skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The point is that some things make a proportional difference, which at the level of an individual is minimal but make a real impact if 30-70% of people do it, whereas other things only work with a critical mass, which are then still useless even if 30-70% of people do them because you need 70-100% of people to do it for it to be effective at all.

If you as an individual are going to do something, do the first kind of thing.
So... Five stars then? ;)

(But seriously, HN comments are actually great at recommending things.)
I'd expect them to go by the standard. "C Programming Language" has this to say:

> Whether plain chars are signed or unsigned is machine-dependent, but printable characters are always positive.

Kernighan, Brian W.. C Programming Language (p. 36). Pearson Education. Kindle Edition.
Proce55ing (remember its original name?) is today's LOGO.

It's a fantastic way for people to approach programming in a very visual and progressive way.

When P5.js first came out, I was skeptical. But today with the power of javascript, I think it's just as fine for most applications.
Well Wasm can interact with Dom and js while flash could not flash was totally isolated from the Dom.
Humans don't digest soy in the same way as animal models - studies found no hormonal impact on a heavy soy diet. If hormone absorption was that readily influenced digestively one should only eat meat of the same sex and athletes should be eating rocky mountain oysters and spotted hyena meat frequently as a loophole for steroids as it is just food that happens to have testerone and not drugs.
> a nationwide pricing list for medical procedures, with as few possibilities for deviation

This already exists with Medicare.
I don't think it's the lack of trying that is doing you in, so much as it is a linear approach to entrepreneurship like what they will teach in business 101 classes: you are going through the motions without having the underpinning philosophy to animate them usefully.

A key part of this puzzle is knowing what you want to focus your mind's effort on: product design, coding problems, sales, etc. When you actually meet a market, you aren't just doing whatever you want and they buy it: you are engineering the specific thing that they actually buy, whether it's stereotypical "service with a smile" or "value for money" or "niche high end for discerning tastes". And advice about finding and optimizing performance metrics is exactly what this accomplishes. You have to consciously decide which metrics you want to optimize and throw all your leverage around their improvement, which tends to also throw you outside your comfort zone.

If you don't want to do that kind of sales-and-profits hustling, you're being an entrepreneur in a more speculative, "build it and they will come" sense, which has a much lower hit rate. But that doesn't mean you can't do it at all: you still have to decide on metrics for success, you just aren't using the surface ones now. It is in avoiding any kind of deliberate improvement that you trail off into having a non-functional business, and there are plenty of companies around that are alive, have employees and turn profits, but are in a zombified state, not really showing ambition - and that's definitely not entrepreneurship.

For example: you are in the business of manufacturing and selling crowbars. You decide that you will sell "the world's strongest crowbar". OK, now you have goals that produce a lot of activity: how strong are the existing crowbars on the market? What tests should you use to determine strength? Which materials and manufacturing methods will make your product stronger? What marketing materials will demonstrate the results most effectively?

At the end of that work, you may discover that there is no market for your crowbar, but there are opportunities for adapting the process to rebar instead.

When companies grow really big, the entrepreneurial process turns to one of creating a "machinery of people", vs proving that the market for employing those people exists. It's a different skillset, and is utilized only occasionally, when the stars are right and you happen to have a business that can scale. But it's still ultimately about setting the metrics that are right for that business at that moment.

If you aren't involved with fitness/sports/athletics, it's worth doing so just to get a taste of what focusing on performance and growth mindset day after day will do.
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Completely agreed. I think Wikipedia has the right idea for dealing with company names like this - use title case and omit anything that isn't pronounced. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Trad...
The primary issue with infinite scroll is not the implementation, it's the idea that a page with "infinite" content is useful or desirable to begin with.
If there's no pressure regulator (due to systems being designed that way a hundred years ago), and the pressure spikes, it doesn't matter how the pipes were put together- your pilot lights become blowtorches.
I’m pretty sure this won’t scale.
Given the performance of the DOTA2 bots I don't see any reason why PPO + fancy network architecture won't solve this as well. I expect OpenAI to publish on this in 2019 if not sooner.
This actually takes it in a direction I disagree with.

Once you get used to manipulating buffers, elisp actually is easier than most other languages. What it is bad at is processing strings. Because it is good at processing text buffers.

I am on my phone, but if this thread is still going this evening, I'll show roughly what that snippet would look like. Will be, roughly, (forward-word) (move -1) (insert "/"). Obviously, some differences if you were moving words or paragraphs. But basic idea is the same.

That is, don't try and manipulate strings. Manipulate the entire buffer. If needed, build a new buffer with what all you want.

The irony is that elisp has a decent dsl for manipulating text. But you have to embrace the mutable nature of it. Which is unexpected for many working with a lisp.
I read somewhere, and sorry I don’t remember the source, that Kodak knew the digital future was coming, but they didn’t believe the speed with which it arrived. Kodak was one of the first companies with digital cameras.
I was a very early stackoverflow user. I was excited and loved the idea. I still think it's a great idea, but I've come to abhor the police state moderation culture. To directly answer your question, yes, I completely agree that something has gone horribly wrong. I've forgotten more incidents than I can remember, but a few points I do remember: many good questions are closed; I've had questions hidden by people who (by their own admission) did not understand the tech being asked about but decided incorrectly the question was a duplicate; and I've seen some harmful cultural values widely supported on the meta pages.

My general impression is that some moderators seem to think of themselves as the gatekeepers to a promised land of knowledge, and the unwashed masses are just trying to ruin their pristine gardens, and must be aggressively pushed back. The truth is that stackoverflow can only exist because people like both receiving and giving help with their expertise. The site would be much better if it put this benevolence at its core rather than the guarded-perfect-garden model.
You’re right. It is true that top quality LPs tend to be universities, foundations, and pension funds. And with a funds USV’s size it’s pretty easy to only fill it with those good guys. I was surprised they had any family offices.

Before the global growth fund, Sequoia claimed that all of their LPs were not-for-profits (although excluding pensions funds is usually for transparency reasons).

Having said that, I don’t think that every top quartile fund could make the same claim even if USV, Sequioa, and Benchmark could...
That second one was very weird.
Down-voting won't erase the fact that this was the Republican platform in 2016: "Require price transparency from all healthcare providers, especially doctors and healthcare organizations like clinics and hospitals." [1]

[1] Scroll down to point #5 in https://web.archive.org/web/20161110004206/https://www.donal...
‘Transgender’ Could Be Defined Out of Existence Under Trump Administration
> Does private life assurance pay out if you are killed war-fighting?

That's only half the question.

The other half of the question is: do the people who die in war-fighting typically have private life insurance?

From my experience, the answer is a huge no. Most people go to war with government life insurance, simply because it's heavily pushed on them. They don't have a need for life insurance because they're unmarried 18-22 year old men, so I highly doubt that they have many non-SGLI policies.

The biggest reason people buy life insurance is because they're married and they have a mortgage. That disqualifies almost all of the military. Even if service members are married, they typically live in on-base housing and don't carry a mortgage.
Fujifilm got billions of dollars in secret money from the Japanese government, and hide billions more on the books. This is Japanese culture, they would not let such an important company die.
On the other hand, sure Kodak died, but the Americans now have Apple and Google - while Japan doesn't.
Agreed that the sites aren't so good. I went with Larousse's app, which isn't perfect, but works well. Their website, on the other hand, is fairly painful to use.

Though, agreed with others that Wiktionary is good. It often offers higher-quality entries than the commercial ones, too.
I mean, you are both pointing out things that exist, are happening, and are problematic.
What are your ideas (generically speaking)?
So first sale doctrine means nothing? We should all investigate the restrictions on how we use the device before buying?

I'm fine if we conclude "yes", but it is worth noticing that this is not the "norm" for most of human history and so the question is entirely reasonable to ask.
Don't forget the nurse mechanics needed to transport the vehicle to the right location and the anesthesiologist mechanic to monitor the vehicle's electrical system, and the surgeon mechanic to do the procedure. And they'll also charge you fees for the tools they use.
I spent a lot of time on Reddit and have never seen infinite scroll on it except when I had the 3rd party plugin "Reddit Enhancement Suite" installed. Is it in the new layout they pushed out recently, or do you have RES installed?
I am several standard deviations to the left of Fred Wilson, but I can't fathom why his decision is being greeted with so much negativity.

He might have taken dodgy money at some point (but he's willing to acknowledge it) and now he's big enough to screen his LPs but he still didn't have to write this piece. That he has chosen to do so is a sign of progress. Let's give credit where it's due.

As a vegan, I want the world to stop eating slaughtered flesh, but I will be the first person to applaud if McDonalds stopped purchasing factory farmed meat (if only!). There's always the next frontier in our quest for justice and all the more reason to applaud an act of courage.
No way to completely avoid? Perhaps. But there are many ways to reduce.
> Why aree you ordering brands off amazon

WTF? Because fraud is illegal and amazon often has lower prices on goods.
I stopped reading as soon as the author compared Prudential’s liability size to the US GDP. Just because numbers are similarly large does not make them comparable. Its like comparing Bezo’s $147B fortune to the 147B grains of sand on a 100 yard stretch of Rainier beach in Seattle. Not apples to apples.
Thanks for the detailed explanation. I haven't used smalltalk, and I think making the mental shift from "source files and an interpreter or compiler" to "working in the image" is something I'll need to experience to fully appreciate.
What do you mean by successful and what do you mean by damaged? If you mean money and happiness then the correlation is pretty well studied and results are quite intuitive.
Agreed. In my experience, people want to use this modulo operator (e.g. for implementing a ring buffer or wrap-around as you mentioned), but many languages use the other modulo which leads to all sorts of bugs. It doesn’t make sense to me since this modulo is more natural from both a mathematical and an engineering perspective.
Heisenburg's response is part of the evidence that he really had flubbed, and overestimated the amount of nuclear material needed for a reaction.
They're basically doing what BMW and Mercedes dealers have done for a long, long time. Overprice the repair labor and repair parts, market the product to people who don't particularly care how much it costs, and charge a ridiculous amount for scheduled services.

There's a reason why a ten year old BMW 7 series has terrible resale value, the parts are incredibly expensive and rare/hard to find, in addition to the intentionally overcomplicated engineering of many subsystems. Using the 7 series as an example there is a steel cooling system tube that runs through the top center of the engine, with a rubber gasket on it. It's a thing that commonly fails and if you need to replace it, the "book rate" labor to do so requires something like 13 hours of labor (at $150/hour?), because it requires removing the whole engine.

Even if you are willing to take it to a third party small repair shop that specializes in german cars, your repair costs are going to be a lot higher than a ten year old Lexus.

Apple gluing things together in a way that can't be easily serviced (look at ifixit's repair scores and teardown photo galleries) is very similar.
A couple thoughts:

- It's not quite fair to compare the service you get from some randomly chosen retail employees with the service you get from a near-celebrity repairman.

- Aggressively suing people over copyright infringement is sometimes required by copyright law. If you don't do it, other people in the future can argue in court that you were implicitly giving up your enforcement rights. I don't know how often they win with that argument, but I know how Apple's lawyers feel about risking it.
https://plackperl.org

https://mojolicious.org

https://github.com/miyagawa/Starman
I understand your misconceptions about this working. It really just depends on if it appears to be vulnerable enough to scanners, and whether people actually bother to take interest. I guess you could say that my "project" is more of and experiment in how hackers go about finding vulnerable devices. Who knows, maybe hackers don't take interest in vulnerable telnet services anymore (they probably don't), but thats okay, this was fun while it lasted. I'll leave the memes on the readme.
mckmk outlined a lot of issues with online/blockchain voting that I echo, but I have some additional concerns.

It maybe feels dismissive when I put it this way, but you're describing HTML forms. I know you're arguing "votes on the blockchain [are] immutable and publicly verifiable", but there's nothing preventing a political regime claiming mass coercion or hacking and forking the history. Everything else is just a web app (we can even cover immutability, given INSERT only privileges and a UNIQUE constraint):

- You can vote from your phone

My phone has a browser.

- Votes can be counted instantly in real time:

This is how web apps work.

- Votes can be independently verified

Web apps generate logs and store information for later verification.

- You can verify that your vote is counted correctly and included

Ditto.

- You should also be able to make your identity private using zero knowledge proofs...

Either there's a way to map votes to people, unmasking their votes, or the government can pad the votes with junk IDs and no one can verify it. This system fundamentally cannot work.

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Aside from these intractable, fundamental issues, the two main reasons we don't have online voting yet are:

- Not everyone has a computer or internet access

- It's extremely, dangerously insecure

And before you get into how secure blockchains are, please keep in mind we're not simply talking about technological security. There are so many ways to game this system, the primary one simply being you steal someone's BankID and vote for them. Personal information is stolen by malware all the time. And sure, when the victim goes to vote themselves and finds their vote was already cast, they can alert the authorities. But what if this is the case for a significant percentage of black people in Georgia? Will authorities fix the issue on Election Day? Will they fix 8 million of these issues on Election Day? What if an attacker files 8 million of these "someone voted for me" complaints in the last hour? This adds fragility to an election system that simply can't afford it.

All in all, you need to do a lot more research into the history of online voting proposals before you can seriously propose publishing votes on the blockchain. Which is my entire point about blockchain technology -- whenever someone wants to put something on it, two things are true:

- Other existing technology is a better fit

- The proposer is not an expert on the system they want to replace
There's a big difference between not being able to provide an exact estimate because of unforeseen events[1] and not providing an estimate that includes services that are being provided to pretty much everyone visiting the health care provider for the given condition. I mean the nurse and the doctor costs quoted above are not "unforeseen".

[1] If you're going to try to say that what is "unforeseen" is relative it's not that relative, you can get an independent committee of doctors and provide a percentage based on their experience how much often that event is expected in that situation
That's one view. I honestly never understood the attraction of Velvia 50. I know it was beloved of people who were better photographers than I.But I'd use Kodachrome 25 (which had a similar effective film speed) any day.The greens and blues of Velvia always seemed fake.

In any case, both of those were niche films for pros and a few prosumers.
Markets where you can not tell how good a product is simply by reading the technical spec or scientific tests, eg markets where fake reviews will have a strong impact is not a market you want to enter, because everyone is hustling and the price people are willing to pay will keep dropping.
My advice is never give up. You have a deep introspection on your life which is a double edged sword. On one hand it's very important to learn from your past and your mistakes. On the other hand you need to believe in yourself to succeed. Don't short change your skills or ability.

I think the thing with the most value you can build in your life is a company. One off websites can be very successful, but it's rare. You'll have higher success building a business that solves some problem for a big audience.

Come back when you've failed ten times. I'm sure even then you won't be asking that question.
Doctors, like auto mechanics, repeat the same tasks over and over and have a pretty good idea what something will cost. Like with automobiles, there are sometimes surprises, and those can require a new estimate to be signed off on.

Software development is inherently nonrepetitive and therefore unpredictable.

Healthcare is much closer to auto repair than software development.
Compared to pages it's been a groundbreaking improvement to me at least.
Godspeed brother, I wish you the best. You'll be in my thoughts
Apple stores as the new car dealerships - I am digging the analogy.
What does "kernel" lisp refer to? Is it cl-jupyter, a kernel for Jupyter notebooks?
They're both dollars. Not making a good argument here.
Devil's advocate here, Rossman cites that only a pin needed to be bent back in the case of the flickering display. Apple has to provide a warranty on their service, therefore they want the solution that is least likely to break again. Bending the pin may not be good until the lifespan of the device, it may break off next time the machine is dropped or put down a little hard.

Of course, any sane person would have a discussion with the customer about whether or not they wanted to try a simple fix versus replace the whole damn thing, which is the crux of the overpricing argument.

The other argument is cost, Apple faces massive short supply on the Genius Bar, so having more bodies that can do simpler repairs faster (ie blind part swaps) seems to have won out over having technical talent properly diagnose and repair the machine.

They could have alleviated this through their authorized service providers, but hobble them with massive fees, high part prices and overall little trust (often being last in line to receive technical documents and training for new devices). Just check out Linus Sebastian's iMac Pro saga for an insight.

Overall, it's a massive system orchestrated to give Apple maximum control over the entire process, and nowhere near enough supply for consumers. It's now actively hampering their experience, leaving people without the super glossy Genius Bar experience or a cheap option at all. I believe they've just put too few resources into this area and are too greedy to loosen the stranglehold of control for third parties to pick up the slack. Directly in contrast to their whole "we want these products to last" argument from the recent iPhone release keynote.
I want you to know that I love you for doing this.

Thank you, thank you, thank you!

Now I have to go read Frankenstein, so thanks for that as well. :)

https://archive.org/details/frankensteinorm02shelgoog/page/n...
I'm someone who wants to find my niche as well and run a business, but I think that the reasoning is the same. When you see a problem and you build a solution, then you get to organize a group of people around that solution. Sure at first you're wearing a lot of hats, but if you can get talented people onboard for a mission that's worth getting up for every day, that's something special and I think that's what a lot of people really are working towards when managing a business. I can say this about a cultural issue. I work in a company where the culture can cause a lot of problems with motivation because I had two really poorly suited people above me that impacted large swaths of the company. Then we were purchased and for a while it was really worse. Since then I've been really lucky to have some of the most amazing management I could ask for. During the bad times I mostly protected the people I was responsible for as best I could.

What I can offer for those who aren't motivated are a few things.

1. It starts at the top. If you make yourself the top then it starts with you and you get to set the tone. A crappy boss can make a great job terrible. A great boss can make a crappy job manageable with some moments of happiness.

2. Find what drives them. Few people are okay with the status quo. This requires building trust with your people and regular communication. If you can find out what makes someone want to do more and grow you're golden.

3. If your job has growth and people just don't want it, find better people. Jobs like this typically have high attrition unless it's something like government, military, or some other rigidly structured role. If that's the case and you want more, look elsewhere. There's almost always someone willing to pay more for someone who multiplies their team's output.

Whatever your journey, I really do wish you a fulfilling and enjoyable life. A lot of times things, especially now, can seem fatalistic or just downright bad. A single candle in the dark can light the way for many others. :)
I'd bet a lot of the fake reviews would disappear if they just:

1. Limited users ability to post reviews to say, 3 per year and no more than 1 in any given month.

2. Limit users ability to post more than one review per
vendor, per year.

3. Only allow reviews by verified purchasers.
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