skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are they though? Even looking at examples like Google and Facebook, it's not like the founders saw an opportunity where no one else was looking and went for it. In both cases, they built something that interested them with no eye toward opportunity (at least if the information we've been given about their early motivations is true), and then at some point down the road saw the same opportunity that everyone else already saw (in the sense that both search engines and social networks were already crowded spaces with companies that seemed to be the incumbent winners).

If anything, it was less that they saw opportunity where no one else was looking, and more that they saw opportunity where _everyone_ else was looking and went for it anyway. Everyone else thought the opportunities were so obvious as to have already been solved. Search engines were already solved by Yahoo!, social networking was already solved by MySpace, book-selling was already solved by Borders and Barnes & Noble.

Maybe younger people tend to do things that don't make rational sense from a business perspective, and those are usually the things that become outsize successes in the face of the status quo. Of course, they're also the things that fail way more often than they succeed. That could explain both phenomena, where younger people founded the giant success stories and older people founded more successful things on average.
The regular Model S fits 7 with kids. It must be a fairly major cash saving having an electric car when dealing with so many kids. Colleagues of mine were paying more than 100 euros in fuel a week for large SUVs.
My guess is that the grandparent is just commenting on working conditions inside parts of the Amazon org, the details of which are well-publicized at this point.
I think one big advantage of older founders is the wisdom not to be fooled by the first VC to come along dangling cash with major strings attached.
Elsevier is full of nonsense, and this self-serving quote from William Gunn is just another example. You might find this article of interest: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/jun/27/profitable-b...

Per that article: "According to its 2013 financials Elsevier had a higher percentage of profit than Apple, Inc."

There's no need to "distribute by volunteers". We have something called the Internet - put the articles on a website, click, and you're done. Indeed, for the most part publishing on paper is a mistake - what we need is the electrons, not paper. Editors aren't free, but they don't cost the money that Elsevier and others charge. Reviews are done by volunteers, almost without exception, so there's no need to pay publishers for review.

For-profit scientific publishers provided an important service in the 1950s. It's not the 1950s any more, and they don't provide any valuable services any more. All the real services - namely the scientific work - are paid by others, and so those others should reap the rewards.
ok, then I'm getting reamed on my wife's 10 year old Subaru because, with 3000mi/yr, it's only a few bucks less than our brand new "expensive to repair" Model 3 with 15k miles/year.

Yes, data is not the plural of anecdote, and I want to agree with the source that Tesla repairs are more expensive (repairing anything aluminum is expensive; see: Audi A8), but I am just not seeing these high costs reflected in ANYONE's bills.
Let's compare rates.

Fifty year old male, 80's Toyota truck, just bare minimum insurance (don't recall, but just what my state requires), no tickets; $497 year through Mecury.

I honestly don't like paying that. I don't drive much, but can't prove it because my vechicle doesn't have a computer.

I'm at the point, where I would like to go back to no mandatory insurance. If you have a nice vechicle, and have assets to protect; insure. A lot of you will disagree, but I think the Insurance industry has been reaming us for years. I won't even mention home owners policies, and 15 pages of what they don't cover.

(The Insurance Lobby is feared in California. They get what they want, and we are at their mercy. I've always felt their was collusion among the carriers, but couldn't prove it. And discounts, I found to be just around 5%. I had a buddy stay with Farmers for years because he thought he was getting a "long term customer discount". He wasen't. He let his insurance expire one year. He reapplied. He paid $400 less as a new customer?)
> Your options are to increase the number of bits used, which puts off the overflow,

Just adding one more byte puts the overflow off for almost 200 hundred years, should be long enough.

The question that comes to my mind is: now that they know that Boeing is sloppy are they going to thoroughly audit the code to see if any other overflows are lurking in it? And will they do the same to Airbus? And if not then why not?
Al Gore's Support of the Internet, by V.Cerf and B.Kahn
I mean, how is a toddler even supposed to make that decision?
Phone-Based Key for Google Advanced Protection Program
One, Two, Three: Absolutely Elementary Mathematics by David Berlinski

Often gets low ratings because people mistake it for an educational book. It’s a mix of history, biographies and verbal exposition on the development of mathematical theorems, with a good poetic slant.
Reminds me I really need to look into his other books, his writing is scarily good.
Superchargers are mostly set-up around restaurants and shopping malls. There are a couple that have Tesla specific lounges, like the one in Kettlemen City
You can walk into a dealership and buy a Chevy Bolt right now because there is plenty of surplus inventory. People are just not buying them for many reasons.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2ogGZXmepY

>GM's electric offering was built from the ground up to be an electric car, and has won tons of awards for actually being a good car.

The Bolt actually used many of the Chevy Sonic hardware/parts so I would hardly call it being built from the ground up. I mean, they look pretty much the same. It's like the Tesla roadster 1.0 which used Lotus parts.
It's only a sign of hostility if used as such. If I need to remind you to look up from your phone becuase a light has turned green, then a quick "doot" or "doot doot" isn't typically considered hostile. If someone does consider that hostile, then as the parent said, they're probably an angry person regardless, so it's still not the horn that's hostile.
Agreed. I know I'm drifting off to sleep when my thoughts get more and more fantastical and abstract. Just keep nurturing that and.... it's morning.
Don't you have a bloom filter for all content ever created with which you can compare the content?
Right or wrong, the sad reality is that if the US doesn't develop AI weaponry, its adversaries will, notably Russia and China.
Except that the Middle Ages in Europe was the same time period as the Islamic Golden Age.
> Anycast is fairly standard and usable for stateful connections

please cite some sources to back this up. i find this statement surprising.
In italy "normal" is considered 36.5 C[1], but anything up to 36.9 C is OK, over 37 C it starts to be called "small fever" (febbriciattola), when over 37.5 then it becomes properly a "fever", nothing to really worry however unless it is 38 or over.

Personally I am always on the 36.8/36.9, whilst my wife is always on the 36.3/36.4 (we do a good average together).

The real issue is that (thanks to the ban of good ol' mercury based thermometers) I doubt the reliability of both the new "mercury free" glass thermometers (that in my experience tend to get "stuck") and the new electronic ones (possibly it is just that the common ones are cheap devices).

[1] normally "armpit" temperature measuring is used
>They quoted me $40k ABOVE the price on fords website

That's... very hard to believe. What were the curcumstances around this? Obviously Joe Schmo dealer isn't going to tack on 40k and expect to make any sales.
Chrome gets a new look for its 10th birthday
"unplanned" Does this women not know how sex works? Does she lack access to IUD's, condoms, abortions? There are rare instances where women have a child against their will, but the number is vanishly small. The vast majority of children are carefully planned _choices_.
Will it be possible to contribute lessons to your platform?
I find conferences a terrible place to share knowledge on K8s, this makes it a lot easier and hands-on.
Doesn't work on Chrome for me - Version 67.0.3
... and back to pariah.
California its paid.
Good write up. However, I think saying synthesis turns hdl into gates is tangling with our digital design lingo.

Netlist is better, but to someone outside of digital design but with software background, I think I would call it a textual listing of the gates of the design and their interconnection. A graph.
Ask HN: How do you market your API?
I'm a solo founder and just soft launched an API which provides essential data that powers my main business, Reviewshake. The API is available on Mashape, which will hopefully draw some interest, but I was hoping to learn how people on HN typically market their APIs?

I've done my best to make the documentation as straight forward as possible, and have made some posts on Quora and other places where people who might find use of my API might hang around. Besides this, can you share any best practices? Thank you!
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I don't understand. You wouldn't store the movies on the avionics systems in the first place. That's all inside the infotainment system, on one side of the diode. The things going over the diode would be stuff like current location and tire pressure.
I don't know the exact numbers, but I'm pretty sure Renault and Nissan produce more electric cars than Tesla. I think the Leaf alone accounts for more than Tesla, and then the Zoe probably also accounts for as many cars as the whole Tesla lineup.
The non-Tesla EVs I've owned have required frequent software updates & had several serious-sounding recalls.

Nissan Leaf owner almost since they first rolled off the production line, and not one recall or update was required to keep the vehicle running tip-top. Sibling comment ruled out the Volt, so what were these buggy EVs that had required software updates?
Point is, the brakes on a car are cheaper than the tires for the same car. I'd be very surprised if you can get a full set of tires + labor for less than your quoted $200 total for brakes.
Or you're just ahead of the nightmare service scenario described above and the actuaries don't know how to price it in yet. If so; Model S owners may get assessed in line with a similar price point internal combustion luxury sedan.
Twitter says Trump not immune from getting kicked off
Is there any value in having different paternity vs. maternity leave or primary vs. secondary caregiver?

Wouldn't something like X weeks paid for anyone parenting/birthing/adopting. (i.e. a paid family leave) be a simpler design?

You could expand this over time to include caregiving for elderly people etc. And it could support various family types (i.e single parents, adoptions, same-sex couples, surrogates etc.)

Genuinely asking because it seems weird not to have just a simple inclusive policy.
Actually, Toys R Us went bankrupt through a buyout:
https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-03-27/toys-r-us...
Basically, they were forced to take on a lot of debt to go private at a critical inflection point where competition was starting to undercut their pricing. Then they couldn't invest in anything else to fight their competition because they already had far, far, too much debt.

So I'd be skeptical to say there's something inherently wrong with non-tech stocks. You may have just lucked out and invested in tech stocks during one of the worlds largest bubbles (or just bull runs? Hard to say!)
It has nothing to do with apple being better or worse than other consumer electronics company.

It instead has everything to do with the fact that high end consumer electronics is only so big of a market, and is one that Apple has almost entirely tapped out.

Apple won the market, overwhelmingly so. But they can't win twice as hard, when they've won already as much as they can.
So the US News graphs don't adjust for inflation (as they note). If you perform that adjustment, it's a 50% increase over 20 years, which is something, but not astronomical. That pretty much matches this inflation-adjusted data:
https://trends.collegeboard.org/college-pricing/figures-tabl...

Here's the net cost data, showing that the net real cost is only up about 10% over 5 years. Some sub-numbers are even lower. Net tuition for private non-profit schools is _flat_ across the last 15 years ($14,560 in 02-03, $14,540 in 17-18):
https://trends.collegeboard.org/college-pricing/figures-tabl...

My argument is that college prices are up, but largely because of disinvestment by state legislatures, pushing up the perceived cost of college, which allows the private schools to increase their nameplate costs significantly, while using financial aid to keep the actual increases to students in-line with the increases in actual costs for state students.

Another way of looking at it is this: If colleges have been raising tuition astronomically, what have they been doing with the additional money? Additional expenditures on students or facilities are not much changed over the past 10 years. Real expenses per-student are largely flat:
https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d16/tables/dt16_334.10.a...

If colleges were jacking prices through the roof to spend way more on unnecessary luxuries or administrators (as the common wisdom would have it), that would show up in the expenditures data, and it's just not there.

I do agree that non-tuition related expenses are an issue, but that's not the university's fault, other than not building dorms fast enough (and dorms are usually pretty expensive, so it's just as likely that the issue is zoning and building restrictions by university town government, rather than university administrators).
I'm saying don't plan on concept cars making it to production. It's nice when they do, but plenty more fail to materialize.

Concept cars are mostly marketing.
Low-tech is the most reliable tech. But sure, if balloons won't work due to legal reasons, let's try drones.
Yeah, I think Google could accomplish a similar result by publishing a 'nice URL' standard, where your page can be dinged on SEO if it does not conform.

Getting rid of the thousands of ugly URLs used by their own products could also go a long way...
Is that true? We know the car companies cannot sell direct, but would they if they could? Dealers are required to have trained mechanics who actually know to deal with the car.
Is the implication that black people don't drive Teslas? Because I know that's not true.
Also depends on brand, Volvo owners in the UK tended to keep using the dealer network for a lot longer than other makes.
Why not offer a constructive suggestion for testing the PRNG quality on macOS? It seems like you know a lot on the topic, perhaps you could even send a few PRs to the guide ...
You are right that, if it's my lamp-post, it's fine for me to say that it's not as clean as it should be, and we need to fix it. But that's different from what jerf said. He said it's not valid to assume that under my lamp-post is uniquely dirty. And he is also correct.
They could just as easy use a flux compensator to mangle with the time continuum and use the Bermuda triangle as a energy source for their servers.
My personal experience is that when you spend a substantial amount of time driving (an hour a day for me, commuting), the car's amenities and its driving experience add up. That's beyond just being a signal of wealth/identity.

A BMW really does feel better to drive than a Camry (more responsive acceleration, more responsive steering), and it comes with all sorts of small amenities that you get used to.

I drive a Camry because it's cheap and reliable and gets me from home to office with minimal drama. But I can definitely feel when the engine power lags and gears shift awkwardly going up hills or onto highways, and steering feels kind of numb and floaty. Think of the difference between cheap clothes and expensive ones: you can feel the difference, but it's unclear how much that difference is worth to you.

Also, if you look closely, you can see where the designers were careful to cut corners. Some of the button interfaces on my Camry's steering wheel and certain other panels aren't beveled, so it's harder to use them while your eyes are on the road because you can't navigate the buttons by touch. There's no automatic climate control, so you fiddle with it more. And so on. I wouldn't pay an extra $30k over 5-8 years to fix those things now, but if I had the spare income and knew I'd be spending an hour a day in my expensive box, I might.
I think the point is that the revenue from Apple services used from non-Apple devices is so small as to be irrelevant.
Yet, as far as I understand, if you took an infant and brought it forward to our time it could grow up to be a theoretical physics professor. That is, they were no different than us. Why the stagnation for so long?
Ask HN: Is there a way to recover memories?
Someone I know, in the USA, was adopted from out of the country at age five and can't remember anything about their experiences before adoption. They have heard stories of what their life was like but they can't truly remember those experiences.

Now they want to remember but can't. Are there techniques to recover or remember those memories? Or, are those memories gone?

Part of the problem I think is that they learned English very quickly and forgot their birth language at the same rate.

Also, I realize this is a non-technical question. However, I think the HN community would be able to at least point me in the right direction to help with this.
> Depending on which page boundary, increasingly severe exceptions will be raised, but it is typical for an OS to service those exceptions by performing the operation and jumping back into the code… maintaining the illusion that it worked.

I'd expect crossing a boundary between two valid pages to be fine; that's just part of making unaligned accesses work.

I'm talking specifically about an unmapped page. I don't have any data, but I'm pretty confident access to an unmapped page (such as null pointers) is a much more common source of SIGSEGV in general than unaligned access, to the extent that most programmers probably don't even know the latter is a possibility.

> That’s too much of a reach to call it a bug. The IP header’s size is measured in multiples of 4 bytes, there is simply no way to encode a header which is not a multiple of 4 bytes.

I take a pretty hard stance on this kind of thing.

The function might be used in a way you're not expecting. The article mentioned the IP frames can be read from a file. Maybe they're in some record-delimited format that states length in bytes, and that's the length that gets passed in rather than the original one. Redundant framing information like that is pretty common I think when you're using some general-purpose code (a library that handles a variety of record formats as well as some functions that operate on specific types like IP frames). Those records could get corrupted, even maliciously so; callers probably expect then to get back a nonsense result then but not an out-of-bounds read.

Or there could be a bug in the logic that decodes the header's length. By itself that won't cause memory errors, but combined with this assumption it does, and so I'm uncomfortable with the assumption being implicit.

I think a lot of C code's memory safety is dependent on this sort of implicit assumption that rots over time (if it was ever correct to begin with), and every time I see it I prefer memory-safe languages a little more.

Working in a language (Rust) that requires you to explicitly annotate such places with "unsafe" and have your public interfaces be "sound" (have it be impossible for safe code to cause the unsafe code to do the wrong thing) makes this more clear to me.

> Should strlen() call assert(p!=NULL)?

If it behaves in a surprising way when called with NULL, it should mention that case (either in an interface comment/manpage or via explicit assert). In practice on modern machines strlen raises SIGSEGV. [1] When folks see a SIGSEGV from strlen, they probably think wild pointer or missing terminator and will figure out exactly what happened before long.

[1] Although I imagine it's actually undefined behavior according to the C standard, so now I wonder if some compiler does / my compiler will someday do something more strange, and I'm sad.
Ben Hawkes from Google Project Zero has an excellent blog post on Intel CPU Microcode:

http://www.inertiawar.com/microcode/

He even extracted and posted the RSA public keys used to verify the microcode. Though he later removed them, they're still available on the internet archive:

https://web.archive.org/web/20140403200048/http://inertiawar...
The best way to initiate a project and turn it from an idea into a prototype is to start. It's literally that simple. Building a product is hard, but the only way it's going to happen is if you start. Other than that, the steps are the same as starting anything else. Determine what you think is a good first step to take, then do it. Then pick the next step and do it. Keep doing that until the product exists.
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Nick, are you this miserable / condescending in your daily life and with clients? Or just when you preach to strangers on public forums? I ignored your last response, because you don't seem to be a happy person, despite all of the adversity you've overcome in your life. There are many happy people in this world less fortunate than yourself, I hope you find some peace.
> Preparing papers for publication requires a non-negligible amount of not-fun work. Someone has to proofread the paper

Many journal publishers do not even provide proofreading or editor services any more. The author is expected to do all that on his own, and then provide camera-ready output. In the case of for-profit publishers, about the only thing that they provide is the actual printing and distribution, not anything editing-related, and so you can imagine their profit margins.

> Less prestigious journals need to provide additional incentives to editors, and cash has a proven track record of motivating people.

Again, at least in my own field all of our journals, regardless of prestige, are produced on the part of volunteer labor. Where are you that people are being paid to serve as editors or reviewers?