skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
However, United States of America does not claim in this situation historical figures of Canada, Mexico and rest of South America to be U.S.A. nationals, or publish maps with its aspired borders including Quebec or Mexico City. For instance, they claimed that Simon Bolivar was U.S. national.

The situation is way more complicated than people expect or are comfortable with. I am not objective in this situation to give you a full analysis, but I would suggest if you want to have a full picture to start by looking at Balkan Wars to get an idea about the imperialistic dreams of each country in the area and the events. WWI shows how things evolved afterwards. Just checking the alliances is enough.

Then read about WWII specifically in that area and about Josip Broz Tito [0] (for starters) and dig in why he introduced new history and an identity and what were the political aspirations after WWII and why Yugoslavia was created and the naming of its regions.

I tried to give an objective guide to read the situation. Again personally I am perhaps not objective, as I have a stake in the situation.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josip_Broz_Tito
Check out today's episode of The Daily. They don't see Obama as having been "their guy."
Exactly. Positive is at best publication bias, or self-censorship, or whatever you want to call it, but usually it's pretty simply just fake.

People know it, but that doesn't matter, what matters is that people like those who live the high-life. Crystal clear ocean lapping the painfully white sand beach, the sky so blue, even its reflection seems to burn out as it shimmers on the endless cerulean horizon, all there for those who "have it". And the next post is a seemingly boring street, just shops, and our hero, somewhere in Europe, and maybe a messy hair day photo thrown in, our hero rests, somewhere in a 5 star hotel, a scantly clad young female caught an impromptu point in time, yet somehow critically perfectly advantageous for her, all of it - of course - done effortlessly. The next post is just a boring "shopping" pic again. Maybe a bag, a shoe, a dress from Prada, Gucci, Dior, but the 1000-3000 USD ones, of course.

So little said, everything implied.
Brief overview on how ChromeOS boots (8 years ago): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTFfl7AjNfI

Would love to watch an updated version today, if anything changes.
Speak for yourself, I’ve learned a great deal from my adventures, made amazing friends and will continue to travel.

Sounds like you just weren’t adventurous and opened minded enough on your travels and didn’t find worthwhile experiences.
Hulu's client for Apple TV. It's like a UI nightmare.

"Lets make things as unintuitive as possible, people will love the "unique" vibe." - Hulu probably
I have a couple of side projects I'd like to explore more. The problem I have is that my 9-5 job that utilizes most of my brain everyday. I come back home mentally exhausted then here is the baby.

I agree with you on the $500k. That is just the idea, it doesn't have to be that much and will depends on where we decide to move. Definitely not looking for a mansion :)

So setting myself up to where I could free-up most of my time would help a lot in this transition to no boss-life. Plus, most of my projects do not require any crazy investments, we're talking hundreds of dollars. It's just about paying the bills for the house, gas, food, etc. while getting up and running with a business/income.
No, it's not. There are surely lots of "kids", which I'm guessing includes teenagers, but there's also a high percentage of people aged 20-40 or even more who follow those "influencers" much the same way. People don't really grow up from being naive, susceptible to social fashions, etc.
At the risk of sounding like a conspiracy theorist, perhaps a short-seller paid an employee to sabotage. It is not out of the realm of possibility, especially since $TSLA is at a whopping 33% float short.
In other news, Ford is supplying trucks, Google is supplying search, PG&E is supplying electricity, Amazon is supplying office supplies, and Apple corporate iPhones to ICE. Not sure why Microsoft is getting singled out here.
> However, working with ICE seems directly at odds with a company that depends on immigration and guest workers to fill out its workforce

Can we please stop conflating legal and illegal immigration? Microsoft is dependent on legal immigration through the H1B and EB programs. Furthermore, there are many business who are dependent on illegal immigration and those deserve to be shutdown for exploiting a system of indentured servitude.
Yeah, I believe this whole move was prompted after Google Ventures invested in them
A better solution might be robust local hotel/airbnb taxes. That may be the best proxy for whether someone is a tourist.

That way, if a location is overwhelmed by tourists, it can raise a levy to discourage the flow.

The trick would be designing a good system.
> I was lucky to settle down, go back to school, and find a passion in programming and science which drives me toward working on bigger problems than myself, that might help humanity in some way

This is exactly why everyone should travel. The thing that you find out is that the rest of the world isn't so different from wherever you're from. Perhaps the colors and shapes of the architecture and food is different, but people are pretty much people. There are some cultural differences that are helpful to learn too, but learning that the world is big and also that it isn't is extremely valuable.

My lessons from traveling (I still like doing it though): You cannot run away from yourself, taking pictures of things doesn't make you more interesting, people like to party, people are mostly good, you get to decide what matters
Google was an early investor in Gitlab. I think if Google wanted to buy Gitlab, it wouldn't take much.
How is not keeping your employees in the loop in a critical week and reminding them sabotage won't be tolerated not stable?
You don't need 100% fool-proof internal movement tracking since it's just intended to reduce the volume of tourists in a particular area.

I would think just limiting the number of tourist visas a particular destination airport can accept would be fine. Sure, you can drive from an airport in Tampa to go to Disney World, but it would massively reduce the number of people.

(That being said, Disney is probably a bad example since it's not built on a world heritage site you need to limit foot traffic to, it replaced a bunch of orange groves in the middle of nowhere)
Good. "We don't want you doing shady things that damage the brand's reputation in order to make a buck" is the kind of message shareholders should be sending to all companies.

Edit: Apparently I'm wrong and shareholders should be pushing for profits regardless of means?

I know Amazon isn't exactly known for treating people well but they're no Monsanto or Blackwater either. Amazon sells to consumers and is therefore dependent on public opinion to make sales. With the increasing public awareness of just how pervasive consumer tracking is it's becoming a touchy subject. If Amazon wants to keep expanding its market share for home goods then anything that risks associating its brand with government tracking is a very high risk. That would make me uncomfortable if I had Amazon shares.
Are fence companies going to get backlash next? This is ridiculous...
I was going to suggest this, or a standard like it, too.

Sure, it doesn't help with altitude, although maybe a fourth word could be added for that, and "what floor are you on?" is a simple question to ask and understand the answer to anyways.

If people can be dispatched to a location, getting the altitude a few minutes later is still a good use of time. Not to mention, if you're in a tall building you've also probably got extra coworkers or neighbors to go to the elevator or go to the ground floor to help the responders get to the victim quickly.

Also, phones could be configured to automatically and quickly read the 3 words as soon as they connect to 911 so if they're calling a 911 call center that has not adopted any location technology the information can still be transmitted quickly, accurately and automatically in under 2 seconds to any phone without proprietary software on the receiving end.
Honestly we haven't spent a massive amount of time on VESA, or really much optimization in general. It's not like there are a ton of magic tricks in there to make it fast or something. Somehow everyone else still manages to be slower than we are, though...
Embarrassing promo ... we have a Memphis Concrète festival every year.

facebook.com/MemphisConcrete its this week!
Patients received incorrect blood test results and it's impossible to argue Theranos didn't know that this was a risk of what they were doing. In Bad Blood there were anecdotes of people being sent straight to the hospital because of worrying results.

Beyond the psychological harm in the reported false positive cases why are you confident that no patients were harmed in even worse ways (i.e. false negatives, not catching a condition early)?
I believe that is a risk that's priced into venture investing already.

Not to defend the fraudsters here, but a certain amount of high-risk investments are going to end up failing because of fraud and investors knowingly bear those risks (and/or pay a money manager to smoke out and avoid those risks).
My personal mail server kept getting IP blacklisted, but only on Microsoft Outlook. I kept submitting it as non spam, they kept accepting and then couple days later it was back on. No mail relay, no unwanted traffic, nothing.

They seem to have some weird way of blacklisting whole IP ranges. In the end what helped was moving the machines at hetzner to more expensive ones, which put them in different IP ranges.

Even before the age of Mailgun I remember outlook being a problem at a startup I worked at. There's also dnswl, but dnswl doesn't help for low volume senders.
Sorry dang, I'm imitating the, erm, peculiar writing style you'll see when this sort of thing comes up.
Totally my opinion and anecdotally, but up and down. Certainly with Nike sometimes a win, sometimes you're like "really?" Vans and Chucks seem consistently similar - I wear through a pair in about 8 months, I buy a new pair. Same shoe, same colours, same size.
Ask HN: What do you know about venture developers?
Hello all,
I have a pre-seed funded startup and I've been looking for development work that I can afford. I've come across a model that seems attractive. It consists of development companies that give deep discounts as part of a startup incubation program in exchange for a small equity stake (2%-10%). Development is in-house, and they provide assistance with strategy, marketing and seo, and they have a network of investors that they market you to later.

Do any of you know anything about this model? Is it legitimate? Examples include:

https://zoozler.com/
http://leanmeanfactory.com
https://start-up.house/
https://www.codeventures.com/

To be clear, this is different from the "venture studio" or "startup foundry" model, where they take a controlling interest in a startup.

Thanks for the help. I just want to do right by my initial investors!
It's also easy to assume that other people have the same values and worldview that you do. The problem with moralizing your work is that morals are not black-and-white.
> Plus, if you really are a $BBB operation, you can build your own servers and network kit. As in, you get to start answering questions like what features you want on the motherboards

I suspect it's this kind of over-reach that ends up scaring decision-makers off from any in-sourcing (for lack of a better term) solution. To me, the key is in sticking with commodity solutions.

Even putting aside that the computer tech part of the business isn't their core competency, custom hardware is hard. In the worst case, you create interdepedent vendor lock-in and indefinite delays. Is there an example of any large company, other than Google, who has mastered this?

I found it interesting that you would mention Backblaze since, even back then, I questioned (I think even here on HN) their decision to go with a custom chassis and the non-standard, low-performance technology of SATA port multipliers. Well over a year before that blog post, there was enough competition in the SAS-expander backplane-in-a-chassis market (e.g. Chenbro, SuperMicro) that I was using them at a cash-strapped startup instead of used Dell MD1000s.

What we don't know, however, is if those backplanes were actually a commodity yet, at their scale. Maybe Backblaze couldn't actually get enough cheap SuperMicro chasses soon enough. I do recall some resellers charging what seemed like comically high markups, but maybe they were banking on a scarcity I was blissfully unaware of, at my low volume. Still, the fact that the option is conspiciously absent from their bar chart tends to make me suspect their summaries and conclusions, even if I always appreciate their raw data (e.g. disk stats).

To tie this all back to the original topic, sticking with commodity solutions, be they hardware or cloud, and re-training your staff on them will help them avoid the potential career dead-end of over-specialization.
Not that anyone cares or asked what I think but I wouldn't be surprised if Elon ends up surpassing Crazie Eddie Antar [0] as far as fraud goes. (I have no idea whether he is a fraud. He just strikes me as likely a fraud.)

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crazy_Eddie
> "VR is a completely different industry, more related to video games than..."

I see it differently. Entertainment is entertainment. In addition there is a finite amount of disposable income and disposable time.

For example, the myth is that the internet was what killed the music industry. Sure, maybe it was the death blow, but what brought music to its knees was video games. It changed the habits of plenty of kids. The only reason it didn't show was due to CD sales. Not only where ppl paying $15 for a single (since CD singles were almost nonexistent), but they were also rebuying music they already own in other formats. The music industry was a zombie propped up on inflated revenue.

As entertainment goes, Netflix is not in the next market.
AI doesn't have to learn to be classed as AI. Source: Every video game ever made. Just look at deep blue. Most would consider that AI, but AFAIK there is zero machine learning involved.

Edit: I think I hit the wrong reply button, meant to reply to parent, haha.
/boot is also fully encrypted on my system - which includes the initramfs, the backup initramfs, kernel, grub config, etc. /boot/efi is not encrypted, but only has the EFI modules.

The first stage of Grub (not sure one terminology here) knows about LUKS encrypted partitions and how to decrypt them. Only version 1 of the header though - found that out the hard way.
So just so we are clear, you stated as a fact that "software has a higher crash and fatality rate" while not having any evidence that what you said is true?
ICE is misbehaving badly in some ways and scaring legal immigrants. As always, it’s not the case that if you’ve done nothing wrong you have nothing to fear. ICE has deported actual US citizens who have the wrong sort of look, never mind “mere” legal residents.
Lying to investors is a crime. There is a large difference between making a stupid investment and being lied to about a stupid investment.

Did you make an account just to make this dumb comment?
Fujifilm sues Xerox for well over $1B after aborted merger
A lot of what you are imagining is already a reality in many areas. Our company takes care of pretty much all of the services in a PSAP; call-taking, computer aided dispatch, map, and radio dispatch, plus records and jail management for law enforcement. All the systems work together and it is absolutely possible for a dispatcher to patch a caller into a radio talkgroup, individual call, or to a first responders cell phone... it just isn't very useful and it is hardly ever done in real life.

Mobile CAD and RMS are catching on as well so in many departments, first responders can see and hear everything going on in dispatch from their tablets or laptops if they want. They can see what calls are active, what units are assigned to them, and actually interact with the caller if it is allowed. Again, this isn't always that useful. Staff in dispatch almost always have a better understanding of what is going on big picture wise and are already on top of allocating resources and clearing information. Going around them is not all that helpful. Silent dispatch is nice for beat work. It's great when CAD automatically creates incidents in RMS that LE can easily pull into reports... including recordings of the 911 calls etc.

There are popular smartphone apps like active 911, Bryx911, edispatch ,and iamresponding that are great for first responders, especially volunteers. These apps sync with the CAD system in dispatch and offer alert/response, mapping, and messaging features.

The space changes slowly, but it is very much changing and adapting to the smartphone era. FirstNet will probably accelerate these kinds of changes, which is a good thing... but I am sure it will introduce its own set of problems.
A culture of fear is generally demotivating.
Not sure why I didn't hear about child separation before last week then? To be fair, I didn't pay any attention to news couple of yrs ago, but I feel like i would've heard about this if it was reported like it is now.

Just hope they don't regress, that would be the real test.

Regarding "their guy" , I was thinking of MSNBC's tweet saying Opera was "their president" or something.
The vast majority absolutely are. There are some examples that are not, and whenever something even remotely questionable happens, the narrative pushers jump on it immediately. If you think the vast majority aren't, then go find some examples. You won't be able to come up with more than a couple.
Maybe this is what you meant, but it seems possible that you could just publish your data through your own protocol, and allow the apps to read it in that form if they want? Or perhaps I've misunderstood your position in this...
> most people seem to choose safety over freedom

I don't think that's true as often as our pessimistic sides would assume:

People risk their lives for freedom, in fighting wars, in challenging oppressors, in trying to escape. To say it more dramatically: A few people once agreed to risk their lives, their fortunes, and their honor for liberty, not the other way around.
Why can't it go both ways? Tourists can make a conscious effort to put their rubbish in the bin and learn how to say "please" and "thanks" locally.

I hike frequently, so simply by going to a national park I harm the environment there. But I also pay for park passes which help fund those parks, and I refrain from littering and wandering off the track.
I think of H1B— or any immigration that’s tied to employment status—as a form of indenture as well. Just because it’s legal doesn’t mean it’s ethical.
I am saying we all go out into a chaotic world every day and face technology which companies have put into the world for their own profit-seeking motive which is just as likely (if not significantly more-so) to kill us as a self driving car.

This has nothing to do with sacrafice. The government necessarily makes life and death trade-offs in setting regulatory hurdles. It’s entirely unconvincing to argue that the beta driver assistance and beta self-driving technology should be banned from roads because it can’t guarantee someone won’t die.

Because in fact automobiles are killing over a million people per year. Self driving automobiles are responsible for exactly 1 of those 1.25 million deaths, and driver assistance technology have contributed to about a dozen more.

What is indisputably moving fast and killing people are... people driving cars. The singular solution to this ongoing bloodbath may be only a few years away. But you seem to want millions of people to continue dying because of a misappropriated Facebook slogan?

I’m not a big fan of populist outrage in the best of times, but when it seeks to perpetuate the status quo of 1.25 million annual auto fatalities I think we owe it to ourselves to elevate the discussion to the point where you are actually considering the implication of your proposed solution.

Every year you shift the self-driving adoption curve you are killing hundreds of thousands of people. But in the real world today this technology could arguably share the blame for about dozen deaths. Should the government ban the technology from public roads and force companies like Tesla to recall their existing functionality? There’s a hysterical appeal to emotion be made, but nothing close to a cogent logical argument.

If anything, government should be pushing self-driving requirements harder than carbon limits. Instead of municipalities claiming they are going to be banning gas engines by 2030 they should be claiming they will ban steering wheels. The steering wheel is far, far deadlier.
“ICE doesn’t deport legal immigrants.”

Of course they do. They’ve even deported citizens. The agency is out of control, and the fact that they mostly enforce civil infractions means they’d not held to account nearly as much as traditional law enforcement, and not nearly as much as they should be.
You mean we have equivalents of the following:

TPPK
ggnore
Trust drop tests for joining clans?
Griefing with no admins with slow?
Buying a zephy on eBay for 600$
Team VIP custom imported items?
Going legit on east and wtf pwning kids in bugged gear because you understand mechanics?
Having a perfect defense Shako
Dropping a full inventory on someone that died in cow level to pop them
Having a second account to bot on because everyone and I mean everyone is botting
A game made playable and enjoyable by map hack
MF stacking and having zero resistance as a result and dying cuz lag
DCing while muling
Rust storm and logging on to find that everything on your zon was duped and she is naked.

I can go on, Diablo 2 was much more than most remember it, and much more than it is today.

Diablo 3 is a fun game for laid back grinder with some fun mechanics. You feel powerful but dear god it’s not diablo 2, it never will be and shouldn’t be compared.
I see a lot of resentment and "hate" on HN about Elon and quite honestly I don't understand where it is coming from. Where are the facts that Elon/Tesla is one gigantic fraud? Where is the scientific proof?
Analyze trillions of events from different verticals all over the world
Comparing Languages for Engineering Server Software: Erlang, Go, and Scala/Akka [pdf]
Wish I was who you're talking about, name's Jeremy though. Sent you a message on Facebook though, hit me up bud :)
Maybe let the voters decide policy and the tech companies deal with the tech?
Haven’t played Diablo 1, I grew up with Diablo 2 (I’m a bit younger lol), but for me D2 represents the most memorable athmosphere in gaming. Man...that music in Act 1...

Years later I bought 2 copies of D2 to replay it. Needed 2 because no shared stash to transfer items between characters.
Because you don't to sign a contract to buy office supplies from amazon?