skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How Email Messages Send Files with Only “Lines of US-ASCII Characters”
to add to pocket, or to read what was already saved?
I disagree. They’re simply showing enough compassion to know that it’s not appropriate to throw a part while 150 families are mourning.
I'm not a fan of these opinionated articles.
I can't see why they would, they don't use internally (afaik). Even Amazon has it's own (centos derived) version of linux for instances.
Regardless of YC per se, I think he's made startups better. The content produced for free for startups (StartupSchool) has been key
I can post but I can't figure out how to read. After posting I'm taken back to the home page.

I tried to go to sincere.chat/read but I got a silly 404. :)
What are you suggesting? I truly don't know what "zero tolerance for bugs" could mean.
Good point. Very good point.

But wouldn't "fake it till you make it" have a chance here?
Wow the illustration looks really cool! Hopefully I can pick up a couple of these on my next trip to the UK (If the Brexit doesn't go through completely :) )
MobilePay is not really about paying in a store. You can do that too, but the real force is that anyone with a cellphone can send and receive money on the spot to other MobilePay users as long as you know their number.

Local football team cannot justify the cost of having a card terminal, but can have a MobilePay phone and get donations and payment for coffee and cake at an event. You don't need cash on hand for paying for something you found through facebook marketplace.

You can use it for keeping your childrens class funds for activities, or a gift account on your workplace.

It's seriously disruptive for the more and more cashless society.
The Notable Changes So Far with the Linux 5.1 Kernel
Seems to be a bug where after you post, you can't see any posts until you Ctrl+Refresh (Firefox on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS).
The idea that at some point the additional cost of trying to save lives is more than the value of the life being saved is incompatible with the beliefs of many people. Yet that reality and trade-offs like that are all around us. For example, OSHA could decide that overhead lifting now requires a safety factor of 15 on everything (IIRC it's 5 but it's been awhile). That would probably save a couple lives because by starting off at 15 you could still have a safety factor >1 with totally clapped out equipment. Would that be worth it? This is the kind of dilemma that gets discussed in the "engineering ethics" course that most of the college graduates here had to take and I'm not going to expand on it because there's plenty of other people who have but the takeaway should be that there exists a point where the return on investment of trying to prevent life lost is negative depending on which externalities you count and how you count them.

Personally I agree with the airlines grounding the aircraft because the air-frame failure rate is too high IMO so clearly something is up with them. I fully disagree with the "every life is precious" + "OMG we have no idea what's going on" sentiment being used to justify that. That's now how you're supposed to make these kind of decisions, especially when the recorders from the second crash are in hand and we will soon have a good idea of the cause.

Based on what we know at present, the first crash would likely have been prevented had the pilots been made aware of the new possible failure mode of MCAS, recognized it and disabled the system, the steps for which are the same they've always been. Any 737 pilot not living under a rock is very aware of that new possible failure mode now. While crashing aircraft and publicity like this might not be as good as retraining it has likely accomplished a similar end so if the cause of these accidents is what we currently think it is then the press it's receiving will go a long way toward solving that albeit at unfortunately high cost.

FWIW I removed that sentence from my comment because I didn't want a self fulfilling prophesy but I've added it back to my comment because it mostly came true. No "I disagree because X" (where X is not an appeal to emotion). Just people mashing the "bury this" button and appeals to emotion. Basically Reddit sans the sarcasm.

You know as well as I that any discussion about trade-offs involving human life (or any other emotional topic) eventually just get drowned out by name calling and general bullshit and an adult discussion isn't really possible.
Times Square billboards still sell for thousands of dollars a day. Do you have any evidence for your beliefs?
> investing $150,000 in exchange for 7 percent of each company

The article makes this sound like these are unfavourable terms that come back to bite founders. But surely at the stage YC invests these are higher-risk startups – where 7% for 150k seems somewhat more fair.

In any case, I thought the whole thing with YC was that it invested at a stage when VC funding wasn't typically available for things that can't be bootstrapped – where 93% of something is a lot better than 100% of nothing.
Both Shotcut and Kdenlive use the MLT framework under the hood. I used both for a few weeks now and they seem equally stable for small projects.
Oh wow. I've learned about Excel's Flash Fill only recently and wasn't even aware that the same thing is available as a library as well.

PowerShell's Convert-String is very rough around the edges, though. Seems more like a proof of concept that ended up slipping into a release.
List of Awesome C and C++ Programming Books
Oops. Looks like api/get-posts is responding with a 503. Scaling problems?

It's a good site though. I do hope that, somehow, it manages to thrive despite the spam and abuse. I think everybody could use a space to vent sometimes - even typing out one's problems can help clarify them and turn them from a vague oppressive feeling into something slightly more manageable.
I agree. If HTML was fit for purpose, why is it almost always paired with a (language/framework specific) templating engine?
If only PM did not have such low limit on number of domains you can have. Messages per day are already good limitation, why limit domains?
> Why shouldn't Facebook take down the ad that's calling for a break up of their Company?

For the same reason that TV stations should have to run ads for candidates that advocate for greater taxes on TV stations.

Facebook operates in a stable environment created by the US' democratic governmental structure. In their role as communication channel, they have an obligation to preserve the process that created the environment in which they arose.

I work in tech and while I might quibble with the wording, there's not one point that I feel is wrong on substance. They have bulldozed competition. They have profited from private information. They have tilted the playing field in their favor.

Ironically, I would have thought this last point was the most arguable. Then Facebook took down her ad. ... Sigh. FB so predictably short sighted sometimes.
YC is different.

Consider:
"YC’s terms, which see it investing $150,000 in exchange for 7 percent of each company — a stake that it can maintain throughout the company’s life it it so chooses, per its pact with its founders."

If this is true, it can afford to do different things. Picking the wrong company does not matter. Picking the right company matters a lot. In other words, false negatives are much worse than false positives.

With that type of structure, the more they take on the better.

Sam's philosophy -- from his talks and such, I don't know him personally -- seems to align perfectly with this reward structure. He has grown it in the right direction.

Now, the hit rate will necessarily be lower, and that might hurt another organization but because of their unique structure, I think it helps YC.
Anecdotally: Capital One senior associates in New York(senior associate is their internal title, here it means with ~3 years experience) are at ~125-130k. I'd imagine from a cost of living perspective, it'd be about the same in SF.
This is normal, people come and go and Sam is a superb guy.

The communication about his leaving though, was subpar (to use a polite wording) and seems just off. No strong appreciation/thanks for his time neither from YC's LPs nor Graham. Also his next challenge sounds not like something significant, rather like a rushed filler.

So, this feels like an overnight decision from whomever and doesn't leave a good taste on YC either. That's just not the way to say goodbye (after five years of being together).

However and again: this happens everyday but Sam should have had a communication pro on his side framing the situation properly.

Sam, I wish you all the best and hope to hear from you soon again!
$150K for 7% is one of the best deals available for early stage companies, IMO. I really do agree that (for early stage companies at least), it's basically a judgment or IQ test. If you're offered it and turn it down, you're overwhelmingly likely making an error.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21791 (note that it was 7% for $15K + a small amount per extra founder at the time; at that point, it was probably still a good deal for most teams that were applying)
>I bet if all the screens switched from white-on-black to black-on-white when going into alternate law (or something more night-vision friendly) there would have been no doubt and there would have been no incident.

You're talking about two pilots who couldn't figure out that the plane was stalled even though it was descending rapidly with a nose up attitude. There's not much that UX can do to compensate for that level of incompetence. Holding the stick back in that situation would never be appropriate, regardless of which control law applied.

>The other problem was that the captain and first-officer were inputting conflicting control inputs and didn't know it.

This is a persistent myth about this accident. See e.g. the following post:

http://www.airliners.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=772033&start=...
They have a "Flag" feature, so I'm assuming that that they could do something. They're not saying that they don't log your IP address and what-not, so they can - at the very least - action on it (which probably comes down to contacting local authorities) but it does seem to need addressing in like a Terms of Use or some other such delivery mechanism.
Had to limit the number of posts. This took off a little more than I thought that it would. Back now :)
Show HN: Debpack – Super simple Debian packages
Guardian – Poor man's basic authentication
My experience with React has been that it adds boilerplate to forms that makes them more of a pain on the front end.
Interview with a financial firm and with high probability you will hear “We’re not a financial company, we’re a tech company that does finance”
Yesterday I configure NameCheap DNS and it propagated to the first DNS in 15 minutes and globally I think it could take an hour if not less.

Sometimes the problem with the DNS is not the propagation but the cache, usually, the DNS is cached locally so we (as end-users) are unable to see the changes unless we refresh the dns and it is not automatic.
> It's more that they figured they're unable to make a dent there.

Considering how Microsoft has been shifting to support open platforms (I mean, .net now officially runs on linux and Microsoft even integrates Docker) my guess is that they decided to focus on core businesses and don't waste resources implementing redundant support infrastructure.
Plenty of people from all across the political spectrum would sooner complain than take responsibility and initiative, and plenty of others from across the board are otherwise inclined.

Maybe tone down the broad-brushed contempt; among the people you're talking about there will inevitably be people who are just dealing with tough luck through little fault of their own, and who are not reacting with cruelty to others.
Yes and even though you haven’t owned a TV in 15 years,people still watch TV too....
Does my workaround[0] work for you?

[0] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19367789
Darwin was already used on tenner, Newton on the £1 note.
The Nuclear Reactor Graveyard
Stellar Lumens rebrands with new, professional logo
I've worked in a scala shop, it was the highest performing team of developers I've ever worked with, coupled with the highest amounts of wanting to get shit done.

The ecosystem around scala is great, you get to use any jvm library using a relatively sane ML derived language that is safer than most other alternatives.
Two planes full of passengers destroyed because the pilot couldn't get the nose to point upward and we find a secret computer system that overrides manual controls and automatically points the nose downwards?

Yeah, sounds like a real possibility to me.
Few pathways to an acceptable climate future without immediate action
Mobile-First Indexing and Mobile-Friendly Websites
What if they picked a prominent female scientist?

Also, there was a theatrically released biopic for Hawking and he was featured on an episode of the Simpsons, I think he's pretty mainstream.
Amazon has Amazon Linux which is based on CentOS, and Google has invested in CoreOS which also based on CentOS just for K8s. I don't know if other vendors like DO would invest in any specific distro tbh.
For a while I was ambivalent about Chrome dominance, my line of reasoning being "well they're still innovating, it's not going to be like it was in the IE days".

My mistake was in assuming that IE dominance was only bad because it wasn't innovating.

What we seem to be developing now is a kind of tunnel vision, where, to your point, we simply assume that Google is the web and the web is Google.
It sounds like the real issue is their insistence it 'must' be solved in absolutes. That absolutism leads to tyranny and the original problem going unsolved.

It is the same idiot-demagog loop of "We must do something and this is something! The fix made it worse? Do more something!" cheers

Hell the whole social media stir about internet misinformation is taking projection to previously unseen heights by everyone with an interest against a free internet.
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None of those services is offering a low-hassle, free CDN & proxy for smaller sites. Nobody offers one for free anywhere on earth that is of the quality and scale that Cloudflare offers. That's what lured so many sites to their service so quickly in a very competitive landscape. If you've got a site that needs $0.50 per month in CDN service, they give it to you for free, along with various other benefits included at no cost. You can throw a cheap, low traffic site (or 20 of them) onto Cloudflare and never worry about cost (whether on the CDN side or otherwise), period. It's an immense cost benefit for lower traffic sites.
Failover is a major difference I find between Cloudflare and Stackpath. Just a WAF with more options for failover or load balancing would put things on equal footing. This was based on my last trial back in November.
What whould be the case today anno 2019 to use Debian over CentOS, Ubuntu or one of the other distro's?
They also figured out how to solve their own problem with the issue. Use the REPL!
> We can't avoid the reality that had the necessity to skirt regs not been there, Boeing would have definitely come up with a different solution from an engineering perspective.

"Necessity?"
I think you go too deep. For most folks, Hawking = black holes, and this is a fine illustration on a very limited canvas. I personally consider it much cooler rather than just some tiny portrait / picture of person in a wheelchair.
"investing $150,000 in exchange for 7 percent of each company — a stake that it can maintain throughout the company’s life it it so chooses, per its pact with its founders."

I think the issue might be the second part as, if I understand correctly, it means that YC is insulated against dilution without having to invest a penny more.

Considering how many startups apply I would say that more than enough people are happy with those terms, though.
That might be the case if you're in the front office at trading firms or hedge funds, but it's not generally the case with banks. FAANG pretty much roundly beats any bank these days.
I appreciate Mozilla's advocacy work, but this write-up needs a little more meat on the bone - it's not clear at all from reading what the EU's new law actually does. Will the EU no longer be arresting security researchers following responsible disclosure practices? (And how would those be defined?)

The devil is always in the details with these things, so it would be nice to see a bit more detail here.
I googled that, looks like an issue in FF: https://github.com/mrdoob/three.js/issues/9716 Basically i just channel through regular three without creating much of a dependency. If it doesn't work in react-three-fiber, then i doesn't work in threee-js. But they're so big that usually these webGL bugs are either fixed quickly by them, if it's their fault, or they're filling vendor issues.
If you "make it", it's not fake. Sure they could pay people what tech firms pay and treat them the same way, but then it wouldn't be fake.

What's fake is trying to get real results without real change.
Hawking is a household name in the UK.
CDNPerf[1] provides a real-time performance analysis of all major CDN providers.

I have researched this space a lot, and my conclusions are:

- Cloudflare: the best all-in-one solution, as long as you don't go above the Business tier

- Fastly: the most technically advanced CDN, but also one of the most expensive ones (there is a reason why StackExchange and Reddit moved from Cloudflare to Fastly)

- KeyCDN: the best fully-featured value-for-money CDN, if you just want to replace AWS Cloudfront CDN / Google Cloud CDN / Azure CDN

- BunnyCDN: the best value-for-money CDN for distributing large static assets across the globe (can get as low as $0.0025 / GB)

[1] https://www.cdnperf.com/
Ubuntu 18.04, stock Firefox installed with the desktop, version 64.0.1, has in your face "Recommended by Pocket" items. One encourages me to use DuckDuckGo, but....
https://www.royalmint.com/our-coins/events/stephen-hawking/
It is a violation of the brand expectations pilots have for Boeing.

Boeing introduced fly by wire after Airbus and it did it in such a way to preserve the feel of flying a plane, in particular if you have a fight with the system you could pull harder and win.

Some pilots have strong feelings about this and are loathe to switch from Boeing to Airbus or vice versa.
The hospitals in my city were using Sunrise and the micro reports are included in Results tab but for some reason we still get faxes (legacy practices maybe). The problem is the province wanted one system across all sites. Currently there are a ton of different EMRs used by different hospitals that obviously don't talk to each other. So transferring a patient between sites, even down the road basically involves printing/photocopying every single piece of paper and physically sending it with the patient. I'm sure less than 5% of that ever gets read.
Firefox Send: Free encrypted file transfer service
Posted 3 times previously:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19360276

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19320253

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19262255
Are you saying now we have pilots trained for commercial that are flying planes designed more like fighter jets?

Eeek.
I'm trying to think about how the web is different for a new user now vs 15 years ago.

I, as a consumer not an academic/student/employee, buy an internet access account from my local monopoly highspeed internet provider. I'm set up with my wifi router/modem and suddenly have a LAN that can connect to a huge variety of sites via the web. Note that the web isn't in any way distinguished from the internet. For most folks, the two have become synonymous.

I have 3 (imaginary) devices to use. A phone, a gaming console, and a PC. 2 of those devices are already using a walled-garden app store, leaving only the PC as something still sort of free. So I think there's a burden on Apple/Google, and Microsoft/Sony/Nintendo to put measures in place to increase freedom and decrease the negatives of the web.

Yet they don't control the main culprits of the problems that the web faces: Twitter, Facebook, and I would add news sites comments, and Reddit, here. Those web sites do have a huge responsibility for the problems that their users have added to the web.

Their hands-off attitude allows bad actors to fester and grow, pulling people in and further spreading their message to new sites. I don't see the problem being tackled anytime soon though.
Maybe this is an effect linux ecosystem fragmentation of recent years has on communities.
Haha I've done exactly that because I was from Feckall, Nowhere, Canada.

It was nice when they started offering the CD/DVD copies for a donation (or free, if you were a poor kid from Feckall...)

There used to be so many fights over the phone line in those days... it shouldn't make me nostalgic but it does a little.
So, basically the same approach that spammers use - maximizing your gain while inconveniencing everyone else. I hope you're proud of yourself.
In 1903, Andrew Carnegie dedicated a gorgeous public library to DC: https://www.google.com/maps/uv?hl=en&pb=!1s0x89b7b7928ca1dbd.... Today, it is being gutted and renovated as an Apple Store. That's basically what happened to the web. It's not so much that it's bad, it's just a disappointment.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, the article doesn't really answer its own question, it's basically "wow a lot sure has changed in the last decade, some of it good and some of it bad".

I think if you apply standard CEO metrics to Altman he did pretty damn well. YC has grown tremendously under his tenure and its reputation is still great, its startups are still making money as investments, and organizations the world over are copying one facet or another of what YC does.
I'm not sure why you're being downvoted, other than perhaps the terseness of your response. There is research that hypothesizes that Alzheimer's is like diabetes in that it manifests itself as a dysfunction of insulin/glucose regulation.
I was watching a documentary on animal intelligence and it seemed to me that once a species gets to a certain level, individuals start cheating and hiding things from each other. This happens with dolphins and chimps, for example.

What humanity has achieved with the internet is the industrialisation of lying, cheating, and faking. An individual's ability to cheat was more or less limited by space (and he had to be convincing). Now a good liar can reach out to millions and he doesn't even have to show his face (and he can reach the credulous easily, so he doesn't even have to be as convincing as before).
I’m not a YC company founder but that’s not how I understand their terms to work. They can follow in subsequent rounds to maintain their percentages but they aren’t “locked in” at 7%.

—-Edit——

Yeah. They have pro rata rights to follow in their agreement.
wow, that's way off!

for n = 2, n^n^n^n returns 65536. for n = 3, javascript thinks its infinity.

i guess BOAT should start using decimal values for n so we can detect this problem.
WordPress WooCommerce Based Stores Are Under Attack
Thanks for sharing your experience. I hope you do actually manage to improve our privacy :)
Yup, perhaps that's why it's missing in the latest PowerShell release ...
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/Microsoft...
I installed NetSurf when I saw your comment. It immediately crashed when I entered a URL of a website. Then I uninstalled it.
Hey just wanted to say I really appreciate your comments. I came looking for content like this, and I have grown tired of HN's blind "moral" stance against Chrome lately.
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Australia and Singapore suspend Boeing 737 Max operations after crash
Scientists Reveal Strange Molecule That Can Store Sun's Energy for 18 Yrs (2018)
Maybe only the ones they had an easy excuse to remove?