skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The point of The Lean Startup isn't to give you advice to run a successful VR/gaming company, though. It's to teach you that your assumptions are probably wrong, and you should figure out ways to test them and get feedback as quickly as possible. It's easy to run a bad test or misinterpret your results -- which is I think what you're getting at -- but it's still important to test things, and at least for me, it seemed like that was the main takeaway from the book.
That's the free software movement, not the free music movement
Although the latter may actually be the more venerable body.
>Good.

>Spotify has a pretty cheap paid option that removes all of that.

Five dollars a month for the rest of my life is not "cheap".

Frugal people look at the total cost of a loan, not just the monthly payment.
wow this hit home
That a convoluted way of saying:
"The Japanese have a unique culture and have adapted western ideas without giving up their Japanese identity".

The same could be said about Indians, Thai or Nigerians.
Venture’s Role: A Power Law Economy…and Society
We use Powerpoint internally for short discussions especially when media is relevant (we do a lot with video, so it's necessary to have some way to communicate that), but we are heavily-biased towards text as well. Printed, if at all possible.
In my opinion extensions should be able to synthesize clicks on behalf of the user where isTrusted=true from the perspective of web content.
Bad news for Elsevier. Do Academics really want to publish papers to journals where nobody can cite you?
Everything Julia makes and writes is amazing, she seems to have an almost bottomless pit of enthusiasm and talent. I simultaneously deeply admire and am a little jealous of her at the same time, is there a word for that?
Well I hope you didn't teach him to spell disk with a c :)
A link to an introductory video is the third sentence in the readme :)

"Each letter of the alphabet is an operation, lowercase letters operate on bang(*), uppercase letters operate each frame. Have a look at some project created with #ORCΛ, or some example files. Here's an introduction video. "
For some cities 25k is a big deal. For NYC it’s rounding error.

The point is that the gain in revenue from income and property is being presented as basically just "free" money. It's not.
In the context of blackmail
Narrative and brutal exploitation, a winning combo!
If you can program well, go into dev. If you would rather be a seller, I think you could make a lot more in the long run, and have more valuable life experience. I am currently trying to become a tech sales engineer right now, but not even sure if I will like it, so I a feeling lost too. All I know is I HATE dev lol
I would estimate as a freelancer that the paperwork and accounting involved was five times more difficult than in New Zealand where I was also a foreigner, growing from an annoyance to a substantial (and expensive) burden. That alone is enough that I would caution foreigners against moving to Germany to start a business or be self employed.

A lot of the stories I formed my opinion on were second hand, issues my friends were dealing with; such as the Kafkaesque situation of registering for residency in a city, but not being able to rent without residency paperwork, and not being able to get the paperwork without a fixed address.

In Australia, it's just not a thing at all. If the Government tried to make us register with the city we're living in, we'd tell them to fuck off. Albeit in less polite language than that.

In the eight years I lived in New Zealand (as an Australian) I interacted with the government once a year to file my taxes, filled out two census forms and had a ten minute appointment to convert my Australian drivers license to one from New Zealand. It's not just that the interactions were easier, there just weren't any.
Protesting an instance of privacy invasion doesn't equate to commenting on the mechanism of invasion, itself. I would have been much more interested in the story if he had had a public change of heart about surveillance states, but alas - all he said was that he was going to stand up against it.
An HN comment the other day mentioned how most Americans, no matter how high reddit was up the Alexa rankings was, rejected knowing what the website was. I just feel like 4chan was much more influential in individuals' lives, no matter how large its userbase was at the peak; yet people reject it in the same exact manner...
Yeah, as someone who has to deal with bugs from systems layer to userspace, a non-trivial chunk of reports (not from customers per se) are: "crap blows up, please figure out".

FWIW, some four years ago I wrote this for this "bug filing recommendations"[1] guide for the OpenStack community when triaging lots of bugs.

In my experience, the most and informative and delightful bug reports I've ever come across are from Japanese customers. And obviously, I prioritize those bugs that are competently written.

[1] https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/BugFilingRecommendations
If you're running the Spotify client, you're using their computer, too, not just your own. You have the right to kick them off of your PC or phone, and they have the right to kick you off of their server. What's the problem with that?
I noticed that as well. `!` has been nicknamed "bang" for a long time (hence "shebang" for `#!` notation)

http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/B/bang.html
I've got my mom using an iPad which also reduces the attack surface, not to mention it's pretty hard for her to screw up the device on her own. I haven't had to help with anything computer related in about 4 years.
I believe with lookahead/behind a regex is technically not "regular" anymore, so you can definitely DoS a regex without GB worth of text.
I love stories like this. Honestly, I can't think of a better prototypical example of the "hacker ethos" that this guy and what he built. Kudos and thanks for the inspiration!
Why should the user then not respect Spotify’s right to terminate their account based on the TOS? Goes both ways if you ask me.
Um.. no? He is seeing pushback because one of his main claims (100x faster) is very likely factually wrong. And also because he is not even acknowledging all other prior art in this space.
You don’t have to listen to Spotify right?
Of course your last sentence is true. Just hypothesizing, but I imagine the ensuing discussion is the point. Perhaps the discussion took place because:

- There's disagreement... in which case, this is a needed conversation. It probably should happen before the meeting, but it's way better to have now than to kick down the road because sentence phrasing seemed beneath us.

- There's politics/personality issues... in which case, maybe the conversation isn't enjoyable, but that clash is going to happen at some point. If not this meeting, then the next.

One of the larger points going on in this thread is that articulating things forces reality checks—between you and your idea, between your idea and others' ideas, between the team's ideas and reality, etc.
Nice, I figured I'd probably get some of these suggestions posting this on HN, thanks! I'll check these out. I've been meaning to find something that will let me go past 2x.
Disclaimer: I’ve never met Julia, but have attended one of her talks in person.

I feel the exact opposite - there’s far too much in CS that’s unnecessarily obfuscated. Sometimes the obfuscation makes the author/presenter seem smart, but it’s incredibly tiresome and reduces the audience.

Julia’s talks are the exact opposite - they’re well-thought-out, with the clear intent to help people understand things, not burnish her (v. impressive) credentials.
I recently cancelled my Spotify subscription because of their low quality audio. But i was reverting to it for music i couldn't find on Tidal. I guess I'm going to have to nuke it entirely now.

I'm assuming they are going to consider my use of outbound traffic restrictions on the Spotify app "ad blocking". Spotify makes all kind of ridiculous outbound requests for ad services, and many of those requests are over plain text http. Given that Spotify is a webkit app, that's a nice little attack vector Spotify is providing. Not to mention malicious ads often make their way into the ad networks. So i just block anything other than 443 to *.spotify.com domains.

Just deleted the app. I'll use Youtube instead.
David Vetter
The Dexcom G6 system does not require any calibration, insertion is remarkably pain-free, and it lasts for 10 days. I've had it for a few months (after a couple of years of using the G5 system) and I can't imagine living without it.
nobody has the "right" to use a service, conversely.
These days, 4chan is used as a front for psy-ops run by CIA and the FBI.
The amount of propaganda and system analysis built into the monitoring tools of those trying to shape discussion there is astounding.
Completely agree. Spotify offers two options: free with ads, or paid with no ads. Completely up to you which one to go with. If you don't like ads they have and option for you. I don't like ads either, and I use an adblocker to block tracking and protect against malware. I also want to use Spotify. So I pay for it. How self righteous do you have to be to complain about this? If you don't like Spotify's model, don't use the service. It's a perfectly valid option, and there are plenty of alternatives.
A strawman argument + when your view is not popular, the environment must be the problem. Classic undefeatable argument. I'm surprised you have problems getting along here.
Youtube used to be like this - now it is advertiser driven. It's a net negative for humanity.
Are you saying that 4chan was much more influential than reddit? Because I'm not sure that I'd buy that without some serious data.

4chan isn't small potatoes. It's reasonably big potatoes. But intuitively it isn't reddit scale potatoes.
> I don't need any of these to do what the Web was invented for: put some text and images online where people can see it.

The world changes. Most inventions are used in ways that their inventors never fathomed. While it can be difficult at times, and things can certainly be repurposed or reimagined poorly, overall I think it is a very good thing. How else could innovation and technological advancement occur?

We should try to make the most of these changes, and improve their shortcomings where possible. Or maybe even create something new if there is an opportunity :)
bewunderungeifersucht
I’d like to do that someday.
He tried to leverage his notoriety in another startup but apparently that wasn't enough.
Can't have it all for free. I've been a paying user for nearly 8 years. And I love it.
This reminds me of Befunge.

My favorite language feature ever: "Similarly, in Befunge, there is no comment syntax: to embed documentation in the code, the programmer simply routes the control flow around the "comment" area, so that the text in that area is never executed"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Befunge
A lot of communication is about honest expressions of one's experience, and reflecting others' such experiences, as well as asking for feedback, or asking for another's input.

These modes are all very foreign to advertising.
Can you point to the part of the Spotify ToC, where you agree not to block ads? I haven't been able to find anything about it.
I'm torn about that.
You might find the Merkur construction set and its relation to contact lenses very interesting: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Wichterle
very interesting.

anyone knows about efforts and experiments with musical style transfer?
> I wonder what motivated the article's author to redact the scammer's email address.

This is good practice to prevent the possibility of revictimization in case the actual motive of the phishing attack was not phishing but to cause reputational damage to the owner of said email.

Consider: if someone wanted to target you and cause you potential legal and employment difficulties, they could launch a phishing attack using amateur code such as this, and have your work email appear as the "scammer's email", and then sit back and wait for the attack to be discovered and reported.

And even if not a reputation attack, the scammer could also simply be using a compromised email account, so once again redaction helps preempt the possibility of revictimization.
Surely it bothers you if the beggar can't live without begging?
BC is trying this: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/opt-out-or-e...
> Sci-Hub is not a legal alternative

Depends on where you live. In my country it is perfectly legal for scientific or teaching purposes. And any article with a Belgian author has to be freely available by law max 3-6 months after publication (depending on the field).

It can be argued that reading scientific articles is a basic human right, see art. 27 of the UN declaration: "Everyone has the right freely [..] to share in scientific advancement and its benefits."
hence why I said does “anyone”.
Firstly, there is a world of difference because a munitions factory within a city being a viable target and the whole city itself being a target. Are you seriously justifying the destruction of hundreds of elementary schools, hospitals, shops, etc just because a city has a port? Following your logic, every city is a military target. And why limit it to just a city. Why not the state or province. A military factory is in a state. So should everyone in the state be killed? Why not expand it to the entire country. A country has a military factory. Is everyone in the country guilty?

Secondly, by August of 1945, Japan had been starved of food and resources for years. So whatever industry they had was nonexistent. So even if you are able to justify nuking an entire city just to take out a factory, you still can't justify hiroshima or nagasaki because they was no industry to speak of in August of 1945.

Whether you like it or not, hiroshima and nagasaki are no different than auschwitz and dachau. Indefensible war crimes and crimes against humanity.

It's amazing the lengths we'll go to justify genocide. Also, it is not a commonly held historical view. It's a commonly held propaganda that we've been forcefed since childhood. And it's not my opinion. It's the opinion of General MacArthur, the commander of the entire pacific theater. It is also the opinion of Eisenhower, Marshall, Nimitz and every major military leader.
Yes, exactly. Liberty Village is very close to downtown Toronto. I wasn't commenting on the public transportation close to city centers.
And they do a good job so the system decides to mine for more data by making them do more images before letting them through.
'Ridiculously rare' case of cancer found in fossil turtle
One feature I loved when I first joined Spotify was syncing two devices to play in sync. Wouldn't that be a game changer to have back. RIP Sonos.
US soldiers will soon be armed with drones that fit in the palm of your hand
A great interview on the first Linux port on RISC: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZMA3Ge144U
Many celebrities and writers for very famous shows without a doubt ape a lot of their material from 4chan/somethingawful.

A bold claim, I know, but definitely appears that way.
I don't really understand the romanticization of 4chan - it seems mostly like people yelling at each other, trying to be offensive/shocking, and memes. It's like if reddit was entirely its lowest quality content.

If anything it seems to support the idea that anonymous environments bring out the worst kind of discourse. I get the draw of a place where people can be unfiltered without having to worry about their reputation, but in practice it doesn't seem to create a great environment for any interesting discussion.
This is where applying AI to this can defeat it quite easily.
I'm going through these and reviewing some here: https://www.kickscondor.com/hrefhunt/. Love it when these threads come up. Keep posting - even if this post is days old, I'll look at all of it.
I mean, I would personally decide to live in a building in NYC without a fire escape if I could get, say, 50% cheaper rents.

I’m sure many others would to. Maybe you wouldn’t, but then you don’t have to live there if you think the risks are too high, right? I would just like to choose the risks myself, instead of other people deciding for me.

That’s not unreasonable, don’t you think?
That's sort of the definition of a post-scarcity world. If people want stuff but can't have it because there's not enough to go around, that's pretty much the definition of scarcity.
ok I was torn for about two minutes and then found this [1] and was almost dumbfounded that I cant just pull up a console in chrome on android I have to go through usb to a real computer.

[1] https://mathewsachin.github.io/blog/2016/11/05/chrome-dino-h...
There's an explanation for the missing Java (Python is not there either), but not having Java and having Eiffel is certainly odd.
Good points but nowhere close to why this happens most of the time. I can't see how sentence phrasing can cause a whole project to go in a direction it was not intended for.
Often times the people most active in these white paper discussions are non-technical people who don't do any actual work rather than running from meeting to meeting who are trying to get in their two cents to show how valuable they are.
At the end of the day - this creates an atmosphere for the PM to shine and the Engineer to take a backseat.
Maybe it's different in more technical parts of the company but this is the dynamic in Finance/Legal/HR.
Similarly Heinrich Hertz and radio waves:

"It's of no use whatsoever[...] this is just an experiment that proves Maestro Maxwell was right—we just have these mysterious electromagnetic waves that we cannot see with the naked eye. But they are there."
> Why can't they offer it for $8/month?

After a price drop...

> Why can't they offer it for $5/month?

Another price drop.

> Subscriptions are expensive. Why can't they offer a free plan?

A free plan is released, with ads.

> Why can't they offer it for free with less ads?

Ad density is reduced.

> Why can't they offer it for free with no ads?

> I don't want all these songs. Why can't they have an a la carte option?

A la carte option has existed for a while, but company gives it a marketing rebranding.

> These a la carte songs are kind of pricey. Why can't they be $0.80?

> $0.50?

> They're just bits. Bits want to be free.

> Why are you ignoring your loyal potential customers? I'm going to stop pirating your product and tell everyone I know to avoid you.
The timeline is off re: his departure. He had already banned Gamergate discussion prior to Wu injecting herself into the story. There's also no mention of XOXO Fest which is where he actually made the decision to enact the ban and Sarkeesian was a keynote speaker. There are other inaccuracies but those are the big ones.
I think most memes originated on 4chan and spread to Reddit. That's probably what's meant by influential.
Of course. When else do privacy issues matter most?
>>> t the US contributes the vast majority of resources used to defend NATO allies ...

That seems unlikely ... i mean all the armies of the non-US nation's are by definition based in Europe.

>>> things in the region would look different

absolutely- but there is a world of difference between sabre rattling in order to get changed spending commitments and some positive domestic press and a truly isolationist foreign affairs policy

(Yes the US will look East more than West for the future, and that will mean scaling back. But Russia remains belligerent.)
Most memes on Reddit originated on 4chan.
Agreed! I wish it were still possible to build buildings that looked like this.
Except it would be: World's Best(tm) Hair Tonic -- I think I could parse that correctly.
I had these issues on Fedora, especially around emoji. Firefox was fine but Chrome was not. I ended having to play around with some font settings to force chrome to use noto fonts.
How do salaries compare? I get the impression embedded is rather low-paid, particularly compared to some of the FAANG salaries bandied about?

I'd love to be able to do 6502 for a living...
Just because I focused on hiroshima and nagasaki doesn't mean I don't think the firebombings were any better. They were war crimes and crimes against humanity also.
I feel like you just haven't spent much time there. Lots of interesting discussions are to be had on a vast number of topics. Much of Internet culture originated there as well.

I feel like 4chan has shown just how needed an anonymous forum is to experimentation and community.
It shows people want the worst kind of discourse. You might not like it but if such a sizable community does its a shame it can't live on its own.

Not everyone gets online to peruse HN or even learn anything at all and there isn't anything wrong with that.
AI is overkill here. You simply need to look at the result of rendering the page.
It's their site. If they want to deliver information I'm sure they don't consider it wasted. You talk as if people go to Facebook to receive data transmissions as efficiently as possible. I've never met a development company which cares about that at such a low level. Especially if it means more exposure on their website for ads, which is how they get money.

Skimming is taught in school from a young age. It's an appropriate skill. It doesn't take much brain power to read something in a detailed way or in a quick way. The notion that we are so susceptible to our brains being influenced by things like this is ridiculous.

But still fuck Facebook.
> then you start to see common causes behind a lot of the mistakes and you think, if people would just fix those, I'd like my job a lot more.

> And that attitude is self-defeating. It leads to unhappiness and unfulfillment and procrastination and mistakes of your own and, finally, resentment.

I get that there's a bad attitude lurking in there, but if you see the common causes behind a lot of the mistakes and you don't work to fix those, then you are just going to be constantly shoveling dirt around. In my mind the most important thing you can do to level-up as an engineer, is to ask, "how could we have avoided these hours/days/weeks of pain?" and then work to address those root (or more root) causes.

Sometimes the answer is very simple, like changing the naming scheme for your data files, because we just spent days chasing our tails looking at the wrong data and making assumptions that weren't true (has happened at several teams I've been on). You can't just tell everyone to be more diligent and "check all your assumptions", because they won't (and no one has time for that in a crunch anyway). But you can make it easier for them to validate their assumptions in the background with things like filenames and clean logs. (Too many false warnings and people stop paying attention.)
It replaces more than just welfare. There are lots of different programs to prevent people from falling into poverty, whether due to long term unemployment, disability, retirement without savings, or part-time work at minimum wage. UBI can replace all of them. Progressive tax rates tend to have a 0% tax rate for the lowest bracket because people with a very low income need it all to just get by. If they get UBI on top of that, it could be an option to compensate that by raising the tax rate on the lowest tax bracket (and others maybe too).

The point is not simply to give people more money (though in some countries that might not be a bad idea), but to ensure that they don't lose that money if their situation changes. Often it's more attractive to remain completely unemployed than to work part time at minimum wage. With UBI, every bit of paid work you do, leaves you better off financially. It removed disincentives to work, because working people get it too. The costs of UBI are easily balanced with taxes. And because you don't have to qualify for it, you can save a lot on bureaucracy; it leaves people at the bottom of the economic ladder with a lot more freedom in their lives.