skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nonsense. The only supplement vegans require is B12, but most meat eaters are deficient too. Everything else is readily available from a sensible vegan diet. Complex carbs are perfectly healthy, despite the best efforts of meat industry propagandists to confuse the issue. Meanwhile the typical meat-heavy diet is deficient in a number of important nutrients, most notably fiber.

The American Dietetics Association's official position is that vegan diets are healthy for people at all stages of life but don't that that distract you from your favorite bro science blog.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19562864
I think this is by design. andre summarizes this as pull vs push architectures. you need to be pulled in by some1. SSB is not supposed to be _yet another global room_ but open a way for many small islands.
I'm schizotypal, which is basically schizophrenia lite... pretty sure there's nothing "behavioral" about my recurring auditory hallucinations of a brass band playing nonsense music.
They also omit any reference to religion or what we would call the supernatural, both common in medical texts of the time.
New USPTO guidelines aims to restore software patents
A version of this exists: https://www.opentech.fund/funds/core-infrastructure-fund/
Great article, this is how I feel about Instagram personally:

- Great app who turned a camera phone into a powerful camera for those who couldn't afford one of those expensive Canon/other brands of good cameras.

- Democratizing photography made phone vendors spend more time build better camera, we're at a point where cameras on certain phones are as a good as stand-alone cameras for photography.

- Filters have been around forever but with filters in instagram a whole generation became addicted to what they're able to do - turn a simple picture in a more interesting picture. To the point where people had to start create the #nofilter hashtag. Snapchat took the filters to the next level or rather the next iteration and also made itself a name because of them.

- Instagram also has it's darkness too: some people say you can get depressed if you browse instagram too much, seeing all those happy pictures of delicious food, beautiful looking humans, cars, paradise-like places, etc.
It sounds crazy right? :shrugemojigoeshere:

Short aside: Friends of friends who used to work in the same building with the founders of Instagram told me that on the night of their launch they stayed up till the early morning hours to fix their server issues because their initial instagram app was such a success! Honestly, you can't get more real than that - almost like a movie!

Thanks instagram co-founders for your creativity throughout the years: Although copying most of Snapchat's features wasn't a great move, it was a business decision that worked really well for your userbase..I can smell that being a very Facebook thing to do. I remember Snapchat turning down $3B acquisition offer, I guess that move really showed how much FB wanted Snapchat's features.

Back to Instagram - were the co-founders good businessman? I don't know, instagram pre-acquisition was very cool and ad-free. Now it's ad-ridden and almost an annoyance.
Every 3rd post/video/story has ads on it. Blocking those ads is a pain (I still haven't found a universal workaround since ad-blocking doesn't work as well). Another reason why I don't use FB's app.

You can smell the FB influence on Instagram far 10 miles, I would also feel sad to see my own creation being taken over by a bunch of product managers who come from the company who acquired my app because they need to "ad-ify all the things".

Finally, I think instagram is the only app I use on the daily, every single day (more than Uber/Lyft, more than Spotify and as much as Twitter but not as much as Chrome) ! Hope they can find something cool they're passionate about and build the "next" Instagram, even if it's not a camera-app!
why not cut out the middle man and just say those companies suck, and the cloud isn't going to fix it for you.
Ask HN: Ethical to I work on my own projects at work
Technically I am a software developer and that is my role at the company, but we actually literally have no software work since the focus is on our hardware implementation. So most of my day is making WordPress updates or working on the CRM. Alot of downtime. Beside legality over intellect property on my projects working on company computers (don't think my employers will ever find out), should I work on my own stuff? Preventing brain drain? Isn't that what Einstein did at the Patent office?
It was important, but ultimately so depressing that it turned me off to the series.
podcastphile people new to the concept of ssb might find this episode interesting: https://stealthisshow.com/s04e04/
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The 'floating' backpack
Core Infrastructure Fund
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I'm looking for a device which can support a REPL for some reasonably pleasant programming language and has a very long battery life. I'd like to work on Project Euler problems with it.

If, for instance, an Alphasmart word processor could run a Scheme REPL and still run for 30+ hours on a set of batteries, I'd be delighted.

I own a PocketCHIP and can run the OCaml toplevel on it. This is very nice, but the battery life is only around five hours and the keyboard is not terribly usable.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AlphaSmart

https://hackaday.com/2018/04/03/is-this-the-end-for-the-c-h-i-p/

http://m5stack.com/
Is there a table of contents anywhere?
This is a good point that I address in a talk (that hasn't yet been published on YouTube), but to summarize: ideally we want SSB to be a decentralized invite-only networks, so that someone has to pull you into their social circles, or you pull in others into yours. It has upsides and downsides, but we think it more naturally corresponds to relationships outside tech.

Manyverse is the first SSB app that implements DHT invites: https://gitlab.com/staltz/ssb-dht-invite and the plan is to make it easier for anyone to invite anyone else, so that we rely less on a single "cluster". We want to get to the point where there are isolated islands of SSB networks.

But the point you seem to be talking about is also discovery, e.g. something like a "search" feature for friends. We don't have any idea in mind for that, and we also question whether that's necessary at all, specially as we seek to bring this app to countries with limited or no internet access.
Hey, Hacker News! My name is Jeff and I’m one of the co-founders of the company behind Sniped. Happy to answer any questions.

We were inspired by the “12 Startups in 12 Months” movement, so we wanted to ship something before the month ended. We built this app as a light-weight and fun way to keep track of unlocked laptops which we constantly saw at our workplaces.

The current stack is pretty standard: Gitlab CI to GKE via Helm, Ruby on Rails, Redis, Postgres, and an EFK logging pipeline. We’re planning on re-using this setup for our next set of apps and will write a blog post on our development strategies for velocity.
> AWS is more, quite a bit more, than just buying/building the machine and plugging it in.

Last time I looked, for mid-range AWS instances, purchase price was about 6-12 months of the rent. That’s assuming you buy comparable servers, i.e. Xeon, ECC RAM, etc…

For GPGPU servers however, purchase price is only 1-2 months of Amazon rent. Huge difference, despite 1080Ti is very comparable to P100, 1080Ti is slightly faster (10.6 TFlops versus 9.3), P100 has slightly more VRAM (12/16GB versus 11).
You are free, but won't necessarily do it. At a previous company, 90%+ of the code I wrote was (A/L)GPL licensed, yet we sold it (to companies) and our clients never redistributed it. The only code available publicly was the one we purposefully shared.

This probably wouldn't work in many cases (particularly consumer software), but a trucking company or a clothes manufacturer has no interest in becoming a software distributor. They just like not being locked-in to us.
Innovation being sidelined in favor of status quo and 'cover-my-ass' risk management highlights exactly the reason I won't work for a bureaucratic corporation...
> Are there instances where the thesis that “folks who outsource the business side to the acquirer” stay?

Hsieh? I mean, I don't know too much about the inner workings of Zappos but I find it hard to believe that the FB->IG relationship is significantly different from the Amazon->Zappos one.

Then again maybe he's just the exception that proves the rule.
Your comment violates HN's guidelines and I suppose code of conduct if there is one.
Unless you have adversaries personally attacking you, your main threat is automated malware. In that case, I think that it's vastly more likely that said malware would target super-popular and totally-insecure software like the Chrome password manager, rather than something not very popular and quite secure like KeePassXC.

I personally recommend Bitwarden as a good compromise between security and usability. It's totally open source, so you can run the API and webservice on your own hardware if you want.
A bit more than half of bankruptcies are medical. And you're forgetting that someone can declare bankruptcy multiple times in their life. But yes, it's a savage system.
>>I mean technically Jesus is a human embodiment of God (according to the Council of Nicaea) so he is both himself and his Son.

I'll just assume it was my pronouns that got ya on this one. God is Jesus. God is God (or Father God, or Allah, or I Am, or whatever your preferred term for the overbeing is) "he(God) is both himself (Father God) and his son (Jesus)"

It's exactly what I said above.
Isn’t most of soya and corn produced used for feeding cattle to produce meat anyway? Is there some comparison on amount of soya needed if everyone on earth goes vegan vs soya consumed by meat industry?
This is a much more comprehensive evaluation than the back-of-envelope calculations we typically make when told we should/must use "the cloud" for such things. Those come out expensive, even for things you could run -- not the sort of materials science computation that comprises much of the load on typical academic HPC systems -- but not normally this expensive.
The advertising and media giant, Dentsu, seems to be pretty good at retaining original founders.

https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/companies/how-dentsu-re...
It applies to everyone. This idea that conservatives are uniquely penalized is a fantasy. In fact, if anything they're uniquely not penalized. The media will still interview people who voted for Trump and listen to them.

Not once on any national television publication (or major news paper) that I've found have we seen, "Ask a Communist or Anarchist how they feel about all this."

And most major publications refuse to acknowledge (or only periodically acknowledge) the global and constant destruction of LGBT people that's that going on across half the world, except to occasionally use it as a rhetorical club to promote their racially motivated dislike of folks with dark skin by cloaking it in the veil of islamophobia.

> If the Eich ordeal is instructive of anything, it's that culturally, we are no longer mature enough to handle any discontent and that meaningful political activity must go back underground.

Yeah, boy, it must have been rough for him. Forced to publicly own and defend his political decisions that created a second class of lesser citizens based on his religious preferences, using company political contributions that his employees overwhelmingly decried.

If you think it's fine for him to spend money making gay people into second class citizens, then you cannot deny other citizens the right to try and make other classes of citizens second class. This is the "meaningful" political activity you just cited. It's your reaction not equally immature?
> Look at all the wealthy people you know, almost all will have earned their wealth from a single source. They tend to diversify later on in life.

I think this might be reflective of "the bubble". I live in a pretty rural area, and all of the wealthy people I know got there by either being successful in a family business - usually livestock - or by diversifying once they got to ~$150k / year in 2018 money. Most of them have several rental properties and either a small business of their own or have invested in multiple small businesses in the area.
The industrial revolution would never have happened if not for the revolution in finance that preceded it.
Well, in part because the maximum usable frequency of the ionosphere tops out around 30-60 MHz?
I tried to switch to Firefox lately after this new speedy version had been released.
I really underestimated how good Chromium is.
Basic stuff, like in page search(Ctrl+F) is awful after Chromium experience. Resistance to copying omni-bar is silly.
Crashes every day. The UX is bad compared to Chromium.
Spent month dealing with it and just abandoned this endeavor.
Really sad, i want Firefox to be better.
Adding more details:

I have a family and kids. I am the single income earner in the family.

* Both have opportunities to grow into management although with A it feels much more possible due to their size

* Both give unlimited vacation

* Both are located fairly close to each other so commute will be the same

* Both pay for bus passes

* Both have 401K but no matching, yet

* Startup A is much smaller 11-50

* Startup B is 300+
Mummy of paraplegic child shows how Peru’s Nasca culture treated disability
Quantum mechanics may possibly be a case of observing determinism but we assume randomness by our current technology. Everything else observable has been fitting the deterministic modal. If a random variable were to be added to a person's mind as metaphorically similar to quantum mechanics, it would result in factoring into the future events of the person and similar to all the other variables & events a person experiences.
I always use Google for programming searches. It feels like I get much more relevant results than I do from DDG.
What type is that? Genuine question, as I’m in healthcare in a country far away.
'Fake News' Is Sparking an AI Arms Race
Yes but this article is about grazing livestock, not soya/corn fed livestock.
This is awesome, thanks for sharing. I love the use of markdown, emojis, code format and auto-embed from web sources!
So I'll just buy one ski then. That way I get double the problems for only half the cost savings!
I once had to sign a document saying I listened to an instructional safety video.

I was required to view that video on the company-provided machine.

That machine did not allow sound output.

So I viewed the 2 minute video which only showed section headings fading into each other every 20 seconds and dutifully signed the document.

According to my colleagues, this was the expected and accepted behavior.
It's not their pockets. We need to ditch this notion that marketing/business people provide our salary.
Preventing data exfiltration by creating a ton of indistinguishable fakes
It's awesome for emails containing snippets of code, code with syntax highlighting being my use case.

And for formatting in general, the resulting email (composed in MailMate) will be very friendly to clients that prefer to display emails as plain text, since the text version is going to be very clean.

There's also a browser extension working with GMail's web interface too, but it doesn't work as well as MailMate: https://markdown-here.com/
"Let's not go to the moon, I have heard that it's really really hard." -JFK
I would summarize it rather: a good product can yield a large network but only when combined with a good monetization/business plan can it be a successful business.
This is a sobering look at what it takes to build a business vs a product (vs, even smaller scale, a feature).

You have to be willing to put in the long hours (err, years) and the schlepping to do all the business-y stuff:

* distribution

* monetization

* back end systems for admin users

* sales channels

etc, etc

Or, you can cash out and assimilate, err integrate, with a larger company that has done that hard work and lose control of your destiny. That's OK, most of us don't have full control of our destiny, and building product can be more fun. It's just a choice you should make with your eyes wide open.

I will say that I think he dismisses Snapchat's founders too quickly. Yes, they've been struggling, but they are trying to build a business rather than just integrate with an existing conglomerate.

It will be very interesting to see if Systrom et al can build another product, and if so, if they will try to build a business as well.
This exactly. I've been very clear to my wife I don't want that at all.
It seems that vegans have no problem shifting their consumption of food to a part of the biota that they feel doesn’t have the capacity to understand what is happening to them or to feel or respond to the pain of the process of being harvested for our food.

I often wonder how the plant feels when the sharp cow hoof shears a leaf or stalk as it grazes. Does it mourn the loss of the immature seed heads that fall to the ground to be consumed by the waiting insect hordes or buried forever in the soil to be consumed by the soil microbes? A generation lost to a random grazer who was totally unappreciative of the effort that the plant expended sucking nutrients from soil and carefully metering out available water all the while competing with each of its anchored neighbors for vital sunlight.

As the horse grazes the pasture do the bunches of grass shout pain filled warnings to their neighbors as they are forcefully yanked from the ground by their roots and consumed whole to be digested and deposited some time later as a turd that will feed their fellow grasses? Oh the indignity of losing your closest kin to a ruminant who deposits their crushed, altered remains on your shimmering blades so that they can feed you and your surviving kinsmen. By their deaths do you so prosper.

Does the plant yearn for mobility so that it could exact some revenge upon the aggressors? Is kudzu the plant kingdom equivalent of a super-hero – taking land that humans value for farming and agriculture out of production? Do insects pass on to their plant hosts the bold tales of the lands currently under conquest by invasive plant species? Is there something in the vibrational frequencies of the bee and insect wings that conveys information to the plants about how the plants in the next field are faring? Are they suffering from lack of water on that sunny slope? Are you lucky to be growing here on the shady side of the ridge because your cousins on the other side are spindly and dry? Is the farmer currently murdering your fibrous friends with their machines that foul the air and compress the soil so that extra work is necessary before life-giving roots can once again permeate its matrix?

Does the elm or the hackberry tree feel indebted to the birds who eat their seeds and shit them out along my fence lines so that I have new bird-shit elms and hackberries to clear each year, like magic?

Were the oaks disappointed to see the jays stealing their acorns to be deposited miles away from the mother tree thus reforesting the plains on retreat of the glaciers after the last ice age or did they somehow communicate to the birds that it would be appreciated?

I think the answer to the old question about whether a tree falling in a forest makes a sound if there are no ears to hear it has to be a resounding yes. It is the chemical scream of an injured plant crying out for another opportunity at life as it crashes to the forest floor. As humans, we don’t have ears to hear these screams and have only recently documented their existence [0]. Much remains to be studied.

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/13/science/plant-defenses.ht...
Sheryl Sandberg, a really good sales team, and a bunch of shit-hot engineers in ads built IG, the business.

Zuckerberg tends to avoid monetisation, leaving that to Sales (i.e. Sheryl) and Ads.
IF they're smart, they'll just change the estimate to 5 more months and get it done in 10 years.
Ben Thomson is one of the best folks writing about the business of tech. Such lucid writing and even someone who's fairly early on in their careers will be able to understand what's going on.
Do not forget good ol' Sequoia View (Windows) :

http://www.win.tue.nl/sequoiaview/
Microsoft and Shell build A.I. into gas stations to help spot smokers
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No, I think that's an American conservative misinterpretation on the level of "because they hate freedom".

You take a mocking admission of own irrationality and turn it into a desire to control everyone. Certain instances of the former may turn into some form of the latter (environmental laws, let's say), but they are not the same, and your interpretation is as malicious as it gets.
Still pre-determination if you have a system that is deterministic but influenced from an outside force and the outside force executing the alterations is not in the system being influenced.
Hah - I now see that the main discussion is over here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18064537

Oh well, never mind.
H1-B is modern day slavery.
That just feels like Stallman-esque "lifestyleism". It's okay to be critical of a system while living in and part of it.
It depends. Do you still need product geniuses when you have distribution and monetization nailed?
How has it been this long and no one pointed out the obvious joke here:

Chrome 69 - Fucking users right in the face
This issue is from 2016...
Lol. That at least requires docked installed! And you have to know that magic line!
Spotify helps marketers target people according to their emotions
I find it amusing that you call out OP for not providing a citation but then list a bunch of examples of things many people eat also without citation!
Apple's New Privacy Policy Updates: What You Need to Know
A poka-yoke in real life is like those games for kids where they have to place squares with squares and triangles with triangles.
> Basically their own Ballmer era is what Google is entering.

It was not just Ballmer. When Gates was in charge, the technology was never the priority. Gates understands the tech, but MS never worked trough technology towards their goals. They used their monopoly power and bought tech, almost never build it.

MS products started to gradually improve after Gates stopped being the chief technology officer of the company.
The way I see it is this: Suffering matters, and options to rid yourself of suffering should exist, including dying.

Dying wouldn't be the first course of action for most doctors (and it'd be doctors that would need to document). It is kind of like being in physical pain: You might think death is better right now, but when you heal a bit, you would rather not die, thank-you-very-much.

But for some folks, that healing doesn't really happen. Some folks go for years suffering and/or wanting to die. Same with physical pain. And if you've tried the cures available and have suffered, why wouldn't this be an option for folks? The same with any major, persistent mental illness honestly. Or any major illness that causes grief, pain, and/or disability. It isn't replacing mental health treatment, but it is adding another tool that replaces suicide that is hidden away. And honestly, I'm guessing it would give a few folks a light at the end of the tunnel. "If treatments don't work, I can eventually die painlessly if I choose".

You can have death available for non-critical patients alongside standards for getting such a thing.
New York City Releases Open Data for All (Open Data Plan Annual Report) [pdf]
How Angel Investors and Angel Groups Work
High voltage lines have been demonstrated to harm plant life. With a few different proposed methods of action, IMO the most interesting is extracting pollution from the air the same way ionic air purifier‘s work.

This will sometimes show up as significantly lower plant growth under them which reasonably makes people nervous.
Now fix housing.