skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think Instagram works because it's not as viral as Facebook. It's difficult to get into political flamewars. Also reposts and forwards look pathetically lame on Instagram, so people tend to post more original content.
That makes a lot of sense, thanks!
So the massive amount of US dollars funding those operations are irrelevant?
Writing most of your front/backend business logic in Go is one possibility, but I think that easily moving complex logic to the web as a platform (especially for web demos, see these[0] example with gopherjs) is the most compelling possibility. Generally, I'm excited that this democratizes the web programming space, because the best use cases are often the ones no one has thought of yet.

[0]: https://hajimehoshi.github.io/ebiten/
This article skips over one of the most interesting stories in modern business: how Gary Kildall lost IBM to Microsoft:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Kildall#IBM_dealings
It's not accurate that the military doesn't care. You are foolish.
It never fit.....
The theme of the author's blog is the history of gaming, and he spends a lot of his time explaining and often glorifying old games and systems. Perhaps to some, he isn't paying enough respect to MSDOS in this instance. But he is someone who does thorough research about old tech and software:

https://www.filfre.net/hall-of-fame/
Is there a way to check the date a specific domain was registered?
Single letters are allocated to "root" DNS servers.

I built this a while back:

https://linkpeek.com/blog/website-screenshot-of-every-two-le...

https://linkpeek.com/blog/firework-project-screenshot-every-...
Cloud Filestore specifically gives you a multi-host NFS interface (for traditional filesystem applications) like Amazon EFS - for applications you cant easily modify to use other APIs it appears like a normal filesystem.

Cloud Storage is an API-level object store (e.g. S3) that requires specific application support.
I like the quote about a Patek on Succession, "And it's amazingly accurate - every time you look at your wrist, you know -exactly- how rich you are."
> I'm also very reluctant to believe any report that estimates GHG emissions from industry

Same!

> efficiency = money, i thought that was obvious.

We have to be careful here. We've just switched to talking about overall production efficiency now, not the c02 byproduct efficiency that was being referred to. There is no t much of a direct market force to be efficient about c02 byproducts, in fact often the opposite, money and production efficiency is a force against reducing c02 emissions.

> how anyone can care about the environment and not be vegetarian is completely beyond me.

That's a great point. Not to mention Americans just eat too much. We could make huge improvements by eating less.

>> I'm imagining some change in purchasing behavior
> I'd call that fantasy.

That's a fair point, for as long as we have these options. A willing change in purchasing behavior might be unrealistic.
> Cutting and pasting ideally should consistently work exactly like that operation in real life

That sounds intuitively reasonable, until you look at the current situation where every time you copy paste text between programs that support formatting, you have to cleanse it by pasting and copying through Notepad, or it will do the wrong thing. Note that fixing this would have negative cost: just don't bring any formatting information with copied text.

> Fire up an emulation of the original Macintosh sometime and it feels surprisingly modern and intuitive - far moreso than its contemporaries (Windows 1.0, AmigaOS...)

I used AmigaOS in the late eighties, and found it better than the contemporary Macintosh, though admittedly I don't remember the details well enough to be sure to what extent that was because of the operating system versus the hardware.
The article missed showing the imho coolest of van Goghs Japan-inspired works, "Père Tanguy":

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portrait_of_Père_Tanguy

https://www.wikiart.org/en/vincent-van-gogh/père-tanguy

"Almond blossoms" is really beautiful, and indeed very reminiscent of cherry blossoms. I like its bittersweet background story a lot.
Priceonomics runs a service that produces interesting content for their clients based on their data. That's what this is.

Most content on HN would probably fall under your definition of "long form advertising".
The SEC Has Had Its Own Questions About LaCroix
Sorry I’ve been swamped so i can’t actually do reaearch and give a full response so I’ll start with a tldr and hopefully come back and give you a real answer later:

earnings are an accounting measure and there’s some flexibility as to whether a given expense is classified as capex, opex, r&d, etc each with different earnings implementations.

In general I prefer cashflow to earnings for that reason.

The next point is cash flow vs free cash flow, fcf factors in capex, etc giving you an accirate idea of how much capital is free to distribute to shareholders (free meaning available).

As one example, look at tsla’s financials. Their gross margins / earnings paint a way better picture than their fcf, because they engage in all the accounting practices that I vaguely referenced above
>However you can easily make these meals at home.

As someone who cooks a lot at home I call this an overstatement. Cooking a restaurant quality food is anything but easy for a non-professional cook. It took me months if not years to learn how to not overcook meat, and yet I still can't achieve the same level of juiciness and softness I see in meat cooked in restaurants.

You will also need to invest in good quality kitchenware if you're going to cook at home.

The article also completely ignores the other costs of cooking at home such as utilities, food waste, and your time which used not just for cooking, but also for shopping groceries.
But: if you do not calculate probabilities, what do you calculate?
>This is terrible advice for all but the largest of organizations.

Don't start a conversation with an opening generalization like that if you want something constructive. Especially when the rest of your post is clearly based on the single anecdote of your experience.

>Running your own hardware is AWFUL.

Maybe for you. Not for any sysadmin with even just a couple of years of experience.

>patching operating systems

We're talking about instances, none of that sysadmin stuff goes away if you're on AWS. If you don't have patching management for operating systems on AWS then your instances are screwed. AWS instances don't eliminate the need for sysadmin work.

The only real difference is the hardware management. And if you read my post you would have seen that I said using aws for the on-demand flexibility is okay. All of the static workloads are what belongs down in your datacenter.

Netflix doesn't run 1/3 of the Internet traffic off of AWS, only a tiny subset because of the aforementioned shitty economics. The real workhorses are in custom netflix servers at peering points. Netflix would be bankrupt if they used AWS for video. Do some research before spreading free marketing propaganda.

This forum tends to only think in terms of explosive growth of traffic, which <0.1% of companies actually have to deal with. AWS flexibility is needed by very few successful B2C companies, but it's supported by the cargo-culting of orders of magnitude more developers ("jedberg said this worked for reddit, we need this because we're like reddit").

Also, your whole argument about non 'value-add' is bogus. That's the same excuse that management uses to outsource all development. Everything has a cost and provides some value to the company.
Every use case listed on this article followed the following nominal pattern:

(1) Start with a relational database.

(2) Build product until you have a deep understanding of your market and their needs.

(3) Move to a specialized data store.

For established products, or well-researched use-cases, sure, pick a specialized data store. It will probably serve your needs better.

If you don't yet have product-market fit, use a relational database. It will give you far greater flexibility when you discover that "what we thought the market wanted" is different from "what actually made the right numbers go in the right direction".
Qualcomm’s first new smartwatch chip in two years is for kids’ watches
To be fair, collapse is an interpretation...
That ship sailed years ago.

Today, if you want a client-facing service to be reliably available, it has to run on port 80 or 443.
D'oh. Thanks for the correction. I was indeed thinking of 8080.
it's a real trade-off. i think for more interactive software, a "fuck it and throw an exception" approach can be reasonable. for server software it's death. (you need to service the request to the best of your ability, and make sure that you are handling any failures in the best possible way.)
Sure, but we don't need to explain everything in terms of our world to still try to explain concepts. We can use contradictions, or games[0], or experiments, or any number of mechanisms.

Infinity doesn't really map to anything else that I understand. Some of the better tutorials I've gotten on infinity are literally just saying, "hey, look at this scenario. Do you think it works the same way as with really big numbers? Well it DOESN'T! Now watch me shove even more guests into your hotel! :)"

I'm not pushing back against the idea that quantum mechanics is a completely new paradigm, I'm pushing back against the idea that math, by itself, is a good enough mechanism for teaching new paradigms.

The math/pop-science dichotomy actually reminds me a bit of my early physics lessons on electricity. I'd either get a really awful analogy (electricity is just like water flowing through a pipe), or I'd get the formula to add up the resistors and calculate voltage and then get told, "well, this is all you're going to need to know for the test."

Neither approach was concerned with understanding how electricity worked; one just said "think of it as something else", and the other said "don't think about it."

[0]: http://www.4dtoys.com/
duck typing is an informal term, no? i think it's fair to think of structural typing as "compile time duck typing".
Is there a way to filter out articles from The Atlantic when reading HN so that I don't see them?

Edit: Actually, this is not even the title of the article, I expected it to be way stupider. Could you please correct it?
Totally. ;) In all seriousness, I had friends who emailed Internic with fake company names and their home address. They received a Class C allocation in about a month.
I live in a semi-arid climate (BSk) with 260mm average rainfall where they grow cereal crops. We are further to the arid end of the semi-arid classification than the desert in the article though still not technically a desert climate.

We have plants adapted to low rainfall and animals such as reptiles adapted to hot, dry conditions. You can go from crops to sand drifts to scrub and back in metres. I think I could go for a 30 minute drive, find an area of land and call it the world's smallest desert with about as much validity as the claim in the headline. The area in the article is remarkable due to its location but it seems less remarkable when compared with semi-arid areas globally.

I nominate the Perry Sandhills outside Wentworth, NSW, Australia at 0.6 square miles to be the smallest desert because it is semi-arid and has sand dunes and is only less remarkable for not being surrounded by snow.
This begs the question of what, if anything, the SNI might be used for within these CDNs.

They are using it to choose the certificate that is provided to the client.
"Poached" is such a negative word. How about "recruited"?
How Do You Say “Life” in Physics? (2016)
> much higher bandwidth than copper

It can't. Coax can easily support Gbps connections (I used to have a 800 Mbps connection where the last few meters were over regular coax).

Now if you're talking about "why can't my copper twisted pair support that bandwidth", then it is a function of quality (the twisted pair is likely old, heavily bended, subject to interference, and running over old technologies.

Bandwidth is essentially a function of 2 things: spectrum availability (measured in Hz) and spectral efficiency (measured in bits/second/Hz).

For example, if a carrier "owns" 20 MHz of spectrum (let's say, from 700 MHz to 720 MHz), split in two symmetrical up/down channels, with a spectral efficiency of 4bps/Hz (a common value for LTE), and the cell towers have 3 sectors, each cell tower can provide 2043/2 120 Mbps up and down (although only 40 Mbps max per device, since a device can only be in one sector).

In wired communications, spectrum is less of a limit: every single wire has the full spectrum available. And if you are using fiber, then there is no interference, both from outside the wire or from different signals.

So air will never beat wired, because every single strand of wire has, in practice, the entire capacity of air.

PS: There are more things in play, such as attenuation, actual frequencies used (1 to 2 MHz has 1 MHz of spectrum; 1 to 2 GHz has 1000x more spectrum and therefore more capacity), etc.
api2pdf is a wrapper for wkhtmltopdf and headless chrome, so whichever options are available for those services, would be available through the API. For 10,000 PDFs in one month, printfriendly costs over $200 and api2pdf costs a couple of bucks.
So what is the optimal choice for saving time and money while still eating well?

Personally, I'd say just developing everyday food shopping and kitchen skills is a good start.

Learn to recognise good ingredients when you're shopping. Finding fruit and vegetables at the right level of ripeness or choosing a good cut of meat will improve your meal quality, reduce your waste, and save you time and money. Buying very cheap cuts of meat or clearance produce is often a false economy, as the quality is often so low that you'll waste much more and what you keep will be less healthy and less tasty.

Knowing where to go shopping for the best ingredients is helpful too. Independent local stores, farm shops or markets might have fresher and less modified products than a big chain store or home delivery service, and you might have more flexibility to get exactly the amount you want instead of a pre-determined pack size. Sure, it takes some time to buy fresh ingredients in person every few days, but probably only a few minutes.

Speaking of time, the amount I have saved over the years by knowing how to prepare different fruits and vegetables efficiently must far outweigh the relatively small amount I spent learning. (Seriously, if you don't know the easy way to slice a bell pepper or dice an avocado, go to YouTube right now and spend a few minutes finding out how professional chefs do this kind of thing. You'll thank me later.)

It's also important to have the right tools, and this is about quality, not quantity. Non-stick pans, good sharp knives and the right utensil for the job can all be big time savers, as well as often being safer than inferior alternatives. And get into the habit of always cleaning as you work, instead of stacking up some huge pile of dirty cookware, utensils, knives and boards to wash later.

Ultimately, it's hard to beat a decent home-made meal with good ingredients for cost, and unless you're talking about a nice restaurant it's going to be hard to beat it significantly on quality either, but you can certainly do a lot to reduce the amount of time you have to spend making one.
A Fox code for the face
> Everything in a UI that you can do with a mouse should be tolerant of disabilities that people who use a mouse might be going throug (tremors etc).

Why? Should we give up on first person shooter games? Set minimum mouse target sizes for RTS games? The point of the department menu is to convert dexterity into information rapidly. If you lack dexterity, that's no strike on your character, but it somewhat defeats the purpose of a dexterity-limited input. There is an alternative to the department menu in the left side of the search bar, which has a simple list.
Effects of Consciousness on the Fall of Dice: A Meta-Analysis [pdf]
Disclosure: I work for Google Cloud.

> I think it would be nice to have Google's offer, but then also a longer term 'lock in' low price option as well, as frankly, this fits a lot of businesses.

We hear you. That's why we offer Committed Use Discounts [1]. Are you saying that a 3-year commitment to a specific price (or lower, as we do price cuts) is insufficient though? (I want to understand)

[1] https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/instances/signing-up-c...
I'm sure they're just as bad as every other Intel chip has ever been.
Wow, I thought coroutines were pretty much a done deal... I guess all the big compilers implementing the TS wasn't a good indicator of progress.

Skimming the trip reports just now, it sounds like some Google engineers tried to use them, didn't like them, wrote a whole new proposal, and threw the schedule into disarray. Sigh. I'm sure they had good reasons to do this, but c'mon guys... at some point you have to decide that done is better than perfect.
Firstly this is how lawyers communicate. grow up and suck it up.

Secondly you are making something available to others that should not be. you are in the wrong.

thirdly, if they do not actively work towards protecting their copyrights they will lose the right to copyright it. The Law makes them do this.

do as they say, you're the one in the wrong here.
> wave-particle duality is just a confusing and pretentious way of saying...

But it's not! It is exactly what one observes in an experiment.
My experience with AWS reserved instances has not been very good previously.

1. Once you buy a reserved instance, you're locked in to that type and price for the duration, even though newer types at lower prices may get introduced (as they almost definitely would over 1-3 yrs).

2. If you're from outside the US, you might not be able to resell your reserved instance. So you're stuck with an old instance type at an inflated cost.

In contrast, Google Cloud just gives you a price equivalent to a reserved instance price (or better), based on hours of usage, without asking for an upfront commitment.
Thanks for that link! I watched the whole video on APS cameras: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTV99DzuJp0. What a trip down memory lane. The presenter did a great job of capturing what I remembered about APS. I really liked that format even though it sacrificed quality for convenience. I have a bunch of old reels of APS film I'll have to go see if I can get transferred to digital now.
Really dissapointed with this approach... Hope they’d release a standalone version later down the line. This is literally forcing the customer to pay whether they use it or not.

r.i.p standalone software licenses
Some of the fun:
http://websdr.ewi.utwente.nl:8901/
https://www.hackerone.com/ is a good place to start
And amateur fishing sonar screens...
Understanding how deep learning actually works using topological data analysis
India launching moon rover to search for helium-3 deposits
I heard YC made / considered to make moving to SV full time optional. Coming for 1-2 days per week could be acceptable. Is this true or did I make it up?
Yeah, I had my terminology confused. I was mistaken.
I think you're confusing personal preference with universal UX guidelines, especially w.r.t copy-paste.

> That sounds intuitively reasonable, until you look at the current situation where every time you copy paste text between programs that support formatting, you have to cleanse it by pasting and copying through Notepad, or it will do the wrong thing.

Most programs which support rich text copy-pasting have "paste with formatting" versus "paste text only" options, with the ability to change the default. If an application doesn't, that's the fault of that developer, not the OS semantics.

> Note that fixing this would have negative cost: just don't bring any formatting information with copied text.

I like having source formatting with my pastebins, and most non-technical people do as well. For example, when emailing a code snippet to somebody, I love keeping the syntax highlighting from my editor. And the option to keep the text only is always right there if I need it.
Wi-Fi is still a largely under-utilized resource. With the right incentives a lot of LTE usage could be off-loaded and hopefully create significant competitive pressure on cellular plans. Indoor usage should be all Wi-Fi, with LTE capacity saved for truly mobile scenarios like riding in a car or walking down the street.

Those incentives being a kickback/royalty payment to Wi-Fi operators who allow roaming and cheaper bills and higher quotas for customers. Right now I have a choice between $10/GB fast LTE and free but very slow store Wi-Fi. Free means the venue operator spends as little money as possible and users over-consume. A revenue stream for accepting off-loaded traffic would give them a business justification to subscribe to a decent connection and install additional access points.

To this day it seems like only the equipment manufacturers are profiting off Wi-Fi. Venue owners only indirectly profit by attracting more foot traffic. Cellular operators plug coverage holes with Wi-Fi calling, and address severely congested areas with efforts like attwifi, but they do not want to disrupt their main product.
Humans also have an exceedingly long lifespan. Is it even possible to perceive the effects of evolution on the human race?

Bacteria, on the other hand, have lifespans on the order of hours and reproduce at a much faster rate. They can also absorb DNA from the environment, transfer DNA to other bacteria and receive a literal DNA injection from a virus.
> What is "you"?

You is the thing (or, more accurately, the process) that is conducting this conversation.

> What is the "you" that is aware of (the rest of your brain's) decisions, that is observing your thought process?

But that is the whole point: you aren't actually aware of the rest of your brain's decisions. You think you are, but you're wrong. That is Dennett's thesis.
At least it’s in the HN edition now! The Père Tanguy portrait is just wonderful.
Facebook abandons Aquila, its internet drone
Loss of consciousness and amnesia turn out to be the exact same thing.
In case you don't want to register and are curious about some metadata:

Videos:
100K video clips:
Size:1.8TB

Info:
The GPS/IMU information recorded along with the videos:
Size: 3.9GB

Images
It has two subfolders. 1) 100K labeled key frame images extracted from the videos at 10th second 2) 10K key frames for full-frame semantic segmentation.:
Size: 6.5GB

Labels:
Annotations of road objects, lanes, and drivable areas in JSON format. Details at Github repo.:
Size: 147MB

Drivable Maps:
Segmentation maps of Drivable areas.:
Size: 661MB

Segmentation:
Full-frame semantic segmentation maps. The corresponding images are in the same folder.:
Size: 1.2GB
It’s always fun to read the original Dropbox YC application. So well thought out and written.

http://www.businessinsider.com/dropbox-y-combinator-applicat...

Are there any founders from recent batches than can still vouch whether YC is still worth it?

With insane SF rent prices, one has to burn a big chunk of that 120k in 3 months by just trying to stay alive.

Add that to the fact that YC batches are pretty big right now. Do you get much in return other than the YC bragging rights?

Would love to learn about the experiences of existing/past founders.
The misconceptions page is interesting i.e. almost all companies were incorporated, half had revenue, almost half had recommendations from alumni and almost half were responding to an RFS.
Were those numbers using 50 racks worth of instances (e.g. 20,000 of them) for the comparison? Did you remember to take into account the obscene bandwidth rates (sorry if that seems like a dumb question but I've seen this bite multiple companies moving to AWS)?

The break evens happen a lot earlier in my experience for static workloads, but I would love to see a breakdown if you're willing to share details.