consent, it will just be an annoyance and nobody will be anything wiser. The amount of "no clue what this is" among non technical people I know is 100%. But the EU pats itself on the back cause they're tackling privacy issues. It's a joke.
My first impressions about Graal VM
Land was allocated to people before the Civil War, too.
One of the most helpful UI/UX articles I have read from the perspective of helping me design my products. I've read other articles that say the same thing, but this clicked for me.
Agreed. Per sector is much better. The companies in that sector still can compete on a level playing field. In the US the company with the worst labor practices has an advantage.
Buy several of different sizes to find one model that works.
He never sold any licenses, he sold the medium and the convenience of having the installation software easily available for his customers.

The OEM license attached to the hardware is still necessary to use the medium (which AFAIK is tied to the hardware, not the user), so I do not personally see any monetary loss for Microsoft. The only way Microsoft (or Dell, etc) lost money is because they charge an absurd price of money for something that is basically a DVD coaster without any license. They only have themselves to blame.
As was pointed out in another thread about Facebook, and I'm sure this is also true for Google / Alphabet, a lot of the lower-paid jobs are done by contractors, temps, etc - all off of Alphabet's employee / pay numbers.
I predict a future Hacker News submission titled "I turned my garage into an EPA Superfund Site"
In my businesses case, EU revenue was <1% of gross.

Even though we never resell, mine nor monetize data, the increased risk of legal action was not acceptable to us.

Have you ever filed a claim on an insurance policy? Your premium will certainly go up next time that policy is up for renewal.

It’s unfortunate for our users. They’re quite upset that we’ve decided to drop all EU customers. But, we’re not willing to take on any additional risk for such a small revenue source.
>Imagine the most useless, technically incompetent, lazy sack of flesh that you were unfortunate enough to share the title of "engineer" with(and office space too). In a union, they'd be very nearly impossible to fire, and based on tenure would probably make more than most of their peers.

I worked 4 years in a Canadian Auto Workers unionized plant. This is not my experience, whatsoever.

If you do your job, you can't be fired because you rub your manager the wrong way (imagine that?). If you don't, there's a process to fire employees. A union is just that: a union of people. If you're a cancerous employee, the union doesn't want to work with you either.
What?

(disclaimer: i don't sell services outside a few countries)

There is a solution called One Stop VAT where all comminication and reporting goes to your home-country (given you are an EU company).

All your taxes are then calculated at your local rate (as I understand it), execpt for companies with a valid VAT-number, where reverse tax is standard (i.e. zero-rated tax).

https://europa.eu/youreurope/business/vat-customs/moss-schem...
When I first read about this I tried to compile it and it bogged down my work device (MacBook Pro 15in 2015, max buyable specs) and I had to kill it after 20+ minutes since I was at a meeting.

I'll try it again soon, though, as this tool can be immensely useful for demos on real devices.
Our engineeers had the opportunity to unionize.

We had a fantastic team and boss. Everyone wanted us to be non-union.

Then... The union factory people demanded we joined the union.

We became a heated center of debate despite 0 of us wanting to join the union.

We survived, and I get paid for lunches!(they dont)
Yes, he claims that was all the money he ever got from his 'accomplice' for selling a lot of things over several years, including screws and the CDs in question. The CDs according to him were only a minor part of that sum.

Doesn't mean it's necessarily true, for obvious reasons. And one can only hope the court looked through all that as thoroughly as possible.
Is this salary, or total comp? From the article ".. a median pay package.. ", so that's not clear to me. What is the original source of the info?

When I was at Google, GSU (stock grants) and bonuses typically added anywhere from 25% to 60% to your salary. That depended on level, years of vesting, etc.
The rest of his emails are about pushing sales, saying he'll fix issues to make it more legit looking, but encouraging his sales guy to move the product.
Microsoft's Next Windows 10 Update Arrives Monday
EMOJIS on EMAIL MARKETING?
Iowa man wins legal battle to say hometown stinks
I don't see any trolling. This article makes clear that there are health dangers, but why it's important not to worry about them.
Just like sql and regular expressions. You work hard to get it to work and then forget about it.
I've locked down developer workstations before, to prevent things like "connect a USB stick and take a copy of data/code". We did allow running your own VM, where you could be root if you wanted.

In general, I've found it's pretty workable to run without root/sudo for development work - there's not _that_ much stuff that you can't just install to ~/bin and run from there.
Apple-Focused Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo Leaves KGI
Interesting historical piece from George Forsythe: http://i.stanford.edu/pub/cstr/reports/cs/tr/66/40/CS-TR-66-...
The Sex Trafficking Panic Is Based on Myths
The promises about memory safety was what initially made me interested in it. When it turned out that it was actually possible to learn, it was comfortable to write for someone with Python and C/C++ experience like me, and I saw Cargo and that the ecosystem of packages was quickly growing is when I fell in love with it.
Can you show that was the result of sacrificing the long term for the next quarter's profits?

I'm not hypothesizing that corporations don't make strategic errors, of course they do. I'm saying they are not rewarded for sacrificing the long term to pump up quarterly results - and I've seen no evidence of Microsoft doing that.
> AI is kind of vague and catch-all these days,

Agree. Basically all current progress in "AI" should really just be called statistics and I think there would be much less confusion. If you say statistics meets Big Data and faster computers then you basically have all current progress. Real "AI" i.e. thinking machines which are behaviourally intelligent without resorting to cheap tricks has made very limited progress.

We might be able to fool ourselves into thinking a machine can think. For example, given a naive Bayes classifier for all X situations there is a probability that a real person responds with Y so therefore the machine responds with Y and then a human observing this system perceives the system to "be intelligent". But for me this is just statistics and nothing more, there is no abstract thought or intelligence going on within that machine system - at least as it relates to all other living creatures on the planet.
Inertia: The Force That Holds the Universe Together
There will always be games with some depth out there - somebody is always going to be hacking away at Dwarf Fortress, or Gary Grigsby-type games. But, if you're building games on an input device as limited as a mobile phone, your options are sorely limited.

It is frustrating when something that was on the grognard end of things gets juniorized; I've seen a lot of complaints in that vein about the last Paradox Hearts of Iron iteration.
Well, here's one approach:

The Machine Intelligence Research Institute is a research nonprofit studying the mathematical underpinnings of intelligent behavior. Our mission is to develop formal tools for the clean design and analysis of general-purpose AI systems, with the intent of making such systems safer and more reliable when they are developed.

https://intelligence.org/about/

That doesn't help with people developing AI with bad intentions but the Sorcerer's Apprentice problem is important too.
This was long before the civil war. And my objection was to the idea that advanced countries somehow subscribe less to process - I don’t see compelling evidence that this is true.
It’s hard for alcoholics in early recovery to watch football because of the pervasive, nonstop ads for alcohol. Add to this that most of the alcohol industry is propped up by the top 10% of drinkers who average over 10 drinks a day, and you have an industry built around taking advantage of people who clearly need help.
It is not a given that any AGI would be a treat. There are plenty of Natural General Intelligences, and I don't fear monkeys taking over the world, or creating faster, better, stronger monkeys any day soon
Speech in legal terms is not limited to the vibrations of vocal cords. It is any form of expression. This includes art, literature, notes, letters, videos, presentations, websites, databases, even spending money is a show of support for some one or some thing.
They must have done quite a large study, if they're able to detect any effect at all. There's a huge amount of variation in human lifespan that cannot be attributed to lifestyle choices.
https://www.genymotion.com/blog/open-source-project-scrcpy-n...
> Jeff Bezos started out in his garage and made tables from doors.

I was under the impression that Bezos founded Amazon after he graduated from Princeton and had worked for a hedge fund for a few years. Wikipedia also says that his parents invested an estimated $300,000 into Amazon. I would hardly call that humble beginnings.

The list of the 15 richest people in America also include the two Koch brothers (inherited their wealth), three Waltons (inherited their wealth), and plenty of people with Ivy League educations who earned their wealth but did not have humble beginnings.

You seem to have drunk a little bit of the kool-aid the comment you're responding to is talking about. I suggest spending some time reading about people who are NOT billionaires (and some less high profile billionaires) and you will see that there are plenty of poor people with the traits you describe and plenty of rich people without them.
Hidden Facebook features
Do you have a link where he alleges the tampering? I'd be interested to learn more. I should try to find the court documents, usually available through a PACER-type thing for a nonzero but modest charge.
“Stripe has terminated the MakerSupport account.”
Does anybody knows what is "...rich in items such as fruit, vegetables and whole grains" and "...low in red meat, saturated fats and sugar"? This is way too vague for me and I couldn't find it in the paper.
Information Security: The glaring problems we're all avoiding
Books are also easy to choose to buy online at a time when online shopping wasn't fully trusted (or indeed, trustworthy). While I can see the condition of an item in a physical store, books basically just require not being completely soaked and keeping away from toddlers who might destroy the pages. Back in the 90's, it was a good step to establish trust with the customer.
>Go deliberately prioritizes compiler speed, and definitely skips complex optimizations that Rust or LLVM do

As the OP pointed out, Rust debug builds are still much slower than Go builds, so lack of optimizations can't be a big part of the story. The simplicity of the language and the deliberate design of the compiler for speed seem to be the main factors.
Well, it's his fault, because he apparently doesn't understand how the GDPR works.
I’ve seen user experience degrade across the board on apps over the last 5 years for what I assume is precisely this reason.

These are not the robots we were promised.
Show HN: Sausage Cat – simple SVG animation
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16921634

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16956198

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16946478
Not to mention Lake Michigan is connected to all the other Great Lakes.

I’ve always thought we Midwesterners should be shipping trains of freshwater tanks to the 40 million lemmings who decided to move to a natural desert on the left coast.

We’ll only charge the same price per gallon as Evian or Pelligrino. It could solve the Illinois budget crisis quickly.
Does that mean they're comparing people who do all these things:

> followed a healthy diet, controlled their weight, took regular exercise, drank in moderation and did not smoke ...

> ... Compared with people who adopted none of them

To people who smoke, drink too much, don't exercise, don't control their weight, and don't follow a healthy diet?