skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So I just tried it again, and this time some company address appeared after pressing the "Try for free" button. Now it kind of makes sense. (Previously, clicking the button just displayed a mailing list signup form)
>(This study, like most of the Kauffman Foundation studies, tend to rely on obscure methods to reach these counterintuitive results*

The article seems to make a fairly solid case:

"Our team analyzed the age of all business founders in the U.S. in recent years by leveraging confidential administrative data sets from the U.S. Census Bureau. We found that the average age of entrepreneurs at the time they founded their companies is 42. But the vast majority of these new businesses are likely small businesses with no intentions to grow large (for example, dry cleaners and restaurants). To focus on businesses that are closer in spirit to the prototypical high-tech startup, we used a variety of indicators: whether the firm was granted a patent, received VC investment, or operated in an industry that employs a high fraction of STEM workers. We also focused on the location of the firm, in particular whether it was in an entrepreneurial hub such as Silicon Valley. In general, these finer-grained analyses do not modify the main conclusion: The average age of high-tech founders falls in the early forties."

What's the counter-argument? That the famous founders of the 20-so most known companies are young?

There are thousands of tech companies founded, even on SV, not just the household names (and the household names are a tiny sample anyway).
Simple logical statements that convinced an engineer to go vegan
Looks fine to me? If you're talking about ads, why not use a blocker?
And a bad engineer can destroy as much.

One fun thing about humans is that almost all think they're underpaid. This says a lot about people and nothing about wages.
This is not a very good argument. You could easily repurpose it to claim that nuclear weapons are nothing to be feared... After all, radioactive uranium and even nuclear reactors happen naturally, humans just optimise the process a bit!
I don't known if author is stating any truth.

I have a Honor mobile, some of there apps were system apps.
You can't disable them, or uninstall even when you are rooted.

On OTA updates they add new system apps.

It's fine to have bloatware, but forcing users to keep it is not fine.
Does he like Doritos?

https://www.seriouseats.com/2012/06/science-of-chips-ingredi...
Wrapping up
As the article was quite long, here a summary of the main points:

- The “regular expressions” used by programmers have very little in common with the original notion of regularity in the context of formal language theory.

- Regular expressions (at least PCRE) can match all context-free languages. As such they can also match well-formed HTML and pretty much all other programming languages.

- Regular expressions can match at least some context-sensitive languages.

- Matching of regular expressions is NP-complete. As such you can solve any other NP problem using regular expressions.

I wish he wrote that in the beginning of the article. Would have saved me a lot of skimming (I already know grammar theory).
Lets say you work logistics for a company who makes weapons systems, or partial weapon systems, for the US military. Your work email has blueprints from engineers and/or customers that aren't technically classified, but are export controlled nonetheless. If the enemy knows you work logistics for this company and they want to know how this system works, they can use the blueprints in your email.

Lets say you work for Samsung in purchasing and someone in China has a knock-off chip that they want to sell to Samsung, but Samsung won't move away from their current provider. They could use your login information to log into your account with the competing supplier and view pricing information that gives them the upper hand in negotiations.

Lets say you work at a business consulting firm who does business with an upstream supplier to Raytheon. China is trying to figure out information on Raytheon's project and is mapping out their supply chain. By targeting your conversations with your client (who is in Raytheon's supply chain) China could learn a lot of valuable information about their target.
For me, I am in the processing of using Facebook less, trying to get rid of it. I still have some international friends where it is my ownly reliable way to contact them, so I have to keep the account. But I don’t want to use it for anything else in the event I can eventually sunset it entirely.
Probably, a couple of pounds saved is not important given the weight of a person on that wheelchair.
It's fine for a company or individual trying to optimize an objective, but not as a way to do good science (which this article is about).
Nortel willingly sacrificed its ip to profit from building the great firewall of China

https://cs.stanford.edu/people/eroberts/cs201/projects/2010-...
The thing is that often they are right. It's almost literally crazy to me that he wouldn't just try to reschedule the meeting and that he would work when his grandma was dying. It's not working long hours that's a problem but in my experience it often correlates with people who don't work well in a team (which this guy seems like a perfect example of).
More money == things are better is just too simple of a model to make a decision like this. You add more money to the system and where does it go? It's not automatically allocated to your causes, some of it gets siphoned off in administrative overhead. Some of it gets reallocated. Some of it is just used for cronyism or lost in the bureaucracy of doing business (e.g. paying lawyer fees to fight NIMBY's who are using environmental review to prevent the development of transportation or public housing).

On a tangential note, there is nothing stopping you and a group of like-minded individuals from just paying more taxes to the government.
damn I would love to do just that and get paid for it. You know what, let's just switch jobs because I hate the SW industry and wish I could go into HW :-)
Four steps to a younger, smarter brain
Reminds me to Monet who had a cataract removal surgery and after that he was able to see ultraviolet wavelengths
the engines domestically... how is hauling spares from across the Atlantic going to work in a hot situation?

Don't worry! F35 engines can also be maintained in Turkey.
Breaking promises is considered unethical in most cultures, not just in silicon valley. Maybe "walking all over you" is an overstatement, but an egregious thing that has happened to you doesn't make what happened to the OP less bad.

I've heard this is standard behavior for google - completely disregarding what an applicant wants to work on and putting them instead on a project chosen by the hiring committee. Considering that the range of different projects where you may end up is enormous, I agree that it sucks.
I see I wasn't clear because I used absolute terms. Please insert your own desired population percentages for the questions where I've implied 100%.

In the meantime, I'll still consider the ideas because I find it useful. There are no bad questions, just people who find it useful to judge others and their questions. I've found it transformationally useful to minimize my judgment, so I don't count myself among that crowd anymore and I don't judge others who do.

If it's the absolute terms I used, like "everyone," that's put you off, cool. Let's instead imagine what would happen if a majority chose to. Or 25%. Or 3.5%.

Just as you chose to answer a question I didn't ask, you could've easily modified my questions to fit your standards.

Serious advice: Responding with judgment isn't typically conducive to learning unless the recipient has learned to let go of other people's judgments. Here's a paper on the subject I find useful.

https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3068754
Was any content ever 'pure'? Newspapers always relied on ad revenue, and there was always the potential for a conflict of interest there. Whether it's internet sites or papers or TV news shows, they can't afford to annoy their advertisers too much.

The only ways to avoid this are either:

A: Go with publically/government funded content, which will likely have a government bias (or one that encourages people to pay for them).

B: Go with free fan/volunteer run sources which don't have monetary interests, and that's becoming rarer and rarer nowadays.
Taxing wages doesn't seem like a very smart strategy. You probably feel rich, but if your primary source of income is wages then you aren't. This won't solve income disparity as it's not how wealthy people earn income. It really will hurt the middle to upper-middle class without making a huge difference.
Show HN: VizNetGauge, free open source graphical network speed monitor (Windows)
VizNetGauge is a graphical network speed meter desktop widget for MS Windows

It displays an average download and upload speed on any of the network interfaces. It also graphs recent speeds.

Download: https://github.com/oormicreations/VizNetGauge/releases

Features:

Network speed display.
Speed graph.
Peak speed display.
Auto scale the graph.
Auto detection of active network interfaces.
Display a single network interface or the total traffic from all.
Built in themes.
Customizations such as averaging times, update frequency and units.
Remembers window position and customizations.
Can be minimized to the tray or can stay on top of all windows.
Minimal Resizable Responsive UI.
Supported on MS Windows 7 to 10.

Details: https://oormi.in/software/vng/help.html
Red cabbage has been experimentally tested for far longer, and by far more people, than Red #40. I'm inclined to trust it more.
Has anyone used this yet? Do the cans get unstuck too easily?
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No, because I can't be sure that my peers also "take advantage" of it to the same extent.

I and many people are happy to contribute more, but only if others also contribute more. Especially if people better off than me (like my landlord) aren't paying their fair share, that strongly indicates to me that I should not pay my fair share either.
Exactly. The list consists of the successful startups that they founded, but not the ones that they tried and failed at before finding success.

I'd like to think that most successful founders fail at their first few not so noteworthy "side-projects" before finding success and sticking to it. Just building a crappy version of something not-so-cool can teach you a lot about tech, business and design, which then helps you build better products in the future.
Betteridge’s law applies. The guy found a database of train stations, car parks and airports - so what? When it finds you’re nearby it tells the cloud service which presumably grabs your tickets or something, like a geofence. The location data is not ‘user’ location data, it’s point-of-interest map data, and the ‘name’ he found is probably the name of the POI. What a joke.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge's_law_of_headlines
Security Assessment of the Android Cloud Backup/Restore Feature
We may have different experiences, but in a long career the worst I've seen are useless engineers. Are you seriously claiming that the population of engineers destroying multiples of their salary (sabotage/gross negligence) is comparable to the population who create multiples (and are exploited)? Silicon Valley lore is filled with stories of fortunes earned on the backs of engineers being paid market rates. You don't have to look hard to find them, start with Apple, or look at any modern "unicorn."
Perhaps one day we will be able to do so.
I don't think I said just tax my wages.

Taxes on capital gains are also way too low. Let's close some loopholes, as well.
On the one hand yes, on the other hand there will always be a critical mass of people who will take 'free' if it's offered as a price point. It's just too compelling for that not to be true.
"Spying-based services" is some truly disingenuous labeling.
I wasn't, but now I'm going to experiment with it as a means of building a following for my design-your-own-religion religion!
A CATOBAR setup was included in the designs at one stage but later scrapped for cost reasons.

I don't believe it was ever really included in the design. EMALS was undeveloped at the time, and where would you get the steam for a conventional catapult, with no reactor and no boilers? And where were the compartments to physically put the (huge) catapults and arrestor gear? And even if EMALS was available where would you get the electrical power to run it (no reactor remember) when the (gas turbine) engines full output would be needed to head into the wind for launches?

It was a tickybox, that's all. Because BAe could never take the risk that the UK would chose Rafales or Super Hornets, they had to make the F35-B, which coincidentally they also have a finger in the pie of, the only option.
Found this via a recent Google blog post.

https://security.googleblog.com/2018/10/google-and-android-h...
"Copenhagen Suborbitals is the world’s only manned, amateur space program."

The way this is phrased, it sounds like they've already achieved it, and I feel like that's a little bit intentional. They could have easily called it an "amateur manned space program", which would have lessened the ambiguity.
If you're asking seriously.... I think there's serious potential for co-ops. There's no reason services like Yelp need to be designed around a hockey stick revenue curve.
> A completely blank phone suggests you're naively hiding something

I'd see that more as "proudly refusing to play along", but interpretations of course will differ. I'm willing to add little fuck-yous in the notes and pics, if that helps interpretation.

Push back, people. Meekly bending over because you don't want to be inconvenienced is quite literally asking for more.
Well better than letting the cash not get spent at all.
I'm surprised that doesn't have a larger performance cost, since it's requiring a TLB entry for each memory allocation. I wonder if the benchmarks understate the cost due to being undersized for modern systems.
Actually I was speaking about addiction more generally, but yes actually there are lots of other things to be addicted to. Sex, drugs and alcohol immediately come to mind. The Internet, while quite interesting and addictive in its own right, does not provide quite the same physical sensations. And often the choice isn't between "nothing in particular" and your vice of choice. Part of what makes an addiction harmful is that when faced with a choice between healthy relationships and your addictive vice, you choose the vice (and ultimately isolation, which works to increase the grip of your addiction).
Text-only version:

https://text.npr.org/s.php?sId=656560767
Reality is a sweet fictional novel we're writing together. It's why I ask fanciful questions.
Is Huawei really tracking you?
I think you're onto something. Perhaps it's best to focus on the design of the design though. A further derivative of subjectivity ought to fit the bill! :)
> You add more money to the system and where does it go?

Probably from rich person to rich person, but there's the hope tax money goes to actual services. At worst we're in the same position.

> On a tangential note, there is nothing stopping you and a group of like-minded individuals from just paying more taxes to the government.

The people inclined to act in this communal/moral way are often not suited to make significant amounts of money to give away. You need to take the money from the rich people and give it to the poor people.
There are public blocklists that Mastodon instances associated with the left (most of them) use. They are one Google search away.
Android phones give DMA to the baseband. iPhones link up the baseband via USB so that at least is some form of protection.
Apples to oranges; I can get the same results if I compare EU numbers to Nebraska or Louisiana. Please don’t insult your intelligence with these false equivalences.
I strongly disagree. Bayesian inference is the only known self-consistent formal system for doing science, i.e. updating our belief system about the world based on the current evidence.
> the real cost remains the same.

The cost is actually much higher when you’re younger because of the time-value of money. It just doesn’t feel that way because the immediate consequences are lower.
I think you got that wrong. They allowed Uber to use the private API that allowed screen recording. Apple didn't record the activity and send it to Uber.
The majority of people out there in America can't afford for one person to quit their job even temporarily. Most of us don't go on expensive vacations to skip.

Remember that the median household income is 58k meaning half are making less than that.

This includes a LOT of people making 58k in expensive areas where jobs are concentrated and rent is high. A Family of 4 would in 2018 be paying about 10k for health insurance 5k for food 20k for rent 10k in taxes.

A lot of people don't have much savings not because they have expensive hobbies but because they can't afford to save.
Hand-drawn holograms
Give me three+ months a year off, every year, and I will gladly take less pay.

It is not sensible for a teacher to make the same as someone who works fifty weeks a year.
Florida: Day zero
At one point, WhatsApp had 40 engineers and 400 million users.

That’s 10,000,000 users per engineer.

And more users than the US population.

If WhatsApp generates $1 per user per year in revenue, each engineer would be responsible for $10,000,000 in revenue. From my view, no issue paying them $250,000 each and spiffing them with stock options to compensate them for taking full advantage of that insane leverage that modern Internet platforms provide.
You can spare me the snark next time, but thanks. I'd assumed it didn't exist as, from what I can tell, Dennett isn't usually one for that kind of thing.
Every Chinese company is at least partially owned, controlled, or heavily influenced by the Chinese government. It's just a fact of life given their current system of government.

Is this different than American companies who are at least partially funded and/or influenced by the CIA? (Among other sources of government funding...)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In-Q-Tel
The actual report seems rather weak. Some people have an allergic reaction to it, and some mouses may have tumors growing a bit faster - when over 5%(!) of their diet is red dye - and only in one of the three studies.
wallaroo labs is using it at scale, that's the only company I'm familiar with.
I understand that "docker run blah" might be comfortable or even preferable for a lot of people. But, for an open source project written in Go(capable of spitting out single executable binary), I would have loved to see plain old build instructions without Docker. as in Download this, and connect to a MySQL database like this.

Not everyone is comfortable with running Docker for several reasons.
Every website should let you change the way you sign-in (e.g. from Facebook/Google/whatever to pure email/username and back and also change your e-mail address and username) at any time you want.
All manufacturers do this, don't they? My Sony phone had mysterious Sony apps and before smartphones there was carrier-customized firmware.
The average engineer is average, and isn’t producing massive multiples of revenue.

The reality is that lots of waste and bullshit is obscured by growth. Once that train stops, reality bites.
Thanks! I hadn’t seen that article, interesting stuff.
> On a tangential note, there is nothing stopping you and a group of like-minded individuals from just paying more taxes to the government.

If I was wealthy enough to self-fund quality healthcare for all Americans, I would. I can't. But I am pleased when hyper-wealthy people give back significant contributions to the common good.
But at least you have chippies and kebab shops. Don't take that for granted.
Neil deGrasse Tyson: The future of science in the US is bleak
Does anyone have any examples of informative priors that they used to solve some problem at work?
Paypal, Flickr, Slack
I couldnt find the project by Googling "photog". Do you mind giving me a link?
Python Pandas solutions and examples
Happy that it worked for you!

This is how it should work: https://media.giphy.com/media/5qFNBAdrUk0ChXfyJz/giphy.gif
Most people can't just move to a cheaper country. First outside of Europe most countries will welcome you to be a tourist but not live their if you aren't financially independent.

Most people not doing remote jobs will also command a much lower income in the cheaper country negating any benefit.

Most people don't have so much in savings that they can just live off their savings for long even if its in a foreign country.

Move somewhere cheaper is just nonsensical advice for 99% of people.
Why don't we read about this for Korean or American companies at all?

The problem with China is that there is a giant trust deficit. And some of this is their own making. For instance, them forcing companies to share intellectual property with them to have access to the market or them deliberately getting countries into large debts as part of BRI initiative - is outrageous. So even if Huawei may not be as bad as what this article makes out to be, but the general narrative is against China. And it is well deserved.
Zero Knowledge Backups with Android 9 and Titan Chip
Your landlord is paying what society asks. Who are to say this isn't fair?

In any case your excuse is a cop out, you're just a lazy complainer. Typical California...on your high horse but someone else has to act first. Just write a check to the FSB and stop making excuses why you can't follow through
Hi, thanks for the feedback. I think the main difference between the products you mention and BackendLab is that BackendLab will soon offer the ability to export your code (this isnt yet mentioned on the landing page). So you can build your prototype, export it then build it out. The export would initially be done as a Django project, as that's how the BackendLab api is built
I am a generalist who spends a lot of time cleaning up after specialist simpletons. I really do, not just just a come-back.

Whether one has the patience to look ahead and code with more thought and care than a ferret high on red bull, has nothing to do with whether they are a generalist or a specialist.
I started by working on a theory of design. The religion is an artistic packaging of a programming framework for the human self. It's all centered around hacking my perceptions.

Does that seem to address what you're talking about? Cause now I'm intrigued by whatever other thoughts you might have.
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Whether he's truly a gladly or not, you have to appreciate a guy who's self-aware enough about such opinions that he listed this quip first on the back cover of his latest book (from memory, mind you) —

>The trouble with Taleb isn't that he's an asshole—he is an asshole. The trouble with Taleb is that he is right.

Love that!
My Samsung prevents me from uninstalling the Facebook app which came pre installed.

I don't care if Samsung prevents you from removing their camera app but facebook doesn't have anything to do with Samsung so I should at least be able to remove that.
>...one source intentionally gave a false story, another described an unrelated attack, and the third merely commented on the technical possibility ...

Yep, that is very likely for 3 sources, but they (assertedly) had 17.

It is really hard to believe to the story, still, besides the journalists/authors there are editors and I cannot believe that - given the relevance of this story - it was not double/triple checked and approved for publishing only after a throroughful review.