skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We wanted to create a program with content that would be helpful for any new founder/startup, regardless of where they are. It's not meant to replace the in-person YC program (that's still our core offering).

Think of it as a crash course in starting a company. Just because you can't make it to the Bay Area doesn't mean you shouldn't have access to advice and community! We just want to help startups be better startups.
Interesting that they stated a passenger would have experienced a peak of 10 Gs, that seems excessively high for tourism. The space shuttle launches were around 3 Gs and Soyuz rockets around 4 Gs.

https://space.stackexchange.com/a/7857
You may call v the density (time-dependent) of 1 in the flow (hence 1-v is the density of 0). Now you simply assume the flow is a differentiable function.

As a matter of fact, it will ressemble reality much better than many economic models, for example (if not all): there is a HUGE amount of bits per second.
cool, thanks!

another one, w/ a somewhat different angle I'd found was a straight mental math trainer, discovered from another commenter here on HN:
http://www.mental-math-trainer.com/
If you rely on the lack of admin rights to prevent unauthorised software from being run you’re doing it wrong. You should be using whitelisting (e.g. AppLocker in Windows) which also prevents “portable” applications (without an installer) from being used.
> keeping US companies in check

Also keeping EU companies in check :-)
While it's certainly possible, most people have their own ideas and problems they are already working on. Relationships and execution end up counting way more than ideas.

On balance, if you have a great idea, you'll be better off growing it with good mentorship compared to the small risk that it gets stolen by a mentor.
This is interesting. What exactly is the use case that Senators Wyden and Rubio have in mind that their trying to help people with?
I believe this type of speech should be legal, but it that doesn't mean I want private companies to give it a platform.
Money. A few engineers are impressed by the technology but most people are excited by the money and prospect of a lot more money in the future. That's what drives crypto fanatics instead of trying to generate value and that's why I think it will ultimately fail.
Thanks sandslash!
We did the first batch of Startup School.

We had mandatory N to 1 meetings. Those weren't that useful for us (it felt like we were a bit further ahead than other companies) but a few companies got a lot of value out of it.

Our optional 1-1 were insanely useful. Our mentor was a yc alum saas cofounder. He was took notes and saw our homework every week. His perspective was priceless and there weren't many problems we were facing that he hadn't already seen. Like other people mentioned, you come with a problem and they help you understand how to tackle it.
The problems with governments (notice the plural) is that their activities and expenditures are not public and transparent. Having how the money is flowing, and for what and to whom would clear this up tremendously.

And frankly, when companies get their hands into it, they are going to extract profit from it. Government isnt bound by shareholders or profit-seeking behavior. Doing things at cost is not only acceptable, but expected.

There's times and places where governments providing the service makes a great deal of sense. It's times for libertarian types to actually realize that game theory does indeed show good reasons for govt services.
You use grammatical errors with your coworkers to make a point about the universality of fallability?
It sounds like they might simply need a good (and empowered) project manager to crack the whip on schedule and say no to scope creep. I’d love to see what their internal estimates and work breakdown looks like! When they miss a milestone, what corrective action do they take? Do they give themselves any real deadlines? So many games would make such interesting project management case studies.
It is if you have to pay a lawyer to represent you. Between responding and showing up in court it's probably several thousand dollars in billable hours.
Exactly. The only password that really matters is the one for your email. Everything else just provides additional attack vectors.
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> Government is and has always been about law

Government has always been about the legitimatized application of force; the use of law as one of the key components of the legitimization of force is very old, but not essential to the concept government (it's essential to modern, and even many older, norms or models of government, though.)
"Drug laws are certainly not evidence based (in most places)"

They are definitely evidenced based.

We don't have to have a complete scientific run-down of opioids or THC to know their general effects on people.

We've decided that these - among many, many other substances are not for the common good - and that's why they're banned.

We don't ban alcohol for cultural and historical reasons, though it's banned in many places in addition to the fact that alcoholism was a massive social problem for a long time.

There's no 'new science' in dope that has caused us to change our laws either, just a different view towards it, and probably a better common understanding of it.
I do not understand why you have been down voted.

Free commercial software and hardware is the strongest competition to open source software and hardware.

If Google charged money then a more open source oriented competitor would have more chances to compete.
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You could also remove that customer pain point by auto-verifying them without checking their email for the very first time they login, and it would expire after they close their browser or 1 hour, whatever comes first.

It's really no less secure than allowing someone to sign up with an email / password and let them in without first confirming their email address.
Show HN: Watercooler Questions – super effective team building (just 30 sec/wk)
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Why don't people understand that crowdfunding is not indie shopping? It's a high risk investment. You support projects you believe in (in the religious sense of the word) and if you're lucky, you might get something.
Ideas are pretty worthless. Execution is everything. It takes years of follow through to realize the value of good ideas.
“Real developers don't use UIs”: The value of web UIs for CLI-oriented users
This comment is Hacker News in a nutshell.
The one that was the go-to manual back in the days was the Atari Compendium. I still have the book on my shelf.

I have seen digital versions (scans, I guess) floating around online. I don't know how complete they are.

There is still a demoscene for the Atari, although it's of course much smaller these days. You can find some pointers on our group's website: www.dhs.nu
Author here. Let me know if you have any questions or suggestions…

Our team built a visual communication tool (think video stories for workplace communication) and one of the surprisingly effective ways one of our pilot customers began using the tool was as a quick team builder. Someone would send out a really simple question over video and teammates would respond on Tape. Simple questions like “What was the last country you visited” turned into easy ways for people to discover they had overlapping interests/experiences.

The experience was way more effective than expensive happy hours or offsites which are nice but generally just let friends at work hangout with each other rather than building new connections. The only problem was it required everyone to download our mobile app (https://www.trytape.com/app) and someone had to come up with a question every week. Because of that, we decided to devote a quick sprint to productizing the interaction and make it dead simple for any team to take part in the program.

Watercooler Questions:

- No app installation required (done 100% through email/web)
- Fully automated (we send your team a new question every week)
- Super effective and time efficient (Spend just 30 sec a week answering a question and learn more about your teammates)

Check out a fun example here: https://www.trytape.com/t/E1efYE42xr10

Looking forward to on-boarding more teams and continuing to iterate on it. Excited to hear feedback!
The further I read, the smaller I feel.
There are also accounts during the Vietnam War of US fighter pilots killing Russian anti-aircraft weapons operators, and vice versa.
Correct, but Apple doesn't have an overwhelming market majority, so under antitrust laws it isn't capable of inhibiting competition.
A lot of built in apps do not offer services to other apps, but they still display the same message. Google Play Services is the exceptional case.
Your mentors (broadly defined) will happily tell you that your idea rounds to valueless and that all of the value created happens over years of patient execution, much like the years of execution that they spent working on their most recent adventure, and that entrepreneurs who are likely to be successful don’t sit around idle in a room lounging on stacks of money, chit chatting with lawyers, and waiting to stab a passing startup in the back.
yes you can fly low to the ground and crash now from what I've seen.
Note that this flight tested an in-space abort, firing the crew capsule's solid motor to simulate an emergency escape from the booster.

Because the abort took place after MECO, the capsule reached an apogee of 118.8km. This will likely stand as New Shepard's altitude record.

Blue Origin previously tested a transonic abort and (unexpectedly) recovered the booster. Recovery did not appear to be in question this time.
that's my experience for sure.

it's not that we're night owls, but that we need coherent blocks of focus-compatible time, so when the rest of the world sleeps is one heuristic.
The net outcome of this decision will be that nobody will create significant open platforms of this type anymore, because once you are successful you will no longer be able to have any control over the experience. Someone will always be able to find a market that you are hurting.

If you actually read the decision that's essentially their underlying complaint. They dress it up in terms about search market blah blah blah, but in the end it's really about whether Google is allowed to control the experience of Android phones that want to use the Google apps and app store or not.
Android being open at all was already a fight inside Google, this decision will essentially make it impossible for anybody win that fight in the future. I can't see why anyone would risk making an open platform again. Success only has downsides versus Apple's model.
I expect the next major player here will either sell the operating system or sell the phones, and keep the other stuff closed
> Firstly, Android doesn't have a monopoly.

It does have a dominant market position though, and that's what's in the legal stuff that they're being fined under. You do not need a complete monopoly to have a dominant market position.

> Secondly, there are device makers that didn't cut a deal with Google, notably the Amazon phones and tablets. They weren't that popular with consumers but that's not Google's fault: it just means consumers highly value the additional services Google provides.

More than that though, they effectively stopped device manufactures from selling these (because of exclusivity agreements), and a lack of range isn't going to have helped amazon:

> For example, the Commission has found evidence that Google's conduct prevented a number of large manufacturers from developing and selling devices based on Amazon's Android fork called "Fire OS".

http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-18-4581_en.htm
Amazing. I had this project at my previous job but left before getting it done. It's so cool to see that someone, somewhere, had the same need.
The capsule experiences ~3 mins of freefall/microgravity/“weightlessness” - in fact, they’ve already flown payloads that depend on this.

https://www.blueorigin.com/news/news/first-commercial-payloa...
You're not even wrong.
Recently I have been pondering something very similar, but strictly "arpeggio"-based [0] and for regular keyboards, and whether it could be comparatively performant like normal qwerty.
I've amused myself fancying scenario when using just fraction of keys in an unusual way could perhaps beat traditional touch typing professionals. I've seen some video where blind person claimed that typing on braille keyboard [1] could be insanely fast.

Coincidentally, today I have been testing what my keyboard can handle in regards of how many simultaneously pressed keys it recognizes at most. (I know it depends on particular keyboard hardware and its "ghosting", but it was fun to try out [2]. I've squeezed 12 keys max.)

[0] in penti vocabulary, meaning progressions of several held and released keys, mainly to circumvent hassle of definition what timespan is still "parallel" and what "progression". Releasing the last key could be the end of progression and produce output.
[1] like http://www.teach-ict.com/as_a2_ict_new/ocr/AS_G061/312_softw...
[2] http://myfonj.github.io/tst/keyboard-simultaneous-keys.html not perfect, since some keys or OS key combos produces funky results…
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I honestly think that it was a reaction to update issues. The more of the OS which is updateable by Google, the easier it is to patch these. Additionally, i remember people saying at the time that it made it much easier to incrementally add features to Android between major releases.

I don't really mind about the Google Play Services thing (as it probably benefited people overall), but the contracts with OEM's were always wack, and I'm pretty happy that the EU has (eventually) fined them for this literally textbook anti-EU competition law behaviour.
It creeps up very quickly once you start installing site-wrapper apps. I consciously try to avoid those, but even a quick audit of my apps shows I have at least a few:

- Youtube

- Hacker News

- Reddit

- XDA-Developers

- Amazon

- My banking app

Pretty much all of those could just be a tab in my browser, but the convenience of properly-formatted text, easy searching, replying, etc pulls one towards the native app.
Only 90%?
Really happy to see this running again. The design looks to have been hugely improved. Great job YC software team!
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Still be one official language of two EU countries.

Ireland has Irish, and Malta has Maltese; both non-Germanic languages, very different from English.

Oddly, Brexit can solidify the use of English as a common language in the EU, since its general use can now be considered not to give a political advantage to the UK.

(Of course, English is already a default de-facto common language in the EU, but some larger countries can be rather protective of their national language in an official capacity.)
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As a couple of other folks have noted, lots of ISPs prioritize traffic to (some) known speed test sites, so differing results from different speed tests -- and results that differ from real world experience -- are pretty common.

Even weirder, sometimes this traffic prioritization happens partly in the firmware of the modem the ISP provides.

On one of our test network connections, we can reliably trigger a firmware issue in the router that causes very high packet loss. Then we can "fix" the issue by visiting www.speedtest.net from any computer on the LAN behind the modem.

(My company makes in-browser video calling stuff, so we spend a lot of time worrying about network connectivity.)

And speaking of packet loss, I'd love to see Netflix add a measurement for UDP packet loss at several throughput levels. There's no easy way for non-technical users to do a really good packet loss test.

We often get customer support queries that say something like, "My video calls are terrible but it's not a network issue because I did a speed test and I'm getting 100Mbs." Which is a totally reasonable thing to say. But when we look at call data, the person is experiencing regular spikes of, say, 15% packet loss. That's not something that will effect web browsing noticeably, or even Netflix video very much, but it makes for really frustrating video calls.
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I bet argania would grow fine in other regions, like southern california and mexico. It sounds like the restriction is the traditionally labor intensive mode of producing the oil. From wikipedia: "The most labor-intensive part of oil-extraction is removal of the soft pulp (used to feed animals) and the cracking by hand, between two stones, of the hard nut".

Cashews and vanilla are similar.
You can consider his intellectual contributions as if it were an independent sample of ideas, but I think of Cowan, and the Mercatus center more like giant corporate PR centers. There is basically massive funding making the ideas of Koch seem reasonable and commonplace. This by both repetition from seeming independent sources as well as control of academic sources of information.

There isn't nearly the kind of vast funding, and certainty not focused as the Koch funding is to generate ideas and support for more social constructs and support of ideas in the direction of maybe the market really shouldn't determine everything - or at least markets where there is massive asymmetry between participants.
It hasn't exactly worked out for XCOR or Virgin Galactic, what will Blue Origin's edge be?
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From what it seems like, most large companies tend to use the same few arbitration firms. JAMS and AAA come up often in the contracts I've read. How often does this "arbitrator shopping" actually happen? It's a complaint I hear often, but little in the way of data to support it.

I have seen data to suggest that arbitrators rule often in the favor of the companies, but that could be a result of more people raising bullshit claims since it's significantly easier to do so.
What's going to fail? Crypto fanatics? Cryptographically-secured trustless distributed systems? All of cryptography?
Could China turn a trade war into a currency war?
Miss you Finbarr!
Mozilla probably doesn't have so much money to pay for installing their browser.
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As a counterpoint to this, I'm absolutely terrible at even knowing when I'm anxious, stressed, angry, etc.

For me I end up externalizing my emotions by saying "I'm not in a bad mood, it's just this (annoyance/distraction/external factor) that's making things hard for me!" and failing to realize that it could be something that would normally not faze me, and it's really me that's blowing things out of proportion.

This is something I used to be much better at back when I used to practice mindfulness meditation. Being able to stop in the middle of a situation and recognize that you may not be in the best state of mind is an important skill that I have totally lost over the past few years.
Just wanted to say:
https://youtu.be/GiWQZhUmmRw
To judge a suborbital launch for having not made orbit is to criticize a Ferrari for having not reached 30,000' above a test track. The goals are different, and the metrics are different.

Blue Origin is moving through a planned series of test flights necessary to bring untrained astronauts into space on their own custom hardware with an improved margin of safety.

Comparisons with SpaceX will again become reasonable when either a) One of the companies launches a person into space, as both aspire to do, or b) Blue Origin begins an orbital campaign.

Congratulations, Blue Origin. You crushed it again today.
The title of this article made my mind go to some very William Gibson places. Vat-grown ninjas and the like.
Part of the issue, w/ respect to the U.S. pulling out of the deal appears to hinge on the Saudi's nuclear plans.

As the story was told at a D.C. forum (sorry can't remember which one, but it was w/i the last year):

1a) not only was U.S. representation excluded from bidding on their project(s), but the Chinese and the Russians were allowed to.;

1b) if the U.S. was excluded from bidding, and therefore uninvolved in the project(s), it would not be able to "monitor" it;

2) the Saudis were supposedly citing Iran's ability to enrich uranium, and saying that that therefore allowed them (the Saudis) to do so, too, because their program was also "only for peaceful purposes."
Managing conflicts between ethical principles and job duties
In my experience, I think the momentum/flow and thrill helps. Also hacking turns into late-night-hacking as I try to dig myself out of hole. So it ends up being productive by trying to finish something before bed.
YAML has the odor of TLS when the winds are just right. Not to be tech religious, but over-engineered, complex, wordy requirements tend to be expensive to implement, secure, audit and support. Tome-like specifications like YAML, PDF and TLS are invitations to bugs and security vulnerabilities. I remember printing some 800+ pages of the early Adobe PDF spec from around 2002, it was a container format with multiple encodings, able to store JavaScript, JScript, executable code and more... and thinking “this is going to lead to no end of malware and most of these dangerous features will need to be disabled or removed.”

JSON might not be the most expressive, flexible, precise or concise text data encoding, but it’s sure darn easy to parse with a solid, simple spec. HCL and TOML tend to be better choices for ease of mechanized configuration management.
We're talking 100% improvement here. This could be reducing a render from an hour to 20 minutes, a qualitative difference.
There are technologies that are build using COD - consultant oriented development. That is one of the principals is that only a trained consultant would be able to configure it and that would require knowledge impossible to find in freely available documentation. It also needs multitude of gotchas that couldn't be solved using common sense. Jenkins I believe is one of such tools. We have completely moved away from it.
This must be a common problem, I have exactly the same situation.

Someone once told me that you get tired when the body warms up, which makes some sense if you are one of those who goes from a cold outside to a warm inside.
Google also showed a warning about an unsupported browser when Google Documents were used with other browser like Opera.
The further I read, the more I see unfalsifiable theories.
A huge reserve of capital and the long-term vision necessary to do every piece right.
Makes sense, nobody like slow pages. However, don't most people have the browser save their password? So couldn't the online retailer have some sort of exponential delay (to a limit) after so many failed attempts? Surely that would affect few real customers.
Yes, it's on the roadmap for the next release.
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You had to essentially come to the meeting with a specific problem to focus on.

For us it went like:

* A quick status update on what we've accomplished since the last meeting, some back and forth.

* Discuss the main problem we're working on. (For example: "We're stuck on how to improve our inbound traffic")

* Talk about next steps or deliverables for the next meeting. (For example: Try to acquire 10% more users)

It was a great program and I'm excited to try again with my new project.
Apple's MacBook Pro with Core i9 can't even maintain the CPU's base speed