skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I still don't get why reporters or publications seem to refuse to link to the most obvious and central key piece of material to an article.

Article on a new law being passed... no link to the raw text of the law. Article about a new scientific study that has come out... ofcourse, no link to the study. Famous person issues a statement or makes a speech... sure, we'll give you a few quotes but no link to the full text.

It's like, come on!
Pathetic, disgusting.
> VCs aren't willing to consider a $XX MM market, only a $XXXX MM market.

You're missing the point again. VCs can't consider an $XX MM market because if they did then they wouldn't be practicing Venture Capital. Again, it's a very specific type of investing which is seeking very specific type of risks and returns.

What you're saying is the equivalent of saying: "I have a basketball team and none of these football players want to join me". Yes they're athletes, and they might even make good basketball players...but they're football players for a reason - they want to play football.
Hi, one of the authors here.
We created this library to help developers on our product ease into the Redux ecosystem. One of the main challenges we faced is that our application has many entry points where we need to create a new Redux store, so it was important for us to devise a way to easily import and re-use common state, reducers, and sagas.

Let us know if you have any questions!
What? Abstract thought had been valuable for a very long time. People and companies have been gaining a competitive advantage from abstract ideas pretty much from the dawn of time.

In this particular case the issue is regarding the control of a virtual currency, where its power (as with any other currency) depends on its scarcity. Not much new here either, what they've been doing is very similar to counterfeit printing of bank notes.
> As a US citizen, I can honestly say that I have never experienced more unprofessional, rude, and outright hostile border control experiences than some of the ones I've experienced when reentering the US

Everyone in the world says this about their own border agents! People always seem to be most critical of their own.
AWS announced managed databases for Lightsail
The customer always pays, as all the manufacturers money comes from customers.
Same reasoning can be applied to Magically Better Administrators
Why not the banks who are giving out the risky loans? They know a degree in underwater basket weaving isn't going to pay off a $100k loan. In most other circumstances a bank does a risk analysis. And it isn't like they don't know what degree the borrower is pursuing.

While the banks are giving money the universities are incentivized (because they are profit seeking) to increase prices and provide overpriced degrees.
Google and even Facebook have had this for quite some time. So nothing new here - it's a GDPR requirement.
How normal is it to freeze someone's assets so they can just barely pay their daily expenses? It seems like it hinders you from paying a lawyer to protect yourself.

I can see if someone is suspected of being an organised criminal, such that everything he has is derived from crime. Then maybe.

But generally it sounds open to abuse. If you can just get a court to freeze the guy, then whatever your beef is you have a good chance of winning.
Material-UI is by far the most complete of the frameworks in my opinion having used a bunch of them, and constantly updated. It's a joy to work with.
New York on Tech is helping under-resourced students become future tech leaders
It's telling that the first people in history to get wages were slaves who rented themselves out when their master had nothing for them to do. Maybe they feel like slaves to the system because they are.
But then we cannot use buzzwords...
What is the difference in your mind between someone who is really good at the game vs someone who is cheating? At the end of the day, my displeasure comes from being beaten, so morally speaking I don't see a difference.

Does Fortnite not have a ranking system? Why are people who are extremely good at the game (or cheaters) being exposed to new players?
$0. Like most people here, I have a relatively well-paying engineering job.

I have several members of my family which are different degrees of fucked though. Teaching and counseling were never paths to riches, but in our current situation, they are paths to poverty.
The youtube channel PBS Spacetime has some really great videos about how black holes work, I would start with this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNaEBbFbvcY
Anti-Tax Fervor Closed Their Libraries. Now Residents Are Trying to Go It Alone
How would you ever observe black hole to grow/accreate matter then?
There are certainly mortgages which only require the payment of the interest, rather than the principal:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interest-only_loan

But even with interest-only mortgages you don't pay indefinitely - either a) you switch to paying down the principal after a specific number of years or b) the loan-balance becomes due.
I agree that Apple is a support of privacy. But this by itself I don’t think indicates anything. Especially since Google and Facebook already have the same thing and they are definitely not supporters of privacy.
That EC2 instance is going to need whitelisting and constant vigilance that you're not sending commercial email or they'll block that port too. What prevents me from deploying a few hundred Helms to send spam?
Would this be one way that information would not be destroyed, at least from the reference frame of the outside observer?
Cheat tables were removed from the cheat engine forums because Bethesda et al sent them a threatening letter claiming similar things to what Nintendo claimed in that case. I doubt that they could have actually won a case, but most don't have lawyers on retainer and so essentially the game companies shut them down with the threat of legal action. It's a ridiculous claim, but game companies that want to sell things in game see it as a hindrance to further monetizing their customers I guess.
> Google, Microsoft and even Facebook have had this for quite some time.

Deployed and available outside the EU, and more specifically in the US?
What three books? (Especially interested in data transfer protocols - I got a little bit into it for game development, but never found anything resembling a good source).

I learned a lot of these things from taking Harvard's CS50 online, reading the blog posts I linked (and doing problems), and I would imagine this book (https://bigmachine.io/products/the-imposters-handbook/) would help out - a friend recommended it, but I never got around to it.

https://www.amazon.com/Code-Language-Computer-Hardware-Softw...

^Covers logic gates and the basics of how a computer is built to an incredible degree, but it's VERY time intensive. Still, I really recommend it.
I’d say “follow your passion” means do a job you don’t mind doing.
Works for me too (EU)
In the old days you saved up an extraordinary amount of money, bought a Commodore 64, plugged it in, and then had absolutely no idea what to do unless you had books.

So you went and got books or magazines, some maybe from the library, some from bookstores, and many of them might be for systems other than the C64. It wasn't uncommon for a magazine to have to cater to a dozen slightly different versions of BASIC: Apple ][, Atari, BBC Micro, PET, Sinclair, TI, Tandy, VIC-20 and more. I remember finding all sorts of interesting programs in magazines that weren't for the computer I had, so they were basically useless.

This was because a lot of BASIC code that did anything useful consisted of PEEK/POKE calls to manipulate memory, and as the memory layout of each computer was often completely different. Having a book about the Altair was of no help when trying to program anything but an Altair.

Even if you did get a book that had the right code, for the right hardware, typing it in was frustrating because the computer didn't ship with anything that resembled an editor. You just typed in line numbers and statements and hoped it all worked out. You could LIST your code, but unless you organized it well, you'd get lost quickly. Anything over a hundred lines became an unmaintainable mess of garbage.

So yeah, you could program, but you could only program in BASIC, and that language is one of the absolute worst. There's been joke languages that are more pleasant to use and more educational.

Today there's JavaScript and it works roughly the same everywhere, is thoroughly documented for free, and there's places to ask about coding that simply didn't exist when the C64 launched.

Going back is a mistake. Programming back then was a nightmare, it was an awful, discouraging experience, and I wouldn't wish it on anyone.

Presumably a lot of the golden-hued nostalgia here comes from the fact that you could program a computer, something that at the time was a relative impossibility for most people. That by typing in code you could make the computer Do Things, which can be thrilling.

The thing is today you have things like Arduino, the Pi, and others, where you can not only program them in sensible programming languages inside of civilized build environments, but you can make them interact with hardware in ways that really weren't possible on the C64.

For that sort of thrill, give someone a Feather board they can program with Micropython.
I started college (Comp E) and didn't finish and I, can vouch for the fact that the classes I didn't take would have taught me nearly everything on your list (aside from the last 2).
Under Obama, the DoE started in that direction with it's rating system which covered more dimensions but only at an institution rather than individual major level.

The present administration seems to be more interested in rolling back rather than building on the Obama-era accountability efforts, though.
Python seems like a nice update to what BASIC was in the 8-bit era. Real-time interpreter so you get instant feedback, including very simple imperative syntax. (IMO any introductory programming environment that doesn't let you do something like 10 PRINT BUTTS <RET> 20 GOTO 10 <RET> and get BUTTS BUTTS BUTTS... out of it is a failure to launch.)

But unlike BASIC, Python will grow with you and you can use it for non-trivial projects without fighting with the language. I certainly wish my old Apple II had Python; it would have prevented the immense jump to a "real" programming language, because I kept trying to go from AppleSoft BASIC to C and banging my head into a wall, nothing about it made any sense. (Perhaps I would have had better luck going from BASIC to Pascal or QBasic, but for some reason I never thought to try it. I think because the very few computer-literate adults I knew were minicomputer people and led me to believe that C was the only thing worth learning.)

Not that working up from a text prompt is the only way to learn how to interact with computers, certainly. I know a fair number of people who learned to program due to environments like HyperCard, which are much more visual, and let you start with the art and storytelling and then glue things together with code, rather than start from the code.

But for some people, including myself, the feeling of interacting directly with a computer via a simple prompt, and making it do things each time I pressed the Return key, was quite powerful.
They do offer a free API but it is nowhere near as full-featured as WU. They have many tens of thousands fewer weather stations that report current conditions, for example. The variables returned are fewer when it comes to conditions and forecasts. Additionally, depending on your pay tier, WU had all kinds of historical info + specialized weather forecasts that NWS/NOAA does not offer. Even metrics like UV are rarely in NWS API products but could be expected from WU.

WU was also global, while NWS is US-only.

I love the NWS API btw. It's just nowhere near what the WU API was in terms of the promised data returned from API calls. NWS API has always been far superior when it comes to uptime!
For those interested in hearing more about TI calculators and hacking on them, this episode of the Embedded.fm podcast was really fun, and there are a couple interesting links in the show notes: https://www.embedded.fm/episodes/259.
Betfair is the biggest one.
> This makes me think even more that Apple is really a supporter of privacy and a good actor.

That's the point... this is a publicity stunt. Corporations don't have feelings, and the board that drives the company is primarily concerned with company health and growth above all other things. Leadership may, however, set a strategy that capitalizes on recent public scrutiny of user privacy concerns to push the narrative that will sell more iDevices. Humanizing corporations is a dangerous game, because it plays right into their hand. Don't let them fool you into it.
I've tried and failed going back school enough times to know it doesn't work for me. Certification courses & clinics have proven worthwhile in the past though.
I think I see at least one woman in 3 of the 6 photos, unless you had a higher ratio in mind to be considered mixed gender.
If only the market was as simple as this. The reason as with many things lies with the fact that when an industry has a small number of large employers, they can conspire to cap wages fairly easily without ever actually speaking to each other, and indeed it probably happens without any illegal conspiracy, just them banking on each other to not undercut.
The Future of Sex Robots and Relationships
Two things. You're making some assumptions that are problematic.

1. That this is wrong under Australian law, or somehow irregular. You not liking it, or having a knee jerk reaction is not the same as an actual moral judgement.

2. That courts generally have no recourse this sort of behavior. Lots of people have tried this sort of gambit, ditching assets and whatnot to avoid paying judgement. And everyone seems to think it's an original idea or that the courts can't nail your nuts to a wall for doing it.

Furthermore:

3. It is beyond trivial for them to determine that you took the money out of a bank. And then demand to know where it's at. And then demand that you recover it. And then also punish you criminally for that criminal conduct.

4. Every lawyer everywhere beats their heads against their desk every time one of their brain trust clients do something so egregiously stupid as what you're imagining.
This looks interesting, but seems like their email server requires port 25, or some email relay (which is expected since everything is run locally).

Also, it is not clear how it works without a static IP from my ISP.

https://cloudron.io/documentation/email/
I think the beauty comes out when referring to the problems the algos solve:

a. Solving the nut/bolt matching programming challenge with Merge sort.

b. Backtracking e.g. finding the ordered pair of braces

c. Not to mention the various tree/ graph walk problems

d. I screwed my Google interview last round not knowing the problem could be easily solved topological sort
What major/minor did you get? What type of work do you do now?
(I'm still envious you can get a degree and hold down a job. I believe I have enough intelligence to learn a lot at a school, but I have a tough time concentrating and dealing with topics past a certain level of abstraction. So I could never finish past the first year and the usual 101 courses.)
Google Takeout has been available for years: https://takeout.google.com/settings/takeout?pli=1
Also because every city gets to set their own consumption bylaws, many people who rent have nowhere to legally smoke it. eg: Calgary - public smoking is banned. You're allowed to smoke it in your own house. Except most rental companies have banned smoking on rental property (inside or outside). So the only way to smoke legally could get you evicted.
Hollywood accounting semantics
Yes (at least for Google and Facebook)? I think the types of content differ between regions (EU includes some legally mandated data in addition to the standard set) but user created content is definitely available for download in all regions.
DM me your resume ;-)
It's his strategy from the beginning: Fill the news with lots of inconsequential dumb things to set the bar really low, then claim success if some of the things he does is not a total disaster.
This seems incredibly hard to shake. Whenever the discussion of affording college comes up I bring up the affordable schools I know of, which I count as anything with less than $10k of tuition and fees a year. The response is usually that you will never get a good job if you attend one of those schools. It's as if somewhere it gets into peoples minds that if you don't spend $40k on tuition a year then your education was worthless.
"Always Be Leaving" ~ Jeff Thull

I'm a big fan of Jeff Thull's approach to sales, as laid out in his books Mastering The Complex Sale, Exceptional Selling, and The Prime Solution. It really goes against the grain of the old school "grab 'em by the throat and don't let go until they buy" mentality. He rejects the kind of stuff you might associate with the sales guys in "Glengarry Glenn Ross" and advocates a much more respectful and honest approach, where the goal is to serve a role closer to that of a doctor or a private detective, than the stereotypical "used car salesman" type.

I couldn't do it justice trying to explain it here, but if this all sounds interesting, I really recommend reading at least Mastering The Complex Sale to get the idea straight from the source.

I also recommend reading How To Measure Anything by Douglas Hubbard. It has nothing to do with sales, at least on the surface. But in terms of understanding customer problems, I think the approach Hubbard espouses can be tremendously useful at a certain point in the process. And I think it can tie back to Thull's idea that if you work closely with the customer to actually jointly develop a solution and explain the value it creates, then there won't be any of the typical "closing" issues, since there won't be any question about the value of the solution.
Me too, but I imagine a tsunami of 4head spam.
Please share the 3 books that taught you everything on this list. Not being sarcastic, I would love to have them.
Take 100 calls with in-bound leads. I hated it at first but over time got the hang of it. That initial customer feedback is essential. So this is not something you can outsource, you just need to bite the bullet and do it yourself.

One the plus side you'll close more deals because of your status as a founder. It makes customers feel confident that any issues they have will be addressed. So you have it easier than an AE which will pick this up after you.

I also like standardizing a few things:
- customer intake doc (which questions to ask). really a lot of the sales process is listening to the customer and capturing their problem
- explainer presentation. just some slides that you can send after the call.
- setup hubspot, clearbit, fullcontact to make sure you know who your inbound leads are

I also enjoy reading SaaStr, most of the advice is for a bit later stage though. IE how to build your sales team.
Ask HN: What are some of the dark sides of being in the tech industry?
Pays well and everything but what are the things that make you dislike the industry.
I don’t think that counts, Rocket Internet is not a traditional incubator or accelerator like YC, but rather a creator of companies.
There's a vicious cycle to Community College that I don't think can be readily overcome. Essentially boiling down to network effects. It can't be overstated how much you gimp your career (and to a lesser extent life) by isolating yourself from top performers. From who you're eating lunch with, to the research presentations you can sit in on, to the companies that come in person to recruit; there are huge advantages to going to a top university that are tough to put a dollar amount to. Telling high performers "I guess you're too poor to benefit from these resources" seems to be counter productive (both to them and to the rest of society that could benefit from exposure to their ideas).
Getting educated should not be a business decision, because there is a higher purpose to education.
The results are very different by market cap though. Half of the value on the list came from 2009 alone (Stripe and Airbnb). (Obviously it takes a while to become a unicorn.) Here's the sum of the unicorn market caps by year:

2005	1b
2006	(none)
2007	11
2008	5
2009	50
2010	2
2011	(none)
2012	10
2013	6
2014	16
2015	1
2016	1
2017	1
>... diagnosing an infectious disease is pretty useless on it's own.

I don't think that was what was being measured.

The evaluation was a comparison of:

>...MYCIN's choice of antimicrobials with the choices of nine human prescribers for ten test cases of meningitis.

In that evaluation:

>...MYCIN received an acceptability rating of 65% by the evaluators; the corresponding ratings for acceptability of the regimen prescribed by the five faculty specialists ranged from 42.5% to 62.5%.

The fact that the acceptability ratings of the five faculty specialists ranged from 42.5% to 62.5% implies that this isn't a trivial problem.
I think you are selling kids/newly hatched geeks short. They have also been raised on google and youtube - both places they can find out how to do nearly anything related to programming and game dev. I would have done anything to get access to that info when I was 11 and trying to figure out how to make sega genesis games!
This would just get them in even more legal trouble.
It's also fast and it can be made to run in deterministic time. Plus the C API is something I can actually read and understand, which is true of none of the other scripting languages I've used(Python, Perl, et. al.).
You might find your next home on Amazon
Maybe its
+ a placebo since already stored in storage system
+ ability to see an outage maybe dropped in the filters cause it was assumed its not user-facing and so assumed lesser severity
+ assurance incase storage failed due to server-storage network unreachable
Probably SEO. They don't want the other page rank higher in Google than their article, so they don't pass link juice.
You have one mouth and two ears. Use them in proportion.
It isn't really a conflict. The board exists to protect the shareholders' value in the business, and Mark Zuckerberg is the biggest shareholder (by far). It doesn't usually happen in other industries because it is rare for the biggest owner to be in operating control of the business.
> They have created over 28,000 jobs.

I always get a kick out of the 'created jobs' meme. It is always bandied about in such a positive way. As if you took people out of work and employed them.

The truth is you also need a number that reflect the amount of people that were put out of work or disadvantaged by a startup. And the people who worked for startups (to a lesser degree) that would have gotten a job somewhere else.

What is really sad for young people I think is this perception that the road is paved with gold for anyone in the startup business. Sure they know most don't succeed in the same way that they know it's hard to play major league sports or be a music or movie star. But I really don't know if they fully understand how much of a long shot it really is.

YC celebrating this is fine it's what I would do from a marketing and PR angle. But the truth is they are in the business of getting as many people involved in startups that they can because it benefits them greatly.

This is not sour grapes either. I make money off of all of these startups directly (in a pick axe kind of way). It has been great for sure but it also takes advantage of the hopes and dreams of a generation who think the only thing you can do is 'do a startup by going to an accelerator and raising angel and vc funds'. That is most certainly not the case.
I guess you could put up any old PC (or laptop) to run VICE[0], if you automate the booting (you can use DOS or Linux as "base" OS) you will be greeted by the:

“COMMODORE 64 BASIC V2”

[0] http://vice-emu.sourceforge.net/