skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yet another alternative, focused on technical events is Eventil [1]. It's born out of my experiences as a organizer of PolyConf [2] and RuPy [3] conferences. It's a side-project built to scratch my own itch. There is still plenty to be improved with bugs here and there. Several large conferences use this tool successfully to improve their workflow.

There is group management, ticketing without fees, call for proposals management, mailings, invoicing, sponsorship management et more. We charge 49/199 USD on per-event basis (no monthly fee, no % off ticket sales) depending on the event size. Free events are free and non-profit are 50% off.

[1]: https://eventil.com/
[2]: https://polyconf.com/
[3]: http://13.rupy.eu/
The $150k is the least compelling reason to join YC. Most people apply to YC for the ecosystem, community and access to (relatively) good VCs.
Wouldn't there be a delay between the time you flicked your wrist and the time the spot actually aligns, due to the limited speed of light?
Minimal Wim – an experiment in minimal typography
> push you forwards and move from 'interesting tech project' to 'actual business making money'

That's the thing. Who are you trying to impress? Investors? Or your customers?
Everyone wants to build one.
Not only has that been happening for years, Google will match D when you search for dlang, wouldn't be surprised if the reverse is true. Google has figured this out for you.
Usenet also had Cancelmoose and the Cabal (TINC).

Both individual and administrative filters are necessary.
I would say that the problem in this situation is hard to avoid. If you can have an operations team who are experts on the application as well, and have the team more closely integrated with the development team, then you generally don’t need to wake up developers at night. I spent a few years on a team set up like this and it worked very well. If your project isn’t big enough for its own operation team you can share a team between a few different projects.

But I don’t think it’s necessarily that much harder to hire developers than it is to hire devops. Some managers have told me that hiring for devops is harder.

And developers should feel some of the pain—I’m not saying page them in the middle of the night, but they should be doing daytime on-call rotations. This helps align incentives and makes developers aware of reliability issues in the systems that they create.

> In my opinion your company/solution needs to be somewhat limited for "DevOps" to make sense. For everyone else, it's two separate roles.

When I think DevOps, I already think of it as a role separate from development. You have devs, and then you have devops. You can combine both roles into one, and that makes sense for smaller / earlier stage projects, but otherwise I think of devops as a separate role.

Kind of a mess because devops varies so much between companies and isn’t even consistently named.

But my experience is that it’s not necessary to wake up two groups of people—it’s either a developer that gets woken up because the project is too small or too early to be supported by operations, or it’s someone in devops/SRE/production engineer who gets woken up. There’s a lot of practices that need to be put into place to make this work, but it’s doable.
ya

and also saying a form builder can become an app builder, is like saying a plain paper can be used to print money ...

we all know that the delta between them is huge. We are not selling fairy tales to VCs, or are we?
Given the fires at the oil storage tanks in the Bay Area, I wonder if CA will shut down petroleum infrastructure during high fire risk.
demonetized video still get ads, it is a two tier system where ad space on demonetized videos is lower in price.
It quite often means something creepy. You shouldn't assume that actual aggression aren't happening just because you have the privilege of not experiencing them.
Brexit Deal Is Done
> I'm quite convinced that it can pick up human movement signal

Yea, that's not new with the 60Ghz, it's already possible with wi-fi signals, even the pose can be estimated:

http://rfpose.csail.mit.edu/
The day they started messing with ML driven results and TL's was the day the whole argument about neutrality went out the window.
European Commission President Juncker tweets that a Brexit deal has been done
An app builder can turn into a SAP.
> Common sense states that it's okay to talk about politics insofar as it relates to workplace productivity.

I don't think this is a sensible idea or common sense.

The problem with it is that it's fine as long as science shows our ideal workplace environment as more productive or superior. We can say things like "diverse working environments increase productivity" and act backed by those facts.

Problem is that it's not really guaranteed that the mechanisms science might suggest in the future actually do support our ideal workplace conditions.

Do we then act on those productivity enhancing ideas as well, even in cases in which they are against our ideals? Would we embrace racism or ageism in the name of productivity?

To me normalizing (allegedly) neutral arguments based on productivity feels like a dangerous shortcut.
As of yesterday, GitLab's marketing team have made some changes to their Customer Acceptance policy:

https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/www-gitlab-com/merge_requests/...

https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/www-gitlab-com/merge_requests/...

In particular this seems to clarify that the company may under some circumstances not work with particular customers, and that employees can - in private contexts - discuss such issues.

In addition, the justification of 'efficiency' as a reason not to spend time vetting customers has been removed.

It'll still be interesting to watch how GitLab behaves in future, since the original policies stated may remain their true direction, even if the externally-facing language has changed.
I'm really looking forward to tls1.3, but there's still a bit of time before it gets widely adopted. CloudFlare proxy will help a lot where they handle the connection, but there's lots of services which will take years to upgrade.
this was pretty known, I'm astonished that just _now_ it was made "public"
New York-Based Startup Launches on Product Hunt as Google Alternative
> even though we have a great growing company, it is possible YC does not think we will be a billion dollar company.

This is a very positive take away: Y combinator is not for the vast majority of startups (and that's ok). They are not destined to become billion dollar companies, yet they will still go on to provide huge value to a large number of people and turn a big profit - they should still exist, and may even be vital for many.

> “Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.”
The Sound Shirt Lets Deaf People Feel Music Using Haptic Sensors
Instagram and whatsapp are facebook.
Ofc, even then 90% might be too much.
The opposite also applies: You couldn't buy up a large proportion of Bitcoins without the price skyrocketing. Prices are determined at the margin, what the marginal seller (probably miners) will sell for and what the marginal buyer will buy for. They are the best measure of "fair value".
You can make anything true if you start your sentence with "aside".
I think you haven't read how Lightning Network works.

People don't need to stake money, just create a multisig transaction with a peer and having a transaction signed by the other peer to get their money back when they want to close the lightning channel. They can get extra fees for enabling transactions, though not that big amount.
This is a fantastic story! A couple of takeaways here. The team took rejection VERY well. This is not as easy as you may think. This to me shows the founders believe in what they are doing and have a deeper goal than just making money. The ability to take the feedback and double down in just a few days is motivational.

Second, The power of positive response to negative situations. Lord knows how long it would have taken them to work on MRR if not for the rejection and they could easily have wasted time fiddling with copy and graphics, but the pressure for YC to re-evaluate them made them release ASAP and now they are already making revenue. At the end of the day, YC rejection allowed them to start generating proper revenue before they would have initially, to me that's a win, and they still get to keep the shares YC would have taken and now they have a higher valuation for whomever they apply to next for funding.

This is a great framing of a story that could easily be a sob story blog post. Keep it up, guys. You are bound for success.
It’s based on investors’ view of the future of the company and economy.

It could be that investors believe the company can grow into something large and profitable.

It could be that investors believe they will be able to sell their shares to someone else for more.

There is no law that says these beliefs have to be rational.
Spot on. This whole thread on HN reeks of "I was just following orders".
Aah of course... somehow we should believe that at some stage something accelerated to an impossible - according to all current observation - speed and then decelerated, somehow dissipating this energy somewhere.

Just to fit a bunch of observations that wouldn't otherwise make sense for the current model.

I remember the story of a chap from Pisa having a hard time trying to budge a bunch of clerics to consider his observations proof that their model was broken. ;)
Bazel Reaches 1.0 Milestone
What if you innocently play the game and THEN get a stalker, who uses game data to identify work, home, etc.

If anybody can get a stalker, then nobody is safe playing this game... ?
Yes and no.

Realstically, if the platform isn't down, I wouldn't need to wake up my platform engineer, just the dev. But the point is, the dev should build more reliable software so they don't have to wake up.

However, you're right, often these are two different teams. There are some people that can do both, but they're few and far between.
The flurry of downvotes is telling.
Force them to provide an openly accessible API to allow people to receive messages/event invites and send messages to the users of that platform. Then they can choose to use a different social network without having to give up their connections with people who haven't jumped ship. This way the advantage of the network effect of popular social networks will disappear.
Duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21280334
The system doesn't just enable the USG to reliably prevent the execution of erroneous trades.

If you think that tens to hundreds of thousands of highly paid bureaucrats, accountants, risk managers, regulators, legislators, clerks, lawyers, law enforcement, judges are there just to prevent erroneous trades...

It seems that you are discounting a vast amount of things that the system does besides preventing the execution of erroneous trade.
If something like `export PATH="aa:$PATH"` is written in `.zshenv`, as the file is sourced even for nested zsh sessions, a new `aa` will be prepended for each zsh level. Consider protecting that kind of expansion (if you use it) with `if [[ $SHLVL == 1 ]]; then ...; fi`.
The first artificial womb for humans
Pulling GitLab into the "ICE is literally Hitler" smear campaign; nice smear campaign.
Yeah, and observing this is a good way to see that information isn't actually being transferred faster than light.
I also think the name is fabulous - quite surprised the domain name was available!
I started a company about 10 years ago. We are making money, but not lots. But that was never the point of the enterprise.

Me, and my co-founders, created the company for us to be able to work with great colleagues and to limit the work hours. Our employees, including ourselves, are not allowed to work more than 40h/week. We have parties and trips where we invite all of our friends and family etc. We make sure our employees have 80% of full salary for at least 9 months for parental leave. Work-life balance is core to our values.

Our employee turn-over is basically zero. And if someone leaves we go out to dinner to thank them, keep in touch and they are always welcome back to our events and parties (also to come back to work for us of course).

I understand the idea of going big with a start-up, make tons of money. But there are other goals one can pursue with a start-up that, at least to some, is just as fulfilling.

Great job! You still have control and ownership and might be better off in the long run.
It’s very difficult to match the capability of “carrying a jerrycan of petrol” with current electrical technology.
By MAU, 2.3 billion vs 1.9 for YouTube (arguably not a messaging-based SM site), and 1.0 for Instagram (owned by FB). Qzone is 4th at 563 million, 17% of FB+Insta.

Not quite 90% by that measure, but close.

https://www.dreamgrow.com/top-15-most-popular-social-network...

Mindshare, reach, time-on-site, and media references are alternate measures. Definitions matter.
The DUP doesn't support it, so this is not a fully agreed deal.

Between the EU and the UK it is a 'deal', but as far as the Democratic and Unionist Party (DUP) is still concerned, they still stand by their rejection of it [0] even after their announcement of the deal. Therefore, more negotiations are needed to satisfy both the DUP and the EU before holding a vote to MPs first.

[0] https://twitter.com/duponline/status/1184707245478678533
And I say it's denominating trust in watts.

Think about it from the opposite direction: trust is a ridiculously effective optimization of group dynamics, and humans come equipped with it by default. It allows us to engage in trade and cooperation without paying the cost of perfectly, mathematically, enforcing the rules. It takes a problem that would be O(n!) and reduces it to something on the order of O(nlogn), at very little loss in the optimality of the result. Taking this shortcut is a no-brainer, it would be immensely stupid not to do it.

It so happen that historically, we took that trade-off and built a civilization on it. It worked well. It works well*. And what bitcoin does is trying to make our economy run on O(n!) overhead, because some individuals think that a political ideology based on not trusting other people is somehow a good idea.
Black hole detritus has gotten all over everything
has you ever asked yourself why those small-market/street-food owners drive a Mercedes AMG/Porsche?
Do you think they paid using a Bank account?

On my daily routine I see plenty of people who magically drive luxury cars even with jobs that, on paper. would require probably ~50 years of more to accumulate the required amount of money to buy such a luxury.
> the model runs on device, never sends sensor data to Google servers

Would you by any chance be interested in buying a bridge in Brooklyn?
No, it is that spacetime itself is expanding. Nothing with mass accelerated to an impossible speed.
I'm not entirly sure this is a regulatory requirement so much so, it's the solution to the requirement.

I'd need to look at the regs directly, but I believe just having different roles would be enough, i.e. not being logged in as a production admin all day long, and doing devops and CI/CD, would probably allow a dev to support production under break glass circumstances.
Does this incur a taxable income for the recipients in the amount that is forgiven? If so, is it possible for CARP (or orgs like Rolling Jubilee) to buy and hold the debt, never collecting, without actually forgiving it?
negligible.
It's actually very simple.
Programmers are big money makers for companies, specially good programmers. Programmers are mostly male, that means there is almost 50% of the population that s not even considering that career.
How much easier will it be to hire new programmers if the hiring pool would almost double?
There is no such problem in other areas.
Not other "mostly male" or "mostly female" career is as effective for generating money for employers or is so hard to get good employees.
We are by definition almost at the center of the universe that we can observe - we can see as far away in any direction.
If someone in a train traveling at 108km/h throws a ball at you while passing and you catch the ball two seconds later, you also received a ball from someone “60 meters away” even though the ball only traveled a few meters. The point is: when the ball was thrown the train was much closer. Likewise, the other object was much closer when it sent out the light we see today.
We are at the center of the observable universe. And not that's not special, any star/galaxy is at the center of it's observable universe.
Yes, especially because clock drift on the crystals is several orders of magnitude higher. Often 10 parts per million, or more.
mind sharing what pushed you to apply?
Companies are not neutral entities. People work there and have values. If a company thinks it’s ok to serve people that commit crimes against humanity, in the case of ICE and the Drumpf administration, than they have a serious problem. Maybe send the guy a link to the story about IBM and the nazi regime for context.
It may come as a shock to you but some people have multiple passions in life. Besides, your arguments reeks of the classic gamer 'women are not really into it' take
Storage Combinators
Why would you do that? I take it this isn't an Agile team but are they working on software?
This is the actual thing about technology, amplification. One person has 1 voice, but then they buy a megaphone, or say something to get attention online and the algorithms are programmed to say that's good. What's picked to be amplified, or muted, is the issue.
They did randomly decide to exterminate Jews, and Roma, and gays, and Catholic Poles. They were predisposed to fascism because it lent cover to gratuitous violence.

Fascism is never a reasoned position. It provides a social framework for people's worst impulses.
To play devils advocate - what's wrong with this?

I was always under the assumption that immigrants were suppose to benefit the native population. Which in this case they likely wouldn't?
There is no such title as "EU President".
Robots were used to judge this year’s World Artistic Gymnastics Cham­pi­on­ships
Put Tinder on Africa.
Then they will be "removed from the premises" for "causing a disturbance", with their further entry forfeited.

I'm sure there's some language in the legalese of the ticket already where they can do this "at their discretion".
Or... the plan is to have a general election with Boris Johnson able to say "I have a deal agreed with the EU, now give me a clear majority and let's get on with it", and bye bye DUP.
Awesome effort and thanks for sharing the ups and downs. Quick question - why aren't you guys on mobile yet?
We've been working on something similar for a few years now. Micro is a runtime for microservices https://github.com/micro/micro. We primarily focused on Go and are moving towards multilanguage via a http api, proxy and SDKs much like dapr.
> The cost of energy is minuscule compared to alternative means of achieving the same: vaults, guards, banks, lawyers, etc.

That's only because Bitcoin is still relatively insignificant blip in the world of trade, mostly a pastime for gamblers and scammers. It's footprint is actually absurdly huge compared to value it provides.

The real problem is scaling. Vaults, guards, banks, lawyers scale somewhere around O(n) to O(n logn) with the size of the market. Bitcoin's proof of work - the means of securing it - scales, to the best of my understanding, as O(n!) with the number of miners. That's not something you can run a global economy on.
I don't think the closet ever benefited gay people. Also commerce is probably the furthest you can get from being apolitical so I'm not sure of the point you're trying to make.
Of course you are, "and then they all lived happily ever after, and by all I mean 7 billion people, and by happily I mean paying $10/month or clicking ads"
Biometric authentication on Android phones has always seemed to be hit-or-miss: companies looking to add it to their feature checklist either come up with fundamentally flawed designs (storing a fingerprint as an unencrypted image file, etc.) or you have bugs like these. There really needs to be some sort of realignment that incentivizes companies to get this right rather than slap together something broken and try to sell it as “iPhone may have x feature, but we have y (which is buggy, but you don’t know that)”.
Sounds to me that being reject was super valuable to you guys anyway and instead of being "accelerated" you'll be able to go in your own speed the way you want with your product, not as YC, VC's or anyone else wants, which can easily "accelerate" you into the void and add extra level of stress to the one already, because imo investors are more like all-or-nothing types, when for you building "normal" sustainable business, that can later be sold for some X-XX million amount, is viable option as well.

Good luck and keep building! :)
Additionally, sensor data should be oversampled and filtered/fused using a filter that is robust to outliers. This whether coming in over I2C, or not.
Robust systems assume failures will occur and manage them in such a way that they still do their job correctly.
Ask HN: What are your favorite web designs that adapt to system dark modes?
Canvas touch events, we just got them working, mobile will be live in 2 weeks max.
All modern ides analyse dependencies.
Spagheti is usually built when there are too many people working on one project.
Microservices is to scale people, no need for microservices when your company has very few employees.
That doesn't answer my question at all.

Who pays?

And, what do natural disaster have to do with it? We're talking about a human-caused disaster in the making orders of magnitude greater than Bhopal.

Surely those companies, organizations, people, and countries which profited from petroleum extraction, including by telling lies about the impact of their work, should pay compensation, yes?

Or are you one of those people who believes in privatizing profits and socializing risk?

Do you honestly think insurance will cover it? Because I remember Hurricane Andrew, when 11 insurance companies went bankrupt from the claims filed.

Again, we can look to the Okie experience - the Dust Bowl was caused by soil mismanagement by humans - as a relevant historical example. Why shouldn't we expect something like that again?
> Video editor in browser

But why? YC takes up a lot of risky ventures but I really don't see video editor in browser taking off beyond a fun little toy so I definitely get why they refused.
Could you elaborate more who's your clientele? I'm very curious.

Nevertheless it was a fun read!
You can have diferent components scale differently in a monolith.
And do-it-yourselfers have been installing datacenter UPSs, when they can find one whose battery-bank voltage is similar to the car's traction-pack voltage:

http://www.priups.com/others/Doug/index.html

http://www.priups.com/others/charlie/index.html
> why are we the only intelligent animal on Earth?

Are other animals not intelligent? Are you sure we are intelligent?

I guess that the difference between apes and humans would be minuscule to the outside observer.
> How else do you think miners pay for their electricity?

With speculation on currency (it's the primary use of Bitcoin) and theft - the latter less so, given the very high centralization of hashing power, but it was and still is common for a wannabe Bitcoin millionaires to run mining software on computers and electricity they do not own or pay for.
Doesn't really matter unless it is also passed by the UK parliament - which looks unlikely at this time, which was also the fate of the last deal that Theresa May's government negotiated.
His current majority is -41, I believe, due to sacking a lot of MPs. This strategy didn't work for Theresa May (indeed it created the DUP situation!) and it won't work for Johnson.
Isn't this literally what locales are for? Instead of "English" you have "En-US", "En-UK", "En-Ind" etc.