skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder how much of the "social radar" reputation came from her just being a woman in a team of men. I don't know the gender breakdown in those days at YC but I'd be concerned that Livingston is elevating a socially ambiguous and widespread female trait — making normative intuitive judgements — into some kind of superpower. Women are socialized to do this, to make judgements of value based on scant information. Men, in contrast, especially engineers, tend to stick to reliable, formal knowledge.
Local government rules much of the US which makes national data sets difficult to assemble. There are excellent topographic resources though:

https://nationalmap.gov/
Google Cloud provides more than just VMs and Containers. It has a bunch of services backed in, from a variety of databases such as Firebase (that have powerful built in subscription and eventing systems) to fully baked in Auth, (Google will even handle doing two factor for you!) to assisting with certain types of machine learning.

Vultr looks like they provide more traditional services with a few extra niceties on top.

Within Google's infrastructure, I can deploy a new HTTPS REST endpoint with a .js file and 1 console command.

Could I set up an ecosystem on a Vultr VM to do the same? Sure, it isn't magic. But GCP's entire value prop is that they've already done a lot of that work for you, and as someone running a startup, I was able to go from "I have this idea" to "I have this REST endpoint" in couple of days, without worrying about managing infrastructure.

That said, articles like this always worry me. I've never seen an article that says "Wow Google's support team really helped out!"
>In the end, what is allowed is the intersection of behavior that's not penalized in any state of the world.

That is hardly true. We do not follow the rules of Saudi Arabia and Iran. What happens is that the laws of the US and the intersection of local laws are what needs to be followed.

The US is aghast that the EU is a large enough market to actually impact the rules of the global internet, and the laws are different enough that they will hurt the major US players. Now all of a sudden people are seeing why applying national laws to pure cyberspace is a bad idea.

I'm moving into using tor because it feels more like the internet I knew from 1998-2006, slow-ish, unreliable, unpolished, anonymous, ephemeral and private, with all the warts there to see. In short a new network that takes A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace seriously.
That's great for Finland! That is a real asset to your country.

The rest of the world doesn't necessarily work the same way Finland does, unfortunately.
Linus Torvalds tells kernel devs to fix their regressive fixing
You got scroogled
And we have a billion ways to go extinct long before then. I would be surprised if humanity is around in a million years, heck even 1,000 seems doubtful these days. Very surprised.
"Too relevant for that so I reposted it"

lol, you just stole my heart
I don’t have a problem in theory, but with the median household income in the US being $60K a year[1] how many families can afford to invest in college for any other reason besides trying to give thier children a better opportunity?

[1] https://www.thebalance.com/what-is-average-income-in-usa-fam...
You got Scroogled...
Maybe you could hook up a projector to your laptop and pair program? You could create databases that are suffering from some issue, or need some modification, and just work your way through it with a student. I think it would be really intimidating, but it might be an awesome way to make the class more interactive.
Jessica Livingston – Grow the Puzzle Around You
I taught for around four years at a coding school that gave me free reign to try whatever crazy experiments I wanted. With the compressed timeline, I also got the chance to try out different things with a new batch of students every three weeks! It was a tight feedback loop with weekly feedback forms from the students.

As an example, here’s one experiment that proved really useful, a ruby object graph visualizer to explain objects and references: https://github.com/mattbaker/ruby-heap-viz

Your experience teaching is far greater than mine, but I think I might actually have a lot to share in relation to the questions you’re asking, and I love talking with educators.

If you want to chat sometime drop me a line at mbaker.pdx at gmail.
Here's where we perhaps differ - I don't think most art being made today passes the test of requiring skills that take significant time to develop. A load of bricks on the floor? A woman knitting using wool pulled from her vagina and dyed with her menstrual blood? When art is purely about crazy ideas then I don't think artists have any special monopoly. If we were talking about the type of artist that has honed their skills over thousands of hours of painting, for example, I would agree that significant investment of time develops tangible skills, but this type of approach is hugely unfashionable I believe, with practitioners viewed scornfully as technicians rather than 'proper' artists.

The scorn of traditional art from conceptual art even spawned a reactionary traditionalist movement, the Stuckists.
1 (one) versus l (lower case L), especially in today's environment of all sorts of encoded data and alphanumeric identifiers.

I run across enough instances where context doesn't suffice to distinguish between the two (this is a word versus that is a number), that this is a noticeable problem for me.
I do use AWS, and have tried out GCP before. Just because I use Vultr doesn't mean I can't also use others.
Best part of Sep 1st is the vids of moving trucks getting can-opened on Storrow Drive.
No, just a kind of Hegelian turn. Computer graphics have been oriented towards emulating photography for many years. That project is nearing its end and still realism is lacking.

As people start to realize there is more to seeing than just photography, we will enter an era of discovering more sparing uses of computation.

Look to painting for a possible progression. Realism/classicism was just an early maximum. Impressionism followed. And then many other movements. Contemporary painters can do much more with much less.
Several of these strike me as "concentrate things so your initial offering meets some minimal threshold of value to participants." I think the clearest example of what I mean by that is this:

Tactic 17: Set a time constraint.
You can actually program excitement into the marketplace with the help of time constraints.

Examples: At launch, Tophatter only let people bid between 8-9pm PT. During this hour the marketplace felt crowded.

I wouldn't frame it as being about feeling crowded. To my mind, limiting the time frame helps ensure that there is a sufficient activity level to be worthwhile for participants.
It seems crazy to leave a coffee maker.

But it’s equally crazy to remove fitted appliances that presumably have widths/depths/heights specific to the kitchen.

Either that or you have to build kitchens in such a way that it’s possible - e.g always free-standing fridges with no fitted cupboards on top etc.
Look at what China is doing to airlines -- "Say Taiwan is a part of China or we won't let you operate here."

They have essentially the same policy as everyone else -- we'll force you to follow our laws, and if we can't we'll shut you out. Blocking the Winnie the Pooh content is no different. If China made up a large part of the audience of those sites, they would "have to" change.

Ditto GDPR -- you can just ignore it and block Europe if you want, they're not forcing you to do anything.
The cover story in this month's Wired is about Tezos: https://www.wired.com/story/tezos-blockchain-love-story-horr...
There is no need for that assumption. This is just positive reinforcement. Maybe we see more of a good thing.
And how many know about the Ludlow Massacre?

There is no rising fascism in America, if people really knew anything about the Wiemar Republic, Republican Spain, or March on Rome they would know that the left always loses when it tried to be humane and gain power. The only time the left gains power is when 'tankies' are the ones leading the resistance.
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This seems like a great use for cryptocurrency. (Not some weird complicated ICO-backed scheme, just regular payment.)
Until they can't and become bullies like with Taiwan.

I'm actually pretty appalled how easily people point to one or two benefits to the way China handles something while completely ignoring the concessions as evidence of them "doing it right". Never mind these short term benefits are coming at the cost of policies that are an affront to liberty and the modern concept of democracy.

So, I'm going to offer a counter opinion; I do not believe China does this "right". Dumb lawsuits are dumb, but I'm not willing to throw the baby out with the bath water.
This is huge. It's difficult to learn the process of solving a problem without having a deep understanding of the problem itself first.
This problem has existed forever. As long as I can remember. The main company that seems to be able to process credit cards for porn is CCBill. They seem to have no real competition other than small fringe services. As soon as those services get big enough it raises flags and they get shut down. How and why CCBill are able to do it while others aren’t I don’t know.

You can sell snake oil on Shopify all day long but sell a JPG with that shows female nipples and it raises flags.

Does anyone know WHY this actually is? I know it’s related to Title 18, Section 2257 somehow, but I don’t understand exactly how, nor why CCBill seems to operate without issue. Can somone with inside knowledge explain?

Porn has come such a long way in the last 10 years. Maybe I’m just more progressive than I realize, but I see stuff like X-Art as actual art and I wish there was something like iTunes for porn.

If someone can explain to be what the legal roadblock is for porn billing and how one might be able to get around it, I’d be the first investor and founder. Seriously. There is so much great pornography out there now I feel like you could actually change the way people think about it and maybe even clean up the industry. It doesn’t have to be a dirty thing you bury under 10 cryptic folders.
I built a simple CPU in Desmos (graphing software)
There is life outside of Silicon Valley. There are 60,000 computer science graduates every year in the US [1] most software developers aren’t working for the FAANG companies or the cool startups trying to change the world. They are working boring corporate jobs writing bespoked internal apps and yet another software as a service offering. Yes I know there are others writing embedded apps, mobile apps, game developers, etc. But most of those companies also are interested in people who can hit the ground running.

[1] https://qz.com/929275/you-probably-should-have-majored-in-co...
I'll be 'that guy'. This is the number one use case for a cryptocurrency in my opinion - a decentralized microtransaction system.

This isn't the first time Patreon has faced these issues and services like PayPal are notorious for closing your account then giving you the finger.

I don't want to give my credit card info to 30 different sites or services or creators I want to support. I don't want a bunch of small recurring charges from different places on my credit card. And most of all, I don't want a service to arbitrarily be able to decide (or have others force their hand as in this case) what I am and am not allowed to support.

I don't think the technology or people are remotely near ready for mainstream adoption yet but it is still the most compelling use case I've seen.
For an explanation on how it works, see this Reddit thread.

https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/8v0p4z/i_built...
I always wonder about this attitude.

How do you feel about the aggregate energy consumption of all Candy Crush games being played (servers, network, phones, PCs, monitors)?

What about all the energy used to grow, harvest, produce, transport and distribute alcoholic drinks?

For that matter, what about all distributed energy used by Twitter, including all clients, data centers, network routers, corporate offices, etc (where few tweets communicate something worthwhile to an actual human)?
Having done research in both the U.S. and France, the latter is far better simply because of the general life quality.

Language is not really that big of a factor. The U.S. definitely provides better research ressources but when you look at your life as a researcher as a whole, France is the better option.
I don't. And can flatten anything I want easily.

Have done it every way, from old school descriptive geometry, bend deduction, neutral surface.. you name it.

I asked about already bent pieces wondering about your market. Not everyone can bend. You may sell more, if you offer that.

Looks like you are headed that way. :D
Could you provide a link or citation where he does an expose no it? I am interested.
Can you elaborate? What's the alternative view? Are you suggesting that this behavior is all by design?
Alcubierre drives require exotic matter which is not quite ruled out by the laws of physics. Hopefully they don't require Jupiter-sized masses of the stuff, although some have suggested as much. However, that solved, there are two slight problems with this idea. One is that FTL inherently violates causality, which is sort of a problem. The other is that the spacecraft is expected to pick up and accelerate with it basically any matter it runs into along its superluminal path, releasing these as a spectacular shower of near-c particles whenever it stops. Your other speculations have their own defects, but I'll let others address them.
Credit card companies don't really care either way, but heavily regulated industries tend to prefer being on the regulator's good side, and the regulator is ultimately the political institutions.

The mirror version of "distributed costs and concentrated benefits" is working against what progressively minded people would think of as simple personal freedoms: Most progressives are not avid consumers of adult services, so they won't throw their full political weight against such actions. But those who are against adult services _will_.

I hope that voting and patience in explaining to political outgroups does help, but I admit it's more hope than anything else, strangely. This should be a bipartisan priority, but either party thinks they can "win" the though-police race.
Thanks for this, excellent simple argument cutting right to the core of it.

I'm a fool. Don't speculate about E&M before you've had your coffee kids.
Ah, right; missed that part of what you were saying.

If you switch the compiler version on my godbolt link to beta, the &mut i32 and &mut UnsafeCell<i32> both have the noalias attribute, so looks like it's on track. :)
If it can make you feel any better, the AWS support is the same.
We care just as much for people just starting out as we do for regular users; possibly even more!
> More mathematicians need to know about constructive mathematics https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constructivism_(mathematics)

> Basically, proof by contradiction is not a good idea.

The first statement is probably morally true (though I'd argue that almost every professional mathematician knows about constructivism, so maybe you meant something more like "take constructivism seriously" than just "know about constructivism"); and I think that judgements like the second probably aren't easily made scientific, and, if unscientific, are unuseable.

That said, it also seems to be almost entirely beside the point of formalisation (except in the sense that it seems that 'naturally occurring' formal logics tend to be constructive), so … why mention it here?
Interesting. I've never heard a sink referred to as an appliance. Anyway, I was referring to larger appliances such as stoves, fridges, dishwashers, etc. Certainly people bring smaller things like coffee makers as well, but that never seemed unusual to me.
Well, all it takes is for the system to make it impossible to convert crypto to fiat.
Like the stock market there will be plenty 'outside analysts' providing buy/sell/hold ratings on crypto and similar to the stock market, it's likely none of these analysts will be unbiased. Just ask Henry Blodget.
Ask HN: For employees, is picking a good early startup more luck than skill?
I've read blogs and accounts of people joining early stage startups as employees and then seeing the startup go big, either by getting lots of growth and funding, or they become acquired by a billion dollar company.

I'm sure it's survivorship bias, since who knows how many startup failures are there (and I think having some of that bias is healthy for aspiring business founders). But when that person joined after being at only one or two companies in their entire career, and then they just happened to join the right company even when it was early stage (when things are most speculative), it feels too good to be true. Did these people end up just being smart enough to predict the winners more easily, and then choosing a job offer from them? Or is it mostly luck at the early stage?

I've been at five different early stage companies. Today, two of those still exist and not making much more revenue. One is because they're a web agency and not really set to be a huge company. And the other is a startup that seems to be in the same place it was, either spinning their wheel or rather its growth is not very rapid, and still is not really making headlines, four years after leaving the company.

I feel like I'm doing the startup thing wrong, like assuming it's mostly luck. When I browse Angel.co picking companies that might be interesting to me, I feel like it's just rolling the dice. Is this a correct assumption? Or is there more skill than I take credit for, and I simply lack enough business acumen to make a well educated decision to pick future winners from losers?
I sometimes wonder how a crow would behave- if it where given the ability to search the internet. If you gave a species the tools of tomorrow today, allowing them to leap over aeons.
In other words: It wasn't resiliently built stuff.

Is an exploding car safe because it is built by an early stage startup?

Just because you decide that implementing resiliency isn't a good business decision for some early stage startup, doesn't magically make the product resilient, it just isn't and that may be OK.

There are many options to choose from for implementing resiliency, it could be having multiple providers concurrently, it could be having a plan for restoring service with a different provider in case one provider fails, it could be by setting up a contract with a sufficiently solvent provider that they pay for your damages if they fail to implement the resiliency that you need, whatever. But if you fail to consider an obvious failure mode of a central component of your system in your planning, then you are obviously not building a resilient system.

Edit: One more thing:

> There's no indication anywhere from GCP themselves that a project could be a domain of failure. If asked, I doubt they would consider it as such.

Then you are asking wrong, which still is your failure if you are responsible for designing a resilient system.

If you ask them "Is a complete project expected to fail at once?", of course they will say "no".

That's why you ask them "Will you pay me 10 million bucks if my complete project goes offline with less than one month advance warning?", and you can be sure you will get the response to the problem that you are actually trying to solve.
Edited to Add:

The last time I checked, the US believes that Taiwan is part of China. [1]

China has the stupid laws here. Instead of forcing them onto the rest of the world, they prevent the content from coming into their state.

Likewise GDPR is a "stupid" law, so it's the EU's job to prevent non GDPR sites from coming into Europe, and not Facebook's responsiblity for complying with a stupid law.

https://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/35855.htm
Well, there's plenty to say about C++ compiler errors too!
> I wouldn't go as far as calling it a bad idea but I do consider it a style error when a a proof by contradiction is used even though a proof by contraposition would do.

A common style of proof among novice mathematicians, and even occasionally some professionals, is the good old: "Let's prove `P` by contradiction. Assume `not P`. Then [direct proof of `P`]. Therefore, we have a contradiction."

(I think that the fondness for this technique above all others among novices is that, no matter how hard the problem, you always at least know how to start a proof by contradiction.)
That most math books I read don’t discuss it.
We really need good, alternative search. I miss Lycos, Hotbot, Yahoo and the days where if you didn't find someone in one place, you checked another. Searching for things took real work and you could find a lot of different rabbit holes.

Today, rarely do we go past the 2nd page of results. About 1/3 of the time, I get frustrated with Duck Duck Go and add !g.
> lets throw out the law of excluded middle

I don't think that we should throw it out, but neither do I think that we shouldn't do so.
mist.io supports most public and private cloud platforms. Also, it's open source https://github.com/mistio/mist-ce
Political/Administrative reasons mostly.

ENS and l'X (Ecole Polytechnique) in particular hold special statuses (each in their respective way) vis-a-vis the French state.
Just as with email threading, one could reasonably collapse steps that are tedious/trivial without removing them entirely from a digitally-documented proof.

Completeness and brevity are not entirely at odds.
IANAL, but an example of someone using leaked/stolen datasets: https://haveibeenpwned.com/Passwords
Show me the foundations for the continuum hypothesis.

What you're arguing for is a view of mathematics that has been dead for a century now. With the Godels incompleteness theorem and Turing halting problem show you that there are cases of 'true' statements in mathematics that can't be reduced to "well-defined logical axioms".
Of course we can
What! The land that gave the world Fourier, Poincare, Galois, Laplace, Pascal, Lagrange, Cauchy, Descartes, Fermat, Hadamard, Borel ... they had their MIT a long time earlier.
You could imagine it was designed by sick Nazis to kill racing drivers

There's a James Bond book about that.[1]

[1] https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00U1ZV63Y
What you just described (useless jokes) is not useless at all!
How you can help drive Flatpak adoption
I know what everybody's thinking: visa/mastercard is playing world morality police. But most of the major payment processors have banned certain types of products from being used on their platform[1], some of which obstinately lacks a "moral" reasoning (see: virtual game currency). My guess is that those types of businesses attract a high fraud/chargeback rate, which makes them more expensive to process. It's a risk/benefit trade off, nothing more.

[1] https://stripe.com/gb/prohibited-businesses

https://www.paypal.com/gb/webapps/mpp/ua/acceptableuse-full

https://docs.adyen.com/legal/adyen-restricted-prohibited-lis...
Once upon a time, that layout was pretty standard on the web. I feel like there is not a penalty for older sites that don't have the resources to update and move from the 90s/00s.

And something is lost there. Now all our sites are bloated with a shit-ton of Javascript. I turn Javascript off by default and are surprised by how many blank pages I get. (If it's a news site, I use archive.is instead of enabling it). Square Space sites don't load most images without Javascript.
I think it's regional. When I lived in the midwest all of the appliances came with the apartment. Now I live in Los Angeles and you have to bring your own fridge.
It's pretty common in France as well, unless it's a furnished rental, the renter brings their own fridge, stove, etc.
And yet I'm constantly told that European banks make it trivial to transfer money without middlemen like visa. So why not just submit payment that way?