skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pass through revenue isn't a great metric to value off of. It's a fancy and deceptive way to pass off a broker like a software company. If you pass through 70%-80% of your revenue, your revenue is more accurately stated as a net revenue. It's more akin to how we value traditional retailers in brick and mortar businesses, with low margin - think Best Buy.
Same, tried a few times, gave up since it was always more expensive than booking/hotels.com/expedia.
That is a very good point, except the US will not steal you IP and give it to Microsoft or some wind energy company. 2nd you can always take the US government to court, you can always take a US company to court and you will get a hearing without corruption without government directives
Yes, but it's incompatible with DentaCoin; something about staining. It's in the gleaming-whitepaper.
That's a valid point, thanks for the feedback.
that will replace slowness with crashes, as very few programs are written to survive being told that no more memory is available.
>I happily look forward to the downvotes.

Painting yourself as the underdog before receiving any feedback undermines your communication. Even worse, the "your inevitable and surely unreasonable disagreement makes me happy" style of sign-off is just putting forth the image of being an asshole for basically no reason other than emotional self-defense.
The poor being in a struggle to survive may have a wealth of source reasons. Mismanagement (not necessarily limited to the financial aspect of their lives) is the first thing that comes to mind.
HotelTonight's model is to find and offer up rooms for last-minute demand that would otherwise go empty. Hotels are happy to offer discounts for these. It's really just automating the same deals you could get if you called.
If you sell software to the government, having a DUNS number is actually a requirement, too. At least to get listed on SAM.gov. You also need a CAGE number. I don't remember it taking me too long to get a DUNS number - and you can definitely avoid paying them any money.
That's true, if you have a complete failure. If you have a partial failure, self-build can be better, because you can pull the failed part and run with a degraded system while the RMA processes, then install the RMA. With pre-build, you're sending the whole system back and are without a computer for 5-10 days.
[Insert Simpsons Hah-Hah]

;-)
Or maybe not even in the browser but in the OS?

It is interesting how we build a new layer on top, and then notice that we need to reproduce all the functionality of the lower levels.

Maybe Open Implementation wasn't such a bad idea?
"For each engineer that we hired in the Bay Area, we could have hired 10–15 outside of it. Everyone has heard of 10x engineers, but what they don't tell you is that the Bay Area doesn't have a monopoly on them." This really surprised me, thought it was a big gap, but not this big
OneNote (and structured in bullet journal way).
I’m referring to their last valuation of $400m in 2017. The company hasn’t hockeysticked since then, by any measure (e.g. App Store rank), so I think we can deduce the sale price was likely well below $1b, maybe 500m at very best but guessing lower. Factoring liquidation preferences for VCs and you get a small pie for most people involved.
>but industry hiring practices tend to agree with you.

Yes. Industry hiring practices enforce systemic racial and class prejudice, as illustrated and defended by the GP.

"But one name looks like a hillbilly and one is really black." That's the problem.
> that's how it works and it's always charged directly by the property.

If the hotel wants to charge their own fee separate from the app then that's not a problem at all. The problem is the Hotel Tonight lying about what the prices are.
No, my phone. I'll admit, the idea of writing anything more than a couple hundred lines is ridiculous. But, for a small script to pull some data from a website it's not too bad.

My main reasoning was, I use the bus when i'm out and about, I don't carry a laptop with me most of the time, I was unhappy with the way the bus times were displayed in the available apps, so I wrote it on my phone at work when I had a bit of time.

Most of the other things were just playing around with the limited access to the android api termux gives you. I actually prefer SL4A for android scripting, but it's been dead for years. It granted access to more of androids api than termux does though.
Randomization solves for the problem, that's true, but that isn't what people are arguing when they criticize social science research like this.

Theoretically, if you have X number of factors you can't control for, then there should be some threshold Y where the sample size benefits from random selection and accounts for those factors. Right now, social scientists have formulas they use to establish what is and is not an acceptable population when doing experiments like this.

The problem that is being identified (and can't be stated often enough, honestly) is that human emotional preferences and variability of experience means that X is far more variable than anyone can conceive. A human being is an extremely complex biological system and that complexity compounds when you begin comparing people to one another and in groups. So unless you are actively controlling for every possible factor in that system, the assumption that you can use any formula to establish a reasonable population size Y is absurd.

Anyone with half a brain can see this, but social science has to deliver on a product and justify its existence with research funding, so it developed standards - like the aforementioned formulas - that allow it to ignore the problem of identifying X and instead just assuming their synthetic Y will do.

This is the real reason why psychologists have a replication crisis and why they always will. Many of them don't even use the standards they have because honestly, they all realize it's nonsense to begin with.
This seems much more like an ultra-wealthy individual's means of diversification. Holding 1 million in Bitcoin as an insurance policy is relatively small hedge against the end of the (non-digital?) world. I don't think this move is much different than if he were buying up gold for a worst case collapse of USD.
I think that we actually already have something much like the alternate world you describe - linux distros.

The posix shell language is amazing at what it does. There is no language in existence in which it is as easy to fork and exec two programs with different collections of arguments and connect their standard streams together. In fact, it's so easy to do those things that these languages have been universally adopted, bare and raw, as both the first and last user interface that experts reach for when operating a computer. I log in to a posix shell, I use it to find files and launch programs and deploy software and talk to people, and I depend on it when civilization has fallen and I need to re-establish operation using only what I can scavenge in the howling emptiness of my bootloader's recovery console.

At the same time, these shell languages are in many ways objectively terrible. They're practically made of subtle unexpected behaviors, their provisions for modularity are terrifying, and they're so deeply baked into so many things that they're past ossified and well on their way to fossilization. Google's style guide for bash [1] draws the line at 100 lines of code - if you have that much logic you need to switch to a better-suited language now.

But there are situations where people couldn't follow that rule. As pointed out by the Oil Shell project [2], most linux distros are almost entirely sh codebases. And I think that these give us a good view into the kind of alternate world you're looking at. They grew that way because they are the result of hundreds or thousands of people over the course of decades using the language as their main interface, building functional prototypes interactively and then tweaking and packaging and adding functionality until they became comprehensive or capped out. And then people adopted those tools and they became part of the operating system. I guarantee you that /etc/rc can trace its origins back to some angry sysadmin deciding that this whole "booting the operating system" thing was too much work and needed to be automated.

Personally, I think that there's a reason we went the direction we did. In some ways, languages like APL and sh are neat. I can, in fact, use bash as a core interface for sysadmin tasks. But at the same time, I've seen some pretty horrifying code in my time as a programmer, and I find shell scripts in /etc/ that near the top of the list. These hyper-expressive interactive languages are fantastic for their purposes at the cost of their performance in other domains. It might take me an hour to get twenty lines of bash working safely and reliably, and every moment of it I'm thinking to myself, "there's a better way to do this, I should just use $other_lang".

1: https://google.github.io/styleguide/shell.xml?showone=When_t...
2: http://www.oilshell.org/blog/2018/01/15.html
I use notion.so (in the past I used evernote and simplenote via nv mac client).

Notion is better because it's hierarchical (as opposed to "a bundle of independent documents" model of evernote/simplenote and pretty much everything else. And it has many unique features, like simple spreadsheets, trello-like boards, todo lists, dates and reminders and all of it presented in a cohesive UI.

You can see example of my notes at https://blog.kowalczyk.info/article/9a07ca64c0c14dc09e8bd134...

They are published on my website but the content is stored in notion (9a07ca64c0c14dc09e8bd134b348678d is the id of a page in notion).

In fact, all of my website is re-published from content stored in Notion. I also keep private notes there but ability to publish non-private notes on the web is a nice bonus.

To do that I wrote a Go library to access data from notion (https://github.com/kjk/notionapi) and wrote a Go program to convert it to HTML and publish on Netlify (https://github.com/kjk/blog).

Notion would be a great note-taking, organizational tool even without my custom hacks.
Although practically no CEO would hide alcohol use, which is - scientifically speaking - far more harmful than cannabis use.

Edit: I mistakenly wrote "less" instead of "more". Now corrected.
Watch Spiderman into the Spiderverse Free
> If you want to use a wiki like dokuwiki or pmwiki, you can run a webserver on localhost like this: php -S localhost:8001

That's a really nifty idea!

(Also second dokuwiki, it is probably the most useful and least annoying wiki I know of.)
My alternative for about $45 US in equipment. Buy an Aeropress (~$30) and a cheap hand burr grinder from Amazon. (~$11) Always buy freshly roasted beans. Read and follow the instructions that come with Aeropress. Water temperature matters! Stirring duration matters! But if you can simply follow instructions, it's very easy to get consistent results.

If you're a bit lazy, you can substitute a cheap blade grinder, and still have the same equipment outlay.
Well, that isn't how the treaties define a safe country. Mexico is not trying to exterminate anybody from Central America. Mere crime, even highly organized or widespread crime, doesn't disqualify Mexico. The country is safe by the standards of the international treaties.

BTW, about this claim that people are fleeing violence... why should we take that at face value? Could they be fleeing the law? They could in fact be the cause of the violence. We have no way to conduct background checks.
the TL;DR is that Zuckerberg seems to want to move the company from being a completely open public space to more of a collection of private communities, because that is what, according to him, people are gravitating towards.

I don't think there's an explicit mention in there that they want to be a wechat like system. But there's also been talk about facebook introducing their own crypto-ish currency, so I guess it's not an outlandish idea either.
Interesting.

What about customer-specific files... a small business would hope to have more than 10!
Sounds like it's time for another round of price fixing.

Hopefully this time they'll just agree to stop making lossy RAM (Rowhammer), rather than having another fab fire.
From a product perspective I think this is the right move. Aside from data privacy concerns, a lot of the critism of Facebook as a product seems to be due to it's global nature -- how your feed is mixed with Grandma posting conspiracy memes and your high school acquaintance talking about how her multilevel marketing scheme is amazing.

Many people say they only use Facebook to keep in touch with certain folks and for the event planning capabilities. If Facebook can successfully integrate the three apps and make Facebook seem more like a neighborhood coffee shop than a global forum I could see it really fueling growth and engagement.
Calc.exe is now open source; there’s surprising depth in its ancient code
This is one of the best descriptions I have ever read. Thank you.
> I say this as a lifelong Democratic party member and voter. (Until recently.) In 2019, inequality is propagated through differences in access to effective educational environments. It's the Democratic party which opposes school vouchers and funding increased choice in education for disadvantaged neighborhoods. I know that such choice is an important issue for inner city parents. I've been approached by an inner city mother asking how she could get a coding education for her son.

One, this is completely off-topic for this article.

Two, and this is important, I find the "I, an anonymous person, used to believe X, so you should believe me when I espouse political beliefs that are antithetical to X" school of debating incredibly tiring. Just make your case, skip the "as a ...." introduction.

Third, and this is important -- almost all school voucher programs are designed to take public money and put them into subpar schools with few to no standards. Voucher programs with standards get support, voucher programs that exempt private recipients of funds do not.

> Who benefits from encouraging large populations to refuse to assimilate into their host society?

Most democrats and public education supporters are for integrated education. Most voucher supporters are not.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19321609
> I don't think you are their ideal consumer. They're appealing to the Stallmans, the people who aren't looking to replace their smartphone, but for which this would be one of their first.

That's certainly part of it, however I do have an iPhone currently, (seems like a better, if less than ideal option than Android), however am not happy about the locked down nature of iOS. Free software smartphones are necessary simply because they're the frontier the PC was in the 80s.
It doesn't help when companies start using the misspelling as a brand name: https://expresso.com/Home
Viruses could be the best weapon for fighting super bacteria
At the same time I feel like the ball is in their court at this point to prove themselves. Requesting proof in criticisms feels like a weird kind of sealioning.
My server-side React blog (https://philandrews.io) runs on Cosmic. And it's easy. Given that your blog posts reside at the end of a url, one GET request brings gets all the content you need to populate your index or post page. Pair your React with NextJS, fetch your post(s) in getInitialProps and you're good to go.

Here's an article I wrote about opening up a blog with Cosmic back in 2017. It still holds... https://hackernoon.com/language-agnostic-content-management-...
> government will bail out big banks

I really think the fabric of the USA economic system was changed with the decisions made during the 2008 financial crisis. Many citizens felt the game was rigged; large corporations held undue influence in the federal government. 2008 proved the USA has transitioned to corporate capitalism.

It is still stupefying how a country based on capitalism wouldn't allow the tenets of capitalism to play out.
I don't know if they're the problem, but they're a problem.
I haven't used them personally but rethinkdb looks good

https://rethinkdb.com
Yeah well, this only makes me redouble my efforts to get rid of whats-app. If only idiotic managers would stop making pointless job related whats-app groups for everything...
You have no idea what it’s like to be powerless and have people like you dictating terms and ruining lives and there being nothing you can do about. You have no idea what that feels like.
I'm guessing you'd pass on Ta-Nehisi Coates too then?
Currently, we don't offer a visual editor for React components. However, this can be done using an Extension. https://cosmicjs.com/extensions/

This may be something we or our community may make available soon with enough interest.
You are kidding
You want to use equipment from a country that is known to steal IP. Hang on you want other people to use equipment under control of the communist party
Now I get it. Your social credit score has increased
I don't really understand that as an argument, honestly. It's like saying "holding $1M in lotto tickets is a great hedge against the end of the world" or "$1M in macaroni." You can buy all sorts of things, why this thing? If the world ends the first thing shutting down is the thing that's using all the power. We'll need it for things like showers and eating.
> HotelTonight was never actually cheaper than any other aggregators or booking directly with the hotel

I think every major hotel chain guarantees that their direct price is the lowest, and why wouldn't it be when there is no middleman, so why go anywhere else when you've found the hotel you want?
I've used it several times to good effect. Got to stay in a decent room in Vegas when I was just passing through for 15 bucks. They offered it to me for a second night for 25.

Ive also used it in LA, SF, bumfuck Arizona, etc. Each time I got better deals. But I used it to find hotels day of.
why does he have a 10K weekly buy limit ?
I suspect they were just paraphrasing Zuckerberg's blog post[1]:

> Encryption. People's private communications should be secure. End-to-end encryption prevents anyone -- including us -- from seeing what people share on our services.

[1] https://www.facebook.com/notes/mark-zuckerberg/a-privacy-foc...
interesting! the weight vs volume point is something that's not obvious on first blush.
> These movements come in waves, and it's a mistake to suggest that the recent developments are troubling or unnatural. ...

You're probably right, but it's not Haidt that's describing any ideologies or worldviews as "troubling" or "unnatural", other than perhaps wrt. Trumpism at the close of this interview. If anything, he repeatedly stresses just how natural it might feel, for example, to demand ideological "safe spaces" in order to preserve one's quasi-religious worldview and sense of identity from what's perceived as a very personal attack from outsiders and enemies. What arguably is "troubling" and indeed outright toxic, is the consequences of these developments on the workings of our institutions (such as academia and policy-making) as well as on social cohesion more generally. But these consequences are far from unavoidable, and Haidt's book is mostly about trying to avert them.
Stutter – A speed reading browser extension for Firefox and Chrome
The Chrome dev team is working to create a scheduling API in the browser: https://github.com/spanicker/main-thread-scheduling
You have to own a certain amount of BTC to have a seat at the table. My sense is that JD needs to accumulate to influence BTC either directly or via Cashapp. He probably has a very long way to go....
yah a combination of meetup groups and eventbrite would a good place for facebook to make a lot of money.
Lightsail. You carry a laser and a lightsail. You shoot the laser at the black hole and the laser light gravitationally slingshots around the black hole, returning to you with more energy than you gave the laser. The returning laser light pushes your lightsail. The black hole needs to be moving for this to work, although it doesn't really matter what direction the black hole is moving.
I too prefer feature folders. I wish it was the example most used...as it is we have a convention that has no reason other than "this how I first saw it done".
>>Many of them have the opposite problem, an extreme self-confidence that comes across as arrogant.

Too many people that seem very self-confident and arrogant are actually highly insecure people.
> I'm not sure how AirBnB locations can/will be built into HotelTonight - after all HotelTonight is all about ease of use, low friction and flexibility. The very things AirBnBs are bad at (coordinating check in times etc).

I expect them to just show hotel tonight data in the airbnb interface. From the press release:

> We are making it easier for people who use Airbnb to find last-minute places to stay when Home hosts are often already booked. The availability of boutique hotels—in addition to private rooms and entire homes that are instantly bookable—helps ensure authentic, high-quality stays are available on-demand, especially at the last minute.

I think about it this way all the time: AirBnB bought the product for X price, because they think it will help them make Y more money. They don't even need to "merge" as long as the product is profitable but if they can get even 1% more with a cross over, then AirBnB (the parent co) is making even more money (with more risk ofc)
The main point being made, I think, is that the government's job isn't to choose the winners and losers in the market.
This article is one of a very small few that have made me cry.

It's worth the effort.
I hope they truly remain independent. It's a great platform. A few years ago I was in Paris. It was a last minute thing and I used a similar website to HotelTonight that was the "hot" product in the last minute industry for big EU cities. Basically I got to stay at a really exclusive hotel for an extremely interesting rate. Something like 60% of its original value. I guess hotels don't care anymore at a certain point as long as they get their minimum back. Especially this was when Airbnb was the new cool kid in town. It is kinda interesting how Airbnb is just now moving into this market slowly eating the hotel industry one piece at a time
Cameras Can Spot Shoplifters Even Before They Steal
good stuff. I thought this looked like a deep dive into the work presented in a trivial (and fear-mongering) manner earlier by duo. That led me to this:

https://medium.com/fleetsmith/on-dep-mdm-device-identity-and...
You are pretending to confuse state level spying and ip theft with incompetence
The numbers I see thrown around are at least 1% of portfolio value should be bitcoin for diversification purposes, if not 4-6%.

https://www.investopedia.com/news/every-portfolio-should-hav...

Jack has a way to go as his current strategy will only get him to 0.01% in a year. He has said before that he owns quite a bit of bitcoin already though.
The paper says that the maximum velocity obtainable would be 2x the rotational speed of the body used. Some such bodies rotate at appreciable portions of the speed of light.

Obviously you cannot exceed the speed of light but it doesn't seem like it would be a wash.
I guess "next business model" doesn't preclude simultaneously keeping the first two business models alive and well.
I always considered something similar with my name. For example if my legal name is Ronnie should I put Ron/Ronald on professional resumes/LinkedIn? Even though that's not my real name. Or Donnie vs. Don/Donald. Tommy vs. Tom/Thomas. It just seems anything ending in "ie,y" appears less professional.
I don't personally disagree with that but CEOs are the public face of a company and he's running an American company where there is still stigma against marijuana. It does not show good judgment on his part.