skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Basic company idea.

0) Purchase office in East Texas.

1) Hire a few young lawyers (having difficulty finding work),

2) scan for companies that have 1 round of series A funding,

3) scan their website for any off domain image,

4) scan their website for any SMS sending,

5) if anything is found - send scary overnight letters demanding 4-5k

The worst thing that you can do to THIS business idea is to take the letter and throw it into the trash. Make them show up in court in East Texas.
Sorry, "they" as in GM.
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Are you for real? This makes vc bros seem like the greatest con there is then. I'm sure the people running these vc's are making decent money from collecting fees on these random bets
Its really not simple, technically. So I don't understand what you're saying.
[speechless]
As I said in another message, the Dutch are lucky to have cities that are mostly flat.

In my city we've got some hills in spite of the region being plain — and riding a bike on a slope you can easily reach 60 km/h without sweating. It's foolish to do so, but you get carried away.

I was driving way too fast on that event and I even told that girl afterwards that she may have stepped on the bike lane, but I was also going too fast.

However not to detract from my main point — when I first fell off my bike this year and hit my helmet-protected head, I wasn't doing more than 10 km/h. And so in both situations I was protected by my gear and the outcome would have been much worse without it.
I don't completely understand your question but I will try to answer it.

The wheels were specifically designed to do that. The internal wiring of the wheels was random, but known. For example, every "Rotor I" that exists would have A wired to E, B wired K, C wired to some other letter on the other side etc... But then "Rotor II" would have A pointing to, let's say, M, B to L ..

And yes, they were specifically designed to do that, the whole point of it was for the electrical current to travel randomly and take an unique path throughout the rotors on each key-press.

Check out this more detailed article about the rotor wiring: https://www.cryptomuseum.com/crypto/enigma/wiring.htm

Not sure if this answers your question. I'd be happy to clear out any confusions if you're more specific. :)
Not other industry, but Nokia. And Blackberry.

IBM is an example where the quick panic solution (original IBM PC) surprisingly was quite successful for a while but also bit them in the ass in the end (modularity and exclusive use of off the shelf parts).
For anyone interested in mapping technology, check out the book "Never Lost Again: The Google Mapping Revolution That Sparked New Industries and Augmented Our Reality". Written by one of the founders of Keyhole, the CIA-funded (In-Q-Tel) company that created the technology that became Google Earth, the book describes the creation of Google Maps, Google Earth, and the political machinations of different Google departments vying to own "geo".

https://www.amazon.com/dp/0062673041
Clearly anecdotal, but I bought Amazon Basics USB cables that were absolute garbage.
The model here is that we own the responsibility of making it scale. We haven't solved the problem of significant workload, but there doesn't seem to be any reason why this wouldn't work - certainly our current (low-scale) users have not had any scaling issues with Dark. If there's a fatal flaw we haven't thought of, please let me know.

We deliberately cut relational features for now because they didn't mesh with our language. We want to add joins back - right now you're doing stuff the NoSQL way (which is not my preferred way, but it's where we are today). We haven't figured out or transactional model, but we want to have a good story around that.
Wanting to move up or get promoted within the current role, but not getting promoted after several years.

"Stuck" is in the mindset of the individual.

Edit for clarification: I mean that a person is "stuck" when they feel/think they are stuck.
DeBeers (the diamond company), perhaps?
Isn't this just post-hoc rationalization though?

People complain that Rustaceans are insistent to the point of being obnoxious about Rust. But I insist that Gophers turn post-hoc rationalization into an art form. Things are bad because Go didn't do them, if they were good Go would have.
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> If corporations face unfair backlash for being open about their data policies, they'll just do it in secret.

That sounds suspiciously close to extortion. "If we tell customers what we're doing and they hate it, let's stop telling them" vs "if we tell customers what we're doing and they hate it, let's stop doing that stuff".
I think the ideas that Rust is demonstrating are valuable, and will be around in 50 years. I'm not sure if Rust will be. I sort of hope it won't be, because that implies it'll be replaced by an even better realisation of the same ideas.
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Sure, both ways make sense. Do you measure the thing being iterated upon, or the folks doing the iteration? Since they're linked, both make sense.
We used FOSSA with a few of our open source projects—it's super slick.

Quick and easy to import a project via github. Has the option to integrate into your CI manually with the cli as well.
Perhaps spinoffs should be the domain of trademark law and not copyright law.
Can you elaborate on the SMS sending?
Sorry but by your logic everything is a eugenics programme. My train being late causing me to not meet my future partner in another timeline fits your definition of technology and policy and algorithms, but that's sure as hell not a eugenics programme. Pretty much anything that causes me to meet or not to meet somebody is also not a eugenics programme.

And using Facebook does not mean you're submissive to a higher authority. Most people use it because there's no choice if you want your circle of friends to survive long term.
I used to do that - I have a pile of old TV show DVD's. When I bought a new TV last year I never bothered to hook up the DVD player - if it's on the service I'll watch it, and if it's not, the need isn't there for me to watch it, there's so much other content available.
great post, love the solo entrepreneur mindset
That may be technically correct. But Facebook trademarking "BOOK" is just stupid, on its face.

Also, I note that "facebook" itself was a term that had been used by universities for years to describe books of students' faces. As by Harvard, which Facebook was riffing on.

Maybe it's OK to allow such trademarks. But there ought to be restrictions on holders suing over currently typical usage.
I'd always assumed he was using "systems language" to just mean "as opposed to a scripting language" like perl or bash.
This was the most inspiring piece of text I've read for a long while. Such clarity of thinking and focus.
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Amazon is far from unique there. As the OP says, Walmart has a sturdy online offering, though it also relies on "marketplace" sellers. I've started ordering a lot of online stuff from Target and I've been very happy with it. Cheap shipping and reliable quality.
amdgpu in particular.
Hikaru Nakamura is an American GM that has a pretty entertaining YouTube channel if you are interested in chess.
Working at a major OEM, I heard the interaction with Google was like:

"We would like to buy/licence your maps"

"We will give them to you for free, but you have to install our software"

"k thx bye"
I would imagine that 44% return went a long way towards the vaunted status A16z had. In that, while perhaps not expecting to stay at such a high level of return, it's news because it wouldn't have been expected that such a drop (to the point where investing in common stock market index funds would have yielded a similar or better return) would have happened.
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And I'd be surprised if it couldn't lead to a successful legal claim against them for damages.
So, 20 years of no contracts, property rights, or anything else that would require a court to enforce?
Either they were too busy shuffling through other papers to care, or they didn't care because I was their best student.
I wrote the comment and I agree, although in this case it's more relevant to the topic than it often is.

I mean, I prefer AmazonBasics products because I've been burned enough times (occasionally literally) by cheap off-brand "Chinesium" goods.

So putting them at the top of the search suits me.
And isn't 16% ans 12% still excellent? It seems better than almost anything else really...
Windows 10 LTSC/LTSB versions doesn't have adverstising, Windows Store, Cortana, Edge, XBox stuffs, pre-installed games, etc. Also, Telemtry can be disabled easily.
The CBS hosts' were really trying to control the narrative and frame the questions so that either a "yes" or "no" answer would be damning. e.g., "Was is illegal?" -- that is like the proverbial "do you enjoy beating your wife?" or "should we pay taxes to Caesar?" question. It's a trap question.
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Matter of perspective. If you look globally, there's almost no conceivable experiment that can't be tried somewhere.
Amazon's Choice is a purely algorithmic tag decided by the computer. It's utterly meaningless. I guess they change periodically on some reason known only to the code.

Amazon Basics must have had at least a couple of humans involved to agree getting it branded Amazon.
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Yeah you're right. I'm not sure what the correct term is.
It means they are already well diversified in all the traditional "safe" plays. "Exhausted" is maybe not the right word. Once you've got significant capital in the standard five ways then VC is your high-risk sixth play.
Uber’s lawyers would like a word with you. They aren’t a taxi company or in the business of ride sharing. Uber is a digital marketplace company.

It’s laughable how delusional they are:

>In fact, several previous rulings have found that drivers’ work is outside the usual course of Uber’s business, which is serving as a technology platform for several different types of digital marketplaces.

https://www.uber.com/newsroom/ab5-update/
Buying map data is not a problem for a big car manufacturer. They already have their partners for that, they sometimes partially own those partners, and they will port to whatever platform chosen. Google is the weird one in that case, who insist on selling online services, is from what I've heard generally unwilling to commit to long-term setups, ...
De facto exile, they cancelled his passport.
A being independent of B and A pissing of B are not equivalent.
Go is doing more stuff in large-scale deployments, processing more traffic, doing more transactions, than Rust is. I don't just mean there are a lot more Go backend projects (there are). I mean that some of those projects do a lot more work than Rust does right now --- I don't mean ubiquitous infrastructure things like Docker and k8s, I mean purpose-built components for specific large-scale applications/platforms.

For instance: "Today, most Dropbox infrastructure is written in Go." Or: "Today Go is at the heart of CloudFlare's services". Or: "Rend is a high-performance proxy written in Go with Netflix use cases [ed: all internal memcache] as the primary driver for development". Or: "The search infrastructure on [Soundcloud] Next is driven by Elastic Search, but managed and interfaced with the rest of SoundCloud almost exclusively through Go services." Or: "How We Built Uber Engineering’s Highest Query per Second Service Using Go.". Or: "Handling five billion sessions a day – in real time [at Twitter]".

I don't see where there's room for a "that said" here.

Both languages are obviously capable of scaling.
Broadly agree BUT there are still advantages to copyrights on works that are still commercially viable. Seinfeld was made on film. Without copyright, someone would have to be incentivized to acquire the original reels and pay to digitally scan all 180 episodes of film, knowing that the resulting scans would also be in the public domain and thus very difficult to recoup their investment on.

So in an alternative reality where Seinfeld's copyright expired, its possible that SD TV captures of all the episodes would be free and publicly available (great!), but an HD conversion would never be made (not great).
This phone is really impressive. I got non pro version for 270$. It has OLED, USB-C, minijack and good battery.
> Fannie and Freddie do not buy subprime loans, subprime stays in the private market.

I'm not sure where you got that idea. Fannie and Freddie exist for the explicit purpose of making mortgages more accessible to people who would otherwise be considered too risky to lend to (low down payments, low income, no assets, etc.). They do this by purchasing mortgages that are underwritten to lower standards and at lower interest rates than would be acceptable to private lenders, effectively shifting the risk from private lenders to the taxpayers.

Fannie and Freddie bought a tremendous amount of subprime loans. From page 454 of the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission report[1]:

> "...on June 30, 2008, immediately prior to the onset of the financial crisis, [Fannie and Freddie] held or had guaranteed 12 million subprime and Alt-A loans. This was 37 percent of their total mortgage exposure of 32 million loans, which in turn was approximately 58 percent of the 55 million mortgages outstanding in the U.S. on that date. Fannie and Freddie, accordingly, were by far the dominant players in the U.S. mortgage market before the financial crisis and their underwriting standards largely set the standards for the rest of the mortgage financing industry."

[1] https://fcic-static.law.stanford.edu/cdn_media/fcic-reports/...
Humans still reign supreme (for now) at games which emphasize a heavy strategic component with a very large search space. For example, the OpenAI Five can only beat humans at DOTA with a very restricted scope (restricted champions and items).
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> seem like a really unprofessional company

Ah, "unprofessional". An adjective that can be tackled on to anything in a business setting, meaning "something I don't like but can't quite articulate why, only that's different to what I'm used to".
Spouse of Ring exec among lawmakers trying to weaken California privacy law
Doesn't matter. Executives (in this case) are workers, not owners. Some of their pay may be in equity in an attempt to align their interests with the owners but their agreement with the owners is the same as a janitor's: they take guaranteed pay in exchange for not being tied to the risks and rewards of the profit/loss cycle.
I don't have access to the full article, but from the lede this looks like not very well researched journalism:

1. A16Z has 17 funds, with varying degrees of investing angles (early stage, crypto, bio, etc). So trying to do a fund by fund analysis is unfair.

2. IRR can be deceiving as it's time based. Some LPs invest based on "X Return" or IRR, and so cherry-picking one over the other is disingenuous without mentioning the other.

3. The larger the fund, the harder it is to have a higher IRR. A16Z keeps growing the size of it's funds (latest is $1b+). There are just simply not enough good deals out there to deploy that amount of capital. This is just like growing your top line revenue 50% from $1M to $1.5M, vs 10% from $10 to $11M. The former appears to have be semantically "better performing growth", when actually you made $500k more than you did previously.

4. The fact that they, a VC firm, are even returning their money means LPs will continue to invest. VC as an "asset class" is notoriously underperforming, with exception to the top 10% of the firms (which A16Z would likely be). Which begs the question, "so what?".
What is with anything with the words “release notes” in the title being completely unreadable on a mobile device?
The limit of 1 (one) copy per library described in article seems fully reasonable to you?
This was really informative and delight to read. It's great to see developers making a go at the bizdev side and actually being really successful at it. Light on the heavy technical, light on the buzzwords, just the right amount of information to say, "here, if you even use half my stack you're well on the way to a viable product."
As a company that both owns a bunch of copyrights and has to pay fees, I wonder what Netflix's opinion would be on copyright law?
> People like to cite "higher returns" but only after conveniently ignoring all the ones that didn't pan out.

The United States allows 'microfinancing' via kickstarter, where poor people are allowed to give money to new ventures without any expectation of return on the given capital. Meanwhile, the rich get the opportunity to invest for actual returns on capital. Do you think an accredited investor is going to give money on kickstarter when they could offer cash as an investment?

So why is giving money allowed, but spending the same money on acquiring shares not? The answer that 'some people got scammed' does not excuse the fact that people are still allowed to spend the same money today, without consumer protections, while not receiving any benefit. In other words, we have created yet another way to privatize the benefits of new ventures (by only allowing rich people to profit off of them) while socializing the costs (the people asked to contribute to new ventures without any ownership interests via microfinancing platforms). The response that this is for consumer protection is crap, and anyone not blinded by legal confirmation bias can see that

Maximal investment limits based on income are perhaps appropriate, but wholesale banning is morally reprehensible, and a direct contributor to income inequality.
I agree, but, the thing is, in order to sue the government, you need two things: legal standing, and (yes) permission from said government.

Standing is tough, because you can factually know that millions of people are being spied on this way, but if you can’t prove you suffered damages, no standing for you. This was one of the key issues that kept the no fly list alive for so long.

The second arises from the concept of sovereign immunity. The government is essentially immune from lawsuits unless they grant specific permission to sue, or there’s an existing law that says you can sue.
Wrong on so many levels, you don't exile people in a democratic society. Also Russia or any other country for that matter is not a dumping ground for folks you happen to disagree with.
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This doesn’t apply to governments buying from each other.
TBH, this is more inspiring than I thought. I thought this would be some BS article about promoting your company but turns out, it was a fun and inspiring read.

My dream is to find a good idea and work solo. It is a little harder as a mobile engineer but you're right as you mention in the blog. There are technology nowadays that help me with backend/dev tools.

Cheers.
Tell them it's just "Hancock's Half Hour" but in New York.
Yeah, but this was Apple Corp suing Apple Computer, multiple times. And they more or less prevailed, in that Apple Computer has paid them settlements.
key missing info though: does it make money? I checked the site and it looks like a mix of ads (that are blocked of course) and a patreon with 5 supporters.
Judging by their ToS, I wouldn't be so sure that easyDNS has attorneys.
I think they are from a few apps I have. But I also don't use that many apps to start with, others might have a better opinion there.
I have been using them for my personal DNS for years - Been happy with them as well.
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Yeah, that and especially not all the nonsense that's stored in there at once. I kind of wanted to migrate away to something local I'd also trust with mail and banking credentials but lastpass is one of those things for me that works just well enough to not push me over the edge to actually change anything.
I'm mostly referring to established companies that have reputations as-good-or-better-than AmazonBasics and I would be more than happy to see them in the same premium position.
The parking is actually quite expensive, when my stepmom had cancer, I went a few time with a car and it was 16$ per day. That hospital made 60 millions in parking fees in 2015 as a reference...

That was the time I understood how lucky we are, when the final diagnostic fell, it was the first thing that came to my mind, what would have they done if it wasn't free... they would have to decide whether they try to give her a few more years and pay hundred thousands, or just watch her suffer a few more months. Sadly even with the amazing care she got, she died less than a year later, but at least they got that time and they never had to worry about the cost of it.
There are things known as two-sided marketplaces. This isn't novel; malls and similar have existed for a very long time.

I get that US culture is heavy on "the customer is always right"[1], etc. but two-sided markets don't exist without recognizing both sides.

[1] In reality, that ends up being more of an employee control mechanism than a dedication to customers, but that's a different topic.
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that's basically wework vs regus
Many platforms (e.g. Amazon, Google) will block your account without warning and any new ones you create trying to get back into their platform, and defend their behaviour with generic 'violation of T&Cs' statements to kick you off their platforms permanently. I'm not condoning this behaviour, but at least EasyDNS spell this out plainly. And since DNS is their core product, the mechanism makes sense.
There was a really interesting anomaly last year where, due to a political dispute, Serbia and Kosovo refused to synchronize their grids, causing the entire European grid to drop from 50 Hz to 49.996 Hz, in turn causing grid-based clocks to run 6 minutes slow by the time the issue was resolved. [1]

I don't disagree with you that grid frequencies are generally very accurate and they are a practical clock source for cheap clocks, I just found that interesting.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/serbia-kosovo-energy/serbia-...
Walmart dwarfs Amazon in annual sales (and also plays hardball with its vendors).
The article talks a lot about worldwide rights - does Sinefeld make sense to people not familiar with all the quirks of New York City? I love Monty Python but I’ve met plenty of people that just don’t get it - I imagine that Seinfeld would be the same.
True the US did use AKs and Chinese equipment at first in Afghanistan to keep it deniable. At least until arming them with full on British and American MANPADs after it was obvious to everyone they were behind it.

There's plenty of examples in history but no one has done it as boldly as the Ruskies.

Iran already had plenty of experienced in the missile dept with Palestine and Lebanon so it's not exactly new to it either.
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It’s a question of time value of money. Use say a 5% annual discount and 20 years out you’re down to 36%.

Today a few shows are valuable decades after they aired, but as a percentage of value at creation it’s a drop in the bucket. Even in Seinfeld’s case the show was already into the multi billion dollar category. It’s revenue today adds the equivalent of less than 1% of it’s total.