skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Validate demand and validate yourself.

Validate demand: You should understand whether you can launch a very crude version/maybe no product but customers lined up to pay you for your thing which'll become ready soon and get some validation from the market. If you can't do this, what makes you think that you can do it after you quit? Stay at your job if customers are not ready to throw money at you. If you can see solid demand, you should validate yourself.

Validate yourself: Do you think you are mentally prepared? Do you have enough savings? You probably have the skills to create a product, but do you have the skills to create a company? Will you enjoy working on this for the next 5-10 years?

On savings: Do the math for yourself, but in order to be able to work without financial stress, you should have enough money for = ((number of months you foresee your startup to take off) x 2.5[correction for you optimism] + 3-6 months[It'll become hard to work stress free and irrational to continue if you don't have something solid, so better go get a job now]) * (amount you think you'll need in a month * 1.3-1.5[you are also optimistic about your expenses])
Imagine that sentence coming from a wannabe doctor or civil engineer.
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Google, Facebook, AOL , Oath/Y!

When you have a large scale platform with millions of users and you need to add / remove / change services at some marketing teams whim
I ran into his last book while waiting in an airport (of course) and opened a few pages at random to get a feel of it, maybe it was bad luck but any page I opened read just like a straight transcript of his Twitter feed...
I don't know if it's good or bad, but we like to think that vultures fill a niche, make ecosystems richer.

Sure, our economies and ecosystem of firms doesn't necessarily have to look like a full out evolutionary war for resources, but .. it sort of does, and it's not going to change any time soon.

So, im that sense if we want stable and nice companies, we have to care for them. Sort of like we do with pandas, rhinos, and so on.

One possibility is doing pledge, using corporate bylaws to try to guarantee some of that niceness. Do it through IT (and startup, and VC and so) communities' wall of fame/shame.
Escape velocity is more than 2km/s, roughly the speed of bullet, that's a bit too much to "launch spacecraft" or am I missing something?

ps. it's actually interesting concept, you could have something similar to medieval catapult on the Moon and throw rocks on Earth which would be equivalent to nuclear explosions, no?
They forgot all about Brown Sauce!
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> the 0.99 version of the home server code is ACME-capable and can get a certificate directly from Let's Encrypt;

How does this work? I assume a home server doesn't have a public DNS name, so what is used as the subject of the certificate then?
Trump could take this to the scotus with a 14th amendment case.
It can even be bad for security: e2e encrypted messages are still replicated and stored on the servers. 30 years from now they might be decrypted by faster CPUs.

Encrypted 1:1 messages should not be stored on servers!
They should be sent between clients p2p stile or at least forwarded by servers without storing them.
If 10 families are in price competition for 9 houses* the price will be $1 more than the poorest family can afford. Which will probably leave the second-poorest family struggling.

If (in your justified pity for the poorest and second-poorest) you give everyone a free $1000, the equilibrium price will simply rise by $1000 leaving the same families struggling and homeless.

This is the model armchair economists use to explain reports that Bay Area employees paid 4x the national median household income can struggle to find housing.

Of course, if you instead think of Detroit, where many properties are abandoned and some change hands for as little as $500, the model is far less applicable.

*Assuming a simple model of a closed system where all houses are identical, there are no houses outside the system, no possibility of building new houses, and families are as densely packed as possible.
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I've used Shorewall for years. Even after being confident enough in iptables to do it myself I have continued to use it to save time and because it just works the way I intend it to. I deeply appreciate his work and I hope he enjoys his retirement.

On that note...

"I am now departing on an extended trip to visit some of the places in the world that I have always dreamed of seeing."

People, don't wait until you are retiring to do this. Make the time now. If you think you cant, re-evaluate that thinking. I have been fortunate enough to travel to many places around the world. Some through work, others because they were places we wanted to go. I carry the experience and memories of these adventures with me and they are precious beyond measure. It makes me sad to think that some people wait until their lives are behind them to have these valuable experiences. Plan that trip now, for next month, next year, it doesn't matter. You will be happy you did for the rest of your life.
May I know the name of the tech podcast in which you appeared? You may also point us to those episodes if that's fine.
The Temporary Containers addon is a great way to use containers everywhere, but I agree a bit of streamlining from upstream to standardize things would be even better.

With Temporary Containers, you can easily run one new container per tab. Or one new container per domain or even subdomain within the same tab. Although the latter option will break many sites and the go back button.
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A website cannot tell a browser to "load malware", unless we're talking about a exploit, which should be patched.

(Please don't say "if I send you a malformed png file you have to execute the exploit, otherwise your argument breaks down".)
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Keep your friends close...
No/little air resistance and plenty of space mean that you could accelerate the spacecraft over a longer period of time
"Poor naming" is subjective. What is the correct name for a variable that associates a user's name with its configuration profile? userNameToConfigurationProfile? user_name_to_configuration_profile? userToConfig? profiles? userCfg?

If there was one true way to do it, everybody would adopt it (unless you consider some communities are just plain dumb).
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The first version was too long to fit on the screen for me. Reading the second I missed the swapping of `i` and `j` -- only noticing it when I went back to the first version to figure out which parts of line I would assign to something if I were to rewrite the code.
but it's not breaking the web, it's fixing it.
Ask HN: What Mobile Data Plan Are You On?
Hello HN,

I'm looking to get a feel of how much data people typically use on mobile and how does it vary across countries.

Can people mention their data plans and data usages, the following things that is-

Plan bandwidth- MB/GB, plan price, usage patterns- evening, morning, noon. Usage app/websites and occupation if possible.

Are there any publicly available databases that would help me know more?
Thanks for the feedback. I wrote this post and I would like to clarify:

I did not intend to say that we should go outside of the confines of the law here and lynch anyone. But I sincerely hope that our legal system has the power to punish gross negligence (I mean that in an everyday sense, not as a legal term) and that officials and CEO's can't get away with anything by just burying it under several levels of procurement. The company in question was obviously not competent enough to handle the data that they received, and it is gross negligence to take on this kind of project without doing a proper audit of their systems and methods. At the very least, their handling was against GDPR, which should result in fines.

Yet somehow, they ended up with the project. That is negligence on someone else's part. If you're hiring contractors to build a highway bridge, you should be held liable if you pick the local carpenter to do the job, just because they say they definitely know how to make it out of wood. I hope that the legal system can punish governmental officials and government contractors for handing off sensitive data to a party that isn't even aware of how incompetent they are, and that merely the procurement can be considered illegal.

If my hopes are not fulfilled, and one can indeed hand off all responsibility in a procurement process, then I instead hope we will see the law change in this regard.

As for people losing their jobs, I think that warrants no explanation.

Still, I agree: the issue isn't bad actors, the issue is the process, and it needs to be addressed. But part of a good system is not letting contractors getting away with bullshit, and making sure something is at stake when you take on a contract. If you can walk away from this wreckage without consequences, what's to stop you or anyone else from continuing to play fast-and-loose (which is usually the cheapest way to do things) with the public's data, raking in the payments and shrugging it off when things blow to pieces?

I understand I could have made that clearer, and I'll think about how to change my wording, or adding a footnote or something.
Rather than admit that the red, undocumented third parameter was a mistake they seemed to make all sorts of rationalizations for why it’s wrong (“It’s new”, “I thought it was fixed”, etc.) rather than just saying “You’re right, that’s a bug. We’re fixing it.” Why were the employees waffling around the fact that it actually is a problem? Calling them out on their justifications and excuses isn’t being toxic or nasty, it’s called being a professional who takes pride in the work they put out to the public.
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Polish courts are terribly slow and ineffective. And the police has some better parts but in general is underpaid and overloaded, especially the sections that deal with business related crime.

So I can imagine how such 'exotic' case could have been easily dismissed.
In our case we route analytics to Google Analytics, Intercom, and a Postgres database (using Segment's warehousing support) - that gives us high level analytics for marketing, customer support tooling, and raw data for the team who work with that.

We provide a white labelled platform for a few enterprise customers as well, and Segment allows us to route data to the appropriate accounts for each of those services, rather than having to set everything up manually each time.
I fully expected this to be a resident of The Land of Misfit Animals, AKA Australia.

Quite surprised it's not. Indonesia is close enough that it might have escaped it's confines, though.
If no one opposes the cameras then they will be added to every aircraft by default. They're just a distraction after all! When those cameras are everywhere, suddenly someone (most likely the government) will turn them on. No one will realize. They're just a distraction after all...
I, and probably many other users, have begun blocking all first-party cookies by default. I only permit it on sites I sign into and want to remember me, which are very few.

If Mozilla wants to make a real difference, they'd study uMatrix and figure out how to create UX that would give that degree of flexibility and power to non-technical users.
How so? Can't you do it from the Moon with low delta v as well? (honest question) And I think the Moon's proximity and "static" position relative to the Earth is another great advantage.
Some poor alien is going to come across this rock in a few million years and think it's been weaponized.
Note that the OSPO policies have largely changed since you've left Google. What you describe was definitely the situation as of 3-4 years ago, but don't describe how open sourcing code or contributing to FOSS projects works these days.
I loved this part:

I only noticed this because I'm collecting questions like this in Noda
Time, in the form of unit tests... The test has now been changed, but
it just goes to show - not even historical data is safe.
A question for Sweden specialists: what does Sweden do to attract talent, once other European countries, apparently, pay better compensation, like Germany, Switzerland, The Netherlands (the 30% rule), etc?
ASK HN: Are Time Tracking Applications Worth It
In my previous role we used toggl to track how long it takes to complete a task and it just seemed like a distraction as it popped up on the screen every 10 minutes.

I'm thinking about using something similar again to get a better idea of how long it takes me to complete a task

What are people's experience with this type of software? Is it worth it or just an annoying distraction?
>Based on my belief that developing software for it would not be cheap (hello, contractors)

It would be extremely cheap, that's why they chose android based tablets in the first place and the government has deep enough pockets to try to break TLS. Developing an app that records a video to storage is completely trivial.
I have read Outliers by him and kind of liked it at the time. But later on I realized that Outliers book, along with much of his work, is some kind of scam. I didn't how to express that feeling until I read OP comment mentioning Amazon review.
> Coming from Java? If you’re coming from a Java background, consider this rule of thumb. - A Java package is equivalent to a single .go source file.

Put a volume of a java package in one .go source file? Do all Go programming language advocates/evangelists have a mediocre intellectual level or just Dave Cheney?
"Someday" without "in the next X years" is quite vague. It might very well happen, just let inflation run its course and wait a while. A long while. Someday.
Good that MS is also hard at work on arm support, for the same battery + Android app compatibility reasons
You do not understand the distinction between insulting someone and offending someone.
Segment is great for early-stage startups as it takes care of data pipeline for you so that you don't need to hire data engineers or waste time downloading reports from marketing tools and analyzing data offline using a BI solution or Excel.

Since it doesn't provide any user interface that allows you to get insights from Segment data, you need to use a BI tool in order to be able to make use of this data which also requires you to dedicate resource and spend some time on it.

Early stage startups usually don't have enough time and resource so we have been working on a tool that allows you to integrate Segment data-warehouse and run segmentation, funnel and retention queries. You can think of it as Mixpanel UI for your Segment data. Here is the details: https://rakam.io/integration/segment/
On paper, it does...

The energy requirements of sequestration processes may be significant. In one paper, sequestration consumed 25% of the plant's rated 600-megawatt output capacity. After adding CO2 capture and compression, the capacity of the coal-fired power plant is reduced to 457 MW.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_capture_and_storage#Ene...

You can even use it to pump more oil!

In carbon capture and sequestration enhanced oil recovery (CCS EOR), carbon dioxide is injected into an oil field to recover oil that is often never recovered using more traditional methods.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_capture_and_storage#Enh...
He says in the article he went from never traveling to traveling all the time. I wonder if he has a Learjet as well.
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While I agree with you, the author experienced drugs and psychosis before, which I bet contributed.

Meditation on its own is unlikely to cause harm, I think.
Do they run on kubernetes though?
Might want to add (1998) to the title
If there are some conflicts of interest between the user and the website, the browser (chosen by the user and put on user's device by the user) should be on the user's side, and work with them to ensure that the interests of the user are met - at the expense of website "desires". A browser is not a platform for websites to run on; a browser is a tool for the user to interpret the content provided by websites according to the user's wishes.

A prime example of "if a website tells a browser to load something" is popup windows - if a website tells a browser to open a dozen popups and popunders, then no, the browser should not do so. Earlier browsers did what the websites told them to do, and that was a horrible thing, so that's been changed.
Yeah the UX of Multi-Account Containers is awful. The number of steps the user is required to follow to make a website always open in a particular container is absurd.

1) Create a new container
2) Open a new tab with that container
3) Open the website in that container
4) Check "Always open in [container name]"
5) Open a new tab and load that page again.
6) Click "Remember my decision"
7) Click "Open in [container name] Container"

I don't mean to throw shade, I'm sure whoever came up with this had good intentions, but it needs work. (Also, why a limit of 8 colors and 12 icons? Why not an arbitrary number of colors and user definable icons?)
I loved the book as well. I found it exceptionally well written, researched. The content was eye-opening and the author was . This is the first I notice that there's so much discontent with it. I'm not sure where it's coming from.

Edit: actually, I'm understating things. I found not only his central ideas very noteworthy, but how he managed to portray the historical development of mainstream science as largely random (as opposed to the, now silly, idea I may have had that today's science is somehow "optimal") was great and a positive influence on my outlooks, I'd say.
The only advantage Matrix currently has comes from it's relative obscurity. It has ONE implementation. Once things start inevitably emerge, it'll run into all the same problems that truly distributed protocols have.
I don't think people on HN care that much either.
Linux on DeX works outside of the desktop in shell mode. you can start the app and test inside expo even on the go.
looks like google used it way before but nobody was interested (google hangout)
Yes. So in serverless, there is no concept of a long running service. So you can't listen on port 3000 and have any routing within the app. You will rather write one function, add a route to it via API Gateway and then use it in your app. You can probably use django library to help you write code in django style but you can't use it fully for e.g. 1) you can't do migrations in serverless the same way, 2) everytime your function is invoked Django will map the database to models, etc so it could be very slow.
>This strikes me as being normatively loaded in a way that's unhelpful, at a minimum. There's a cost-benefit analysis that has to take place by patients and their families and there's a choice to be made between optimizing for length of life and quality of life.

That's what a person who isn't in that position would think. In reality most people just want to live. So it's as much of a fight as a non-combat situation can be. And there is literally a battle between the cancer and your body going on.

>In general though, all this talk of "fight", "battle", "never giving up", etc, strikes me as being somewhat American (in a pejorative sense of the term) -— it bespeaks an immature relationship with death.

And I'm not even american. I don't think there's anything wrong with people wanting to live and get rid of a fairly "unfair" disease. Because cancer can indeed be unfair in many cases. An e.g. smoker knows it's probably coming. But the very nature of cancer as a probabilistic disease means some people get the sort end of the stick without bringing it on themselves.
That's an argument many make here in Norway.

It's usually countered by saying "that oil would get pumped anyway, better us doing it 'cause our oil sector has the smallest CO2 impact per barrel of oil pumped" or something along those lines.

A decent argument, but it hinges on a massive "what if".
A lot of these VPN services already sell their data to 3rd parties.
Agreed. Containers feels a little unfinished right now. Sync is a must and the UX needs to be improved a little so it's easier to start them up and organize them. There should probably be an opt-in option to always ask you into which container you want new websites you visit, too. This way I wouldn't have to change it after the fact or make the effort to set-up a container before I think about visiting the site.
Could you work around this somehow using a combination of internal packages and type aliases in public packages?
>Death is a very personal thing. Would you tell the author of TFA that they are "giving up?"

Tell it to them? No. When the treatment effort starts, you make it clear that they can drop off the therapy at any time they want. When and if that happens you sugar coat it as much as you can and help them make peace with the world and their families etc. At that point no benefit will come to the patient from telling them the truth.

But it totally matters when discussing e.g. health policies or future directions of treatments. These people do actually give up and we should face that. We should ask what parts of our current treatment methods are the most unbearable and how we can improve those in the future. How to better approach the patients from the beginning. Things like that.
It sounds cool sure, but what resources do we even want from asteroids? We have plenty rocks and ice on earth and even something like iron ore is just 0,08$ per kilo. Getting that kilo to LEO is 2200$ and getting cheaper every year. We have all the resources and infrastructure we need right here on earth while absolutely no one has any idea how to manufacture things in space.
Chances are that a highly developed alien race won't be as bloodthirsty and barbaric as the human race, so "weapon" might not be their first thought.

If you're space faring on a large scale you probably had to leave conflict and infighting to lesser races, just so you could focus energies on making that leap.

IMHO.
Mozilla released the extension "Facebook Container", which is great, but that's only one of the FANG companies notorious for invading privacy. Where is the "Google Container" extension from Mozilla? There exists such an extension but it's by a third party, not by Mozilla. It would be nice to see it from Mozilla since I trust them more than I trust some random extension developer; I can feel confident in recommending Facebook Container to people but I'd have to keep up on the reputation and ownership of the Google Container extension to feel good about recommending it to others.

I guess what I'm saying is it would be nice for Mozilla to be a bit more bold in demonstrating this independence from Google. It seems to me they still fear/respect Google more than Facebook.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/facebook-cont...

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/google-contai...
One more advice - implement Generics in your programming language, it's 2019 already, not 1970s!
Time was, you had to be very careful where you hosted your RSS files because there were so many badly written players that polled the website every few seconds without any caching. Is this still the case?