skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem has always been, "what if you have users you can't educate?" (Or take too much time / effort to realistically educate, or don't want to be educated, etc.) If you have both groups of users, and they share a platform, and their security needs are at odds with each other, you have to pick either the educated group or the uneducated group, in a way which fundamentally disadvantages the unchosen group. You can't make both happy, ever.

In these debates I often see the educated group advocate for more education of the uneducated group, which many times I think is disingenuous, impractical, and sometimes even a little hostile to the uneducated. It seems to fundamentally misunderstand many of the uneducated group's wants and needs.

It's a bummer to be in the educated group and be subject to this problem, but I think it's fundamentally an intractable problem. If you don't like it, you have to leave for a platform which serves your needs, and that platform is almost certainly going to be a niche platform (at least eventually), because most users are not educated but want to have their needs served anyway.

EDIT: One more thing. There's an implicit assumption about danger here and an appropriate level of education. It's appropriate to ask anyone, regardless of who they are, to undergo a lot of training before operating, say, a car. It's not appropriate, in my book, to ask people to undergo a lot of education before operating a phone.
The problem with a website like Snopes is that, if you want to claim to be an unbiased gatekeeper of the truth, you better be perfect.

Since humans are imperfect, a site like Snopes can not exist.
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The billions are not arbitrary, but to settle obligations arising from the UKs past membership, such as pensions for their EU personell.

You obviously know that and are pretending to be ignorant, considering it was all over the news at the times.
I came here and scrolled down to look for the first instance of that meme and post something like what you did but you beat me to it.
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This exact scenario is what I find to be a call to a fullness of individualism to be quite inappropriate. We are not just ourselves, but of our parents and grandparents, and of our children. And to forget our lineage is to forget ourselves, in part at least.
Second-hand books are extremely common. If anything, habitual readers probably buy more second-hand than new.
As one clever guy once told me: our society ain't very functional. Modern medicine treats symptoms while disregarding root causes. Depressed? Get some serotonine boost here, that's it. Not to mention that psychiatry mostly relies on trial and error methods to try improving god knows what went wrong in your head. I'm still waiting for solid research on how to find yourself a fulfilling life ;)
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Thanks! I've worked with a lot of smaller companies that really don't _need_ more than one developer, and in fact are more efficient and effective with only one developer, but still have expressed a this fear of losing that one developer since they know so much.

That is something else I can offer with this service: an impartial 3rd party who is technical and can give sanity checks for non-technical business owners.
If you have a reasonable sized team that you're expected to manage, you should not code at all, let alone regularly. You will fail at one always, but more often both. My rule - if you have 5 direct reports (any role) you can code light stuff, sometimes. If you have 8 (a full team) you should not code - you will drop stuff over time and morale will sink a lot.
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This is the reason I prefer books instead of blog posts.

With blog posts, you can surely cover the breath of multiple topics but its totally worth to go repeat an fundamentally important idea with multiple scenarios.
I got started with Python and spent time building lots of little projects and websites. Then I hit the pavement looking for clients. My first client paid me $200 for a simple website. I studied my butt off and did whatever freelance work I could find locally for a couple of years, and then I started applying for jobs, eventually landing one. Now I don't have any difficulty getting jobs, after a few years of experience.

My best advice is, learn to code, but focus more on solving business problems. Most companies care less about technology than they care about what problems you can solve for them.
> Itis probably wrong to think of DNA as personal property.

DNA cannot be thought of any other way whilst we continue to use it for personal identification.

We don't have another mechanism for protecting something uniquely identifying from tyranny.

Perhaps we should, especially as in this case others privacy may be co-dependent on myself, as you noted.
Looks like Spotify is going the Netflix way, becoming a content creator. I wonder if that means they will try to create music as well. They sure have the data.
> * use tracking blocker (uBlock origin, BlockBear on iOS)

You could also use Firefox Focus in iOS. It comes with a built-in ad/content/tracker blocker. Since content blockers are common to all browsers on iOS (everything using Safari/WebKit underneath), it would help other browsers too.
Who is your ISP? Are they redirecting the above google DNS servers to their own? This would be trivial with just a few routing rules.
Take a look at the 51nb X62.
> when the company isn't doing well and investors are scattering to safety and liquidity is nowhere to be found a higher margin gives your company a buffer when you have to cut

And how has that worked out for 440 companies that used to be in the F500 that no longer are there?

> In a downturn, a slight decrease in margins across the board will push a company on the razor's edge from profitability to unprofitability.

Except the reason their margins are so low is because they keep feeding capital into the business to fund new projects.

> Of course when revenues are growing like crazy and the economy is gangbusters it sounds great to cut margins for absolute growth but that's a booming economy. Things are very different in a downturn.

Yup, you're right, things are very different in a downturn. Great listen about how NetSuite navigated downturns: https://a16z.com/2015/05/15/a16z-podcast-why-saas-revenue-is...
Did a little work on these ice penetrating radars when I was at KU.
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Ultima V here[1]

Bard's Tale here[2]

Master of Orion has not been reached yet I think (It was released after UU).

1: https://www.filfre.net/2016/02/ultima-v/

2: https://www.filfre.net/2014/06/of-wizards-and-bards/
I agree with you but it makes sense to include Office 365. Amazon offers mail hosting and office software in AWS as well.

Edit: Okay they only offer document storage you still need to edit your documents with MS Office.
Instacart is a YC company (s2012) [0].

[0] https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/
The difference is huge.

To take a bus from point A to point B, I have to walk to point C, wait for the bus, get on, wait to be dropped of at point D, cross the intersection to point E, wait for a transfer bus, get on, wait to be dropped off at point F, and finally walk to point B.

With this system I call a cab, wait for it at point A, get on, get dropped of at point B. Rather than my time being fragmented into 3 periods of walking interspersed with 4 periods of waiting, it is just 2 periods of waiting, which makes it much easier to make use of the time. In my experience riding buses, only about a third of the time spent is usable (except for long distance commuter routes), while nearly all the time spent in a cab is usable.

Even if the shared cab took a bit longer than a bus, I would still choose it over a bus for the improved productivity / enjoyment.
I was going to point out a really astounding Snopes fuck-up where they took a proposed EPA rule placing heavy new restrictions on asbestos, wrongly claimed that the EPA were actually removing restrictions on asbestos usage and opening up the floodgates to new usage, and then had the gall to claim that the EPA were the dishonest ones for pointing out their screw-up. Unfortunately, explaining this would require linking to the original version of their article, and since Snopes block the Wayback Machine and Archive.is seems to be having issues right now I can't do that.
I think there are two separate, yet equally interesting arguments lurking in this.

1.) If Hacker News had zero users and someone submitted it to Hacker News, the feedback would be brutal.

2.) If Hacker News had its current user base and someone submitted it to Hacker News, they would be praised to such an extent they would likely get inbound requests from people interested in investing.

Traction trumps design, certain designs help create traction, and certain kinds of traction defy design. It's fascinating how it all fits together.
Didn't these both happen in the immediate wake of the pseudoephedrine ban, before the states built their automatic registry systems? Don't you get simply get denied your purchase if you try to buy over the limit now?
> If those interactions all take energy from you instead of give energy

Just to point out even for extroverts a difficult conversation is still draining. The regular conversations should at least be neutral though.
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Replace murder with art heist: http://content.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1887111,00... With a "happier" ending.
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You'll also be switching to a payment provider you can never contact.
80% of the time, for all online services, users get the choice to opt-out from the tracking, but trackers are on by default and users are encouraged to keep them on. This is what I call the fundamental principle of privacy settings: all privacy settings are based on the assumption that the vast majority of users will not understand, care, or make an effort to toggle all the knobs to opt-out from the tracking.

This is how online services meeting the regulatory requirements and creating a positive image of being privacy-respecting, "we are giving people a choice over their data", meanwhile still allowing the unhampered collection of personal data in practice.

Or the principle can be worded as, "If everyone opt-out from the tracking in their privacy settings, our business is finished". You can opt-out, but their business model remains the same, and you are simply an outlier.

As I see it, the most interesting case study is Do-No-Track. When DNT has just became a standard, the response was mostly positive. Then something dramatic happened, Microsoft enabled DNT in IE 10 by default! Then amusingly, it triggered a total backlash from the industry. If you see the principle, it's easy to explain that.

But Microsoft surely understand this point. Then why did it decide to do this? I highly suspect Microsoft's decision was a conspiracy to intentionally kill DNT, even if most people won't active it anyway, but they may believe that having a simple and universal privacy toggle is still being a potential threat to the business of the industry, so they decided to sabotage it by making it default-on, thus nobody will treat it seriously, and Microsoft can use the "we care about your privacy" as an excuse.

One can't fix the privacy issues with a privacy setting. One needs to have an alternative business model in the age of Surveillance Capitalism.
Where I'm coming from is just that the statistical base rate of pseudo->meth cooks is so low, I presume even if you account for "smurfing" (because nasal congestion is such a universal ailment) that dragnetting sudafed sales can't be productive, and pharmacists will quickly lose interest in scrutinizing customers buying in normal amounts. I'm prepared to be wrong, my suspicion is that most of the concern about disapproving looks from pharmacists is imagined.

I bought some sudafed a week ago and got offered more of it by the pharmacist (they sold me a package with twice as many pills as the one I brought up a card for). And I am a pretty scruffy looking dude; on my better days my fashion sensibility and grooming approaches "possibly homeless".
Ask HN: Why goes into launching a successful SaaS platform?
1. Pick an idea and attempt to prove it will be a viable business plan
2. Determine target audience and methods of outreach
3. Figure out monetization
4. Build app focused around strong user experience
5. Market through social media, blog posts, and aggregator sites like Reddit/HackerNews

How many SaaS platforms follow this recipe and amount to nothing? What is the hardest part?

If you are launching an app in an already established industry (aka the business idea has been proven viable), how do you gain market share?
It's because the industry perspective and the business/wsj perspective are different.

I think the industry perspective tends to be ahead of the business/wsj perspective but sometimes incorrect. Tech people are the folks who build this stuff. It takes a long time for upfront investment to filter down through sales and into tangible business results. And then even longer for anyone to notice those results. Whereas the devs / product managers / salespeople are on the front lines seeing all of this firsthand.

A good, concrete example of how this has played out for me personally was that I bought stock in new relic a few years ago. In a nutshell, they were making a product it was obvious people needed, I worked at their competitor and realized they were kicking our asses product-wise, just totally out-executing us and it wasn't even close. I bought a bunch of stock on the theory that the product was getting great adoption and people loved it. Fast forward a few years and now it's tripled/quadrupled. I would've done the same thing with Stripe and lots of others, except they aren't public companies.

Stripe is sort of out of the bag at this point but you'd be surprised how few traditional "business" folks have even heard of it. There are tons of great developer tools, stuff like Sendgrid, Lob, Easypost, etc. that are going to be huge that are still mostly under-the-radar.
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How do you suggest really learning to read the surface pressure charts? I have gotten to the point I understand what I'm looking at, but can't really turn the factual knowledge of watching the highs and lows and winds moving around into real understanding & forecasting.
I don't think you necessarily even have to check for colour similarity - we agree that setting only one attribute is broken, so just detect when only one attribute is set and either ignore it, or (if you feel like being clever) set the other attribute to be its complementary colour.
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Same. I'd really miss Reply All.
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Given that you leave DNA all over the place, we should really ask if DNA is indeed actually private. In many regards it seems less private than your facial features as I don't routinely leave my facial features on restaurant silverware.
My ISP is actually a cell phone carrier in Spain, but I should point out these pings are performed via ssh in the vultr servers. How would my ISP be relevant to this issue?
A lot of times you need to take a step back to see what you're doing. It's not always easy to do in a work environment.
Pretty tangential, but with AMOLED screens, I really hope society starts embracing a dark-mode default for interfaces. There is no reason to use light-mode with modern screens. It's taxing on the eyes, probably not good for kids and teens who are using screens 4 hours a day and it doesn't seem to offer benefits over dark-mode in terms of accessibility.

It's nice to see more and more websites and operating systems providing dark theme toggles, but I hope one day that light-mode becomes a thing of the past.
Some commercial forecasters have a "wet bias" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wet_bias). They intentionally overestimate the odds for precipitation on the theory that people are happier if it doesn't rain when they were planning on rain than they would be if it rained when they did not expect it.
Amazon retail has gross margins of 37% and net margin of, lets say 3.7%.

That means it cost it 63% to buy products(on credit like terms), and 33.3% to fullfil orders.

So from a risk terms we can say their margin is equivalent to 3.7/33.3 = about 10%. Which isn't bad.

Furthermore, a lot of those costs are variable costs, like shipping, which go down if demand drops.
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'dang is a mod.
> i dont understand, no one is forcing you as an individual to use any of these services or buy any of these devices

Not to be too contrarian or tin-foil-y, but this is a bit simplistic view of modern advertising platforms.

These companies absolutely have troves of information about you, even if you've never interacted with them directly. Your social circle indirectly shares information about you, retailers share information about you, etc. Regardless of whether you use a platform like Facebook, it has a profile of who you are.

Saying you're not forced to use their services or devices is only trivially true: Sure, you're not forced to use it directly, but you might as well be given that they're collecting your information regardless.

And sure, you're not forced to buy from retailers who share your information or have acquaintances that use Gmail, but it's in the same way that you're not forced to buy produce that Monsanto has touched in some way - basically, good luck.
I feel like you may have entirely dismissed the issue that location-based advertising is quite possibly, the most valuable form of advertising Google can conduct, and Google has massive incentives to collect location data. Statements like "there is no incentive for the Maps team to take in more data" feel like they completely ignore your employer's primary business model.