skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Switching costs are low. People use YouTube, Telegram, Slack, Instagram, Snapchat, and Reddit all day. Countless smaller forums are wildly popular for specific interests.

If they fell, whatever platform is next in line would start receiving the criticism.

But further, I think we've seen many times in tech that about the time something gets so large that people start wanting to regulate it is about when tides are shifting anyway. The thing to reduce the influence of these networks won't be regulation, it will be some combination of boredom, disillusionment, a better alternative, the next generation wanting something different from their parents, etc. To force split before that happens just ensures the market-provided solution is weaker and less revolutionary than it could be, since the competition it is overcoming has artificial handicaps. That makes progress slower overall.
What sort of SaaS product?
Phone numbers, at least in the US, were much simpler 15+ years ago. Most people had a number starting with an area-code + first-3, out of say, 5-10 possible combinations.

EG, 123-444, 123-323, 123-789, 555-121. So, you really needed to remember the prefix and the last 4. There were exceptions, but most of your circle lived within this finite space of telephone numbers.
Pihole, Owncloud, Ambient particulate matter sensor.
Regardless of whether it would work well, the proposal is to help people who are suffering inside a horrifically broken system, not to give indiscrminate free rides to people who haven't even made the decision yet. The notion that massive tragedy is OK if the fault can be placed with the victims under the argument that they demonstrated financial incompetence is simply antithetical to civilization. Otherwise, why not ignore anything that can be placed under the umbrella of personal responsibility? High suicide rates? Who cares, it was ultimately the dead's decision. Don't look into it.

The idea that people deserve this and it's not fair to those who already made it through seems like a purely emotional reaction, and an extremely reductionist one, considering the dramatic complexity of higher education's actual value and how much risk is "worth it".
That was exactly my thought when I went thru release notes.
The JPL has been hacked, not just the NASA.

The JPL does much more interesting stuff than just NASA, like engines for military and also secret SW programs for the NSA (we know that from Larry Wall who was sysadmin there). And they are just administered by Caltech staff. Whow.

Random hackers are only interested in confirmation of aliens, but NSA or DOD stuff is very, very interesting to the Chinese who hacked these systems last.
Both Murdoch and Hearst ran publishing entities, whereas Google and other social media sites claim to be neutral platforms. This distinction is important because certain protections given to neutral platforms don’t necessarily apply to publishers. (For instance, Reddit can’t be held accountable for libel posted on their site by someone else since they’re just a platform. )
No one is truly fiscally conservative. Everyone likes free stuff as long as someone else is paying for it.
Does anyone have thoughts of using Prophet vs XGBoost time-series analysis?
Last time it happened (7 years ago), two people died.
Excellent! This is great thank you!
From time to time I come across some person who is hiring a large number of people. For instance, I know somebody who wanted to hire 20 people for Barclay's bank to develop a web site for their new credit card. Half of those would have been in Delaware, half in Henderson, NV.

He was scratching his head about how to do it, but if someone like that could hire a team instead of an individual they could get their job done quicker.
This is awesome, Cross-section is what I am also looking for.

Appreciate the input, thank you!
Looking for a solid mentor/guide that is chill to work with and has cool projects they need help working/brainstorming on.

I also have a couple ideas that might be interesting to MVP, for example:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Startup_Ideas/comments/bbjfqu/short...
Having seen online dating go from distasteful niche ==> new classifieds for the desperate ==> somewhat mainstream among early adopters ==> dominating offline dating channels, I wouldn't be surprised if online cofounder dating happens somewhat similarly.
This script is really nice: https://github.com/Nyr/openvpn-install

It sets up systemd and iptables and generates all certs and keys and wraps them up into tidy, per-client .ovpn files
> I'm not sure I've ever seen the design you're referring to

I think this style is what was being referred to: https://www.amazon.com/Stansport-Aluminum-Scout-Canteen-1-Qu...

This particular item does not appear to be well made, which lends credence to the difficulty of finding a high quality product.
Caught me. I'm a dumba... I'm sorry.
Really the only benefit of that is energy efficiency if it is used correctly, in exchange for additional cost or lower max performance. Makes sense for a smartphone, less so for a mains powered device (and the Raspberry Pi SoCs originally were designed for set-top boxes, although I don't know if that's still true for the new ones or if they're custom)
Absolutely yes. (Austin, TX)
I was pretty worried, both by the deprecation of the Object API, and if the Vue team would listen to feedback on RFCs (and change parts if necessary).

Very glad to see that both points turned out well. I was really not looking forward to trying to find/learning yet another JS framework.
Mnemonic Major System – A technique used to aid in memorizing numbers
I think you can definitely gel with a stranger, but you have to know how to date. Tinder works because we know how to date. There's no protocol to founder dating...so I made one up: https://github.com/rickyyean/founder-dating-ritual
Trying to impress a girl with my plant-keeping abilities ;) --We had a collaborative message thread reminding everyone to water our plants based upon a set schedule which I was going hook up to a pump to automate, and at the time Twitch Plays Pokemon was a big thing, so I just kind of combined the two ideas.

If you have interest in doing something similar, come check out the subreddit and feel free to DM me on reddit or twitter. Always happy to talk about plants and automation
That's about 20 minutes too much if you're exhausted by politics in my opinion. Do you get any value out of it? If not, just stop watching.
> I honestly don't understand what you're talking about. The word "unlikely" isn't even in the post I linked.

The crucial point of the post concerns the possibility that fastmail developers are forced to introduce secretly a government backdoor. This possibility is briefly dismissed as follows:

> There are also concerns that individual employees may be forced to build a backdoor, without being able to alert their employer. While frightening for anyone working in technology, we believe this fear is largely unfounded [1]. Most organisations have practices (pair programming, code reviews, risk evaluations) that would reveal such behaviour quickly.

The only reason given for the word "unfounded" is an article on zdnet [1], that explains the reasons why these backdoors are unlikely (but does not rule out the fact that they are possible). The word "unlikely" comes from the title of this article.

[1] https://www.zdnet.com/article/australias-encryption-laws-are...
Thank you for clarifying and explaining.

I could possibly see your argument, but ICANN's early actions ("Now everyone can get money by being a registrar middleperson, for what's still necessarily a central registry! And sure, one person can buy thousands of namespace entries, to scalp them!") didn't give me the impression that they'd worked through all the possibilities for the goal of managing this resource. The best anyone could come up with was throwing away the prior rules, unhinged profiteering handouts, and assuming an unregulated market will work it out in the end?

FWIW, just a small counterexample to the assertion that people weren't stopped from buying domain names on any possible wrong-ness of it... I distinctly recall being surprised and disapproving when I first heard of someone registering a generic word (not based on the name of their organization) as a domain name. It was like the reaction when the first Usenet spammers started. It's not that nobody had thought of that, but there was some sense of stewardship and respectability that precluded such things (and also, at one point, rules about commercial use). We onboarded a large number of people into some of the thinking with every new college frosh class, every September. I'm not saying that that particular notion of decency was sustainable during a gold rush, but "they felt it was wrong" was the barrier sometimes.
Not the OP, but have you found that people really join these WiFi networks? At least in the US, it seems like most people use their cell data instead.
oh jeez the SD card story just gave me flashbacks.

I changed networks (uni to home) and the RPi running pihole would constantly keep my uni DNS settings after a restart.

Took me a good few hours to figure it out given that I thought the DNS settings were getting copied in from elsewhere on startup. I think i finally figured it out after i re-installed rapsbian from scratch and to my horror was booted in to the old system.

PSA: Bad SD card can make you feel crazy.
Yes; it has been discovered in the daytime sky. But that's not the point. We aren't resource constrained. We're not struggling to eat; we have diseases of abundance. We're not running out of oil; we're drowning in plastic. It's not our resources that are lacking but our conscientiousness and enthusiasm for things worthwhile.
The parent is questioning the reliability of the mobile phone alert system as a replacement for the sirens: it has failed for many people (and has so in the past), and as such one can assert that it cannot replace the siren.
Not really. Nightly political comedy shows are known for editing hour long interviews into 2-3min clips to purposefully make people look bad.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jim_Jefferies_Show#Avi_Yem...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odCQhAezB_Q

During filming Jim Jefferies attempted to rile up a Jewish activist named Avi Yemini. Which included Jefferies "drawing Mohammed in front of Yemini on a small white board" and saying anti-semetic things (kippahs "look dumb"). Then edited the interview to make Yemini look like a fringe alt-right figure, typical of those who inspired the NZ shooter. Even though the Avi told Jefferies team he wished to have zero association with those people before and during the interview, correctly suspecting that might be their intention.
Hi let's connect! I'd be interested to hear about your ideas/experience, I definitely want to go the route of a 6-7 figure business too.
That water isn't being used to make plastic though. It's being used to refine crude oil into: gasoline, kerosene, fuel oil, gas oil, naphtha, reduced crude etc. That stuff is going to be refined with or without the plastic end use purely for the various other things that get manufactured from crude oil.

Something like 10% is what gets used to as raw chemicals for further manufacture of goods. Overall about 5% of the original crude gets manufactured into PVC/polystyrene/nylon/PU/PP/polyester etc.

I was specifically comparing the amount of water to manufacture 1kg of plastic and 1kg of dry hemp.
As a recent home buying millennial in the Chicago-land area, this article [1] is pretty accurate.

Basically it's a mix between boomers not selling, and millennial's not wanting what they are selling (because what they are selling is shit). When we bought our home, we were looking at old (built in 1940's) starter homes in the 200k to 250k range and it was a nightmare. Anything that was great was out of our price range, and anything decent to 'ok' would be sold in the first 24 hours. Most of the stuff that wasn't selling was just straight garbage - stuff that would require a lot of work and money (50k minimum) to get moved into the 'decent' category.

There are plenty of new houses being built, but you have to go an hour or an hour and half outside the city. I have a family member and friend who went this route and they love it, but that obviously leads to long commutes and other downsides.

[1]: https://www.chicagotribune.com/real-estate/ct-re-millennial-...
> and thought many people were going to say no?

Apparently, many Democrats thought Republicans would say no. That's what's being measured.
I said violent accent, not cars. People commuting on bikes collide with other things than cars. Regular bike commuters can hit 50+kph. At those energy levels, hitting a curb or tree branch can put you in hospital.
Audi belongs to Volkswagen Group. That makes Volkswagen Group ultimately responsible for everything it ships, whether it's done internally, by Bosch, or by an outsourcing firm in Elbonia.
Tiny Desk Concert: Imogen Heap (feat Mi.mu Gloves Demo from 09:15)
I'm partial to PiZero/Ws.

I have one connected to a big screen TV with a USB stick loaded with home videos playable using omxplayer. I use Raspicast to control the playback using my phone.

Also, like using them for projects using Rust.
I posted a couple of minutes ago so I can tell you why I did it.

There are INCREDIBLE talented people out there that for several reasons never start a company.

Some of those reasons could be the lack of opportunities or because they just didn't have the chance of working on something cool or with the right people.

Why would anyone join? Basically for the same reason, in our case, we are a little ahead in terms of funding and customers, but as someone said: " 'A players' like to play with 'A players'".
Minnesota cop awarded $585,000 after colleagues snooped on her DMV data
I don't write REST services, but I use rust on AWS Lambda, and it works great. I can interact with AWS resources easily through Rusoto, I use Dynamo and S3, etc.
As someone using Elixir full time for a couple years now, I'm very happy to see releases become first class parts of the language. Is there a migration guide for those of us using distillery currently? And if we're happy with our distillery setup, what are the advantages of moving to native 1.9 releases?
Explosive Magnetotail Activity
>. And frankly it's understandable that those men are single because most of the stories were of them either not actually attempting to connect with her as a human being, or they were stories of them outwardly objectifying her before even introducing themselves, or they were stories of crippling social anxiety.

I wholeheartedly support the notion that random girls on Tinder have no business being some random dude's therapist. But, the idea that crippling social anxiety is pretty much the same as being an objectyfing creep, and it's no wonder socially anxious people are single, is a bit cold.
I totally agree. Even if you have completely normal parents, the issues you cite are enough to give kids a lot of anxiety. However, if you add to that list any other external problems (tiger mom, deadbeat dad, financial hardship, bullying, etc), it really compounds things and makes it harder to have a positive outlook.
Company: Polar

https://getpolarized.io/

We're building a platform for knowledge workers to capture what they've learn and a framework to prevent forgetting important material.

We have about 5k VERY passionate and active users. They've uploaded about 130GB of content so far. Zero effective churn... They definitely like the product and are willing to pay.

Not profitable yet as we have to focus on growth.

Looking for someone really strong in web design/UI+react or product/growth who has built out a large startup in the past.

burton ... at getpolarized

(I'll let you figure out the email so I don't get spammed)
Ah yes, my bad - meant that it would be highly unlikely to stay out of public circulation.
Nice! Going to signup as well :)
You can handle versioning with PostgreSQL schemas. You can have v1, v2, etc. These usually contain views and stored procedures.
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EDIT: Removed link as it may reduce the karma to 0
there are times when a nil struct field is useful, like for trees and json. very easy to require struct fields by using a constructor
> Maybe it's the size of payload you can put into a usb C cable or something.

The part you grab on a typical usb C cable is just about the size of a microsd card. You might have to use a slightly narrower chip, but you can also go many times thicker. So if you're sneaking storage into a usb C cable think "terabyte".

(Unless you mean hijacking an existing chip, which might have 0 writable storage or might have a megabyte, who knows.)
Yes; my post specifically mentioned biodiesel.
Certainly does... and don't forget that we are tied into paying that price for the life of the plant. And then on the hook for the decommissioning costs and storage of the waste. And are basically paying for much of the development cost, and providing a low interest loan...

I cannot wait until storage options work financially and the case for coal, gas and nuclear is a moot point as the costs of renewables are so low.
>Video playback at 4K requires H.265

Not really a con IMO, I haven't seen anything on a 4k bluray encoded in h.264, everything seems to be 265. The microHDMI is kind of a bummer though.

I actually wonder if the A72 CPUs onboard are fast enough to do software h.264 4k decode. They might be.
Just look at the how the countries that have it manage it.
I agree with you sentiment in general about not chastising people for enjoying things you don't enjoy, but in this case it's different.

If you enjoy rock climbing or mountain hiking you go to one of thousands of other mountains. There are plenty of places that are more challenging if that is what you crave.

Literally the only reasons to climb Everest in the modern day is because you want the egocentric talking point of having climbed the highest mountain. That or you like queuing at high altitude.
These days, I would doubt that 70% of people whose primary job is to write code have any knowledge of assembly whatsoever

If pressed, I suspect most of the programmers in the world could read assembly. They might hate it, but they could do it, if given sufficient motivation. Simplified assembly used to be written as a game.

https://www.corewars.org/index.html

so a naive reading of the above paragraph seems unlikely to succeed.

How naive are you going here? Turn it into a contest, where the versions of the code contain backdoors, and contestants are ranked by how quickly and accurately they can identify them. Arrange for cash prizes, and you'd have your determination.
K2 and Kangchenjunga are also much harder to get to than Everest. For example, the Indian government does not permit access to Kangchenjunga, and the northern routes from Nepal are in (relatively, for Nepal) remote areas.

K2 is so remote that there was no local name for it (hence, the designation K2).
Disregarding the article's intent with that statistic entirely...

A) a "population" can be 1 person, a random demographic, a continent, or a fringe religious group. It just means a mathematical set of people.

B) while one could argue for or against universal moral truths until they're blue in the face, from a practical standpoint there are absolutely views that large populations believe in that are objectively abhorrent. FGM, killing people for their religion, torturing immigrant children, etc.
I am extremely out sync. I ride my bike every day right through the heart of alleged MS-13 territory. The American public thinks I've been shot into Swiss cheese by now.
TL;DR: +30% increase in suicides in the United States from 2000 to 2016, with rates increasing in all age groups.
What? I could very much see someone having that expectation at 20, maybe even at 25. At 30, we're already talking about a serious lagging in somebody's development as an adult (unless that someone was in jail/hospital the whole time and knows society only from TV etc.). At 35, I don't even know where to begin.
They sent like 5 emergency alerts on the phones, it was so confusing.
A link would be great if you feel comfortable sharing!
Keep in mind that cost of living is very high in the places where many of these jobs are located. For example, $120K in SF would be equivalent to $56K where I used to live in the Midwest.
Google made $4.7B off of the news industry, by aggregating other people's stories and advertising on them. None of that money actually went to writers or publishers.

Which is the entire point of the article you linked. If you're gonna be snarky, you should really check to make sure your information is accurate.
The Economics of Pricelessness (2014)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_Group

VW is Audi -- it is their luxury brand.

You're an ignorant sh*thole who deserves to be downvoted into oblivion.
I say "lifetime dream" because, within that context, $50,000 is probably a good, achievable budget for the lifetime dream of probably north of a billion people in the world. Maybe two billion; I haven't looked at world demographics lately.

$50,000 is enough to do any one of starting a small business, or owning a classic car, or getting a masters degree in a subject you enjoy, or to own a boat or a tiny prop plane, or take a year or two off to try to write the next great novel, or buy a small plot of land in the wilderness to put a cabin on, or take a pretty fantastic round-the-world trip, or serve as a down payment on a small house in much of the US, maybe a fixer-upper depending on your location, or to throw a really amazing wedding. Or to climb Mount Everest.

Any one; if you aren't a rich asshole, you only get to pick one (or if you're a rich SWE, like 4-5). But, like, a lot of people can scrimp and save and take out a second mortgage and do one.

I understand why you think wanting to climb Mount Everest is a stupid dream, and I'm sure that a hearty number of the climbers are rich assholes who don't bat an eye at dropping $50k on something they don't really care about. And heck, most of the people who do dream of climbing Everest aren't in the physical shape to actually go and do it.

But still, it's a pretty common dream of a lifetime, of the right scale that a huge number of people are able to attempt it.
As someone who is more recently interested in politics, I skip CNN, and actually all cable/televised news, because the coverage is so shallow. If it exhausts you, but you still want to follow it to any degree, I'd recommend getting your politics through cultivated written sources.
I run it on Server 2016, it's bulletproof there.
What software are you using for the virtual sound device, and does said software work with Windows?
Totally agree. I stop using wallet for two years already. For some rare cases that I need coins, strangers are very kind to me and willing to help. If the amount is substantial I’ll pay them with WeChat. And usually people are so kind they just give me their spare changes because everyone has this kind of headache at some points of time. Besides, there have been a few cases when I need coins for tube and the kind strangers gave me more than I asked for and didn’t ask me to pay back. In most parts of China, even parking lots can be paid with phone. Despite all these, there are so many merits in any living soul on Earth, I’m wondering if this can EVEN be explained and gauged by science.