skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
yes, but that doesn't mean that someone could buy a house right now and provide the same deal as the existing owner. The existing owner could have bought while interest rates were higher and prices were lower and refinanced down to a much lower monthly payment.
Then, just like YC would teach you, you don't need a CTO.
Snapchat Is Becoming Like the Internet It Disdains
Microsoft's Azure Kubernetes Service mucked my cluster
Do you realize we're in a thread (that I didn't start) discussing the NYT's credibility on reporting this issue? How about you reply to the content of my comment instead of trying to take it out of context and spamming the thread?
Which were the technological problems that you had to update App Engine to Python 3? I thought it were upgraded a lot of time ago.
Unlike in US, most European students learn a foreign language
It's quite simple, really - at least in some instances.

Say you look for log lines (or jsons) that contain the username 'mamcx'; you first filter-away lines that do NOT contain 'mamcx', then parse only the remaining ones (and apply the condition again, on the properly-parsed ones)
It is astonishing how hard it can be to internally sell any kind of web quality features to management in both for profit and non-profit organizations.

There is also a real herd effect. Many people will do whatever Matt Cutts tells them because they think it will be good for their SEO. Yeah right. Some of the people who are good at SEO either went to work for huge brands or quasi-competitors of Google (like about.com) that might have some ability to bring Google to anti-trust court; most of the others switched to paid advertising once they figured out that Google won't let you win at SEO.

Certainly people who write for Spamium (aka Tedium) are the ones who try herd-following methods of getting traffic and they tend to be impressed when they get 100 hits on their blog.
SEC Inquired About Tesla CEO Musk’s Tweets
> It's great that you guys are receptive to these issues but I can't help but wonder if, instead of solving this with what is clearly unpopular technology, we all would have been better off if Google had encouraged better practices?

Unpopular where? Between web devs on HN which are the main cause of the web site bloat plague?
S3 buckets do not have filesystem semantics so most of that functionality would be inoperable, and also require heavyweight session-based proxies to support (which is something you can easily operate yourself)
Blockchain only solves one part of the problem.
All end devices are not secure. My mother keeps clicking on funny ads and single hardware components may be compromised.
this looks like HN for devs in their 20's
Do you also never question other individuals because they have their reasons?
I recently built a sensor for particulate matter (using the Plantower PMS7003, a laser-based sensor) and it's interesting to look at the effects of every day tasks. Cooking for instance causes a huge spike in PM1.0/2.5/10.0 levels, but so do more mundane tasks like vacuuming or spraying aerosols.

I'd like to add a sensor for CO2, but it's a bit more complicated. A lot of the easy to use sensors marketed for the purpose are MOX sensors and the "equivalent CO2" reading they give is pretty much a complete lie except in a very narrow range of circumstances.
Houston averages 9⁰ F higher than Detroit in the summer, with higher humidity.

I would call the Houston weather "too hot" for about 6 months of the year, vs parts of July and August for Detroit.
connection tracking could be turned off. but yeah, but default it uses it (for cases where you need to drain a host w/o distruption of existing connections). it's easy to make katran behave the same way as glb (by disabling connection tracking + writing host module which is doing more or less the same as what glb's agent is doing)
IPv6: It's only NAT-ural that network nerds are dragging their feet
Nah, blame the EU for all of those pop-over ads that you see on sites like Tedium. You first saw pop-overs to harass people abut cookies as required in the EU, thus everybody learned how to make pop-overs and pop-overs were legitimized because they aren't just advertising but something perceived to be required by regulation.
Sad news. I have The Psychology of Computer Programming as my bathroom reading (read into that what you will).
Same here. I lived in 2BR apartments by myself until I moved in with my girlfriend. One office, one bedroom. Life is better when you can literally sprawl out on the floor.

We live in a 4BR with a basement, with two roommates who will be (slowly) transitioning out of the house over the next couple years. And with two dogs. It's literally basically Just Enough House to feel comfortable for us.
Launch HN: Radix Labs (S18) – Downloading drugs with programmable lab automation
Hi HN,
​
We're Dhash and Ian, the founders of Radix Labs. We build software that lets biologists automate and transparently share their work. Our software glues together biologists' existing lab hardware and provides a seamless way for biologists to execute their protocols on it. Check us out at http://radix.bio/ .

We think lab equipment is like mainframes were in the 1980’s - you have to program each one as a special snowflake. All that we've done is built an operating system so you can write a program once that runs on all of them. Just like developers write apps for android, they write recipes for Radix. In the future with our technology, you’ll be able to download a recipe for making a coca-cola and if you have the right robots and precursors in your lab, they’ll just start making it.

Technically, we do this by making biologists describe their protocol in a formal language with verified operational semantics. We do this with a web UI, so they don’t have to write “real” source code. We compile this protocol to our IR, deriving control and data flow graphs to inform our place-and-route algorithms. After the program is realized to robot/lab instrument commands, we generate code to be run on the automated machinery. If the entire protocol can’t be totally realized by automation, we generate natural language instructions for humans to interact with the runtime system.

We go through this process to gain features you’re used to in your “normal” operating system. We provide a virtual memory abstraction so that programs compose, concurrency primitives for executing tasks in parallel and synchronizing access to fluids, and drivers to support a wide variety of different lab hardware.

These abstractions differentiate us from companies like Transcriptic and Emerald Cloud Labs by allowing us to write programs with branching control flows, support for on-premise deployments, a wider variety of compatible hardware, and an advanced optimizing compiler to allow users to specify optimization criteria like minimum execution time, minimum consumable usage, or max flow to run a lab as a high-throughput assembly line.

Right now we’re compatible with some pipetting robots (Opentrons and some Tecan robots) and we're working on adding more devices. Contact us and let us know what you need automated.
Launch HN: Radix Labs (YC S18) - Software for Bio Lab Automation

We’re doing this to bring better lab-scale tooling to biologists, it currently costs 2.3B to get a new drug to market. This is too high to the point of where promising drugs are scrapped for economic reasons, and we think we can help fix that.

We’ll be here to answer any questions you have about us and our product for the next few hours as @Ian_Paul and @Dhash. Also feel free to fill out this (http://radix.bio/contact-us.html) form and we’ll answer any question you have over email
True, but irrelevant— hes experiments apply perfectly to finding escape characters and bit sequences that indicates the following x bits should be parsed by ICU. He is testing ideas and concepts, I look forward to an update. Would like a way to subscribe.
I just spent 20 minutes reading about the fascinating case of Ellis vs. Grand Rapids, as linked from the poster's site (http://gduverger.com/ellis-v-city). This was like a two-for-one deal, so thanks!
This is, on one hand, great. I made the switch to a similar bank myself a few years back.

What I failed to realise at the time was how exposed I became to the vulnerabilities associated with being cashless. Cash is not just an ancient relic. Cash is an ancient relic and a fundamental component of a free society.

My country has, in practise, become nearly cashless and I used to be proud to be one of the very early adopters of that mindset. Now I lament how hard it is to deal in cash.

I am planning to switch to the only bank left in my country still providing personal cash services. The only one. That should be scary, not relieving.
there is no big difference compare to what glb is doing. they are encoding next server in mac. glb is doign the same w/ metadata inside gue
> Criminal actions require intent

There are both crimes with lesser mental states than intent, and crimes of strict liability. So let's not engage in inaccurate unnecessary generalizations.

But the usual required intent for theft was not present if you accept Aaronson’s account, though the external evidence was certainly enough to provide an external observer a reasonable basis for believing that intent was present.
The search in this thing is incredible. Definitions come up, context comes up, even get results from the material in the linked resources. Really cool how easy it is to navigate--if you click a link to go to another section of the text, back arrow brings you back where you were. That really makes it easier to learn what you don't know, like flipping back and forth to a glossary or footnotes in a book but without any hassle.
A really nice idea, although my sense is that companies in the $5-20mm paper valuation range fall into a sort of "valley of death" where the options are too expensive to exercise, RSUs would be laughably premature, and the odds of success are still very, very thin.
Ah sorry I meant zebra crossings in particular. The one you sent me seems to be one with traffic lights for the pedestrians.

Generally you are allowed to cross ways almost everywhere if you are giving the vehicles on the road precedence. There are a few restrictions: you should use the shortest path, if there are zebra crossings or traffic lights nearby you have to use them, if there is a lot of traffic you should cross at intersections, etc. but there’s not the general concept of jaywalking.
Maybe, but that's avg. So, some CTO's make 350-1M+ a year and so I'm supposed to believe many CTO's make less than 140k, maybe a lot less? Maybe indeed should slice the data in ways that make sense, but company size, or area only. As someone that manages 120+ people...I know a lot about what engineers and other tech workers make. These numbers are straight silliness.
Yup, and there a language specific sdk's that provide a consistent API w/adapters for different cloud providers which can be swapped out. i.e. active_storage, fog in ruby
I'm in my early 20s and can confidently say this is the first I've heard of Dev.to and hopefully the last. I like emojis as much as the next millennial but this website looks awful.
that's a good way to do it.

generally you do some kind of faster/simpler parsing up front and then feed to a more expensive parser.

I've parsed more than my share of 1GB-20GB Turtle files and some up-front filtering gets a big speed boost over a conventional RDF parser.
Ten years ago Amazon seems to have had profits of $650 million on sales of $19bn. I think Magic Leap still has some catching up to do.
> A young family with one breadwinner

That norm is quickly going out of style at least
I had a similar idea, so I looked up the process for starting a bank. There's a good reason fresh-faced startup VCs can't get into it.

- Extremely high starting capital requirements (10-100 million USD)

- Knowledge on security, finance, and law, means you will be needing an expert team of lawyers, accountants, cryptographers, etc.

- An actual location and strictly controlled building to keep the physical money.

There are a lot more requirements but the first 3 make it almost impossible for a lay-man to start their own bank.
MXNet Implementation of DeepMind's Neural Arithmetic Logic Units
Still, you're only as secure as your weakest link. An attacker could figure out how to break into your banking account using the information they gathered from you checking your newspaper account.
Microsoft Visual Studio Live Share Audio
New York Approves First U.S. Cap on Uber, App-Based Cab Drivers
Perl 6 small stuff #5: Gather around, it’s time to get lazy (…but why?)
Sounds like the chupacabra.
Similar thing in Poland: https://polishapi.org/en/
A 500% boost in conversion rate is 5 people if your original conversion rate is 0%. Quit pretending like what you're doing is special.
It's not about tuning, the site just preloads content when you mouseover links, using a background service worker. That's pretty "new fangled" compared to most sites.
Well there are biases also, first and foremost that this data is from Indeed.com and I doubt most high quality CTO positions are posted there. It would definitely make sense to separate based on company size for executive positions.
katran has example of how to use this library. which is (example) more like ipvsadm + kernel.
> what happened to human interaction

You mean, when the worker repeatedly told him that the thing he had just taken money from was the tip jar?

The resort to law enforcement happened after direct interaction failed.
Does Amazon have a history of forcing digital content to be input for certain items?

I've been really annoyed that all food sellers aren't required to provide a list of ingredients and nutritional info to Amazon when selling on the platform (the US government also doesn't make them available via the FDA). That data would let Amazon build a food graph so people could really search for products that fit them.

For example: I want a cookie that is like an Oreo, but has less sugar.

Today, they just can't answer these questions without making some big assumptions, and can't expose the ingredients via an API so we can build cool products with the data.
You're not the only one. I will load AMP pages and then tap through to the source page just to make sure I'm not letting Google control the experience.
Another interesting bit of history was the Seiko Message Watch, which had time-sync and one-watch messaging over an FM radio sideband:

https://mako.cc/copyrighteous/tribute-to-the-seiko-messagewa...

Back before cell phones were ubiquitous that was pretty novel. I remember being struck by how cool it was to step off the plane in Taipei and see it update to local time while I watched. Getting pages about server downtime using the email gateway was also a nice way not to lug a pager around.

The system didn't outlive Y2K, however, and since it was clear where the market was going they simply shut it down rather than fix the Y2K bugs.
Get Ready for a Massive Government Spending Spree
Not saying it should be easy, just asking for ideas that could provide monetization choices for talented yet mostly unknown musicians.
*in America

Banks provide an API in Europe. In fact it's a legal requirement that's coming into force in 2019, and there are a lot of 'mobile-first' banks like Monzo and Revolut which make this entirely un-needed in the first place (providing spending exports, decent analytics, push notifications, etc etc).

Welcome to the future. Contact your local politician if you want to join us. Maybe also ask about chip and pin while you're at it!
Just whatever you do on dev.to don't ask hard questions to their AMA people. You'll get shadowbanned for that. (Even if the person handles the question well)
Yeah, I think it was near the twins stadium, and was brand new, so it was probably inflated a bit compared to what you would get if you looked around.

Regardless, I now have a 2k mortgage for multiple acres, waterfront, and no congestion, city noise, smells or lights. It's bliss if you don't mind the occasional snake or bear.
Ask HN: Are there standard YC docs for founder equity agreements?
I'm looking for an initial set of documents for founders to split equity at formation of a startup, that includes standard vesting schedules.

Essentially, I'm looking for the companion documents to this post: https://blog.ycombinator.com/splitting-equity-among-founders/

I've found the SAFE agreements, and Clerky has a set of ISO/options agreements. But are there any recommended templates for the initial agreement between founders upon incorporation of a Delaware corp?
Probably thinking of this: https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2018/07/05/apple-music-spot...
For the HTTP 100 vs 307 -

You're right, but in my experience, S3 does not send 307 on each request (which it would have to do, if it were load balancing, right?)
- Instant, ultra-low cost inner-bank transfers. None of this "wait a day (or more)" ACH business or "send money via paypal, but then have to wait a day (or more) to ACH it into a real bank account". Useful for everything from paying friends back to moving money between two personal accounts.

- ubiquitous NFC-based payment systems
After hearing about this for awhile and now playing with the product for the first time, I was super pumped to guess (and be right!) that the arrow keys could be used to help navigate sections. Nice touch, guys :)
Likewise, if you watch "Abacus, Small enough to Jail," you can see an Asian community bank president talking about lending to small business owners because he can go to their restaurant and see how crowded it is, all the time. There are actual 50-something Chinese businessmen who make over a million a year but who work 80+ hour weeks and man their own forklift to save on money. There are people with little empires of alternative health businesses, who keep some large portion of their money in the proverbial mattress because they've had experiences in the past where a different government confiscated their or a friend's holdings, and there are some people like that who try to apply for loans by sending in screenshots of their bank's web apps.
I wonder what percentage of cars on the streets of Manhattan are Uber/Lyft, vs. taxi cabs, vs. private vehicles vs. other commercial ones.

Claiming to limit Uber license to alleviate congestion is a bullshit argument unless you can show that they make up a significant percentage of traffic.

Also, to be clear, I'm not an Uber apologist; they can go fuck themselves as quickly as they move and break things.
cowardly is how I'd describe the behavior of companies

the direct action seems pretty upfront to me, and the suggestion that they should invite the cops strikes me as idiotic faux-even-handedness
Disclaimer: I work at Backblaze.

> Backblaze doesn't seem to offer either for non-C++/Swift languages.

On each of the API web pages there are code examples for the following languages: 1) cUrl, 2) Java, 3) Python, 4) Swift, 5) Ruby, 6) C#, and 7) PHP.

For example, go to https://www.backblaze.com/b2/docs/b2_authorize_account.html and scroll ALL THE WAY TO THE BOTTOM of that web page, and you should see "Sample Code" section. Click on the blue buttons to see the different code examples.

If your favorite language is missing, we can add it for you! One of our client engineers wrote most of the code examples in all 7 languages in less than 1 week. With these working code examples, the expectation is you should be able to get B2 working in literally less than 2 days in any application in any language.
This is interesting.

I was going off of the information I've received from small business owners in the Seattle area who I've formed personal relationships with, and who have told me how they increased their prices specifically to offset the cost of credit card fees.
> This isn't a problem you can solve by changing the banking industry. This is a point-of-sale problem.

It's all part of a larger set of "problems with US financial services". The fact that it is technically different vendors is not relevant...
I have a sensor built into an air purifier and have observed the same. Anything textile-related is bad like shaking out your blanket, which makes carpets seem horrible to me. But frying stuff really is the worst. You can go in the hundreds of micrograms, even with induction.

A positive thing I have also learned is that opening the windows works best to get PM levels to a background level. Luckily it is only in the area of 5-20ug pm2.5 here

For CO2 i have been recommended this one: https://clientmedia.trade-server.net/1768_tfadost/media/8/00... which seems to measure CO2 directly.
Thanks for noticing this. We'll get this updated.
9 Things You Should Know About TensorFlow
I think thats kinda the point, law enforcement likely wouldnt be involved in this situation in a civil society. The manager might have taken the loss or he might have spoken to scott directly. Living in a civil society is about deescalation and assuming good intentions of those around you. Again the main mistake Scott is making is not his absent minded stumblings (note his bomb squad story) BUT his lack of recognition that he is living in a society where many minor errors are considered criminally hostile behavior.
The Europeans are predominantly learning English, the world's language. Americans already know English. Plus, ask any American who took French in high school how much French they still retain. The answer will most likely be zero. It's kind of a waste of time unless you use it, which few do.

http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2015/10/08/more-than-an...
The author was wrong. AMP is a way to prerender web pages in a way that plays nice with analytics. The rest makes the preload fast, but the user doesn't experience it because when they navigate to the page, it is already rendered.
I just want to add that the rent doesn't scale proportionately to number of bedrooms.

E.g. a 1BR in San Jose where I live goes for $2100/mo, a 2BR goes for $2400 (obviously, it's different everywhere - a friend of mine is renting a room in SF for $2K+).

It makes sense for a couple to get a 2BR even on a single income if it's good enough (and usually, once you can afford spending $2100/mo on rent, you can afford $2400 too). For 15% increase in rent, one gets the ability to e.g. comfortably invite friends/parents from out of state for a couple of days.

Of course, single-income no-kids couple does not look immediately look like the norm these days; but once you think of it, there are plenty of situations other than children that make sense for such a scenario: one of the partners might be in school / looking for a job / changing fields / being involved in something that doesn't provide a stable salary (arts, entrepreneurship) / did I mention start-ups? / etc
NYC is closing down the L train next year for a year at the very least. So far, the city has proposed more water taxis as the primary solution to handle rerouting the 300k daily riders. Right now, the water taxi ridership is 1370 people per day. Secondarily, the city has indicated it might make some of the bridges carpool or ride-share only. Either way, all signs point to the shutdown heading towards a painful if not disastrous scenario. Hopefully, voters will point to this type of cronyism and corruption next mayoral election.
It does matter for the authors, with TS they would have probably needed another year or two to complete it.