skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Some staff members will stay on to make the paper’s print archive digitally accessible...

Good for the owner that at least they were willing to spend a tiny bit more to make this part happen.
For a "marketing" style startup you just need very basic tech. For a more "high-tech" startup - yes you will need a whole bunch of hard to master tech, although not necessarily the stuff you mentioned.
I've replayed the video about a dozen times now, and I see absolutely nothing where you marked - nothing that moves, and nothing that looks like a shelter.

There is a small judder, when the camera pans, which I attribute to a compression artifact.

It's difficult to tell the camera scale from the images, but judging by the tufts of grass (and the balloon earlier in the video) that area is quite small - those rocks are perhaps the height of a human. I would think that a shelter would be very obvious at that scale.

<edit> I see the movement now, after kicking up the resolution on YouTube. The scale is more obvious with hi res as well. I'm definitely calling it a blade of grass.
k10k.com! Used to spend hours browsing that back in the day. Some seriously good design despite how basic the tools were.

And pixel fonts for the win.

I’m glad I no longer have to wait for Flash to finish loading, or to figure out the navigation of whatever site I’ve landed on, but things are less interesting now.
They built a prototype to verify the idea. No product yet.
Your hands may have created some subtle RC time constants that killed a race condition.
The solution is to use adaptive filtering.
Initially all it provided was basic matching against several columns and the ability to do rudimentary paging across resultsets. Naturally we had problems with this as a big part of our job was writing reports relying heavily on joins and aggregation - we were left in a situation familiar to anyone whose used NoSQL joining everything in code but without all of the niceties that come with maturity. It's a given that team productivity and general morale took a bit of a dive at this point.

Yes being forced to use a REST interface over reports is a bad idea but that has nothing to do with joins over a NoSQL data store.

Mongo does joins via the $lookup function and the C# Mongo driver will translate the LINQ code to MongoQuery for you.

https://www.axonize.com/blog/joining-collections-mongodb-usi...

Worse case even if you do get data sources from separate places, it’s just as easy to do joins on two lists as it is to do in Sql using LINQ.
You can write custom code in llvm IR.[0]
I must leave it to you to tell me if you can use it as an operator. My guess is yes, but I will not be getting to play any time soon.

[0]https://docs.julialang.org/en/stable/base/c/#Core.Intrinsics...
I would bet there is almost no overlap between the people betting in prediction markets and those who dont screen email/websites/calls (ie, answer polls honestly).
Agreed on using SQL under the hood for every system, but I don't have a problem with ORMs.
Dynalist.io is the best note taking software I've seen in 12 years of using note-taking software. Features endlessly hierarchical lists, with tagging, links to other nodes, images, zooming to a single node, full-text search, Chrome web clipper, Dropbox backup.

- It's like Workflowy, but better...
- I've tried Evernote, OneNote, Apple Notes, Google Keep... they all just end up becoming a massive mess of unorganized notes.
The marked small dot definitely moves. Maybe just too small to be seen on a phone screen?
There are a ton of differences between Apple and Tesla. Most noticeably, Apple actually made a profit selling the iPhone.

6-years after the release of the Model S, Telsa has yet to turn a profit. And instead, is facing bankruptcy within the next two years unless it can roll over its debt or otherwise raise yet a few more billion $$$$.

Compare and contrast: the iPhone was released in 2007. The Tesla Model S was released in 2012. Steve Jobs died in 2011 (4-years after the iPhone). You can tell that that Apple was a successful company by the time Steve Jobs died.

Furthermore, Apple accomplished its iPhone launch during the 2007 to 2008 financial crisis. In contrast, Tesla's rampup is during the cheapest money ever to be seen in modern history: low interest rates and a grand bull market.

The political, environmental, and financial headwinds Apple faced during its time to create the iPhone were exponentially more difficult than Tesla's. And yet, Apple turned a profit and became a lasting company. The same cannot be said yet of Tesla.
I'm actually going to work on the NordVPN project in a month or so.

As far as I know and from what I've seen I can tell you that its a legit company with legit products and is only aiming to do good.
It was started by two friends, without any investors and to this day it still is absolutely independent and run by the same two guys
Perhaps there is a tendency for older people to value older people more highly than younger people, and conversely for younger people to devalue older people in favor of younger people.

As a famous young person once said "Young people are just smarter.".

It appears the message here from PG is that "Younger people have intellect but perhaps not the demonstrated tenacity and drive needed to succeed, and tenacity and drive trump intellect when it comes to entrepreneurialism.
Apparently, neither Qatar nor Turkey are following the script regarding Iran's diplomatic isolation. So they get punished in various ways.

https://financialtribune.com/articles/domestic-economy/76877...
Cyprus price comparison engine – ppissis.com.cy
Perhaps I should have quoted the specific point I was responding to:

> You have to be a user of your own product to really make it good.

That doesn't say anything about product or market. It's a very general statement that I happen to find rather dangerous in terms of hiring/employment practices. I tossed out pacemakers as a very obvious counter-example. I could come up with plenty of others--some from my own work experience.

I did try to couch the comment a bit. I do think there's value in being a user of your own product. I do not think it's a necessary precondition though. And treating it as such unnecessarily constrains the candidate pool. That's the point I was trying to make.
You sound like you could use a joint.
Tesla lost money on the Australia project. They bought the battery cells from Samsung and put them in a Tesla branded unit. Samsung also could have installed the battery themselves (always cheaper to cut out a middle man), but Tesla was willing to buy their cells and then sell them at a loss to Australia.

Tesla got a ton of publicity out of it, though, so it was probably a win for all parties involved.
> To Tesla’s credit, their on/off/drive/reverse control is vastly superior to anyone else’s.

They got it from Mercedes, as well as all the other steering wheel stalks (lights, window washers, cruise control), as well as the driver door window and mirrors control pad.

Good on them for selecting the best on the market, but it's not their invention.
That's definitely a viewpoint amongst other branches of mathematics. Statistics isn't too bad, but applied statistics is viewed as a crap shoot of confounding human factors, widely practised by charlatans trying to prove their brand of science by abusing numbers.
> Humans don't have a shred of innate social anxiety except perhaps in some odd pathological cases.

This is not true at all. Baby's, even at a few months old, run the gamut from excited to meet new people to shy and withdrawn around strangers.

I have a friend whose son, at 6 months old, was well socialized but completely uneager to interact with people he didn't know.

And I've met plenty of toddlers who hide behind their parents and don't come out, and plenty of toddlers who run up to everyone they come across and say "hi".
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No, these two are very different. The one in your YouTube link is absolutely a scam, because no one can do "remote" noise cancellation without feedback signals around human ears. But this work makes very much sense to me (as an audio engineer).
Honestly, looks like you're looking for something impossible.

On one hand, you're looking to disconnect. On the other, you want to be available if something explodes. Which one is it then?

I'd recommend just grabbing a laptop (the MacBook 12-inch is super lightweight while being powerful enough, I use it as my main machine as a Python developer), and to "disconnect" you just need to find something else to do with your time (I think that most people can't "disconnect" not because they can't but because there is simply nothing else to do - find yourself something rewarding and suddenly you no longer have the urge to waste time on your laptop).
Getting specific about generics
I'm pretty new to tech, and young in general, but I'm curious why what's happening between the different browsers regarding working together to identically implement JavaScript, thus allowing tons of modern applications to be universal across machines as long as you can install a modern browser, not happen before with other programming languages? Or did they?

I don't know anything about desktop application development, but for example in college I would use PowerPoint a lot. Was there some specific limitation that made for PowerPoint to be a Windows only thing? Was it that Microsoft just refused to make it for different operating systems? Or was there no point because everyone had windows installed anyway?

I'm kinda just chewing the fat here but in 2018 with iOS, osx, Android, windows, and Ubuntu being the main operating systems of machines, why'd it take the second level of abstraction of Firefox, Chrome, Opera, and Edge working together to make sharing apps across machines a thing? Like, why didn't, I dunno, some cross platform python library (I know nothing about desktop apps sorry) instead be The Universalizer?
And also, convicted felons make great startup hires!

Disclosure: convicted felon here
Partitioning Drives Architectural Considerations
Fundamentally there are few barriers to study and they were researched well by L. Ron Hubbard, and are applied through Applied Scholastics http://www.appliedscholastics.org/

The technology to study is exact, and also involved clarification of any words and symbols and meaning that one does not understand.

http://www.appliedscholastics.org/study-tech/a-breakthrough-...

Everybody can learn anything, there are no stupid kids or students, there are students with misunderstoods and those may be clarified.
"You've got a duty to die and get out of the way. Let the other society, our kids, build a reasonable life." - Colorado Gov. Richard Lamm, 1984. (He's 83 now and still alive.) That's one approach.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/1984/03/29/us/gov-lamm-asserts-elder...
>> Build a fire if you can, a smoky fire is better because it can be spotted from far away.

Car tires burn very well. Lots of black smoke. And there are parts enough in any car to start a fire (wires+battery etc).
I thought we were done with the autopilot fantasies?
I tried calling Scotia Bank, but the lady whom I spoke with did not seem to understand what I was talking about. I told her that I think it will be easier if I explain this in an email. I have since emailed Scotia Bank about the issue and will post the email correspondence here if I get a reply. Although I don't think this thread has attracted any interest from the HN community which surprised me a little. Perhaps my title was not engaging enough?
This could be just a weird statistical bias. Founders start businesses at all ages, but the younger you start, the more tries you get before one of your businesses succeeds. And once your business is successful, then you're unlikely to start another.

This would make successful founders tend to be older than unsuccessful founders, but it's like always finding something in the last place that you look, or (happened to me) you're most likely to get injured on the last ski run of the day.
You can have my youtube-dl when you pry it from my cold dead hands.
> biggest piracy threat to Youtube's dishonest business model
Oh believe me, I think FOSS software is garbage in almost every case. There are a few shining counterexamples, but for the most part apparently paying people a living wage to do things makes for generally better stuff.

Who knew, right?
Is GDP stagnation actually a problem or is it made out to be a problem (for a first world country)?
Its natural to try to defend your group, and to think of oneself as somehow exceptional. So its easy to fall into justifying ideas and paradigms that lean towards those things.
I would believe diplomats would be somewhat resistant against mass delusion, considering their selection (and possibly training).

Mass delusion has also been one of the leading hypothesis from the very first story on this phenomenon. Being aware of the concept would tend to dispel it, which apparently did not happen.

I'm sure those with more information have considered that possibility. The ongoing investigation leads me to believe they are not quite as sure of it as the HN crowd is. Maybe some of the cases appeared independently?
There are always exceptions to every rule-of-thumb.

In this case, sadly.
Any time you run the mail server and the clients connect directly to the mail server via encrypted paths (IMAP/S, SSH tunnel, VPN...) the Internet is not traversed, but the local network is.
So you can sue Google on your own and not as part of the class action.
Nobody fucks with The Jesus.
House GOP expected to float changes to 401(k)s this fall
HN is a niche forum with heavy moderation. Trolls get hell-banned incredibly quickly and so they can't form a critical mass.
Indeed. Have you seen my site https://theannoyingsite.com/ ?
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>> a tendency for older people to value older people more highly than younger people

Actually now that I think about it this is wrong. Everyone tends to value young people more highly than older people - that's the way our society works. What can be said is that "older people tend to devalue older people less than younger people devalue older people".
Sometimes, I wish someone who didn’t need a guide like this would still read it and be inspired to create a guide that would be more effective for people who did need it.
Who was that, Zuckerberg? I wonder if he'd walk that back now that he's in his 30's?
I think that was basically C, and POSIX. Except Microsoft wasn't particularly interested in it, and they thought they'd be better off if they didn't make their software work for competing OS's.

In a sense, most programs today are really portable. I think in the past, there was a far greater variety of machines, and people used to make programs for them specifically, in assembly, that absolutely wouldn't run on even a different generation of the same familly of machines.
> subcontracting those "thousands of contract work offers" with third-world professionals acting as an agency

Aka the easiest way to ruin your brand and deliver shit work. If the clients wanted work done by "third-world professionals" they would hire them directly; the reason they're contacting you instead is because you have some credentials, references, etc that the third-world guys don't have; now do you wanna bet all of that on unvetted third-world freelancers?
Ubuntu 18.04 gnome shipped with the option, but if you select there's a 50% of forming a black hole where your machine used to be.

I'm joking, but it really is super beta.
For now, what I’ll say is that I’ve seen how Node never really got a rails, and how Rust has a zillion microframeworks but no Rails either, yet. Do we need one? What would it look like? That kind of thing.
Reorienting an Education System That Fails Most Students
Yeah, a reformed person can be a great hire. Totally agreed.
This is one reason it is not included. Cue up the John Taylor Gatto reading list.
You need to master ONE method sufficiently and you may easily become satisfied.

Simplest method there is is the file system and files. That method is offered on each computer. Make your own hierarchy.

In general, I suggest 2 folders, one for individuals, one for groups.

In the folder of individuals, you are sorting by name or also by their ID number their files, files that arrived from individuals.

You may symlink the individual folder to a group file, thus knowing which individual belongs to which group, or individual may be symlinked to multiple groups.

Within groups, you can have further hierarchy, those can be groups of knowledge, for example "All about God" put in one folder with the hierarchy below, there you can place your research on Elohim, Summerians, or Annunaki, whatever you may want.

Other folder may be for your personal mind development, you place things underneath.

Some folders may be related to the humanity, groups, countries, and similar.

Sciences can be organized that way.

All you need is a computer, text editor, and file system, and knowing how to use the file system.

People placing everything on "Desktop" have yet a long learning period to go to understand why is there a file system.
I've not used Rails, but I don't think that the idea that one can place an arbitrary file in an arbtrirary directory is strange at all.
In small team environments it has worked quite well(based on both anecdotal operational performance as well as perceived value in student validations).

I know it is imperfect, but due to the time/space we have to train we have gone with what we see as the highest retained bang for buck.

I do really like Skepticism/Empiricism/Charitability/Dispassion.

I’ll look at incorporating it into discussion.

To be honest, one of the hardest nuts to crack is how to incorporate mitigating against human organisational behaviour.

Specifically, how to mitigate against excessive risk aversion due to organisational culture.
Back in my day 2 GB was an unimaginably large amount of RAM, and our computers could still do many of the things they can do today.

I recall an article in Byte magazine which talked about when we'd have computers with a gigabyte of RAM (but it also noted that at the time you could have had a gigabyte, given in a mere cubic foot of hardware).
There is a stage, fairly early on, in a typical kid's life where they get very shy about strangers, and hide behind their parents whenever a stranger is there. It's not immediate, that's true, but after they have gotten old enough to know which adults are familiar, anyone who isn't seems to become frightening (until they learn to get over that, which in most cases they do).
You could make guaranteed money on it as a "sucker", just run an arbitrage between it and the stock market.
How sad this is.
Why you don't have to keep sharing your social links, use this instead
Because the legal construct of the corporation diffuses risk enough to make central control appealing.

If the law did not allow incorporation, in other words if officers and directors and shareholders bore full liability for the business, we would see the end of gargantuan businesses like we have now.
Or their outdated business modal is the biggest threat to their industry.

Honestly, my thought on anything like this is 'just go bankrupt and be done with it'. Your business model clearly doesn't work anymore, you may as well just accept it and shut down.

Then again, that's my opinion on basically every business complaining to the government about how the internet is taking away their profits/how competitors/startups whatever are taking their market/can't stay solvent because of bad decisions (see banks). Capitalism is capitalism, the market is right, and if you can't deal with it, you go under. Simple as that.
I love Z80 and 6809 machines. The first computer game I ever played was Zork on a Z80. I keep trying to buy an old Z80 machine on fleaBay, but the prices either start out of a reasonable range, or I get outbid.

It's great to see so many people these days rediscovering the chip and making these modernized designs. Disk I/O was such an unreliable pain back then. It's fantastic that most of these are designed for CF and SD storage now. Every time I run across a project like this on the internet, I eat it up. And thankfully, they are becoming more common.

If I had younger eyesight, and steadier hands, I'd be all over this project. (Anyone know of a company that sells something like this I can hook up to a dumb terminal? No FPGAs, or RPis, please.)

I met a woman just this past week who used to sell S-100 and Z80 machines at BusinessLand in Silicon Valley back when everything was just starting to percolate. We talked for hours about the experience and the people she met what the valley was like back in those days. (Like getting to try out an Alto in the 70's!)

The next time I run into her I'm going to encourage her to write all of that down and post it somewhere.

[Edit to add:]

If you want an excellent CP/M experience on a modern Mac, there's Tom Harte's emulator.† Unfortunately, I haven't been able to play the full Zork on it because Zork requires multiple disks, and I don't think it has a mechanism to switch virtual disks.

† https://github.com/TomHarte/CP-M-for-OS-X
Agreed.

Natural human emotions/behaviour/selfishness seem to get in the way of everything.

Libertarianism/Communism would both be equally awesome if it wasn’t for all of us flawed humans.
I think in that case I would be better off putting the money in savings than paying into dues.
I used to use a terminal for everything! And it was a big step forward over punch cards. I remember using my first VT-100 in college, after having taken CS-101 to learn IBM 370 (BAL) assembly language on punched cards. And up until 1988 or so, we were using text terminals for everything, until I got a job at Adobe and started using a Sun workstation. Even then, the windowing environment was used mainly to open terminal windows.
And don't forget inline LaTeX support. With this feature, listening technical conferences, lectures or noting mathematical ideas are really comfortable.
> a few companies are making a HUGE PILE OF MONEY, and I think everyone can agree that's unquestionably a good thing.

Unquestionably? No, it's a bad thing for the monopolies to maintain through capitalism's achille's heel. Weighing the costs would require insight into the cost-benefits of those mega-corporations, which we will never see.
It has less lock-in than any iOS device. Those things are pretty popular.
Excellent breakdown. I especially liked #4.
Laws of Form
“The political, environmental, and financial headwinds Apple faced during its time to create the iPhone were exponentially more difficult than Tesla's.“

I get that you might not be bullish on Tesla, but do you seriously believe this?
Never trust anyone over 30.
Sorry, but it's hard for me to trust anything that is related to Scientology. Do you have any neutral references on this "technique"?
Apps marketplace for cellphones?
Downloading the sound of youtube videos is illegal now?
Related to this, Omar Rizwan did a great talk recently on file system interfaces:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfHpDDXJQVg (Four Fake File Systems)
even a fsr/pmr radio would help
Intel 14nm CPUs in short supply, claims report
There's some interesting history behind distress beacons that broadcast on 406 MHz without any subscription. It's a good example of successful Cold War cooperation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Cospas-Sarsat_Pr...
I always though the smallest federated wiki would be prime for this.
http://fed.wiki.org/view/welcome-visitors
Buying music on iTunes or CDs and then burning it onto CDs to eg put into hifi systems or car stereos is not copyright infringement. It was a way to play music that was bought online and a way to make mixtapes of legitimately owned music.

Saying that advertising a CD burner is inciting copyright infringement is like saying that advertising a knife’s sharpness is inciting stabbings
Seems like they're always bitching about something. How about innovating, guys?