skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There's talk elsewhere in this article's comments here about the "killer feature" that these Indian Americans have. I would argue that the true killer feature is not even access to zero-interest capital. It's a culture that actively fights against pride and individualism.

I think the true killer app is family cooperation as a unit in conjunction with a deep network of relatives. My father built his business with the help of his parents, his aunt, and two other cousins who lent him money. Without their help, he couldn't have built the business as fast and as big as he did. His brother also worked for him a bit as well as some of the cousins when he was building his first shop. My mother helped him and once she had me and my brother stayed at home and took care fo the home front even though she had a masters degree. And it appears his generation along with my mothers was the last hurrah of big family ties and help as everyone in my generation up and left. I have no cousins, uncles or aunts who are close. They all did their own thing, went to school and moved away. I see them from time to time, maybe once or twice a year and that's it. Hell, even my mother has all sorts of stories about how here massive Irish family (grandma was one of 12 kids) pulled together to help each other with everything.

Contrast that with my Guyanese friend who has a seemingly never ending supply of helpful family members all in the same neighborhood. His father built himself a small real estate empire of about a dozen rental properties and most of his generation are college educated. His father started out doing handyman and light construction work with his brothers. They all chipped in and worked. Some even had a day job and came to the properties at night to work on them. One by one they fixed and flipped homes using money and labor they pooled together. Then they started buying, fixing and renting. They acted as a small family army, cooperatively building each others future.

The American family has been here long enough to thin and die whereas these foreign families are still "fresh" to America and working hard to make a good life. But they too will one day suffer the same fate. Subsequent generations won't have to work as hard as they are already comfortable. Little by little they will spread out, move away, and their once mighty army is no more. From my perspective as a true 3rd gen American (all G-Grandparents came from Europe around the same time) is that by the third generation, there are no more cultural roots. And family is culture so family dissolves as well. My mother and father were the last to really care and my father was very meh about his Polish heritage. My mother was adamant, keeping traditions alive for as long as possible but the local family thinned out as the rest moved away. She is probably the last to really care about family and cultural roots which bound the early immigrants, and their children.
I don't know about most of your work. That's time not spent on creative pursuits, usually (there are exceptions to this) and relationships can drain you in a different way. I tend to get a lot more out of creative pursuits, personally. But both are good.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Thomas_Christians

Yeah, LOL...
I hope it works similar to bacteria, where "tile, wood, and laminate surfaces transfer much more bacteria than carpeted surfaces." (https://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/03/140315-five...) Most of the security areas I've seen are carpeted, albeit low pile carpeting.

But maybe it doesn't work the same; or maybe it's just so contaminated it doesn't matter. The best solution[1], though, is probably to sell your soul to the devil and enroll in TSA Precheck.

[1] Presuming there's a real problem. Aren't the fungi that cause atheletes foot (tinea pedis) and onychomycosis (infection of the nail bed) pretty much everywhere already? I think it's more a matter of keeping your [low-temperature] extremities dry. Onychomycosis is almost inevitable past a certain age because of immune and circulatory deficiencies.
Ask HN: What steps for planning a new startup?
What planning steps do you take when developing a new startup? This isn't my first rodeo, but it's been a while since I started from scratch and I want to make sure I do things "right" this time. (Lean, clear vision of which hypotheses need to be tested in which order to absolutely minimize time and effort investment, etc.) Essentially looking for tools and frameworks to organize my thoughts. I know BMC is popular but I'm wondering what else is out there I could be missing.

edit: Ok just discovered Lean Canvas also, looks useful...
Anybody have any real statistics on this? <citation>
Persuasion. Relationship building. Stock picking.
Looks like the 3x penalty is about right:

There are 5001834 entries out of 10000000 less than 128
Exeuction took 65335182 nanoseconds
There are 5001834 entries out of 10000000 less than 128
Exeuction took 26693952 nanoseconds

Using the following code I hacked together:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <time.h>
#include <sys/types.h>

#define DATASIZE 10000000
#define NSEC_PER_SEC 1000000000

int cmp(const void* a, const void* b)
{
return *(unsigned char*)a - *(unsigned char*)b;
}

int countsmall(unsigned char* data)
{
struct timespec start;
struct timespec end;
u_int64_t delta;
int lcv;
int numsmall;

numsmall = 0;
clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, &start);
for ( lcv = 0; lcv < DATASIZE; lcv++ )
if ( data[lcv] < 128 )
numsmall++;
clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, &end);

delta = (end.tv_sec * NSEC_PER_SEC + end.tv_nsec) -
(start.tv_sec * NSEC_PER_SEC + start.tv_nsec);

printf("There are %d entries out of %d less than 128\n", numsmall, DATASIZE);
printf("Exeuction took %ld nanoseconds\n", delta);

return 0;
}

int main(int argc, char** argv)
{
unsigned char data[DATASIZE];
int lcv;
srandom(time(NULL));

for ( lcv = 0; lcv < DATASIZE; lcv++ )
data[lcv] = random();

countsmall(data);

qsort(data, DATASIZE, sizeof(unsigned char), cmp);

countsmall(data);

return 0;
}
Natural Light is a big thing, but the #1 Office Perk is not working in an open office. I would trade the open office I work in, which has a ton of windows and natural light, for a regular office, even just cubicles in a heartbeat.

I love the natural light, but I hate the noise and visual distraction 10 times more than I love natural light.
Facebook has been product-managed and algorithmed to death - two real sicknesses of short-term thinking common in SV companies.

If you've used Facebook continuously for the last decade, you won't notice as much because the changes have been gradual. But if you came to Facebook now as a new user, it's all but incomprehensible. Combined with being "the place your parents hang out", it's no surprise that no one new wants to join Facebook or understands why they would want to be there.

Here are three concrete examples of these diseases:

1. Comments on posts and groups are shown out of order using relevance ranking. You just see the fragments of conversation that are most likely to get you to click and write an enraged reply without any context. No sane designer would ever choose this design for a message posting system. It's clear that a PM ran an A/B test and is optimizing for short term "engagement numbers" and doesn't care at all if you can actually have a normal discussion with their product. Juicing engagement drives users away in the long term.

2. Since the visibility of nearly all content is algorithmic, the shittiest content rises to the top automatically. If you are friends with people who work on products like YouTube, they will tell you privately that the reason there are so many conspiracy videos suggested by YouTube is because crazy people click on ads at an absurdly high rate compared to the general public which makes that content very valuable to the algorithm and drives it to the top unless the penalize it artificially. The same thing happens all over Facebook. Human misery and lowest common denominator content rises to the top because it gets clicks. Again, you are juicing short-term engagement but driving away users in the long term when misery fatigue sets in.

3. Facebook has so many overlapping features and no clear product vision. PMs have slapped on feature after feature with little consideration for the overall product. You can literally feel the PMs fighting over screen space in the web page layout.

For example on my default landing page, I have a live chat sidebar, a widget to post "Stores" and separate a widget to post "Posts", separate links to "Watch", "Live Video" and "Gaming Video", a link to "Marketplace" despite a totally separate link to something called "Buy and Sell Groups" and yet another one called "Offers", and all manner of bizarre and creepy sounding stuff like "Town Hall" and "Messenger Kids"(!). There's even some bullshit about a "Friendiversary" and a separate "Memories" tab. There must be 100+ separate "Products" on the screen that I can navigate into. Who is Facebook for??

If Facebook is going to survive as a viable place for people to hang out, someone with a clear product vision needs to be put in charge and the product needs to be severely stripped down and de-algorithmed. But of course that will never happen in a giant company, so instead Instagram will eventually overtake Facebook because it's actually still somewhat usable. But then Instagram itself will be PMed and algorithmed to death and replaced by something else. It's the corporate lifecycle.
The only thing that breaks my heart with Facebook going wayside is I know of many people with illnesses who use Facebook as one of their only outreaches for family and friends. Really is a shame that Facebook's greed and lack of integrity is driving people away from each other in this manner.
So does traffic move smoothly now?
Sigh, the time bound here requires explaining.

It's O(N) where N is the number of edges.

It's O(N^2) where N is the number of blocks (vertices).

(In a complete graph of N vertices, there are N^2 edges)
Papers switch between the two (elimination based methods are often in terms of edges, non-elimination in terms of number of blocks)

Also, if you read papers from these days, bitvector operations are considered to take constant time.
(see footnote 2 in https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/82093362.pdf).

They do in fact take constant time if they are constant size independent of program, but they are often not.
They are usually linear in the number of variables/blocks.

For those linear in the number of blocks, the total time bound comes to N^3 (and N^2 log N for a class of problems).

For those linear in the number of variables O(V*N^2).

For those constant sized, the time bounds are correct since the operations take constant time.

(and FWIW: This group of people has probably forgotten more about program analysis than the rest of us will ever know)
Wouldnt be surprised if mafia was involved
Losing $50M on $150M of revenue. (Net margins of -33%). This is pretty reasonable and in line with Twilio and Mulesoft. MongoDB was significantly worse at -60% net margins.

Why is a -33% net margin “reasonable” instead of just being “less unreasonable”?
"New Zealand isn’t the best solution, he said, because a tsunami caused by an asteroid strike in the Pacific could submerge the island’s highest point."

Highest point: Aoraki Mt Cook
3,724 m 12,218 ft

That's a pretty big tsunami...

https://www.topomap.co.nz/NZTopoMap/nz26258/Aoraki%2fMount-C...

Edit:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eltanin_impact

"The size of a possible tsunami has been calculated. An asteroid that was 4 km (2.5 mi) in diameter falling onto the 5 km (3.1 mi) deep ocean would have blasted the water off the ocean floor for at least 60 km (37 mi), and made a wave over 200 m (660 ft) high on the southern end of Chile and the Antarctic Peninsula. After ten hours, waves around 35 m (115 ft) would reach Tasmania, Fiji and Central America, and the New Zealand east coast would have been washed with 60 m (200 ft) high waves. If the impact object was 1 km (0.6 mi) in diameter, the wave heights would be five times less.[3]"
They are paying for it so that's one plus I have going for me. Thanks for the reply
I use Facebook for 3 things: messenger, University/student groups, and marketplace/for sale pages.

I live outside my home country, so messenger is the only way I can talk to many friends back home (or friends here in Canada when I'm home myself).

Being in school(as well as some employers and organizations) means there are all sorts of groups for socializing, sports, clubs etc etc, and Facebook is certainly the main platform for organizing these sorts of things here.

And just a few days ago I managed to find an apartment sublet through Facebook (1 day before classes started, yes I'm that dumb).

Aside from those 3 activities, I'd estimate I spend about 30 minutes a week on Facebook max. It's just not fun, feels very lowest common denominator (despite analytics-driven content). I have the impression that a lot of people (my age or otherwise) are in a similar camp: depending on Facebook for a few key services but otherwise loath to use it.
This is dumb, Bezos showed how the vast majority of people Bernie is talking about work part time. If you work part time, of course you’re going to be on government benifits...Full time employees get a lot of benifits aside from pay as well, some of the best in the industry.

That said, I have read a lot of stories about people being overworked, ambulances called frequently at work etc. but perhaps it’s becasue Amazon is one of the biggest employers in the world. Just like Foxconn suicide rates were the largest China Tech story for a year because something like 120 committed suicide but crunching the numbers, that was significantly better suicide rate than the rest of China because Foxconn employed millions.
This was something that surprised me too. Looking at how someone lived and expecting them to be wealthy, only to find out later that they had no savings for retirement, and selling off property to get out from under leases or mortgages.
Do it before your job, get up early. Whether you need 1 hour, 2 or 3, whatever's best. Once you develop the habit things become easier, it will be hard not to do it. It's very energizing having already done a satisfying day's work, it's like 2 days in 1.

People have been doing this for a long time. I remember reading about 19th C novelists who wrote their novels by writing for an hour each morning before their day job.
GDPR as a positive example? Huh?
Those plastic bins at security were apparently the worst. I go through airports quite a bit, but never really thought about that particular vector. It's especially bad because the very first thing a lot of people do after security is find some food. Instead, it would be a good idea to find a restroom and wash your hands, then find food.
There is still some experimental work being done with it on the side. The emberconf repo has a version with wasm rendering
I'm curious if you received the same emails I did. We got ours from our cert vendor, so I suppose that's as about as direct as it can get. If your domain registar was crafting their own, then I could see how you might have gotten blindsided. There's always a risk of information loss when the game of telephone comes into play.

When I first started looking at this myself, I was surprised at just how many TLS cert brands Symantec held: damn near half of them.
Blackmore: Doppler LIDAR for Self Driving Cars
Your memory is cheap for me!
Again, that's ok as long as schools don't try to reuse these teachers to teach actual computer science courses later "because they already know some coding".
Children of parents with bipolar disorder have detectable neutral abnormalities
Where's a good place to find marketing people? I feel I'm strong at finding good developers from various weird and wonderful channels, but I have no idea where to hire marketing types?
I think there's a market for something like it, but I'd argue the Buzz's success hinges more on whether the market is big enough, and whether the car is capable of long trips - they're associated with road trips as far as I know, and no one wants a car for trips that doesn't get you there and back without worry. (I suppose there are a few years for the charging situation to improve, but I'm not counting on it.)
I have a datapoint.

I went to university w/ someone's whose family ran a bunch of hotels & motels in the San Jose area.

His surname was Patel.
I also don't quite understand why "adjusting their privacy settings "is a metric for people changing how they use FB.

FB threw an interstitial in front of people for GDPR. It'd be weird if people didn't change their privacy settings then?
I'm aware, but I'm responding to the myth of:

> Any effort in trying to bring it up to modern webdev standards would likely make the code expand significantly

That's just not true, and nowhere did that person say: "Because of legacy IE support requirements", they only mentioned "modern webdev standards".

Are you suggesting arrow functions, and classList aren't modern standards then?
The intellectual ivory towers and shining cities I think we all want our primary public facing names to be on, at least in the fine print on some obscure plaque somewhere (like the credits no one watches at the end of a movie).

The grimy, day to day, forgettable things... not so much. That's the "being human" layer. Not many get to do their more ideal work as their actual job in society.
With that said, there are some very annoying things. Previously if you modified the access policy of the ES cluster, it would completely rebuild the entire cluster (create all new nodes and copy all data), which can take many hours.

From what I can tell, it still does. I can’t comment on the length of time though. I did it before I had many documents and it was a very small Dev instance.
My guess is it's a typo in: 10,000ns ~ 10us = [green cube] and it's supposed to read 10,000ns = 10us = [green cube]
and this is a key as are black red and blue, all of the speed measures are approximate.
It is a precise embodiment of that: the code was written specifically for people to read, and those people find it very readable.

It is a mistake to assume a single standard here. Does a German speaker find a Sanskrit text readable, or a trombone player find a guitar piece playable?
I understand and respect your viewpoint. I even agree in most ways. But due to my particular limitations it was speck or nothing.
If the purpose of government is to ensure stability (and particularly to ensure the stability of the people in power), that would seem fundamentally at odds with disruptive innovation and exponential progress. I don't think it can be stabilized, more likely it shatters under the strain, and something new and different emerges from the wreckage
Is our culture the culprit for eating disorders?
The Circular Train Puzzle
we don't have immediate plans, but hopefully sometime soon!
Hmm, when playing with lego, I usually don't know what shapes I need but I often know what color I want.
Here we see a naked call for content-based suppression of speech, so that the EU government can shape how its citizens think.
Bs is right.
> As long as the code works, anything else is just gravy.

“It works” is one of the lowest imaginable quality bars for software to meet, one notch up from “It compiles.” Through my career I’ve worked with way, way too much code where the developer stopped at step one (it works).
Originally there was something else in that function body. That's also why we didn't collapse it when we took that bit out.
My last ex was Gujarati and her father owned a Holiday Inn Express and a Days Inn. We both worked remote at the time and a good chunk of our relationship was spent staying at various hotels under the IHG banner for the "owner's rate" (a small denomination less than $1).

Their network went well beyond any particular industry though. The first family friend to come to this country ended up in Houston in the early 70s, quickly accumulated wealth by innovating accounting techniques for big oil. He sponsored the next wave, which included her father who started as a nuclear plant engineer and travelled around the country for a couple decades before moving into finance then hospitality.

Each successive wave would sponsor others - they all were relatively successful in India but came here to be executives at tech companies, surgeons, professors, real estate investors, etc. They really took care of each other.

While the family did much of what was mentioned in the article, including living at the Days Inn for a couple years at one point, it didn't mention anything about partnership stakes in these properties. That seemed to be a big thing, or at least I had the impression that diversifying property portfolios was common. Her father owned his properties outright but that was because he bought his partners out during the financial collapse in 2009. When we last talked 2 years back, he was looking to acquire new partners and invest in other properties.

As you say, there was a tension to bring the children in but they had little interest in moving to a place in a so-so part of Florida - the children were well educated, travelled, cultured etc and preferred to live in big cities. My ex and I did grudgingly discuss it as being an option if we started a family.
In the absence of civilization tyrants are rare, what you get are feuding family units, tribes, and warlords. Personal strength of arms is tantamount, and frankly Zuckerberg, Gates, Bezos and the like won’t last a day. Who cares about how rich you were when there is nothing stopping someone else from taking your life and everything else you laughably “own” right?

Hypothetically, Zuckerberg is going to have family members of the people guarding him locked away somewhere as hostages with other people set to guard them with the original guards kept out of direct communication with anyone but Zuckerberg or his trusted lieutenants. Cousin Eddie isn't going to take over when it means Cousin Franny gets to live less than or equal to how long Zuck lives.

Hypothetical fantasies aside, they can only do those things after civilization collapses, and by then it’s too late. Power in the absence of civilization doesn’t depend on the ability to delegate everything, it depends on the ability to beat someone to death with a jawbone.

An actual tyrant requires a government, and it would be quite some time after a traumatized populace stopped just trying to survive day to day for such high level organization to re-emerge. On all likelihood, generations would need to pass.
A Beginner's Guide to X86 Assembly, Part 1 of 2
I wrote this (above) comment expecting to get a load of down votes, but there are none. If anyone really wants to use this technique then please store all your passwords in TRIPLICATE in the spreadsheet.

This is because if you fat finger or fat mouse one of the three you'll have two others to recover with. If you have only one copy and you mess it up (yes I've done it a few times) then your 16 digit random password will be gone forever.
I would bat an eye because it's never good to rely on a single point of failure.

Imagine, for instance, that at some point, LE is the only trusted CA for code-signing. If its root key gets compromised for some reason, how are we supposed to move to a new CA if the auto-updaters cannot trust the old CA anymore?
We expanded it for collapsible comments a few years ago.
Yes, a lot of it is pretty good. There isn't the same industry and money behind the productions that the US has so there isn't always the same quality. I think we get a lot of good productions out of the process. Australian bands are able to be played on the radio and the film sector can support actors that even go on to Hollywood. Australia is not a big country, there isn't a ton of money and specialised skills are not easy to come across. We'll never develop industries if we don't give them a chance. This EU legislation isn't as dystopic as some people in this comment thread seem to think.