skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Full disclosure: I (unsuccessfully) pursued something similar and have exchanged a few emails with Tyler. I’m obviously biased toward being bullish on this as an idea. That’s because:

The usual story and rationale around VC focus and outcomes no longer makes sense (if it ever did). By their own statistics (Cambridge Associates) they’re pretty bad at their job. The power law returns aren’t just applicable to the companies they invest in but to the funds themselves. Mobile atm so I don’t have all the research to hand but up to circa 2011, it is something like 90-95% of funds did not even manage to return the fund to investors. The success of the entire industry came from the same 5-12 firms, who were largely syndicated into the same handful of investments (Yahoo, Google, LinkedIn, etc.). If you were in the breakout success story for that cycle you were a winner.

I’m pretty dubious about the generally accepted wisdom from a group who have a couple of lottery winners among a bunch of losing bets.

That’s all changed in the current cycle. I don’t think that’s because VCs suddenly got better at what they do. I think it’s because the economics of launching a company changed, as did the expectations around traction to raise your first rounds. There are exceptions in some verticals (hardware, med/bio tech, etc) but then vast majority of startups no longer have huge capital outlay just to prove technical viability. They’re not building a fab facility to produce silicon, they’re not trying to iron out how to do that at scale, they’re not dropping $40K for a single SGI server they need to rack. They’re paying very low opex, and depending on access to credits from vendors maybe not even that. For a team with tech capability they need little more than time to actually build the product to actually have something in market. Plug in Stripe or similar and they’re able to prove revenue too.

The net result is VCs are not investing in anywhere near the same level of risk as they were 10-15 years ago. There’s very little investment in a deck full of ideas (you’d need a team with previous track record) and a lot of investment in scaling working products. “Is this technically possible?” risk is largely non-existent. “Can this team build it?”/execution risk is heavily discounted. “Can this scale?” has been reduced to “worst case we can probably throw money at this with a cloud vendor to weather rapid growth”. What’s left is doubling down on sales and marketing.

What’s happened is a period of riches for VCs because founders & teams have leveraged tech advancements to reduce the risk of failure. But the investment industry hasn’t reacted and have instead captured an outsized upside. And I think the 10 year feedback loop for funds probably isn’t helping them to see it (also, what’s the incentive? Why leave money on the table as an investor?).

I see Earnest and similar initiatives as being the competitive response to correct this imbalance. In 10 years you’ll no longer have VC as an expectation to achieve a unicorn (or whatever we’re calling them then) valuation, and whatever investors you have will have an appropriately risk adjusted return.
On consulting: Clients deserve to know what they're buying
For Beginners, I'd begin with defining "CTF".

I don't see that defined anywhere in the article.

From some googling, I guess it's a "Capture the Flag" challenge?
It's worth stepping back and explaining that general concept.
> wondering when I will start to actually forget chunks of it.

When you start forgetting it, you don't notice that. There's no bell ringing indicating now something's gone from your (easily) accessible memory. We are not aware of what we forget :-)
As a EU citizen, I think this is not absurd at all. The law itself is absurd and it's reasonable to demonstrate that. It would really help if YouTube gave a clear explanation why the EU regions are now blocked and hopefully enough people realize that the lobbies have really screwed us over.
I hadnt seen that exact article, but i recall reading (or listening to a lecture) that mentions how one advantage of methane is the possibility to use CFD in design, while that was still outside the realm of possibility with RP-1 due to complexity of reactants (differing phases and many compounds)
To be clear, I didn't suggest all ex-Google people go with GCP. I just said that the ones that do are basically saying "Eh, I'll be fine".
Someone is suing Apple for making 2FA too annoying, I only hope Google can be next for the significantly greater time being wasted on their stupid CAPTCHA. Why should any of us even care if someone accesses a website programmatically?

It's almost definitely not my problem, and it's not even necessarily a problem it's just a way to access pages, made easier by Google in fact because it's a perfectly legitimate way to navigate the internet and Google themselves depend on it. If anyone wants to discourage it just provide an official API to use instead of pages, which are a defacto API for humans.

https://github.com/GoogleChrome/puppeteer

https://www.trustedreviews.com/news/apple-hit-two-factor-law...
At this point, if it's a phone number not in my contacts I'm letting it go to voicemail. The problem is that I'm getting desensitized to voicemails. After hearing "...Blue cross, Aetna, blah blah" health insurance spam voicemails 5x a day I guess anyone would just start deleting them without checking. It's infuriating.

Also, hope your father is doing alright!
I think quora over states what Google looks at by a wide margin, just try to access a captcha in incognito, they won't have access to as much info as they do on you and yet you're still presented with the same level of captcha (if not more of them, which is to be expected)
If you often get this while using Tor - https://privacypass.github.io/

For firefox - https://github.com/dessant/buster
Today's https://xkcd.com/2111/
> I would not purchase a 2019 anything right now. I'd allow for two-three years worth of flashes before considering a new car

Do you mean a model that is all new for 2019 or do you mean literally any car assembled in 2019?
How people turn their life around?
I would love to see the which posts are now censored for users in the EU, Russia, and Turkey, as well as the thread that the US Government asked to have deleted
Intel's 14-Core I9-9990XE Auctioned for $2,300, More Benchmarks Posted
Funny, Pai "celebrated" repealing Obama era anti robocall laws back in March. Maybe it took him a year of robo calls on his own phone to change his mind.

https://www.cnet.com/news/courts-nixes-fcc-rules-targeting-r...

This guy is anti consumer. Don't let him fool you.
and could probably be incorporated into seawalls, and seaport pileings, rather than occupying beaches and other aesthetic locations.

This sort of thing in homologue could also be used to harvest the energy of brownian motion, and perhaps even RMS velocity of gas phase matter:

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/427140/graphene-battery-t...

so far ive not seen anything thats will couple with quantum vacuum [zero point energy] that is purported to exist.
I think the very fact that it is complicated is unfair.

I want one of the following

1. An education system so absurdly stellar that our 18 year old high school graduates have the legal and fiscal expertise to navigate the tax code as expertly as a HSBC financial advisor, or

2. A tax code so simple it can be read and understood, verbatim, by every US citizen.
Ask HN: Founders, how did you do your market research?
I have a problem I want to solve and I want to turn that into a startup.

Founders, how did you do your market research?

Did you do a comprehensive survey before building your app?

Did you hire a company to do it for you instead?

What do you look for in your market research to validate your ideas? Signals, metrics, etc.

I know I am not the only one having this problem I am eager to solve. Thank you
Yes, this is from experience of watching users. I've often had to bite my tongue. Sometimes one learns something clever.
As long as goes to fixing potholes and paying for public transportation
its accidentally very good because you can see all these people thinking they are successfully covering their asses. in reality they are just admitting that they were stupid / unscrupulous enough to work on the the festival.

its also very interesting to me, because its this documentary (and the hulu one) that have really established billy mcfarlane as a infamous celebrity now. im pretty sure the only thing stopping him from his bullshit is being in jail, so i wonder if this whole thing is going to play out like a real life version of "the producers". i.e. he ends up ahead because now he is a bonafide celebrity.
Reminds me of a nerd friends comment about why Eclipse exists, because in the late 90's some people thought Emac's was a bloated pig.
Technically you are pirating.
AMD keeps undercutting Intel
Oops, you're right. it's been a long time. Csv has aged better than cvs.
> Look at Material’s Updates
No! If you're thinking about your enterprise application like an android app then you're starting in the wrong place.
That’s because Rockstar had/has a huge problem with stolen accounts from bots using wordlists to brute force passwords.

The difficulty is probably cranked all the way up
The words there are perhaps the most chilling ever penned - "since you know as well as we do that right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must."

Incidentally, the Venus of Milo statue was found in the island a couple of centuries ago. It used to be a major Louvre museum attraction.
> You can't take money out of a corporation without it being taxed as income?

There's a lot of ways (though there are limits) you can derive personal benefit through things that look like corporate expenses but not personal income, and so are not taxed to you or the corporation; these aren't even constrained by corporate taxes.

But, back to the point, absent corporate taxes, you can use corporate retained earnings as a perpetual tax structuring vehicle by choosing to extract and realize income from the corporation when most convenient for you, as well as enjoying any personal benefits tax free that you can slide by as business expenses. It's that permanent deferment piggy bank,not the more limited tax free benefit extraction, that makes it a tax shelter.

And given the high threshold at which estate tax kicks in, this is potentially a multigenerational tax shelter.

Corporate income tax (which is really a retained earnings tax, because expenses are deducted) shuts down the corporation as tax shelter maneuver.
I agree that lobbying is a problem, but it's still important to distinguish between "corruption of the tax code" vs "stuff that makes perfect sense and would probably exist even if no one ever tried to corrupt the tax code for personal benefit".

"Not paying taxes when you haven't made up past year's expenses" is the latter. It should not be cited as an example of the former.
> Refurbished Intel machines with a windows 10 home license can be had all day long for $89+.

From where? Honestly curious. (I don't need state-of-the-art, and I'm a cheapskate, so...)
> What more do you want out of a company?

I don't know... pay living wages, don't create a survivor-based working environment, have people pee in bottles to meet their quotas, install ACs instead of hiring paramedics for heat stroke victims even if it's more expensive, pay your taxes for the infrastructure you're using, don't be a monopsony, don't astroturf local government discussions in order to have your way, I could go on.
This is completely, completely wrong. Really honestly confused nonesense. Supercooling lowers the ullage pressure, if anything increasing the need to pressurise (self or otherwise), because the self pressurisiation (the vapour pressure) is lower. So you have to do additional work to feed the pumps. The only reason to supercool is to increase the density. Your comment is quite incorrect.
I feel like a "bot" with access to control your mouse and read the output from the graphics system (aka get an image of the screen in real-time) could have little trouble with these things.
That doesn’t explain the NSF data.

If women’s behavior was constant, then we’d see the same relative growth of women compared to women, but we don’t. Just looking at bachelor’s degrees, we see women exit the field at 2x the rate of men, and enter at lower rates as well. (% YoY men to men, women to women).

https://www.nsf.gov/statistics/nsf13327/content.cfm?pub_id=4...
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> Eschew flamebait. Don't introduce flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say. Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents.

> Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
uMatrix is a serious pain in the ass with reCapcha however, and for any site that embeds video. Plus it treats every site as unique so you have to redo the green boxes on every site.
He won the 2003 Oscar for Best Documentary with Bowling for Columbine, and was nominated for that same category in 2008 for Sicko.
Grit, Genius, and G-Strings: The ‘80s Origin Story Behind the StairMaster
I do hope some future Mars colony goes and collects it for the Martian wing of the Smithsonian, though.
Nothing would surprise me.... I mostly experienced it on an android phone....
Most people I know that have German usually have electronic/electrical issues. The actual drivetrains are good but the electrical systems have a lot of issues.
Every documentary is going to do both those things to some degree. The creator is trying to condense real life events I to 90 minutes.
I thought you can make only 65k connections per port because of TCP limitations.
OK. I've never worked tighter than 15cm, for automatic driving, so I haven't seen that.
> From some googling, I guess it's a "Capture the Flag" challenge?

Yes, the goal of these is to obtain a flag.
Right, I didn't mean to imply that this action by the FCC was in any way wrong. The fact that caller ID is completely unauthenticated in 2019 is horrifying, and regulation is long over due.
People are still fooled by cinema verité and think documentaries (and news) somehow pop into existence by themselves, rather than through people laboring over transcripts of interview dialog and arranging them into a narrative order - and then seeking out further interviews and footage in order to fill the holes in that narrative.

So the type of documentary that doesn't have a narrative is the type of documentary that simply reflects the truth (as I see it.)
I thought that what you just wrote is literally the definition for journalist vs reporter. if all you do is reporting the facts since you are a daily beat editor, you aren't a journalist?
If you have any questions / feature requests let me know (I'm the creator @pirate on Github).
The worst thing is that it prevents me from accessing my BANK account. Shame on you FIDOR for blocking my own access to my own finances!
How does growing a business benefit citizens? Jobs, economic stimulus, eventually larger taxes would be the obvious three. If you start disincentivizing reinvestment then, well... growth will slow.

Same goes for losses. A calendar year is an arbitrary delineation of time. If your business loses $100 in one year and brings in $100 in revenue the next, do you really want them to pay taxes on said revenue? Seems a bit unfair, no? In a two year period they broke even, and that's not even considering what profits they may or may not have made.

We want people to grow their businesses because it's generally good for everyone. Similarly, we tax profits, not revenue, because if we did the former companies would simply cut costs at every opportunity and never put money back in.
> predefined narrative

Having a narrative is not the same as reworking footage to tell a story you had in mind before doing any actual research.
Could you elaborate on what "FJerry" is for the uninformed.
Electric meat
I feel with you on FLACS. Beatport makes you pay 75c extra for the FLAC (why???) and doesn't even let you download the song again after 24 hours. It's nice the FLAC is available, but seriously 24 hours availability in 2019? It's very hard to give them money for that.
I think it's speculated that you're recorded as being a useful classifier if you answer correctly on initial test captchas, so you get given Google's datasets for machine learning. It would explain why you get picture tests even after you should definitely pass the check.
Here’s the link to the upcoming page on product hunt. I’ll post the link here once it’s resdy to try out.

https://www.producthunt.com/my/upcoming/pitchiq
It is trivial to generate a mostly-randomized bijective mapping of small integers to small integers with an xor and a little byte swapping, which is what the author does with a built-in AES instruction.

The OP's point is that this isn't a particularly interesting problem. The interesting problem is generating efficient bijective mappings of large integers to very small integers.
I think hospitals/police should really start texting a phone number first, before calling to contact a family member.

Just something like, "Please call such such hospital at this number to reach us. We need to get in touch with you. You can google the hospital name to verify before calling."

I get one robocall every day. Interestingly, not 3 or 5, but just about 1 a day.
Climate Damages: Uncertain but Ominous, or $51 per Ton?
I think it's safe to say that person had a poor understanding of a lot of things, not just chemistry.
Yes - I feel at this point that our labor is simply being used to help provide training data for Google's algorithms.
It's a bit anecdotal, but I imagine Slack is being careful because they are targeting businesses. Discord is a similar platform which iterates new features extremely quickly.
> Up to how many characters does it loop? Here’s how I found it. Basically, our password must be of 7 characters in length.

One way to see this without running the program is look for where $ebp-0x24 is set:

1210: c7 45 dc 07 00 00 00 mov DWORD PTR [ebp-0x24],0x7
> Because the fuel side and oxidizer side typically have a very different flow rates, many engines have separate pumps and turbines for them on separate shafts even if both sides use same fluids in the preburner. For example, see the SSME.

By "many" you perhaps mean "many American". In Russian engines it's mostly a single shaft.

> The main cost of doing it over gas generators (other than oxidation-resistant superalloys...) is that all parts of the engine sort of circularly depend on each other...

Yes, rocket engine is usually a complex dynamic system, with deep feedback loops. You can still get gas generator and turbines with pumps tested separately, but you need to measure dynamic properties - like resonance frequencies - in order to have better chances of the good work when the system is integrated.
This solution has more or less locked me out of certain accounts, except for when I want to spend a whole evening solving captchas in order to log in. I just don't use those services anymore, which means I've lost paid-for content that I'm practically locked out of.
I didn't say that a majority of Amazon jobs pay welfare level wages. I said that the majority of Amazon jobs are shitty. And let's not discuss the 'less than X dollars to qualify for wellfare'. Shitty is shitty. Just ask a random Whole Foods worker how happy he/she is after the acquisition.
Slightly related, but I have a fun conspiracy to share:

I'm convinced that part of the reason Google released headless Chrome is as a honeypot for bot authors to use. The idea is that instead of going through the effort of fingerprinting and identifying new bot software, release something that bot authors will use instead that you have a capability to detect.

Somewhere inside of headless Chrome, there's one or more subtle changes that make it so Google can detect whether you're using headless Chrome or normal Chrome. There's no limit to how subtle the indicator could be - maybe headless Chrome renders certain CSS elements slightly slower than normal Chrome, etc.

It sounds pretty crazy/complicated but I could definitely see it being worth it if it means detecting $X,000,000 worth of ad fraud every year
I wonder how many of those request are related to the 2016 election.
Most likely they affected him personally.
How to label your ML data for free.
Do you mean this one from Stanford?

https://lagunita.stanford.edu/courses/Engineering/db/2014_1/...
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I ended up removing a chrome extension that randomises user-agents because of this. It dramatically cut down google captchas.

Another thing that sets it off is virtual machine usage, I can be logged into chrome and gmail on the same residential IP for hours but the moment I try to search google for a problem inside a VM it's a minute of slow loading captchas.

Have moved to bing instead, that sort of wasted productivity is a burden.
By no means should anyone do this.
These are exactly the kinds of behaviors that bots sometimes engage in.
In short, replace "CTF" with "exercise". They are basically challenges that go by the name Capture The Flag: https://trailofbits.github.io/ctf/
I built some warehousing apps in VFP 20 years ago and they're still running fine. Every time I go ship something the owner asks me to prune and reindex the DB and that's it, another year running smooth.
Nice article, but this part is a bit misleading:

> American engineers went in the opposite direction. They believed that a fuel-rich mixture in the preburner was possible and could be done with existing metal alloys, so long as hydrogen was used as the fuel instead of kerosene. This ultimately lead to the development of the Space Shuttle Main Engine, which to date remains the most efficient liquid fuel rocket engine ever flown.

SSME performance was due to H2 vs kerosene, it was not a full flow engine.

Edit; also no mention of Blue Origins BE-4 which is also a full flow engine.
Why don't they just learn to code!? duh!
Can you list a few documentaries that are, according to your definition, actually documentaries?

Edit: Why would anyone downvote this?
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I have done worse things. Buy two items 12€ And 18€ to qualify for free shipping then return 18€ item. It has worked with amazon so far.
Do you think this is a Lindy effect type of thing, or something different?
Opportunity is going to be the standard for longevity that all future rovers are measured against until one surpasses it.

If you said you expected a rover to last 5yr in 2004 you'd have been called crazy. Here we are in 2019 and after ~15yr of Opportunity driving around up there the idea of rover lasting 5yr or seems perfectly normal. Opportunity has raised the bar for all future missions.
unCaptcha2 claims 90% accuracy at beating reCaptcha. http://github.com/ecthros/uncaptcha2/blob/master/README.md
6 `useReducer` use cases with React Hooks for performance optimization
The limit is 65k connections per client IP address, limited by the number of available ports on the client. You can theoretically accept connections from all possible client IP addresses simultaneously.

This means that in order to test 1M simultaneous connections, you would need to use at least 16 client IP addresses. Probably more.
Small Teams of Scientists Have Fresher Ideas