skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1: I started a company with friends. The business plan had severe flaws that meant a constant struggle with staying operational. Also, for the other founders, our business enabled them to do the work they wanted to do, but for me the synergies never materialized in the way I had hoped. The main thing that burned me out was that I saw the problems and had to deal with them but couldn't find a way to actually solve them. I had responsibility but did not have self-determination. I believe that will burn anyone out in short order.

2: I left.
Live by the Twitter mob, die by the Twitter mob
The capstone project and little pacman game look pretty interesting. Think you can spare a short portion of the book to show what the writing is like? I find them to be some of the best litmus tests of what I'm about to get myself into on a technical book purchase.
Dockcross: Cross compiling toolchains in Docker images
This looks kind of interesting. Has anybody played it enough to have feedback whether it would be good for a bright 10-year-old?
>In a company that knows more about you than you can possibly imagine, and more about automated sentiment analysis than anyone in the world, they couldn’t algorithmically determine who should be allowed to post on certain subsets of videos, or devise a system they thought was worth deploying to ensure comments meet a basic level of decency.

Those solutions are not perfect and every time Google implemented them they caused collateral damage or even major changes to the whole platform (see the demonetization situation). I believe that they refrain from using them unless pressured to because fixing a problem that is not know to the general public isn't worth the negative PR, complaints, investigations and the damage to stability of the platform.
Table of contents and sample chapter?

Webassembly for genomics sounds cool :)
Why Do Wild Parrots Eat Dirt in the Amazon?
Kickbacks, direct and indirect
Great question. We get the referencer’s contact information, their position and work title, and require that they agree to a follow up with employers. We are developing features for real time identity verification, like 2-step auth with work emails.

The experience and knowledge of the referencer factors into how we calculate the strength of the recommendation.
There are lots of ways to get to scale w/ an open source business model. One way is to have a great product and then get on HN by slamming the cloud vendors as strip miners :) There are a bunch of open source companies that have achieved some fairly incredible scale such as Confluent / Kafka or Hashicorp (u know the stuff Vagrant, Terraform and so on).
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Yup. Not only do corporations have no way to rationally judge these things they have innumberable perverse incentives to not even try to judge and just ban everything. Whatever hurts their bottom line will soon be censored as well as anything that even remotely looks like it.

Initially no one will leave because alternative don't allow you to rake in money or have the network effect like youtube does. But as the noose tightens and the money dries up people will act on their greed and move away to some new centralized service. Then it'll happen again in a handful years time.

The only way to cut this gordian knot and break the cycle is to use federated services, p2p, or self-host.
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Hi,

Thanks for commenting, and for your work on Footpath. I hadn't seen it before, I'll be downloading it now.

You have stumbled across one of 'problems that many startups rarely address'. I've been involved with several startups and heard hundreds of pitches; and as somebody naturally focused more on the product side, I always get stung when a more pragmatic (i.e. money-orientated - usually an investor) person says "you'll be crushed as soon as you succeed!".

The simple fact is that as soon as a small service invents a product or feature, and shows that it works (such as your app), the big fish are going to ask themselves "which is cheaper: copying the feature, or buying you out?"

As you have no patents, it is naive to think that Strava (or any company) would feel any "ethical" (as you said in your article) qualms about copying you. They had an engineering team look at it (as your server logs show), and report that they could probably copy the feature in a few months i.e less money than they thought it would take to buy you out.

> The issue as I see it is that Strava is being misleading in saying they came up with an idea themselves and can innovate quickly, when in fact the data shows otherwise.

What possible reason would they have for doing otherwise? In the quotes you chose in your post, there are no explicit lies - they don't claim to have invented it, they just say they "came up with the idea for the mobile version". Why would they promote another service needlessly?

I admire you for having created a great product, which I will undoubtedly use. But if you want to create a great business in the future, think from day 1 about how to protect yourself for when it gets successful.
> ...the goal of the policy would be the same - to make all data about the person subject to the state's control.

That's one-sided thinking. The goal may well be to make the data not subject to the (lack of) control of a foreign state, namely the United States in this case, but any foreign state in the general case.

In fact the EU already mandates similar restrictions for data of EU citizens and special provisions for EU-US data transfers:

https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/law-topic/data-protection/data...
If that's the case, then the discussion should be about reparations
Sure, but you can still compare relative functionality of the end product. This is a blog. And it's slow. Meanwhile Stackoverflow can load pages in milliseconds with far more interactivity and dynamic data.
The organization behind the website does. The website development team is at https://liberapay.com/Liberapay/.
Yup - https://3.tesla.com/model3/design
$35,000 Tesla Model 3 Available Now
That's Tesla time. "Now", "Soon" and "before the end of next year" means something entirely different.
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This is generally great (and I do it on projects I'm confident won't be moving any time in their useful life), but if you ever switch VCS/ticket systems, it gets messy quick.

Ever moved from Github Issues to Jira/Trello or vice-versa? How about Bitbucket to Github (as I did for my current company)? That's a whole lot of context potentially being lost, either in tickets or PR discussions.

How much of that lost context would have ever been used anyway is up for debate, of course. In my experience the answer tends to be "rarely, but sometimes".
I don't see how it shines a negative light on Strava. Sure, for the 100s of HackerNews types who hope to have their own innovative startup someday, but all these practices have been going on in the industry for decades of inspiration passing around from company to company.

Not every 'feature' is going to become a company, as supposedly Steve Jobs told the DropBox founders when they were showing him DropBox. [1]

I completely agree with you about big-tech having an easy time duplicating a disruptive idea, which is why you actually need to build a disruptive business.

[1] https://pando.com/2012/02/26/steve-jobs-was-right-dropbox-is...
The dos and don'ts of large, online communities
You're missing the point. Most things in life aren't settled as easily as the flat Earth debate. Google could also do this on something that's far more controversial (eg political) and justify it in the same manner. Imagine if Google were against climate change and every video about climate change gets a link to some website that says it's not true. That wouldn't be acceptable, would it? But being okay with Google doing this for flat-earth also makes it more acceptable for Google to do it for climate change.
Tesla’s promised $35,000 Model 3 is finally here
Tesla launches long-awaited standard Model 3 starting at $35,000
YouTube stops recommending alt-right videos
I get where you're coming from with the academic curiosity of seeing how people think.

That said, it seems you're assuming comments are simply a one-way output of different people's thought patterns, rather than a two-way process that has an effect on others. It's obvious it has a two-way effect - the point of reading and listening is to learn, and we can learn in ways that make us worse off.

The idea that we should have a super low-friction way to be exposed to the internal thought process of anybody who is motivated to post those is an idea worth challenging, and we're starting to wake up to just how negative the repercussions of it are. That level of reach without any filtering steps (such as community standards, social feedback loops, etc) is fuel for extremism, harassment, and triggering/exacerbating mental illness. Lets not give everyone PTSD if we don't have to, cause thats effectively what your argument boils down to.
"The big idea is taking local data and seeing if it patches together."

I wonder if those new techniques are different from the usually used like: weighted averages of random forest, cross entropy of density estimation, minimization of variance between local estimations and the like.
Some more notes:

* basic model interior has cloth seats and paired down amenities compared to current model 3

* Looks like autopilot costs $3000 over base

* Full Self-Driving Capability (on-ramp to off-ramp highway driving, autopark and summor your car in a parking lot) is another $5000 over basic autopilot

* Coming this year: ability to "Recognize and respond to traffic lights and stop signs." and "Automatic driving on city streets."
I refer you to my last paragraph.
A similar idea that's somewhat popular in Sweden is to add a heat-exchanger between outgoing sewer water and incoming tap water. You don't need to put fins into the outgoing water, it's simply a piece of regular straight copper pipe, but it's thicker, and the incoming water pipe coils around it a bit.

No need to muck around with fins in the sewage, or trying to convert to electricty, simply heating the incoming water a degree or two saves energy for your water heater.
A good example I've seen recently is Ronald Finger's Fiero restoration series. It's his first classic car restoration and the comments are full of good tips and friendly warnings about mistakes he makes.
Wireshark 3.0.0 Released
Cooling the Tube
They have not yet tried to go against _authors_ for sharing the articles they wrote, but Elsevier has copyright or exclusive license to distribute.

I can see that applying to sites like researchgate, but AFAICT there's no way for an individual (author or not) to upload a missing paper to sci-hub. If the paper isn't there already, looking for it triggers an automatic retrieval-and-storage process that relies on contributed institutional logins. You can't just choose as an individual to upload a currently-missing paper. The watermarking on various papers could tie them back to institutions -- and in some cases to individuals, with the institution's cooperation -- but even the watermarking would be easy enough to strip out from the PDF if sci-hub needed to. I've done it before.

Elsevier won't know whether individuals downloaded anything from sci-hub without network operator cooperation. Since it's not P2P there's no public traffic that third parties can use to tie individuals to the site.
While not a command line tool, it's worth mentioning that KeePass also has plugins for generating TOTP codes:

https://bitbucket.org/devinmartin/keeotp/wiki/Home

https://sourceforge.net/projects/traytotp-kp2/
I'm really excited for Tesla and have been waiting to order one some day. But the problem is, while battery performance in winter doesn't concern me too much - rear while drive and extremely low clearance does. It's just a non-starter in northern climates. My Subaru outback handles this with ease and I feel the Tesla would be a nightmare. It's unfortunate really, they want to make it feel like a race car instead of a practical car.

We had an all time record snowfall in February and it's been an intense winter.

EDIT: I realize they have an all wheel drive option but it's 10k more than the 35k option putting it in a luxury market. Not many Americans can responsibly afford a 45k car.
> The feedback on Searchlight is kept private to the candidate...

Nothing is truly private in this day and age.

Quick counter-example, I get my friend at company X to offer me a job that is very similar to another job I actually want to see what the "private feedback" is so I can cherry pick which ones I should use.
The fact that a reason is used (and has been used) to justify censorship unjustly does not mean that the reason itself is invalid, or that there is no such thing as good censorship; most people agree that some censorship (of threats or child pornography etc.) can be a great positive force.

There is no reason behind the idea that because we can't totally differentiate between good and bad where the line is blurry then we can't do anything at all. I'd also question whether free speech is intrinsically valuable, more than other actions are. I have seen no convincing reason to think so.

We can approve of good actions (like putting a Wikipedia link about earth science under a flat earther's video) and disapprove of bad ones (like putting flat earth propaganda underneath a scientific video). I see no issue here.
I've been working on an app for auto-discovery and sharing of research and wanted to get your feedback:
https://getpolarized.io/

It basically manages your research and allows you to tag PDFs and web content.

The new feature I'm adding is discovery of DOI information from the papers you're reading to determine if they are 'free' based on unpaywall and other services.

I can then use your reading to recommend other papers that are actively being shared by Polar users.

The web version with these features is about 2 weeks away but the desktop app is very solid.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18219960

The idea is that by sharing papers directly we can avoid using centralized providers like Elsevier that are locked down.

Researchers can just add their own papers and tag them as sharable and they will be available to all Polar users.

We're also going to ship an API for this as well.
Bit of a strong reaction to a comment that began with the words "Hopefully"
My results have not been the same. Tried a few times, lost every one. And every one of those domains became parked over the next few days.
I bet it's more psychologically-based than that. From collegiate safe spaces to news media bubbles, to the social networking accounts themselves where nobody honestly follows people or ideas they themselves object to, everybody wants their own gated community/echo chamber.

Personally, as big as I am on free speech and anti-censorship, I don't believe that anybody should be allowed to post pix of minors online under any circumstances, even parents harmlessly to their personal FB profiles. UNLESS it's posting old pix of one's self. Otherwise I feel it betrays the privacy rights of those minors. They may well feel differently when they come of legal age, and by all means they can post whatever they like of themselves after the fact, but in the meantime privacy should be the autoset.
From the references that have come through our system, we’ve seen that quantity doesn’t outweigh quality. We’ll make sure that this stays true as we grow. Our goal is to elevate candidates who aren’t self-promotional through the feedback collected on Searchlight.
https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2018/03/28/buffer-under-re...

Affected Versions:

Ruby 2.2 series: 2.2.9 and earlier

Ruby 2.3 series: 2.3.6 and earlier

Ruby 2.4 series: 2.4.3 and earlier

Ruby 2.5 series: 2.5.0 and earlier

Ruby 2.6 series: 2.6.0-preview1

prior to trunk revision r62992
Or because clay is cheaper than wood in Denmark.
BTW the whole blog is a goldmine. Rim-filled of evidence of how our energy-hungry civilisation can't last :)
>I think that the reality is that until very recently there wasn’t a huge bag of money attached the having fantastic moderation tools.

Uh, spam? Spam has a pretty damn massive bag of money attached to it and nobody has managed to get it right. Every single spam filter catches a ridiculous amount of false-positives and spam is far easier to classify than what's required here. Youtube catches a ridiculous amount of comments as false positives in their spam filter. I can't imagine this new category is going to be any better.
Were there any valuable comments that weren't root-level (or that wouldn't have been made as root-level comments if it were impossible to reply to comments)?

I ask because I feel like you're describing the same sort of system I am in my sibling reply below:

> But really, if content creators want to get "feedback", they just need a thing that's essentially like email—a separate private channel between them and each audience-member—but where you can easily forward a whole email thread, after the fact, to the content host, and it'll appear below the content in an FAQs section. Sort of like how reviews work in some digital storefronts.

If all such comments were submitted knowing they'd just be treated as "private feedback" by default, with the moderator having the option to promote such feedback to appearing as a public "comment" [which, yes, isn't that different from "comments with pre-moderation", except for different expectations on commentors' parts], do you think that (valuable!) thread still could have happened?
... yet they are still perfectly willing to allow content from children to generate revenue off of them!
I remember that. GoDaddy used to do the same.
As passing knowledge is great, but focus and mastery just requires too much time (and time to maintain). Something as large as Maya or computer graphics you have to pick your battles. If you're completely independent or at a very small studio you have to be scrappy, but I think that means more of having a wide toolset, a lot of copy/paste and experimenting. You just don't have the time to master and maintain that mastery.

My career has let me focus on the backend and internals. I know people way more proficient than I am with Maya, but they know little to nothing about Python or the DG (or maybe MEL). I know a few vfx sups who can cobble together a basic shell command, but aren't masters and don't know a bit of Python. It's much easier to interact with them (especially over chat/email--I can send them a command and trust them to modify paths and run it), but it's not worth their time to invest in honing those things. It's probably cheaper to fly someone from a different state to do these things for them than it is for them to spend half a day writing something to parse and edl to rename some Quicktime files or troubleshoot a bad power supply in their workstation. I've also noticed that the more technical they are, the deeper the hole they're in before they ask for help. Hopefully that means they're more productive (and are more ambitious), but it usually means I have to ask them what their original problem was, then what was the first thing they did, then the second, and unwind the situation.

For the situation you described of turning buildings there are probably 5-10 completely different approaches you could take (apart from manually placing them), only a few use Python. At a moderately sized studio (on a moderately sized project), I'd reach for something like Houdini to do what you're asking and you would be hard-pressed to find someone who would use Python for this kind of thing in Houdini. On the flip side I was handed a project at a small place that was well suited for Houdini. We didn't have a license so I cobbled something together in Maya. The producers were telling me in their experience they'd hire someone who would do a project in Houdini, but later when they needed changes and that person wasn't available they'd have to hire someone to redo it in Maya. Reality is hard.

My thoughts about this really clicked with photography. A lot of photographers are just technical enough. Most of the process is a black box, but they've had their camera for years, tested enough inputs and outputs that they can trust their tools to do what they want. Other photographers dig into the tech. They can't, by definition, have as much time in the field. They can tell you a lot more "why" and might be equally good or better in many respects, but it can be really easy to get lost in the tech and miss out on the practice.
If your only consumers are developers, then yes, it’s really straightforward.

I made a small CMS at work that started to gain steam. 2 years of me using it and no issues, but then I turned it over to the marketing team and they crashed the VM it ran on in 2 days. I have no idea how, it’s just a bunch of text boxes and a SQL DB.

That’s what medium is trying to build. A text box that marketing people can’t fuck up. It’s just sad that technical skills are so low in society that it takes $130mil to do that.
LOL. Good Troll!
its not only stereotypical or extreme behavior in kids video which I am talking about, its also about banning videos (and people who make them) which really are harming kids today.

Imagine if your kid really enjoys watching crap youtube shows like “Emma Pretend Play”, “Nastya and Baby”, and “Ryan toys review”, what exactly are they telling the kids? That money is meaningless and buy buy buy?
That is where parents should do their job.
I haven't used Training Peaks since it was a Flash/Flex app. I imagine for a vast majority of Strava's user base, they're not into the detailed micro-management of their workout plans and goals. And they likely aren't athletes working with coaches, etc.

There's been plenty of new app features and user interface updates over the years. I think you're conflating your needs of a highly technical training plan with goals and demographics of the Strava app.

That said, I'm still waiting for Strava, Zwift and Trainer Road to merge into the mega one-stop-shop. ;)

Edit: Also add RideWithGPS to my uber-list of one company, since I use them to generate my route maps over Strava's version, because I think it's better, which actually goes to show that the little guy can still compete. (Probably a small niche market, though.)
So the feds are funding small unneeded jails, meanwhile the biggest jail in my state is an underfunded death house of carnage, with so few staff lawyers are often locked in for hours with the inmates until someone can be found to let them out, inmates die all the time for a plethora of reasons, the place floods, is full of mold, and a general hellhole.

A few months ago someone with a small warrant wouldn't pull over and went on a hour long run from the cops trying to get to another county so he wouldn't have to go to this jail.

Thanks Supreme Court for allowing this shit.
Its only fair, given that everyone else (except Apple) assumes the Eastern Time zone is the center of the universe :-)
Assuming ≤10,000 text messages, that's around $1,350 per MB.

Regardless of the rightness or wrongness of the actions of the family in question, that seems somewhat perverse.
Thankfully iMessage and soon RCS will be replacing these wasteful services.
> Which really is pretty demeaning if you think about it.

Not really: Languages have millions of positive modifiers (including for higher social status) so why assume (and indirectly promote) these ones as automatically pejorative?

Connotations are unrelated to length. Super(wo)man isn't "lesser" just because it takes longer to say, the "default" isn't automatically best.
Tesla launches orders for the $35,000 Model 3
We would sternly warn our clients against using anything like this. If you're really going to do this, just use a serious password manager like 1Password, and set random passwords. Desktop-based TOTP is pretty much just theater past that.