skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Of course for a mere 6% one time processing fee Wells Fargo will offer to sell you BTC from your bank account.
Agreed that Electron has been a great boon to Linux users. There is no need to loose that.

If the app was built with RNs layout API, you could continue supporting Electron via React Native Web. But there are awesome upcoming projects like Proton Native that support Linux UI properly on top of libUI.

There was a react-native-ubuntu experiment that unfortunately died down because it forked RN, rather than the Windows approach of using real RN releases.
I have a https://www.workatastartup.com/ question:

What happens, if you work for a YC company and want to work at another one? Do they still see your looking?
The biggest barrier I often see is that people won't get in there and try things. It's code, and it's under version control. You can do basically anything, and the worst usually is you have to pull down a fresh copy. So much indecision and debate and time wasted, because people won't poke at things to figure out how they work.
You're probably right, but please let's not get into an off-topic religious debate. Those turn into flamewars.
Fascinating, Hex in particular looks interesting, I never heard of it. Once I understood where the article was going, I was looking for a mention of Dots and Boxes though.. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dots_and_Boxes
This may be true, but it's not clearly tied to status.

Of course, there are parking things which are tied to status, but these generally are only at higher administrative level (Dean &c.) - but then it's a special parking space which is a visible marker of status perhaps but clearly not the most important thing about the position (even status-wise).

My university doesn't have any free parking; if we want parking we have to pay a fee, which is based on how 'good' the spaces are. And (unless you're a Dean or whatever) you don't get a specific space but rather the right to park within certain designated areas. A significant number of faculty (myself included as well as my chair) choose to ride the bus or the train (which we do get free passes for, as do the students).

> Academics tend to operate in a resource-constrained environment, and on timescales of a few years, can be effectively zero-sum. If a resource is taken away, it may never return, and no compensation may be offered.

This is certainly (and sadly) true.

> TL;DR: Hold wages constant if necessary, but don't go after the parking.

No, I'd rather you properly increase my salary. Thank you.
Per your other comment on CEO ethics - the CFA Institute - GIPS creator, while focused on public equities, has great materials for illiquid alternatives as well.
When Bitcoin was increasing 10-25% a month, makes total sense to max out your credit and pay off your balance the next month. Not sure if this was a risk-tolerant move, or just a risk-ignorant move.

> That's how the real fortunes are made. Invest on credit, reap the profits if it works, leave the credit supplier holding the bag if it doesn't.

Not all debt is created equal however. Credit card charge-offs can trash your FICO score, and I suspect many who are using credit card debt to fund "investments" are more highly dependent on their consumer credit than those buying real estate with house money.
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That's the whole point of it. I don't understand your question.
It definitely does. Chrome is borderline unusable on 8GB RAM - more than a few tabs open make it go into swap hell, while Firefox works well with thousands (Chrome doesn't even have the concept of unloading open tabs!). Also, you can't even disable tab shrinking in Chrome, let alone move tabs to the left border of the window, as I do with Firefox. This results in an UI that's practically unusable with the only way to navigate the tabs being the mouse wheel.

Chromium used to perform visibly better than Firefox with somewhere around one to five tabs open, so sometimes, if I didn't have the browser running and didn't want its full session to load, I've started Chromium just to quickly check one URL - however, recent versions of Firefox made it comparable in such cases, so the only use case for Chromium I have now is to deal with badly coded websites that assume it's the only browser out there.
Agreed. It definitely depends on your tolerance to risk. Not everyone wants to be part of frat party that takes up half your days and weekends that could potentially disappear tomorrow without notice.
> Both startups I worked for never had serious traction and both shut down as failed

I think this is the big difference. When you're working for a startup that literally can't keep up with demand (such as the one I work for now), it's an entirely different animal.
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Sure, but the problem is the seemingly very high amount of shady behavior in cryptocurrency. EG: In one category, you have reports like this that say 81% of ICOs are scams. (https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/cryptocurrency/81-perc...)

That's pretty damning to me. I would be willing to bet that 81% of porn sites are not scams. So putting crypto as a higher risk category seems correct to me.

(I also recognize that there's legit exchanges, especially outside of the world of ICOs, but crypto seems to have a massive fraud issue now.)
Have we forgotten how to die?
> Many of the most valuable, hard-working engineers I know at startups have a few years of big company experience in their recent past, and are choosing to do the startup thing all in.

I completely agree with this, except for the "all in" part. If you re-read my GP reply, that's what I was disagreeing with.

Not that they're not valuable - on the contrary. An engineer who did well at Google for 5-6 years is going to be incredibly valuable, and most startups would be lucky to get even just one or two of these in the team.

However, they have a different mindset, and I say that from experience. They don't need this job, and they don't see it as financially or otherwise important. In short, nothing is keeping them there. They're not committed to the success of the startup. Making 250K is nice, but not after you made 500K or more for several years, and can easily get the same pay if you wanted it, or find another 250K startup job in a heartbeat.

There's a reason bigger companies spend huge amounts of money to pay essential employees very well. It doesn't guarantee that they stay, but not paying them well certainly doesn't help.

So when the going gets rough, these people leave. It makes total sense, they have no reason - financial or otherwise - to commit to the success of the startup as a business. They're there for a good experience.
Evidence for this? They product more soot and smog, but less CO2. For certain driving characteristics they are MUCH better than gas. (E.g. heavy trucks that require larger amounts of torque)
Does anyone now profiling tools like that for node.js?
In my opinion unnecessary abstractions -- especially splitting code up into different files -- is a tax on working memory and leads to difficulty achieving flow state. Every layer of indirection takes up residence in working memory and so it had better be necessary, else it should be omitted even at the cost of some code duplication
I've been a repeat startup employee, and have now become a founder. The reasons I chose to live this path haven't changed.

If you have a comp.-driven mindset (i.e. you'd like to become a millionaire in X years), then I think there are far faster, better, easier ways to achieve that. Join a top-tier firm in the valley / NYC and do a decent job at getting promotions and you'll be well within your way by your mid-late thirties.

The best part of being part of a startup is your ability to be in fast-paced multifaceted problem-solving environment.

You can play quiet a few roles at a small company. As an early employee (engineer or otherwise), you can look at any part of the company, product or its internal operations and decide that it's something you care enough about to fix and improve upon.

I joined my first startup as an engineer, became a product manager, did sales, built employee on-boarding flows and training manuals, re-branded the company and learnt how to manage a sizable team as I moved on to marketing. All within less than 2 years.

You can get most of those experiences elsewhere, but not within that timeframe or the depth of autonomy you would receive to get it done is not attainable in a Big Corp.

This is exceptionally great if you're early in your career, are generally good at getting tasks done, but have no idea what your calling is. You can work at a startup (or a series of them) for a few years and walk away with understanding what you'd like to focus your time and money on for the next few decades of your life.

Only caveat that I would add is that if you'd like to achieve any of that, then it's paramount that you look for the right founders. Founders that are willing to give away autonomy and let you flourish. They tend to be the best ones and produce great companies with incredibly rich cultures as a result.
Well sure, that seems pretty straightforward. What are the odds of a species in a country as well-explored as england having never been seen? Unless I'm missing something?
Not nearly as bad as taking one experiment and extrapolating as conclusive. To clearify, there isn't enough retesting of experiments to make good science from.

Or when an experiment's results have been challenged or disregarded yet people continue to recall the first experiment's results. For example, the Stanford prison psychology study.

However, yes, poorly constructed headlines meant to attract a click rather than true information is still bad. Though that might be a fault of the collective being more interested in snipping headlines without reading the articles behind it.
Freudian "theory" was not science, it was a catchy narrative.
Which raises the ancient Quan - why are startups so reluctant, as a species, to establish remote teams? How come VCs are even allowing their investees to pay bubbly rents and wages?
Yeah, I doubt I'll even bother to apply to the big 5, maybe even the big 20. I'm coming out of a yearlong software intensive in October with a liberal art major from a marketing background. I know a few people at those companies but there is also the question of leetcode. I think my chances are much higher with other types of companies, startups included.
It's an informal way of agreeing with/emphasizing the parent comment.

Your question isn't stupid. Using "this" in such a manner is non-standard English and I can see how the meaning would be unclear if English isn't your first language. It might be unclear even to native speakers if they don't spend much time on internet forums.
https://arc.codes for docs and src can be found at https://github.com/arc-repos
YAML is bad because it has far too much magic behavior. See, for example, Ansible's big list of gotchas: https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/reference_appendices...
Concealed Carry is a self selecting population which makes it hard to separate the population from the action of carrying.

Which is why I am not simply digging into statistics. I am sure people make arguments in both directions.
Yes.. well China might be cheaper.
That sounds really bad - offering health insurance for employees is a must. At least in the US - I'm not sure about other countries.
Apologies if this is pedantic but, just the opposite, mid-life crises arise because of the realization that the gap between your accomplishments and your ideals is larger than you thought it would be by the time you reached middle age.
Minimalist and open source e-mail ticket system?
I am looking for open source system for e-mail tickets.
So that everyone can send an e-mail to support@example.com and in the web-based software can browse and receive via imap and answer tickets via smtp

here is a problem, which system is used for receiving e-mails by IMAP and sending e-mails by SMTP?

PS. Every new ticket is saved to eg. mysql database.
With my voice still gone, time for Jamie Dupree 2.0
Thanks so much for the feedback. Great points with the missing features, though not sure I can get that working on this version given there isn't any account/signup. Though maybe for version 2 (presumably another sporting event) I'll add that.

And with regards the points, it's based on current FIFA World Rankings. The 72pts thing is something my grandfather came up with, so I'm not actually sure what the reasoning is. But in the 5 World Cups we've played in our family, it's resulted in a good mix of choices, so I didn't dare change it!
Agreed that this is a big competitive advantage that smart founders should take advantage of. Doesn't mean you need to go 100% remote, but by being flexible on location you offer a pretty compelling alternative to a big tech co salary.
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This is true! However, there are still many quality startups elsewhere.

I’ll admit I would not choose to join one if they were to force me to live in SF and not give me a competitive salary.
> $800 million dollar startups die all the time

is this the case? i actually don't know that it is.
Yes, this works, and there are tons of companies that do it, referred to as "bodyshoppers".
Might be aimed at international vendors that are legal in their jurisdictions, but would be classified as CP in the US.

See "Studio Seventeen" of Netherlands.
> "We are definitely going to be IHOP," Darren Rebelez, president of IHOP, told CNNMoney. "But we want to convey that we are taking our burgers as seriously as our pancakes."

> An IHOP in Hollywood is getting new IHOb signs, and some others might get the treatment.

> But Rebelez said the vast majority of the nearly 1,800 other locations will still go by IHOP.
I am USian. I have never liked the ambiguity of "American".

Also, are Greeks "Western"? Are Italians? Croations? Austrians? What is "Western"? As a child it was confusing to me that those east of the Bering Sea are westerners and those west of the Bering Sea are eastern.

To be very USian, I was also puzzled as a child why Ohio was midwestern. It seems mideastern to me. I would call Utah midwestern.
Be sure to read to the end where the author brings up his own family's tangential involvement in the Zimbardo saga.
This paper is really important: it shows that transfer learning can be applied to a wide variety of NLP problems with great success. They show state of the art results on nearly every major class of NLP problem.

The basic approach is the same as our ULMFiT (http://nlp.fast.ai/classification/2018/05/15/introducting-ul...) model - pre-train a language model (a model that predicts the next word in a sequence) on a large corpus, and then modify the language model slightly for whatever task you wish to do (e.g. text classification). Finally, fine-tune that model using your target corpus (e.g. texts labeled with classes).

This new paper has two significant leaps over ULMFiT:

- Replace the RNN with a transformer model

- Apply to many more types of problem.

Note that although the original language model takes them a long time to train (a month on 8 GPUs), there's almost no reason for anyone else to create their own model from scratch, except if you need to use this approach on a language that doesn't have a pre-trained model yet. The transfer learning fine-tuning doesn't take anywhere close to as long as the language model pre-training, and you can just use the existing pre-trained weights.

The previous HN discussion on ULMFit may also be of interest: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17076222
American toddlers are eating more sugar than the amount recommended for adults
>Everyone claims to care about IHOP, but how many people actually eat there anymore?

At least around where I live (Houston), I hardly ever am able to eat at an IHOP because it's always packed at breakfast time. I imagine it's a ghost town for dinner.

>Of course, if the burgers aren't any good, this will be a debacle.

Yeah. It's hard to build a loyal breakfast following, but in my experience they are doing fine there. Lunch and dinner is a whole different ball game- there is way more selection (but I guess you could say there's more people looking for food too.) All I can say is that these better be some dang good burgers for all this commotion. Especially if I can't grab a beer with my burger.
Brushless DC motor and lithium battery advancements are the primary tech enabling these devices, and both are commoditized. The winners in this market will be the people who can best externalize the cost of repositioning, charging, and storing these scooters.
This is claiming more than I think is really true. They're just training the bees to avoid circles. The more circles, the less sugar water.

They're talking about zero like some highly advanced concept, probably because it took humans a while to grasp. But like others are saying, they're was always the concept of Nothing or None, and this is only how we interpreted it. Of course many animals can "comprehend" zero, but tell them to represent it and that gets a little different. Might take a while before they group the terms that they think of as 2 or None
> these guys come out of the woodwork to tell you that their brother’s girlfriend’s roommate makes $400k at Facebook

Reminds me of grade school, when "my uncle who works at Sega" always had let their loving nephew/niece play that game that wasn't out yet.
> I know, I know,

No you don’t.

> it's a bit early

No it isn’t.

> but I don't think anyone is going to top this.

Yes they will.

... Oh, you wanted Abuse? This is Arguments. Abuse is in room 1 [1].

[1] ref: Monty Python, Argument Clinic sketch.
I'm curious about the accuracy of the visualization. Specifically, at around 20M yrs, one can clearly see the mediterranean sea. The wikipedia page for the Zanclean Deluge[1] says it's theorized to have happened around 5M yrs ago.

Does this mean that the data from gplates doesn't support that theory? Or is that just an artifact of how things were put together for this project?

Nonetheless, cool project!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zanclean_flood
can you expand a bit more on "not as clean" as NeoVim? I consider vim's implementation of async jobs simpler than neovim's.
> Hate speech, for example...

Of course that's protected. The only thing that isn't protected is a clear and timely threat like your example of inciting a riot.
> You still go through TSA screening
> like you would normally do

Uh, no thanks!
Even SurfAir learned that that is one of the worst parts of flying
I’m sure they have telemetry and know that almost nobody leaves hundreds of tabs open.

When you tell me you open thousands of tabs, I wonder if you’re just stress testing the browser. I expect software not to work well when I stress test it.
That made me laugh, maybe that was the goal of the ad....
> 10 years ago you couldn't make 400K at Google, Facebook, Microsoft, etc. Now you can.

> when your opportunity cost was 50-150K per year.

That's why Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Amazon, etc are not attractive at all in Europe.
There is detailed discussions about SOx/NOx further down this thread.

News articles are easily found as well:

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/may/15/diesel-e...
http://erj.ersjournals.com/content/17/4/733
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2013/jan/27/diesel-engine-fum...
etc etc

Diesel is significantly worse for human health than gasoline.
I moved the non-profit's website I maintain over to HTTPs.

My own personal site has both. Though frankly that site is static. Oddly I find it useful to have that http site when trying to use some hotel wifi where you need to connect through a splash page. The https don't redirect..

I'm actually surprised this is an issue at this point.
I'd like to recommend something: discourage 1-year cliffs in vesting schedules. I recently joined a BigCo where your stock vests monthly as soon as you start. I felt comfortable accepting that offer because I knew I could quit without leaving money on the table if I hated it.

Before BigCo, I was at a YC startup for 8 months that I disliked working at, but felt that I needed to hit the 1-year mark for the equity. That startup was generous enough to ignore my cliff when I told them how I felt, but I don't think most companies would do this.

I think moving cliffs to 3 or 6 months would make startup opportunities much more interesting to job-seekers.
It sure can.

One fascinating feat of Yiddish is that you could often interpret words as either German or English (given two plausible mappings of their signs)
> But Eshelman, who had studied acting throughout high school and college, has always admitted that his accent was just as fake as Korpi’s breakdown. His overarching goal, as he told me in an interview, was simply to help the experiment succeed.

There are countless other quotes of guards and prisoners saying they were "just acting". But isn't that equally as powerful? I'm not sure it matters so much why you're locking someone in a closet for 6 hours (just acting, wanting the experiment to succeed, wanting to please your teacher, having sadistic tendencies, etc.), it's that you followed through and performed that action. The fact that you did something you wouldn't normally do might be even more significant. It's one thing if the guards and prisoners all know they're acting, but that doesn't appear to be the case. It sounds as if individuals were acting on their own accord, but unaware what behaviors and instructions were real vs. not real.

Even in real life, how many people in the hierarchy of a dictatorship are "just trying to please" the dictator vs. really "buying in" to the philosophy? I guess it matters in terms of trying to change the system in the future, but it doesn't matter that much in evaluating the harm done to the powerless in the past.

I don't think power always veers towards dangerous dominant/submissive behavior, but history seems to have an amply supply of evidence that that certainly can be the case, regardless of why it gets there.
Right, but in reality more startups are like the ones I worked for than like the one you work for. Most startups fail.

Although, given that both of our stories are just anecdotes, the advice might come down to "Work for a good company that does valuable things that make a difference to people"...