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Ask HN: What problem in your industry is a potential startup?
Past threads:

2018: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16995260

2016: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13139638

2015: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9799007

This has generated really interesting discussions in the past! I think it'd be great to hear what problems people are still facing in 2019.
And most phones are already insanely thin. Older phones were substantially thicker than this and I never had a problem putting them in my pocket.
I agree they don't have a special understanding of things. I also rolled my eyes at the Heritage Foundation thing, among others.

On the other hand, what's the alternative? "Shut up and code"? Google isn't entitled to their work. We all have to operate by our own moral compass at the end of the day, and if you don't feel comfortable with what you're working on, it doesn't seem unreasonable to resign.
Samsung has a history of squirting out over fifty new phone models each year, hoping that a production rate in excess of 1.0 per week will be sufficient to cause at least one of those 50+ models to stick.

At least, they hope it will stick for a little while, long enough for them to find the next random thing that will stick for a little while.
People routinely clamor for ridiculously-thick phones already so they can get huge batteries. I don't think the size (effectively two phones) is a big deal; I already carry 2 phones in my pocket pretty routinely with no problems.

This folding phone seems targeted at letting people carry a phone with a gigantic screen. People that are buying XL versions of existing phones (a surprising number of people) that want even bigger screens (that still fit in the pocket) seem to be the target, and/or people who want a 2-in-1 phone+tablet.

I don't really like large phones, but I do like using tablets. Having the choice between a phone-sized screen and a tablet-sized screen in a single device seems personally desirable to me; I don't really care much about the device size itself as long as it still fits in my pocket (unlike the tablet it'd be replacing).
Unfortunately Facebook does its best to track those of us who don't use it as well (even if their information on us ends up being less comprehensive than the information they have on their actual users).
Well, rich liberals are actually giving something up willingly, poor conservatives often have been shown to not understand what they are voting for. Poor anyone voting, regardless of political class, doesn't tend to understand what they are voting for or against. Mainly they don't have time to be appropriately educated since they are often working multiple jobs and often don't have the same educational pedigree as those in higher financial classes. See the example of people who support the ACA but hate Obamacare, or more recently the convicted felon using firearms to prevent others from either selling lawful asylum or crossing the border illegally depending upon how you view the law. Americans in general aren't a very internally consistent bunch. It's like the President talking down about people who are accused of sexually harassing people when he himself bragged about it. I'm sure there are endless examples but those come to mind from recent news.
Are Transformers based on convolutions?
This is a great point - to some degree this explains the power law in VC - founders hustle hard to get in front of Sequoia / A16Z / Benchmark etc, whereas you can stumble on other VC sites and see a bunch of logos but nothing impressive.

I've been in SF for 3 years now and haven't really heard anything that impressive about Kleiner, but looking at Crunchbase, they've led the A for Rippling, the C for Plaid, the D round for Intercom, the B round for Figma, the E round for Peleton. They have a bunch of other impressive logos that they've also managed to lock in.

To your point about the web - they clearly still have it. Yes, they're out of the loop and aren't getting the early stage deal flow that they used to (to the benefit of many others), but they clearly have a deep moat still and can get an ok return from that.
> As all administrations have done and will continue to do for the foreseeable future

Which is why no democratic system is designed to count on nice people being in power.
I get an app that's lightweight, free with no advertising, and extremely simple to use at basically no computational or memory burden?
just a random comment: I thought Cadence, the EDA company, owns the trademark for the name
You're swapping dynamic range and exposure control. Your examples of dark rooms and bright light sources are examples of great exposure control, not dynamic range. Dynamic range is the difference in light intensity from pure black to pure white in your sensor. Modern sensors are also extremely good at dynamic range though, much better than film and apparently much better than our eyes as well. From a quick search our eyes are at 10 stops of range (2^10 ratio from white to black) and modern sensors have gone past 15 stops and are pushing on 20 apparently, which is just amazing.
How to waste time and abuse Google Sheets for personal amusement
> * I'm waiting for a real leader to get into office who will actually strike these recent security theatre laws down.*

Why not work to pass laws at the state level? Or have your state ratify an amendment to the Constitution? Not all roads lead to Washington.
Does snipping tool allow for drawing lines/boxes over the capture? How about adding notational text?
Only the 67 for the 360s, and there the software hadn't really caught up. On the 370s it was more prevalent, but they had gone back to in order designs at that point.
It's also a good marketing milking cow to create paid courses and trainings for Google interviews — the dream of so many novice devs and other "Intensive Coding Bootcamp" participants.

Keyword research and trends... https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=G...
It seems to me the definition is fair, they define it as 75% to 200% of the median income in the respective country.

I don't think this comparison (to ones own countries' median income, PPP-adjusted) can be escaped since "middle-class" is being interpreted as intra-country. This is what I would expect since when I think myself if I qualify as middle-class, I don't compare myself to the Yemenis, I compare myself to other Americans.
That's really impressive!

However, I'm a bit disappointed with the code release. I was expecting the full source code and setup.
Ask HN: Anyone making 200k as a software engineer outside the US?
Best salaries I have seen in Switzerland/London are around 140K CHF or £120k as permanent or 650-700 per day as contractor. That is around 155k USD permie and roughly the same considering 10 months employment as contractor. This is a quite rare and top salary in both market but seems a fairly common salary in Bay Area/NYC. Never seen anything above that here in Europe.

Also the big bonus/shares culture is not as prevalent in Europe.

Anyone here making more than that or knows anyone that does?
Good find! "Logically" they're pretty close, "emotionally" they can be different.

If her makeup is "over the top" that's a bad thing, she's not dressed appropriately. If her makeup is "extra" it's meant to be encouraging -- it's "over the top" but the "inappropriate" change is welcomed.

"Extra" is sometimes used with that sarcastic element or downward twist (seen by OP) that chips away the welcoming bit. In that context, I think the usage is similar to "over the top".
> Many people already have stopped using Facebook

Yet it is important enough to public opinion that congress undertakes days of hearings with Zuck to try to control the news feed algo?
Robots,Aging Population and Pets
I find Strang's text to be unnecessarily tedious. Both of Lang's LA textbooks (Intro to LA, and LA) both take linear maps as the core point of the text.
TSO didn't depend on hardware boundaries between clients.
Workflow engine = can support hundreds of parallel workflows. This includes airflow, luigi, dagster, appworx, are used to manage data and are typically processes that run in minutes to hours.
Orchestration engine = can support millions of parallel workflows. This includes Uber Cadence & Netflix Conductor, are used to manage services and are typically processes that run in microseconds to minutes.
How to Do Nothing [2017]
I am not familiar with graphqL and this tool looks interesting but after spending 10 minutes on the site trying to understand what it does (in layman terms) I am totally lost. Could be me or it could be the developer needs to explain it better ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
And the top reply is "Can AI predict whose next?". Sometimes I with the rest of the internet was a bit more like HN.
The Waypoint NDA
They provided video of someone they claimed was this kid. But it was actually someone who apparently used a stolen or counterfeited ID. And not really even that. It was likely someone who their facial recognition system matched with someone who had used that ID.

Maybe I'm just naive, but I doubt that people typically get arrested based on such iffy identity theft. It wasn't a photo ID. And such ID is typically useless for legally meaningful authentication. It won't get you alcohol when you're underage. It won't get you a bank account. Or a drivers license, or even a replacement social security card.
Perhaps you're not a programmer, but the context switch often wastes a lot more than 1 second.
I'd like to know what you don't understand about the Sparsey algorithm that makes you think it is "quackery". I've programmed it from scratch (I've been working with him since October), Rod Rinkus has several tests that have proven it, Paul Franzon designed GPU & SIMD architectures and an ASIC chip and tested it against Numenta's HTM's which Rod's was faster but consumed more power, and also DARPA & ONR have granted him research grants to develop the algorithm.

So I think your claims of quackery are a bit unfounded, but I'd still like to know your thoughts. If there are people out there who think it is impossible or lacks credibility then we need to address that. I hope it's not just the website look xD. He has been saying he needs to change the website because it's old but he hasn't done so yet.
> R has nothing going for it except a rapidly dwindling number of packages that don't yet have a direct python equivalent.

This is not a true statement.

Here are the data that goes against this statement.

1. https://www.r-bloggers.com/on-the-growth-of-cran-packages/
2. https://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/01/cran-10000.html
3. https://www.r-bloggers.com/rs-remarkable-growth/

From 2015 to 2016: ~6,200 to More than 8,000 in April, 2016

From 2016 to 2017: CRAN now has 10,000 R packages.

> Even then, the incoming generation of undergrads are increasingly proficient with programming and are shying away from R the same way that they shied away from Matlab after scipy matched it for 95% of their tasks.

This is a generalization.

So far you've made opinionated negative generalization with no data.

Python is great because it learn from Matlab and took many great ideas and inspirations from Matlab. But I'm not going to make sweeping negative statements about Matlab or pretend to know how it going when I don't have enough data or experiences in it.
That link is a blatant lie. Redirect each wayland client's stderr to a different term and you will see that the process (keyboard/mice input + graphics output) isolation is still working as intended.
I am very surprised by the reaction you're getting.
> Shell script also has dependencies: specific version of shell and CLI utilities.

Just use posix stuff. And move on.
What about a notebook and pen? Note car number plate and/or description of car and location. If you've got somebody going wrong chalking tyres, you can have that person take notes instead.

(This might also take a bit longer than making a chalk mark, but time is not exactly of the essence here.)
One advantage is accessibility for people with limited vision. A folding phone can have about the same screen area as a small tablet, while still fitting in a pocket or handbag. A larger screen is immensely more comfortable to use if your font size and UI has been scaled up by 300%.

This only applies in a hypothetical future where someone figures out how to make a durable folding display though.
> Actually, I voted for Trump because I thought that he would make the breaking point come sooner rather then later (because the way it's going, that's how it's going to end anyways).

I'm a bit confused here. You voted for Trump because you thought he would be, effectively, a cherry bomb to blow up the status quo? And you think that's working? I'd argue that what is actually happening is that people are rushing to define the cherry bomb as the status quo rather than actually shift the status quo back to something a bit more reasonable and responsible.
Not that it's relevant, but as someone who can't drive due to a disability, nothing short of Level 5 autonomy basically doesn't change the calculus for me at all.
As an avid user of paint, I noticed that it was replaced only weeks after it was first removed (accessed by right-clicking on an image and using "open with").
I wish so I could add extra spices to it lol.

What I know for sure is that my old friend has accomplished more things than our entire classroom as a whole.

I don't care whether people believe the story or not, or whether he actually paid his staff the money he said he had.

All I did was to share with you people his story as I have witnessed it myself.
It was a tough one to write out too.

Hopefully more help than ramble. Thank you for coming to my TED talk :)
AppFS [0] is cross-platform and general purpose. It should work on Windows via cxfuse [1], but I have not tested it. The data structure is simple and could also be handled by an offline fetching system.

[0] http://appfs.rkeene.org/
[1] https://github.com/crossmeta/cxfuse
Surprised you don't see this. A big issue with online clothes shopping is buying it sight unseen. By returning clothing there, people may just say to heck with it and buy comparable clothes at Kohl's, since they can try them on and see them prepurchase.
Here are two quick and dirty videos. Apologies for the mumbling and the fan noise.

https://youtu.be/uISK1RTTj84

https://youtu.be/ICLtxpTJBKg

There's a lot more you can do with Python scripting and addons. You can plot math functions as surfaces etc. There are probably a lot of possibilities with procedural textures and displacement maps.
Naples is a world unto itself. Much has been written on the subject, but yeah, it's kind of a mess. In some ways it's sort of the distilled essence of some of the worst - and best - of Italy.
Well, it's not just "some issues" Fold has. The foldable screen, literally the main selling point of the device, has a tendency to fail.
Using sbt jib Google's jib inspired sbt plugin to dockerize Play Framework app
> developing in such a way that an IDE could bring in the Rust compiler

They are doing exactly that if you look at the "Compiler" section of the roadmap[1].

> One project worth calling out in more detail is the RLS 2.0 effort. The existing RLS, while functional, was never deeply integrated into rustc itself. Over the past two years, we have rewritten the back end of rustc to use an incremental and demand-driven infrastructure. To get the IDE experience we truly want, we need to see that work through for the front end of the compiler as well. However, this part of rustc is one of its oldest, and there are significant design questions involved in how best to do that.

> This is where the RLS 2.0 effort comes in. The plan is to build a prototype of the new front-end, thus enabling a truly first-class IDE experience. Wherever possible, we aim to share code between this front-end and rustc by extracting libraries, such as Chalk (for traits), Polonius (for the borrow checker), and a new library focusing on name resolution. Eventually, we will merge this new front-end with the remaining bits of back-end from rustc.

[1] https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/blob/master/text/2657-road...
When will they do this with their whole foods, amazon go & amazon 4-star popup stores?
I'm kind of curious - how can this functionally happen, outside of the executive level? What prevents them from going across the street?
Sorry, have a state pass a law defying the PATRIOT ACT? That would be ineffective as my voting state has very little NSA infrastructure to effect and no states could effect the more troubling portions of the Act. As an aside my state has joined the NPVIC[1] already, and tends to be more reasonable than the national level - but there are real pieces of change that can only happen nationally.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Popular_Vote_Intersta... if your state isn't green, I'd encourage you to lobby locally to influence it towards signing on[2].

[2] It is depressing that there is a lot of alignment between this map and the GOP/DEM traditionally safe states - voter suppression is a serious strike against personal liberties.
I think the ideas behind the coordiate-free formulation of tensor calculus make it relatively easy though.

A tensor is a function that takes an ordered set of N covariant vectors (i.e. row vectors) and M contravariant vectors (i.e. column vectors) and spits out a real number. It has to be linear in each of its arguments.

I'm pretty sure all the complicated transforms follow from that definition (though you may have to assume the Leibniz rule - I can't remember), and from ordinary calculus.
https://tanks-alot.co.uk have a few tanks for sale right now. Take your pick.
> I don't know of any 24-32-bit per channel sensors, and that's what you'd need.

Dynamic range doesn't require bit depth. You can have an 8 bit sensor with 20 stops of dynamic range. You'll lose color/luminance resolution of course but as long as 255 is capturing a light that's 2^20 times stronger than 0 that's 20 stops of dynamic range.

But more than that theoretical point there are already sensors pushing well beyond what humans can do in terms of dynamic range. Apparently humans have a respectable 10 stops and sensors are already in the 15 to 20 stop range and pushing beyond it:

https://www.eoshd.com/2014/11/new-sony-sensor-21-stops-dynam...

To map it into 16bit values you can just use a curve to distribute the bit depth unevenly across the dynamic range. Older DSLRs did that to get perfectly usable images with just 10 bits per channel.
My impression of the ACM is that it’s basically a glorified academic publisher. Maybe a relatively non-evil academic publisher, but I’d rather not take ethical guidance from any of those bloodsuckers.
Google Glass cost like 1.5k and did nothing useful or barely did anything at all for that matter. Was durability the main promise of the phone? No, the hinge was promised to be strong and the screen was promised to be flexible. They got parts of that correct. No one was ever promised an unbreakable device for 2k, and no one should even expect such a thing from the first ever folding smartphone.

First adopters pay a high price for testing bleeding edge technology, I can't think of many cases in which that hasn't been the case. This is technology that exists no where else. They need to recoup costs from R&D to make the improvements required to produce a real product.

This is how things used to be kickstarted before we had micro-fundraising. This is why everyone talks about how tech reaches the rich first, they have the funds to test this tech before us plebs, because it costs money to develop bleeding edge stuff. What bleeding edge, physical technology comes in at a low price point comparatively to the market rate? I can't think of any off the top of my head.
I believe in Oregon you can change your vote right up until election day.
Elon Musk Trashes Lidar for Self-Driving Car, but Waymo Is Rolling Out a New One
Can we stop making this comparison? At best it is naive at worst you're purposefully misrepresenting the argument.

When people say "social credit score" they distinctly mean something different than "credit score" (you may get this hint by the extra word, "social").

A social credit system not only includes your finances, but as well as much about your behavior. Such as "do you buy cigarettes? How often?" FICO doesn't care about this, they just care about if you're likely to pay back debt (based on your track record of doing exactly that). FICO doesn't care if you're Muslim, black, white, Christian, etc. But a social credit system DOES.

Rather than putting a score on your likelihood of paying back debt, a social credit score scores you on how "good of a citizen" you are. Not just legally, but morally. And that's the danger. Morals shift and vary a lot (more so in the US than most countries). There's a general belief in most first world countries that your skin color, religion, gender, etc should not play a role in how the government of businesses treat you. Social credit systems (even if they don't explicitly add those factors: ie implicit) will use these factors to rate you.
Thank goodness. What would Jim'll Paint It do otherwise?

https://jimllpaintit.tumblr.com/
Key Kubernetes Commands – Up and Running with K8s
Climate change has worsened global economic inequality
as t increases, the delta between Musk and Holmes is decreasing.
The bigger issue to me is how many reviewers had breakage issues within 24 hours. Screw perfect, this is a prototype that escaped the lab.
It seems openAI is getting less and less open. I would like to see the source too, although I think maybe we've been a bit spoiled in the past expecting them to share all their source with us.

They have a lot of incentives not to. Keeping the code under wraps allows them to maintain an edge over other researchers and companies and the space, which helps them secure more funding, publish more papers etc.

It's also not really fair to them if some other research group uses code from OpenAI to achieve results and then doesn't share their own code or modifications.
This is the key point.
The whole point of copays is to dissuade you from using services unnecessarily, which is why many countries, even ones with socialized medicine, have copays or similar out-of-pocket charges (Sweden, Norway, Netherlands, Finland, etc.). In the typical case where you're not sick, it works out.

As to your point about the uninsured--I'm not debating the merits of various healthcare systems, I'm trying to contextualize the experience of the typical American. The typical American has health insurance (and is not underinsured), pays $25 or so for their annual checkup, and lives in a house two and a half times bigger than their counterpart in the U.K. (That American is also a job loss + health scare away from significant financial problems. Both things are true.)
I do agree that there's issues and they were smart to delay the launch IMO.
Not necessarily, the TclQuadCode [0] compiler which compiles Tcl, which is even more flexible than PHP, into native machine code handles a very large amount of cases.

[0] https://core.tcl.tk/tclquadcode/dir?ci=trunk
I would take a folding phone in exchange for a mechanical keyboard, but most phones have neither, and I think they're worse for it.
Cadence does support processes that run unlimited time. We have workflows in production that are always running. For example there are services at Uber that have an always open Cadence workflow per rider.
It's actually just synthesis.
My immediate reaction to the title of the article was "... for SWEs and possibly SREs".

But to answer your question, yes, absolutely.
That only works if you’re running X11, not on Wayland (in case it was unclear; I was momentarily confused, so I’m posting.)
Just be careful of https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onion_Futures_Act
Those are not insignificant reasons.