skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"What does it take to... join the same market space?"

Speaking on the SAAS space. IMO the bar for entry is getting higher every year. It's getting easier and easier to build apps, and the number of developers keeps growing.

What does it take to join the same market space? Here's some strategies:

1. Find a niche that is being ignored and really needs your specific
product. This is getting harder to do.

2. Raise money. One way to build a good product is to throw good developers at it.

3. Give yourself a longer runway. Think years instead of months.

4. Buy an existing business, and run it yourself.

"Are there cases where there is only room for one player and no matter what you do, you will not be able to steal any sizeable amount of market share from them?"

Definitely. If you go very niche, you'll find areas where there is a strong competitor dominating small a space. It might not be worth entering the space because the market is so small.
Hey, thanks for teaching me that!
Subsidizing old-style agriculture has two major benefits in my opinion: i) it allows for a smoother transition towards more advanced practices without crushing regular farmers and ii) it helps containing production surpluses, which has been, historically, a major concern in the European Union.

Regulations also help with avoiding surpluses, raising the bar for food safety, and have the added benefit of (arguably) fostering adaptability while giving the Union a relative protection from external markets.

Regarding the technological adoption in Portugal, I guess it depends on the sector you're considering. I really can't speak for other areas, but in the case of agriculture there have been some major investments in the past that allow for more productive practices even if not supported by major breakthroughs. It's mostly automation of harvesting, adoption of new practices and new pesticides, quality control and more training.
Comment I wrote in a previous thread with some minor edits:

"We chose ReasonML after a previous project of working with JS, React and Flow. We started using Reason back in May. The plan was to use typescript, but after some great experiences with Rust on personal projects, I really wanted a language closer to Rust.

Our team loves using Reason and for me, it's been such a breath of fresh air. Working on front end code is a lot more fun because many of the frustrating things with JavaScript/React has been removed. The compiler is VERY fast and the language is well designed.

With that said, the learning curve is a bit much due to the lack of beginner friendly documentation. If you do not have experience with an ML like language (Rust, Swift, Scala, Ocaml, F#) AND React, I think it will be painful. Despite that, it is totally worth learning.

The good news is that the core team realizes this and things are changing fast. React was originally designed for an ML based language and you can it's easy to see all the awkwardness of ReactJs removed in ReasonReact. ReasonReact really is an eye opening experience of how good front end dev can be."
If you're yet looking for a place to manufacture it, when they have already stolen the IP, and are beginning to produce it, you've lost already. It doesn't matter you have the IP if China doesn't respect it.
I agree it's not black and white. The reason I presented a theoretical extreme was not to straw man. It's because I think it illustrates an interesting philosophical paradox. It seems that people would rather that others (the CEO) make much less, even though it may not mean the "proceeds" are distributed broadly, and in fact, everyone may individually be worse off due to economic fallout.
Foolish exercise jeesus fuck. Way to simplify killing of half a million civilians.
You should read up on Gramsci. It's not that far removed from the alt-right's straw man -- indeed they seem to be learning tactics from him.
Moreover, we have gone from Microsoft pushing complexities to Google.

Like the latest two HTTP protocols are both based of tech that google has already made. However, IETF is like that sounds good. It's got it's advantages, but there is very little push back saying well that makes things more complicated.

For instance with HTTP/2 it has support for pushing files to the client. Most back end web stacks are still trying to think of good ways to make that easy to use. Mainly since what files to send depend on what the page contains. So either you have to specify a custom list or the web-server now needs to understand HTML to get a list of required resources. This also gets more complicated since a push will be useless if the resource is already cached. This means your webserver has to have some kinda of awareness of how clients will cache data. Again this starts to mean your web server needs more client knowledge.

This is does not even take into account how the browser should handle these things.

Additionally, while cryptography is a good thing, the standard for HTTP/2 does not require it. However, pretty much all the browsers ignore that un-encrypted HTTP/2 is allowed. So if you wanted to run HTTP/2 without TLS the browsers act like site does not exist. This gets into the problem since there are so few browsers they can basically make defacto standards. So if you went through the effort and followed the standards what you encounter may not follow those standards at all.
>My guess is that while your anecdote may infuriate you, the effect of investors who don’t rent out their homes is negligible on housing prices.

No that's actually a large part of housing problems. Like a third of Manhattan real estate is empty. And Manhattan is already super dense but still has homeless people.
Unrelated but I found your portfolio site to be really funny with the pointer clicks and portrait changes

Business looks interesting but Im not the target demographic
fwiw, we are shipping a number of features in fish 3.0 (any day now!) that are specifically targeting at maximizing compatibility with most bash scripts (still not POSIX).

That includes support for && and || and a few other things that should go a long way towards making most code you find drop-in ready.
Presumably those immigrants also increase demand for food, housing, services, transport, etc. Whether the increased demand outdoes the increased supply or vice-versa is going to vary situation by situation.
> That's a pretty damn big difference.

There's certainly a difference. I'm not sure it's a very big one though.

The latter is an extra problem in a few specific areas:

1. your foremost fear is a bad actor getting your private details (e.g. identity fraud / doxing). These are legitimate fears, but certainly not a primary likelihood in the majority of cases.

2. discrimination based on background checks (jobs/loans/etc.). Also completely legitimate, though background checks tend to be plenty invasive in isolation these days anyway, so I'm not sure how much of a negative impact Google's data would potentially add here.

Other than these specific threats, the two seem exactly equivalent for most reasons people are concerned about privacy.
Automated identification of media bias in news articles: literature review [pdf]
But neither Lukács (Hungarian iirc), nor Gramsci (Italian, wrote in prison) nor Althusser (at one point the "French Freud" before Lacan rose to prominence) were from the Frankfurt school.
An AI Experiment to “draw the world closer together”? While I appreciate this cool technology, it would look like the gushing technoutopianism of say 2010 is still alive and well inside Google despite social unrest across the world. I don’t want to explicitly criticize their optimism, but maybe they should have used a more restrained statement to describe their app?
I’m just as much of a bbt hater as the next guy but ftr - messing up with timing will render most jokes not working
How does the job market for security work compare to the job market for machine learning? Is the security work more interesting? My reason for asking is that I'm sort of in the same boat. I've got a PhD in Math (not crypto or stats related) and have been doing back end C++ work for a while now. Looking for a move to greener pastures.
I can never get over how ahead of its time the IT crowd was. I just went back and watched a couple episodes and it still nails many things right on the head
"Nip" used to be a somewhat common perjorative term for Japanese (i.e. Nipponese; the Japanese word for Japan is Nippon). In case anyone else was confused by this comment.
Feels very weird to me to spend time and energy building tools for a type of interview process that is becoming more and more derided by the community?
Quality Artificial Intelligence Content – Fundraising
That data visualization showing the morphing of China from being heavily poor to heavily middle-class made me go "Wow!" That's quite something to note.
Yes: not considering everything that comes with a tractor these days, it's basically irrigation programmers, pH meters, humidity probes, sonars and speed-adjustment controllers for sprayers.

I hope someday I will be able to show HN some simple electronics of my own.
People simply don't believe in their own agency.
Raising the wage floor just puts more upward pressure on housing.
Can you name some of those reasons? Because they seem very non-equivalent for almost any reason I can think of.
And it's easy to say things like Mike Judge has breadth if you're in a circle jerk thread and oblivious to storytellers who actually exhibit breadth. Judge doesn't have breadth he has bread. White bread. White wonder bread. There's no rye, no baguettes, no sourdough, no pita. Just white bread.
It's sad for producers of genuine olive oil but as a rather indifferent consumer I always remember that olive oil, honey and I forget what else are the most falsified food products in the world. I would guess that the market of "extra virgin olive oil" will remain, cough, healthy.
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NetScatter: Enabling Large-Scale Backscatter Networks
Since @sharkdp's work was originally inspired by @burntsushi's rg, you might be interested in xsv for CSV viewing (and manipulation): https://github.com/BurntSushi/xsv
Correction: the deposits are mostly volcanogenic, not pegmatitic. However, they still aren't very common.
Vivaldi is a nice de-Googled project, a Chromium fork with all (?) Chrome plugins working on it.
Yeah, parent post expressed it well. Probably better than me. I purposefully didn't say anyone should feel anything (and got flamed for being an absolutist for it). While it's how I personally feel, I think others should decide how they feel about it. Funny enough, framing the problem in a slightly different moral perspective leads to vast differences in how people feel about the situation.
They're working on the enviro bit:

> China is the world's leading country in electricity production from renewable energy sources, with over double the generation of the second-ranking country, the United States.
what are the rules that cause a page in your own language to be translated?
Super-smart designer babies could be on offer soon. But is that ethical?
Only very recently and many haven't even raised all the way. But I agree that it's not going to solve the problem, only a maximum income can solve that.
Segundo sei havia mais árvores de fruto: laranjais, pomares, figueiras, e também amendoais. Os olivais eram de sequeiro, e no meio fazia-se cereal.
Writefull gives feedback on your writing
Have you posted a writeup of your business experiences running the aggregator? Seems like it would be a good read.
I would have expected "name your price" electrician work to be more in the $100-120/hr range in a high-CoL area.
How is this any better than the usual bash C-x C-e?
As one who shares your reaction to IJ, I would mention that his journalism is very different read. The dozen or so I've got to ranged from good to brilliant.
I wish more people made the distinction and more people made TUIs too...
FM Backscatter: Enabling Connected Cities and Smart Fabrics
Thanks for the healthy dose of skepticism. We moved away from Github (their closed source policy always seemed fishy to me) and started hosting our own gitlab instance instead. Some products our students are building: llip.io and c0d3.com.

The students working on llip.io built an android/ios react-native app as well as a webapp. Everyone working on that project got a job, so there is no development on that anymore.

The remaining group of students is working on c0d3.com and running beta on it. Currently they volunteer at the library with FCC on Saturdays to get more people using it to improve it. If you want to meet them, show up for the Saturday meetups! https://www.meetup.com/Free-Code-Camp-SF/events/qzddrmyxpbgc...

I do empathize with your concern though.
Automatic Differentiation in Machine Learning: A Survey [pdf]
Surface MIMO: Using Conductive Surfaces for MIMO Between Small Devices
come on. this is so obvious. read an int at that location and see if you take a misaligned read fault. so easy.

if CPU masks it then time the read.

ok partly sarcasm but partly: this isn’t a hard question. i’m sure i could enumerate ALL the possible ways to do this. maybe i’m good at puzzles.

if your comment is about how awful an interview question it is, in that case yeah i agree. but not because it’s hard. anyone should be able to answer this.
At least those relationships don't involve carpet bombing rich and thriving places back in to the stone age.
Wi-Fi Gesture Recognition on Existing Devices [pdf]
Really slow compared to what? Json? A handwritten binary encoding? For most use cases protobuf should be fast enough. I also don’t understand the unnecessary validation part. If you receive data over the network you should always validate it. Even if it’s from within the same company network
Yeah I couldn't get watch it for this reason -- at the time it came out I was just emerging from the process of an acquisition into a BigCorp, and it was just too real. I found I hated the characters on screen as much as I found I hated their equivalents in real life.
I am a huge fan of CockroachDB. Using it in two projects currently and it’s been fantastic. Having a SQL interface to FDB would be the glue needed to integrate FDB into many domains as a viable solution. FDB has solid k/v interfaces now, handles clustering and failures, adding a SQL layer increases its potential utility and lowers the bar for many users. To your point about slow and unpredictable sure that can be an issue - perhaps a limited SQL interface INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE, SELECT to start. Make it dirt simple to do CRUD ops.
Why assume trolling? The sentiment that regex sucks is one shared with a very large population. At least to me, it's this kind of terrible "write-once" maintenance hell language that really ought to be wiped off the face of the planet.

Its only redeeming feature is that it's fast (assuming you don't use the wrong features - lookaheads can cripple performance). Looking for alternative abstractions is very worthwhile. I'm not suggesting throwing away the existing regex engines, just abstracting away the ugliness. Whether this solution is the right one is debatable.

You can draw a comparison with SQL. Lots of projects nowadays hide SQL behind an ORM, only using SQL when a very complex query needs to be written. I'd expect something similar for Regex would help maintainability of lots of projects.
Perhaps I would like to see command-line version, you can simply pipe your data into nc or curl.
Irvine and the Irvine Company are both named for the Irvine Ranch and James Irvine who developed the property after donating a chunk to the University of California.

A fun fact is that the University of California, Irvine, was named that six years before the city was incorporated.
Employees are left with an equation that looks basically like: enormous salary - obscene rent = just a bit more cash flow than you’d earn in software anywhere else.

It's probably true that the cost of minimally acceptable housing drives entry level tech salaries, but they go way up from there. A senior SWE at Google with salary+bonus+stock of $300k/year has a whole lot of disposable income even after the ridiculous housing expenses.
I'd say the shape recognition model is the classic one: it was used in Sketchpad (1962) and Grail (1968), at the very early stages of computer GUIs.
Let’s assume the worldwide Banana outpdrops to zero in one day. That’s bad, but not what I would call dangerous.

In terms of the food supply, their are several major food crops that are important wheat, corn, rice, soy etc so the loss of a major one would be very bad, but the worldwide food surplus is so mind blowingly vast it would not nessisarily result in starvation for anyone beyond possibly the farmers directly affected in the 3rd world.

And frankly next year you can generally plant something else.
Nonono, the fork has just forked itself again after 15.5 months.
Inter-Technology Backscatter: Towards Internet Connectivity for Implanted Device
No, Manhattan's vacancy rate is quite low[0][1].

[0] https://www.nakedapartments.com/blog/nyc-vacancy-rate/
[1] https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/rentguidelinesboard/pdf/18HSR.pd...
Precisely that has been observed across many markets. Teachers unions being an example where adding on requirements to entry enshrine current members.
To add to that, you see a lot of guys raging that women are too shallow to look past their physical appearance, when they themselves would never even consider a woman who's not conventionally attractive.

If you're a 4 out of 10, you'll be much happier once you realize that you can have a perfectly wonderful time with a woman who is also a 4 out of 10. It's fun being with someone who makes your friends jealous, but there are so many more important factors in a happy relationship. And it doesn't matter in the dark anyway.
A simple search will tell you how it is abused. I don’t think they want to be the ones spreading that information.
That's at the end of the first season, which was weaker than the subsequent ones, really.
If you could deliver more value at a lower cost than your competitor (without sacrificing your profits of course), I don’t see why you couldn’t compete.

Short answer: let the data do the talking.
How big is the market?
Have you driven paid/organic traffic to a landing page?
Have you tested any funnels?
Have you gotten feedback your prospective customers?

You can do all these things with a minimal investment.
malandrew explained my thought process pretty well. I elaborated a bit in my other comments on this thread as well. The point was more about illustrating the irony of people arguing about inequality instead of thinking about what they have.

A man is perfectly happy with his Corvette until he sees his neighbor pull up in a Ferrari.
Replying so that the other person pleading for skepticism in this thread, and myself, can be seen near the top. This non-profit is not vetted, has a very basic website, has no proof of the students, this persons account is 24 days old.

Please be mindful that while this all sounds like a great idea and I hope it really exists, this also could be a scam as there is no evidence or any 3rd party that this is a real nonprofit which has been paying 20 people 2k a month to learn to code.

Please don't donate until you're sure this person is using the money as they claim. Attempting to verify their website and facebook leads to some red flags - no pictures of events, just events on facebook with 1 or 2 people attending, no documented proof of the 16 people who are full stack developers. If the non-profit is successful as they've said it is, then if he doesn't want to burn through his own savings (again supposedly) then he needs to seriously do better marketing and proof. Even with those things, I'd be skeptical unless it was independently verified.
Same on 63.0.1.
Sorry for coming off as ignorant/condescending, it was definitely not my intention.

But to be fair, I asked this question a year ago and the majority of front-end developers were unfamiliar with state machines: https://twitter.com/DavidKPiano/status/880878305502785539 I'm glad you're not, but that's not representative of the community.
"show most startup founders will refuse to watch"

Hah! Anecdotally, I've had the opposite experience watching the show and running a startup in the valley. Most of my co-founder friends have seen it and see it as a sort of catharsis.

"We aren't the only ones, this happens to everyone, so much so, there's a show about it"

And then there's the inspirational, "Let's have the team coalesce around a deadline and jam out something that's never been done before", episodes. Also very real.
Yup. After we had broken out the first Scrum project, my HR Manager came by specifically to tell me he had learned all about Scrum watching Silicon Valley.
This has nothing to do with dating, which is probably why you didn't get the point. I was referring to the martial status. If someone is not married doesn't mean he or she is not dating anyone. I was pointing out family responsibilities versus no family responsibilities. A simple example like I mentioned is your home. If you have kids, it's hard to share a one bedroom with a roommate in a condo next to your office. It is simply not an option. Meaning, you have to move far away from work in order to be able to afford a larger home. That adds up on your commute and makes your life way harder compared to a someone who doesn't have a family to take care of.

That's where remote versus non-remote jobs could make a big difference in your life. Hope this help ;)
U.S. Commerce dept proposes export control restrictions on AI [pdf]
I've never heard it used in this context, but I guess people can get offended by pretty much anything these days.
Firefighters - fire retardant buildings, sprinklers? Anecdotally I've heard that we need a lot less fire fighting these days because fires don't spread the same way anymore. I would be interested in seeing real data though.

Caretakers - all those robotic vacuums that are starting to become ubiquitous. Certainly not a total replacement but it lowers demand for humans.

But you don't need to automate a job to depress it's wages, just increase the supply of potential workers by automating many of the other jobs.
Great guide, very well detailed!
Just what I needed, thanks!
Appreciate your perspective. Which portfolio site are you referring to?
That's rich :)

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/1198...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/ceciliarodriguez/2016/02/10/the...

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/02/world/europe/italy-olive-...
If you're referring to Cambridge Analytica with your Facebook example, Google have provided APIs for 3rd-parties to access private user data for many of it's services, just as Facebook did with Cambridge Analytica. For example, the G Suite Marketplace lets many companies read all of your emails.

Both require an auth consent screen with permissions listed, where it may or may not be clear to the user what's being shared.