skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How much money have you invested? How profitable are you?

If you haven't invested a lot, and you are very profitable, then you should compete with them. You have low risk and high reward.

If you've invested a lot, and you aren't very profitable, then I would probably reach out to them to see what arrangement you can set up. The idea here is that you want to protect your original investment. If they start soaking up customers and you guys start losing money, then you go out of business and lose all your money.

And if you're kind of in the middle, it's a bit of a coin toss. You probably should double down, acquire some big customers and more traction, and then decide if you should sell the company if future prospects don't look good.

A profitable buyout is a profitable buyout. If you don't see a path to becoming a massively profitable business, then go get bought (Github) or set up a scammy IPO (Blue Apron)
until the keys stop working. It really breaks your flow when once in a while a shift or ctrl keypress does nothing. This keyboard is a failure and it is way too unreliable for daily work with lots of typing.
USAA can be pretty great. In some ways they are ahead in tech, and have been for a long time. I do wish they'd add support for virtual credit cards tho.
Look at the claims... devil is in the details.
Coreelation doesn't imply causality. I'm sure some people dealing with depression seek refuge at the bottom of a bottle.
I worked on that for a while. If anyone would like to join me let me know.
I think @detaro says 'regrettably' because of the distaste many have about ICOs and the hype related to them. However, I too would like to hear from @detaro on this.
BA wants to buy additional A380s - they just haven't yet been able to agree on the price. For an airline with a slot-constrained hub (Heathrow), it would be a step backwards to replace 747s with smaller aircraft as this would reduce their overall route capacity.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-19/airbus-is...
"Microsoft" isn't really a valid answer to the question in my opinion. The company is huge and culture varies greatly from org to org and team to team.

Even concrete stuff like "offices going away" completely depends on your team.

There is an extremely thin line of commonality that you can pretty easily discern by reading blog posts and watching videos of the CEO and folks like Scott Guthrie; I find what I see in those communications to be genuine.

(disclosure: At Microsoft, and liking the culture)
I feel like technology has led to such an efficient form of capitalism over the past 20 years, that there's no room left for any possibility of social mobility. It's this system where there is just enough room for you to live and get by, but never get ahead. Prices for everything are so efficiently optimized at this point that there is no more "wiggle room" for a working person to build wealth. The basic necessities of life have risen to perfectly match your income. It's a new kind of slavery. As a single male with no family or debt, making 3x the median wage, I am just barely doing ok. I literally can't even imagine how other people are still surviving.
We're seeing municipalities push back in cities as big as Barcelona and Vancouver, to places remote and small as Haida Gwaii.

Cities are going to regulate out the concept of people buying apartments purely to wholly rent them out 100% of the time on Airbnb. This is a very significant portion of Airbnb revenue.

I have trouble seeing how Airbnb's valuation isn't going to have to be scaled back when big parts of their business are regulated out of existence.
Do you really have to ask? This AI merry-go-round has been spinning for decades now. I can't imagine people don't know the drill by now. We've all been riding this around, some of us our entire lives. The people who thought this was going to be the next big thing were just the latest fools to be fooled by this merry-go-round into thinking that AI is once again, just barely out of reach and reachable within a few years. As usual, they are proven wrong again and again because AI is so far from being useful for such tasks like having a conversation with humans. The bottom line is AI isn't there yet and probably won't be the next time the hype rolls around. Or the time after that. Or the time after that ... I should just write a loop here that likely won't break in our lifetimes or possibly anyone's.
As the article says, they don't seem to actually call anything.
Thanks for the Feedback -

I made the color of the FAQ black so that should easier to find and also did some addition in the FAQ as you suggested.

The phone number placeholder, is not changeable at the moment but will take that with me
What Do You Mean “You Don’t Have a Bike”? (2012)
Who is stealing? It sounds like this is essentially abandoned property in city streets?
Show HN: The Washington Post's Way to GDPR Compliance
"At least Microsoft has open source projects" lol newbie alert.
> Repeatedly touching a scooter for 10 minutes in Oakland on Wednesday afternoon did not result in a response or call to police.

Looks like the company doesn't even make a call, probably to avoid the high fines for nuisance calls.
Mind sharing the link to the good one? I'm sure they're jam-packed right now if they're one of the 20% still available, but would be good to know for future reference.
Worth mentioning that da Vinci was a vegetarian animal lover who became obsessed with the destruction of the earth toward the end of his life, repeatedly producing "deluge" drawings of flood waters overtaking the world. He also spent ten months with the Florentine army as preparation for painting the Battle of Anghiari which is pretty clearly an anti-war painting designed to dismay the viewer ("Show someone using his hand as a shield for his terrified eyes... Make the dead, some half buried in the dust, others with the dust all mingled with the oozing blood and changing into crimson mud.")

There's also a theory that he intentionally saboutaged the designs for some of his military machines, although I personally am not convinced by the evidence. [1]

[1] https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1415660/Leonardo-da-...
Move fast, break things, litter, threaten to jail people - the new agile startup manifesto. I would be curious to hear the backstory of how this decision was made. Someone had to propose the idea and someone in charge had to approve. Then nobody around them chimed in with "hey this is a bad idea". Granted they were already planning on dumping their trash on the streets anyway so ethical considerations were probably not at the top of the list...
I can relate. Seems that people today has no time for the social part of conversation and the creative effects of speculation. I often stop my friends when they reach for their smartphones in an argument or discussion, so that we can converse without proving facts.
I view the police as dangerous but recognize their danger as a necessary cost for effectiveness.

I'm afraid of the police, but I'm more afraid of no police.
No it isn't. We give free space to cars, trucks and bicycles. Why not scooters? Is it because they are owned by a corporation? If so should rental cars and car shares be banned?
Can confirm, been on Finasteride since my early 20's, maybe 6-7 years. Now 30 and haven't lost any hair. You have to keep taking it but it works damn well at maintaining what you have
Yes, let's not get angry until after they successfully monopolize AI algorithms that they never created.
I imagine that's for the empty plane, and that passengers and luggage and fuel offset that % a fair amount.
Kick these NARC scooters to the ground or throw them in a dumpster.
If your work was "described in a printed publication, or in public use, on sale, or otherwise available to the public" before the patent's priority data, it is available as prior art.[1] That doesn't mean you're immune, per se, but it does mean that nobody can patent exactly what you had made available.

[1] http://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-...
I used Amazon Cloudfront for this tiny blog describing how to set up a tiny blog using Cloudfront. [1]

[1] http://www.jamiebriant.com
What place has no monitor??
See also the relevant lines in the function he proposed a patch for: https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/builtin/merge.c#L1401
pretty simplistic and bad take
I'm not anti-uber, I'm against flouting the rule of law and fucking over taxi drivers that put their life savings into licenses.
The 747 was not subsidized.
I suggest walking into a Microsoft store and putting hands on the Surface Book specially.

The original has been my favorite laptop ever, mostly for lack of battery anxiety and build quality. My Macbook Pro is never used as a laptop, always on a desk with power and external keyboard, rendering the touchbar even more useless than normal. It has to be used that way as simply doing video conferencing for 45min well take the battery from 100% to 68%
Introducing Knerds (2015)
Now I know why Intel has named its latest mainstream processor i7-8086 :)
I wonder how much higher it would be if medical costs were taken out. Housing is the biggest problem for my generation, but it gets almost no traction nor solution.
The door is open for someone to write this cross platform...
Shazongress sounds like something granpa Rick would invent!
No, hats usually have a completely different aesthetic and function than hair, they don't complement the shape of the face in the same way at all. Hats are also mostly worn outside, but seem improper to wear while simply sitting at a desk or lazing on a couch. Someone who would like to cover up a bald head most of the waking time is not well served with most types of hats.
I'm not that familiar with CMOS-memristors. The paper is a bit scarce on background.

Is this just for inference or training time as well?

Is it digital or do the inputs have analog voltage rates and only then trigger like a neuron?

Can the network topology and weights be modified or is this fixed like an ASIC?
Yeah, it's a genuinely baffling decision.

A polite "Hey! Looks like you're checking out our scooter! For more info, head to example.com - use COUPONCODE for $5 off your first ride!" seems like it'd be equally effective at getting the message across and far less off-putting.
Last weekend I attempted to use airbnb in Orlando. Originally the host said the door would be unlocked, but when we arrived it was locked. It was a keypad lock so we wrote the host and asked for the code. He wrote back and sent a code that didn't work. When we informed him the code didn't work his response was, really? We never heard from him again that night or since asking for a refund.

We stayed in a hotel nearby that cost about $30 more, but had free breakfast.

I will go for hotels first in the future. I never had any issues with airbnb in the past, but one night of waiting around to hear from the host (and never actually gaining entry) with a family of tired people is one too many.
Bubblers and tubes of algae in the sun. The bubbles stir the algae to maximize growth. Add a few goldfish to help cycle nutrients[1]. You can get the algae so thick that a test stick (plastic spoon) can't be seen beyond a centimeter deep.[2]

At this stage you can remove half of the algae each day and they'll regenerate within twenty-four hours.[3] The extracted algae biomass (mostly composed of atoms that used to be air or water) can be "upcycled" by feeding to higher organisms (fish, earthworms, etc.) or processed industrially for e.g. plastics, fuel, foodstuffs, whatever.

Ah, here we go, a few people are doing it already: http://www.iflscience.com/environment/urban-algae-farm-gobbl...

The important thing is it's cheap as heck and doesn't require fancy technology.

[1] Goldfish eat algae. Few in the tank makes it a simple aquaculture system.

[2] I looked for images of "tubes of algae in the sun" and most of them were transparent. If you can see through the tube you're doing it wrong.

[3] If conditions are optimal, otherwise you might have to be happy with 35-40%.
OK, I misunderstood that from the announcement that their next phone was cancelled.
Fortunately, much of GSuite admin api functionality is nicely wrapped up in the free / open / well maintained GAM cli - https://github.com/jay0lee/GAM/wiki
The post you replied to explained why it shouldn't be baffling. Individual agents all optimize to the changes in factors offered by new roads leading to a non optimal society of people commuting hours to get to jobs and big box stores from "less expensive" housing before calculating commute costs and externalities.
That is very neat! I always thought about expanding that idea to most programming languages. Most of the startup time is probably spend stating and reading files.

Just from a quick experiment

time python -c ''; time python -S -c ''

real	0m0.079s
user	0m0.021s
sys	0m0.030s

real	0m0.017s
user	0m0.007s
sys	0m0.007s

From the manpage:

-S Disable the import of the module site and the site-dependent manipulations of sys.path that it entails.

I also considered doing the same thing for a linux distro. Just out of pure curiousity to what would happen to the boot up times. Wish I could have time to try it one day :(
{sum of your total monthly subscriptions/bills} = {your monthly paycheck}
Exactly the other side of my point. Once it’s supoorted it’s good.
Would this speed up movement towards decentralised, p2p services? If you can't point to the entity that is hosting the content because it's decentralised (think dat, ipfs, your favourite blockchain technology or p2p network), can it even be enforced?
The TPU is a google chip, not an Intel chip.
What Time Feels Like When You’re Improvising
I've often thought, would it be useful to create a "Paul Graham Test" based mostly on the essays "Great Hackers" and "Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule" as an analogue to the Joel Test. It reinforces some parts of the Joel Test, particularly the unequivocal importance of private offices.

But it seems like so many Y Combinator companies don't embody these quality-first principles, and comments or posts espousing them even here on Hacker News seem to get consistently downvoted or quickly pushed out of the spotlight, or undercut by comments about how wanting an office is "whining" or hijacking the discussion into a debate about headphones vs. real estate costs vs. Agile teams, none of which are relevant.

I really wonder why Y Combinator, as a clear thought leader in the technology start-up space, doesn't vocally support private offices more, given Graham's own unequivocal endorsement of them in an essay about foundational ideas about software productivity and quality.

The same could be said about other topics beyond offices too.
> I can't wrap my mind around people that think that 'too many tourists' or 'too many jobs' are a problem. Those are 'problems' that most cities in the world would kill for: if we consider them problems it's because we are not nearly creative enough to take advantage of them.

Different people want different things. Too much of a good thing isn't always still a good thing. It's not that hard to understand.

Even within the same city! 10% of the city might be tourist facing, 90% not-tourist-facing. So something that's great for that 10% and annoying for the 90% is naturally gonna get some resistance.
For what it's worth, you can realize your dream in Tcl, since this has generally been possible (and utilized) for a long time !

Tcl supports the concept of "Virtual Filesystems" that an interpreter can "mount" wherever it chooses, and these can be backed by anything. So you can mount a zip file or an HTTP resource, or stack them and mount a zip file over a mounted HTTP resource, etc.

One of the virtual filesystems I've written is called "C-VFS" which takes files and converts them into object code in a shared object or archive (.a) and you can then link against 1 or more of those and mount them at runtime from the running process.
Uber will end up winning by being able to lose the most scooters and replace them the fastest.
One of my summer jobs in high school was that of "towel boy" at the swim and tennis building of a country club. My only job was to sit in front of the towels, make the guests sign the clip board, and count how many towels they took. I wasn't allowed to read or do anything because I was told it would look bad, so I literally sat in a chair all day holding a clipboard. I got so bored that for amusement I would write down 100 random digits, memorize them, and recite them to some of the kids running around.
Trump's EPA Won’t Evaluate Asbestos Already in Homes
They're almost certainly not as broad as the title would suggest. You've got to look at the claims to figure out what the patent apps seek to cover. The title does not define the scope of activity they seek to cover. Usually, it just specifies the field in which they purport to have invented something.
conversation ui developer here and I know I might be biased.
For sure there is a hype. People seems to think that chatbot/voice assistant will be the new platform. But really chatbot/voice assistant are meant to augment the current platforms.

We can already see this with voice assistant integrated to mobile devices and in the near future VR's and robots.

It will be interesting how it works out once everything gets standardized.
We, as a society, have decided to give space to cars, trucks, and bicycles, generally in a controlled fashion.

If I randomly leave any of them in the middle of the street or sidewalk, they'll be ticketed, towed, or removed.
Yep. There are solutions, but it's tough due to demand being so elastic in comparison to housing.

In cities such as Reykjavik and Vancouver, they could tax Airbnb and divert the funding to create more housing, but housing construction is a physical process that takes time. Meanwhile in the short term rents are spiking.
Anyone have a recording of the audio played? A quick cruise to YouTube came up empty, though perhaps your search terms will be better than mine.
Maybe they are experiencing really high levels of theft and are desperate to do something to stem the loss?
Europe wants to protect everyone's privacy, like the GDPR. Lets applaud their effort ;p
I've been at some great places. The problem with culture is it changes. I could tell you companies that are great, but they could change in 6 months if they get new management. I can also tell you places that suck now that were great a year ago.

So then maybe the real test for great culture is if they can maintain it for an appreciable amount of time? It's a really tough one to answer.
According to another comment [1], it's because their cargo mass is not as large as their volume, relatively to other planes.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17266194
If your database is readonly after being appended, you could also use memvfs. I've used that on mmapped files to support similar archive ideas: https://www.sqlite.org/src/file/ext/misc/memvfs.c
Airbnb wouldn't want to do this though. A lot of cities are made almost entirely of condos and apartments that specifically rule out short term rentals (and have had since before Airbnb was even a thing). If people respected laws, rules, etc, they'd have nearly no product in the hottest areas. Airbnb as you know it would be a mere shadow of what it is now.
I've been using MBP 2017 since it came out. It's fine. This is just another list of complaints that we heard since it came out.

The Magsafe was nice, but it's not a deal breaker. I actually like the option of plugging in my power cable on both sides. I find that feature better than the magsafe. Also, I never had an instance where someone or something kicked out the power-cord. So the "safety" feature isn't lost on me.

I was disappointed they got rid of the SD card port, but I like the standard usb-c ports. I wished they had more than 4 though. And yes, they should NOT get rid of the headphone port. That would be terrible. But I'm worried the next iteration would be headphone-port less.

I don't mind the keyboard. I had the 2012 MBP, used a 2013, 2014, and now the 2017. I guess I'm not picky about keyboards. I can't tell a difference when I'm writing or coding.

The TrackPad is too big; I agree with that. But I don't mind it. It hasn't affected me.

The touchbar is probably the worst feature of MBP, sadly. It has no utility. They should've waited so they could've added haptic feedback or come up with more uses for the touch-bar. The only use of the touch-bar is the fingerprint scanner to unlock your mac. That's probably the best feature, even though they could've just added a fingerprint scanner next to real keys.

I don't understand the author's point about, "The overarching problem with macOS programs is that they are tied to Apple hardware." He doesn't want native apps? I can't imagine an IDE running in a web browser. Or even using Photoshop, 3-D rendering software, Music editing, Video editing, etc. The Web isn't there yet to replace those type of apps.

Also, he picked and chose what apps he doesn't need. Why don't he just uninstall them? I am happy they included iMovie and Garageband, when I need to do some simple movie or music editing. If I didn't use Lightroom, I would probably be happy with Photos as well.
No, the article says that it's a threat to people. The racism comes in with the way that many white people presume a benefit of the doubt for interaction with police that many black people never experience.

For example, I'll presume you've never lived in a neighborhood where a black man got shot by police while literally laying on the ground motionless with his arms up. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna74...
2018/122456 "Utilizing sample data to train algorithms for pattern recognition and generation"
You're listing mostly a bunch of very successful actors and entertainers, most of whom (except Jordan) probably wouldn't have gone very far if people thought they were ugly. If Vin Diesel looked bad, he wouldn't have gotten the parts he did.

So this is confirmation bias.

Out of the whole population of bald/balding men, these men are the exceptions.
> It's a public standard that they're setting for themselves. If you think their actions don't match their words, you now have concrete terms and principles to critique and compare with.

Absolutely. Because "Don't be evil." was so vague and hard to apply to projects with ambiguous and subtle moral connotations like automating warfare and supporting the military-industrial complex' quest to avoid peace in our time ;)
This continues to be a well-documented and persistent issue for Surface Book owners. You can read about old accounts here (around the time I owned mine):

https://forums.windowscentral.com/microsoft-surface-book/406...

And more recent ones here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Surface/comments/7qtavp/surface_boo...

Microsoft told me it was a driver issue but trying alternative drivers did not improve things for me.

I have no desire to slander Microsoft and was only sharing my experience. I very much like other aspects of the Surface Book and would be tempted by a device of the same form factor if stability issues could be resolved.
> If you can't point to the entity that is hosting the content because it's decentralised (think dat, ipfs, your favourite blockchain technology or p2p network), can it even be enforced?

Yes. This "if a law becomes difficult to enforce, law enforcement will just ¯\_(ツ)_/¯" meme is fiction. History suggests the law will become stricter towards end users and mercurial in its enforcement.