skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How does a startup with an MVP show customer validation with enterprise clients?
I have been working on a project with a very good friend of mine. We very recently completed our MVP and were looking to get some customer feedback/validation to find out if there is even an interest in our product in the industry. Our potential customers are mainly businesses and big ones at that. I was wondering what the best way to get some sort of proof of interest in our business will be? Thanks in advance.
My mom brought up a point, that in the 50s-70s, maybe even the 80s, there was a vast informal network of housewifes and grandparents that kept watch on the kids playing outside in the neighborhood, that they felt like they could trust. Also there were not laws that made it kids had to be supervised by adults until age 12. Now CPS will be called on you if you have your kids go on the bus by themselves:

https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2017/09/06/a-dad-in-bc-l...

In today's dual income norm where you don't know your neighbors, that doesn't exist anymore. That & the new laws creates helicopter parenting to assuage these new anxieties.
On Russia, Bill Browder's book Red Notice does an exceptional job of going into detail describing what you mention. It is really quite special.
I get 4 weeks guaranteed and I make sure to take them. In Germany I had 6 weeks. If “unlimited” translates to 4 and you feel lucky that you actually get that much then “unlimited” feels like a scam to guilt trip people into less vacation and not having to pay out any when people leave. I guess you also don’t accrue any for a longer trip if you take off less one year.
From CDC: a violent death is defined as a death resulting from the intentional use of physical force or power, threatened or actual, against oneself, another person, or a group or community
What you are describing is already ongoing. Many comments in eg widely shared Facebook political posts are likely to be posted by bots, or people paid to be representing a certain agenda (ie human bots).

And in that light I disagree with your “obvious consequence” that people will stop paying attention to forum posts, because we know that people do engage with trolls/bots on Twitter/Facebook/etc.

People are also fine watching cable TV for hours, which is content that is entirely designed by people whose intentions we do not know. What fundamental difference does it make whether candidate Doe’s agenda is pushed by bots on forums vs TV anchors paid to read off a teleprompter, when people are so eager to sit in front of it and engage with it?

Human attention is the new commodity, and the average person just does not have the means to fight the billions of dollars collectively poured into exploiting their eyeballs.
And if you fall out of favour, your company gets taken away from you. See Khodorkovsky as an example.
Should a nonexistent energy storage mechanism be considered realistic?
Yes. Yes it does matter. A bot that isn't passing the Turing test isn't making a logical argument. Therefore a voter voting based on that isn't basing their vote on a logical considerations. If voters aren't voting on facts, the entire premise of Democracy is flawed.

>"Democratic candidate XYZ wants to give free healthcare to illegal immigrants with your tax dollars."

>Such a bot would not pass the Turing test, but it would be speaking the truth (for many of the candidates) and that truth would be relevant to many voters' interest. So what?

Ironically, I'm pretty sure such a statement is exactly False. No serious candidate (polling >1%) has proposed unconditional healthcare for illegal immigrants. So no, such a bot wouldn't be speaking the truth. By all means prove me wrong. Find any written or recorded instance of a Democratic Candidate saying this.

>Now they control...95 percent. And they don't like it. So...Russia Russia Russia Squirrel! Russia Russia Russia Squirrel!

By thinking this is what the media does, aren't you implicitly admitting that crude repetition of non-arguments work? Just a moment ago didn't you say such tactics are perfectly fine so long as the statements are truth that are relevant to many voters interests? Russian interference is relevant to my interests.
Idk, I’m kind of with you on this. I grew up in an area that was racially diverse and also shared a distrust of the police and legal system. Minorities in the United States are being shot and killed by police at an alarming rate. I’m not convinced that every urban community holistically decides they must take justice into their own hands, but I, anecdotally, grew up in a place where people do take matters into their own hands. Again, I’m not saying you’re onto something here, but I do know many people who would rather fight in the streets over fight in a court room.
It probably means that the gypsies knew that they wouldn't get a fair shake regardless of facts, to be honest.
I'm about halfway through the meat of it, it gives alot of good insights and Joe's writing style is very easy to read through
If 3 million people with a master / Phd move out, your economy takes hit especially when the country's GDP is below the level of Italy.
Most cop cars these days have scanners on the rear trunk that will scan license plates as it drives by.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/72131699@N00/3803321792

Note this photo was taken in 2009. This is not a new concept.
I think there always has been an over anxious section of humanity, but now they are enabled by technology and society around them to be that anxious.
> Curious, how much vacation do your peers at the company take each year? Rough guess is fine.

I worked at a place with unlimited vacation in the past, and took ~4 weeks per year. To be honest, if anything, my boss pushed me to take more.

In the end I really think it comes down to your boss.
I'm always curious about where these sites source their prices from. Do the airlines provide a backend with real-time prices? Are they scraped from the frontend? Do these sites sell at a loss sometimes in "guaranteeing" a lower price?
Gact is a new framework that will be released in the coming months.

In the time leading up to its release, I am releasing a series of documents explaining core ideas.
While wireguard is probably safer and easier to setup, it has its own idiosyncrasies. Jason is stubborn enough to push through on creating a vpn, but also stubborn enough to see things his own way. I'm still wary of using it, not sure what will become of it.

It has idiosyncrasies like:

* Jason refuses to implement or see point of binding to an ip/address. I do not know of a serious network service that cannot bind. I guess roaming to any interface is always the right thing to do and sharing a port number for separate services on separate ips should be done via NAT.

* If you assign an ip/route to a peer, that is already assigned to another peer, previous assignment is simply removed. Somehow, this is a feature and not a blunder >95% of the time. On a security product, it's better to keep going and load a kind of obviously wrong config, discarding conflicting assignments, than to raise an error. Or even a warning (a warning is/was planned).

* on Windows Jason invented tying network id to hash of entire key+address configuration. Cool idea, but I guess you're supposed to fiddle with firewall settings each time you change any peer key/ip, because it's now a new network.

* wireguard is marketed as a modern secure VPN. It has proofs and what not, but I haven't seen a specification of what are it's security guarantees. It (obviously) leaks packet size and timing, also ecn bits, maybe server time? Does it leak public keys, dscp markings? I guess you're supposed to read the whitepaper, maybe source code and keep an eye for any changes.
> the population of those places is on the verge of collapse.

That collapse has been underway for a couple of generations now.

>Has there just been a sharp demographic break within the last generation with all of the young people suddenly moving away, or are large numbers of 30-somethings moving from the city to rural towns?

Depending on how you count, young people have been leaving farms for 4 or 5 generations now. Part of this is down to the increased efficiency of agriculture, which means fewer people are needed to produce food, which means fewer agricultural jobs. Most job creation happens in cities now, so young people who are not inheriting a family business tend to move toward cities. Richard Florida and others have written extensively about this demographic shift.
Ok sure, if you have nothing to show off and no publicly visible code, then sure a nice site might help. My last two companies I worked at have publicly visible websites that I worked on that I can point to, so I don't see why that would matter in my case.
In San Francisco a shit sucking robot would be transformative.
Maybe a little bit similar is the case of Paddy Moriarty missing from a small (10 ppl) Australian town.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-12-03/a-dog-act-homicide-on...
Give me a lever, a place to stand, and a mask.
>If engineers would build bridges like we in IT operate, we would have many collapses a day.

Maybe a bit offtopic at this point, but whay you said reminded me of this: https://www.stilldrinking.org/programming-sucks
Traditional Confucian philosophy certainly did not despise self-promotion. Confucius proclaimed himself the greatest sage alive, and his arrogant attitude turned off every ruler he was trying to advise.

I wouldn't call Do-ol the greatest sage alive, but he is one of the most original and prolific thinkers in modern Korean philosophy. Before you dismiss him as a quack, try reading at least one of his fifty books.
Does it censor Pooh-bear though?
Came across it from the reading list on the Alan Kay post. Good to hear its an easy read, might sit down and dive into it tonight.
The talk you're looking for is probably this: http://www.demarcken.org/carl/papers/ITA-software-travel-com...
I think I’ve heard stories of eg battered wives killing their husbands and then claiming self-defense because they reasonably feared for their lives (and perhaps their children’s lives) in the long run.
Almost no tech company could operate like that. What would you do just shut down your services for a month? Offer no support?
> I often ask people what percentage of the warming is due to CO2 emissions and what percent is due to natural fluctuations.

Maybe you should try reading something other than your CLIMATE CHANGE IS A LIBERAL HOAX facebook group news articles. You'll find that the fluctuations we're seeing now are not in any way natural...they are "unpresidented" as you might put it.
Yes, sounds strange. Actually the programming language LOGO would be that: LISP for children.
I am Indian, I am vegan and was brought up vegetarian and I am not short. I am a foot taller than my parents. It has nothing to do with approximating western diets and everything to do with proper nutrition, vegetarian or not.
Seems like the same infrastructure that supports omnipresent chatbots will serve adequately for interdicting and dispensing with the protesters^Wrevolutionaries^Wterrorists.
Python Artwork Generator
A number of stories on the front page of the BBC (UK) in the last week have been about the issues of the rise Knife violence. The band guns, and now there is an increase of murders via a knife. Bad people do not follow the law.
Yes. Try using Google Maps in Firefox.
Storage for renewables is realistic for hour-to-hour and max day-to-day fluctuations. But in central europe (like where the power plant from the article is located) solar power production during winter is about 15 % of summer values. You cannot reasonably store electricity for whole season.
> foot soldiers for the elite.

Well, if this isn't the pot calling the kettle black...
Anyone who appreciates Buckminster Fuller should have a read of Victor Papanek. His book 'Design For The Real World' is exceptionally good. - http://playpen.icomtek.csir.co.za/~acdc/education/Dr_Anvind_...
Why is AWS documentation so poor?
So I've been using AWS technologies every day over the past 4 years. I find there is a consistent pattern with AWS documentation, its filled with detail but hard to sift through it all to find the details that actually matter. Speaking to my coworkers, it seems everyone has the same feeling.

I decided to do something about this and dedicate a youtube channel to give detailed walkthroughs using AWS technologies. I'm making a special effort to focus on the numerous options that are presented and explain what they mean, while giving special emphasis to the settings you should probably pay attention to.

I started this channel of with two videos:

1) SNS to Lambda Trigger walkthrough - https://youtu.be/PsJsP-7cydk

2) SQS to Lambda Trigger walkthrough - https://youtu.be/JJQrVBRzlPg

I'm going to be posting new videos fairly regularly. I'm open to feedback, comments, or suggested topics. Any support is appreciated.

Thanks
Or as Bill Browser described it:

"This whole exercise was teaching me that Russian business culture is closer to that of a prison yard than anything else. In prison, all you have is your reputation. Your position is hard-earned and it is not relinquished easily. When someone is crossing the yard coming for you, you cannot stand idly by. You have to kill him before he kills you. If you don’t, and if you manage to survive the attack, you’ll be deemed weak"
Ask HN: How do you “get” Lisp?
Over the years I've read countless articles and comments praising Lisp. Yet, there's something that keeps pushing me away from it every time I try to give it a chance. Maybe it's the nested prefix syntax, all those parentheses, something else?

I read most of SICP, and believe me I like the concepts the book puts forward. But I still don't get Lisp. I understand some of the merits: code as data, functional, minimal uniform syntax (s-expressions), macros (meta-programming), etc. But I fail to _appreciate_ those features in the same way I appreciate features in other languages. For example, I can instantly appreciate Elixir's pattern matching capability because it makes control flow fades into the background (in addition to simultaneously destructuring variables), removing a lot of noise; I can appreciate its pipe operator because it makes data flow fades into the background as well, letting me focus on logic composition.

What's the best way to develop an appreciation of Lisp, given that I learn best through examples that clearly demonstrate somethings's value, not by reading a laundry list of features?
Right, except that you don't go to prison if you're running Northrop Grumman and refuse to bid on a project. But I agree that enough cash effectively guarantees they will.
There are a few things I don't want disrupted, and my endocrine system is one of them.
The Mueller team indicted N Russian individuals for that activity. They are not likely to show up for trial.

The intelligence community leadership testified to Congress that this was so.

The leadership of both parties in both houses of Congress believe it was so, though they differ in what if anything should be done, and the level of downplay or up-play differs depending on party and how close or far to leadership a person is. Or if you're Trump.
>The thing about voting is, the purpose is not to increase the quality of the decision. The practical purpose of voting is simply to avoid civil war.

Actually its both. Voting is a legitimacy mechanism (aka avoiding civil war) and a competence mechanism (aka making quality decisions). It is much better at the former, and typically better than historical systems (re: monarchy) at the latter.

It is perfectly reasonable to consider a trade-off that buys us higher competence at a loss of 10%-15% legitimacy. That's a small enough fraction of the population that I wouldn't worry too much about them starting a civil war. Especially if homogeneously distributed.
Best thing I can think of: mass mobilization to price the costs of externalities into end products. If something blasts tons of carbon into the atmosphere to make/ship it, it should be more expensive than something that doesn't.

Without this, the only way to fight climate change is a large-scale centralization of power in regulatory forces.
Sounds like an administration completely out of control. This is the kind of nonsense you actually sue a government for. Is Canada providing the support for parents working full time to accommodate these kinds of demands?

> After a weeks-long investigation, the ministry concluded that children under the age of 10 cannot be left unsupervised — whether on a bus, riding bikes around the neighbourhood or walking to the corner store, he said.

It's so sad our world has never been as safe as today.
The strategy you describe is for someone who wants the truth.

If you instead want your assumptions reinforced, you pay attention to whatever source does that.
White House wants FCC and FTC to police alleged social media censorship
You've got two cases here: breaking out of default Docker config, or breaking out of kernel namespaces. The first one is very common now and really well tested. The second one is definitely security sandbox worthy. Docker also integrates with selinux and seccomp.

Basically what I'm saying is, it's very much a security boundary. It's far from a decorative fence.
Nothing new here though. For as long as I’ve been living, public opinion on any topic is roughly a function of media saturation. You can get the majority of people to believe grass is red and Elvis is still alive if you spend enough money and shout it through enough channels.
How can such a cartoony style look like it's in the uncanny valley?
I'm guessing Coinbase hiring a pentester and giving them 'employee level access' would be a needless formality?
Theft isn't restricted to impulsive people though. It's mostly restricted to people who think they'll get away with it. Clever and cautious people may actually be able to.
SVG Gobbler: Browser extension to find SVGs on a webpage and download them
I think most animators still understand that, and they know how to do animation properly (make it expressive, use brighter color palettes, etc), but I'm guessing that a lot of the producers and people involved in this particular film just wanted to make something "cool". The entire thing is basically a vehicle for Disney to show off their fancy rendering engine.
Sandstorm requires that the web apps are packaged specifically for it. The process is not hard, but you have to decide to do it. Sadly, most apps that have been packaged have not been kept up to date.

That said, it's a great platform. I have customers using it with some marketplace apps and some custom apps. My only wish is that more people used and developed for it.
Market performance is not the real driver of the company’s decisions.

Every company has different stakeholders, who have different interests. The German state of lower saxony has a 20% stake in VW. That doesn't mean that VW does not compete with other car makers.
Indeed, after reading I watched the included video. It hit me in the onion sensors.
They are mutual, and it is stupid, but one of them is the subject of a thousand think pieces, and the other is, what, just treated like a fact of life? Have you ever read anything saying "hey country folk, maybe you shouldn't hate the people in the cities so much"?
Also, I've never read mention of this, but Yoda seems to me in many ways like Dersu Uzala from...Kurosawa's Dersu Uzala! (I think my favourite K movie) - e.g. forest-dwelling, short, benevolent, wise, and they speak similarly.

I believe Lucas helped with the financing of several of K's later films.
Correlation, not causation. Less violent environment leads people to wonder why they need guns, and so they give them up. Seems equally plausible as the contrary to me.
Surely you don't really believe that of the 1,297 white people lynched, all were innocent. His point remains then, there is no shortage of guilty white men getting lynched in American history. Lots of white murderers and rapists got lynched, sometimes after they were convicted in court, by mobs who were impatient or particularly enraged.
Yes.. there's actually a board inside Huawei of state communist officials which Huawei refuses to divulge what decisions they are in charge of and how much control they have. They say it's a non-issue because all large chinese companies have such a board.

I learned this from Huawei's answer to the House Intel Committee in 2012. That committee produced a report which began Huawei's problems operating in the US:
https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:rm226yb7473/Huawei-ZT...
Isn't copying a page and making it available to others copyright infringement unless given permission by the copyright holders?

Where in the guidelines is that ok?
I'm just not sure there's much substance to my opposing opinion - I simply think the transformed version looks incredible. I was blown away by the results. I saw all the emotion and affection and beauty of the stylized animation, plus the impressive fidelity of the CG. For me, they came together seamlessly.
I do not like this solution. Here's what I'd do: Torrent client runs dockered on a VLAN that the router routes through the VPN.
I would recommend implementing a pattern-matching capability in Lisp. With Lisp you don't need to wait for a language designer to invent a new language with better pattern matching; you can add pattern matching to the language any time you want it.
Another thing that helps is that having a person out helps you find places where only one person can do something. There shouldn't be any processes that hinge on a single point of (human) failure, but it's easy for them to sneak in, so it's good to check every now and again: What would happen if this person were hit by a bus?
I think that it should have read something like:

K-pop is increasing South Korea's power worldwide, although it might not be a fair comparison since SK is not a totalitarian state like China. If people get too friendly with China we will eventually be reminded of China's bad track record with human rights.
Neural Network Based Deep Transfer Learning for Cross-Domain Dependency Parsing
Humans have evolved to look for risk everywhere. Where there isn't any risk, they'll just invent risk.

Also, parents read in the newspaper every day about terrifying incidents that happen to other people. So they believe those are likely in their neighborhood. They are in the newspaper because they are rare. But people aren't very good at evaluating probabilities.
to the extent that they expect other people to suffer or even die upholding those ideals

The key word here being other people. This is why I don't support 'nonviolent' politics; it basically encourages people to be punching bags in hopes of activating the conscience of people higher up the social scale...which is a lot better for the latter group than for the 'nonviolent demonstrators' getting brutalized. Turns out that people's consciences are pretty darn calloused these days, so if you're depending on on other people's empathy to solve your problems you're going to be waiting a long time.
I live in Mexico with my Mexican wife.

Earlier this year she had a minimally invasive heart valve replacement (instead of opening all the chest they did via a smaller cut on the side). She was walking out of the hospital 4 days after the surgery.

We paid about $6500 USD which included everything. The mechanical valve, surgery, hospitalization, etc.

Some people pay a lot less than that since the price is according to a socio economic background check the hospital makes.
I hope you’ll forgive me for being skeptical of arguments for ATC privatization from the founder of Reason.
Maybe they’ve been at Cold War for decades but nobody else noticed.