skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s a business decision of course. Forge your own path or be beholden to your revenue model dictated by AWS.

Big Enterprise will not require billing through AWS (disclaimer: employed at a large enterprise, buying ~$900k software license currently). They’ll have an accounts payable department, a procurement process, and someone to cut a check or ACH to Elastic monthly/annually.
To be very intentional you could share the target racial distribution you aim for in the work place. Hard percentages. Ideally the racial distribution should match the distribution of potential applicants in the market for your job.

If you take merit into account, it could cause an imbalance. For example you may end up with too many Hispanics or women due to their high merit.
Good god, please no.
Possibly a way to say YAGNI which is easier to relate to. Don't build stuff unless you are suffering, and hence understand the problem domain. Do the "easiest thing that could possibly work" and then don't change it unless you see a problem with it. Even if there are better ways to do it, if you aren't experiencing a problem, then there is no point in changing it. Don't fix problems you don't have :-)

On the other hand, this requires a considerable amount of discipline. It is easy to procrastinate. You think, "Oh we are suffering here, but it's only one small thing, so it's not too bad. Plus we're super busy adding these other 100 features". Then there are 2 small problems. Then there are 10. Then 100. Pretty soon, the amount of time necessary to fix the problems you need fixed exceeds the amount of time that you can spend without losing business. So you prioritise the worst issues and work around the others... The workarounds cause more issues and because it's a network effect, the software starts to degrade in a non-linear way. After a while, you are spending entire days reading code just to make sure that a few line change won't break something.

It's not a panacea. You still need a lot of experience... and for want of a better term, good taste.
Yeah and the fact it doesn’t always work well. Trying to navigate and it isn’t working cos I need to break out of amp first.
FedEx did the same thing with $5,000 of Apple gear for me.

In my area, USPS is by far the best carrier for parcels, especially for residential delivery.

Having a reasonably well run, national organization with an obligation to serve every home and business is a wonderful thing.
Try to get an issue done before starting work, slow and steady wins the race. All nighter every now and then when something is super interesting.

As for working out, ehhh yeah I'm supposed to do that too.. new years resolution? But being active gives you more energy so there's that, once you get to it.
Indeed. Relax zoning and restrain from subsidization. That should be the primary approach. But it's not free market zealotry. Interventions aren't ruled out, they should just be at the back of your playbook.

It's naive to think you can manufacture sustainability (i.e. a cost efficient, opportunity maximizing environment) out of whole cloth. If you intervene don't expect your money back, at least not in a way that let's you balance the books in this lifetime. You're intervening to achieve some specific social objective, then it's manifestly unlikely to produce an economic surplus that can be easily captured, even if it does produce a surplus. If someone says you can have your cake (low-income housing near economic opportunity, ubiquitous mass transit) and eat it too (pays for itself), it's probably a lie. Yes, it happens; but so does winning the lottery. But you don't build a legitimate budget on a pile of lottery tickets.
> Users just tag their posts

"Just"?

That would be a disaster. It sounds like something that AI ought to be able to do fairly well, though, so the idea stands.
I have read the paper for speck. The actaully cipher is very unlikely to have been back doored. The only isue I have is the mode of operation with 64 bit blocks and short keys. In my opinion just ignore the 64bit variants and keys less than 96 bits in lenth. The cipher is rather simple so hiding a back door would require a method of attack not known to anyone publicly. Theres just too small of a surface, and uses pretty stanard operations.
The Disconnect [offline only magazine]
> The end result is an enormously diverse and anarchic free-for-all where almost no two websites use the same code. It’s extremely rare to find websites that look good, have great functionality, and are fully W3C compliant.

> All the articles published on Google’s developer website are intended to ensure the chaotic, messy web becomes more like a clean, easy-to-understand web.

> AMP pages are fast to load (so fast to crawl), easy to understand (thanks to mandatory structured data), and devoid of any unwanted clutter or mess (as that breaks the standard).

> An AMPified web makes Google’s life so much easier. They would no longer struggle to crawl and index websites, they would require significantly less effort to extract meaningful content from webpages, and would enable them to rank the best possible pages in any given search result.

> The Google AMP Cache will serve AMP pages instead of a website’s own hosting environment, and also allow Google to perform their own optimisations to further enhance user experience.

> No more rogue ad networks, no more malicious ads, all monetisation approved and regulated by Google.

There are plenty of things to complain about with AMP. But, it also does address some very real problems. These are some admittedly cherry picked quotes - but, the article seems to make that point as well, even if it disagrees with Google's approach. What I'd love to hear about is a different approach to address these issues - and not something handwavy about how it could be done in a weekend. Actual code.
PMF is when the startup has i) identified which users are desperate for the product, ii) made a product that customers can’t get enough of (demand feels exponential), and iii) found a business model that works

https://a16z.com/2017/02/18/12-things-about-product-market-f...
If there's no product/market fit, too much capital is a death sentence. If they don't go out of business in a giant explosion, NewTV surely won't build anything innovative or disrupt anyone. Too much pressure and too many expectations at the wrong time/place.
Fifty dollars. Pardon me for falling on the floor laughing.
It's unknowable. But keep in mind that Microsoft was already established and very successful at the time, and Gates was a very astute and aggressive businessman. IBM went to Digital Research first, and Gary Kildall suggested they check with Microsoft. Microsoft was the biggest player in microcomputer software at the time. Why wouldn't they check?

And how much credence would IBM give a mom (who had little knowledge of computers and software) who suggested checking out her son?

Lastly, the accounts of her advising IBM to use her son's company are not verifiable.

IBM went to Gary Kildall first.
Eventually you’ll see superannuation at the state level in the US.

The problem is that government is good at big procurement, and these funds will cost wall st billions in fees.
I don’t follow.

When you have to build a device pretty much by hand, why bother building a general purpose machine?

And here we are, 181 years after Babbage first described his Analytic Engine and Aplication Specific Integrated Circuits and Graphics Processing Units are all the rage.
Not everyone needs to integrate forum and payment system. A simple static website or a blog can be done in much less time.
True, and I'm sure you'll say you do that, but the fact is that most people are more selective. It's useful to know when it's particularly critical.
And now we have cellphones that people take in the bathrooms with them....
Adding processing directly into memory is getting a serious look
Tinfoil manifests a much worse UX than the kill switch. The foil is physically separate from the phone and can easily get misplaced or torn such that the phone is no longer able to be secured. Moreover, the user can be so physically exhausted that they neglect to retrieve the foil from their fanny pack and properly wrap the phone (not to mention checking for any areas where holes might let the signal escape which takes extra time).

It is at least an order of magnitude quicker for the user to toggle a kill switch that resides at all times on the phone. Negligence due to physical exhaustion is thus eliminated-- as long as the user can physically access the phone they have sufficient energy to click the kill switch. And as long as the user is able to reach the phone they can access the kill switch, which isn't necessarily true for the tin foil.

Additionally, there are a variety of social engineering attacks that can cause a user to become reluctant to wrap their phone in tinfoil, reluctant retrieve the foil, and even reluctant carry their fanny pack with them. None of those attacks exist for clicking a toggle, especially one designed as an elegant part of the phone's facade (which itself may go unnoticed by the would-be attacker).

Finally, toggling an unobtrusive switch on one's phone doesn't invite onlookers to come over and start discussing unwanted topics like PGP keysigning parties, onion sites, and how the average life span would have increased by 20 years if everyone were still using Gopher.
Eric Ries was Co-Founder and CTO of IMVU which had 4 million active users and $40M in annual revenue at one point.

I assume you knew that and just felt like bashing him without adding any nuance to your point. That's a bad habit and you shouldn't do it.
+1 Dhandho Investor describes this same story and the philosophy / technique to replicate this approach in your own life

https://www.amazon.com/Dhandho-Investor-Low-Risk-Method-Retu...
agree, but in order to incentivize people to come up with "good hypotheses" we need to devalue negative results.

Otherwise everyone can just suck up all the funding for total garbage hypotheses that will almost definitely end up with negative results anyway.

"A mutation in the P53AIP1 has a protective effect against alzheimers"

Yeah, I totally picked a random gene off wikipedia. This will probably have a negative result.

So helpful.
Yes. That's it. Thanks :-) Unfortunately I still can't find the paper. Oh well, the one provided above is quite good. Probably if one searched for papers that cite that one, it would uncover a lot of interesting new work.
Although the vast majority of major airports are state owned, some aren't. Notably, most major airports in the UK (including Heathrow and Gatwick) are privately owned and operated.
M 6.6 – 27km E of Tomakomai, Japan [USGS]
Diversity of what exactly? Without more context, this question has no answer.
Marketing can be super broad - but let's say you run a business that solves a problem for a specific type of customer.

A marketer would find your marketable database of potential customers, work on messaging that appeals to the needs of the different audience types, find ways to target these audiences through channels like email, search marketing, content/SEO, social, etc., allocate budget broadly to test the different channels, and then turn dials accordingly dependent on where marketing budget has the best return.

The daily tasks of this can be anything from producing new marketing collateral, testing new channel tactics, adjusting lead flow and lead distribution to a sales team, managing agency support, cozying up with PMs/engineers to get product features added, calm a sales manager who is pissy about why leads aren't flowing or being properly distributed, etc.
In some cases I do, in others I don't. I've never encounter censorship in either of those. Besides, I had some pretty interesting discussions with people expressing ideas which did not agree with my thoughts. If, as you said, I would be on the "mainstream" side, they would have been censored. That did not happen.
> X-pack ... there are free alternatives for all of its good features

could you list a few?
Thanks for pointing this out Andrew. I founded Lean Startup Machine, the first training/bootcamp on Lean Startup in 2010 which since held events in over 100 cities around the world.

I like Eric, but I think your comment is very true and it's too bad.
Good, that's my current plan! I appreciate your input.
Elizabethan Verse
> They also make the computer Turing-complete, which means that if the board were big enough, it could do anything a regular computer can do (in theory!).

They do account for limited resources when they make the claim, thankfully.
Yeah but is the NZ army gonna fight bravely for the rich of the rest of the world who have fled all the riff raff in their countries?
So far I haven't seen that there is an actual problem with Carmel; it still seems like quite a nice place to be. The main issue seems to be that high debt load creates a high risk of bad consequences for the town.

Can you fault the city? The alternative was to not spend the money and spend all this time with lower risk of bankruptcy but in a more crappy/rundown environment. With the present course even if something bad happens they had a good series of years with the upgraded infrastructure--and counting. Doesn't seem that crazy to me.
The only roundabout (a "rotary", since it was in Massachusetts) that I ever liked was over a highway. Three roads intersected at the same point, with one being a divided highway. (each at 60 degrees to its neighbors, like a six-pointed asterisk)

The solution:

Make the roundabout really huge (probably safe at 70 MPH if you don't mind speeding tickets) and place it over top of the highway, crossing on two separate bridges. Provide ramps for the highway, and connect up the other roads as normal.

Offramps from the highway are ascending, helping to slow vehicles. Onramps to the highway are descending, helping to bring vehicles up to highway speed. This turns out to be really really nice.
Like anyone talks on the phone these days...
Because the dictionary is wrong.

Dictionaries are not authoritative sources for word definitions. Rather they are, and can only be, historical references.

Words mean what people use them to mean.

“Sort these pages” with no other instructions will almost always mean, to the average person in a general context, put the pages in ascending order using the most obvious sequence present.

“File these documents” will generally mean put these pages in their relevant folders, either in a filing cabinet or computer storage.

Well, that’s their common usage outside of computer specific applicant ions here in Australia.

YMMV
How the Internet Broke and What to Do About It
ISNA, Antisemite Linda “Sharia” Sarsour Warns Muslims About “Humanizing” Jews
I have seen it used almost exclusively for logging as part of the Elastic (formerly ELK) stack.
Growing up in the EU, pretty much all german content we saw was porn. And pretty much all the porn we saw was german.

Looking back, I’m morbidly curious what sort of weird chain of events lead to this.
What is good in Seattle?
Fiat money works because when it’s working well, it is a win win for all concerned.

When it isn’t working well, it fails dramatically (Zimbabwe, Argentina, etc).

Fiat money (or any money, for that matter)only works till it works because it’s extremely useful for all concerned, and the alternative is a PITA.

The doomsday scenario is hardly a win/win.
I think it's a fair question. It's not an industry you hear lots about day to day, so the average person has no idea what's involved other than "they make ads".

I've worked in large companies with 20+ person Marketing/PR departments and I'm not actually sure what their day to day job entails, and would totally be curious to know more. It's a major part of society these days, whether we love it or hate it. We all know IT has phone support roles, application development, system admins, project managers, etc... but I couldn't really tell you what all the different roles are in marketing.
I would recommend Larry Lessig's "Republic: Lost," which is an excellent dissection of the problem and proposes a few actual solutions. Unfortunately, one of the solutions at the federal level is a Constitutional convention. This is possibly the exact worst time in our nation's history to stage one of those.
Some words do have different meaning in computer science, as is the case with other fields as well.

Perhaps a more illustrative example is the word "or", in plain english it normally means an "exclusive or", but in CS it means an "inclusive or".
Hey William. I also think one of the big mistakes is that Eric trademarked Lean Startup. Check out the book, Starfish and the Spider. The way to kill a grassroots movement is to centralize the power and then it dies with the center.
Based on those links, it doesn't look like Google is trying to get rid of URLs. It looks more like they're trying to make sure that URLs can still be used to locate content and ensure it hasn't been tampered with, but removing the need for browsers to make a round-trip to the origin server to retrieve it.

If anything this has the potential to help further decentralise the web, by allowing users to retrieve content via whatever protocol works best for them, without losing the benefits of URLs.
The usage of terms 'initial value' and 'boundary value' is a massive failure of mathematics education.

'Initial' refers to time-like variables, and 'boundary' refers to space-like variables.

There is no notion of time in mathematics. There is only a notion of space, due to geometry. I had the longest time coming to grips with the question, "mathematically what is the difference between initial value and boundary value?" only to realize the distinction is meaningless in mathematics. It's a relic of the past when differential equations were studied under physics, where time and space are a huge part of the conceptual foundation.

Sometimes I wonder how much progress we would make in education if we didn't confuse the heck of our students in the name of convention and historical baggage.
Text Mining LOST
> It might have been written by an employee of the New York Times.

Of all the unlikely options being discussed, this one is absolutely the most unlikely.
If it works on a crappy dial-up connection it should be nice and fast on a decent connection. Slow loading pages turn visitors away.
Why won't Facebook give access to Lucy McHugh murder suspect's account?
I’ve been making 401k contributions for 22 years (through the 2000 and 2008 dips), most of that time, maxing it out. If I add in the additional SS tax (limited by the cap), stopping contributions at 67, by 85 I’d have $17M accumulated at a 4% interest rate. As I said, you have to run the numbers yourself, but it’s mind boggling how much you are losing, even more so if you die at 67, the government walks away with it all.
If you want to test your theory, you can look at the implementation of those opcodes.

Here's INPLACE_ADD:

https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/874809ea389e6434787e7...

And here's BINARY_ADD:

https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/874809ea389e6434787e7...

They're almost identical :)
Does this filter out retweets, and/or the text of retweets? It would be useful to see the raw data it's built from—the code specifies a 'data/mat.rds' file, but there's no data directory in the repository, and I don't have R installed / any familiarity with it to really follow details about the code.
Do stuff that for the most part, you don't find boring enough to procrastinate.
How about premium smartphone market? Apple is worth a trillion for a reason, it is a monopoly.
Eric invented the term for Lean. Steve invented Customer Development. Both have different definitions of what a startup is. Extreme uncertainty is part of Eric's definition, not Steve's.
Ask HN: What’s the worst hiring experience you’ve had?
Kindly share your experiences - What do you wish could be a better approach to how you got hired in the past?
> I'm not sure I understand what you mean by this, especially since you go on to say that artist communes in the US qualify. Surely these artist communes exist within our centralized political and cultural system as well? These communes presumably refer crimes such as murder to the centralized authority, the police, rather than lynch mob.

Yes, that's definitely true. There's a no true scotsman element to this, I know. What I meant by that was that the artist communes were meaningfully decentralized in terms of individuals artistic contributions (even then, only some of them are), not entirely, politically etc. I would still argue that they can be more "meaningfully" decentralized than email based on how much easier it is for the government to control email than physical space, but this stuff is difficult to discuss without lossy abstractions as you've pointed out.

> I actually suspect that any significant regulation of Mastodon would in fact increase decentralization. Since the software itself is open source, it will be hard to regulate, if not impossible (is code speech?). That means regulators have to go after hosts of instances. Perhaps some instances will comply with regulation, but I suspect many will not. The largest of the non-complying instances will be shut down.

This is true, but only until physical server location becomes the relevant attribute for jurisdiction. Mastodon instances within the US will be hosted on AWS, Azure etc., and will have no choice but to comply with regulations.

> Some of these instances will be outside of the centralized authority's jurisdiction (for example, after SESTA, many sex workers flocked to a mastodon instance that was specifically set up for them; this instance is hosted outside the jurisdiction of the US).

I keep seeing this pointed out, but I don't think it's a positive. Not only are you still aggregating vulnerable people on a service not designed for secure communications, that can certainly be surveilled by US law enforcement even if it can't be shut down, you're also increasing the incentive for the government to regulate the international internet.
Whole World Should Be Up in Arms About the EU's Looming Internet Catastrophe
True, but I believe that this approach is fairly gzip friendly. So repetition is not an issue.

Ok, that's true. But what about browser caching? Using traditional CSS, users only have to visit one page and they've downloaded the stylesheet for the entire site. They can navigate to 100 other pages and never have to re-download the stylesheet because it's cached. With DSS, our CSS files are smaller but our HTML bodies are larger due to all of these class names. That means every time we load a new page, we're downloading thousands of bytes of class names that we already have. For static rendering this is a no-go, regardless of gzip.

Controlling things globally could be handy but it won't scale. I don't think that it is a deal breaker to toggle some state in your app and hit refresh.

It's a deal breaker for me because my designer doesn't know Elixir. You act like toggling "some state" within an application is trivial. Maybe it is to you or me but it might not be to one of your team members who is only concerned with the CSS. I don't know what you mean by "won't scale". We're talking about changing styles in the browser. This is a developer workflow issue, not a technical issue.

The main feature of DSS is deterministic styles resolution anyway, atomic CSS classes are only the medium to achieve that with plain old static CSS.

Not true. There's another way to achieve that: good CSS.
With all due respect to Terry, his ideas were more along the lines of aesthetic choices than original concepts (i.e. language-machines, relative addressing, minimal protection, etc).

In his own words, he wanted a modern day Commodore 64. And God bless him for it!