skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm going to take a bit of a different tack on this. I've worked in a lot of startups and never once have I worked in a company where the founder knew what they were doing from a technical sense. I'm sure they exist, but they aren't common.

What most successful founders are good at is running a business. However, I'll be really clear on this: there are 2 necessary things without which you will fail. First you need someone on staff that does know what they are doing. If you are good at recognising that person, then you've got some potential to be a good founder. Second you need to be flexible in your vision. Because, as founder, you probably don't know what you are doing.

One of the best companies, in that regard, that I worked at was Corel. Michael Cowpland was an engineer, but I've talked with him a few times and I'll just say that I've never been that impressed with his technical grasp of the situation. However Corel's first product was a SCSI card. It failed. Then they built a graphics card. To go with the graphics card they made a graphics demo. That demo became Corel Draw. Cowpland had a great ability to know when the spaghetti was sticking to the wall (and he threw great gobs of the stuff against the wall, let me tell you!). They just dropped everything and poured everything into Draw. Great move.

The "fake it till you make it", in successful circles, means to stall long enough for your development team to actually build something you can sell. Now, I will say that committing fraud as a way to stall is a stupid, stupid move, but not something I haven't seen before. One place I worked at we were late to demo our product at a show, so we bought the competitor's product, stuck it under the pedestal and then wired it up through an empty box which was supposed to be our hardware. People were astounded at how quickly we had caught up to the competition! BS stuff like that happens all the time and especially if you are young, it would be easy to think "Oh, everybody is doing it. It will be alright. We'll succeed before anyone notices".

I don't know enough about Theranos or Holmes to say anything intelligent, but being a founder is a very different job than being a developer. What I lovingly refer to as "blowing sunshine up everyone's ass" is a big part of the job. Your core competencies are really different and have to be geared more towards evaluating people rather than evaluating things. At the same time you have to be an anchor of calm in the middle of chaos, because if you start to freak out, then everybody else will to. A lot of the advice given to founders can easily be misinterpreted when seen in a different context and I think that may be what's frustrating you. Having said that, being an entrepreneur is a career that attracts more than it's fair share of people who are not suited for that career...
You could just assume constant temperature (using e.g. blackbody temperature based on solar radiation) and get a first order approximation of the behavior of the atmosphere. Won't be as good as the standard atmosphere model which uses empirical temperature gradients, but it will provide a ballpark model of the atmosphere.
I wonder how this compares to fast.json: "Fastest JSON parser in the world is a D project?" (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10430951), both in an implementation/approach sense and in terms of performance.
Italy is currently run by populist who dislike the EU, so you can say there has been a rather big change.
It's not even just that lol, Disqus is still "working towards GDPR compliance" according to their privacy policy [1], almost a full year after GDPR came into effect.

[1] http://archive.is/is90r
Yup.

I mean, every programmer I know considers stuff like this to be very interesting trivia to learn and apply. But even if you know this stuff, putting the knowledge to use often involves a series of battles against your PMs and managers and maybe even customers, who either don't know it, have their own vision, or just follow what everyone else does.

(Getting a product to work correctly is as much an exercise of diplomacy and ego management as it is a matter of technical skills.)
Actually I think someone hired a company to do the petitioning.
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I entered data matching a barebones web app I’m currently building on nights and weekends and it also said 6-9 months and $48k.

I’m wondering if the minimum isn’t just 6-9 months.
Those sharks look like the perfect deterrence against anyone who tries to sneak inside by swimming underneath the demarcation line. Good job, nature! :)
I'm speculating, but steel takes up less space for the same strength, so you can use that extra space for fireproofing/insulation. How would this affect the calculus?
Seriously...$21k and 6-9 months for an Android-only Tinder with no login, no profiles, no ratings, no external APIs or payment methods, no branding, and barebones design? At that point you may as well just download the CardStackView sample off GitHub.
The article does mention several times that people should shower before using the pool, in addition to not urinating in the water.
But not much has changed materially, you are just exposed to more personal conversations in public spaces than we used to be. It is weird.

It is less public conversation, and more "shut up and submit!"

What you are actually seeing happen: politically engaged people are ignoring you or just brushing you aside or even telling you to shut or get lost because you don't matter to them politically.

This is the authoritarian telling the supposed "inferiors" to submit.

This might be an adjustment for you but no one has to answer your questions or convince you to accept the new consensus. If you mattered to them they would, but you got left behind because you don't.

Spoken like any oppressor would have put it. "Just submit and accept. You don't matter, and there's nothing you can do about it." No answering questions on matters of principle. No curiosity about the other side. Just lay back and take it. It's exactly the behavior of the people who are on the "power" side of "speaking truth to power." The long arc of history bends towards justice. In the end, principles will win out over the temporary contextual power of "social consensus." It's what got us here to the most free and prosperous multicultural civilization in all of history in the first place.
I believe they are sequencing tumor tissue
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But it was often accomplished in one or a few emails, not months or years of intensive effort.

Someone would join the list and complain about the intractable, crazy making behavior of their impossible child. I would write a reply and say something like "That's a common issue with gifted kids. It's due to boredom and is easily solved by keeping them adequately occupied." They would go "Oh. My. God. That makes so much sense! Just before the last incident, he did actually say out loud 'I'm bored.'" and a long-standing, intractable pattern of problem behavior that had stubbornly resisted all prior intervention would largely disappear overnight once the parent made sure to keep their kid adequately occupied.

Or a parent of a particularly hard case would exchange a few emails with me for a week or two and then report back to me months later that all these terrible, intractable issues had magically changed and it had involved almost zero effort on the part of the parent who had spent years sinking enormous time, money and effort into resolving these problems, all to no avail until they spent a little time talking to me.

If it was therapy, it was like an *easy button" version of it, very unlike the roughly 3.5 years of intensive therapy I pursued in my youth to get my personal issues to simmer down to a dull roar before really resolving things around the age of forty when I got divorced and yadda.
Yeah, I've done some analysis, it's creating a ton of objects to conform to the Codable protocol, and a lot of those objects are for codingPath, which is updated for basically every node in the tree. It's not a mystery, we just don't know the best way to fix it.
It's also an admission that your video will wind up on YouTube whether you want it to or not--so you need to put it up before anyone else.

The only question about YouTube is whether you get the money or some scammy uploader does.
Loads fine from California, United States of America.
Yup. And unless your product is a PBX, a phone number should be an opaque blob to you.
I feel like if you need to parse Gigabytes per second of JSON, you should probably think about using a more efficient serialization format than JSON. Binary formats are not much harder to generate and can save a lot of bandwidth and CPU time.
On HN, it's intentional. That is in fact the policy. It didn't just happen; it was a decision.
Everyone seems to be reading this in the most literal way possible and complaining that the numbers aren't real, or that advertising doesn't work that way, or somehow thinking this is some sort of recommendation for an advertising based business strategy. It's not.

The point is simple: For the same unit costs, if you get your payment cycle time down, you will make more money.

It's a mathematical example showing what happens in extreme cases, so that it's easier to spot the trend. Nothing to do with advertising specifically.
Stage is also usually not just about the size. It's about genetics of it. Next stage is 'one particularly bad mutation later'. Basically, different stages of the same kind of cancer are different diseases, not different degrees of the same disease.
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I think what you are answering is how a REPL works, the question is around running generic code in isolated/sanboxed environment.
This one?

https://gizmodo.com/inside-san-francisos-fire-department-whe...
Doesn't early detection lead to better odds of beating it? Something has to give...maybe you're out of luck either way?
I'm writing an IoT library for devices with tiny microprocessors and have been sending data as JSON or BSON (binary JSON). On the backend, I've been storing reports from IoT devices into a database (MariaDB on AWS). How crazy would it be to just store all the data as JSON files on disk (or S3 bucket) and then batch process them when I need to perform data analysis on them? If a million devices sends dozens of status reports per day, that's going to be a crapton on files... but that might be faster to process than querying the database.

If you or anyone else has some opinions on this, please let me know! I'd really like to learn how people do this type of analysis at scale.
Their reason for not having a second monitor is the exact reason why I like having a second monitor. One is for work, the other is for everything else to accumulate. Occasionally I need to do some comparison work copying a mapping or something, but for the most part, my second monitor is more of an aside than a real threat to my focus.
Well, you are choosing a reason. That doesn't make it the reason.

Sure you can say Zebras have black and white stripes because their genes makes them express them in a certain way. However I could say they have stripes because it helps them shoo away flies. Someone else could say they have stripes because it makes them look pretty. Another person yet could say they only seem to have stripes because we can see those colors, but some other animals can't see them, so to us they have stripes. And then anyone could keep coming up with alternative answers. Even worse, you could ask why the mechanism that makes the Zebras have stripes works that way? And then why is that so. And then there's technically no end to it (just talk to any little kid). We just accept the first seemingly reasonable answer to a why question, and we've been trained it's rude or annoying to keep asking. But there's really no definitive answer, except whichever one you choose to accept.
Seems like the right library to post is https://github.com/dchest/tweetnacl-js which actually has been security audited
I'm surprised nobody has mentioned https://www.online.net/ yet.

I use them for my important side projects and haven't had any issues. (although not to avoid virtualization, but just because it's more important for personal stuff to have fixed costs per month / not paying for bandwidth)
The analogy doesn't work. You've constructed a fragile argument by simple substitution as though money laundering and tax evasion had the same impact and damage as copyright infringement.

Well, it's been established empirically that such is not the case, and that the supposed statistics by the copyright lobbyists on the damage of piracy are outright lies.

Moreover, there is a very strong argument to be made that strong enforcement of copyright goes against several rights that individuals have whose values are above copyright. Privacy, fair use, distribution, preservation of knowledge and culture all have higher priority in many jurisdictions and the fight in this matter for the past two decades has shown that the argument in favor of strong copyright enforcement is not for the benefit of all.

But money laundering? Tax evasion? There are few if any arguments that support what is essentially billions and billions of dollars of theft from the commons where there is real, easily quantified damage to the entirety of society.

Arguments such as yours are fundamentally weak in that you expect that mere substitution of terms equates to... anything really. I don't know what world you live in where that's a strong proposition.
Ask HN: Can You Start Coding at 25 and Still Be the Top Coder in a Decade?
If someone picks coding at 25 and puts in his best effort for a decade, can he reach the coding skills of the top 1% programmers?
I use Linode to host all my side project. It's similar to Digital Ocean offerings and so far work pretty fine.
They were fined on what they were caught, not on what they did. They seem to keep repeating such schemes time and time again. Unless execs are jailed, this is cost of doing business. At some point an exec either said, "let's do it," or closed his eyes and ears.
What if you're ingesting thousands or millions of small feeds? You might not have much control or desire to dictate format to your clients
Thanks for this. How has it worked for you?
Usually nothing, because this pretty much doesn't happen. It is nearly correct to say that steel buildings never burn down. The last exception to this rule involved luggage, seats, and lots of jet fuel.
It's as if these places are worth something to know about and to keep to oneself. That, or "searching for exploits" is just a phrase to sound important.

How demeaning to reply with just "Google".
>Signal, WhatsApp and Telegram are spectacular design failures on this point because they assume that every person has a phone number and also that every person has their own private (non-shared) and unique phone number.

No, most people have a phone number and for most people that's their own phone number. That was a tradeoff for them.

>Facebook, Google, etc., require a phone number for verification and believe that it’s sufficiently adequate to thwart spammers.

I am sure that it is one of the most effective ways to thwart spammers, but to say that it's all they do is laughable. What's an alternative, email address? Throwaway emails are a dime a dozen.

>None of the companies mentioned above would agree that excluding people is a goal for them, but they’ve made it so.

They've made excluding people a goal? Are you serious?
I think I heard somewhere is that this doesn't fully correct for the bias. Do you know if that is the case?
wow, great stuff. i was starting to do the same after watching dozens of yc videos. you made it better :)
> I have had mine tested as I altered my diet...

How/where did you get tested?
Because someone wanting 2.2GB/s JSON parsing is deploying to a chromebook...
the title is:

"An analysis of going from $0 to $1m revenue in 1 month"

which is the opposite of what you are suggesting.
One full screen popup ad: annoying

Two full screen popup ads: tab closed, never visiting that domain again, back to HN to warn the others.
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Yeah, that was my initial reaction.
What's the current state of the art in doing this on GPU?
Why does Xi use JSON in the first place? It would be easier and faster to use a binary format, e.g. Protobufs, Flatbuffers or if the semantics of JSON is needed: CBOR.
Some guesses: furniture, bedding, appliances, clothes, papers, trim, flooring, paint, etc.
Awesome, thank you! :)
I’ve actually written a short blog post about it (http://khamidou.com/sandboxing/)!

Basically, most of them build a sandbox to prevent the guest system from interacting in unexpected ways. There’s a bunch of ways you could do this — intercepting syscall, limiting them using seccmp(2), etc.
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Nope, because unlike the 15-24's, you're old enough to realize you're not in the 1% because you never will be. My recommendation? Lie.
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> I can't imagine who watches and enjoys all his stuff

I do. It's an act, and it's mostly just for entertainment and "look at this weird series of videos I found". On top of that, his entire channel has a running "inside joke" of him being a creep, and his audience often shits on him as part of this joke. It's all very self deprecating, but at this point I feel like I'm explaining a joke so I'll stop here.
This might have been useful 6 months ago. At work I actually made a Disqus replacement recently.

Oh that's right - I work for a media company so we want to hoard as much data as possible.

Fullname, email, zipcode, DOB... we ask for all of that if you sign up on our site.
$2,000 for a smartphone? HA HA HA...........
Maybe they want to convert incoming JSON to a binary serialization format to save bandwith, storage and CPU time on the rest of the pipeline ;)
Your pools are still being sanitized with chlorine?

The fact that the 'chlorine' smell stems from urine in the pool is news to you?

This has been common knowledge for decades now and most of the public pools here in Germany have been retrofitted to O2 base sanitization to eliminate the chlorine.

So all the authorities actually do about it is print a warning on paper?

This is odd.
Yeah not everyone, I’d even say the majority of people, are using software parsing libraries where they are in control of the input data format.
Following your logic, his idea wouldn't work, and he doesn't make 115k a month. But, clearly, it does [if he isn't lying] - so I am not following.
But wouldn't that have the same problem that GP mentioned, that this traffic would be easily identifiable as NNTP? If you were the only person using NNTP, then whammo...
Build the structure with steel pipe. Fill it with water. The temperature can not exceed the boiling point of water until all of the water has been boiled away.
I agree that this is more than a slap on the wrist, but I doubt that it's more effective as a deterrent than jailing the individuals involved.
From what I understand, the banking industry is built almost entirely on a Rand'ian "every man for himself" ethos, with little attachment to the company involved. I don't see how you can then hope to incentivize these individuals by fining the company. Except if the suits were quick enough that most of them were still at UBS, to feel the consequences. But that's not desirable either.
Because JSON encoding/decoding was not found to be a typical performance bottleneck, and because JSON is supported in virtually every programming language (Xi allows you to write frontends in pretty much any language you want).
It's not. You're free to leave as an H1B at any time, it's just that you have to leave the country also (or find a new job really fast). It sucks for employees, and it has negative effects on the job market, so there are many good reasons to kill it with fire - but no, it's not indentured servitude, and people who choose this, choose it of their own free will, and can withdraw that decision (and be back to where they were when they made it) at any moment.

Source: was an H1B (and L1 before that).
Like winning a lottery, or reaching Olympic 100m standard; some can, 99% won't.
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Super interesting. The article says the SWAN instrument measured/detected hydrogen atoms, is it possible there's other gases/elements there too?
From “Design Decisions”[1]:

> JSON. The protocol for front-end / back-end communication, as well as between the back-end and plug-ins, is based on simple JSON messages. I considered binary formats, but the actual improvement in performance would be completely in the noise. Using JSON considerably lowers friction for developing plug-ins, as it’s available out of the box for most modern languages, and there are plenty of the libraries available for the other ones.

1: https://github.com/xi-editor/xi-editor/blob/master/README.md...
Wow. This looks it would belong on r/nosleep with how close it comes to crossing the uncanny valley.
Looks like the links for the posts are broken.
I do, but for a significant portion of my life I didn't. I'm also not saying we don't need better minimum wage - not at all. I think nearly everyone should be paid a better wage, and people should absolutely be protected from being paid less than a living wage.

I do think a substantial UBI combined with reasonable minimum wage would be a better goal than hair-splitting and squeezing as much as possible out of minimum wage. I'm also concerned that minimum wages are only useful per hour worked, or for employed people in general. It's not as widely beneficial as it should be.
TSMC's Photoresist Material Incident: $550M Loss
It's like the company used Normal Spinrad's "Bug Jack Barron" and the goofy sci-fi premise invented by its mustache-twirling villain as an operating manual.
All people want to do is go there to take selfies because there isn't enough beach or time to relax and enjoy... so, why can't we make non-natural things more interesting, and make nature super uncool so that people avoid it? a man can dream.

I'm glad they were able to nurse the coral back in a decade, but it just seems cynical to invest so much into 300 feet of beach and the comodifiy it. But if that is the only way to preserve it... It's like the hunter paradox: they claim hunting funds conservation. Or like the clearing the forest to keep it from burning paradox. Which forest rangers support. Maybe this is what sustainability looks like: having to just clean up after shitty humans day in, day out.

Did anyone else find the UI scroll reveals incredibly annoying?
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You can checkout Elm repl I wrote at https://github.com/girishso/elm-repl-in-browser it uses docker container to isolate user session.
What pisses me off to no end is the local (very popular) app Vipps for sending other people cash, e.g. to split a bill or buy something at a garage sale or whatever. Not only does it use phone numbers to identify the people you send money to, but it explicitly disallows two people with different phone numbers to have a shared bank account. Husband and wife with common debit account? Sorry, unsupported. WTF? What happens if someone switches bank (and thus account number) or phone number? Who knows, maybe you sent money to a stranger. This app is made by the banks.
This is a joke, right?

Check out the history of the word blacklist: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blacklisting
Actually the third amendment has already been decided as incorporated. :)

See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engblom_v._Carey
I watched a documentary on chinese zoos. Well, I watched about 10 minutes of it before I wanted to kill myself. There was a zoo where they could buy LIVE chickens and rabbits to feed to pitifully caged tigers. It was soul crushing. Culturally it seems they just don't value animals lives based on the docu.