skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I remember reading once that students who excel in high school (valedictorians and salutatorians) are underrepresented as successful company founders, meaning that they occur at a lower rate than one would expect from chance alone. I think the hypothesis was that these people tended to develop a perfectionistic (or even people pleasing) approach, and that this strategy works really well for "doing what you're told". So they might often end up as a lawyer or a doctor, but they won't start the next big company.

As someone who did well academically early on without putting in much effort, I constantly try to avoid this trap of a "successful", but boring life. I think the problem with a lot of these people is that the first sign of failure total demolishes them, because their identity is strongly tied to "being smart" (like the article mentions). I know two people who became valedictorians in high school, mostly on natural talent. The first became a lawyer at one of the best law firms in the country, but she mentally cracked after a few years. She ended up quitting her job on the spot and stays at home now (and drinks way too much). The second finished his PhD and hasn't applied for a job in over a year. No one is really sure why.

I've had some personal hardships in my life (chronic injuries and death of close loved ones) that I think has put failure into perspective for me, otherwise I would probably respond the same way.
I'm hoping for an iOS/Android version.
New book suggests Arthur Conan Doyle based Moriarty on George Boole
First of all great work with the website. Looks amazing. Some things:

- The red color on the banner is too bright. Hurts the eye.

- Why would I use your service rather than something like Reddit's r/roastmystartup?

- Too many pricing verticals and a huge gap between free and first paid option.
"Better" when the goal is a very narrow beam pattern and minimal side- and back-lobes. That isn't always the goal.

For instance, putting your entire FCC city-of-license within your grade A signal contour from X miles away at a bearing of B. Or, in one case I am aware of, covering your puny city of license in one direction, and incidentally getting good coverage into the much bigger city off the back of the beam so that your sales department can get some traction selling advertising.
Yess. Please leave. More job openings for me.
The governor of California. Repeatedly.

He publicly blamed the fires on climate change, not PG&E.

As if climate change has made California's forests so hot that they're spontaneously combusting.
Actually, 25g total (including fiber carbs) would be low carb.
I’m obviously joking about wishing they got bad results.
Darpa Plan to Restart Electrical Grid
This person is an outlier. That's not normal. I used to do kickboxing and yes, there were a few fighters who did great in their 40s but most after a few years had massive injuries that prevented them from continuing. I myself have a bad knee and a bad shoulder so I can't run, cycle or swim without pain.

Used to teach yoga classes. During seminars you could see older famous teachers do amazing stuff. I thought yoga is is really healthy until I found out that a lot of them had hip and knee replacements and often lived in painkillers.

I believe most people simply can't do high intensity stuff from a certain age on or have to be very selective.
Maybe for $1000, everything closed source and locked down.
Classical (and Faux) Glories of New York
Because most antennas don't have weird enough requirements so standard designs work fine. For stuff down here on Earth we deal with a lot of the same problem so the problem has generally been solved to a reasonable approximation and there's additional constraints like shape and space. Standard designs are also just cheaper because they're made by the thousands and machines exist to make them in massive quantities.
At least it's not blockchain.
Well that's a thing at least. If you could program it to match your office access pass, it's not nothing. Forgetting stuff (wallet, cards, keys) is a problem.

Just not one I'd solve by embedding a chip in my flesh.
A lot of you are dissing German industry --- because they don't have FAANGs or other unicorns?

They still have a large high-tech industrial base and many world-recognized brand names. These German exporters must spend a good deal on R&D, and now they'll have another grant to apply for - even if a large chunk of this goes to BMW or Siemens, is that any different from NYC granding amazon 1 billion dollars to build an office in Queens?

And they do produce good research (and good researchers), some of whom don't go to work for US companies / institutes --- and this gives them another potential grant too...
Show HN: My Brand New Logo, a professional design for everyone
My Brand New Logo is an online, automatic logo creator that provides professional designs for everyone who needs a logo:

https://mybrandnewlogo.com

In the past, working with a designer to design a logo was an expensive effort. My Brand New Logo solves that by automating the design process of a professional design studio. This gives you access to professional logos at a fraction of the price.

I made this web service because after years of running a design agency, I saw an increase in the need for logos, but noticed that hiring a professional designer is mostly out of reach for those that just started a new business. My experience as both designer and developer lead to the idea of creating an automatic logo machine that creates affordable, professional logos. This provides everyone with the ability to design a striking logo. My Brand New Logo is for the freelancers, the side project hustlers, the startups.

The general design quality is based on years of experience in graphic and web design. My algorithms follow design principles that I've applied in our design agency and this ensures carefully balanced and good looking logo designs. It's up to date with current trends in graphic design, like shiny gradients, contemporary fonts, geometric patterns and modern shapes. You can really go wild, and it will always look nice.

What really sets My Brand New Logo apart from other logo creators are the general design quality of the logos, special features like smart shapes and sophisticated gradient styles, and the multitude of possibilities to adjust the logos to your own taste.

Everyone can make a beautiful logo with My Brand New Logo.

https://mybrandnewlogo.com
Nevertheless, his role is to manage people and their careers, not to make technical decisions.
BAT? Basic Attention Token? Did they have an ICO?
They're likely referring to The Master Switch, but I'd definitely recommend both. They're fantastic books, and Tim Wu really goes into significant depth in each.
> These people defer everything to their subordinates including major technical decisions. Then what the hell is their job!? To "people manage"?

Their job is to shield their developers from the rest of the company, so that the developers can focus on development. That means pushing back on dumb feature requests, helping gather requirements, and going to bat for their team when a project blows its budget or its deadline.
Yes. It's often a short article that piques my interest enough to do a deeper diver on a subject. It was articles like these that introduced me to meditation and fasting and machine learning.

Almost 20 years ago articles about David Allen and his Getting Thins Done book were popping up in my feed. That led to me reading the book and it has had a big impact on me.
Your grandmother, doctor, etc are not aware they can use a password manager with a master password such as "dandy-pencil-colonist-precise-populate-stardom" which would be more difficult to crack than finding and copying a fingerprint on your device. Its only a matter of time until one of these is cracked, and with touchID and faceID they're going to get cracked before said password is cracked.

PS: Just a piece of advice, your tone throughout this thread isn't going to convince anyone. On the contrary.
There are other jobs that are not software development. I don't think a fed chairman has "no data". Many companies are not trying to hire software developers at $150k. They're trying to hire truck drivers, warehouse workers, and accountants. At the minimum possible market wage. What he is saying is that if you raise your wage off "bare minimum possible" you may actually fill some open jobs.

I agree, talent isn't infinite, but, workforce participation rates are low and part of that is that for a given job there are those qualified to do it that won't do it for the prices on offer. There are also those who would be highly qualified and would switch into different jobs if the salaries were competitive.
Can you please not post sensational stories like this? There needs to be something intellectually interesting about an article for it to be a good HN submission.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Transparency and high deductibles for everyone would instantly lower costs dramatically. I have to take testosterone, and you have two primary options. One is a gel that you rub on every day that's really hard to dose correctly due to absorbency issues, and the other is a weekly injection. I wasn't even offered the second option until I asked for it. The gel was $400 a month and the injection is around $20 a month. I generally hit my deductible a month or two in to the year for various reasons and the difference in copays isn't enough for me to care, generally. Medical insurance needs to be insurance again.
2Hz CEO here (we built Krisp).

Windows support will come in Dec. We are working hard on it.
Because there isn't any proof of such a link? High blood pressure goes hand in hand with low potassium intake and many people don't eat enough potassium rich foods.

People keep trying to push their anti meat morality by finding all sorts of made up reasons why its an issue but good science is firmly unable to prove all those myriad of made up fear mongering links.
they really are. Almost everything in the left or right has its mirror in the other side. This is why I think it's so unproductive/harmful when we move further from compromise and closer to a partisan divide - neither side wants to balance the priorities between their interest groups and the other side's, as you would do in a healthy society.
What I learned from a year of writing and selling science fiction stories
German automakers and other heavy industry makes some world-class products and are politically connected up the yin yang
Regardless of who owns Redhat, they still have to provide the source RPM's for most of the packages. The best they could do is change the build format enough and often enough to make it painful to repackage.

I don't envision them doing this however. That would force a lot of people away from Redhat based distros and guarantee barring conversion to RHEL entitlements.
It's a fight over who gets to steal the pie this year, sure. But, there are second order effects.
So a few donations to seemingly good causes make them good?

Don't be easily fooled by their "generosity" as it's not always as it seems to be, many times they fund "independent" organizations or think tanks which really are just foils for them to push their Conservative agenda.

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/05/we-now-know-how-...

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/12/trump-koch-brot...

https://www.greenpeace.org/usa/global-warming/climate-denier...

https://www.ucsusa.org/publications/got-science/2017/got-sci...

I can keep going on, so please don't paint them as just some "nice" guys who give money.
That sounds like a degenerate organisation. But if we're sharing anecdata: My pay in this Berlin startup is very decent, I have respectable equity and it's a friendly & rational environment. I'm scared of US startup work culture, rather.
shady spin issues aside -

because some people criticize george soros for antisemitic reasons, automatically all criticism of george soros is antisemitic?

then again this opinion is from ADL which states that anti zionism is automatically anti semitism (effectively calling huge numbers of hassidic jews anti semitic)

oops, i criticized. must be a nazi.
This is not the first time Facebook has used these tactics. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2011/may/12/facebook-...
Magnus Carlsen vs. The American in a Chess Championship for the Ages
Make sure you check back in with the results!
They will ban you from their community if you ask them to explain why they are not implementing certain features that are being requested over and over for years.
Mobile support is harder since Krisp won't be able to register as a virtual mic/speaker on Android or iOS.
At least we haven't found any way around it.
Ooh, that's a really good point. I have a Pi2 running Klipper and Octoprint driving my printer, this would be a good upgrade...
Speed Essentials: Key Techniques for Fast Websites [video]
The title brings nostalgia!

For me it all started when Michael Carter worked on orbited, years ago (was it 2008?). Michael made a number of important "discoveries", like the famous document.domain trick:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Security/Same-o...

Then I played with libevent, trying to create a framework for comet applications. Then redis came along, perfect for backend and Websockets in browsers.

Then of course node.js became a popular engine for messaging applications.

In the mean time we worked on SockJS, to make the transition from comet to websockets smoother. Oh, all those tricks employed in Sockjs...

https://github.com/sockjs/sockjs-client#supported-transports...

There still is a place for things like Opera Eventsource, but it seems websockets over TLS is now the best, stable, and portable way of doing messaging on the web.
Sounds like russian lifestyle too...
It's not that clearcut. Did you know Thiel is a libertarian and hates the police state?

So why is he working with the government then? Well, a combination of something he wants to change and business opportunity. Sometimes to change something, it's best to work within the system and help steer it another way. The government has been invading people's privacy for a long time and increasingly so, with or without Palantir. At least this way he has influence over the direction. But who knows in reality how much is driven by trying to improve it vs making money and how that calculus works out.
Well worth the $100 for the year and I even plan on self-hosting.
Well I think most people would find it curious for the jewish state to be antisemitic. At that point I think we should then officially redefine antisemitism to the meaning it seems to have acquired today, which is any criticism or negative comment aimed at a person of jewish descent.
Finally no Python 2.7 anymore!
Is it possible to use something like this to turn any headphone into noise canceling headphone?
Meet Uber’s Newly Promoted Chief Product Officer, Manik Gupta
I live in Mazama in the Methow Valley in North Central Washington and we have had fairly extensive thinning and prescribed burns in the last few years: https://www.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=021ff...

edit: We also had a Firewise grant over the last few years to provide free thinning on private property.
Standard anecdata disclaimer but Nests are a pretty universally liked gift in my circle. It passes the bar of being cool, tasteful, useful, and unlikely that the recipient would purchase one for themselves.
Container Malware: Miners Go Docker Hunting in the Cloud
I believe there is a trend in EU to change this towards a system where private health care providers are payed based "patient health" instead - sounds like a better economic incentive if it succeeds. (should probably provide a source here, but I forgot the name for it)
Red Hat don't use the upstream stable kernels, they totally maintain their own. As they backport things not just do fixes, I guess it doesn't matter.
waitwait, i thought this was 100% popular and no foreign intervention was happening on either side, except of course for evil putler who is clearly a spawn of satan and attempting to control the whole world
I think it's actually that individuals with high levels of academic success don't need to start a company, they already have very good high paying career options. And so starting a company has a high level of opportunity cost.
The-dark-side-of-mongodbs-new-license/
My theory would be that those people have demonstrated they can succeed within the system. So they remain in the system. I'm sure they're well represented as CEO's or leaders of established organizations.
yes.
https://rpm-software-management.github.io/page4/ (some of the specific posts seem to be unavilable)
Red Hat backports features aggressively and is one of the largest contributors upstream. The kernel version or whether it's LTS upstream doesn't matter.
What, you haven't had enough of that quote yet? How about "If it's free, you're not the customer, you're the product?"
Ask HN: All-in-one backend solution for your apps. Feedback?
Hi there HN,

I'm working on building an all-in-one backend platform for developers, startups, and agencies called Modelier (https://modelier.io). Our goal is to streamline and automate API development

I love to use Node, Mongo, Express, and Mongoose to build out simple APIs for my clients or for prototyping new projects at work. Right now the initial dev process for that looks something like:

1. create Node project directories/files (many dirs/files)

2. define my Mongoose schemas and initalize models

3. sign up for a hosted Mongo instance somewhere (or deploy my own) and hook up Node app

4. write initial Express endpoints for basic CRUD operations against Mongoose models

5. deploy Node app (either manually or with a tool)

There are a lot of scaffolding tools (create-react-app, Yeoman, etc) solving #1, and there are companies solving #5 (Zeit Now, etc), but no solution yet that solves the complete process out-of-the-box.

With Modelier, this process becomes:

1. define API schema w/ spec file (1 file)

2. run Modelier against spec file, which

- spins up hosted MongoDB instance
- auto-generates Node app source, complete w/ basic Express CRUD enpoints, automated tests, ESDoc API documentation, etc

- deploys hosted Node app

We released a (very) basic version of the scaffolding tool if you'd like to try it out (nothing gets deployed, requires existing MongoDB instance): https://www.npmjs.com/package/modelier-cli

Eventually users will be able to customize the backend stack as well as datastore of their choice - SQL via Sequelize is up next on the list.

I am looking for feedback on:

- our basic landing page and delivery at https://modelier.io

- if you will use Modelier, and why or why not?

- if not, what would really want to make you use Modelier?

- what are your biggest concerns regarding execution of this product?

Thanks for your time and consideration! Looking forward to hearing what you have to say.
I understand it's some kind of killer app, but I still don't get it.
Why Noviosense's In-Eye Glucose Monitor Might Work Better Than Google's
I just wanted to give a big congratulations to Howie and team, as I'm pretty confident all founders read comments on their HN posts. ;)

I was introduced to Airtable by some of their investors. Within days I had recommended it to our customer advocacy team, who now use it as a lightweight but fully customizable CRM (without having to go "full Salesforce", we're a small team!). I've since recommended it to some of our investors for things like providing LPs with access to fund portfolio co info / etc. who initially had said things to me like, "I don't really get it."

I think the product is category-defining, and it's amazing to see Howie's ambition beyond being a $B unicorn. :) Great work all around, and it's absolutely amazing driving by your billboard on the 280 coming back from work. I'm sure it feels great, and it's something all startup founders and cos yearn for - really awesome to see a great product and team succeed!
What's the most impressive Airtable use-case that comes to your mind, since you recommend it to clients?
I'm trying to think of something that Google Spreadsheet + Zapier add-ons don't cover...can't come up with much
Remember when iOS had Facebook built in? I do. Apple's strategy has always been anything to make a buck.
Std.experimental.checkedint
"In 1519, Captain Hernán Cortés landed in Veracruz to begin his great conquest. Upon arriving, he gave the order to his men to burn the ships. As I imagine it, someone then laughed and Cortés promptly thrust his sword into the man's chest. After which, the rest proceeded to get hammered on rum by the glow of the blaze." That the real life example where this expression started...
waiting the app for the mobiles. ai does nit stop to amaze the community
Netanyahu has denied (that the Nazis instigated) the Holocost.

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/netanyahu-absolves-hitle...
Would you say Fossil (https://fossil-scm.org) forces an opinionated workflow?
I once heard a saying: "All self help methods work." The reason is that they all make you more conscious of your own behavior, at least temporarily.
Companies didn't put pressure on the government. Progressive citizens did. These government programs happened despite massive corporate resistance. In fact these programs emerged right along the same time as the massive monopolies were being broken up by government and laissez-faire economics was being abandoned by the Supreme Court (before ultimately being rejected by the entire government).

You get the rust belt because there has been a massive change of the American economy from manufacturing to high end service (finance, law, management, design). People can and should move to where opportunity is, America is and always should by a dynamic country of immigrants that move to where the economic opportunity is at the moment.
It's more proof of aliens: they got bored (or shocked) and hit the accelerator.
Except it doesn't matter what the Kochs have said, but rather what they have done for the past 50 years. Massive investments to overwhelmingly hardcore libertarian polices that have moved the needle of the nation to their ideals (except when those polices conflict with their business, like the amount of government deals they have taken and then block changes to).

They very much don't put their money where there mouths are, as they put their money through a massive chain of anonymous shell organizations to hide their involvement. This has given the appearance of many right wing "grassroots" movements appearing as by the people, though when donations have been investigated they are overwhelmingly from single donors traced back to the Kochs.

I don't really know that much about Soros, but the fact that people try to claim Soros is just the lefts version of the Kochs is very wrong on many levels. The most basic level is simply net worth, which is their influence ability. Soros is worth 8/9 billion, the Koch brothers are over 100 Billion. Their ability to buy politicians is that much greater.

I believe the Kochs believe they are doing what they think is right, but I also believe they are evil for the country. Their ideals are not what benefits the country in the long run, but continues this trend of money and influence being contained within a tiny minority.

The Kochs are very calculated people, they know what they are doing, and just being they are focused on criminal justice reform, doesn't mean they aren't also focused on other things that benefit them (and that criminal justice reform how they see it doesn't benefit them). The for profit prison industry owners are some of their peers who donate to their causes, they are playing every side they can.
That seems fairly obvious. Most places still do not support the chip.