skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Outcomes and measures. These quantify your success.

Sounds like these outcomes are failing:

* Technical Issues Cleared
* Deliver on requirements of existing customers
* Understand complaints of existing customers
* Strengthen relationship with existing customers
* Retain talented staff
* Strong leadership from leadership team (co-founders)

But these outcomes are succeeding:

* Successful brand awareness in market
* Gain initial revenue from customers

So based on this, what outcomes are important? How do you measure their importance? And then what is their role in this? Obviously they're not happy with you either - the put downs, the lack of respect in conversations means there's some unresolved resentment from their end as well.

Personally, I'd recommend both parties write down their concerns, outcomes, and measures, and then with a mediator work through what's important. Contact me if you need a hand.

It's a bit like a marriage - it can be saved, but you both have to acknowledge your 50% in contributing to this situation.
I said "what" is doing the math, not "who".
It still happens. Just last night, I was stuck in line for over 30 minutes, at a small regional airport.
See my reply here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17015475.
Indeed. The irony of censoring a censorship joke is probably lost on the censors.
There is no 'battle' here, and all political discussion is inherently ideological, so either the site should ban all political articles or you should specify which ideologies are acceptable.
Would I pay for this? No.

Who uses auto-fill? Everyone and their grand mother.

I think it would be kind of a strange idea to auto fill name by E-mail. I don't even use my name anywhere in any of my E-mails except for my initials (Good luck getting my name from them).

I can't see why anyone would pay for this as a service... Maybe if it was free, opensource and client-side only you would find somebody who would use this... I can see the interresting aspects of making this and I hope you had a lot of fun and learning doing it.
If what the OP wrote is true, then the "marriage" should not be saved. Anyone who acts the way the co-founder allegedly acts should be fired.
> What if Walmart and Google actually teamed up?

Anti-trust people would be all over that.
That does not wash.

You could have made the same consistency and mental burden argument about the crontab syntax. There are a lot of things in Unix which are table-driven and the tables take the form of one line per record with fields delimited by whitespace, blank lines ignored, and line comments introduced by hash.

Indeed these are your job scheduler (crontab), your mount points (fstab), your local host name resolution (hosts), your NS switch (nsswitch.conf), your terminal login services (ttys), your device permissions (fbtab), your automounts (auto_master), your plug-and-play device permissions (devfs.conf), your network services (inetd.conf), your MAC policy (mac.conf), your local network name resolution (networks), your call-out telephone numbers (phones), your network protocol name map (protocols), your RPC service map (rpc), and your network port name map (services).

And those are just the ones in /etc .

This set of table files with a common syntax is just as consistent and as light a burden as the set of .INI files that you are talking about. And any argument that you can make about things like having to remember what the fields mean can also be made just as much about the .INI files.
You're thinking of national security letters, which are US-specific and, in the context of canaries, used to compel service providers to reveal private user data. You can't legally disclose an NSL, but you can stop saying you've never received an NSL.
This is a good question to ask. The answer is obviously “no,” but it would be interesting to see an ethical argument for designing this.
Does "bootstrapped" mean self-funded or that you have only taken seed money? I think you need to call on a higher power but if you don't have a board you can call on you might have to make sure you are leaving (when the time comes) on the best possible terms.

throw him under the bus. do not pull any punches or try to cover his mistakes. i'm not saying to air your dirty laundry to customers and others, but don't treat him favorably in any convos you have ... if he derails a customer relationship, so be it.

if it's really as bad as you say, that you need a miracle, you're done. make sure that you leave with some dignity. don't tolerate insults. you can be calm if you keep in mind that it says more about him than it does about you. "that's unacceptable, do you want to restate that?" and then if there's no correction, "this isn't productive" and leave the room.
Than you kind sir. Much grateful
There's something really repulsive about this solution that I can't really eloquently articulate. Every advance in technology seems to further restrict and control people.
https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/44308
> Strangely I seem to care way more about people than technology. Do other ex-geeks/present geeks feel this way? Like tech stuff just isn't as interesting anymore. You get more interested in people? I think it is more fun to teach technology or write about it now, than actually doing it.

Yes! I think there is so little that is truly new, at some point you've "seen it all". It just gets relabled / repackaged over and over again. And the fact that most tech work is ultimately for some boring business goal. Real life and the people in it are way more interesting.
Of course you need something like 2x the range of the Concorde to do trans-Pacific without refueling.
We should not assume competency without seeing proof of it. False alerts are the opposite of proof of competency.

I am going to assume Twitter suspended the account because their software is broken and they don't care about the sweeping consequences of deploying broken robots to police a social network where people are constantly challenging expectations with creative projects and timelines.

It's their laissez-faire attitude about it that really makes them a cancer. "We've blocked your account and we won't tell you why and there's nothing you can do! P.S. Don't bother E-mailing us it all goes into a black hole!" It's everything bad about everything bad on the internet, compacted into a super efficient E-mail.

I bet one of these years people wake up and start treating outgoing E-mails without valid return addresses as spam, the way we should be. Or, for accuracy, not as spam but as hostile and societally intolerable.
Users on Centurylink Fiber can reach us in 4ms over IPv6 (despite it not being true IPv6) versus 45ms to 60ms with IPv4. DSL is similiar but not quite as notable, more like 30ms of saved latency.

The root issue is Centurylink has no peering with Hurricane Electric on IPv4, and ditto for peering with numerous other providers, versus on IPv6 they have a much more open peering policy. This seems to be common among a number of ISPs, though as time goes on this issue will hopefully ease.
Managing a few hundred miles on electricity would in itself have a huge positive impact. Most of the busiest air routes in the world call under that heading.
You'd be surprised how many proprietary-seeming formats are similar. I frequently work with one that's just a gzipped tarball of JSON files, but people freak out when I'm able to see what's inside it without the proprietary tooling it's used by.
Read “The Anatomy of Peace” and “Crucial Conversations” they might help you out of your problems.
What makes a planet?
Of course I would recommend everyone to use proper tools to deal with ticks, if that's not clear from my comment. There's less risk to leave pieces behind.

All over, I must have remove a dozen of ticks, but luckily I've never caught anything.
> so I don't see how doctoring the dashcam video would fit into the narrative.

Well, at the end of the day this is all involves a strong element of PR & perceptions, so regardless of the quality of other data, it would be very much in Uber's interest to have a super dark video be in the initial stories about this accident.
More like the end user gets routed through bespoke connections hundreds of miles away due to ISPs like Centurylink not openly peering on IPv4 at Internet Exchanges, whereas on IPv6 they seem to have local routes to Hurricane Electric and many others on the West Coast, thus no need for traffic to go back east!
> Clearly unethical and maybe broke a few laws

> but who ever said that growth hacking was a game where you always keep your hands clean?

This is called fraud.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_medium_is_the_message
Ask HN: What would be the curriculum to become an engineer?
Because I am a self-taught programmer, I feel I lack in several areas that are required to become a good engineer. What are the topics you feel are required in order become a good engineer?
CRISPR: The gene-editing tool revolutionizing biomedical research
This has already been solved well by both Google and Apple.

https://www.android.com/auto/

https://www.apple.com/ios/carplay/

This is yet another example of a car company unable to realize that they just don't make good car infotainment dashboards. This will just lead to further fragmentation of the Android ecosystem.
This plus the fact Air France and BA still own the airframes and will not sell them to anyone.
> It seems we ought to either believe companies are legally required to provide their service to all comers or they're not.

This is a false dichotomy. The law doesn't see "all comers" as equal; specifically, there are what's called "protected classes" in United States civil rights law. Businesses (and individuals while conducting certain kinds of business) are not allowed to discriminate on certain bases (e.g. race, religion, veteran status), but they are allowed to discriminate on others.

The issue where the wedding bakers' case was interesting was that it pit two values against each other - in one sense it was discrimination against a protected class (sexual orientation can be a protected class, depending on state law and interpretation of federal law), and in another it was compelling speech (again, depending on your interpretation of "speech") that had religious implications.

Reddit, on the other hand, is not acting against a protected class by banning e.g. /r/fatpeoplehate, /r/whiterights, or /r/incels. If the managements' ethics or customer backlash prompts them to, they can ban away. In some cases, if speech might be illegal in some ways (e.g. incitement to violence, harassment, or copyright infringement (yes, the fact that that is on the list is a bit ridiculous)) they are legally obligated to remove it.
That's an amazing leap to make considering everything we know about the situation is coming from OP and thus is, by definition, one-sided and surely biased to some degree.

I don't know who the OP is nor is it my intention to cast doubt on his or her view of the situation, but I find it incredible that anyone's immediate reaction upon reading this is so absolutely sure that the co-founder doesn't care about his own business.
Huh, I thought it was clear that I was pointing out a tension between building the type of business that the author suggests and building the type of business that VCs fund. I don’t think I indicated that if you build a stable business, you can’t then build a venture-fundable business on top of that.

Regardless, I’d be curious to hear about businesses that started out stable and then raised VC money to build a moonshot!
Is this the same as pulling straight into the middle of the intersection with live traffic swirling around you on both sides then making the left after the lights have reddened and traffic has cleared?
Obamacare Calorie Count Rules Ushered In
Counting Usernames from Malicious Login Attempts
Your interpretation of militia is a common misconception but the framers were pretty clear what they meant by the militia.

>Rep. Tenche Coxe of Pennsylvania: “Who are the militia? Are they not ourselves? Is it feared, then, that we shall turn our arms each man against his own bosom. Congress have no power to disarm the militia. Their swords, and every other terrible implement of the soldier, are the birthright of an American… The unlimited power of the sword is not in the hands of either the federal or state governments, but, where I trust in God it will ever remain, in the hands of the people.” – Tenche Coxe, The Pennsylvania Gazette, Feb. 20, 1788.

>Thomas Jefferson:“No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms.”, Proposal for a Virginia Constitution, 1 T. Jefferson Papers, 334 (C.J. Boyd, Ed. 1950)

> George Mason: “I ask you sir, who are the militia? They consist now of the whole people.” (Elliott, Debates, 425-426)

https://www.quora.com/What-do-the-terms-%E2%80%98arms%E2%80%...

I believe it is a human right which comes necessarily from your right to self defense.
Nope. You can never count on humans to change behavior to fit a technology.

As soon as self-driving cars learn local customs, the customs will have been changed. Self-driving cars will always be 3 years away.
IIRC someone had said that there are physical limitations to what one can actually do (namely, having to physically unplug the connector for one safety system in order to be able to add your own at all)
> To explain the 'joke': In the box at the bottom of that page, it's basically RMS saying that if the government outlaws abortion, they'll have to not give any information on the `abort()` function, and instead say it's not an "acceptable way of terminating a program" (or rather, "acceptable way of terminating a pregnancy")

No, it's not about government outlawing abortion, per se, it's about government regulating communication about abortion, particularly the global gag rule (Mexico City policy.)
I'm seeing a lot of people in this thread conflating a refusal to monetize with removal of content. That's not the same thing at all. If companies had infinite time and resources, advertising companies wouldn't be a thing, companies would work directly with every content creator they were interested in. An ideal advertising company simulates this
> You mean they shouldn't have disabled the car's own autonomous, non AI braking system and kept it as a backup for when theirs failed?

I admit that was a thought, but I'd hold back from to saying that simple specific thing was the missed item, or even if that was a realistic expectation to maintain that setup. Without a built up safety culture that looks at the issue from multiple directions in detail, and has the authority to halt testing if needed, then it could have easily been something else. And there are multiple industries from civil/military aviation, medical, architecture, as well as many industrial occupations from which one could have formed a safety framework upon.
Oddly, I think I'm stuck on the idea that it has to be "just once." Curious if the child could have figured out a function that needed the input twice, as an example. (So, x^2+x, or something similar.)

So, is it that it is linearly typed, or that it is greedy and wants to use all inputs given at least once?

Or, are those the same thing?
I remember reading something a while back on how a large portion of the homeless in LA were being bussed here from other cities and states. Las Vegas has been doing it for a while. Other nearby cities used to send their homeless to Santa Monica as they let them camp out in the city parks. It'd be interesting to see how many of the homeless are natives or not.
AMA about Manitoba: I was born there.

If resisdential RE tanks in Canada, a real possibility with rising interests rate and extreme debt levels, the economy goes down with it.

Mining / Oil & Gas isn’t going to save it.
Not if you live in Europe thanks to GDPR.

If you consent to that traffic data being uploaded, the company would have to explicitly say what it's for and can't just sell it in its raw form, with your personal information attached, nor used for profiling.
More technically, those documents (and other Apple-spawned formats such as TextEdit's .rtfd) are "document bundles"—a directory hierarchy with a file extension or xattr that makes Launch Services treat it as a file. (The most well-known document bundles being macOS applications.)

The storage frameworks used for accessing the contents of document bundles treat zip archives as transparent, so a document bundle is still a document bundle if you zip its contents and then give it the name of the original directory.

And the reverse is also true: take, for example, an .epub (which is a zipped hierarchy of HTML files) and unzip its contents into a new directory. Name that directory "foo.epub". iBooks will happily open this "file." And it stores the .epubs you've imported into your iCloud Library this way on disk!
I see three classes of operators in the space. A) Mum and Dad small business owners who are making enough to survive and enjoy the work, but aren't making enough to expand. B) Get rich quick operators who think it's a booming market with low starting costs, and mostly buy franchises or designs from other groups. C) Empire builders who try to franchise or sell their designs to others (mostly people in B.)

The groups in A are all friendly and collegiate. The groups in B are less so. We see group A continuing happily, but not really growing or turning significant profits - one of my friends in this group described it as "I bought myself a fun job".

We've seen a fair few groups in B fold. As the article suggests, you can't start with a mere $7000 now - customer expectations are higher, and there are enough review sites (e.g. TripAdvisor) that anyone with a low quality game will be called out pretty quickly.

Groups in C (include Nate Martin from the article) all seem to be doing well, but it's a hard slog to get sufficiently well known to become a primary supplier to others. My company is kind of in C, but we partnered early with a key chain in our geography and there's both good and bad to that choice. Not personally operating our rooms certainly has some drawbacks, but being able to build multiple copies of a room simultaneously has enormous cost savings too.
It’s a political joke. About abortion.

Seems fitting enough.
The adult response is to acknowledge the trade-offs involved and to learn to live with a certain amount of risk. A free society is always going to be vulnerable to terrorist attacks to some degree. Reasonable policies might reduce this risk by 25%, 50%, 75%, 90%, etc. But they'll never reduce the risk to zero. So the conversation can't be how do we make sure this never happens again. Instead it must be an analysis of the trade-offs involved in securing against rare events while maintaining the freedom of movement and privacy that a free society requires.

Facial recognition in the UK, the mass phone metadata collection in the US and abroad, stop and frisk in NYC; public support of or indifference to these measures depends on the perception of the trustworthiness of government. That is, for populations that perceive that government as "on their side", the tradeoffs these policies require appear innocuous or beneficial.

So what if the NSA is storing my metadata? They're the good guys trying to catch terrorists. From this perspective the risk of bad government actors is smaller than the risk of terrorism.

So what if cops go hands-on with someone walking down the street? They're finding illegal guns and contraband, and bad guys with warrants. The inconvenience of being stopped is a cost worth paying for safer neighborhoods.

But the fulcrum of government can quickly swing from trust to oppression. There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen. We cannot keep evil people from attaining power. But we don't have to give them rope with which to hang us. Privacy protections, respect for bodily autonomy, adherence to the rule of law, and the decentralization of economic and political power are all bulwarks against tyranny.
If he wrote a book with similar content, would you have the social expectation that book stores would sell it or a publishing house would publish it?
It is a fine line, yes, but if you abstain from any accusations in the rest of the text, then my formulation is generally received as empathy. This is supported by the fact, that there are no lies there. OP _is_ sorry that things went as they went. And it also is objectively “unfortunate” in the sense that with a little luck there might have been a different situation.

The general point is that OPs partner is in a corner. Empathy is needed to allow him to be cooperative and understanding of his own mistakes.
That is an awesome product idea: A device connected to your computer that emits a pungent substance when you commit "smelly" code.

It could be part of CI. Instead of giving you an error, it fails silently but releases a terrible odor.
> Even parts of the US can descend into being without rule of law.

So fix that instead of introducing even more unstable elements by allowing ‘everyone’ to own guns? I mean, even in West European cities there are less nice neighborhoods and yet the people there manage without guns

> What if the government was a lot more active in deciding who got to use a computer and a car?

That would depend on the reasons. Imagine a world where cybercrime got so bad power plants went down every few days, hospitals are constantly brought down by ransomware, banks have terrible downtime because of all the malware infections.. I’d be okay with it if the government severely restricted computer usage or imposed stringent limits on the computers themselves in such a case.
Similar case for cars, once automated cars are a fixed problem I have no qualms with the government severely restricting car ownership or having strict regulations in terms of human driving, if it means safer roads.

Also, yes, computers are very essential to modern living. Owning a computer is not per sé. Very destitute people often make do with library computers and Internet cafes. I don’t say that’s a good thing, I’m merely pointing out that the ownership of a computer is not an inalienable human right, much like guns.
I'd leave these shanaigans to Volvo and Google. Why would a consumer want make life easier for them?
I don't think you can hear the sonic boom when you are traveling above the speed of sound. I think that the sonic boom is only experienced by a stationary object observing the event.
Not true. For the small amount I am paying I am covered for one major surgery in a hospital per year. Hopefully I never have to use it. If I need two major surgeries in one year well then I'll pay for it. Sounds like I've got bigger issues.

More than one surgery per year I'm covered for surgery in the medical vehicle. So if I'm going beyond that, I think I'll take the extra 9220 that I'm saving every year and risk it! Call me crazy I think most of that money is going toward treating fat people and drug users.
Conversation about the "old joke" that was removed:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17017037
Yes. However it is possible in principle to make it that safe. Per current plans, Elon hopes to do that within a decade.
A baby left All Children’s with a needle in her heart
> Given the context of militia and state, I read it more as a right of local governments to keep the means of self defense, not necessarily a "human right."

The second amendment is predicated both on the concept of a universal militia and (as is obliquely referenced in it's preamble) the concept that large standing armed military and/or internal security forces are institutions of tyranny: it is based on the idea that only by relying on the mass of the citizenry as the instrument of armed force can a state be free.
Why is it a "shitcoin"? Your comment is ...confusing.
As someone with a background in both philosophy and psychology, I can't help thinking that both Magee's sense of terror and his ambition to make an immortal contribution to philosophy both come at least in part from his mother's failure to love him as a child.