skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is very true. Building on this, entrepreneurs also seem to make the mistake of taking a business idea that may work for something small, and pitching it to a VC. This usually involves taking an otherwise modest pitch and selling it as something that could change everything, forever.

I worked for a startup that did this. We took $2M to fund an idea that was going to change everything, but only in the .001% chance of hitting it big. Investors bought that pitch up. Over the course of 2 years we spent that money and tried to position the business to hit it big. In doing so, we forwent plenty of opportunities to grow the business incrementally; any time spent not aiming for the fences was a waste, because the business didn't have a future without a home run success. Taking $2M up front meant we had to meet absurdly high expectations for investors to return that money. Moderate success of the business meant a failure for investors. Even a sustainable business was a failure for investors. The only success story would be a 10x success.

In the end, we took a swing at the fences and missed. We had opportunity after opportunity to pursue revenue early, to grow slowly, to take on smaller customers. But we skipped all that because in the very beginning we lit a fuse by taking too much VC money thinking it would give us more freedom, but it chained us and ultimately ruined the company. Because VCs would rather have a ruined company than a 1x success (if VCs encouraged 1x successes, they'd see fewer 10x successes since fewer startups would even try).

In startup world, mediocre success meant failure. People don't understand that enough. You could make a useful product that people love, build a great company with great people and talent, attract customers, generate revenue and even profits. You could achieve all the hallmarks of a healthy, successful company and it would still be a failure in the eyes of some VCs.
Context: MIPS and Wave are owned (mostly) by the same VC firm, Tallwood. The head of Tallwood, Dado Bannato sits on the board / is the interim CEO of Wave and MIPS.
Why are they calling a scammer a "businessman"?
AI-powered Wi-Fi routers incoming. /s
I Created a GitHub Client as a PWA
It's still moderately complex, but as with any of these games it can be delivered in language like "what do you want to do?", and then you walk them through doing that (along with accompanying dice rolls, modifiers, etc).

If you go this route, ask for what kind of character they want to play, create/find a pre-gen, and go from there (don't bog them down with character creation, -especially- if they want to be a spell caster). Don't worry about going into depth in the rule system beforehand, let it come up organically. Try to get a game with friends first so you know the rules, so you don't have to slow down to look things up, and be willing to adjudicate freely (as kids, especially, may want to do very unorthodox things).

All the usual DM/GMing rules apply. Make failures as spectacular as successes. Try to describe things in ways that are interesting, rather than just "you hit it for 8 damage". See if the kids engage. If they do, they'll pick up the rules as you play. If not, move on.
Read the "Strategies for Defense: Randomization versus Uniformity" part.
as opposed to human labor.
In other words, robots and software.
I don't think the FTC can prosecute someone for criminal charges, regardless of proof. They would need the DoJ or an US Attorney to follow up on those. AFAIK, IANAL.
gimmy some downvotes too
If that's the case, I wish the information would include percentage of cases. 90% side effect of severe depression and 2% side effect of dry mouth is a very different medication than 90% dry mouth and 2% severe depression.
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Those notifications work for normal people, and there're services that will send them for free and with no limits. No wonder lots of sites use them.
people with 2k+ karma are nerds.
Competition is for the workers not the .00001%.
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The moment when a Newsweek headline cannot be told from a The Onion headline.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law
that’s when i learned AD&D 2e.
Ask HN: Do you use marijuana non-recreationally?
Inspired by one of the responses to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17310926 I'm curious about people taking marijuana regularly and non-recreationally (by non-recreationally I mean anything other than 'getting super baked and listening to Dark Side of the Moon', in broad strokes).

Specifically I'm interested in those that take it for depression, focus, creativity, sleep, etc. Would you be willing to share your experiences?
I would guess patents held by Google regarding their notifications interactions are part of it.
Actually yes, this has been determined to be OK here.
A buddy of mine is a wealth manager. His opinion is that this guy obtained significant ears because he predicted and profited off the '08 crisis, but that overall he's a
a bit of a "clown". As linked below, his main fund has a 10% performance of -6.45% and he's basically always bearish.
Any lessons learned that you want to share? As the owner of a very small consultancy shop I know it's very hard to extract generalized advice from your own failures, but still...
Martin's books are a retelling of a story about the War of the Roses, with a couple of fantasy elements slapped on top. The amount of world-building is pretty minimal for a large-scale fantasy series. The reason Martin doesn't produce a lot of work is because a) he only writes at home, and spends most of his time travelling, b) when he does write, it's other books and not ASoIaF, c) he's had problems with losing chunks of work, continuity errors and other issues that have required rework and/or rewrites, and d) he's just not a fast writer at his best.
App Maker, Google’s low-code tool for building business apps, comes out of beta
It is early days for Pony for sure, but it does have a package manager: https://github.com/ponylang/pony-stable

The breaking changes have been minimal since I've started using it. Typically just slight changes to some type signatures. The core parts (Actors, Reference Capabilities, Classes/Traits/Interfaces) are all stable at this point. I'm amazed by how well ponyc (the compiler) works. You just run it and it figures everything out.

If I could change anything in the language right now, I wouldn't mind seeing a couple of the reference capabilities renamed (trn, box, and maybe tag specifically), though I don't have any better names to offer. I'd also like if Actor Behaviour dispatch had a different syntax than Object method invoke.
There's a very interesting two part episode of the podcast Reply All[1] where they delve into one of these tech support scams. Worth taking the time to listen to.

[1] https://www.gimletmedia.com/reply-all/long-distance
> If 50% of Internet users in the US had uncapped gige I think you'd see some rather interesting tech start using it once they can rely on it.

and yet nobody ever has the faintest idea what would be done with it, despite the fact that every office building has been internally wired for gigabit ethernet (or faster!) for >10 years. what is anyone doing at work with it? what is anyone doing across large corporate campuses like google's or facebook's with all their internal bandwidth?
Do you use indica or sativa? How do the psychoactive affects not interfere with your productivity? Any memory problems?
Like someone else said, a majority of the complexity in DnD is character creation and actual battles. If you have experience in it, it is a lot easier to get into. I would recommend that for first timers to stay away form spell casters, it gets complicated quick.

With that said, 5th edition DnD is pretty easy to get into, and it is a lot of fun!
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I'm not sure where they got the price of $5 for the current CTA train to the airport.

http://www.rtachicago.org/index.php/plan-your-trip/travel-ti...

> CTA "L" train fare	$2.50

More realistically there's a single-ride ticket for $3.

> Single-Ride Ventra Tickets cost $3, which provides up to 2 transfers within 2 hours
I'm not sure. I believe it's pretty good but I've only ever used it to watch Formula 1 streams (since F1TV most likely won't be available in my country until next year).
This is why Musk is so dangerous to cities. His future fantasy projects muddle the conversation and distract people away from proven technologies that can help people today.
Then why bother getting a coworking space at all? Yet many do... The experience is night-and-day different... sure WeWork is more expensive than Starbucks (it costs about 5 Starbucks drinks a day), but the productivity difference is worth it.
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Oracle Proposes Deprecating the Nashorn JavaScript Engine
What's wrong with marking content NSFW? Its not censoring it, simply providing a warning to those who may be in a place where their screen is visible and that might not be appropriate.
writing code in java in an ide of reminds me of filling in credit card forms or something. when you are totally dependent on having tooling around your language to be productive in it, that signals something is wrong with the language.
Ask HN: Moved to/worked in a non U.S country? How was the experience?
Prompted by yesterday's post

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17302892

Have you moved to : EU, Chile etc? What is the experience like - including visas, culture etc?
Take the system that you are most comfortable with and tone it down. Start incorporating rules if you feel that your kids can handle them.

Dice and systems should not get in the way. Just teach them the very basic (what is passing/failing a dice roll) and add nuance from there.
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GDB's main power is that it's scriptable. You can track down some pretty gnarly bugs with that. You don't necessarily need that capability for languages like JS, because there's far less danger of getting into serious trouble (stack corruption, etc.), so it's hard to appreciate. But yeah, discoverable it is not haha.
Found the Aussie.
Which system are you talking about? The PSP was 32 bit IIRC.
What else could that title mean?
Everything old is new again! Centralization can only ever lead to censorship - the edges inherently disagree, and at the very least the centralizing entity doesn't want to get caught in between. Never mind the power that comes with setting the zeitgeist for a large number of people.

I can only hope that the resulting milquetoast is boring enough that the median user actually puts forth the effort to use freer next-gen technologies rather than settle for this technically-lazy "web 2.0" promulgated by Surveillance Valley.
I wish PowerShell and/or some of its ideas had a bit more mindshare outside of the MS ecosystem.

Other folks have talked about this at length (e.g. https://mkremins.github.io/blog/unix-not-acceptable-unix/), but the fact that there is no standard way to pass anything other than strings of plain text between UNIX shell commands is incredibly limiting.

Heck even if we could pass a flag (say, -j) to something like ls and have it spit out JSON instead of plain text would be an upgrade.
There's an exhibition at the British Museum (http://www.pharmacopoeia-art.net/articles/in-sickness-and-in...) that shows how many prescription pills people take over their lifetime. It's striking how many more pills women take (mostly due to birth control obviously).
I imagine the barrier is on offering the service for payment

Although I guess the sort of person that provides this expensive "service" to confused elderly people might be the sort of person that would charge their own mother for setting up their iPhone anyway.
> Rather than attempting to wow the world with “innovative” new designs like the failed Mac Pro, Apple could and should simply provide updates and speed bumps to the entire lineup on a much more frequent basis.

Yeah. I'd always thought this was a Steve Jobs quirk, but Tim Cook has been in charge for years now and very little has changed in regard to Mac hardware updates.

The Mac Mini is a particularly egregious case. They won't update it, but they won't discontinue it either, so they continue to sell ancient hardware as if it's new. It's baffling, and certainly not indicative that there's some coherent plan being successfully followed.
Certainly connecting light rail to other destinations has also yielded improvements to airport ridership. But that doesn't change that downtown to airport, by itself, was a relative ghost town. We already had a major destination (downtown) connecting to the airport. That tells me that thing on the other end (the airport) just wasn't a very major destination.

Bellevue, West Seattle, and Ballard links can't happen soon enough. I suspect each of those will also generate far more ridership than the downtown-to-airport link as well.
$136,000? He probably won'e even stop running his "business." Sounds like he was making bank - just pay the fine and keep going. The problem with a lot of illegal telemarketers/advertisers is its super easy for them to just pretend to be someone else after they get caught and continue on their way.
I recently switched from a 2015 Macbook Pro to a Lenovo T480s (w/ Fedora 28) and have been relatively happy with the purchase over all. A key did break off within 2 weeks, but I'm hoping after that is taken care of it'll be smooth sailing from here on out.
> the absolutely batshit advice and business building strategy that comes out of the world of venture capital and tech accelerators

If the floor comes out (e.g. capital dries up), then tech founders will find themselves in "the emperor has no clothes" situations. The potential externalities of this are varied:

- A younger entrepreneurial business demographic who build initially unprofitable businesses based on venture capital and can no longer start businesses because there's no capital

- Entrepreneurs resorting to fraud (see -> Theranos, Hampton Creek, etc)

- Mental health issues, broken families, etc for people "crushing it" and realizing they're left with nothing 7 years later (see -> https://twitter.com/dhh/status/869361585613139968 )

- Fatigued investing community who no longer deploy capital because cap tables are screwed up
I don't know if you missed it...but that is the focus of iOS 12. Performance is improved even on older devices and all devices that can install iOS 11 can install 12.

There are barely any new features other than some small quality of life improvements, like these changes to notifications.
That's because most people are going in the other direction at that time :). Fortunately, most flights aren't at like 7 pm though.
Let’ss Hope soo becausse it’s gettiing to be quitee annnnoying.
This makes me think. Could there be an opportunity for remote babysitting or remote education for the earlier grades. We can elimate the not so qualified 32k person.
No risk no reward
I have the 12" MacBook, so it's the v1 keyboard, and after I got used to it, I was OK with it.
Unfortunately, the typical patient doesn't interpret probabilities very well. Still, lists of side effects often use language like "very rarely".
Then you're limited to "What's the biggest number that a miner can name in the finite amount of memory available?"

Then just apply my original argument. It's not zero cost to mine. It's not zero cost to fork. The supply of cryptocurrency will be very large, but it will be so many x orders of magnitude smaller than BB(kerjillion), that x itself might be larger than the number of every cryptocoin ever made and every cryptocoin that ever will be made.

The useful thinking is about the computational limits of our current civilization, not infinities or redonkulous numbers.
I used to be a huge reader of reddit's /r/politics. Enough that it was my primary aggregator - until I started to notice that a lot of the stories didn't seem to mesh with reality.

So I switched to an RSS feed of the top 20 news publications - in an attempt to get a relatively unbiased feed (obviously still biased, but hopefully at least more moderate) and the picture I get in my political news is very different now.

It's difficult because so many of these subreddits pretend to be neutral but are extremely biased one way or another - often in subtle ways that aren't disclosed or easily discovered.
Fiber is important, but few are making long term investment to break current low quality monopolies that don't care about pulling fiber.
Growing up I had a friend whose dad was a regular business starter. At first he had his own computer stores, which was put out of business by CompUSA, who sold parts cheaper than he could source them. Then he started his own internet cafes, which the ubiquity of broadband put out of business. Eventually he moved onto various profitable online websites.

The point is he made money every step of the way. You never heard of his companies, he never took VC, and despite starting companies at the edge of what was modern technology he never ran a "startup" by Paul Graham's definition, and he still made fuck you money.
> Does that mean that an illegal street food vendor can be barred from cooking, ever? hehe

Someone in the UK was given an Anti-Social Behaviour Order for being too loud when they had sex, so in some jurisdictions probably yes.
Experts know more and more about less and less until they know everything about nothing.

Generalists know less and less about more and more until they know nothing about everything.

The problem with using academic experts is that they are really just "historians" in the sense that they know what we know works and doesn't work or what is right or wrong.

Most of them can't predict the future (which have a lot of radical uncertainty) they only know what has been the case for now and what might be but with a huge deal of uncertainty (economist are some of the worst offenders of this or more precisely politicians usage of economists)

When it comes to politics/morals/geopolitics. No one is an expert other than those who actually make the decisions. You can be factually correct about why you make a decision and yet still make the wrong one.

Technical experts are different as they are dealing with a solid foundation that doesn't include much radical uncertainty.
I am going to call BS on your train occupancy.

30 MPH which is low = 5280 * 30 = 158,400 feet per hour / 26 TPH = 6092 feet per train. Actual subway trains are 600 feet or less long ~= 10% utilization. At 30MPH cars don't keep 126 feet between each other. Bump that to 60MPH and the trains are at 5% or less utilization and again cars don't keep 266 feet between each other even if they should. And again this is very long 600 feet subway trains most are significantly shorter than that.

Further trains have a stopping distance @ 62MPH of 820 ft with (0.15 g) deceleration. High speed trains can get an extra 0.3 m/s2 deceleration which could also be added to normal subway trains but would be an emergency situation as they knock people over.

PS: At 60MPH the theoretical limit is over 220 trains per hour assuming all trains can stop before hitting the train in front of them. But you can only approach that with full automation and multiple lines for acceleration.
I think the DOJ could potentially build off of this case, though.
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I got sick of it myself and switched to a Lenovo X1 Carbon. Comparison here: http://blog.richard.do/index.php/2018/05/2018-macbook-pro-vs...
The necessity – and the difficulty – of admitting failure in research
Venmo removing website functionality
Comcast says it won’t throttle heavy internet users – for now
The mycelium is quite interesting. Even when you look at hair ice, you can see the pattern that plants also use for obtaining nutrients (i.e. roots).
You really shouldn't let your kids play with RPGs.
On my iPad pro, the X button only clears one days worth, so if I ignored them for a few days, I have to clear each day separately. Usually not a big deal since I do it every few days, but sometimes it can add up.
I can't tell if you're joking, but I've long wondered about keyboards transmuting into touch pads of some kind. Haptic feedback is only part of it, though. I really depend on affordances like the nubs on the F and J keys or the valleys between keys to orient my hands above the keyboard properly without constantly having to look at them. The lack of such affordances on your average on-screen keyboard make high-speed touch typing very difficult for me. Does anyone know if there's been any research in this area?
AsmBB v2.2 has been released
Olive Garden commercial written by a bot is pure internet gold
Yes, this is noted in the chart:

Model 3 (new) 133
It's a very nice place. Unfortunately, they are egregiously failing to provide enough housing at reasonable prices, so they copied that bad aspect of silicon valley as well as some of the good.
Crewed weapons are really the best choice - teaches important team building skills.
AFAIU, he is only banned in a commercial sense. He can still help his family solve their IT problems, and that street food vendor could still cook dinner for his family
I would have preferred the needle but this is better than nothing.
I had a really good experience with the XPS 15, and a colleague of mine was really happy with the 13 model. They seem to work perfectly fine with the latest ubuntu and fedora and they had a decent battery life
Focus+Creativity

I can play things on my guitar when I'm stoned that I am completely unable to play when straight.

RPGing is quite amusing when stoned, as long as I don't become fascinated with the sparkly dice and drift off into a fugue state.

I also find that menial tasks such as cleaning, painting, yardwork, etc., become much more bearable/enjoyable.

Keep it clean, keep it green. GYO
GraphQL is to expose data. REST to expose services.
Someone like Justin Kan could help you with this process. Look into his startup Atrium - but looks like you already have an experienced lawyer, so it might not be as useful.

I'm also going through this process right now, and it's a lot more work than I've envisioned. Others have said this, but make sure not to burn out - I'm trying to best.
The issue is that the bar is so low now you can't tell what is actually NSFW. In fact it is so low that being in reddit itself should count as NSFW.
First, frequency != probability. What negative outcome is expected by sharing the actual values though?
You could try easing them into it with Munchkin. It's very D&D inspired but games are simpler, only last about an hour, and there's quite a bit of "family friendly" humor.

I'd suggest finding a youtube tutorial though, the rulebook is unnecessarily verbose and confusing.
Real talk. $136,000? That's just "the cost of doing business."

That fine is so small it's almost like, nice to the guy they're fining.
I don't even want to count how many compressed air bottles I'm through.

Most of the time it fixes the problem, but (so far) three times I had to take it to the Apple Store and claim Consumer Law because the key mechanism broke.
Even GDB TUI comes short to what Turbo products with their Turbo Vision based UI were capable of on MS-DOS.
You'd understand why he was downvoted if you had read the article.
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Musk got America interested in space and electric power. I'll forgive whatever handwaving he needed to do to get that done.
How Blockchain Could Make Life and Death Easier for Families