skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am not quite sure why the author narrows in on millennials in this piece, this is something happening among varying age groups.

It also appears from my experience on this forum that the prevailing opinion here is that this story is not a myth at all, but I understand there is variance here.

The issue with cost of living is an obvious one that is made in comments here, but that still does nothing to address the individuals/families who _still_ struggle in areas that are much cheaper to live. Yes, the insular view of one who has not lived outside SF is troublesome, but it's dishonest to argue as if there is still not real existing poverty in places with a lower cost of living.

While there are many different ways the socioeconomic status of ones family and upbringing can assist in their own success, there are a myriad of ways in which this is also influenced by systemic features to our society, as well as the historical context of that. Think of racially discriminatory housing policies that have helped lead to wealth gaps in the present.

While rags to riches makes a good story, we also don't talk about failures in business as much as we do the successful enterprises. Referring to individual actions in tandem with family assistance, coming to terms with the subject of meritocracy in our society and individual success, I'd propose we're looking at it the wrong way. The part to evaluate is not how much these things have to do with success, but rather how much can they come back from failure? This paints a rather different picture, as those with more financial security are in a much better position to take risks, make poor decisions, while not being pulled into poverty.

Finally, I'd like to point out that there is a growing skepticism of the liberal world order, the mainstream consensus, status quo, whatever you want to call it. More people are realizing now the varying degrees of ways the system is rigged against common working people. With it comes skepticism of the legitimacy of meritocracy in our current social order. This isn't just coming out of a vacuum.
I don't know that their clients really care. The real motivation for bringing in these firms is having a credible scapegoat if things don't pan out for your project.
I feel that you may underestimate the amount of insider trading that goes on in private equity. Remember also, the line between insider knowledge being legal or not is somewhat gray.

I doubt there is an on record scheme with company memos and other communication discussing inside info. It's probably much closer to work friendships and casual partnerships that pass much of this information along.

As long as you can build a reasonable model to line up with the information you get, it's pretty difficult without a smoking gun to get caught.
Moreover, even when Microsoft was "lame", its employees were still individually respected as being competent in their field (unless given a specific reason to think otherwise).
1€ is an infinitely larger amount for an old "worthless" bit of paper than anyone will pay for any amount of Bitcoin when the network collapses.

I don't mean it "goes offline", I mean that the blockchain is compromised by a 51% attack or something worse and the whole thing can't be trusted, so nobody cares about it at all.
I’m not sure I understand the value prop here. It’s a time tracking software tool for software engineers? FTE or Contract? The UX also looks like complete shit. Get your stuff together bro, this is the worst pitch I’ve ever seen.
Often these are low cost prints for students in developing countries, for example India. They're not counterfeit as such, but the quality is low to keep the price down. Not sure if that's what you got though, as they're all super cheap on Amazon.com. Normally if it's a marketplace seller it'll say where it ships from. Deep Learning RRPs about £50 in the UK.

I'm not sure what the print status of the book is. There seems to be an official MIT Press print, but my university library struggled to get a copy through the inter-library loan network because the eBook has the same ISBN.
GitHub Expands Bug Bounty Program Scope and Increases Payouts
Great idea but I wish the data source was better, e.g. Rotten Tomatoes or Metacritic, because IMDB ratings are almost useless.
I am perpetually amazed by how often people feel the need to put a label on something, even if that doesn't _really_ matter.

As far as I have noticed, the self-made "myth" is mainly a media trick. For some reason (maybe intrigue, maybe hope, maybe something else), people love rags to riches stories, be it an immigrant to the US with "five dollars in her pocket", a Bill Gates or an Elon Musk. The people who write those stories don't do it to get the word out, they do it to sell you something, so of course they will try to make it as dramatic as possible.

Now there's a counter-movement to balance things out. Bill Gates was actually born in a wealthy family and had a trust fund with millions in it; taking risks with his company was not really a risk. A lot of people like Cara Delevingne (who is constantly advertised everywhere for some reason) are actually part of a family with big ties in their respective industries. They are not truly self-made, but they are not just propelled to the top without significant amounts of work or talent either. The truth is generally somewhere in the middle, with outliers at both ends.

In the end, does it really matter? I feel like social media is full of either stories like this or people pretending to live a perfect life. In short, things that are unattainable for most people even if they were to live a hundred lives. Dreaming big is a wonderful thing, but it definitely won't pan out for the vast majority of people, while making them less happy in the process. That's just my view, maybe wrong in some aspects.
We do time tracking so we can bill our clients. To me it's a bit rewarding because I see exactly how my hourly work justifies my salary.

Any other kind of time tracking that is shared with your employer is absolute proof that they don't trust you.
Maybe he wouldn't have. Maybe someone like him with billions of dollars should start a foundation to try and help prevent poverty, malnutrition, lack-of-education and disease so more people can lead fulfilling lives.
How did Google get in charge of this? Why did they get to set the price points for registering these domains? ICANN really sold out for this one.
Not to mention that "new kinds of biology" are becoming hugely credible. There's a massive body of work emerging about the gut-brain connection.

This Mitchell guy is in denial.
Literally trump has done or is doing everything he accused Hillary of.
shazam also seamlessly creates a spotify playlist with your queries.
Neat! I always end up doing the google search to check out IMDb/RT ratings.

Another nice to have is the number of reviewers - I've noticed that some of these movies have high ratings early on (potentially from crew/cast/fans) but then slowly drop to the mean as more people review the movie.
Yes, a place where they can get food, a bed and (hopefully) living conditions. In my mind, it's a positive. Sounds like it's not so for everyone, hmm.
Ways that Windows 10 Tracks You – From German Cyber Intelligence
Here's what WhatRuns shows as the stack for the site, I was curious myself. https://www.whatruns.com/website/eqzen.com
90% of the stuff on Amazon is fake or counterfeit. Why would anyone expect the book division to be different? This is what Amazon has decided to be: a marketplace for garbage products, most fake or extremely low quality. Their strategy is based on the fact that consumers don't know better and if they do and start returning products, shutting those accounts off. Some copyright infringement is perfect for diversifying their business model of selling garbage.
That looks rather like the regular placement of RFID-chips to track inventory or am I overlooking something?

Also how can you track someone using RFID without installing detectors everywhere?
The chances are, your home router will still have default-deny inbound firewall even in IPv6 world.

So you will need to either configure router to open the firewall, or use a solution like this. Which pretty much like current situation -- you need to either configure router to make a NAT mapping, or use a solution like this one.
There's an implication that you're defrauding the person buying the counterfeit item. That's not true here; the person being "defrauded" is the copyright owner.
https://experience.apple/ipad-pro/
https://share.newsroom.apple/

For future reference, search Google for "site:*.dev"
The point is you do the same when you build the source. In many cases the ppa is provided by the same person providing the source.
I was in the beta for their Assassins Creed test. For single-player AAA RPG titles it wasn't noticeable. I doubt twitch / competitive games will ever be the target audience.
One person's algorithm research paper is another person's global public policy. How the macro geopolitical world works interests me. Hit "hide" instead of "comments" or "discuss" and move on please (intended as politely as possible if tone was ambiguous).
Pose Detection in Real-Time for iOS
Hmm, I see, thanks. In my mind, "shelter" is generally positive, but I see how it may not be taken as such by everyone.
> Better signal processing, amplification, read noise and probably lot more that I can’t even imagine.

Yeah, I get that, but I don't think there is an improvement here by sticking a modern smartphone CPU and OS into a camera.

Making improvements to those metrics ultimately require newer sensors with lower read noise and better on-chip ADCs. The camera manufacturers can't do 24-bit RAWs @ 20fps when the sensor only outputs 12-bits @ 10 fps.

If we are doing multiple exposures, then as you know, cameras already have exposure bracketing, and I can do the rest in my PC.
> First of all, there are absolutely people who come from dirty poverty and become wildly successful. Second of all, plenty of people receive lots of help from their parents and amount to precisely nothing.

There are way more people who are born wealthy and continue being wealthy. There are way more people who go from poor to poor. Social mobility is piss poor right now in the US.

If "having a nice family and a wonderful house and a great life" is amounting to nothing, I will take it.

> If you immigrate from Africa with nothing, and you get yourself a law degree and an upper middle class income - that's self made success. If you're born in the US and your entire family is lawyers, maybe that same accomplishment is not "self made success". But if you say, start Microsoft and become a billionaire i'd say that it's fair to call that self-made success.

First of all, Bill Gates had a TON of opportunity and privilege funneled to him from his parents.

Second of all, we are not talking about Bill Gates or Elon Musk. We are talking about the legions of Bradleys going from Georgetown Prep to ivy league schools to finance to the executive class.

You cannot POSSIBLY believe that there is no wealth disparity in the US? That there is not a disparity in opportunity between the wealthy and the middle class/poor?

> I feel like this trope that self-made success is a myth comes almost entirely from people like the author of this article. People who were born with lots of advantages, who still couldn't hack it. They want to justify their own failure to live up to their family's expectations by tearing other people down. Whether or not self-made success is a thing, self-made failure certainly is, and i'd say the author of this article more than qualifies for it.

This is just completely unfounded. You think this entire discussion is propped up by other failed millionaires?

I can't speak to this person's reason for writing the article, but the reason the "self-made success is a myth" is a trope is that people SEE the research, SEE the disparity around them, and smell the bullshit.
It really seems to depend on the company stage. If the answer to, "did you do everything you could?" is, "well, we could have put %20 more time and effort into it with no additional cash burn," I could see how that could be interpreted as negligence from a fiduciary perspective.

On the other hand, %20 less office time could be an honest signal that you are taking risks commensurate with the return level your investors are looking for. If as a founder or leader, you are careful and incremental, I don't think that's what investors put money into VC funds for. The number of stories I read here and elsewhere about investors saying, "I don't want this money back, I want a huge return or nothing, because I don't want to learn I put it behind someone who wasn't committed enough to fail hard."

Investors aren't paying you and your team to work, they are paying for the privilege of getting a piece of a massive outcome. You achieve the outcome they want exposure to the best way you know how, and if imposing a risk constraint like %20 less office time does it, great. In this view, you are not their employee, you are their dealer.

I could see how it would be hard to persuade investors you were working in their best interest with an attitude like that, but on the other hand, it could be one that is necessary to enable the best possible outcome. It sounds crazy, but the investors themselves are the correlation factor in their portfolio, and the point of putting money into a diversified portfolio of startups is to hedge that correlation, so the more opinionated the investor is about your office culture or other aspects of the business, it's likely the worse they are going to do.

No clear answer, but really interesting question.
And inside this web site. Who cares who's streaming your games? What matters is that it works and that the price is reasonable. It's good to have options.
I read this as "What is an even number" and spent the entire article stoked for when he got to the part about a number being even.

Still, lovely article.
Which billionaires came from "dirty poverty?" List them, please.

Extra credit: I'm a lowly millionaire, how do I get a seat on a Board of Directors? I have a PhD, 20+ years in the technology field. Am more than qualified for any kind of corporate governance role, etc.
The New York Times should get credit for doing that reporting, not BI (who just summarized NYT):

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/15/world/asia/mckinsey-china...
IIRC, Privacy Badger is less focused on static (or even updated) lists of bad sites, but figures things out based on behavior. Basically it's learning on the go.

https://www.eff.org/privacybadger/faq#How-is-Privacy-Badger-...
And not just ISPs. Governments, state-sponsored attackers, garden variety scammers, malware, compromised WiFi routers, etc.
I have never had a job that doesn't work like this (or rather, that I didn't treat like this) and frankly, it's a huge red flag for me to see an engineering job that doesn't. Given that engineering can require long periods of focused work, it's beyond me that a company would step in and decide the manner in which you get it done. Tangentially and less convincingly, I don't see a reason why if I'm twice as talented as someone else and want to work half as much, that shouldn't be okay, and we should be similarly compensated for having similar productivity.

It's to the point where it reminds me of jobs that force you to dress up in a certain way: I can't imagine your workplace respects you if they're enforcing how you get your work done or what you're wearing.

I should be clear that there are situations in both cases where it can actually make sense: anyone working customers doesn't get to decide that customers are irrational for judging attire, so dress codes are reasonable in that case. Similarly, if your work heavily involves constant communication, then enforcing work hours can make sense too. But there are a TON of jobs that enforce rules like work hours and dress code for no reason other than lack of trust and respect for their employees, and I just hope I continue to avoid ever being in a position like that.
Either way, you probably don't want to be using a name that implies failure on the part of the person who started the project.
I just feel like with the existence of government backed black hats, disclosing a large data breach would fit in nicely here since they haven't ruled out any state actors.
AFAIK, Shazam (and other audio fingerprinting stuff, like youtube's copyright analysis) works on some very precise timings of volume peaks & tones. I wouldn't expect it to properly identify a live performance.
I don't get either of your attitudes.

If you don't want it on the front page, flag it. If you do, upvote it. That's how HN works. Enough people flag it, it will fall off. If enough upvote, it will stay there. Either way, that's what people on HN wanted.
Who reviews the contributions? It's a good idea when the project has other maintainers, but when the new person is the only one, that can't really work...
>yeah, tell that to Venezuelans

Or BTC hodlers who've seen an 80% crash, perhaps.

> banks are providing some useful services, banks won't stop providing those services on top of cryptocurrencies

Then they, and I, have no incentive to use cryptocurrency.

>finally, if you're fine trusting politicians to run your financial system and regularly screw you up with inflation, financial meltdowns, bankruptcies, etc

So far the current sytems in western democracies have outperformed any other system, ever. Further, having a centrally controlled currency is a good thing, yes, it allows monetary supply to be altered and manipulated to support the economy. Unlike, say, gold, which turned out to be a bad choice for a currency.

I'd far rather have monetary policy set by a government, or a quasi-independent entity like the Bank of England, than by some geeks and a bunch of miners.

> claim nothing should be attempted to fix ...

Your 'fix' doesn't actually fix anything and it makes a lot of things worse. That's why you get called on it.
I don't see any reason to believe that guy is well respected outside of the pharmaceutical industry.
How about those who are have an IQ less than 100 or know nothing about current events.
If I am on a limited PTO plan, California law guarantees me the right to cash out my unused vacation days when I leave the company.

It seems to me like it would be fair for companies to offer unlimited PTO as long as employees can cash out unlimited money when they leave. But for some reason, this is not often offered.
> But Harv doesn’t need ... sick days.

Spoken like someone who has never run a factory
While this is an interesting website, which is it asking to take photos me record audio?
> switches to a random page

Yeah, I should have been more precise. I meant "randomly switches to the next or previous page", and of course it's not random either, it's because a fly landed on it (seriously happened to me regularly in some regions), or a drop of sweat fell on it, or the scarf gently brushed over it (different locations, obviously), etc.

Also, it's just nice when I can hold it in the middle (not only the edge) without it switching page. The hardware side buttons were perfectly fine, and (as the other poster observed) are now a ridiculously expensive premium feature!

Unfortunately, a used Kindle 5 is now sometimes offered more expensively than it used to cost new.

> tend to last me a long, long time

Yes, they do - lamentably I tend to lose them. That's why I'm stacking up on the old one :-)
Breakthrough in the Search for Graphene-Based Electronics
Point 1 doesn't logically follow from the Miranda rights. In fact, that's the whole point of the adversarial court system: everything you say will be used for and against you, by the defense and the prosecution respectively.
https://pixelpoppers.com/

Started in 2009 as a Blogger blog about video game design/culture/psychology/philosophy (my most-read post was about quitting World of Warcraft[1] and was discussed on HN at the time[2]), it's now a (mostly) static site built in Hugo including the blog, my own developed games and a dev blog about them (only one game so far; that's a new part of the project), quick reviews of games I play, shared links to interesting articles/videos, and a blogroll of other recommended websites.

I'm very much a fan of "Publish (on your) Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere", so I've been moving all of my content together under my own control. My articles also go to Medium, my games also go to itch.io, my shared links are also on Pinboard, etc., but everything is primarily on my own site and if any of the external services vanished I wouldn't lose anything.

It's been a great way to learn more web development tools and skills, and it's nice to have both "write something creative" and "tinker with site infrastructure" as project options depending on what kind of energy I have in my free time.

[1]: https://pixelpoppers.com/2010/12/doing-my-dailies-why-i-quit...
[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2054992
The early practical steam engines of the 1600's were barely practical. It took experimenting and experience to make them practical for general manufacturing, not just niches. The same with semiconductors: it took decades of trial and error to make them more practical than vacuum tubes even though their "interesting properties" were known about in the 1800's. (Manufacturing them in consistent form proved daunting.)

If you knew in advanced they had the most promise, sure you could pump R&D into them. But without such foresight, one cannot tell how much promise they actually have. Compare to cold-fusion, flying cars, and hot-fusion reactors: always "just around the corner" but never arrive in a practical sense. Promising-looking ideas don't always actually deliver in the short/medium-term, and vice versa.

Unless they have value in intermediate form, they may not be a wise investment from the perspective of politicians/kings, who prefer results before they retire. Otherwise, they spend resources that don't get them re-elected or that don't give them an edge against enemies.

Eli Whitney's "interchangeable parts" claim was mostly hype when it first appeared. But the semi-interchangeable nature of his products was good enough to make them more useful than the prior approaches. Half-reshaping for fit is better than full re-shaping. It kept his process running long enough to reach full interchangeability through gradual trial and error.
Security Flaws Found in Top Password Managers
For anyone near the San Francisco Peninsula, Webb Ranch opens their U-Pick berry patch during the summer. It's on Alpine Road just west of 280:

http://www.webbranchinc.com/farmers_upick_straw.htm

The page doesn't indicate when they will open for the season, but it tends to be early June.

A few years ago we went on the last day of the season and got some wonderful late season Navajo Blackberries.
Top talent = working for a big four or unicorn = leetcode 24/7.
Works for a lot of people, especially if they fall into fairly standard, but good service gigs. e.g. vehicle repair, home repair, cutting hair, or working a local pub.

Even better if you show up with a pile of cash from a former career.
I wish the article did a before and after comparison of the Shazam .ipa file size. Anyone know these figures?