skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The problem is this: if we aren’t paying for the product, we are the product.

This quote keeps living on endlessly. It's based on a naive and terribly over-simplified view of the internet, 'free' products, and capitalism in general. TLDR: Consumers aren't the product if the product would not exist without customers, and customers wouldn't be on the product unless it provides them value.

Not to mention publisher web analytics, such as this, are rarely being used to target ads. That is a completely different .js file (still) being embedded alongside the analytics.

I'm all for privacy but it's important to be accurate about this stuff. No major newspaper or free site is going to stop 'making their visitors the product' by switching to a privacy-first web analytics product. FB has accomplished equally as much as Google Analytics without providing any analytics service.
We don't know how far into the cave they were when the flood hit. They may have gone through the dry tight section before the flood pulse hit and they were unable to return.

The other possibility is that the various elevation diagrams published by the media may well be wrong. The only proper survey I have seen by cavers is the plan view (for example here: https://www.caverescue.org.uk/luang-nang-non-cave-rescue-tha... ). It looks like the produced diagrams have been... "estimated" from reports of what the rescuers were experiencing. The cave may have filled up from the entrance first and chased the team up the cave.
Agree, but I wonder if he even checked the weather forecast before getting into a cave. Which even for a complete amateur like me seems to be the most basic precaution (along with notifying someone that I am going there).
Ask HN: Can you negotiate the opposite way after an offer?
I started a SaaS startup last year. Launched; found good product market fit; have a $208k run rate for the year. Adding customers pretty steadily.

I was reached out to by a former colleague who heard what I was doing. Had a few meetings and saw this guy as being a great first step towards getting me off biz dev and letting me focus on tech.

While the company is doing well, it still needs a lot of work. I mulled it over and saw him basically coming on as a co-founder. Many people I asked said he should get 5-15% which I felt was insulting given where I am in the process.

I came to him with a verbal "pre-negotiated" offer meaning I've already accounted for back and forth between both parties because I hate wasting time. The offer was a solid 40% which I felt was an incredible offer.

He then spent a month in back forth trying to get to 50%. In his defense, he threw out some very aggressive and generous conditions to get to 50% but I kept saying 40% is where I'm drawing the line. We're still in limbo.

I've started evaluating other ways to push the needle and part of that is just raising 500k via notes from some friends, family, and execs of my last two companies. Informally, it seems like I could close this in less than a month and get an engineer and the first "sales person."

However, if I do the note and the first person, I wouldn't have 40% to give him. It would be closer to like 30%, which is still a a great IMO.

Can I reneg from 40 to 30? To be clear, I want to work with this guy and he brings a ton of value. But in the time that he's tried to get to 50% I think I've found a better use of that 10% maybe 15% on the cap table?
A debit card can be used as a credit card at a CC terminal. No PIN and no transaction fee. I don't think you'll find many people typing a PIN into a CC terminal in the wild.
Great point that there are new lab and volume discounts. Our data is showing that you should always be negotiating and that pricing is still independent of volume. We've seen cases of companies with 1/10th the spend of others getting better prices by product and overall.

This line from the article made me smile...

"Besides, there’s often no need for aggressive negotiation tactics; most suppliers will accommodate reasonable requests to secure the business of a newly hired faculty member, notes Lisa Witte, president of Fisher Scientific, a lab-supply company in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania."

Of course a person in sales is going to tell you not to negotiate aggressively with them.
I have to second this. CouchDB has a much better native interface than Mongo (pure HTTP/REST JSON) and automatic syncying.

Honestly, most of the time I think the real problem is developers not being able to cognitively handle changing from a SQL style declarative syntax to a functional map/reduce style syntax. It takes higher-order thinking, but the results are dramatically better.
> you don’t care about people in poverty. If you can’t find the decency to be honest about that, then you’ve got even bigger problems.

I have a positive, but finite, amount that I care about people in poverty.

> UBI prioritizes your economy, not your neighbors in poverty

Giving people in poverty a sustenance level of amount money per month seems it prioritizes neighbors in poverty more than today. To use your own words: If you can’t find the decency to be honest about that, then you’ve got even bigger problems.
My laptop is a Windows machine with a Linux VM often running and I do the same things on that machine that I did a decade ago.

My tablet is an iPad and it is by far my favorite computer to use. The killer feature for me is the Apple Pencil combined with Good Notes and Procreate. I just worry because the software is so cheap I'm not sure its priced sustainably.

Another app that I just started using is Drafts and I'm quickly starting to feel like it could be a game changer for me. It has me thinking I would want to get an Apple Watch to use with it but I think I would need an iPhone and I don't really want to move off of Android for my phone.
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Although I see the hubris point of view people here have, if oxygen dipped or some other catastrophy and someone fell unconscious, they could have been in a situation where this contraption was Useful.

People like to jump to black and white but maybe it’s shades of grey, some hubris and also a chance of being genuinely helpful.
Good thing there was that “podcast on a floppy” post up on here last week.
OK, we've updated the title from “A well-tuned emotional system can fill in gaps that reason misses”.
These are some new level religious terms and conditions.

Expecting and feeling entitled for help to arrive on your terms and conditions.

In fact you seem to have taken this a little tad too far. The observers wish to declare on what terms(moral, ethical or others) the victim and helper need to comply with to work with each other. With the observers themselves contributing nothing to improve the situation at hand.
I do something similar but I think it's far more likely that a cheap webcam is positioned where it can view the keypad of those who don't screen it well. I always throw in a few "phantom" keypresses when entering a pin for my cc or bank card.
Thanks, explains the dip in traffic of the home page.
I thought the same thing when all these punk and indie groups were releasing cassettes. Then I found out that most people didn't play the cassettes. They bought them because they look good on a shelf. The cassettes have a download code printed inside (Bandcamp will spit out a CSV), so when you actually want to listen to the music, most will redeem the code (or just stream it).

So it's still pretty silly, but not as silly as I thought. I have to presume Floppy releases are similar (Who even has a floppy drive now a days?)
So for your first project I would do something simple in concept so you don't get wrapped up in feature creep.

Think about what you have learned so far and how you could demonstrate those topics. I don't think it needs to be a fresh new idea.

3 days is pretty short, without knowing what topics you have covered I would pick 3 and think of a way to combine them.

Say you learned a bit of UI, a bit of sorting, and a bit of OOP. Maybe create a todo list app that sorts tasks by priority.
No no.

- capped freqs: stddev 768x. in the non-turbo-to-turbo direction

- in the other direction it is 2.3x. So was just acknowledging that there are 20% of samples in that table with your previous point
"If a man gets lost in the mountains, hundreds will search and often two or three searchers are killed. But the next time somebody gets lost, just as many volunteers turn out. Poor arithmetic, but very human. It runs through all our folklore, all human religions, all our literature—a racial conviction that when one human needs rescue, others should not count the price. Weakness? It might be the unique strength that wins us a Galaxy."

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Please don't try to learn about controversial political topics there. The amount of editorial wars going on is stuggering - and the worst of it, you won't be able to tell when you're looking at a propaganda piece instead of an objective article because you need prior knowledge for that, and Wikipedia is exactly the place where people get their prior knowledge.
Tell that to the Vietnamese and the Koreans.
I cannot imagine how robots could be used for this kind of rescue in the near future. Each situation like this is too unique to allow for a generic 'life-saving robot'. Even if we were to really try to develop a state-of-the-art cave diving rescue robot, what would we use it for in this case? We still would have to have people working crisis psycology and sitting with the kids as they were extracted, and some way to get the status of the robot as it is kilometers underground with no signal and no easy way we can have a 2km cable. We would still have to figure out how to get the people actually out, which was only really accomplished in this case by getting the best of the best to teach the kids to get themselves out. A robot would not be able to help a child fit through a tiny hole underwater in the dark
I love mushrooms. And let's not forget some of the most expensive foods out there: crabs and lobsters. Early pilgrims in New England refused to eat them because the found them feasting on dead bodies (particularly human) a bit too often... Not kidding. Catfish, carp, crayfish, and many other things live on about the same level, despite being as delicious as Shiitake Mushrooms, which I just ate tonight! :)
> For other software, everything interesting and exciting is coming out on iOS, macOS, or Android. Outside of gaming, there doesn't seem to be any excitement or energy behind Windows anymore. When was the last time Twitter was buzzing with talk about some Windows program?

If you live in a Sillicon Valley / Apple tech bubble, then it might seem so. But that's just your filtered bubble and bias - because you're invested into other ecosystems, you of course follow people who gush over and praise those products.

There's plenty of software still constantly being released on the most popular operating sytem in the world. You just decided to ignore it all.
Wikipedia apparently has different numbers on different articles.

You're only going to be shadowing ballistic missile submarines with attack subs, which means (total nuclear boats) - (18 Ohio class).

Based on the individual class pages (LA, Seawolf, Virginia) there are 53 active SSNs.
If they recover in time would be cool to see them at the World Cup final.
Such a device exists though, albeit not from Microsoft.

It's called a GPD Win 2.
You should check out simple wikipedia, there's not a page for everything but there's quite a bit. Here's an example.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derivative

https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derivative_(mathematics)
In distributed systems getting to a failing state is exactly the same as getting to a succeeding state, both have to make CAP consistency/availability trade offs. So in many cases not failing is just easier.
Here is my "initial" sbt implementation:
https://github.com/schmitch/sbt-jib

(Should be easier to do after: https://github.com/GoogleContainerTools/jib/issues/337)

It also still misses some important things like that not all resources will be put into the resources layer and also that the resources should be deduplicated, if any.

Edit: thanks google for this awesome library! With this library you prolly loose some money!
-4 for a little joke? what, am I back on fucking reddit? I figured "hackers" would appreciate what is, in essence hacker humor that any hacker or computer nerd worth his salt would get. Damn it is hard to find like-minded people on the Internets these days..used to be much easier back in the 1990s......
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I don't think they are.

For many years Microsoft Research worked on an entirely new OS, codename Midori (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midori_(operating_system)), and it actually went into the incubation phase (which is Microsoft speak for "This is no longer a research project. We are turning it into a product") Then it got cancel around 2 or 3 years ago … just before it otherwise would have become a beta.

Today, they are not working on a new OS AFAIK. They are working on something called Andromeda. They have been working on that for, I don't know, 4-5 years or something like that. It is not a new OS. It is windows 10, but they have turned it very very very modular. It has a new adaptive shell named cshell as its party trick. Andromeda is really about that shell. Not so much about the modularity.

The new shell, they are working on, can adapt to any screen size or form factor on the fly and enable Microsoft's wet dream: Turning a phone size device into a tablet sized device.

You know from sci-fi movies "stretchable screens". you have a small phone size device, you stretch it and suddenly you have a book/newspaper/something-with-a-bigger-screen devices. Then you squeeze it back into phone size and put it into the pocket.

Windows need a new shell for when those types of monitors become available and it is the redmonds wet dream to be the ones that comes with those devices.

You might have stumbled across articles lately that Microsoft is about to launch (or have cancelled launching) a new device with 2 screens that you can turn in to 1 screen and there by turning a phone size device into a tablet).

That is andromeda and apparently is has been delayed (or maybe cancelled. Who knows) because the software is not ready. The "not ready part" is this adaptable shell.

(https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft-andromeda-everythin...)
Super interesting. Can't comprehend how the sailor lived in that claustrophobia-inducing space for over 48 hours. Human spirit in these extreme situations is really something.
This is the kind of reasoning I was looking for. Thank you!
How can anyone release a new form factor tablet in the second half of 2018 that has a bezel wide enough to drive a semi-truck across?
And can be disassembled, decompiled and studied.
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ABC (Australia) have had a live blog going the whole time - http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-07-10/thailand-cave-rescue-l...
I think the criticism of Musk is exactly that the words spoke louder than the actions.

Very few of the people criticising Musk had the ability to do anything to help the kids. He is in a rare situation to have the flexibility and resources to make significant financial and/or logistical contributions to literally any cause he notices. In this case, he did it in the most self-aggrandizing way possible, while appearing to make no actual contribution.
Unless China and Russia do the same, there is little point in weakening yourself and your allies
1. I'm not sure it's arrogance. The EU is big, the UK is comparatively smaller, guess what happens in a divorce? :)

2. See 1. Also, there have been compromises, the UK wants to get unicorns. Full access to the single market yet no freedom of movement...
"think it's good that Musk tried to help, but the publicity he got..." If he got all that publicity, then hate the newspapers who kept giving it to him, not the guy who was just happy to help. He probably kept tweeting because that's where he first was "contacted" about the subject and had some cool photos and videos to show.
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That's great to hear! But given that the first release of knex wasn't until May of 2013, it wouldn't have been an option for me.
Ha, you're the first person to mention that. It's probably one of the hardest things I've ever done in my life, both technically and in terms of stamina. So I very much appreciate that someone else can understand that.
I don't know that I agree with all of their architectural choices, but this company has developed a first-crack at that very thing: https://www.snapshotdna.com/
Your circadian cycle gets wacky without sunlight to regulate it.

I've talked to cavers that say they need to set alarm clocks otherwise they will be inside the cave for days without noticing (thinking it's hours), which can be quite dangerous if you're not getting hydrated.

https://books.google.com.br/books?id=8WrmCAAAQBAJ&pg=PA154&l...
It depends. The build / environment base images can be cached, and then deployment could be just pushing and additional layer with the jar. This could be pretty pretty fast if setup correctly.
I'm not an expert, but it seems that this is about actually selling something. In addition, if the item is sold by a private person who is not acting in any professional capacity selling then it doesn't apply.

So my naive reading is that having ads is fine, because you are not actually selling something. Having professional information and getting paid is also fine. Having a hobby and occasionally selling something as part of your hobby is fine.
Yeah I can imagine you get visual hallucinations after spending some time in the darkness, so I can imagine they were skeptical seeing lights or hearing things at first. I hope they write a good book about their experiences.
> Something with a Linux core for developers with a brand new desktop environment could compete with MacBooks.

I think that competing with MacBooks is first a matter of build quality. It's the hardware much more than the software that absolutely stands in my way of switching.
Not having to install and manage a tomcat server is pretty nice. There is "embedded" tomcat so you can just run `java -jar my-app.jar` but then you still have to worry about installing and managing the JVM plus whatever file-system resources like logging locations etc.

> [JRE version] would change very rarely.

It's optimizing for setting up new machines and having everything about how to run an application contained within that application itself rather than relying on sysadmins to `yum install` things or whatever. Plus with docker you always run the same version in prod that you do in dev (and on your local machine) unless you intentionally do something else.

> I don't know how fast docker/jib would be but I am imagining this would be a somewhat heavier setup?

Not really - a layered docker image may have tomcat as a base layer and then the app jars etc layered atop. Deployment is just downloading a new layer which wouldn't really be any overhead atop of just the jars.
> I find it even good for medical conditions

As in you read several books about a medical condition, and then see what Wikipedia says about it? Because if you just start by reading the Wikipedia article, you'd have no idea whether it's wrong or not. (It's usually wrong.)
I have a Dell tablet that was crazy cheap one day like 4 years back, maybe 60 dollars, that came with Windows 8 and now runs a full x86 Windows 10. Haven't used it in a while, but I'm sure it could run VS Code without any issues.

This was when Windows 8 licensing was free for any devices with 4gb or less of RAM, which caused a huge flood of Chinese Windows tablets and netbooks. I'm not sure if that's still going on.
I agree that it's simplistic, but it captures the fact that organizations need money to survive. Yes, companies offering "free" products have to serve two masters: the ones who use the product, and the ones who pay the bills. For many, the temptation will be strong to maximize profits as far as possible without completely losing the users. Facebook has been in the news a lot because of this very thing.

I think the core of this statement really is that if the users and funders of a product are the same, their interests are much better aligned.
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This sums up everything right with business. Market forces drive technology to constantly improve as new products build on the ideas of the past.

- Business is not art.

- Even art isn't totally original.
I'm so glad to hear from another person who appreciates CouchDB. I think people choose MongoDB because big data performance isn't a selling point with CouchDB, but it's feature rich and my go-to database when staring new projects from scratch.

For those unfamiliar, here are the cons and pros of CouchDB.

CONS:

- Not as performant as MongoDB, but still pretty fast for most purposes.

- Probably won't ever have transactions.

-No direct socket connection or native driver; its protocol is entirely dependent on HTTP.

PROS:

- Has a REST-like HTTP API.

- Admin interface out of the box. (aka Fauxton)

- Replication is dead simple, and probably the biggest killer feature.

- Is a gateway drug to PouchDB, a JavaScript implementation and client for CouchDB.

- Comes with a changes API out of the box with support of long polling, server sent events, and web sockets. (basically so an app can live update documents)

- JSON documents support file attachments, just like Email.
Wouldn't such scraping be under TOS of scraped sites?