skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Could just publish it as a letter to the editor, no? Papers public random screeds all the time.
>Isnt a "lifestyle" business a business to support the lifestyle of the founder? IE money is not typically a problem, either the company is profitable or the founder will support it loss making. The main function of the company is to keep the founder entertained more than anything else.

I don't think I've heard the phrase lifestyle business used that way. I'm not in the US let alone silicon valley so that might be relevant.

Rather I've heard lifestyle business used to describe a business, typically with zero to half a dozen employees, which the founder can run without putting in a whole bunch of time.

A real but deliberately vague example. A company that acts as an authorized dealer for a manufacturer. The sales company handles the sales process and takes orders through a website supplemented with phone calls. Actually shipping the merchandise and handling after sales customer support is done by the manufacturer. Why they don't want to do their own sales I don't know. Staffing requirements are one person to answer any phone calls and someone to do the books. Owner's required time is maybe a few hours a day.

Commissions on sales cover all the bills etc and let the owner pay themselves handsomely but it will never be a giant enterprise.
No, I'm saying we don't respect bodily autonomy generally in the case of seat belt laws, but that is just an example. A women has to put a seat belt on her body whether she wants to or not. That's a government intervention into something less complicated than pregnancy.
Don't confuse that with this. Absolutely nothing wrong/"creepy" about consenting adult parties voluntarily exchanging nudes.
HN penalizes high discussion posts for being gossipy.
The devil is in the details. 317c, defining "communications provider".

> 5. the person provides a service that facilitates, or is ancillary or incidental to, the provision of an electronic service that has one or more end‑users in Australia

> 6. the person develops, supplies or updates software used, for use, or likely to be used, in connection with:

> (a) a listed carriage service; or

> (b) an electronic service that has one or more end‑users in Australia

> 8. the person manufactures or supplies components for use, or likely to be used, in the manufacture of a facility for use, or likely to be used, in Australia

There's several more.

A communications provider, under the given definitions is not bound to be on Australian soil, but rather interacting with Australia as a nation.

Applying this law to those of different nationality is difficult, and unlikely to succeed, however those of dual-citizenship can be held accountable.

This opinion I have, that the law does apply to those internationally, is one I have seen supported by several law firms I have occasional contact with.

Probably aided by:

> 317F. This Part extends to every external Territory.

> 317ZC.4 Part 4 of the Regulatory Powers (Standard Provisions) Act 2014, as it applies in relation to section 317ZB of this Act, extends to:

> (a) every external Territory; and

> (b) acts, omissions, matters and things outside Australia.

> 317ZD (Enforceable Undertakings).

> Part 6 of the Regulatory Powers (Standard Provisions) Act 2014, as it applies in relation to section 317ZB of this Act, extends to:

> (a) every external Territory; and

> (b) acts, omissions, matters and things outside Australia.

There's a few more - but as the Act is stating it is enforceable to both external Territories and acts, omissions, matters and things outside Australia, I do think the most likely reading is that 'acts' can be enforced upon Australians living outside the borders.
Thanks for sharing your story. There are many valuable lessons there and I certainly wish you all the best.

I am familiar with Gumroad as someone who has used it to buy things. From what I recall, the UX was smooth but left me wondering about the ease of cancellations / ways to handle refunds. I recall not feeling like the product lacked something critical - perhaps it was Paypal integration, but I don't remember. Something about it didn't sit right with me as a customer.

From a UX perspective, I feel that some of the commenters here are onto something. The website does not make it clear what the product does. Looking a bit into it, it feels like there are two products in one - payments and audience building - something that I would expect to be separate. It's like the product is trying to do 2 things well instead of 1 thing really well. Of course, this is my personal opinion which could be harsh and unfair seeing how I am not really qualified to give advice. In all, you know your customers and their needs best and it's great to hear you havent given up on gumroad. I hope things go your way and you accomplish everything you set out to do.
If your an exec at a media company, it is understood that your (business) phone and email will become widely shared public knowledge. This wasn't even his personal information, but simple a work email and phone that doesn't even belong to him, but to his employer.
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Not sure that billionaires destroying media outlets is something to be cheered on.
>Where would you post it if you were him?

Wherever he wants! Anyone will publish his editorial, from the Washington Post to the National Enquirer. well maybe not the national enquirer.
Nice! How did you get the equations of the knots?
I.e. how did you compute the paths followed in 3-space by the 'strings'?
Baffling to see a _lawyer_ commit such an obvious and blatant opsec gaffe.

Also: can of whup-ass duely opened...
How did he do it
That’s a complete fever dream. FiOS and U-verse fiber launched in 2005 and 2006. In 2002 Comcast’s top speed tier was 3 mbps. In 2009, it was 20, a 7x increase in 7 years. Google Fiber launched in 2010. From 2009 to 2016, Comcast went from 20 to 150, about the same factor of increase as before Google Fiber. Verizon and Comcast announced gigabit upgrades ... after Google Fiber stopped expansion in 2016.

Yeah, Verizon jumped to gigabit to match Google’s marketing. It was a non-event. (After about 100 mbps the shittiness of the modern web stack makes further upgrades pointless unless you’re a huge downloader. I’ve got gigabit FiOS load-balanced with 2-gigabit Comcast fiber at my house. I literally cannot tell the difference from the 150 mbps FiOS I had before, except in speed tests.)

Google Fiber really has nothing to do with these increases. That’s total make believe. There is an upgrade treadmill for DOCSIS that the industry follows, just like for CPU fabrication. And like improvements in fabrication technology, staying on the treadmill requires massive continual investment (faster versions of DOCSIS only work if you keep building fiber closer to the house and decreasing the amount of coax and the degree of fan-out). ISPs were spending that money before Google Fiber, and continue to spend that money now Google Fiber is on life support.
cool legal system we have where you can literally pay to win
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Not sure national enquirer is a "media outlet."

In general I agree that the fourth estate needs protection but I don't think arbitrary words on newsprint automatically makes you qualified.
"I asked him to prioritize protecting my time since I have other things I prefer to work on and to proceed with whatever budget he needed to pursue the facts in this matter."

Wow!
That's worth knowing for some readers maybe, but for me personally after looking through the bullet points in that post, I found it didn't really apply to me.

None of the things he's criticizing were things I took away from the book. Examples, "If you're gonna go broke, go broke big"--> obviously stupid, just disregarded it; "Convinces people that college is for suckers" --> already was completing my degree, am well aware of the value of a higher education and also how it isn't for everyone, this had no impact on me whatsoever; "Advocates committing a felony: have rich friends for trading stock based on non-public inside information, he says "That's what friends are for." --> I am perfectly aware of what insider trading is and that it's a felony, again not exactly what I took away from this book.

And so on. What I took away was assets vs liabilities and using your money to make more money. That's it. And that's all I needed, that was the golden key.
I can't even imagine the hellish process that you would have to go through to prove that you actually owned the money you did to receive the FDIC or SPIC pay.

I'm genuinely curious what the process would look like, if it even applies. Where would you even start if the bank just suddenly says "you have $0"?
The "narrative" was simply "these young men weren't just grainy black-and-white historical artifacts". I'm old enough to have grandkids in high school; my elder grandfather was just old enough to have signed up as the war ended. A hundred years is a long time - long enough for the dust of history to start replacing the reality of the thing.
they can deepfake them
> 80% of the industry is going to be hiring for

80% of the industry is hiring programmers to work on some boring line of business app using Java or whatever language they've been using for the last 10 years.
'pecker' is a double entendre
Yet another reason why I'll happily interact with your business on the web, but I won't download your app unless it's obviously essential.
That was reaction as well. CSS 20 years ago was an absolute horror, not just the browser incompatibilities but the sheer difficulty to achieve apparently trivial designs. You could only teach someone how to build a site in a day by strictly leading them along a golden path, as soon as they wanted to take one step off it on their own initiative they’d be met with an impenetrable mass of contorsions and hacks. That difficulty is a big reason why the utopia of a producer-led web never happened, looking back on it as a golden age, or an exemplar of when the web was intuitive, is in my opinion bizarre. Building a well designed simple, content-dominated website has never been easier.
Considering homeless population is like 80-90% men I think it's fair to say poverty is not the whole story. Men have some expenses women don't and women by far can receive more social benefits than men (some welfare programs are exclusive to women).

And the world stats aren't relevant as we're talking about psych studies that mostly take place in the US.
He specifically calls attention to the fact that his wealth is one reason he was able to speak out about this:

> If in my position I can’t stand up to this kind of extortion, how many people can? (On that point, numerous people have contacted our investigation team about their similar experiences with AMI, and how they needed to capitulate because, for example, their livelihoods were at stake.)

(emphasis added)
I'm an ex algo trader (currencies and metals) myself, and found this article interesting and mostly accurate.

A key takeaway is:

"One of the fallacies that people have is the assumption that because the people who are working at certain firms are smart, they must be successful."

The number of times a new hotshot hedge fund moved in to office building where I rent, only to be gone without a trace in a month is staggering. Usually, they'll raise money from an unsuspecting family office or two, employ a techy and an admin person to do the heavy lifting, whilst the smooth talking CEO alt-tabs between Bloomberg and reddit all day. Most have terrible risk management strategies, and the majority are simply trend following (sorry, machine learning/AI). Some of these firms are also my clients, and I have often needed to write off money they owe because they've literally gone bankrupt overnight.
You’re the kind of person I’m rooting for to become a billionaire.
Something about this begs belief. Stand by.
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Because there's no centralized approval process for websites, you'd have to find a robust technical means to detect such tracking, which is pretty difficult. Identifying a particular domain or filename wouldn't work well because it could be trivially evaded – although if that's what you want, content blocker apps can do that.
That's not the point dude, it's wrong. It's not yours, and you don't have the right to do whatever you want with other people's property, because "you can" or "it's easy"
It's amusing to imagine an internal "Bezos shit list" at Amazon, where being on this list causes everything you order get flagged and delayed/mispacked/etc.
A lot of things are controversial here. HN is not exactly an unbiased group.

They say be nice in guidelines, and yet won't do anything about people outright accusing others in comments.
What Gawker did to Hulk Hogan was illegal and unethical. And when they were told to take the video down by a judge they refused to do so. Gawker lost because they were in the wrong and were destroyed because they refused to just take the L
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If you are seriously interested, Peter Thiel funded Hulk Hogan's lawsuit surrounding his sex tape and the resulting judgement forced Gawker to declare bankruptcy and end up selling for basically nothing.
god forbid they read the word sex in school sponsored material.
They’re hosted on aws, too.
Not as much as you might think. Many women like sex and engaging in sexual activities, but historically saying as much gets them labeled as "slut"/"whore"/etc. Doesn't mean they don't share the same sexual desires as men.

TO BE CLEAR: this only applies to exchanges between consenting adult parties. The examples you see on places like r/creepypm's are not that; and to be honest I wouldn't want an unsolicited nude from a woman either. (Though some guys and gals do like that! Which is cool too! That's why sites like chaturbate and unmoderated omegle, as well as the many nsfw reddits, both male and female-targeting, exist)
Nuspell: the new spell checker
Thanks for the list but you forgot one of the best series of all times that contains many libraries: A Series of Unfortunate events. I'm slightly ashamed to say I saw it on netflix, rather than reading the books. But, i hear the books are great too.
Recent FOSDEM talk: https://fosdem.org/2019/schedule/event/nuspell/
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I can't help think ETOPS are going too far. One day a big twin will fly from Sydney to Santiago and develop double engine trouble and the 3-4 engine minimum will be mandated again.
it would seem to be a possibility.
im also thinking 10 finger power up sequence, as in:
insert power cord 1 into powersocket 1, wait till audible beep, insert power cord 2 into power socket 2, wait till audible beep etc. :-D
Speaking as a Law afficionado, that is one great Terms of Service document! Kudos to whichever legal team wrote it! I'm not saying that it completely anticipates all potential customer-company interactions that could occur (no legal document could), but it seems to go very far, and seems to show a good understanding of the many potential issues that can arise. My future company might use this document (and others) for inspiration on how to craft its own Terms of Service documents. Thanks for the link!
For the employees of a VC backed company, the liquidation preference of its investors is cage - a cage that you can't break out of unless you become a billion dollar business.

This is a wonderful story and I have such enormous respect for Sahil for sticking it out. I wonder if the story would be different if the investors didn't give up the keys to cage.

Here's a challenge to VCs: do you really want to strangle us if we turn out not to be the billion dollar business you hoped for? And if you don't want to strangle us, put your money where your mouth is and do away with the preference. Better still, buy common stock :)
> Bezos Exposes Pecker

HuffPo headline
Is there any decent bank/CU with a real reporting API?
Is his “gf” a plant?
>For configs, I think TOML beats YAML hands down

If you compare a medium sized, 3 level deep TOML document with an equivalent YAML document you'll find that the TOML document is up to 50% longer.

None of that additional verbosity adds meaning - or readability.

Part of this is the extra syntactic noise but most of it is because all of the key names have to be defined explicitly above the key values for each value whereas in YAML you just need to put the values below an indent.

TOML is tolerable for small, very lightly nested config files but even medium sized TOML configurations get ugly very fast.
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Since media outlets don't engage in blackmail, there are none involved in this dispute. This is a billionaire versus a filthy, blackmailing rag.
They killed a WaPo journalist.
A New York Times article is not "blogspam".
"Billionaries destroying media outlets" is an emergent property from two facts:
- Some people can't/don't get justice because they can't afford a lawsuit.
- Rich people can give money to poor people to get them that justice.

In order for Bezos to destroy them legally, they still need to have messed up in some way.
The title isn't something that I would have had any idea what it was about or why I should read it if I hadn't been linked here from a comment thread with a more informative title.
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Well looks like OP's site as well. Just check the news.G, looks fine.
Yeah, it sucks, but it says more about individuals WITHOUT funding and their complete lack of efficacy. Once any individual with any potentially legitimate complaint is given the resources to fight back, it becomes a much fairer battleground.

In fact, I would argue that these billionaires funding lawsuits like Hulk Hogan's actually allow the average person a higher success chance. Its pragmatism in the face of a ridiculously slanted justice system.
"Hey guys let's threaten one of the most powerful, shrewd businessman on the planet who has more money than God"

Well, rest in peace, hope Bezos doesn't launch them into space.
Because the billionaire is not destroying anything. He is requesting that the government, the entity charged with protecting citizens from criminals, notices and prosecutes a crime.

The prosecution of companies and individuals for the breaking of just laws is something to cheer
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Thought experiment: Try taking them at their word for a sec.

"...an exploration of Mr. Bezos’ judgment... is indeed newsworthy and in the public interest."

Wonderful! Looking out for my interests! My heroes, fightin' for me against all the bad judgment! So grateful!

But then, if he'll agree to comply with their demands, suddenly it's not newsworthy anymore.

"AM agrees not to publish, distribute, share, or describe unpublished texts and photos (the “Unpublished Materials”)."

What?! Sellouts! Traitors! What about the public interest?! All the bad judgment!??!?

So yeah, not only do they blackmail public figures; by their willingness to bury the story they also show that they can't be counted on to hold public figures accountable when the time comes. He's right, real journalists don't act like this. (Not that I ever believed that shit; like I said, it was just a thought experiment.)

All you need is a bit of dirt on them, and you're safe from being exposed. Actually that might be the one thing that made this case different and turned it into a blackmail attempt instead of just another in the thousands of sleaze stories over the years.
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I should have been clearer about the monoatomic diamond tip of my nitpickery - I just mean that your description of the argument is, come si dice, non-NPOV. That's both fake Latin and Wikipedia jargon, I've caught the Golden Snitch, +150 me, I win.

I don't think the specifics are some glaring example of trumpian norm-breaking or corruption or whatnot, either.
I think part of the value of sharing knowledge and algorithmic implementations comes from getting feedback from other experts; like peer review and open science and teaching.

Case in point: the first algorithm on this list [1] of community contributed algorithms that were migrated to their new platform is "minimum variance w/ constraint" [2]. Said algorithm showed returns of over 200% as compared with 77% returns from the SPY S&P 500 ETF over the same period, ceteris paribus. In the 69 replies, there are modifications by community members and the original author that exceed 300%.

Working together on open algorithms has positive returns that may exceed advantages of closed algorithmic development without peer review.

[1] https://www.quantopian.com/posts/community-algorithms-migrat...

[2] https://www.quantopian.com/posts/56b6021b3f3b36b519000924
> I don't like any language or file format where whitespace matters. .... To me white space shouldn't add cognitive load.

1. there is no language where whitespace does not matter

2. the very purpose of indentation is to ease cognitive load.

Now, you may not want it to be inflexible or mandatory but your argument needs elucidating.
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Usually not, but this one surely is. It's 90% direct quotes and paraphrase from the primary source, adding nothing of value; and it elides the incredibly relevant letters exchanged between Bezos et al and AMI.

I think it's a pretty great example of how to blogspam and it's somewhat tragic that the NYT is resorting to blogspam for clicks.
This was a really insightful read, so first of all thank you to Sahil for writing and sharing this.

I think this is a perfect read for anyone contemplating on starting their own business as this clearly illustrates that not every startup is destined to become a unicorn and/or should be heavily backed by VCs. Moreover, if that is the only reason why you are pursuing your venture, then you will most likely experience heavy turbulence, possibly face the brink of total failure, and possibly just have to accept failure.

All that being said, I really enjoyed the end of the post, where he was explaining his change in outlook and open-sourcing the service. This could lead to wider adoption and potentially open new sources of revenue, similar to Discourse and how they can create and manage your forum for a fee even though the product itself is open-sourced. The reality is, sometimes people need the middle-man and it is nice to have the option available if you are in that situation.

Thanks again for sharing your experiences. I wish Sahil and the Gumroad team all the best :)
That may have been what gained them their enemy, but what actually destroyed them was what they did to Hulk Hogan -- they did what the National Enquirer is currently only threatening to do.
They have 24 open orders and are making 0.5 a month. 767 has 111 open orders for freighters and aerial refueling tankers. Both are on their last legs.
Here's the cherry on top: https://twitter.com/nycsouthpaw/status/1093654471157170177

AMI probably just broke their non-prosecution agreement with the SDNY
Good job on attempting to map German to some programming concepts.

German cases have to be learned by listening to others, as your post kind of alludes to but may not be obvious to people, is that the gender assignment is not intuitive and too much of a sentence relies on knowing the gender assignment of a noun.

Fortunately, in a conversation you can listen to which suffixes people use, to reverse engineer the gender assignment of the noun. You have to store the experience in your mental hashmap and always assign the noun that way. The classical conditioning comes when people look at you ridiculously and disagree with your sentence structure, you'll re-evaluate quickly to avoid that.
Its OK the celebrate the ends while also criticizing the morality of the means
That implies bias. Medium is neutral.