skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: Elevator pitch, fact or fiction – how long does a startup need to pitch?
How long should a startup need to effectively deliver a pitch about what it does?
Same for me.

I've been using FF for a couple of months and I get huge random CPU spikes on my MBP that go away once I restart it. It works fine on my iMac and Windows tower though albeit JS execution seems slower (I mostly work on front end stuff).

It also seems to consume more battery on Android than Chrome although I admit I've never made any serious testing.
Except the whole debacle springs from a spectacular series of software failures, making this somewhat relevant.

How bad can a few bugs be? Bad enough to destroy the hopes of 7 presidential contenders making it to the White House?

Maybe that’s an overstatement, but it makes the party look incompetent, and by association, all the nominees. What does it take to convince someone not to vote? How about “they’ll probably just mess up your vote anyway, look at Iowa”. And yes, that’s a dumb statement, and no, as we’ve seen that doesn’t make it unconvincing one. The narrative is key, and the narrative is bad. And it was a poorly implemented piece of software that caused it.

Seems like something worth talking about.
I had a few friends that all owned MSFS back in DOS days. We used to speculate about flying NY to LA which would have required a refueling stop in Chicago. One guy finally did it. He left the PC running all night and when the plane arrived near LA, the disk drive spun up loading scenery and it woke him up in the wee hours of the night.
Flat wings work perfectly fine, they just need a higher angle of attack to generate similar lift, and therefore have higher drag.
This thread is full of the dumbest takes imaginable.

There are no conflicts of interest beyond those in niche markets anywhere. There are a finite number of people and companies serving in this space. Multiple campaigns use the same contractors, and those contractors will advise campaigns. The conflict of interest is known and the key thing is declaring them, siloing information, and policing behavior. This happens in every startup board where a customer participates in a funding round [and gets board seats].

Also, what was DHS going to do here? This is a private organization doing a [private] caucus in a single state. We've all read the mythical man month. DHS should focus on securing the national elections, which there is ample evidence they are behind on.
They named the company Shadow. I am reminded of the movie quote "They literally call themselves Decepticons. That doesn’t set off any red flags?".

I can almost see the name used in countries that have legitimate shadow governments, but in the US this is a really bad name akin to having cavalry in the name when focusing on the reservations (yes, someone did, they though it was cute and they did prove unhelpful). Names are a first impression and this is a really bad one.
I know enough about taxes to hire an accountant.

The Reddit r/personalfinance sub is a well moderated place (no shady experts shilling nonsense). Take a look at their wiki[1] for a good jumping off point.

There are also country specific pf reddits listed in their wiki if you're not in the US.

The basic jist of things is:

1. Create a budget, go through the last few months of bank statements and categorise your spending

2. Pay down your debt (starting with the highest rate first)

3. Save 3-6 months expenses (which you know from your budget) as an emergency fund. (This does not need to all be accessable immediately just available, say 80% in a savings account with 30 days notice)

4. 2 & 3 should be done at the same time, it might not be mathematically the best but paying all your debt off and then being fired/made redundant without a cushion is not good.

Then once you've got a handle on the pf stuff, think about r/financialindependence or r/fire

1. https://www.reddit.com/r/personalfinance/wiki/commontopics
Lately, the government has been widely cracking down upon all sorts of dissent, claiming the excuse of 'anti-national tendencies', invoking sedition laws. The situation is pretty dire at the moment.

Laws exist on paper. Law enforcement agencies however have been historically known to act on behalf of leaders, a behaviour which also seen in many other countries.
How do I leak my email or photos from my local machine? And if I do, then I'm likely still leaking my local cache/copy even if I use cloud.
I doubt that even Honda knows.
Ask HN: Software engineers, what do you look for in a good manager?
I've been in the startup world going on 13 years with about 8+ of them in a lead,manager,director,BP, and even cto capacity. Lead teams as small as 3 and as big as 30.

So I'm curious what makes a good manager to you? I always took what I liked from old bosses and "disgarded" behaviors I did not like.

So when looking for or working at a job what do you look for in a leader/boss?
But you have to leave your home for a PC cafe, which I know I personally wouldn't want to do if I just want to relax on the couch and play games.

Probably the reason it never picked up in the US is that cities and towns sprawl so much in the US that PC cafes could never be just walking distance down the street from most peoples' homes.
I strongly agree with this idea.
Ask HN: Open-source projects that could benefit from security improvements
Looking for an open source project that I could make security contributions to (stuff like input validation or other things one can expect to learn in an graduate software security class).
From https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

> Are reposts ok?

> If a story has had significant attention in the last year or so, we kill reposts as duplicates. If not, a small number of reposts is ok.

It's not very clear, but something between 5 and 10 repost are too much. Specially if you repos the same three articles every day.

Don't expect to get much response if you continue to post the same thing. Moreover, some people will start to flag these stories.
The two companies discussed are Lightmatter Inc. and Catalog Technologies Inc.
We've moved it now. Good catch!
I mean I get that, you're right it's greed but, people can put whatever price they want, we're not obligated to pay that and doesn't mean it will sell.

Rent is expensive so generally people don't want to hang on to stuff they don't need so the price will eventually come down if supply goes up.
> We absolutely DO understand how and why they stay in the air, we just don't have the hard numbers behind it.

The article claims the opposite: we do have the hard numbers behind it (we can predict how a wing behaves), but we don't have a good conceptual explanation for it at a layman's level (the how and why, if you so will).
Logging is really locked down due to GDPR stuff... Which ironically means the privacy laws means they've deleted the specifics of the privacy violations that occurred.
I'm impressed by your response. Keep up the good work. You are getting compared to commercial teams so don't lose heart.

But this is a good point time trackers are a chore to use for some of us. Mainly because we hate tracking time. So good UX is everything for people like myself.
Sorry you're being downvoted.
I guess the instant pot isn't hacker trendy enough
If you're older than syntax highlighters, you probably don't need them like all those pesky kids on your lawn.

When I worked in a computer lab, I'd often walk past kids writing code in notepad, peer over their shoulder and spot imbalaced parentheses or a missing semicolon. I'd keep it to myself unless they asked for help, because it's a learning process... and then they'd be amazed as I immediately found the spot.

And sure, they probably save you time. But for me, they add visual clutter and only spot trivial issues, and rarely save me a few seconds per day.
> relying on courts that have repeatedly held that yelling fire in a crowded theater

That phrase was used in a court case to (successfully) justify censoring someone protesting the draft during WWI [1]. We should be skeptical of any limitations on free speech because they will be abused to stifle legitimate speech.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shouting_fire_in_a_crowded_the...
>I'm curious, what are they doing different now from then?

Nothing. To me Google has always been the same. It is just people believed in the "Do No Evil", when everyone has a different definition of Evil. So Google didn't change much, people's opinion did.

"Most Evil are created by those who think themselves as so Righteous." -Me
I loved both of those missions! The Singapore mission is so satisfying when flying ILS and then coming out of the clouds right in front of the runway.
The statement was about people waiting for hours for the app to respond when they tried to upload the results, and some giving up and going to bed after it failed repeatedly.
Standard "No" response to article title asking a question applies just fine here.
C++ for quantum computing ;)
No way to know. $900 seems high but people though $40 was high too a few years ago. No one knows until it's over.
I know you're getting a ton of responses, but if you do see this, look up Food Wishes on youtube. Would not be an exaggeration to say it has changed my life. 5-10m videos focused on one dish, usually including quite a bit of context and instruction aimed at beginners.

Cook with stuff you like! That way even if you screw it up you're left with stuff you mostly don't mind. Can't count the number of times I've screwed up meat sauce, and ended up eating a pound of meaty-tomato slop that tasted just fine albeit wasn't recognizable as any type of dish.

Also go easy on yourself. Recognize that this is a whole skill set that people spend their whole lives cultivating (just like software). You'll start to develop an intuition.

Make sure you have the right equipment you need too. I probably spent two years thinking I couldn't make eggs, turns out my pan was warped.
I think it's both things. Very meaningful for the value that we all put in it, and at the same time, it's nothing at all.

In an ideal world maybe everyone would be provided for and we wouldn't obsess over paper. But the system is a sort of lesser approximation of fairness. "Worst one except for all the others", as the saying goes.
Tech firm started by Clinton campaign veterans is linked to Iowa caucus debacle
It wasn't just reporting the final results. They were keeping tabs on both the first and second realignments, plus delegate counts. Essentially three sets of numbers. The reason behind this is so they could report total turnout numbers, something which was not previously reported.
Thanks, that’s indeed what I meant. It was an example of why growth matters.
Sorry, I mean "dumb" in jest. The point is that introspection allows you to see what you knew based on what was available and what was short sighted and biased. I think that taking the time to consider decisions or positions at all is a huge step forward.
Considering this is 4 months later... This can't have been very widespread. If I saw someone else's video in my takeout archive, I'd have totally contacted the tech media...
Whatever Gremlinsinc assessment of Pete's intelligence is, the facts he just listed have very bad optics for Pete, the DNC and the Democrat party. If they again squeeze Bernie out of the nomination, any other candidate will not have a strong base of supporters.
Why the Iowa Caucus Birthed a Thousand Conspiracy Theories
I want to understand how this works completely client-side without any server side support. Normally, I would expect that when I am visiting hn-scroll.netlify.com, any API calls to hacker-news.firebaseio.com would get blocked by the browser to prevent cross-origin request. But your app does work fine and the source code at https://github.com/ivancuric/hn-scroll/blob/master/src/sw.js also seems to be working fine.

How is this app able to make cross-origin request? Can someone explain the security principles behind this to me?
Fastmail is good but I bet the Australian government is vacuuming up everything you send/receive. I’m considering ProtonMail again now that there is calendar
https://www.providencejournal.com/article/20150913/ENTERTAIN...:

"The wedding of Tara Elizabeth McGowan and Michael Mackay Halle took place Sept. 5 [2015]…"

https://twitter.com/mhalle:

"Strategist for @Petebuttigieg… Maximizing time with @taraemcg in the Ocean State"
You can go talk to TC39 delegates in #tc39 on freenode right now (it will be kind of quiet for the next few days though since there is an in-person plenary and people are not looking at IRC as much). We also use https://es.discourse.group/ for async communication.

Also, many entities listed on Ecma's membership page are not there for TC39, and talking to people working for them will not get you anywhere.
I once witnessed a very similar bug. The story was a comedy of errors:

1: I interviewed a HORRIBLE candidate and told my boss in no uncertain terms not to hire the bozo. Then, I look at my colleagues and explain how poorly the interview went.

2: I go away for two weeks to have surgery

3: I come back and learn that we're hiring the bozo

4: My boss asks me to do some pair programming with the bozo, and he doesn't understand some very basic concepts

5: I hear the bozo is debugging webservice code in production

6: We had a data leak from one of the bozo's bugs

From what I remember, it was a very dumb bug based on clear misunderstanding of fundamentals.
I know what you mean. I was called over to a colleague's desk to answer a query he had with a change he was making, (in an old IDE without colour-highlighting). It just looked wrong.

So I rearranged the code slightly and it was immediately obvious he'd mismatched his closing parentheses.

It wasn't conscious. I just knew it was wrong.
Fair enough.

I read the original post as accusing the employer of only hiring people who were not here on a visa (illegal and I feel immoral).

If he just didn’t want to deal with hiring people in the US because of the current insane political climate with respect to foreigners, I don’t blame him if he has an alternative.

Yes I was born and raised in the US.
Surely the reality is somewhere between "not at all" and "entirely" ?
One alternative would be to just do lookups in both hash databases (until SHA1 is fully migrated away from), and reject invocations that conflict. Git's CLI already rejects ambiguous short hash prefixes for SHA1, it could easily reject ambiguous prefixes between SHA1 and SHA256 and otherwise allow unique prefixes for either hash. This would be pretty ergonomic for users.
As someone who had repeatedly tried to make the jump to Firefox, it _finally_ stuck after quite a few attempts. (CPU and laptop heat issues were problems for a while, now they aren't!)

I second this; keep trying even if it isn't for you after a few times, it was worth it to keep trying, officially Firefoxer :)
Unless you happen to have a magic crystal ball, it's a purely speculative gamble. Nothing about tsla's price is rational right now. The people who shorted yesterday probably thought the same thing...
Supposedly, the code was created by the "Defending Digital Democracy" project. Robby Mook consulted the project, but claims that he did not develop any code directly.

“Sorry, folks. I did NOT have anythjng to do with building the Iowa caucus app. I dont know anything about it, had no role in it, and dont own a company that makes mobile appa. Please contact @iowademocrats with questions about it.” - Robby Mook

https://www.dailydot.com/layer8/robby-mook-iowa-caucus/
Well, Apple ][ had Visicalc. And they were first with a spreadsheet.

I "upgraded" from an Apple ][ to an IBM-PC in 1983. It was because of the IBM name but also the "build quality". A real "business" keyboard, and a better constructed case, monitor, etc.
Our Plex AppleTV app has begun aggressively pushing its own content lately. It’s a nuisance to navigate to where our personal content is now
>But what are people actually doing with that freed up time?

Vomiting their ideology upon strangers on the internet and watching youtube (or some other video platform).
FYI, it would be implying.

An implication (by the speaker) is inferred (by the listener).
I think that does work only with questions that require an affirmative or negative answer only.
The nightly walk part is really life-changing. We need time to process what happens in the day and a walk is a great way to do that.
Thank you! Someone said that finally. I really tried hard to like Firefox. But it just really doesn't replace Chrome for me. Maybe it's the ecosystem, extensions, user experience, I'm not sure but the browsing experience is never really the same on FF.
AMP is basically gobbling up other contributor’s content and shamelessly profits at the expense of the content owner. As an end user I also don’t like amp. Im on duckduckgo now
I was working with similar glasses at Microvision 10 years ago! https://web.archive.org/web/20100114084506/http://microvisio...

I don't know why they didn't take off. I was an intern there for a few months. Every few weeks another engineer would quit, so maybe that had something to do with it. It was a good to experience working for a failing company. Now I know some warning signs!
It’s actually not a big deal with Git, which is why SHA2-256 is the right choice.
Easy to overthink you say, yet you’ve listed a lot of quite complicated aspects, many of which aren’t directly related to cooking.
OWL and OW itself is still going strong albeit “faded” as you’ve stated. But I’d put Rust in that bucket as well PUBG Is circling around the drain as well. Apex is still doing very well ofc.

Escape from Tarkov is the new trending game and the market leaders are still Fortnite CSGO and League.
Seattle is too far from the Canadian border.
Note sure why this is getting downvoted.

Sure it's wild speculation, but at least the guy is posting links to help justify the wild speculation.

Better than the average comment which is someone postulating what they know without any reference to sources/data/logic.
Huh, I feel the exact opposite- it's like coding with a bunch of extra frustrations like shopping and cleaning, and the possibility of messing up in an irreversible way (burning something, for example).
"Tell me what you pay attention to and I will tell you who you are." - Jose Ortega

This is fantastic. I've always had a hunch that experts are "seeing" things differently than novices, and seeing things that people who aren't in the same domain aren't even aware of. As people develop more expertise, I imagine the gap becomes larger, to the point where they're aware of things that "laymen" aren't even cognizant of.

Two examples:

In one of Malcolm Gladwell's books--I forget which one--he writes about a firefighter who, almost unconsciously, ordered his men out of a building right before it collapsed. He didn't even know why. After going through the day's events with a researcher, the researcher realized that the fireman was subconsciously (unconsciously?) attuned to what was happening around him. His brain was operating unbeknownst to him due to his years of expertise.

A friend of mine started a small business late last year. He started it on a lark, after a trip to the local autobody shop. Usually his spouse handled all of the car-related affairs, but for some reason he ended up having to do it himself this time. When he went to the store, he noticed that the software they were using to manage their inventory was dated and quite awful. He took down the manager's information and messaged him a week later with a proposal for revamping their software system. The autobody became his first client. The manager said that hundreds of people come in and out of that store every day, but my friend was the first person to point out that their software wasn't very good. My friend isn't an expert programmer by any stretch, but he was more of an expert than anybody in that office in regards to developing software. His brain basically zeroed in on it without him noticing.

Related to a thread from last week about our brains physically changing depending on what we do and pay attention to: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22201771

I've become somewhat "obsessed" with this topic recently and would love to know if others know of any resources I can check out. I read "The World Beyond Your Head" by Matthew Crawford recently--he spells out this phenomenon quite well.

EDIT: Jose Ortega's full name is Jose Ortega y Gasset--I forgot to add the last part.
For people who want something similar that is also typescript friendly, I wrote a babel macro that entirely gets compiled away during build.

https://github.com/ts-delight/pipe.macro
The one thing that keeps bugging me is the widgets in Firefox (Ubuntu 18.04) look super-dated -- reminds me of NCSA Mosaic and makes me want to close it. Can they please update their widget library?

https://imgur.com/a/JYWKhpu
The man gave a victory speech with no results in that show him winning. This, along with the delay in announcing the results, is all an effort to influence the outcomes of the upcoming primaries by showing false "momentum" in Iowa. If the official results aren't out, no one can prove him wrong yet.

This morning, above all other natural trending information on Twitter, Bloomberg had a tidal wave of articles promoted saying how good Iowa was for several candidates, none of which is supported by the data that I've seen. It seems Sanders won pretty substantially, and the DNC is trying to delay results to control the narrative long enough to get results from other states.
Arcades existed and had their moment in the sun, but as the technology miniaturized and became cheaper, it just made a lot of sense to have in your own home.
Also was trying to compare multiple terms.
The DNC provides funding to both state level parties. I can imagine that they may have had some level of influence over which contractor was picked. What's the point of becoming a party insider if you can't use that to get your company contracts later?
Gonna take an unpopular opinion here, but I completely hate Haskell records.

I'm sure that there's some kind of purity to them, but the fact that a two records can't share field names ends up making them incredibly difficult to use for anything practical. Granted, using the makeFields function with Lenses allows you to kind of avoid the clashing, but that in itself feels like somewhat of a hack.
This is a idea that needs to be flipped on its head. Nobody is an American, or a Canadian, or an Australian to a greater extent than they are a human. Also, individuals represent things that their respective countries never will.
Boris Johnson just announced a ban on petrol and diesel car sales. Probably related to that?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-51366123
It would be pretty cool but then again magic leap looked pretty cool. I'll get hyped after they start shipping.
Show HN: Get Kevin Hart to summarize your readings
TLDR; demo here:https://youtu.be/1XBU8-AZJRQ

Hey guys, recently started getting frustrated with all the readings I was getting at school, since I wasn't learning anything and they took too long.

Built a product that lets you paste or upload a picture of any article/text, and have it summarized, broken up into slides and narrated by Kevin Hart. Also includes a text editor for notes, and a dictionary.

The goal is to improve a students learning experience from readings, as some are given 50-100 pages of readings per week, which is an insane amount to go through.

Would love to get any feedback, or things I could add to improve the product and UX

Keep in mind that since this is an early release, there is a lot of things I need to improve for example, the summaries and the voice of Kevin Hart that is generated :)

Check out the demo here: https://youtu.be/1XBU8-AZJRQ

Try it out here: http://www.smartr-app.life/home

If you think its interesting, would appreciate if you could upvote on product hunt:

https://www.producthunt.com/posts/smartr