skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You should try reaching to them, but considering they have the expertise, that they own their infrastructure, and that they are also rolling out their own cloud offering, I am not really sure what may be their benefit in cooperating with you to alter their base offering.

I do not mean that in a bad way, just in a logical way.

I mean, they are already making a profit at $120/month, so I guess their response to you will be "sure, buy as many servers as you want, price is $120/each". You will be back to square one, trying to sell your hourly services to scientists who need GPUs.

Then the initial problem remain: anyone with a baseline demand for GPUs is better off renting them at hetzner. They can use you for small loads, or unanticipated needs. But then it will be for a short time, before they opt for a monthly rent.

Even then, for this peak demand, you compete straight on against google cloud and aws. You certainly undercut their ridiculous prices, but it is not clear to me how better off I am chosing you compared to hetzner+any other cloud offering.

I am just talking as a prospective client (I often need GPUs!) who fails to see what's unique or interesting in your offer. And if you know less about your competition than your prospective clients, I see that as a bad sign: your offer may not be priced right.

Maybe I am wrong, and you are just aiming for a different kind of clients, with a time-sensitive but less elastic demand, yet not as inelastic as someone who will pay top $ for google or aws? Feel free to explain me if there is business secret at risk here.

Good luck anyway!
I don't think it has anything to do with lack of faith in the US Dollar, which seems to be doing just fine.

It very likely has a lot to do with interest rates being very low, and the stock market being very high. Returns on capital in typical investments are very low, and that pushes capital to other investments, including VC. Couple that with a very hot technology sector that's producing incredible amounts of value, and it's very clear why capital is chasing tech startups of all sizes.
Both can be true simultaneously.

If you being drunk excuses being aggressive, you will have lower incentive to even attempt to control aggressivity while drinking. You will also be more likely to drink before executing plan to be aggressive/violent - to give yourself excuse and reason. If alcohol excuses, you will also drink so that you give yourself social permission to do stuff you know you should now and that would make you look badly if not drunk.

In opposite culture, you will not purposfully drink to enable social permission and you will attempt to regulate behavior while drinking.

That is independent of whether alcohol actually makes you more aggressive and how much it naturally lowers inhibitions. Even if it does, the culture will affect how much.
That sounds more like fraud than a legitimate startup.
It definitely didn't use to track merges. That got added after most people jumped ship to git. Before that, you had to specify the common ancestor commit of the things you were merging, which you usually didnt know and had to dig around in slow logs to find out.
Then this happens

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbouTftw3RY
The people in charge of hiring decisions are as diverse as you and I or anyone. Some of them will say: "I don't like this guy because he doesn't have a degree". There's many more that would still hire you despite not having a degree.

CS is a fascinating subject and great fun to study. But, truth be told, most of the knowledge you gain will be completely useless in your day to day job, unless you become a CS Professor. Just think about it, you don't have a degree and you've already completed 4 years of software engineering experience: that should tell you everything you need to know about that.

If you do, do it, then just get one of those online degrees where you do the minimum amount of work: that way, you can decrease cost and maximize your ROI. At this point, it's just going to be a small line item at the end of your resume, mostly there for checkbox purposes.

There is one exception. If you get a chance to go to a top tier college like Standford or harvard or MIT, obviously, a lot of people are going to like that. And it may open a few doors for you that might not otherwise be open. It would probably give you a sizable advantage in an interview at Google or facebook.
Can we not just throw NNs at things and call it AI?
I think there are certain companies with significant upfront capital requirements that first time founders will find it almost impossible to get funded. This is unfortunate and probably reducing overall innovation but I think the revolution that has caused first time founders to get funding has been software. Software has significantly reduced the upfront capital required to get a business off the ground. I think we Founder venture further and further away from pure software companies they are going to find fundraising much more challenging.
With this it attack it should be possible to extract the keys and access the encrypted home partition. Disk encryption and TPS chips are supposed to mitigate physical attacks. Its worrying if Ubuntu doesn't care about that vector.
Yes and No.

There are actually developers that had given a lot of open source software to the platform (OS/2) without expecting nothing in return. But cloning OS/2 to turn it open source is a very long task and we don't have enough hands on the community.

But eComStation and ArcaOS uses IBM's binaries (OS/2 binaries), so to be a legal product an agreement and $$$ has to be given to IBM to be able to distribute a resell the binaries. So, it can not be a free product until some developers clone an open source replacement for the OS/2's binaries.

If you have doubts you can visit OS2World.com and ask on the forum.
Intel PR was always too much addicted to Moore's Law. The Moore's Law is almost dead and so is Intel (Most semiconductor industry forecasters, including Gordon Moore, expect Moore's law will end by around 2025)

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore%27s_law#Near-term_limits
Correct title is "How to Analyze Billions of Records in 20 Minutes and One Second"

All of these "fast" databases have a fatal flaw - it takes forever to load the data in the first place. In this case loading takes >1000x longer than the query so loading is all that matters.
Data gathering is valuable only because it's a concentration of a huge number of very low value things.

Think of it like a dam and reservoir at the drainage of a major watershed. You can position things to collect all the rain and snow melt over a large area. But it's not like you are going to pay everyone for each rain drop.
Sounds criminal. "Move fast, break things". For example labor rights.
Oh, Nahuatl speaking people, how rare! They must be very busy maintaining the Nahuatl Wikipedia https://nah.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cal%C4%ABxatl
That's long. I would have expected the end to come within hours of the funds being released to the perps. Err. Entrepreneurs.
I thought they're called bagholders. (baghodlers?)
This is great, besides the Sources tab, I use DOM and Event breakpoints a ton to debug a lot of problems.

Something, I'm not sure if most people know, if you break somewhere (whether event or DOM), you can access the currently in scope variables directly in the console. It's extremely useful for finding out what's going on with something in the middle of hairy code at a specific point in time.
> This conception of patents as private property rights protecting the innovator’s creation is arguably required by the Patent Clause of the Constitution

The Patent Act of 1790 set the patent term limit to 14 years and allowed them to be much shorter if the situation called for it, and Article I Section 8. Clause 8 of the Constitution itself calls patents an "exclusive right" for a limited period of time.

So then, we're saying that both the Constitution and the first Congress declared your "private property" to no longer be yours after a limited period of time?

That's quite an... interesting definition of property too, one where the Constitution itself separately defines it from all other property, then gives an explicit reason for allowing you to have any right to it at all, and the reason has nothing to do with it being "your" property and everything to do with the broader benefit to society by promoting "... the Progress of Science and useful Arts".
We were doing well enough to give them good severance and the tech market was good enough that it was easy for them to find jobs.
Yes, the article is out of date, but I thought the visualization was really cool!
Once ICO scams stop working, the world will move towards traditional models. Crypto is out there, and it's not going anywhere. Eventually someone will realize that the smarter move is to create sustainable value over time.
An app that reads Wikipedia to teach you about cities you’re driving through
Well, "cool" tech is very subjective and often based in some sort of tech ideology. Is Golang "cool"? I don't think so, but a lot of people do.

HN is flooded with posts like "Show HN: I made a web server in Go/Rust/Erlang". Clap clap, good for you. I find these articles quite worthless but leave them alone because hey, it's not like disk space on HN servers is a particularly limited resource. If some people want to talk about someone else's web server or yet-another-js-framework, that's no problem by me.

However, much of this sort of cheerleading is motivated by what can only be called ideology. For example, "Java is uncool and Oracle is bad" + "Rust is elite and Mozilla is cool" is a very common sort of opinion on Hacker News but this is really nothing to do with the technologies themselves. It's more based on a feeling that overtly wanting to make lots of money by owning IP is dirty and immoral, whereas giving it away for free and claiming you're motivated by an inherent love of openess and webbyness is pure and moral. This is really just politics in disguise.
Show HN: Terminal based Git interactive rebase editor written in Rust
This book is the closest I’ve seen to ELI5ing general relativity

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Why-Does-mc2-Should-Care/dp/0306819...

And it makes it obvious why FTL travel implies time travel

It’s chock-full of a-ha moments and is a pleasure to read
I agree with this comment. I think it’s too easy for founders to say - that shitty company over there got money so why can’t we get any. I want to reframe the conversation.
It also assumes access to the simulator, which is an even more problematic assumption. That's like saying you're doing image classification but assuming access to the 3D model which generated the image.
> for ICO's as a legit means to raise money these are all solvable

At which point you end up with an overcomplicated share certificate.
Author here, I started this project over two years ago when one of my friends challenged me to write it. It was based on https://github.com/sjurba/rebase-editor , but does not require NodeJS/JavaScript. I and several others have been using it almost daily for over a year, so it is ready for general use.

It's written in Rust, but as I only occasionally get a chance to work in the language, development has been slow. I would very much welcome PRs to make improvements and add functionality.
Excellent resource!
This is exactly the logic that led Intel down this path. They thought they were avoiding a field with low margins and could deepen their manufacturing advantage by remaining focused on the high-margin data center business. Meanwhile, the growth in mobile/GPU/SOC chips was so massive that it enabled Intel's competitors to actually catch up on manufacturing. Those competitors are going to eventually compete in the high end, and it's an uphill battle for Intel to become competitive in the fields they've ignored to date.

If Intel does survive, it will be as a company with far lower margins in a brutally competitive environment.

Read Ben Thompson on this: https://stratechery.com/2018/intel-and-the-danger-of-integra...
CityPlace is convenient enough. I would say the problem of CityPlace is that it is wedged between Gardiner Expressway and railroad, with only two ins and outs via Fort York blvd and that contributes to its relative isolation. Liberty Village has a similar problem albeit less pronounced due to its larger size.
I tried to help with this question in this blog post: https://blog.ycombinator.com/the-real-product-market-fit/
> Left Google at the perfect time?

I agree this is really the most suggestive next step. I posit she left as a result of the CEO position opening up, not by mere coincidence.
The point is that "inverse" usually refers to the function that reverses the effect of the original function, i.e.

f_inv(f(x)) = x for all x in Domain(f)

g(x) = 1 / sqrt(x) is not the inverse of f(x) = sqrt(x) in this sense.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17482067
A great simple story. This will potentially mov eyes, tears;
Oh, I agree that it's contributing to the problem. Or at the absolute minimum, it's not helping. But it's funny. And that was all I was saying, really.

As for your larger point - yes, the online trolling is bad. People unleashing their dogs, so to speak, is also very bad. But the real problem is social media itself. I'm sure you've seen over the past year all the Silicon Valley insiders coming out saying they knew what they were doing when creating Facebook and things like that. This funnels into the whole "echo chamber" concept. The real issue sitting on top of all of this is that social media isn't designed at all, whatsoever, to increase communication, connectivity, or "togetherness". It is designed entirely to engage and retain eyeballs on screens, sucking up ad-revenue. Exposing oneself to opposing viewpoints is rarely something people find entertaining enough to keep them clicking for more. Just as the things that go viral are virtually never well-reasoned debate - they are insult wars and snark for snark retorts that must be contained within the 280 character limit.
The correct spelling of the Nahuatl root is "āhuacatl".
Right, all in all it is a CNN.
Anthony Levandowski is back with a new self driving startup
I have previously worked at Southwest Airlines HQ as a Customer Relations Supervisor, and when something as serious as booking $1000's of dollars of flights and flying or No-showing several to cover the one they were actually intent on flying the most we would do is issue a charge back and report to our internal fraud prevention dept which would simply add it as a data point to automatically cancel flights similar to this in the future.
We would have the fraudster's full name, address, phone number, email, and sometimes their social for their ticket to be valid to get past TSA. Even with all this, nothing more than canceling a Rapid Rewards account or blacklisting their email was actually ever done to the thief.
FWIW, I have found one of the best parts of using Digital Ocean is their fantastic documentation and tutorials. As a relative newbie, I was encouraged to deploy to a PaaS such as Heroku but grew frustrated at the black box aspect of what was going on underneath the hood. The tutorials on DO allowed me to learn and gain an understanding of how servers really work.

On your point about database services, I was able to set up Postgres on my droplet with relative ease and it has been serving me well ever since, again all thanks to clear and well made tutorials. I think if I could do it without any prior experience, most other people can too. So IMO, these providers aren't necessary at all.
Chicago existed long before the burnham plan, and even then only parts of it were implemented. Large parts of it were a success, but I would not consider these equivalent city planning efforts
That's definitely going to teach you lots but I always loved to tinker and learn at the same time.

How about this?:

https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-compu...

OCW should be archived.
I imagine the facade must be maintained long enough for the checks to irrevocably clear, which can actually take a while. The big bad evil fiat government money system has the advantage and disadvantage of being able to claw back transactions for quite a while, since it's basically the fundamental primitive of the system that ensures integrity of the system. (That is, at the foundation, the money system tends not to be about preventing fraud so much as being able to remediate it after the fact. There are many higher layers that are about preventing it too, of course. But at the very bottom, it's about remediation.) If you're going to hike away with investor money, the whole system needs to clear all those tentacles away from your Cayman Islands (or whatever the hot destination is) account first.
Interesting topic! Personally I don't think that Bitcoin will be worth nothing soon, its popularity has increased greatly. Also there are many services are available with cryptocurrency. So, I decided to also start using it. Of course, it is important to choose a good wallet in order to keep my bitcoins in safe. I've already found a good one among those on http://www.beautifullife.info/industrial-design/best-bitcoin.... I'm sure I won't regret my choice. Anyway, thanks for sharing!
The Linux subsystem is still slower then a Linux running in Hyper-V because of the Syscall overhead.
Colorado State professor faces criminal charges for allegedly faking job offer
I understand the feasibility of such an endeavor as faster than light travel is not high, but does anyone else get kind of existential depression for not being able to live long enough to see these kind of advancements humanity might make?
I couldn't get it to work for the three towns I tried near me ("no relation found with that ID").

I am assuming it is US only.
Evolution just simply lacks a teleology, or, worse, implies a teleology so divorced from any notion of progress that it's horrifying. Probably the most genetically successful dog of all time is the one that "turned into" a cancer and is now canine venereal transmissible tumor.
Lime starting doing _exactly_ this in Denver before pulling out at the behest of the police department.
Self Defense in a Post-Disaster World
> So I've been doing alot of thinking lately about traditional VC and PE vs ICO's for work.

You are missing part of the story: before ICOs there is a presale phase where some projects finish before the ICO. This is where real competition with VCs happens since the top projects receive more money from non traditional investors using cryptoassets than the one promised by traditional VCs (except in very rare cases).

In this context: (1) Geography does not matter and (2) KYC/AML is enforced.

The advantage for real entrepreneurs is receiving a bigger investment in short time.

Disclosure: I work in this kind of syndicates.
What does military-civil fusion in AI look like in action?
SaaS KPI Metrics You Should Be Tracking
> fiat government money system has the advantage and disadvantage of being able to claw back transactions for quite a while

Recently helped a friend extract his company from a wire fraud scam. Wires, particularly international wires, are surprisingly irrevocable. You basically have to get the receiving bank to agree to send the money back.
I wrote a book based on a bunch of his stuff that is a pattern language for a new post-capitalism financial system.(And yes it is blockchainy)

Amazon: https://amzn.to/2u5HBHY
Free here: https://skilesare.github.io/immortality/
Shortcut to the pattern language: https://skilesare.github.io/immortality/the_pattern_language...

I'd also highly recommend Thriving Systems Theory and Metaphor-Driven Modeling by Leslie J. Waguespack that is based on his ideas in Nature of Order.

https://amzn.to/2ujrTZ0
Missing the point. TFA uses a metric which is unable to distinguish between success (working instead of tweeting) and failure (scam). That's beyond wrong...
Sure, it won't be phrased that way and so obvious when presented. But I guess that's my point: Have a conscience, pay attention, and don't build anything illegal or unethical. Management may be sanctioning it now, but they won't have your back once the music stops.
Could instead of having pro and con people write their argument for the question without putting it as pro or con. Then people can vote where they value the argument morally or for other reason on a 10 scale or something like that.
Example:
Issue - WiFi should be controlled fully by the WiFi alliance(something like that)
Argument - WiFi use unlicensed spectrum
(This could be seen both as positive and negative)

So then people vote if they think its more positive or negative by rating it from pro to con on a 10 scale.
But if there are sub arguments to the arguments the voting of the sub arguments affect the value of the argument.
Sub argument - non-licensed WiFi create a market for cheap electronic equipment connected to the cloud(iot). (Could also been seen as pro or con.)
And so on.

Maybe bad example, but if a argument should support a thesis or not, I think is good to put in the hands of the peolpe with their values instead by the writer of the argument. And as all is not is not black and white a 10 scale (something similar)could make it more colourful and maybe more accurate to what people think.
A simulator may have some advantages with respect to I/O and a bit less RAM. CPU-wise it should not make a big difference.

There is also anbox that should be close to what a simulator would be: https://anbox.io/
YC seems very oriented to Software and other businesses where iteration costs are low. In hardware you have to spend some money to test product market fit. The only way to not lose your shirt is to follow a waterfall approach with more traditional planning. From an external view it seems like the antithesis of the YC approach.
We didn’t deserve more money when things weren’t working. It’s the investors who decide who deserves more money and if you are setup to need their money you better learn their rules and figure out how to convince them to give it to you.
It's more common than you think. It's probably the most common start up outcome... You build it, and nobody comes.
Don’t most ICOs use an existing coin (likely bitcoin or Ether) as the unit of purchase?
I don't even know how to square that reply with what I said, to the point I wonder if you meant to reply to another message?
Facebook’s Push for Facial Recognition Prompts Privacy Alarms
In my fantasy world, we go the opposite direction and start realizing that all that idle car space could be used for parkland, housing, storefronts, bike lanes, miles-long slip'n'slides, pretty much _anything_ but wasted space in high-land-value areas.
I was always more of an Emacs guy so I can't speak to that specifically, but in your big list of examples there's nothing that wouldn't work, as far as I can tell.
Found the boundaries pretty early. Wearing nothing but socks and singing "Why does it hurt when I pee?" while trying to cross a freeway is not considered "appropriate in the public". shmocks everywhere.

I'm in jail now. I'm free now. But a little cold.
> Eventually someone will realize that the smarter move is to create sustainable value over time.

Most ICO's - if not all of them - are powered by the greater fool theory, sustainable value isn't really on the table.

I see value in the blockchain and some in BTC (but not as much as others apparently do), but the whole ICO concept seems to be just a way to transfer wealth from greedy suckers to even greedier suckers.