skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm suggesting focusing on a cofounder instead of an advisor.

No one would leave a successful venture for an unproven one. But there's lots of serial entrepreneurs who have already exited and are floating around looking for interesting opportunities. Your startup is niche so I'm not sure you'd find someone with relevant experience that easily.

This is unsolicited but my strategy if I was in your shoes would be to talk to people whose services you would be replacing. Those would likely be the Wall street investors. Get honest feedback early if your product could compete with their services. At the end of every discussion you have ask them if they can give you names of anyone else who might be interested in seeing your demo or potentially joining you. In other comments you say it's too early for VC...that may be true but getting introductions and asking for introductions to potential cofounders could be very fruitful.

You have a really impressive pedigree so I would always lead with that in any conversation. I'd also update your LinkedIn to reflect what your accomplishments were at Google instead of what your department achieved. Add your new startup to your LinkedIn. It's work but I'd also recommend getting professional headshots taken for your LinkedIn. This stuff is important. It's not because people can't see through it...it's because it's a negative signal if you don't do it.
While it's been a long time since I played in Apple's sandbox, I can tell you from experience in Google's that this is most certainly not how things work for your average app store developer.[1] The transaction is between the customer and the app store (i.e. Apple/Google) and the app store then acts as an intermediary telling your app if the user (effectively just a meaningless ID number from the App point of view) is authorized etc. About the only times a developer even knows that someone is a user of their app is when they need support or leave a review.

[1] There was a very brief period of time in the early days of Google supporting paid apps when some very limited customer information was provided (iirc, it was maybe email address and city level information) but that changed very quickly and I don't believe Apple ever provided this.
How long until this expands to screening for political view points so that wrongthinkers must go to a re-education camp - either voluntarily or in police custody?
"I want access to the majority of movies ever produced"

Appears that will never happen.
I've been hospitalized twice on a suicide watch. I've also had supposedly "well meaning" strangers call the cops on me when I was homeless to "check on me."

The cops advised me I shouldn't be walking in the bike lane that everyone walked in because there was no sidewalk on that side of the road. Having advised me of this, had they stopped me again, they would have ticketed me. I then had to routinely expend extra energy to go out of my way going "home" every single day.

No, the cops absolutely weren't going to help me solve any of my actual problems. No, they absolutely didn't care about me, no.

Calling the cops on a stranger because you supposedly care about their welfare is asshole behavior. I don't care at all about your supposed justification or algorithms etc.

If you care, you check on them yourself or maybe call an ambulance. If you don't know them well enough to do that without it going weird and shitty places, then mind your own damn business.
> medical texts maintained that odors could directly affect those who inhaled them

That didn't just cause people to be fussy about smells. It caused them, for hundreds of years, to ignore evidence for the actual mechanism of disease transmission. The well-known story about the Broad St cholera outbreak, where someone figured out (in 1854) that cholera was caused by tainted drinking water, didn't have a happy ending as the "miasma" (odors) theory prevailed with public health officials and millions more died.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1854_Broad_Street_cholera_outb...
Maybe I'm missing something, but how is that any more readable than:

for val in xrange(1, 100):
if val % 15 == 0:
print "FizzBuzz"
elif val % 5 == 0:
print "Buzz"
elif val % 3 == 0:
print "Fizz"
else:
print val
Be Moore Like Chuck
> Hate speech that encourages violence is illegal in the US.

In the US, the “direct incitement to violence” exception to freedom of speech has nothing to do with hate speech, except perhaps incidentally. Any direct incitement to violence is not protected speech, whether hateful or not.
Apple shares exactly none of this information with developers.
> Turns out there's an overlap between certain symptoms of depression and being madly in love

Such as? I'm having a hard time coming up with any.
Is this a 'we spy on them for their own protection' sort of argument? I think there should be extreme privacy protections against profiling like this. Its potentially a great service, but not from Facebook who might sell the info to recruiters 10 years later or some other horrible breach of trust. There needs to be oversight and rules
I find the reviews helpful, tho I take them with a grain of salt. It's true there's a lot of garbage tho. So many reviews like this:

> 1-star

> Used to be awesome but has a bug I don't like now!

> This app used to be amazing but now I want some feature that it doesn't have. Rating this 1-star as a way to strong arm the developer into adding my favorite feature. By the way I'll forget to come back and update this review should I actually get what I want.
I agree with your point on need for a strong middleman that can look after interests of its customer and defend against greedy sellers who are after customer's data and money. I would love to see Apple expand its role further and spearhead initiatives to safeguard interests of buyers from behemoth internet service/product providers, something that we desperately need.
The very next paragraph starts with ‘The tilt of the roof matters a great deal.’ Including a much worse example at 29% worse, but also a better one 1:12 which are not uncommon for that area. He then adds ordination of the building, and latitude as further examples.

Really, if he had started by showing a huge chart it would have been gibberish to most people.
Anyone else think this is Super Creepy? Not long a go I would have expected to find this article from Onion News.

So now platform that arguably actively participates in making people depressed has launched an human assisted AI to report people to authorities. How Orwellian is that.
I'm bipolar and whenever I start losing some sleep I retake an online version of the Young Mania Rating Scale. I'm able to tell "this is a sign", but the test is an inventory of how many signs there are and an indication of whether I should call the head shrinker out of regular schedule (which costs money) or just try to hold back on prodromal behaviors.

I'm no longer on facebook, but it would be really useful if something I open daily would tell me "hey dude, you're overtalkative and online at odd hours and maybe you should get it checked" -- but give me the agency to do so. I understand perfectly well that there are mental illness scenarios where the capacity of a person to help himself is lost (making involuntary intervention the humane course of action) but even in mania this is the exception rather than the norm.

I can't think of a model of illness severity where machine learning is able to determine a score but the time course of this score is expected to be discontinuous. Before any noise of escalation without my knowledge, I would expect tools to be developed that would help me realize I'm getting ill before losing agency. Everything I just said works for depression too.
Well, china is already harvesting organs from political prisoners so that isn't too far of a stretch [0].

[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organ_harvesting_from_Falun_...
That's fair, I guess in my ideal world, law enforcement would just act on the factual information rather than being biased by the fact that a Facebook person reported it as a concern. But as evidenced by things like swatting, police are certainly not the best at responding to reports in a calm and unbiased way. I guess my hope is that law enforcement can learn to appropriately interpret and respond to these reports (including deeming that it's actually not a concern), but maybe that's unrealistic.
Yes, this is why I haven’t bothered with the current EDCSA support. As for the 4096 bit cert on my Raspberry Pi- this is more fun interest then actual concern someone is trying to break my static site
The... "rise" of Flutter? According to which metric?

Flutter is nonexistent outside Google employees and a handful of Flutter advocates who write books or blog posts about it.

The performance and tool chain penalty of flutter makes absolutely zero sense today, when so many better alternatives exist.
This is in a very early stage of development, but it is technically usable (at least in theory, and for the very limited purpose of simple script/configuration files), so I think it's ready for the Show HN (thus being the first time I actually fulfilled a New Years' Resolution!).

Documentation is nonexistent, and the interpreter currently has no test suite (the parser does, though it ain't exactly comprehensive). There's also no compiler or REPL yet (only way to use it is to fire up 'rebar3 shell' and call otpcl:eval/1 or or otpcl:eval/2 repeatedly). However, per README.md, it should be straightforward to use nonetheless (feed OTPCL programs into otpcl:eval/1 to use the standard library as-is or otpcl:eval/2 to provide a custom one with your own functions). Evaluation will return the value returned by the last-executed command in the passed program, plus the final state of that program's execution, giving two reasonably-useful ways to extract data from program evaluation (whether for simple scripts or configuration files that are at least slightly prettier than full-blown Erlang terms).

Next steps:

* Add support to actually eval a file directly (though it should be possible to separately read a file and shove the text contents into otpcl:eval/1 as a stopgap)

* Build the REPL (what good is a scripting language if you can't turn it into an ad-hoc shell language, too? ;) )

* Flesh out the standard library functions (notably, there's no way to define functions from within an OTPCL script at the moment)

* Docs, tests, etc.

* Actually publish on hex.pm (the infrastructure's there; but it's a wee bit too barebones for me to be ready to pull that trigger)

Feedback is welcome. There is certainly a lot of room for improvement, but hey, at least it (approximately) works!
Apple doesn't hand over customer data.

They did bend enough in 2011 to allow their customers to choose to share some limited information when subscribing to the digital version of a magazine.

>As for subscriber data, Apple will allow customers to provide publishers with name, e-mail and zip code information at the time of subscription. This is optional

https://mashable.com/2011/02/15/apple-subscription-model/
This is about books sold from iTunes. I'm talking about buying books from your Audible credits in the Audible app. But given this info, the most charitable interpretation would be that Audible stopped selling via Apple all together. A less charitable interpretation would be that Apples guidelines forbid Audible to sell content without Apple getting their cut.
My brother lives in the neighborhood where this public beta testing is occurring. Folks, let me tell you from first-hand experience- these cars are terrible drivers. They are extremely hesitant, and because of this they cause traffic backups and delays in places where safety is compromised. You better hope you are not behind one when they perform a left-hand turn onto a busy street, because you are probably going to be waiting a while. They stop in seemingly random situations where human drivers would never stop, like a bicyclist standing way off the side of the road (talking to someone) with his bike pointing towards traffic. People have told me they've been in the middle of a turn behind a Waymo car, when all of a sudden the car just randomly stops for no apparent reason, leaving them stranded in the middle of the intersection as the light turns red. The default reaction for a Waymo car under any sort of ambiguity seems to be to just stop (literally) until the ambiguity resolves itself. Unfortunately this causes considerable confusion and traffic backups for human drivers.

I understand why Waymo is proceeding cautiously. But you really get the impression that the technology has a long ways to go. People in Chandler are pissed because this fleet of cars is a huge nuisance and is in fact less safe for human drivers who are sharing the road. I have no doubt that autonomous vehicles will be safer than human drivers someday, but that day is definitely not today.
There is (probably) a definition of "think" where neural networks actually thing. There is also (probably) a definition of "think" where neural networks don't actually think. There are articles advocating both positions, and neither side explicitly states their definition of "think". So they're really arguing about what the right definition is, but in disguise, since neither side states their definition, nor gives reasons why that definition is better than the other side's. As a result, the "discussion" is pretty much useless.
You missed an important point, the 2017 increase. "According to the International Energy Agency, the world got nearly 25% of its electricity from renewables in 2017, and that number should jump to 30% within the next few years."
No, I do not think that a company reporting suicide attempts or messages that appear to indicate an immediate desire for suicide is creepy. This is not just a thing Facebook does, either.

This is not "Orwellian". And the keyword in the claim about Facebook making people depressed is "arguable".
Customers don't care whether apple takes 1% or 50%.
This. Isn't. Facebook's. Job.

No, seriously. Facebook should host content and serve ads. That's it.

They don't need to worry about being the arbiter of truthful news.

They don't need to stop "hate".

They don't need to make calls about who needs a psych eval.

They just need to host content. But if they truly want to do this, what happens when someone sues them for not making the call?

I made the new year's resolution to delete my account yesterday. I almost chickened out, but then this article comes up.
Oh. my.

Please do not play with people's lives based on an algorithm whose classification output we have no way of explaining.
$2000/month is more than a lot of people in the US make working full time.

I would argue $2000/month is a very significant benefit to a survivor. It’s also inflation adjusted.
They should be fast though? They are on Akamai, LimeStone and their own CDN. It was all very late in 2016 /2017, but things has been much better since then. So to have a slow download speed from Apple, unless it is from iCloud Storage ( which is getting better too) shouldn't have been the case as the likely hood fo slow connection from all three CDN are very small..

Apart from Netflix Servers ( Fast.com, I really wish Netflix would make a CDN for others to use ), I think Apple now has one of the best CDN network.
This is a great comment. Most of the value I get out of using a debugger - I work in game dev - is from these, often in concert. Even before I start setting data breakpoints, though, I often find myself examining heap memory with the process paused to give myself sufficient context to do more informed exploration later. In the last year or so I've also started using Visual Studio's "action" breakpoints, a sort of runtime configurable printf, once I've identified areas of interest.
> arguably meth would be the better treatment

It's available but pricey and not available in a variety of dosages.

See, desoxyn
Yeah, right. Best engineering practices would be from the same guys who somehow find big O notation incomprehensible or hit impossible to use. It’s not that any of this is necessary or good to know but credential-seeking would be the number one place for mediocrity.

It would be a great negative signal. I love it.
That’s a fair point. Judicial processes on campus can definitely be pooorly conceived and unintuitive. My “favorite” are the various “honor courts” that various schoold use as a catch-all “we don’t like what you did, so you’re expelled” process.
Agreed that privacy is a real concern with a system like this, though my comment was specifically focusing on the "worry of false positives" concern. I certainly don't claim that Facebook is in the clear from a privacy standpoint, I'm just digging into one detail.
> What happens when 90+% of the Web is running certificates from the same issuer?

It looks like a bad thing, but the TLS CAs are organized in such a way that any rogue issuer can compromise any certificate. This way, consolidation only reduces the risks.
‘We Only Get One Shot’
A year of sponge
Why race bait? Are you quoting any compiled statistics, or are you just going by the gut on this one?

I'm wondering why white privilege on violence didn't work for Michael Drejka, who shot a black man who aggressively pushed him to the ground and was subsequently charged with manslaughter, but Devin Gibbs(a black man) was okayed to shoot his gun into a McDonalds on self defense grounds after a white man basically taunted him from 20+ feet away? Was this just a fluke in the system that just protects white people who go around killing but not others? Or maybe your thesis is wrong.
More bikeshedding for the new year:

#!/bin/bash
for n in {1..100}; do
f=
((n % 3)) || f=Fizz
((n % 5)) || f+=Buzz
echo ${f:-$n}
done
I think ( Correct me if I am wrong ), if it was in Safari it would be ok, if it was in App Webview it is not.
The use of that feature to extract significant amounts of content was noticed over a decade ago by Fravia and his followers:

http://search.lores.eu/books.htm (near bottom of page)

Of course, back then it was the norm to publish this information in a place for those seeking information or otherwise "keep it tight", and not instead let them tighten the nooses around our necks by instantly snitching to the company for the hope of a paltry monetary reward...
It seems like there's a vendetta against Facebook here. The term "mixed results" is used why? Everything they're doing is completely voluntary. NYT somehow managed to paint Facebook alerting the police about a possible suicide attempt as something negative, just because the police already helped the person. Or about them being too late to report it, again, this isn't Facebook's fault.

You can argue on the term "mixed result", but I think it's reasonable to assume they're indicating that non-success is a negative result, even when Facebook is going entirely above and beyond here to begin with, so there really isn't any "negative result" to be had.

Do people dislike big tech companies so much that reporting immediately concerning messages and suicide attempts to the police must be a bad thing?

This is common practice anyway. If you write that you're about to kill yourself on Reddit and a moderator notices it, I sure hope the police are contacted. Nothing I see to criticize here at all.
I'm pretty sure that this is actually a thing; Like once you step outside of the technical field; most everyone else really needs to "dress for the job they want" in the form of, for example, having a class-appropriate car.

I think this is one of the biggest bonuses you get as a technical person; you can live with roommates and drive a beater car, if you want, and it's not a problem when getting quarter-million dollar a year jobs.

A long time ago, I had a roommate who was trying to make it as a realtor. He though his (actually quite nice) not exactly new honda accord was a big handicap for him. I mean, I don't know if it was or not; I know little about the selling side of real-estate, but I can tell you that most people who do sales or management feel that their symbols of wealth are really important to their job and their income.
There are not many things, that are more dishonest than selective outrage, hidden behind the veil of 'moral high ground'.

Is anybody auditing Patreon to apply same level of 'checks' to all the other users?
Is there a legal audit-framework for this, is it based on Twitter/Facebook like stats ?

Here is Facebook banning a post of police officers wife, who was killed by illegal immigrant[1]

How is this ok?!

[1] https://www.theblaze.com/news/facebook-takes-action-against-...

This is total madness with kind of garbage morality.

It will bring on biased courts system (they will look like inquisitions in the middle ages).

And, that, as we know, will bring irreconcilable fractions, and those, eventually, will bring on a civil war(s).
That's called kids being assholes, it happened long before the internet was invented, and it will continue once we eventually decide to shut down the internet once and for all. The school should have legitimate solutions for it involving punishments against the involved students, and if you can't sue them when they don't, then your fucked under this ruling too, aren't you?
I like that analogy. An even better one: porting the code of `sed' to a new operating system without fully understanding it, using `sed' to automatically correct bugs in fundamental operating system code without checks, recompiling said OS, and hoping it works perfectly.
I'm skeptical considering the scientist let some unanswered questions about all this.
https://www.datascienceatthecommandline.com/ when maths is hindrance
Disclosure: I'm one of those Google employees.

I think it's a bit of a stretch to say it's non-existent outside of Google; curious to know what made you feel so negatively about it.

Flutter is one of the top 30 most starred repos on Github (top 20 if you exclude non-software content); given that it wasn't even in the top 100 six months ago, I think most would agree it's growing pretty quickly. And even though it's only been out of beta for three weeks, it's used by large companies from Alibaba to Square to Capital One. Examples like this [1] show that it's fully capable of delivering game-quality experiences even on older devices, since it compiles directly to ARM code and uses the Skia graphics engine.

[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.two_dimens...
I decided to take on 2018 differently, which resulted in being able to quantify my year:
- 125 days learning to code
- 21 books
- 121 days exercising
- 4 side projects
Etc.

I wrote about this experience which resulted in a "sponge framework" that I hope is helpful for others in 2019
May not pick up the other two soon but how is Antifragile? Applicability wise.
Hot new ?! For whom ?

SVMs have been in active use since the early nineties and have been formulated much before that
> I think the very fact that people in wildly different circumstances are living paycheck to paycheck is a huge flag that this isn't as simple a problem as "they don't get paid enough".

so, certainly, that's not all of it. we all have the wealthy friend who lives paycheque to paycheque.

But... let me tell you, saving money is a whole lot easier when you make 10x the minimum to support yourself in the area than it is when you make 1x the minimum to support yourself in the area.