skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They did answer the question, and did so in good faith. This comment however is fairly confusing. There's a reason that our government institutions can't perform espionage on anyone they feel like without at least passing through some check(warrant). The same seems valid here, people have a fundamental right to privacy, and this seems aimed at violating that right, not only of the first recipient, but of another person as well. Given that this is being done without some sort of additional check, or through channels that our branches of government have approved, that certainly doesn't seem ethical to me.

Simply not liking someone's argument doesn't mean they didn't answer your question or are arguing in bad faith. To automatically assume that would imply that you are the one arguing in bad faith.
How do people in SF buy happiness then?
That's just it! We Should elect people who have a stronger moral code than it takes to be fashionable.
> then my answer to you is like that punchline in the Famous "Coming to America" skit ...

Don't find it but it sounds fun! Got a link?
Huh. I think this is often taught. Indeed, I think it's at the core of the LS approach. The build-measure-learn loop is the heart of the process, meaning that whatever ideas you have, you test them as soon as possible with customer behavior.

As an example, I mentored at Lean Startup Machine. We'd have them form up into teams around ideas. The first thing they'd ask for was verbal feedback. But they were quickly supposed to move to increasing levels of demonstration of commitment.

One team, for example, had the notion that restaurants needed an easier way to get insight into customer experiences. They went out and found restaurant managers, and first confirmed that they had the hypothesized problem. But they quickly moved beyond words, asking if the managers would be willing to let them trial the system in the restaurant. Since enough of them said yes, they build something simple and put those little printed cardboard triangles on a bunch of tables. They then hacked together reports for the managers based on the data collected. The managers liked the reports. They then asked the managers how many would be willing to pay, right then, some modest monthly charge for ongoing use of the system.

If I recall rightly, this team discovered that when actual money was on the line, the reports were just a nice-to-have. In that situation, it's still reasonable to persevere, as you may have hypotheses about what really will get them to cross the line. But it's also reasonable to kill the idea.

There's a big difference, though, between what is taught and what people do. I was an early adopter of both the Agile movement (XP in particular) and Lean Startup approaches, and in both cases I'm kinda horrified by what it turned into in practice. With the Agile movement, it was quickly captured by companies who wanted to feel like they were doing something different while still retaining most of their top-down pathologies and high-debt code bases.

With the Lean Startup approach it's harder to say how it turned out, as early-stage startups rarely produce reports like this. But my general impression is that, as with Agile, people pick the parts that seem fun and easy, and avoid the hard parts. I think this was made worse by the flood of VC money, especially around Uber-for-X startups. Who wants a method that will kill your probably-bad idea early if you can get tens or hundreds of millions? The bad idea might work out or you might thrash your way to a good one. And if it still failed? Well, now you're a seasoned founder of a venture-backed startup. By some measures, although not mine, that's way better than having a quiet, cheap failure.
Is this the breach that was detrimental to TeamViewer (but the articles says otherwise)? I used to love TeamViewer. It was so convenient and made life so much easier to remote screen share. Allowed me to access my computer anywhere I needed, the latency was minimal, and it didn't require any port sharing. But the hack in 2016 was a good slap in the face reminder that any point of entry on a computer will be exploited...I got super lucky since my computer had a lock screen so they could not remote in. I would be super paranoid on the info that was leaked since they would scrub your saved passwords. I remember following the reddit post at that time and a bunch of people "bought" $1000 worth of Amazon and other gift cards unknowingly. I believe some people manage to transfer some money too. It was a PITA for a lot of people to dispute the charges too since it was from their computer!
If Amazon was just in-housing all of these business lines for the use of their core business (vertical integration), I don't think there would be a case for antitrust. Getting into freight makes sense for the supply chain of a global retailer. However, they insist on platform-itizing everything to the point that the argument could be made that the platform IS the business, and things get murkier. (IANAL or subject matter expert).
Ask HN: Should I cut down my runway by 4 months by joining this accelerator?
So I chanced upon these guys, SalesProcess.io, on Facebook, and they have had tremendous success helping SaaS go from $0-$1m ARR in 12 months.

I got on a demo with them, I'm convinced by the material/resources/consultation, but it costs $7,800 upfront, or 3 monthly payments of $2,600.

It would immediately/eventually cut down my 6-month runway to 2 months.

But sales rep convinced me that, "If you do everything we tell you to do, nothing less, at the end of 90 days, you'll probably hit $10k MRR."

Is this a bad idea?
Cyclists Collected Data to Show How Unsafe Painted Bike Lanes Are
Yeah I was speaking in terms of a courtroom.
a really important effect to consider. once a whole sector's jobs are outsourced to another country, the newly redundant workers not only have income problems, but health and mental health problems. globalization's costs are higher than predicted, especially in the US where healthcare is inefficient and overpriced.
Migadu prices like this; all the mailboxes you want and just pay by daily sending limit. ($4/mo paid annually to send 100 mails a day, for example.) https://www.migadu.com/en/pricing.html

Or if you want to pay for one mailbox somewhere and then have customized forwarding, I found this thing called Forward Email in another thread that looks interesting and I want to try setting it up self-hosted: https://forwardemail.net/#/
They published it because it fits their narrative.
>as long as people continue to get the lowest prices from them.

I don't really think that's the breakpoint as to if something gets broken up or not.
That is true, but I think those were two unrelated points. That is “... is unethical” and also “they should report to the state bar.” I believe that was the original intent of the commenter, since the sentences did not directly follow each other in his paragraph.
Most grocery stores have more private label products than Aldi. It isn't hard, most produces of product will put whatever label you want one (within what is legal) if you order a quantity.
When I first got into ebooks I tried buying everything in them. It really sucks when you have a reference book at home, but you need it at work. Unfortunately, code formatting is often terrible for ebooks--reflow ruins it. So I tend to prefer the PDF or a hard copy for anything that contains code.

For narrative books I prefer EPUB all the way. Release both if possible!

It also sounds like a lot of books a proofed as a PDF (I hear a surprising amount of publishing is still driven by MS Word). Like the article says, the author may not have a version of the book with proper layout.
I am willing to bet that 99% of users will not blink an eye if there was an information leak. See Equifax, Facebook..
> Remember, you are your brother's keeper, whether you want to be or not.

However, you need to be careful not to apply that with too heavy a hand.

"When do you take someone's freedom of choice away?" should always be a heavy decision.
I don't think it's the medias per se, it's a whole bunch of changes due to the experience gained by society. In the 80s the goal was glamour. Everything was so lush and shiny. I used to find it gross but todays false structure and analytic realism creeps me deep. Both are lies, one of them makes you aiming at happy though.
It's a moral failure to execute people for selling heroin. Yet this is what singapore does to make things work.

The question is. Do you want the freedoms. Including the freedom to eat, shit and sleep on the sidewalk? I can live without that freedom.
Have you considered getting your own domain?
Presumably this should cause most companies in the EU to announce, within 72 hours, a data breach, since it allows any salesforce user to gain any permissions and view/leak/copy/steal any data on any customer in the org.

That will be a lot of companies considering pretty much every big company uses salesforce.
Ehh not really the same, sharing is push, a data portal is pull.

By the way this is a billion dollar product if done right.
I'm sorry, but you're a monster.
Conglomerates aren't new and aren't by themselves something to consider antitrust action over. Samsung does everything from highway construction to chip fabrication to making appliances.
Anyone know if there are differences between the App Store version and the standalone purchase? I like to buy from the App Store when it's available, but sometimes apps have to gimp certain features to deal with sandboxing, etc.
Relationship between living alone and common mental disorders
There is no oxygen in space (any area reasonably far from a planet). My lack of citation does not make it any less true. And if I were to try to convince you of that fact it would be simply for your benefit.

Think of any comment by anyone here as someone graciously providing you with free counsel out of the time of their day, with the big disclaimer that they are not your client, and that the information is under no warranty. This disclaimer is implicit on all internet comments. It is up to you to consider their claims, and verify them. If you’re not willing to research their claims yourself then it’s pretty clear that

1) you’re just here to argue for one side to the public (aka propaganda)

2) pursuit of the truth is not actually your goal

Given that your profile states that you are both part of the military and also a government lawyer may indicate that both 1) and 2) are true.

I think you’ll be hard pressed to convince people they are wrong simply by accusing them that they are wrong due to lack of evidence. There is no court here, no jury to decide you win or lose. You can contribute more to this discussion by offering your unique perspective given your background.
YouTube has censored the interview of a candidate in the EU elections
That's more subtle to prove though. Negligence and malice, while both resulting in the same outcome, do deserve different punishments. And my comment was coming from a position of "you have to assume negligence before anything worse".
>Making money off a logistics network is an economy of scale game.

And yet there are so many small niche providers.... you'd think that would have gone away long ago...

Such a weird world.
> It's really this simple.

No, it's not. What you describe is an internment camp and would never be permitted by any court in this day of age.
Well put. I should have specified that I was talking about people who drink regularly. Looking at large populations aren't that useful here, as many people simply opt out, because they're sick, religion, or just don't like it.

While I agree that the some of the risks are suspect, I tend to think the question is "how much risk are you willing to accept"?

IMO it's appropriate to consider things like STDs, injury, violence, abuse, and incarceration as risks. These problems are common among drinkers due to the heavy impairment alcohol causes.
Burning Man is supposed to be a safe space. Sexual assault survivors say its not
I wonder what kind of rules it has for interacting with other people's work.

"oh god steve dropped a giant penis on my front yard AGAIN, fuck it lemme drop a bunch of TNT on it"
It must be nice to work on a team where everyone agrees on the formatting. I don't think I've ever worked with a team where that was true. The exception being languages where the formatting was enforced by the language tooling itself. Those occasions no one even discussed it so I wouldn't exactly know if they agreed with it or not.
If one looks into Cray's viability as a business, you'll see a pretty much unending string of losses. Though the CEO is the best paid (or pretty darned close) in Seattle, at least on a cash basis. As HPE is close to the #1 HPC vendor anyway, all they're going to get is entree to some of the more esoteric government contracts - which they'll probably wreck by trying to cram their awful consulting services into.
Is there a reason why this took so long?
Living in san francisco is like living in a gulag because people have freedoms. Including the freedom to piss and shit all over the city.

Somebody took a shit in front of my apartment the other day. Does this person need to go to the gulag for a bit, does he need help? Yes, yes he does, because people need jail time for crimes and they need help.

Gulag is a loaded word. It has negative political connotations because of guantanamo bay. A better word is Jail. You can't have a society without jails.
My problem is the pervasiveness of oversight and surveillance. Facial recognition software, tracking software, general surveillance and the like. Tech is the problem here - the solution isn't going to come out without looking like a Luddite's response.
I hope to have something similar for every programming language, no need for configurations, no petty discussions on this anymore.

If you're paid by the line of code you write

:-)
> Whether or not it causes people to move here, it certainly funds much of the drug-fueled insanity we see on the streets.

You're 'the_economist' - certainly you have some empirical data to back this up right?
Sounds like Apple's current laptop strategy.
I think the title is a little misleading, I was expecting an article demonstrating that there is little correlation between top salaries or stock payouts and happiness; seems more just a nostalgia rant for the way SF used to be.
What's South Korea's anti-trust laws like? Chaebols aren't exactly well regarded, are they?

- https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/17/business/south-korea-chae...
We see a good number of young homeless people in Denver.
That seems like a fair reaction. I suspect a trigger for me was watching Bill Nye light the globe on fire yelling at us to wake up.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2019/05/13/you-idiots...

Back to the announcement, parents might be more receptive if the advertisement was more about enhancing the outdoor experience.
HPE is buying Cray for $1.3B
Punctuation, or lack of it, can change the meaning in programming languages too.

https://medium.freecodecamp.org/codebyte-why-are-explicit-se...
Jaguar, Tesla, and BMW are not cars of the wealthy, they are cars of those who want to appear wealthy even though they are barely getting by. The average poor person probably has as much savings (though of course the poor person has a more modest lifestyle)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Millionaire_Next_Door
Getting Around, or Just Getting By? Where People Live with Fewer Cars
Not at all. There are some great alternatives to Dropbox though, including Google Drive, Syncthing and Nextcloud.
Not really. Keep in mind that I'm talking standard units, while users are drinking 1.5-2 units per drink. They'd drink 3 at the bar (4-6) without thinking anything of it, with pre-games / nightcaps possible. This could be easily repeated 3 times every week, possibly more.
Where Rich People Don't Own Cars, Mapped
Microsoft’s Project Photon: A Stunted Effort to Rebuild Windows Mobile
Yes, and the mathematical reason behind this is straightforward. Capacity planning is the hardest problem in logistics[1]. You have to plan weekly capacity several months ahead of time, and you have a minimum break-even load factor to hit, but you also want enough capacity to not have to leave business on the table when demand is high.

Contractual customers commit to give you a steady weekly load, which reduces week-to-week variance in your demand and makes your forecasting more accurate. A more accurate forecast means you need less excess capacity and can run at a higher average utilization. This is very valuable, hence the discounts.

[1]Actually route optimization might be the hardest problem in logistics because the traveling salesman problem is a classic NP-complete optimization problem, but in practice it's not so hard to find a good-enough solution and the stakes are lower. Suboptimal routes won't make or break your profit margin, but poor capacity planning absolutely will.
related (in the UK): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19341448
For some, I think the low cost is a reason to shop at Aldi, but I found the experience too brutal. It was like shopping at a Goodwill grocery store, too tedious for me.
Email feels more asynchronous than chat. With an email, I don't expect an immediate answer, and I expect a better-researched answer.
I believe the brain assimilates, deletes and rewires when you're sleeping based on research and book by Matthew Walker.
you can run a server at home, also the java client can run as the server so if people are on the same LAN they can connect directly to whoever opens their world to LAN. If you want to play with friends or relatives remotely then the easiest, but not the cheapest, option is Minecraft Realms which allows you to control the player access list.
Podman for Docker-specific, and cri-o for K8S.
GMO Impossible Burger Positive for Carcinogenic Glyphosate
No it's called Jail for breaking the law, this isn't an internment camp. People don't have the freedom to murder, just extend this restriction over to "Vandalism/misuse of public property".

It is simple. Thats the thing. All of you think it's a complicated moral question.

If the white walkers are invading your homelands should I be concerned with the ethics of killing them? No. Kill them. That's how problems are solved. In America, the environmental impact of sending a drug dealer to jail needs a 3 year research study.
Currently, it's actually the definition of when something gets broken up or not. Anitrust today focuses on consumer wealthfare and not corporate power. However, there are some politicians like Elizabeth Warren who are argueing to change that criteria. This is often referred to as "Hipster Antitrust"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hipster_Antitrust

For a great series on the history of anti-trust and the current debates on its application to tech companies check out this short Planet Money Series:

Antitrust 1: Standard Oil https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2019/02/15/695131832/anti...

Antitrust 2: The Paradox https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2019/02/20/696342011/anti...

Antitrust 3: Big Tech https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2019/02/22/697170790/anti...
> 17% might sound tiny, but I don't think it makes much sense to look at the total population here.

It's not just the population, though. Your binge frequency is 4 times higher than that of the CDC report, meaning that you're really discussing some population much smaller than 17%. My guess is that you're probably covering about 5% of population with your example.

Even when I was in college this wasn't normal. There were certainly people who drank this much, and given the frequency of binge drinking, they could fit in without being so obvious. But people who admitted to drinking a case of beer a week were very rare.
Your information is out of date.

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/skbaer/california-bulle...

> "Right now, there simply isn’t a path to get from Sacramento to San Diego, let alone from San Francisco to LA. I wish there were," he said. "However, we do have the capacity to complete a high-speed rail link between Merced and Bakersfield."
Wow, you're saying I the customer may have opinions regarding my chosen vendor's policies, and may choose to stop using that vendor based on new information that I learn? Crazy!

Next I might consider leaving my bank if I don't like their customer service or finding a new credit card company if I dislike their rates. Sounds crazy I know!

Sometimes people even use this 'Internet' thing to share information and opinions regarding various companies' policies- and buyers in a free market may make new purchase or signup decisions based on this free exchange of information, which is exactly what the author has done here. Yowza!

Legitimately cannot understand this argument of 'how dare you have opinions and share information on the Internet about a company'. Is Google supposed to be above reproach or something? What is your argument? Because of Google's privacy policies I have chosen to stop using Gmail. I don't think they're evil and I'm not anti-capitalist, I just disagree with the inherent privacy tradeoff- the market at work. (And if they track me even when I'm not a user, then I think regulation should address that)
Agreed. There is one more interesting fact about this subculture. Some of those "homeless" people do actually have their own places that they don't want to live in. They rent out and live on the street by choice.
Most of the problems described in the article are the direct result of the city's refusal to allow adequate housing construction to keep up with demand.
Oh, I had already completely forgotten about Ebbe Carlsson. The Swedish Wikipedia article was I nice refresh of my memory and now I understand again why I had read every article back in the days. Better than any fiction... (The English Wikipedia does not mention anythig of the dozens of scandals and weird affairs he was involved in.)
I really love Fastmail, just wish the search was better
Scaffold AI seeks users to join private beta
I don't think locking homelesses up is ever going to happen. But sadly there's an trend in Japan that elderly over 65 are intentionally committing petty theft in order to live in prisons because they can't afford living [https://www.bbc.com/news/stories-47033704].
It doesn't seem like they have a monopoly in any one area.
> “Ugh, Slack distracts me so often. You’re right; everything feels urgent even when it’s not. I’m super interested in what you’re building here. We’re pretty open to change at my company – I don’t see switching being too big of a deal.”

This is such a common mistake. When doing customer development, do NOT stick to asking "would this be of general interest to you?". In fact, you can get away with not asking this at all. Instead ask: "how much would you pay for this?" And if you like the price tag, also throw in: "can we set a date to sign next week/month/quarter?"
I walked away from mine only after 8 years. It was difficult realizing it had to go. Taking something that was a part of your life for so long out behind the metaphorical barn with a rifle is tough...
> You can quit. We can quit.

No, you can't. And that's the problem.

If any of your friends take pictures and tag you, Facebook now has data on YOU. And it starts building a profile around that.

You didn't consent to it; you can't see it; you can't delete it.
The best compensation they could do is reach out to Microsoft/Mojang for a job. Being the author of the game engine for a company's product is probably #1 in qualifications.
Podman is one I am thinking of primarily, with the biggest benefit being first-class rootless integration:

https://opensource.com/article/19/2/how-does-rootless-podman...
What makes you think it can be solved at the national level when it can't even be solved at the city level?
How to Build a Speed Boat in 60 Seconds
This study has a 95% uncertainty interval, and their conclusion is that alcohol consumption increases your risk from: 918 per 100,000 people from 914 per 100,000.

..I'd argue their conclusion is meaningless given the uncertainty interval.
In-Depth Video Demo of Using Word2Vec for Your Job Hunt