skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I disagreed with two false statements of fact: "The crime rates are nearly similar among all races"

Believe it or not there is a great deal of research about just these questions. You might want to actually review such research before you confidently declare these facts as false. As it is, you've been presented with several highly acclaimed books and responded with cherry picked statistics and banal pedantry. It is reminiscent of climate change deniers who love to link to the Koch-funded study of AFP data while also carefully ignoring the last 50 years of other research. If you or anybody really want to actually understand the dark years of "Tough on Crime" that define America from 1960 to now there's a lot of serious texts out there that presents mountains of data on everything from targeting to minorities to redlining.
When pinning CAs instead of certificates, you’d use CAA instead of HPKP.
From your own comment it sounds like rights holders are forcing them to implement a VPN check..?
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I'm not sure those email addresses are real. This seems more like a PR piece for the consulting company.

But they so write each other from time to time, at least I remember something along those lines from the no-poaching emails that surfaced in a lawsuit about agreed salary caps (My memory might be corrupted here, I'm not sure about it)
Sold for 99¢.
Its about to expire, and I would rather someone else have it, perhaps someone with a little more ambition than I.
Everything is NOT a market, that’s a profoundly ideological statement. Check out Karl Polanyi and the distinction between a society with markets vs a market society. We live in a market society, but that is a historically unprecedented state of affairs - historically, many important aspects of society were distributed and regulated through other social forms. It is capitalism alone which commodifies everything under the sun, including land, housing and labor. Many of the most awful aspects of our society are rooted in this historic aberration and the creative destruction it brings with it.
I'm sure they do. Not all of them at once, probably, but they do things like dine together: https://www.cultofmac.com/471423/tim-cook-spotted-dining-wit...
It's not just about economics. The China-watching community seems to be generally cautiously supportive of action against China, although not necessarily the action taking place, and certainly not some of the rhetoric around it. Overall, the fear is that China could become the world's superpower and dominate supply chains and control what the rest of the world says about it [1]. China would like to "dominate advanced industries like robotics, advanced information technology, aviation, and new energy vehicles" and become self-sufficient with their Made in China 2025 initiative [2]. This isn't popular with the West, and it has been reported that some Chinese journalists have been instructed to stop talking about it [3]. China also has a habit of intellectual theft [4] and only playing by international rules when it suits them.

One aim of the tariffs is to get China less involved in global supply chains [5]. This would be more likely to create jobs in Vietnam and Mexico than in America, but for strategic reasons this would still be good.

1. https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/09/14/china-is-buying-african... , https://www.merics.org/en/china-monitor/cosmological-communi...

2. https://www.cfr.org/blog/why-does-everyone-hate-made-china-2...

3. https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2018/06/minitrue-on-u-s-china-...

4. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/22/technology/china-micron-c...

5. https://nb.sinocism.com/p/tariffed-us-supply-chains-in-china...
On my first startup right after university, we were doing an IoT device (hardware + software), our MVP was good enough to make a couple of sales amounting to 550 consumers. At that point the board decided the best way to grow was to bring in “adult supervision” aka a seasoned CEO to run the company.

Even though I did all the software, I had only around an 8% stake in the company at the time.

The person in question decided we needed to “perfect” our product before taking it to market. She had us working 12 additional months and since we did not have “enough tests over the new features yet” she cancelled the 550 orders and gave the contracts to one of our competitors. At that moment I and the 2 electrical engineers in the team left the company and they ran out of money and close 6 month later.

Lesson learned: Big-corp CEOs don’t make for good startup CEOs 99% of the time.
Can you please keep flamewar tropes away from here? We don't want the flamewars they lead to.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I think the issue is that most ISPs are not transparent and their advertising comes off as double-speak. Watching their promotional materials they attempt to mislead consumers into thinking they are getting unlimited connections they are free to do whatever they want with when in reality they are getting a very specific bandwidth limit with a lot of strings attached.
I worked at a small robotics company in the Netherlands, technical university spinoff. We did tests in care homes for elderly and disabled people and we actually had clients that wanted to use our robots and were very positive about them.

But we were just too early. The robot didn't even need to be very autonomous, shared autonomy was part of the plan (fake it till you make it and honest about it :-) ). I controlled the robot from the other side of the (small) country to give people their teddy bears and TV remotes etc.

Problem was that we tried to do our hardware completely by ourselves, whereas nowadays there are several options for mobile manipulator robots that look good enough to put in a home.
We spent more time getting the robot to work than on useful applications (we had dozens of activities of daily live a robot could support). And even the getting our robot to work could be done more efficiency (in hindsight). We should have used e.g. an EtherCAT motor controller instead of writing of doing it all ourselves on a micro-controller.

We didn't progress enough quickly enough for our investors and subsidizers and ran out of money.

A another great lesson was this though: when you hear talk about robots in care, the complaint I get a lot is that that is sad for the clients, because they don't get someone to talk to (but a robot) and they will get lonely. That turns out not entirely the case. A lot of disabled clients told me they don't want to talk to the care-givers all that much, they just want their drink/toilet break/pen they dropped etc. They have friends and family and don't feel lonely. The complaint about loneliness is coming from the care-givers.
For elderly people, it may be different though, but I found that very interesting.
Programmers, rejoice!
>>Doctors notoriously fail to adopt (as a group) newer lessons until they are replaced, and lawyers have a similar problems when new areas of law open up (often in tech)

Even as individuals they need to adopt to newer lessons. If anything its harder in their case. Gaining a new skill or learning something new is way easier for an old programmer than for an old doctor to learn something new in their practice.

If you have chosen a knowledge based profession, you have to learn all life. Or its over.

These are like the fundamental rules of this game.
Just from the top of my head. A lot was, obviously an exaggeration, sorry for any confusion. Still, there are more than one might think.

Skipping on social security seema to be easier and more common than health care. Health care usually are insurance companies, so any missing payments are likely to be flagged. But atill it is possible to skip for a couple of months.

Social security is wired by the company to the authorities, and they usually take lknger to catch up. Ultimately these cases are found out amd prosecuted.

The main point being, even with universal health care cash stripped or just companies still find ways to not pay up.

I would have to dig a little deeper for some concrete examples and details. Just let me know if it is of any interest.
It probably doesn’t help that the same drugs that stop you rejecting organs hammer your immune system and weaken it’s surveillance for foreign entities.
The address are not real, just like the email exchange. I think the consulting company is fake as well; the email format is just a stylistic choice to dress up the article in a different way.
> The population change is exponential.

That assumes that reproduction rate stays constant. Fact is: after the second generation, reproduction rate is only a tiny bit above the one of the "host country" (per http://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/demografische-stud...).

The reason is that while first generation women usually stay at home and care for kids, second and following generation women go to universities and then into jobs which means delayed childbirth and less kids overall (because each kid means a drop in career). In addition, Germany has easy and cheap access to family planning - everything from pill and condoms over "plan b pill" to abortions - than typical "origin countries", further lowering the rate of unwanted pregnancies.

Altogether, the "Umvolkung" theory is utter bullshit spewed out especially by the Identitäre Bewegung neo nazis.
They're pretty much interchangeable in this title. Saying "open source" instead of "free software" preserves the meaning but makes it less ambiguous. The difference matters when you're talking about ideology, but it's not so important when you're talking about the legal status of a piece of software.

The Open Source Definition was adapted from the Debian Free Software Guidelines, which the FSF approves of.

According to gnu.org: "The two terms describe almost the same category of software" (https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point....).
The difference, according to the article, is in the way Microsoft apparently misleads users into thinking that the binary is the straight product from open source code compilation, which it seems it is not (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18012688)

This can drive privacy concerned people to use the product because they (wrongly) think it's open source and fully community reviewed.
Then this must be clearly stated in the advertisement material.
How does Arizona get away with it?
2 Years ago I started a product to provide a marketplace for lawyers(http://www.legalisor.com).
People can search and hire best Lawyers & Advocates in India(mainly in NCR ).
I started this as a side project first and I did all the coding and market research part.

Why it was failed :

1. For sales and marketing, I hired my brother who was an MBA and things did not go well at work.
He was not giving enough attention and dedication as product required in its initial phase and I was not able to push him hard because of personal relationships.
He was about to get married too so he was under pressure to get a fulltime job.
2. Few people were ready to join my organization and they were ready to invest some money too but I was always afraid to give them equity of the company in return. I was in believing that I can run the company from profit I was earning from selling packages.
3. I was not prepared for the scenario when the product is ready to go to the next level.

I learned :

1. I should trust people more and give them chance to involve.
2. Personal relations should stay away when there is work involved.
3. Seed funding could be helpful to give the product a better shape.

Note: product(http://www.legalisor.com) is still running but I am not much active with its development.
I'm seeing a lot of discussions about financial and specifically banking sites here. For the average user, there's no reason or need to phish a particular financial site.

One of our engagements sent users to a site we just made up, and asked for user credentials for a site they had never heard of in order to access cat videos. In most cases, we were given valid domain credentials. I'd bet money a high percentage of those were also banking credentials. What good would an EV cert at the bank do for this?
If people don't trust Microsoft to do the right thing then it is prudent to not trust any of the code until someone has had chance to audit the entire codebase. Even compiling from sources does not imply that it is safe.
The streams themselves give? That's why all the ISPs are throttling video, because it's adaptive to bandwidth and doesn't fail outright!

Which also, of course, explains why throttling it all the time is not necessary and certainly not optimal.
Not for me, there is no way I can produce anything for 11 hours at a time, no matter how rested I am.
Racket's loops are almost always zero cost, and that is done by specifying the type you are iterating over (in-list, in-string etc). This is generally fine, since when you want to iterate over something you probably already know it's type.

That is done by macros and inlining. I wrote similar macros for guile, which has a very handy source to source optimiser.
Idk, I see it hard for there to be riots in the street because electronics go up a bit, unless one subscribes to the Jamie Dimon's train of thought:

“‘It’s not right to say we’re worse off,’ Dimon said [last September 17] at an event in Detroit in response to a question about declining median income. ‘If you go back 20 years ago, cars were worse, health was worse, you didn’t live as long, the air was worse. People didn’t have iPhones.’”[0]

Though I do see it being a bloodbath on the stock market (that significant portion of adults have 0 exposure to compared to the wealthy) if iPhones become non exempt, possibly a ringing bell for market top (ignoring that unit sales have already been declining since 2015) of this 10 year bull market and experiment with ZLB interest rates.

[0] https://www.counterpunch.org/2016/01/29/let-them-eat-iphones...
You have a point, but it's trumped by the cruder point that when people get into the habit of hurling nasty words at each other, it leads to stupid discussion. Not from everybody, of course, but from most; the systemic effect is what dominates. That's why we don't allow that name-calling on HN (though that comment was hardly a serious instance of it).
This applies to trade in all directions.

Funny how the US has been advocating for trade while it was "winning" (read, giving worthless papers for real goods). Since now we are hitting a wall (competing economies asserting themselves, and willing to be freed from the dollar), and since the US prsident seems to disregard, or not aware, of the massive advantage that the dollar means for the US economy, a trade war has been started.

This war will either be won by the US on the short term, or the dollar will be dismissed as international currency.
Spending some time on Facebook makes it abundantly clear that identified use does not prevent people from acting like horribly.
Yeah, sounds like hand-waving to me.
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Interestingly, I wonder what the effect of you and the 2 EEs leaving was. If you had written any reasonable amount of software, that must have added an addition 6-8 months onto the 12 that they already estimated.

Possible lesson: Don't piss off the staff in an early stage startup.

Edit: spelling
Isn't there a middle way between a handshake deal and 10K on lawyers, meaning that you write down the terms in paper in a wording that sounds right to you and then sign off on it?
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You should write up a Medium article with some test results showing off the backend. You may be able to get someone to buy it before going open source.
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> Anyhow, the point of this is that by imposing tariffs on American agriculture (thus reducing Chinese demand) you stand to force this system to respond very visible ways, such as for instance by increasing the number of farmers being paid not to farm or increasing the amount of harvest that can't be marketed.

The only thing the tariff forces is Chinese companies paying it. This might in turn incentivize them to not purchase American produce which would lead to the effects you're describing. But why incentivize a company to do something if you're running the company? Can't you just tell them to do whatever it is you want them to do directly? Or are they not, in that sense, running the company?
No, that’s a mistake.
My story is rather typical. I have built something visionary that everybody liked but nobody needed.

I hated the very idea of selling something that is not finished so I never validated the product with customers. How could I explain to them how revolutionary will the product be? The only way was to show them. Like the first iPhone.

In fact, I didn't like the "talking to customers" part at all, so I focused on coding visionary product that will sell itself. Everybody liked it but nobody needed it.
Could you change to PST for one day in summer and keep PDT the rest of the year?
There are locomotives in the US powered by liquefied natural gas. The Florida East Coast railroad's 24 locomotives are all LNG. BNSF is looking into it. It's cost driven; natural gas is cheap right now.
This sounds like a story straight out of the Onion, or Dr. Strangelove. That must've been one kooky customer.
According to [1] less than 60% of the rail system is electrified in Germany.

[1] https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronik_der_Streckenelektrif...
And then they want you to sign a document or email saying that they did all they would say and just rip people off when they think, "oh an iOS app with backend for $5000".
Because the hydrogen trains are planned to run in regions with lots of wind energy — whenever there is too much electricity on the grid, just produce hydrogen from the excess energy, and use it later in trains.

It's a much better solution for handling the spikes in wind than most of the alternatives.
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> Big-corp CEOs don’t make for good startup CEOs 99% of the time.

Doesn't sound like she would make a good big-corp CEO either. Moving up a big corp is a very political battle and not a good indicator of actual competence.
F-Star [0] and Idris [1] are two great languages which give you a large variety of static analysis, and yes, provide ways to prove totality.

Idris, for instance, disallows recursion unless it can prove an argument "smaller" in the recursive call. For instance:

fib : Nat -> Nat
fib Z = Z
fib (S Z) = (S Z)
fib (S (S n)) = fib (S n) + fib n

In this case, the function pattern matches on natural numbers (Z stands for Zero and S for the one plus some other natural number). Each recursive call of `fib` has an argument which is smaller (closer to the base case), and thus this program must halt. Idris will not compile unless it can prove the program will halt. It, therefore, rejects all programs which would have halted but which it could not prove.

[0] https://www.fstar-lang.org/

[1] https://www.idris-lang.org/
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Why bother speculating about whether this is about age or skills when it’s inherently a case of judgement? There’s no way to come to a deductive conclusion. Why the confidence? Where is it coming from? Seems a lot like age bigotry to me.
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Unfortunately in the realm of machine learning, quantity does not equate quality.
Interesting, at the time you were dissuaded from going into that market could the actual TAM support your business idea or would it have been more viable later?
So what happened to the app, you sold it to somebody or just let it die?
> If you use old unix tools on a phone, it's super fast

Of course it is fast, software designed for a PDP-11 running on a pocket Cray.
It's got more credence coming out of Troy's mouth than, say, a random commenter's like mine, his somewhat bit too scathing snark notwithstanding

If a CA flogs a guarantee for very expensive certs, but fails to explain what it entails. Then bloviates about nerds on the twitter account of the CEO to then block Troy (who, once again, asked a super legitimate question) then they not only deserve all the snark slung into their general direction.

No, they deserve to fucking die!
Can we move to UTC exclusively next please? Enough with vague abbreviations only people who use them understand like EET, PST and whatnot.

"I live in UTC+2 and you live int UTC-5, meeting at 15:00UTC?" ain't that easier? I add 2 hours, you take away 5 - math a 6 year old can do.
And yet we refer to timezones with some made up meaningless words like Easter European Time - what does that even mean? It's not even accurate description as not all Eastern Europe follows it - pure madness.
Electric has some added advantages over fossil fuels; in general, it's cheaper to run off electricity than diesel. Electrics also have better maintenance requirements and better performance characteristics; if you can squeeze the margins and increase utilization of vehicles, you can actually wind up on top. https://www.greaterauckland.org.nz/2013/10/24/electric-train...
Because our culture has shifted a few hours later than 'natural' time - for the vast majority of people, midnight isn't nowhere close to the middle of your night, and noon isn't the middle of your day; we stay up long past sunset and (except in northern winters) wake up significantly after dawn.

Furthermore, this time is very "sticky" with all kinds of regulations, processes, organizational practices etc having fixed on a particular start-end time, so one does not simply live according to a natural schedule, and it's much harder to change that than the single centralized decision of the time zone.

Thus, switching to a timezone where middle of the astronomical day is 13:00 means that the people's day is better aligned with the sun.
Lack of clear leadership.

Two founders - friends. Thought we could work every decision out democratically. Didn't turn out that way - used to fight about almost everything until each of us tried to force our way. And we had enough - that kind of stuff will drain the energy out of you.
Because fuel cells provide range equivalent to diesel (600km, says the article), while these battery-powered trains can only go 40km or so between charges.
I would love to see the backend open sourced as well, as I think this is something that could be quite unique to each country. I'm in Melbourne, Australia and biking safety is a big deal here - i ride everywhere. The uniqueness of each area would lend itself well to localisation via open source. I'm at zubin.pratap at gmail - do let me know!
You underestimate several things:

- the difficulty of changing services for the technically challenged.

- Facebook's technical prowess (much different than MySpace was)

- Facebook's variety outside of a pure social network (they are a news app, craiglist/classifieds, meetup/events, Picasa 10.0/photo app, messenger, and a myspace clone, all rolled into one, with new services added all of the time). Probably missed something else.
Mailbox.org and Posteo.de are currently the best ranked privacy-focused email providers[1]. Both are based in Berlin, and are extremely low-profile. Mailbox.org supports custom domains, Posteo.de doesn't.

[1] https://dismail.de/serverlist.html
Race war will get you banned here. Ditto religious flamewar. Please keep such tropes off HN.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> Do you feel like people should be excluded because of their race? Their gender? Their age? Their sexual orientation? Their religion? Isn't that last one a choice according to a lot of people?

For private, special interest groups... certain nly! Very little on the internet is not privately owned.