skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’ve always been a little confused about their cult following given their unfriendly terms — arbitrary domain cancellation based on adult material for example — which are fair terms to have if that’s their ethics but it seems at odds with the typical pro freedom expectations many people in technology hold.
kind of a bad title given the fact that dairyland is not a word but is the name of a major insurance company. “dairy land” would have been better.
Very cool!

A bit disorienting due to information paralysis, but maybe if I'm the person creating it, or have already used to it, it will be ok.

Suggestion: Don't overuse elevation (material design card). Actually, maybe you can remove the shadows and use standard diagram elements that Visio uses, and/or XKCD style.
ZeroPhone
Bloomberg Terminal for everything

Isn't that Wolfram Alpha?
Ask HN: Advice for Starting a B2B SaaS
There's some great information in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14146850 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14155460. For those who built B2B SaaS products, what advice you wish you had received before starting out ?
What kind of data was affected? Was Email messages affected?
I used to have access to the UK electoral list. In about 2003 there were 32 "Marcus Holmes" in the list. I also had their addresses. I was contemplating inviting them all to a get-together ;)

I spoke to the guy who owns marcusholmes.com when I got my domain (marcusholmes.biz). Nice chap. American, of course.

Maybe we should have a convention or something. Because we're obviously related. Sherlock was our great-great-uncle (at least, that's what I tell people).
There's a certain sad irony that it's being displayed in the museum of the man who ordered it to be cancelled.
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The study doesn't exclude the value of the home. In fact, most of the net worth disparity is attributable to home ownership.

Total Assets:
White: $256,500 | U.S. Black: $700

Liquid Assets:
White: $25,000 | U.S. Black: $670

Net Worth:
White: $247,500 | U.S. Black: $8

Some definitions:

>Liquid assets, which can quickly be converted into cash, include money 18 in savings and checking accounts, stocks, money market, and government bonds.

>We totaled the value of all assets held by each racial group, including the value of all liquid assets, financial assets, retirement, home and vehicle equity, and the values of all other assets (these include life insurance policies and valuables such as jewelry)

>Net worth (or wealth), the sum of the value of total assets minus the value of debts, provides a snapshot of household financial well-being.

From this PDF: https://www.bostonfed.org/-/media/Documents/color-of-wealth/...
You have to have some income to offset, but you also need actual costs (money going out the door). Not renting to someone at $5,000 per month isn’t an expense, it’s forgone revenue.
Replication is not a backup as was already mentioned. A great example of this is when the KDE project almost lost all of their Git repos because they were mirroring a corrupted copy of the data. https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTMzNTc
At least then now we know what kind of service we may expect from Gandi... Shit happens to everyone, it is in the cleaning up you learn who you're dealing with, is my personal view on that.
Mozilla link says

> Note that any other scrolls, such as those performed by the user, are not affected by this property.
So, is the OP right or wrong? I'll admit I was intrigued :)
Sure, this is absolutely true. That said, if you can test a prototype for $100 and validate the business idea it's easier to figure out how to pay for (and/or that it is worth spending the time building yourself) the better, built from scratch version. You'll probably also get some good feedback.

I think this is the disconnect for me when reading this question. If the question is "where do I find good ideas for my personal tinkering projects" that's one thing, but if you're looking for profitable startup ideas it's not about the engineering - it's about testing quickly and validating the business so the development piece can be much less important (unless of course the business is software tooling)
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I’m using HiDPI on Linux/KDE and haven’t had any issues for a long time. Windows can’t be much worse. I think you need to reevaluate.

1080p might be fine for a phone. There’s nothing ‘sweet’ about blurry text[1] on a lowDPI laptop screen, in my opinion. Especially if you’re buying new. Paying real money for obolete tech makes no sense.

[1] https://webcube-general.s3.amazonaws.com/eizo/media/contenta...
warrants' purpose is not to protect privacy, their purpose is to make it difficult for governments to target citizens they don't like.

Or, more generally, warrants are not a positive attribute of an individual, instead they are a negative inhibitor of governments.
How JavaScript Works, Douglas Crockford (2019)
That seems like a bad idea, because lasers are monochromatic.

Sure, a red laser looks red. But just because you only see 50% of the brightness of the light of a red laser doesn't mean the absorption of all red colors will be 50%. Seems a lot better to use some very mixed source of light.
I truly love the optimism, but even our experiences in democracy don't seem to support this. [1]

Plus, does what you're saying even feel true in your own life now? Does knowing something in your youth make you a louder or better or more powerful advocate in a far future. Slow catastrophies are a human blind spot, and I lack your confidence that extending our individual window from 80 to 120 years would make us better able to grapple. Especially considering that those additional 60 years are going to have a much more stubborn and formed and fully-convicted mind piloting the body around.

[1]: Ch 6 of "Democracy for Realists", "The Specious Present"
https://books.google.ca/books?id=M4m9DgAAQBAJ&printsec=front...
I am aware of the concept.
How is this better/cheaper than OneNote? Serious question.
Looks nice, is there a way to export my data?
A friend's father back in the early 90s was convinced that analogue computers were going to come back and kick the asses of these newfangled digital pretenders :)

He was a little strange, but I loved seeing his workshop and attempts at building such computers. It's a pity I'm not in touch any more, I would like to learn a bit more about what he was actually doing and if it was effective at all.
If I understand your comment, you are saying that what people do in their private life does not matter unless it is important enough (e.g. being the Boston strangler): this is tautological (what is important in the legacy of someone if the important things they did, their work and/or their private life if their private life is important).

You are just saying that hundreds of such "incidents" is simply not important enough to be remembered. But murder would be according to you. Where do you draw the line?
will this work with explorer associations on Windows ? like .doc and .pdf files ?
I use Gandi for domains & DNS too. I've never had any problems so far but I don't want any surprises... Where do you want to migrate? What is a better alternative?
Most of these tools exploit Windows. I never hear of any wholesale ransomeware attacks on companies with pure MacOS and/or Linux desktops (yes I know there are occasional individual apps that are malware but not ransomware).
There are more people in the world than just saints and creeps. There are also a ton of normal people who didn't grope hundreds or thousands of girls.
Not everything in the image is at the same distance from the camera as the color chart. You still need depth information for the other parts.
> Evolution is not wise, evolution is not careful, evolution did not plan or reason for that fence. Evolution also gave us susceptibility to diseases, revolting parasites, defects of birth, and an often tragic fragility. Shall we preserve those as well? After all, they must be there for a reason.

Copy. Mutate. Select. Simple algorithm, remarkable results. Incredibly robust to failure.

I think you do yourself a disservice thinking this way about the process that gave rise to you.

Edit: and I didn't even read your whole comment.

> Evolution gave us allergies which cause people to asphixiate and clotting disorders which have children bleeding out from a casual scrape. Blindness, gangrene, arthritis: this is the wisdom of evolution.

It also, apparently, gave us breathtaking ignorance. No wait, that was human society.
I have a tremendous amount of and appreciation for Armin Ronacher and many of their fabulous Python libraries which I use regularly. However, this blog post is odd. It says that the open source sass model "has worked out very well for us", but then goes on to say "at one point someone has to make money somewhere.." in order to justify abandoning open source licensing of Sentry.

Maybe "worked out great" means that they got a ton of publicity and traction because they were open source, and now they are ready to abandon open source so they can monetize the traction they gained from being open source in the first place?

Sentry certainly doesn't have any obligation to continue being open source- the old code is still open source- but these events make me question any companies commitment when they claim to be open source. It seems that you can't take any company at their word, even when they publish multiple blog posts about how "committed" they are to open source- because in the end, many companies will do what Sentry did and will dump open source the minute they have gotten what they want from it.

[https://blog.sentry.io/2019/02/14/sentry-thrives-open-source..., https://blog.sentry.io/2016/10/24/building-an-open-source-se..., https://blog.sentry.io/2015/06/30/driven-by-open-source]

And if there was any doubt about Sentry's willingness to use and abuse open source- months after this announcement, they continue to advertise being open source on their site, lying to the community and their customers. https://sentry.io/_/open-source/

Sentry doesn't have any obligation to continue to releasing new code as Open Source, but they should stop lying about being open source.
Oof, this Twitter thread looks particularly bad, especially the response from the official Gandi account.

https://twitter.com/andreaganduglia/status/12151991477012316...

While I appreciate that there are real people behind these companies that are probably having a really rough time right now, the criticism that Gandi are getting as a company is justified - and if Gandi are truly a "no bullshit" company they need to put something out to their customers asap.
I am not an expert on this, but I suspect that the "diffuse reflection" picture is not telling the whole story here, as it shows reflections purely from the surface. From what I've seen, in most diffuse materials it's subsurface scattering that dominates. So I think the main contribution of wetness is that it decreases the internal scattering because the indices of refraction are more matched. The absorption remains similar, and I believe reflectance is mostly a function of the ratio of scattering to absorption (Kubelka-Munk theory).
Microsoft Teams is getting a Walkie Talkie feature so you can reach colleagues
It is ironic that the article is on buzzfeed.
Yeah, I've got to admit, I was like "Man, its gonna be fun to put this guy in the gulag."

(I don't actually advocate putting anyone in gulags or even their existence).
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(The work is also directly inspired by the C# work)
@mox1: ‘The "mimikatz" problem (aka memory protections on the lsass.exe process) has basically been solved by Microsoft, they call it "Credential Guard". It works by doing some trusted boot stuff and using the hyper-v hypervisor to protect certain regions of memory from even the OS itself.’

How about running the OS in a Virtual Machine, that evaporates on exit and you get a new clean image on each invocation.

“All the King's horses and all the King's men couldn't put Humpty together again”
Time to pull out a screwdriver!
That may be a thing is San Francisco, but this issue exists far beyond it.

I live in Albany, NY, a tiny city that has a mix of middle-income and low income residents. It's the state capital, so the fairly narrow salary bands of government workers define the market. The city adopted a model zoning ordinance to make building easier, and now there's a mini-boom of medium-density apartment construction, all of which is upmarket. All of the development is 4-5 story stick on brick buildings. New York provides generous tax incentives for apartments with retail space, so most have that, and most of that space is vacant.

It's creating some potentially bad outcomes, as it's cutting off the oxygen for aging flats and single family homes that have been rentals. You have more vacancies as people with money move into new apartments that are cheaper due to the tax abatements. The older properties that pay taxes are going downmarket, and the bottom tier properties are increasingly vacant as they don't meet the code requirements for Section 8 subsidy, and the landlords cannot afford to cut the rent to let the market fill the units.

My point is that there are no easy fixes. SFO is a supply/demand problem and while supply is a problem, demand is too -- the outlier is that the extended gold rush is allowing tech companies to make irrational decisions with respect to employee compensation. The market has decided that it's cheaper to pay workers incredibly well than to move to Omaha.
Monthly $10,00
Yearly $96,00

The pricing, especially the commas are peculiarly wrong
It's easy to criticize other teams (2017)
Its also nuts that one of these "things to work on" is "find me a wife, I'm too high performing to find one on my own."
It feels off because the author is a conservative. But he's rational and well-spoken. We should be able to welcome him with "I disagree with you but I will listen to your arguments. Sometimes they will be persuasive and change my mind and other times they will help me to strengthen my own arguments against your position".

But his arguments also attract the wackos and are used as justifications by them. Therefore we have an urge or desire to just shut him down justified by "don't feed the trolls".
Ideally when you have a less capable device-based solution to "Something you have" like a FIDO token you want the user to enter their password (a "Something you know" factor) into that device, not the general purpose computer.

So now the password isn't in the computer at all and can't be stolen from it.

For example to sign into the web site for my bank account I need to enter a PIN into a chiclet keypad device they gave me, it spits out a one-time code and I type that into the web site. You can't steal the PIN from my PC, even if you have some kind of super zero day exploit and co-operation from the OS vendor, because the PIN gets typed into a separate device that doesn't even have a USB connector. You might as well try to use the PC to steal cash out of my wallet.
Oh god, the victims, really? You host your data on someone else's computer to save on costs and get rid of the burden of dealing with metal and stabbing yourself with screwdrivers , and you're the victim when they fuckup?

Give me a break... It's not like anyone died here. There's a reason I host my own shit. Problems happen, errors are made, and data is lost. It's also your responsibility to deal with data permanence, even if your provider has all the promises in the world.
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this is pretty much my attitude too.

I'd obviously love to be bill gates rich, but never at the cost of my own ethics. And I don't understand people who are willing to leave their ethics on the floor for money.

I just have a sensibility that would never allow me to be rich and a fuckhead. I know that sounds pretentious, but that's how I feel about it. I'd much rather grow a company slowly and do well by everyone who works for me than the grow big and fuck everything else.

The thing is, I gave 20 hours a week for a company exactly like that for 4-5 years and I was genuinely sad when I left (it was my decision). It easily had the best working environment I've ever experienced. I LIKED the people there, and we had all been there for so long that we trusted each other.

When I think about that company vs the startup culture you always read about, it's an easy decision. I like working at small companies, but not ones with that startup culture.
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Who says paying below our minimum wage is exploitative? Au Pairs' income is almost entirely discretionary. Who else from say, South Africa, can stably earn $800+/month of purely discretionary income by watching a couple kids for 30-45 hours a week? The whole deal is a big step up in quality of life for many. If you raise their minimum pay, you will literally lower American demand for Au Pairs, who are generally happy with their end of the deal.
The dismal science indeed.
Often times the backup provider is the hosting provider, whom you have to trust. (This extends all the way from big clouds like AWS and GCE to small providers like Linode and DO). Having an external backup can be unreasonably expensive due to ridiculous egress costs.
Like so many things in the Bay Area, this is a self-created problem. Despite living here, I have little sympathy for the sob-stories who voted for the exact policies that put them out of business. It infects every level of policymaker thinking (at least what they choose to publicly state and run for office on). It's a fruitless desire to resist development and population growth, no matter what the cost. And we're seeing the costs obviously now.

The political inclination of government (and the mistaken belief of voters) to "keep things the same" and prevent gentrification or any kind of development matching the demand for people to move here may play well for votes, but is causing every problem you can see.

The constraints on housing and development trickle down to everything. The cost of hiring people, the price of retail/commercial space, the inability to police / prevent crime, the emptying out of formerly affordable neighborhoods, traffic, homelessness, etc.

This is not a puzzle. When you make land so valuable (which pleases some), it leads to things that cannot show their value clearly to be priced out. And the very policies that are intended to protect the people who got here first (a very questionable policy), end up hurting them. The more you try to control rent, the worse the situation gets. Politicians intend well. But intentions are highly overrated. Effects are what matter.

As long as we refuse to build up, out, and have rational transportation systems (overcoming local inertia against building them), and accept that we're growing, this will continue.
> No, they were always bad.

No they weren't.

> His fame came at the cost of many other's.

That's true for literally everyone that has ever been in the limelight.

> Don't read those who stole the voice others.

He didn't steal anyone's voices though, he 'just' (allegedly) sexually assaulted them.

> They did not earn your attention, and you can give it to those who were less fortunate instead.

Do you even hear what you're saying? 'Don't read these people because their works are actually good, read them because they're underprivileged!'
could you explain what is the thought process that is this knowledge management have better approach from competitor.
What baffles me is that there seems to be no way for either the customer or a data-recovery company to flash a new firmware onto the drive after it has failed. Someone there wanted to spare the few millicents of copper trace for a JTAG port?!
More software than hardware, but I share the same wonder at Kubernetes. I love the whole concept of: "this is a big blob that runs your stuff, don't worry about networking and some other server-type considerations, just run your apps and there's a bunch of magic"

It's a little sad to see my previous career disappear, I'd love nothing more than to manage some VMware clusters running Linux VMs for the rest of my life, but technology moves on. It's forcing me to become a coder and manager rather than sysadmin.
Society already makes an effort by using their money to vote on whether they like that particular pizza place.
Yes and yes, as often as possible.
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Ask HN: How much to sell small SaaS company for
I've been building a small SaaS app for a very small, niche market. I've been approached by a competitor who has hinted at acquisition. I know approximately how many users they have and how much a subscription sells for, so I know they are generating roughly $230k per year.

I only have a handful of customers right now, but they've really liked our platform compared to the really old-internet, dated platform of our competitors (hasn't been updated since early 2000's).

I could try to poach their users, but the more I've gotten into the market, the more I've realized my heart isn't in it anymore and I would like to approach them about selling. How should I price myself?

Thanks for your feedback.
I wouldn't count on any other browser to be anywhere onboard with that. Chrome is known for implementing things in a quick and dirty way with complete disregard for input.

Also, Fugu will definitely no bring a signinficant amount of native APIs to the web. Here's the full list [1]

For example, the post I'm replying to mentioned Ableton. Well "I don’t know who the Web Audio API is designed for" [2] Oh, and then there's no guarantee Chrome will not break it the way it broke automatic audio previously [3]

The web is not the long-term future for any foreseeable future

[1] https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/list?can=2&q=pro...

[2] https://blog.mecheye.net/2017/09/i-dont-know-who-the-web-aud...

[3] https://twitter.com/mcclure111/status/993627449991688193?ref...
Shit does happen, but pretending like it's not a big deal and not providing a solid RCA seems to be what's really annoying about their reaction.
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