skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
i work on pcf at pivotal. i'd love to hear how we can improve. spring boot should work great with "cf push" and when it doesn't we would love to know why and make it better. while pks and k8s are able to run stateless workloads, if pas isn't offering a lot of additional productivity with routing, logging, and multi-tenancy features then we've missed the mark. pivotal-cf-feedback at pivotal dot io will reach the product managers that work on different parts. i saw your note further below about having to login, the "email" prompt instead of username, you had to ask to get the redis tile, and that you find the cf cli confusing compared to other platform clis you are familiar with. we definitely want to know let us know if there are other major issues.
Thanks. I do agree that generating testable hypotheses is a good thing, and that exploring contradictions, implications, etc re existing theory plays an important role. Still, it bugs me when these ideas get popularized, and people talk about them as if they were known. But I'm pretty sure that experts in the field keep it straight.
On the flip side, Monsanto gets some incredibly ridiculous comments directed towards it. Things that even those who have the most hatred for Monsanto would realize doesn't add up.

People on Reddit in particular love to point out when someone is wrong. For free. Discussions about Monsanto are low hanging fruit and easily searched out. The fact that you received 30-50 comments suggests to me that most were just regular Reddit users doing what Reddit users do.

What if the paid trolls were the ones who posted the ridiculous comments so that the 'right fighters' come out of the woodwork in droves to defend the company? Once they get used to defending the company for things that are clearly false, they become skeptical of the real grievances. That's kind of brilliant when you think about it.
Tesla's motors are quite advanced - and at the heart of an electric motor is materials science, which is very complex and amenable to multiple trade secrets.

The first internal combustion engines were vastly simpler than the motor in your blender. There too, it was actually casting tech and materials science that really mattered. Ditto re batteries. I wish the big companies luck, and they have finally woken up - but across a vast range of business history giving a multiple year lead can easily be fatal to incumbents, no matter how wonderful they were at the last tech.

Investment isn't enough, I recommend Clayton Christensen's works, or just view some of his excellent Youtube videos (Innovator's Dilemma being his most famous book.)
It really boggles my mind that a decade ago I would've been told not to believe what I read on wikipedia and now folks don't question anything they read on the internet.

Is it because we've been fed this illusion of social networks?
I fully support public transit, including trains, but the geography of the US is not conducive to dense trains due to the urban sprawl.

Ideally the sprawl is minimized for maximum efficiency (in both enhanced inter-personal cooperation, living cost) but it's hard to sell that when gas is cheap, and land is plenty.

There's another issue unique to the US, is that there is a diverse spectrum of races, income levels, and cultural groups that make it hard for these different groups to live together in a dense area peacefully (as compared to a homogenous place like Japan). Much of the inane urban planning in The US is actually a result of people just trying to prevent black people or poor people from moving into their neighborhoods.
I don’t think that’s the right assessment about the abrupt changes in color.

What I think those instead reveal is areas of the parameter space where there is a collapse of a degree of freedom: if your curve is close to a parabola, then you can make many different cubic curves which are close approximations, and it doesn’t much matter which among them you choose.

Raph’s optimizer picks opposite choices for which arm should be the short one when you go across that boundary, but if you smoothed the map out so there were no creases I don’t think you’d get significantly worse results. (I’d be interested to see him try this ;)
I remember reading about how the psychiatrists in Russia, would forcibly place persons with schizophrenia into a situation where they would have to fast for an extended period of time and being a month or longer. Seems like they were on the right theory.
Maybe the old folders used mbox, which stuffs entire folders of emails in a single file, while the current stardard (for a while now) is Maildir, a file per email.
Yep, that's what I meant. Thanks for the RHIDE and setedit recommendations.
Honestly looks to me like the AI translation problem, always 5 years away from being perfect, still mostly crappy, only good enough to have a rough idea of what is being said and with glaring mistakes.
Sure, but math <> science.
for some people, waymo-like cars are not an optional luxury/curiosity but a necessity (elderly people, disabled). It would be nice if they focused on those groups early, instead of leaving it as an afterthought. The oddities of the cars are not going to be a show-stopper, as long as the cars are safe. Human drivers will learn to adapt their way around the "roomba cars" over time.
Strange, the original article's title doesn't have the ending question mark
Are there any companies who don't use paid shills these days? As soon as I find out some company is shilling MY Internet, I quit doing business with them. Google and Microsoft are especially egregious, I've heard that every Google employee is expected to post ten times a day to forums and social media promoting their brand.
Ask HN: What is your preferred physical position when programming?
Reclined on a couch? Seated at a desk? In a lounge chair? What's your preferred position for working hours at a time?
I don't understand why the title says iPhone. The article describes the problems we have with any smart phone.
A Shill Defence Force® that lures them into never ending flamewars, so the rest of us can post in peace. I like it. Someone needs to start a fundraiser and get the mechanical turk going.
Huh, I’ve honestly never really thought of a service like this in that manner. That’s really eye opening.
This is what people have tended to say any time I defended Monsanto here --- not because I particularly like Monsanto, but because people seem to make a bunch of stuff up about them, and as a card-carrying nerd, I have a problem watching people be proudly wrong on HN. It should probably be obvious that I've never taken a dime from Monsanto (though: people in Mountain View used to think our office was a Monsanto office, due to the related spelling).

There's a reason that there's a rule in the HN guidelines about not implying shillage here. It's an easy rhetorical out, and people take it far too often. If you think a comment here is paid for or otherwise abusive, tell hn@ycombinator.com; don't post about it here.
Autonomous cars are a very difficult problem, more than I think most people anticipate. There's been a lot of tax breaks/money that goes into these programs too, and that's the tragic thing, since that funding should be going to known solutions: public transportation (trains, trams and express buses).

Even if you had a full-autonomous only Interstate where each car could be fully loaded and ride bumper-bumper at over 100kph, it wouldn't even begin reach the carrying capacity of currently existing fully autonomous subways systems like those in Singapore.

https://penguindreams.org/blog/self-driving-cars-will-not-so...

These driverless cars would be great in Europe where they can solve the last leg problems in countries that already have strong public transport infrastructure. In places like America, the existing infrastructure has a long way to go before autonomous cars won't lead to the same gridlock as normal cars .. and an even longer way to go before they're ready for mass consumption.
I checked the input field, it doesnt even have a name, my browser is Safari :/
You'd think everyone wants this but in reality hardly anyone would actually use it.

Imagine you want to go to a coffee shop, go sit somewhere else in your house, go to meeting someplace, get on a plane, go to an office etc.

There's no hubs, screens, keyboards etc. in these places so you'd be stuck with a phone. You're effectively much much less mobile than a laptop, only incrementally more than having a desktop at home.

Perhaps if hubs / screens became ubiquitous everywhere (maybe apple can do that) it would be useful.
> 2/ But that argument about how a new CEO should be compensated essentially puts on the table the question of whether the founder CEO is actually the best person to run the Company right now or if there is someone better suited to do that who could be recruited for a new market equity grant. It is often not in everyone’s best interests to have that conversation.

Why would it not be in everyone's best interests to have that conversation?
Your statement implies that you believe that Apple are making larger phones which don’t sell as well, and that they know that smaller phones would sell in greater volume but are choosing not to do that.

This is patently absurd.
> A lot of city driving, especially rush hour city driving, is about creating an opening. Not about waiting for one.

Exactly, which is why non-city drivers struggle to drive in big cities. They're used to just waiting for an opening.
The processor may be fast but the DRAM has not kept pace. So it does take a long time to zero pages. The CPU is mostly idle waiting on its write queue - but from the OS perspective is not available for other work just as if it were factoring primes.

I always thought x86 could benefit from block memmove/memset hardware external from the CPU.
I'm just looking through the bill and noticed that as well as targetting anyone who provides an electronic service that has one or more users in Australia, or anyone who develops software used in such a service, it also targets anyone who "manufactures or supplies components for use, or likely to be used, in the manufacture of a facility for use, or likely to be used, in Australia". So they can also demand that equipment manufacturers insert back doors. Manufacturers may just ship their compromised hardware worldwide, for convenience when other governments demand the same service.
Always curious how traffic is viewed as an antagonistic activity by many. I usually have the opposite impression. Someone wants to switch lanes in dense traffic, so I slow down slightly and let them slip into my lane. Others do the same for me. That's working with each other not against each other for me.
I work with a type 1 diabetic who programs his own insulin pump now. Still goes to the doctor, but says they just don't have the same commitment to finding a good solution that he does, and he feels much better now. Sample size of 1, obviously, but he says it's pretty common to find other people in his situation who have similar results.
Maybe something like a warrant canary makes more sense? An encryption canary? Would that even pass with the new laws though?

Also you stating that you might have been forced to insert malware by the government surely breaks the rule that says you can't tell anyone too, if I'm understanding it correctly.
Ah the old anti-amateur radio shilling from a radio amateur. My guess is that you're the fat handicapped retard who doesn'[t bathe.
Smartphones and tablets may have latched themselves into our daily life, but I'm not convinced that we've even dealt with how much time we spend at our computers, at least for white collar workers. Does anyone else live this lifestyle?

https://pics.me.me/tired-o-looking-at-bad-screen-cant-wait-t...
I read the question more broadly, same as syntheticcdo at the top there. In my opinion learning Nix/NixOS is easier and more productive than learning general Linux administration. These kinds of panels are half-measure.
What can you do on 5G that you can't on 4G? My 4G phone is faster than my broadband at home, I can stream at the max resolution on the screen and almost every app is latency or CPU bound at this stage.
I've said it before, and I'll say it again: There will never be fully driverless cars until we have true AI.

The only thing we might have are dedicated lanes on interstates for driverless cars, like railroad tracks.

In city driving will never happen without AI.

This is a strong claim, but I'm sticking to it.
> We are now starting to do some of our infrastructure on Kubernetes, much less headache.

Pivotal Function Service (PFS) builds directly on Kubernetes via Knative (https://github.com/knative/) and Project riff (https://projectriff.io).
>what is a “virtual copy”/“transclusion”?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transclusion#History_and_imple...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3l7CpnpyGw
Ask HN: Product/Market fit Strategy for Hardware Startup with Govt Traction?
Hi

I have an early stage startup (2 man team) that makes a novel kind of antenna system that could disrupt 5G, autonomous vehicles, IoT and anything that uses antennas. I have good traction from the government (SBIRs and other contract vehicles) but I am also trying to diversify by going after the commercial sector. I’ve really been struggling to find product/market fit and am not growing my team purposely.

I’d be grateful for answers to the following questions around strategy especially from hardware folks:

1)Licensing deals: There are a lot of players in the antenna space that want to license the technology. I see this as suicide since licensing could be done at a later stage if the company isn’t doing well. The company licensing the technology could learn your know-how and building upon it. Some of these companies are big defense contractors making patents essentially useless - you won’t even know where they have deployed the copied technology. It could help further the technology and have it deployed in the licensing company’s existing product given they have the resources to do so. Licensing in other verticals makes sense assuming you know what you are going after. Pitfalls?

2)Strategic Partnerships: Should one pursue a partnership agreement that is then not a licensing model. Something more like a revenue sharing model with the commercial partner giving them exclusive rights to the technology in exchange for revenue. I think this should be symbiotic enough to help both the bigger company with resources to leverage the technology without fear that others would have an edge while also generating more $ for my company than a licensing deal. Pitfalls?

3)Continue to find product/market fit with minimal dependence on bigger companies and build something in the commercial/consumer sector. This does have greater risk and requires a lot more resources. The technology also may have to be manufactured in the US, making it more $$. Pitfalls?

4)	Anything I missed?
Why do you presume that aggressive drivers are all entitled? And why do I owe the world a favor?
Easier for what?

Rational curves give you another degree of freedom. CAD people like them because they can exactly represent conics.

Neither polynomials nor NURBS are IMO especially intuitive to work with as a design tool. As an approximate output target I think cubic polynomials are okay: a few cubic segments strung together are plenty flexible for typical drawing/modeling purposes.
What's Next in Consumer Startups? [video]
> on average, absolutely terrible drivers?

Quite the opposite, on average humans are 99.99999% reliable when driving cars.

Math: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12012166

Computers on the other hand are nowhere near that reliable.
I thought yogurt was quite popular? Even sauerkraut isn't really uncommon in America. But I struggle to even think what would constitute an "American Diet" unless you're using that to refer to someone who just eats hot dogs and hamburgers.
Ah okay.

I wasn't sure if bare-bones Rust+Lamba-Rust-Runtime was already enough.
It doesn't need to be implemented anywhere else, the wording of the legislation specifically says they can ask on behalf of other nations.
I. Don't. Want. Treatment.

I come from a poor family, with amazing parents, but with limited resources. And sorry to say it in a time where autism "is a disease that needs to be eradicated", but I have my whole current living standard to thank of being a autistic.
Very much this. I'm disabled and self-driving cars would fundamentally change my life for the better.
> The one downside is that I look pretty silly when taking photos.

I am glad you acknowledge that.

Although it is a little strange that we feel this way, what's actually silly about using a tablet to take photos?
I'm an Australian privacy-obsessed Fastmail user, and use them for my family domains and all our primary email. I'll keep using them, because email isn't private in the first place. Any more than snail mail is. Both can be intercepted and read by authorities without you knowing.

For secure communications, you shouldn't be using email in the first place, so these new laws don't change much in that regard (in my understanding, I'm still catching up on the new laws because I have limited internet access right now, I'm happy to be corrected).
Using the "shill argument" basically shuts down any possibility for an actual discussion or discourse. If you truly believe that a commentator is doing something like that, you should honestly just flag the comment and move on.

The entire point of HN, or at least in its attempt, is to be able to have meaningful conversations, and it will be to great detriment for the community if we allow rhetorical criticism like this to become more prevalent.
>> Their purpose is to pretend to be serious news outlets to amplify various social media phenomena by selectively reporting about them and repeating this over and over again, with the purpose of legitimizing the phenomenae.

In comparison to major US outlets? I get what you're saying, and agree that they place a halo on Russia, but, I would argue instead that you can get a much more holistic view of what is actually happening in the West from RT than what's being sold you to us on a TV screen in the US. From what I've seen, it doesn't look like RT is sparking anything that isn't already brewing and should not be covered.

There are very serious issues and changes brewing in France and all over Europe that OUR media is obscuring and even dismissing.

For one example (of many), regarding the Yellow Vest situation, Paris is on the verge of open revolution, but, up until about a week ago, most of the US outlets, especially the liberal ones (sorry, but it's true), portrayed peace and harmony in France and would mention Macron as some kind of noble visionary in contrast to Trump - not once did I see a mention of how his polling numbers were precipitously dropping to the lowest in modern history, among a myriad of other indicators. That, to me, is propaganda.

The word "division" is thrown a lot now, but conflict is inevitable, and I think the greater sin in our media has been obscuring issues behind a TV screen until things reach a climax.
Paleotronic’s 12 Years of Retro-Christmas Year Four: 1983
>folks don't question anything they read on the internet

(summary: Even if people were to quit believing what they read, claims against Monsanto would be among those claims disbelieved, so Monsanto still wins.)

Because you quickly run in to the "poisoned wine" problem. You can't pick the wine in front of you because the King might have poisoned it, but you can't pick the wine in front of him because he might be expecting you to pick it, but he might have thought that you would have expected him to pick it and then put it in front of you... So at the end the knowledge that one cup is poisoned doesn't help you pick which one to drink.

In the same way, if everything you read could have been written by a troll, and if you can't de-troll it by identifying which cause they are subtly going after, the sentence becomes non-information. If everything you read could be trolling, then every sentence becomes non-information. You're left alone in a crowd of millions, because whether or not the person talking to you is a shill, useful idiot, or enlightened freedom fighter, you're not going to trust them.

In other words, Monsanto can halt all communication about Monsanto, without having to prevent anyone from talking. They just have to bring the average correctness of any statement about Monsanto low enough, and then there will be no point in reading.

So, faced with the option of completely disregarding everything they read on the internet (thereby, essentially, ending their use of it), most people just shoulder the risk and assume good faith, hoping that the benefits of the true information that they end up believing will not be outweighed by the false information they end up believing. As long as the false information is kept to a low enough level this is an acceptable bargain.
Bassett Furniture was made in the US (some of it in the company town of Bassett, Virginia -- not far from where I live) for many years, but today my understanding is that much of it is manufactured offshore. John D. Bassett III comes from that family, and worked for Bassett Furniture for many years, but today he runs a separate company called Vaughan-Bassett that makes 100% of its furniture in the USA. [0]

The Bassett family history and corporate provenance is weird and a bit incestuous (both figuratively and literally; J.D. married a cousin), and I really do recommend reading Macy's book for the full scoop.

[0] http://www.vaughan-bassett.com/about-us/
it s going to be a huge market if it proves doable. Consider for example wheelchairs that pair with the car and auto-dock (or even self-driving wheelchairs). selfdriving cars are robots that just happen to have wheels, the posibilities are endless
I'm not an Apple fan, but Apple is a long term strategy company and they will not be doing this; just like Microsoft hasn't. Google's Android is so fractured it's basically impossible to do it.
Source headline is clickbait and HN headline just adds a question mark; an accurate headline reflecting th content of the story is “Monsanto accused by legal opponents of hiring internet trolls."

(And not “to counter bad publicity” but “in bizarre scheme to manipulate decisions in ongoing legal cases via PR”; that is, the accusers specifically state that this is a tort defense strategy.)
I’m a tortured Gnucash user. The best I can say of it is that it’s free, and it works.

I would not recommend anyone start using it if they are not already.
One common approach for valuation is to use comparable companies as a benchmark. This is where you take a similar company's financial statements and compare the relative valuation. The first step is to identify similar companies and do a search for their valuations. Once you have similar companies, you can use ratio like price/earnings to compare them. good luck.
I wouldn't consider the market gardener to be in the same area as grow biointensive. Jeavons has a strong focus on self-sufficiency and sustainability in his system and goals. Fortier does not, he's only interested in organic as gimmick to make money. Also his book is pretty deceptive compared to what he really does on his "farm", which wasn't actually profitable until after he released the book and got "famous", which is what sell the overpriced lettuce that finally got him profitable.

I think the biointensive system Jeavons promotes gives you a pretty good starting place, but it does promote a bit of needless work. Skip the composting and just use the compost crops as a mulch. There's no need to build piles and turn them and then spread the compost, you can just let it compost in place on the garden where it will end up. You can skip growing the compost crops too if you have trees to collect leaves from in the fall. And save your back and skip the double digging, or any digging at all for that matter. All it does is set you back in your first couple of years for no reason.
I happen to have tried my best at that so far and I think this line of thinking is mostly an excuse not to develop empathy and show compassion.