skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed. Ever since I first discovered them, I've decided that I eventually want to specialize in these types of algorithms. They may not be the most efficient algorithms to solve a problem, but they're incredibly fascinating, and their potential is endless.

I was actually considering implementing one during development of the game I'm working on to generate a soundtrack (since I'm not a musician), but the problem is the fitness function would require a user rating of each generated sound sample, and to get any kind of decent results, that would require me to personally listen to and rate thousands of songs. Either that or outsource it through SoundCloud or something.
Not 'this year', but 'this decade'.

> Restaurant owners NEVER say "Oh look, expectation for tipping in the general public is up 5% this year, let's cut down our menu prices to balance this out."

What they do is take advantage of their ability to cut server pay instead of increasing menu prices, when that is possible. And higher tips make more of that possible.

Are you saying that restaurant owners are charging the same amount that they would if tips were 10% lower? Because I'm pretty sure margins are low enough to make that impossible.
>which has its own obligations before its citizens to uphold their human rights

So you want the country the person is traveling from to impose their Will on the country they are traveling to?
Mostly after going to war first, right?
> edit: There's another possibility here, which is that there are two curves that may have maximized for companies around that time period. The first is the batch size, which has increased from ~10 companies to ~100 over the years. And the other curve is that companies take something like 5-10 years to mature. Maybe it's just that the companies of that vintage are just old enough to be really valuable, and that there were enough companies in the batch to push them to the top of this ranking.

I think that's basically it.

It takes a while to reach a 100M or 1B valuation, so you wouldn't expect to see many of the most recent YC companies on the list just yet. On the flip-side, YC batches were significantly smaller early on before ~2011.

I wouldn't read too much into this distribution.
Tips are a low tech way to scale a service worker's pay with the volume the store does that day.
Coding Interviews
I don't see that anyone has mentioned the obvious - Sandler Sales Training

https://www.sandler.com/

Get actual training as opposed to watching videos or reading books.
I agree with everything you just said, but its also an average across age groups. It would not surprise me to see many 40year old workers getting 1% yearly raises for the rest of their career. What would surprise me is if there are a significant number of 25 year olds only making 1% raises until they are 35. Most industries will pay a premium for an individual with ten years of experience over someone with no experience (a recent graduate).
I see it as an improved method of confirming that it's working. For power users it may be pointless, but for the average user who probably has never used any kind of 2FA (perhaps besides SMS) it makes them go through the real motions of authenticating with 2FA before turning it on for real, which will prevent many stupid user mistakes (which I admit I've done myself once.)

I think it's a major improvement for ease of use in exchange for having a small once off window where you're not protected by 2FA.
> How A University IT Guy Looks To Outmaneuver Verizon and AT&T In Upcoming Spectrum Auctions

By buying spectrum in an area where they don't want to buy, it turns out.

Fun fact: I recently outmaneuvered AT&T in produce sales, by buying some tomatoes they weren't shopping for at the grocery store.

(Also, given that Time Warner rebranded itself as "Spectrum", this is not what I thought the article was about; can we lower case the headline except for proper nouns?)
This looks pretty cool. I keep coming up with Twilio-based side projects I want to build, but the abuse potential keeps me from actually releasing anything useful. With this, maybe I can charge users $.0X per call minute, or $X/month to recoup my Twilio costs.
Even worse - do you tip every day? Since you can't be sure it's the same housekeeper every morning, how do you distribute the cash fairly?
First and most importantly is a shift in mentality. You are not a technical cofounder. You are a sales person. It is a pretty big change, one that I didn't adapt well to.

But basically sales is making lots of calls, and asking questions. You will not be doing a lot of talking, but asking questions about their problems. Then you talk and specifically outline why your solution fits their needs. Let them digest it, then ask for the sale. Surprisingly sales people are afraid to ask for that because they don't want to be seen as pushy.

But again you don't need to talk all that much. I've listened to a business partner land a 100k deal and probably did 10 percent of the conversation.

Also practice and expect to be uncomfortable for hundreds of calls.

Edit: if you have a good source of leads and make a lot of calls, get a service like phone burner. It automatically leaves a voicemail for the 95 percent of people you don't get a hold of on the first try. I had a boss that refused to use that service, was making at minimum a quarter million a year and would spend an hour+ every day leaving the same message. Apparently 50 bucks a month was too expensive.
I think a lot of startups are, frankly, ageist. They worry about "culture fit" from an older guy. There's a lot of twenty-something running around. They may also worry you don't want to put in the late nights and long hours they want due to perhaps family obligations, or that you may want more than they can afford to pay.

If you're still on the market, we're hiring, and not ageist. I'm the CTO, 34.
I did it in the morning, at 6am. The reason why "did" is because I now go to a swimming pool instead.
What's the algorithm you're referring to here? Just curious
Dupe submission was allowed by mods through HN’s second-chance queue system (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11662380)
You can attach an external editor if you want, though I think it is not needed for learning. There is more value in the tight integration than the conveniences of a great text editor.

I've used this Sublime Text Package which works well:

https://packagecontrol.io/packages/PICO-8
How could it NOT be a hardware play? Then how else can you verify and trust that you know what code is running in some datacenter in who knows where?
Calling it a tax increase is somewhat misleading. County services were primarily funded by the federal government charging fees to timber harvesters. This money was redirected by Congress, so the county needed to find another revenue source to keep services going. On the net, yes, it's a tax increase, but it's really only looking to keep the share of tax money going to libraries constant.

https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/index.ssf/2017/03/dougla...
https://www.oregonlive.com/mapes/index.ssf/2014/12/federal_p...

This newsletter also suggests that library funding was being regularly cut prior to the loss of federal money.

https://commons.pacificu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=htt...
" I do hope, however, that the state and federal authorities will keep an eye on things, and if anything bad happens which results in a huge lawsuit, that the people of that county will be literally forced (even if it means forcibly seizing all their property) to pay the judgments."

You know that won't happen, and the rest of the taxpayers are going to end up subsidizing them.
Unlikely true though, you don't analyze pitches using an internal clock, rather you cochlea acts like an analog fourier transform.
Canada. 100$/month for 150down/12 up residential. Never seen more than 50 down. Regular outages (for 30min every few days). If the US is third-world in terms of service, canada is an uncontacted amazon tribe.
On average, school funding in the US breaks down to about 45% from local, 45% state, and 10% Federal.

Couldn't a state, or a district in a state, opt out of Federal funding and then be free from those Federal programs and policies?

Yes, they would lose 10% of funding, but if Federal policies are the reason our schools spend way more per student with worse results than other OECD countries, then getting out from those policies should let them massively improve even with the reduced budget.

[1] https://www.npr.org/2016/04/18/474256366/why-americas-school...
Yeah, not a perfect barrier, but if it's good enough that I'm not poisoned, do I care? I eat lots of delicious food that doesn't digest optimally.

As for carcinogenic effects, well, depends on what the timelines and cancer-rates you're talking about look like. We eat lots of things on Earth that are mildly carcinogenic over a lifetime, and the fact they are doesn't really stop us.
I always struggle to see why people bang on about git bisect. You need tests to make it work. If you have tests, why aren't you running them continuously? If you're running them continuously, why do you need git bisect?
For users, none at all. I'm sort of assuming the thing wasn't stable enough to stay up without ongoing effort, given that they seem to have stopped maintaining/supporting it a bit ago and only now killed it off. But for everyone except IBM, this is clearly negative.
Is anyone else wondering why a tax increase is needed to keep the library open? Does that mean it wasn't sustainable?

Declining timber revenues.

https://www.vocativ.com/news/434974/douglas-county-oregon-la...

https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/index.ssf/2017/03/dougla...
Even if the tip were scheduled differently, how often do you find yourself adjusting tip in an attempt to adjust service?

If you get good service, will good tip ensure a good experience the next time around? If someone gave you bad service, do you make it known? I think most would prefer not to say anything.
https://blog.elcomsoft.com/2017/11/ios-11-horror-story-the-r...

"The release of iOS 11" ... "also made a number of other changes under the hood" ... "Each and every one of these changes was aimed at making the user’s life easier (as in “more convenience”), and each came with a small trade off in security. Combined together, these seemingly small changes made devastating synergy, effectively stripping each and every protection layer off the previously secure system."

"The passcode. This is all that’s left of iOS security in iOS 11. If the attacker has your iPhone and your passcode is compromised, you lose your data; your passwords to third-party online accounts; your Apple ID password (and obviously the second authentication factor is not a problem). Finally, you lose access to all other Apple devices that are registered with your Apple ID; they can be wiped or locked remotely. All that, and more, just because of one passcode and stripped-down security in iOS 11."

I don't know if it got any better with iOS 12.
Yeah sorry reading my post just now I should've edited it, or not submitted in the first place. What I meant is that F/OSS has kindof created a situation where no commercial software development by ISVs is sustainable, and now F/OSS itself looses one of the last remaing avenues for monetarization eg. feedback into development and innovation.
Hopefully you find some of these comments instructive. Let us know how things go from here, and best of luck to you.
An interactive BASIC interpreter (or something saner, like Python) can run on a modern computer. It doesn't have to be a VS project. Anyone ready to learn to program can handle the complexity of tapping on an icon to launch an app.
>so I am able to sell to some regard

Not clear to me what that means. Means sell well?
True, but this list only includes companies that went through YC's core program.
Oh damn, such a rabbit hole :-p. Also found this list [1].

A couple on the list run BASIC! E.g. [2].

I just learned there's this thing "Windows 10 IoT", [3] a Win10 version for low power devices like the raspberri pi.

Would be interesting to try to run B8 in there!

1: https://github.com/paladin-t/fantasy

2: https://store.steampowered.com/app/767240/BASIC8/

3: https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/iot/Downloads
Introduction to the DevOps term
Why? Why not doctors? Physicists? Geologists? Scientists of other disciplines? Mathematicians? Statisticians? Why give engineers- and I presume, software engineers, specifically- that extra credit?
I work in fixed wireless and I applaud this guys effort. In my area, Sprint purchased all of our 2.5 Ghz licenses and we had to resort to using the new CBRS band alongside unlicensed frequencies.
In Australia, just about anything is possible. For example, there is the proposed law that would somehow compel foreign communication providers to assist in capturing the communications of a suspect via malware or similar. We live in strange times here.
I don't see how I'm wrong.

My comment was basically in support of using Uber for regular transportation as it costs about the same as owning a car. At the end I even mentioned that Uber only might be easier because you don't have to worry about parking.

If I'm reading your comment correctly, you are also in favor of an Uber only lifestyle because it allows you more time with your kids, saves you time, and you don't have to deal with parking (which I also mentioned).

If that's the case, I think we're on the same side.
Barry has a point, one piece of research does /= the absolute truth. Research is the scientific process of moving closer to the actual truth through experimental investigation. While you may believe this study, do not be certain that it can't be falsified.
It's more like "Why not let the child put stuff on the bottom shelf of the fridge instead of buying them their own kid-fridge?"
Sure, but between "all edges have positive weights" and "there are cycles with negative total weight" there are still graphs that have negative edge weights, yet there's no negative-weight cycle.

Example:

V = { A, B, C }

E = { A -> B, B -> C, C -> A }

weight(A -> B) = 1

weight(B -> C) = 1

weight(C -> A) = -1
Pretty clearly it has to have a way to run the programs you enter as you're learning to program. Otherwise it's a lousy device at teaching programming.

Or have I missed your point?
> What makes you the person who gets to decide for them what they should or shouldn’t spend their money on?

I don't know who is qualified to be that person, but somebody has to if you want to avoid tyranny-of-the-majority. "You can do any goddamn thing you want as long as you can convince 51 voters out of 100 to back you" is not sustainable. (See e.g. unpunished lynchings in the post-Civil War South.)
1. I don't claim it's wrong under Aussie law; I claimed to find ToS like these to be morally wrong. Feel free to disagree with my opinion.

I was thinking more "move to somewhere without extradition". I don't think this is particularly practical, but I still like the idea of someone doing this to spite government overreach. With that said:

2. The courts _don't_ have any recourse for "this sort of behavior".

3. I _hope_ they realize you took your money. Tell them it's in a bitcoin wallet. Tell them where they can shove their demands and wish them well trying to punish your criminal conduct.

4. Clearly I'm not concerned about lawyers.

Someone is making incorrect assumptions, but it's not me. :)
The Data Liberation Front team was formed at Google in 2007, and released Google Takeout in 2011, worldwide, well before the other big companies had anything similar in place.

http://dataliberation.blogspot.com/2011/06/data-liberation-f...

For more up-to-date information see the Wikipedia page:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Data_Liberation_Front#c...

This service works quite well, I'm using it to backup the whole of my Google data every few months, including Gmail, Photos and Drive.
How does the logistics of Uber and child seats work?

The fact that child restraints are not required on public transport (which is itself mysterious) makes it preferable to car transit, for our family.
Hungarian Algorithm for cost optimization:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungarian_algorithm
It means the firmware does not have a heap for dynamic allocation, not that it's generating and executing code in buffers on the stack.
hey i'd like a code. stochastic.thread@gmail.com
> Your comment is analogous to a colorblind person telling everyone how overrated red and green are.

Ooh, that is such an intriguing analogy. I think it's wrong.

The analogy should be a colorblind person complaining that the ability to guess html hex color values is overrated for the purpose of measuring, analyzing, and describing how a combination of colors affects the mise en scene in a given film still.

We must also add the complication that most televisions and places where people look at scenes the colors tend to gradually ramp down in frequency as the lights get tired.
a web browser has an interactive console.

node.js has a text console if you don't want the web browser attached.
> Bernhard was able to order two other types of election seals listed on the Michigan website, as well as several paper seals, tamper-evident stickers, and election certificates through Election Source.

Is that a form of leaving your wifi open so you have plausible deniability later?
I agree that it's short-sighted to assume ignorance in these cases. Selfishness is a major factor as well.
On another note a theory which seems to fit particularly well is called Janus. The concept lies in the existence of a twin universe (ours being matter based the twin being antimatter based) merged together where the black holes are basically where the antimatter is concentrated and thus repulses all the matter hence this seemingly void. This is a succint summary but I hope it makes sense to the more knowledgeable readers of HN.
Mapping Open Business Models
It turns out that writing good books doesn't make one a font of wisdom in all regards.

First there isn't necessarily much difference between the government or cronies seizing the sources of wealth eg oil and spending it before it touches citizens hands and seizing a portion thereof after it comes into citizens hands. In either case it siphoning off a percentage of the productivity of the nation and spending it hopefully for the common good. Even passing regulations are laws can be seen as tilting the field in favor of one or the other. Effectively taking the money for example of the power plant operator and making them buy equipment they don't want to sanitize the air the rest of us have to breath.

The tyranny you are decrying is a function of every functional nation in history. Economics it turns out is a poor tool by itself to manage the public good because consumer attention is finite, information imperfect, and circumstances complex. How precisely do you vote with your dollars now to keep the power plant operators from collectively poisoning you.

Well you vote for people who promise to write regulations with the help of scientists to avoid poisoning the planet and blackening your lungs because this solution has proved at least semi functional.
"Beyond a reasonable doubt" is not the burden of proof for civil lawsuits.
Agreed. I had a special ear training class at Berklee for all the incoming freshman who aced placements, and if I recall correctly everyone in the class had perfect pitch. Transcribing was trivial across the board. I transcribed solos for jazz magazines as a side gig, and filled notebooks with solos in my personal practice.

Without a doubt, relative pitch and learning theory are important skills too, but they aren't mutually exclusive.
Day-to-day annoyances: slow builds, flaky tests, debugging horrible code (especially if it's yours), open offices, certain coworkers

Psychological issues: on-call stress, unhealthy work-hours expectations, impostor syndrome, family-unfriendly policies and social environment

Cultural issues: affluenza and general entitlement, discrimination, moral posturing, people slamming your company and your product (rightly or wrongly - both hurt)
There's still a hole in Apple's user ID mapping that doesn't recognize first.last@gmail.com and firstlast@gmail.com are the same person and the e-mails go to the same place.

If you accidentally approve creating an Apple ID that's some variation on your e-mail it opens up your account to human phishing attacks. Just call apple support and raise hell until someone makes a mistake.

The RFC mentions dot-atoms in address elements are locally interpreted. There's no rule specifying if x.y.z or xyz are equivalent or not. The issue for me is that an Apple ID looks just like an e-mail address. x.y.z@gmail.com and xyz@gmail.com are equivalent to Gmail but not to Apple. From that I believe it creates an opportunity for confusion.
This seems overcomplicated, asking for setup that suits the parents' nostalgia instead of useful and attractive to the modern child.

Just grab any handy compiter, open an interpreter window / shell console for the language of your choice, and let the kid play and learn.
Pretty much any modern point of sale system (e.g., anything on a tablet) is going to be separating out the tips correctly for accounting purposes. If anything, you should be _more_ sure that the employees are getting their full tip amounts when there's a stronger paper trail for it. It's the cash tips at some mom and pop joint with handwritten receipts that have some chance of getting intercepted.
I know here in California, there were some Republican state legislators who were upset that the state was putting up signs highlighting projects that were being paid for with the new Gas Tax, because they were afraid that if people saw what the tax money was going to fund, they'd be in favor of it, and not vote against the repeal ballot measure.
"The fabric of space-time" — I hear this a lot, but what does it mean? Does it mean that space and time are a "fabric"? What is such a fabric made of? The idea that space and time are actual objects, instead of intellectual constructs, has always struck me as wrong. (I'm not a physicist.)
To be pedantic, when you provide content to Facebook, you are serving them data, right? When you upload pictures to Dropbox, you are serving, right? Slingbox? Security webcam? Facetime?

I don't think there is a good enough definition of "server" or "serving" for such restrictions to be enforceable except is an arbitrary way.

I have an MUA that retrieves email from a server and sends email to a server. It might run in a browser and interact with GMail. It might be a mobile app or Thunderbird or Outlook. It might be sendmail or postfix or Exchange. Which of these are "servers"? Which are banned and which are ok?
Why media people are furious over Facebook’s bad video metrics
What’s the SAT percentile after which we tell students, “You probably should be considering a trade school instead.”?
I have struggled with falling asleep a lot. This has been helpful recently:
1. 2-3 hours before bed, put away all electronics (including phone and TV/netflix)
2. Read a _real_ book for 1-2 hours
3. If I can't fall asleep, I put on Dan Carlin's Hardcore History Podcast with a sleep timer of 10 minutes. I usually get absorbed into his story telling and it helps take my mind of things.
4. No alchohol during the week
5. No caffeine after ~1pm; and only 1 coffee when I arrive at work

Admittedly, my week is a little boring this way and I still haven't worked up to doing it consistently, but it's been much more effective than anything else.
So... a 'faptop'?
Yes and no. I agree they have it too easy as users. But it is harder to start programming because of the complexity of the tooling. Also, achieving something cool in code can be a bigger stretch than it used to be. When the pinnacle of gaming was a text adventure, a kid could come close to emulating it with a few dozen lines of code. Now kids are playing Fortnight which is not replicable without a large team of coders, artists, and millions of dollars.