skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From a buyer's perspective, the network effects are strongest when you're shopping for one-of-a-kind items. If you're a coin collector looking for a 1896 half-crown in grade 62 toned, you have to be on the largest marketplace to have the best chance of getting one.

If you're seeking commodity items, the network effect is far weaker When I need a cheap USB 2.0 hub, why should I buy it from eBay when it will likely be a buck or two cheaper from a DealExreme/Banggood/LightInTheBox style direct-from-China shop? The selection will be adequate even if there's only one seller.

Similarly, as a seller, a combined marketplace makes sense when you have narrow inventory drawing low traffic. You have two widgets, and they'll sell faster being listed inside eBay's assortment of 500, than by trying ti SEO your two product pages. A lot of the classic eBay product lines were stuff where there were few "category killer" web shops with wide inventory and workable sales flow. (Think of the baseball card dealers where they publish paper price lists)

I wonder if in 10 years we'll see an eBay much more like that from 10 years ago. The cheap commodity items will eventually move to sellers' own sites where they aren't giving up a major cut of the purchase price, but more differentiated individual items will stick around.
Certainly seems high when you look at the other white-collar criminals and the damage they can do, and what they receive for it (bankers for instance).

On the flip side, he enabled (hard) drug-dealing on an Internet scale, with all that would entail, and all the damages done to the 'victims', for profit. It's tough to muster sympathy.
Dark matter may be just normal matter that we can’t see because it’s too cold, WIMPs are not the only candidate for dark matter, if anything they are the weakest one currently since we’ve been finding more and more brown dwarfs and even massive ones.
We wrote this. Happy to answer questions.
Brian Kernighan Q&A – Computerphile
If many people currently rely on breaking and repairing windows for their livelihood, a “stop breaking windows” type law has real negative consequences, unfortunately.
I still remember the first time I found this page, and the deep existential crisis that followed!
Same exact problem.

Absolutely no idea of any solution.
Founder here. Technically speaking we are the modern version of what "outplacement" service should be, rather than another recruiting platform.

I'm in Product Management by day (when I'm not in between jobs because I got downsized!), and I help to build out Layoff-Aid on my nights and weekends. More on my story here:
https://www.layoff-aid.com/team

Layoff-Aid is my passion project that just hit the one-year mark:
https://medium.com/layoff-aid-blog/layoff-aid-busts-4-startu...

Our first market is SF Bay Area tech talent -- anyone who has work experience in tech and is seeking employment in the SF Bay Area. Our candidates are roughly one-third business, / product & design / technical; basically the same distribution you'd find at a typical tech company that slashes headcount in a downsize event.

We do want to expand to anyone who gets laid off, in any industry, in any location, but we need to figure out how to sustainably generate revenue from our SF tech industry niche before we expand. Until then, I've somehow avoided burning a hole in my pocket as we figure things out, but we still have a lot of work to do to monetize effectively.

Our mission matters more than making money, but we need to make money to execute on our mission.
Are there greedy people out there? Of course. Do I spend time focusing on them? Not a minute. That's what the justice system is for, and it's not terrible at punishing people who break the law.

Th difference is in outcome.

If you focus on people, you get to feel righteous, targeted anger, and nothing ever changes.

If you focus on the system, you're left viscerally unsatisfied ("The US healthcare system is dysfunctional? I can't yell at that..."), but might effect real change.
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Any configuration language which is not easily humanly readable is not a good option in my opinion.

There is nothing wrong with JSON as an intermediary format it just should not be used as the base format to store the configuration information in.
I'm not interested in doing your research for you. But I'll give more specific questions that you can research.

Look into the history of the keyboard and the typewriter. Commercial typewriters have been around since the 1870s, and the Dvorak layout was created in 1936. Why didn't that layout catch on?

Look into alternate keyboards that exist for computers. Look up keyboards like the Maltron, Kinesis, the OrbiTouch, and others. Why didn't they catch on?

I'll give you one hint for the answer: The sunk cost fallacy.

Good luck!
Add hyphenation, protrusion, and character expansion to the mix and I'm interested in seeing how these can be handled.
The whole Zen of python? I'd like to see that!
So that’s why I can’t be seen for a physical and problem at the same time. What a load of shit.
>This doesn't give people the chance to change if the whole system is based on everyone retaining an internal consistency in inferencing that is checked against reality by testing it.

Yes it does, start being honest and eventually people's most recent memories or interactions with you will be ones of honesty. This is different, of course, than the one strike and your out criminal offense system in the U.S.
I wish it were this way in the US. Way to nullify habeas corpus... :-(
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have you tried sshfs?
you don't need to "snuff out" life to make it undetectable to us, you just need something that prevents life from getting complex enough for interstellar travel. It's quite plausible that live ebbs and flows (like it has on Earth), but never gets large enough and powerful enough to be detected at remote locations subject to inverse-square signal dissipation.
No, there's a difference. Profiling will often show you where you're doing allocations or calling code that does allocations in the most often used code. Profiling shows where to reduce those allocations to get the biggest improvements. When making the changes, you don't try to reduce escapes, you reduce allocations.

Have a look at [1] and go down to where it says " To find out why the garbage collector is running so much".

[1] https://blog.golang.org/profiling-go-programs
> Everyone gripes about HIPAA

I am not griping about HIPAA.

The quality of stone of the specific transaction standards developed by industry groups and adopted as mandatory in regulations implementing HIPAA, OTOH, are another story.
I no longer recommend Google Cloud after one of these insta-bans. The previous week, I had run a (literal) multi-million event on GC for Nike (which went fine, no complaints) and I realized immediately that there was literally nothing stopping Google from insta-banning an account in the future in the middle of a Nike event. No warning, no recourse, just "Fuck off, customer." These are live events, I simply cannot risk being shut off for "fraud". Seriously, fuck these guys.

My trust level for Google: ZERO. I can't risk my business on that level of stupidity.
What are your expectations on when you might publish variants for some non-Mac platforms? Which code/modules specifically are platform-dependent? If it is only the GUI, can one already use the engine/JSON API (if available) on some other platform?

The whole idea is still not fully clear to me. After watching the video, it initially looks like some kind of code templating engine. From further reading, I seem to understand it also links many "instantiated" templates together, so that changing one of them can change others; is that correct?

Also, one thing that is still not clear to me: do I have to build such templates by hand, or does the engine somehow automatically infer / detect new templates from an existing codebase?
Right, but did the wreck everything by changing into a marketplace, or were they responding to the change they saw coming?
Yep, pretty sure its them :)
One of the big problems is companies with "too many" customers not having enough humans to deal with them interactively. It's probably possible, but it always seems like a side-job or afterthought, often shipped to low-wage countries, and hidden behind a wall of 'support documents' that hardly cover the many cases you might need to get in touch with a vendor.

Google being Google (and this probably goes for many tech leaders) probably thought that using an algorithm and some documentation would be enough, even if it means about 1% of customers slips through the cracks and loses all of their Google-stuff. The problem is that in the real world this generates enough backlash that people don't want or trust your services anymore.

While a cloud and even a more classical MSP is supposed to take what they are good at and make it available at a reasonable price (so you can focus on what you are good at instead of everything you might ever need to know to function) at this point you need a second service to backup your first service just to be sure you don't lose everything over some stupid automation you cannot influence. It's like an older HN post (week or 2 ago) about someone being transferred between systems during a company merger and the system deciding that he is fired. No human could influence it, everything was revoked and removed automatically and security just acted on what the computer was saying, and escorted him out. They had to wait until the automated process was done before he could re-enroll in the system and continue to work. That, and GC (and to an extent others like PayPal, Amazon, Apple, MS) are examples of trying to put nuances in human interactions into algorithms and failing, have bad real-world effects.
I don't really follow astrophysics anymore was there anything specific last year that happened?

(not that various mond's were ever particularly viable)
I don't like it any more than you do, but I'm not aware of a competing enterprise-grade solution that has all of the necessary features and won't take a year to migrate to.
In my anecdotal experience, Europe is behind the US, i.e. "more ashamed" as you put it -- the benefits of therapy just haven't sunk into culture generally.

But to echo other commenters, it's not exactly something people are very open about in the US either, you wouldn't usually tell anyone but your very closest friends, and sometimes not even them.

But I think there's more widespread acceptance in the US that therapy has value for many people and isn't quack science, while many Europeans are quicker to reflexively dismiss it or stigmatize it as for people who are "broken". Therapy doesn't have anything to do with being broken.

Again, just anecdotal from the people I know and attitudes I've heard... zero data to back it up.
This really belongs in XKCD.
In a recent interview Bezos said paraphrasing, it's pointless to go to Mars.

So really there is no comparison since the main goal of Musk/SpaceX everything it does seems to be making the technology to get to Mars.
I sell SAAS to banks. Here are some tips for selling to large CO's I've picked up in the process:

1. Get your foot in the door with a small deal. Try and close a small deal, sell them a pilot, a three month trial or sell a small component and then grow your way in. Closing a large deal from the start is close to impossible.

2. When you have an entry point, get several members of the management team on board. As BostonEnginerd mentions, demo and network to everyone you can and try and get them on board. Executives at large established CO's tend to be risk averse even if they have decision making power, so they will try to shield their decisions as part of a team evaluation result.

3. Be prepared for a very long sales cycle. Some of the best deals will take really, really long to close. Work on as many leads as possible so you don't get demoralized if one doesn't come out and keep emailing them even if you haven't heard from them in six months.

4. Be persistent. Even if they desperately need your product, sometimes large CO's are so bogged down in bureaucracy and day to day operations that it will take them a long time to fit you in their agendas.

5. Large CO's suffer from severe FOMO. Use this to your advantage, show them a competitor who is doing something similar. Even if it's a test 8 time zones away, this will definitely shake them up.

As for your product. A successful early warning system for disease should be easy to sell to a large health insurance company which could potentially save millions or billions from preventing insurance claims. It could also be possible to sell it to an established software vendor in the health care industry.
MSFT pays billions for the privilege of being a search engine to Apple.

Google pays Apple to be the default search engine....

http://www.businessinsider.com/google-paid-apple-3-billion-r...

preventing smartphone manufacturers from running competing systems that had not been approved by Google - Amazon ships hundreds of millions of Android devices that use non of Google's services.

A manufacturer can’t both ship Android devices that have Google Play Services and Android devices that don’t. Amazon doesn’t make any devices with Google palsy Services.

by rejecting competing services and apps from the app store,

For every service that Apple offers, their is s competing third party service in the App Store and for most, they are treated equally.
I think the biggest factor is that increased mobility in the US means people are likely to be far away from family support systems. (To give you an idea, it's a longer trip from where I live to my parents than London to Moskow, despite us both being in the US).

I think marriage counseling being so big is also affected by the heterogeneity of culture; it's very likely that you and your spouse have quite different backgrounds and expectations across a gamut of things.
On Twitter they just said it was a power outage in Newark:

https://twitter.com/linode/status/1019731939501096961
I've been listening to the "3 Body Problem" trilogy by Cixin Liu. I'd highly recommend it because not only is it some mind blowing sci-fi, but it also contains one of the most interesting solutions to the Fermi paradox that I've ever seen. I don't want to give anything away because the books are a real treat if you're like me, but the explanation is based on game theory and actually makes a ton of sense.

Highly recommended.
How stealthy is this takeover, really?

You'd have to be blind not to see that the wealthy are taking over.

Money is power, and some people are much better at getting their hands on money/power than others. Regardless of whether such money/power is "deserved" (which can be argued endlessly either way), we as a society really have to question whether we want a society where the overwhelming majority of people are screwed, and a tiny minority gets to own everything/everyone, call the shots, make the laws, and order the rest of us around.

We and our children are going to be shining these people's shoes for generations to come. Is that the future we want?
Damn. How embarrassing! Two major factual mistakes in two sentences while nitpicking at someone else's mistakes on the internet. I of course meant to write h264 ;-)
Following Snap's servers crashing, how many users could have been affected?
The example does not disprove the point. Somewhere around 50M surgeries / year. Some of those are going to be bad.

If you want to talk about defensive medicine and financial and legal malincentives that pressure doctors into anti-patient choices, I'm all ears. Freakonomics had a great mini-series on that.

But pointing to horrific botched or fraudulent surgeries and acting outraged? Meh. I accepted some humans were immoral a long time ago. If it's most surgeons or many surgeons, or they aren't getting sued and/or charged with malpractice, then it's an issue. Otherwise, I leave it to the local nightly news.
While the Government is a trustworthy client - meaning that they pay their bills, getting in and building the trust necessary to clear the regulatory barriers in place, is a substantial challenge. Selling directly without an established base of paying customers and high-profile success stories is exceedingly difficult, sadly.

Networking, as some HN commenters mentioned, is one step - but procurement networking events are littered with hundreds of bright eyed entrepreneurs seeking to secure a government contract.

Bidding through the RFP process is another route - but often takes a very, very, long time, and could outlast the life of the company.

Another option is to capture the attention of a lawmaker or administration official who is looking to solve the very issue you have a solution for. I.e. they have a lot of constituents who are concerned about early disease warning systems and therefore they want to find a solution that disrupts the status quo.

Depending on how deeply you care about this issue - you could also seek out a fellowship (via tech congress or another non-profit seeking to increase tech’s engagement in government) or look to participate in the digital service (which is a non-partisan group of civic minded technical experts who are just looking to make government work better).
It seems to have just come back up... at least my VM is responding.
Pretty cool. Think they'd be open to contribution to their site?
Thanks, that helps. Again, if it's "just" for a year or two, then that's just a sacrifice you have to take as a parent. That's different if the lack of sleep would be sustained until the kid reaches, say, puberty, because 15 years is a whole different number in relation to my expected remaining lifetime...
I think from the trajectory it’s pretty obvious who will be on top in five years. Whether the intercept is now, a month from now, or half a year away doesn’t matter all that much.
What? That's not what they are saying at all. Why don't you actually read the ruling?
nice spam. nothing here is new.
I think you miss my point. I make a post on FB calling for all right-thinking citizens to beat up spork12. I get arrested after the post has been made on FB, and after it has been read by too many people. Sure, I've been arrested. But you can't make people un-read it. How many people read it and think I was right, and will try to put my suggestion into action?

Note well: This is post is not an actual threat, nor is it a call to violence.
Nah, you have to hand over your goods before you can tell whether the buyer is a scammer.
I wonder what the deal is with 'naming' bed sizes. Here in The Netherlands as far as I know, we just use dimensions so you always know exactly what size you have/want/get. Is it a country or language specific thing? Or perhaps an industry idea to hide information behind ambiguous terms?
A large entailer in the UK that I’ve done PCI work for 3 years ago had simmilar figures in the mid 80%, that accounts for all attempts not successful ones.

Another anecdote is that even non-compromised accounts that were not regularly used had on average 4 failed attempts before a successful login with password recovery used in more than 50% of these cases, to the point where the majority of all login attempts were failed attempts.

The “compromised” accounts were identified by using information form fraud detection services and accounts that did not complete a password recovery after multiple failed attempts as well as a few other indicators.

While I understand your skepticism you need to understand just how common this issue is.

When hackers/fraudsters get any set of credentials from a leak or phishing they try it on 100’s if not 1000’s of sites multiply it by the number of fraudsters and hacking groups that sell login details in bulk and it’s essentially the spam of the internet world.
Quite possibly the most abused punk logo in history. I've seen it used on everything from "Employee's Must Wash Hands" stickers to a t-shirt that read "Beach Boys"
Although this may very well explain the author's major motivations and source of job satisfaction, can two categories really explain software developer job satisfaction for everyone?

It makes sense that someone would be more satisfied working on their own ideas than someone else's. The problems being solved are more personally relevant, and they have more control over the execution, for better or worse. The business end of things may be why proportionally few developers go this route.

In this article, an idea or project's success seems to be equated with its profitability and applies to business ventures in general. What about other measures of success: meeting performance and reliability requirements, being widely used, fixing some societal ill, or scratching the itch of curiosity?

How the idea is executed too may greatly affect job satisfaction. Many developers prefer working on greenfield projects over maintaining legacy systems. What is the pace of work like? The quality of the coworkers?

There are numerous variables at play.
> There's an assumption that every civilisation will pass through a stage where can recognise it - but of course there's no good reason to be confident this is true.

That's the inherent problem with only having one example of something. For all we know, our current way of being is fundamentally closing off our perception that would allow us the knowledge that intelligence exists beyond our own. Even our own thought patterns could be fooling us.

For example, we could very well visit a planet in another star system and be like...

"Wow, this whole planet is covered in rust. What a wasteland! Let's get out of here."

And we might not even think that the rust is actually an intelligence. We might figure out that it's living, after years of stomping on it or trying to mine base elements out of it, but we might never know that it's actually much more intelligent than we are because it doesn't have the innate human drive to spread out, conquer, explore, etc., all of which are not necessarily indications of intelligence.
"the economy was in dire straits in 2009"

I'm a foreigner but to me Obamacare appears to be an effort to ensure that everyone in the US can have reasonably priced access to healthcare. That seems a laudable aim. In the UK we have the National Health Service which has a similar aim.

The NHS was formed in 1948. The UK economy at the time could also be described as being in dire straits but perhaps with a little more emphasis.
In this case, the rules of Unicode has set itself up to be doomed. If the organization favors commercial votes over common sense, it is no longer an organization with the purpose of standardizing human glyphs, but a company that accepts icons from companies for cash.

However, going back to my original point, UC's decision to standardize smileys from Japanese icons was a mistake, and it can be reversed by releasing that part of the standard into a non-UC-endorsed extension, or by deprecating it entirely, recommending system-dependent methods for transmitting icons instead.
I'm sure those sellers would find Shopify or something to offer their stuff.
Tangentially related: I'm looking for an app that will ask me how happy / tired / productive I'm feeling randomly throughout the day, and allow me to export this data, so that I can correlate this with my sleep and diet.
Speaking from experience it was incredibly hard to start. I waited 6 months between when I knew I had a problem before I made a concerted effort to find a therapist. Talking to another human being about my internal state took a lot of effort. I had to push through it.