skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well. These are just anecdotal from one job in an agency which also sells websites for some bigger companies... and I hope this stuff is rather not standard... but if I had to guess it's something like:

- bad project management from the client (they often don't care about technical quality or rather can't evaluate it)

- bad project management from the web contractor (they often don't care about technical quality or rather can't evaluate it)

- the web agency has too many projects due and needs to deliver asap

- exhausted & mismanaged dev teams (+ freelancers) which are constantly working on short lived projects, which are a mess because nobody doesn't really care

Also I am amazed over and over again how a lot of managers (or people) will lie straight to your (or the clients) face if they can thereby save their ass.
So you’re saying that VCs are investors in private companies with a 10 to 12 year path to going public because...”low interest rates”? And that monentary policy is a larger driver of their investment decisions than a belief that there is a credible path to building a viable business?

I think that is confusing second and third order considerations with first order considerations that actually drive investors choices.

Perhaps monetary policy affects the macro environment by making investment money available, but each investment is a micro decision by one firm, driven by a thesis. I find it hard to believe that investors think monetary policy is an important basis for betting on Lyft or the like.

That’s like say “I won’t start a company unless tax rates are lower”. No one does that, no one cares, maybe we care later. But when you’re thinking about the founding decisions paying taxes is several orders removed from: product, team, financing, revenue, break even etc.
Is Life a Ponzi Scheme?
Conversational Landing Pages. When (and When Not) to Use Them
Her story is completely nonsensical, she's an awful liar. Or, is pretending to be an awful liar. Perhaps she's clever and is pretending to be a hapless rube, in an effort to diminish her perceived culpability. With spy shit like this, either is a possibility.
Trying to make a plan to validate a SaaS idea
Hi everyone, in succession of my previous posts about the SaaS I am trying to validate I decided to actually sit down and make a stepped process of the actions I should take to validate as best as I can my idea before I start building an alpha version of the service.

Here is what I have come up with so far.

1. Launch a simple one page landing page with a signup section for their email.

2. Expose it to potential customers for a week: reddit, linkedin etc

3. See if I have any signups, if so how many

4. If I had some subs, run some questionaires by them to see what they really want, also ask for what troubles them the most and if they have tried other similar solutions and what went wrong.

5. Launch a more detailed landing page with the price plans and a pre-order option with a big discount. This way the idea will be validated by having users to actually pay for it, which is the hardest part

6. Send follow up emails to update every contact that has signed up

7. Validate the idea against how many sales it did within the first week(or month?)

8. If I did any sales, start building the MVP while staying in close touch with the early bird customers

9. Maybe in the meantime invest on some ads?

So far I have made a landing page with the proposed features and three price plans that asks the user to sign up and logs his plan selection. I haven't got any subscriptions yet but I got some valuable feedback that essentially said that the page is not clear enough as to what the service is doing and how it's solving the problem it is. So I decided to go back a step and I am currently refactoring it into a single landing page with subscriptions to an alpha version with the promise to be part of the creation of the service. Hoping to hey some early birds and begin the feedback cycle.

Looking forward to hear your thoughts about my thoughts and my approach.

Many thanks!
NRF consumes too much for powering it via NFC.

GPG/SSH are in progress.
Hilarious. But I wouldn't be surprised.
Just leaving this here:
https://coincircle.com/l/50VVxbObg3
The NYT article either leaves out that the woman was carrying Republic of China passports, or is erroneously conflating RoC and PRC.
Doesn't a Faraday cage need to be grounded therefore limiting your movements?
There is another difference with Aaron Swartz: I'm not sure if Aaron would block access for a whole country over petty squabbles. [1] TL;DR: a few grateful scientists named a newly discovered bug in her honour, she took offence and banned Russian IP's as a form of collective punishment.

I find the whole story deeply fascinating, because it's a rare case when a person of very questionable moral values (I believe most people here would find her behaviour and views reprehensible) does unequivocal good to the society. It's so easy to fall into the trap of black-and-white hero narrative, but sometimes reality is just more gray and weird.

[1]: https://medium.com/@alexandraborissova/sci-hub-banned-in-rus...
Google Shouldn't Be a Verb
I don't think ripping off LookML is a bad thing; on the contrary, it's probably an awesome thing for Looker to be in the position of shaping how companies model their data and the relationships thereof. At the very least, it means Looker can turn around and say "hey, if you're outgrowing this smaller tool that uses LookML, why not switch to a platform that can meet your scale (like, say, us)?". The more smaller-scale "competitors" aping LookML, the more teams outgrowing those platforms and looking for larger-scale platforms where they can `git pull $old-platform`, `git push $new-platform`, copy over some data sources / credentials, and call it a day. If $new-platform=Looker, then congrats, Looker now has a decently-sized customer.

In other words: Looker ought to embrace the idea of LookML being the data modelling language. Encourage other implementations of it. Treat them as customer sources instead of customer sinks. That's how they can take over the world :)
Yes, they could. But... rising hired humans in company isn't good sign for investors.

But when they're hired using subcontractor company it's OK.
> She was allowed to enter by Secret Service agents stationed outside the resort after the Mar-a-Lago security manager on duty verified that her last name matched the surname of a member of the club, according to a complaint filed in federal district court in South Florida.

I mean, Zhang is a pretty common surname, so if that's the only checking they did this sounds pretty inadequate…
Which is why the if is in there :(
Because your team is the exception. Isn’t that implied by the title?
Sounds like Mush-tah-nov to me.
so, in summary for the article: journalists found that her story checks out. and it's related to an event organized by a prostitution entrepreneur who claims to have access to Trump, and the secret service filled in a report saying they have no idea of such event?
Amplify Framework Simplifies Configuration for OAuth Flows AR/VR Scenes
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19559457
It may have had more value in more savage times millenia ago before the proliferation of very many victimless crimes.
I guess that's how they can afford to give me $25k in credits.
You are forgetting people who would want to get off that stop, so this is may not be an option.
Digitization projects like this are such a boon to scholarship. I haven’t combed through the list of codices yet to see if there’s anything I might like to investigate—but hey, now I can whenever I find the time. I’ve had to plan international trips to visit manuscript libraries, without being sure what awaited me. (Don’t get me wrong, that’s a lot of fun in its own way. But what if I come across something unexpected, and I only have a week in town, and I’m not allowed to photograph any of the materials?)
At the end of the post he mentions what I think is a really under-rated approach: a “normal” server rendered application with Vue components used per-page when the UI is highly dynamic.

I’ve built a relatively large app this way and found it to be quite nice. Vue works very nicely inside the container elements in the page where I need it, and it’s pretty easy to bootstrap the initial state into the page using the same serializers I do for JSON endpoints, so once it’s rendered users can spent a lot of time on a particular screen without any further page loads.

The last bit that’s nice is bundle size. It’s not too hard to split bundles based on unique entry pages, so you can end up with something like 30kb of “global” JS and then a second bundle for the big meaty pages that may range from 20 - 200kb. With caching that means 90% of screens have a very small payload and load really fast, and the rest have a slightly slower first load and then the same perf profile.

This has been a highly productive way to work, I’m surprised that it’s not written about more often.
Vancouver Home Sales Drop to a Three-Decade Low
> you need to control for both the ignorance of some users and the likely sense of helplessness of others

How? How would you control for that without powerfully suggesting potentially desirable outcomes in any sort of interview/survey?
Lol, hang it up, kiddo.
> My team absolutely needs React/Redux/Sagas/Webpack/whatever-you-want-to-hate-on-today

Then you're in the 1% of people that use these tools and actually need them. The point of articles like this isn't that they never make sense and nobody needs them, it's that they're way over used where they aren't needed.
Is visa sponsorship available for the full stack engineer position?
it says "passaports". Do people from RoC must now have a PRC passport too after the recent occupation? I have no idea how passports work for people under the Taiwan political mess.
Why again did we decide that it's okay for our President to spend every weekend at his private, unsecured, for-profit clubs? The Secret Service has already said they can't and won't keep a log of all guests to Mar-a-Lago. Can you imagine the number of bugs/listening devices that are already there?

Dozens of foreign nationals already work there on H2B visas[1], they have open-air national security crisis response meetings in front of random Palm Beach socialites[2], he's personally profiting off of the club's increased membership fees[3] and Secret Service expenses[4], existing members included several people with criminal backgrounds and most recently the proprietor of the 'massage parlors' that ensnared Robert Kraft[5] and she was already caught selling access[6] and illegally bundling contributions[7] -- This seems like a security risk approaching the level of all the Russian weirdness.

[1] - https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trumps-mar-a-lago-cl...

[2] - https://twitter.com/i/moments/831212884675981313?lang=en

[3] - https://www.thedailybeast.com/mar-a-lago-membership-fee-doub...

[4] - https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/405407-trumps-go...

[5] - https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/former-spa-owner-and...

[6] - https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/03/a-florida-massa...

[7] - https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/03/a-florida-massa...
Besides climate change, we also have a huge problem with natural habitat and species destruction. Its really quite irrational to ignore the opportunity for combined solutions.

Its irrational to continue to neglect natural systems in a world where their capacities to sustain diversity have been overloaded by anthropological targets.
> If the dog signaled, that's probable cause to search the car.

In other words:

The Fourth Amendment of the Constitution clearly states: "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated unless a dog barks."
I would skip on investing in ads in the beginning. Focus on gathering feedback from face to face conversations or at least some other way where you know there's a human on the other end and what they are saying is (mostly) genuine.
It was a claim by extension I must admit: You could technically say each American that dies, dies for our freedoms, one of which is our constitutional right to privacy. A specific example I had in mind was those who lost their lives fleeing East Germany and the Stasi: deciding to cross the wall or even talking about it often time resulted in your untimely death. Many people were gunned down trying to climb over. A general "people who died for privacy" netted some decent results as well.
> She was allowed to enter by Secret Service agents stationed outside the resort after the Mar-a-Lago security manager on duty verified that her last name matched the surname of a member of the club,

Zhang is the third most common last name in the world (source: https://www.quora.com/Whats-the-most-common-last-name-on-Ear...).

Definitely a bit lax on the part of security/Secret Service to just do a last name check... I wouldn't be surprised if Chinese intelligence have exploited similar holes before.
> considering I had an adverse reaction to vaccines as a child that was almost deadly.

Reported to VAERS? Compensated by NVIC? Most likely not since it's almost impossible to get the average doctor to report into VAERS.
imap jj <ESC>
This is great in theory, but not in practice. A bus in back sees the bus in front stop so it passes. However the bus in front might be full and only drops off one pasenger while more than one pasenger is waiting to board and are thus denied. Again, simple dismissal of the problem is ignorant of reality.
Thoughts on current mobile dating market (18-30 year olds)
Hi all, me and my friend are working on an app project together for some university funding and really wanted to know people’s thoughts on the current dating market before we finish making it. We made a little survey which takes about two minutes to fill out so would really appreciate any help! Everything is completely anonymous but we think there could be some really interesting views here. If you have any other questions outside of the survey, feel free to ask :) I'll attach the survey link below:

https://airtable.com/shrLhCKz8jyzrgXxe?fbclid=IwAR1VEqvsKWGKU0BGlK1ElZHU2_Chgmtr6NbfWAj0yGy1d6zg0eQy3Emwpls
I think evaluating Gates as a do-gooder is somewhat inaccurate. His charitable actions all seem to align to increase his stock portfolio. And not only would open-sourcing scientific knowledge not likely help his stock portfolio, but it is antithetical to everything he has ever done in the software world.

What really needs to be done is more and more editors and editorial boards of Elsevier-owned journals revolting, as happened with Lingua, the prominent linguistics journal, where the entire editorial board resigned and started the Open Access journal Glossa. (Lingua lingers on as a 'zombie journal', filled with articles of very dubious quality. But everyone in the field knows this.)
> If the general public truly understood how much information they give up and how valuable that information is, people would begin to take these things more seriously.

No, we would not. We would keep skimming over the terms, keep ignoring the connotations. Just like we do now.

That's not great, but it's the userbase you (we) have to live with.
Slow trucks are obligated to pull to the side of the road when traffic backs up behind them. Bicycles ignore that.
I am confused. Is Meituan's ticker 3690? This looks like the company referred to and the actual operating loss is 11bn RMB (so about ~$1.5bn)...which is a lot but revenue doubled, and this is kind of a scale-ish business...so?

The number quoted by Bloomberg (quoting from Nikkei) is comprehensive income including the conversion of pre-IPO securities...so not really reflective of operations.

What is kind of staggering is the cumulative losses to equity ~170bn RMB or $25bn. And presumably, there are options and all sorts. Tbh, I am not even sure how this number is correct given the business isn't even ten years old...I don't look at HK companies very often (and I am aware funny stuff happens in HK)...but how the equity account be wrong?
Better to assume the worst, so that we can help her and retain access should it come to it. E.g. better that people with the capability assume the worst and make backups now than assume the best and we don't have a copy later.
It seems strange to say that Google is the "authority" here. They are making a choice on how to run their business. There is no "authority" involved in that decision.

But what makes you think the government should decide either? What makes you think that the government is capable of discerning the correct number? What makes you think there must be a single number? And if you think there should be a single number, why should it be $15/hr vs $10, $20, $50, or $100?

How is it possible for a federal minimum wage to magically be "correct" for all combinations of:

* geographic location and local economic conditions
* experience of worker (e.g. teenagers 1st job vs young-adult vs senior citizen)
* part time vs full time
* no training required, some training required, lots of training required?
* time-of-day (1st, 2nd, 3rd shift)
* time-of-week (5x8, 4x10, 6x6)
* intangible benefits (think internships to gain experience/skills/networks)

I'm sure there are many more variables that could be added to that list.

The real minimum wage is always 0, for the workers that didn't get hired. Minimum wage laws are ultimately restrictions an individual's right to enter into a contract.
It's so far outside the realm of reality as to be laughable.
To be fair, in my experience there seem to be a lot more people frustrated with ads than scared of the government.

Someone who wants privacy/anonymity is likely to not want ads, but I think those who don't want ads is actually a larger group.
I think you were probably trying to find this article:

https://web.archive.org/web/20190119000840/https://plus.goog...
I think I'm a bit slow here - what does Front do? Some sort of way as managing communication between a customer and a business?
dead?

ah i see what you mean. I must have pissed off some admin.
Reading the article I was immediately concerned the cellphones and/or malware were used as probable cause for her arrest. Four cellphones is definitely excessive but not illegal (at one point I had three for work + a personal) and malware on a USB stick could happen to anyone. From the complaint[1] it looks like she's being charged for knowingly making false statements to gain access to a restricted area and (thankfully) not for having the phones/malware.

[1] https://www.scribd.com/document/404159332/USA-v-Zhang-Compla...
There's a pretty long history of technical efforts to achieve censor resistance, of which Ross Anderson's 1996 "Eternity Service" is probably the most influential. I'm not very hopeful, but it would be cool to see something like it come into existence.

See this interesting 2004 review by George Danezis: https://www.freehaven.net/anonbib/cache/redblue.pdf
Satellite plane-tracking goes global
> To further the transportation analogy, the buses (scanner threads) in our city avoid clumping by teleporting themselves to a random stop (location in the table) if they get too close to the bus in front of them.

Subway trains do this "to regulate service" iirc is the term used on the London Underground.

Takt time［1］and Drum Buffer Rope［2］both related concepts of regulating flow through a process/system.

［1］ https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takt_time

［2］ https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_constraints
Odd, I don't speak Polish, but my mom and grandparents did. Even that small exposure was enough for me to get that pronunciation 100% correct. I wonder what the minimum exposure to any given language is to allow someone to correctly guess pronunciation. I speak a little German and French but regularly get the pronunciation incorrect, but I didn’t grow up around native German and French speakers.
It is almost as if there isn't a single hourly wage that balances supply and demand for all types of jobs in all locations for all types of workers. Hmm.
The article is rather tongue-in-cheek, but it's also not wrong.

> The Power Vest flaunts a very cruel male privilege: being comfortable.

That's written to get a chuckle out of you, but it's also touching upon a real truth. Men are allowed to dress a lot more comfortably than women are in the same situation.
> The only platforms which can hold out are the ones explicitly designed to resist centralization.

They don't make money, tempt investors, or entice advertisers, for shit. You might not want that to be what defines a successful business right now, but it is.

> The technology is dead simple.

Not simple enough (IRC/Mastodon/dex-$x). People vote with their feet.

When something decentralized provides a better user experience than one of the behemoths, and figures out a way to market itself into network-effect prosperity, then things will improve. Until then, don't bother.
Microsoft Removes the Books Category from the Microsoft Store
i don't see anyone saying the problem with OS is "developers have to eat" - i mean honestly, when did the concept of "a fair days pay for a fair days work" become anathema? Even wildly successful OS packages don't generate enough $$ for the developer to just work on it full time - i mean it's cents per user kind of levels would generate enough for a handful of full-time developers (sagemath is the one i'm thinking of specifically but all sorts of critical plumbing seems to be in the same boat).

I get in the old days that builders/users were the same people and sharing OS code made sense but those days are long gone.

you don't have a problem with licences - you have a problem with an economy that expects a major _critical_ chunk of it to work for free. well it aint me, it aint me - i aint no fortunate one, no...
Certainly what people go on Sci-Hub to get are research papers.
The Pragmatic Guide to Scalable Swift Architecture for 2019
Oh interesting, I'd missed that. Thanks for the note!
Compiler Performance and LLVM
How's this any better? Now instead of having two or three buses that sometimes bunch up, you have 1 bus that's (essentially) always bunched up.
RIP SF author Vonda N. McIntyre (1948-2019)
It doesn't get talked about much these days, from what I can see, but I'm still fascinated with the whole agent-oriented programming idea, and also multi-agent systems. In fact, I found out about AGENT0 while reading Wooldridge's An Introduction to Multiagent Systems.

https://www.amazon.com/Introduction-MultiAgent-Systems-Micha...
That's a gross exaggeration. Every OneNote client (except for the browser one) downloads everything from OneDrive to the local machine and does all the changes to that local copy, which then gets synced to OneDrive. You could take weeks' worth of notes and peruse mountains of reference without any Internet access and the app wouldn't bat an eye.

It's true the app's positioned as an online service rather than a file reader for offline files the way it started, but calling a native app that operates on local data a "thin client" is just disingenuous.
Build a Geolocation API Using AWS Lambda and MaxMind
Escapism is certainly an aspect of autism. My personal theory is that autism is akin to really dense hair, in that your mind is less flexible, and thus themes of constancy arise early in development. This analogy implies both that an autist would be highly structured in thought, which is Simon Baron Cohen's pioneering idea, and would be very low in prowess of executive function, as the mind would be too inflexible to a change in perspective.
I get they raise others' money, but which pension funds are being into this high risk stuff?
Ask HN: Is a teacher necessary for language learning?
Have you ever learned a spoken language (e.g Spanish, Chinese, Japanese) without a teacher?