skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On this note, without mentioning names, I'm going to share two real world examples of people I know turning businesses into profitable side projects in very very crowded markets.

One is so profitable in fact that the side project is about to become his full time business. He built a tool to do link tracking using social media pixels. I mean that's a suuuuuper crowded market, but he fine tuned it enough to serve a particular customer base of small to medium businesses and with a primary focus on managing retargeting pixels in one place.

The second business I know of was built in the market of checking cron job success/uptime and doing alerting on failures. Again, there are other products that do exactly this thing. But humans being humans don't connect purely with the feature sheet. From pricing to overall experience his product and customer service was different enough that people are paying for it. And while it was a slog to get his first 10 paying customers, his next 10 took only 1/3rd of the time that it did for the first 10.

This is just a supporting statement for the above comment. Have courage in yourself. Go forth! :)
I'd be very surprised if there was one you couldn't (and would be worth noting in the database.) Most of these boards expect you to be fairly literate both from a hardware and software standpoint.
- The Cove

- Requiem for the American Dream

- VICE s02e01 Afghan Money Pit

- VICE s02e02 Greenland is Melting
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Medicare doesn't cover everything. Most senior citizens are still paying significant healthcare expenses out of pocket.
Wow this was such an awesome viewing. I have found amazing work from the refinement typing folks at USCD. The book by Ranjit Dhalla is a gold mine!

http://goto.ucsd.edu/~rjhala/lh-book-draft.pdf

One question I had was can this be extended to type-drive "type" synthesis to derive new types and then use that to synthesize programs?
Because the Apple Stores do not offer electronic circuit diagnosis services. The quote would have been based on an educated guess, as backlight failure plus triggered moisture sensors often points to a corroded motherboard as the underlying fault.

It's not fair to expect Apple's store staff to accurately diagnose faults on the assumption that the device was opened and mishandled by the customer or a third party repairer. The guys in these stores aren't electronics experts, they're just regular people with some training on the most common points of failure and the out-of-warranty repair options offered by Apple.
Yeah, I was aware of the redirects, they're very helpful! It would've been okay to rely on redirects on a temporary basis if my long-term plan was to move everything to the new username. But I wanted the repos to keep their old URL permanently, so that's why I moved them.
The only reason that those "repair fraud gangs" are worth while is that iPhone parts are difficult and expensive the obtain.

If they produced enough spare parts and sold them at reasonable cost it wouldn't be as worthwhile for those "gangs" to try to abuse the warranty system for parts.
Thanks, Tom! If you could go back and make the decision over again, would you have done enterprise sooner, or later? Do you think GitHub would still have been very successful if you stuck only with SaaS?
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There are really two questions. One is what is a reasonable profit margin for a software distributor. Before there was a app store there was boxed software in brick and mortar stores so there is a reference there. The other issue is that Apple imposes a monopoly on software distribution in their devices. Because of the monopoly no one can really be sure what a fair cut is in the app age because there is no competition.
Uh, QA? The source nation isn't the problem, is that Amazon is listing those crappy products over quality items.

Although, I would LOVE if Amazon let me filter out products not made in America.
Back when this first started Meredith built a "prototype" in a couple of days which, to a layperson, would appear impressive. There was a function generator with an amplifier sending out ultrasound via an array of transmitters and about a meter away there was an array of receiving transducers that picked up the utlrasound. Then the output from those receiving transducers was rectified with a few diodes to get DC. In this demonstration she had a multimeter showing the voltage at the receiving side, and when she tweaked things just right, she received 5 volts on the receiving side. 5 volts is the standard voltage you'd use to charge a phone, or any other USB powered device, so it was reasoned that she had created a viable system that could charge phones wirelessly.

The problem is that any idiot can get 5 volts out of thin air. You can literally hang up a long bare wire and rectify ambient radio waves and get 5 volts. The trick is getting 5 volts and being able to supply significant amounts of current at the same time i.e. receiving useful amounts of _power_. Power = Volts x Amps and Meredith and her investors simply did not understand the importance of this equation that a freshman in engineering would understand. FOMO kicked in and they threw millions of dollars at her thinking it was going to be the next big thing.
Whenever a CEO starts to behave as if the success of their company/idea is a personal battle as opposed to an actual business, time to get out.

Back in 2015, the uBeam CEO ended a combative twitter rant with "peace out, bitches." Yeah, it was very personal.

https://twitter.com/search?q=from%3Ameredithperry%20since%3A...
According to the article, people were getting refunded via side channel and keeping the products.
First of all, I respect your self-awareness. I’ve been in a similar rut.

I disagree with some suggestions here that you should watch things like Startup School. Those videos, while well-intentioned, can make you feel even more inadequate and “behind” when you feel stuck.

If you’re losing a game of basketball, it’s not terribly fun to watch somebody else make dunk after dunk.

I currently run one of the largest newsletters in tech (https://techloaf.io), which I started purely as tiny side project to force me into action while in a similar rut. It started with just me writing up satirical jokes and sending out and email to a few friends each week, to now a project with about a dozen writers and a wide following.

As unhelpful or vague as this might sound, I’ve found that just doing something can have a snowball effect. Pick the smallest possible task for the easiest possible side project and start doing. For me, that was literally just telling a few people that I’d send them a funny email each week.

Best of luck, you’ll look back on this and smile once you’ve got your next project off the ground.
There's a 50 dose limit, set by the Customs and Border Protection Agency when bringing drugs back into the US, without a US prescription. There are some exemptions for bringing prescriptions in from Canada and Mexico.

The FDA has its own rules, set at a three month supply, requiring a prescription, and the drug must be legal in the US. You'll see conflicting reports on whether you can get through customs with a three month prescription.

For example here, from the FDA:

"Travel with no more than you need for your personal use during your stay. A rule of thumb: Bring no more than a 90-day supply of medication."

https://www.fda.gov/ForConsumers/ConsumerUpdates/ucm484154.h...

Does that apply only to foreigners, to US citizens, both? Who knows, their own information across agencies seems conflicting and confused. They're probably all unsure of which agency actually has final authority at this point, and or they each probably think their agency does.

That said, every year millions of Americans bring in illegal prescriptions regardless. If you're desperate enough and the savings is high enough, why not try it within reason (stopping short of some large cache that gets you tagged for smuggling that is).
This is long overdue. As I'm sure any Perl developer that's had a chance/reason to use Javascript in more than the simplest of contexts will likely attest to, Javascript often feels like someone took some ancient proto-Perl, changed the syntax, and added a bunch of features that weren't tested for how well they meshed with the language at all.

Perl has it's fair share of syntactic oddities and mistakes, but once you understand the underlying themes and goals of the language,and how a few core differences from almost all other languages inform it's use (statement context!), it comes across as very thoughtfully designed and implemented. That isn't always apparent at first, and some people disagree with the design goals, but it does feel like it makes sense.

Javascript rarely feels that way to me. The more I can rely on only those new features the more I can fool myself into ignoring the ugly warts underneath, but they pop up whether you want them to or not (equivalence testing, null and undefined, etc).
No, grains and tubers were more important everywhere where agriculture was a thing. Vegetables were relatively insignificant as source of calories.
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Kodak did have high end sensors. They just never developed them for mass market applications. Much of the satellite imagery on Google maps is via Kodak hardware.
Using the natural integer whenever possible keeps the C code abstract. The program becomes less limited as it is ported to more capable machines with bigger integers, instead of continuing to pretend that everything is a 32 bit i386.

You need some low-level justification for using an uint32_t and such: like conforming to some externally imposed data format or memory-mapped register bank.

The justification for <stdint.h> is that it's better to have one way of defining these types in the language, than every program and every library in every program rolling its own configuration system for detecting types and the typedefs which name them. Let's see, for calling Glib, we use guint32, for OpenMax we use OMX_U32, ...

Funny how these situations persist almost 20 years after stdint.h was standardized (and a number of more years after being draft features).
It means that a relatively tiny (~1%) forecasting error in the long-term values of assets/liabilities, and how the future might play out, can make or break the company. That means that the predictive model for the future better be very good, and "black swan" surprises unanticipated by the model will have nasty consequences.
Was posted here a couple of days ago, but the headline has since changed:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18261235

(might just be posting this so my comment on the other thread isn't entirely wasted)
Most life insurance policies have exceptions for war.
I would rather that those users, who own their own devices, are able to do whatever the hell that they want with their own property.

Apple does not rent you a device. They sell them. Once they sell them, they should be yours. That's how property works.

If a refrigerator company put in special protections that made it difficult to put food in your refrigerator, without paying a 30% tax, would you accept that? I wouldn't.
McCartyism red scare. These same people often talk about single-payer "socialized medicine" as having a six month wait for care, which we already have, plus people going bankrupt for having cancer or another major disease. Billionaires and their neofascist, neocon lackeys in media spew the propaganda of austerity and libertarianism for the people while having feudalistic socialist welfare for the rich.
>Proof?

That's essentially the definition of a think tank. This one was founded by a libertarian and considered by many to be libertarian. Certainly cause to question their stats, and I didn't like what I saw.

>You trust a government entity to accurately report data that's not in it's best interest? When has that ever happened?

This is probably enough for you to question their stats, but you've done nothing to show they are wrong.
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Copy paste private key is probably the lowest common denominator and not the most ideal option in most cases.

As for Trezor case the private key does not leave the device. I would imagine that the integration would be like most cases where the data gets sent to the hardware wallet to be sent. Signed in the wallet and it spits out the payload to be broadcasted.

As such by using hardware wallets, you shouldn't be exposing private keys outside of ththe device at all.
> Sound travels in a wave and energy would dissipates exponentially with distance

It's actually possible to transmit sound waves without the exponential decay with "directional sound" [1]. It is produced using a "phased array" [2] of speakers, where each speaker has a different a phase. The point is to create constructive interference in the direction you want the sound beam. Directional speakers have existed for a while and that's probably how uBeam emitters work.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directional_sound

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phased_array
I have to confess to some confusion about how all these Tensorflow for Swift changes work. Is this being built into a tensorflow-ey fork of Swift? Is it on the roadmap for being incorporated into the core language? How does one tell from these Github manifestos?
> Second, did shipping all source code in plain text to enterprise clients concern you?

In the early days we ran the Ruby code through an obfuscator (which came along with its own set of problems), since we offered a downloadable free trial and didn't know how paranoid we needed to be. Still, much of the codebase remained unobfuscated (CSS, scripts, etc). The hardest part was trying to discourage legit customers not to mess directly with the code, as it made upgrades nearly impossible to manage. To avoid this, we focused on building extensibility APIs into the product that would be useful for all customers. Our licenses, of course, also stipulated the things you mentioned, but hackers will be hackers, so we had to deal with some interesting circumstances from time to time.
I'd love a retail site that let me search by useful criteria, like country of origin, ingredients (e.g. food must contain or must not contain X), dimensions (not just '3" to 9"' when I want exactly 6.5"), etc. Amazon has most of the data already listed in tables on the product pages.

I want Octopart for everything else.
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Do our brains use a reasoning process invented by our brains?
Do it 100% was on the first lecture in Startup school.
Same here. I don't ask too many questions these days, but have always got help if I formed my questions as specific as possible, and provided relevant code.

I (try to) do some moderating each week on new user questions, and the biggest issues are: Posts don't have code in them, and are entirely too broad. Them number of times I've left the comment "please post some code" is in the hundreds.
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I'm far from convinced about QC yet, but the first transistor was in 1947 and now the CPU in my phone has over 3 billion. Looks like they took 30 years to get from that first transistor to the TMS 1000 with 8,000 transistors on it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transistor_count#Microprocesso...

I just thought that was interesting...
Their fee for preventing it from becoming a cesspool is 30%. Sounds reasonable to me.
There's no reason to expect a significant increase in Japanese cancer cases due to the Fukushima incident.
"C:\WINDOWS\system32\config\systemprofile\" is the profile folder (%USERPROFILE%) for the LocalSystem account; it doesn't normally have a desktop folder.

If Windows is trying to find your desktop folder there when you log on interactively, something's gone horribly wrong (but, frankly, that doesn't surprise me with the 1809 update).
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18271180
It is indefensible because it is not apples property. The property instead belongs to the customer.

Apple is trying to take away everyone's legal right to repair property that they own. I consider that a violation i
of property rights.
Bitmessage had this and it would burn up my laptop cpu trying to send a text message but spammers with gpu farms could still take out the whole network with no troubles.
I've often thought about this predicament. The original inventor made a demo and raised a lot of money. It's clear that after they went ahead, they didn't quite get it working due to the physics involved. (It's not viable.)

Around the time that this was becoming super clear to everyone (around three years ago), I wrote them this (not sure if they got it):

https://imgur.com/a/WQicmGS

Since then I've thought about this so much. Here's Suster's glowing praise when handing them a huge check, a year earlier:

https://imgur.com/a/i2zIslW

What I concluded in the past 4 years of lightly watching this is that you must retain total, like, totalitarian power over your company, to do whatever you want to do. Because uBeam did the hard part: getting the cash. It's practically impossible to fund a company. Really, go ahead and try it. I'll wait. See you when you're 45 and have been trying for 15 years across ten companies, and finally said fuck it and built your own organic revenues of half a million a month with 90% margin, and still aren't getting the checks. The hard part is the Series A.

But the problem is signing paperwork that gives investors (such as Suster), any amount of control whatsoever.

It's clear that Perry was smart enough to figure out the tech wasn't working. But she wasn't powerful enough to pivot to something that was.

Her lesson, at least to me, is that you must retain almost total power to do whatever you want at the company.

I'll never sign anything that gives investors any amount of power whatsoever. If they want to be along for the ride, go ahead. But you don't get to be Steve Jobs without negotiating enough power to be Steve Jobs.

Steve Jobs has gone down a lot of rabbit holes that, uh, didn't lead anywhere. He could do that because he negotiated for it.

If you're founding CEO, you need to negotiate for total power at your company. Or you will end up like Meredith Perry.

The problem isn't with the tech. It's that she just wasn't powerful enough to keep doing whatever the fuck she wanted. Her lesson to me is: "Get more power."

If you're the visionary CEO of a tech company, and aren't powerful enough to do whatever the fuck you want to do, including pivoting out of what you just sold to investors - then you didn't get the negotiations and the paperwork right. Be more powerful.

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EDIT: downvoter, I'm happy to engage in a conversation about your opinion on this matter.
> It's the same thing as saying we shouldn't buy Saudi oil. If the only result is that you buy some other oil and the people who would have bought that oil buy the Saudi oil, nothing meaningful has changed.

I'm not sure this is true for oil. For example, long standing sanctions against Iran prevented them from selling a lot of their oil and crippled their economy quite a lot (decreasing their income).

The same could be done with Saudi Arabia if there were will to do it (there isn't, western politicians are too intertwined with Saudi money, especially so in US & UK, to a lesser extent in other western countries but without US/UK approval, no action against Saudis will happen).

Oil would come from other countries, they could increase their output while Saudis are under sanctions. I think it's not as fungible as money (and even with money I don't it's 100% fungible as bank accounts can be frozen, again see Iran).
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My memory was off by a couple of years. You know what I mean, though.
Trinity and Beyond narrated by William Shatner: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity_and_Beyond
Apple controls how icons are laid out in their store - you don’t have 1.3 billion people looking at your app. If you did have 1.3 billion app icon impressions you will be removed from the store.
I live in SEA where we use the 'toilet hose' mentioned in the article. If there is -one- thing I will bring back from living here, that's it.
What does your company do to where they're chill with trying to ship p6? Just open-minded?
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Seems pretty poor. It has the Minnowboard MAX but none of the recent versions of the minnow board there have been at least two updates since the MAX.
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It's virtue signalling that puts a pinch on your competitors who can't turn down money from bad actors.
People here don't like being told the truth.
Thanks for articulating this better than me in my reply. I also agree the oil / fungibility example was quite bad. Iran vs Saudi Arabia & petrodollar is really straightforward evidence against such argument.
> (Though I would still worry. Tiny cell phone cameras are becoming better and better every year, and that's really a function of the sensors, which they buy from Sony.)

Cellphone sensors are their biggest limiting factor. Specifically, the size. Apple already seems to have squeezed as much "photo" as it can out of its sensor+image processing combination, and is using its image processing for other things (3d photos, fake bokeh).

35mm is pretty much done too in terms of large advancements in basic photo IQ. Nikon's very first full frame camera (the D3) was already 90% of the way there, and for the last 10 years they have been squeezing that last 10% out. Fujifilm isn't even competing there - they have gone for a larger sensor out of the gate.
Agreed. His work shines in short story format. The full length novels I mentioned (Permutation City and Diaspora) are the ones that I think hold up the best to the longer format.
Or instead of that, we could assert our legal rights and sue everyone who breaks them. And if the laws don't do what we want, we should change them to make such things illegal.

If Apple doesn't want to lose money then they should follow the law.

I'd say the same thing to a company selling poisoned food. "Just don't buy it" isn't a valid argument.

The valid argument is instead "companies that break the law should be fined, sued, or people should go to jail".

That's democracy for you!
This must be a bad analogy since consumers do widely accept it. Nobody I know cares about where profits go when they buy an app, they just want nice apps that work well for cheap.
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