skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While your comment makes sense, I think you're underestimating the size of the world outside of YC's circle.

It's incorrect to be in the delusion that you have to move to the valley to be a top company, but that depends on the definition of top, which here is valuation and it's hard to beat valuations that the Silicon Valley can afford and help realise because of the ecosystem that's formed over the years.

YC is based in the USA, so it's not really a surprise that you'd have to move there to be a top YC company.

You can build a top company anywhere in the world, even if your definition is that of valuation, the process remains by and large the same that YC advocates in documents such as the startup playbook and the startup school courses (the parlance may be different in material from different sources), and I believe that it gets easier to build a top company where you are if you make your own definition of top as valuations could be deceiving.

You don't necessarily have to move to SV to make a top company by valuation, top YC company: stats suggest yes, but I still believe there's slim chances you could do it from anywhere, YC tries hard to be inclusive, however their location presents them with constraints, hence the stats.

To decide where to move in order to build a top company, first understand what is your definition of a top company and whether you really want to disrupt your life, move to the valley, and build what the world calls a top company.

PS - No disrespect to valuations, the Silicon Valley or anyone's ideologies.
Two days ago, I read an article on why kids should not interact with screens too much in their early life and I reflected on how that affected me.

I also found that I have no fun in playing games lately. It feels like a chore, a heroin-like distraction, an addiction basically.

So yesterday I decided to ditch my PC in favor of my Linux-only GPU-lacking work notebook.

And now this.

Me 0:1 Irony
Well, he said 124 grain. That's about 1200 ft/s, which is - in technical terminology - a goddamn fast bullet.
Well for starters Waltham at peak hours (inbound in the morning, outbound in the evening) is a good example. If you want an example with full length raised platform then Littleton/495 is another good one.
Human lifespan hasn't increased very much. Life expectancy at birth has increased significantly due to reductions in childhood disease and accidental death, but life expectancy at 50 and 60 have barely moved over the last 100 years. People have a much higher chance of making it to old age, but all the issues you cited will still hit them once they get there.
The Day the Great Plains Burned
The actual statement is 4 sentences, and hardly needs a tl;dr:

> The Boeing Company is deeply saddened by the loss of Lion Air Flight JT 610. We extend our heartfelt sympathies to the families and loved ones of those on board.

> Boeing is providing technical assistance at the request and under the direction of government authorities investigating the accident. In accordance with international protocol, all inquiries about this accident investigation must be directed to the investigating authority in charge, the National Transportation Safety Committee of Indonesia.
Whether it's a gimmick or not, the fact that there is a need/demand for such products is a scary one. People want to wear bullet proof fashionable clothing since they are not sure when they'll be shot at? It didn't matter how ugly bullet proof vests are since those who wore them didn't care how they looked, they just wanted to stay alive. This is really scary.
Thank you for the clarification.

> requirement that they create 2 acres of additional wetlands elsewhere for every acre they fill in

I did this type of work during high school. The new wetlands are inspected regularly and must meet quality standards to count. After a period of time (10 years in my state), the wetlands are certified and no longer need to be inspected nor maintained. I have visited old projects that the state signed off on. After maintenance stopped, nearly all of the "high quality" wetlands that I worked on rapidly deteriorated into cattail, or worse, reed canary grass monocultures. When I was planting, I believed I was creating valuable habitats, but I was actually just working to check a box on a form.
Work was once the way to a better life. Not any more
Thanks, thecupisblue. This is a "cold shower" - I appreciate you being straight-forward.

I agree that the UI is not the best, that's not what's worrying me :) Initially I've started working on this because I needed an app that does this, this and that - and I could not find one.

As it is now, I am actually using it on regular basis. Right now I am trying to figure out if there are any others looking for the same features - and validate that. Thanks for the input.
Why would OP care about reddit TOS?
Configuration management is best with operating system packages, so in creating "Ansible", not only did you completely miss the ball, you created a monster. People now hack ad hoc YAML files instead of designing clean OS packages to manipulate the configuration.
That's in Goldenseal, which I've never heard of having an anti-ageing effect.
As another data point, I'm a native English speaker, and I hadn't heard the word before, but I was able to figure out the meaning (which I confirmed by googling it)
Add Login to Your ASP.NET Core Application
Apparently Russia was planning to help Assange escape [1]. Maybe they should try sticking him in a big diplomatic bag.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/sep/21/julian-assange...
The same thing that makes holiday dinners a chore, having to endure all of your friends and relatives uninformed opinions, is now making Facebook a chore.
Are social networks inherently evil?

Is it possible some sort of B-Corp or Foundation could run an ethical social networking product that put respecting and serving its users as a first principle?

Could an offering out-compete today's products and gain significant user-ship?

Is a post-Facebook world better?
What about the part bashing her ex-boyfriend when she's married to a women!
A Critique of Impure Reason (2009)
A bit late, but-

The 4% rule that was (likely, because author did not cite references) used to determine the $400,000 number comes from the Trinity Study, where the study authors made a determination of a safe withdrawal rate that is likely to leave the principal intact in a 30 year retirement, after adjusting for inflation. A 3.5% withdrawal rate will similarly have a >95% chance of lasting for perpituity if we assume the future acts similarly to the last 100+ years of historical data. These both assume your spending is indexed to inflation.

So the $230,000 you provided is zero. Starting with $10,000,000 at 3.5%, taxed 15%, we are left with $297,500 for the parents to spend as they wish. Giving $28k to the kids is a small fraction of this that leaves lots left.

There's also a couple thousand to add to this due to standard deduction, other tax strategies, etc.
Whenever I sit down at the piano and just improvise over chords or just make up stuff, time goes by way faster than when I sit down and practice a piece of music. Though, time also goes way faster when I am sight reading new pieces than when I am practicing, so I am not sure if it just because I hate practicing a specific piece and time is slower when I hate doing something or what.
From the youtube comments:

Two different cameras at two different frame rates, both at 180* shutter angle. The main camera was at 24fps and the "high speed" was only 120fps. You've got a very long exposure with the slower camera, less chance to miss the muzzle flash and it's bled over one big frame. The muzzle flash was simply between frames on the high speed. You can find the same thing happening on videos all over, including our other testing videos on ballistic clay and gelatin

Raw straight out of the camera in 4K with no cuts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bShWhdzEZ8
The damage: https://youtu.be/f_Y8rXMb1qs
Brighter and slower slow-mo here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkpWJuSvd7A﻿
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If you look at most people in the 100's they had a far higher quality of life in there 50s/60s/70s than people who died in their 70s/80s. So I think the dichotomy you're presenting is a false one.
>>> For example most travel site you probably use are owned by priceline.

Actually, most travel sites you use are probably owned by Expedia, then priceline.

Together, they own every single major web sites about travel.
Do you mean a Republic of China company?
Long prison sentences for non-violent crimes also ruin lives. Police indiscriminately killing unarmed citizens because they are armed and trained to shoot first also ruins lives. Non-existent support for mental health problems also ruins lives. Major homeless problems in all major cities with no long term solutions also ruins lives. Shall I go on?
Reasonableness is generally a part of determining accommodations for disabilities. For many games, there are no reasonable steps to make them accessible to someone with a sensory or mobility impairment. But there are also reasonable steps that can be taken, like captions for recorded dialog for the hearing impaired or color/pattern alternatives for people with color vision deficiencies (I don't think color vision deficiency meets the legal definition of a disability but it's still something to keep in mind).

A site that offers games to download can be very accessible but the games themselves might not be and don't have to be; not every product a store sells has to be usable by every potential customer. That's not a reason to not make the site accessible; e.g. a disabled parent should be able to download a game for their non-disabled child.
My experience with body armor is based on equipment from the 1990s so take this for what it's worth.

While the bullet may not penetrate the cloth, it often results in broken ribs and a great amount of bruising underneath. Damage to liver, spleen, lungs and heart is also possible due to the shock of impact -- that energy has to go somewhere. So even if it doesn't penetrate, you might still die. Very large handgun rounds may deform the inner surface of the vest into a cupped shape. Rifle rounds travel at much, much higher velocity and carry so much energy that they usually punch right through. That's why a plate carrier is needed to protect the heart from rifle rounds.

it's basically the same trauma as being hit in the ribs with a sledge hammer or a baseball bat, swung at full speed. You'll likely survive, but you'll almost certainly likely be injured to one degree or another. In short, it won't be pleasant.
Definitely possible. Most wealthy people do transfers before death and avoid (most of) the estate tax. Normal people with a low net worth generally don't do this, because they are unaware of the avoidance mechanisms.
People buy organic because they think it is healthier. This likely correlates to other "healthy" behaviors. Go look at how many pairs of running shoes and yoga pants you see in a whole foods vs a food 4 less.
Probably in a body bag at that point.

There's no way the ruling class lets Assange even step a foot out of the embassy without immediately taking him into custody.
Stop waiting; there's no reason to work on this any more. If you want pipelining that bad, use HTTP/2.
FTP also interacts badly with firewalls and network administrators (both the competent and not competent versions of them).

It also interacts way too well with the NSA and ISP eavesdropping.
I'm pretty sure the MBTA owns the stations and platforms as successor to the Boston and Maine, NYCRR, etc.

Maintenance and upgrades are the MBTA's problem, not local cities and towns.

The downtown ticket checkers are useless and should all be sacked. Even if they're part-time at minimum wage there's no way that there's enough fare evasion to justify their salaries.
The overwhelming majority of passengers at peak travel times have pre-paid monthly passes.
Show HN: Intelligent version of the sliding-puzzle game for terminal in golang
It wouldn't improve the world in the short term but it certainly wouldn't hurt if more people knew about the dangers and benefits of AGI or super-intelligence for that matter.
The article is talking specifically about his company, Ed Sheeran Ltd, not his personal taxes.
After buying Github, it will be a pretty shortsighted move for MS to do it. Everyone remembers their position on API copyrightability in Oracle vs Google case. It's the reason many projects left Github after they bought it. If MS will attack projects like Wine based on that junk, a lot more will ditch Github for good.
This is crazy. Why are you so bent on outsourcing perception and analysis to some third party, like 'intermediate organizations'?

Think for yourself, dammit. It isn't that hard.
> Mad props if he actually did this, but a bit skeptical here.

I understand neither the "mad props" nor the skepticism. Why is it hard to believe that the CEO of a company that makes body armor would trust their body armor to perform to its specifications?

> I see no evidence there was an actual live round in there. It could well have been a blank. On the other video further down the page they remove the magazine and show the round, and there is visible damage to the clothes they shoot. I see no visible damage, and he didn't bother to recover the round as in other video either. If I were pulling this stunt I would certainly have a high speed camera to show it in action.

They show the recovered round and the giant bruise.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_Y8rXMb1qs

And there is clearly visible damage recorded on the slo-mo video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkpWJuSvd7A

I agree that they should have rented a high-speed camera for this ridiculousness, though.

> Other thing I noticed is there is a muzzle flash on the full speed and then when they slow it down there is not? Could be an odd artifact, but could also be added?

It's two different cameras. One of them captured the muzzle flash. One didn't. It's possible that they added it to one but not the other but that seems less likely than one just not capturing it.

I don't know why you propose blanks but then assume the muzzle flash is fake, as if blanks don't create a muzzle flash.
haha, ok ok

of course there is a distinction between a mistake (e.g. my fat-fingered typo) and an error (e.g. parent's substitution of the wrong word)
While all of these solutions are maturing at a rapid pace, the problem of cloud is still cultural for most enterprise companies vs. tech stack. Operational discipline to make cloud a business driver is still an unmet need on every large enterprise side and it has lot to do with the non technical items, culture, incentives, organizational models
Ask HN: How does one obtain VC funding when they don’t have connections?
you may want to look at payscale.com or something like that and come up with a percentile you want your pay range. 60-70 percentile or what ever(110%). and adjust from there.
Thank you!

May I ask where did you see the deck (you can use the email associated with my account)?
Twitter to remove 'like' tool in a bid to improve the quality of debate
'City of surveillance': privacy expert quits Toronto's smart-city project
Everyone in the medical industry is complicit.

Doctors, nurses - even if they are removed from it - they are essentially corrupt and responsible - they cannot wash their hands of it.

This is a deep, deep social problem in the US - far bigger than many of stupid things they talk about in the press.

It's probably bigger than prison reform, policing issues, privacy etc..

It might be the #1 social problem in the US given how many people it affects (basically everyone), and the vast sums in involved.

50% of bankruptcies are due to medical bills.

In 100 years I think they will look upon this period as Dickensian.

I think free markets are important but I'm not sure if any of this is free market at all ...
> There are plenty of programs that simply don't and won't work on Linux.

Ditching games that don't work is not a big deal, given that a huge amount works just fine. So avoiding Windows is preferable to running it in VM.
The organization name is ominous but I learned about "truth decay" last night. According to a report from the RAND Corporation, what we're seeing today in terms of "fake news" is not new at all, and has been seen multiple times in the last century usually after a disruption in the communication industry like newspapers, radio, and television. I don't know about fake/manufactured consensus through multiple accounts but Chomsky (Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media) would probably argue that that's not that new either- maybe just with a different face or in this case, faces.

According to On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder, democracies fail all the time easily. You go to sleep in a democracy, you wake up the next morning in a fascist state. You lose rights, you lose the ability to vote in elections, and then within a month you're in a "state of emergency" aka a fascist state for the next 12 years (Germany) or still to this day (Russia). Snyder's book shows that tyranny or fascism is a deliberate systemic process.

Link to truth decay article:
https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/19/opinions/truth-decay-opinion-...
I give it 20 minutes before one of the big accountancy firms find the (totally unintentional) loop hole to evade this tax.
Or make rules and regulations for an industry for which they will transition into direct hire or lobbying after serving in Congress.
Of course they have. Why wouldn't they? They probably just didn't offer enough billions.
How does this work in practice, since I can imagine a situation where using the local air pressure value, altitude is measured at 18k feet - then, switching to the standard setting of 29.92, it turns out that this converts to an altitude of 17.5k feet - so, now the system switches back to using the local air pressure for calculations - and so on... Is there some form of hysteresis or rounding used, or would this never happen in practice?
C. Elegans can develop tumors, but only in the germ line (gamete-producing) cells, which are the only stem cells. There are no adult somatic stem cells, i.e. no ability for repair, so no mechanism for cancer growth in the body.

That said, many of the pathways that are central to mammalian cancers are there in C. Elegans, which still makes it a valuable model organism for cancer research.
They have found a way around that problem...they expel students who share solutions.
Filing a lawsuit against the people providing your asylum probably wasn't wise. Especially given the imposed conditions seemed reasonable (pay your own medical bills, pick up after your cat, etc).
You'll probably get it for free before the end of the year.
They added a indicator "You’re All Caught Up" when you've seen all new posts on the feed. Of course there can be some posts below the indicator that you haven't seen.

Now also Strava is making their feed sorted by some magic with no option to make it chronological :(
I can't quite understand this trend.
The practice is even older than that. Otis when demoing his elevator cut the only rope holding up the elevator platform, as far back as the mid-1800s.
That model is generally called "The Rally Stupid VAT". It bankrupts every single trading business, as well the majority of producers–essentially any value chain longer than 1.

All retail business will be the first to die. Because when your supermarket charges you $1 for milk, they would have to pay 20 cents (or whatever your tax rate is). They also have to buy the milk. Since margins are typically around 2% or 3% in this segment, any tax >3% will make retail impossible or dramatically increase prices.

So congratulation for effectively demonstration the danger of this ignorant trend of mindless hate of "government", and "experts": Those that believe they have easy solutions don't even notice when what they're proposing would cause widespread famine.
Say ‘Hi’ to Nybble, an open-source robotic kitten
In one case, I saw where it looked like an ad by Google for Google Chrome- but once clicked, it actually led elsewhere (to a very well-constructed fake Google page)- even though on the result page the URL looked legitimate
> The problem is that BH formation typically happens in a bright environment.

That must be the understatement of the week. Love it! I guess observations of failed supernovae and possible direct-collapse black holes could shed some light (hah!) on the matter.
Doctors are typically salaried; it was my impression (my mother is a doctor) that nurses are typically hourly. At least, she always quotes nurse rates as hourly.
I use the DuckDuckGo browser for Facebook messaging on the mobile site.
I worked for an independent team of A players (that ended up being bought by a D player company), and it was pulling teeth to get deals. We were better, everyone knew we were better that ever spoke to any of us, and them.

But none of that mattered. All that ever mattered was the CIO, and what company he wanted. Then he would write up a rule system where X company had to meet Y requirements that only his preferred company could meet.

We still got more work than we could handle, but people always want A players on the ground, but even at the exact same cost, the upper level management are going to make decisions based on things that have nothing to do with success.
Setting up monthly ACH transactions is probably harder than setting up a monthly check through billpay at the sending bank. And the sending bank will cover the postage.
Fascinating. The choices made in the criteria in that report are alluded to but not explicit, so of course we must resort to mindreading. My best guess is because Azure Stack is more than just a "container platform", and the "container platform" for Azure Stack essentially is "just" Docker, so Azure Stack usage in this case would be rolled up in the strong position you see for Docker here.

It would be great to see Forrester more forthright on such methodology, however, and this may be a good reminder that Forrester here is not a transparent, peer reviewed journal and doesn't have to show their homework.
You're not wrong, especially about "double the square footage for the same price". But that's why it's essential that the key to affordable housing isn't just connecting outlying suburbs by transit but also reevaluating zoning laws to fit more units in the same space.

For a simple example, look at one of the most livable and expensive (per sqft) cities in the world, Tokyo. A median family can afford to buy a single family house in the Tokyo metropolitan region. This works because the entire Tokyo region, including transit-connected suburbs, have very little restrictions on the type of housing that can be built, and where it can be built. ( Great article: https://www.curbed.com/2017/2/3/14496248/tokyo-real-estate-a... )

That model might not necessarily work perfectly for America, particularly because Tokyo is only increasing in population 1% per year and America's top cities are growing faster than that. But I guarantee thats a lot closer to a solution to the housing crisis than anything North America has produced.
Ask HN: Happy at your job? Why not leave?
Hey HN,

I'm building a new team of 20 software engineers in downtown Dallas. I have recently been meeting a lot of great candidates that are happy with their current roles. I understand that, however, what if the opportunity you present is better? How can you convince them of taking the leap? Have you been in this position, what made you take the leap?
It's interesting because an emulation layer like that being present definitely would make cheating easier. I'd imagine a few clever modifications to DXVK itself would be all that's necessary to implement a wallhack or similar.
The parent is pretty cynical and sarcastic but unfortunately I can't say it is far from the truth.