skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was talking to a guy who was a CEO of a company exactly like you describe, and he referred to it as a "stay up". I think the company was about 4 or 5 years old and was growing, but not massively. It was just ticking by nicely, slowly expanding, but not requiring any additional investment.

I think these types of companies are more common than readers here think, they just don't get the same kind of publicity. Often they serve some industry-specific niche, and the founder of the company is non-technical but has a lot of industry specific experience.
Most people don't live particularly close to one.
What the... that was painful to read and comprehend. Was this kind of complexity really necessary? Did someone get a promotion for coming up with this?
This website took so long with load and was loaded with so many animated ads and unresponsive scrolling while more ads just kept popping up slowly it's amazingly awful how [news] sites have gotten these days to try to survive.
They could be much cheaper to repair if they used standard parts so repair places didn't have to order in custom pieces that they only use about 1 per year because every fridge has it's own version.
I still use HookTube to watch age-restricted videos when I don't feel like logging in.
Researching Xiaomi phones I was blown away by the sheer number of other unrelated products they sell.

Someone at the top has a big push towards diversification.
Thats kind of how warranty works only that usually the product lasts much longer than the warranty.
I get a lot of "you're very social for a computer person".

I guess it's a compliment, but it feels a little backhanded.
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I opened my closet to look for my boots and there they were: gone!
Thanks! Amazon TOS allows caching. But, not sure if there is any specific restriction on shared cache.
By recycling they likely mean burning the phone and getting about 10% of the valuable material back out of it.
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I wonder what new language bindings they will support. I have experimented with saving Keras models, converting to Racket Scheme, and writing a runtime. It would be way better to have it officially supported.

Haskell support has worked OK for a while. The languages I would most like to see supported are common implementations of Common Lisp like SBCL and Clozure. I think there is some future for hybrid connectionist and symbolic AI and it would thrill me to have Common Lisp support for TensorFlow.
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Postgres joins against small tables are really really efficient. It wouldn't shock me if enums actually were implemented as tables.
If we're talking about electrical heating, this is only true for resistive heating, which is indeed all "waste heat". But many air conditioners can run in "reverse cycle" [0], where you're transferring outside heat back in, and is much more efficient, apparently 50% cheaper to run in electricity costs.

When you run one of these systems, your New Englander and Arizonan are virtuous to the degree of the difference between inside and outside temperatures. ;)

There's even now some combined cycle AC systems which use the extracted heat to generate your hot water [1], sadly not yet available/cost-effective for small residential installations, but they're only off by a factor of 2 now (8kW is the smallest system I've seen, my central air is 4kW).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_pump
[1] http://www.mitsubishielectric.com.au/air-to-water-hot-water-...
Yes, we can have security and privacy. People drastically over estimate the risks from things like terrorist attacks and high crime. Just think about the number of people and hugely vulnerable systems (even existing security is a joke - why not bomb a TSA line for example? Or accidentally carry a gun through, which happens all the time) and how rarely things go wrong. There's just no need for these over the top surveillance machines. Security doesn't stop motivated attackers anyway (see all terrorist attacks since 9/11).

As far as everyday crime goes, I suspect a social safety net would take care of most of it. Most people aren't bad, but they will do bad things when they need help but don't get it. Once you get past that point, the cost of crime is probably less than the cost of trying to get perfect enforcement.
The market can only sort it out if the lifespan of the product is made clear. If I buy a fridge today, I have no idea how long it will last. I can't see what standards the fridge was engineered to or what shortcuts they took and by the time it's known how long that model lasts it's already off the market and replaced with a new one.
This all falls on Dave Mawhinney. He’s a sexist power hungry joke. Acts like a big deal saying he sold a company to LinkedIn. LinkedIn acqui-hired one guy and Dave pretends he had something to do with it. Treats women and anyone beneath him like garbage behind their back and plays Bro with everyone else. He’s a cancer at cmu. They need to toss him out.
Unpublished anonymous illegal drug research isn't exactly in short supply. Credibility is.
Oh yeah, I definitely don’t think most people could or would want to do this. Also, I pretty much never ride in the road when there’s more than a dusting or ice on the ground. I can’t take the risk of falling and having a car not be able to stop in time.
Wow, I so agree with that and the (8) footnote: "I don't mind if a very complex and heavyweight function takes keyword arguments. What bothers me is making simple basic functions such as “member” use them."

I kept keyword arguments out of TXR Lisp. That is, out of the function call mechanism. It doesn't seem like a good idea to deal with a dictionary like mechanism in function calls.

I invented something called "parameter list macros". A parameter list macro can be written which adds keyword argument ability to a function (and such a macro is provided). You can do (lambda (:key a b c -- x y) ...) and now you have keyword parameters x and y. They support the (sym dfl-val present-p) syntax and all. The :key parameter macro implements them via a source transformation. :key is able to rewrite both the parameter list and the body of the function to make this work.

One reason Common Lisp programmers use keyword macros is that there is no way to invoke the default value of an optional parameter which precedes another optional parameter to which an argument is being specified. If a function has optional arguments X and Y, the caller cannot default X if it specifies Y.

I fixed that in TXR Lisp: the symbol : (colon) can be passed to an optional parameter to activate its default value. So if a binary function f has two optional parameters we can invoke (f : 3) to default the first optional, and specify the second one as 3. This special feature is only supported in function calls, not in macro/destructuring parameter lists.

That : symbol also serves as the &optional keyword, separating the required parameters from the optionals. It harmonizes with the consing dot that demarcates the &rest parameter: (lambda (x y : z w . r) ...): x y required, z w optional, r rest. The : symbol is nothing more than the symbol named "" (empty string) in the keyword package. It's provides a very useful third value to the nil and t duo. Common Lisps have this symbol! Unfortunately, they tend to print it funny back at you like :||, and neglect to get any mileage out of its notational convenience.

As for those member functions, I provide a memq, memql and memqual that use the three different equalities. The more general member function takes a key and test function, but not as keyword arguments but positional optional parameters. If you want the default test, but custom key: [member foo bar : mykey].
Ask HN: I am a founder and a felon, what next?
I went to a good school, comp eng/cyber security major, started early. Got a DoD clearance, worked as a data analyst in a research lab. Ended up hooked to heroin and got involved with onion marketplaces. Long story short, felonies. I threatened someone else involved in a drug sale and went to prison. I continued my studies. A lot. Became a math tutor for those who needed it. Ended up getting a good job a few weeks out, hired on the spot. I can code and I know it. I help lead a team doing some pretty cool work on isomorphic apps. I have some potential job offers in NYC that could be quite promising. I also have multiple projects that I develop in my own time, some that even have customers. As I look toward the future, I want to be candid about this, honesty is the best policy. I also do not want to shoot myself in the foot when filling out YC apps and other grants. I am currently succeeding in the software industry. Do I still have so friggin' much to learn? Yes. But I have been sober for 5 years now, am still in my 20s and haven't looked back. I made amends to all those wronged and am doing what I love. Any sage advice going forward? Thanks!
TBF, Optimus and power stuff aren't too much easier on a distro like Ubuntu (granted, they have come a long way). I usually end up having to look it up in the Arch wiki anyhow. Thank god for that site.
No Amazon?
That some people prefer them, complete with all the incredibly glaring shortcomings you so correctly identify, might be considered by some to be eloquent commentary on the importance of choice.
5am, tie my shoes, go running up a hill, still dark, waving to strangers running too, everyone so happy!
Best time of the day
> along with fake ringing that companies including T-Mobile do to make it seem like the call is being connected to these high cost areas, meanwhile the person your calling doesn't ever receive the call

Interestingly enough T-Mobile has started giving me a notice before calls to some of these providers saying that I'll be charged 1 cent a minute for the call.
Here in China in every city, you "have to" scan your luggage when entering the subway. Why I say "have to" is because it is not strictly enforced, and many people just push by in a hurry, making the whole system kinda moot.

During the rush hour (supposed to be the most "dangerous" time) the steady press of people just flows in, completely ignoring the scanners. Poor scrawny security guy whose job is to make sure everybody scans their stuff just stands aside, pretending to control it. Another thing is that the scanner staff shift starts around 7:30 am, while the subway opens at 5:30 so you can bring whatever in without anybody checking it.

It's common knowledge here that the scanners company Nuctech belongs to ex-prime secretary's Hu Jintao's son, and the scanners are sold for 10-20x price compared to the competition (8m RMB ~ $1.17 million per one). Nuctech has been involved in numerous international fraud scandals. Yet they are everywhere: subway, airports, train and bus stations. Shanghai subway has over 400 stations, with many stations having multiple entrances (e.g. Xujiahui has 27 exits with 12 scanners), so the total price of the scanners is well over $3-4 billion just for this.

Needless to say, this security theater doesn't improve the actual security a bit. I guess it has some positive impact by keeping people with ridiculous luggage like a box of live hens or 25 woks on a string out of the subway, but during the rush hour, the queue can easily stretch for 5-10 minutes (the create artificial "choke" points to force people to scan, barely wide enough for 2 people).

That being said, full body scanners seem to be a good compromise compared to this.
Focus on school and make sure to get out of it as soon as possible.
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luggage does not get cancer from an unknown device with no medical testing dumping xrays into its skin. You might.
> An enum is a relation

This is TRUE. Most people ignore the relational model despite being so simple to learn. But one important thing to note, is that similar how you can say "anything is a object" you can say "anything is a relation".

This is valid SQL:

SELECT * FROM (SELECT 1) a

And because "1" is a relation, a enum is.

Normal rdbms fail at operate to inner values (like the array feature on postgresql) and don't allow to put tables into cells. This is valid at the relational level but you need to do hacky stuff for common rdbms.

SELECT Head =(SELECT * FROM INVOICE)

I'm working in a relational language, and this will be valid:

for i in 1 do

and

select value:Some(1).... where value.isSome
Minor correction: Voltaire was a deist, not an atheist.
I'm pretty sure I still don't understand.

I'm trying to understand your numbers, at 10TB/s and 40 million pictures per second, thats 250kB per picture. since there are 75 megapixel (or I assume 75 megasensors) how does that work for raw data?

Is the energy determined from calorimeters, or from curvature in magnetic field?

What exactly is the ADC measuring? deposited charge?

Since you are acquainted with the project, could you point me to a good pdf describing the detector and low level digitization architecture (pre FPGA) architecture?
> He could work himself up into a rage about the quality of the towels in his hotel bathroom, or the slack service on an airline, or the poor food at a restaurant, as though these were personal affronts to him, the impeccably turned-out traveler.

Honestly, he sounds like a real jerk.
$2 billion across 1+ billion people is the $1-2 he refers to. The implication is that the additional $7,200 is purely coming from efficiency gains, which he suggests seems improbable.
I agree completely, but it also depends upon whether renting an item costs you a lot more over the life of the item (which is often dependent upon how well someone takes care of the item). For example, I think most people would agree that Aaron's Rent-to-Own is a sub-par method of purchasing furniture.
On a related note, there's a Clojure API for MXNet (another major deep learning framework).

https://mxnet.incubator.apache.org/api/clojure/index.html
Riding a motorbike in Vietnam is a completely different experience to riding a motorbike in a western country.

People are actually aware of motorbikes, since it's the primary method of transport. Also, traffic moves a lot slower, you're usually riding at only 20-30 km/h in town in Vietnam. I felt much safer riding a motorbike in Vietnam than in New Zealand.

Upon saying that, the road injury and fatality statistics for the countries you mentioned are shocking. Vietnam is 2.5x higher than the USA for road fatalities per 100,000 per year, and the USA itself is shockingly high for a developed country, they're double Australia's rate.
Why stress as soon as possible?
> Across almost all metrics, infrastructure, corruption, ease of business, electricity, even cleanliness India has improved on

You are drinking ruling party’s a lot of cool aid
“What some other companies have done is they’ll try to build a tool and give it to all the lab managers..."

Quartzy?

Looks like YC is seeing margin in selling software and not products. Fun to watch if VCs will like this new model better with a profitable company.
> Neither would be valuable on its own.

but often the network gets a disproportionaly large share of the reward (i.e., the extraction of value is higher on the network side vs the labour side). This is the same as the capital vs labour argument - one without the other isn't going to produce value, but the capital side is able to extract a higher value than the labour side.
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I assume that not all 75 megapixels are considered hit, and only those hits are digitized by ADC?

What is the bit depth of the ADCs?
I was active in online dating around the time Tinder came out, and there was a lot of talk about finding the "Grindr for straight people" - like some sort of holy grail. Consensus at the time was that women weren't interested - that just swiping on pictures didn't appeal to them. But if only they could be - filling out a whole profile was a lot of work that turned off a lot of people...

But the reality is that online dating was starting to become more and more acceptable and normalized so that line was crossed, Tinder became a thing, and the rest is history (including most other dating apps evolving towards being clones of it)
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Because enums only work for the simplest use cases.

If you replace status_id with country_id, where each country_id has more than one property (country name, ISO alpha 2 code, ISO aplha 3, currency_id etc), you can see why enum isn't good enough.
With a startup, you have choice before you even join. You frequently know who you'll be working with. Not deeply but you've met them and can make some kind of assessment (to the same degree that they do about you). I can filter out companies when I meet the people and know they're not what I want to work with.

At a big company, I am saying yes to a company - not the people. Team selection is later (if at all) and you can be a victim of circumstance. You don't usually meet the people you'll be working with before you take up an offer at Big N or what not.
Interesting, what do you mean by saving Keras models and converting to Racket?
As always, the truth is somewhere in the middle. There are certain stages in the lifetime of a project where TDD can work execptionally well, but it is by no means a panacea. Things can and will sometimes emerge organically, but most of the times a [lot of] though has to be put into the arhitecture of the software we build. Domain knowledge and understanding the tradeoffs that are being made also help a lot.

As for Uncle Bob, the gut feeling I get whenever I hear him speak is “snakeoil salesman”. You need to understand that he is in the business of selling you something (his books, training, etc). And that’s okay - what’s not okay is flat out attacking everyone that has a different opinion/disagrees with him. Who gave you the authority to dictate what’s good and wrong? It’s sad because he could make money from his [mostly good] ideas without attacking anyone.
Glad to see founders get the employee treatment ;-)
I was thinking more of optimizing for weight. Also, if you optimize for narrow RPM, then you are only using the gas engine to power a generator, so you have some loss there. I'd rather have the gas engine power i.e., the front wheels, while the EV powers the rear wheels (or vice versa).
Probably due to this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17759762
You can check the balance of their BTC account. If the balance is there and the tx fee is high enough then there is a high probability the payment will post. Its a credit risk for sure, but for only a short period and the consequences of default are relatively benign.
>Enterprise sales cycles are long
Yeah thats what I am finding one of the clients is a hospital and my platform stands to save them couple of hundred thousands but still dragging feet..
> For example, one reason why many corporations push really hard on having 100% unit and integration test coverage is because they have such high employee turnover that they can't rely on their engineers to maintain their own code

I'm in a similar situation as yours and have switched between big corporations and startups and now at a big co again. I used to have the opinion that unit tests are a time sink, but what changed my mind was the iteration speed unit tests gave me. Without them, to test that my code actually worked, I would either deploy to a test environment (or prod in the worst case) and if it didn't work, then that just meant a longer feedback loop. What I realized after starting to have solid unit tests was that I catch issues much earlier in the pipeline and when I finally release code to test, it works 99% of the time. The only time I've had bugs in test env was because of some implicit assumptions in my mocks in the unit test. If you think about it, that lets me iterate faster by pooling in lots of changes and releasing with confidence.

I think its natural to be biased towards testing in a real environment as opposed to unit tests, as it is more rewarding to see your code work and do what its supposed to do versus seeing it work in a stubbed out environment.

Unit tests to me are more about iteration speed and release confidence, than about corporations not trusting engineers (which is also true).
While I get it that some people want to own and control things, I have made peace with the idea of not really ‘owning’ digital media. I protect against account loss and loosing everything my splitting ebook and audible book purchases across Amazon, Google Play, and Apple. This is a little inconvenient if I want to reference my notes in a book and have to remember which digital library to look in.

I also favor getting digital media from my library. It cost $200/year to belong to our local library in Illinois but the number of ebooks and audio books available is fantastic.

I have also started buying my very favorite movies in Google Play. This probably does not make much sense, but I like to ‘own’ my very favorite movies.

The world of digital entertainment is fantastic and the cost is very low compared to other costs of living.
I like it because you can get half french vanilla or any flavour and then add coffee to top it up.
Freemium model def works with my $100/month clients and I am shifting my focus to them because sales cycle is shorter. Shorter as in couple days.
It is worth noting that Egypt had the largest solar power plant a century ago, but that was broken down for steel when WWI broke out[1]. Nothing is isolated from other markets. 1. https://www.thenational.ae/business/technology/the-promise-o...
There was a study comparing NASA's development costs to SpaceX's, which SpaceX has commented on.

BO has never reached orbit, and doesn't say much about how much they've spent, so no one knows what their costs will be.
Instead of price per minute why doesn't the government tax the big carriers and subsidize the rural ones at a fixed monthly amount?
do you know why carbon isn't a problem in the post? and why "big enough host" isn't necessary?
would love to watch this, can you share the link?
>That's not heavy handedness, it's calling a hyper-rich entity on its greedy, obvious bullshit.

It's using naked force to humiliate someone doing something that government should impartially respect - making an argument for the court to consider.

>I'd also say such eminent domain actions would be a reasonable part of checks and balances: no one would under-represent the value of their property, at least not as much as Apple has, if they invited that kind of risk.

There's actually a very interesting idea in economics to create social welfare from this line of thinking:

http://radicalmarkets.com/chapters/property-is-monopoly/
Ask HN: Am I allowed to embed HN discussions on a site, like Disqus does?
Does Hacker News or YCombinator allow anyone to embed a "comments discussion" into a website?

I'm looking at implementing a solution which dynamically checks the URL and renders the discussion in an iframe. But I'm interested to see if Hacker News will allow this?
>In the end, voters and lawmakers need real-world solutions for governing problems, and democratic socialists — with their frequent determination to let the great be the enemy of the good — have a poor record of providing them

What? So most of Western Europe is what, a myth?

I’m actually not a bleeding heart. I consider myself a conservative that votes Democrat right now. Hit pieces on the left like this are still revolting to me considering all the voter suppression tactics that have been employed by right leaning state legislatures over the past decade.

Also, this article doesn’t even attempt to prove the title, instead arguing that democratic socialists don’t believe in free markets (a defensible, albeit hyperbolic claim).

This op-ed is disgustingly poor.
OkCupid began monetizing before being acquired and that's part of what made them attractive.