skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Doesn't change the fact that it should be up to that country's prosecutors to do the enforcement - not the governments of Canada or the USA.

International treaties should not override a country's laws - Canada for example is already in brazen violation of internation drug treaties.

If US authorities want them on these charges, they should be presenting legitimate evidence to Chinese prosecutors and arguing over the treaty in question, not playing world police.
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I’m not touching that one
And you didn't even mention GV, CapitalG and other investment arms. Well forget the others, I am surprised that Google's investments into Oscar, Magic Leap, SpaceX, Impossible, Slack, Stripe,Lyft,Uber, Snap, AirBnb aren't talked about much.
I think these can be counted as successful, guaranteed future cash troves. In 10 years, all these are going to be worth a lot. Google should hold onto these. It's like a mini Berkshire hathaway is brewing up.

Some links:
https://techcrunch.com/2018/02/17/a-peek-inside-alphabets-in...
http://www.gv.com/portfolio/
https://capitalg.com/companies/
> it was late to the party

But Windows Mobile was on phones well before Google got ahold of Android and got the Google Play Store up and running:

In Q1 2003, Windows Mobile was the third largest operating system in the smart handheld market, behind Symbian and Palm OS.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Mobile#Market_share

The earliest version of the Google Play Store was made available in 2008.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Play#History
Isn't that a bit like asking the developers of the Colossus "Does it have enough thyratron ring stores to actually do something useful, or is it just a high-tech piece of boolean operation counting machinery?"

Geez, chop chop, make with the general purpose computer already, Tommy Flowers (or should I say Tommy "spent billions making a useless counting machine" Fraudlowers).
I dunno, I'd probably still pay extra for the real deal.
>The fact that it’s a 4-year slog is one of the factors that make university degree holders earn premium in the labor marketplace — conscientiousness, conformity and consistency required to slog through 4 years needed for school to certify it send employers a strong signal that you’re the kind of person who will do their job well.

In my career, everyone I've worked with had at least a Bachelor's. Most had a Master's and a few had a PhD. Only one did not finish undergrad.

I can assure you, people who hold a university degree are not particularly conscientious or consistent. I'll admit they probably do well in the "slog through mind numbingly boring work", but that's often a negative. Whenever I've been in a team full of people who have no problem doing the most tedious work you can imagine, the result have been the very same people tend to oppose ways to improve efficiency (usually "automate the boring work"). And the management doesn't care either (automating boring work will not help you in your career).

I don't want to work with people who don't mind really really boring work. I want to work with people who hate it enough to eliminate the need to do it. Engineers tend to be of the former category, and software people of the latter.

Also, depending on which school you go to, getting a degree from it is just its own skill. Knowing how to work the system (e.g. get previous years' homeworks and exams, etc) can play a big role.

I went to a low ranked undergrad and a top 5 grad school. My experience mirrors this person's if you substitute community college for undergrad and undergrad for grad. At the low ranked school, professors did not reuse homework or exams. They focused a lot more on what you were learning and less on how well you can do on the final exam. They had plenty of office hours - ranging from 3-12 hours a week (3 was considered low). Much fewer students per class. No TA's in between - faculty taught almost all the courses, and the office hours were with them.

There are down sides to a low ranked school (lack of smart peers and perhaps a slightly watered down curriculum), but I think quality of instruction is not one of them.
People have different priorities. Some people insist on eating high end food or driving high end cars or drinking high end wine or all/some/none of those.

I eat cheap mass produced meat because it's often an ingredient in the things I put on the menu (hamburgers about once a week and tacos about once a month). I buy the store brand. If someone wants to make a more environmentally friendly semi-meat or non-meat product that is a drop in replacement for meat in my use case and is superior in any other way (shelf life, price, health, taste, etc) and equal in the rest then I will use it. At present nobody has done that for beef.
arbitrary number + that's what, a couple months? That's nothing.
> All machine learning algorithms can be implemented on a Turing machine, so they all are subject to the halting problem.

I think the argument should be the other way around.
Obviously not. And it's not a fair criticism either way, but that is the criticism. Nobody is accusing the author of drawing like an infant.
This is only true if there are no significant externalities.
Except this leads to an incentive for sexist bias in admission since women still dominate the "stay at home spouse" category. Finally, especially for undergrad, many DO go there for general education/becoming more worldly, even if they have no intention of joining the workforce.

When a couple marries, I think they should realize that they are to face the world together, and this means repayment of educational expenses of both partners.
#1 Reason: no one can monetize that data better than Google

#2 They'd be helping their rivals with such data

#3 Sharing might kill the golden goose (bad press etc)

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Most people will not be able to break into the upper class. That said, there are things you can definitely do to improve your children's chances of doing so.
It is relevent in this context, because other developers know they can avoid the said issues if they do things a little bit differently.
The stupid part is: Why is Iran forbidden from buying telecommunication equipment? God forbid evil Iranians using using smartphones or the Internet.
In my experience you can just show up the first day and ask the prof if they mind you auditing the course. There might be password-locked online materials these days, however.

I've thought about going back to finish the degree, but it's hard to see it as worth $60k/year.
if they cannot convince the public their plans are better

I don't think we're very far apart. I just think that statement leaves some room that is (possibly) being filled by these "founder controlled" agreements. For one thing, they can convince investors. They do. Elon et al are great at getting people to invest. There's just no "enterprise grade" way of actually making that deal with the public.

In any case, why can you sell shares that don't vote but not shares where you still go to mars, never pay dividends or whatever. If investors buy them, who loses?

I wonder what would happen to Google's share price if founder control was suddenly ceded. Theoretically, it should go up, no? But, I suspect it mightn't. Market rationality is a relative term.
The price of beef does not include the environmental impact so I'm not sure this is a good indicator of the impact of making a product. Beef/Milk in the USA is also subsidized...
If you know how to program, don't force the cofounder thing. It's really easy to end up bringing on shitty cofounders. Look at Facebook and SnapChat. In my experience it's typical to end up bringing on an Eduardo, a Winklevoss twin, or a Reggie Brown, then you have to get rid of them because they suck and literally aren't capable of contributing anything.
Why on Earth would you not?

Nevermind the trash you're promoting the production of by accumulating. You already have a reusable, probably more comfortable set of cutlery which has paid itself over a thousands times. As long as you have it, you don't need plastic stuff: no need to use it, no need to hoard it, no need to rely on it – 'cause you already have all the stuff you need at a moment's notice.

Doing the dishes is easy. The fact that I have to rack my head about which kind of plastic is reusable and which isn't, then have to separate the two – knowing that I'm throwing the kind of stuff away that will cause noticable damage to the environment when compounded per capita – seems like such a goddamn mess compared to having a ceramic plate ready for use.
I could never do this. Because even with really good sleep hygene and good early bedtime habits, the earliest I ever wake up is 6:30 am. And those are rare days. More often bedtime will slip to 10 pm or later and I will awake naturally between 8:30 am and 9:30 am.

I'm just not a morning person, no matter what I do. And I'm a 9 hour+ sleeper, so I need those sleep hours.
Israel is much closer to the western point of view on human rights for one thing.

It's OK for there to be an objective right and wrong in a conflict.
To be fair, it's pretty bad handwriting. Perhaps deliberately so? And is switching between cursive and print in the middle of sentences meant to be stylistic?

My handwriting is terrible too so maybe I shouldn't complain, but that's why I type.
Wait, so the U.S. is hoping for Iranians to revolt against a system it helped put in place? Hmmm
That's right. That may a holdover from our agrarian roots, when people had to get up early to milk the cows or work in the fields before it got too hot. It's become institutionalized in modern society ("9 to 5", schools scheduled in the morning and early afternoon, etc.)
Speaking as a sole founder with many friends that go their path alone as well, this is not anywhere close to a requirement. There are people for whom this journey is natural and they are more suited, and others for whom they'd prefer or need to be with someone else.

There's no one-size-fits-all solution for founders. Co-founders come with their own set of issues--whether you're on the same page about the company's goals, whether your skill sets are complementary or not, what kind of long term commitment you both have to the problem space, etc.
I think they used to call this "a church".
> Listening to some podcaster blather on for a minute about some product or service at least gives me the warm fuzzy feeling that they're earning something for their efforts.

You don't feel the same way about a website? What is different about podcasts? Genuinely curious, because I have a similar initial reaction but am not exactly sure why.
Yes if they made him seem more crazy in the movie, I think that would have been a good tack. As is, it feels like we are supposed to take him seriously and he just seems too stupid to know his plan won't work so I can't. Maybe he is a thinly veiled reference to Trump, now that I think about it.
How we achieve growth by ignoring conventional startup advice
Go still seems pretty niche here. Even the companies you mention are still mostly using Java, but I do know of teams using Go on certain projects at those places.
Oh, LinkedIn's reputation is deplorable... what they did to bypass security on iOS (and I think Android too) are particularly interesting (mail proxy). I'm not saying that metadata collection is good, or that there aren't nefarious reasons... I stated that was one reason, and it could be to offer features.

I only created a linkedin account to stop all the email invites... and even then, refuse to install their app (links pervasive in mobile web) and only accept connections to those I've met personally, and very few recruiters.
Not the parent poster, but I think, given that this boils down to an emotional reaction, it's perfectly consistent to value the well-being of different animals in different ways.

There's no inherent quality that makes a cat or dog more or less deserving of humane treatment than a cow or pig. There's no inherent difference (aside from judgments around taste) that makes it acceptable to eat the meat of a cow but not of a dog (and, indeed, in some cultures, the opposite can be the case).

At the end of the day it's all just what we've been socialized from a young age to believe is acceptable or not, sometimes reinforced with religious beliefs.

I personally will never be swayed by vegetarian/vegan "the poor animals!"-type arguments (but fully respect people who choose not to eat meat for those reasons). Arguments around health, sustainability, and cost (in that order) are what I care about.

(For the record, I think torturing any animal out of malice is messed up and is probably an indicator of some sort of mental illness. However, other people simply being indifferent toward animal welfare is just not something I care about. Everyone has different emotional attachments to different things.)
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Glad to see this, Fargate was a pretty steep premium. Comparing an on-demand m5.large to the equivalent Fargate container looks to be a 20% premium, which seems reasonable.

Next I'd like to see an equivalent to EC2's reserved instance pricing.
60% of those who go to an ER because of chest pain are not having a medical emergency (heart attack) and could safely stay home saving a lot of stress. Since chest pain is our best indicator of a heart attack only a fool would not go to the ER anyway.
its the old Godel trick of translating it into a different form..ie what Godel originally did to prove his own theorem was to translate his theorem into symbolics and than negate it,..

In their example they are expressing it in set theory and than operating on it...

I probably failed at explaining on a simple level...sorry
Keeping CALM: When Distributed Consistency Is Easy [pdf]
Yup we can only achieve world peace if it's just us who owns nuclear weapons. If the goal is really that, the U.S. wouldn't be flashing its nuclear arsenal.
That's a great idea if the injected ads are exactly the same length and always get put in the same place. If you have a 30 second ad in one download and 40s in another, 10 seconds of legitimate podcast audio gets interpreted as an advertisement.
> And I'm a 9 hour+ sleeper, so I need those sleep hours.
Most people need at least 8-8.5 hours (as in 99.999%). He does too, just doesn't realize it.
NYTimes is also actively fighting against the use of the adblockers.
https://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/122315/world...

This is more up to date but it seems you're right about Deutsche Bank https://www.forbes.com/sites/antoinegara/2018/06/06/forbes-g...
Because when the loan is forgiven after 20 years it looks like income. So you have to pay tax on your forgiven loan. If Lambda School can’t teach you well enough that you get and keep a good paying job then they take the loss not the tax payer.

Also: advocating for keeping the old system by saying this new way is not different is the least Hacker News things I’ve ever heard. The student loan crisis is an existential crisis for America. More schools should adopt the Lambda School approach, America would be much better off.

The current model is no different to unscrupulous bankers selling loans to Wall Street or Fannie Mae: they just lure students to the school helping them fill out student aid and loans and then give them subpar educations with curriculum being taught like it has been for years but they don’t care to change or innovate because the school has already been paid by an entity — the US education department who has deep pockets.
If your sushi is sitting around long enough to start molding, you've got some logistics issues to resolve.
> The fact that it’s a 4-year slog is one of the factors that make university degree holders earn premium in the labor marketplace

Aren't you on holiday for a lot of those 4 years?

I went to uni for 4 years, and it was 3 terms of 8 weeks each, per year. In other words, 96 weeks.

Throw in the occasional rest week and it should really fit in two years.
>Amazon was 40% less than list for books

Furthermore, it's easy to forget just how hard it could be to track down even an in-print book and how long it could take to actually get your hands on it. Some big city bookstores were better but, in many cases, (assuming the bookstore would special order books at all), it would basically be put into the next batch order from a publisher which might be a month or two.
The idea that machine learning is a subset of mathematics is very dangerous. In the real world the data is never prepped and clean, and the system is complex and interacts with humans and society at many levels.
That is false. Almost always, cheaper != environmental. Environmental practices often cost more, and this gets passed on to the consumer.

Case in point, soy gets 8% the share of agricultural government subsidies while feed for animals gets 34%: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agricultural_subsidy#United_St...

Price only reflects what consumers are willing to pay and the effects of subsidies, NOT the environmental impact...
theyre both common.

rfid/nfc is popular at the moment simply because it's cheaper; no table to cut up or glass/cameras to put everywhere.

as a poker player i've always been queezy about the idea that my hand could be read remotely in theory -- but I don't play those kind of tables anyway.
No need to invent new jurisprudence - if the location data can be used to identify an individual, it is personal data under the GDPR and enjoys all the rights and protections enabled by the regulation.
Free only if you willfully ignore obvious externalities.
WeHarvest what is their product? Soylent green?
Apparently, they spent the 440M on signing bonuses for top realtors, who brought listings with them. I can't speak to the economics, but as an active buyer right now, I'm seeing Compass listings all over Streeteasy, where the other firms barely acknowledge that SE has upended the search process, and still try to peddle "buyer agent" services, like I can't just find listings online. Compass.com at least has "coming soon" listings.
Yep, I've been doing this for years. Only my wife and a few trusted friends have the real cell phone. Everyone else and their mother gets the GVoice number. I also change the underlying number occasionally just to mix it up even more (although truth be told that's to get better wireless deals, but it has a nice bonus of added security).
At least NSA follows the rule of law. Yes, you can argue they sometimes don’t, or they they push things. But there is simply no comparison at all with China where there is no rule of law at all.
I mean, haven't they pretty much already done so?

Would not surprise me if a majority of both inventory and sales are actually marketplace sellers by now, that pay Amazon for fulfillment.
Let those who are currently on top take warning.
<3 for the idea to be using my dishwasher as a wine rack..
I despise wasting time waiting for dishes to wash in a dishwasher; noting also the time it takes to fill it before you run it can leave you without your favorite glass/dish!
I agree with you.

From the company's perspective, though, the number of complaints from customers who didn't get ketchup, napkins, cutlery, etc. greatly exceeds the number of complaints from people who received too many extras. Given this, drivers are trained (and primed through the rating system) to grab all of the extra items they can.
Tips from my personal experience. I've been into bridal fashion for 8 years now, have 3 street shops and work with a handful of international brands.

- creating cool things without market appeal won't take you anywhere. so you need to test designs/products/ideas with your target audiences and see how they react. I found a good way of doing this by posting photos in Facebook and promoting them. Audience response varies from 10 to 1,000 likes, and we use that not only to decide which wedding gowns are catching more attention, but their attributes (style, color, luxury etc.)

- don't mind about producing/making products yourself in the beginning. once you know what the markets at your reach are interested on, you can start buying and selling products from vendors. by doing this you can save energy ($) for more marketing/selling per se. as you get more into your customer's brains and know what they want, you should be able to see gaps in your vendor's collections. this is when you can start designing and producing your own products to close that gap.

- find a good (and real) digital influencer. this was key to the first two years of my business. I found an influencer who was specialized into budget weddings. She helped me put my business on the map, which is not easy in the very beginning.

- don't lose any night of sleep because of the competition. they are missing as much as you are in many things and there is room for everybody in the market. the main reason you are not selling is YOU, not THEM. this is key for stress management.

Good luck!
I am solo founder and developer of Sciter Engine : https://sciter.com

The project got first customers in 2005 so it is afloat 13 years so far. Until 2014 it was a side project. Since then I am working on it full time as a solo founder and developer.

Initial version was pretty simple so I was able to do it after official work hours and at weekends. Thus I didn't need any funding at that time.

The project has definitely over grown single person model now so I am actively looking for partners, cooperation, investors, teams, etc.

So are couple of advices:

1. If you can do it initially as a side project - consider this option first. Could be hard but will minimize negative budget impact and other risks.

2. The project shall reach the stage of minimal viable products in not more than 9 months. For many reasons.

3. You should do it in modular architecture: if first one will not take off you will have ready to use components for the next one.
> This makes me wonder, what are other viable revenue sources for content creators besides ads?

people willing to pay for content worth paying for
It actually would've been during my time at Intel working on the graphics stack for Larrabee, in the 2010-2011 timeframe--vcompressd was part of LRBNI. I was mainly doing infrastructure/compiler/optimization type work, and not much graphics stuff, so I can't recall using the instruction personally, but pretty sure it was used in various places around the stack.
Start up cuts out the middle man bees and replaces with its own less efficient more expensive technology while ruining the ecosystem. Cool story.
Well of course there are people that believe that. These multi billion dollar companies invest a lot of resources in promoting propaganda to make people believe it. Do you honestly think industries that rely on a keen ability to manipulate the masses can’t do that to potential employees too?
Approaching as a "partnership" may be useful. You can always increase pricing after your initial customers.

Also, be careful thinking you have a solid MVP.
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> let me just tie events to a command pipeline and dump the result into another widget, basically just letting a GUI be part of the composable toolset following the UNIX philosophy

I think that's how the editors in Plan 9 support extensions/plugins/scripting by exposing parts of the editor on the filesystem.

Something with FUSE might do the trick, though mounts are always tricky. Kakoune supports JSON RPC over a fifo, for example:

https://github.com/mawww/kakoune/wiki/JSON-RPC#input-keys--o...
Most of them do. Chickens are the main exception, and I would agree that their conditions are pretty bad.

Downvoters - I live in the Midwest. I grew up on a farm. Much of my family still farms and raises livestock. Factory farming of livestock is not the norm for non-poultry.
lol. every generation will redo "forms as software". airtable is a $1bi bet that people will finally be pleased with Clipper'86 auto-form desiger (or whatever that thing was called). Hint: nope.
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You prefer them for their sheer size, rather than for the safety provided by the licensing process?