skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This website seems like it's potentially committing libel. It pretends to be run by the SF Chamber of Commerce, including attributing direct quotes to real people, except it's obviously not run by them at all and those quotes are clearly fake.
When you say "most tech companies" are you referring to employers in the tech space, or specifically VoIP providers? Dialpad.com is pretty much still alone in the mobile-first, anti-Deskphone, WebRTC-preferred approach. The rest are still primarily geared towards desk phones, even RingCentral that has a very slick mobile experience.

Dialpad is definitely playing the long game here and will be the clear winners 10 years from now. I predict Amazon will acquire them in the next year or two.

More and more businesses are switching from on-premise telephony to cloud based hosted PBX. The addressable market is very large, latest estimates put it at 55+ million seats. That's before you consider the contact center market... just focus on getting to 500, then 2000, and so on. It's not difficult. 2000 seats bring you $50K MRC, and again if you know how to this right, especially coupled with intuitive self service UI to the end users, overhead is very very low. And the actual Telco costs are too tiny to even worry about. About 75 cents per user.

I thought about starting a "how to start a VOIP business" webinar or somethint.. its amazing how many are trying to create SaaS products in obscure fringe markets where the VOIP market is pure gold.
I also lived in New York. I think there is merit to what he is saying though.

I grew up in the suburbs and couldn't understand the appeal of the Hamptons AT ALL. 'Wow overpriced suburbs because New Yorkers don't know everything worldwide is cheaper'

Look, New Yorkers literally put the ABILITY to barbecue on a pedestal because of the scarcity of that ability, they are extremely out of touch with the world.

The Hamptons isn't a big deal architecture wise or geography wise. The status symbol is. New York is very one-dimensional in that regard. You are right, you don't have to play along, that doesn't mean it is devoid of consequences.
What's the differences between this and Anki? I can't find anything in the website except for a register/login form...
Global power is shifting. Is it the end of multilateralism?
http://archive.is/D2MSl
But it's iOS. Ewwww
> If ministers give the go-ahead, the European Space Agency (Esa) – of which Britain is a key member – would then join other international partners that Nasa is recruiting to its Gateway project. These include the space agencies of Russia, Canada and Japan.

According to https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&pr... , Russian space agency participation is not assured.
Not just sorting.

The categories are:

* Sorting

* Searching

* Ciphers

As well as others, which aren't listed in the README.
Totally. But I think 2nd order effects are often underappreciated, and the difficulty of evaluating them does take some of the "oomph" out of the sunk cost fallacy.
What do you propose we do to help them instead, and if it involves reallocation if government spending, where would you take it from?

I'm not prepared to answer this in this format. To start with though, I'm unsure it can be directly solved, only mitigated. I don't think there are any solutions that don't have massive trade offs and unknown outcomes. Largely though, I'm not a fan of state interventions.
Rust is also terribly overcomplicated and a mishmash salad of different languages, so much so that in the end, it's just simpler to call ld(1) on a .o file directly.
Maybe not as feature rich as others, but check out pgweb
There's a fine line between persistence and sunken cost fallacy.

Professional Poker players know that when pot odds are 33% for a given hand, they must consistently play that hand at least 3 times for the odds to fall in their favor.

To the Author's point, though, betting on people is less about odds and more about politics... so failing projects are likely to continue failing.
"It is also permitted for use on the SAT by the College Board starting with the August 2018 administration."

That's ridiculous. Privatized standard testing seems like a bad deal for folks who can't afford these expensive calculators.
Definitely worth revisiting though. His site too: http://worrydream.com/
Those were heady days for phone manufacturers, and telecommunications in general. Motorola was flush with cash.

Nowadays, product management in the phone industry is comparatively dull. Its just about predicting how many iPhones you will sell, begging Apple to allocate as many launch devices to you as possible, and then figuring out which ZTE or Huawei Android device you will sell for $99 on your subsidised prepaid range.
Yes. There is a very healthy market for every major standardized test (GRE, GMAT, etc.) as well as most (all?) of the major English proficiency tests.

Every security measure I have heard of for western testing within the PRC can be bribed around, and it’s so commonplace that it barely warrants discussion (“of course it happens [eyeroll]”.

I have heard of a few US schools doing on-campus retests for English proficiency, but mismatches are simply met with required ESL courses (paid non-credit, of course). I have not heard of other on-campus testing, and I’m not sure anyone wants it since these students usually pay full tuition.
Be nice to see something ship
The article does have an incredibly narrow focus. It's as if the author doesn't know AMD exists, when in fact AMD is a far far larger threat to Intel due to its chips native support of the x86 instruction set.
My initial thoughts were that the omission may have affected the integrity of the bodyshell or it requires a factory jig to ensure correct alignment for the weld.

Perhaps scrapping the 293 cars is cheaper and simpler than one potential lawsuit though.
What Nokia phone? I've been looking to get a Nokia 105 (2017) unlocked with the possibility of using it with Google's Project Fi (T-Mobile) but can't seem to find them anywhere - the only seller of them on Amazon in the US isn't reliable.
We changed the URL from https://www.zdnet.com/google-amp/article/walmart-deploys-170....
Manual focusing and metering means you'd be able to collect the necessary information about exposure, and set the camera up fairly accurately. Once that's done, simply aim the camera properly, and you'll get the shot. Minor corrections can be made in the darkroom.

It takes more work, but that's the nature of film photography rather than the selfie stick.
I’d hope a calculator is useless for the tests, as they are for most math courses.

I’m sure eBay is riddled with these stupid TI type graphing calculators, so anybody can afford one.
Anyone who's betting on the growth of the company. Hiring more and more humans doesn't scale as well as automating tasks.
Nice. Love stuff like this.
I hear that Practical Foundations of Programming Languages by Robert Harper[0] is highly recommended. I have Types and Programming Languages, but found it a little dry to be honest. I do use it as a reference manual in my work though.

[0]: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rwh/pfpl.html
Hidden welds are very common, although I don't know if these exact missing ones are.

That said, cutting out entire pieces and replacing them is not uncommon; here's an interesting set of slides on replacing an entire B-pillar (the part missing the welds in these Subarus) on a Toyota:

http://www.ciclink.com/archive/technicalpres/2010-7-Techpres...

Note how the official repair instructions (surprised they even still publish these instead of "scrap the whole thing") literally say to cut the old one out and weld a new one in.
>such rubbish questions

Really? It's in the laws, you should've insisted on them acknowledging what Nusyuz really means, not just hysteria!

For example, Imam Syafi'i ruling:
ونشوز المرأة: عصيانها زوجها، وتعاليها عمّا أوجب الله عليها من طاعته…ونشوز المرأة حرام، وهو كبيرة من الكبائر

Is this what used in the legal laws of Malaysia? We don't know that in the article...
The arguments you make could equally well be applied to libraries.

Libraries “steal” money from authors by making books more freely available, in largely the same way that piracy does.

They also make books available to people who otherwise couldn’t afford them.
Yes. And even "successes" often don't result in better total compensation than you would have gotten at a FAANG.
> It's just that our brains are now in a superposition of states too.

Are you saying they are "now" in a superposition, meaning they were not before the observation?

If so then how can the act of us observing the thing cause us, our brains to go into super-position? And is it just our brain that goes into super-position? Why not the rest of my body too? And what if I'm holding the hand of another person, does she too go into super-position?
> I miss phones that let you dial the letters of the contact name to pull up that contact.

Not sure if I understand this. If you mean start dialing by name or number, I can do this on my Android.
I'd strongly suggest people create separate users in the browser, one for daily, one for Google, one for Facebook.

This way in my regular browsing there's no Facebook or Google cookies reporting on what websites I visit.

It's really easy and doesn't impact at all on workflow, if you want your Gmail you just click the user button, and click Google. You could even set that user's homepage to Gmail.
I understand that this is largely a marketing strategy, and I'm fine with that.

What's always kind of hilarious is when their "no porn" strategy, again a marketing choice, is portrayed by third parties as a moral issue for Apple. I mean, if Apple actually actually cared about adult content in general, they would remove browsers from all their content, lest their users be exposed to an infinite torrent of smut and filth.
Cuketractor – Test your website using plain English, not code
Five out of seven startups were zero. One was $17K, another was $2K. At all but one place the salaries were not great.

I have done far, far better at larger companies in terms of salary and stock programs. If I'd stayed one of the big companies, I'd likely be able to retire right now (not that I will -- I like writing software and I plan to continue doing it as long as I can, ideally well into my 70s).
I really want to use Firefox on Android, but I need a couple things:

Desperately need the scrolling in Firefox to feel like scrolling in the rest of the apps.

And I would very much like easy tab switching by swiping across the title bar thing, and the new tab/new incognito/back button behaviour.

Pls Moz pls
Chrome is a platform for client-side Google services.

As the article says, the web browser is the most obvious component, but it also includes Google Cloud Print [0], Google Talk/Hangouts [1], Google Earth [2], Google Music [3], Gmail Offline [4], etc.

In some sense it's the spiritual successor to Google Desktop [5], which used to fill a similar role.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Cloud_Print

[1] https://gsuiteupdates.googleblog.com/2014/10/notification-re...

[2] visit https://www.google.com/earth/ in a browser other than Chrome

[3] https://support.google.com/googleplaymusic/answer/4627259

[4] https://support.google.com/a/answer/139154

[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Desktop
Cold outreach. Built an email list using free email databases and linked in. Used Mailshake to create cadences to ask for a 5 minute call. Did the call myself to close the deal. I'm a sales person by training so that part wasnt hard for me once I got the engine going.
It's not open source; the Hacker News headline is wrong. The Numworks web site does not claim it's open source, by the way -- the problem is only in the headline here. The license is Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial ShareAlike (CC-BY-NC-SA), and the presence of the "NonCommercial" clause makes it unambiguously non-open-source. If that clause were not present, CC-BY-SA would still be an odd license to use for software anyway, but because of the NC clause we never get to that issue.
Humans.txt (text game)
I'm playing FF6 again right now on my SNES classic, so this just hits real hard. This man is a legend and such a special piece of my childhood! Get better!
>I have never experienced a situation where I have poured money into something and it became "obvious" (for a rational agent) that i could do just as well by abandoning that previous effort.

I think you're not understanding the fallacy. The whole point is that the amount already invested is irrelevant. It's not about whether the choice is easy or the outcomes clear. You've put in a lot of money and 3 years into a project. You're wondering "Should I quit and pursue X instead, or stick to it?"

The fallacy won't tell you what to do. It is telling you that whatever you decide, the fact that you put in a lot of money and 3 years should not be a factor in deciding.
After inspiring from Manypixels, I've launched an extension of their service
After inspiring from Manypixels which is an on-demand design service, I've launched a productized service which is an extension of their service.

DesignThingy.co is an on-demand design to HTML/CSS conversion service and existing website improvisation service for Indie makers, startups, and agencies.

If you are thinking:
Sketch can export design files in HTML/CSS and there are also plugins and apps out there to do this job, then why should I choose you?

Then I want to say that you are absolutely right! There are tools and apps to convert the design to HTML/CSS but these tools don't deliver you fully responsive, error-free, clean coded, pixel perfect, fully cross-browser compatible, hand-coded template. But we do! This makes us different from them.

I would love to know what do you think about https://designthingy.co/
It's not false: installing any kind of software without using OS packaging, even in one's home directory makes it a hack. It's working for you in your home directory; what if it now needs to work for everyone, or if it needs to be deployed without any human interaction whatsoever?
Yes: https://mozilla-version-control-tools.readthedocs.io/en/late...
The point is that schools will only buy bunches of these things for teaching if they’re approved for use on the exams.
If you implement that, you instantaneously take away the ability to deploy applications through OS's automated deployment (like Kickstart, Jumpstart, or AutoYaST) and you create more work for every system engineer in existence because they have to finish your work for you, namely integration of your software (nim language) into the OS.

For every platform nim supports, native operating system package(s), delivering into /opt/nim (and system-wide configuration into /etc/opt/nim) should be provided. This is not some whim, it's a formal system engineering specification. See LSB FHS, /opt, /etc/opt and /var/opt sections, or the illumos filesystem(5) manual page for the same. (Why aren't you as a third party supposed to deliver software into /usr as you intend in that Github issue?)

If you do not do it this way, it will impede adoption because it's one thing for a developer to play around in a language and another for a system engineer to make it operational: system engineers' time is usually in extremely short supply, and if they have to package your language for you, they could easily just move on to writing software in a different language that they can mass-provision natively, and nim will stay an underdog. Operational maintainability is the end goal, means mass deployment without extra code or software like Docker, only using native subsystems. Sooner or later things must go into production.

Never bypass OS packaging. Unless you are an OS vendor, never deliver anywhere into /usr, not even /usr/local.
It should be pointed out that this is Micropython, not the Python that you are probably used to. Micropython is great stuff, I’m a huge fan, but it is different from CPython in noticeable ways.

They seem to have simply copied a source snapshot over; I’m not sure what that means for incorporating updates and fixes to the Python system. Maybe they needed a fork for some reason. I do wish their documentation gave a little more credit to the Micropython project.
Please tell this story
Startup 1: $0
Startup 2: $0
Startup 3: Would’ve made ~$40k had I not left so early (left after 7 months, sold for a couple hundred million like 6 months later)
Startup 4: Publicly traded now, will see how it turns out but hopefully $100k or more

Overall, simply bank on it being nothing
High Performance Computing: Are We Just Getting Wrong Answers Faster? (1998) [pdf]
You missed my point. Features like this due because of poor discoverability.
I think this flip phone would still sell today if they would make it.

I was in a retro mood recently and actually looked at a flip phone to buy and the cheapest I could find in my country was about the same price as a low-cost Android. So, no buy.

The guys selling under the Nokia brand are also rejuvenating old products but they are going too far: I don't want a Nokia with a color screen, better graphics and an app store for games. I would want precisely a black and white (or e-ink!) display, no external apps whatsoever and no game included by default. There should be no reason to fiddle with a retro phone.
The Kafka Papers
I bought mine from the Verizon store and I swear they sold me a Chinese version. The build quality was the worse. All the keys fell off eventually and the metal color paint peeled off as well. I promised myself never to buy anything Motorola after that.
Ok, so digital scarcity is engineered, not real, because scarcity makes our economic system work. However, I don't think anyone has come up with a viable post-scarcity model. In some cases like mobile apps and steam sales, big discounts can increase volume to the point where the economic equation works. Sadly, I don't think a book on dependent types is really amenable to that scenario.
Did Thomas Kuhn Kill Truth? A review of Errol Morris's critique
Source appear to be on GitHub. Non commercial is not incompatible with open source. It makes sense to me that to get the investment required to fund this, you’d want sole rights to commercialize. Nothing prevents someone else from building a cheaper DIY version as long as they don’t sell it. For example it could be a local college class exercise to build these from scratch for local high school. That’s not imaginable for the TI calculators (which these seem to aim to replace)
There are viable forms of tutoring available for honest students who want to make some income, already, either University funded positions or private tutoring.

Your friend may lack the soft skills for tutoring, and definitely lacks the ethics to earn money honestly.
Please explain. NC only prohibits commercial exploitation, correct?
Bluetooth key fob for Tesla Model 3 spotted in FCC pictures
It's always amazed me how, in 2018, TI calculators with software and hardware from 10 years ago still cost $100+ dollars [0] and command a near monopoly in US secondary schools (which, I suppose, is why they still cost that much). For that price you can get a significantly more powerful and functional mobile phone [1] (see 24K of ram vs. 2GB, 96x64 screen vs. 720 x 1280)!

The space needs competition, and I hope Numworks gives TI a run for their money (the calculator is even allowed on the big standard exams), but schools are so standardized on TI calculators (and generally slow-moving) that change will be hard. Casio has also tried to break into this space with significantly cheaper calculators (which are also allowed on standardized exams), but they have failed to gain significant traction so far.

A relevant XKCD (of course): https://xkcd.com/768/

A related piece of journalism: https://wapo.st/1Cl0Vyf

[0]: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0001EMM0G/

[1]: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01H2E0KVA/
The overwhelming majority of Turks living in Germany are second or third-generation. They are descendants of Turkish workers who emigrated to Germany in the 1960s and 1970s to make up for Germany's dire need for laborers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turks_in_Germany#Mainland_Turk...
No, my average sale price was about $1. The purchasing company was sold a year later for fifty cents a share.

If I could have sold earlier I would have. Even then i understood a near revenue-less business couldn’t be worth $500M+.
Just checking if it works. Ship it and check for any security issue
Thanks. That's very interesting. I don't suppose you're going to tell me that it has Clojure's amazing data structures too. :-)
Kafka and Donuts, Docker on Windows, #MSIgnite, Databricks, Interesting Week 38:
I looked at the first link, and it has little to do with the sunk cost fallacy. If you're not factoring in the cost to switch, you are simply making poor estimates for your costs.

I have a business now that I've sunk $100K into. I have an option to abandon it and move across the country for a salaried job. I need to estimate whether I'll have more money with the job vs my business 5 years from now. If I estimate it wrong by not taking into account the cost to move, or the COL of the new city, it has nothing to do with the sunk cost fallacy.

For the 2nd link, I've never heard an argument using sunk cost that would say one should buy the jumper. This seems like a strawman.
the same schools that can't afford pencils and paper for the students so teachers have to buy supplies out of their own pockets?
Google is a private company. Google can do whatever it wants.
Ask HN: What is your favorite YouTube video/channel for aspiring entrepreneur?
Seeing its provenance, I have never considered Chrome or Chromium an option for daily use. The same way I have never been tempted to create a Gmail - or indeed any kind of Google - account.

Still mystified why such huge numbers of people - also among the well informed - find it a worthwhile trade handing over the generality of their life to this monolith in return for some perceived marginal gains in speed og useability or whatever.

No, I don't use the search either, and I block their Analytics snooper, whichever guise it appears in (font, tagmanager, gstatic etc. etc.).

It's eminently doable. So call me a luddite.
People put a lot of energy into programming languages, but they don't expect to get paid anything for it. Why is it different when it comes to publishing a book?

That may sound like a dismissive question, but it's at the crux of our disagreement. If we can resolve that, we might be able to see eye to eye.
10 Failed Startups: Post-Mortems from Founders
I think it's actually the lowest in the Eastern Bloc. And if there's prostitution, it's Gypsy prostitution, which is something totally off-topic.
> "People put a lot of energy into programming languages, but they don't expect to get paid anything for it. Why is it different when it comes to publishing a book?"

The difference is what the people who choose to do the work expect to get out of it. There are people who work on programming languages (or software) that have commercial licenses. That's their choice. Choosing to ignore their choice, to subvert the terms on which they choose to offer the fruits of their labor, is wrong.

If you can convince them to offer their work under other terms, great. Until then, respect the terms the authors (of books, languages, and software) have chosen.
Libraries, the same arguments apply to libraries. Which by your logic are not morally justified.
That's right. And prohibiting commercial exploitation violates one of the key clauses of both the Open Source Definition and the Free Software Definition (the part about freedom of use for any purpose). See https://opensource.org/faq#commercial. In other words "open source" doesn't just mean "you can see the source code" (that's known as "visible source" or "source available" software). Rather, "open source" means "meets the Open Source Definition", which is at https://opensource.org/definition.
More than a select few can afford this book