skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem with clever implementations isn't that they can't be reused or that they have abnormally high cost for end-users (though this is sometimes the case). It's that they inherently require more work to maintain, author, and debug over time. When you're talking about a cross language protocol that will have myriads of available implementations (each with different constraints), it's not unreasonble to take a look at how much work a third party must engage in to get such a "clever" implementation (or, in other words, "how many people could reimplement simdjson?") And if those existing clever implementations aren't available (or viable) for some use case, then you're out of luck and start at square one. This happens more often than you think.

In this case there's a lot of work already put into fast JSON parsers, but in general JSON is not a very friendly format to work with or write efficient, generalized implementations of. Maybe it's not worth switching to something else. I'm not saying you should, it seems like a fine choice to me. But clever implementations don't come free and representation choice has a big impact on how "clever" you need to be.
The value add of the layer in complexity is that the costs of some goods but not others would go up. This would make buying and investing in renewables more favorable economically.
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I think perhaps there isn't any difference in external appearance between the two, but internally the difference should be striking. And an organisation like YC should have enough visibility into the internals to know which it is.
Why would they silence the alarm? It's just a notification on their phone. Silencing doesn't accomplish anything for them.

The first time my landlord silenced a "false alarm", I'd tell them not to ever do that again. The second time, I'd reset the device and register it under an account they don't control.

But yes, I do see your concern now. I was not initially thinking of the landlord actually controlling the device, merely installing and allowing the tenant to control it. There's a lot less ridiculous coincidence required for a landlord to stupidly silence the alarm.
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What were you looking to get out of a Sonos? If you just want something that can play music wirelessly from various devices, I'd recommend getting a pair of bookshelf speakers and plugging them into one of (Airport Express, Chromecast Audio, Raspberry Pi[1]). You won't be locked into Sonos and generally bookshelf speakers sound better than all-in-one units. I'd love to recommend some speakers if you're interested (e.g. [2]).

I have run a few Airport Expresses for the past 10 years and love them. Older models are cheap (<$30) and still work great.

[1] https://support.hifiberry.com/hc/en-us/articles/205699981-Ho...

[2] https://www.amazon.com/Micca-PB42X-Powered-Bookshelf-Speaker...
Sorry, was emphasizing, not correcting.
It may be that, especially in the early days, "getting funding" is equated with "success", regardless of (or perhaps even in spite of) any actual results (product shipped, customer count, revenue, product/service results, etc). At some point those results matter, but we still have this notion that getting funding (or just lots of revenue) is a direct indicator of actual success.
Also relevant - https://old.reddit.com/r/devops/comments/at3oyq/it_looks_lik...

"Yep. We were terminated by Idera without even our managers knowing."

in wake of travis being acquired last month. https://blog.travis-ci.com/2019-01-23-travis-ci-joins-idera-...
I've never heard of concentrated flax oil, and all flax oil I've seen has the ALA levels I'd expect of natural flax oil. However, as discussed elsewhere in the comments, humans are not good at converting ALA to EPA and DHA, so flax oil cannot be considered a full substitute for fish oil.
Yes, you need at least xlink to an external SVG file. But that's pretty close to <img>. It's just one more element.
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Your comment is severely lacking in numbers that would indicate market-friendly policies have been a "failure".

> It is about the 1,5 million homeless children in the USA

How has this number changed over time, compared to previous time periods?

> It is about the income inequality which has increased since the '70s in the USA

How has the actual income of poor people changed in the same time period?

> It is about tax avoidance in the USA

Please explain how the statement "tax avoidance in the USA" proves market-friendly policies have been a "failure".
YC advice isn't optimizing to help founders at all. It's optimizing for their business model.

I don't know why people think otherwise. Do you think venture capitalists are your friends? Pretty sure they're not!
TL;DR; anyone?
I recently read “A First-Rate Madness” by Nassir Ghaemi [1]. Although it focuses on mental illness (or the lack thereof) in historical leaders during times of crisis, I saw many parallels with tech leaders and their companies at different stages.

[1] https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/305742/a-first-rate...
So her speech isn't free as in liberty or as in beer, eh?
I actually do believe that people would have been rooting for her, albeit perhaps not stopping her on the street (but maybe! Especially given her distinctive poloneck uniform). Redemption stories are popular, particularly in the Silicon Valley mindset where failure isn't bad as long as you learned something from it.
Attempting to reform national health care but thinking it's possible to preserve for profit health insurance companies as part of the mix.
You can have a revenue neutral carbon tax where the funds go back into people’s pockets, but the change in consumption pattern would happen because for example renewable energy would not increase in price.
On the other hand, the journalist couldn't have known it was a data breach until he/she actually verified that it was classified healthcare data.

The case should be dismissed.
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The root of the problem is that we as a society can't agree on what the purpose of prison is. Is it punishment? Is it repaying a debt to society? Is it reform? Is it to prevent people from committing more crime? This is also the reason why the US justice doesn't make much sense either.

Because people have vastly different views on the matter, we are unable to construct a prison system (or justice system) that makes any sense.
Ha! From another article currently on front page:

> "Arkani-Hamed now sees the ultimate goal of physics as figuring out the mathematical question from which all the answers flow."

(https://www.newyorker.com/science/elements/a-different-kind-...)
No, I think it was not windows only, and not as "fancy" or versatile, just something like gtk or Qt with built-in networking.

But this looks neat as well, I did not know that one nor found it during my search.
the whole idea from the article about buying up all the podcasts ala Netflix. How did you read the article and miss the Spotify part?
also depends on your schedule. i dont listen to podcasts when I am in town. But when driving or flying somewhere, I always download a few.
Anyone in a business-focused program will suffer with a Mac as Excel for Mac is very much a second-class citizen. Forget not having PowerPivot and PowerBI, the lack of keyboard shortcuts alone will slow your work to a crawl.
> There are plenty of things you can say at the border that will get you on the next plane back home.

Which is not really the same thing as being fined or imprisoned.

> There may or may not be people being held in captivity without access to a lawyer for their speech. We don't know because the proceedings are secret.

And there's a fair argument that doing so is unconstitutional and will be found as such once the ongoing challenges to it have concluded.

The law doesn't protect you from criminals, even when they work for the government. At best it punishes them after the fact and allows you to recover damages. And some people never get justice, but that only means they were the victims of a crime that the perpetrator got away with, not that they weren't entitled to it under the law.

> Someone who practiced his freedom of speech is currently in hiding in liberty-loving Russia of all places.

What Snowden would be charged with is the government equivalent of violating an NDA. The main reason that law is messed up is that with a normal NDA (i.e. a contract), contracts covering criminal activity are generally unenforceable, but the security clearance system doesn't work like that -- which is problematic when it's then used to cover up criminal activity.

But the reason he can be charged is that he agreed to those terms to begin with. It's a matter of contracts being [too] enforceable, not a matter of punishment for speech. Notice that the newspapers that published the Snowden documents weren't convicted of a crime, because they never agreed not to.
If I understand correctly, the journalist did nothing more than accessing an entirely unsecured, public website.
The crucial detail is that civil forfeiture works by suing the property, not its owner. The owner is just an "interested party" and has limited standing to fight the seizure. It's mind-blowingly bizarre.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asset_forfeiture#United_States
This is by far the most favorable, least ominous, reporting I have encountered on China's social credit system.
Completely agree, most technical concepts require you to play with it. I've never heard of anyone learning spark from a podcast
I work for a German podcast hosting company and what's been happening in podcasting in 2018 here in Germany is pure madness. There's been an explosion of different companies and producers that have gotten into the space, bringing really high-quality content.

Also, Spotify grew into the second largest platform bringing in a lot of fresh air and slowly but steadily eating into and breaking up Apple's monopoly. Now we're all kind of wondering what's gonna happen next after the acquisition of Gimlet and Anchor.

If this isn't the Golden Age of podcasts yet, we're sure pretty close.
Yes, and you are doing it again.

"Yet too many economists believe their quantitative tools and theoretical lenses are the only ones that count as “scientific,” ..."

Economist want to believe that economics is "scientific", while is clearly not, and you keep hinting that they are "relying on quantitative analysis as prescribed by the scientific method".
Good move. Getting rid of the naming confusion, and apparently clarifying what's covered and what's not, which seems to remove concerns around consulting etc.
I mean metaphorically sure, but in this case it's literally using the exact same system; it's just the clients are changed to look like a chat app instead of an email app. This is more like if two people were sending telegraphs over actual telegraph lines, with morse code and everything, then at the end they type it up into a Word document and say "It's email!"
If they want to squeeze out the last ounce of performance out of the Rust toolchain it probably wouldn't make sense to use stable Rust anyways, so I don't think that's a big downside.

Also, they are already relying on "unstable" (non-standard conforming) C++ features (e.g. the code uses non-standard attributes behind macros, etc.). Using nightly Rust isn't worse than that per se.

Using Rust does have downsides. For the type of code they are writing, the main downside would probably be losing an alternative GCC backend, which might or might not be better than LLVM for their application.

Still, they would win portable SIMD and being able to target not only x86_64 but also ARM, Power, RISCV, WASM, etc., which is always cool to show in research papers.

I'm not suggesting that Rust is a perfect trade-off, only that it's an interesting one depending on what they want to do.
> the lesson to be learned here, obvious though as it is, is that there doesn't seem to be any difference in the early stages between startup ideas that are delusional, which seems to be case for Holmes, and those that are "frighteningly ambitious"

At the early stages, sure, there’s no difference. Genius and madness are only differentiable with hindsight.

At the point you’re rolling out broken medical devices, lying to investors about the Army buying your kit, and deploying unthinking attack dogs like David Boies and George Schulz on whistleblowers (one of whom was the latter’s grandkid), there is a huge difference.
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> I'd much rather consume the same content by reading instead of listening. It's faster, it's easier to skim and skip around, you can have hyperlinks to other references, etc

My counterargument to that is that in order to do any of those things you need to have your eyes engaged with the content. I can listen to podcasts (or audiobooks) while at the gym, cooking, doing laundry, cleaning dishes, or going to pick my kid from school. That means to me more than the advantages you mentioned.

One additional advantage: getting to sleep. I don't enjoy sleeping. If i have a light source near me, be it a lamp or a screen, I don't feel sleepy at all. I can't fall asleep while watching a Netflix show that I like. I have done the experiment. I can feel sleepy while reading a book, but an engaging one and a night lamp will keep me awake: I read the first Harry Potter volume in a single sleep-less night. Listening to podcasts with the lights off and my eyes closed makes me drift to sleep much more easily.
Example off the top of my head: you have devices in the field which have not received an update since they were purchased 10 years ago.

A common crypto algorithm gets broken to a degree where it is phased out of use industry-wide to prevent leaking user data, MitM attacks, etc.

But once you flip the switch on that old crypto algorithm, your old devices can no longer be updated without a complex manual process (good luck getting the group of users who have never updated to do that,) and the devices will stop working with any secure online connectivity the users have been used to having (purchasing, downloading, etc.)

You have been trying to let users choose how they use their devices, but now they are upset that you broke their product, which they purchased in a working state. What do you do? This is a very small number of people and the years of accommodating them is getting very expensive, but you want to do right by them.
The two "neoliberals" identified in this article are Hayek and Friedman.

Hayek absolutely did not believe that his "quantitive and theoretical lens" counts as scientific. Apart from economics he's known as an opponent of scientism.

I don't believe Friedman believed his theories to be scientific either.
> And the Rashomon effect also suggests that reality isn’t structured in such a reductive, bottom-up way.

Does it? I don't see why. If there are numerous equivalent ways of describing a phenomenon, that seems to suggest that most structures have inherent isomorphisms. I don't think anyone would find this is particularly surprising.
Restaurants like Starbucks do exactly this. You pre-buy Starbucks credit that you later use to pay for coffee.

Starbucks benefits because they only incur transaction fees for every (say) $25 pre-paid block, instead of for every $3 coffee. Swipe fees decrease as a percentage of revenue.

They reward consumers via their loyalty program.
There's also usually more context behind the stories from say Venezuela that you normally don't get, so that doesn't really say much.
Do you happen to know how revenue breaks down between processing fees and interest on carried balances?
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As long as vendors are free to offer different pricing based on payment method, it should resolve itself.

Even right now, I don’t think there’s is anything stopping vendors from offering everyone x% off by using debit cards.
Very true and a common pattern in Startups and even large companies. Sell what you don't have. Not sure it works out all the time, but it has for some.
A sane system would consider the knowledge and power differences between the average individual and the corporate lawyers who wrote the agreement, along with the one sided nature of the agreement, and void any consent as not having been possible to give. Likely the agreement would be treated as one signed by a child, where the more powerful party is the only one bound by it.
Thank you for creating this resource; it is incredibly interesting. Regarding the brain teasers (and, by extension, the higher-level math involved), do you have any resources you would recommend for (re)learning the mechanics involved? I took college-level mathematics through Differential Equations and Statistics for Engineering, but I would like to refresh and enhance my skill.
Are we? Podcasts are pretty overwhelming - there’s so many of them, it’s so hard to catch up, and I’m so tired of Blue Apron ads read by the hosts of podcasts.

Personally, I’ve pretty much stopped listening to anything outside of NPR One, which does an okay-to-pretty-good job of simplifying the experience of listening to podcasts (at least aligned to NPR). Even then the ads are super annoying.
I've read the book by Carreyrou - Bad Blood [1] and up until this time, I am left wondering if she really was insane, or on the firm belief that she can revolutionize something.

For her to be able to convince a lot of people - companies, investors, CEOs and perhaps a multitude of bright people to do what seems to conclude as a big fraud is still mind boggling to say the least.

You got the best engineers, doctors, laboratory technologists, medical techs, pharmacists, and just about everyone in science, and yet they continued for so long on this path of bizarre development of a product. Why did these people only realized when it was too late and that everything would crumble down at some point? They must have shared her vision with an intensity that has out shined their conscience and common sense.

[1] https://www.gatesnotes.com/Books/Bad-Blood
Modern. But beware, it's pretty dated. :)
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AI already demonstrates creativity, they just don't want to call it that because it's blatantly deterministic and the AI's motivating feedback loop/incentive structure is too inhuman for this philosopher to empathize with.

We have no idea how generalized intelligence emerges, but neutral nets have already confirmed that very simple nodes in an error-minimizing network can achieve very good approximations of specialized intelligence. We also know that our own brains are just networks of very simple nodes. Betting against the brain being nothing anything more than a computational network is a losing fight. I suspect that generalized intelligence is going to emerge from changes in the way neutral nets have their incentive/reward/error feedbacks handled, as well as improved generalizations a-la convolutional nn, but otherwise basically maintain the same premise. Then, the creativity that AI has already demonstrated can be said to have arisen from the consequence of a generalized consciousness, optimally with motivating factors approximating a human's, and this philosopher can shut the fuck up.
I was wondering if it was possible to sign emails on the mail server instead of configuring each client individually. Also annoying is the fact that some clients seem to alter the signature before sending the message, resulting in the utter destruction of my magnificent design. I have seen some tools like alterMIME but nothing specifically designed to insert signatures to the right place. Ideally some kind of milter for Postfix I guess.
What's the takeaway if it was possible?

Do you count transit or must immigration be passed? If you think about this question, isn't it worth more to have a chat online with people from every country?
No, what is good for a public health perspective is to avoid collisions (and falls which is the #1 accident with bikes). It is quite easy to avoid car-bike collisions, in fact car drivers are far more predictable than ignorant cyclists. Of course in order to do that you have to know what the most frequent type of car-bike collisions are, guess what? they are not cars hitting a bicycle from behind, they happen in intersections due to crossing traffic and bike segregation only increases them by making intersections more complicated.
Could Google enable this feature without harming user privacy?

What if they allowed you to name SSIDs such as 'Home' or 'Work', and then when the app scanned for networks in your house it would only see 'Home'?
The aspect ratio is only slightly narrower than that of an iPad Mini, so I doubt videos or games would be affected. Responsive design means websites wouldn't be affected at all, but you might get the "16:10 tablet" layout as opposed to the "4:3" iPad layout.
For starters, Apple’s commitment to privacy makes me feel way better about them having my purchase data and being able to add value alongside my other personal data: potentially less opportunity for fraud, better offers, better purchase insights, etc. Maybe not “amazing”, but I can see some ways it could be quite nice compared to alternatives.
This is cool, but probably not super practical. Gmail for example limits the number of messages you can send per day pretty strictly, so using it for messages would probably be unwise. Busy chats could probably eat the quota.
Many services need a process that makes it hard for spammers to create a large number of accounts. If getting that costs a small number of real customers who can't use your service, oh well, the need to fight spammers is objectively more important to them as long as there aren't too many real customers with such problems.

Requiring phone numbers is a system that works quite reasonable, as most people have a phone number, and it's not that easy (and certainly not free) for a spammer to get thousands of phone numbers to make thousands of fake identities.
It really is, if you could post videos for free before, but now some people in parliament have made it so you can’t anymore.

Other services may or may not fill the huge created gap, but what’s to say they won’t be subject to the same regulations as YouTube? Anyways, the politicians would probably take a huge fall if they did this, voters don’t often buy “its for your own good” arguments.
It reeks more of Clintonian conservatism; while triangulation was a Clinton strategy, it gets overused to explain Clinton's policy actions recently, perhaps because people have bought in to decades of Republican propaganda labeling Clinton as some kind of Communist, forgetting that he was an active and vociferous conservative democrat, and before being President a leader of the center-right DLC, and that outside of healthcare and culture war issues his positions were a hairs breadth from Republican positions (at least the pre-1994 ones; his own conservatism contributed to a radical rightward shift of the Overton window, including a radical rightward move in the Republican Party.)
Don’t Lead by Example
> Podcasts are also completely inaccessible to search engines.

Google is actively working with the podcast community and encouraging podcasters to structure their data to be accessible in search: https://developers.google.com/search/docs/data-types/podcast
Also strongly recommend the Dropout [1], a podcast following Holmes and Theranos.

[1] http://abcradio.com/podcasts/the-dropout/
> "This will kill the internet"

In a small way, it kind of did, didn't it? I see people on reddit and hackernews constantly complaining how they can't access some random local news website in the US because they've chosen to simply not deal with GDPR.
This was posted on 2019-01-07, but I don't see any comments or discussion. Did anyone react?
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