skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The real answer is that any industry can die, and the best way to avoid that is to look carefully at your business model before you commit to building a company.

No one can see the future well enough to tell exactly what will happen in an industry, but you can make a guess.

In the case of Gamestop, their business opportunity began with the rise of home gaming consoles and PCs, and when you build a business around the side effect of a disruptive or rapidly changing technology, you have to have an exit strategy or be ready to change dramatically with the tech.

Gamestop seems to have assumed that their business model would work forever without significant changes (I don't mean process or sales changes, I mean changing from something other than selling physical game media in physical stores).

The writing has been on the wall for them for years as the Internet has grown, the size of software programs has grown, the ability of disposable media to hold the software has fallen.

To give you an example of a similarly volatile business to be in, how about tax preparation? If you build a business based on that, you'll be ok as long as tax forms in the US are hard to fill out and the government doesn't change that fact. You might even make a whole career and life out of doing people's taxes. But, you can't lose sight of the fact that the whole thing may evaporate overnight if the bribes you're paying no longer stop the government from fixing the tax code, and if you don't have a plan for when that happens, you go hungry.
For sure!

Here are a few things we learned after getting feedback from users.

* Minimise or better remove all pre-requisites npm install should bring in everything.
* Talk directly to the browser using the Chrome DevTools protocol it's not that hard and is now supported by firefox.
* Play well with others in a language ecosystem for example if javascript, test runners like gauge, jest, mocha and assertion libraries like chai etc do not build these capabilities.
* Run well in headless environments.

All the best!
I have a 416, and got it for the same reason - it just works, very well, easy to administer (but hardly ever need to).

But I can't shake the feeling that they will turn to the dark side sooner or later - the fact that the software is closed, mostly. Definitely if they get acquired, but also all the nice features are begging to be abused once the MBAs see they can get another $1/year/customer from selling you out.

So far, I only have excellent things to say about Synology. The feeling is from past experience with other vendors - Synology themselves have been amazing.
The US has the ninth amendment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninth_Amendment_to_the_United_... which is the out for anything the founders didn't think of. (There is a massive amount of controversy around this, Wikipedia just scratches the surface)
It's the same as it's always been: build something people want and acquire customers.

> I think it would need the backing of something like ycombinator, techcrunch or techstars

That's a bad mindset, imo, and probably just a distraction. If it's such a great idea that you think it is, build it and acquire users.

I think it's worth glancing at https://www.ycombinator.com/resources/ - but I think more people use this as an alternative to building things and getting users.
Yes! This was exactly the consensus in desktop app UX circles before mobile UX popularized "hamburger menu and heiroglyph" design, which intentionally sacrifices legibility to obtain screen space.

It's unfortunate that many designers these days often jump for hamburgers and heiroglyphs in circumstances where that sacrifice doesn't make sense.
I'm looking for a small guy like this, or those mentioned in the children with AMD/opensource graphics.
This is just silly irrelevant marketing. I’m not sure why we are advertising it on HN.
with 4gigs of ram running the OS from a ramdisk would probably make it fly (even faster than the ssd ;))
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There is never a bad time to read Barbarians At the Gates to understand how the incentives work in these deals and to help judge for yourself whether they're going to work out or not.

Spoiler / Hot Take: if you're overloading the company up with debt (even cheap, short-term stuff) and taking out cash based on "revenue projections" or "realized synergies" it's probably not gonna work out so hot when the loan comes due.
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Even "simple apps" can improve their UX with it like a translator app that you can summon with a global keybinding.

There just seems to be lack a convention around telling the user why the app might need those privs. Users don't even know what accessibility privs do.
wait... this looks like "training" not proper production stuff... guess it cant be production... it would take IBM an age to roll this to an environment suffering a breach... it has to be training... looks interesting though...
Setting aside the points in the article which are well taken and, for the most part, things I agree with ...

If you run your own mailserver and also if you send email to people on that same mailserver, your email never traverses a network.

This use-case is not mentioned in the article, but should be. It is uncommon, currently, but much less cumbersome and rife with pitfalls then trying (and failing) to implement some kind of GPG regime, etc.

We do this at rsync.net - everyone uses the same mailserver, which we connect to over either SSH or HTTPS, and when we send mail to each other it is simply a local copy operation.
Yes, it’s actually a serious problem. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/skbaer/chicago-rental-c...

The problem is when your authentication is an app and a digital photo it’s a lot easier to fake who you are. At least if someone tries to go on a crime spree with traditional rentals they’re gonna be on dozens of office security cams, have to repeatedly show a physical license and have their identity checked, and so on.
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You could also try normal Scratch now that it works on iPads in the web browser. Still limited compared to something like Godot, but it is more like a "real" programming language and would probably be a good stepping stone from Scratch Jr to something else.
Which mini pc?
surprised to see Xiaomi is doing so badly.. They have a bigger presence in Asia pacific with them dethroning Samsung at few countries.

Blue Apron is the next groupon..
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History of web encryption (SSL) in 22 seconds
As stated before, pointing out and having a clear and honest dialog about racism isn't in itself racism.

That, and white people can't experience racism. They may at some point in their lives be discriminated against based on their race, unlikely though it is and extremely unlikely it'll be in some massively detrimental way. But, that's not racism.

Also, "wide sweeping generalizations about how people of a certain race and gender" is a mischaracterization of what's happening. In the Charlottesville example, white supremacists set out to do what they do by the very definition of their organization - oppress non whites. There is no sweeping generalization there. If they weren't out to oppress non whites, they wouldn't be white supremacists lol.
I always get it confused: is it sex or gender that people can assign to themselves?
The idea of this library is exactly to not use HTML ids (or css paths etc), but use instructions you could give to an human browsing the web (enter the page, press tab, type this..)
> My issue with Udemy isn't their constant "sales" or the way they treat their tutors.

Which was the same half a decade ago except they just sold another $50M worth of shares and will keep doing this for another half a decade.

Occasionally there are some gems. But yes like others have said I have gotten more value from free youtube courses in the last 2 or 3 years. Udemy courses have more so pointed me in the right direction, introduced me to concepts that improved my search strings to find what I really needed to know. I'm fine paying for that. I find that Udemy is really an incentive to learning how to funnel viewers to your own sites where you can still host on Udemy but they take less of a cut.
Trump is a special case in that Twitter said that they would treat heads of state (both foreign and domestic) differently. They might have something internal for accounts with large followings (Kardashians).

Assange is an interesting case in that despite renown and following they refuse to give him a check mark and suspended the WL account as well.
Thank you, this gave me the giggle I needed this morning.
Actually, fine font serifs are visible only in large sizes. Curves also can be more more finely rendered and gain a lot from bigger size/better resolution.
I've found this person's courses [0] to be very high quality, and they go through pretty advanced topics, such as convolutional neural networks for natural language processing, which might be to your point.

[0] https://deeplearningcourses.com/course_order
Newspapers do not have a specific call-out. The printing press does, which was simply the most advanced method of spreading your speech at the time.

The founders wanted the ability to print what they wanted and, just as importantly, not be forced by the government to print things they didn't want to.
Summary: It's still a turd
I understand that you are contemplating a build-or-buy decision and do not want to purchase the software which we sell. You can ask the engineering teams that you want to dedicate to this to scope out the build option; there are likely tradeoffs you can make which would make this a 3 engineer-year project or 30 engineer-year project. It is implausible that their design document for the build option will conveniently fit into an HN comment. I cannot write that design document for you as I do not have a good understanding of what data you believe you possess at the moment or e.g. the margin characteristics of your business, which would likely determine your tolerances with respect to some tradeoffs to make at design stage.

I wish your teams the best of luck and skill in this project. If in the alternative you would like to dedicate their time and attention to more pressing concerns in your business, our software is available for 2 cents a transaction.
From the PDF in that page: "Feel the adrenaline rush of an intense, immersive, gamified experience with your entire cross-functional team."

I get that when sending an OTA update to an entire fleet, and I am just using a 2012 laptop.
Wonder what would happen if one were to tweet it a fork bomb. I'd hope they have a mitigation for that.
While raising a daughter and also mentoring younger devs I've noticed their communication patterns online tend toward short and less polished.

Short to me means 1-2 sentences, even on platforms such as Slack, which is not limited to 140 characters (we have a family slack and slack bots). The sentences also tend towards brevity.

By unpolished I don't mean raw stream of thought, though I see that too. What I mean is that they may get one pass at polishing, but not the polish that's usually in a well crafted email.

These trends are most noticeable when the writing is a report, or a proposal.

When I'm doing an editing/review pass I like to check two basic things, 8WH [1][2][3] (variations have less questions, such as 5WH and 6WH) and the Heilmeier Catechism [4]. Both improve the quality a lot by themselves if present.

8WH is a mnemonic for a set of basic framing questions: Who? What? Where? Why? When? Whose? Which? For Whom? How? These questions are too ambiguous without contextualizing. For example if I was recommending a big equipment purchase:

* Who should the purchaser be?

* What needs to be purchased?

* Where will this equipment be used?

* Why does it need to be purchased? Why this make/model?

* When is it needed, and when does it need to be purchased by?

* Whose money will be used to pay for it?

* Which make and model is recommended?

* For Whom will the equipment be used?

* How will the purchase be confirmed, and tracked?

There's overlap, and sometimes some questions can be combined or eliminated, but when writing myself I try to do all of them first before consolidating.

The Heilmeier Catechism also has some overlap with 8WH, but is a useful set of questions on its own. The questions are geared to a pitch of some kind:

* What are you trying to do? Articulate your objectives using absolutely no jargon.

* How is it done today, and what are the limits of current practice?

* What is new in your approach and why do you think it will be successful?

* Who cares? If you are successful, what difference will it make?

* What are the risks?

* How much will it cost?

* How long will it take?

* What are the mid-term and final “exams” to check for success?

[1] https://oneminuteenglish.org/en/wh-questions/

[2] https://premium.wpmudev.org/blog/a-simple-sure-fire-way-to-c...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Ws

[4] https://www.darpa.mil/work-with-us/heilmeier-catechism
I'm still happy with the configuration we have where my map is a little slower than maybe I'd like it to be (though honestly, I just loaded maps.google.com and moused around randomly and... it's fine? Certainly not so slow I'm bothered by it) but the mapping app also can't crash my computer due to the three layers of abstraction it's running on top of. Because that would suck.

If you're curious where the time goes, btw... Most of the visible delay in Google Maps can be seen by popping the browser inspector and watching the network tab. Maps fetches many thin slices of data (over 1,000 in my test), which is a sub-optimal way to do networking that adds a ton of overhead. So if they wanted to improve maps significantly, switching out for one of the other protocols Google has that allows batching over a single long-lived connection and changing the client and server logic to batch more intelligently could do it. I doubt they will because most users are fine with the sub-three-second load times (and engineering time not spent on solving a problem most users don't care about is time spent on solving problems users do care about). You're seeking perfection in a realm where users don't care and claiming the engineers who don't pursue it "suck;" I'd say those engineers are just busy solving the right problem and you're more interested in the wrong problem. By all means, make your mapping application perfect, as long as you understand why the one put out by a company with a thousand irons in the fire didn't.

Also, I think the analogy was great, but you reached the wrong conclusion. ;) That is how large-scale engineering works. Scheduling becomes the dominant phenomenon in end-to-end performance. Games have huge advantages on constraining the scheduling problem. General-purpose apps do not. Hell, to see this in action in a game: Second Life's performance is crap because the whole world is hyper-malleable, so the game engine cannot predict or pre-schedule anything.
>I am somewhat surprised nobody offers an abstracted savings account, that handles 401k, IRA, HSA, paying rent and bills, and access to credit.

I think it'd be complicated to regulate from a risk perspective. Checking and savings accounts get insured by the FDIC, how do you insure a large pile of money invested practically everywhere in varying risky scenarios? You'd need to at least create a boundary between "FDIC-insured low interest funds" and "your results may vary but will probably be fine" funds.
Very nice work. Appreciate you open sourcing this
Thanks, we're working on it!
Maybe they were stop orders?

Stop orders execute a market trade when the price hits a limit.

So, there’s a heuristic around when “the market price hits the limit”.

If you execute too late, it might not execute at all. Too close to the limit, and it might cross back over. Also, stop orders are usually done to limit losses, so adding delay increases exposure to loss.

https://www.diffen.com/difference/Limit_Order_vs_Stop_Order

Limit orders typically have higher commissions. Maybe stop orders were being confusingly marketed as limit orders?
I know right. It looks so nice. I want to pet it.

But it's a trap.
> Wikipedia can fall back on the individual editors' rights

Can it? Then why couldn't any other company similarly fall back on to the rights of their employees. e.g. whoever is compiling the data being sold in the telecom case.
You are a Udemy affiliate?
Note that some sites block Selenium, since browsers report the use of WebDriver, and Selenium injects known predictable Javascript. Does Kasaya do anything to mitigate this?
Great way to see the top IPO’s Where’s Zoom, my favorite ipo of 2019. Cool visual representation. Now if it was cross referenced with private valuation to market cap
Seriously, how is this DSL better? With JavaScript you get method completion and debugging. Are parentheses really so terrible?

You can setup a DSL in scala.js and you can get the best of both worlds (though, parentheses are fine for me so I would just use one of the many fine existing JS libraries).
Can't wait to hear about the first app hack in which they remote start this thing and turn the heat on full blast!

It would be really cool if you had kids and you could point to that beast as your office. I bet they have cool t-shirts too. And stickers.
> If facebook only shows content you agree with, it's creating social bubbles where everyone is cheering each other on and criticism is not allowed, and you end up with anti-vax groups.

Just because the solution would be hard or complex doesn't mean FB gets to continue its problematic behaviour.

> Facebook is a tool, use it as such

It is not. It is a corporation and you definitely don't get to use it like a tool.

At its most charitable, it is a tool like a beehive is a tool to make honey. Which are less dangerous than Facebook and still require protective gear to operate.
Great idea! I didn't know I needed this :)
As others have said, it's different between jurisdictions.

In the US it's legal, and is considered operating as a sole proprietor. But in doing so, there's no separation between you and the business, and you (and your personal assets) are 100% on the hook for any legal or liability issues that come up.

For that reason alone, I set up an LLC and route all consulting/moonlighting work and side projects through that LLC. The hassle and business licensing costs worked out as far cheaper than operating as a sole proprietor and getting the necessary insurance coverages to comfortably cover myself.

Although it depends on what your SaaS is, you may want to at least checkout a professional indemnity insurance policy[1].

[1] https://www.simplybusiness.co.uk/insurance/faq/what-is-profe...
So ergonomics trump security for you. That's fine. Stop telling people that they can safely follow your lead, because you've prioritized things other than their safety.
Artists and designers are accustomed to Maya-style GUIs.

As a counter-example however, I worked at a game studio where we made our own engine. We didn’t have the time to make GUI-based tools. So, instead we focused on text-based configuration, Lua scripting, fast asset baking and hot-reloading of everything mid-game. When we switched to Unity for business reasons most people thought it was a productivity reduction.
Udemy is in business to make money. Be it the 50% or tweaking SERPs, why shouldn't they do that?
I love this.

Going through the Trig example, I would have given anything for this in high school. For a topic that I currently have to use on occasion and feel inadequately informed about, I can't wait to get to the Fourier transforms module.
Ok, excluding heads of state, and even other politicians, are for example the views of Jordan Peterson representative of Twitter employees? Seems unlikely.
No worries, you and others are helping me see this.

It's such a good point to find the right environment. I think that's the best approach going forward with other companies. I've worked with many people over the years and was perfectly fine not being close friends or anything like that, this is the first time I've had people actively trying to exclude me from inter staff things as well as with others in the local community.

It's so weird.

Thanks again!
Exactly, also Bloomberg only changed his party affiliation in 2018, when we had record number of voters during non presidential election, and Democrats winning large number of seats.

Given other information about him, and even last debate he is the absolute weakest candidate, almost feels like he is there to spoil the election to help the incumbent.
It sounds like that, but because of how encrypted email actually works in the real world, it's actually the opposite.
It is training. He says so in the video.
The change in Udemy's pricing policy after 2016 - applying aggressive discounts and setting maximum prices for courses - has affected many instructors in a bad way. This is directly related to the perceived low quality of their courses (obviously with exceptions). Many instructors today use Udemy to try to attract traffic to their own websites where they sell the "best versions" of their courses.
Well, maybe not that much money. After all, they just gave most of it to IBM.
Defeatist attitude aside, what would happen if we crowd funded a wikileaks-type organization that operates "as an ISP" and doxxed politicians/lobbyists/lawyers/isp executives?
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Much obliged! Thanks for taking the time to respond.
Corporations are simply machines operated by humans much as an automobile, lawnmower, or piano is. None of those items have rights either.
Everything in that website is like some action movie ad: cool black truck, acronyms, liberal use of military words, elite team, and quotes like these

"See how we built this unique cyber experience – the baddest thing on wheels."

"The world’s only full-scale, air-gapped cyber range that can accommodate your entire incident command staff and fusion team. Experience immersive simulations directed by an elite training force."

"Learn from highly-skilled, battle-tested experts, who lead you through intense drills based on real-world attacks."

I'm pumped up! (asks for prices) ...well, maybe next year.
This seems kinda baity to me, for a virus that kills 1/500 people aged 30-40 who catch it.
Oh nice! Whats the name? I dont need it. But i try to teach this stuff to newcomer!
Thanks yeah I started reviewing a bunch of these docs right after posting this. Appreciate the suggestion.
The downvotes are because the "infiltrated twitter" in the story has nothing to do with the investment.
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if you counted Assets under Management, Blackrock would have a valuation of 7 trillion. That clearly isnt the case.

They dont actually own the assets
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How much difference does CDN make?
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For real! GIMP became almost unusable for me when they introduced that monochrome icon theme, although luckily you can switch back in the options menu (for now at least). Colors are an important part of making icons recognizable at a glance, especially when you have a ton of them in one place.
The article is not talking about SigSpoof. The person you're corresponding with appears to have read the article more carefully than you have.
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