skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The main thing you've gained is sharpening a lot of skills. You can run your own software business if you want to. You're learning the hard way. Life is a good teacher with reflection, albeit unpleasant sometimes.

Validate even MORE about the problem, AND the solution, before building out the solution in a substantial way, or at all. Is the problem clear to the people who have it, and one of their top priorities? Find out by communicating with them, ideally in person, but video chat works and written forms if that's all that is possible. If a competitor exists, great! What's the value proposition of your similar product/service? Why is it so good someone who uses another should switch, or what makes it compelling for someone who is evaluating your product/service?

Instead of positive interest, how many people will sign up in a form you link them to, or a landing page? How many will give their email or some contact information so that you contact them when your thing launches? How many say "I have $x and I will pay you that right now if you make this problem go away!"? How many people will read your blog post about how frustrating a certain problem is? Saying "Yeah, I hate that problem", but not being willing to do anything else. That might a dead end.

Another strategy is to build something that solves your own problem. Minimally, it will be useful to you. If it's useful to you, you won't be putting "effort into something nobody wants". If you have the problem, there's a good chance others do, too, and they may be willing to use and/or pay for your solution. Alternatively, after validating the problem and a potential solution, you can build something for someone you're close to that solves their problem. A spouse, family member, good friend, etc. Small frequent feedback loops, and empathy, are key here.

Another shortcut to running your own software business is starting a software consultancy. You can even do this while you have a day job, by hiring other people to do parts of it, or with smaller projects. If you have many of a similar type of customer (law offices, realtors, whatever), you can find the right product that applies to many of them, while being paid to build other things for your client, or this product itself. This is a traditional approach to bootstrapping a software product, and lots of other people have written or spoken about the it and its trade offs.

What succeeds on 'Show HN' and Product Hunt and similar things isn't predictable. It also doesn't lead to instant success, product usage, or paying customers. It's nice I would imagine, people have shown what it meant in terms of visitors and traction, but it's a blip in the life of a product. Having customers that use your product and pay you money would be better, and it's a bit more in your control.

Here's a good link about validating without spending money or building anything: https://www.startupgrind.com/blog/the-startup-framework-to-v...
Fascinating! Did not know about that subject until now. For anyone that studies material engineering even casually, it's an important sub-topic (I never took material engineering in college, that's why I was ignorant about this subject prior to your comment).
On a related note, I found this cool related link on Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Fracture_mechanics. Anyway, thanks again for the comment!
Mobile Safari won't allow usable bottom navigation for web applications
> At home, I use Duck Duck Go. It gives good enough results but comes with a better reputation with regards to privacy.

The fact that you do so, with no additional effort needed, kinda breaks the entire trust/monopoly argument, doesn't it?
Do the majority really want autoplay? Facebook forced it on people and made it hard to find the disable option.
You joke but it really is an indictment against decentralised protocols that IRC is still so primitive that it can't even handle images.

No doubt someone will reply "that's not what it's for!"
> I feel like there should be a helper for simple parse operations.

> parse!("#{} @ {},{}: {}x{}", id, x, y, w, h);

> This would be a clean inverse of println!.

The text_io crate does this exactly.

https://crates.io/crates/text_io

#[macro_use]
extern crate text_io;

fn main() {
let id: u32;
let x: u32;
let y: u32;
let w: u32;
let h: u32;
scan!("#{} @ {},{}: {}x{}", id, x, y, w, h);
}
Well i think eventually every programmer will build their own personal notes app and start to use it. That's the easiest thing to do if you want to learn a programming language or framework - Home projects. Why I did this ? I used evernotes between 2008-2011. Then bought Nokia 920 and windows Phone at that time did not support evernotes so switched to OneNote and been using OneNote next 7years(same Nokia920 strong phone). Last year switched to Nokia 7Plus Android still use onenote it doesn't have features I want. I basically want to take quick notes and bookmark links and I need a timestamp to say when I did it. So in the process, wrote an app for personal use. It suits my requirement as of now - https://stash.bobbydreamer.com

Feel free to try it out.

What I used is JavaScript, bootstrap for menus, Firebase for storage & authentication.

Next phase for learning ofcourse,
1. Option to write Notes in Markdown
2. UI look like Outlook
3. Not fully load entire db in homepage.

Below items I have already in my todos, I am sure I will never do it as I have other personal apps in mind.
1. Export/Import
2. Mark a note as public or private. If public anybody can comment on your notes. Suggest changes.
To back up your point, 2600 and DEF CON have both occasionally touched on the type of tactics and social engineering needed to pull of /hacks/ of this nature.
I attempted to sign up a long time ago, when the only authentication was through FB, which I don't have. So, the email address is in your system but I'm not a member. I cannot sign in or up. Is this something you can fix? I would contact you directly for support.
He's pretty lucky he's in tech and has multiple paths forward. I have friends in this situation "stuck" at law firms or "stuck" in a medical fellowship. They have now already invested 4 to 9 years and tons of debt into a career with limited realistic choices but to continue moving forward on a path they don't like (sometimes something they got pushed into by family/society/etc.)
Similiar to Vistaprint. I can tell who used them when they give me their business card.
One complement/substitute for this approach is mandating open standards. If Facebook had to be part of the Fediverse or something like that. The standards could be managed by a third-party, something like the Federal Reserve for APIs. This way they can move to accommodate fast-moving changes and competition from companies in other countries.
Other commenters have similar thoughts but here it is said more directly: the car should not drive differently at all depending on temperature. There is no reason it has to be that way. The motor can regen fine at any temperature. The battery cannot, but dumping power resistively into air heat is one of the easiest things to do electrically, and they could definitely do it.

With one counterpoint being that maybe this is a feature, not a bug, and may save drivers from excessive non-productive braking.
It's useful, but one still basically needs to plan ahead, look up commands, and imagine things.

It would be more useful if it weren't an OSX-only closed source demo.
I can only see a setting for autoplay next episode, not for autoplaying trailers as a scroll through their "library".
Thanks to OP and contributors for this progress on performance. What are still feature gaps and what is the roadmap?
Essentially the exact same app but with voice channels for talking to people alongside the text channels.
They can keep the resources they waste on my machine if they'd only give me a damned dark mode.
The only difference is that you have to send mail to a normal post office address and not a "hostname". Other than that, virtual PO Boxes exist and fulfill your basic requirement of "no one knows my home address", even if some of the behind-the-scenes implementation details aren't exactly the same (latency etc). We're not discussing something new, we're discussing low-level implementation details of an existing idea.

I'm not saying your dream is bad, which is why I didn't respond directly to you. What I'm saying is I don't think it's a novel/interesting idea for a startup to work on as I believe was being implied by the person I replied to. Even if it became a big business (which I doubt since even UPS/Fedex/Mailbox ETC don't have that many postal customers for their own services) it's just too easy for the national postal service to compete with if it was successful.

I think it is a great idea for the postal service to do, but it would be very risky for a startup to do, even by modern startup standards. The existing postal system is a marvel of efficiency already.
That sounds plausible at first, but is inaccurate on multiple levels.

By early 2006, YouTube had substantial peering in place. It's easy to prove: they talked about their programs at NANOG (https://www.nanog.org/meetings/nanog37/presentations/bill.no...). Without those, they would have folded already. They were acquired by Google only at the end of the year.

Google doesn't own all of its fiber. Also, some ISPs have made public claims of being paid by Google for transit traffic. Google, but also ISPs, saves a lot of money through peering or the Google Global Cache. This is also why YT had peering in 2006: remember that traffic moves across multiple ISPs and it wasn't just YT's costs that were going to go up with their exponential growth.

Last but not least, consider that Netflix doesn't own fiber – or at least haven't announced any – and they haven't been sunk by network costs, thanks to peering and edge caching.

[I used to work at Google and knew at the time quite a bit about YT's infrastructure. The above is all public information.]
I wonder if anybody has seen anything happening about PEP 582 for a local packages directory. It's definitely something I'd like to see implemented
Does anyone else here use Mattermost, an open source, self-hosted alternative to Slack? I like it. We're not allowed to store communication offsite. I have no experience with Slack, so I'm wondering how current offerings compare.
Yeah, this is more like a random logo generator than something that's ML powered. I guess it could be using PCA or something on the backend to filter out "bad" logo designs.

I'd like to see more variations with the shapes. You see stars repeated a million times, it would be nice if the stars were actually different in size, shape and design.
This isn't true any longer -- reCaptcha used to help digitize text but now it's all Google Maps (streetview) images they're using to train their own self-driving and Maps software.
> I wish there were a terminal that behaves more like a file browser

Oh man, you are gonna love this. In Plasma 5, hitting F4 in a file browser toggles a pop-up terminal in the folder you're in. As you navigate the directory tree, the shell actually follows you - and vice versa when you type `cd`! Working directory is always kept synchronized. If you split the file manager into a two-pane layout (another great feature), the terminal working directory follows whichever pane has focus. And of course you can drag files into the terminal and it pastes the path.

It's basically exactly what you asked for, and it is indeed fantastic. Plasma 5 is fantastic. Light years ahead.
I believe the BASIC interpreter was TrueBasic: https://www.truebasic.com/atari

And probably PageSteam for the the desktop publishing app.

Not sure on that MIDI composer.
A poor understanding of ROC curves. A concept that is surprisingly difficult to explain to people with low maths abilities and will lead to misuse. Even without the "confidence" not being a true probability. My anecdote is I made a classifier to speed up the search through a list of images. It worked great and saved lots of money. There was an auto accept (no review) for a confidence greater than 95%. After a while they get back to me and say "we have run some analysis and it is getting about 5% or the auto accept wrong, how can we make it get them all correct?".
Of course set the threshold to 100%.
But then it doesn't accept anything.
Then give me a few years and more devs to develop the classifier to make it more powerful.
Can't you just tweak it to make it better...
And so it goes
If you look at their revenue growth the past several years and projections I wouldn't assume immediately it's a short.

Their revenue growth has been very solid, so while the valuation may seem a bit high, if they hit their numbers for this year and demonstrate good visibility in to 2020 based on hitting projections it's no where near a short based on the value of other cloud/SaaS companies currently.

Now it would be great to look at the S1 to see the costs associated with the business but I don't expect it to be an upside down story as much as Box was at the time of their IPO.

Additionally you still have companies like MongoDB growing slower, from a smaller revenue base, with some very large costs and no where near profitability and still trading at quite a high premium, so based on their revenue and growth and assuming their net loss is below or at 50% of their revenue base it will still trade well based on current comps in the market.
Managed and modern. Seriously show me an IRC client that supports images, threads, emoji reactions (yes they really are useful), painless file transfers, etc.

Hell IRC doesn't even let you browse history. How can you people not see that Slack is vastly superior to IRC (apart from the openness of course).
That's a little bit off.

Read https://ssir.org/articles/entry/the_truth_about_ben_and_jerr... and skip to Legal Landscape.

The article as a whole is about Unilever betraying the corporate values after buying the company and whether the sale was really forced, but that particular section goes into detail why what you're saying isn't universally true.

The TL;DR is that a number of state laws (and possibly higher level, hadn't finished researching) specifically carve out room for companies to consider corporate values over investor money in fulfilling fiduciary duty. They establish multiple classes of people--including customers--to be constituencies being served, not just investors.

So you can absolutely incorporate in a way that will run your company to make as much money as possible for public shareholders within the bounds of what makes the company that company, including value systems. If a company betrays their stated values, that's absolutely on that company, not an inevitable fate for going public.

Relevant quote:

Most state legislatures have resisted the tenets of Dodge v. Ford by enacting statutes that expressly authorize corporate directors to look beyond shareholder wealth maximization. Vermont enacted one, nicknamed “the Ben & Jerry’s law,” after the company had successfully lobbied Vermont’s legislature. Vermont’s “other constituency” statute, as these laws are called, is illustrative: It provides that when directors make decisions they may consider such matters as “the interests of the corporation’s employees, suppliers, creditors, and customers; the economy of the state, region, and nation; [and] community and societal considerations, including those of any community in which any offices or facilities of the corporation are located.” State statutes also give corporations wide latitude to donate profits to charities.

Edit: having problems finding a clear list, but looks like ~35 states have them, including Delaware. California, interestingly, does not have one. Looks like one made it through legislature years ago when these were all popping up, but Schwarzenegger vetoed it.
Hawaii considers ban on cigarette sales
> Who exactly do you think is making tooling like npm, webpack, babel..?

Almost 0% of web developers.

As I have said. Repeatedly.

For every one person building one of these tools, there’s at least 100 developers using it, not actually contributing to it.

Not a difficult concept to grasp.

> Sure, many more will use than make, but that's true of EVERY tool that is made.

Yes. I know. Obviously

> Do you think the majority of people using make contribute to writing make?

Obviously not. And this further proves my point. JavaScript developers can use Make to build their JavaScript. It doesn’t matter what language Make is implemented in.

Are you following yet?
An article in Nature [0] has a few more details, including the fact that problems with the drones meant that only half of one island was baited by drone, and the rest of the island had to be done by hand. Looking on the bright side, Island Conservation, the Californian group that is conducting the operation, see this as having set up a controlled experiment (i.e. drone delivered baiting vs. hand delivered). Only one of the smaller islands was involved, not the whole group.

[0] https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-00176-z
From Wikipedia:

In 2002 the Lada Niva was awarded zero stars out of a possible four by the modern Russian ARCAP safety assessment program.
Well, I appears from my experience a surprising number of MIT students don’t, making this mini-course popular.

As an MIT grad myself I should be biased to think otherwise, and I certainly hope the credential stands for something good. But I haven’t found much difference in programmers 5 years out of school — it’s been attitude that has mattered more.
It doesn't matter, information is disseminated in encrypted peer 2 peer chats, and nobody will talk to you or give you a username to message them unless you paid them

It is not indexed. The only thing that is indexed are reviews, which you can only use the reviews and the escrow systems to have a better chance of not being duped or scammed
99designs = 50% clip art + 50% blatant rips of existing logos + the StackOverflow logo.

That is, be sure to check you didn't end up with a stolen logo.
"There is a good amount of randomness and luck in this process."

I agree with this. Just take a look at 'Show HN' - there are many excellent projects that get no traction at all. And then there a few lucky ones that suddenly take-off. There's no "wisdom of the crowds" moment that propels one project to success over another because it's more worthy or excellent - it really is random in so many cases. But rather than see that as a negative, take comfort from the fact that everyone is in the same boat. Plus, the fact that the original poster actually built these projects is an impressive feat in itself. Many of us never even get beyond the 'idea-in-our-head' stage.
You can, of course, do this from the Tesla app. It’s not like an ICE car where (usually) you have to physically be in it to start it.
That comment complains that the model is not useful for compression, because it stores all that linguistic knowledge in the 3GB of model weights. But for NLP applications, you want the model to store as much information as possible, and it only matters whether it generalizes to unseen data or not. The compression measurement is just to show that, not to imply that the model would be useful as a general-purpose compression algorithm.
The most famous BASIC environment was the incredible GFA Basic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GFA_BASIC
Apparently they've fixed a lot of the CPU issues, it's just still in Beta: https://medium.com/@matt.at.ably/wheres-all-my-cpu-and-memor...
The US, despite all its flaws, still has legal and political structures to prevent the worst abuses. Not all, and not for everyone, but in general people do have actual, real rights. Say what you will about the US political process, but if push comes to shove and millions of people hit the streets, changes _will_ happen.

Someday that may not be true. It's very likely the US eventually devolves into a real surveillance-police state of the type we are talking about here, but it is still quite a ways off. And, frankly, there is not much incentive for the US government to really push the envelope so long as the country is stable and rich. If that situation changes, then yeah, the US could devour itself from within in order to prop itself up, but again, that is quite a ways off.

For the Chinese government, none of these barriers exist. Hell, there is barely the concept of individuals rights in the first place.
Design competitions with deadlines in February
Is it ever the limiting factor though? I don't expect to see more animals if the O2 content of the air rises, except perhaps at high altitudes.
It really should be a provably unambiguous ruleset that would take in the person's circumstances and numbers and spit out a number, yes. I understand that your post is a joke, but that'd be an _awesome_ thing to have for everyone, especially if coupled with some adversarial tech to find and close loopholes. Which is, ironically, why this isn't going to happen.
I can't refer anyone, just found a template here, hope it helps: https://www.docracy.com/0i4cfph2a7v/reseller-agreement.

May I know why have you decided to go with a reseller rather than on your own?
For one, where sharing of data is concerned, none of this is about forcing Facebook to give your data to some random third party that asks for it. It is about you as a user being able to demand from Facebook that they make your data (or some selection of it) accessible to some third party of your choice.

But also, and maybe more importantly, interoperation does not really necessarily require any sharing of data. Think the telephone network: All telephone network operators world wide do interoperate, which is why it doesn't matter where you are a customer, you still can call any other telephone on the planet. But that doesn't mean that those telcos somehow share data of their customers, apart from the particular calls that happen between customers of two different telcos.

Also, one way in which Facebook could be forced to share data would be for migration to a different service: If you think Facebook is abusing your data, you could move to a different provider, and Facebook would have to allow them to pull your data over and then delete it on their side--and all that without you losing contact with people who stay on Facebook thanks to enforced interoperability.
> One article about a biomolecular research laboratory was written by a tennis instructor.
I never know what to say to that, but thank you for saying it :)
We said we'd ban you if you kept breaking the guidelines, so we have. We're happy to unban accounts if you email us at hn@ycombinator.com and we believe you'll post comments that readers can learn from.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
High number of "Rich needs to get his act together" comments this year. There's always a few in the comments, but its a much higher percentage this time around. More than a few who said they left after Rich's "clarification" of how he views open source last year.
Are there any of these logo design apps that are actually free? (e.g. to get the SVG file?)

I just need a quick placeholder logo for a blog so I don't want to spend $$
I wonder if someone were to test all breakable and non-breakable materials with ultrasound to try to find their resonance frequency (as you suggested, but with all materials), if they'd discover that there's some relationship between sound frequency and the "breakableness" or the "non-breakableness" of the material in question... intuition says that there's something there...