skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Where do you see coworking as a concept in the next decade? I haven't used WeWork but I've been a customer of plenty of different coworking spaces. I've had complaints with all of them, but they still beat working from home as far as productivity goes - for me at least.

I do feel that most coworking spaces, WeWork included, get the entire concept fundamentally wrong. They all market their "networking" opportunities and "hip" work spaces.

Do serious workers eveb want that? All I need is a quiet office where I'm left alone to work in a private cabin. I couldn't care less for the artisanal coffee or funky furniture.

I do hope there is a coworking competitor that gives me a no nonsense, quiet place to work in
Shockwave traffic jams recreated:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Suugn-p5C1M
I thought the same thing.

I believe the author intentionally wanted us to believe it was "the edge" based on your definition, but then wanted to make a point that "the edge" is now "the physical edge".

Another explanation would also be that a couple years ago the stereotypical technically-limited VC would ask if this app would be in "the cloud". The author used the same stereotype and adapted it to "the edge".
I thought buildings can be reinforced. How does Tokyo manage it's buildings?
You can also apply TailwindCSS classes into any stylesheet preprocessor of your choice such as SASS[0] (@apply) then style it to your liking which is why I'm very delighted to use this instead of Tachyons.

[0] - https://tailwindcss.com/docs/extracting-components
Here's the deal. When you have Google resources and Google ambitions, you don't need an immediate strategy to justify doing something like supplying a free public DNS. Just do it because it's yet another capture of a resource. Maybe it'll be useful in the future.
I can't help but think there's some real estate play that everyone is missing.

They buy long term leases and sell short term leases, which they can mark up for 1) the optionality provided with a short term lease 2) the optionality to rent just as much as you need 3) additional amenities provided 4) and potentially to respond to local market changes (which aren't reflected in the long term lease.)

That's actually pretty straight forward, and it remains to be seen if it's profitable.

And yet, I feel I'm missing something. That there is some sneaky real estate arbitrage (or maybe a tax effect) that turns this from risky to genius.

Or maybe I'm just hoping there is.
I had two thoughts when I read it.

First, I am currently reading Zvonkin's Math from three to seven, and he included an essay where he talks about "language support" when solving math problems. Hypothesis was, that to use language, we often need to process complex rules to use the nuanced meanings of words often based on context, which means that if we formulate a word-problem in right way, language can do a lot of heavy lifting, in a simmilar way, you might transform your numeric problem to vector-operations to be able to run it on GPU.

The example he referenced was his attempt to get boys in his math-circle to figure out some abstract notation to discuss complexity of something they built out of blocks. One of the boys attempted to just to replace words he used to describe the build with symbols. This might show that word as a concept is pretty powerful abstraction you can build on top of, and it is already built in to the language we are using :-)

The other thing this reminded me of, w.r.t. of learning the meaning of "or" and "implies", is that (at least in my language), colloquial meaning of "or" is 99% of time synonymous with "either, or", and "a implies b" is often used as "b happens if and only if a already happened".

This explains a lot of struggle I had when learning the boolean algebra/predicate logic, where "or" as well as "implies" have different definitions.
Tutanotas encrypted email app is coming to F-Droid
Wow! So the original story is written on the blog of a company that is creating Chart of clouds architectures (and probably being on the edge)? I'm amazed by how niche that business is!

also very nice plug to put your diagrams into the story
Not a single mention on the valuation of their properties, the regular metrics regarding real estate (initial yields, WALT - not sure if that's directly applicable though) and their cashflow projections. For real estate there are many measures that seek to disambiguate things like "costs come upfront".

And remember, for real estate several billions is quite small potatoes. Fifty or less not too large office buildings sets you back a billion. The market (at least prime European that I see) is overly competitive right now with markets accepting gross yields of 4% and funds making target yields by increasing leverage. Interest rates come up, valuations come down, unless you've got the cashflow locked in via long leases. That last part of the game, I think WeWork will lack. They surf the economic cycle, instead of evening it out long leases.

Edit: in reading other comments they are not owning buildings but doing term swaps. In that case they are on the receiving end of a whole lot of risk. 84% occupancy is fine, but in this market that is not too high. Most commercial funds will be a lot higher right now and they have the incentives on investments better aligned with longer contracts. How WeWork thinks to weather an economic downturn beats me.
Compaq created a new BIOS from a clean sheet of paper design, not a reverse engineered or ROM dump. The code of the BIOS on the PC and PC/XT were copyrighted.
Hey Luke,

I'm sorry you didn't like the article.

Our software has a technology that analyses trends and in fact, you can see on https://angage.net/trends how the items we suggested are still trendy (this is backed up by Google Trends and sales we track with the software).

I know for someone living in the US some events we mentioned can be no brainers. A lot of our readers are based in the EU or even Asia but are selling to the US, so we thought it was worth mentioning them.

Thanks for your feedback!
Mike
Normally this accounting problem is solved by capitalising those expenses and then matching them against future revenue. Otherwise every company that made investments would have the problem where investments in the future were affecting this years' profits.

Does anyone know where the original filings can be found? Is this in EDGAR somewhere (I'm outside the US)?
Day 13 is live #100daysofML #100daysofCode
Here in London, I know there are a lot of non-VC businesses using WeWork offices including the normal people who occupy a lot of offices, like banks.
6 investors contacted me to put money into my new SaaS. Here’s why I said no
Honestly, when I got my first Airbnb some six years ago it was much more lightweight than it is now. Now it’s just a hotel but in someone’s place. Even as late as six years ago I met people who I’d hang out with and add on Facebook.

Couch surfing always had the problem where people would use it as a hookup site so it ruined it for people who just want a place to stay.
Previous discussions about the Xi editor and rope science:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17109930 (3 months ago, 47 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16267202 (6 months ago, 295 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14129543 (a year ago, 60 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11576527 (2 years ago, 177 comments)
Paradox of Hedonism (or Pleasure Paradox)
Depends on the type of social media. I got more real news (supported by multiple corroborating facts and folks who experienced events) on the Syria Civil war from the reddit Syrian Civil war forum than the continuous propaganda published/broadcasted by the American MSM. Whenever folks published videos that were countervailing to the established narrative, Ex: modern NATO weapons in ISIS hands being used to shell civilians or the 'moderate' rebels keeping and chaining female slaves, it was just a matter of hours before the video was reported and taken down. I spent a fair amount of time verifying information. It truly opened my eyes to what 'narrative' based Journalism means. I no longer trust any of the MSM channels.
0 and 1 are really extreme probabilities. It's often better to think of a probability of 0.001 being closer to 0.5 than to 0. As odds ratios it's easy to see that 999:1 is closer to 1:1 than to infinity:1.

0 probability means that even infinitely many pieces of evidence will not change your assessment: no matter how many heads you see restored from cryogenic storage, you will still believe that the probability is 0, and will have to find other, increasingly unlikely, explanations for the evidence.

For a more in-depth and slightly more rigorous discussion, see 0 And 1 Are Not Probabilities: https://www.greaterwrong.com/posts/QGkYCwyC7wTDyt3yT/0-and-1...
I agree with you and can only add that at some point, obsessing over information collection from stuff like this is a waste of life. Yes, privacy is important. Focusing on it to the point of obsession, as so many of us do, is just time that could have been imbued with much more meaning in light of our limited time here.
German cops are generally not as over-the-top as US cops. They don't get to wreck chaos at will either, they need a reason. Especially once shots are fired because that will in all cases end with a trial against the cop to see if they followed the rules when firing their gun.

Outside of actual crimes happening I've very rarely heard of the police doing something malicious or "wreck chaos".
I use Python because I get things done quickly and relatively easily AND I hardly ever use third party packages. I avoid subsystems, e.g. Django, for many of the reasons pointed out in the article. In my experience, similar problems exist when using NodeJS/npm.

On that note, I think that the problem is that many packages out there have been hacked together rather than designed. The low threshold for becoming a Python programmer means that the average quality gets reduced. Which is a shame, because there are many exceptional packages out there, but they become statistical outliers amongst the mass of dross.
Definitely. Robots aren't used in factories for speed, primarily. They're used for consistency and quality control.
Unsecured #AWS S3 Bucket exposed sensitive data on 31,000 #GoDaddy servers
Some people are more productive in a room with just a computer and none of the distractions that come with a home, family, pets, etc.
And chrome.
Except that they are not significantly out of scope or intention. At time, there was a fair amount of innovation going on in the field, and the concept of people riding mechanical devices on the pavement already existed. The velocipede had already been around for nearing a couple of decades.
“Or” is also regularly used to mean an exclusive choice, especially when asking questions.

“Would you like the red shirt or the blue shirt?” Or whatever.

My just-turned-2-year-old hasn’t quite figured this one out yet. He just repeats the whole thing back, “red shirt or blue shirt”, without making a choice.
Declare health insurance a mandatory nonprofit industry. Truly nonprofit.
I view education the same way, and suggest stripping it down to just what's necessary to learn. Room, professor, chairs, chalk board, light bulb, books. Student brings pencils and paper. Adminstration should be streamlined by combining university systems. Costs should be low for the state and the only thing a student needs to provide are good test scores on entrance exams.

Basically austerity for health insurance middlemen and schools but no charge for education or healthcare. For example, I see a big push to air condition schools and I'm left unsure how my generation (Xennial) even survived. Not only my schools but my home never had air conditioning either.

These things are not necessities.
Neither are health insurance profits.
If you're pragmatic and interested in being happy, I would recommend knowing as much as possible. If you keep learning, you'll be able to understand much better what motivates and hinders other people. The depth of your understanding will enable you to convey complex but practical information in everyday language. Your value as a helpful and effective teacher will be widely recognized. The most effective writers also fall in this category.
I really wish more people would appreciate the human cost of building things by themselves instead of just chalking it all up to 'the creative journey' or some shit. It could potentially open up some really interesting service business models.

If I start just about any other kind of business other than a creative one, I can buy products or services that will help me get to market 10x easier than if I try to go it without. But if I try to venture outside of established biz modes and start to wander into the creative, I don't have to go far before I'm in an awkward no man's land of ugly, no one cares kind of having to burn the candle at both ends in order to push through to some kind of stability, and this article shows that that stability is a mirage.

The historical answer has always been to collect your efforts into an industry. And yeah, that option is there. You can go work for EA.

But it would be so much better if the games industry didn't have to eat its young. Or at least, not all of its young.

Hollywood's answer to the problem has been to double down on the community. If you want to be a screenwriter, first you need to realize that it's a hard hard thing to break into, there are always going to be more people looking to break in than there will be jobs, but you can still at least find a little bit of glory in the industry through YouTube or temping or whatever while you figure out what your plan B is. And everyone around you is going to help you figure these hard things out.

But you want to break into gaming? Haha fuck you buddy. Nobody gives a shit, go work for EA and get shit out when you finally stop making them quite as much $$$ as you did when you were young and stupid. Sure, go make your own games, I don't give a shit, don't expect any kudos from me, better hope you didn't dare spend any company resources on it because yes, we will sue the shit out of you for daring to get bigger than your britches.

I guess this is just my fervent hope that every industry can figure out how to be like craft beer.
There already is a market based solution that performs some of the functions of the DMV, and it is infinitely better. AAA locations can do some things for members. Getting a temporary handicap plaquard took all of 10 minutes at the AAA office.
I think that referred to the suggestion of printing every ballot after the user selects their choice on the machine.
> I was never really sure what the business case for operating a public DNS resolver

I always assumed it was to improve speed and security on the web.
Maybe they'll bring it back one in VR/AR.
Even if the process is onerous having one is miles ahead for the purpose of identifying eligible voters compared to the American system which barely knows who exists within the country, much less where they live.
It seems a bit nit-picky, but AWS has ~18 commercial regions, but far more datacenters. It's availability zone that's a data center (more or less), not a region. So for each region you end up with 3 to 5 data centers or something like that.
> For anyone reading who never used a spatial desktop before

Its been a while since I've used Nautilus, but back in GNOME 2 it had spatial design.
I have been told, that when I was ~2 to ~5 years old, making these sorts of choices was hard for me, and I often copped out i.e: Q: "Do you want jam or honey on your bread slice?" A:"One half jam, one half honey?" :D
That doesn't change this equation. China no longer needs the one child policy likewise the benefits of male offspring have diminished because the developing country has moved away from largely labour/farm jobs to mechanized factories and various supporting industries in urban environments where brute strength is no longer the deciding favour.

The changing economic incentives will address the gender inbalances faster than some government child policy or cultural/ideological shift...
so what is your point exactly?
> Whom do you believe would keep your DNS data private

You presupposing that it is necessary to send all DNS traffic to one entity. I run a local recursive nameserver (unbound) instead of sending all of my queries to a different nameserver.

Combined with aggressive caching, any particular DNS server (from .ROOT-SERVERS.NET down to the specific authoritative nameservers for a specific domain) is only able to view a tiny subset of my browsing behavior. Most of the time the query to the final authoritative nameserver is to be followed quickly by a TCP SYN packet that reveals roughly the same information.

Yes, running the full recursive resolver locally can be very slightly* slower than asking e.g. the local ISP's server that probably has the query cached. Fortunately, local caching limits this (very minor) problem to only the first request for a domain.
Bayeseian probability is always probability within a model. For things like dice where it's pretty uncontroversial to say the only sensible model is one where the a priori probability of the die landing on each face is equal. For questions like "who wrote the song" it is much less clear what the proper model should be.
Shanghai Government Opens Arms to Tesla Gigafactory 3 – CleanTechnica
That it really doesn't have to be this way? That we can help each other?
So annoying when people try to be fancy and break the default scrolling behavior. That's one way to get me to not read your blog.
Damn, I always wondered why led based vu meters had this smooth lag.
Confessions of a national park ranger (2012)
From Father to Son, Last Words to Live by (2007)
Maybe!

One thing Adi Robertson at The Verge said about Magic Leap is that she put things down... and then forgot where she put them! The limited FOV means you have to be basically looking right at something to see it.
Build a YouTube bookmarking site using Vue.js (Tutorial series)
The default is private to the owning AWS account. You’re meant to generate short-term tokens in your backend code to authorize specific requests, embedding them in the URLs you pass to others. People who are abusing S3 as a substitute for Dropbox or Google Drive (or using it from any context other than custom server-side software) won’t do that, so they set resources as public to make things work.
And the English and French chief test pilots for Concorde.

Sadly no pictures or videos of exists.
(Author here) sorry about the confusion, I can see where you are coming from. But yes, the investor was very much enquiring about whether it is on "the edge" in a cloud computing sense.
Having said that, it's important to stress that many - in fact, most - of the VCs I've talked to were amongst the most impressive, accomplished, knowledgeable and intelligent people I ever had the pleasure to work with.

There is, however, a (growing?) number of VCs with a purely financial background that approach investment decisions by establishing a framework of future trends/ developments (Crypto, Blockchain, Edge, Sharing Economy, E-Mobility and so on) and then vet potential investments based to how well companies align with these trends as well as basic suitability criteria (founding team, execution, traction etc.)

This isn't a bad thing per se as it might add a less biased view to investment decisions than the one made by the tech-founder-funds-tech-founder echo chamber, but it can lead to the level of detachment with the fundamentals of what one's talking about displayed in this article.
I completely agree with you. I’ll just point out that in the UK we don’t have road tax and haven’t had since it was abolished in 1937.

Instead we have Vehicle Excise Duty, VED, which is a tax on emissions. Which is why electric vehicles pay no VED.
If you’re curious about the matter, there’s an alternative technique called differential privacy that adds randomization to the data, and is able to provide guarantees that individual records cannot be identified. k-anonymity is subject to e.g. linkage attacks of the kind that differential privacy seeks to eliminate.
This editor is probably gonna be banned in China if it got noticed by the government. Hell they banned Winnie the Pooh
I expect kids can figure out these logical structures from non-verbal input if given the chance (e.g. if you present little puzzles with buttons that must be pressed in logically connected ways or whatever). I have seen tiny kids figure out several-step solutions to physical problems, sometimes quite novel ones that I would not have imagined myself. Simple logic puzzles are no harder than these, albeit usually presented in a less accessible way.

My bias is toward rejecting any claim that particular logic is innate. But I also don’t think that language per se is strictly necessary to reason logically.

However, it is certainly true that most situations requiring complicated logic encountered by young children are social / verbal. In which case additional feedback and guidance from adults (not to mention imitation) is probably going to be a faster teacher than pure trial and error / observation.