skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Moderation does not unbiased news make. Everything is biased. What you have is the news you are already biased towards - your own personal echo chamber.
Yep. Sympathetic guess is that they are just rapidly trying a bunch of promotions to see what people like, and they are too internally dysfunctional to keep their agents/app/website up-to-date. Cynical guess is that opaqueness is the goal, and they want you to just get in the habit of trusting their "here's how much you saved!" number without anyone looking closely at the counterfactual.
Ask HK: How can small businesses reduce currency risk?
I'm a small business and face cash flow uncertainties due to currency fluctuations. Does anyone have a similar problem and an idea how to mitigate this?
Call it "Sand to Solar". Some of the best ideas start out as jokes, I googled for this because I was curious:

"New technology allows heated sand to generate electricity, presenting a viable new option for investors to focus on."

https://oilandenergyinvestor.com/acq/new-energy-from-sand-wh...
Yes, this is my understanding as well. You owe a lot of taxes initially (that you to pay to even exercise) and then you wouldn't pay AGAIN if the company goes bust.

That would, of course, suck, but you wouldn't "owe more" if the company goes bust. It would just be what you already paid now being worth less than what you paid for it.

I guess I don't understand the point being made with that in mind. If you took out a loan to exercise the options (don't do that), then that would be a big problem.
It depends on how you define "fraud". It was definitely run with a lax definition of truth.
> He didn’t create a very valuable company. It’s deeply in the red (the opposite of what you are claiming).

Unfortunately, in this day and time, sometimes company's value has very little to do with profit or even revenue.
Edge here means the client i.e. smartphones, browsers, or dedicated consumer side devices like the dashcam in the car
This gratifies my intellectual curiosity.
Anything that goes from Zero to 1 (Peter Thiel). An example, pre-airplane civilization to a jet set civilization. I'd say that in 2016, that was the year for ML to seriously influence world events. In 2019 I'd give a serious look at this list https://www.ycombinator.com/rfs and chances are the next big thing isn't on it. Personally, I'm shorting credit card companies since 50% of millennials have maxed out credit cards.
Why would I feel anything but good about this?

At the worst it doesn't impact me at all, at best it means a large number of people are going to be able to get online for cheap who previously weren't.
Memristors. Thus far, they have not been used very well, mostly due to 'lock in' effects. But their power savings are fairly intense (as compared to current solutions, about a factor of ~10^3 - 10^4). With AI and ML stuff literally heating up, those power savings will become more and more attractive. Eventually, a sea change will occur and memristive based computing will become the dominant one. Personally, I think that the synapse-like characteristics of memristors aren't as fully exploited as they should be and new chip designs will greatly aide the transition to better and better AIs and ML devices on less power and smaller form factors. Think the modern image classification on a Tesla but powered by a watch battery, for months.
Me - looking for a new project to dig into. http://andyphil.com/
Hearing and understanding is easier than forming responses in real time. I understand a lot more Russian than I can speak. She probably understood a lot of English, but struggled coming up with responses.
The median new car price is quickly approaching $40k. Probably 65% or so of new cars cost more than $30k.
Clearly someone thinks it’s valuable given that they are paying for it.
I don't think you are ever going to find such a charity. The Red Cross maybe ? (then again, when donating blood, and depending on the country, you have laws in place that prevent some people to donate if they are transgender for instance).
> a third-party candidate doesn't spoil an election

that's enough of an improvement for me
U.K. science minister says Darpa-like agency is in the works
But Communism didn't work for a lot of people either.

I'm not saying "therefore capitalism is the right answer" (though I still think it is). I'm not saying that people shouldn't be interested in other systems. But I am saying that it matters a great deal that the "other system" be better, not just different. As my co-worker Steve Hanka used to say, "There's lots of ways to do it that don't work". There's lots of ways to structure the economy that work out worse; let's not make things worse by trying to make them better.
How about new potentials for humanity, I don't give a damn how it helps businesses or helps Wall Street crooks.
Partly to probably save face on all of their other investments in the Vision Fund. They still have a number of other companies in their portfolio that they hope to one day take public, and compounding this disaster wouldn't be helpful to them
the news site that the article was written on only gives access to 5 free articles per month, its the same thing google has done.
Employees who have choices on where to work.

Landlords who have choices about working with startups or not. Generally, industry partners on the fence about investing time in startups and choosing their business partners.

Competitors damaged by Son's misinvestment giving WeWork billions to light on fire.

Investors who didn't want to have to demand information rights and crawl though financials looking for rampant self dealing.

Founders like me who resent fraudsters taking the shine off our industry.
i do not disagree regarding how we will call these "entrepreneurs". but problems looking for solutions for these people will be there (is already). it might even a chance to improve their lives
and Granular is owned by Corteva (previously DuPont Pioneer) which is was just spun out from the Dow-DuPont merger
An 83b election is to be issued at the time of grant, not the time of exercise.
Also, some interactive examples of different voting techniques:

https://ncase.me/ballot/
I'm not aware of it ever having been otherwise, but I haven't always followed FBA developments that closely.
I've been a huge fan of this system ever since CGP Grey made an excellent video on how it works and why it's great.

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Y3jE3B8HsE
nord vpn will sell out. i happen to know this for a fact. same as any other big company. think how many times facebook has said sorry over the past 10 years. just the same with vpn providers. your best bet is tor, and even then just use it for privacy reasons, not illegal ones.
I think there's wide variability in the social needs of humans as a function of past experience, genetics, and age.

But I think that 15-20 is about right for a sustainable group generally as long as you've got the right skills in the mix. Fewer than that and a few lazy people and things fall apart. More than that and you start forming cliques.

Once you get into multi-generational it gets interesting. I know at least one place like this where a bunch of families sort of just went in on some land and then coparent as a community.
You should consider sanitizing user input.
> I've been nagging on HN's comment sections every few months about this issue whenever a FF related submission made the frontpage...

Same here, until one of the people responsible for the patches replied to tell me that he fixed it. I've been running nightly builds of Firefox ever since.

Firefox with NoScript runs fast and cool. I love it.
In a world where QE is used to fund everything, this is the result. Incentivize rather than penalize saving and this goes away.
What's Mozilla's conflict of interest?
How much of that capital has actually been deployed yet?
Lindsey Graham’s Birthday Gift to Vladimir Putin
Final Fantasy VII – Past and Future
It's not even that they are using "extracted rents from A to significantly undercut prices below competitive level in market B to gain share" they are locking us and other companies out of the market altogether. This is a crime and it's happening right now.
I have to say, I'm really happy that this seems a sort of resurgence of a proper CPU architecture diversity. I'm getting bored of the x86/ARM dichotomy.
This sunk cost fallacy argument is easy to apply to many languages. Of the ones for which I've approached expert-level knowledge, C++ stands out as the one with the biggest sunk cost for the least gain. But let me tell you about my experience over the past couple years with OCaml, and why I think experts of Haskell, ML, and related languages are motivated by epiphany rather than sunk cost.

First, my CS background. I started programming in 1991, and have used dozens of languages major and minor over that time. At one time or another, I developed especially deep knowledge of the following: C, Perl, PostScript, Python, C++, and PHP. Functional languages always hovered at the edge of my interest, but never seemed practical enough to apply to the sorts of systems programming I love.

In 2017 I decided to spend some time broadening my understanding of language concepts, and made a list of languages to learn more about: OCaml, Julia, Clojure, Scala, Scheme, Haskell, Rust, Erlang, Go, Swift, and Kotlin. Learning OCaml ended up being such a transformative experience that I use it almost exclusively now. As an aside, I must say that it wasn't easy; it took the better part of a year to acquire the knowledge and experience necessary to feel productive.

Why is OCaml (and presumably Haskell) so good? The resulting programs feel like beautiful self-consistent crystalline structures rather than balls of mud. Furthermore, the powerful type system allows refactoring from one crystalline structure to another such that inconsistent hybrid crystals rarely occur. This is a much different experience from reshaping a ball of mud. The routine elegance and safety of these program representations aid in discovering the essences of solutions, and I have written programs I never would have discovered in other languages.

Killer features:
- The powerful type system clarifies design, aids refactoring.
- The module system (in combination with generics) enables truly modular design.
- Effectless computation (pure functions, immutable data) simplifies reasoning about state.

I have some complaints about OCaml (and every other language I know), but it stands out as by far the most fulfilling to use. Going forward I will prefer to spend my programming time using languages more like OCaml, Haskell, Rust, etc. than those I used for the first 25 years.
Once you create an api or solution, are you able to resell it to other businesses or or do you create once off solutions?
The thing is, if Google decides to favor a side and Bing doesn't, Bing search is just a click away. And if consumers value a politically-unbiased (or other-biased) opinion, they can migrate to Bing, right?
I don't know about the acquiree but as a mail admin I've found Mailgun to be unresponsive to abuse emails and an unrepentant spammer. Block them and move on.
> You may not like certain specifics of their employee healthcare policy, but having such a policy does not imply hate on their part

I personally disagree, and I disagree strongly.
Shortly after the 2016 election I did some research into election and social choice theory. First-past-the-post is clearly the worst system possible. But ranked-choice also has strange artifacts where voting for your actual favorite as your first-rank choice means they might have a lower chance of winning.

A much simpler method in my opinion is approval voting: the ballot instructs, "Who do you think would perform the duties of the office to your approval? Check all names that apply." Then whoever gets the most checkmarks in aggregate is the winner. No spoiler effect, easily-understood vote tallying system, and reflects true approval in the population of voters. It can be adapted to multi-seat races just by taking the top n winners.

Ka-Ping Yee simulated elections using a number of recognized methods for counting votes[1]. I believe that the best system will be one which is easily-understood at the ballot box and behaves as similarly to the Condorcet method as possible. According to these simulations, it appears that approval voting is the best.

No election method will meet all the requirements for an ideal one[2] so it comes down to which conditions you want to enforce and which are less important. IMO, monotonicity is very important while the later-no-harm criterion can be interpreted as a compromise which is necessary for strategic voting.

[1] http://zesty.ca/voting/sim/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrow%27s_impossibility_theore...
Most difficult things work like this. The top performers in many complex tasks operate from pure intuition, and backtracking what their choices actually mean is a much more time intensive process.

Doing things quickly and just because the author feels like it's a good move does not necessarily mean the decision is not based on decades of experience and preliminary work.
Building Instant group chat for nearby loosely affiliated people. (does the world need yet another chat app?!, surprisingly it does!)

Unlocks value and solves problems of current options. Maintains some privacy, keeps out randos (no, isn’t one of those been done million times, who is around you app just based on GPS).

The magic happens in the backend, looking for someone who will focus on development of all server-side logic, You can make mobile apps that can handle lots of concurrent chats/chatrooms, thousands of users. It starts out simple but gets complex, lots of interesting problems to solve. More concerned about it works than how it looks, so basic frontend skills would be nice, but again back matters more
Basic MVP already built with React Native. So you are not building from scratch, but adding features (some very basic like social login and images) then more complex. Later can go native app for iOS/Android if needed.

Based in the Bay Area would be nice but not a requirement. Built other chat apps before or something like that? Say hi. email in profile.
While we’re on the subject one of the best ways to implement prop-rep is called mixed-member voting:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mixed-member_proportional

M–M voting preserves individual districts, but it eliminates the effects of gerrymandering by using extra seats to make up for any discrepancy between the proportion of districts a party won vs the number of votes. Gerrymandering is, of course, a huge problem in the US, and M–M voting offers a way to kill two birds with one stone, so to speak.
It does until it doesn't. Capital injections don't last forever. Eventually profits and cash flow matter.
I checked out rust around 5 or 6 years ago, and it was a mess of sigils for the borrow checker. Things have improved significantly since then. If you haven't checked it out in a while, it may be worth another look.
Thoma Bravo has been a great partner for us. Our management team has maintained a high level of autonomy in driving the vision and strategy of the company including the decision to pursue this acquisition. There is a tremendous network current/past companies with a wealth of experience that we've been able to draw from that already has proven to be incredibly valuable as we continue to scale the company.
I was paying for G Suite earlier this year with my custom domain and was very happy with it (especially cloud search), except: I have been using GMail since almost 3 years before it became public and there was no way to merge my old persona with the new G Suite account. I had to switch my Google identities back and forth. I decided that this was too much of a hassle.
I don't know the details of when the news broke, but I'd be interested to know how many people at We knew that Neumann owned some of the properties they were renting and not WeWork. Because if I knew that self-dealing was going on, I definitely wouldn't work there. If I found out, I'd try and leave as soon as possible.

I can't imagine what it feels like to be at a promising startup with options and people are floating a 47-60 billion valuation at you, only to have a bunch of shady business come to light and then have that value evaporate before it was ever realized. Even if you didn't act on it, and pretended it was a lottery ticket - the emotional toll must be excruciating. I really empathize with the boots on the ground at some of these companies, they're working hard just like the rest of us.
Few elections in New York are competitive.

Third parties are not centrists, they are usually sponsored by some big brother. There’s a party that’s an arm of big labor unions, and at one point a billionaire had his own party.

IMO third candidates are almost always bad in the US system. We’re not a parliamentary system and I’ve never seen a third candidate who didn’t benefit the incumbent.
Sure! I just built this quickly to demonstrate the capability of Workers KV. Will take care of it. Thanks for the comment.
There have been multiple articles defending Elizabeth Holmes, and her personal politics are just as liberal.

It's not about defending the person, it's about defending this vague entrepreneurial ideal of the renegade founder, the Jobsian inability to accept the status quo.
This isn't whataboutism even though it contains the words "what about". Whataboutism is an attempt to excuse one thing because some other bad actor or event wasn't dealt with properly. It's when you try to discredit an argument by implicitly charging them with some sort of hypocritical stance. I'm simply saying Amazon should be next on the list that they investigate. I'm not trying to say that these are bullshit inquires because Amazon hasn't been investigated, which is what a whataboutism on this would be. I'm saying the opposite - that Facebook and Google should be investigated but so should Amazon.
Yet another happy Postmark customer here. They're the only transactional email provider I've found who keeps full text logs of your outgoing mails (for a couple weeks) - in a complex "Enterprise" environment I cannot overstate how helpful having one place that always logs the mail that actually went out to the customer is. No matter what the sending system may have logged or failed to log.

Also their deliverability is excellent and when there are deliverability issues, it's easy to find exactly why. The logs also surface the info we need to prove what actually happened during a nondelivery event. ("Here is the actual log line from your MX server rejecting the mail we sent.")

For small near-zero-budget projects, I still use Amazon SES. It's Good Enough for most uses and nobody else with even decent deliverability can touch them on price. All my hobby projects combined are billing well under $1/mo for SES usage.

SES is also decent for some very specific inbound email use cases. If you need to receive email from some system that doesn't have a real webhooks type outbound API, but does have robust email notifications, and send the body to a Lambda function that parses it and makes the API call that system ought to have just made in the first place.. SES is perfect. (And unfortunately all the major systems I work with that process inbound email are stuck needing an IMAP connection - if I was able to use an API based inbound email receipt scheme, and needed to receive mail from various domains, I'd consider Postmark for the better diagnostics and logging.)
Yep, that even better.
AI-driven drug discovery.

New pharmaceuticals are immensely expensive to develop, but that's largely because pharma companies aren't using available data to its full potential.

Its never been easier to start a software business, which is bad for most software companies since it means that they'll have no opportunity to create monopolies.

AI-driven pharma companies are defensible since their work is much more patentable than a typical software-enabled business, and because they'll benefit from data network-effects in the long term.
‘Completely disproportionate’: ePrivacy is a looming nightmare for publishers
Ironically, so is alternative-choice and cordocet voting so they split the vote /s
If I understand your example, then one of the extreme candidates would actually have a super-majority of first-place votes, right? I'm not sure elevating the centrist there is the right move. I mean, it sounds like a pleasant outcome, but at some point you have to accept the will of the voters.
Likely they've been sold a bunch of snake oil to prevent "fraud" based around sniffing up their customers' asses.

But you should still use all of the anti-surveillance tech you can, lest the downward spiral continue. The methods are implemented gradually, with soft heuristics. The more customers they have without such vulnerabilities, the harder it is to justify turning the screws.
I am a white, male software developer. I have absolutely nothing to complain about or envy others. Find something more solid to lean on than a straw man.

If those who feel entitled to the work of others enrage you, then perhaps you should point your anger at the parasitic bourgeoisie who siphon wealth away from society for doing absolutely nothing useful.
But also it gives voters the option to actually vote for whom they want to vote for instead of who they think will win. Big game changer and will fundamentally affect everything about the vote.

Big vision here is that it also shifts the discussion to how can we make the voting system better, just by implementing _something_ better.

I agree with you hugely that "it's a start, and I'm grateful for that alone". And we need to push this across the finish line, even though it isn't _perfect_. We just need _better_ right now, we need momentum.
Plastic has some other issues that are coming to light. Still, even if burning oil ceases we will undoubtedly have need for some of the chemicals and plastics that have no alternatives yet, some of them important, like medical etc. We probably will for quite some time. If we stop combustion of oil that would dramatically improve emissions, and leave centuries of reserves for those non-combustive uses.

"stay in the ground" seems a perfectly reasonable shorthand to avoid a paragraph of caveats.
Not sure this adds up for me. So long as network latency and throughput remain asymmetrically limited with respect to machine and CPU cache speed, the implementation detail of data locality will bleed into anything you write. At that point, what makes a language, database, OS anymore "cloud-friendly" than what we have today? I can already get 90% of the way there with Kubernetes, Aurora and any language of choice.
Sorry, did the omission of a very detailed list of todos imply I don’t know what this would entail?

You’d need to reimplement a variety of layers and could leave out of a lot too.

Personally a rudimentary BIOS type system in hardware that can read/write to an OS layer would be the design I’d start with

The OS doesn’t need userland tooling then

But no one cares about the OS that powers everything being an archaic mess. Gotta fetishize where the profit is
Amazon is a trust, not yet a monopoly. There is an inherent conflict of interest, and lack of recourse (forced arbitration), between Amazon marketplace sellers and Amazon the e-commerce store. Likewise between AWS customers and Amazon the e-commerce store and advertising network. By any reasonable consumer standards, AWS should be split off into a separate company. The pervasive surveillance and continual scandals surrounding Ring's handling of user data, when taken in context of Amazon's collection of user data from the e-commerce store, advertising network, Alexa, other Amazon business units, and purchased third party data, mean that Amazon should never have been allowed to acquire Ring in the first place. If the Department of Justice Antitrust Division had not been completely captured by corporate interests, they would be in the process of litigating to undo this acquisition right now.