skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bloomberg--the person who wants to disarm all Americans to make it safer for non-Americans to victimize us all.
What is over the horizon radio? I am familiar with over the horizon radar, but not radio for communications. Do you have any references?
This only works if you're strong enough to be able to endure the increased costs. If you're in an environment where suboptimal performance means elimination, deliberate inefficiency like this can break you.

Can't say I know what to do if you're in a situation like that though.
That's only in US. ebay classifieds is massive everywhere else out of US.
The basis of western thought and canonical English literature versus 'You've Got Mail'. Yes there is a difference.
Reread the comment. The parent is saying that the list isn't one that defends democracy because it conflates traditional journalism practices (researching, writing conclusions, etc.) with what is essentially creating memes and polls and giving opinions off the cuff. Maybe I'm reading it wrong, but it says nothing about journalists needing to "defend democracy" in their writing.

But looking at your (short) post history, you seem to be all about one liners and skimming versus reading before making a comment. So I'm likely correct here since I read into it slightly.
These Devs Build These DApps in 3 Months on Weekends
I understand and agree with your comments about SQL the language, but would you consider an application consisting of stored procedures to be a functional program? That is, would you consider the result of a modularized SQL _system_ to be a functional system?

I find the FP vs OOP to be more of a discussion about "approach" more than anything else, where the language is more of an implementation detail. When understood like this, I don't think it's unreasonable to call SQL functional.
Good point! I see digging through Ifixit teardowns that the Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 7.0 3G used this chipset[1], along with the original Chromecast[2].

1: https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Samsung+Galaxy+Tab+3+7.0+3G+...

2: https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Chromecast+2015+Teardown/501...
I also have a Skarsta. I got tired of hand cranking it and cut the crank's shaft to approx 12" length, then attached a $10 electric drill to it.

Works great but the cheap drill is a bit noisy. At some point I may upgrade that.
Linux has the exact same feature, and has had it since approximately forever. By default, 5% of the disk space on any system partition is reserved for use by the superuser after the main 95% portion is filled up. And system updates run with superuser privileges, so... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Though one can use whitespace in Common Lisp identifiers, by quoting symbols:

CL-USER 115 > (let ((first| |number 10)
(second\ number 20))
(+ first\ number |SECOND NUMBER|))
30
Canonical has notoriety as not contributing to the Linux kernel, although they do contribute (1% of contributions from kernel 4.8 to 4.13 [1]). They do promote it, but their power within the kernel developer community is minimal.

[1] https://go.pardot.com/l/6342/2017-10-24/3xr3f2/6342/188781/P...
>Those things the compiler is angry about? Those are things that would be runtime errors in C.

I'm very very aware of that though this is not always true.

For example Rust doesn't have a sane way to have a reentrant mutex without including std, which is bad because for interrupts in a kernel you need to either have very fine grained locking and fallbacks or rely entirely on lockless operations. Interrupts can occur on top of eachother in which case it behave a lot worse than simply being reentrant.

rustc yells at me a lot for the solutions this requires because the way I solve it violates ownership rules of rust the hard way to make the code simpler and understandable.

Other times it's when for bizarre reason rust wants the code to implement the Sync and Send traits despite the kernel running alone on the core (there is no threading in that kernel) and I would love to be able to tell rustc to just shut up about this and simply ignore Send, possibly even Sync, on a module level.
https://hackaday.com/category/cellphone-hacks/
Thanks. That's pretty lame but definitely not the same as buying up the domain and then raising the price. (Which would be shady but also probably a money-loser overall.)
I'm no fan of long term sheets, but IMO, this term sheet doesn't just punt that term to definitives; it gives me the expectation that all investors will receive "major investor" rights without dollar or ownership thresholds. Specifically, I feel that way because the "major investor" rights (ROFR, co-sale, pro-rata, info) are are in-line with anti-dilution and registration rights, which are typically afforded (in varying degrees) to smaller investors. Were I an existing investor or angel, the definitives adding a threshold would feel like a retrade of the term sheet.

Especially if the intent is to help unfamiliar founders & angels understand what's a "clean" or fair deal, I'd put in a vote that a v2 of this term sheet would clarify the applicability of rights to smaller investors, maybe with some "batteries included" guidance on that point.
I really like my motorized one I has memory settings. Meeting standing, working standing, sitting.
Cheap coders?
are there any good book with lots of examples of term sheet/valuation math for startups?
"The inferior product is advertising"

Got that right. Partly because adverts are boring and uncreative ... much like Buzzfeed

"now advertisers ... can reach the exact customers [at] Facebook and Google."

That has yet to be demonstrated. Was it ever true? Is it still?

"Back in 2015 I wrote that BuzzFeed [Was] the Most Important News Organization in the World... So what went wrong?"

I glance at many newsfeeds every day. I found little value in Buzzfeed. So, you were wrong.
Please don't post stories like this to HN. To be on topic, a political story needs to have an unusually intellectually interesting angle.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
LINQify – new JS package based on C# LINQ
Are you in the us? Previously in consulting, I've always had 4 to 5 weeks off pto, plus an allowance for sick leave, bereavement, carers leave and other allowances. Along with bench time, i had almost 2 months paid off a year. Formerly based in Australia, now in the us and not looking forward to the working conditions here :( you guys get treated like slaves...
Don't trust founders who don't let their employees early exercise.
I remember being a bit surprised when I read this (the Atlantic article much of the convo is focused on) back in December, that there was no mention of Thomas Kuhn's perspective on the structure of scientific progress. Maybe I'm out of date on the consensus views though.

Personally I would find it more surprising if there were not diminishing returns on investments on scientific inquiry, than (as presented in the article) if there are. Kuhn's paradigms offer the escape maybe, ROI diminishing within one paradigm, and then increasing rapidly within some new paradigm.
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I've done both working from home and now co-working. Currently, I prefer co-working, but that's because I've become more of an entrepreneur and less "just" developer.

Yes, the separation of work and home is nice (and I walk to work, so a beneficial commute), but the networking opportunities and ability to meet in-person that the co-working space affords is invaluable as an entrepreneur. There are so many opportunities that "just happen" when you're in a space like this that I would miss out on being at home.
My thoughts exactly! Basically anything you can do with an arduino you can do better and cheaper with esp*. It also gives you some interesting benefits (with the esp32 especially)
I essentially resell DNS hosting.

I allow users to store their DNS records in a git repository, then when they make commits & pushes I initiate an update to the live-zones on Amazon Route53.

It'll never make me rich. Low-end users use their domain-registrars. High-end users probably have lots of AWS-based infrastructure, so they can handle DNS themselves.

But there is a middle-ground, and I've been lucky enough to sell services to a couple of (European) universities. So different departments can handle different sub-domains.

Fun anyway, and although I do need to handle user-support the churn-rate is minimal:

https://dns-api.com/
The biggest wtf here is that only some exports are GPL only. One has to wonder if there aren't any ulterior motives for this cherry picking.
Most people born in 1985 had their income affected too much by the Great Recession to really take advantage of the lower housing prices then.
Exactly. Running Windows now is like playing roulette. How will this feature work in a month, "no idea". How will I change this option in the UI, "no idea". Will this option I set for important privacy setting stick after the latest (automatic) upgrade, "no idea. Ad infinitum. :/
It is interesting to note that the Buzzfeed Opinions desk in particular was completely removed and every single person involved with it fired.
Memory safety flies out the window when you write a kernel and the stdlib isn't available in no_std mode. You only get a very limited subset in the core lib.

Memory safety in kernels is hard because you might have to do things like switch stack or even address space and the rust compiler handles such actions rather poorly. Whether or not writing to the rsp register will crash the kernel or successfully pivot the stack is guesswork at best and only works reliably if you code it entirely in inline assembly.
Tbh parser combinators and PEG parsers are the modern way of doing these sorts of things.
I thought it was an https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elephant_in_Cairo?
How Voice Interfaces Will Revolutionize the Workplace
>a poorly designed system that was already in place to create a market for something

So...an economic landscape?
Aftership looks like a fairly straightforward SAAS offering that could use a competitor.

It does deliver value, and I'm sure there's more to it than you might see at first. But, it does seem a simpler space than many.
Here is some information for you, or anyone else, to look into then.

https://os.mbed.com/docs/mbed-os/v5.11/apis/drivers.html

https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/De...

https://genode.org/documentation/genode-foundations-18-05.pd...

https://www.haiku-os.org/docs/api/

https://source.android.com/devices/architecture

https://source.android.com/devices/architecture/hidl-cpp/ind...

https://www.amazon.com/Symbian-OS-Internals-Real-time-Progra...
It seems like the old "set your pagefile manually so you never have to worry about it growing/shrinking" trick from Windows of yore - they are grabbing that much so that they don't have to grab more at any time. It's basically a promise that, while those 7 GB are the systems now, you'll never have a problem where you run out of storage space due to an update (assuming after they reserve the initial 7 GB).
I spent my own money on a Skarsta desk.

The additional cost for the desk (about €200) is well within what a more luxurious desk from an Ikea competitor would cost[1], and I'm much more likely to push a button and stand up than to wind a crank 20 times and lose my concentration.
A Better Way to Code: D3.express
This seems...really valuable, mainly for me is the case when we want to store a value for a user locally but they have browser restrictions preventing it. Primarily, this is the case with corporate users running within their environment where the domain admin has misconfigured their PCs and thus unintentionally disallowed localStorage (I've experienced working with two large corporations, I literally had to get one of them to send me the laptop to figure it out cause they didn't think they had disallowed local storage, it had happened unintentionally).
http://blog.fogus.me/2018/10/25/soup/

http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~ram/pub/pub_jf47ht81Ht/doc_kay...
>Because states were threatening local versions of NN.

Not even a little bit. Do you really believe that?

It's because those scenarios were just as outlandish and uninformed as those against net neutrality.

Premium tweets were never going to be a thing, blocking Netflix unless you pay extra wasn't going to be a thing. It was just drivel.

I honestly feel like half these things started as satire, but the larger public (that has no idea how this stuff works
) adopted it as their rhetoric.
Wouldn't the volatility of cryptocurrency be a reason that companies wouldn't want this as a primary method?

Don't get me wrong, the value of USD, GBP, or YEN can rise and fall relatively quickly. The conversion rate of GBP to USD dropped from about 1.40 GBP/USD to 1.20 GBP/USD in the span of a year. But cryptocurrencies can cause devastating losses. BTC dropped nearly 30% from Dec 2017 to late Jan 2018, and it has been on the decline ever since. It seems that the only way for a business to confidently convert BTC into the 0.25 USD would be to do nightly-ish transactions.

I'm familiar but not well versed in BTC operations. I don't know how much overhead (fees) would go into nightly transactions, and how much the fees would rise with the volume of each transaction.
Electron is the new Java+Swing.

It does work on every major desktop platform. It takes a while to load, uses more RAM, and is noticeably slower. Its apps have basic native features, like system tray/indicator support, but never support them very well and break metaphors used by truly native apps.

Electron is great for having an "offering" of a native app that's really just your web app with an installer. But the experience is never great.
I’m not sure that the average internet reader knew the difference between buzzfeed, buzzfeed news, the New York Times, and any random fake news site a 16 year old threw up.

At the time, my view was that, Buzzfeed, and others, were just attempting to ride the tsunami of free Facebook traffic for a wildly bloated valuation in hopes to hoodwink a legacy media company into buying them before the party ended. They spent what would have been their profits, and then some, on shining their turds. It was a gamble and they mostly lost.
One thing that interests me: How does a Windows 10 install + 7gb reserved space compare with a current Windows 7 install in terms of disk usage? I thought Windows 7 was "fatter" than 10?
> In the past, if our society had capital punishment - it was done in public and society was exposed to it.

I am grateful that capital punishment in the public is gone and gowning away away in places where it's still happening. This is not for everyone to see. Why gratify the curiosity of the curious? Once you see a person executed you're no longer the same person.
"I can't refute it" does not imply "therefore it must be true". Neither does "I have no evidence against it".
This doesn't work if it's been a while since I last booted into my Windows partition. Windows immediately decides I'm past the point where I can defer. It does show a notification immediately beforehand, but if I'm asleep that isn't useful.
I don't mean to ask this ironically; how do these companies come up with these numbers during a sale? Jet.com was sold for $3 Billion, but Craftsman Tools was sold for only $900 Million.

I don't really know anything about HelloSign, but can someone tell me roughly why they might have come up with the $230M number?
I'm not optimistic that this platform will ever exist in the West. Micropayments is effectively blocked by the credit card industry with their high fees and a widely used micropayments platform would essentially disrupt the credit card industry - why would anyone pay Visa 1.9% if the new platform was sending payments for a fraction of a cent? And any player large enough (e.g. Apple) to deploy such a platform would rather not piss off Visa.

In China, where credit cards never existed, they already have a micropayments infrastructure. Sending payments is massively cheaper there and some businesses there, such as Podcasts are way more successful due to this model. Some podcasting subscriptions are sold for 1 yuan (15 cents)[1].

As long as Visa/Mastercard exists, I don't think we will see this come to the US. I wouldn't hold out for crypto either - it's not a technical problem. The technology has existed to make this reality for years.

[1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/chinese-show-willingness-to-pay...
Pithy response but not in line with reality. If we are talking about climate change in the context of globalized economies, then it should be understood that US demand and lifestyle is contributing more to the problem than a poor guy living in India.
Probably use an Electrostatic wafer chuck.
It is curation of the most popular things, which in turn are the ones that matter to most people.
Yeah, the above will just make such development more accessible.
Well, I'm getting a lot of comments from the motorized desk lovers here. I'll hang my reply onto yours...

I think we have discovered how to sort sailors from power boaters :) For that matter, I use a French press instead of a Keurig.... now pardon me while I take the stairs as I step out for lunch :)
conceal your identity

You can also conceal your identity when buying an ETF. An EFT almost certainly has a higher ROI than empty property.

And if you are investing via intermediaries, then they can handles the letting process so as to maximise the ROI.
The Athletic, Gimlet, Cheddar, Scroll, Piano, Tastemade...
> Even disregarding the literal human action part, the most notable difference is that the latter allows for genes to be moved between organisms even if the two organisms would not have done so even if given millions of years without human interaction. (Ex: Spider genes in goats).

There are really no such things as "spider genes" or "goat genes" or "fish genes", there are only genes. Some sequences are found in one species and not the other, but they do not carry a tag that says where they came from. It's akin to copying functions between programs. You may say you copied over the implementation of e.g. incremental search from Vim, but that doesn't suddenly taint your program with "unnatural vimness" (license considerations notwithstanding).

> I feel this defense of GMO's is weak, as is the defense of "It's the same food chemically." as some other's may claim. If it were actually the same outcome, then it would be useless as a technique.

It's more akin this: quicksort and random sort give the exact same outcome in the end, but one of those processes is vastly more efficient at achieving the goal.
I was under the impression that the most serious HFT doesn't even use Ethernet anymore. At each end, where it meets a common buy/sell platform, yes. But not for the competing HFT data link companies' inter-city messaging.

For the shortwave links in place between NY-Tokyo, for several I'm privy to details of, people have written their own custom dedicated purpose protocols that implement very low bitrate, ultra low latency data messaging with less overhead and ASIC packet processing time.
Interesting idea. Sadly the application form seems to suggest its only open to B2B startups, no B2C?
> Reasons to move to ClickHouse

> the [VACUUM] process requires an outrageous amount of time

As of Dec 19 2018, Amazon Redshift now runs VACUUM DELETE automatically, and has been made drastically more resource-efficient [1].

> There are no queries in Redshift that take less than a couple of seconds.

This is likely due to incorrectly-tuned Workload Management Queues. In addition, as of Aug 8 2018, Redshift automatically enables short query acceleration [2], which should speed up short queries by default without additional tuning.

> According to our calculations, deploying ClickHouse on AWS instances with the same resources was exactly half as expensive.

You also need to factor in the cost of migration (two full-time specialists, three months effort), and ongoing support effort needed to maintain the now-custom system.

Plus, it sounds like some (possibly similar?) cost savings could have been achieved simply optimizing the existing Redshift cluster:

> We can’t make a straight comparison about query speed because the data schema changed so much. But many queries sped up simply because less data are read from the disk. Truth be told, we should have made this change in Redshift, but we decided to combine it with our migration to ClickHouse.

In short, continue testing assumptions and tracking updated feature-sets on a regular basis- valid reasons to move to ClickHouse yesterday may no longer be valid today, or at some point in the future. Also, don't double down on sunk costs- it might make sense to migrate back to Redshift in the future, if your issues with the system are eventually improved or resolved. Or maybe not, depending on your use-case.

[1] https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/12/amazon-re...

[2] https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/08/amazon-re...
Netflix would prefer you do this, too. In subscription models, you are almost guaranteed to be paying more than you're using. Only when a service is first starting and trying to attract subscribers is it likely you are paying less than you use.
Your citation is a Youtube video? How come people who argue against you can cite peer reviewed articles and a ~97-99% consensus among the scientific community?
Thank you for the donation. I use the funds to work on revisions of this text, and on developing others.

For motivation: briefly, I was at Union College and was asked to teach Linear. I saw a second edition of Strang's book, thought it was wonderful (still do), and adopted it. But the students, who were perfectly good students, did not get it. They just couldn't solve the problems that a person should solve in that class. I decided after some reflection that the folks I had need to be brought along to where they are ready for a higher level understanding. So I put together a presentation that uses lots of examples, motivation, and naturalness to try and develop maturity in people who do not yet have it.

(Again, I'm not talking Strang's book down, it is very fine indeed. But the students that I have in front of me at this point are just not yet ready.)
Are there any desks that one has uses and really recommends? I'm not entirely sold on motorized desks, so suggestions for mechanical ones?
From the product page:

> Why are there so many negative reviews for the BEKANT sit/stand desks?

> In 2016, IKEA identified a batch of BEKANT sit/stand desk Power Supply Units and underframes that stopped working after some time. The faults were related to a production flaw. This problem has since been addressed and fixed, so all new BEKANT sit/stand desks and underframes will not have this issue.

So they claim the issue is fixed.

I'd rather just spend the money for some desk made with Linak actuators.
Yes, but not one they manipulated for this end, at least as far as the we can tell from the information in the article.
This statement is absolutely bonkers to me. I've never had more than 2 weeks accrued, and often go into the negatives. I would go postal if I took so little vacation that I was able to accrue 3 months worth. I'd have to have, and I'm not exaggerating, a million dollar salary to forego vacation like that.
I believe I've got the gist of it: Keep your options open, and don't put all your eggs in one basket, because s* happens.
In your body is tissue called fascia. Scientists are unlocking its secrets
revenue * multiple

let's say $10m in ARR * a 23x multiple

The way you get to the multiple is a combination of how fast the revenue is growing, how long you think that will keep up, and the margin of the revenue.

Craftsman Tools, for example, was probably not growing much or shrinking and likely had low margin revenue but I don't know.
One of these things enriches society and sheds light on the universal experiences in human existence.

The other fuels consumerism, depression, and relegates women to either damsels in distress, objects of conquest, or abuse victims.