skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There needs to be disruption in the whole Education System.

It's a shame in this day and age you still have to pay a fortune for accreditation through traditional channels and can't really pursue it through an Online Education at a greatly reduced cost.

I suppose AI will make it all irrelevant in the next 20 years or so anyway.
> everyone conveniently forgetting the insanity of their staging environment setup.

Same as in the famous "erased the production database" reddit thread, many companies prefer to shift the blame to the individual, failing to see their own faults.

Anyway, that's a pretty good story to tell.
I liked patio11's video training:

https://www.kalzumeus.com/2013/04/24/marketing-for-people-wh...

https://training.kalzumeus.com/
Did you build your archive from Usenet, or through spidering DejaNews/Google groups?
Would definitely suggest checking out these series of videos from a16z: https://a16z.com/2018/09/02/sales-startups-technical-founder...

They're bite-sized sales videos from a partner over there, I found a lot of value out of them.

For a sales strategy and organizational perspective, "Predictable Revenue" is a useful book.

The hardest thing for me to get right was empathizing with my prospects and their challenges. Putting yourselves into their day-to-day problems can be incredibly difficult to do correctly, but improving that skill really helped me in all aspects of the sales process.
Coming from a (primarily Windows) desktop development background, I can definitely tell you that JS/HTML/CSS and the DOM is some of the most complex, over-engineered stuff to ever see the light of day. It seems simple, but that's because it was simple initially, and now it's grown into this monster that has very little design at all and is just piles and piles of APIs and code added on top of other APIs and code.

Desktop development is blessedly simple, in contrast. The problem is that desktop development APIs and UI toolkits have been neglected for many years in favor of web and mobile, so now desktop development is also a fractured mess because much of it is outdated or hasn't kept up with current graphic design and UI standards. But, at its core, desktop development doesn't struggle with oddball concepts like promises and other bizarre features that were introduced to overcome issues with the overall design of the language/environment.
curious to see if this moves the stock
> I have been sent to the back of the queue to tick boxes on forms correctly by U.S. customs/border jobsworths and wondered why the experience has to be so patronisingly humiliating.

Because that's one way that police forces make it clear to you who is in charge.

Also, because you have no recourse against people wielding absolute power over you.
I have a number of connections I need to maintain - e.g. have reopened automatically - and I've been using Secure Pipes on Mac for a couple months now, very happy with it.

https://www.opoet.com/pyro/
No. I also don't consent website tracking detailed information about my device when I visit a webpage, but that happens as long as I on internet.
Eugenics is bunk and low information voters are still entitled to their representation and votes.
The decision to develop the first GNOME phone while also developing a hacker-friendly privacy-respecting physical device is going to be the death of this project.

I don't understand why they didn't just focus on the hardware, make it very hackable for the community to develop the GNOME (or any other) OS for it.

Isolate the baseband from the application processor and all the other privacy-respecting hardware decisions, land all the changes required for a mainline kernel to support everything upstream, and release it with AOSP running on it.

Then invest in the community to replace AOSP (and sell more of your hardware to said community as it grows).
Instead of trying to fight your analytical tech brain, reframe the sales process as a technical optimization problem.

That comes down to looking for bugs that “crash” the sales process(objections) and optimizing performance of the sales cycle by decreasing the time it takes to close.

After every sales call, log objections as well as ideas the prospect seemed to respond to positively in a spreadsheet or CRM. Over time, patterns will emerge and you will naturally optimize for being better at sales.
So is ~C !!
Whistleblower’s Guide to the Orwellian Galaxy: How to Leak to the Press (2013)
As someone building a personal email system in using Helm (the kubernetes package manager) I have a feeling the naming conflict is going to get confusing.
Ways it's bad:

1) Helps being okay with being bored
2) Cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome, and, by my estimation, varying levels thereof
3) Cancer, and lung/heart disease, if you're dumb enough to light it on fire =]
4) Adrenal fatigue

Still an incredibly useful substance.
Expand quickly or crash and burn trying IS an obligation. Any startup would love to have years of no rush to try and figure out their business plan, but the most valuable commodities in the valley are time and patience, not money.

And you're saying you pitch decks to VCs that say the maximum value of the company can be double digit millions and then wonder why you aren't getting anywhere?
Same thing happens in Austin/NY, nothing Bay Area specific
Outside observers never see the material cross the horizon, ever. That's why it's called a horizon, you'll never reach it (from the pov of an outside observer).

Growth-wise, you have to keep in mind that the black hole doesn't grow when matter crosses the horizon, but when the matter gets close enough to the horizon that mass of black hole + mass of new matter creates a blackhole of a larger radius that encompasses that matter.
> It's a shame in this day and age you still have to pay a fortune for accreditation through traditional channels and can't really pursue it through an Online Education at a greatly reduced cost.

There are, in fact, fully accredited and reduced cost online degree-granting instititutions.
> The level of victimization they felt was immense

These are 17-18 year old kids we're talking about...so it IS possible that they felt like they had no choice.
Yep.

That's why I wrote:

>we believe our financial health will always get better over time. And, at least in the past, most of the times we've been right. So we can be forgiven for believing the same thing now...
Yes, certainly. I wasn't very clear, but my meaning was that there's a certain Western/American concept of "Russian Literature" as being exclusively long, philosophical, realistic, and depressing - as though The Brothers Karamazov and Anna Karenina are the prototype for everything else.

But it's obviously not true; reducing Russian-language literature to Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and Solzhenitsyn is insulting crude. (And even Dostoevsky can be funny!) Bulgakov and Pasternak are at least recognized, but reduced to one work each. Zamyatin ought to be taught next to Orwell and Huxley, but he and a great many others are basically unknown. And all of that's before the conflation of Russian, Soviet, and Eastern Bloc work. Lem, Čapek, and so on aren't even Russian writers but get subsumed in the same category of thought.

It's a frustrating gap in American-read canon all around, and as a particular fan of sci-fi I think the focus on Russian 'literary' over 'genre' work has left a major hole in our perception of SF.
I thought the internet Will would democratize society, and always defended privacy and cryptography.

I was wrong. Deadly wrong.

The spread of fake news in Facebook WhatsApp is a menace to free society. The amount of libel in these orchestrated WhatsApp is a lot worse than described. We will elect a far right candidate based just in lies and the worst Hunan instincts.
Maybe the building part. But I've never had any issue - at three homes - with Comcast Business being run into my home garage.
+1 for Pico-8. It really takes you down the rabbit's hole in a way that stimulates learning all the core concepts in creating a basic game. "Cool, I have a sprite on the screen. Now, how do I make it move?". "What about gravity?". "What about collision detection?" (I've done at least 5 collision detection "engines" so far...).

Games can be compiled to HTML5, ando/or distributed as PNG files with all source code and assets included. There's also a builtin community game browser with ratings, etc. Some bigger name games were prototyped in Pico-8 (i.e., Celeste), and it has a lot of love in the indie community.
> (beats me if the news has covered this, go talk to some denver cops or something.)

So, no sources then? I'd love to see them, all the same. :)

I've actually talked to DPD a bit. Legalization hasn't led to the heroin/opiate epidemic increasing, at least as far as I can tell.

In talking to doctors at the VA, though, what has gone up is severe head injuries. It's a total mystery as to why, but it seems that legalization is associated with head trauma. They'd love to research it more and publish on it, but as a schedule 1 drug, they can't.
I was wondering, how can Kepler detect planets like Saturn that take decades to orbit, let alone planets like Uranus or Neptune? Wouldn't we need to be looking for 50 years at least in order to have enough observations to drawn meaningful conclusions?
argh, that's super sad. i use them all the time.
Follow your passion is what previous generation (us) was told. This generation grew during recession and largely follows market. Most go for various bussines degrees.
Does anyone else think this is really cool? This makes me think even more that Apple is really a supporter of privacy and a good actor. What do you think?
Monkey Lives: Apple's Chaos Monkey
They are good phones. I'm very interested in Xiaomi's Mix 3 that's going to be announced end of this month now.
Classic marketing theory is great. Esp analyzing buyer behaviour https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumer_behaviour.
As a kid, I got to spend most of a week with the Flying Wallendas on a circus tour.

There's such a difference between watching anonymous performers walk a highwire, versus watching a girl your own age, who you've just been playing tag with the last few hours, walking the wire 90 feet in the air, no net - and then climbing up two levels of people to get on top of a pyramid. It's hard to watch.

Also, the Wallenda kids wouldn't ride roller coasters at the theme park, "Who knows who put that up - I only go in the air on something my dad has checked."
The first time I implemented the backtracking algorithm it felt really special. I was struggling to solve 8 queen problems for a couple of nights, banging my head around it. And then when it worked, I knew my love for programming was not going anywhere any time soon.

It was ugly, I had used 8 for loops, each running for 8 iterations, but, I still felt awesome when it worked. Before this, I had written only lab programs. Next, I applied the backtracking algorithm to solve Sudoku recursively, and that's how it all began. I entered the world of algorithms.

I know it's just one form of brute force algorithm, maybe doesn't even count as one, and is not that elegant, but, it will always remain my favorite.
Sure, so then we throw virtually every other school in Utah into the mix. Utah Valley University, University of Utah, Utah State University. Each of these has comparable tuition and fees to BYU without the religious association. Each of these should be very affordable with a part time job and a small pell grant.

It's not just Utah though. If you qualify for in state tuition (just go live somewhere for a year), Florida State is similar in cost. I assume there are many other schools scattered around the country that are similar.

So my question remains, why the hell are people attending schools where tuition and fees are in excess of $40,000 a year? If Dads got that much money then sure, why not. But knowing you'll have to pay it all back? It doesn't make sense when there are many options for affordable schools.
Full disclosure: I play a lot of online video games and am biased against cheat makers.

This seems frivolous and a waste of time but I think people here underestimate the effect online cheats can have on a company's bottom line, and just how PROLIFIC online cheating is.

Imagine you spent $300,000,000 developing an online video game. And then some company in Australia hires a number of full-time workers to develop a way to ruin the experience for other players, or to work around your monetization strategies and get stuff they should have to earn for free.

These companies are parasites that make money off of game developers. They make money off of making other people's products worse for the majority of players.

People underestimate the number of online cheaters. It's seriously an epidemic and ruins games for people. People buy the cheats and then play at internet cafes who will refresh their game library regularly so there are no consequences for cheating.

For example, PUBG has banned over 13 million users since June 2017. With an estimated 350 million player count, that is a large portion of their player base.

And that is for a middlingly-popular game that was mostly a flash in the pan. Games like Fortnight, and League of Legends, and DOTA 2 probably have similar numbers.

Most companies do not release their ban-numbers and I suspect there is a good reason for that, because the numbers would be shocking.
The whole point is force people to pay the actual price for the good (services) they are getting.

This will force people to abandon extremely polluting habits out of economic necessity.
Think less about pushing your product, and more about aligning your product to a stated need.

Instead of "how do I get Product X into Company Y," ask "how can I help Company Y accomplish their mission with my product in a way they are currently unable to do?" The flipside of this question is "if I were CEO of Company Y, why should I want to buy Product X?"

Instead of "how do I convince Buyer Z to go with Product X," ask yourself "what are Buyer Z's incentives? Do they need to lower costs/increase their revenue/help their team communicate/etc?" Buyer Z has incentives - some of them corporate-wide, some of them specific to her/his day job, some of them very personal. Try to learn what those are.

Also remember that sometimes it's not a good fit, and that's okay. Preserve relationships. Sometimes you catch Buyer Z working for Company Y, and she says "right now, we're really not focused on $THINGYOUDO, and your price would be prohibitive anyway." Fast forward three months and she might have changed jobs into something that is very much $THINGYOUDO, and she now has a vastly increased budget. Much better for both of you if you have preserved the relationship.

Sales becomes a much easier road to walk if you remember "this person is a person just like me, and they've got things they're trying to accomplish in their day job. Let's see if I can help them out."
Gray area IMHO. Isn't Dropcam basically a server streaming video to my phone?
Are you a fan of Christopher Balding, who frequently writes for Bloomberg? This is the point he's been hammering for months, as someone who's also not a fan of Trump.
The stomach isn't a perfect barrier, there's always something that gets through. If it didn't we wouldn't be able to take drugs orally. Our bodies have an entire subsystem devoted to processing compounds that made it through the main digestive system into the blood stream. The liver is dedicated to metabolizing these substances, in a process literally called "xenobiotic metabolism".

Sure, the odds of a particular compound found in some alien lifeform having a toxic interaction with our bodies is small, but I consider the odds of one of the hundreds of thousands of different types of compounds in that lifeform having a toxic interaction is on the higher side.

Oh, and to be clear, by toxic interaction I don't necessarily mean a poison, per se. It could also have a carcinogenic effect, or if the compound is common enough in the creature and undigestable through the stomach and intestines it could overload the liver, etc.
would they want to solve this problem? It would improve their targeting but also lower their advertising base significantly.

Ive used a shopping cart product for about 6 years, I still get ads for their company on my phone. No offline to online issue there and they still dont solve it.
And they keep reinventing it. I don't see a year going by without a Kickstarter or the like for one of these things. https://getfreewrite.com

Further, we've had oodles of minimalist/cut down/focused/sensory deprivation gimmick word processors for the last twenty years, all essentially recreating the UI of every single DOS word processing program.

And yet, whenever professional writers talk about what they write with, it's almost always MS Word or some crappy screenplay program. Not some minimalist program, not some special piece of hardware, just the standard tool available. (Occasionally, their preferred text editor if they're a geek - just another standard tool.) Decades and centuries ago, they used word processors or typewriters or pen and paper because those were the available, standard tools.

Because a tool is just something to aid the act of writing, not a device for squeezing it out of you when you have nothing to say.
Typically when I need to develop inside a VM I do my editing inside that VM as well. So my tools would be:

1. Ample memory and power
2. OpenBox (or equivalent lightweight DE)
3. Emacs (or equivalent “light weight” editor/terminal

Also I’ve found that VMware fusion works much smoother for me than virtual box.
Here's how to hold them accountable: People stop buying their product.

Unfortunately, mass brainwashing has been super effective, everyone's gonna get rich buying index funds and going a 4 year degree, just you wait and see!
Mostly because of the whole Mormon thing, I'd imagine. Specifically, the honor code. Committing to 4 years of celibacy, sobriety, and giving up coffee? It's kinda harsh.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_Educational_System_Hono...
In either case the developer the should get a first hand experience about the pain points. Developers tend to be isolated and build things that really doesn't fit the need that is required. Ask the potential customer and they will come. (Maybe, but at least the developer has a better idea of things to build)
My guess is that we won't do much until there is widespread suffering like dislocation of people or wars. And even then not much will be done until the polluting nations will feel the heat.

My hope is that at some point new energy sources like solar or fusion will make fossil fuels obsolete so the problem may just go away.
I'm seriously into retro-computing, having kept every computer I've ever owned since the 70's ..

So I admit my bias in this, but I have to say it: those 8-bit machines are still out there, can still provide endless utility, and are also integrating quite nicely with the modern era. In my 48k Oric Atmos, I have an 8G SD card-based filesystem. My CPC6128 has Internet access over the house wifi.

Old computers never die - their users do!
I love the circus era
Great archive of US images
http://digital.library.illinoisstate.edu/cdm/landingpage/col...
Ok, in the "Do you know where your email is?" section, what's the dot in northeast Alabama?
The problem with your critique is that for all of the authority figures in these student's lives it was "push button, receive career". To sit on top of a high horse making (I assume just from the demographics of this site) in the top 1% of income fails to acknowledge the shear amount of luck that goes into success here.

Even students that "worked non stop" are likely graduating with debt unless they had external assistance (either parents or scholarships or both) and even having done everything "correct" there's a high probability the only option after graduating is a job you hate in a career unrelated to your major (this is as applicable to S(T)EM as it is to humanities in my experience. The previous generation got everything for nothing then pulled up the ladder on the rest of us, don't act surprised when people are a bit salty.
But you pay for this EC2 instance, and all traffic flows through it.

Honest question: What stops a malicious employee on your end sshing to this server and dumping plaintext messages from memory? What stops a court from ordering you to do that?

Even if you disable remote access, what stops someone from adding a new LaunchConfiguation that enables it silently on the next instance rotation in spite of whatever configuration is in place today?

At the end of the day it seems like you -can- spy on the traffic just as easily as you could if you were running the smtp services on an ec2 instance directly.

Given that, what is the value proposition here?

(Or if I am totally wrong, by all means call me out accordingly)
I believe you will be more successful if you establish two things, first your own ASIN with a couple of class C IPV4 blocks and an IPV6 block.

Then you create an infrastructure for relaying the mail from your boxes to the Internet. Then you work with the various spam agencies to create both a way to respond to spam complaints and to detect and throttle or cut off spam senders. You'll find that spammers will offer to pay you a premium to "look the other way" but don't take it, many good companies died going down that road. Without the spammers it will be harder to make your numbers but concentrate on keeping your efficiency high and ultimately you will be better off.

You don't talk a lot about data protection on site for things like disk failure. What do you do in that regard to keep people from losing all of their mail if the disk goes tits up?
So you want to pish?
We don't know, and will not know for a few years. Maybe it is sustainable, maybe not.

They are realistic unlike many who have tried similar things before. This is something they have going for them: realism in their expectations creates realism in their budgets and aims. In turn this means that they can reach their goals. They might not overturn Samsung as the #1 seller of phones in the world, but if they sell enough to the types of people who want the features they are selling they can still remain useful long term.

Note that the company has been delivering computers for a while. This is more complex than what they have done before, but it is just a step in a direction they have been going. There is a good chance they will remain a company even if the phone itself fails.

My guess
How many of the original signatories of the “Agile Manifesto” now abandoned it?
In what world is 100% broken better than 95% broken?
The fraud rate is only priced in if every member of the auction has that oracle though right? Otherwise, they are unaware of the fraud and bidding as if their isnt. Inflating the ad price
Starting to learn programming by being curious enough to hack around on PC games seems to be a common theme. Being stubborn and willing to struggle for a few years to figure out what you're doing seems to be crucial as well. I do wonder if modern / closed mobile platforms (and shorter attention spans) are going to let the next generations have the early programming experiences that kids "hooked" enough to spend the time it takes to love and learn the craft.
You have very few rights at a border. Almost any border, not just the US. A border is very much like a no-man's land where the law of the country you are entering or leaving is suspended. You can be held, searched without cause, refused entry at a guard's discretion (no reason is needed), and so on. Arguing your 'rights' at a border is one very good way to be seen as cause to get secondary screening and perhaps refusal of entry. And they are pretty good at detecting if you are lying - lots and lots of training there, you'd be surprised how easily unprepared people give themselves away in even the most simple lies.