skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's few common reasons:
- Startups focus mostly on growth. Once you're part of a big company, they may look at your business and see that there is a lot of fraud (even if it wasn't intentional by the startup, but they just didn't focus at it) that makes it unsustainable
- Lots of startups operate in space that just not profitable, but big companies buy them, out of fear of missing out. Then they realize, that there's really no money to be made there
- Acqui-hiring
- Startups often overrepresent what they can actually do or deliver
i love how topics like these not only bring out a review of the tool in question, but also suggest other related tools for comparison.

for convenience, here is a list of all alternatives mentioned (in no particular order):

(i added a quick but incomplete review of key aspects of each tool. almost all are using markdown and support pdf export)

https://arnehilmann.github.io/markdeck/ (reveal.js docker)

https://pandoc.org/MANUAL.html#producing-slide-shows-with-pa... (export-to: S5 DZSlides Slidy Slideous reveal.js pdf ppt)

https://github.com/munen/p_slides (slidy2)

https://godoc.org/golang.org/x/tools/cmd/present (go-present-markup local-go-server "can't find documentation of how to actually use it")

http://slideshow-s9.github.io/ (commandline-tool browser-preview many-templates)

https://github.com/FormidableLabs/spectacle (react-based presenter-mode local-node-server)

https://github.com/sinedied/backslide (docker)

https://gitpitch.com/ (online-service 'desktop version is docker based and not free')

https://yhatt.github.io/marp/ (electron-app live-preview)

https://github.com/jxnblk/mdx-deck (browser-preview)

https://www.deckset.com/ (osx-only not-free)

https://github.com/arnehilmann/markdeck#similar-projects
elm-lang
Unfortunately most of the population lives in a select few metro areas where, due to the price of rent, greatly reduces the power of 60k in joint income, married or not :(
Raleigh’s a pretty nice area, but not remotely reasonable for public transit except on very specific (and limited) corridors.
No, you cannot run systemd without journald. Journald can forward messages to another syslog implementation. Its launch is even hardcoded into systemd very early in the boot process IIRC. The intent is to capture early log messages in memory inside journald before a writable /var is available.
My first Bungie game was Myth. I absolutely loved the series. First time I was drawn into the story and characters. I loved being able give names to the characters and keep them alive. It was slow paced but surprising suspenseful. Online multiplayer in later titles was hilarious.

I also remember the teaser to what would become halo. I think originally Halo was going to be a lot more like Destiny...Then the xbox came along and microsoft bought Bungie.
Impressive?

They changed one textbook algorithm by another one. It turns out to be faster, but it might as well be slower for certain inputs (which might be common). Also, when they increase the number of keywords in the future, they might have to reconsider the implementation.
Bitcoin is basically the first prototype, with all problems that entails. I would be extremely surprised if it ends up being the cryptocurrency that wins in the end.
What is this new trend of belittling accomplishments down to luck?

A need to balance out the notion that "anyone can do it".
The Cause of Fast Conversions and Sales for Businesses
1. Know the keywords that will lead you to potential leads.

2. Pay a VA to use the keyword list to locate businesses and/or people in search engines, FB, and LinkedIn, and record their contact info.

3. Sell this info.

The steps are easy. The execution is decidedly less so.
I know ~one. It’s not common, and in general not very feasible.
shady and only tells what kind of person OP is
I don't think he automated it. It looks like he outsourced it to cheaper labour in the Philipines
Using configuration to swap modules for mocks in your Elixir tests
> I knew a lawyer who had to defend someone in this type of case. He was allowed to view the evidence (he chose not to), but only him. No paralegals, no one else in his office that wasn't directly sitting on the defense table.

> If you're not granted specific authorization, even looking at this content is illegal, so Microsoft, Facebook, Apple, Google, etc have a very limited staff of people who are even authorized to handle this stuff.

With the risk of offending folks, this is such a retarded law/process. Holy fuck. This is dystopian-level letter of the law vs spirit of the law.
The birth of xbox live
I Built Myself a Workshop in My Very Small San Francisco Studio Apartment
> 48% of wager earners had net compensation less than or equal to the median wage

I'm surprised. I expected that 50% of wage earners would make less or equal to the median wage. If for no other reason than the definition of median.
It is essentially the same, sure. We have some specialized in-house structs-of-arrays things for doing bulk geometry operations that (behind the scenes) go through `withUnsafeMutableBufferPointer` (etc.) for everything; we keep the code idiomatic, mutation only happens in methods that are marked as mutating, COW still works, and so on.

Thus we hadn't even considered just exposing the pointer and doing it C-style, whence the question as to whether you'd benchmarked the difference between the two.

The abstractions thing is hard, here, the key seems to be defining the bulk operations in terms of pointers (or Swift's "buffer pointers"), essentially what you have in your methods like `SupportsBasicMath.add` and so on. Abstraction is possible here by moving each "type signature"--destination & 1 source? destination & 2 sources? etc.--into "operation protocols", and then having fewer methods but a ton of "operation protocol implementations". Perhaps "more abstraction", definitely not concise. Very dependent on the compiler and inlining, too.

It's a good writeup nonetheless, was just asking a narrow question.
Is there a reason not block the engine from returning image results or suggesting related results based on the search terms? I realize that's probably naive but seems less difficult than starting by trying to classify the images.
“I always have a quotation for everything - it saves original thinking.”

—Dorothy Sayers

That’s twice this thread I’ve seen this Vonnegut quote as a thought-terminating cliche, which is two times too many. If you want to have a deeper discussion on the effects of irony on a community, by all means let’s do so. What we should not do is reduce the entire thing down to a pithy mess of fake profundity based on the fame of its speaker, that would be shouted down as the unsubstantiated conclusion it is, if any one of us said it.
You can’t have it both ways; claiming no discrimination is happening to a group and then applying social engineering based upon the immutable traits of that group.

The questions isn’t if there is discrimination, but how much of it there is and what the effects are. You might argue that it has a good reason and others might disagree with your arguments.
Not quite optional... I only found after finishing the story of ME3 that since I had not played any multiplayer I'd been denied the best ending, even though I was meticulous in securing the best outcomes in the single player quests, storylines, etc.

It absolutely was not clear that multiplayer alone could make that difference, and I was furious. I know they released more content to improve the ending, but I could never go back, because the story was finished. A story I'd been invested in for years, and they pulled the rug out at the last second.

My problem with Andromeda was that it was essentially exactly the same setup as the first trilogy but copy-pasted into a new setting, which forced them to scrap all the lore except as it pertained to what the crew brought with them. Why not a prequel, instead? That, or tell a new story.
But this is the peak- climate change will only shrink our economy and our living standards from here on out. Why bring a child into the world that will never be able to achieve the same quality of life that we enjoy today? A child born today will turn 21 right around the time the IPCC expects the climate crisis to be ramping up, and they are historically conservative: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/07/climate/ipcc-climate-repo...
Actually, the key part is acceptance, not denomination. There is an oft-cited theory that governments accepting currency as payment of debts incurred via taxation is what gives inherent value to fiat money. Thus, if governments accept BTC to pay for taxes, that should also impart some inherent value to it.

Of course, the theory may well be wrong, as evidenced by e.g. Somali shilling still being in use, even though there's no government backing it in any practical sense for decades.
Disabling clipboard and similar is common in “HIPPA” compliant software - a lot of which seems to be designed to reduce liability rather than help patients
I don’t see how it’s belittling to acknowledge luck as a factor among many in success while also acknowledging the non-luck factors. You can be proud of your accomplishments while still acknowledging the influence of luck your success.
Bitcoin is an example of the value that has and will come from blockchain. It has everything to do with it.
Fond Is Hiring Business Development Manager in Portland
Another reason I've run into to hold onto a fork: to have a version of some software with slight personalizations that are connected with version control to the main project for updates.

QMK keyboard firmware is meant to be customized in this way, and it has many thousands of forks.
> I think many problems are like this. We engineers to think that we have to build something "rocket science", but actually many businesses don't require "rocket science" software to take off. It's more about the execution.

I would even go further than that, that's exactly the reason why Wordpress and basic CMS are very popular, most companies have some very basic and similar IT needs.
Define data brokering. Only Targeting isn’t brokering. Being naive and opening an app platform that allows users to give some information isn’t brokering. Selling bundles of PII without the users knowledge from quasi legal sources to companies and government agencies in digestible form is.

There are actual data brokers in the advertising industry. Seedy companies who with a tracking pixel ( or just outright data dumps ) can give you actual PII data. Facebook ( and to and extend google, althought an insane amount of malware goes thru google ads,I’m sure you’ve gotten the “you’ve won redirects”), have been putting those companies out of business.

Both Facebook and google have a ton of flaws. Facebook has been super naive on some areas. But Most of the reporting on their “data issues”, have not remotely offered a real view of the industry, or what actually happened.
Magnetostratigraphy is used to cross-check ages of bones. Similar to how pottery records the Earth's magnetic field in clay, layers of lava containing ferromagnetic minerals (such as magnetite) can provide chronological orders. This dating methodology is called archaeomagnetic dating.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/281738965_An_introd...
Students and minors don't make up anywhere near half of the working population, though.
Elm has managed effects and purity, and I had immense satisfaction in using it... Managed effects means that doing http requests and working with DOM events are managed from a runtime and from the point of view of the programmer they are just returning values that describe the effectful actions they want to perform, and any changes to programming state from those actions are apparently as function arguments...

The language has its warts, but I would use it if it were not for the poor project management and support.
And hey, T-Mobile also did the same last year!

I fully expect them all to stop selling location data next year, too.
They're both awful. Why is that hard to understand?
You tend to hear the worst cases. For all the bad rep EA gets, like any big company a lot depends on your team and manager. I worked two separate 3-4 year stints on central tech teams and never had forced overtime (although there was some pressure / expectation at times) and things were reasonably sane. My time at Relic was also fairly positive with some long hours but mostly self imposed.

Game development is generally complex and has some special challenges but given those constraints isn't always worse than many typical software projects.
This is a story I feel not enough people know. Bungie made Xbox Live what it is, and to this day it provides the best matchmaking experience. It's hard to believe Nintendo and PS have had such a hard time replicating its successes.
> You seem to be implying that it's perfectly fine for the US to bomb a family home if a terrorist is in there, accepting civilian casualties, because they might harm the population?

Yes, just like you should throw the switch on the trolley car to kill one person instead of let it kill five.

Other people don't agree.
Elm is quite different from purescript or Haskell... It shares syntax and the purity semantics but its type system is much less expressive (no type classes); no do notation; no monads...
I think the culture of school has a meaningful impact on the culture as a whole, as does the culture as a whole have an impact on the culture of school. i.e., the two are not that separated from each other.

The creativity I was talking about is different than what you're talking about. That creativity is used in survival, yes. But the path to success is controlled by gatekeepers. There is little cross over between the creativity used to survive on the lower tiers of Maslow's HoN and the path to the middle class, where there's expectations in place and paths to follow, where diverging from them creates risk.
The crisis never ended, it just changed shape.
Halo 2 was peak halo. Its simplicity was why it was so good. Its like pickup game of basketball, just get a few guys together and be the first team to 50 kills. No special equipment, no special abilities, very little complexity.

That's why it was the perfect MLG game. Every shooter these days is more and more complex.
I've heard that story plenty of times, but I have my doubts, which increase over time. I think people simply didn't like streetcars once buses were available. I think streetcars were seen as a horrible, dangerous, inconvenient technology with massive infrastructure costs.

The first crack in my belief was a comment by a former Baltimore fire chief (I think) who had worked as a streetcar and bus driver earlier. He talked about how scary it was to operate a streetcar with its very poor braking, and how during the transition period every operator was jumping at the chance to become a bus driver.

I'm sure there's a grain of truth in there, about lobbying - but was it really the decisive factor? Could Amazon lobby and get Ebay shut down? Did landline phones fade away because of lobbying from the cellular industry?

Streetcars were a very cool idea but unfortunately motor buses were better in every objective way.
Militaries may be a necessary evil, but in no way a force for good.
Can't the module system be used for ad hoc polymorphism?
Yeah I looked for a * or reference of some kind, but did not find one. I think they are using 30k as the threshold for the 48% number, while the median is the 31k and change number.
Cloud cameras are beyond stupid.
Which js library can help to create such clean visualization ?
It might have to do with rounding and the resolution of the cohort binning -- 48% being pretty close to 50%.
The greatest trick the 1% in America has ever accomplished is convincing people who make $30/hour that scary foreigners and people who want to raise their minimum wage to above-poverty levels are a threat to their way of life.
You don't have to read past the title to find a lie. Why on earth would Improbable continue to support the infrastructure for a handful of legacy Unity customers? Unity is killing those games, and they know it.

Unity Technologies has a history of harming their platform out of greed; it was stuck on an ancient version of Mono for the better part of a decade because they refused to do a deal with Xamarin.
> If you could look at people who were in the US twenty years ago and their children things would look even better.

Maybe in some places, but this definitely isn't true overall. In fact, I'd say in a lot of places, especially rural ones, it's a lot worse now. People are still having children, but there's not the jobs in those areas. Or, if they are, they're generally constantly temp jobs that don't offer much, or any, security. There's not the options for the kids that the parents had 20 years ago.

My mom just retired teaching after thirty years, having had several students of former students. She openly admits that she was worried for them because there's not the opportunities around that there once were.

Sure, you might counter, they can move...but that's not really feasible for everyone. It takes money to move, and it takes a good reason for someone to up and leave their family and support system as well as likely all the friends they've ever known, including many they've known since age 5, if not before. Moving isn't easy emotionally or materially, especially in areas where families are still somewhat close and community is still decently close. Sadly, too many people forget this point (though I'd say it likely holds true even in urban areas, to be honest)
Uh, are you thinking mean? Median is lining up every salary, counting to N/2, and selecting the number you happen to fall on.
Just scroll down - the whole site is filled with questionable 'data insights'.

Which City is Adding the Most Jobs in Your States in CA? San Bernardino. Oh wait, it is percentage mapped to region size, not to population - so going form 1 to 2 employees in a hypothetical empty but vast region would be a 100% growth, and nice peak on the map.

Percentage of people living in extreme poverty in Russia and Kazakhstan? 0.0% (hint: it is actually no data)

It is either a troll site, or a good example of data misinterpretation.
I have a huge amount of respect for them, for having refused the very substantial (7-8 figures) amount of money they got offered to bundle crapware/spyware with it:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15372048
Improbable and Epic Games establish $25M fund for ‘more open engines’
24% of the U.S. population is under the age of 18. If you include those that are in college, disabled, and retired then you are now at roughly 1/3 of the population. Based on the statististics provided in the article that would mean 75% of the population make above $30k.
Most Americans don't live in most of America.
Caveat? No. Not in a society that has less worker protections than any major country in the world.

The implication in your treating this as a “caveat” is that there is a choice being made by some significant amount of the subjects studied. The reality is unknown, and the significance of the impact is more difficult than ever to reason with.

The difficulty of arguing that this choice even exists for these people is as alarming as the study results taken at face value, and suggests your argument should be weighed more as a potential excuse than a “caveat”.
Unrelated, but probably the most amazing thing I've ever seen in a video game is someone getting killed by a hyper-accelerated traffic cone on this Halo 3 map from Bungie:

Traffic cone ownage

https://youtu.be/ym0BtwmCvoc
> What is this new trend of belittling accomplishments down to luck?

Many accomplishments are mostly luck? Japan Rugby beat South Africa in a 7s match a while ago. Are the players now entitled to call themselves better than those on the South African team? I mean, sure they could, but it would be obviously false, and nothing of value is gained. This reduces all the way down to “accomplishing” choosing lottery numbers.
Ties. It's probably because of rounding.
I wonder how much of this is financed by debt, however? How many of the people went into debt to buy their cars, or other necessary goods to live in modern America? And now how many are stuck in debt trying to pay everything off...so much so that their post-tax purchasing power income isn't really the same amount? And, I also wonder how biased this is by sample...as it's definitely not true in the rural South, from what I've seen growing up here.
per kid (in MA, at least)
> 24% of the U.S. population is under the age of 18.

We're talking about the US workforce, not the whole population.
Thanks! I've been scratching my head on that one for a while.
‘Unsubstantiated’ or ‘speculative’ would be fairly neutral
Would be awesome to see the same chart but broken down by what percentage of income each category represents
This logic just doesn't make any sense. The relationship between charging for a rental and capitalism is obvious. Nothing that transpired even hints that sexism could have played a role, conscious or otherwise, and the data that we do have suggests the opposite. Why are you digging your heels in and insisting that there must be a bias component involved in this decision?
The article supports a common fallacy that clients just have to understand enough to police their service-providers. I would suggest that if you consider yourself to be a startup founder, you should know MORE THAN your lawyer about your particular transaction. If you do NOT know more than your lawyer, you should consume all available info until you do, or else bring in an advisor (such as a professional seed investor who is not a stakeholder in your company) to help you. Your lawyer can give you advice only, but you have to take charge of your own direction and decision-making. Your lawyer can and should also perform the service of organizing all the paperwork, which is surprisingly time-consuming yet not very edifying.
A simple js gadget library is great for beginners. Not too much function
Did you just not read the part where I said there were problems associated with "traditional femininity" too, before you jumped in to make the same point as though it was original?

<narrator>It wasn't.</narrator>

FYI, hyper implies excess. "Risk seeking" implies seeking risk for its own sake, i.e. when it's not situationally appropriate. That's not "completely different" wording at all. The only bullshit here is your attempt to exaggerate conflict, which BTW is another part of that toxic behavior cluster we were talking about.
burn scar?
Sure. Median(Variable) = Probability(value<=Variable) = 50%.
> I see some minor grammatical issues with the doc. "dependencies" is spelled wrong

Duuuude I bet you're a blast at parties in your mom's basement. we should totally hang out sometime.

Not
The 1% aren't some clandestine group who trick people. Reality is just a highly complex set of different distributions of people interacting with each other, economic structure, government, and culture.

Treat and solve it as a systems issue. Attributing maligned motives to small discretized sets of people doesn't solve problems.
> You can't prove it's impossible to do what he did today. Others are actively doing it.

There is a whole genre of get-rich-quick scammers claiming that exact thing:

https://www.cnet.com/news/amazon-scam-lawsuit-bowser-washing...

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/01/men-p...

Just because something is possible does not mean it is common. Why didn't all the hard-working software entrepreneurs from the 1980s end up like Bill Gates? Discounting luck and good timing leads to the Horatio Alger fallacy.
It also describes many professional commedians. Humans are strange :)
What would happen if the government shut down – and never reopened? (2014)
Well, that travel agency does end up paying corporate and then dividend taxes on the earnings... and anything paid out directly to the son as salary means income taxes.
LaTeX: Using TexShop to take notes, diary, programming notes, writing - making everything into beautiful PDF ebooks. TikZ for diagrams.